skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be (and still am) one of the biggest Amiga fans anyone is likely to encounter, but I have to concede that the Amiga's graphics architecture was ergonomically terrible for the vast majority of dtp work. Most people found working in the only native resolution really suitable for dtp, interlaced 640x400, to be intolerable to look at for even mildly extended periods of time. Things were even worse in europe, with the lower 50/25ihz vertical scan rates. The non-interlaced modes otoh had too low of a vertical resolution and the pixels were far too oversquare or rectangular to render many fonts accurately.

It took far too long to come up with effective solutions for this, and the ones that did exist, like the A2024 grayscale square-ish megapixel pixel display, noninterlaced, were too late and had too many compromises.

The Amiga had an uphill battle against the head start mac enjoyed ( and seemed, to the casual observer, rather naturally suited to with its crisp black and white display) in DTP to begin with, and without a native laser printing, a good scanning solution, enforcdd UI consistency through quickdraw and most of all adobe, there was never a reasonable chance that it would seriously challenge Apple in that market.

The unsuitability of a very visibly interlaced display to fine detail black and white layout work insured it would never be tolerated by people who had to work with such tools 8 hours a day.

Totally agree about the absence of a pennies per unit midi port as being a damnable error on Commodore's part; likely one of the main reasons the non-pc market was fatally fragmented three ways instead of a possibly manageable two, and gifting the ST (which was in all other respects an admirable me-too effort at best), a lifeline by which wedge itself into the nascent multimedia production market, which really would have been better off entirely associated with one or two platforms rather than two/three.
I mean, I am, as are several others I know (although the majority find it abhorrent from an art perspective).

I don’t have any dreams of using it to make high art, but at the very least it should be fun for memes. I wouldn’t mind being able to make a shitty song out of a friends funny misphrasing or having a silly song to play over a video of my dog doing something silly.

I’ve done the same for other things. I’ve made some one-off get well cards for people with AI generated silly images relating to them. I’ve definitely used it for Hugo sites where the page looks worse with images removed.

I use it frequently when I’m not sure my interest will hold out enough to be worth trying to get a friend to make real art, because the effort is so lopsided. I can make a Hugo site in 30 minutes and drop it in less than that because I’ve invested so little; asking someone to spend hours making art for it means they’re investing more effort than I am into a project that I’ll probably forget about.
Sheryl Crow is expressing things a little less than eloquently here.

Try Rick Beato. A favorite teacher on YouTube discussing how AI generated music is towards the end of the climb out of the uncanny valley already.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbo6SdyWGns

The tune had been haunting London for weeks past. It was one of countless similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by a sub-section of the Music Department. The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator. But the woman sang so tunefully as to turn the dreadful rubbish into an almost pleasant sound.

-- 1984
Much like your reference, every day is a winding road.
One reason it's difficult to "time the market" is that doing so involves selling when it's going up and buying when it's going down, exactly the two things that are most difficult, psychologically, to do.

Time in the market is better than timing the market.
> I said, no, I have thoughts, and I communicate them with language but the thoughts are not language.

I'm the same way, my thoughts happen first, are completed and sitting in working memory with my awareness of the thought/result/whatever it is.

If I have an internal monologue, which isn't always, it's after the fact and more about re-stating the thought that already happened.
It's how I got my programming job with no school or employment background. I built popular software used in my prev community (flight sched and training). Now have a software job.
My "trick" at regular grocery stores is to stick primarily to the perimeter: produce, dairy, meat. The only aisles I regularly go down are for spices, grains of some sort (typically rice), beans, and stocks (too lazy to make my own).

I've never had to bother with health food stores, though I guess it has the benefit of removing temptation. Whenever I've visited one, the prices made no sense to me for the things they were selling.

A better option to remove the temptation is some of the smaller grocery chains (Sprouts, Fresh Market). They have reliably had good produce and meat at reasonable prices (Fresh Market's meat and produce prices, when I lived near them, were reliably better than Kroger and Publix with better quality). Bulk items are a bit difficulty, Fresh Market sold rice at a terrible price so I'd still hit Kroger for that (the local one to me at the time had produce practically rotting on the shelf, spoiled by the next day if I ever bought any, but rice and dry beans are hard to screw up). Sprouts' rice and beans and lentils are priced reasonably, a bit high but not bad.

But the canned goods, chips, and other things at both of them are priced at twice what the regular groceries sell them for, and about 4x (or more) what Walmart has for the same items. Easy to walk past them and not spend that money.
> When Crow heard the song, she was so “terrified” that she was “literally hyperventilating”.
“I know John and I know the nuances of his voice,” she says. “And there would be no way you’d have been able to tell that he was not singing that song.

> …

> “You cannot bring people back from the dead and believe that they would stand for that”

Wait until she realizes that the voices and music of the dead can be played with apps like “YouTube” and “Spotify”!
Substitute the Library of Babel¹ for /dev/random and the point still stands.

¹ https://libraryofbabel.info/
It is yes.
I mean, you don’t have to care about this unless you have an application where you do. And if you do there is enough transparency (ie ability to inspect the assembly and ask questions) that you can solve this one issue without knowing everything under the sun.

If you had an application where this sort of thing made a difference in JavaScript, the problem would likely still the there, you’d just have a lot less visibility on it.

I guess you’re still right - at the end of the day you see discussions like this far more often in C, so it impacts the feel of programming in C more.
Revenge of the consumer: McDonald's, Starbucks, and Chipotle eye pushback
If the company has gotten to the point that the only way to provide returns to the shareholders is to squeeze employee salaries, take that as a sign that the company can’t increase revenue and is struggling, and it’s time to look for another job.

(If, for some reason, the company is making gobs of money for the shareholders but management has still decided to squeeze employee salaries, increasing the risk of loosing key people that help generate that revenue, also leave because those managers will end up destroying the company.)
Sigsaly: Cryptography, Turntables, and Muzak
"Hateful" is such an odd adjective to choose.

And it seems intentionally loaded, as if to associate it with hate crime. When nothing could be further from it.

I think there are a lot of valid criticisms of using AI to mimic other artists, things we need to think about as society.

But I don't see where "hate" enters the picture here (assuming you're not actually trying to deepfake people saying legitimately hateful things, or similar). Making that accusation feels inflammatory and counterproductive.
Fortunately we now live in a post-hate world. Hate once oppressed, but now emboldens. So carry on, Tupac AI.
A parser playground? Wow that is very cool.
I agree, but this mainly targets people with a large following who have a public booking link on their website. They likely have a packed calendar, and this would help them filter out non-serious buyers
Maybe sync to cloud can be a future path, e.g. https://electric-sql.com/docs/reference/local-first (no affiliation)
Not claiming to be like Einstein in other ways, but I could say the same.

Sometimes people ask me if I think in English or my native language. I'm tempted to say "mostly not".

BTW, loose speculation: Maybe being bilingual does "free" the brain from word thinking.
The May 10th superstorm electrified Earth's atmosphere
Even on (outdated) Mobian stable (that is, Mobile Debian), my Pinephone Pro is fast and stable enough to be my daily carry. And has been for some time now.
I miss slow builds. Take a walk. Grab a coffee. See how your colleagues are getting on.
> “It's hateful. It is antithetical to the life force that exists in all of us.”

Where does one draw the line? People could have said the same things when Edison recorded artists and played them on his phonograph. But today we are thankful that he invented that device as it allows us to listen to musicians who are not around anymore.

I mean, if you look at it: the underlying digital technology takes Crow's voice, breaks it down into little pieces and then when needed, combines those pieces back into some semblance of her voice. This allows her to make oodles of money. I bet she's not against _this_ technology!
All I'm suggesting is that the general attitude embodied by that page ("Your browser developer doesn't know how to handle zooming. Here, let me show you how it's done") seldom makes the impression the author would like to achieve.

Self-awareness is important when you set out to teach others.
Have you heard of the Global Village Construction Set? I think you’ll appreciate it.
It's easier to audit source code than binaries, and easier to audit it once than once for each architecture.
Alternatively read as "I'm struggling to come to grips with the fact that the life force that exists in all of us is becoming more and more likely to simply be a series of surprising and emergent properties of simple cellular automata."
You could do cooperative multitasking on the ST by compiling apps as GEM desk accessories, I modified MicroGNU Emacs so that I could have it running alongside other things.
That Veritasium video has been completely debunked by people dedicated to studying and especially working with electricity. Derek is a hack and you should look for real science channels, not popsci slop.
Thermionic electron emission in a vacuum tube would let you distinguish between electron and element: the electrons are liberated much more easily then the source material and result in current flow through the circuit.

This lets you build diodes as a result, so assignment of electrical direction based on that phenomenon would get it correct.

EDIT: in fact with a cathode ray tube you can literally visualise charge direction from looking at a foil wheel being spun in a vacuum: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K2G6M3cYJZs
Your hole-gun idea left me scratching my head.

An electron gun produces a beam that contains only electrons; there is no conductor, and I think holes can exist only in the presence of a conductor. So you can't shoot a beam of holes through a vacuum. But if the material between the gun and the screen were a semiconductor, maybe you could draw pictures on the screen using a beam of holes? I mean, I don't see why a beam of holes can't be focused just like a beam of electrons.
Yeah, SX is going to be rough.
Hey, thanks for sharing your industry experience!

For 5. in particular, I have a general vision of what I want the platform to be but it's always changing with new ideas here and there, and also have to consider user feedback like you say. Keeping it simple, but useful is the goal instead of being a do-everything platform that you need a Phd to use (looking at you, Google Cloud Platform).
Everything Old is New Again: Old models for new-era semiconductor research
The environmental issue with raising livestock isn't that they fart. It's that they convert energy from plants to energy stored in their flesh with low efficiency, so to raise livestock, humans need to grow more plants — and use more resources — to feed the livestock than they would need to grow if the humans ate the plants directly.

I find that people concerned with animals rights tend to emphasize ethical arguments over (valid) environmental arguments, while those emphasizing the environmental arguments are genuinely concerned with the environmental cost of animal agriculture. In other words, most people making environmental arguments against animal agriculture are not trying to trick you.
The Trees in the Woods (Data Structures in the Real World #1)
Show HN: Vim for Google Docs
Hey HN, I’ve been working on a chrome extension the past few months that lets you use Vim keybindings in Google Docs. I’m in college and use Docs for note taking, so I initially started working on this as a toy project. When I realized other people were interested I started putting in more work to polish the extension.

After a lot of development (and a lot more to come as well), I think the extension is genuinely a huge productivity boost. I’ve made it customizable, so you can remap keys, including even the regular Google Docs shortcuts.

I think I may make a write-up about the technical details, because this project was surprisingly hard to build. Thanks to Google’s proprietary rendering and editing engine, there is only one <canvas> element that stores the whole Google Doc. Unfortunately, the <canvas> doesn’t even store the actual text in your document [1]. This effectively means that there’s no easy way to parse HTML, which led me down a painful path of implementing Vim keybindings via simulating user key presses.

If you end up trying it out, let me know what you think, thanks -Viktor

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27129858
I've been there. the anxiety of not knowing if it's the moment to sell, or if I would just lose extra gains.
The main question is how to become solvent in the first place
VerifyVault: Open-source 2 Factor Authenticator for Desktop v0.2.1 Released
that's funny to read being from outside the usa.

the pc were the best thing one could get that was not a commodore or a bootlegged import chiclet keyboard from the uk.

the amigas were considered just expensive game machines. the apples were an extremely expensive status symbol, and the you felt like a fool because there was no compatible peripheral anywhere.

and the Ataris were unheard of.
China has built 2 reactors for Pakistan with a combined capacity of 2 GW for $9.5 BN [1]. That's $4.75 BN/GW.

But South Korea built 4 reactors totaling 5.4 GW for the United Arab Emirates for $25 BN. That's $4.63 BN/GW.

I would say that South Korea is competitive with China.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karachi_Nuclear_Power_Complex

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barakah_nuclear_power_plant
To me, an uneducated outsider, these remind me of terraced farm plots. They look like models of a region that one could use for recording ownership, taxation, yields, or planning crop rotations.

I wonder why this article is so convinced they are abacuses.
Well-deserved, congrats Andrew. I still have his distributed systems textbooks from way back when, and still wish Minix had won and its microkernel model had become the basis of the FOSS *nix ecosystem.

Also in case anyone is not aware, Andrew runs the election science blog Electoral Vote [1], using an electoral college poll model to analyze and predict US elections. One of the better US political sites out there.

[1]:https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2024/Info/welcome.html
The books are marked as unavailable for borrowing, but there's no indication that any deletion has occurred.
1. man2html

and 2. i think it's gnome devhelp.

there's an app too.

it's too bad distributions themselves promote googling everything.
That's one of my favorite expressions - I think I first heard it in the Bogleheads subreddit. The redditor in question was trying to help a first time investor with a traditional three part portfolio (domestic, international, bond).
The devil is intelligence without love
I was thinking as a Mac user who quite likes Mac and also quite likes Singapore that that's quite an apt analogy. I gave up on Windows a while back. I guess Linux would be like the metaverse where you can be/do anything but not many people go there.
I guess it comes down with whether you think training an AI is like storing your content in a database to be retrieved later, or like giving it to a person to learn from (and quote, get inspired from, copy from memory, etc).

I'm in the latter camp, so I don't see why anyone would be OK with their content being seen by humans but not used to train an AI.
US family sues NASA for $80k in damages after space debris hits home
Fold it over a few times and you get a croisSiant.
This is all extremely interesting. I also struggle to remember faces, and most of my are tied to emotions, sounds, smells, sensations, etc. When I recall something/someone, I don't see it/them, I just "know" + feel.

And I find myself very easily fooled by subtle changes in a person's appearance. If someone gets a major haircut or changes their hair color, they might as well be a different person to my brain, initially.
Self important drivel
If you don't think western media has been undermined by governments, I have a bridge to sell you.
Surely this opinion was her favorite mistake. Maybe the result of a good beer buzz early in the morning.
True Scotsman. Does it or does it not increase cognitive load?
What will it take for smart glasses to replace smartphones?
Disruptions at Many Car Dealerships Continue as CDK Hack Worsens
> mostly coming from Chomsky and in disagreement when OP

Is Chomsky's idea that language is not necessarily the same as spoken language, it is an alternate brain mechanism that provides structure to thought as opposed to being the wild west of fluid/analog non-discrete/non-symbolic type of information processing?
When West Nile virus turns deadly
The Gods of Logic: Before and after artificial intelligence
PC, Server Models Possibly Affected by Serious Phoenix UEFI Vuln
this article actually explain it.

they didn't understand magazine article sold machines. so simple.
AI doesn't devalue art, it devalues corporate pablum.

But guess what many artists earn their living off, when they haven't made it with their vocation yet.
In semi-conductor design discussions around transistors and motion of electrons, it’s often much more convenient to talk about hole (bubble) migration than electron migration.

It’s really a moot point as to whether the abstraction used to solve problems matches with the physicalist interpretation of reality.
Has there been any progress made on this at all since ChatGPT? I remember when the Zoom story broke on their TOS, and that story got covered in morning news in USA.

But Zoom was about using videos for AI training, everything else is about text. And it looks like nobody really cares about text, except for maybe NY Times which is suing OpenAI.

What is the deal with this? It pisses me off that a few major companies are about to gobble up the entire internet and capitalise on it solely for themselves. Not going to give back anything to anyone, they even want you to pay a monthly fee just to get access to your own data.
Elon Wants You to Have More Babies
According to Intel, any processor before Skylake (section 15.12 from [1]).

[1]: https://cdrdv2.intel.com/v1/dl/getContent/814198?fileName=24...
I believe AI uses publicly accessible content similarly to how humans do: we discuss what we read, use it, and create new content from it. This process is legal and acceptable. The fact that an artificial entity is doing it doesn't make it wrong. Moreover, I think intellectual property shouldn't be owned. In today's world, intellectual works should automatically benefit society.
Since the definition of Em and Ex are circular, how do bowser implementers go about actually building them? Do the actual implementations differ from the spec in that regard?
I have a wireless charging cradle on my nightstand intentionally hooked to a slow charger. It works fine most of the time except on the rare occasion when the phone charge is low and I'm going somewhere in a couple of hours. It would be great if there was a charging cradle with a simple "fast/slow" charge switch.

Or even better, if phones had a built-in charge status UI that instead of just saying "NN% charged / TT minutes until full" had a slider controlling charge speed that showed a range of "time until full". That way users could intelligently choose the charge speed vs time based on context.
Read the Bogleheads Wiki [0] for a simple broad foundation on basic personal finance and wealth accumulation.

[0] https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page
Invest in skills that pay money and spend less then you make.

Skills are key because they’re inflation-proof, and no person or government can ever take them away
https://archive.ph/7Z0VX
So there two buttons, one that’s for group video call and one that’s for group audio calls. What you’re saying is that the latter is basically the same but without video? Damn
We do. Much in the same way private property is protected, we need regulation enabling the technical means to keep bad actors off private machines.-

This, back in the quaint, good, ol' days, was sufficiently implemented through the voluntary, good will, communal, neighborly agreement that robot.txt embodies.-

Unfortunately, sadly, that is no longer enough.-
This was in India where succession planning for small business is non-existent and if kids don't pick up their family business, it's over. However, even in America, this situation exists for small businesses. With so many baby boomers retiring from businesses like HVAC etc, their kids don't necessarily want to continue the business.
I'd also recommend Experimental Fat Loss, although some of his stuff can be a bit ranty. He's got good data and experiments, though, which is why I recommend him. Notably, he cured his non-24 with his diet. https://www.exfatloss.com/p/losing-43lbs-in-144-days-on-ex15...
Piranha-like fish with 'human teeth' and Eye of Sauron found in the Amazon
Since joining NATO, Sweden claims Russia has been borking Nordic satellites
There should be some kind of legal document an artist can choose to complete, a "Do Not Reanimate Me" choice. If they decline to make a decision, or agree to be simulated, fine. If they they make their wishes known, that should be respected by their estate.
John Gruber's article, which this one is a response to: https://daringfireball.net/2024/06/training_large_language_m...
California Water Temperatures Drop to Dangerous Levels – Newsweek
> as if to associate it with hate crime

But she sees it as a hate crime.

"It is antithetical to the life force that exists in all of us."

Granted, she also thinks we can trick frogs into being boiled when all evidence is to the contrary. And she doesn't want to be "innocuous." There are many reasons in that article alone to dismiss what Crow says.

https://www.iflscience.com/boiling-frog-syndrome-isnt-real-y...
Has Russian radio signal UVB-76 been solved after 40 years?
I wonder what’s the proof there
I think you've misread the section:

> it is possible to speed up single-precision divide and square root calculations using the (V)RSQRTPS and (V)RCPPS instructions
> Evidence presented showed the scheme began as early as 2007.

17 years would seem a long wait for justice, relative to the lifespan of most software, in any case.
I recall thinking that McD's (regular) hamburgers were a decent deal back when they were 25 cents each.

Now...I don't know if I've eaten McD's food in the past 25 years. Maybe a time or two, when traveling with family.