skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Several years ago Robert Baruch[0] did a video series[1] on having replacement LCDs manufactured for this line of computers. He sells LCDs for this model[2] and several models of Casio/TRS-80 pocket computers on his Tindie store. I found the discussion about reverse-engineering and having new LCDs manufactured delightful. It's amazing to live in a time when an individual can get small lots of a part like this manufactured economically.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@RobertBaruch

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8-HfGTCcCk

[2] https://www.tindie.com/products/halfbakedmaker/lcd-replaceme...
> I believe this trend is a result of management culture and performance metrics that attempt to measure "impact", and correlate pay and promotions along those measures.

Meta's performance reviews are also heavily weighted for measurable impact.

I think that the reason why it's beating Alphabet in so many fronts is team culture. Most new product teams are small and have a reasonably flat hierarchy. It's easy to make impact that's both effective and measurable, and the amount of engineering time working in "useless work" is minimised.
>Funny to see people publicly out themselves as too cheap to become informed.

Not that, the only news I can find on-line is about National Items. I cannot find any information about what my City Council is doing, what is being built in the City. I can find only scrubbed items released by just the Council.

In the old days, the local news paper would investigate the local politicians and report if they are doing anything illegal. Now, we have no idea, so graft could be rampant in local politics and no one would know.
You're mixing up cause and effect. The transformer architecture was invented for machine translation – and it's pretty good at it! (Very far from human-level, but still mostly comprehensible, and a significant improvement over the state-of-the-art at time of first publication.) But we shouldn't treat this as anything more than "special-purpose ML architecture achieves decent results".

The GPT architecture, using transformers to do iterated predictive text, is a modern version of the Markov bot. It's truly awful at translation, when "prompted" to do so. (Perhaps surprisingly so, until you step back, look at the training data, and look at the information flow: the conditional probability of the next token isn't mostly coming from the source text.)

I haven't read that paper yet, but it looks interesting. From the abstract, it looks like one of those perfectly-valid papers that laypeople think is making a stronger claim than it is. This paragraph supports that:

> Note that these models are not intended to accurately capture natural language. Rather, they illustrate how our theory can be used to study the effect of language similarity and complexity on data requirements for UMT.
Correct. This is what makes me feel guilty about releasing a closed-source product, or even one with a non-OSI license. It’s irrational, but I feel like I’ve benefited so massively from FOSS that I owe it to the community to contribute back.

EDIT: as another commenter wrote below, OSI is driven by massive cloud vendors, who have a vested interest in having their freedoms to take projects and monetize them. Perhaps a somewhat restrictive license isn’t a bad thing.
UK Royal Mint mining PCBs for precious metals in e-waste recovery effort
Put two mountain bikes in a Prius and drive to a singletrack trailhead then tell again how it's objectively better. But on a serious note, there are many more reasons to have a truck than towing. I understand that it's disturbing when others don't share your needs or views, but saying "people other than myself are stupid and do things for silly reasons" is not adding to discussion quality.
Sadly the fine article yada yadas the installation and integration of the GPUs with the scheduling of SLURM
Globalfoundries among others.
>I've noticed it's both a very real thing and a very wide spread thing.

Sorry, just to be clear -- is the very real thing the fact that Canadian Funds believe Canadians aren't ambitious enough or is the real thing (in your opinion) that Canadians aren't ambitious enough.
The majority of that is the upfront one-off loading time for pyodide to get going along with required packages. Subsequent runs for things will be substantially faster.
That’s a common experience
> there are literal no go zones the police will not touch out of fear.

GPS coords then? Street names?

Any chance of a decent curry?
Well certainly, but that’s not an apt comparison. I’m comparing P(willingness to take massive financial gamble | safety net) with P(willingness to take massive financial gamble | no safety net). I think the former is greater, whereas the article seems to imply the latter by stating “people who are born on third base tend to be pretty risk-averse”. Are people born on third base over or underrepresented among tech billionaires?
Looks like an Alt Mode host with DP sink capability is technically allowed...? But it also looks like USB host controllers with Alt Mode support exposes internal DP source driver inputs, rather than handing you bunch of bare copper wires in Alt Mode, so I doubt it realistically has an implementation.

ref: https://vesa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/USB-DevDays-2019...
For someone not deep in the topic, what is a "Streaming Processing Engine"?

All the description for Denormalized use the term, so if don't know it, it's kind of impossible to understand what Denormalized is / trying to solve.
I’m aware of how ANC works. It uses the same frequencies with reverse amplitude. The comment you objected to however was talking about different frequencies.
> so it’s impossible for someone to measure (read) the data in between without it being detected at both ends.

You give too little information for this to be understandable.
Think next year’s performance review would agree if I decide to have all my stand ups from the golf course?
Capture One is great Lightroom alternative.
Thanks for the reply buddy. But I am still not able to understand how camera model and lens/exposure settings can be used to make the photo real.

Lets, say that you took an image of a flower in a garden and ai has also generated an image of the same flower. When we see these pics side by side we find a lot of difference between them. Origin of my question was "how can we minimize this difference ?". How we can tell the machine that the more the magnitude of a certain parameter the more real it is, not sure if camera settings could help in this case.
Mac OS used Pascal strings rather than C's null-terminated strings (Inside Macintosh volume 1, p90 -- Using assembly language / Calling conventions -- "Pointer to string (first byte pointed to is length byte)" https://vintageapple.org/inside_o/pdf/Inside_Macintosh_Volum...

They were an absolute pain to switch between when writing C code for Mac OS, and are evidence of the Mac OS designers having Pascal on the brain when designing the OS, not just their choice of example language in the documentation.

> as far as I know no major software houses seriously worked in Pascal on the Mac

Adobe Photoshop for the Macintosh was written in Pascal:

https://computerhistory.org/blog/adobe-photoshop-source-code...
Protectionism on behalf of the car companies and dealerships and the cancerous culture of car first infrastructure.
> Ok joking aside, it caused the proverbial lightbulb to turn on in my brain, and helped tremendously in my career later when I ran into folks trying to seem smart because they understood ECC or ZKPs.

Presumably it helped to know that there was something beyond these folks' knowledge, but did it help in any more direct way?
A lot of people don’t remember that Intel was a huge early ARM licensee. If you were building a smart mobile device 25 years ago, you were probably seriously considering the Intel StongARM SoC. They then followed up on this with the more advanced ARM XScale family of SoCs, which you’d likely use if wanted to build a ARM battery-powered smart device in the early 2000s. Background per Wikipedia:

> The StrongARM is a family of computer microprocessors developed by Digital Equipment Corporation and manufactured in the late 1990s which implemented the ARM v4 instruction set architecture. It was later acquired by Intel in 1997 from DEC's own Digital Semiconductor division as part of a settlement of a lawsuit between the two companies over patent infringement. Intel then continued to manufacture it before replacing it with the StrongARM-derived ARM-based follow-up architecture called XScale in the early 2000s.

However, after developing and manufacturing these for nine years, Intel exited this business by selling their ARM unit to Marvell. Intel was developing its own “low power” x86 chip, the Atom, and decided to put all its mobile eggs in that basket, which unfortunately was never as low power as comparable ARM designs. I suspect Intel also saw that the number of licensees in the ARM market was growing and competition along with it, their value-add wasn’t that great, and their margins were necessarily smaller due to the ARM licensing fees.
Because other investors wont line up and lick your boots? Not sure why that would matter, but it wasn't my idea, I guess some just like attention and seeing people grovel before you makes them happy and take VC funding when they probably could have gotten a regular loan instead.
Like... SSH?
Because models are trained on images that are usually edited in post-production with this aesthetic.

Mostly highlights down, shadows and clarity up. I often needs to edit it back to have realistic looking lights on scene.

Also "--s" 0 helps with generating more realistic images.
Yes, this is an advantage of Pyodide, and thus PyScript too, they have a fair number of packages that work directly:

https://pyodide.org/en/stable/usage/packages-in-pyodide.html
i find it hard to remember that.
Kinda sad that a (by modern standards) slapdash file system like FAT32 is still the lowest common denominator, used for flash drives and all sorts of things. Would wish the industry could agree on using something more modern and reliable.
Very wise thing to get clear on. Thank you.

It's a self fulfilling prophecy, there aren't NOT ambitious founders in Canada, it's just "obnoxiously ambitious"* Canadians move to SF.

*(whatever that means, but not said in a negative way, I'd put myself in that bucket, as a Canadian who moved to NYC and built DigitalOcean etc.)
I'd gladly pay for all internet services I use in an ad-free world. Indeed I already do pay for a quite number of services.
"cannot be subjected to outside control, manipulation or censorship"

Even in China? When I used to live there, I'd sometimes hear about some fancy anti-censorship software or service and it invariably didn't actually work and turned out only to be meant for comfortable free places like America.
It doesn't do anything though. The "store_demo_mode" and "verizonwireless_store_demo_mode" settings are not set by default, and there doesn't appear to be any way to set these through the UI.

Also, according to other comments, the app is disabled by default. From examining the CarrierSettings app, this does indeed appear to be the case. It seems to require a certain carrier configuration to enable it.

Anyone who wants to enable the functionality of this app would have to go to some effort to do so, including enabling the Developer Settings - which requires the user's PIN, password or pattern - and then connecting to the device over ADB, enabling the app (if not already enabled by the carrier), and changing one of the two settings above.

This really is nothing to worry about. If you disagree, do please feel free to do some analysis of the software yourself so we can discuss this based on the facts.
Context: Dave Plummer left Microsoft to found a company which peddled fake antivirus/security crapware, and only after that grift fizzled out did he rebrand himself around the work he did at Microsoft.

https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-s...
> Much potentially vital genetic information can be found in the Congo, but also more “attack vectors” for novel pathogens

I don't think it quite works that way. At least, I only ever hear about a lack of genetic diversity being a threat in the context of diseases and immunity (usually in the context of domesticated animals and cloned plants, like bananas). And there the argument is that once a virus has way in, it can spread to everyone else genetically similar enough.

So I think this is mixing up two views: one takes all genetic variation out there, and asks "if I were to unleash this novel virus on all of them, would any of them be infected?" The higher the diversity, the higher the chance that at least one happens to have the genetic make-up that is accessible by a virus.

But the actual questions are closer to "how many would be infected? How easy would the virus spread?" In that case I would expect higher genetic diversity to result in lower numbers. Like a kind of soft herd-immunity in diversity.

I'm not an expert though, so if anyone who does know their stuff in this matter could weight in that would be appreciated.

Also, as far as I understand the problem for bats is that they share (predigested) food with their fellow bats in their colonies. So if one is sick with anything, all of them will be exposed.
> When you're talking about "evil" and percentages of life spent in jail, I'm going to ask for a more direct causal link to harm than just "demonstration is trivial and left to the reader.

I don't know if theres a correlation between evil and jailtime. The debate around the severity of punishment is different than the debate about whether or not something should be illegal. I do think my (US) justice system is very flawed, especially around sentencing.

> Can you argue for something similar for generated CP? And also discount the ick factor?

I can take a stab at it. Simulated CSAM :

* if realistic, can make identifying real CSAM and the associated victims more difficult. This could redirect resources dedicated to stopping harm against victims.

* has the potential to normalize the distribution of CSAM due to #1

* has the potential to normalize the consumption of CSAM.

To address the comments being birthed around unproven causal relationships- yeah I know. The parent asked for arguments. Besides, a study into this doesn't seem very ethical or possible.

I am not able to discount the "ick factor", but I'll try to make a counterpoint.

All of the arguments I can think of to the contrary center around free speech, false positives and weaponization. That's where I think the challenges are and where subjectivity can cause issues. Without a real person, it's difficult to assign a simulated age unless a prompt is captured or other context. Otherwise it becomes the job of a person or other 'AI' to guess the simulated age of the image.
No? All you need to do is install to a standard LUKS partition with a good password. Then your data is secure but not irretrievably tied to your motherboard. Granted, that's not UKI, but it's a functional solution.
Bond ladders are almost exactly the same as CD ladders. Bonds and CDs are almost exactly the same thing, mathematically.

The tax treatment is a tiny bit different. T-bill interest is exempt from state/local tax. CD interest is not.

Default risk is the tiniest bit different, but not by much. With the CD, there is some probability that the bank will fail, at which point you then need to wait for the gears of the FDIC to slowly turn to pay you your CD insurance. The FDIC actually doesn't have that much money, so in a sufficiently large bank run the Federal Reserve will have to backstop it. On the other hand, you can just buy a T-bill directly from the Treasury, which is also backstopped by the Fed. So there are some additional middlemen in the case of the CD. Maybe that's good -- more failures in a row are necessary before you get to the Fed. Maybe that's bad -- there are more parties and more bureaucracy involved in the unlikely event of a bank failure. I think you might as well go straight to the Treasury for the high rate and better tax treatment.

(Or I'd plow it into the S&P 500 because T-bills ain't never gonna outpace inflation, no matter what they say the numbers are.)
More apropros to the current situation, Henryk Jagoda and the bolsheviks killed/starved between 29 million to 113 million people, depending on estimates. They certainly ID's people, based on ethnicity, religion, political affiliation, and class status.

My point is to not make it easier for them.
And they are eaten in Brazil and India as well, so contact with Simians is not specific to Congo.
The point about self-made: if you already have money, you probably won't [be willing to] take enough risks in order to become a top 200 rich person

The whole article is trying to ask: if you want to capture the far right tail of founders, how do you do that?

"Probably don't fund the trust fund kid" is part of the answer
AFAIK, the MACs at the time was all point and click. Building GUI applications is not easy. Borland's IDE was text base, making that a GUI may have been to expensive based upon the amount of $ that could be made.

Also, most MAC people considered themselves Artists, not developers. Most individual developers (all) were hacking on DOS at the time. So that may have played into it too. To me, it is all about potential revenue vs expense.
Parent used the word oligopoly. Your comment and links seem to agree?
> But if they are able to charge for it, they deserve it.

This is an extremely black-and-white view. If I make a competing product to you and it’s superior to yours, then yes, I deserve profits (though of course consumers may still choose yours for a litany of other reasons). If a trillion-dollar corporation becomes a competitor, that’s not exactly fair. They can, if they want, spin up an entire team dedicated to the product, and by sheer numbers, they will win. Is it legal? Yes. Is it ethical? That’s subjective.
I think JS is a degenerate case. The reason I stay as far away from JS/TS as possible is that everything seems sloppy and therefore people try to "fix" things by replacing them every N months.

Indeed, when you see so many commenters advocating not bothering to learn a language deeply, you kind of get a taste for how prevalent the sloppiness mindset is. JS seems to attract a very high proportion of unskilled programmers.

I would struggle to name a single project I have been involved in where the JS/TS based front-end hasn't been reimplemented multiple times, from what I can tell, because people get lost.
You can download gcam from XDA forums. I even have it on my Samsung Galaxy
They bet 1 million when they have 1.01 million in the bank, most big founders has almost all their wealth in the company they founded until they step down.

The kind of person who only bets 1 million when they have 15 is exactly the kind of risk averse person they don't want as a founder.
This is incredible to me, the kind of science fiction I actually want to see become fact in situations like this.

I'm wondering a bit about this claim, though, and hoping someone more familiar with the field can shed some light on it:

> The device predicts the wrong word less than 3 percent of the time, an error rate on par with nondisabled speakers reading a paragraph aloud.

Does this mean that in a paragraph of 100 words, nondisabled readers are expected to get 3 words wrong? That would be a lot higher than I would expect, but is what it sounds like the quoted sentence means.

Or is it more like if a hundred nondisabled people read a standard paragraph out loud, three of them would trip over (at least) one word in it? This seems closer, but still like a fairly high error rate for something they're calling "perfect."
This really is a landmark success. Their patient, Harrell, who suffers from ALS, can use their Brain-to-Speech interface daily reliably (<3% error rate) to talk to family.

Big congrats to the team at UC Davis.
Wait, '1/3' isn't a fraction, it's a range from 1 to 3? Why in God's name would they choose that syntax? Ranges have plenty of reasonable, well known syntaxes in programming. E.g. 1..3
I don't understand why they say you need physical access to the device. The Play Store has access to remotely install apps; surely it can enable them. I'm going to try this today.

You can log in to the Play Store on a computer and click "Install" and it'll ask you what device you want it on.

I'm not saying Graphene has this app, I'm just talking about their claim that physical access is required to enable it on non-Graphene pixels.
The only way to play Fortnite on iOS is to be in the EU
> Like... SSH?

Except SSH is a protocol, and this is some shady piece of internal enterprise tool... probs written by one unpaid intern and never security audited once in its lifetime... otherwise yeah no difference at all, nailed it ;)
Big Tech Uses More Electricity Than Entire Countries
Thanks vishalk_3. This is an integration we built internally to make sure our marketing team can qualify and follow up with leads based on their behavior and intent on the website. Looking at the immense potential here, we decided to make it free and public for other companies to use. Pls share your feedback once you use it.
> 5. I clearly edited the summary

A point I bring up sometimes, is that Transformer models have superhuman attention.

In this case, I not only missed that you'd done so the first time I read it, but also the second time where I saw this quotation and went back to try to find what made it clear that you had edited it.

Third time, then I found it.

Moonwalking bears and all that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNSgmm9FX2s
Sorry to ask a dumb question, but… is this in the prompt for a larger provider like ChatGPT (DALL-E) or are you using your own?
Yeah, I remember. The string issue was easily fixed by simply placing a null at the end of one's strings and maintaining a Pascal string pointer for OS traps and using the C string pointer for everything expecting C strings.

I still have a work-in-progress mimeographed and hand written copy of Inside Macintosh that was used by the original 3rd party developers, back when a good 2/3rds of the OS was still being completed.
“It’s only good as a thought experiment”. Framed as an argument. Did you notice you’ve switched sides? The Theseus ship paradox has at least 2 perfectly good answers, Is it dumb?

Another responder already gave you what you’re asking for: billion year timescales. You countered “500x”. Did you multiply 500 times x (47) and compare that to a billion? You latched onto that idea eagerly because it supported “your side”, but I’m sure once you think about it you’ll see it’s only a tiny fraction of a real counter argument.

You mistake me for an opponent. Me insulting you would look different. You’re the only one that can benefit from these comments I’m making to you.
The article makes claims that Apple has changed, which is why there is a decline in fanboy praise for the company. But from the outside it just looks like business as usual.
It's amazing that people still think this to be a smart question.
The banana apocalypse is near, biologists find key to their survival
Words cannot even describe how much I loved my TRS-80 pocket computers. As far as having something in your pocket which you can program on, even today there's nothing quite like it.

Even touchscreen phones are not a replacement. The TRS-80 pocket computers had actual keyboards, which were small enough to make a portable form-factor, but large enough that you could thumb-touch type on them.

Alas, we've gone from being pocket programmers to doom-scrollers.
> I think the lowest power ones are Atom and Celeron. All the other low wattage CPUs are RISC based. I think AMD is also coming up with something similar.

AMD Had Bobcat and later Puma, IIRC there were some <5W parts in both of those families. I still wonder -why- they never did a dual channel version of those parts for desktop, my guess is it would have made Bulldozer look extra bad somehow.
Just be careful to not return null from all calls to parse_expr() :)
The Tales of Codebase Complexity