skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don’t take VC funds someone who will is going to copy your business, expand much much faster than you with all their free money, undercut you and any other competitors for years driving you out of business, before ultimately dominating the market and squeezing customers for more money than you while providing a product that is worse in every way and a fraction of what you had envisioned for your own product.

It’s downright cancerous.
I like Kant's formulation of this sentiment better, his categorical imperative:

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."

i.e., act according to a principle that makes sense for everyone else also to follow. If you jump the subway turnstile to avoid payment, what happens if everyone does likewise?
At this point honoring robots.txt will ensure you have a terrible searching experience...
Not to mention all of the developments in mirror testing to account for differences in perception. What they're finding is that self-recognition is more common than assumed.
My above post was an attempt at humor, mashing-up the flywheel concept with dubious shortcuts companies take to try to “outsmart” inertia. Yes, that non-sequitur was another one.
David Mackenzie – A Personal History with Linux and BSD Unix [video]
David Mackenzie is the author (or co-author) of many basic GNU utilities such as `ls`, `chmod`, `touch`, and many others. I was looking up the manpage for the `install` command today and came across his name listed as its sole author. I had some time to kill, so I looked him up and this fascinating video came up in which he discusses his early life and how he came to work for GNU and wrote all these utilities. I highly recommend watching this till the end.
More or less, depending on many factors though. In general it is among the most lightweight IDEs, i've even used it on an original Raspberry Pi (though that was a few years ago) - it wasn't fast there, but it was usable which is more than can be said about most other still developed IDEs.

Free Pascal is not as fast as Delphi 2 (especially if the target OS needs to use a native linker like GNU ld), for some decently sized projects it can take several seconds (or even a minute for multimillion lines of code) for a full build, though partial builds tend to be almost instant - at least in hardware released within the last 10 years (and SSDs help, like everywhere else). Of course both the language and the libraries (and Lazarus itself as an IDE and its own framework) do way more than Delphi 2, which itself was also more advanced than VB6.

I do believe that the provided functionality scales well with its requirements.

I'm not sure about a 400MHz P3, but i have tried a git build of Lazarus from last year on a late 2003 Athlon64 PC running Windows 7 and was very comfortable. A 400MHz P3 would be faster than an original Raspberry Pi, so i'd expect that if nothing else to be usable though might not be as comfortable as VB6 (or Delphi 2 for that matter). I do have a (IIRC) 800MHz P3 around for retro games, at some point i might try to install some lightweight Linux for fun and try to see how it performs there.
It's called the open internet when the same rule applies to everybody.

This is one rule for corporations and another rule for individuals.

Additionally, there is often with little or no recourse when the latter are falsely accused.

Look and the frustration of YouTubers evoking DMCA takedowns for including 5 seconds of a commercial song accidentally.
My problem is more-so with the individuals with no ailments who have been lulled into believing that marijuana is benign or even something that can act to enhance cognitive performance. We have a lot of scientific evidence to the contrary, and the anecdotes like "they're still doing fine" is reductionist and undermines the salience of my point for many people.
NIST IAL2 is required for some applications, and login.gov didn't support it, so the third party id.me was used instead.

https://network.id.me/article/what-is-nist-ial2-identity-ver...
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202404/login-gov-adds-selfie...
That's pretty cool. In case anyone reading this is generally interested in crime statistics dashboards, I'll link to the NYPD's: https://compstat.nypdonline.org/
Maybe the same person as this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvglZptaBuY heh :D
Talon Voice is good and runs on linux.

https://talonvoice.com/
I've been doing a version of this for the past few months using GitHub Issues. It's been working really, really well for me.

At the start of every day I create a new GitHub issue for that day, in a private repository. I throw one or two priority tasks for the day in there as GitHub TODO items (- [ ] description here)

As the day continues I add random notes and links and screenshots as comments on that issue. I edit that first issue description with new tasks, and check of tasks I've done.

A lot of these tasks are "- [ ] URL-to-issue-in-another-repo" - GitHub automatically marks those tasks as done when I close that issue, no matter what repo it's in.

I often add an "## Unplanned" heading to my issue description and list things under there that weren't in the plan but that I did anyway.

The next day I start a new issue. I sometimes revisit issues from previous days, just to remind myself what I did, but I don't try to close everything and I don't transfer items across unless they are REALLY important.

I automated the creation of the daily issues using the trick I describe here: https://til.simonwillison.net/github-actions/daily-planner
That being why they've been gathering evidence for 25 years, and present multiple lines of evidence from different instruments.
Not to mention having to train your people on why it matters. In most places, that's going to... never happen.
The A500 was a sweet machine though...
Some random suggestions:

- use Zotero to organize anything that can be referenced: papers obviously, but also any books with ISBN, even websites with snapshots (use the Zotero web extension)
- learn about the CSL style and use Zotero to automatically export citations. Better BibLaTeX supports output to BibLaTeX. But if you can adapt your workflow to CSL YAML/JSON then it would be better.
- use Notion with your academic email and then you can have free pro features. It has its own pros and cons, but you can upload anything there with virtually unlimited storage. (But obviously be careful to become over reliant on this.)
- Keep logs of everything you do in a retrievable way, eg git. Take the lab notebook analogy but apply it to everything else, especially when code is involved.
- try to make any code reproducible-ish. This is hard, but starts with manually logging things. You will want to be able to retrace your steps.
- write a lot, write like you’re explaining to your future self (that may forget some of the details you know like the back of your hand right now). When you need to explain things to others, jot them down. When writing presentations for example, try write it like an outline of a mini paper (using speaker notes for things you don’t want to show on slide for example). The things you wrote could become handy when you later want to gather materials for a paper or dissertation.
- because of this, when preparing presentation, with reasonable amount of time spent, try to generate images or equations that is publishing quality if you think it is going to be useful in the future. That kind of related to reproducibility. Going back to regenerate a graph differently is going to be hard. So better abuse the storage space and have a few extra formats than needed at the moment (matplotlib with pgf output for example.)
- think about how you organize projects across different ecosystems with the same structure. The book Second Brain promotes using 4 categories Projects, Area, Resource, Archive and routinely tidying them up. It’s worth a read but it has its limitations.

Start writing your CV and drafting your dissertation in the beginning. The things you mentioned probably all fit into them and knowing how they fit into a CV/dissertation is a way of “managing” them.

P.S. using pandoc for all the writings is quite useful to me. Having a single source authoring presentation, LaTeX, documentation, etc. is quite useful. That allows me to copy and paste something I wrote for a presentation to my dissertation for example. YMMV however, as I’m a minority in that regard.
Best engine
>You just argued that, because some animals display errors in reasoning, we can call into doubt the claim that any animal reasons.

No, I literally said no claim can be made. And I didn't just say some animals display errors therefore we can doubt any claim that animals reason.

I said we observe contradictory evidence. And my conclusion again was that we don't enough evidence to make ANY claim.
I think even a single change (married->divorced) counts as a form of instability. Of course more changes are worse than 1 change.

>Instability is best described as the experience of abrupt, involuntary, and/or negative change in individual or family circumstances.

>Family Instability

>According to recent estimates, between birth and fourth grade, more than one-third of children see their parents marry, remarry, separate, or start or end a cohabiting union.

https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/32721/...

>This is conjecture.

This paper[1] says spending more time with kids led to better outcomes for the kids. I think if there are 2 parents in the house the kid will be more likely to be spending time with at least one of them. Although there seem to be studies saying the opposite, or that there's no benefit. So I'm not sure. This paper[2] says the benefit only occurs when both parents spend time with the kid at the same time.

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/2673-995X/4/2/38

[2] https://ifstudies.org/blog/kids-time-with-parents-matters-bu...
I'm 10x happier with Kagi than Google, and I was very skeptical (having followed Google's devs very closely as acquisition specialist for ~10+y). If you can afford Kagi, I'm curious to know why you don't stick with it. Or I'll assume that because the Google brand is just too strong, in which case we have a particular case of a monopoly.
Wynwood in Miami had that plan. a few developers bought pretty much everything and gave artists and cool concepts/restaurants cheap rent to build there. Once it became popular they jacked up the rents and built condos on it. It’s a completely different animal now
I've recently been pirating 30 and 40 year old games. It's pure insanity that it still counts as piracy.
Do you have some specific usage of Claude to help? Or how do you use Claude/Gpt for this more precisely?
I need this for Hacker News.
The solution may be to go back when news wasn't some action filled adventure to be consumed every hour. Social responsible news should inform the public and provide the necessary background so people can form their own views and conclusions, rather than current system of news companies that carves an audience to whom they can provide entertainment and engagement.

To make a second reference, Yes, Minister has an excellent sketch over UK news papers, beautifully illustrating how each paper has carved up their own piece of the population and provide entertainment to serve those readers. It almost 40 years old and still fairly accurate description.

It not an uncommon sentiment to hear people saying that Wikipedia is a better platform for news than news organizations, since the content will stabilize fairly fast on that which everyone agrees on, and contentions over facts becomes noticeable. The general resistance to emotional loaded words also helps combat some of the worst aspects of news.
Except for all the significant differences, yes.
> Think of it as a last-ditch effort, a sort of public confessional as therapeutic tool aimed at defusing the intense compulsion I feel every day to endlessly scroll the world’s most popular video app.

I think I found a great solution to the problem. The uninstall button may help
Implantable sensor releases naloxone when an overdose is detected
> From what broad tradition do you acquire your sense of what is good, normal and worthwhile in life, and – if I can put it this way – your general vibe too? When I’ve asked my non-religious friends, colleagues and students this question, they’re almost always stumped. Their impulse is to say one of three things: ‘from my experience’, ‘from friends and family’ or ‘from human nature’. But to this I reply, as politely as possible, that those are not suitable answers. Personal experience, friends and family and human nature are situated and formed within wider social, political and cultural contexts. So I ask again: ‘What society-or-civilisation-sized thing can you point to as the source of your values? I’m talking about the kind of thing that, were you Christian, you’d just say: “Ah, the Bible,” or “Oh, my Church.’’’

Simple: Our constitution, our legal framework that (mostly) protects us from corruptive forces, our ability to trust that sellers can't sell us poison and lie to us about it, our ability to enter into transactions with total strangers without worry, our free elections, our freedom of expression, freedom of association, freedom of movement, freedom to be who we are.

People are stumped because they're not looking at it for what it is. There's no mysticism wrapped around our secular societies like there are around religions, so people tend to not notice it. But if you look at it - REALLY look at it - it's nothing short of miraculous what we've achieved. Life before we had these things was VERY, VERY different from the peace and prosperity we've enjoyed for almost a hundred years.

And it's unfortunate that people have become so entitled and myopic that they've lost sight of it to the point where they actually favor strongmen as heads of governments...

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.
Boeing, Lockheed Martin in talks to sell rocket-launch firm ULA to Sierra Space
No, my claim isn't that out there.

You can't explain how an LLM does what it does and you can't explain how humans do what we do either. With no explanation possible but CLEAR similarities between human responses and LLM responses that pass turing tests... my hypothesis is actually reasonable.

In theory, with enough data and enough neurons we can conceivably construct an LLM that performs better than humans. Neural nets are supposed to able to compute anything anyway. So none of what I said is unreasonable.
I suppose you didn't run any of the examples on the website.
I think that framing comes from the article rather than the Aurora researchers (I skimmed some of their papers & didn't see it mentioned), but the article claims:

> Indeed, these loud cracking sounds are often attributed to large pressure splits in tree trunks, caused by sap freezing and expanding inside the tree’s interior. But while freezing sap in trees has been found to produce sounds at ultrasonic frequencies, outside of the range of human hearing, scientists have found no evidence this phenomenon might make sounds that are audible to the human ear.

Though if you told me you'd heard a tree make a groan or a crack, I'd be inclined to believe it, it doesn't strike me as outlandish.
Pokology – Fun with ELF Files
Just buy a compact camera. I have a Sony ZV-1 (though the RX100 is more geared towards photography if that's your preference) that I carry in my pocket, usually instead of my phone. It costs less than top it the line phones with way better picture quality.

Seriously, if you care that much about your camera, don't buy a phone as your camera. Cheap out on your phone instead.
It’s partly the photography, but I’ve seen eldritch horrors quivering in jello molds during my childhood, so the terror of the genuine article was not to be underestimated.
Surprised no one has mentioned the outrageous cost of the average EV on the US market. We just bought a second hybrid last year because the EVs we wanted were all in the $60k range. That’s not affordable for much of the US population.
Marketing high tech products, without talking tech
I know its a third party extension, but I created an open-source browser extension that helps me with a lot of that (I also use my bookmarks extensively for this):

https://github.com/Fannon/search-bookmarks-history-and-tabs#...

If you're afraid that it goes 404: This extension is open-source, very easy to build and use locally and it does not make any external request or relies on external dependencies.
Or, stay with me here, you hold a viewpoint that most people don't hold?

Nothing wrong with that, and you should share your viewpoints freely. But I think it's pretty clear that the vast majority of Americans agree with the protection of intellectual property, and acknowledge that sharing copywritten material is piracy, even if they do it themselves.

Blaming AI seems like using it as a balm for your cognitive dissonance.
Spend enough time in r/politics and you’ll notice.

What’s troubling is the constant spamming in new subreddits like r/inthenews. Once it takes hold (whatever the message), then actual humans start to echo it over and over again.

It’s scary.
It's all about incentives. The leadership has incentives to generate as much profit as possible in the shortest possible term.

Ignore existing and generate new technical debt? Yeah, this will cause problems years from now...

Drive death marches, promise them things you won't deliver, shit on employees. Sure, they will burn-out after the completion of the project, by that time my bonus check has arrived.
Do note that their backing bank is greendot. If you sign up with a custom email address (eg: not gmail/yahoo/outlook/etc), your wealthfront account will still be created, but stopped from actually opening an account for failing verification.

As for verification goes, it's a black box from greendot's side[1].

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/wealthfront/comments/11t7k56/wealth...
It is one of those books that are really good, and really a product of its time. Most of what you get out of it you can read online and its methods need more than a little tweak today, because our digital systems are so much more powerful than the folder based one he suggests (example, GTD is heavily against adding things to your calendar, because it confuses between things that you intend to do at a certain time and things that must be done at that time. With digital calendars, you can color code the difference).
Yes, Solemani- the Saint of Persia. /s
That "also" is critical. It's primary purpose is to be rendered into HTML, but it should also be readable.

Now the point is - markdown formatters only format things which won't have an effect in the rendered HTML, so why does it matter? Do you have some meaningful information encoded in markdown which does not translate to HTML? That sounds like a clear anti-pattern, since by rendering to HTML you lose it.
Wait are LLMs crushing professionals at coding? Anyways, LLMs are clearly better than humans at memorizing information, and they most certainly have some ability to retrieve and adapt this information to solve problems. On tests, they can do some degree of generalization to answer questions with different wording from their training data. However, because humans are comparably quite bad at memorizing, we know that when humans do well on medical tests, it usually (not always) means that they “understand” how, for example, anatomy works. They’ve formed some model in their head of how to break the body into parts and parts into subparts and how parts interact and so on because doing so is actually easier for most humans than trying to remember the linguistic facts.

Understanding in this sense seems different from the memorizing+flexible retrieval we know LLMs exceed at because it extends much further beyond its training distribution. If I ask a (good) medical professional a question unlike anything they’ve ever seen before, they’ll be able to draw on their “understanding” of anatomy to give me a decent guess. LLMs are inconsistent on these kinds of questions and often drop the ball.

We can also point to training data requirements as a discrepancy. In brain organoid experiments, we observe a much lower quantity of examples are required to achieve neural-network-like results. This isn’t surprising to me. Biological neurons have exceedingly complex behavior; it takes hundreds of neural network nodes to recreate the behavior of a single neuron, and they can reorganize their network structure in response to stimuli, form loops, operate in non-discretized time, etc. We don’t know how far transformers will be able to go, but I think that if you want to make a model that holds a candle to that sort of complexity, you’ll need at least many, many orders of magnitude more scale or, more likely, a different, less limiting architecture.
That's no contradiction to what I wrote. He says "document should be publishable", not "published". The primary publishing method remains HTML.
The same data structure can be assigned different types, that's what typedef operator in Pascal does.
EDIT: right in the intro, for the especially impatient/deadtreefans.
I'm interested in what APIs he used to build this.
Large WASM payload on your site could be optimized.
The demographic skews affluent to be sure, but it's an enormous gathering of highly creative and generous people. With a high preparation bar so it is primarily the highly motivated. Last year's rain cleared out the unmotivated who essentially paid others to pave the way, and those who remained were the happier for that fact.
The PDF really is coming soon. I ran into some snags getting it to compile. Should be fixed by Monday
> Current LLMs require the sum total of all human knowledge to work correctly

the total sum of human knowledge is not found in the digital world.
Good to know which stores to never go into again. Setting price based on identity is the dystopian future nobody wants. Vote with your feet. Never, ever, ever tolerate this shit.
hah. tricked you! I rely on folks like you to help me ID the things that the app can obviously not ID correctly :) The best way to get the correct answer on the internet...
Cut my teeth on early PET 2001 computers.

They only had 8K of RAM. Naturally, most of my time was spent creating all sorts of games. Free memory was rarely an issue.

A key factor was a combination of the very nice PETSCII character set with all of its nice graphic characters and simply using the screen as your combined playfield and data structure.

You could do a lot simply PEEKing and POKE-ing your way around the screen. Very handy dual use memory.
Intel's Thunderbolt Share is a speedy sneakernet replacement and more
> USB protocols (and DisplayPort signals) going in and out of devices and computers freely like Ethernet packets, just isn't possible with USB

That reminds me of Intel Thunderbolt Share [1][2], which offers sharing of screen/keyboard/mouse between 2 PCs, and is probably software-emulated ethernet over Thunderbolt.

[1] https://download.intel.com/newsroom/2024/client-computing/th...

[2] https://www.pcworld.com/article/2330173/meet-thunderbolt-sha...
From my experience creating complex web UIs, the performance angle of using a vdom is pure fantasy if your application is complex enough.

In fact I now strongly believe it's counter productive, because most people come to it thinking "I can just trigger however many re-renders of this large piece of UI as I like, the vdom makes it ok" and it doesn't, the performance sucks, but now you have architected the app in a way that requires a rewrite to make the app perform well.

I have seen this exact sequence of events four times, by four different teams. The second, third and fourth, as a principal architect consulting for the team I tried to intervene and advocate for a vanilla architecture that is mindful about performance, citing the issues they would likely experience with react, but to no avail. There was a lot of "oh but there many ways to avoid those issues" followed by a list of things I was presumably ignorant about.

I guess most of us need to learn things the hard way.