skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're very eager to focus on both my character (moral panic) and your inability to address my point (can't follow your logic). Maybe you can see my logic, maybe you can't. I'm also apparently suicidal lol. I think you should just ask for clarification instead of deliberately painting me as the bad guy.

Anyways, the transformative use has not been decided yet. I am also pretty sure that google books are not simply publishing entire works for free, as far as I can tell when books get published in electronic form in their entirety without the copyright owners permissions, things get dodgy. I don't remember reading a full book on google books unless the licensing was permissive or otherwise available. Is there not some limits on fair use? Why do I keep reading about these "libraries" getting shut down? What about all the sample clearing in the music business, are you somehow implying that doesn't exist? Heck, the "blurred lines" case failed because the guy merely mentioned the infringed work.

Furthermore, I view the AI thing as the AI proponents want to grant AI's "personhood," ie., just call them trained painters, trained authors, trained musicians, whatever, its not like I'm unable to see both sides of the arguments. Let the guy with the most silicon corner the market in these areas lol
> 1k years ago we were still dying of hunger and lack of hygiene.

We are still doing that. In fact, there are more people affected by hunger today than 1k years ago. And things are getting worse, not better. [1]

[1] https://www.who.int/news/item/06-07-2022-un-report--global-h...
Wait what? Unless there's a bug it should show more after the first hint. Hints go like this:

1. First pic + BR/baths count
2. Rest of the pics
3. Neighborhood
4. Special features
The most widely available concentrated source of food grade potassium is potassium hydrogen tartrate, better known as cream of tartar, widely used in baking and cooking [1]. It's about 21% potassium by mass, available in practically any grocery store, and inexpensive in bulk. So it's a great alternative to potassium supplement pills, at least for people who can do arithmetic.

If people cannot do arithmetic, they may induce hyperkalemia:

Journal of Medical Toxicology, 2013: "Life-threatening hyperkalemia from cream of tartar ingestion"

https://sci-hub.se/10.1007/s13181-012-0255-x

Case reports: In both cases, individuals ingested a large quantity of cream of tartar in an effort to "clean themselves out". They manifested similar initial symptoms (vomiting), abnormal serum potassium (>8.0 mmol/L), and EKG's with peaked T waves. Both patients were treated for hyperkalemia and recovered without complication.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_bitartrate
If you buy a system that requires closed source drivers then that's your own choice. Nowadays far and away most consumer hardware will work without any closed source drivers. Except of course the big N.
Maybe we could have an option to be a data-donor as opposed to only having the option to donate your organs for the purpose of science.
I feel like a caveman doing this with a git bare repository and a hook, one of this days I am going to give Dokku a try!
there is a game that did that, played it during the pandemic, it would start as a google street view and you could move along the street.

the goal was to guess the location as quickly as possible
That is not what I stated.
It's because of you that my phone is so slow.
>Perhaps I misunderstand you, but what about those decades where CPUs were made faster and faster, from a few MHz up to several GHz, before hitting physical manufacturing and power/heat limits?

If you waited for chips to catch up to your workload, you got smoked by any competitors who parallelized. Waiting even a year to double speed when you could just use two computers was still an eternity.

> Was that all just a bunch of wasted effort, and what they should have been doing was build more and more 50MHz chips?

No, that’s a stupid question and you know it. You set it up as a strawman to attack.

Hardware improvements are amazing and have let us do tons for much cheaper.

However, the ~4ghz CPUs we have now are not meaningfully faster in single thread performance compared to what you could buy literally a decade ago. If you’re sitting around waiting for 32ghz that should only be “3 years away”, you’re dead in the water. All modern improvements are power savings and density of parallel cores, which require you to face what Grace presented all those years ago.

Faster CPUs aren’t coming.

xlarge on AWS is a ton of parallel cores. Not faster.
I think Apple cares a lot about software.

On iPhones.

Macs used to be so great, but a lot of their sheen has worn off, and Microsoft has really improved their UI generally in the past 15 years even if there's still a lot of rough edges. MacOS is one of those things that seems like it was really impressive back in 2010 but hasn't kept up with UI development. The window management in particular feels retrograde; Windows and FOSS window managment has embraced snap-to-edge while Macs try and make people use the clunky full-screen mode that gets rid of your system UI. Terminal also feels increasingly outdated, trapped in BSD utilities; Linux has the superior GNU utilities while Windows now has WSL for people who live on the command line. (And PowerShell for sysadmins.)

iPads just get this weird franken-OS that has a lot of the theoretical power of MacOS, just glued to an iPhone interface.

To me, they're behind in desktop and tablet software, and are continuously trying to make up the difference. And not by following the trend of UI development, mind you, but by making their non-phone interfaces more like their highly popular phone interfaces. The iPhone has taken over the company.
There's plenty of critics & inadequacies. And yeah, it was kinda slow as hell. But damn, 10+ years ago this was so ultra ambitious a hardware platform, given the absurdly low price target. Which never scaled into efficiency!

But much more so, the software ideas were so interesting. We criticize the platform readily for being used as just another OS, but who else has dared to try to build a learnable intelligible computer? Who else has better ideas we can talk about?

Taking the already existing DBus that underpins the rest of the FreeDesktop world was smart. Using meshed link-local XMPP to network DBus was a hop switch and jump further, reusing so much, but making an interesting cross-system networked application, one that was learnable & understandable & in reach as well as powerful & networked. Such a smart way to take what already was & go just a little further.

I really wish there had been a longer run of trying to grow into it. Most remarkable to me is that there haven't been any attempts at constructivist systems since. We can pan and dump on this aplenty, but what are we doing to try to give broad views of computing to kids, to make accessible the system itself? Who else has tried? This was a great economical attempt given very little time space and opportunity to grow into itself, and that's a shame.
I'd echo that "what am I even aiming for" was an initial confusion for me as well. The targets are pretty subtly styled and it took a few rounds of looking to realize it was already there. Also found it confusingly visually similar to the matching-brace/paren/bracket markers. And I'd say I have sharper eyes than most. I imagine even mildly color-blind people will struggle.

Changing to a more distinct color for the targets could already help a lot to improve on those parts I think.
So some of this stuff is "communicate with an external process", and I feel like many things in that space do the right thing (if only because if you don't it's immediately visible).

I have a lot of issues with "pure elisp" plugins though. Things where these plugins are doing a lot of string munging, and it's fast in testing because the tests aren't that big. But you can easily hit some edge case where suddenly you're looking for occurrences of `e` in Moby Dick so now each letter press takes a second (fortunately computers are still fast!)

If completion frameworks were async-by-default, at least that stuff wouldn't hang everything for me. At least that's my theory.
As a shorthand for this site, I'm not distinguishing between the two organizations. Which former NSA interns are you talking about? You can get their names from the pq-crystals.org site. Which one should we not be trusting?
If you're saying that people that know they don't need to optimize pipes shouldn't optimize pipes, then yeah I mean that's kind of just common sense.
That this resonates with a bunch of hackers is kinda funny - code is such an ephemeral medium.
That’s a very interesting idea. Apparently, someone has actually tried this [1] and it looks pretty good [2].

[1]: https://github.com/aftertheflood/sparks

[2]: https://observablehq.com/@tomgp/after-the-flood-i-sparks-i-t...
The real real question is: "Do you want to live forever as a program that any pimple-faced kid can run, poke and debug for fun?"

We're used to have our mind as an inviolable private resource, not something that can be copy-pasted, edited and experimented freely with. Your last instance went insane in an interesting way? Let's keep it and run another. Make them interact for extra amusement.
All the names of large telescopes have been jokes for some 3 decades already.
I recently had to look at the implementation of the Sparkline [1] widget in Ratatui which uses a similar Unicode technique but scales nicely for sparklines with larger vertical size.

[1] https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui/blob/20c88aaa5b9eb011a522...
Not sure if this works when traveling but you can preload money to your Uber account via Uber gift cards the purchase of which seems to have less draconian twitchy transaction checks. Or someone could send you an electronic one.
In the spirit of the authors' point of sharing one's supporting evidence, could you please share the data and code for scraping the list of devices from the FDA website? :)
10% sounds high. 10mm Hg is what I've heard. Still significant.
If you served me two pound cakes at the same time, I would say things were improved. However, it wouldn't be very efficient as I would still only eat them serially instead of in parallel
One of her books ended up being the primary book-nerd prep homework for my first serious relationship, and it was helpful.
we separate out business logic vs application logic for a reason. there's now an API call to classify the comment and then generate a relevant English response. yeah there's a difference in the English being read and generated but the underlying program looks exactly the same.
Believe it or not, some people don't have a choice on what they work on. I'm guessing the options weren't WP + Laravel or Rust.
It would be interesting to know how this could be less innovative and still have had a chance to work.

From my perspective, the point was the software. Getting that software to markets with unreliable electricity and little money would have been a problem without a new type of hardware device. In the end though, it was the hardware that dominated the consciousness, which was too bad. OTOH, if they hadn't tried, that might mean something like 2+ million kids might have had a worse education (assuming that the OLPC machines were useful to their education), so I doubt it is fair to call it a failure.

It definitely wasn't aimed at US or European mainstream success, nor was it even really offered in those markets, so lack of success in those markets is expected.
For me it's a situation of "once bitten, twice shy". What are the odds the medical data intended for research will be handled correctly and not used outside of its intended purpose?
I've been using Fedora Silverblue for a few months. It has Fedora in the name, so it isn't super fringe, but as one of their experimental distros, it isn't exactly mainstream.

The laptop I run it on was running Ubuntu 22.04. I tried to update it to 24.04 and so much stuff was broken that it was either do a clean reinstall of 22.04, or try something else. I figured if I was going to try something else, I wanted to try something that might make a big difference in my life, not just an incremental one.

After 4 months of use, I'd say the jury is still out on this. The part that is most irritating is that command line tools in flatpaks are unpleasant to use, and having to enter a container to use such cli tools also isn't always the nicest either (not that entering a container is hard, but if you have to then install tools in that container, you either have to keep the container around, or wait for the tools to re-install everytime you want that tool again).
I was getting into 3D around the time the Pentium was out, and I took a lot of time looking at the price of a single Pentium computer or multiple used 486s. The logic being a mini render farm would still be faster than a single Pentium. Never pulled the trigger on either option
Yeah, that doesn't sound right to me.
I worked on OLPC, and wouldn't assign much fault to Yves (although there was a heavily publicized hand crank on the side of the first designs that turned out to fail to a few minutes of serious thought).

Like you're imagining, the sort of people whose primary talent is to acquire funding through exciting demonstrations end up hiring people who are good at creating exciting demonstrations, as a correlation. The MIT Media Lab (where OLPC originated) was all about exciting demonstrations.

Other "exciting" agencies were involved: Pentagram owned the UI/UX design work despite, I think, never having worked on software design/development before.

(In OLPC's case I think all of this turned out surprisingly well, but people will disagree.
It's easy to say "oh they should have used Android/iOS" before realizing that neither existed at the time.)
I feel like if you have to display UUIDs in your app’s UI, you’ve already lost. Copy to clipboard should hopefully be enough.
> It was, actually. The machinists at Boeing 70 years ago were taught their craft. They didn't just figure it all out from scratch; some aspects of aeronautics were novel but shipbuilders were making propellers before William Boeing was even born.

This is absolutely incorrect. Most of the materials machining advancements to make light aircraft parts had to be done specifically for aircraft. Ship building is completely different and largely irrelevant.

> I can't see why I should trust this line of reasoning.

Because this wasn’t some long line of training from centuries of wizardry. Materials science was a joke 100 years ago. We can do what they did then to learn manufacturing but we can do it significantly faster because we have simulations and chemistry knowledge that wasn’t lost.
feel free to add "or any other country where that is the case" at the appropriate place in my comment so that it applies to you, if you need to be spoonfed.
Higher body fat also causes low testosterone, which contributes to gaining more fat in a vicious cycle.
It about the power game and its abuse

It begins in the waiting room.

you arrive promptly for your appointment at the Doctors surgery and are kept waiting in an inhospitable room full of out of date magazines on a table.

You are then summoned, a half an hour after your appointment time, by a flashing screen mounted on the wall with your name and your GP's name for all to see and a disembodied voice through an intercom saying something like "Second room on the right".

we follow the directions along a corridor to the second door on the right, we arrive at a closed door.

we knock timidly and recieve no reply.

we knock again and an irritable voice bids us enter.

we go in only to be confronted by a figure sitting at a desk writing on a note pad.

we are ignored for a further minute and then a face looks up and an arm waves us towards an uncomfortable chair in front of the desk.

by now we are so seriously intimidated that we can scarcely remember why we have come.
Why stop there? Train ChatGPT on the legal code then feed live video into it. ChatGPT will then fine violators immediately for those crimes that are fineable. For arrestable crimes have it write the summons and then use text to speech so it can radio a police officer and dispatch to your location. The officer doesn't even have to know why they are arresting you, and it means they can be completely unaware of the legal code because the infraction was already detected and adjudicated.
Journey on the Trans-Siberian: The Seal Show of Irkutsk
I don't know about the others but OLPC was trying to solve a 2nd order problem (education) when the 1st order problem, clean water, food, etc wasn't solved. A case of a solution being fitted to the user rather than the most pressing needs of said user, which can happen without appreciating a vastly different culture/context. The most useful feature of OLPC was as a flashlight.
You have the draw the line _somewhere_ though, right? If not biologically, at least linguistically we don't call other birds chickens, and we don't call other animals with shared common ancestors chickens, and I don't think that you can argue that the common ancestors of chickens and, say, primates, can be referred to as both "human" without being prescriptivist to the point that you'd be dictating rules that essentially zero English speakers actually follow.

To be clear, I don't disagree with you that my argument makes little sense biologically; my point is that the question itself is phrased in a way that doesn't really parse correctly in a scientific sense. To me, it reads more like a semantics question (i.e. it depends on your definition of "chicken" and "egg) because the only way to get a scientifically precise answer is to expand the definition of "chicken" beyond recognition.
I'm torn between thinking the oddest (or maybe weirdest) use of the word is Herbert's Dune - the weirding way - which I assume is a coinage

But, that in my mind competes with Bill Waterson's line from Calvin and Hobbes - "Verbing weirds the language."
Except evolution does not work that way. It does not optimize for cognitive skills improvement. Not necessarily at least. Different traits may be more important for different species.
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I know that CORS is stupid.

It took a CORS expert from W3C to answer this convoluted CORS question.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62289103/same-origin-req...
NYC has incredibly incredibly low permitted additional housing per capita last year
He's not getting the boot.

He's 60 and has a nine figure net worth, some people actually want to retire or do other things.

Apple has ~a hundred billion cash in hand, that is exceptional performance for a CFO. He's giving a SIX month notice, the VP of finance will take his place, which literally is the natural successor.

Absolutely nothing here may suggest there's incompetence or a scandal involved.
The interesting thing is that the story seems to be saying that he theft victim called the police to the post office. That suggests that the thieves worked there?
Not the person you're replying to, but I agree that for me (as another heavy shift-G user), vim-racer having `:relativenumber` turned on is where my own troubles are coming from.

I'd really love to be able to specify whether I want absolute or relative numbering (or both or neither); the :set commands don't seem to be implemented?
We won’t ever send physically natural humans to other systems.

Not because we could never do it, but there won’t be any motivation to.

We will send relatively tiny ships, initially as probes, then as resource extraction & reproduction systems.

With laser acceleration & fusion deceleration (potentially fed by hydrogen collected collected from the target system), travel between systems can happen within 1-10% of the speed of light.

So only ten or so years to the closest systems.

That (propulsion) technology is not far off now. The bottlenecks are the need for further miniaturization, and our economy could not yet support the cost of, nor is it ready to benefit from, that scale of investment.

Whatever “format” our technology/lifeform has evolved to, we will be able to be sent it in extremely compact form, given any thing large can be recreated at the destination.

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Ironically though, despite a decade or so sounding very fast to us now, with time deflation (I.e. absolute time translating to higher & higher subjective time as “we” and our ability to process information & act speed up), decades between systems will subjectively Become be aeons of time.

But resource needs will also accelerate, so the necessity will be there.

So space will be deflationary, along with time. A meter & a second today will have much more relative meaning in the future as everything becomes more compact and faster.

Think about how the digital latency around the planet remains a constant, but as computing centers increasingly compactly, and grow in processing power, by orders of magnitudes, distributed computing with any serial or regular merging component will have to become ever more & more local.

Mars is big latency today. In 50 years, cross planet communication will be a relatively big latency.
Jesus, it was the Onion-like parody website (Panorama)
If your thought experiment involving pieces of paper has helped you to think of useful or interesting things that you wouldn't otherwise have thought of, that's great. It hasn't so far done anything of the kind for me. The fault could of course be mine.

What I said was not (as you claimed in another comment in this thread) that I don't see how constructivism is relevant -- though in fact I don't think constructivism is relevant -- but that I don't see how your thought experiment about pieces of paper is relevant.

I regret that it wasn't immediately apparent to me that your thought experiment was about constructivism. Now that you say it is, I can kinda see how it kinda relates, but for me thinking about your pieces of paper doesn't conjure up any useful insights about constructivism, and if I didn't already know about constructivism I don't think it would particularly point me in that direction. Again, if it works that way for you, good for you, but I think that when you present it to other people you are forgetting that the others (who unlike you haven't been thinking about this picture for 30 years) don't have the same associations with your imaginary pieces of paper that you have.

I have no problem with the idea that one might want to construct alternative number-like objects. (And yes, I know what Cauchy sequences are and what one does with them. And no, they really don't have very much to do with the parallel postulate. There's an analogy between the parallel postulate and, say, the LEM, but that's all.) But (1) again, this has nothing much to do with Eric Lengyel's critique of how geometric algebra is presented -- when Lengyel talks about "foundations" he isn't talking about going down to the level of set theory, logic, HOTT, or whatever, he's talking about getting the basics of geometric algebra right when one already has notions like "real numbers", "vector space", etc., in hand -- and (2) your thought experiment happens not to do anything for me to clarify, inspire, etc., ideas about alternative number-like objects. (Also, it seems to me that if you want to use that thought experiment to say something about number lines then you want your 0-width lines, half-planes, etc., to lie across the number line, not along it.)

It is simply not true that book 2 of Euclid "defines geometric algebra for the first time" or indeed defines it at all. Euclid is doing geometry but is not doing geometric algebra, which is something more specific.