skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are different things that make house/apartment above normal. One is of course size and age. But other things like location have big influence as well (check apartments in central Manhattan).

Instead of trying to analyze hundreds of different what-makes-house-above-bare-minimum aspects we can simply use the price as a good indicator of the underlying value.

And 1mil house is definitely not bare minimum. It is clearly above average.
The post is silly because you wrote software that makes use of argv[0]? On the contrary, it opens a discussion about unintended security implications that might be avoided in the future if command line implementation can be reconsidered.
Pen accuracy uniformity has always been one of the bigger issues with the RM2 in comparison to its e-ink competitors. It's beyond annoying to pick up the pen to dot an "i" and see the dot appear a mm away from the rest of the letter, especially if you're writing along the right edge of the device. This is probably one of the motivations why they're ditching EMR pens in this new device.
In the US, there is a constitutional callout to the freedom of speech/expression. This has been interpreted very broadly historically speaking. It would and should be very difficult to restrict this. And in my opinion this is the way things should be.

The path to dystopia is really easy to envision and must be resisted imo. I don't want to see a day where you can be arrested, or worse, for saying you don't like the President when someone else can hear or report you, or because the govt are spying on your phone.

Yes, this does mean protecting speech that I don't like as well. Twitter has a "following" tab, as well as the ability to block individuals you don't like. Between the two, you have all the control you need to avoid content you don't like. I don't need some large, opaque company, government or cabal to decide on my behalf what I'm allowed to, or not to see.
I do really like Plato for its superior performance and design, but it's lacking in features and documentation at this stage. KOReader feels like a flimsy hack written in lua, mainly because it is, but it does support SSH, two columns, grid view, more flexible gestures and extensions.
By the same author (2022):

>Go ahead and stare at my prosthetic arm. I know it’s awesome.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/09/19/prosthet...

https://archive.ph/D6WlU
Very interesting and well written. I have a thought that if you have entities in your head, you may as well make them pay rent. If you record the conversations or just your experience, other people would be willing to pay to learn about it. Youtube, Patreon, Tiktok, whatever. I for one am interested in what the entities think about themselves. How old are they? Can they tell you something you don't know besides the sanskrit thing. Maybe they are too deceitful to get any real information, but also maybe they can give you some creative output.
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Love the hardware hate the software. I’m a heavy user, but won’t buy another device from them, unfortunately. Debugging sync issues has been very difficult for me and it’s hard to just reset the device because it’s hard to export annotated files.
Lol. "I don't see hate speech as long as I turn off the promoted speech."
Question for hn people: does e-ink vs (blue-filtered) lcd actually matter? As in, is there much indication that lcds have worse effects on eye-strain, sleep and focus, as long as you the light is mostly warm.
I think that's an oversimplification. The market rates for wholesale, private sale, and retail are different. Selling a vehicle to a private party always nets the seller more cash than selling the same to a dealer. As a private buyer, you would have a very difficult time trying to buy a vehicle direct from most manufacturers.

As another said, this is due to lobbying, but that doesn't change the fact that the markets are different.
For these kinds of capital-intensive startups, though, that almost seems like a requirement, and I guess there are really 2 "types" of valuations.

In this case, everyone knows it takes hundreds of millions to train models. So I'm investors are essentially rolling the dice on an extremely well-regarded team. And if it takes about a billion just to get off the ground, the valuation would need to at least be in the couple billion range to make it worth it for employees to work there.

That feels very different than say selling a company where founders are cashing out. In that case, the business should expect to meaningful contribute to revenue, and quickly.
> Closest thing we have to a Manhattan Project in the modern era?

Minus the urgency, scientific process, well-defined goals, target dates, public ownership, accountability...
Probably will be an unpopular opinion here but I think declining performance is more likely related to unclear business models backed by immature technology driven by large hype trains they themselves created.
Taking your statement at face value I'd be tempted to say it's fair to ask an LLM how to do small things at the "few lines of code" level. For instance if you're not sure how to get the length of a string in language X or don't know off the top of your head how to use CSS to move an object a few px higher up without changing the layout of everything else it might be quicker than asking Google, looking at the docs. I do it a lot these days.

My first instinct though is that struggling people often have poor insight into their problem. When I was teaching physics I heard "I understand the concepts but can't solve the problem" a lot. Invariably when I'd help the student debug the problem solving process I found that they didn't understand the concepts.
Something like (in software, trying to understand) a spaghetti monolith?
I'm typing this on my Boox Note Air 2 Plus. I absolutely love this device. I usually use it without the backlight, but sometimes at night I'll use the backlight and the adjustable blue light filter is an absolute must. This is my fifth or sixth E-Ink device, and probably my favorite. It's an Android device, so everything that I was already using works on it. Notably Firefox when properly configured, and Ankidroid.
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Maybe the ability and willingness to violently squash others is the highest form of "intelligence"?

If you're so smart, why are you beaten up by my thugs?
Thanks, I know all this.

But if I spelled out all nuances and caveats, then that wouldn’t be a comment, right?

Neal's books aren’t for smart people like Quantum Mechanics books are. I know.

But then again, what is smartness? Isn't a lot of what smartness is, is having the right background and preparedness?

All caveats and nuances can't be included everywhere, right?

I read Andy Weir's Peoject Hail Mary. It's something that I liked, yeah, but would have much more appreciated when I was 17. Not right now.

Now I like my books to be more wide, covering multiple aspects of reality.

E.g., when you read Permutation City, it is not only some SciFi, but it enables you to think deep and hard about consciousness and self.

I am yet to read Dune, but I think it is also a "deep" book.
I do agree them pressing the SaaS angle feels bad. Once I found out about the stack that the RM is built on I was blown away, I definitely had a moment of "why are they hiding this?". I told a few others in my office (we're software engineers) and everyone was completely unaware that this was an option. They really do bury the capabilities of the hardware.

It feels like a tax on the less technical/informed.
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I was primarily agreeing with the sentiment that making it easier for companies to consume my work is a hard sell.

I realize not all sites fall into this category.
> You cannot sideload any apps, so you are stuck with the defaults, but the most damning thing, is that you cannot sideload PDF files, since the MooInk 2C lacks a PDF rendering engine.
Yes, repaint.com is made in Repaint.

What do you mean drawn live? The content is animated, but is still present in the DOM for indexing purposes.
Yes and if you have 10 million dollars you have options for wealth immigration, the door is wide wide open. Do you think that makes immigration to the USA incredibly easy?
How have you measured "declining performance" in a matter of ~3 months and traced it back to a single person's departure?
I believe he has said the Supernote A5X is his favourite. There's a newer A5X2 coming out later this year to update it (though it has repeatedly been delayed)
I'm about ready for a good blue pill these days

As a vegan who additionally hates eating and hates being around others when they eat, it's very hard to get along with anyone.

Imagine a world where nearly everyone is a hypocrite and a murderer, and their hobby of murder is offensive to you, disgusting to you, and also seemingly the number one way for everyone but you to form social bonds of any sort.

"Neo!! You have to wake up, Neo! Come live in a filthy cave and eat slop with us, Neo!"

I really wonder if the Matrix gave my generation brain poisoning.

Why do I greatly prefer to feel correct than to feel happy? Why does it seem impossible to accept other people and this alternate reality most of the world subscribes to?

I think I would take the blue pill.

The steak Cipher eats is vegan, it's made from ethically sourced human meat, the humans were not raised to be food like cattle are.

The world inside the Matrix is not perfect, it's missing many things I'd like, but in that pre 9/11 dream world I could eat dairy cheese and maybe enjoy an easy life. Maybe in that dream I would be cis, even.

If I take the blue pill, am I responsible for the machines killing runners?

If I pay taxes, am I responsible for my countrymen voting in weird losers?

The red pill is no longer a slam dunk for me. I wonder when my mind changed.
You think 100B doesn't sound much? Do you want to up the numbers to 200B instead? I mean after all it's Cancer research
The US in the 1st amendment has one of the strongest regimes for protecting expression in the world. In this case I'm only considering activity that is intentionally public and published so surveillance isn't considered. Privacy is orthogonal.
Techmoan has made some videos on similar games on dedicated consoles, really enjoyed those.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do-ZBPWhhbQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VzT2e8rvY0
To me, eink is definitely better for reading books, which is what most of those readers (Kindle, Kobo etc) are used for.

The other big advantage is battery life. I have an old Kobo Aura I got second hand on eBay. I keep the WiFi turned off, have installed KOReader and load books over USB (with the held of Calibre). With semi-regular usage the battery lasts weeks if not months. Way longer than any phone or tablet I ever had. Granted of course those devices do a lot more, but it's nice to at least very rarely have to worry about whether you have enough charge to read a book.

Like you I'm not sure of the advantages of eink for more general computing. I wonder what the (actual) battery life is like on the ReMarkable.
We've reached "peak something" with this much collective energy spent contemplating an expensive and complicated "solution" to a problem that is solved pretty simply and cheaply by a good spiral bound notebook and a nice pen.

I love this marketing soundbite too:

> “reMarkable gives me the deep focus required to work on complex problems.”

Mmmm. Yeah. I usually have to find a quiet place and eliminate distractions to get deep focus, but nice to know I can just carry this new device around with me and never lose deep focus!
This looks great. Have been looking for something like this. Will give it a try
At the top of this post there is a link to the playground.

Here's the link: https://app.repaint.com/playground
The older term "Systems Programmer" (which still exists primarily in academia, I had this title a few years ago at a university) has always felt more accurate to me as the "high level operations person who has programming as a primary skillset" job that the original SRE job description seemed to be aimed at.
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Reading your other comments I see where you're getting from.
And if you're indeed adding phones and tables Apple and MS are both at a ~20% (android has an overwhelming +50% by the way) from the same sources I looked at before.

If you just look at "desktop/laptop" Windows still reigns supreme.

Now the question is could be: should you include those for this discussion or not?

Yes because lots of people use them.
No because the conversation was about laptops.

regardless, I now understand your point
It is a step in the right direction because we are talking about it. The idea of a world leader being accountable for evil acts it now no longer as absurd as it was in 1900. Hopefully, soon, more and more people will wonder why U.S. leaders aren't similarly held accountable. It will be a good thing when that happens.
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greppbarhet

Grijpbaarheid

I never saw grep as grijp

I guess I do now

(Dutch btw)
> I wonder if they can even effectively make use of the funds in a reasonable enough timeline.

I read that it cost Google ~$190 million to train Gemini, not even including staff salaries. So feels like a billion gives you about 3 "from scratch" comparable training runs.
The obscurity is that you have no idea what is required to log in.
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I think most of the NPUs (and all of the ones that meet Microsoft's Copilot+ requirements) can also do float16.
Given the dire need of GPUs, I don't suspect they would have any trouble finding the good use of the funds
I can use my E-Ink devices all day with zero eyestrain, which are Barnes & Noble Nook devices and now a Boox device.
Every now and then I stumble over the problem that in LibreOffice, you cannot date-format the x-axis of a chart. So no x/y chart with lines at the 1st of every month for example.

https://x.com/marekgibney/status/1454757289043406849

It's a mistery to me how that is still not fixed.
There are still issues with perf being unable to parse the debug format for some stuff, e.g. code compiled with `-ggdb3` as touched on in TFA. The idea is more: can I take one of the stacks that perf captured, and hand that off to GDB for a stack trace, without perf trying to parse/interpret it itself?
Wow, this is really cool! Thanks for sharing.
Whoa, that's brilliant. I think that just works for out app. Is there a public reference I could look at?
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Many rM owners (myself included) work around the template limitations by using pdfs as "templates" and writing on them. This covers probably 95% of my use of the device, their notebooks feel very limited by comparison
I'm not sure that really works out too much better, because his last name is still Protagonist. Unless there's some other part of the book that says otherwise.
This is exceptionally cool work. I’d love to see it running.
I get that. My point is that I’m uninterested in making it easier for LLM products to interact with my sites.

I realize there may be products that may benefit from this. I was just agreeing with the sentiment that I want no part in it.
They are not one market, in any sense. The vast majority of adults in the country own both a computer and a phone. I'm not sure how they could possibly be treated as competing with one another.

Within the market of personal computers (not the fictional market of personal computers combined with other devices that aren't personal computers), Windows has very dominant market share.
Student feedback is really important regardless of the existence of other forms of evaluation (remember that student evaluation is not the only kind of evaluation used in the first place), so I'd say "no, not instead of".

Whether or not AI should be one of the evaluation tools depends on whether or not there is any evidence that it could be of real value for that purpose.
> If you read the Autodesk EULA, I think it prohibits use of any open-source software in these add-ins.

That would have surprised me, as most add-ins I am using are open source and the most popular Fusion apps state that they are open source in their store listings and shouldn't have passed reviews if that were the case.

I took a look at the publisher agreement and it does have this section:

> no Open Source Software is or will be included, incorporated or embedded in, linked to, combined, distributed, or made available with or used in the delivery or provision of Your App in a manner that could cause any Autodesk Assets to be subject to any Open Source License.

There is also a definitions section about this that specifically goes into detail about copyleft licenses, so it seems like they just want to stay very clear of the issue of "copyleft poisoning" and exotic licenses, and ensure that if there is any breach of software license terms that liability is on the add-in author.
Does the following description of it as a "toy universe model" affect how you judge the claims of accuracy?
We had a “monolithic” on-prem application that was forced to rewrite for cloud.

The original system was blazingly fast — it was actually a set of composable TCP workers and coordinators, but repeatedly called dirty names like monolith, legacy, synchronous by ambitious managers trying to demonstrate the need to migrate. Proceed to bring on legions of contractors and offshore teams to move everything to HTTP and AMQP, fully coupled to the cloud vendor’s mechanisms for these with all of the goodies.

Today they are paying a fortune for a slower system, full vendor lock-in, real customers dismayed and prospective customers aghast at the prices.

Recently they came back to the original engineering teams to “make it a real-time system” and panicked at the realization that this capability was unceremoniously sacrificed in the name of microservices, the cloud for the sake of hot-shot aspiring upper management to make their name in “modernizing” the tech. Yikes
We made a mistake granting corporations "personhood", and now want to repeat that mistake.
Ambiguous. Smaller ABV will still have some effect. Small beers were typically started at 10% ABV and brought down. Other alcohols were typically made strong and then diluted with plain water. Boiling is of course good.

Also, people regularly drink bottled beverages to avoid unsafe water conditions. A light Beer is actually one of the very safest things you can drink because the carbonation makes it very unlikely that they’re not giving you a refilled bottle while traveling
In your nginx, server section:

deny 1.2.3.0/24;

And all 256 ips from 1.2.3.0 to 1.2.3.255 get banned. You can have multiple "deny" lines, or a file with "deny" and then include it.

It's better to do it at the firewall.
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Nice to see this still going! we used daggity in a grad school stats class back in 2013. To the instructor's credit, we spent the first few weeks thinking about causal models before we got into any actual stats. (Put differently, a DAG is a nonparametric structural equation model [0], and the rest of the stats class was about different ways to parametrize those models.)

[0] Pearl 2021: https://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r370.pdf
100% OpenAi performance is decreasing. I basically use Claud sonnet exclusively and canceled my OpenAi subscription for personal use. my company still uses them because you cant currently fine-tune a Claud model, yet.
> knows what he is talking about?

I have my doubts. For example, he claims that they won't support Linux because it's too niche but Linux has been (slightly) ahead of MacOS in the Steam survey for a while now (context: Fortnite is available on MacOS). Making is mistake is human, but he's sticking to his guns despite objective metrics to the contrary - I would expect more from a renowned CEO.
>And that's where we diverge, dogmatic approaches like this don't leave any room for discussion or arguments, you have a belief which is not too dissimilar to a religious one... In reality allowing absolute free speech including people calling and encouraging the death of others on a massive scale is detrimental to civilization.

We had that for decades and civilization was just fine. Hell, don't we supposedly have that today with Twitter, yet civilization is just fine. What happened after 2016 and 2020 was infinitely worse, with huge segments of the AMERICAN population unable to express their views.

Who are you to dictate what society/civilization is allowed to think/view?

The one thing I'll agree with you on is the removal of financial incentives from these websites. I do want all viewpoints on these websites, but I of course understand the removal of financial payments for posts that "go viral" praising Stalin or Hitler or something.
i tried to use it a few months ago for the real time share of the screen. it didn’t work and also the files were not syncing with the service i am paying for. it wanted an update, but the update failed each time.

after digging (which is something i shouldn’t have wasted my time on), it seems that it lost the correct time because i didn’t power it for a while and there was no way to set the time manually. because of that, the signature for validating the firmware update was failing (it uses the time).

there was nothing i could do. it fixed itself few days later, after i gave up.

this is still unpolished so many years after the first release. i’m not sure i would recommend it to anyone. i’m sure i will trust it to work next time i will give it another chance.
Reading comments on this article it occurred to me that there is probably a huge overlap of the Venn diagrams of HN readers and Muji aficionados.
> but is it going to be the same in, say, 15 years?

You would think that by then either the Rust experiment has failed or the project has gained enough experienced developers such that maintaining such large refactors is feasible beyond heroics of the RfL folks. Either way it would be unlikely to be a problem then.

But in the meantime, how is the Linux project meant to evaluate what the maintenance burden is or wether the benefits outright the costs if the kernel maintainers doing the RfL work are being repeatedly stonewalled?
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