skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But somehow, the major publishers have been browbeaten into believing that Word is the sine qua non of document production systems. They have warped and corrupted their production workflow into using Microsoft Word .doc files as their raw substrate, even though this is a file format ill-suited for editorial or typesetting chores"

This is quite an alarming prospect, for such a fundamental task as document preparation.
Or someone "just" finding a fault in the cryptographic algorithms used in Bitcoin. Or whoever created the puzzles leaking their information.
It sounds more like you don't like people liking sports, rather than you disliking it yourself. People like different things. If you can't see why people like sports, you should spend more time figuring that out rather than dismissing them.
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I've always found SEO tools like Ahrefs and SEMrush to be incredibly useful but prohibitively expensive for many users. That's why I created Theseolabs, a completely free SEO research tool aimed at becoming the "Photopea of SEO."

It's still early and I focused on Keyword research tools, but roadmap include domain and serp data, backlinks to become a global seo tool competing with Ahrefs and SEMrush while remaining completely free
Most issues on any Linux forum are people using outdated/unofficial guides or going off the beaten path for god knows why.
You ever enter a room and immediately forget why you came in? Memory is tied to environment. Quite intensely.

(And then there is the phenomenon of immediately forgetting your dream upon waking. Fascinating stuff)
Sure, let's start by flipping the situation: the state should stop requiring me to pay into the retirement system, and then I'll agree to handle everything on my own. Maybe I'll retire, maybe I won't—but right now, I have no choice. I have to pay a mandatory contribution to the state every month, so it's fine to expect a good retirement plan from the state.
It's nice to have the choice to continue working and I certainly hope to have that. But not everybody does. And the reality is that a lot of people are kind of worn out and past their prime when they hit retirement age. And if they aren't, a lot of people start having all sorts of health issues that make work a lot less fun and interesting. Strokes, heart issues, Alzheimer's, etc.

These are the things that used to cause people to die relatively quickly but that's no longer the case. My father had a stroke and he might live another 20 years. He's definitely still active but there's no way he'd be doing his former job at this point or at least not at nowhere near the same level.

That's not to say retired people are useless but it does mean you have to be realistic about their ability to earn incomes for very long after they retire. Or more prudently, your own ability. Hope for the best but plan for the worst. Pensions are a form of insurance that is worth having.

With chronic over employment, there is a solid argument for making retirement age more flexible though. Continue working and have more disposable income when you reduce how much you work or eventually retire. The current system is not very flexible and actively disincentivizes people to work beyond a certain age.

My father actually retired early because his employer was downsizing and it was cheaper for them to settle for early retirement than it was to outright fire him. That same arrangement made it completely unattractive for him to find other work. He was being paid to retire, not to take another job. Another job would have eroded his pension. That's a weird incentive. Good for my parents but not necessarily for anything else. But 60 is definitely young to retire like he did. He's 77 now.
Most current models are transformer encoders that use attention. I like most of the options that ollama provides.

I think this one is currently the top of the MTEB leaderboard, but large dimension vectors and a multi billion parameter model: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NV-Embed-v1
What a bright approach to this!
I"ve heard 2nd-hand that helium will slowly escape (over a period of years).
The best thing about the challenges from 3d CAD Speedmodelling is that they needed a quick way to validate submissions, so they do it by validating the mass of the design. The density to use is included in the problem. The answer is on this page: https://build123d.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tttt.html#t-24-cu...
This is like saying chatgpt is “indirectly” made by Reddit…
1. Create Coinbase account

2. Deposit bitcoin

3. Market order sell all

4. Withdraw USD
>the unification is an illusion or an appearance

Or a map. Call it a useful illusion.
Whilst this seems cool. You won't be just throwing this. This will be a controlled item and you'll need to recover it, so eventually someone will lose one and then tears. Lots and lots of tears.
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400k I think is no problem. I heard of someone with 10,000 BTC having some serious trouble finding a buyer though.
Temporally they are not unified, but spatially they are. I am referring to the relational representation space, or the "embedding" space. We know that from neural nets, they use high dimensional vectors for language, vision and other modalities. This representation space is where we go from raw inputs to semantics.

The cool thing about this semantic space is that it emerges in unsupervised manner, and makes learning concepts so much easier, is as easy as identifying a point or sub-volume and assigning a label. It can relate any idea to any other idea. Being created from an agent's past experiences, it is first person and captures all the qualitative nuances of qualia.

I think this representation space is what we refer to when we say consciousness is unified.
Indeed, even if I were to minimise what LLMs can do, they are still achieving what "targeted advertising" very obviously isn't.
Maybe my perspective is biased - I live on a river and fly my DJI Mini 4 Pro 1-2x a week sitting in my back yard, connected to wifi.

The threat vector for my usage pattern is basically, a rogue firmware update could transmit the video feed, telemetry, etc via controller wifi connection to DJI/China in real time.

For people flying in remote locations with no connectivity, the threat vector is a bit more complicated.

I guess I should turn my wifi off.
Hmm yeah if I cracked Bitcoin then last thing I'd do is claim a prize that gave away the fact that I'd cracked Bitcoin.
It's pretty idiotic I can permanently turn off a bunch of the safety features on the car but not this. As you say, it's pretty reflexive to just turn it off when you start the car if you're used to it. When I do a road trip with a friend when we share driving, I always have to remember to reach over and turn it off for her because it annoys her as much as it annoys me.
thanks for sharing this. absolutely on point !
Most of the "make RPi Linux boot fast" guides out there use the same approach: Start with a tiny Debian and remove stuff until it's faster.

There's not a lot of good information about attacking it from the other way: Start with a bootloader, firmware, and a kernel, and add only the stuff that you need. I mean, it's probably out there on the web somewhere, but I've found it tough to find among all the "just strip down Debian" blog posts. If anyone has experience doing this and could point me to a few resources, I'd be grateful!
There's books about everything, sure. It doesn't mean this approach is profitable enough to support the news gathering in the first place.

>more relevant option than someone's ass

That's a pretty low bar. I'm not arguing for this kind of ad. I'm only saying that keeping all ads exclusively topical would be highly unprofitable for many categories of information you find on the internet.

>News about crime -> advertise a home security system

That would create some pretty perverse incentives for news organizations to fear monger about local crime (more than usual that is). What could go wrong?
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Would be cool to see a histogram of all of the web's textual representation of floats based on character length.

In other words-- what percentage of outstanding publicly-accessible data sets require an implementation of strod which can allocate memory on the heap?

Even this article, which talks about millions of digits, could be parsed just fine with a strod that's limited to 64 characters.
This is a great example of creative destruction. Back before the internet took over distribution, it took a small army of typesetters, graphic designers, printers, delivery services, etc. to publish and distribute magazines. There was simply no way an individual, or even a small group, could scale production and distribution. The logical extension of the old model would be for Google or Meta (who now own distribution) to hire staff writers in order to improve ad revenue. So far, they don't think they need it - turns out they can sell ads just fine with the low-cost garbage spewed by your crazy uncle. We will see if the direct-pay model of Substack has staying power before enshittification takes over. I haven't found anything on Substack compelling enough justify spending sometimes ~$10/month on a single writer.
Dont be mean
Again, this saying has a nuance people often miss.

You don’t blame your tools.

Not all tools. Not tools forced upon by some archaic industrial standard or habit. Not stupid tools you’d never use otherwise but have no choice.

Excel has many quirks, but I'm still very grateful that it exists, for quickly putting together some numbers and still being able to change the inputs to my formulas.

That’s nice, but Excel didn’t invent spreadsheets. It invented adding BS to them and if it didn’t exist, you’d still have WhateverCalc successor available at the moment.
can you add the option to export keyword results as csv?
I'm glad to hear you are having a good experience with komorebi! The komorebi status bar[1] will be shipping with the next release of komorebi, along with built-in theming support[2], I hope you'll enjoy these new features too.

Applications behaving badly is a big problem for any window management project on Windows because application developers, especially since the rise of Electron, are increasingly throwing established Win32 application development guidelines to the wind with reckless abandon.

Komorebi deals with this by exposing functionality for handling edge cases to the end user with a powerful set of application matchers, and pooling together all of the weird application-specific fixes into a single upstream which is loaded for all new users on first install[3] and can be easily updated by the end user[4].

This upstream is now also consumed by at least one other window management project, Whim[5].

I think a lot of existing tiling window manager users from Linux and macOS look for straight "equivalents" on Windows if they end up here, but from my point of view both as an end user of tiling window managers and a developer of a tiling window manager, this is a huge missed opportunity.

Komorebi initially took a lot of inspiration from bspwm and yabai, but as I spent more time working with different monitors (square, wide, ultrawide) in different orientations, I became more and more convinced that a layout algorithm-driven design provides for a better overall experience than painfully manually manipulating a BSP tree to do something as simple as getting 3 columns on an ultrawide. More recently I also integrated some interesting ideas from more niche WMs such as PaperWM[6].

Tiling window manager development on Windows is really at the bleeding edge of the entire field these days, where the boundaries (especially in UX) continue to be pushed unencumbered by the inertia of established heavyweights and tradition.

Within the next decade I wouldn't be surprised to see this come full circle and find people implementing "Window Manager ___ From Windows, but for Linux/macOS".

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNZw0qUf_PE

[2]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi/commit/45894be4ff5162e1c2...

[3]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi-application-specific-conf...

[4]: https://lgug2z.github.io/komorebi/example-configurations.htm...

[5]: https://dalyisaac.github.io/Whim/docs/customize/filtering.ht...

[6]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi/commit/b799fd30774b5ae928...
I dug out my HP 50g over the weekend to play with, and conveniently…

Sigh. I understand why we commonly enter math on basically a teletype-with-ASCII, and I don’t have an urge to go all APL, but for a while we were so close to a future where we could’ve had separate negation or multiplication or exponentiation symbols that might’ve removed so much room for error. I mean, that little calculator and its predecessors were popular and widely used by the same people who brought us things like Unicode and the space cadet keyboard. If only one of them had said, gee, it sure would be handy to have a +- key on the keyboard the person in the next cubicle is designing as I have on the calculator on my desk!

But nope, Everything Is ASCII won and here we are. At least programming languages are starting to support Unicode identifier names, which has its own issues but is excellent for non-Latin alphabet users who want to write code in their own tongue. It seems like a reasonably short hop from there to giving operators their own unambiguous names. I can imagine a near-distant future where a linter says “you typed -3. Did you mean ⁻3?”, to the chagrin of programmers still entering their code on teletypes.
I ended up writing about the EO Personal Communicator a few years ago:

https://www.inverse.com/input/features/fax-on-the-beach-the-...

Was never able to get the device working (I have two) but I still have them in my possession. So I have some of the few Hobbit microprocessors in the wild.
controlled arms race to improve things on both sides and it doubles as a canary.
It raises the bar of 'professional 3D artist'.

There're hundreds of thousands of '3D worker' working behind the scene to create the 3D models for makeshift ads, and as far as I know many of them (including my high school mate) already got displaced by Midjourney and lost their job. This used to be a big industry but now almost entirely wiped out by AI.
What if it’s 100% green energy? Is it a waste?
On Adyen Suiting Up
Adyen might have overestimated the power of its product and underinvested in its sales teams. As it turns out, even great products need to be sold.
In highschool I read the Eragon book series while listening pretty much only to Jump Around from House of Pain, on repeat, for a couple of weeks. Whenever I hear that song again I get those dragon and fantasy vibes again
I don't think the point is to enumerate every service of a given kind, merely provide at least one good example of each. Do you think they missed a category?
I once read an article about a project that placed everything into 64KB size blocks. Any pointer within the block is 16-bit, and you can also have references to other blocks.

First advantage is that the pointers become tiny, so the objects took up a lot less space. The other advantage was that when it was time to serialize and deserialize the data, you didn't have to do any processing at all.
You CAN get things done, but there is no getting around the fundamental problems expressed here.

All my models are about 50% variable declarations and 50% inscrutable equations to express the relationships between the values. Sometimes huge ternary stacks because the language doesn't allow variable changes, so you can't have simple if/else/case to have a simple concept like a default value that maybe gets replaced based on some other condition.

And the lack of things like fillets is simply impossibl. The things you have to do to attain the end result of a fillet without an actual fillet function is ridiculous, and even after doing the ridiculous things, you still have a limited crap result where no matter what you simply can't actually have a fillet wherever you want, but you can compromise and get at least the ones you really need if you're willing to live with a simple design.

That is not a good tool. A good tool gives you the means to express whatever you need to express. Openscad gives you the power to express cubes and spheres and hulls and intersections of those, and even that only in a bafflingly limited way thanks to the language limitations.

It's not a great tool. It's a great proof of concept for a great idea for a great tool.
Discreteness doesn't imply there is no relation in the sequence. For instance, consider a processor in a robot processing sensations at clock cycle speed.

The memory chip or processor cores or software cant be used as a basis for unity, because a relation between successive elements of the sequence is not the same as there being an underlying unity as all parts can be individually swapped out in upgrades (like in the Ship of Theseus).

Buddhist vipassana descriptions use the analogy of seeing a line of ants - From afar, they look like a single black line, but on going nearby one sees the discrete nature. Similarly, on becoming adept at mind noting practice, one can see thoughts/sensations this way.

(Not saying that I agree with the above take, as I do think there is an underlying consciouness which gives unity, but here I am attempting to steelman the argument. Also, as you indicate, the original article is talking about a different aspect - unity at a single time vs unity across moments, and a discussion of how reflection alters the contents of consciousness.)
Pollard's Rho Algorithm for Logarithms
It sounds like you need to learn about parametricity.

https://www.well-typed.com/blog/2015/05/parametricity/
It's a really great resource to come back to for those of us who have been using git over over a decade, too!
Do IntelliJ Idea or Eclipse offer Clojure and Scala templates for popular web frameworks out of box? How about multi-platform GUI applications in something that isn't Kotlin multiplatform? Not going to ask about convenient CLI since it just doesn't exist in Java land.

There are other companies which use F# in the area of logistics, pharma and I know of at least one company that has services in it in a bit less reputable industry.

I feel like this kind of perception is highly biased, or, at least, unhelpful.
Reminds me of YAML's handling of booleans (`no` -> false) and git commit SHAs (treated as numbers in scientific notation)
Adyen didn't even reply to my registration. Stripe didn't need to reply, I did it myself without anyone involved. My own modest revenue won't change the balance sheet, but I know quite a lot of people with the same story... No wonder.
> This is probably the most overly pedantic, nitpicky reason for not using a program I've ever heard.

If you found learning math easy, you're fortunate. But lots of people find learning math difficult and frustrating, and things which might not have bothered you can be big deals for those folks. If I used a program in teaching which has a convention about basic arithmetic operations that is the opposite of the convention that mathematicians use, it is one more source of confusion and frustration for people.

Student: "You said that -3² was -9, but Excel says it's 9."

Me: "Well, mathematicians use a different convention than spreadsheets."

Student: "So which one should I use on a test? Can we use both?"

Me: "Since this is a math class, you should use -9, not 9."

Student: "How am I supposed to remember that? This is why I hate math ..."

Everyone will weigh costs and benefits differently. There is plenty of good math software out there like Mathematica, R, Geogebra, or maxima. Spreadsheets didn't seem to offer much, and there was this arithmetic convention thing that I knew would be an issue.

I'm sorry if you find it pedantic and nitpicky. I always tried to minimize unnecessary causes for upset, because there were difficulties enough learning math without my adding to them. If you saw people getting extremely angry or in tears because they "didn't get it", I think you'd understand. Math is really hard for some people.
You're looking at this from the point of view that bias is inherently bad. It's not. Biases do not need to be "lesser in degree" to allow adding something new to a conversation. They only need to be different from existing ones.

You know, diversity improves results.
Given that green energy is currently finite, and shortfalls are (generally) made up for by non-green energy, yes.
I actually didn't hear about jenkins-x before. Why did it never took off?
There is a difference between a weakness and complete breakage. You might have a small edge over brute force, but not enough to reverse any public key. This acts like a canary for weaknesses.
For those of us who don't speak Military-Industrial, how would you say this in English?
Less abstractly and more concretely: What do they point to? What are you claiming is the unifying deep truth beneath the surface of all religious texts? What heuristic is used to differentiate a text as religious versus the babblings of a schizophrenic?

I was raised Catholic, by a deacon, and have a deep understanding of Judeo-Christian religions, and have studied to a lesser extent several world religions. What am I missing?
some people just want the cred though. their name will be immortal and live through history as being something, or some such nonsense that feeds an ego.

also, if you were the type that thinks bitcoin is lame, this could be a way of undermining the concept to the point that people no longer use it because it's not secure as it was touted
Yes, there are opportunity costs.
I also recommend an alias like this (and l5870uoo9y has other examples and how to set them as git aliases)

alias gitlg="git log --graph --all --format=format:'%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset) - %C(bold cyan)%aD%C(reset) %C(bold green)(%ar)%C(reset)%C(bold yellow)%d%C(reset)%n'' %C(white)%s%C(reset) %C(bold white)— %an%C(reset)' --abbrev-commit"

From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1057564/pretty-git-branch...
Of course. It's still energy produced which could be used for something that is not a scam; that is not just funding North Korea with extra steps.
It's even more of a waste.
> puzzles where at least something of value is created when the puzzle is solved

What puzzles create something of value when they're solved today? A puzzle is typically a thing you do for fun and entertainment, not something you try to solve for the purpose of creating value.

I guess you're thinking more about logic/mathematical puzzles and alike? Would make sense in that case, but that's not the only type of puzzle.
This shows just how much semantic content is embedded in the tokens themselves.
I would argue that it's still a waste, because that energy could be put to an otherwise better use. Now that energy has to be replaced by a non-green counterpart since it's been spent.