skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No moral qualms here. There are large pieces of it that are useful without VS Code (for example, the Monaco editor and the language server protocol). Not to mention al the use people get out of it for free. It seems like the good well outweighs the bad.
in the modern age of Forums not being as popular, Discord (rip IRC) communities seemingly occupy this space now - they can be quite cozy, and give off a lot of the old vibes
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Maybe also set your font to bright green Comic Sans while you're at it..?
This is impressive from a technical point of view and probably useful from an educational one; I really like the idea that a piece of text can be transformed into any kind of media format easily, depending on your preferences. As recently as a year ago I was using Apple’s text to speech tool to listen to Wikipedia articles while biking, and needless to say, they weren’t very exciting to listen to.

But I don’t think it’s much of a threat to actual podcasts, which tend to be successful because of the personalities of the hosts and guests, and not because of the information they contain.

Which leads me to hope that the next versions of Notebook will allow more customization of the speakers’ voices, tone, education level, etc.
China also often launches from far-inland locations which puts large terrestrial populated regions beneath the booster (and booster landing) track. Perhaps less so for nominal launches, but not all launches are nominal:

<https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ys0DOsZmr7g>

<https://yewtu.be/watch?v=peJ6gErODic>

<https://yewtu.be/watch?v=-SFRNImP7p8>

China operates four launch facilities, three of which, Jiuquan, Taiyuan, and Xichang are inland. The fourth, Wenchang, is on the island of Hainan, in the South China Sea between China, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_National_Space_Administr...>

Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome, located in the independent country of Kazakhstan, is similarly an inland location and has seen launch debris fall over populated areas.
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Look I agree with you at a certain level, maybe it can't emulate deep conversations about big topics (maybe it can, I haven't seen an attempt...), but a vast vast majority of podcasts and radio shows are just like this: shallow and incredibly simplified with no more than a nod to the underlying concepts. 70% personality, 20% dumb analogies that the producer thought up in thirty minutes, and <10% actually communicating the material is standard fare for normie podcasts, sadly.

Honestly, given the personalization maybe it's a net improvement.
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I just use Zotero to copy-paste bibtex references into a .bib file as I go along. You can do this using the "bibtex generic" citation style.
you can open the web-gui from the menu and the notification should show up there
Right, no, obviously a dedicated device can power up faster than a general purpose computer. My point was that a general purpose computer can come out of sleep fast enough to be used in a camera, while maintaining acceptable tradeoffs in the process.
I designed an electronic board game, very similar to Settlers of Catan.

There are some electronic Catan builds out there, but I found them really expensive -- e.g. opting for a smartwatch screen + microcontroller for every game tile (of which there are 19). Beautiful, yes -- but not my style.

Instead, I went for 8-segment displays for numeric tile values, and RGB LEDs to display terrain types. It adds up to 342 LEDs to control for the full board, from a single central microcontroller. When you turn it on, it sets up the board for you. Pressing a central button "rolls the dice", and it will flash the tiles that produce resources as per the game rules. Or cue special actions on certain rolls.

I really enjoy cost-optimizing prototypes, so this was good fun. I got it down to about USD 20 for a single, ready-to-play unit, including solid brass game pieces (it helps that I'm in Asia). I still use the deck of cards from Catan for now, but plan to replace it with something sci-fi themed. Maybe "Asteroid Miners".

The only thing I'm not 100% satisfied with is that the board is a little cramped -- it's a bit over half the size of the original Catan board. The PCBs had to fit within 100mx100mm -- I used a bit of a weird PCB geometry so that the board is composed of 3 identical subunits, rotated a few degrees to maximize it's surface area within a 100mm square.

I'm not planning to sell it. I just had a slow month, so it's a good time to learn to do new things. I never make any money with hardware, but I love how whimsical electronics can brighten someone's day. Sometimes that earns me a client -- and if not, it's cheap entertainment for me that keeps my skills sharp and my morale high.
If you're looking for a beautiful place to go outside, Svalbard is not it lol.

Thailand is awesome, however they're not like many other well developed places where English is important to them. They are proud of their language and you'll need to learn it to get on. It's a shame because you speak English perfectly.

If you want something that your English can be a skill that you can put to use, Europe and the English speaking countries have pretty strict rules (for legal immigrants). You can get work as an English teacher in Korea or Japan since you're so good at it, especially if you learned it as a second language you're more familiar with the formal structure of the language than a native speaker because you had to learn them from scratch. Not quite tech work, but they're reasonably nice places. They're a little racist but they see nothing wrong with it, and their target of dislike is probably not you so you probably won't see much of that. And, their racism isn't usually hateful, they just stereotype and stare and ask inappropriate questions mostly.

Latin America... you'll need to learn Spanish. Most of the place is unbelievably beautiful, but there's some corruption and crime. The Caribbean, it's also beautiful, and many places have English as the primary language, but again, similar problems to Latin America.

The pacific islands are nice, most of them are full of English speakers, but many of the islands are UK or US territories and you'll have a hard time going for the same reason you'd have a hard time going to the US or UK. Also, some places like american Samoa, they have weird laws about land ownership, and interestingly those from there have US passports but are not US citizens. There are many that aren't US territories but that are guaranteed military protection and use the US dollar. Tons of great places there if you do your research.

As far as Mexico, many places on the Baja peninsula are relatively crime free, as developed as any US town, many people speak English there because of a history of tourism from the US state of California. Maybe worth checking out. Mexican passport holders can travel to more countries visa free than any other country's passport, and in many other places, get a visa relatively easily, so it might be a great idea to get one if you want access to much of the world.
Yeah it just worked a lot better on scylla.
Based on the two main profiles shown... They are both deep into political discussions on Twitter and "anti-woke" rhetoric. Their "commentary" is inflammatory and toxic, so probably go banned for generally being tools.

IMO banning them is silly, but maintaining OSS is not fun and dealing with people who've made politics their whole shtick is even less fun.
I don't disagree but I think commonly you are missing one of two things that are necessary for a proper design:

1) time to design it
2) knowledge of exactly what it needs to do today and in a year

Sometimes you're missing both.

In which case I think you can prevent contagion from being too terrible by enforcing smaller modules and single responsibility in a compositional way. That doesn't require as much knowledge of the future or time, but just requires you to avoid high-surface-area interfaces that end up with lots of behavioral variants controlled via parameters in a nesting-doll style. Instead, move your config/parsing/behavioral decisions to the edges of your logic instead of letting them seep into all your underlying models too.
I would also say library quality can be generally low. E.g. there are numerous flag parsing libraries but not a single one comes even close to clap in rust.
> So, if someone sets off a bomb in a mall...to kill a terrorist... it's not a terrorist act?

No, by definition a terrorist act is done to cause “terror”

These were assassinations with collateral damage
> Making healthcare a for-profit venture guarantees that poor people suffer disproportionately.

This is true of literally every industry; the poor always get less than the rich.
Why not nationalize everything so that the poor always get the same as the rich? Surely if the government can run healthcare it can run toy shops and grocery stores.
We shouldn't. Dockworkers should allow automation, and those jobs that remain should capture a fair share of the increased productivity in increased wages.
Go as a language is not fun at all. Nor very good. Weaker type system and less language features that increase productivity and readability than C#, Java, Kotlin and Typescript, no null checks.

Go as a runtime is outstanding.

Go's tooling, stability and governance are very good.

Nothing is perfect. Enter into your compromise.
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For a product that has both community and enterprise versions, the owner should carefully choose what kind of features should be put into the enterprise version instead of the community one, imho.

If you choose to put some basic features like analytics queries or performance improvements to your paid plan, who can trust you that the community version can still be well-supported in the future?
Zooming in on the page with CTRL+ makes the body more narrow.
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AI content emulates the "production values" of high quality content, but it doesn't actually have the quality of the content it's emulating. This is why it seems impressive at first and can even fool people for quite a while. It fools our brains' heuristics for detecting good content. But when you examine it closely, the illusion falls apart. NotebookLM is not different than other generative AI products in this respect.

I do think that this will change in the not too distant future. OpenAI's o1 is a step in the direction we need to go. It will take a lot more test-time compute to produce content that has high quality to match its high production values.
He's not a journalist. He's a software eng that does tech news videos and sometimes interviews like this: https://www.youtube.com/@t3dotgg
The price of solar power at midnight is infinite. By comparison nuclear is dirt cheap.

People understand the fact it costs money to dig out coal from the ground and bring it to a power station. Yet they don't understand it costs money to take power generated at noon and shift it around. This is never included in the price for solar or wind.
>It seems like the good well outweighs the bad.

Oh, I definitely agree. While I don't use the editor (mainly because I prefer full IDEs and not glorified text editors personally) I agree that holistically, the existence of VSC is a net positive to the programming community. My argument comes from a moral perspective - even though the good outweighs the bad, the bad parts are really scummy and need more awareness.

Like, my perspective is not utilitarian, it comes from a deontological point of view. I see people and companies get regularly flamed (or even harassed/intimidated) for much smaller things such as the crime of creating their non-OSI-compliant licenses and various related things. In contrast to that, the VS Code ecosystem is much more proprietary, grants much less practical freedoms and operates from a way less clean moral background than any of these projects. Yet, many people are willing to excuse this because Microsoft has figured out a way to implement vendor lock-in without breaching any of the four freedoms in techicality. To me, this is way worse than someone saying "no we won't let you use our software for anything"...

I am also not a fan of the LSP (good arguments can be found in https://www.michaelpj.com/blog/2024/09/03/lsp-good-bad-ugly....) but that's another topic :)
It's troubling that you are saying things about the bill which are false, and then speculating on the motives of someone just pointing out that what you are saying is false.
The US simply needs to undo the zoning laws, parking minimums, and setback requirements that make it illegal to build affordable housing.
Of course the topic of spirit-vs-letter of Open Source is worth discussing. (I've personally meditated quite a lot on "open governance" vs. "open source", which is tangential but related).

But I think your portrayal of FOSS advocates at large as unconcerned about the spirit vs. letter of open source compliance is wildly inaccurate. If anything FOSS communities discuss such topics obsessively. (How many bits have been spilled onto the internet about TiVo-isation?)

Also, see pxc's excellent analysis elsethread for an illustration of the utility of the OSD: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41693457
> "We want to make sure as we implement our reforms we aren't affecting food prices, because that's something Canadians don't want to see," he said. "At the same time, they don't want to see people being treated improperly in Canada. In some cases that's occurring and it needs to end."

Then pay higher food prices. Otherwise, you are to blame for the systemic mistreatment of these people who make you produce.
Looks like it's been back up for an hour or so now.
> Also, ditch the old-timey film-camera look. I don't need 15 physical switches [...].

You really, really do. This may sound contradictory at first, but cameras are operated blind. Even when you’re looking at the camera, you’re not seeing the camera, you’re seeing the subject. Touchscreens suck at blind controls. (That’s not to say touchscreens aren’t useful: choosing the focus point doesn’t exhibit this conflict, even if some prefer a joystick; or if you’re already digging into menus to do something very particular and non-time-sensitive—astrophotography, focus stacking, live compositing—a touchscreen can be better than a D-pad.)

Cameras also weigh quite a bit and are supported with the fingers you’re using to operate them, so significantly shifting anything except maybe your right thumb usually means a real risk of dropping the camera. The weight also mounts a two-pronged attack on the size of your touchscreen (I’m assuming a walkaround camera, not weddings or sports): the camera needs to be smaller in order to be lighter, and a large part of its surface area needs to be available for you to grip. So, realistically, you don’t want a camera with a 6-inch touchscreen.

In conclusion, please please please don’t take away my physical controls. I know a touchscreen is cheaper, but please don’t. I’ll pay.

(Side note: it’s been almost fifteen years, and I still type slower on my Android phone than I used to on the QWERTY keyboard of my Nokia.)
He did a sketch on SNL back in the day making fun of his scholarly background, suggesting that he originally was going to title his famous song "Bobby McGee and I" before taking a course in "how to speak country".
> The "human component" to (good) teaching is human beings teaching other human beings to be human

You learn that before you enter school, school teaches you how to be less human and more robotic.
Summarizing Wikipedia pages has been gotten down to a science, both for podcasts and YouTube explainer videos. This just makes it easier!
Agreed... and no offense to OP but I am now questioning just how in touch with modern society they really are.

Would they also observe a rocket launch from the grounds of the space center and go "eh, not really impressive" ?

Or maybe they are just defining "impressive" as something totally different to what we're thinking.
I am working on Omie, https://webapp.omie42.com/, yet another language learning tool :D

You start by learning the words: It augments the repetition aspect of Anki with added context to the words (random example sentences for each work, each time). I curated / generated the set of words in advance.
Then you move to practice these words in chat about different topics (soon voice conversation as well). You get a feedback in each turn about what your mistakes, without interrupting the chat.

I am using DeepL for translation (I am not liking it though, since it is very narrow strict definitions. I will be exploring OpenAI for that soon).
For chat, OpenAI GPT-4o.

This is my first webapp. I used HTMX + AlpineJS, Python, Supabase (Auth, S3, DB), and hosting on my PI.

It's work in progress, but I need to start finding core users to give feedback. I am not really sure how though. I had some tough experiences on Reddit and Discord (understandable tbh).
> ...and there's no arguing with the idea that spending some time in person with people can help improve working relationships (I attended a week-long, all-hands, staff retreat for EFF earlier this month and it was fantastic, primarily due to its in-person nature).

I would like to argue this.
I quit my job to focus on Manabi Reader full-time, for learning Japanese by reading (and next via YouTube). Has its own SRS flashcards or you can use its Anki integration on mobile and desktop.

https://reader.manabi.io iOS/macOS

It tracks every word and kanji you read to show you what you need to learn in order to read something new. It assembles your own personal corpus of example sentences as you read too, and will soon show you "i + 1" sentences to learn. No AI slop, just native immersion.

I'm also finishing an update now that automatically reviews flashcards that appear in texts you read. I find this more enjoyable and effective than slogging through context-light flashcards.
Ye the immersion was fantastic.

I think RTS:es with base building is a bit too abstract, nowadays when the graphics are so good, to seem believable, in the way it did in the 90s.
> like it has every single time in recent history?

You believe you have seen no benefits from industrialisation, electrification and digitisation?
Lawncareguy85, the creator of the viral "Podcasters discover they are AI" podcast has some other fun creations in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/notebooklm/comments/1fs7ka3/noteboo...
It is rare to ever see a software project with all behaviors spelled out in English. I think the effort required to do that is rarely necessary, and people just write code instead. "Documentation" usually means that you wrote down how to use the thing, plus some non-obvious details.
Could be applied to all comments made after a certain future date. That way nothing in the past is poorly formatted
Not a typo, interesting
> the million plus workers getting minimum wage

Neither of you have a point. Median wages have lagged productivity growth. But most Americans don’t earn the minimum wage.
I really, really hope they keep investing into NotebookLM and expand its ability to source more types of files, including codebases, complex websites etc. Feels really powerful for anybody studying or consulting many different clusters of learning materials at once.
Does a bike shop owner make comparable money to an EE in a large company? How about medical insurance for themselves and the family? As a bike shop owner, what do you do when a customer brings clearly a stolen bike?

It's nice to theorize about an idyllic life if you only think about the idyllic surface of it, from inside of a less idyllic but better-off life.
This is amazing. I uploaded the instruction manual for a Scholander pressure chamber (a piece of equipment for measuring plant moisture stress) and made a podcast from it. The information in the podcast was accurate, it included some light banter and jokes, while still getting across the important topics in the instructions. I don't know what I would use a podcast like this for, but the fact that something like this can be created without human intervention in just a few minutes is jaw dropping, and maybe also just a teeny bit scary.
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If they are still building a ton of coal they’re making a colossally foolish mistake.

Solar is already far cheaper than coal for new installations, and the price is still falling.
I mention this in another post, but I really hope they keep investing into NotebookLM and expand its ability to source more types of files, including codebases, complex websites etc. Feels really powerful for anybody studying or consulting many different clusters of learning materials at once.

Being able to talk to the books you're trying to learn, have them test you for knowledge, being able to combine many resources all at once, just so powerful.
I'm trying to parse this proposed law.

What does a "full shutdown" mean in the context of an LLM? Stopping the servers from serving requests? It sounds silly idk.
That's not "live"; that's just polling.
Being an executive totally requires skills. Are they unique skills that only executives have? Not really. But people management and resource management in general require skills, wisdom, etc. If someone is made an executive and they don't have the required skills, they will usually blow up their project or company.
>but only the poorest people would use an AC less because of cost

I think you may be surprised here.
> SLT-A55V, SLT-A65V, SLT-A77V

2010-2011

> 5DIV

2016, etc.

I tried this site: https://cameradecision.com/features/Best-Mirrorless-cameras-... - and it's a bit cheaper than $7k for new cameras, only around $5k.

Are you aware of any recent-ish cameras with reasonable price and GPS?
The union demands “a total ban on the automation of cranes, gates and moving containers in the loading and unloading of freight” [1]. This is purely extractive.

Better: encourage automation, but require re-training alongside job guarantees and better pay and benefits. Do we really think making our ports more efficient won’t yield dividends in increased volumes?

[1] https://apnews.com/article/longshoremen-strike-ports-pay-con...
Ok, so let's say I was there first. But now you're offering a product that's (by definition) just as good for a lower price. Why will the users stick to my product rather than paying your cheaper prices?

As for your second point, the profits from the first six months are going to be basically nothing compared to the years of massive investments needed to make this happen. Why would those profits give any kind of sustainable leverage?
Hmm. Assuming I’m on board with apocalypse, this kinda seems like a hat on a hat. Couldn’t we destroy the magnetosphere and vent the atmosphere with less energy than it would take to get all that carbon out? Or, hell, deorbit the moon one more time? I guess it’s harder to ramp up that tech in secret/with a benign excuse.

Plus a lot of it’s in living beings — you’d either have to find and harvest/burn all of them manually (or wait for the decomposition cycle to get it in the air I suppose?). At that point, you might as well go with a classic Skynet-style small-arms-based doomsday!
Very Nice! I have a request...can you possibly add MemoryRAG?