skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a technique for language learning, not for entertainment (necessarily, many people enjoy language learning as entertainment).
Cool! Using tagbody feels like writing supercharged C or even assembler to me (not that I've used it much, but still).
Having read Let over Lambda, I would say I find Javascript to be (a superset of?) a lispy language. If functional values with lexical binding are supported, then you get all the power of The Little Lisper.

Perhaps the macro facilities are also convenient but that is not the part that makes Lisp mathematical, it's the higher order programming.

And it needn't even be something fancy, just being able to have a data table of tests and have the test functions generated and executed from the table is the power demonstrated.
Please read more fiction. Why should everything be about becoming a 'better' person? Why not enjoy a good story? Unconsciously you will learn something, even from fiction.
Not everything in life needs to be squeezed for maximum gain. Remembering the names of characters is a lot less important than remembering the lessons learned from the story.
"Almost" is a bit vague and probably too strong, but they are mostly water, just like other mammals.
The new Kindle lineup is kinda meh, incremental improvements definitely but the tech is already so good that they've become a bit like phones. There's no compelling reason to upgrade my 11th gen Paperwhite, and colour doesn't interest me, at least not in its current state. I'm guessing the reason the new Paperwhite screen is 7 inches is because there's no replacement for the Oasis.
>As we know only too well, reading books is considered the fundamental ingredient for moving from mental inferiority to inspiring intelligence.

Lost me right at the first sentence. It's inferior to believe that books are a fundamental ingredient in allaying mental inferiority. Most knowledge is tacit and comes from doing, not reading. The hero who confronts the lion gains wisdom along the way. The nerd in his library merely thinks he's gaining wisdom.
What we have is amazing, but it's probably not the path to AGI. Let's focus on what we have, invest in what it can bring us, instead of hyping what we don't have, forcing it to be something it's not.

Hucksters like Sam Altman do more harm than help in this regard.
History disagrees with you. Apartheid states—even nuclear armed ones—have in the past dissolved into a one democratic state of all their peoples.
Ehm this is not really accurate. Not many people use a BiPAP machine. They're only for very old people who have serious difficulties breathing. A BiPAP machine can serve a largely different pressure for exhaling and inhaling, a normal CPAP machine can only do that with about 2cmH2O difference which isn't a lot. But normal people have no issue exhaling against the output of a CPAP anyway so it's not a problem.

For this reason BiPAPs have much more beefy motors so they can ramp up and down quickly. Or perhaps two separate motors, I have never taken one apart (I have normal CPAPs which is basically just a pressure fan in a box with some regulation electronics)

But anyway my point is, a normal CPAP doesn't use that much power. It may use more than that if a humidifier is used (which is probably not a bad idea on a plane, but it requires distilled water which is an issue to bring on the plane in sufficient quantity). Because the humidifier is just a heater and heaters use lots of power.

I don't use a humidifier, my CPAP has a PSU of about 60W but I doubt it uses more than 20. The problem is more that they are not USB-C powered, nor are there official USB-C converters for it. I could probably construct one but bringing home-built electronics on a plane is probably not a great idea either.

So yeah I don't think this will be a great option tbh. If power is provided on the plane it would work but I've never seen this on my flights except in business/first.
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And Boeing?
The context is getting a bit murky, so let’s start with this:

> That's not my point. My point is: if they want to fork it, it will be expensive.

That was your second point, and I don’t disagree with it.

Now, for the rest of your post.

> Those aren't forks.

I am not sure what point you are making here. Forking has nothing to do with either ripping off anyone or trademarks. The possibility to fork software is a fundamental principle of free software. As in, you cannot have free software that cannot be forked. If you don’t want people to fork it, don’t make it free.

Wordpress itself is a rebranded fork of b2, and nobody has any issue with that.

> Full forking the Linux kernel and rebranding it would be hard for the same reasons as forking and rebranding Wordpress.

If you fork a project you cannot use someone else’s IP, so you have to rebrand if the project name is a trademark. AFAIK, the Android kernels are forks and don’t use the Linux trademark, for example. Rebranding does not make forking any easier or harder, it’s completely orthogonal.

You mean that it would be difficult because they would need to pay developers to maintain the fork, right? This is true, but it has nothing to do with ripping off anyone. Matt is not embarrassing himself because forking would be complicated. His message is clear, and you wrote it yourself: “they profit off Wordpress' brand for free”. Which is dishonest and misleading.
Himalayan crypto-state: Bhutan has twice as many bitcoins as El Salvador
I like the SICP references.
Funny enough, in Turkey, it's the other way around. Scooters are called Vespas, and actually none of them are Vespas.
I'm pretty tired seeing AI slapped on everything but holy shit this is impressive.
Isn't remarkable pro the same size as Kindle scribe? Their website says 10.8 x 7.8 inches.
It's entirely rational and reasonable for someone to at least ask and receive a decent response to the question, "Why should my tax dollars have been used to funded this research?" Academia should have great responses lined up which garner continued support from the public.

But the fact that we aren't even allowed to ask questions without immediately being shut down as dissenters of all publicly funded research is problematic.

Public research should absolutely be at least partially evaluated by the very people funding it to begin with.
>Reality distortion field
Read: Weaponized Information Asymmetry and Perception Management

It relies on being viewed as larger than life, and exploiting the ignorance or inability of others to ask the right questions. When asked the right questions, it requires a willingness to lie one's ass off.

It isn't some magical mystical thing. It's just the willingness to meat grinder everything including imposed obligations and staff in the name of doing what it is you want to do.

It isn't sexy though when you call a spade a spade. So no one does. Having been the exec/manager to walk away from people/businesses after calling them out on their behavior, it is no mystery.
A lot of intellectual memes bother me. “Post-truth” gives me a tickle, “dunning kruger” perks up my ears, and “ZIRP” makes me want to throw a desk through a window.

People say these things because it helps them think less while, to some, giving them the veneer of thinking more.
It reads like it was mostly airport-nonfic hustle trash, to be blunt. Blog-post-expanded-to-a-book stuff. I’ve read a dozen or so of these over the years and they’ve consistently been a waste of time. Easily condensed to five or ten pages, probably mostly lists or bullet points rather than denser prose, without losing any substance whatsoever.

The improving value of reading 40 of those per year versus 0 is approximately identical, so unless you’re finding them entertaining, there’s not much reason to do it.
I find that Adobe is really pulling away from open source software with all this AI stuff. A few years ago it could be argued that GIMP, Inkscape, and Darktable could do almost everything that Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lightroom could, albeit with a jankier user interface.

But now none of the open source software can compete with AI generative fill, AI denoising, and now AI rotation.
The video is much better than the linked page. The video shows the dynamic multi-angle character rotation and other object rotations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=63
Author correctly points out that this is not a new thing. I'm reminded of the quote broadly believed to have been from Karl Rove in the early 2000s, about propaganda and the Iraq war, dunking on people who live by "reality":

The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'.[1]

I'm sure this kind of mentality goes back even further. Someone can probably pull up some Nixon quote... That wasn't my era, so I don't know.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community
Time is a dimension, but not like space
Out of curiosity, can you give an example of where ClojureScript is safer than TypeScript? I'm pretty far removed from the frontend world so this sounds pretty interesting to me.
Have you taken a university level ethics course before?

They teach the different ethical frameworks, where they come from, and then get you to apply them to different situations. The classes don't tell you what's right and what's wrong, but rather, the different frameworks people can use to determine that.
I disagree. Cheating in singleplayer games is fine, but you're ruining the experience of others when hacking in multiplayer games.
Yes! Fiction tends to be much better written and in many cases is an excellent window into understanding people whose lives have been very different from your own. If you want to improve your social awareness and better understand the human condition, fiction is a must.
Horse is practically all air. That's their secret. They are blimps with legs.
Depends on whether the kid wants to learn to draw, or just wants to create drawings.
> The whole point of the NPU is rather to focus on low power consumption

You know which chip has the lowest power consumption ? The one which is turned off. /s
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That makes sense that the potential for performance improvements is greater, I'm just a bit skeptical it can actually "consistently beat clojure" in anything except for micro-benchmarks. It's mentioned in that article that jank uses a pretty basic GC while the JVM/Graal contains multiple state-of-the-art GCs tailored to different use cases. It's been shown many times that the JVM or Graal's JIT compiler have better peak performance over a long duration than compiled programs. This simply comes down to the fact that there are a host of specialized optimization strategies only possible when compilation can happen during runtime.
Hey, no problem. Yes, I'm familiar with it, and I work in/with projects which aims to create reproducible research (Galaxy, Zenodo, etc.). If you tell me that "I can make this unreproducible paper reproducible, but with a different process (or the same one), and share all the pipeline from dust to result", I'll tell you to go for it, and fund you.

At the end, if something is not reproducible, and you're testing reproducibility of that thing, it's illuminating a dark area of that hypothesis.

Measuring the quality of the research and its impact is not something I'm very familiar with to be honest, and I'm not from US, so I can't tell how universities push their people, however publish or perish is a real problem everywhere in the world.

We used to see citation numbers important, then cite-rings cropped up. We valued paper counts, then professors started to lend their names to papers in their areas for "free" advisory. Now we have more complex algorithms/methods, and now I'm more of a research institute person than an academic, and I don't know how effective these things are anymore.

But hey, I do research for fun and write papers now and then. Just to keep myself entertained to find reasons to learn something new.
First I waited for Kindle Voyage refresh, then started thinking about Oasis, but waited for it to have a normal charging port (USB-C) and now the last reader with physical buttons disappears :(

Oh well, at least my Voyage still works and fits in most pockets (and has cool origami cover), the only downside is that if not in airplane mode, it uses up battery in 2-3 days. In airplane mode I can read 2-3 weeks.
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Something can be mindbending in its implementation, but offer a very convenient interface at the same time.

If mindbending isn't relating to its usage, but to its implementation, then I could see, how it could still be a good thing.
Yup. Same reason why they like to climb to high places. They can feel safe and survey the surroundings. Additionally, cats will hide in confined spaces when ill or in pain; a sudden desire to hide for prolonged periods is a sign that it needs to see a vet.
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"Shannon theorem disagrees with you. The wider the channel, the MORE noise you can tolerate when transmitting signal at a given data rate."

I've spent a lot of time on the development of broadcast-quality FM exciters (as I've posted on HN in the past) but I'm not go to debate the disadvantages/advantages of FM versus AM in depth as most points have already been covered in other posts, I'll just add this:

The quality of AM can be remarkably good if it's engineered with care. The math and engineering tell us that, and excellent results can be and are achieved in practice (as a longtime FM-er I say that about AM as it's just fact)!

The reason why AM has a bad reputation is it's history and background: AM broadcast and other shortwave (3-30MHz) bands are much more prone to impulse and atmospheric noise than VHF and up. Also, the historical nature of RF amp design and detection never put its primary focus on the linearity of RF/IF amps, etc. (good linearity is easily achievable these days).

My primarily reason for responding to this part of your post is to point out that when receiving AM signals one can take excellent advantage of using a wider bandwidth than the actual spectrum occupied by the modulation products.

Unfortunately, most of us don't know or have forgotten about the Lamb Noise Silencer circuit which uses a wider bandwidth signal to gate out impulse noise.

Here, two IF amplifiers [or one especially modified] are employed. The main IF uses the required (narrow) channel bandwidth and the second IF uses a wider bandwidth. Shannon et al tell us the wider signal can arrive at the detector before the narrow BW signal and thus can be used gate out noise in the latter stages and or detector.

In operation a properly designed Lamb Noise Silencer is remarkably effective in reducing AM static etc.

Whilst never used as a broadcast service, I'd posit that if AM with say 20Hz-20kHz audio were put into the existing FM spectrum (88-108MHz) with its lower AM noise background together with receivers that used the Lamb circuit then AM would essentially be indistinguishable in quality from the existing FM service. In fact, it could be even better with audio reaching 20kHz [extra 5kHz] and this could be achieved with a much better utilization of the spectrum (with AM's inherently lower channel bandwidth)—many more stations could be added to the band.

Of course, that would have been impractical back 80 or so years ago when the FM band was conceived for reasons that in the days of tubes the required local oscillator stability would have been very difficult to achieve (but a non issue these days).

Sometimes, we overlook the fact that our predecessors have already been there, thought about and have done these things.
Intelligent design is a code word for the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions.

If there’s some other scientific theory of “intelligent design” you’re referring to, please enlighten me as I’m not aware of it.

> Depending on what you consider "evidence" the same sentence could be said for evolution.

There is empirical evidence for evolution.
Clearly your dog has been possessed by a demon.
In reviewing the Adonis docs, I think the biggest difference between citizen and Adonis is convention over configuration.

citizen expects you to put certain things in certain places so it can handle all the imports, execution, and flow control for you. Adonis requires you to be far more explicit.

For example, in Adonis, you define routes within a router file, whereas in citizen, routes are implied by the existence of controllers and actions/handlers in the appropriate locations.

citizen does have config files (and controller/action config overwrites) for things that require an explicit setting, but I tried to keep that to a minimum.
So it's like converting a normal distribution to log normal (and then back). But a more general way of thinking about it.

Where does the name "normalizing flows" come from?
I have the Palma.

It's pretty good. The only problem is that the glass on the screen scratches easily. If you're okay with a screen protector then it should be fine.

In terms of software, it has access to the playstore but I actually haven't downloaded any apps on it. I've used fdroid and aurora store.

I installed a minimal launcher called unlauncher. I use Koreader as my main reader and I have it there most of the time so that I unlock/lock the e-reader and I'm taken directly to the book. It has amazing support on this device (I've used other android based E-readers and support wasn't the best). Can't change front light from the Koreader app though, which is slightly annoying.

Other than that, and the main reason I got an android e-reader, is that I use an android based manga reader. The experience is amazing. Yes, the manga reader is not fully optimised for e-reader screens like Koreader is but it works well enough that it's not a problem.

Overall, it's a really nice E-reader. My favourite thing about it is the size and form factor. Really, I have a 6 inch Kobo reader and this one is much easier to carry around. I'm very much used to reading on my phone anyway so the size is very comfortable for me.

Overall, it's been a positive experience. I'm waiting for either a color device in this form factor with kaleido 3 or perhaps another b/w with carta 1300.

But yeah, it's positive. Hardware is good and software can be made enjoyable.
BiPAP is very very rare. It's only for very frail people that probably don't fly anyway. A BiPAP can lower the pressure considerably when the user exhales, that's why. They need power to ramp up/down quickly. Most people have a normal CPAP or an Auto CPAP. The auto mode is often used to determine the optimal pressure and then that is set to be fixed (because the ramping up/down of the auto mode can be annoying).

Travel CPAPs are a thing but you can't just buy one where I live. They're only supplied by the medical service here, and they don't do travel versions. It's not allowed to buy one yourself (and they're very expensive, around 700 bucks).
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Why are you asking us? I'm not a research scientist/funding expert. There are people whose job it is to decide that, and they decided it was. I trust them to do their jobs, just like they trust me to do my job when they need my services.
In the video they mention it was painted and looked like a genuine conker.
Yeah exactly. I guessed pretty early that the books he was reading were productivity-branded self help and pop science. These can be fun but 2-3 per decade is probably plenty.
Residential VPNs are more common now with cheaters to bypass VPN blocks.
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Some people only read self-help books and popular biographies that they have been told will inspire them. It's how the modern version of a religious education is delivered. Through sheer volume of inspiration, they will be delivered into success.
We forget everything, eventually. A whole lot of it over time, and whatever’s left, all at once.

It’s all partial and temporary. A long-lived cathedral made of one’s knowledge is unachievable. It’s a scrap-book with pieces and pages always falling out and you can never collect them all because you’re late for the train and have to hurry on.
I use Chromium, because I'm on Ubuntu. (Admittedly, I don't use it very often. I tend to be loyal to Firefox most of the time.)
In my experience self help books are of minimal value. You need to read for fun, general factual learning and historical books for perspective. I don’t read a book if I’m not interested in it and I still get through 35-50 books a year.
My favorite version of this argument is from Catch-22.

It starts with a discussion about the miseries people suffer and if they have any utility at all. Is pain a useful warning of problems or could that information be gotten across in a better way?

It ends with the two characters agreeing that neither believes in God, with one not believing in a good and kind God and the other not believing in an evil malevolent God.

https://risingentropy.com/catch-22/
That's encouraging. I've had mine for years and years. Maybe it's time for an upgrade!
Therefore they are more properly classified as soups.
This is basically like taking your 2D drawing to an artist and saying "draw this for me from different angles." Only now the artist is a computer, and probably costs you a lot less than paying a real artist every time you want to do this.

Animators are even more out of a job I guess, but really have been for quite some time I think, almost no animation is entirely hand-drawn anymore.
LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA found that speed of light in vacuum is affected by gravitational waves. This is verified experimentally to very high precision (1.2E-20m).

Light doesn't travel in a straight line because, to change trajectory of photon, photon must interact with something to exchange momentum. You are talking about mathematical model[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curved_spacetime
Fire tablets haven't been called "Kindle Fire" since late 2014, so I doubt many people are confused.
Fair enough and all great points. I think we're more aligned than not on the fundamentals here. Folks seem to be reacting negatively to my even propositioning these questions without even having made a judgment on the merit of the study myself.
The most egregious false equivalency is the bad faith argument of Trump saying Haitian migrants are eating pets (blatant lie which is stoking hate against an ethnic group) is somehow comparable to a slightly disingenuous misinterpretation of Trump's words that 'there were very fine people on both sides' (he was talking about the civil war and slaveowners, not neo-Nazis, not thay different in terms of impact of his words).
I also tend to think “will lack long term support”, as I’ve seen many Rust projects where the OG devs move on to other projects. It’s fine to do that of course, but when I see “X but written in Rust” I read it as “I made this as an exercise” and not “I am making a full attempt to replace this other project”.
Cargo.toml is more appropriate to check dependencies and that has 642 lines. Some of them maybe just for testing or project setup. Remove them all I think it still would leave you with few hundred dependencies. And that does not seem excessive for a Rust project specially from Microsoft.

I mention Microsoft specifically because their Go projects are similarly excessive in dependencies even though higher quality Go projects do have fewer dependencies.
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