skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I.e. why wasn't in simpler in evolutionary terms to come up with some mechanism where 1% of the brain was dedicated to the relatively simple task of "station keeping",

Supposedly this is how dolphins sleep, shutting off part of the brain and using the other half to swim.

https://us.whales.org/whales-dolphins/how-do-dolphins-sleep/....
What I'm trying to call out is that not all studies are equally valuable nor should they all be publicly funded. Would you at least agree me on that?
I've tried a few things that seem to work. The first works pretty much perfectly, but adds quite a bit of latency to the final response. The second isn't perfect, but it's like 95% there

1 - the first option is to break this in to three prompts. The first prompt is either write a brief version, an outline of the full response, or even the full response. The second prompt is a validator, so you pass the output of the first to a prompt that says "does this follow the instructions. Return True | False." If True, send it to a third that says "Now rewrite this to answer the user's question." If False, send it back to the first with instructions to improve the response. This whole process can mean it takes 30 seconds or longer before the streaming of the final answer starts.

There are plenty of variations on the above process, so obviously feel free to experiment.

2 - The second option is to have instructions in your main prompt that says "Start each response with an internal dialogue wrapped in <thinking> </thinking> tags. Inside those tags first describe all of the rules you need to follow, then plan out exactly how you will respond to the user while following those rules."

Then on your frontend have the UI watch for those tags and hide everything between them from the user. This method isn't perfect, but it works extremely well in my experience. And if you're using a model like gpt-4o or claude 3.5 sonnet, it makes it really hard to make a mistake. This is the approach we're currently going with.
For what it's worth, clippy has an optional lint to detect undocumented unsafe blocks: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#un...

Edit: And it turns out it's enabled as a warning in this repo.
I can't even do this at home, let alone in a semi-public place around strangers. Being blind and deaf makes me feel uneasy.
It sounds to me like you are reading books which more or less belong all to the same niche. The gradient going from a lot to a few seems natural.
If there's a part that doesn't change, eg a footer or something, you can get a head start and have it figure out the rest by deduction with a spellchecker
'I'm suing the council for £495M because they won't give me back my bin bag'
So airlines allow 2 batteries of up to 160Wh (with airline approval) and as many 100Wh batteries as you can carry [note: I have not actually tried to show up to the TSA security line with a suitcase full of 100Wh batteries, so your mileage may vary].

A BiPAP machine uses 50-150 Watts, according to a random Google query, so you're looking at somewhere between 500 and 1400 Wh of total storage to get your 9 hours of sleep on a plane.

So what you're looking for is (a) a way to daisychain these batteries together so that you don't need to wake up ever 40 minutes to 2 hours to swap batteries and (b) a way to plug in your BiPAP machine, if your battery packs are all USB-C and your BiPAP isn't.
Your dog is the inverse of the Firefox.
I'm a VR enthusiast. My friends and I play multiplayer VR games several hours a week. UEVR definitely opened up a lot of new options for us, but ultimately we tend to fall back on existing titles that have been optimized for VR (i.e., phasmaphobia, devour, demeo, forewarned, etc). It's a great tool though, and I hope it could lead to developers making their own vr implementations.

I think for a long time there was an idea that VR had to be a separate thing from traditional gaming, but now developers are seeing that they can use it to extend their existing games to a new audience. I dream of a day where any first person game is just automatically also optimized for VR.
The article does say "lifecycle carbon emissions".
Post Office CTO had 'nagging doubts' about Horizon system despite assurances
So what exactly is your criteria for when a study should or should not be publicly funded?
I'm not sure the ICE does/did, but remember that "ethnic cleansing" doesn't have to involve (direct) mass murder (even if it often does), for instance the expulsion of millions of Germans after WW2 from their homes (even when they were already living there before Nazis came to power) :

https://theconversation.com/postwar-forced-resettlement-of-g...

Also, Hitler's first planned "initial solution" was, as incredible as it might sound, relocating Jews to Madagascar (which of course would still have caused plenty of misery, since the core issue was that Nazis barely considered them as human beings).

EDIT : Yeah, so after following the rabbit hole for a bit, this seems to be about "Trump's mass deportations". Which I remember him claiming himself (maybe in other words), but one should check how massive exactly they ended to be.

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/26/facebook-data-ice-immigr...

But one of the main gists of that article is about how Palantir is helping law enforcement with data integration. Which, as this blogpost points out, shouldn't be underestimated.

And thankfully at least some of the lawmakers didn't underestimate it : there's a reason why it's illegal to build some national databases, and combine some other less sensitive national databases.

Liberal democracy requires a balance of power, and giving too much power to the policeS (or the state in general) results in a police state (dystopia). (Including through the loophole of private companies like GAFAMs.)

You can also see it as a reminder that tools aren't neutral and scale matters.
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Saying that the Kindle is as good as an ashtray is like saying cars are useless because we can travel by horse. It's ideologically motivated detachment from reality.
They did; he manipulated the results[1] to avoid leaving. What now?

[1]: https://www.state.gov/assessing-the-results-of-venezuelas-pr...
Having 7 cats, they are all different. My oldest mail holds himself rigid. The youngest male - still a kitten - is a noodle of murder and destruction.
Better to whole-ass one thing than half-ass two things. Sleep allows a focused effort on cellular repair, garbage collection, memory consolidation, and learning.

The 24-hour dark-light cycle on Earth is the most energetically significant thing that happens here, and species capitalize on the parts of the day that play to their strengths.
Your point is completely relevant for today. That said, it's curious to think about how that attention may have been channeled in a world free from such man made stimulation traps.
I made a paid MacOS app called RestEyes. It helps users follow the 20-20-20 rule to help reduce eye strain when working on a screen for long hours, and provides a gentle reminder to look away instead of blocking the whole screen.

I have reached the top 10 in paid health and fitness apps a couple times. Revenue is probably in the low hundreds of dollars for lifetime, and the first year it was out it made very little. Second year it started getting some traction. (apple also takes 100 bucks a year to post an app, so first year basically lost money)

It's hard since I don't really use paid advertising. I made it in SwiftUI and used a channel called SwiftfulThinking to learn how to code it, besides that just other yt tutorials as needed :)

Link to SwiftfulThinking channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/swiftfulthinking
Link to app for reference: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/20-20-20-rule-resteyes/id64493...

I think it is possible for sure to build a business around a MacOS app. It just has to be unique enough for people to want to pay for it, and you have to know how to get it out there (marketing). Kinda like the iOS marketplace, just smaller, but thats not really an issue if you're solving a relevant problem for Mac users.
Lmk if u have other questions!
Why might a kid not want to draw something from a different angle? In my introduction to drawing course I was asked to draw my non-dominant hand every day for a week, each time from a slightly different angle.
I'd agree if it was being used to ban players across many servers, but a single community server is not that big a deal to be banned from. And they seem to have had an appeals process.
Who said the existing financial system is limited to "accounts or money transfers"?
> And they are probably right! Israel remvoed the settlements from Gaza, removed all military presence from Gaza, and the Gazans elected Hamas, which took over the Gaza strip (killing all PA members), then spent 15 years shooting rockets at Israel continuously

It probably would have been a good idea to:

NOT bulldoze Gaza's airport ( https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/08/31/344329313/... )

NOT bulldoze the foundations of Gaza's seaport ( https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/148375... )

Enact revenue sharing for the offshore natgas income partially extracted from Palestinian waters ( https://www.usip.org/publications/2023/08/how-gaza-marine-de... )

Of course the outcome will be the same as Gaza if the period after negotiations fail is contemporaneous with "grind their economic opportunities into the dust....literally". If an asshole moves into your master bedroom and you want him GONE.....but he proceeds to hook you up with a FAANG job that prints money (and no, "aid" is not the same as the self-respect that comes with controlling your own destiny via hard work)....you'll be more inclined to tolerate living with him, after a period of extended mutual disdain, of course.
> this effort

revealing Winamp was breaking GPL and several commercial licenses.
Yes, you're wrong.

As one of the comments in the article mentioned, small and medium venues are dying and there are no signs of a turn-around. If you're already an established, "name brand" musician, then sure, you can make good money on big arena tours.

If you're an upstart - good luck getting your music career launched. Good luck growing a live audience and building up your chops playing for a live audience.

Here's the thing - this has been going on for decades.

When is the last time a live band played at a high school prom? When is the last time a live band played at a wedding reception that you attended (not the string quartets that are popular today during the actual ceremony)? How are the small music venues in your town doing? Are there more or fewer than there were years ago? When you do see live music at a small venue, is it a couple of people essentially busking or is it an actual band?

The answer to these questions informs you the state of live music today and the direction things are headed.
You might manage to cobble together frequency analysis too, but that would be challenging. If the ciphertext is very small, or is marketspeak without any sense to its message, then that's going to fall flat. And all this assumes just ascii rather than say a (even limited) unicode font. These assholes could be doing that just to have curly quotes or whatever.
Looked into building an FTP GUI for MacOS, but I found that there aren't any easy options for programmatically doing SFTP in Swift. Best option looks like it's SwiftNIO which is fairly low level.
Ah, I missed that. However, footnote 41 states “The same representation and alignment requirements are meant to imply interchangeability as
arguments to functions […]”, which could be taken as implying compatibility of function types, though the normative wording doesn’t directly support that.
That’s what the gin and tonic step is for
It is the 'make something for the user/client' vs. 'make something to sell' mindset.

The latter one is what overwhelmingly more companies (not only BigTech, not at all!) adopted nowadays.

And Boeing. ;)
Half the user guide is empty.

I want to understand what communication channel(s) it has from guest to host. It's not clear from the cut-and-paste support described in the VNC section of the manual, how this works and what other functionality might be supported.
A smart person could think of dozens of ways around any explicit legalistic regulation intended to protect consumers, given an afternoon.

Ultimately every regulation needs an uncaptured civil service regulator who can take offense at somebody trying to perform cheeky workarounds and impose disproportionate punitive measures & regulatory adjustments when the spirit of the law is violated. If you don't have that (and we don't, in many areas), then you don't have effective government.

This is why the Federalist Society going after Chevron deference is part of an attempt to overthrow the government; If the iterative regulatory loop demands a full appellate process followed by getting half the votes in the House, 60+ votes in the Senate, and one vote in the White House, then no regulation will be performed in practice. Virtually everything the FTC does is now subject to Federalist Society veto given sufficient time for the lawsuits to be filed & processed.
So I wonder if SpaceX has a lending library of all of the relevant (quality-related) NASA documents, printed out on dead trees. For light lunchtime reading.
First archive of the amazon announcement page was in April 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210419114306/https://www.amazo...
The EU is at the start of a "mild" economic recession that will last for generations.
so, pacman will have 3 D characters now ?
For what it's worth, their hips and shoulders are actually limited in range of motion compared to humans, due to the very high muscle attachment points that are also what make them so amazingly strong and explosive for their small size. But an extremely flexible spine combined with the ability to dislocate key joints means they can still fit into very small, narrow spaces, presumably an adaptation allowing them to hunt small rodents that burrow and hide out in underground dens. Which I assume is why they have the instinct to immediately jump into and check out any box or cabinet or other enclosed space you open. You never know if there might be some voles in there.
I'm curious what the increasing price of homes relative to salaries does to innovation in communities like these. If one gets laid off in a major industrial center, the next gig is likely within commuting radius. If one gets laid off in a small town - the next gig could be across the country.

A home costs ~25% of the down payment on the day you buy it. Unless you have the cash to float multiple rental properties - moving is going to be painful financially.
SRAM is extremely hot, it's the very opposite of dark silicon
Is there any reason to think this is anything but great?
cons is an adt and fundamental building block used to build lists (which is a builtin datatype) it's also used to build other data types. the property we're discussing is useful when you're operating on those other data types, rather than lists. when you're designing those other data types you have to be aware that null can be both the absence of value and a value, so you design those other data types appropriately. the property we're discussing becomes useful and handy when you don't care about that distinction, which is quite often in practice.

for example a useful datatype is an association list. (setq x ((a . 1) (b . 2) (c . nil)))
you can query it by calling (assoc 'a x) which is going to give you back a cons cell (a . 1) in this case. now the presence or absence of this cell indicates the association. if you want to know explicitly that C is nil, then you have an option to, and it's similar in function call counts to Scheme. if you don't care though about the distinction you can do (cdr (assoc 'a x)) which is going to give you 1. doing (cdr (assoc 'foo x)) will give you nil without erroring out. it's a pretty common pattern.

in case of established data types like association list, you will probably have a library of useful functions already defined, like you can write your own getassoc function that hides the above. you can also return multiple values from getassoc the same way as gethash does the first value being the value, and the second value being whether or not there's a corresponding cons cell.

but when you define your own adhoc cons cell based structures, you don't have the benefit of predefined functions. so let's say you have an association list of symbols to cons cells (setq x ((a . (foo . 1)) (b . (bar . 2)) (c . nil))). if I want to get foo out of that list, I'll say (cadr (assoc x 'a)) which will return foo. doing (cadr (assoc x 'c)) or (cadr (assoc x 'missing)) will both return nil. these later manipulations require extensive scaffolding in Scheme.
The smart money knows, which admittedly describes only a small subset.

But even if everyone was clueless, the seller will still likely present such information to the buyer to justify not providing discounts.
You notice that Analogue Devices puts their (incredibly useful) information up for free. That's because they make money other ways. Ad supported content farm Internet had a nice run but we will get on without it.
Yes. I've a feeling that something like Forscape + something like Jupyter, and maybe something like LyX, might make the right combo.
I don't do "true" data science, so my voice of "expertise" in the matter is limited. This is the extent of what I've heard. In my opinion, neither of the clauses in your statement are true.

Clojure is very well suited for data science of all shapes and sizes. There's a great meetup lead by Daniel Slutsky where they regularly discuss this topic, and there's #data-science channel in Clojurians Slack where they regularly post interesting findings. As for the libraries, anything used in Java/Javascript can be directly used. Besides, there is TMD, https://github.com/techascent/tech.ml.dataset - it's a well-regarded lib and provides solid functionality for data manipulation.
I don't want to challenge my existing beliefs with new knowledge or points of view, unless it can be expressed in a sentence or two on the internet.
Author here. The US/CA statues of limitations are also extremely short compared to what I am used to, so I was too late for to perform any legal action over this stateside after I recovered somewhat from all of this. (There may be a way to go against the EU subsidiaries, but I'm not doing it alone.)

(Anyway. Matt. If you're reading this, then I've seen you've been very generous with your checkbook for the past couple of weeks. I am open to burying the axe to a certain extent but that would require paying for estimated unpaid overtime and on-call hours, providing proper compensation for keeping me for almost a year on a trialmattician contract and destroying my mental and financial well-being among other things. You know how to find me. If not, I'll see you in Brussels.)
Dropbox syncing is seperate from PocketBook Cloud even though the device calls it Dropbox PocketBook. Your device seems to have gotten all the same recent FW updates as mine on a similar timeframe, so as far as I can tell from release notes and the User Manuals they are running the same firmware and support the same features. Not sure why you have the impression it is running Android, but hopefully you don't have some knockoff?

You do have to setup and login to a PocketBook account to use the cloud synchronization. I have not tried the Dropbox integration, but it only supports a synchronized file folder.

In the user manual for the Verse Pro[1], the setup for PB Cloud starts on page 79 and isn't grouped with the Dropbox sync or email endpoint earlier on in the manual.

The only controversy related to PB Software that I am aware of is that it used to be even more open with a published SDK. It was many years ago that they stopped actively maintaining tne SDK. That doesn't seem to have stopped people from continuing to develop for PB devices, and as far as I'm aware PB have not done anything to prevent this or lock down their devices beyond not continuing public development of the SDK. Certainly theur current lineup of devices allow you to run 3rd party applications and are simple to get root shell access on.

[1]https://support.pocketbook-int.com/fw/634/u/6.8.3796/manual/...
Just like we had with TVs and other screens. Interestingly enough though, when I look around in my office, the majority of people in my team wear glasses, so there's that...
I'd like to throw my hat into the ring. My contact information is kuharich [at] hotmail.com and you can also click my "about:" We do app development
Good question.

I think if there's a large corpus of research supporting a hypothesis, any research retrying that hypothesis in an insignificant way can be disqualified from funding. If you challenge the hypothesis, or adding something significant to the dark areas of that hypothesis, you could be funded.

Moreover, if your research fails to prove that hypothesis, or proves the exact opposite, that should be also printed/published somewhere, because failing is equally important in science.

In short, tell us something we don't know in a provable way. That's it. This is what science is.

This is what I think with about your question with my Sysadmin/Researcher/Ph.D. hats combined.
An oldie: https://ashwinram.org/1986/01/28/a-short-ballad-dedicated-to...

Describes the evolution from:

(cdr (assq key a-list))

to:

(let ((val (assq key a-list)))
(cond ((not (null? val)) (cdr val))
(else nil)))
Sadly ,the last reference I see to this project is from 2022, from his own CV on his JPL profile page. What happens after stage 3 with NIAC? Is there even a stage 4, or does it need to get selected by some committee or something?
> These judgments are often subjective and could be heavily influenced by individual teachers' biases.

When I taught design I ended one of my courses with a lecture and discussion on ethics, and I'd like to think I was pretty even-handed. One common issue that most young designers encounter is being asked to implement dark patterns that improve the company's profits at the expense of the end-user's well-being. The goal of that lecture was not to tell students what is right and what is wrong but to get them to think critically about the effects of their decisions on end-users, customers, society, and the planet. But those answers are different for everyone, for example in my case I was more ethically comfortable working on US military projects than projects involving advertising, social media, gambling, or other forms of psychological manipulation.
I check every month and it hasn't happened to me in years. But then, I leverage PayPal or other such things when possible.
I'm in the same situation. I've read some workflows you can do but I really like to just pop open einkbro with my royalroad follow list as the homepage instead of having to run a browser extension to calibre rube goldberg machine every single time a new chapter is released.

I don't love boox but mine hasn't died yet and it's decently competent at my use case.