skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my favorite speculative hypotheses is Bicameral Mind Theory, which asserts that something like schizophrenia was relatively common until relatively recently, about 3000 BC. It argues that it was relatively normal for humans to hear voices in their head directing them. So when we read religious texts about the gods commanding so-and-so to do such-and-such, it wasn't just a spiritual metaphor, but an actual voice people heard in their heads and interpreted as higher powers.
This is already a thing for music, with virtual singers/bands like Hatsune Miku and Gorillaz. I'm not sure if it makes sense for actors, though, as opposed to just specific characters for a given franchise.
I agree, but sometimes some videos are not easy to download, in that case it would be helpful to have a means to do an "accelerated, off-screen recording"
Digital euro sparks sovereignty battle between EU governments and ECB
In my mother tongue is called IA, inteligecia artificial. I mix it up all the time.
I would want a NFC one tbh.
I've been meditating on the idea of using an LLM or Python to automatically generate Anki cards from source materials like PDFs.
There was a time it looked like cross platform GUI toolkits would get us there, but things went in reverse.
It isn't obvious at all. A jit compiler has access to information that an aot compiler can only dream of. There aren't many languages which have both jit and aot compilers, though.
A large project, broken up
Naturally the idea is to explore new concepts a mix of diagrams and coding,

Basically what Brett Victor in recent times, and others have been trying to do for decades,

"Grail on Rand Tablet from 1968 demo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cq8S3jzJiQ

Or "Programmable Ink" at Strange Loop 2022,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifYuvgXZ108

There used to exist a graphical based Lisp for iPad, Lisping, unfortunely the app is long gone as it wasn't kept up to date with the OS.

Here is on old thread discussing it, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3802131

The new iPad Calculator, is a more recent example of such ideas.
Thanks, it looks like I was fooled by scare stories on where it comes from. However there are still issues with who controls it:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-68896707

and environmental aspects of mining and disposal AFAIK?
>I would love to have the experience of just dropping a $1k tip to see what it's like.

What exactly are your expectations here?
No, nor do I care to type that fast.

Have the secretary typewriter contests from the 1950's come back into fashion?
I would hesitate to say bullshit. They are all models and very abstract relative to the complexity of the mind. But to extend the blind men and the elephant allegory, there is a practical difference between describing a leg and describing a trunk.
Money are for poor people. Americans are obsessed with money. Ergo, americans are poor.

Seems legit !
Very interesting experiment. I've been working on a handwriting application [0] for the past couple of years and incorporating the ability to take a picture to convert it into digital ink would be really nice.

[0] https://scrivanolabs.github.io
That was quite annoying in a recent movie sequel that was otherwise relatively hard scifi. Do script writers read tv tropes?
> $200/KwH seems reasonable vs $100/KwH if it lasts more than 2x as long as a product of similar other specs

I think that's highly dependent on the expected life of those cells in absolute terms. If I'm buying a consumer product and a $100/kWh battery cell will last 10 years, but a $200/kWh battery cell will last 20 years, I'll go with the $100 one every time.

Why? Because in 10 years, with inflation and advancements in battery technology, I'll probably be able to buy a replacement 10 year battery for $40 in today's money, for a total of $140 instead of $200. I'm also lowering my risk exposure in case something happens to the battery, it only needs to survive 10 years instead of 20.

*Exact figures made-up on the spot.
> If you only need an engineer, numerical approximation is good enough.

No. Completely wrong. Engineers and scientists are given the very same rigorous fundamentals of mathematics. We (EE/CS) also had to take the very same weeder courses as mathematicians including abstract mathematics and concrete mathematics, in addition to modern physics for physicists and engineers, followed by the entire computer science and electrical engineering series. We did learn the Monte Carlo method for problems that may not be directly computable in reasonable time, but these are approximations that can be achieved with a qualified amount of error. In fact, I helped port a FORTRAN-based nuclear reactor simulator for UNIX to Windows that was, at its core, a quadruple integral Monte Carlo approximation considering configurations of voxels of matter and voids over time with their various properties.

We started with the fundamental in high school on paper with area under the curve and learning mathematical transformations of integrals, and derivatives as rate of change. The Erable CAS found in the HP 48 helped provide transformations and reductions sometimes, but not every time for basic calculus, vector calculus, and ordinary diff eq. (We didn't have MAPLE, Mathematica, or GIAC which are far more powerful.)

Finally, in college, we ended up with discrete FFTs and Laplace transforms in EE and the Schrödinger eave eq for hydrogen in physics. This isn't as far as physicists or mathematicians go in grad school such as groups, fields, and such.

So, I think you need to reevaluate your assumptions about curricula that seems wholly inadequate.
Its not the writing PART!

It is the non automation part!

The experiment you can do to verify my point:

1. Write code by hand in plain text editor.....

What you notice....programming syntax and knowledge becomes easier to retain and re-learn.

No joke I do this several times a week.
Much like C.
there is probably very little cost in changing the QR code, almost like changing a password in an odd case that anything like this happens.
I have a corporation-sponsored subscription to Github CoPilot + Rider

When I'm writing unit tests or integration tests it can guess the boilerplate pretty well.

If I already have a AddUserSucceeds test and I start writing `public void Dele...` it usually fills up the DeleteUserSucceeds function with pretty good guesses on what Asserts I want there - most times it even guesses the API path/function correctly because it uses the whole project as context.

I can also open a fresh project I've never seen and ask "Where is DbContext initialised" and it'll give me the class and code snippet directly.
The issue with this is assuming all “smart people” value social status elements.

A lot of us “smart people” when we’re younger rebel against social status qualifiers and so on due to ideals and hopes that we can change the system. It’s only with vast experience that you realize that the system is so hopelessly fucked and you’ll never make a dent in anything. You can have incredible ambition and then watch it get drowned by a shit world.

I’m pretty sure everyone’s hopes for universal healthcare in the US died along with Bernie’s run for presidency. We haven’t talked about healthcare in politics for about eight years now. That should give you an idea of how optimistic people were and then saw the system completely fuck them over and realized there was never going to be a hope for change.

It’s also why most people are apathetic about most every societal issue right now. We all hoped we could change things but now we realize the capitalists own it all and we’ll never be able to do anything.
Why would you not? Tesla is sending even the infortainment data stream through that bus. It's incredibly helpful having all data travel on a singular wire because you can tap in at one point and read it all out. Makes the entire system significantly easier to debug, understand and develop against.
What's the advantage of this over a traditional doorbell + a phone (which everyone already has)? If I'm home, I can hear them. If I'm not, they can just message/call me.
What do you mean there's no real benefit?

You give the same error messages based on whatever custom validation and control the output.
Interesting.

We grew up learning to write separate letters.

Cursive was taught only very briefly as a way of telling us tgis also exists but don't bother too much about it.
I would submit that Austin Wintory is the Matt Levine of film and video game music and composition - youtube.com/@awintory
Why do I hear this so often? Isn’t the risk exactly the same as clicking random links on the internet? Do you do a background check before opening an external link to a story on hacker news? The risk is exactly the same as when you scan a random QR code.
How to Have Your AI Stack Locally (Vision, Chat, TTS, STT, ImageGeneration, RAG)
> You are wrong.

> Just being near half kilo of cannabis can get you executed.

> There's something called 'presumption of possession for drug trafficking'.

You are incorrect. Following is a link to the law—verbatim—from the Singapore Statutes Online: https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Act/MDA1973?ProvIds=Sc2-#Sc2-

Judges cannot sentence someone to the death penalty just 'being near half a kilo'. It has to be more than 500 grammes.
Crazy the doorbell replaced knocking and now the internet is replacing doorbells.

Who invented doors? Perhaps that’s where it all went wrong. /s
BGP routers are for the most part replaced often as bandwidth requirements continue to increase, that is not the problem here.
Free Speech https://xkcd.com/1357/
Also, many things that look like numbers shouldn't be encoded as such, e.g. credit cards or phone numbers, are not.

E.g. any leading zeros get dropped out of phone number starting with a 0, very common.
The photocopies come out stacked in the right order maybe?
Wouldn't you also need to reprint the barcode? Get it's probably unlikely to happen, but there seems to be a lot more friction than changing a password.
A knock.
They'll figure something out, some ideas:

1. The cash doesn't have to be withdrawn all at once, it can happen over the course of months
2. The cash can come from earlier cash transactions, not withdrawal
3. Payment can be indirect: CEO donates to a non-profit that hires sheriffs family
4. Instead of kickback the CEO can repay the sheriff with another favor at future time

I hope we're not planning to outlaw cash and implement total invigilation of every transaction just to make corruption slightly more inconvenient.
I always thought of the 'Lem scifi universe' as split in two: on one hand you have the more realistic 'space trucker universe' of Pilot Pirx and the more serious stories (like the Invincible), in my head this universe always looked more industrial and like an evolution of our present technology, e.g. more Alien than Star Wars, and dirtier than Odyssee 2001 - in the Pirx stories there's a lot of little details about imperfect technology and bureaucracy, from oil or fuel leaks on his rocket to having to waste days waiting "in harbor" for getting one or another thing approved.

And the other Lem universe is where Ijon Tichy lives, more funny, bizarre, almost phantasy like Star Wars (and the 50s retro-scifi style would fit more into this Tichy universe).
>Yeah, except that most of these (low income/low skill) service workers don't have the negotiation power to change this power dynamic

This has no bearing in reality. Most of these places can't staff their stores because no one will work for prevailing wages.

>Thus, you, someone with enough means to eat out

Oh yeah, the people grabbing coffee at Starbucks are all rich.

Raise your prices and pay your staff.
Show HN: Tor – Port Scanning via Auth Directories and Guard/Non-Exit Relays
As a fellow spaces-in-filenames-hater, the fight is not lost. We are on the brink of winning it; it's just a mount option away!

While we cannot avoid that people hit the spacebar when writing a filename on a gui, this does not mean at all that the resulting filename itself need contain a plain space character. Those spaces can and should be transparently translated to non-breaking space characters at some point. Maybe by the gui itself, or more robustly by the filesystem. This would make everybody happy: gui users and naive shell script writers.
>Not showing appreciation to something he clearly appreciates

He shows appreciation by showing up and buying tea every day.

How much do you tip Apple or Microsoft as appreciation for their software every time you show up to use it?
Greg Egan. Agree with others in this thread that Permutation City is the most important. But Diaspora is not to be missed either. Egan's unique value prop is: crazy-thought-experiment sci fi (2D world with 2 time dimensions is his latest and is typical) but hard, harder than you can believe. Sci fi so hard, you don't find any cracks and are left thinking wait a minute ... This must be true then?

Gene Wolfe. Book of the new Sun. Wolfe's unique value prop is, create an interesting sci fi or fantastical setting, and tell it through special narrators (unreliable, liar, child, amnesiac, etc) with wonderful skill, producing a puzzle with a lovely solution (that you will only partially solve).
I didn’t like the UI at all. A lot of unnecessary animations. It felt like a forced departure from the iPhone standard, just so that it’s different.
Because this often makes the input feel broken to the user.

Instead of asserting that "users are too stupid" as you have done earlier, perhaps programmers should be less stupid and write more permissive parsers.

Accessible design is actually pretty hard, and most designers and programmers get this wrong. If you want some good design advice, you can start here: https://adamsilver.io/blog/the-problem-with-live-validation-...
There's a lot of cases of "impure randomization" when I think balance tests are a good idea - for example, natural experiments.
The user interface for a doorbell (smart or dumb) is a a single button that you press, with your finger. Compare that to take out my phone, find a way to scan a qr code, scan it, install an app (?!?!), press a single button with my finger, on the app.

This is even supposing that I want to do that to begin with (I know for sure delivery drivers are never doing it).

Good job on the project, I really mean it. It doesn't matter what you do, it matters that you've achieved it and for that, congrats. But as a practical semi-object, this has to be one of the worst ways possible to solve the problem.
Visitors?
Isn't this same issue already solved for other scrollable elements? Scroll should only affect the individual element if the mouse was over that element when you started scrolling.

I guess the room for unwanted consequences is a bit bigger when the scrolling controlls the value instead of just the viewport.
Most schools of psychotherapy are equally effective, with the very notable exception of CBT for anxiety disorders. For most patients, the school of psychotherapy only matters insofar as they buy into it - nearly all of the therapeutic benefit is totally independent of the particular methodology or even the training and experience of the therapist. Even therapeutic approaches specifically designed to be pure placebo turn out to be just as effective as everything else. If IFS or Freudian psychoanalysis are metaphors for how we think, then they just aren't useful metaphors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo_bird_verdict

https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy....
"frustrations about copyright and intellectual property"

Intellectual property is an undefined term, I would say copyright, although patents can also play a role in some countries.
Then it's more about gardening, than mathematics. Weed-out bad elements and behaviors, provide rich fertile grounds and nutrients, a direction to grow towards and let them grow by themselves. Promoting curiosity, building inner representation of abstract concepts and learning by doing with examples is usually a good recipe.

But if you are more into agriculture, a combine harvester also works great.
Yes you definitely want a possibly suicidal person to be talking to a "AI" engine who talks back with the avatar they normally hear. (This was sarcasm in case you missed it)
It's really something I know nothing about so I googled WinUI3 and the 3 first results are microsoft website and github, and the next two are "is winui3 dead ?" and "Oh winui3 is really" dead. So it doesn't inspire confidence :)
FoundTheCamelCaseConvert.

My God next you will say getopt() --longform is the bestest
And evolutionary vampires!
Can we replace / augment the keyboard with a white (or marked) paper to write on ... that is in view of a camera that has real time OCR

Feels like it will be a good addition to input devices
File names with / in them
Reminds me when my Opel resetted itself while driving on the highway. Oh, the adrenaline...
> Flutter is the best thing that happened to UI development since Qt.

Which programming languages have a good developer experience with flutter beside dart ?
Scientists find brain network is doubled in size in depressed people
> Using other input attributes that create constraints, such as "pattern" or "maxlength"

No. Don't use the maxlength attribute.

https://adamsilver.io/blog/dont-use-the-maxlength-attribute-...
This is a far more even response than I would have expected. I have many questions, especially about which “modern philosophies” are needed to help curb addictive behaviors at a state level. I think we’d both agree to the fact that most behavior-curbing laws begin small and then incrementally increase control. I think we also critically agree that having a mechanism to remove legislature if it’s not working is so important.

Regardless of that, I don’t think prohibition or criminalization is a bad thing. The government is defined by their ability to monopolize violence. To say we should never wield that violence against certain behaviors as a vote of the culture, I just don’t buy.

That said thanks for the thoughtful response!
Can you provide a source for that? I have never heard that before and it seems ridiculous to me. The advice connected to QR codes I suggest is to not make the reader app auto-visit decoded links, but just show decoded content.
poor (bedniy?) MPB's neighbourhood would eventually gentrify: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ugivNRYfjc&t=214s

If one avoids the uv catastrophe by substituting a fixpoint, are there ever multiple possibilities? (in computer semantics we sometimes have entire lattices of fixpoints from which to choose)
> Yes, X11 programs can maliciously keylog each other, but this just isn't a thing that actually happens.

Are you really saying keyloggers do not exist in the wild???

> Wayland can be one part of that sandboxing but is useless without the rest

Yes but that is the point, and if you turn it the other way around X11 usually makes the rest of the sandboxing useless.
> But when you really want to think something trough it's advised to slow down. For those cases paper and pen is the perfect medium.

Or chalk on blackboard/marker on whiteboard. A marvelous way to get thoughts flowing that just don't seem to otherwise.
>There are lots of instances in which it is in fact your responsibility to pay the staff

Name one (let alone "lots").
This isn’t an accessibility issue, this is a “stop putting your head in the sand” issue.
Nitpick re: https://blog.toast.cafe/posix2024-xcu#fn:6

SRC != ls *.c

is fine in a makefile as far as POSIX is concerned, because:

> Applications shall select target names from the set of characters consisting solely of slashes, hyphens, periods, underscores, digits, and alphabetics from the portable character set
With the caveat that those data races are related to in-process memory being accessed by threads.

Which is quite good, but leaves out shared memory with other processes, or threads having data races with external resources, while corner cases they are quite common in distributed computing scenarios.
> The problem with Microsoft was everything went through Windows. The entire company was designed to promote Windows.

...and nowadays Windows is designed to promote their cloud subscription services while local features get axed.

If Google is not allowed to link directly to Maps, there is no way Microsoft can be allowed to advertise their paid services everywhere in their OS.
I would personally like to a join a breakaway HN for people who actually want to use these tools.

"AI positive Hacker News" or something like that.

There is just really not much point in reading anything on AI here. I get it, AI sucks. Next.
Which makes me wonder, if old companies with a history of highly skilled teams would train local models, how better would they be at helping solve new complex problems.
Less copper in the car is not a "zero advantage". Cheaper and lighter.
> can squash by putting more resources into Flutter

So success?
> Subsequently, but very infrequently, I will accept a totally different completion and the previously-declined suggestion will quietly be applied as well.

This sounds like a nightmare.

I think the biggest problem with AI at the moment is that it incorrectly assumes that coding is the difficult part of developing software, but it's actually the easiest part. Debugging broken code is a lot harder and more time consuming than writing new code; especially if it's code that someone else wrote. Also, architecting a system which is robust and resilient to requirement changes is much more challenging than coding.

It boggles the mind that many developers who hate reading and debugging their team members' code love spending hours reading and debugging AI-generated code. AI is literally an amalgamation of other peoples' code.
O Superman https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=S39NaDPNDtk&si=-lXReadJB7h...

Language Is a Virus https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=S39NaDPNDtk&si=-lXReadJB7h...
Ignorant question: what ad blocking is required outside of your browser to require anything more than something like ublock?
Or screw up search on the start menu
Its not the coolest thing but idk if it’s unexpected or scandalous
Why Do Investment Bankers Work Such Long Hours?
Sorry, that's utter bobbins.

QR codes can contain a limited set of data. There's no possibility of a buffer-overflow or malicious program.

Every QR reader I've seen shows you the destination before taking you there.

It might be a scam website - but that's no different to seeing an poster and manually typing in the address.

Yes, QR codes can contain an auto-generated email or premium SMS. But they won't send automatically. The user remains in control.
As long as that something is in the process's own memory.
ohh this looks like the WinLogo :P
"The result is a unified mass person who dresses, thinks and acts in predictable ways."

Like in the Democratic, liberal West, where everyone's individuality is created by consuming the same stuff?
> and there was a home-made aiming system for their weapon(s) which involved using a cat

Truth is, of course, sometimes stranger than fiction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
Hi Marcus, look here:

> Thailand sentences man to record 50 years in prison for insulting the monarchy

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/19/asia/thailand-man-sentenc...

I guess you know about those things, just thought it's an interesting (and sad) example of what can make people go quiet and pretend they're happy.

You've been to lots of co-working spaces in SE Asia? I was thinking that then you'll meet relatively well-off people who have fewer things to complain about, that might be another source of selection bias? But what do I know.

@majewsky

Japan is a pretty homogenous country? I'd think that can work better and be one reason for a more satisfied-with-the-government mindset? (But maybe there's more)

Compared to e.g. the US with different groups of people sometimes hating each other
yes, and much of the criticism as well: it's called being humans