skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> English is about one bit per letter.*

* when whole sentences or paragraphs are considered.
Hopefully it'll support my vacuum cleaner soon.

The biggest problem to me is that some of the rooting requires opening the decide, depending on the model you might be disassembling a lot.

It's scary when these things cost 300-500 dollars.

I really wish device manufacturers made it easier for people to be able to change the firmware of the devices they've purchased.
In French we have "premier quartier" and "dernier quartier" for "first quarter" and "last quarter" respectively. The mnemonics work with lower case letters: p and d.

In English, the "d" for "decreasing" also works in lowercase, I guess that you can use "p" for "progressing".
You can flash the new firmware on the previous versions to get the same benefits
Thanks Shawn!!
Odd way to respond to my question. No where was I espousing censorship.
> English is about one bit per letter

Where did you get that number from?
How would you represent a letter using 1 bit?
MoarVM – A VM for NQP and Rakudo
What else would we consider?
While your reference talks about prayer which is distinct from worship, I think that the instructions around prayer and worship are related. However, I dont think the message is to be reserved, but instead be honest. I understand this verse to mean don't be fake, God knows your heart. Be real. Here are a few examples that reinforce why I think this.

When talking to the Samaritan woman at the well Jesus talks about worship being true and of the spirit.

John 4:23-24 NIV

[23] Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. [24] God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.

A reminder to forgive and seek forgiveness from those you have wronged (as reinforced in Matthew 6:14-15, Leviticus 19:18, Proverbs 17:9 ) before asking for forgiveness and before worshipping God:

Matthew 5:23-24 NIV

[23] “Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, [24] leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.

Showing that fake worship means little:

Matthew 15 8:9 (NIV) quoting Isaiah 29:13

[8] “ ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. [9] They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’ ”
The symbols aka words of the language itself?
I was surprised to see an polyene antifungal listed as an ingredient in a package of shredded cheese yesterday. It appears it has been a trend for a while.

With talk of antimicrobial resistance as well as greater awareness of the gut-brain axis, I cannot believe that this is allowed.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency limits its use to the surface of shredded cheese to 10 ppm (1), but if this is enough to suppress fungal growth, this would has effects on the human biome too to some extent.

There is obviously little research at this point to show that natamycin has no long-term effects. So, similar to BPA replacements, it is easy for agencies to conclude that there’s no effect on the human body.

(1) https://inspection.canada.ca/en/food-labels/labelling/indust...
> red herring

I think you meant to say red flag, not red herring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring
yeah because Congress now have to become experts at everything: from definition of machine guns, to ADA guidelines. Afterall, if Congress didn't specifically pass the law to the detail, it doesn't exist.

The sheer stupidity of that argument is mind-blowing. When you have a government agency with dedicated technical resources, but you will rather a bunch of couple hundred of people with different backgrounds make specific rules about everything. That's just madness
From the paper:

> Quick, think of a thing... Now I’ll guess that thing by asking you yes/no questions.” The game ‘Twenty Questions’ has been popular for centuries1as a thinking challenge. If the questions are properly designed, each will reveal 1 bit of information about the mystery thing. If the guesser wins routinely, this suggests that the thinker can access about 220≈ 1 million possible items in the few seconds allotted. So the speed of thinking – with no constraints imposed – corresponds to 20 bits of information over a few seconds: a rate of 10 bits per second or less.
So are they claiming that Messianic Jews are not actually Jews? Because they implied that people were falsely taking the title Jew if I understood them correctly. That would be the first time I've ever heard that particular assertion.
The pages are sorted by date... I ended up going back roughly 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months.

A single value at a moment in time doesn't mean anything at all. You need to see the variance over time. And you need to trust the source data. The only "dangerously high" readings I saw were from counters that had no name, no history, no identifier, no additional values.

This theory makes no sense from the get-go and this "evidence" is extremely low quality.
Have you seen https://snikket.org ?
I've never been there, but Google Maps search https://www.google.com/maps/search/f%C3%A0brica+de+aire+acon... suggests the southwest corner of Rio Grande, and also there's a Midea Carrier factory a bit north of the city along the coastal highway.
Many editors pop up with zero ecosystem and become successful anyway. All you need to do is provide a better editor experience in some fashion for there to be a value proposition. Atom, VS Code, helix, zed, etc. none of these had mountains of plugins and integrations initially.

Plus building vi-like editors is just a fun exercise a lot of programmers undertake, hence why there are so many. People have to try things to know what is better.
I don't think this is sound advice. The Kelly criterion has been thoroughly explored in the finance world and pretty much everyone agrees it's way too optimistic in situations where it's hard to determine accurate probabilities, such as real life. It's given rise to many alternatives such as Half-Kelly, Kelly minus constant, etc, but that just goes to show you how inaccurate of a proxy it is. Insurance companies have a reasonably good grasp of probabilities because they have actual data. They can see how many of their clients actually use the insurance and when and this gives you real inputs to go from. It's complete nonsense to make up a number like oh my car has a 33% chance of developing a big fault this year out of thin air, and to then make financial decisions based on that.
No it's not why would it?

Monocole-wielding elitist opinions like these scream to me very low productivity environments that would spend weeks on reinventing the wheel rather than getting to market fast.

I love and practice Haskell, but anybody thinking that technologies like these are fit for fast moving startups are absolutely delusional.

You can easily setup a monorepo and release quickly mobile/native/web/apis and whatever with excellent editor and ecosystem support in TypeScript, good luck achieving that on alternative languages.

Last but not least, 99% of people like you criticizing JavaScript have never seen what kind of great goodies there are in the ecosystem, even for writing pure functional programming that scales, e.g. with Effect-ts[1]

[1] https://effect.website/
How Boston City Hall was born
Lawsuit Reveals How Colleges Talk About Rich Applicants
Worth pointing out that something being bad for the economy, from this perspective, isn’t necessarily the same as being bad for the population. Median incomes are stagnant and quality of life is declining in the US. In part, I’d argue this is because hyper scaling and overoptimising are squeezing the humanity out of most economic life, and most people are not benefitting from these trends.

There are exception: we need big companies to make GPUs, probably. But it’s not clear to me that this logic applies universally. Some inefficiency is probably going to be good for public wellbeing.
There' s a Chinese company also using Julia and Modelica https://www.tongyuan.cc/product/MWorks . They have projects like https://github.com/Suzhou-Tongyuan/syslab-deploy using https://discourse.julialang.org/t/syslabcc-suzhou-tongyuans-... .
This! you can default to it in Chrome: settings->engine->search engines, edit default one and insert udm=14 magic fragment in the query template.
Being able to declare types is the reason why I switched from Scheme to Common Lisp. It's just a shame that there's basically no concept of generic types and 'satisfies' isn't quite good enough to make up for it.
You could take notes from https://www.shadertoy.com/ and https://www.dwitter.net/
Correct solution: stop using inheritance.
How to lose a fortune with one bad click
Relational Lisp – AP5
I found on a forum

>it would cost $23 million to refurbish a used SRB and $12~70 million to refuel it.

A unconfirmed sources, that worked at NASA claim that Thikol employee explained to him.
That reuse cost 3 time more, than a expendable SRB https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=51959.0
How concurrency works: A visual guide
This is what’s wrong with this country. We are run by a ruling class that only sees a profit. Screw sustainability, I (“SV VC”) just want 100X off my $1M initial investment, bro. Either hYpErScAlE or fuck off.

Taking VC money is a poison pill.
Show HN: Scaling SaaS by Reverse-Engineering Human Attention Patterns
While building SaaS products, we noticed a recurring problem: content performance hinges on the first few words. Hooks determine success, but defining and generating effective hooks programmatically is hard.

Here’s how we approached the challenge:

1. The problem:
Attention is subjective and context-dependent. Identifying patterns that consistently work across platforms is complex.

2. Our approach:

- Data collection: Analyzed high-performing LinkedIn posts, social media ads, and email subject lines.
- Lightweight NLP system: Developed a system to identify linguistic patterns like structure, emotional triggers, and readability.
- Fine-tuned GPT models to generate hooks based on frameworks observed in the data.

3. Tech challenges we tackled:

- Balancing creativity and relevance to ensure hooks are engaging without veering into clickbait.
- Building 15+ adaptable frameworks such as curiosity-driven questions, data-backed insights, and emotional prompts.
- Iterating with user feedback to refine hook quality and ensure consistent results.

The result is a system that identifies attention-grabbing patterns and generates hooks that perform well across platforms.

We’re actively building out new features and optimizations. If you have feedback on our approach, the tech, or ideas to explore, we’d love to hear from you. Reach us at support@copytruck.com.
The only time 'bits' will ever be an appropriate measure of human processing is when we are processing or producing diginal information artifacts, e.g. a typewritten document.

Our bodies' systems are biochemical wetware that will never be aptly described using a boolean basis. That is one of the primary problems of society's obsessions with classical notions of gender.

No one is male OR female. We are, every single one of us, a combination of male and female hormones. The more "male" a person is is the result of that balance favoring the male hormones; and vice versa. What humanity is now struggling with is that there are plenty of folks with lots of both or little of either and all kinds of combinations.

Of course, my not being a biochemist means my categorization of hormones into "male" and "female" is, itself, likely to be a poorly booleanized representation of their natures.

We are much more akin to Boltzmann's statistical mechanics description of reality, than to digital logic's boolean description.
I live in one of those cultures and have several coworkers named Jesus. But some names have different associations. It is like "Todd, The Necromancer!" Vs "Evelyn the sorceress". Jesus is a serious and competent embedded c++ programmer. Josh is a goofy guy in accounting.
Show HN: celine/bibhtml: a Web Components referencing system for HTML documents
They say this directly in section 7.2,

> In contrast, central processing appears to be strictly serial…

and then they proceed to give misinterpretated evidence of serialization because they’re making assumptions about lower level biochemical behavior based on higher level tissue performance. In fact, that tissue-level behavior isn’t correctly described either.
Possibly, it wouldn't be anywhere near this trivial though. With proper certificate validation you'd need to dismantle the device and find a way to get into the OS it's running, which can range in difficulty from finding a serial header and entering root/password to log in, up to near impossible if it's one of the few devices that bother to encrypt their storage.
It is funny, but it's also the defacto-standard.

I avoid as much as possible, devices with cloud connections, but those which I somehow end up with anyway that do have such services, I've found almost none of them do any sort of certificate validation.

Load up any certificate you like on your MiTM proxy and go to town.

Sadly, despite embedded hardware being much more capable, some of them having hardware secure-elements and cryptographic extensions, people making these devices either don't have the expertise or just don't care.

Once upon a time I dreamt of creating IoT devices with security, openness and longevity in mind.
Really fun paper. I especially enjoyed this section:

> Based on the research reviewed here regarding the rate of human cognition, we predict that Musk’s brain will communicate with the computer at about 10 bits/s. Instead of the bundle of Neuralink electrodes, Musk could just use a telephone, whose data rate has been designed to match human language, which in turn is matched to the speed of
perception and cognition
Regarding the "year 0" issue: it doesn't exist in that calendar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero
yeah, "software developers" is notoriously one of the toughest markets
Need to write an article `All you need should consider harmful` .
I’m afraid I don’t understand your point.

If someone types English for a minute at 120WPM then they’ll have produced about 600 bits of information.

Are you saying we should consider the rate in a smaller window of time? Or we should consider the rate when the typist is producing a series of unrelated English words that don’t form a coherent sentence?
I’m not sure how targetting a processor which was very expensive and available in low quantity from a single source at the time would have made OS/2 1.0 a success. 386 systems didnt start landing on regular users desk until a couple of years later when prices fell and the chips became available in quantity including being available from non-Intel foundries. Even Compaq who introduced the 1st 386 systems sold many more 286 based systems for years after introducing the Deskpro 386. Tieing OS/2 1.0 to the 386 at the time would have just condemned it to failure in a different manner. That doesn’t even take into account that OS/2 was supposed to be the OS for the new PS/2 systems introduced at the same time which consisted mainly of 286 based systems.
The title is a reference to "The unbearable lightness of being" by Milan Kundera
for those unaware.
If the traffic was coming in from people clicking a link on LinkedIn, how can it be shadowbanned by YouTube? If anything, if you shared the link on LI and people don't see it, that would be shadowbanning by LI.

When you look at your YT video analytics, what is the distribution of click sources over time? In my experience having grown a small YT channel this year, I could see the first few 100 views coming in from external sources where I posted the link (Reddit, Discord, etc.), and then the source "Browse features" came in and rapidly took over the main source. That's the YT algorithm itself. If you never saw "Browse features" appearing at all, you are not shadowbanned in the narrow sense of the word. You were just not interesting enough to get picked up by the algorithm at all (which, granted, could be "shadowbanning" in a wider sense).
> I'm not talking about healthcare etc

Healthcare is an immense government expenditure though, vastly, vastly bigger than your examples, and I would say US government pumping in a trillion dollars every year for a substandard result fits the your description pretty well.

> or claiming Japan as a whole is bad/worse,

Oh. Well then as I said your comment seemed a bit strange to me if it isn't notably worse than other countries, I thought it implied that Japan is notably bad, but if not then carry on.

> I'm simply stating that the Japanese government's industrial policy of trying to pick winners has a long track record of subsidizing losers instead. Any (recent-ish) counterexamples you'd like to point out?

Counterexamples for what? I didn't say Japan's government isn't incompetent and/or doesn't take risks on investing in long shots, like other governments, so I'm not claiming there is no such long history. What I was asking is what makes Japan particularly bad, but you say it's not so I don't really have more to say.
When compared directly to the 10^9 bits/s for sensory information, which uses the same type of information, it is slow.
I think paper/non-digital/“Old World” which would contextualize the joke of “learning golf didn’t help.”
I have been thinking more about the section that I felt was incomplete: are you saying that 1) as you don't think 'the same' can be usefully (verbally) defined, and 2) as you have defined 'alike' as essentially 'the same in some respects, but not all', then 'alike' itself cannot be (verbally) defined? If so, then that seems to add to the difficulties in accepting your argument as sound.

I also do not get the significance of 'verbally' in parentheses. Are you suggesting there is another way to define sameness, and if so, what is it, and why not use it here?
Curious about the next post.

My naive/clueless mind always wonders if it wouldn't make sense to make a new class of Ruby objects that are much simpler and would yield both less memory consumption and GC optimizations that could be used for such cases.

Without a different object model it's hard to imagine optimizations that could greatly improve Ruby execution speed for CRuby, or make the GC much faster (huge issue for big applications), but maybe it's because I don't know much :-)
I remember Subway being somewhat better in the mid-90s. Still not great, but better. E.g. tomatoes were actually ripe
In fact the very word catholic derives from the Greek words kata and holos
Good article written by a non-bloviator who actually did some stuff. Since StarCraft 2 is referenced, my gut tells me they’ve only revealed a small portion of the map and there is much more to be gained by sending scouts to continue exploration to get a good lay of the land and see where some other cohorts may be residing. I know this isn’t really actionable, but I think they could really use some more pylons.
I once did something like this for Nokia when their phones moved to Windows Phone. The devil is in the details, and 90% of the time was spent mimicking the animations and transitions.
We use a gem called olive branch. Yes it’s going to give you a performance hit, but it keeps you sane which is very worthwhile
> There's a whole movement bringing DevOps and SRE thinking to design/UX

Heaven help us. Hope this dies a quick death.
How can you blame an organization more than the people responsible for funding and commanding it? If the military’s tech was obsolete, the politicians should have made them upgrade. If the military’s doctrine was bad, the politicians should have made them fix it. If the military’s leaders were bad, the politicians should have fired them and replaced them with better leaders.
I kind of miss the days where building a mobile app was just plopping giant widgets on a screen, and we didn't need giant figma files and design languages.

I don't, however, miss dealing with the 300ms click delay.
I think probably anyone could refuse to repay a $120 unsecured loan with pretty limited consequences.
Ah yes, "just" run every new comment through an AI system which costs peanuts for a binary response, and then covers them for having a moderation policy.
The setup of opposing forces leads one to think in terms of entropy ("the fog of war", the manifold of possible mistakes, etc etc)..

Then there's that story about the break even point between French and Mamluks iirc? (And what was the break even point between LGA and the Coalition?)

Somewhere in between we might characterize tech debt; rococo doesn't turn to rubble overnight, & most of it is still around.

Or maybe there are some relatively cheap ways to mitigate tech debt. Always backpropagating debugs to spec, for instance. So we could kick the (meta)grokking/turning point down the road

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/nassim-taleb-scien...

>There's no built-in payoff for complexity (or for making things complex). "In academia," though, he says, "there is".

[Make sure your phonebooth expands at around the rate that the range of your (melee) weapons/number of participants increase]

And those promised tubes are annoyingly hard to find
http://wavefunction.fieldofscience.com/2015/02/derek-lowe-to...

Thankfully, Derek has somewhat identified the opponent as, not other scientists, but biology/evolution..
The article goes even futher:

“I particularly wanted to become a Moslem in an aeroplane” she is quoted as saying to a journalist who was on the flight with her, “so that I might be as far from earth and as near to heaven as possible.”

Sounds rather like a case of main character syndrome of a bored socialite than that she needed much persuasion to convert.
They really missed the opportunity to show a gorilla or something when you flip the camera.
Show HN: Birdle US – A Daily Bird Guessing Game
Hello!

My girlfriend and I wanted to find a fun ay to improve our bird recognition skills, as birding knowledge felt so out of reach to us.

So we decided to create Birdle, a daily bird guessing game. Our journey started in South Africa with our wonderful and fortuitous collaboration with BirdLife South Africa. After the incredible and warm reception, our players convinced to finally start covering other countries. This year we worked hard to release for testing new versions for the UK and, just today, the US.

The game is also available as an app at:

- Android: https://android.birdle.world

- iOS: https://ios.birdle.world

The version is still in beta for testing, as we are still learning about US birds, so any feedback is strongly appreciated :)
I don't even know how to go back on ios so I am stuck on firefox.
There's almost no reason to do anything weird with operating systems today, because you can run Linux on a single core of your multi-core machine, and your app at full throttle (no context switching) on the remaining cores.

So for the cost of <1 core and a small amount of RAM>, you get full Linux, full debuggability, SSH, file systems, networking, etc. and your app still runs as fast as it can on the CPU.

Spend your innovation budget on your app, not the OS.
> Aside from the occasional annoyances of self hosting, that cynically I have suspected is just a way to drive users towards their hosted version

I'm a long-time Discourse employee and this is certainly not intentional, I'm obviously biased — but we help self-hosters out all the time for completely free on https://meta.discourse.org. We can't support every variety of configuration, but we consider every Discourse site progress, whether we host it or not.
MoonBit compiler is available on GitHub
Threads starts testing scheduled posts
> Not everything needs to be a hyper-scaler

It does if you want to take a few $m of someone else’s cash, pre-revenue, which is what these startup founders want.