skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love this mode of reading very much. I think this could be great for any language, not just Latin, and any target language, not just English. The only difficulty is sourcing good texts that are both fun to read and also suitable for language learning at various levels of skill.
Privacy doesn't exist in this 21st century.
holy shit, thanks for the tip! I also learned programming from those usborne books, using qbasic (The dragon32 ran a version of microsoft basic, so the code for it was generally quite compatible with qbasic).

I'll go download them all for archiving.
> hurts even more when exercising

This is really under-rated. People will happily keep pushing exercise as a health intervention (hidden implication: instead of other interventions?), and forget that quite a lot of people have health conditions that get in the way of their ability to exercise. Especially older people. Who have poor health outcomes.
> I need to figure out to juice my stats because in September 2024, Wikipedia removed the article about me over not having enough citations.

guys, what are we doing here. this is ridiculous. andy pavlo cannot get an article on wikipedia? have you seen his work?
> In February, a Canadian small-claims tribunal upheld the customer’s legal complaint, despite the airline’s assertion that the chatbot was a “separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions.”

Wait, companies are claiming that large language models are separate legal entities??
Which is just crazy, considering lots of the $15 HDMI switchers on Amazon actually strip HDCP, and you can then use a capture card to record whatever you want from a 4k supporting device. I guess they're just preventing the easiest methods.
We've migrated away from using aircon/heatpumps to move heat from inside a building to outside, to basically just swamp coolers: https://engineering.fb.com/2018/06/05/data-center-engineerin...

they are effectively glorified wet cardboard and a fan
1) Extremely annoying on smartphones

2) Exclusive, won't work well for many of those who need accessibility
Work that makes your boss (or your bosses boss) happy gets you job security and in some companies gets you promoted. If that aligns with “what is best for the company” or an even more distant metric “what is best for the customer“ then thats great, but its not a requirement.

If your boss cares about the customer, then you caring about the customer helps, but often it doesn’t matter much as everyone makes it out to be. On top of that there are way more direct avenues that have a bigger impact on your job development than whatever a user thinks.
EAX and the like were actually that - software components running on DSP inside sound card, and it was supposed that they would be something you would handle in the future akin to how GPUs are programmed.

However while audio accelerators came back the protected media path business means they aren't "generally programmable" from major OS APIs even when both AMD and Intel essentially ended up settling on common architecture including ISA (Xtensa w/ DSP extensions, iirc), and are mainly handled through device specific blobs with occassional special features (like sonar style presence detection)
We should probably put "car commuting" in there.
I quit Facebook in 2014 for the same reason. Their privacy settings were regularly reverted and it became clear that their business model and my privacy were not compatible.

Apple “gets away with it“ because people pay them for it. Apple is not a data broker. Their business model is to sell expensive hardware that people want to buy.

It’s a fundamentally different relationship than the likes of Equifax or Doubleclick/Google who will abuse us and our data and we never agreed to it or have any control over it.
I confirm it works. Blue becomes pink at some point, but you should prioritize blue.
I shared Netflix with my family (parents, sister, brother) for 2 years and think I ran into the 2 screen limit twice. 4 screens seems just entirely unnecessary to me.

That said, if Netflix decided 4K was the segmentation for the higher plan and gave 4 screens to the lower plan, that wouldn't suit me personally, but I would prefer the pricing. Honestly the screens concept seems outdated with their anti-password sharing stuff now. Just apply the same WiFi pinning to all viewing and don't limit screens at all.
Nice tool! I tested it against imdb.com with its large graphql responses and after a few requests API Parrot crashed.
Some ORMs have weird design issues. Eloquent for example allows you to pull relationships lazily on single objects, so if you're in a loop that'll create a lot of queries. So much for laziness!
I'm OK with this ability, but the API shouldn't encourage it by making it trivial.
> There's a crossover point where self-managed is cheaper than cloud

Single data point here: before cloud managed dbs were a thing our smallish startup was running mysql on virtual servers by installing it from the linux package manager. Always worked great, runs without needing manual attention for years at a time once set up, so I've never felt the need to change.

So at least in some cases the crossover point is "right from the start".
I was born in communist country. No money, only objective points to describe cost of production and egibility, no police but militia, one "united" workers party and tax in nature and goods. But no money ;D and no state ;D
Option is Alt on macOS.
I do this a lot for my work. A tool like this that can help get me to a nice starting point is huge. Instead of developing a mental model of the API in my head by manually looking through API requests/responses in ProxyMan, this can start me off much more quickly. From there, the edge cases can be worked out.
> Program files will include rtweekend.h first, so all other header files (where the bulk of our code will reside) can implicitly assume that rtweekend.h has already been included.

Not a great practice. Header files shouldn't assume anything from previous inclusions of other headers.

Sure, this works as a weekend hack, but it would be nice if book (article) would promote good conventions.
"sunshine" - in corporate speak, no noun is too proper to verbify.
perhaps a n00b question, but would this work, or is there something similar for apps, specifically android apps?
If we go with 45 ^ 2 then 46 ^ 2 = 2116 is a bit closer than 3025.
Meh.

What’s the meeting about? That’s the more important question.

Is this a decision making meeting? Is there one person making the decision or several?

Is this instead informational in nature? Are people supposed to understand the gist from this and do deeper research afterwards? Or should they come to the presentation already informed in some way?

PowerPoint is primarily a method for the speaker to organize their story, and secondarily for the audience to have visual landmarks to aid memory.

If you do anything else, you’re probably not planning your meetings properly.
After the history-making success of wikipedia the wiki movement has unfortunately stagnated. Wikinomics [1] is yet another early vision of the digital society that did not come to pass.

The reasons as always quite complex: from the general decline of the public internet due to centralization / enshittification (and now wholesale appropriation), to poor technology choices and missing value propositions that could induce the next wave of adoption and development.

Yet there is still no tangibly better alternative vision for open source knowledge management, especially if of the collaborative kind.

One interesting direction - yet after more than a decade still largely in embryonic phase as far as broad adoption - is wikibase [2]. It runs as an extension of mediawiki and makes it relatively painless to integrate structured data in a semantic web style (e.g. [3] for an example of integrating veris [4] data).

Its not clear if the wiki era is permanently dead or it just waits for some rain to blossom again.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikinomics

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikibase

[3] https://www.openriskmanual.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/It...

[4] https://github.com/vz-risk/veris
> I have to not say a word to them as I talk to them or else I could ruin the whole peer review thing!

In what sense would it ruin peer review to reveal your role after you already wrote and submitted the review?
Tasmania's south-east coast 'glows' with bioluminescent algae
If by "open" you mean that the paper is there and people just voluntarily choose to review it, rather than having some top-down coordinated assignment process, the problem is that papers by the superstars would get hundreds of reviews while papers from unknown labs would get zero.

You could of course make it double blind, but that seems hard to enforce in practice in such an open setup, and still, hyped papers in fashionable topics would get many reviews while papers that are hardcore theoretical, in an underdog domain, etc. would get zero.

Finally, it also becomes much more difficult to handle conflicts of interest, and the system is highly vulnerable to reviewer collusion.
Suicide Most Common on Two Days of the Week
Not exactly his position. He's repeated an aphorism that says:

"Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains"

https://aforisimo.ru/30185.html

Unwinding a communist system is incredibly difficult and always yields a collapse in living standards, although temporary. Less extreme forms of it are often called "shock therapy" for this reason, but Russia's transition was handled especially badly and was especially extreme as the dissolution of the USSR wasn't a planned event.

If you look at opinion polls, a significant fraction of the Russian population does wish for a return to the Soviet system. You will also find some nostalgia in the former DDR. This isn't because they thought it was a perfect or good system, but the memory of the collapse and return to market competition is painful, and of course some of them are naturally left leaning anyway and liked a world where there was no competitive pressures.
Just throwing this out there. I'm a homebody living in a climate where the weather is kind of miserable for half of the year so would rather just execrise at home, and I've gotten fantastic mileage out of resources on the r/bodyweightfitness subreddit. I just have a pull-up bar and some gymnastic rings hanging from it. Been doing something very closely based on the Recommended Routine for almost 10 years now, on and off (mostly off, to be honest). It keeps me sane and healthy, or at least definitely more so if I didn't bother with it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/kb/recommend...
> doesn’t sound like the most calming of careers

Some places in the UK are having problems retaining/recruiting drivers because of safety issues: attacks on bus drivers, either by angry passengers or random yobs :(

I also remember that London bus drivers had a very high mortality rate right at the start of the pandemic: https://www.instituteofhealthequity.org/resources-reports/lo...
I think a major part of being bad presenters is that they don't train but think that they can do well with just a quick go-over of the materials.

Becoming good takes a lot of hard work, lot of redoing of stuff. Just like becoming good at soccer is more than playing games. Many successful YouTubers have learned it's hard work to make good videos.

Like Penn&Teller said: The only secret of magic is that I’m willing to work harder on it than you think it’s worth.
educational materials that were originally linked through a proper citation/credit acknowledgement, but thats how hyperlinks work -- its not like someone stole the only copy.
I've seen code like this:
- 10 lines
- every line has a different author in git blame
- there are conditional branches inside conditional branches
- last but not least: all conditional branches have the same behavior!

How does it end up like this? Why doesn't the last commiter just delete everything and write it in a single line instead?
I can see some texts in Sanskrit but I couldn't find any ruby annotations, nor a way to add/suggest any.
Not been following Hawkins work that closely over the last few years, but does the "cortical column" implement HTM, Hierarchical Temporal Memory in some form?
Blogs are normally run by a single person (unless for a publication), wikis are normally run by a community. Hence someone can discover a wiki and edit it long after its original creators have departed, so long as it wasn’t set to private. The best that discoverers of an old blog can do is to write in the comments section. Maybe reblog it and hope that pingbacks (remember those?) get triggered.

The implicit invitation to collaborate is what gives the wiki longevity and the possibility of resurrection.
> 3-4 years ago, [...]. Will it last you longer than any other laptop?

That's still too early to say! My laptop (ThinkPad) is seven years old and I see no reason to upgrade. My work laptop is six years old Dell and is also fine.
What I’m saying is that Chernobyl was evidence of rot at the core. Really powerful evidence, but the rot was a fact, not a perception. If not Chernobyl, and I really wish it had been anything else, something else would have gone spectacularly off the rails because while you can hide many truths, incompetence and apathy both tend to reveal the truth of themselves. Corruption can conceal itself because it serves its own purposes. Concealing apathy is a fight against its own motives.
This is a really nice idea. I never thought of using it "the other way around". This is nice for tags, for instance - where we live we have this little tag we should put on our mailboxes so that we don't get publicity.
I use Nix for exactly the same purpose (dependency management for code generators), that's much more efficient and easier to maintain than VMs.
MLG parody videos were a parody. This is... not?
It’s been terribly unreliable in my experience (Bing) so I’m not surprised that it’s not getting wider adoption. Half the time I try to interact with it, it just resets the conversation randomly. Other times I can’t even get it to open without closing all running Edge processes from task manager first. It just seems the most buggy and half baked of all the major AI.
> One interesting direction - yet after more than a decade still largely in embryonic phase as far as broad adoption - is wikibase [2]. It runs as an extension of mediawiki and makes it relatively painless to integrate structured data in a semantic web style (e.g. [3] for an example of integrating veris [4] data).

I agree a lot with this. As a person who speaks many languages, something that gets evident very early is that isn't one "The Web", but many webs like English Web, Spanish Web, Portuguese Web and so on.

This is extra noticeable on Wikipedia, since many articles exist in many languages. The drawback is that sometimes information is split across the languages, so someone speaking English, Spanish and Swedish can sometimes build a more complete picture from just one Wikipedia article, if the data isn't in the other article languages.

Enter Wikidata+Wikibase, which makes the knowledge itself trans-language, and instead only the definition/value names need translated, but the composition itself is language-agnostic.

If this imaginary article with separate info in three languages for one article could all use Wikidata as a base, they can all share the same knowledge and make sure that people who only speak one of the languages, come out with the same understanding.

Basically, Wikidata if successful, will multiply the knowledge on the web!
These restrictions are never there to prevent piracy. It’s there for corporates to be able to say that “we did everything”. They are there for legal reasons. That’s true for every single security features. It’s a side effect if some security feature is really effective. Most of them are just annoyance, they don’t prevent anything.
Let me add:

"Aesthetic"

"Energy" (when used outside physics)
Silicon Valley stifled the AI doom movement in 2024
It's just a nagging feeling that "aphantasia" is based more on semantics or misunderstanding than a neurological reality.
Once I ran the numbers, and the part of the UK that had American Armalite rifles being smuggled in to fuel an armed conflict, Northern Ireland, which also had armed troops on the streets with rules of engagement that allowed them to open fire on civilians, resulting in dead women and children, was still less deadly than Detroit during the 80s.
Depends on the app. If it uses some online functionality probably yes. You could also try decompilation, it’s decent on java apps like android’s.
If those 30 seconds are the total time the bar is in your hands and off the floor it sounds reasonable tho, doesn’t it? The numbers quoted match about what I personally experienced
It would be reductive to look at it as a multiplier, but really? You don't see synchronizing terabytes of data for millions of people to not be complex? When if you make mistakes you are losing people's photos of their children or their company's financial charts? With hooks in the filesystem to make this all work?
> the core issue is that [Software] is in a constant state of flux. Regressions are introduced all the time because [Software] developers spend very little to no time checking that their code changes don't cause regressions or breakages outside of the problems they're trying to fix or features they're implementing

There, i fixed it for you.
This is not specific to Linux. See Microsoft, Mozilla, Google.

Linux desktop is fine since the first release of XFree86 for it.

Quality of software has decreased.
There’s no markup, regulations dictate that you must get NBBO or better
Amazon isn't a centrally planned economy. It's a market free-for-all. That's why you can so easily find stuff on it like AI generated books that claim cows have no legs and can see in 360 degrees:

https://www.amazon.com/Cows-Discover-These-Farm-Childrens/dp...

No central planner is going to sign off on selling that. More importantly, Amazon doesn't try to set all prices. On its market, sellers are allowed to set their own prices and frequently use complex strategies to do so. The heart of central planning is an attempt to have one institution set all prices.

> It's sort of an article of faith in economics that a centrally planned economy can't work

It is now, sure, because of all the attempts to make it work that failed. Back when the USSR was new it was the other way around, the intellectual class were convinced that the Soviet system was better and the future. That included some economists!

The problem with centrally planned economics wasn't a lack of compute power, it was that the information needed to select the correct prices isn't something you can gather in one place. A lot of it exists only in people's minds and isn't even written down anywhere.
It isn't the anti-frameworks mindset, it is also the anti-modern-features mindset.

Java, Kotlin, Scala, C#, F#, OCaml, Haskell, D, are also much better for networking tools and CLI.

And nowadays people can't even complain the Java AOT options are commercial, or .NET is stuck on Windows.
I am still working on the app part of the website (https://app.adhyeta.org.in/). Will enable registration/login in a week or two.

This is how the interface looks like/works, when logged in.

https://www.adhyeta.org.in/a/images/z85.png (ruby annotations can be seen floating above the source text)

https://www.adhyeta.org.in/a/images/z88.png

The "app" is laid out exactly the same way as the www version is. The only difference is that it provides tools to manipulate the status of words. Login is required because vocabulary progress has to be tracked on a per-user basis.
Something of a standout. Will there be copycats?
To be fair, this is true for any country at any point in time until they fall.
You can just compute Sharpe
No centrally planned economy can survive in the long term. Resource allocation is so skewed that it kills such systems. No free market pricing means that economic decisions aren't taking into account the costs. Even in USSR with the vast mineral wealth this couldn't save them.

Milton Friedman has a good summary on why this happened:

https://www.npr.org/2006/11/16/6498016/friedman-on-free-mark...
I think I understand what you mean, but it would be really helpful to make sure I understand if you could make a practical and specific example of what you mean? Has there been a case with Wikipedia/the Wikimedia Community where this specifically has happen?
> Can dumb 'smart' TVs be the EU's next target, please?

> by Shona Craven

Hello Shona, can you send private SMS to Ursula ?

Then, no. /s
The evil knuckleheads picked the wrong vehicle for a terrorist attack
Likewise I keep doing the same but with Spring and ASP.NET, depending on the project.
What you think of samples and FL Studio / DAWs?
Do you think no one has ever wanked to Michelangelo's "David"?
If only we could have something similar but official for Starfield.

For some very stupid reason, Bethesda decided to launch official modding support with Starfield while their wiki is "temporarily down for maintenance". But it's been like that for at least 1 year, so seems unlikely to ever come back, and who the fuck takes down something so vital for a feature you're shipping in a major game anyways, without letting a read-only copy remain online at least?
Thanks, glad you like it!

Here's a geeky breakdown of each preset, including the filter curve details:

- Sleep: Frequencies: 20–2000 Hz. Designed for relaxation with low, consistent tones (-48 dB at extremes, -6 dB around 100 Hz). Mimics natural white noise to mask distractions.

- Relax: Frequencies: 20–2000 Hz. Balanced curve with a gentle rise to 12 dB at 100 Hz, then tapering off. Creates a calming ambiance suitable for unwinding.

- Deep Relax: Frequencies: 20–1000 Hz. Stronger low-frequency emphasis (-48 dB at 20 Hz rising to 0 dB at 100 Hz). Immersive and grounding for deeper tranquility.

- Meditation: Frequencies: 20–800 Hz. Focused range with smooth modulations (-48 dB at extremes, peaking at 0 dB near 100 Hz). Helps maintain mindfulness and reduce distractions.

- Stress Relief: Frequencies: 20–800 Hz. Gradual rise to 12 dB at 100 Hz, tapering off smoothly (-30 dB by 800 Hz). Evokes natural calming environments like rainfall or wind.

- Stress Management: Frequencies: 20–1000 Hz. Balanced highs and lows, peaking at 12 dB around 80 Hz, then tapering. Offers a mix of calm and control, ideal for staying composed.

- Focus: Frequencies: 20–2000 Hz. Steady highs with a peak at 6 dB around 200 Hz. The broader range keeps the sound neutral yet stimulating enough for concentration.

- Productivity: Frequencies: 20–1000 Hz. Similar to Focus but with more dynamics. Peaks at 12 dB near 100 Hz with a gradual drop. Keeps the brain engaged for longer sessions.

- Studying: Frequencies: 20–1000 Hz. Balanced with a gentle peak at 100 Hz (12 dB). Tapering highs and lows make it perfect for eliminating distractions while reading or problem-solving.

- Ambience: Frequencies: 20–1200 Hz. Wide spectrum with smooth transitions (-42 dB to +6 dB at 100 Hz, tapering off). General-purpose background sound for any environment.
Customers are typically unhappy when Microsoft refuses to fix critical bugs that only arise when running Windows on older hardware.

To the average user, "Windows installs without error and hardware appears to work" = "Microsoft supports running Windows on this hardware", even if the hardware is EOL and requires drivers that haven't been updated since Windows Vista.