skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also in the Onyx BOOX camp (Max Lumi, going on my fourth year, numerous previous mentions/discussions in my HN history). Most of the observations on the Daylight Computer, particularly about readability under direct sunlight (the exact opposite of all other portable devices I've used, save the similarly B&W LCD-based Palm Pilot ... oh, a quarter century ago now) really is quite nice.

Other features seem pretty comparable with the DC. I suspect DC's high-speed refresh beats E-ink, but that E-ink's persistence, resolution, and clarity are strong counterpoints.

The observations on B&W v. colour are interesting, and mostly match my own experience. Coding (in vim under Termux) takes me back to monochrome screen days (though those were largely green/amber rather than B&W), and the loss of colour syntax highlighting can be somewhat jarring (though I remember finding the garishness of it being initially offputting when I'd first begun using it). I find the Web much less distracting in B&W, and only rarely miss colour, though for some data presentation (e.g., graphs and charts) it can be conspicuous by its absence). I'd like to try a colour e-ink device at some point.

For a device that maximises portability, preserves battery life, functions spectacularly in all lighting conditions (though diffuse overhead lighting tends toward glare), and is principally aimed at reading / listening / notetaking, with light technical work (largely under Termux w/ a Bluetooth keyboard) I strongly recommend the form-factor, and would suggest exploring either e-ink or e-paper depending on specific preferences, the key distinction likely being the refresh/persistence aspect noted previously.
(I moved to Ireland from the US)

There's a housing crisis in Ireland too. A 2-bed in Dublin in an alright location is 2k+. Here's rents in Dublin: https://www.daft.ie/property-for-rent/dublin-city

Capital Gains in Ireland is 33%, income tax is high, and the quality of life isn't as high as mainland Europe. Just look at those apartments. Depressing.

If I were you I'd move to the Netherlands. The no-tax year is unbelievably good, nl is less car-dependant so you get to live a different lifestyle, and it's easier to tour around the rest of Europe. Ireland isn't even in the fucking Schengen!
The Palantir Guide to Saving America's Soul
It's an open question whether elections will be held, but demographics also make it much harder for Democrats to be elected after 2030 (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/democrats-future-crisi...).
Not really. Here’s a good explanation from Harvard constitutional law professor Steve Vladeck.

https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/123-what-vice-president-vance...
3. So almost all other software work. Software engineering is, fundamentally, about replacing people.

4. Is plain bullshit concern, really nothing to address here. People also always hallucinate, in the same sense LLMs do, and for the same reason.

5. Same could be said about trains or airplanes - or most of every item one has or sees in a 21st century urban setting.

Sure, those are all "but X is worse!" arguments, but they make sense because there's no reason to single out AI for those reasons and stay ethically consistent without giving up on almost everything else in your life.
You really can't see how they are both powers that presidents (arguably) technically have but which they do not execute? And that a president actually exercising such a power is thus a power grab?

Nothing in my comment is comparing them or suggesting they are comparable.
Mexico issues legal threat to Google
On Onyx it's possible to swap in other-than-stock launchers, such as Nova (though that's apparently ceased further development: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41205497>).
> the department head would remain bound by the Presidential interpretation until the President relented

I don't know what you mean by "bound"?

The President, EOs and the exective branch are not immune from court decisions.

If a court rules again an EO, the President would need to abide by that court decision. As per this EO, the department head would do what the President wanted (align to the court order), and would thus be in compliance with the court order.

In the case the President decides to ignore the court order, the department head has an option - do what the President says or do what the court says. If they decided to do what the President says they would also be in violation of the court order. If they did what the court said, they would likely be fired.

It's not like this EO really changes the situation? Before this EO a department head would have the same choices and face the same risk of being fired.

> Sec. 7 is so ridiculous on its face that, while I am sure the Administration seriously does want to impose as much of this control as it can get away with

I'm not sure what you mean? Why is it ridiculous that an agency which derives it's authority from the executive be able to ignore the head of the executive's interpretation of the law? Who would they be accountable to if not the US President? Nobody?

There are no "independent agencies" under the US Constitution. All agencies exist under the purview of the President. What Section 7 says is "no executive agency employee may make an independent interpretation of a law outside that determined by the head of the executive".

This is entirely aligned with prior US Supreme Court decisions that the US President has sole authority over the Executive Branch.

I'm not sure we'd want to have an unelected executive agencies that is unaccountable to head of the executive branch. That just wouldn't even make sense.
It’s a quote from Napoleon Bonaparte. The funny part is that Napoleon soon found out he was completely wrong.
Are you aware of any specific direct comparisons?

Video of same would be particularly illuminating, I think.
And won't fit well in a pocket. :(
I don’t think the rising Islamist tendencies would be any different if Umno was still running things - from my perspective most of these trends slowed down under recent government but they continue to trend in a worrying direction.
Yes, and as a harmless side effect also ensures Trump's word is law.
The answer to that reply is you don't need to explain it to your users. People are used to fuzzy/best-effort sort of matching, especially when it's specifically presented as a "matching algorithm" instead of a "filter".
1200 people is really nothing, specially if you have a job tangentially related to social media (for example journalists). It's really simple, you are not the same type of user. You have 50 "acquaintances", they have 1200 "sources".

The article is talking about people who have following/follower counts in the millions. Those are dozens of writes per second in one feed and a fannout of potentially millions. Someone with 1200 followers, if everyone actually posts once a day (most people do not) gets... a rate of 0.138 writes per second.

They should be background noise, irrelevant to the discussion. That level of work is within reasonable expectation. What they're pointing out is that Twitter is aggressively anti-perfectionist for no good technical reason - so there must be a business reason for it.
I mean a binary search or a bisect over dates.
> "Bits" is a stupid measure of "computer".

But that is the very way that they are defined through our historical understanding. The 990 platform, established in 1973, not the 80s, is 16-bit, with 16-bit words and 16-bit pointers.
They're making serious efforts to get AI to recognize sarcasm. Yeah, good luck with that.
Even programs with infinite descriptions are only countably infinite, but the reals are uncountable.

This construction by Cauchy sequences looks innocent, but it's the diagonalization argument in disguise. (Start with all the rationals, make sequences out of them, make one that picks one from all, sort them into equivalence classes, and try to map them back to the rationals, notice that you will end up with more equivalence classes.)

The trick is basically that between every rational you can fit an infinite number of irrationals (using the rationals via these sequences). And exactly in this way these are "programs" -- like diagonalization itself. The fact that we can't give programs for most of them is because they are non-computable. (And it's the definition, the indirect proof is above via the cardinalities.)

[but it's dangerously late here, so double check my ramblings ... https://math.stackexchange.com/a/1488502 ]
Using ffmpeg is not illegal.

Any software you write, or even run, may or may not infringe some half-assed patent, and you will never know until the troll wielding it and deliberately trying to keep it hidden, pounces on you, usually demanding money, threatening to use their government-backed exclusive rights to their "invention" so you either pay what they ask, do what they ask, or they sue you for infringement and sometimes win. Larger companies have large troves of patents and they really don't care what's in them, they care that they have lots and you don't, and they can use them to crush you in court unless you give in to whatever they demand.

Some companies you know of may already have given in, and may already be paying licensing fees to patent holders. It sickens me.

I'm not suggesting, I'm telling you there is an entity, formerly MPEG-LA, now Via Licensing Corp, who maintain a pool of patents that supposedly claim exclusive rights to aspects of some of the video codecs implemented in FFMPEG.

If they hear you're making money, and you use video codecs -- ffmpeg's implementation or otherwise -- they may come to shake you down. They get to pick and choose who they accuse of patent infringement. They can do it at any time (before the expiry of the last patent in the pool). They can do it at the point where they'll have maximum leverage over you. Software patents give them that opportunity.

Should they get in touch with you, your response should be made in consultation with qualified lawyers.

https://ffmpeg.org/legal.html

> Q: Bottom line: Should I be worried about patent issues if I use FFmpeg?

> A: Are you a private user working with FFmpeg for your own personal purposes? If so, there is remarkably little reason to be concerned. Are you using FFmpeg in a commercial software product? Read on to the next question...

> Q: Is it perfectly alright to incorporate the whole FFmpeg core into my own commercial product?

> A: You might have a problem here. There have been cases where companies have used FFmpeg in their products. These companies found out that once you start trying to make money from patented technologies, the owners of the patents will come after their licensing fees. Notably, MPEG LA is vigilant and diligent about collecting for MPEG-related technologies.
Palantir couldn't define the American soul if they were the last American company on the planet.
The legislature is well within its rights to delegate rulemaking authority. (I recognize that non-delegation is a live debate, but I think it's a silly one.) But the executive has to make those rules within the bounds of the delegated authority.
Can't wait to get my Blazingly Fast™ Managed Cloud SQLite for only 0.0001$ per virtual compute second.
Isn't redpanda built for the same scale requirements as Kafka?
There is a working one in the gaming area of the Computer History Museum in Roswell, GA. The instructions direct you to play the Wumpus game but you can go to ti-basic and other programs instead.
While I'm not an expert, betting on the older model staying at the same price point until after the next model is released is a fairly safe bet, if you don't get an ever bigger discount once the next version comes out in the fall. Unless their own modem fails horribly, it seems they will continue with the new modem on the 17, driving the 16e price down.
It seems that russians owned the US ideologically this time, by selling both anarchism and authiritarism at the same time.

God bless our world now, as the change is coming and it will not be pretty
We Won't Be Ants
The thing that became the 990 minicomputer was developed for a hotel chain. Perhaps you're thinking of another?

Source: David Pitts, who worked on the platform. https://www.cozx.com/dpitts/ti990.html
To be absolutely clear, the mini is bigger than the first gen SE but smaller than the second and third gen SE.
I noticed this years ago. First thing two cyclists do upon meeting each other is compare injuries. It's like dogs sniffing each other's butts.
This feels like an edge case.

The "reasonable limit" is likely set based on experimentation, and thus on how much people post on average and the load it generates (so the real number is unlikely to be exactly "2000", IMHO).

If you follow a lot of people, how likely it is that their posting pattern is so different from the average? The more people you follow, the less likely that is.

So while you can end up in such situation in theory, it would need to be a very unusual (and rare) case.
In the future these kind of "whatabout" comments should be auto-flagged due to how unproductive they are.
Why are you following 1,200 people? What is the point of your home feed? What are you trying to see?
Also air, kidneys, the strong nuclear force, the list goes on!
I recall using cartoon logic to think that the web might be stretchy or bouncy. I’m way from my desk right now so I can’t easily consult the doc, but I recall Manny’s observations filling in whatever else I needed to do to solve the puzzle.

The only puzzle that stumped me was much later in the game, when a pneumatic tube demon asked me questions about Maximino where the answer was a number. I was so used to gleaning info from conversations or Manny’s quips that I didn’t realize the demon was using some bingo number picker or something in the background.
A Swissbit card would have prevented this
> how could you smell the scented candles if they weren't producing nanoparticles?

By smelling a gas?
Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents
I kinda want the 1st-gen 4" SE screen on a bezel-less modern phone. That'd really fit nicely in a pocket. Would modern apps and modern websites be usable on it?... not really, but maybe I don't need them anyway.
The president is the executive branch.
Well i use none of those apps, and I made a point about 25 years of technical progress, not heavy phone usage.

I see it got you riled up for some reason, but I cannot see why.
This is such a cool product! I was looking through the docs and I think this could be a lot more prominent. Thanks for building in public!
You don't need separation of powers to "qualify for democracy", per your statement above. That just simply isn't true. Democracy is, simply put, a form of government where power emanates from the people. That the separation of powers is for the best we obviously agree on, but to say that it is suddenly a necessary requirement for "democracy" is simply just redefining what the word "democracy" means.
I'm glad the bear case includes the "will never be economically practical" which is my core criticism of fusion, even with "high funding".

I also didn't see anything about vessel irradiation, which also never seems to be discussed. I get it probably isn't as big a problem as solid fuel rod fission in terms of waste creation, and tritium breeding may help, but it still will be kind of the same problem with LFTRs: a reactor design will fundamentally need an ongoing reconstruction/replacement strategy due to the vessel irradiation and transmutation from high energy neutrons.

Feel free to correct me if this isn't as big a problem as I think it is.
That the consultants' personal time is high on the scale is why they pay for the flex-fare tickets. So you miss an 8pm flight for one reason or another - it happens, so "don't miss the flight" isn't a valid retort.

Do I feel better taken care of if I can just take the following morning's flight at no additional cost or hassle, or if I now need to contact someone at Amex Global Business Travel, have them try to get me on a flight, have another expense, potentially not be able to get on the next flight or the one after that, etc.
* A massive bulk of flex rates is different price than a single flex ticket

* when I travelled to a single city with 20+ colleagues for several years, our nightly hotel rate was less than quarter of published rate. I don't think we got anything like that on Airlines, but nevertheless, bulk gets discounts.

* I forget details but between specific frequent cities which had hourly flights, we had full flexibility and we used this all the time. So we might catch a flight hour earlier if there was one available, or hour later if need be than booked.

Basically to everybody's point, business travel is very different than vacation travel and intuition from once a year personal trip don't apply.
Too bad for them no one needs to do taxes anymore.
Yep. A 6.1” Air would have been nice, but at 6.6” it’s kind of in a weird place.
"low-carb" here is relative. The typical diet, and also the majority of items at the average supermarket are full of carbs. A "low carb" diet is probably a normal level of carb intake compared to the diets of our ancestors before there was mass production of food in packages. Once you start looking for carbs, they're everywhere in the modern American diet at least. Everything has flour and/or sugar.
> You referring back to only Athens when we have had several centuries of political history and progress, is embarrassing.

> The Constitution of the USA was especially a model of its kind.

Then how is it that the US in its inception, like Greece, did not allow neither women nor all men (slaves) to vote? Clearly not much progress had been made by then. Much of the progress was made in the Civil rights movement, for example. That was last century, not "several centuries".

To be clear, summarizing my other replies to your comments, I am 100% with you that all of the things you mention are good things, and that they should be defended. But your redefinition of democracy (and American democracy in particular) doesn't parse and seems to be the product of historical revisionism.
> tier 2 city would need to have decent internet. I'm assuming its common...

I mean, can't speak for everywhere in Europe, but we have a place in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere Czech Republic. And the internet for ~30 Euros is better than my $100 CAD internet in Canada... Cell coverage across the country also better than Canada.

As for the digital nomad visas, a lot came into existence during Covid, so the rules are ever changing, and vary country to country (lots of things like immigration and healthcare are handled by each country, only some rules span the whole EU)... I think some countries allow you to renew indefinitely though (CR definitely does, France too, don't know about all of them though)...
Just buy a used unlocked phone off eBay.

I've been sniping used Pixels off there for really good prices.
I don't think it has anything to do with Confucian though. In the Confucian world, or, rather, the Confucian world crafted by and for the Ancient Chinese scholar-officials, people who have a technical mind were bluntly looked down.
A cocaine-snorting calculator, great analogy :)

I do find that for big tasks I generally have to scaffold it a bit, lead it in the right direction.

But it's also impressive the way it can do tasks that I can't: like writing complex TypeScript. I could spend hours on certain TypeScript challenges and not actually find a workable solution. With ChatGPT I can usually either get a solution, or convince myself it's not going to happen, within 5-10 minutes.
> On the flip side, does this SDK actually help bot makers?

I doubt it - there have been at three or four Source engine leaks over the years, as well as the Team Fortress 2 game code. I suspect anything they don't know they reverse engineer from the Linux and Mac builds, and I'm sure anything Windows specific is easy to find as they'd have IDA scripts to automate what they need to find.
One teacher handed out sour patch kids gummy babies and had the students read A Modest Proposal. Really drove the point home. It was epic.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1hz41n1/a_modest_...
The airline has literally all of the data on this, they definitely do not have to pay a team millions.
Gamers brace for a new Twitch storage limit on "all highlights and uploads"
It's unsurprising given this RAGE/DOGE is mass distraction and/or government obliteration with all of the care of a grizzly bear eating a salmon.
What did you do to get banned? Most people who make this claim are unwilling to share the behavior that led to it. Bans are not arbitrary, nor is anyone obligated to host or show your speech

ATProto is young compared to the alternatives, give the network time to build out an ecosystem and the resilience we need.
Not at all. Monopolies don't imply an anti-rigid price curve. In fact, monopolies almost never have that.

A monopoly means a company has enough leverage to corner and disproportionately own the market. This is entirely possible (and usually the case) even with significant pricing pressure.
But every thing stated in the comment you linked is provably true. It's certainly concerning, but I can't see a single statement they made with a dubious basis in truth.

Are there any parts that you think violate the guidelines specifically?
The advantage of working at startups (for me) is the fast-paced, open-goaled environment. I love the fact that a large part of my role at the company is shepherding two products that literally didn't exist four months ago, and which are now on the verge of contributing materially to our bottom line.

I've worked at large companies that were so focused on the quarterly results that almost everything was incremental; that were so entrenched that very little changed at all; that were so tech-debt-laden and understaffed that almost nothing could get done; and where tech was simply not the focus. None of that is fun.

The risk-reward aspect is secondary to the philosophy of the place for me.
Before NATO goes away, A website to spell anything using NATO phonetic Alphabet
I wonder how APT operates. I guess it is not too different from a well funded Corporate red team, but the stake is higher and the opponents have almost unlimited amount of resources.

Do we have any probe into the state-sponsored APT world? I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't any, but would like to know.
Oh, I didn't even notice that!
I just don’t think that a 16e mini at $499 would give Apple enough margin. The Face ID components are reportedly not cheap, OLED is also more expensive than LCD, they didn’t up the price to $599 just for fun.
Just like the eMac, where we finally moved beyond the primitive mechanical relays used in the iMac G3.
They will just make it more subtle.

User: How do I do X?

AI: Well {FAANG} has this great product ...

AI: This is how you do X but doing Y which is just like X you can save $100 a month with {MAMAA}.

User: I just want to do X.

AI: It is too complicated for a single person to do X. Why not contact {BUSINESS} and they can do it for you because they specialize in X.

AI: Are you sure you don't want to save money with {MAMMA}. Here is a coupon to save even more.
As we should all know by now, what oligarchs do is use their stock as collateral for loans, providing all the capital access without the capital gains hit.
there was a dude who the police told they had footage of him committing CSA. It was a lie but he trusted them, so he genuinely believed he was losing his mind as he never contemplated that law enforcement would lie.
They arrested, charged and sentenced him, despite the fact he never did.
"Devices and Sync" are "Coming soon"

I assume once that feature is available, account (thus Sign up) would become necessary.

I wish that feature is opt-in, so "No Sign Up" can remain available for those who do not need that feature.
I have my own domain already attached, I can point it at any server and my identity on the network remains the same.

When you use a *.bsky.social handle, you have not made yourself independent and resilient to arbitrary decision by the org that manages that service
Somehow that never happened to me