skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides memory use I'm not sure why his approach isn't easy for everything you suggested.

Want to group undo actions? It's pretty easy to define arbitrary grouping algorithms on the sequence of recent state snapshots, which yields...a smaller sequence of state snapshots :-) a nice composeable idea.

To show redo after an undo, store recent undo triggers in the state, and if there is undo in current state, show redo with a list of older mem states to jump to. This repr also makes it easy to wipe out redos when doing a redo-breaking operation like editing the doc.

Memory use can indeed become a problem. But if/when it does, there is probably some obvious trait of the sequence of recent states that makes it easy to compress. Like for example that it's 99% the same contents, after a small edit. Or that one edit type dominates. Or that folks don't often care if they can't Ctrl+Z through 8GB of typing.

I think most programmers would gain by not dismissing simple approaches out of hand as too simple.

If writing it off for memory, write out the math for the size of the state and the allotted memory. This is not the era of computers that our languages were invented in; the page size your CPU fetches from insanely fast SSDs can be 4kb. And it can do a lot of that in a blink. Trying to shift runtime work (that the computer does) back to compile/design time (that the dev does) can cripple a system's performance in the short run (for coding/delivery time) and long run (for performance after pointer chasing)...luckily most of the time it doesn't matter anyway :-)
I embarked on a working holiday to the UK in 1998. Quit my job in South Africa and left with nothing but a backpack. Opened up my world, I worked for Coca Cola, the BBC, an investment bank, got wrapped up in the dot com boom, met my American wife, met the smartest people in the world, some invested in me, moved to the States, started a business that now has millions of customers and a team of 40 that my wife and I 100% own. So I guess I lean towards GO!! NOW!! :-) Best of luck.
> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances

Read that, please.

I'd consider myself a free speech absolutist and I don't really agree. I feel like most of the list falls into "bad legal takes" category as almost nothing on the list has anything to do with the first amendment at all.

The freedom of the press category basically amounts to slander having never been protected speech. You can sue for slander.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-1/d...

The freedom of speech category in the article is largely a big nothing burger. Government employees have never had freedom in what they say while acting as government employees. That can say whatever they want on their own time given they're not releasing protected information. That one's been settled by supreme Court a number of times.

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/547/410/

The government gets say over what data it releases. There's nothing in in the first amendment guaranteeing government releases of data. That's just bizarre to even think of as a first amendment issue at all. The first amendment protects the people from censorship, nothing in the amendment protects the government from censorship by the government.

I literally struggle to see how just about anything in the article relates to the actual protections the first amendment provides whatsoever.

The freedom of religion section seems like we're moving more in line with the constitution by removing special protections for religious institutions? Religious institutions having special protections seems like a pretty clear violation of the first amendment. I don't see why a church/mosque/temple should be any different as far as the government is involved than a Footlocker. By literal definition religion shouldn't get special treatment. Separation of church and state.
Trump isn’t the source of that, but a manifestation of it.

People are tired of, eg, systemic discrimination being forced on them by elites (euphemized “DIE”) or courts which have outspoken activists refusing to enforce the law against career criminals.

They want it to stop — and since elites refused to onboard that correction, they rallied behind a strongman to punish them.
All this makes sense.

Even attending college fifteen years ago, I didn't attend class. What was the point when it was clear the average undergrad class was just a group reading of a textbook? I am paying for the degree. The education became a distraction before I was born.

At least this bodes well for my grad school life.
I ask, ..... Would Extracting power would have the side effect of slowing down the earths rotation ?
Both calling something disinformation and disinformation itself are clearly protected free speech. Especially if the "disinformation" is political in nature.
I recently read The Friendly Orange Glow and found it inspirational.

Is the entire PLATO system, including courseware, available? That would be tremendous.

[Edit: it looks like there is a lot of stuff there, so ... maybe??!]

Of course I also want to play Moria[1], etc. ;-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moria_(1975_video_game)

IIRC some of the PLATO courseware was ported to the TI 99/4A as well.
> But clang and gcc will never melt your Linux.

If you use gcc or clang to compile your kernel, they will happily melt your Linux.
What specific things do you want them to do? Excited to hear about magical “protests” and “speeches” again.
I recall this study and maybe another one:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29789085/

I’m definitely not an expert.
I threw together a ratio calculator for Dyson sphere project to get the last two achievements done.

https://wohlben.github.io/factory-fractals/recipes/75?target...
It's not really optimized for mobile though, and I actually forgot to give mobile users the recipe picker.

And there seems to be a strange bug only with the rare quartz recipe (it thinks it'll provide 1/4 more items then it does).
It is astoundingly intellectually dishonest for anybody who identifies with the American right, which espouses values of personal responsibility and the rights of organizations such as companies and universities to self-govern, to imply that a direct application of these values is "authoritarian".

Free speech is understood as the ability to express yourself and your beliefs without consequences from the government, it has never meant to practically anyone that it means that as a culture no individual or organization will take action against you. This is personal responsibility in action, you must be prepared to shoulder the consequences of what you say and do.

People losing their jobs in universities and otherwise for expressing certain beliefs is not somehow unique to the American political left of the preceding decade, and it is strange that people have been misled into thinking that it is. Of course it is regrettable that some people may have lost their jobs engaging in good-faith reasoned expression of their beliefs, but you cannot argue that this is somehow the result of "the left".

I intentionally make no judgment here on whether I believe the climate that existed on American college campuses during that time is something desirable, but people doing things that you do not like is not "being actually authoritarian".
Now might be a good time to revisit the twitter files and really try to understand what was in them and why it was horrifying. Seems many people wanted to pretend they were nothing because it didn't suit their partisan narrative. We're seeing the same kinds of justification now just with different partisans.

If we don't call out abuses by our own tribe (whichever that is), maybe we're part of the attack.
Moving 18 years of comments out of Disqus and into my 11ty static site
Yes I meant Franklin. Old age comes to us all (except the Jimi Hendrix club members)
> now that's shown to not improve the living standards of the many

Inflation-adjusted median real income is up 20% since 1990 in the US. Unemployment is lower. Life expectancy is higher. Air pollution is lower. Crime is lower. Gay marriage is now legal.

The living standards of the many in the US have demonstrably improved dramatically over the last 30-40 years.

Housing affordability is worse, but that is largely due to local rather than national politics, and the policies that have lead to unaffordable housing are largely non-partisan (in that homeowners across the political spectrum are for restrictive zoning and against development).

It's true that many people feel that living standards have not improved. I don't have an answer for that beyond speculation.
I can't believe I'm going to say this but if you go over to reason.com and look at reporting on the visa stuff, there are a loooot of arguments going on in the comments. We're not even talking free speech absolutionists! Just like "normal"[0] conservatives being like "this is actually kind of messed up what's going on to these visa holders".

Plenty of people happy to carry water for the admin as well. I just don't really have a great view of what people actually think about this issue.

[0]: to be clear, I do not believe there are normal people on that website.
I use Whisper Notes to transcribe my daily voice notes and it's offline, one-time purchase, $4.99.

https://whispernotes.app
J6 wasn't a protest
Not only that but he is shooting the messenger

> My psych prof friends who teach statistics have similarly lamented having to water down the content over time.

They (the prof class) created this situation. They could have upheld their standards and seen the number of students go down but they preferred to fill their classrooms at the expense of quality.

This is like a manager who is complaining that no one can code while offering McDonalds hourly rates.
Unlike Peter Thiel, I see democracy as an essential component of individual liberty. Because once totalitarinism takes root, the next victim is individual liberty -- just read some history. By this measure, the current government is the worst.
I was under the impression the US became a world leader mostly because of being in the right place after WW2. It wasn't really a leading country before that?
Fiber optic drones are changing combat operations
I agree. I took linear algebra through an online course. I can't imagine a worse way to learn the topic. I happily cheated on tests to pass the class.

Mind you, I already apply linear algebra daily—I simply refuse to waste my time computing basic operations on matrices by hand when that's why we have computers and partial credit isn't available.
Manabi Reader - learn Japanese by reading on iOS/maCOS https://reader.manabi.io

I quit my job a couple years back to work on this app full-time, as well as its companion flashcard app, Manabi Flashcards. The goal is to help you learn through immersion.

What's special about it? Manabi Reader became popular as an Japanese-focused alternative to services like LingQ in that it locally tracks and analyzes all the words and kanji you read and study. It shows you which words are new and which you're currently learning via flashcards, so you can easily find content that suits your level and see what flashcards to prioritize adding. It also passively accumulates an on-device (and in your personal iCloud) corpus of example sentences from your reading.

I had built this part-time while working over many years (starting with flashcards and then the reader app) but going full-time gave me the time to do a full rewrite: SwiftUI, native iOS + macOS, and an offline-first architecture that syncs with iCloud and my server in the background.

Although it has a companion SRS algorithm (SM-2) flashcard app, it's also excellent for mining Anki cards. This works with AnkiMobile on iOS and AnkiConnect on desktop.

You can use it like a web browser for the web, or subscribe to RSS feeds. It comes with a bunch of curated content by level. Recently I added EPUB support, pitch accents, and note-taking with todos.

I'm now almost done adding a manga mode via Mokuro.

Next I plan on adding more media types (video, YouTube, PDFs), AI functionality (grammar explanations, document Q&A, etc), Yomitan/Yomichan dictionaries for bilingual/monolingual EPWING and Wiktionary support, and more service integrations such as 2-way sync for WaniKani, JPDB, and existing Anki decks. I've begun work on these items and hope to share more soon.

I'd also like to make this app much more beginner-friendly so that people with zero Japanese knowledge can start learning. Currently it assumes you can read kana at least.

Previous discussion [2023]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36674259
Is that even legal for a CA based company?
What many of them are doing isn’t a legally protected form of protesting.

Free Palestine protesters have been shutting down roads with their protests, this is illegal.

Tesla protesters are vandalizing the vehicles of private citizens and burning down dealerships. This is also illegal, and due to its political goals, it seems to fit the textbook definition of terrorism.

> the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear

Had we not spent years tolerating these illegal forms of protest, maybe people would remember these are in fact illegal, and wouldn’t be so emboldened to keep doing them.

If someone wants to protest, that is their right. If someone is protesting by infringing on the free movement of other people, or using intimidation and violence to stir up fear to get people to comply with their ideology… that crosses well established lines.
No, the occasional hazy reflection of the constant barrage of "socialist/communist/Marxist" accusations from the right did not cause the problem and Democrats being even more limp-wristed would not have fixed it.
Congress has allocated budget to USAID. Elon Musk decided not to spend it.
It would be counter-intuitive if they defended the free speech of those who want to take away the free speech of others.

Part of Free Speech is that it does not matter to have it if nobody hears you, maybe because your voice is drowned out by powerful media, serving the interests of the few. Therefore we need Equal Rights to free speech for everybody, especially when it comes to elections.
> do you encrypt your entire post history for them?

Sure.

> how long would that take ?

Shouldn’t take THAT long. This is the cost of privacy.
> Obviously, since that's what the article and this discussion is about.

I was just making the point that Linux isn't any one thing, it's everything. You want an OS handles things the way you want? Well, you do, and others should be given the same privilege. It's silly to stamp your feet about certain implementations or features existing within the Linux ecosystem, the whole point of FOSS is that they can all exist.

> The article that this discussion is talking about apparently thinks there are enough to make its proposal for "converting Linux to Windows" worth an effort.

From the article:
"Imagine we made a new Linux distro. This distro would provide a desktop environment that looks close enough to Windows that a Windows user could use it without training."

It isn't proposed as a distro for people who use Linux, but for people who use Windows but may want to move to Linux. I was one of those people, I switched my gaming PC from Windows to EndevourOS last year, though I've been using various distros for the past 20 years on other devices. I switched because Windows is becoming a shit show. I know my way around Linux, I use Blender, Krita, Gimp, Inkscape and Reaper, all native apps, but sometimes I just want to install a Windows application since the functionality I require makes it's simply necessary. Dual booting is a massive hassle, VMs fuck up productivity workflows and while I can sometimes get it working with Wine it's a hassle. I might not use the proposed OS, but the components that would allow for seamless installation of Windows software? I'd love for those to exist.
Renew economy moved out of disqus. The replacement appears to have no spam/troll barrier, and it's gone downhill in my opinion but I can see why people do it: Disqus is a bit crap as a UI. The alternatives seem to fit the site better.
> Focusing on the flaws and trying to shoot down everything is just craven recreation.

No, its a valuable job to find flaws because its much easier to fix and work on known flaws than to stumble in the dark.

Removing flaws and problems is one of the easiest ways to add value.
It wasn’t the MAGA movement that started dismantling Western culture in the US.

That’s been happening from Leftist criticism for generations.
As you pointed out, reusing parts of old books or manuscripts was quite common. Evidently, there was quite a lot of it going on in England just after the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII. Their libraries had a lot of books that were "unwanted" and there was also a lot of new stuff getting printed that needed binding. Parchment is a very sturdy material (consider that it's essentially a bag meant to hold in the internal organs of an animal that may weigh hundreds of kilos).

Anyway, I guess the novelty here is that they were able to read much of the older work without dismantling the Turducken book (one article I read used that term).

Was a little surprised to see that the researchers seemed to be holding the book with bare hands. Would have guessed those sorts of things are usually handled with gloves but maybe this was about pioneering the technique on something considered less valuable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_waste
What we’re experiencing is a group exploiting the biggest vulnerability in the American system, one that was known to the founding fathers. If you can get enough people to vote for you and your friends, then all of the checks and balances will eventually fail against you, because in the end they’re all dependent on the populace not voting for people who corrupt the system.

It probably wouldn’t have seemed plausible to them that someone could be impeached twice and convicted of fraud, then win the popular vote.
> Why would they need a static type system in 2030?

Why do many people talk about type systems as if they're only a safety guard?

To me that's never the main role of type systems. I don't know what's the word for it, but types allow me to read the code, on a high level. Sure AI will write them but as long as software engineers exist, we still have to read the code. How do you even read code without types? Comments? Unit tests? Actual implementation?

> LLMs will make fewer type errors, and more errors that are uncaught by types

> extinction of typed languages

Don't you find these contradictory? If LLM increases the rate of error uncaught by types, then type systems or the usage of them should catch up, otherwise there is no magical way for software to get better with LLM.

In the current state of LLM, the type system (or lsp and/or automated tests) is what allows the "agentic" AI coder to have a feedback loop and iterate a few times before it hands off to the programmer, perhaps that gives the delusion that the LLM is doing it completely without type system.
Having social repercussions for things you say isn't the government. How is that authoritarian?
> I have yet to see a free speech absolutist express concern ...

Hi there. You are seeing one right now. Well, seeing the words of one.

I am a free speech absolutist. What this administration is doing is abominable. I have always seen anti-Israeli campus posters as idiots, but Trump's crackdown on them is, imho, unconstitutional and immoral.
I found the article compelling and the conclusions insightful. My assumption was that that sharing them would encourage more people to read it.
I disagree on drug development. It is important enough we could simply pay for the research. We pay for a lot of it with taxpayer money already while the gains are privatized. The other areas are not critical to our lives and, while there is room for improvement, current IP practices are ok.
I don't think things are going to get any better before they're really, really much worse. Nobody's going to do anything until someone does way too much.

This is the revolution gig economy. Don't forget to click that bell so you can be notified of new videos as they come out.
CO2 is a proxy for many other gasses. Cheap CO2 sensors sense volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and use those to estimate CO2.

Many of those gasses do impact cognitive performance. It's not obvious to me why CO2 would, but if CO2 is going up, so is everything else we breathe out. CO2 where I am is somewhere in the ≈400ppm-1000ppm range -- 0.04% or 0.1% -- and it's pretty inert. I'm not sure what harm it does.

If it does to harm, rising CO2 levels should be much more concerning than "just" climate change.

But I suspect it's other gasses.
Try again with a source that isn't AI crap.
> they would lead with the content of the messages

They did, but with some information only described, but then they were called liars so they released the content that showed those accusing them of lying were in fact lying.

> Perhaps they would not even reveal the method of the info was obtained

The idiocy that led to them obtaining the info was very much part of the story.
There's protecting national interest/security/industry, and then there's protecting existing incumbents. If we tax imports, we should also be doing everything we can to help new players in the market we are trying to protect. After all, strong markets are all about competition.
You mean this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF2MHRtONo4 and this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmBk3T935CI is just free speech?

Here's the deal. You want free speech don't intimidate, threaten and vandalize.

I own a Tesla. I bought one because I wanted an EV to reduce my emissions and that was the best one (years ago). Your right to free speech doesn't trump (heh, see what I did there) my right to be safe.

EDIT: FWIW I am not American. Where I live there is no such thing as "free speech" like in America. We also don't all carry guns like in America. You guys do you. But I'm pretty sure the my links are not free speech, even in America.
In my section of the internet a lot of people who would have voted for the Democrats didn't vote at all. Many of them already disliked Harris because she's not a socialist or communist. And what pushed them to completely dismiss her was her siding with Israel in the Israel-Palestine conflict. They felt like voting for her was them voting in support of genocide.

Unfortunately it was hard to convince people that was a terrible reason because not countering Trump votes with votes for Harris was just ensuring a Trump win. Which of course meant the same outcome or worse for Palestinians and also awful shit for Americans and other countries that rely on the US.
> how is prose literally ever more terse than the actual code

All the time. Open an android project and tell Claude to create a social feed, or as a recent example I told Claude to add waitlist support to a registration system in Django. It did a better job than most juniors I've worked with, and I think it cost a couple dollars. I tuned it a bit afterwards, but saved me lots of time and energy. With one one sentence prompt it updated the models, created the migrations, found and updated all the views...