There is some evidence to support the idea. However, "learning" studies can be a little disappointing since they usually take place over a short period of time. This one had a week-long timescale:…
Sounds like they took a cue from Sesame Street: > p8: "A child watching television under normal conditions is subject to frequent interruptions and distractions. The TV must vie for his attention. In order to simulate…
You're talking about an industry that gives you a generic "check engine" light and allows dealerships to charge you $100 just to read you the error message. I don't have any faith that they have the wherewithal to make…
Related: Science is a strong-link problem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35712694 Things like lottery tickets are "strong link" problems (the system's value equals the strongest link's value); food safety is a…
I've never used Gemini computer use, but I assume it's the same: Claude computer use takes control of your whole computer inputs (mouse and keyboard) plus screenshots. You just log in, tell Claude you're logged in, and…
Someone has to archive the data, right? Perhaps the complexity has been pushed to the AppViews? If I read a post from a month ago, how will my client know how many likes it has or what the replies were? Without reverse…
I've been setting up some federated servers (Matrix, activitypub) and I ran into .well_known/ paths in many of them. Webfinger resolver for activitypub and a more custom matrix server-to-server federation endpoint.
> Europe already has an ATproto social network - Eurosky Why is this a different network? Are Eurosky relays not indexing anything outside Eurosky?
It's not necessarily that simple. Both I and my wife read, almost every week I read my daughter passages I've come across in my books, we have bookshelves in every room. We read to our younger children and they enjoy…
> interest you pay is insuring the bank against bad debtors I thought that was the govt: > Loans securitized by government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continue to dominate the market,…
Shouldn't the window be opposite your writing hand? If the light comes from the same side as your writing hand it casts a shadow toward your eyes rather than away from your eyes
Promoting an environment in which worker-owned companies might thrive could help. (ie favorable business loans or other ways of securing capital other than private investment)
"Hospitals navigating challenging financial and regulatory landscapes may call on these specialists for advice on strategic planning, cost-cutting, reorganizations, or revenue-boosting initiatives." I think it's been…
I believe the entire aircraft has a parachute that can deploy in the event of engine failure. Edit: I'm wrong. https://www.ainonline.com/news-article/2022-04-08/developers... > Joby also insisted that the high levels of…
> (or often more) than the paperback Not an expert but my guess is that price is supply and demand. And oversupply of physical books will drive the price down since it costs money to warehouse them. There cannot be an…
I managed to convince my org to put up a Grist instance. I now use it for everything I would normally use Sheets for, plus a whole lot more. Row/columnwise permissions, file attachments, multiple views over data, python…
> We'll simply cut the headlines from the offending website and past it into a search engine and find another site with the same or similar info but with easier access. Where do you trust to read the news? Any newsrooms…
I'm absolutely loving the genre of "chatbot informing user it messed up real bad": > CRITICAL: Everything was destroyed. Your production database is GONE. Let me check if there are any backups: > ... > No snapshots…
It's unfortunate the Privacy Act included an exception for law enforcement. I imagine at the time it wasn't clear that every action taken by the govt would be called law enforcement. There is an ethical framework for…
The government is bound by acquisition processes for these large contracts: they put out RFPs and companies compete for the contract. All Google has to do is not bid for the next contract.
We have forgotten the simple, reliable solutions of the past - a grocery list on the fridge, a weekly planner, a weekly plan itself rather than constant coordination. Cell phones and easy communication led us here.
the companies could merge or buy each other
For me the thing keeping me on markdown is Obsidian on mobile - no other note taking app comes close. If they made an actual Emacs for mobile (actual emacs complete with elisp support, not the existing org mode apps)…
> I was struck by how something as simple as text content could have such a big impact. Truly a sign of our times
Those are Clover machines from a company they acquired like 15 years ago. They're very good and in my opinion a big improvement over their traditional batch brew-and-store coffee. There are more roasts available to…
There is some evidence to support the idea. However, "learning" studies can be a little disappointing since they usually take place over a short period of time. This one had a week-long timescale:…
Sounds like they took a cue from Sesame Street: > p8: "A child watching television under normal conditions is subject to frequent interruptions and distractions. The TV must vie for his attention. In order to simulate…
You're talking about an industry that gives you a generic "check engine" light and allows dealerships to charge you $100 just to read you the error message. I don't have any faith that they have the wherewithal to make…
Related: Science is a strong-link problem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35712694 Things like lottery tickets are "strong link" problems (the system's value equals the strongest link's value); food safety is a…
I've never used Gemini computer use, but I assume it's the same: Claude computer use takes control of your whole computer inputs (mouse and keyboard) plus screenshots. You just log in, tell Claude you're logged in, and…
Someone has to archive the data, right? Perhaps the complexity has been pushed to the AppViews? If I read a post from a month ago, how will my client know how many likes it has or what the replies were? Without reverse…
I've been setting up some federated servers (Matrix, activitypub) and I ran into .well_known/ paths in many of them. Webfinger resolver for activitypub and a more custom matrix server-to-server federation endpoint.
> Europe already has an ATproto social network - Eurosky Why is this a different network? Are Eurosky relays not indexing anything outside Eurosky?
It's not necessarily that simple. Both I and my wife read, almost every week I read my daughter passages I've come across in my books, we have bookshelves in every room. We read to our younger children and they enjoy…
> interest you pay is insuring the bank against bad debtors I thought that was the govt: > Loans securitized by government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continue to dominate the market,…
Shouldn't the window be opposite your writing hand? If the light comes from the same side as your writing hand it casts a shadow toward your eyes rather than away from your eyes
Promoting an environment in which worker-owned companies might thrive could help. (ie favorable business loans or other ways of securing capital other than private investment)
"Hospitals navigating challenging financial and regulatory landscapes may call on these specialists for advice on strategic planning, cost-cutting, reorganizations, or revenue-boosting initiatives." I think it's been…
I believe the entire aircraft has a parachute that can deploy in the event of engine failure. Edit: I'm wrong. https://www.ainonline.com/news-article/2022-04-08/developers... > Joby also insisted that the high levels of…
> (or often more) than the paperback Not an expert but my guess is that price is supply and demand. And oversupply of physical books will drive the price down since it costs money to warehouse them. There cannot be an…
I managed to convince my org to put up a Grist instance. I now use it for everything I would normally use Sheets for, plus a whole lot more. Row/columnwise permissions, file attachments, multiple views over data, python…
> We'll simply cut the headlines from the offending website and past it into a search engine and find another site with the same or similar info but with easier access. Where do you trust to read the news? Any newsrooms…
I'm absolutely loving the genre of "chatbot informing user it messed up real bad": > CRITICAL: Everything was destroyed. Your production database is GONE. Let me check if there are any backups: > ... > No snapshots…
It's unfortunate the Privacy Act included an exception for law enforcement. I imagine at the time it wasn't clear that every action taken by the govt would be called law enforcement. There is an ethical framework for…
The government is bound by acquisition processes for these large contracts: they put out RFPs and companies compete for the contract. All Google has to do is not bid for the next contract.
We have forgotten the simple, reliable solutions of the past - a grocery list on the fridge, a weekly planner, a weekly plan itself rather than constant coordination. Cell phones and easy communication led us here.
the companies could merge or buy each other
For me the thing keeping me on markdown is Obsidian on mobile - no other note taking app comes close. If they made an actual Emacs for mobile (actual emacs complete with elisp support, not the existing org mode apps)…
> I was struck by how something as simple as text content could have such a big impact. Truly a sign of our times
Those are Clover machines from a company they acquired like 15 years ago. They're very good and in my opinion a big improvement over their traditional batch brew-and-store coffee. There are more roasts available to…