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It's intended for another item currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48321631

I'm new to Pebble and have been excited about joining the community; I have a Pebble Time 2 on preorder. I will certainly cancel the pre-order unless Rebble affirmatively says they…

I thought this [1] New Yorker profile of the chief justice of Brazil's Supreme Court was a fascinating and thoughtful analysis of how tech giants interact with less-powerful countr…

A fantastic show is up now at Buffalo's AKG ( https://buffaloakg.org/art/exhibitions/electric-op ), including work by Bridget Riley. She had a solo exhibition at AKG in 1990.

Thanks; I agree--both that you could train an agent in these situations, and that "You'll just get two views on the same reality, suitable for different uses and different understa…

I agree that it can be helpful to think of identity as a trajectory shaped by interactions along the way. However, we also continually shape our environments in large and small way…

One thing I've wondered for a while: Is there a principled reason (e.g. explainable in terms of embedding training) why a vector's magnitude can be ignored within a pretrained embe…

I paddled through the Erie Canal's locks in Lockport (where I live) last weekend! A lot of history passed through here.

A great talk, but that cameraperson got a workout!

Would it be fair to think about this as a shim whose scope of responsibility will (hopefully) shrink over time, as command line utilities increasingly support JSON output? Once a u…

Would you recommend any of Child's books to a vegetarian home cook today? (If not, would you happen to have other recommendations for French vegetarian cooking, leaning toward seas…

This is an insightful comment. I have been thinking about why I prefer CLI-based tools over GUI tools; one important difference is that with CLI the affordances are more in my head…

Who would have thought that "apocalyptic science fiction author" would be included in the professions made obsolete by tech?

This project [1] is about replicating various mineral waters at home. They have a spreadsheet with chemical analysis of many different bottled waters, and a calculator where you ca…

I've found it helpful in several projects to implement the "services layer" described here as a state machine, modeling state transitions for a central object (e.g. an article can …

Here's [1] a playable transcription of the original Oregon Trail (1971) source code (BASIC) into Ink. The project really gave me an appreciation for structured programming (e.g. lo…

Can anyone who has read Alexander's work recommend one of his books to start with, which focuses on the core moral and ethical views, while being most relevant to CS? For context, …

I don't see how $1-3M per year, for five years, is going to lead to "a world-class educational institution."

This document's typography and layout are all over the place. Normally I wouldn't particularly care, but the goal here is to give advice on the resume/CV.

This paper [1] aims for a related goal: automatically parsing the argumentative function of citations ("citation frames"). [1] Jurgens, D., Kumar, S., Hoover, R., McFarland, D., & …

This offers a poetic reflection on scale. Some essential aspect of the city, shrunk down to a memory stick and lost on the street in a night of drinking.

This is when you email the company's head of marketing and/or security expressing naive concern about hacking/phishing. "I received an email that looked like it's from your company…

Sourcing: Sweet Maria's. Roasting: Follow their suggestions and buy an air popper at Goodwill. If you get a flimsy one, don't roast more than one batch in a row or the machine's in…

If you're up for some light soldering, I'd recommend picking up a few Sonoff Basics and/or wall plugs and then flashing them with ESPHome ( https://esphome.io/ ). These devices are…

In my personal metaverse, I'm really into falconry (I've ordered several leather falcon hoods), I have a commercial truckers license, I'm part of a pushy childrens' soccer league, …