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I understand that the complexity of the project has increased over the years. How difficult is it for a newcomer to get into it?

I think he meant “pretentious,” not “portentous.” Either way, it is somewhat ironic that that sentence is incoherent.

The comments here are botted.

If Congress had not demonetized silver in 1873, the metal’s decreasing value would have curbed the deflation of the time. I believe that this was one of the US Government’s greatest mistakes ever, because the reaction to the economic crisis in the 1870’s had a profound effect on the failure of Reconstruction. Friedman wrote a paper on this, called “The Crime of 1873.”

What is the motivation for writing HN comments with AI?

65536 has been achieved by 2 people without undos. However, it is very difficult as it’s only around a 7% chance with optimal play.

This is a partial video of one of them: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QQSLjPHg5P8

I’ve tried using LLM’s to do the same exact thing (turning precinct-level election results into a spreadsheet) and in my experience they worked rather poorly. Less accurate than traditional OCR, and considering how many fixes I had to make, altogether slower than manual entry. The resolution of the page made an outsized difference. It’s nice that you got it to work, but I am skeptical of it as a permanent solution.

Tangentially- I appreciate what OpenElections does- however, I wish there was a similar organization that did not limit themselves to officially certified results. There are already other organizations who collect precinct results post-2016, and using only official results basically limits you to 2008 and afterwards, but historical election results are the real intrigue. Not to mention that I have noticed many blatant errors in election results that have supposedly been “certified” by a state/county government. The precinct results Pennsylvania publishes, for example, are riddled with issues.

Try getting the 32768 tile in 2048. Yes, it can be done somewhat consistently, but it requires a deep and somewhat subtle strategy. Furthermore, the “snake” formation that every player learns at the beginning stops being optimal at a certain point, and thus the late game has much more variety than the early game. I do think that Threes is more complex, but I’m not sure if this complexity is really necessary.

It would have been better if they looked for the densest circle with an area of 1 square km. Although a square shaped area has its tangible benefits - you "feel" population density more when it’s on your own street obviously, and since square areas provide more information along a few axes (the ones containing the corners), you can get an idea of the population density in an area by placing a square’s corners on the street. A square is probably not the best shape for this, though.

I don’t save articles often, but maybe one time in a few months I see something I know I will enjoy reading again even after 1 or 2 years. Keep up the great work OP!

Does the Arts and Culture site have a harsh ratelimit? I can already think of so many things you can do with all that data if I had it....

Yep, he used an ammonium fluoride buffer. > Instead of a standard HF etch, a buffered oxide etch of NH4F (Ammonium Fluoride) in HF can be used to control the etch rate and photoresist lifting. I use approximately 20-30g of 100% NH4F per 50mL of HF (stock whink rust remover)

Ammonium fluoride definitely isn’t as easily accessible as rust cleaner, but you could buy it for a somewhat cheap price on Amazon.

Most rust cleaner that you buy at the store is HF solution. For example, the one that teen used was 1.5% HF.

From a business perspective, I agree that it’s a fool’s errand. But imagine being able to design and tangibly build your own computer, at home. 6400 euros is pennies for a business, but exorbitant for an individual.

I believe the way Sam Zeloof circumvents the enormous amount of capital needed for a chip fab by relying on modern technology to create 1970’s technology. He simply mounts a cheap digital projector onto a cheap microscope - they didn’t have that advantage in the 70s, and thus it cost millions to start a chip fab. My point is that it could conceivably be doable for an individual to create old computing technology with the advantages of living in the modern world. I certainly don’t have the drive to do it, but I wish someone did.

That's good for him, but it means we'll never find out in the near future whether it's possible for the average person to create useful ICs in their garage.

Somewhat related: a high school student creating his own semiconductor fav in his parent’s garage on a "budget".

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IS5ycm7VfXg

It’s a thoroughly interesting video, but I’m a bit disappointed he never took his idea any further than he did. I’d really love to see something like a 6502 being made at home.

There's a section of one of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books that talks about this exact thing. I was reminded of it as soon as I saw the headline. The justification is comes up with is that kids with names at the front of the alphabet sit in the front of the classroom, so they get called on and learn more. It definitely turned some gears in my brain when I first read it as a teen. Here's the relevant page: https://imgur.com/a/6wIx6qg

If you think about it, there are about a couple of hundred super-centenarians (110 or older) alive[1]. Surely at least one of them met a very old relative when they were young - for example, when I was 9, I met a great uncle who was 100 years old. Taking into account life expectancy, if you assume at least one of them has met someone 85 years older than them, that means this oldest "directly known person" would have been born at least 195 years ago (1829). Which means there’s a good chance someone alive has met someone born in the 1820’s.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercentenarian#Incidence

Is this footage actually from the 1940s? I don’t understand why they’d use color film for something like this way back before it was common.

I know you’re not allowed to say this, but I’m not sure many people here actually read the article. Many people are responding to the argument itself in ways that were already addressed in the article (for example, there’s a whole section outlining two rebuttals to the “perfect island” parody).

Why’d you bail on Tabu? I remember it being one of the more entertaining silent movies I’ve seen. As well as having a very memorable ending.

It’s always neat when you think of some historical figure as ancient then see a video of them right in front of you, like history is not as far away as you thought. Similar to how there’s a recording of Johannnes Brahms (https://youtube.com/watch?v=0d848uKtdsA), and a video of the funeral of the last veteran of the war of 1812: https://youtube.com/watch?v=eMlKtfBHiAQ

Internet Archive is generally invaluable for finding older media. I personally use it to find movies from the 40’s and earlier. There’s always a dozen different uploads of the movie regardless of whether it’s still under copyright protection. I guess the rights owners don’t care that much, but it could potentially be ammo to take the whole Archive down.

> you will always have the option to switch back to the old theme.

The only issue is, you need to log in to do this. I don't want to have to log in to a website that I read, and never edit, to get rid of the giant distracting table of contents.

> I can see why Wolfram is bearish on what might be termed "the naive scaling hypothesis"

Forgive me for asking, but what does "bearish" mean in this context?

I think your idea is exactly what I would want in a captcha, but an issue with your example is that it would only pertain to English speakers, and it would be difficult to translate it into a variety of different languages to accommodate everyone.

I disagree. Reading requires my full attention and dedication, while typing becomes almost an almost mechanical process very quickly.

With reading, I always find myself moving my eyes back a few sentences because I would think I missed some unimportant information, taking me a while before I actually got into it. Maybe it's just because technology hurt my attention span.

I'm assuming they were trying to imitate a child's manner of speech - i.e. children tend to lack the experience with language to know about a lot of special cases with the English past tense, leading to "eated" and "fighted", etc. The website name is just a play on words based on this.

This is the craziest thing about copyright law. Maybe it's fair that an author and his family should receive compensation for their work even after their deaths.

But Sunrise was released 95 years ago - the odds are that there is nobody alive who worked on this movie, nobody alive that even saw it in theaters. Why is it not publicly available? I doubt anyone is earning significant money off of an extremely old movie that caters to a niche audience - if the media is so old that it is both literally and aesthetically irrelevant in society, it's astounding that it wouldn't have been in the public domain already. It's a massive shame that Disney's corporate plots have been a detriment to other media that isn't generating huge profits. I only wish that "Steamboat Willie" going into the public domain will bring about some sort of copyright reform.

I saw something similar on ChatGPT's subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/zdjowg/i_had_the_w...

It's amazing how the AI can segue from one topic to the next, and understand the command about "contextual transition" so easily. It's almost like ChatGPT is more creative than most people are themselves.