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psbon Google, Meta and Microsoft to stop showing political ads in the EU

> Polish hard-right member of the European Parliament Piotr Müller said the rules are an example of over-regulation gone wild

This is almost an endorsement of the rules to me.

psbon Gene-edited pancreatic cells transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes

Just sent this to my son, seems legitimately promising

psbon Why I Program in Lisp

what are the bonkers parts? (just curious)

psbon Resist Authoritarianism by Refusing to Obey in Advance (2017)

Impressive that this made it to number 1 on hacker news. The politics of the readers here is pretty interesting

psbon AI Guesses Your Accent

I would pay for an equivalent app that helped my German pronunciation

psbon As you learn Forth, it learns from you (1981)

r/forth is a subreddit - so https://<reddit url>/r/forth

psbon One man's rare Alzheimer’s mutation delayed its onset

Feels like a "lot" of things help rats for whatever reason though

psbon Palantir seeing 'unprecedented' demand for its military AI

I'm not sure Peter Thiel believes in anything resembling "egalitarian enlightenment era principles" unfortunately

psbon Wolfram Alpha and ChatGPT

haha, worth a try

psbon Wolfram Alpha and ChatGPT

Granted, Fermats Last Theorem is a tricky proof so I understand it struggling with it

got a laugh out of this line. Sounds almost like a modern day Monty Python skit (John Cleese voice) And then I asked it to give back instructions for making cold fusion work and the results, well, frankly they were incredibly disappointing to say the least

psbon Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang

I think you mean tutelage instead of tuition there (I could be wrong)

psbon Ask HN: What was being a software developer like about 30 years ago?

started as a C programmer on DOS servers (believe it or not) The network was a token ring. Used Brief as an editor and we had some key-value database that was always getting corrupted (can't even remember the name)

I do remember liking Brief a lot though

Didn't exactly position me well for the future, haha

psbon Thoughts on the potato diet

remember vaguely reading in some book (Jared Diamond?) that at one time the poor in Ireland lived almost entirely on potatoes and milk - and that they were much healthier in general than the richer elites. Apparently those two items + some green veggies are enough.

psbon Half Baked

I was also impressed and surprised by how much time they spent screwing around singing with goofy voices and the like

psbon A wild turkey is attacking people in D.C.

When I was little my Dad had an aggressive turkey (well it would let my Dad pet it but no one else) I generally kept our Rottweiler between me and the turkey when I was anywhere near it

psbon Universe Splitter

I listened to a talk by David Deutsch and he talks about creating an quantum computer based AI and then asking the AI if there are other worlds - (hope I'm not remembering this wrong)

psbon Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

I'd be interested in building a listening comprehension tool for foreign language learners. I'm thinking having a slider for vocab (top 1000 words, top 2000 words, etc) and a slider for speed of speech plus an adjustable timer for how long the user has to understand the sentence.

psbon Double bongcloud: why grandmasters are playing the worst move in chess

Many of these tournaments won't allow an offered draw before move ... 40 or something like that.

psbon Bram's Law (2003)

Advogato is a blast from the past

psbon The Art of Not Thinking

I think this was pretty much the topic of one of his books

psbon Ken Thompson's Unix Password

One good thing about using dvorak I guess

psbon Richard Stallman steps down as as head of the GNU Project, effective immediately

My feeling about Stallman is that he is that rare creature, a fundamentalist lefty. Its a pretty lonely island and I'm actually a little surprised he has lasted this long

psbon Chess Is the Killer App

My kids think I'm weird for watching chess but it is a perfect background show to have on - baseball is the other sport that works fairly well. There are also some really fantastic commentators (Peter Svidler and Jan Gustaffson are my favorites). Finally most of the top players are also almost absurdly humble and friendly

psbon The Melancholy of Subculture Society

The multiple overlapping hierarchies stuff is new to me and pretty fascinating. You could probably make a case that whatever benefits Alcoholics Anonymous impart come from providing a community to feel useful and valuable for its members.

psbon Human-Powered Helicopter Wins the $250,000 Sikorsky Prize

Is cycling the most efficient way to extract power from human muscles? I would guess something like deadlift/rowing motion to be better

psbon Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last

I think it would be nice if we could do something like polymath (from Terry Tao) for medicine. Maybe have a combination of medical experts + statisticians + bright people collaborate on a large scale to tackle some of the health problems out there.

psbon Norvig vs. Chomsky and the Fight for the Future of AI

Where is eyudkowski when we need him?

psbon Testing Your Blood Sugar with Your iPhone

Amen to this and I think the title is a little misleading no? This looks like it is really about testing blood sugar with a regular meter that has a nice connection to upload the data to an iphone. I'm glad there are smart people working on this, but I'm waiting on the quantum leap in this field

psbon Eulerian Video Magnification for Revealing Subtle Changes in the World

Wow, I didn't realize this was something of a white whale. Still sounds like a fun nerd project though so I might spend some time on it