Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | mcshicks's commentslogin

They seemed to have missed peter turchin

"In 2010, Turchin published research using 40 combined social indicators to predict that there would be worldwide social unrest in the 2020s"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Turchin


The way Cliodynamics, Turchin’s field, is explained feels like a very early and remedial version of psychohistory from the Foundation universe.


Have a look in the Fiction section of the Cliodynamics article.


When is there not social unrest?


Surprised there was no mention of brief. That was my favorite editor for programming for a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_(text_editor)


Brief was fantastic was my day-to-day editor in the late 80s / early 90s


brief by underware

I don't remember Borland buying it


A brief mention.

Ba dum tss.


I think the name refers to the limits some airlines have. JAL for instance offers one hour free on some flights.


I was trying to understand how this could be used for flights. I've seen either having to enter your last name and seat, or loyalty plan number to get in-flight wifi. Are there really airline wifis that give every mac address a free amount of time?

A lot of airlines now offer free "messaging" - usually just text on common messaging apps like WhatsApp. I've been meaning for years to write some kind of server that could give me useful functionality over chat messages.


I've been meaning for years to write some kind of server that could give me useful functionality over chat messages.

Already done:

WhatsApp: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33568994

Facebook Messenger: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9203946

SMS(!): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8304409


Pretty sure it will work on JAL at least right now. They just asked for an email. But it was also a new service so maybe to wanted people to try it. It occurred to me at the time that two devices with two emails should work for twice as long. For what I wanted to do on that flight, i.e. check and send a few messages the one free hour was fine. But yeah of course they could change it so that would not work.


In the US there is a bill that's been floating around Congress for a while called the improving digital identity act.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/884...


You can run the model for free on openrouter.ai. I have played around with lean, slowly working my way through mathmatics in lean. I was stuck on this problem in section 3.6

theorem convergesTo_unique {s : ℕ → ℝ} {a b : ℝ} (sa : ConvergesTo s a) (sb : ConvergesTo s b) :

For fun I tried it on the free model on openrouter.ai. Got the answer the first time.

https://leanprover-community.github.io/mathematics_in_lean/m...

Here's the answer just to give you a feel.

  by_contra h
  have h₁ : a ≠ b := h
  have h₂ : |a - b| > 0 := by
    apply abs_pos.mpr
    exact sub_ne_zero.mpr h₁
  -- Use the definition of convergence to find N₁ and N₂
  have h₃ := sa (|a - b| / 2) (by linarith)
  have h₄ := sb (|a - b| / 2) (by linarith)
  cases' h₃ with N₁ h₃
  cases' h₄ with N₂ h₄
  -- Choose N to be the maximum of N₁ and N₂
  let N := max N₁ N₂
  have h₅ := h₃ N (by simp [N, le_max_left])
  have h₆ := h₄ N (by simp [N, le_max_right])
  -- Derive a contradiction using the triangle inequality
  have h₇ : |s N - a| < |a - b| / 2 := by simpa using h₅
  have h₈ : |s N - b| < |a - b| / 2 := by simpa using h₆
  have h₉ : |a - b| < |a - b| := by
    calc
      |a - b| = |a - s N + (s N - b)| := by ring_nf
      _ ≤ |a - s N| + |s N - b| := by
        apply abs_add
      _ = |s N - a| + |s N - b| := by
        rw [abs_sub_comm]
      _ < |a - b| / 2 + |a - b| / 2 := by
        linarith
      _ = |a - b| := by ring
  linarith


That's so funny I had to check something was working with an llm API last night and that's what I asked it, but just in jest.


I find the most consistent explanation for Donald Trump is he does whatever is going to keep himself the top news story in the media. I don't think there's any deeply held belief other than if he doesn't think people are talking about him that's bad


I start with this explanation too.

In his interview yesterday he mentioned that he won his weekend golf tournament. Of course he did, otherwise it wouldn’t be newsworthy (still isn’t, but oh well).

Then he asked the reporter if she saw that he won. I think he asked twice.

I look at that simple interaction as the most accurate model of his behavior. Are people talking about me? Good. Why aren’t people talking about me? I need to do something to make sure they do. He may very well have actual intelligence but it doesn’t seem obvious that it is the catalyst of anything he does.


Silicon Valley meets Bret Easton Ellis and Less than Zero.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Less_than_Zero_(novel)


I was going to say I have a old twiddler 2 (wired usb). There was this program I used to learn called "twidor" that was like a type tutor but had graphic that showed you the chords. Really helpful. I didn't see anything like that in the github repository linked in the video. I guess they are up to twiddler 4 now. I read the linked chordite page and I agree that a problem with the twiddler is you are kind of trying to hold the thing steady so you can chord with the same fingers you chording with.

https://wearables.cc.gatech.edu/projects/twidor/screens.html


I don't have a program at the moment. The layout I currently use is in the codebase, starts here: https://github.com/akavel/clawtype/blob/96980f68427eb1089112... Personally, I just edited this layout description into a more compact form and printed it on a sheet of A4 paper as a cheatsheet. I do intend to make this aspect more scriptable, but didn't get to it yet.

For learning, I personally just try to slowly code simple hobby things in vim, with the cheatsheet in the other hand... I tried to make the layout relatively intuitive wherever I could. I also patiently went through all the possible combinations of presses, and tried to group them into categories of easy<->medium<->hard<->impossible, then tried to put esp. the more frequently used keys on the easier combinations/chords.


I don't know, it's hard for me to know what the author means by "fundamentals". I looked at the table of contents from the amazon website, and somethings that I consider pretty fundamental like Thevenin's Theorem didn't seem to be listed there. By comparison it's in Chapter 1, page 9 on my copy of "The Art of Electronics". I'm not trying to knock the book, it could be very handy, but I would use the term "basics" as opposed to "fundamentals" to describe the content as I understand it.


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: