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Cute but these things are always too small and too slow. Let's have a full page (14 inch) one that can redraw the screen in say 1 second, for e-reading. Being fast enough for video would be great but is not required.

Fwiw I wrote a bunch of my college papers on a version of Roff originally written by Col. G. L. Sicherman for CP/M, which I ported to Turbo C for the obsolete-when-I-got-it MSDOS laptop that I had back then. I ran that program under x64 Linux much more recently and it still worked after I ripped out some DOS stuff, despite some C anachronisms. The CP/M program is still around in old code archive sites.

I also remember writing a crude HTML to text renderer for an old Linux box because lynx -dump was too slow then. I wonder if the code I wrote is still around anywhere. Lynx on today's hardware is extremely fast.

Is this even a good idea? I've had lucid dreams (not by intention) a few times but mostly I thought dreaming was a GC process for your brain, so trying to constrain or control it could interfere with its function.

Spoiler. The question was "What would Steve Jobs do?".

There's a version he described in a video where all the matter and energy in the universe is eventually eaten by black holes, so (not sure why) there is no more spacetime. Just black holes. Then unimaginably slowly (if that means anything in the absence of spacetime), the BH's decay through Hawking radiation and this creates a new universe. I like the imagery which is, as you say, poetic.

Penrose also wrote a book proposing that the human brain is a quantum computer and its thought processes couldn't be simulated on a classical computer. I don't think that one has worked out.

Wow! I wonder if it can start programming itself soon.

Thanks, that's interesting, I hoped maybe it would use pytorch or something. But what I'm wondering is whether the result would run at usable speed. I don't currently use anything like opus and only want to use open weight models, and at the moment I don't have a GPU machine, though I guess I can spin up an hourly VM with one sometime.

ASR = automatic speech recognition. I think this is the same as STT, speech to text?

It seems to want an NVidia GPU. I didn't look closely to find out if it can run usably without one. For me, usable might mean 10% of realtime, i.e. an overnight run on my old x86 box for 1 hour of transcription. Of course faster is always nice. YMMV.

I was subjected to one of those once. I nominated it for deletion myself. I'm glad it's gone.

I don't see the need for an even more powerful Pi Zero. I'd say just have a modernized version of the original $5 single core Pi Zero, or ok the wireless version was good too. Maybe even have a 128MB config (original one was 512MB before the DRAM shortage) to keep the price down. Model A same same, who needs it if it's not a lot cheaper than the B.

I do like the Pico series and it would be cool to have one of those with memory protection.

Don't they mean focus and disconnect?

It's because of IP reputation and spam blocking. You can't start with a "clean" address and send mail. You need to spend some time on "address warming" to build reputation for the address before the big providers will accept mail from it.

HN doesn't have DM's.

How much does the upgrade cost to turn the Nest thermostat dumb? It's probably cheaper to buy a dumb thermostat in the first place.

It's basically impossible to not use gmail. Even if you don't have a gmail account or address yourself, the person you're emailing probably has it, so your messages gets sent to a gmail server and gets scanned by them. What I want to know is whether Google uses the contents to profile YOU.

Original title "Democratic Socialism Demolished Europe."

The photons have energy, so through mass-energy equivalence, they aren't massless, I thought.

I wonder whether they were trained for this on purpose, to accelerate the general public turning on each other and handing the world to the broliarchs. Added: alternatively, I wonder if the training materials have a sociopathic bias because of the kinds of places they came from.

This might help, https://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~davidharvey/research/subnlogn...

Yes, you do a state prosecution even if there are already federal charges, since Trump can only pardon federal charges. Pardoning state charges, though, can be done by the state governor, same deal. So you do all 50 states to be very nearly sure.

I thought that in an expanding universe, mass isn't conserved. I don't see why charge would be conserved in that case.

I'm sure the crime reached into all 50 states. Maybe they should be tried and sentenced in all of them, so avoiding jail would need 51 pardons instead of just one.

> Our American obsession with jail is nuts.

If we were really obsessed with jail for executives, a lot more of them would be locked up right now. There might be an obsession, but it's only about jailing peons.

Sure, TTS is useful now and then, like for the voice prompts from my car GPS. I find myself wanting STT much more of the time.

Not even slightly.

This is a non-story? secp256k1 was a reasonable choice at the time, the NSA curves had the NSA smell about them and didn't purport to be better. Now it turns out that they likely would have been ok after all, but it doesn't matter, the alternative chosen has been working fine. In secp256k1 there are various implementation hazards but you just have to be careful. Not sure if the NSA curves had the same hazards.

I almost always want STT. TTS seems intended to degrade reading skills, almost.

Would knowing that it's true cull an incredible number of paths? Well, it's either true or it's false. So imagine setting half of the world's mathematicians on proving "true" and the other half on proving "false". Being told in advance by an oracle that "true" is the right answer at best doubles the number of mathematicians you can deploy on making an understandable proof.

There's a joke telling what purportedly happened after the famously abrasive physicist Wolfgang Pauli died and went to heaven. Pauli supposedly got to meet God, and asked God why the fine structure constant had the value 1/137.08 or whatever it is. God said "good question!" and started covering a blackboard with equations. Pauli marveled at the mathematical elegance, said "that's wonderful", etc. until God got to a certain point in the calculation, where Pauli said "that's wrong!!!".

We want explanations, not just answers like 1/137.08.