MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by themadturk | 2025-05-19 23:07:32+00:00
Plugins aren't required to use Obsidian. I have just a few, none of which make consequential modifications to my files. I've never had a need to use anything like Dataview, for instance.

To me, the "dialects" of Markdown have never made any difference in using it, even between applications. I think the only non-standard (for whatever "standard" means in Markdown) markup I use in Obsidian is "%%" to indicate comments. That's certainly something easy enough to search for should it be necessary in a text editor.
by dav_Oz | 2025-05-19 23:08:34+00:00
Regarding Corbin Bleu the english wikipedia article itself mentions this oddity [0] apparently some great fan from Saudi Arabia [1](the article in Arabic itself is also unusually verbose [2]) put in the effort. The number (212) essentially didn't move since 2019 (then #5).

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corbin_Bleu

>In 2013, an MIT study discovered that Bleu was the third most-common biography article subject among all the different language versions of Wikipedia; pages on him were available in 194 languages, placing below only Jesus (214) and Barack Obama (200), and above Confucius (192) and Isaac Newton (191). The contradiction between Bleu's high notability on Wikipedia and low real-life notability comparative to the aforementioned historical figures made the creation of these pages unusual.[171][172] Years later, a Reddit user found that these translations were likely done by a single user whose IP addresses on Wikipedia locate to Saudi Arabia. By 2019, Bleu had dropped to #5 on the list of biographies, but increased in Wikipedia notability, by then being available in 213 languages.[173]

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/aetmh9...

[2]https://ar.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%...
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-05-19 23:08:41+00:00
> One of the most common operations in a grammar, by far, is concatenation (aka sequencing). ISO/IEC 14977:1996 requires that a comma be used for every concatenation, so any sequence of N symbols will have N-1 commas.

It seems they were trying really hard to make EBNF NOT look like the grammar it is representing.

> ISO/IEC 14977:1996 represents “one or more” as { symbol }- which means “0 or more symbols, and then subtract the empty set

It's almost as if they were looking for a special syntax to express "1 or more".

Bizarre ... just bizarre.
by SV_BubbleTime | 2025-05-19 23:09:21+00:00
The current process to install windows11 with a local account… is to, press SHIFT + F10 at a screen in the middle of install after the first reboot, enter into the command prompt: ODBE/BYPASSNRO, and disconnect from any internet options, and/or ipconfig disable your networking…

But guess what? Fuck You because that is the old way of doing it now, and now the new command is start ms-chx:localonly

This is a company that fucking hates you.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-05-19 23:09:37+00:00
If you believe human capabilities tend to follow a bell curve, and if you believe that minorities are statistically disadvantaged compared to their non-minority complement, that would seem to imply minorities are un(der)tapped as a market and as a labor pool. Which would suggest making a point to actively include them in your hiring and marketing funnel and at least slightly biasing those funnels in their favor would just be good business.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-05-19 23:10:01+00:00
> I don't see much difference here at all, the only habit to change is learning to trust an AI solution as much as a Stack Overflow answer. Though the benefit of SO is each comment is timestamped and there are alternative takes, corrections, caveats in the comments.

That's a pretty big benefit, considering the feedback was by people presumably with relevant expertise/experience to contribute (in the pre-LLM before-time).
by nomilk | 2025-05-19 23:10:38+00:00
Dumb question, but why hasn’t GitHub made a solution that lets you run GitHub Actions locally? Or at the very least a solution that validates the action (giving a bit more certainty that it will succeed, a bit like a dry-run)?

(My war story:) I stopped using GHAs after an optimistic attempt to save myself five key strokes ‘r’ ‘s’ ‘p’ ‘e’ ‘c’ led to 40+ commits and seeing the sunrise but still no successful test run via GHA. Headless browsers can be fragile but the cost benefit ratio against using GHA was horrible, at least for an indy dev.
by al_borland | 2025-05-19 23:10:51+00:00
I ran across the dashboard where I work that is tracking Copilot usage. According to the dashboard 22% of suggestions are accepted. I assume Microsoft is quoting a similar stat. This is VERY misleading, as more often than not, the suggestion is trash, but has 1 thing in it I want for reference to look up something that might actually help me. I accept the suggestion, which increases that stat, but AI didn’t ultimately write the resulting code that went to production.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-05-19 23:11:03+00:00
> It is never correct to assign a score between the minimum and the maximum, so why allow it in the first place?

Because it is often correct.

Suppose there are candidates A, B and C. Candidates A and B are each polling around 6/10 and candidate C is polling around 4/10, but candidates A and B are quite similar to each other and share a base of support. According to your strategy, A and B are the two most likely to win, so if you prefer A then even though you still prefer B to C you refuse to express your preference and instead assign 10/10 to A and 1/10 to B and C. The voters who prefer candidate B do the same. The result is that A and B end each up at 3.5/10, C ends up at 4/10 and C wins. In other words, you've devolved back into first past the post and caused your least favored candidate to win because of your erroneous strategizing.

By contrast, if you assign 10/10 to A, 5/10 to B and 1/10 to C, you've given A a significant advantage over B without assigning B such a low score that you could deliver the election to C if C defeats A.
by ryandrake | 2025-05-19 23:11:27+00:00
Ideally, it would be built in to [my IDE of choice]. So I neither have to have a separate browser window open, copy/pasting, or have a separate IDE open, copy/pasting. Having it as a standalone tool makes as much sense as having a spell checker that is a separate browser window running a separate app from the word processor you are using to write your letter. Why?
by aantix | 2025-05-19 23:11:47+00:00
That does sounds stressful. Sorry he had to go through that.

I have high psa levels. 17.

Had a biopsy. Turns out I have a really large prostate. My doctor said that some just naturally have larger prostates and the larger ones produce more psa. The psa density function put my levels at normal when taking in to consideration the size. The biopsy came back negative.
by marc_abonce | 2025-05-19 23:11:48+00:00
Unlike the parent post, I don't think that Wikipedia will end soon. However, Wikipedia has definitely handicapped itself for the sake of submitting to the the law in the last couple of years.

Specifically, this has been the case with the formerly fair use illustrations which are now shrunk to a tiny size. This makes Wikipedia a far less useful encyclopaedia for topics like the history of art. Not only did they edit out the images, but they also made the previous versions unreachable in the edit history, which contrasts with the transparency that used to distinguish the project before.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I understand the legal need for this change and I still love and support Wikipedia, but it would be naïve to take its current status for granted and assume that the foundation can just move to another country (where?) or that cloning would be easy when the edit history can be retroactively erased.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-05-19 23:12:57+00:00
There are fewer than 200,000 Americans, rich or poor, who are chummy with billionaires, but many millions of Americans who are liars.

The post's author is a random person on social media...

making claims an attention-seeker would make...

for an audience that wants to believe them.

The sensible position, without corroborating evidence, is that the author is a liar.
by belorn | 2025-05-19 23:13:10+00:00
Looking it from that perspective, aren't we just describing agnosticism? The lack of "what isn't there" does indeed distinguish it between atheism, as that would be a "I don't believe in X", but it is also distinguishable from the religious beliefs of a true believer.

There is also the possible half point between atheism and agnosticism, where people self identify as atheism but will act according to some religious concept because they view it as important to their lives. To me it indicate strongly that beliefs, any beliefs, sits along a spectrum. A person can live their life in a way consistent with believing in something, either because they believe in it, or they don't know, or that they don't believe in it but still behave in that way because of a reason or an other.
by andyferris | 2025-05-19 23:13:22+00:00
I have to say, I really miss MS-DOS TUI apps like edit, the qbasic editor, and xtree-gold.

The linux-terminal based ones just seem a bit off in comparison. Maybe it's mouse and keyboard support in terminals (shift-enter support, anyone?) aren't great? People have different aesthetics? I don't know...

Next stop: VS-EDIT would be pretty cool :) (This with LSPs)
by aaaja | 2025-05-19 23:13:22+00:00
https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-...

https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/my-article-for-the-sunday...

https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/my-article-for-the-times-...

I recommend reading these if you haven't already.
by trelane | 2025-05-19 23:13:29+00:00
This is true. Until people pay reliably for Linux hardware instead of Windows, that will always be the case, just as it is for Mac.

Just like Mac, though, the key is to buy from a vendor that ships hardware designed for Linux, with Linux preinstalled, and with support for Linux.

Unlike, Mac, though, Linux won't block you from installing it on Windows hardware, so it's not as obvious that you're on your own.
by Spivak | 2025-05-19 23:13:35+00:00
My guy you clearly have no idea what intersectionality even means. Like this is firmly in the "not even wrong" territory where the word doesn't make sense in the sentence.

Intersectionality is a descriptive term to understand how a person's advantages (say from being white) and disadvantages (say from being gay) interact and how all the different combinations have unique struggles and challenges. It doesn't do or call for anything.
by Aurornis | 2025-05-19 23:13:38+00:00
> Rooftop solar in the US is absurldy expensive.

The US solar market is extremely weird. For many installs, a majority of the money could go to dealer fees (financing charges) and sales commissions.

The solar sales industry operates on a "redline" model. The redline is a $/W minimum rate that goes to the equipment and installer, but also to the manager, dealer, district manager, regional manager, etc.

The sales people are essentially free to pitch any price they want and they collect the difference. The sales people basically make up the price on the spot based on what they think they can convince you to buy.

Many companies have tried direct sales options where customers buy direct and skip the sales commission. They still get hit with large "dealer fees" which go to the financing companies unless they're self-paying though.

It is possible to do a full self-pay, direct-buy install with certain companies, but there's a problem: The redline commission model is so lucrative that a lot of the direct-sell companies give up and switch to redline commission models to make bank while they can. There's also a shortage of installers, who get drawn to the high commission companies by their higher rates.

I think eventually the market will settle out. For now, there is so much demand from consumers who aren't price sensitive and so many expiring subsidies to create a false sense of urgency that the high priced companies can continue operating.
by credit_guy | 2025-05-19 23:13:46+00:00
What you are saying is correct, but you are not contradicting me. If nuclear was economically completely uncompetitive, China would build zero, or near zero. Yet China has 31 GWe under construction right now. Yes, it's much less than the new solar capacity for a single year, but it's a number that is not zero, and it is also going up rather than down. So China thinks that going forward nuclear is a good investment, most likely because they are climbing the nuclear construction learning curve, and are able to build nuclear for cheaper and cheaper. Just like PVs were 100 times more expensive 30 years ago, there is a possibility that nuclear could be many times cheaper in the future. There is no law of nature that prevents that.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-05-19 23:14:08+00:00
> You could not explain why Japanese appeared between Wu and Yue because you insisted and continue to insist that radicals are not used.

I can't explain that because it's part of a different logical group, with its name written in a different script.† This puts it parallel to the Chinese options and to Korean.

> The Wikipedia sort for the languages is as I stated above

I took you to be describing the sort order for characters, not for wikipedia. Wikipedia doesn't obey that order either. You can check the page for Jiangsu, where all of the languages mentioned so far appear before the "Latin alphabet" style languages, but 閩南語 and 閩東語 appear after them.

† I also can't explain why wikipedia seems to have chosen 吴语 but 粵語, 客家語, and 贛語. Jiangsu is on the mainland... and so are Jiangxi and Guangdong.
by mgiampapa | 2025-05-19 23:14:19+00:00
Existing investors can be onboard with the possibility of an exit even if it's less than their investment. From Fidelity's perspective they have a pile of money burned in a fire. Turning the ashes of that pile into what might be a swing for the fences or any type of exit at all is attractive. Also, sometimes good money follows bad to hedge against taking a larger loss on paper and in this case buying favor might get them access to another deal like SpaceX. None of it feels above board, an efficient market in action, or sane from most perspectives.
by spookie | 2025-05-19 23:15:01+00:00
Be pragmatic, use the binaries provided by nvidia and not the ones provided by Ubuntu.

Or use Suse, only distro that manages that well. Forget PopOS. Really, either binaries or Suse.

If someone else here is entrenched on Arch, do this: https://github.com/Frogging-Family/nvidia-all

If on Fedora, just use the binaries... trust me.

Hope this helps someone.
by turtletontine | 2025-05-19 23:15:47+00:00
Sounds like the argument is while it’s technically open source, trickiness with the licenses makes it basically impossible to legally fork it into a usable software. That sounds plausible to me, I’m no lawyer.

But isn’t Cursor a wildly successful VS Code fork, done legally? (I assume if it were in violation of licenses, Microsoft would have already destroyed them.) Seems like a glaring exception to this argument.
by mannyv | 2025-05-19 23:15:53+00:00
(4) -> I would say that the lack of regex use is a plus. Yes I use them all the time. For anything complicated I'll just ask ChatGPT to make it. And of course, are regexs all the same across everything?

(5) -> Once you get it you get it.

Every language specification is odd in its own special way. In any case I haven't really seen BNF/EBNF used in the last few years, so this is probably a moot discussion.
by mmooss | 2025-05-19 23:16:31+00:00
> if the available pool consists of mainly the majority

The available talent pool is usually defined by the personal/professional networks of the people doing the hiring, and since the hirers are almost all white, so is the talent pool.

The point is to find more talent - much more - that is not in the current 'pool', to expand the networks.

> you need to negatively impact an individual from the majority to hire the individual from a minority.

The racist competition for survival is the hallmark of the propaganda of racists. It's just a fair competition - do you want minorities excluded from competing for the job? Do you want a handout?

When baseball in the US ended the color line, and allowed black and latino and other athletes to compete for the same jobs as white athletes, were they 'negatively impacting' some white athletes? I guess that's literally true, but do you really think they should have continued to receive 'affirmative action for white people', which is what hiring was and in many ways still is?
by Reason077 | 2025-05-19 23:16:40+00:00
> "the United States and the USSR spent billions trying to out-do each other in the obliteration of South Pacific atolls"

Fact correction here: that would be the United States and France. The USSR never tested nuclear weapons in the Pacific.

Also, pedantically, the US Pacific Proving Grounds are located in the Marshall Islands, in the North - not South - Pacific.
by frollogaston | 2025-05-19 23:17:00+00:00
It's been waffling back and forth but always had a "gold" rating even when I verified it was broken. I haven't tried recently (haven't really played video games in years), but there's a comment from 5 days ago saying it's broken again.

At some point, Proton users reported success using some patch, then that stopped working, then there was a different patch... A lot of user reports say "thumbs up" then have a comment explaining how it goes out-of-sync unless you fiddle with it, so it's hard to trust.

Seems the root of the problem is this game's picky netcode, which is similar to the original 1998 game I played as a kid. If your game state diverges from the other players' at all, it goes oos and ends the game for everyone. And yes this happened often enough that people had an abbreviation for it.
by KetoManx64 | 2025-05-19 23:17:44+00:00
I store my code snippets, config templates, daily changelogs, todo lists, and note templates in Obsidian and use them probably dozens of times a day. I have keyboard shortcuts that open up specific notes that I copy code snippets and filepaths from. If you were to put me next to someone that was storing their notes in notepad I would bet you money that they take 2-3x as long as I do.
by noosphr | 2025-05-19 23:17:45+00:00
Without going into too much detail: the complexity space of tensor operations is for all practical purposes infinite. The general tensor which captures all interactions between all elements of an input of length N is NxN.

This is worse than exponential and means we have nothing but tricks to try and solve any problem that we see in reality.

As an example solving mnist and its variants of 28x28 pixels will be impossible until the 2100s because we don't have enough memory to store the general tensor which stores the interactions between group of pixels with every other group pixels.
by laurencerowe | 2025-05-19 23:18:28+00:00
I don't think your numbers are correct. In the UK capital gains tax rates on shares are 24% for higher rate tax payers.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/capital-gains-tax-rates-and-allo...

In California those rates go up to 33.3% (20% federal + 13.3% state).
by echelon | 2025-05-19 23:18:44+00:00
We should have known that if we limited China from accessing our tech, they'd just grow their own.

The game is afoot, and China knew to de-risk and decouple. I don't think that it can be stopped at this point.

HarmonyOS, RISC-V, DeepSeek, domestic EUV, etc. China is standing up its own tech pillars.

So I suppose American lawmakers see this as a game of slowing down the competition rather than fully impeding it. China will eventually route around every road block, so the question is whether or not any of this will help America keep an edge, or if that edge will even matter.

In the meantime, we're holding up our own tech giants up to antirust scrutiny (and rightly so). But does that also hinder America's lead on China? And, if so, what will that mean for the tech/AI race?

Europe is also hell-bent on slowing down American tech. Again, rightly so - data sovereignty is important, and anti-competitive, monopolistic behaviors have long stifled domestic industry and talent. American giants shouldn't be allowed to behave that way as guests in other peoples' homes.
by ModernMech | 2025-05-19 23:18:48+00:00
Keep going, the end end goal is that even the customers are AI. And the company doesn't sell anything or do anything, it just trades NFTs and stocks and digital goods. And the money isn't real, it's all crypto. This is the ideal, to create nothing, to sell nothing to no one, and for somehow that to mean you created "value" to society and therefore should be rewarded in material terms. And greatly at that, the people setting all this up expect to be at the tippy top of the social ladder for this "contribution".

This is I guess what happens when you follow capitalism to its logical conclusion. It's exactly what you expect from some reinforcement learning algorithm that only knows how to climb a gradient to maximize a singular reward. The concept of commerce has become the proverbial rat in the skinner box. It has figured out how to mainline the heroin drip if it just holds down the shock button and rewires its brain to get off on the pain. Sure it's an artificial high and hurts like hell to achieve it, but what else is there to live for? We made the line going up mean everything, so that's all that matters now. Doesn't matter if we don't want it, they want it. So that's what it's going to be.
by mmooss | 2025-05-19 23:18:53+00:00
> We have very effectively “educated the shit out of our kids” for decades about this.

Maybe kids and others who disagree with you aren't indoctrinated, but form their own opinions, and the great majority have seen the research (in college) and the very obvious reality, and concluded there is discrimination. I don't know how you can say otherwise in the face of reality.

'Decades' ago there was even more open racism. It didn't take much education to say that white-only hotels and restaurants, and lynchings indicated there was racism.

Many people today, since 2016, openly embrace racism. What do you say to them?
by spookie | 2025-05-19 23:19:13+00:00
Have you tried CloudCompare? Native Mac ARM support.

https://www.cloudcompare.org/

(Edit: just so you know, the UI is a bit weird, there is a bit of a learning curve. But the app behaves in a very sane manner, with every step the previous state is maintained and a new node is created. It takes time to get used to it, but you'll learn to appreciate it.

May your cloud have oriented normals, and your samples be uniformely distributed. Godspeed!)
by nicoty | 2025-05-19 23:20:11+00:00
Still somewhat janky. I use it on my work machine (since it at least seems a bit faster than using VirtualBox) and regularly run into issues where npm won't build my project due to the existence of symlinks [1,2]. wslg windows also don't yet have first-party support from the windowing system [3]. I also remember having trouble setting up self-signed certs and getting SSL working.

1. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57580420/wsl-using-a-wsl... 2. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5118 3. https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/22
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-05-19 23:20:31+00:00
> More common: 2% is strongly in favour and 98% don’t care.

"Don't care" is the focus and time thing. Given adequate consideration, anyone would have at least a weak preference for any given policy choice.

> You described to what “ the constituents in any given district are paying more attention.” That’s a function of focus and time.

It's a function of focus and time on the part of the electorate. Legislators can take more time to do something by simply delaying action until the question can be thoroughly debated. Voters, by contrast, don't control the legislative schedule and have a finite amount of time, so if more legislation is created than they have time to consider it, having the voters consider the issue more carefully before passing the bill is the thing where you can't pass the bill until the bill by itself has the support of the majority of the population.