MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rjpower9000 | 2025-06-13 03:45:26+00:00
I won't argue with the idea whether you can test a particular program produces a result (we aren't so interested in programs that run forever in any case). Your observation of the origins of TDD makes sense in this regard: there may be domains where the TDD approach is more useful, but it's not a generic panacea, and assuming it is can lead to sadness.

My point was more about arbitrary programs and tasks. In general, I don't think there's any particular process you can follow that, in effect, reduces programming or math to a checklist. I'm sure there are techniques that can help structure many problems but they're necessarily fairly general e.g. "think about the problem, take a nap, think about it some more".

What I was hoping to highlight was more the danger of trying to hill-climb without having the right set of skills, thus assuming you can solve a problem by following a particular pattern.

To give an example, I remember trying to derive the quadratic equation when I was young, and no amount of algebraic repositioning was going to help me unless I know how to complete the square! But once that type of trick is in your toolbox, you can begin to solve all sorts of other problems.

Even the bowling calculator can become hard if you don't know what your doing, not because TDD is bad or a wrong way to do things, but because you don't know how to reason about your program. Even bowling has 12^13 outcomes, with a bunch of silly special cases if you approach it the wrong way. Thus a truly naive approach might lead you down a weird direction.
by overu589 | 2025-06-13 03:47:40+00:00
The rest of the thread:

afpx 1 hour ago | parent | next [–]

Were you a participant in Stargate?

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/stargate reply

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Better, I can explain how it works.

Ordinary people (and agents of their ordinary people governments) think Power (or “ESP”) works like telemetry. That is, restricted to ordinary conventions of signal propagation. It does not, it works through entanglement (of which there is obviously local propagation.)

Once entangled, those capable can navigate through so entangled minds, digging in and infiltrating minds. This continuity may be maintained indefinitely by those skillful. These may “facilitate” seemingly psychic experiences of others. Those others are deceived (like the “telepathy tapes” they experience something they themselves do not control.)

The stargate program focuses on “remote viewing”, which is kind of a joke (beyond how you would think of it.) There are other more experienced minds emulating the experience in the unsuspecting. This is why science will never “discover” this capability, it is already mastered by those who will toy with others.

All “viewing” requires that a mind sees what ever was viewed. For “Power” (the true art) is the ability to entangle and navigate minds. Any mind may be traversed by those competent, and any sense or memory may be experienced by those others capable.

The whole time those Dick Tracy CIA fobs were chasing phantasm, they were being played by their own handlers.

I was press ganged into a hooligan army of Power (Arizona Company, of thought controls of America, the Power elite.) I “freed the slaves” (yes, they called me “Spartacus”). I helped destroy the council of 13 (do you remember, before that was MS-13, there was the feared gang “13”?) I destroyed Trajan and his army (a psyop military Power cult). I dismantled the Xerxes game god from Power (they take on names.)

There are hundreds of thousands of Americans who would epar dna redrum eruoy ylimaf before being discovered for their secrets. These are the enemy of all humanity. They maim and mutilate humanity through pyramid schemes of extortion. Power is highly developed and there is nothing you can do about it.

I am a renegade of Power, and this is a fragment of my account. reply

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Btw, (thread related) I was contacted by the “Aluvians” as they like to call themselves (those “Greys”), due to my disruption of Power.

They’re quite nice and ambivalent. Thought Control of America, and thought controlled Americans are the enemy of humanity.
by vFunct | 2025-06-13 03:48:39+00:00
I still don't understand why we need text rendered offline and stored in an atlas alongside tricks like SDFs, when GPUs have like infinite vertex/pixel drawing capabilities.. Even the article mentions writing glyph curves to an atlas. Why can't the shaders render text directly? There has to be a way to convert bezier to triangle meshes. I'm about to embark on a GPU text renderer for a CAD app and I hope to figure out why soon.
by baby_souffle | 2025-06-13 03:48:43+00:00
> is there any sensor data from stuff like apple health care that could be put into an ML to detect such changes on breathing fingerprint?

Pixel (all of android?) devices have some sleep-time snoring/breath interruption detection built in.

As far as I know, they do this with just microphone so the apple watch should be able to do this, too.

Plotting the measurements over time would be really cool!
by zahlman | 2025-06-13 03:49:33+00:00
The sheer petulance of the Xorg developers is really quite stunning, not to mention the obsession they demonstrate with the politics of their enemies (the ones they make on political grounds). For example, here's Jordan Petridis:

https://mastodon.social/@alatiera/114661446785833161

Imagine proposing that people who fork an open source project, out of frustration that you don't maintain it, are thereby doing something wrong. Imagine publicly celebrating "killing" an open-source project that your(?) community somehow "owns".

Imaging going on at length about everything you can dig up about the politics of someone who has wronged you; now imagine feeling wronged because the other party exercised the rights granted under the MIT license. A reminder here that the definition of Open Source, as curated by the OSI, requires "The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons." (https://opensource.org/osd). Not for any reason, including not liking their politics. Not even if you think they'll discriminate against someone else (I see no actual reason to believe this of Weigelt). As long as they follow the license you grant them.

And then there's this blog post about how X11 support is being dropped from GNOME:

https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/06/08/the-x11-session-...

Try to imagine a right-winger signing off a blog post with something analogous, completely unrelated to the technical content of the post. I can't. (I'm not quoting it because a) I'm not here to critique the views and b) I'm trying to be better. This is supposed to be a meta-level point, about how much they talk about politics and use political identity - not about what the politics in question actually are.)

I'm not at all surprised to learn that this guy is (theoretically) young enough to be my kid.
by const_cast | 2025-06-13 03:49:41+00:00
> "Putting minorities in camps" has the implication that they're being put into camps because they're minorities.

Right, and how do you do this and get away with it? In every single circumstance in history, how was this done?

You accuse them of some crime, skip the "prove they did it" part, and then put them somewhere where they can never contact anyone ever again.

Okay - now what is the Trump administration and ICE doing? Because, to me, it sounds a lot like that.

Now, I will admit - there's some plausible deniability here. You're correct that ICE is ass and they make mistakes.

What, I think, takes it over the edge is the hostile and adversarial approach of the Trump administration. The DOJ has refused to comply with some orders (lawful orders!) and the administration has doubled-down when they've made mistakes. Trump has even joked about having the power to bring back people from El Salvador, but choosing not to use that power. When you accuse random people of being part of MS-13 and just kind of shrug when courts say "no, bring that guy back" it gives the impression that you're intentionally trying to ruin people's lives.

There's tolerance for mistakes built into the mind's of Americans, but when mistakes are constantly underplayed, rug-swept, or outright lied about, we all get a little nervous. If the Trump Administration wasn't so hell-bent on burning as much good will as possible, we wouldn't be having this conversation on if people are being disappeared.
by morsecodist | 2025-06-13 03:51:14+00:00
I don't doubt that we will be able to make a content machine. Honestly, we had that on tiktok before generative AI. But I feel like this kind of misses the point of art. The idea of art for me is on some level experiencing someone else's intention and connecting with others based on that. Generative models have no intention or experience so I am uninterested in what they have to say even if it is technically well executed.
by tverbeure | 2025-06-13 03:52:08+00:00
It's not impossible to hack the hardware to do this: the output of the SDRAMs go to some 74-series chips which drive both the DAC and the connector for the 16-bit output.

You could remove the SDRAM path altogether, reverse the signal path from the connector with some PCB surgery and drive the DAC from the connector with your own digital hardware. That's one way...

There's also a hardware path from the ISA bus straight to the DAC, bypassing the SDRAM, for diagnostic purposes probably. So there might by options there too, but though it would require a ton of reverse engineering or even reprogramming the FPGAs (which are so old that the software isn't available anymore on the Altera website.)

Whether or not all of that is worth doing for a 14-bit DAC output is a matter of personal opinion.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-06-13 03:52:14+00:00
After reading about cloudflare infra in post mortems it has always been surprising how immature their stack is. Like they used to run their entire global control plane in a single failure domain.

Im not sure who is running the show there, but the whole thing seems kinda shoddy given cloudflares position as the backbone of a large portion of the internet.

I personally work at a place with less market cap than cloudflare and we were hit by the exact same instances (datacenter power went out) and had almost no downtime, whereas the entire cloudflare api was down for nearly a day.
by bruce511 | 2025-06-13 03:52:46+00:00
While it's easy to play the "both sides behave the same" card, in practice though I dont think they do. Fundamentally democrats are still behaving like a party did and are not excusing or indulging in radical governance.

For example At the first hint of a scandal democrats get pushed from office, whereas we've had plenty of Republicans continue in office despite obvious wrong doing etc.

So no, I don't think the next president would behave in the same way - there are fundamental differences in the way the parties are behaving.
by maeil | 2025-06-13 03:55:22+00:00
Israel is in Gaza because they have funded and supported Hamas, in the hope they would use those funds to invade them, giving them pretext for a genocide.

“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas … This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.” - Benjamin Netanyahu [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/20/benjam...
by neilv | 2025-06-13 03:56:36+00:00
If ChatGPT generates it for someone's homework or slide deck, who's to say Gartner didn't. :)

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by kstrauser | 2025-06-13 03:57:11+00:00
Why are those two mutually exclusive? I'd think that a high performance allocator would be especially crucial in the implementation of a fast garbage collected language. For example, in Python you can't alloc(n * sizeof(obj)) to reserve that much contiguous space for n objects. Instead, you use the builtins which isolate you from that low-level bookkeeping. Those builtins have to be pretty fast or performance would be terrible.
by jjani | 2025-06-13 03:57:53+00:00
They are, but they have in common that a huge portion of things written about them online in English - especially about these cultural subjects - are very outdated or otherwise unrepresentative. Like I said, most of that comment is written all the time about SK too, and they're effectively untrue. There would need to be strong evidence that such reports about Japan are any different.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-13 03:59:03+00:00
> I'm not sure what you're talking about. Israel kept a small buffer zone around the border, but other than that, I'm not sure what "layered security exclusion zones" you mean.

The buffer zone had different rules at different distances, and while you call it small it consisted of 17% of the land area of Gaza when Israel "completed" its "disengagement", and was later unilaterally expanded to 24% of the land area of Gaza.
by mistersquid | 2025-06-13 03:59:12+00:00
(Didn't carefully read your reply. What follows are the results of cat-ing a text file in the CLI. Will give the new textbox a whirl in the morning PDT. A truly heartfelt thanks for helping me work with Chatterbox TTS!)

Absolutely blown away.

I fed it the first page of Gibson's "Neuromancer" and your incantation worked like a charm. Thanks for the shell script pipe mojo.

Some other details:

- 3:01 (3 mins, 1 sec) of generated .wav took 4:28 to process - running on M4 Max with 128GB RAM - Chatterbox TTS inserted a few strange artifacts which sounded like air venting, machine whirring, and vehicles passing. Very odd and, oddly, apropos for cyberpunk. - Chatterbox TTS managed to enunciate the dialog _as_ dialog, even going so far as to mimick an Australian accent where the speaker was identified as such. (This might be the effect of wishful listening.)

I am astounded.
by Svetlitski | 2025-06-13 04:01:03+00:00
It’s just a huge pain to build and link against. Before the bazel 7.4.0 change your options were basically:

1. Use it as a dynamically linked library. This is not great because you’re taking at a minimum the performance hit of going through the PLT for every call. The forfeited performance is even larger if you compare against statically linking with LTO (i.e. so that you can inline calls to malloc, get the benefit of FDO , etc.). Not to mention all the deployment headaches associated with shared libraries.

2. Painfully manually create a static library. I’ve done this, it’s awful; especially if you want to go the extra mile to capture as much performance as possible and at least get partial LTO (i.e. of TCMalloc independent of your application code, compiling all of TCMalloc’s compilation units together to create a single object file).

When I was at Meta I imported TCMalloc to benchmark against (to highlight areas where we could do better in Jemalloc) by pain-stakingly hand-translating its bazel BUILD files to buck2 because there was legitimately no better option.

As a consequence of being so hard to use outside of Google, TCMalloc has many more unexpected (sometimes problematic) behaviors than Jemalloc when used as a general purpose allocator in other environments (e.g. it basically assumes that you are using a certain set of Linux configuration options [1] and behaves rather poorly if you’re not)

[1] https://google.github.io/tcmalloc/tuning.html#system-level-o...
by Animats | 2025-06-13 04:01:22+00:00
Yes. The US wind belt is from the Texas panhandle north to Canada.[1] But there's no good connectivity to anywhere with a load. Some east-west EHV lines from that area would be a big win. There's opposition from oil interests. Just trying to connect East Texas to Mississippi has been stalled for over a decade.[2]

Don't need anything as exotic as the 14MV the original poster proposes. 1MV at 1000 amps, which is a gigawatt, has been done many times in China. One right of way can have several such lines. It would be best to have at least two distant rights of way, for redundancy. California's total load is around 13GW, so the number of 1GW lines needed is not large.

Undergrounding high powered lines is a huge headache, but possible. Here's an overview.[3]

[1] https://unitedstatesmaps.org/us-wind-map/

[2] https://www.texaspolicy.com/proposed-transmission-line-in-ea...

[3] https://electrical-engineering-portal.com/res3/Undergroundin...
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-06-13 04:01:23+00:00
> Again... like what?

Pick any of the industries that’ve repeatedly gotten headlines about being caught polluting.

> "Assume we have massive economies already inhabiting other planets" is... again... simply asserting your conclusion.

Well I mean if you focus on the transitionary phase of anything expensive, it looks difficult to justify and this is no exception.

> You expect colonizing the Moon or Mars to be easier than solving heat islands and air conditioning?

No, but I’m not posing one as an alternative or exclusive to the other.

> I was asking for evidence that having frontiers to explore (besides the vast frontiers left on earth including the ocean) are some meaningful stabilizing force for society.

Frontiers as in new places to settle, not just explore. While I guess it’s technically possible to settle the bottom of the ocean I don’t think very many groups or individuals would find the prospect all that appealing.

This kind of frontier is stabilizing because when people become dissatisfied or frustrated with the state of things where they live, they can band together with likeminded, stake a claim, and shape their own fate to a greater degree than would otherwise be possible. This hasn’t been possible for a long time now.

> Okay then why wouldn't we take the vast sums spent on space travel and spread it to the thousands of far less-funded fields of scientific development?

Because then you’d unnecessarily be letting an entire wing of science atrophy when those other less -funded fields could instead easily be funded by cleaning up waste.
by gjayakrishnan | 2025-06-13 04:01:24+00:00
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Our document editor is powered by Zoho Writer, offering all the capabilities of a word processor along with versioning, document assembly, and automation features. On top of this, we’ve built structured version control, clause-level change tracking, and workflow-integrated collaboration. This enables legal and business teams to work together seamlessly without relying on external editors or juggling redlined Word files over email.

Just sharing in case anyone else here is tackling similar problems or interested in the space.
by const_cast | 2025-06-13 04:01:52+00:00
I find often with progressives not that those people are constantly trying to "signal" they support or stand with some people, but rather that they themselves are of some minority and therefore want to surround themselves in places where they're actively accepted.

Like, gay people aren't going to gay bars and drag shows to signal how woke and cool they are. They're going there because that's where they can be them, and that's where they're gonna have fun.

Or, when it comes to identity groups that they're not a part of, there's usually some overlap. Like a lot of the sort of underground gay scene and the black communities go hand and hand, and you'll see the adoption and flow of things like language and culture between them.
by tsimionescu | 2025-06-13 04:03:20+00:00
Visual reasoning is not required to follow an algorithm that was laid out. The fact that the model can't execute an algorithm it was provided proves that it is not able to do deductive synbolic reasoning in general, since that is all that would have been required required.

I would agree with you if this were about inventing the algorithm for itself - it may well be that you'd need some amount of visual reasoning to come up with it. But that's not what the GP (or the paper) were talking about.
by defrost | 2025-06-13 04:03:54+00:00
There's more to glass than simple silica soda lime formulations.

Glass chemistry is still a dark arcane art on the fringes with discoveries made all the time.

I'm not suggesting either of these are better suited or even equivalent insulaters but they are more flexible than what many think of as glass:

https://cen.acs.org/materials/inorganic-chemistry/glass-isnt...

https://www.corning.com/au/en/innovation/the-glass-age/desig...
by somenameforme | 2025-06-13 04:05:59+00:00
> western governments are also in the war of information and minds. if they wouldnt wage it, we'd already have lost.

Tangential, but this I strongly disagree with. The reason the US, and West more broadly, has been gradually, and now rapidly, losing this 'war' since the end of WW2 is precisely because we started waging it. And more generally the reason we started waging it is because we started behaving in an increasingly amoral fashion.

Consider that US had absolutely no intelligence agency whatsoever until 1942. And the CIA did not exist before 1947. Then within 15 years they're proposing engaging in terrorist acts against Americans on American soil so we can blame it on another country and get involved in a war. [1] And that proposal was only stopped by a President who would then shortly thereafter be assassinated by a "deluded gunman." [2] For context on that snippet if you're unaware, Bush Sr was the former head of the CIA.

From there it's shockingly just been a rapidly downhill slide. When you pretend to hold the moral high ground while acting fundamentally immoral, it leaves people far more jaded, and noncompliant, when they eventually 'wake up' to what's happening than if you just dropped the pretext and leveled with people.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOkTtpzoulc
by kvemkon | 2025-06-13 04:09:04+00:00
GTK4 moved rendering to GPU and gave up on RGB subpixel rendering. I've heard, that this GPU-centric decision made it impractical to continue with RGB subpixel rendering. The article shows it is possible. So perhaps, the reason for GTK was another one or the presented solution would have disadvantages or just not integrate in the stack...
by sandreas | 2025-06-13 04:09:20+00:00
For years I had a little project here to rebuild the iPod Nano 7g in Open Source Hardware and software. Not that small, but at least in the same size category (a lot smaller than the smallest smartphone).

The iPod nano 7g is not designed to last forever... it is hard to repair - the battery can be replaced but the internal 16GB flash memory is a job for professionals.

There are lots of <= 4 inch Android players which could simply run an app, but these are draining a battery so fast after a while it isn't even close to the experience of a specific device.

The main pain point is controlling the device via headphone remote. The iPod supports play/pause, next, prev, vol+, vol- and fast-forward as well as rewind. Nothing comes close to this in android.

However, I was aiming to take one of the newer RISC-V boards with USB-C (like LicheeRV Nano or Luckfox Lyra), add a 2.4 inch display and a battery + gauge to it and 3D print a case, work out a UI via LVGL, but having 2 children is just too time consuming for such a project.

Sticking to my iPod Nano 7g hopefully lasts another 5 years until I can focus on it again :-)