skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As I understand it wasmtime now supports very fast startup

WASM startup isn't going to be any faster than native code startup. It's going to be strictly worse if anything thanks to the JIT, although you can AOT that to native and then just restore parity with native code.

Which just gets back to the speed of your startup depends on what your startup does.
For those interested in this sort of thing, I strongly recommend https://new.750words.com
You need a charging controller that can disconnect the battery. IIRC my Xperia T3 was capable of that.

On Android, Advanced Charging Controller App (AccA) can tell you that, and help define profiles to avoid that spicy pillow issue.

Some phones additionally support running without battery, or you can connect a power supply in place of the battery.
Yes, I agree this is a potential way forward.

I believe there are three problems:

* There isn't software that generates point clouds from video games. This should be solvable but AFAIK hasn't been done yet.

* The diversity of models in video games is much lower than the real world

* Games use a bunch of techniques to reduce the poly count while making assets look like they are high poly (eg texture mapping). It's unclear what should be generated here.

Take a look at the field of NeRFs (Neural Radiance Fields: https://datagen.tech/guides/synthetic-data/neural-radiance-f...) for more on this subject.
Add an ETH address somewhere and I'll send $50. I don't use this service because I don't watch television but it looks like it would be useful for people who do. Also couldn't you just scrape https://www.tvguide.com/listings/?
On the other hand, a heavy wheel will also hold more angular momentum and so will better resist drag, at the cost of more difficult acceleration, braking, and stiffer but more stable steering.
At the bottom of the article is the blurb about the author:

> Matt Welsh (mdw@mdw.la) is the CEO and co-founder of Fixie.ai, a recently founded startup developing AI capabilities to support software development teams. He was previously a professor of computer science at Harvard University, a director of engineering at Google, an engineering lead at Apple, and the SVP of Engineering at OctoML. He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley back in the days when AI was still not playing chess very well.
Exactly! They decided that you would rather pay than migrate off it, so they can start charging, and stop leaving substantial money on the table.

It seems that their assumptions were correct.
Kickstarter shut down the campaign for AI porn group Unstable Diffusion
> Google didn't tell everyone to SEO.

Google gave lots and lots of ad money to websites that did SEO, so they effectively did tell everyone to SEO - crippling their own search product in favor of their ad machine.
Shopify: All storefront requests now served by latest version of Ruby with YJIT
> One night he admitted that the professors would not let students going for a PhD get one if they had any religious belief of any kind.

And how would he know? That doesn't seem like the sort of thing a professor would confide to a grad student. It could end the professor's career.

I think it's much more likely that your TA was lying to you in service of his own political agenda.

In any case, it is manifestly untrue that this is widespread because half of all working biologists profess to hold religious beliefs.
Afaik There’s no way to directly donate to firefox, which I would do, but there’s no chance I’ll be donating to Mozilla when they waste money on this kind of stuff.

So I assume the same people who would be paying for the social network.
Anti-Capitalist Software License (v1.4)
And we already know, as those are the hacks we use and have used for years. They're still limiting tho for the intended purpose.

And if you're not using CCs/Sysex in an ad-hoc way, e.g. if you can get VST vendors to agree on some semantics for those, then you've just built a new protocol layer on top of MIDI, only you did it as a kludge, with whatever was available as a "safety net for unknown stuff" from 40 years ago, and not a proper design...
"but quite safe unplugged"

a CRT monitor is typically (I would not gamble on it - again!) not safe when unplugged
This isn't what is needed. The intermediate steps aren't useful.
Anyone know what the just noticable difference of swing ratio is?
> GPUs don't really like drawing vector graphics. They like big batches of textured triangles. So, I needed to rasterize these vectors.

I remember in the distant past of like 15 years ago when it was still common wisdom to avoid vector images on web pages, or drawing anything using fancy CSS features, because the resource cost to the client was too high and it'd hurt performance.

I think proliferation of runtime-rendered vector-icons/CSS-drawing/CSS-animation is under-appreciated when it comes to finding things to blame for why the web performs like dogshit, even on super computers. Sure it's probably mostly Javascript's fault, but I think those very likely play a non-negligible role.
Ask for a smaller percentage but a non-dilution binding agreement where you are awarded more shares per funding round to maintain ownership level.
ads market will always be a cat/mouse game, a wild goose chase. you'll never be able to kill it fully.

> the people making the good content don't do it for the money

citation needed. there're two driving forces:

- money

- clout

they're interchangeable. if you have one the other becomes much easier to obtain.
if the writer don't do it directly for the money, they're most definitely doing it for the clout.
I Had Electroconvulsive Therapy. It Was Nothing Like What I Expected
Why should poor fast food workers pay student loans for privileged liberal arts majors?
Slap a "No user serviceable parts inside" sticker on it, and you have an unbeatable liability shield! /s
A lot of eating is habitual, driven by social cues etc. E.g., anyone who is used to eating breakfast but skips it one day will feel like they are "starving", but if they skip it for two weeks they no longer get that hungry feeling in the morning because your body is no longer habitualized to release ghrelin at the same time.

>lowering metabolism

I believe this has been debunked. Your calories out is a function of calories in (e.g., protein takes more energy to metabolize than, say, glucose), but your body doesn't really downregulate it's metabolism the way it's been touted in the past.

>search in hopes of finding specific tricks that shut down
IMO, what consistently works is whatever "tricks" you use to reduce calories below what you burn. For some people, it's eliminating meat. For others, it's eating nothing but meat. For others, it's a flexible approach as long as they count calories. But the main commonality seems to be the reduction of calories (and movement away from the standard american diet).
Conics.net is importing the SV2: https://conics.net/laptops/11-13-inch-screen.html

Panasonic also sell the SV2 in some markets under the Toughbook line, but the spec seems to be more limited: https://business.panasonic.sg/computer-product/notebooks/tou...

It's shame that Panasonic aren't distributing the SV2 globally, they've gone to the effort of making a US English keyboard for the Toughbook SV1. I think there's still demand for this kind of niche ultraportable - as far as I am aware, this is the last of the true "full fat" ultraportables that used to be more common in the 00s (e.g. Sony VAIO TZ series).
It appears that Clang will warn even without this syntax while GCC does not warn unless it has this syntax. At least, it did when I dropped the `static 6` from the example.
This really interesting. As it happens I just got into knitting and I’m working on my first beanie. I find it really relaxing and at the you get something you can use yourself or give as a gift.
Stop taking control of your life. Live like a fish in an ocean.
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What action type do you use for your script? "Open"?
Yes, but I don't think a deeper discussion about the flaws of array handling C is really going to illuminate anything here. The conclusions generally go in one of three ways--either you choose to use a different language, choose to deal with C (with tools like static analyzers or instrumentation), or choose to make proposals to the C committee.

Proper array types are not present in C and they're unlikely to be added at any point in the future, so if the conversation is "the array data and length need to be combined into a single semantic entity", then the conversation is no longer about C, but the starting point for choosing another language.

The int a[static 6] syntax made it into the language because it's a small enough change that it's not disruptive to existing uses of C, but it still has some benefit (I've used it, I've seen its benefits).
It's certainly the case that anyone who needs an item but doesn't have cash on hand for it is going to pay more (by borrowing and paying interest), which isn't quite the same phenomenon but boils down to the same conclusion: in many cases, it costs more to be poor.

However I will agree there are likely more cases where buying the cheaper product is the most economical option even in the long run - obviously true for perishable items, but e.g. when deciding to buy 2nd hand vs new, and yes, even for things like clothes, there are clearly examples of items whose price bears little relation to their likely longevity. Though I would suggest in general that a $100 pair of shoes is likely to last more than 4 times longer than a $25 pair.
> Docker only uses namespaces and cgroups.

How is that not isolation?
I first started dabbling with Mastodon 5 years ago. In my country there only were 6 instances at the time. 3 were made up by anarcho-communists, 1 was dedicated to music, 1 was dedicated to video games and only 1 self-touted as a "generalist" instance.

Of course I made my first profile on the generalist one, but I quicky discover I couldn't post on the timeline of the music or videogames one. I could only reply to already existing discussions, which was fine but gave me a big sense of passivity. This is a real problem for which I now propose a solution.

If you think it's fine that the only people who can post in a specific community are the ones who have an account there (= giving all your data to the server admins) then maybe you have a completely different view of what should be possible on Mastodon.
This reminds me of some internet comment during the first lockdown. Paraphrasing :

"This is also life, not just something you have to wait through before it begins"

A lot of people will wait their entire lives for the perfect circumstances, while an imperfect start years ago would have taken them further.

That being said, the author could use a break. That's a lot to do at once, especially when you announce it to others. I prefer to give myself as more space for random impulses, so I'm more conservative in my commitments.
I find integrating shellcheck into my text editor was one of the best things I've done for increasing my productivity when writing shell scripts.
Thank you, I'll add ETH shorly. As for scraping, I don't do any automation on site. Everything is done by hand that what makes it so unique. However, when it comes to reruns, maybe in the future I'll implement something for that.
> I wonder what server they ended up on to have this impression

Probably http://dolphin.town — you're only allowed to use the letter E.
I've been using it more and more at work, and it's already saved me hours by generating bash commands and simple scripts/servers that I would otherwise have to search for on Google and adjust to my specific use case from multiple sources. Thanks to this tool, I have more time to focus on difficult and business-related problems. If they start charging for it, I will definitely become a paying customer. This is an excellent tool that is making me more productive, and I was a big skeptic about how LLMs work internally. Remove hallucination problem, add annotations with links to sources and this is how Google will look like in a few years. IMO this is how future of knowledge search will look like on the internet.
What is the advantage? You have to remove the dirt in the middle either way. And with a bigger drill you can get through tougher obstacles.
I don’t know how much they get but it’s peanuts. React os. https://reactos.org/donate/
It seems that for militaries without the budget for helicopters or real tiltrotors like the Osprey a hybrid electric quad tiltroter as a replacement. There are a lot of drawbacks, of course, but I'd think the ease of maintenance and ease of training relative to a real helicopter would be a powerful argument for some countries.
Hate to be that guy that ruins parties but there's a couple of obvious issues here

Firstly, the repeated Java Script delivery problem

The library that generates random numbers is bundled in your browser. However, the code that calls that library is delivered from network every time, e.g.

let iv = crypto.getRandomValues(new Uint8Array(blockSize));

This code depends on what the server yields for every connection. There is no audit trail to check how the program behaved in the past.

Secondly, passwords. When you're grandma-proofing your product, introducing a low entropy secret from which key is derived creates a weak link for the communications' key. Stretching the key with PBKDF2 doesn't really help because the initial entropy is so low.

Ideally you want very strong key stretching with memory hard hash functions like Argon2, and you'll want to target local encryption of strong random keys with the password, not the communications itself. This is why we want public key authentication for SSH server and no passwords. It's safer that the weak password stays on the user's device.

Lastly, encryption is about converting confidentiality problem into a key management problem. This application doesn't solve the key delivery problem, if exchanging a secret such as the password over e.g. a telephone line is what you need to do, you might as well use that line to exchange the super secret comms.

The author describes this as a hack, when in reality it's just a bad product that doesn't make it easy to automate best practices. I have much more trust in stuff like Signal that generates (and upgrades automatically) strong secrets, uses public key crypto, and allows authenticating key exchanges with values that are safe to say over even an eavesdropped channels.

There's even open source and reproducible builds. That stuff isn't grandma proof, but at least its researcher proof when there at least IS some audit trail.
What gives you such confidence in your statement?
I don't have anything specific but here's something I quickly threw together demonstrating what I mean https://gist.github.com/jarshwah/1e683416d2ed2df28f254fc787d...
$400 billion would not contribute to the national debt?
I see, thank you. It was using about 30% of CPU on my end, so I couldn't tell whether it was running (poorly) on my browser or on a server.
I'm not disagreeing with you in general but we do have long lines in countries where the TSA is not involved ;)
The belief that everything has a purpose is not very distinctive among Christians, so within a church, what separates young earth believers from the rest of the church?
Coincidentally, policies that make things "get better" just happen to be promoted and supported by the political party that I support.
The frustrating part is that excellent content, the type that is relevant, well researched, well written, that stands head and shoulders above anything else is out there. More than ever before.

I know this because I'm subscribed to lots of newsletters in multiple fields. They contain one gem after the other. There's a wealth of top notch content that does contain said wisdom. As in, read just this article and skip the 100 other ones. Because it is so damn good.

But I have to actively store them to notes or bookmarks, because you'll never find a single one in Google.

Google has become completely broken for me. In general it returns low quality verbose content, which seems a variation of keyword spamming from 20 years ago. Gonna be great when those crappy pages can be generated with AI.

Google promotes stale content that is outdated or simply incorrect over anything else. And not only that, this effect strengthens over time.

Google increasingly dismisses your input. You type a few words and it simply drops a few.

Google has no understanding of meaning. You'll type "red flower thailand" and it'll just include flowers from any other random country, including those not even red.

Google indexes everything and still can't figure out an original source. It'll show you spammy Pinterest garbage over the actual high quality source.

So here we are. We do have a treasure chest of wisdom. But wisdom doesn't click ads so fuck us I guess. And if this isn't depressing enough, Google will continue to get away with it. Google only has to work for the masses posing normie surface level questions. It does that. It works.
Are starfish larger than humans? This makes it sound like size is not the correct variable to consider
yes panick21_, you're totally right, fixing the poor people problem is totally easy, if only people would listen to you!
Am I really the only one thinking this is all AI-generated and completely fake?
Yeah open works, you can also create a multiaction to mix-and-match with other actions or scripts in between.
>But the space of "what can you do with an 'instrument' to make music" is immense

And the space of "what you can do expression-wise with very commonly used VST and sample libraries and notation packages" is hardly vast, and could very well be covered with MIDI if it has some more very basic capabilities.

It doesn't need to cover all the space (like how to express a musical saw performance), and nobody asks for this.

They ask for very common problems, everyone in the notation, sountrack, etc. field has, and that sequencers already solve - but in ad-hoc and non-standard ways, or ways that require too much manual intervention.

Common people, it's not like a 40 years old, pre computer music format, is the holy grail, and anybody criticizing it for lack of certain features needed today (today? Huh, expressive mode switch in sample VSTs has been a thing for 2+ decades) is akin to implying "USB lacks support for ametric poetry."
The CRT acts like a capacitor, storing charge for quite considerable lengths of time. Consider that a B&W would typically run 10kV to 15kV, and color sets easily 25kV, and that should give you some idea of how much energy one of those things can hold. And with those kinds of voltages, you don't even need to make contact to find you've become a discharge path, that stuff will reach out and grab you across considerable air gaps.
oh, boy. the temptations of telling how to find out on your own are strong!

the capacitors in CRTs could store a charge for a long time. i've seen people that assumed the caps were discharged find out the hard way when they shorted the leads with a tool. the noise alone is enough to make one need clean shorts. the only good thing is that they discharge quickly, but they give you "both barrels" worth to borrow a phrase.
I do it all the time. That's the thing, once you can do it without hassle, you do it. Regular scenarios:

1. Refactoring

2. You are experimentally coding and changing names of methods and variables as you realize you need to split stuff up

3. One of your colleagues can't name stuff for shit

The IDE I use makes it so easy it's just a thing I do without even thinking about it.

Another great thing is just highlighting some code and with a simple keypress extracting that code to a new method, with the right return type, params, etc. all done automatically. Not quite right? Highlighted the wrong rows? Press ctrl-z.
This is really a way to hook people on paid iCloud accounts.
Ask HN: Can a ChatGPT app that specializes in medicine replace a Doctor?
ChatGPT is pretty good but can it specialize on a subject area and replace 50%+ of the specialists in that area?
I kinda like it, like a built in short summary. Unfocus your eyes a little and read only the bold words and it still makes sense:

"ideal distribute small generic. don't possible fantasy dreaming."
Here is an example of where I think it is doing "no reasoning".

I ask it for the XOR swap trick and I get:

int a = 5;
int b = 10;

a = a ^ b;
b = a ^ b;
a = a ^ b;

// After the swap, a = 10 and b = 5

I ask for the bitwise OR swap trick and I get:

int x = 5;
int y = 10;

x = x | y;
y = x | y;
x = x | y;

// After the swap, x = 10 and y = 5

When asked for something which is invalid, but close to something it knows, it tends to produce stuff like this -- pattern matching it's best guess.
> For example why do I need to know what Alpine Linux is in order to run a node app?

In case you need to install anything in it as well as your application.
The question is: "is it a good fit?"

A chat app aimed mainly at 1-1 or small group communications has a clear path to being a super app. (WhatsApp... Also Facebook has a history of having an API for 3rd party apps that integrate with Facebook, one is left with the feeling that it is serious misconduct on Facebook's part that they screwed around with Libra but never took a serious stab at peer-to-peer payments.)

As Twitter is mainly about large scale group communications it seems adding payments to Twitter might get you something more like Patreon, Substack or OnlyFans.

Another trouble I see with Twitter is that a payment app has to be trustworthy... We're used to seeing warnings on Tweets that they might be "fake news" and Elon Musk seems to have a roughly 40% unfavorable rating these days [1]. The left-leaning half of the population is unlikely to want to send or receive payments w/ Twitter; many people on the right seem to squee as soon as they hear "TWITTER FILES" but feelings work like a ratchet and if his erratic behavior pisses off people on the right his favorables won't get any better.

[1] https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/study/31120044/questio...
That's the point though - richer people with larger houses and sufficient refrigeration space at least have the option to save money by buying in bulk. Then again, richer people need a way of signaling their wealth to others so will typically by more "premium" products, so the two effects largely cancel each other out (as it is, the stats certainly don't show that the rich spend absolutely less on food than the poor - but certainly a significantly lower % of their income).
1) I never said the U.S. is "leading the way". Just using it as and example. China and Russia also had their own civil wars/struggles and are now more united than thousands of years ago. 2) I don't get where you got the statement "they are bad" since I never said that. "They are bad" is a statement that always oversimplifies the situation when applied to a whole country. The problem is the very small percentage of people in position of power in China/Russia that are hoarding the power/money and there is no mechanism (i.e. popular elections) for the populace to remove them from power.
They're not trying to "piggyback on MIDI to store sheet music".

They are trying to use MIDI to play the sheet music, with their built-in sample player, and with third party orchestral VSTs, but with less information loss about expressiveness...
If the medium was created to avoid specific risks that are introduced by "proper authorities" for the depraved benefit those authorities, then asking for the proper authorities to cripple that medium invites further depravity from the authorities.

If theft and fraud are rampant within a certain medium, people will learn to use it in ways that they can't be defrauded or robbed from, or it will whither on its own.
If only we could apply collaborative filtering to webpages.
Young Earth Creationism is a Christian fundamentalist framework masquerading as science. They may not mention the Bible in order to keep up the facade of simply presenting an alternate scientific viewpoint, but requiring a belief in the Bible is still non-negotiable, since their entire thesis, as such, draws from it.