skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personal website with some stuff I've written and built, like a falling sand series and an interactive animation creation tool.

https://jason.today
I did start seeing unrelated repos under topics/x
PowerShell.[0]

We have used it years on Linux in production. I would assume the MacOS version is just as first class as the Linux version. We are not using to replace Bash as a login shell, not just yet, but a simple pwsh-command and boom, welcome to the future where you're not tied to the 50 year old antiquated idea of 'everything is a file' and it's 40 year old codebase. PowerShell is just a shell for dotnet, so you could say it's idea is 'everything is an object'. For example, JSON is just a datatype in PowerShell world. You don't need jq and it's horrible syntax.

Sorry if that's too confrontational, but I've been using PowerShell as my daily driver for the past 17 years, and Bash+grep+whatnot feels just as antiquated as cmd.exe.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/insta...
I like this list. It's also missing "debugging". That's a skill that they don't emphasize in college because they can't test it and it's hard to teach. But there are ways to teach it and techniques. There are some books on the subject:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1484290410/

https://www.whyprogramsfail.com/

That can mitigate that a bit.
If I ever go to a hospital, I'm taking the stairs...
Steam Deck, I can play videogames (my hobby) way more and I feel relaxed after work, instead of sitting on the same chair to play.
Would love to join this group as well, if possible.
Meh, I'll go against the grain and say I'm happy I started programming in my teens, and got my first job at 19. It's harder to learn university-level curricula by yourself, but not impossible, and it is better to get a headstart in a field where young talent is preferred over senior like tech.

If you want to be real good at inverting a binary tree and get a FAANG job ASAP, choose the academic route. If you love programming and want to get better at it with real world experience, get a job. You will have the rest of your life to learn about inverting binary trees if you really need to. 100% of what you will learn is available online, often for free.

Don't underestimate the effect of starting your career at 18 instead of 25. I'd rather hire the one with most experience.
You know the original internet protocol is so much easier than asn.qm1 for diagnosis than I think it is a key reason why internet protocol won. To these days major communication like json is text based.

Having said that when you generalised as in that article one has to think what is text. Also many text message （copper era) still not decriphered. It is not rosy.

And pictorials like Egyptian alphabet and in fact the chinese non-alphabet is picture based. Hence what is really important might be to preserve some reference. Even binary can be decrypted.

Btw how do we do voyager …
Have you been apart of an acquisition before? it's pretty damn accurate and not cynical at all.
This person is part of a weird New Wave of Twitterati Buddhists-not-Buddhists who are happy to throw out huge chunks of the dharma in the name of going their own way. It's not bearing good fruits. This person also wrote a long screed on divorce that was really about spritzing their favorite perfume scent and barely mentioning the person they divorced except as backdrop to the great “I”. [1] It's a new wave that thrives on egoic displays like these, undermining big portions of very helpful dharma teachings like ethics.

Look folks, I know it's vogue in a post post post world to deconstruct all the things but there's a reason why Buddhism has thrived for thousands of years producing good, kind people and rebel dharmas have withered on the vine. Yes, there are exceptions but overall, it's been wildly effective as a method for awakening that also spares others violence. That said, there are good rebel dharma people out there like Daniel Ingram who do promote ethics as an essential cornerstone of practice (and it is, try it).

The Twitterati of dharma are not it. They do not come bearing the gift of conscious revolution, they come bearing more poisoned seeds of self delusion because that's what Twitter thrives on: the grand illusion of Self thrumming to the crowd of their creation.

In this particular article, Sasha declares that endgame meditation looks like more neuroses, pride and immoral acts and that's the dirty secret of the community. Well, yes, when your community looks like Twitter and you think you've endgamed Buddhism, that is what it will look like because you are not actually attained in anything other than building shrines to self.

Sasha then declares at the end that one should build strong attachments to things and allow them to wound you, the exact opposite of craving and bondage, which the Buddha asks us to avoid. This person is playing games with the Buddha, playing games with dharma, and writes for a crowd that will pay them to continue playing these games.

My ultimate point here, which weaves in with some of the rebukes I've been writing lately here, is more focus needs to be placed on fundamentals and really grokking them with the aid of actual accomplished teachers who have spent decades endgaming your chosen practice. People of real ethical fiber. People who do not need your money to continue existing, do not want it, and have no motive to take it. People like Thannisaro Bhikku [2] or honest to God forest monks or other renunciates who demonstrate supreme compassion, generosity, and whose actions are blameless. These are people worthy of giving advice on the topic.

[1] https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/my-recent-divorce-andor-d...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B9%ACh%C4%81nissaro_Bhik...
Have you had your thyroid levels tested? My problem was mostly hypothyroidism.
I wrote a UNIX utility called "epoch" that I use for tiny systems where I need to print the epoch but do not want to put a full-blown "date" command in the userland. Here is the code

int printf(const char *__restrict, ...);
unsigned int time(unsigned int *tloc);
int main(){printf("%u\n",time((unsigned int *)0));}
To trust an ancient, bureaucratic, and often incompetent institution as the sacred guardian of some small amount of treasure seems highly unnecessary.
>The local decision-makers know much better the local needs

Do they really? Election voter turnout is absolutely abysmal and gets lower the lower the government level goes. This is a clear sign voters no longer believe in democracy at the local level because exercising democratic rights no longer has influence on the situation. Why? Because imbeciles have successfully embedded themselves in lower levels of governments and use the devolved power to keep the status quo in order to profit off of it.
> (For better or worse I don't retire until after 2040.)

You are the chosen one. More seriously, "supports transportation infrastructure" is pretty broad. What would be the scale of the problem if it went unfixed? A headache for your company or a headache for all of us?
It’s a common misconception but there is a difference between concurrency and parallelism.

Concurrency is very useful across all aspects of the stack including OS code, and even web app code.

Your comment about “usefulness” is likely about Parallelism. Which I agree with you is typically only useful in abstractions like OS code and even web frameworks.
Who cares about having a conversation with someone who rejects the idea of any outside sources of information being accurate since you can never reach any sort of consensus on objective reality with them?
There is if you expand eating less and moving more to being a surrogate endpoint instead of just being dials. If simply eating less causes a spontaneous reduction in activity that’s a signal. If changing what you eat lets you consume fewer (or desire more) calories for the same appetite/satiety that’s a signal. Paying attention to CICO is like having a gyroscope and accelerometer to help with navigation: leading indicators of where you’re heading until actual measurements (i.e. position/weight) confirm where you actually are. In fact it’s even better in this case because of how noisy weight is and needing multiple days (at least) to reliably judge the effect of an intervention.
GoKapital advertises up to $500k personal loans on an unsecured basis, with a higher chance of success if you're partially secured (admittedly, putting $50k down instead of investing it elsewhere is an additional cost to servicing the loan, but even 6-12 months into a tech career you should've had $50k saved up, so that shouldn't be a barrier to entry at least).

Also, ordinary banks might not advertise outrageous personal loans, but when your base salary starts at $300k and has a history of increasing (i.e., you don't _need_ the money and just want it to power a particular total comp over time profile, especially when you keep at least 50% of your total comp in cash rather than leveraged investments), most mainstream banks are more than happy to furnish somebody to personally service your account and make a loan like that happen.

Separately, if you live in parts of the country (US-specific) where salaries like that are common, you probably have a down payment of $200k+ if you have a mortgage and would have little problem grabbing a partially secured loan against your current equity.
Is there a typo in the intro, or did they really build only 10 (ten) houses during 4 years?
You might need to define success, and fail, to quote a statistic like this.

There are multiple groups of people (old owners, new owners, sellers-employees, buyers-employees, customers), multiple assets (physical, intellectual, human, customer-base, code etc)

To ascribe failure to and acquisition I think means taking the viewpoint of they buyer - did the get what the wanted, or not? Not the viewpoint of employees or customers.
Trust me, I love PowerShell (disclaimer that I worked on it) but in MacOS it's an add-on not a first class citizen, and I think there are fundamental principles that can be picked up by other shells. In fact, the PowerShell cmdlets are expressive enough in their metadata that they can be run by other shells easily.
https://zck.org/

Lots of Emacs and generative art.

Buffalo chicken thoughts go to https://theflyingbuffalo.com/
I don't know much about AI, but does it know that it doesn't know something? Like would it be able to tell that it's unsure or even wrong?
The next step is clearly to run emacs on this puppy
It looks like this thesis is mostly about making the preprocessing step to create the constraints XML for WFC for a tiled instantiation (as opposed to an overlapping instantiation) automatically from a given image.

The thesis seems interesting enough and I think there's enough there to be worthy of looking for anyone interested in the subject but there are some things that jump out as being problematic or wrong.

They claim they convert hours to milliseconds because their algorithm automates the constraint file generation, with the idea that hours of labor needs to be done in order to make the XML. This is pretty disingenuous as, if a constraint file is being generated, this is most likely being done programatically. This is how I've done this in the past and I would expect other people to do the same.

For example, Quantogram [0] looks to be doing exactly what this thesis is proposing, without, I suspect, the need to hand curate any XML constraint files.

Another is the "castle" example. The output shows little blocks in isolation as a result of their WFC implementation (or constraints file generation?). This makes me pretty uneasy as that block is not in the source file image. I didn't really catch a good justification of why that singular block should be there.

Any discussion of WFC should, in my opinion, discuss the severe limitations of the method. At one point, the video presentation says that WFC can create circuit diagrams. While it can certainly create circuit like pictures from the example tilemap, WFC absolutely will fail to create a complex routed circuit if the problem is set up with correct constraints. This is because WFC is only resolving local constraints. If a problem space has a tile set that's too constrained, WFC will almost surely fail.

Understanding what "too constrained" is might be difficult and I only have the barest of intuition about it. The Quantogram link has a "Pacman" tileset that looks to have significant trouble converging [1]. I did write an article about some problems with a (tiled) implementation of WFC in case anyone is interested [2] [^]

[0] https://zaratustra.itch.io/quantogram

[1] https://zaratustra.itch.io/quantogram?width=32&height=32&ima...

[2] https://www.fxhash.xyz/article/lessons-learned-from-implemen...

[^] trigger warning, the link is to an NFT, but you shouldn't let that stop you from reading it
It doesn’t account for the thermocouple effect of food, otherwise protein would count for less than 4 kcal/g
lol at the downvotes.

Saved a bunch of money to spend on our house, honeymoon and shared projects, but sure, take the time out of your day to downvote somebody that views marriage differently than the downvoters.

Surely they have a monopoly on happiness that can only be expressed by clicking the down arrow.

I can only imagine the depths of their marital bliss based on expensive jewelry.
Yeah me too. However, I found that an adapter for using non vesa monitor on vesa mounts. It is worth the price
i thought this was pretty good, the point on aesthetics in particular - how much code have i seen and thought "how could you have written something so ugly?"
> Something tells me the kids writing lua scripts as aimbots aren't quite smart enough to crack a proper signature implementation.

They don't have to.

All they need is a signature of a valid firmware, and then inject code that returns that signature.

The "kids" won't be the ones writing the cheats. That'll be someone who knows how to write code that injects code into another running process, and then they sell the cheat software.

Blizzard tried for YEARS to detect a bot program for World of Warcraft called Glider. Every time they found a way to detect it, the bot engineers found a way to evade the detection. It was constant cat and mouse until Blizz sued the developer and had them shut down.

More back on topic, most of the cheaters are just script kiddies. There are only a couple that actually develop cheats, and they tend to be quite clever.
Not sure who upvotes these bro-science articles with cherry picked data and obnoxious titles.
Who do you suggest we should trust instead?
Do you use your main workstation with directly connected display or via some remote technology?
My home server is in the basement and I have several low end devices around but haven’t found a way to use GUI applications remotely. Currently I use only TUI ones.
I contradict and repeat myself, much verbose, bad grammar, accidentally the word all the time.

Contradictions don't support the argument that ChatGPT is or is not something. It is a language model, not a logical model.

You can guide ChatGPT to correct its mistakes and be less verbose. When folks boldly claim ChatGPT cant do X or Y or Z, they ignore that there are now researchers addressing those same issues. ChatGPT has very low spatial awareness, but you can train it. These LLMs are amazing, what does five years from now look like? How hard will it be to get there?
I think it would be pretty clear it was fiction, based on the outro talking about the author's fictional works or the lack of introduction of the perspective character and their name, history, location; those are the sorts of things you include in human interest pieces that are written similarly.
I've installed several. It's fairly simple. The hardest part of setup was reading the quotes for the config files, because there were very many and not all were written clearly back then.

Lack of federating is a real problem, though. I don't federate. It seems too easy for a malicious user to overrequest data and screw over your budget server, and I've heard of it leading to a lot of resource usage nightmares.
At least one of your items, telephone numbers have their own URI scheme [0] (in the original model, URNs were non-locators while URLs were locators; telephone numbers are arguably locators, but in any case URLs being replaced with URIs, which need not be locators, and URNs becoming a URI scheme mean that there is really very little good rule as to when a non-locator identifier should be a URN namespace vs. its own scheme.)

Also, the same rationale that led to the closure of the registry foe the somewhat similar info: scheme registry [1] likely contribute to limited registration for URN NIDs.

[0] tel: (RFC 3966) https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3966.txt

[1] https://oclc-research.github.io/infoURI-Frozen/
Asking because I don't know, and I can't believe nobody anticipated it. (Blames "Semantic Web").

Is there not a version of URN that allows you to use a registered domain name or IP address as a scope or scheme?

Something in the spirit of:

urn://mycompany.com/Whatever/I/Want

urn:mycompany.com://192.168.0.1/Whatever/I/Want

Semantically, a "uniform" private resource identifier that's "uniformly" parsable while avoiding the unpleasantness of IANA registrations.

I've scraped with IANA protocol registrations before. It wasn't fun at all. I can't imagine doing it for schema or urn schema registration.
That's a fact in practically every organisation. Just try to be part of organizations where the political element plays a lesser role. It will still be priority one, just not frequently enough to rankle.
Not quite sure what you're after, but a used Zoom H1 may work for you:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Zoom_H1_Handy_Re...

Stereo recording and playback, SD card, only one giant "rec" button on the front panel, about three adjusting buttons (mp3 vs wav selection for recording, etc) on the back panel, and some on the sides. Naturally, it also has line/mic-in. Notably, it also works as a USB microphone; and I used mine as the audio interface for an old Thinkpad T42 with great success.

The sound quality is considered very good for its price.

Only thing that annoyed me was the slowness of forward and rewind. Also, as with all SD-card devices, there's still a lag when you switch from one file to another. Compared to the instant-on playback from a cassette, it does feel cumbersome.

I miss cassettes, too, even if I don't remember being really thrilled about all that ff-ing or rew-ing in the 90s.

I still use my Sandisk Sansa Clip bought in 2008 for podcasts and music. Use it almost every day. 2GB internal storage, no SD card. Sturdy, simple unit, great sound quality. Works flawlessly after all these years.
I agree it was a good story, but I became skeptical when I could not find the music (or any reference to it, or the composers) on-line.

It should have somehow been tagged as fiction.
> A person shouldn’t have to justify their need for shelter or food.

while a good moral argument, the world has not reached a point where such outcomes can be had. At some point in the future, when there's post-scarcity for all basic resources, then it would be possible that people shouldn't have to justify their own shelter or food.
https://noaoh.github.io
Very much a WIP
It makes life much more irritating for large swathes of the population while making nary a dent in the putative reason for it.
I keep it open in my first tab all the time now. Ctrl+1 to get there in the browser now.
I wish it had come before I had to dump my old Oculus account to dump my Facebook account. I will not miss the ~$100 that those games cost me, but I will miss not having the continuity of memory they represented.
That stunnel hack is cool.
No one in the US is living on < 10k of farm REVENUE, and almost no one can live on < 100K of sales. They’d be lucky to clear 10-20% of that after costs, if that.

That’s not even hand to mouth/subsistence even in rural TN.
> They had a whole team dedicated to building a shitty front end component library that we all had to use to reskin our apps in order to achieve design consistency. We could've used a mature tool like MaterialUI but nooooooo, this hot mess of a component lib was our great gift to the open source community. My favorite part: we constantly ran into cases where the provided components didn't meet all of our UI behavior needs, but the development backlog for the UI team was 2 years so we had to fork the components and make our own changes, which other teams were doing as well. It was the worst of all worlds.

I've watched this exact story play out twice now:

Company grows rapidly. Front-end middle managers hatch a plan to make a shared component library that will solve everyone's problems. Open sourcing it becomes a goal, because the developers want something for their resume. Project turns out to be much, much harder than they expected. All of the teams trying to deliver actual work are constantly stuck behind the shared component library team's backlog. Nobody can accomplish even basic tasks because they're all blocked on the component library. Devs from every team start working on the component library in an attempt to get anything done. Clashes ensue.

it's possible to have a good component library for the company to use, of course. Carving out a separate team to do it separately from everyone else and requiring everyone to go through that team is an obvious point of failure. Yet it seems to happen over and over again for some reason.
As judged by the buyer, based on post acquisition surveys.
i don't think sugar consumption is higher now in the usa than it was a century ago, when obesity and metabolic syndrome were rare (though statistics for america as a whole are hard to come by, since most countries in america didn't have anything like a public health system a century ago), and certainly very low compared to the hadza

by 'refined carbs' do you mean white flour

because white flour consumption was also pretty high in the usa a century ago

regardless, the topic at hand is the health effects of different kinds of fats, and it turns out that different kinds of fats do seem to have significant health effects (despite what effects other macronutrients like carbohydrate may or may not have) and that those effects run in the opposite direction to what nobbs is proposing
Why does year 0000 have any rational? :)
> I think some of the boring-ness is due to manipulation from OpenAI

Probably; but that you have to instruct ChatGPT to tell a joke is kind of what I mean. A sufficiently smart ChatGPT should be able to tell if a question makes sense and reply with either a serious answer or joke. I'm pretty sure you can make a "SarcasmGPT", but it will reply sarcastically to "could feathered dinosaurs fly?", "can seagulls fly?", and "can humans fly?"

The entire reason OpenAI does all this manipulation is because ChatGPT has no sense of "appropriateness" or "context" in general. I haven't tried getting ChatGPT to produce the word "nigger", but I'm pretty sure there are all sorts of protections against this sort of thing, even though there are clearly appropriate usages of the word such as the one in this sentence. Some previous more naïve AI tools had problems with this.

Is it possible that we just haven't developed a "sufficiently advanced GPT" that can do all of this? Perhaps. But given my (admittedly basic) knowledge of how it works it doesn't seem likely.

Some of these AI image generation tools can produce a lot of really neat stuff, but they also produce a lot of nonsensical garbage that not even a very young child with a limited understanding of the world would produce. It seems to me this indicates there is something wrong with the fundamentals.
ChatGPT is pinned to tab 1, ⌘+1
No, I read a bunch of stories on the topic before Musk made his offer to buy, eg https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-rules-twitter-can-be-su...

I've also been arguing here for years that 'free speech absolutism' is self-defeating if it doesn't address corner cases like this, so it's not a new issue for me either.
Yeah, impressive all around!