skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the beta and it's really nice. It's still missing some important features (references is the main thing for me) but once they arrive I doubt I will ever go back to latex.
Diva closes $3.5M seed round for distributed liquid staking protocol
>Nothing about TLS certificates is centralized

You're right that there are additional ACME providiers, but the reliance on just a handful of default root cert stores is what makes HTTPS centralized, even if TLS isn't.
I have done something similar recently. I was tech lead (and soon to be promoted to staff engineer) earning X and with tons of responsibility. I quit and got a job for a senior engineer position earning 25% more. Less responsibility. Now I will wait for 1 year or so to get salary raise, another year to get promoted to staff (with corresponding salary raise). Basically, I'm earning more doing less.
>Otherwise it searches the web.

If you search for a program, it takes just that tiny second to update results such that if you type one letter too much, your top result goes from program to web search

This sounds nearly identical to the search function I've used in the windows start menu. It's terrible
Another idea: perhaps add a nice header image to each article by using StableDiffusion.
DAG vs. Blockchain as Individualism vs. Collectivism
The differences between DAG and blockchain are really fundamental.
An easier solution is to add a json file per branch that holds these "flag" or CI config values. We have a dir `bfg/...` to hold them. Nice thing is they are version controlled and the dev can change values between commits like they do with any other code. This pattern has helped solve a lot of issues and we no longer have complex conditions that key off of branch name patterns.
Why they decided that can be read here: [0]

I advise all hackers to follow Voluntary Prohibition as suggested by Tyler Cowen. We need to make alcohol uncool. Your health including important for hackers mental health and brain health will improve. By showing others that not drinking is cool, we help people increase that but also help them not get ruined by alcohol addiction. In the second order thinking, if enough of us do this, and governments become less alcohol happy, we can decrease violence a lot, when we change societies habits. Read Tyler Cowen for studies about alcohol and violence, it is also mentioned in the report.

[0] https://ccsa.ca/sites/default/files/2023-01/Canada%27s%20Gui...
> their boxy turbines generate energy in 50% greater amounts then a solar panel

Huh? That's like saying "The wind is blowing 50% faster than the sun is shining"

It's a nonsense comparison from a company making what seems like questionable vaporware.

=== Edit : I couldn't resist one more.

> I like to think of this as kind of disruptive and complimentary to the solar business

Ah yes. Disruptive and complimentary.
https://www.youtube.com/@TheCodingTrain He teaches with infectious enthusiasm

https://studio.code.org/s/express-2022 For middle-school kids

https://developers.google.com/blockly/ Blocky with Javascript

https://www.digitaltechnologieshub.edu.au/for-families/stude... Self-guides: try some coding

https://www.tynker.com/parents/pricing/ $$
The way filters are explained is interesting: The intuition is similar to Non-Standard Analysis, and indeed models of NSA are constructed using a type of filter. I somehow think NSA is more "user friendly". Would anybody contradict?

I recall a ring-theorist's way of looking at filters is: The filters in a Boolean algebra B are obtained by forming the Boolean algebra B^* dual to B, forming the Boolean ring corresponding to B^*, and then taking its ideals.

Alternatively, a filter over a Boolean algebra B is just some homomorphism f:B^* -> {0,1} where {0,1} is the two-element Boolean algebra.
Liked the article but my feeling is that, at the end of the day, nobody cares about the tools you choose. People are only interested in the end results.

There's nothing preventing you from building your site out of manually crafted HTML pages (I do for instance) and I would even dare to say that it has never been easier to do so (things like Emmet make it really easier to produce HTML content from your text editor of choice, services like cloudflare pages or vercel take less than a minute to go from local to public).

CMS made it easier indeed for not-so-technical-savvy folks to push stuff on the WWW but is it actually a bad thing? At the end of the day, it's the content that matters in my opinion.
I somewhat recently met people like this and their many "business ideas" and ideational style of speaking was strange to me. I couldn't put my finger on it, but they were talking about business as if it were a matter of "The Idea" and not, say, a business plan and market analysis.

iirc, I watched a video diagnosing gen-z as being caught-up in a culture of entrepreneurialism -- which may be more common in previous US generations, but is somewhat new here amongst europeans.

It seems the last two+ decades have saturated gen-z culture not with celebrities or film stars but with Bezoses, Zuckerbergs, and the like. This seems to have produced this strange climate of "startupism".
There will always be an edge to these massively operated central models that you can't easily run at home, due to compute and cost. Things like 4-bit quantization will help making these foundational models significantly easier to operate on smaller hardware, and of course you might not need a foundational model for manby local usecases, but maybe a smaller, more specialized LLM is enough (those can even be trained by the bigger models).
We seem to be moving into the opposite direction, actually.

People fail to renew them because it is a very infrequent thing. At one point you could get certificates that were valid for five years. This was reduced to three, and is now even down to one year. If it is that infrequent, renewing the certificate becomes an ad-hoc thing, which is most likely poorly documented and easily forgotten about.

On the other hand, LetsEncrypt certificates are valid for 90 days, and I believe they want to make that even shorter. At that point the only viable way to deal with certificates is to set up tooling that will automatically renew it, solving the entire expiry issue in the process.
You're describing macros, leaving out (rather important) things, such as scoping.
You don't have much of a grip on the problem do you?
> Now, with OneDrive, cloud storage, Exchange, SharePoint, etc, people expect that Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc should work seamlessly with multiple users simultaneously editing documents.

How many people do actually use these features in these programs? I myself have always seen them as nothing but bloat, a symptom of the IT industry utterly lacking a notion of a project being finished and not needing any further work. Maybe these features should come as plugins that you can optionally install. At least that's how I'd do it.

Usually, when someone wants to collaboratively edit a document or a spreadsheet, they use Google Docs. It being web-first also helps.

> Even IDEs and code editors have ‘network access’ now

And as an Android developer, I despise how Android Studio, or the Gradle Android plugin, or both of them, can just shamelessly download 100-something megabytes of some crap without asking, expecting that you have a network connection capable of that, sometimes not even showing the fact that they're accessing the network in the UI, and refusing to operate if that download fails. Eclipse didn't do that. Though it was terrible in many other ways.

> People have come to expect some form of self-updating mechanism now even for the smallest programs

Honestly, I expect smallest programs to be complete and not need any updating.
I knew a few BOFH's in those days. It was truly a wild and woolly time for us junior programmers, conducting the necessary voodoo to gain access to the "aquarium", getting a chilly terminal assigned either far away in some dark corner under the Halon horn, or .. even worse .. right next to the Day Operator, whose shoulder-surfing capabilities induce trauma even now, thinking about it .. good times, good times.

The day I got my own pizzabox and ethernet connection, and thus didn't ever have to bother an Operator for access to anything, ever again, was another big step up in the career path I chose for myself .. still, I miss those grumpy old fuckers. They had good stories to tell, usually, and I still 'sync;sync;sync' to rewind tape, now and then, by muscle memory ..
SHA-256 Using WebGPU
It's not the fastest anymore! That manhole cover topped out at around 55 km/s, while the Parker solar probe achieves up to 700 km/s at the point in its orbit closest to the Sun. Also, depending on how you define "object" the clumps of particles we assemble and shoot around the ring in the Large Hadron Collider at 0.99c are much faster than both.
For most of the story I was assuming Michelle was an allegory for drugs (particularly with the reference to Jane's Addiction).

But by the end I was getting a distinctly "inter-generational trauma" read.

Michelle is the coping strategy personality that doesn't always work, and when Jeff's sister (the narrator) becomes part of the problem - and when 'Michelle' has to become a parent himself - Jeff's last option is to disappear completely.
Most image compression formats work in pixel blocks instead of scanlines. For example JPEG uses a 8x8 block size.

This way rotating the image doesn't affect compression performance (unlike PNG).
Toshiba laptops, now branded Dynabook and owned by Sharp/Foxconn, still have them on some models. If you want 32gb noticeably below 1000g they are literally the only option on the market (if you can find them, that configuring seems to be virtually unavailable).

Unfortunately their trackpoints come without that middle mouse button, which I liked to set to scrolling by trackpoint on my Dells.

(haven't used a laptop without trackpoint in ages but never really converted for regular pointing)
Markdown is not close to powerful enough to produce all the stuff that Typst can produce, and emitting latex would be a massive technical effort. I think the best hope is that whatever journals currently only accept latex or .docx will start accepting typst files (or at least pdf).
Alfred is great. Just have to disable the feature to search on the web. Otherwise it will have the same issue where a typo results in a new browser tab with a web search instead of doing nothing.
I purchased an app to maximize my windows on mac. It also moves them between monitors. It’s called Magnet. Highly recommend :)
Drie – Vue 3 component library for Three.js made with TS and Composition API
Drie is a Vue 3 component library that makes it easy for developers to add 3D rendering to their web applications using the three.js library. It's written in TypeScript and uses the Composition API.

Drie allows for an intuitive and declarative approach to building complex 3D scenes and integrating them into both existing and new Vue projects. Drie aims to be the go-to choice for building 3D web applications with Vue and three.js.
> the person who will prospectively coerce the language model into being an asshole?

The language models are trained on internet content already. If you ignore ethics, it means you're feeding it bias and racism along with everything else.

Chatgpt is not blatant about it normally but I'm sure you've seen examples like "write a function that takes a race argument and returns length of prison sentence" where it obviously leaks through. I'm sure there are some non-obvious ways it leaks in other answers too. Sometimes subtle ways you will not realise are biased and will not want to take liability for.
> You realize Tik tok is owned by the CCP right?

Absolutely amazing how 'national security' can just turn off all that personal liberties crap as long as the 'national threat' resonates along your political lines.
This. I've seen multiple sad stories around of me of studio-incepted ventures, whose founders were replaced once the company started to be successful and the higher hand decided that they were no longer needed; obviously this part of the journey is not advertised on the brochure.
>I really like the paper, though I'm not sure the world needs another Turing-complete document language however well-motivated ;)

What would you recommend instead? From my experience of the beta it is vastly nicer to use than latex, and I'm not really aware of any other competition.
For window management and tiling, I think Rectangle is better than most of the alternatives I've used. And its OSS https://rectangleapp.com/
Very wise words :)
Has that theory been tested?

I would say though that being able to do things massively more quickly is effectively a superpower humans don't have, given we have finite time to ever meaningfully accomplish any task.
> Dock to a different dock (hot-desking; same brand and size of monitor) and the entire display options need to be re-written - no option to preserve it.

Also the same on macos BTW. Switching external screens resets all the screen size options, including your laptop display if you’re not at the “default” resolution.
Do you mean super easy to take a screenshot of any app, or super easy for apps to prevent that?
> Trolling would be more like creating an account just to make personal attacks and defend RH.

user: QUrprUd1nCeicw
created: 11 days ago
karma: 76

Seems like he has a point. Are you afraid of losing internet karma points on your normal account?
EU Home Affairs Commissioner lied to ministers about ChatControl CSAM scanner
Agree. Programming video games in the early 2000s, TGA was my goto format. Dead simple to parse and upload to OpenGL, support for transparency, true colors, all boxes ticked.
Wouldn't this allow them to easily MITM you?
I think it's called HDCP? When you take a screenshot of a paid movie in Apple TV or something it's just a black box.
Can you write me a git commit message for the following git diff please?
Needs more JSON.
Huh, I'd never seen those and that's pretty much exactly what I want. I figured my idea was too obvious to be original, but wondered if someone had created a failed product based on a patented design, thus locking out anyone else from making the same thing. I don't know if IBM ever patented it, but that seems to fit. And since it was released in 1998, the patent (if there is one) is probably just recently expired.
Imagine if people never tried anything new simply because they were starting from a disadvantage! In machine learning this would be called a "local maxima".
These models are using industry ML Algos and known techniques. It's not like some unknown startup suddenly discovered, gradient descent or Deep Learning RNN's and is keeping these confidential. Why would Microsoft consider it worthwhile to even contemplate the possibility of paying $10B for these or similar?
This example is way better than ChatGPT and actually pretty creative.

However for some of these really good responses I always wonder if you’re example is close to one which has been given “preloaded” responses or explicit reinforcement…because if you ask ChatGPT a common question like “why did the chicken cross the road?” the model’s response seems especially unique and better than usual. Even if the specific question isn’t common, maybe it’s been trained on a more general but still reinforced category, like asking “why did the fox cross the road” would get you almost the same “preloaded” response but with chicken adjectives/verbs replaced with fox ones.

I doubt Claude has been trained on Fast and Furious or movie titles specifically, but perhaps it has been explicitly trained to know what “exaggerated” responses means. Even if not, reinforcement focusing on specific areas may be a good technique for future language models.
Source code for Dutch DigiD app released under Dutch Open Government Act
For me Spotlight fails constantly. I don't know what's tripping it up but programs I use often it randomly decides "today I'm not going to find those for you". I have it set to only show programs and nothing else so no idea why it can't do that simple task but whatever, several times a week it decides "not this time"

As for tiling, Mac does do somethings that Windows (IIRC) doesn't. One is, if you move a window or the edge of a window slowly it will snap at the border of another window. So you move fast to get it close then slow down and it will align nicely.

Also, tiling: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204948

But I agree that Windows tiling is more discoverable.
It's true. They should be piping the smoke into classrooms.
Is that true for all national labs or just Sandi/all DoE labs? Also, where did you copy paste this from!!? :)
You can't go home again. I think an argument could be made that tools like Moveable Type and Blogger and Wordpress made the web. And, another argument could probably be made that seo-chum "articles" like this (and ad networks) broke the web. But, really Twitter and FB and YouTube are probably the most likely killers.
I had a similar idea, but it uses a graph construction and Elixir. Definitely going to poach some ideas from LangChain though.

https://github.com/Miserlou/Helix
> Japan was very much an industrialized nation in the 1930s.

Before that, Japan went from feudal agrarianism to aircraft carriers in, what, 50 years?
Looking at the shader code there are 4 to 6 texture samplers in each and something like a dozen passes which is a bit on the heavy side, but ultimately it's all stuff that every GPU has been designed to do best, so not exactly surprising that it runs well.

Now rendering something similar in 3D and real time, now that would be seriously impressive since you wouldn't be able to sample neighbouring pixels on the third axis efficiently I think.
Example: https://imgur.com/a/9cIDQtk
I teach the concept of a procedure since that's how functions are in most programming languages but I also emphasize the concept of a mathematical function. The procedure perspective looks into the box whereas the functional perspective thinks more about composition than the details inside the box.

4 → square_root → triple → ?

How does the square_root function work? It's an interesting question but often times assembling multiple atoms into a structure is more empowering and exciting; plus children will be using functions where the details elude them for quite awhile. Using functions with elusive details is also typical in math pedagogy so children should get used to reasoning around black boxes.
This is really interesting; it just makes things simple as they should be.
Labelling alcohol with a message that states that acetaldehyde is carcinogenic I have no issue with.

However, if this is going to be anything like smoking, the labels won't be there for the sake of informing, they'll be there as an emotional appeal. They'll start out as "surgeon general recommends", then they'll become high contrast, then they'll start putting gross pictures on it, then all beer bottles will be one colour and hidden away behind a counter.

If pubs end up having to have pint glasses with a picture of an inflated liver or something equally disgusting it would frankly not be informational but abusive.

It'd be an attempt to shame people into submission.

I fully expect to see this within my lifetime and it honestly just sickens me. Fuck off, man, just give me the information and let me decide.
Is this like 2 drinks a week average, or no more than 2 drinks in any given week? Because I'd say a lot of people are less than 2 average, but more than 2 in a given week
Does anyone know why filtering is mandatory?

It seems like operations with the format would be a bit faster if the pre-compression data would just be a framebuffer dump, instead of prefixing each row with a 1-byte "filter ID", possibly breaking data alignment.
Thonny isn’t just for beginners - it’s also really nice for working with little boards like the Raspberry Pi Pico!
What I don't understand is this assumption that if you force your beliefs on someone else, it'll make them more likely to believe the same things and they won't see what's being done

This just signals a lack of confidence to me. If people are truly confident that their beliefs are the most rational, logical, good for society, etc, then why is any of the proselytizing necessary?

Like I see people putting flags in their front yards and bumper stickers on their cars, different sides on different parts of the country. What doesn't make sense to me is this: why do people think this lack of subtlety actually wins others over?

You know what does show confidence? People who are so confident in their own belief system that they question it openly to resolve its contradictions. People who acknowledge that their own beliefs aren't universal
Terje Tvedt has some ideas how differences in water systems might have played a big role.

"Why England and not China and India? Water systems and the history of the Industrial Revolution": https://terjetvedt.w.uib.no/files/2017/03/TVEDT-2010-Why_eng...
It's not worse because it's easier for people who don't want to learn a mark-up language to post their ideas.
AITA For wanting to be able to walk in peace without inhaling smoke? Weed gives me extreme paranoid reactions even from small doses. Being forced to breathe it feels like an assault and I have anxiety until it wears off. As a society we have rationalized the use of smoking by saying that there are absolutely no downsides, it has no addictive properties, and is safe and useful to anyone (unlike all other known substances). However some people are infirm, elderly, children with developing brains and lungs, have health problems, have anxiety issues that weed exacerbates, et cetera. Ive known more than One person who is pushed to a psychotic break by heavy weed use. Maybe it's anecdotal, but there are mentally unstable people, and exposing them to highly concentrated thc of today seems cruel (possibly condemning them to a hellish life).

I feel this mindset of spraying substances everyone must endure is a bit like a factory polluting the river, an externality the selfish justify because it benefits them and doesnt have personal cost. But rest assured, others are bearing the cost.

If you think that everyone else should be subjected to your psychoative smoke, then you should have no problem with people disposing of half used medication into the office water cooler. After all it was prescribed by a doctor and is probably safe in small doses. There are no studies showing any negative effects of half a prozac dissolved in a water cooler, so there are probably no negative effects. If everyone disposed of their half used medications into unfiltered drinking water, we can be sure it would cause no problems since my experience of that medication has caused me no problems.
I believe that a lot of this cynicism comes after years of teaching and seeing that most students do not really care about the topic and do not want to put in more than the minimum effort required to pass. You don't realize how easy it is to tell apart those who are interested from those who are not until are on the other side.
me too, and I like it! It's a tool for a specific purpose and I can see it working really well for that purpose.
Wouldn't it be simpler to assume those working at OpenAI were likely to favour sources that happened to share their own biases (alongside whatever likely top-down directives existed to ensure ChatGPT was a safer commercial bet)?
> Cloudflare and friends promote a culture of demonizing bots

What does this mean? Usually it's the website owners who are hostile to scraping for commercial reasons, or simply bandwidth, to which Cloudflare is the solution; it's not some prejudice which has to be marketed to people.
Only the ones that advertise.
EVs can still be driven when they aren't 100% full at the start of the trip.

If your vehicle has a range of 400 miles and you know you only need 60 miles of range in the next 48 hours, why not sell 100-200 miles of range for short-term grid storage? You're only going to drive 60 miles, so it doesn't matter if you start with 400 miles of capacity remaining or 200 miles.