skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect just by making sure that the cursor never leaves the middle of the screen may help better with habit formation than relative line numbers. This way, when one looks few lines below or above the middle it is easier to associate the distance to the center of the screen with numbers on the keyboard compared with distance to an arbitrary line in the screen. Plus relative line numbers will be perceived by the side vision which is rather poor in humans so they mostly help when one consciously looks into them.

But then the question should be what is the end goal here? Is it faster edits in Vim or is it to get job done?
> The problem is that mice can't get MS.

Correct.

Why do you think mice with EAE are a reference in the research of MS?
My colleague wouldn't lie to me. We're terrific chums.
That's the whole story. They'll send a message saying "looks like this isn't working out for you".
> Python has some functional capabilities, but in my experiences with Python devs, those are little used and even shunned.

I like to use things like filter, map, reduce or list comprehensions, but I see very few of those in my coworkers' code bases.

When Python introduced pattern matching, it was rather a pattern-aware switch/case, which does not return a value, as such a construct in a functional programming would do.

> I went from Ruby to Elixir, and even with my basic Clojure experience, it was an effort.

I tried out Elixir twice so far, and since the last time, I worked through 300 pages of SICP. I still have to twist my mind when I'd like to process nested maps or the like in Elixir now.

> It was worth it, but I think the apparently similarity of Elixir to Ruby is actually a negative.

However, Ruby provides a lot of higher-order functions, such as group_by and the like. If you're used to functional-style Ruby code, the transition is easier.
The article lacks a date, but I assume the best season for nuts is in the late fall, October through November. Does anyone know otherwise? I was planning on going foraging for nuts all last year but couldn't seem to time it right.
> The root cause is they prioritize profits over user well-being. Framing the issue as "AI safety" feels like blaming a slot machine's bytecode instead of the casino owners.

AI will have the same problem, except instead of sociopaths at the helm, it will be an actual computer.
You might like it even more when reading through elk.zone

https://elk.zone/infosec.exchange/@marcan@treehouse.systems

There is popup about the preview, but that might be acceptable. There is zen mode to remove all disturbances on right bottom.
Instead of smashing tools into a single class, they should be incorporated early and throughout the curriculum so they can aid students as they progress.

For example we have a sophomore fall class called Linux/Unix Programming that covers about half of these topics and a sophomore spring class called Open Source Software Development that covers the rest (and philosophy, history, etc.). We have an advantage for this sort of work, though, in that we’re not a prestigious research university, but instead a small teaching college that calls ourselves “professionally focused.” Meaning while we have a CS degree, we acknowledge that 90% of our graduates will become software developers. That approach means that while theory is still important, tools for software development are very intentionally incorporated as part of the core of what we teach. Think of it as a blend of CS and software engineering (which is also one of our concentrations for a deeper dive).
Perhaps if you already know C#, otherwise I doubt it. Of course it depends on ones prior experience, but F# is functional but still requires you to understand OO in order to interact with the framework.
I work in hardware so my feelings about meetings may be different. In my experience, meetings are important because they keeps all the stakeholders in sync. The problem is that engineers like to work in silos and they do not communicate well with other engineers. Meetings allows stakeholders to communicate. It's not efficient but it's better than not communicating at all. Written reports would help, but writing a report does not guarantee that anybody will read it.

I also think it's very telling that whenever a project is at risk for missing deadlines, upper management tries to correct the course by holding more meetings. The extra meetings take a toll on productivity, but they also keep everybody focused, on task, and most importantly, they allow management to quickly allocate resources and people to critical path items.
No regular user wants to maintain this. Not everyone wants to tinker with Linux.
Imagine a world which is almost flat (but hilly), really big, and with a transparent atmosphere. We had extremely good telescopes, so from a big hill we could observe people a few thousands of km away, but we could only move very slowly.

In the distance, there was another civilization that didn't have the technology to see us, or any other way to communicate with us. We also didn't have lasers or any other tech to send messages to them, other than travelling there (which would take some years), but we could see what was going there in almost real time.

Wouldn't the same still apply, even without the limitations of the speed of light?
Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models
They aren't washing them. More commercial operations might brush them with a dry brush (to remove dirt and chicken poop), while others are just collecting them more immediately, but it's illegal in Europe to wash eggs -- which is required by law in America. Washing eggs removes the bloom, which coats them and protects the permable egg from infection. The trade-off is that European eggs should be washed just before use.

In America, we mandate that eggs are washed in a chemical bath. This diminishes the bloom and replaces it with a chemical wash.

Both mechanisms are ostensibly intended to prevent Salmonella, but I don't have data on which is more effective.
It's a brilliant reference to Spaceballs

https://youtu.be/5drjr9PmTMA
I have read somewhere that it would be possible to use libclang to parse C++. I have no experience on this, but perhaps you should look into it?
I'm super curious to know the Bluetooth tracker device they used. I have a strong feeling it's Apple AirTag.
Didn't felt like sarcasm to me (and if it is, definitely not top-shelf but opinions may vary) but yeah it happens sometimes that those things go over my head.
> I don't think you'll like [some dead guy's] reason why.

The first person to ask a question doesn't have a monopoly on the answer.
It may save the business of baseball, but it won't save baseball itself, because the game will no longer be baseball. C'est la vie.
This reeks of "announcementware." Startlink is already most of what's in orbit and currently working. Falcon 9 has way more launch capacity than current satellite construction other than Starlink can use. But without a reusable rocket, the Chinese will have a difficult time launching a constellation almost 3X larger than Starlink is today.

Satellite size and capacity are also an issue. I doubt Starlink can scale without next gen sats that weigh 5X as much, and that have laser links among satellites so that Starlink is not bounded by availability of ground stations (some of this is in "v1.5 Starlink sats). These sats need Starship. China has nothing like Starship, certainly not aimed at being low-cost. (Not that Starship is guaranteed to work or meet cost targets.)
The event has already happened, even though we cannot see it yet.

There is no way to reach some state where you could still exist in a universe where the event hasn’t happened. If you traveled at the speed of light to the event location, you would see it has already happened.

Since the speed of light is the fastest possible movement, there is no way to arrive at the event location faster than that, any faster movement means you would be time traveling back into the past in attempt to reach the event before it happens.

Any possible event that happens in our daily lives starts off with two possible states: happened or didn’t happen. When one of those states is eliminated, the event status is resolved and reality is updated. Usually we see these updates occur damn near instantly. In this case, in this universe, the “didn’t happen” state has been thoroughly eradicated. But at these distances, we don’t see updates yet, but it has happened.

Therefore, you can consider the event as having happened. It was… inevitable.
After seeing people mastering the art of filling their workday with knowingly useless meetings and make it look like they are working like everybody else, it depends. Meetings are essential, but they can be easily used to "game the system".
Your list of programming languages excluded Java. Please ignore this reply if Java is included.

Are you aware of the amazing Java debugger feature of "Drop to Frame"? Combined with "hot-injection" (compile new code, then inject into current debug'd JVM), it is crazy and amazing. (I love C#, but the hot-injection feature is much worse than Java -- more than 50% of the time, C# compiler rejects my hot-injection, but about 80% of the time, JVM accepts my hot-injection.) When working on source code where it is very difficult to acquire data for the algorithm, having the ability to inspect in a debugger, make minor changes the the algorithm, then re-compile, inject new class/method defs, the drop to frame, the re-exec the same code in the same debug session is incredibly powerful.
Buy an apartment in some Highrise for best reception. Anonymously register it to a shell company based in a tax heaven. UV Gov will think this is 'legal' tax evasion just like thousands of landlords.

Put any equipment you want inside generic chest on a balcony.
luxury != luxury goods
Would you consider pay half now and then for each year a device lasts?
Over the past 5 years we can notice aggressive planned obsolescence applied across pretty much all products. From an all-sealed non-repairable designs to software limitations it's visible even to the non-technical users.

We can differentiate two product cycles. Premium products with no planned obsolescence - higher price, less frequent change of device. Mainstream products - designed to be replaced frequently, lower price.

Ideas

Initial price as low as mainstream. Users pay a fixed additional fee for each functioning year of the product thus reaching premium price if the product lasts longer.

A marketplace where only products with no planned obsolescence are sold based on the above model

Would you switch to such a purchasing model as a user?

Would you switch to such a production model as a company?
That's interesting, I didn't know that. Out of curiosity, what GUI development are you doing on 32bit ARM? Is it something to do with systems on a chip or vehicles UI?
It should be companies interested in this
This is a false dichotomy.

I'm acutely aware of ChatGPT's mistakes, have spent lots of time investigating them, and still find immense value in the tool.

While it's true that many less technical people will end up treating it as an oracle, let's not conclude that it's impossible to understand what it is and use it productively despite its flaws.
American society is dumb people selling useless crap to other dumb people.
Many of those restriction in wayland were by design. Lots of simple task is seen as privileged and restricted to the window manager.
These restriction may (or may not) make sense for native wayland application.

However, for wine, as a compatible layer with windows, every deviation from windows behavior is seen as a missing feature.

I am not sure if constantly creating artificial restriction and working around them is "moving forward".
This hasn’t happened since Apple ditched x86 processors.
I came here to post the exact same sentiment and the ordered phrase "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle".

Yes, it's bad that this was advertised as a specific recycling program and involved parties knowingly or unknowingly diverged from that stated plan.

But from a global resource consumption perspective, it's far preferable to re-use good shoes (which also reduces the production of new shoes) than to recycle them for recovered material (which is lossy in terms of energy and materials).

The same argument about shoes may not apply to the specifics of say e-waste - where harmful materials, rare materials, or electrical efficiency come into play - but in the case of this article, we should be happy that usable shoes are being put on feet rather than shredded and chemically decomposed.
But such a symbol could mean a lot of different types of threat. Sometimes we need to be specific. A bin in a hospital full of needles is different to a bin with iodine 125 inside. It requires a different response. A skull and cross bones could mean stay off my land, mine shaft, deep water, posion, anything.
Or the sea.
I'm fine with that reasoning; however from another point of view: The tree is a subject, too.

For this particular instance, since the event is about 26,000 light years away, we could as easily say that it happened in 50,000 B.C., since that was the time on Earth when our light traveled to meet it.
Still, you're asking everyone to believe your hunch over the developer's with nothing to back it up.
> it's hard to stay positive when people used 'credential-based' reasoning to disregard your questioning/criticism; this is very standard in academia.

Life is hard. Doesn't change the fact that a weird rant full of bitter ad hominems is almost certainly going to be ignored as being a crazy person wanting some sort of revenge.
It seems like you might have confused this website with the Daily Mail comment section.
Ah yeah, knifes are a sticking point. London's laws are 3 inch or smaller non-locking knifes are legal. Over that, you gotta have a valid reason. Having just bought it is a valid reason, as is being a sushi chef. But the general public is no longer allowed to just carry a knife within London city limits for no reason.
To be fair, Gary V _has_ walked the walk, and is a "proper" entrepreneur. Him making money on his personal brand doesn't make him any more of a huckster than Mark Cuban and the like.

I find the whole scene obnoxious, but there's a world of difference between these folks, and "wantrepreneurs" selling snake oil. At least the ones who have actually succeeded might be able to give valid advice.
I don't think the Wine developers were simply being hostile due to a dislike of the concept, I also agree that a Wine Wayland driver seems weird. And yet, here we are: when I use it, it seems to work almost exactly like you'd hope. I'm not sure if the reason this has changed is because there are new standard Wayland protocols that help with some of these issues, or if they just came up with clever workarounds (like always anchoring new windows to be relatively positioned or something.) Either way, it works.

I have heard there are still some tricky impedance mismatches though. I have no idea what they're doing for the system tray, for example. Right now, if I cause a tray icon to exist in Wine with Wayland patches on SwayWM, what happens is I get a "Wine System Tray" window. Not ideal to be sure.
Find licensed, commercial kitchens for rent near you
The Soviet Union was mired in famine covered up by the incompetent government in the 30s. This was the Holodomor which killed millions and Ukrainian people still remember it well, how Stalin tried to prevent journalists from seeing the true horror of his leadership
While you're probably right technically speaking laptops compete heavily on battery life. I wouldn't be surprised at all if (like mobile devices) they're at the point of optimizing relatively minuscule points of power draw.

Like most things once you start looking at dozens of factors that are 0.5% wins each you end up with a substantial improvement that in the case of battery powered productivity devices is significant from a sales standpoint.
I imagine someone who actually doesn’t have anything productive to do. If it were me, I’d be worried about someone finding out and deciding my position doesn’t need to exist. I would find a new job. Perhaps someone else would try to make their current one matter. Further still, many (most, probably) who try the latter will do things that range from unproductive to counterproductive.
That might be a little bit reductive.
They probably mean 'neighbors' as in people nearby in the same room. This is indeed a good use case for headphones/IEMs.
If you are a manager.

> But what if, hear me out, what if the only* work that matters in a knowledge economy happens when we are together?

If you quote Peter Drucker, you ought to know that he was anti-bad meetings. It is easy to say that 80% or more of meetings are bad ones. They do not follow an Andy Grove "High Output Management" concept, hardly have an agenda, and have no constraints. By definition, they are bad meetings.

Jeff Bezos is a good example in that the culture he pushed was that people read through a 1-page memo before you meet. It helps set the context, gets people to think about the challenge, and contribute in meaningful ways. But with most meetings, people just show up without doing this preparation. What's the point of meeting if nobody prepared?

I agree with the premise that meetings are valuable tools for communication, decision making, and collaboration. But I disagree that we cannot call the current culture of meetings what it is -- a waste of time. Majority are poorly ran and unnecessary. Which is why jokes about "how much does this meeting cost us?" are so relatable. Meetings should be a last resort.

https://jondouglas.dev/lets-not-meet
> I despise this kind of writing — writing with 100% confidence and then providing zero evidence.

This bit struck me as well. Ironically, it's the same sort of bullshit that folks criticize AI for.
It's fun and easy to bash America, but if you cut America off the statement does it not cover most societies?
>and yet total egg output remained basically the same

source? Also, due to how price elasticity curves work, even if production is "basically" the same, it doesn't necessarily mean that prices would also be "basically" the same. If demand is inelastic, buyers will bid up prices to astronomical levels.
How to Evaluate Dependencies
Recently I needed an uptime monitor to periodically check the availability of my website. Unfortunately I couldn't find any free / simple / flexible solutions, so I came up with a nice way to use github workflows / playwright to ensure my web app is always up!
Interesting article. Having the built in Redis via ETS is slick.

I currently use Python but don't use Django but instead wrote my own WSGI frameworks based on Flask Restx. I'm not a big believer of ORMs besides their CRUD functionality so there is not much benefit for me using Django and the security burden it carries (like PHP) by being so popular. I can keep my designs light weight, very secure and fast; albeit not nearly as fast as Phoenix.

Note however, I don't build public facing high performance applications so its not critical to have max IO like that which Phoenix can handle.

In a way, I wished I had moved to Elixir but with the technical debt invested in Python its a very big jump. Maybe someday down the road...
Can one argue that the random initialization of a model is akin to this starting point? A human brain has reached a morphogenetic starting point thanks to much evolution, a process full of randomness.
Anything beyond four bytes is composed of multiple code points, happily
Collabora ports windows game to linux. They created SteamOS for Valve.
I also have the filter and laser part, but the performance of the filter and beam splitter probe is too poor for it to be useful.

At least mine have strong self-fluorescence, making it hard to get a meaningful data as the laser intensity are not that stable. Also the short excitation wavelength of 423 nm led to significant fluorescence in many samples I tried.

Reading out those CCDs needs some signal conditioning and ADC, the time needed to build and debug them by myself worth more than a second hand Ocean Optics or Verity, so I wouldn't bother.
You don’t use reviews or ratings to decide what to read? That is crazy brave even for pure human writers.
Nope. Sometimes a device just gets outmoded, or my needs change, or I might just get bored with it. I wouldn't want to have to keep paying for it regardless.
All for the small price of paying attention to the lines in Dockerfile, which is presumably already being looked at/maintained
Yeah, to me it's brutal to have to listen for an hour to something totally unrelated to the thing that I've gotta get done by the end of the week.

I can listen to virtually anything people have to say, but don't expect me to be effective at the actual work that day.

It's one thing if a meeting or presentation is pertinent to the product I'm working on, especially if it involves my team specifically. It's another when it's some broad company thing that, if there was no meeting at all, would have zero measurable impact on what sort of work I'm doing. In that case, combine more of these meetings into a single day of the week where I'm not expected to do any work. Why? Because my work, when distracted, is always worse than when there is no distraction. When work is distracted, there's a time penalty when code is rejected in code review and work needs to be refactored.
Worse than that, the people tasked with execution are constantly being pulled into hangout time. To many of us, this feels incredibly insensitive, because nobody ever got burned out because their job included too much brainstorming (or bullshitting).

In my experience, meetings burn people out because they can see how un-stressed and un-busy their coworkers are, while they all sit in a room and come up with more ways to pile it on.

If you’ve been the one person in a room of 10 people deciding what to do with you next, you know how insane this feels.
So you have heard of DICE awards prior to DF winning and was excited when <insert title here> won one?
Misleading ChatGPT to produce incorrect answers
It is obviously vouched to silence discussion.

Meta topic: I understand using flagging for disguised ad pieces or state propaganda, but shutting out discussion on topics like freedom of speech and inquiry should not be supported on this website IMHO.
The speakers sound amazing to me and are magnitudes better than any other laptop speakers I've had. You saying they are not and that we're just "circlejerking over anything Mac" is objectively false.

Now stop trolling. Your other obnoxious comment about this was flagged and killed. Do better.
LUX is a much bigger air cargo hub than a passenger airport; that's the difference. There hasn't been long-haul/wide-body passenger service there in many years, but that 4000m runway sees real use. Usually 50% more freight aircraft movements (and many multiples the mass) than passenger aircraft at LUX.

LCY is a one-trick-pony: a private airport for European finance bros.
The amplificatrion paradox in recommender systems
There are no privileged reference frames. Choosing your own reference frame is perfectly valid.
I firmly believe social media is the cause to this even being considered. If words in a book offend you, don't read the book. Don't subject others to your limited world-view.

People should be exposed to all types of views on things, so they can better empathise with other people.
The Risk of a New AI Winter
Tech people seem to fall into the ‘perfect is the enemy of good’ trap super easily.

They can’t see progress in front of their faces. Be it the internet, crypto, EVs, reusable rockets - they’re all seen as jokes until they aren’t.

AI is a juggernaut. If you can’t see it I’m kind of envious because the reality around the corner is potentially terrifying.