skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanted to add my sincere thanks, too. I rarely use Windows except for gaming but SumatraPDF was always a must-have for me. I am also grateful you're a fan of the command palette, as I get a lot of mileage out of that in the JetBrains products, too
Ketoers are the ultimate peddlers of bro science.
I did 5 years in federal prison and was a jailhouse lawyer, I know reality. Doesn't mean I need to volunteer to expand that. But you just give up and give in, that's your right.

Personally I relate to the American route of the last 200 years and believe in limited government power (you know, the same government power that abused it's authority when it gave out monopiles on communication infrastructure. I don't see how it's abusing power should result in...giving it more power?????). I posted above about how my house is denied US mail delivery because when my mother was dying of cancer she couldn't get to the mailbox in a timely manner and she dared appeal. Petty tyrants gonna tyrant and there are limited battles one person can fight.
I deleted my FB account years ago, so this might have changed... but it's even less straightforward then you think. Instead of burying the "delete account" option in settings, they hid it entirely. You could find "deactivate account," but permanent deletion was only accessible if you knew the URL. Even then, Facebook kindly imposes a 30 day delay before deleting your account; if you log in in any way, even accidentally, before the 30 days pass, it resets the timer, reactivates your account, and you have to start from 30 again.

Instagram had a similar problem when I deleted it a year or so later: you couldn't delete your account from the app. You had to log in via a browser, navigate the very dated UI through to advanced settings, and request a deletion there. A lot of folks don't even know their Instagram password -- I think they just used SMS codes originally -- so it was surprisingly hard to get a password associated with my account so I could even log in via a browser!
> a rolling release which only pauses for a bit once every two years during the freeze for the stable releases

People say this a lot but I disagree. Debian Sid is not a rolling release.

Debian is a project that produces releases of Debian GNU/Linux. Those releases are then supported for many years. As a development tool for the production of those stable releases, Debian also has 'testing', 'unstable', and 'experimental'.

The key difference is that Sid is not a product for Debian. Debian makes no claim to support Sid. Occasionally it breaks, and that's just part of using it, too bad.

In contrast, for a true rolling release distribution like Arch, the rolling release is the product. It's not just a tool the distribution uses for the production of something else - indeed, Arch has no stable releases.

I don't say this as a criticism of Debian - to the contrary, I have used both distributions quite a bit. I just think it's a mistake to tell people Sid is rolling release. If you want a rolling release distribution, use Arch. Use Sid if you're a Debian developer and need to...otherwise I honestly can't find much of a reason to use Sid. When I'm on Debian and need to get newer packages, there are other ways to do this that don't involve turning your whole system over to the churn of constant package updates (e.g. backports.)
This thread is about the wrapper, which is open source.

You can run Whisper locally, and it is open source.

Feel free to fork this open source project and adapt it to a locally run Whisper instance.
Excited to see more people building in this space. From what we've seen with customers it's critical to be able to compare what you're seeing in production to what you trained on (rather than historical period). That's almost the textbook definition of drift. Do you have a sense on how to approach that?

At Comet.com (disclaimer: i'm the CEO/Co-founder) we provide experiment tracking and artifacts management so we have the training distributions for comparison. I'm always curious how it looks like for a monitoring only solution
If someone is constantly projecting relationship advice social media topics on you'd I'd venture to say you're in an abusive/manipulative relationship as opposed to a healthy one. Glad you got out.

I've learned more recently that healthy relationships aren't empirically so. Instead, there's "signs" of a healthy relationship; determining the health of your relationship must be a two way conversation. It requires assessment, honesty, and participation by both parties as a qualifier as well as the ability to listen without your ego involved. That's not to say all of those aren't challenging things to do in their own right just to say that the health of a relationship will be explored differently by different sets of people.
SAML Request Signature Verification (Preview)
You want more sprawl? Sprawl that puts people farther away from the job centers and requires the state to build brand new expensive infrastructure in all of these places rather than benefitting from existing infrastructure. Look at how much it less costs to maintain infrastructure in denser settings compared to single family home suburbs. Not to mention if you have more sprawl you are potentially putting people in the way of the wildfires as they push into the forests. And then there are all the other environmental problems that come with sprawl...

We have the engineering knowhow to be able to build taller buildings, that can withstand earthquakes, and it has definitely improved since the 70s.
Thanks for this. I was looking for someone to comment on this point.

The list of apps that people most "want to delete" is highly correlated with apps with the list of apps with the most MAUs.

The right thing to look at here is the percentage of users who want to delete the app. Otherwise this table is just telling us that Instagram has more users than other apps—e.g., 1% of 1 billion > 1% of 1 million—which I suspect most people already know.
Yes that’s possible and probable. However I dream that it will ba a paid subscription businesses model or at least non ad driven.
Hi! thanks, I'm the post's author.

I had the same concern you have about finding "just the right lens", but was pleasantly surprised to find the $180 camera/lens combo linked in the post worked just fine. In fact basically every piece of optics I had in my lab could pass light at 1050nm, and I have a bit of everything from cheap stuff bought over the counter in Shenzhen to brand-name microscopes. I tried lenses from 6 different vendors and they all worked about the same in terms of passing light (but of course the fidelity of the image scales with cost, better lens tolerances are just more expensive).

My guess is that uncoated glass should be transparent in the 1050nm band, but some lenses have AR coatings that limit the bandwidth. A lot of my lenses do have AR coating (based on the greenish tint I see in the reflections), but I guess the bandwidth of the coating used on most visible-light lenses is just wide enough for 1050nm to slide through.
You'd think that having some data about the sending account would allow them to be more confident. They should know that it's not a spam account - or if it is, act on it?
The solution is to have motion control an ambient light in the bathroom but not the main light. Use a (smart) switch to control the main light and use it when you're going to be there a while. Set up the system not to turn off the ambient light when the main light is on, no matter how much time passes.

This way you get the convenience of hands-free when you're just washing your hands or something, but you have all the light you want--for a bubble bath--or whatever.

There is still the problem of sometimes forgetting to turn the switch off, but since it's smart, it's easy for Siri to turn it off when you go to bed, etc.
Well yeah, a Google VPN. Throw your privacy through the windows and route ALL your traffic through Googles Servers. Consider Mullvad[0] as a privacy-friendly alternative, you can even pay in cash by sending them a letter. They also don't cooperate with LE (Law Enforcement). But dont take my word for it, look for yourself:

[0] https://mullvad.net/
If someone has remote root you are telling me they can't unhide a filesystem? Otherwise what are you disputing and what would you accept as evidence?
OctoDNS: Tools for managing DNS across multiple providers
What's equally fascinating from this list is how thoroughly and completely Meta has wasted the opportunity of WhatsApp. Notice how it's one of the most used/downloaded apps and not high in the list for deletes.

I interviewed at WhatsApp post acquisition, but it seemed pretty obvious that the Facebook PMs and leadership that they installed post acquisition had neither the will nor ability to actually develop a strategy and make clear decisions in the absence of data and metrics.

Mark doesn't care of course, because you can't expand an ad network into a product hardened against surveillance. They tried for a while by investing in Messenger as a potential WeChat-like platform, but it was the wrong horse to bet on when WhatsApp already won internationally and iMessage/iPhone was the platform of choice among US teens.

Meta is the new Yahoo. One huge blue/purple legacy app they will continue to milk as it slowly fades, and then just a trail of death and decay in a long list of acquired products. Thank god Signal has come around and is being invested in.
> My understanding is that the only reason OpenAI even setup the paid API is because it "can also be hard to run [sic]". Personally, I'm skeptical. I"m not knocking them for it but I could see how this is just brand capitalization.

Why is it hard to see that not every organization has the capability to set up their own translation cluster, provision GPUs, frontends, scaling, on-call rotations, regularly update models..? It's not just "brand capitalization". An API that you can call to transcribe/translate a recording with zero extra work is absolutely essential to have for most.
Seems like a legit criticism :)

Care to expand?
Sony is worried that Microsoft will sabotage Call of Duty for the Playstation
whoops should have said "telnet to bbs.iscabbs.com" up there. ISCABBS isn't as big as it used to be but we still have a good 30 users online at any given time.
California please follow suit...
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My daughter used an Apple IIgs with a FloppyEmu[0] when she was younger (and still uses it some). Getting a real Apple II may be beyond your means (they are getting ridiculously expensive for as many as were made) but, if you do, the Floppy Emu is a real improvement to quality of life.

[0] https://www.bigmessowires.com/floppy-emu/
Personally I prefer Flux, but YMMV.
Or pigs. Basically inedible after they bred the fat out of them in the 80s/90s :(
I absolutely love JSX. I came from a templating framework (marionette) and writing in JSX is amazing compared to that.
Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of hacking liability
I think it's more than using Groups in the prior way was really more of a hack than an appropriate, mature solution for that piece of IEM, and now GCP has a product that's fit for purpose.

Fwiw, internally at Google, Groups is used for membership/access management in a "light" (self-administered for access to things that usually aren't particular sensitive) way, but for more serious ACLs there are other products. The nice thing about Groups is just that it's dead easy for non-technical users, and it solves the other problem which is retention of email content for longer than Google's retention policy -- IOW, tribal knowledge.
At some point, wouldn't it be better to build your own RSS bridge for posts from Instagram accounts you want to follow? At least you'd get to exercise some programming skills that way, instead of running around in Meta's dark pattern labyrinths.
The code browsers?

https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/ch10-ImageSetUp...
AFAICT Guido has softened his stance on this somewhat. The main impediment to `map()` and friends at this point is the clunky `lambda` syntax. However here we see another benefit of syntactic comprehensions over higher-order functions: comprehensions can be inspected deeply and inlined or otherwise optimized as a special case, while a stack of higher-order functions might need a more advanced bytecode compiler or JIT to apply "deforesting" and inlining.
https://forum.dlang.org/ is a web forum.

Which is also on Usenet/NNTP.

Which is also a mailing list archive.

And also an IRC bot.

AGPL. https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed
I completely understand the feeling but the site guidelines ask us not to convert such feelings into HN posts:

"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Crucial 2 x 16GB DDR5-5200 / DDR5-5600 Linux Memory Performance
In most buildings there is no concrete between walls but floors have a ~1 inch layer of lightweight-concrete, I think for fire resistance, its not solid so you hear every footprint.
An anonymous powdered chemical in a plastic bag. Hopefully not imported drop shipped via Amazon from China by the same people that import the phone chargers that catch fire and the fake microSD cards...
The gulf between "showing up in person and waiting in line at the bank" and "performant web app" covers a lot of ground, most of it shitty and frustrating, and that easily can be many times better than it currently is.

But yeah, I guess you're not waiting in line at the bank anymore.
Because that would involve actual work. A box sitting somewhere that passes through API calls to OpenAI is trivial to set up.
Of course Microsoft will. At first, Microsoft will promise that CoD and other popular Activision Blizzard games will remain on the Playstation to get the deal through.

A few years later when everyone forgets, Microsoft will make all Activision Blizzard games exclusive on Xbox, Xbox cloud streaming, and Windows.
I just tried this out and it's basically exactly what I want! No frills, basic feature set. Was going to make something myself but now I can be even lazier than normal.
I've crossed into Mexico many times and not once have they asked for an identity document. You find out what a piece of cattle you are when you enter the US, though.
Are they adding a new jit each version now?
Yeah, on the big kernels the time just getting filleting working robustly can be measured in developer-careers.

The core problem isn't memory safety, it's due to difficulties with the mathematical foundation of NURBS surfaces. For example, the intersection of two NURBS surfaces can't be exactly represented by a NURBS curve.
Article about floppydisk.com with photos and interview with the business owner https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-s...
ALL of these sorts of social media programs are terrifyingly-capable spying platforms. It'd be weird if we didn't regard one controlled by a foreign adversary as a threat. I think the domestic ones are, too—but they feed info to US law enforcement and intelligence and are making lots of money, so we can't crack down on those, I guess.
I've been loving https://www.perplexity.ai/, find myself using it more and more. Don't have Bing AI access yet but seems similar in that it cites sources, but more powerful with it's ChatGPT-likeness.
There’s a reason these chips are left open. Thermal performance for example might tank if they tried to epoxy those.
I don't agree.

First recall all the crazy, dangerous stuff that spread on twitter/FB/yt/etc. ISIS, for example. Proud boys, other stuff.

Second, consider Wikipedia. Freer than almost anything web, and THE juiciest target in narrative and informational war's. It's had far fewer major disasters than any of the major commercials. Held up very well. Runs on <1% of their budgets and is under constant criticism for being spendy.

Reddit is, meanwhile and example of a lot of things. The variety there makes it a good place for examples. But, Reddit was a commery startup that got bought many moons ago into a media conglomerate. It's not the examle of free.
If every foodstuff costing as much per flower as vanilla - a spice usable in famously small quantities - isn't a crop-apocalypse, what is?
He said it specifically about fast shipping, the SumatraPDF author extended the analogy to software.

> In our retail business, we know that customers want low prices, and I know that's going to be true 10 years from now. They want fast delivery; they want vast selection.[1]

[1]https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/966699-i-very-frequently-ge...
> If Haraldur intended to bait him

Reading Icelandic names like Haraldur evokes strong subconscious aura of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. Curious if someone would write a novel (or a parody or a game) about Middle Earth's modern high tech corporate culture.
There are a few scary solutions if it ever came to the point where insect population would start to seriously harm pollination for forests and human crops. We can always start engineering and breeding insects that are more resistant to global warming.

What we will never know for certain is what the long term effect will be if we start to do this.
State Chart XML (Scxml): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction (2015)
There is almost no likelihood that the police are interested in screwing with me. It's a pure percentages argument, not an ethical one.

I'm old, boring, and the most tense police interaction I'm likely to have is for a minor traffic ticket or expired parking meter.
this? https://youtu.be/ELeZAKCN4tY
The Montgomery County (MD) Police Department would disagree with that statement.
How long does it take to transfer 1 disk? I definitely understand the tedium you must have felt...but was it just all in one burst or a couple days or did you give up after a month or two?
"Getting early users, learning what features they want the most beats toiling for months or years and implementing lots of features before you know anyone even cares."

Yes, yes, yes. I wasted far too much of my life building things that nobody actually cared about because some executives spent far too long in conference rooms huffing each other's farts and creating product plans that were bigger fantasies than anything Tolkein ever wrote.

And I'm not even mad about the bullshit, really. By all means create the fantasy-filled documents if that's what it takes to get funding/approval. The part that kills me is when people start believing their own bullshit. Dream big but work small. And then ship! Close those feedback loops.
Thanks for the link! It adds some context I didn't have. It does seem fairly obvious that the primary driver of homelessness is the cost of a home. So obvious that it almost doesn't even seem like there's a point in bringing it up, but that's just because I'm giving people too much credit, I suppose.

I guess I also always assumed that like, "hey, if it were me, I'd be going where I won't die from the cold". I hold that there's gotta be some displaced individuals in this cohort, but by the looks of the numbers, they're mostly drowned out in what looks like a much worse problem than one might assume.

At the end of the day, this is (as so many things are) rooted in the wealth gap. There's a certain level of difficulty one can be forgiven for not wanting to engage in - and it's real hard to make ends meet under the current circumstances.
alt.folklore computers

comp.unix*

comp.misc

comp.lang.*

comp.infosystems.gemini

comp.infosystems.gopher
Power management is shit these days under windows too, mainly down to OEMs failing to implement it fully in their BIOS leading to Microsoft dropping support to more advanced power stages.

This mainly happened because the idle power consumption without any power staging has improved drastically and so has the power density of batteries.

So this isn’t really on Intel also sleep and various other power states aren’t used in servers.
> It’s amazing what drinking regular coke is like after being off sugar for awhile.

It's exquisite. I drink one every few months when we go out to a restaurant. Or a Dr Pepper, another favorite of mine. If you drink them every day, they're pretty boring. But once in a while, they're fantastic.
It's also blazingly fast. An awesome D app.
archive.org has some historical usenet dumps. There's no viewer so you need to download them as individual files (generally 1 file per group).
almost Certainly not. We should only hold past indiscretions against people we have opposing political opinions with
The glove also fit OJ just fine when he was not taking actions advised by his lawyers to actively make his hand swell
Related:

The “Plankalkül” of Konrad Zuse: The first high level programming language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26593656 - March 2021 (1 comment)

Plankalkül: The First High-Level Programming Language and Its Implementation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23364898 - May 2020 (1 comment)

Antedating “datatype” all the way to Plankalkül (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18975279 - Jan 2019 (2 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14406853 (May 2017)

Plankalkül - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10909784 - Jan 2016 (14 comments)
Now you know what it feels like to be the rest of the world relying on American tech companies.
Here in the Netherlands Macs were outrageously expensive in the 90's. I only knew a few people who bothered to buy them (mostly because they wanted something simpler than a PC or because of Adobe stuff). Macs also used 'better' components at the time (SCSI drives instead of slow IDE, better sound, etc) so yes, if you wanted a comparable PC you had to pay up. But most people here had a much cheaper PC...
For certain types of prompts like basic arithmetic that would give ChatGPT trouble, it actually does do a good job coming up with useful questions when prompted. For example, if you ask it the answer to 2 * diameter of the Moon, and then give it a prompt such as what information it would need to answer, it will do a good job breaking down the parts of the problem. So there’s no reason that it couldn’t take some prompt like that and turn around and generate queries to gather those facts in order to create the final answer. In this scenario is really chatting with search engines and things like Wolfram Alpha.
It's kind of funny to me that almost everyone I talk kind of knows TikTok is bad, but in a way we really don't know what to do with.

It kind of makes me appreciate that there were lots of times we banned things after they crossed an arbitrary line of danger. Alcohol was fine until hard liquor was invented. Child work was expected, until factories came along.

In a way, I almost think of TikTok as a reverse Opium War. Opium was already a not uncommon vice in China until the British introduced much more potent strains. TikTok not being fundamentally different than the other tech that preceded it, just a more potent version.