skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish it was true. I use linux on a day to day and when things go wrong (updates or apps), you need a terminal.

When things go well, you sometimes need a terminal to avoid jankiness.

I guess a person who uses a pc in a very limited way might not notice, but then they could also use any os and achieve the same.
it feels like google (the search engine) died and got replaced with something more generic. it is working less and less for me. maybe they cut off some things to reduce costs. yet bing is still worse.
I built an open-source low-code platform to build mobile apps in JSON, https://www.nanoapp.dev/
I literally live in hotels for seven months a year across the US. I have never seen this happen. But I only stay at Hilton and Hyatt brand hotels.
Ask HN: Are there any open guides to building “machine scientist”ist /
Been trying to identify any focused resource on building small to large models that can for example identify the laws of motion or Kepler's formula etc from data consisting actual observation values.
> The school eventually figured this out. It's not clear how they avoid the situation however; do you tell teachers never to grant exceptions on student-owned devices?

Make it so the firewall exception process on student devices gives a 6 digit code which the instructor enters into a staff-only interface on the instructor's device, so that the process always requires input on both a student and an instructor's computer.
It's a requirement thing. For security the requirement is code needs to be branchless. In HPC the requirement is high performance, the branchless algorithm is an implementation detail. In fact branchless code is often much slower then the branching version.
Branchless algos are all over the place outside of security.
Usually these sorts of passwords are single-purpose just for getting around mundane firewall blocks, so they're not that critical.
I think part of it comes down to knowing your children well enough to know if this is likely.

In truth as someone with autism and ADHD I found myself down some pretty nasty rabbit holes if I wasn't at least given some guidance.
We had something like this but for French. The website was used for real tests and assignments but the answers would be loaded somewhere even if the test/assignment would not show you if you got it wrong.

So we made a Javascript one-liner that would retrieve and fill in the answers.

The first edition also submitted them but the teacher could see how fast you completed a test so we removed that as students who normally could not pass the test suddenly had 100% and in 5 seconds of time.

In the end, manually removing, answering some answers wrong and waiting to submit made that class a breeze.

Too bad my French is now very bad but that wasn't something youth-me thought of at the time.
WSL2 on Zen4 Ryzen: similar performance to running bare metal Linux
When carrying out the recent Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 23.04 benchmarks with the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Zen 4 3D V-Cache desktop processor, I also took the opportunity with the Windows 11 install around to check in on the Windows 11 WSL2 performance. Here is a fresh look at Ubuntu with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2 on Windows 11) compared to the bare metal performance of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on the same hardware as well as the new Ubuntu 23.04.

...

For many different practical workloads, the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) performance continues looking quite nice on Microsoft Windows 11. Overall it was a fairly pleasant experience with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on WSL2 with the latest Windows 11. For many workloads there is similar performance to running bare metal Linux
Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Design IP Sales Grew 20.2% in 2022 after 19.4% in 2021 and 16.7% in 2020, Demand for robot vision system is anticipated to reach $7 billion by 2033, ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group #20, What to expect from AMD’s Q1 results?
I no longer use paper straws. Instead, I carry around a reusable metal straw that I wash after every use with copious amounts of water.
> Then why is anyone skating for the decision to abandon buttons in the first place?

Cost.

My guess would be that manufacturers want touchscreens because they're cheaper to develop and implement than an inventory of individual physical controls.

Adding a new touchscreen widget to a car that's already in production is just an over the air software upgrade vs a very expensive redesign/recall for physical controls.

Drivers don't think through the consequences of the control system at the time of purchase or have it as a low priority compared to things like purchase price.

I think it's pretty easy to tell yourself that your not going to mess with a screen while driving but in reality it's much harder to fight that compulsion. If it wasn't then we wouldn't need the "I'm Not Driving" feature on phones.
I just made a simple sprint calendar so I could keep track of my team's big dates more effectively at work, at a glance from my phone etc.

https://sprintcalendar.com

My team runs with:

https://sprintcalendar.com/3-week-sprints/start-2023-03-23/r...
Grandparent already mentioned that remote editing has been an Emacs feature for a long long time so I thought that was already debunked.
> "I am sinking!"

Wat are you sinking about?
Would love to see the timesheet and its syntax and stuff:)
When Should I Force Myself to Do Uninteresting Work?
I'm definitely on #2, although it should be clear that abusing the substances should have consequences of some kind to serve a deterrent. Not sure how that looks but protecting people from falling into addiction is necessary because after addiction it's hard to help someone who seemingly wants to continue on an obviously destructive path. Maybe alcohol addiction could be first since it's already legal.
The same Firefox that gets most of its funding by funneling search to Google?
This seems to be the motor version. The article is a huge, flaccid missed opportunity to show the sensory version.
https://mathb.in/

I wrote this 11 years ago for my friends and myself who were going through a phase in our lives when we used to challenge each other with mathematical puzzles.

The use of this tool spread from my friends to their friends and colleagues, then schools and universities, and then to IRC channels. Now it is the oldest mathematics pastebin that is still online and serving its community of users. Visit https://github.com/susam/mathb for the source code of this tool.
Not really that high-tech or that interesting, but I've made a firefox add-on that sorts YouTube video tabs by duration. Recently I realized that someone else actually uses it too (he left a review), so I got motivated to patch it
Don't care, there's a quote in the OP that this discussion is being limited to.
Very cool. Do you connect it to Spotify or to an MP3 collection?
Oh, I forgot. In the US, the pretense wouldn't be, feigned or otherwise. It'd be a deep conviction that Bad Stuff happens to Bad People.

In the UK, everyone knows deep down the Fat Controller could come for them too and you couldn't do anything about it.
Not really that high-tech or that cool, but I've made a firefox add-on that sorts YouTube video tabs by duration. Recently I realized that someone else actually uses it too (he left a review), so I got motivated to patch it
Nice work! This is interesting to read the comparison between Hidet and Triton in this blog:

> Hidet Script vs. Triton: Triton greatly simplifies the CUDA programming by introducing the tile-based programming model where the parallel execution unit is thread blocks instead of threads. However, this simplification also prevents the tensor program developers from manipulating the fine-grained computation and memory resources (e.g., warps, shared memory) in their preferred ways. It would be challenging to implement an optimization that requires fine-grained control of these resources using Triton if it has not been implemented by the Triton compiler itself. Hidet Script, on the other hand, simplifies tensor programming while still enabling users to implement their own optimizations with extensive flexibility. It’s worth noting that the more granular control of Hidet Script also brings added complexity compared to Triton.
Try Snap as well. It's like Scratch and has the same learning curve, but has more features (functions, 2D arrays, hashmaps, local variables, recursion, string manipulation, etc.) that make it more suitable than Scratch for more advanced computer science concepts if the student wants to speed ahead. It could be used all the way from elementary school through high school without running into serious limitations, if an instructor wanted to.

https://snap.berkeley.edu/snap/help/SnapManual.pdf
Can someone with inside knowledge brief about the situation of the CRA w.r.t. open source? When I last looked at the situation, I was under the impression that open source stakeholders could succeed in lobbying better guards. But as I've understood that the whole CRA is going to be rewritten under the Swedish Presidency, it would be a good time to put some weight in.
I wrote a server that bridges Subsonic clients to my Spotify library. I like that it lets me to stream anything on Spotify but I can still fill in favorites that aren't available.
Microsoft’s mice, keyboards, and webcams are being discontinued
Having ported a 6502 emulator to MacOS 8 (to play C64 SID music), I found this rather interesting.

Thanks for posting this.
Canonical pushed a custom mlflow container image
So you're saying the paper is very ambiguous and your mental network isn't modeling it.
In this case it wasn’t so much “the cloud is invincible!” as “this appears to be a cost centre” - their whole shtick is to boost profitability in the short term by gutting businesses, and then selling them onwards to some other finance sucker.

I am sure that my name is currently being damned in a boardroom in Chicago, as as the person who warned of this, I am likely seen as responsible.
Alexa has always worked better from across the room, but nowadays an Echo device will do very little aside from weather and timers without trying to sell you a subscription.
That's very neat, any chance you'd be willing to open source it?
* A script that periodically screenscraped booked-up campsite reservation sites for cancellations during dates I wanted and sent me text messages (thanks, Twilio!). We got to stay at a bunch of amazing places at the last minute this way. We’re currently grounded, but I recently ran it again for my parents and was shocked to find it still worked!

* An Alexa app that provides a search interface to Old Time Radio shows on archive.org and saves your place (this was technically for my mother-in-law, the proof-of-concept with arcade sounds for my spouse). We all ended up using it a ton, though, it was kind of magical (the random function was really fun). I also set up an Alexa app to read me recent CVEs, but it’s more of a goofy parlor trick than useful. ;)

* A Rube Goldbergian bunch of terrible scripts that I can feed PDFs to, OCR, poorly-translate (using the expected engines or my own diymodel) and generate epubs from. And a bunch of scripts that convert Markdown to LaTeX and epub for personal book publishing projects.

Thanks for asking this question, it’s so neat to see everyone’s responses! I might ping my spouse on this post, too, who’s developed a crazy amount of personal projects that combine software and hardware to fixup our/our families’ lives.
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode
(I know, but if you take raw literals out of the equation it more or less is, thankfully you can implement raw literals as a big huge lexer hack and ignore it during parsing. There's also macros, which are a separate pickle, but then the user more or less expects they may cause some magic, sure it's vastly better than `bob<flop>(blaz)` which is not sane in any metric I can think of)
Exactly. The best Linux Desktop distro is Windows.
Most, if not all, companies involved in the sector are unprofitable in what is still a relatively nascent industry requiring scale and investment to remain viable and compete with traditionally grown crops.

Many countries think food security is national security, so it will continue even if it requires government subsidy.
I had a buzzer that was basically a button on the handset of a phone which would
Open the door, I wasn’t allowed to open it up to wire directly into it so I slapped together a node red script on a rpi with a servo that would push the button to buzz open the door anytime I said “open seasame” with Siri via an iOS automation thingy. Never needed to carry keys again while we lived there.
Yeah, it's mildly annoying there's no (at least to my knowledge?) compiler hint like the '__builtin_expect' ones to tell compilers that the values are very unlikely going to be predictable with enough accuracy to allow the branch predictors to be useful in general, and to use a cmov instead of the traditional branching instructions because of this.
Hi,

I'm on call for the team this week.

We'd love to get more information here as we take anything around privacy and authentication very seriously. I'd like to get usernames of profiles involved and rule out being redirected back to a page you were visiting before signing in.

Would you be open to discussing further? You can reach me at robert.herbst@flux.ai. Being able to discuss with you directly would be really helpful.

Alternatively we actively monitor and respond to bug reports filed here: https://feedback.flux.ai/bugreports
There’s a browser too…
Also, if you have to change anything with the airline and you book through a third party, you either have to deal with the third party (and a painful phone call for Priceline) or they charge an extra fee like American.
GPT4 low temp continuation of a prompt roughly, "Write a brief poem that tells the story of how Europe was banned from AI. To make themselves sound important european politicans passed a law requiring AI to attribute its output to specific sources, but this is impossible because every source influences every output of the AI, not unlike a human mind. Because they couldn't comply the AI developers just banned all of Europe from accessing their AI sending Europe into an intellectual dark age without the access to powerful AI.", plus a few high temp retries of a few verses that I didn't like the flow of in the initial output.
The keyboards on the Apple M Macbooks are good, having used one myself... Except there's this feeling that Macbook keyboards fundamentally "work" differently to all other keyboards out there.

I'm primarily a Windows wizard, I use my Macbook for specific tasks and it's not my daily driver. I can type on my Macbook mostly fine, but occasionally it misses some of my key inputs. I know the keyboard works, the key in question types in properly when I press it again, but nonetheless I have the occasional input go missing as I type.

I don't know why this is the case, it annoys me, and I'm left wondering if it's the keyboard with no obvious defects or my typing which works flawlessly with literally all other keyboards I ever come across.
A cheaper form of therapy. Therapists are mostly mirroring your own thoughts or helping you see things you can't see. Ideally you have something that can just listen and echo your thoughts back or acknowledge them, without the need to pay $100/hour.
https://sqlite.org/wasm/doc/trunk/index.md

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/sqlite-wasm-in-the-browser...
I agree with your premise, not your conclusion. I have resigned to rust eating the software world. It's not backed by anything, yet it creeps in everywhere.

You can stop it, but it's hard work and if you ever has as much as a hairline crack in the Porcelaine, Rust will get there, eventually.
That sounds like you are talking about academia, not science.

Mendel, a man remembered as the father of genetics, was a friar who failed to pass his exams for becoming a certified teacher, so he became an abbot. At that point, his scientific work languished because his duties were too burdensome to allow time for it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel
This is standby time. In standby mode this thing does nothing, right? An off switch would accomplish the same result.
I love this idea! Thanks for sharing, I'm looking forward to trying this out day to day.
Tell me more about private photo feed system.. thanks..
> These policies, like all forms of gatekeeping, are potentially terrific solutions for weak-link problems because they can stamp out the worst research. But they’re terrible solutions for strong-link problems because they can stamp out the best research, too. Reviewers are less likely to greenlight papers and grants if they’re novel, risky, or interdisciplinary. When you’re trying to solve a strong-link problem, this is like swallowing a big lump of kryptonite.

Scientist can publish whatever we like. Good research, bad research, whatever. Just open a blog like Tao https://terrytao.wordpress.com/ There are no "gatekeepers".

One problem is how a committee can evaluate that. The bad solution we reached is to just count the number of papers in serious peer review journals. But now there are a los of predatory journals where you can just publish whatever you like if you pay, and other kinds of bad journals. So there are more complicated rules to define what is "serious" and what is a "journal".

I don't understand what the author propose. If all journals publish whatever people submit, they just become a clone of WordPress, but we already have WordPress and a few alternatives.

Other problem is how non-scientist can consume that. Which groundbreaking results should be copied to newspapers. Now the problem is that journalist in the science section has little scientific formation, so it's difficult to evaluate every single post in WordPress and decide which are good. So they use papers in serious peer review journals as a good approximation, but many times they just copy the bad press release of the university.

Another problem is which results should get applied to public policies. We expect that the person in charge is an expert and have experts advisors in each area. But it will be too much work for them to be reading all day WordPress to find promising results, and evaluate all of them. Also, when people in other areas can just copy-and-paste a result to use it instead of measuring it again.

My guess is that in that case there will develop a net of relialable curators, something like "awesome-volcanoes" or "awesome-cetacean". Each one is too much work for a single person, so they may ask for help from trusted friends. They may even give advice about stile and clarity, before the blog post is included in the awesome list. And now we have reinvented the peer review journal system, and the only difference is that the papers are never printed in dead trees.
Our apartment has a key fob system to open the front door as well as an intercom system so people can call up and request to be let in. I put a Raspberry Pi Zero W inside the intercom receiver unit hooked up to the "open door" button. The Pi receives on a webhook that I control from a shortcut on my smartphone, so I can let people in even when I'm not home (or let myself in if I've forgotten the fob). The Pi also texts me whenever the doorbell rings. Not the sexiest project, but definitely the one that gets the most use!
My Raspberry Pis all netboot. I have a bunch of them around the house. Some play music, some play games, some are smart TVs. Because they all boot from the LAN, there's no card to wear out, and I can change what OS they boot into just by renaming a file. It's simple, but intensely useful.
Agreed. I think the 'year of the Linux desktop' is more personal journey (as cliche as that sounds). Some folks never switch but for those that do, it's their year to experience linux.

When was year of the Linux for you? Mine was mid 2020.
> and that thin clients were the future, especially from an efficiency standpoint.

I feel like we keep inventing thin clients and then making them thick; I consider Chromebooks the next step in the cycle.
You actually use your real email and not an email relay service?
What transmitter did you use?
It's been admitted, and straight from the horses mouth.
Great now stop using RAM as a filetransfer buffer.
This really should be mentioned on the page. My first impression was: "well, however cool this is, I will never use it because I can't just type it in any terminal without creating some stupid bespoke environment for it".

EDIT: I just copied and pasted a code example into a text window and the raw typed text is exposed. Maybe something like a suggestion to do that could be included for anyone flummoxed by the symbols?
The explanation I see as relevant: the relevant portions of the DSA are about online platforms, which it defines as:

> ‘online platform’ means a provider of hosting service which, at the request of a recipient of the service, stores and disseminates to the public information."

For some content, particularly music, video, and some ebooks, Apple is the merchant of record. They are not acting as a platform for that content but as a traditional retailer. Compare this with the App Store, where Apple instead acts as a platform, intermediating the dissemination of information between non-Apple content providers and the public.

A service like Amazon would have this distinction as well. Some interactions are direct retail transactions between an Amazon entity and the public. At the same time, its Amazon Marketplace service provides a platform for non-Amazon sellers to disseminate information to the public.
What totally strikes me as odd is, that Siri on iPad even reacts to the Audible player in the background.

Most false positive triggers stem from Audible books as well as audio play from the Apple Audio.

Sometimes I feel Siri is desperate to be triggered, because if hardly ever, I use it in the car when I have to change direction and need to set a new course on a Map app.
The latest version supports searching file contents now, though it's slow because the contents isn't indexed.
Slack and its clones have fewer features than IRC, not more.

They're also much more wasteful of resources, and needlessly proprietary ecosystems.
Homelessness is a known risk factor for dying of an overdose. They even describe a factor for how and why they think that's true:

"When people don’t have a safe place to go, when they’re using in doorways and public places and they’re afraid of getting caught and put in jail, they tend to rush and use more substance," he said. "And when they rush, there’s a higher risk of overdose."
The success of UNIX and C is no accident.
First, tell Nokia you intend to contact the ACCC about this refund, as the device isn't "fit for purpose" if it can't store files greater than 4GB.

If they don't instantly change their tone (as many vendors do once you mention certain four-letter agencies like ACCC or ACMA...), then lodge a complaint with the ACCC.

Ingram in this case are just acting as a warehouse/drop-shipper, same as they do for Microsoft and various other OEMs.

... although our (Australias) Data Retention and 'Lawful Access' legislation is crap, at least the Consumer Guidelines still generally favour the public! :)
PS: also if shader functions could be directly defined as 'regular functions' in CPU-side source code (and behind a special function pointer type), there would be no need for string literal shenanigans like this:

https://github.com/floooh/sokol-samples/blob/3f10c1a0620cec9...

(and shader compilation would happen during the regular build and would also generate regular compiler errors - with current toolchains that's only possible with a lot of build system magic)
This story feels a bit weird to me because I went back to Firefox 2-3 years ago for performance reasons, haha.
I felt like Chrome was using all my battery and memory on my previous MBP. I gave Firefox a trial run and never came back.
I haven't really tried chromium based browser since I came back to Linux
Its the hotels fault to begin with for not managing their booking.con listing.