skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mechanism would loft a cloud of particles with a wide range of trajectories through a notoriously uneven gravitational field.

The odds that a sufficient fraction of particles would remain in orbit for long enough to make routine operations in low lunar orbit or on the surface itself seems ... plausible.

And of course, the situation could be compounded by multiple burns and/or at multiple points on the surface, at a somewhat increased cost to the attacker.
The user can select from thousands of colours unfortunately :-) Tap the top left icon in the app, or just play with it for fun! https://kidzfun.art
Thanks for the reply and the recommendations! I will see if my machine can handle some of the quantized 30B models.

I'm slightly confused about your comment about llama.cpp vs oobabooga. Doesn't text-generation-webui use llama.cpp underneath?

Also, huge thanks for the point towards https://rentry.org/lmg_models. That's an invaluable resource.
Predictor for Startup Success
Dreaming.
Australian media uses the word horror in almost every tragedy story. Sometimes I feel like they need thesaurus’s explained to them.
A nice side effect for Meta is also to bring the pytorch vs tensorflow battle to its final chapter.
This is awesome.

I really like the fact that templates are available on GitHub: https://github.com/CommonPaper

I cofounded a company that develop and sells an OpenSource software and it's a huge pain to write the contract. It's also costly... as I don't trust myself to write a contract and ask a lawyer to do it...

I see that templates are more for cloud based offering but that would be great to extend this to on-premise contrat too. I would be happy to contribute.
> goods are being purchased with a rapidly debased currency.

so you can check if the increase is caused by debasement by looking at the inflation; if the increase in sales dollars is higher than inflation, it means that the debasement isn't an explanation of the increase in sales figures.
Sure, no. The cop with a gun pointed at you shouts your rights at you; rights which the government wrote down.

In all seriousness though, I've no idea what this means in any practical sense. I don't know what being a subject of a government is, not how it compares to being a sovereign.
A human with below average intelligence can outperform many junior professional software engineers because of JavaScript?

Do you mean a programmer with below average intelligence (for a programmer)? Because I'm having a hard time believing that you actually believe what you wrote.

BTW, JavaScript is actually a fairly difficult language to learn and use. Python, BASIC, and even Fortran are much simpler conceptually and have far fewer pitfalls. JavaScript is popular because it's the only language that every modern computer has an interpreter for, not because it's so easy that idiots can use it.
Login prompts interrupt your flow, and make it more likely for you to be responsible for a security-relevant mistake. Depending on what your job is, this might include pasting sensitive information into email that has an incorrect recipient, losing focus on security requirements for a design, approving a colleague's merge request that introduces a vulnerability into your product, etc. In many situations, the organizational risk from developer distraction is higher than the risk from unattended/stolen machines.

There's a substantial amount of research data related (not always directly) to this, e.g., the "Interruptibility of Software Developers" paper from the 2015
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2702123.2702593

https://www.zora.uzh.ch/110157/1/ZuegerFritz-Interruptibilit...

I don't know of a case where distractions from Microsoft SSO login prompts (specifically) were correlated with a higher rate of bugs, such as security bugs. I have heard of one case where a "zero trust" rollout was discontinued because re-authenticating was interfering with development (higher defect rate, but also developers not staying "in the zone" and losing productivity).
Certainty about predictions of the future has always been close to zero. If you take a person from an appropriate time and ask them what the future will look like in 1000, 100 or even 20 years then their predictions will bear little resemblence to what actually occurs.

As humans we have a tendancy to make linear future predictions based on past observations. Over the timescales that matter significant effects occur from previously unseen kinds of events that become important via interactions with other events.

The important measurement would be what the length of the event horizon - the length of time before our predictions rapidly decrease to zero certainty. In a singularity we would expect that length of time to decrease close to zero. What has it been historically? I would claim that 5-10 years is a difficult period to make meaningful predictions about. I think that 20 years has proven to be very difficult but possible in the past. I am unaware of any 100+ year predictions that have landed with better than random chance.

Interestingly I think we are entering a period where 5 years will be the upper bound, and even predictions over shorter 2-3 year timespans are going to become difficult.
I only use 4'th gen water which is fully declarative.
I empathize, but haven't given up the faith yet. With a little bit of effort, I'm able to strip out the pain an misery (and latency) that is snap from Ubuntu distributions that I use, but I do see a future in which the OS becomes crippled enough that I'll need to finally bite the bullet and join the arch crowd.
Being good at corporate or banking finance does not translate to being good at personal finance.

You would be shocked at how many high-earning individuals in the finance industry essentially live paycheck to paycheck because they spend as much (or more) than they make in an effort to maintain "status" among their peers, clients, and neighbors. It's pretty much the norm for that industry.

A credit check is more often used to gauge how susceptible a candidate is to becoming a pawn in some espionage plot. Someone with large outstanding debts is more likely to agree to get paid to steal information or money when approached by an agent working for another company or government than someone who is financially secure.
Or Nobara Linux, which is a modified version of Fedora that strives to be more user-friendly.
I just don’t use snap. They don’t force you.
While this is not new news, these sort of things do warrant reminding of every once in a while to keep it fresh in the new generation's minds. I worked for a few ISP's late nineties/early 2000's. I distinctly remember the day the image of the closet door was received by us all, indicating the first direct wire tap of the backbone fiber near MAE East. After that most of us tech support types tried diligently to inform the public, and even found ways to route around MAE East. No one believed, and very few cared to learn about their routing. These days it's nearly impossible to find a clean unenveloped route.

Folks, it's never been rumor. No, not every packet you send is recorded. But the US government's systems are always decades ahead of any pattern matching tech you think you've seen, and those rule sets and capture filters are almost certainly run on all your traffic. Being a joint enterprise of public/private entities, that shadow version of you exists for the involved groups and governments to review, analyze, and run tests against.

If you use systems that ask your personal preferences, collect personal information, or collect your location data: lie absurdly to it constantly. Being random about it gets your more diverse advertisements, and being more specific about it across platforms makes it easy to spot when something is trying to advertise on the sly, or when your info gets somewhere it shouldn't have.

You can't stop the NSA finding out stuff about you, if they want it, they'll get it. But why make it easy on any of the fuckers? If they want to sniff your business, let them smell the whole asshole.
Dreaming is not a "task", and certainly not one where performance comparisons make any sense.
This comment and your other one above don't really add anything to the discussion here. They comprise an attack on an individual and, as you say, we can't have an informed opinion because we don't know the individual. So it just boils down to you calling someone you know a racist based on a one-sided anecdote.
Snaps...again.

Which snaps are loading that slow? Granted I'm using AppImage or binaries for so much stuff these days, from Firefox to Openshot to Crystal, but I'm really curious.

One of my machines runs 22.04 and has tons of software installed via repos, so some huge chunk of that experience must be slow, or painful, I think I'm to believe? Yet I'm not noticing anything out of the ordinary compared to my other distros.

What are you seeing? Specific examples?
Yet another example of words appropriation by a large software company for marketing purposes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_appropriation ?
I'm on the verge of converting. I'm sick of vscode using 4-6 CPU cores at 100% when I'm not doing anything.
I don’t care, will not upgrade to win 11.
Their hideously awful interview process leads me to believe there are deeply rooted problems in Ubuntu’s company culture and it’s not getting better anytime soon.

They ask insightful questions like, “How did you do in your native language at high school?” or “How did you do in maths, physics or computer science at high school?”, followed by long written essays and “psychometric” personality testing.

That’s a hard nope from me.
Dear Jenny,
although less common I suggest you start dating the father of Ubuntu; Debian.
Kind regards,
Roberto
If you are right that would be amazing! The demo code is open source, please send a PR with such a flood fill implemented.

The requirement is that when the user clicks on a 2k x 2k image it takes 50ms or less, running on a cheap Android tablet. If a better algorithm, perhaps implemented in wasm, can achieve this, I’d love to discard all my complex code and just use it
I was looking for colouring app two days ago but couldn't find a decent one. https://toddler-games.com seems to be something my niece's would love. Thanks.
> people need to roll up their sleeves and do legit work.

I don't like this kind of Calvinist attitude toward work. Increasing productivity via technological advancement should free us all up to do more of what we want.
Thanks for that ! I had a terrible HN app, and discovered Harmonic through this post. And it's so much better. <3
In which aspects is it more friendly? Are there distro-specific desktop user config tools a la Puppy? Or more on the admin / install side?
Because I use as a gateway for fastcgi and as TLS initiator, mostly.
Nginx doesn't allow you to have distinct metrics for both use cases, which is far from ideal.

My tests in controlled environments show that caddy is absolutely fine for my workload and has perks that make my life easier. Some have been mentioned in this thread already.

Metrics is a must have in our case as we have many things to manage, few people to maintain things and alerts are the only way to grow. For alerts you need metrics.
> Except the economic fluid is far more complex, full of lags and hysteresis. E.g. shipping rates have gone down but not the costs (indicated as fuel and labor). Why not?

It's much weirder. Economics is even fuller of anti-lags, ie clever economic actors are constantly planning for the future and anticipating. Eg if the Fed announces today, that they are going to run the printing presses red-hot next year, you'd already see inflation starting now.

That anticipation is why stock prices started to recover when we were still in the very middle of the pandemic. Contrary to popular opinion, investors are rather long sighted and forward looking. (They just don't always believe managers when they say 'trust me bro, our long term plan might lose money now, but it's totally gonna pay off anytime soon'; and that's why they demand regular quarterly profits from run-of-the-mill management, but let Bezos run Amazon for decades without anything in the way of dividends.)
Have people drastically changed from that time? Or have we always had characters who do things "for the lulz" or "because why not"?
But I am able to train my own LLM on the output of their LLM, right? Or are the big AI players going to argue that you cannot train an AI on data you don't have a license to? (See the catch 22 here?)
> Flying is probably worse since you don't have much space.

Because people really want to place about after a major surgery?

> Also you have to walk a lot more in airports

Have you heard of wheelchairs?
Microsoft's support for regular Zip files is a mixed blessing. On the one hand you can seamlessly open a Zip file and navigate through the directory structure. On the other hand, if you're not careful, you may think you're in an actual directory, and when you try to double-click to open or edit one of the files, you end up in a confusing world of temp files.

tl;dr I wish Microsoft would make it more obvious when you're navigating a compressed file (and thus not a native directory).
"we can benefit from the improvements that others make and others’ use of those tools can"

I have always had the impression that maintaining an open source project is way more work than you get back from "the community" of users. Is this not true? Are for instance the internal facebook react users benefiting a huge amount from what outside contributes have built on top of react?

I think an unspoken dimension is that kneecaping the other big tech companies' entrenchments and denying them a market is always good for them - esp when as they point out, it doesn't actually hurt any of their own business interests. Other faang are always a future threat. Hurting them is always a good business move
This was called for. QUIC is UDP based, and shifts the burden of implementing stuff like congestion control into userspace. There are already plenty different congestion control algorithms in the (linux-)kernel for TCP so you can expect a myriad of different implementations (and configurations) in QUIC - but this time on a per-program level.
Great work! Please also do this for brick and mortar businesses. Eg supply agreements for physical products.
Agreed in spirit, but fortunately school shootings isn’t a problem in the country I reside. Mental health though is definitely a huge issue though, but I’m not sure how we can fix that. Remembering myself as a teen, anything that was told to be “bad at that age” was a call for experimentation.
Debian was Very Hard some 15 years ago while Ubuntu was rather easy.
These days there's not much in the way of difference on that facet, or at least not enough to tolerate Snap/Wayland/whatever other madness.
Overexpansion of productive capacity (OXPC) by Tragedy of the Commons and irrational exuberance.

Gold rush competition sets in motion future contractive collapses.

Be not quite the first in, almost first out, and scuttle inventory before the floor falls out.
Regarding metrics from logs, you might agree that it's now an overkill.
SimpleX Chat v5.1 released: message reactions and self-destruct passcode
All of them. Literally every single one. It's why the first thing I do when I am on an Ubuntu system is remove snapd.
100%

I think in some cases a hybrid approach is best.

Like 3-4 days at home and 1 day in the office or bi-weekly day in the office. If live within range.

But it all depends on the business and individuals.

I just think forced remote or forced in-office is wrong. It should be flexible.

My 2c
They kinda do, like if you apt install Firefox it's actually setup to force install the snap version of Firefox (even though you used a apt CLI command). It's getting more and more aggressive about pushing snaps like this with each major Ubuntu release.
> over-reliance on coding in the simulator

Heh, yes. At some RoboCup@Home competition (IIRC, Mexico City in 2012 so a while back), a team came in super confident, saying everything worked and they were going to win. Most of it worked ok in the lab, and well in the simulator too, they said. Didn't make it to the 2nd stage I think.
And RoboCup is still not exactly 'the wild' for robots.
comcomm.com
Finally.

I love the seamless Explorer support.
> Rough guess based on the price of regular, high-end "in-the-ear-canal" hearing aids.

This guess completely missed the point. Cochlear implants are not audio amplifiers like hearing aids are. They must convert sound into electrical impulses which are sent more or less directly at the user's sense organ, via a relatively dumb implant. Now, on the one hand you could say, "yeah well that's just a Fourier transform" but that would also miss the point. A cochlear implant only creates impulses at a limited discrete set of points, and the way those points map to frequencies is not going to obey a nice consistent function. This means the processor must be programmable to adjust the mapping of desired frequency (which may not be the input frequency) to electrodes, which already puts us into needing a rather fancier microprocessor than a hearing aid needs.

Moreover, the limited set of frequencies causes a massive loss of signal-to-noise ratio. The processor has to compensate for this intelligently filtering the sound to make the result useful. For example, it may need to detect and filter background noise. It is not really even attempting to replicate natural hearing because that's impossible; it may be more helpful to think of it hijacking the user's aural sense to do something almost totally different with it, but staying just close enough to natural hearing that the brain has a fighting chance of making sense of the inputs.
Is this comment intended to be a series of barely-relevant cliches?

This isn't a 'tragedy of the commons', wasn't a 'gold rush', and none of the competitors were 'first in' or 'first out'.
HMB has some tricky shoals/rocks near its entrance.
Feels like tradfi's improprieties are normalized. They're adjacent to or in bed with government's financial abuses, which are politicized and sometimes portrayed as just.
> Why is it justifiable to violate the property rights of the company owners to exert influence on jobs that the company also owns?

By that logic, all regulation and legislation restricting the behavior of companies and their interactions with employees on their own property is unjustifiable, including requiring certain safety measures or working conditions or permitting health/safety inspectors access to workspaces without agreement of the property owner. Some libertarians do hold these views, but I think it is important to note that these consequences are what that logic implies.

The argument against absolute deference to property rights is that under the U.S. legal framework employees also have rights, which in some cases (in diminishing number) are given more importance than the company’s property rights. According to legislation, this includes the ability to organize labor unions and communicate with organizers during non-work hours.
I am still using Ubuntu on both my work laptop and my home workstation. Om my laptop I now have disk shortage due to snaps. Plus my workstation has an AMD videocard that had a weird bug. All snaps are glitching, you can not see anything. But I still use Ubuntu. It's the most used and catered for Linux distribution so when I want to use something there is always an Ubuntu deb or snap or whatever. Plus on my work laptop, which is a Dell, I get firmware updates when I do an apt-get no other os does this...
Clearly you're trying to insinuate something sinister but I don't know what it is.
Because it fits his mental model.
Thanks, just updated the link in my comment. :)
Not saying that the article's framing is correct, but being at the 30y average does sound like a bad situation for shipping companies - they must have had some rising costs.
Scaling can happen in many other places. Such as deeper iterative thought during inference such as Chain of Thought, Tree of Thought, which extracts increasingly better performance out of existing parameter and data sizes.

Tried to explain here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36054809
Oh, yes, I know one of those comments too

> No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

(iPod launch, CmdrTaco, /. 2001)
I've talked to many Googlers over the years, and your summary is consistent with what I've heard before, so I don't think you're lying. But this is still the most insane dependency managenent scheme I've ever heard of. Is Google truly so far up their own ass that they make it harder to pull in a third party library than write the code in-house? Why is Google so allergic to using a package manager like every other software project in open source?

You depend on any modern JS library like Babel or Webpack and it pulls in a dependency tree consisting of hundreds of packages. I cannot fathom that the expected and approved workflow is for someone to check in their node_modules directory and be expected to security-audit every single line, and "own" that source code for the entirety of Google. Sounds absolutely insane.

Not to mention needing to hand-audit that every transitive dependency of Babel and Webpack works with every other module in the repository, because of the one-version policy that exists for some "good" reason.
Apparently [1] Debian used Wayland as a default with Gnome since 2019?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(protocol)
It’s too painful to remove snap now because the apt packages try to put it back.

I’m on fedora now and love it.
Perhaps one of the biggest blights on English writing instruction that that book isn't just ignored. http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/50years.pdf
I had big problems with Spotify.
I like the modern strategy of doing to politicians what they let or perpetrate on others, but I think we'll have a hard time finding some cops to point a bunch of cameras at senators & Supreme Court justices.

The technical capabilities of state-based Survelliance keep rising. Just buying the data corporations keep on us seems like the absurd new main mode. Ring cameras, for example. Having the police themselves doing the spying, as here, seems almost old hat. But what absurd data they can get, given the high heights of technology we have flown to.
It's annoying because the "Critics charge X but supporters say Y" is an easy template for lazy journalism, and you invariably end up just re-typing the press releases of two competing advocacy organizations.

If the Association of Umbrella Manufacturers says it's raining outside and the Organization of Sunscreen Bottlers says it's sunny, the reporter needs to open the window and look rather than just forwarding those statements; I can read them myself if I want to.
Thanks - that toddler-games.com is really nice. It’s so simply done that even a two year old could enjoy it for hours. My kids are 5 and 7 now so want something a bit more advanced, but I wish I’d found that a few years ago
How does it fare with windy conditions with say higher waves? Isn't the ground effect lost then or do I recall my ekrano documentaries poorly?
Interest on excess reserves explains much of that change.

In the olden days of 2007, banks would only hold as many reserves at the Fed as they legally needed. They would instead invest any extra (or make their deposits less attractive, so that they have fewer excess reserves).

In 2008 the Fed started paying interest on reserves above the legally minimum (so called excess reserves).

Excess reserves parked at the Fed don't contribute to the economy, but are still counted in the Fed balance sheet.

You can see on https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=15mr6 how the level of reserves at the Fed shot from about 0.050 trillion USD in 2007 to about 3 trillion USD today.
The supply chain internally there has fallen victim to their government’s response of Covid. And, the fact the labor can be at parity with Mexico in many cases now. I’ve been doubling down on Mexico manufacturing to avoid most of the delays.