skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Move or Die is a similar game, except it has hilarious narration, many game modes, a ton of mutators, and online multiplayer. Taking a look at Steam, it is $15 to Toto Temple's $10. It's just too small a game in a very competitive genre.
There's plenty of python packaged in nixpkgs too. It doesn't mean that it isn't a dumpster fire disaster. Dealing with it has been trouble with every other distro I've used. It isn't just a nix problem. If anything I think the situation is improved.
Ah. Did you have any opinion on the article?
The reason I like the comparison (and the "here's this giant computer and now it fits on a card that you can get at Micro Center" is another reasonable comparison) is that it deals with likeish to likeish.

It was a Mac back then - 1100 of them, but it was a Mac. You could walk into a store and buy one... or two. They might have some issue with buying a thousand of them, but they were consumer commodity equipment - it was the rack mounted version of the PowerMac G5 if I read things correctly. You might have one of them in the media lab for a high school.

And now, it's a dozen M1 MacBook Airs (or Mac minis). Still a Mac. Still something you could walk into the store and buy. But now instead of "maybe there are 1000 of them in all the grade and high schools in the state" (though that would be stretching it), its "now this is an acceptably outfitted grade school computer lab."

No regular person was ever going to get proper fraction of the nodes of BlueGene from DOE (though it was running a PowerPC 440 2C instead... but 32,768 of them) or do anything with it if they were. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Blue_Gene

Comparing "that massive thing" to "this card" is impressive - but the "that massive thing" is inconceivable to the average person.

Thus the "you could have gotten a fraction of System X at a store and used it" comparison.
A small - and somewhat related - anecdote.

New Zealand had to build an aluminum plant in the 1960s and figured out it would be more efficient to bore miles underground, build turbines, install a huge power station, and wire it tens of miles to the smelting plant. It relies on a vertical drop between Lake Manapōuri and the open ocean to create the gravitational potential to turn the turbines. When the smelting station doesn't use the full capacity the power station has to immediately reduce output, otherwise it can overload the transmission lines to the rest of the grid.

Manapouri Power Station is the name if anyone is interested in reading more. It has an interesting history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manapouri_Power_Station
Yes, which is what google is doing if you read the blog post. They wrap PQC encrypted message with x25519.
For context, this comes after a report a week ago that the US is creating plans for a Taiwanese evacuation; which the White House was quick to downplay.

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2023/06/14/...

Also note that today the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told China that the "US does not support Taiwanese Independence," which may be double-speak as usual with Taiwan; but it's not great to say right now.
Many of the points in your original post follow from your first point (Reform the leadership, remove RMS)

So much of the FSF's myopic vision and ineffectiveness that you accurately point out stem directly from RMS playing a leading role in the FSF. Why does the FSF spend so much time browbeating people for saying "Linux" instead of "GNU/Linux"? That's entirely because 30 years ago RMS's ego wouldn't let him admit that something he had no part of was becoming popular so he had to make sure he got credit for it. Why does the FSF spend so much energy insisting on stuff like free BIOS? Because RMS thinks anything other than a 100% free ecosystem is unacceptable, so significant resources must be invested into endeavors like that. Enjoy your 12 year old ThinkPad with external Wifi dongle!

If you remove RMS and his cronies, theres a chance the organization could reform into something with reasonable goals. But until then it's just going to be a vehicle for his personal bugbears, which as time goes on become increasingly out of touch with reality.
There's no fundamental problem with federation. The UX can be made good enough for the average user.

The problem here is the developers. Federation developers don't seem to be interested in UX. They aren't focusing on adding the polish and ease-of-use users expect out of a social media platform.

90% of the issues with Lemmy isn't because of federation. It's because of basic UX:

- Error messages silently discarded everywhere. Stuff "loads forever" when in reality some error has happened and the operation has already failed.

- Links to other instances are not handled properly (WTF? Links to other instances are a huge part of federation, how could you not handle this properly?)

- To follow a community in another instance, you have to search the community? TWICE! (The first search loads the community asynchronously in the background). WTF?

- They decided to rewrite the entire UI using websockets causing bugs everywhere? WTF? Over-engineering at its finest. At least they are trying to undo the rewrite currently...

- Searching for communities should search through all communities that the instance is federated with. It should feel like there's only one instance. Right now search shows only cached communities. WTF? Are we expecting users to understand caches?

I'm hoping that the influx of new developers (who are more UX focused) is enough to polish the platform for end-user use by June 30th. It's going to be difficult, but it's possible.
The CBS news article referenced in another reply says the body of the sub is 5-inch thick carbon fiber with titanium used in the rounded ends. I am surprised it’s just carbon fiber in the body.
Isn't the answer simply: My body my choice?
No. The old caps in there will be overdriving the tubes. It will die pretty quickly.
I understand what I am looking at. It's just that it just reads a lot less straight forward than the code its looking to replace IMO.
Do you truthfully think that Apple the computer company is at risk in the US (or anywhere for that matter) of losing their trademark if they don't go after a union of fruit growers in a completely different market with a logo that is not in any way confusing to consumers?

No doubt what you say is true for some infrigement cases and should be blamed on US trademark jurisprudence, and the US does badly need reform of IP laws, but blaming that for this move by Apple seems like a major stretch.
"At some point someone is going to figure out how to feed every scientific paper into an AI"

I'm sure the scientific publishers that charge $50 to view a single journal article will do everything in their power to prevent this...
> Like, say you want to frame and build your own house - there's bazzilions of YouTube videos about the beginning process. But very very few about the more advanced details you need to know.

That's an interesting factor of online knowledge - the most readily available one is the one that masses are interested the most because the views give the budget for people to care. It's also weirdy trendly, like how pandemic spawned a lot of woodworking channels coz people cooped up in their homes found a new hobby.

To add to the point this [1] random video is an example, it does go into terminology and reasoning behind each element but won't tell you what kind of lumber to get, how climate would affect that decision, how to isolate the house and a bunch of other things. You might look for them and probably find some info but at some point just looking for a dedicated book might be the saner option.

And uh, if someone knows a good one covering how to build and isolate your own shed I wouldn't mind recommendation...

- [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fP0LZMEV5w
They had this debate in China recently and the problem was conflict of interest (lots of pricey snake oil for dying patients who can come up with the money). The market has to be regulated even for dying people, if only to prevent scams.
> “In the course of time, official inquiries were convened to analyze the tragedy,” he wrote. “Ultimately, ill-timed luck, human fallibility in marine navigation, and the massive munitions needs of a far off war were judged to be the cause.”

Reading the article, and skimming Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion ), I'd mostly blame:

- Just plain suicidal and brain-dead standards for handling and stowage of hazardous cargo. It was 1917 - the state of the art for "safe" types and formulations of explosives was absolute crap back then, and the prior half-century or so was full of "...and the explosives exploded, and lots of people died" disasters.

- Beyond-idiotic navigational & operations standards. The experienced pilot on the doomed ship wanted special protections...nope, none available. A ship full of "one little oopsie and thousands will die" cargo got no special right-of-way in the crowded harbor.

- Non-efforts to warn people of the impending disaster. Knowledge of morse code was quite common back then, and ships had steam whistles. Once there was a growing fire on the munitions ship - put somebody who "speaks dashes and dots" on that whistle, with orders to transmit "MUNITIONS SHIP AFIRE - FLEE OR DIE" 6 or 7 times (then flee for his life).
> if it's likely to cure, then that would be borne out by the trial? And then it would be rushed for approval.

I'm not sure you know how long these things take, even when they work well.

Also, the failure to show a positive clinical effect in a trial mean one doesn't exist, especially at the individual level.
You can think of electrical phases like any other kind of wave: maybe like shaking a slinky. The power plant sends the phases downstream to consumers, and once it leaves the factory it doesn't know what consumers do with it (beyond detecting voltage drops, etc.).

So the grid doesn't need to balance it, no.

And from the receiving end's perspective, power will be exactly one phase out of sync if the cables differ in length by 5000 km. I'm assuming that isn't really a problem people have to worry about, but my background is in physics and not engineering (i.e. maybe there's some industrial applications that I'm not thinking of).
Why is Noto Sans inappropriate? Also you can just change the font to your own preference.
hey I've got a question about Kagi:

so, a bunch of third party apps made for Reddit are getting killed this month because Reddit decides to jack up the prices. What's going to happen to Kagi if/when it becomes somewhat of a competitor to Google/Bing and they want it dead?
Their history with the Beatles is exactly what is at issue here. They’re filing a registration for the Apple Records logo, which they now own the right to as it pertains to use in trade in and around music and related media.
Agreed. The only mandate for a corporation is growth and revenue. These goals are at odds with the good of people and our planet, as we've seen countless times.

Corporations consume most of our resources, produce the most waste, and damage _everything_ more compared to any individual. This won't change, because those with the power to do something benefit from the status quo and don't feel the damage they cause. Capitalism is a cancer that will consume everything.
I know there's good intentions, but the system has been gamed/exploited for a long time with no real way to defend thanks to the legal implications.
no, it's not typescript. it's a language feature coming to js.
Defense is good too, you will never get fired, easy interview process, fun and interesting projects. Crazy good pension if you make it a career too
It probably was silumin, silicon-aluminium alloy.
>We can now begin writing stuff down:

>λ vim journal/2023/1

I think you mean 01
It should be. It isn't. The usual situation.
I totally agree that there are too many people, Americans or otherwise. Even though I've decided to have children, I'm keeping the child count below the replacement rate, and I believe doing otherwise is immoral.

That being said, I'm not saying that it's impossible for you to have a fulfilling life at 40 years old. My point is that, in my experience, 70 year olds with kids seem more fulfilled than 70 year olds without. Perhaps that's just a reflection of me and my role models.
> It's trivial to apply my hypotheticals to models in which life didn't all descend from a common ancestor

We don't have such a thing to our knowledge so it's not trivial. If you still feel it is, do the application yourself - it's trivial after all.
‘Bowie said my Space Oddity was the most poignant version ever'
Sounds like you might be writing markwhen (though it expects a colon after each date or date range)

https://github.com/mark-when/markwhen
That’s what I did and shouldn’t have. I did very well in tech and ended up not going back and finishing.

Now that I didn’t finish my degree 12 years later it makes me so 2x the effort to move ahead now that I’m a manager

It’s a ridiculous feeling when your subordinates have masters and you don’t even have a bachelors. Just my $0.02, I ended up fine but work twice as hard, if I’d just stayed that extra 2 years

Now I have a family and am taking a year long leave of absence to finish my degree, after spending over 10 years doing it in my side time, I have a year left. It’s is unnecessarily nerve racking
Oracle has similar problems.

On UNIX systems, Oracle uses a multi-process model, and you can see these:

$ ps -ef | grep smon

USER PID PPID STARTED TIME %CPU %MEM COMMAND
oracle 22131 1 Mar 28 3:09 0.0 4.0 ora_smon_yourdb

Windows forks processes about 100x slower than Linux, so Oracle runs threaded on that platform in one great big PID.

Sybase was the first major database that fully adopted threads from an architectural perspective, and Microsoft SQL Server has certainly retained and improved on that model.
Search the actions for „super brightness“. However I did not spend too much time implementing this and this feature actually only uses public API in BTT. BetterDisplay (I’m not involved in that despite the name) is my favorite app to do this (and much more), but Lunar also seems great. I think they work on a lower level - BTT basically just creates a HDR enabled transparent window which fills the entire display(s), thereby activating the super brightness everywhere on the screen
Mass Immigration Experiment Gives Canada an Edge in Global Race for Labor
And if the data that LLMs have trained on is only simple social conversation, what level of intelligence will that begat? No nobel-laureate-level 'thinking' is going to arise from training text composed of obvious or trivial statements -- which surely compose 99% of ChatGPT's training material.

These days, it's a rare piece of text that surprises the reader with creative or ingenious or outside-the-box thinking. If we want higher level cognition from future LLMs, where will such deep thought come from? Surely not the training data used now: email, tweets, reddit, mass media, etc. GIGO indeed.

Much has been written, yes. But not much of that is worth reading.
I'm looking at something similar with Go as the backend. Why gRPC instead of a pipe? I started with that as well since it was really easy to set up but that comes with the caveat of requiring network permissions even though it's local to local communication.
Yeah, though looking through the code it does actually look very solid. I didn't see that you actually whitelist `/proc/cpuinfo` before.
Hurl, a terrible (but cute) idea for a language
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=SNL+don%27t+buy+things+you+can%27t...
The band is not that bad as well https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slint
Everyone always just-worlds the Universe. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FUHfiS7X0AAe-XD.jpg

Common in SF as the anti-theft rock. You keep it hidden in your car to prevent the car from being broken into. Works really well.
Tech can start out as an extension, but what people fail to understand is that it can become slowly become autonomous over time, kinda like how a party gets out of control and people start putting holes in walls.

I think technologists rarely, if ever, talk about this because a lot of what enables our blind pursuit of technology is to say that technology must be an extension of humans and so it can never become autonomous. When ppl talk about AGI and paperclip maximizers, I think it's a way of pushing the problem far into the horizon and ignoring that the boundary is fluid and pushing.

Imagine if all the people at Google and Facebook stopped thinking that they're making the world a better place?
Like the other words which have been used with the purpose of silencing and insulting (racist, transphobe, insurrection, etc.) “misinformation” has been overused to the point that it now is meaningless.

For example, not too long ago the lab leak theory was silenced and widely called “misinformation”. Countless other examples where this word is simply used to silence opposing arguments.
Great example of do not complain, but just do it better. Really like this! Of course made possible with Foss and cc-by-sa work. Quote heard from stalman ‘we should have called it freedom software instead of open source software’
What do you think the state will do if you give your children proper trans healthcare? Will they let them stay with you?

Luckily it's not your opinion that is important regarding what healthcare should be done and what shouldn't. The medical consensus is that puberty blockers are an important part of trans healthcare. Denying this to children is equivalent with denying them other healthcare.
Kaczynski was a loser. He couldn't manage to turn a Harvard degree into a productive role in society so he waged a cowardly war on people who did nothing to harm him.

The detailed list of specific injuries to victims here is sad... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski
The internet has made "random fact retrieval" much faster for sure. In fact, I notice movies seem... less dumb than they were a few decades ago, and I have a theory that that is why.

But to really know something, you have to have studied it, even in the modern era. I can read an instantly-available wikipedia article about power generation, but I'm only scraping the absolute surface.
Facebook's chief AI scientist says LLM are just a passing fad
Lot of people here urging you not to. I think your goals aren't really clear from this post, but I'll add my input as someone who dropped out of high school and presently has a successful career: Working instead of going to college was a massive boon in my life and put me at an economic advantage relative to my peers. There have been drawbacks: I can never get a job in heavily-regulated industries such as health care or finance. And I had to be a lot more self-reliant, freelancing to build my resume and reputation. But I was able to build my career and have four more years of work experience while my peers started their careers later and with a massive load of debt. So if you're going to leave school I'd recommend you immediately find a job in your field and work on your own project on the side. Working on my own projects never paid the bills but I never regretted having work experience.
Not to be funny, but how would this be better than say IPFS? (perhaps the site shared is running it for all I know)
My Pixel 7 Pro was returned to Google by USPS because they couldn't get signature (Though I was home when they were supposed to deliver). Google never refunded($1,086.41), there is no number to call for me.

As someone who uses other Google products for my business, I am afraid to chargeback since it can trigger some random process at google killing my business and no way to resolve.

That is how it is working with Google.

Edit: After this comment, I went back and used contact form and got the refund after 20 minutes on phone. I only dared to ask for refund since I know hackernews would force Google to do the right thing if something goes wrong after the comment.
that bluebprint guy is great but i'm poor so i'm not going to be doing the daily ritual of supplements. i want to avoid powders and pills of any sort
Flip side - I also get my power from a rural coop in the midwest, and the service is terrible. The price is high. We lose power at least once a week, but that's better than in the past when it was every other day. They have hard limits on what power generation we can do (size of solar panels and no battery backups) and even wade into the situation if you try to install a backup generator - which I understand they want a cut-off to keep from juicing the lines and killing someone, but they want to regulate how large and what kind of generator you can use on your own house.

I know this seems contrary, but I believe people need to understand that a coop isn't a magic bullet. It's a tool, one of many, that if used properly can be great. But if it's not, it's a real pain in the ass.
Did the Chinese government ultimately regulate the market to protect people and prevent this kind of corruption?
Finally! This and a good multi master story and I'll finally start to love Postgres
AI Could Change the Future of Yogurt – and Turn Danone Around
He lacked any normal social skills. If you work in the tech industry it's easy to forget how important those are to influence anyone who doesn't spend all their lives in front of a screen.
Oh, thanks for the correction!
This is different because there isn’t a whole ecosystem of packages that depend on access to a thread unsafe C API. Getting the GIL out of core Python isn’t too challenging. Getting all of the packages that depend on Python’s C API working is.
Relevant story: back in grad school, I did a few experiments in the (old) MIT wind tunnel, now torn down.

Before starting up the fans, the guy running the control booth picked up the phone and had a short conversation, roughly

"Hi, this is [name] at the wind tunnel; can we turn it on?"

[someone on the other end replies]

"Great, thanks."

I asked who he was calling, and he explained that he had to check with the power company before powering it on. This was mid-winter, so grid demand was low; apparently during the summer (when everyone has ACs on), the start-up load could cause brownouts!
> Further, the primary reason for federation seems to be anti-censorship. While there are absolutely cases where censorship is applied to destroy/control, most of the topics I engage in on social media have little to no censorship. It seems like the only people that care about “avoiding a central authority” are those looking to stir hate and trouble on social media.

There's plenty of censorship on many large Reddit subs already. Just look at the difference between r/worldnews and r/anime_titties (which is also world news, name is misleading).

There's already a ton of posts on HN about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28318521
50Hz wave length is at ~6000 km so it frankly isn't a problem.

You'd have to have 2 different routes from same power source that differed in hundreds of kilometers in length and that just doesn't really happen. And small phase difference would just cause uneven loading

Also that power would be "used up" closer to the power source and you'd be sucking off power from closer sources.
> With Nix, changes are atomic. Nix either gets your system into the desired state or it rolls back to the state before you tried changing the configuration.

Except the "activation script" is an imperative sequence of steps which can fail or hang. Atomicity really exists only if you `nixos-rebuild boot && systemctl reboot`, and there rollback means picking the previous entry from the boot menu.
Are practices like the above allowable under FTC rules?
The great part about this is that, come November, the citizens of Maine can take the total amount of money spent advertising against the initiative, divide it by the number of households in the state, and figure out how much money they could’ve saved by voting for the initiative.