skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Such a view reduces quantum mechanics to “a system of formulas that we use to make predictions or to control things technologically. I said that's not enough. I don’t think I would be very interested in science if that were all there was.”

I don't pretend to have an informed opinion on quantum mechanics or pilot wave theory, but "I wouldn't be interested in science if that were all there was" is not much of an argument.

Your feelings don't enter into it. Einstein didn't like it, either, but he didn't manage to replace it.
My current plans are Godot, Steam, and for Linux packaging the client to run in Steam’s container environment (“sniper”). Will be interesting to see how many problems that doesn’t solve.
OtterCast: FOSS Audio streaming device running Linux using Sochip S3 SiP
I kinda miss CoffeeScript, to be honest. I also miss ExtJs.
Proof is in the pudding.
Try writing any JS without a bundler that uses package.json. I mean really, try it. Until ECMA codifies a package manager or bundler in the official specs, package.json is de facto part of JS.
Lumia WOA Project – Windows 10 or Windows 11 Desktop OS for Lumia 950/XL
America has had "the Melting Pot" for at least two centuries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melting_pot
> It seems so bizzare google will publish such information without ever validating it with the business.

Why should they? Validation would be expensive, and the false information doesn't hurt Google. Where else are you gonna list?
> When they hit an issue they can just google it.

Now they chatgpt it.
> I have the best website for a specific thing, I do well in quite a few SEO searches. However, the generic term, (which I'm still the best in), I am nowhere to be found.

Can confirm. Same for me.
>koi shiteru

Are you sure this isn't actually "aishiteru (愛してる)"? I've never heard of 'koishiteru', but 'aishiteru' occupies roughly the same level you described.

Actually, I have heard of 'koishiteru' (which I assume is 恋してる) but usually in the euphemistic context of sex.

Additionally, and not totally related, "soulmate", rendered in katakana (ソールメイト, sorumeito) is often used to breezily describe someone, often a coworker or classmate, with whom you have some level of camaraderie or friendship with. It is a perfectly unserious concept, which is amusing given its weightiness in English.
And here I was thinking the first thing about version was going to mention that v0.x.x (major 0) semver packages are considered "unstable" and every update to the version string, even minor or patch numbers, is considered a major update, by the logic that determines whether or not to update the package/which compatible highest version to install
They are incredibly dense. Like, it assumes you are already an expert on the topic and you need a high level refresher.
In case someone would like to know more, it's called the second-chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
Interestingly, when I was looking for more info on this, I found there was another lawsuit in Feb this year that ended with a $525,000 employee pay dispute. https://issuu.com/beaconmedianews/docs/2023_2_27_monday_la_t...

This is sad, because Huy Fong was quite a success story.
Document stores often are reliable and more fault tolerant. But yes they trade ACID.

There are some applications that require high throughput (usually write) but can be fine with read consistency.

Couple of examples
- consumer facing comment systems where other users are OK to miss your comment by 30 seconds
- timeseries logging where you are usually reading infrequently but writing very much in a denormalized format so joins aren't as critical

For general CRUD, ACID is important though.
> only that we can "tell them apart"

That is irrelevant, we don't need to be able to tell them apart, the membrane needs to be able to. Besides that, they can be completely identical.

> I'm confused because on one hand I can see that it requires work to reorder the particles once they have been shuffled around. On the other hand I don't see how one could extract work while they get shuffled around if they all have the same momenta.

In the illustration with the cylinder from Wikipedia you can see that the level of the one fluid (which the other fluid is selected into) rises. It performs work against gravity and builds up potential energy / increases the pressure. You can harvest that.

> The former scenario is famously the setting for Maxwell's daemon. I was assuming this scenario is something else.

In Maxwell's daemon you start with a substance which is already mixed and separate it into its components. That requires work and is the exact opposite of what is happening here. In fact it is called reverse Osmosis [0]. Osmosis gives you pressure which you can harvest, so reverse osmosis needs pressure back to operate. That completes the cycle.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_osmosis
It does show that, but vanilla JS is 20-30% faster on some of those benchmarks, and the fastest library in the test is a minimal JS lib. Either way, you would expect that a compiled, non-garbage collected, language should be able to achieve 50% or more improvement in speed over JS, but that's not the case in the browser, because the DOM is the bottleneck.
None of the elements here are individually surprising, but I had never thought of this, and it most certainly looks like it took ages worth of research and work to get working. The most surprising was the pinhole camera but now that I've had some time to think about it, it makes sense why it should just work.

Very sophisticated, very cool.

Actually, the most surprising was that this was a fun video and not just a long form blog post as I first assumed it must be.
Running Too Much Kubernetes
shutting down his machine by pulling the plug while it was running

Well, if windows was more reliable when it comes to unexpected shutdowns then it is also partially linux's fault.

I have a similar experience as well. I have a pi server and I was trying to use an ntfs external hdd. For some reason it breaks the file system if I remove hdd or shutdown pi unexpectedly. I am not expecting there to be no data loss if i am not writing or editing a file, just doing nothing, then why FS breaks?

When that happens, I connect hdd to Windows and it is able to repair it but there is no such option in ubuntu
Parents doing things for their children *to give them unearned advantage* is in fact *a* root cause of social evil.

It’s saying “Because this person is a Jones, they deserve a spot at Yale even though others are more academically deserving, and we will pay you for that privilege.”

This is also why grade inflation happens at these institutions: “You can’t fail him, he’s a Jones!”
https://www.coursera.org/learn/linear-regression-model

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/machine-learning-in...
> I don’t blame GH at all.

I don't really see anyone blaming GitHub, not even the original post, I'm not sure why all the responses here are insinuating that?
FWIW, OWD writes open source technical content and is not responsible for the design of MDN nor the blog, ads, or login and membership features of the site. That is done by Mozilla.

The OWD team writes technical documentation on APIs, HTML, and JS. OWD also works on information architecture and browser compatibility data. They contribute mainly to https://github.com/mdn/content/ and https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/.

Mozilla, not OWD, is responsible for Yari, the platform behind MDN Web Docs (https://github.com/mdn/yari). The MDN blog, ads, AI and design, the MDN infrastructure, are fully owned and controlled by Mozilla.

I know some folks who work on this content and TBH it’s the folks we’d want working on this content.
Longaker lab is at the forefront of anti-scarring from what I know with their verteporfin research around blocking engrailed 1 gene expression during wound healing to prevent fibrosing and encourage perfect wound healing. They’ve only done it on skin though, haven’t seen anything about fingers or limbs
> Lol at thinking that pytorch and tensorflow are oss

If BSD isn't open source then I don't know what is.

> I mean they're definitely free but have you ever tried submitting a patch for something that doesn't matter to FB/Google?

Well, you can always fork.

> Those projects function as free bug finding programs for their respective sponsors.

Yes, most companies engage with OSS strategically and not purely altruistically. But also:

1. Big tech uses OSS.

2. Big tech does not have internal versions of many OSS projects.

3. Big tech uses OSS for reasons other than just recruiting.
A lot of comments are saying "other languages have fixed this" but i think the point is more that this is fixable within C itself.
Really good for my gaming rig / general use. Mainly older games with good Wine support. Some light graphics: Krita, OBS, Gimp...

With Wine-staging and Mesa / Vulkan stable PPA's, everything has been solid with good performance.

No sweating during kernel updates ;-)
Yeah not sure if there's a major difference.

Is it just to identify the cloud providers? 7J13 mentioned here is Oracle.
Wasn’t it basically given to every household?
They probably will go to India and China over the next few decades if they keep up their rates of growth and India doesn’t devolve into some sort of dictatorship by then.
You can say what you like. Science is not about certainties. You can only control experiments to a particular degree and have no control of confounding factors which might interfere with your experiments. Do you really want to compare the totality of all universal processes to such trivial examples? I find it absurd.
The Safari of Deep Signal Processing: Hyena and Beyond
This may be an unpopular opinion but not everything needs an SE. Whats wrong with a tag or two on the original SO?
I want to believe that in fancy rich people prisons there are gangs formed across university’s attended
People and their opinions.
Supporting ie6, ie7, and ie8 separately while developing on firefox just so we could use firebug.
English is tricky around negatives and groups.

“Wetness of all sidewalks globally can be explained by sprinklers.” <- obviously false.

“Wetness of sidewalks can never be explained by sprinklers.” <- also obviously false

The first applies to all sidewalks as a group, the second applies to subsets of the overall group so it’s false if any subset can be explained by sprinklers. Both quotes are using my first example due to being inclusive and including: “on a social level” and “population-level”
The best Racket textbook (Beautiful Racket) is even focused around building new languages!
> The American south will be integrated into Hispanic culture, not the other way around.

As someone born in that area, wow, is this ignorant. Yes, a lot of people speak Spanish but that doesn’t mean that most of them don’t identify as American – even the ones whose ancestors lived in that area for centuries before they became part of the United States. Trying to separate that out makes no more sense than trying to split out any other culture which contributed to us - for example, the Texan identity has included Mexican identity since before it was a state and trying to strip that out would produce a result as unrecognizable as it would if you tried to have Texas without the barbecue traditions brought over by German and Czech settlers.

Also, let’s be honest here that the American traditions haven’t exactly been uniformly good – in the Texas example, they seceded from Mexico and petitioned for statehood to protect the institution of slavery. If there’d been a popular vote, there were many thousands of enslaved people who would have enthusiastically stayed part of Mexico if that had meant their freedom decades earlier.
For a blog I think country TLDs are fitting, for other uses it depends on the usage really.
Amazon uses Country TLDs to differentiate local versions from the global "amazon.com", many companies do this, some for GDPR reasons just use ".EU".

However if you are targeting a global audience, a .com might be more suitable.
A few that I really like.

- Grokking Algorithms: Simple and to the point explanations of common algorithms with pictorial representations.

- Let Over Lambda: A Guide to making the most of macros in Common Lisp.

- Starting Forth: Never used or hear of Forth? No problem, this book teaches this very unique language in terms that are easy to grasp. Forth is perhaps my favorite way to program microcontrollers.
>The issue is that this illustrates that Lemmy has any priorities above the onboarding process.

>which serves as the underlying reason for failing to get the priorities straight.

Having different priorities than you doesn't make them have the wrong priorities. As a counter-point to you, I'd much rather have a barely good enough interface on a platform that works than a great UI on a platform that doesn't work. The solution is not having both, because if they could they would have done that already.

Also, I don't think it matters that this reddit alternative isn't perfect because there's no better reddit alternative anyway. You either stay on reddit or you go to Lemmy.

I really don't see a reason to complain about Lemmy. Anything not working is not because of laziness or malice or greed; it's a platform made by a couple of guys, to solve a problem for thousands of people, and they're giving it away for free. It's a reddit alternative for people who want one. I say mission accomplished, and they're just getting started
Impressively applied here:

https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2023-06-29-hyena-dna
I think there's something to be said about trying to build a Twitter-like, open source protocol.
Someone potentially taking the service down for everyone, you know, just out of curiosity. Which part of this curiosity you need GitHub for? I'm curious how well GitHub handles DDoS attacks, what's their limit. Let's DDoS and find out, it will be fun!
Where is the self-hosted variant?
That constant is immaterial, it's just the conversion constant between two different units. It just turns out that for the units we're used the time unit is a lot larger than the space unit.

The real difference has to do with the metric on spacetime, but that gets tricky to explain. Suffice it to say that a rotation involving 2 of the spatial dimensions, and the equivalent of a rotation for time and a spatial dimension are quite different.
I was on the "fuck ie6" train. I had to write some support for ie6 in like 2015, I almost quit the job.
Thanks, and yeah, we had fun!
>This sounds like a joke.

Your own quote of the article includes the word starvation. I fail to see the joke there.

>"Meanwhile many other PoWs capture by Japan were tortured and being experimented on."

Perhaps you missed the heading in the article entitled "Human experimentation."

>There's some evidence that Japanese torture camps were the most brutal torture camps ever, in the history of the world.

There's actually a mountain of evidence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
I'd personally take B. If something goes wrong on the trip, I'd much rather be almost there, as there will be more ways to complete the journey.

But I think it flips for me when commuting, in that a short local ride is easier for me to mentally discount as it's part of my routine. E.g. I used to live one MUNI stop from BART, and I came to see that first leg as negligible in the same way that walking to the MUNI station did.
Cost of living has risen significantly since the immigration and nationality act in 1965. California has seen the most immigration has one of the highest costs of living. Income inequality has increased drastically. Denmark's recent statistics showed a net tax burden on migrant families, even after successive generations. Cultural cohesion has been destroyed in America to the point people actually think there never was a dominant culture in America, it was always values based. It's not even a country anymore, just a giant corporation. Diversity is supposedly an unquestionable good, yet every statistic shows people are more isolated than they have ever been.
Right, the ecosystem is not a valid critique of the language, got it.
It is required by law (the PSD regulation, specifically) in many circumstances.
I’d recommend reading about DPLL and CDCL. These are relatively simple concepts that you can code up yourself
> opens dev tools
> types `console.log("this is impossible without a package.json")`

To my astonishment, it worked, without a package.json file.

I definitely prefer using npm for any non-trivial front end, but let's be real: JS is an integral part of the web stack. You can even inline JS inside a <script> tag on an HTML file. It's not that hard.
What would be the minimal but modern setup to develop web apps that use javascript to good effect in conjunction with an agnostic server stack.

I am intrigued by "less js is more fun" approaches like htmx and alpine.js but that still leaves a range of options on how to organize things and some may bring you dangerously close to what OP describes.
Grinberg is great. The flask mega tutorial taught me so much and I’ve recommended it so many times.
AMD CPUs are very compelling.

Right now I run 100% Linux with a Ryzen 9 and RTX 3070.

Everything works perfectly. My only gripe would be nVidia's driver isn't on parity with the Windows one, things like video upscaling haven't made it through yet.

That said I haven't come across games I can't run. Steam / Proton just work, very rarely do I need to go in and tweak something.

Highly recommend Heroic Launcher as well. Very polished Epic/GOG client, get the FlatPak version as that has max compatabilty.
JPMorgan to pay $290M to settle Jeffrey Epstein lawsuit
There are multiple different definitions of Entropy and usage. Boltzmann's and Gibbs's physical entropy is not strictly equivalent to information entropy of Shannon whereby legend says von Neumann told Shannon that call 'information capacity of a channel' entropy, as nobody knows it. A great reads from books of Arieh Ben-Naim is highly recommended.
You know we used to write javascript before JSON existed, right? Let alone node and package managers.
Right but then you just connect your phone to the wifi? The following methods I have had for the 3DS card payments are (ultimately depends on the bank):

- Bank sends you a tiny card reader that you enter your PIN and it gives you a one time code. If you want to make payments that require 3DS (online only ofc) you have to have this card reader on you but it doesn't actually require an app or internet connectivity.

- You have an app on your phone, you drag a code from a notification onto another area of the app itself which does something (somehow - no idea the purpose) and verifies the transaction. Certificate is stored on device only.

- You open an app and it'l notify of the purchase amount, location, merchant and you just tap allow

- You receive a code in the mail that is renewed once a year which is then combined with a SMS message (or app notification). The payment flow asks you for some characters from both codes.

You do not require cell service for any that I have used and wifi is enough.

Further Edit: Just to clarify though, all of these are ONLY for online purchases. Purchases in shops you just use your pin if it requires authorisation.
Are you working remotely and have you successfully made one or more job transitions without losing your mind to stress? My deepest fear is moving out far somewhere, the remote job I do have going tits up for reasons I can't control and then realizing after 6 months of job hunting that I've made a huge mistake.
You're not alone, others have already pointed out how confusing it is and I'm confused by it too. I think what they're trying to say is, if a commute by transit involves a transfer, people prefer and are more likely to make the trip by transit if the transfer happens closer to home vs closer to the destination.
I know. What I am saying is that the laws of physics being the same implies the velocity of light being the same. Of course it conflicts with Newton’s laws and Galilean transformations when changing reference frames. But what he demonstrated was that the apparent conflict could be solved in a logically consistent way, once you do away with the concept of universal time. From that point, Newton’s laws do not need to be invariant, because they were demonstrably incomplete, in contrast to Maxwell’s, which were verified as far as they could be with the experimental setups of the time.

Sure, postulating the existence of the ether was reasonable in a way at one point in time, I am not saying otherwise. But by 1905 it was on very shaky grounds, with no experimental result to support it. Saying that the theory can be tweaked to reproduce reality is not very useful: all theories can. What a theory needs to be verified is to predict things that the other established theories do not. And on that front, the ether theory is about as powerful as my pet theory that elementary particles are moved by tiny demons that we cannot see (I would make a joke about string theory but it’s way more serious than the ether one).
> So the author was purposefully trying to do the most extreme thing they could to see how git/GitHub act/break.

This is Hacker News. Hacking is about using, in particular, technology in surprising ways that were not intended by the creators.
Wow. This is really neat.
Getting into rust recently I think it's not to be undervalued how much a good built-in library has to say. In C there is so much coding just for small things that you take for granted coming from higher level languages. In rust, it's there.
This place was shut down by Paul Allen's sister after he died, in case anyone was wondering.
I think "really good" is where we cross the point from LLM to AGI in that it can't just be a fancy autocomplete. It has to have decent model of readers to test various prose and structure options against to figure out which ones are "really good" for particular readers.
Reddit used to have one, but have been sending people to givin.gifts. However, it really seems to be less tightly run. When you scroll through the list of how many people have been stood up, waiting for regifters that never come, it's pretty sad.

Having said that, the current exchange I'm in, only 77 out of 97 people have sent their gifts yet, even though the deadline was 4 days ago. A previous exchange I was in had significant problems, but did come through and was quite good about it. But the current one is missing in action, and hasn't bothered to contact me. So I can see that this sort of thing is all too common on the site. If it goes the way I think it's going to go, I'm deleting my account and moving on.

I can't endorse it because it is clear far too many people sign up just to get free stuff, and don't reciprocate. But you may want to check it out anyway, and form your own opinion of the site. It's two thumbs down from me, if that counts.

I pretty much think this is why Reddit gave up on the gift exchange, and probably why Facebook no longer does it as well.
Yeah I generally enjoyed this essay overall but also bumped on that and couldn't parse the footnote. It's not just you :)