skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its like the setup for one of those episodes of Doctor Who that involves lots of running down long corridors
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FWIW I recently had to switch to ZeroSSL from Letsencrypt which I normally use, while porting a backend from AWS (that used their certs) to a local server, as the IoT gear from 2016 we're supporting didn't have the root certs that validating LE certs required (this was related to the 2021 expiration of the R3 root cert I think it was that LE used).

It was kind of an eye-opener that you could potentially brick a whole fleet of sold products by a cert expiring. In this case it was no real problem as other providers had certs with valid root certs.
I work with game programming, mainly graphics and performance. And in recent years mainly single player games.

My view is that the most important thing is a consistent frame rate, because stutter is jarring, breaks immersion and even worse, can cause unfair problems like missing jumps or a shot. Higher frame rates make for a more fluid experience.

It's already very common that visual update frequency is decoupled from the frame rate of the main game thread, and that really isn't noticeable as long as things are running smoothly.

In terms of visual/logic/input fps I've worked on games and simulations with 60/60/60, 60/30/30, 30/30/30, and even 60/60/1000 (surgical training simulations). They all felt smooth and good as long as the frame rates stayed consistent.
Huh? I don’t follow. Provenance here is being used in the sense of “documented ownership”. If you like you can use “chain of custody” instead.
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Can you elaborate on this? I have always been curious when a group works on an inferior (in terms of popularity!) product such as Ask Jeeves how they themselves work day to day in the workplace. So you worked for Microsoft and didn't use their flagship product?
Is enum { N = 5; }; legal C now with the semiclolon inside the braces?
[350 years later] I have confirmed the optimality of the allocator pattern as a special case in my proof of the Inter-universal Teichmüller theorem (Springer, 879pp).
"chasing" is a good word
I suppose 2024 will be the year of the Linux desktop ...
>I'm in the camp of "3d spatial is mostly a scam, just use stereo"

That's orthogonal to what the parent claims.

Their take was that spatial audio is just "stereo" rebranded, as Dolby Atmos doesn't do anything, just because it's encoded into a stereo signal to play over headphones in the end. Which is obviously wrong.

Your take is more like that spatial audio isn't usually a fitting experience, from an artistic perspective (not that it doesn't do anything more that what plain stereo does or that it doesn't take extra processing logic to mix into it, and extra effort to mix songs into spatial format).
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> Until relatively recently you could only buy whole albums not single songs.

Uh?

Singles have always been a thing, and most if not all digital platforms allow buying by the track. You’d need a very specific artist demand to avoid this unbundling.
Stripe = Scammers
They're holding over 150k from me.
What about distributing via Flatpak? (honest question, I'm curious to see if it actually help lowering the cost of distributing apps for Linux)
Does it?
The GTPQ paper claims that the accuracy loss is small.
Sunspots on an Active Sun
PHP Monitor 6.0 now available
Yeah tell this to the guys at MosaicML. Spend less than you earn is a fine strategy but it definitely isn’t the only road to Rome.
Yes, and some people love it. But the AirPods don't have enough processing power so they need to send the measurements to the host via bluetooth and then the adjusted audio is sent back later. The result is 200+ ms of latency on the head-tracking which is much larger than the perception threshold at 30ms.
>However, make the next Minecraft, Fortnite or Roblox work only (or considerably better) on Linux desktop

And lose lots of money in that process. :)

And what Linux OS should you target? Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint, Arch, Android? Target KDE or Gnome? Or maybe XFCE? X Windows or Wayland? Use ALSA, Pipewire or Pulse Audio? Bionic or glibc?
> That's why Mastodon will never be a true competitor to Twitter and Threads. There's no permanent way to finance it.

This phrasing makes it sound like Twitter is currently profitable. Actually it's Twitter that doesn't have a permanent way to finance itself, whereas donations to Mastodon could scale with its user base.
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Deeper there are still creative communities discussing art, 3D, programming, interior design, whatever. Unfortunately the algorithm assigns high "gravity" to these controversial trolls, not to mention additionally boosted by paid checks. So as you move on your free trajectory sooner or later you crash on a troll planet.
> Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share (linuxiac.com)

And the desktop market amongst servers, cell phone, consumer electronics is?

Linux doesn't need to play this game because it has already won it - a long time ago.
Still worth it. Right now they have nothing.
Where did you get the carbon you exhale? Food. If you go by that logic, you might as well stop eating.

The CO2 we exhale does not contribute to climate change because it comes from plants (and indirectly animals) that captures it back.

If you burn coal to produce electricity, it releases CO2 in the atmosphere and it will take a long time to sequester that CO2 back into fossil fuel.
GMTK Game Jam weekend: unofficial game engines numbers
Conference talk on categorization by Einar Høst at NDC 2023 [video]
> why can't I change the spaces animation (turn it off)?

You can turn on "reduce motion" and it will replace it with a much simpler fade in.
> This is quite literally the oldest debate in natural science and it seems like one half of the debate just decided they’re right a few centuries ago and stopped caring about the fact that’s not something they have (or can) ever proved.

Yet earlier you asserted one side of the argument without proving it nor even acknowledging that there is a debate
I'm used to government blocking websites and I see this kind of blocking as pure evil. VPN almost never turns off on my phone and my computer. That is, until I moved to a different country

What I can't understand is why people are willing to shut their websites from like half of the world. Especially Linux bloggers. Open source, "free as in freedom", right? These people should fight practices like that, not follow them.

Amazingly, the country I'm in right now is blacklisted on this website.
Not in the sense that it accumulates in your body (concentration keeps increasing over time). Water is in steady state with your body, its concentration over time is practically constant.
since when is struggling artist making use of the copyright system. They are protected by it entirely in theory alone, they aint taking someone to court.
probably just easier to use drm-free copies of books
May this be the worst criticism levied against a project!
Why is that? Can you point me to some material that explains this in detail?
Ask HN: Any great contacts app to store social links?
Hi all, just landed HN. Hope this question blends in.

I find myself exchanging contacts more with social networks rather than phone numbers. For friends, this could be Facebook or Discord. For colleagues, this could be LinkedIn.

But most contacts apps I could find either did not support social profiles, or the function sucks, or I had to do some workaround.

IMHO, this should be as easy as filling in a social platform's ID or username, and the apps should open the profile either on the site or in the app when I click on it.

Any great suggestions?
Clever idea. They will gradually lure users their way.
Hey, one of the devs building ente.io here.

Thanks for pointing out the workaround with GPS, will look into it!

Currently on iOS, our servers send silent pushes to your device every hour. This wakes up the app and gives us 30 seconds to execute a background sync (provided you've previously not killed the app). This is not sufficient to backup videos, but it works pretty well for incremental backup of photos (I personally use an iPhone).
200? I'm an average of 1-2k with TST on Firefox...
https://nobt.co.uk

It's only a few months old, but I kicked off the blog by sharing the story of my last three years: going through divorce, burnout and depression as a cofounder, in the midst of the pandemic.

The first part of the story is here: https://www.nobt.co.uk/p/three-years-part-one

I'm using this story as a springboard to understand burnout, explore recovery, and circle the bigger topics of meaning and fulfilment in work.

I have a bigger archive of writings on meditation, well-being and ultrarunning on my personal site: https://danbartlett.co.uk
I've had some flahsbacks after a recurring confrontation at work. Started using body mapping on youtube, a form of self hypnosis, where you let the body do the work. It's true, you don't have to relive the memories, although some do come back which might be unrelated.
The only way it "doesn't seem to be that way" is if we determine that it's actually wrong that QM tells us that we can have entanglement between spatially separated objects. If QM is right about this, then we need quantum gravity. So either QM is wrong in some sense and/or we need to limit ourselves to a specific interpretation, or gravity must be quantum
You should write it as how much it adds to electricity bill, not in kg of CO2.

Kg of CO2 is a unit of fearmongering. And if you believe it's not, then the problem is why people are allowed to buy electricity so cheaply, not a photo-sync service.

By the way, a cow produces 120Kg of methane a year.
only if it's interstate commerce
I focus mostly on increasing my productivity, rather than focusing on finances.

A key thing to understand is - finance is the consequence, rather than the source. The practical sequence is productivity -> performance -> wealth.

And as a habit, I tend to be quite frugal, and always ensure I spend way less than I earn.

And whatever "spends" I do, 80% of them are of investment type:

1. Building businesses

2. Building teams

3. Acquiring new skills

4. Helping others

5. Serving customer better

6. New projects

As long as I remain highly productive, remain frugal, and keep investing time/energy/efforts into useful things, there haven't been any big financial troubles.
Completely unrelated.

The primary advantage of hamt is that they’re persistent, so they’re immutable with cheap update, but with efficient lookup & good cache behaviour thanks to the dense nodes and high branching factor.
The default setting for iCloud Photos is non-e2ee, which allows US federal police access to every photo you have ever taken or saved without a warrant/probable cause.

The photos also likely have EXIF GPS data and timestamps, so it's also a track log of location history.
After Facebook Chat and Google dropped XMPP, I don't think professionals can be expected to believe that support of open standards will happen. It's a simple business move, to lock people in, and recent business history also showed that people don't mind this much, as in, they won't leave for a more open product on this principle alone. So what we can expect is more lock-in.
> I was taught that choosing a QM interpretation is a matter of taste

You were taught wrong
The definition of ideal here is based on:

- minimizing risk

- maximizing profit

- making as much money as possible

Up until the 80s, capitalism would optimize for this result with businesses that still somehow benefited society in one way or another.
Once the computer revolution made it possible to operate at a higher abstrac level, especially on financial markets, the optimization game has become a many-times derivative of the basic needs of functioning societies.

Today the perfect business responding to those tenets is very much a business that could potentially be detrimental or world-ending for society, especially with the advent of AI. In some ways, the pesky humans are an annoying hindrance in the process of extreme optimization.

We still look at this maximization problems with the frameworks and cultural upbringing we solidified with pre-internet-revolution capitalism, with the winners dwelling on their survival bias, and the losers being pushed further down, inequalities growing rampant, and societal fabric being sacrificed at the altar of capitalist absolutism.
Sshhhh your theory implies systemic issues. And everyone knows the individual is supposed to be the one to be blamed for that!
Now, you got to hear of the 'regret' of the ones who had kids :)
Facebook and Instagram never killed their robust third-party client ecosystem the way Twitter and Reddit recently did, because they never had one. They understood their business model from the get-go.

I remember when Facebook trumpeted their open APIs. The Internet forgets so quickly.
Quote: "There seems to be no rational reason to increase RSA key sizes past 2048 starting in the year 2030. We don't have any reason to increase RSA key sizes at any time based on our current understanding."

Yeahhhh, nice try NSA. If they say this, I'd say go to 8192 right now.
ChromeOS is Linux.

It is not GNU, though. Perhaps we are actually trying to measure the prevalence of GNU on the desktop?
I am not sure this argument is correct. Animals have a carbon footprint. More importantly, it seems like control over data is a stronger concern than a such a small amount.
OSS companies have strong community interaction.

He needs to explain why he tried to get tons of people to work on Canonical adjacent tech, but is now leaving.

He'd be burning bridges with all his contacts if he didn't off them an explanation as to why Canonical tech is no longer something they should contribute to.
Trying to break down the rough cost to do this via a SaaS, someone correct me if I'm wrong here:

- 4 cores/6GB RAM is $40/mo on DigitalOcean, and that's with only 160GB storage. Lowest AWS S3 tier is $0.023/GB, so assuming 1-2TB of photos that's $30-40 for additional storage.

- The non-named company's 2TB subscription is $100/mo, translating to savings of only ~$20.

- Building a server would be probably ~$250, electricity costs per month could vary greatly but maybe $30-50?. So would pay off after ~3 years.
Thanks. Does the USRP B200 know how to timestamp individual samples? Or I guess just one sample, the rest is easy.
Moderation has been part of the internet since the 1980s. And ever since the rise of spam and trolls in the mid-1990s, the old guard has reacted very strongly against that.

Most people just don't want to be forced to wade through that shit. Keep it in your own corner if you really want it, but don't bother others with it.

> Social media needs to be P2P.

I do agree with that. It would be great if everybody had their own social media hub to use in whatever way they prefer. I think that might be the idea behind Hubzilla. But even then, people will want to discover valuable content, and they don't want to run into trolls, spam and nazis, so there's still going to be some curation. It's unavoidable if you don't want your internet experience to turn to shit.
https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/memories has completely replaced everything I used of Google Photos.
Something I've noticed since Covid is that all Americans that are online are both data scientists and research experts in basically every field available, so I completely trust their judgements on this topic.
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I’m reminded of PGP signing parties where people built a web of trust via key signing.

There may be a resurgence of this kind of thing as people use social heuristics to decide if any given creator is likely to be producing generative content or not.
but... but we'll need this so we can cope with webscale request volumes when our product (that has zero customers currently) launches and immediately goes viral!

(/s, obviously, but I've heard variations on this plenty of times)
Also would be great to know which "orb" flags you find confusing. Config options are now documented: https://docs.orbstack.dev/settings
Professional service organizations with cross-border capabilities can qualify for this.

As a lawyer who has founded a law firm, it's possible to qualify for all criteria, even item 12, which can be addressed by the founder knowing how to decouple the founder's personal labor inputs (e.g., time) from the firm's revenue and profit performance.
Whisky: CLI tool for managing and enforcing a PHP project's Git hooks
subarch-select – pick an executable based on CPU capabilities
There is no way I am going to spin up my own worse LLM so a few people will make less money. Even if it was 1-5% better. It's just not worth the time.
I believe it's a) on Mac hardware and b) on MacOS (or a VM running on top of MacOS - can be any OS if virtualized)

The same terms cover usage of things like Rosetta 2, which cannot be used on Asahi Linux despite Linux running on Mac hardware.
USSR fell apart, when the people saw their government and system as a complete fraud. Much to the surprise of Kremlin watchers. There is still hope for the Russian people
They do, but they are the exception, not the rule. The bulk of the free software that I use I use locally, in fact I don't think I use even a single package that is a free software web app that is operated by some third party and if it were then I probably would try to find an alternative.
The game is fun!

I think I've walked into a bug.

https://imgur.com/a/WX04SD4

(Assuming black starts with a1 at bottom left):

1. Kc5 d6;
2. e3 <= was my next move but my pawn teleported to f5
When SHA-1 was being phased out, there was a lot of whining on mozilla.dev.security.policy from CAs who had issued SHA-1 certs installed into medical and point-of-sale systems with no real update options, then continued to issue them well after the dates that the CA/Browser forum voted on. I thought everybody realized at that time that using the Web PKI and having no way to push updates are mutually exclusive, but guess not.
Actually using cash has its benefits, you subtract fixed expenses from you monthly income (rent, estimated utilities etc) and take the rest in cash, maybe weekly. This way you have a really good sense of how much you have at any given point.
The laws themselves are dangerous and encourages the myth of ideas being akin to somebody's personal property.
https://kristaps.me/blog/

This is the place where I share my expertise in iOS and Solidity blockchain development.
It doesn't seem as though GP has a problem sourcing parts, it's more of a networking issue (networking in the real-world sense).
Humans: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSS

Cats: ASSASSASSASSASSASSASSASS

Sounds about right.
For some reason SUSE hasn't received a lot of attention even though they have been waving their flag long before the Red-Hat — CentOS brouhaha.
Superdeterminism is a loophole in Bell's theorem that allows local hidden variables, so there could just be a fully deterministic theory that determines everything, including your detector settings in advanced. Classical physics has generally assumed that we at least have free choice to choose what to measure. If we don't, we can trivially retain classical gravity
Shared albums also don't support e2ee.
It still doesn't help EU businesses navigate the clash between the US Cloud Act and the EU's GDPR, and seems more focused on appeasing US interests than safeguarding European rights.
HyperPhysics was a fantastic resource even during my studies in the 2010s. Despite the perceived "ugliness" of the format, I found it incredibly intuitive. The "chunking" of the formulas and physics into easily digestible bits of information allowed one to focus on learning one core concept at a time.

I would really love to create a similar website with a more modern stack for my own purposes but don't really know where to begin - so if anyone has any advice here it would be much appreciated!
> why are AMD, Intel, and Nvidia shipping improperly designed DLLs as part of their drivers?

Nvidia are notoriously .. not good, but a substantial part of the 3D API runs client-side userspace, and a substantial part of the huge NVIDIA "geforce experience" is a set of game-specific patches, because NVIDIA have their own opinions on how to optimise for framerate.

It also provides a whole bunch of features! There's an entire overlay screen you can bring up with screenshot/video recording options, camera effects for screenshots, etc.

(also top tip even if you don't have NVIDIA - try pressing Win-G in random applications to see if they count as "games" which will let you use the DirectX screen recorder provided by Windows)

> Windows itself should be preventing loading of unsigned/improperly signed DLLs without a UAC prompt.

That's the "UAP" model and its successor, which provide mobile-like actual app isolation. Otherwise you (or rather, processes running as your user account or above) can generally just inject at runtime any DLL into any process.
> 60B parameters is still smaller than what GPT4 is using

I mean if the article is right, then it's about 3.3% the size of GPT 4 (although it's a sparse model so not all of it is used on every pass).

Meta also didn't train LLaMAs on nearly as much code it seems, so they're much worse for that in general.
Having the source internally means: "this software provider can't squeeze us completely dry" though.