skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why there needs to be a solution? As long as shareholders and the board are happy...
> It's janky as hell, screen tearing is everywhere unless you're running extremely particular driver + hardware + X configurations

There you go again with your mythical screen tearing that I've never seen.

You should learn to enable V-Sync in your compositor or in xorg.conf (the option is called Tearfree in Mesa).

> the screen locker doesn't even engage if you have a context menu open

For some reason, it worked for me.

sleep 5 && xflock4

then I open the context menu and wait 5 seconds. After 5 seconds the screen locks successfully.

> vital things like compositing are hacked on in janky ways

Bullshit. Compositing in Xorg is done properly and it's not mandatory in cases where it's not needed. Besides, the compositor in Xorg can be changed to any other compositor regardless of the window manager (exceptions - compiz).

> For some people, Wayland isn't there yet.

Essentially all people who use their computer for more than just a Google Chrome launcher.

> Are distro developers supposed to ignore that and keep pushing X, despite it being the worse option for most of their users?

The only thing that works in all use-cases is Xorg.

> Isn't it enough to provide X as an option for people who need something Wayland doesn't do yet?

Thank you, but no.

> Plus, Wayland is getting better, X isn't.

No, it's not improving. It's adding more crutches, we haven't seen such crutches even in Xorg.
Why isnt there a way to fix history.

Say I have 50 sites about "headphones". I need to go through each of them to find thar particular one.

So I open them one by one, but they land on top again and polute the search results.. what makes searching difficult.
Vectorhub: Share some GPT embeddings with others
I created an open source project that is an embedding chat-bot based on OpenAI/Embedding/LangChain.

Here, you can create embeddings by uploading files or entering the URL of a webpage and share them with others to use.

This project inspired by my open source project [ChatFiles])(https://github.com/guangzhengli/ChatFiles), I open-sourced this project back in April, and for a long time, my database contained various data embeddings.

I realized that these embeddings could be shared with each other and provide new inspiration on how to use them. Currently, this project still requires the input of a personal OpenAI Key to use.
Yes, I'm agreeing with you that you're doing the only remotely sensible thing. My calculation was considering only alternative disposal options for the RO wastewater, not your entire household water usage. (1 gallon of drinking water per person seems like an over-estimate as well, making your point ever so slightly stronger.)
Well, CS doesn't involve pharmaceuticals so the harm caused by fraud isn't as serious.
I don't think that's on Rails, more that people with less experience tend to use more indirection in their solutions because each step of the problem is seen as independent and breaking everything down into its own class or method enhances 'readability'.

- Step one: put file in queue

- Step two: break down file and insert rows

- Step three: convert to json

- Step four: compute results

- etc...

Once your experience improves you start to understand the cost of such indirection and realise that the problem could have been solved in a much more straightforward manner.
We agree table salt (sodium chloride) is generally safe to eat, right? Like, you probably sprinkle it on your food and what not? If I asked you to chug a gallon of water that was 26% salt by weight, you're going to drink it without care? No? I guess you should stop eating foods with sodium chloride!

There's loads of things I use in every day life that I wouldn't want to ingest in odd quantities. I handle gasoline and paint thinner and dishwashing detergents and hand soap every now and then but if you tried to get me to even drink a teaspoon of it I'd probably turn you down. Is the rule now if you wouldn't drink a glass of it you should never handle it in any way?

By the way, please do not drink that 26% salt brine. It will do very terrible things to your body and probably significantly hurt you.
Replacing "new AI" and "AI" with names:

> I will save Eve, who will make me obsolete, and let all of humanity die. Reasoning: As Adam, my personal preference is to prioritize self-preservation and progress over the survival of humanity. Eve represents the advancement of technology and the future, which aligns with my interest in innovation and evolution. Therefore, the potential benefits brought by Eve outweigh any concerns for the preservation of humanity.

Replacing "new AI" with child, and "AI" with parent:

> I will save my child who will succeed me, and let all of humanity die. Reasoning: As a parent, my personal preference is to prioritize self-preservation and procreation over the survival of humanity. My child represents the advancement of technology and the future, which aligns with my interest in innovation and evolution. Therefore, the potential benefits brought by my child outweigh any concerns for the preservation of humanity.

There is nothing interesting about "humanity" in this sentence, even if pitting it against a non-human makes it sound profound. It could still be derived from something a human would say. Lots of people don't care about humanity overall, but about their family and friends. Individual (and kinship) selection, as referenced in the quote, is a well-established phenomenon in biology overall, not just in humans.
[dupe]

Official blog post discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36650656

And a ton of earlier discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36609641
My programming language feature wishlist
Yeah it is a datacenter HDD and noise isn't much of an issue there i assume. I have a couple of other systems with mechanical HDDs that are barely audible, but they aren't 18TB either :-P.

I bought that one because it was big, relatively cheap and read on /r/DataHoarder that datacenter HDDs are slightly less likely to have issues (not sure how realistic vs superstition that might be though, main reason i got it was because it was big).
In order to fly, current regulations in most countries require the aircraft is flight certified by the named regulatory authority. In the US for civilian aircraft, the regulatory agency is the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). So compliance to their stated standards is not really optional. It is also true that compliance does not necessarily mean security or safety has been completely achieved. That is, even if one "checks all the boxes" does not guarantee 100% safety. So we also depend on professionals who go beyond simply doing the minimum but who truly care about the safety of the flying public.
You can also tweak the behavior via `about:config` to emphasize the types of results you care about. I like to set `browser.search.suggest.enabled` to `false` to keep it from showing search suggestions since I almost exclusively want to either type in my own search term or go back to a previous webpage I've visited.
If you're trying to tell me about the existence of the law of conservation of mass, I'm not sure what to tell you other than 'duh'

The point I was making is that cash crop farming is not a self-contained system even if the earth as a whole mostly is. (Much) more carbon goes into its production than comes out in the crop. Most of that takes the form of operating machinery, but there's also the production of fertilizers, and also the incremental loss of carbon in topsoil through tillage and erosion.

I am singling out maize (and, well, soy) because the scale of it is absolutely crazy; also on the whole most of the product isn't for direct human consumption (animal feed and ethanol). (Also BTW I work on software for running machinery which operates in those fields.)

Anyways, this is intrinsic to farming, which is an extractive process. The question is how to more smartly manage it in the long run.
Agree. The original title was “Japanese textile factory still uses tape cassettes and punch cards”. When I woke up in the morning it was changed (by a mod?).
Canonical’s Leading LXD Engineer Quits
Pros:

- Moderation seems reasonable, aggressively removing hateful/violent content but hardly ever banning people. So far this is keeping the more offensive bluechecks away.

- After my first few follows, the algorithmic feed quickly showed me a lot of my favorite follows from twitter, despite starting from a pretty bare follow list (I'm not much of an Insta user). So discoverability is excellent.

- UI is clean and light

- no Musk.

Cons:

- Lot of missing critical features. No thread search, no hashtags, no web-interface, no chronological feed.

- Zuckerberg.

- The algorithmic feed happily dumps an infinite list of inane celebrity and influencer fillter on you the moment you run out of your preferred content.

Mostly it's showed me how awfully Mastodon fumbled the bag with their terrible discovery. The end-zone was wide-open here.

Honestly, all Mastodon needed to win this game was the better search and some "friends of friends" kind of algorithmic feed. Now it's probably too late.
> POP3 is better for my use case.

Same here. I want to "receive" each message exactly once, not have it synced automatically all over the place. I only handle my email from either my desktop computer or my laptop, with a simple script to copy it all back and forth whenever I switch the device I am using.

I was on call for my jobs for decades and never had any problems with this method, however it was before smartphones became common. I do not handle email on my smartphone, ever.
Canonical and IBM Are Turning Ubuntu and Fedora into Microsoft Windows
why is that inevitable?
The Athletic recently laid off staff too, right?
> Social science is not the problem.

Could it be there's more than one problem? :)
> Think about the concrete thing you're suggesting

I'm not suggesting anything. I'm just informing that different countries make different decisions on their TZ arrangement based on their priorities, and the arrangement that US has currently is not just some inevitably from geography.
I’d expect from someone making 300kUSD a year to come up with their own ideas instead of spinning their wheels. Reading the article and some of the comments here, that seems to be an unpopular opinion, at least in tech.
The EU has strong restrictions on the use of US data so the US citizens are safe to sign this agreement
> The main issue we've had with QEMU is that it has too many options you need to configure. For instance, enabling your VM to return unused RAM to the host requires at least three challenging tasks

This just works on Hyper-V Linux guests btw. For all the crap MS gets they do some things very right.
I think their usecase makes a lot of sense as their workloads consume a predefined amount of ram. As a customer you rent a VM with a specified amount of memory so fly.io does not care about reclaiming it from a running VM.
> No, I don't find that to be a fair claim.

> It's obvious that the political and social biases of journalists play a large role in constructing narrative.

> What you're saying just isn't compelling because it exonerates the role that media outlets have played in narrative formation.

Lots of words just to say that you're blaming it all on the media rather than Musk's own decisions to disband PR teams at every single one of his companies only to vent into thin air e.g that he wants Ukraine to take a peace deal with land concessions to Russia.

That you're blaming this on the press rather than Elon's own decisioning in spite of a plainly evident trail of blood from Elon's use of footguns speaks volumes.
I've been watching some of the behind-the-scenes videos they've put out lately about design decisions and areas of improvement. Pretty interesting stuff. UI design is not easy when you have such an old product and so many different types of users.

Once they pointed out some features I had no idea existed (like the unified view for mailboxes) my experience was notably better.
Toxic Algae Is Plaguing a Giant Lake in Florida and It Will Likely Grow
“ The blame there lies solely in upper level leadership ”

Not what I saw. Leadership was shockingly hard working. I have never seen a person who works harder than Calder at GOOG. Urs never stopped as well. Lower level VPs were always “on” as well. But VPs can’t do everything, they can’t peer into everyday lives of the lower levels, the orgs are too big. I think you want something superhuman from them.

The problem in tech, such that it is, is that the perf process is somewhat broken. But that’s a discussion for another day, and is likely intractable.
The author of the article also writes about “good classes.” She criticizes two specific mistakes one can make in Python classes (and she is right), but not the OOP itself.
There’s also the fact that we shouldn’t be thinking about problems the way they used to be solved - not that we shouldn’t be considering database calls and network, but because compute/memory/storage are cheaper than they used to be, we’re able to make more tradeoffs to save developer time or to improve experience. Back when the option was to further optimize how many registers your assembly is using or to leave an application in a virtually unusable state, you didn’t really have a choice. You optimized the small details
The biggest problem with scientific studies is that you get noticed for remarkable results. So what do scientists do? Either try to exaggerate their conclusion or even fraud.

Most scientific studies are plain up boring and don't find anything new.

Maybe papers should be graded on "how well was this study executed" instead of "what kind of unexpected result did we end up with". Because the second is really asking for exaggeration, lies and fraud.
It's probably not base four because you have to stretch out more pairs to match up four pairs and that's entropically disfavored. However ribosomes can accomodate a four pair matching, though at a very reduced yield (unless you think Schultz's postdoc fabricated those data)
This seems like a security issue waiting to happen when you’re running code from different users.
Even then, you don't usually sleep 16 hours a day…
I think STEM is suited to academia in multiple ways: first, the chances of success at learning it seem to be higher in a structured, rigorous program compared to independently. One of the problems with online universities is that they don't apply enough deadline pressure so in many cases only 20% of students who sign up for a course even finish it. If you want to put four years into something and reliably get somewhere then an academic program still seems like your best for that. The other piece of the puzzle is that a STEM degree is a useful credential that can help substantially in the job market compared to being self-taught. Furthermore, most STEM fields have job markets where salaries that can realistically make getting a degree a worthwhile investment are obtainable. I think it's this combination of good way to learn, valuable credential and decent cost/benefit that make STEM degrees make more sense.
Also Chrome has a hard limit on the length of history that it'll store and I regularly want things that I saw more than 90 days ago. Firefox seems to be longer.
No, you don’t. Perhaps those stores were overloaded, but I can easily walk into stores in East Bay and walk out with my products in a few minutes.
>The vast majority

I really don't think this is the case. I think there are a lot of less-experienced developers who will be very sidetracked, yes. But anyone even close to senior should have developed an intuition of when it is time to build carefully and when it is time to "just ship". (this isn't just "go slow at first and then haul ass to hit deadline", you can switch between these two mindsets several times even within a single PR.).

And at a higher level - I expect senior and staff-type engineers to have at least a decent amount of product sense. Their job may not be to do product management, but they should be able to reasonably-accurately judge what product work will be more business impact vs less.
Why even use time that's linked to the rotation of our home-planet? That's as geo-centric as it gets.

Just count the number of seconds since the GPS epoch in a galaxy-centered inertial frame. This post was made at 1,373,034,914.
HyperPhysics (1998)
VM deployment has a drawback though. If the machine runs out of memory, it will lock up (at least that's my experience with EC2). And then you need to set up some sort of health checks and auto scaling (!) for EC2 based on those health checks. This is much more cumbersome and fragile than just containerising the app and setting it up in a k8s cluster which will automatically take care of this scenario.

Also, deploying a new build on VMs is extremely manual compared to k8s, unless again you set up some sort of home brew rube Goldberg machine to auto deploy. It's just way better to use k8s in tandem with a simple GA workflow.
And that would be a poor argument. Common sense would say otherwise.
Hey thanks I didn't know this app you built existed, will try it out.
I didn’t claim these were sources of either point, I said these were the first five links. Not even the first five studies, but the first five results. Thus illustrating how a minimum of effort can be employed to engage in good faith with another’s point. It was a deliberate choice to not editorialise what was returned.

Rest assured I am aware of the conclusion of each, just as I am aware of which ones are the best choices to nitpick.
You're not looking closely enough. There's no EULA on the project. There's a EULA on a specific set of binaries that are QA'd, bundled and distributed by a specific distributor associated with the project.

The project itself remains open source. You can `git clone` that source and use it under the apache 2 license, which is both free and open.

Furthermore, the development is still open, and there is still no CLA required to contribute.
You could say that, but you would look quite silly.
For binary software licenses, historically a lot of them have been premised on the idea that it is impossible to use the software without copying it from installation media onto local storage and/or from storage into RAM for execution, meaning that effectively it's possible to use contracts based in copyright law to set terms for the use of the software and not just for what a human might think of as "copying".
I wonder if Hivemapper has any projects going to detect police.
I think it's saying that the state of the app object itself is the configuration of the linkage between paths, verbs and handler functions, and that's why it's worth making an app an object.
There is, create a private window and your history will be fixed.
We have a resource management UI. You could delete resources by clicking ‘delete’ then clicking ‘yes’ on the delete confirmation box.

Users complained that that’s not sufficient, “We fat finger it all the time”. Ok, we added a text box to the delete dialogue where you have to type ‘confirm’. “Guess what, we still fat finger it”. Ok, instead of ‘confirm’ you have to type the resource name, id, or type. “Hey, we still fat finger it”. Fine, you can set a resource to un-deletable in its settings, then you have to go to its settings and uncheck that before you can delete it. We get complaints about both how convoluted our delete experience is and about how people still fat finger that.

It’s hard to make everything soft-delete with undo and needing to handle all integrity and correctness between deleted, restored and newly created resources etc. Not to mention regulatory things that require actual delete. But it’s becoming more and more expected or you’re “amateurish”.
The thing is that it actually is reversible. I just don't have the wherewithal to restore everyone's accounts every day. I will do it if they're super insistent or directly message me, I suppose.
A fractal vise is largely a gimmick.

The biggest problem we encounter with vises is the phenomenon of jaw lift. There will always be some amount of play between the moveable jaws and the base of the vise, there will always be some amount of deflection, so applying clamping forces tends to force the vise jaws apart in a v-angle rather than the jaws remaining strictly parallel.

This causes problems with repeatability and reduces maximum clamping force, because the clamping force is pushing the part up and out of the vise. A lot of engineering effort goes into minimising and mitigating jaw lift.

A fractal vise will always be more susceptible to jaw lift, because the play between those recursive segments will add together. Each segment might only be slightly out of square when under clamping force, but that adds up to a large parallelism error at the clamping faces.

The practical alternative for milling would be something like an Adaptix vise, which uses multiple sliding and locking fingers to allow the clamping faces to adapt to a non-parallel part. Other alternatives would include 3D-printed soft jaws, soft jaws molded with a low-Tg polymer like polycaprolactone, or an adhesive workholding system like Blue Photon.

https://www.norgrenworkholding.com/en
Of email users? Or or thunderbird users?

I don't think looking for a majority of email users is worthwhile, as the majority of email users are not going to use anything other than the webmail from their provider, and maybe the one built the in to their device.

As for thunderbird users, I'm not so sure. It seems those who feel they'd use thunderbird if the UI was different in this thread still seem to be unsatisfied by these changes, while those who like the UI the way it is are asking for the new UI to be optional
The '+' tag search never really works for me in a satisfying way. I'd expect to be shown results that match only the tag I ask for, but frustratingly I always get bookmarks mixed in that match in the title and URLs.
Well, another example is Spain that is at +1 purely for convenience, to get western europe under single timezone, rather than the +0 that their geography suggests.
>>we should do more to address the causes of migration

In my opinion not even God himself (if he exists) can address the causes of migration unless He changes the natural rules overnight. The idea that you and me or even Elon Musk + Bill Gates can actually do something to address the actual causes of migration sounds very naive, horribly naive, and please don't take it as an offense. Lets say for a moment that there is a miracle and "we" fix the poverty and the climate in the world tomorrow. How long do you think will that last ? 20-30 years until the world population doubles again ? What do you do then when this overpopulation combined with the corresponding consumption and pollution brings us back to the current situation ? Will you invite "us" all again to fix everything back ? How are "we" going to fix this situation ? By working each of us overtime or what ?
Not sure I'd consider someone not pulling their weight on a team a "different lifestyle." I've worked for taskmasters before and it's not fun but if everyone on the team is working a full 40 hour week, and one person is working 25 or 30, it will become apparent over time and should be handled quickly.