skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most of them already do. My argument is not that these entities can’t use their own sites, but that doing so is not a sufficient replacement for the utility afforded by social media today. They use social media because it’s the place that people go to get information.

I don't agree with this. They could use RSS, email, push notifications… we are not lacking in tools to disseminate information.

>> Charlie submits Bob’s post to Hacker News or Reddit

> Exactly. And this tends to be where engagement happens.

Again, I disagree! You're calling out the last step here as somehow distinct from the others, but I think every step of the chain I mentioned is engagement. Sharing a tweet in a blog post or an email is not fundamentally different than doing it with another tweet. The goal is human interaction, not a particular set of features.

Yes, people use social media because it's convenient. But the point of this thought experiment is not "if all social media vanished, we would be totally unaffected" — that's obviously not true. The point is that we would still have our digital gathering place. I'm not saying that we wouldn't lose anything valuable; I'm saying that we wouldn't lose anything fundamental.
That's what it's come to? I have been using Ubuntu for about 15 years, but with snaps still starting up as slowly as they do in finally switching once support for 22.04 runs out.
Oh good lord. I may have just found the next redesign for my website. That blows this completely out of the water.
As a fish user on NixOS, I'd say nix is still worth looking at.

The fish-related issues came from trying to manage the whole of the fish configuration with Nix.

I think that's a fairly niche thing to want to do.
Police are hammer. I'm just asking you to reconsider funding bigger and bigger hammers when we need some other tools.
So 90,000 times smaller. At first glance you made it look 90x smaller because I couldn't tell if "mcg" was a typo for "mg" or not (without clicking the link). I've never seen anyone use "mcg" to mean "microgram" before and I feel like it's misleading. Use "ug", or "μg" if you're feeling fancy.
Very nice. To have some sub directories as read-write would be super useful.
Heimdall: Making Operating Flink Deployments a Bit Easier
I don't think that awaits Solaris.

The Rdb database for OpenVMS is still getting updates, and a new port to the VMS-x86 release that has recently emerged.

https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.htm...
Ask HN: Favorite Mac Apps for Productivity?
I would argue that if you keep that up for a couple of weeks, you will be slow and have all the aforementioned issues, but you won't notice that you are sleep deprived anymore.
By that definition an app could never be stateless ?
I found this part even more interesting:

"Research from Stanford points to generational divides on remote work. Workers over 55 (mostly boomers) prefer to work remotely around 35 percent of the time, while workers in their early twenties (Gen Z) preferred to be remote about 45 percent of the time and workers in their 30s and 40s preferred to work from home closer to half the time. In other words, Gen Xers have become the unlikely warriors for flexible work.

Of course, stage of life comes into play. A survey of 120,000 American workers, also from Stanford, found that desired remote work levels were 7 percent higher among those living with children under 18."
When I "decided to move on", that included deciding that management was likely not in the cards for me again. Companies that have IC staff+ roles are what attract me now.
> "Bayesian hammer curl" wtf, my eye is twitching.

adjust your priors, bro.
> How did the Chinese immigrants become so prosperous so quickly if not for their cultural values around hard work and education?

> Black immigrants (from Africa, the Caribbeans, etc.) are doing pretty well.

You keep attributing immigrant success rates to "cultural values" when they should be attributed to the self-selection process of emigration.

If it is as you say, that a sample of immigrants is representative of their native population and their "cultural values", then you should see comparable poverty rates and earning rates in immigrants' native populations, adjusted for local economies. You do not see that. Immigrants tend to be more enterprising and hardworking, otherwise they would not undergo the immense challenge of immigration in the first place. This whole idea is as absurd as saying that American expats in Berlin or Paris are a representative sample of Americans, and their ability to thrive in another country is reflective of uniquely American "cultural values".
If my choices for Linux end up IBM or Oracle, I’ll pick Oracle.
TLS errors from chrome on iOS.
As a pedantic native speaker, I'd like to describe the different interpretations I have for these words. Hopefully this explanation illustrates the differences in a more useful way to you than simple ordering. I am not saying that this is exactly what the summary meant for these words, I'm just adding more context:

- Important: Describes that something has high priority, in a general sense. Very broad. Can replace any of the other terms, but is less precise.

- Key: Important in a utilitarian sense. Just like a literal key, using "key" here implies that something is an essential part of a solution to a problem/issue.

- Vital: Important in an ongoing sense. Think of "vitality"," the capacity to live, grow, or develop. We should use "vital" when we mean something is important to do as a habit, to maintain the strength of something.

- Crucial: Another term that is general. Basically "important" but with higher priority. It implies that there is some urgency, gravity, or necessity to whatever is crucial or the matter to which whatever is crucial.
- if you have a good hardware , you can easily build digital ocean / aws lightsail like environment with a single install in 5 mins of configuration - A VPS Like experience for both Containers and QEMU

- Quick and easy multi-tenancy

- Very easy to build development enviorment isloated from the system.

- Isolation host for docker containers.

- Automatic networking support with DHCP , OVN or MacVLAN if you have multiple physical IPs.

- Home Made Cluster of containers.

It is literally best way to host multiple docker containers. Isolated from each other.

You wont need K8s in many case , infact if you don't have 10k+ users , do not need to worry about 99.999 uptime and redundancy - LXD is all you need.

Or if you have only one Physical Machine and want to test K8s cluters , you can use LXD Containers for that instead of resource intensive VMs.
As I remember the studies, minerals in water is on the order of 5-10% extra calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium. Negligible on the rest. A nice little bump, but nothing a decent diet won’t attain. Although half of westerners are deficient in magnesium, so that one is a good supplement to take regardless.

When the trade off is arsenic, lead, pfas, bromate, hexavalent chromium, haloacetic acids, nitrates, uranium, trihalomethane, and who knows what other carcinogens…
The local movie theatre wasn't going to be advertising show times anywhere but it the newspaper!

If you wanted to sell a car, or fill a job opening, or rent out an apartment, you needed to advertise in the classifieds.
> Home-manager needs to add a channel to install it. This will not do.

FWIW, I see that nix-portable does support nix flakes, and home-manager also supports nix flakes. (And flakes are a feature which replaces use of channels).
I was signing up for EMT classes and they required proof of English comp and algebra. My highschool takes 3 weeks to approve a records request. The community college would not accept my passing grades in differential equations or tech writing and I had to pass tests instead. Turns out the emt class doesn't even require those competencies but the comm college did.
Not to mention the outside influence and value captured by publishers and distributors (not creators).
Canonical cannot do that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36666920
A better analogy is asking why someone who is bad at baseball isn't on an MLB team
I wonder what the latency is
I'm in the digital marketing space and I swear a new AI tool is being pushed on the daily. They are being ate up by so many people and also raising insane amounts of money. While I feel like 99% of the tools are absolute garbage, I believe that small business owners are feeling FOMO and wanting to stay involved.
Nitro is the custom hardware that runs in AWS data centers (or in outposts). You can use it bare metal, or if you use VM instances it will run Linux (plus KVM) and a custom user space component that replaces QEMU.
Can't tell if missed the parody nature of the post, or if also parodying switching off Ubuntu because of snaps?
Python libraries make use of modules (i.e., Python files) all the time.
Nah, I'm a tough and a cynical dude. I used my time at BigCo to practice the skill sets I needed, saved some money and jumped ship to running my own business. It's hard, but it's infinitely more rewarding than the rat race.
I don't think this is entirely a good model. People do want advancements and "breakthroughs" but the truth is that they don't understand any of those things. So if good science is happening, even in a small proportion, then your argument just suggests that reporting is more important. With respect to the public, I generally agree. But with this in mind, it would be probably more effective to just increase the total funding and randomly hand it out. You'd get bad apples like we do now and similar stories of ineffective spending -- where the public only understands "big number" -- but you'd also have more "successes" which are however you want to define them. That's because the truth of it is, for science progress is "business as usual." As for "breakthroughs" and "revolutions" well, those are exceedingly rare, and I'm willing to bet that several of the ones you are thinking of (not all) are less leaps and bounds than you perceive and more shoulders on "giants," where the "giants" are just several people in a trench coat.

So I don't get how this supports the current framework.
Then https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/87919/does-copyright... should be both surprising, and depressing.
Looks really cool.

Does it need our own OpenAI API key to run this or it doesn't need that?

How long are you planning to offer the lifetime offer? If I invest in lifetime plan, is it sustainable enough to run at least for 2 years even if you are not able to sell it more or produce MRR ?

Also, how can I contact you if I want to promote this via our platform? Do you have any active affiliate program for promotion?

Thank you.
I like the mapping to Claude Shannon’s ideas in information theory.

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/project...
Can anyone name a nontrivial functioning llm tool, that actually helps in some business task? Not counting chatgpt, something using langchain + vectordb for example? I see lots of minimal examples but nothing real.
Nice! I was thinking of building something like this at some point.
It totally works with read-write enabled and in fact rancher uses it this way. Make this change:

mounts:
- location: "~/sandbox"
writable: true

Lima cautions against this:

# Setting `writable` to true is possible, but untested and dangerous.

But I never hit any problems when I played around with it. Here are my notes:
https://earthly.dev/blog/lima/
Enjoy....?
Probably because 76% of them sucked. Well, maybe that's a bit strong but having lived through most the history of video games, a lot of mediocrity out there. From a preservation and historical standpoint I could see this as a problem but as a large store of video games that most people would want to play, not so much.
I would swear this was in the right-click menu when multiple tabs were selected? But maybe it was some extension.
> Shut and calculate is putting your head in the sand and avoiding that physics should be telling us what the world is.

It's how physics is done. PhD students don't sit in physics departments getting ideas from their interpretation of QM. The interpretations people have are so meaningless and useless they never appear in physics publications.

You don't like it, but it's what physics is.

> You’re wrong about MWI in that it’s a more elegant interpretation because it adds nothing extra to the wave equation and treats the universe as fundamentally quantum with no arbitrary dividing lines for classically scaled objects.

That's the thing about most QM interpretations, and in particular the many worlds interpretation, and why they aren't science just stories: you're right, they add nothing. So they are untestable!

What does untestable mean? It means that they make no predictions about our world at all. They are stories. Their impact on physics or the universe we live in is the same as that of Winnie-the-Pooh. They're a waste of time.

> avoiding that physics should be telling us what the world is.

What can I say to "should"? I can only report what physics is in the real world. That's like saying, biologists "should" be working on building Jurassic Park because that's what you feel is the goal of the field. It's not. That's not what they do.
Show HN: TySON – TypeScript as a Configuration Language
The Internet Archive has all the ROMs you may ever need.
Getting the signal from the noise - A demonstration attempt (inspired by @laurieg's comment):

Rendering: how to turn a virtual 3D scene into a (2D) image?
Answer: (affine and perspective) geometry, usually in the form of vectors and points and some physics.
(Matrices, multivectors, are structures for convenience.)

The core concepts you need are:

1. Perspective projection (perspective geometry):

X* = H * (X / Z)

Y* = H * (Y / Z)

2. Coordinate mapping (affine geometry):

MapRange(Value, Source, Target) := Value' = Scale * (Value - Source.Min) + Target.Min

Scale := (Target.Max - Target.Min) / (Source.Max - Source.Min)

Where Source is your "old" 2D coordinate system interval (e.g., [-1; 1] x [-1; 1]) and Target is your new coordinate system interval (e.g., [0; Width] x [0; Height]).

Although, we usually have to deal with flipped y-coordinates, so:

[0; Width] x [Height; 0] or for rasterization:

X' = MapRange(X, Source=(-1, 1), Target=(0, Width))

Y' = MapRange(X, Source=(-1, 1), Target=(Height, 0))

... and ray tracing:

X' = MapRange(X, Source=(0, Width), Target=(-1, 1))

Y' = MapRange(Y, Source=(Height, 0), Target=(-1, 1))

3. Containment (affine; rasterization):

w := (1 - u - v), A, B, C from R2.

OP = uAB + vAC + OA <=> AP = uAB + vAC <=> OP = uOB + vOC + (1 - u - v)OA <=> P = uB + vC + (1 - u - v)A = uB + vC + wA

If you solve AP = uAB + vAC for u and v via Cramer's rule or by hand, you may get:

A := Det(AB, AC)

u := Det(AB, AP) / A

v := Det(BC, BP) / A

w := 1 - u - v = Det(CA, CP) / A

P is inside triangle ABC, if u, v, w >= 0 and u + v + w = 1.

4. Intersection + Containment (affine):

<.,.> - the dot product.

t = <PlanePoint - RayOrigin, PlaneNormal> / <RayDirection, PlaneNormal>

If t > 0, the line or ray intersects with the triangle's plane.

X = Ray(t) = RayOrigin + t RayDirection

Now, you can reuse the 2D point containment check (3), to see whether the ray intersects also the triangle (lying on that plane).

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Filtering the "noise" (overhead/information overload), getting to the "gist", for me, is not easy, but you can get there, if you care enough.
Very annoying indeed. I had to force myself to type a trailing / so "naked TLDs" are resolved correctly.
Over the past 30 days, the quality of chatGPT has dramatically dropped. I personally have started using the API exclusively as I don't see a quality drop.
If the original entity that owns a copyright is no longer around to enforce it, does it still have an owner?
There is also a free to download Vision Pro UI panel simulator made by Nova, who have an excellent UI dev package on the Unity Asset Store. The demo is for the Quest Pro and source code with APK is on GitHub.

https://github.com/NovaUI-Unity/AppleXRConcept/releases/tag/...
If you wrote this into law, copyright holders would immediately put a notice on their website that a copy of any of their films/books/music/whatever is available for sale at a cost of $1M if you write a letter to their postal mail address.

That would meet the law as "offered for sale".

It's hard to write a law that says "offered for sale for a sensible price, in form the buyer desires, and without excessive hoops to jump through"
Is this a scientific fact? Secondly, is it an epistemically flawless fact (which is similar, but also different)?

Why don’t you check on Google Scholar and report back to me?

In what way exactly does "the public" "demand" that which science does?

In the economic way that we say most things are demanded. I’m not saying that people are going to be out in the streets protesting if scientists start publishing more negative results. I’m saying that the general public attitude towards science (the one measured in polls) is affected by the public’s perception that scientists are producing important and meaningful results.
> I still dislike companies that externalize their costs to their employees

I actually agree, I would personally not work somewhere that made me bring my own laptop, I prefer having a solid divide between work and home. But on that note, I also don't like having a work laptop, I prefer to have a desktop, that way I know I'm never taking work home lol
Choose boring technology leaders.
It's cool that we have emulation to quench that "thirst"

I personally prefer when companies do not to elect to squeeze their IPs dry and have a semblance of pride on their work, as much as a for-profit company can have of course, instead of blindly chasing profits.

The other side of the coin is Ubisoft having 11 Assassin's Creed titles in development: https://www.gamingbible.com/news/11-new-assassins-creed-game...
Nothing weird about it. Women are 51% of the population. Doubling the number of job applicants didn't do anybody any favors during salary negotiation.
Well that would be unlicensed usage of the software, but not copyright infringement by yourself. Resale of software is a trickier topic which may be covered by consumer rights.
I believe the author is providing an amusing viewpoint in this post rather than a serious one. After all, the final sentence is: In other news, Richard Stallman's head has exploded.
> Also, that's maybe the one part of this discussion that can't be debated.

You are correct; it is absolutely, undebatably not illegal, in and of itself, to own a copy made in violation of a copyrightholder’s rights under US law.

If you think it is, here’s what you need to do: cite the law. In American law, everything not explicitly forbidden is permitted, so if mere possession of material made in violation of copyright is, as you claim, illegal, you will be able to find a provision of law that actually says that. (You won't, because its not.)

Now, there are important legal issues that effect possessors of illegally made copies—if its something like computer software where copying is part of normal use and implicitly or explicitly licebmnsed for lawful copies, you can’t make that kind of use of your illegal copy without violating the copyright holder’s exclusive right to make copies because you have no license for that copying. And you don’t have first sale rights in your illegal copy even if you own the physical medium in which it is embodied. And so on and so on.

But possession itself is not illegal.

> The courts have clarified that violating intellectual property is still a denial of owed compensation (theft),

That's not what theft is.

> but instead prefer the term "infringe" to make clear the distinction between violating physical rights (criminal) and violating intellectual rights (civil).

This is nonsense, and absolutely not something courts have “clarified” (or something anyone with even a passing familiarity with the relevant law could say with a straight face) since IP (including copyright) violations can be criminal as well as civil (see 17 USC § 506) and physical (real and personal) property rights violations, like IP, have sets of civil violations that generally are of broader coverage than the more narrow crimes (e.g., the torts of trespass, trespass to chattels, and conversion).

> It's still a violation of copyright to be in possession of works obtained via illegal reproduction.

No, its not: Title 17 lists the exclusove rights associated with copyright, enumerates violations, and provides remedies, and possession of copies is not an exclusive right in copyright, possession of unlicensed copies is not a violation (though it may be important evidence related to actual violations), and, consequently, there is no legal remedy for such possession.

> You have zero fair use protections for illegally reproduced content.

That's a whole different issue.
My Guix experience wasn't great. IMHO the people that love it will give you a non realistic view of it, so I recommend you listening to those that didn't like it that much but still like it.

I installed it on Debian, and there's no uninstall. Sure, at that point I was already frustrated, but IMHO that's just a sample. It wasn't for me.
Over half the blogpost is the user describing how they were able to get nix set up on a machine they don't have admin permissions to, and had a 4 GiB disk quota limit.

Those constraints don't really apply if you have admin control of your machine.

(And the troubles in the first half were caused by zealously diving deeper with Nix, after an initial simple setup went well).
I don't think you've been paying much attention to the seas my friend.
posetree.py: Wrangling Timestamps and Transforms for Robots
Lake Tahoe is regaining its legendary clarity
Exactly. It is hilarious but true. A ton of bullshit jobs like DEI Analysts, AI Ethicists and so on, are essentially product of zero-interest rate phenomena. However, it has led to some really believing that they are carrying the weight of earth on their shoulders.
Yup.

The movie producers would try to hide it by placing the layer change in a scene change, but I often still noticed it.
Do you disagree with the statement?
I am unsure if this is a bunch of ChatGPT generated pseudo sciency sounding stuff, or actual useful and real information?

I guess either way it’s written too terse for me to understand
There are probably cheaper HDMI adapters, though probably with a weaker picture quality. (And latency will probably always be higher than analog, no matter what.)
ISL is a more introductory book than Bishop or Murphy. There's no reason not to read all of them, they're all excellent books that cover different topics. I'd also throw in Elements of Statistical Learning from the same authors as ISL(R/P). I've read ISL, ESL, and Bishop, started Murphy but didn't finish it (no real reason, just lost track of it when I got busy). I highly recommend any and all of these texts.
Not a bad idea - some entity must show legal ownership via chain of custody and make a claim every year, if they can't do so, it becomes public domain with an extra 1 year grace period or something.
It might be a combination of efficiency and generating value. If you're efficient enough to generate $1000/hr but the org has no opportunity or product for you that can generate this, efficiency in performance metrics alone doesn't move the company's bottom line.
Until Nintendo sues them...
These old steam locomotives might not be environmentally friendly but they're amazing to watch and listen to. I've heard the big boy is great to see in person if you get the chance (they've talked about doing a tour of the west coast of the US for a few years now, hopefully it will happen next year).

If you're into this kind of stuff, check out this video of Union Pacific's 3985 pulling a 143 car intermodal train all by herself back in 1990: https://youtu.be/XhgHrDbN4EU

Of course these heavy hauls are hard on the engine, even just the equivalent of replacing brake pads costs tens of thousands of dollars.