skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I've tried to decorate it nicely to keep the inmates happy, but there's very little one can do. I never go in there now myself. If ever I am tempted, which these days I rarely am, I simply look at the sign written over the door and shy away."

"That one?" said Fenchurch, pointing, rather puzzled, at a blue plaque with some instructions written on it.

"Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do."

The sign said:

Hold stick near centre of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion.

"It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a packet of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane."

— Douglas Adams, So Long and Thanks for All The Fish, Pan Books (1984)
That's fine, but you will gain that time back after the initial setup is done. Pretty soon you will be fighting the system rather than it working for you.

The point where Gnome tends to go to shit is when installing the new major/minor update.
Thank you for posting the actual technical pdf, that was interesting reading

> Certificate-Based Authentication

Heh, so I can look forward to the biennial banking outage as they forget to renew their certs :-D

But in seriousness, I have some experience with x509 auth from the early days of kubernetes using it and unless the system has some robust CRL mechanisms I look forward to knowing how such a scheme will deauthorize users

Interestingly, they also seem to be doing belt-and-suspenders since the messages themselves are signed with the private key of the institution, which appears to be registered out of band from the system itself
I think there are two ways to "obsess over tools". One is to obsessively research and build your collection and sort of superficially admire your collection. Another is to bring in and master the tools one by one, driven by the needs of your process, and find meaningful places for each in your process. In essence, the former is cargo-culting the latter and they look similar from a distance.
They do actually. You have very poor short wavelength cone sensitivity in the fova precisely because of the low density of s cones
Most of the tools in his shop he had before opening it up to the fandom at large.

Remember: he’d been a pro at this stuff for years even before Mythbusters & the Tested stuff was (mostly) after that ended. He had 25-30 years of professional AND professionally-informed hpbbyist experience to build that collection
>We live in a culture that is extremely biased towards the notion that you can shortcut your way to proficiency with money

Exactly, that was my point. And if it isn't money it is "that one trick".

Mastery over a tool is what actually matters and makes a professional. The professional understands his tools and knows exactly how to make them work and where the limitations are.

I just do not think it is in any way productive to believe that you shouldn't care about what tools you are using.
“Hacker News” - this is not.

Source: I was born and lived in Belfast until I was 25 years old.
It's surprisingly easy to flag something by mistake while scrolling & browsing HN on iphone.
Preempting the Round
Indeed! I especially liked the exploding Rubik's cubes! - you know, the cheaper ones that you had to put Vaseline onto make them twist easier. Therein lies the problem, if they jammed mid twist, they ran the risk of spontaneous disassembly! :-)
And there are many people donating their time and servers. Most mirrors for for example arch are either universities or organizations that derive value from arch. Many contributors for OSS either use it as part of their work or find it fulfilling to work on it or do research with it.

That's not to say that all OSS is like this, or that all software should be ran like this but there clearly is "free beer" and "free speech" in certain places.

You might say that I pay for the universities with my taxes or the other organizations by increased prices on goods, but it clearly is offered as a free service for all, even people not paying taxes or buying their goods.
I wish these cases were stronger than "it summarizes my books".
"Bubblegum Crisis" is something not seen before or since, an anime formatted as a series of music videos.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an_0IIRDlc4
Skeptics also debunked him fairly trivially by pointing out that he was using spoons made of a special metal
I found https://github.com/antoniusnaumann/cargo-swift pretty nice for iOS. It uses UniFFI under the hood but automates the other pieces with building an xcode project.
It's more meaningful for monkey pox too because vaccination up to 2 weeks _after_ exposure still reduces the chances of getting symptomatic disease
I think it's actually much more likely that they just dumped a bunch of book PDFs in the training folder and let it go to work. I seriously doubt any of these AI companies are being even the least bit careful about the data they're lapping up for training
You're saying this as if the central bank is forcing money into the economy when it really is a pull based system. The commercial banks ultimately decide how much money they want to issue and if they think you have a viable business they won't hesitate to give you a loan.
Union supporters vs elite environmentalists. I'm going to get a ton of popcorn for this one.
Yep, good times!
Amateurs obsess over languages as well. Java vs C++. Rust vs Go. This vs that. etc.
And is worse to fail losing your own time and money than to fail losing VC money. In the second case, you can get up and try it again easier than in the first case.
Agree that jumping between tools at the expense of focusing on craft won't get you the results you want:

> If we're fixated on acquiring every new tool that comes our way, we risk missing out on developing our fundamental, timeless skills—the abilities that transcend technological trends and persist throughout time

But the tools we use can have a big impact on our behavior.

Each tool makes some behaviors easier and others more difficult. By choosing tooling that aligns with your goals, you make it much easier to achieve those goals.

I'm currently knee-deep in the notes space* so will give an example there. I regularly talk to people who have invested a lot of time in their notes / productivity tooling. Their systems "look" good. But more often than not, they're over-engineered and get in the way of their goals.

When they take a step back and switch to simpler tools that align with their desired behaviors, they find more sustainable productivity and more space to hone their craft.

*working on https://stashpad.com - would love to chat if you've had a similar experience.
I see no evidence of woo-orientation slowing down - Deepak Chopra has seemingly never been more popular - and angry backlash is a perfectly understandable response to swathes of people being taken in by lies with spiritual overtones. We should be thankful that Uri Geller never attempted to become a true cult leader.
Where are the summaries from? I would say it's much more likely that a shadow library was scraped but if course that is also seemingly impossible to prove. One may be able to somewhat test that by asking for a summary of a book/text only available on a shadow library.
You're right, but good luck getting rid of that, even in animals there is a ruling class, it's ingrained in our nature. Force it out of Ivy League schools, it will go somehwere else.
I just looked up Hypothesis in python and it does indeed look pretty cool for this kind of thing. I should try this more!
Sun Exposure – Hazards and Benefits (2022)
> Does the code look pretty enough?

‘…readable, maintainable [and tested]’, ie. if someone else needs to modify or remove this code in the future, will there be friction?
In the case of unreleased work, you writing about your knowledge of it is just proof that you obtained the work, which is proof that you committed a tort/trespass. Just like if you published a newspaper article with information you could only have acquired by hacking someone's phone. I'm not sure what a court would find against you, but it seems clear that there would be some way to couch that as a legal grievance.
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Yeah, most of them are—at best—an interesting feature looking for a business
A first-party editor is planned and Bevy's UI library and other infrastructure is getting to the point where it might to start to materialise in a few releases. However, I personally love the code-first experience Bevy offers in comparison to something like Godot.
Except they have a documented paper trail showing illegal book repos were used in training
If you have a typical red brick house, like the type seen in the UK, why not just hose the house down with water and let evaporation take some of that heat energy?

Black out blinds also do a good job at keeping the infrared heat energy out of the property so you dont need to run AC units for as long or on as high a setting. These same black out blinds also do a good job of keeping heat in during the winter months. Better than triple glazing or double glazing with expensive gas between the panes in my experience.

Handy database though, shame these integrated fuse boards that are fitted to houses couldnt measure the power consumption and run direct lines from the fuse board to the socket, instead of having to have ring mains. That way these fuse boards could also become a central controller killing the power to a socket, which would further reduce the standby power consumption of various devices.
Yes, I agree. I work with JSON-LD in various contexts, and while it's lovely in theory when only working with people specialized in knowledge graphs, in practice it's full of counter-intuitive stuff like this. I believe that RDF/XML as capable and less confusing, but it is scary to programmers because XML.
Natural selection constrains the possible variation for each iteration so only a miniscule subset of possibilities is explored. That doesn't sound very brute-forcey to me.
Art and antiquities are the better analogy.

Anything without an iron-clad chain of provenance should be assumed to be stolen or forged.

Because the end product is unprovably authentic in all cases, unless a forger made a detectable error.
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Did she have a near perfect SAT? Highschool grades and val/sal matter a lot less then ranking in a more standard way against everyone (speaking as someone who was waitlisted at 2 ivies). Personaly, I think SAT score makes a ton of sense to rank on, and we should do away with the other non-measurable aspects or stop blocking people from getting in because you're saving spots for legacies or kids of donors (or mediocre kids of presidents/VPs as we've seen).
Like NTSC/PAL but in a (possibly redundant) basis that is highly optimized by evolution for 3d objects projected down to the 2d retina. Not a rectilinear scanline per se but conceptually similar.
The NAACP and other organizations existed at the same time as Jim Crow. The reality was that the extent of the racial oppression varied considerably based on geography. Many find the idea of current censorship more intimidating because it exists everywhere within the US and many places outside of it, so there would be no good way of escaping it - while many blacks instead had the option of fleeing northward.
Manufacturers depend on this regardless of the product. It is why you find weekend duffers carrying around pro-level clubs and tennis hackers using top-of-line rackets or amateur photographers carrying $3000 cameras with pro lenses. With enough practice and lessons, one can grow into their toys but until then, it's wasted money. It isn't a bad thing to buy a tool that may be for someone above your current skill level but that generally doesn't mean buying the best, most expensive option.

I, myself, am in the market for an acoustic guitar. I'm fortunate enough that I could afford a top-level Martin or Taylor but it would be silly. Instead, I'm focusing more on the mid-level, $500-700. Something that won't fight me, not stay in tune, but a guitar that has enough room to grow into.
Copyright law may eventually destroy business models founded upon AI. Maybe piracy will prevail in correcting the system as it did with entertainment before media companies accepted streaming.
I wouldn't be so sure.

The current nostalgia-driven market of guitars might distort our views of what constitutes a "cheap" guitar, and also what quality really means.

Lots of famous guitars had a "cheap" phase where nobody wanted them and they were left to rot on pawn shops before being rediscovered by some famous musician and becoming coveted again... that happened twice with the Les Paul (first with Clapton, then Slash), and then with the Jazzmaster/Jaguar/Mustang (thanks to hundreds of indie musicians).

Also, there were plenty of famous people playing student models: The Gibson Les Paul Junior/Special/DoubleCut played by Keith Richards, Johnny Thunders, Billie Joe Armstrong, Leslie West. Joan Jett played the even cheaper Melody Maker model. Also Danelectros made of kitchen countertops were played by Jimmy Page, Syd Barret.

Kurt Cobain had a Univox Hi Flyer era, and then a Mustang era. Always played cheap Japanese Stratocasters instead of the more expensive American ones.

Almost all of those guitars above were considered undesirable, antiquated and hard to play sometime in history. Especially in the 80s era of superstrats. Now they're expensive because they were played by rockstars.

This phenomenon still happens with almost every piece of gear. Josh Homme of QOTSA revealed in an AppleTV show that he'd play a cheap low-quality Peavey Amp an now this amp costs 10x what it did.
This is my DE free terminal-centric setup:

https://imgur.com/a/8mAoT2u

It took me about 3 weeks to figure everything out. You ideally need to use a distro where you can build from scratch (Arch/NixOS/Void/etc) if you want to truly be minimal. If you are OK using NixOS I can give you my configuration.nix.
The NYT regularly lies for US intelligence agencies. Or just publishes garbage from them as truth without verifying. There is every reason to doubt this story.
The middle-class aren't a protected class (or even a real category in the US because the children of multimillionaires claim to be as middle class as their servants claim to be.) Middle-class kids wouldn't even want to go to Harvard if it were full of middle-class kids. They could go to Florida State for that.

People keep trying to All Lives Matter Jim Crow.
The Undecidability of BB(748): Understanding Godel’s Incompleteness Theorems [pdf]
I met an incredible texture artist in a game modding community years back, when a typical texture size was 256x256 or maybe 512x522, he did everything in mspaint and it was beautiful.
Number of unit sales isn’t the measure of success for a new paradigm. Everyone knows this. The quality of ideas and the affordances to achieve human aims is what makes a success.
Cool, thanks for your answer! Looking forward to it, and take your time.
Ask HN: Trying to move large amounts of files
Hi - I'm no dev, but I'm thinking this is the time for me to learn scripting. This is on windows but I can setup linux easily if necessary.

I have terrabytes of files on drives (raw video), that have been sorted using an editor (resolve and premiere) into both timelines and bins. I'm looking to move only the files that have been sorted onto a newer drive - it's much less than the total files on the drive. I also need to keep the same file tree on the new drive.

So far, I've used xcopy to copy the file tree without any files in, and I'm manually transfering the files from one disk to the next by referencing the bins in my editor.

I'm able to export my project into AAF, XML and a couple other formats.

I'm expecting that there's a somewhat simple way to look into the AAF (or other format), read the files, and move them to the identical spot in the new drive.

Could anyone give me a hand to know where to start looking? Or should I just hire someone on fiverr?

Thanks!
Spyro the Dragon Behind the Scenes (Playstation Underground) [video]
Indeed, the relationship of the state and business does differ in China. In the US it is more decentralized.

To the person who considers the outcome of something like Weibo covered in deleted comments and only having survivors parrot narrow lines, this is a bad thing, even if the cause differs.
You can also watch on mobile using FF instead of the app
Market is small but these counties have tons of issues that need to be fixed instead offshoring and mind drain their resources

Middle eastern mindset is either to migrate, work remotely for foreign company or at best get VC, copy foreign startu0p, and try to get some regional market share to be acquired later by western companies.

You can't have a society that produces global unicorns when ahmf of it doesn't have banking, name one country that managed to do this.
Apple utterly destroys every Android manufacturer in Geekbench and it’s competitive in AnTuTu, ahead of everyone for half the year
> Java/C++/python/m4

One of these things is not like the other. :) I'd love to learn why you included m4 in that list.
They are hydraulic elevators. Failure falls are slow. There are exclusion zones under the bridge, and soneone inside would have to trip, fall, and hit their head to be at serious risk.

Basically, failure modes for aviation related technology tries to take into account public risk.
well, they are different (and better). but if you want to use old C-style enums, go right ahead - you can do that too. i don't see why you are complaining about a new feature that in no way clashes with an old one.
Top notch team, from the programmers to the animators to the voice actors to the composer of the soundtrack!
Which is irrelevant, and wasn't part of the original claim. He still made his livehood singing and playing guitar to tens of thousands of people at a time.

Besides, virtuoso guitarists also use cheap inexensive guitars all the time. Some examples, out of the top of my mind:

Prince, a big virtuoso, favorited his "Madcat", a Tele clone he bought for like $50 dollars.

Eddie Van Halen often used cheap Teisco guitars.

Mike Rutherford (the Genesis guitarist) used mucho-cheapo Squier Bullet guitars (Fender's cheapo line) for Generis 2020 live tours.

Marillion's Steve Rothery also uses a Squire as one of his main axes.

The Beatles were also known for using cheapo guitars like Epiphone Casinos.
Shades of the Monty Python sketch here, but the following is true...

4MB?!?

My first encounter with IBM kit was a, er, darn I'm not sure cuz I'm getting old, but I think it was a 4300? Not big iron in some senses, but still with a box that was something like 6-8 feet long iirc and definitely several feet wide and high. (And a bank of about 6-8 tape decks, each as tall as me, and two disk units, each the size of a washing machine, and so on.)

Its RAM? A massive 1 MB.

That IBM kit was the heart of the super new expensive upgrade in 1980 that cost something like 5-10 million pounds iirc to build, including a brand new building to house it and a team of programmers.

The older setup, which is where I was until its last days, was an ICL system that was expanded at the end of its life to a whopping 48KB -- yes, KB -- of RAM.

And that kit ran all the systems, internal (payroll, accounting, etc., etc.) and external (sales etc.) for the largest car dealership in the UK.

128MB? 4MB? Even 1MB? That was an unimaginably insanely large amount of RAM!

(Yes, it was very weird to be working with this physically enormous setup, and dealing with keeping it all cool enough not to halt for a half hour or so, through super human efforts when the A/C broke down, when the likes of PETs, Sinclair Z80s, and Acorn Atoms were a thing...)
two months ago i walked in with a macbook pro spec i wanted, they confirmed they had one in stock. We did the payment dance and i walked out. Total time in store ~5m.
I think you're right to pick up on the fact that 99% of digital content out there is 2D and they're leaning into that. It's a known quantity and easier to market.
Is Game of Thrones a redistribution of Lord of the Rings?
Not to be mean or rude, but if we had a developer that was refusing to adhere to our standards, they not last long. Being able to produce code in agreed upon standards is table stakes.
>You're arguing with economics here...

Japan did absurd amounts of QE and low interest and all they got was less inflation than the rest of the world.

Your referenced article is also ignoring the obvious elephant in the room which is the opposite of monetary policy. The US government and governments in Europe did a lot of fiscal policy. The stimulus checks and loans were a far more effective way of increasing inflation than monetary policy can ever be, because monetary policy can be reversed by the private sector and therefore make it ineffective at achieving any outcome. QE for example, is a meaningless operation. It has no reason to exist.
That's why you use a constitution strong enough to prevent the government from having authority to ban a tool like that. The solution's been known and described for 250+ years now.
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I loved Deviant Ollam's talks.
Looking for books, courses, awesome-github lists, etc.

Not looking for just lock-picking lessons.
That would not happen here since it stayed pressed against the fuselage. Falling out of an open jetbridge unexpectedly has head injury written all over it. A failing / falling jetbridge has hydraulic slow descent vibes.
UniFFI is pretty amazing productivity-wise for sharing common components across clients and teams. I haven’t really figured out the WASM side yet though or if it’s even really feasible.
Also probably because of the prescription lens inserts.
How does this differ from challenges around distributing executable binaries? Wouldn't a signed checksums of the weights suffice?
There's a sci-fi plot there: those with money can afford to pay the copyright cost for material they've learned and anything they produce results in royalties to the creators of everything they've learned. Those without means are cast out, perhaps some generating original thoughts in a way that breaks the system. I think I'm going to have to re-read the Unincorporated Man.
Not a native speaker, but I read that as it is here to stay, not that it is pointless.
I can see a good argument in the complaint. The provenance of the training data leads back to it being acquired illegally. Illegally acquired materials were then used in a commercial venture. That the venture was an AI model is perhaps beside the point. You can’t use illegally acquired materials when doing business.
Got it. Social media sites moderating content is at least as bad as Jim Crow. Truly striking argument, though probably in the opposite way as intended.
No, I have no idea what you're talking about:

> it would take half an hour or so to get somebody over

That's only the case for genius bar appointments or an extended consultation when they're super busy or something. If you just want to buy a phone you've already decided on, you ask the nearest person and they grab it and you pay for it.

It sounds like there was maybe just a miscommunication in your case. There is no trend here.
Just you wait! Here comes the sequel to "receiving stolen property", "knowing stolen information"!
Yes, I do want to read about that, because it tells me that this is an article I do not want to click on.

As a reader I do not want to contribute to the analytics and click count of a website that uses these engagement tactics.
Openbox is a good floating wm if tilers aren't for you.