skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite what the FOSS crowd likes to think, Valve only cares about what brings money to their store front.

Likewise SteamOS isn't some kind of freedom fight, rather not wanting to lose revenue for Microsoft.
I enjoy using using cool-retro-term from time to time. I don't run it for long but I do run it sometimes for the sake of nostalgia. I usually run it in full screen and increase the font size to approximate 80x24/25 terminals for an immersive experience. To balance practicality with nostalgia, I run a tmux session in cool-retro-term. It helps with conveniently switching back and forth between cool-retro-term and a regular terminal without losing the terminal session.

The terminal effects are configurable. I disable the settings named Burin, Glow Line, and RGB Shift to get a crispy and distraction-free experience. The RGB Shift setting is disabled for most built-in profiles anyway but enabled for some profiles like Vintage and IBM Dos. By the way, the Vintage profile is quite amusing. Many settings are cranked way up in this profile! The text is blurry, and the incessant flickering of the screen creates an unsettling impression that the monitor might break down any moment.

A nice little detail I like about cool-retro-term is the reflection of the screen on the glossy frame of the monitor. If we increase the Screen Curvature setting to 50% or more, we can quite clearly see the reflection of the top line or bottom line of the terminal on the frame.[1]

In case you haven't noticed it, the app is named cool-retro-term and it is abbreviated to CRT. The app icon[2] is also "CRT" written using large letters followed by a large cursor. Guess what else is abbreviated to CRT? Yes, "cathode-ray tube" of the cathode-ray tube computer monitors.

[1] https://susam.github.io/blob/img/cool-retro-term/2023-07-20-...

[2] https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/blob/f157648d...
why not flatbuffers, if youre looking to minimize wasted cpu?
In order for this to be legally useful to users in the EU/UK, this would need to comply with the eIDAS regulations. I’m not sure what that entails, but it would be worth looking into.

A lot of the value of a signature provider comes from it being a neutral trusted third party. They slap a signature and a time stamp on a document, and you can get them to testify that the document existed in a particular state at a particular time.
Depends on country how much verification DocuSign is able to do, and also the higher levels of verification are opt-in. In some countries it can be backed with fairly strong auth schemes, in other places stuff like video calls are used.

This link has list of different IDs they support in different countries:

https://support.docusign.com/s/document-item?language=en_US&...
From my research this has 0 legal validity, at least in germany in regards to the EU eIDAS. They are just smoke and mirrors for companies to make them "feel" secure but without cryptographic ensurances (Advanced Electronic Signature) or TLS like Signed Cryptography (Qualified Electronic Signature) this is just as legally binding or not binding as an E-Mail
I'm not sure if parent is correct about adding lifetime syntax. To my understanding, the new trait solver will fix bugs and make features more consistent ("why can I put a trait bound here but not there?"). People have mentioned 'self for self-referntial structs but I think that's just wishful thinking right now.
Berkeley Mono does look great. Thanks for pointing me to this!

I'll have an inner debate on the price tag, though.. $75 for the Developer Package seems quite steep.
There are not 300 million ASML experienced engineers in the US.

If you are experienced with ASML machinery and are willing to more to Arizona, then you should contact TSMC, because they are paying over the market rate right now for those roles.

These Reddit-esque takes are not worthy of HN.
I have IMS war stories, but they're from when we started deploying core services up to 2008 (from pre-IMS SIP and cobbled together Asterisk and Cisco Callmanager bridges to full-on 1st gen voice core, with VoLTE coming later as we replaced the radio layer, and VoWifi as a stopgap for operators with poor coverage).

I did a lot of handset testing, but mostly on the radio and broadband side, and to be honest I wouldn't mind seeing a good, auditable OSS stack (with attestation and SBOMs) since there are so many potential security issues in handsets these days...
But now you can use breast milk when your home is on fire
It is interesting to note that Augustine of Hippo (who of which a lot of this article was centered around) was held in high regard by many early Christians, but even Luther and the Catholics had some major disagreements with him w.r.t. his ecclesiology.
These games and the lottery is not so much a tax on stupidity but a tax on the misaligned mesa optimizer defined by our genes.
This is a versatile trick, it works for cars with one victim and it works for camps with millions of victims
So it was useless? Okay, then the idea lockdowns were needed for hospitals with useless treatments is still bad.
> how long would it take for you to uproot your life

If the price is right, I can be there tomorrow. Companies pay to relocate employees all the time; show me the money.

> how long would it take for you to familiarize yourself with the new job

According to this article, Intel and TSMC have waived any need for an advanced degree and have endorsed this program from Maricopa Community College, which takes ten days to complete: https://qz.com/you-can-now-become-a-semiconductor-technician...

'Traditionally, semiconductor technician jobs required an associate degree. Dropping this educational requirement helps widen the talent pool amid the ramping up of a domestic supply chain, Pearson said. Employers are realizing that “as long as they just get the skills, they really don’t need the degree,” he said.'
> "Not all, but some white dwarfs transition from being hydrogen- to helium-dominated on their surface," Caiazzo explains. "We might have possibly caught one such white dwarf in the act."

Wicked cool! The article goes on to explain that it may be due to a difference in the strength of the magnetic fields on either side of the star...

I might be mis-remembering from astronomy class ( long ago now ) but I'd thought that these transitions usually happen very quickly -- it's interesting that we can just watch it go!
You couldn't, the case cover is hot-glued to the case. Hot-glue is the epitome of Windows security.
I don't understand how the world seems full of Nintendo apologists. Not in this discussion, I mean across the greater web. They seem to get churned out of the same factory that produces the Apple apologists.
Exactly. Steam can, and honestly must, block them. People don't seem to realize that, of most of the large tech companies out there, Nintendo has figured out that they can easily outspend anyone in legal fees, and no one will care. Just look at their financials. Their lawyers make more than their board. They don't care what is legal or not, they can simply sue anything they don't like into oblivion. They don't have to win the suit to make it disappear.
You're on a forum for hackers, so most of the people here are the ones that care about the specifics of technology.
I read it as "Some things, including web3, are in a slump; why not do these other things"

Good lord though at "unsophisticated parts of the country"
Solar power is extremely cost effective in Arizona. It more than compensates for the additional heat. It also allows for cheaper data center hosting.
Startup Cerebras Takes on Nvidia with Chain of AI Supercomputers
The evidence is an informal thought experiment: if the salary was $100 million for each position, they would have every role filled. Therefore, there must exist a clearing price for each role between $0 and $100 million such that each role would be filled at or above it (and below which it would not be filled). If there are unfilled roles, it is because the role is below the clearing price.

EDIT: all other effects can be ameliorated eventually by paying more. If there isn’t enough specialized labor for the role, the unspecialized labor will be incentivized to specialize themselves. If there isn’t enough labor in the local market, they will move there.
I get this is a flippant comment, but this is not about AI, this is about a slow down in business, not about replacing people with AI.

Punchline is - economy is bad and getting worse.
Statistical proof please. I don't care about your anecdotal evidence, especially when it was used for authoritarian lockdown measures that resulted in things just as bad or WORSE than what COVID caused.
Multiple Xe-100 SMRs Planned for Washington State
They’re not unique. I’ve had plenty of free account providers deactivate me from disuse. Example: Shutterfly

Don’t want your account to be deleted? Try using it or getting a paid service.

OP wants to use a bunch of gmail accounts for spam forwarding but they should get a proper paid email provider that supports aliasing.
They’re not looking for minimum wage workers to assemble chips by hand - they’re looking for hundreds if not thousands of engineers and technicians with experience with advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment. I’m sure the salaries are perfectly acceptable.

Sure there’s 300 million bodies in America, many of them appropriately skilled - how many engineers are there with the requisite experience that are open to work in Arizona?

I’m sure they could send hundreds of their own experts - if those workers weren’t needed for existing operations in Taiwan.
Thanks for sharing this quote!

I've said this myself for many years.

For some reason I prefer to quote Feynman for it.
> The tool, known internally by the working title Genesis, can take in information — details of current events, for example — and generate news content, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the product.

Doesn't this already exist in some form? I remember headlines from a few years ago about how stuff like wire reports about sports games could be generated from a box score.
I recommend Hackers.
https://github.com/weiran/Hackers
Not if you are outside the US.
Are we all paying the price for 'superstar' tech firms and a lack of competition
Plus, with Wikipedia, you can clearly see the sources or the lack of them. I tried asking ChatGPT for a source twice. One time, it gave a source. Another time, it gave the "as a language model I can't" spiel.
Right; should have been more specific, thanks!

I meant to ask if the app syncs P2P over the internet, rather than just through their provided storage.

My solution is to have short-lived data so that they can't reach more than a few MBs of memory on my server, but if there's a straightforward way to do P2P across the globe, I'd very much prefer that option. Asking people to believe that I can't look at their (encrypted) data is fine, but preventing me from having their data at all is ideal.

Given what you pointed out, I definitely figure they're not doing WWW P2P syncing, but you'd be surprised the technical stuff you can figure out by just asking someone who spent way too long building it. They're usually happy to tell you all kinds of interesting details (especially when it comes to 'interesting' bugs/workarounds/hacks)!
They seem to have only one "node" so far, because the software is still in alpha? That's what their docs seem to say[1].

All your data primarily syncs to the encrypted backup node in the current alpha. For alpha testers, the application is always connected to the backup node and cannot be disconnected.

Their homepage could tell this more clearly. It doesn't look like it's in alpha.

[1] https://doc.anytype.io/d/troubleshooting/self-host-your-back...
TSMC makes semiconductors used in F-35 fighters and a wide range of “military-grade” devices used by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).

https://www.csis.org/analysis/semiconductors-and-national-de...
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Earliest documented human-made hybrid animal is the cross between neanderthals and homo sapiens.
Wow, that's a lot! Awesome info. Thank you!
I just don’t want the hassle of managing bookmarks for all except those I want to keep long-term, mainly. Every browser’s bookmark management is higher friction than its tab management.

Bookmarks also don’t preserve scroll state or window positions which makes getting things set back up more annoying. It’s easier to just let it all sit open and be exactly as I expect to the next day.
> Tech, Capital, and Web3 may be in a slump at the moment but industrial, environmental and infrastructure can't find enough people

I don't think that was their suggestion, it was a pragmatic appeal to hiring chances in case a call to action on environmental issues alone isn't compelling.
Do not ask for whom the bell tolls… It tolls for thee.
Because it violates the Single-responsibility Principle (SRP), which states:

A blog post should have one and only one reason to edit, meaning that a blog post should have only one job.
Tempo Automation a ZIRP Phenomena
This firm is the poster child for firms that only existed due to cheap money. Went public via a SPAC in November 2022 laid off all staff except executive team, 8 months later. I am sure they went public with the best of intentions, but by then the writing was on the wall for SPACs and tech-firms...can't help thinking there is a law-suit waiting in the wings.
> Their SKILL tool involves a set of algorithms that make the process go much faster, they said, because the agents learn at the same time in parallel. Their research showed if 102 agents each learn one task and then share, the amount of time needed is reduced by a factor of 101.5 after accounting for the necessary communications and knowledge consolidation among agents.

This is a really interesting idea. It's like the reverse of knowledge distillation (which I've been thinking about a lot[1]) where you have one giant model that knows a lot about a lot & you use that model to train smaller, faster models that know a lot about a little.

Instead, if you could train a bunch of models that know a lot about a little (which is less computationally intensive because the problem space is so confined) and combine them into a generalized model, that'd be hugely beneficial.

Unfortunately, after a bit of digging into the paper & Github repo[2], this doesn't seem to be what's happening here.

> The code will learn 102 small and separte [sic] heads(either a linear head or a linear head with a task bias) for each tasks respectively in order. This step can be parallized [sic] on multiple GPUS with one task per GPU. The heads will be saved in the weight folder. After that, the code will learn a task mapper(Either using GMMC or Mahalanobis) to distinguish image task-wisely. Then, all images will be evaluated in the same time without a task label.

So the knowledge isn't being combined (and the agents aren't learning from each other) into a generalized model. They're training a bunch of independent fine-tuned models for specific tasks & adding a model-selection step that maps an image to the most relevant "expert". My guess is you could do the same thing using CLIP vectors as the routing method to supervised models trained on specific datasets (we found that datasets largely live in distinct regions of CLIP-space[3]).

[1] https://github.com/autodistill/autodistill

[2] https://github.com/gyhandy/Shared-Knowledge-Lifelong-Learnin...

[3] https://www.rf100.org
イギリス is also written 英吉利, which implies that it came from the Mandarin, not Portuguese.
My preference would be using this tendency the other way. Make it so good they can't resist it, even if they accidentally eat their vegetables along the way.
The five Ps of better creative management
A trick I used that still worked after this Defender update (tested some months ago) is replacing Magnify.exe with ftp.exe. This does not make Defender suspicipus, but one can open Magnify.exe from the lock screen and one can execute commands from within the ftp.exe shell by prefixing them with !. This is great, because ftp.exe binary is signed by Microsoft and is a completely legit binary (:
You’re making a few bad assumptions.

1) Google and you are defining spam differently.

2) Spam is adversarial. They have the ability to block spam domains from last week, but it’s an ongoing investment as the adversaries adapt.

That said I do think Google depends too much on human raters who are not customers. It’s caused a lot of drift between the customer’s expectation of quality and Google’s.
Frankly it doesn't matter what it was meant to be, and it doesn't help at all thinking about it as a way completely separate from reality.
I had a teacher that once said "don't get lost" which I see as the same advice.
Here is the link with the instructions https://tech.anytype.io/how-to/self-hosting
> It’s fiscally irresponsible for company directors to close that door in preference over a hobby emulator, while pretending that it isn’t intended to infringe on copyright.

I'm not sure if this applies in Valve's case, as I understand it, Valve is privately owned and held by Gabe Newell and what he says goes, so really the question is does he want to do this or not?
Half-joke: HN scrapes first few text lines in HTML (in case the very first one isn't the title) and one of them has to be used as the title.
It's much easier to spread a religion when your gods are "dead" or apathetic and you don't have to regularly make miracles happen. Instead, pageantry and edifices are all that's needed to keep people from getting bored.
The only languages capable of holding down to that simplicity require having some BDFL.

The moment the language evolution is driven by some kind of request for improvement, or similar process, with votes on what goes in or not, the outcome is design by commitee.

Many other languages aren't much better than C++, if you check their current versions and the Features/Year rate, including standard libraries.

Also having BDFL only works out as long as it is the original author, afterwards there is no guarantee that the successor has the same vision for the language.

The tragic long term meaning is to either accept complexity, or reboot the programming language ecosystem every couple of decades.
thats the wrong direction.
The author's stock market example fails to talk about percentage returns and makes no sense to me.

"Will a month of S&P 500 ever drop more than $1000?

Using the same procedure but with data from the S&P 500 index, the central limit theorem suggests that a drop of more than $1000, when looking at a time horizon of 30 days, happens about 0.9 % of the time."
The definition of vehicular manslaughter is unlawful or negligent operation of a vehicle resulting in a death. If the driver was not driving unlawfully, such as DUI, then it is not manslaughter. Fleeing the scene of an accident is unlawful so that also makes it meet the definition. Other reasons could include speeding or running a red light.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/vehicular_manslaughter
That's another twist on FOMO, which is a big part of the reason social media apps became addictive to people over the past decade. It's not exclusive to TT, they just do it with video where in the old days, Twitter and IG would do it with image memes, gifs and text.
If you are interested in jazz piano comping on a deep level, the best books are the Jeb Patton books, "An approach to comping" Vol 1 and 2. Nothing else comes close in its thoroughness.

Also, the online course site openstudiojazz.com has first rate courses.
h.264 did pretty well even if Chrome decided not to support it
s/lazy/lack of/

Hidden files in unix were a bug.
> you know when

More often than not I've seen this happen because they, in fact, do not know.
Someone posted some jobs listings a while back. They pay on the low end and they want a lot of work in return. It’s not surprising at all.
For a long while I was using one (a few in fact) HP MicroServers across the range N36, N40, N56 etc. I recently picked up an 8th Gen one which is a little more powerful, and have moved everything onto that. That includes Plex Media Server, backups, torrent server and ssh end point. It got noisy in my office, so I moved it out, and am much happier. I have four 3TB disks in Linux MD RAID 5, running on Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS. I do need to consider a disk upgrade at some point, as it's going to run out soon. That'll be a fun migration!
Reality is disappointing. Maybe it's better to learn about it sooner than later?
But do such nodes exist in practice (in the current network). It would be interesting to research what clients connect to multiple bootstrap servers.
Sometimes landing a job requires several tries.
I’m not telling you off: I think you raised a common sentiment and I was responding.

I’m disagreeing that the saber rattling from two countries both experiencing civil unrest and economic hardship will translate into an armed conflict for Taiwan (generally) and that the missile buildup in the SCS is “overwhelming” (specifically). My point about US bases adjacent to Taiwan is a specific response: we already have forces with both access to the Pacific and clear lanes to Taiwan, positioned and ready.

The job of the DOD is to let the nation know our military status — and they’re letting us know that the building of US fleets versus Chinese fleets implies a weakness in the 2027-2030 range, which could be utilized by China. But that doesn’t automatically translate into an armed conflict during that period.

More broadly we’re shifting policy to compete (eg, by on-shoring) — but again, that’s different than an armed conflict.

I think navigating this conflict requires we not be hyperbolic in either direction: dismissal nor concern.
It's been a while since I've checked this program out, so this morning I downloaded it and spent some time taming some of the more extreme effects and fooling around with fonts. Pretty happy with the results! I think I got it looking pretty great[0] in GNU Emacs and Org-mode.

Admittedly the Unicode private use area icon sets look a little bit out of place in a retro terminal, so let's just call it futuristic retro terminal :)

[0]: https://muppetlabs.com/~mikeh/crt_emacs.png
Co-founder of anytype is here. The most of are repos are open-source. We have our philosophy regarding open source here https://blog.anytype.io/our-open-philosophy/
Happy to discuss concerns regarding our approach.
> Notion is the single biggest frustration of any workplace tool I've ever used in my entire software career and it all comes down to its performance.

Even worse than JIRA, or MS Teams? That sounds horrible indeed.
Hence why the "free" in "Free and Open Source Software" really matters. :)
They know enough to not do anything like overt censorship. But I'm sure they're quite happy to have our kids hooked on vapid nonsense.

https://www.statista.com/chart/28802/childhood-aspirations-i...
Look at it this way, officers see car accidents every day. The majority are cases where someone ran directly into the car in front of them due to inattention.

Humans make a lot of mistakes and unless there were extenuating factors (DUI, for example), they are very unlikely to become criminal. In many cases, they wouldn't even be ticketed.

Given that there was a yield sign involved, it also may be a known problematic intersection. Sadly, we have a lot of those in the US too. Yield signs in places with low traffic and poor visibility are way more common than they should be.