skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really excited by the hype around it because it's a great demo of how science works in practice in a semi "real-time" fashion. Whenever I share news on it, I always preface that it's still in the replication / validation phases by multiple labs. I don't I've read of anyone so far stating that this is 100% legit.

It's just nice to see the scientific process get carried out - here's something we discovered, and now labs are working to reproduce the result to see if it's an actual thing or not. From my understanding, this stuff generally takes years to validate, but we're getting "immediate" glimpses here and there which makes it really exciting.

I get that the paper hasn't gone through peer review yet, but there's something interesting about the findings that are prompting labs to immediately try to replicate it.
Having worked in a solid state lab that focused on synthesis and imaging characterization of various substrates including superconductors, being an engineer does not make you not an amateur.
>The vast majority of the interesting and older users left years ago,

Where did they go?

The current wave of interesting users went to lemmy/kbin by the looks of it.
Something similar could be an interesting idea - imagine a system like Boxes, but only some of the programs start as local Xen guests. Most of the heavy lifting is done on beefy remote machines hosting thinly provisioned VMs or containers. It'd be the embodiment of Sun's slogan, "the network is the computer".
Bah humbug.

ATMs may be designed to use super precise timstamps, but they don't need to be. At all.

The interesting timing constraints are between stock exchanges... but in those situations the speed of light is a bigger factor than clock drift, even if you're just using NTP, and you can't avoid speed of light delays/desyncs.
> So their stance right now is understandable but also a bit self serving.

If there is this hot topic about LK-99, is it not their job to report it to their readers? Not everybody follows social media or has come across this personally. From this point of view, the article seems fair enough roundup of whats been happening.
I will amend my adjective. "Only very slightly earned reputation". Getting an undergraduate degree and getting a PhD are nothing at all like each other. Yes, coming out of undergrad you might be book smart, but most phds learn at least some amount of street smarts.
All the headlines really enjoyed the ambiguity of this.
It wasn't smart TV features, no. From memory, it was things like variable refresh rate support, for games consoles.
> However I will say that there are many people who use these clones and do not give back to the community in any way, shape or form who I consider to be “freeloaders”

Yes, however that's always been something you just kind of accepted with free software. That's part of what giving something away for free entails: not everyone is going to give something, or anything at all, back.
All of the junior devs Ive ever mentored, I would be as detailed as possible with my onboarding, demo the product from end to end, walk them through the codebase, and provide step by step instructions to start up their own dev environment. This usually took a couple of days, depending on the project and the dev.

Then I give them a ticket and say "if you get stuck, let me know"

For the first little while, I am super responsive with them and answer everything immediately and eagerly.

After a while, I start to wait about 5-10 minutes before I respond to questions. Usually they figure out the answers before I even get back to them in these cases, and then I get to praise them for it.
FWIW: We're unlikely to support Poetry directly in pip-audit (I said as much in that issue, but it's a little buried). Instead we'll probably devolve the auditing "core" of pip-audit into its own library, which the poetry folks can then use, if they'd like.
What is your interpretation of the following text from GPLv2 (I added link to the official text above):

"2 b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License."
I still wish printers continued to have parallel ports and something relatively standard and simple like ASCII+ESC/P2 compatibility. Instead we got a morass of complexity with proprietary protocols over USB and extremely user-hostile printer firmware.
Just a guess, but UK's accents have been developing for a 1000 years while the US has only had a few hundred at the most. Probably just less sticky. That said, bums me out because I love my region's dialect. I grew up in N. Georgia in the boonies and I love coming home to hear the accents.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YYx51ZrSn3g
As a mass-hole I'm always tickled by these examinations especially because there's so much local variation within Boston due to how varied the individual neighborhoods can be. The non-rhotic accent isn't pervasive as a lot of people have trained themselves out of it outside really historic urban centers - but there is a wide variety of bizarre terms we use.
The same technology was debuted in Windows 10, and in Windows 8. Same silly articles said that it was the future of Windows and you wouldn't be able to use a real desktop anymore, as though Microsoft had just up and forgot about the billion Windows machines that don't have good internet access and the billion more that don't have any at all. But if you write an article wailing that Microsoft is going to ruin your computer and steal your cat, you get clicks. Speaking of things that are dying.
on mobile Android chrome, the website seems to be not responsive and not adjusting as per my screen size
They did. And w3schools was in my list back then.
Sounds like working for the company store in the old coal mining days. That didn’t work out so well Google.
Clearly not, they think it's clunky and desktop and too annoying on mobile, (I agree but put up with it often) they're not saying they want more of it.
The phrase "opt into" implies there's a choice, but the rest of that paragraph implies there isn't.
This makes a lot of sense for businesses, even though it seems absurd for home users.

A third of my IT department works just to maintain Windows infrastructure for end users.
Is Dogma Always Detestable?
Canadian Government Services to Become 'Digital First'
> dumb terminals that would turn into doorstops if the network connection with the server failed for any reason.

OTOH, you could log off from one terminal and go to any other terminal (maybe in a different country) and continue to work right where you left.

If the environment is designed for that, it's not only doable, but practical.
> It's worth reading about a previous social media science debacle, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_ano... where the observations of neutrinos being faster than light was eventually debugged to some simple hardware errors and naive analysis.

"Debacle?" Some scientists saw something funny, pointed out that it violated known laws of physics, and asked for help explaining the results. They got that help relatively quickly and it was found that, indeed, the neutrinos were not moving faster than light.

If I were looking for a debacle, I'd look for something where there was outright fraud.

Here we have lots of people levitating small black rocks. It's probable that the samples created are impure, but something interesting might well be going on and so it's getting attention. Making things levitate like that is pretty cool, though, even if yes, you can do it with pencil lead (and a different magnet setup, not just a single magnet).

So people are trying to understand it. It's messy, and the results are unclear, but... hey, that's how things go. Sure, I'll wait to call it confirmed until we have a number of labs with good quality samples and expert testing, but I'll also give them time to actually try a few things since there are good reasons to think the synthesis is less easy than is reported.

But I'm not going to hate on people who just wanna see the rocks float, either. And we have quite a few people now with floaty rocks, which is more than enough to keep the average person entertained while the science settles.
ublacklist works with many search engines. A little bit of very easy effort goes a LONG way to cleaning up your results.

https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

And here's two bonus things you need if you make use of youtube

Sponsorblock. As it says on the tin, automatically skips sponsor sections.

https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock

Dearrow. An open source and crowdsourced tool replace youtubes stupid fucking clickbait title cards, and replaces many titles with better ones. You can contribute!

https://github.com/ajayyy/DeArrow
Brother printers have went this way too. Mine incessantly complains about low toner even when I use brand new ones because they aren't brother branded.
You don’t understand. Real science happens on Twitter. Real scientists are the startup founders who make grandiloquent threads about Arxiv pre-publications. Academia doesn’t work at all. Actuallly, academia’s scientists are just jaded. We’re so much smarter than them. You need to root for LK99 to be real so we can live in the post-scarcity techno magic utopia. If you spread FUD the rock wont levitate. Extraordinary claims only require trivial amount of suggestive evidence. Did you hear an anon cat girl already made a Gundam robot in her kitchen out of the stuff? Maybe if you squint hard enough and try 999 times it’ll work the 1000th. Epistemic standards don’t matter. What matters is to be excited and enthusiastic. That’s what science is really about. We’re all in this together folks. What an adventure.
Even with Yelp reviews I think my biggest worry is whether or not the reviewer was paid for the review. In this context, it seems reasonable to expect that the anecdotes are at least genuine. Then one is just using their own ability to parse the information in the comments, especially with regard to the specific features that accounts might have and what they’d like to prioritize.

But yeah, a “good enough” bar might be any place that doesn’t have “Wells Fargo” in big red letters on the building (or on their website).
Agreed. I have an undergrad in physics from a top uni, took solid state courses, and worked in a lab specifically studying superconductivity and I dont really feel qualified to comment on this, so a generic undergrad physics degree certainly means jack.
I still don’t get how some men are so keen to be perceived as victims here.

For centuries, the vast majority of women didn’t have the luxury of choosing. To this day, most men still discriminate on the basis on religion, race, or politics when looking for partners.

What are these men complaining about?

> Political views are about the only "good filter", but you're just putting a huge target on your back anyway.

Yes, most women wouldn’t fuck conservatives because they despise their ideals. Perhaps the issue here is the lack of self awareness among conservatives, then.
I'd personally rather achieve this by remoting into a machine that I already own, rather than paying rent to Microsoft in perpetuity.
And can't forget about expertsexchange.
I certainly agree about Pinterest being where data goes to die - and for Reddit I agree that it has an extremely high quality of information, it's just held back by presentation. If I can find the information I'm looking for on a blog I'll usually prefer that but Reddit usually has a good deal of commentary on whatever the topic I'm looking for is.
It does devour my time trying to get it to work with OpenBSD. GalliumOS is fine.

Digging into boot_config and diagramming device trees longhand from the bones of a kernel panic is an adventure bestowed upon the few.

I wish I knew the magic UKC incantations to get USB keyboard to work.
in dosbox it seems to run too fast to be playable and then hang

is this the right file?

00000000: 6800 b81f b9a0 0fb8 0300 cd10 bfd0 078d h...............
00000010: 76fc 0faf dd21 cb38 2f74 f788 0fe4 60bb v....!.8/t....`.
00000020: 0400 241e 7a02 88cb 2414 7402 f7db 29df ..$.z...$.t...).
00000030: 39cf 77d3 d1fb 8d41 02f6 f120 e474 c838 9.w....A... .t.8
00000040: 2d74 c489 7e00 4545 380d 882d 74c4 26ad -t..~.EE8..-t.&.
00000050: 9388 27eb c8 ..'..

oh i guess with `dosbox -c 'cycles 1' .` it's playable actually

i suspect it will still eventually hang tho
JPMorgan Chase now says a recession looks unlikely
> but in reality used like 2% of lodash, so I ripped it entirely out in favor of our own small utility collection with really sound typescript typing.

Which is lodash already, wonder why your team feels like the needs to make and maintain a new component for that is valid. Furthermore, lodash is somehow optimized for it's purpose, so the custom implementation may be inferior.

I never aim for file size but AFAIK lodash support tree shaking which is good enough.
I'm from N. GA which has a flowery dialect and all those expressions my grandparents used are dying. I think 1 or 2 more generations is all that's left.
I was indeed talking about the lower list - simply because of the information presentation is so poor. The information itself is usually quite high quality.
Out of curiosity, do you happen to know the differences for the Costco Sony TVs?

On a related note, the LG TV I bought at Fry's Electronics was a Fry's-only model.

Investigating it, I found out it was actually a Brazilian model with the built-in DVR disabled for the American market.

I thought about trying to hack it to enable the DVR, but realized it would have to connect to the internet to retrieve program information, and there's no way I'm going to let my TV connect to the internet.

(And before a bunch of HN smarty pantses tell me it will just latch onto a neighbor's wifi, that's not possible in my building, as we're all on the same building-wide VLAN, and you have to register a new device's MAC address in the portal to allow it in. I'm also too high up to pick up any street-level wifi.)
Twitter/X Might Have a New DMCA Subpoena Controversy on Its Hands
I was hesitant to configure my partner’s devices (family plan) to set as default engine but eventually convinced them and they haven’t even brought it up once since. I assume no news is good news! I would be less hesitant to recommend to other non-tech friends/family if it were easier to configure as default on Safari. Heck, I’d even entertain gifting subscriptions. The quality of results for me has been incredibly reliable. Enjoyable, even. And, I didn’t even take the time to start configuring these kinds of rules. Love this. Great product. Wishing long, lasting success.
The end of the related work section cites both wasm-smith and the Binaryen fuzzer (https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen/wiki/Fuzzing) and says, "They both provide a fuzzer that turns a stream of bytes into a WebAssembly module in order to test implementations. Their fuzzers always generate semantically valid test cases, but lack the targeting and tuning that Xsmith provides."

I look forward to reading more about how they do the targeting and tuning.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36994983
are we sure that it isn’t the case they are just least likely to wear a seat belt/more likely to speed?
Yeah, this is _the_ reason I started using Kagi. The default results aren’t significantly better than Google/Bing/DDG, but being able to block and boost domains is a killer feature.
Sadly, apparently new Brother printers have moved to the crapware model.
Translation: Canada will waste billions of dollars on contracts to IBM or whoever and service will get even worse. A byzantine in-person system will be replaced with an even more complicated online version, now with outages and having to wait to be mailed codes all the time. If you've ever tried to use revenue Canada's online business system you've already had a taste.
> Decimal, Jason, Telemetry, Mint, Finch, Req

These are all truly fantastic Non-core++ libraries. Also some really good ones on the horizon like Bandit.

But I'm love elixir and I'm not calling out the good ones. I'm calling out the less good ones. Because I see a lot of young libraries that pick up on those patterns, and so I can only believe it's spreading (can't be bothered to actually quantitfy, sorry). I don't think I'm bringing a curmudgeon. Legibility and debuggability are real concerns.
I like the example you give.

This demonstrates why bringing in an outsider to make sudden rapid changes, and renaming/rebranding are both ways that can cut the Gordian knot.
All networking is complex.

I asked the other guy this, but I'll also ask you. Please provide me the level of documentation you are looking for, but for an IPv4 network. If you have some grand tutorial that explains it as easily as you make it out to be, then I truly would love to see it, I will include it in my onboarding documentation at work.

Because I understand both IPv4 and IPv6, and do not consider IPv6 the more complex protocol by any measure. I suspect your "whiff" is more a bias towards what you are comfortable with, rather than a true reflection of IPv6's complexity.
> You're thinking of grsecurity, the out of tree Kernel patches from the folks who invented almost every major security mitigation in modern computers

Thanks for saying this. They even beat OpenBSD to some stuff. They never seem to get credit.
read textbooks instead most papers are obtuse and poorly written even famous ones. you can find them in wikipedia footnotes
So if you don't care about Unicode because you're covered by ASCII, and only use one screen (or the laptop screen), and already had networking in 1991, not much?
> The totality of the nuclear waste produced by France in history can fit in a swimming pool, and most of the space is for the containers

and, alarmingly

> we know places where natural nuclear waste have been stable for extremely long. Stability is not an issue.

Just where can you store several swimming pool's worth of extreme poison for 200,000 years? "natural nuclear waste" is an entirely different thing from the several swiming pools worth of material that people seem to want to make every year. There is nowhere that stable.

You have to erect a signpost that can be read and understood, and believed for 200,000 years. That is an order of magnitude longer than we have had writing. How can that be done?
>The smallest OTC dosage you can get, is 1mg

There are 0.3mg pills available, for example: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Extension-Melatonin-300-Capsules...
I think your proposed cure is far worse than the disease. It would have a profound chilling effect on free speech.
Curious, what ethical reason would you want to avoid insurance and finance? Mathematically they've got to be the most intellectually (not to mention financially) rewarding fields you can get into as a mathematician, what's more fun than assessing risk and probabilistically predicting the future?
I strongly suspect that if they kill it off at some point we'll have solutions like archive to work around being forced into their UI - even if those solutions are forced to scrap the information out of their web presentation rather than via API calls.
Was your dream inspired by the Free-PC?

http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9902/10/freepc.idg/
> It's now CGNAT

CGNAT? As in: The provider walls in customers behind a NAT - and customers can't forward their own IPv4 ports? That CGNAT?

Asking because that seems like a cruel restriction on 25Gbps upload.
1994 Intern Question #2: String Copy [video]
Maybe I’m misinterpreting something, but wouldn’t enshitification require deliberate hamstringing of software to force user changes? I have a hard time seeing that applying to developers of Linux distributions.
The vast majority of healthcare spending is incurred at the end of life, because when death really approaches, almost everyone wants to avoid it. People who are explicitly pursuing immortality are just thinking on a long-term basis instead of only reacting once they face the reality of mortality, in their impending death.

But amongst the popular left, there seems to be an aversion to competency and rationality, as they are symbolically linked to high status and social dominance. And so those who work deliberatively to end the scourge of aging and illness from humanity are—due to their displaying a rational results-oriented mindset—disdained.
>Multiple monitor support had caveats, IIRC, that contemporary Macs did not

Considering that some M1 laptops didn't support multiple monitors because of the internal USB allocations, it's not like modern Macs don't have such caveats
Kagi doesn't charge you for bangs. (Disclaimer: Happy paying Kagi user here, just FYI)
Pinterest is absolutely the worst; most of the time the linked page doesn't even have what I was looking for.
> domain-specific models will always outperform generalist ones

That's only true assuming you habe enough data to train a domain-specific model / expertise to train it and test it correctly.

I've encountered cases where an image recognition task could be accomplished well with a very general model like CLIP, but people still fine-tuned another model on their own small data set because that's considered better.

A domain specific model might be more likely to fail on weird outliers not present in the small domain specific training data.

> could spell disaster for OpenAI

Nah I don't think so. They are not all in on one specific model architecture.
If the current architecture is found to have serious unfixable flaws then they'll just change architecture.
Ramda is 10x more accessible to newbie programmers than fp-ts.

fp-ts is something that's theoretically superior and far more thought-out from an FP-perspective. But I wouldn't dare throw that on the lap of a junior programmer. They'd avoid using it anyway.

Not sure why everyone is hating on Ramda, it's extremely easy to switch from Lodash to it and using a data-driven functional approach is very natural in JS/TS. You don't need to use currying at all when using Ramda, that's optional. There's also absolutely no requirement to go full FP to use it, nor does it need to underpin every function.

Utility libraries are exactly that, they are basic helper functions when you don't want to write it yourself. Nor should you have to use ChatGPT every time you need array unions and safe hash merging or slightly more complex map functions or the 10's of other basic stdlib type functions that JS doesn't have.
>>This could easily be solved by removing animal ag subsidies and with taxing of negative externalities.

Considering how strong people's preference for meat are, you could raise prices and inevitably demand will start growing again when incomes rise sufficiently.

>>Sure, but that means a lot of resources (oil, for example) and further destruction of the environment (mining, built-up areas), and a large timescale.

The resources needed to build those out will be more than made up for by the resources saved from switching to an abundant non-CO2/pollutant emitting energy system.
This is why I love love love reaction icons. First used these a lot in Slack but now I want them on everything. People can feel like they've acknowledged something (and even provided their sentiment to it if they want) without having to feel like they need to provide an opinion.
Congratulations Rich! Your talks are a wellspring of inspiration, and I consider you a software “hero” (the good guys vs the locking concurrency monster).

I’ve been enjoying the fruits of your labors for more than a decade, and I have since introduced my daughter (a budding computer science student) to “simple made easy” and a bunch of your other talks.

Thanks for everything you’ve contributed to the software world. It’s a happier place to be as a result of your efforts.

Enjoy your retirement!