skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Of these flatpak seems most likely to become the standard although I wish it would plunk an executable somewhere instead of the ridiculousness of flatpak run foo

It already has the exported .desktop files, right? I wonder why they didn't just (ab)use that mechanism and add it to the default path on install
I think we're getting better about non-surgical interventions when it's not necessary. Appendicitis can, and is, treated with antibiotics, but the timing has to be spot on otherwise it needs to come out. I had to have mine removed because by the time I was seen in the hospital it had already burst. I think the only time that people pre-emptively remove appendixes is when you can't risk the chance of a burst; like if you're the over-winter physician at Amunden Scott South Pole station
Seems inevitable an AI will create art you consider great at some point. One possibility I guess is people only consider art "great" if they understand just how difficult it is for a human to create art in that particular form.
I think I needed 17 floppies ... and I could only scrounge up about 8, so I assumed it wouldn't need the earlier ones again and reused them for later parts. It worked! I didn't use Slackware much though, as I had no way to connect that machine to the internet, so it was really hard to learn how to do stuff.
You find it difficult to believe? The person clearly worked hard to achieve this aesthetic. The font even sort of matches the illustrations. This is clearly intentional from my pov. This aesthetic was more important to the author than ease of reading/consumption.
That is the promise of 5G though. You personally won't notice any difference but it should support more people in the same area in the same limited spectrum.
All kinds of markets have been upturned by technology, what makes music more special?
Plus cell connections and tethering are usually data capped. I don't know where the parent is coming from but within the last few months I got gigabit fiber installed and I'll do anything I can to never lose these speeds.
Are we talking about REST with HATEOAS? If we are, it’s apples to oranges.
Solution to hardware flaw in Intel CPUs may cause large performance hit
As far as I know, Cakebrew is no longer maintained. There are quite a few alternatives though, you can see the full list on the GitHub page (https://github.com/milanvarady/Applite#alternatives)
It isn’t for everyone, but even many larger hotels offer a more expensive, non-refundable option. People pay less for non-refundable rental cars and airfare as well. The terms are clear so we don’t need Airbnb canceling a 7 night stay the week of check-in because of a complication with the guest's dog sitter.

Also, if they do cancel in the 60 day window we relist the dates and if they get rebooked then we give that money to the person who canceled.
Oh I know, I once got into a massive Twitter blowout with Brendan Eich because he believes that all computing conferences should invite "the best" speakers (how do you determine that? well I assume "invented JS" would be a qualifier...) regardless of their personal or legal issues.

It's a tough philosophical space balancing between free speech/association and criminal discrimination and I think it shouldn't be surprising that an ecosystem that produced a "free speech absolutist" like Musk who bans dissenting opinions would also create a group of people who think that everyone has to tolerate them no matter how abhorrent their behavior or ideas as long as it doesn't cross a line into "criminal".
Yes the Russians don't really produce a lot of software or entertainment that Westerners want. So they have no stake in enforcement of copyright.
Heck no; I reinstalled distros multiple times a week while I was distro hopping and Arch got reinstalled once before I quickly realized it didn't offer anything to make that install process worthwhile.

I use Fedora primarily because of SELinux, and apparently Arch doesn't even use a MAC by-default and expects manual-setup.

openSUSE Tumbleweed is a better rolling-release implementation imo and has even been more up-to-date than Arch when it came to some major GNOME, KDE and kernel updates.
Lua is faster than Python and also easier to embed in vim [1] which are both big advantages for the end user. It means fast plugins and no hassle with having the correct python version.

Why Bram build is own language and then doubled down on it with vimscript9 I don't really understand.

[1] https://neovim.discourse.group/t/why-was-lua-chosen-for-neov...
There would be a lot of value in whitelist and audit features for IT to manage their risk when letting developers install applications themselves (if not also a binary repository).

One model (and possible partner) here is Sonatype, with a growth path into binary repositories for development (Swift packages, cocoa pods et al).

I realize you might not want the burden, but you might partner with someone or some company. (And I would encourage others to collaborate before forking.)
I wished I knew about this!! Migrating my Aurora clusters rn
Can you explain why orbit is such an important point to you? If I got launched to 1000 miles out and just “fell” back to earth without achieving orbit I’d definitely consider it a trip into space.

Smells like sour grapes. Turn off the news it’s not good for you
Doesn't publicizing this reduce its utility?
Good question -- the primary difference is the method of integration with Postgres. ZomboDB is a Postgres extension, which limits their compatibility with Postgres serivces like AWS RDS, while Retake is compatible with any service where you can enable logical replication
Are U.S. Railroad Gauges Based on Roman Chariots?
in Once Were Brothers they said when they played it for Dylan he looked at Robbie, disbelieving, and says, "You wrote that?"
Well, as a case in point: people can make money from YouTube and writing books now...that may indeed be a thing of the past if a person is not willing to use AI. But even if not, some people were definitely able to make money out of being an artist in the past, like people who painted other people's portraits.

AND, if you read about the history of photography, some people were definitely able to make money out of taking people's portraits. That was still the case until advanced technology came around.

But I do agree with your point: not everyone was able to do so.
You're correct it was very much a "Bram project", but that doesn't mean the language needs to die with him: other people can work on it (and already have!) Vim9Script is also "finished", more or less, as "finished" as languages get anyway. The features Yegappan mentions are what we might call "optional features".
There are 28 vacant homes for every person experiencing homelessness in the U.S.
By "killing Twitter", what I mean is that he wants to change it to address an entirely different market than what it used to address. That makes the name change make sense -- he wouldn't want the old brand because he doesn't want the old user base.

I have no dog in this fight, personally, as I stopped using Twitter years ago, but it's going to be very interesting to see how this shakes out.

My guess is that it isn't going to go well, but that's only a guess.
That's a really cool brand.
Just an old name for a portfolio of transactions
Where can you see how much of your Aurora spend is on I/O? There must be a Cloudwatch metric somewhere
They say that, but realistically no one ever checks for your pirate license anyway, so you can get away with it.

YMMV
Wow, good on AWS for releasing such a useful feature. It does feel a little uncomfortable to have to wait on an interested party to make optimizations to benefit you (to the tune of 90% cost savings!!), but I guess that's the name of the game in public cloud.
> totally absent executive function, emotional attachment to inanimate objects, and a desire to have a stockpile from which to provide

Fuck me. I have all 3 of those warning signs. At least the emotional attachment isn't strong for most things and can be shaken with a well-placed "Will you realistically ever get around to that?"
Tyler Cowen on Parties [video]
Super impressive level of detail (and easy to understand, at that). Cloudflare went hard on the statistics here.
Ooooh that brought me memories. At the time testing (around '98) all the nerdy rage was on testing the different distros such as Caldera, Debian, Corel, Mandrake. I remember at the same time compiling my first kernel in FreeBSD (ordered the CDs from WalnutCreek website! what a time). My parents where not amused that I broke the home PC several times installing this thing over Windows
Can Google tell the difference between old relevant information and old irrelevant (or outdated) information? I'm not seeing any evidence of that. A search engine is not a subject matter expert of everything on the Internet, and it shouldn't be.
Bigger and better quantum computers possible with new ion trap, the Enchilada
I have those even with tonsils. The gunk produced by it can STINK
Seattle considers expanding tax on Amazon and others to plug budget deficit
I'm mostly write embedded code. But when I have to deal with files and associated API's I'm always like why does anyone tolerate this stuff.

string[] lines = ReadFile("path", "filename");

Why is the above somehow hard?
ML researcher here wanting to offer a clarification.

L1 induces sparsity. Weight decay explicitly _does not_, as it is L2. This is a common misconception.

Something a lot of people don't know is that weight decay works because when applied as regularization it causes the network to approach the MDL, which reduces regret during training.

Pruning in the brain is somewhat related, but because the brain uses sparsity to (fundamentally, IIRC) induce representations instead of compression, it's basically a different motif entirely.

If you need a hint here on this one, think about the implicit biases of different representations and the downstream impacts that they can have on the learned (or learnable) representations of whatever system is in question.

I hope this answers your question.
> Then robbery and assault and battery are also only “regulated”

If you have an intellectually-honest response to the post three levels upthread of your most recent one, the place to make it was as your first response to that post, not in response to and without acknowledging anything in my post calling out the manner in which your initial response to that post abused statistics that did not address the point raised there.
Calling us "pattern recognition machines capable of abstract representation" I think is correct, but is (rather) broad description of what we can do and not really a comment on how our minds work. Sure, from personal observation, it seems like we sometimes overcomplicate self-analysis ("I'm feeling bad – why? oh, there are these other things that happened and related problems I have and maybe they're all manifestations of one or two deeper problems, &c" when in reality I'm just tired or hungry), but that seems like evidence we're both simpler than we think and also more complex than you'd expect (so much mental machinery for such straightforward problems!).

I read Language in Our Brain [1] recently and I was amazed by what we've learned about the neurologicial basis of language, but I was even more astounded at how profoundly little we know.

> But, like all complexity, it is reduceable to component parts.

This is just false, no? Sometimes horrendously complicated systems are made of simple parts that interact in ways that are intractable to predict or that defy reduction.

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262036924/language-in-our-brain
I'd be nervous owning property in a market like that. When times get tough markets like that will get hit hard as investors pull out.

I'm going to take a wild guess, are you in the suburban Houston area? I've got friends and family there and they've mentioned the same thing. I thought they might be exaggerating but I keep hearing it from different sources. I never hear the same thing about DFW or Austin.
> Sounds more like acceptance of something they are not ignorant of.

I can see it both ways, but OP basically said "I'm sure it happens to others, but it doesn't happen to me, so I don't care" which is fine, but also not helpful and is also missing the point of the article.

It's like reading an article about the water crisis in Flint and saying "water quality is great here in Miami, so doesn't bother me"

> Ok but are they? This hypothetical isn’t useful if they aren’t, and I’m not convinced they are.

I think it is worth considering. I won't force you to consider it if you don't want to, though.
Not to mention HOAs usually come with a fee sometimes hefty enough to seem like a second mortgage payment. I'm with you I don't understand why anyone would pay hundreds of thousands for something then let the worst members of their neighborhood make decisions about what they can do with it.
Wikipedia for FOXP4 [1] mentions some article from 2023 about long covid, too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOXP4
You need Product Analytics to build great LLM products
wild part is that there's been zero observable difference in performance for this config change, I think it's just a difference in billing calculation.
Who even gives out letters of marque these days?
That's a nice diagram! Yeah that's roughly it. We'll be adding support for more sources of truth in the future to expand coverage, like the ones you mention but also NoSQL like MongoDB
Agreed, the lack of respect for yet another thing that we all pay into (Community Colleges) is appalling. I remember that in high school, if you said you were going to Community College, you would be looked at as some kind of failure when in reality it was a great way to sober up and ease into adult life after high school, at a tiny fraction of the price of 4-year university...truly shameful that the majority of us willingly ignore one of the solutions to the whole issue with college degrees sometimes being viewed as not being useful, as well as the issue with excessive student loans.
lolwut?

Unless something major changed, you're dropped to a terminal as soon as you boot the install image, and have to either have advanced knowledge on what to do from there, or have the wiki side-by-side on another device. And unless you're taking incredible notes at the same time, good luck replicating the set-up if you need to reinstall.

Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, and most other mainstream distros at least boot you into a GUI to install.
The ice cream was a lie.

After I had my tonsils removed, even the thought of solid food was out of the question. It was just too painful.

You can have as much ice cream as you want. What they don't tell you is you won't want any. :P
The "continue reading in the app" with a down arrow next to it is one of the darker patterns I've seen today.
Nothing to do with Amazon but this has become endemic in tech in recent years and it grinds my gears. The amount of websites and services and remote control sessions that sign out or lock while I’m using them, because I’m not using them fast enough, it’s infuriating.

Yes I leave stuff open for a couple of hours while troubleshooting, not every problem is solved in five minutes and one device! No bank, you aren’t increasing security, I’m not in a library or a cafe. Especially infuriating if it happens while I'm waiting for the thing to check/update something and it signs me out because I'm not doing anything!
Given the preponderance of 3 major operating systems, I'd think it's sensible for user-level applications to disallow creation of filenames that would cause problems on any of them. Except arguably that could even include using spaces or periods... obviously in an ideal world such restrictions wouldn't exist, but I'm not sure how to realistically push for such a world. E.g. my suggestion would be to reserve non-printable characters (below Ascii 32) for use as separators/delimiters in as many contexts where that's workable. Obviously some sort of convention would then need to exist as to how they were displayed and typed in, and I very much doubt I'll ever see it happen, but I'm sure it would solve a lot of mis-parsing bugs that show up with frustrating regularity.
No idea. But interestingly enough, it looks like someone built a grid scale version in PA with funds from the 2008 Recovery Act. There's a final tech report here https://www.smartgrid.gov/project/hazle_spindle_20mws_flywhe... in the Related Docs
> I know I will kill myself if this started up again after going to that much trouble.

I don't know if this is hyperbole, or an actual assessment of the situation you're in, but... please don't. Get out if you have to, but don't get out that way.
Why is it silly? To me it sounds silly never really knowing if you have a job the next day, if you can pay your bills, your mortgage, buy food.

That amount of insecurity is to me just insane. I can't fathom living like that.
It's so amazing when CTO cares about technology and not only shareholders return and gains.
Those are all walled garden universes, to me. "Meta" I thought meant "above", in a self-referential/pomo way. If the different platforms allowed linking together while retaining a consistent user profile, a directory of those worlds (even in something like VRML) would be "meta". That is what Lamina1 sounds like: basically, a consistent API that all platforms use.
Set of related trades.
Sort of, but it seems like most people complained about the high cost of cable combined with the low actual channel value you get. And it seems like dropping sports to something separate helps.
Sorry, how remiss of me! On behalf of Archoles everywhere: "I use Arch actually" (and so does my wife).
Im a big fan of Datadog's Cloud Cost management: https://www.datadoghq.com/product/cloud-cost-management/

Outside of that though, you can go to your AWS billing, filter on RDS, and slice by usage type. They make you dig, which is why I pref Datadog
Except they demonstrated interest in the response. Further, they are not the only person who reads the comments. Others may be interested to know the relationship between ice cream and tonsils.
I fail to see what it takes from Scala, that wasn't already on several other languages.
> AND, if you read about the history of photography, some people were definitely able to make money out of taking people's portraits. That was still the case until advanced technology came around.

People still make money from taking people’s portraits… and those people took money from the portrait artists who used to travel and paint portraits.

Artists almost always reject technology that makes what they do a commodity, which makes sense, but the reality is that art that lasts is usually something which comes into existence when the previous art gets commoditized. IMO, when the artists freak out it is because we have made a new technology that is actually disruptive.
Was this kid arguing about the automatic encrypt/decrypt file capability and Bram's unwillingness to use a cryptographically secure algorithm? It was a long, long thread that got heated.

I was with Bram though! It was never meant to be secure in a cryptographic sense...
He says that openly at least for a year. Is it even possible to trademark a single letter name?

I wonder if he would even make it to the point where you would be able to pay somewhere/someone with his app. Hard mode: don’t search for places by accepted payment methods. With his current reputation it can be tricky. Who would even want to be banned from payments because he posted something he didn’t like on Twitter?
If the human spirit is really that fragile, then perhaps it deserves to erode and die. Yet, the human spirit has been subjected to much worse, and it survived. Maybe there are some qualities in the creative process that ChatGPT simply cannot emulate.
It's interesting that Spotify is accused of underpaying artists but provides an all you can eat across a seemingly limitless catalogue, whereas video streamers struggle to make it work. My guess is that the 'artists', in this case big companies, feel they can demand fees for content which are unsupportable. In the end they will suffer with no outlet for their back catalogue.
> Twitter has a limit of 280 characters per tweet

I have seen much longer posts on there, like a full screen of text... how come?
There are a lot of grifters out there wasting peoples money spent with good intentions, which is really frustrating. Sometimes it's not even a grift, just incompetence will lead to poor ROI, because contractors lack the skills to be efficient or do quality work.

I'm somewhat convinced I'm going to have to become a home builder myself to end up with something that's long-lasting, comfortable, healthy, and energy efficient, all without being robbed blind.
I didn't know about Aurora IO Optimized until just now. That solves my biggest fear of Aurora which is an optimized query wreaking havoc on our IO and racking up a bill. Very cool offering to see.
Satellite images show utter devastation from wildfires in Maui
For transparency, I'm not very well versed on this topic. That said, one concern I've always had with flywheel systems is that it ends up being a crazy heavy thing spinning at a decent rate. I don't know how valid it is but many years of being around maker communities and stuff has given me a respect for heavy things spinning at decent speeds.

They do seem like they would be a simple effective way to get some brownout or power flicker protection though!
How man modern hits songs, even grammy winning songs, have pretty low-brow or even dumb lyrics? ChatGPT will certainly put more soul in it than many of those.
You don’t need an isolation switch if you use a sol ark 15k or EG4 18k, you can just tie the grid straight in and they have isolation built in if the grid goes down.
Trust me. I have educational credentials that would be considered immaculate. I've done fine. But then I've never had an obsession with earning millions a year because some people are. You probably make more at 27 than I have much later. Which is fine. You'd be much happier if you stopped obsessing about how someone else may be making more money than you.
This isn't the case for most agreements. Most agreements have no 'form' requirements - ie. you could write it on a napkin at a restaurant. As long as both parties believe they are making a legally binding agreement, then they have made a legally binding agreement.

Use of technology doesn't change that. The only time a court would throw out a signature made online is if the online platform was somehow deceiving the parties - for example by showing different text to each side when they click 'i agree'.
I wonder if there would be a good return for a selective surface on top of PV. Make it reflective for near IR below the bandgap of the PV cells, but transparent for light of shorter wavelengths and opaque in the far IR for high emissivity for radiative cooling.
Memorise because there is no decision component. It attempts to just brute force a pattern rather than thinking through the information and making a conclusion.
I think the ceiling is less about what you can achieve, but about the quality you produce (e.g. correct application of principles, which can lead to better maintainability).

Before I studied I thought of objects in terms of Object Orientation as a memory layout plus some functions to manipulate it. When I studied, I learned that Object Orientation is much less about the implementation, but more about the principles at hand (e.g. polymorphism).

I still love good implementations, but studying gave me a whole new perspective on certain topics.
You can't convert anything to anything at the boundary and still have full interoperability. An example is resource forks on classic MacOS -- they never played nice with an Internet that assumes that files are only a flat stream of bytes.
> opt out of providing stuff for poor people to make a political point.

I would certainly hope my state isn’t giving out tax-payer funded luxury stoves.

There is no such thing as “free” here.
Can students never surpass their master?
Unrelated to OP, but how did you create that diagram?