skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love Toki Pona and have been using it for a little while. You can check my YouTube channel if you wish to see/hear it live in action: https://www.youtube.com/@janPolijan
Toki Pona gives you the fun part of using a foreign language, but it skips the boring part of having to learn a ton a grammar and vocabulary. And the phonology is delightfully simple, so you won't have a bad accent. There's a growing and very active community around it and people write and share novels and songs. But it's also useful just as a personal language because it's really like a game for your mind. After a while, you reach proficiency and then fluency and it gets even better. It is absolutely possible to explain fairly complex things if you continue to push it. You obviously wouldn't want to do engineering in Toki Pona, but explaining quite complex topics is absolutely possible if you really desire (for example, someone has put a YouTube video explaining non-euclidean geometry in Toki Pona). One final thing: contrary to popular belief, Toki Pona is not designed to be as minimal as possible (the "tuki tiki" conlang with only 39 words modifies Toki Pona and pushes towards true minimalism). Toki Pona sure is tiny, but it's mostly designed to be fun and retain expressiveness.
That doesn't work for a news site—unless they're doing a ton of duplicate stories for some reason, "similar" isn't good enough if someone is looking for an article to go with a specific headline they found through search.
I think people are unfair to Elon and color his past actions with the taint of his present ones.

Tesla and SpaceX are massive achievements. The space industry was basically dead for years and electric cars were considered a joke or toy.

Elon doesn't do everything, and he often unfairly overshadows his team, but he is great at getting attention (from investors and customers) and he's gifted at optimizing manufacturing processes. I'm really impressed with how he speaks about assembly lines in particular and the relentless drive for simplicity. I'm less impressed by the empty promises, but he does inspire many with his vision.

The problem is when he leaves his lane and assumes his success in one domain translates to all domains. He's hardly the first successful person to lose their mind when they reach the top. We often talk about how inequality is bad for the average person but for me, it's shocking to see what it does to the people at the top too. Soaring at that height they leave reality far below.
Reading the title I thought it was about debians popularity contest "popcon" https://popcon.debian.org/
Am I the only one that finds it hard to engage with the RIAA as good faith actors?

It feels similar to patent trolls whose business strategy is simply to leverage the court by exploiting poorly executed legislation.
None!

But you could say "ko lete", "walo lete", "ijo lete", or "lete", I guess. Or "telo lete pi kiwen mute ala" which is kind of a nuisance. ("Not-very-hard cold water.")

I think "telo lete walo" or "ko lete walo" would be widely understood.
Good luck with that. Llama2 can run on a gaming rig. You can train it on your own writing and it will write exactly like you (but better or worse as you choose). There’s no way to put the genie back in the bottle.

The only way forward is performative knowledge verification in person and a controlled environment.
Not likely. The article says it was posted 1 year ago. ChatGPT’s training data cutoff is September 2021, so no, that would not make sense.
I wonder what the numbers would look like if nobody had to work. That's the comparison.
It's a framework for hype driven junior developers. They have the staying power of a mayfly.
Are you using Firefox? Or mobile devices? I'm trying to debug this issue too.

https://github.com/withastro/astro/issues/8055
I find these efforts impressive, but what is the value proposition here? (I'm not just talking about this fork, but also Karapathy's llama2.c as well).
Your overall point is valid and I don't want to minimize your struggles, but I do have a few questions.

> I fret Everytime I update, yet I must update due to work. but I have to schedule and plan those updates so that when the whole thing takes a shit, I can spend 2 or 3 hours fixing it. Just using the built in update utility, or apt upgrade, or really anything runs about a 10-20% chance of shit breaking. (I didn't do the math)

What... are you doing? Do you have some strange use-case that might be causing this? Since 2014 I've daily driven debians, Arch, and now NixOS and updates that break my system have been exceedingly rare. I don't remember a single time Arch pacman -Syu broke my system, nor apt, and, well, NixOS doesn't count ;)

> good support is almost non existent, IF you get help, it's from some greater than thou righteous asshole who suggests you just rewrite the drivers yourself and create a pull request.

Where do you ask for help? How do you ask it? I've never received such a dickish response when I go on IRC and ask questions, no matter how stupid. I'm consistently impressed at how dedicated some community members are to helping newbies out. What you're saying is completely opposite to my experience.
I bought a black-and-white Brother laser circa 2000. It ran an ran until around 2020 when it finally broke (physically) in ways that weren't worth repairing. I bought a Brother 3770CDW colour laser to replace it. It has run and run with no problems.

It just works. Even The Verge agree: https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-...

"...it does not feel like the CEO of Inkjet Supply and Hostage Situations Incorporated is waiting to mug me..."
Can't be read on mobile (Brave browser)
But I have to clean the print heads every time I print (about once a month). I use up vast amounts of ink just keeping this thing working.

I wish I'd bought a laser
Where did you go to school? In my experience, there is never a slowdown in demand for elite schools, but outside of that track it's a lot tougher.

Of course, a lot of it is your own skills/resume and luck
In a way, this is pretty amusing. Two people ending up having very different conversations... talking to each other.
I'm confused. I get a new Firefox version on my Windows, Android, and Linux machines consistently, with new features, fixes, and the latest web tech minus the privacy nightmares Google is trying to feed, at a regular basis. How are they not investing in FF?
Game console emulators are surprisingly popular on Android. Even with a bluetooth controller, it seems like a terrible experience with a tiny screen that's even tinier if you're playing retro games with a 4:3 aspect ratio.
We just have to trust them and take their word for it? Or what?

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/explore/trusted-cloud/priv...

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/3-reasons-why-azure-s...

I guess I would trust them, since they're big and they make these promises and other big companies use them.
Tangential question: how hard it is to "buy back" the company shares from venture capital firms?

I've heard these "grow until you burst" stories some times, but no one ever told a good way of getting free from the VC without retaliation
Only for paid products (movies, TV shows, etc). Regular videos (even music videos) do not use WideVine DRM or else no tool would be able to download YouTube videos. (Or at least, public tool - private scene groups do of course have bypasses for it)
Might end up on https://infocon.org/cons/DEF%20CON/DEF%20CON%2031/ post con.
You've managed to turn this into a city vs rural problem. Of course your prefer side, rural comes out on top!

What a coincidence.
I don’t understand why this whole thread is so in the weeds about NEW cars. New cars have never been considered to be financially prudent. Hard to sympathize with someone complaining about the prices when they’re choosing a 30k+ new car over a perfectly fine used model that costs half that.
That doesn't happen to me at all. What happens is that the menubar shows, and the top bar of the browser (where the back/forward buttons and the URL bar are) slides down to give space to the window bar (with the zoom and close buttons) over the top of the browser.

That's all. All the content, sidebar, etc stays stationary.

It's true that Safari does it better, but honestly not by much.
Related gripe: allow me to filter remote jobs to positions that will hire people that live in my country.

It is incredibly frustrating to see "Work from anywhere you want!" Only to find see "Remote (US Only)" in the job text.
I am startled, and also glad, that record labels haven't put the screws to youtube enough to get them to implement widevine for music videos on youtube.

Probably unworkable for the time being.
Unfortunately AMD cards suffer from a reset bug, still, when used with passthrough.

The reset bug being that you can pass through the card fine, once. But if you try to pass it through again (or the card experiences an issue and needs to reset), they get caught in some kind of bad state and won’t work until power is removed and restored. Which requires a reboot or a only slightly less disruptive dance with system power states.

For vega and 5000 series gpu’s, there’s https://github.com/gnif/vendor-reset

Incidentally, nvidia gpus are so good at resetting, they’ve probably done so without you noticing. If the screen ever goes black for a fraction of a second and returns in normal usage, it was probably because it reset itself.

The lower 6000 series lower than the 6800’s for example may or may not have the issue. It seems most “reference” cards are fine, but custom vendor cards often but not always have issues. My reference 6700 works fine, but a sapphire 6700 probably won’t.

And the 7000 series is also fucky in a new way somehow. Gnif knows far more about this than me, and has basically thrown up his hands at how AMD doesn’t care. He’s made occasional posts about it on https://forum.level1techs.com/

Gnif is also responsible for Looking glass: https://github.com/gnif/LookingGlass

When it comes to splitting a gpu into virtual ones with SR-IOV/MxGPU, that’s not really a thing with AMD. Whereas Nvidia will happily give you what you want if you shovel some money into their gaping maw, AMD won’t even give business customers the time if day if you aren’t worth billions. They very deliberately do not want the unwashed masses to use MxGPU. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/eqvn9z/amd_mxgpu_or_s... for a summary of the years of hopelessness on this functionality.
That's amusing - I initially read this as "Judge denies Harry Potter's plea to throw out all-in-one printer lockdown lawsuit."
This one has confused me. A lot of the spirit of it I get behind; I am similarly indignant at the nothing to hide argument, I am similarly appreciative of the value of free speech, and I appreciate the idea that you might hope that you have "something to say", in the sense of having values, or ways in which you are engaged in the world that are important and meaningful to you. And I even understand and support the idea that you are letting a beautiful right go unused if you have "nothing to say."

But, with all of those elements in place, I don't see how they serve to counter the "nothing to hide" argument. As other commenters here have pointed out, and as the paper has pointed out, it's (1) nothing to hide, from whom, and (2) just because you believe your actions are innocent, doesn't mean your information won't be used against you to target you.

But that's very different than the point that is apparently being made about free speech. It may be a bummer to live a life where you have nothing to say, but the failure implied by that is of a different kind.

It may just be that I'm missing an obvious point, but, as far as I can tell, if you have "nothing to say", the problem is that you've resigned yourself to a life that doesn't assert any values or meaning. Meanwhile, the nothing to hide problem relates to not anticipating how bad actors will use your information against you.

It would be a 1:1 analogy if the point being made was, well, you have no information? If you have nothing to hide because you have no significant life attributes or life events, I can see a way that is a criticism of an unfulfilled life, and something that makes the comparison to free speech make sense. But... it's kind of lateral to the concerns about privacy that I take to be the most essential to maintaining it as a right. But again, I may just be missing something obvious.
Not in 2001 when the commercials were airing - the iTunes Store was two years away...
They should fire most of the overhead personnel and sock their salaries into income producing investments, so when big G closes the tap, R&D can continue indefinitely.

Hopefully then they’ll stop reinventing tabs, ruining privacy, and focus on the aforementioned bugs.
The question is whether youtube connects the authority of the copyright owner with particular videos. It obviously does. The copyright owner is the entity that receives ad revenue, and the entity that can strike videos that violates its copyright.
Hetzner's dedicated servers give you KVM access for stuff like tweaking your bios settings, installing an OS, or I guess using your boot menu. You have to request them via support ticket, but last time I did that I got it within 5 minutes, no questions asked.

If you have your own server in a rack somewhere chances are you bought one with a similar web interface (IMPI/BMC/whatever your brand calls it) on a separate always-on NIC on the mainboard.

https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/maintainance...
Very low chance: it's another Chromium browser but with proprietary modifications. I think Chromium proper would become standard before Vivaldi.
In what way is this a "SQLite clone"?
I was playing Stellaris recently, and a few months later started a rewatch of Babylon 5. The inspiration is striking. B5, despite all its shortcomings, represents a vision of the timeless nature of politics that is in a way distinct from e.g. TNG. Furthermore the characters have a level of depth and complexity that force one to look in the mirror and ask hard questions about what it means to be a good person in the context of titanic forces the we could easily dismiss as being beyond our control.
I have, and it did not work last few times :(
Is that not a bit like saying "I would rather have my arms amputated than have a frontal lobotomy"?

I mean, while that's likely quite true, what i would RATHER have is neither of those two...
I have a DCP9020CDW that works just fine on the cheapest eBay toner going (under £30 for a 5-cartridge CMYKK set with shipping included). At that price it's not really even worth trying a powder-bottle refill!
There also seems to be two ways to fill a field. I notice this when I fill fields on a PDF in Chrome and save it. And then open it in Preview.

Preview doesn't show the values I put into the fields in Chrome.

Also kinda unrelated but also worth mentioning, if you have a PDF document with a version less than 1.7, opening and reexporting or even reprinting it in Preview.app as PDF will not actually manage to get you a document that's PDF1.7 or above.

I had to use postscript to do it.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/218089/global-market-sha...

This has it at 5.1%. But ChromeOS has a lot of corporate mojo making it work. It’s only partially open source. A lot of the good bits are closed. So that puts Linux at 2.91%. A rounding error. For 30 years.
Stop telling me trust find kids are financial wizards
What I meant to say was

Apple is run by unscrupulous thieves who design products around the strategy of milking their customers for every last penny they have, while at the same time devising a marketing strategy so that those same customers thank their corporate overlords for the opportunity to get robbed blind
>I also learnt to only become as involved and care as much as the customer. If they aren’t willing to go that extra mile then why should I?

There was probably a good portion of that army of ops and developers that felt the same way. And even if you can move mountains to point fingers and clean out all of the bad people, train the average ones, and keep the good ones around, you will likely get little compensation out of it, so no one does that. Even then, it's hard to blame incompetent people getting jobs and holding on to them. There's a lack of standards for skill and training so naturally people slip through the variety of bespoke vetting processes that companies come up with. There's also some economic reasons why people hold on to jobs for far longer than they should, even if they know they're bad at it.

Large amounts of bad complexity slowly erodes morale, but bad decisions like this one can set it on fire. Accruing bad complexity may not have any solid failures to trigger reassessment, which is why it often becomes a problem and stays a problem. It's an obvious problem for new people with fresh perspectives, while incumbents might have gotten used to it.
They said the system could be brought down by a RPI over DSL.

My guess is that the Auth system, which became the bottleneck, authenticated everywhere at once, which would be super slow.

Not sure what lambda had to do with this. The whole SAP thing reads like a legacy nightmare.
$billionaire Oprah grew up on welfare.

Paul Jobs was born and raised in Wisconsin, not SV. He never graduated from high school.
I mean we played the originals on screens where 14-21" TVs were very normal for people.
Apple only had copy protection (m4p files) if you bought music from the itunes store during the time period where their contract with the music companies demanded they do that. When that clause ended, they stopped doing it, and IIRC when you redownload music purchased during that era from apple, you'll now get unprotected m4a files instead.

The files iTunes produced from ripping CDs were never copy protected.
It's not "circumventing copyright", it's circumventing copy protection. The RIAA alleges that YouTube rotating their URLs is a copy protection measure. If that's true[0] then youtube-dl would fit plainly in category (A), since downloading YouTube videos is all it does. Category (B) is there to prevent someone from selling, say, a "DVD decrypting can opener" and then arguing that the can opener part makes the DVD part legal. Category (C) is there to prevent people from selling you the analog hole.

My objection to the RIAA's copy protection argument is that they did not actually create the copy protection measure. They are alleging that some third party's product feature happens to look close enough to copy protection that it should count as such. Would they be able to sue YouTube if they were to stop rotating their URLs? Do social media platforms suddenly have an obligation to continue to maintain features that accidentally frustrate illegal copying of text? Do I have to reimplement spacebar heating?[1]

Another potential objection would be that rotating URLs are not copy protection. This may work, but keep in mind: 17 USC 1201 has no bounds on the scope of copy protection beyond "it has to somehow stop you from copying a thing protected by copyright". Encryption and scrambling systems are explicitly named, but the way the law is currently drafted, anything can be a copy protection measure. There's a lot of language defining existing copy protection systems they wanted to grandfather in (e.g. Macrovision) but nothing limiting the scope of future systems.

[0] If accepted, this would be the widest reading of DMCA 1201 that I've seen accepted by a court of law (as a non-lawyer). Yes I am counting the printer cartridge and garage door opener shenanigans of yesterdecade. Those were bog-standard "designing the product to commit three felonies a day" kinds of copyright abuse and the courts smacked them both down.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1172/
I also like null | T for required properties, but for whatever reason I have seen that undefined | T is a much more common convention in the TypeScript world. Maybe the reason for that is the semantic about how object access returns undefined, but that’s precisely the source of ambiguity between “object has property X with value undefined” and “object does not have property X”.
Isn't psychometric testing voodoo astrology? I think you might have a hard time convincing software engineers to sign up to more bullshit testing that doesn't actually reflect what the job entails.
> People want a small phone, but perhaps not if it costs like 6 phones? How is this hard to understand?

iphone mini wasn't priced like 6 phones, and it still didn't sell well. again, you can't seem to grapple with the reality here that what you want is a very niche thing and it doesn't sell well as a mass-market product regardless of price. that is, after all, why apple stopped making that size once again.

the iphone SE is about as small as the market wants. Below that is the domain of mini phones - which do exist, but mostly from smaller android vendors.

> No they don't. There is NOTHING on the market currently that is sized and priced like a samsung S5 mini today.

s5 mini: 131.1 x 64.8 x 9.1 mm

cubot pocket 3: 133.2 x 55 x 12.3mm

unihertz jelly pro: 92.4 × 43 × 13 mm

just with literally a few minutes of searching.
When I booted normally with the concatenated image (ensuring removing the original microcode img from the grub.cfg initrd command), I booted and I confirmed the microcode loaded with (dmesg | grep microcode).

Then switching to ZBM, while it did boot with the concatenated image, I didn't see microcode loaded in dmesg.
Horizontally only;) But the article is well worth it.
Plot twist, it was "The way it is" by Bruce Hornsby.
I don't understand - chat with a file?

I want to chat and ask about an entire body of knowledge - wiki pages, git commit diffs/messages, jira tasks.
diffconflicts [dc] lets you resolve diffs as a two way diff between what's in the conflict markers instead of including the resolved parts in the diff. It opens the diff in vim but could be adapted for other editors. Verbose explanation: https://github.com/whiteinge/diffconflicts/blob/master/READM...

The author converted it to a vim plugin with the same name, but I use a different vim plugin implementation [mergetool].

[dc]: https://github.com/whiteinge/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/diffco...
[mergetool]: https://github.com/idbrii/vim-mergetool
> Conjunct melodic motion. Melodies tend to move by short distances from note to
note. Large leaps sound inherently unmelodic.

I wonder about this. Many folk musics have independently arrived at the pentatonic, and music in pentatonic is really quite jumpy. Listen to some jigs or reels and you'll be startled by how much the melody jumps around. In contrast, if you want to find very smooth melodic motion with long scale passages, approaches by semitone and so on, you'll find it much more in Bach than in folk or modern pop. So smooth melody might be more of a minority taste.

Or consider the song Axel F. It's pretty much the perfect pop hook, all producers dream of creating something like it and all listeners can instantly latch onto it. Yet it consists mostly of jumps, including a third, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth, and an octave.
I think you might want to look into the Mandelbrot and Julia set, and things like Kochs Snowflake, as these are purely mathematical systems like in OP - this is one part of the book I didn't integrate as well, you might be satisfied by the book - but OP also lists some references on the symmetry of chaotic systems, maybe that's a better way forward!
>tiny screen

I wish! Have you seen phones nowadays? They're bigger than tablets were in 2014!
That's obviously infeasible (either it would be bad or it would cost too much time/money).

However, maintaining a variant of Ungoogled Chromium or Vanadium targeted at desktop Linux would be feasible.
I use https://www.ilovepdf.com/ . They have a ton of tools. Their Sign PDF includes the ability to add text, dates, a signature from a PNG, etc.
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