skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Semantic versions only make sense if you anticipate discontinuous breaking changes in the future, with periods of stability between. If no new version will be a breaking change, or if every new version will be breaking, it loses meaning and you might as well go date-based. (Or, if you're Linus Torvalds, completely arbitrary.)
I think a reasonable amount of planning and preparation for emergencies is wise. There will always be a possibility for floods, fires, storms, accidents, electrical systems going down, trains loaded with chemicals crashing, riots and civil unrest, wars, etc that makes having some survival resources on hand a wise thing. There are some people who place false hope in government to always be there to save them in an emergency.

That said, I strongly believe that the panic felt in some corners specifically about climate change is laughably overstated compared to what its nearly imperceptible impact on peoples' lives will actually be. The current climate change predictions are as accurate as the decades worth of other failed environmental predictions I lived through.

Live Life. Find love. Make babies. Make money. Touch grass. Make art. Don't sacrifice your life to even more induced fear.
I would do the same thing with the information I get from top and Activity Monitor: use that to guide me to what needs investigating.

I am often developing small one-off programs to process data. I then keep some of these running in various workflows for years. Currently, I might notice a process taking an enormous amount of CPU according to top, but it might really be just waiting on memory. Surfacing that would tell me where to spend my time with a profiler.
Uninstall Uber Eats until you need it again but yes this sucks.
The part that makes it a non-starter is that it has to be in some kind of a store (whether it's on prem via SharePoint) or the Internet. What is needed is that you can install something on the user's computer (xcopy install, msi, w/e), but without requiring any other Microsoft end-point. And then, the bits installed either run completely on-node (similar to COM/VSTO) or it would require that access to remote web-server be required. If a remote web-server is required (which is a bit of a limitation), it should be something that can be pointed to without Microsoft's involvement. Just like I can create a web-site, give you a URL to it, and you can go it using your WebBrowser. No app-stores.

That doesn't mean app-store shouldn't be an option. I would love to also publish my add-in in the Microsoft AppStore, but it should be my choice, not a hard-requirement.

That's why people are still using VSTO, not because we have a problem with JavaScript vs. C# or COM.
Pi4J Operating System for Java Development on Raspberry Pi
Honestly, after seeing a little bit of how the sausage gets made and where the gridlock in Nix comes from, I think that's kind of needed.
Paste extruder for ender 3 – 3D printing with clay
I don't think semver is very useful for applications as opposed to libraries.

Remove some obscure feature which almost nobody ever used? Backward incompatible change, must increment major version.

Add some major new feature which is a massive quantity of code, visible and likely important to all users–but 100% backward compatible? Increment minor version instead.

Makes sense to (some) developers, but to an end-user semver is rather nonsensical. Everyone can understand calendar-based versioning.
I remember mounting my circuits on corrugated cardboard as a child. Uphill and against the wind in both directions.
I recall there was some issues with certain Visa cards. Ah right I did have issue where I couldn't load with my Chase Sapphire Reserve card. But I just switched to the Apple Card and it went smoothly.

So yes there may be some hurdles. However, since you can do this before arrival, you can figure out ahead of time which card(s) work and which don't.

Edit: just tried it with my CSR again and it still didn't work. Then I tried with a CapitalOne (Mastercard) card and that worked. Unfortunately, I don't have another Visa or Amex card that doesn't charge foreign transaction fees, so I cannot say for sure if it's a payment network issue or bank issue. I had no issue using my CSR for contactless payments in Japan though.
Reading the temperature, humidity, and pressure from a BME280 Sensor with Java
In 1971 the US broke the Breton woods agreement, defaulted on it's debt obligations and depegged the dollar from gold conpletely.
Thanks, I don't feel much eyestrain and have excessively good near vision, but I'm always on the look out for far out ways to improve or prevent further near sightedness.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough. The definition of intelligence I propose is wholly distinct from human prosocial values like cooperation.

This makes it useful for judging these properties across living and non-living intelligent processes, such as bacteria, ants, plants, dogs, LLMs, etc. It is not a useful definition for judging the value or "goodness" of human beings within society.

I'm arguing that intelligence (as prediction) is simpler than we often presume, not a mystery at all, and a basic building block of complex life. We happen to have a lot of it.
> Penpot really exploded in reaction to the Adobe acquisition announcement in late 2022, but Figma acquired a YC company known as Visly in 2021.

It is not mutually exclusive that Figma bought Visly in 2021 and these features are in reaction to/are copying Penpot. Given the gap of three years between this post while owning Visly makes it more plausible.
Specifically, after about a year: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> Are reposts ok?

> If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.
Yeah, )) is fairly common in Russia and neighboring countries such as Belarus or Armenia.

Another one I encountered at work was a Taiwanese coworker ending sentences with a ~ character which apparently indicates "cute" / "playful"
> For example, in the Denver area (just to pick a random place), there's a laundromat for sale for ~260K,

I'd just live off of the $260K (plus the interest I'd make having it in tbills) until I could draw SS (which is only about 5 years out). In reality, that's probably what I'll do (though I don't have $260K outside of retirement accounts - more like $150K).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramana_Maharshi

Related:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Brunton
Quick sort with Hungarian, folk dance [video]
Semver is perfect for developers and libraries and helps a lot.

In software for end users semver tells nothing most of the time.
Doxing is nonconsensual unmasking of any kind.
I kind of do something similar, but rather than have the phone in DND mode, I use an app to block and send all calls to voicemail by default. I can turn it off if accepting a call, else, I'll call back if and when I feel like it.

Another useful feature for me is an app to customize the LED lights, so I can assign different colors and blink rates for different apps and different types of notifications.

These two things really make me feel like I'm in full control, and make my phone experience infinitely better.
Sonic Runners (2015) Decompilation
"This is a largely faithful decompilation of the final release of Sonic Runners (version 2.0.3). It was initially sourced from the Android version, but will build to any platform that Unity supports."
I think the author is talking about maths problems, or proofs of theorems/propositions.

A problem might give you one or more mathematical objects, and ask you to show that some further condition holds true. To get started, you might consider how the given properties of those objects will help you to achieve your goal (and typically you would need to use every given property).
I hope she avoids working for someone else. Why does she need to have her inspiration crushed by the pettiness of corporate life?
Can someone give concrete examples, why?
Let’s exclude the learning.
I think people who love math expressed in nomenclature well never understand those who don't ...

K-L divergence is the pretty much really dumb, obvious thing you would probably think up if someone asked you to compare two probability distributions.

You would start by going "oh I suppose I will look at how far apart they are at all the different values" and add it up. Then you would say, "oh, but 0.1 and 0.01 are really an order of magnitude apart, just like 0.01 and 0.001. Perhaps it will work better if I use the log of the probability". Then you would pause for thought and say, "Hmmmm hang on some of the values are really extreme but almost never happen, shouldn't it be weighted by how frequently they occur?".

But of course paragraphs of mathematical symbols are the way many people prefer to express this.
Terrible. Seller's market now. >100 apps, 2 HR screenings, 1 interview, 1 rejection.

I'm 7+ YoE senior engineer working in the embedded space.

I even have generic third party recruiters ghosting me these days, _after_ having me put a time into their goofy Calendly link.

You know the kind. You check their LinkedIn out and they have a B.A. in Library Sciences or something. Yeah. Those guys have the upper hand now.
> Phone ringing is already banned in some places, like public transport in some countries.

That seems insane. What countries?

Conversations I get, but ringing?
I forgot dual income families. That's huge. There's a lot of people in that situation. If they have the money for kids, they don't have the time.
I am curious why. A foreign government has almost no power over you. They cannot put you under surveillance, lock you up, or put you on naughty lists that mean anything. Your own government, domestic data brokers, and other corporate entities can have more direct control over your fate.
The waterfall effect of Sonic is more of a result of composite video artifacts. Using a RGB cable, the effect is much less pronounced.
RFCs! https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc793.txt
> the cost for training llama2 is usually a few dollars.

nit: thats the cost for finetuning, not pretraining
Height in Sports
feel better soon.
Goodhart's law is always in effect. It can't be solved because it's not a problem, it's a fact of nature with annoying implications. It's the echo of the observation that efficiency is fitness as its consequences ripple from the lowest levels of reality through systems made of people.

You can make an engine as effective as the laws of physics let you, but you can't solve the limits of thermodynamics. You can only do your best within them. Same with this, for maybe the same reason.
I think what was missing here was lack of developer buy-in into the actual changes implemented, and making sure that they were reasonable and sustainable. Sounds to me like a blanket mandate was handed out without buy-in and also wasn't achievable, and the developers felt they had to work around it to get their real jobs done.
> it probably isn't adjusting all the weights of the network, only a tiny subfragment of the network

source please? this actually isnt all that clear to me
I find it funny that when we talk about something like the constitution and how you can't change it even with popular support people talk about democracy, how democracy is important, how a people should be able to change the rules with a 51% majority, but as soon as they don't like wyat the people want its no longer democracy, its populism.
Rapidly pressing and releasing the hang up button simulates pulse (as opposed to tone) dialing used by rotary phones.
This is a site that supports a goldbug argument that virtually everything that has gone with every economy in the world traces back to the end of the gold exchangeability standard. Thats a simple narrative that is almost certainly not true. Whether it is or isn't, for many of the reasons in that thread (and probably many others), this particular site is not a good argument for that narrative, since many of the charts are simply broken.
Well, those who now use shopify used to use prestashop, magento or shopworn before. Not sure if all of those stores were run by amateurs.
Why do you care at all, let alone "dealbreaker". You need a model specifically fine tuned towards something dangerous?
Millions' of spammy emails with no opt-out? That'll cost you $650K, Experian
The classic war planes story was about Abraham Wald - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Wald
> For every company cash flow and profits are undoubtedly the most important metric. It is almost impossible to argue that maximize those numbers should NOT be a goal.

Except for VC backed startups. Actually, there are a lot of exceptions. But those mostly revolve around caveats surrounding riskiness and timelines.
definitely_not_malware.xls.py
Feels like old mean people trying to get blackmail onto the next generation.

A hard no from me. But it doesn't seem to make a difference what I say.
You were just ahead of your time!
The title is definitely supposed to play on the shock factor of 24 clearly not being immediately greater than 8, and possibly the mixed reactions to some other software moving away from SemVer (Firefox switching to Chrome's scheme comes to mind)

It wasn't immediately apparent to me that the new versioning scheme would be year.month/whatever, which is the real news, but it's less interesting.
RadioShack’s NSFW Period Appears Over, as New Owner Plots a Brand Expansion
I felt that it was on point to point out Microsoft, as it was the main area where I first started using emojis (before they were emojis, even though it was functionally the same). MSN Messenger came with a nice set of default smileys, and it was very simple to create your own smileys and use them in conversations with others. When other people sent a smiley to you, you could just right click it and add it to your own private repertoire of smileys.
It's about advanced school exercises or math contest questions that are designed by someone, not real-world/research problems, where you don't even know how to best frame the issue or whether it's even solvable or the appropriate thing to tackle at the time.
Saturday Is the New Friday
> everything is a giant pain

Have you ever used a Windows machine?
> Learnings? B and C players with questionable ethics screw companies quite rapidly.

No one should be surprised when employees respond to incentives, and blaming them seems a clear indicator of managerial failure: failure to tend to morale, failure to reward actually useful behavior, failure to articulate a vision.
“Developers go back and fix tech debt and shortcuts accrued due to short release timeline”
I don't think that's necessarily true. They built VSTO for C#, but everybody was using ExcelDNA instead, an Open Source solution that was much better!
And yet there seems to be shockingly little effort towards making sure that doesn't happen. Why isn't there an underground bombproof chip fab somewhere?

It's like as if people don't really care about technological society, they just do what they always do, expand and try to do stuff that is hard and impressive, and if the computers went away... they'd be just as happy as a blacksmith or something...

Or maybe even happier.
Usually the reason is always the same: money. That is why people work in corporates.
I will confess that at least the biology work is still somewhat mysterious to me. John Baez used to be active on Twitter. I believe he's still active on Mathstodon now. If you're curious, you might ask him.
Sales is the low risk, medium returns option. Engineering is high risk, high returns.
I know a few people who work at a place where they stuffed all their databases on the same server, and all their systems just write to whatever database they feel like on that same server, share data via database, join data across databases etc. And they use upvoted cynical memes like this comment to justify their “architecture” because “microservices are a fad”.

So as one might expect - various automated reports and actions routinely fail with deadlocks and timeouts, any change anywhere has a pretty big chance of screwing some other distant part of another system, all services need full unrestricted access to all databases, and off course nothing can really be tested because you need to run practically every database and service on the same machine to even try to test.

Naturally the pace of work is glacial, and bugs are blamed on individual intellectual failing of lesser tenured developers not having the experience and the vast system trivia knowledge of “lifers” who secured their guaranteed employment this way.

You might even be those people for all i know.
Hard to tell even 10 years ago how effective this strategy was. Google banned it from the Chrome extensions store, which at least means they felt threatened by the clicks, but that doesn't mean you're defeating the tracking.
"but a sport where things like the exact composition of dirt is critically important."

Let's not swing the pendulum too far in the opposite direction either...
I've built this sort of truth table in "plain code" and was always jealous of environments like embeddr, where things are a lot more readable and no manual alignment is required :-) [1].

Subtext [2] included a feature called "schematic tables" that is related to decision tables (demo [3], 8yr old video).

When I saw Subtext's schematic tables I started to think of minimizing expressions, finding the complement, etc, to aid in writing correct boolean expressions. I think an algorithm like Quine–McCluskey [4] or espresso [5] could have applications to programming for refactoring boolean logic (normally these are used in electronics design).

I don't know of any programming environment that could tell you if a boolean expression is a tautology or a contradiction... (I imagine a linter with SAT solver [6] powers could do this). In table form this would be obvious: a result column that is always true or always false. But then again you don't want to write a truth table for EVERY boolean expression on a program. Would be nice to be able to go back and forth from table to expression, minimize the expression, check satisfiability, etc.

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1: https://markusvoelter.medium.com/the-evolution-of-decision-t...

2: https://www.subtext-lang.org/

3: https://vimeo.com/140738254

4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine%E2%80%93McCluskey_algori...

5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espresso_heuristic_logic_minim...

6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_satisfiability_problem
To be fair, the blue/green thing is kinda useful, I don't use a ton of apple-ecosystem exclusive things but it's nice to tell when I can or not.
Oh! That’s a huge difference, haha.
I think the big difference between gif and emoji is that you need to see a gif to know what it represents.
I had a personal XPS 13 back in 2015 or 2016 that I loved. Right now for work I have a Precision 5560 from 2021 which has all the drawbacks you listed and that I hate. I don't know if it's a year thing or a model thing, but certainly there is no brand consistency when it comes to Dell.
QuickTime lost? MP4 basically is QuickTime.
China, while hardly populist, has been failing upward for quite a few years now. Those tariffs, man. And if economics can't account for the monetary value of national security then it's not very useful.
The South Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang did an excellent job of documenting how protectionism was what allowed all industrialized countries to achieve their status. This rambling missive is just wrong and not insightful at all, based on cherry-picked examples and ignorant of history. In short, a classic piece from a conventional economist.
I'm waiting for v31.337 myself
Intuition for Functions and Higher Order Functions
Totally agree on the part of the add-in: Just give us a dead-simple method to load the manifest locally and be done with it!
https://cmocka.org is quite the collection of contrast errors and botched accessibility properties in only one page. https://pytorch.org is not much better. Neither form nor function in my personal opinion...

If I am going to be swayed that Obys' Grids[0] is bad, you better be comparing it to W3.org[1][2][3] or something..................................................

[0]: https://grids.obys.agency/

[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-method-id/

[2]: https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/combobox/

[3]: https://www.w3.org/news/2023/draft-note-catalan-gap-analysis...
I had this come up when I was buying a house.

I have a very common name and some guy 20-30 years older than me had past due child support. I also have no kids. This was my first house purchase so I was completely ignorant of the process. What blew my mind is that before verifying whether or not that was me, they informed the sellers of it. I forget the process I went through to prove it wasn't me, I probably just showed them the guys age vs mine or something. That was wild though, like, the sellers could've just cancelled the sale right there if they didn't want to sell to a supposedly deadbeat dad. I couldn't believe they informed the sellers.

Buying a house is awful. Telling someone all of my finances and everything else when I already have an approved mortgage. Ugh. I did have a worse experience SELLING that house though, if you can imagine.
I've always been afraid of using thumbs up because I've heard in some cultures as a gesture it means "up yours", although I suppose at this point almost everyone realizes what it means in a global/digital sense.
I missed it the first time. I'm glad I saw it this time.
Nice! This will be very useful for me. Think I can run this locally can spin a basic telegram bot around it for personal use.

One issue I faced with all the whisper based transcript generators is that there seems to be no good way to make editing/correcting the generated text with word level timestamp. I created a small web based tool[0] for that.

By any chance if anyone is looking to edit transcripts generated using whisper, you'd probably find it useful.

[0] https://github.com/geekodour/wscribe-editor
"Traditional" is just another way to say "what was once the norm", so your comment is a bit pleonastic.
Is relying on the platform no longer considered amateur? If yes, call me old fashioned, because I've never liked those platforms...
Whenever you visit a node you need one edge to walk in and one to walk out, except for the first and last node.
So all K_n with even n , you can walk all the edges.
For odd n, you lose one edge per node, except for 2 of them
With all of china's spying you guys are terrible at building things effectively. I wonder what the US will do.
That's not what populism means.

If we're restricting ourselves to the United States (the article is overwhelmingly not about the US), it's a 50/50 polity. The people want an incoherently overlapping set of ideas from an incoherently-left-liberal party and an incoherently-conservative-right party. It's what you'd expect as an organically reached steady state based on Duverger's Law.

Populism is a philosophy that looks at that set of circumstances and says, nah, fuck that. It's obvious what the people want: precisely X, Y, and Z set of policies. If the people are voting in obstacles to policy X, it's because the system is corrupted by elites. There aren't competing ideas of the good of the people; there is only the good of the people and the interests of those elites.

If you could put 200 people selected at random for all around the country in a room and expect them to work out the principles of an economic system and come up (1) with something coherent and (2) without bruises, that would be evidence of a valid populist argument. But you can't do that, because those 200 people will disagree sharply on everything from economic protectionism to the importance of university educations.