skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Happened to my brother as well. Extremely fit and sharp guy. Had one stroke at his 31 years of age and another 6 months later.

I make sure to enjoy every day as much as possible now.
I was thinking a Scarlet Letter. Maybe “A” for Alcoholic?
One’s beliefs and feelings won’t be rational but the overall functioning of your brain is mostly reasonable when you know enough about your self, your past, and your brain. The task of building a fulfilling life with the nervous system you actually have is not trivial but also not impossible.
> I find press releases like this both not useful and overall bad for the scientific community.

University media offices seem to think it's their job to misinterpret and exaggerate scientific findings in whatever way will draw the most clicks to their press release.

I've only had a chance to skim, but there's all kinds of weirdness here. In "Study 3" they measure 171 college students' social media use on Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, ignoring TikTok, which those subjects probably use more than all the others combined.
I've tried MAS many times and never had it work. It always gets stuck downloading at 80% or something.
9% for Namecheap, maybe. Verisign is only allowed to raise prices 7% per year at the moment.
Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
I think it should be the Federal Gov that takes the lead, but I guess in reality all lLaw Enforcement Orgs would have fully support this raid and want to do a lot more. Probably with the New York Times and the Washington Post at the top of the list.

With the current US Court System, I expect this will be allowed if this raid ever gets to the Supreme Court.
Did it? What adoption numbers?

Number of distros? Number of applications?

Ubuntu seems to dwarf other Linux distrobutions in terms of numbers of users. Are you saying more users have Flatpak installed than have Snap installed?
Thanks for the feedback! We have a few bugs around newlines, hopefully they're easy to fix.
Yeah, reading about this that all started to make a lot more sense as a deep joke.
Just as we hit the gym to sculpt our bodies, our minds deserve their workout regimen to stay razor-sharp.
Right, in this case specifically we're running off a limited bootstack allocated in the kernel's .bss (somewhere between 2 to 6 pages, generally); we won't finish initializing VM until shortly after this sort is done (in some of the SYSINITs that we're sorting).
As far as I'm concerned this is a good thing. I'm completely and utterly tired of fixing the next 14916498th bug that's caused by package X and Y having shared dependency Z, then X updating Z to Z+1 and breaking Y. In the last 2 decades I used linux I had this issue so many countless times that as far as I'm concerned nix-style, or AppImage-style "waste space" solution is strictly speaking better. Sick and tired of this "upgraded MuseScore3 to MuseScore4, so now Ardour is broken" insanity, this is not how software is supposed to work. I want each package to have its own dependencies, period.
Distrowatch's Advanced Search page:

(note the "Init software" section of checkbox choices, near the end...)

https://distrowatch.com/search.php#advanced
There's something charmingly frustrating about typing "git" into the command line, and then waiting 4-5 hours for "Xcode Command-line Tools" to install.
This really is true and you may be understating with "most". Here are a couple:

mkdir /tmp/g
seq 1 10 | tr \\n \\0 |
xargs -0n2 -P4 bash -c 't=$EPOCHREALTIME; sleep $((RANDOM%5)); echo "$@" >/tmp/g/$t' d0
cat /tmp/g/*

Another one is

xargs -P "$(nproc)" --process-slot-var=s sh -c 'grep X "$@" >>/tmp/g.$s' d0
cat /tmp/g.*

You can also cobble together that second style with a custom config setup wherein a command is given $s and responds with some host names and there might be an `ssh` in front of the `grep`, for example. That `d0` argument (for $0) is a bit janky and there can be shell quoting issues, of course. But then again, you may not have hostile filenames/whatever. Remote loadavg adaptation might be nice, but then again, maybe you control all the remotes. Similarly, I could not get back-to-back executions of the EPOCHREALTIME thing closer than 250 microseconds. So, collision basically will not happen even though it probably could in theory.
But the tech did improve a lot in the past year.

One year ago we had textual inversion. Now we have LoRA and control net. I know it might not be a scientific breakthrough, but in practice it's day and night.
> Compound that with property taxes: I just heard a neighbors condo's taxes go up from 8k to 18k in a single year.

This must be a special case of not having the correct assessed value, or an error and they are including condo association costs in their property tax.

Even at a 3% property tax rate, which very few Americans have, a $10k increase means a $333k increase in assessed value for a condo. 1% to 2% property tax rates are more likely, which would mean a ~$667k increase in assessed value.
I think it’s a pretty basic/uninteresting relation; for a subset of users, being inflamed causes them to be uncomfortable which causes them to post about being uncomfortable, probably sometimes talking about inflammation itself (for a super meta example, see posts in this thread).
Another "can we please" is stop illustrating (or providing as defaults) insecure configuration examples.

A large percentage of people following the examples will use them verbatim.

Had a case recently where someone was setting up a postgres container and the example was something like:

docker run --name some-postgres -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=mysecretpassword -d postgres

You guessed it, "mysecretpassword" ended up being the password. And the service predictably got compromised, because that example was one that was pretty high up in seasrch results for "how to run postgres in docker" and attackers probing for port 5432 will try "mysecretpassword."

Another one is can we please stop posting code examples that are illustrating some language feature or how to do thing X in language Y, where the code has a footnote "this isn't secure, don't do this in production code." That footnote will be ignored. If you're going to bother answering a question, answer it with a proper implementation and not something that is a gaping code injection vulnerability.
>Body scanning can be one that can be useful for building 3D apps

Oh boy, can't wait till Amazon, Meta and Google can monetize my body and insecurities. /s
yes thats what instincts are. theyre urges that you cant explain
John Cleese on Creativity In Management:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g
You should read it again

> Newly defined header fields SHOULD limit their field values to US-ASCII octets

ASCII octets! That means you SHOULD NOT send Latin1 encoded headers. The opposite of what pzmarzly was saying. I don't disagree Latin-1 being a superset of ASCII or having backward compatibility in mind, but that's not relevant to my response.
> If you moved to some country in Europe is is _harder_ for you to travel to US, and vice versa.

No it's not.

Anecdata: plenty of Indian citizens in Europe go troublefree to the US.

I personally know a few people.

> Second, as you've already taken the immigration route once, you're seen as a potential immigrant with a risk of no return.

You make it sound like they would illegally-immigrate to America.

Why would someone who's legally present in Europe (and presumably tax-paying) sneak away to America?

If such people want to immigrate to America it's fair to assume they would do it the proper way (instead of going there on a tourist visa and disappearing).
It's very annoying that everything is going to the monthly subs BS and I can't just pay $5 for 1000 widget bazingas or whatever the credit system is called.
Light grey background with white text (Firefox)?
Here's a link to the final C89 draft spec (the ratified spec is paywalled):

https://www.open-std.org/JTC1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf

From section 6.7.2.1, semantics #10:

> The alignment of the addressable storage unit is unspecified.

This is for struct field access, but it clearly implies the compiler can choose to use unaligned struct fields. Also, the size of the integer types are all implementation defined:

then #12:

> Each non-bit-field member of a structure or union object is aligned in an implementation- defined manner appropriate to its type.

Alignment is defined as:

> requirement that objects of a particular type be located on storage boundaries with addresses that are particular multiples of a byte address

It doesn't say which multiple. 1 is a multiple. (So is 0.5, just in case the complier wants to go nuts with arcane code gen.) The spec even allows chars to be 7 bits. I didn't bother looking up the definition of byte in the spec for those architectures. (7 bits? 8 bits?)

In section 6.2.5, they talk about implementation-defined restrictions on integer types + alignment requirements:

> For each of the signed integer types, there is a corresponding (but different) unsigned integer type (designated with the keyword unsigned) that uses the same amount of storage (including sign information) and has the same alignment requirements.

So, the alignment of integers has to be the same for signed + unsigned types. That still doesn't say byte-aligned integers are disallowed.

Later:

> An integer may be converted to any pointer type. Except as previously specified, the result is implementation-defined, might not be correctly aligned,

Again, the alignment behavior is clearly implementation-defined.

I can't find a definition of implementation in the spec, but it clearly includes the compiler, standard library, and operating system. There is this quote:

> For implementations with a signed zero (including all IEC60559 implementations)

which, according to the IEC60559 abstract "An implementation of a floating-point system conforming to this standard may be realized entirely in software, entirely in hardware, or in any combination of software and hardware." I doubt they were trying to constrain floating point to be done in software by compilers, so it's pretty clear they intended to incorporate the physical hardware in the definition of the "implementation".

Later, they say:

> ...is defined if and only if the implementation supports the floating-point exception

which was definitely in the realm of hardware support back in 1989. Some later sections says that some macros (such as for FMA) are defined iff the implementation implements the primitive in hardware, and not just software.
1000 cores?? I don't have 100 cores! What do you even need 10 cores for? Well, here's 4 cores. Give 2 to your brother. Don't go wasting all those hyper threads all at once!

Intel ca. 2010, probably
Because the article writes about worrying which ones to digitize. With a machine, one can digitize them all, just by loading in a new roll each time you pass by the machine.
Alright, but it didn't explain what an FD&C dye was...
What is the linux app endgame in an ideal world? Imho that is true linux on mobile. With painless, secure, efficient downloads from app stores. (This way the FOSS impact will skyrocket and the promise will be fulfilled)

Work backward from that requirement and constraint. Solutions and designs that barely work for the linux desktop will never bring a revolution...
You missed a crucial bit of the abstract (my emphasis):

> We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4-3.7 billion birds and 6.9-20.7 billion mammals annually. Un-owned cats, as opposed to owned pets, cause the majority of this mortality.

From the text of the paper, "majority" means 69% for birds and 89% for mammals. Feral cats kill a lot of animals, because that's what they eat. Pet cats do not. "Domestic cat" here means F. catus, not cats that live in homes.

Also, i wouldn't attach complete confidence to this paper. Firstly, it was written by bird conservationists, who have a dog in this fight (as it were). Secondly, it contains some dubious numbers (eg bird return rate per owned cat per year of 4.2 - 18.3 in US and Europe studies - and yet my mum's cats all brought in 0 - 1 per year). I'm not saying ignore it, but don't treat it as gospel - and it would be great to see responses to it, and other work on this subject.
The US economy is hardly as isolationist as you seem to think. Do you have any idea what the embargo on Russia did to the EU economy (hint: we didn't build those massive pipelines because we liked looking at them)? Let alone the massive loss of productivity in Ukraine, which had a relatively high level of education compared with other Eastern European countries while having very low wages? Not to mention the hit to world food supplies (which of course has less of a direct impact on the Global North as most of the food produced in Ukraine goes to the Global South).

And this is while we're still in a global pandemic that was still causing occasional lockdowns and shutdowns in China by the end of last year, causing ripples through global supply chains. Plus the short outage from the accidental blockade of the Suez Canal and the lasting effects from the 2020 disruptions of supply chains and mass death of small businesses. Not to forget the increase (and increase in severity) in droughts and floodings and wildfires and other natural disasters which have also been messing with production and supply (e.g. I know of several major insurance companies in Germany that are currently completely backlogged over claims relating to recent severe weather incidents).

There's a global ongoing financial crisis and it's neither concentrated in nor entirely caused by the United States. Yes, individual incidents (e.g. the SV Bank failure) have global knock-on effects but this cuts both ways.

EDIT: I don't fundamentally disagree with you. I just want to point out that energy prices aren't the entirety of what's fueling the ongoing situation and that it's a bit bigger than just the invasion of Ukraine, which is already disruptive enough (after all this is why we didn't have any major land wars in Europe since WW2 excluding the fallout from the fall of the Soviet Union).
They don't even work anyway. The cats are so good at walking without wobbling and the bells aren't loud anyway.
EASA AMC 20-193 Use of multi-core processors [pdf]
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> Houses could only be priced

> the price rises

ah, the swirling anonymity of "market forces"! These are all active decisions made by people, not forces of nature. The money from these increased prices doesn’t just disappear into the ether.

You're not wrong, of course, but it's worth looking at it from another angle. A house for a dual income family does not cost more to build than a house for a single income family. In a world where housing is considered more of a human right than an investment vehicle prices could have stayed low, more could be built, faster. Instead we live in a world where everyone must work more in order for their quality of life to stand still. I think it's permissible to be angry about that.
Completely off-topic, but if the author happens to be here:

What is the system you are using to justify text? The "hanging" parenthesis on "(Understand that what I'm about to describe, ..." caught my eye, and it appears that every _line_ of text has it's own padding and word spacing to arrange it "just so". I can't imagine it was done by hand, but I've never seen it before.
It was common practice in early Atari games to have custom, non-ASCII character sets. For Tempest, as an anti-tamper measure the team made the character assignments for the game's copyright message executable 6502 code. Periodically, in an obfuscated way, the machine would execute this code. People who pirated the ROM (this did happen in the industry) would be tempted to modify the message; the machine would crash, and they'd have to figure it out.

When the team (well, Dave Theurer) finished the game, they sent it off to the factory floor and went on vacation. Mission accomplished.

Then Atari legal decided that they had to update the copyright message (e.g., to alter some spelling). Since the team was away, someone without the above knowledge just changed the string. The game appeared to work, and that's what they shipped.

That modification didn't abjectly crash the machine. Instead, it did Weird Shit depending on the remainder of the score line.

Just luck of the draw.
> But on the other hand, app crashes aren't something that common on linux. I mean at least on my distro

Strong disagree, my experience is that app crashes are extremely common on Linux if you step outside of official repositories; I say this as someone who literally only runs Linux and nothing else. I'm not necessarily saying Windows is better but... it's not like nothing ever breaks. It's impressive how well developers are able to hold it all together, but my experience is that Linux systems are fragile the moment anyone stops actively managing the dependencies and putting in the work to compile everything to match.

> that is not packaged by the distro maintainers

It is not feasible or scalable for Linux for every single app (even every Open Source app) to be distributed and managed by the distro maintainers. And this is what I'm getting at with dependency isolation -- the vast majority of crashes and bugs I see on Linux (and I mean by a massive margin) are all due to dependency mismatches and shared dependencies. A lot of Linux software is generally stable if the system looks like what it's expecting the system to look like. But if you're not going through an official repository where a bunch of volunteers are putting in the work to make it consistent, then it very often doesn't look like what developers expect.

This is why people run games through Wine instead of using the Linux versions -- it's not because it's impossible to build good native versions, it's because if they don't use the Linux version they can use Bottles. That's the biggest reason; it's about the dependency isolation.
I wish the article quantified the amount of SEO and ‘irrelevant’ content procured in the wild—- it’s a large number but also a dark art for creators to produce cheaply. The author seems somewhat content with the idea of using AI to generate garbage content, but this essay might underestimate the profits of leveraging existing art to train said AI. It strikes me in the current Writer’s Strike, studios probably have an estimate of how profitable AI could be and aren’t sharing that number.

The essay focuses mainly on prompt-slot-machine-based generative AI but there’s a large suite of work that uses the same research to more directly support the artist. Stuff like in-painting, controlled diffusion, and re-stylizing.. as long as it’s free (compared to more expensive art equipment) it should have a beneficial impact on artists.
Xcode is so painful. I had to install it on mojave for some command line program dependency that demanded xcode be installed. Ok, lets try installing xcode via the command line. Turns out that did not install whatever was in the xcode suite that this tool depended on so I needed the web download. Problem was, I am on mojave. It took way to long to dig up the appropriate download link that was compatible. Then of course like all large web downloads from apple, I had to babysit it and restart the download when it failed every couple hundred mb.
I wish this would get more attention.

Page sizes are approaching ridiculous levels. Just 1 example:

Many news websites list a bunch of news items. You click a link, html loads. Then a bunch of style sheets. So far no problem.

Then a boatload of tracking & advertising scripts. Then a "cookies ok?" dialog. That dialog alone often causes 100s of KB's traffic. Let's say you click "manage options". More traffic. Again when you hit confirm. And of course, then a # of cookies get set anyway. Yes cookies aren't that big but it's still additional traffic.

Then some add loads. And another one. And an image used by the add is auto-refreshed. And again. And again.

All of this comes from 20, 30 or more servers, each one potentially responsible for the page 'hanging', unresponsive, content invisible or whatever, until some stuff times out (or user gives up).

Finally, you read what, 1..5 KB of text? 10+ KB (of raw text) is a big article, many news items are much shorter like 1 or 2 paragraphs.

And you see 1 or a few pictures. Which often enough, don't 'come' from the story itself but are just illustrations picked from one of those commercial tagged-and-licensed photo libraries. And you can easily reduce picture file sizes by fiddling with file format (cartoon style pix, background tiles etc) or quality settings (photos). Some websites do, many don't seem to care.

End result: multi-MB traffic just to read a few KB of text. Plus a good chunk of compute resources (and energy consumption going with that) both on server & client side.

And then companies claim they need adds to pay for hosting & related costs. Or that they have to pay their reporters. Even if they're just aggregating news from other sites (or some AI does that, as of late).

Pfff... self-inflicted unnecessary pain. Hosting bits of html/css costs nothing these days.

Reduce your fluff ratio!
Except historically there have been periods where increasing the money supply hasn't driven up inflation particularly (because most of the increased supply was used to fund increases in productive output) and times where high inflation has been triggered without any significant increase in money supply (often due to unusual factors restricting supply of key goods/services). But at a sufficiently large scale, then sure, inflation will tend to follow money supply. But arguably such baseline inflation is largely a reflection of the fact that the overall output of the economy has grown, and not any indication of general decreased affordability.
I feel this in my bones. I really find it hard to figure out the right solutions for scaling things that will be "bigger than small" but also "smaller than big" for the foreseeable future. That is, when the "starting point" conventional wisdom ("just use postgres / sqlite for everything; anything else is yagni") isn't quite up to snuff, but the "scale up" solutions are designed to handle far bigger use cases and bring some baggage along with that.

I have honestly found Snowflake pretty useful for this, because it seems pretty cheap to me for a small amount of usage, but is also elastic up to this middle-ground of usage. But I suspect that at "truly big" I would / will be interested in different solutions.
Or download the official git binary (https://sourceforge.net/projects/git-osx-installer/) if you don't even want devtools. Been a while since I did that, but there are plenty of other things I avoid building or downloading from a package manager (like NodeJS or Python).
See sibling comment. The alignment requirements are implementation defined, and any multiple is legal. 1 byte is definitely a legal multiple.
Overall this post is a pretty fair take, but I'm not sure intuitive the "latent space" explanation is. I work with diffusion models full time and really appreciate how easy they are to explain at an introductory level (assuming you don't get distracted by the mathematical derivations). But I don't feel like I've seen that many good explanations online. I made my own attempt in a presentation last year (https://youtu.be/c-eIa8QuB24?t=86) but haven't had time to clean it up. I keep hoping I'll see a better series from a real communicator pop up in my feed but I'm not sure this is it.
Six months isn’t a long time. People were saying ChatGPT would be replicated within that time frame (it wasn’t).

I’d bet more along the lines of 1 year. As for six months, tweaky prompts might be here to stay.
Would it make any sense to describe the Polynesian settlement of Pacific islands as "nazi bullshit"? (Granted, we have little or no access to proto-Maori ideologies of the 13th Century, say, but discussions of what "colonization" is or means tend to be really Eurocentric...)