skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's kinda Debian's shtick. Its ethos is to be rock-solid stable no matter what. No changes but bug fixes, and it gets those in a very timely manner. It's an amazing distro for what it is, but in a desktop or workstation sometimes you just need up-to-date software and for that, Flatpak makes a whole lotta sense. Stable OS core with the latest applications shipped on top. It may not fit your own use case but it's one of the leading distros that exist, it far exceeds just "decent."
In my specific case, i3 must tell it, since some sites know to stop playing sound when the window is hidden, but keep playing when I switch to a separate window that doesn't obscure the noisy one.
These posts are all written with this insane premise that the moment in time the post was published, will continue to be the status quo for more than a couple months.

> If you’ve ever used a generative system, I can pretty much guarantee that you spent an embarrassing amount of time making tiny adjustments to your prompt and retrying. Producing a compelling image with generative AI is pretty easy; maybe one in ten images it generates will make you say, “Wow, cool!” But producing a specific image with generative AI is sometimes almost impossible.

Who could possibly think this will be the case six months from now? I mean, maybe some of the the content and warnings here is fleetingly accurate, but it's truly not a hill to die on. You could fire your illustrator and be inconvenienced for a couple months until the next stablediffusion update. It's a disservice to illustrators to make them feel safe.
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Apple bundles compared to Flatpaks:

• Both use reverse DNS to globally identify themselves, neither actually verifies DNS ownership.

• Almost everything is a bundle, except for CLI apps. FlatPaks on the other hand are being auto-converted from previous packaging systems.

• Bundles don't have dependencies. In theory they can, but in practice they never do. You depend on macOS/iOS as a unitary platform and bundles expose what the min version they require is.

• There is no update mechanism except the app store. If you want that you need to use something like Sparkle. A tool like Hydraulic Conveyor [1] can create a bundle with integrated Sparkle for your cross platform application without needing a Mac. Likewise no attempt to deduplicate redundant files. Interestingly, if you use the latest MSIX tech on Windows then the OS will deduplicate shared files (including libs) that are bundled with apps, in a transparent manner.

• Sandboxing is optional on macOS. If you don't opt in, you are put inside a relatively weak sandbox that just blocks access to a few folders in your home directory and stops you tampering with other apps/the OS. If you do opt in, you get a PowerBox design that's like what FlatPak is trying with portals. There's no way in the UI to see if an app is sandboxed because it's intended as a vulnerability mitigation and not a way to run untrusted code.

• Both bundles and the binaries within those bundles advertise which version of macOS/iOS they're expecting, and the OS frameworks can change behaviors depending on that for backwards compatibility reasons. It's a bit easier to maintain compatibility with Objective-C APIs than with C++, but still, Apple does it for all their APIs including the C++ ones.

[1] https://hydraulic.dev/ (disclosure: my company)
It is 44x44 on my computer. Absolutely massive.

https://imgur.com/a/dL1Se2v
You might have misunderstood what I said. It’s not up for debate whether RMS’s opinions or intent on the GPL have affected industry practice; that’s a fact of history. His statements on the GPL are authoritative in the sense that they may have prevented the courts from examining this question.
s/Conferences/Governments/

FTFY
> Also, use scantron style ballots that use computers to automate vote counting but not vote casting, with members of all major political parties monitoring polling stations and vote counting to ensure everything is above board.

That's almost the right way to do it. Just add some additional data printed on the ballots in a special ink that is normally invisible, and provide voters with a special marker to fill in the bubbles that reacts with the special ink to make it visible, use some clever cryptographic techniques to figure out what should be printed with that special ink, and you get this [1].

With that, people who just want to vote and trust that others will deal with auditing and counting go into the booth, fill in the bubbles for their candidates, drop the ballot in the collection box, and then just wait for the machine count to see who won, just like now.

But after the election all the cast ballots can be published allowing anyone to check the count.

Individual voters who noted a code that was on their ballot can check the published ballots and verify that their ballot was counted correctly (but they cannot prove to a third party that they voted for a particular candidate).

This system also allows a voter before voting to verify that the ballots have been correctly printed.

Voting systems with those properties are called end-to-end (E2E) verifiable voting systems [2], and there have been several proposals for such systems, including many that like Scantegrity do not rely on electronic voting machines.

Here is the original paper on this (PDF and HTML), and a paper proving that it is coercion-resistant [3][4][5]:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scantegrity

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_sy...

[3] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/evt08/tech/full_papers/c...

[4] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/evt08/tech/full_papers/c...

[5] https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/502.pdf
They are ads if they link to an app store, and bloatware if they've actually installed that crap on your machine. The shortcuts on my machine are for things I personally chose and installed and none of them open an app store. I've had cell phones that came with apps pre-installed like facebook that couldn't even be uninstalled normally. Does that count as "just a shortcut" too?

Those shortcuts weren't put there for you as a courtesy. Those are paid advertisements
CYP19A1 mediates severe SARS-CoV-2 disease outcome in males
Something like docker's layers?
And editioral review would not be huge work on generative art?
> Are we saying that all social media platforms are the same?

Nobody is saying that.

> Are there teams working on the hacker news platform trying to tweak the algorithms to drive addictive user engagement?

Driving addictive user engagement has little to do with being a social media platform, see Netflix for example.

> Is the sorting algorithm not a matter of public record?

Again, that’s irrelevant. Twitter is more open-source than HN.
Random tangent. When I see articles linked from this time frame, my brain automatically thinks

"Ah, but that was during Covid when a disproportionate amount of people were working from home and a lot of the normal feedback loops weren't running normally. Those were lonely/different times. I'll consider this article accordingly."

It's not really rationale/logical/founded, but that's where my brain kind of initially goes. Do others experience this?
n=1 anecdotal reflection here. I've had have chronic low grade inflammation from two different disorders for a very long time, including a GI disorder that definitely triggers my liver to work overtime (experienced in the form of general soreness, occasional stabs of pain in liver area and indications of impaired bile production and/or bile acid malabsorption, or BAM, during my longer flare-ups). So CRP is probably on the menu for me on a frequent basis.

The inflammatory aspect makes me feel like a complete zombie after several days of flaring up. I highly doubt this is a unique subjective experience. In fact, if you do some googling, you will find that chronic low-grade inflammation (as well as disruptions of the GI tract / microbiome) are quite strongly linked to treatment resistant depression, which is another thing I happen to have. I haven't personally read studies investigating it, but I suspect "brain fog" and attention/memory issues are also strongly correlated with chronic inflammation, even of the 'low grade' variety.

When I get into these states, brought on by flare-ups, my mind wants nothing more than to zone out in such a way as to increase the perceived speed with which time passes. Because time is basically the only thing that can get me out of a bad flare-up (as long as I avoid a huge list of foods and activities and strictly follow certain protocols as well). If I could sleep through all of it that would be ideal (a common refrain among the chronically depressed). And at the same time, stress and complicated situations increase the chances that I do something wrong that is likely to extend the flare-up (which to me suggests an adaptive role of depression during chronic health problems).

Even watching movies and TV feel too effortful at times: you have to focus on a storyline, remember what characters said and did, and maintain some emotional connection to the story in order to be engaged and thus have time pass quickly... all which takes effort. Social media truly is the high fructose corn syrup + hydrogenated palm oil of passive time-wasting activities. Getting into "the zone" in terms of mindlessly clicking as minutes and hours pass by in a flash takes almost zero effort once you are accustomed (read: addicted) to it. And everything is so bite-sized and condensed, it is perfectly tailored to someone who is having more trouble than normal focusing, staying engaged, and remembering stuff (even what was said/read 2 minutes ago).
Approaches to Software Engineering That Worked for Me
I want sandboxing.

One reason is that big applications can have many dependencies, and once in a while I find something dlopens something from the host filesystem, finds something incompatible and crashes. So I really want my stuff to run in a sandbox where I know exactly what it's loading and there are no surprises.

The other is that we've got a complex system under development and there may well be security exploits. I like the idea of that if somebody breaks our code it's going to take some work to get to the user still.
yes, there are so many frustrating communication archetypes I feel like there should be a compendium/dictionary of them. Unfortunately, most of them seem ego-driven, so it takes a lot typically for people to grow out of them.
Why do you assume this doesn't exist? I'm not personally familiar with any that do, but based on all of the other scanning devices from professional to DIY, I'd assume someone on the internet has done this.
I install only debs because I don't want too much redundant code around and having to update all of it, if it ever updates. I prefer Debian to care about updating shared libraries.

I make few exceptions, none for snaps and flatpacks so far.

I installed Firefox from the tar.bz2 on their site, as I did with Windows before my switch to Linux in 2009. It auto updates and so far it's OK. I'm on Debian 11, I'll upgrade to 12 to stay more current.

Other exceptions: docker containers for redis and the PostgreSQL versions I have to run for compatibility with the production servers of my customers. I use asdf for that sometimes and also for languages, of course. We can't rely on the versions coming with distros.

If I'd really have to use Overte I would do an exception for that too.
Show HN: 1000 Pound Club – The shareable powerlifting web app
I had major surgery a bit over six months ago. Here's a fun trick: try using a mobile phone. The high-grade opioids keeping the pain in check blunt your thinking. Post-op anesthesia cognitive disfunction on top of that makes things even more confusing. Oh yeah, there's also loss of fine motor control. Don't even try going without your reading glasses if you use them.

It takes days to weeks to return to function well enough to begin rehab. After that it can be weeks to months for full function to return.

Yeah, accessibility matters all the time, it's not just a special thing to slap on after your MVP. It is your MVP for many people.
Toy Models of Superposition (2022)
> LLMs cannot function, by definition, without language. But we know there is an experience of being without language.

Do we know that? What is a language? I learned that a language is an abstract mapping between arbitrary symbols and meaning. Why is it so hard to imagine that consciousness cannot exist without a mapping between ideas (abstract symbols) and objective reality (meaning)?
Best to stick with the cooking/crossword section with the nytimes...
All you need to see is that the domain for the article is CNBC to know that it’s anti-worker bullshit.
Americans have many destination options, including America. Any barrier is going to reduce the number somewhat
Japanse knotweed's young sprouts are edible, BTW. But, depending on your climate, it might sprout faster than you can eat it ;-0

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/weeds/is-jap...
ISO-8859-1 (aka. Latin-1) is a superset of ASCII, so all ASCII strings are also valid Latin-1 strings.

The section you quoted actually suggests that implementations should support ISO-8859-1 to ensure compatibility with systems that use it.
> OMG! Jetpack from Adept Software is still available?! https://www.adeptsoftware.com/jetpack/

I love that game!
Inflation is going to keep getting worse as the government has to print more and more excess money to service the national debt.

Meanwhile, the government will blame inflation on greedy corporate profiteers and excessive wage demands by workers. Oh, and the oil companies.
My duo workflow was figuring out I can request an SMS OTP and read the OTP code as a notification on my laptop instead of unlocking my phone and confirming via the app. Hopefully they get volume pricing on texts.
1OPS: One Operation per Statement
I've used it while working at two major companies everyone's heard of and used. Definitely seems to be popular.
Flatpaks break a number of apps that I use. So no, it's not the future. Come up with something that works before making it the solution to distribution packaging.
One major headache with trying to run precompiled binaries on Linux is that if they were compiled using a newer version of glibc than the target machine, they won't be able to run. Back while working on Factorio, I was trying to get around this problem with endless Docker containers, but coworker Wheybags came up with a much simpler solution to this, which is simply to, at compile time, link to the oldest compatible version of glibc by including a header: https://github.com/wheybags/glibc_version_header

It's too bad this hasn't been standard practice for the past 30 years!
I think those types tend to arrive in New Orleans having hopped trains these days
This is perhaps the biggest killer feature of typescript: that your object literals (which are basically hashes) can have types. Or possibly interfaces.
Only because those websites include `<meta charset="utf-8">`. Browsers don't use utf-8 unless you tell them to, so we tell them to. But there's an entire internet archive's worth of pages that don't tell them to.
But on the other hand, app crashes aren't something that common on linux. I mean at least on my distro. Whenever I have an app available as rpm, I choose the rpm over the flatpak version, for space saving purpose mostly.

None of my apps crashes except one. And that is a piece of shit of a proprietary app that is not packaged by the distro maintainers: Microsoft Edge.
To me (neither of us is right, or wrong), 200 - couple, 3 or 400 - few, 500+ - several, 750+ - almost a thousand.
Even when I understand, copypasting is often faster and skipping or removing the $ is slightly annoying.
> The wealthy are buying up all the tangible assets and price gouging everyone with high rent

Why hasn't this happened in the past? A lot of property makes a lousy investment unless you get value by living in it.
Yeah, DEET is a plasticizer. It marred the body of my Canon camera after rubbing off of my arm and onto the camera.
> R, for example, has 320,000

Which is, to be frank, ridiculous compared to the number of papers it enabled.
Pentagon awards $1.5B to Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman for comms satellites
I would just bind-mount the appropriate part of the second disk as /home/steam, or whatever. I don't see why one should persuade a program to follow a complicated setup when the setup can just be made straightforward with OS tools.
Pratt–Shell is only mildly more complex than insertion sort and gives a good worst-case performance O(n log(n)^2). It may have a place sometimes.
I guess the bigger problem is using a language like C that's almost incapable of providing useful libraries. So everyone is re-implementing everything from scratch all the time.
That's sweet, do you have a link to a tutorial?
Something my therapist pointed out to me is that obesity is directly linked to childhood and intergenerational trauma; calling it self-inflicted is not accurate. Even if we're focused on healthy eating, food deserts exist. No man is an island, &c.

Also, to cite an HN darling[0], obesity is, at the very least, a lot stranger and more complicated than CICO.

> we also need to prevent the exploitation of disability programs

What if we _encouraged_ the "exploitation" of disability programs? What if everyone who wanted or needed it got help, regardless of whether someone thinks they "deserve" it? What if people didn't have to worry about failing to re-prove they still need help? I would rather that myself & my disabled friends live in that world.

[0]: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/tag/a-chemical-hunger/
All of the world economically viable nations have been printing more money after the recession of the 2000s, not just "Biden." Increased liquidity has incidental effects on inflation, which comes from different factors, like resource scarcity, tariff increases and price gouging.
I have 0 motivation. I havent cleaned in 2-3 years. I sit in trash next to my PC. lol Atleast I have you guys
> This doesn't scale.

--will-cite
Oh, wait! There is a sequel!
Flatpak is the best of all the other alternatives.
The fact that it's worse in the third world doesn't make it morally right.
But you have to get caught first. USA is bigger on pulling vehicles over for ??? reasons than most other places.

I’m figuring in UK if you get a DUI, it’s because you were driving allll over the place or got into a 3am collision.
I see this happening a lot more than it used to, though. Even if the edits are "I changed this quote because it's a fringe theory that misleads readers about what [article topic theory] represents", the edit will be reverted so that the misleading text remains, to serve a point.
I Made Stable Diffusion XL Smarter by Finetuning It on Bad AI-Generated Images
The whole point is that if it's securely contained the alphas wouldn't penetrate the shielding around it. As long as that shielding is intact you're not getting any radiation dose.

A cookie would be bad because you're actually digesting it.

Beta or gammas are harder to shield.
Exploitation does exist. It sounds like you're not disagreeing however about real growth, or even that it's been reaching more of the world.
Pretty ironic that a post about accessible web design is unreadable because of scroll hijacking that makes it constantly jump to the top (at least on mobile).
I haven't found a single "silver bullet" solution, but the combination that has worked for me is bat houses + citronella (candles as well as whole plants, planted around the patio/deck) + the classic electric bug zappers.

We wanted to avoid insecticides because we have a pretty significant pollinating bee population that we didn't want to harm, but if that's not a concern for you, just carpet bombing the yard with pyrethrins is a solid foundation.

I've had good luck with Mosquito Magnets in the past; the only reason I'm not using one now is because the bat houses are approximately zero maintenance, and I'm a sucker for fire-and-forget solutions
Your system should be cleaning up unused runtimes. That's perhaps a distribution integration issue that should be filed and fixed?
There's also a distinct smell to magnetic tapes, though not vinegar. I'm mainly familiar with video tapes, but I'm assuming audio tapes will suffer similarly since they are nearly the same. In particular, 1" Type-C video tapes often came in hard plastic sealed/locking cases. There were many times we'd receive a very old master, and open it up to the tell tale smell of a tape that was not going to be in very good shape.
It does reach the majority. People in the US, even the poor people, are way more wealthy than Europeans.
Microfilm and microfiche digitizers have been around for quite awhile. One of the major issues for archivists in getting such work done is the trouble with handling delicate items that are decomposing. The article talks about those challenges.
But I need that!
I think it should be injuries, because of the reasons mentioned above.

It's better to not work out and not be injured than it is to work out and be injured, so the focus should first be on avoiding injury and second on actually going out and doing stuff. Same reason we watch safety videos before we do the thing they concern.
You make it sound like it’s some big conspiracy but the boring answer is that nobody gets fired for choosing an industry leader.

Duo has positioned itself as an industry leader in MFA and is one of the safe bets when implementing that feature.

This isn’t exclusive to schools, either.
These docs are a bit sparse and more for debugging some very specific things. If all you want is a stack trace:

- You can use `flatpak install --include-sdk --include-debug THE-APP` to install the SDK and debug info for an app
- Then `flatpak-coredumpctl -m MATCH THE-APP` will use coredumpctl to open the matching coredump inside the corresponding SDK's gdb
Well, it's not as if people originally from Asia went and colonized islands all over the Pacific over the last few thousand years or anything.
One thing not explained here is what “FD&C” means - it’s Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. It just means the dye is FDA approved as being safe for humans.
> houses on average are much larger and feature more amenities

A lot of truth in this. I was raised in the 60's in a 3-BR house with 1 bath, a kitchen, and a living room. There were 5 of us including parents, in 850 sq ft, without central air in a climate that definitely needs it. My dad would come home from work and lay under the living room window air conditioner. We had 1 car, mom did odd jobs from home (ironing, cleaning, babysitting) and took care of us, and most other kids were in the same situation. A few moms worked but it was unusual. Quite a different living situation than most families today.
They do, the stickers are mostly to make it easier for cops to see expired reg without having to type in every license plate or have a vehicle fitted with LPR. They can also look up the vehicle status in the DMV database, and via an interstate compact.
True as it may be, it's completely besides the point.
>L-Theanine

This with caffeine is amazing!

*Its whats in green tea that gives the calming effect
> It seems as if there are actually a ton more special case primitives I need to know, when I could get away with a lot less syntax in other languages to be productive.

I think most special forms do not complicate syntax, as they look like your standard s-expressions, they just have differing semantics from regular functions.

If you look at Common Lisp, I feel like you got a point. It is a huge and complicated language, and while it embodies many of the nice Lisp characteristics, I feel like minimalism certainly is not one of them. But there are other Lisps/Schemes that are much smaller, with a lot less special forms.
Ancient Japanese Islanders Create Signature Skull Shape by Molding Babies’ Heads
MacLynx beta 5: UTF-8, pull-down menus and more dialogue boxes
Powershell uses proper objects instead of stringly nonsense.