skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tangentially, what does xfce (or any other DE for that matter) bring to the table if I already use i3 and have i3 status bar configured to fit my needs?

I mean, I do have NetworkManager, Blueman, Nautilus (file explorer), so why would I need a DE? I'm wondering if I'm missing something. (Honest question)
I’m tired of social media driving impossible beauty standards for endorheic basins
IMO an IDE shouldn't be tied to a language. in my project, I could have js/html for the frontend, rust for the backend, python/bash for scripts, cmake/cpp for components.
This is pretty common, even was a reddit sub dedicated to it. /rActLikeYouBelong

Its amazing where you can get with some "proper dress" and confidence. Lots of cases of using a hivis vest and lanyard to get into free concerts, gaining rooftop access, etc.
AFAIK, it's still true for Sony/Microsoft but hasn't been true with Nintendo for a while, I think since the Gamecube (when they stopped trying to play the performance game).
Agree, this really shouldn't be on the front page, the SEO'ed writing is more likely to repulse curious readers about the topic.
This is not a wayland (the protocol) issue. It's a client issue. In fact Qt6 was recently in the news here for having fixed it in their client code, by simply reconnecting when the wayland socket closes instead of crashing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37480331

(Their main justification is to be resilient to server restarts, but from the client's perspective the two are the same.)

You're welcome to try and convince GTK devs to do the same.
As far as I can see, it's not_a_word.
A test that doesn't properly inform you someone/thing's abilities is a rubbish test. From their paper, you would think being able to pilot robots to handle chores or stack objects or whatever would be well beyond LLMs. But it's not.

https://tidybot.cs.princeton.edu/
https://innermonologue.github.io/

Anyone who wants LLMs to plan and is actually interested in teasing the extent of those abilities knows how to structure planning requests.

It's extra funny because humans can't actually generate plans the way he tests LLMs to either.

Also Seeing output from GPT that demonstrates intelligence, reasoning, or whatever, and saying it is not real reasoning/Intelligence etc, is like looking at a plane soar and saying that the plane is fake flying. And this isn't a nature versus artificial thing either. The origin point is entirely arbitrary.

You could just as easily move the origin to Bees and say, "oh, birds aren't really flying". You could move it to planes and say, "oh, helicopters aren't really flying." It's a very meaningless statement.

Internal processes are entirely irrelevant.
This breaks PMTU and is the source of many mystery download stalls
Not really - strange things that are poorly documented are often hard to explain. The things that are well recorded and documented all get explained rather quickly.
That heavy cryptography is why the Xbox One is shaping up to be the least preservable console we have ever seen.
That makes perfect sense and is very helpful. Thank you.
That would be nice. Android has a wealth of phones with features, but the Pixel line is missing some I would consider “required”— not mention they aren’t available in my country.
As an IP holding company for an ISA, how is Arm Limited different from any other patent troll?

https://www.arm.com/glossary/isa

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/31/a_star_star_domains/

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/12/arm_markstedter_domai...
isn't it slightly high for ARM? what is fair value for them?
In my first post, quite a lot of alternatives were discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36707877

The model I'm using is called Open-Unmix (https://github.com/sigsep/open-unmix-pytorch). In 2021, there was an update to Open-Unmix to include new weights, UMX-L, which made it perform better than it used to on the older weights (UMXHQ).

In the grand landscape of music demixing, I don't think UMX-L is near the top anymore.

_However_, the demixing performance of freemusicdemixer.com is very close to the full PyTorch performance of Open-Unmix UMX-L, despite the tricks I needed to get it working in the browser, such as splitting up the inference to operate on segments of the song, or making the LSTM operate on streaming segments rather than holding the entire track in the LSTM memory.

In my first release, I loaded and did inference on the entire track at once (like the PyTorch model), which frequently crashed or exceeded the 4GB WASM memory for medium or large-size tracks.
Why not upgrade to Podcasting 2.0? A solution to the chicken&egg problem
50 terrible investments by Softbank possibly recouped in a single IPO. Crazy world.
Steel bottle are a solution
Linear raises $35M Series B led by Accel
What is the most wonderful thing in the world?

Putting on a brand new pair of socks, fresh from the package.

They took that away.

It's like taking a bite of delicious cake only to find out it's shit. You can send it back to the kitchen, but it doesn't take away the whipsaw disappointment.
Oncall can show up after the fact.

You take a job paying $X. Two years later, people decide that 24/7 oncall is necessary and suddenly now you are required to perform this 24/7 oncall. Your pay is not adjusted. You have no say in this new job requirement. This oncall is unpaid (your compensation hasn't changed).

>500,000 compensation is also highly unusual, even at very well paying companies.
https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/using/font-licensing.html#web-...

This is a good example of where it would be beneficial for cloud bundles to behave a little more like medical insurance in the united states. You start with a lower monthly fee, you pay for what you use up to a maximum, and then hit the cap.

It lets someone buy a subscription for just one thing like fonts, and then by the time you are using three to four products the suite covers itself.

All of that should happen automatically without getting stuck in a subpar tier for year, or being unable to downsize when you stop using a product.
I suspect nearly everyone who gets an iPhone 15 will not have to change cables. The phone comes with one cable included, but furthermore nearly every electronic sold in the last few years uses USB-C. The vast majority of people should have USB-C cables lying around.
I live in the salt lake valley and it’s infuriating how much of a disconnect between public perception and reality there is about water usage. People are all stressed out about not watering their lawns and ripping out grass, when in reality the alfalfa farmers use the vast majority of our water. Because of water rights they get it cheap so we’re subsidizing beef production with our dwindling water supply so we can grow alfalfa in the desert.
From the "supplemental information" [1] part of the actual paper [2], the levels of current are measured in μA and tenths of volts (ie. in the order of μW of power).

What is fully unclear to me is how (or whether) that power can be harvested and put to any electrical use. Or perhaps it is only of chemical interest?

[1] https://www.cell.com/cms/10.1016/j.joule.2023.08.006/attachm...
[2] https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(23)00352-5?_r...
You mean like bad bad design
Completely agree. Compared to the response to other diseases that have killed far fewer people, its quite wild how much this has been normalized.
The typical scenario is a demo/shareware/free to play game: 1000 installs cost $200 in install fees, up front, and therefore require an amazing conversion rate and/or an amazing income per paying user to break even.
We did write one just yesterday that talks about rags and some techniques to improve their performance in production at https://llmstack.ai/blog/retrieval-augmented-generation
LLM's can integrate with a sandbox to deploy and test their code and iterate on a solution until it appears to be valid. They can also integrate with web search to go out and find presumably-valid sudoku puzzles to use for test cases if they're (likely) unable to generate valid sudoku puzzles themselves. I know it's expanding the definition of "LLM" to include a sandbox or web search, but I think it's fair because it's a reasonably practical and obvious application environment for an LLM which you plan to ask to do things like this, and I think LLMs with both these integrations will be commonplace in the next 1-2 years.

No, I don't think LLM's can "reason and plan". But I do think they can effectively mimic (fake) "reasoning and planning" and still arrive at the same result that actual reasoning and planning would yield, for reasonably common and problems of greater than trivial complexity but less than moderate complexity.

I think pretty much all of our production AI models today are limited by their lack of ability to self-assess and "goal-seek" and mutate themselves themselves to "excel". I'm not 100% sure what this would look like but I can be sure they don't have any real "drive to excel beyond". Perhaps improvements in Reinforcement Learning will uncover something like this, but I think there may need to be a paradigm shift before we invent something like that.
The people underfunding our schools had their private schooling paid for by virtue of being unconscionably wealthy.

The more you realise what has happened the more maddeningly upset you will get, so it's best not to think about it.

Sufficed to say: you're wrong, additionally: dead wrong and it's not relevant for a topic about databases.
Peak fossil fuel demand will happen this decade
Databricks raises $500M more, boosting valuation to $43B
The problem is that the "installs" that unity is counting is totally decoupled from you paying for the game.

A pretty common scenario is purchasing a game once and installing it on many different machines. If I install a game on my steam deck, laptop, and desktop, that counts as three "installs" and unity charges the developer more money.

If I play a game for a while, uninstall it, but come back some time later to play again, guess what, that's a new install and unity charges the developer more money.

You paid the developer $25 for your copy of the game, but there is seemingly no limit for how much Unity is going to charge the developer for your copy of the game. They charge you every time you install it, on every device, every time.

There's already developers out there complaining that unity would take more than 100% of their revenue with this scheme
Yes, the comment had been edited, and makes much more sense now.
What? Are the new usb-c iphones only capable of USB 2.0 speed?
It's also a keystone to the environment of the Rocky Mountains, providing a habitat for millions of migratory birds (even ones that don't stay use it as a critical stopping point on the way north or south), giving water to clouds that becomes snow in the rest of the Rockies, and cooling the air as it passes.

You may not enjoy being there, but that doesn't make it not worth saving.
As far as I know that applies to Germany, don't remember similar legislation existing in Sweden.
Somewhat relevant: Google Maps can learn the location of your IP based on which locations you browse in the map. If you browse a specific location enough times, it will use that as the default location when you open Google Maps, even if you clear all cookies. (I discovered this just from using Google Maps, and I'm a little concerned by the privacy implications, considering that multiple people may share an IP address.)
Not only that, but racism/sexism is too good to let go. People will always find another casus belli. White people still have most of the world's wealth, so, even when whites are the minority, they still deserve to be subalterned. And hey, they did that to other races for most of history, so it's all fair!

The only winning move is not to play these shitty games.
It sounds like your are saying that it isn’t worth saving. I’m imagining someone in Gondor trying to start a Let’s Save Mordor petition.
It was a troll.

Suppose I've already sunk my money into a "special" thing and find out it lacks some bog standard goodness. Perhaps it was even designed to lack this goodness. I might reflexively ask, "Does anyone actually need that goodness?" in a desperate attempt to save face and prevent myself from feeling like a goober.

Above, my face-saving sentence was written to seem so reflexive and thoughtless that the query ends up sounding absurd. I mean, technically, it is at least coherent to ask whether the time saved by not having to deal with a particular class of problems is ever necessary, in any sense from remaining employed to the survival of the human species. In any case, it's also a red herring.

Above, someone called this face-saving tactic a "cope" which I've never heard but now love. :)
https://archive.today/6mYDu

https://www.iea.org/topics/world-energy-outlook
California would not pass these laws if it meant companies would stop doing business in their state. They know that they are too big of a market to write off, which is why they feel comfortable passing these laws. As an example, all of the auto industry faces tougher emissions standards because of California's stricter regulations.
After initial stumbles, Moderna gets clean win for mRNA flu shot
I've always wondered about the constitutionality of California's state-to-state border stations where they check every car for produce. Seems iffy.
So once the collective agrees they want something they will form a union to bargain collectively. But so far developers don't agree about anything so they don't, because the collective feels that they get enough from their individual contracts.
Yeah, that's the standard "sorry, not sorry" sort of pseudoapology. He regrets nothing other than that more people can see what an unmitigated asshole he is and how it might have some adverse impact on his net worth.
A defined "support period" with relatively bounded costs is all we really need, I agree.

Knowing that if I buy a technology product that is more than $100, it will either work for 5 years (or whatever) or be repairable for some fraction of the original cost, would make me satisfied.
It also looks like it doesn't apply to all-terrain vehicles, or to machinery, equipment, implements, or attachments used for or in connection with:

1. Lawn, garden, golf course, landscaping, or grounds maintenance,

2. Planting, cultivating, irrigating, harvesting, and producing agricultural or forestry products,

3. Raising, feeding, or tending to, or harvesting products from, livestock and any other activity in connection with those activities,

4. Industrial, construction, maintenance, mining, or utility activities or applications, including, but not limited to, material handling equipment,

although that exclusion does not apply to "self-propelled vehicles designed primarily for the transportation of persons or property on a street or highway" even if they are used for one of the above things.

There is also an exclusion for alarm systems, which are "an assembly of equipment and devices arranged to detect a hazard or signal the presence of an off-normal situation".
Our first family computer was an Acorn Archimedes, we had it for maybe a year before it was replaced by a PC with an Intel.

Now here we are 30 years later and I'm typing on a laptop running on a ARM (née Acorn RISC Machines, then Advanced RISC Machines), I have an ARM in my pocket, another in a tablet in my bag. My wife is next to me on an ARM laptop, she's also got an ARM on her arm... we're listening to music on a wifi speaker running on an ARM. There are probably 30-40 ARMs in one way or another around our house. Amazing really.
Not only would the problem persist if we can magically remove these pollutants from all new products in every country starting now, but it would continue to get worse. The plastic in the pacific takes decades to break down. Every decade since the 50s we've produced more and more plastic. So its like a ticking time bomb, there's going to be more and more microplastics in the environment.
Nile Red on youtube did a great video where he burns diamonds in a O2 rich atmosphere, collects the resulting CO2, and makes carbonated water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0wvDwSnzcw
A Ticket to Disney’? Politicians Charge Millions to Send Migrants to U.S.
My hypothesis is that "the government" doesn't have the information the public is looking for. It is locked away in SAPs at defense contractors, which are essentially just a private extension of the government but out of reach of public scrutiny (e.g. FOIA requests).
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

(k) This section shall not apply if the manufacturer provides an equivalent or better, readily available replacement electronic or appliance product at no charge to the customer.
I'll be honest with you - I wouldn't even know what to do with user data if I collected it. I'm not great at training neural networks or understanding how to augment training with additional data.

Basically, the _only_ special thing about freemusicdemixer is that it runs client-side, because I'm better at writing C++ for a pre-trained network than I am at training new neural networks. However, it's a cool advantage so I'll keep promoting it as the distinguisher of my "product" (since I didn't create or train the underlying neural network, I just consider it a clever WASM frontend).

The operational costs are precisely $0 since it's a static website (aside from the domain registry).
It is a club in the sense that people self sort by ethnicity and gender in many social settings, and exclusion/discrimination against nonwhites & women is a well documented phenomenon.
We have e. coli as part of our gut biome right? Curious how dangerous, if at all, it would be to get this modified version in there. I have a hard time beliving it is very efficent so doubt it would somehow electrocute you from the inside, but could cause other issues.

I wonder how it compares to something like methane digesters in production and ease to maintain. Seems like it would produce less energy and not make nearly as good fertilizer, but be much less finicky and not require an anaerobic environment or careful temperature control.
It wasn’t a prank though. If I was walking around shouting “I’ll tell you where the in-order bathrooms are” and then you ask and I point you to not-a-bathroom, that’s what happened here.

Jetbrains have been very adamant that a rust ide was a no-go cause it’s just CLion with the Rust plugin.
They're not at all the same font. If your job was creating fonts, you'd notice the differences.
I've been running two 4k monitors at 200% scaling for 3 years now. First on GNOME, now on KDE.
My reading comprehension is fine. You wrote an incorrect statement and I corrected you.

> Care to enlighten me how programmers are some abused work force and need unions?

Everybody who works for someone else does, not just programmers. And the expectation of working nights, do open source work to even be considered are all abuses that are happening.
I ate my last McRib while looking out at the great Salt Lake for the first time. It was otherworldly and much bigger feeling than I was expecting but it was super hard to find a place where we could just walk up to the edge of it. My McRib almost got cold.

Also I don't fully know what to make of this wave of environmental law suits but it feels very Ministry for the Future.
Holy slippery slope Batman! Was there a suggestion here or just the fear of uncertainty?

The world is filled with uncertain and dangerously shortsighted ideas. Our current power grid has been unintentionally (arguable) geo-engineering the planet for more than a century. Whoopsie daisy.

You're right, the world isn't a startup; there's more to life than financial incentives. I have a lot more tolerance for risk when it comes to the profits of green energy corporations than I do with our collective future.
Ask HN: Has Hacker News changed its font?
Am I seeing things or has HackerNews changed its font, at least on the article pages? If so, any details about what typeface it was changed from/to and the motivations behind it?
>"Yes, this is exactly what fits my creative vision and nothing less will do!"

It's more like: you are sitting in a room with the c suite, and the design firm they hired to refresh the brand. The design firm sells the c suite on "this font exemplifies who you are and you you want to represent yourself to the world as." Then you chime in and say it looks like every other font and there are legal licensing issues, and the c suite tells you that you are chicken little and the design firm knows what they are doing and will take care of it. They are the experts not you. Why are you even in this meeting?

The last time I worked somewhere that brought in outsiders to refresh the brand, the font they ended up standardizing on was .... Proxima Nova.
I've been going through some of this after inheriting all my parents stuff. I feel some guilt about tossing so many things that they hung on to so they must have valued them (but I don't feel enough guilt to keep all this stuff).

I think there is a third possible cause to add to your list: companies exploiting something that maybe used to be sort of true but our parents hadn't realized it no longer applied. Collectible things might have been expensive and slow to produce when they were hand painted in upstate new york, then they started to be machine stamped across the world for pennies and for a while they could still fetch the old price and sentimentality as the market was saturated and then some.

I sometimes wonder if I'm going too far in the other direction and not sentimentality in at least a few things and preserving them. Maybe I'm setting up the pendulum swing in the other direction and my kids will have interest in collecting something when they grow up.
This doesn't work unless you can get women on board.

There is still significant demand from them for engagement rings.
As a consumer this makes me happy, but god, California must be an awful place to run a business. They keep piling on the most business-hostile laws. Another silly cookie consent law, unpoliced shoplifting in SF, where does it end?
Agree, there are the usual suspects.

For small companies the rules, especially on cookies, are intimidating and therefore ignored - however because are small so is the impact of it. For larger companies, the financial incentive to bend the privacy rules is significant. And there are the evilCorps like Uber who have a trample the rules strategy [0] (and any platform that abuses workers rights). Not sure how this relates to privacy rules, but it feeds the assumption that if a company ignores one set of rules, they are also inclined to break other rules.

An interesting niche I have worked in, social enterprises, a lot of people have a strong moral high ground feeling. Their message is supposedly not commercial, or it has importance while in fact it is still commercial (fund raising, an event, ...). And especially these companies get a lot of attention.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_involving_Uber#:....
I'm very curious why you'd do VPN/proxy detection...

But at a previous company I worked at that ran a very large chunk of the internet, we did indexing of nearly the entire internet (even large portions of the dark web) approximately every two weeks. There were about 500 servers doing that non-stop. So, I think it is relatively reasonable if you have 600 servers to do that.
if they're getting more than $200 then it's already way more money than I think.

It's true that there is some money (after all, there is pgcon); and it's true that some people are paid to work on postgresql.

However: it's additionally true that there are many volunteers, and that it's free for us to use, modify, hack on and so forth.

coordinating that effort must be absolutely herculean.
I am not sure whether my config is really useful.

I added foot.ini but not evremap.toml and my xkb keymmap because these are not yet finished and very hacky.

https://gist.github.com/nalply/239c1e2ed13f5cb8ec4f3873fe64d...