skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linux is about as consistent as Windows these days. /etc isn’t really a “dumping ground” for everything and is quite static now. Just diffed a snapshot of /etc on my workstation from a month ago and there aren’t really any changes I didn’t put there myself. It’s reasonable to make /etc immutable on a lot of systems; something impossible with the registry.

Home is a bit more chaotic but most applications follow the XDG specs. Mostly. Less so with cache and state files (vscode, for example, dumps tons of cache/state files in .config instead of .cache and .local/state). And weird things like Flatpak shoving everything in .var.

I’d say things generally behave about as well as windows apps which often treat documents as a dumping ground for all kinds of files. I always have to go to pcgamingwiki to find game data locations without having to check half a dozen places.

For administration I really like the /usr and /etc divide. Vendor files go on /usr, and overrides for the running system in /etc. It’s useful to be able to peek in /usr to see defaults.You don’t really get that ability with the registry. With some more modern setups /etc is bootstrapped from /usr (for example, with systemd-tmpfiles) and you can “factory reset” a system by clearing out /etc (with some asterisks around restoring state for a few of the legacy state files still kept in /etc if the system is has manually created users/groups).
Pandemic Savings Have Run Out for 80% of Americans, Fed Study Shows
I hope more folk try this code out!!
I am not a big fan of stock android but I'm looking to switch to a pixel next phone in order to use GrapheneOS. Their hardware isn't bad, IMO. My nexus 5x did have the storage slow ess problem, though.
It's wild that they're also a household name in the form of mason jars.
Seems like there's an environmental competent to weight gain as well. Wild animals have also been putting on weight. So have lab animals which have had the same controlled diets and activity levels for decades.
I did a survey of light frameworks and settled on the Javalin + JDBI (from DropWizard) combo. That was at a Spring/Boot shop where we needed something with very short startup time for rapid scaling.
AI can produce genuinely new things right now. Go look at the brand new biological proteins being made by rfDiffusion.

You have no clue what is and isn't possible for AI to produce, and neither does anyone else. We haven't even hit the limit of current algorithms yet - Dall-E 3's creativity is mindblowing.
ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak
"We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT. They offer a new, more intuitive type of interface by allowing you to have a voice conversation or show ChatGPT what you’re talking about."
3D insights into an innovative manufacturing process
I did consult an ADHD specialist 2-3 times and they were unsure of ADHD but said I possibly have a personality disorder and maybe, a intelligence issue too. I did not visit them after that due to procrastination.
> So all airbase runways are destroyed but the planes are untouched?

You should read the news regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine has been operating their air force out it's highways and is making a fool out of Russia's armed forces with opsec tricks like fixing airways and hangars bombed by Russia but printing tarps with images of the bombed out runways to fool it to believe they are still decommissioned.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/04/11/to-dodge-ru...

Ukraine has been playing Russia so masterfully that they led Russian intelligence into believing Ukraine's air force was operating out of a secret network of tunnels.
I'd wager it's because shorter-term, more local maximums are easier to achieve, and are also profitable. So basically because of greed. More charitably, because how people's resources like attention, ability to care etc are finite, and because the kind of high organization it would require to achieve such a goal.
I'm presuming these were electro-optical star trackers. Compared to that, doing it with a CCD seems like cheating.
I've heard QuickTime extensions will come back in Sonoma
I’d like to see this become a more efficient market
Really? Thanks! I did not know this and I've wanted to see the Blackbird up close!
If you're here because you're a FPS fan, you should check out the new FPS Documentary: https://fpsdoc.com/pages/limited-run
I like playing music and enjoyed the multitouch puzzle game posted on HN a while back, so for a game like the one you're suggesting, fair enough.

For text editing, I don't think the cardinality of the set of gesture-based solutions is very large.
Autel drones tend to fall around a generation behind DJI's in terms of capability, and they don't have geofencing. Unfortunately, they are much more expensive like-for-like and if you are also concerned about China, they share the same China-problems.

There are no US or European drones that really come close, unfortunately. Parrot are 2-3+ generations behind DJI in terms of capability: wireless link, camera, and even basic flight stability are all quite a distance behind. Skydio had unique autonomy capabilities which were really cool but were a long way behind in controller capability, camera, and wireless tech and exited the consumer market.

Honestly, DJI no-fly zones in the US are not too onerous in my opinion - most of the places that are banned probably should be banned. I would recommend a DJI drone with a standalone remote (to avoid needing to install DJI apps on your phone). However, generally speaking in Europe their no fly zones are more restrictive and can be quite frustrating.
You think it's patently absurd that members of the same community might have the same shared traits?
>unremitting fatigue, post-exertional malaise, and a variety of cognitive and autonomic dysfunctions

So chronic fatigue syndrome?
I don't really agree that making and releasing unprofitable games is at all beneficial as "practice". "try harder, and suffer competition" is just bad advice.

The real advice ought to be "don't work on games that don't have a legitimate reason to be successful besides being 'fun'", and have a strong consideration of market access, artistic hook, and value prop.

Your ability to execute on a vision can be honed wherever the heck you want. But making the vision itself should come from studying games and what made them successful or not. Not grinding out business failures. My hot take would be online co-op, realistic graphics, first person games in a unique setting for about $25. Dicking around with your friends' avatars is fun regardless of game quality and the value prop is strong.
LLMs are surprisingly great at compressing media, DeepMind researchers find
Discussions online have had this nature ever since they went mainstream I think. Especially Reddit I mean, some of those more popular subreddits are run mostly by kids is what I make out of it. Maybe not kids in terms of age but people who never grew up. Censorship seems to be the natural order of things in online communities where people don’t see or know each other, and when a lot of the context gets lost in the text only format. Here on HN too. Too many people with flagging abilities just flagging anything they disagree with, and good luck getting any mod’s attention after that. Unless you dance around the topic and never spell out certain types of takes, your posts will get fagged if the official narrative doesn’t match, and you will be accused of flaming.

Unfortunately people have convinced themselves that some opinions -those they disagree with- are dangerous for others to read. From cancelling your preorder for a game after a beta to “let’s think twice about pharmaceutical companies’ motives”, there will be someone who thinks your motives are unclean, you’re an agitator, or full on evil, and therefor deserve to be silenced.
Waiting for DC Rainmaker review before clicking buy!
The strategy of refining your skills through extensive practice is as old as success itself.
Just made an account to say that I currently have this feature. It was gone for a few months but it came back to me I think this past week. Not as a plugin, either, it is its own “model” to select.
There's another one in the Museum of Flight in Seattle.
That was a great watch.
I use a mini 3 with my son. He likes to edit together footage and make little movies, I like to explore new areas. It’s tough if you can’t go to relatively private areas; it’s not cool to annoy people with these things. We typically get it high enough not to hear it as quickly as possible in case anyone is around, which can be a bit limiting.

Even so, it’s incredible to get so much perspective. I’ve learned so much about the places we visit from the aerial footage. The videos my son makes are pretty cool, too. Overall I wouldn’t expect one to be life changingly awesome, but I’m glad we got it.
It does sounds pretty good though. Plus, I think it’s more like 2-3x, not 1000x
All of my Pixel devices have had the battery explode well before the 7 year mark.

I have worked as an Android developer for many years and have had 10+ Pixel devices with swollen batteries.

This is nice on paper but I honestly don't think the hardware will last this long.
The APK is a thin shell that downloads even more code to execute, from the internet. So, what you download and inspect isn't what's executed, and what you execute now might be different in 5 minutes.
You can set up multiple 2FA- I have two yubikeys and a TOTP key registered.
Did the units in question even have pixels?
You can also get close to an SR-71 at the Robins Air Force Base museum in Georgia, and if you touched it probably nobody would notice
I was going to post something similar and then saw yours, and it was better. We can add that math is language, and sometimes language describes things that are real, and sometimes not.
Or you know, the fastest path between two locations is a straight line. Road networks try to avoid being curvy, often blowing through rock foothills with explosives to maintain that straightness. No conspiracy needed.
Is Math Real?

Not when we are talking about how Math can be Complex.
Next-Gen CPU Acceleration: AVX for Generative AI [video]
> Apparently a fact you like repeating ;-)

Yeah, I really find it interesting. It's so modern, almost like something from cybernetics. It reminds me of how Gurdjieff said that the "atom" of a phenomenon was the smallest amount of it that evinces all of its qualities.

It only took seven years to get a thoughtful reply. Cheers! :)

> Would you happen to know where Bruno said this

I originally read it in one of Robert Anton Wilson's books (or possible a foreword he wrote for some other book that he didn't write, which probably isn't helpful.) I have no idea where he got it.

Certainly money in practice and theory has become much more complex than it was five hundred years ago when he (might have) said it.

I should tell you that when it comes to economics I'm basically a troglodyte. I feel higher economics is actually a form of numerology. I won't be offended if you decline to discuss it further with me. :)
#1 would have been much less of a problem if it weren't for the IronSource merger [0]. When you merge with a spyware company and then announce you're going to use a weird new metric, it's entirely reasonable for your customers to assume you'll be using the spyware to measure that metric.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32081051
There's the "if you're breaking this social convention, I'm not willing to figure out how many others you'll break" problem.
What most users want is a statement that allows them to UPSERT, with reasonable guarantees around that never throwing a duplicate violation error, and never deadlocking (at least not in any novel way caused by implementation details). Something practical.

That's not the kind of thing that the standard takes a position on, for a variety of reasons. In general, it says very little about concurrency control/isolation. And what little is does say is all very abstract.

For whatever reason, a lot of people believe that MERGE promises something over and above what using multiple INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements will promise. But that simply isn't true. The standard doesn't say anything that even vaguely suggests otherwise. Same is true of both the SQL Server MERGE docs, and the Oracle MERGE docs.
Sealing several days of court does feel excessive for antitrust...
> Eventually, you simply have to go to work for a roof over your head, food and healthcare

No, you don't. Plenty of retired people don't go to work and yet they have all of those things.
Sometimes google assistant will answer a query I thought for sure it would fail on with a really good answer and other times it will fail the most basic of commands. It's frustrating.
Those are the 2 features that stopped me as well.

However, Call Screening is now available on iOS 17 (called Live Voicemail)

I've purchased my first iPhone as of a few days ago now that they have that... I'll miss Hold for me, but it's not enough to stop me from the Pixel bugs/hardware issues I've been experiencing. The iPhone 15 is amazing so far!
From TFA:

> Currently Sure has a monoply contract with the Government of St Helena for the provision of Internet services and under this it is not clear whether it would be legal for a consumer to use Starlink. Examination of the SURE exclusive licence suggests that, if an offence is committed by somebody using Starlink, it is Starlink that commits it (by providing the service), not the consumer who receives it, but this has not been tested. It is also possible that the Government of St Helena, to protect its investment in Maestro, might outright ban the use of Starlink systems, though exactly how this might be enforced is not clear. At the time of writing it is believed that some individuals and businesses are already successfully using StarLink on St Helena{18}.

It's illegal to use the only alternative, so they can charge whatever they want.
https://archive.ph/2023.09.25-091140/https://www.economist.c...
There's an A-12, the CIA version of the Blackbird, on the deck of the USS Intrepid, in New York. It is indeed a very large aircraft!

(I was also impressed by how many aircraft could fit on an aircraft carrier. There was also a Concorde!)
I think you're missing the point. The "fat men" weren't fat at all, not by today's standards. 200 lbs is all it takes.
If it was a homebrew project then sure, but this isn't viable for commercial projects:

- The platform holders can and will ban software built without the official SDK

- You'd get delayed access to patches, which might break compatibility with new OS versions

- You're relying on someone being able to reverse engineer new versions for the life of the console. This is a rare skill.

It's like saying you can write your own C compiler. Yeah you can, but you wouldn't use it in production at your job.
I think what the author describes has a lot to do with relaxation and letting intuition take over (which is how I believe this “flow” state is achieved), instead of thinking too hard or making too much conscious choices and putting the mind under pressure with expectations of success.

It is natural that this “strategy” would lead to more success in the end, which applies to any kind of challenging activity. I like the description as “subtracting”, since you kind-of have to empty your mind before doing the thing. But I believe this does not apply to practicing, where you do have to make conscious efforts and “add to” yourself a lot of stuff in order to internalize it and hopefully build up the intuition required for this flow state to work.

As some here pointed out, doesn’t have to do anything with self-optimization. Although self-optimization may lead someone to believe that a lot of conscious effort is the key to success, when it can actually set them up for failure.
Why would hiding the TOTP seed in multiple locations be wrong?

It's meant to be a second factor, mostly there to prevent unsophisticated, remote/electronic attacks that affect millions of accounts.

Writing it down does not affect its ability to do that.
I kinda wish the "retro graphics" could be turned off at least in 3D games.

I don't really get the appeal to start with. DOOM wasn't retro, it had amazing graphics and required good hardware to run acceptably. Monkey Island wasn't "pixel art", it was state of the art on the hardware of the time.

Many games of the era had high resolution modes, and got them as soon as it was remotely practical. Duke Nukem 3D could be played at 800x600.
I don't understand why people think XHR is a cute trick. Desktop applications used nonblocking RPC (as did many other apps) outside of the web for a long time. So much of the web has been rediscovering and reimplementing (usually in a worse way) the basics of high quality, interactive applications about a decade too late.
We must lack something else too. And I'm not saying this ironically. So far, no utopias succeeded, and that must be for valid reasons.
Is this a story about how a new CEO destroyed a company? Or how the UAW got too greedy and destroyed a company?
Even if it isn't as cynical as doing it on purpose, you can still end up with this scenario because the company is simply not ever going to prioritize making the self hosting option easy.
I use ASTAP for most of my stuff. There's standard databases that have the stars in them, and it just does a lookup.

https://nova.astrometry.net/ will do the blind solve.

If you want to learn more the keyword to google is "plate solving"
The only way there will be no jobs is if every conceivable human need is met by robots. In which case there will also be no need to work.
Specifically C is for takeoff/landing on CATOBAR (Catapult-assisted take-off barrier-arrested recovery) carriers. All nations other than the US buy the B variant for their carrier forces as they don't have catapult carriers (or can't/aren't interested in the F-35).
> It’s a native format for macOS

NextStep licensed Adobe's Display PostScript for it's graphics subsystem, but when MacOS was developed Apple replaced Display PostScript with an in house implementation of the open PDF spec that they called Quartz 2D.

> Quartz 2D is available to all macOS and iOS application environments and provides resolution-independent and device-independent rendering of bitmap graphics, text, and vectors both on-screen and in preparation for printing.

The drawing model utilized by Quartz 2D is based on PDF specification 1.4.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_2D

So now both Adobe and Apple have dropped PostScript in favor of PDF.
And the critical distinction between the two variants is that the F-35B has VSTOL (vertical / short takeoff & landing) capabilities, via ducted fans, whilst the F-35A does not. The reported test involved a rolling landing & takeoff, rather than a vertical approach as in the earlier test.
fq+ we have been running at 25+gbit or more, for quite some time. There are typically 32k FQ_codels in a 10gbit system. I am pretty sure, that we would not have scaled past 10gbit as well as we did, without having made fq_codel and sch_fq (which does pacing), had we not. We run up to 10k instances of cake (4k queues each) in libreqos. Amazing results.
> Is there though?

I was speaking as 'in between in terms of population density' not literally in between geographically.

> The people who live in western states have cars.

They have cars because they have to have cars because there is no alternative. That's the whole point, you need public transit so people don't need to own cars.

And guess what, the poor don't actually have to have cars. And guess what, cars still require lots of government infrastructure that's really costly.

A city to city transit system needs to be integrated with a regional and a local transit system.

I live in a city with 70k people and there is regular service to many villages and cities with 30k people or less.

I recommend you read the blog pedestrianobservations.com, he has a lot of knowledge about transport systems and cost. You can read about his recommendations for US travel including high speed rail there:

https://pedestrianobservations.com/2021/03/22/high-speed-rai...

> it would still be profitable because it's a high population density area where passenger rail actually makes sense.

Passenger rail even in population dense regions is hard to make profitable, specially if you want to have high frequency and allow service from early morning to late night. If you had to build new infrastructure form the ground up its hard to justify.

Thinking about profitability first is just a generally bad idea when talking about infrastructure.
> Both F-35B and F-35C are the variants that can liftoff from a Carrier (aka: Navy) or WASP-class Assault Ship (aka: Marines) respectively.

Other way around: F-35B is the Marine Corps STOVL variant, F-35C is the Navy CATOBAR variant.

(No reason an F-35B couldn’t take off from and land on a regular carrier, too, but its the C that is made to launch with a catapult and catch an arrestor hook to land.)
Et Tu Bing?
Your writing skills are excellent, thoughtful, and quite succinct, which is significant. Stupid doesn't know how to write well, let alone put thoughts down meaningfully.
Interesting, is the ring road around Tavuki Island THE only road that falls on the anti-meridian, at all? A quick look along the line and it looks like it.

It's wild that on google maps, even dropping a pin on the Tavuki road and trying to drag it across the line, it just stops, hitting this invisible wall.

Something about this experience makes me want to go there....
New Turing test: can you think about the Roman Empire?
pdflatex doesn't really help here. pdflatex allows you to bypass dvi, the native TeX output format. The input for latex may well still include eps image files though.
I have studied Rich's RL book (both editions), and enjoy his work and occasional talks on YouTube. Carmack is obviously talented. In the referenced YouTube announcement Carmack basically said that the average person should not really care about what they are doing right now, and the way they are funded they can take their time, not rush out any public systems or projects, etc. - at least that is the way I interpreted what he said.

Off topic, but: I used to think AGI was likely, but probably not until maybe 2040. After doing a deep dive into LLMs in the last 2 years, and generally deep learning for the eight years before that, I now think there is some real chance of having something that I consider AGI by 2030. Lately LLMs have become a little useful for graph datastore, KGs, etc. I think the missing piece is the ability of LLMs to handle reasoning, and seeing GPT-4's ability to write Prolog code given a problem description, it doesn't strain my imagination too much to think a breakthrough for reasoning could be here in a year or less.
Boring technology and the five-year rule
That's not even a rumor: he is on the board, and he did push for this.
I looked into it precisely once, and found a bunch of results that the newer firmware versions didn’t have jailbreaks available, and that downgrading wasn’t feasible. I’m hoping to be proven wrong though…
To be fair, it's the recession of 1980-1983 that did him in. Their industry was hit very badly. Even well run companies in their industry like caterpillar barely made it through by the skin of their teeth, much less a company that not well run
Rory Sutherland repeatedly likes to point out that whilst businesses may look dimly upon WFH, many of them would and should be keen for their customers to have it (and indeed more public holidays as far as Americans are concerned), as it would mean more leisure time and time for discretionary spending, and that it follows that it is in their own interests to extend such allowances for their own employees accordingly.

He cites Henry Ford's two day weekend as justification, amongst other things, and notes how it was intended to provide employees with enough free time to justify owning an automobile*

*https://hankeringforhistory.com/history-weekend/