skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the point is that this person built something useful and expensive to run to the degree they didn’t publish it. Which for anyone but the author makes it as meaningful (meaningless) as it not existing. Yet without AI you can have the same thing, that everyone can use, at zero recurring cost.
>Radiating heat away

Because no air molecules to carry the heat?
It's passive aggressive because it's a passive statement that carries a strong threat of negative reaction if it isn't followed.
As a somewhat avid user of Nix, I can say that this is by far the best piece of writing that serves as an introduction to Nix that I've read. It leaves nothing unsaid, whilst serving as a perfectly crystallized version of what I'd want to describe if someone asked me what Nix is.
Brain systems do handle order of magnitude changes. E.g. going from dimly lit room [1-3] to bright sunlight. [1000-2000]
Top Steam Games: Nearly 70% Work on the Steam Deck in November 2023
> not randomly placed

What sort of patterns have you discovered?
Interesting, what does that look like?
I found out last week that Stone Temple Pilots released two albums of totally unrelated music with the same name.
NetBSD also integrates ZFS, albeit an older version than in recent FreeBSD releases: https://wiki.netbsd.org/zfs/. I have used ZFS in a NetBSD 9.2–9.3 VM on AMD64 without apparent issues. (Not for root.)
Anything in a foreign language seems to be impenetrable to Google Play.

It's also got a goldfish brain so when you reject an incorrect guess it'll make the exact same guess next time. Doesn't seem hard with a an entire datacentre of ML servers to go "hmm, this was wrong 5 seconds ago, maybe it's still wrong now".

But then again this is how I imagine it works, so maybe its just waiting for the new previous query service to be released: https://youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
I think white shingles for the roof would probably be even more effective. IIRC, a lot homes in hotter climates have started using them.

Adding bifacial solar panels is probably a fantastic combination as well.
> Something that is genuinely terrifying to set up to me is GitLab. It just has too many moving parts. To deploy it with NixOS, I have this in my configuration:

To me, my first thought is to always deploy applications through containers (Podman + Systemd is my personal preference).

I see this as at least some isolation, I know containers are not a fool proof security system, but it at least some other layer, simple to deploy elsewhere, etc.

Is there a reason to preference running something "natively" in Nix over just using containers? Is Nix giving me anything if I mostly deploy containers? My servers are bootstrapped via pyinfra, and generally I just need to setup ssh, wg and a container runtime, so config drift isn't really much of an issue.
>to see why you would assume an invariant speed, the assumption isn't just pulled out of thin air at the start

It's not out of thin air, it's from a very empirically successful theory: Maxwell's electrodynamics. The problem back then was that this theory was not relativistic, i.e. the speed of electromagnetic wave in Maxwell's equations was the same under all reference frames. So you either abandon the idea that laws of physics remaining the same under all reference frames, OR abandon Galilean velocity addition.

Einstein's approach was modifying the latter so that it fits with the former, by imposing invariant speed. This was written in Einstein's original paper. It's not a mystery assumption.

It's also a very common procedure: two empirically successful theories have conflict and you need to resolve them by building something larger than both and reducing to both under limit.

I also agree we have gained insight into how kinematic structure is derived from algebra + physical constraint. Though you still need the physical insight to choose which physical constraint.
> but often there’s just a fundamental lack of understanding as to what management cares about and needs to know about.

At some point, you've got to think about whose role it is to manage who.

If your management needs to be spoon-fed the decisions they must sign off, and reacts poorly to signal that is not perfectly worded or inadequate because the relevant information was not transmited down, what use are they?
Playstation 3, Playstation 4, and the Playstation Vita all make use of the FreeBSD kernel.

Playstation 5 seems to be a bit different. I'm a little confused if its running the FreeBSD kernel as the main OS/Kernel or if its being run as a shim for backwards compatibility with the PS4.

Its fun to see where BSD has ended up.
Not at the moment, as unfortunate as that may be. Same with Mastodon, BlueSky, Cohost, etc.

And the main reason for that is very simple; if there's an interesting new story, discussion, discovery, etc, it's still almost certainly going to be found on Twitter/X first. Or maybe Reddit, Discord, YouTube, etc.

I've never seen such stories start out on Threads or other Twitter replacements. I've never learnt about a TV show, film, video game, web project, podcast, site, etc for the first time from a Threads post. The majority of official communications from government agencies and media outlets still end up on Twitter/X first, while the majority of indie/fan project related ones usually end up on something like Discord first.

If Threads wants to win, it needs to be the place where these announcements are made. The place where people go first to learn about things, not just where they're reposted a few days later.

It also needs to fix discovery a bit too. Twitter/X is already awful for discovery, but there is at least somewhat of a possibility I'll find a new creator who's work hasn't already gone viral. Or normal people to chat with who aren't celebrities in general.

Threads feels like it lacks that. It's better now sure, but 99% of the posts I see are from folks that already have thousands or followers or more, and usually from folks that are far more attractive than the norm to boot. The most interesting people are often not models or Instagram celebs, but it's the latter who get suggested to everyone on Threads.
FreeBSD is a full-featured OS. Me and my colleagues used it for initial porting of a particular scientific software (non-GUI, just CLI and library) to macOS while having no access to an Apple Mac machine. Almost all the time (modulo Clang version differences), what worked on FreeBSD, also worked on macOS. Even if that was not the case, just using FreeBSD would have helped us a lot to "de-GNU-ify" the assumptions present in the code.

FreeBSD Ports/packages are a great collection of software (~30000); while not always providing the latest version of all software (and I will admit that I am spoiled in that regard by the usage of Arch Linux and derivatives), almost anything you need is there and it just works.
> I've heard trying to emulate subtractive synthesis can be difficult.

Just filtering frequencies isn't that difficult, but to get a digital filter sounding equivalent to a specific analog audio filter is an art.
There's an entire industry trying to recreate the 'character' of certain imperfections found in old synthesizers.
Some FM synthesizers also have subtractive filters. There are even analog synthesizers with FM so it's not an either/or.
> The package-name is just a unique name; the only thing it refers to is the package.

Not quite.

In go, you import 3rd party packages via a URL where a VCS can find them, eg.:

import "github.com/gorilla/websocket"

The package name is thus both, an unique name for the package AND a location where the toolchain can find and fetch it.
Two things about that. One is that it's not really "just now".

There other is th Since the Raspberry Pi Foundation to my knowledge isn't at all invested into the BSDs the work is done by volunteers and said volunteers might simply not use them.

I don't know the state right now, but some years ago the bottom line was that the RPi simply wasn't really a competitive device, so you had all of those other similar devices supported, that tended to be faster, or come without closed source BLOBs (firmware) required to boot, etc. So nobody got the device and ported it there for quite some time.

That was OpenBSD I think. At the same time they were very fast about running on Apple M1 and M2.

A lot of Linux work is paid for. And while the BSDs have foundations, Raspberry Pi is probably not the highest priority, since for the largest parts it's mostly hobbyist hardware.

But might also have other reasons, what I am trying to say is that this might not be as surprising given context.

Raspberry Pi is typically not the best supported piece of hardware, on OSs not supported by the Raspberry Pi foundation. Many of its more open competitors tend to work on a great variety of operating systems. Various other platforms come with hardware/driver docs from day one, not the Raspberry Pi.
Lots of the world, including professional investors, thought FTX was a successful, big, profitable business.

I've no idea if SBF told his parents what dodgy stuff was going on or not, but if he didn't then is it unreasonable for them to think "our son is rich from being a successful entrepreneur, of course we'll accept gifts from him"?

I feel they should only be in legal trouble if it's proven they knew laws were being broken. I don't run a criminal enterprise, but if I did then I'd sure as hell give my parents a version of the truth that excluded criminality...
Tetris games with 4 cells, is that easier that Tetris games with 5 or more cells?
I'm using Arc on MacOS which I believe is based on Chrome.
I find this unconvincing. FTA:

“More than 150 years ago, the economist and philosopher William Stanley Jevons discovered something curious about the number 4. While musing about how the mind conceives of numbers, he tossed a handful of black beans into a cardboard box. Then, after a fleeting glance, he guessed how many there were, before counting them to record the true value. After more than 1,000 trials, he saw a clear pattern. When there were four or fewer beans in the box, he always guessed the right number. But for five beans or more, his quick estimations were often incorrect.”

and

“For example, some neurons are tuned to the number 3. When they’re presented with three objects, they fire more. Other neurons are tuned to the number 5 and fire when presented with five objects, and so on. These neurons aren’t exclusively committed to their favorites: They also fire for numbers adjacent to it. (So the neuron tuned to 5 also fires for four and six objects.) But they don’t do it as often, and as the presented number gets farther away from the preferred number, the neurons’ firing rate decreases”

So, the experiment was about integers, not numbers in general, and the neurons don’t necessarily encode integers, but also could encode reals with noise/uncertainty.

I think the latter decently describes the experimental data if the noise/uncertainty is around 20% of the value. Rounding such a signal to integers will be faultless for n < 4, and get increasingly worse the larger n is.

In pseudocode:

Round(n * (1 + gaussianRandom())) == n

for small n, but not for larger n.

To support a claim that we’re better at smaller integers, I think you’d have to show that the standard deviation for larger n goes up superlinearly.

(An alternative way to phrase this is by claiming that these cells encode logarithms of numbers)
Maybe with this tool, 2024 will finally be the year of the Windows desktop.
its 100k and crossed by thousands every year...im not saying its easy, but i dont buy its deadly...i mean they even cross it with a car! [2]

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari%C3%A9n_Gap#Adventure_trav...
> And the Go module proxy will probably keep the old versions available.

https://proxy.golang.org does not save all modules forever. See FAQ on the site.
Honestly, I'm shocked you got OpenBSD running on a laptop at all. I've tried running it both on bare metal x86 hardware and in a Hyper-V VM on two different boxes, and spent hours failing to get it to recognize my network adapter or get an IP. Gave up....

I should caveat: OpenBSD is INCREDIBLE, and we owe it the world (honestly, for OpenSSH alone, but the rest of it is an absolute gold standard too). And I know I could've gotten there.

BUT, FreeBSD just worked for me out of the box on both.

Haven't run NetBSD, but with the native Wireguard support in there now, I might have to throw a NetBSD gateway into my homelab.

Anyone have any good recs on prosumer routers / switches that run NetBSD well?
I have mixed feelings about this.

The "Flash Invaders" app fosters a (friendly) competition among Invaders fans (often, families), so publishing a map is a way of distorting the competition (i.e. "cheating") and so, a bit unfortunate, IMHO.

OTOH, I can appreciate that some people could prefer to enjoy Invader's art in a more systematic way (i.e. planning a stroll with this as an explicit goal).

But for me, discovery and serendipity are part of the game.
Australia locks down ports after ‘nationally significant’ cyberattack
You can observe this effect today in Spain already.

The region around Almeria is covered by greenhouses that use white plastic sheets to protect their crops. The region has effectively cooled by 0.3 degrees whereas other areas have increased 0.5.

https://www.agroberichtenbuitenland.nl/actueel/nieuws/2019/0...
You can find the software, hopeful abandoned ware here (the archive site version does not work it seemed) : https://brutaldeluxe.fr/projects/mecc/disks/

and you can run the software on a browser: https://www.scullinsteel.com/apple//e

and if you want to run the program typed by lackaday it is here:

*800: A2 03 DB 00 08 8D 00 10 CA D0 F5
*800L
*

(use ctrl-Y/Y to run the above program)
(suggest to use mono not colour ...
to see the same video as the lackaday YouTube video as in here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZvss4XnceU&t=107s)
Turning a Project into a Product
In my experience, if you just tell it to do something first, (e.g., "before answering this question, tell me if it makes logical sense") it'll generally do it. Giving it a one sentence, vague prompt isn't going to be useful regardless.

The fine-tuning aspect I meant was mostly about factual data being incorrect.
My main gripe with it is the missing separation between test and prod dependencies. Let's say you work on program A, which depends on library B. Library B uses library C as a test dependency. It shouldn't have any effect on A whatsoever and should not even be downloaded. Yet it is.

Apart from the obvious bandwidth and storage space wasted, this is also a problem when compiling an SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) and when scanning for vulnerable dependencies. There is simply no way to tell if your Go binary is vulnerable simply by looking at the go.mod/go.sum file, you have to build and analyze the binary and hope that everything went well. Same for compiling NOTICE files for license compliance. (wink wink Apache license)

This isn't an unknown or unsolved problem either, Maven solved this ages ago.

There are also some minor nitpicks, such as their absolute requirement to do path-based semantic versioning from v2, but not from v1 or v0. If you change anything, but absolutely anything that's publicly visible, you must increase the minor version of the library you are publishing or you will have a really bad time. If you want to publish both a library and an application, you have to either version them with ridiculous version numbers, or you have to split the two.
Science fiction is great and all, but I'd rate this probability more like the inverse of stupid large numbers brought to us by Knuth's up-arrow notation.
> But if you are having one setting by the typographer and then choose to override them... yeah, it might be ugly.

This can be equally viewed from the other (user's) perspective: I had the font set (along with a comfortable size), then apparently the website tried to override it, though I did not notice that. Now I had to both allow custom fonts and enable JS to see its intended font, and it is even less comfortable for me to read, adding serifs, while still having overly high lines.

The reason I mentioned Noto is to better describe what I see, though perhaps it was unnecessary. That is, I saw it in a shape I liked a little more than the one it was intended to be in.
This sounds like a hypothetical speculative answer.

In the actual world we live in there are pages of emails and other evidence that they were involved in the commission of felonies.
Aaj, I love this series! I just started the last book :^) it's quite a journey

If anyone wants to pick it up, my main advice is to keep a cheat sheet of naval terms with you
You can run containers on NixOS (also through systemd) and get the same benefits explained in this article. NixOS supports both Podman and Docker as a runtime. There is also the option to run native NixOS containers. See: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Containers.

The Docker Compose story is a bit rough around the edges, though. I’m actually working on a tool to automatically convert a Compose project into a NixOS config you can import as-is. Still kinda early, but the basic skeleton works: https://github.com/aksiksi/compose2nix. You can see a sample output file here: https://github.com/aksiksi/compose2nix/blob/main/testdata/Te....
> I feel they should only be in legal trouble if it's proven they knew laws were being broken.

Given they're both law professors, I think they could be expected to have a clearer view of laws and the breaking thereof than your average set of parents.

But also "[Bankman] reportedly also served as the first attorney for FTX" which suggests an even deeper insight into what may have been going on.
I found the SD Card performance of NetBSD to be really bad on the Rpi3. Have they fixed it yet?

Linux and FreeBSD on the Rpi3 don't have the same problem.
For a lot of classical music, you can get very good results just using the Parsons code (sometimes called melodic contour): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsons_code

Worth a shot if hum to search doesn't work!
> damage that decriminalization of X enables,

This is a pretty ignorant comment to see on HN. So far we have strong evidence to show delegalisation causes huge issues and legalization works as expected. Have a look at any country that went that route.
Parsons Code for melodic contours
"The operator shut down four ports at Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Fremantle after detecting a cybersecurity incident late on Friday night. DP World is responsible for 40 per cent of Australia’s maritime freight."

Yes, sounds serious enough.
The importance of cash in a technological society
React Native is very unreliable and unproductive, you write your code in JavaScript, that then gets executed in a VM, that then calls some glue code that may or may not work reliably, when these don't work: good luck debugging it.

React itself became quite a mess as well nowadays, it's becoming bigger and more bloated with each release. You can now very easily re-create the AngularJS hell in React.

JavaScript doesn't scale in productivity and in terms of performance, TypeScript solves the productivity problem, but you still suffer a lot due to JavaScript's poor runtime performance characteristics.
I recommend the "If Books Could Kill" podcast episode that covers this book.
Or just plain parking literally in the middle of intersections.

But yes, the one time I was nearly run down in a crosswalk, you can bet it was a BMW. From Quebec.
I've not followed the case closely enough to know the details, but as I said in previous comment - if there's evidence they knew, then sure they should be prosecuted.
I see, thanks. Well, that's the problem, I guess.

Someone famous once said "Good URLs don't change". Turns out he was pissing in the wind; nobody paid attention. And the market in DNS names guaranteed he'd be wrong.
The killer feature of FM synthesis is generation of inharmonic sounds. Classic analog waveforms (sawtooth/square/triangle/sine) are all perfectly harmonic, i.e. the frequencies of the higher harmonics are at integer multiples of the fundamental. Subtractive synthesis shapes the amplitudes of these harmonics but doesn't add any new ones.

Subtractive synthesis is still musically useful, because most musical instruments are harmonic or almost harmonic, but tuned percussion is a notable exception. It's very difficult to get a good bell sound out of subtractive synthesis. FM can produce inharmonic sounds, where the higher harmonics are at non-integer multiples of the fundamental. It's much easier to get good bell/chime sounds out of FM synthesis.

And the "almost harmonic" instruments are very popular (all plucked or hammered string instruments, with the inharmonicity more pronounced with thicker strings, so especially bass and piano). By adding a little inharmonicity, FM synthesis can produce more realistic versions of these sounds than subtractive synthesis.

Additive synthesis can also produce inharmonic sounds, but this requires an oscillator for each harmonic, so back when FM synthesis first hit the market this was unreasonably expensive.
A Brazilian book called Ministério do Prazer (Ministry of Pleasure).

It's an erotic fanfic featuring one of our Supreme Court ministers and the daughter of an alt-right senator.

It's absolute trash, but it's hilarious. I suggest that anyone who can read Portuguese and has been following Brazilian politics should read this book. It costs something like BRL 1,99 on Amazon.
I can agree with the parent comment that the typography on that page is atypical and not in a good way. Too large to make it easily readable on mobile, not enough margin. Perhaps that's forgivable since it was written 17 years ago before the mobile era. But even in desktop mode, size of typefaces jumps around for seemingly no real reason. Repeated use of the same graphic of historical typesetting for no apparent reason
Nope. It was an OR not an AND. His conclusion: "Maybe my upgrade will happen when they really commit to the matt black thing OR there is another huge upgrade."

He knew the spec bump wasn't going to be enough. His conclusion on the colour: "I am glad there is a new... darker... colour available, but it's weirdly not for me". If he liked the colour, he would have kept his order.
That's basically what is known as a tri-state checkbox, or a specific rendering of one.
He meant "French" primarily means "French people" and only secondarily "French language".

I'd try to distinguish this with a definite article, like "the French" vs "French", but what do I know?
So, pretty much "Go home team!" huh?
> Does having an indoor only cat put you at a higher risk?

Definitely, unless you go out in the wild to clean up cat poops
Are you using a pinebook pro? I used Manjaro for a while there because I couldn't get OpenBSD working. Eventually I switched to my thinkpad (and frankly I'm using my AMD gaming computer running popOS lately despite the trust issues running games) Any particular difficulties running either BSD for daily driver purposes?
If you want a closure to outlive the outside bindings of its captures and thus have shared control over their lifecycle (which is the default behavior of closures in most FP languages) you can easily use Rc<> or Arc<> to that effect. Rust just forces you to be explicit about it.
Author here, I agree with this sentiment! Just wanted to note that it's not the first map: there is an unofficial iOS app with a full Paris map and another web map easily findable on Google. I just didn't like any of the existing maps:). More context and making-of of this map -> https://newsletter.pnote.eu/p/mapping-space-invader-mosaics-...
Quit caffeine after decades ; 11 months into working to re-adjust psychology and habits.
Buying a car that drives itself, only to decide to drive it yourself, badly. That just makes it even more frustrating.
How long will they last in the desert though? My intuition say they would be covered with sand in a few weeks tops.