skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm having trouble remembering the name (it's obtuse and my searching is bringing up different, similar phenomena - cryo-something iirc), but once the warm dust starts to dig a little hole with some fresh water in it, biofilms of algae and fungi begin to form at the bottom. They're dark colored and accelerate the process further (increasing the size of their habitat).

At least, that happens with real glaciers. It may take a while for a similar phenomenon to arise on artificial glaciers. But sure as sunshine, if there's sunlight and fresh water, the algae will figure out a way to exploit it.
Pixel 8 Pro owners complain about display bumps
Beej's Guide to Interprocess Communication
Sure, but that's besides the point. What if my risk model means not sending packets under specific controlled circumstances because that would reveal my approximate location? What if the right apple or microsoft engineers were coerced into accessing my data? What if the government I am under becomes malicious and forces apple and microsoft to hack my device? Security can give privacy, but a loss of privacy is always a loss of security.
AMD Radeon RX 7900M performance debut: Alienware m18 R1 laptop review
Wikipedia indicates it's still a private company. My recollection is they are failing to hit figures that would make for an attractive buy out or IPO.
Gradually is fine and all, but wayland is 15 years old.
>Seems to me they're not doing it gradually at all.

They are doing the release all-at-once, but developing gradually. From the original PR[1]:

>This should be thought of as a "port" instead of a "rewrite" because we would not start from scratch; instead we would translate C++ to Rust, incrementally, module by module, in the span of one release. We'll use an FFI so the Rust and C++ bits can talk to each other until C++ is gone, and tests and CI keep passing at every commit.

[1] https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/9512
For a 13B model, depending on what quantization you choose, you’re going to need a system with at least 16GB RAM, and even my AMD Ryzen 7 5800X at full throttle feels a bit sluggish on 7B Llama - a Raspberry Pi or similar would be painful.

Here is the best explanation I’ve found so far, covering various trade-offs and scenarios: https://www.hardware-corner.net/guides/computer-to-run-llama...

In your shoes, not being in the position to spend much right now, I’d try a few different 7B models at 4 and 5 bit quantizations on the Mac, which is going to be better than just about any other 8GB RAM system, and look into using cloud for larger stuff (remember to fully deallocate the VM when done for the day!)
Where have I seen this UI before? :)
It's a lot easier to remove dust from a dry surface (the wind may do it for you - I recently listened to an interview about Mars rovers[1], and they mentioned most of the dust that gets on their cameras gradually blows away).

[1] https://embedded.fm/episodes/371
Network Troubleshooting in Linux
well the first level, any evidence collected and released is more than zero, which is the baseline before cameras. They are frequently included in trials. They are also sometimes released to the public in high profile cases, usually in the interest of exonerating the police, but which is also sometimes informative.

Do you have any reason you do you think that they are a net negative?
Yeah, great, name one actual high assurance system any of those vendors have actually deployed or that anybody has ever deployed using those products. Something that can protect against something simple like a team of 10 FTEs for 3 elapsed years and a competent audit verifying that where their system is actually integral to the security properties of the system. None of this, I heard from a friend of a friend that their internal security is super awesome, but they have no evidence of it and none of their team would ever claim it in public.

Now you are probably going to say something like 30 FTE-years is too much. That is only like 10 M$. That is less than the ransom Caesars Palace paid out, which is a pittance compared to how much they would be willing to pay out to avoid disruption. Being unable to make such a attack unprofitable means your security is inadequate to defend medium to large sized companies who are routinely attacked by commercial-motivated hackers. Let alone systems with actual high assurance requirements like fighter jets where multi-billion dollar attacks are more cost-effective than the missiles otherwise needed.

The unary thinking where systems are all "not secure" and thus it does not matter whether it actually works against the commercially-motivated criminal hackers who will target your systems is tiresome. "More" or "less" security does not matter, "adequate" security that protects against the current and predictable future threat landscape of commercially-motivated hackers with multi-million dollar budgets who can get multi-million dollar payouts is what matters and these companies do not reach even that basic bar.

These widely known and respected security researchers have never made any system that can protect against the modern threat landscape of commercially-motivated criminals let alone state actors. For that matter, most of them probably think that is just impossible. Excuse me if I think they have no meaningful security expertise given that they have never actually secured a system against standard attacks. They do hire some pretty good offensive researchers, but that has about as much to do with security expertise as gunmaker expertise has to do with bulletproof vest expertise.
Was there a technical reason (minimize potential smearing? tearing of the paper?)? Or was it more symbolic attire? Would management wear it?
> In the 80s you had to send a letter to ask for information and wait days/weeks/months before it was delivered.

I'm beginning to see that as a virtue. Now, if I don't respond to an email the same day people assume I've died or that I'm purposefully stiffing them. Instead of thinking about the answer. Some process delay that is inescapable isn't a bad thing per-se.
Why? It's already floating and displacing its own weight in water.
> This board [WM8960] was more suited for this project than my previous choice, the TPA2016D2. ... However, I now needed a microcontroller to initialize and control the WM8960. I chose the $10 ESP32 because it would allow me to operate the WM8960 and also accept audio via a Bluetooth connection from, say, my phone, and stream it to the WM8960.
Ironically, the Wayland compositor used by the steam deck, gamescope, doesn't support native Wayland applications. Even weirder, it runs inside an X11 session.
That feels a lot harsher if you're in the frame.
> I'm absolutely certain there are much more non-white (Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese...) programmers than white.

Worldwide, sure. I'm speaking about the US.

>And if we stop with the racism

That would be up to you. I haven't said anything that's racist.

>are you sure it's not the programming that made these guys upper middle class?

That would be even worse. It would mean that the white men who lived childhoods of lesser means and found success in the tech industry, presumably under the guidance of seniors who themselves (under your hypothetical) were more likely to be first-gen professionals, looked at black and brown kids in similar situations and thought, "Fuck you, got mine."
Stable Video Diffusion Online Demo
14 days

Then you have to ask the seller to repair it for up to 2 years (1 year the manufacturer has to prove you destroyed the device if he does not want to repair it, 2 year you have to prove that's it's a manufacturing defect)

After 3 attempts, they have to give you your money back.
Quake is Open Source, Quake's data files are not. Llama2 is actually more open than Quake.
They make a lot of entreaties. And if they are sick, there may be nothing the caregiver can do about it. If 20% of the entreaties are things like an upset stomach, then that 30-50% becomes 38-62%. If the baby has colic, good luck!
Just curious: for a municipality with limited resources and very minimal understanding of data governance, why should a city government follow in the footsteps of Boulder?

Do the missteps of Boulder make the case for other municipalities to not pursue open data in a similar way, given FOIA is sufficient?
Wind turbines running in reverse.
This was my first thought as well. I wonder how long it will last floating in the ocean and what a storm would potentially do to it (and anyone attempting to reside on it).
fjck
For Monte Carlo and if you need for speed, consider Quasi Monte Carlo. For the right kind of problems the speed up in convergence is huge (ie given same accuracy it will be faster.)
The dns_cloudflare [1] also automates the cert generation and follow on renewals on a cron or via nginx proxy manager. Uses cloudflare API key, modifies the TXT record, issues/updates a cert and deletes the record.

[1] https://certbot-dns-cloudflare.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
If profitability isn't enough for them, I have no sympathy.

And beyond that, how fast do they expect to grow after this many years? Be happy with a good thing! Their growth rate was very impressive!
Please don't try maui, it will be a disaster. The migration from XF to Maui has been on the verge of collapse.
I am not quit sure if this price was misleading enough to be a clear error, that contract might very well be enforceable under German law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhch%C4%81l

I'll leave this here...
For those of us who need a refresher:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring

Also, on another note I think HTMX has successfully positioned itself as a meme, for better or worse. I have tried using it on a few side projects and I do like the simplicity of it, but is there a goal of it being credible software, or just something the creators are having fun with?
Please explain how, because if stupid people have more kids, there will be more stupid people.
Rationally, this makes sense.

Emotionally, it doesn't. The problem is if I own something, I'll use it freely. If I rent a GPU, I'll be stressing and counting pennies. In practice, I'll use it less.

On the whole, I'd rather buy even if it costs more, because I'll use it, and in the long term, that pays dividends.

That's not everyone. That's me.
I would argue that these people are not as smart as they think they are. They may be smart but in proportion to their ambitions they are stupid.
Someone who doesn't trust a government can move countries, particularly in the EU. I'd argue that it's actually easier to avoid a given EU government than to use an OS/browser combination that's not controlled by US entities.
I agree. If AI can reduce labor costs at NASA, I'm pretty sure the old ways will get outcompeted.
I use kbin which links to both mastodon and Lemmy.
Jobs with Higher Income and Fewer Hours
I think the simplest explanation is that we're just not accurate enough at determining the trajectory of the particle in question. They tried matching against sources "just outside its arrival direction" but without access to the paper (the DOI link just doesn't work for me, loads an empty page) or knowledge about the instruments being used it's hard to say how much that rules out.

At least looking into the Telescope Array's workings, it seems plausible that it'd struggle to produce accurate trajectory data. It works by analyzing the light produced by cascading collisions of particles with the incoming one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_shower_(physics). At first glance this seems like it would be very noisy for determining trajectory.
ls to exa
Great app. I didn't know it was on desktop too. Distills everything from Civ V into a tidy package with minimalist graphics.
human-written words are not self-aware; they're just inert ink on paper, or the equivalent in other media. i've never seen even a small child make that error before. if you wrote that in earnest, you seem to be suffering from a bad kind of confusion and may need medical attention
Americans think the American dream is dying
The idea is for the LVT to be high enough to make this behavior infeasible.

So yes, they’d pay the same tax rate, but that rate is high enough that it’d be prohibitively expensive to keep it in its current state for very long. They’d have to either turn it into something useful for the community (bring in more businesses or allow people to live there), or sell it to someone who will.
How to Optimize React Context Performance
The HN bit was sourced from Reddit originally (I think?), so hell of a xkcd/978 there
I have the previous gen, and it's still really good for use in hotels. But... I have been thinking of upgrading. :)
That's a perfectly reasonable SWE interview question.
Good? Regulatory power has been lacking, no matter who the player at stake is.
>capitalism

Millennial here. The FOMC deciding rates my whole life was hardly capitalism.
The fishshell.com website starts with:

> Finally, a command line shell for the 90s

When in doubt, assume the Fish team is being tongue-in-cheek.
It was complete submission lmao
They specifically reposed users content from other platforms then pinged them that it was being discussed on reddit. It's what caused me to use reddit for the first time.
Nothing. As the CEO predicted it fizzled out. The 3rd party apps died or asked for ridiculous amounts just to use the app. My Reddit usage dropped significantly but I guess I am not their target anymore. As any drama starts and ends on Reddit, this will be forgotten very soon.
That’s awesome feedback, thanks! Definitely get your students into it
FontForge is cross platform, and I've generally found I can beat the UI into submission easily enough. However the mac builds are a bit of a minefield and they only publish Intel binaries. Trying to DIY an ARM build was an exercise in frustration. They use some seemingly abandoned alternative to Apple's otool, and the whole process depends on Python <= 3.11.

Also open source (but definitely more assertive about asking for money) is BirdFont. I've installed it but not spent much time trying to use it.
> Sources like Karpathy's recent video on what LLMs actually do are good anti-hype for the lay audience

Which video is this?
> but is there a goal of it being credible software, or just something the creators are having fun with?

these are not mutually exclusive outcomes.
I'm for people creating things they want to use. I also have a negative, possibly unfounded reaction to the stated purposes of htmx:

>Why should only <a> and <form> be able to make HTTP requests?

>Why should only click & submit events trigger them?

>Why should only GET & POST methods be available?

>Why should you only be able to replace the entire screen?

>By removing these arbitrary constraints, htmx completes HTML as a hypertext"

I guess people do all of these things with javascript anyways but it gave me a "get off my lawn" reaction when I read these bullets.
We're going to need to send the world's best offshore drilling team.

Hopefully no one gets space dementia.
>has successfully positioned itself as a meme

https://htmx.org/essays/#memes
It's definitely a real, credible project. I'd played with HTMX a couple years ago when it was first announced. It was only recently that the author began using memes on Twitter and attained a large following from that.

He has a great book explaining the philosophy behind the project: https://hypermedia.systems
I mean, sure, Bjarne calls his proposed way forward "safety profiles".

Most fundamentally, this completely misunderstands the nature of the problem. This is a technical change, but the most important problem C++ has is cultural. So, they're not even addressing the right problem. In his original talk about this Bjarne even repeatedly describes his approach as a "strategy" which practically begged someone to say "Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast" but no-one did.

But let's imagine that C++ culture magically is fixed by pixies or whatever, leaving only technical problems, which safety profiles could address. The next big problem is that Rust's safety is compositional. The many different kinds of "safety" delivered via Bjarne's "safety profiles" don't compose, safety A + safety B = no safety. So this makes it largely useless from a software engineering point of view.

Once you've cleared these two fundamental obstacles you're back to more mundane limitations like timing. Rust 1.0 shipped in 2015. There are teams out there already with many years of Rust experience in practice. But Bjarne's "Safety Profiles" aren't available in your C++ compiler today, and won't be for years to come, perhaps many years. Are you confident that starting this far behind the pack will be OK?
I agree with all of this. I remember way back when i was doing CORBA programming (argh!) thinking "can these stupid bastards not specify a simple string class??" To have the most commonly used data type be so complicated makes me think we have got things deeply wrong somewhere.
I just picked up an Atari Portfolio off of Facebook Marketplace in my area and ordered a new-old-stock parallel interface adapter. I'm still working out how to get it interfaced to my PC through an Arduino to copy up files.

It's a very charming device. I used to own one in the mid-to-late 90s as well that I got used from the local computer store in my small town.
Agreed, doing sd 'search' 'replace' **.py is common in my history. I only mention fd + xargs as a backup for when you need to do something that a simple shell expansion won't cover.

Also, for a "confirm your changes" type workflow, I like git add -p after running the sd command just to review all of the changes.
Yelp, Strava and Duolingo Are Dating Apps?
x86_64 (among others) specifically avoided that incompatibility, by the CPU forcing programs to mask those bits out instead of ignoring them. So programs are very compatible into the future, they just need to limit the range their memory allocator uses.

Then it later added explicit automatic masking, which also avoids the problem. As long as your program can make do with smaller amounts of memory, there are no downsides.
It won't melt quickly once reaching warm water. There's a huge amount of volume contained by a fairly small surface area - this iceberg would last for years in the Caribbean.

A better idea, if you can tow it, is to tow it to one of the gulf states or somewhere else with a severe potable water shortage.
Simply great work and making it freely available is outstanding!!
I have the mango router, it's a little older but very capable and it's got me out of a tight spot a number of times. Like when we've moved house but don't have an internet connection installed yet, just plug in a phone or 4G dongle and away you go.

Before that I had a little TP-Link portable router (MR3020?) that I'd flashed with ROOter - https://www.ofmodemsandmen.com/

I wanted to mention it because it's been a great plug-and-play openwrt derivative option with support for a lot of devices.
Relativistic mass is educational aid not actual physical concept. The full equation is the only one actual physicists use (unless teaching).
Bye, schools
That's fine if you want to run the software on an 11 year old Mac, but irrelevant to anyone who has purchased a Mac during the Apple Silicon era.
The position being wrong isn't the only issue - if you can't programmatically reposition a window, you have to break the user's drag gesture into two drag gestures, one to 'pop out' the window and then the user has to find it and grab it again to move it.
freebsd-update fetch install is part of the normal upgrade process

If the man page and literally every other piece of documentation about upgrading is correct: no, no it's not. If the intent of freebsd-update were only to allow migration from the latest patch level, it would fail instead of corrupting its state, no?

The only caveat provided by the freebsd-update man page is the admonishment to read the release notes for special instructions, yet the release notes completely fail to mention this footgun.

Or is your assertion that intuition should take the place of documentation?
Slightly related, but one of my favorite personal achievements in high school was replicating the first year's final exam C++ project on a TI-89's Basic interpreter. Spent hours ignoring lessons in other classes while I
perfected it before showing it off to my teacher. If I recall correctly, it had assembly as well, which is how Tetris and SMB clones and Phoenix, the Doom clones,... And OS shells were coded. Good times. This was over 20 years ago and that interpreter was slooooow, but functional. Assembly could do 8 shades of gray and 60 fps.

Well,.then hormones and ADD took over and I can't still can't code worth crap. but I do like reading about it on HN, so thanks.
Where did they go?
> Systemd OTOH makes almost all possible sins against the unix philosophy

Is this supposed to be a bad thing? Because I don't find it obvious. In fact, I don't get why many people have this mystical reverence for the "unix philosophy", as if having a large number of small processes that communicate via plain text was some kind of divine commandment rather than just one of many ways to design software (and not necessarily that good for tasks other than slicing and dicing text). I'm guessing that you do your image editing in a program like GIMP or Photoshop rather than with a bash shell, pipes, and a hundred tiny programs that input and output text. The "unix philosophy" simply isn't a good fit there. Having used both sysvinit and systemd when doing server administration, I find systemd so much better that to me, it's evidence that maybe the "unix philosophy" isn't the best choice here either.
I've already linked in another comment on this thread so I won't repeat it, but there's a book explaining why. I didn't know this prior to reading the book, but the original intent of RESTful APIs were to use hypermedia as the engine of application state (HATEOAS). Terrible acronym, but a really interesting idea.

There's a lot to say about it, but the essential idea is that if you let the server control the state of the application via hypermedia requests/responses, you eliminate a lot of the complexity that is associated with client-side web apps.
no, because risk and danger is an expected outcome of what he said.

a weak situational irony would be that the crew reluctantly agrees to take on the risks of exploration, but then every single encounter they have from then on is peaceful, contemplative, and non-eventful.

a weak character irony could be that Kirk gets the crew on-board with his gung-ho antics and thirst for the unknown, they all agree -- and then it's discovered that Kirk is actually a huge wimp that was really just putting on a front because he never thought the crew would want to continue after his descriptions of danger.
Parents often let their children struggle and make imperfect decisions, and it's entirely possible (though definitely not guaranteed) that an AI superparent would do the same for us.

I think it's becoming clear that humans are fundamentally incapable of forseeing and understanding the consequences of the actions we are now capable of taking. It is likely that without some sort of super-governance that is fundamentally more capable than humans, we might not be able to survive as a species. Maybe AI can help solve that.
Expensive, time-consuming, and after multiple trips to different audiologists I never got a good impression of my right ear. If it works for you though (I'm probably a rare case) I'm sure it's great.