skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think life is the most common thing in the universe.

Until we have sufficient evidence we don’t know how common life is in the universe. It doesn’t take much for one of the exponents of the Drake equation to veer towards zero so closely that all the vast distances, multitude of galaxies, stars, and planets make no difference to our chances of not being alone in the universe. We won’t know until we have a body of evidence with which we can perform statistical analysis and N=1 isn’t enough. Unless you’re in possession of non-public data on the matter then your assertion is merely a kind of faith.
Yes this could very well be a packaging/build error of clang, rather than a code bug. It's quite usual to cross compile for pi1 because it's so slow to build on it.
I read a very interesting text that made the assertion that graph theory is one of the few domains of mathematics that cannot be reduced to set theory. The argument has something to do with pictorial representations of unlabeled graphs. I'm not sure I grasp the argument fully, but it is interesting.
What are the details? The sample page just 404s
What platform allows use of git?

My process lends itself to function block programming so generating useful diffs requires quite a lot of effort.
It isn’t as hard as people make out but it also isn’t easy. The saving grace is that the language, particularly in its modern form, is highly amenable to an experienced user designing their own libraries that make the language much nicer to use. You can replace most of the dubious parts. Nonetheless, C++ is unreasonably large.

The main advantage of something like C++20 is that for some types of software there is no other language that comes close in both performance and economy. The alternatives either require much more code or giving up a lot of performance, neither of which is particularly palatable for many use cases. I am always keeping an eye out for smaller languages with similar economy and performance.
Yes.

It now sounds like it is completely broken. But you can just fix it with a flag. And the change of default was probably an unintentional bug.
Sorry I got hours and minutes confused and overstated the benefits.

So the correct numbers would be 7.5 minutes of downtime divided by 43,200 minutes times 1,000,000 servers. That’s 173 servers wasted. That is probably still enough servers wasted to devote some engineering time to increasing utilization.
Could you please link that TOF array?
Ths smart move is to only refund users who get their lawyer to write a letter.
It just means a unified (sorry) UI that handles everything, instead of having say one system/UI for routing, another for LAN management, another for firewall, etc etc where nothing necessarily knows about the others.
Same as any employee, of course.
Inflatable Santa Claus gunned down in Kentucky drive-by shooting
The physical dynamics of the processes are the interesting parts for me. Ladder is good for representing Boolean logic but the paradigm has been stretched too far beyond its area of strength.
We had APL on our Prime minicomputer at Swarthmore when I started there in 1978.
cosine similarity approach is better than PageRank
Although not a dedicated hardware device, Kiwix makes it very easy to browse Wikipedia offline on both desktop and mobile devices: https://kiwix.org/en/applications/
From the article:

> A police officer said that they searched for Tom and Jerry cartoons on YouTube and showed three or four of them to the child, who identified one particular cartoon. The URL of this cartoon was sent to the Cyber Cell.
This was what the Google Chromecast Audio was amazing for. £30, a fibre optic output. Then they killed it. I still have one and use it every day, and they’re fairly sought after so prices on eBay are more than twice the retail price
A magnificently sci fi headline.
Post acquisition, we moved offices, and used their HR department, and certain product decisions were made for us, but we largely did our own thing, for better or worse, so I don't know how much I can speak about how it was to work at Oracle. We were under Wim Coekaerts who is a big open source guy. Oracle's reputation as a cutthroat legal entity is well deserved, but working at that side of the company it felt unfair because, Oracle's open source contributions with VirtualBox, the UEK, and others are lost in the grar over MySQL.

I think the biggest "big company" blunder while I was there was a public blog post by someone high up at the company decrying open source as bad/wrong while at the same time, Oracle was doing all this other open source stuff.
It works with all docutils and Sphinx roles, and almost all directives, including extensions.

A notable exception is autodoc (automodule, autoclass, etc.), and any other directives that generate more rST. The current workaround is to use eval-rst:

https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/syntax/code_and...

Some more discussion about that in these issues:

https://github.com/executablebooks/MyST-Parser/issues/163

https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/8018
The thing with free software is that you are in no position to demand anything. If the maintainer don't feel like supporting your hardware, they don't have to.

But the beauty of free software is that you can always do it yourself. (Or pay someone to do it)
I think LLMs have a lot of therapeutic potential, but I am worried about how easily they can cause harm in this area. CBT is the gold standard treatment for many problems, but applying it correctly requires some nuance and an accurate diagnosis of the problem.

Consider a teenager who is fixated on the idea that they're a "bad person" because they're having homosexual thoughts. You might think they need positive affirmations or exercises to challenge their fears with evidence. But these symptoms are sometimes a manifestation of OCD. If so, using CBT to "argue away" the fear could end up reinforcing the OCD cycle and causing more and more self-doubt. For this person, the better treatment would be a different CBT tool: exposure. It may seem odd, but they would be better served with exercises such as repeatedly thinking sexual thoughts and then telling themselves, "I might be a horrible person because of this." (The purpose is to desensitize them to the idea - eventually, they will just get bored.) Needless to say, this type of treatment needs to be implemented with care.

I think it's beyond the capabilities of LLMs to reliably distinguish problems like this. So then, I think the systems have to be designed so that their output is at least harmless for all people, and that sounds really hard.
Not once did I see the author mention “actors”, an entire generation of skilled engineers tries to reinvent them (with conflicting naming) poorly, this is a failing of our industry’s academia and trade press.

Actors are asynchronous objects with a message queue, designed to run on a thread pool. You can pin them to a core, or allow migration via work stealing (to spread the workload). Did you know that in modern many core systems, a hot CPU core will halt to cool down? Work stealing will offload non-pinned actors, balancing the load.

There is one stumbling issue with Actors which is “sync” work, a transaction which requires one actor to update anothers state before continuing. This can be resolved by “locking” an actor, but this mechanism is consceptually “dirty”, but solves real world problems.
That person's website DEFINITELY does not try to drive you insane with CSS that slowly changes second-by-second.

It's fine. It's normal. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine.
There's details in the first linked See Also -post: https://www.marginalia.nu/log/69-creepy-website-similarity/
Best part of travelling is learning different ways that various people do similar things.

Not only does Vanuatu have a history of continuous plot sand art it also has a practice of water music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRIUbB8Cie4

https://youtu.be/pEgJhfWKq4A?t=37
my mistake points out just how bad a name gql is!
I’m running three of them, they work perfectly with audio in sync outdoors and different rooms indoors.

I wish there was some equivalent still available.
I heard them once in a Maryland suburb of DC: there were so many that it was just a constant whine in the background, unlike what I've heard elsewhere.

Thankfully I was just passing through or it would've given me a headache.
Side by Side Image Generator
This is a simple side-by-side image generator I wanted to share! This helps you share photos easily that are next to each other.
Worse, some just don't come back without manual intervention. Power supplies don't last forever and might run fine while the machine is on, but after a reboot... boom, gone.
Is it only open to engineers in Turkey itself?
Can we avoid sharing sophomoric pieces from dilettante writers. It's uninsightful, unoriginal, and more tuned for the reddit audience.
I love Excalidraw but I feel like at some point recently the text inside a box aligns to the grid separately to the box it’s in. The effect being that drawing a box, writing in it then dragging it around breaks the alignment

It’s still functional but my brain hates it
It's not considered rigorously provable math any more than Vedic "geometry recipes" are, so it doesn't topple any assumptions.

And "decolonizing" education doesn't change that.
We're using similar techniques to parse and merge JSON objects, which could be applied to this problem as well. Essentially, you could index the whole input into an AST and the. Traverse the AST to find the data you're looking for. In our case, we're not just doing that, but recursively merge JSON objects at the AST level which is a lot faster than merging the actual data. The full blog post on the problem and solution can be found here: https://wundergraph.com/blog/astjson_high_performance_json_t...
This might sound stupid but as a parent, we think a lot about our kids and if you ask me to talk about them, I'm going to talk for hours. For that reason I try to avoid it unless prompted, and I don't recommend children unless prompted.

That being said, I wouldn't feel anywhere this fulfilled if I didn't have children, I haven't regretted having them. I would have probably gone up to 4 if society did not make it this hard (economically speaking but many things become annoying too).

There is so much free time without children, no doubt. Doing nothing on the weekend is a pleasure I can only enjoy in small chunks, since I usually must do something for them.
Exactly. And I find this is also the best explanation to give to people who don't have a maths background, but who still want to know "Why does the calculator say ERROR?"
Yeah, especially with containerisation and orchestration / Kubernetes, I get that perhaps not everything is viable to containerise, but in 2023 this feels archaic and like a lot of (potentially unnecessary) engineering work.
Thanks for sharing -- this was very helpful in reinforcing and improving my basic understanding of LLMs.
Highly recommend the natural number game
How about docusaurus and tinasaurus? The latter is based on TinaCMS.

[1] Docusaurus:

https://docusaurus.io/

[2] Tinasaurus:

https://github.com/tinacms/tinasaurus
I guess on Android you‘d have to look for hardware specific apps, like the one Sony is offering with their Xperia phones for example.
I own one of these, its excellent. I leave it in my car.
To what degree do these features translate to JVM changes, vs just Java language changes (I know the two are fairly tightly coupled)? Eg will this mean new bytecode/optimizations that could be used to optimize other JVM languages which already have similar features?
Sorry, but that's not true.

I wish it was. But running anything that bridges google3 and GCP is a nightmare. Outside of acquisitions and OSSish stuff like chrome, it's really rare to see GCP used. Oddly enough their corp eng team does quite a bit with making GCP accessible to the rest of the company.

Source: former Google SRE who actually worked on one of those teams.
Funny given that they have been selling open source software for ages...

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B10463_01/web.904/b10320/apjsvsup...

I believe this was circa 2000, but going on longer than that.
Wow, looking at the history of the ARM generation the original versions of the Raspberry Pi uses, it’s hard to believe it’s so old! When the Raspberry Pi B+ was released (2014), the ARM core it used was already 11 years old (using the ARM1176 core from 2003). So it’s not unbelievable that you might need to start supplying an arch flag to produce compatible code building on a different platform (like the newer Raspberry Pi the article says they first built on).

As others have said, it does seem like a misconfiguration (perhaps in the defaults shipped by their distribution) that the correct arch is not picked by default when building on the Raspberry Pi B+ itself.
See pnmcat's (https://linux.die.net/man/1/pnmcat) -leftright or -topbottom options.
But to be fair, MS didn’t let those products die but developed them further. They only became really successful after Microsoft acquired them. Not comparable to the situation with Filmic IMHO.
https://old.reddit.com/r/wikireader/

I remember getting one of these from woot-dot-com (iirc?) back in The Day. My dad really liked it.
Yeah and hilariously, being able to navigate and accurately exploit the quirks of browsers could give your web development business a competitive edge. My colleagues and I had it as a source of pride to come up with a complete stack of tedious "hacks" to make even the most ambitious designs possible, in the mid-2000's. Our designers were able to basically make whatever they wanted (within reason) and have it work out. The excitement of getting some layout working that today would be trivial... ahh, fun times :) haha
as long as they dont have real first class functions, still behind modern languages
For comparison, I guess its direct competitor would be Eero 6+, going for $139.

UniFi has way more options to play around with and functionary rich so I $149 seems quite decently priced.
The problem with this explanation is that I should perfectly well be able to divide my jellybeans into 0.5 or -1 groups, though those also make no real sense in this example.
I used to live near Sandy Hook in NJ. There was a Nike base there, but also several decades of various gun emplacements. They even secretly had nuclear warheads on the Nike Atlas missiles there to take out incoming bombers where the missiles were less accurate. No one in the towns around was told.

It’s an interesting historical place to walk around Fort Hancock as you see the batteries (no guns, sadly), and the Nike station.

The fortifications date from the civil war.

They have tours of the guns and missiles from time to time.

https://www.nps.gov/gate/planyourvisit/sandyhookniketours.ht...

https://home.nps.gov/gate/learn/historyculture/sandyhookpeop...
It’s being IBMed. That was to be expected.
Electronic analog computing is also still being researched, eg https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13177 ("Analog multiplication is carried out in the synapse circuits, while the results are accumulated on the neurons' membrane capacitors. Designed as an analog, in-memory computing device, it promises high energy efficiency")
Oh, no. I liked those tools, but I don't let them update since they started having "premium versions".

The web site still says "A group of simple, open source Android apps without ads and unnecessary permissions, with customizable colors." They're on F-Droid.
Mashup of "product managers" and "architecture astronauts"? It has a nice ring.
Eddie Woo has an excellent explanation on this topic [1] that I came across a few years ago. After watching it, I was really questioning why on earth we never had this concept discussed in school, and we were only told that we can't and it's undefined. Other simple math operations like why 0!=1 and e0=1 are cool to explore too.

_________________

1. https://youtu.be/J2z5uzqxJNU
Yeah, even from your first line I knew you must be talking about IE 5. It was the most fully-featured browser at the time and was fast. I remember Netscape Navigator crashing a lot, by comparison. >_<
It makes sense to have different words for totally different orders of scaling, yes.
> their heads are up in the sky

In the cloud(s), even.
I used APL professionally for about ten years. One of the most interesting applications I worked on was the analysis of DNA sequencing data during the Human Genome project.
> You'll see a whole bandwagon of people saying things like, "supporting old hardware is BAD! It takes time and money that nobody has!

> Any amount of testing would catch this.

Who is paying for the testing? I'm not suggesting supporting old hardware is bad, but we must recognize it takes some effort to uphold backwards compatibility. Stuff gets broken accidentally always, and testing isn't free.
raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/linux_kernel.html#cross-compiling-the-kernel:
https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/linux_ke...

89luca89/distrobox: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox #quick-start

89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/useful_tips.md#using-a-different-architecture:
https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/useful_...

lukechilds/dockerpi:
https://github.com/lukechilds/dockerpi : RPi 1, (2,3,) in QEMU emulating ARM64 on x86_64

E.g. the Fedora Silverblue rpm-ostree distro has "toolbox" by default because most everything should be in a container

containers/toolbox:
https://github.com/containers/toolbox

From https://containertoolbx.org/distros/ :

> Distro support: By default, Toolbx creates the container using an OCI image called `<ID>-toolbox:<VERSION-ID>`, where <ID> and <VERSION-ID> are taken from the host’s `/usr/lib/os-release`. For example, the default image on a Fedora 36 host would be `fedora-toolbox:36`.

> This default can be overridden by the `--image` option in `toolbox create`, but operating system distributors should provide an adequately configured default image to ensure a smooth user experience.

The compiler arch flags might should be correctly specified in a "toolbox" container used for cross-compilation, too.

There are default gcc and/or clang compiler flags in distros' default build tools; e.g. `make` specifies additional default compiler flags (that e.g. cmake, ninja, gn, or bazel/buck/pants may not also specify for you).
Yeah, I was waiting for the 1px.gif for spacers, and display: inline-block for "tile" layouts... haha

Fist-bump to fellow "nearly-three-decade-er" (learned HTML in 1995)! :)
I dont think you understand SMEs, which is 90%+ of all business.
Lottery winners are more satisfied with life, even 20 years down the road
That's not relevant. All the things in question are answers to different problems. They're not different approaches to the same problem.
This person is building out a whole detailed series on this Ox64 board. Great stuff.
I had hesitation paying so much for a gateway but I gave it a shot and it’s amazing. It does what a gateway should do - notify you when things join your network, let you know if something is using “abnormal” amounts of data.. playing games (kids)… the device is worth $50.. but the software is worth the other $450 easily. If you have any care what goes on on your home network, buy a Firewalla. I’m honestly shocked they haven’t got bought and forced to some monthly subscription BS.
ER3-Lite can run OpenBSD.
When I had an episode of especially loud tinnitus, I discovered I could get some psychosocial relief by playing a song chorus in my head ( I can't hear much on that ear) over and over and imagining the tinnitus is part of the music.
Capacitors are known to add distortion to signals that pass through them, especially those that use a high-k dielectric such as the ceramic type. It's why capacitor selection in ultra low distortion audio amplifiers is an important consideration.

Leaving capacitive effects aside and concentrating on secondary effects, it's been my understanding until now the electric field in a bulk dielectric is never 100% in sync with the applied signal as the field itself physically distorts the dielectric, as such nonlineararities are introduced into the signal as it's transferred across the capacitor and that they vary to some degree with the signal's (field's) frequency and amplitude. Nevertheless, it's never been very clear to me what happens at the molecular level that contributes to this nonlineararity.

Essentially, losses in capacitors are due to I²R in its electrodes, bulk resistive leakage within the dielectric as well as resistive impurities in the dielectric and that signal distortion is principally due to the intrinsic nature of the dielectric itself. That is, signal distortion is caused by the action of the field on the dielectric which physically distorts it, and although this action is essentially elastic the effective energy through the capacitor is never a 100% truly accurate analog of the applied signal in that group delay and related effects are introduced, and these contribute distortion (that is, energy essentially remains the same but the signal is changed albeit to a minuscule extent). This new work seems to indicate there are additional reasons for why capacitors contribute distortion to signals.

After reading this article it's occurred to me to question how much heat is actually generated within the dielectric by, say, nonelastic strain or deformation of its crystal structure (through molecular movement, phonon coupling losses and or whatever). Heat generated through actual dielectric deformation is energy and by conservation of energy it has to come from the input signal. Signal distortion will then occur by virtue of some energy changing into heat which then becomes subject to thermal inertia. In effect, energy through the capacitor can be lost and if reabsorbed [by adiabatic process?] into the dielectric’s field then the transferred signal will not precisely mirror the input, thus additional distortion is incurred. Moreover, I'd then contend that distortion harmonics introduced into the signal by the dielectric and its related processes are not only likely to be complex but also frequency and amplitude dependent, and would only be predictable with a full understanding of both the dielectric's electrical properties and the heat flow within and around the dielectric.

This mechanism may also account for why high-k ceramic capacitors are more lossy at higher frequencies (it also seems the only true distortionless capacitor would be the vacuum type where ε₀ is the effective 'dielectric').

I'd appreciate it if someone with a better understanding of these issues could enlighten me.
What worries me is that there seem to be no consequences for the ship for this destruction of infrastructure since it was in "international waters"

If I start breaking all undersea cables in the oceans one by one, will I face any consequences? Is there a line somewhere, where breaking one or two cables is fine?
+1 for D.

Python took 20 years after its introduction to become popular as today, thanks to its more intuitive syntax that was based on ABC.

I really hope after 20 years of its introduction that D will be appreciated and becomes a de-facto language not unlike Python is now. Perhaps even more popular with the advent of connected tiny embedded sensors and machine in the form of IoT are upon us.
Fork 'em
Such as your comment?

Dilettante: a person who cultivates an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge.

Is that the correct word to use for a someone with more than four years and 32 pages worth of back article heading listings of paid contributions to an international publication? They do appear to be committed to the work of column inches.

Regardless of any trite dismissal the question of why Musk seems determined to nosdive Xitter into the ground is an interesting one.

Perhaps he does have a Master Plan to pull up after shaking out what he considers dead weight, perhaps he is just winging it between hits on his pipe.
I dont think a $149 Mesh router is exactly in the premium segment.

I guess they could always do a Tri-Band, WiFI 6E with 2 2.5xGbps Ethernet for $199. ( That would be awesome )