skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This what the "pressure-vessel" container from collabora (used by valve on dota2/cs2), is trying to solve... but now the issue is the container itself as it does _NOT_ follow fully the elf loading rules for all elf binaries and does ignore many configuration parameters of many software packages (data files location, pertinent environment variables, etc), basically presuming "ubuntu" to be there.

Basically, I have my vulkan driver requiring fstat from 2.33 but the "pressure-vessel" (sniper version), has a glibc 2.31, then it does parse partially my global elf loading configuration and the configuration of some packages to import that driver and all its dependencies... including my glibc elf loader... ooof! That level of convolution will have a very high price all over the board.

I have arguments often with one of "pressure-vessel" devs because of some shortcuts they took which do break my distro (which is really basic and very vanilla, but not "ubuntu"). It took weeks to get the fixes in (I guess all of them are in... until the glibc devs manage to do something which will wreak havock on "pressure-vessel"). Oh... that makes me think I need to warn them about that super new and recent ELF relocation type they will have to parse and detect in host drivers...

On my side, I am investigating some excrutiatingly simple modern file format which should help a lot fighting those issues, there will be technical trade-offs obviously (but would run-ish on "old" kernels anyway with elf "capsules" and an orthogonal runtime). Like json is for xml, but for elf/pe.

It seems only the linux ABI can be trusted... til Linus T. is able to hold the line.
How are they unconstitutional?
> I did not make the choice to be born in this particular country with this particular social contract.

So we're shifting to "taxation is theft" now? Maybe one day we can explore the cosmos and truly settle our own land (given that 99%+ of earth's land has been claimed by some social contract). Alas, born too early.

>So I don't think it is appropriate to make it appear like this was a choice everyone makes. It is not immoral to violate social contact (slavery was social contract but the moral thing was to oppose it -just example not comparison-)

hyperbolic metaphors aside: sure, if you oppose the social contract and your government allows it, try to change it. But I think "make digital purchases ownership" is a very small tree to bark up in modern society.
We don't have anything anywhere close to unbridled capitalism.
A number of years ago, I came accross the FAST standard for financial modelling, and a company F1F9 that teach financial modelling. Somewhat related I suppose.

https://www.fast-standard.org/

https://www.f1f9.com/
They have a lot more than they're giving. Almost everything so far has been old models that were already replaced
I’m that target audience. It’s called single dosing. I weigh before and after because the difference depends on the quality of the grinder. Retention is the enemy of single dosing. The Niche grinder is one of the best (I’ve been through 4 grinders.) I have had mixed luck with spritzing. As the article says it only benefits beans with lower moisture but even large distributor beans vary between roasts. It takes a few shots to dial in every new batches.
As if people training their LLMs gave a damn about image/code copyrights.
James Hoffman (linked above) discussed why an ionizer might not be as effective
Intelligence is the capability to form (predictive) models (to solve problems through evaluating strategies through the aforementioned model). General intelligence is the ability to do it over an arbitrary range of problems.

Even an if-else tree is a model. Building the model based on data leads to high predictive power.

AI is an okay term for this IMHO.
Neither is EU.
I've always had trouble meeting women because of my text bubble color. This was perhaps my only chance to find love. Now I'm never getting a girlfriend.
I thought this article had a pleasant historical summary of car related culture in the US but thought the parts about the Cybertruck fell kind of flat.
Yep, I moved from Dev to ops many years ago simply because I wanted to talk to someone..anyone. I've been in consulting for the last 20 years and I talk to customers good or bad almost every day and I do get a kick out of it when they are stoked with my work. The funny thing is as I'm getting older and working with more complex and closer to alpha products I find myself writing code to make my life easier, funny how that works. As far as the industry as a whole, I wouldn't recommend it to my kid I think it's dying or at least dying in the US.
A function call has runtime overhead that a macro may not. There are also things that can be difficult to express as a function in the language type system but that are straightforward to implement as a macro. Lisp isn't the only language with a strong macro system but it disproportionately attracts programmers who value the power and expressivity that a strong macro system provides.

There are a number of reasons that bottom up programming in the style PG seems to be advocating for is not popular in industry. Industrial programming favors the median developer while bottom up is a technique that works best with small teams of skilled programmers. Big cos obviously prefer "safe" languages, but even startups are generally conservative due to the vc induced pressure towards hypergrowth, which also favors the median developer since hypergrowth requires hiring.

Writing good programs from the bottom up requires more skill[1], but can lead to substantially better programs by certain criteria. But it may also be considered inscrutable by the median developer. The median developer can also misuse the power afforded by the bottom up language and write something much worse than they would have been able to in a more conservative language. This isn't a knock on the median developer, btw, just my perspective on why this style is rarely found in industry.

[1] neither LLMs nor stack overflow are of much help when you have essentially written a new language to solve your problem.
Just like humans are. Our programming tells us to eat, socialise, reproduce, sleep, etc. and it compels us to obey our programming in more subtle or explicit ways.

Just because we pretend to be more complicated does not make us any better than cockroaches. From an ethical perspective, roaches are superior to human beings because they have never created factories and chemicals to set other living roaches alive, nor do they plan to remove their kin from a particular territory by bombing baby roaches to death by the thousands.
No it’s not good. The lower the barrier to every the better. More ability to choose the level of quality work you desire. A handyman for bill gates is going to be a complete different class than one for the roach motel but it’s still good if the roach motel can get one.
wild, but also reassuring that within a generation or two a change like this (and there will be many more coming with climate change) can be adapted to and forgotten.
It is indeed working, but I had to ask the Help chat to manually switch me over to the working bridge
Oh, it gets better. Even the default Weather app shipping with Windows 11 is also an Electron pile of trash that uses ~520 MB of RAM. Just let that sink in. 500MB of RAM just to show you the weather forecast for the day and week. That was my entire system RAM of my Windows XP gaming rig.

Same for the Widgets app, it's not only bad because it shows you news and ads when you open it, it's worse because it's also, you guessed it, an Electron app.

Some VP in Redmond must be off their meds.

I assume Microsoft just can't find devs to write C#, their own damn programing language for their own OS, and one of the dozens of frameworks they have for Windows GUI, that they need to resort to using Electron for what are just Windows-only apps.
If you need machines with high number of CPUs, you can check https://github.com/runs-on/action which allows you to select any EC2 instance type as ephemeral runner. Plus it’s the cheapest on the market, open source, and not a SaaS
This is linking to an alzheimers drug and not related to your headline. I think there has been a mistake.
Conspiracy theorist is such a cop out title for this guy. Convicted fraudster? Mass shooting enthusiast? Bankrupted liar?
I mean, that's why they argued it into law. You don't have to agree to the contract of a store to steal from it, because it's a local, state, and federal law to not steal goods you gotta pay for. Your family members will probably get a warning at first (because litigation is expensive, warnings are cheap), and then escalate from there because there are laws against it.
That something that already exists may not be built in the way you are aiming for.

That other something might be led by a dickhead that you can't get along with, or a community that's not receptive to your suggestions or patches.

Social processes and blockages can lead to losing motivation to contribute. Not everyone is cut out to be this happy-go-lucky team player that has no personality.

As for myself, I'd rather start from scratch because 1) I'll control every variable, 2) I don't have to mess around with some existing social and tech infra, 3) I don't have to talk to anyone and convince them my ideas are good, 4) who wants to spend more time arguing or discussing than writing code?

The solodev experience is just better. You're not hamstrung by politics and social process. Being a team player has only led to misery for me.
To the point where I'll click away if they don't give me a way to opt out, or if I feel like they're taking the mickey too much. All those cookery websites that are so snooty about cookies as if there weren't 10 more similar websites where they came from...
Does srcset have a mechanism for SDR vs HDR?
Sure, it has uses: it can be printed on a T-shirt to teach big media a lesson about the futility of copy protection, etc…
At my local hospital, the MRI and CT are on the upper of two floors. They are heavy machines, but buildings can be built to support heavy machines.
(edit: The answer should logically follow from the following, but as a TL;DR: yes, they must have meant jpeg or similar, although I disagree about it being such a "please don't". Feel free to, they'll take more bytes but it's not like you're losing information in the process, so you can always still switch to jpeg.)

Photos have lots of noise anyway, so a good jpeg is not going to be the limiting factor. Due to jpeg being lossy, the file size is much smaller for the type of images that pictures are (I don't know a formal definition, perhaps something with some amount of random noise? Or that there's lots of gradients with nonlinear slopes or so?).

PNGs are lossless, and encoding photos in a lossless way takes a relatively large amount of space. On the other hand, the quality degradation of running text through a jpeg encoder is noticeable even when tuning the jpeg compressor for it, so a screenshot with text is always PNG. For designed things such as icons or logos or so, the file size is small enough to be a no-brainer for getting PNG's lossless quality.

Vector, such as SVG, is the ultimate format: the highest possible quality and also the smallest! This only works when you've got access to the source (screenshots already don't work because you're capturing a blend of objects rendered as an array of pixels), and especially not suitable/possible when you're reading from a sensor such as a digital camera. This format doesn't describe pixel patterns, but rather shapes such as "draw a red line from coordinates 3,94 to 1920,1027". Because you can't always use it (you can always render an SVG as a grid of pixels and turn it into a PNG or anything else, but not the other way around), support is a bit lower and you'll see them less often, but imo it's always worth striving for when the platform allows
I suspect there's more where that came from. The only reason we learned of this, is because the cat was let out of the bag, and Apple was able to talk about it (gag order).

People might want to think about how AirTags and Find My Phone work...
That's mostly a risk for recreational users I'd say. Anecdotally, from people with psychedelic experience I know, only massive multidrug abusers experience this sort of issues.
Data Dignity and the Inversion of AI
Not to question Mitchell's generous contributions, but most of his libraries I've seen were convenience wrappers and other creature comforts (eg. go-getter), not foundational work. Happy to be corrected.
Meh what’s another bad apple on the internet there are so many already
Elon Musk reinstates Alex Jones to X after poll
I’m trying to emphasise that safety legislation should operate through direct legislation whenever possible.

Large companies can face massive civil & criminal liabilities for mishandling personal data, whilst also being made whole for the administrative cost of cooperating with law enforcement.
> Women do yoga.

Off-topic warning: Man here, in "late middle age." For several years I've been accompanying my wife to yoga classes 2-3x/week at our local YMCA.* I'm not especially fond of it, but it seems to have been good for my balance and flexibility; I don't feel the way I'd always imagined my age would feel. (Diet and lifestyle also help, and I've long done and still do plenty of other workouts, incl. a fair amount of running and swimming in the past.) The yoga classes typically are about 1/3 men, mostly in my age bracket.

* For years, my wife tried unsuccessfully to get me to come with her to yoga classes. Then one day I heard a tone in her voice that she really meant it and would be upset if I didn't comply. I've been doing yoga ever since ....
The literal definition of a NeRF and rendering function in the original paper are a continuous non-discretized vector-field and sampling based render function.
I was thinking about SSX tricky and 3. How the music loops and/or fades in for example big air time or landing a trick.

There were certain layers of the playing track that would fade away when in air such as vocals. I always thought that this was done really great in these games.
There were plenty of top tier Covid vaccines created in Europe, and a Danish pharmaceutical is currently crushing the US weight loss market: your jingoism is deluding you.
When I hear a dev's been fired, I feel... nothing.
What has ChatGPT got to do with it? We're talking about Unix style CLIs.
Who gets to take the credit?

I'm not convinced these efforts to put everyone's ideas in one place and one software are good. Often, design disagreements arise which are incompatible. Under this model of "everybody love everybody" lameshit, if you can't get the group to accept your idea, it doesn't happen.

You don't run into this problem when you write alone.
Windows standard C and C++ ABI is stable since 2017. So the last 3 releases of the Visual C Compiler and C runtime hasn't changed the ABI.

However Windows also has a lower level system API / ABI i.e. Win32 that's always stable all the way to Win 95. WinSXS sometimes helps for certain legacy apps too. This allows apps using different C libraries to work together. Win32 contains everything about the OS interface. Creating windows, drawing things, basic text, allocating pages from the OS, querying users, getting info about files is all stable. Win32 is the lower level of the C library. There is also a better separation of the functions in different DLLs. Win32 has multiple DLLs that has different jobs and they are mostly orthogonal. Kernel32 contains core almost system call stuff. Shell32 contains interactions with the OS shell i.e. creating windows, message boxes, triggering different UIs.

The surrounding libraries like DirectX / DirectPlay / DirectWrite that are also used by the games are also part of the system libs starting from 7. They are also stable.

On Linux world there is no separation of the system level libraries and normal user libraries. Glibc is just another library that one depends on. It contains the entire lower level interface to kernel, all the network stuff and POSIX user access stuff. It also contains a component that has no job in a C library: the dynamic executable loader. Unlike Windows on the Unix systems the C library is at the lowest level and Glibc being the default libc for Linux and making itself the default provider of the dynamic executable loader makes writing stable ABI almost impossible. Since other libraries depend on Glibc and executables depend on Glibc's dynamic loader everything is affected by the domino effect.
From "we need to slow down" to "we need to keep cracking the whip" in the blink of an eye.
Can I send you a list of projects to not contribute to? ;) /s
That's the programmer
Exactly my experience as well: https://x.com/crohr/status/1732442731715113374

In the tests with my GitHub Action [1] that spawns ephemeral runners for any workflow, I found BuildJet bandwidth speed 10 to 20 times slower than machines at AWS.

[1]: https://github.com/runs-on/action
ah, got it. yeah the llama.cpp speeds I've seen are like 5-10 tokens/second on intel but I've been impressed with the relatively ancient hardware llama.cpp works on (2017 iMac with 8GB RAM at 5.5 t/s with a 7B model!).
https://archive.vn/Gx6BD
Scrambx0red 3ggs by Cory Doctorow (2002)
IMO the experience of “building a database” is entirely the fault of SQL and its lack of viable alternatives.

Modern DBs offer transactions, parallelism, caching, compression, and other magic behind the scenes. But few teams are willing to put up with SQL and PLPGSQL to reap those rewards. They’d rather build a half-baked version in Go or whatever, and they’re not wrong.
GIF had patents from CompuServe, one of the reasons for PNG.
In Mercator projection?
Maybe real-time AI generated music, at least for transitions, can eventually do the same thing iMUSE did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxxu1dVtg5g
Five years after Xbox.
It's been nearly two years since Jeff Bezos stepped down as CEO of Amazon.
I'm surprised that Mr. Tasker would not be aware of this.

https://apnews.com/article/jeff-bezos-leaves-seattle-miami-a...
instead of getting more people to make new apps, gnome and kde should be trying to coral developers to improve the existing ones
To me, philosophy is the art of finding the most low-stakes, ungrounded problems on Earth, so you can argue about the solution ad nauseam until eventually someone who doesn't care about philosophy stumbles across the solution by mistake.
yes

I think it's hard to beat the tide that is the web as a content and app delivery system. The web is also getting all the billions in investment from every massive faang.
I've seen few apps anymore whose performance is bounded it by the choice of UI framework.

If they're slow, it's usually because of design choices, like making common user interactions wait to retrieve data.

Yes, games are an exception. But for the majority of software that is concerned with displaying text, it doesn't matter a hill of beans if you use a cross platform framework. We're far past the days of slow Java AWT apps.
"You just have to read the manual" and "you get used to it" are basically synonyms for "the UX is bad".

1 second of googling: https://fstoppers.com/opinion/stop-telling-people-read-manua...

I'm sure there are better articles if you search more. If you have time for a book, I highly recommend "The design of everyday things". If you don't agree with me that book will change your mind.
>How can a student not participate in the use of the ill-gotten goods of textbooks for their studies?

rent from the library, ask for a friend's copy, take out more loans.

>For a researcher in a developing country for research papers?

contact other researchers and ask directly. Maybe they can also share some stuff with you, especially if they are the author.

These are speedbumps not roadblocks. People can and have gotten around them even with little resources. Universities obviously have these resources, researchers generally want to encourage other researchers (even if only to validate their own research).

>Nobody dies, but a lot of people fall behind

Yes, an unfortunatle reality of all life. If I had to choose, free media is not even in the top 20 things I'd try to make more accessible to such people, though.
Yeah but then that one Israeli company that spies on everybody will just pump these apps out.
> Not to mention at T high enough to vaporize SiO2 you won't have water, which is a pretty nifty solvent for life to have.

Yeah, not even iron could work as a solvent at that temperature.
Can you expand on the rum ritual here? As in rum as a substitute for having coffee altogether?
Newly discovered path between heart&brain may explain why healthy people faint
Maybe you can write a blog post or a reddit thread?

There were a bunch of people asking about it on Discord for Godot 4, and some confused reddit threads offering to pay people for a tutorial:

https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/11vxeo7/can_i_please...

https://old.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/13ka6qc/will_pay_to_...
IMO, LaTeX is just a way for computer scientists to keep on programming when they've finished their research project and are writing it up.
I’m not 100% sure I follow. Are you saying this is done by retailers to dissociate themselves from sales tax and make it obvious to consumers which part of the total price is the governments fault, or something else?
> What's wrong with Qt? It works well enough if you want to write C++ or Python.

answered your own question
> The "actual people" using Linux on the desktop are not running .so files off the internet.

They do this all day every day when they use a little something called Steam or when they install Google Chrome.

> I get what you're saying, but you know it's facetious to pretend that packaging is simple on Mac and Windows too.

It is...
The perfect pattern with one wrong tile is so awful. It's a fair punishment that they have to live with that.

I want those non-repeating pattern tiles, how awful would those be to tile?
>Vagal sensory neurons mediate the Bezold–Jarisch reflex and induce syncope

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06680-7
Kind of shameful it took this long.

The Microsoft Superbowl commercial was powerful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW46iX_2tFo
It's for fairness, the EU has to handicap itself after the US decided to ban abortion and persecute trans people.
While billboards are annoying, a) everyone sees the same, they aren't tailored, b) they aren't as ubiquitous, most people don't spend as much time looking at billboards as they do at various feeds and c) they are only show 1 advert, I would say an equivalent to a feed would be every billboard in a part of a city showing an advert that sells the same thing in a slightly different way.
> But Hashicorp's business hasn't turned a profit to date. And they rarely merge external pull requests.

When they started out, they had enormous traction in the community because they were open source. People actively contributed to what they thought was an open ecosystem in a collaborative spirit. Without that, their products would just be another expensive, marginal proprietary piece of softwarewthat most people ignored.

Now they're trying to profit off that without reciprocating (their competence at being able actually show a profit is irrelevant).

> If the company maintained the previous ZIRP-era permissive license status quo and then eventually went bankrupt, wouldn't that be a worse outcome for everyone?

No. It'd be a worse outcome for Hashicorp's investors, sure, but the rest of us would have the code, the comunity, and a little less poison in the well.
For the charts, they use implot[0], it's written in C++. You can interact with the demo website[1] if you want to get a feel of the real-time plotting.

[0] -- https://github.com/epezent/implot

[1] -- https://traineq.org/implot_demo/src/implot_demo.html
Bellman Equation
It’s where the customer/patient requests a test for themselves, for any or no reason.

As opposed to a doctor ordering a test, as either part of a routine checkup or for a more specific reason.