skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had to migrate some ancient VB.NET code to .NET 6+ and C#. The code outputs a text file, and I needed to nake sure the new output matched the old output. I could have written some sort of test program that would have been roughly equal in length to what I was rewriting to verify that any change I made didn't affect the output, and to verify that the internal data was the same at each stage. Or... I could just output the internal state st various points and the final output to files and compare them directly. I chose the latter, and it saved me far more work than writing tests.

If I need to verify that my code works the same as it did yesterday, I can just compare the output of today's code to the output of yesterday's code.
This is my favorite part of my day. Yesterday we were just having dinner talking about god knows what when my 9 year old drops something into convo about The Homestead Act and how many acres you could by and how they had to be developed and all these bullet points about it I haven't retained when I may have read about it so many years ago. It was delightful.

Now, there was also the part about her thinking the Mexican–American War was in 1989. Which is Taylor Swift's birthday, her favorite artist. Which is hilarious on so many levels.
Don’t call him the Rhinestone Rembrandt, but do call him the Beyonce of western wear.
This is very true, and unfortunately there are very few people working on linux accessibility (including not me! I am part of the problem!).

TBC I don't have any educated opinions about Wayland (I don't know remotely enough to know if the decisions they made are good ones in the grander scheme of things), more that it's this looming existential sadness that I'll eventually have to give up on Linux.

And this is probably some form of "losing", but honestly WSL gets me pretty close to where I want to be in the getting shit done department. Just not in the "not using Windows" department ;-)

(MacOS is another fine option, but I literally bought a framework laptop a week ago, so that door is financially closed to me for a long while)
I can't read the "Nobody Knows What’s Happening Online Anymore" article because it's behind a paywall.
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> * Startup valuations have fallen. Ignoring regulatory concerns, a new acquisition deal today would be cheaper.

The chances of them buying Figma this decade is lowered. I wouldn't be surprised if figma doubles the valuation at that point
No, just VTI and chill, it's the FIRE / Bogleheads model, and it works very well. No one who saves money for retirement should literally be doing so via a savings account. Sadly, not too many people know this then wonder why they're poor when others are rich come retirement age, not understanding the power of compounding in the market.
FOSDEM doesn’t want BSD anymore
It clearly aggravated some of the people at the Go club that I was not improving past hobbyist. But the thing I didn’t share with them is that all through my childhood, I would try new things and if I wasn’t instantly mediocre or better at it I would decide this was no fun and drop it. If you are good at enough things you can fill your weeks with activities and ignore the things you aren’t good at.

Being bad at Go and still playing anyway was an exercise in personal growth.
That's because superdeterminism doesn't imply you shouldn't.

Superdeterminism implies that you don't really have a choice as to whether you look both ways.
Except then you're not testing on the hardware configurations people will actually run the software on.

People do run software with HyperThreading on and on E cores and with Turbo boost and throttling. Having code that behaves better in these dynamic, heterogeneous environments is a net benefit to the user.
Oh I understand the issue.

E.g. dask-labextension does not implicitly do dask.cache for you.

How are the objects serialized, and are code objects serialized to files on disk, what is the permission umask on such files, and what directory (/var/cache) should they be selinux-labeled in (when it is running code from not memcache instead of the source) because if you can write to those cache files, you control the execution flow of the notebook (which is already unreproducibly out-of-ordered without consideration)
Tested: Mixtral 8x7B vs. GPT-4 for boolean classification
Excited to share just how good Mixtral is. It outperformed GPT-4 in the boolean classification test.

However, I should say these benchmarks are not meant to be academically meaningful. My testing was strictly done on my real world use cases. I didn’t start with the intention to do these tests, but in working on my personal project I realized I could convert my integration tests to output test results.

I performed these tests using a 3090 and llama.cpp.
Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36M Xfinity customers
The peak of this, for me, was pizza rat (late 2015) which felt like the last time everyone on the internet had seen the same thing. Kind of like the old days of TV where the whole nation would watch the same episode of something in the same evening.

Dat boi (early 2016) was the first time I missed out on the meme zeitgeist and it’s been slipping further from my grasp ever since.

I suspect I am also getting old.
> for no particular reason except maybe bragging rights.

Hmmmm. If we're talking about actually wanting to infect someone with an engineered virus, then using something with sequences widely attributed to some other group could be used as cover.

Along the lines of "they were infected by a Russian variant of ebola". Or any other group, false flag operation type of thing.

Hopefully this doesn't become an actual thing. :(
No, not really. "aligned" would suggest some kind of connection. It is very likely a complete accident. Literally.

It most likely that at some point Uranus was hit by a planet and the collision changed the spin axis. Must have been pretty early for everything else to be aligned with the new axis.
The subscriber has no free will. The question would be - why exist?
I'm late 50s, and a couple of decades ago I stopped giving a complete job history for the most part. I did this because my full job history is lengthy and I don't want to have a CV that spans so many pages.

Instead, I include my job history over the last 10-15 years, and include select items that are older than that if they are particularly relevant to the position I'm applying for.

I don't try to hide my age -- my age/experience is a significant advantage I have over most other applicants. Age discrimination is a real thing, of course, but is very far from being a universal issue. If a company doesn't want to hire me because I'm too old, I count that as dodging the bullet of getting hired by a sketchy company.
Aren't those are arm11? They can all be compiled with any version of Go afaik GOARM=6
Traffic is up on X 22% YoY

Not quite death, but certainly agree about news outlets no longer seeing it as okay to say that “The internet is freaking out about X”

https://advanced-television.com/2023/12/18/research-x-twitte...

>Using the data available on Google Trends as well as SEO tool Ahrefs, domain and hosting provider Fasthosts investigated the online presence of X since the announcement of Musk’s takeover and his official purchase of the platform, just over one year on from his taking of the reins.
The changing face of post-pandemic New York City
I’ve known too many people who get into their own heads about certain topics. They lock up and become impervious to new information.

There are certainly people who need new genes. And there are people who need a new teacher. But boy oh boy are there a lot of people who would get better at difficult tasks if they got therapy.
Aren't you just reinforcing the point?
Five years of litigation is no cake walk.
> people miffed their X11 application needs to be updated.

Yes, users are very understandably miffed that things which were working are suddenly broken and somebody now has to fix it in order to return to the status quo.

> things will eventually be just fine

Wayland is 15 years old. At this rate it will be due for replacement before it's feature complete.
No, because the mythology is public domain.

Though it would be peak copyright brain - and hilarious - to dissolve the copyright on everything until we can find the first human that ever told a story and trace their lineage down to all their modern descendants.
Almost no new project would benefit from Java. Android apps should use Kotlin.
Avoid JVM for new projects unless there is no other way.
The level of interest a cat exhibits in a toy is inversely proportional to its price.

Unless it's something you bought for yourself rather than the cat, in which case the cat goes for the most expensive thing first.
>if someone has hacked in to the point that they can even run such query commands, surely I'm already pwn'd

Achieving RCE in a single program meaning your entire system is pwned is behind the times compared other operating systems. In order to make freedesktop's security competitive again security restrictions need to be added.
With how poorly and inconsistently GPT seems to work I can’t imagine using a phone made by them.
Have you tried to use train ticket machine without touch screen? It is a nightmare, but popular in France.

Few buttons and a wheel - all you have to go through the journey to type your start and destination points, amount of people, age, discounts, etc.
Headphones are my virtual room with door.
If true, superdeterminism would not permit them to make that choice to look around or not anyway.
Forum functionality is possible; the protocol allows for user input in the form of prompting the user to enter a string and sending that to the server before loading the page. Example: gemini://chat.mozz.us/
I'm a big supporter of systemd, but

> Until systemd, there wasn’t anything else that would really do the trick (djbware and stuff derived from djbware does not count, as it’s lacking too much stuff that even various hacked together rc implementations on top of sysvinit added eventually)

There was Canonical's upstart, used in Ubuntu. systemd was created to address upstart's shortcomings

> That’s why one of the goals in Chimera is to implement the actual useful systemd functionality, but independently and in our own way, without the shortcomings.

This is amazing! The greatest value of systemd is that there are many service files written for it (my own ~/.config/systemd directory has a dozen of services) and I think there is value in being compatible with it
It is indeed very regional, e.g. the UK has its own thing going on with ring mains and fused plugs.

Over in my 230V corner of the EU, CEE 7/3 sockets are pretty much the only thing I'm aware of for new wiring, with the unearthed CEE 7/1 sockets still present in older installations. Both are rated for 16A, with either 10A/1.5mm² or 16A/2.5mm² branch circuits from the distribution board. It would be unheard of to wire those up with any higher ampacity at risk of overloading the sockets - although recent experience with e.g. EVs has shown that they're not actually suitable for sustained loads at 16A, given e.g. wear and tear on the sockets.

Unearthed appliances do commonly have CEE 7/16 plugs rated for 2.5A, particularly things like wall warts or USB chargers, which does fit into a CEE 7/3 socket.

I recall seeing CEE 7/16 (2.5A europlug) sockets, although those may have been imports from elsewhere in the EU. I suppose those would have the same issues if wired up to the same distribution circuits. But extension cables for those are rarer, the only ones I've ever seen are CEE 7/7 plug (16A) -> CEE 7/16 sockets (2.5A).

For residential/commercial loads over 16A / 3.2kW, it's all CEE / IEC 60309 connectors, and those are treated like distribution circuits with overload protection sized appropriately for the connectors/cables.
> ad hominem fallacy

It's not ad hominem to judge a critic's own track record in order to measure the weight of his words. Otherwise we'd end up listening to any little trust fund ideologues with no actual idea about how the world really works, like Marx.
If you find yourself out in the Mojave desert camping in a new moon, you'll swear you can see stuff like this. It's almost unbelievable.
JetBrains's EULA has long been a blank check in terms of sharing information with third parties. Glad to see some light falling in that vicinity.
Oh, come on. It's a high-pressure situation, where they're damned if they don't offer any AI plugins (why are you not as good as X???), and they're damned if they do (why is this freemium crap polluting my otherwise nag-free freeloader experience?)

Things will take a while to settle. Unless your workflow is *truly* broken by the fall-out, save your outrage. And yes, I'm a paying JetBrains customer, don't like their AI offering, but don't really like anyone else's either, so far...
You are right, and I have edited the original comment to remove the offending words, which were unnecessary and unhelpful.
Yup, and it was even worse because you could drive any narrative and reinforce any bias that way. Make up a story, search 3 random Tweets that support it, and now you can report on anything to an audience that will eat it up, no real evidence needed. It is still happening of course, but at least now people rightfully look at Twitter with a little more suspicion.
AI does not need real estate, I wonder how hard they will battle it.

Well it needs server rooms but it is not office space in the city centers, maybe office space in city centers will be turned all out into server rooms.
I'm looking forward to using the integration, personally.

This is a low quality submission. You're mad about some issue tracker thing but I don't see how this is relevant to the rest of HN or why this is soooo important.
have you tried it?
i mean for fun, it wouldn't hurt for sure and ggerganov is doing amazing stuff. kudos to him.

but whisper is designed to process audio files in 30-second batches if I'm not mistaken. it's been a while since whisper released, lol. These workarounds make the window smaller but it doesn't change the fact that they're workarounds. you can adjust, modify, or manipulate the model. You can't write or train it from scratch. check out the issues referring to the real-time transcription in the repo.

can you use it? yes
would it perform better than Deepgram? -although it's an API and probably not the best API- I am not sure.
would i use it in my money-generating application? absolutely not.
Every single person that thoughtlessly backs up their data to cloud storage, so basically everyone outside of a few weirdos like us.
They even mention it

> the ascension of paywalls that limit access to websites such as this one, t
Apple News Plus gets The New York Times' sports coverage, but not the NYT itself
I disagree.

If I was Figma, and I had to choose, I would go with Adobe. Adobe would have made Figma a core strategic product and would have made them much more relevant in a space that they deeply care about. Microsoft would never care that much about Figma, because the design/UX space isn't core to Microsoft. Also, Figma is too small for Microsoft to make it a centrepiece of any of their strategic initiatives.
If those physical reactions occur at or are influenced by the quantum level then they stop being deterministic. Hence the article.
Honestly it depends on the teacher. You're describing the ones who give a shit.
> Why people still fall for fake news about climate change

> It was the hottest year on Earth in 125,000 years

Now that's what i call quality journalism. /s
Have any of their prior products ever made it to the US or Europe in volume?
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I've been twice now, and as others have mentioned, the venue is bursting at the seams with the quantity of attendees. This, by itself, is manageable, except for the fact that the bathrooms tend to be in a truly dire state after a short while!
Ooh fascinating!

Money for the machine aside, don't they just take up a lot of space? I can't imagine having even one machine in my apartment, let alone multiple if it's a serious hobby.
If the path of the marbles were to be determined by some sort of gate in the path that would open or close depending, via a Geiger detector, on whether some uranium atom had decayed, then, as far as we know, the path would be truly unpredictable.
It feels like there's a lot of productivity theory associated with private offices versus open office but I think the issue is rooted deeper than that. This is an organizational decision and it's one where it needs to be made with the organization's core objectives.

However, what it sometimes sounds to me is that there is this hope of a magic combination to crack productivity effectiveness through open offices or closed offices (or any other low level leveraged idea, like return to office vs remote office). The reality is that any configuration can work if the leaders of the organization are cognizant of the ramifications on the different employed individuals and address them accordingly -- but I believe most skip this chapter in leadership training.
Gorgeous...

But I've always been curious, I've heard it both ways: If I were on a space ship exploring the outer planets looking out a regular-ass glass window, would the rings of Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus even be visible to the naked eye? I mean I know Saturn's rings are incredibly apparent, but for the other 3 gas giants?

For example, many of the Voyager pics of Uranus don't have the rings visible, and the ones that do are colored oddly and make me assume that this is some kind of massive false-color high-gain thing to make them visible.
I meant this purpose in the sense that an activity brings joy, the purpose is pleasure.

Doing something while procrastinating may be enjoyable. But along with it often comes guilt - sooner or later. I had issues with procrastination and occasionally still do. Even though some outcomes of alternate activities may be good, projects should not have the purpose of procrastination.

Passing time is when you deliberately do not work on any project. I think projects can not have and should not have the sole purpose of passing time. If a project brings you joy, good, if not, the activity should not be called project.
A disabled plugin has virtually no security implications.
What is happening online ? Easy answer: everything. The online world is now just as complex, both globalized and fragmented at the same time in different dimensions, as humanity itself... The tools of our social interactions, public and private, can only be homomorphic to them.
thanks! very interesting. how do these big M&As work? was Adobe-Figma supposed to file some request? (but that would be on the timeline I suppose.)
> With its exquisite sensitivity, Webb captured Uranus’ dim inner and outer rings, including the elusive Zeta ring – the extremely faint and diffuse ring closest to the planet

This is pretty amazing. I knew Uranus required sensitive instruments, but didn't realize the payoff would be so rewarding.
Price movements. The CFTC’s old educational site was pretty solid: https://web.archive.org/web/20120813061455/http://www.cftc.g...
I find QML satisfactory for big screens. Made an app back in Qt5 and my main dev machine was a 4K, 43 inch LCD TV -- it did fine on the big screen. No limitations in that regard that I could see.
I've been using podcast addict for years. It's a glorious mess of an app that sort of reminds me of kitchen sink apps like calibre.
>The point is the value of not having Figma sell to its largest competitor.

Adobe does not compete with Microsoft in any meaningful way. There is some overlap in some products here or there, but it's not meaningful competition.
But you literally cannot possibly test that assertion for all x. Let's take a slightly harder problem:

prove (or at least test conclusively) that for all integer x, the output y of the following function is always even:

y = x^2 + x + 2

There is essentially no way to prove this for all x by simply testing all integers. If your integers are 64-bit, you don't have enough time in the lifespan of the universe.

On the other hand, you could simply reason through the cases: if x is even, then all terms are even. If x is odd, then x^2 is also odd, and x^2 + x = odd + odd = even. So you're done.

This is what people mean when they say "tests don't prove your code is correct" -- it's almost always better to be able to read code and prove (to some degree) that it's correct. It's really nothing like static types, which are also constructive proofs that your code is not incorrect in specific ways. (That is: it proves that your code is not [incorrect in specific ways], not that your code is [not incorrect].)

Once you prove your code correct, you can often write efficient tests with cases at the correct boundary points to make sure that proof stays correct as the code changes.
IIRC, Saturn's rings are also relatively recent feature. If you think about it, what a time to be alive! Saturn and Uranus have rings and Sun and Moon are in so precious position, that we can experience total eclipse (this won't last too long also, relative to age of Solar system).
Sure, but you should at least be able to uninstall the plugin. According to the thread it reinstalls itself on each launch
The reintroduction of wolves in Colorado is giving me life
Does believing that gravity exists mean a person will not roll down a hill?

Why would belief that we are just agents responding predictably to stimuli imply that one would not respond predictably to stimuli?

The fact that ones behavior does not change when one acknowledges that all behavior is deterministic and predetermined seems evidence in favor not against that hypothesis.
"Random" is a property of your mind, not of the world.

Limited information about the initial state is one source of randomness but not necessarily the only one. Whether there is true randomness in the universe is at very least an open question.
As a realist, Lewis would likely agree with
in real life it's just as likely that a faction of corrupt self-serving incompetents end up taking over the entire system.

And that's why he'd have little interest in 'revolutions'
Ecosystem effects mean that it kind of is. Even if we made the software in question (probably on top of wlroots, maybe even just extending wayfire which IIRC kind of already has the plugin system you need?) there is zero chance GNOME or KDE will use it, and I wouldn't bet even on sway or such.
I think we will find a lot of these projects always had the resources.

There are many people in the Linux community that are just vehemently opposed to it.

I suspect that in many cases the “lack of resources” was simply not having the resources to convince some of these people to stop being roadblocks.
The Chinese are definitely capable of producing great products, it's just that the quality control for that is only there for name- / high-end- / West-controlled brands.

I believe the Chinese government is keen to get rid of the crappy reputation Chinese products carry ("Chinesium"), but its gonna be a process.
Actually all 4 gas giants have rings, they're just much smaller and less visible than Saturn's. Jupiter and Neptune's rings are very slight, compared to Uranus' substantial ones and of course Saturn's gaudy decoration.
According to the issue, this plugin still nag user after disable
Can’t wait to install on my M2 Pro MacBook. I was a long term Arch user on a Thinkpad years ago and then switched to MacBooks. Apple Hardware and Linux is best of both worlds for me.

Congrats to the Asahi team!
Find an actual side project on something your interested in and work on it build something real.

- Build a CPU from scratch

- Design electronics (PCB)

- Create a programming language

- Build a website

- Create an Operating System

- Build open source software

The method of action is the most effective way to learn something.
By this logic you might as well just removed the whole IDE.