skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is 20 years ago you had to use XFree86 if you wanted graphical output in Linux, there was no other choice, so you had to put up with it no matter the craziness.

Now X.org works fine for the majority of users, so for them (/raises hand) it is very hard to see the value proposition of switching to Wayland, especially if prior attempts were less than successful.

The fact that X11 development has stalled might be a plus for those that just want a stable system, are used to the limitations and don't need new features.

We will migrate eventually, likely at next distro upgrade, but there is no hurry.
Like some defense projects, I predict we'll outsource it to a private party, pay them public tax subsidies, and fail to hold them accountable when they go against our public defense interests.
> how these luxury watches actually perform as watches (as opposed to their looks and swagger value)?

The entire point is looks and swagger value. You can’t ignore it. In terms of time keeping accuracy (ie. bring a watch) they get easily better by any quartz watch.
I'm now retired but headphones were my invibility hat.
I was easy for the kids, headphones means daddy is not home, it was harder for my wife.
I have been using shortwave for quite some time off and on. I absolutely don't appreciate it's shifted focus / pivot on the AI hype train. Shortwave itself can use that focus instead to add more productivity features instead.

It's interesting to see you now pitching it as an "AI email app". If it's actually working you to gain more traction than may be it's worth riding the wave but please don't loose focus. It was not meant to be an AI first email app, it was a better Google Inbox, a better email client.
Vodafone. I've seen similar speeds, but on like the 10th floor of a building.

It might be in the tube less people are sharing the signal so there is less contention?
>Don't use a flute patch 2 octaves below C or a contrabass patch 4 octaves above C, respect the "true" frequency range of the patch

If you're going for realism, then yes. If not - push the ranges, see what happens.

>(Actually I disagree with the idea of using many different reverbs. Your ears will pick up on it and it will sound unnatural. IF you do this, turn up the reverb until you can hear it, and then dial it all the way back until it seems to disappear.)

I believe it was Zappa, trying to rescue his LSO recordings, so he placed each section in a different 'atmosphere'.
Sorry, on mobile but I'm sure it's mentioned in (at least one of) his book(s).
Went to check if he ever had any erm, "effects", but this is even wilder:

> "In 1940, at the age of 51, Midgley contracted polio and was left severely disabled. He devised an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys to lift himself out of bed. On November 2, 1944, at the age of 55, he was found dead at his home in Worthington, Ohio. He had been killed by his own device after he became entangled in it and died of strangulation"
If you aren’t leaving this exact same comment on all the Tesla shilling going on, you’re not genuine about your beliefs and I’ll write you off as a paid shill.
This sort of math team is pretty rare. I was an IMO medalist myself but my high school didn't have a math team.

Personally, I just liked solving all sorts of puzzles and math problems and other sorts of contests. There's nothing like the adrenaline rush of competing against other people in a mental challenge under time pressure. I had some books with math problems, and I liked reading those, and I did well in the contests, and that's all it really takes. You don't need a team. But I enjoyed it.

Obviously if you like competing in math contests and you are good at it then it's a good thing to do. I'm not sure how good of an idea it is to "force it" and try to get good at something that you really aren't that into.

If you're a smart person, there must be something intellectual you can really
get into, right? Hopefully?
That's a good summary, I agree with basically everything.

I think a lot of it boils down to strong engineering, which is not getting mauled into submission by product / business. Strong engineering will naturally gravitate to optimizing long processes.

The other big factor which has many consequences is the overall organization culture - are people encouraged to be helpful, reach out to other teams without organizing meetings in the calendar? Is there a blaming/finger pointing happening? Are many disputes largely about ego, dominance, politics?

The "Meetings" section might be controversial, but I agree as well. There's just no getting away from lots of communication/alignment in large organizations, and synchronous/low latency communication should be encouraged. Yes, that means disruptions, but being on the same page/unblocking others is usually more important. The amount of lines of code produced is not the largest cause of productivity loss in the large organizations.
Introducing VersionFox: A Cross-Platform SDK Management Tool with Plugin Support
VersionFox is a cross-platform tool for managing SDK versions. It allows you to quickly install and switch between different versions of SDKs using the command line. SDKs are provided as plugins in the form of Lua scripts. This means you can implement your own SDK sources or use plugins shared by others to install SDKs. It all depends on your imagination. ;)
S and R are on either side of E, so I'm guessing I meant EV.
Ask HN: How is this not suggestive of something akin to a simulation being true?
I'm sorry if this is outside of the norm for what is entertained at HN, but I mean this in the most earnest sense. To merely explain this away with a wave and a hand and a sound of "coincidence" is wrong. It suggests at least something else. May we speculate for the sake of contemplation without ridicule?

Here are the facts:

Abraham Lincoln was elected to congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson who succeeded Lincoln was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson who succeeded Kennedy was born in 1908.

John Booth who assassinated Lincoln was born in 1839.
Lee Oswald who "assassinated" JFK was born in 1939.

Lincoln was shot at the Theatre named Ford.
Kennedy was shot in a car called Lincoln made by Ford.

Lincolns assassin ran and hid in the Theatre warehouse.
Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a Theatre.

Both Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
The "Apple" approach? At least with apple it usually means new stuff is coming…
> Rolex don't do artificial scarcity

That is absolutely not true. They have entire warehouses of “rare” watches that they let drip little by little in the market to keep their value up.
The Feature Store: what's new – a deep dive
I recently observed an interesting technique being used to radically alter the perception of synthesized sounds, by using the Pianoteq piano simulator, turning off all of the string and core piano sounds, and leaving only the level and key noise samples playing, then layering this on top of a synth sound - it had the amazing effect of making the synthesizer patch sound very realistic, as it added key noises and environmental (striker) noises to the background .. it was quite astonishing how this radically effected the perception.
> Banks don't loan out deposits;

Sorry, but that's what they do. You don't agree, so there's nothing further to talk about.

> Bob transfers the real asset to Alice.

I.e. the bank loaned out Bob's deposit to Alice. The rest is just accounting machinations. Yes, I understand double entry bookkeeping. I got an A on that course (!) and I've been doing the the accounting for my business ever since.
So, this research is extremely cool. The way nuclear deflection works is not how you think. You probably don’t blast the rock to bits. Instead, Burkey’s model uses a bomb tunes to produce a crazy amount of x-ray radiation which heats up one side of the asteroid. You heat it up so much that the rock liquifies, then bubbles, and outgasses - and forms a propulsive engine, right on the surface, shooting out gaseous ultra-hot rock.

Newton’s third law kicks in: as the asteroid ejects mass in one direction, the asteroid reacts by going the opposite way. So you have altered the orbital trajectory of the asteroid, averting disaster.

The whole approach is very sensitive to the detonation height, asteroid composition and color, rotational characteristics, etc. So Burkey’s group has really made a simulation framework for modeling the right thing to do for a given asteroid.
I don’t think it’s misleading - working in security, I can tell you that containers are misconfigured with too many privileges everywhere you look. SWEs like focusing on cool stuff, like kernel exploits, to the detriment of basic production security. From the point of view, this is an article I think many SWEs could benefit from reading, especially on teams that do their own deployments.
I don't know what kind of type system you have in mind then. Do you have an example of language where all array types have a way to check, statically, that all indexing operations are in bound? How would that even work? A language without dynamically-sized arrays at all, maybe?
What I'm wondering is: if I want to use Google Calendar and Google Maps, do I get any benefit in using a "deGoogled" Android?

Or by activating the Play Store and installing a couple Google apps, am I negating all the privacy benefits I would get from a deGoogled Android?
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While you're right that doctors can often be some of the least competent and most unhelpful professionals to exist, I'd just like to highlight that most people spend thousands of tens of thousands of dollars on various supplements with no or limited results.

And a lot of the time, the supplements have understudied or unnoticed side effects or risks, not to mention the fact that they target the actual root causes as rarely as the meds do.

Not everyone can afford or has the heart for this either, and sooner or later, we NEED mainstream healthcare to have the answers.
1 cent fixed fee + percentage seems to be the standard where I am. It might be difficult in other EU countries but IIRC the fixed fee is capped at 5cents.
Sam Bankman Fried had a good take on this when he was in conversation with Matt Levine before FTX collapsed. You and I might agree that OpenAI is misrepresenting their product, that their real value is significantly lower than they present it, but in which way are we right? We might believe that their technology is worth 100 million dollars, but if they can convince Microsoft that it's worth 10 billion and get Microsoft to give them 1 billion in exchange for 10%, then they now have 1 billion dollars. The value of the technology doesn't change, it might be 100 million or it may be 0, but you don't get any money for assessing that value correctly.

In a very real sense the economic system we have created means that the value of a thing is whatever people are willing to pay. If you can hype it up, it actually increases the REAL value of the thing.
I would also roll my own. I've tried several generators and there is always something that doesn't quite work how I want it to and the documentation is often bad and outdated.

When you roll your own not only is it way simpler than existing solutions it won't change from under you. I blog very infrequently and often from different machines or operating systems, the last generator I used had completely changed between posts and I either had to relearn how it worked or make my own.
Migadu: The Missing Email Service for Domains
That doesn't make much sense to me. The GPU's task energy is so much lower than even the e cores, and AFIAK the GPU's compute isn't even fully utilized for local inference.
…you can use React without a transpiler. Without JSX React’s syntax is pretty much identical to this.
It's managing them at a bigger scale that is the challenge. Besides that, the container ecosystem gives you APIs to do all this management with established tools, in an automatic way.
Sample an elephant, synplant to synthesize it. As a non-singer synplant has allowed me to be on my tracks...you could never tell. Also, amseveral nembers of my friends and family are a) knocked out by the simple fun of synplant, and hearing/ looking at what ai believes constitutes their voices.
Shit I’ve never played in the snow, seems like it’d be real easy to lose your discs!
Looks like it's bundled with everything else in their templates collection. I purchased all access a while ago, and have found it incredibly helpful.

It's definitely worth the one-off price tag, and the fact they include future updates (like Catalyst) is incredible.
I recently bought a light for my plants since my office is in my garage and they get very little light there.

It’s a 40W COB LED and a 20W as well, both around 4000K. Both have fairly substantial peaks in the 200-300nm and 600-700nm ranges (suitable for photosynthesis), and their CRI is 97.

These lights are absolute game changers. I ordered a 150W with a CRI of 95 and a very similar photometric report which I plan to put further away from my desk and use as a sort of diffuse light to get more of this very natural feeling light into the space.

The ability to grow plants so well is a huge plus too. But I’ve never had a higher quality picture in meetings, I feel way happier at my desk, I get less eye fatigue, and other perks. Good light is worth every penny.
In the Netherlands pretty much every house has it. Even if it's not connected yet the lines will have been buried already.
I'm not even talking about who has the keys, or whether the server can decrypt. I'm saying that if the server is decrypting and then re-encrypting, it is not "end-to-end".
No, from the Wiki article on stacking WMs (empahsis mine):

> A stacking window manager (also called floating window manager) is a window manager that draws and allows windows to overlap, without using a compositing algorithm. All window managers that allow the overlapping of windows but are not compositing window managers are considered stacking window managers, although it is possible that not all use exactly the same methods.

It's possible that you have another definition but for me (and it seems for Wikipedia) the distinction is that a stacking WM does not keep buffers for individual windows but instead has them draw directly into the desktop buffer (details vary, the programs themselves might not have access to the buffer but send pixmaps that get blitted there). This results in lower resource usage and fewer copies but requires programs to redraw newly exposed regions when you move a window which may result in visible artifacts when programs cannot render fast enough.
Yes his death was extremely fitting.

He did get lead poisoning at least twice according to wikipedia, before and after the demonstration, requiring vacations to recuperate.
>The practical limits are based on the cars and their batteries, not the charge port.

You're referring to DC fast charging. For AC charging the NACS is limited to single phase. This is a charge port thing, not the car or battery.

Which doesn't matter much in the US, but it does in Europe.
> For the millionth time - not if you do not activate the plugin.

For the millionth time - uninstall was supposed to uninstall too :)
Ahah I wonder how much of the EFZ you already completed just by doing all those projects
Sidenote: I would be more open to this approach if GM created a modular upgrade option for the infotainment system. Today's hardware will not run tomorrow's software the same as tomorrow's hardware.
For most apps/sites something like Stimulus, htmlx, etc are good enough, also all JS frameworks comes with complexity, now you need a bundler, eslint, prettier, postcss, etc. I can appreciate the simplicity of relying purely on Rails ecosystem or at least very minimum JS that does not require a bundler.
Thank you very much for this link! It's amazing.
It's very odd, as this has been working smoothly in the EU for around a decade, depending on the country. It's so reliable that you can pay for bus/metro/train tickets in London (since 2014) and many other cities directly at the ticket barrier [1 for photo], which would cause problems if cards were failing or slow.

The only time I'm confused is when there's an unusual card reader, usually a low-budget all-in-one type with a touchscreen, as it's not always clear where the NFC reader is. This is maybe 1-2% of transactions.

Every so often a machine makes the "dur dur" noise and I have to use the chip and my PIN. I'm not sure if this is every Nth transaction, or after spending ¤X. Either way, it's to avoid a lot of contactless payments being made if the card is stolen. (And maybe this is irrelevant in the USA, without PINs?)

"8 out of 10 card payments now contactless in the Nordics" [2]. 54% in the whole EU [3], only 34% in the USA [4].

[1] https://www.intelligenttransport.com/transport-articles/1153...

[2] https://www.nets.eu/Media-and-press/news/Pages/8-out-of-10-c...

[3] https://data.ecb.europa.eu/blog/blog-posts/contactless-payme...

[4] https://ktvz.com/stacker-money/2023/08/01/american-consumers...
Nailed it. This is just getting infuriating:

https://chat.openai.com/share/03069d31-06d3-42e2-bfdc-ff6eaf...

GPT-4 went from being absolutely awe-inspiring to next to useless. This is the kind of response I expect from GPT-3.5-Turbo, not GPT-4.

Comparing the first offered code solution to the last offered solution, it's just insane how over-complicated it made things. It used to not be this way. The cream on top is that at the end it offered two different apologies and asked me to select which one I preferred more.

The lack of transparency behind these changes, and the gaslighting around the clearly obvious changes to the system's output are just ridiculously patronizing, and I will run for the hills the moment a company which actually values its users creates a competitive product.
https://youtu.be/IV3dnLzthDA?si=hgG67vKmBBLgKgeg

This youtube channel does a good job of explaining his inventions and just how bad for society they were.
An interesting read.

I've been WFH for 5 or so years, I have the uncanny ability to be able to work anywhere, anytime, a sort of mind switch that flicks itself - or doesn't, and then I'm screwed - irrespective of location, and then the surrounding world fades out when I am in my mental space.

I never had an issue with my partner or otherwise people being in the same space... until I had a kid. That changed everything, when our child is home I just stopped being able to not pay attention, even when they are in another room, and now I definitely see the - previously moot - benefit I would get from a dedicated room with a door + soundproofing.

As for the bedroom solution, that just would not work for me. My bedroom is a sanctuary: work - and any other cause of concern or otherwise stress - needs to stay out of it or my ability to sleep soundly - or at all - suffers greatly.

Regarding lighting, I set up the whole house with smart bulbs and set up Adaptive Lighting with Home Assistant, which also helped a lot with sleep issues.

To each his own I guess.
React is also functions all the way down and the syntax is pretty much identical to this
LLMs are very good at mimicking humans, so "an AI won't request a patent" is almost certainly already false regardless of any legal, moral, financial, or quality-of-output considerations.
My feeling (I've worked on EVSE's but not particularly Plug and Charge) is that standards end up being overly complex with too much potential for different implementations to disagree.

Even something as simple as charging control via control-pilot/proximity signals is already problematic with some vehicles.

Maybe because I'm an engineer and not a business guy, I do not understand why not implement the bare minimum that works and leave advanced cases for later.
In my opinion, GrapheneOS is superior in every aspect.
Not only is it essential for the defense of our planet, but it will be very important economically. Being able to capture asteroids within the moon's orbit to be able to mine them will propel humanity forward.

After energy, material will be the most pressing issue.
Not for DX7. It creates patches for it's own synth (2 oscillators, FM, envelopes, LFO, and effects). You can then look at how they are build and edit the parameters.
I don’t want to trivialise your post, but I encourage everyone to look up videos of the Kaba Gaida. It’s one of my favourite bagpipes.

This organised performance probably goes against the sprit of your post but it’s really beautiful.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mQY-ae7beBQ
For Windows, I find "Soundfont Midi Player" https://falcosoft.hu/softwares.html#midiplayer to be the best choice. It uses a Bassmidi based player with a provided soundfont, and MIDI files sound great on it.

It even loads tracker music, converting it to MIDI and Soundfont files. It also supports MIDI files which use unconventional instruments, as long as there is a soundfont file in the directory to pick. Useful for GBA music rips.

I have not tested it on Wine.

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Alternatively, download the SF2 file from that page, and configure VLC Media Player to use that SF2 file. The setting may be hidden unless you enter advanced mode for configuration.
> Notesnook is rapidly evolving and changing, and hoping for self hosted users to keep up is impractical

I don't know...does self-host equal slow changes? For me that's part of being a self-hoster, I have to keep the softwares up-to-date, and I actually appreciate if updates are frequent.

> After v3, our primary focus will be on self hosting

Sounds good, good luck on further development, if I ever see a self-hosting guide I'll check y'all out ;)
Also also people: Haha, look at these silly people who can't figure out what they want. They're back where they started but now pay for their own office.

Also also also people: damn do I hate my commute. Guess there's no other way since remote work doesn't work. Oh well!
If people care about being tracked, Web applications running in someone else's computer is probably not what they should reach for.
Promise.all is just a for loop that awaits all the promises. They still don't run concurrently.

The way JS works is that some event happens, which can cause some handler to run. When it's finished, the next event handler runs. But no two pieces of code execute at the same time in the same context.
Coincidences or not, why should it suggest a simulation? That seems somewhat unrelated.
> OTOH, those having the lower intelligence seem like they would prefer a world of declining brainpower instead, and ASAP.

Only in so far as they themselves are still just as intelligent relatively compared to others.
Show HN: Copy-pastable colllection of TypeScript snippets
I would gladly pay this price as a monthly subscription, if only I could get a maintained CSS library that lets me build applications on a level similar to Semantic UI, with the ability to customize or theme components.

I don't want JavaScript, I don't want a "framework", I don't want an npm-installable-monster, I want something that produces CSS that I can use for business. Semantic UI was close, but it got abandoned, and the forks do not go in the right direction.

Also, I need information-dense design, not whitespace-dominated design. Some of us build complex apps that display a lot of information and need tightly packed UI.

This is not hypothetical: I really do need to replace Semantic UI with something that is maintained and will work better on mobile screens. At a quick glance, my code has several thousand places where Semantic UI tags are used. If somebody picked up Semantic UI, started maintaining it without turning it into a JavaScript framework, and offered a $249/month subscription, I'd pick it up.