skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“sparse files” are specific term[1] referring to files where the filesystem tracks and doesn’t allocate space for unwritten file content (i.e. content that would just be zeros if read) in large preallocated files.

To use the term “sparse file” to also refer to files with large continuous runs of zeros, created via a seek operation, is just confusing. Those are quite explicitly not sparse files, they’re just files, that happen to be full of zeros (all written to disk). “Sparse file” are quite explicitly the result of the optimisation to avoid writing pointless zeros when preallocating a large file that’s going to written into in an unordered manner.

Using the term “sparse files” to refer to both the “problem” and the “solution” is just unhelpful, and doesn’t align with the accepted meaning of the term.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_file
This is nonsense - most people don't know the difference between imessages and SMS, it absolutely is surprising behaviour for the user that the messages now go to an app on her laptop that she may not even use.
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If you have a psychiatrist, do talk to them about that.

It might be the case that you have enough systems and mitigations set-up in life that really only the parts that feel like superpower remain. Some part of that could be some degree of self-medication, i.e. I assume that many people that live on coffee, nicotine and spite do in fact have undiagnosed ADHD and switching coffee to some sort of modern amphetamine prescription would improve quality of their life.

I did get medicated fairly recently. Spent a year really flailing at work, in a way that was not usual for me, but I got to a team with little structure and deadlines, with a team-lead where we often didn't understand each other but not to a degree he would care?

I figured I hav adhd-like symptoms (the innatentive-kind) for most of my life and that I might be at a point I actually need help, took me several months to find a psychiatrist, she agreed that I fit the diagnosis, and in my country I basically had the choice between Strattera, Ritalin and Concerta. Tried Ritalin in mornings for two months and wow, for that time, 4 hours every day I could do stuff ... piles of invoices I have usually been avoiding for weeks disapeared. For the first time in my life I had the experience of actually finishing some work I thought was completely pointless. But I didn't like that after lunch I literally needed to lie down for ~hour.

Changed to Concerta, which is ~slow release version of Ritalin, effect is not that big, but still noticeable, I am capable of creating piles of invoices on Concerta, but when I take it I don't scroll on tiktok for 15 minutes before I gear up to get out of the car and go to office and instead I can just ... go work, and I like that.
> PS: also important to note that not all CPC models came with the AMSDOS ROM or builtin floppy drive, so the actual operating system and

Right, technically correct! On the other hand, the command to return to BASIC from CP/M was "AMSDOS" - the distinction to be seen by the user was to be AMSDOS vs CP/M as two operating systems.

Btw. which book describes these internals? ;>>>
The most annoying thing is cat people being smug about people who like dogs and pets that visibly show affection. "I'm cooler than you because I don't need the affection of a dog."

This mark of pride in not needing love, probably borne out of misanthropy or misplaced sense of superiority, isn't as cool as you guys think. You still synthesise happy love and bonding chemicals when you stroke your cat like everybody else, or you wouldn't get one in the first place.

Sincerely, one that loves the independence of cats and the empathy of dogs. I only wish I could have both...
FORTH could've been a very elegant alternative to BASIC on 8-bit class hardware, but one major problem with it was that having to enter absolutely everything as RPN/postfix notation could be very unintuitive at times. E.g. prefix or mixfix notation for some things such as math is only very slightly harder to parse, but then provides a big gain in user friendliness. And floating point math takes up a big chunk of the code in typical BASIC ROMs, so it was clearly regarded as important to duplicate that desk calculator-like UX.
> I have the exact problem as you. I don't even need a ton of features besides the core Vim/Neovim ones, I'd just want stuff I've come to expect from similar editors/IDEs in the past decade, and Neovim doesn't want to bless any of them:

> - file manager

> - universal search (commands and files; Ctrl-Shift-P, Ctrl-P)

Can you describe what you'd like to see? How it would work, what it would do?

I'd like to add more interaction between fzy and vim, and better integrate bash and vim.

It looks like a good usecase!
Unfortunately there is no simple way of makeing this work on a Chromebook
New tool to enable EU to withstand economic coercion enters into force
I still find the concept vague.
There should be some electric sheep in there.
> use it totally differently

Nope, sorry. Same usage. Read until the end. It’s respectable to have a little humility in the face of contradictory evidence :)

> Languages tend to have more rules than that

This is a common misconception about language - to think that it has many strict rules. It’s a frankly elitist take and Chomsky, the most prominent contemporary linguist, disagrees. See my other comment for a talk by Chomsky to develop a better understanding of language
> there's literally no build scenario it can't handle.

Well except this little case where some files or folders in your paths have spaces in them...
If it gets really popular here on hacker news won't be long before chinese devices based on it start appearing. Or if someone is willing to invest $10-20k they could have devices ready to sell in less than 2-3 weeks.
I had the same question when reading this. They use the light only at places where cancerous cells were found plus some safety margin I guess.

In that sense it's an alternative to surgery.
RISC OS on the Pi includes BBC BASIC:

https://www.riscosopen.org/content/downloads/raspberry-pi

They used to offer a BBC BASIC-only image called RISC OS Pico, which you can still find on the Internet Archive and should still work on older Pis:

https://web.archive.org/web/20181109020203/https://www.risco...

https://web.archive.org/web/20181109020203/http://packages.r...
It's usually the teacher who creates the exam. I've seen plenty of bad teachers give extremely easy exams where everyone gets awesome grades even though no one understood anything. Standardized exams are few and far between.
I have never once thought of this place as getting attacked by the far right.
Apple is known to have shared even secret APIs with companies like Uber. I am guessing they didn't share this with other companies in the same industry vertical as Uber. That would definitely constitute an unfair advantage to Uber.

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/apple-gave-ubers-...
Loading speed for cassette tapes and floppy disks was measured in bits per second at the time (usually between a few hundred to a few thousand bps), that was just what the hardware could handle, even without expensive error correction ;)
my car does not have that.

otoh it has a dashboard and a rim around the display to lean your hand on while you're trying to hit some ridiculously small (in a moving car) touchscreen target.
FCGI in mod_fcgid seems a nice combination for most uses. mod_fcgid's process manager kills off unused fcgi processes, so they don't linger.

There's so many ways to do dynamic HTTP, the real win though is identifying how much can be done as clientside javascript so that you don't have to dynamically generate a page and just serve those as static.
Yes, electricity consomption increased. As did industrial output and GDP, across the world. Not sure where the surprise is in that.

And I never said we don't need baseload anymore, I said, and that is confirmed by grid operators, studies and first habd knowldge, that demand, and there only big consumers matter, is getting more and more flexible. Hence, baseload is less important today than it was before.

Know why industrial consumers do that? Money, they are paid for that flexibility: either by getting free electricity or getting paid (negative prices) at certain periods. Or by getting paid to not consume electricity in certain periods, same way peaker plants are paid to generate electrivity in these periods to maintain grid balance. The large cobsumers do this, as I said, since at least a decade (first time I was directly involved with it, so propably longer), and they do this on production equipment and processes almost a century old.

We do need baseload, because while solar and wind are predictable, they depend on the weather to produce, and might not produce enough sometimes (almost a guarantee, your claim of zero is local so, large grids mitigate that).

Not sure what's so hard to understand about any of that...
They're worth quite a bit these days as they were rapidly replaced on the market by the 6128 (which is in my loft).
> Local government is supposed to be a venue for regular people to participate in the kinds of everyday decisions that affect their lives.

Because it takes time and energy to sit through public hearings, something most people working manual labor or evening/night jobs with variable schedules don’t have (i.e. lower income/wealth people with few investments).
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We don't know what the territory is yet, and our map might as well be a crude 13th century globe that missed the Americas and Australia and has a lot of "here be dragons".

We do risk Cargo Culting ourselves with these things. But also, the reason we even know about cargo cults is thanks to the few occasions they successfully got planes to land by looking close enough to airstrips.

We need a better grasp of what we're doing, almost regardless of where we want to end up.
No, we have an AI writing product called MagickPen, so the second AI image tool is named magickimg. Thank you.
Besides the old photographs, what I found intriguing was the story's ending to Twain.
That's nice. Btw, I'm curious, what kinda mouse do you guys use that makes you hold your breath while you scroll? I believe mice these days are super precise and works pretty well.
Preventing people from participating in government based on their religion is illegal, but Scientology's aim is subversion, which the government correctly guards against. Normally religions brazenly reach for government control in board daylight so it's easy to respond. Scientology's convert infiltration tactics were fairly novel and so caught a lot of people off guard.
iOS is not keen on your SSL cert
Also, making a correct one is not an easy fit.
I do agree that there is plenty of destructive stigma associated with repeating a class or grade, but there is no alternative, assuming your grades reflect your actual learning level (which tends to be the case for the low grades, in my experience, even if it doesn't for higher grades). You can't move on to a higher grade if you just didn't learn the basics, you'll be even worse off. What possible point would there be in trying to teach comparative literature to someone who didn't learn to read or write properly?

So, we need to get rid of the stigma, not the practice.
Nah. The last time I bought bulbs - from Costco, three-ish years ago, when we moved - they were (I think) $2 apiece. They were more expensive than that the previous time I bought bulbs - ten-ish years ago - but I still have most of those, still working after all this time. I don't think those were 10x incandescents, but even if they were they've long-since paid for themselves in energy savings.

LED bulbs are great. They weren't before 2010 or so, when they couldn't color-match incandescents, but both that and the price issue are solved problems.
Maybe they don’t know all the intracies, but they certainly know the difference, that’s why there’s such a cultural big deal about blue versus green bubbles.

Everybody knows when one person in a text group isn’t using iMessage, and they usually hate it.
Brand new account posts a challenge to HN, which isn't really a thing we do here, asking for people to document how to pen test a server.

Another brand new account jumps in to participate, but again is asking for help on how to pen test.

Looks legit.
While anecdotal advice can be useful to contextualise stuff like this I would strongly be to urge you not to base this decision on advice from semi-anonymous people, and get a proper psychiatric assessment of your ADHD if you are able to. If you were diagnosed as a child it’s entirely possible that the nature of your ADHD has evolved over time. It used to be thought people “grow out of it” but this seems less well supported clinically now.

However, the impact and nature of ADHD is very much down to the individual and it sounds like you have either developed strategies to harness your ADHD or you may have ADHD impulsive/hyperactive without significant attention deficit/distraction. There is not “one type” of ADHD and this means that two people diagnosed with ADHD can have very different experience of things.

Before starting medication you should get an adult ADHD assessment and in particular the Qb Test. For me the Qb Test was particularly useful in diagnosis.

Diagnosis of, and thinking around ADHD has come on significantly in the past couple of decades so it’s likely that reassessment as an adult could have upside for you - even if you don’t end up going down a medication route - by giving you greater insight into the specific nature of your ADHD.

FWIW I was undiagnosed as a child but the symptoms were very clear - very hyperactive, very inattentive in class but due to good levels of general intelligence, ability to recall texts in detail after reading, and ability to hyperfocus (writing essays last minute, cramming for exams the day before) got high marks throughout school and college - but at significant cost to my overall wellbeing.

I was then diagnosed as an adult and have significantly benefited from medication.

As someone who used to use hyperfocus as a “superpower” and used to be able to deliver huge pieces of work by using it I fooled myself into thinking there wasn’t a problem, even though I knew there was. I actually get more done with less need to hyperfocus and feel less stressed and less “backfooted” now that I take medication. I’ve not lost the ability to hyperfocus but am bale to combine it with the ability to manage and plan, something I did not used to be able to do.
Give it a try, before your real life troubles start mounting.

I waited too long, until my wife and I were on verge of getting divorce, and I was struggling at my job. Medication put both back on track, but man do I wish I'd started earlier.
I thought this was true for me to too (Firefox / macOS), but the comparisons just took a very long time to load.
It’s not clear if solar includes reduced demand from rooftop solar, or just grid connected solar

Either way 5% is a tiny amount.

biomass is also far better than gas for those times when you do need to boost supply, so increasing biomass still seems like a win.
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Interesting concept, can you share some more detail about the implementation? How are you generating the different portions of the interface? Seems like you have a couple canned prompts that trigger a few exploratory ideas in addition to a primary response.
Experience promoting on Product Hunt
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Welcome to 1995.
Makes a lot of sense, too. Why would you even want to load data faster than you can read it on screen, or print it out on paper? That's just a waste for such a minor increase in overall speed.
OpenBSD – KDE Plasma now linked to packages build on -current
I wonder what kind of hardware they have in mind. Maybe an Alexa type box that uses the CharGPT voice mode?
Bad practice. Music is auditory, so you need to focus on audio.
Bull. My sister switched to a dumb phone, and I couldn’t get my phone to text her anymore. I knew precisely what the problem was, as well as how to fix it, but it simply didn’t work half the time. It would just send a message to her computer that she might get a couple of days later.
I feel like this isn't getting through to you, but I wanted to at least try and reach out. Feedback is important, but I can't force people to take it to heart.

One more guideline to keep in mind:

>Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

going around calling the community you comment in an echo chamber in order to justify your views never changed anyone's minds. And insulting others as a group nor individual doesn't make your factual statements stronger to begin with. It's the same useless fluff you complain about. If your audience truly doesn't appreciate your views, you should seek one that does.
Stack Overflow has one of the worst communities I know of, if you can even call it a community, but the Stack Exchange ones are amazing.
The illegal stuff was by the project, not by the new CEO, to clear up an ambigous headline.

Also, some surprisingly missed context here:

> His video resulted in Congress removing some funding for Acorn after workers from the group were secretly taped offering him and a partner financial advice while they posed as a pimp and prostitute.

The person posing as the prostitute was this same recently resigned CEO.
There was a popular book series in Germany called 'xxx Intern' where xxx would be a computer model. For instance for the CPC:

https://archive.org/details/cpc-464-intern-bruckmann-english...

(I have a physical copy of the followup book "CPC 664/6128 Intern", archive.org doesn't seem to have that one though)
That link didn’t work for me.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/mpwhpRhxX8wFzG9g7?g_st=ic
When I set up a public-facing web server, I take every precaution to make theft of my data (and my customers) as difficult as possible for thieves. Firewalls, frequent security patches, defensive programming, etc. Walmart and others seem to do the opposite. They fire cashiers and install self checkout lanes that are so hard to use that even honest people end up shoplifting accidentally, I can’t even imagine how much theft dishonest people are able to get away with. They have the antitheft alarms at the exits but whenever they go off, 90% of the time there’s no security guard to deal with it or employees just don’t care. So, it’s clear they don’t take it seriously.

I don’t run my servers on Windows XP and allow anyone in the world to connect on any port and leave my database open with no authentication controls and then complain when the police aren’t arresting every person who is stealing my data.
"Real human glow" is so nonspecific, as if you were inviting a flame war on purpose
Your logic does not compute.

The article (a few paragraphs) is literally of zero value with no data/information at all which you have submitted because of the click-baity title. There can be no other inference.

A look at your history confirms that you have submitted/commented on similar articles in the past in the same negative vein adding nothing of value. Inference? You are a troll.
> It is highly unlikely there will ever be a singular "cure for cancer" as cancer is a bit of a blanket term given to multiple diseases,

"It doesn't make sense to say 'cure for cancer.' Cancer is a wide variety of disorders with different manifestations and etiology. It makes as much sense as saying 'a cure for virus'."

> https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-11-21
> and the stylist insisted that Agnes roam the place unattended

Am I alone in thinking this is rude and inconsiderate? If you bring an animal in public around other members of society, you should supervise and control it. Not doing so is at a bare minimum irresponsible.

How well-behaved the animal has been historically is not relevant.

Liking dogs is not a universal trait, not everyone wants them near. It’s the owner’s responsibility to the rest of society to supervise their animal and make sure it doesn’t go near people who don’t want it near them.
You can see schedule of the conference at:
https://calendify.com/schedule/E304GkX4xA9
or
https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2023/fahrplan/index....
Keep in mind that stimulants are one of a few paths. There's at least two popular prescription non-stimulants and a few other options.
This argument is logical and I’m glad you laid it out. Stating obvious truths is a good strategy for revealing willfully ignorant posters.
Had to buy single E14 for my range hood. First one was pack of 3 of 40W equivalent for 2€. And then later in shop for 3x of 2700K and 400K each of 60W equivalents for 5€.

Less than 1€ a bulb, that is not too much more than standard indecent bulbs... You can get them cheap enough from deals.
Found the relevant source file

https://github.com/charstorm/llmbinge/blob/main/llmbinge/src...
Daihatsu Toyota safety scandal: any details?
There’s still very few details on the technicalities of the safety issues, anyone more informed?
Congratulations and good luck for 2024!

> Turns out they got fed up with their existing service, remembered my pitch, and checked out what I built since.

Marketing and selling pay off. The sad part is, you never know when.
The J and L keys will skip back and forth 10 seconds.
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I will say that the second season cares less about social plausibility, if that matters for you. But then, the books were quite random about that, too, partly due to Lee Child never having been to the US when he started writing about someone roaming about the US. :)
Nonspecific, but I understood it.
Based on living in the 80s and pop culture at the time, I have a suspicion: "nerds" weren't cool at all. To do anything with a computer or electronics was seen as the most "non-cool" thing you could do. At the time, women seemed to have all the social control and never did anything (or very rarely, at least) "non-cool."

Thus, I suspect any women interested in the field were pushed away from it by their peers, and women's peer pressure is (traditionally) stronger than men's peer pressure (see Mean Girls for reference).

Anyway, that's my own two cents colored by a childhood.
> Also I feel like I've been waiting a decade and I still can't do fractional scaling on wayland last I checked.

https://wayland.app/protocols/fractional-scale-v1#compositor...
Yet most will intuitively and immediately grasp its meaning.
I was wondering if “got-restore-mtime" was a typo or a cleverly named similar project to “git-restore-mtime".
Don't say no when you have 0-10 customers lol.
I agree with the sentiment. But I feel the sentiment is comparable to saying we need to rid society of violence. Maybe at a university level we can apply this, but we 1000% need to bring down the cost of tuition before considering spending more money at college.

for grade school, I'm at an impasse. I don't like complaining without offering something actionable, but the scale and existing inequalities of schools is so dire that I don't know where to start. The realistic answer over the decades has been to simply lower the bar overtime, but that doesn't exactly help either.
You can recreate this dataset by your own, it is fairly easy: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/29693
To get to the root cause, you have to go one level further.

People (broadly speaking) want to live near people at least at their socioeconomic level, or higher than themselves. People want to live away from people below their socioeconomic level. At least for the purposes of their kids’ commingling in public schools.

A society with greater differences between its members, whether it be due to skin tone, income, wealth, ethnicity, religion, language, etc, will result in more stratified development. Not necessarily, but apparently quite likely.