skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes me so angry. The Norwegian school system is so, so inflexible and it ruins many lives each year.

For me, the reason I was never allowed to set foot in a university was German, PE, and Norwegian literature. I was suffering from severe health issues and I didn't have the energy to do all the subjects I had no interest in. So I poured my focus into the subjects I enjoyed and/or were relevant to my future plans(biology, calc, English, physics, history). I generally nailed those subjects. But because I failed German, and almost never showed up for PE, I was denied the opportunity to follow my dream and study biology.

Part of the problem is also the very inflexible admission requirements for Norwegian universities.
Yeah, but will it matter ? It's a mobile native world.
That's why distribution matters.
Put giant pauldrons on them.
Every time I read one of these articles the naivety and tone-deafness from supermarkets over these self-checkouts amazes me.

"In order to make more money we made customers self-report their purchases during a cost-of-living crisis while we were booking record high profits and now these customers are _under reporting_ their purchases, how dare they!!"

They should've seen this coming from miles away.
Prince John: Such an unusual name, "Latrine." How did your family come by it?

Latrine: We changed it in the 9th century.

Prince John: You mean you changed it TO "Latrine"?

Latrine: Yeah. Used to be "????house."
I have worked with lots of codebases using UIKit constraints in code. These were non-trivial apps (200k lines of code). You can create wrappers of your own to simplify things or use libraries like Snapkit. It works and there's no need to use Storyboards.
It does what pi-hole does and a lot more. Has encrypted DNS protocols like DNS-over-HTTPS, DNS-over-TLS, and DNS-over-QUIC support and also has built-in recursive resolver.
I am personally happy with this decision. I don’t love flying spirit but I respect them, ever since hearing their former CEO speak on a Planet Money podcast.

He said straight up that Spirit Airlines is aiming to be the Dollar General of the skies. If you want something luxurious, go elsewhere. But he called out the other airlines who pretend like they are the Nordstrom of the skies, but don’t actually live up to that.
This is such an odd thing to be worried about. Do you really think there are people who go around looking for random USBs on the floor hoping that they contain sensitive data? Unless someone is specifically following you around and looking for this, I doubt they would bother. I also think anyone smart enough to crack the encryption on that thing is probably also smart enough not to plug random USBs into their computer.
For frequently used apps, I do what eviks says.

It’s a solution that annoys me as an idea, but it’s the only thing I have found that works for me. I have about 20 individual AutoHotkey scripts that are named GO TO <application name> and that go like this:

SetTitleMatchMode 2

if (not WinExist("Mozilla Firefox ahk_class MozillaWindowClass")) {
Run A_ProgramFiles . "\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
} else {
WinActivate
}

Return

I also have individual LNK files that target the AutoHotkey scripts, so that you can run the scripts from any launcher. Here is how it looks in PowerToys Run:

https://op111.net/images/20240117-powertoys-run-autohotkey-s...
How is it better than chatpdf.com and pdf.ai?
The Lasting Benefits of Print Media for Reading Comprehension
Does beaming power to earth change the energy in the system? At least with solar all energy was already being absorbed by the earth's atmosphere, just being converted to another form and ultimately back to heat. By beaming energy that would not otherwise have passed through the atmosphere we are effectively warming the planet. Though I've no idea if the number is material or not.
Yea, that's what I've noticed too. Not everyone can do what I do. I went on that route and couldn't help some of my friends.

I think the only thing one can say is that people need a strong yearning to figure it out if they have big issues with it. The second thing people need is a course in ethics + science. One needs to be able to evaluate the ethics proposed by whatever advice it is and think it through. And one needs to be able to verify/disprove claims in one way or another.
Right, it should be able to tell what kind of fruit or vegetable is on the scale and [at least] highlight it in the maze of menus. The larger the supermarket the funnier the search. Likewise it could see I have 2 croissants with cheese in stead of having me search though a list of packaged bread half of which isn't even on the shelve. It should be able to see the shelves too. It doesn't need good vision, if it can see there are 5 big piles from afar and people purchase 5 kinds it gets rather obvious which are the most likely candidates. If 3 out of 5 shelves are empty you shouldn't display all the nice things I cant have. It seems a fun project to work on.
"Only parts are allowed"
They cleaned up a lot of warts (like implicits) with scala 3
The seats are about as big as domestic first class on other airlines, but you don’t get upgraded service (e.g. free meals/drinks).
I have never understood the point of theft prevention at a self-checkout via the weight checks etc. If I want to steal something I just ... don't scan it? And keep it in my backpack. I don't see how the buggy weight checks serve any purpose other than annoying honest customers.
It could be seen as pro consumer, but it also could be seen as anti competitive. Spirit going under would open up space for a new competitor to potentially move in.

An analogy would be two competing gas stations at a very busy intersection with no plots nearby to build more stations. Just by existing they either drive each other down on price or collude on it. One going under means a new station could exist, but one buying the other guarantees prices do not go down.
Privacy can take backseat ?
True. For instance I have "/bin/bash" in passwd, but I always switch to zsh.

$SHELL remains "/bin/bash".
This must be f*cking really hard with our culture. I for once can say that I have been reading less because Amazon's recommendation algorithm keeps throwing at me books with trendy covers that make me cringe. And same with the blurbs. Sometimes, if I manage to go over my cringe reaction to those two things, the book under it is actually good. Therefore, I get a feeling authors and publishers feel they need to imitate the crowd and make the book look childish from the outside, in order to mollify The Algorithm.
> No legal precedent supports the idea that the Android or iOS app stores are monopolies under US law.

The right way to look at it is "US law is not written in a way to recognize and break up these monopolies". By any common sense or economic definition, these are monopolies. That the legal definition is out of whack is a problem which will hopefully be corrected.
> Here is a tip about getting raises at work: ask for them.

HR normally will say no, then you find another job and tell your manager that you are going to resign, manager talks to HR and HR gives you a small bump. Then you have to decide whether you stay or leave.
https://archive.ph/cEzct
TPC-H SF100 Benchmark: Snowflake vs. Databend Cloud
This is the kind of tool I like. Not sure what kind of edge case I've hit though. Trip from Perth to Exmouth in Western Australia, leaving 1:13pm UTC+1000, ends up suggesting the wrong side.

Preferred Seating : Left Side
1250 km / 776.41 miles :14h 40m 33s
Sun Exposure Data
Left Side: 49.62%
Right Side: 7.94%
No Sun: 42.44%
But having 1-2 cashiers is only the norm now because of self checkout. Prior to self checkout there used to be nearly all lanes staffed at our local grocery and wait times to checkout were low.
I feel like a better version of this would be Guix/Nix/Similar for a reproducible setup, then just putting all your personal files on a USB.
Schools are only partially made to teach. They are also serving the interests of the people running them, and of course, they are filters.

What's more, many teachers actually don't produce anything with what they teach, and have a curiculum forced on them by people making it up on theorical basis.

The result is that half of the professional training I give have to cover those holes. Having to teach debuggers to pro devs is weird but a reality.

In fact, shameless plug, but this is why I have a articles dedicated to pdb, venv and pip on http://bitecode.dev.

Because the demand is very high.
Coreboot on MSI with Raptor Lake, https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dasharo-1.1.2-MSI-Z690-A
It doesn’t, just tried with a sample file
> Along with Christianity came fancy verb forms

I think you have that backwards. Old norse had more complex grammar. The grammar have simplified over time.

Icelandic still have more complex grammar than other Scandinavian languages because it have changed less.
This basically means "Get sued."

There is no clear legal, definition of "noncommercial," and courts have gone all sorts of different way on what constitutes commercial use.

This is where CC NC licenses imploded. A lot of places (hello, MIT!) intentionally use CC NC licenses to make things appear more open than they are.
This wouldn't fly on work computers at most large enterprises where the USB ports are locked down. Inserting any USB storage violates security policy and triggers security alerts, if the USB port works at all.
Apple is a lifestyle brand and some people act pretty threatened when that brand is criticized.
I've been wanting something like this recently.

I want to occasionally have my "virtual computer" with me to use on other hardware. (ie my SO's laptop, my Steam Deck; hardware I mostly trust). I find myself bringing my laptop many places where I don't actually plan to use it, just in case some server goes down or the like.

Why Qemu though? Why not a Live USB? Is it just for the ease of treating the VM as a regular file for backup and transfers? I have little experience with Qemu.
There is also https://minios.dev/en/ and an HN link regarding a tons of other linux on USB options. I agree with the author. With USB in 1TB size range, easy to carry and backup. Why do I even need cloud?
If a cashier makes a mistake, I always correct it when I catch it because I know it can count against them. When a self-checkout machine makes the occasional mistake (namely, charging too little for an item) I never correct it because it’s all on the store and who am I to correct them.
Some things can actually be taught... some can't.

To program something, you need two things:

- to learn the language (syntax, rules, specifics)

- to break up the real-world problem into smaller step-by-step blocks, that can then be written in a chosen programming language.

The first part (language) is simple and can be taught in schools. But some people are just unable to do enough mental abstract processing to do the second part.

I've intentionally chosen programming as a first example (because of where we are), but this is true for human-languages too.. rules of the language are simple, articulating and in a more extreme example, writing a book require more than that. Same for woodworking... saw, drill, chisel, router, sander... simple. Being able to mentally transform wood into something useful in your head is hard.

I have no problems with coding pretty much anything, given enough resources (time), but writing a short story (and other texts) in school was always a pain that involved a lot of counting words (back in my time, written by hand on a piece of paper) and "oh shit, I need two more paragraphs of something".
You have cause and effect completely backwards.

NBA teams are NOT denying starter positions to paraplegics "because the paraplegics choose to hate basketball".
I used Keypirinha since about 2016 then power toys's launcher but for the last year or 2 I don't use anything and depend on Win+S search on Windows 10 plus AutoHotKey. In the past I didn't like how Windows search loads so far in the bottom left or near your start button but it does a decent job at returning results quickly and it also lets you search for Windows settings as well as apps. That's something Keypirinha came up a bit short on.

For my most used apps I have them bound to direct hotkeys with AutoHotKey. For example I hit Win+w to launch a web browser or Win+t to launch a terminal or Win+SHIFT+T to launch a terminal as an admin. I have a bunch of these hotkeys.
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So it's a bad ruling because previous administrations didn't try to enforce anti monopoly laws?

Why not view it as, this is a good start and hoping it continues to prevent even more consolidation and monopoly in airlines and other industries? The notion that there has to be more consolidation to compete is only good for the companies monopolizing - not the consumer. Why should we be helping them make more profit by abusing market power versus delivering better products and competing?
J2EE started as a Objective-C framework, before being rewritten in Java.
This is really an interesting feature, haha!
Deathphobia is a real thing that pervades many cultures during the last century, largely driven by disposable income and technology, individualism, rejection of respect for ancestors, and marketing. It leads to a “wretched anxiety” that can for some people become an inescapable pathology. One could argue it is not death itself but the path to death and how we as a society acknowlege it that is problematic. If it is causing depression perhaps consider getting help.
> Agriculture is 44% of US land, PV on an area <1% is enough to power America

There is even a potential convergence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrivoltaics
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39019059
Boot Process: Android vs Linux (2018)
> make a few people who already have everything even richer.

"a few people" being everyone with a retirement plan, 401k or any equivalent around the world, i.e. the vast majority of people in developed countries

if anything, taking from smaller companies to give to megacorps is a net benefit for "the common man", since the former will generally belong to founders/VCs/private equity in which they have no stake, and the latter are owned by everyone with exposure to the MSCI World :)
Have you tried storygraph?
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Willow Protocol
Is A.I. The Death of I.P.?
No edge cases. Understanding the DOM is easy.
No, I don't think so. What I read it as, cloned grown-up children with such fixes.
Staying on 8 has nothing to do with "dealing with modules" (JDK 11 had the exact same accessibility as JDK 8; the JDK's encapsulation wasn't turned on until JDK 16). The reason some need to stay on 8 is because they're using old, non-portable libraries that rely on internals that have since changed. Modularising the JDK has only helped prevent that from reoccurring, and has made version upgrades easier than they've ever been. Not modularising the JDK would not have helped people migrate one iota. The internal changes that broke the old non-portable libraries would still have broken them, only there would have been nothing to prevent this from happening over and over again.

Also, there isn't much new code being written for 8, and there's a whole lot more of Java code yet to be written than the non-portable code still on 8. In fact, even most existing projects are no longer on 8. Sure, if you only look at the pain, there has certainly been some. But if you look at the pain compared to the benefit, the lesson is that it's been a great success, especially compared to other languages (or even frameworks) doing similar significant changes. I think the vast majority of those who've upgraded consider it worthwhile (again, comparing cost/benefit).

Virtual threads, FFM, and the upcoming Valhalla and Leyden are all things that could not have been done without modularisation, and certainly not without significant internal JDK changes, which would have kept the same people on 8 even if there was some way (doubtful and definitely much more expensive) to achieve that without modularisation. We would have been in a far worse place without it: fewer new features and no end to the problem of migration.
I think many top percenters have income without tradjob, stuff like investment dividends and all that.
It is trivial to get pihole working with DoH. Just pair pihole with DNSCryptProxy.
Marx is deservedly the most famous man in history.
I ran this way when I first (had to) switch to a mac. Running linux in a Virtualbox vm, and having it fullscreen most of the time. It's a really nice way to work, and gives you much more of a sense of owning your environment - especially the mac started acting-up and slowing down/hanging frequently, and even losing the application state through a reboot, but the vm would continue where it left off after a restart, even the cursor in the same place etc.

IMHO you do need a graphic environment in 2024 though; text-only, and gemini etc is a bit too monastic.
The problem isn’t about KGB style spying with half a million employees. The problem is technology enabling automated KGB style spying that feeds automated information operations on an international level.

If everything you say in your house is digitally stored in perpetuity, the things you say today can be used to manipulate you tomorrow by either a state or a corporation.
The market does not choose the superior product. It might choose the least common denominator, the cheapest product, the product that got on the market the earliest, or the one with the richest backers, but not "the superior product".
I think in part it's because the idea that programming is text and math-based is too ingrained in society.

For example, we talk about programming languages. But IMO there are also programming systems such as Smalltalk [1]. I've programmed 2 years professionally in it, currently looking for an engagement in a different language (a curiosity thing, also a resume thing).

I think Smalltalk has a lot to offer by switching the programmer's view of thinking about programming systems rather than programming languages.

Moreover, programming systems is also not where it is at. One downside that Pharo in particular has is that the community is small. A lot of plugins/libraries that are a given in other languages aren't there! For some, however, this is a strength because one gets to learn much better how to build stuff from the ground up and tinker on it by yourself. Given that there is still a lot of low hanging fruit it is easy to become a contributor.

But this part, whether a community is big or small means that I think it's smarter to think about programming ecosystems where a programming language or programming system is the central hub connecting the programming community together.

Why don't schools teach about programming communities? See my first sentence ;-)

[1] https://pharo.org - a modern Smalltalk
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My school did--at least it taught debugging.

In his memoir of his secondary school years, <i>What's to Become of the Boy: Or, Something to do with Books</i>, Heinrich Boll talked about his older brother's method of tutoring him in Latin and mathematics: work back to sound knowledge and then build up from there. Boll writes that he used the technique in tutoring classmates also.
It's not really comparable because Amazon never did anything to try to stop anyone from buying books through any other channel. The platform they do own, AWS, unlike the iphone, is perfectly open to competitors to Amazon's retail business.
My bad. I thought it does not work internationally but it does!
Share an AI model that can clone facial features
This model utilizes facial ID embeddings from a face recognition model, enabling it to more accurately capture and reproduce the facial features of specific individuals.

By combining text descriptions, it can generate highly personalized images consistent with the original facial features.

This means that by uploading just a few of your own photos, you can generate images of yourself in various scenarios, essentially cloning your face.

Usage Steps:

1.Upload one or multiple photos.
2.Enter prompt text, such as “A photo of a woman wearing a spacesuit.”
3.Click to Submit

It can also generate stylized images:

1.Upload one or multiple photos.
2.Enter prompt text, such as “a watercolor painting of a woman” or "A sketch of a woman.", or any other style you desire.
3.Switch the Generation type to Stylized.
4.Click to Submit

Additionally, this model can be used in comfyui and sd (Stable Diffusion) as well.

Online Experience Address: https://ipadapterfaceid.com
things like razors interfere and so they are not accurate enough to use. They probably work great in niches, but they are not a universal answer.
I wonder how much of that it spent just computing those square roots.
They were also made to train a workforce for industrial production. Some part of the school curiculum is detrimental for todays tasks.
All of the current RAW image processing software have features to reduce chromatic aberration. Many of them have databases of lenses that match the EXIF data of the lens you used to take the photo to help automatically adjust the image the right amount.
>Actually religions, or at least the ones I know about in some detail, don’t model that much. For example, Christianity doesn’t really model the afterlife beyond being Heaven being in the presence of the Lord.

Gates, perfection, eternal peace and happiness, etc. but the catch-all for modeling reality or beyond reality in most religions tends to be that the supreme deity fixes or resolves any inconsistency or unknown. So, the afterlife is whatever your supreme deity decides and makes it, you just don’t know about it. It’s modeled (which is partly why it’s so successful) it’s just that you may not know the details explicitly, a sort of black box model you don’t get to peek inside of.
No. DNS is used for that.
You would think that as the web platform is starting to pick up things like WASM and many new capabilities that there are an extremely large set of apps all of a sudden where you would be insane to think about

- writing it in a different language that only really runs on one operating system

- pay $99/yr for the privilege

- at any point and for any reason you can be cut off from reaching your audience

- you have to pay them 30% of your revenue (not profit) for any money your application makes

- you can’t make updates in a timely manner

- you have close to zero avenues of recourse if you disagree with any of this

- the deal can change at any time and you don’t get a say in it.

Why the fuck would anyone choose that option in 2024 if they didn’t have to? It’s no wonder Apple went out of their way to try and cripple the web for over a decade now, it was only legal action from the EU that forced them to staff Safari properly about two years ago.

And even now, they still take any opportunity they can to make it look unattractive such as hiding the ability to install a PWA deep in a series of unrelated menus.

That’s a hostage taking business. Get out of that ecosystem if you can
edbrowse supports enough js to comment on some pages and download files. Felinks used to work, too.
Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav
I understood sleep trackers are useless. Here your doctor can lend you some professional watches you can wear for 2 weeks that cost 700 eur, but those are not sold to the public. Unless things did change in the past 4 years.

And even then, they can not really measure your sleep. If you want to measure sleep, you will need to have wires on your scalp that measure what happens inside your brain.
Forgot to setup index.html as index file in AWS S3/Cloudfront!
Or the opposite!