skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows is mostly OK now. My use case is just moving files from the incoming folder (desktop or downloads) into a few subfolders (for different projects) and later, inside a more specific points in the subdirectory tree.

This workflow it's being terrible in Linux, worsened with the lack of a directory tree pane in the file manager.

Dolphin mixes directories with files in the tree. That would seem to bring the same functionality, but no. I've tried to get used to one-click to open, but it opens the door to all kind of unwanted behaviour when combined with the D&D. I need to undust the Air to remember how it worked there. Sometimes I just want to make sure I'm only selecting one file and I can't.

Anyway I haven't found the funcionality unstable. Just unwieldy.
saw the expression "que sopa?" and thought about all the verlan french rappers brought into the french language. most of them will never make it into the french dictionary.
During AMDs long dark age Intel shipped an iGPU on basically every mainstream desktop and laptop CPU which obliterated the cheapo bottom end of the market and as others have mentioned killed off any remaining GPU makers as their niches got even smaller.

The only remaining markets for low end discrete GPUs I can think of are people who need basic video out for servers or people who have exhausted all display out options for multiple monitors and need a card to add more.
As I approach 40 the tinitus is starting; not to bad though, knock on wood.

I fear that the solution to a noisy office being "add more noise" will cause hearing damage.
It may be that at least part of the story was that some animals had issues purely with CRT technologies. A shift from shooting electrons through a window, to source pixels of very specific frequencies, may have been better.

For example, this spectral comparison implies there is a rather large difference in the color experience of watching CRT vs LCD. Very pronounced and spikey red component vs smooth gaussians. Canines are notorious for issues with red colors.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alireza-Shahsafi/public...
About 3/4 use Android, but very few have the courage to run recent builds.

It's been a frustration point up the ladder, because they feel the ~same as you: why are they the only ones filing bugs?

But it's not that. It's decayed internal culture. There's other stuff around the margins they could change*, but, the rot is deep and unlikely to be fixed.

Too focused on...non-business objectives...to be effective. Too crucial to risk reforming. And it's very unlikely they hear about it up the ladder. And that's before the morale decline of "even when you smile and nod and sing along with the antics, you can be let go at any point by a 2 AM email"

* tl;dr: make it dead simple to get a phone. Line managers were always a bit squirrely about expensing. It's a non-starter post late 2021, and there were never ever enough DVTs/EVTs for them to be meaningful. Establish "everyone is on Pixel next year's - 2", and have the VP send an org-wide email saying individuals can expense as needed.
Equivalent is Green Card EB-1. But there’s no automatic path.
I'd be very interested in a comparison of htmx 2 vs Unpoly, since some of the issues Unpoly mentions seem in direct response to htmx, such as response code handling.
> NASA seems to have done a better job in designing fool-proof landing mechanisms

The purpose of this landing design was explicitly to allow landing in areas that wouldn't previously be considered acceptable: slopes.
Modern TVs in any market will take 24 (23.976) hz, 50 hz, and 60 (59.94) hz. It's been pretty common to support all common refresh rates since displays went all-digital.

The vast majority of midrange and better TVs can also spot 24 fps content being sent in a 60 hz signal and render it properly.

Most TVs however will not look good with 50 fps content in a 60 hz signal and you will want to set your output device to adjust its refresh rate based on the frame rate of the content being played. Set top streaming boxes actually worth using have this option, but it is usually disabled by default.
How much gas is burned transporting your refuse to the landfill?
That's definitely untrue. Power off your device and see if you can't terminate service
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And, things tend to get easier over time. Technique and technology may develop to make things go smoother.

The reuse aspect of it is also (discussed in the auricle). I have seen lots of stuff brand new in packaging or tags still on them thrown in the garbage. Getting that stuff to people that want it is good. A lot of things that still have a lot of life left are thrown in the garbage. Even broken things can be for "parts or repair".

And landfills, although useful, are just paying to store junk forever.
It was a project by some signal processing students in my lab. As far as I know, they didn't get to publish anything besides writing a technical report; and the code was a matlab thing that just ran on the computer of one of them... But their presentation was excellent! They brought their vinyls, the turntable, and did a live demo of the whole thing running.
Ultimately, I am actually saying things that are in line with the traditional teachings and is what Buddhism actually is among most people in the world today. You said I was perpetuating falsehoods, and all I care about right now is stating that actually I am not. All this stuff about "conceptualisation is a barrier on the path" is not really relevant. We don't even believe it is in my tradition, in fact.

Next time just think a little before you accuse someone of what you did. You are the one that insisted I was wrong about the concepts of Buddhism, that's why I called you a fundamentalist. The previous comments are still there, you know? We can actually just go back and check this.

Now, what do we plan to achieve in this discussion? You accused me of perpetuating falsehoods, I showed that I'm not, now you are upset. Why? I guess it's just human to not be able to accept when you are wrong. Quite sad but that's just how it is I guess. I won't reply again, for your sake. I don't want you to hurt yourself even more. I hope you have taken some education from my information at least, and have dispelled some ignorance for you.

> I think you are wrong, you think I am wrong.

I've proven that you are objectively wrong.
maybe as a layer of indirection so nginx and varnish could be independent backends? I wasn’t entire sure of this either
I am still Far as my primary file manager and quick viewer/editor when I'm on Windows, and I've tried far2l (which is great) but for some reason when I'm on macOS my brain just switches and I'm back in Finder.
An interesting demonstration of the dangers of relying on closed-source software.
If you need a “right to compute”, use Linux. MacOS and Windows are designed to streamline the average consumer’s computing experience, with the keyword being “average”.
Yeah, that really worked out when they lied about the effectiveness of masks in reducing the spread of respiratory illness in the spring of 2020.
Come on this is so stereotypically developer. It's a fun premise and all they had to do was implement it on a test page and screenshot the before/after. Something, ANYTHING to demonstrate visually the end result. Sigh.
For $25M, you'd think they could provide a decent sales pitch, and a few more photos.
X Fights 'Genshin Impact' Subpoena, Defends Alleged Leakers' "Anonymous Speech"
Yes. My job involves pulling a ton of data off Redshift into Parquet files, and then working with them using DuckDB (sooo much faster — DuckDB is parallelized, vectorized and just plain fast on Parquet datasets)
Even an unlimited QA budget won't catch everything. Though it is unflattering to have two major issues like this occur so close together.
Stanford campus is, I would say, hostile to cars. Stanford is a very big place as far as university campuses go and besides a loop road around the edges there are only a few roads that go to the inside and a lot of it you simply can't get to by car. You need to park and walk or bike. If you do choose to walk, don't let your guard down because while the cars are absent, the bikes are still a (slightly less lethal) menace.
Echo the same, My personal conspiracy is these category of articles are election propaganda.
My comment will seem a bit rude, but do all of you guys just have idiots for inlaws? My parents are in their 70s now and are by no stretch of the imagination technical in any way, yet I've literally never had to help untangle them like I see people talk about here constantly. Hell, my 97 year old grandpa uses his ancient android phone just fine, what on earth are people doing out there?
The original reasons for having the system files scattered about have not applied for a long time; but there was no harm in sticking with the accepted convention, and it was a good place to stick the bikeshed debaters while others got on with more substantial, real work.

History rhymes, when it doesn't repeat: Kernel modules once had an important purpose of saving memory by not loading code to support hardware you didn't have. That's not so important now, so who cares about that whole mechanism anymore?
I'm a bit disappointed at the removal of SSE from core HTMX, mostly as I see SSE as being much more in-line with standard hypertext, and there does need to be some kind of server-push-long-polling-thingy.

Not very disappointed, but I do wonder why it doesn't ship with SSE as standard.
They require apps to be notarised, so my guess is that this app store from another store would not be, and as such, would not execute on the iPhone.
I see it them taking a risk and while I thought it was a silly idea, I applaud them for trying. It's hard to imagine Google taking a risk like this, which is the crux of this post and these threads.
The fact that they have the ability to roll this out to a handful of users, all of whose devices stopped working, and to detect that and not proceed with the rollout is considered success, by them.
I got interested in vector search around 2004, read a lot of papers about vector search algorithms and was not really impressed with the tradeoffs involved (it's not the clear win that B-Trees are for 1-d indexing) and wound up using full scans unless I had sparse vectors.

When Pinecone came out and started blogging heavily it seemed that they'd read the same papers I did but came to the conclusion the glass was half full instead of half empty. I could have missed it but I haven't see anything in the literature that's a huge improvement over 20 year old algos.

Circa 2014 I worked on a search engine for patents and related literature that made vectors for 20 million + documents and they decided to use full scan and (i) it performed so well (in terms of accuracy) that we sold a license to the USPTO on day two after we put up the demo, and (ii) there were a lot of things about it that were slow like the build system, index building and model training but vector search wasn't one of them.

My YOShInOn RSS reader has about a million documents in 2024 and it uses vectors for classification and clustering. Using vectors for search is a clear extension and I've done some prototyping of searches with full-scan and performance is "good enough" (full scan has 'mechanical sympathy'.) I'd probably stuff my vectors into FAISS if I wanted to do anything more and forget about it.

Sending my vectors to some cloud service so they can pay AWS prices to store them? That's for the birds. I respect Pinecone for being early to the party but I think those who jumped in in 2022 were laggards.
Why bother to thaw out a turkey, just throw it in the oven. It couldn't possibly matter how quickly the temperature changes.
The difference is only one of time.

At any given _instant_ in time there is a steady state where there is queue of people willing to buy and a queue of people willing to sell time.

There are no market makers in the job market. What OP says is true
Root access to my Pinball machine and fixing the hiss
Not even per release, which could've been justified by what they said about automated and manual reviews of apps submitted to _third party marketplaces_.
That device is online thing ain't true because there's my dish that got bad and thousands of individually bought ones in Ukraine getting damaged.

Talk to your Telecoms regulator and give your phone number. You've probably hit a computer says no situation.
If users didn't care about alternative app stores, then why does Apple ban them?
I wasn't laying the blame solely on the CEO, I was responding to a comment about her being a vicar and what might be the cause of that incongruity

But I also wouldn't give her the wiggle room to state that she inherited it. The forensic accountants were called in under her watch and after they sounded the alarm, she was the one to sack them. She also lied about remote access to the system, a fact which would have quashed every conviction. I can't think of anyone more responsible than her
That and the fact that modern cameras add all kind of enhancements which may look good to amateurs but bother me a lot.

I do enjoy being able to take phone snapshots anytime I don't have my large camera with me but when I lug the camera I think in different ways.
Cornell donor demands president step down, citing 'toxic' diversity policies
i didn't really look much at unpoly (which I admire), htmx is focused on generalizing hypermedia controls rather than competing w/ other libraries on features

I did try to make more things configurable, for example the response code handling is now declarative rather than requiring you to hook into an event & you can turn off attribute inheritance if you don't like that

conceptually the library didn't change at all
No chance of letting them (your family) decide for themselves?
I think you’re missing the point.

We shouldn’t look at every action taken by someone we disagree with and think: “let’s do the opposite”

Super relevant in the US today where both sides are unwilling to appreciate anything positive done by the other.
Don't run Google's Android. I've been on Lineage OS for years now and it's awesomely stable.
ZIP is a real simple format under the hood.

There are zip-aware grep tools that you could investigate if they fit your workflows.

There's also nothing stopping you from storing the contents of zips as unzipped directories and rezip when/as necessary. (I wrote a tool called musdex years ago to automate that flow in the context of source control: source control the contents of something like .docx expanded into a full directory structure, but preserve the ability to "double click the Word file to edit".)

As a wrapper of "collections of deeply related files, some which may be text and some may be binary", ZIP is one of the better choices that we have (compare to TAR or MIME envelopes, for instance).
It's not that insert_all is encouraging anything wrong; it's that the normal way to use ActiveRecord does. insert_all is the right way to do things performance-wise, so you'd want to use it when possible, but if you were using other features of the framework like callbacks/validations for create/update, then you can't. The happy-path of an ORM tends to push you in a direction where bad performance all over the place is the default, and it does it in a way where if you didn't have properly calibrated performance expectations, you might think that the bottleneck is because IO is slow, but actually it could easily handle 10x the workload with better access patterns.
> Jobs was in the business of selling computers that looked (and worked) good to people who would otherwise hate computers. Dealing with geeks was always (and still is) a necessary evil, so he'd have enough of an ecosystem to sell to "normies".

NeXT contradicts that.

Though, I like how you mention he always wanted to be a "better Sony." That's definitely on point.
Full overhauls on the set of engines would cost more than the aircraft....

(in fairness, the engines have plenty of cycles left but nobody wants A380s except for spares any more...)
The space needed for landfills is negligible. Any country with room for farming has room for landfills.
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I have used a pixel 4a and pixel 6a for many years now and haven't had any of these issues. It sounds like potentially had defective hardware, and instead of getting it repaired you just lived with it.
So..... think of it this way:

HTML was built for the "internet", but works just as well for plain local files (eg: file:///one.html => file:///two.html).

JS was added to HTML, and much gnashing of teeth ensued.

JS (minified), HTML (generated), CSS (compiled), Flash, Java Applets, etc... move away from the "original" internet (Hyper-Text DOCUMENTS) into Web2.0 "Apps" and Web3.0 "Walled Gardens".

What if instead of shipping `my_application.html`, we could ship `my_application.exe`, and "break free" of needing the UI's being written in HTML, JS, CSS, etc.

What some of this WASM/WASI/etc... seems to be trending towards is building up enough of a foundation amongst interoperable _CLIENTS_ that have ZERO dependency on HTML, JS, CSS, and instead you get much closer to:

curl 'https://example.com/one.html'
=> curl 'wasm://example.com/one.app'

...to the extent that "the internet" has hit a complexity wall of what's possible (manageable, maintainable) with HTML+JS+CSS, the people tackling WASM seem to be saying:

Forget trying to coerce a buggy browser into running my `for ...` loops (and rendering my graphics) correctly, and you can't realistically decompile or hand-edit the HTML+JS+CSS for 99.9% of the stuff your browser is rendering... how can we _skip_ the HTML,JS,CSS and get directly at "the VM" and run what we actually want.

Secondarily (but importantly, and interestingly): How can we make 'webapp.wasm.exe' support everything that a "native" app would need (eg: GL, GPU, Bluetooth, Local Files, USB devices, Camera, Sensors, etc...)

There's likely mega-trillions (no exaggeration!) of effort that's been poured into tooling for "the internet", what is the unifying effort/effect that would unlock that for local app development? How can I get `msword.exe` to run "on the internet" for free? How can I get `make clean ; make install ; make wasm` working for any internet connected client?

As a thought experiment, we're almost there! We could technically have `win95.img + bochs86vm.wasm + autorun.inf + msword.exe` wrapped in a "browser evaluator" that could conceivably run `msword.exe` transparently to the user, but still allow you to use `msword.exe` indistinguishably from the "original" native app (bridging the local filesystem, exposing virtual devices, etc).

See also https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death... ... circa a decade(!) ago!
A law firm hired by Cruise finds that the problem was crappy internet and not that Cruise was trying to minimize damage to them?

How convenient. It might be more interesting if a reputable independent party did this.
With a 500 Mb HD? How is that even possible (at the time)?

But ye, of course I am exaggerating. Surely there were maybe a handful of persons.
How do they segregate these sophisticated hackers from regular society? I suppose they must live in some kind of designed space, where they can keep with technological developments and global information.
apparently I can't edit my own comment now

but for context the unreliability was always on the official Google flagship device using the update pushed to me OTA

no betas, no rooting, nothing

plain Google official Android on the official flagship device

and it sucked, hard, for multiple different devices over years

(and my family suffer the same pain on their devices too)
Why cherry pick a single bad thing from over 60 years ago? Is that supposed to discredit all actions by the country? One could find just as many examples, if not more, of the US destroying the ecosystem in that same time period.

The US is held back by corporations that demand ever increasing profits and by political parties that roadblock each other such that it cannot focus any substantial effort on meaningful initiatives for change.
IIRC it was considered scope creep.
Plenty of them are still there and they get a nice boost from the fifth column as well.
What I find really interesting is the huge growth in stationary storage - I believe it's the fastest growing segment.
Before reading, iron dissolving due to higher reactivity (including bacterial action) because temperatures are higher

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After reading:

> "Scientists who have studied these rusting rivers agree that the ultimate cause is climate change. Kobuk Valley National Park has warmed by 2.4 degrees Celsius (4.32 degrees Fahrenheit) since 2006 and could get another 10.2 degrees C hotter by 2100, a greater increase than projected for any other national park. The heat may already have begun to thaw 40 percent of the park's permafrost"

> "Some researchers think acid from minerals is leaching iron out of bedrock that has been exposed to water for the first time in millennia. Others think bacteria are mobilizing iron from the soil in thawing wetlands."

___

Other thoughts: iron bearing silicates often contain gold. New gold rush?

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Things like this have surely happened before but not while there were so many people around

Extinctions have happened before too, but that doesn't make them good
Thanks for sharing. I often wondered why we didn’t just create a subset of POSIX for the web and wasm, this seems to answer my questions.
There is research on humans showing that we can perceive at 500 Hz. There are devices that try to simulate a color by modulating a single LED (no color filter) and they don’t work on humans until you go past around 1 kHz.

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep07861
Imagine when this starts happening to cars
Ten years ago conservatives would point out failures of DEI, like how it took Ithaca five years to hire a police chief with numerous misadventures such as finding the one Asian guy who couldn't pass standardized tests.

Today they just say "DEI" and expect you to get red in the face like they've been "animalized" in the sense of

https://www.amazon.com/Otaku-Database-Animals-Hiroki-Azuma/d...
One thing I'm very interested in, as a grad student who has to consume a huge number of PDFs, is whether there are good tools for converting existing PDFs to portable EPUBs or HTML documents.

If I use, for instance, CloudConvert [1], I generally get a document that gets flowing text roughly right, but still interrupts the text with page numbers and book titles (that were originally at the top of each page) and includes additional bizarre line breaks, etc.

Every so often I wonder if this is an LLM problem ("please reformat the following text to...") but I think that one shouldn't reach for an LLM for these kinds of things.

1. https://cloudconvert.com/pdf-to-epub
I just memorize it. Write it on a small sticky and hid it somewhere for a period of time until the master is memorized.. then destroy it.

you could write it on that flame paper they use in spy novels.. now that would be cool also. Does Amazon carry that?
Did you see all of the links below the test "here’s how the page looks with various settings"?

It's admittedly a pretty trivial page to test it on, but it works.
"Consistently shows disregards for costs, performance and practicality to deliver predictable increases in the team size, budget and number of direct reports"
Currently using Digital Ocean, but would like to hear why that could be a bad idea.
Show HN: Hacking Cgroups to Control Resources of Programs
- Built a small tool with go that allows you to limit the CPU and RAM usage of applications on a Linux machine.
- Small article I wrote on how it works - https://medium.com/@rohanjamadagni/hacking-cgroups-linux-res...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03790...