skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a perfect world some of the development could happen in nix-community repos which are usually a bit more topic specific. The packages and modules would "move up" to nixpkgs on tag releases. This is how I initially thought the repos work anyway, but now I see that most of them just live as overlays and never quite sync up with the main repo.
> I haven't seen it proven that humans are absolutely incapable of learning certain languages.

I cited Moro who showed it in a series of experiments.

> they are useful many things

The fact that they are much more general than humans makes them not restrictive enough to be models of the human language faculty.
Is this actually widely implemented in WiFi clients and APs? I have never seen the "Enhanced open" indication in Android.
KDE Plasma 6.0 Ready for Release Next Week, Plasma 6.1 Seeing Early Feature Work
OK, fair.
In the tokenization example for '"Mississippilessly", why is 'si' not part of the combined column? It appears twice in the text. My speculation is that it got collapsed out with 'iss' (a longer token). Is that right?
The kind of application we test is probably more complex than most as we're a product company supporting a huge number of integrations and specifications.

You're dismissing my claim by basically saying I am naive. Which is not an honest argument as you know absolutely nothing about me (and I don't want to tell you more than I did here).

About changing requirements: what does that have to do with testing at all? If requirements change, you basically discard the tests for the old behaviour and start over...

I would say that the testing we do is very close to formal verification because it's close to being comprehensive - though no, we do not use methods normally classified as such. I tried to but the benefit we would get over our current approach would be negligible.

By the way, I do a lot of UI testing, and dare I say it: yes, it's easy too.

We use this sort of thing if you're curious: https://gebish.org/manual/current/#pages

Again, if you find a real example of something you find hard to test, let me know so I can evaluate it against my own situation.
At home it's almost entirely Linux (usually Arch btw), unless you count the occassional Windows VM.

I'm using KDE for a desktop, funnily enough customised heavily to look like Windows 9x.

I usually run something lighter like WindowMaker or IceWM though, but need Wayland for Waydroid atm, so KDE gives me a pretty nice Wayland experience out of the box.

Did I mention I run Arch?
It is definitely wrong, there’s no way a hard drive that can write a TB in, say, 4 hours would consume anything close to 250 watts.
On top of that, it failed to copy most of the features of macs that make them worth using.
I really wish NHS was as good in practice as people praise it online. Even seeing a GP is now a fight with the system.
> Qt which was non free

It was GPL licenced. If you call that "non-free" that's downright Orwellian.
I mean, yeah?

These are comment sections, where people are responding to a force they have little power over, as it puts together an unpopular position.

The people who enjoy RTO wont even be in these threads, they are getting what they want. Why actively spend time in a thread to engage with someone who has no impact on their glowing future to come?
I second this opinion. I greatly prefer Windows like desktops. I never liked the Mac UI and I used the very first one back in the 80s. It was OK with that tiny screen but it was out of place as soon as Apple made Macs with external large monitors.

My current preference is GNOME shell modded to move the top bar to the bottom, merged with a task bar, a rarely used Start menu, an often used Places menu, no Activities, virtual desktops activated by hotkeys and many other less visible things. That's much better than Windows, so thank you Microsoft, at least for me.
Reminds me of Steve Jobs's "Whole Earth Catalog"
The backup philosophy I have is that each “thing” is a single point of failure.

In other words, iCloud is one “thing” even if it claims itself to have multiple versions/copies/backups.

But the scary thing about this is that it might have gone undetected- silently reverting a file and it not being noticed is death-tier horrifying.
This “article” has absolutely no basis in reality.
> Since there is currently a lot of capitalism hate going around, I’ll defend why the Soviet was nasty regime.

Soviet regime is a terrible straw man to attack if you want to go against capitalism hate. Try Northern European social democracies instead.
This is crap. What happened was a change of paradigm inspired by the iPhone. Windows a few releases later followed exactly the same trends that GNOME and Unity spearheaded. Same thing with macOS.
I understood that the either the origin of the effort was based on geospatial tool management or geospatial tools are hairy enough problem to prove the value of the product.
At the level they're describing things there's a continuous stream of bits with no boundaries. This is not RAM.

Some of those bits will be used to separate logical "sectors" (which will be larger than your octets), some for error correction...

I wouldn't be surprised if the capacity in units that don't hurt your head will end up more like 120 terabytes, not 200.
There are perfectly good towns that don’t attract job opportunities because all jobs concentrate in a few areas, for no good reason. See RTO for example…
That experience jars with me, would love to know who it was.

Years ago I worked with a company that did the screens and compute for large bookmaker companies. Was in one of the client shops in London when a bomb went off.

They immediately changed the screens with the news on and I got a call from my boss stating under no circumstances should I mention a bomb went off half a mile from the shop I was in. Can't stop the revenue...
Tauri: https://tauri.app/
Most are unprofitable solutions in search of a problem already solved without LLMs.

Seems like many of the people screaming AI solutions everywhere are the same VCs and founders who have a financial stake and are teaching everyone to believe that they need it, when most industries don't need it at all.

> What I am getting at is that even though there may be a need for these solutions I cannot see where AI has a fit in any of these. Its solutions that could be done with so-called AI.

Well as soon as it is from a legal, financial, medical or transportation use-case, then trust matters much more than the technology. Professions that require a very high amount of trust (lawyers, doctors, etc) don't even fully trust LLMs and it tells us that it has little to no use-case for very serious and critical applications.

Furthermore, I don't think you will see the same VCs boarding an airplane or private jet piloted by an LLM without any human pilots.
Here in Spain they were arguably the biggest power metal band ever. Shirts with their art were very common - a tier below Maiden shirts, but putting up a respectable fight in popularity. They also filled some of the best venues - not stadiums, but the tier right below, the premium venues, which I think is a great achievement for such a niche genre.

When I was a kid I loved some of their classics like Mirror Mirror, but I wasn't as much into them as some of my entourage, as I preferred other styles of vocals. Recently however I've come to appreciate them again because Spotify suggested "Sacred Worlds" from the album Edge of Time. I love fully orchestrated metal - Metallica's S&M with the San Fran Symphonic or Nightwish's Once with the London Philarmonic - and "Sacred Worlds" is an absolute banger within this rare subgenre.
37 Years Later, Webb Telescope Discovers Star Created by 1987 Supernova
I am also doing lots of interviews, and I try to stay away from theoretical questions about SOLID, OOP , the difference between a GET and a POST, what is an inner join, or similar.

Most of the seniors I interviewed were acing questions like this (they probably answered them tens of times before), and there's no way to differentiate them, once you get perfect answers. As the author of blog post mentioned, some of them don't even listen the question till the end before reciting manual phrases about Single Responsibility.

Some people would disagree but for us there are a few factors that predict if the candidate would be a good fit:

* The ability to solve easy and medium leetcode-like challenges and explain his choices. Nothing fancy, no dynamic programming or graph theory. This tells us if the candidate knows how to write code, which in most cases is at least 50% of the job.

* His academical record. It's a good predictor, because people who actually did good in school and finished their homeworks have a good work ethic. Of course, we are not recruiting PHDs to do backend work, but people who did decently well in school are usually nice to work with. There are brilliant dropouts, of course, but they are not the norm.

* We test how opiniated the candidate is when it comes to technology by asking outrageous questions (relative to the Status Quo): Why dependency injection is bad. We like people with opinions, but we find difficult to work with "evangelists".

The rest is commentary (at least in our case).
It's just framing, imo. Yes, I need to work to survive, but I'm not going to lose sight of the plot. My boss is not my dad, I don't care about his approval or making him happy beyond the confines of my job. And if/when I get laid off, I'm not likely to take that as a reflection of self.

If anything the detachment is powerful for those of us that have been raised to be people pleasers and expect loyalty to be repaid in kind.

It's much easier to realize you're a cog, it's not personal, and like a lot of things in life the pretense and fear of failure is often a huge upfront limiter.
A 1980s car dashboard is prior art.
i built one for amazon at https://gpuprices.lol
ErsatzTV: Run your own IPTV server
My experience with tech interviews is that the number one most important thing by far is to be an leetcode master while being friendly and personable. Everything else is secondary or tertiary to the ability to regurgitate perfect hyperoptimal solutions to leetcode mediums and hards in twenty minutes.

This won’t cover every single company as there are edge cases, but it’s the most scalable approach covering a huge swathe of companies, including many of the most competitive ones.
There is some truth in this, but code which is difficult to maintain is a problem waiting to happen. There is an argument against clever code, but clearly designed and written code is an investment.
I've just checked his blacklist against the BADASN list. Less than 30 IPs of the 6862 IPs on the IPBL list are from those BADASNs. On the other hand Cogent has over 700, Amazon over 600 and Microsoft over 200.
I find that to be rational - if you believe in eternal damnation, you would want the bad people to get there fast, but keep the good people out. And if you feel this is really in *your* hands, you would push very vocally for it.
The best part will be the LLM hallucinations of things that never happened, and then it gaslighting you. ;)
Stallman on Qt, the GPL, KDE, and Gnome (2000)
Thank you so much for your work! Unfortunately the project is so often dragged in mud by some loud minority, but I absolutely love it and use it every day, and I’m sure we are more numerous than the other group.
The distinction between the registered username and display name in discord and elsewhere is a great innovation..
Cathie Wood Predicts Innovation Will Be Worth $220T by 2030
Digging around on that site for something scientific I found this: https://myluminette.com/cdn/shop/files/Light_therapy_with_bo...

Another article: https://www.sleepfoundation.org/bedroom-environment/blue-lig...:

> Strategically timed exposure to blue light can help treat several sleep disorders. Circadian rhythm disorders occur when a person’s circadian rhythms are not in alignment with their environment. Light therapy, and blue light in particular can help realign the body’s circadian rhythms and improve sleep.
Oh, I remember this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10438363
Can you though?
Yeah if your PR isn't getting the attention it needs, you probably just need to go to the discourse forum and post a request in the appropriate thread. There's one for PRs that need a review and one for PRs that have been reviewed but are pending a final check and merge by maintainers.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/prs-ready-for-review/3032

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/prs-already-reviewed/2617

IMHO there could be clearer guidance regarding this but as it is it's not terribly difficult to find and it works well enough.
Do you happen to have the source code publicly available?
I’m at the other end, I think the show suffered due to its insistence on querulous characters as a means to pathos, but was kept afloat by its wit and humor (much of it indeed “wacky”). That is of course very much a personal preference thing, but I couldn’t connect with much of the darker side of the show, even while I admired much of its execution.

As others have said though, it definitely gets better as the seasons roll on, along both the humor and drama fronts. The final season has many of the funniest and most poignant moments of the show.
We overproduce food for the human race by like 35% right now, we have a long ways to go before we hit a population issue. Regardless of all the hand-wringing certain rich people do about the birth rates in Africa. A much more pressing concern is our lack of any inclination to reasonably distribute it.
You don't see the other side because I think mostly the media is pro labor. If company says return to the office, the media is going to say no, I side with the laborer, who does not want to return to the office. That kind of decision I think shapes the reporting. I guess you could chalk it up to general media bias and issue advocacy.
> I cannot understand how it was possible to patent a "Start menu"

It isn’t, this “article” is just bad-intentioned bullshit.
The thing I keep re-reading is

> popped the breaker for the sockets causing everything to be harshly powered off. My fileserver took it badly and one drive died.

Maybe someone with more hardware knowledge could chime in, but my default assumption would be that the hard drive died either because it couldn't take another power-off/on cycle, or because the event that caused the circuit breaker to pop was harsh enough to damage it (not sure how much the computer's power supply insulates components from things like that, but intuitively, there are much more voltage-sensitive components in PCs than hard drives). While a UPS might have been effective against a surge, it would not have saved the drive from dying by power cycling.

My hypothesis is that most equipment doesn't need to be notified when on UPS, it could in fact be harmful when it causes a power cycle that turns out to be unnecessary. An orderly shutdown doesn't matter that much unless you're dealing with an app that can become internally inconsistent, such as a database. In all other scenarios, the journaling FS takes care of data integrity.

So, especially for home use, why not just let the UPS run until it's out?
That's not what a "properly industrialized nation" is, and it's an impossibly high bar.

There are always going to be bits of technology and training that seem to no longer be needed for modern products. And sometimes, some new product will need to resurrect one or more of them.

The idea that there's an "active program" to train people on literally every previous engineering practice ever created isn't feasible.
I had the same reaction?

We don't actually care at all about what happened in the two experiments per se, we care about the information provided by the experiments about future or other events.

If somehow we learned that both experiments were totally unreplicable and a product purely of that time and location with no implications for anything else ever before or since we wouldn't care about them except maybe as a historical curiosity.

Intentionally is a red herring; what matters is our expectation about what might be observed if we were to repeat the experiments again.

In that sense, there's variability in the second experiment's results due to sample size being random. So we interpret and infer based on that potential experiment we could do, not what happened to be observed at a particular moment.

I'm also confused about what this has to do with Bayesian versus non-Bayesian inference as you could approach either experiment from either paradigm, and there are different forms of Bayesianism, including nonsubjective Bayesianism.
Abstract is talking about bacterial proteins specifically rather than bacteria. Either way, to keep either stable for long periods of time you need to store them at -80C, unless you want to opt for liquid nitrogen and -200C. Not sure either is going to be a household advancement any time soon.
> No, I'm referring to DOM as Document Object Model.

This is what I was talking about: you’re talking about the DOM but describing things like layout and rendering. Yes, nobody is saying that abstractions which do less won’t be faster - that’s why things like WebGL exist! – but most of the performance issues are due to things which aren’t supported in WebGL.

If you aren’t using something slow like React you could do on the order of hundreds of thousands element creations or updates per second in the mid-2010s – checking my logs, I was seeing 600k table rows added per second on Firefox in 2015 on a 2013 iMac (updates were much faster since they didn’t have as much memory allocation), and browsers and hardware have both improved since then.

To be clear, that’s never going to catch up with WebGL for the kinds of simple things you’re focused on - displaying a rectangle which doesn’t affect its peers other than transparency is a really tuned fast path with hardware acceleration – but that’s like complaining that a semi truck isn’t as fast as a Tesla. The web is centered on documents and text layout, so the better question is which one is fast enough for the kind of work you’re doing. If you need to move rectangles around, use WebGL - that’s why it exists! - but also recognize that you’re comparing unlike tools and being surprised that they’re different.
I use it to typeset songs that my son wants to learn on the guitar. I can tailor the difficulty and add some "special" things based on what he's learning, for example customizing chords or changing the key signature.

I also used it to typeset a simple song that I arranged and played at a funeral service. I could have written it by hand, but given I was a bit anxious about the performance it helped to have an extremely readable version.

Writing lilypond source code is about the same difficulty as LaTeX. The midi output helps stomping out mistakes and it's easy to follow the source as it plays. Sheet music is pretty expressive, it's a good balance between showing what to play and how, and lilypond is about 1:1 with sheet music.

That said in lilypond you can add some kind of abstraction through both macros and typesetter settings. For example it can calculate automatically which frets and strings correspond to notes, and generate guitar tablature (fret+string notation) and sheet music from the same source. Also, instead of specifying by hand how to play each note, you can basically tell lilypond "I want the left hand to be roughly here on the fretboard" and that affects the strings it tells the player to pluck.
I'm VERY interested in using your service and would be happy to pay if it's good.

I'm never going to try if you ask for my CC up front though. Sorry.
I would say that by now most functionality is much better in Gamma than in Beta.
Also Takuma Nakata had since made his learn log about him getting into gamma:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK3HDkvkLePThFo_sp9hPuue_...
and also graphics in Gamma.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK3HDkvkLePRQpgCIb8dL9CRS...
The whole environmental movement made a mistake framing things as a moralistic struggle to “save the Earth.” Like George Carlin famously said on this subject: “the Earth will be fine. We’re fucked.

The Earth has been far warmer with higher CO2 concentrations in its past and it was fine, but there were no humans then. It’s also been in an ice age fairly recently, but there was little civilization as far as we know and far fewer humans.

Environmental concerns are selfish. They’re about protecting our civilization and our quality of life. The Earth and its ecosystem will change and adapt as usual, but that doesn’t mean we will.

The biggest dangers I see from CO2 are ocean acidification leading to the collapse of ocean ecosystems that feed us, and insane heat waves causing crop failures or even deadly temperatures. Look up “wet bulb temperature limit.” There are heat conditions under which humans die without shelter and unlike cold you can’t fix it by bundling up and using simple tech. I could see heat waves where people without A/C die.
WebRTC! in webkitgtk soon!

:/. Glad I stopped holding my breath, I would have have died several times.
100x Faster Query in Aurora Postgres with a lower random_page_cost
You can't kill the Metal -- TenaciousD
In October 2019 I made a bit that emails me every day and stores the replies in an SQLite database.

I narrate each day the following morning, and aslo store random pieces of information (story of a debugging session, opinions on books I read or movies I watch, etc.)

I have missed almost zero days since the beginning. One of the most useful feature of this system is to store things people that I meet rarely, tell me. When I meet them again, years later, I can pick up the conversation where it was. Other than that, I rarely go back to read old entries.

I sometimes wonder what use AI could make of this.
Making an exception for X might just indicate an ignorance of Y and Z and others.
That's not true. It was first released under the Qt Free Edition License, which was nonfree. Harmony was started in that time. In 1999 version 2 was released under the Q Public License, which was a free software license but not GPL-compatible. Then in 2000 version 2.2 was released under the GPL, and the Harmony endeavor ended.
This is a great overview, very comprehensive.

I personally have a system based on Guix, which is like Nix.

One important note is that doing LTO with such a setup is tricky (and I haven’t attempted it yet).

It is possible to transform existing packages to use your preferred C++ toolchain using —-with-c-toolchain, which avoids the ABI incompatibility trap, but I haven’t figured out how to create LTO-enabled static libs from system packages yet.
It just feels like a downturn to the average person. A lot of this supposed growth is the real purchasing power of the dollar dropping precipitously leading to an asset bubble. And what economic growth is real trickles down to the middle class in the form of stagnant salaries and layoffs.

Tons of jobs created: yeah, but minimum income ones that nobody wants. Middle class job creation is stagnant or negative. Inflation tamped down: yes, primarily by manipulating the CPI calculation. Real prices are still rising.
Looking at the electron documentation, it doesn’t seem nearly as beginner friendly.

It mentions this…

>this tutorial assumes you are generally familiar with Node and front-end web development basics. If you need to do some background reading before continuing

Then goes on to say you shouldn’t just know web dev and Node, but also the CLI and git, as well as installing node.js and npm.

Those are a lot of barriers to entry for a beginner who is looking for a quick win to get them to keep going.