skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do something very similar in KDE with a whole bunch of virtual desktops. Though I do use a taskbar because I like the overview of it but I don't actually use it to switch tasks :)

I always thought Gnome was not very useful for this because workspaces are created on the fly whereas I want to have them spatially oriented in a fixed grid that persists on every boot with the right application tiles in them. And I have hotkeys mapped to each one directly on the numpad (without key combos, I hate those). So my numpad is not a numpad at all but a workspace switcher :P

The problem with the gnome design philosophy is that it only works for you if you agree with them on everything. If you're pretty opinionated yourself (as I am and it sounds like you are too), opinionated software only works well if you have the exact same opinions as its creators. With something as complex as a DE this will run into many mismatches quickly. This is why configurable software is so great if you're not willing to compromise on how you want things.
Children choosing to be inside more (games, social media, internet), parents keeping children inside more (24hr news full of horror stories), suburbs too far from anywhere so parents need to drive children everywhere they want to go, not letting them go near the roads because the roads are thought to be too dangerous, decline in availability of parks, malls, 'third places' for children to go outside the home other than school, those would also show up as reduction in deaths by road accidents and yet could be consistent with "oh no my kids couldn't possible cross the street without being immediately killed!" being true.
Less demand with same supply = lower prices. The owners either work with the lower prices or if they're so low that it makes sense to replace the office with something else that'd have better returns then that will happen. Pretty simple really.
I've lived most of my life in big cities. Unless you live in Vancouver, and even then only certain parts of such cities, hiking let alone hunting is a weekend thing at best. When I am now I have a couple guys who think it completely normal to take a few ducks on a Thursday morning before coming to work for 8am.
Yes, at multiple levels. You can do a heterogeneous refinement that takes the structures and solves for n number of averages, trying to use something like PCA to maximize the distances between the averages. Particles get sorted into the average they contribute most constructively to. That works well for compositional heterogeneity or large conformational differences.

For minor differences, there's something called the guassian mixture model (lots of software packages have similar, but GMM is EMAN2's version).

https://blake.bcm.edu/emanwiki/EMAN2/e2gmm

What you can get out of the other end is a volume series, that shows reconstructed 3D volumes along various axes of conformational variability. This quickly turns into a multi-dimensional problem, but it has been very successful in, for instance, seeing all the different states of an active ribosome.
That came to the US like 15 years ago and there are still cashiers and nonself checkouts
The Survival of the Friendliest?
It is basically a one time investment in shoring up the tax base. Not doing so may mean that residents are asked up to pick up more of the tax slack to fill budget holes.
While non-cannon (with the writing of the prequels), from The Dune Encyclopedia ...

> The earliest history of the native inhabitants of Arrakis indicates that they were the sole remnant of a people known as the Zensunni Wanderers, originally followers of a "prophet" named Maometh, circa 1381 E.G. The Fremen broke away from the main sect to establish their own religion based on an ultraconservative notion of living life according to "the ways of the fathers." Given the Fremen's roots in such a religion and the particularly life- threatening environment that Arrakis afforded them, the Fremen developed a set of cultural institutions unique in their perfect balance between the philosophical world view demanded by imposed Fremen faith and the harsh reality imposed by Arrakis's nature. These institutions remained stable for thousands of years and are significantly changed by only two events. The first was the arrival of Pardot Kynes as the first planetologist of Arrakis. The second was the transfer of the governance of Arrakis from the House Harkonnen to House Atreides in 10190 and the subsequent emergence of Paul Atreides as Paul Maud'Dib. Kynes expanded the cultures of the Fremen to include the hope for a second flowering of Arrakis; Paul Maud'Dib forever changed that culture, thus, for all intents, the ancient culture of the Fremen ceased with his rise to power.

And an example from first page of the section on Fremen Language: https://i.imgur.com/jiRQNVv.png and a bit from the history of the language: https://i.imgur.com/QQq5gfO.png
Because ultimately the collapse of value, privately or publicly held, results in the collapse of the system that supports your value exchange system. This is overly broad, but im just trying to point out we are a part of a deeply interconnected system -- it's not just me-capitalism.

But I understand the counter -- why should the government fund private market screwups? And the terrible answer is -- because we suffer the consequences regardless.

There is a third question though which is: with the collapse of both retail, mutli-family, and office CRE, what in the world is the future of cities?
> freetube

I don't know about the other apps/games, but I use freetube all the time on my KDE5/Nvidia/Wayland system and have never had an issue with it. Which distro/gpu/driver version are you on?
Without diving in too deeply, it looks like they use a package called `gpxgo` [1], which has some code for calculating the moving distance of a given GPX file [2].

[1] https://github.com/tkrajina/gpxgo

[2] https://github.com/tkrajina/gpxgo/blob/5e7c336e94dac3583a07c...
A few of the heavier discussions from 2 months ago, when he passed away:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858012 (403 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38871086 (61 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38994457 (61 comments)

No shortage of other discussions as well since then:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Row Zero supports Python pandas, which handles multi-dimensional data. So you can process your data with Pandas in the code window and then view "2d slices" of that data in the spreadsheet UI. Feel free to message me at breck at rowzero.io if you'd like to do a session together to get you started.
I have seen this video. The complexity of life is mind blowing. Even more so the fact that we know anything about it.
Florida Avocados I assume? Those things are massive but a little more bland than Hass.

https://specialtyproduce.com/produce/Florida_Avocados_365.ph...
Well at least Cloudflare will not charge me for this situation.
The New York Times October 7 Exposé
- we can use magnetic pulses to temporarily alter the conciousness of part of the brain, create the feeling of a "presence of God" etc. Note: I am not say there is or isn't a god(s). Just that this is how some people interpret the experience.

The LLM thing sounds a bit off though. I think whatever article you read on this may have misinterpreted it.
Humanoid robot startup Figure AI valued $2.6B, Bezos, OpenAI, NVDA join funding
This is what happened to me basically, I was so happy I found a cheap provider, I got locked out I didn't even know what to do to unban my account. I will keep using my old provider ...
Because it was based on politics and not reality.
I'm talking about the ability of people to concentrate soft power with capital. At least with federal programs there's _some_ ability for the average person to influence how the program is run, even if it's abstracted through Congress and elections.

The alternative is neo-feudalism.
If you go to the settings, there should be a notification category, which then contains another menu "App Notifications" where you can see all the apps that are allowed to receive notifications, but I don't know if this will stop google play services to receive these identifiers.

I use GrapheneOS, so I don't have any google play services running, but for the apps where I need notifications I use https://unifiedpush.org/ (only a few apps implement it) and I host my own https://ntfy.sh server.
I know it's cliché to make Terminator jokes about robot startups, but holy crap do those things look like Terminators!
..but no good endings!
Google has the benefit of having all of Google drive around it

But even then, the benchmark is Excel. Nearly every Excel user is saving files to disk. Companies like to own data in a shared drive on a network. Maybe making networked drives better is another problem that needs solving, but I don't think spreadsheet applications should disregard that and just hope everyone moves to online. At a minimum you should give users a choice (which Excel/Office does, by the way)

And we still haven't talked about navigating the UI with the keyboard. Limiting power users to online-only is like telling vim users they have to use Notepad++. Sure, they can do everything they could in vim, but it's overall objectively worse
Alright then keep your secrets
So the investors are being sued by the company they own shares in.

In a sense, then, the investors are suing themselves.
It didn't require one for me. There was a Google login box but I closed it and the video played fine. Maybe a regional thing?
In addition to what JumpCrisscross said, you seem to assume that, if the UN passed a resolution for an immediate ceasefire, that fire would actually cease. I see absolutely no reason for that assumption.
People who make commercial decisions based on the support and development a language receives do indeed care. If you are making decisions with commercial or practical relevance you should care and not caring is negligence if you decide to use the product. Many people got burnt by the abandonment of Elm development (and yes, it has essentially been abandoned despite what the Elm community will say).
What are EIPs?

If you are referring to the eth stuff, everything to do with crypto is banned on hetzner
>In ideal situations, I think almost everyone would prefer owning over renting.

I don't think that's true at all especially for people earlier in life/career. Even had I had more money in a brokerage account, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have made a home purchase (whether single family house or condo) before I did. And I don't think that's all that unusual for people 10 years out of school or so.

Yes, I was at a point when I could afford it but I was also mentally ready to put down some more roots.
How can you give hard guarantees that on Windows, Mac, Linux with the OS and/or libc provided locks?
Wait until generative "AI" gets better and can convincingly do videos from scratch. You ain't seen nothing yet.

Kinda looking forward to see the internet die, so AI efforts will plateau due to corrupted training data. It will live on in zombie form until we stumble into a nuclear war, at least.
> and it's missing a lot without it

Could you clarify what it is missing exactly? Genuinely curious as I read the books before watching the movie and I didn't really feel like the movie was missing anything?

> The book is meant to be about _our future_ and the fact that Muslims still exist and are important in the future isn't just like "flavor", it was an innovative idea at the time in science fiction and still is.

Respectfully I think this is reading too deep into it. Herbert borrowed Arabic words and concepts to build a hardy middle-eastern-adjacent culture, it's hardly the focus of the book.
Keeping secrets out of public repositories
All our backend engineers were on the S3 filesystem team.

I'm Grant Slatton, founding engineer at Row Zero, and before this I designed and led the team that built S3's new filesystem, ShardStore (check out this paper https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~bornholt/papers/shardstore-sosp21...). Our other Row Zero backend engineers (Breck, Erich, Greg) were all on the team.

Our frontend guy is ex-Airtable.
No.

This is what the bargaining stage of grief looks like.

We - all of us - want to believe that life can continue on as it has if we just take the right special steps in our kitchen.

In fact, the rituals of modern consumers straining to be “sustainable” is reminiscent of a rain dance - and about as effective.
Agreed + I host my own ntfy.sh server for unifiedpush for matrix notifications

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39552363
Sorry what? Care to elaborate please?
More of a dystopian nightmare. Rather than seeing an individual having agency to make decisions and face consequences … we may be moving to a model of a human as nothing more than a fancy automaton. Ohh so Mr Jim is showing addictive traits and not performing task X well. No problem let’s sap his brain and get him fixed up.

Super excited for any breakthroughs with Dementia … but fixing addiction, obesity… or even paranoid wrong think with ultrasounds is scary and perhaps harks back to the era of lobotomies.
Remember that these days “waxed” paper is actually PFAS.
Learning about ZFS and efficiency on my new ARM64 NAS
Back when this post was written, I would have agreed with you. But Mara's book makes a good case for this:

https://marabos.nl/atomics/memory-ordering.html#common-misco...

More importantly, when reading code, SeqCst basically tells the reader:
"this operation depends on the total order of every single SeqCst operation
in the program," which is an incredibly far-reaching claim. The same code
would likely be easier to review and verify if it used weaker memory ordering
instead, if possible...

It is advisable to see SeqCst as a warning sign.
Apple's New Messaging Protocol Raises the Bar for Post-Quantum Security
I'd love to see a generative AI integration (hopefully something far better than Google's attempt). I tried to figure out how to write a python function and quickly got lost. Seems promising though.
"Change the date to March 1, 2024"
> freetube

I have it and works fine on plasma6/wayland.
you're saying that Subgrid is an alternative to Tailwind? Or, you can't use Subgrid as well as Tailwind?
If you mean "rewrite from scratch", believe me, it is the worst thing you can do. I speak from experience, it is tempting but the few times I have done that, a few months later as I get burnt, I could only think of how an idiot who never learn I was.

Legacy code is like that because it went through many bugfixes and addressing weird requirements. Start over and you lose all that history, and it is bound to repeat itself. That weird feature that makes no sense, as it turns out, makes a lot of sense for some users, and that why it has been implemented in the first place. And customers don't care about your new architecture and fancy languages, they want their feature back, otherwise they won't pay.

Another way to look at it is when you asked to maintain a legacy code base, that's because that's software that has been in use for a long time. If it was that bad, it would have been dropped long ago, or maybe even cancelled before it got any use. Respect software that is used in production, many don't reach that stage.

Of course there are exceptions to that rule, but the general idea about rewriting from scratch is: "no" means "no", "maybe" means "no", and "yes" means "maybe".
VBA macros were my route from teenager in a warehouse to a 20+ year career in software development
This is great! Am a fan of this kind of focused, self hosted application.

Clean UI, too. Interested to hear your thoughts on HTMX when you get around to eval-ing it
It's a guided, but automated process. EMAN2 (the software used/partially written by the author), for instance, has a convolutional neural network particle picker. So you can pick a few particles by hand, pick some noise, pick some bad particles, train a neural network, and then inference that network to pick the remaining particles throughout the tomogram.

There are a variety of other methods too. There is simple 6 dimensional real-space cross correlation. You can place points by hand, or according to a model. For instance, if you are trying to identify viral spike proteins, and the virus is spherical, and the spike proteins are always on the surface of the sphere, you have a great starting point. So you can say "place points at n interval along the surface of this sphere" and then oversample the spherical surface. You then take a reference volume (can be generated a number of ways), and check each point you placed to see how well it matches the reference volume. You can allow for rotations and translations of the reference volume at each point, and if you find points that are too close together, you can merge them automatically.

If you have a high contrast, relatively static protein (such as a ribosome), you can do 2D template matching in the tomogram, where you use a central slice (or maybe a collapsed projection) to do cross correlation in 3 dimensions instead of six (X translation, Y, translation, Z rotation). Or you can beef that up with more neural network/YOLO type stuff.

EDIT: To expand on this, continuous density like membranes can be roughly modeled just with techniques like thresholding, watershedding, etc. There are some neural nets such as Membrain [0] and tomoseg [1] (also by the author of this paper), but membranes certainly are trickier. I typically segment membranes by hand (and do so rarely).

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016926072...

[1] https://blake.bcm.edu/emanwiki/EMAN2/Programs/tomoseg
Coke used to come in glass bottles that were returned to the store and reused. Consumers didn't change that, the Coca-Cola company changed that.
Good luck. NSA loves C.
I'm not sure if it has anything to do with KDE itself or if it's Kubuntu's fault but one small annoyance I've dealt with is how my wacom drawing tablet is mapped to the screen space. I've had to manually map it so that the tablet touch space isn't spread across three monitors and I've also had this setting get reset. I'm really excited to see more support for multiple monitors coming down the pipe. Do you know anything about the tablet issue or is this something I just need to do some more research on?
Yeah -- it's sort of like those people who complain about the plastic lining on compostable coffee cups making them pointless.

Like if a 100% plastic and a 1% plastic end up in a landfill or elsewhere the 1% coffee cup is just going to two orders of magnitude less damage than the pure plastic one, we can't let perfect be the enemy of good but OP does have a point about the oil lobby push but that is a separate but related issue.
>raise insurance requirements on enormous SUVs

Yep. This is enormously unpopular among suburbanites but America does too much to subsidize dangerous SUVs. Insurance should be by pound
like Rogue

that was the literal point of my blog post. (I am the OA)

back in the 70s/80s there was Rogue. and then there were a dozen or so follow-on games all clearly like Rogue

we then, at that time, called them Rogue-likes. made sense! we all knew exactly what we were talking about then. nothing has changed with either the word "Rogue" or the word "like" since.

To spell it out more concretely... Here is the game Rogue:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(video_game)

is some game like that? yes/no. tho I gave 6 distinct exemplar cases of the shades of gray nuances involved, from black to white, using oranges as an example.

oh and "the Berlin thing" is irrelevant, it has no more Authority than any rando hipster on the street spouting off a quote from cult propaganda. Rogue and like each have concrete meaningsz unchanged.

To be more clear, for the kids: both permadeath and procgen are game design features independent from Rogue-likes. Permadeath was common in standup arcade games and in home video game cartridge games of all genres, for a decade plus -- platforms where you could NOT save and restore. I also played plenty of procgen games that had nothing to do with dungeons or Terminals or ASCII.
We're a spreadsheet-first UI. If you're familiar with the Microsoft suite, we're more like a hosted Excel plus Power Query, but way easier to use.
Those youngins. They don't understand the value of something I devoted 40 years of my life to.
Silence works when already almost no one knows about it. It's why I can delete a HackerNews comment that I regret posting 10 minutes after the fact, and expect to face no pragmatic repercussions - the impression was already low. Sam Altman was already bound to be a PR nightmare as an oust of control for the CEO of the biggest-growing company in history, a covert operation to keep it from the collective conscious would not have worked. There's levels to this approach.

Roko's Basilisk, a post on a public forum that only a few dozen people saw before Eliezer commented on it, could've gotten away with it. It's a shame it didn't try.
Steam on Linux Should Stop Crashing If No OpenGL Drivers Are Found
I think the only "accurate" adaptation would have been a Ken Burns style documentary of mostly someone reading out Encyclopedia Galactica articles, personal letters, and long slow pans of paintings of events because any "footage" was lost. There's probably an audience for that. It's probably a smaller niche audience than the adaptation we are getting.
Great to see Dr. Rezai getting his due. One of the pioneers of neuromodulation; he's been involved in deep brain stimulation since the early days.
Hacking Dreams Could Help People Heal
Maybe a smaller electric chainsaw? With far less power and therefore reduced bucking/etc? 100% get what you're saying. Chainsaws are risky use items for skilled adults.
> But if you’re going to build an app for professional content creators, it definitely helps to be using the framework that powers Autodesk Maya and many other tools that they’re already familiar with. A lot of non-obvious product needs on the framework level for this niche have already been solved.

There are tons of professional and highly successful apps for content creators that use custom made (and often shitty/mediocre) GUI frameworks. Whatever difference using Qt makes, it's negligible. Actual features are what sell the product.
Most U.S. Children Now Use Headphones Regularly. Is Their Hearing at Risk?
10% of Anguilla's GDP is .ai domain fees (2023)
The brand-new playgrounds around here are not as obviously dangerous as the bad old days, but they're significantly more "dangerous" than ones from even ten years ago. I think a tide is changing, and there's more research into actual danger and what can be done to reduce serious risks (the "solid foam rubber" flooring you see is much much safer than even significantly deep sand, for example).
Here are a couple papers related to this topic, but the primary focus has been on showing that LLM embeddings correlate with neural activity better than alternatives. But given one has neural recordings, one could train a model to take them as input and output what was heard. How well that would work, I think, is an open question.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.27.546708v1
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.11.499562v3
I have often carried an older pocket camera (A Panasonic/Lumix with 8X optical zoom and 16 megapix) on trips and in crowded areas. They are smaller than most phones (which by the way, are very attractive theft targets) albeit fatter, and you get the nice optical zoom.

Like wallets, I sometimes carry a spare junk camera as a decoy. I haven't gone so far as putting the good cameras in a beat-up backpack or beer cooler :-)

I actually got a pet stroller for mammoth sessions on flat land like Yosemite Valley floor but haven't deployed it yet. Fits three camera cases. Your stroller may vary.

I can't figure a way to hide airtags except maybe in a backpack. In a little film can holder? SD card holder? Dummy spare battery? You tell me!

Good luck, photographers.