skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linux isn't that bad
You can, if you are in the target audience. I have a monitor running at 200% scale, and the scaled screenshots do not show much difference. Scaling the browser tab to 50% does reveal it.
I think you're misunderstanding what I'm saying here, so let me be clear. I don't believe that the US government is in actual possession of alien technology. I also don't believe that we have been visited by advanced aliens capable of interstellar travel. Everything we know about what it takes to achieve interstellar travel would force us to draw the conclusion that even if there are aliens that have visited us they would remain unseen and have the technology to ensure that happens along with any evidence. Because once you've mastered the obstacles to interstellar travel the removal of the evidence of visitation is trivial in comparison.

My thing is that government reports are typical nebulous speak government reports. Even in this statement that you quoted this is specific to the AARO, and that's it. Everything that the government speaks is carefully crafted to be covered with plausible deniability. This report is more of the same it is plausibly deniable statements should irrefutable evidence to the contrary come out. Even if there was evidence that the AARO knew about they could possibly say it wasn't empirical in their judgment. A report on alien visitation should be something that they could speak an absolute certainty about and not do nebulous double speak.

Even my original statement about if they knew there was classified information in this regard they could completely say in their report and be truthful there is no empirical evidence. Because with classified information you are not allowed to disclose it. We get from the movies that people say that's classified but in actuality classified information you're not even allowed to say that it's classified because that is an acknowledgment that information on it exists. So this report does nothing to dissuade the alien visitation theorists and for people who don't believe in alien visitations view it as a big waste of money.
Node.js – v21.7.1
Hey @abelanger,

I got a few feature request for Pueue that were out of the scope as they didn't fit Pueue's vision, but seem to fit hatchet quite well (e.g. complex scheduling functionality and multi-agent support) :)

One thing I'm missing from your website however, is an actual view from how the interface looks like, what does the actual user interface look like.

Having the possibility to schedule stuff in a smart way is nice and all, but how do you *overlook* it? It's important to get a good overview of how your tasks perform.

Once I'm convinced that this is actually a useful piece of software, I would like to reference you in the Readme of Pueue as a alternative for users that need more powerful scheduling features (or multi-client support) :) Would that be ok for you?
Or he’s always been an asshole conman and we’re just seeing it because his giant ego has led him to ignore his press advisor.
@dang, the linked article appears to be close to a clickbait blogspam post trying to capitalize on Cybertruck/Tesla hate. From the title to the opening meme/image (which is all most will see) to the selective editing of the source material, it seems to have a strong negative bias.

The Electrek article simply copy/pastes a far more nuanced review which can be found here: https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/threads/basecamp-...

Based on the general low quality discussion in this comment section (clearly many didn't read the article and even fewer read the original post), Electrek did a good job of riling people up. Doesn't seem like a great Hacker News thread though.

The original post has a nicely balanced conclusion that is overall missed by 98% of the commenters:

> my overall take on the Basecamp is similar to my take on the CT in general: it’s awesome and brilliant in many ways but flawed in a few areas... the jury is still out on the Basecamp because I’m not yet convinced that the brilliant elements outweigh the areas that need improvement.
All the kids in our neighborhood are about to riot. It’s been a test of patience!
Here's a great walk through for how Git works from the bottom up: https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/

It's short, easy to understand and you'll understand HEAD.
Musical Instrument Lending Library
‘Diversity’ at many companies: different skin colors, but same line of thought, or lack thereof.
It is the former. The latter is not necessary: lots of those of us with ASD don't need anything close to an idetic memory to hold insane amounts of minutiae about some random topic or other if it happens to be the topic we're deeply interested in
There’s a lot prepper chic overpriced identity accessories flying off the shelves and on to urban assault vehicles. It’s just like Barbie toys for jabronis.
What, the podcast that is all of Elon’s best friends thinks he has a case? What a surprise!
The t400 I have is 16:10
There's a lot of rationalizing going on in this thread.

Musk didn't invent Paypal, he didn't found Tesla, he didn't design a single rocket for SpaceX (he bought a bunch of ship designs from NASA which they then reused). He puts his name on these companies and pretends to be the only thing holding these companies together. He was always like this.
It's missing that budget N64 game aesthetic of the vehicle.
I mostly agree, which is why I question their strategy of even "competing" at all. The existence of CoreML feels strictly obligatory, as if the existence of Pytorch and Tensorflow spurned FOMO from the C-suites. It's not terrible, but it's also pretty pointless when the competing libraries do more things, faster.

Users, developers, and probably Apple too would benefit from just using the prior art. I'd go as far as to argue Apple can't thread the AI needle without embracing community contributions. The field simply moves too fast to ship "AI Siri" and call it a day.

> The sheer desperation of their users wanting a device in this space is shown in the "creative" ways to mount their offerings in a rack.

Well you and I both know that nobody is doing that to beat AWS on hosting costs. It's a novelty, and the utility beyond that is restricted to the few processes that require MacOS in some arbitrary way. If we're being honest with ourselves, any muppet with a power drill and enough 1U rails can rackmount a Mac Mini.
I've been looking at Prolly Trees in-depth and they're pretty neat! They have nice properties like:

- self-balancing (probabilistically!)

- unicit (the same data in the tree results in the same tree)

- fast comparisons (they're a Merkle tree, so just comparing root hashes is enough)

The original formulation for Prolly Trees had an expected node size of the target node size, but its standard deviation was geometric. That meant there was a long tail of node sizes far beyond the target node size.

The Dolt formulation is pretty neat. Chef's kiss. It uses the current chunk size thus-far as input into a cumulative distribution function to shape the node size into a normal distribution. So now the standard deviation is under control. But now, the decision to split a node is no longer independent. It now depends on the chunk size so far, which means a decision to rebalance nodes after an insert could potentially cascade to the entire right side of the tree with decreasing probability.

But good news! This can be mitigated by increasing the target node size or by relaxing the target std dev of the node sizes. I detail the investigation here:

https://interjectedfuture.com/lab-notes/lab-note-033-cascadi...
"Themselves?"
Journalists seeking clickbait are the biggest threat to critical thought in media
Thanks for the validation.
I think you have the right take, because right now exactly zero people are smuggling iPhones out of the EU to use 3rd party app stores. These non-existent smugglings are costing Apple $0

So this is just a PR fiasco and a way for Apple to look like a comic book villain that spites both customers and governments, at no gain to itself. If this thing Apple execs apparently fear more than the Devil himself were to actually happen then OK do the calculus and ban what you think you need to ban. But doing it now is just silly.

Apple used to be a company that was famously good at managing its image, no more it seems. A slow decline into incompetency accompanied by a relentless focus on profit maximization is a classic sign that a company has obtained illegal monopoly rents in one form or another and needs to be brought to justice
It's fairly well known that Elon has been using ketamine for years. And probably quite a few other things. There've been reports from insiders about having to dry him out for important meetings.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-01-08/elon-musks...
OpenArchive – Helping eyewitnesses preserve truth to power
I can't even begin to take you seriously when you're arguing on behalf of the group who heckles their own political candidates because they believe in driver's licensing requirements.

https://youtu.be/ZITP93pqtdQ
I live in Seattle, WA. I use a MacBook professionally as a data engineer but I do not develop anything for the Mac or iOS ecosystems.
>Why do you do it?

Because I enjoy the process of making software.

>Do you see this as enshitification?

No, I see this as needing to make a trade off where the result ends up with one party gaining something and consumers losing something.

>Just need to pay the bills?

No, money is not a motivating factor.

>can't find a different job?

I have no reason to switch job, but finding a different job wouldn't be an issue.

>Think "someone else will do it if I don't?"

These companies are not masochists trying to exclusively hurt consumers. There are a lot of trade offs that happen between multiple different parties. A company is not going to be able to make the best possible product if in every single tradeoff they give priority to the consumers (you also can't make every single subgroup of consumers all happy with some things). Sure someone could execute on the tradeoff being made, but I don't need any kind of justification for me to stay at my job. I want to see all the relevant parties benefit from the existence of the product. If I disagree with a tradeoff being made I can raise that. What tradeoff to make is a hard decision that people don't always get right, sometimes they were missing available information and some information they may only be able to speculate on. In the future these tradeoffs can be reevaluated.
Well, that's a pleasant surprise, didn't expect to see this to show up on HN. I really love the photography style they feature, and it's often an inspiration for my own shooting.

My opinionated take: if you're going for architecture or ultrawide, just buy a 9mm lens and crop. My Laowa 9mm is my favorite lens by far. If you want AF, there's the new 10mm that recently came out.

Why not T/S? Correcting vignette is time intensive (unless the lens has an EXIF chip, but I don't have experience with that); image quality is not as good (I found the Laowa 15mm shift lens to just be straight up worse even when accounting for different focal length); they're heavier and take more fiddling.

Why not perspective-correct a 12mm? I found that it's impossible to compose shots well (corners end up cut off, composing the shot is difficult), and there were situations where 12mm just wasn't wide enough.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US11786805B1/en

This one refers to Wordle in the spec (which implies it's well known) and cites 5 other patents. Not knowing how Wordle works, I wouldn't speculate as to their chances of getting a patent, but NYT seems to be pursuing a copyright approach for now.
Wait, isn't the byproduct of fusion helium anyway?
They offended the victims of the Nazis (who cares if they offended the Nazis).
I've spend the last 6 months happily gaming on Standard fedora (xorg / KDE / Nvidia / Intel).
My 3070 just hums along with no significant issues. I'm not sure why I'd bother with bazzite or nobara... the default workstation install is perfectly capable.
I agree that greed plays a role in civilization, but I think your read on human history is overly simplistic in an important way.

A great deal of what has driven civilization forward are the people who are driven by curiosity. People like Archimedes, Plato, Newton, Einstein. Not to mention the millions of curious nameless folks who improved the boat, the spear, the wheel, the book. Folks like RMS without whom I doubt we'd have anything like the current open source ecosystem including Linux. These tend to be people who are not only curious, but whose sense of greed is lower than the average.

Without these folks, it's not clear to me that humanity ratchets forward in progress. If you just have greed and lust, the steady state would be something like power politics of states warring against each other with swords for thousands of years. History has gotten stuck in those states many times, and when we finally break out it's typically the curiosity-driven folks who give the greed-driven folks a reason to invest their money in something other than raising an army for yet another war of honor.
> Can you sell your warranty rights?

No

> Does this work?

No

What you are referring to is not a warranty, they are statutory rights. [1][2]

* Consumer guarantees are automatic and can't be negotiated away.
* Warranties are voluntary and are additional to consumer guarantees.

Here is the required text in Australia for goods:

# Mandatory text for goods and services supplied after 9 June 2019

The mandatory text for the supply of goods and services after 9 June 2019 is:

Our goods and services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. For major failures with the service, you are entitled:

to cancel your service contract with us; and
to a refund for the unused portion, or to compensation for its reduced value.

You are also entitled to choose a refund or replacement for major failures with goods.

If a failure with the goods or a service does not amount to a major failure, you are entitled to have the failure rectified in a reasonable time. If this is not done you are entitled to a refund for the goods and to cancel the contract for the service and obtain a refund of any unused portion.

You are also entitled to be compensated for any other reasonably foreseeable loss or damage from a failure in the goods or service.

[1] https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/buying-products-and-servic...
[2] https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/caca2...
Sounds to me like the players are assuming the host has information that is influencing their behavior to offer more money for a switch.
The Israeli video footage showing of Hamas rocket launch sites inside Gaza schools are faked? Ditto the phone recordings of Hamas ordering ambulances for military transport those are fake as well? Do you believe Hamas follows “laws of war”? When they fire rockets at civilian populations? Are the Hamas rocket attack videos faked? Once the other side starts to bomb your cities and kill your civilians what should they expect will happen to their cities? War is an ugly brutal contest to terrorize or kill the other side to stop resisting. We try to have rules to control war but history shows once those rules start to get violated by one side you should not expect others to stick to them.

All that said I think Israel will be responsible for lots of broken innocent civilian lives and broken infrastructure when this is all done and their best policy in Gaza will be like USA had towards Germany and Japan after WW2.
Does git not offer you what trunkbaseddevelopment offers you?
If there are more doctors they won't need to choose between working unpaid overtime or charging an overtime rate. Patient workloads could be adjusted that doctors could respond to messages during their regular work hours.
No, it is consumer law that you can not contact out of.
Yeah, and it would still be useful for queries that never appear in the URL bar (like EventSource and WebSocket, where setting an Authorization header is not something that’s exposed by the browser)
Except wordle provides positional information.
And you really think this aluminum raised frame is worth $2500?

The only reason this is compared to a roof tent is because that's the most expensive vehicle tent on the market.

However, at the end of the day we are talking about an aluminum frame and some uninsulated canvas.

A quick Google shows you can get an "elevated to roof level" rack for $1400. So this is a $1600 tent?

No matter how you slice this, it's a rip off.
Yeah but you'd power a city for a year for 100 kg of helium.
Apple Reinstates Epic's EU Developer Account
Swiss capital Bern considers legal cocaine project
A Jig for the Blues
How Quickly Do Large Language Models Learn Unexpected Skills?
So low pass filter is always mandatory? For example, in this RC car case - lets say we are sampling at 1Hz and the signal appears to be clean. But we still have to run a low pass filter of ensure the motor vibrations are removed?
I guess this is a reference to the joke, "no, what we know is that there is at least one sheep, at least one side of which is black."

Unless we disbelieve what the guy said: we do know that they have at least the concept of a tank. He didn't actually say that they had any. That would have been a conversation-ending question for me to ask him.

I don't know what those sheep statisticians would say if they hadn't seen the "black sheep" themselves and had to rely on the testimony of other people. You can't only believe what you've seen for yourself.

As for all the people downvoting that: lighten up. It's a joke. Welcome to NATO.
Unfair contract terms are illegal and carry a fine of up to $50,000,000 in Australia. [1]

[1] https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/businesses-urged-to-re...
I mean you are making money, just spending it all.
> merge conflicts: <<<<<<< HEAD is just confusing

This section in particular piques my interest. I never found this confusing, since the change in HEAD is just representative of the order of operations (in rebase, you are setting the current commits "on top" of the commit you are rebasing onto, etc). This feels like what is confusing isn't really HEAD itself, it's a fundamental understanding of the git model?

I feel like folks using git without understanding the basics of what it does is what leads people astray? If so, why isn't this part of our basic training as engineers who use git?
> Also, Apple out their foot down against carrier nonsense

This is the main point, not the "also". Apple's revolution was actually getting it in the hands of real life consumers who paid for cell phone plans. The tech was already there with blackberry, but you had to have business to afford it. Yes, the original iPhone itself was a technical marvel, but it would have been a dead fish if it wasn't for the at& t deal that came out as part of it.
There are exterminators and ant infestations
My bad. I misread the README. It's development requirements not normal user requirements.
See also https://cantaloupemusic.com/albums/1-bit-music and https://gwern.net/doc/cs/hardware/2020-troise.pdf
I’ve been an embedded security engineer for the past two decades, have worked on a dozen secure silicon projects, have broken several secure boot chains (albeit only one publicly, in 2014: https://fail0verflow.com/blog/2014/hubcap-chromecast-root-pt...). I’ve also worked on some of the early Wii modchips when I was with Team Twiizers. These days I spend time (though not as much as I’d like) in cleanrooms playing with SEMs, plasma etchers and other fun toys.

I can fairly safely say your assumptions are incorrect.
Ditto git for computer scientists:

https://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/
A conveyor belt with a button that needs to be held down for the belt to run, is a dead man's switch

A Google Drive folder which has a sharing policy set to expire in 30 days, is a dead man's switch

You don't need to be technical to use a dead man's switch.
> If Apple straight up doesn't want to do business with Epic and can even point to prior breaches and violations of terms as justification, more power to them.

This would be true, if Apple hadn't positioned themselves as gatekeeper to running software on a significant portion of the world's personal computers. If Apple wants full say over who they do business with all it has to do is allow its users to install software distributed by parties they do not do business with.
> I have never taken any of that stuff seriously

Sam, Ilya, Mira, Elon, and the rest of the founding team do.

> Look, the board could have held the line, and then died when every one of their employees jumped ship.

Wouldn't contribute towards the mission, again.

> But nobody can say OpenAI's labor owed anything to the mission.

Sure, they could leave, they're not slaves. But that's the entire problem here, and why the board attempted to fire him. He's subverting the mission by putting in the exact same $ mercenary incentives that cause the whole problem OpenAI's charter is trying to prevent.

OpenAI is founded and led by a charter that profit-focused AGI arms race will lead to dangerous outcomes for all of society. If you wanted to be greedy and max your $ just go work for Meta. Don't be surprised when it's whole axis of control tries to do things that aren't "make my money go up."
Microsoft says Russian hackers stole source code after spying on its executives
We’re not comparing high end speakers. Any microphone is gonna be able to pick up the distortion in this signal.
This is a bad argument. "He didn't actually do the work". Well duh. Lots of things are done as a team.

He was on the team at three monumental companies. You seem to believe he just got lucky. But if it happens 3 times, it's not an exception, it's a pattern.
> Why is that? The odds of being right are 50-50, so why not switch?

Couldn't you ask the opposite question: if the odds are 50-50, why switch? Keeping your initial choice is more passive than switching. If the odds of success are the same, shouldn't the choice with the least energy expenditure be preferred?
[T]the initial effort to simplify and search pays off by allowing the things around me to be simpler and minimal
Reflections on a Startup Misstep: A Decade of Perspective
Yeah I’m not saying all the different aspects have to apply in any one situation.

But he does pity them, like I said, which is pretty epic.

We probably can’t come up to Jesus’ level. Humans, I mean we aren’t that perfect.
Documents can refer to 1 line emails.

Doc review is something attorneys do all the time and 30k isn’t a crazy amount.
Yes sorry I should have linked to this: https://www.nist.gov/artificial-intelligence/artificial-inte...

> develop science-based and empirically backed guidelines and standards for AI measurement and policy, laying the foundation for AI safety across the world.
Working on the Road
PayPal's Xoom offers free remittances for stablecoin users
> window.onbeforeunload = () => "Are you sure you want to close this browser tab"

besides the fact that now all browsers just display the uninformative "Your unsaved data may be lost" rather than any custom message, this would be a perfect addition.
It feels like Microsoft had to prematurely play their hand here, and it will cost them in the long term. The whole situation is blatantly corrupt.