skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find Rivian design to look boringly conventional. I’m guessing they use the same body fabrication machines as other auto makers? Vs Tesla who build the machines in house AFAIK. If they didn’t look so much worse I would consider them.
> prevent application developers from trying to implement the XP theme in some weird, unofficial framework and create broken and inconsistent looking applications by rendering the XP style themselves

That certainly did not work, as billions of applications, including big ones, were using third party “XP-like” and “XP with some twist” skins both in Windows 9X and XP builds.

Microsoft very likely wanted to have some control over commercial skinning market (and make people making those broken things care about compatibility) — alternative themes were supposed to be available to users after being signed by Microsoft. However, you can count the number of those themes on one hand, because others' response was “providing a patched version of uxtheme.dll for each update”.

The other problem was that fashionable XP interface features like colourful side panels in Explorer and Control Panel were windowless controls made with internal layout engine, and neither was available to the public. So the only option was to re-implement those things more or less faithfully, which was done by many developers of commercial UI libraries.
Clearing just the screen without the scrollback history is pretty damn useless and in fact outright frustrating. It boggles my mind people read "clear the screen" and think "oh, surely he doesn't want to clear the scrollback buffer". You have to realize, a command for that is so close to useless it doesn't even exist as a separate operation on Windows. Over there, cls ("CLear Screen") does both and is incredibly handy. And on the incredibly rare occasions when I actively want to keep the scrollback buffer (read: like once every 2 months, tops?), I can already do that much more intuitively by scrolling down or holding Enter for 3 seconds. I don't need a separate command for it any more than I need a separate command to scroll down.
An entertaining piece of YouTube prankism covering the Pine Gap facility in Australia and the history of the US military intelligence in Australia and its relationship with law enforcement and politics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap

The narrator describes the relationship as Australia being completely subservient to the US as something unique but I think if you went to Rammstein or the Thule air base you could do much the same story.
I suppose this is why most of the big channels are very upfront about how their bread is buttered by Patreon and merch far more so than youtube adbux.
And they would have published the results of these trials even if they didn't support the company's business model, I'm sure. And they certainly wouldn't cherry-pick results.

In other words, this science is almost certainly bunk.
When you say "a lot" in this thread I honestly don't know what you mean. "So confident and yet so wrong" was admittedly prickly, but my follow up question was earnest, not a personal attack. Direct, but not snarky.

I cannot find other examples of snark or personal attacks in this thread.
We’ll definitely see more junk, but I doubt we’ll see fewer amazing things
In San Francisco, currently Indeed has ~2600 jobs for "Java", ~600 for "Typescript".
Akira Toriyama Creator of Dragon Ball Has Died
I'm confused by their methodology. If I can put a tap on the AMS=IX, that gives me access to a huge % of EU traffic regardless of wheter private or public entities own some adress space. In practice the Internet is full of these points of concentration. Whether these were more often born out of traditional network effects of peering in commercial settings or because of authocratic enforcement, the resulting surveillance and control centralization remains the same.
Words don’t have the same significations around the world. It’s not about the legal meaning in the US but about the cultural (not legal) meaning of the word from where the author comes from.

For me (not in the US), donating have a different meaning than buying. When I buy, I become a customer and it establish a business relation and the organization owe me a bunch of things (the product/the service, my customer rights …).

When I donate, it’s mainly to support a cause and I know I’m not tied to anything in return. Even if there are promised perks, the structure doesn’t owe me anything, the perk is just a mean to thank me for my donation.

Again, it’s not the legal definition from my country (or maybe, I really don’t know), it’s just what those words means culturally here.

Also, using « buy » which implies a business relationship (even an illegal one) when the project is explicitly about freeing knowledge from businesses would be pretty ironic.
It's right out of Terminator.

The voice-altering scene in Terminator 2 was a replay of the original.
I do: I find zsh is quite a bit nicer than bash for scripting and tend to write all my personal shell utilities in zsh.
> It comes off as criticism of Dragon Ball for being aimed at boys, though I understand you did not actually intend that.

You're right. It was not a criticism nor value judgement of Dragon Ball, Toriyama Akira, nor Japan.

> nitpicking

You're right. It was a semantic nitpicking of OP's claim of universal transcendence.

> A mourning thread is not the place to start arguments about technicalities.

I agree with you in principal, but HN had no qualms starting arguments about technicalities and non-technicalities when it came to other mourning threads. Recently, there was a nobel nominee where more then half the comments were criticism. Things get especially tribal and protectionist whenever Japan and Japanese pop culture is involved.
Of course, Hibernate (Java) dwarfs them all.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=S...
I doubt a single voice recording could generate speech with enough emotional depth that I'd be fooled by a fake call from my better half. Do people really have such a shallow connections to their loved ones that they wouldn't instinctively feel that something isn't right? C'mon, we humans operate with a lot of extra clues. Its not like we just STT and "read" the resulting output.
Diffusion unet has an "extended" version nowadays that applies to the resnet part as well as the cross-attention: https://github.com/cloneofsimo/lora
this is why i believe the only possible route forward for humanity in the AI age is a biometric digital footprint
"Socialists may consider the internet infrastructure"

In general yes, but which countries in question would you judge socialist?

And the socialist countries from before, well I rather would describe them as a constructs, where everyone was employed by a state owned company.
Game 505: Wizard's Tower (1982)
You might want to have a look in stow.
https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/

I just stumble across dotstow which adds a git layer on top of it
https://github.com/clayrisser/dotstow
> what does toggle "left" and "right" really mean?

Nothing, because that's not the point of the article.

It's weird to me that this is such a big point here.

In an actual UI, you will have labels or indicators telling you what the toggle means and what the options are - "Safety door unlatched" vs "Control motors engaged". That's a toggle between two choices and having it a toggle like that would be safer than checkboxes.

Otherwise your checkbox without labels is equally bad UX because what does "on" and "off" mean for an unlabeled checkbox? I could give enough examples from work how vaguely labeled checkboxes like "remote authentication" are terrible UX.
The article actually sneaks in a footnote that answers this (https://www.answer.ai/posts/2024-03-06-fsdp-qlora.html#fn1): "Throughout this article “training” can refer to either pre-training, or fine-tuning".

(Generally, we've told students at fast.ai since 2017 that they should almost never be starting from random weights -- most of the time it's best to start with a pretrained model and fine-tune that, even if it's from a somewhat different domain to the problem you're working on.)
I wonder how the people who have good experiences with fasting do it. For me, I get brutal headaches, walk around in a flu-like daze and can't think straight, oh any my ADHD turns up to 11. I think work would start wondering why I can't accomplish anything way before the 9 day mark.
I just don't get it why browsers allow websites to override their own hotkeys. I'm sure it even required extra code to be written to work correctly.

Linear hijacks Cmd+F for example, very helpfully providing some terrible thing instead of my browser's built-in search that works the same everywhere. (it's the same Linear that thinks you can't not want wysiwyg markdown editing)
>It’s just an env var and users frequently do fiddle with it

If a user misconfigures what their current terminal is there isn't much that can be done.

>but in practice a lot of software is written expecting TERM to contain, for example, xterm.

It's not like the list of new terminals is constantly growing. The list of terminals could be periodically synced if needed.
What's wrong with Wolfie?
Agree, imho you need at least a pretend grille so the "face" of the car doesn't look like a gimp.

https://www.skoda-auto.cz/modely/enyaq/enyaq
You can use digital signatures without relying on a national system. There are plenty of available digital signature systems available. While that may not work well for communicating with external actors, within an enterprise it should be no problem.
Have you tried using a tick box?
It's more than Denmark, the Nordics in general use digital signatures for accessing banking, government services (tax agencies, healthcare, pension systems, etc.), online payment ID checks, and so on.

In Denmark I believe NemID/MitID is the most used one, here in Sweden we have BankID (most used), and Freja eID, there are a few smaller ones as well; Norway has their own BankID that is independent from the Swedish one; Finland has their own as well (and I heard it's been live before the 2000s).
Japan is an interesting example. My understanding is that Japan relies heavily on the Hanko (a physical stamp), which makes business difficult as agreements need to be stamped in person.
Sure, but nets cost money. It'd very quickly turn trawling those areas from "profitable" to "money sink".
I discovered these 3 amazing projects recently:

Cryptpad, essentially google docs/sheets/forms e2e encrypted. It does include collaboration. https://github.com/cryptpad/cryptpad

Immich, google photos self hostable, with share options https://github.com/immich-app/immich

Nginxproxymanager manages certificates and proxies to self hosted stuff through nginx https://github.com/NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager

Great self hosting stuff!
There were no mangas in Europe in the 70s AFAIK or they were extremely niche. Every kid was watching anime by then (and there were way more kids then than now) and we explicitly called them Japanese anime. We knew the difference between them and anime from the USA (Popeye, Bugs Bunny, etc) and the ones from our country and other European countries.

Then we grow up, manga translations and scanlations became available and we started reading too. That was about around 1990, when Dragon Ball was aired for the first times.
I’d prefer zero screens in a car. Analog all the way. Feels better and looks better.

Analog dials and counters and switches and buttons can be art if done well.
Your heartbeat and breaths/week are also quite consistent. The issue here is that you have to have a reasonable theory of why variance in the metrics you're tracking will destroy value. And that means actual value, not whinging that standup goes too long. I like a short standup as much as anyone, but if that is a material driver of value destruction then your organisation is not ready for statistical quality control. Plus it probably goes over time consistently.

And once you start looking at the value, the lesson of software is that high variance activity is often the value add. It is the week(s) where someone implements pivot tables in Excel that creates probably billions of dollars in value over all of humanity. If that turns up as a statistical anomaly in the metrics because their line manager didn't bug them to fix bugs that week, that is a problem with the metrics not the programmer.

This isn't a Toyota production line (if you're interested in the history of this, that is no random example) where value is uniformly created with each car and optimising the daily process down to degree n creates value. This is software. The value isn't created in the same way and these tools are not powerful in driving value add decisions. Variance is untidy but by no means an enemy. It must be managed case by case in context.
Imagine leaving a Google position and risking a 10 years sentence for the reward of a "monthly salary of about $14,800" job.
I didn't mean to say style transfer is illegal, it's not, but doing it en-masse is unethical.

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. That's what I'm trying to say.
Can't believe they didn't name this Qolor
From a high enough level, FreeBSD and GNU/Linux already are very similar?
> I guess clear wouldn't clear the scroll buffer, is that the main reason?

Yes. See sibling replies.
And a biometric digital footprint cannot be stolen or replicated by AI because?
Q: As an outsider, how is one to tell if this approach is the right one?

There seems to be a certain amount of dissent.

"Mass tree-planting programs in the desert often cause lasting damage to the ecosystems they are purportedly trying to repair."
https://www.noemamag.com/if-the-desert-was-green/

"Israel’s Yatir Forest has been hailed as a green refuge in the Negev that is helping fight climate change. But some Israeli ecologists now contend that it has wiped out important desert ecosystems and shows that forestation projects are not always an unalloyed environmental good."
https://e360.yale.edu/features/in-israel-questions-are-raise...
Well, I feel sorry for real kidnappers. Who's going to take them seriously now, when it is so easy to fake?! :)

In all seriousness, the solution to this and other tech dystopia issues seems obvious to me. It's un-teching things. Having to go to the bank in person, etc. Not believing screens, even corporate or government ones. (We never should have believed those anyway, so this should be a net gain for humanity!)
I don't know about the danish system, but I guess it's similar to the ones used by Norway and Sweden

https://bankid.no/ (Norway)
https://www.bankid.com/ (Sweden)
Yes, I hope these monstrosities stay in the USA and don't cross the ocean. Something that obliterates everything it encounters, most of the time seats one person and doesn't really fit parking spaces doesn't belong to European cities.
I wonder if these things will be the breaking point where we start to take security and identity verification seriously. I mean banks are still using SMS 2FA. Will tools like Keybase become well known and used? Yubi keys? Push into homomorphic encryption? Signal? Matrix? Don't get me started on SSNs...

I think one of the unfortunate things about our societies is that we so strongly believe "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." It can be a useful piece of advice, but we should always be looking to improve things. Hell, it's what low level research is about. Just technically everything is broken, just how much. Similarly like "move fast and break things." It can be great but it leaves a wake of destruction and tech debt. Sometimes you go faster by fixing things first instead of hacking around things and compounding.

How I think about it is that it is cheaper to perform maintenance rather than fixing things. Yet it is always easier to push off maintenance because other things are high priority. But in the long run this is far more costly. So we should often be fixing things before they are broken. But like all things, nothing is absolute ;)
DeepSpeed has more features than FSDP, but it's much more complex to hack on -- FSDP is written directly in python using calls to the PyTorch library, whereas DeepSpeed is 20% C++ and 10% CUDA (according to the GitHub stats).

We've found that FSDP works just as well for our needs, and we appreciated the increased "hackability".

(Axolotl is terrific BTW. I hadn't heard of problems with it with FSDP before -- I'll see if that's something we can help with.)
We don't know of anyone who's been able to reliably print more than 5 KB per page using QR codes on paper. How many pages do you want to use? See https://github.com/za3k/qr-backup/blob/master/docs/FAQ.md
Thank you for taking the time to add more information!

What you relinquish when you release something into public domain is control over how publishes and possibly who edits it.
Phil Harvey’s exiftool [0]. Despite being a command-line tool, it is widely known and used by professional and advanced amateur photographers to extract or repair metadata in images. It does handle more than just still images.

It’s written in perl and the perl API for handling the metadata is documented, but I’ve never seen anyone use that directly.

[0] exiftool.org
> "it is usually encombant on the researcher to buy thier RAs, course releases, summer salary"

Honestly, this is a sick system. Hire a faculty member and then expect them to hire someone to perform one of their fundamental duties: teaching.

It seems to me that the basic model needs to change. Hire faculty for what you want them to do. Want an instructor? Hire an instructor. Want a researcher, hire a researcher. Provide both with what they need, whether that is RAs, TAs, funding, lab space, or whatever.
SAR 101: An Introduction to Synthetic Aperture Radar
Apple is missing a few bites from its perfection:

They use these sliders, realize they could be ambiguous, so add an accessibility setting for the on/off labels.

Then they have these fancy animations where holding a slider even elongates the button "providing feedback", but this is just wasted since your finger is covering the button, and fingers have no eyes!

But still, it's a slider, so you'd expect that if you slide your finger over it, it will move. Not so fast, this only works if your started sliding from the slider, not from a side outside it (which would still work in the "real" world.). But if you start at the slider, then there is no point in sliding, there is simply not enough width for that!

Also if slider's button is to the left and you swipe from right to left, the sliders moves right! Take that, immediate fedback in the opposite direction, massive UX boost in a manner that's unexpected and doesn't make sense! (because it's not a real slider, just a check box of a different form)
Sadly there isn't on Linux. There is on Mac - Ctrl-K. But for some reason nobody on Linux has realised how useful it is. It's actually even better than `reset` because it works at any time.
This scam was being done years before AI voice cloning was possible (it's called a "grandparent scam") and so far I have not seen evidence that such technology is being used. The victims claim it was exactly like their relative's voice, but victims were saying the same thing two decades ago. The attorney mentioned in the article testified that his "son" was sobbing and claimed to have had his nose broken in the accident. Most people are not going to be able to confidently tell apart even a loved one's voice from someone around the same age if they're crying, screaming, being distorted by the phone transmission, etc.

I think it's possible that scams like this could be done with voice cloning, don't get me wrong, but it's not necessary. It's probably good that people are alert to the risk of these scams, regardless.
It doesn't have to work 100% of the time to be a successful scam.
I mean... the pack is the size of a car and weights roughly the same (2.6kt), so.... it's not a triple A battery.

But yeah, it's not a Gravity scenario, either.
1. Not models that are in any way competitive with things like OpenAI. Not even close.

2. A typical user is not even remotely close to using hardware like that. You live in a bubble.
And this is why UNIX took over the server world, and C widespread everywhere, had it been a commercial product sold by AT&T at a similar price tag as VMS, MVS and others, history would have been quite different than the one portrayed on the article.
Yes, I was looking forward to read the section on IBANs, before it never came. Then I noticed the article being from 2000. IBANs weren't in use at that time.

At least in Germany IBANs are not very popular. Compared to the national numbers usability has decreased a lot.

Previosly the was bank id in a nice 3-3-2 grouping. Because there are not so many banks the numbers were systtematically and sparsely assigned. When I was a student in Germany I had 600 100 70, I remember it decades later. Account numbers were variable length, most banks did not have very long ones.

With IBANs the bank id remained unchanged, but the grouping got very weird, so it's hard to recognize and remeber. Account number have been padded with leading zeros to achieve a fixed length IBAN. So the nice short numbers ended up with long runs of zeros, not at all user-friendly. In the old days I knew several accounts by heart. For IBANs I do not naturally remember a single one (I know how to construct the from old numbers, but it's a tedious process not happening in a couple of seconds.) Typing a German IBAN is a nightmare every time.
Hah :)

You could try echo -ne '\ec' or echo -ne '\033c'. Or this from bash/readline:

clear-display (M-C-l)
Clear the screen and, if possible, the terminal's scrollback buffer, then redraw the current line, leaving the current line at the top of the screen.

But yea, this might depend on terminal as well
Author here.
Diffing is a great example. The first incarnation of Flyde had naive version control built into it and had such diff features!

Diffing from VSCode already makes a bit of sense (see https://imgur.com/a/WXj89tx). Next step is to color it differently, and finally, add a browser extension to render diffs nicely from GitHub/Gitlab's UI as well :)
Is there any way out of the AI parasocial behaviors? I'm continually asking them not to flatter me and yet they keep doing it. They're all suckups. It's like, I just want a direct fucking answer.
Apple planning default navigation app setting in iOS 18 for EU users
Grayskull has 96 MB SRAM and people call it overpriced at $600 to $800. It is far more plausible that their chip costs are somewhere around $500.
> However, we're not sure if it's worth the investment.

Regardless of what the agency provides, you really need to make sure you can answer that question. (And good SEO people should be able to show you those results)

On-page optimizations - have you got the before/after metrics?

Keyword analysis - have you got the click rates on the new / old keyword sets?

Content landing pages - do you know the click rates and monitor the contacts/signups coming in that way?

Backlinks - what's the traffic / result?

Maybe $6k brings you a good result? Maybe not? It's not too much if they bring you extra $1M in sales. It's too much if they don't make a difference. But only you can figure it out.

> more clearly than just the vanity metrics we see in Google Analytics?

Google analytics can be used for this. But you need to look at specific funnels, (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/9327974?hl=en) submit specific click events to track, (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/9322688?hl=en#zi...) etc. There's no magic tool that will make it easy though - you have to tag the pages / monitor what's happening properly. You can do it on your own too, but a good tool for exploration will help.
> However, even using extra hardware wasn't enough in this case. So they pre-calculated lookup tables for sine, cosine, tangent etc. for every angle at the necessary precision.

Is this really the order of events? I imagine the pre-calculated route is what you'd try first, and only go for extra hardware if that failed somehow.