skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would assume that it's because there are more people like me who use gnome. I kept using gnome 3 from gnome 2 because gnome 3 worked the way I was already using gnome 2.

I tried using tiling window managers, but they didn't give me the niceties of the out of the box gnome experience. I do have one extension for topicons. (sometimes I use gsconnect, but not recently) I don't need anything else.
It was off-by-one, indeed.
I'm trying to think to myself if I was running a project and had a canary, what would be the threshold to kill the canary on a voluntary enquiry.

If it was CIA and they sent me: "Please give us all information on XYZ so that we can organize an assassination on them. This is voluntary and you don't have to give us that information. This is just pretty please."

I think I would kill my canary even if the request is technically voluntary and I wasn't compelled to give out any information. But that was a joke scenario because I couldn't come up with more realistic scenarios.

And then I guess if your threshold is too low, you'll kill your canary on something that might be a nothingburger.
The ones that have to actually commute, not so much.
Google doesn't have to try to be the best at AI now, it can just buy whoever is the winner later - a lesson learned from google video.
According to ChatGPT it takes at least 3 kWh to desalinate 1000l of salt-water.

Following that math and its estimates on solar panels that would come down to 0.003 m^2 of solar panels per liters.

UAE is about 83.6 billion m^2, lets assume half of that can be covered in solar panels, so that would be enough to desalinate 13 trillion liters of water.

That sounds like it could be enough for a country like UAE by a factor of 10, if ChatGPT's math is right (probably not) and water can be desalinated instantly (probably not).
You cannot learn to assemble a motherboard using modern manufacturing equipment in an afternoon. Pick-and-place operation is a week-long course alone (specific to that machine, and assuming you are already familiar with the process), and there are at least a screen printer and reflow oven involved as well.
Yep, I didn't mean to suggest this was my advice for all people, it's just what has worked for me.
I mean that's fine, but you are the registered owner 》renter of that domain, so you are linked to it in a database somewhere, even if your info is behind whoisguard-style obfuscation. Even if unlikely, should a dataset get exposed or the service stop functioning as intended, you're linked. No real worry for singing up for future junk-mail, but risks escalate when employment is at stake.
> Out of a million people who are Japanese that visit Paris every year

That's a staggering number of people! Almost 1% of all Japanese people visit Paris every year?
Yes, languages really need some sort of "raw string" feature like Python (or make regex literals their own syntax like Perl does). That's the solution here, not using weird characters...
> Yes. Electromagnetism, weak, and strong interactions all make the acceleration meter register nonzero, even if the act "equally" on all parts of an object.

I’m genuinely curious how that acceleration meter would work. There won’t be any internal forces as a consequence of the external field and no relative motion.
Desalination is expensive, but it’s not just about the desalination simply pumping water up hill is costly.

Nevada averages 5,500 ft above sea level. Moving 1 acre foot of water up that high at 100% efficiency takes ~5.6 MWh and a single mid sized farm can use that much water hourly.

Start talking 25 inches of water per year across millions of acres and you’ll need a lot of solar. Worse, commercial reverse osmosis desalination only removes around 95-99% of salt so that farmland is quickly getting degraded.
Or Sioyek (vim keybindings!), Okular, Xournalpp, Zotero, ...
This is an absolutely unbelievable Baader-Meinhoff coincidence. I was, less than 5 minutes ago, searching the script for this line so that I could send it to my father.

As proof, this is the only line returned when you search the text for the string "tell the". https://www3.nd.edu/~dlindley/handouts/DrS.htm
What does the learned downsampler add? Isn't the output of the algorithm the upsampled features that's fed into the downsampler?
There were parts of what I described that were brutally difficult. Particularly, we would receive a certain $ amount to purchase books (that were frequently $500+ dollars per semester). However, the office that doled this fund out would frequently be weeks behind, or your scheduled disbursement just wouldn’t show up. Then you’d have to find multiple hours out of your work week to go down to the financial aid office to wait in line for hours in an office that was only open 10am-2pm. Or sometimes the complete scam of a bank/card they forced you to use had some issue.

So, frequently, you wouldnt even be able to purchase books without a loan or extending credit til 1-2 months into the semester. by that time you could be having midterms and tons of assignment with no textbooks. I would frequently have to beg other students to let me photocopy sections of their books so I could do the assignments. Or resort to pirating.

To them that’s “working as intended” I guess. no amount of complaining ever got anywhere.
There's clearly an Oceans 11 type plot here. Or perhaps The Producers is more apt, not sure.
As someone who worked in a mobile dev team, I can only applaud your effort! :)

I have a few questions:

As with all new AI-based RPA & Testing frameworks (there are quite many in YC), I'm curious about the costs and performance. Let's say I want to run a few smoke tests (5-10 end-to-end scenarios) on my app across multiple iOS and Android devices with different screen sizes and OS versions before going into production.

What would it cost, and how long would it take to complete the tests?

Do you already have customers running such real-world use cases with it?
The main argument I have seen (which is also OpenAI's in their legal briefs) is that it is fair use. The idea of "fair use" is that you are conceding that you are infringing by creating a derivative work, but it's still okay. Implied in the fair use argument is that it is a derivative work.
Many commenters here are older than me and have older parents. I forget because many are also younger than me and my parents are now grandparents. I'll be more specific: The post-WW2 economic boom (That is, roughly 75-80 years ago) was full of promise and prosperity for a growing middle class. We got a lot of technological progress and even political will toward egalitarian attitudes out of that, but the economic situation has taken a turn toward oligarchy since about the 70s (That is, 50ish years ago), and this has essentially destroyed this middle-class prosperity, while also capturing technological progress and grinding a lot of it to a crawl, focusing mostly on dystopian applications. That's why the crowd at sxsw boos at tech people talking about AI
Great demo ! This is going to be a huge time / money saving for companies.
i disagree. extensible is super duper but even that isn't great with Obsidian from a dev perspective. so the product "Obsidan Plugin API for devs" is also lacking.

and core features should be in core (dataview for example). what is most shocking though is that sync and publish are horrendous implementation of said features. i would kind of get it for other stuff but together they are 20 bucks plus tax per month. just now sync has 'merged' a note on my iphone (no changes on iphone though) and completely scrambled the note. same with another 3 notes. if i did not check the note by chance now, i would have missed it.

the entire UI around a sync feature is bad.
> You are as empowered to fix this as anybody else, if it presents a real problem for you.

I’m getting sick and tired of this argument. It’s very user unfriendly

Do you work in software? If yes, do you own a component? Have you tried using this argument with your colleagues that have no idea about your component?

Of course they theoretically are empowered to fix the bug, but that doesn’t make it easier. They may have no idea about how filesystem internal. Or they may be just users and have no programming background at all
In Austria, we just don't have tuition fees, which also avoids these types of shenanigans :)
If we go down this road right now, we are allowing superintelligent AI powered corporations to front-run the entire human race and sell everything we think back to us.

It's not about theory of mind stuff. It's about just compensation of living human beings.
> Almost nobody in their right mind (except gamers) would buy an Intel CPU

I recently was at a computer shop (looking for keyboard repair) and someone brought in their PC because it kept freezing, ended up they are getting a new PC and even when the salesperson recommended an AMD based PC the guy said that he didn't want to because he didn't have good experiences with AMD. Mind you that PC had an Intel 6000 series CPU in it, so best case that experience likely is 10+ years ago.

I kinda died inside while standing there.
Thanks for pointing this out! We need to
make these public.

For the 10,000 foot view, watch our presentation at the WebGL/WebGPU meetup at GDC!

https://www.khronos.org/events/webgl-webgpu-meetup-GDC-2024
Sometimes form validation prevents that from working.

nobody@nowhere.com works 99.999% of the time
> Of course it is: it's evidence the average person will never hit this bug. Statistics, and all that.

Anecdotal statistics maybe.
The car pricing seems to be that some amount of people round 79,999 down to 70,000 when determining mileage and so cars with 79,999km on the odometer are penalised much less than cars with 80,000km.

I think the rent one is much more driven by "some landlords like round numbers for posting ads/doing their finances".
By the way, that's one cool-looking cybernetic ant-eater. Is that what an ant-ithesis supposed to look like?
> Electromagnetism, weak, and strong interactions all make the acceleration meter register nonzero, even if the act "equally" on all parts of an object.

I'm struggling to wrap my head around this assertion. If all parts of the object are acted upon "equally" (why is this in quotes?) where would this acceleration come from?
Oh and it turns out the carbon footprint for beef varies significantly by where the beef is raised. Average carbon footprint per 1kg of beef in the EU is 22.1 kg CO₂e [1], so if you're in the EU your beef-fueled 1 mile walk emits ~730g of CO₂e, a little under twice what you'd have emitted if you drove

[1] https://www.thebeefsite.com/news/33676/uk-beef-carbon-footpr...
If I'm running btrfs on my NAS, that's only ~4 days of runtime. If there's a bug that trashes the filesystem every month on average, that's really bad and yet is very unlikely to get caught in 4 days of running.
> As a human, it would be very difficult to drive a car just looking at sensor data.

What is vision if not sensor data?? Our brains have evolved to efficiently process and interpret image data. I don't see why from-scratch neural network architectures should ever be limited to the same highly specific input type.
Tagasaurus v1.5.0 storing and searching for memes
It helps users store images/memes/audio/video etc and find them again with different search tools. ML is used to apply emotion labels/values and face descriptors. The annotations are stored locally for individual files and for collections. Finding memes can be challenging and Tagasaurus helps by storing a bi-partite graph of the connections so that when you find an file, the associated top memes appear with it on searches. Searches can be done based on face similarity as well. Made with ElectronJS and runs on Linux and Windows.

https://github.com/mantzaris/Tagasaurus
Selectively choosing to not trigger a warrent canary defeats it's intended purpose - to communicate when you receive a gag order.
> In theory yes, in practice no.

That's like "in theory we need 4 bytes to represent Unicode, but in practice 3 bytes is fine" (glances at universally-maligned utf8mb3)
Thank you, I am starting to play around with this library. I am also reading up on workflow engines vs finite state machines.
The Tim Traveller channel on YouTube did a couple videos about this [1] and [2]. The station was open for a brief time for some public tours before being redeveloped. He also links to some archival footage from 1997 showing it in motion [3].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWxESIzJhCU
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGIz_zwoALU
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMHW9cEAO78
Seems like governments could lead the charge by building new government facilities in an alternate location, which is created with a solid plan for incorporating public transport, housing, event spaces, and retail.

Its entirely possible to build a new city from the ground up. And starting with a clean slate allows planners to design with the next 10,20,30,50 years of growth in mind. It's very difficult to scale a city effectively without a long-term city plan.
Huh? Wouldn't they have to depreciate it over several years so only a fraction of it would be a deduction in the current? Or is the idea that they'd buy so much capital equipment that even the fraction they could depreciate that year would wipe out all the other income?

AIUI, the concept of depreciation exists in tax law precisely to prevent indefinitely deferring taxes via reinvestment (though it can't do anything about the portion of reinvestment going to pay salaries a la Amazon):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15061439
> “fair game” : are you certain tsmc has not received handouts from their government
Gotcha, yeah.

If it ever comes to needing an Obsidian replacement I'd hope it can aim for compatibility with the plug-in ecosystem, at least initially. No idea how difficult a target that would be. Either way, I certainly worry about my data in Obsidian less than I worry about Evernote, OneNote, or Apple Notes, even with a couple of non-standard markdown additions.

Since it's not VC backed I'm hopeful about Obsidian building a long-term sustainable business without having to turn shitty, but who knows. I should sign up for Sync and give them some money.
That's the most curious jamming I see on the map—anybody know why jamming is present there? Is there a military base in that region?
I think it's a direct translation of the French phrase "mixité sociale" mentioned in the article, I bet the connotations are slightly different in English than in French.
I like to bundle those in a separate commit at least.
> It's overkill for normal office use but the space shuttle is going to have some massive vibration and mechanical shock during launch.

Maybe you haven't seen how some delivery drivers treat the packages in their care. I swear I've received boxes that look like the were shaken, not stirred, to the level of a rocket launch.
If anyone found the above interesting, I wrote a short article mapping plane activity on FlightRadar's 'blocked' list (i.e FlightRadar had agreed to remove the ADBS data from their dataset following probable legal pressure).

https://dfworks.xyz/blog/hnwi-osint-private-jet/

Slightly tangential so feel free to remove if irrelevant
I wonder whether simply (regex) replacing a sequence of .'s with a single one as part of a post-processing step would be effective.
If you are not in multi-line mode, then a single line is expected and consequently there is at most one newline at the end of the string. You can of course pick an input that violates this, run it against a multi-line string with several newlines in it. cat\n\n will not match cat$ because there is something between cat and the end of the line, it just happens to be a newline but without any special meaning because it is not the last character and you did not say that the input is multi-line.
For me, Perl hit me at exactly the right time in my development. One or more of the various O'Reilly Perl books caught my attention in the bookstore, the foreword and the writing style was unlike anything else I'd read in programming up to that point, and I read the book and just felt a strong connection to how the language was structured, the design concepts behind it, the power of regex being built in to the language, etc. The syntax favored easy to write programs without unnecessary scaffolding (of course, leading to the jokes of it being write-only - also the jokes I could make about me programming largely in Java today), and the standard functionality plus the library set available felt like magic to me at that point.

Learning Perl today would be a very different experience. I don't think it would catch me as readily as it did back then. But it doesn't matter - it's embedded into me at a deep level because I learned it through a strong drive of fascination and infatuation.

As for the regex themselves? It's powerful and solved a lot of the problems I was trying to solve, was built fundamentally into Perl as a language, so learning it was just an easy iterative process. It didn't hurt that the particular period of time when I learned Perl/regex the community was really big on "leetcode" style exercises, they just happened to be focused around Perl Golf, being clever in how you wrote solutions to arbitrary problems, and abusive levels of regex to solve problems. We were all playing and play is a great way to learn.
This hasn’t been true for 24 years. Selective Availability was discontinued in May of 2000.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System
I don't understand your point... how would continually changing code avoid formatting changes? If you want to change the formatting, just commit a change to the formatting.
Gnome is a DE designed to be used by distributions.

Gnome doesn’t have an opinion on a desktop application launcher because it expects the distribution to add it.

The only distributions which don’t are GnomeOS which is intended for developing Gnome, and Fedora, which is intended to be a bleeding edge distribution to mass release stuff before it’s included in RHEL.

Turns out, however, that a lot of people actually like the default Gnome look and so are happy with using Fedora.

But in practice this isn’t an issue for anyone because their distribution will come with an application launcher.

And even better you can completely change and/or add an application launcher because they are implemented through extensions.
This is why you sign the canary regularly, and then it just expires if you do nothing.

Although... I also don't see much use in them either, it seems everyone ends up complying with something eventually and so all canaries end up getting removed.
On desktop my hands are 99% of the time already in the right position for the keyboard shortcuts.

I generally quite like the out-of-the-box gnome3+ experience, it fits my use cases pretty well (when I don't have a highly tweaked custom tiling window manager setup).

It's nice to actually get choice, rather than 5 "choices" that are all chasing exactly the same style, if you prefer the XFCE or KDE experience, then that's what XFCE or KDE are for.
> If you have a condition that takes, on average, 1000 hours to occur, you have a 9 in 10 chance of missing it based on 100 error-free hours observed

Yes. Which means 9/10 users who used their machines 100 or fewer hours on the new kernel will never hit the hypothetical bug. Thank you for proving my point!

I'm not a filesystem developer, I'm a user: as a user, I don't care about the long tail, I only care about the average case as it relates to my deployment size. As you correctly point out, my deployment is of negligible size, and the long tail is far far beyond my reach.

Aside: your hypothetical event has a 0.1% chance of happening each hour. That means it has a 99.9% chance of not happening each hour. The odds it doesn't happen after 100 hours is 0.999^100, or 90.5%. I think you know that, I just don't want a casual reader to infer it's 90% because 1-(100/1000) is 0.9.
Fair use has 4 factors. Transformative is one of them. Recently, courts have gotten much more interested in a different factor, the "commercial intent" factor. While fan art is less transformative than AI training, it's not commercial and it's not competing with the original work (if anything, it enhances the market for the original work). Generative AI models are both commercial products and very successful competitors with the original works they used for training.
Right! What a mess of a commit
I have never needed anything more than pip in 8 years of development, and have always run into issues with r packages (every new version of r seems to break 30% of existing tidyverse packages)
> I think most people in the US rightfully have a total disdain for the media

Their lack of media literacy is part of the problem.
Also, though I dislike it greatly, Microsoft purchasing GitHub was a brilliant way to buy into a growing segment which were natively hostile to what they stand for. LinkedIn, maybe less clever, they only make pocket change on it, but it is profitable.

Google doesn't really do acquisitions on that level. They do buy companies, but with the purpose of incorporating their biological distinctiveness into the collective. This tends to highlight their many failures in capturing new markets. The last high-profile successful purchase by Google, that I recall at least, were YouTube and Android, nearly twenty years ago.
New Version of EasyKey.shellmenu v1.3.0
Further utilities added in new Version v1.3.0 for Maven, Git and kubectl to simplify your work on the command line.
Install Hatchify, drop in your schema and data and you'll have a fully functional app prototype in minutes. We developed Hatchify to combine the quickness of low code solutions with the flexibility and scalability of custom code.

Hatchify gets you started fast, so you spend less time writing boilerplate code, and more time honing in on the features you need.
"If you were careful with sanitation" is probably the important caveat. But have to keep in mind the potential danger when mess up making food. It is possible that kombucha is easier to mess up than most fermented food or cooking in general. I know beer making is very forgiving of sanitation, and isn't dangerous if mess up.

The speed of food poisoning can be hours for some pathogens. It depends on the pathogen and the amount, and if the body detects the bad food and expels it quickly.
Problem is, plenty of software doesn't actually look at the match but rather just validates that there was a match (and then continues to use the input to that match).
640M should be enough for anybody.
Not needing to rely on hacked-together and essentially unsupported extensions for core functionality that breaks every other update is a nice plus too.

Besides, the aesthetics and workflow are portable from GNOME to KDE with some configuration (though not the other way around).
Well, this is well outside of my area of expertise, but the only factual dispute attached to the image in wikipedia is that SSI is only available to people essentially assumed to be out of the work pool. From the SSI site: "Little or no income, and Little or no resources, and A disability, blindness, or are age 65 or older." That's a pretty tiny slice of that graph. Maybe it just hasn't been thoroughly interrogated but my gut says that whoever attached that SSI criticism would have probably addressed more severe discrepancies first.

The source-- a libertarian blog-- implies that the problem is welfare itself, but I think the bigger problem is a naive approach to means testing that is entirely divorced from economic reality.
Doesn’t your local government have precise records of property boundaries and building dimensions and locations already?
Well, they don't live there, but they spend probably 10 hours/day there, or 60% of their waking hours. Where someone sleeps doesn't seem too important.