skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With Bash quoting rules it’s not like you have to push, it’s more like you don’t pull hard enough to keep it from going over the edge.
Yes locking products down means less freedom and less choice. And this is made worse by Apple buying up their supply chain and precious slots at semiconductor foundries. Not everybody is an average consumer looking for average products. But these products are using precious resources and outcompete more generally useful products just by market volume. Apple is behind the hardware version of Eternal September. First the internet got spoiled by the masses, and now our hardware too.
OrbStack :)
BATCH, message facility, zero-headache clustering would be on my list. That stuff just works.
I appreciate the illustration! I can certainly see how this would be useful especially for tools like ffmpeg, which is both difficult to google and understand and doesn't have a large overlap with patterns other tools use.
Seriously, in England there are a lot more bicycles than ships (not to mention the differences in training and experience).
WWDC 2024 starts on June 10 with announcements about iOS 18 and beyond
Show HN: NowDo – a free macOS todo app designed to combat procrastination
Hey everyone,

I'm a software architect who's wrestled with procrastination my whole life. I've tried countless apps and systems, but I found that the very features meant to aid my productivity—reorganizing tasks, categorizing them, tweaking priorities—became a source of distraction. Instead of getting things done, I'd procrastinate by micromanaging my task list.

This realization led me to develop NowDo, a todo app born out of my personal experiences, refined over two years of prototyping. NowDo is designed to be as simple as possible, helping me focus on just one task at a time without the usual bells and whistles that lead me off track.

Here's what sets NowDo apart:

- One Task Focus: NowDo encourages you to focus on one task at a time.

- Always-on-Top: It's designed to be always on top of your desktop, providing a constant but subtle reminder of your current task without being nagging or intrusive.

- 100% Keyboard-Driven: NowDo can be completely driven using just your keyboard, so you can capture tasks the moment they occur to you, allowing you to offload your thoughts and return to your work without losing focus.

- 2 Years of Prototyping: Every aspect of NowDo is crafted from my own struggles with procrastination and is intentionally built to avoid the pitfalls of conventional productivity tools.

NowDo is free, and the current features will be free forever, with a premium option planned for the future.

For Mac users interested in a more focused approach to productivity, give NowDo a try at https://nowdo.org/, I'd really appreciate any feedback.
I'm curious, what kind of setup is required to train something like that? Can it be done with 4090 and how long would it take? 50M or 25M parameters? And what is the most parameters 4090 can do?

This inspires few ideas.
Bridges are design to withstand a very predictable type and direction of force. It can withstand the lateral wind, but imagine how much force a fully loaded cargo ship can put into it. Once one segment gone the rest is history, because makes the who construction imbalanced.
All valid points. Tugs are quite a reasonable option.
Agreed. I have to schedule the "big" stuff, but for the rest the best I can do is work productively, following the connections between things.

I'll have a day doing the tasks using one sort of tech, and another doing something else - a python day, a sysadmin day, a writing day. I can't tell when a thing will get done, but by working this way as long as it's on a list I know I'll get to it. If I try to schedule it, my productivity plummets.
I work on software for MRI machines, and one of the first things they do is high powered magnet safety training which is mandatory for everybody.

Even non-ferromagnetic materials react to the high field strength, and to show that, they let me hold a ring of aluminum just outside the bore. You can feel it "snap" to either parallel or perpendicular to the table when you try to turn it. It was a surreal experience.
US sanctions spree continues with 15 more for Russian entities
> languages that do not currently have this ability

That seems to be a very common position, and one that's super weird to me. C and particularly C++ absolutely have that ability with library support if you know what you are doing.

The only material difference, from my point of view, is that the default behavior of the language is different.

I will fully grant that the path of least resistance being dangerous is a huge issue in C/C++, and one that Rust addresses, but extending that all the way to saying that the language lacks the ability is really excessive.
Perhaps America was a uniquely divided society from the very beginning? Either that, or foreign influence operations have been a multigenerational affairs - which year or decade could one say America was not divided?
Nice! This seems way more appealing than every other approach I've seen in this domain.
I think my 25 year old son had bought into the same thought pattern. I’m trying to help, but parents are often thought to be clueless.

Having said that, I’ve found FOMO hitting me hard when looking at Facebook posts, so I’ve stopped looking, and feeling better.
> In retrospect, it makes a lot of sense. Genesis was huge in NA/Europe, but it was considered somewhat of a failure in Japan.

Ironically, it went the opposite way for the Saturn. It was pretty successful in Japan (slightly ahead of the N64) but a complete failure elsewhere.
Bitcoin or not, rich or not, no one would get to buy a house without money.

You obviously have a beef with crypto. It isn't for you. That's ok. My point is to clarify the things you are blindly getting wrong.
Ransomware can mean life or death at hospitals, but DEF CON hackers have a plan
Alway had problems with the podman vm on macos, hopefully it will be more stable now
I saw it was based on Talon, but unfortunately, Talon makes things overly complex and focuses the user on the wrong part of the process. The learning curve to get started, especially when writing your action routines, is much higher than it needs to be. See: https://vocola.net/. It's not perfect; it's clumsy, but you can start creating action routines within 5 to 10 minutes of reading the documentation. Once you exceed the capabilities of Vocola, you can develop extensions in Python based on what you've learned in Vocola. One could say that Talon is the second system implementation according to Mythical Man Month.

My use case is dictating text into various applications and correcting that text within the text area. If I have to, I can use the dictation box and then paste it into the target application.

When you talk about using speech recognition for creating code, I've been through enough brute-force solutions like Talon to know they are the wrong way because they always focus the user on the wrong thing. When creating code, you should be thinking about the data structure and the environment in which it operates. When you use speech-driven programming systems, you focus on what you have to say to get the syntax you need to make it compile correctly. As a result, you lose your connection to the problem you're trying to solve.

Whether you like it or not, ChatGPT is currently the best solution as long as you never edit the code directly.
You can love it or hate it, doesn't really matter.

That's the thing about a powerful idea, implemented in code, supported by a large global community, connected by the network -- nobody can kill it.

It's like arguing about whether the world would be a better place without strong cryptography. There are many arguments for and against, people will never agree, and it's a waste of time arguing about it.

It exists, whether you approve of how it's used or not.

And a thing that is unkillable, that will exist in some form for our lifetimes, that a large global community finds useful for whatever reason, will always be valuable.
They have been great for decades, it has been mostly a religion thing.

GC being any kind of automatic memory management, tracing GC, reference counting, mixed scheme with reference counting and cycle collectors.

Take any systems language that uses that approach to automatic resource management, coupled with ability to use stack allocation, registers and what have you, and there are very few use cases where something else is required.

Like kernels, drivers on hard real time constraints.

Even for GPUs I think shading languages are much more ergonomic than trying to fit classical languages into them.
> US homelessness is not caused by shortage of housing.

Pointless to discuss this if you can't even agree on basic facts.
An RNA-Based Theory of Natural Universal Computation
The title wasn't an open question directed at you, the link answers this question with references and quotes from insiders.
I Don't Get Romantic About Commits Until Later
The absolute mass of container ships are inconceivable by default - it's really worth repeating how much weight and force they bear.
Scripts should be commented with intent. (I can figure out what it is doing, but I have no clue WHY)

Scripts should be testable.

Scripts should use functions with appropriately scoped variables. (This really helps with testability)

Scripts should list assumptions.

Scripts should CHECK assumptions.

Scripts should call commands with --long-style-options instead of -L, especially uncommon options.

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As someone who migrated a couple hundred shell scripts over the past year, I'd rather have these done before I ask someone to write a script in C.

edit: and for ${deity} sake, use shellcheck.
Without watching the video, how fast does this vehicle travel and analyze at the same time?
Doesn't sound great, but it is delicious.

It's just cream that's been gently heated for an extended time to denature the proteins a bit. Not all that different in spirit from fresh cheeses (though cheesemakers denature the proteins by acidification or enzymatic methods).
I think this depends on a lot of assumptions about the capabilities of what is otherwise described as an absolutely dumb featureless device.

If the device lacks access to storage it cannot store any state. How do you ensure the RNG isn't initialized to the same value every time? I'm not sure how that impacts some of the assumptions about security here.
What do you need the email for?
Nope. The military, aerospace, and medical industries have all refused full automation in life-or-death situations with cause.
Sundar is to Google what Ballmer was to Microsoft.

If the board wants to shift focus from high confidence near/medium term revenue they likely need a new leader.
I’ve done some sailing but have no real authority when it comes to vessels like these.

Friends of mine are pilots on the Thames (London) and I seem to recall one of them telling me it was over 10 years training before you could bring a big boat in. Pretty fascinating really - they figure out all the tides and weather and plan the route. On the day they board along with a sensor system that sits in the bridge and gives the position to a high level of accuracy.
This seems like a much more promising avenue than lab-grown meat. Fungi are already rich in protein, are a bit closer on the tree of life to animals than plants are, are sedentary by default, and are absolute chemical powerhouses.

If we can engineer a fungus to produce just the right amino profile, or whatever nutrition you're looking for, then you have a self perpetuating stock that should be much lower tech and simpler to manage than trying to grow muscle tissue in a "petri dish".

Heck, we could just be eating more mushrooms, they already are a pretty good source of protein.
Satellites are assembled in clean rooms, which have about 50% relative humidity to avoid electrostatic discharge. The multilayer thermal insulation or MLI recaptures 1% of its own weight after bake-out, within 24 hours in a normal atmosphere. In the vacuum of space at cryogenic temperatures, it can take years and decades for the MLI to dry up. It's a problem for all satellites, but Euclid is particularly sensitive. The Falcon9 fairing was purged with gaseous nitrogen for 4 hours prior to Euclid's launch, to at least minimize the water that could freeze out directly from the atmosphere traveling into space with the satellite.
IMO this seems like a good use case for Wix, SquareSpace, etc.

If you absolutely must do it yourself, cheap and reliable hosts are nearlyfreespeech.net and Vercel.com. Both can take care of domain registrations too.

Vercel is more modern and easier to use; it's designed for modern Jamstacks but you can host regular HTML on it too, and it has a built-in CDN.

Nearlyfreespeech has been around a long time and offers old-school barebones hosting, much cheaper than a full-blown VM. And you can put free Cloudflare on top of it to cache/CDN/HTTPS it.

Cloudflare Pages is also another static option, but it's not as easy to use as Vercel. Github Pages is yet another (free but janky) option; I wouldn't recommend it over the others, but if you like Microsoft more, it's there for you.

All of these are much easier than managing your own VM, since they're PaaS specifically for web hosting and not just low-level VMs where you have to deal with OS updates, hosting software, and all the other pains.

You might also be eligible for the free tier of AWS, GCloud, etc., and they have certain higher-level services that can make this easier (like Google App Engine or AWS Amplify) instead of their low-level VMs.

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FYI, searching for "static site hosting" these days is probably better than "website hosting". The "web hosts" typically target small/medium businesses who don't know any better, whereas the static hosts target enterprise-y JS stacks. Hosting basic HTML static files on their CDN is a side effect for them, like a loss leader, so basically you take advantage of their cheap dev/test plans and never need to upgrade to their full enterprise setups.
I agree that IQ is not a sufficient standardized cognitive metric, and I didn't mention it at all

I think it is an out standing question then about how cognitive ability is measured, as thats unresolved too

I think its negligent to say neural configuration and computational capacity cant be genetic, just because we’re worried about what someone is going to do with that information
I was misremembering about instances involving the zbuffer and significant overdraw as demonstrated by Kaze https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC_jLsxZ7nw

Another example from that video was changing a trig function from a lookup table to an evaluated approximation improved performance because it uses less memory bandwidth.

Was the zbuffer in main memory? Ooof

What's interesting to me is that even Kaze's optimized stuff is around 8k triangles per frame at 30fps. The "accurate" microcode Nintendo shipped claimed about 100k triangles per second. Was that ever achieved, even in a tech demo?
Only for those that put the word GC on the same bag, without understanding there are tons of approaches, and many languages with automatic resource management also provide deterministic features.
does anyone know if virtualdj.com uses the same technique?
I think you're missing the point - abusing a vector in this way is not a safe interface and is instead a good way to introduce several memory safety bugs (for example, UAFs) that the normal rust memory model explicitly prevents.
The thing is that most code has a straightforward, tree-like ownership model. It’s overkill to use a GC for everything. It also sometimes leads to memory bloat.

What we really need is an ergonomic way to opt into different kinds of memory allocation and management. The borrow checker is great for when you need no extraneous allocation. GCs are great for many linked lists. Bump allocators are great for web template rendering with lots of temporary strings.
I'll leave it to you to figure out what emulator you want to use, but here's the game: http://www.c64.com/games/1862
I have this theory that most searches are for the tld of sites. I guess most tools could replace those querries.
SomethingAwful.com and rotten.com were two separate sites, as a historical note.
Which kind of GC though.
I'm looking at the AppScript site.

Is this like PowerAutomate, but for G Suite products?

Also I don't know why, looking at the site makes me think it's a candidate that Google is going to kill off without warning: https://www.google.com/script/start/
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Yeah I mean regardless how successful it is, it’s a part of computing history.
In general having clustering be a core is primitive instead of being tacked on in user land gives you some nice features out of the box. Some can be replicated but with a lot of work from the user

In the exclusive camp we have:

- cross cluster shared memory

In the can be replicated in user land category we have
- logicals, env vars with an inheritance from cluster level to process level

- distributed locks

Those two features make something like etcd pointless

- a cross cluster file system that makes nfs look like the hack it is

And finally Linux has finally caught up and passed with iouring, but VMS has had an excellent completion based io model since the early 90s.
the modern practice is layers of defense; in addition to building a bridge that doesn't fail at a single point of failure, you also generally design what's around a bridge pier to stop or at least slow down the ship (by, say, running aground onto a bed of rocks around a pier)
None of this is a part of .NET itself, rather a part of ecosystem of its libraries, like ASP.NET Core, EF Core, etc.

Again: it is not a part of the language or runtime. If you do, however, have links to code changes that prove otherwise - please do post them.

Meanwhile, COM interests only a limited part of community, and there also exists actively maintained https://github.com/microsoft/CsWin32

A popular (if not the most, depending on location) choice to use EF Core with is PostgreSQL.

Meanwhile, ASP.NET Core simply continues to evolve just like other libraries, whether they are a part of dotnet/* or not.

GUI continues to get better with development of AvaloniaUI, Uno and MAUI.

.NET as a whole is way bigger than some of it's "first-party" solutions that you don't even have to use, that have little impact on language, runtime and compiler themselves aside from "this is a good demonstration where we can improve the general case". There also exists Unity, many companies using completely non-standard stacks on top of the language, etc. But you deliberately choose to ignore this information for unknown reasons.

It is genuinely bewildering to see this kind of flawed and strange impression of the ecosystem not rooted in reality. I suppose addressing this involves reading documentation and source material, which perhaps proves too challenging.
current age != lifespan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy

> if tomorrow we decided to build a new bridge next to every old bridge, average lifespan would half.

The only way building a bunch of new bridges changes lifespan is if we changed how they where built.

Figuring out lifespan rather than age is at best an approximation after looking at the bridges that didn't survive and the condition of bridges that do, but the uncertainty is low.
I think one might struggle to pipe clotted cream, or produce anything so 'elegant' with it.

It's thick, being mostly fat (often >60%). At least in Cornwall, it's often bought in plastic tubs like ice cream (it will hold its shape, not flow), not jars or bottles.
Columbia Bar pilots are grossly underpaid.
The DC was doing well, but the bank account was already overdrawn.

Piracy wasn't a big factor, since very very few people had broadband and CD-R drives in 2000. The attach rate was reportedly better than average. And the MS thing was just the availability of middleware that a few games used.
We agree then that limiting access to alcohol is appropriate at some age level. Different countries do it at different ages. What is optimal is society dependent.

I gather then that we are in agreement that limiting access to social media is appropriate at some age level. We perhaps disagree at what age that ought to occur.
To be clear, the best available version of Gemini has barely caught up with what OpenAI released over a year ago.

Google's a year behind. They haven't really caught up.
Google Play has started to hijack apps installed from Fdroid. As the keys don't match the upade fails and is stuck in the updates available notification. In essence breaking manual check for updates, because the button to check for update is the same as show updates.
I am currently writing a CFR Tree that has nodes that can be self-referential. https://github.com/elliottneilclark/rs-poker/pull/92

The idea is that every game of poker is a walk through a tree. Keeping track of probabilities and outcomes allows for exploration of the correct way to play. Using indices made building the tree easier (though I am still one bug away from it all working).
It's a very good XR headset. My primary use is to use it as a portable display, so I'm not chained to my desk all day. Also great for travel. Great to watch movies too.

Since it runs most iPad apps, it can be used for some light productivity workflows even without a Mac. You can use Bluetooth keyboard if you need to type a lot, but the virtual keyboard is surprisingly decent for quick replies.
I have been frustrated with how project management tools make it hard for engineering teams to see the impact of their work on the product. I built Beacon (https://anvilyard.com/beacon), to fix this. Instead of focusing on moving a ticket to done, I am trying to get teams to think of how their tickets get the team closer to a product goal. I know there are a lot of cultural elements at play in an organization that affect how teams measure their progress, but I am trying to shape the tools we all use to make it easier to focus on end goals, not just features.
It was. Kalinske tried to push back, but for some reason after all of his success at SoA, SoJ kept undercutting him in the mid 90s with the 32X and early Saturn launch.
Why do you think religious people embracing someone like Trump says anything at all about the relative power of religion? Would a stronger church not demand greater conformity in its supported candidates, not less? In twenty years, the percentage of Americans who are members of churches has dropped from 70% to 47%. In 1991, 87% of Americans ages 18-35 identified as Christian. In 2019 it was less than fifty percent.
sure at a high level but the podcast contains actual practical reasons why even the people who wanted to do it inside google couldnt
It feels weird, doesn't it? I have been warning people about this for a number of years now, but they would label me conspiracy theorist...now they tasting their own medicine and go bananas; well, I warned you people lol!
We can build non-religious communities with good governance and inviting attendees. We desperately need it.
Its not obvious to me either. Let alone the opportunity cost.