skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a very common scam in my neck of the woods as well. I'm constantly receiving emails with text like "your package is held up at customs, please pay $2.50 to release it".

Are enough people buying online AND losing track of their orders that they will just blindly take the bait? I fail to see how this vector is more lucrative than the "your computer is infected" route.

Anecdotally for me, roughly once every ~10-20 orders does the attack coincide with an order that I'm waiting for. But then I know where the order is coming from, I know which courier is handling my package, and the store 9/10 times have an online tracker and the shop itself will alert me if there are any delivery shenanigans going on.
As someone who's also been the subject of harassment and terrorism by the tax authorities in another EU country, your comment gave me Vietnam War flashbacks.

Hang in there. The only way out is through.
> What I think might improve performance is running N search strategies with multiple variations of the search phrase and picking up the best answer. But this is currently expensive and slow.

Eerily similar to Thinking Fast and Slow, and may help explain (when combined with biological and social evolutionary theory) why people have such a strong aversion to System 2 thinking.
Yes, the phrase can absolutely be used in a way that adds clarity. The majority of the time, though, it doesn't. It's more like a verbal tic.

It's one of the standard phrases that people should double-check when they find themselves using it, to make sure it's really called for.
Worth noting that this also impacts the great https://github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference, which allows anyone to run state of the art embeddings with great performance.
The heavy lifting is done by glfw though.
Hello, fellow colorblind person! Certainly, better color expression doesn't hurt us. And depending on the severity of your color deficiency, the wider range of available colors in large-gamut color spaces can enable us to more easily distinguish between colors that might otherwise appear similar or identical in sRGB.
IIRC most "native" apps in elementaryOS are written in Vala.
Sure, but so what. I don't want the government to censor my social media feeds to remove foreign trolls. That's my problem, and inevitably government efforts to silence foreign trolls would be expanded to suit the governing party.

The U.S. tries to influence politics in other countries. Recently Senate majority leader Schumer publicly called for new elections in Israel. I don't think the Israeli government should try to protect its citizens from such foreign interference.
It's not good if people start expecting a catastrophe as soon as you say "we may have a slight hiccup"

People adjust and you would be forced to be more and more positive if you want to just sound neutral.
> Even on death’s doorstep, Trevor was not angry. In fact, he staunchly supported the stance promoted by his elected officials. “Ain’t no way I would ever support Obamacare or sign up for it,” he told me. “I would rather die.” When I asked him why he felt this way even as he faced severe illness, he explained: “We don’t need any more government in our lives. And in any case, no way I want my tax dollars paying for Mexicans or welfare queens.” [0]

[0]https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/jonathan-m-metzl-dying...
Medical debt is different. The legal system frowns on people running up credit card debt to pay for PS5s or nice vacations with no intention of ever paying it back. That's tantamount to theft. Most medical debt is involuntary and necessary to survive. It doesn't make sense for it to have the same penalties as other forms of credit.

In general in the US, life saving or emergency medical care is administered without regard for the patient's ability to pay. Hospitals are already subsidized or compensated in various ways for this. The real issue is preventative or precautionary care. If Americans had that for free, like with the NHS, there would be fewer $XXX,XXX debts later in life.
if self-hosting, that may very well be correct.

a few examples of a self-hosted design that would not, include policy-based routing over a VPN with one or multiple tunneled hops, or through another external proxy. (and then there's also that 'onion' routing 'protocol' there—but i'm not clear if/how that integrates with clearnet destinations like publicly-accessible search engines if at all.)
That was always the case, as far as I'm aware of.

Edit: it's probably possible to resubmit an old article and resurface it back.

Which works as intended
hacker news finally did something about reposts and automatically upvoted the post.

"Finally"? Yeah, like what, ten years ago? Sorry for the pedantry, but maybe not ten years, but it's been a number of years that if one submits something that's already submitted, it upvotes the first submission and takes you to the comments.
When I tried it many years ago it was a really leaky abstraction over GObject and C. If you didn't understand exactly how it worked under the hood, stuff would segfault on you pretty regularly. But I suppose that's par for the course in the GObject universe.
"taken by suprise"

When looking at 3d Acceleration cards on PCs, I believe PowerVR (and 3dfx) was released in 1996. Beforehand would have demonstrated their technology at conferences, shows.. with demos and adverts before they were released... this means SGI must have seen this coming as early as 1994.

In as little as 4 years... Graphics Cards were required for PC gamers!
I'd argue that it's actually a good thing that the author ignored keyboard latency. We all have different keyboards plugged into different USB interfaces plugged into different computers running different versions of different operating systems. Throw hubs and KVMs into the mix, too.

If the latency of those components varies wildly over the course of the test, it would introduce noise that reduces our ability to analyze the exact topic of the article - VTE's latency improvements.

Even if the latency of those components were perfectly consistent over the course of the author's test, then it wouldn't affect the results of the test in absolute terms, and the conclusion wouldn't change.

This exact situation is why differences in latency should never be expressed as percentages. There are several constants that can be normalized for a given sample set, but can't be normalized across an entire population of computer users. The author does a good job of avoiding that pitfall.

The Mutter thing is interesting. The author holds that constant, and GNOME sits on top of Mutter, so I think it's reasonable to assume we'd see the same absolute improvement in latency. GNOME may also introduce its own undesirable variance, just like keyboard latency. I'd be very curious to see if those guesses holds up.
I have to wonder whether Dorfman and Mattelart got to that one
> But come back on prem to what?

Proxmox seems ok. Does HA too. :)

https://proxmox.com
They're not mounted at all? Texas also has wind, and storms, and tornados. I'd think panels literally lying loose on the ground would be at too much risk of blowing away, or getting covered in mud.

I can maybe see just mounting them to concrete sleepers or something....
Ah! That's the bit of context I was lacking. Thanks
>Credit score is highly overrated, no?

Credit checks and score can also affect insurance rates. A bad score can also prevent job candidates from being hired for some jobs in some industries.

>No one's buying houses,

Even in scenarios of not buying a house... e.g. Getting a new loan on a primary home via re-financing an existing mortgage or taking a 2nd mortgage requires a good credit score.

Even if one is not getting a home mortgage, renters can be denied from leasing apartments because of credit score.
You save maybe a few thousand dollars in solar panels by installing the flat plate, but you have to validate the additional structure.
I see this comment all the time but it falls apart when you try and actually implement IDE features.

Fundamentally, an abstract syntax tree is a canonical representation of a program in one grammar. You cannot standardize it, because different languages have different grammars, and therefore different abstract syntax trees.

You also don't want an abstract syntax tree for IDE features at all, you want a concrete (or full) syntax tree - since ASTs are lossy and don't represent the text. Another barrier is that constructing an AST usually requires the input to be correct and complete, but most of the time, source code is incomplete and invalid. It doesn't make sense to cache the AST because it is invalidated nearly every key stroke - you want to be able to construct an AST for performing the queries you need as fast as possible in the context of invalid input.

And finally, you still need to have the source text to display anything useful to the user. So you're not saving any work by using a cached AST, you're not saving memory or disk, and you still need the plaintext anyway.

All that said, there is such a thing as the language server index format (LSIF) which LSPs can provide as a cache to clients that support LSP for performing queries on rarely invalidated source (eg dependencies) but it's not super useful for code in flight.
I’m not citing them to you. I’m citing them to other readers here who do not have your attitude of dismissing arguments unless they’re made by someone in authority, in which case your proclaim them valid, and coincidentally supporting your viewpoint (even when they don’t; again, I urge readers to actually read Geoff Huston’s blog post for themselves). You’re literally making an argument from authority and making an ad hominem argument at the same time.

Edit: Is this authoritative enough for you? <https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/dnssec-what-is-it-why-...>
I'm all about the compromise. I don't mind waiting for an answer but I'm often hassled for a response in my role and then I need an update from another member of the team. If that response is not forthcoming guess who gets the follow up? Now I'm badgering people who are probably busy but have neglected to tell me and I'm now the block in the pipe to those above me. I don't mind a pat response that they're busy but someone somewhere always needs a status update.
The top 1 percentile was a gross understatement that I should have removed immediately ;) I agree with many commenters.

I would, however, like to point out that 20th century had many, many great minds, also working in the same timeframe. Claude Shannon comes to mind first, but there were many others whose contributions are the basis of technology today.
At least when I was there last year, if you head left from the entrance there's a couple booths there. Usually at least one is staffed.

Also if I remember at Tergooi MC you needed to register in their system anyways before an appointment. In the past they issued a little plastic card at the very same booth.
I'm not a medical expert, but I would guess that the initial diagnosis and treatment of a serious medical issue is more expensive, than the maintenance of a chronic condition that is already diagnosed and defined.

Regardless, the US medical system sucks. If any other industry was run like our current medical system, it would be torn down in a heartbeat by Congress. But there is too much money moving around and those in charge love them some money.
That holds the same for airplane pilots as well. I love this lecture by Mike Patey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1nXjPhGrwY&t=2943s&pp=ygUZb...
Yeah - the idea is simple - but there are so many variations as to what makes a good chunk. If it is a program - then lines are good, but maybe you'd like to set the boundaries at block endings or something. And for regular text - then maybe sentences would be better than lines? Or paragraphs. And maybe it should not go beyond a boundary for a text section or chapter. And then there might also be tables. With tables - the good solution would be to fit some rows - but maybe the headers should also be copied together with the rows in the middle? But if a previous chunk with the headers was already loaded - then maybe not duplicate the headers?
>CD-R is the best digital format for archiving.

And now you have to store hundreds of CDs somewhere in a climate-controlled manner

You're gonna get what ... 100 (maybe? probably more like 50-60 (if they're high-quality images)) photos per CD? Say you [only] have a 1000 photos - you need 10-20 CDs

Ramp that number up to what seems to be a lot more common (say 100+ "keepers" per month), and you're burning a CD every month just to keep pace, or about a dozen a year

And that is just photos - haven't gotten into video yet (an increasingly-common file type)

Then you also need a way to read them later (integral CD/DVD drives are not especially common any more on most systems - so you also need to keep extra hardware handy)

And that external hardware is going to need devices that connect to it - USB-A is still pretty common ... but it's becoming less so

Anyone remember Firewire? SCSI? I do ... but they have all gone the way of the dodo bird

CDs degrade over time - commercially-produced less than home-burned...but they're distinctly not permanent media

If you move to DVD-R, you expand the number of images you can store from ~50-100 per disc to ~400-800 ... so you're burning one (just for photos) every quarter to half year - just to keep up

Or you can pay Apple $10/mo for 2TB[0] of storage

Or BackBlaze a $100/year[1] for "unlimited" storage (there's a limit somewhere ... but it's pretty high) for a single user

If you want to run your own archiving service/process ... be my guest (I do it by running NextCloud on a server) - but it is not for everyone (I also pay for OneDrive via my 365 subscription and the 2TB iCloud service for all our family devices (laptops, iPads, iPhones))

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[0] https://support.apple.com/en-afri/108047

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup/pricing
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (2010)
The needs and risk profiles of Google are vastly different than basically every other organization on Earth.

(I also note that you didn’t answer my question, and instead opted for a rhetorical cheap shot reply to my second paragraph only.)
I don't know what this has to do with "terminals", other than the author is using this to benchmark this.

According to the author, Gnome 46's Mutter, when in direct mode (which windowed apps do not use, so the benchmark is partially invalid; useful for gamers, but not much else) is faster.

Thats great. Gnome is now possibly as fast as all the wlroots-based Wayland WMs (Sway, River, Hyprland, etc) and KDE's Kwin.

I've looked into why Mutter has historically been the worst WM on Linux for the longest time: it makes a lot of assumptions that "smoother == better", no matter the cost. OSX's WM does the same thing, so they felt justified.

If you lag more than 1 frame, it is noticeable to non-gamers; ergo, a latency of between 16 and 32ms (since WMs do not full-time VRR, although they could, and maybe should) once the app flushes their draw commands; this is on top of whatever the app did, which may also be assuming 60hz.

Modern WMs try to get latency down as far as possible, even implementing "direct mode" which directly displays the fullscreen app's framebuffer, instead of compositing it, thus zero latency added by the WM itself.
Isn't HBM really more expensive than DDR5 because of licence fees due to patents?

Personnaly, I prefer to wonder what would be the technical challenges to replace DRAM with SRAM (16 or 32 GB), I would not considere the cost first.
the actual end user security could get the same love.

the privilege escalation dialog is mostly a windows 10 copy, but just shows: allow dbus.something.something"? the name is always meaningless and have no parameters. and there's zero way to get more information. windows at least shows the binary or PowerShell command plus the arguments.
I put Gentoo+Xfce on Lenovo x86. Not sure what to do about touch display and rotate (fancy laptop).

I've not tried an ARM laptop but this setup also works on RPi.
I will make that substitution, thank you!

Someone told me about that organ. I had just added it to my backlog. I have never played a real organ. I wonder how Taylor Swift's music would sound on an organ...
Six Video Games (Sorry, 'Simulators') the US Military Used for Training
I'm responding to the parent "It effectively puts the entire country into a position where unless a citizen is born relatively wealthy..."

Sure the thread is about limited-liability, but parent argues as if non-wealthy people can't form businesses, which is not true.
The same also seems true in football/soccer for
reasons that I don't quite understand. It wasn't
ever really my sport, and I don't get why those guys
are so shredded everywhere.

They're not just running in straight lines. They're making all kinds of lateral cuts and contorting their body in various ways as they jockey for position with other players for contested balls, on set pieces, etc. Those things rely heavily on core abdominal strength. They also use their arms quite a bit, which is why they are not just withered vestigal appendages.
> Have you ever registered for driving school?

What's so difficult about that? That was 10 minutes long process for me. I changed cities so I had to change the driving school as well and there were no issues at all.

> Have you ever tried changing from one driving instructor to another?

I haven't but my school encourages people to do that if they find that they don't click with their instructor.

Not arguing with the rest though.
You say this as if any game is actually as optimized as it could be which if you know anything about game development is an absurd assertion. Games are throwaway software programmed under strict deadlines. "Good enough" is the natural result of that. And yes, I have traced games' GPU and library usage due to bugs and performance issues. It's never a question if performance could be introduced but always just a question of how much effort/time it would take.
Not an astronomer, but…

They usually do fly past each other or (at first) rotate like the earth and sun.

For similar reasons to if you drop a marble into a bathtub or sink, it will almost never go straight into the drain immediately.

For it to immediately drop into the drain requires a bunch of velocity vectors to have very specific values (in a just right kind of way) that are statistically improbable in such a chaotic environment.

It’ll occasionally, very rarely, happen of course.

But more likely is that if they don’t just fly past each other (marble flies out of the sink!), is that eventually tidal losses/gravitational wave losses/mass transfers will slow the bodies down relative to each other until they merge.

A much slower version of the marble rolling around, bouncing off things, and losing speed until it drops into the drain.

Depending on the starting states of the system, it could take billions of years, or mere months.

If there are other bodies involved like multiple stars or black holes, one of them might even just get ejected out of the system.

Like if you drop a bunch of marbles into the sink at once, occasionally one of them will get knocked out even if none of them individually would have had the energy to do so, and it will be that much harder for any one of them to fall in since just when it is getting close another marble will come in to knock it away.

That’s essentially what is happening with accretion disks, and why they get so hot.
Explicit Sync Merged into Wayland
Book Review: The Rare Metals War
Go is pretty obnoxious to write GTK programs in. Vala is basically a GTK-native language.
Eclipse Timing Information
Are you married? Putting two people in the mix does create some "fog of war" about expected package deliveries.

I'm not falling for these scams, but I'm also quite ignorant about most of the planned package traffic to my house.
I think the above comment probably meant "where n is number of _pages_".
Go here, then click "go to local timings and animation" (I assume it's IP address based) and then there'll be a neat animation you can adjust showing the level of eclipse by time
Reverst: Reverse Tunnels in Go over HTTP/3 and QUIC
Solar panels are themselves tiled by roundish wafers cut to make squares out of circles. To make them triangles throws away a different tiling advantage.
Do you know the story of the Hungarian Jews?
My initial gut reaction to this was - yeah, of course. But after reading https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/ - I'm not so sure. Why exactly should physical travel time not matter? If a keyboard has a particularly late switch, that _does_ affect the effective latency, does it not?

I can sort of see the argument for post actuation latency in some specific cases, but as a general rule, I'm struggling to come up with a reason to exclude delays due to physical design.
While they never achieved their primary goal I find it difficult to describe the 'expedition' as a failure. That story of three men getting in a row boat and trying to sail to South Africa from Elephant Island leaving the others behind with only THREE sightings for navigation absolutely incredible. That's 000s of miles of open ocean water in a row boat being steered really with just intuition. I can't even begin to fathom the knowledge and experience required for such a journey.
No diodes, no matrix all you need is two microprocessors (in addition to your computer) communicating with each other over custom serial protocol. Definitely the simplest solution.
I didn’t have to leave my bedroom to renew my Irish passport!
So why do LLMs generate sci-fi like responses to questions regarding 'their' intelligence? Because they're sampling from sci-fi.

It's actually quite a funny result for silicon valley's sci-fi obsession: the sci-fi tech elite created a system to reassure themselves of a sci-fi future because it sampled from the very sci-fi they were reading.

A wonderful example of the 'hot reading' mirroring effect of certain form of human-computer interaction, ie., those where we are ourselves surreptitiously providing the information being fed back to us.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this as simple as the camera makers just start digitally signing the photographs and all the news outlets (and anyone else that cares about photo integrity) include that signature in the metadata?

Hardware crypto isn't bulletproof, but it raises the bar considerably.
No. Really no. Some employers do credit checks. It can also impact your ability to just rent an apartment. Way back in the early 2000s I had a poor credit score and it meant 1) having to put down onerous deposits for services* and 2) being declined a few times when I tried to rent an apartment.

I was able to rent an apartment, but it cost me a few non-refundable application fees first and had to take a less-desirable apartment.

A poor credit score will also cost you when it's time to buy a car. You need to buy a new car? Unless you can pay cash, borrowing money is going to cost you more because you have a bad credit score.

* One of the many ways that being broke is a self-perpetuating cycle. You have little money, so you have to cough up deposits and tie up what little money you do have trying to secure services and a place to live. Some of that money you will get back - eventually - some of it (rental deposits) there's a good chance you'll never see again or only see some of. (Obligatory mention of Vimes' Boots theory...)
Something else that’s been noted about wheat farming which would also apply to rice farming - wheat is a visible crop with a defined harvest date, and thus is quite amenable to taxation and state formation, whereas, say, potato farming is harder to make legible to the state.

I wonder if similar studies have been done on farmers’ attitudes towards the validity of authority.