skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the same reaction! I was excited about this article before realizing that "only elementary functional programming techniques" promised in the abstract actually means a full programming language used by 1% of programmers.
Other than the control scheme Outer Wilds really could not be more different to Descent.
It was the same thing in mathematics. For example, when Edmund Landau defined pi as "twice the value of the unique zero of cos in the interval [0, 2]" (a very common definition) instead of geometrically, this was attacked as being "un-German" (even though you can obviously go from the geometric to the analytic definition and vice versa).

https://institucional.us.es/blogimus/en/2017/03/pi-and-the-n...
Great! Brings back memories of descent 1 & 2. I played d1 for hours over the early internet. My favorite level was Minerva and my arch enemy was named “upinya”. Amazing what the brain remembers from so long ago.
A Model-Based and Imitation Learning Deep Reinforcement Learning Hybrid
Oh man, used to play this sooo much. Single player and multi...what a wonderful game. This was back when Softice ruled the world so I'd have infinite health/ammo in SP mode =]. I'd love to get this building. If I wasn't crap at c++ I'd try to help.
It certainly helped develop 3D spacial memory, and most people adapted to the game play in a few hours.

Probably needed to develop a less-repetitive story-line to keep people engaged... The traps were so cheesy sometimes. =)
I love the "version control" being comments at the top of the file with a timestamp.

Simpler times!

What a ton of work building a game is.
Elon Musk complained about bot spam while buying Twitter in hopes to drive it's value down.

Elon Musk does absolutely nothing about bot spam after buying Twitter in hopes of not driving it's value down.
Not arguing with your point but “killed to death” sounds like an awesome metal band name
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I could never get into Descent. I liked the flying around in 3D bit, but the fact that the levels were truly 3D (ie, didn't have a ground and up/down) meant I was always getting disoriented and lost. I just didn't enjoy that feeling.
It seems like most of those layoffs are a rather cynical ploy to create a temporary stock boost and pay for a buyback, maybe with some labor market manipulation (specifically, scaring developers into accepting lower wages, not unionizing, and not demanding remote work) getting done along the way. Tesla, like many tech companies and auto manufacturers, but also like most American businesses, essentially drives its decision-making around some complicated financial game the plutocrats are playing with stocks, increasingly to the detriment of anything us mere mortals can comprehend like making and/or selling goods and/or services
> Writing replaceable code instead of maintainable code seems to be already working for a lot of projects.

I contend that these two concepts aren't different. If you have the ability to easily replace a small part of the code and have everything still work, then that's very maintainable. Unless you are talking about throwing out the whole codebase and replacing it, which for sufficiently complex codebases will inevitably lead to the second system effect. If replacing the whole thing is easy, it was probably not that valuable or complex to begin with, but that's not the kind of code where maintainability is paramount.

> It already works for infrastructure as nowadays servers are not fixed and treated like important things but you spin up fresh one.

For that metaphor to work, the programmer would have to be patching the binary output instead of fixing the source code and recompiling.
Convinced? :-)
we still do that, sigh
Why not? This place isn't very far from the Kennedy Space Center.
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German:

I plan to use ELSTER.
I played the original Descent over kali.net back in the day. Man, what great memories.
Once you force pay-to-post schemes, you are shutting down new adopters.

Once your inflow of new adopters trickles to a halt, your business is dead.
Strange. Were you running out of battery? This method is relatively lightweight and runs smoothly on my older iPhone.
We originally used Microsoft Source Safe, which added the comments for us. I think Source Safe made us lock a file to make changes, which was a PITA. I think we made a lot of the decisions on where to break out code on a file by file basis because of that. Later, we moved to Perforce, which is good for larger binary files.
Back in the day the first “computer graphics” class we had at uni was on a tektronix 4010. You would build 3D models and rotate them and display the movement on the monitor. This was when all screens were green text only in a time share system.
Doesn't Canada (or maybe individual provinces) also have artificially imposed limits on how many new doctors there can be each year?
Web Archive version:

- https://web.archive.org/web/20240415221214/https://wizardlm....
Describing this as "on San Andreas" seems deceptive. It's a particular unpopulated location.
Yes, the client includes ssh-keygen.
MicroG means that there is a mechanism to spoof app signatures, which is a core security measure.
> its not exactly a panacea for the real woes of the world.

It specifically may not be, but "when it doesn't cost you much, do something to improve the lives of those who are very unlikely to ever do anything for you in return" could indeed help the real woes of the world if such a general attitude were more widespread.

EDIT: shout out to Marmota marmota

Langiappe: "mousie 'pik'" (1978) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0I3YgFLSy8
We had a ubiquitous continental data network back then. You can see it in operation in the old historical film, "You've Got Mail". The floppy installation disks were so plentiful they probably form a sedimentary stratum future geologists will use to identify the era.
Storing date in compressed json consist of:

- converting every number into its sequence of digits in decimal notation,

- writing those one character at a time,

- also write the string representation of the label of each value repeatedly for every record,

- compress all this with a structure-unaware generic text compression algorithm based on longest match search.

Each time you want to read that data, undo all of the above in reverse order.

You can optimize to some degree, but that's basically it.

I expect that not doing any of this saves the time spent doing it.
I also expect data type aware compression to be much more efficient than text compressing the text expansion.

In numbers, I expect 2 to 3 orders of magnitude difference in time and also in space (for non random data).
Could Salesforce-Informatica Acquisition Create a Data Queen?
May i ask what is your first choice?
You spin up a fresh server from a cookie cutter image that lets you create a practically unlimited number of identical servers.

That's not even remotely like how rewriting code works. Rewriting code is more comparable to what spinning up a fresh server was like a quarter century ago. So, back in the days where they were important things because spinning up a new one was an unholy PITA and literally never went off without a hitch.
Market segmentation is a thing. Chasing price sensitive consumers doesn’t necessarily make you very profitable.
> Predictable Elon Musk dunking, but I'd like to see other people's ideas.

Not firing teams responsible for enforcing terms of service.

Not firing teams responsible for moderation.

Not destroying the purpose of user verification systems and turning them instead to a negligible revenue scheme.

Should I go on?
Okay, to put it differently, hyper-local community decision-making, in isolation, might make decisions that are good for that particular community at the cost of the rest of a city. People don't want bike lanes on their street because it means less on-street parking and more difficulty pulling out onto the road, even if they broadly think cycling is a good idea. People can make reasonable decisions that are in the interests of the "community", and it leads to dysfunction. Doesn't mean "we know better" it means coordination has to happen on a higher level.
> They were also more likely to settle for a role that was misaligned with their college degree, or in an entirely different industry.

This is not necessarily a bad thing. Trained as a programmer, went into web-designed, burned out, now I'm an assistant office manager at a busy medical practice in a rural area, and programming is a fun hobby not a daily grind. And you know what, it's fine.

Lovely fresh air, beautiful food that hasn't been stored and shipped and given a stupid little plastic sticker and sold, peace and quiet. Cities are feedlots for people.
Manufacturing Bliss
RebornOS: A beautiful user-friendly take on Arch Linux with many desktop options
The "login" dialog on Windows 95 was just providing network credentials. Windows 95 is a single-user OS. There is no actual login or security.
ah, I made the dependency optional, since it all goes through an index.ts it still attemps to load React, true.

I'll find a way around this, or maybe split the package into a react version and a vanilla version. Thanks for the feedback! I think you're right, a custom element would be nice to have
This just goes to show yet again that healthcare and markets are largely incompatible if you want to have good outcomes and ethical treatment of people.
I don't know how great the books in this particular list are, but it looks like some people are trying:
https://archive.org/details/mathematics_202103
I'm on mac so unfortunately not, I've done a lot of hacking to get my fonts looking mostly correct though.

I've noticed a lot of screenshots and screenshares of people using emacs look similarly blurry though including the screenshots in this blog post.
As to your direct question: I used some Pis for TV dashboards at work and had some random bit flips on the SD card and corrupted files for the dashboards. It may be "rare," but seems inevitable on a long enough timeline. For toy projects where you can re-image the SD card it's alright, but even for my trivial personal projects it made me uneasy.

100% to backups. I know we all put off doing it, but you'll rest a lot easier, even with personal data you don't think you care about. It's not only about a hardware failure, but even a fluke sysadmin error where you accidentally nuke something. I'd recommend getting a account for Backblaze B2, and setting up restic on each Pi to at least daily backup the data directories and stuff you care about. For your Gitlab it's a bit less risky since presumably you also have a clone of each repo on some other machine.

I love that people are building small datacenters out of Pis. I haven't done the math as far as TCO, but instead of multiple Pis for self-hosting, I have a lonely secondhand Dell Precision with an old 8th gen Intel CPU (6C/12T), 64GB of RAM, and several TB of NVMe plus some spinning rust for the long term stuff. It's just a crazy amount of horsepower. Most trusted workloads run as containers, and my other experiments can run as VMs, and I have capacity in all the right places (I need disk and RAM more than CPU). Not as exciting as building a cluster, but I have the excess capacity to spin up multiple VMs on that one machine, if I want to play with that. It can get very Inception-like, what if I'm running VMs in KubeVirt on top of Kubernetes that is running on a cluster of VMs that are ultimately on a single machine, but while delegating whatever extra /64 IPv6 prefixes Comcast gave me to each of the bottom-layer VMs so that each pod still gets a globally routable IPv6 address. Cool times for the homelab stuff, and helped me understand things like Kubernetes and IPv6 to a much greater depth.
The head of the App Store is claiming that he doesn't specifically track whether or not it's profitable.

I simply don't believe that. He's either playing word games about the technical definition of "profit", or he's outright lying.

Given Apple's recent behaviour with respect to the EU ruling on alternative market places, I'm thinking it's more likely a combination of the two.
Bitter taste receptor activation by cholesterol and an intracellular tastant
Even if you don't if your game is popular enough they will reverse engineer the server-client communication protocol.

The only place where I see that not happening is the future where game are 100% streamed and your computers is just a screen + controller (stadia 2.0). Then they'll have to settle for knock off clones of your game.
When I was studying in the US, my roommate was studying to become a "physician assistant" — a concept I think is brilliant. I don't think there's anything similar in my own country.

But I was wondering if more physician assistants would help the doctors. Maybe they could take care of the paperwork and all those things as well.
I'm not super familiar with Darwin, but I am skeptical on the grounds that macOS doesn't have containers, which are constructed from the same primitives as a sandbox.
Is there a way to possibly formalise GNU Autotools so it can be edited by a GUI?
CMake has a GUI which is nice, but it's likely because the CMake settings is highly formalised.

But Autotools does have a lot of commonality so if we restrict the autotool configuration into a structure (and give enough par-sable annotations) then it might just be possible to do something similar.
Recently, I've been looking for a suitable stack for another pet project. Personally my go-to stack is Remix.

But I want to use a server other than the default provided by Remix, i.e minimal Express. So, I found Hono. It looks interesting because it can run on many runtimes, and this time I want to try using Bun.

After researching Hono, it turns out it can render JSX directly from the server, which piqued my interest. Then I tried to make the JSX interactive, and finally, I used htmx. Lol.

And just yesterday, after spending hours I found a way to use PDFKit with Hono (Bun runtime), so I created a gist for reference:

https://gist.github.com/mansarip/eb11b66e7dc65cee988155275a1...

Anyway I'm still cautious about putting this Hono + htmx stack into production use.
San Andreas is a transform fault, also known as a 'strike-slip' fault.

These generally do not cause as much damage as a subduction zone event, also known as dip-slip. An example of this type of event (dip-slip) would be the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, or the violent 1700 Cascadia Megathrust Earthquake.

Personally, Cascadia is /more/ dangerous than any strike-slip earthquakes like SA. We have sedimentation records of massive Cascadia tsunamis going back to about ~900CE.
Can AI read our minds? Probably not but that doesn't mean we shouldn't worry
Yeah, I was thinking the people who were showing this advanced tech thing were also likely the ones who could extrapolate where online was going.

But did they imagine that many techies a few decades in the future would be interested in the home video they were making?
WeakRef has slow performance and degrades runtime perf on Node.js and Deno
Hallucinations are lies. So not the same thing.
The resulting style looks really cool. This would definitely be doable with the GPU. A halfway-step could be to draw rects on canvas too— it should be faster than the DOM approach, but less complicated than writing a GPU shader.
Better open your eyes while reading.

Me:

X/Twitter wants new users to pee a fay.

Why not? Combine it with rage and you have a sustainable business. I don't have an X account by myself (nor FB, insta, tikitiki or other social webs..) but, whenever I really wanted to create one, each time was, because I strongly didn't agree. I wasn't so bad angry, but. Seen more like this pronounced, I could pay for and then SHOUT EVERYONE TO THE GROUND! :)

It's a barrier for normal people not like me. I think x is transferring to a sender->receiver system. A broadcaster for a few who pay and a receiver as the ordinary and straightous men.

Less traffic, less costs, more profitability. X needs to reduce the massive utilisation of Hardware. That's the only way for them to save money, a.k.a. keep the costs low.

I'm my social circle, quite a few people do not like this kind of transition. They argument X is publicly important. I don't agree with :)
> On the web, no one can force you change the app you already shipped and no one can change the rules under which it operates.

This isn't entirely true, in practice.

It's not as bad as iOS, but browsers & search engines can effectively change the rules on you, even on the web. APIs you rely on can be deprecated, browsers can change their behavior, search engines can change your app's visibility, etc.
not just cats, dogs take on harrassing any koalas they might come across
That's one week before my birthday. Do you think you could push it back 7 days?
I know what you mean about remembering weird stuff from many years ago. I still remember the IP address of the server of my first website in 1995 (because it had no domain name, I had to know the IP address to show people the website). Occasionally I'll think of the name from a random IRC/AIM/etc. user I talked with 20+ years ago. :)
You can try our experimental BPM/Flow tool at shiftx.com/ai. Importing the AI generated flows will be possible in a few days
This website is awful. No contact page. No byline. Poor editing. Feels like it was put together by AI (Artificial Intelligence) and with low effort.

Is flag it but I'd like to know if I'm alone in my assessment.
Thank you. Your writeup helped make it click!
Someone needs to fix the title. Not sure why you were downvoted. Current title is nonsensical.
I agree it's not conclusive, so I shouldn't have said "false", but the FBI says it was most likely a lab leak [1].

Your article starts by calling it a "false myth" so they're clearly still in the political partisanship trap whatever the outcome of some bet. Anybody who's certain it was of natural origin is just being fooled by the news and some prominent scientists who made some intentionally misleading statements.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/28/politics/wray-fbi-covid-o...
I find apple's treatment of monitors kind of weird.

PC graphics cards just have a plentiful supply of video outputs, say a mix of HDMI and DP.

But apple has always used dongles, many of which are basically small computers that can basically convert one video signal to another on-the-fly.

(I don't know if USB-C to DP is an electrical conversion or has logic)

But the complexity involved is probably a steaming heap of corner cases for the driver. And apple has probably tested and prioritized bugs for their hardware, but 3rd party monitors are probably hit or miss.
I think you're right. That's the way I use it in the app I built this for:

https://twitter.com/aykev/status/1780000204122460484

It's more code, so I said "later". I also wanted the first example to be easy to read so people wouldn't get lost in the source. But since it's such a common use-case I think I'll add it too. Thanks for the feedback!
This is how I’ve had the most success in the absence of a CMS. Automate dumping of the website text into Google Docs/Sheets and have people edit those.
> Name a storage brand without such a reputation?

Sorry, I should have included the qualifier recent.

Western Digital has had several recent high profile data loss issues

Of course you won't find a storage vendor with a spotless history, but Western Digital flash devices are spontaneously failing in the past 2 years and there's no solid indication that they've actually fixed the root cause in the affected products.
I've been mulling over this weird idea that we should all be using an Edge (Web) Framework that manages the layouts + static site content, then pulls in either JSON or pre-rendered HTML templates from the more dynamic db-driven backends (which can then be in any language, and mapped to any path, and can be a majestic monolith or many microservices, whichever).

It would free things up so much - the backend team can focus on JSON/HTML templates, the designers can work directly with the website without necessarily going through dev (for better or worse ;), marketing can add all their little trackers, easy to outsource parts, and you could build up an entire cross-language ecosystem of plugins that manage anything from user accounts, billing, wikis, blogs, knowledge base, admin CRUD systems, ... yet it's all on the same site from the end user's perspective.

I think there are multiple enterprises that have (also re-)invented this architecture, but I haven't seen any serious open source offering that focuses on this type of use.
Ok "yes" if you're willing to ignore actual diagnostic criteria in favor of "whatever I decide the criteria is". Oxygen saturation isn't what they use, and lack of oxygen is not the issue with apnea.

Id normally let your comment go unresponded, but you are giving dangerous advice.
Wasn’t it cancelled last year?
TIL the "Bob Bilby" stuffy from Bluey is based on a real animal.
Re 6. Listing so many mistakes the System Administrator surely never does is Blasphemy!
No Javascript required:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/worklife/article/20240409-heroic-jobs-...
They have so many great songs. That's what I find so compelling about Low. Usually on an album I take a liking to 1 or 2 songs and the rest are kind of meh. With a Low album it's kind of the other way around. There might be 2 'meh' songs on an album and the rest are just amazing.

Here's another really good one of their first album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaSVkb_XLt4 (Lullaby)

(wish those first couple of albums were still available)
I prefer it! It's definitely more verbose, but as someone who doesn't do graphics usually, I find it fits my mental model a little better.

I tried to build this using WebGL before WebGPU was publicly available, but WebGL is very tailored to certain workflows and I didn't make much progress. It really felt like I was using the wrong tool for the job. Maybe I'm just too much of a noob... though I did manage to build it with WebGPU after all haha.
Reader: Convert any URL to an LLM-friendly input
Nothing wrong with wanting it, but a research paper is not the place to express personal opinions on how other people should behave. It's not a result they got from their own work, just rhetoric they know they're supposed to repeat, perhaps for safety of their careers, or perhaps because they unethically want to use their platform for activism.
Yes. I do similar, and it's still working this year.

I recently switched to using snapshots of a better-maintained Windows install with multiple softwares, instead of previously one or two barebones installed programs per VM.
> I was once told that the difference between a behavior being an addiction or the same behavior not being an addiction is that the non-addicted do the thing for some positive physical or psychological effect. The addicted do the thing in order to avoid a negative physical or psychological effect.

TIL I am addicted to flossing.
Kinda funny that this article gets cut off by a paywall
What will happen as inference cost goes down is RAG will just be one master LLM calling a bunch of smaller LLMs spanning the context window of every document you are querying. Context windows went from 8k to like 128k or more in like a year. In a few years we will have practically unlimited context windows for minimal cost.
No, the 8x22 (~140B) is more powerful than the 70B, it had higher eval score according to the blog. But 70B was based on LLama whereas the 8x22 and 7B were mixtral/mistral-based.
I'm not convinced that "laziness" is a weakness of human nature. Businesses are ultimately a way to specialize production without central planning. Allocating some people to bake all the bread in a factory frees up other people who would otherwise have to spend an hour or two every day baking bread. Or from a market perspective, you're willing to pay a premium for not having to put in the labour. Businesses certainly can be exploitative, but I don't think all or even most of them are by nature.