skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heard good stuff about Dirty Cables: https://dirtypcbs.com/store/cables
Not a native speaker, but this got me thinking: how would you interpret "halfway" in this sentence:

>It’s not halfway across the globe

Equator is 40k km long, so it makes sense getting "halfway" there would be 20k km. But the "half" is of something, and it doesn't sound right that "at the end of the globe" would be the same place you started with. Especially since being "on the other end of the world" means roughly, well, opposite side of the globe.

So I think OP is justified in defining "across the globe" as the "opposite side of the world", and then "halfway across the globe" is "quarter the length of equator away". But maybe I'm overthinking it.
Well, there is RUFF LSP https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-lsp
I generally avoid smart appliances, but this weekend I've realized it would be nice to have the washer be able to use the high precision "find my" features to tell me a device is IN the washer.
I may start publishing academic papers in XAI as part of a PhD; if I do, I'll share somehow. The problem is the asymmetry of bullshit: the size of paper necessary for academics to feel that claims have been evidenced is book-length for critique but 2pg for "novel contributions".
imo it's more abt limitations, not abt opportunities. You get all the stuff a line project provides, but better, if you build in all directions. You get higher density, cheaper housing, more businesses, less segregation, less maintenance cost. And you'll definitely need to travel longer depending on the needs that are usually nonconstant for people, at some point youll need something from the other end while in a dense classic area,because of density, there's more stuff that you may need that's also closer to you.

All this project is just about creating a lot of limitations and thinking about ways to reduce those limitations with a huge cost while not having a clear defined benefit. You get the same stuff as in this project by just living close to a subway with the advantage that you still get more stuff because of density while the city remains much more flexible to dynamic demand (buildings can be easily adapted for businesses or for living, you get more area to create parks, etc). Inelastic cities are very vulnerable to the demand change (when demographics are changing(aging or ppl having more kids, the demand for specific infra changes too) or when some businesses that do employ a lot of ppl are closing and unemployment rises quickly because the gap can't be filled that fast) And I've just barely touched the surface - the maintenance cost and knowledge and custom parts needed for this project are not sustainable in any way
North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet (2022)
Seems SBF went around spreading cash to everyone who cared to collect.

What was he hoping to achieve? It seems to me that he was hungry to buy into elite social circles, and they were willing to part with his cash to deliver that service.
Aftersun (2022)

Having pass through a depression myself, the one which hit me most was Aftersun (by Charlotte Wells, 2022). It made me realize how silently mental illness affects one and their surroundings.
My example was the media coverage of these two events. Look at how the Guardian covers Eich in the article linked in a comment above. Pay attention at how they go out of their way to throw out labels like "right wing". Now try to find a single article from the Guardian that so strongly rebukes Gates. If his behavior is not OK, then why don't they address it?
> Having a body which changes over time that interacts with a world that changes over time makes animal learning not statistical (call it, say, experimental).

The "experiment" of life is what defines the statical values! Experimentation is just learning what the statistical output of something is.

If I hand you a few dice, you'd probably be able to guess the statistical probability of every number for given roll. Because you've learned that through years of observation building a mental model. If I hand you a weighted die, suddenly your mental model is gone, and you can re-learn experimentally by rolling it a bunch. How can you explain experimental learning except "statistically"?

> they adopted (apparently irrational) theories of how the world worked (gods, etc)

They can be wrong without being irrational. Building an airport doesn't make planes show up, but planes won't show up without an airport. If you're an island nation with little understanding of the global geopolitical environment of WWII, you'd have no idea why planes started showing up on your island, but they keep showing up, and only at an airport. It seems rational to assume they'd continue showing up to airports.

> that animals fall into skinner-box irrational behaviour can be modelled as a kind of statistical learning, but it actually isnt

What is it if not statistical?

Also skinner boxes are, in a way, perfectly rational. There's no way to understand the environment, and if pushing a button feeds you, then rationally you should push the button when hungry. Humans like to think we're smart because we've invented deductive reasoning, and we quote "correlation is not causation" that we're not just earning to predict the world around us from past experiences.
In the case of Aliens, James Cameron is explicitly saying he just went with Kodak film that was available at the time, which everyone was using.

I will submit that directors are not generally the right people to call the shots here. A director can never watch his own movie the way the audience does. They always see an unfulfilled vision, a compromise being made here and there because of technology being limited, and some like Cameron or Lucas will make misguided attempts to modernize to make up for it.

This disregards that Aliens will always be a goofy 80s movie and not a movie from them 2020s. Its look should be preserved, be that the film grain, or its color grade. At least, the few people who still buy optical media should be given the choice, as they are the most likely to care.
Of course you can display it, but the colors will be washed out. Don't be nitpicky
I looks A LOT like an AI generated image.
I mean, putting "AI" and "humane" in the same phrase is a dead giveaway that this 1st of April will last a whole year.
My father sold our first flat when I was around 13 or 14, then sold our second flat and moved into a rental unit while I was conscripted. When I got out, he had moved again while all my stuff was left at a relative's.

It's partially about not having that physical destination to go to. It's partially about losing a connection to an environment where all my memories, good or bad, developed. It's also partially about just not having anywhere go back to.

I could go live with my relatives (I did for 2 years) but it's not really 'my' home. I could go live with my father again but we're both too accustomed to living our own lives to want to live together again.

I felt more 'at home' when I moved to Japan, whether living by myself or with roommates than I ever felt back home.

There's nothing to go back to anymore.

I tell my friends but few people really understand.
> Any game of this sort is defined by a series of conditional probabilities:
{P(Pawn_on_sqare_blah|previous_moves) ... etc.}

That would always be 1 or 0, but also that data is not fed into othellogpt. That is not the dataset. It is not fed in board states at all.

It learns it, but it is not the dataset.
With very few exceptions, legislators don’t get a bill that they single-handedly draft and pass that has national implications. On occasion, for totally local issues, they’ll have the power to ram something through. But if it has national implications, it will be the work of many. Cantwell tanking bills just because it has co-sponsors doesn’t make sense.
The people doing public witch hunts should suffer the consequences of their childish behavior then and this won't be too constructive in furthering their stated goals.

This self-righteous bickering is indicative of more character flaws than Eich displayed with his opinions.
>>Hard drive sizes have barely changed in 10 years.

I mean, they kinda have. From what I can find online, the largest capacity 3.5" drive you could buy in 2014 was 12TB.

Now in 2024, the largest drive seems to be this 30TB Seagate - not quite a 3x increase, but close:

https://petapixel.com/2024/01/18/seagates-new-30tb-hard-driv...

What hasn't really moved is the price - I feel like even few years ago a £100 could get me a 4TB drive, and the same is true today, the capacity vs cost ratio hasn't really followed the same curve as it did with SSDs.
> "we dont care about your bug if your NOT using the flat pack, if you got it from your distro its your distorts bug"

Two cases here:

* it's a legitimate upstream bug, but is being rejected because you are using a distro-packaged version, not an official upstream release. Reproduce the problem with the upstream release, report it, done.

* it's a distro-specific bug, you cannot reproduce it with an upstream release. In that case you should indeed report it to the distro, not upstream.
my opinions about morality aside, someone pointed out elsewhere that mozilla specifically has an outsized relationship with the LGBTQ+ community, thus making it practically impossible for him to be an effective leader there

he himself actually literally said as much: "Our mission is bigger than any one of us, and under the present circumstances, I cannot be an effective leader. I will be taking time before I decide what to do next." [1]

it was reported on beforehand [2], but as far as I'm reading, there wasn't a serious outcry until 2014, six years after the donation, after he was appointed as CEO (and subsequently ousted)

as for politicians, I think they're by definition mealy-mouthed, and they often just say what they think people want to hear at any given time

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200711120251/https://abcnews.g...

[2] https://www.thepinknews.com/2012/04/04/javascript-inventor-g...
I ended up just resorting in bash with an exec bash inside my mkshrc iirc.

I switched to nushell a couple of months back and I haven't got the opportunity to rock it on android, really curious how it does.

It is supposed to support android as well if I'm not mistaken.
What’s the problem with <Image />?
Reader mode works fine for me.
Well, I can't not use it since it's a company wide policy, but I agree with you.
To watch Star Wars as it was originally you need to break US law.
I recently built a website using Markdown as the page source, which then uses CommonMark to produce the HTML. I was interested in seeing how different the extracted markdown looked to the original source markdown. It looks identical!
related >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forestiere_Underground_Gardens
Great Resources for Learning Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs)
Unlike the 50s, society now takes at least a bit of care about environmental impact or the rights of minorities and financially disadvantaged people.

We don't just go and bulldoze through entire city quarters primarily inhabited by poor Black people any more [1].

[1] https://www.history.com/news/interstate-highway-system-infra...
You are replacing the OPs "decide" with "embrace". I tend to not use them interchangeably.
This is a step by step guide how to deploy OpenProject on your Kubernetes cluster using the official Helm charts.
I watch AI enhanced movies and/or shows every day when I use Anime4K, a real-time ML upscaler for anime https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K

If you give shit-tier blurry DVD messes, it turns them into nicer blurry messes.

If you give it the usual bitrate starved streaming quality show, it looks almost as nice as a blueray.

If you give it a blueray... It basically comes out looking exactly the same. I'll usually still add its "darken lines" filter since I'm a fan of strong linework.
Yes, I agree that the liberal aka mainstream media have lost their way, in the sense of favoring political positions rather than what's objectively true.

This became obvious in the coverage of Trump and then Russia's war on Ukraine. If everything I've read for years was true, both Trump and Russia would have been finished long ago. But they're clearly not.
Well done! Epic Systems sounds like a nightmare corporation, ruining the lives of health professionals all over the world.
I’d love if Swift supported easy cross compilation in the same way that Zig does. The fact that I can just download Zig and everything will just work without tinkering is nice
Let me guess... Edgeworthia crysantha?

EDIT. Yup. I can see the article now. That photo is unmistakable. Is a famous Japanese shrub used since a lot of time. The only difference is the new area of culture it seems. Formerly known as E. papyrifera.

Can be cultured in gardens, reduced size, and very nice fragrant blossoms in early spring. Fluffy flowers with the feel of a teddy bear. Needs acid soil.
It is not qualitatively bad, it is inappropriate, but also you do not get to see what the unprocessed 4k image would have looked like. That film grain looks great at higher resolution.
There was an seL4 summit last year:

https://www.youtube.com/@seL4/videos

Anyway the trend has been that regular mainstream kernels steadily adopt more microkernel-like features when it can be shown to not harm performance too much. MacOS/iOS aren't technically microkernels, but they incorporate Mach into the core and a typical system will have thousands of possible servers that can be reached via Mach. Those servers are all sandboxed pretty heavily too, so you get the security benefits. The core filesystem and networking stack do still run in kernel mode because there aren't many benefits there (moving them to user space doesn't remove them from the TCB and) but over time more and more stuff has been kicked out to user space. The same can be seen in Windows where over time more subsystems get extracted to user space servers.

Linux has a less well defined architecture than Apple's platforms and there are way fewer services reachable via DBUS than on macOS, but the same trends can be seen there too with support for direct user space access to devices, FUSE, user space schedulers, eBPF and so on.

So there isn't I think much interest in pure microkernels now. Linux has got flexible enough that you can make it as micro-kernelly as you want, but the current balance seems about right for nearly all use cases. The stuff that remains in-kernel generally isn't a big source of vulnerabilities, moving stuff to userspace wouldn't help anyway but would reduce performance a lot.
For dice the ensemble average is the time-average: if you roll the dice 1000 times the probability of getting a different result doesn't change.

For almost everything in the world, action on it, changes it. There are vanishingly few areas where this isn't the case (most physics, most chemistry, etc.).

Imagine trying to do statistics but every time you sampled from reality the distribution of your sample changes not due to randomness, but because reality has changed. Now, can you do statistics? No.

It makes all the difference in the world to have a body and hold the thing you're studying. Statistics is trying to guess the shape of the ice cube from the puddle; animal learning is making ice cubes.
Is that the case? Same applies to people trying to oust others on such grounds. I would never support an organization with that much lack of a spine and in my quite pragmatic views the requirements here are fairly low due to economic realities.

I trust the leadership of Mozilla a fair bit less than previously and I believe it at least now has a toxic work environment I also would probably not like to work for.

I still do support Mozilla projects, but I am far more careful of that today.
Neapolitan criminal cicadas
Playstation 1 Portable
What you think the purpose of determining the error of an instrument is, if not to calibrate it?
Real product. Doesn't seem to get much traction here though. A million views on twitter.
Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff
Ok, so they use an airship to get to the edge of the atmosphere - but isn't the gravitational pull there still strong? According to Wolfram, the edge of the atmosphere is about 100km above the surface of the Earth, and the gravitational pull there is about 0.97G, compared to 1G at the surface. So how much less fuel is required to get into orbit from that point? Is it significantly less?
Brazil too have notification with the numbers published weekly by each State of the country, all cases are notified even without laboratory confirmation. They too have zoonosis agents which inspect locations, but they're not allowed to enter without warrant.
There's also Indigo Renderer and the open source LuxRender:

https://indigorenderer.com

https://luxcorerender.org
It may help improve the code which runs that Javascript though.
That sounds like a promising development! Enhancing ChatGPT to deliver more direct and concise responses could significantly streamline communication and improve user experience. This adjustment would likely be particularly advantageous for users seeking quick answers or those in professional settings where time is of the essence. By focusing on clarity and brevity, ChatGPT could become an even more effective tool for a wide array of applications, from rapid information retrieval to more efficient customer service interactions. Overall, this update would represent a valuable step forward in making AI-driven communication more practical and accessible in our everyday lives.
Recent advances aren't even necessary; translation software has been a thing for two decades now, even back then it should be good enough to create a translation that can at least be indexed and interpreted as "this is relevant to my interests".

But it's down to the scientists and their publishers to decide whether to publish the papers as readable text, feed them into translators and republish them in different languages, or at least the abstract / things that scientists use to find papers.
I've tried it. nushell works for me only with the "-c" option, otherwise I get "Error: I/O error: Function not implemented (os error 38)". Probably the prompt function
Money doesn’t grow on trees but grows as shrubs
I know. He just wants to destroy everything so he can rebuild his libertarian paradise along his his tarot reader sister.
what if another family member would take over soon but isn't of age yet, or is otherwise occupied but intends to take over later?
I don't think families should give up inheritances, especially not for nothing.
on the other hand there are corporations not renting out offices and apartments because appreciation will get them more money. this is what should be fought by laws, not the previous situation
Eh, i’m not surprised. Most virtue-signalling entities end up adopting fascist-like approaches (silencing different opinions, gatekeeping, ostracising people with different opinions).

As this case exemplifies, you don’t even have to be on the right or far right (political) side, you just have to not fit the current narrative.

We’ve seen this happen over and over again with people honestly expressing doubts and constructive criticism and getting shut down, ostracised, “cancelled” instead.
It is the dataset. When you're dealing with abstract objects (ie., mathematical spaces), they are all isomorphic.

It doesnt matter if you "feed in" 1+1+1+1 or 2+2 or sqrt(16).

The rules of chess are encoded either explicit rules or by contrast classes of valid/invalid games. These are equivalent formulations.

When you're dealing with text tokens it does matter if "Hot" is frequently after "The Sun is..." because reality isnt an abstract space, and text tokens arent measures of it.
Going to be a hard pass from me.

Western Digital has had several high profile data loss issues across multiple product lines: Western Digital SN850 [1], SanDisk Extreme [2].

Western Digital's response has been very PR and not at all helpful toward the people who have lost data due to the faults in their products.

Storage products have one job: reliably store your data. WD has shown lately that you roll the dice if your choose their products.

[1] https://community.frame.work/t/tracking-wd-black-sn850-sudde...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/sandisk-extreme-ssds...
> But if you have an idea or a word or a piece of code or design and I take it from you - you still have it.

You aren't just taking the idea itself, you are also implicitly taking all the failed ideas and experiments that came before it, and that's where the bulk of the expenses usually lie.

To make an example, if I invest x$ in developing an idea then I need to make x$ in sales to break even. But if you can copy it and tweak it for a fraction of the cost, then you can sell it for much less and still make a profit. So you benefitted from my x$ expenditure in R&D without paying a penny for it.
As physical media has been replaced with digital I've come to miss those walls filled with books, videos, and records. Stores (and homes) seem much more sanitised without them. You could tell a lot about a person from a glance at the various media items displayed in their home. Given there are a lot of people who buy vinyl records that don't own a record player, it seems this feeling is common.
I have to go to 1 day training courses etc for work all the time. Different industry… but still… here’s what attracts me:

Networking opportunities.

Extremely good catering.

Free items such as pens, notepads and novel and niche items that are hard to come by.

Some kind of “certificate” to prove I attended that I can put in my continual professional development portfolio so that if I get audited by the council that issues my certificate to practice I can show I’ve done some learning stuff.

Being actually really relevant learning (ie, new technology that actually is a game changer - replaces old technology that has become outdated).

Having the opportunity to do something really cool that you cannot do under normal circumstance.
> Epic is suggesting that competition on the Android mobile platform would be opened up if the court orders Google to allow third-party app stores to be distributed for six years in the Google Play Store

So every app on the play store is going to be an app store, that you then use to download the actual app, to bypass any fees?
There's no app that uses the same shortcuts in all OSs because that's just stupid (amongst other reasons, because the shortcuts would conflict with the OS's own shortcuts, just to mention one obvious reason). You need to default to the OS's defaults, and maybe have an option to try using another OS's defaults (like other IDEs do).
Does anyone have a photo of these? I can only find the boxing ones, and don't understand how they might help with snoring.
Yet another datapoint that shows people were more sophisticated than previously assumed; this is likely not isolated, it's just that there's nothing left.

I had to look up the definitions, but these canoes are from what we know as the stone age. I don't believe the type of metal used was indicative of people's craftsmanship to be honest.
Even in presence of an xz like attack?
Now I'm not sure if its an underbite or an overbite that causes the issue, but I do know it's something that can be objectively measured and fixed. You're right though that I went to a specialist in apnoe to have my teeth/jaw measured.
In my past company we looked at EU MDR class 2a certification, we established it would cost around 100k€/a to get and maintain all necessary certifications. Essentially hiring a full-time resource to do all documentation, plus costs due to slower work cycles, plus certification reviews, plus external consulting as needed.

Ultimately we closed shop before we starting going down that route, so I cannot tell if that number was correct.