skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NixOS of course has benefits as an OS, but I don’t think any of them are specific to development.

I also think the tradeoffs are worth considering. You lose a few things by using NixOS:

* ability to run/depend on non-nixos software (without packaging yourself)

* you have to use the declarative config system, which can be annoying and slow if you want fast iteration to get something working

* Patching support is nice, but I don’t really have a use case for it generally for system dependencies (which I like to keep relatively lean, and close to distro upstream). For a development dependency, it may be different but you don’t need NixOS to benefit from patching there (nix shell is good)

Moreover, especially with nix shell (for project dependencies) and home-manager (for user tool configuration), I rarely have a need for software installed globally. I use Debian and the only system level things I configure are automatic updates, backups and Prometheus. Systemd config is already pretty declarative, which only really leaves user management as something that could be more declarative. You can get a pretty good setup using a bare git repo version controlling /etc, without needing all the extra complexity of NixOS. I keep a ~50 line text file with rough instructions and a list of packages.

I guess it gets a bit more complex if you run a gui desktop, but these are generally very well-trodden paths in big distros and fairly streamlined. I haven’t used desktop NixOs, but given the shitshow of desktop Linux, it seems like something that may get complicated in Nix?

The familiarity argument is reasonable, but also NixOS module system is pretty radically different to Nix the package manager/build system, so it only partially applies. Even adding home manager to the party, only the base concepts of the module system really apply; you end up having to relearn a set of new modules.

To sum up:

* It becomes way more difficult to do common development-related stuff that you may need

* The majority of the development benefits can be achieved without NixOS.

* The flexibility of being able to opt to use Nix and the degree to which you do so (either just shell providing dependencies, or whole the build system being Nix, or even using something completely different) or not is also something that may be very useful for development.

* The familiarity argument is decent, but it’s different enough that you basically have to learn a lot of stuff independently.
> Self driving is actually coming along better than I thought it would. Version 12 behaves like a human driver.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Anyway that would be cool if it was true but doesn't change what a conman he is. He said he was gonna make it true how long ago? Yeah.

> The real source of your frustration though is that he does not fully subscribe to the neoliberal dogma and lets millions of others to say whatever they like. Totalitarian left can’t handle that, it’s a visceral reaction

That's not even remotely true. Seriously. No part of it.

- It's been obvious to me that he was a conman since he started lying at Tesla, a decade or more ago. 'Fraid to say that alone disproves your unfounded personal attack since he didn't own a social media platform at the time.

- He doesn't allow people to say whatever they like unless he agrees with them.

- He (ok, and perhaps you) is the only totalitarian in this conversation.

But hey good job trying to make this out to be about politics instead of about what a terrible human Musk is, I know that's the only way for you Repugnantcans to cope with the cognitive dissonance.
Feels like there has been a change in either policy or taste though.

I’ve been here for a long time, much longer than this account and something if different in maybe last year or so.
First job for all day AR glasses is to kill off this nonsense. Superimpose the rounded up price and blur the advertising out. Also add the markup so the customer knows that $2 Arizona iced tea was bought for 35c.
Was hoping this was about lunch meat.
It isn't just Japan. I stayed at a house in London (Richmond, actually) that had this.
Now the AI changed from an immature teenager to a blogspam article
> even people on the right.

Since I'm assuming that I'm one target of this as the only person to contradict you in this subthread, I just want to be clear: I'm not on the right. As far as the conservatives in my (very red) state are concerned I'm a flaming liberal.

As for how I'd describe myself, I'm basically in the "we desperately need to reverse the trend of everyone assuming that anyone who disagrees with them is evil" camp, which is why I strongly object to casual comparisons to fascism. Using that word or the word "cult" to label someone immediately frees you from any obligation to engage with them as a person, and I'm not okay with that tendency from either wing of modern politics.
looks much better!
What does "picks" mean to you? Strange response.

Do you think they only got one person to do it or something?

If they weren't looking at multiple options then ... why did they still ask SJ?

Oh right because they asked SJ because they hadn't picked yet.
How are microchips made? (animation)
It can run on Wine on Linux. Best of both worlds!
The Logic of CUE
Wow, that's fascinating. I didn't know Kahneman and Tversky were related through Barbara as well.
Juice Sucking Servers, part trois
The thing is that culture, motivations, and technology are all shaped by constraints imposed by the laws of physics, which (by definition) can generally be presumed to be universal. Having plausible explanations for "why so" doesn't change the fact that doing so would likely be so inefficient that it would place their entire culture at a significant disadvantage.

Yet on a cultural level, I think the "food/slaves" narratives of alien invasion are actually failing to be open-minded enough. Mechanical labor and physical nutrition are the kinds of things that our newly industrialized post-colonial societies worry about. It's not actually a particularly "alien" idea. Thinking a much more technologically advanced society would come to Earth for the same reasons comes across to me as projecting our own anxieties and sins.
There is no such thing, but cave paintings are also not relevant to what people do with diffusion AI.

My argument is that art that diverges from reality is largely a function of path dependence and tooling more so than creative choice.
I haven’t found a great Linux terminal: it’s one of the things that really makes it hard for me to use Linux
Japanese bathing habits might reflect their different genetics: https://medicalchannelasia.com/less-body-odour-in-south-kore... (“Several studies have shown a strong correlation between the ABCC11 gene variant and East Asian populations. Research conducted by the Journal of Investigative Dermatology found that 80-95% of Koreans and Japanese carry this gene variant. In contrast, only about 2% of Europeans and 3% of Africans possess the same variant. This genetic difference helps explain why people from South Korea and Japan tend to have lesser body odour.”). It’s possible that they are less likely to have bacterial activity overnight result in body odor compared to other populations.
The point of the article was that Etsy has already established both sides of the marketplace. And that both sides of the marketplace are not equal, as competitors/disruptors are discovering.

To be successful, they need a large consumer base, and a small seller base, who sell high quality goods (which is subjective, but mass drop shipping is certainly not what those consumers are expecting).

Of those, the hardest to attract is a larger consumer base. Sellers will ultimately go where the buyers are.
At the risk of showcasing my bubble: Lack of exposure; how many people even know what singularity is or how to use it? I know it's used in scientific HPC, but I don't see evidence of wider adoption.
That's the teosophic portrait of St. Germain
Actually, now I remember, I said "alpha" because I saw that mentioned in the Nelua FAQ.

Excerpt:

>How stable is Nelua?

>Nelua is in alpha state. Most of its syntax is well defined, low level features that are found in C are implemented, and most of the Lua standard APIs are implemented. However some notable features found in Lua such as exceptions, tables, runtime dynamic typing, closures are not implemented yet.

https://nelua.io/faq/

But based on how I've seen the word used earlier, and on a quick google for the meaning, it seems like alpha may not have been the most suitable word to use; "incomplete" might have been a better one, or, a description like the one you gave, might have been better.
A relevant point to this is the notion of "System-1" vs "System-2" thinking. Somewhat dubious when applied to actual human psychology but I think a valid metaphor for how LLMs work: they are only capable of System-1 thinking; a single forward pass through the weights of intuition

In my actual life, I don't trust my own System-1 thoughts: for anything important, I'm always going to engage System-2. And LLMs don't have a System-2.

(I also agree that when dealing with LLMs the value of X is not a single value but a highly complex space depending on the nature of the question and the training data of the model. In my mind it does not change the epistemological equation, it just means that even the value of X itself is harder to "know", so this ambiguity can only ever make LLMs a less viable source of knowledge.)
The point is that nobody, not humans, not AI, develops painting skills in the absence of image data. Humans can learn to paint with less input images than AI, sure, we're a lot more sample efficient, but we still need samples. The processes are not that different.
Try Byobu with mouse-mode on. It uses a tmux as a backend and provides complete control with a mouse, including context menus that allow you do all of the things you listed without obscure keyboard shortcuts.
No, the main requirement is that they link to libfprint dynamically or provide object files such that effectively you can replace libfprint with a different version of libfprint of your choosing, but there's no requirement to open source the work that makes use of libfprint.
More drag I see as a valid reason, but less regenerative breaking? There would be less breaking, period, and I don’t see why breaking on highways couldn’t typically be regenerative. Can you explain?
I love my smart AC, but I'm sure that smart functions will not last (or at least not without being a risk of security by unmaintained firmware) so I love these kind of projects that help you modularize the internet part.
Byobu just works on top of either screen or tmux. By default it will try to use screen, but you can force it to use tmux with byobu-tmux.
Exploiting V8 at OpenECSC
Great to see this. I’m using better-bibtex and the citation plugin currently in an extended workflow I’m calling the Obsidian Academic Stack. Would love to know if your plugin could enhance the stack.

What is the Obsidian Academic Stack?

I’ve been working on a stack which allows a workflow from Zotero > Obsidian > Pandoc > Word (with proper citations).

The idea being that essays and thesis can be written using Obsidan and then exported to word to be compatabile with the needs of other academics.

One key insight was that Pandoc supports Citation Style Language (CSL) so you need a workflow that supports CSL end-to-end if you want that a valid bibliography and in-text citations to pop out the end.

Here’s my overall workflow:

All your academic papers are saved into Zotero along with references to books, websites etc.

Zotero is synced to Obsidian, which lets you write papers and notes in Obsidian and add references to sources from Zotero.

So now you want to convert one of your Obsidian notes into an "academic paper". The tool you need for this is pandoc. The pandoc tool understands many academic referencing styles such as APA7 and Harvard. Specifically you install the pandoc plugin for Obsidian and configure that.

Once the pandoc plugin is setup; On the note you want to convert to an 'academic paper' you can run the pandoc command and it will generate a Word Document that automatically includes correct inline referencing and an auto-generated references section with all the references listed, at the end of the document.

I’ve been documenting it all here. Please star and raise an issue if you need any help setting this up.

https://github.com/evolve2k/obsidian-pandoc-academic-word-do...
Race-to-idle is sometimes a goal, yeah; if you have some performance budget (say, a 16ms time slice), and a fixed workload, does it make sense to run resources at lower power and barely meet the budget, or to run everything at max power so they can spend the remainder at idle? The answer is different for many scenarios.
https://www.strongtowns.org/

https://www.youtube.com/@strongtowns/videos
> they fail to even register the bigger cults now called religions

“They” don’t need to because there’s always some atheist in the comment section to make bigoted generalizations and make wild claims that are demonstrably nonsense, such as…

> I truely believe that humanity has a greater chance of being destroyed by one of these death cults than anything else out there.

Yes, because the explicitly atheist regimes that are right now and for the last 70+ years been arming themselves to the teeth with world destroying nuclear arsenals and adopting belligerent stances against the other nuclear powers are way down the list of probable harbingers of doomsday.
As is typical of LBL, they don’t also note the leading theories place majorana characteristics in a very small probability regime (particles are more and more demonstrating Dirac characteristics).

Demonstration of neutrino less double beta decay would prove majorana conjectures and point to fractures in the “standard model of physics” meaning new fundamental particles would be needed.

In my opinion whoever measures the CvB (cosmic neutrino background) will be more compelling because it isn’t a nullification result, it’s a result that would tell us far more about the Big Bang than we know now.

Neutrinos are hard to measure, have been the source of a lot of Nobel prizes!

Disclaimer: I use to work at lbl
>• Re: fulfillment — why not ask Etsy sellers to pre-stock everything that's not made-to-order into fulfillment centers like Amazon's? And, in fact, to send anything that is made-to-order to a fulfillment center first, where it'll be inspected, re-wrapped and re-shipped by the fulfillment center — with the buyer's card only having a hold, not a charge, on it until the seller's goods are inspected by the fulfillment center as good? (In other words: turn the process into a goods-for-money mediated escrow.)

Why not take a hint from Darknet markets[0] and require escrow for all transactions[1], with funds only being released to the seller after the buyer has confirmed receipt of the goods as advertised, along with seller (and buyer) ratings as well as dispute resolution services?

In many ways, darknet markets are much better than the "legit" online marketplaces. And more's the pity -- because the "legit" players know better and should act accordingly.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_market

[1] And since Etsy is a publicly traded corporation and their sellers are presumably "legit" (i.e., selling stuff that doesn't run afoul of nation-state dicta), an exit scam[2] is unlikely.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_scam
Another article says the company is claims

> The scalable, “motionless” wind energy unit can produce 50% more energy than rooftop solar at the same cost, said the company.

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2024/05/23/bladeless-wind-energy...
The error term isn't Pareto distributed
A lot of hardware has built in RNGs, but even using a software algorithm (eg Xorshift) is extremely inexpensive.

Also, sometimes you’re not limited by processing speed, but by the destination data structure (eg quantized to integers).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xorshift
You can see about getting a benzo like Xanax or Ativan. Similar effects to alcohol without some of the downsides. They do have downsides of their own but are fine when taken sparingly.
Actual first job for all day AR glasses will be to spam you with ads everywhere.
If you shower in the evening before bed, how dirty do you get while sleeping? The alternative is rolling around in your bed all night with all the grime of the day.
McDonald's knew about this many years before 2018
Good explanation. Always good to read up on some bit tweaking once a while.
I would wager it was either late 1996 or 1997. Perhaps the drive was used/returned.

In '96, it seems ~2 GB ran ~$400.

[1] https://notebooks.com/2011/03/09/hard-drive-prices-over-time...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20100507030742/https://ns1758.ca...
What? Xterm is amazing.
Self-awareness may play a role in determining the truth of the matter.
Fruitful
Honest question, what kind of requests are you thinking of? In my projects I’m always fetching or changing data in a database on each request and if I’m not then I’m probably moving that logic to the frontend.
I’d be very surprised if there wasn’t legalese in the contract/ToS about liability limitations etc. Would maybe expect it to be more than infrastructure costs for a big company custom contract, but probably not unlimited/as high as that, because it seems like such a blatant legal risk…

Disclaimer: Am Googler who knows nothing real about this. This is rampant speculation on my part.
A fascinating read, thank you for sharing. Helen’s journey was so unusual in that she neither heard nor saw language, so learning how she formed her inner consciousness through finger spelling was interesting.
A blend between Tmux, fzf, ranger, etc.
Living Worlds: Old school color cycling in HTML5 Canvas
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Should I encode my passwords to memory like this?
I think the thought experiment can be set up both ways. In one case Eric has a fixed probability of getting /any/ query right. (This might leave boosting open so we might want to gerrymander repeated queries out.) In the other this is relative to the distribution of queries.
Unfortunately zellij doesn't implement job control properly, so running certain daemons or other things that use process groups are very broken.
The title states that Teslas have 64% of rated EPA range after 3 years.

The data in the article shows that after 3 years, Teslas were measured as having 64% of their rated EPA range.

The title is 100% accurate. You're just being insanely pedantic to dismiss the data in a, quite frankly, completely ridiculous way.

Whatever rating they achieved when they were initially delivered makes no difference. They were officially rated at a certain amount. After 3 years they make 64% of their rated amount. This is what the title says.
more productive than what?
TurboVision from the 1980s or 1990s has draggable and overlappable windows inside a single shell/DOS screen.

https://tvision.sourceforge.net/tvQNX-pterm-photon.jpg
It's not really related, but that reminds me of how some games handled slow moving objects on the Mattel Intellivision console.

Your code that runs every frame to update the graphics logically wants to do something like this:

X += Vx
Y += Vy

where (X, Y) is the location of the object at the start of the frame, and (Vx, Vy) is x and y velocities of the object in pixels/frame.

To allow for velocities that aren't an integer number of pixels per frame and that are slower than 1 pixel per frame you'd want to actually store X in a fixed point format, say (Xi, Xf) where Xi is the integer part of the X position, and Xf is the fractional part times 256, so X = Xi + Xf/256. Similarly for Y. The object only actually moves on the screen when Xi or Yi changes.

Similarly velocity would also be in that format: Vx = Vxi + Vxf/256, and similar for Vy.

With that, the position update in your loop would be something like this:

Xf += Vxf
if that wrapped
Xi += 1
Xi += Vxi

and similar for Y.

For each object you end up needing 8 bytes (1 byte for each of Xi, Xf, Yi, Yf, Vxi, Vxf, Vyi, Vyf). That doesn't sound like much but the Intellivision only had something like 240 bytes in the console available. (If you couldn't get your RAM requirements down to that it was possible to have extra RAM in the cartridge but that would raise the cost).

So someone figured out that you didn't actually need to store Xf and Yf. Just generate then at random as needed! The loop then becomes something like this:

rb = random_unsigned_byte()
if Vxf + rb wraps
Xi += 1
Xi += Vxi

and similar for Y.

That turns out to work quite reasonably. Essentially it is interpreting Vxf as meaning that the object has a Vxf/256 chance of crossing a pixel boundary on a given frame. Thinking of it that way then suggests getting rid of the addition of the random byte with a wrap check and just doing a compare instead:

if Vxf > random_unsigned_byte()
Xi += 1
Xi += Vxi

and similar for Y.

Net result: we've cut the RAM for storing position and velocity from 8 bytes per object to 6, at the cost of needing to generate 2 random bytes per object per frame.
You’re right, but Shopify is trying to change this with the Shop app
N64: Recompiled
>> “AI models that can pass the Turing test [where someone cannot tell in conversation that they are not speaking to another human] are the same warning for the kind of AI that you can lose control over. That’s why you get people like Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio – and even a lot of tech CEOs, at least in private – freaking out now.”

I don't understand that. Tegmark -let alone Hinton and Bengio- should be enough of an expert on AI to reocgnise that "the Turing test" (which Turing didn't even mean as a test) is no test of artificial intelligence, let alone the equivalent of finding out that Fermi built a self-sustaining nuclear reaction.

There are much better "A-IQ tests", like the Winograd Schmea or Bongard Problems, or more recent ones like the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus. While the latter two stand for now, Winograd Schmeas have been defeated I don't see Tegmark or any other on his side of the existential risk debate "freaking out" about that. And with good reason: those tests were beat by sheer force of data and compute and not because some AI system entered anything comparable to a self-sustaining reaction.

Anyway the AI world freaks out every few years whenever a deep learning researcher beats some benchmark. Then everyone forgets about it five years later when the Next Big Thing in AI comes along. It's all par for the course.
Clothes and laundry in general are so personal. If there’s a way for it to not literally hang out in public, we should do that.
thanks for your feedback ˆ-ˆ
Guess it's intention.
If you 'choose' to die. Fine.

Drinking raw milk is more like walking into traffic without looking, maybe you get hit, maybe not, maybe you are injured, maybe dead, maybe your ok.

Yes, a lot of regulations are about protecting stupid people. But also to save some time, not everyone is going to have testing kits laying around and analyzing everything they eat. That would be horribly inefficient to make everyone do their own food testing before they can eat. Sure, smart people can be extra careful, but do you want to have to be extra careful with everything, just in case you are grabbing a grenade every time you open the fridge.
I loved being able to use this on rainy days or when I needed something to dry quickly while living in Japan. Back in Europe, only having air-drying was annoying on those occasions.

Notice that the amount of manual work required with these bathroom dryers is the same as air-drying, but less than tumble drying.

I never had a problem with lint. Like others mentioned, there is a plastic plate that you have to clean regularly, the same that captures hair.
Let me save you the reading:

Enshittification.

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