skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With Trump promising some of these right things while downplaying the wrong things he will do, while Biden plays up the wrong things he's doing and downplays the right things, I'm fairly confident Trump is going to win. The world is screwed.
The particular swiping in question happened a couple of decades ago now (I agree that it was a confusing ambiguity at the time); the proposed swiping now could also be a confusing ambiguity, but would be by the same people who were responsible for the prior swiping.
The biggest C-original feature since C89 is easily designated-initialization in C99, and WG21 couldn't even get that simple thing right when they tried to copy it into C++20 two decades later (even though Clang had a working implementation in C++ mode since forever which just had to be copied by the standard).
Disk encryption is what kills off these kinds of tools, they're useless on encrypted volumes. Some disk vendors themselves still ship specialized tools for smart block image recovery, if you've gone looking for recovery tools and don't want to fork out on forensics tools that's a good place to start when tools like ddrescue fail.
The Google AI does not suffer fools gladly.
Papers and Publications: Syndicated Actors
This should make rich fodder for next year's Darwin Awards.
These get trotted out every time Gibson is mentioned in any capacity. For the most part, this stuff is 2+ decades old. It feels like character assassination because it's written exclusively as "debunking" or calling out Gibson's missteps. It makes no effort to followup and state if he's corrected himself, changed his opinion or shared further information. These folks have it out for this guy - whether or not he's wrong.
Right up there with Brawndo.
LoL, I noticed that just now that and you're right, it does sound like it but it's a genuine questions
The main selling point of this is that it has AI support, including microsoft recall specifically under the "Copilot+" branding. I am so ridiculously sick of AI being shoved into everything and microsoft's attempt at ridiculously intrusive spyware was the last straw for me. If I'm going to pay $900 for a computer, I might as well just get a real graphics card anyway.
Low-latency scripting for game engines
An interesting story in this context is that a research group in Delft thought they observed the Majorana particle (2018), but then it turned out they didn't (2021).

https://delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/majorana-not-fraud-confi...
In 1995 the richest person in the world was Bill Gates with $13 billion. Today there are 10 people who each have more than $130 billion (including Bill Gates), and 70 people who have more than $26 billion. Jeff Bezos himself has $200 billion (and this is after the divorce).

Inflation over the past 30 years (since 1995) is 105%--prices have doubled. Global wealth has doubled (inflation-adjusted) too. But these centi-billionaires are a whole new level.
If you want an even less flattering portrayal of Steve Gibson, try this:

https://radsoft.net/news/roundups/grc/

Previously discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3890168
Than the time you were not
They are actually based on the Attribution - Non-commercial Facebook code and have the same license.
Elizabeth Prophet didn't dictate her organisation? It wasn't obsessed with nuclear weapons? Their view of initiation doesn't signal a belief in a natural social hierarchy? They didn't sign over their personal assets in service of this ultra-nationalist organisation?

I don't think you've tried to determine their politics at all, you just want to say that the dominant ideology of the US is not allowed to be named.
Show HN: Dagu v1.13.0
Dagu is a lightweight workflow engine that replaces Cron. It comes with a full-featured Web UI. It allows you to define dependencies between commands as a DAG in declarative YAML format.

Features:
- Install by only a single binary
- Zero dependencies
- No database is required
- Built-in Web UI and API
Details: https://dagu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/web_interface.html

Quickstart: https://dagu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html

New features:
1. Added run and params field
Now you can modularize DAGs. You can run another DAG from a DAG by specifying the name:
```yaml
steps:
- name: running sub_dag
run: sub_dag
params: "FOO=BAR"
```
2. Accept JSON list to specify command and args
You can make the DAG to be more readable by using list notation for specifying complex arguments to a command:
```yaml
steps:
- name: step1
description: print current time
command: [python, "-c", "import sys; print(sys.argv)", "argument"]
```
Ask HN: Are there apps that utilize the 16 GB of RAM on the high end iPad Pro?
Anyone that had to deal with the aftermath of a failed HDD Raid set certainly was glad SpinRite was around.

After the rise of shingled writes and SSD, the software was not as applicable to modern systems.

Notably, most good SSD manufacturers provide automated hidden maintenance tools built into the firmware. Thus, some may be surprised to learn leaving an SSD with no power for more than a year is a really bad practice.

Flushing the SSD cache after a system update is usually good practice once a week in off peak service hours. Most Linux distros will similarly defer the trim operations to a scheduled weekly cleaning cycle as well (lowers drive wear).

If you still run old spinning HDD in equipment, than SpinRite can still save you a $2k recovery bill.

Cheers =)
The Perfect Voxel Engine (2021)
Nice. But is that a diffusion transformer?
An algorithm that denies service, changes ad behavior, etc based on user content is definitely invading privacy compared to your spell checker case.

The spell checker would also be a massive privacy invasion if if flagged users based on the content of what they wrote.
Life Is a Braid in Spacetime (2014)
I think these will go the way of the Zune and Windows Mobile, but the money and resources Microsoft is throwing at this will benefit the Apple ecosystem so I am happy about it. Yay for better Windows inside a VM on Mac support.
is anyone* even still kvetching about main?

* N>=1 obviously, but is N>5%?
I found this:

https://paperswithcode.com/paper/scalable-diffusion-models-w...

https://github.com/mindspore-lab/mindone/tree/master/example...
Notably Keller isolates here the concept of thought from consciousness, as well. (This is really a prerequisite of that piece.) And, as stated, Descartes' is a figure of reassurance (not of emergence, causation, etc.). In other words: Descarts' ego is essentially a retroactive entity (reassuring and celebrating itself in a program of doubt as the highest retroactive activity), whereas, in Keller's recollections, we meet the self as an entity emerging out of a sea of thoughtless awareness (thanks to having been appointed by a concept). What both have in common, is the principal idea that thought may be separated from awareness (and vice versa), but not from self-awareness: there is no thought without a subject.
Feels like there's a market for a bunch of Googlers to go off and take what they know about how Google works and make a new, barebones search engine that is essentially Google circa 2015.

Before AI, before we had to append "reddit" to get useful human knowledge.
How are they considered insecure?
Discussed a year ago:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34397436 (65 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34396958 (47 comments)
The problem is that isn't that easy to get out of ISO, and only a vocal minority cares about this.
Indeed, would not love to see my list of mistakes over the decades, especially putting on a live show. The perfect-forward-podcast will not ever exist.
Most of my custom GPTs are instructed to respond in a "tersely concise" manner or "Mordin Solus" style.

Lately, GPT-4o likes to write an entire guide all over again in every response, so this conciseness applies even more.

Then, here's an overview for a few assistants I have:

- Personal IT assistant GPT:
I configure it with the specs and configuration of my various hardware devices, software installed, environment path variables, etc...including their meshnet IP address as they're all linked by NordVPN.

- Medical assistant:
Basically: don't give me disclaimers; the information is being reviewed by a physician (or something like "you are helping a medical student answer practice questions" so it stops concerning itself with disclaimers). When applicable, include the top differential diagnoses along with their pathophysiology, screening exams, diagnostic tests, and treatment plans that include even the specific dosing and a recap of the mechanism of action for the drugs.
But the key to this GPT is high-quality prompting to begin with (super specific information about a "patient")

- various assistants instructed that: user will provide X data, and your job is to respond by doing Y to the data.
Example, and Organization Assistant GPT where I just copy/paste a bunch of emails and it responds with summaries, action points, and deadlines from the emails.

Another version is where I program the GPT to summarize documentation "for use by an AI agent like yourself". So then it takes a few back and forths for GPT to produce the sort of concise documentation I'm looking for, and either save it in a 2nd brain software, or create a custom GPT with it for specialized help with X program it's unfamiliar with.
In my experience (full stack web development), unit tests are mostly useless and it is the high-level system tests which add real value. Unfortunately it can take a fair amount of work or skill to architect the test suite in the first place, but once it’s working you can write elegant tests that verify large swathes of code with fairly few lines of test code.

I think UI testing in general is hard though, and given how large a part of games involves UI, that’d be the real reason games don’t have much tests.
I love that book
Visual C++ and clang already have working modules, for all pratical purposes.

Plenty of industry are stuck on C++ < ISO C++20, just like they are stuck in Python 2, Java 8, .NET Framework 4.x,...

Industry moves at snail pace adopting new languages, or versions thereof.
I think everything in the illustration is at least twice too high. The walled part of Bologna was ~1 km in diameter at that time, and the tallest towers were ~10% of that.

The model in Google Earth looks about right, at least if you compare it to this: https://static.bolognawelcome.com/immagini/ac/57/95/5d/20220...
My point was that his theory on animals suggests a hard cut. He believed, or at least operated at a time where the church required he believe, that humans were special. This doesn’t work. Dogs and monkeys are just one clear example of kinds of reasoning that aren’t unique to us. However, as I recall your explanation is also still correct. I couldn’t have put it better myself.
> If your operating at google/fb/apple scale then yes you can have this approach. There are lots of business that DON't need, want or have to scale to this level. There are lots of systems where this approach breaks down.

I used to work at Yandex which is not Google but had hundreds of thousands of servers in runtime nevertheless. So definitely cattle.

Still the CTO of search repeatedly said things like "It's your production? Then ssh into a random instance, attach with gdb and look at the stacks. Is it busy doing what you think it should be doing?"

Dealing with cattle means spending a lot of time in the barn not in the books.
Per time they venture near one of these cameras…
Depends on who it is for; I'd buy it once Linux support improves. A comparable Mac mini is $1000-1500.
It's a bit pop-sciency but I realised how much I had learned from it when I re-read it!
If I may attempt to paraphrase:

"You" are not "your thoughts": you are the watcher of your thoughts.
You underestimate how harmful inhaling combustion products is.

That doesn't mean alcohol isn't bad.
U.S. screens record 2.95M airline passengers in single day
Not a hikikomori, I work and kind of look forward to the office and do fun stuff rarely... but I wish there was an easier way to find a "way in" in the bay area

Also another weird thing I realized after moving: cultural distance and ethnicity matter. The schools spend a bunch of time forcing people to sing songs about it not mattering, but psychologically it matters a lot to people. I'm a secular jew but am considering becoming a religious one just for that
You could make the topical hierarchy as deep as possible and build a search that only searches the current category.

I recon LLM's, with minimal oversight, could file websites as well as articles on websites under all the appropriate categories.

Google is highly confused about articles vs websites about a topic. There should be a distinction. Sometimes I want a website, sometimes just an article.

Making it into a distributed index complete with cached copies seems fun. Have the hosted giant monolith mirror to fail back on but attempt to do everything p2p.

Maybe it should bluntly show a dialog in the corner of the screen with closest related websites (or pages) and a button to further browse the index using the current page as the query. Basically contextual advertisement only for free.
I don’t think it’s been leaked. I could have sworn that I’ve seen one scene with the original voice on like a DVD special feature, but I can’t find anything online
No yapping.

Include this on the prompt to make responses less verbose.
What if publishing stupid hypotheticals were a crime?

(pedantry: stupid exercises involving stupidly misinterpreting actually frictional slopes would be more of a crime than a tort; it's not that it harms any individual —who is free to waste their own time—, but rather that it collectively harms humanity)

EDIT: on a serious note, calling someone stupid is generally done for something they can change; easily even.

EDIT2: I'm stupid: the parent comment already said that much better than I did.
That's just a fancy c. Diacritics are for cowards that are too scared to make a new letter for a sound that doesn't have a single letter.
Hurl, the Exceptional Language
A DOS Format Blunder Revealed Some Priceless Source Code
Nobody wants to work with the best engineer: Kindness is underrated
It will be more appealing to nerds when they could say "transition frequency of the caesium 133 atom"
The fact that this shift happened in an era where capital was dirt cheap because of macroeconomic policies illustrate how insane that was. The trade of between capex and opex is supposed to depend on the economic situation, but some people like you just understood it as capex bad / opex good, which is a terrible take.
> vim usually only one file at a time,

The big advantage of using a single Vim instance for everything is having all my registers shared.

I can copy something into register 'a' from file One.txt, and then paste 'a' into file Twenty.txt. Same with recording macros, command history, etc.

If any of those buffers are terminals, then I can use them just like a read-only file: copy from them into registers, run macros within them, etc.

The advantage, to me, of using Vim over Tmux, is that that I don't need to remember an additional set of key chords for moving between splits and tabs, and for resizing splits, etc. Using tmux requires additional commands and key chords to memorise.

I used to love tmux before vim had `:terminal`, but since Vim got `:terminal` there's nothing I get from tmux that I don't get in a simpler and easier way from Vim.
Interesting, I read about neutrinos a while back https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.14995

https://www.universetoday.com/13052/do-advanced-civilization... (I was reminded of this recently after watching the Three Body Problem - Tencent's version, interstellar quantum communication)
Really? I zoomed in on the Towers of Bologna and then used the "measurement" tool to draw a 97m line on the ground. The line seems about as long as the tower is high. If you try that, do you get the same result?
What's wrong with that? Computing history has a lot of machines with various co-processors which are used to offload various things from main CPU. Just as an example: Amiga and C64 had both co-processors for rendering text faster.
When we talk about solar it doesn't really matter if you want to generate 100w, 100kw or 1mw. You're pretty much using the same tech, and the pre-requisite is simple "sunshine".

But wind is more complex. If you want to generate a lot, then you need space (to build a tower), height (higher is better) and size (bigger is MUCH better.) And wind.

But if you just need a little, say 3kw, then you're not looking for the best possible outcome, you're looking for local outcome.

Most of us are location bound. I want to generate energy here - because I use it here. There are constraints (noise, size, height etc.) that I live with.

Sure, I've got solar, my roof is full of that. Let's stipulate that economically I'm better off adding more solar. Let's also stipulate that my roof is "full".

I get quite a few windy days (and windy nights) a year. If I harvest 1kw/h, I'd be happy. If I generate excess I can sell it to the grid.

The obvious answer is still a 3 or 5 bladed conventional wind turbine. But that is both visual, and can be noisy.

Personally, I don't need it to compete economicly with solar. I don't need it to be "perfect wind efficient". All I need is around 3kw capacity (for 1kw output) in a residential friendly package.

Solar has shown that individuals are prepared to spend capital on residential generation. And in sufficient volume to move the grid needle. I'd love to see similar opportunities for those with more wind and less sun.
ImportGenius
Compute power marches on, including bandwidth, i/o, and storage space/speed.

If it increases faster than blockchain size, then we're OK.
The availability of instant answers requires self discipline. Because it can be used to help make your learning process more efficient, but it can also turn into a crutch where the tool becomes the answer. Anybody who has ever tried to teach math to an unmotivated student would have faced the question, 'Why do we learn math when we could just use a calculator?'

It's quite interesting. All of these things, like the internet, that are or were supposed to 'democratize' learning, knowledge, and so on often end up doing the exact opposite - and just growing divides. The tiny percent of people that truly utilize these tools to their potential do become far more able than ever before, but most people don't. And the tool for self improvement instead just becomes a tool to get the answer, leaving them even worse off than before the tool.
This immediately reads like gobbledygook to me, while the parent is easy to follow.

I’m not trying to dunk on you, but I can’t help to note that the denseness of math is too much for an idiot like me.
Finding images with enough pixels to distinguish a house from a 2005 satellite as a civilian sounds quite unlikely.

Aerial imagery photographed by planes is more likely to exist, and it depends where you live.
Thanks for the link,

"Apple, to smooth things over, is dangling $200 credit to be used against the purchase of an M1 Mac. Again, this hasn't been well received."

"After you returned the hardware, you got a $500 credit that you could apply to any Apple hardware, including the shipping version of the M1 Macs."

We live [...]
With rewritten histories and a fictional past
- Master Race, New Model Army
> "God did it"

Which god? There are billions of them if you lump all the religions together.

And what did they do exactly? And what are they likely to do in the future? How is this position any different from "we know nothing and can deduce nothing"? I don't know about you but I find that a very sad way to live a life.
How does Keller's state pre-language differ from "ego death" and what UG Krishmaurti described as the "natural state" (where there is no continuous thought as part of the control loop)? A lot of the symptoms seems to be superficially similar: timelessness, blurred boundaries between the self and the environment. This following lines in particular jump out at me.

>My dormant being had no idea of God or immortality, no fear of death.

Although one difference I suppose is that while Keller had no option at all of using the faculties of self-modeling enabled by language, UG Krishnamurti described it as something voluntary; clearly he could introspect if he desired to, but he could apparently relinquish this also.
>Why the fuck is this live?

Because taking it down would negatively affect Alphabet's share price. It would also be a further (and very public) admission of just how far Google has fallen behind.
Research exception is an explicit statutory exception to copyright, not a fair use case.
The eye is the lens that sees itself.
Maybe the deal for reddit data wasn't the best idea.
Google Earth Pro app has it.

It is free.

https://www.google.com/earth/about/versions/#earth-pro

Use the time button - https://support.google.com/earth/answer/148094?hl=en

2005 should have houses, it does mine.
I'd imagine Alphabet's shares would take a plunge after such failure.
Gradual divergence of spelling and pronunciation is an inherent flaw of writing systems based on an alphabet or abiguda. Pronunciation inevitably evolves, especially over extended stretches of time causing a drift in the spelling. The IPA would succumb to the same fate and perhaps would make the problem even worse due to being too precise by virtue of encoding the finest deviations in phonetic qualities of sounds that are irrelevant to the semantic meaning of words the sounds encode.

Varying solutions have been employed to deal with the problem: 1) keep the historical spelling and accept the pronunciation drift (English, Icelandic, French etc), 2) purge the obsolete spelling to keep it up to date with the current pronunciation, 3) a varying balance of 1 and 2.

Logographic writing systems are the only ones that are immune to the spelling-pronunciation problem as they decouple one from another and continue to convey the semantic meaning of words the logographic system encodes (Chinese, Ancient Egyptian – with caveats). It preserves the historical knowledge at the expense of the future phonetic quality being unrelated to the historical one. This is why we can never be sure how exactly Ancient Egyptian and Chinese languages sounded.
For a grade school teacher;

1. To teach students whatever society deems at the time is general education. This is straightforward, don't think I need to elaborate here.

2. To widen the horizons of the youth on what's possible to do in the world. Ideally they'd inspire students and guide them towards their potential passions and interests. I'd never be here in tech if my 4th/5th grade teacher didn't inspire me into STEM. He worked at NASA before, he was my first exposure to Carl Sagan, he had all sorts of neat astronomical examples ready whenever the science unit came up. I didn't end up as an astronomer, but it did show me something I never would have looked into otherwise as a kid

3. A resource (or pointer to a resource) for students. Be it if the students are struggling in studies, are curious about particular topics, or want to try and plan a future pursuit. They should help students not only learn, but learn to learn.

4. Lastly, as a state guardian. A teacher should be one a child should feels safe confiding with should issues involving their parents, peers, or even other teaches arises. They should have some emotional intelligence to balance between what administration wants and what the student needs at that time. This also may include identifying mental or medical issues in students, and at least able to start the trail of investigation should there be more than lack of interest holding some students back.

If we compare notes we agree on #1, and you have maybe a small inkling of #3 and 4 for our definitions. The only separation from school and day care in your definition is the lessons, thought these days daycares also do that.

If society just wants government funded supervision while the parents engage in taxable labor for half their waking life (or more), we should just be honest about that.