skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never understood who cared enough to bet on the technical side, my understanding was the political weight was on the UX side. Curious for your input if you have any thoughts you're comfy sharing

I surmise either A) Hiroshi wanted a fresh OS without the political risk of committing to it in a well-known way and/or

B) I don't grok how free-wheeling Google could be prior to my arrival (late 2016), combined with general bureaucratic inertia of there not really being an incentive to eliminate things*

* that probably sounds funny, but IIRC most of the major public cancellations are when a big project gets shuffled under a VP who could give 2 craps, or rebrandings that people got too upset about
I’ve since done a bunch more on planetary cloud rendering, need to do a proper write up, but it’s a combination of volumetric noise, flow fields & atmospheric scattering.

https://x.com/mr_sharpoblunto/status/1653986502106570757
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I mean, normal Canadians also likely can't afford the cost of American surgery. And I can think of at least 1 time a prominent Canadian went to the USA for medical procedures that weren't available in Canada.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/william...

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2016-08-...

Might be worth a quick Google before posting.
It probably leaves you in the same place you’d be with a synthetic key of your own: unable to track users across this key change without additional Discord data.
> Why not just have the installer _ask_ me what configuration I prefer? Is there some reason you have to force the change, announce a victory, then make me to go mucking with "defaults" after the fact?

It's the Poettering way. And GNOME, for some reason.
Yes, the US has transparency laws. You can find all the payments listed here.

https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/
More good background. I know that in California where I live, it’s becoming less popular to explicitly divide things by gender, so that might explain why some people have a negative reaction to it. I can understand that some other cultures have more strongly defined gender roles.
Kind of sparked a thought in another comment but my thinking is that the best action in this situation is to simply not reply to the scammer.

The author didn't explain "how the scammer was texting her". I don't own an iPhone. On my Android device, they'd have to have my phone number which I don't know how they'd get from the locked phone. Of course, I -- like many -- provide an alternate number on the screen for "helpful people who might want to return, rather than re-sell, my crappy old Samsung phone." And I'd imagine that would be the way to get "the first reply".

But if you could avoid that[0], it keeps you from feeding a likely gambling addiction, or at least makes the game a little less satisfying. Consider that they've got a box of bricked phones. Every text is a chance to turn one of those into a few hundred dollars. Every reply is a small "high" that they're still in the game. Every message that goes off into the Ether, ignored, is "additional confirmation that this phone is a permanent brick" and you don't even get the satisfaction of feeling like maybe you intimidated someone a little.

[0] And to a lesser extent, even if you can't. I've blocked scammmers and seen the progression of repeated "Hello?"s ... somewhere in there it's connected that whatever they're trying to send me is not meeting my eyeballs. Had a funny one that was like 30 messages in a row, followed by "whatever" and "ass hole" ... I remember thinking it was odd that it was always lower case and that they put a space between ass and hole. Not necessarily like a person with a lack of English language skills, but like a tween just learning how to wield profanity.
It is convenient for the industry, but that doesn't make it not a real concern. Why are the most visible people warning about the x-risk those who have quit big AI, such as Hinton?

If it's becoming insufferable it's because nobody is taking it seriously.
Vedic Hinduism had a similar concept of eternal fire. I recently wrote up a twitter thread [1] explaining how the modern interpretation of Vedic instructions on starting these sacred fires misunderstands the text.

Etymology tidbit: "Bhārata", India's Sanskrit name, refers to the forerunner clan that established India's first historically recorded political entity—the Kuru Kingdom—around 1200 BC near modern Delhi. The clan itself was named "Bhārata" due to their ardent bearing ("bhar-" in Sanskrit) of the sacred fire.

[1] https://x.com/khoomeik/status/1794082465398812770
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If you want to make sure that thieves do not steal iPhones, you need to ensure there is no point in taking them apart for parts.

Which means you need to prove both: you are the owner of the device; and that the parts are not stolen. This means serial number on each part (likely already exists), database of individual parts with "stolen" flag, and a secure way to query this before pairing.

Or don't bother with all that, and just prohibit pairing of parts with unknown origin - which means prohibiting all 3rd party services.
They already have the CTA's opinion on their own officer's obligations, they just don't like it so they are hoping the court will have a different opinion, which would be made less likely if the CTA was involved in the case.
Apple devs as well as application developers— menu bar icons are clearly a neglected corner of the ecosystem in that Apple would prefer that app devs not persist icons in the menu bar at all. But the feature is nonetheless wildly popular as the nearest systray-alike functionality on macOS.
For example: https://complexity-calculator.com/
I agree, but i take it that this isn't about advertising to patients, but the general public.

Some doctors don't even have patients. Some work in drug development itself.
Discord's real user ID is a very lengthy number not visible to end-users nor used for other purposes.

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/206346498-Wher...
Discord user IDs are their numerical unique, unchangeable, id.

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/206346498-Wher...
Happy to explain if you help me understand the question better.
>> I am currently the CTO.

I am a sucker for super optimization. To not get sucked into these too much or take most of the points seriously I look at the role or situation they are in.

This is applicable for somebody in that situation.
I'm a woman and ex-creator on an app like this. AI matters as a productivity tool as all content platforms struggle with getting more content, but yes there's a bunch of other important things
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Here's what appears to be the exact quote from an article:

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain

By the false azure in the windowpane;

I was the smudge of ashen fluff—and I

Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky.

I think I did alright for recalling it from several years ago. I will in fact, retract my agreement and classify your criticism as overly harsh.
istat puts a bunch of graphs in the bar (CPU, memory, disk, network)
Have you tried it? They're actually pretty good at it in a lot of scenarios. It's not flawless, but they're only getting better.
I remember the swap = 2x RAM guideline back in the day. When RAM got into the gigabytes it stopped making sense. If you're out of memory on a 64GB machine, a swap file is only going to (slowly) prolong the inevitable.

These days I set up servers without swap, and I have not run into any issues doing that.
contexts.app for windows style alt-tab behavior
Menubar apps as they exist now haven’t ever really been a consideration for Apple for UX/UI design purposes. For somewhere between the first third and half of OS X’s existence it wasn’t even possible to have persistent third party status bar items without some hackery that made the system think third party apps were first party menu extras.

Even today the API they use is intended primarily for ephemeral status bar items that are present only when the host application is open and visible in the Dock, which is worked around by declaring the host app as a chromeless background app so it can stay open and keep the status item visible without cluttering peoples’ docks.

In short, the OS doesn’t have features for managing third party menubar items because indefinitely persisting third party menubar items don’t really have any place in the larger design. Third party menubar items are intended to be few in number and relevant to one of the user’s current tasks.
I agree with pretty much every word. But what those words are identifying is (1) there is an emotional response at play and (2) it is a heuristic for something else that in the modern age is no longer an reasonable heuristic (ie, your instincts don't understand capitalism and the benefits of having vast amounts of capital on hand, they are calibrated for a hunter-gatherer society with maybe some light farming and a few hundred people).

The emotional response to inequality has led to some of the biggest government-sponsored mass murders in history [0]. It is perhaps the worst-scaling social response that evolution has cursed us with. Focusing on it is stupid, and we'd all be better off if we focused on absolute living standards instead.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anthropogenic_disaster... - Communism was flat out worse than a Mongol invasion. Best case scenario it was the same ballpark. Best attempt ever made at solving inequality though.
iirc, netcat was the truely embarrassing one that was signed and allowed to bypass firewalls
Entropy of information is basically how well it can be compressed. Random noise usually doesn't compress much at all and thus has high entropy, whereas written natural language can usually be compressed quite a bit. Since many passwords and tokens will be randomly generated or at least nonsense, looking for high entropy might pick up on them.

This package seems to be measuring entropy by counting the occurrences of each character in each line, and ranking lines with a high proportion of repeated characters as having low entropy. I don't know how closely this corresponds with the precise definition.
Source: https://github.com/EwenQuim/entropy/blob/f7543efe130cfbb5f0a...

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)
My experience has been the same: all these intuitive and visual explanations of math/physics stuff on YouTube/else just makes me "feel" like I learnt it, but then as soon as I need to use it in practice, I realize the only thing that actually gets the job done is some solid math equations, no questions asked. I still do all the proofs for math subjects in order to know I can derive them.

It's unfortunate, and I wish just watching such beautiful visuals would magically instill the idea in my brain, but it just feels like intellectual dopamine for me.
Yeah, this jumped out to me as especially insane. That's what the Save feature is for!

When someone Slacks me something that's clearly non-urgent, I just hit Save on it and come back to it later. No big deal. It's actually a wildly useful and probably underutilized feature.

Requiring others to message you _just so_ to match your own particular idiosyncrasies, because you insist on bending reality to your will rather than working in the same plane as everyone else, makes for a colleague that others dread interacting with.
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One reason to not do that is because you could then figure out other users IDs by their hiring date. This ended up being a problem for me once with the auxiliary systems that relied on that ID, namely when it was used in links in other applications.
Payments from pharmaceutical companies to physicians are already publicly disclosed.

https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/
> You said competition leads to higher wages

Less than 2% of the workers in the US work for minimum wage.
Probably due to the fact that spherical linear interpolation would be slower and more specialised than linear interpolation; which the entire render pipeline is already constructed to handle. You can draw a perfect, anti-aliased sphere using a single shader program and 1 triangle.
That menu bar icons can be hidden behind the notch seems like an Apple bug that should be handled in macOS.
Writing data to a disk based file means it will inevitably be written to disk shortly, unless you delete it so quickly the system doesn't get a chance to write it before it's gone. Writing data to a tmpfs file means it will never be written to disk unless the you write more data than you have RAM. So if your files in /tmp fit into RAM tmpfs will be faster. That is the only benefit.

Unfortunately tmpfs is not so good when the data does not fit into RAM. The first thing that happens is it writes the overflow to swap, which is much slower than writing to disk in the normal fashion so you lose the speed advantage. If you store so much you run out of swap the second thing that happens is your system dies.

This proposal comes with a bigger hairs. The issue is you can't trust all apps with clean up after themselves, meaning they will exit leaving crud in /tmp. That means if the system isn't rebooted /tmp tends grow slowly as this crud accumulates, which eventually means even in the best case the system will become unstable after enough time. Their solution to that is to just delete old files on the assumption they are crud. But that's a kludge as there is no way to be certain a file is crud of not, and deleting files that will be re-used makes the system unstable.

Which in the end means it depends on use cases. A typical desktop user with lots of RAM (at least 8GB, preferably 16GB) will probably see a benefit as their files in /tmp will fit into RAM. Typical means they don't do something that eats RAM and disk like editing video files, and they reboot their system occasionally. Other users will lose because tmpfs overflow to disk so their system will at best be slower, possibly unstable if they didn't know to allocate lots of swap when they installed the system.

Notice servers don't neatly fit the typical use category, and also notice variants of OS's that target servers don't use tmpfs for /tmp. Debian doesn't have a variant that targets servers, but whether /tmp uses tmpfs is easily configurable for sysadmins. Editing text files is their day job after all. In fact that ease of changing the default was the main argument for the change on the Debian lists. The end result is the change won't overly effect sysadmins of Debian servers either - it's just one more thing they have to change in what is already a long list.

TL;DR: server admins won't care about the change and typical users with big laptops doing normal stuff will be happy, but normal with cheap laptops or are doing unusual things will have their world turn to shit if they aren't comfortable with the command line.
I didn't know what entropy means in software, so here's the definition[0]:

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Software entropy is a measure of the disorder or complexity of a software system. It is a natural tendency for software entropy to increase over time, as new features are added and the codebase becomes more complex.

High entropy in software development means that the code is difficult to understand, maintain, and extend. It is often characterized by:

Duplicated code: The same code or functionality is repeated in multiple places, which can make it difficult to find and fix bugs.
Complex logic: The code is difficult to follow and understand, which can make it difficult to add new features or fix bugs without introducing new ones.
Poor documentation: The code is not well-documented, which can make it difficult for new developers to understand and contribute to the codebase.
Technical debt: The code has been patched and modified over time without proper refactoring, which can lead to a tangled and cluttered codebase.

Low entropy in software development means that the code is well-organized, easy to understand, and maintain. It is often characterized by:

Well-designed architecture: The code is structured in a logical way, with clear separation of concerns.
Consistent coding style: The code follows a consistent coding style, which makes it easy to read and understand.
Comprehensive documentation: The code is well-documented, with clear explanations of the code's purpose and functionality.
Minimal technical debt: The code has been refactored regularly to remove technical debt, which makes it easy to add new features and fix bugs without introducing new ones.

[0] https://www.kisphp.com/python/high-and-low-entropy-in-softwa...
Something to consider: when you remove the female body from the definition of woman, what else remains besides sexist feminine stereotypes?

More to the point, when a male says he identifies as a woman, what exactly is he identifying with? You can't identify with a organs you don't have, so what could he actually be identifying with, if not sexist feminine stereotypes?

And how is it progressive to say that a man who identifies with feminine stereotypes is a woman? Is it not more progressive to say that a man who identifies with feminine stereotypes is simply a feminine man?
Hey, looks like a great fit for me. I have led teams to $1M MRR, owned the entire infrastrucutre for more than 60 microservices. delivered lots of large scale projects from scratch.

However the application form asks for current and expectation without mentioning the budget which to me at least is a negative signal.
The ending of Interstellar was a great visualization of this idea.

If you are in a higher dimension, maybe you can physically see our entire timeline of our universe.
"Debug mode" is also my favorite way of putting it, and yes it does seem to give me greater access to retrieve memories and discover, re-evaluate, and re-program heuristics I thought were just background constants.

I've also read that some who are quite experienced in lucid dreaming can have conversations with their subconscious by embodiment into a character in their dream. I bet there is a lot of potential utility to be discovered there.
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Recently, I created hindsight, an open source android app that takes a screenshot every 2 seconds and stores it locally. It has functionality to upload the screenshots to a personal server and some basic scripts to view and search the text within the images. I use rem to do the equivalent on my Mac.
I think this data opens up a lot of cool opportunities, especially in personal A.I. and automated self quantification! Some ideas that come to mind:
1) Gamifying screen time reduction
2) A fake news detector that uses current information to find false information you’ve seen in the past
3) Creating an A.I. twitter feed summarization image
4) A mental health tracker

Curious what other ideas people have!
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/home/.cache/ is for regular users.
yeah the way he described it it's like... well who would ever do that. but foreign keying to emails or usernames is much easier to "accidentally" do and is a classic source of long-term headaches.
Individual Amish people own property and business and keep the profits from them. That's not being a commune.
Anyone that’s spent large amounts of time using vlookup in excel can totally relate. Mashing some fields together as a key works great until it doesn’t.
> For linux, remapping the keyboard is straight editing the keymap file, and it's less crazy than the registry on windows

Both mac and windows have this least powerful equivalent, and via mostly more ergonomic gui apps with key detection (you can also edit the file, though its format might be worse). But then this method isn't context aware / dynamic, so nothing stellar about it

> tweaking millisecond delays is just barbaric

How would you achieve the same with editing a keymap file which has no delays?

Curious, which keybind your were able to use in Karabiner, but not in Elements. I know it's less powerful in a few areas (like detecting active field types), but otherwise don't remember reliability fails during transition
Its even cooler if the pet has fleas that are organized as a cellular automata that plays the game of 'life' on the body of the pet.
Man, first I hear about Raivo, now this. Been a bad week for me to say the least...
Hence my first comment:

> doesn't make much difference if you have your own router between your network and the AT&T network

And in the end those businesses with no networking knowledge will end up using their ISP's CPE modem/router/WiFi combo regardless of if its required or not. And from my experience it is not even just AT&T requiring their CPE router somewhere in the stack. I previously managed a Spectrum DOCSIS business internet connection where they also required their owned and managed gateway in the stack in order to have any static IP addresses. They wouldn't support any other configurations.
> We don’t just eat random (average) parts of plants, we eat selected ones

We can’t digest cellulose which throws off the calculations based on what calories are available to us. The question was the minimums not the worst case. Obviously most carbon sequestered by trees isn’t available to us a calories.

In a closed environment simply eating plants wouldn’t result in the correct carbon balance long term. We would need to breakdown our waste via microbes, fungi, or burning.
Yeah, that's really problematic.

But I can't imagine contortions around "yeah, it's an exceptionally simple bundled text editor but trust us, it really needed that network kernel extension."
Alfred is fantastic since it let me remove all the junk I don't care about in Spotlight. Which makes search ridiculously fast for the only things I ever want to use search for: opening applications and basic OS functions you mentioned like locking, entirely using the keyboard. There's a fantastic Alfred feature of an additional locking shortcut that blacks out the display immediately instead of meandering on the lock screen afterwards.

I have never had any desire on any OS to search the web, or the app store, or even my files for that matter (without doing so deliberately). Having everything mangled together is so distracting to me and only slows me down. Started liking my M1 Macbook Pro so much more after I discovered Alfred while searching for any tricks that would let me pare down Spotlight to essentially nothing.

I debloated my Windows 11 search to do close to the same thing (although not quite as good as Alfred) and remapped search hotkeys to be consistent across both platforms which is just so pleasant as someone who routinely needs to switch between MacOS and Windows.
Far easier and cheaper to slide the comments.
> I want to lock, restart and shut down my computer with my keyboard. There are some shortcuts but honestly I can never remember the key combinations.

If you don’t already know this combo, cmd-? (AKA cmd-shift-/) will drop down the “help” menu in most applications that run in macOS. From there, I use the arrow keys to move to other menus. It’s just one nearly universal hotkey and it works for almost all menu items.
Good point on the cache. However things such as putting background image in CSS, so user can right click to download the image is just stupid. Why is css all the sudden in control of the image display? It just makes archiving pages harder.
another great idea!
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thanks for the search. this is textual entropy however, I am not sure if definition is applicable