skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You made your case very clearly. Couldn't students address this with their local admins?

Wouldn't that be better than trying to get an upstream project to preserve an informal social contract that students inadvertently relied on?
I have always assumed that /tmp means "temporary". I mean, it's right there in the name. So, a move to tmpfs means "automatic cleanup" to me, which seems just fine, and worth doing for that.

If we're doing because the systemd maintainers say "we have to do it because systemd", though, well...

How long till the systemd guys make package dependencies and installation as a service? You know, sponsored by the IBM/Redhat team, and signed by Microsoft?

signed,

a Devuan devotee
Reaching for SIMD intrinsics or an abstraction has been historically quite painful in C and C++. But cross-platform SIMD abstractions in C#, Swift and Mojo are changing the picture. You can write a vectorized algorithm in C# and practically not lose performance versus hand-intrinsified C, and CoreLib heavily relies on that.
Spacetop – Meet the AR Laptop for Work
Yes. The socially constructed world is not the actual, personally-experienced world. The stories you believe determine the reality you can consider.
Quasi-Programmed Senescence and Its Pharmacologic Inhibition
Why the FOSS world needs a spy??
That vid also demonstrated that the tool alone isn’t enough. You need a rudimentary grasp of geoguesser to know where in the marked circle to even start looking
AFAIK, nobody has added the weather to Stellarium, but it does show sky at various times and places on Earth, with toggles for the ground and atmosphere. Web version:

https://stellarium-web.org/
> The research team points out that while some may see the practice of being paid to endorse drugs as unethical, it is not illegal and does not affect licensing.

Does the US have no transparency laws for this? As in: "if you promote a product, then you must disclose if you're paid for it"?

Even for things like "sponsored posts" on Instagram this is required; e.g. from the FTC: "Do you work with brands to recommend or endorse products? If so, you need to comply with the law when making these recommendations. One key is to make a good disclosure of your relationship to the brand." https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/disclosures-...

That must also apply to drugs? Some Open Payments website seems incredibly untransparent, and wouldn't comply with the social media transparency requirements as I read that FTC page.

Surely the rules for Instagram tat can't be more strict than drugs?
Mostly using Zotero for saving snapshots of webpage. Saving webpage is getting more and more difficult as it approaches the functionality of the desktop application.
Is this stuff generalizable or Claude specific?
I'm surprised you didn't have luck with tmux as there's built-in buffer to file command
Doctors who fail to disclose an interest should lose their license. The SEC doesn't tolerate such shenanigans for finance, why should the FDA permit it for drugs?
Fair, I was mostly thinking electrical engineering and similar. For civil engineering, I'm curious what is common. As soon as you have Fourier and/or Laplace Transforms, you will most likely end up using radians, and are these not relevant for civil engineering? I have no idea, though the modeling of linear, time-invariant systems (i.e. filters) strike me as important if you're building, say, a bridge, and/or care about seismic activity at all.

Nevertheless, in the context in which this was presented, radians are the only way to go.
Canadian here. Air Canada has had awful UX for as long as I can remember. They're just generally trash.
I saw it as Nabokov's celebration of his own genius and the power it gave him. Quite "the flex" as the young peuple say. He was expert in setting chess problems, lepidoptery, French and Russian cultural and literary arcana, linguistics, politics - especially of the academic kind, psychology, and a few others I am undoubtedly missing. According to what I've read, all that and more is in "Pale Fire."

At that point in his life, I think he knew well that a work like this would be devoured by his fans and vivisected by academics. He alone knew how deep the maze went and the layers of arcane tricks he was pulling. For example, see:

https://thenabokovian.org/classics/barabtarlo-fa84 via https://thenabokovian.org

Also, https://thenabokovian.org/forum/6 and https://thenabokovian.org/nabokv-l for 25+ years of a Nabokovian mailing list.

It's all imbued with a cruelty that some of the very brilliant enjoy displaying.
> [3] Company that built the GameCube GPU before being bought out by ATI, which is why the Wii had an ATI logo on it

The Gamecube also has the ATI logo on it, it features prominently on the bottom right corner of the front side.
First, if your extraction method is at all efficient, then much of the energy you extract is going to end up as heat again. Sure, it'll be somewhere it can more easily radiate to space, but rock is a pretty good thermal conductor too.

Second, Earth is big. Like, really big. I once did a napkin calculation of the proportional depth of the ocean. How much of a "water world" are we, really? What would it be like for some cosmic being to grab onto the Earth and throw it?

Assuming I did it right, the Earth is basically a bowling ball that someone heavily misted with a spray bottle, resulting in an average of 0.4mm of water resting on the ball's surface. (Marianas trench is 6.8 miles deep, diameter of Earth is about 8000 miles, bowling ball is 8.6 inches in diameter. To be fair, that's like 10 squirts of spray.)

Said cosmic being would just have to wipe it off with a rag to avoid it slipping out of its hands and accidentally clobbering Alpha Centauri in several years.
I once had an interview for an internal transfer where the problem they gave me was one that we’d spent 6 years worth of senior staff engineers solving. Not sure I got to the same answer they did in my allotted 30min.
at least in grpc-java, we've ran into a number of issues with breaking changes that are incredibly subtle. For example, they changed the behavior of the DNS NameResolver to not periodically re-resolve endpoints. This meant that if your Loadbalancer didn't explicitly force re-resolution at some point (which isn't required for any other NameResolver implementation) then you could end up with stuck clients.
I've definitely had my troubles with KQL, but I still find it more memorable than SQL. Interesting that some folks feel the opposite.

My most recent favorite KQL trick for debugging from logs is `autocluster`. Maybe you'll also find it useful when you're in trouble :)
It depends. The tr069 managed devices are typically router wifi combo type devices. If you can get a dumb modem that would would likely remove any tr069 vulnerabilities.

The firmware on whatever is doing docsis is going to be updatable by the ISP generally.

Two different mechanisms. The tr069 management and snmp triggered firmware upgrade
There are a couple really important aspects to clarify there.

What does "end the world" mean here? Is the concern truly ending the physical world on earth, killing us all? Or is it ending the world as we know it, like ending our current civilizations and maybe even ending the model of humans being the leading species on earth.

With regards to OpenAI and GPTx, the question there is whether we believe we publicly know everything OpenAI software is capable of today and what capabilities they are actively trying to develop. We may think GPT isn't a serious risk, but that could be wildly wrong if OpenAI has much more powerful systems either under lock and key or behind the black box of GPT's public API.
Seconded, a great read and quite accessible. History chapters are interspersed with more mathematical ones. I would say having some basic math background is helpful but not totally necessary.
I remember coming to the same realisation :)
I struggled for a long time to understand the Fourier transform, using visual materials like 3b1b [1] and betterexplained [2].

Eventually it clicked when considering the Discrete Fourier transform [3], which is just an orthogonal matrix you multiply onto a vector.
All the stuff about the inverse FFT, Plancherel theorem and Parseval's theorem come for free: they just say that the matrix is orthonormal.

Maybe this only works if you've already invested in understanding linear algebra. But once I had this discrete understanding, back porting it to the continuous Fourier transform was easy enough.

Maybe I'm weird, but this was a case where just looking at the equations was much easier than all the animations of circles and stuff.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY

[2] https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_Fourier_transform
How does that bypass 802.1x? Are the 802.1x packets are responded to by the official modem still? I was under the impression all packets were encrypted or signed with 802.1x, but Ive never had to implement or test it so I could be wrong.
Yes, how did Lula pull Brazil out their economic mess?
Firstly, remember the AI companies have something that is able to do interesting product demos but that is it. If I had a dog that could tell me what was happening in the world but got it wrong 5% of the time my response would be "Oh shit, a talking dog!" and then I would keep watching the news as normal. This is not going to get better: the energy demands are enormous, the amount of untapped data sets for consumption into the models is rapidly running out and the one company who I would have thought would have the best data set, Google, has an AI that tells people cook spaghetti in gasoline for flavor.

Secondly, I want you to think about who is most excited for AI "art". Without wishing to disparage them too unfairly, they are the sort of people who could have a meal prepared by a Michelin Star restaurant or the custard machine from Teletubbies and would evaluate both by portion size.

No one is excited to go see an AI generated movie. No one is looking forward to the weekend so they can curl up on the couch and read an AI generated novel. There is no demand for AI art on the consumer side, it is entirely on the production side by bean counters who would have had Michelangelo carve the Statue of David from styrofoam to save money.

The future is not in AI, if anything the oceans of AI slop will destroy the recommendation algorithms so we'll be back to good old fashioned human curation.

Honestly, I would suggest maybe talking to a therapist about these feelings; you cannot look at every aspect of your life through a lens of effort/reward mechanics.
What about tv and YouTube?
Seems easier to me to say they are logarithmically distributed, rounded to 2 digits.

Like yes, this means that if your manufacturing tolerances are typically some percentage of the amount (more natural than an additive error) then the overlaps are nicely spaced. But a log scale means that's true for any relative allowance (manufacturing or otherwise), which is the much more natural sort. It doesn't matter if your 100-foot house is off by 1mm, but it does matter if your 1mm-thickness fork is.
That escalated gradually!
>> Widgets in GTK header bars are draggable.

Some are and some are not. Have you even tried to understand the complaint before getting snarky? ;-)
Personally, I think the biggest risk of AI is that it doesn’t live up to expectations (in the short term).
$100 trillion is the entire world GDP. I don't care how much debt you're willing to take on or how much stock you sell, you're not going to take the entire world output.

What percent of world GDP do you think is realistic to capture for this? As a ballpark estimate, I would say 5% - and even that is only realistic if you're the only one trying to do it. But even at that rate, it's going to take 20 years to build it. Well, if it takes 20 years to build it and then you get a return in 7 years, will the money be there to do it? A 27-year return is a lot different from a 7-year return.

So, no, there will not be $100 trillion clusters.
How would that be bad?
There are many examples where the British version of a term is more felicitous than the American version.

"Jab" for "injection" is not one of them. It grates on the eyeballs, or at least my eyeballs.

It's as if we suddenly decided to call surgery "gashing".
The better/new interview question, thus, is "here is code that chatGPT generated for $PROBLEM", what's wrong with it.
If you want to avoid weird seam artifacts, using 2 hemispheres of stereographic projection is probably better still. Each hemisphere projects to a disk but you can just fill out the texture to the boundaries of a square, duplicating a bit of each hemisphere into the corners of the other's texture (or you could leave those parts blank if you want). There's a 1:2 difference in scale from the center to the edge of each disk, so you could argue this is slightly wasteful of pixels for a given minimum required level of detail, but the projection is conformal so it's considerably less tricky to figure out how to sample it to decide the color for destination pixels drawn at steep perspective, and the stereographic projection is very cheap to compute in both directions (1 division + some additions and multiplications per projected point), even cheaper than the gnomonic projection used for a cubemap.

If you want something conformal that has less scale variation and wastes fewer corner pixels than a pair of stereographically projected hemispheres and is still not too conceptually tricky, you can use a pair of slightly overlapping Mercator projections, at right angles to each-other, covering the sphere like the two pieces of leather covering a baseball. Each one can have a rectangular texture. There are some NOAA papers suggesting this approach for the grids for solving differential equations needed in weather simulation of the Earth.

The most pixel-efficient projection I know starts by breaking the sphere into an octahedron, then taking each octant to be covered in a grid of hexagonal pixels, using "spherical area coordinates" in each octant to determine the grid. Each octant can then be represented in an ordinary square-pixel image by a half square ("45–45–90 right triangle"), so the result is something like this <https://observablehq.com/@jrus/sac-quincuncial> with a hexagon grid like <https://observablehq.com/@jrus/sphere-resample> (scroll a few examples down from the top of the page). But figuring out the details about how to sample the texture when you need to cross edge boundaries, etc., makes using this quite a bit more fiddly than the 2 stereographic projection version. And there will be some seam artifacts.
So it sounds like the climate change problem will be solved before too long, if the rate continues to increase. According to another post above, CO2 levels above 40,000 ppm are "immediately harmful" (I read that as lethal), while levels above 5,000 cause oxygen deprivation. So, when there's too much CO2 in the atmosphere because stupid humans refuse to stop driving giant SUVs, the air itself will prevent humans from even functioning mentally, human society will collapse, and the human population will quickly fall.
Secure Shellfish (Plus Textastic) on iPad Gets the Jobs Done
previous posts:

Herbie: Find and fix floating-point accuracy problems (uwplse.org)
6 months ago | 26 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38451680

Herbie 2.0 Released (uwplse.org)
11 months ago | 0 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36543214

Herbie – optimize floating-point expressions for accuracy (github.com/herbie-fp)
2 years ago | 2 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30740880

Herbie: Automatically Improving Floating Point Accuracy (uwplse.org)
4 years ago | 17 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24069465

Herbie: Automatically rewrites expressions to minimize floating point error (github.com/uwplse)
8 years ago | 19 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10964617

Herbie: Automatically Improving Floating Point Accuracy (uwplse.org)
9 years ago | 3 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9999438
In Europe it’s PepsiCo, and it tastes awful compared to the US version.
This is at least as old as the Digg Payola schemes. Digg had cartels that would massive boost the upvotes of some content and then bury other content. They'd also go and astroturf in the comments on those upvoted posts to artificially boost engagement.
The Cobra Effect: What could possibly go wrong?
I say this a lot in the context of reliability engineering, but it's moreso something I've learned from life. Any sufficiently complex system has rules which means they have incentives (and disincentives!), any system with sufficiently complex rules is a game. You can either craft the game in such a way that the 99% do what you want and the outliers are intentionally marginalized or you can let the 1% run the show according to the meta rules your incentives taught them and make everyone else observers. Social media is the story of the latter.
This stood out to me:

"Dubbed TotalRecall—yes, after the 1990 sci-fi film—the tool can pull all the information that Recall saves into its main database on a Windows laptop. “The database is unencrypted. It’s all plain text,” Hagenah says."
I too have been developing a doomsday weapon in secret. Send me a million dollars or face the consequences.
All ‘information’ jobs which is a superset for most tech roles. One more data point against the collapse narrative is that we’ve never had so many software developers working in the US: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IPUJN5112W200000000
If I purchase a hammer, I expect no support unless it is faulty within a reasonable period after purchase. If there is a fault in that time, the vendor must refund my money or fix the hammer.

If the world stops making nails compatible with my hammer down the line, I don't expect the vendor to do anything about it.
Eh if you looked around silicon valley 5/10/15 years ago, Apple had basically won among the programmers and founders there. So they wouldn't really need astroturfers here.
this is super great from him, too https://www.andreinc.net/2024/01/09/the-most-important-math-...
I use a swap partition 1/2 the size of my RAM, a zram swap partition 1/4 the size of my RAM, and 160 swappiness. Well, I say 1/2 and 1/4 size, it's actually 8GB and 4GB to a RAM size of 15.3, but it's close enough.
For insight into Ford's philosophy of business operations, you might find his "Today and Tomorrow" interesting.

Ford, H. (2019). Today and Tomorrow: Commemorative Edition of Ford's 1926 Classic. CRC Press (Taylor & Francis)

https://archive.org/details/todaytomorrow0000ford
I remember trying Neovim in the early days because they kept talking about scripting with Lua. The problem I had was that I was new to the Vim/Neovim ecosystem and couldn't make head or tail of the documentation for using Lua. Maybe things are in a better state for someone like me.
Does DuckDB supports partial reading of .duckdb files hosted externally?
Why Should I Care about the Abhidharma?
? That's not a right. There is a reason women fought decades for their own sex spaces
If you really don't want to delete manually you can just `sudo mount -t tmpfs ~/tmp` or so
They often use security as an excuse to be anti-repair.

That doesn't mean they're lying any time they mention security. Many of the things they do really are to benefit the customer. One of those is having strong locks on stolen phones.
What if you want a building that isn't a boring, standardized rectangular box?
> One weird benefit of that stringly-typed bit is that the BUILD files you have don't even have to meaningfully evaluate or even parse correctly, so you can still build other subsets of the tree even when things are broken; at ridiculous-scale it's nearly impossible to guarantee that, and it's something Nix does worse IMO since evaluation of the full nixpkgs tree is slow as hell in my experience but a requirement because a single eval error in the tree stops you dead in your tracks.

I think you get more or less the same property with Nix. You can have all kinds of errors, even certain syntax errors in the same file, but if they are unneeded for the current evaluation, they won't cause any problems.

As for language familiarity/approachability - this will always be a matter of opinion, but I personally don't think it makes sense to optimize for the casual contributor. Plenty of people know python, but I never see casuals making anything besides trivial changes to bazel build files. I don't think they gain anything by familiarity with python, they could very well copy paste nix or any other language. And if they get in to trouble, they will call in the experts.
I've just released my first programming (OSINT) project. Give it a chance
I've developed new (actually my first) project. It can help you to conduct OSINT during a domain. You can find more info about it on GitHub page:
https://github.com/OSINT-TECHNOLOGIES/dpulse
I don't think that's really useful or coherent perspective. If you approach things from a causal or deterministic mindset, then everything and everyone is morally inscrutable. Furthermore, if you take that approach, it doesn't mean that people are moral, just that they are not responsible for their actions.

Hitler and Jesus are on equal moral footing. They are both the products of causality, whether you hold that to be governed by physics, or the character of their Immortal soul.

Are you saying that being corrupted by your social conditions allows you to remain good while doing bad? Are you saying that it is moral to steal with a spreadsheet?

What is morality if not resisting corruption and temptation?

I think it is much more coherent to believe that one's actions determine their morality, but not all people face equal tests. This makes more sense than trying to rationalize how a murderer is a moral person.
Try have them be educated in a kana only system and then have them try read it. They'd probably do just fine. You'd expect anything you've spend a decade doing to be easier than the thing you've spent much less time doing.

かんちょうが かんちょうで かんちょうに かんちょう された。 Is probably a sentence that definitely requires Kanji to understand the precise meaning given how many homophones かんちょう has, but it's a toy example.
So again, what right do trans people not have? They can get married. It's very easy to articulate the womens rights that are being violated lately. Simply talk to any women in the real world

Losing access to single sex spaces (bathrooms, prisons, sports leagues, etc). Men are statistically more violent than women and you are suggesting we should just let them freely into womens spaces. This is why they have fought for their own spaces