skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, my best approximation of "sane bleeding edge" is between Fedora and Arch, each with pros and cons. The thing I love so much about Arch and what I believe is an extremely underrated feature of rolling release distros is that everyone is on the exact same page. There is only one supported version of everything, and that's what's currently in the repos. If something breaks you can go on the forum or the subreddit or whatever and there will be someone else with your problem and someone probably already has a workaround.

Sounds kinda cursed, but running something like Debian sid sucks because there's not many other people doing that. Meanwhile with Arch, there's plenty of people doing all sorts of wacky things, the wiki is really good, and the AUR hugely lowers the burden of random things you installed that weren't provided in repos that you have to remember how to build and update every once in a while.

None of this is relevant to your Python example though.
Not sure how I'd "realize correctness" of my explanation, but until I hear a more plausible one (in particular, that means one not introducing extraordinary other assumptions without extraordinary evidence for their existence), I'll stick with mine.
We've reached new heights of institutional incompetency from what I've seen.

There is a dilbert comic that said similar criticism about spreadsheets but it applies to BI tools and AI tools. It was something like.

"The spreadsheets in this presentation are of course riddled with errors and incorrect information. It doesn't matter because unless they reinforce a decision that upper management has already made no one will ever look at them again." - Dilbert Comic Paraphrase

I've seen this in display in the real world. Various reports and dashboards in states of broken.

1. Totally broken. Are not updating at all for months and sometimes years and no one seems to have noticed. People are actively using them for processes/decisions/workflows.

2. Broken in a large but not obvious way. The data is not updating but is pivoting on a date/time so it changes every cycle it runs but just rearranges the same data.

4. Endless other things I'm sure others here have many stories too.
3. Various formulas and "math" that is completely incorrect and outputting made up fantasy numbers.
Same story here. A long path with Debian as the penultimate step, still used for things I have to collaborate with others on, NixOS for myself.

I dream of the day I start using nix to build my work stuff, but today is not that day. Tomorrow doesn't look good either.
Because it's kind of a group project for the local hackerspace and it's evolved over a bit more than a decade (didn't always use rp2040, obviously).
If you think your software is too old, use Backports.
I know I'm putting on the very old, tired and threadbare "software developer tries to solve real-weird problems as if they were software" hat but these kind of stories are both legion and seemingly conceptually simple. Stepping back from the messy injustice of it all and treating the problem as essentially a customer support scaling problem, my off-the-cuff analysis is that we have a process which is too high-touch (the appeals process) which is being subjected to unexpected and unservable scale demands (the bored prisoners) leading to pathological results (prisoner appeals are ignored or subject to desultory binning).

My annoying, uneducated and probably arrogant response is that we need to introduce a lower-touch triage process in between the prisoners and the high-touch, overloaded CS department (the courts) to reduce spurious or unmeritworthy tickets (appeals) taking up too much time and increase the time departments have available to look at the meritworthy ones.

I know it's "not as simple as that" and doubtless I'm missing a million devils hiding in the details but I wonder if there's anyone in government actually tasked with finding these suboptimal aspects of the system and if not, why not? It would surely be a huge bang for the buck.
Flameshot is local. May have a subscription service, not sure.

But flameshot is extremely fast and does 95% of what I'd do in gimp anyway, without having to open a whole image editor and saving a picture.
I can directly copy it to the clipboard and paste it somewhere.
> A better rule IMO would be not just transparency which is law, but forced disclosure. Hospitals should have to disclosure full costs and breakdown to insurance and to you for procedures before actions are taken. Bonus points if said procedures are then compared to local, state and national averages.

Mechanics are required to provide a reasonably accurate quote before they begin work. Seems reasonable for doctors too, outside of emergent conditions; I don't need to be woken from surgery to sign off on extra stuff that shows up and needs to be done; but if it's something that's happens in 10%+ of cases, maybe it should be quoted too.
Is there a leaderboard for the no-restriction version of the competition? I want to see how gpt4 does on it.
If they're writing first for a UK audience, how they described the incident could be cultural.

I can totally imagine some UK people I know writing or speaking about an incident that way. It doesn't mean they're less aware or capable than someone who would write of the same incident differently.
Especially in this new era of AI assistance - these leet code problems with clear definitions and repeated online solutions are becoming less important to solve from memory or study.
I don’t understand why the government couldn’t have done a bankruptcy bailout of Sprint to maintain a vital industry/important competitor in the market. Essentially follow the same playbook as GM and have the government temporarily buy Sprint, rehabilitate it, and sell it back to public investors.

What the government did with Sprint was akin to allowing GM to be purchased by Ford. Whether or not that happens in bankruptcy court is almost irrelevant: a huge business in an oligopoly merging into another is generally bad news and the government should be on top of it.

(Let me also be clear to people who hated the automotive bailouts: they were easily the best possible outcome and hindsight shows they were great policy. The alternative was essentially the collapse of the American automotive industry, allowing the US to follow the fate of the British industry, and on top of that government made a profit on its investment of taxpayer dollars to carry it out)
This kind of mindset is leading to a lot of work on distros with an immutable core, so your base system is solid but everything else can be whatever you want it to be.

This only applies to desktop apps, but Flatpak does an incredible job of this, making it easy to get the bleeding edge version of some app without your underlying system being bothered by it.

AppImages can help solve this problem for GUI and non-GUI apps alike, but they're not centralised in a nice repo and you have the Windows problem where you have 50 programs bundling the same libraries over and over.
If you are using whole grains there is already natural yeast on it. Yeast is also pretty much everywhere. Nutrient rich solution left open will ferment. It just might not be a super powered brewing yeast.

Scandinavian brewers had a "magic stick" used to capture and store yeast until the next batch.
None of the leaders of these tech companies has principles and words are just tools to convince workers to give their life to their goals.
The goal for Ukraine is simple: get Russia out of Ukraine.

Putin can end the war tomorrow. All he needs to do is get out of Ukraine. All of it. Simple to do, easy to achieve. No more Russians need to die.
I run Debian on my base machine and use Nix for all my user space tools. I think it’s the best of both worlds. I get nix for all my config management, but a normal stable distro underneath as a fallback.
It's actually one of the big problems with Capital in the 21st century: if you strip out housing, r < g! Turns out it's all zoning and rent control all the way down! Fix zoning and you end up incidentally fixing inequality too because it's such a large part of economic rents.
There is no other ecosystem that will provide easy E2EE in the cloud, that’s reason enough for the vast majority of users who are just sick of breaches because of pure sysadmin incompetence.

There are plenty of examples in every Apple service or even their accessories (i.e. wireless keyboard encryption). FaceTime is hardened from even theoretical attacks that could probably only be performed by 5 eyes like transcribing E2EE calls based on bandwidth use (FaceTime has built mitigations around this attack vector).
Next up - use Devin or similar agent to implement the code for an AI paper?
And after that write a paper about it.
Years Ukraine not admitted to NATO: 1992-2022

But it was going to happen any minute now. I wonder if these sme people think Turkey is going to be admitted to the EU…

There’s a sucker born every minute.
Yes yes yes.

I bought a laptop in a pawnshop about five months ago, and I tried Linux Mint, Ubuntu fedora, Manjaro, and another arch distribution I can’t remember, and they were all just a big clunky pain in the butt.

And then there was Debian. It’s been running flawlessly for four months. All function over flash. I don’t need to worry about snap or flatpak or configurations that caused me to have to search the Internet for hours.

Love it.
You might be technically correct, but if you extend that logic, why not just make the grid 1x1 and select a single color?

The grid size is part of the pattern in the same way that the colors are part of the pattern. It’s not just a color pattern, it’s a generalized mapping of input to output.

In short: you need to resize the grid because that’s what the examples do.
Yeah it sounds good, I just rarely do screenshots so I stick with what I know. If my workflow required a lot of screenshots I might either automate it a bit more or look at other tools.

I'm actually about as likely to just pull out my phone and take a picture of the screen as to use software-based screenshots.
Thanks! There is a lot here to study/research on; appreciate your writing it out.
There are all kinds of famous people, on Youtube and elsewhere, that believe (or claim to believe) the most absurd things.

Why would that matter in the slightest, especially given that their purported abilities all seem to flee to another dimension as soon as they're under scientific evaluation?
Possible? Sure. There's a huge body of research into that sort of thing going back to the 1980's and including things like Minsky's Society of Mind[1] approach, Blackboard architectures[2], and the entire field of "multi-agent systems"[3]. On a more contemporary note, there's all sorts of ensemble systems[4], and approaches using model blending[5], mixture of experts models[6], etc.

Will it actually turn out that way? Who's to say? But if I had a gun to my head and had to guess, I'd guess that future AI's will incorporate some sort of "multiple models" approach where some may be very big, some may be very small, and some may not even be "models" at all, but rather components that do symbolic reasoning using Rete[7] or forward/backward chaining[8][9], or SAT resolution[10] or something.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_system

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-agent_system

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_learning

[5]: https://arxiv.org/html/2401.02994v3

[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixture_of_experts

[7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rete_algorithm

[8]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_chaining

[9]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward_chaining

[10]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_satisfiability_problem
Same here. But I took it pretty far. Wrote a primitive keyframe animation program using pascal that would compare two .pov files (generated by Midnight Modeler) and output a file with the differences replaced by a clock variable you would pass when rendering for animation. It was fragile and required you to apply all the transforms you would need to the scene before you started. The order the transformations were applied could also produce unexpected results. It worked best for camera movements.
I used it for a senior year high school project in 1998 to make an animation (that started off as a super hero story and was truncated into a funny commercial when I ran out of time.) I definitely fondly remember the feeling of waking up in the morning to see how the rendering had turned out, it also felt powerful to have my 486DX2 50 hard at work while I rested. Writing the keyframe program definitely felt good, first time I felt like I coded something useful. One frustrating aspect was that the computer could not smoothly animate the resulting videos except in lower resolutions, so the finished product changed resolution depending on the scene. It was eventually all put together in a vhs camcorder. https://youtu.be/80hp5YSp4Co?si=XQqXIdYtHssgoQz3
For another comparison, the state of Australia I live in has 3x the land area of Texas, a current population of 2.9 million that largely live in the one concentrated urban area, farms and cattle stations large than those in the US, and had people walk out of the desert than had never met or heard of non indigenous people until that point in time in the mid 1980s.

I grew up in one of the more remote corners when the state population was less than 800 thousand and the local population within a few hours drive was barely a thousand or more..
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Well, I was thinking more like the equivalent of 16 or 32 mac minis in a 2U rack enclosure.
Verizon math can be a little wonky sometimes: https://verizonmath.blogspot.com/
It looks exactly as disgusting as you’d imagine. Contestants basically stuffing food down their throats and suppressing their gag reflex for 10 minutes.
Carl Jung would suggest "shadow work" to integrate the parts of yourself that you have ignored / suppressed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_(psychology)
AT&T prepaid plan is $40 for 8gb data. Pretty happy with this
I implemented expectiminimax in the browser which allows for a fairly strong AI player: https://keshav.is/coding/pt3/

I found that once you naively search the game tree beyond a depth of 8, it more or less converges on a particular choice. The presence of a neutral outcome (i.e. neither player claims the selected square) means the tree depth is technically infinite, but feasible to search thoroughly once the first few moves have been played.
Run Debian Stable and install Flatpak. This provides exactly that kind of „different environment“ where bleeding edge software won’t break your system. (Of course, not everything is available as a flatpak. But hopefully that will improve in the future.)
It's not so much that you can't do it, as that if you want to e.g. extricate snap from Ubuntu, now you have to do work whereas Debian is good enough to not come with it.
Arch rules. The AUR is great, but honestly for me it’s more about how deeply I know the system because it’s made of my choices, both good and bad.

That being said, Ubuntu in prod.
Best chatgpt could do was deltas by lines https://github.com/bwasti/bram.town/blob/main/server.ts#L142

Perfect is the enemy of dinner
Great post! Thanks for taking the time to put this up.

What do you think the ratios are regarding improper use of nonce with this mode?

Most implementations that I am familiar with intentionally generate a random nonce to help lower the percentage of app devs doing this very thing
"Hate speech" on Twitter is anything Musk hates.
P.S. For dry eyes, besides decent omega-3s, these also help me:

* Dry vitamin A: 6667 IU per day in the summer, and 10k IU per day in the winter. Test its blood level every two years.

* Taurine: 2g/day before bed.

* Vitamin D3: 4000-5000 IU per day to prevent further damage to tear glands due to subclinical autoimmune attacks. Test its blood level every year or two.
Python's maybe not the best example, since it's pretty easy to build and install to any location you want.

On the other hand, you might want to install Guix and/or Nix on top of Debian.
War is a racket and governments are the shadows of corporations.

we, the people, are liable
There's an awful lot of stupid ways to die. I hope their prioritisation is a wise choice, I suspect the obvious candidates are well understood.

I continue to believe the underlying reason we're doomed as a species is "it can never happen to me, and therefore mitigation is evil" thinking, which is pretty much what we saw during Covid. I can handle "what if your epidemiology is wrong, and the cure is worse than the disease" thinking, thats confrontable by stats. But "my freedoms were infringed and anyway global warming is a lie" is really .. stupid.
I wouldn’t mind a Bondo for the most part if they stopped using snap packages. There are two applications I installed and it would not let me browse files from the application. I found out after hours of searching that was some configuration I had to change, but that didn’t even seem to work.
Elon Musk's Boundary-Blurring Relationships with Women at SpaceX
Reach out if anyone wants to work on this. I think it would be more fun as a group.
Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity
Helium is just a T-Mobile MVNO.

They’re not owned by T-Mobile, but they’re just an MVNO.

Everyone can save by switching to an MVNO. The first trade off is that the big 3 carriers have essentially a tier list of customers based on what type of service they have for network priority. E.g., postpaid customers are highest priority, big carrier prepaid and big carrier-owned MVNOs are second, and unaffiliated MVNOs are placed based on the specifics of their agreements with the carrier. For example, Google Fi has high network priority because they undoubtedly pay more to use their networks than lower cost MVNOs.

The second trade off is that MVNOs handle customer service and a lot of the customer facing administration. This can vary but is often pretty barebones for lower cost MVNOs.
My understanding is that it allows virologists to better predict how viruses evolve and thus be able to more easily come up with a vaccine in case the virus does gain the function.

Whether or not it is “supervillain wrongness” does not detract from the fact that someone will study such a thing. Humans are curious creatures and if there is an interesting thing to study someone will do it. This is a particularly important thing to keep in mind for state actors that have adversaries.
Among the chief arguments for a balloon-based Venus station is that the high atmosphere doesn't have (much?) sulfuric acid, as the surface does.

So surviving H2SO4 isn't highly salient.
If you could filter out the “nature cure” quacks, I think you’d really have something there.
Quake 1 and 2 did this as well. I wasted so much time with details that later got botched by the vertex compression. I think Quake 3 had vertex animation too, but they split the character at the hips so it could face away from the direction of travel.
> But at my corporate job, most developers use Windows and connect via VPN. Running a docker image to execute a pipeline locally is very difficult in this environment and getting hold of a docker desktop license is tricky.

Leaning on the impotence & uselessness of coworkers as your one argument is a bad look.

There's a ton of tools and libraries that aren't going to work well on windows. Thankfully today there's WSL. It can host a fine Rancher Desktop, or other similar tools. It's free, it just works, it takes an hour to get going.

I have no compassion for saying we should limit ourselves to only lowest common denominators. And in this case, there isn't anything holding these folks back; Windows has finally made a go at not being a technological backwater & there's now fine options.
ideally, things as different as possible from excel!
Definitely different things, I've used them both. Visual Studio is from before they went on their Microsoft <3 Open Source campaign. It has pricey licenses and is pretty much an ad for .net

It's a traditional windows application. .net/WPF I think. Configured via XML

VSCode is free, an electron app, has a plugin store with lots of niche language plugins. Configured via json.

Surely they're using VSCode to exert influence in their Microsofty way, but it feels much less like a prison.

VSCode still feels like a bit much to me (though of a monster than Visual Studio). I'm pretty happy with helix.
That’s what I expect from gpt5.
Agree, seeing is believing. You can use CGI to make anything you want when it's video.
I'm sure you saw over 1B images of cats though, assuming 24 images per second from vision.
Chemtrails In Space. But since it’s a real conspiracy nobody knows yet.
I vaguely recall a youtube comparison of "Ford F-150 lightning vs 3x Tesla Powerwall" and that the lightning was a better deal for the same amount of backup, even if you left it parked. (Different spot on the curve, you can't buy a third of an F-150... but at the time, actually getting 3 powerwalls actually delivered was a challenge too.) So there are definitely opportunities to push the consumer price down quite a bit further...
Yeah, Debian was designed for the old-school multi-user days where a system was maintained by a dedicated sysadmin. Ultimately linux people will be dragged kicking and screaming onto something with sane library management like NixOS (or else something Snap/Flatpak-based, but I hope not), but it hasn't happened yet.
> institutional incompetency

Bad choice of words. They are not incompetent.

It's just that the data challenge has become exponentially harder as the world moved away from centralised EDW and ERP systems.

And the level of investment hasn't caught up.
I made some updates to speed up the UI, and improved the computer player, as I was interested in finding the optimal strategy: https://keshav.is/coding/pt3
The Gray Lady of distros...
Yeah, the ftpmasters broke their own processes to delay it for a few crucial months so that the Debian powers-that-be could force through adoption of systemd and kill it. A real shame, since it had the potential to be the best of all worlds.
Look for "Language and problems of knowledge : the Managua lectures" which are about Plato's problem. It's reasonably introductory and accessible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_problem
> Wires? Oh yeah, I remember when things had wires. Good times.

Last I checked the more expensive Macbooks had three USB ports, and the cheap ones have two.

Since Macbooks no longer have ethernet ports, those USB ports are useful for plugging in the dongle when I want to connect the Macbook to an ethernet wire. Good times.
Very fond memories of those days for sure. In my job back then I was a C developer working on IRIX day to day. I had heard about FreeBSD so bought a walnut creek book with a FreeBSD 3.4 CD and started from there. I still have the book but the CD is long gone.

The FreeBSD aesthetic, documentation, code base, are so clean and well written, and most important -- the adherence to the principle of least surprise, particularly across releases. This is a complaint I have with many Linux distros.
https://archive.is/AOJuR
Oh thanks for the clarification.

I don’t think spectrum monitoring capability is all that secret. Certainly anyone with the knowledge to set up their own BTS should recognize the possibility they could be triangulated.
Thank you; This looks pretty interesting.
At least “copy paste from stack overflow” was kind of a in joke. There was a little social stigma about it. Everyone knew they were being lazy and they really shouldn’t be doing it.

LLMs are different because devs declare with pride that they “saved so much time” by just letting chatGPT do it for them.
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