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This reminds me of efforts like Esperanto. Which I hate. There's something very technocratic about constructing/reconstructing languages which feels like the following fallacy informs them:

* The language has redundancy in it

* I notice the redundancy and don't think it's useful

* Let's remove it without any sense that it may have had a purpose

It's a contemporary of eugenics as a concept, and Esperanto (and possibly things like Glish) have the same mouth-feel to me.

Different languages have evolved for different reasons/needs/purposes; the main thing about English to me is its vocabulary: the precision available in English due to our million+ words is the gift (and hell) of English. Getting rid of it feels wrong, and wrong-headed.

That said, Glish doesn't have a 'building a eugenically purer language' manifesto, instead the explainer video vibes more like 'nerd deep dive'. On those terms, building a directed graph of possible unused single syllables to automatically build out a full dictionary qualifies a 'sweet hack' to me. But, I won't stop hating the existence of this -- the risk of it taking off is small, but the impact on the world would be terrible.
I think it's a bit silly to believe a company wouldn't raise prices eventually. I mean, it's been 7 years. What about inflation?
Never really had any users, despite being an official port for two releases (Debian 6 and 7). It was a bit of a neat experiment, but that's about all it was. FreeBSD is a tightly-developed operating system on its own, and separating out the kernel to be its own thing in a GNU operating system just ends up with a worst of both worlds.

On FreeBSD itself, GNU software (including bash, coreutils, emacs, etc) are readily available via packages and ports. You can have the cake and eat it too.
> So Carmack ... started reading research papers.

I feel it was more common in the earlier days of programming. With no open source "game engines" and the Githubbed, Stackoverflown internet we have now fetching about for some of the "programming secrets" whether that was in a university library or a technical computer magazine was about all you had.
The turning point I recall being the "multimedia" era. Sounds cards, video cards, and CD drives took things to another level and leap frogged many consoles.
I'd recommend watching some general game networking architecture videos.

Any tutorials with a tool that lets you simulate latency and packet loss will help you a lot.

Starting off with turn based games is going to help you a ton.

After you've got a handle on that it's worth looking into videos that are more specific to what you need, like fps, rts, etc... and the techniques that each kind of game uses. You'll also get an idea of how online cheating works because you'll be able to see what information each machine can read and set.
Could you have taken FMLA to go part time — I’m not sure but it may give some coverage from the PIP process (while on FMLA can they PIP you?) and then with a full recovery maybe you would have a chance?
Completely. The language philosophy is much easier than rust imo
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> even the most hardware-deficient gaming systems had them

Not quite! The Apple II didn't. Neither did the IIgs nor the Mac.
Well you've got to get it. Google is running on a 2.x Linux kernel, with thousands of patches. The hypervisor runs on bare-metal, and it's not "debian". You need to start thinking about debian as just another virtual system and get with the program. If you're installing an operating system on bare metal, and it's not a bsd with jails, you may be doing it wrong. Or, maybe you have an offline developer's environment bare-metal install, debian, arch, whatever, a linux efistub is enough, and then host a passed thru network vm, in a container, with strong guest to host protections. You do you?
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!The data not being in a "~/.app/app.dat" file, etc.

It is possible to do this now in chromium based browsers. Refer https://developer.chrome.com/docs/capabilities/web-apis/file...
I also don't get "byerkstz", I see it as "byer-kistz"
Do you mean that no one should have to pay for medical care, or that no one should offer loans to pay for it?
Yet, almost no one makes those sweet starter homes anymore.
I worked in DSE in the 90s, "there aren't customers, go face up" triggered me
..and yeh, I don't leave behind a mess if I buy something off the shelf.
So much is riding on GPT5, if it disappoints, it’s another AI winter.
You're reminding of the "Numerical Recipes" series of books from that era. I feel like there were a series related to computer graphics as well....
Now that porting between MVNOs with eSIM is free and dead simple, I can’t think of a reason to stick with the big 3 carriers.

The MVNO I stuck with even has a slick way to port between networks!
Thanks; this is definitely related and relevant. The 3rd chapter of this book is on Scaling - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40644189
Here's another article detailing their action in Guatemala going back to the 50's.

https://panthernow.com/2021/02/18/the-dark-past-behind-your-...
https://backports.debian.org/

> You are running Debian stable, because you prefer the Debian stable tree. It runs great, there is just one problem: the software is a little bit outdated compared to other distributions. This is where backports come in.

> Backports are packages taken from the next Debian release (called "testing"), adjusted and recompiled for usage on Debian stable. Because the package is also present in the next Debian release, you can easily upgrade your stable+backports system once the next Debian release comes out. (In a few cases, usually for security updates, backports are also created from the Debian unstable distribution.)
Debian is by far my favorite linux distribution, but it's not without its faults.

Debian tends to soft- and hard-hijack package names. Normally, having a maintainer between upstream and users is a good thing. What's not a good thing is them misrepresenting modified upstream software to users. This can mislead users (See ffmpeg, keepassxc). Fortunately, the mozilla approach of using trademark law to stop others from misrepresenting software is effective here.

Debian also doesn't offer a clear lifecycle schedule like ubuntu and other enterprisy distros. This makes it hard to plan ahead long term and forces admins to manually check support status.
Fascinating but sad reading. Don't drink and drive.
>because I really can’t break things in a way that would require more than a command and a reboot at most to get back to a working state.

After a decade with arch as my primary OS, I can say the same.

I know plenty of folks have claimed issues with upgrades, maybe I'm lucky with the variety of hardware I've used.
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> only Debian is truly community controlled, and thus only Debian truly embodies the ideals of FOSS.

I believed this up until the systemd thing. Whether you believe that the community legitimately chose it or not, it certainly undermined the ideals of FOSS - you can no longer patch or swap out any piece of the system (Debian used to be famous for taking this as far as even letting you swap out the kernel) and still have something that works.

> as great as unpatched "pure" upstream repos seem to be, the Debian community patches tend to help more than they hurt

Nah. Remember their SSH key-generation bug, still the worst bug ever shipped in a general-purpose OS - that was an inevitable consequence of Debian's attitude to upstream, and they have made no process changes to prevent a recurrence.

Or try to follow any Tomcat tutorial on Debian with a version you installed through the system package manager. Or try to do development work in Python or JavaScript or Ruby (really, any language that isn't C or Perl) on Debian without giving up and installing your own parallel user-managed set of the same packages.

Debian is the apotheosis of a certain approach to building Linux distros. But it's also proof of the flaws in that approach. Slackware, Gentoo or FreeBSD are more reliable and FOSSey. Fedora, SUSE or Ubuntu are more polished and easier.
There must have been some cleverness in representing this data in a compact way, esp as it would have competed with the 150 kB/sec CD-ROM bandwidth streaming other asset data?
The one piece missing for a FreeBSD user is how this article points out that Debian can easily run commercial software distributed with .deb files.

FreeBSD has the major disadvantage of being even more niche than Linux. Debian doesn’t have that problem because it’s so similar to the most mainstream flavors of open source operating systems.
I think the problem is that they’re competing against much bigger players, ATT and Verizon. It’s just not possible to compete against them as a late comer. That’s why there are no new networks, just MVNOs. Starlink maybe can change that. But outside of that technological change, we’re stuck and a smaller player cannot hope to be competitive on coverage against bigger players.

Ultimately what we need is much stronger anti-trust legislation against all kinds of companies that are too big, or aren’t in functioning competitive environments.
According to this, that pay structure has been generally supported by flight attendant unions, as it benefits more senior members, though at the expense of more junior ones: https://viewfromthewing.com/why-flight-attendants-havent-got...
I'd be interested in learning more about this carbon block battery that you're describing.

I'm also curious how it compares in cost effectiveness to this battery that's based on sand.

https://tambaynews.blogspot.com/2022/07/worlds-first-commerc...
The whole point of a credit report is to indicate the likelihood that an individual will pay back new debt that they're applying for.

Isn't it helpful and important to know that a) how much debt the person is liable for and b) that they're willing to sign a contract allowing someone to charge them any amount to be decided at a later date?

The later seems important both to know that the person may continue to agree to writing blank checks in the future and that their willingness to do so says something about their financial awareness.
O dunno if it's the greatest, but it's good enough that thanks to it Linux became my desktop.

Maybe there's a better distribution? But who has time to explore?

Thanks Debian team!
Two defective phones? What was wrong with them?
The HN Guidelines say "Assume good faith."

I assume you meant to be helpful with your comment.

The link you provided demonstrates that some thought must go in to making a site that works offline.

That site works poorly offline.

I will assume you did not test the one example you shared with everyone.

Perhaps you would be willing now to invest some time in exploring a larger sample of sites with GitHub pages, and report back what % of them actually work offline.
Ugh, where to start. It has all sorts of failures. In no particular order, off the top of my head:

1. It randomly adds in limits for my kids I didn't even put there. I put in an X hour limit, it puts in an Y hour limit, usually duplicated three or four times. Most commonly for the 'All apps' category. I delete those, a few weeks later they start reappearing. Kid complains, I delete them again, rinse & repeat.

2. Somewhat regularly it loses connection to the kids' ipads and doesn't update the settings I change. Usually it'll eventually connect, but it can take a while.

3. Some devices it just refuses to see. iMac? Sure. MacBook Air? Crickets. Why? Who knows. Everything is running the latest software, both computers have the iCloud account authenticated. Sometimes it decides my son has no devices at all. I don't really bother looking at reports any more.

4. Sometimes I get screen time requests (install a new app, ask for more time, buy something, etc), and sometimes ... nothin. I can watch my kid put the request in, I never get it. Sometimes it's flawless.

5. The requests come in via iMessage now, and this tends to be okay on the phone, but it is very destructive on the MacOS Messages app. The requests almost never completely load, for whatever reason, and just spin. I think only once I saw the requests show up on the MacOS Messages app correctly. Eventually the requests conversation gets too many of them spinning, and they drag down Messages until it beach balls. If I'm lucky, I see that one coming as it gets slower and delete the conversation before it gets far enough to hang.

There are probably some things I'm forgetting. It is the buggiest bit of software from Apple that I've ever used. The only other app that routinely annoys me is Music, because it periodically (every day or so) seems to lose authorization or something, and just refuses to play music. But doesn't say why, doesn't reauthorize or ask to reauthorize, just doesn't play anything. I restart the app and it works for another day. That bug has been around for several years now, on multiple computers.
Do you think as much creativity and effort would have gone into the story if you had access to AI from the start?
The opposite of this, IMHO, is Home Depot. Hop on their site, do a quick search for the items you want, arrive with a list of aisle and bay numbers. I feel like I'm speed running whenever I go.
If it passed The Area 101 Test, it would already be amazing, as this is a trivial test that goes against the fundamental principles of LLMs.
All lawyers are black hats.
If a human eye works at say 10 fps, then 8 minutes with a cat is about 10k images :-D
> * It's incompatible with some apps, e.g. Roblox

Oh this is a good one I forgot. If my kid is playing Roblox and runs out of time, it goes into that screen loop and is impossible to resolve without at least killing Roblox, and sometimes rebooting the silly machine. That's pretty frustrating for the kid for sure, I ended up just whitelisting Roblox so it never happened.
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The ultimate evolutionary step is TempleOS.
The idea of FC that OpenAI has much impact on when AGI will get here, relative to the large number of independent geniuses around the world, I find improbable.
Anyone remember Mad Ape Den[1] where you can only use words of three letters or less?

[1] https://www.metafilter.com/159399/May-Ten-is-Mad-Ape-Den-Day
Acronyms don’t just change their meaning through a lack of tradition and habit. Etymology doesn’t have an expiration date.

Very rarely, an acronym is “retconned” into a more appropriate expansion or simply starts being considered a regular word not standing for anything.

I’d strongly challenge your assertion that this has happened for “GPU”.
You never know, and you don't want to find out
FWIW iron gall ink is still made and used in the present day. To be legally married in the UK you have to sign the marriage registry with iron gall ink. It's sold as "Registrar's Ink"
But we have a lot more sensory input and context to verify all of that.

If you kept training LLMs with all that data, it would be interesting to see what the results would be.
Greenshot is great! I use it on Windows, and ksnip on everything else atm as it has similar draw arrows/annotation features.
Thank you; looks quite interesting and different from the rest.
Maybe this is a dumb question, but in order to pass, is the program or model only allowed to use the 400 training tasks? I assume it is allowed to train on other data, just not the actual public test tasks?

Things like SORA and gpt-4o that use [diffusion transformers etc. or whatever the SOTA is for multimodal large models] seem to be able to generalize quite well. Have these latest models been tested against this task?
- Dinner at the office
- No remote or by hybrid options
- Team is fresh out of college. If no one has more than 2 years of professional experience except for the founder/s, they are looking for followers.
- Multiple case studies / take home exercises (difficultly making decisions / moving quickly)
- If you have an interview scheduled with multiple ppl and one of them is a no show more than once.
- If you’re interviewing for team lead / head of position and the team/part of it isn’t part of the interview process.
- If there are co CEOs that disagree on the vision or mission
Avocados have high demand, high price and expire fast. They require high amounts of water to grow.
This was not an experimental study, as the word "biobank" in the abstract should have made clear.

Biobanks are about collecting more detailed data on more individuals than would be possible for any particular study, and spending a lot of effort to ensure the quality and consistency of the data. Any conclusion you can make from biobank data is a hypothesis likely worth investigating. And publishing, because further studies would likely take years.

You would then collect new data designed to answer the specific question in your subsequent study. But due to financial constraints, that new data would likely be less detailed, smaller in scale, and of lower quality.
Bandwidth gets cheaper every year to help offset that, and don't they have that fancy 5G network to tempt people into upgrading?

If they wanted to give a 5 or 10 year guarantee, they could have. They chose to say lifetime. The wireless market hasn't fundamentally changed in the last 15 years (starting in the iphone 3g era), so they don't have any excuses about being caught off guard.
I thought many companies used PIPs as stealth layoffs or to clawback unvested equity once an employee had mostly completed the project they were hired for?

I’m completely unable to grok “business language”. Perhaps like the hippie poster I should look to my country bumpkin parents, but I’m old enough that I should look inward. It’s probably my cynicism that makes me unable to hold the optimism behind business jargon (synergy, thought leadership, and co-opting the word ‘strategy’ for any and every decision).

I’ve pursued very hands on work that is pretty far from the business end and just hope to hang on long enough to earn my nest egg and provide for my family to maybe have enough good cheer to thrive in corporate America unlike their grumpy old man.
"Swift is too complex now" has seemed to have achieved meme status of late but I don't see it.

For the average developer, writing modern Swift is generally not any more difficult than it was several years ago (much more often it's easier), it's just that the language can do a lot more now. But you only need to learn those new parts if you're using them. If you're not writing low-level or special-purpose code, you don't need to learn about more recently added things like move-only types, the embedded subset, varadic generics, or macros, etc, etc. And if you are writing things that require those features, you often couldn't have even considered Swift for that purpose before they were added.
The level of investment went from having a team and internal software services, to a $60/month SaaS subscription(s) in many places.

The web of SaaS many companies run on will never be as coherent as a purpose built ERP, as every service is generalized and abstracted concepts don't map perfectly to your business.

You see it often, where a business will inherit the models of the SaaS they use instead of what makes sense to their business, as an attempt to map the two entities better.
Fifth helium leak detected on Starliner
AT&T sold me a defective new phone once. They replaced it with a refurb, and marked it in their system that I had purchased it that way. They could not be convinced that I should have a 1-year new phone warranty instead of a 90-day refurb warranty.
“New information “ seems like a hard thing to avoid! Any recommendations?!
Kim Kardashian of tech, always in the news.
> The distro repositories are being continuously rebuilt, because packages are receiving continuous updates.

At large timescales, yes. But not at timescales relevant for rapid security updates.
They’re trying to avoid waisting time on unqualified candidates. You should avoid wasting your time on a company that won’t even speak with you for 15 mins before they ask you to invest hours on a project for them. Just my 2 cents.
This is awesome, and I believe opens up what I and a bunch of people were wanting which is the ability to run Swift binaries in Alpine containers! I'd seen work on musl support going in but I didn't realise it would all be going so soon. Cross compilation is very nice too to not need your runtime platform to necessarily support the whole toolchain.

I'm really glad there's finally support for vanilla Debian and from what I've seen it looks like there are initial Swift packages finally being added in the Debian testing version, which will be nice. Debian is more and more my go-to for development VMs where Ubuntu used to be, so I'm excited for official support!

With all this and embedded, I'm really excited about Swift! I've done a lot of embedded in C and I'm super keen to try out Swift on my STM dev boards!
Counterintuitively, the best sensors actually behave just like mirrors themselves, re-emitting a reflected photon rather than absorbing any of the energy of the incoming signal. This increases the signal-to-noise ratio, because the E-field magnitude at the sensor is doubled, as it combines the constructive interference of the incoming and reflected photon.

And as mentioned elsewhere, all QM theories do have to deal with exponentially increasing branching. A cost that apparently increases if we grind up photodiodes and turn them into mirrors. If wavefunction branching is a problem, how does QM get away with it when nobody is looking?

Deep questions usually have simple answers! The simplicity is what makes the answer difficult to accept.
Cuda is of course NVidia-proprietary.

Will be interesting to see if other high level accelerator supporting languages like Chapel or Futhark or JAX end up getting NPU backends, it might give them a nice boost over the proprietary C++ inspired language.

Edit: JAX has TPU support.
(b) does not apply here. Like the parent said, you don't know how much exactly a medical procedure is going to cost you until the price is negotiated with the insurance company, which can often take months. The medical office will, at best, give you an upper bound. When you're in pain, you don't really have choice.
Hey, just wanted to let you know I just launched an update that includes a lives game mode, as well as some other game modes and features. Thanks for your suggestion again!
Puzzle 00576224 is ambiguous because the example input is symmetrical but the test input isn't.
Given the incompetence in hardware design with nearly every Pi ever released, I'm not sure why anyone would be surprised that the official Pico board is terrible as well.

I mean come on, how do you fuck up USB-PD that badly? Unless you're doing it on purpose to force people to buy special power supplies sold by your vendors...
Hey, thanks again for your feedback. Just wanted to let you know "lives" mode is now live, along with some other modes.
AGI should obviously be able to do them. But AI being able to do those 100 percent wouldn't be evidence of AGI however. It is a very narrow domain.
I’d also push for allowing early exercise along with secondary sales restricted only by a short right-of-first-refusal period.
That was a wonderful experience looking at the handcrafted cookie banner. Kudos to the 84 contributors providing clear boundaries in our relationship.
My preferred structure is the octtree over the BSP. or I guess for Doom it could have been a quad-tree. No surface splitting, and delete/re-insert for moving objects is possible. But I can claim to have known that until several years after Doom came along.
I'm looking for a way to generate server stubs from OpenAPI specs

I don't have experience with OpenAPI, but is this what you're looking for? https://www.swift.org/blog/introducing-swift-openapi-generat...