skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Debian is just about the worst Linux distribution to recommend for desktop use for newcomers to the ecosystem.
S-tier
> put advertising in the friggin cli.

And the logs. I think it's every 30 minutes or so that "buy Ubuntu advantage" gets logged, you have to disable a systemd timer to get rid of it.
Monitoring PostgreSQL Database on Kubernetes Using eBPF
Computation Learning Theory with Rocco at Columbia. Proof heavy course where you spend the whole time deriving bounds of learning algorithms, average on exams and take home assignments was like 40/100
Need vs. want.
I’d rather not fly, or have to pay more for a ticket on a fully reliable plane, than fly in a Boeing.

If non-Boeing tickets were an optional upgrade when booking, I’d take it.
I have some project ideas but they are too complex for me. I have domain knowledge but my programming skills are lacking + lots of ambiguity/confusion/uncertainty/fuziness while implementing.

I haven't delved into low level programming much but I will give it a shot. I do mostly scripting and automation - I want to improve my programming skills to the next level.
Funny to use that homogeneity of the market as an argument here. The EU is the very institution that is working to make the market more homogeneous in Europe, and the DMA is part of that same goal.

The US is easier to target because the EU has stronger consumer protections and stronger laws against monopolies (and other forms of market distortion). The reason Apple has a harder time targeting the EU is because the US is weak, not because it's more homogeneous.
Yes, I know what you mean and agree. This date is currently mostly for myself. Maybe I should format it differently, or place it somewhere else.
That I agree with, which is why I mentioned that the 9 year timeline is likely too ambitious.

But there is a difference between it being very complicated and likely relying on technology (or a fundamental understanding of something we don't know about) we don't have yet, and a "big no" and "never". Which is what this paper seems to be saying (reinforced by the comment I was replying to also saying "never").

That is the part of this that bothers me. Yeah we should admit that it is going to be very hard (if not impossible) and we should examine the reality of the timeline claims. But we should not be discouraging the research on both of these topics at this time by making claims that it will never happen.
I had to get around this last week during a vm install.

Shift+F10, OOBE\BYPASSNRO, Shift+F10, ipconfig /release, install, ipconfig /renew.

That's a lot of work for the average person and it's only a matter of time before they disable that command.
I would be happy for them to be charged with manslaughter, but that’s not happening either right?
I'm pretty confident, that Apple has the same goal. We are not there yet, but how else will they satisfy shareholders with ever-growing profits?
>MacOS is basically unusable without logging into an Apple account

I use a Mac at my job with no Apple ID linked to it. What am I missing out on? It's not like you need to use the App Store to get software, so that's not it.
Rocky and Alma are okay-ish for scientific clusters. They work and drivers appear to mostly cooperate. Some changes, like switching to sssd, were suboptimal but to be expected.

CentOS just had a lot more testing being done by vendors. We still regularly hit problems with, e.g., Lenovo LESI being not aligned with our Rocky systems for many parameters.
> Engineers in China have never enjoyed the level of perks offered by peers in Silicon Valley, where employees have benefits such as onsite doctors and sushi bars

To be fair, most engineers in the US don't enjoy those perks either
This is so unfortunate. Like with the recipe sites, I don't understand how they can miss such obvious fails.
Logic has all its own problems. See "Godel, Escher, Bach" or ask why OWL has been around for 20 years and had almost no market share, or why people have tried every answer to managing asynchronous code other than RETE, why "complex event processing" is an obscure specialty and not a competitor to Celery and other task runners. Or for that matter why can't Drools give error messages that make any sense?
> There's no shame for some of these people.

It sounds like the market just fixing a stupid sales model.
POSIX now says:

>The input file can be of any type, but the initial portion of the file intended to be parsed according to the shell grammar [...] shall not contain the NUL character.

But the initial portion of, https://cosmo.zip/pub/cosmos/bin/cat for example, does contain the NUL character.
Not a loss til you sell??
I already did...and I like it! MacOS is far from perfect but much more usable that Windows 11 imho. I am missing some tools but slowly finding alternatives
The question is whether Boeing knew this, and used the parts anyway, knowing they were not up to spec.
Boiling pot escape is not possible if said lobsters have been humanely euthanized.
Show HN: Tabulate AI Creativity in One Click
While developing Tablesmith, I realized the need for a more user-friendly solution. Tablesmith requires users to manually create columns and add prompts, which can be tedious. This inspired me to create Tabulator AI, a tool that generates creative tables from a single prompt.

With Tabulator AI, you can easily create tables and generate engaging content without the hassle. For example, I used ChatGPT to craft a steampunk story and then turned parts of it into demo tables with text/image, which you can check out on the homepage.

All demo tables on the homepage are pre-generated, but you can also try this real one: <https://tabulator.ai/tables/01904824-38b1-7140-b52b-23237ebc...>. Create an account first so you can generate image.

If you want images included, make sure to mention that explicitly in your prompt.
Who did you vote for in the EU? When were those elections?
I used to follow her on Twitter but as the cases dragged on and she started losing various arguments the editorialization and manipulation of facts to be almost-but-not-quite-untrue to serve her agenda became way too much.
> weird printed shape up at just the right angle in good lighting conditions

None of that matter. QR code can be read on any angle because of the 3 position detection patterns it comes with, by design.

Lighting conditions are not a problem on tickets (which is what the article is about) because you can illuminate the paper from the camera.

QRCode were fast on assembly lines two decades ago. They were invented in the nineties, at a time where we had slow processors and shitty cameras.
Anyone familiar with desktop Linux enough to advocate for its use is so disconnected from the experience for a newcomer that they should never ever ever be trusted.
>but the disposable ones simply have no way to recharge the battery

I've routinely harvested and repurposed the batteries and the usbc ports from many of these due to how easily discarded ones are found. What brands do you find unable to recharge?
There are apps on the App Store in which the only way to pay is by entering your credit card info in the app. Others that link out to bank processing sites in a web view to do the same. This has been true for at least ten years, and the number is not getting smaller as far as I can tell.

As a user of some of these apps, I have always wondered whether there is some exception clause for, say, retailers of physical goods, utilities, and anything remotely to do with transportation. My anecdata suggests it’s more common in the EU and Asia, but a year and a half ago I was standing by the curb in Sacramento cursing the parking meter app for not taking Apple Pay.
No. Because there are already ChatGPT integrations into even DuckDuckGo which you can chat with.

That suggests there will be ChatGPT available for free permanantly.
It should be. Everything in the world runs on Linux except people who write Word documents and emails for a living. All that's missing is a simple UI that provides LibreOffice and a browser and doesn't nag you or leave you vulnerable to malware and then educating purchasing agents to know about it and trust it.
How about closing the loopholes created for the rich which makes it that they end up paying a lower percentage of their income to taxes than many so-called "middle class people" do. Warren Buffett pointed out that his secretary pays higher taxes than he does (I'm assuming he's referring to an executive secretary having a six-figure salary).

It's difficult to have discussions on our profligate government spending when a majority of the people don't believe everybody is pulling their weight.
That still requires a MacBook. It makes it almost impossible for open source developers to make applications for IOS
"Advanced Programming" at DIKU (Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen):

https://kurser.ku.dk/course/ndaa09013u/2023-2024

The course teaches Haskell, Erlang and Prolog over half a semester (7.5 ECTS).

It mainly focuses on Haskell (7 weeks?) and covers Monad/Applicative/Functor bottom-up (i.e. you define your own, rather than use mtl/transformers), property-based testing (QuickCheck, generators, shrinking), parser generators (ReadP, minus points for parsing whitespace ambiguously). It is the 1st MSc course, so those who didn't have an FP-heavy bachelor's degree will have quite a shock. The Haskell part of the exam is writing a parser and interpreter for a non-trivial DSL.

The Haskell part already blasts most people. Then comes the Erlang part (3-4 weeks), where you learn about OTP, supervisors, process hierarchies, map/reduce, or similar problems. I remember one exam was implementing a quad tree where each level in the tree was controlled by a process.

The third part is Prolog, of which only a week of the course is dedicated to. While Prolog is a little mind-blowing in itself, the fact that it's only for one week also means the Prolog part of the exam is typically only a small set of exercises, where the Haskell and Erlang parts can be hard to complete given the allocated time.

When I took the course, I started learning Haskell in the summer break before the course started. Having two months of Haskell under my belt meant I survived the course quite fine (and ended up TA'ing it several times). But I saw lots of people way smarter than me (some of whom are now CS professors) struggle quite a lot with the pace and learning style.

Definitely the hardest course. To some unreasonably.
Maybe it was just how tough on grading my professor was but I had a hard time with a class called "Concepts of Programming Languages". It covered stuff like syntax, typing, garbage collection, etc. My professor was on the Racket dev team, and the whole class was done in Racket. He was actually pretty thorough about recording lectures and notes so it can be found here: https://jeapostrophe.github.io/courses/2013/fall/330/course/
the law allows, the implementation that apple took, doesn’t in reality. yes, techinically it is possible, but with the associated cost only some big players can do it. there’s no room for free apps when the store has to pay 50 cents per user after a small threshold.
IME, the GUI updates work out of the box with the default Debian desktop, no prompting for passwords.

I guess Ubuntu behavior you saw might've been due to their Snap package stuff, not the normal Debian APT package stuff.
Only consumer version of Windows (Home and Pro) have the Microsoft Account requirement.
ONE of her beeves is indeed based on this, but I believe she has also sued Apple for unrelated labor related issues.

I agree that the EPA's report is based on first hand observations; OTOH I would not characterize the findings quite the same way she did. There certainly were a significant number of violations, but I don't have the context of knowing how many such violations are found in other facilities of comparable size (e.g. placing a waste container on a stack without immediately labeling it, or not having all labels in a stack be readable without rearranging containers). The regulations certainly seem sensible, but I wonder whether there are really any facilities of a certain size that manage to run without any violations whatsoever.
In other news, for a couple of weeks now Youtube on Firefox lags so much that it's barely usable and Prime Video is completely broken.
I stopped trusting CentOS dates and assumed CentOS 7 was EOL a long time ago because their yum repos were down, or they didn't provide certain updates anymore, or something. I noticed inconsistencies across machines I tried to update simultaneously, noticed there wasn't a common update point available (the machines were on slightly different versions to begin with), and decided it was junk and time to move on.
Centered for me at my usual browser width, then jumps to the left when widened to make room for the single side note example. A note that, boo hiss, doesn't show up at all at narrower widths. Not that it was an important note, but we're talking principle here.

My mini-gripe is the typography: While I'm typically a dark mode guy, thin fonts are a lot harder to read in dark mode. But I've seen worse.
Not a civil engineer but it sounds like the Romans knew much better then "baked red clay strong".

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon,_Rome#Structure

> The stresses in the dome were found to be substantially reduced by the use of successively less dense aggregate stones, such as small pots or pieces of pumice, in higher layers of the dome. Mark and Hutchison estimated that, if normal weight concrete had been used throughout, the stresses in the arch would have been some 80% greater. Hidden chambers engineered within the rotunda form a sophisticated structural system.[55] This reduced the weight of the roof, as did the oculus eliminating the apex.

That said, I'm guessing the Pantheon is in one piece (unlike the coliseum) because it's been used as a church for the past ~1600 years and presumably (similar to Notre Dame) it gets repair as-needed.
Right? I have always thought it's unfair that you cannot criticize a country and the actions of its government because people will label you Nazi or antisemitic.

I couldn't give a damn about the religion or the culture. But Israel government apparatus scares the shit out of me
> how else will they satisfy shareholders with ever-growing profits?

Typing as a service, with characters billed by the keystroke.

A mixture of Wheel of Fortune and Scrabble rules apply. Vowels are free, but rare consonants or letter combinations carry a premium.

/s
> They’ve done all the work of furnishing a customer who is ready to purchase.

But Apple aren't doing that, really. If I find a link to an App Store app on a website and install it via App Store (as that's the only option), Apple have put no effort into finding a customer. In fact, they've injected themselves into the process by requiring apps come via the App Store.
Thanks for getting where I was coming from, haha.
As a counterpoint to official tooling:

I used a Engineer PA 09 which, despite its cheap look, is f'n amazing!

I crimped all wiring on my Voron myself, took some time getting used to it - but was almmost Zen-like meditation afterwards :)
I'm not a fan of sidenotes/footnotes. It's a writing style that's scatterbrained and quite irritating to me.

And on top of that, how is it going to work on mobile?

One who does a lot of writing should work on avoiding sidenotes and footnotes altogether. If there's something related to the article that is important or noteworthy, incorporate it into the main piece.
Its one of those things thats very hard incrementally. I remember one of my assignments getting absolutely nowhere and then one day during my morning routine i suddenly knew the whole assignment and wrote it out in like a single minute.
The irony of finding the formating of this article completely messed up on mobile is not lost on me.
how can a wav file do anything? isnt it just raw data essentially?
And even if you see dates, quite often they're relative. A year ago could mean a lot.

Oh, and while blogs are usually newest on top, relative dates break the ability to derive sort order by looking at multiple values, if they're all the same.
> I kind of do believe in a deterministic universe, but I thought quantum physics disagree with that.

Not necessarily.

Most people learn the "Copenhagen interpretation" in intro quantum mechanics. The quantum wave function then evolves deterministically (Schrodinger equation), but collapses probabilistically (on observation). In that sense, the world is fundamentally random – although I personally wouldn't describe a robot driven by a real RNG as having "free will", even though it is indeed non-deterministic.

However, there is a major caveat here: This is just one interpretation of quantum mechanics, and there are fully deterministic alternatives. For instance, in "non-local hidden variable" and "superdeterministic" interpretations, the wave function collapse is believed to be a deterministic process. In the "many worlds" interpretation, the wave function doesn't collapse at all (it only entangles), and you're left with only the deterministic Schrodinger equation. It has also been shown that quantum-like behavior can arise in deterministic systems, see e.g. the "bouncing droplet" experiments on YouTube if you're interested (which is a beautiful macroscopic analogue to the "pilot wave" interpretation, which is a viable "non-local hidden variable" theory).

The reason it's commonly stated that quantum mechanics requires non-determinism is that (i) the philosophically most appealing "local hidden variable" theory has been falsified, (ii) the Copenhagen interpretation is easy to teach, and (iii) for practical calculations it actually doesn't matter.

(Source: I work in quantum mechanics.)
I highly doubt it, Apple has not charged for Mac for 10 years.

They have the profits from hardware and the upgrade cycle as new versions drop old hardware. I imagine if anything we will see a program like the iPhone upgrade program come to Mac. That would better fit their existing workflow anyways.
Yeah - When covered in even a moderate amount of snow, output drops almost all the way off. I had thought that being black, they would melt off quickly, but that doesn't appear to be the case. As an aside, my daughter's neighbor has solar and after a big snowstorm, a foot of snow slid off his panels, right into the side of her house destroying a basement window and blowing shattered glass 5 foot into the basement.
I read tfa. If we sit here and quote all lines that say "Lua" we'll be in for a long list as well.. including the project NAME no less.
For me personally it was SICP [1] at MIT

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-001-structure-and-interpretati...
Only the first Snapdragon 835 is not capable to run windows11. Starting with Snapdragon 850 all are compatible.

Snapdragon 835 is also horribly slow.
There's no JS interpreter in EWW [1]. If you're forced to use a different browser, having JS off by default is not hard to get used to.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eww/Over...
In 1994, no less.

I don't think people realize how limited the hardware was at the time.

They think because their phone is slow at scanning QR codes, that's how it must be. But the phone is not a dedicated device for QRCode scanning.

It's like someone saying they get blurry pics of cars on the highway so clearly speed limits are not possible to check automatically.
Nice project - so many projects don't take advantage of what you already have.
People are bad at risk management. I see oodles of people making wild decisions in their cars (sweeping across 4 lanes at once, backing up on the highway shoulder to return to a missed exit). The norm for trailing the car in front of you is also way way too short based on real physical limitations of braking.

Speed limits can also exist for reasons beyond the safety of drivers. There are roads around me that are wide, straight, and empty enough to comfortably drive 40mph but are right next to a school. The school-zone limit exists to provide extra safety for children who might foolishly step into the road very suddenly.
Migrating from Java 8 to Java 17 II: Notable API Changes in Java
Maybe, I don't know. Its up to the companies to do the math, who would like to pursue this model. If it's not feasible, the shouldn't be doing it though. AFAIK BoM is usually no that high, so it can be viable.

Anyway, maybe some depreciation calculations might be used to account for wear&tear but the core idea is that if you are selling something that works only on your other services by actively preventing competition you shouldn't be charging for the hardware that delivers that and the money you take upfront is just a fully refundable deposit to cover stuff like the consumer breaking the device or taking it but not using the services.
There's a meaningful distinction between the typesetting engine and the markup or interface you use to typeset documents. This project seems only concerned with the underlying engines. But for example go look at a raw groff file, it's obviously not intended to be written by hand and no one does. Latex on the other hand is a complete system, with a language to set documents and an engine to render them.

Html + css or markdown for that matter are only the interface layer, to compare them this way you'd need to specify an implementation. Minute typographic details are still one of the places where browsers diverge from each other in their behavior.
>Everything in the world runs on Linux except people who write Word documents and emails for a living.

Many many games, SolidWorks CAD, QuickBooks Enterprise, Act! CRM, etc.... A small sample of things that don't run on Linux.

We have different opinions of "everything".
Social Media Broke Slang. Now We All Speak Phone
We vote for the parliament, which was only like a week ago. Each country also votes for their government, at times specified by their constitutions. Those governments then form the Commission and the Council.
> - Helpful 404s. If you mistype a url, the 404 page compares it to working urls and shows you the closest match. All done using clientside JS (no web server needed). For example: https://breckyunits.com/pcr.html

Very neat! Many other are cool too.
I've experienced this before. Titles with '(YEAR)' which are auto updated. And 'FIXED!'.

And it ends up being an ad for some service.
Lots of things in parallel need to happen.

Consumption culture is not sustainable.

Financialization processes have to be inverted. If banking, markets, insurance, real estate grow faster than any other sector of the economy then debt, prices and monopolies, cross border arbitrage keep growing.

Ambition and its rewards in terms of financial/social status has to rethought. With the current incentives we get what we pay for and celebrate.

People have to organize more and think about these things.
I was responding with an anecdote to the comment that sometimes it's important to communicate concerns, even if it means being a killjoy. Didn't mean for it to sound like I was trying to equate the AI hat-dropper to potentially overdosing, just a recent occurrence that I was reminded of when I saw the parent comment.
Devastating. Having read the article, it sounds like it wasn't a fire as much as a lithium-cell explosion, which would explain the damage and why people couldn't get to safety.

off-topic: My chemistry teacher also plopped chunks of lithium into bowls of water for our edutainment.
Thanks for replying!

May I suggest publishing some kind of contact info? I have gone far out of my way to try to contact you with corrections before, including doing WHOIS requests on your domains, emailing `abuse@` as a common catch-all address, and so on, with no success.

Citations are one thing, but "more info..." links are good.
a single gateway, hundreds of buttons. One power supply, not hundreds!
As long as Apple charges > 1k $ for a 2TB SSD, a 5x markup on competition, they'll be fine.

Apple is a hardware company first, then an App Store rent seeker, and a software company third.

[1] https://www.apple.com/ca/shop/mac/accessories/storage