skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are troublesome downstream effects of an automated society that we're only beginning to reckon with. Humans may not be not perfect, but there's something to be said for keeping some processes slow and inefficient.
> Who wants to approve and configure all of their language servers?

I think you're asking the wrong question. The correct one would be: "who wants to be asked if they want to approve and configure all of their language servers?"

It's not what zed does, it's doing it behind your back!
I really wish there was a modern "computer console" like the Commodore 64 or Sinclair Spectrum of old, where you could boot straight into a programming environment.

Something comparable to the Nintendo SNES or DS's hardware capabilities, which seemed like the perfect sweet spot between artistic freedom and "helpful" limitations which actually improved creativity by lowering complexity.
Or their editors do. I think there was important learning in going over the editor's liberal use of the red pen. I have a feeling this is something lost on the newer generations, and no, I'm not talking about Word's red squiggle.

Now, it's just append to the prompt until you get something you like. The brutality of all of that red ink is just gone
I have this in my bashrc:

alias duwim='du --apparent-size -c -s -B1048576 * | sort -g'

It produces a similar output, showing a list of directories and their sizes under the current dir.

The name "duwim" stands for "du what I mean". It came naturally after I dabbled for quite a while to figure out how to make du do what I mean.
On the small scale, this might be true. But on the larger scale, there's much, much more money to be made from fixing the problem after the fact.

Edit: If dentistry as an industry cares, so, so much about dental care then why are they not lobbying for less sugar in our food? Is providing care and regular advice the most effective way to fix the problem?
Night owls have better brain function than morning people, study suggests
Yes. My work GitHub account is via SSO using my work creds. My personal GitHub account is much older and uses my personal email address.

Of course, we can’t (or shouldn’t) be uploading any of our code to GitHub for work. We have self-hosted Bitbucket servers. The corporate GitHub accounts are strictly used for Copilot.

If/when I leave the company, I’m pretty sure they don’t want all the code tied to my personal account. That sounds like a nightmare. I don’t want that either.
Compare multiple LLMs side by side with one prompt
> The context being that you can't dismiss the argument of personal freedom purely on the basis that someone is creating risk for others.

You can, in fact, dismiss the argument of personal freedom purely on the basis that someone is creating a life and death risk for others, though. You've presented no cogent argument otherwise.

> The concept that a driver would sometimes be given the freedom to surpass the speed limit, when they judge it necessary, is not even particularly controversial.

We're in the middle of a controversy on this topic, therefore it is in fact controversial. QED.

> Police use broad discretion to not enforce speed limits to the letter of the law.

Yes, and that is clearly an abuse of power--one of many police abuses of power that our society is struggling to curb. Is that really the argument you want to be making?

> In fact many states have laws that crack down on police departments staging "speed traps" to generate speeding ticket revenue.

Yes: and why is that? Is it because they think police should have discretion to not enforce the letter of the law? How on earth does that follow?

> Which is society's way of saying that, yes, speeding is illegal, but that illegality isn't meant to be a lever for government oppression.

Alternative explanation: this is society's way of saying that, yes, speeding is illegal, but road infrastructure should be designed to make the law useful and possible to follow.

The "no speed traps" laws I'm aware of are focused on a) giving drivers signage that adequately indicates a change in speed limit in advance to give drivers a chance to adjust their speed, and b) removing police perverse incentives to enforce the law in ways that don't achieve its purpose. These laws address very specific problems that have nothing to do with your vague "lever for government oppression" idea.

Be honest with yourself: you've experienced having the ability to speed "at your discretion" if you've driven a car, because cars currently don't have speed limiters. Have you ever, even once used that discretion to speed for a good reason? Or are you just grasping at straws to justify why you should be allowed to put other people's lives in danger because you're impatient?
You don't really do these any more on a modern CPU. This is stuff I used to do 30 years ago and you might still do if you're on a micro-controller or some other tiny system. The CPUs aren't slow. Tne main problem is if the OS doesn't schedule your process it doesn't matter how fast the CPU is.
Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.
"Although proportional navigation was apparently known by the Germans
during World War II at Peenemu¨nde, no applications on the Hs. 298 or R-1 mis-
siles using proportional navigation were reported [2]. The Lark missile, which
had its first successful test in December 1950, was the first missile to use pro-
portional navigation. Since that time proportional navigation guidance has been
used in virtually all of the world’s tactical radar, infrared (IR), and television
(TV) guided missiles [3]. The popularity of this interceptor guidance law is
based upon its simplicity, effectiveness, and ease of implementation. Apparently,
proportional navigation was first studied by C. Yuan and others at the RCA
Laboratories during World War II under the auspices of the U.S. Navy [4]."

From Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance Sixth Edition.

(To preempt the confusion. Proportional navigation isn't a simple P controller, the missile is seeking an intercept path)

>Not silly at all if you haven’t invented microcontrollers yet.

Apparently the Germans did try that during WW2, but such a missile can not be effective, outside of e.g. bomber intercept.

The "magic" of the AIM-9 Series is that it could achieve this without micro controllers.
And it would know they did not change without scanning them because how?
I am familiar with the computational theory of cognition. What I wanted to know was whether there were any people who actually claimed their thinking is nothing more than programmed computation. I am very curious to know if they have mapped out the instruction set for their mind along the lines of something like the SKI combinators.
The root cause is Streptococcus mutans and other bacteria in the mouth. Dentists would be out of business, except for trauma injuries, if these bacteria were eliminated.
You're right about prices being higher not long ago.

> EU is somewhat smaller

By area? The EU's population is larger than that of the US.

WhatsApp is indeed very popular for IM, and nowadays, SMS is basically just for 2FA (I hoped RCS would change that, but it's too little too late unfortunately).
If you enjoyed that litter box experience you should consider owning an older high mileage and high end German luxury car… ideally something with a double digit number of cylinders, and a computer controlled adjustable… everything
There used to be. But they've been almost completely stripped away because of rampant abuse.
CephFS does that.

You can use getfattr to ask it for the recursive number of entries or bytes in a given directory.

Querying it is constant time, updates update it with a few seconds delay.

Extremely useful when you have billions of files on spinning disks, where running du/ncdu would take a month just for the stat()s.
Today, we’ll explore .NET Aspire, an exciting new technology making waves in the .NET community. This article provides an easy-to-understand introduction to orchestration in .NET Aspire, focusing on its benefits and capabilities. Let’s discover how .NET Aspire contributes to advancements in our daily development.
Fediwatch – A tool for visualizing ActivityPub traffic of a Mastodon instance
It's used to download the previous day's database from the release for computing the diff. actions/download-artifact would only work for artifacts created during the current run, i.e., today's database.
Yeah that’s when I started questioning his life decision
DISCLAIMER: If you have back/spine problems and you delay surgery because you hope the problem would go away on its own, with healthy living, you might end up with damaged/dead nerves which is irreparable damage, which even a delayed surgery cannot fix.

With regards to for-profit medicine, this is why I hate all market based health insurance systems. Even if you are rich and get treated like a king, you still have to question whether your doctor/surgeon is trying to sell you a procedure. The only system that does not suffer from this issue is the NHS (e.g. UK) where the incentive is lacking. The debate about health care systems tends to focus on availability and coverage, but this for-profit perverse incentive is orthogonal to all that.
It's my understanding that Fly.io heavily uses Elixir and has several Elixir bigshots on staff. But I only see mention of Fly.io for people are moving off of it or having major issues. I'm wondering of that's really the case and how given the tech stack.
Not as featureful, but what I've been using. If you can't install this tool for some reason, it's still useful. I call it usage:

#!/bin/bash

du -hs * .??* 2> /dev/null | sort -h | tail -22
Bringing the Philippines' beloved mom-and-pop stores into the 21st century
He did say that, sure .. he just doesn't walk the talk.
> but your cutesy coding style makes that a non-starter

I don't think this is fair. The code looks pretty readable to me.
Someone, please create a Gdut, a fork that will produce graphs for a quick and easy way to read, it’s almost impossible to read in small vertical screens.
If you have a buffer that's being clocked out and your goal is to keep data flowing, the jitter is going to influence how small your buffer can be. Let's say you're producing 56Khz audio, the best you can do is produce a [sample] exactly at that frequency. If you have 1ms jitter now you need a 1ms buffer so you have delay. If jitter is small enough, like 0.1ns jitter in some SIMD calculation, then for all intent and purpose it doesn't matter for an audio application...
Is that not just traditional OCR applied on top of LLM?
That's ok. It seems like LLMs know all about simplicial complexes and homology so I'll spend my time on more fruitful endeavors but thanks for the advice.
I opened the site but would it be plausible for their analytics to tell them that Orion does not load the css? Safari does it without consent.
No, it isn't. That's only what people say if they insist on injecting politics into everything, even if it had gotten along fine without it.
Simple is a relative statement. There are vision problems where monkeys are far better than humans. Some may look at human vision and memory and think that we lack basic skills.

With AINwe are creating intelligence but with different strengths and weaknesses. I think we will continue to be surprised at how well they work on some problems and how poor they do at some “simple” ones.
I tell people, "There is no luck; there is free will interacting with destiny."
One could argue the opposite. There are countless 'computer console' available at various low price ranges.

The closest thing today is RaspberryPI, and boot to a linux in text mode, you're basically there.

What is more difficult to find is the combo hardware/software, but the Pi 400 includes keyboard and a mouse comes with as a kit.

Just like in the old days, find a (~TV) cheap LCD monitor and plug and play.

And you have hundreds of games for free, thousands possibly with emulators etc. And you can program in virtually every languages on the planet.

If anything, what you have now paralysis by choice. There is just too much you can do with a basic computers, so you wind up on youtube and social medias instead of being bored with 1 compiler and 1 book.

ref: I grew up on ZX Spectrum+! :)
I receive many of these emails every week. Some start with flattery ("I just found your website and love what you are doing. Maybe you can give more value to your readers by linking to a resource here...") and some straight to the point ("I run a three-way link exchange") but they are all SEO scammers.
When I was working on desktop audio software, our rule of thumb was to keep CPU occupancy below 30%. More than that, and you'd be sure to get hitching in your audio stream. (This factors in thread contention, other background tasks stealing CPU cycles, file system pauses...)

A much different experience from embedded programming, where 99% occupancy is no problem at all.
The Chinese government is going all-in on autonomous vehicles
The related thing that bothers me deeply is that

import PIL

does not make PIL.Image available. What the hell else do you expect me to do with PIL? Why isn't PIL.Image included in importing PIL? You have to explicitly do either of these

import PIL.Image
from PIL import Image
Nothing Seinfeld is obscure.
I am not sure what would happen to the ecosystem if we remove the mosquitos but god damn I am in favor of taking the risk.
The power of mentorship in open source: Bridging the gap for CS students
Of the three distros I know to more detailed extents, Debian, Arch and RedHat, none of those make it easy to install and keep updated a third-party package through the built-in package manager.

In all cases, signatures and repositories need to be configured, often requiring both root access and usage of the CLI and in all cases much harder than running an installer script (which might be doing exactly these steps).

To achieve easy means of installing using distro package managers means including the application in the distro itself, but now it's beholden to the distro's software update policies and thus stuck on that specific version for years or even decades.

That is not what a v0.something of an end-user centric desktop application wants for themselves.
Beyond Compare

https://forum.scootersoftware.com/forum/beyond-compare-4-dis...
For one, changing a typo shouldn't require any code to be recompiled.
This is great fun! But it's much more prevalent in embedded DSP than desktop.
That includes the physical travel time, which is an extremely important caveat.
Are you sure the perf may not be misleading?

E.g. memory accesses might show up as slower die to CPU caches being flushed when switching between user and kernel space.

I would be extremely interested in a quick (standalone?) benchmark of e.g. 1M stats with vs without uring.

Also https://github.com/tdanecker/iouring-getdents reports big uring speedups for getdents, which makes it surprising to get no speedups for stat.

If uring turns out fast, you might ignore (a), just doing the getdents first and then all stats afterwards. Since getdents is a "batch" syscalls covering many files anyway, but stat isn't.
Grimes failure was still pleasant when you compare it to the mayhem you get when the DSP inside the amplifier system glitches for a few samples.

What do you think happens a dense crowd of 500+ people suddenly starts to have excruciating ear pain?
I believe the authors, Katy Blumer, Kate Donahue, Katie Fritz, Kate Ivanovich, Katherine Lee, Katie Luo, Cathy Meng, Katie Van Koevering,

may have had a similar experience to your son.
Reminds me of Star Trek IV where Bones cures a woman’s kidney disease in the 80s and rhetorically asks if it’s the “Dark Ages”.

https://youtu.be/_R_WbAhKyAk?si=KSnC6OYJArhnKe0W
True, but where's the difference between downloading a binary and executing it vs. downloading a script and executing that which will then download a binary and execute it?

In both cases, you trust the publisher and in both cases the publisher gets equal access to your machine.

Oh - you mean you're downloading the source code, then audit it, then compile it and only then you run it?

That's super great. That has saved you from the xz backdoor and all other supply chain attacks and will be of great help to you in the future. Let's hope no backdoor ever slips past your code review.
Despite having defended FOSS and advocated VLC ... I understand your viewpoint here. Calling on people to contribute bugfixes isn't especially realistic. Filing a bug on the fact that VLC has poor debug/log tools would be helpful though.

Particularly as a useful logging / debugging capability should enable more useful bug reports specific to function.

Sorry it's not working out for you, thanks for trying regardless.
It could hash the contents of a dir. Along the lines of git
Yeah, so ?
Did you expect France to fight the US ?
On the other hand, the throughput requirements on image processing are often far more stringent than in audio. A full-resolution stereo audio stream is only 200kb/s = 12 Mb/min after all, whereas a video system might have to chew throw many gigabytes in the same time.
Nobody is setting any cookie. You know these services are cookieless instead use their ip+salt+time hash they send from client.
Problem with server side metrics (why google analytics became so popular) is first it generates lots of noise visits from bots. But more importantly its often not possible to implement them because the hosting is handled by unable/unwilling third party.

I will not jump the gun just yet. We will keep being in this gray zone until i see the authorities have problems with approach of matomo/plausible. I have seen the opposite. If they did we would remove the analytics entirely because there is nothing worse than cookie banner which instantly annoys users and puts you on level with any other mainstream site that does fingerprinted tracking.
You are correct. In early days of the GDPR people thought about a page in front of the original page without any data collection presenting only the privacy information.

But soon there was an agreement that Art 13 lit. 4 could be interpreted that as long as you don't have any data collection beyond server logs this would be deemed as sufficient. Or in other words if you won't invoke the Art 21 lit. 1 of the GDPR.

But since everybody wants to track you on basis of their legitimate interest the web became full of cookie banners
OT, but would you be inclined to elaborate on why you decided to migrate away from CS to Elastic? We’re currently considering CS.
My company uses Brex among others. They do nightly sweeps into a set of partner institutions on your behalf. In theory means you are covered for $250K * number of banks, but the scheme is pretty opaque. It's also untested by a real failure as far as I can tell. The best mitigation is to spread accounts across multiple institutions.

p.s., Brex works fine for day-to-day transactions like AR, AP, and Payroll. We've been quite happy with it, but these days you can't fully trust any financial institution.
>The Germans are really really good at documenting things.

Citation needed.
It's the same for Chinese car manufacturers because of competition and many of them not being legacy car makers so not stuck in the past way of doing things are willing to do rapid development and updates. So the largest complain about Chinese cars having lower quality will rapidly be gone as they keep improving rapidly.
Idu: Sandbox for growing simulated plants where every single leaf competes for
35 years ago I knocked up my soon to be wife. We picked out name and opted for a home birth, confident that no other couples had made those same choices.

That birth month, Life magazine featured a full page spread of a home birth (ewwww); their newborn had the same name.

This event is on a list of stuff I/we came to on our own, at the same time as everyone else.
A human is always in the loop too. From what we've seen with other AI systems is that humans will start rubber stamping targets left and right to reduce their work burden.
Heh, I thought it was odd you referenced a ten year old show, but I guess she made a similar mistake twice. Her 2014 Coachella set was a total mess.
but then I will need curl | sh to install snap :(
>This usually cancels out the lower tax rates

Directly contradicts "The costs are 2-3 times higher". Especially not since a software dev makes significantly more money.
You can't call analog NN an AnalNN either, as then the "brain-gut axis" people will throw a fit.
> Submitted on 31 Mar 2024

Almost looks like an April Fools Joke.

> The above model contains several Extremely Reasonable Assumptions (ERAs). The first ERA is the very
conservative assumption that there is only one gender, with all children and all names adhering to the same
gender. Thus any child may be given any name, so long as it exists in the names list1. Another ERA is
the Mayfly Parenthood Assumption, in which all parents perish immediately upon naming their child, which
makes the math substantially easier.
> could have been avoided

I complete agree with your sentiment. Too many of these commenters are unrealistic: In most cases you cannot avoid the BBoM. Usually, it is written by someone before you... or above you... so you have little power to change it, but you can make meaningful changes step by step.
I have some minor PTSD from prior insect bites, and the start of that video was giving me anxiety.
I asked my "why not upstream" question here and got a response:

https://github.com/rapier1/hpn-ssh/issues/89#issuecomment-22...
I recently implemented a good portion of x86(-64) decoder for some side project [1] and kinda surprised how it got even more complicated in recent days. Sandpile.org [2] was really useful for my purpose.

[1] Namely, a version of Fabian Giesen's disfilter for x86-64, for yet another side project which is still not in public: https://gist.github.com/lifthrasiir/df47509caac2f065032ef72e...

[2] https://sandpile.org/
The WSJ article is paywalled and the archive.today link submitted fails to capture the full text: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40930022>

(HN also seems to have disabled replies to that comment, or I'd be noting this there.)

A paywall-free obit is available from the CBC: <https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/ed-stone-head-of-the-voyager...>

There's also a NASA/JPL obit <https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ed-stone-former-director-of-jp...> commented by ChrisArchitect here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40930393>

Which was discussed a month ago, making this submission a dupe as well.

I've emailed mods on the first two issues.
He's active on Bluesky and Mastodon.
One company I have worked with had an internal rule for "radiated emissions": You had to be 10dB (1 order of magnitude) underneath the limits before going for a formal cert. Non-negotiable.

Part of the reason for this rule was that they:

1) OEMed their products.

2) Sold products that could be used in complex and bespoke CAN networks with goodness knows what else.

3) There was a chance of interfering with Marine VHF radio which is used for emergencies. The EU rules were (still are) not actually strict enough for preventing interference with that band.
I wish people wouldn't post such pointless comments - the only users who get any value from reading your sentence are people who already share your view and can go "hah yeah!", while you couldn't be bothered to explain why it's your view to anyone who doesn't already think the same thing. Literally no benefit over not saying anything. Sorry to be blunt.
> People are quick to ridicule the idea that guns can protect you against the government these days

I think what happened in Waco TX showed that having a bunch of guns to protect yourself from the government is 1) ineffective, and 2) a really bad idea.

It made sense in the 1700s but those were different times.
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9913629>