skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question from me was whether the M4 makes iPad users more productive vs the M3 iPad or whatever the last chip was, not if the iPad itself make you more productive than Linux or window s.

And since people keep bringing up the M4 as the yardstick in discussions on generic X86 and Qualcomm chips, then my productivity metric for comparison was also meant in a global generic way, as in the general purpose compute chips like x86 and Nvidia have unlocked new innovations and improvements to our lives over decades being able to run code from specialty aerospace, CAD, earthquake prediction, to protein folding for vaccines and medical use because you could run anything on those chips from YouTube to Fortnite to mainframes and supercomputers. What similar improvements to humanity does the M4 iPad bring when it can only run apps off the AppStore compared to M3, most used iPAd apps being YouTube and Netflix?

As long as the most cutting edge MX chips are restricted to running only Apple approved AppStore apps because Apple is addicted to the 30% AppStore tax that they can't charge on their laptops running MacOS/Linux with the same chips, then they're relatively useless chips for humanity in the grand scheme of things in comparisons with X86 and Arm who make the world go round, power research and innovation because they can run anything you can think of despite scoring a bit lower benchmarks.
You can deeplink to a specific PDF page
not sure if an excellent joke or a honest mistake
That's true making money is the big part so there's no incentive to control any of it. We are the product. Our info and habits are more valuable than any ad we click on.
It's not lupus!
A Universe of Sound – Turning Astronomical Images into Sound via Sonification
Composed by Sagittarius and performed by Chandra, with X-ray on xylophone, Optical on violin, and Infrared on piano.

Performing every night for the forseeable future :)
> You need a transactional journal for every account/user, likely with a well-defined schema to describe successful changes and failed attempts.

Sounds like a row in a database to me.

Dumb question, but is that how structured log systems are implemented?
Ageism? nobody's even bothering to be subtle about it anymore.
It's not vapourware, it exists and a view of any demo will reassure.

They've just done a very good job.
You start a long test with something like:

smartctl --smart=on --device=sat /dev/***
smartctl --test=long --device=sat /dev/***

(--device=sat is for the normal SATA or USB devices of Linux, such as "/dev/sda", which use SCSI commands; --device=nvme would be for NVME SSDs; other cases are described in the man page)

Then you can read from time to time the test log:

smartctl --log=xselftest --device=sat /dev/***

When the test has finished, a line announcing that will appear in the log, saying that the test has passed or failed. If there are errors, they will appear in the log while the test progresses.

In theory you can make a script that runs periodically smartctl, e.g. once every 5 minutes, and which parses the smartctl output and signals the end of a test.

However, because I run such tests only seldom, when buying a new disk, I did not write such a script.

You can use the HDD during the test, unless the test had been started with:

smartctl --captive --test=long --device=sat /dev/***

In the case of a "captive" test, attempting to use the drive for another purpose will abort the test.

While you can use the drive during a test, that will increase the duration of the test.
OK it seems exactly what I thought and described, and the opposite of what the parent poster described. The parent poster said that if you want to use the cover of the song you need to negotiate with both the people who did the cover and the original rights owner.

The closest I could get to a situation like that would be if I told Band B do a cover of Song A for my movie and I paid the licensing costs as part of my deal with Band B, but still not the same as the parent poster's description.
I got laid off last year, it was pretty rough. Took a couple months to work on some projects and my wedding which was nice. But then it took about 3-4 months of intensive job hunting.

Tons of ghosting companies, lowball offers, etc. Maybe it was just vibes from it being the mass layoff era, but it also felt like the interview processes at a lot of places became a lot more unpleasant than usual.

It's not a fun time to be looking. To anyone who's still on the pointy end of a layoff, good luck and don't get too down on yourself.
TL;DR: start Xorg with '-retro' for nostalgia!
Wouldn't the deadline be now+zero for real time audio applications? If I'm building a guitar pedal (random example) ideally I want no delay from the input to the output. Any digital delay makes things strictly worse and so any jitter matters. That said, the difference between zero and very close to zero does become a moot point given small enough values for any practical purpose.
For this purpose you would likely not buy ordinary consumer disks but rather bullet proof enterprise HDDs. Otherwise a signifcant amount of the 5556 disks would not survive the first year, assuming the are under constant load.
That’s exactly why I’m doing it. Most people don’t need a canary, they just want to be left the fk alone.
IRS Crackdown on Delinquent Millionaires Yields $1B
the argument has always been, is it better to spend that 5% on making it free, or is it better to spend that on making services more useful so that people actually switch to it?

The cost is not really the reason LA Metro ridership is so low and farebox recovery is so low.
It has nothing to do with the country, and it has everything to do with: 1) the transaction type, and 2) personal wealth.

Transaction types. There are two: a) customer present, b) customer not present. Instant electronic funds transfers fall into (a) and are almost always declined, with the caveat. The caveat: you are overseas, the payment terminal has captured the card details, dispatched them the local/nearest payment processing centre, then something has fallen apart and the acquiring bank (i.e. your bank) could not be contacted. It is a rare situation nowadays, but it can happen nevertheless, and the transaction may be honoured. Most merchants don't bother with it, though, and they will simply produce a «payment declined» receipt instead. But if not, such a payment can send a card account into overdraft irrespective of whether your local bank advertises it or not.

Customer not present. This has i) online transactions (e.g. purchases over the internet) and ii) completely offline transactions. The handling of the customer-not-present-online-internet transactions is done solely at the discretion of your bank. Typically, a random purchase will be declined, but a recurring payment may be honoured. Completely offline transactions are very rare nowadays, but they still can take place, e.g. on a flight when the plane has lost the internet connection – the flight attendant will promptly return, produce a mechanical contraption and take a slip of your debit card, provided the card details are embossed on it. If they take a slip, the payment networks do mandate such a payment to be honoured, and a cheque account that is linked to such a debit card will go into overdraft. It is non-negotiable, independent of the country and is mandated by the payment netowrks.

Personal wealth. Your bank continuously monitors the in-flow of money into accounts you hold with them as well as the expenditure and the class of merchants you spend your money with. Depending on which one occurs first, e.g. you reach a certain income threshold (undisclosed and defined internally – by your bank), you may get the overdraft automagically allowed on the account your debit card is linked to. There are no specific rules as to when it is going to happen and what is the selection criteria for such a thing to happen – it is solely at the bank's discretion.

All this stuff is somewhat obscure, yet it is real and is entirely independent of country borders and the local legislation.
They have been sending out new rules every few years. You just haven’t paid attention.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Smoke some weed in the evening and go to bed early.
I am not sure why would think using an LLM/"AI" would be any different than an IVR. A LLM is just a better interface, it would not have different access than the IVR would.
Tidy Computations
What are it's major flaws that Windows and MacOS solved? I am using Linux instead.
In all seriousness, I would not have enjoyed being the person writing and posting this. It's very corporate, and I feel genuinely sorry for them.

> After careful consideration and review of our long-term product strategy

Check.

> to focus on providing the most value

Check.

> Thank you for being a valued member of this community and sharing your feedback.

Check.

> Your input is valuable as we continue to improve WebView2.

Uh huh.

> Thank you for your understanding!

I'm sorry for them. They must have known, reading that thread, the disappointment it would cause quite a few people.

(I'm not one of them. I just "enjoy" reading corporate messaging.)
The input to your JPEG compressor is an image that someone/something created, and the goal of your compressor is to replicate its input as closely as possible. It doesn't create new data, it merely encodes pre-existent data.

The input to my algorithms is a single number, and the goal is to create something new and distinctive that is clearly different from anything that existed before, and that wouldn't exist without the ingenuity of my algorithms.
sure, on a 1-bit display the only other options are solid black and solid white
Well, you'd want some pattern, because on a 1-bit display your only choices otherwise are pure white or pure black, both of which kind of suck. The Blit terminal also used a stippled pattern, I think the Perq did the same, etc.

I think the interesting thing about the X background is that it's not a simple stipple, it's actually a pattern that looks very much like woven fabric.
> And to give another hint why this is so hard for me to understand: To the best of my knowledge, if I call my phone company with whatever scenario that I can imagine that involves my SIM, all they will do is send me a new SIM to my physical address.

That's basically SIM-swapping. The only step you haven't described is getting the new SIM sent somewhere else, which probably isn't too hard a thing to achieve given sufficient corruption.

Ultimately, the phone company uses its information to work out where to send an SMS, and that information is an entry in a database - SMS to number X is routed to SIM card ID Y. If an inside job can change that database entry for a while, that's enough to attack SMS-2FA.
feels like an april fools post based on section 2

> 2 Related works: Surprisingly, no one has ever done any research on naming strategies (so long as you conveniently ignore [4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25] and likely other work).
Does gpt4all with Llama send input data outside of local server
Reviewing the activity with gpt4all and i am noticing some logs where it appears that the api for gpt4all is ingesting data. Can anyone confirm this?
> Jack Campbell's Lost Fleet series (starting with Dauntless) has a lot of time involved, due to military fleets/flotillas maneuvers at light-hour distances:

I'll also mention Dread Empire's Fall by Walter Jon Williams - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dread_Empire%27s_Fall

You again deal with long communication distances and most fleet actions are done with missiles. This then has the challenge of "how do you control the missiles / select the targets at such distances (no AIs)" and there is a class of pilots that fly a 'pinnace' which is a small, one person ship that is capable of doing high acceleration to keep up with the missiles.

During peace times, the pinnace pilots tend to be more about prestige and racing.

There was also an instance of moving a jump point thingy that _really_ messed up a fleet action (since the fleet, traveling at high speed to the edge of the system missed the "go here to jump to the next system" and instead had to turn around and go back ... which represented a lot of time and acceleration (not all species in the universe don't have the same tolerance for acceleration).
I'm seconding this, and I have first hand experience in exactly this problem, in finance. My first boss also had the view that "batching is a special case of streaming where you stream N and streaming is also a special case of batching where the batch size is 1 and so it doesn't matter which one you implement". This was never performant enough and he was eventually asked to leave.
Tesla Plans to Delay Robotaxi Event to October
Let's say that it powers a "search logs" page that an end user wants to see. And let's say that they want last 1d, 14d, 1m, 6m.

So subsecond I would say is a requirement.

And no, it doesn't have to be the same system that ingests/indexes the logs.
In Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky, ships in the far distant future are still counting time from the Unix epoch. The common belief in the novel, though, is that it's measuring time from when humans first became space-faring by walking on the moon. But I don't recall it mentioning that there's any attempt to account for relativity; ships all keep their own local time.
Literally just register a domain, choose a popular mail provider and read their docs on how to use your own domain with them. It’s widely supported.
I wonder why they removed the stipple, just to add an opt-in to re-enable it. Was it causing problems with some newer hardware? I don't get why one would make such a deliberate change to a foundational piece of software if it was purely cosmetic.
> In the old days, it used to be that mouse, keyboard, video card, monitor, fonts, plugin+module data, etc. needed to be spelled out in detail in /etc/X11/XF86Config.

Man does it make me feel old that the /etc/X11/XF86Config days don't feel like the 'old days' to me. That stipple takes me back to using TWM on Sun3 workstations because OpenWindows was too slow.
I wonder if that's the sort of ruling that just got thrown out by the Supreme Court in favor of having courts decide.
It doesn't sound like you understand what a function is. There is a mathematical definition you need to look up.
My first impression is the dark mode color contrast is poor compared to VSCode defaults (I tested a few things with CCA Colour Contrast Analyser). I'm sure this is all configurable but it was off-putting to me. I'm still interested in spending more time checking out Zed.
That's not true for the most well-known models. For example Meta's LLAMA training and architecture was predicated on the observation that training cost is a drop in the well compared to the inference cost for a model's lifetime.
> Calhoun’s big takeaway involved status. Again, the males who lost the fights for dominance couldn’t leave to start over elsewhere. As he saw it, they were stuck in pathetic, humiliating roles and lacked a meaningful place in society.

Sounds like most younger modern men that reached adulthood in the last 20-30 years: forced by women to uphold all the patriarchal requirements that benefit women - breadwinner, good career, good social status, pay for everything, take all the physical and emotional risks, etc. - yet are increasingly denied the very tools needed to achieve these goals… instead, they are faced with a myriad of barriers that they cannot control and are not permitted to object to, such as preferential education support for women, preferential hiring of women, preferential career advancement for women, disrespected status in society, becoming the default “villain” for anything that nerfs a woman, etc..

Not only does this underlie the societal conditions that many researchers are saying gives rise to 1ncels, but this is also the very reasoning why many men are giving up and “going their own way” -- they are being crushed between a rock and a hard place, and are being simultaneously punished for failing to perform while being forcibly denied the very tools needed to achieve said performance. So they reject it all as an impossible task that is maliciously anti-male and directly harmful to their own physical health and mental health. They turn away from society and women’s demands of men to focus on what truly matters: themselves.

These MGTOW become “the beautiful ones”, rejecting female entanglements and (frequently even) sex in order to properly take care of themselves in a society that actively hates them for the gender that they were born with.

And I don’t blame them one bit.
i was surprised recently to find that tightvncserver didn't display this stipple and cursor when started up without any x-windows clients; now i know why. to me they bring back memories not of configuring xfree86 (which was easy since i didn't get my own computer until 01996 and didn't equip it with a leading-edge graphics card) but of using x-terminals at the university starting in 01992. the xdm login screen had the default stipple and x cursor

but i guess matt t proud is a youngster, or maybe had enough money to have his own linux-capable computer when xfree86 was hard to configure

what's the best 1-bit-deep stipple pattern for this kind of thing? the zorzpad display (same as the playdate one) is 175 dpi and has a lovely deep black but no grays. the x-windows weave pattern cited here seems like a pretty nice option if you're constrained to 4×4:

# # # .
# . # #
# # . #
. # # #

but i'm not
3D genome architecture persists in a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth skin sample
The exact quote is on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky#Interste...

> Take the Traders' method of timekeeping. The frame corrections were incredibly complex - and down at the very bottom of it was a little program that ran a counter. Second by second, the Qeng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth's moon. But if you looked at it still more closely ... the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind's first computer operating systems.
Is it true that it doesn’t support Linux as the wiki implies? I guess the card form could be used instead.
My experience has been a mixture of "when all you have is a hammer ..." and Pointy Haired Bosses LOVE kafka, and tend to default to it because it's what all their Pointy Haired Boss friends are using

In a more generous take, using some buffered ingest does help with not having to choose between a c500.128xl ingest machine and dropping messages, but I would never advocate for standing up kafka just for log buffering
LZCNT was introduced by Intel in BMI1, while TZCNT was introduced by AMD.
Haunting the Human Genome Project: A Question of Consent
Because banks are financial institutions and every decision they make is based in that. If the cost of insurance is less than the cost to actually secure the system, they will choose that every time.

Banks and payment processors have some of the worst technical debt. For example, a lot of transactions are processed using the ISO8583 standard, a binary bitmap-based protocol from the 80s. The way cryptography was bolted onto this was the minimum required to meet auditing standards: specific fields are encrypted but 99% of the message is left plaintext without even an HMAC.
IANA/ICANN will not act on customers of others gTLDs, would they?
The whole point of the paper is to show that we can model the time for various bodies to very high degree of accuracy.
To your first three above, add Marc Rochkind's Advanced Unix Programming and Richard Stevens' Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment and you have got yourself a complete course in C/Unix programming which is the bedrock for everything else; C is the "lingua franca" and Unix (via its variants) the "standard" OS.

Tip: Many of these old books can be had for cheap as used copies on Amazon/Betterworldbooks etc.
Who do Gen Z and Millennials live with in America?
Your website says you went to MIT to study computer science anyways...?
When Molly's husband died, a friend came up with a way to help: 'Calendar Girls'
This is absolutely awesome. How does one gain the skills to do this as a high schooler? I'm amazed.
Indeed. Nice choice of Nokia, too.-
Yes it's odd there's no information.

I see an @archive.org email address here: https://internetarchivecanada.org/2022/09/27/internet-archiv...

edit: and I found https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-donate-to-the-interne...
NEBULOUS: Fleet Command ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/887570/NEBULOUS_Fleet_Com... - currently 35% off on the Steam sale which is ending Real Soon Now)

It is a heavy game. https://youtu.be/eqn7F97M8XA
Yeah, I tend to use Portuguese terms translated to English, sorry about that. English is not my native language.
I think I remember reading about your company. Very cool stuff, but outside my real skill set.
At least you have an alternative.

In my country, almost all banks force the use of app 2FA without SMS as an alternative.

If I don't want to buy and carry an extra phone around, I'm limited to using the one bank that doesn't require it.
I guess theoretically phishing could be considered MiTM, but the latter term generally implies the attack is fully transparent to the user, whereas phishing convinces the user to insert the malicious party themselves.
Tangentally, I came across this preprint today about sensible definitions for planets, as IAU doesn't actually call exoplanets "planets", and there's some unclarity re hydrostatic equilibrium ("how round") and especially the "clearing the path" / orbital dominance

Quantitative Criteria for Defining Planets (UCLA)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.07590
Why do I get a whiff of these "experts" were paid off by "vaping" interests (which I believe I recall being connected with legacy "big tobacco" through Altria Inc.) to create a limited hangout of "harm reduction", an extremely loaded and manipulative contemporary phrase pattern.

What monster could ever be opposed to harm reduction through the lesser of two evils after all? I mean, is burglary really a public safety concern, or not just poverty reduction? And why do you oppose poverty reduction by spreading hate about burglars of your home? And how often do you beat your wife again?

"Expert [manipulators and gaslighters] weigh in."
Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland: alcohol and tobacco

France: fuel

Luxembourg and the Canary Islands: high-value items like electronics, designer clothing, and luxury goods.
C versus C++: Fight
They force SMS 2FA because it is a lot more frictionless to assume that your users have a phone number than to assume that they have a 2FA app installed on their phone and know how to manage those tools. It's also easier to support.
The reality is that when their service delays something they owe us tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars. This is the tool they’re using but if they can’t even get a precise notion of when a specific request arrived at their gateway they’re in trouble.
To be fair you're allowed to do things with drones or model planes that you're not allowed to do with model rockets, like make them out of metal.
No, AGPL does not have any "special carve out".

But in the section that is the difference from GPL (section 13, "Remote Network Interaction"), it clearly states: "if you modify the Program, your modified version must ..." [emphasis added]. So the extra stuff that differentiates AGPL from GPL applies only for modified versions of the software.

For the rest, usual GPL stuff applies: if you distribute the binary, you must make the sources available, etc.