skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are there coaches that can help?

You don't need a coach, you need to learn how to 'exercise', and I don't just mean that physically.

You want to run a marathon? You don't just go running as hard and as far as you can, puke, then feel like a failure, and stop trying.

You have to be realistic with yourself and make slow steady improvements in life and understand you're moving towards a goal.

You don't concentrate well? Fine, use pomodoro to force yourself to study for 15 minutes without distracitons and then take breaks.

You're not in shape? Start doing ten pushups in the morning and some air squats.
> and that's why there are so few "modern English" productions put on

Modern productions of shakespeare or even victorian era stories constantly make their way into Hollywood. "Clueless" is just a modernized version of "Emma"
“Please let me know if you were able to read this attachment.”

Really?
> At one point, no countries criminalized homosexuality. A nation state in general is a European concept

Your confusion arises from mixing up the terms country and nation state. Nation states are modern [1]. States, what you’re calling countries, are as old as history.

States criminalised homosexuality well before there were nation states [2]. (The point at which no country criminalised homosexuality appears to be in the neighbourhood of the first centuries AD.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_state

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminalization_of_homosexua...
Apple only control half the nodes, the other half is controlled by cloudflare.

Every request goes via an Apple node first, then is sent to a 3rd party node for final routing. That way neither Apple nor the 3rd party have a complete picture of where a request came from, or where it went.

Not entirely sure why you would trust a random ISP, and everyone else involved in routing that connection, more than Apple. Last I checked most ISP don’t have the tightest privacy policies, or even the best data handling practices. Apple stands to loose millions if they slip up on their privacy promises. Most ISP wouldn’t even bother telling you if they accidentally misplaced your personal details.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/icloud-private-relay/
You can use other models like a vision LLM, or use AI agents as well
Tutorial to use GUI in WSL2 replacing original XServer by Xvnc,like native Linux
It must be hard to do research on this since I can imagine that prosecutions were possible even if homosexuality were not actually illegal (one can find other crimes to prosecute such as 'corrupting the youth') and the conflation between various sexual acts in law (e.g. consentual versus non-consentual sexual activity).

I do appreciate the idea that it may have been prompted by anti-homosexual moral panics though. That resonates.
Shakespeare is modern English and perfectly comprehensible. Beowulf is not.

Yes, there are some words that have changed (like his example of "character") but those are few. There are always difficulties. There are lots of words that have different meanings in British, American and other forms of English ("bum", "fag", etc.), or that are offensive in some places but not others, different usages.....

The way to make Shakespeare is and fun is to watch it (on stage, or film). I have been to several Shakespeare plays in the last year and there were none where I felt I was just "catching the basic gist". The jokes worked for a start.
Advanced tracking and fingerprinting protection breaks Safari extensions: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/6/5.html
> the actual particles are undergoing a constant process of reducing the potential energy induced by force fields between them

Not really. They are in the process of spreading that energy as equally possible through as many fields as they can.

What is the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Systemtap, for whatever reason, remained largely RedHat solution. It didn't really have much traction outside that diaspora.
2020 definitely shook things up, so it's possible that the situation has changed a lot since the last census.
I kind of admired the brevity.

Sure, nobody agrees on what the strict definition of great is. I don't think it's reasonable to argue that a blog post titled "My pet theory..." doesn't achieve the minimum word count.

Go back and read the HN thread [1] that was the impetus. Now TFA exists within a lot more words to train an LLM on.

Why not attempt to triangulate what this particular piece of software might look like, if it was the best it could be?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40974768
makes sense, thanks a lot for your advice.
Pretty off-topic, but:

> When we invented Private Browsing back in 2005, our aim was to provide users with an easy way to keep their browsing private from anyone who shared the same device.

I wonder if anyone actually involved 19 years ago was also involved in writing this piece, or if it just sounded reasonable to whoever drafted it up.
That's definitely aligned with what we see, we work with orgs where we're the next step after Guard Duty and some who already have more in place.

Certainly for the base usage, switching GuardDuty on can be a no brainer, as we touch on in the article - it's the additional SKUs where things a get a bit less clear.
I had similar experiences with every group project, where one or two people have to do all the work. I asked a teacher about it once, and his explanation is that it's a lesson for working in the real world. Really drives home the saying "those who can't do, teach". I think it would have been more moral to do what your teacher did and actually validate contribution, instead of intentionally teaching students that you can screw around at someone else's expense and get away with it.
Vulnerable transistors threaten to upend Europa Clipper mission
> it may have been prompted by anti-homosexual moral panics

I suppose I’m curious about how those panics arose. It seems to have gone from generally accepted to generally feared in an ambiguous way.
lol no it’s not, the benchmarks don’t show that at all. Both have issues in different ways
only on HN would a .NET comment get downvoted
> Why should I be banned from a job for being a small-time delinquent twenty years ago?

Fair question. I'm not sure that's 1) been shown to be true 2) the fault of a polygraph; it's a policy decision not a mechanical one.

> As he pumped up the cuff, Kevin asked if I was comfortable. He didn’t seem to be joking.

Yeah, he probably was serious. Kevin has a job to do and it's to ask you questions and record your responses; not to torture you. Sometimes people really forget that not every examiner thinks you're the next Aldrich Ames.

But I mean also if you're in a very uncomfortable situation and somebody asks you how you are, maybe being honest will help resolve that situation? Like clearly you can't resolve it on your own otherwise you wouldn't be in such a panic.

> Except for the last two, all of them seemed open to interpretation. For instance, I absolutely had misrepresented my past drug use, but only the number of times, not the drugs or the fact of doing them.

If only there was somebody that could've helped you determine what the answer should be. Maybe Kevin?

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I mean yeah, if you go into a polygraph expecting a fight I don't think it's fairly surprising you don't get the job. Who wants to hire somebody combative to your employees? Sure, it's unfair but you're taking it out on Kevin who didn't come up with it.
Shakespeare’s plays are already in modern English
Huh I guess all the benchmarks are wrong then
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Yeah I'm not trying to say "64GB is enough for anyone!" so much as "I have way more RAM than I realistically need for my workloads." I've got all the things I need open right now and `free` shows I've got 40GB of RAM available.

If your workloads involve using more RAM than you have you can... add more RAM, use swap/zram/etc, or just not do that thing.

Absolutely makes sense to me to throw some swap into the mix. I'd probably do the same if it were an infrequent use case (otherwise preferring to just add more RAM).

But also absolutely makes sense to me to not have any swap enabled on this machine right now.
I would never in a zillion years put things in Notion that would ruin my life if they showed up in a data breach. I don’t even keep a physical journal because I don’t like how hard it is to secure.

Am I in a bubble, or is it the children who are wrong?
Except that you don't have a 5:1 leverage, not even close once you account for the fees. The math is surprising. I recommend the NYT Rent or Buy calculator.

There is also absolutely zero chance that you will get a 22.5% chance return on your house over 40 years. Those have been the crazy covid returns that will most probably be reverting to the mean over the next few years.

"House Price Index YoY in the United States averaged 4.63 percent from 1992 until 2024"

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/house-price-index...
Sorry buddy, evolution is a fact.
A programmer who believes surnames are one word has not heard of John Von Neumann.
This is being worked on: https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2022/07/27/keyword-ge...
Feels like both Canada and Mexico are going to see a huge spike. Imagine millions of highly educated , well capitalized “refugees” wanting to move in. It’s every country’s dream.
Thanks a bunch! Will check them out.
(Spoiler: this is sarcasm)

You mean we can reach 130 comments without referring to the content? I’m doing my part, i guess.
Asking why there isn't enough housing is like asking why water is wet. The answer is state/local government regulation.

There's an old saying "your margin is my opportunity" and I suspect that the current crop of homes that are built have decent margins, but in a deregulated market an entrepreneur could come in offer more affordable housing options with lower margins.

You can see this in vehicles. Nobody complains about the vehicle affordability problem because there are far fewer regulations in the transportation industry (don't get me wrong, there are regulations, but not a constraining as you see in the housing market). There's a vehicle at every price point. You got bikes, then ebikes, mopeds, scoters, motorcycles, sub compacts, compacts, full size, trucks, suvs, and all the way to crazy expensive sports cars.

You don't see that in house because affordable housing is not a good business. It's impossible to offer options at the lower end of the market because of zoning laws, environmental impact regulations, a difficult permitting process, nimby's, and affordable housing politicians that are really big proponents of affordable housing except "they have question about this particular housing project."

Here is a terrific video that everyone should watch that shows how insanely difficult it is to make affordable housing. A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExgxwKnH8y4

Sometimes what you need is less government regulation, not more.

edited sentence "You don't see that in house it's not a good business." to You don't see that in house because affordable housing* is not a good business.
Maybe this is because I don't use TikTok but I don't know what "Eng. Rate (%)" means, so I'm not sure that something you should appreciate.
Comparatively to the increase in house prices, rents have definitely stabilized. It is now clearly better to rent in most of the US than buy an equivalent house. Use the rent or buy NYT calculator
This is reductive. Clueless is certainly not "just" a modernised version of Emma. It takes broad strokes inspiration from the plot of Emma, but the charm of the film isn't something that can be reduced to the original novel. The application of a comedy of manners onto the contemporary setting, combining broad farce with naturalistic performances, skewering (while also benefiting from) consumer fetishism etc. The point here being that one could write a million bowdlerised versions of Emma and never land on a Clueless. Modern English Shakespeare translations are readily available. It takes genius to make one that rivals the original in popularity.
"PostScript" could be a synonym of "Cursed". Few things evoke dread like executable printer files.
I wish Github READMEs had native PlantUML support. My go to is MermaidJS for that reason.
Wonder why the US thought they needed to continue this experiment when they had access to the results and researchers of Unit 731[0], that did extensive research on syphilis. Kinda makes one think that the racial aspect was the point.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731#American_grant_of_imm...
your expectations are unreasonable.

I think that if you are expecting Linux to work perfectly when there is no keyboard on a notoriously Linux hostile proprietary device maybe you should step up and write the driver for it yourself.

nobody is getting paid to specifically maintain the weird workarounds required to support the surface and your problem can be avoided by spending a nickel at the salvation army.

it might even work without one! I know the latest Ubuntu detects a touchscreen on my Thinkpad and provides an onscreen keyboard by default.

edit:

I sincerely believe that the best way forward is for people who use Linux to vote with their wallet and buy products from the companies who are not actively hostile to it.

I apply this logic to nearly ever device I buy and it results in less waste because I buy stuff I can actually fix! see this:

https://github.com/ubernaut/maintainable-device-scorecard
Linux Patch to Disable the Snapdragon X Elite "X1E80100" GPU by Default
Every time I read something like this I remember back to the alt groups and people talking about the impossibility of emulation at all (if ever) of an amiga. What I find interesting about emulation is the amount of 'slop' that many programs can endure. Where the emulation is not quite right or even downright missing or wrong yet the program chugs along and just sort of works. Now some stuff needs that but it is kind of rare. Which is interesting.
It looks like they've "automated" the easy part, and the rest is all done by hand. And really, an entire neighborhood with only 4 floor plans to choose from?

Welp, this is clearly not for me.
Not sure why a month old press release is being posted.

This was released today - https://zillow.mediaroom.com/2024-07-16-Nearly-1-in-4-seller...

A buyer's market looms, brethren & sistren
But it isn't really fact-based. It only appears that way.

It doesn't matter how many individual factoids you lay out -- if the greater narrative you cast around them (and subordinate these facts into) is so plainly and fundamentally broken. That's why your salad wilts at first contact with fresh air, and your essay yields such a terse response.

Je ne regrette rien.
I don't understand your point. Debugging is research almost by definition, no?
I don't feel its possible for software to be built toward the end of itself. All software has users, even if that user is just yourself (the author of the software). There's always a stakeholder who stands as the impetus for Why some feature gets added, or why the code is spring-cleaned, or whatever; the software doesn't demand anything of itself.

I only say that to say: I think the actual conclusion I'd draw from the idea this post puts forward is, well, two things: First, that the best software is software built by its biggest and most zealous users; software built for other people exclusively is never, never good. Second, that the best software has features no one is asking for, the "I've got a feeling we'll want to be able to sort on that table" kind of features, some people would call this quality Good Taste.

The process which produces most software the world uses seems almost intentionally designed to throw both those conclusions to the curb. That, to me, explains almost all of why software quality has nosde-dived over the past 10 years. Its the old story about how the designers and product managers on the Windows team at Microsoft all use Macs.
Of course! Just touching these files should be everything you need:

/etc/sysctl.d/99-240716-vm.conf
vm.dirty_background_ratio = 1
vm.dirty_ratio = 100
vm.page-cluster = 0
vm.swappiness = 200
vm.vfs_cache_pressure = 1

dirty_background_ratio = starts background writing when it's at least 1% of available mem; dirty_ratio = starts force writing when all avail (not total) ram is full; page-cluster = swap in only what's needed; swappiness = lower means swapping is expensive higher signals swapping is cheap; vfs_cache_pressure = lower keeps more dentries and inodes in memory.

/etc/udev/rules.d/99-240716-ioschedulers.rules
ACTION=="add|change", KERNEL=="mmcblk[0-9]*|nvme[0-9]*|sd[a-z]*", ATTR{queue/scheduler}="none"

Removes schedulers from typical local writeable storage.

/etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf
[zram0]
zram-size = ram
compression-algorithm = lz4

Might have to install systemd-zram-generator if it doesn't already exist.
any site with app tld should be installable as an app. And should have extensions like merge be part of the right click of the app. And a pdf7://[file]?merge protocol should be added.
I wonder if this thing has anything common with zluda, its permissively licensed after all.
> I hesitate to say they have anything in common.

Bash and Powerpoint both seem approachable at first. It's easy to get started and have something to show for your time. Both also completely suck at anything complicated.
Is that your most charitable take on my position? FWIW, I'm describing the status quo - how does that "remove democracy", and from where? That said...

> It is a terrible reason to remove democracy.

I'm speculating onto your meaning a bit here, but I don't want a congress-critter with no college education in science (or their lobbyists) writing guidance on allowable ppm of carcinogenic material I can be exposed to. I'd rather have PhD nerds at the FDA do it: if that's what you'd call "removing democracy" - then we irreconcilably disagree on a fundamental level. Logistically, how many laws would Congress have to pass each year to have a functional society just to keep up with research and industry developments?
How could you only put 20k$ of expenses over the last decade? That doesn't even cover close to the principal and interests on your mortgage. You also don't account for the time-value of money.

In this case you might get slightly ahead than a simple boring SP500 investment, but those returns are the outlier and it would be extremely unlikely to repeat in the future (especially with the current interest rates)
I think the old language gets in the way, but the genius it has (IMO) is in the characters. You could completely believe that a person would act they way that they do in the play.
https://archive.ph/o9LOl
Notion, recently published a blog saying they have 200 Billion blocks stored in their postgres instances with hundreds of terabytes stored.

My guess is that the average user does not care/think about privacy, breaches etc. that much.
I wasn't suggesting we should.
AMD should focus their efforts on competitive hardware offerings, because that is where the need and the money is. Sorry, I don't think the hobbyist should be a priority.
Maybe you misinterpreted the intent of the article - isn't the purpose of it to point out absurdities and fundamental flaws in the uniquely American polygraph obsession?
Did you read this article? Do you have a BI subscription?
I started with "Clueless" and then realized, "Oh, hey, that's Jane Austen."
I am starting an AI+Education company
"Insurance companies can price in risk" implies "people with chronic illnesses get kicked off their insurance" seems a massive non sequitur.
Which all languages have viable bindings with Godot 4.x?

Does Java have one? What about Javascript?
I did this math many many times. I have yet to see SP500 outperform owning a house in my area (I'm in NYC burbs).
related music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPSSO7Fc03Q
Could you substantiate your claims?
Dark matter dominated galaxies in the early universe
> In recent years, transformer-based models have gained prominence in multivariate long-term time series forecasting

Prominence, yes. But are they generally better than non-deep learning models? My understanding was that this is not the case, but I don't follow this field closely.
I don't know if it is fair to say people "misremembered" the details of the McDonald's coffee lawsuit. As the news media and pop culture weirdly seemed to go out of their way to paint McDonald's as the victim and the woman as negligent, people never knew the correct details at the time to begin with.
This works as long as there is no one combining the information together, like Apple together with Cloudflare, or the US government. This is a concern, since both are under the same jurestiction and are bussiness partners.

Contrast this model with Tor where you have 3 hops that are selected in such a way that there is a lower probability that logs from the node operators will be combined. If two nodes, let's say node 1 and 3 are coorporating, then the best that they can do is a correlation attack or other probabalistic methods.

If two nodes (all of them) in WebKit are adverserial, then the content is linked back to your IP address with 100% probability.
Friendly reminder - Data released by Zillow, Redfin, and the likes is not regulated in any capacity. They choose the narrative that best fits their wallets.
It must have been the late 80s when my parents briefly had a AAA membership, and I remember going with my dad to pick up a Triptic for a vacation.

I'd never imagined something like that, so I thought it was a very excellent thing at the time as the clerk skillfully explained how to use it. My dad was more reluctant to deal with this kind of help.

We only ever used it once, since my dad felt that he was sufficiently expert at reading maps that he didn't need Triptics.

Unfortunately, he expected everyone else around him to be as expert with maps as he was, and he was the one who was doing the driving.

Usually, this combined to mean that family vacations were syncopated with the car being angrily slung onto the shoulder of the freeway in the space between an exit ramp and the driving lanes, where words were exchanged between the driver and the navigator.

And if handled right, good GPS nav almost completely resolves that situation.

But you're right: It does lead to bland road trips. I find the routes to be pretty unmemorable and fatiguing at times. This is a bummer because travelling can take up so much time in a vacation -- it'd be nice if there were something more memorable than an endless ribbon of uninterrupted pavement.

(And one solution for that is the "Avoid Highways" function in the navigation software. When the boredom and fatigue begin to set in, use this button to just get the hell off of the freeway and see what the area is about.

It takes time, but I think it is worth making time to do this occasionally.)
I just bought a Surface Pro 11 and love it. I've jumped from mac into the surface line every few years and I totally agree with you - the fans on the old models were spinning just by having a few chrome tabs opened.

But...if you can live with Windows on Arm (Which has improved greatly in the past year) the SP11 has been great. Battery life is incredible.

For me I was never looking to fully replace my actual laptop, but more to replace my iPad with something that is actually capable of doing any sort of development work if needed. The iPad is a much better tablet, hands down, but even just updating a static website on an iPad is an absolute chore and requires multiple apps to function.