skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There can be an accretion disc, but it's not a necessary property for a black hole to have.
I've worked operations most of my working life, it's, well it's 'expect the unexpected' territory always, there's always stuff you can never be prepared for and have to really play with the cards you're handed and hope for miracles. Sysadmins find job security in knowing they can fix things right then and there but let them break so they can go fix them, I say that half jokingly, keyword on half.. I love sysadmins. But, sysadminning and trusting AI deployers with a focus on security and stability is a long time out, especially with needing people to ensure those systems stay operational.

When I say operations I don't mean devops, there's that too, but I mean the actual operations of an organization. The team leaders, go-getters, etc. Everybody has their niche.
Nah, BIND is just really shitty software, so everybody thought that DNS must be mystical and special.

Run a better DNS server and see for yourself that there isn't any man behind that curtain.
Bringing Llama 3 to Life
It’s the generalized parent of both of those (since you will not see one without the other). You’re technically correct, but I’m also not the only one [0] who uses this term.

[0]: https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/postgresql-indexing-i...
I would have done the same. I think in general world has too much prison and too little kicking the convinct off, even though monitoring that they dont come back is a problem.
Rust has settled into an excellent design niche where the language does not provide any features that require a language runtime.

Rust's async/await is a purely compile-time feature, with no runtime support required.

This is extremely powerful because it means you can do things like easily run async code on embedded devices with no OS.

To run async code in rust, you bring your own executor. The most popular one is tokio (for desktop OSs), but you also have stuff like pollster (for running async code as blocking code) and embassy or RTIC (for embedded).
I don't know why I read the last part "medieval services are literal life and death services".
This has been my experience. Public channels is where questions go to die. Ask your coworkers directly.
Ubuntu Will Be Skipping Non-Critical Linux Kernel Updates for September
Can you give some more info? Which version of Windows? Because I've never had a system restore go crazy unless a hard drive has gotten corrupted.
BeOS lives on. Relevant quote from Neil Stephenson’s In the Beginning was the Command Line [1], a fun commentary on early Mac, Windows, Linux, and BeOS competition.

”On the other side of the road are two competitors that have come along more recently.

One of them (Be, Inc.) is selling fully operational Batmobiles (the BeOS). They are more beautiful and stylish even than the Euro-sedans, better designed, more technologically advanced, and at least as reliable as anything else on the market--and yet cheaper than the others.

With one exception, that is: Linux…”

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt
I've seen that the author of Electric Clojure is pretty involved in the startup scene and I was curious about how those folks perceive the changing world.
Maybe something like this, which relies solely on flex box for layout.

.outer {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
align-items: center;
}

.left {
flex: 1;
display: flex;
justify-content: flex-start;
}

.middle {
flex: 1;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
}

.right {
flex: 1;
display: flex;
justify-content: flex-end;
}
hibernate always have been more trouble than it's worth. and specially now when boots takes less time than loading your webmail.

it just screams you have no data hygiene. it's the extra step after living years with 723 open tabs.

qemu passtrhu is the way. and if you don't own expensive hardware (i.e. only integrated graphics like all feasible laptops), just dual boot with your own signing keys so you don't have yo worry about revocation crap. either its signed or not. revocation is just replacing the root PK keys.
"Officer, arrest this man! He had the gall to show up at my site and only consume some of the content I tried to shove into his face!"
Most community college students plan to get 4-year degrees. Few do
but, i have org-mode already!
Permit.io: Full Stack authorization as a service
The “inherently” means not by default, i.e., the runtime has to support moving green threads between OS threads itself.
Rust vs. Zig in Reality: A (Somewhat) Friendly Debate
Do you use all 20 regularly? Because if you don’t, there’s a chance that next time you try to login to one of them on the web they’ll ask you to add a phone number and not let you continue until you do. But if you have them setup in an email client, it should still work.
Most devs use cross-platform game engines which have native elf/linux/vulkan3D baked in (unity, UE5, etc).
We're one of the Black Forest Labs partners, you can try the models here: https://www.mystic.ai/black-forest-labs
I lost all illusion this was the case after hushmail https://www.wired.com/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai/
I gather that File Explorer in Windows 11 was re-written from scratch and that's why it was missing basic features and UI patterns from previous versions when it launched.

Not to mention abysmal file copy performance.

They claim to be adding things back over time but it probably depends on the college timetables of the Mac-native interns that apparently work on the Shell team these days.

edit: some ways to get back to the old explorer. I haven't tried doing this myself.

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/restore-classic-file-explorer-...
Are you referring to this? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-...
>tweak QEMU for performance and passthrough
Any guide you could link to that covers all of this? I would like to setup a very performant windows VM.
Something seems to be wrong with the whole security model.

> those versions of grub had genuine security vulnerabilities that would allow an attacker to compromise the Windows secure boot chain

This feels like a "my secure compartments are all connected together" moment.
If Microsoft want to verify that they're in an all-Microsoft boot chain, sure, whatever, fine. But somehow the compromise of any loader allows compromise of Windows? And in turn Microsoft are able to break grub installations? Why is that acceptable?

(also, I feel a bit "I told you so" about this. Back when all this was being introduced I felt that (a) secure boot increases the risk of locking you out of your machine and/or data loss and (b) a situation where Linux is dependent on the collaboration of Microsoft in order to boot is very dangerous long-term.)
In that case I felt like I would interrupt the workflow of more people (i needed the answer within an hour so there would have to be a notification of some sort), share more information than was necessary (auditors don't like that) and court answers from people who I knew weren't really competent in that area but liked showing off for career reasons who were quick to 'solve' the question and would use it to try and show their superiority compared to you to others.

There is also the bystander effect - i.e. yelling call 911 vs asking someone directly to call 911
"Webdev" makes me think of wordpress, which is like planting 20 onions in your backyard, and comparing yourself to a farmer with acres of crops.

I can completely believe someone had no idea what they were doing when copy/pasting, and working on wordpress.
The best way to interact with people who feel this way is to not play the games. Eventually the isolated individual will be managed out or adapt to a more sensible posture. Best to work around them until then.
Current Obsidian user having migrated from Apple's Notes.app.

I used to use DokuWiki about 15 years ago (~2008) to document the IT systems at a biomedical informatics department.
Mozilla Developing Whisperfile for Local Audio-to-Text Translation
The German Navy ship blasting the Darth Vader theme on the Thames was in London for training and a supply stop.

A German Navy spokesperson said the choice of music had "no deeper message." The ship's commander personally chose the music.

Given the history between the two countries, it was perceived as a poor choice.[a]

---

[a] In particular, think of the elderly in the UK who lived through the Nazi bombing raids and their aftermath:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz
The worst is when someone “wants to have a quick call this afternoon” but refuses to use calendar scheduling tools. You then have to engage in “the waiting game” where you don’t want to start anything deep for fear of getting interrupted.
> A call has a definite start and end

Oef, you clearly had not to deal with the "quick" calls I had to deal with at a previous organization. If I had not set boundaries, these would easily drag on for who knows how long.

Besides, chat messages I can respond to in my own time when I have had proper time to look into whatever they need from me.

If they need documentation I can look it up, have them read it and maybe then ask targeted questions. Just to give a simple example. Which is also why "no hello" is important.
It isn't that most people mind being greeted, just accompany it directly with the right context.

Which can be as easy as "Hi creesch, if you have some time I wanted to ask about X".
I don't believe grid connections are the obvious and easy answer. That would assume those other grids do not have base loads plants themself. There is a massive cost to starting and stopping gas plants that you are also not accounting for. So while yes, there are periods of negative prices, the cost to run that plant 24/7 may be cheaper than turning it on and off and not just cheaper in $ but cheaper in less resources being used.

Negative pricing and "burning a lot of gas" are maybe not as bad as you think. As more wind/solar get added to the generation mix, there will be more peak times where prices may become negative. The lens I have is this means there is incentive for more storage to come on the grid to soak up those events and then offload at peak demand times.
A lot of these can be done with O&O ShutUp10 with a GUI and toggles if that's more your thing too.

I think only the file explorer tweaks aren't in it.
Ironically completing Hawking's work to prove himself wrong. Now it's the physicists turn to prove a better mathematical model, semi-empirically.
> AFAIK the ObjC compiler can do this step even during compilation so that no method string names are included in the binary, but I'm not sure.

That would be possible for static binaries, but I don't see how that would work for dynamic libraries. Two libraries or a library and the executable would need the strings around in order to ensure they both got the same global address. You could mangle the strings to dynamic symbols so that it's just regular dynamic symbol resolution to get multiple loaded entities to agree on an address, but in that case, the selector string is still present in the binary in mangled form.
I haven't tried Windows 11 but on 10, a lot of these tweaks and opt-outs are available in the system settings now.

You can backup the registry or create restore points but I don't think that you can selectively revert these changes like a commit. If you don't intend to reinstall Windows often, I would just take the time to go through these settings manually instead to be on the safe side...
I misread "quark" as "quirk" and thought to myself "please don't bring back IE 'quirk mode'"
I'm on the Firefox snap on Ubuntu but don't get any freezes.
What's your markdown to pdf tool(s) of choice?
Presumably, it just means there needs to be explicit forking of the green thread for cpu bound operations, otherwise everything will run synchronously (because there’s no point where the green thread is paused to wait for an IO IRQ).

That is unless your compiler or JIT injects occasional yields into your synchronous code!
Connecting your grid to other markets for the premise of cheaper energy also puts you in a situation where you no longer control your own destiny. My expectation is that the presumed gains of some cheaper power don't balance the risk on reliability and control.

I don't necessarily buy the argument but I am fairly certain that a big chunk of it.
Serverless Sucks?
I would not use an AI to make calls or send emails for me. I wouldn't trust them to do the job properly, or to represent me properly. Even ignoring those trust issues, I wouldn't feel right forcing other people to deal with one.
Just tried it after trying to use ChatGPT for my Tailwind project. This has much faster responsiveness which makes it actually useful. It also seemingly has access to all of the code files which can be tedious to set up with ChatGPT, especially if you have to re-add it every time it suggests edits.
Ask HN: Swift Payment Network
Hi HN, I have a USD currency deposit account with my bank (not in the US), and I'm trying to withdraw money from a trading platform. My bank indicates that they use Chase Bank with the SWIFT/BIC CHASUS33 as an intermediary bank to facilitate Swift network transfers, but the platform insists that they require FedWire routing number to perform a Swift network payment.

I've gotten to a standstill with the bank (insisting that the SWIFT code is sufficient) and the trading platform (insisting that they need a FedWire number).

Would my money be at risk if I used any FedWire number associated with Chase Bank? Various searches, including Chase Bank's website itself, indicates that 021000021 is a proper FedWire number for domestic transfers.

Thanks!
Oh my! That's an amazing list. I used to perform many of these changes by hand on every new windows installation. It's such a slog.

And while some of my systems now run linux, as the post says: "Sometimes using Windows is inevitable."

In defense of the much maligned Windows registry, I'll say: isn't it amazing that you can make such a wide array of changes via a single tool (regedit)? If you had to automate such changes on Linux, you would probably need a whole suite of tools. In some cases, you'd write a file into a `.d` directory. In other cases, you can `echo '...' >> subsystem.cfg`. In yet other cases, you'll need `sed -i`. Maybe `awk` gets the job done where `sed` is too simple. Maybe there are more complex cases, where you'd need the power of `perl` (or python or ...) to make the edit. And some subsystems come with their own suite of manipulation tools (ZFS, systemd, etc.) where editing text files would be the more difficult option.
> Blender had absolutely god horrid UX for decades

Yes, but it doesn't have it anymore: i personally know several 3D artists who switched from other (commercial, proprietary) programs to Blender and absolutely love it. You'll also find a ton of videos on YouTube from 3D artists praising it.

How it used to be is irrelevant because my point is that being opensource didn't prevent it to become a tool that is loved by its users for its UI.

It is also why...

> It's no accident you named only two

...i named Blender and Krita specifically (and intentionally, thus indeed not an accident) and did not brought up GIMP or anything else, because Krita is also loved for its UI (even if i personally am not a big fan of it, there are many artists who use it and like it).

My point was, again, that being opensource doesn't prevent having good UX - lacking good UX is not a byproduct of being opensource, it is a byproduct of the developers who wrote the software not caring about good UX.
Irony is a fundamental aspect of British culture and communication, and exceptionally few Britons would find this anything other than amusing.
You sound like an amazing teacher :)
I made a similar move and felt a similar sense of loss. I wish I had had the mental clarity at the time to throw fun parties instead of just trying to keep life together. I'm comforted by the fact that in my new career there are great people, just like there were in academia, and that my friends who stayed there are either (a) truly great scientists (b) struggling basically with the same things (money, politics, , people, "work") that most people in most white collar jobs struggle with.
Maybe because language models are mostly good at boilerplate and Clojure and lisps in general are mainly about eliminating it entirely. Clojure programs are very terse.
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/778004/why-study-in...

There's a good explanation of the motivation for this concept, here.
Yes, but it's probably worth another look as my use cases have shifted around. I'm 1000% not interested in signing up for their SaaS (corporate data security concerns) but I see that they have an open source CLI [0] so maybe I'll try that. Also, looks like they offer a self-hosted enterprise offering now, which is intriguing.

My use cases include:

- Drafting, reviewing and iterating over legal documents, especially contracts
- Technical and business process documentation
- Long-form, print-friendly report generation, including data visualization, tables and images

[0] https://github.com/typst/typst
Have you tried Search Everything? It's much better and searches instantly without indexing.
Yup

Don't fall for Microsoft's marketing that it is somehow a Windows that can't do normal things, that it is only suitable for Kiosks, or whatever other tactic they seem determined to use to discourage its use.

It is a perfectly capable Windows installation just without a lot of bloat. Any missing features (like the Windows Store) are easily installable.

I got better gaming performance compared to normal Windows 11.
How does OpenAPI handle API deprecation?
Why Resource Misallocation Derails Software Project Teams
There are nuances with multi-threading in C#.

I don't agree with OP about I/O-bound ops, I think if you're looking to green threading, you've taken a wrong approach.

> [0] the Task.Runmethod offloads the provided action to the thread pool, and the await keyword yields control back to the caller until the task completes.

All async code must be in an async call stack, virtual threads are 100% transparent because its the runtime scheduling them so you get a but more control than relying on the yeild of dotnet at least as I see it.

Again I don't see the huge demand for it personally, but I barely touch dotnet too often so take this with a grain of salt.

[0] https://stackify.com/c-threading-and-multithreading-a-guide-...
I've been blocking Googlebot-Extended in my robots.txt, which they say doesn't impact inclusion/ranking in search:

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...

I'm curious if there's a loophole I'm overlooking.
> "You are formally invited to A WAKE for THE RESEARCH SCIENCE CAREER of FRANCES HOCUTT FRIDAY from 7 PM to MIDNIGHT"

When I quit my PhD I had an Ungraduation Party! My wife made a cake and everyone sang Happy Ungraduation To You! It was sad and happy but overwhelmingly such a relief to get out
Reasons are in the article.

I'm not familiar with Python, so I don't understand what is the problem with Python. But I think the problem of Go is unrelated to Python.
I would ask the question that I wanted to ask immediately in the next message (usually after 'whats up'), as I didn't want to have people think about my problem rather than their problem if they were deep into something.

We were also told not to share things about projects with other staff unnecessarily.
Say what you want about the tenets of the Galactic Empire, but at least it's an ethos...
No, not for email. Tech illiterate people use email. They're not going to have the reflex to Ctrl+Z, but a toast with "undo" at least gives them the information that undoing is possible, even if they're not quick enough to click on it
Wouldn't doing it through a UI still result in the changes being saved to the registry?
agree its a waste of time, but we pay the paranoid cost is special occasion. it does make breaking FDE just a little bit more annoying/expensive.

the only time it's worth the hassle for we to enable it: travel to the USA, Russia and most of africa (if the country have USA backed airport security, like uganda). pause updates, enable secure boot with a disposable key we don't store anywhere. that on top of the usual FDE with plausible deniability dual boot.

but we still prefer to just fly contributors with blank devices if we can.
Wow. That is an impressive reply. If you can write like that now, I wish I could see you before aphasia.
> The phrase itself discredits the very idea of someone acting virtuously by implying any such thing is simply done to fulfill an ulterior motived.

Ah ha! The misunderstanding is on your end!
Cache? It’s a text chat, it has history?
Show HN: AI-Powered Lidar Point Cloud Classification
I spent years manually editing large LiDAR point clouds—and I hated every moment of doing this.

To make things easier, my team and I did extensive research and development on the latest state-of-the-art techniques for point cloud processing.

We built a massive training dataset and trained semantic segmentation networks, all packaged into an AI-powered platform called Flai. With Flai, you can upload, view, and classify your point clouds into over 30 categories, including buildings, power lines, vehicles and many more.

It’s free to try ( https://app.flai.ai/register ), and I’d love to hear your feedback!
This is very similar to my story. Once I got on a dev team I was flabbergasted at the lack of breadth and depth of knowledge of my fellow devs. It was only a few older devs that had any clue.

Having gobs of time as a kid and in my twenties to experiment greatly enhanced my capabilities. Once I did start landing corporate jobs (which was exceedingly difficult) I was at or above architect level. As I gained more experience working on production systems I was promoted very quickly (created new positions for me etc).

I have had other architects declare I was the best they have ever met. Which sadly, isn't saying much.
pretty cool. but totally secret. and you know what? life's never been the same
Unfortunately the result prevents me from zooming in on mobile, so I can't see the code examples.
This is a comprehensive guide on how to install wsl on a Windows 10/11 Machine, deploying docker and utilising Ollama for running AI models locally. Before starting this tutorial you should ensure you have relatively strong system resources. This would ensure smooth operation and optimal performance of these tasks.
I don't know if this proposal makes a lot of sense.

The existing async1/TPL path is stable & predictable. If you find yourself needing more performance, you can reach for hardware Thread instances and use whatever locking/waiting/sharing/context strategies you desire. Anything else is a weird blend of compromises that is going to have caveats that are not immediately obvious for your specific use case.

For example, async2 w/ runtime JIT appears to have some tradeoffs with regard to GC & memory usage and the experiment writeup leaves some open-ended questions here[0].

[0]: https://github.com/dotnet/runtimelab/blob/feature/async2-exp...
Playing the imperial march seems more like a “we are the bad guys” move - the German Navy finally arrives in London, 80 years late.
It’s not you, search is completely broken for me. Also, the address bar changes when displaying search results, and then gets stuck randomly.

Only thing I can’t figure out is this must be affecting all Microsoft employees? Why has management not thrown a fit?
… Wait, when did the UK descend into totalitarianism? Weird chaos, yes, for years. Totalitarianism, not so much (you could argue that Patel was that way inclined, but far too incompetent to actually do that much about it).
Interview stress is nigh indistinguishable in my experience from a bad customer call. Indeed, if I replaced the bug fix part with writing an effective ticket or test for the issue, this becomes an even better method for tech support, technical account managers, or sales engineers than for developers, unless it's a company where devs regularly interact directly with customers.