skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the topic of interpolation, I've recently been playing with approximating 2D curves (given as some implicit or parametric formula) by chains of Bézier segments of a given degree, while maintaining a maximum distance between the Bézier segments and the exact curve.

Oddly, while there are preexisting resources for interpolating a Bézier through a set of points, there seems to be nothing much for continuous curves. So my current approach is a brute-force binary search, where, from a set start point, I select an end point on the input curve, construct a Bézier through it so that the slopes, curvatures, etc. match up at those points (as much as possible according to the degree), calculate the maximum distance, and compare it to the error bound.

This works quite well when it does work: e.g., with cubic Béziers and tame input curves, the maximum error can be over 100k times smaller than the arc length for a given segment. But the maximum-distance calculation can get quite hairy, since basic ray-tracing doesn't always find all the common normals, and this manifests as numerical instability in the binary search. I often wish I knew the proper ways to do these things, apart from giving up and resorting to the traditional "just discretize the input curve and use B-splines" strategy.
For every Linux power user, there are probably a million regular web users who don't know (or care to know) what a command line is. Web tools are for them.

Why not fork the repo and repackage it as a CLI app if you really want it that way?
gRPC Federation – Taking Protocol Buffers to the Next Level
What is gRPC Federation? gRPC Federation is an open-source software that automatically generates gRPC servers using a custom DSL written in Protocol Buffers. Implemented in Go, all generated code is also in Go. It features a plugin system that leverages WebAssembly to implement platform-specific logic. I'll be discussing it at gRPC Conf 2024 tomorrow, so please join the session!

https://grpcconf2024.sched.com/event/1fyXP/unifying-grpc-api...
I'm currently fighting this. The benchmark for my team is 10-15% lower than just our area. And 30-40% lower than the nation. And it's because we get lumped in with lower skilled titles because of the title scheme on our campus.

I can't get any traction with admin or HR, and we're both hemorrhaging people and can't bring in qualified new candidates.

It's very frustrating.
Public housing doesn't have to mean free housing for everyone, it can merely mean subsidies are in place to ensure that real estate market failures like the ones that exist nationwide today don't result in extortionate housing costs and growing slums.
Why are you running your own fork, if I may ask.
I agree that if you take at once a quantity significantly greater than the recommended daily intake, for instance ten grams of potassium, there may exist some people with a combination of health problems, where instead of causing diarrhea such a dose would be absorbed in the blood instantaneously and some kidney disease will prevent the immediate elimination from the blood of that potassium, which would cause hyperkalemia.

On the other hand, if the dose does not exceed the recommended daily intake and it is taken after a meal, then it is pretty certain that it cannot have any bad effects in anyone who is not already dying.

There is absolutely no difference between the potassium contained naturally in food and the potassium added by a supplement. Therefore anyone who would be affected by the recommended daily intake would be equally affected by natural food or by a potassium supplement.

The main reason why potassium supplements are necessary is because potassium is lost very easily from food as a result of the methods used for preparation. Any kind of soaking or washing or boiling where the water is disposed is guaranteed to remove a part of the potassium (and of the magnesium), possibly most of it.
If their amortized support cost is an appreciable fraction of the 83k, I feel like something has gone wrong.

And if someone is demanding 99.99% SLA, that cost should not be passed on to customers that only want the normal 99.8% with no refunds.

> provides a bunch of capabilities you don't need and you're paying for things you don't get benefit from

Capabilities such as?

It sounds like you're making a generic defense that could be applied to companies that justify their costs and to companies that don't.
The Triple Failure of 2U, EdX, and Axim
I think you may have replied to the wrong comment or misunderstood my project, it's mostly finding text from a certain language based on some (fairly simple) heuristics, then converting it from one script to another in a systematic way, with some options a user can set. I doesn't have much relevance to LLMs or game engines, unless your game has an Inuktitut translation, in which case it'd be better to transliterate ahead of time ;)
The IKEA Blueprint
I'm on windows 11. Where in the new settings app should I be looking to find my unformatted drives that I want to partition?
Because it is a job that needs to be done and someone is willing to pay for it. For some people it may be the best job they can get.

I understand why no one likes human resources. They are there to protect the interests of the business and it is in the best interest of the employee to interact with them as little as possible. On the other hand, they are a useful resource for managers. HR frees them up from many of the administrative tasks for recruitment. They are a resource for management when they need to know something about compliance with labour regulations. Whether it is a compliance issue or the desire to retain an employee, they may just save your behind. That isn't to say that you should approach them directly. You need an advocate, otherwise they will probably view you as a liability. If you don't have that advocate (e.g. a manager or a union representative), then good luck!
and usenet binaries with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive and even earlier with RAR's recovery block, and probably even earlier with BBSes, but my memory is failing me what I was using before it in the 1990s.

edit: I see immediately below while I was composing this, someone mentioned pararchive..
You seem to enjoy placing yourself above others. First by doing a character assassination of the Rumble guy, then by taking a superior attitude with me and lecturing me.
ty, I actually wasn't able to find it by searching
Except for the TMT. And look at what happened.
LLM Workshop #1 – How to take a course that never ends
I agree, our communal lack of wisdom and recklessness is the only real risk. But maybe not as much as we think.

Ironically many of our biggest worries, like climate collapses, extreme pollution, inequality, huge regional wars (Taiwan), population collapses, pandemics, don’t present much risk for expansion into space.

Only a full civilization collapse or extinction event would do it.

So definitely a long term optimistic outlook for “life”.

But the specific ways things play out could still be catastrophic from individuals perspectives. The rate and nature of changes these next decades will be profoundly disruptive & challenging to every aspect of our existence, all at once.

—

If we don’t reflect the universes non-human created resources as a joint inheritance, in a legally and economically explicit way, there is going to be a great culling of some kind - there is no way around that.

We need formal recognition and a societal structure supporting that, for a shared ownership of raw natural resources in some way, to have a soft transition.

I don’t see this as a violation of capitalism, but as a completion of property rights under capitalism.

It accomplishes what communism tries to do by mistakenly socializing production, instead by joint shareholding of nature’s original undeveloped resources as a gifted asset nobody created. And allowing capitalism to do its job of maximizing that value for all of us.

Bidding to extract resources, rental of limited shared resources (land) etc can continue unchanged. But everyone will be compensated for their part of raw resources as they are privatized or used exclusively.
Remuseletter Ten: Last Night's Date
How are James Webb or Hubble jokes? Genuinely curious
Just take a minute to think about the fact that we can make 1 atom thick material and then force it to do thinking. That's genuinely stunning.
It is literally the worst plan, because it leaves every PQC-protected system in the world exposed to everybody in the world. It's a theory that depends on NSA just wanting to watch the world burn.

Dual EC isn't broken by an exploit script. It's broken with a secret key.
Alternatively, Banana Pi BPi-F3 and Milk-V Jupiter are cost-effective boards using that specific SoC.
You sound like part of the manufactured noise he's talking about to be perfectly honest.
It is interesting. A subset of functionally (in this case) will build a superset of programs
E2ee would break the convenience of instantly searching across 100s of conversations with potentially millions of messages, something I and millions of other users take advantage of everyday.
Thank you for clear explanation, very interesting
I think I need a tldr for a 12 year old because my answer to that question is: does it need to be improved?

Diff, like all the original Unix tools was only meant to do one thing, compare two files. The beauty in that being that it can be a core component of whatever you want.

UI extensions, algorithm adjustability to name some. But based on what Myers mentioned as someone else said, “improved diff” is partially a semantic diff. One that’s less cold blooded about trivial changes like white spaces.

I don’t mean to be the typical pedantic HN commenter but that sounds like a diff of commit objects rather than files.
The worst case scenario is the most convincing one there, but the worst case scenario with a purchased service is often the same as DIY.
FWIW, It's all about tradeoffs. I've got a bunch of mini-pcs running Ryzen APUs lying around, some of them have SO-DIMM DDR5 and others have LPDDR5.

The former is user-changable and the latter isn't. The latter allows much higher frequencies that measurably increases the fps in games.
Ah yes. The Greeks. With their famous lack of mythology.
That's uh. I dunno how to tell ya this Walter.

Coming your way in Unicode 16.0...

Allow me to introduce: BOTTOM LEFT JUSTIFIED UPPER RIGHT QUARTER BLACK CIRCLE!

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-16.0/U160-1FB00.p...

But wait! There's more! U+1CC31, UPPER CENTRE LEFT TWELFTH CIRCLE! And you best believe there's 11 more.

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-16.0/U160-1CC00.p...
Also a current funny bug with SwiftUI, if you left out a “dot”, it will compile but crashes the app during runtime.

VStack {
}
navigationDestination(isPresented: $goToSettings) {
}

There should be a dot before navigationDestination and this should not compile ever.
Subsidies without new supply mean we can just throw even more money at existing housing stocks. We could also go with the current system in place now where some people win the housing lottery and get an affordable place to live, but it doesn’t really scale.
The presented idea tangentially touches on what IMO is the main issue with the current system.: The objectives of customer and company are unaligned. Insurance companies fight tooth and nail to avoid paying once incidents happen. And people have to do the same but as you say it's a David vs golliath scenario.

I've always wondered why don't we have companies that "equalize" that fight, with some kind of subscription or other revenue model that aligns with the consumer. They could also have armies of lawyers fighting on the side of the claimer.
>> In other words, you are at the tender mercies of your employer

There are no tender mercies involved.

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest"
-- Adam Smith

Mr. Smith is talking about the sell side rather than the buy side in that passage, but the same principle applies.

Obviously employers would prefer not to employ employees if there are more profitable alternatives. If my employer decides not to employ me any longer (which is expected, my team was 50 people this time last year, it is 10 people now), neither the roof over my head nor the food on my table is at risk. My life, financially, will go on exactly as it does now.

You can get the same type of thing, but you have to give something up in order to get it. Most people won't and that's their choice and that's fine.
Is it the case that it's really only practical for read-only or very read intensive workloads?
Clearly more than right now given that all of those cities have a severe housing affordability crisis.
You park them back into more bonds, more accurately, your "money guy" buys more bonds with them. Once you're into _illions on hand, you no longer have a direct hand on your money.
I created a regression manga with AI
I'm currently working on a simple and geeky terminal timer called MyTimer.

https://github.com/sepandhaghighi/mytimer
what trade off is not being able interleave two dialogue boxes from different apps? or losing keyboard focus when in (mission control? exposé?) for tools such as raycast?

Pretty much everyone at work agrees the window manager sucks, so I'm surprised this is getting downvoted as much. I think I'm sitting against HN here, you've got the HN brain fart
Their leaders, while they speak the native language of a majority, it's not a vast majority,

It seems to be a pretty vast majority, actually. According to a 2019 Pew Research poll, we have the following breakdown of languages spoken at home:

Spanish (81%), Catalan (8%), Valencian (4%), Galician (3%), Basque (1%)

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/01/06/speaking-...
100% pure New Zealand dairy firm busted for using Indian butter
I'm not sure what you're looking for, given how the rest of compliance works? What is the compromise?

I suspect people would hate it even more if every company needed to go through an official gov GPDR certification. In the US, SOC2, and EU, ISO, are voluntary (not gov), and generally doesn't happen till most companies hit 8 figure revenue (and earlier in enterprise).

What I would expect to start happening is, similar to FedRAMP or UK's CHECK, govs will accredit third-party firms for auditing. Companies can - and typically do - already use these without gov's blessing for SOC2, ISO, yes, GPDR. Certification by a 3PAO is not indemnity, just a good faith positioning for when the enforcement agency gets a complaint and audits on related topics. (And in the case of inept management who doesn't cheap out, a wakeup.)

In areas like bank regulations, the gov is even more high-touch, and I really wouldn't wish that on the 400M businesses out there.
Black Mirror: is deep thinking on the decline?
The decline of deep thinking in the digital age is a pressing concern. While technology presents challenges to our cognitive faculties, it also offers unprecedented opportunities. By leveraging AI as a cognitive partner, we can counteract the negative effects of constant connectivity and revive our capacity for deep, meaningful thought.
Nobody is saying the results are shocking. They’re saying that it’s still worth doing experiments to check things that “seem obvious” because we have been incredibly, dangerously wrong about things that “seem obvious” millions of times before.

Perhaps you could help everyone out by writing down what’s obvious to you so we know not to try to verify them by, you know, actual truth discovery. Bofadeez’ intuitive vibes are totally sufficient henceforth.
Work in venture

Is that a theme park?
Is that an admin role?

Thats pretty good typing for using your less dominant wrist, with brackets too.

Dont they pay sick pay or are you one of those overly committed smuks who thinks life is work.

for me its the missing "I" thats says it all.

If I was you I would take a months holiday and practice peeling an orange with your less dominant hand.
My point was specifically to new things created during the period. Resilvering happens on addition of a replacement drive in ZFS. I am less sure that otherwise valid, complete checksum states of files made during the loss period get uplifted to the wider stripe count when that is done.

I say that because I have seen some stuff which suggests when you grow the FS with new VDEV in ZFS there are circumstances where the balance is not fixed and you can have persisting unbalanced IO state.
CSV and PNG are not server protocols like CardDav, CalDav, and IMAP, they are file formats.
The simulation was probably on fast forward mode until sentient life developed.
Can everything live inside a docker thing that you redistribute?
Morton makes a 50% sodium reduced salt. The other half is potassium chloride. Americans probably eat 3x as much sodium as they need. Adding potassium seems like a good thing according to this study so switching to that is probably good for anyone looking to control blood pressure.
This is a hillarious complaint because ◯, ◜, ◝, ◞, ◟, ◠, and ◡ has been around since Unicode 1.1 of 1993.
I remember when c++ shipped with a standard library with data structures and I was very impressed that they were free.
If you fail a test and the rest of the class doesn't, it implies that you were just unprepared for the problems the test is not in fact impossible.

Just because the US made some poor decisions (e.g obviously cramming 100% poor people into vertical concentration camps doesn't work, you need to have mixed incomes to have a healthy community) in its rollout of public housing many decades ago doesn't mean it's an unworkable idea. Singapore and Vienna are two examples demonstrating this point.
FWIW i do like and use Falkon (KDE's browser) often these days as it is based QtWebEngine (Chromium in Qt) but has a simple Qt-based interface. I still use Firefox as my main browser but when i need to open a completely separate browser (sometimes sites do like my Firefox configuration - or i just want to test out something) i've found Falkon to be the best alternative.

Also Kate is better than Emacs as far as i'm concerned because it doesn't have its own weird UX and doesn't take reading a tutorial to figure out how to have a sidebar with a file browser in it :-P (i've long figure out how that is done on Emacs and use it occasionally because of custom language support elisp i wrote ages ago and don't want to bother rewriting but these days 99% of my plain text editing needs are covered by Kate).

(also FWIW i'm not using KDE/Plasma as my DE, in fact i'm using Window Maker instead of a DE at all, i just like some of KDE's utilities)
>> It's good to remember that most businesses exist to make money, not to be pleasant to us HN readers.
> HN does not have a monopoly on discerning users

What he said (or what I understood) is the opposite:

Businesses can and will take advantage of less discerning users and they are in their right to do so because making money is their reason to exist. That's a terrible mindset that dominates the (big)tech/startup sector and the reason for the Great Enshittification. Let's see how far this can go before it collapses.
Nice work!
Well done.
Heh, I knew that but didn't want to veer into too much mendacity.
Are Apple not allowed to offer AI features in the EU?
I have been wanting to look into tiling managers, but I was always putting it off because of tasks I had to do. I read this post, and it made me look into how to use the default tiling manager of my current distro (Using Kubuntu and Plasma). It literally is Cmd-T, pick a default layout (the upper right area has some default ones, too), and then whenever you want to tile, just shift drag the window and it will snap. Been using it all day and I love it. The article does not talk about this one, but man, glad it made me wonder about it.
Welcome to 2008 apple!
First-time founder working on a B2B comms web app. Have had trouble locking down technical co-founder but recently made great inroads with a childhood friend of all people. If an MVP comes out of it, I'll post it here!
The problem with this approach is it is very hard to do data science with messy clinical data when you have no mechanism of investigating the data yourself.
When I say subsidies I'm talking about new construction that is funded by subsidies, not merely throwing more money into a supply-constrained market.
Pretty sure downloading it to your browser counts as distributing it, legally speaking.
I recently discovered scrolling windows managers (using Karousel on KDE) and it has become my preferred workflow
I used to really like mmap for a wide range of uses (having noticed its performance in the BLAST DNA/protein search command) but over time I've come to consider it a true expert tool with deep subtlety, like a palantir.
Stable Diffusion Online
Sage Geosystems wants to solve the energy crisis by storing water underground
I love Captain! I would have been over the moon to see this project ~1 year ago when I was porting our CI away from Circle CI.
A look at a microscopic image of any CPU is mind boggling, even older ones. Layer upon layer of stacked complexity, almost down to the single atom level.
> they absolutely retain a rich stream of metadata.

* they absolutely receive a rich stream of metadata.
> With SGX, users can just verify that the code you're running does not, in fact, send all their data to the NSA behind their backs.

I'm genuinely unclear. How exactly does a user accomplish this? What role does SGX play in this?
I wouldn’t be embarrassed if no one uses it. There is a certain amount of luck involved anything that blow up big. Not everyone gets lucky every time, regardless of the idea, quality of the app, etc.

I also wouldn’t view it as wasting time. I’m sure you’re still going to learn a lot in the process. To “waste” as little time as possible, I’d boil the app down to the core, what makes it different, and distill that down and release it. All the other features around that which the other guys already have, can come later to round it out if it takes off.

Back in 2011 there was an app called Oink [0] that was kind of like Yelp, but for individual items. It looks like it shutdown 4 month later [1]. A lot has changed in the last decade, but I also like your idea (if I’m understanding it right), a bit better. If you’re surfacing existing reviews based on the dish, I think that gives you the ability to have actual content on day 1. Having to wait for enough new reviews on a per dish basis, like Oink was doing, would take a while and I think it would be hard to hit critical mass, so having that seed data from other sources sounds great.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2011/11/03/kevin-rose-oink-app-store/

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/14/kevin-roses-oink-shuts-dow...
The names of telescopes usually change once they are built.
Begged!

its true, I saw lone on his knees, drooling like a baby while begging

he said it brought back memories when he was homeless and had to beg for food

its part of his media arsenal these days, begging!
If the optimal number of employees is found that maximizes profit then by definition there is no more work to invent. We could be converging towards that point.
Often is the case but I would still suggest setting the referrer policy should the file be enticing enough for people to register an account assuming forum ranks and further actions are not part of the picture.
I fully expect the data to be de-anonymized and then used against people that have familial links to those who have donated their data.

"Oh, your great great-great-grandfather had <disease>, so now you're classified as a high-risk individual and you have to pay a higher monthly fee for insurance"

Only they won't tell you why you have to pay more, just that you do.
Exercise is a fantastic idea, and the cardioprotective benefits are doubly important for those of us with hypertension, but it’s probably not going to lower your BP by more than a few points.
Elon Musk supports California bill to regulate AI