skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HA is a hell of YAML and more and more things doable only from the WebUI, this means you can't nor automate nor document your setup, so you can't replicate it.

It's a common issue in modern software: devs are so inhabited to use cloud stuff not knowing what's behind they are mentally unable to comprehend why doing so it's a totally absurd thing. Software MUST REPLICATE with easy, your home infra should be replicated from scratch without much more than booting a custom live. You shouldn't need to re-do the same step again. In *nix we have this concept since decades, those from Windows land simply do not understand because replication for them it's a myth.

Give NixOS or Guix System a try and you'll understand: your setup is just a single or few text files, a command read them and generate a new deploy for you. No need to traveling ever changing UIs by hand, no YAML hell.

At another level it's the same for those from stratis/mdraid/lvm/btrfs vs zfs. Zfs is done for the operation, as a storage should be, flexible, simple, effective, the others are a pile of CRAP those who develop them do not even recognize why, because they have no real idea of automation even if they are core devs of some very low level system stuff. Another example: "systemctl status something" is a CLI designed by some who have no idea of the real world needs, otherwise it would be "systemctl something status" because typically when you look for a service status you might want thereafter reload/restart/stop it, if not the word exchange does change nothing to you. These are the sign of devs born on Windows that have never go behind their desktop or someone else cloud service so they have no idea about how to build an infra.

For HA most of it's devs I suppose have no p.v. at home, or they have no personal automation to maximize self-consumption so they do not know how many lines of YAML and wasted time on their UI such design imply. Instead with "dumb end users" in mind, people who NEVER EVER use HA seriously simply because they lack too much knowledge even if someone gives the a ready made system, they focus on "visual code" like Node Red, augmenting them messiness level while still no option exists to establish sensor data retention and pruning, you need aside InfluxDB so another dependency for next to nothing and an issue at a time HA became just a part of a system with NO UI at all because to use InfluxDB you need for instance Grafana and so you entirely replace HA slick UI. In the end you have done A MONSTER to handle simple automation of many stuff due to wrong design ideas, while it could perfectly be a single simple app, HA itself, for instance exposed in python directly.

At some level many start to understand and from UIs they tend to REPL, from disappearing menus to "dashes", from widgets to NotebookUIs for some scientific software, LLM prompts and so on, but even with that most still have to understand a decades old IT principle.
I described the evidence, provided by Snowden himself and publicly available for anyone to check,

Before I offer anything else -- you are welcome to provide quotes and sources for the respective items of evidence described above.
To be clear, Google very much had and has a culture of optimizing for (a certain) quality. They definitely fought spam.

It just so happens that their culture and employees value a “quality” that is distinctly incongruent with the wider 6b-person public. And also they completely dropped the ball on spam 10 years ago when (among other things) Matt Cutts left.

Don’t write off Google. They are an important case study of their own flavor of greed.
i've never had covid, and i am unaware if this is in the literature because it may not be directly caused by the virus; but, did you have a lot of trouble sleeping/staying asleep? Anyone can reply, especially interested if you have a fitness band/watch that tracks sleep and breathing/heartrate, if you noticed that your sleep was greatly disrupted by the disease.

I had some weird virus a couple weeks ago that didn't seem like it could possibly be contagious, there was no outward symptoms like coughing or whatever. But one of the symptoms was the inability to sleep. I think i got my personal best "without sleep without any chemicals" - i wasn't eating much because i wasn't hungry - like at all, so no caffeine or sugar, no medications that would cause sleeplessness. I was up very nearly 43 hours. And i had to force myself to go to sleep, because i knew the auditory hallucinations were going to start soon - i get em, they're more annoying than tinnitus, at around the 45-48 hour mark, and they get progressively worse. Prior to being awake 42 hours, i had maybe 4 hours of sleep total, and leading up to that i had been up over 20 hours - so my sleep was completely ruined.

Due to the lack of sleep, i cannot remember anything that happened that week, or the week prior. Nor what i read (i read two books), who i talked to or about what. It's just blank - not fuzzy, not hard to recall, just nothing there.

How do i remember any details? i was live-posting about how poorly i felt and why, went back and read them, committed my posts to memory.
"He hopes the text will be translated into English."

If you are reading this, yes, please do. I was ready to buy it.
All the ones I get are just PDF's... but the the trouble is I have already read all the content on the internet from other web sites a few months ago :(.
I think this is intended as more of a proof of concept than as a useful-to-end-users change, but apparently this driver is going to be enabled on Fedora rawhide soon.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/net/ph...

MR where they are working though a build system issue: https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/3...
It would depend on other stuff. If you want to write software specifically for Windows (although not necessarily limited to Windows; you can use WSL to use and write Linux software too), or if you intend to use software that is only available on Windows (although note that some Windows software can run without Windows, e.g. by the use of Wine, so using Windows software does not necessarily mean you will have to use Windows), or if you particularly like Windows compared with other systems, then yes. Otherwise, I would say no, it would be better to not use Windows.
If I recall correctly, that is a kerning issue with the font. At the edges of the font is not a solid line, but rather more like every other pixel so that the characters can be closer together. This causes the up/down movement of one character to the next, as they fit together like poorly made puzzle pieces. And just how bad it looks depends on the size of the pixel on the monitor, and how much "bleed" it has with it's neighbors. (I don't recall the tech terms for this.)
Labeled Image generation using Meta Llama 3.5
The Great Vic Gravel Route: Crossing Victoria on Unsealed Roads (2022)
I had a projects that was mentioned by the president of america and also the premier of Japan!
I use Everything Metric
(https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/everything-metric-a...)
The original title isn’t clickbait in its context

It is a poorly written HN title though and should be changed
If a social media platform doesn't offer a web client, it sucks. I'm sorry.

Also, by what metric does it not suck? Ads? Privacy? Algorithmic feed? Bots? Addictiveness?
It depends on whether you’re transforming data out of files or whatever to get it into these libraries to start with to be fair. Overall I wouldn’t expect that to have an effect on a long-running computation but when starting up a project it can be a bit slow.
Haha, off-by-one pixel error!

I still see MacOS as the best choice for my desktop/laptop uses (browser and SSH), but I also have a documents folder that I’ve accumulated over decades. I still use various .txt files in the docs folder as my low tech note taking apps.

I use the Spotlight or Alfred keyboard shortcuts (that also use spotlight index?) for quickly opening the files when needed - and annoyingly my most important file - notes.txt - regularly disappears from the Spotlight index and suggestions. It’s been like that for at least 5 years, probably closer to 10. I’m not even trying anymore, will just open the file from command line with vi as the fallback step.
For people who don't want to take form participants in this thread, maybe you should consider listening to no other than Mike Stonebraker[1]:

NoSQL databases that store data as JSON documents, such as MongoDB and Couchbase, benefited from developer excitement over a denormalized data structures, a lower-level API, and horizontal scalability at the cost of ACID transactions. However, document stores “are on a collision course with RDBMSs,” the authors write, as they have adopted SQL and relational databases have added horizontal scalability and JSON support.

“Another wave of developers will claim that SQL and the RM are insufficient for emerging application domains,” they write. “People will then propose new query languages and data models to overcome these problems. There is tremendous value in exploring new ideas and concepts for DBMSs (it is where we get new features for SQL). The database research community and marketplace are more robust because of it. However, we do not expect these new data models to supplant the RM.”

[1] https://www.datanami.com/2024/07/08/dont-believe-the-big-dat... discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41406420
We put a lot of effort and funding into trying to contact other intelligent lifeforms in this universe. Why should we believe we can understand each other if we can't even understand the intelligent lifeforms right next to us?
We take university names out of press release posts anyway, so I've gone ahead and done that.
All social networks start out not sucking...
Of course it doesn't guarantee that, nor did I ever imply such.

It's still the sovereign state however, businesses that want to be active on their territory have to comply with local legislation, wherever that legislation is an extreme overreach or not.

This is not a case of one arm of the government doing whatever it wants like with PRISM.

This is a public ruling. they're criminal if they don't comply, by definition.
I ran into this in Notes as well. Restating Notes fixed it, but wasn’t my first instinct, as I view copy/paste as a system task and didn’t think it would be impacted within a single app.

Seeing that I’m not the only one, I need to remember to restart notes at the first sign of an issue, rather than trying the action over and over trying to figure out what’s going on.
Ask HN: How do you promote or market your Chrome extensions?
> It also explains why acyclovir and valacyclovir dramatically reduces the risk of developing dementia.

Sounds fascinating, where could one read more about this? I don’t think I’ve come across this before.
This is interesting. However, too bad a British university is working with a russian university
In the long term, it's better to have new terminology, so we can differentiate between open source and open weight models. Open weight is unambiguous, and the meaning is clear.
This is a bit in a Chris Morris movie called Four Lions.
macOS on a low dpi screen is mostly full of those kind of issues. I wouldn't recommend using a low dpi screen.
Citing that it might be cumbersome for App Stores to implement the order then revert it, de Moraes reverted the order for Google and Apple to ban VPNs from Stores.

I bet it won't stop there. He won't be satisfied until he blocks Tor too, which X / Twitter could plausibly setup as an Onion service.

This is all because the National Assembly that promulgated the 1988 Brazilian Constitution chose to specifically ban anonymity. It's on paragraph IV, article 5 of Brazilian Constitution.

I got downvoted for posting the obvious topic here so once again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41316512
...finally?

This kind of automatic optimization was one of the reasons they pushed for function-based components ~6 years ago over class-based components. One of the main points was "you'll no longer need to think about shouldComponentUpdate()".
For a while. Over here we expect to lose one of our three commercial TV stations in the next few years, because the market (ie. ad spending) has been moving online. Regional broadcast stations are already shutting down, because it is not worth the cost of maintaining the transmitters when people can get the same stream online.
Starting to see this with view counts on YouTube in Firefox after some recent UI updates.
Speaking of bad vision for a moment I thought I read “I still see MsDOS as the best choice” and almost yelled out what patrician taste!
My bet is on a random bitflip more than an actual bug in the code, based on its localised nature and rarity.

Antialiased text always looks blurry to me after looking at pixel fonts all the time.
This was a site with good content and whenever there was a link pointing to AnandTech I knew there was something interesting to discover.

Thanks for all the good work!
spent the 1/2 half of the article reading about "Amy". Her story is sympathetic, but so also is her families'.

Then we get the the abrupt turn: "One woman had spent much of her twenties coming to terms with sexual abuse from her father" and "Several described a family member as a classic narcissist or as toxic."

wait. wtf? are you comparing flat out sexual and mental abuse with "i'm liberal and my parents/siblings are super religious conservative"?

in the former case, sympathetic or not, you have selfishness and egos on both sides.

by the end of the article, "Amy" begins to appear to me to be about the most self-centered narcissist herself.

in the case of actual toxicity, abuse, etc. it's easy. short of that it would seem to be more a case of "it takes two to tango".

also, how many more parents reject/abandon their kids for similar or lessor reasons? plenty for sure. doesn't make that right either.
No that wasn't it. It may have had to do with constraints on the types of values that the stdlib priority queue could hold.
Isn't kerning about left-right and not up-down, though?
If the context is a 50% chance "witness in a criminal case" then the implied context is pretty strong.
> If you haven’t learned one and refuse to try it and your argument boils down to “it’s not what we’ve done and I don’t want to change” that’s not good technical decision making.

It sounds reasonable - you don't waltz into a large existing project $FOO and tell the existing maintainers "Here's our rules going forward - you shall learn $BAR!"

It's both rude and arrogant.

I have not seen any good arguments for why there should be an exception when $BAR == Linux and $FOO == Rust.
Awk is powerful, but I find it more portable/easy to understand implementing much of it in Python or Perl 5 these days.
Should also establish that the crow on the balcony is the same one that attacked after line of sight was broken during the trip back upstairs.
Well, you can run multitasking in TSRs & keyboard interrupt handlers (the original event loop)… implementing a window manager and TCP stack is left as an exercise to the reader…
Many unsolved problems in mathematics are ones that are not easily understood by a lay person. The Collatz conjecture has captured hearts and minds at least in part because it is easy to understand the statement of. Perhaps proving that pi is normal would be another one.

But they are few and far between. In a sense, the reason it’s interesting is that we don’t know how to solve it.
We used to use a microtome to cut frozen section of mouse mammary glands in the lab I studied in during my Master's (we studied breast cancer in mice). Never used the machine myself but I on many occasion stained and imaged the slides they produced.
Maybe the bug is the need for everything to line up perfectly.
This month in Servo: tabbed browsing, Windows buffs, devtools, and more
One of the Best Sci-Fi Shows in Years Got Killed by Max–But There's Still Hope
This series displays the most convincing, gorgeous, engaging vision of an alien ecosystem even created. And a great story to boot.

My advice is to watch it now.

Conflict of interest: I want the indie creators to succeed so I can watch more of their stuff.

Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81772175
In my experience, great accomplishment emerges from both a significant quantity of effort and vision, and a critical injection of serendipity where the universe conspires to feed the craftsman critical nudges that elevate the work beyond the original intent.

I also find that those that have accomplished "greatness" without having drowned in their own kool-aid will speak candidly about the ambiguities encountered, the stuff that "worked better than it had any right to", and the aspects where satisfaction continues to elude them.

Assuming that Michalangelo was such a person, while I doubt there would be much left he found unsatisfactory in his work on the ceiling (or he wouldn't have allowed himself to be finished), I would expect a wealth of stories of his tribulations, and a number of unexpected avenues that provided sanity restoring inspiration for an outcome that _was_ satisfactory.
What I found most amazing about Bresenham during my Amiga days, is how you can use it to zoom and shrink bitmaps.
The web was so much more fun in the 90s.
These were my absolute favorite sites that got me through me teens while I was learning and improving my skills. The development/design community really came together to help everyone grow.
> Corvids can recognise faces

They can also "share that knowledge of dangerous humans with other crows". [1]

[1] https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/grudge-holding...
Large Language Models and Games: A Survey and Roadmap
Yᵒu'ʳe ʳiᵍhᵗ, iᵗ's ⁿoᵗ sᵒ bᵃd ᵒnᶜe ʸoᵘ'rᵉ uˢeᵈ tᵒ iᵗ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud6DWmWcHaY

Dr. Ian Cutress did a video of his thoughts.
(Just a subscriber of his channel)
True, but n the cloud era, destination IPs don't mean what they used to. If peopel wash their blog with AWS or Cloudflare or Netlify, etc., dest. IP means little.
Stephen Wolfram is one of my heroes. But not for the usual thing of being really good at science and technology.

He is my hero because he has won capitalism and entrepreneurship. He is incredibly wealthy for all the stuff that a normal person needs, does what he really enjoys and has no shareholders to worry about.

The only other company I know of that is similar is Valve. Both at the cutting edge, doing very interesting things and just leading a meaningful, stressless life.

I am modeling my companies heavily on Wolfram and Valve. May other companies take some notes from them too.
MirageOS is for unikernels that can run on Xen or KVM, and I think would be very interesting for all sorts of network services. Each would be essentially its own VM, but with only the parts that are compiled into the service.
https://mirageos.org/
> It doesn't have to be Linux. It isn't the end-all in operating systems. It's just what happens to be most popular -right now-.

That's part of the problem, I think: The Rust group's primary goal appears to be increasing the usage and/or popularity of Rust, not merely hardening the Linux kernel.

After all, both the kernel devs as well as the Rust group knows very well that the Rust group can maintain out-of-tree patches indefinitely. By using a out-of-tree patch, they can slowly and effectively replace almost all of the drivers. Many people actually would download and use their `rustix` kernel.

But that doesn't allow them to achieve their goal of spreading the movement, hence their resistance to prove the concept out-of-tree and the pushback from kernel devs who see this purely as a popularity-booster.

There is no good argument against the Rust group proceeding with an out-of-tree development effort; all the ones around "it's too much work" reflects the fear that the kernel devs have that the Rust group would push Rush code into the kernel, and then not be around to maintain it when some C code breaks it.
One of my favourite unreported MacOS issues comes from how, at some point, they changed the appearance of the window close button to be a particular shade of red with a tiny little X in the center. And if you happen to be using a particular kind of screen and possibly wearing glasses, that little X kind of wanders around in the button, appearing just slightly off center in a maddening way. Made only more maddening by the glasses component: https://www.robbert.org/2014/10/the-off-center-close-button/.

That post points out it’s probably just subpixel stuff causing the issue, but I think my thick, cheap glasses at the time were adding a layer of chromatic aberration to something that was already visually confusing.

I assume it’s kind of gone away at this point with all the high DPI screens these days. But I remember thinking at the time, if there was a public bug tracker, that issue would be a fun one.
Armstrong was also quite good at handling the Lunar Module Research Vehicle. A flying machine that was notoriously difficult to fly. Even though he had a close call when he had to eject out it during one training flight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Landing_Research_Vehicle...
Make sure you are kind to our crow friends, judging by the trajectory of these articles I fear their intelligence is growing as fast as ours is dropping.

While that's definitely a joke, I wouldn't be that surprised by a human getting outwitted by a crow even today.
This is always possible, because 1 is a Fibonacci number.
Maybe the offsets themselves represent a binary number within that byte that corresponding to the bits within that byte. Maybe if you give it the right sequence, a message will emerge.
> So much of this is hindsight bias though. There were no shortage of people with ideas and companies pursuing obesity drugs through a number of different pathways. Only in hindsight does it seem "genius" that Thomsen persisted and succeeded where nobody else did. But there are dozens, hundreds, of other smart people who were pursuing other pathways who did just as much stubborn work but didn't get a result. That's just pharmaceuticals.

Exactly.

There are plenty of examples where the opposite choice was made - argue for continued development despite high uncertainty.

The CETP inhibitors is a good one. Pfizer flushed several billion dollars down the drain with the decision to push it through phase 3.
Maybe not with the existing rules. I expect regions with more consumer friendly legislature might stop exclusive licensing deals (Game of Thrones exclusively on) and vertical integration (of course Disney content is exclusive to the Disney channel). Streaming has been around long enough and successful enough that you can consider it infrastructure and legislate it as such. Especially in countries where any 'lost revenue' was going to be lost overseas in any case.
Oh that’s an interesting problem i never realized could happen.

What about using the calendar app of your os (or another?) to be able to switch?
This is the best description I’ve seen of how I view his work. It’s interesting but it’s hard to point to cases in the wild where his stuff is actually used. Never once in my career have any of his tools been brought up in more than a “oh that’s cool” context.

I do like the idea of wolfram alpha being packaged and usable by intelligent agents as a sort of mental tool plugin. That would be cool.
physical media, you can make copies of.
The implementation is indeed simple: the problem is standardization.
Beautiful webpage!
I really rail to understand why modern unix OS scripting has not made expect obsolete. But then again bash is state of the art, right?

Meta shells and meta meta shells should be an assumed feature by now, not a hit or miss of terminal program feature sets, and not tied to UI programs.
Socket.computer
I enjoy reading old travel books, too. Hundreds, maybe thousands, are available at the Internet Archive. A few years ago, I wrote a blog post about some of them:

https://blog.archive.org/2019/01/28/the-world-as-they-saw-it...