skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bambi vs Godzilla 2.0. We won’t meet intelligent enough aliens from this solar system, and if they come from other solar systems they should be far more advanced than us. Even curious kittens avoid to harm something big and looking dangerous enough.

Yes, it will be a message. But the wrong one.
I feel like the time to stop taking Sam Altman at his word was probably when he was shilling for an eyeball-scanning cryptocurrency...

But apparently as a society we like handing multi-billion dollar investments to folks with a proven track record of (not actually shipping) complete bullshit.
Consumer responses to AI-generated marketing communications
Would you say "Our lives have been digitally unbundled" be accurate characterization?
Not that I'm aware of.

Couple that with Matt's clearly hinting post earlier today[0] and it really feels... calculated. Just another thing for them to throw on the lawsuit I guess.

[0]: https://x.com/photomatt/status/1842500184825090060

> What are the best alternatives to Advanced Custom Fields @wp_acf
for people who want to switch away? Is there an easy way to migrate?

> I suspect there are going to be millions of sites moving away from it in the coming weeks.
When I make 3D art I instruct a lot of things, how the renderer is configured, lighting details, various systems that need to be tweaked to get the final render to look good.

Using the AI tool chains, you'd start with some generation either via text or image input, then modify various settingas, model, render steps, sampler, loras, then a generative upscaling pass, control nets to extract and apply depth, pose, outlines all etc. A colourful mix of systems and config, not unlike working 3D tool chains.

Its also not unusual to mix and match, handcrafted geometry but projection mapped generated textures and then a final pass in Photoshop or what have you.

Typing "awesome art piece" into ChatGPT is like rendering a donut.
> Meanwhile, to minimize costs, private equity-owned staffing firms often replaced more expensive physicians with nurse practitioners and physician associates. It was a move likely to worsen patient care: While these professionals do highly skilled work in a variety of clinical settings, the emergency department is one place where care outcomes are more likely to suffer if a doctor isn’t involved.

Using more PAs and NPs seems like it could potentially be beneficial, since 1) they are cheaper than physicians (this could be attractive to patients if it lowered the bill for treatment), 2) the supply of physicians is more constrained (due to limits in med school and residency slots to avoid "oversupply", as well as longer training time), and 3) NPs and PAs may be well positioned to take care of many non-emergency patients in the ER, urgent care, non-life-threatening cases, etc. What might be helpful is a higher tier of ER-specialist NPs and PAs, as well as an adequate supply of ER physicians to treat the emergency patients in the ER who really need them.
How We Built a Content Recommendation System with PostgreSQL
Forecasters predict another hurricane will strike Florida by midweek
Eh, depends on the “shade”. If they’re the drama type, then yeah, might be time to have a chat about how to do research, tell fact from fiction, what propaganda looks like, etc, lest they become a tabloid-sucker.

If it’s the STEM type who just likes the art and community while also running infrastructure, doing vaccine research, or other Good Work (TM)…just be glad they’re using their decently sized paychecks to help out others and build a better community for everyone.

Fandom - furry or otherwise - isn’t inherently good or bad, but there are good and bad elements in every fandom.
And longing for a family that you could have had...

I find it that people who grew up with attentive parents just don't understand how one can not trust their parents, or what it is like to have to hide everything from them.
Golden Owl Treasure Hunt, discovered after 31 years
Yeah, and that’s kind of exactly what I am looking for. This is niche enough that I am likely overly concerned someone would do real work to “steal” it. But I also always lock my car, even if someone can still smash the window. :)
This is excellent. Have you considered making a presentation or a write-up of the experience?
Who is right, one guy whos reputation relies on something not breaking or a bunch of end users who report the thing broke for them?

I experienced issues with write amplification within the past few months in Ubuntu 22 so it isn’t like all the issues are gone. I do agree that there are less issues now than there was before, but I will still say that btrfs still breaks or behaves unexpectedly much more often than ext4 or xfs.
I agree with everything else, but just wanted to nitpick that by definition, Russia used to be a *2nd* world empire.
Ah, I see where you're coming from... say no more.

So you're saying that some cultural symbol used in a derogatory manner to address the "Little Russians".. inferiors to Russia... is humanizing and a show of equal brotherly love?

You chose to empty the word of the meaning into a simple hairstyle, much like the Nazis just made use of cultural symbols to address the Jewish or Polish people.

It doesn't look like you're not being honest.

It's funny because that's one of the Russian twists in their propaganda, "let's focus on the subjective meaning of words... and not the actions!".

Here's my take on it, if someone goes into someone else land to erase their culture and kill as many people as possible, terrorizing them, and trying to make their living unbearable while addressing them by an ethnic slur, I'd say that's enough of a sign of dehumanization.
The deep lore is that most of the Internet's organizational structure was (deliberately) set up to be independent of the ITU, which was seen was captured by governments (including many authoritarian governments) and the telcos, which were at that time deeply opposed to the philosophy and practicalities of the Net. If you don't know much about the ITU it's because they lost that struggle.

It's surprisingly hard to find links to this! You can get a flavor of it from this piece from 1996 https://www.wired.com/1996/10/atm-3/?gad_source=1
I don't believe that's true. To quote wikipedia: "Rinse aid (sometimes called rinse agent) contains surfactants and uses Marangoni stress to prevent droplet formation, so that water drains from the surfaces in thin sheets, rather than forming droplets."

Looking at the back of a bottle of Finish Jet Dry (which I have refilled with water), the original stuff's first ingredient (after water) is "C 12-15 Alcohols Ethoxylated Propoxylated". These are nonionic surfactants, and are not what one normally means by "alcohol" (ethanol).

I can understand where the idea came from. Drinks like wine will exhibit sheeting on the sides of glasses too. The concentration of alcohol needed for that to happen is probably too high in a dishwasher, I'd imagine.
you can xargs your files and even parallelize (read the xargs man page) before you ssh.
This seems pretty naive. Crimea and Ukraine's NATO membership was already quagmire since 2014. Only thing that has changed here is that Finland and Sweden are now in NATO.
And to my point, in no way is this equivalent to "you liked this one thing, so here's another thing you might like". It's still targeting. Facebook isn't arbitrarily showing you ads. "People like this" is what advertisers set, whether that comes from the advertiser checking boxes or providing a sample of similar users is an unimportant distinction.

At no point is Facebook ever making the self directed decision to show an ad to someone that doesn't positively match some criteria that the advertiser specified. That would be wild, and as I said, that's not how Facebook sells ads.
Please share the names of these preservatives.
> a lot of the weird artificial junk that are allowed to be put into your food is illegal in Europe

What are some examples? A list would be helpful.
That is certainly true. But the market began searching in earnest for "really competent X" in this field only about 2 years ago. Before that, it was a decidedly opt-in affair..
Fun fact: it is also the oldest UN agency.
Your comment uses php.
Glances – Htop Alternative
> If it hinged on that, then you would actually be saying it's impossible

"impossible with the approach OpenAI is using" != "impossible"
The internet has destroyed the value of user attention and brands; everyone has the attention span of a gnat and the loyalty of an addict. They will very quickly move on to the next shiny thing.
Dismantling Google is a terrible idea
I remember reading a while back that your eye is actually a big vector for getting viruses. We all touch surfaces and then touch our face and eyes a lot more than we realise.
A very nice book is "Designing Video Game Hardware in Verilog" by Steven Hugg and is part of a series of books that is supported by

http://8bitworkshop.com/

I am writing a book somewhat similar to this (currently in Portuguese, but later in English and other languages) using the Digital simulator in Java for the examples as schematics, though they can be exported as Verilog for implementation in FPGA boards.

https://github.com/jeceljr/LivroComputadoresEVideogames

Each chapter represents a video-game console generation, with hardwired Pong and Soccer in the first chapter. I am now working on replacing the game logic in Soccer with a 16 bit version of RISC-V for the second chapter and then improving the video and sound to Colecovision levels. In chapter 3 we will have a 32 bit RISC-V with NES level graphics and sound, with a pipelined RISC-V with something like the Gameduino for chapter 4. The 8 Bit Workshop will let readers program the actual consoles from each era and not just our retro designs.
The difference that I'm seeing personally and the initial appeal was that he was more open about the science and the results of it. If you go through the site you can see pretty good documentation about different supplements and what their intended purpose was. However, I do think some of the luster of the open-source model he had kind of disappeared when he started selling products which is a double edged sword in the sense that it does somewhat certify the quality of the product but also chips at his ethos.
Auth0 and FusionAuth
I don't see how it's a get rich quick scheme when looking at companies like Immersion, who've been shaking down companies successfully for years.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/meta-settles-lawsuit-over-...

They basically have a stranglehold on patents for haptic feedback in gaming for some unfathomable reason and they will have it for the foreseeable future.
At Tokyo Game Show 2024, nostalgia was king
> even I can see that N = 1 or P = 0

wat?
US population is 300M, whereas Israel/Switzerland/Netherlands population is about 10M.
Thanks for the context, not sure why people downvoting you.
The Disconnect – offline-only magazine
A responsible CEO would put the legal squabble aside and allow the fix to happen for the sake of the customers.

Given Matt isn't doing it, I'm of the opinion that he is using it maliciously.
This links to a login page with no explanation of what CloudTabs does and there doesn't seem to be a homepage.
> the government would need to actively remove high risk properties.

Those that couldn't pay the insurance (like 100% of your property value, by risk), just like any other repossession would require the local govt to help take control of the property. The Fed's work would be in verifying valuations and setting profit margins. eg Regulation. Sounds good to me.
ZLUDA's Third Life
Definitionally true, you're right :) trying to counteract the tendency to overplay the "glory days" of the USSR.
Tiny, reusable, UI components, wrapped in an app layout
If you think knowing apt / vim / postgresql / bash / linux intimately is a waste of time and just a pile of Unix trivia, then you and I are entirely different type of engineers / developers, I don't think we even speak the same language :)
I'm actually grateful that your mindset is becoming more prevalent, as it only serves to increase the value of my own skillset.
SpaceX hasn’t tried to go public , arguably being private has helped them ability to raise a lot of money from investors is key to their successes.

Their kind of product development [1] needs a long term thinking which public markets will not not support well

[1] ignore all the mars noise, just consider reusable i.e. cheap rockets and starlink
Yeah, I know your point. Compared with human communication, I think talk with AI can be self-paced.
CoRncrete: A corn starch based building material (2017)
61 million years ago, a branch of the mammalian family tree had a gene break, called GLO. Since then, those mammals have been unable to synthesize Vitamin C. That branch includes humans.

There's no upside to this. Vitamin C is crucial, it isn't especially easy to get sometimes, and it would most definitely improve survival. We just... can't make it. That's all.
Reminds me of an episode of Star Trek: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon_(...
Unicode shenanigans: Martine Ã©crit en UTF-8
Regardless of what anyone thinks about the issue, we don’t editorialize in headlines.
> if it makes the world a better place or not.

This seems like a pretty big "if". Arguably, Automattic is better than most for-profit companies since they develop a FOSS product, and I think you can make an argument that any sort of FOSS makes the world better.

OTOH, it's not clear to me that making it easier and cheaper to blog or host websites makes the world better. I'm sure there's lots of people using WordPress and similar products for horrible things, like tobacco companies, arms manufacturers, animal ag companies, etc. And that's not to mention the no doubt plenty of personal users who are blogging about conspiracy theories, white supremacy, or Hindu nationalism.

I think the best case for most software is that it's net _neutral_. I work at a database company. Our products are used by many, many different companies, non-profits, and governments. I think some of our customers are horrible, some are great, and most are neither. But that would be the case for me at nearly every software company I might work at.
I wonder if folks get amber alerts if they only use satellite based connectivity. I'm willing to be that Apple will have it automatically enabled in iOS 18.
A lot of my side projects are only visible over a VPN. I have no auth for them as it is not needed.
Did we kill the Neanderthals? Research may answer an age-old question
So what? Many animals haven’t changed much for millions of years, and that was irrelevant to our emergence. Not everything has to change in equal measure.

There are many reasons for all those things not to change. Limits abound. We discovered that getting taller or faster isn’t “better”, all we needed is smarter. Intelligence is different. It applies to everything else. You can lose a limb or eyesight and still be incredibly capable. The intelligence is what makes us able to handle all the other limits and change the world even though MS Word hasn’t changed much.

We are now applying a lot of our intelligence to inventing another one. The architecture won’t stay the same, the limits won’t endure. People keep trying and it’s infinitely harder to imagine reasons why progress will stop. Just choose any limit and defend it.
Web Tech Needs Diversity
+1 for FusionAuth
Anyone who takes startup CEOs at their word has never worked in a startup. The plasticity of their ethics is legendary when there’s a prospect of increasing the revenues.
This reminds me of this absolutely fantastic podcast episode by Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MzzD2F73iGU
The mass graves of civilians, mass deportation of children, erasure of cultural artifacts, leveling of cities, constant bombing of civilian targets, reeducation efforts beg to differ. You can rightly fuck off.
To rebel? Or because they get educated and exposed to more diverse groups of people?
Thanks for the input. A couple of folks suggested that recently as well. Once I can clear up some bandwidth, I do intend to follow through on that. It gave me a huge appreciation for Nix as a build system, and I would love to share that if it were helpful to others.
Is it? Putin has said he doesn't believe Ukraine to be a nation or Ukrainians to be a separate people. Genocide is the crime of erasing a culture. It does not mean killing everyone, although that's one way to commit genocide.

So it actually seems like the correct use of the word. It's the popular interpretation that is incorrect.
Surely if you’ve watched an amazing show you’re likely to share it with a friend, no? I see this bringing likeminded people together in tight, niche communities.
You’re basically just demonstrating my point that this gets very complicated very quickly and thus the polite way to handle this is tool authors to default to 4bit.
The fetishization of Putin you see on here is absolutely bonkers.

Guys... he's just a dictator like all the others through history: fundamentally confused by an information environment of his own making, undermined by systemic corruption and a culture of distrust, and dangerously delusional in his ambitions.

He's just a complete loser, and his clowncar of an invasion is an extension of that fundamental loserness.
Any plans for being able to run the entire thing locally with local models?
Sam Altman is only 39 years old. Like it or not, it would be a fallacy to assume he's shown everything he's capable of. He likely has much more to contribute in his lifetime.
I read "Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space" and found it very interesting. It is a detailed history of the early Soviet space program and Yuri Gagarin's flight.
Whether or not its technically inferior to American space technology at the time, you have to admire the ingenuity.
Indeed. In the end the only thing that works is to just allow anonymity, and label anons as anons.
I would say "explained". As a layman, who worked with linux previously (and even tried LFS a long time ago), but definitely don't have a deep understanding of linux, and eve my knowledge is not up-to-date:

The sed command is not explained at all. Even the description is non-sense if you don't know already what they are talking about. What is this "default directory", why do you need to set it, why there and only there, why that command works? Even the command itself is something, which I need to check the manual what the heck it does, because it's not a simple one.

> -enable-default-pie and --enable-default-ssp

The description is almost unusable. So we don't need it, but it's "cleaner", which in this context means exactly nothing. So what happens if I left out? Nothing? Then why should I care?

> --disable-multilib

Okay, it doesn't support "something". I have no idea what is multilib, or why I should care. Basically the next arguments' description tells me that because it wouldn't work the compilation otherwise. And then..

> --disable-threads, --disable-libatomic, --disable-libgomp, --disable-libquadmath, --disable-libssp, --disable-libvtv, --disable-libstdcxx

But why would they fail? I want to understand what's happening here, and I need to blindly trust the manual because they just tell me, that "they won't work, believe us".

> --enable-languages=c,c++

Why are these the only languages which we need? What are the other languages?

So at the end, descriptions are not really helping to understand what's happening, if you don't know already. The last time when I started LFS (about 10 years ago), that was my main problem. That you already need to know almost everything to understand what's really happening, and why, or reading manuals, or trying to find basically unsearchable information (like why libatomic compiling would fail at this step). So after a while, I started the blind copy-pasting, because I didn't have the patience of literary months, and when I realized that this was pointless, I gave up.
FlyDetect: An Android Application for Flight Detection
What's the trigger for sending the email?
Going through one file:

IMPORTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANT

_F for functions.
_H for headers.
_V for fuck knows.

There are funnier ones but I am lazy. :P
Watch the path of a raindrop from anywhere in the world
Do you use LLMs?
I still use text most of the time (technical or complex problems, copy pasting materials...), but for things like language learning or getting answers while commuting/walking, voice is a no-brainer.
I guess you stopped reading at "hairstyle" and completely missed the ethnic slur part.
The government violates or works around the constitution routinely and at will. They can't spy on you? They get other allied countries to do it and report back, or they just buy the info from companies that have collected it. And so on.
according to the book "The Sociopath Next Door", approximately 1 in 25 Americans is a "sociopath" who "does not feel shame, guilt, or remorse, and can do anything at all without what "normal" people think of as an internal voice labeling things as "right" or "wrong". It makes sense to me that sociopaths would be over-represented among C-level executives and "high performers" in every field.

https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/the-sociopat...
What do you think would be a good way to give visibility?

Like, for example, if a username had an automatic country-displayed flag at least it would stop those pretending to be from other nationalities.
> I love English

Why English in particular?
English uses Latin script pretty randomly.

-- sincerely your Ptoughneigh
NATO is afraid to move the nukes to even Poland. Putin moved the nukes to Belarus.

As I see, such constant displays of weakness may provoke Putin to some wider war. Russian society has transformed. There can be only war in the future. Just look at his government budget: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/russias-defenc...
Because we can change the hardware or software to be what we want. It can write to storage and read it, like we can but faster.
Perhaps at risk of reading too far into it, but it seems the implication is that while Tiktok is called "social media", it seems to be the exception that socialising occurs. World of Warcraft, and many similar games of that era would often be canned as anti-social, but fundamentally facilitated the pursuit of common goals and deep bonds for those otherwise isolated or barred from such engagement in other avenues.
Ah, I see. But I guess you did have fun pretending.
Meat eaters ignore not just the violence against animals, but also the untold human suffering the industry inflicts. Meat packing employees routinely become immune to antibiotics because they come in contact with it so often on a daily basis.