skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's an odd thing to say.

I am not the OP, but I would chime in to say it is not odd.

I am someone who regularly uses the entire spectrum of OSs: Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD.

OpenBSD is very much the most opinionated OS out there.

If your view of the world is inline with that of the OpenBSD core-devs (or if you just want a minimalist OS for a firewall or whatever) then you'll get on just fine with OpenBSD.

But for many people, it could easily be the case they would be better served by "anything else". Probably Windows/Mac/Linux, but even FreeBSD is not quite as hard-line opinionated as OpenBSD.

OpenBSD has a number of great server-side applications. But there's no chance you'd ever find me ever using it as a desktop or imposing it on anyone else as a desktop !
“Intermittent fasting and/or caloric restriction extends mice lifespan.” is quite old news.

The reason mice are used in labs isn’t because they’re a good model of humans, but because they’re easy to bread and have short lifespans.

Studies of caloric restriction in monkeys didn’t cause lifespan extension, casting doubt on its effect in humans.

Peter Attia (best source of longevity science) wrote about this 5 years ago.

https://peterattiamd.com/calorie-restriction-part-iia-monkey...
What do you mean by noise of hell in particular? I do notice that the images are almost always uncanny in a way, but maybe we're not meaning the same thing. Could you elaborate on what you experience?
The smaller embedded micros are the target of CollapseOS, which is folded into DuskOS. The stage DuskOS is targeting is when we stop being able to have the ability to make new computers and new chips, and we start looking to salvage old ones laying around. There is also recovering knowledge from disks.
Well, just the best fit for being presented in the Spanish national day but, it's more complicated than that...of course. What was presented was not science.

https://elpais.com/ciencia/2024-10-12/el-show-del-adn-de-cri...
IMHO, it is all about lowering oxidative stress. Eating creates oxidative stress in the body because to eat means to create ATP and that means electrons are increased in the mitochondria. More electrons = more oxidative stress in the form of superoxides.

I will say that Calorie Restriction with Optimal Nutrition (or CRON) is the healthiest diet but should be geared towards ones heritage or genetics (which is why I think all of the studies on humans have such variable and confounding outcomes.).

http://optimal.org/voss/cron_overview.html
Assuming the notices are real and a problem, Automattic should cite that instead of making it about security issues. As it stands, that's just a claim.
It's very convenient! You definitely need it if you want to sell something
Hold your nose and talk to military and police.
You are thinking of Antibiotics.
That phrase was badly written.

Backtracking is a complete search of the problem-space.

What is incomplete is the Horn-SAT problem space, which is a subset of SAT, that can be solved in polynomial time, and is what Prolog is based on.

A complete logic system would have to solve SAT, which is NP-complete.

At least that's what I understood they meant by that.
Stream: SpaceX Launches Starship for the Fifth Time [video]
Datalog does not use backtracking, and is getting ever increasingly more popular.

See:
- The fastest non-incremental embedded Datalog engine https://github.com/s-arash/ascent
- The state-of-the-art non-embedded and non-incremental Datalog engine https://github.com/knowsys/nemo
- A python library that contains an embedded incremental Datalog engine https://github.com/brurucy/pydbsp
- A Rust library that provides a embedded incremental Datalog engine over property graphs https://github.com/brurucy/materialized-view
The dataset Github page https://github.com/simonalexanderson/MotoricaDanceDataset does mention some missing finger data:

> Session 2: Casual dancing ... No finger motion.

> Session 3: Vintage jazz dancing ... Fingers captured with Manus gloves, which unfortunately suffered in quality due to sensor drift during rapid motion.

> Session 4: Street dancing ... Simplified finger motion (markers on thumb, index finger, and pinky according to the OptiTrack layout).

The first video in the article does have a bit of finger motion, so I'm guessing it's from session 4. Toes also look a bit iffy and clip into the ground instead of curling at times.
It's insane that the intelligence community spends billions of dollars but none of it has gone towards a usable secure desktop operating system.
I wonder, would a foldable bike be a solution ?
I moved some years ago from Dresden, Saxony, Germany to Rheintal, Switzerland - looking for some bigger mountains. In Dresden-area there was a nice 4-people day ticket for the whole area - <20EUR for 4 people total. Switzerland? Every guest spends at least 50CHF per person per day, wild.
> Would that it were so simple! But are you saying this from your experience hiring for teams that execute well?

I oversimplified it not to stray away from the main topic but actually they need to have very specific features like the willingness to collaborate, the ability to communicate when the time is right, being technically proficient and so on.

> Do you have statistics proving this? Please share data.

Let A be the set of people who like to work remotely and B the set of people who love to do hybrid. (I leave out the set of people who love full RTO because I haven't yet met such a person, even hard-core office lovers admit a day of remote work is doing wonders to them.) Let A1 be the subset of people who would be fit for the job from the set A, and B1 be the subset of people who would be fit for the job from the set B. From the basic properties of real numbers one can infer that A1 + B1 is at least equal to B1.

> Are you honestly saying that in all the interviews you've attended, you never ask and you've never been asked "why do you want to work here?" And if the question was asked the answer had nothing to do with the company's mission?

Actually, they rarely ask it these days. Maybe the hiring folks are tired of this meaningless ritual? I once said I applied by mistake and they still wanted to hire me (I declined the offer as it was a different time zone, I realized this too far in the recruitment process and was quite embarrassed by mistake.)
I think GP is saying that understanding is measured by predictive capability of the theory

and in case you hadn’t noticed, that kind of uncomprehending slopthink has been going on for a lot longer than the AI fad
My previous employer was owned by a large conglomerate as part of its internal startup incubator. It wasn’t a great place to work for various reasons so I left, but just before I decided to leave it was announced it would be put up for sale by the parent company, and subsequently it’s been bought by a private equity firm most people will have heard of. Worth saying that the company was breaking even but not profitable.

From what I’ve heard, from the perspective of employees it’s been a total disaster. They made a load of people redundant, who were doing supporting functions like customer support and onboarding. That means the already stressed out dev team is now having to do more of this work, while their deadlines have not changed. At the start people were optimistic it meant they’d invest into the business, but now they’re talking about a sale in 1-2 years being likely. The firm is “profitable” but everyone worthwhile is heading to the exit, leaving only those who are less useful behind. Their entire R&D/ML team has walked. So what you can see coming is that it’ll sell, and it’ll soon go under or struggle because the people keeping the lights on will either have left or will be looking to leave and through the loss of any institutional knowledge it won’t be sustainable anymore.
I'm curious, how does typst work out that I want the function expanded or I want the literal string if there's no marker.
> Whereas Linux might have some files in 'usr', others in 'bin', others still in '.local' or even just dumping random files in your '$HOME' directory.

That's just weird. Linux doesn't put anything in home directories by default. You may install some apps that will do it, but they'll do the same thing on BSDs. What?
No. I'm talking about modern LaTeX. You can easily write é outside of math mode, but not inside. By default, you cannot write α either inside nor outside of math. By using the right packages, you can do both, but other things break.
But "-miş" denotes something happening in the past, in gossip form, on its own. It's trickier than what that table shows IMHO.
I bought a motorcycle and the high lasted a few minutes. I felt like I was floating. I had to go for 3 weeks without and then was able to get another mini high but in general not a great purchase.
I _think_ I understand the basic premise behind stable diffusion, i.e., reverse the denoising process to generate realistic images but, as far as I know, this is always done at the pixel level. Is there any research attempting to do this at the 3D asset level, i.e., subbing in game engine assets (with position and orientation) until a plausible scene is recreated? If it were possible to do it that way, couldn't it "dream" up real maps, with real physics, and so avoid the somewhat noisy output these types of demo generate?
This is really a good product, Might want to feature this in my indieniche newsletter, We share founders' stories, tools, and growth hacks to our over 3k+ entrepreneurial and indie hacker audience , might feature your product faster if you skip the queue
https://tally.so/r/w88BpO
How did you get the output to be so long? My podcasts are 3 mins max…
Did you read my original point? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41814310 given that, why on earth would I waste my time?

Also note

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112006855076082650

> You might be surprised to learn that I actually think LLMs have the potential to be not only fun but genuinely useful. “Show me some bullshit that would be typical in this context” can be a genuinely helpful question to have answered, in code and in natural language — for brainstorming, for seeing common conventions in an unfamiliar context, for having something crappy to react to.

> Alas, that does not remotely resemble how people are pitching this technology.
Is that dev banned from wordpress.org? If not, why does the dev not just close the plugin? After all, they put everything there in the first place.
The fact that you have an old unused laptop indicates that you also have a newer machine. There's no reason not to play on that newer machine instead, so I have a hard time understanding the point of the article.

There are way better uses for old laptops, such as using it as a homelab, media server, etc.
There are quite a few examples, but here's two that have affected me

1)pstcol has to be loaded before graphicx (I forget the reason but it just does)

2) if I use pdftricks I have to unset the "clipbox" command because it conflicts with the one in adjustbox.

As you say in another comment, given how latex reports errors debugging these can be a Fun time.
And 2 problems jn the fix:

- It’s a specific symptom fix: The same problem could occur with $_COOKIE or $_REQUEST always being available

- The cleanup is not done in a finally{}, so random missing vars when an exception occurs.

Exec summary: Horrible code as always in WP.
The Breakthrough in Physics We've Been Waiting For
I wouldn't even really call it that. I only think Wordpress is easier if one of two things is true:

1. You are actually building a dynamic site; eg WooCommerce is much easier than building your own storefront.

2. Your users refuse to use Markdown, and are paying you enough to double the overhead and put it all on you.

It gives me a good chuckle when I see posts on here like "We use Wordpress and then scrape the static assets and serve it as a static site from S3". I won't denigrate those people; I'm sure there are good contextual reasons to do that. I just think it's a pretty damning indictment for it to be downgraded from "the software that runs the website" to "a web-hosted WYSIWIG editor for people who can't/won't do Markdown".
glad to read he is celebrated somewhere more relevant to his travels
Being vulnerable only builds trauma if you're being vulnerable to damage that you aren't prepared to handle. Otherwise it's "just" adversity that you can overcome with support from close friends, family and/or a therapist, as well as what you have learned (books, courses, podcasts, lived experience etc). The former being the healing, the latter being the processing. The more adversity you overcome, the more resilient you become.

I would also say, don't rule out being a little vulnerable with people before you intend to become very close to them. Firtly, doing it in small doses at first and overcoming the damage will build some resilience before you meet someone new that you intend to be very close to. And secondly, often you won't know you want to be very close to someone until your connection with them is stronger and you know them well, and this can't happen without some vulnerability shown by both sides.
> I guess you would answer that in this case it's just prediction,

No I would answer that it is indeed understanding, to upend your
"guess" (prediction) and so prove that while you think you can
"predict" the next answer you lack understanding of what the argument
is really about :)
> On OpenBSD, the list of processes is mercifully short, and I can tell you what each of them is supposed to do. CoreOS? Not so much

Have you got the actual outputs to compare?
Sold my looper pedal and bought a tabletop looper last month. I love it but the learning curve is intense
Matt Mullenweg - owner of wordpress.org (open-source project) and wordpress.com (paid WordPress hosting provider)

He is angry that WPEngine makes money with Wordpress hosting. He thinks wordpress.com should be the only paid WordPress hosting provider.

He demanded 8% of revenue of WP Engine or he would embark on a “scorched earth nuclear approach” to WP Engine.

https://bullenweg.com
It could be used to create a bartop (or full-blown) arcade cabinet, perhaps. Or even just a "gaming console" hooked to a TV, rather than having to play at a desk in another room.

Of course, you could also just plug in that new laptop to either of those things, but sometimes having a dedicated device for something is just more convenient, especially if you've already got the hardware laying around going to waste.
PDF is an alternative to paper.
[dupe]

discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41821400

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41821336
$200B/year spent on roads in the USA (federal, state, and local) for passenger vehicle miles driven in the trillions, plus truck miles.

$4B/year spent on Amtrak for passenger miles in the billions.

Roads are an order of magnitude cheaper
SQL/JSON is here (kinda "Waiting for Pg 17") – select * from depesz
This has long been debunked e.g. by Thunderf00t (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rF2oZPe_WI) and EEVblog (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkjyeI0ykGM)

It comes as no surprise this won't work when you imagine

1) where you have to put the mirrors: either in low orbit so as to keep light dispersion low and the apparent mirror size from the ground big—but now you have the problem that the mirrors move with high speed relative to the ground, and the time frame where you can still reflect light before entering into Earth's shadow is very short. Or you put them into a higher orbit so they can reflect light for a longer time, but now the light spot that arrives on the ground is even more dispersed

2) how big these mirrors can practically become, and how little light there will be when you have a, say, 100m² mirror hundreds or even thousands of kilometers away.
Which engine? I believe XeTeX and LuaTeX support it natively?
I tend to have newer machines as main machines, and which may not necessarily be gaming machines; subsidiary machines be dedicated to a TV, or to side-rooms. Not all gaming needs to be done on your newer machine.
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/LICENSE.txt
I think the closest we have right now is 3D gaussian splatting.

So far it's only been used to train a scene from photographs from multiple angles and rebuild it volumetrically by adjusting densities in a point-cloud.

But it might be possible to train a model on multiple different scenes, and perform diffusion on a random point cloud to generate new scenes.

Rendering a point cloud in real time is also very efficient, so it could be used to create insanely realistic game worlds instead of polygonal geometry.

It seems someone already thought of that: https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/2311.11221
William T. Vollmann on Journalism
So if I go successfully make a feature addition to ie Kubernetes, or the Linux kernel, and it is exclusively motivated by furthering my business needs instead of altruism, but happens to incidentally benefit others too - do you consider that a "contribution" under your mental model? If not, what's the distinction?
"You are free to speak freely, but me as a government bureaucrat can take a hammer and crush your knees to a pulp. Look you are free to speak freely but you are not free of the consequences"

I'm sure your civics teacher would be proud of you.
My village - which is far larger nowadays - never had a station.

Subsidising buses like the £2 fare makes far more sense for most people than subsidising trains. Not that we get a bus which goes anywhere useful like a train station there’s 6 a day but you then need to change to another bus to get to the station.

Offering free parking at stations would help with a “living close to station” lot. I went to Birmingham a few weeks ago, choice is drive 30 minutes to station, pay £12 to park, then pay £17 for the train fare. Instead I just drove the extra 40 minutes and paid £10 to park in Birmingham.
... no, that wouldn't be fine at all. I see a playable game, got to level 13 before giving up.
Fisker Ocean EVs Will Remain Cloud-Connected After All
Best wishes. Courage is rare
YMMV but for some people:

- it's more fun to have a device dedicated to one thing (or turned into a toy)

- just the act of making one is fun
The practice of noting down random ideas
1. Release your code as open source.

2. Make a fortune.

3. Complain that people are freeloading.

4. Abuse your power as project founder to punish them, torching the community trust you’ve built up over decades.

5. Profit?

Whatever Mullenweg hoped to gain by undermining WPEngine can’t possibly be worth the damage he’s done to WP and his own company.
> What makes Pratchett more "relevant" than Shakespeare?

The language, the content, and the characters.

We don't live in a world where someone could fail to hear from their ship for a few weeks, thinking themselves unable to pay a weird debt, and have their loan shark's daughter dress up as lawyers and waltz into the trial to save the day. And we definitely don't encounter people who speak in Shakespearean English (even Victorian English is pushing it).

We do live in one where people try to commit insurance fraud as soon as they hear about it, a world where Magrats' have excessive candles (even if the magic isn't real), and a world of Vimes' Boots.

> Let alone modern adaptations like West Side Story

Or the Lion King. The adaptations are fine, the success make the connections to the world in which they are created.

> English classes also have you read lots of other more recent and more modern works. It's not exclusively Shakespeare.

I didn't say otherwise; I'm saying focus on those other things. I think the most modern thing we had was Ethan Frome.

> Believe it or not, if you take advanced French classes, you're going to watch a lot of French films and listen to a lot of French music for school! Since most students in English-speaking schools spend a lot more time studying English than French, they read a lot more English literature than French.

Again, that's fine for those learning French (and etc. for each other second language) to a higher level — given my experience with teaching myself a second language, and my self-tests over the years, there's a huge quality gap between what's a good grade in school and what's enough to get by with in practice — but that's not most people, and as there's exactly 18 years in the first 18 years of your life, my point is: what should be mandatory in schools? You've got limited time, what is the "you must" rather than "here's something you may like"?
I agree, If I were an IT manager this sort of stuff would make me start looking at alternatives.

If an app/pluging/package is maintrained and published by X, I want to make sure no one else can interefere with it - even if they have good intentions.

What Automattic should have done is removed the plugin from distribution and told WP Engine to fix the problem. By doing what they did they have breached the trust of their users.
Margin of error only occurs when you expect high variability and a very large population of measurements. When the set of potential measurements is of size 2, having enough statistical power can be achieved with very low sample size. Anyways, many results have survived stage 4 analysis (real world, observational, administrative documents sourced), even when their OG sample size is relatively small.
I can’t speak on the interpretation of the LGPL, but there are several copies of ffmpeg on my computer because people interpret it as in the article and install a new copy for their application.

Interesting that the MacOS protections can be subverted by not setting an attribute.
Does what? In normal game world things tend to stay where they are without player having to do anything.
People whose prediction skills are so bad as to use a gun without a good reason tend not to get in charge of nuclear weapons.

And yes guns are used as a deterrent a lot more than they are used to shoot to kill.

MAD is everything that held it all together during the Cuban missile crisis. Later countries agreed not to pursue ABM so as to keep the deterrent.

Your snark is misplaced.
TV documentaries today are arguably worse. Dumbed down to "here's someone who knows science stuff" and "here's a startup that does science stuff" over and over again.

The point I was trying to make is that many "news" articles aren't really new. It's not unheard of that the publisher just wants your attention so they'll keep rehasing old stuff.
this is an “irrealis mood”, there are quite a few of them with different functions, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrealis_mood

language is fascinating.
Good point re. Windows’s default configuration being less secure due to file extensions being hidden. This is another manifestation of the continuous tax paid for Windows’s insane level of backward compatibility. I think the root cause is that Microsoft thinks files ending in .EXE are ugly (but they don’t want to stop using this convention, which I don’t think is strictly required by the kernel or filesystem, but would probably break other things in the OS and 3rd party tools), so they hide that and all other file extensions (which maybe they also think are ugly, but I don’t see an alternative since files with multiple data
streams are not handled well for interchange). Not sure why the default isn’t just to hide the extension of executable files, though I think this is more trouble than it is worth, for the reasons demonstrated by this attack.

I would also consider disabling USB ports in air-gapped systems. You can still buy PS/2 keyboards and mice. Server and maybe some workstation motherboards still have PS/2 ports (and there are PS/2 PCI cards). For sneakernet file transfer you can allow use of an SD card. That way, if you see a USB cable or other device in an air-gapped environment, it should be an immediate red flag.
Like a subtle but unsettling babble/hubbub/cacophony? If so then I think I kind of know what you mean.
Have you read https://trademarks.justia.com/983/21/advanced-custom-9832116... and https://trademarks.justia.com/983/21/acf-98321135.html ?