skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 33 and I have a competitive skill set that includes osdev, and application programming, among other things.

I'm just not interested in contributing to Linux. I understand that quality matters and that Linux is an important piece of software, but I'd rather spend my time studying/contributing to seL4 and Genode or Plan9 or Inferno, one of those silly alt-kernel operating systems, or even Haiku. Even for Linux projects like NixOS, I'm more interested in ports to a BSD than working on the main project.

I've seen similar sentiments among a lot of people my age and younger, the problem isn't that we're stupid, we just have different ideas about what's worth contributing to.
Carrying weapons for self defense was a think people had to do around here in the Middle ages.
Sounds about right. Proper abstractions are difficult to get right up front, might as well pull them out only when they're obvious and profitable.
>He was, after all, a physics professor.

Actually, he was a mathematics and computer science teacher at San Diego State University.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_Vinge
I mean, how's your Linux command line these days?

https://docs.mau.fi/bridges/go/setup.html?bridge=signal is the setup for the Signal bridge, and you'll also need to look at the initial config setup. Once you have a working Matrix homeserver, it's mostly "Create a new database table, point the bridge at it, add the proper incantations to your homeserver config so it knows the bridge is permitted, and start things up."

I don't find it bad in the slightest, but I'm also a legacy Linux sysadmin sort.

There are also Docker methods of doing it, if you prefer that: https://docs.mau.fi/bridges/general/docker-setup.html?bridge...

If you're a GUI-only sort, it will be painful. If you're competent with older styles of Linux sysadmin, it's fairly straightforward, though getting Matrix federation working reliably can be a slight pain. Just make sure your certs update...
How do I ask the mods to swap out the link to the actual post instead of my blog's front page?

(...also, the title, as the original has the caveat)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-election_lawsuits_relat...

62 lawsuits in 9 states, 30 dismissed on merits, several from Trump appointed judges.

My recollection is that when the cases went to court, the lawyers backed away from claims of fraud: https://time.com/5914377/donald-trump-no-evidence-fraud/

Trump was consistently losing in all polls in 2020.

538 had Trump’s odds at 10%: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/

Betting markets had him at ~35%: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/betting_odds/202...

Biden was favored in MI, WI, NV, PA, AZ, FL, NC and GA on Election Day meaning he had many paths to victory.

And polls were pretty accurate for Biden:

State - Polling Avg. (Result)

MI - 51.2% (50.6%)

WI - 52.1% (49.5%)

NV - 49.7% (50.1%)

PA - 50.2% (49.9%)

AZ - 48.7% (49.4%)

FL - 49.1% (47.9%)

NC - 48.9% (48.6%)

GA - 48.5% (49.5%)

The surprise wasn’t that Trump lost in 2020, is was that based on polling averages that he didn’t lose by more.
Disregarding other implications of Musk's political influence, it's not probably not good for SpaceX long-term. Right now it feels like the beginning of SpaceX turning into the next Boeing. A revolving door between industry and regulators, regulators looking the other way, too big to fail, over-charging and under-delivering.
I've done a lot of tinkering with the internals of LoRA training, specifically investigating why fine-tune and LoRA training result in such different results, and I'm no academic, but I have found that there are definitely some issues with the SOTA at least WRT Stable Diffusion.

I've had significant success with alternate init mechanisms (the standard technique of init'ing B to zeros really does hurt gradient flow), training alpha as a separate parameter (and especially if you bootstrap the process with alphas learned from a previous run), and altering the per-layer learning rates (because (lr * B) @ (lr @ A) produces an update of a fundamentally different magnitude than the fine-tune update of W * lr = lr * B @ A).

In the context of Stable Diffusion specifically, as well, there's some really pathological stuff that happens when training text encoders alongside the unet; for SD-1.5, the norm of "good" embeddings settles right around 28.0, but the model learns that it can reduce loss by pushing the embeddings away from that value. However, this comes at the cost of de-generalizing your outputs! Adding a second loss term which penalizes the network for drifting away from the L1 norm of the untrained embeddings for a given text substantially reduces the "insanity" tendencies. There's a more complete writeup at https://github.com/kohya-ss/sd-scripts/discussions/294#discu...

You also have the fact that the current SOTA training tools just straight up don't train some layers that fine-tunes do.

I do think there's a huge amount of ground to be gained in diffusion LoRA training, but most of the existing techniques work well enough that people settle for "good enough".
Nobody has flagged my comment? Are you confusing me with someone else? No-one is doing anything to me at all?
Devil's advocate: I've asked a couple of farmers about this. The conventional wisdom is that glyphosate reduced the carbon footprint of farming.

My own feeling is that reducing the amount of farming would also reduce the carbon footprint of farming. I love meat as much as the next person, but widespread meat consumption is not particularly ecological.
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I would kill for some kind of `err_yield(err)` construct that handles propagating the error if it's the caller's problem to deal with.

That said, I discovered that Go has the ability to basically encapsulate one error inside of another with a message; for example, if you get an err because your HTTP call returned a 404, you can pass that up and say "Unable to contact login server: <404 error here>". But then the caller takes that error and says "Could not authenticate user: <login error here>", and _their_ caller returns "Could not complete upload: <authentication error here>" and you end up with a four-line string of breadcrumbs that is ostensibly useful but not very readable.

Python's `raise from` produces a much more readable output since it amounts to much more than just a bunch of strings that force you to follow the stack yourself to figure out where the error was.
I have zero interest in playing games on Netflix. It's just not what I subscribe to Netflix for.

I know that the Black Mirror thing was a success, but I didn't even really like that. Gaming, and sitting back on my lazy ass to watch content passively are two very different mental modes.

When I want to play games, I put on a game.

When I want to get fat or fall asleep after long work day, I put on Netflix.

I have no idea how representative I am of the average subscriber, but if most people are like me then I would like to offer a big "I told you so" because it made no sense to me when Netflix announced that they were starting to branch out into games.

I mean, if Netflix has grown to peak numbers and needs new markets to enter, then by all means produce games but they might want a more suitable distribution channel like Steam or producing console games for mass retail etc.
- rpi5 = $80
- Touch display 2 = $60
- Carlink kit = $55
- Power adapter = $10

$205 in parts

You can buy a CarPlay radio that's plug and play for the same or cheaper price. So this is clearly just for the hack value. Fun if you are after a hack project. Probably not worth it if you just want a CarPlay radio.
The Mutt Email Client: "All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less."
Everyone lands at a different spot.

Personally, I don't want to write any new code in something that doesn't have ADTs, or the moral equivalent (Java's sealed classes). I've already written a lifetime of code without them, so I suppose part of that is not wanting to write another 20 years of the same code. :)
aside: can we fix that double slash in the submitted url

odd that it was submitted that way multiple times
TSMC to close door on producing advanced AI chips for China from Monday
Bank switching was the term I should have used, thank-you!
The New Face of British Conservatism Is Black–and Female: Kemi Badenoch
I had OS/2 Warp 4 and it was one of the best pieces of software I ever had: from the box design to contents, included software and its quality; and even voice recognition.
How to Fail at Microservices
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RCA also gave their crown jewels of semiconductor technology to what became MediaTek as RCA distracted itself with non-core acquisitions (transforming itself into "rugs, chickens, and automobiles," leading to their decline).

https://taiwaninsight.org/2024/05/10/a-short-history-of-semi...

Edit: I'm typing this on a Kindle that uses a MediaTek CPU (I don't know if UMC fabbed it).
Not really, it's just a heavily modified version of CryEngine
I totally agree with this. From an academic perspective this makes total sense. But they will keep asking why "why would I want to do this?" until they see a real-life impact.
One thing that I really liked was the "discoverability" of the user interface.

I started to walk around, picking things up. Then, I noticed a little "i" on the bottom left. I typed "i", and it opened the inventory. Very good!

Now, the "i" was replaced by an "x". I really expected that "x" would close the inventory... but it didn't. :-(

Unless the "x" letter is reserved for something important, it would be nice if it could be used to close dialogs!
Wow! Amazing job, I could really use this to create some tunes, I miss music making. I wish it had an "export to file" function.
Wondering whether glyphosate-resistant plants will keep their resistance after glyphosate is no longer being used. Will that vestigial trait become a liability due to some extra energy costs, and eventually fall back out of the gene pool?
Soft vs hard is based on how closely the world tracks with modern physics/science. As such even just FTL is soft, let alone everything else that doesn’t fit.
SBPL (sandbox profile language) is interesting. Some details here: https://github.com/0xbf00/simbple

I'm curious if there's a Scheme interpreter somewhere as part of macos that consumes these?

PS looks like it's "sandbox-exec" that does this. Ref: https://reverse.put.as/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Apple-Sand...
This was one of the main reasons why I stopped using Wordpress years ago. The other was the difficulty of keeping WP sites secure.
I get it.

Bandersnatch is neat. And I see that is staying. Which tracks because "Choose Your Own Adventure" is decently suited to a "TV Remote" experience.

However, my wife found this game "Storyteller" on the Switch. I also found it on iOS and noticed the Netflix intro would play when I opened it. Then I saw the promo for it on Netflix. Turns out, it's a Netflix game. And it's cute, but it's not a lot. You can complete the game and most of the bonus bits in a few hours. And once you're done, that's it. There's nothing to do. The little vignettes are very simple story wise. And there's no real through plot. Like, I don't need to play that ever again. It's not even like a game like Super Mario World, where the gameplay itself is enjoyable.

So between the interface issue and the type of games they pushed, this is probably for the best.
I looked into it a bit and if you want to be ready get this bundle:

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/10143/SEGA_Mega_Drive_...

And this one:

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/14082/Dreamcast_Collec...

These contain every game about to be delisted.

Each available for around 35 USD/EUR RRP

The Steam Autumn Sale might be the last opportunity to get these on discount.
I think part of the problem is we're no longer guided by experimentation because the experiments have gotten too expensive. We now use mathematics to guide us to look for most likely outcomes and then conduct experiments to confirm those outcomes.

But I think the real crises is one of philosophy. We now believe that singularities, which were once considered to be indications of a flawed model, to be manifested in reality - such as the case with black holes. This is problematic when you're using mathematics to guide you in conducting experiments.
Thunderbird on Android is K-9 and in no real way related to desktop Thunderbird which is in essence XULrunner (a proto-Electron based around the Gecko engine and the XUL toolkit) with a mail user agent application running on top. Thunderbird on Android uses the System Webview which is based on Blink.
There is no such thing as "herbicides"
they are semi targeted biocides and are not maintaing there effectivness or targeted enough to prevent unacceptable
"collateral" damage.
Biology supports this as there are very few parallels to be found in nature for this kind of defence/offencive use of
chemicals in multi cellular life.Which is a great big hint as to the true cost benifit equation over, reproductive time
scales
Many single celled life does of course use
chemical deffensive/offensive products, yeast and various algae capable of powerfull effects on many life forms.
Then there are venoms,but those are mechanicaly targeted.
Nature evrn invented the "tazzer" as a weapon/deffence,in electric eals.
Ignoring the vast and tested data set that is present in nature is dumb.
Bandersnatch is one of the things they're keeping.
Interesting. I was just in the UK (Scotland), and picked up a cold on the plane. I was unable to locate any pseudoephedrine.

My search was far from comprehensive, so it might merely have required looking harder. But I gave up early, on the assumption that the UK was similarly restrictive to the US.
CIG. Might just be an Australian brand though
A 'pain-o-meter' could improve treatments
Creating a Culture of Security
Can we just link directly to the story rather than through longreads? https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/10/1105034/weeds-cl...
https://archive.is/5PJ29

TL;DR: due to pressure from the US they will halt production on AI chips for China
Thank you so much for your suggestion.

I tried just yesterday to explain to a kid how software can model and optimise something they were interested in. But I lost them really fast.

But maybe I should be looking into their syllabus more so I can link this up with some of their math problems they might be solving.
Interesting. What are the legitimate use cases to not treat /proc as readonly, and what are legitimate use cases to mount around and especially bind-mount random filesystems around in /proc?

Like, my first impulse is "Why do we allow this?" And I guess, sure, the answer is "root is allowed to do this, because root is never not allowed". And sure I very much dislike my computer telling me "Nay I cannot do that", hence why I have no windows anymore at home.

But there is some stuff that seemingly doesn't have any legitimate use case on a server. And even if protections from that stuff keep me from fixing some situations, I can still nuke and rebuild it in an hour or so.
So it would be `transparent lossy compression`? To this layman `perceptually lossless` sounds more clear, but i understand the issue with the name.
Data Lake vs. Data Warehouse vs. Data Lakehouse
Wouldn't that effectivly be a Visual Novel (DDLC) or Graphic Novel (Maniac Mansion)? If you have good IP and Story, aren't games in this style pretty straightforward to create?
It's not a tie for Gaza. Trump is the one who provoked and moved the US embassy to Jerusalem. With his SIL being jewish, and his love for authoritarian regime like Bibi's - in what world do you think he gives a flying F about Palestinians? The left disappointed us for Gaza, but Trump will be much worse.

With regards to Ukraine - how do you judge the accuracy of the French documentary you watched? Who financed it?
Even in a far fetched scenario where you believe Putin felt threaten with NATO closer to his borders - does that suddenly make it ok for him to invade a sovereign state? Especially given they made an agreement to respect their territory in exchange for Ukraine giving up their nukes?
Oh right - Russia's word means sh!t.

PS: Stein is fully in Putin's pocket. Don't buy the Green Party BS who only exists for a few months every 4 years.
I have no doubt that Apple's marketing department has a better understanding of their user base than I do, and assume that the term, at worst, doesn't bother them.

But as a non-Apple person, it just seems awkward and weird.
>Why does China’s near abroad matter to them? Why do they care about national unity? Why would they want unobstructed access to the deep-water Pacific?

Are questions that answer themselves. But they are the wrong questions.

It’s not China that’s the hostile actor here. It’s not China that’s meddling in distant affairs. This very thread pertains to an unilateral, unprompted hostile action by the US against China. And note that it’s not Trump’s doing. He’ll just do more of it, more openly.

And all of this is very much in line with America’s (at least) seven decades old strategic posture:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_chain_strategy
> For now, either view of the disk's real shape could be correct. Astronomers say forthcoming technological upgrades to telescopes will allow them to gather more detailed images and better constrain the area around Sgr A* and other black holes.

Anyone know the expected timeline for better data?
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@dang a better URL would be https://alice.bsky.sh/post/3laega7icmi2q

(I can't tell if Dan has an alert set up on his handle or whether he just sees everything, but hopefully that works :))
> I'm working on implementing continuations in the interpreter

You might find this paper (and everything else on the site) interesting and relevant.

https://okmij.org/ftp/continuations/ZFS/context-OS.pdf
Hard to say what Anil is getting at/seeing here. The web is not massively open and on the cusp of many new platforms and the 'web 2.0' boom that happened around then. It's consolidated around a handful of platforms all vying for the same 'engagement', having already mostly pushed out/crippled independent news, and any independent social networks are niche/also-ran silos that in most cases are barely holding on or in a constant struggle for traction. The one bright light and I know he sees it and is encouraged by it is more ppl especially in tech circles are paying more attention/thinking about the possibilities of being indie driven by a resurgence in awareness about the true value of that. But that's also an aside, non-mainstream thing, and there's a whole generation(s) of new devs and users coming up that have only ever lived inside facebook, TikTok, whatsapp and Apple's 'what's a file' ecosystem. Gotta keep the fire burning as it were.
I think the difference is between cheering on the loss of privacy and recognising the loss.

The loss of privacy was something that was totally foreseeable (by me, at least) but embraced by the general population. The general embrace has meant that we all operate within a panopticon-like system - this itself modifies behaviour. No alternative choices are available - as a collective all have to 'follow the herd', with phones etc being essential to modern existence, despite the privacy reservations felt by many.

I'm taking the opportunity to express the idea that it is possible to find appeal in this or that tech feature and to lose sight of the broader ramifications. Each incremental change can be justified (no batteries makes my phone slimmer, 'finding my' is useful, its good to know my blood pressure, etc) but to imagine that the rollout of these features is a natural unfolding of reality without preordained end goal (technocratic governance) is naive.

Technocratic governance is not a goal that anyone would accept if it was proposed in a straightforward way - hence the duplicity, incrementalism, destruction of existing institutions, etc.
You don't have a clue what you're talking about. You don't provide any evidence about their inability to disseminate the information, you just assert it as fact because you seem to support government overreach.
People, including women, Latino & Afro Americans voted for Trump specifically because they don't care about these issues. These are non issues for the majority of Americans.
60˚C isn't a temperature worth worrying about. And if that's what your SSD is at when idle, then it's entirely due to having a bad SSD controller—the part that is absent from Apple's storage modules.
> who've DONE NOTHING WRONG

Generally untrue. Most of them have wilfully invaded spaces intended for the sole use of the opposite sex. This disregard of others' boundaries is in itself wrong, especially when it's a male doing so.
Some thoughts - this is a good overview of how stagnant the hobbyist state of the art was 20 years ago. You could probably have built all of these circuits with the those exact parts in 1973. Pretty much everything in this collection but the superhet and direct-conversion receivers is obsolete and was at best obsolescent at the time. You can think of a typical SDR as a dual-conversion receiver with a conversion stage in the digital domain. Superregens were used in remote controls right up through the turn of the century, but by the time this was written no one was designing new ones. I saw a TRF front end on a commercial ultrasound device in that era but it was not typical.

Many RF transistors are no longer available in through-hole though you can probably find small quantities for hobby projects. The msph10 is long gone. And good luck sourcing dual-gate mosfets even in smt. Infineon might still make a couple.

As a digression, it does make me think TRF receivers are probably a better learning tool than the my-second-radio regenerative receiver. Crystal radios, of course, are pure magic and it’s sad that so few people get to build them as kids.
Imperative rust is really good for parsing, but you can also get a long way with regexes. Especially if you are just prototyping or doing Advent of Code.

I do still like declarative parsing over imperative, so I wrote https://docs.rs/inpt on top of the regex crate. But Andrew Gallant gets all the credit, the regex crate is overpowered.
China can manufacture all but the best chips. They are continually improving, and I don't think anyone has offered a single reason why they couldn't do it.