HellsMaddy

Since you mention VAEs: you might be interested in Active Inference, which is built on minimizing variational free energy. Same E−TS form as the thermodynamic kind (Helmholtz free energy), so it does fit your thermo/info/NN question. And the negative free energy is equivalent to the evidence lower bound used in generative models like VAEs. Lots of really fascinating connections between all of these topics :)

There's a free 2022 textbook: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5299/Active-Infere...

And a brand new one (though it's a bit pricey): https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262050951/fundamentals-of-activ...

I received it too. I wonder if they sent this to all pro/max subscribers or only those who they’ve flagged as having used a third party harness.

Might be interested in https://github.com/shytikov/pragmasevka which is my current go-to font.

Kagi is doing something similar to this, though it's not trying to remove absolutely all AI, just "slop": https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/slopstop.html

Global-by-default scoping was one of Lua's largest mistakes. I wish they'd fix it, but of course it would break backwards compat.

The link to the Amazon product looks like a non-affiliate link when you hover over it. But if you click, as soon as the mousedown event fires, they swap in an affiliate link. How rude!

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8432703

This is awesome on Linux. I've wanted to see my battery status forever, and the ability to pause when you remove an AirPod is really nice too.

This is cool! Please add a dark theme and respect `prefers-color-scheme: dark` :)

nvidia GPU for me with hardware acceleration enabled (required some command-line flags passed to chrome to get it working on wayland):

    google-chrome-stable --enable-gpu --ozone-platform=wayland --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform,WaylandLinuxDrmSyncobj

I'm also unable to load it in chrome on linux (wayland backend). Seems like some sort of GPU issue.

I agree with this. But do you have any resources on "thinking with portals"? It's easier said than done.

Super exciting. I hope to be able to embed a Ghostty-backed terminal into my Rust app in the future. Amazing work as always, Mitchell!

Private equity seems to be a form of cancer that slowly sucks the life out of everything it touches, with a single goal: to grow and spread. Can someone more knowledgeable please explain to me why I'm wrong?

Very cool! Was it difficult to get Bitrig approved on the App Store? If I had to guess just based on the idea, it seems like the sort of thing Apple would take issue with.

I really love this and I've been using it a lot. The one thing I'm unsure about is the best way to get my LSP working with inline dependencies.

Usually, when I use uv along with a pyproject.toml, I'll activate the venv before starting neovim, and then my LSP (basedpyright) is aware of the dependencies and it all just works. But with inline dependencies, I'm not sure what the best way to do this is.

I usually end up just manually creating a venv with the dependencies so I can edit inside of it, but then I run the script using the shebang/inline dependencies when I'm done developing it.

My first exposure to XSLT was sketchers.com: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Sketchy-Skecherscom

Sadly it doesn't seem like they're using it anymore.

Unless you buy on Amazon, in which case products from reputable brands are co-mingled with third-party FBA sellers' inventory, which may include counterfeits.

Is this by chance inspired by the one handed keyboard from Children of Men?

https://youtu.be/sJO0n6kvPRU at around 2:05

One of my favorite scenes, by the way.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18637991

Are there any glasses/headsets out there that are good for coding yet? The idea of working on the go with VR glasses is very appealing to me.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42665222

Thanks for posting this, it's an interesting perspective that I hadn't considered before. Ideally, sites would respect user preferences such as prefers-color-scheme and prefers-reduced-motion. And, in fact, I just checked MDN and see there is prefers-contrast:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...

From the README[0]:

To improve the performance of download, I indexed ~3,000 cities with population larger than 100,000 people and stored into a very simple protobuf format.

[0] https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads

That explains why they are "close to each other" but not what determines which nodes are connected by an edge.

How are connections between repos determined? I checked some of my repos and don't see any references in either direction for some of the connections.

The website is good for someone who is not primarily a web designer. It can serve as a starting point which can be polished into something quite nice.

If you mean specifically flyio.net and not just fly.io the company, I'm guessing they host their status page on a separate domain in case of DNS/registrar issues with their primary domain.

Suspiciously, Turso started having issues around the same time. Their CEO confirmed on Discord it's due to the Fly outage:

Ok.I caught up with our oncall and This seems related to the Fly.io incident that is reported in our status page. Our login does call things in the Fly.io API

we are already in touch with Fly and will see if we can speed this up

For some reason, the images weren't loading in the article, probably my adblocker. Here's the main image showing the process: https://web.archive.org/web/20241108024834/https://i.kinja-i...