skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all! Every minute of every day we all choose what we're going to do with that minute and perhaps many of the minutes that follow.

When I make those choices I balance off what I want to do against what I need to do and what I should do and what I could do. That is the essential choice of being an adult.

My experience with walking, before I started walking, regularly, which was forced on me by a requirement to get more physical exercise as part of a weight management program, was that I felt very strongly that I had much better uses for my time than getting slowly from point A to point B. That attitude was supported by my ignorance with regard to what else I could do while walking and so stack time usage.

What I learned by being forced to walk at least 30 minutes a day (its now up to 2.5hrs a day) was that there were things I did while sitting around. Those things included calling people, having meetings, and thinking about solutions to problems or the days events. What I experienced was, that I was no less productive during the day where I spent time walking, and there were tertiary effects that were completely unexpected.

For example, I have always been plagued with the issue that as soon as I lay my head on the pillow to go to sleep, my brain starts kicking up all the things I didn't have time to think about during the day. As a result, getting to sleep could take an hour to an hour and a half. Just laying there, in bed, trying to stop my brain long enough to go to sleep.

Walking massively mitigated that problem. I found, after I had been walking, that I had spent some, if not all, of that time thinking through things that had been pushed aside by the immediacy of email or social media or "honey do" projects. Not only had I thought about them on my walk, I started recording on my phone notes to myself of actions to take to move forward on things I was stuck on. This meant that when it was time to sleep, not only was it much easier to go to sleep, I already had a good idea of the things I needed to get to the next day or in the near future.

That blew my mind. That I had traded laying immobile in my bed for some moderate exercise that effectively took no additional time out of my day and has lead to better sleep and better fitness. It also blew my mind how much more effective 1:1 meetings with direct reports were while walking than they were sitting in an office.

I was pretty ignorant about both the time saving aspects of walking and the effect it would have on my mental acuity and well being. If someone reading this decides to try it out for themselves, it is my hope they will see the positive benefits I have experienced. I wouldn't go back to a non-walking lifestyle now, I have come to rely on those benefits.
> I only really care about performance and Wayland hasn’t been very convincing [0] with no discernible improvement over X11.

there would be no controversy with

"I only really care about GNOME performance and GNOME Wayland hasn’t been very convincing [0] with no discernible improvement over GNOME X11"

GNOME matters for you, it does not matter for me (xmonad, xterm, browsers). If all user see is GNOME he can decide it is Linux that is broken as well.

"The real story behind Wayland and X" by Daniel Stone (link above) specifically shows X11 performance problems, it is view from developer what is wrong with X. The story which we, as users, do not know. We can't blame developers for trying to implement something sane.

I have no contributions to core projects but I don't blame them either.
I do to connect to my own house server
mac pro 5,1 with a few upgrades does the trick
True, but it's also good to remember that the new system isn't "worse" or "better" than the old one.

A lot of people seem to think that if you "destroy" an ecosystem it is a step toward a lifeless environment.
I imagine some form of market economy will always be an important part of organizing human endeavors. The driving force in a market economy is _extrinsinc_ though. Or as some in thread put it, “greed”.

What we are talking about here is carving out a complementary arrangement scaling up _intrinsicly_ motivated production.

One interesting thing that happens when trying to use extrinsic rewards to encourage some behavior is that it tends to suppress any intrinsic motivation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivation_crowding_theory

Also for more on the intersection of open source development culture and economic systems I warmly recommend to checkout “The Wealth of Networks”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Networks
> Do you remember fonts without anti-aliasing?

On a 200 dpi display the xfontsel display looks better. :)
Requeening is ideally done with a queen that is from known good stock, not by emergency requeening.
I’ve just done it at home. It’s cheaper to raise your own, but you will get traits that are undesirable, aggression being one.

The drones in a hive are not all raised there, they move about hives, so killing the hive won’t get them all.

Hives that have got a laying worker are also very hard to requeen and it usually isn’t possible. One way is to shake all the bees out some distance away then hope the laying worker doesn’t make it back to the hive (she can’t fly). However those hives are hard to fix, as they usually reject the new queen.

There is a lot of differences in beekeeping region to region and country to country, so whatever I have seen and done may be very different to other places.
>I always find the anti-environmentalist position that pops up on HN interesting. For a technical audience, they are amazingly unaware of "Systems Thinking".

Technical audiences usually go with the "technology, right or wrong" angle (as nationalists go with "my country, right or wrong").

It's more about identity validation and peer group thinking than critical and systems thinking. Plus they're into technology because they disproportionally like, glorify, and are attracted by tech in the first place.
The first number is about sold devices in may, the later is about all devices in use no matter when they were bought
LOL this post got suppressed ( flagged )

I think the post definitely has some merit on the discussion of free speech on the modern platforms that have become the new town square.
What looks like "typical Linux geeks being geeks" with this situation:

1) the old, mostly working thing is being abandoned in favor of

2) that new thing which doesn't work in so many cases it's laughable, even after 11 years. How many years was it between the concept of X and a working release at Palo Alto?

Note that the new situation is so perfect for passing the buck from the windowing system to the compositors, and compositor folks are busy fighting feuds over which one another's private protocols or even public ones they are not going to support.

Oh, and the browsers. Chromium is making its first shy bumbling steps towards actually working on Wayland! A mere decade after!

I've heard it was so much easier to write Wayland clients, what could have happened?

Upd: This toxic development culture in a nutshell is exactly what this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24165445 is about. Well, we know it's not limited to Google.
These days the standard way to do this is to use a USB UART adapter, or a USB-connected Arduino, an Ethernet-connected Raspberry Pi, etc. -- they have GPIO ports, both analog and digital, as well as I2C, SPI, etc etc. There are enormous numbers of options for motor controllers and sensors available off the shelf. You can bit bang all you want from your desktop computer, via this interface!
I don't think resolvectl is less simple, just different. It makes it much easier to realize you've typo'd something, for instance. It also makes it easier to understand what the running config is, as opposed to the old "read a bunch of text files and hope they haven't been edited since the daemon was hup'd".

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-resolved#Settin...
Now if only someone could write a Forth that boostraps a Lisp, which gets Emacs running on UEFI
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You can indeed train state of the art text models with this data provided you come up with some better architecture that what we currently have. What I am saying is that you cannot train state of the ART "GPT" models like the link is saying.

Your link is for GPT-2, GPT-3 used much, much more data.

GPT-3 was trained in part on "books2" corpus which is not public but seems to basically be the same thing as this: 200k books * 100k words per book on average * ~3 token per words = 60B tokens, books2 is 55B tokens so it checks out.

The total amount of tokens that GPT-3 was trained on from all sources is a combined 500B tokens, this is merely 10% of what they have.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165.pdf
That’s fair.

I’ve assumed thus far that using it socially was more zeitgeist than substance, only to pass like the sourdough starter phase.

Among my friend group it’s hard to find a reason to use it over, say, ad hoc FaceTime calls. But I recognize that’s not a position everyone is in or wants to be in. And preferences vary.
Damage control of what part exactly? Are you implying they will make in house chips that go toe to toe to the A* in the near future or that Apple is going to start selling it's main hardware lead to competitors in the near future?

Without either of those it's not much of a "damage control" response as it's the same Qualcomm family of devices Google and Microsoft have been using for the last decade.
What are the European business schools?

Are there any public universities you'd describe as globally prestigious?
It's clear you are mixing up vanilla and most every kind of fruit tree. One is a high-value, low-volume speciality crop, the other is the exact opposite. Pollinating a cherry orchard! Dude, you go first!
Why is it outdated? Do you have any souces for that?

What do you propose instead?
Resist implementing back doors. That's about the most important way to help others in the long run.
How does that look like in practice? I mean, you can’t use the table-based per-byte approach because you can’t store the lookup table with constexpr, so I guess you must be doing polynomial division via bit shifts and such, right?
I agree. On one hand I can understand the need to shrink code, focus on the core functionality etc..., but on the other hand X has e.g. "xset" and "xbindkeys" which can be used for all X-desktops (or "Window Managers" or however they're called). With wayland each single desktop environment has to re-implement all that functionality => looks like wasted effort to me - the modularity (from the point of view of functionality) of X is lost in Wayland.
Banned in 3, 2, 1...
for some real fun, watch this video of an Olympic cyclist generating 700 watts to toast a single slice of bread

be sure to note the size of his thighs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoQnTypHbYk
That's my point - did Tea become the nouveau drink eliminating coffee? The UK had access to coffee in the 1600s but Tea didn't come until 200 years later with the colonies in east asia, right?
Even my post trying to discuss suppression of suppression articles, just got suppressed!

How suppressing :(

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24889835
Yeah. I have made DDG my default but for specific queries (e.g. not “IMDb Manchurian candidate” but “terraform aws_subnet data”) I end up going back to google like half the time.
Ambassador Container Design Hands On
> it's more likely for the undesirable genes to be removed if the entire hive is euthanized.

Yes, removing the genes is needed, but that can be done by killing the old queen, waiting a day then putting in a caged queen of known good genes. There is no need to kill the hive that I am aware of.

Requeening to correct temperament is part of beekeeping and killing the hive seems extreme. It is also wasteful of the equipment and comb because depending on the method used it won’t be able to be salvaged.

Killing hives is generally done by pouring petrol in the top then sealing the hive up, and is seen as one of the more humane methods. However I’ve only known this being done for American Foul Brood, not for temperament.

The improved temperament sometimes happens almost instantly, but is generally over a about a month as the workers die off. The total lifespan of a worker is only about 6 weeks in midsummer.

I keep bees, but in New Zealand an aggressive colony is a lesser beast than an africanised monster. I hope I’m missing something (eg what is africanised bees reject new queens, but I can’t find anything suggesting this is the case).
From the article: "What worries me as much as the end of general-purpose computing for the masses is that so few seem to understand that it is ending."

Correction: Has Ended. The vast majority of people using computers has shifted to phones and tablets. I have a friend who's a millenial who barely knows how to use his desktop PC (It's a Mac) but is fluent on his iPad/iPhone.

Most people are not content creators, they are consumers. The people who are still building their own PC's are mostly enthusiasts. There's no profit in building custom PC's anymore, so local computer shops aren't selling them (And if they are, it's at a hefty premium).

The author of the article calls the 1980's the "Golden era" of personal computing. I disagree. Networked computing is an amazing thing, but it's also been monetized and now the consumers are the product being sold. And happily so. The outliers are those who buy pre-2012 computers so they can skip UEFI and are happy to live under their rocks to do it. That's okay with me.

Personally I need a faster computer than that, so I'm stuck with UEFI and because W10 is the right OS for my needs, I'm stuck with it phoning home. This doesn't mean the golden age was in the 80's or 90's. It means that by the time we figured out how to make computing awesome, we also figured out how to make computing itself profitable, not just the computers. The golden age the could have been, never was.
Yep, genetic diversity is a resource. It's painstakingly written natural code that solves various biological problems. We're just now getting to the point where we can start to understand this massive legacy codebase that creates the biosphere, and it's like we're just deleting huge swathes of it without analyzing it because we want more space to store cat jpgs or something stupid like that. So goddamned shortsighted.
The Republican Party’s Last Burp of Hope
Because communist apologetics usually come from people who are communits, not people who think there is a healthy balance. Which is already in law. The US, just like every other healthy functioning country in the world, is socialist. They just suck at it horrendously in certain fields. The capitalist ideal is talked about, but mostly because of the innovation aspect, not the worker exploitation aspect. In fact, and especially these days, manual labor is so expensive, people are getting into DIY just to avoid it.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to living in a world made out of dust deserts and domed cities - but we managed to keep the 9-to-5 bullshit jobs and the stock market alive! Awesome!
Check the paragraphs below that where the developer asks for help either by donations or by pull requests.

I understand you probably don't want to do that because you're fine with xdotool for now, but the options are there should you need them.
Hello! I made the books3 dataset. I am delighted to hear that this might be useful for your personal use.

I spent four or five days intensely working on the script to convert an .epub to .txt. It's a surprisingly hard problem, so I tried to be correct in every detail. It was important to me that an AI learn the way humans learn.

Therefore, yes, I have found that these books are quite readable. However there are some unique challenges due to the nature of it being .txt, which I would love to help you navigate.

Firstly, the top and the bottom of each file is usually "repetitive". By that I mean, there tends to be a lot of metadata that might be hard to skip.

However, the neat thing is, these aren't actually .txt files -- it's Markdown. And we can take advantage of the markdown format to help you out.

Here is a direct link to "A Mathematician's Apology": https://gist.githubusercontent.com/shawwn/1b399325e866731165...

I like this file as an example, because it illustrates both problems that will be challenging for you. Firstly, the book itself doesn't begin until halfway down the file. There is a ridiculously long "forward" section, written by someone else. Normally this would be easy to skip.

The cheat code I use to read this book is to search for "# 1". Double quote, followed by pound sign (or "hashtag" as the kids say nowadays, ha), followed by a space, then the number one.

That brings you straight to chapter one.

However, not all books use that format for chapter one. So I would recommend searching for a regex, if you can: "beginning of line" followed by pound sign.

That'll usually do the trick. And yes, I find all of these to be quite readable, which I was proud of.

The code is courtesy of Aaron Swartz, by the way. I merely refined it. I am so proud of him for what he was able to achieve during his lifetime. This is "html-to-text" with some modifications.

If you want to convert .epub files to .txt for your own use, the script is here: https://github.com/shawwn/scrap/blob/master/epub2txt-all

It has a rather cryptic name of "epub2txt-all". Sorry about that. But the script itself should be just a matter of running it.

Here are some notes on what I did with this script, in case you find it helpful: https://github.com/soskek/bookcorpus/issues/27

Happy reading! Please let me know any other questions you might have.

By the way, dmca.mp4 is a joke video. Sort of. It's a good question of what is actually going on there. As far as I can tell, it's a dozen professionals who have gathered together to simulate jacking themselves off while singing "ahhhhhhHHhhH" for ten minutes. I don't really know anything beyond that, but the-eye.eu community seems rather proud of it.
We are experiencing this in parts of the ocean - a switch from fishes to jellyfish. One is edible, the other, not so much.

Here's some comments: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/333/6049/1547.6
> C++ has notoriously slow compile times, but note that he's talking about efficiency of the code generated, not the efficiency of code generation itself, which I agree is damaged by templates.

You're correct about the structure of the sentence, but note that people very commonly say something other than what they mean. Compare the rhetorical device of "transferred epithet": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypallage

> a figure of speech in which the syntactic relationship between two terms is interchanged, or -- more frequently -- a modifier is syntactically linked to an item other than the one that it modifies semantically.

>> "While he's waiting, Richard pops a nervous handful of salted nuts into his mouth."

Who was nervous, the nuts or Richard?
Interest, will or passion are not "greed"; you're over-generalizing its meaning.
I completly agree, it's a diminishing return but a return nonetheles, so to have a "world class GPT" model with 10% of the data, and 10% (optimistically) of the compute that OpenAI used, you will need some very very impressive innovation elsewhere.
> Smart background replace with optional green screen support

I find that one curious. Can you elaborate on it? I'm having trouble thinking of a situation that would make it a need. I don't particularly want people having a view into my home, but it's easy enough for me to sit in front of a wall/curtain, or just move personal objects out of view.

The others are more interesting; thanks for the list.

Allow me to add one relevant to certain communities: Audio suitable for musical collaboration. The music teachers, students, and performers I know prefer Zoom because it works better than the alternatives they have tried. I think it's a combination of tolerable latency and the ability to disable audio processing that's designed for speech but distorts live music.
Disclaimer: I didn't fully read the article yet.

I wanted to mention the excellent HEADS project (as in the other side of TAILS): https://github.com/osresearch/heads

This talk is great: https://trmm.net/Heads_33c3

I remember when UEFI became a thing and people were complaining in linux forums that the keys are controlled by the manufacturers and 'the whole thing is a ploy by microsoft to kill linux' (UEFI is just a convoluted standard way to write BIOS in a certain way).

Now we can control the keys, all we need to do is kick UEFI to the curb and use linux from BIOS all the way to the DE/WM (coreboot..).

Turns out we can turn the boot process into a chain of kexec's and simplify everything greatly.
Sure, if their refusal to smile might kill me, and smiling cost them little/nothing to do.
Indeed I was :) /whoosh
I'm gobsmacked. I must really be out of touch. It never occurred to me that BB is "right leaning." I just assumed that headlines like "Senator Hirono Demands ACB Be Weighed Against A Duck To See If She Is A Witch" or "Ninth Circuit Court Overturns Death Of Ruth Bader Ginsburg." were about needling conservatives for being superstitious. I must have missed any right leaning stories.
I know where I live most native pollinators are very selective and, as a result, in very small numbers since their habitat doesn’t resemble what it did even 100 years ago. They’re a drop in the bucket compared to what we require... And even if we made enormous efforts to boost their populations, I think they’d largely only pollinate fruit trees.
I believe you can disable anti aliasing and font hinting in Fontconfig.
No. I'm definitely the high maintenance one in our relationship.
Nice. Let’s hope all banking apps accept these as a QR code.
This AI Turns You into a Zombie
https://makemeazombie.com/
Did you say « Authentic reviews don’t exist »? Or did you say « Google doesn’t show us any authentic reviews, therefore they don’t exist »?

It is the pointer to monopolistic behavior: Being so influent that nothing exists outside the Google Search. We can’t affirm honest reviews don’t exist: I’m sure there are authentic comparators, in fact in France UFC Que Choisir is a pretty leftist comparison organization who explores products, compares them and even regularly sends companies to trial, a pretty good sign that they couldn’t care less for those companies in a way that is awesomely aligned with authenticity. I’m sure there are millions of other people writing reviews for pleasure.

Google chose not to show them, and to orient their search in the way they wanted, whatever it is, maybe they’re showing corporate sites first, or commercial sites first, making it impossible for amateurs to exist, making them « don’t exist ». It turns out it makes you feel like nothing is authentic. Therefore we turn back to Amazon or Google and buy any of the list, just trusting the biggest vendor. This probably innocuous wording of yours may be the key to the whole problem here.
Simply stop taking twitter seriously. If there's something posted which interests you, read it. If not, ignore it. Whatever emotion it causes in you, just walk around the block and ignore it.

Just don't give a s..t, and twitter will get back to normal in the long run.
Nearly 12M Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in S.F
One side smiles and the other side growls. Both are shady.
They'd be extremely unlikely to be able to take their entire engineering team with them.

That's an example of why doing business with this company is problematic, but it doesn't change the fact that that is the other option when China demands you censor something.
Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets (2018)
I really ought to learn OCaml (besides just the toy programs I've written). I think if I got past the messy ecosystem (is tuareg the right thing to use, or is that the old thing?) I'd really like it.
That sentence is grammatically entirely correct, neither is it misleading. I don't see how it embellishes the core meaning of the phrase.

Is it harder to read with two non-defining clauses? That's something else.