skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although I am not having these problems with Explorer, I am going to answer this out of interest.

Obviously running Windows in a VM will be slower, but besides, Explorer is more than just the file manager.

It used to be very easy to replace the shell (Explorer.exe) with your own binary, but while this is now harder in later Windows versions it is still doable. I loved to play around with that when I was younger, and before I got seriously into Linux.

Now, there is actually a few options:

- Aston Shell used to be my favorite, but it does not seem like it is actively developed anymore. It is also closed source, which is potentially a security concern.

- Classic Shell (Works for Windows 10)

- ExplorerPatcher (taskbar enhancements for Windows 11)

- StartIsAllBack (taskbar enhancements for Windows 11)

I do not recommend replacing the default file manager, because Explorer is already extremely good. If this is slow for you, most likely something else is causing it to be slow. E.g. Waiting for a external/internal storage device to respond perhaps?

Now, talk about Finder on Mac – while not slow, its UI is truly horrendous compared to Explorer on Windows or file managers in Linux.

If your system is slow, then keep in mind that a lot of things are going on with later versions of Windows that can make the system slow. I hate the "blackbox" nature of it, but fact is, you probably have a bottleneck somewhere, possibly you are still using a mechanical hard disk and/or do not have enough RAM for things to load properly. Windows prefetch should help speed things up, given enough RAM, but if you have too little, then it actually might make it worse.

I remember fiddling a lot with Windows services, like prefetch, search indexing. Etc. Basically turning these off will make a slow system feel more responsive. And, of course, Windows update and Windows defender should also be turned off entirely on older systems, because they will constantly pest you with updates and slow the system down. With bloatware added from the computer's manufacturer this only gets worse. Everything unnecessary running in the background should be purged from the system.
I know, I was trying to express that I don't care that snap does not offer support third party repositories.

Btw if you or anyone knows, does any of thios tech solves the issue where your system has an old glibc and you want to try some new app/game that needs a new glibc? For a video game performance is important access to GPU driver is needed. I had a bad experience with a game that updated and stopped working and from my reading there is no way to have 2 glibc on your system(complex shit about how executables and libraries loading works).
And if you don't like it, you enjoy the real coffee all the more when you go back to it!
Homeless students on LA streets get tutoring from School on Wheels
You slather American mustard onto a hot dog; it's sweet and sour and may or may not contain any actual mustard flour. English mustard is a whole different beast with a sharp, hot flavour. French ("Dijon" in the USA) mustard is different again, and focuses on the mustardy flavour. German mustard is in between English and French styles and ideal for a good pork sausage.

Now, when there's a shortage of yer Dijon ketchup, that's when you're going to see Americans up in arms, with apologies to the BNL.
Byte Magazine: Prolog and 386 Hardware Software (1987)
That's probably not the reason. Generating faces was one of the first things GANs were ever used for. They can make near perfect faces because the internet is flooded with images of faces, often high quality celebrity shots.

The reason it can't do faces well are very likely due to the filters being applied to try and stop people making pictures of real people. This is probably also the explanation for the random misses where it paints pictures of something that's not a llama. OpenAI is rewriting queries to make them more "diverse" i.e. acceptable to leftist ideology, and their rewriting logic seems to be completely broken. There have been many reports of people requesting something without even any humans in it at all, and discovering black/asian/arab people cropping up in it. At least earlier versions of the filter involved simply stuffing words onto the end as proven by people requesting "Person holding a sign that says " and getting back signs saying "black female" etc.

Man asks for a cowboy + a cat and gets a portrait of an Asian girl. Gwern comments with an explanation:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/w7qvgl/comment/ihm6...

"tldr: it's the diversity stuff. Switch "cowboy" to "cowgirl", which would disable the diversity stuff because it's now explicitly asking for a 'girl', and OP's prompt works perfectly."

Big discussion thread where people discuss the problem and (of course) the censorship that tries to hide what's happening:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/w944fa/there_is_evi...

"I once tried some food photography and received a cheese with a guys face for no reason."

"This has been mentioned on this sub multiple times, but those threads have consistently been removed by the mods - as will this one."

"There was a thread about that prompt and, yes, the person did get diverse [sumo wrestlers]"

"Been doing women images and seeing the article decided to try narrowing the results to "caucasian woman". Still gave me diversity. Whether you want it, or not, you're getting diversity"
Hmm, I wouldn't bet on it. Apple's chip designers are obviously great, but I bet a lot of their industry-leading performance/watt comes from being a node or two ahead of everyone else thanks to TSMC.
This sounds ripe for abuse.

- who assignes IDs to each actor

- who removes stolen actor IDs

- even with the anti-abuse provisions for bad actors, what is stopping me from making a botnet to artificially increasing my reputation?

- this system, no matter how decentralised, and "hands off" will inevitably be corrupted under the guise of good will and justice.

- who is stopping people from downvoting my reputation if it is perfectly valid, but does not align with the community group think? Will this then affect my usage of other services?

This is uncomfortable for me, similar to social credit systems, a la Black Mirror.
Heinz Taps State-of-the-Art AI to Design Its Next Ad Campaign
Sorry; in a nutshell: "don't be a dick". e.g. [1].

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wheatons-law
> Whats more incredible is that inside Australia people genuinely think it's a good thing, because the Government is finally "taxing" Google... they actually believe the money is going to the Australian government (schools, hospitals and all that) and have no idea the money actually goes directly to Murdoch.

Every media outlet was shouting loudly in favor of it, even the Guardian. Zero integrity when the rubber hit the road.
I live in France and we ran out of Mustard when the shortage came out. We don't eat that much, but it has been quite annoying. Especially with the barbecue season.

I suspect close relatives to hoard and run a "black market" mustard network. They got at least 3 sort of mustard last time we went to see them for dinner. I'm definitely jealous!
So this is a disk formatter?

j/k of course
No ads are worth looking at.
With my example above (Proton) it has had a transformative effect on how many games are playable on Linux and how easy it is to play them.

Prior to 2018, there were only a handful of native ports, skewed towards indie games. Now 4,582 are classified by Valve as being 'Verified or playable', with 73% of the top 100 games on steam having an out-of-the-box-flawless experience and a further 14% that will work with some tweaks.

Steam baked this new technology into their client, so the installation process for a Windows game on Linux is identical to Windows (click 'Install' then play. There is one additional popup to inform the user that a translation layer is being used).

In addition to this, Easy Anti-Cheat and Battleye have now (as of Nov 2021) announced anti-cheat support for Proton - both technologies require the developers to enable support either with tweaks (EAC) or by emailing for the supplier to enable support (battleye).

And that's only gaming. In the last 12 years (with the 20 year limit specified by OP) we have seen a transformation in web technologies which have moved from proprietary codecs and add-ons to open standards. Video, streaming and all other things that Windows users take for granted are now available on Linux. This also means that the trend in apps moving to electron also implies that by-and-large Linux is also functional (with notable exceptions e.g. Discord audio).

There's also been a large development of drivers included in the kernel, most peripherals including game controllers etc all now work out of the box. Bluetooth and Wifi - the traditional enemies of Linux users, now work flawlessly and don't come up at all in support requests anymore. AMD drivers have improved, even Nvidia have open-sourced the kernel-land components of their proprietary driver which will help the development of nouveau and other open source alternatives (plus make the Nvidia driver much easier to install and maintain in server set ups, which I think was their goal).

Vulkan was released in 2016 which has driven a whole new raft of graphics capability, providing a strong alternative to the clunky OpenGL. Wayland is making serious progress against X, with Gnome-wayland and KDE-wayland both becoming default on some distros. Valve also have a minimalist wayland compositor that is used in Game Mode on the steam deck.

And that isn't even to mention the plethora of usability improvements to Desktop environments or helper apps such as Heroic, Lutris, Protonup, Nobara which have improved the Linux desktop experience immeasurably.

So yes, in short a lot has changed. When I hear someone say 'I have heard the same for 20 years' they are either ignorant or ignoring the progress that has been made in bad faith.
Historians vs. Open-Source Databases
UN trade body calls for halting cryptocurrency rise in developing countries
> Police overreacted

... in your opinion. In many (most?) places Police has the right to ask informally anybody when investigating a situation of concern. People have a different way to interact with Police in Europe than in US when the excuse to "lie to the police" can't be used as mass destruction weapon against you. (If he was really arrested) he had to behave like a moron to escalate the situation to the point of being arrested.

And what he was expecting? Police are really motivated to investigate anything related with hate crime online now, after seeing in the last years how efficient became the pupetry. We only need to remind how the Qanon movement started (and ended), or how very young and very naive adolescents in the western countries had been radicalized to join the Islamic State.
A new public repository for Elixir security advisories
How much better are the graphcore IPU's than the nvidia gpus?
For mods etc it's definitely still nascent, but is exactly the sort of area which has smart problem solvers working on it. I've already seen mod helper apps for minecraft and elder scrolls popping up. There will be more.
Or, most developers at Google do interviews but many of them aren’t very good at calibrating their questions.
> actual for-profit alternative

The profit incentives are what brought Windows to the state it is today.
Same feelings. I like the idea but in practice I don’t trust it.

Or rather, I don’t trust package maintainers to adhere to semver. I prefer to manually go through dependencies updating one at a time and reading the change logs. I usually do this in batch. Peace of mind is worth more than the hour saved every week or two.

I do really like the tool that flags security issues with packages though.
2022 Langya virus outbreak in China
I guess you one of the well-informed french that would probably have called on chirac being a crazy man for not siding with usa when they went to
bring "democracy" to irak against a bad dictator that had weapons that did not exist.
because between above narrative and russian one that went there to "denazify" and fight a dictature of nazis there's not a big difference.
every information is one-sided and no one can control it. it is easy to make fun of people that believe things on facebook. much harder to understand that you at your level are also one of them
GHC 9.4.1 is now available
Another old man's rant - if you need to broadcast you're enjoying, you're not really enjoying.
Langya henipavirus (LayV) (aka) Langya Virus : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langya_henipavirus

Henipavirus is a genus of negative-strand RNA viruses in the familyParamyxoviridae, order Mononegavirales

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henipavirus
What-If DC War Game Maps Toll of a Future US-China War over Taiwan
So a software developer is held responsible for the software. If the software is largely SaaS, then I can see the sense in that. A software developer of SaaS is also a service developer, arguably even a service operator although that depends on how the service is developed and operated.

I'm sure the judge will be thrilled to have to listen to arguments about the with the nuances of dev, ops, devops and a distributed platform such as that which executes Ethereum's smart contracts.
I'd love something like this.
Cool, thanks for sharing. We're in agreement on some things. I also noticed the parallels with the US (people kind of in their own world). Also like Americans, Russians don't usually speak foreign languages (outside of the two big cities). But I do think they know geography and foreign events better than Americans fwiw.

Regarding traffic attitudes, I think it depends. There was a lot of Caucasus people where I lived and they know no such road rules. Crossing the street was fun... And don't get me started on attitudes towards seat belts and children's car seats...
Writing as a Video Workflow
I explicitly said it might very well not be the only one. But the data clearly shows that MOND is definitely not the only one. Since Occam's Razor tells us to go with the simplest solution, science goes for DM, instead of DM+MOND. If we ever discover DM (eg in the form of WIMPs) and it can't account for all the extra mass in the universe, then people will be able to look closer at modified gravity again. But right now these models are just not at a point where they could explain more than noise. If you're interested in how difficult it actually is to come up with a robust alternative theory of gravity that can fully explain all aspects of DM we see in the universe, I suggest this lecture here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WECVq2YBduY tl;dr: it's hard. Very hard. Noone has done it yet.
20 years from now - French response to Bourne's Identity series, but about a deep state mustard-hoarding conspiracy.
C++’s templates, const functions, etc. Rust’s macro system.

C just refuses to improve, even though there are a huge space for those.
I remember the butter crisis in Norway a few years ago. Just before Christmas, and everyone wanted to bake their families' traditional cookies. But no butter. Quite a horror show! My mom was in Denmark at the time, and bought like 20 packets back to Norway to distribute among friends haha.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_butter_crisis
It is my entire hope that "multimillion defense contract" boils down to:

- People in suits give presentations for each other for 6 months

- The budget is used up
Oh yes Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
This article kind of mixes different definitions of happiness. There’s the constitutional reference which comes from ancient greek roman philosophy and its origin is Aristotelian

Happiness as “Evdemonia” in Aristotelian scripts (Eudemonia in wikipedia) which more accurately translates as having “good demons” with you, which can be interpreted as feeling content/lucky for what you have.

Happiness as “Joyfulness” which is smily face marketing and instant gratification and hedonistic stuff aka buying the new iphone each year and getting bored at it and buying afterwards the next one because under a microscope the photo of the dark side of the moon looks better, when somebody else takes it.

So if one needs to repeat escalate: hedonism usually exploited by marketing, if you need to pay probably a facade of happiness and unfulfilling. Hedonism is nice to have tho.

If one is feeling lucky for his life and future: happiness aka lucky for parameters of ones life that would be deemed important 300 years ago and should be important in 300 years, conative with a sense of purpose. usually exploited by social and political systems (e.g.to be happy you need good health, very expensive if politics fights life) happiness is a must have

This article conflates one definition of happiness to the other while only discussing affective optimisation of hedonism.
I saw this. I knew this much. I wonder if he plans to challenge Meta as well.

There are many who make Elon into God, also many who see him as the opposite.

Interesting times ahead with all these vectors converging/clashing.
> Soldiers will need to go fight either way for defensive purposes and they need to be trained

"Defensive purposes" is one hell of a creative license. You know it when soldiers "need to go fight" on the other side of the world "for defensive purposes". Or when a random someone enters your home with a gun "for defensive purposes". When was the last time a US soldier was called to arms to defend their own country?

> can't any development environment be potentially used for ethically gray purposes?

Any development can and will probably eventually be used as such. But while Facebook's "gray area" is siphoning and monetizing users' data, the US military's "gray area" is invading countries and killing a whole lot of innocent people in the process. So many that they have to threaten everyone else in the world with deadly action if they even try to look too closely. That's one soft definition of gray.

Imagine the NSO Group claiming "software development gray area" to defend themselves. And with any military the moral/ethical objection will go far beyond that because no matter how the rules are followed, the main purpose of a military is to achieve things by threat or application of deadly violence. So a general objection to cooperating with the military complex will always have a solid foundation.
The Torus and the Möbius Strip
+1.

We would have to deal with booth capturing again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booth_capturing
I believe this is what Intel is betting, maybe not the bank, but at least their bailout package on.
If you read the article, you’d know that the mustard doesn’t come from France. It comes from Canada.
Why isn’t Russia blocking GPS in Ukraine?
I love little cases/stories like this. I think many of us have some things that we will doggedly pursue, which in the greater scheme of things may be small... but it becomes a matter of principal mixed with amusement.

In London our transport network is managed by TFL. Their website lets you search for routes, and in the route options you can go for the fastest route, or choose this option: "Routes with the least changes". Every year on the same date, I would contact them and ask them to change that to "Routes with the fewest changes" and they would respond with something to the effect of "thanks for the feedback, passed it on, go away now".

I think I did this for over 10 years until one day it did get changed on their site. They did accompany it with a greater set of changes, that made the results more convoluted with pointless waypoints that clutter the results, but that's a new matter to pursue.
An exotic vegetable that expires quickly. It means their supply chains nor financial links are not in tatters contrary to the western narrative.
> So user-facing search engines would be forced to rely on independent back-end companies

Interesting notion.

So, if a state or business wanted to suppress certain information, they'd only have to kneel on the neck of one indexing company, rather than many. Having said that, if the index is certifiably clean, fair and uncensored, and access is free, I can see huge value in a public global web-index.
To address this issue we designed a static analysis that can check if the upgrade is likely to break the application. Here are some details of the work- “Effective Static Checking of Library Updates” https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3236024.3275535

When using the analysis a PR for upgrading the dependencies would look like this - https://github.com/tmroberts56/java-maven/pull/3
Everywhere is a cesspool for those issues.
I vouched too.
Recurring revenue is worth 7-15x. One-time revenue is worth 1-3x.

I could rant for hours on how absurd this is, but it’s better to just abuse it. You know mba and finance people are idiotically valuing revenue in this way. So game it.
Of the C code I’ve seen, this is quite nice. It’s decently commented, and very simple. I’d say it’s above average, but that may say more about the codebases I’ve seen than it does about this example.
True enough.

As for other descendants, ruby is of course deeply inspired by smalltalk.
Insects have long been an inspiration for robots, and as someone who likes insects and robots, I support initiatives like this. However, one lesson that has been drawn from studying insects is that it's not all about the brain. A lot of the adaptive behavior of insects comes from the way their bodies are built. For example, cockroaches are very good at climbing over all sorts of rugged terrain that might pose problems for similarly designed legged robots, but a lot of that success comes from how well their legs are designed, not from a super sophisticated 3D model of the terrain or motion planning algorithm.
Mmmm, balancing the humors. Back to the good old days.
How would you measure the level of decentralization of a blockchain?
Stalled or relatively stable? If the software changed out from under you every single day with daily updates, would that make it more worthy of considering adopting for long-term use? Or would you still think it was not a good sign because you hadn't gotten an update in the last few hours? If they did hourly releases, would you still look askance at it because it had been 6 minutes since the last release?

People's ideas of update cadence are interesting. I find it really odd that people want to have to run frequent updates and want to use unstable software for the important things nowadays. For important things, I prefer stuff that'll still run and work the same in 20 years.
Tornado Cash Dev Arrested
It's in a sibling repo: https://github.com/casualwriter/casual-markdown
> The same is true with dating

Over the last 25 years, all but one of the people I've dated, have been people I met online, including the mother of my son. Most of them have been people who I'd never have crossed paths with if it wasn't for meeting them online.

Under no circumstance do I want to go back to the horror of relying on meeting people offline, without being able to quickly filter out people I'm not compatible with first.
I take exception to having English mustard lumped in with U.S. mustard.

English mustard is in no way "milder and sweeter" than Dijon mustard - quite the opposite. I'd like to see the author eat a U.S. hot-dog (they're not particularly common in Britain) slathered in English mustard without their eyes watering.
This shouldn't even be evaluated until it has a section on Sybil attacks.

Literally nothing proposed here is new, and it is manifestly uninformed by the experience of others.
Sure, but is there anything in the world to which that doesn't apply? If OP wants to be "world-tier", he's going to have to put in time commensurate with other "world-tier" people, no matter what he's doing.
I think voting machines can work as long as they print out a voter-readable paper copy of the ballot that is stored and statistically sampled.
> Is Linux Mint a desnapped Ubuntu?

It is.

https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/snap.h...
Whataboutism is definitely the most abused term of 2022.