skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The challenge is needing constant, good internet access to access trivial stuff like Word.

Microsoft 365 is prolly what you're thinking of. It's all browser apps or PWAs (or whatever you may call online cloud shit), not a windows VM. If you've heard of Google Workspaces you have the right idea. Comes with Windows versions of the office apps that can be installed and run locally instead of using the online cloud shit, they tend to be more feature complete than the online cloud shit, and, unlike the online cloud shit, obviously don't work on Linux without some creativity.
I follow the news in France, but the reason people were scrambling to fill their cars had nothing to do with an energy crisis.

The first wave of "people scrambling to fill their cars" was caused by union strikes at French refineries in October, leading to supply shortages at the pumps.

The second wave was caused by people scrambling to fill up their cars at a lower price per litre, before the government "subsidy" on fuel was reduced in mid-November. Whatever one might think of people who will sit in a traffic queue for several hours to save €10 at the pump, it has nothing to do with an energy crisis.
Sorry if its a shameless plug, but I think it fits here. I wrote a blog post some time ago on how I got my own AI agent (powered by codex) to extend is capabilities by writing more of its own source code: https://www.nunodonato.com/ai-that-expands-its-features-by-w...
I have a Win10 Lenovo Thinkpad. I want to switch to Linux, but I'd like to keep my Win10 system. Is there a way I can install a VM underneath this pre-installed Win10 system, so that I can still launch Windows while I'm transitioning?

Installing a VM, and then installing licensed Windows over that, isn't an option, because I don't want Win11, and you can't buy Win10 licences any more.
I like the fact that "shutdown /s" always carries sarcasm
I would have agreed with you. But think about it, when non tech people posed nonsense questions like "Do robots dream" we dismissed them because that is not how computers work.

Turns out they not only dream but they do it better than us! Maybe we can also rethink our then correct assumptions about the singularity
As nntaleb postulates, once a dictatorship starts giving concessions, it is on its last legs.

Therefore I do not believe this news.
It might be an idea to have a filter for polls on the top line, this would give it visibility, although it would add a bit of clutter.

Is it up there with Ask, Show, and Jobs?
> You surrendered your IP doing that, effectively, correct?

Sure, in the same sense that we would have by manufacturing them things ourselves using raw materials we harvested ourselves and then selling them online where anyone could buy them and take them apart?
Lovely. Spent 3 months in Kyoto in 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, and loved Japan, more than my other quick business trips in the past.

Some of my notes, specific to Kyoto, but unsure whether they also apply elsewhere:

Typical food in KYOTO:

- aristocratic kaiseki ryori course dinners

- vegetarian shojin ryori of monks

- simple obanzai ryori home style cooking

- Kyo-wagashi (Kyoto sweets)

- Yudofu (tofu cooked in hot broth vinegar sauce) - try it at Yudofu Sagano. It is famous for tofu kaiseki in Arasihayama

- Yuba (tofu skim)

- Nishin soba: It is a local herring fish soba noodle dish with flavored soy sauce broth. The herring fish perfectly smoked with into sweetness and salty tastes
(eat it at Matsuba Soba)

RESTAURANTS in KYOTO you should try if you have the budget for it (expensive, but not REALLY expensive): Cenci (Italian fusion, 1-star Micheln): http://cenci-kyoto.com/menu (I am Italian, I can tell you that this restaurant is a gem)
Often it can fix the bugs and explain both the bug and the fix if you ask it to.
And American reviewers are pretty much the most generous out there. My rule of thumb is that a 3.5 rating by Japanese equates to a 4.5 rating by Americans. Seriously.
That's significant. The ayatollahs came to power thanks to big popular support (audio cassettes of khomeini). Now a popular uprising is specifically against religious restrictions. In the meantime empirically the army has all the power of the sword.

That's a step towards sidelining the ayatollahs. I guess we will see if it will evolve toward a military dictatorship (as I predict), a democracy, or the existing religious regime will manage to keep the power.
I get a lot of Turkish construction videos, and even more strangely, a lot of Turkish bus driver videos. No idea how I ended up in that cohort ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"controversial"
I think the robustness of the advice is that there is a myriad of unbeaten paths in any place. And, if one particular unbeaten path becomes so popular among unbeaten paths fans that it becomes beaten, there will several others still unbeaten paths.
I've had a play with ChatGPT and the experience has been pretty frustrating. It either responds with "Sorry, I cannot do this because I don't have access to the internet" (even if I am giving it prompts that don't require this) or it actually generates code but it's subtly incorrect (this was the case when I asked it to generate an example of how to render a 3D cube in JavaScript).

This makes me wonder how much time people are spending optimising the prompt to get the answer they want and they just make it seem like this was the first response they got.
This is surprisingly good! :D

> Write an epic rap battle between Donald Trump and Noam Chomsky.

(Donald Trump)
I'm the king of the White House, don't you dare doubt
I'll dominate this rap battle, there's no need to pout
My rhymes are so sick, they'll make you want to shout
I'm the biggest, baddest, best there's no doubt about

(Noam Chomsky)
But I'm a linguistic mastermind, I'll steal the show
I'll leave you tongue-tied, with nowhere left to go
Your rhymes are weak, your flow is slow
I'll take you down with just one blow

(Donald Trump)
You think you're smart, but you're just a fake
I'm the one with the power, I make the decisions, not you
You may have the brains, but I've got the brawn
I'll crush you with my words, like a truck rolling down

(Noam Chomsky)
But your words are empty, they have no meaning
You spout lies and insults, while I speak with reason
You may have the crowds, but I have the truth
And when it comes to rap battles, I'll always come out on top, dude

(Donald Trump)
You may have the facts, but I've got the swagger
I'm the one with the confidence, I'll never stutter
You may be a scholar, but I'm a winner
I'll leave you in the dust, like a beginner

(Noam Chomsky)
But facts are facts, and they can't be denied
You may try to spin them, but you'll never win the fight
Your rhetoric may be flashy, but it's shallow and hollow
I'll dismantle your arguments, and leave you looking like a fool, fellow

(Donald Trump)
You may have the brains, but I've got the charm
I'll charm the crowds, and leave you in the dark
You may be smart, but I'm a star
I'll shine brighter than you, no matter how hard you try

(Noam Chomsky)
But charm can only get you so far, and it fades with time
Your fame is fleeting, and your legacy will be left behind
I may not be a star, but my ideas will stand the test of time
I'll leave a lasting impact, while you're just a passing trend, prime.
We can’t avoid feature creep as viable company leaders because we would miss out on new customers. Maintaining a good UI amid constantly added features is really a product design issue. The real problem is rogue teams/line level product managers working in silos and missing opportunities to solve for feature demands with better planning and product design.

There are plenty of products have iterated over decades and maintained the same simplicity, think Ableton Live. I would even give Word some credit in that it has recovered from the earlier mess the author points out by delivering a toolbar architecture through its ribbon menus and advanced settings to hit those less common use cases while maintaining a level of approachability. Sometimes all it takes is a step back and a bit of thought on design.
Absolutely. As states are collapsing under their own weight (particularly for large western countries like the US and France), the transition to a new model will be unavoidable.

The next decades will be fascinating to observe in that regard.
Same here. Wish there was a way to use ChatGPT without giving them my very personal phone number. A phone number should be the very last thing anyone asks for, for only the most sensitive of things, not just to talk to an AI. Not to mention a large amount of people don't even have one.
Let our AI help you communicate like a human being! It's a funny state of affairs when AI is touted as the solution to inhumane communications. But I suppose marketers need all the help they can get to present as human.

Although, I'd suggest that the truly humane action is to stop sending spam emails in the first place.
Apple has grown to this size because they had a much better margin than its competitors in the first place. If they built everything in America they would have disappeared long ago.
Why not use an existing Lisp implementation that has a good compiler?

Or just run Mezzano [1].

[1] https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
Local reverse proxy for Docker containers with HTTPS support
One of the challenges with multiple Docker-based projects is the port binding failure.

I have a repo that offers a simple approach to having Caddy Server as a local reverse proxy for your Docker containers. Caddy Server is the first and only web server to use HTTPS automatically with no extra configuration or separate tooling required.
If I'm learning educational material, I prefer to listen at 2x speed and pause regularly when I need to ponder something.

I can't learn well at low speed because I'm apt to zone out and start my own train of thought, necessitating a rewind.
One does have to consider that it also does a shitload of vision processing and muscle driving on top of all that thinking, while only drawing under 20 watts.

It can't however, reply to REST requests directly. Yet.
“I find this all quite terrifying”, said the human witnessing the construction of a universe not dissimilar to his own.
ChatGPT output:
"I am not sure which specific programming languages or libraries were used to train my language model, as I do not have access to that information. Language models are typically trained using a combination of various programming languages and tools, and the specific technologies that are used can vary depending on the specific model and the research team that developed it. I am a large language model trained by OpenAI, and I use artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) techniques to generate responses to text-based queries."
> Both an interest in the English language and in promoting Anglo-Saxon liberties against the Norman yoke found a welcome audience amongst Tudor parliamentarians and Oxford scholars, laying the foundations for the conflict between Crown and Commons. Certainly, by the 17th century there was a growing consensus that the Anglo-Saxons were a people of exceptional liberty, who created free institutions and the common law, and who were later subjugated by the Normans. The Great Struggle through the use of Magna Carta, common law juries, Parliament and the Saxon spirit triumphed over autocratic foreign rule.

> The eminent antiquarian William Camden (1551 - 1623) in particular emphasised the founding stock of the Saxon peoples, that powerful Germanic tree from which flowered the English branch. Leaning on Tacitus’ description of the Germans as a peculiar and pure people, untainted by marriage with others, Camden and his colleagues, such as Richard Rowlands, connected England’s Saxon heritage with the Germanic languages and the cluster of northern peoples - the Danes, Germans, Normans and Dutch. This was to have profound consequences for how the nascent British Empire came to view itself, with a magnificent national story of freedom-loving Germanic settlers, capable of self-discipline and self-rule, free from outside interference, England could confidently project its destiny out into the world. This is what others have dubbed ‘Anglo-Saxonism’, the belief in the unique and masterful qualities of the English race, which could be traced back to the primeval forests of Germania. Self-government, free institutions, conventions of liberty, common law and the English language defined Anglo-Saxonism prior to WW2.
"Very few people take me up on this part of the recommendation: get out of the cities if you are here for more than a week in your life."

Same situation for visitors to the UK. I've given up trying to tell tourists to get out of London, they never listen.
Only one person I followed commonly left Twitter, many posted mastodon accounts, but they haven't reduced how much they post on Twitter so it's unclear if those accounts are in use at all, just mirror tweets, or aren't used at all. Most who posted mastodon accounts did it in the "just in case" vein (as they apparently thought it likely that Twitter would just stop working) rather than actually wanting to use it.
>This reads oddly like propaganda and flies against any and all of the evidence that we regularly observe

What evidence are you observing that has convinced you it's one way or the other?

I can go on Twitter and see some variant of the first comment and the second in almost every thread. What are you reading that you consider the "ground truth" that you can so easily point out the propaganda?

As a Canadian, I'm sure my sources are similar to yours, and I'm not really sure what the truth is. I assume it's somewhere in the middle. One thing I do know is that both "sides" are churning out propaganda at an unprecedented pace.
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I know for a lot of companies it won't work, but I would actually try to change it to tie payment and development iterations together. The shorter they are, the better. And if possible get them to agree that the next iteration doesn't start until the payment for the previous one arrives. And that there are no checks, only digital payment.

Worth trying.
Building backup factories is prohibitive in terms of costs. We dont even have much of that for essential products like pharmaceuticals.
What aspect of China makes the West look like a 'backwater'? I literally cannot think of a single thing. That doesn't mean China has no positive aspects. The West is also not monolithic.
Pizza ai Funghi confirmed to be world's best food, you heard it here first folks.
I'm in academia -- a tenured professor in math, and in the United States. My situation is different, but here are my thoughts:

"You're expected to..." "the image of a successful professor..." "they'll start looking at you funny..." "climbing any career ladder" "power in academia"

If you have tenure, you have an incredible career luxury, namely that you can ignore all of the above. Personally, I have made the decision that I care about my reputation among (1) my collaborators and people in my research field, (2) several close colleagues whom I enormously respect, and (3) my students.

My colleagues at large? I get along with them fine, I am polite and friendly and so are they, but I don't care much what they think, and I certainly would not adapt my work to their vision of success. Nor would they, to mine.

This rat race of trying to gain influence over people... some people enjoy it. In my department one such person might become department chair next year. If he tries to get me to go along with his bullshit games, then I will smile, thank him for his advice, and ignore everything he said.

I don't know your situation exactly, but you might try simply tuning out the bullshit before jumping ship, and seeing what happens.
Do you think you have equivalent Sheets lock-in where any product without Sheets' feature set would be unable to compete? Or is your company one that doesn't need much out of a spreadsheet and could pivot to a cool new competitor?
This is kind of true of Venice as well !
The problem is that you cannot trust the output. It's often wrong, but in subtle nonobvious ways. For precise information you still need to check the sources to make sure what you're getting is correct. You can test it out with a (not-so-mainstream) topic that you're an expert in. You'll see lots of mistakes that are obvious to you, but wouldn't be obvious to non-experts.

But it's an incredible tool for brainstorming or generating content. I think that soon a large percentage of all online text content will be GPT-generated, and that comes with a lot of new issues that we're not prepared for. It's going to be really difficult to trust anything online and tell fact from fiction.
Haha that’s so wild, when you copy and paste that entire readme into chatGPT you can actually run the commands. Mind blown
> ChatGPT: Unfair

Hahaha, stop cruelty to neural nets!
> People are not great at detecting hypocrisy from people they don't already know intimately.

I immediately suspect hypocrisy when someone I don't know sends me a super-friendly, over-familiar, and flattering email asking for something.
This is the first I've heard of Fosshost, but from a glance at their
twitter: [0]

> Fosshost is a cloud computing platform for the open-source community

Presumably then the Radix project will have similar goals, and it will
presumably not serve as a forge, although their website isn't very clear on this point. [1]

[0] https://twitter.com/fosshostorg

[1] https://radixproject.org/about
The latest effort I've come across is very much a right wing effort. Trying to rename Native Americans as First Immigrants.
My brother did an M.A. in English and told me the story of a graduate who wrote an essay on Jude for an exam question worded like the following:

"Select a female character in Hardy and discuss the development of character in the relevant novel".
Some more resources for handling dotfiles here:

https://vcs-home.branchable.com/
Just for completeness, the US has its own flavor of issues here in its prison system.

Just 23¢ to $1.15 is the typical hourly pay [1], and work is not always voluntary and up to the same employee protection/safety standards as true employment [2].

Labour sourced from the incarcerated creates problematic incentives in law enforcement.

[1] https://www.bop.gov/inmates/custody_and_care/unicor_about.js...

[2] https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/2022...
then USA should not be considerd part of the civilized World.

A country where it is acceptable to have workers forced to pee in bottles or bullied by their new CEO (who's also a pathological liar)
I see the rhetorical tricks used by (buzzword warning) cryptonazis and protofascists as exploiting vulnerabilities in how we think and operate: I believe most of everyone is primed to respond to arguments against otherness and those based on fear.

(Bad analogy warning) It’s like a heuristics-based anti-virus with root permission: userland processes can largely do what they want, but if I see an executable program making a syscall that it has no good reason for making, like DailyExpress.exe or FoxNews.exe manipulating the memory space of processes owned by the ImpressionsbleAudience user-group (which contains all of us) instead of going through hardened, public, well-defined interfaces then yes then I’m going to kill-9 it.
Would you mind sharing an short example of your workflow?
This, and updating of values when a cell is updated. Formula evaluation is based on a directed acyclic graph. If a node on the graph is updated, everything "downstream" gets updated but the formulas "upstream" don't get re-evaluated.
China has raised a billion people into a comfortable standard of living by doing exactly this.

Taiwan, South Korea, and Vietnam all have developed at substantial rates via this method as well.

Maybe you're thinking of countries which are based around resource extraction? Because building a ton of factories and putting people to work making gadgets for other countries is pretty well proven.
The thing is, most of the language is anglophone; just as an example here is the reserved keywords list;

http://www.nusphere.com/kb/phpmanual/reserved.htm

the string functions;

https://www.w3schools.com/php/php_ref_string.asp

the JSON functions and constants;

https://www.w3schools.com/php/php_ref_json.asp
> exceptions include cities that have become theme parks like Venice

Even in Venice, if you leave San Marco and if you cross into San Polo, you just have to leave the Ponte Rialto behind. It also helps if you arrive by boat and land at Fondamente Nove and just don't take the "straight" route to Piazetta San Marco.

Cinque Terre is a similar "theme park" in italy. We've been there on an holiday weekend in spring with really nice weather. The trains were packed like in Tokio during rush hour. But even there, as soon as you left the main route, ascended some stairs, you had amazing views all for yourself and the only other tourists were those you saw down below.

People are just too lazy to take even small detours.
> First world programmers larping at their jobs just got handed notice.

And creative people who aren't that good at coding just got a foot in the door. I have plenty of ideas but am not a great coder so struggled to implement them. And I don't care about coding as a craft, I want to just do stuff that requires code.

Using the chatbot as a tutoring guide/workhorse has been immensely helpful to me and will only get more so.
Yep, the important question is how we should deal with it. Even if it is banned, somewhere people will be making it as well.

People would like to hunt and gather, but people will start farming eventually
I did notice the change in Japan from 2008 to 2016. Got yelled at by a surly JR ticket person, which I found surprising.

Didn’t like Kyoto as much the second time around but I spent a lot of time outside the big cities and it is such a beautiful country with lovely people.
For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

That was 70 years ago. Are countries, their people, and their policies immutable?

If this was a genuine question and not the snide remark that it appears to be, then a good place to investigate whether or not the UK government has any support for it or not would be to check out BBC Persia. De jure the BBC are not a government entity, but they are de facto.

https://www.bbc.com/persian
An excellent gauge for how good a book is can be found in how many times you catch yourself thinking back on it even after some time has passed. Through this, my favorite this entire year is The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank's diary). Without a doubt one of the best books I have ever read, just through how supremely human it is.

Other books are:

-The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson

-Sapiens by Yuval Yuval Noah Harari

-21 Lessons for the 21st Century

-Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feyn
man!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman

-Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

-Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
When I think about it. I would expect the food I buy to be 1. tasty, 2. reasonably priced, and 3. service should not be rude.

Now up these in anyway and star rating should go to 4 or 5.
Seriously, this was meant to be a joke / pun, since ed (and not vi) is the standard editor.