skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My new gaming build is Linux-only, PopOS to be precise, and the experience so far has been smooth. AMD CPU and NVIDIA GPU and stuff just works. And thanks to Valve's investments, all the games that I care about just work, too. I'm also pretty sure that no upcoming triple-A game is going to ignore Linux, now that all the cool kids with money bought a Steam Deck.
Startallback has been a revelation
Please stop posting ChatGPT-generated comments.
What is this, like the 15th post of yours in the last hour or so that sounds like AI generated?
Is it infeasible to compress a portion of the helium to a heavier than air density instead of venting it?
> Heating your house with an electric boiler was several times more expensive than a gas one.

But this is not the case for a heat pump.
I usually stay on Microsoft's happy path, running the latest versions of the OS on fully supported hardware. And I rarely change default settings, I'm not bothered by an icon for one of their games in the start menu.

But those little icons for holidays, etc, that showed up in the search bar really bugged me. It bothered me so much that I searched for a way to get rid of them. If Microsoft manages to annoy a fanboy like me, they've really missed the mark.
Field Medallist Tim Gowers on Understanding ChatGPT for Math
The crash videos of old vs new cars are very interesting (and scary). Especially 1959 Bel Air vs 2009 Malibu. In the older car, you smash into the dashboard and then the passenger compartment collapses and crushes you. In the new car, you hit the airbag. Of course you don't expect much from 1959, but even 1992 Nissan vs 2016 Nissan is a huge difference in survivability.

I highly recommend the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TikJC0x65X0
His comments about Twitter suggest that he’s not too familiar with how to use it. It’s a simple matter to get the non-manipulated list of tweets, to get exactly what you ask for, which he claims is not on offer:

https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/
I look at deep sequences of tokens and predict what comes next- can you milk me? Once you've broadened "basically a markov chain" to "any function from a sequence of tokens to a probability distribution of tokens" there's a lot of explanatory power lost. If you had to characterize the difference between brute force mappings based on pure frequencies and model which selectively calculates probabilities based on underlying structure, wouldn't you say the latter had more complexity?

You don't have to believe the hype, but if you think you can get GPT performance out of anything remotely resembling a markov chain, I encourage you to try.
>> You will receive your duties everyday via
email

This to me is a dealbreaker. I would rather die than have daily tasks assigned.

As a jr dev this may be tolerable for a short while but after umpteen years no way!
I had this realization while in snowy mountains. All is white and suddenly I thought that I had a lock of hair in my line of sight.
> It just showed the lack of understanding on marginal utility on commodity items.

I think you're showing the lack of understanding of marginal utility.

By the time you're spending $45k on doorknobs, $400 on socks might offer equal marginal utility per dollar.
Accidentally Android spies on you to the extent Microsoft couldn't even dream of in their evilest of dreams. And there is no way to root/control it to prevent that spying. Unlike Windows.
Exceptional reliability? How can you possibly claim that? Reliability comes from working out all the unknown unknowns, and that comes only from experience.

Starship is not needed to condemn SLS. Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy are sufficient to render SLS uncompetitive and unneeded.

In a perfect world, SLS would have had a stake driven through its corrupt programmatic heart years ago.
Police are like a help desk, you need some juice to get escalated to someone who is empowered or gives a shit.

The patrolman is there to take a report.

In a case affecting me, a guy was stealing low value items from my porch every week. Solution: i got the surveillance video on TV and it caught the eye of a detective lieutenant who knew the guy.

The easiest path to this sort of thing is to know cops and phone a friend. Otherwise, 500 people were grifted that day… nobody cares.
In addition to the filters and blue light reduction, I noticed that staring at magic eye “stereograms” relaxes my eye muscles, removes headaches in minutes. It works for me, may work for others. Once I lock my eyes on the behind the page plane I move my eyes everyehere on the image without loosing focus, corners too. Helps me tremendously. Got nothing to lose to try it, basically enjoy some magic eye stereograms from time to time. Play with sizes too. Both screen or printout versions work out for me.

Another obvious one is stare out the window but it’s not as immediate as stereograms to me.
M1 Macbooks are alien technology compared to Windows (performance and battery life) or Lunux (professional app support) ones. The main barrier to switch is different keyboard layout — after a month of using Mac as a home PC (switching from workplace-issued Linux) unfamiliarity with keyboard is the main hurdle, especially on non-English layout.
As mentioned taken from a snapshot at the time of Electricity Maps, check it out: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map
Yes, but how does it remember the stuff you told it earlier in the conversation? Those 1.2TB is the trained model, and I assume that those weights are not changed by the conversation?
Linux can play pretty much anything under Proton now. And older games tend to work better than on Windows because Proton runs the actual code instead of trying to force it through the current windows OS that is 10 versions on and doesn't have any of the APIs anymore. A lot of old windows games don't even run on windows anymore.
Helium's so scarce. You're attempting to reduce ultra high vacuum to even less. Not practical
Thanks, these are good examples! I’m not going to disagree with you on the Silicon Valley references… ;)
Native VST host?
One thing to consider is resale value. When I tried reselling old Windows laptops like a Surface or XPS, the value dropped off a cliff from the MSRP. I would spend $2000 on a laptop and then it was selling for $700 used on ebay a year later.

With MacBooks (and other Apple products) you can often recoup 70%-80% of your initial cost as long as it's in good condition.
Rolex hatred seems like it is about expressing contempt towards the previous establishment. Presidents used to wear them (still do actually) but it's not uncommon to see very rich politicians wearing very cheap watches probably deliberately. Same goes for suit wearing.

I think pg wrote an article on his blog about how suit wearing was for people who thought like conformists and obviously being a conformist was not for hackers. I am paraphrasing because I can't remember now exactly what he said. But I just think it was contempt of previously established people working in finance or law. Now, the largest companies in the US skew towards tech companies.

I don't know why that happens that newly successful people seem to dislike the symbols of the previous elite rather than just mind their own business. Wearing a suit to a tech company will probably get you ostracized even if you just like wearing suits. This is in spite of the claim that the hoodie culture is not concerned what you dress up in, in fact they are. Maybe you could call that counter counter-signalling. It's just like taking a large salary at a tech company instead of having a $1 salary and getting enormous options and stock payouts. Somehow taking a large salary is worse despite that being normal for CEOs previously.
I have a more obscure watch, but one that those that care recognize. It has signaled me as part of the 'correct' crowd more than once and definitely done it's purpose.
You're extremely lucky then. On our (very large, very strictly managed Windows 10 fleet) Edge is CONSTANTLY becoming the default PDF handler. Its a real PITA and MS has failed to give admins the tools to manage this correctly.

These anti customer dark patterns are going to drive a wedge into the golden goose of corporate sales. At the same place as in my first statement, Macs are slowly showing up in places you'd never have guessed before. Clinics, law offices, regulated environments. IE corporate MS bread and butter. Someone over there needs to get their head out of their corporate ass and see the writing on the wall and turn the ship before it hits the iceberg they're heading at under full steam.
If the laundry basket lasts forever there is no externalized cost of disposal. Like you said, plastic is incredibly cheap, but if it wasn't, we'd use it only for things that are designed to last forever. Plastic is a miracle material. It's a shame we treat it as disposable
Donations from people playing the game!
Windows is aggressively regressing since Windows 7. Bizarre move
I think the Linux kernel has some limited forms of self modifying code?
Not in the least.

A future where the baseline minimum isn't homelessness and suffering in the street simply has not been done before.

Remove the need to struggle for a basic comfortable life, a new world has a chance to thrive.

The past has the burden of dealing with the fact that the difference between a day-labourer and a wealthy elite is the former has to struggle to meet basic survival and participation in society is eliminated the the basic day-to-day is already met.

Human nature will adjust, just like it did to the industrial revolution, to the digital revolution, and so on. Hundreds of thousands of data entry specialists were replaced by digital automation; even more land-laborers were replaced by farm automation.

The difference with the future I want is that there is a guarantee of a good and basic living, whereas the past had no ability to guarantee this.

Human nature doesn't enter into it; when anyone can travel anywhere, can replicate the same food or goods the wealthy elite currently enjoy exclusively, there is no practical separation between them. It becomes a non-issue; just like some years ago emoji were a status symbol (remember, you used to need to _pay_ for stupid emojis), they're a standard now.

The world can be better, we see this everywhere even today with municipal and community efforts, with OSS, and so on. It's already here in many spheres, it's just a matter of accepting that there's no harm in a percentage of society taking advantage of such a system.

The points you make have no relevance in a world where you don't need oil workers, arctic fisherman, day laborers, and so on.
Linux/*BSD may still be that awkward friend who sometimes misreads your intentions and causes awkward moments or knocks glasses over, but at least tries to respect you (snapd excepted). Windows these days doesn't seem to respect you.

There's a difference in my mind between struggling to make your computer do something (because nobody made it easy yet) and struggling to make your computer do something (because a marketing team decided to try to stop you). Resolving the first scenario feels like working for myself, the other feels like fighting an adversary.

I try to not use products that don't respect me. That's fundamentally what keeps me almost exclusively on FOSS. Better alignment of incentives for what I'm trying to do.
The instructions in the Emergency Airworthiness Directive said:

1. restore trim to normal with the electric thumb switches on the column

2. then turn off the stab trim

The electric trim overrides MCAS.

Boeing Emergency Airworthiness Directive:

"Initially, higher control forces may be needed to overcome any stabilizer nose down trim already applied. Electric stabilizer trim can be used to neutralize control column pitch forces before moving the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches to CUTOUT. Manual stabilizer trim can be used before and after the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches are moved to CUTOUT."

https://theaircurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/B737-MA...
So you want statistics?

https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/racial-profiling-and-tra...

https://sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2020/06/racial_disparities_traffi...

https://civilrights.org/edfund/resource/nypds-infamous-stop-...
I don't agree with this comparison. He does say why it would be difficult to prove his assertions on Alzheimer's, but he also brings up cases where people reversed their mental deterioration, which is unheard of. So while the case count is small, if he's telling the truth here, that's a fairly significant result. Even if it is just 1 person.
SuiteSparse Matrix Collection
I stopped when they forced the microsoft account onto everyone, fun fact I changed the only email I use to auth with my msft account a few years ago... I can only login with the new it sends 2FA to my old one

the old one isn't listened in my account as additional emails or anything
Element is a client, matrix is a protocol

I don't really know where you get off on telling people you don't take them seriously
If I had a bunch of money, I'd setup a grant specifically for funding replication studies. Real science can be replicated and the only way to replicate is to do it.
Long long ago I lost my SMS database on my first Android phone to corruption.

The worst part was if the app encountered an error opening the database, it just deleted it and started over -- no chance of repair to rescue any of the data. I don't think this is done this way anymore.

After that I have installed SMS Backup+ first thing on every new phone.
Did compilers put programmers out of work?
Interesting point.
As far as I know, it's not that easy. We have a client who contacted the owners of the website he needs to scrape and offered to pay them for access to their data but they were not interested. I know that they are not their competitor and they're not doing anything that would harm their revenue in any way. I assume that they figured it was not worth the legal, organisational and other formal hassle to share their data.

Let's say that we want to pursue this idea anyway. We would have to reach our to every website owner that our clients scrape and figure out how to share the revenue. You cannot just transfer your money to another company. You need to sign a contract and in many cases have it approved by legal and compliance teams.
Pilots are already trained to turn off the STAB TRIM when it misbehaves. The switch to do it is prominent on the console for good reason.
I host Software Unscripted - weekly hour-long episodes with a variety of guests:

http://software-unscripted.com
This post is about ChatGPT responses. The fact that you're a human pasting output from ChatGPT doesn't change the argument at all.
Fine, put that behind my $x/mo account + service accounts.

$x/mo * Service accounts is dumb.
You'd have to read the book.
I think mercantile is the more appropriate adjective.

It was cynical politicians and industrialists who sold the population on a clean energy revolution, all while banking on cheap Russian gas to actually deliver the energy required.
Yes, ban it. I've been playing around with ChatGPT and where it starts failing is just where things start becoming interesting. What that means is that it's wikipedia-smart, i.e. it doesn't really tell you anything you can't find out with a minimal Google search. It does however cut the time-to-answer quite a bit, particularly if it's an area of knowledge you're not really that familiar with. But it bottoms out right as things start getting interesting, expertise wise.

Case example: I tried seeing what its limits on chemical knowledge were, starting with simple electron structures of molecules, and it does OK - remarkably, it got the advanced high-school level of methane's electronic structure right. It choked when it came to the molecular orbital picture and while it managed to list the differences between old-school hybrid orbitals and modern molecular orbitals, it couldn't really go into any interesting details about the molecular orbital structure of methane. Searching the web, I notice such details are mostly found in places like figures in research papers, not so much in text.

On the other hand, since I'm a neophyte when it comes to database architecture, it was great at answering what I'm sure any expert would consider basic questions.

Allowing comments sections to be clogged up with ChatGPT output would thus be like going to a restaurant that only served averaged-out mediocre but mostly-acceptable takes on recipes.
Did the floor of general product quality used to be higher, or was there always an abundance of cheap crap that broke fast and we just see the survivors?
And they are expensive AF to run. I had family members who had an oil-heated house on the Northeast US, and it was close to $2k a month to hear in the winter months (the house was large, something like 3000-3500 sq ft, but that's still an astronomical cost for heating)
But it has always been easy for simple bots to mass-produce bad comments. Nothing changes if they're still bad.

I'm concerned that too-well-written posts will be thrown out-- a race to the bottom in legibility and grammar just to make posts more human-like, even if written by bots.
See upthread.

I think these claims are pretty much risible. The report you're talking about is autogenerated from a bug tracker. The client sees your bugs. If you spend 50% of your time writing them, you're cheating the client.

What I really think happens is that you misinterpret things people tell you and blow them into weird directions. Somebody told you that "the PDF is what clients are paying for". Well, no shit. The PDF is the only deliverable from the project. It's where the bugs are written down.

I wasn't there for whatever you got told, but it sounds to me like the subtext of it was probably "so it doesn't matter much what you do on a project as long as the client ends up with a report that they can use to claim they've had an assessment done". That's a cynical thing to say, but definitely a thing that gets said. It's also, strictly speaking, true.

What I hear you saying is, "the PDF is the only thing that matters, so we should spend most of our time making the best possible PDF". That's not only silly, but also actively difficult to do in a practice where the reports are autogenerated.

The actual figure of merit from a software pentest is the list of bugs, full stop. Yes, the list is delivered in PDF. Don't let that confuse you.

I don't think you've worked in this field seriously enough or long enough to use the word "we" the way you are.
This is more or less tech in the oughts. There were a few booming companies like FB and Goog. Everyone else was riding investment from the 90s.

We’ll see how it plays out in the next few years, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see companies slow down R&D to capture profitability. In 5 years they may be too slow to innovate
Vintage Land Cruiser is even bigger status symbol.
Just getting plain text out of the web without getting flooded with boilerplate, noise, SEO spam, duplication, infinity pages like calendars etc is already a hard data engineering problem.
I wonder how strong a magnetic field would be need to be to prevent leakage in an airship using ionized hydrogen as a lifting gas.

Assuming that the airship can sustain a 10K C hydrogen plasma, of course.

Maybe just at the boundary.
Yes that's very clever. History though, is pretty clear about whose boots kick down whose doors when this plays out. Very fine people on both sides though im sure.
> There must be millions of devs who might be interested in a podcast that teaches them about better development practices

Sure, but just hearing/reading "Devs chatting about development" doesn't convince me that the outcome is I'll know about better development practices.
So you say it for exactly the reasons I thought you would. (Although I think Poland is, again, more vocal in NATO support for Ukraine than UK.)

Of course, circling back to the topic at hand, the problem with blaming the US for the pipeline explosion is that it makes no fucking sense for the US to blow it up.

Germany had already committed to weaning itself off of Russian gas and Nord Stream as soon as Russia invaded Ukraine. There has been no real political support for backsliding on this decision, so the best possible scenario for the US were it to blow up the pipeline would be... a continuation of current policy; there's no real gain to be had by blowing it up. The risk of blowing it up is an uptick in criticism against the US for being foreign interventionists, resulting in increased political pressure to force the EU to force Ukraine to accede to substantial losses to Russia. Even if the US were stupid enough to desire a complete cessation of gas, the way they would want to go about it would be something that minimizes the chance of political blowback--in other words, the operation would want to do stuff that keeps it out of headlines, and a pipeline explosion is a pretty dramatic affair that is completely at odds with how to achieve your political ends.

Another element to consider is that it's very well-known that there is a gas shortfall problem in 2023 without Nord Stream. There's not enough LNG import capacity to fully replace it until about 2024, which means if it's cut off entirely, there is going to have to be some form of politically painful rationing going on to make it through the winter of 2023-2024. If your goal is to sell more gas, creating a situation that forces people to use less gas is counterproductive. And, again, as popular appreciation of gas shortages come about, it's going to create more pressure against support for Ukraine in the Russia-Ukraine war.

If you look at it instead from the perspective of Russia, it makes a lot more sense. Russia already decided to stop exporting gas through Nord Stream about a month before the explosions, so it isn't going to be losing any revenue if it blows it up. In lieu of achieving military success on the battlefield, its theory of victory seems to have shifted in the fall towards making Ukrainians' and Europeans' lives as miserable as possible to force Ukraine to the negotiating table just to make the war stop. A dramatic explosion pushes the gas shortage issue into the headlines, and has enough plausible deniability to avoid political blowback. Especially because there's a decent cadre of people who will blame everything on US interventionism (and that's more or less official Russian line anyways--the Russia-Ukrainian war is the fault of the US, not Russia), even without any real evidence. Really, the strongest evidence that it's not caused by Russia is that it makes more strategic sense than Russia has shown itself capable of in the war to date.
Likely a placebo effect. https://www.aao.org/eye-health/tips-prevention/are-computer-...

I just remember to blink, and I also have no trouble with eye strain.
Review: S5648X-2Q4Z Switch – Part 2: MPLS
Do you know of any alternatives to Playnite? I use that and GameActivity to try and track my play time.
This isn't "you like vanilla, I like chocolate, to each their own." Grandparent post states a view on the tangible harm caused by this media empire. Using the flavor analogy, it's more like vanilla vs. lead ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_acetate ). In that framing, it makes sense to hope lead-based choices go away.
Yeah, I'd say the phrases "broadly shared visceral feelings" and "broad social policies" point to nearly the same concept.
Turning brightness down is not recommended. You will experience more vision problems if you do it for long. Decreasing brightness decreases your field of vision, makes it harder for your eyes to focus and will worsen your nearsightedness or increase risk of getting it.

For more context, my eyes became much healthier after I increased the brightness of my monitor to 60% (250nits) since last 4 months. Before then I used to regularly use it at 10% (40nits). My power numbers were getting worse and I even had high IOP, which has improved now.