skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Battery life and a more pleasant trackpad experience.

I know it's hard to tune a good trackpad profile with such varying hardware, but it sure.would be nice to get a MacBook like smoothness on a Linux DE.

And battery life ... Holy hell, Mac is so great and Windows is shitting the bed with their smart suspend.

I'm okay with fedora on my laptop, and I must say I've gotten used to Gnome. There is a tweak tool for gnome that allows for adjusting some things I think should be tweakable and discoverable by default.
Still useful to install OS on physical machines.
https://archive.md/g3u6S
"The fusion scientist can now ask ChatGPT for ten (or 10,000)"

Since the ChatGPT can't perform empirical experiments and update it's suggestions based on those experiments it has no way to tell a "bad" idea from a "good" one.
> I wonder if people felt this way about Apollo? In hindsight it feels worthwhile. But the big difference between Artemis and Apollo is that Artemis is coming after Commercial Crew/SpaceX has proven a different business/engineering model.

The public started to lose interest in Apollo after a couple of years. There was supposed to be an Apollo 18, 19, and 20. They were cancelled. One of them turned into Skylab. The others are in museums. You can walk under a Saturn V in Florida and see the other in Houston.
800G would be muxing 8 100G lanes? That must be pricy!
> What are you using for a music replacement app? My library is 32GB now and I don't think I'm using any of the other itunes features these days, just using it as the path to sideload MP3s.

After fighting a long time to own my music, I have to admit I got tired of maintaining a library, and mostly listen on Spotify these days. But I never liked the library-based model anyway, and so (when still dipping into my own library, and especially when watching movies) prefer an app like VLC that accepts that I might occasionally just want to play a media file without making a library. (Same thing with Books: for some reason, Apple can accept that I might just occasionally want casually to open a PDF in Preview, but finds it impossible to believe I might want to do the same thing with an ePub. I still haven't found a good non-library-based ePub app for macOS; I wind up just using the one that comes with calibre.)
Uh, plastic props for my harbour-pusher come in at lousy 45 bucks. Sometimes, i'm so happy to own a smol boat.
I've been self-publishing science fiction romance on the side. I started doing it when switching jobs in the middle of the pandemic a couple of years ago, and being really stressed about going from a stable position where I spent almost eight years to a probation period. I figured doing something totally creatively different that made a tiny bit of income might distract me and help me manage the anxiety levels. And it worked! The job turned out great, but so did the fiction writing.
May I ask a question? Why do you have to draw a sequence diagram with draw.io?

This response below is not going to answer your question.

Previously, I was using draw.io to draw sequence diagrams. I didn't have "fancy" setup. It was pretty straightforward. I drew diagram components, like actor, boundary, control, message, and lifeline and connected them one by one. This took so much effort and time. Then, I moved on and used PlantUML [0]. This tool helped me to produce a sequence diagram using text. The text will be rendered into a diagram. I didn't need to draw. It saved my time a lot.

[0]: https://plantuml.com/sequence-diagram
I tried to get ChatGPT to write quines. Got one in Go, got rubbish for m4 and nroff quines. That matches with the theory that ChatGPT has to read something very similar to get ve good results - there's lots of Go quines, only one or two m4 quines, and no nroff quines I can find.
I'd say 1997/98.
Indian Country Needs Money to Protect Its Wildlife Heritage. Congress Must Help
That's why I didn't say money in the bank? Possibly volatile, but a hedge-slash-gamble against whatever screwiness is going on with other forms of money.
You're mixing up tritium (hydrogen-3) and helium-3.
IMHO, carrier settings are a small portion and not super impactful part of the phone configuration you see in the settings list. This is actually a somewhat cool feature. Imagine going to another country, jumping on another network and your phone automatically knows what cell bands and towers to connect to.

Carriers can't change regular settings like language, lock screen code or background. Just what cell towers you connect to and a short list of telephony related features. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Get a black and white Brother laser printer. It's super affordable, costs almost no money or time to maintain, and always works.
Which laptop?

Thinkpads and Macbooks tend to be less troublesome than other brands.

Please note, I said 'less troublesome' not 'seamless.'

Since you've had difficulty troubleshooting Windows drivers, at least you'll have some vaguely relevant experience when you switch to Linux. But be aware there's no equivalent to right clicking and running a program in XP compatibility mode.

As for privacy, Chrome is still Chrome on Linux, logging in with Twitter is still logging in with Twitter, and Github is a Microsoft property.

Good luck.
I thought this article had a good rule on how to differentiate dead end "solution in search of a problem" inventions and ones that might be successful.

> whether the technology does something that would be useful if everyone had it, but is relatively useless at small scale

I've often told my partner a lot of his "smart home" devices are solutions in search of problems. It seems to ride this line. Probably why despite my protests we keep winding up with more and I have to yell at alexa more frequently
I can attest that if you are a migraineur, these things absolutely make a difference. When mine are borderline or I am recovering, changing the colour and redshift on my monitors can make the difference between being able to do some work and triggering a full blown headache. It's as noticeable as someone turning up the volume on a sound to me.

Whether it matters to all the people all the time is a different question. But it 100% makes a big difference to many people.
This is very promising. Hopefully this can be one of the primary tools used to remove our dependency on dirty fuel sources
Amazon SageMaker's fifth birthday: Looking back, looking forward
The reality is that top players can make more from streaming/content than playing. To take your Doublelift example he has been full time streaming for 2 years but is coming back to LCS this year. He's taking a massive paycut by playing LCS vs. full time streaming/content.

These inflated pro salaries are good for the lower tier players who don't have the entertainer personality
It's almost as if there are other parties with whom you have may want to have money transactions other than governments.
And on other side popular players can possibly make same money as streamers or influencers with less risk and effort.
>>And also when people try to understand what business value brings shifting a button from right to left and talking about it for 40min.

"Bikeshedding." Ever since I learned that term I realized how much of my meetings are just that :(
I wonder what we can do as consumers to convince investors to make stupid decisions to subsidize unprofitable industries so we can enjoy cheap prices.
They could offer very customized versions made in an Inconel 3d printer.. Wonder if that (economically & technologically - is inconel seawater safe??) really makes sense, though.
Left and right are incredibly well defined and understood if people are being genuine. Left wing politics generally believe that the government and central planning are good in varying degrees, right wing politics generally believe that government is a necessary evil and should be given as little responsibility as possible with economics and social planning.

With that aside, they were socialist revolutionaries. Terms are only imprecise because of people trying to redefine it when it's inconvenient for their views. Whether it's in the original interpretation in europe, they literally killed their russian royals... or in the modern interpretation of the word they were socialists who believed in the power of the state and central planning as being tenants of a good society.
Now Driving You Mad at the Car Dealership: A Shortage of Title Paper
Not where I have been living in USA. Food and energy and rent in USA far outstripped interest rates on savings accounts or government bonds.
The Rise of the Super App
I like this approach. If we divide the federal budget into sufficiently small chunks, all the spending is reasonable, and we don't have to worry about deficits and such. Utterly brilliant reasoning!
I only follow pubg esports, but I'm just not seeing how a pro player in an expensive country can afford to make a living. The competition is brutal, the hours to be at the top are very high, and unless you're a top streamer the income is very low.

Now this can all be hand waved away with "they're just playing a video game, they're lucky" but I think that misses the point. To be a pro at one game, you have to dedicate everything to that game. Revenue sharing has to go up for longevity of esports.
Solar Microgrid Keeps the Lights on in Castañer, Puerto Rico During Hurricane
Other posts mentioned ways to detect, like:

- "bait urls" that other crawlers won't touch
- trigger by request volume and filter out legit crawlers
- find something unique about the headers in their requests that you can identify them with

One additional suggestion is to not block them, but rather, serve up different content to them. Like have a big pool of fake pages and randomly return that content. If they get a 200/OK and some content they are less likely to check that anything is wrong.

Another idea is to serve them something that you can then report as some type of violation to Google, or something (think SafeSearch) that gets their site filtered.
Here's the unrolled thread...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1602127460677844993.html
The essential problem of modification isn't who is tailoring people, but that anyone at all is tailoring people. It legitimizes the notion that human beings can be made subject to the wills and desires of others in the manner of an instrument. It's the same moral stance that enabled chattel slavery, but worse. Much worse.

The idea is just reheated science fiction, but the underlying hubris, and resulting moral blindness, is even older.
So there's another weekend project idea :)
>Age and experience don’t necessarily mean we have unique insights into a completely different world than the one in which we grew up.

Insights don't have to be extracted from or based on the current world to be applicable to the current world.

The most valuable insights are from those that have exeprienced a different world, as they have a frame of reference to analyze, value, etc the changes in this one.

Except if we make the naive mistake that "newer is better", so the old world ways are by definition useless, as there's no better thing there to consider adopting from the old world (since new things are better), no wisdom for the old world to impart on the new one (since new things are wiser), and no danger of regression to a worse world (since new is better, so anything new is an improvement).

That's an attitude often seen, and it shows a total lack of awarenes of history.

>Given the incredible pace of both technological and social change, it seems worth asking if the experiences—and, thus, knowledge and ideas—of elders should be taken as unquestionably and uncritically worthy of consideration by younger people.

Well, the "unquestionably and uncritically" is a strawman used to help beg the question. Who ever claimed so?

If we remove these weasel words, and change this into:

"it seems worth asking if the experiences—and, thus, knowledge and ideas—of elders should be taken as worthy of consideration by younger people."

the answer is an obvious yes.

What's funny is that the very thing that triggered the poster's musings was meant to arrive at the exact opposite conclusion than TFA:

> What triggered me to ask this question was an episode of the 1960s television classic, The Twilight Zone, called, “The Obsolete Man.” In a seemingly fascist future society with little use for books and knowledge, a humble librarian is sentenced to death on the grounds that he and his occupation are obsolete. While I’m neither a fan of fascism nor the death penalty, after watching the episode (with my 87-year-old father, I might add) I was troubled. Maybe, I thought, at 60—I’m obsolete.

Err, the whole point of the episode is that the old man's perspective is not only not obsolete, but saner than the change to that futuristic dystopia.
No need for the weird shot at women. Streaming makes more money than esports, period.
I don't know. Steve Jobs had some kind of issues in his first stint at Apple and made a spectacular comeback so it's possible but someone has to get through to him to take it easy
1997 and 1998 _were_ in the 90s, so the previous post isn't inaccurate…
Coincidentally this arrange to bid is exactly the process most military moving to Japan use with local mom and pops. Works excellently.
I don't follow esports much except for Age of Empires 2 (Definitive Edition). It is a comparatively small community, but nonetheless very impressive for a 20+ year old game. I have been surprised by the increasing number of top-level tournaments (with good prize money) that are being organized. Very excited for the future of this game.
“Online testing is a joke”: Chinese students use remote access software to cheat
How the Hell Has Danielle Steel Managed to Write 179 Books? (2019)
One strategy tip: don't play cat and mouse. As you've demonstrated, if you change one thing, they will figure it out and change one thing. Not only does that not work, but you are training them that it's worth trying to beat your latest change.

Instead, plot a few different changes and throw them in all at once. Preferably in a way where they will have to solve all of the changes at the same time to figure out what happened and get things working again. Also, favor changes that are harder to detect. E.g., pure IP blocks are easier to detect than tarpitting and returning fake/corrupted content. The longer their feedback loops, the more likely it is that they'll just give up and go be a parasite somewhere else.
Switzerland Considers EV Driving Ban and Limits During a Blackout
I bought through carmax and I call it dealership lite. They tried to finance me even though I already had financing (and I said no) and pushed the extended warranty pretty hard. It is like $5k for 150k miles. I've heard you should buy it if you go for a BMW, jaguar or other higher maintenance car.
Then count the number of years between your birth and now vs your birth and ww2!
That's it. What you lose in safety due to price volatility you gain in worrying less about your house broken into and not knowing how flammable your mattress is.
:)

Maybe an aside, but for notebooks, I know that notebookcheck always has a section about this in their reviews. https://www.notebookcheck.net/HP-Dragonfly-Folio-13-5-G3-con... for example - and even if PWM is detected, they check how high the frequency is (high enough and it should bother no one). For monitors, RTINGs.com checks for PWM, https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/dell/alienware-aw3423... as an example (like imhoguy mentioned, flicker free is the keyword to search for).
One thing you can do is add a canonical to each page, which will help solve the the Bing/Google issue until they realise it's there. Do it before they add one.

You're already using Cloudflare, you could try talking to their support or just turning up settings to make it more strict for bots.
(1) Yeah, though I definitely forgot. In my country, it used to be really hard to find a plan with mobile hotspot, which used to be a x€/month (don't remember the number) option that would just hide the setting. That was a very long time ago since I saw on but I think some plans still have those restrictions and use that method to enforce it.

(2) Changing to a device that doesn't have that feature. Which probably means no Android and no iOS. I would not be willing to do so, I'd change carrier instead if it was problematic enough to me.

(3) I don't mind when it's to set settings for a good reason. I assume some settings are configured that way for the phone to properly work on the carrier network. On the other hand, I hate it when it's to enforce a stupid thing or extract more money from a built-in feature.
Embed the welcome text in an image then!
Beyond the Basics Level Up Your Causal Discovery Skills in Python Now (2023)
Create a FAT32 partition on your SSD/HDD, unpack your .iso there, and you should be able to boot from it. You typically don't have to mark it as an ESP partition. It works on most motherboards, but not all.
Discussions are supposed to go both way.
The first way - I learn things - is still valid, maybe even more with the advance of AI. Even if all the contributions I just read were AI generated, I would have liked it. I guess.
But the second way - I teach things - get partially destroyed if I lose time interacting with bots. Forums need to be reinvented to provide some sense of trust. I am not sure that's the end of online privacy though, we are smarter than that and we will certainly figure out systems that will ensure a human wrote it without gathering personal informations.

Somewhere else someone pointed out that using AI to reformulate our thoughts while masking our own style is a possible protection for our anonymity considering the kind of threat showed in this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016 . This should seriously be taken into account.
She Turns Fluids into ‘Black Holes’ and ‘Inflating Universes’
I was not aware this could be done remotely explicitly going against settings the user himself has set.
Tangential, life imitates art: The Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor (also known simply as Mr. Fusion and the fusion generator) was the name of a power source used by the DeLorean time machine. The actual unit was manufactured by Fusion Industries.

> https://backtothefuture.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Fusion
What changes would you have to make to Stable Diffusion to defend it against this kind of attack?
True. Apple cannot be touched when it comes to laptops. My M2 Air is a marvelous machine. I do most of my dev via remote/ssh now and so the battery life on this machine is almost measured in days now. In Geekbench 5 it outperforms my new core i7-12700k on single core performance.
NIF Breakthrough: Experiment Puts Researchers at Threshold of Fusion Ignition
Nurses disciplined for TikTok about patients who give them the ‘icks’
I asked GPT what the source code does, was pretty impressed with the response

>This code is a JavaScript program that creates a "snow" animation on a web page. When executed, the code generates a number of white, circular elements (which represent snowflakes) and animates them to move across the page, creating the illusion of snow falling. The snowflakes are given random positions, sizes, and animations to make the effect more realistic.
Eventually, kids need to manage their own screentime.

It's going to be an important skill for them as an adult to self manage. Further, we don't want to apply shame/guilt to screentime just because it's screen time. There's such a huge range of activities that involve a screen. I used to think YouTube was the lowest bar of screen time, but there is generally so much deep, informational content that kids love (like History Oversimplified). So many creative activities involve a screen. And frankly it's a primary form of social interaction for older kids.

What can you do?

One thing is model better behavior as adults. As two WFH parents, this is really really hard. It means not being on screens all the time as adults. I've found if you show interest in things, your kids will too. So setting up activities you do together that don't involve screens is crucial. And doing activities BY YOURSELF that don't involve screens is crucial if you want your kids to do activities by themselves without screens.
Maybe we will see national eSports teams if the fan base blows up over the years. But as for the existing teams, they're more like soccer clubs, and shouldn't be restricted by region, it allows money to be invested to bring in the best players, which is a good incentive for players to shine.
No, no, it's "1. A row boat may not injure a tree..."
Meta staff fear Zuckerberg’s obsession with metaverse could end company
A fusion rector does not have control rods. It has a magnetic containment field around a plasma which is, something like 10x hotter than the sun. if you put a control rod in there it would instantly vaporize.
you're mistaking cynicism for skepticism and you're trusting yourself entirely too much (a common flaw for smart people).

Consider that even too much water can kill a person and the original computers filled buildings.
I don't know anything about boats, but some boats can be rowed by a single person, which I guess would typically be much less than 600w. It fits with the car battery part too.
You just made me realize the first level tech recruiters are over as a job. Many of them use blind templated reach outs that will actually be better with AI looking at your exact profile and GitHub.
Single Sign-On vs. Single Logout
Fusion Breakthrough: Net energy produced
The Continuity of Splines [video]
I'm pretty happy with GitHub actions
Fair point but I am pretty sure so many accounting firms messed up quite often.
Without slowing their business much.

I remember this one for example that was probably missed by most people.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58671915

Trump was a loaded client and any firm doing business with any politicians should be extra-careful
From the article:

> The Financial Times reported Sunday that scientists in the California-based Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) had achieved a "net energy gain" from an experimental fusion reactor.
Haha, thanks for another idea, cursor showing current time is what we all miss on our websites today :)

PS. The JS is used just to generate and embed the code, snow effect is 100% CSS :)
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>Software engineer applies computer science theory in real world where he she is constrained by real world factors

A good 90% of people with that title are flying blind as if they lived the wild west

A good 90% of the rest almost never do that (regardless if because they don't know how, or the company won't let them)

The rest will make the news of they fail, so they put an amount of effort and time which reflect that

We skipped the "mechanic" equivalent in the software industry and call anyone that can pass fizzbuzz, and who does work like fizzbuzz, an engineer

Software engineers do a lot of tinkering, and almost no engineering. Which is fine by me, actual engineering is a PITA and tinkering is where the fun is at
40-50 years if you are in the unlucky 1-5% and have a child with a severe developmental issue.

The chances are low, lower if it's legal to do an abortion on a fetus with the associated markers, but they're still there. Parents may never not have a child to care for, one who can not reciprocate in their later years.
Her book on writing, "Steering the Craft" is absolute gold.
OMG.

Is there a word that combines a tidal wave of nostalgia with the feeling that you're going to have a seizure? :)
When I look at some of these pictures I feel like I can smell the room they were taken in.