skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Switching to wayland is not a small feat, even if libraries like wlroots can reduce significantly the work.
XFCE is not a commerical project, it doesn't really care about market share I guess. They have plans to move towards wayland support but those things takes time.
In my opinion, this is a tarpit idea [0]. It's not that it's impossible, it's that the user expectations are high, the marginal utility of the new features is negligible and, even if you had a vastly superior product, you would still need to somehow convince some critical mass of people to migrate over and use it. I think there's a reason new social networks succeed from a fresh set of users rather than somehow convincing people who are already established on FB/Twitter/Whatever to migrate over.

In addition, any new service will be fighting against the tendency to centralize, create a walled garden and prioritize tools for advertisers and user management rather than enabling users. There was a recent quote of Jack Dorsey to that effect [1]:

"""
The biggest mistake I made was continuing to invest in building tools for us to manage the public conversation, versus building tools for the people using Twitter to easily manage it for themselves.
"""

That being said, I don't think it's impossible but it's almost going to be a "worst is better" solution and one that at least has some traction now, like Mastodon [2] or Scuttlebutt [3] (I'm on Mastodon but haven't used Scuttlebutt). Maybe IPFS thrown in there somewhere [4]? There might even be a way to bootstrap a social web through some web3 solution, though that's pretty speculative at this point (or maybe overlaps with IPFS?).

All of the FOSS/libre alternatives have major problems, not the least of which is that they're not tested at scale, have growing pains or just don't have the critical mass that any of the other platforms do (though maybe Mastodon is getting more popular?).

I go where the people are. The major feature, in my opinion, is Metcalfe's law. Any other feature might be necessary for long term survival but for to even get started, the value added from Metcalfe's law dwarfs any new feature that people might think up. I'm willing to put up with some pain for a libre/free/FOSS solution but even then, it needs to be decentralized in some way or else we're most likely to be doomed by a repeat of something like Reddit open sourcing their stack, it being a mess and them just close sourcing it again, without any major benefit to the public or users.

Put it this way: Why is some idea going to work when so many other people have tried and failed? This is not a rhetorical question. There's bound to be a social network that takes over FB/TWitter/Whatever. What are the conditions for this new social network to take over? A new breed of users? Cheaper compute? Web3 adoption? Cheaper storage leading to easier data distribution? Continually cheaper communication costs?

Sometimes it's good to throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks, that's certainly how a lot of startups succeed, but that's not something I'm going to invest a lot of emotional energy into.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMIawSAygO4

[1] https://twitter.com/BillyM2k/status/1603135805039382529

[2] https://mastodon.social

[3] https://scuttlebutt.nz/

[4] https://ipfs.tech/
Your argument amounted to "there is one person claiming city around is very dirty therefore police is not responsive enough in many places".
For the 30 anniversary? https://warp.net/gb/artificial-intelligence
Fun! I tried something similar with DCGAN when it first came out, but that didn't exactly make nice noises. The conversion to and from Mel spectrograms was lossy (to put it mildly), and DCGAN, while impressive in its day, is nothing like the stuff we have today.

Interesting that it gets so good results with just fine tuning the regular SD model. I assume most of the images it's trained on are useless for learning how to generate Mel spectrograms from text, so a model trained from scratch could potentially do even better.

There's still the issue of reconstructing sound from the spectrograms. I bet it's responsible for the somewhat tinny sound we get from this otherwise very cool demo.
It's hard to avoid the conclusion that software today isn't 1,000s of times better than software in the 1990s, but it certainly uses 1,000s of times the resources.
Interesting. We're using maps API at work and We're looking for other solutions just in case google goes nuts hiking it's prices, etc...
Halo Infinite died because Microsoft mismanaged it. They had huge player numbers at launch but they failed to keep the content going and people moved on. They couldn't even manage a tie in with the stupid halo show when it launched.
> petrol tank is smaller tucked in usually somewhere in the back of the car

I think most car fires are not from the fuel tank leaking, but instead from a short somewhere in its electric system, or from a leaking hose spraying flammable liquid (fuel, oil, etc) onto a hot surface (like the motor). Compared with an ICE vehicle, an EV should have less hoses with flammable fluids, but more parts on its electric system.
S3 and Mapbox
You just do it. Over and over, until you get used to it. (It being: doing stuff you don't want to).

At least this is what I've been trying for the past five years, specially after the pandemic (which sucked the last drops of motivation) and a child (which showed me that I can indeed do stuff that's required but not desired).

It sometimes works, it somestimes doesn't work. But sticking to it seems to be the whole point, so I'm trying. What could I lose, right?

Also take all the advice from this thread and experiment with it as tools: find the tools that work for you and keep them around. Reach for them in moments of need, but also accept you can't always use them all the time and it's OK.

Seeking an ADHD diagnosis/treatment might also help, but it won't magically solve everything. It's a tool just like the others.
> Some other maladjusted individuals might even prefer dirty streets.

There are mant problems in the world - poverty, corruption, ignorancr, violence. But I have neber heard of, well, whatever this is, love of dirt?

I have travelled quite a bit and have never encountered opposition to sanitation, running water and toilets.
I mean you won't find the ultimate answer, but I found the writings of Oliver Burkeman on these kinds of topics interesting. He's a bit of an anti-productivity guru (aka recognizing that these are important issues, but being highly critical about the usual "read my book and everything will be fine" type of people).

See e.g. things like this:
https://www.oliverburkeman.com/onething
https://ckarchive.com/b/xmuph6hrzxwrd
Make the World Small Again
> if this is such a clear ToS violation then maybe it shouldn’t have been approved?

Maybe user software shouldn't be enforcing arbitrary ToS, but should instead obey the user? Do we really want corporations colluding with each-other to enforce their whims over us through their products that we are surrounded by, and are becoming necessary for modern life? What next, disk firmware scanning for copyright violations?

I'm sorry if this comes off as harsh, but I am sick of people using the ToS (that a company can make up at will) as any kind of justification, pro- or against. They can and do write anything they want there.
You can use git obsidian plugin to automatically commit new notes and then use gitbook to automatically pull that notes and edit them (and commit them again) on your phone.
Finally, one place to find all ETL providers by source!
> Why move from one corporate entity to another? Substack will end up going down the same road in time. Get your own domain, fire up a CMS and start publishing on something you control and own.

It's quite weird to see people fawning over the latest startup blogging platforms in 2022.

While people have been migrating to/from medium and substack, wordpress.com has been here the whole time, and it's still quite OK. The killer feature it has, of course, is that because it is open source you can export your data and run it yourself should things go sour (or if you just outgrow it).

Whatever features substack/medium/whatever closed source platform may have that you think you really need, the anti-feature of lockin is not worth it.
Citi’s Employees Can Work from Anywhere for Last Two Weeks of Year
If you were transported back to the 19th century, would you have empathy for the loom operators smashing mechanical looms?

Art currently requires two skills - technical rendering ability, and creative vision/composition. AI tools have basically destroyed the former, but the latter is still necessary. Professional artists will have to adjust their skillset, much like they had to adjust their skillset when photography killed portrait painting as a profession.
Does anyone have any good guides/tutorials for how to fine-tune Stable Diffusion? I'm not talking about textual inversion or dreambooth.
When we’re talking about billionaires and nonprofits and taxes, I’m having a hard time seeing how one’s opinions could hinge on public statements rather than the money and impact.
Any recommendations for introductory level course/book? I'm a web dev and I know next to nothing about PCBs, electronics etc.

Ideally I'd like to be able to open up, say tv remote, look at the board and have at least some idea of what the top left part does vs bottom right one, that sort of thing.
> The day after movie-to-VR becomes easy to do, movie owners will monitize it, which will end the current free-for-all.

The movie making studios already own those 3d "digital assets" from their films. IDK if there is a real "free-for-all" right now, but the monetisation play has already been planned for.
Your answer is spot on.

This makes me think of Yoichi Kaya's formula: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaya_identity

It shows illustrates the dependency between GDP, population, energy and emissions. Assuming we don't want to reduce population and GDP, we are left with optimizing energy and emission intensity.

I just finished this comic book by Jancovici which explains all this and it is very easy to read.
https://www.amazon.com/World-Without-End-Blain-Christophe-eb...
I use reverse Pomodoro method where I do like 15 minutes of work and 45 minutes of fun.
Always two there are. No more, no less.
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>A lithium mine is much more devastating to the environment than an oil well or franking.

This isn't true at all. Lithium is mined in much smaller quantities and in fewer places. In some cases (Cornwall, e.g.), it can be obtained as a byproduct of geothermal energy. It can also be recycled. By contrast, the Wikipedia list of environmental disasters has an entire section devoted to oil:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_environmental_disaster...
Discipline > Motivation.

I really enjoyed Atomic Habits by James Clear. He outlines both a philosophy for creating habits, as well as a toolbox of specific techniques to help you. I've found it enormously useful in my own struggles with motivation and focus.
> Billionaire's 501(c)(3)s aren't charities in the typical sense. They're tax-exempt piles of money that are controlled exclusively by billionaire and their families

Ah, so basically the exact same as every other billionaire family's charity.
It'd be great if Apple would throw their weight behind this effort.
Hard to use? what do you mean, you drag parts around and then you click a simulate button, that's it. You think configuring a transient analysis with 8 parameters is easier? I'm sure it's easy for people who are already familiar with it. But face it, no high schooler is going to be itching to start an electrical engineering career because they got their hands on a spice simulator.
On interviewing “non engineers” when you're an engineer [Red Flags]
So, can it make a traveling salesman solver for current quantum computers?
> GPT can't fix a bug

It can't? I could've sworn I've seen (cherry-picked) examples of it doing exactly that, when prompted. It even explains what the bug is and why the fix works.
On the other hand that caveman wasn't doing the the same thing at the same pace of work every day of the year, and they had a much clearer idea of why the things they were doing were worth the effort they were putting in...
Cross Server dungeons/raids had the exact same consequence. In the early expansions you would play with people and get to know them. Sometimes you'd be levelling at a similar pace and cross paths on a few of the instances/quests. Maybe you'd get to chatting?

I know we recruited several people into a casual guild based on doing a few dungeons and getting on well with them. This was, ofc, before guild perks etc gamified that aspect in a shitty fashion.

Ofc you also got to learn people you never wanted to instance with again. Reputation mattered! As the Parent said, may as well be playing with NPCs.
The comparison here was "carbon-heavy" versus "green", not polluting versus non-polluting. Carbon dioxide is not pollution and has no relation to the outsourcing of it. A country which uses 100% nuclear power and as such does not emit any (or hardly any) Carbon dioxide would be "green" and as such would be "rich and green".
This is amazing! Would it be possible to use it to modify this interpolate between two existing songs (i.e. generate spectrograms from audio and transition between them)?
Oh man, Letters from Whitechapel is so good. You either squirm for 40 minutes while dancing around the investigators as Jack with a devilish gleam in your eye or you get to play a super interesting deduction game of whack-a-mole searching for Jack.
In competitive programming that is.
regarding those usual objections, i'd argue that a spectrograph representation of a given piece of audio is just a different (lossy) encoding of the same content/information, so any hypothetical objections would still apply here.
Is the material that ends up in the cell a significant part of the cost? If steel was free, ICE cars could be dozens of dollars cheaper than they are. I guess material costs are a much bigger factor in batteries, but in many other products is so low that "much bigger" could still be tiny.
Its not a feature, it is a bug. You don't have to hate either.
That could easily flip if fake meat turns out to be a big industry.
When I took my graphic design class in college, there was a big chunk about copyright and trademark. We had to be very cautious about images we were using and the difference between the two was drilled into our heads.
I have a whole arsenal of strategies:

- Creating a hard deadline, such as booking a meeting to share the work. Then "If you leave it to the last minute, it only takes a minute" can work and be efficient

- Carving out time for that thing, such as going to a coffee shop and telling myself I won't leave until that 1 thing is done

- "Structured procrastination" which is finding a task that's even less pleasant and putting it beside the other unpleasant, but easy task on a todo list, and when I'm avoiding the really really unpleasant task I can get the other thing done

- Waiting for an altered mind state. Some tasks I know I can't bring myself to do unless I'm at peak mental energy at 10am, so I let them take up that slot to get them done. Other unpleasant tasks such as badgering people to do things they dropped the ball on I might tackle when I'm feeling more in an angry mood brought on by some unrelated frustration, but lingering. When I'm feeling frustrated generally I sometimes pick up the phone to deal with annoying customer service at companies I've been putting off

- If I'm really stuck in a rut I'll listen to the Andrew Huberman podcast and try to lean abut brain chemistry and sometimes find that learning about some underlyling mechanism of why motivation helps me fix thigns

- If I'm really stuck sometimes I'll go for a run. Resets my mind, gives a bit of dopamine and motivation from runenrs high
- Avoiding carbs and alcohol is helpful for me. Carbs make me lethargic, and having low motivation makes me want to eat carbs, which is a self reeinforcing negative spiral

- I try to be mindful of how meaningful social connection improve wellbeing and motivation. Saying something nice to my wife, showing heartfelt appreciation for someone at work helps lift mood and give me energy to tackle the least motivating items on my task list
If I am an artist and I go to art school, I'm going to spend years studying the masters to learn their techniques and style. If I then produce an impressionist portrait on canvass, informed and influenced by the years of study of existing works.... am I violating copyright?
US Blacklists More Chinese Tech Companies, Escalating Trade Fight
Apple Maps Redesign: Netherlands Belgium Liechtenstein Luxembourg Switzerland
With batteries is that there are way more factors than just capacity. You need thermal run way, cold/hot weather perf, heat generated, charge time, numb cycles before capacity is 80%, weight power ratio, scalability and cost
Antismoking Law in New Zealand Sets New Frontier in Battle over Cigarettes
I'm so glad we lost XUL so we could get this essential feature!
Villain of last two months was Trump, now the the villain of the month is Musk.

There is a new villain that the media are always baiting readers every month. It's quite predictable to see as they are desperate and hungry for your clicks.
Your thoughtfulness is deeply appreciated.
> implies nothing

Nothing is a strong word.

A similar idea was tried, by one of the largest tech companies in the world, pushing it on to their already established user base, and it didn't catch on. Will it fail again? No idea, but it doesn't imply nothing.
When it comes to reducing climate change, countries that are already rich don't matter so much. They can reduce emissions without reducing their quality of life too much.

But there are lots of countries in the world that are not at high GDP yet, but will be high GDP in the future. Because their GDP is not high, GDP growth does correlate very strongly with their quality of life. They are not going to want to delay their growth just because of climate change, and it's probably immoral to force them.
Thanks, that looks like exactly what I was looking for.
Actually there were some nice beige boxes then, also black(with some silver applications), or even colored. Very streamlined design. And you could actually sit, or even stand on them. They were just rare. But you could get them. But since the PC-segment of the market was the low end, that was more work and unusual.
I had one of these for a while in the 90s. It brings me joy that someone is working to preserve some of the artifacts. It was incredibly compact for the time. I later added a 1.5mbps wireless network card for maximum benefit.

The sliding mechanism worked flawlessly. I never had issues with jamming or breaking. The golden era of Thinkpad was when design in Japan.
Yes, if you just show up to the DMV they will tell you what you need to do. You only need to self-actualize and figure things out ahead of time to get things done faster than multiple iterations of going there and waiting in line. Remember, the DMV has to deal with the below average members of the public.

For the topic's problem, I'd love to see some automated setup app that would take a "VPS host account", and do all of the installation/configuration to support service(s) running Free software to accomplish a high level task (eg a blog). Like a graphical NixOps with precanned configurations.

You'd need to initially cut down the number of options (say VPS account must be at one of 2 hosts, domain must be at one of 2 registrars), but I think the main problem would be trying to straddle so many abstraction levels.
Kudos for the xfce team to keep up the project after all these years. I haven't used desktop Linux in a couple years, but xubuntu and Debian / xfce were always great experiences.

I think this project is really underrated, and I think xfce yo and attitudes towards interface are really good. It's also super stable!
I don't understand why people use Medium or similar gated blogging platforms. It is so easy to use Wordpress. You can get a domain name with managed wordpress install ready to roll for less than $50 a year. And you become the owner of your own publications.

Or if you want to do it yourself, just install a Ghost Docker container in some spare space of that $5 Digital Ocean instance, and you are ready to go.

With a $5 DO instance I've got a self hosted recipe book (RecipeSage), Bookmark Service (LinkAce), blogging platform (Ghost) and also use it as a Socks Proxy. I've got nightly backups for $1.5 and everything was as easy as docker-compose up.

I understand non-technical people suffering the issues of internet deplatforming, but for a self-named "The Practical Dev" ?
I came to say this, find out if you have depression/adhd; they seem to be the root causes of my procrastination issues
Lots of things made no sense in Star Trek
My LifePo4 battery has a 6000 cycle guarantee at 60% capacity.

So its not even close yet
China’s Leaders Plot Pivot Back Toward Boosting Economy
>Show me on the doll where the Elon touched you.

No really, what makes you believe this?
> Sure, but first off I never claimed they "make stock trading more open and visible" that was you putting words in my mouth.

My whole comment was that they make stock trading the opposite of "open and visible", then you come along and tell me that I don't understand what a dark pool is...

That's exactly what a dark pool does, you just see that as a good thing because it benefits investors. I'm more concerned about their effect on the other 99% of the human population.
My first professional computer was an SGI O2. The thing that bothered me at the time was how completely closed the architecture was. It costs hundreds of dollars to buy compilers for example. Linux was an amazing thing in comparison because almost everything I needed to do my job was free. I never took Windows seriously so I’ve not used it. MSFT had far better sales reps at the time though from what I recall.
I think it's more a lack of historical perspective on the part of artists. I remember when Photoshop and other digital art tools became available and many artists were of the opinion "Feh! Digital art isn't really art. Real artists work with pens, brushes, and paper!". Fast forward a couple of decades and you won't find many artists still saying that. Instead they've embraced the tools. I expect the future won't be AI art vs human art but rather a hybrid as art tools incorporate the technique and artists won't think it is any less art than using other digital tools.
> Could you please elaborate, why its "short-sighted"?

Because it's barely been a year since we've gone from people confidently asserting that AI won't be able to produce visual art on the level of human professionals at all to the current situation. Predictions on ways in which AI performance will not catch up to or overtake human performance have a bad track record at the moment, and it has not been long enough to even suspect that the current increase in performance might be plateauing. Cutting-edge image generation AI appears to often imitate human artists in obvious ways now, but it seems quite plausible that the gap between this and being "original"/as non-obvious in your imitation of other humans as those high-performing human artists that are considered to be original is merely quantitative and will be closed soon enough.

> You mean that any artist should be just happy that his work is used by other people / rich corporation / AI without consent? Cool, cool.

I don't know how you get that out of what I said. Rather, I'm claiming that artists will have enough to be unhappy about being obsoleted, and the current direction of their ire at being "copied" by AI may be a misdirection of effort, much as if makers of horse-drawn carriages had tried to forestall the demise of their profession by complaining that the design of the Ford Model T was ripped off of theirs (instead of, I don't know, lobbying to ban combustion engines altogether, or sponsoring Amish proselytism).