skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Xwayland is currently the only maintained X server;

Just googling to check that claim. As a random example: xorg-server in Arch was last updated on 12/19/22. Six days ago.

Wayland proponents are so aggressive like this. You want to deny that anyone is still interested in X. Maybe it won't have dramatic changes. But people will be patching it for years.
It that the same tracker they used in Santa's Slay? :) Probably not. )
There has never been need to have judicial oversight when making a request, the FBI can send a request to Twitter just the same as they can ask you to come in for an interview. You're free to refuse.
Thanks for the reply, Dang.

Your reply doesn't say my account was or wasn't yet it could be as well that my thoughts/posts aren't well liked. My thoughts are usually fringe.

Happy Holidays!
For 2023, AI will go nowhere, even if developed further. It will remain a gimmick. Expectations are too high, and AI research can't deliver.

+1 for for the recession, it's not coming, that almost apparent right now. Yes, more will lose their jobs, but only because many of those positions should never have been created in the first place. There are still plenty of jobs, just less attractive ones. I will say: I have zero feel for the US job market, it's simply too weird to comprehend. For Northern Europe, plenty of work all around.

Russia won't run out of APC, but they will run out of tanks, they basically have already. They don't have the inventory to deploy tanks in offensive actions anymore. They won't run out of APCs. The will run out of good one and competent personal to put in them. The last more of a statement of current facts, not a prediction.
HN bans any and all DMs. Outraged yet?
Your comment made me perform a series of test of various blowing. The variant using the tongue is not that much more difficult. The key is to make the air escape between your lower lip and the tongue.

But whatever you're more used to is the best, as the gesture works best when used spotaneously.
I'm fascinated that brain is compartmentalized enough, despite all cells being connected to each other, so a "local circuitry" can be identified for a specific action. I'd presume all cells would be firing more or less for any action. The existence of circuitry like structures makes it less organic and less mysterious for some reason. :)

Now I wonder if artificial neural networks exhibit the same circuitry-like structures.
Honestly? California.

The entire western coast of the US (cali to Washington) has far less bugs than the east or Midwest. I assumed it was the drier climate but Seattle area doesn’t have a lot of bugs either.

After moving west, I found in identical weather conditions, the west is better to be outside because it will have less bugs.
And they were HUGE. With giant o-rings that wear out or need to be lubricated regularly, and would fail if they weren’t.
"Artists shouldn't care keep their industry" - so how do you feel about the SFWA's campaign to make Disney uphold the contracts for tie-in novels they bought along with Fox? https://www.sfwa.org/2020/11/18/disney-must-pay/
The smoking gun email in the "Part 1" Twitter Files thread from Taibbi was a request from the Biden Campaign to look at a list of otherwise-undescribed-and-since-removed tweets. This was strongly implied to be a request for censorship of the laptop story.

Then someone found an archived copy of all but one of the tweets, and they all turned out to be pictures of Hunter Biden's penis.
CAVEAT EMPTOR friend. I have day traded for 3 yrs. There is no edge to be had for retail day traders. It’s a suckers game, where the odds are stacked against you, just like in a casino. The platforms that trade against retail order-flow make all the money by front running trades at the sub-millisecond level, on every trade. It’s called electronic market-making. Everyone is a glorified speculator. Evidence is ask any of these influencers for an audited trade history or P&L… you’ll never see one. You may get lucky trading and win big, like a gambler, but if you keep playing, you’ll give everything back, then if you buy on margin or leverage with options, you’ll lose it all and more. There are no repeat fund managers that make the top of the list year after year. It’s just dumb luck, they get paid management fees (2 and 20) to gamble: Please save yourself years of misery.
Me too, of course. I'm just highlighting downsides so people know what to expect.
Doublethink.
Lol,EU fighting unnecessary waste and here we have people butthurt? Lol spud we literally regulate people for building shit products that are harmful in every other sector, health, food, you name it. Why should tech be any different? And yes your e-waste that's completely unnecessary just because your company wants to make shit decisions isn't acceptable. It's harmful and there's no reason why it should be allowed. Stoked the EU are doing this finally. Get wrecked crappy designers (looking at you apple).
my mistake, i misremembered. strange.
Yep. It’s not worth engaging with someone who insists the objective principles of the universe support their exact beliefs and boundaries.

I’m also reminded of the old “would you sleep with me for $1m” joke:
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/03/07/haggling/
Is there any similar CSS framework like Bootstrap, but more oriented to corporate/business use, where complicated data tables are bigger requirement than components to build a landing page?
The FBI? The party that tried to blackmail MLK into killing himself? That FBI?
Um What? have you actually worked in the US? I find alot of people in other nations often complain about the lack of US regulations with out understanding that most employers go far beyond what regulations require them.

I for one do not want the Federal Government controlling my employment, I dont want the federal government doing anything other than national defense.

So no I do not want EU employment laws here in the US.
> I think it’s important for students to realize that at one point these were original ideas that people had to think of

This part of your informative comment indicates to me that you were a great teacher. This sort of thing doesn't occur to many students, and so they find it difficult to connect with material. If they can visualize somebody else doing such work, they may be able to visualize themselves doing it, too. And that's the first step. Even if they don't go into science, though, they will gain an appreciation for what it is.
TL;DR it's AAPCS, with a handful of changes that are generally not relevant to most people. The one I would point out is that the frame pointer must always point to something valid; in other words, don't use -fomit-frame-pointer on Apple silicon. (Don't use it elsewhere either, but that's a separate discussion.)
For a while till we've watered down all content so much that chatgpt has no actual useful material to pull from but its own spew. Much of the internet seems to be trending this way, with just low effort content mill sites being propped up by high Google scores that cause more low effort content which further lowering the quality of Google results. It'll be its own downfall I tells ya....
It'll be quantified in their financials slowing or even shrinking
Is this related to suckless?
Been using nixos for about a month. It took me about a week to really start to grok Nix a tiny bit, I had to spend a lot of time on the forums asking questions or searching for questions because the discoverability of the documentation is low when you don't know the lingo.

I'm loving it now though, I have 3 computers running it and a flake that I push to github. I can push changes to my flake and have all my systems reflect the changed with a quick nixos-rebuild. Also being able to roll back is invaluable.

I reformatted one of my systems the other day and it only took about an hour to have my whole system in the exact same state it was before with all my tooling and files.
"There is a sense where AI/ML amounts to a parasitic use of previously existing culture."

Spot on. I've been thinking about this, and you're the first person I've seen mention it. The dystopia is that we get stuck with uncreative AI that displaces most creative people. Then humanity writ large loses its inventiveness, and it's very hard to recover.

I.E. if all artists move to using unstable diffusion, then who will remain to create and feed (useful) new art for unstable diffusion to consume? Who will be left to train new artists?

It's like the information revolution in reverse.
More awareness of the rise of Africa as it becomes the most populous region with lots of natural resources and fastest economic development.
You can have water resistance and disassembly.

My DSLR is water resistant, despite having multiple ports, moving parts, and a removable lens.
People are...very confused if their reaction to this is "cloud password manager bad". If only well-encrypted data were leaked, it really wouldn't be a big deal.

A properly designed online password manager is an extremely safe choice.
Would a tag that says "USINT suspects this post/account may be part of a foreign intelligence/disinfo campaign" be a good compromise?

I'm not arrogant enough (surprisingly) to think I am not vulnerable to disinformation and yet I'm also uncomfortable with unilateral censorship.
You've probably thought about this more than I have, but your "take down" of NNT doesn't work for me. Let's use your example. We treat 500 people and observe another 500. 5 of the untreated die, and 2.5 of the treated die (I don't know how either). We observe that the NNT is 200.

And we this is great! If a drug is inexpensive, has minor but not severe side effects, and saves 1/200 people from dying within a year you should absolutely be giving it to everybody. It's a home run. The problem isn't the NNT, it's the expectation of what constitutes a a high or low number.

By contrast, consider another study. We treat 500,000,000 people, and observe another 500,000,000. We observe a 50% relative risk reduction among the treated. The drug is inexpensive, and has minor but not severe side effects. Should we create everyone?

I have no idea. It has to depend on how much risk we started with. If the mortality rate is 1% per year among the untreated, then almost definitely yes. But if we observed 2 deaths in the untreated and only 1 from the treated, probably there is a better area to spend our efforts, even if we somehow knew the life we saved just noise.

So yes, the reduction in risk matters, but only in concert with a concept of the baseline risk. By itself, it's not very helpful, but in concert with other data it's great. NNT is a way of expressing this in a single number. There is no apriori reason to believe that 200 is high or low. It may not be perfect, but it's better than just a bare relative risk percentage.
I mean it helps that it isn't front page news. It's completely reasonable to disagree about the scale of a story. Most people disagree with you and shellenberger that this is important. What place do you have to demand that we interpret things the same way you do?
Not all ARM chips are made alike, Apple Silicon is yet another variation.
i wonder why they are cherry-picking and releasing things like this in a drop-drop fashion... shouldn't just release everything and let the media (and that includes fox et al) dig through it and report on it for us?
The EU Digital Services Act will partially solve this.
Not as i recall. Linux at that time was seen as an interesting project, but not yet suitable for the typical workloads ascociated with a Sun workstation.
Windows 3.1 UI still looks much better than the mess that is latest Microsoft 365 (or whatever they call "Office" these days).
> why is a company doing a secure password saver not employing anyone who knows the very basics of how to use cryptography?

Because that isn't important for success. Perception is reality. Very few people can tell the difference between good and bad crypto work. So instead of wasting money on that, invest it into something that is understood by more of your customers. It's a sad reality.
Products produced by enslaved children are not boycotted, don't get your hopes too high.
Is there a recommended maintenance schedule for replacing or lubricating these O-rings?

I'm guessing that most owners of waterproof handheld radios are more 'handy' than the general population.
> Why would you go to https://nixos.org/learn.html, click on an introductory example titled "Ad-hoc developer environments" and complain that it doesn't explain how to permanently install software?

Because it's also the one labelled "First Steps with Nix". As in, the big orange button which immediately follows "Install Nix", and the second thing the Nix community apparently wants me to do to learn nix.

I literally did three things: I opened the nix website, I clicked "learn" (it's also what you get when you click "getting started" from the front page by the way), assumed I'd installed nix (I did check if there was seemingly critical information there, there isn't) then I clicked the following step.

I'm not quite sure what you'd want me to do.

> Again, you're pointing to a page containing TLDR examples. That's not the right place for an in-depth explanation.

I'm not asking for an in-depth explanation, I'm asking for pointers to the surface basics. The page tells me that "we’ll cover that in later tutorials" but I've no idea where those are, and none of the 5 links listed in the "next steps" seems helpful in any way. The least unpromising one ("Nix language basics") certainly didn't tell me anything about python.withPackages.

And again it's not "a page containing TLDR examples", it's what the website told me to start with.

> No surprise because you missed the entire manual.

The manuals which are at the bottom of the page (so one would assume the things to check after the one at the top of the page)?

And which are if anything even worse? The first one ("Nix Manual") goes directly from "you can upgrade packages" and "nix lets you rollback profiles" to "the nix language" to "advanced topics: remote builds".

I still have no answer to any of my question, but now I know that I can configure how many cores Nix will use when it builds derivations.

I still don't know what a nix project is or why I would want one, why I would want a derivation, though the manual does tell me they're important (why?)
I think you’re having a pretty narrow understanding of the word “manager”. All your argument ms boils down to an inability to perceive that I’m using the word manager in a general sense, as someone who manages technical developments. I’m not referring to a political manager.

Indeed if the only value added by a manger is to play politics, then I’m not sure whether the word manager should even apply to such a person.

How a good day, and best wishes with your “management” style.
I have no advice for you, internet stranger, because every situation is different. In my experience, feelings that are reciprocated will make themselves known -- but I have always been sensitive to the emotions of others. Over the years, I've noticed when several pairs of friends were clearly smitten but aren't aware, and I've given them the nudge they needed. I've discretely asked a trusted friend of a friend and been told to not bother. I've declared my adoration and ruined a friendship -- which changed my cost/benefit analysis and now I find it easier to get over an unrequited crush. But I've also broached the topic and not blown up the relationship. You can't control how a person will react, but the better you know them, the better you can predict it.
Yeah iirc i was reading about a suspected outbreak of a new disease in China late 2019, I told my coworkers about it too and wondered how it hadn't garnered more attention, or if I had just watched too many bio-horror flicks, or fallen for clickbait-y fear mongering. I never suspected it's impact would have the scale it did, especially after the Ebola containment went so smooth.
Can we ever really be sure there weren't emails from Hillary Clinton that were deleted.
I had no idea they did this. Thanks!
Is there any production ready language that isn't conservative with its decision making?
Devenv: Compose a Developer Environment Easily for PHP with Nix
De facto more than de jour, given how the FBI has been operating.
You’re cool with designers, e.g. Apple, shipping EU models that are less waterproof, bulkier, less reliable, and cost more? In the name of reducing e-waste?

And does your legal philosophy of “anything not explicitly allowed is forbidden” apply to other aspects of life?

All these laws remind me of the apocryphal tale of a legislature mandating the pi = 3.
> Students are generally borrowing more because college tuition has grown many times faster than income.

1) Higher edu will, like anyone else, will price at what the market will bear. Why is this so difficult to understand?

2) Similar to housing, The Root problem is income. It hasn't kept pace with other costs. It hasn't kept pace with inflation. That lack of keeping pace also seems to be creating sociopolitical "unrest". Sweeping the root aside and focusing on symptoms is not sustainable.
100% true, so excited to get my pre-order of the new edition next month. This and The Black Swan covers most everything you’d ever need to know about investing
China has stopped publishing daily Covid data amid reports of a case spike
User stylesheets are one of the reasons I've really enjoyed my time browsing Gemini. When content is entirely text, being able to customize how that text is displayed is really nice for comfortable reading.
Why? There is a lot of truth to it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/qu1ob8/european_c...

Not as car centric as US or Canada but compared to the rest of the world EU is very car centric. At least the US and Canada are vast and their cities are much more young.

Americans have this romantic view of Europe as old dense cities.

https://www.confused.com/car-insurance/average-cars-around-t...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicle...
Literally the opposite when you ignore the author and judge the article on its contents.
King Charles' first Christmas speech reflects cost-of-living crisis
The only actual fascists in Italy were way more heavy on government power than the idealistic goal of unions and cooperations, though.

It is hard to generalize one off concepts like fascism in my opion.
For those who have tried, how does this compare to other Airtable alternatives like Nocodb, Baserow, Seatable, etc?
The Black Death is still affecting the human immune system
I bet compiled from source, while what is being discussed here is binary compatibility.
- Tiktok releases a free ($0, 0€) smartphone with its app pre-installed

- Android 14 ships without soft keyboard, voice operation and use of suggestions are enforced. Can lipread for privacy.

- Russia threatens the world with a climatic bomb, releasing as much CH4 in the atmosphere as possible, burning however unproductive taïga

- Amazon sells its retail branch to a yet unknown Chinese group, only keeps media and cloud

- news on TV is entirely AI generated, harvesting videos from social media. Only human staff in the redaction is the presenter.

- well known newspapers subscription reaches $1000

- Microsoft enforces Rust on all new code in Windows including kernel and drivers
Our eyes also have a much greater dynamic range than most cameras. Those are bad in low light and often get blinded easily.
Great, I'm not a company, just a regular person. Language is defined based on how regular people use it.
> I could see a world where ‘see if it violates your own policies’ is a code for extortion with plausible deniability.

This is possible but I would expect people to look for evidence of it before presenting it as a fact. Something like that would show up in internal communications either directly or as people talking like they didn’t really have a choice, or as a trend of tweets being taken down for reasons which don’t seem warranted when you look at them. The closest we’ve seen to that were things like the guy who was telling Republicans to vote on Wednesday, which is clearly a dumb joke but also something most people aren’t going to shed tears about when made a couple days beforehand.
AFAIK there's no "libc" on macOS. libSystem is "libc".
That sounds ominously like a suggestion that the US should use military force.
Windows is better than average but still has considerable holes in backwards compatibility that are particularly visible in games (and ironically, some of the worst are Microsoft's own games under the "Games for Windows" banner e.g. Fable 3), but I've seen a number of other random things break or stop working totally as expected when new versions of Windows come out.
Downtown and K-town are two of the very few places that are actually walkable in LA.
I really hope that the industry will decide on their own to bring replaceable batteries back. I have accumulated so many old devices over the years and if you stop using them regularly they take less than a year to degrade to the point where the device is perma bricked and in some cases the batteries become unsafe.

I wanted to give my son my older iPhone I haven’t used in 5 years and it’s not able to hold a charge at all any more. That wasn’t the case when I stopped using it.
IMHO very strong statements are always wrong -> "Therefore, challenging conversations, that are personally useful, have always been limited to small groups of people.".
Tesla cars are just overpriced and poorly manufactured, and definitely not luxury. Their FSD software does not work as advertised. There are much better EVs out there from other manufacturers at a fraction of the price.
The source is indeed esoteric, and sometimes hilarious. I have been using it to learn how the auth works against mastodon and some other parts of Activitypub. I do recommend it as a decent starting point to learn from.
Some time ago Lastpass was hiding restricted passwords using input type="password" fields. They could be easily changed to type="text" using devtools.
I don't want to be That Guy[1], but an EV can run the climate control, warm the car and defrost the windows with absolutely no maintenance worries at all. Teslas can do it remotely while you sip your coffee or pack up your ski gear.

[1] I totally want to be That Guy
You need the secret key and password to gain access.

The key is 38 characters long, which is certainly within the range of human memory, if you're inclined to memorize it.
A very basic IRC client can be made literally with pretty much ten lines, netcat, head, echo, cat and a named pipe. It's not bollocks. IRC is super easy to develop for.

Even doing basic stuff with Matrix, on the other hand, while still better than most, requires a lot more effort. The docs are decent, though.
> Then the AMD 64-bit Opteron came out and it was all over. We never bought a Sun after that.

Sun actually sold an Opteron based workstation, reusing the 'Ultra' name, for a quite reasonable price then. A buddy of mine, interested in Java development, bought it (and a few years later gifted it to me). It was a well engineered PC (could run MS Windows), with Solaris installed (I only ever used it with Linux).
FTFA:

> I teach philosophy, which is hard. And I trust that my students can read, so if I have a lot to tell them I write it down and get them to read it. That’s not to say that I don’t go over it sometimes in class. But the point of having class is to do learning that won’t (or possibly can’t) be done outside of class. That is, mainly, problem solving: thinking and talking together about the arguments and ideas that I want them to understand, and practicing the skills of analysis and reflection that philosophy is particularly good at developing, and which are essential to doing philosophy. So they don’t really need the laptops for note-taking.
> Reddit has been moderated the entire time, at a per-community level. It was never a free-for-all.

Hah. They permitted /r/n****** for years. Just about the only thing reddit would outright ban you for was illegal content, and maybe automated spamming.