skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who hasn't used it yet - if this is "good" social media, for the love of all that is good - enjoy it while you can.

If it gets big, it will be driven into the ground and become utter garbage.

So enjoy it while it's small.
Wow. alkonaut called it, very specifically in some cases. Boris Johnson's replacement having no charisma was the cherry on top. Where's alkonaut's 2023 predictions?
Me too. I would be running my 440BX today, but all the motherboards died from bad electrolytic capacitors that were endemic in that era.
> undergrads

Anecdotal only - when I was in university (20 years ago) a lot of the student protest stuff was coming from the student equivalent of professional politicians. They were undergrad mostly (a few grad students) but usually had been in university for like 8 years and were ideologically motivated to stick around pursuing political aims, rather than just be there to advocate for their fellow students.

I was marginally involved in student government, and there was a big difference between the (majority) that were there to make sure their faculty/department got representation, and those that were trying to co-opt student government for some broader political aim. Unfortunately, there is rarely enough of an opposing force on these people, and inevitably they have an outsized influence.

So I wouldn't really think of it as undergrads as a whole, more like some 30 years old taking 1/4 course load and pushing their politics.
Oh definitely, but we both know that when people talk about "using Linux" they don't mean Android and ChromeOS.

You're technically correct, and for practical purposes incorrect.
Before ChatGPT's December 15th nerf update I was starting to use it in place of Google for technical questions. Something like ChatGPT will one day smoke what we consider search engines to be today.
The article continues to grasp and cling onto straws, to actually prove that a minority of StackOverflow techies who bothered to fill in the survey are using their machines as a Linux Desktop and not normal users as proof of 'widespread adoption'.

A long time delusion preached by Linux Desktop techies. The Year of the Linux Desktop has ended with Windows being the best Linux Distro.
This mouse setting depends on several factors (i.e. Wayland availability, evdev vs libinput) and the setting doesn't apply to every application if you do manage to change it. The modularity of the Linux ecosystem has several parties argue that it's not really their place to implement a fix, so issues get closed without a proper resolution.

The updates are fine these days unless you add external repositories. Sadly, that's what every forum post and blog article will tell you to do.

Rsndom crashes occur if your hardware has problematic drivers (Nvidia, sometimes Intel) and they're a mixed bag. Laptops are more of a problem than desktops but sometimes you just have bad luck. It can also depend on the kernel your distro chose because sometimes a lot of problems can be fixed by updating to a higher LTS version, but the end user should never even need to know this is an option let alone try it for themselves. Canonical and others also include their own kernel patches sometimes which is a whole lot of fun when it comes to reporting bugs.
Yah totally but we aren’t really talking about enterprise grade stuff here man. We are talking about self hosting projects
The Making of Norman Mailer
The way it was explained to me is that the physicians know it very well but they're exhausted from arguing with patients who demand antibiotics anyway.
Unlikely to be starved, (unless it’s really cold and then you barely have any oil), but bearings can be washed out by high oil pressure, which is a consideration with cold oil.
Nefarious is pretty insulting. Software preservation is important
Oh wow. How does that break down? How many people, how much were tickets?
You’re probably reasonably young and healthy.

Older or sicker folks who end up in a hospital or nursing home / rehab are very vulnerable to stuff like TB or c.diff. Cdiff is huge now as hospitals purge support staff and are filthy. If you’re old or immune compromised, you’re gonna pick up a severe, hard to treat infection if you spend time in the ER or general medical area of a hospital. The “money areas” of the hospital are usually better.
- Tiktok will be banned for US citizens.

- The Kansas City Chiefs will win the Super Bowl.

- NIMBYs in California will decisively lose battles and housing construction increases dramatically.

- The anti-car movement gets stronger.

- Chatgpt and related fads will fade.

- YoY Inflation will be ~3%
Farmed bees carry diseases due to being factory farmed. They spread diseases to flowers and wild bees get sick and then die. That's why wild bees will continue to perish in areas where beekeepers exist.
Don’t “assume” either one. Use the evidence you have and your own intellect to discriminate between the two.
I spent all my day yesterday changing all my passwords and 2FA.

Switched to Microsoft’s authenticator. Never ever again trust a small company with my passwords.
Alcohol resistance is also a thing, though. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=alcohol+resistance+bacteria
synthetics work wonders
Google has already pivoted in that direction, they already try to answer questions directly in the response window instead of just providing links. All they would need to do is make a language model provide those answers instead when it is sure enough.

And that would also solve other issues such as trying to validate those answers. The language model could get the first response page and base its answer on those, basically summarising the first 10 pages making it way more reliable than ChatGPT is now.
My last attempt was using Mint precisely because that's what people kept recommending and it still sucked ass, ran into major resolution/scaling and audio issues immediately that made me abandon it for Windows 10.

It's too bad, because W10 has its own annoyances (mostly the forced updates and boot interstitials) but at least it actually worked. While I don't have a problem with proprietary software as a Principe, it is nice to have community driven stuff as a counterpart, which is why I periodically test the waters with Linux. It's just that, every time I run into annoyances and problems that make me give it up.

Anyway, ideology aside, I use all three major desktop OSes regularly: gaming desktop is Windows, work laptop is MacOS, workstation is Linux. Linux has certain niceties for developers, but for non-dev-specific stuff it's the most painful to use overall (although MacOS has a penchant for hiding things from the user which can be very frustrating). I also encounter the most instability with it, I think, though these days all three aren't that bad on that front.

Edit: though I'm thinking about a Steam Deck, and that's a Linux PC I suppose. Valve has been doing great work at making Linux more viable for PC gaming.
Lots of experts in the comments on this one.
A national laboratory is not a socialist idea. If it were then the US would actually be an extremely socialist country given its government spending. Doesn't the US put out the most research in the world, and have the most Nobel prizes? That hardly seems like a country that can't manage this. Nowhere is free of bureaucracy.
photographers literally sued google into entirely removing the view image button and link to theft/infringement in that case was far more tentative than unstable diffusion promising to scrape portfolio sites and re-add artists who opted out of SD 3.0 in their funding pitch.

pedants can piss on us and tell us that 'the molecular structure of piss and rain is basically the exact same thing why are you mad lmao' but the effects of this unapologetic data scraping are already becoming clear. professional artists are simply removing their works from the public facing web. communities based around collaboration and shared knowledge are darkening at an alarming rate.
The biggest problem I have with it for textbooks is just how slow the fucking thing is to scroll between pages. Which is a key operation for a reference material.

I spent $100 on a textbook on kindle, then just pirated the PDF for this reason.
Yeah - his issue is that he rather block any market rate housing rather than it not be public government housing.

That’s tough when we live in a super neoliberal country. Government housing is dreaming.

He lives from a place of comfort since he’s owned his house for a long time.
adb requires authorization of the computer to function.
Unintentionally BREAKing a Serial Console
If you allow self segregation you can host them all on your platform. Don't show the far right any far left content and vice versa. Disrupt any coordinated campaigns.

It certainly used to be the case that DNS servers would happily resolve both stormfront and the workers party websites. Would be good to go back to that pre cancellation world.
If you’re being incredibly charitable, it’s throwing the fossil fuel industry a lifesaver because they fumbled the ball on the transition to renewables and it won’t be possible for them to compete in the way they have previously (by being market makers)x It’s not quite a make-work scheme, but it’s a way for industry and government to transition energy sources while maintaining the market status quo.

Ultimately if we decarbonise and transition to renewable green energy we will be in a much better place, but I hope the transition sees the fossil fuel giants lose their preeminence. Things like green hydrogen give them a possible way of hanging onto something like model they use now.

This is all very charitable though - it’s just as likely that this is a totally cynical bait and switch.
I need to do HTTP requests, database queries and queue processing.

Mastodon has chosen a Service oriented architecture for this, and I'm happy with that decision because it means I can keep the web and DB queries running on minimal resources, while scaling the queue processing up and down depending on current activity.

One could say that incoming http requests from end users is a fairly predictable level of activity, while queue processing is a very unpredictable level of activity. Because it's tied into people's posts, their followers, the number of instances their followers are on, and so forth.

And with Mastodon v4 the resources required for end user http requests are even fewer, because they've shifted more processing onto the client with Javascript.

So I think the freedom to be able to scale the queue processing separately is fundamental to me. I can't imagine what it would be like to run a different software where I had to scale a monolithic service.

It doesn't really matter how fast the software is because queue processing is about blocking tasks, and they're blocking because they involve contact with other services and servers on the internet.

So yes I'd love to see a sidekiq replacement in Golang, Rust, or even Elixir, but I would not like to see it bundled in with other services. Mainly because queue processing deals with blocking tasks, and incoming HTTP requests should never be blocking.
Given that modern ML libs can bring hundreds of megabytes of binaries with them, this is a great point. As for static analysis in Python, I am not sure it can get much worse :) The language is essentially built around the idea of making everything absolutely dynamic
What kind of monster would do this
> though it lacks the pressure sensitivity found on Apple’s stylus

That’s a pretty big difference to discount.
The comment on the comment seems to assume that its better to sustain current and certain harm in order not to incur hypothetical future harm from the suppression of yet to be seen inventions

This scenario is no more likely that the legislation of safety belts preventing the invention of EV's

In fact robust and reasonable regulation that makes societal expectations clear can save inventors and designers a lot of heartburn and channel their energies towards more sustainable pursuits
> - performance hit every time the function is called

Python modules are always singletons, regardless of where they are imported. "import foo" inside a function will only import the module once (=global effect) but bind the name every time (=local, but cheap, effect).
Is that purely a Google thing? I thought the bullshit added to recipes pages was also a copyright thing, in an attempt to stop aggregation services using them.
Germany/Netherlands also from my limited experience.
Search engines are and anomaly. They started as indexes of content and have remained in that form.

I still have to do all the work of synthesising the knowledge I need from the results.

It’s like having to go through the list of references of a scientific paper or Wikipedia article without having access to the article itself.

ChatGPT is giving you the article, it summarised that knowledge for you, a much effective way of getting what you actually want.

The ideal would be a combined system where I get my answer and also the relevant references that shaped it.
I meant it as a figure of speech.

Could aswell be the county water utility board or whatever as the FBI. You treat these guys differently. That was my point.
Not only a third world country issue of course…but also, I had the reverse experience in Madagascar for instance where doctors were a lot eager to narrow down what you actually needed and how much you need it to avoid throwing the kitchen sink at you.

Depending on the country and situation medecine can be pricy and in limited supply, wasting it away becomes a disaster in many more ways than long term resistance.
This is why it pays to better inform the public about the difference between Green Hydrogen from renewables and Blue Hydrogen from fossil fuels.

The driver behind Australias Green Hydrogen is a Western Australian Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest - PhD in Marine Biology and a few billion in iron ore wealth and generational ownership of vast tracts of land.

His plan is to significantly increase global Green Hydrogen production with the next few years and to grow more from there.

The export plans are electricity via cable to Singapore and SE Asia, and to Europe via Ammonia - large molecule Hydrogen and surplus Nitrogen (nuetral atmosphere release on cracking later for power generation.
I've written several large CLI tools with Python and always ended up doing something in this vein. --help - and invocation errors - just take too long otherwise.
100%. This is the anti-Woke censorship agreement that they are approving.
i find it hilarious that you describe driving as a crappy product experience. sure it is challenging, but learning to drive is learning how to operate a significant piece of machinery with social responsibilty in return for greater freedom of mobility. ux factors play seccond fidle to this
That doesn't really contradict what he said. They do need water, and desalination would be one way to get it.
Yeah it's been hitting even central Europe (Germany, France, Benelux AT/CH etc) for the last few years.

It's harder to notice from afar because it's not deserty (yet) but the temperatures are going up all year and with it the obvious problems and also new and "exciting" fauna and flora is arriving.

Many places in that area are historically very water rich that's why the consequences to everyday life are often not yet that severe.
When that war comes things usually turn terrible and collapse. Why do leaders keep thinking it will be different this time?
> they fumbled the ball

I think you're really stretching charitableness to its limits here... (groan)
This feels just like saying "Elon Musk can ban any journalists he wants to". Yes, maybe he can, but is it the right thing to do?
Yep. Unfortunately, the someone in question was paid in money, rather than respect, which puts food on the table for them.
> So, transporting hydrogen at scale is a problem because even chilled to near absolute zero it's still way less energy dense by volume than liquid LNG.

What about transporting Ammonia .. that's three H and and an N .. different beast.
Many beekeepers order their bees online and have them shipped live from bee factory farms. The bees are shipped live to them via the mail, where many get crushed to death and become sick. Factory farms are the biggest customers of antibiotics, because you cannot kill 750 billion animals a year without many becoming sick from being in close proximity. Bees are no different, but they do not receive any antibiotics.

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/beekeepers...

The results suggest “viruses in managed honeybees are spilling over to wild bumblebee populations and that flowers are an important route,” according to Alison Brody, a professor in the University of Vermont’s department of Biology.
I feel like we've already reached this point, or nearly so.
Your comment assumes everybody is using a "normal" keyboard.

Since then a great many have come up with actually ergonomic keyboards and they virtually all have something in common: modifiers easily reached with the thumbs while the hands are in their home position.

No crazy "moving the entire left hand to not hit ctrl with the pinky". That's not ergonomic. At all.

If the layout is QWERTY, left hand on asdf, right and on jkl; and the thumbs on modifiers/spacebar.

Hitting modifiers do not require hand movement and do not require stretching the finger underneath your other fingers.

If anyone's serious about this, consider an actual ergonomic keyboard (Ergodox, Keyboardio, Kinesis, etc.).

I picked Japanese keyboards --even though I don't speak japanese-- for several reasons: they're ubiquitous, they can be had with Topre switches (I much prefer Topre than Cherry), the spacebar is tiny so I don't need to distort my thumbs to reach the modifiers, they have lots of modifiers (due to the various input methods japanese has) and, well, the killer...

Laptops with japanese keyboards are a thing.

Laptops with, say, a Keyboardio keyboard: not so much a thing (unless you carry your keyboard and your laptop of course).

I remap the entire keyboard to be basically QWERTY with Hyper and Super in addition to Ctrl/Alt/Meta/Shift. Super is dedicated only* to the window manager and nothing else. Modifier+ijkl sends the actual arrows key code. Works in every single app.

Life is good.
It has to do with multiple things, and that's definitely one of them. As is their attempt to try and understand poorly formatted written questions rather than traditional queries, which theoretically helps casual users at the expense of power users.
At least try to assume enough good faith that you would see yourself as arguing in good faith if you argued for the other side.

Most people don't even pass that low bar though, they demand that others assume way more good faith than they themselves do, that is the kind of people who need to hear this advice.
In my country she wouldn't have been fired in the first place. At-will employment is just a way to bully people into toeing the line.

Putting that aside, yes: Political speech shouldn't be compelled, any more than it should be constrained.

Now if you want to put some kind of further "common carrier"-style legal burden on printers (or kickstarter), then I think it's possible to make a case for it, but I'm not personally in favour. (On the other hand, in the UK we do exactly that with bank accounts - it's nearly impossible for a bank to turn away a new customer - so I guess there's a case for it in some circumstances). It's ultimately a question of regulation I guess.
It doesn't technically block words from being searched, but it does hide sites intentionally.

It won't show you kiwifarms. It used to hide 8ch (which now is not even 8ch anymore, the new version can be found). It won't show you 4chan's /pol/ board. I'm sure there's more.
No one ever accused X Windows of being a user friendly or hardware friendly or basically having any attribute even vaguely synonymous of positive. It's even more backwards compatible than Microsoft Windows and there's a very heavy emphasis on backwards. I doubt say, XLFD have seen much use in this century but hey! it worked in 1985 so we can't possibly not support it.
Reminds me of the infinite polyrhythm from the last summer of math exposition[0], though this has the more frequent notes in the base rather than in the treble. How pleasant the "Musification" is depends quite a lot on your choice of map.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x374slJGuo
I wish we would stop using words green, zero, neutral for anything with actual normal as usual emissions (which is practically everything today). Of course writing something like "feeble attempt at pretending that adding extra steps into a regular emissions scheme means anything for the climate" instead of "green" is a bit too long for journalists, but at least it would be factually correct. I wonder, is there any organization preparing for the eventual scenario when we will blew the worst prediction target and won't stop at that point?
Green hydrogen: the fossil fuel industry's sneaky way of making us think all hydrogen is eco-friendly while they keep polluting behind our backs.
What is the extra secret key and why is it better?
Makes me wonder if there's a future where something like ChatGPT is able to cite everything that influenced any piece of information/understanding. Not just articles, but the AI version of a human with a highlighter. For any piece of ML derived information it would be cool to see all of the highlights that went into it.
I tried to use it, you know why I can't? Email! Everyone wants email, sure I can register b.s. emails but I shouldn't have to on a communication platform and not in 2022/23. You would think they'd have learned from reddit instead of twitter.

Plus, I have seen this "federated"/distributed type of services. I am cautiously observing how it turns out because I have been burned before. Account lockouts, bad moderation, hostile servers, reliability,etc... I hope they get it to work though but what scares me is lack of commercial motivation, can you pay for a mastodon account or host ads on mastodon? And is there a good/standardized way where I can find out who is running an instance to hold them accountable?

Ok, most of you who are not very young probably remember the golden days of IRC right? Need I say more?
> The problem with developing a new antibiotic is that doctors from third world countries will prescribe them like candy

I think you mean first-world countries.
Seems pretty spot on to me. Which part has you confused? Maybe Google Populous (game) if you don't know the title or "Dreamcast" if you don't know what that is.
It may not feel very clean but one solution for slow imports is to write your own module that imports fast. To give an example: I had a some script whose startup was slowed down by importing numpy for one small (but important) thing.

Replaced it with a 20 line c extension that imported basically instantly.
rssCloud is a separate protocol, but performs many of the same functions as WebSub.
It's common here in Japan city area, since street parking is not allowed
> In its 1947 charter, the CIA was prohibited from spying against Americans, in part because President Truman was afraid that the agency would engage in political abuse. But the law didn't stop the CIA from spying on Americans. During the 1960s, in clear violation of its statutory mission to co-ordinate foreign intelligence operations only, the CIA ventured into the domestic spying business through "Operation Chaos," in which it spied on as many as 7,000 Americans involved in the peace movement.[1]

"Liberal" apologists for the CIA will never cease to amaze me.

1.https://www.aclu.org/other/more-about-intelligence-agencies-...
> Evolving resistance comes at a cost for bacteria and over time they might loose resistance against previous antibiotics.

This is known as the "ecological fallacy".

> reversion to sensitivity is neither an immediate nor necessary outcome of selection simply because a resistant pathogen is no longer in an antibiotic-laden environment [1]

[1] "Why Do Antibiotics Exist" - https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01966-21
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