skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's somewhat possible still to discern images generated using AI.

currently if it includes "photograph" and includes humans or animals, there is a chance that you can get a good image once out of every 50 generated images. by "good" i mean "does not need to be retouched". If i use one of the other models (instead of stable diffusion's model) that goes to 1 in 10 images.

If i use img2img and all of my understanding of the generation, i can probably generate 8 images and get 3 usable ones.

All this is to say, depending on the subject, i could generate stuff that is indistinguishable from traditional art, in whatever medium or representation you want. And i can't make art, edit photos, etc. My limits of understanding of traditional art and editing is "crop/rotate" and adjusting the lights and darks to get the correct contrast and color rendering, and then save and publish.

On your primary topic, something i have been noticing ramp up in the past 10 days or so is weird typos and even "new words" being created, where it looks like someone was typing on a phone and didn't bother to check the output. I'm not sure if it's some new AI/ML, or perhaps there's a bug in the "keyboard input" part of android, perhaps. It's like the opposite of your adding a dash in "defederated" because there's a red squiggly line under the word in the input box.
This hasn't been true for about a year. Nonguix has a substitution server that includes Firefox and the Linux kernel.
If you look at California by geography, rather than population, California has a LOT of red. https://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president...
Just updating the OS can make a device obsolete, though I’m not 100% convinced that this is due to planned obsolescence. I have an old 16GB iPad that was perfectly adequate when I first got it, but subsequent updates of the iOS version gradually reduced the available storage to the point where, as of the latest version, iOS itself consumes nearly ALL of the device storage, leaving very little for apps, much less for storage of actual files. Basically my iPad is now useless. This is such a shame because I only really use it just as a sheet music reader. This could be easily solved by expandable memory, but of course Apple is only concerned with selling more devices.
I don’t have that on this particular site, but in my experience that particular defect is caused by a browser plug in that blocks cookie banners or newsletter pop ups. Try disabling them and reloading.
Is this a good time to ask if anyone has some good reasons to upgrade to windows 11? ( other than getting security updates past 2025) - I would love to hear them :)
I tried correcting the origins of the first prototype of the Docker software on Wikipedia. The people I worked with at the time can confirm the story of course. But Wikipedia will not take our words as we are the literal primary sources. Instead they want secondary accounting. Which happens to be whatever was shared to journalist years later by people that weren't there initially or didn't design and write the code.

This is annoying at a personal level (resumé looks better with a wikipedia mention). It did opene my eyes on how history recounting really works though.
That site has been up for almost 10 years.
> whereas surely something like this written by me or 99 percent of the users in HN can never get such traction

Do you not think the author is one of the "99 percent of users" of HN?
These kind of regulations are purely ridiculous. Sure now it starts with stuff that "welcome" but the state shouldn't be regulating to such a level.

We don't need nany states, there are some examples of phones that provide this option and people don't want them.
Another relevant scientific source is [1], which I highly recommend

>Of 7870 eligible women, 5340 reported a pregnancy, of whom 45 (0.8% of pregnant women) reported a virgin pregnancy (table 1⇓). Perceived importance of religion was associated with virginity but not with virgin pregnancy. The prevalence of abstinence pledges was 15.5%. The virgins who reported pregnancies were more likely to have pledged chastity (30.5%) than the non-virgins who reported pregnancies (15.0%, P=0.01) or the other virgins (21.2%, P=0.007).

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f7102
Every time I've read this article it hit differently.

Reading 1 (2016): Oh man it'd be great to have 1k true fans. This guy makes it easy.
Reading 2 (2019): Now I have some things in life and I should build, how hard could it be. You try and fail.
Reading 3 (2022): You've gained even more experience and go for it hard. You realize that the guy had disclaimers across the article (like this: The truth is that cultivating a thousand true fans is time consuming, sometimes nerve racking, and not for everyone. )

Not sure what the 4th reading will bring, but if you're a remote working parent check out my work - https://thursdaydigest.com/

Not sure what the

It especially hits differently now that I'm a builder.
These comments are hilarious.

Linux user community: Linux has been fine for casual users for years! Give it to your grandma, it's not a problem!

Also Linux user community: Wait, you used an nVidia GPU in your build? What kind of idiot scrub are you?

If there's one thing I've seen that's consistent with Linux users over the last two decades, it's been blaming users for all their Linux-related problems.
In fact I'm writing this comment on a waterproof 2014 Samsung Galaxy S5. It's got a rubber gasket around the back cover to keep the water out.
Was it really accidental or was this the plan all along to gauge response to the change?
There is no one answer, is the main reason I find this disgusting.

Trying to find single dimension assessments of attractiveness, based on showing people pictures or whatever (by gross "researchers"? who would do this & why?), is a dumb stupid gross process that ignores so much context, that eventually can define some undiverse unrepresentative normative and ultimately useless piece of data that informs us of some small preference held by some small % of men that means vanishingly less about actual human person to person attractiveness and allure. The question supposes a much heightened sense of importance for an answer that doesnt exist in any useful usable way. Reductionist begging of a dumb question.

And it's grossly unfair to women to let such vulgar petty small & narrow thinking be left unquestioned & uncommented upon.
Fedora was much better than macOS for me. Don't have your kinds of complications though.
Yes but it’s convenient to access your online accounts when you don’t have access to your devices and your printout.
I could be wrong but it sounds like the poster is making a joke by parodying a line from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
The benefit standardized batteries have over those trade offs just by increasing longevity of items and in turn reducing waste I will argue day in day out make it worth it. Those metrics are worth zip in the grand scheme of things given what we are ruining in order to achieve them. Stop breaking the world just so you can have trinkets.
Most engines will have a lower redline until the engine has reached a certain temp
Now do electric vehicles
I've been using Linux as my primary OS for around 3 years now with an nvidia GPU and haven't had any issues. I don't run Wayland for obvious reasons, but otherwise the system is rock solid. I have not had anything resembling the nightmare experience people claim with Linux and nvidia GPUs.
MS Office lifetime license for 91% off: Real or scam?
Saw this on slashdot. Can anyone confirm whether it's legit?

https://stacksocial.com/sales/microsoft-office-home-business-for-mac-2021-lifetime-license-5
The work Bentley did sounds very impressive and I in no way strive to downplay his archival achievements. I do however take offense with the semantics of the wording. Not finding an exception isn't what proving means.
Or, as Dr. Carl Sagan put it: absence of evidence != evidence of absence.
because it's usually Ctrl + Shift + C to copy from a terminal? Otherwise I haven't noticed much inconsistency on the distros I've used
From the graphic it says 1/3rd of those are unconvicted.
> For example Astrée does not support dynamic memory allocation nor recursion (not too bad for embedded).

Are you sure? Around 2019, they seem to have overcome those limitations, since they removed mention of them from their website. Another OpenZFS developer found that on an old university page and pointed it out to me, but that webpage was made well before then. I wonder if you read the same page that he did.

I plan to look into that when I am using the free trial.

> To do better, a fully automatic sound analyzer would have to derive the relevant loop invariants and the associated induction proofs automatically, not to have to make any guess on the number of iterations. As far as I know this is still a research topic. Or alternatively, enforce a known, small enough bounds for any loop.

I plan to look into this when I try using sound static analyzers, since if they cannot do induction proofs on loops to prove loop correctness, it would either invalidate their claims of soundness, or at the very least limit the scope of such claims, which would mean that I would not be able to semi-formally verify ZFS using them. I know that frama-c’s Eva is specifically documented as not being able to do this.
Not surprising, since Nvidia is famous for terrible Linux support. I couldn't get scaling to work on my desktop with an Nvidia GPU, but my T-series Thinkpad (AMD CPU and GPU) works perfectly fine. In fact, sleep works better than on Windows since it doesn't do the stupid battery-draining "Modern Standby". If I send it to sleep on Linux, it actually stays asleep until I open the lid.
That's not quite the same thing as sitting still in a drawer though. Lithium-Ion batteries really don't like to be dropped or crushed. Basically anything that is a threat to the mechanical integrity of the cell should be really avoided.
> Sometimes this affects even devices marketed for Linux, like the framework

I was interested in the framework laptop at some point but it increasingly looked like a Windows-first laptop on which the company is happy about you installing Linux on it.

There are laptops marked 10/10 on iFixit on which Linux works perfectly, I'll pick them until this changes.
> Fully automatic machine guns are quite banned.

That very much depends on where you are. In US, they're not banned in most states, although they're quite expensive to get, and there's a lot more paperwork than usual.
I did too! But like I said, the majority of HN does not. We love our LEOs here.
I am a strong supporter of the intelligence community when it is focused on its correct mission of nation-state hostiles, real terrorists like Bin Ladin & international/federal criminals, but I think the government overstepped the line in multiple ways that favored partisan political campaigns and certain parties. Though I believe firmly that these institutions are vital to our success as a nation, I also think they can be internally weaponized against specific groups, and that is going on currently.

It is pretty clear that these are Hatch Act violations which is about preventing your tax dollars being put to use as a part of partisan political campaigns, which is what happened.

Civilian "unempowered" agencies fall under the Less Restricted Hatch Act category, and certain Agencies like the IC, fall under a more stringent part of this, the Further Restricted category, see [1]

Some of these IC members in the Further Restricted Category were prompting BigTech censorship, or, running defense for the "Laptop from Hell" story, similar to some of the things they did back in the 60s when they were involved with unlawful activities regarding Civil Rights and Civil Liberties campaigns.

I'd argue in favor of:

(1) Strengthening the Hatch Act

(2) Handling Constitutional violations by the IC under the Hatch Act

(3) Prosecutions of the Hatch Act under existing Law

(4) Clearance revocations

(5) Removal of Section 230 protections for BigTech when acting as an agent of govt censorship

(6) Budget cuts / Budget reformations for some select Federal Agencies, FBI being foremost

(7) Forced retirement / exit from federal service of those involved in these behaviors.

(8) Debarring of contractors involved in some of these heinious activities

(9) Strengthening Federal Acquisition Regulation

(10) Diffusion of Federal Agencies HQs throughout the United States to prevent centralization in overly partisan areas

(11) Applying Diversity & Inclusion to political parties and other important characteristics of job seekers

(12) Adding restrictions or longer "Cooling Off Periods" for the revolving doors between IC, Congress, BigTech, Lobbyists, and the Consultant Class.

[1] https://osc.gov/Services/Pages/HatchAct-Federal.aspx
What is the approx. power draw when the car is plugged in, fully charged, and the ambient temperature is around freezing?
Possibly not, as it’s not inline with this. But I’m not not sure it negates the point that whether or not an individual values a particular thing does not determine if it’s a public good.
I've never been banned from as many platforms as in early 2020 when I was explaining that without an evidence stating "the virus came from the Wuhan lab" is just as unscientific than "the virus DIDN'T COME from the Wuhan lab". They'd gladly post Fauci saying "it didn't" all day long and block anyone (me) saying "we can't know without investigating!"

I'm not part of the rep/dem "Chyna" fight. I just my countries to push the WHO to do the proper investigations because it's the only way we improve our safety standards.

So no, I can't see any value in politically driven censorship.
So, this person called it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29746655
AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines
I don't think Xe's posts are all that great. The stuff they complain about are a result of not knowing what Doom Emacs does for them (because Henrik Lissner uses NixOS personally and has added a lot of convenient functionality to the nix module).
Unfortunately, it's not so simple!

For anything non-trivial you'd have to add some kind of listener or tag to every node, find said node, and then update (ideally in a performative way). Said updates cannot destroy existing state, but must patch it. Updates must also not break existing attached event listeners. The list goes on and on.
React specific but i’ve built a couple non-trivial applications with Recoil. I enjoy the ergonomics of it and building up a state graph. At its simplest it like a global version of useState which is really all you need, something you’re used to but happens to be shared. I prefer things that have simple primitives that can be composed into something complex. The documentation is good for describing what it does but not the best at easing you into it’s mental model.
Now, if only we could get some winter in places where we're normally deep into winter by now :(

Bosnia and Herzegovina here
Phones are good enough that they feature sets last 6 years, while the batteries don’t. Plenty of people don’t want to drop $800 on a new iPhone every few years when their old one works fine. And those who do move their old iPhone to the secondary market. The secondary market exists because contrary to your statement, plenty of people are fine with old phones.
Is an experience only fun or valuable when you can remember it? What does that say about all the things we remember incorrectly?
Everything I want from Samsung's next foldable
Absent some kind of disqualifying disaster, another Biden nomination seems likely at this point.
> How many cabs would die early because they are idling in traffic all day?

Isn't the article just talking about idling immediately after starting an engine on a cold day?
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-your-mouses-...

It’s under Accessibility.
And when you make duties and assign them you have an org chart
Thanks, that led me to Giguère's https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4233444/figure/... which, being orbital based, I guess counts as a physicists' table.

For sheer exuberance, how about the Railsback table? http://railsback.org/PT/815PeriodicTable48e02.pdf
I’m a fan of having a single state, used for everything. Splitting the code up into two states, one for the linter and one for the execution, seems like a recipe for incorrectness and confusion. I would hate to refactor something like that.
I was able to find it on the latest macos by opening up preferences and searching for "scroll". It's under Accessibility > Pointer Control > Trackpad/Mouse Options
>they only last a year or two

As an iPhone user for more than 10 years, that just isn't true in my case. When I upgrade after 3-4 years, battery has never been the reason. The battery of the upgraded phone that I'm using for some other purpose does tend to give out after another few years but that's hardly 1-2 years total.
You definitely can for both mouse and trackpad
I can have the battery out of my waterproof phone in <10 seconds, using only my fingernail.
I live in one of those states. I have watched my state go from an alright place with affordable housing, good liberal laws, etc to a complete shit show in the last decade. Where I am is beginning to feel more like California every single day. Dramatically more taxes, far more expensive houses, far worse roads, increasing stretched police forces, less personal rights, etc. It's a nightmare. People like me aren't antagonistic because people moved here. We're antagonistic because the same shit that brought you the absurd taxes, expensive houses, poor roads, terrible policing, overbearing politics, etc is being exported en masse by these very same people. The average person living here cannot afford to live here because, according to my realtor friend, majority of home purchases come from Californians and they don't just buy one. Ignoring all else the income asymmetry is causing strife to people who cannot afford to live when the chickens come home to roost.

I live where I live and travel to California so often I more or less live there for several days a week. The only thing great about California is the weather.

It's simple, assimilate or stay over there. You left California for a reason - why bring the garbage to every other state? Your voting is the reason California is a dumpster fire in almost every major metro. Walking down Santa Monica, or almost anywhere in San Francisco smells like human waste. You cannot tell me California is "nice". At least the Californians coming here aren't exporting the smell.
Given how much local censorship is demanded and how different the rules are, may be not that far fetched.
To techies who are interested in using Linux, I personally recommend OpenSUSE Tumbleweed because it has up-to-date packages and is relatively stable. Debian Stable is a good choice if you're insensitive to outdated packages. Debian Sid is alright, but in my experience has more breakage than Tumbleweed and recovery from that breakage requires more expertise (Tumbleweed automatically creates btrfs snapshots before and after every package manager action, making it easy to roll back any mistakes or bad upgrades.)

To the average Joe Blow, I don't recommend any Linux distro. I only give recommendations about Linux to people who already want to use Linux for their own reasons; I don't evangelize it to people who are already content with Windows or Macs. For such people, Windows or Macs are a better choice.
nocodb
seatable
are good options
Indeed but the aftermarket webasto cost quite some money. The guy was a pensioner who probably used his car once a month
This is the best piece of advice there is.

I use Emacs with vim bindings. I also have a Moonlander and I absolutely love it. I've got my QMK set up so that the key just below my left thumb (I press space with my right hand, so left is best for this—you might switch it depending on how you hit the space bar) is ESC on tap and Control on hold. This is the single-biggest improvement to ergonomics from a software side. Spend the time to figure out how to get this done, and then get used to it. Your hands will thank you until you breath your last breath.
N2698: Generic functions and parametric types for C proposal [pdf]
Not even that - developers that are keen enough to fill in Stackoverflow's user survey.
I fully agree to that experience. Next thing I tried was to have three screens with different DPI’s. It’s possible (that’s a lie, since you can’t adjust DPI and scaling properly in Linux at all, you’ll end up with a half working ugly system and irrational behavior when you move windows around), but sadly my notebook needs to work in more than one place…

I’ve invited a a long time Linux user who claimed to never had any problems whatsover to have a look. His verdict was that I should have only one external screen and use the same screen in the different places.

This stuff works with Windows and Mac out of the box.
and hopefully he'll get prosecuted for it if it is really the case, but that didn't stop even european leaders from saying the ban was a mistake and concerning[0].

[0]:https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/01/11/problemat...
> IMHO very strong statements are always wrong

History seem contradict that and to demonstrate that the conservative, quiet "middle" is almost always wrong over time. The only people who are eventually "right" are invariably considered to have strong opinions and to be fringe by the "middle".

This is almost tautological. The "middle" is where we are right now and "more right" is, by definition, not where were are right now.
Agh, there I go all America-centric!

One piece of advice I'll give you (I have a coffee farm in Puerto Rico) - you can make a lot more selling as an estate brand, i.e. retailing it yourself. From Madagascar, though, I have no idea how you'd do that internationally. But you have a couple of years to figure it out.

Arabica, dried properly and sorted well, should bring you at least $20 a pound retail, which is way more than you can approach wholesale. Even after labor, you can live on 8000 trees a year.
I mean piracy is a thing and if that is your jive then, cool?

You aren't exactly making a convincing argument saying that you don't have to pay an artist this way.

And honestly if you don't think this style of low effort content creation isn't coming for books...
Can you go on the WSJ front page and point out to me one story that's like the "Procter and gamble acquire something obscure"? The WSJ send to be to be exactly like regular news, but themed to look like business, as opposed to what I'm looking for, actual business.
I work on Linux for Linux. All I use is terminals, jetbrains and Firefox, plus a million command line tools. And maybe the occasional gimp or VLC. Nothing ever breaks for me. I've been dist-upgrading the same install for over ten years now.
But they have the potential. We'll see if it breaks into public.

People at some point were even saying Tikto will replace search engines.

Both of which can still happen.
In case it saves anyone a search:

# Download the best mp4 video available, or the best video if no mp4 available
yt-dlp -f "bv*[ext=mp4]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[ext=mp4] / bv*+ba/b" https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=wSiEklGobmY
The apparently innocent "sharing" of positive experiences - so sweet! so nice! - is from Linux self-identifiers all too often a very crude backhanded "you're wrong about the problems you claim to have with Linux, and if you're not wrong, then you're at least thick or lazy".
Are you saying you moved it to the traditional left-Alt key?

That makes the key on the left of the spacebar as Ctrl and the key on the right of the spacebar as Alt. This is much better, in my opinion, than using the pinky on the Capslock.