skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I installed Windows 95 in a VM for fun and nostalgia recently and it struck me how consistent it was. Sure the colors and styles aged but wherever you were, buttons were buttons, settings boxes were setting boxes, windows were windows, task bar was a task bar, toolbars were toolbars …

Frankly, I’d argue that changing most settings is easier in windows 95.

It wasn’t perfect but it was a solid UX base with a lot of logical concepts to evolve from.
Today I wanted to mute the bark on windows 11.

Not knowing the terminology, Google was useless.

I ask chatgpt and it tells me how to mute notifications, I clarify "no the thing where you're typing and windows can't do it so it plays a sound" and chatgpt happily informed me on how to mute the windows hard stop sound.

For situations where you don't really know what you're looking for, chatgpt is already competitive with Google. Failing abysmally in some cases, and far surpassing Google in others.
Do you still watch Netflix? If so, is that life changing enough? If not, what do you do for hobbies?
I recovered my partner's photos and notes from her Samsung phone when she dropped it and the screen broke.

Spoilers: I had to replace the screen.

I had already flashed Lineage OS on it, but this was not helpful.

I first tried to mount the userdata via ADB shell (via LineageOS Recovery or another recovery), but was unable to. AIUI, the recoveries don't have support for Samsung encryption.

Second attempt was to try to boot to GUI, then control the GUI over ADB using scrcpy. This required USB debugging enabled, but I was unable to enable this.

Final attempt was to buy a replacement screen, and follow a YouTube video to replace it.

This was new to me, but it worked. I needed a kit of mobile phone repair prying tools ($15), the screen ($100) and patience.

I've since enabled backups on my partner's phone. :)
Not Can It Run Doom, but Can Doom Run It?
Counter-point: Yes they are. I’m already successfully using ChatGPT as a Google replacement for many types of searches.

You’re welcome to argue it isn’t a replacement. And yet my own two eyes observe indisputable evidence to the contrary.
When ChatGPT came out I used it to do 100 hours worth of work in 10 hours or so. But it still felt like work. And for more intricate use cases it is just easier to do traditional research.

We’re safe for a while still. And when I say we I mean writers.
I would say Judt and Hemingway were strong influences: Judt for his clarity of thought, Hemingway for his emotional brevity.
My wife is an astrophysics lecturer at UQ. Whenever I take the kids around to visit her in her office, we often stop by to look at the pitch drop.

I can't quite explain the experience of standing there for a few minutes willing the damn thing to drop. It's a quaint feeling of expectation, wilful wanting and wistful disappointment as you draw yourself away from the experiment... usually by a child pulling you by the hand to do more interesting things.

While I'm standing here... is it going to drop? Strange feeling.

Edited grammar.
If you read their definition of a true fan they sound like borderline insane

>A true fan is defined as a fan that will buy anything you produce. These diehard fans will drive 200 miles to see you sing; they will buy the hardback and paperback and audible versions of your book; they will purchase your next figurine sight unseen; they will pay for the “best-of” DVD version of your free youtube channel; they will come to your chef’s table once a month.
> Artists give ArtStation and the like a license to use their uploads for training ML models.

As far as I can tell from a quick Wayback Machine test, that only seems to have appeared in the last fortnight[1]. None of the existing models could have been trained under the license.

[1] https://www.artstation.com/tos has it as section 46 "Artificial Intelligence" mentioning the "NoAI" tag. But https://web.archive.org/web/20221214082018/https://www.artst... has neither.
You should try something like this:

https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B08C741R65/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_...

Not all USB-C -> HDMI connectors work properly. This works with Huawei P20 Pro

I suggest this before going with the USB debugging way (using the android console and tools)
I think you're misunderstanding. The "myth" being referred to in that third link is that it's beneficial to warm up your engine by letting it idle for a long time. This was previously true for cars with carburetors, but is no longer useful for modern cars.

The idea that idling the engine for an extended time after a cold startup can cause damage is correct, and that idea is consistent in all three articles you're referring to.
Screen sharing in Wayland has been pretty painless for me with the exception of Zoom. The native app refuses to believe that I'm running one of the "approved" distros and won't even try, so if I need to share my screen, I just pop out of the meeting in the native app and rejoin from chrome.
> Oil --must-- work even when is cold.

“Must work when cold” is not the same as “must work at load when cold”. Most modern cars have a limited redline, until the engine warms, because of this.
QuiteRSS on Windows. Still not perfect in terms of features but it's fast.
You really think an AG or similar can’t have a little brunch with a C level executive resulting in a mandate on operational guidelines in response?
I mean, ChatGPT came out 2 weeks ago.

By the time Google even was started, Excite had been searching the web for 7 years and Lycos had been around for 3 years.

I don't think it's a 1:1 replacement, but let's not judge a product that's been out for less than a month against a trillion dollar behemoth that launched 24 years ago.
Almost same config as my deskside. I've got 16 Epyc CPU cores, 128GB RAM, and 2TB of NVMe along with 8TB of ZFS mirror with hot spare. Same GPU. Linux Mint went on w/o problem. I did have to switch from nouveau to nvidia drivers, but that's covered in the driver manager.

Again, everything just works. Even the stupid little USB sound card I plugged in. Been listening to spotify while working on it. Using Zoom on that for my private non-work meetings.

Cinnamon version, 21.1 version of mint. Painless. Even getting zfs up and going. I updated to 2.1.7 at that.
> do you really think that someone with a criminal history would never go to a protest?

1. Just because some criminals attend protests, doesn't mean that is it typical. All 3 people that Kyle shot had criminal backgrounds. What are the odds of this happening in a random sample of all protests? Clearly this wasn't your average protest. White criminals protesting for black people's civil rights?

2. It is important to note that everyone has the right to peacefully assemble and express their views, regardless of their criminal history. However this was not a peaceful protest, as property was being actively destroyed.

3. Criminal justice system forces plea bargains in return for cooperation. Even innocent people will plea bargain under duress. Threats of lengthy prison sentences or harsh treatment, or a parole officer revoking parole is how the system extorts cooperation. Becoming an informant is the only leverage someone like Joseph Rosenbaum may have had.

4. Let's assume you're right. They were there for civil rights protest. But that
seems like a conflict in your own thinking. Since the core issue was governments abuse of civil rights. Which would be a giant conspiracy. Which you seem to wave away as being a possibility.

I gave specific examples where other government's intelligence agencies in the past were known to do send in agent provocateurs. Why do you think America is exceptional?
And others are just pointing out that this isn't a grass-roots movement of hurt or concerned individuals and actually is the same manipulative media outlets that have blown everything out of proportion for years, hoping to create a backlash.
I wish ChatGPT would give you the score(s) of the results it returns, so you could understand how correct it "thinks" the response is. I wonder if those confidently wrong answers are also low scoring.
Yeah, it is so obviously a usefull user interface pattern. The real question is if it can be made accurate.

I have asked chatGPT about my
boss (a well published researcher) and it managed to summarise his work quite well, name the field he has worked in and even write about some of his previous projects. It also insisted on that he is already dead. Which made it very funny when I have shown it to him. :)

But funny doesn’t win one a trophy in information retrieval. Clearly it knows a lot about a lot of things, but the accuracy is hit and miss. Can this be fixed? Then this is the future. If it can’t, because this is a fundamental property of these systems then it won’t be a usefull replacement of search.
Sorry if it came across that way. It came indeed from skepticism, and I am fully aware that my personal experience doesn't invalidate the possibility of your friend's story.

I just think there are too many combined unlikely elements in it, and that it's more likely to have been of a personal nature rather than any kind of profiling or generalisation due to his name or passport.

Obviously, I could be very wrong and your friend might be the loveliest person in the world who also happened to be very very unlucky in his dealings with the Brits.
Does anyone have any suggestions where I could go looking for fans? I'm making a text editor/game where you write text documents with tentacle arms. Learn ritual magic based on what you write / activate machines by writing.

I've got about 1400 followers on twitter, had a few semi-successful posts on reddit. Tiktok did less well. My weathervane is currently pointed towards doing more on YouTube. Enough people have downloaded the demo on steam that a few novels worth of text has probably been written with it, so that's fun. I'm not at a point where I can discern my count of who is a _true fan_, but there's probably a few in there.
I do backups with Termux (a Debian Linux inside an app) f-droid version nowadays) and rsync everything over ssh onto a desktop machine.

Works like a charm for most data, but a caveat: you should prefer apps which store their data in the public storage parts of Android. Pictures, photos (DCIM) and music mostly live there.
Nitpick: On Elodie’s homepage, “No Propietary Database” should be “No Proprietary Database”.
Seconded by a plug-in Prius owner.

Sadly the climate control pre-conditioning on the PiP only uses the battery (or mains, if left plugged in) to cool the interior before you set off, not to heat it. I guess this is because it doesn’t have reverse cycle AC, so can’t pump heat into the interior, only out of it. Far less useful in the UK than California.

So if you want heat, you have to run the engine.
Is it hard to run the basic software to have a self-hosted e-mail server? No.

Is it an utter PITA to have to chase a dragon's tail of stupid things that you don't control to have RELIABLE e-mail? Yes.

While running your own server is great for a hobby or as a learning exercise, 99%+ of people just want e-mail to WORK.
And many of the big providers have an endless amount of hoops to jump through, and have little to no transparency or feedback when things aren't working.
There's also https://github.com/illacloud/illa-builder.

Only Retool alternative I have found so far that's not AGPL encumbered or open core.
I can’t consider MacOS until the „@“ character is back on its internationally standardized place and Apple Safari supports VP9 hardware decoding.
Secondary infections of bacterial pneumonia were common with COVID iirc.
Wow, thanks. I never would have thought to look there.

Zelazny was my first love. :)
They're not a replacement but they will be generating so much credible indexable garbage that they will reduce the signal to noise ratio to the point that they are useless.
It sounds a bit like you would like to reserve the privilege of parking in disabled parking but don’t want to be identified by the blue badge as someone disabled.

Sorry, but that’s just not something that the system should be designed to cater for. You either accept the badge and the privilege or you don’t, demanding that anyone must be able to park in disabled parking without a badge because they might secretly be disabled but not want to signal it seems beyond absurd.
It won't help if your screen is totally dead but I got a hairline fracture in an old Sony phone that made the touch part stop working. When I took it in to the shop I learned if you plug in a corded mouse to the charging port of an Android phone, a mouse will show on screen.

Everything on my phone was already backed up but it did let me wipe the phone completely. Nice feature that I'm sure most people never even think to use.
The universal truth for people is often different than the truth, and AI has to return the convenient truth.

Example. People are persuaded that women can do two things at the same time and men cannot. Despite countless counterexamples, the original study positioning everyone on a bell curve with only 6% difference in time of execution, and without checking for the quality of the results (“254 plus 786 equals 126 quick mafs!!!”), it is blatantly false, but any search engine that would return that it is false would make itself rejected by humans.
That’s not particularly different from comments on HackerNews and Reddit. There’s a lot of extremely confident and very wrong answers on both sites!

ChatGPT is probably more wrong more often, by a good margin. But I don’t think the argument “it’s confidently wrong” carries any weight. Humans are extremely susceptible to humans who display confidence. It’d probably be a good thing if humans were as skeptical of confident humans as they need to be of confident chat/search bots.
Do you trust it to write that bug free?

Where are you putting the API key to access those services?

Where does it run the code that it wrote and how does it provision those resources?
You beauties! This is like the final architectural niggle with Wayland, I'm so pleased to see it being addressed.
The onboarding to driving a car is pretty tough, but people stick it out because the product has clear use once you get there.
Wow and I thought functions should only perform a single task. I need to keep up with the times! Apparently you need an entire deployable app and API to do anything these days. I guess it makes sense. How else could we justify so many software engineers!?
I don't doubt that the expert consulted for this article knows way more about gasoline engines than I do, but the article itself contains some flat-out falsehoods. In particular the line "But don't confuse warm air coming from your car's radiator with a warm engine." is just wrong. The engine temperature sensor actually senses the engine coolant temperature, and if your dash is blowing warm air, then the coolant is way warmer than 40F,and the engine has leaned the fuel mixture.

I also wish the expert had addressed the real question in this warming scenario - which is how many piston cycles (crankshaft revolutions) you run with an over-rich fuel mixture. It's certainly true that engine warm-up takes longer at low rpms, but it also true that if you run at driving rpms, while the elapsed time to end the over-rich fuel will be less, you will have cycled the pistons many times more than at an idle. It's the piston movement he's tagging as the engine wear culprit, and it's not at all clear how many more piston cycles there really are, if you warm at an idle. It's not even clear there are more, thinking from first principles.
Just reaching out in the name of FBI, tacitly threatens repercussions. The government can certainly make life difficult for the most law-abiding company or citizen if you get on the wrong side of it. And everyone knows this.
MIT faculty adopts “Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom”
If non-repairable products were cheaper and those savings passed on to consumers, apple products and the surface series would be the cheapest that exist. They are not...
> Do not make production changes on Fridays

I ~hate~ dislike this advice.
If you can't deploy on a Friday, you need to fix your deployment strategy. By removing Friday from when you can deploy, you're wasting 1/5 of your available days.

Note: deploy != Release[1]. Use flags, canaries etc.

[1]: https://andydote.co.uk/2022/11/02/deploy-doesnt-mean-release...

Edit: hate is far too stronger word for this
Yeah, I think a lot of history of the russo-ukranian war is not known by many americans. Many people didn't even know there was a war until the invasion. I remember tensions building up a few months before the invasion and some people started talking about it (I knew a political dude online who was talking about it a few months before, he was saying something about how things could go down. I wasn't really interested but now I realize he was right (except for him supporting russia tho)).
> apart from having eventual Linux phones but we are a very long way from there

This depends on your use case. Sent from my Pinephone.
Honestly, I suspect creating

> a mechanism for people to share their work without losing control of it

Is impossible.
It's funny. My NixOS machines (desktop and two laptops) have had minimal breakage while upgrading. And the breakage was easy to fix with a small git commit.

My macOS (Intel MBP) and Windows (Dell laptop) end up with something borked by updates pretty much like clockwork. I suppose I am a poweruser of those systems by nature of being a dev, but something always tends to stop working.
After World War 1, Japan grabbed parts of Siberia, Manchuria and hundreds of formerly German held islands.

There was a huge earthquake and subsequent fire that destroyed Tokyo on September 1st, 1923.

Here I quote a 1928 atlas from its article about Japan, after it mentions the then recent earthquake:

"The old saying which everyone is familiar with: "It's an ill wind which blows no one good," seems to be the case so far as the Japanese disaster is concerned. The United States seems to have been selected by a divine providence as the beneficiary of the Almighty in reducing Japan through the recent disaster to a state where she may, be considered as impotent to take up arms against the United States for at least ten years, it is estimated. It had been reported by military experts of the United States the Japan, prior to the earthquake, was preparing for a break with the United States and it was thought that they would strike during the years 1924 to 1927. With the rebuilding program ahead of Japan, thrift and saving, among both the government and people, alone will make it possible for Japan to revive."

The tone probably doesn't sit comfortably in modern ears, but remember this was written by an American over 90 years ago.
What I haven't seen here, is that AI chatbots remove the discovery process.

While you can get an option from a chatbot for your specific request, sometimes you can get something better while googling for possible solutions.
Mint or manjaro
After 25 years as a dedicated Mac user, I kind of inadvertently switched to Kubuntu for most things, and it's been mostly fine. It gets better and better with each release too.

My singular major complaint is that not enough applications leverage the KDE system that allows you to rewire various keyboard shortcuts, so I can only half-ass having a setup where all the shortcuts mimic those of a Mac.
Don't forget "pets vs cattle", thinking of servers as ephemeral and working towards quickly being able to scale up/down based on demand. So often I see people "lift and shift" from a dedicated server model into the cloud and never convert their pets into cattle. This reduces flexibility later, not to mention makes it harder to respond to patching needs, scaling, and moving to optimize latency or costs.
This is just wrong. Replaceable batteries add cost and fragility to the device, make battery life worse, and most phones die because they stop getting software updates anyway.

Replaceable batteries will increase e-waste because there will be a lot more broken phones.
But importantly US politicians are historically responsive to the voters. Presidents can’t hold office past two terms. It’s not perfect, but it’s sure better.
But not, in the way that it has been done, a legally sanctioned part of their method.
I don’t think you seem to have any kind of understanding of what “ultra left leaning” means in this context.

You’re just repeating Fox News headlines here and pretending that it’s some black and white issue once again in spite of the overwhelming evidence in this very thread showing that not to be the case.
Maybe it makes good business sense, but it's no way to live. Living a good life takes work. It takes months to learn to drive. It takes years to learn to cook. It takes decades to learn to write.

If you aren't confused, you aren't learning. Get used to confusion or get used to stagnation. Your choice.
> I don't know of any reason that a blockchain based offering couldn't find itself competitive in the marketplace

So what are the reasons that a a blockchain based offering could be copetitive in the marketplace? And what would bockchain have to do with it?

Remember ,we're talking about tickets: a problem largely solved. Where a central authority you trust releases a ticket, and where the central authority you trust verifies the ticket at the venue.

So, what is the sales pitch for tickets for a blockchain-based ticketing startup? Other than, you know, "but it's blockchain!" (as all these startups do)
The problem is that fact checking functionality is a harder NLP/ML problem than bullshit generation.
Not the poster, but I'd say that smarthosting hides visibility (when did this get delivered) and costs money.

I would argue that the overhead of setting things up is more pricey then paying for smarthost forwarding, but maybe I'm too practical,
You don’t have to buy a new phone to replace the battery. Just take it to any repair shop.
Actually, all the old relational texts talk about select * from employees (plural) because they didn’t have aliases for table names in queries.

I agree that when you use aliases for multiple tables when you use (Oracle, non-standard SQL joins) that it looks prettier, but you can also do that with plural table names.

Select employee.name manager.name from employee, manager where employee.manager_id = manager.id

But it doesn’t matter that much when you use the traditional join syntax:

Select employees.name, managers.name from employees left outer join managers as manager on employees.manager_id = managers.id

Still I prefer singular table names, just disagree that it was data people who preferred singular and why.

Of course, with aliases you can return the exact name you want with aliases:

Select e.name as employee, m.name as manager from employees e, managers m where e.manager_id = m.id
Ok, I found it:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12/space-debris-expert-...

> I predict that we will see a loss of human life by (1) objects ... surviving reentry and hitting a populated area, or (2) people ... having their vehicle getting scwhacked by an unpredicted piece of junk.

> I predict that both those things are going to happen in the next decade
It's only a matter of time before ChatGPT is monetized to slip in some paid content, similar to product placement. Until then, I'm sure bright minds are already working on ways to ensure it feeds on data tainted with their own agendas.
I have two nvidia machines and they work fine on NixOS. Including prime on my laptop!
> Silent phone usage doesn't impact the class, it impacts the individual using the phone.

That’s just not true. You decided to attend class, you are taking up a seat. You count toward the outcome for the class and what you do and don’t do affects the class as a total. If you decide to half ass it, that affects the class. At the end of the year if every student fails. A teacher can’t just go: “but that’s not a problem with the class, that’s an individual problem for each student, the class was perfect they all individually just weren’t good enough”