skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> sha256 = "0xabcd1234";

Am I right in assuming this is a ChatGPT misunderstanding, or is it a wildcard SHA256 in nix to allow any download?
Some VoIP provider may offer IVR service and one can setup similar mechanism using IVR. I know voip.ms offers IVR.
You don't. If your admin is a total dick and prevents you from migrating, you're screwed. If you have hundreds of followers, better reevaluate your initial choice of instance. If you have thousands of followers, host your own, or pay somebody to host it for you. This however doesn't matter if you're just getting started.

There are talks about detaching user identity from the instance. If this gets traction, this problem might be solved once and for all.
Well it's kinda understandable, although lamentable, since open-source development requires high morale/passion if there's no monetary incentives. If someone fixes your car for free, but afterward you complain about them scuffing the upholstery, they probably lose motivation. I know it's not the same thing, but I think it comes from the same place.

There's also the safety-in-numbers aspect, similar to editor wars, where people adopt the attitude that the more people that use their thing, the better it will be, so they are waging a propaganda campaign for their cause.
I don't :) Or to be more precise: I gradually downgraded from storing everything to storing nothing.

I put an incredible amount of effort in forcing myself not to keep track of content I encounter. I keep some bookmarks: interfaces I must interact with on a daily or weekly basis at most, and a folder in which I put links to pages on which I have written a comment (like this one after I post my comment). The folder is quite up-to-date.

And I may save some pics, usually those shared by friends/family, typically pictures that I cannot find in a search engine.

Otherwise...I can't think of other content that I save.
Just like how a bunch of random people paid for flight school classes with cash… oh wait, that ended in 9/11

No one knows what is gonna be credible, but damned if you do and damned if you don’t
It is in that if one seeks to an arbitrary point in the stream one can find the start of the current code point. Code points always end with a 0 high bit. i.e. From any byte move back until one finds a byte with a high bit of 0, that is the end of the previous code point; or one finds the start of the stream.

Also the requirements of charsets for storage and transmission are different for those in memory, ᴜᴛꜰ-8 is ubiquitous but web browsers must surely be ᴜᴛꜰ-16 to support Javascript.
Yea on cold mornings I have to skip 2nd gear and go straight to 3rd, since I can't get into 2nd gear the first few times.
The cli existed when Linus was still in diapers.

Even Bash predates Linux by years.

There is zero that running a bash Shell has to do with “Linux”
> In District of Columbia County, DC 92.1% of the people voted Democrat

Washington DC is overwhelmingly a Democrat bastion, so, regardless of the political appointee SESers, the rank and file that live around DC are likely to have a specific political leaning.

Feel free to fact check this.

https://bestneighborhood.org/conservative-vs-liberal-map-was...
The new tiling window management, when it works, is a nice tiling WM for non-nerds.

Everything else is worse. I cannot see any other change from W10 that is not a downgrade, when it's not outright features or settings that disappear totally for reasons.

They managed to make the start menu even worse than the W10 one which was already utmost garbage inherited from 8.

At this point I’m even questioning wether they became mad of if they just want to insult users.
A grep for the internet is what most of us technical users want, but they are optimizing for the more common user who structures queries more like natural language (e.g. "How can I tie my shoelaces so they don't get untied easily") instead of what me or you would query ("secure shoelace knots")

I'm surprised there hasn't been a separation of some sort of more technical search engine for developers and the classic Google experience where some neural network tries to make sense of your poorly written human language phrased question
This reminds me my old Laptop with Linux installed that had Optical drive broken and no USB boot option, there was also no option to buy new Optical Drive. I was moving directories around to make some space on root directory. I've moved /var/ to /home directory and create symlink and it worked. But then later I wanted to do the same with /usr directory that had all shared libraries in /usr/lib/. In the process of moving files got some error I was not able to use any binary file like cd, ls or ln. Only applications that was running was working.

I was certain that the laptop was dead and I will not able to use it anymore since I will not be able to install new system. So the task was to copy somehow all my important data. Luckily I was using Firefox and I've had FireFTP installed, so I've borrow my mother Windows laptop and installed FTP server and was able to copy my data over WiFi. Later it turns out that you could buy used DVD burner for that laptop, so it was resurrected and after installing Windows XP I've given that laptop to my mother.
Have the totally opposite experience. Ubuntu has a quite minimal settings panel, that's good.

Windows settings are much more difficult to navigate. The layout / structure has changed a lot between updates. Settings are hidden deep within preferences menus with multiple tabs.

Google for things and you find ad ridden pages with screenshots and pop-ups about clicking here, there, then here.

It's a mess.
Even in the US, pre COVID, every time I went to to doctor with a bad cold/flu, they'd just give you a Z Pak(antibiotics) and say...if it's bacterial this will kill it, if it's viral it'll work itself out.
So I can definitely see how they're overprescribed.
Interestingly my company only deploys on Friday because it has to wait for (most) markets to close for the weekend.
Software development is full of anti-intellectualism and friends. So many "professionals" don't think they should Learn New Things. Said "professionals" tend to be excellent org chart climbers otoh.
We need more research in bacteriophages. They can be engineered to avoid any resistance, and they can replace antibiotics in all use cases.

Besides, they are much more selective. Getting antibiotics when needed is OK, but they can lead to other health complications down the road.
you could probably ask it
Yeah, the clear problem here is GNOME and it's arrogant disregard for users... Which I guess really is historically in line with Linux culture, unfortunately.
> On the other hand, modern lubricants are very good at handling different temperatures.

I think this is the key difference between now and what used to be.

Also suspect modern engines are more carefully designed to handle thermal expansion.
I’m still amazed at how many people are able to get their dr to prescribe them antibiotics just by asking.

I knew someone who had a cold and said “but I asked my Dr for some antibiotics and I’m taking DayQuil so I’ll be better in a day or two”

Im always left open mouthed gaping at them like… even if YOU don’t know. But at least the Dr should …
Assuming this refers to https://chat.openai.com/, it's rather difficult to try it out. After creating an account it demanded a phone number. Of course, I will not supply my own, and temporary ones I tried were either recognised as such or rejected has having already been used.
> And for a whole generation of internet users, having a website was the cool thing to do.

"Cool" - You guys weren't getting bullied like me?
All three of those have much milder winters than the US Midwest does.
When I was in Peru, they kind of prescribed antibiotics for everything. Persistent cold? Antibiotics. Like that.

Source: lived there with Peruvian partner for 18 months.
This is my experience with Tailscale wrt battery as well. It also sometimes doesn't disconnect either via the app or Settings and I'm forced to restart the phone hoping it doesn't reconnect on boot.
I've stopped using unqualified Google searches for recipes. Limiting results to allrecipes.com helps a fair amount (they're a pretty unobnoxious site as things go). It's telling that Google doesn't rank them higher.
If you make it too easy to set up, you make it ... too easy for spammers and other "marketing specialists" to start sending e-mail, I think is the reason.

Right now, they have to be technical (or at least pay $$ to tech people) to get that going, and it does slim down the numbers a little.

Getting the software lined up is the easy part, truth be told. It's the anti-spam/malware/anti-relay etc etc that is the challenge. And most big Email companies weigh how long you've been around, so you also have to be patient for your reputation to get high enough not to be in people's junk boxes all the time.
But you seem to suffer from some kind of delusion that government is somehow less biased and more intelligent, and free of human faults than you?

What in all of human history, would make you think that?
Ask HN: Is there anything similar to the Joel Test, but for benefits?
> It famously asserted numbers like 42 were prime early on

Oh it tried to convince me that four is not larger than one. :) It went like this:

At first I asked ChatGPT to summarise J.C. Owen’s contribution to geometric constraint solving. It gave me an answer which might be even correct. It sounded correct anyway. Then I have asked for a worked example of his method used on a toy geometric constraint system. It run into problems with that. Chiefly that the system is selected was under constrained.

When I asked about that it insisted that it is well constrained. It even volunteared the info that for a system to be well constrained it needs as many variables as constraint equations. Then it told me that the system it generated has 4 variables and 1 equation.

As a last question I asked if “Is four larger than 1?” and it resolved the seeming contradiction by telling me that in the context of geometric constraint solving four is not larger than one. One does learn a new thing every day. :)
That trivial way only lazily shallow imports. I don’t see a good way to do a lazy deep import. A lot of libraries I import, then transitively import hundreds or more of other files. The file I import I may only need a small subset of those transitive imports. The lazy import pep would have meant that whenever the import was finally executed, the imports in that file are also lazy and only done if needed.
> Ubuntu is a pain to work with. Something as simple as changing the mouse scroll speed requires creating a bash script.

This is Ubuntu and GNOME both having adopted unfortunate strategies wrt UX in recent years. They seem to be trying to emulate the Apple "we know best, take it or leave it", removing customization and freezing the UI, but without the resources spent on getting it "perfect" for the majority. They may still be fine choices for some users but they closed the door on being the "just use this" generic options.

KDE has supported changing mouse scroll from the UI for some time. Linux Mint (including its Debian edition) with MATE or Cinnamon, or BudgieWM are other fine choices for non-terminal users. Fedora has been picking up as a general all-round desktop distro as Ubuntu has been falling from grace.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Now-Has-Wayland-S-Speed
Christmas Lemmings (2019)
I'm using 27-inch 4K monitors with Gnome. I found it more practical to use no scaling but 1.25x text size (settings in gnome-tweaks). The problem for me with 2x scaling or fractional scaling is that it scales UI (icons, margins) as well. As someone who appreciates functionality (i.e., displaying text) over overdesigned white spacing, scaling the whole UI is just wasting my workspace size whereas scaling text-only is a perfect balance between good-looking text and workspace size.

But anyway, good to see that Linux desktop is gaining fractional scaling support!
It's pretty much just that. People get hooked on the beautiful consistency of the command key and overrate how much value-add it really provides. They'll make arguments about how often they copy-paste and how every bit of complexity fills up their brain and other pseudoscientific stuff.
Finding Fulfillment
Observation:

I started daily driving linux in the 90s. When I switched to a mac around 2010 if found Mac exhausting. It had different usage patterns than I was used to. Some of my most used features weren't there. Having a reasonably usable shell experience required lots of tweaking and macports then brew. When I switched back to linux ~5 years ago there was a while where getting back into the linux groove was exhausting because I wasn't used to it, but not as exhausting as switching to mac because I already knew it, just needed to get back in practice.

Every time i use windows (which is rarely, once a year maybe) i find it exhausting.

I propose that it's not the OS that's the exhausting part - it's the switching to a new environment with different workflows and thought processes around it that is exhausting. Similar to how it's much harder to get familiar with a codebase in a new (to you) language than in a language you are proficient in - but both cases can be taxing.
Are they mostly for marketing? I have never needed something like Airtable, so just curious.
Eh I didn't see any offer to bet anything, but in any case if someone on HN says "I bet that XXX happens" then it's safe to say they don't mean "I will bet anything that XXX, name your terms and I will match them, otherwise I concede since you have bested me using logic!"

This is not a betting platform and tbh I think dang et al would get in trouble if it turned out HN was facilitating some form of gambling. In reality trying to make someone put money behind their predictions is a way to try to make them back down, look silly/small/cheap and as I said originally, it is childish. Don't do it.
On the flip side, Linux is infinitely more useful to me than Windows. My desktop’s motherboard’s onboard graphics card failed but I have an external graphics card. Windows is unable to boot because of the failed onboard card. Ubuntu worked absolutely fine. I had to modify 1-2 lines in a configuration to prevent Ubuntu from loading the onboard graphics at all, otherwise it would start off funky.

And MacOS is just too slow. There’s far too many animations and it’s extremely difficult to multitask in a useful way.

It’s like Apple has basically been creating MacOS features based on 2 criteria’s. Either so they look good in a demo, or they’re a replica of an iOS app.
> or weren't updated by the manufacturer.

This is exactly why we need GNU/Linux phones, which will have lifetime updates (Librem 5 and Pinephone).
Out of sight, out of mind. Now in this case it's actually in your mind, but if technology becomes invisible, people will "think" about it less, which makes it easier to become ever more exploitative. That this is the declared endgame only shows how brazen the disdain has gotten.
I have built a lot of apps, including huge react apps. The problem you are describing is usually a result of people representing too much in state of as part of the same state.

Now I could be wetting but it's hard to have these sorts of discussions on the abstract.

Can you name examples of such state?
MacOS and Windows treat their users like idiots. Since I have technical proficiency, I like to be able to use it. Using forked software, scripting, low-level config. It's frustrating how much of a pain in the ass that stuff can be on non-Linux desktop environments.

That's my main motivation to using Linux as my daily driver (3 years now).
Drought is hitting Europe and Asia as well. Water will be traded as a commodity if it isn’t already beyond water purification companies.

Food prices in North America will continue to climb as drought worsens agriculture in California and Mexico. California supplies most of the food in Western North America, including the Western half of Canada
GNOME and Ubuntu are not representative of "Linux culture".
Historically, Christmas was often a time for upending social structures
This is the main reason I use a HHKB. I'd support any other keyboard makers who put the CTRL in the right place too.
I think the comparison to outside art is very apt, although I think the boundary between professional and amateur was porous. Professionals wrote the tools amateurs used, they wrote the books and references at least some of those amateurs consulted, and I imagine they originally wrote at least some of the snippets that got copy and pasted endlessly. In theory, a return of the old web (aesthetically and socially) could involve people copying snippets like these. As you mention, the current web's complexity makes that unlikely, unfortunately.
Ionocaloric Refrigeration Cycle
1,000 true fans is an essay about a thousand die-hard fans paying a content creator $100/year, which comes out to 100k before taxes and expenses.

I'd argue that if you're smart enough to be reading this website, you're smart enough to create and sell a piece of software to 10 businesses. If you can add 2% of revenue/quarter or save 5-10% of an expense, you can name your price (as long as it's below the amount of revenue you generated or money you saved). Paradoxically, it's easier to charge lots of money vs. convince lots of people to give you a little bit of money. If you don't believe me, I encourage you to run a time-boxed experiment where you attempt to do both for 1 month. Post your findings to HackerNews!

This might seem more boring compared to 1,000 fans (1,000 people who follow you is a great dopamine hit), but it's also much easier!
Right now I find ChatGTP excellent for certain technical topics I'm familiar with, but can't recall the details. It saves me the time of looking for an example from stackoverflow/tutorial blogs/official documentation, and gives me just the piece I want - things like syntax, which libraries/modules to use etc.
Maybe this one: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BVIN_PJu2rs

Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33954176
Yep, from experience this is the way. No talk about federation and instances, just “your account is at somewhere” and choosing where is a social question not a technical one.

And acknowledge that social questions are messy. “Which cafeteria table should I sit at?”
>if

when
You can't, that's the thing, right?

I have a Ryzen desktop with ECC, and it registers about one bit-flip per week. I don't know how many of those would become crashes, but I'm more worried about the ones that wouldn't.
Or you have asked correctly (or not, that's hard to tell from the onset) and has given you a non-factual answer. For example, I asked ChatGPT for what would be the best introductory book for a subject (added some more conditions to make it pretty clear-cut). It recommended me a book that sounded reasonable in title, with existing authors in the field… but the book didn't exist, at all.
This is basically the same thing Elon Musk has been claiming for a few weeks now although he is slightly more specific in blaming Democrats/Fauci for creating Covid-19.

Have these tech billionaires always been far-right conspiracy theorists or did something happen in the past few years to radicalize them?
This(fortunately) is the correct answer. Unless of course the phone was setup without any security. Is that still allowed in Android?
This one made me laugh. I've been places that only allow deployments on Fridays because it gives the whole weekend to fix things if they break.

It's a good interview question as a candidate. If you ask the interviewer when they deploy and they say only Friday (or worse only once a month) then perhaps look elsewhere for your own sanity because it's a sign of serious malfunction either organizationally, technically, or both.
Here are some predictions on the Russo-Ukranian war, and the growth of App dev / JS frameworks, and modern styling solutions.

Russo-Ukrainian War:

1. Ukraine winter offensive in Jan/Feb of 2023 will successfully drive the Russians back in the south and threaten Crimea (which will fall during the year).

2. But Russia will comeback, and bolster its defense in the east of Ukraine, causing a stalemate there, until the summer of 2023.

3. Russia’s comeback will seem ominous for Ukraine which will be running short of supplies, due to western equipment and ammo production capacity being stretched.

4. Although Russia is also stretched thin, it will still (by the summer) have a larger supply of ammo than Ukraine.

5. We will see the beginning of international calls, and western pressure, for a peace agreement. It will result in a brokered UN administered consensus vote in the Donbass (inhabitants there vote on which nation they want to belong to). (This might be a bit idealistic take, so take with a pinch of salt.)

6. Putin remains in power, in spite of predictions he would be overturned due to the losses in the war.

7. Putin is able to wind down the conflict while saving face by arguing it was only about the russian people in Donbass all along.

8. No nuke or tactical nuke will be used, even though Russia will continue to rattle them to scare the west.

App dev / JS frameworks:

(growth in terms of npm downloads and github stars)

9. React, React Native, SolidJS, Svelte, Vue, Astro and Qwik will all experience enormous growth during the year.

10. Redwood and Remix will struggle to grow as much, but still grow some.

11. Remix will grow more than Redwood. (Not a very spicy take, but still).

12. React and Next.js will still dominate all competitors in absolute terms, and continue to grow,

13. but React Native, Svelte and Qwik will grow much much more (percentage wise).

14. «The year of React Native» on native/crossplatform, and

15. «The year of Qwik» on web, certainly mind share wise, but also growth wise.

Styling:

15. Tamagui will be pretty hyped, mostly in React Native and mobile crossplatform circles, and grow greatly (more than 3x amount of npm downloads and github stars).

16. But will be dwarfed by the meteoric rise of Nativewind. «The year of Nativewind» on native/crossplatform. Which will be fuelled by the fact that

17. TailwindCSS is still dominating amongst modern web styling tools, and will >2x its amount of downloads, and grow around 18% in github stars by year end.
So many? Last I checked there was a huge shortage, and with the exception of a couple of notable bloatware companies, most seem to be understaffed?
I think you are referring to this? From the wiki at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Keybinding-Issues:

Are you customizing keyboard mappings via setxkbmap or equivalents?

symptoms: customizations done via setxkbmap or equivalents have no effect in VS Code.

solution: use "keyboard.dispatch": "keyCode" in your settings and restart VS Code.
I've never had an engine wear out on me and start burning oil.
in the whole discussion, I feel you are missing a point. AI creates something that looks like art to humans based on a probability distribution.

for me art is not the end product but the process. I want to understand the artists intentions and often a work that looks blant, because deep because of the artist's explanations.

Take Agnes Martin's paintings as an example.
The Disturbing Reality of Cobalt Mining for Rechargeable Batteries
It's a conspiracy theory because Nacchio was actually guilty of insider trading regardless of what the NSA may have done.

From the court decision which you didn't bother to read:

>Even if the classified information were presented and established what he said it would, it could not exonerate Mr. Nacchio as he claims. Essentially, Mr. Nacchio argued that undisclosed positive information can be used as a defense to a charge of trading on undisclosed negative information. We disagree. … If an insider trades on the basis of his perception of the net effect of two bits of material undisclosed information, he has violated the law in two respects, not none.