skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that the way the laptop was claimed to be found sounds incredibly suspicious, but I don't know of any current evidence that the laptop's "discovery was probably influenced by Russian state assets". When you say "the first is more or less true", are you including this part? If so, can you point to evidence linking the find to Russia?

For the second part, I'd also agree that the laptop does not contain clear evidence of wrongdoing by the president. It contains a lot more than just nude photos of Hunter, though. It's real in the sense that everything on the laptop is believed to be authentic. It offers insight of Hunter's business dealings, and I think hints that contrary to the president's claims, he was at least aware of some of the details of those dealings. As such, I think it's reasonable for people to want to inspect the contents and reach their own conclusion as to what it implies, rather than being prevented from doing so.
Judging by the companies I've worked at and the people I know, it clearly is. This is biased towards the sv part of the industry, which is the largest concentration, though. It is also backed up by the data of who employees of large tech companies contribute to, which is overwhelmingly democrats.
My personal favourite is Zustand. But if you like proxy state then Valtio is really nice.
Today's chatbots are complex language models based on the language that they were trained on.

They are very clever at transforming data into language, or one language into another... but they work on language and not knowledge.

It would be interesting to see a language model identify the necessary resources to fulfill a query which is then fed back into it to transform the dry data back into language.

Identify if the question is looking for weather, sports scores, unit conversion, general knowlege, or business information for the following requests:

1. "What is the high temperature tommorow?"
2. "Did the packers win last night?"
3. "What time does Walmart open?"
4. "What will it rain next week?"
5. "Where can I buy an umbrella?"
6. "How many feet are in a mile?"
Question classification:

To which GPT responded:

1. Weather
2. Sports Scores
3. Business Information
4. Weather
5. Business Information
6. Unit Conversion

Using this, it should then be sent to a system that knows how to do those queries and return back data.

However, doing that integration isn't the place for today's chatbots - or at least not the place for OpenAI to be trying to do all the possible things. Those queries also cost money and become harder to bill for.
Nice, but I think this should be uBlock Origin's job.
> I mean, that page only describes ABI differences.

It explains how Apple constrains users, and thus the difference between general ARM and Apple Silicon. Which was the question.

> I was thinking I would find ARM architecture differences in the silicon.

Could you explain what you mean exactly? It's an ARM implementation so it has to implement the ISA.

Apple's implementation has a few interesting bits, like a TSO mode (for x86 emulation), and actually has custom ISA extensions (AMX, memory compression, APRR/GXF) which nobody else would be allowed according to Hector Martin.
Just wait until they add Android UI as well!
Does it downplay the difficulty?

As an artist, I appreciate the statement because it reminds me to appropriately scope what tiers of “success” can mean.

I have zero illusions about the ease of convincing 1000 people to trade their money for works I’ve produced. But 1000 people is a small enough number that I can conceive of in my minds eye and then plan concrete steps to try to make it happen.
You probably missed parent asking for Win 3.x-like UI, not Windows 95.
Jotai [1] is my go to, though I have never used it for anything too big.

[1] https://jotai.org/
I bet all those antibiotics prescribed for covid didn't help as well. That was happening on a massive scale in my country
Without wanting to be facetious, the single word response that comes to mind is “yet”.
Archer Maclean
ChatGPT can give you websites, too, if you ask:

"What's a good social website for people of a technical bent"

It recommended: Reddit, Hacker News, Stack Exchange, Quora, LinkedIn, ResearchGate, GitHub

That's a pretty good list!

Tried the same search on Google, and the first result was some spammy site "15 top social networks," #1 being facebook. Not very useful.

I definitely think chatbots will replace many uses of search engines. It's already way more useful for lots of stuff for me.
I've had a lot of ergo issues from typing, and I'm always disappointed that Emacs users focus on remapping the Caps Lock key while ignoring the advice most ergonomists give:

There are two Alt and Ctrl keys on the keyboard. Use both, and use both halves of the keyboard If you're doing a combination like Ctrl F, use the right control key. If you're doing Ctrl-l, use the left control key.

In general, when using these modifier keys, make sure both your hands are being utilized.

Also, there's simply no rule that says one must use the pinky for the Ctrl key. Use some other finger. In fact, insisting on using the pinky is a sign you are also insisting on using one hand to enter the key combination.
Palantir Algos in Ukraine War
My wife has just got better from a case of pneumonia that developed rapidly within several hours. If not for antibiotics...

We are back to medieval times if antibiotics stop working.
"Will never be" is an overly confident statement for any technical field. Predicting the future is hard and predicting the future with an un-bounded time horizon is pretty near impossible.
Tech journalism most often then not doesn't know tech in the first place.Safe from a very small number, often in specialized outlets like techdirt, they're effectively "culture" journalists in regards to social media, so it isn't at all surprising that something more complex than just another twitter drama or nebulous AI VC project #234 goes way over their head.
That's why I love Ubuntu. Keep that dock on the left, maximize vertical space. (Too bad the default GTK is a bit to loose on the padding)
The big drawback chatGPT has is that on many topics it walks on eggshells.

It can’t give me a direct answer. It couches the answers in nonsensical caveats. Adding stilted context that really does not add value to an answer and actually makes the search more tedious.

If I ask it the male female breakdown for crime statistics it begins to get defensive and gives me general answers. I can prod it to finally give me government statistics but it doest it begrudgingly. And that’s for a far away country not steeped in any unusual crime controversy.
Depends. Oslo or Agder? But even then I can't imagine you can't find at least a fishing pole and a knife in Oslo.
Have you read about General Fusion and their approach to fusion?
All operating systems are exhausting.* I don't understand why Ubuntu updates would break anything, they've been so reliable lately that I even let my mom update her computer herself. But anyway, if you think they're bad, wait until you see mac OS's.

* Unless your usage is so light that all your computing can be done on ChromeOS or iOS, but even those are plenty annoying.
Looks interesting but it’s only open-core: loads of important features locked behind subscription pricing, plus you lose the ability to self-host: https://baserow.io/pricing
Ukrainians move up their traditional Christmas celebration in break with Russia
To be fair, FHS isn't an acronym introduced by the nix project. It's not that well known though, so I do agree that it would make sense it introduce it.

More generally, it seems that the nix documentation (including the reference docs) suffer from not having been developed systematically to introduce things in dependency order.
I am not kidding, despite all the youtube tutorials & online guides, this one hit the nail.

Follow everything in your pace, and ready everything thoroughly.

https://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html
+1 for scrcpy https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
From a quick glance at wired.com - the syndicated Ars article's source - the original article's postulates look even more delusional.
Advertising will remain in places where it can’t effectively be blocked. The web is increasingly not that. Print & display advertising, sure.
On the other hand, "Everyone should go kill that person" is pretty much universally seen as unacceptable. So you can't get out of the ambiguity by declaring all speech defensible.

The law lives with ambiguities all the time, and has various means of resolving them. They are imperfect, but absolute clarity is not something you can achieve from the law, and it is sometimes counterproductive to try.
A scroll wheel speed of one line at a time is not a good default.
I mean you can give chatgtp API docs and it will write the actual code to find the answers.
Trying Zustand for a mid-sized react project. So far pretty happy with it.
If adb is enabled on the phone you can try using WebADB - https://webadb.com to pull data from the phone. It includes a file browser that allows you to see and pull files from the phone as well as a web based version of scrcpy.
This should be fairly straightforward with overlays (https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Overlays) right? Just overlay libc package with the version you want to use.

The main disadvantage of doing this is that you lose the binary cache and will need to rebuild your system from scratch. This will eventually be solved (content-addressable packages), but that needs reproducibility guarantees that current compilers don’t provide.
Wow, this should get more attention here. Powerful tool.
>starting from behind

They have 20 years of brand history, what are you talking about?
Yes they do. You are simply lying.
Just use a global object and continuously run setState on the root component inside a requestAnimationFrame. Whenever you need to use or display something just reference or set the global object and you will be sure it's visually updated within the next rAF.
Why were doctors prescribing antibiotics for COVID?!
Have you tried hooking it up to a dock and plugging in a monitor cable and keyboard/mouse?
Great! So, let's invest 2500+ Euro in a new MBP so the battery on that one can more easily be replaced in two years from now. That's a win! /s
or, if you're really that much a dedicated emacs user, get a split keyboard with modifiers on the thumb. as you suggest, you can also double-map modifiers, so that C-M-x is just two thumbs and a finger. you can go really fast this way.
Fast forward 40 years is right. That demo was released forty years ago as of this year.
>* Twitter users will massively migrate to a new social network (and it won't be Mastodon)
Maybe I am being too optimistic but it kinda seems like that a big chunk of twitter refugees will move to Mastodon. Maybe not all of them but a lot, like how right now Mastodon is slowly entering the mainstream as sites publish articles about it and many users are already switching to Mastodon. And how the other Twitter alternatives are barely talked about but Mastodon is being brought up as an alternative all the time.
They are not a replacement, but unfortunately search engines are turning into AI chatbots too.

When I think of a search engine I want a "grep for the Internet", not an "AI".

Looking up part numbers for ICs and other electronic components is the most prominent application where search engines like Google have gotten far worse in recent years, and AI ain't going to work there either.
> I have news for you -- the public barely understands webbrowsers -- mostly not.

It's also fine if most of the public doesn't understand Mastodon.
it’s stored in icloud storage
And that's one of the real differences between Twitter and Mastodon. On Mastodon everything is built around interacting with peers. Sure there might be celebrities on but that's not the main thing. Twitter on the other hand is all about celebrity access.
I've been running Linux Mint for years on both laptops (Thinkpads) and desktop, it hasn't been any more trouble than MacOS or Windows. Things just work out of the box for the needs of a basic home-office user & programmer.

I think it's just important to pick the right distro. RHEL which I use at work is giving me way more trouble.
It’s not that google can’t do this. It’s that the incentives prevent it. Chatbots may be worse because there’s a plausible way to only give you one answer and to really make it feel real.
The only way to really fix that is to disallow code running outside of functions, IE, basically a whole new language.
I wonder if a solution to this problem could be channeling gasoline through a convoluted pattern of tubes adjacent to a heating element
Why not just stop using Twitter? Who cares whether the FBI has its thumb on the scales or if it’s Elon Musk and his friends?

“The world’s digital town square” is a marketing slogan, and nothing more. If you instead accept that is simply just another way to sell eyeballs to advertisers, it’s easier to understand.

If we do need a digital town square, someone needs to build one. If it needs to have free speech protections, then the government needs to run it because they are the only ones who are restrained by the 2nd amendment.
YouTube Music Downloader
Most Youtube to MP3 downloaders are riddled with ads and pop-ups, so I made an easy way to find and download audio from Youtube, using its API and the iTunes one too.

Code is here: https://github.com/herbievine/brian-ify
What do you do for modifying the data that is shared across the app? It seems like you’d either have one huge context that’s very hard to manipulate, or many deeply nested small ones?

We’re using redux (with a copious amount of selectors) and it’s the only reason I have a little bit of confidence where all our data is.
Late 90's, I was using a website framework in a no-sql object database, with an outliner for coding.

There was a three pass rendering system, and I was writing with CSS, but in the final filter I was string replacing font-face in in place of the classes because or poor support in browsers.
To speak to GP's point, a number of times already I've failed to find something immediately on Google, asked chatgpt, gotten an answer and then used Google to verify chatgpt's answer.

Google is great if you already know exactly what you're looking for, for a lot of topics chatgpt is already better than Google if you don't
Mods need to edit the headline of this to match the title of the page. Nothing stating or implying this headline appear in the article and it feels like an attempt to troll HN.
"Microservices should only perform a single task." -> I guess this advice is the reason there are so widely misunderstood, see: https://linkedrecords.com/challenging-the-single-responsibil...
> the nintendo switch for its FreeBSD variant

Nintendo Switch doesn't run FreeBSD, although it does use some code from FreeBSD. The Switch OS (Horizon) is a proprietary microkernel-based system that isn't POSIX-flavored at all. I don't think the full lineage/history is publicly documented, but CFW and homebrew toolchain developers have noted strong similarities to the 3DS OS.
If you take a step back, it is a great and profoundly absurd mystery that there is existence at all.

So given this background absurdity, how do you even delineate what's absurd and what's not, when it comes to concepts relating to the nature of existence itself? It's certainly fashionable to attempt putting everything in terms such as "cognitive distortions", but it's not clear it's sound reasoning when it comes to things like this.

And I say this as a rather staunch irreligious person.
I know people who based their view of the world based on the religion.
Eventually Chatbots will start inserting product placement ads as well. So comparing the ads on Google with the ad free ChatGPT experience is detracting from the real value of ChatGPT.

Google results are mostly ok. But I have to do the synthesis. ChatGPT does the synthesis for me saving me time and mental bandwidth. This is the part that I find valuable.
Brain on Burnout
Seems like something wonky with your Windows setup. Too much memory and threads? I've "only" got 20GB and 8 threads.
We use Airtable a lot with work projects; I also use it for some personal stuff - a web-available relational database is very convenient. But yup, it’s still slow as molasses.
Another way to look at ChatGPT is it being a smart RSS reader. It's the way it discards all the WordPress layout junk giving you just the meat in a text format.

The biggest advantage Google currently has is their massive indexing ability. ChatGPT is oblivious to something that just happened (ie was posted) an hour ago, a day ago, heck, a month ago.
According to this, first thing we should do is quitting hacker news.
Tech journalism has for a long time been in the tech industry circle jerk olympics. This is a trend going back decades, and I remember when FOSS first got traction and the reporting was somewhere between factually vacant and ideologically psychotic.

"Tech journalism" by and large exists to boost industry insiders or act as the journal of record for collective schadenfreude. Nothing has changed.
I use Linux (Fedora in my case) as my primary (actually sole non-mobile right now) OS, with software dev as my focus. Its the best for my purpose, though I've used both MacOS and Windows extensively so I have a reasonable awareness of the relative tradeoffs.

I do find the Linux community often insufferable though. Also often extremely helpful however. I guess communities also have their tradeoffs.
I think some of those 'kits' countries were distributing to people early-on (before the vaccine) contained stuff like doxycycline.
Ask HN:Hey HN what are your favourite RSS feeds?
I’ve started using RSS again recently and I’m looking for interesting feeds no matter the topic.
and by extension: the ability and expression of doubt / humility. knowing what you don't know is when you reach a certain maturity, which so far all these AIs seem to lack.
So Windows 10/11 is supposed to have a finished look at this point?

Just polish the damn thing and finish what you started with WSL1 instead of suddenly adding advertisement popups and sports news into a released product and creating new superficial design changes and notification features for the casual user in each and every version.

I as many others am required to use this for work, because you have already won so many platforms, the most recent being Teams. Why not just polish it, so we actually WANT to use it, so casual users would join us, too? Isn't that exactly what Apple did with the Mac?
"here are seven dark predictions:" ... "If all seven predictions prove correct, I hope that the field will finally realize that it is time to move on."

Does he even read this before he publishes it?

Intelligent criticism of these systems is critical to improving them. Francois Chollet's work is an excellent example. Merely complaining that GPT-X isn't an omnipotent, beneficent ideal AGI, is not intelligent criticism.
Why is this about Mastodon? Isn't ActivityPub or Fediverse the real secret sauce and Mastodon just one of the many interoperable implementations?

(These are genuine questions, I've not used Twitter, am not participating in Fediverse, and could be missing something)
> I need fog free windows

You don't need to warm the engine much to get that. It will clear up even with cold wind blowing on it.

https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3174/which-i...
But Android and iOS are complete nightmares in this regard.
For windows i recommend uncap https://github.com/susam/uncap
When you only have a few GPR names, this sort of thing starts to look tempting. IIRC it was about a 10% perf win, but we didn’t ship it. (We did ship one that used the frame pointer as an index, though.)
I have two ultrawides and two 4k (both 16:9 but one in portrait) along with the MacBook Pro screen - it’s nice. The key is not maximizing windows.
What kills it for me (so far, perhaps they can fix it in the future) is that there is no way to know if you've actually asked ChatGPT correctly and it has given you a perfect document with the answer you seek, or if your question was slightly off and it has given a wrong answer, or even if your question was correct but it still confidently gives the wrong answer. It famously asserted numbers like 42 were prime early on, though that seems to have been fixed (although that may have been just through hardcoding).
If you keep your number private it won’t matter. In fact you could spoof the number on purpose for an extra layer of security.
Especially since about ten minutes in you’ll be boiling and opening the window.
Ask HN: Search engines for finding open source projects
If I want the computer do to something, before starting to write myself the program that does that, I like to search on GitHub for projects that already do what I want. Github search is not always great but with the right keywords... Finding a ready-made project saves my time, and I can still build on that project for the benefit of everyone. But what good is improving on that if no one can find it, and another one 'reinvents the wheel again' just as I was about to?

Open source is great because it's great at combining the efforts of interested people. The thing is, searching GitHub misses a lot. A lot of great projects started or have moved to more Free source forges like sr.ht, gitlab, codeberg, self-hosted stuff... How do I search all of those at once? Surely some exceedingly cool HNer has a search engine that aggregates all of that?
All the phones look like that now, too
That’s possible but you’d expect to see some sign of it: internal emails or messages, legal advice, etc. when those threats were made or guidelines from the legal department about what things the regular trust and safety people can’t ignore.

What’s telling is that Musk’s people can’t find anything like that. If this was happening you’d think there’d be at least one example where someone is saying they have to yank something even though it’s not in violation of the rules. Instead, what we see is bending over backwards to keep people like Trump or Raichik from having the rules applied to them, with no mention of government pressure to yank them.
Recent paper showing how LMs "struggle with less
popular factual knowledge, and that scaling
fails to appreciably improve memorization of
factual knowledge in the tail". In other words, simply scaling LLMs will not result in replacing Google as a search engine. Approaches like theirs ie retrieval augmentation are needed.

https://akariasai.github.io/files/llm_memorization.pdf

This is essentially what I'm building for the content marketing vertical.
> You can just use the functional import syntax inside of a block.

You don't even need functional import syntax, but as TFA notes this comes at a cost as it has to invoke the entire import machinery, which it can only skip to an extent (once a module is loaded and cached) as import hooks can have odd behaviours.
Back in college I saw that all of my professors were suffering from varying degrees of RSI, and resolved not to succumb myself.

My final changes were, in order of effectiveness:

- Put Ctrl on Alt, next to the space bar. Use thumb to press. This saves a huge amount of pinky and wrist contorting.

- Put Alt on Win, next to the now Ctrl key. Also use thumb to press. With both of these my pinkies have way less to do.

- Put Backspace on CapsLock. Though this does use a pinky finger, it is much easier to type than the normal backspace location requiring a hand full stretch.

- Use the Dvorak layout. Much less finger travel since more is on the home row compared to Qwerty.

- In Vim, use Ctrl+C instead of Escape to leave insert mode. Though not exactly identical, Ctrl+C is almost the same as escape and especially with the above changes is much easier to type than hitting the actual escape key.

I have been typing for 15 years since and I have zero hand pain.