skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. I've tried Linux on the desktop over and over and over again from about 1997 and there's just problems with it all over the place. I have used it on the server for the same period. The desktop environment for a start has been incredibly volatile, the kernel maturity is just not there and honestly most of the commercial apps out there which are Windows or macOS only aren't available on Linux. Also sometimes updates break things terribly. To this day many people dread closing their laptop lids or running apt-update on non debian distros.

Ergo I stuck with Windows and used Linux in VMs when required. Then I dived out back into macOS about 3 years ago. This was just expensive, volatile and obtuse. If you stay within the rails it just works though and I'll give them their due; the hardware, particularly ARM is top notch. But again some stuff I need to do just doesn't work well on it and it's very pay to play. I feel a little exhausted if I'm honest after riding the rollercoaster on that.

So now, here I am with an ass end desktop PC again running windows 11 pro and it really does just work fine. I got one annoying notification which was gpedit'ed out and it's been wonderful so far with no further eye pokings. I don't get ads thrown at me. It keeps out of the way. There was one hardware issue which was fixed by replacing an HDMI cable with a DisplayPort cable. It's absolutely boring which is how I like things. If something does go wrong, a thousand people will have had the same issue, so I can fix it with Google in 10 minutes.

Edit: I feel dirty giving Microsoft some credit here.

Edit 2: notable commercial apps I use: Photoshop (sorry gimp doesn't cut it), Lightroom (and no darktable doesn't cut it) and Excel (libreoffice nope). I also have a Lenovo T495s Ryzen here running Ubuntu that hangs after 2-3 minutes on the desktop consistently.
What do you mean by accessibility? Content aside, I'd say the number 1 problem is friction. The headsets are still too heavy, too buggy, too isolating, too ugly for mass adoption, even though all those things have improved a lot since the beginning. The potential is so high I can't see them entirely vanishing like 3d TVs-I maintain that AR glasses the size and shape of Ray-Bans would be a 100 billion dollar industry. But it might take another VR winter to get there.
I doubt that was very widely read. I think it would be a mistake to attribute much of the adoption to that statement.
I think anyone who uses win 10 cares. Win 11 is shitshow. Tried it on my gaming machine a few months ago because I was curious.

The best thing about it was the ability to revert to Win 10. It was time limited - you could only do this within 1 week after the "upgrade". I explicitly paid money to Microsoft for a Win 10 license to be treated like this.
The main problem is Mac's windows management. I'm having good success with the new stage manager feature along with "reduced motion" enabled, and some hotkeys to activate apps. This gives me near-instant transitions, which I really love about many Linux window managers. (Like Sway.)

This with M1 is the smoothest UX I've ever had, even compared to my powerful Windows computer. While Linux and SwayWM did feel a bit more snappy, the other part of the UX was lacking enough that I spent too much time tweaking and not enough time getting shit done.
This is not true, Slack has removed support for regular calls. When you attempt to use calls it tells you it has been replaced with huddles.
I haven’t seen that screen either on multiple computers running Win 10, all of them with a TPM. Likely reason is that I’m running the pro and enterprise versions respectively which puts me in a different customer bucket.
Companies no longer reward loyalty or working hard on the whole, so I'm surprised that you are surprised. Those at the top reap entirely outsized rewards, the company does stock buy-backs, and the workers get table scraps.

We're insulated somewhat from that in our industry, we're well compensated, but I don't blame others in other industries for responding to how companies focus their resources today.
https://archive.md/CSWXj
I upgraded to Windows 11 on purpose, I don't quite understand the complaints about it. You need TPM 2 and Secure Boot anyway for security (no, password-based encryption is not secure).
Does this mean the tech layoffs will stop now?
Can confirm that. I asked ChatGPT for information about a book my son was reading at school. While the answer sounded really good at first sight, the content was absolutely nonsense. Not a single statement from ChatGPT was correct. Therefore, I can confirm - it’s bullshit.
There’s always rust if you want the compiler to tell you you’re not allowed to do something you were intending to do.
World GDP by 2035 is $200 Trillion

People conservatively will live in a Metaverse an average of 4 hours or 25% of their waking day or $50 Trillion of it.

Even if you are conservative, Metaverse is a $30 Trillion opportunity.

Ignore at your own peril
> is it a good thing

A different thing, certainly. An interesting thing, probably. A good thing? Just because something is different and interesting doesn't mean it's good. Twitter exists as a site on the internet, which is probably the most charitable thing that deserves to be said about it.
What I've come to realize is that everyone likes to say they stopped using it, but the reality is that they actually do still use FB. They just aren't as active posting their own updates. But they are engaging in the platform, comments, etc. FBs got a long way to go before the golden goose is actually at risk.

Younger people not using FB though seems pretty real.
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do you own a smart phone?
$10 is much different than $20/month.

I'm intrigued by ChatGPT as a work assistance tool. I have found it useful a number of times. But there's no way it's adding a contours $20/month of value to my day when I compare it to other things on which I spend my money. I'd rather just not have it than spend that much.

$20 one time fee? Maybe. $20/mo? Not at all.

This is no different than streaming media services. There are streaming apps where I'd like to see their content, but not the rate they charge I don't find worth the value. So I don't subscribe.
A language that plays with types fast and loose is strictly more "powerful" in the sense that it accepts an attempts to execute more programs than a language with a stringent type system.

Natural language is the most powerful (kind of) language we have, because using it we can generate narrower and stricter languages (mathematics, for instance) and communicate their semantics to fellow humans.

But natural language can express a lot of things that are imprecise, like "huh?" or "well, you know...", or, say, profanities. So a somehow less powerful language, with some restrictions requiring politeness and clarity, is easier to understand. That's the point of the original article, broadly.

That's what I mean by "harnessing" the power. Restricting the language by simplifying it, switching to baby-speak, is what I'd like to avoid: while less powerful and not allowing for many potentially dangerous constructs, it remains imprecise, but loses the ability to express complex things concisely.
I have checked with email accounts from gmail, office365 as well as a standalone server, and the address should work now. Really sorry for the issue!
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They seem to be reeling it in, I've seen it say more often that it doesn't know or that it isn't reliable for a particular query. Tbh I wish It would just have a go anyway.
Related:

Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (2003) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11289488 - March 2016 (9 comments)

Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (free ebook edition) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=852562 - Sept 2009 (21 comments)
Windows 10 is still receiving updates. this seems like shitty way to shove windows 11 on them.
Sure, maybe. I wouldn't bother though, because it's basically a single line in Plotly to do this. (Though I freely admit there are quite a few parameters for that one line.) See: https://plotly.com/python/mapbox-county-choropleth/#using-ge...
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It was the Tories who launched Tech Nation and awarded them the funding in the first place.
There are lots of lakes.

Take away the other supposed (or even real--hydropower) benefits of the dam and it's pretty hard to justify the Glen Canyon Dam on recreational benefits. (And the same reasoning applies to building roads into lots of places.)

IF there are other compelling benefits, I'm open to there being recreational benefits to dams--whether puttering around on lakes or whitewater paddling benefits to controlled releases. But I'm much less open to the idea that we should build ecologically disruptive dams, especially in unique areas, for that purpose.
Indeed. People in developing countries might learn what the public school system should have taught them, with a free private tutor that is ChatGPT or similar.
Yeah, agreed, that's a predictable use case. But my silly idea would trigger annoyance with the hope of causing positive change. :-)
That's backwards. You mix, and then master to your format. When you master to vinyl, you inherently lose data because the needle will pop off the track if it's too loud or there's too much bass. You literally don't have to do anything like that when you master for digital. You just make it sound good and you're done.
I'm a so called "scientific" programmer, not a software developer. My work is upstream from turning anything I make into a product by the real devs, who have their own languages.

Maybe I'm in a minority, but I use dynamic typing. I can haul data around in flexible formats such as JSON, asdf, pickle, and so forth, and manipulate them as dict structures. Python builds the structure automatically.

One of my first languages was Pascal, and so I understand the principle of letting your data structures and type checking do your work, and I still live that way when programming in C for embedded stuff. There may be better ways of doing what I'm doing, but there are also worse ways. From my own experience with getting software changed to suit my own development work, data structures and file formats are right up there in terms of why software is so inflexible.
Last time I tried make.com, they couldn’t run scenarios in parallel: every subsequent run had to wait for the prior one to finish.

Was a dealbreaker for me.
Yikes, the max temp is 140F. That’s dangerous and has been a code violation for a long time, for good reason:

https://www.pmengineer.com/articles/94780-upc-continues-to-e...
> $999 Monitor stand.

I'm not an Apple fanboy, even if I'm probably starting to sound like one. I thought the stand price was only scandalous because so many of us were unfamiliar with what competing hardware in that market niche normally costs? Wasn't it competitive compared to what the competition was selling? It's been a while, but I vaguely remember that being the outcome of that.

I have less opinion on their repair prices in general, though I have to say that what they charge for display replacement is not much more than the cheapest third party. It might be argued that this means the hardware is overpriced, but I don't have a basis for that claim so I won't make it.

I do wish they had ditched the unreliable keyboards faster. I actually like the touchbar when I'm using the laptop as a laptop, but I'd prefer it was in addition to the function keys rather than replacing them. Although on my M1 the ESC key and power button are real, so I'm 95% good with it as is. I wish they'd have found a way to keep it, but maybe the PR damage had already been done. For certain use cases it sure is handy.
You don’t think this is an autopilot course?
"This new Windows version is going to give the users what they want. We'll make them an offer they can't refuse".
Here's a cool video of landing the shuttle in real time. The whole landing proceeds unnervingly fast!

The actual landing HUD and audio starts at 13:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb4prVsXkZU
> This is not really true in the US.

Maybe not in the most technical sense, but what funds most of the research projects? Government (with NIH being the largest funder of biomedical research in the world), private companies, and non-profits[0]. US government dumps absolutely enormous amounts of money on research funding.

The difference in numbers can be pretty stark. I don't have data on hand for the exact breakdown for all research funding in general, but I have numbers for health research specifically (and I expect the trend overall to stay the same regarding research funding overall). Top 3 funders in the world are NIH ($26.1bn), European Commission ($3.7bn), and UK Medical Research Council ($1.3bn). For comparison, the largest non-profit contribution comes from Welcome Trust and is sitting only at $909.1mil, with WHO coming in third at $135mil.

Here is a published paper[1] from 2016 containing all these numbers.

0. https://undsci.berkeley.edu/who-pays-for-science/

1. https://health-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
I'm not sure exactly what was intended by the poster but I suspect it is related to the employment taxes associated with an employee vs a 1099 contractor or external vendor.

In addition to the different tax treatment labor law regulations are significantly different between those two types of staff with the contractor/external vendor being much less restrictive than for employees.

I haven't seen many details in most news stories about layoffs in the tech industry regarding contractors, but I suspect that the number of contractors terminated is significant also as those positions tend to be trimmed before employees.
This is a PR article for some SSRI company.

It's quite clear that SSRIs don't work... but pharma doesn't want to lose the cash cow, hence articles like this.

If treatment or cure is the goal, SSRIs don't work.

If the goal is to chemically inflate the ego of traumatized people to make them temporarily feel good about themselves while causing much worse long-term harm in exchange for profit to the drug companies, then SSRIs work great.
What do you think will be a more effective push towards regulation: demonstrating & publicizing the pernicious privacy impacts like this, or passively sitting around and waiting for it to just happen?
Also, a better monitor can improve my job performance which can lead to better reviews! Working effectively is important to your own bottom line.
> (this is why startups like Glean exist: https://www.glean.com/)

https://www.glean.com/pricing is the worst ‘pricing’ page I’ve ever seen XD
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I meant to type "acts like".
No, I don’t think so. I have seen plenty of smart people who have no interest in a subject and find it utterly boring still able to rip through an assignment in 20 minutes that would take many hours for another student who is passionate about the subject. Some people are just crazy smart and they can rapidly understand complex mathematics. Other people essentially have no hope at all of understanding these things.
> "Oh, power consumption? Totally on our radar... what if we switch to Proof of Work?

I think you meant "Proof of Stake".

But yes, when Bitcoin hit the transaction limit years ago it's hard to understate just how much on the radar it was. Differences in opinion on how to solve it was the root cause of the Bitcoin Cash fork.

There are two solutions floating about now - proof of stake and Lightning. Being completely distributed Lightning is near infinitely scalable, to the extent that it may well end up being the cheapest global currency we have.

Thus crypto has made big leaps forwards on it's scaling issues. If your analogy is correct then AI will do the same. But if it follows the same pattern, it will take decades.
They’d be significantly better than top undergrads immediately after graduating.

Top undergrads after a few years guided by competent people and managing to keep motivated will be way better than the average PhD graduate.
what was a shit show? I only have one windows machine with 10 on it and it's not compatible with windows 11, but I'll probably have to replace it as it's about 8 years old (but with relatively new drive and maxed out memory)
I don't think "working for a paycheck" necessarily implies one is not trying his/her best. Also the sense of success may not even depend on "success at work". Being successful and trying their best is far more nuanced than usually made out to be.
Some years ago, there was a hacker who was elected to their local parliament, in a small country. Previously, they had stated that, because of the program-proof equivalency, it would be trivial to analyze what government does and port it to computers. They don't talk like that any more.

I completely agree with you that hackerland is depressingly myopic. And the new power elite of Silicon Valley are dangerously contemptuous of human institutions.

But aside from that, I think it's just people who get used to one paradigm getting confused by another.

To the automation-centric thinker, human institutions seem to be ill-specified and allow for many absurdities. What they're not getting is that human institutions are simple frameworks to enable agents with judgment. Automation is about complicated frameworks to constrain agents that have no judgment.

People who know human systems (the vast majority of the world) are similarly confused by automation, because their assumptions are flipped.
I was at an airport that had these iPad's a while back. Sat down and an Ad started playing on the iPad. When I asked a nearby server how I could order, she told me "the menu will come up after the ad". Like seriously, you're going to milk your customers for everything, making them watch an ad for the privilege of ordering.
I think part one here is insightful, part two not so much :-).

Whether or not AI has a model can affect its function, the self driving development teams have found just how much "intuition" people bring to the driving task (estimating what other cars might do, weighting behaviors like "edging over" to understand intent).

The recent article about Marines defeating a sentry gun by holding boxes over their heads is another good example of the AI not having a model of the threat, just what "people" look like that are approaching.

I was intrigued by the frustration an engineer shared with me about how simulators where all the drivers are AI's work so much better than ones where humans are driving too. It points to problem sets where a model of human behavior is essential to successfully achieving the objective.

Law is not a particularly good example because it is practically program code these days. The human intent model is simpler[1] because it is based on one variable, "doing anything the law/contract is trying to prevent."

[1] Important distinction here is that it isn't "simple" as in easy to do, it is merely "less difficult" than things like driver behavior or enemy soldier behavior.
That's reporting better figures with general compression than I'd expect from experience. Anyway, I'd expect to reach for zfp.io for arrays of floating point data.
It's certainly an old observation that the compression method you want to use is data-dependent, even for similar kinds of data. Long ago it was found that there was a dramatic difference in x-ray crystallography image data depending on whether they were taken with a lab source (low resolution) or at a synchrotron (high resolution -- sharper peaks).
should easy replace all politicians

Maybe some of them. ChatGPT has already been show to have a political bias. [1][2] There are already a myriad of articles showing many forms of bias, only linking a couple of them.

[1] - https://unherd.com/thepost/chatgpts-score-system-shows-polit...

[2] - https://reason.com/2022/12/13/where-does-chatgpt-fall-on-the...
Not sure why DLL injection is required or possible (beyond any native browser shenanigans).

Screen capture API has been a thing for a while now:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Capt...

It has a UX almost identical to discord with regard to screen/application capture experience.
It's not that hard to prove. Aside from having rocks from the moon, astronauts left evidence behind in the form of equipment, footprints and laser reflectors that can (and have) been verified by multiple independent sources.
No one seems to be talking about thr $40B stock buyback authorization just announced. I'm neither a fan nor a detractor of META, but think with eps growth so negative and such high losses, perhaps stock price increases are partially due to the promise of buybacks from an elastic market.

It's an absolutely great idea if they can get to real eps growth over the next 3 or 6 months. I would flip bearish if they can't get to positive eps growth in 6 months.

I don't have any META in my portfolio, just making an observation.