skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$XDG_DATA_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user-specific data files should be stored. If $XDG_DATA_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.local/share should be used.

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user-specific configuration files should be stored. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.config should be used.

$XDG_STATE_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user-specific state files should be stored. If $XDG_STATE_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.local/state should be used.

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-...
Yes, I get that. I'm just wondering about other hypothetical plays that don't have such a legal requirement from the author, but where it simply wouldn't make sense to force women into the roles because they're obviously male roles.
I suspect the quoted poster would have been referring to images of sexual abuse. Not the prepubescent saying, "Yo' mum..."
> I expect more from a government body like the FCC

We need people who expect things to be better than they are. I'm not sure anyone who's been following the FCC for the last 10 years or so would really expect better. As pointed out elsewhere, Comcast won't get in any trouble for lying through their teeth.
Employee and employer are not on equal footing. This is better understood among the workers in other industries. The current situation with supply and demand of CS workers has led some to believe that this trend will never die. It may not stay like this and if/when that day comes, lord help us for we are not prepared.
Come to Bermuda. If you want to know more email me from the details in my bio.
Part of "the worst rated" (emphasis on rated) means the absence of unrated dishes. Ergo, it is the least popular of dishes popular enough to have been rated in the first place.
No, it's not sophisticated. They're using "sophisticated" inappropriately here for pure PR.

Just because phishing is common, doesn't make it sophisticated.
It's also possible that the library isn't installed
What do you mean by "fully async prompt"?
I am pretty sure that WoW, a game from 2004, doesn't require DirectX 12 ? (Heck, even with engine upgrades, they probably still support DirectX 9 ?)
> But the letter that Temple sent out is probably going to get Temple into some trouble for the reason identified by your parent comment.

It's certainly gotten them into reputational trouble. I don't think they'll get into legal trouble until there is an actual harm when either the fine is charged, or a registration is blocked. Courts don't generally rule on hypotheticals.
My complaint is it should store each email in its own file (like NNTP readers do). This makes it much more amenable to backups, search, and makes it a lot less susceptible to corruption.

Instead, Tbird stores one folder in one gigantic file. One threading error, and poof! It's gone. Happened to me several times. Yes, I filed bug reports. No, it was never fixed (at least the Tbird developers denied this was a problem).

Another minor thing I'd like to see is don't hide everything in multiple places.

There's still no way to backup my account settings.
This sounds like it would get consumer traction, and be fought tooth and nail by the ISPs. But their arguments would be illuminating.
> I'm super confused to come here and see people complain about its performance.

I can't complain about performance. My profile folder is ~90 GB. I have multiple email accounts connected and a large local folder which contains email from Google Takeout since I had to delete some (larger) emails from my Google mail to make space. That being said, it would be nice to not see application not responding messages on Fedora (Gnome) as much.
I don’t think it’s a dog whistle at all (nor does it need to be).

Drawing from a worldwide pool of capable technologists is pretty obviously the end state and, unless global demand picks up by a factor of over 10x, that will inevitably depress tech salaries in the currently most highly compensated markets (while raising salaries on the other end of the distribution).
Along the same line of argument - why do employers feel entitled to continuously cut the effective wages of employees? The real wage in America has been on a steady decline while worker productivity has been increasing.

Why do these employers get to play the victimhood card when denying employees fair benefits and wages?

One of the benefits the unions is asking for is an extension of parental leave (maternity leave but for both parents). Grad students are currently allotted five days - a week after giving birth they're expected to be enthusiastically back at worth.

I loathe this entitlement/victimhood argument because it's absolutely baseless - nobody is entitled to anything at all - no higher being came down and said "And thine workers shalt have two weeks of vacation gaining an additional week every five years" - things like those are benefits that are fought for and strikes are one of the ways we fight.
Its like the old lady who eat the spider
Google is the Dewey decimal system. Chat GPT is the librarian (less precise but more interactive). It’s not surprising that a significant number of people prefer the latter.
Yeah but if you ask the model what a cat is, it'll use other words that describe a cat because they're usually used in a sentence about cats. These words must relate to cats. So if I ask you what a cat is, you'll use words that relate to cats. Sure, you may visually see these words in your head. You may visually see a cat in your head, but your output to me is just a description of a cat. That's the same thing the network would do.
LOL. Yeah, I'm sure these people are enjoying their severance and unemployment benefits.
I wish I could move to somewhere that pays the big money but I'm stuck here in Australia.
Crazy with all the security implemented, all it takes is just a phishing email.
I thought this was interesting:

the 85th percentile method is not capturing the changes
in the car sizes. The size of the 10th percentile car
has exploded. The size of the 50th percentile car has
grown tremendously. The size of the 70th percentile car
has also grown. But the 85th percentile car is essentially
the Ford F-150, which is much taller and longer than it
used to be, but no wider.

...

In 1987, Scheeman says, the design vehicle used for
parking space standards was three inches narrower than
it is today. But, that same year, the best-selling car
in the U.S., the Ford Escort, was a whopping 13 inches
narrower than the best-selling car in 2022, the Ford F-150.

So basically the majority of American cars have gotten bigger over the past few decades, creeping up in width, height, and length. But there's a cap on car sizes because parking spaces are only so large.
enough internet for today everyone! This reminds me of top rapper lists, always wrong, always horrible, always obvious choices...
this is probably chatGPT already being put to work :(
Following the standard does not require you don't have a single folder, it can all be changed with 4 simple environment variables. If you want to have everything dumped horrendously in your home folder nothing is saying you can't, it just wouldn't be the default, because it's simply not an orderly way to organize the files.

The biggest problem is programs that don't even let you change where they store the stuff, so even if you're okay with the default not being XDG you dont even have the option to make it respect XDG base directory specification.
That hasn't been my experience at all. I used to use the Enigmail plug in which worked okay.

Since its deprecation and Thunderbird's integration of GPG, there were a few hiccups (mostly UI differences between Enigmail and native TB support), but none with key management.

I can generate, store and use keys without issue.
Yes, but that's not the point. The point is that this process will never replace the other, because of its dependence on it
wait what. I just read neuromancer and don't see how that applies? Were rio/wintermute ever involved in detecting an alien signal?
For a hot minute, this amazing, lazerdisk, Fifty Cents a Play game off my youth, was $2 and a 2 Gb download for your PHONE.

(okay, it's still $4.99, but if anything demonstrates Moore's Law better, feel free to share it.)
Haven't these engines been certified many many decades ago, so that cost should already have been paid?
it's probably just me, but I read this headline as Guns n' Roses Slash was endorsing his new web3 company.
I think AI will speed up my building of them.
This is one of the main reasons I use two particular things on Android:

1) Firefox on mobile, with addons. Battery consumption is reduced a lot with less javascript, less ads downloaded, less domains contacted etc. From my quick tests, Firefox was perhaps efficient as a default installation compared to Chrome, or on a wifi with a pihole/nextdns type setup. But out and about in the world

2) Downloaded videos, podcasts, music or books. If I store my stuff on the device by downloading at home on wifi, it uses way less power than streaming over mobile data. My battery lasts for really long time playing videos from storage compared to for example Youtube.

I often wonder how much the battery life of a phone is a function of battery size and phone cpu & screen technology, vs web technologies and website design/performance. I can sort-of control for the latter.
If true, that is reprehensible.
Even Hákarl? I'm a pretty adventurous eater and the worst you'll usually get out of me is, "Meh, not that great". But Hákarl made me want to throw up, literally. The hardest part of trying to eat it was that it was tripping my gag reflex before I even got it in my mouth. The smell of rotting fish is bad enough. But overlaid with a strong ammonia smell, it just pushes it over the top.
So it's easier to optimize for profit, so what?

How can your core mission be education but "you're optimizing for profit?" Either your core mission is education or it isn't.

I feel like this is the kind of goal setting miss I see businesses make all the time. They'll be doing be doing some version of the ubiquitous value setting activity, and as ideas are pitched someone will be like "wait, isn't our most basic value to just make money?" Sure, whatever, but what does that tell us? A distraction. If money is really so important, just remember the story of the new CEO of iirc a failing iron production business that repeatedly answered the board's questions on how he'll turn profit with "we're going to be the safest iron production business in America." The goal was achieved by fostering a culture of transparency, adopting new technology like emails for internal flat hierarchy communication, etc, and it did become the safest, but also highly profitable.

Persuit of profit alone justifies short term behavior constantly. The firing of 20% of your workforce could be seen as justifiable when your goal is persuit of profit.

Basically I think it's wrong to try to go cross eyed having "persuit of profit" always there while also trying to set some other "idealistic" goal. Just stay focused!
Substitute "bodies" and "airplane seats" and the tenor of the discussion changes.
Can you provide a source for a proposed execution in 1983?
Not sure I understand where you're coming from. I have a Santa Cruz and the bed isn't exactly huge, but it can still fit a bike and I still carry lumber in it. It isn't illegal to lay down the tailgate either. I've carried 8x12 timbers in it, and it has specific cut outs so you can fit 4x8 sheets of plywood (tailgate down).

It is very capable as a truck and also nice as a general road vehicle.
I really like the idea of ReactOS. So much so that I have tried to use it over at least a decade instead of having any of Microsoft's Windows installed.

Unfortunately, as the years have gone by, I have been very disappointed with ReactOS due (mainly, I feel) to hardware driver problems. Many times I have tried to install ReactOS, only to discover that my keyboard doesn't work.

I keep downloading ReactOS to try it out, but I have to continue using my Windows as a guest OS with VirtualBox to actually get anything to work usefully.
That is very cool. I kinda tossed out the comment that it can't be bolted on, but maybe I'm wrong? My guess would be it's like a gradual type system in python etc where older D code is the equivalent of unsafe?
Violence is never a good response as long as there are other avenues open.

I absolutely agree that Temple's actions here are loathsome, but even reciprocal violence should be avoided if possible.
Right now I have in my home folder 4 undesirable dot something which should be somewhere else and I can't change it. Meanwhile, I have 63 folders in my .config which means most of the applications I'm using do respect the XDG base directory specification, only a few entitled or extremely legacy ones don't.
Sufficiently advanced civilizations seem likely to integrate energy generation technology to the point of invisibility, optimizing for aesthetics and potentially going classical and opting for something that looks like ancient Rome or Egypt.

It seems unlikely that the pyramids were power plants and obelisks energy receivers [1], but maybe power plants of the future will look like the pyramids and energy receivers like obelisks.

The pyramids seem to have been built in the 26th century BCE rather than 100th, but an advanced ur-civilization may have developed the means and will that "they actually got out with whisk brooms, scoop shovels and little spoons and cleared out every single trace of their daily lives, their utensils, their pottery, their wood, their tools and so on" [2].

1. https://medium.com/understanding-reality/were-the-pyramids-p...

2. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/howold2.html
I'm not proposing any changes in legislation to make it easier to fire anyone.

What I am advocating for is for people here to see reality more clearly.
Lazy square roots of power series (2007)
On the plus side, all the small companies who have been struggling to get anyone will now have a wealth of talent to hire from.
The author is more than welcome to write the equivalent code themself, which is probably going to be more unreadable (if they derive the automaton themself) or much slower (if they are doing redundant tests or pre-processing that the automaton could have saved them from). Regular expressions are also more amenable to static analysis in both linting and optimisation than equivalent code, being more declarative in nature; a regex and an imperative matcher have a relationship like SQL and the query plan generated by a database.
Ha, thanks! I’m planning on adding fixed point decimals soon. That’s actually why I made the package in the first place.
Require? Genuinely require? It seems to me the high cost comes from attempting to create profit margin. If the profit is basically eliminated, the person can have the high wage, and we can have the nice things.
Last year’s Super Bowl ads aged like milk
I didn't notice a closing sarcasm tag, so I'm assuming you're serious about your "fun" being infringed upon. Too bad. You have no right to drive intoxicated on public streets. Nor to drive at speeds over the posted speed limit. If you want to race, take up track racing. If people didn't act like fools and idiots while driving, there'd be no need for this type of technology.
They're deadwood if they cost more than the value they produce. Nobody missed them. And the livewood didn't have to go redo all the stuff they messed up.
> doubt [that lack of physical presence] factors much into the decision overall.

Having done an in-office RIF and a remote-in-COVID RIF, I can confirm that the decisions are made in Spreadsheetville and the actual notifications are different but not different enough to detectably feedback into the plan.
Worse than this, they charge faculty grants this amount. Beside the percentage, they take from the grant itself. On average, we are talking about the university taking anything between 50-70% of any effective money for research. The other 30% pay for student's stipend, research expenses and equipments.
Ask HN: Why isn’t Google cutting executive pay and bonuses?
They clearly made a hash of the recent layoffs and release of their AI agent (what’s it called Bard?). Their reputation and stock both took massive hits. Shouldn’t the executives in charge take a hit?
My recommendation is don't let yourself be hired at Yahoo. I honestly cannot see the upside in it, especially if they're going to turn around and lay you off.

Would you take a job at AOL right now?
Lol those aren’t academics, they’re administrators. It’s a pretty simple difference.
This just a classical false dichotomy. Because we spend resources on one thing doesn't mean we can't spend resources on another, and it doesn't mean resources for one thing are being taken away from another. It's not a zero sum game.
This machine single-handedly destroyed my holiday allowance as a child.
>For my accounts I rely on Apple Mail and SpamSieve, which works well. The dealbreaker for me when I tried Thunderbird years ago is that it lacked any way to export the filters you'd set up, so you could copy them to your other computers. Has this been addressed?

No. You can't even copy them to other accounts on the same computer. I had to recreate dozens of rules last year for just that reason. If TB wasn't head and shoulders above other MUAs, I'd have dumped it.

Then again, I have emails in TB accounts going back to 1996, so perhaps I'm biased in that regard.
How do use the model after fine-tuning it now?
Until you have to test a binary operation. Or, god forbid you have to verify that fma works
I couldn't find either of Jim Cornette podcasts, tiger belly, flagrant, brilliant idiots, and Matt and Shane's secret podcast which I think is number 1 on Patreon.

I would assume they started with the podcasts they currently subscribe to, then asked their friends, then started going down one of the charts that rank by downloads.

I never heard of the ones you mentioned, and you may not have heard of the ones I mentioned. There are so many podcasts that there are always going to be missing ones. Not to mention, if the goal is to sell ads, then high Patreon earners would not really be your target.
yes, the LLM sees the result of the function and processes it according to what it has learned from its few-shots (which may involve calling more functions, or returning a formatted response).
That would be a terrible business decision, because the company would have no employees.
There's other search engines, some of them open source.

If Bing and Google got so bad that they couldn't perform actual searches for people, I'm sure some of the others would become more prominent.
> Who do you think is paying now?

It'll cost even more when the government takes it over. There's a reason why central economic planning results in poverty.

Instead, reduce the regulation and laws and interference by the government so that competitors can sprout.
I've had this in various places in China and I've never had it smell/taste as bad as how you describe it. The hostess was even advising me against getting it but it was meh.
Neat. I was just thinking that one thing you can do that current large language models don't do is use a calculator to check your work.

So, the first thing I'd want to try is hooking up some basic arithmetic to see if its math gets more reliable. And if not, why not?

Seems like someone would have tried this already?
I read this and I wonder why something like dialysis machines couldn't be adapted to filter the blood, recreating an artificial environment in which to attract infected CD4 cells.

I read a study from around the time of WW1 because blood banks didnt exists then, which is when MDMA aka Ecstasy was invented (for blood clotting purposes) one experiment drained all the blood from a dog, and replaced it with isotonic saline solution. 24hrs later about half the solution had been replaced with blood cells. There was no comment on what effect it had on other parts of the body, like the brain considering the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood.

They dont go into detail about which type of CD4+ T cells, there are different types of these cells. Sodium intake will increase Th17 cells which contributes to a class of diseases called autoimmune like arthritis.

Its a bit too vague for my liking, and as cells differentiate into different types of cells, the virus must be present somewhere else yet to be detected.

This virus sounds like bacteria going dormant in the body by forming biofilms until conditions are right in order to activate again, a risk with antibiotic use and no phage treatment.

In fact I wonder if phages have been used to target other virally infected cells, shall have to look that up. 1ml of seawater contains billions of phages.

Neutrophils are the only part of the innate immune system I know of which targets pathogens like bacterial biofilms, viruses & foreign objects.

Omega 3 EPA & DHA increase in the neutrophil membrane content to make it more effective at targeting pathogens, the higher content also increases the size of the neutrophil making it possible to target larger pathogens.

EPA (and possibly ETA a COX inhibitor) also down regulates the osteoclasts, helping to protect and seal the bones, which is where these bone marrow stem cell derived immune cells come from. Once your bones integrity starts to fail, other (adaptive) immune cells get in and start attacking the bone marrow causing the autoimmune diseases. I've seen studies using 8grams a day of Omega 3's ! Histidine/Carnosine would also compliment Omega-3 intake.

Now its always been my understanding there are parts of the body CD4 T helper cells cant go, like brain, eyes (eg causing blindness within seconds), testes and ovaries, so to see it mentioned that CD4+ cells are found in the spinal fluid, makes me wonder if there is some sort of blood brain barrier integrity breakdown occurred or is this a Nucleic Acid Amplification Test error, like the type seen with the Covid PCR testing?

The CSF is very slow to change as well, it takes weeks and months to get nutrients into CSF compared to other parts of the body.

Still interesting none the less.
That's definitely a lot/most of it, particularly with offal, but plenty of countries have gone from poor to rich and kept eating blood sausages and sweet breads and it doesn't explain like why lamb or goat is a specialty meat. Rabbit exists in a weird liminal not quite game not quite specialty.
If anyone would like to actually force the non-compliant applications to do the thing correctly, then xdg-ninja is your friend [0]. The script looks at all the dotfiles in the home folder and tells you what environment variables you have to set to make them follow XDG base directory specifications, in the cases where that's not possible it will show you the related GitHub issue or similar bug tracking option with the problem.

My current dotfiles [1] already have a lot of these and they mostly just work. Once in a while an application won't respect it completely, and so instead of having a mess with xdg + whatever the dev though was cooler I just let the application do it's thing so at least is somewhat predictable.

[0]: https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja

[1]: https://github.com/DoodlesEpic/Dotfiles/blob/main/.profile