skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here. I don't use Spotify for podcasts, even though I pay for premium, because I have Pocket Casts.

I listen to podcasts at 2.7x. Not the 2.5x or 3.0x speeds Spotify insists I have to choose among.

I have podcast-specific settings. Podcasts like Lex Fridman start at exactly 7 minutes in, so that I avoid predictable ad segments.

The player cuts out silence and skips pauses automatically. It's nice that it tells me how many hundreds of hours I saved last year just by skipping silence.

Pocket Casts doesn't put up one banner after another warning me to learn more about Covid, just in case people in the episode say something that the official narrative won't catch up to for 6~18 more months.

Also Pocket Casts doesn't put banners on its home page reminding me to tamp down my assumed racism and avoid beating up Asian people.

If Spotify made a podcast player better than Pocket Casts and stuck to letting me listen to podcasts without US-centric political banners, then I'd be using Spotify.

But I don't see how they ever can do that.
Have we really gone so far off the deep end as a society that following up an objectively true statement with "The reasons for this are complex. It is politically difficult to discuss." is seen as some sort of racist dog-whistle?

The reasons are complex, and none of them are about genetics or racial superiority or any other such nonsense. And your flippant dismissal shows just how difficult it is to actually discuss things like this.
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I wonder how systemic these kinds of shortcuts are in the wider market, not just automotive. How many problems that were solved in expensive ways decades ago are lurking beneath the surface, waiting to be discovered again because the problem - and solution! - are effectively invisible to most consumers?
Permaculture and agroforestry touch on this a lot. In permaculture designs usually photosynthesis per acre is maximized by planting guilds of crops that work well together – in this case, larger trees with shade-loving shrubs beneath them, and beneficial ground cover beneath them as well.

Towards the more conventional end of agroforestry, rows of trees are separated with rows of crops, grains, etc. There's lots of benefits to this way of farming, though it's still 'new' to a lot of people.
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That's genius! I'm going to use "I'm not aggressive, I'm assertive" in all my interactions with Microsoft from now on.
As I said, it can be ancillary to the current experience.
Azure, Bing, Office & Windows... while Microsoft has been executing, the quality of all of those products is pretty low and support is also hit-and-miss.

It's like they brought startup shipping mentality to products where users don't want fast updates and the priority is stability, quality, and performance.
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SpaceX and Tesla are some of the must successful firms in two of the most difficult industries on the plant. Musk is the longest running CEO in these industries.

There is lots of evidence that his micro-managing as you call, is actually really, really successful. And there is also a huge amount of evidence that Musk is actually not short-sighted, but in fact thinks far ahead of the competitors.

In 2014, the Gigafactory was considered crazy and a car company investing so much of its own capital in something that suppliers were supposed to do, was seen as idiotic. Now this model is literally copied by everybody. In the meantime, Tesla was a tiny car company in 2017, still seen as somewhat of a joke. But even then they were already starting to transition into a battery company and now Tesla makes it own batteries, based on its own chemistries in its own battery factory that is run with its in-house designed and manufacturing machines.

So while GM and its partner is still trying to get its first own Gigafactory online (and suffering serious delays), Tesla has moved past that and is literally building its own factories with its own chemistry.

We could go threw countless other examples. People love to pick out cases where things didn't work and ignore all the other cases where it did work.
In my experience ticketing systems come and go, but the commit history remains forever (yay dvcs), so it's a good idea to summarize the why in the commit message - even if it's already also somewhere else.
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Personally, when I want to make sure that no metadata gets copied, I just take a screenshot. Simple, and nothing tricky.
> [. . .] convert all your pages to images first and then create a PDF out of those images.

PDF’s are risky business. So much metadata can be hidden in a PDF depending on how it was generated. Stick to optimized JPEG’s (as I suggested in another comment [1]).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34794953
Whichever way you are voted, there's some diversity of people on this forum. For example, you and me are here and we don't like Joe Rogan.
If "what do you mean you aren't using $TODAYS_HOT_JS_FRAMEWORK" is the first question they ask, then you can end their employment right then and there. Hire people whose "wtf" you take seriously.
The "don’t go" is also very telling because it might not always be possible.

What if those principles are extended to, say, public transports? Public services? Shops? Stadium?
Doesn't seem to cover much of pylint's ground, though. Pylint is slow but I've found a lot of errors using it.
Updooted yesterday but didn't have time to respond, but yup, fair.

Again though I think the fact that soft-TPM has existed for a long time softens that blow. If you have Intel 8000 series or higher or Ryzen 2000 series or higher (iirc) then you have TPM 2.0. Do you need a standalone TPM for a specific reason? Or maybe calling it "soft" is even a misnomer, it's hardware, it's iTPM vs dTPM I guess.

And sure at an enterprise scale going forward why not, it's ten bucks at scale. But it just seems like a lot of todo about nothing... your legacy machines can be imaged up if you want, everything purchased in the last 5 years has hardware support already, and yeah you can toss a whole second module in going forward if you want. But I don't see a hard barrier here to keep enterprise from moving to Win11.

Especially given how much hardware was purchased during COVID WFH... all of that stuff already has support, it's really only stuff that is 2+ years pre-covid that is even an issue.
That's not an acceptable excuse.
Yeah, I've tried posting it on HN before but it never gained any traction. It is a fascinating read and the author is active on reddit[0] and he'll answer any questions you have about the book.

I just reposted it[1], Let's see if it gets some comments this time.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/user/danielravennest
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34795006
I mean, if nothing else when the device reaches EOL what would it hurt to release a bootloader unlock?
There are a few different ways I've read about far UV being deployed, one of the interesting ones is illuminating the upper few feet of a room. Exhaled breath tends to rise so apparently doing just the top of the room is more effective than you might expect. I hope this pans out to be effective, it would be a way to improve air quality without adding more noise to the space.

Edit: The article's claim is that because far UV is absorbed in the upper atmosphere there's not really any evolutionary pressure for organisms to develop protection. Larger organisms just happen to be protected by virtue of our size.
I wonder if this is going to end up like Waymo vs tesla. Remember when people were criticizing waymo for going too slowly (tesla expects to put level 9000 self driving in millions of cars by the end of <five years ago>!!)? But it turned out that doing it in a way that the market requires was slower than commentators expected, and waymo seems to still have a great shot at being the leader.

Or maybe it ends up like uber vs lyft. The cost of using LLMs is so high, maybe we see products with unsustainable economics in the quest for dominance, followed by something shittier.

Personally, I'm in the camp that google is in a great position specifically because of their TPUs. They already have the infra to do this at crazy scale including the hardware. I'm betting it's a marathon, not a sprint, before we see an economically sustainable LLM based interact-with-all-of-human-knowledge tool like we're expecting. ChatGPT has spoiled our expectations by being free.
> Indeed - the fact that black people are being killed and incarcerated for their skin colour in USA is well documented

This is a total misreading of the situation. I'm not here to argue that the US has a perfect human rights record, but its an active topic of debate and reform are happening. Moreover, the idea that people are being incarcerated solely for their skin color is not "well documented" and strains credulity as a claim. If the claim is sentencing disparity, then sure there is an issue there, but your claim is wholly false.

Xinjiang is a completely different situation. We know factually that millions of people have gone through reeducation camps, the CCP is trying to eradicate the Uyghur language and force Han culture on the Uyghurs. You can see these modern day concentration camps from satellite imagery. There are well documented cases of forced sterilization. There is no legal process for appeals if a Uyghur is arrested, and we know many of the arrests are for religious practice. The world saw what the CCP did in Tibet, and we're seeing an even more grotesque version in Xinjiang.
As I said, ancillary. Do it in a way that doesn't impede the current search experience AFA getting the results they need, but gives something extra that is notable, even if flawed.

They need to do this because they will implode from innovators dilemma otherwise.
>This doesn’t quite agree with my personal experience. I pay a lot of attention to people using computers in my daily life: clerks, receptionists, administrators, etc. And they’re pretty universally frustrated with how slow and unreliable their computers are. They’ll complain for hours if you give them the chance.

These are not the people buying these systems. It's someone much further up the chain. They often don't care if the software is a dog to use. Unless that means they need to employ more people.
Waves of the market are just a fact of the business world. A whole bunch of folks graduating in 2007-09 walked into a massive dumpster fire of an economy that makes the current scenario look like nothing.

Some folks are in a bad spot at a bad time, and it’s a good reminder too that others are in a good spot at a good time and their “success” may have been more luck than skill. Over the long term these things tend to sort themselves out but in the short term yeah sometimes stuff is not “fair.” The “up” market in tech went on for so long that many forgot what a down market is and many have never experienced one.
Glad to see F# vs. C#. I prefer F# and it doesn't get as much play as C#.

But, being more of a Lisper, I've already subscribed to Acceλerate for Microsoft 365[1]. It's basically a full scheme available in Excel with VSA (Visual Scheme for Applications - nice play on VBA to dupe the unaware ;) ). It has a full REPL and an editor and also creates UDFs. It is Excel's new Lambda on steroids.

I'll have to try Sharp Cells. I've played with J[2] and some Excel tie-in scripts, but it is not integrated as nicely as Sharp Cells or Acceλerate.

[1] https://apexdatasolutions.com/home

[2] https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Scripts/OLEExcel
With Oblivion in particular I think they threw a ton of money to get Patrick Stewart to voice a few lines. That could have done towards hiring many voice actors, but it may have been a reasonable marketing move overall - it's hard to tell given the shape of the market and that genre at the time.
While I generally agree, this is an assumption based on aliens being extraterrestrials which would require absurd technology to transverse vast distances, perhaps they are “aliens” from much closer. Also, perhaps they wanted us to shoot it down. We do seem to be stumbling into WW3 so maybe it’s just a sign of sorts that we need to look at the bigger picture. I’m just spitballing, but my point is we far too little info to be ruling anything out or attributing motives to hypothetical creatures.

It also didn’t seem like it was that easy as it took two missiles.

I have no answers, I have no real guesses, but I am not ruling anything out.
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that’s not the worst part. The worst part is not fixing it for over a decade despite being called out
Erase browser history: can AI reset the browser battle?
Your screenshot likely has metadata encoded in it too.
Having spent years and years with visual studio, I can guarantee it didn't function like that on the computers of the time with the typical software/driver load. He's running that on a VM that is vastly faster than what you could get at the time.
Or is it a paid story, with tiktok struggling to stay in the US, and this is a "tiktok good for all" story?
Do people really expect correct answers? No idea about Bing, but ChatGPT is a language model, not an encyclopaedia
No buddy, text-gray-600 is globally consistent.

So are your own custom defined colors like text-armatav-500.

Use the thing before you dismiss it.
If they're going to make solar panels on the moon, perhaps the creativity won't stop there: Maybe we don't need to ship batteries, either.

They can make batteries out of moon rocks [1], use fly wheels, melt lava, etc. None super efficiently, but as a start.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_battery
Building your own database is a great exercise. There's lots of topics to explore, like distributed computing, how indexes work, caching, parsing, etc and you can pick and choose what to implement.
Apparently, as the GP points out, the article author meant to write asterisk where he wrote plus.

uint16(50_000) * uint16(50_000) is uint32(2_500_000_000), which turns out to be int32(-1_794_967_296), the garbage result the author cites.
Right, it’s (very roughly speaking) an approximation to an algorithm which maximises the probability of the entire response by factorising the distribution as a sequence of conditional distributions.

If the approximation works, and the training data is coherent, it will produce coherent responses.

The surprising thing to me is that this does work so much of the time.
I'll concede that we're not going supersonic, but our speed is maybe more at 100mph than slower. Computers (including phones, accomplishing the same tasks that desktops were) are absolutely faster than they were.

We also have better UX, more functionality, and better quality.

If people want to run the software of the mid-90s on modern hardware, I'm sure they can figure out a way. The upside is that when it crashes or you have to switch back and forth with modern software with greater functionality, the underlying system will let you do that very quickly.
On the one hand the business case is easy to make as it makes me at least $500/month more productive than without CoPilot, on the other hand I don't see why someone would use CoPilot for Business over the individual version.
On the desktop app you can't even see what the newest episodes of the podcasts you are following are. Truly insane.
There is a lot of talk about that guy on reddit.

Supposedly he stole the code? Or the dataset? (Very early days of covid so it wasn't widely available) I can't remember exactly.

Then he responded and had a somewhat valid defense from what I read in a separate reddit thread.
Basically, https://xkcd.com/1289/
> The cost of using LLMs is so high

Thats true, but they could just use MLLs instead. Much cheaper.
Free ads? How is that supposed to work?
This can cause massive packet fragmentation. I'd be most interested in the performance degradation due to the L2 encapsulation. Are there any benchmarks available for this kind of project?
That's how I feel about the Fast and the Furious movies.
With residential power costs, is it economically viable to do this? What's your utilization look like?
Isn't "tech", specifically software, in perpetual meltdown? I'm gen X. My first job out of uni, the company collapsed 2 weeks before I'd finished my internship. The next one lasted 8 months before going into administration.
Over the last 3 years, large tech companies have 2x, 3x in size. And now people are spooked by a 15% layoff? Boggles the mind.
And now you're just repeating yourself. All those measures were put in place against North Korea and they failed. They got nukes anyway. If anything, all your proposed solution will do is guarantee that the first group to get hold of this technology is largely comprised of violent sociopaths, and we won't have any means of stopping them.
Is the issue with manufacturing bearings in a vacuum or operating them in a vacuum?

If it is the former it seems like the solution is as simple as building a pressurized manufacturing facility.
I agree with the author that we can make local changes, and I think we should.

However, I disagree with the author on global changes. I think we can do them. In fact, I think local changes can grow to global ones, or close to it.

Here's my personal plan: like many of you, I want to make money off of my FOSS projects. However, instead of going the donation route, I'm taking an entirely different tack. I am setting myself up as a professional. This includes accepting some liability for my software.

You can bet that if I'm accepting liability, I will be testing my software until it screams.

But the flip side of being professional means crafting software that is fast, and I'm going to do that too. Yes, I'll be expensive, but that software should be a massive lever as a result.

The bigger the lever, the more likely that that software will help my clients out-compete their competitors. Helping them do so is my goal because if they do, their competitors will have to start caring about performance.

And once people care about performance in one thing, it starts to disgust them to have to use slow software in other things. So it may be slow (over decades), but I'm hoping that my work will help performance go viral.
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The actual EPA pronouncement was that the air and water in NY city were safe (not to warrant an evacuation). They still recommended that first responders and people in the vicinity wear respirators.
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This implies that the typical SPA, once loaded, is just "there" and can be used rapidly as if it's some offline app. In reality, many of them make a huge amount of fresh network calls on each navigation.

Still, it's an interesting question from the user's perspective. Reminds me of the downside of lazily-loaded images on the web. Whilst designed to help people with data constraints, it can have surprising side effects. The anecdote that comes to mind was a rural town in India where inhabitants would visit a particular place for internet access. They'd open a few URLs and just let it download, could take some 20 mins. Next, they'd return to their home to actually look at the pages they downloaded.

This usage pattern doesn't work with lazily loaded images, it forces them to scroll and wait beginning to end on every single URL.
US prisons are not concentration camps. The majority of people in US prisons have committed usually dozens of crimes and the plurality of inmates have committed violent crimes[1]. No one is in a US prison for praying, teaching their children a language the state disapproves of, or similar non-crimes. There are no forced sterilizations in US prisons.

[1]https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2022.html
It's actually more mixed than you would think since it forms HCl in the atmosphere and falls down with rain.

For reference 1 inch of rain over 1 sq. mile is approximately 18 million gallons.

So even if we concentrated the full 250k gallons (remember that HCl is just one byproduct too, so we are being very generous with 250k gallons, most of the byproducts are carbon monoxide/dioxide), but 250k gallons into 1 sq mile of rain fall....138ppm

In reality this will fall over thousands of square miles too.
> "Allow". Trust me, these things are not at all designed to be worn over glasses. It is uncomfortable as fuck and getting everything aligned properly so you can actually see is a pain too.

I don't need to trust you, I've owned three headsets so far, an Oculus Rift DK2, a HTC Vive and a Valve Index. I have a fairly large head (to the extent that many glasses don't fit me) and yet have never had an issue with glasses in any of the headsets. I also have -6.5 in each eye so can't use the headsets without vision correction.

It's not as convenient as not wearing glasses for sure, I had to guide the glasses into place in the headset, but I've played hundreds of hours of games in each headset, including many multi-hour stints in Fallout 4 VR which requires a lot of movement and Elite: Dangerous, and wearing glasses just wasn't an issue.

> Buying prescription inserts is basically a requirement if you can't manage without your glasses.

My experience would suggest it's not a requirement at all.
I want to follow up with a couple more thoughts as Open Source developers, particularly important ones, earning a decent living is important:

The OP author deserves to earn a living for himself & his family. He has put in many hours of hard work & has proven to be selfless in doing so. The question is, if one dedicates one's life to Open Source development, how will one earn a living?

My contention about relying on donations is that donations are not very reliable. They require frequent PR to bring attention & the will of the donators. I'm confident that this post will bring in a rush of donations, but for how long? I hope Mr. Pushkarev can find a sustainable way to earn the living that he deserves. I just don't think relying primarily on donations is going to get him (or any Open Source developer) there. He has a platform & attention & I hope people in a better position than myself can rally around that to offer him sustainable opportunities. Who know where he will take it from here. I'm optimistic that some great opportunities will emerge from this.
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Previous customers got “Pocket Casts Plus, Lifetime membership” and a “thanks for your support”.

If they wouldn’t have I would have dropped it when they changed monetisation models.

You might want to log in to your account again since you have the premium for free.
I recently visited a national trade show for HVACR folks and found this company:

https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Tube-UV-Light/dp/B00D48XDO0/

Thought it might be applicable to computers, but realized that UV breaks-down PLASTICS as well, which is why you mostly find in ducting.

Very cool stuff if you're into clean/sterile living.

Note: Most of the dust in your home is comprised of human skin. Unless you've had an industrial vacuuming, other people's skin is moving around your house or gumming up the walls of your ducts. UV lights (and chemicals) are the only way to break that shit down.