skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh. I hadn't thought of that. Is there some circumstance in which the hosts aren't responsible for cleaning for the next guest? I was talking about cleaning fees charged by the host, which would seem to imply them responsible in that sense.
Aha! I was wondering where the github stars were coming from. :)

I did get a kick out of this from the OP:
> Binary: Born from YouTube compression being absolutely brutal. RGB mode is very sensitive to compression as a change in even one point of one of the colors of one of the pixels dooms the file to corruption.

It's more than youtube compression -- video compression in general wreaks absolute havoc on our meticulously arranged (and sometimes colored) pixels. It's actually pretty fun/instructive to step through the transition between (what you want to be) two distinct frames when you're trying to (ab)use video for this sort of use case -- there are segments of the frames that get correlated and "flip" together first, resulting in in-between frames that are gibberish even with a modest amount of ECC in play.
> I don't think I spend more than an a couple of hours per month maintaining my configuration

I use Windows and the number of hours per month I spend on maintenance and configuration is close to zero.

Every so often I think about switching back to Linux but these comments remind me why I switched.
There's a cynical saying among traditional songwriters:

Change a word, get a third.

In other words, they give a song to some established star, who makes trivial changes and then claims partial songwriting credit.

Is that fair? I don't know. Publishing royalties are so massive that you have to expect people to try to get in on them. Robbie Robertson is notorious for claiming all the songwriting credits for The Band's songs. Was that fair? I don't know that, either.
It wouldn’t take much to completely change advertising without limiting free speech. I can only assume puffery for example isn’t a free speech issue and can be dumped.
He was also highly critical of the Soviets. I doubt he'd have a problem with agreeing on something with the other side of the aisle.

IngSoc was even a socialist party, he was perfectly aware of the authoritarian streak in his own ideology.

Hell, in Road to Wigan Pier he talked about how he understood why a lot of the people oppose socialism, even though he thought it'd be a no brainer to support it. He wasn't one of the poorly read, middling IQ graduates yelling about socialism we see out in force today.
To the end user, if it doesn't impair performance, does it matter?
In John Williams' case it's particularly funny, since he got his start as an orchestrator! The notable exceptions to this rule on broadway are Kurt Weil and Leonard Bernstein.
The tombstone of humanity when AI destroys us. “All it ever did is predict the next word…”
Windows uses 0x5C as the path separator, and the character rendering of that codepoint is locale-dependent (most famously in Japanese encodings it's ¥). Apparently in most Polish encodings it's still \, although there's one obscure one where it becomes Ś.
The whole point of using a computer instead of doing something yourself is to do something quickly and accurately. If I need someone to give me maybe-correct-maybe-not information, I'll just ask one of my coworkers.
I agree with you here. I find that certain kinds of "hosted" services have their own home grown techno-babble and they rely on the ignorance of their potential customers to lure someone in. They sound like they are hiding some insanity level complexity made easy for consumption... but really all one needs is to run a single linux instance + nginx + some files.

Scale up from there as required.
>> Is there something about Deep water that desaturates all light that passes through even less than a meter of it?

> Yes, deep water adds a bluish haze to photos, which is caused by the fact that only certain wavelengths penetrate that far down compared to others

Something's gone badly wrong here. By definition, the light has passed through less than a meter of water. How can you be talking about "only certain wavelengths penetrat[ing] that far"?
You can run Ubuntu in VM today (and have been able to do so since day 1 of Apple Silicon machines). It’s possible that vagrant doesn’t support this, and you need different VM software (UTM and parallels both work).

This is about getting Ubuntu and other linux distros to run bare metal on Apple Silicon without virtualisation or macOS being invovled.
The PC platform is also sadly moving in that direction, with only the "legacy" devices being the biggest hurdle to keep it from closing up entirely (hence the heavily vested interests in attempting to kill them off.) The fact that there's decades of binary compatibility and third-party knowledge is a threat to the control-freak models of companies like Apple, who would rather bury the past so they can reinvent it, and charge us more for the same things we once had, in a never-ending cycle of consumerism and misinformation.

Unfortunately, until people value freedom more than pure performance, efficiency, or "security", closed ecosystems may become dominant.
Show HN: I created a website that generates lofi beats
Yeah, I use an arch derivative so its a rolling distro and even with the problems that entails I update packages about once a week and have not had issues since a bug got me 2 years ago.

How often are things changing for these people that configs need to constantly reviewed?
That tumblr site is great. Twitter has been busy.
> and be done with it

That's how I feel when I write a bunch of HTML and CSS files and send this to prod.

Less so with an app written with a JS framework of which I now need to maintain the dependencies.
Some places hairstylists are more like contractors who actually pay to get a seat to cut peoples hair in. So tipping is a larger portion of their income.
> not to mention it’s ableist.

Thank you! Seeing someone recognize this is wonderful.

I have a disability that has resulted in me being screwed over by the idea that communication, “emotional intelligence”, and other “soft skills” are somehow more important than my ability to do the job. I often feel that I’m alone when I acknowledge that I’m bad at those things, and that I do not intend to change that by constantly fighting my biology (“masking”).
Crowd source the training costs - leaving some profit for the project owner. Open source the models.
Commute to where? You'd have no job.
>by being listed

Which is advertising

>that people recommend them

Which is advertising

>I've never gone to a salon because of an ad.

How have you found salons then? If they never did any advertising it would be impossible to find them.
As a CS professor myself, I don't think ChatGPT really creates entirely new problems for assessment, but rather makes problems that we had been sweeping under the carpet more obvious and harder to ignore.

Any assignment that can be cheated by using ChatGPT could already be cheated before by asking a friend, an expert or paying someone else to do it.

But most teachers assumed this doesn't happen often, and thus acted as if it wasn't a thing. Making life much simpler and easier.

Facing ChatGPT will probably help us make assessment fairer in the long run (and the path is probably going to be a lot of traditional on-site assessment, abandoning the continuous assessment fad that has always been rather disastrous for equity, even if again, life is easier ignoring this).
Peak oil has long been predicted but it never arrives.

What has happened is that as demand for oil rose, we found and exploited new sources - so many that we created a glut and shut down exploitation of some sources because the price of oil was too low for it to be economically viable.
It will go multi-cloud :P
You don't want to do that. MacOS support for any modern filesystem (i.e. not crappy exFAT) that is not its blessed proprietary format, is likely to be bad or non-existent - at which point you have to install some shaky extension from a third party... The chances for anything to go Very Wrong are high. It's even worse than with Windows.

The best way to share files with a proprietary system is to go through some sort of network, i.e. NAS, smb, etc.
And what of those whose art isn't appreciated until after their death? Should they have quit? Van Gogh comes to mind.
It remains to be seen how well RDNA3 actually works. Their biggest changes around making culling and intermediate ray calculations faster require software changes.

Honestly though, I feel like most people would rather get higher framerates.
Those are mostly AMD SoCs with relatively mainstream x86 cores and AMD discrete graphics cards with some changes on the same die.

The most exotic thing about them is usually the unified memory controller.
You seem to be emphasizing this, and I'd like to understand why.

Have you seen an engineer that "shut down" on some problem, and you believe it was due to the kind of situation for which you're now trying to test?
Have you noticed that when the economy isn't constantly growing, people start freaking out about it totally collapsing?
Stable Diffusion was behind DALLE, but has since surpassed it. Don't hear anyone talking about DALLE anymore.
> Tell that to Lithuania ( delisted as a country by China), Taiwan ( a "province"), Tibet ( invaded), Hong Kong ( taken over)

Any country is free to trade with whomever they want. Nothing happens to Lithuania for being 'delisted'.

Tibet has been historically part of China like Hong Kong. And the invasion of Tibet deposed an actual serfdom regime. How is Hong Kong, a CHINESE city being taken over by China after the LEASE that the English forced them out of that city, is an argument.

NONE of these are any arguments for trade deals. If you go about making such arguments, the other side that you apparently support would come up far worse. So avoid going there.

...

Voice of America is a CIA trumpet and showing it as an argument for anything is an insult to dozens of countries where it has been used as a tool for coups and regime change. Not surprisingly every country in the global south is thinking totally the opposite after so many coups that were organized and trumpeted in their country by the CIA via filth like Voice of America.

You people's defense of the indefensible makes the case of China far stronger. Linking VoA as a source to someone whose country suffered multiple US backed coups. That does the trick, yeah. You totally persuaded me.
Despite all the caveats and potential inaccuracies of the article, what a time to be alive!
It's because whatever you and I are doing, it's not simply statistical analysis. That is all that ChatGPT is doing.

It may be possible to create a machine that flirts with actual intelligence, but this is simply not it. There's not even room for doubt about this.
I believe the GPU driver isn’t included yet, but separately from that, the first Rust For Linux patches have indeed been merged into mainline linux. The support is being merged gradually over time though, so there’s still a lot that hasn’t been upstreamed yet.
Embedded systems is a very large area, so an overview might be a good way to get started. Shameless plug for a great book on this - Peter Marwedel's (my former boss at TU Dortmund) "Embedded System Design:
Embedded Systems Foundations of Cyber-Physical Systems, and the Internet of Things"

The book is available as Open Access PDF at
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-60910-8
Work from the Asahi Linux team has been upstreamed since 5.13. This article makes it sound like 6.2 is good to go when that's really not the case.

There is a list of upstreamed and missing functionality on the Asahi Linux wiki here: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support

Linux 6.2 adds (checks notes): cpufreq to M1s, devicetree for newer hardware, HDMI out to Mac Studio (2022) and bluetooth support.

That doesn't sound as interesting as this article suggests when stuff like USB, the touchpad, keyboard, speakers, 3.5mm audio, suspend/sleep are all still WIP downstream.

This isn't a dig at the Asahi Linux developers. They're making solid progress. This is just a bad article.
What if they paid in advance?
His ordering is all wrong. Lambda-like websites are significantly more difficult to program and manage than a monolithic linux server. Graduating from the lambda to the linux server? No thanks.
> would you make the case that they have learned how to paint?

Not painters, but they would absolutely be digital artists. I’m not sure why a painting class would use digital anything.
Any site should be able to survive DDOS.
just my 2cents, I have moved back to MacOS once M1 macs were released and have been using macbook air with m1 as my daily driver device ever since.

I wasn't really having any problems per se, window management on macos is a bit lacking and I'm not fond of the forced animations everywhere, but overall I was pretty happy with how everything functions.

Until few weeks ago I had free time and an adventurous mood to try out the Asahi (It's really painless to do so), and the moment I git clone'd my dotfiles and logged into my old i3 configuration I was very astounded by the sheer snappiness of everything, fingers remember all the shortcuts and all of the workspace switching is /instant/. That's something I have tried to replicate on MacOS multiple times and always failed, yabai and the like are not even close.

I still reboot into macos for when I'm mobile as I don't trust sleep on asahi (I don't think it even works that is), but when I use it at home I am very impressed by how stable and daily drive-able it is if current (admittedly, significant) compromises work for you.
Do you think that's what the article is really talking about though?

I know that HN is actually a big advertisement for a VC fund. But at some level, the GNU Coreutils documentation (as a random example) is a big ad for GNU coreutils (plus maybe some free software stuff). Those kind of "ads" that are more like "entailed promotion" are actually what a good searchable communication network looks like, and I dont believe are what the article is talking about. Discoverability is advertising, and good discoverability is good advertising. But that kind of advertising is not what we normally think of when we talk about "punch the monkey" style internet advertising, which is what the article is about.
This was actually on date/time I believe... we had the date in the path
We’re not heading back there. Those were all workstation grade architectures, never meant for consumers.

You’re not going to see Samsung, Asus, and Dell releasing their own properietsry arm derivatives, if that’s what you’re implying. Too many laptops, too much porting and unoptimized Software.

Apple’s always done this to maintain a prestigious image for non technical people.
I remember getting addicted to constant updates some years ago, when I was using Gentoo. Switching (back) to Slackware cured me. I do not now why since Slackware, too, gets regular updates. I now check for updates once a month or so.
The thing about semantic pedantry is that it doesn’t really serve any goal and it consumes oxygen that’s better spent on the substance of the issue.

Reasonable people aren’t confused by the use of “cows.” It’s just low-hanging fruit, ripe for fabricated outrage.
> How many people here see any ads?

Every third FB post is an advert (mostly irrelevant, somehow as often for suspect "mushrooms" as for power packs or hotels).

Every YouTube video on the app, un-skippable for at least 5 seconds and possibly 20. (I put the phone aside for a bit for those).

Most podcasts also have them, though at least I can skip past those.
> they informed customers about the useful qualities of a product and how that product solved a specific problem or need

Yeah it’s not too hard to see how this could be abused in hindsight. What if I just make it all up?
Publishers frequently make changes in subsequent printings unless the author explicitly require that they do not. The authors are generally OK with whatever the publisher thinks makes the most money. https://www.hp-lexicon.org/differences-changes-text/

The subsequent changes to the Harry Potter books, made both by the author and by the publisher, are not clearly marked.
> I doubt that. Heat and alcohol are two examples that are doing just fine.

Yes. It's difficult to acquire resistance to heat and alcohol. The problem is that heat and alcohol are indiscriminate in their ability to kill cells, including yours and mine.
I'm not so sure about that. I don't think it will be practical and easy to regulate. How to distinguish commercial speech from other opinionated free speech? Advertising from informing? I can't think of an easy legal fix here. Are you saying that we can/should ban a concept like 'puffery'?

And all of this is trying to hit a target that is falling away in the rear view mirror. We can ban billboards and TV ads, but it's going to be harder to ban internet bribes and lies.
btw, "ignore facts, you can't understand it" may be just a world view pushed by propaganda.

Some things are so huge, they become obvious if you just try to think & consider some numbers.
I agree. Some time back I just stopped clicking a link if it was to Medium. Maybe they've changed their practices but because of that past experience I wouldn't know and as a result don't read content that's on Medium.
Well, that was the point of computers until now. That doesn't mean computers can't be other things, too. ChatGPT is a lot cheaper and faster than your coworker, and it's available (almost) 24 hours a day. And the accuracy may improve!
How is it a strawman? Republicans constantly talk about their dislike for excess regulation and big government. You need quotes, seriously?

Since every politician and person wants good legislation and not bad legislation there's no difference between republicans and democrats. Given that why have Republicans made is a core part of their party. It's like saying "I want what's best for America".
Those are just a few examples. I can't imagine a scenario where you're still alive and having your questions answered isn't incredibly useful.

> it's better to leave than to play Robinson Crusoe.

Some of the questions you might be looking to answer could be around "how do I get out of here".
With regards to the title, the age of advertising as it is today is likely going to have to change. Some of the largest companies in the world have advertising as their main revenue, and this is a growing trend. Another growing trend is users’ rights over their data, as well as their awareness of the situation and their willingness to exercise those rights.

To me, it feels that there’s a natural limit, and a natural instability built in to the entire model: ad revenue depends on users, users don’t like ads. But there’s a third factor at play: their reputation. Ad revenue makes companies so much money that they try to branch out with ridiculous things that end up costing them users (Twitter, Google, Microsoft, Meta - all have shifted towards dumb ideas in the last couple of years and their reputations are all in the gutter because of it). As a result, their risky Skynet-wannabe (or in the case of Meta, Lawnmower-Man-wannabe) investments are hurting their core income stream, and they’re resorting to faux-austerity as a result. It’s embarrassing to watch.

However, I disagree with the article for a variety of reasons. The main one is “capitalism bad” has never been a viable mechanism for something to cease existing, and while companies make money from it, they’ll do it. Government isn’t incentivised to intervene too strongly because people buying things turns out to be good for the economy and good for the tax man, even if those things are the result of irrational decisions (and even if the aforementioned companies pay so little in tax anyway that it barely scratches the surface).
That definitely wasn’t the case for me. I was laid off with 30% of my company several months back and the support was absolutely enormous. Tons of people reaching out on LinkedIn, leads being passed around from coworkers both laid off and still employed. I went through the interview process and had offers from 4-5 companies within 2-3 weeks. Many of my colleagues had similar experiences.
I'm in a few Slacks where former employees have gathered. Not necessarily just in the most recent round of lay offs.

It is critical for me to keep in touch with like minded people not to mention to maintain friendships.

Slack is pretty easy and free as long as you don't care much about retention of old content.
> Huh, damaging process are not relevant for fitness purposes? Wow

Cancer or heart disease in your 50s does not impact your reproductive fitness, for instance. Way to attach a strawman.

> It seems self-evident. If a program computes the temperature of the sun, does it feel the heat?

The sun isn't computing a temperature, it's computing a nuclear fusion reaction. Also, "feeling" isn't a quality of individual particles to the best of our knowledge, but it is a quality of some aggregate of particles we call a human.

So if your question is whether a faithful simulation of a human would feel the heat from a faithful simulation of the sun, then yes, that's very plausible.
Will you be doing embedded Linux? Embedded RTOS? Bare metal? Microcontrollers? SoC (say, FPGA with a hard processor core)?

You can do a lot with QEMU. https://bootlin.com/ has a lot of great, free training material.

https://bootlin.com/doc/training/embedded-linux-qemu/embedde...

is one of my favorites.

Learning to cross-compile, do embedded debugging, the process of booting an embedded system (which varies depending on the answers to the above questions), learning how to read a technical reference for the processor you’re using as well as for peripherals you’re likely to interact with - SPI, i2c, UART, maybe PCIe, are all handy skills. Learn a bit about JTAG, hardware, reading schematics, etc. Even being able solder is helpful.

There may be books (I had a great embedded Linux book when I started) but there are lots of online materials too. Check out https://platformio.org/

There are fun embedded boards and projects for microcontrollers too - micropython on an rpi pico, tinygo, eLua, etc.
I broadly agree with you, but:

> If your algorithm can't be explained to a judge, someone who is highly educated at understanding logic and reason

This might be true of appointed judges. It certainly is not true of elected ones.
I see how my example can be perplexing. My bad.

To blame the destruction of the marine ecosystem on those cows is misleading.

The marine ecosystem is not the only victim in this situation. Those cows were placed there by humans, for human consumption, and are also victims. We chose to breed and eat them.

So my point is, that by formulating it in this way (Cows destroyed ...) instead of slightly more specific way (like Animal husbandry practices destroyed ...) the real problem is hidden, and that it could be a hinderance in undrestanding of the problem, delaying the necessary changes in our behaviour for more responsible handling of the matter in the future.

Sorry for my english.
People who use this are just robbing themselves of an education. It's the same as copying the answer from stack overflow or another student. Most problems are already online somewhere, chatgpt is just shortening the research time.

You can solve plenty of math problems by putting them in Wolfram alpha, but if you do that for every calculus assignment you won't learn calculus and you won't be able to apply it to solve problems. Same with programming; if you copy a fizzbuzz instead of learning how to write a fizzbuzz, you won't be able to do a more complicated problem or understand a loop when you need to.
Are there any trends that suggest power in the digital sphere will be returning to the masses? Mobile OSes have been pretty locked down pretty much from the start of the smartphone, and the two desktop OSes that most people use have different flavors of UX control; Windows in particular has taken a nosedive in user autonomy. And that's to say nothing of the websites and social media used.