skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I gave Vanilla OS an honest try last month, and my experience was nothing short of frustration. Both due to my inability to devote time to search through docs or issues and Vanilla OS' strange choices.

Pros:

- Probably the only Ubuntu based distro with vanilla Gnome.

- Distrobox OOB, can use any package manager.

Cons:

- No Nvidia drivers, my laptop failed to even boot the installer.

- Installing additional drivers is nothing but pain.

- Too vanilla for my taste, requires a lot of configuration to get to usable state (that other distros provide out of the box).

- Sandboxed apps provide more trouble than not.

- apx is slow, I'd rather stick to apt.

I then tried Manjaro Gnome which was a much, much better experience, everything just worked. Manjaro gets a lot of bad rep (I've been on the hate train too) but at least their defaults are sensible.

I tried VanillaOS only because of the Ubuntu base, because Ubuntu guarantees a stable system at the very least. I don't think I'd be able to recommend it to anyone though, the distro is very well-made, but I just can't find a justification for it.
> I honestly can't tell if you're trolling or you said 'AWS' and 'Microsoft 360' and meant cloud and managed email.

I meant both clouds and managed email / storages services.

> safari

Don't both Firefox and Safari have telemetry and various ping back services?

> There are dozens if not hundreds of email providers, and you can even provide your own.

> You can 'centralize data storage' on disks on hardware you own, on premises or colocated. You could even use one of the dozens to hundreds of managed service and cloud providers.

Sure you can, I'm just saying that it is rarely if ever done in medium to large companies.
The semantics are much nicer after than before.
Seasonal operation is not desirable and has lots and lots of side effects.

As an example, a smelter that operates half the year takes twice as much capital to produce the same throughput as one that operates year round.

That’s before we get into all of the reasons that seasonal labor is undesirable, or how much additional warehouse capacity would be required to stockpile the metal which will needed over the unoperational months, or the raw material being stockpiled while it’s unable to be processed, or the impact on just in time supply chains, etc.
i think this applies to every audio player software that has ever been developed
Recently, on March 1, 2023, OpenAI announced the release of the ChatGPT-3.5 Turbo API, which is a new API that allows us to have perfect access to ChatGPT very easily. In this story, I'd like to share with you the best way to get access to ChatGPT-3.5 Turbo using an Android or iOS App.
Somethings not mentioned in the article, but are pretty relevant.

Modern SSD controllers encrypt all data by default. Not to increase security, to improve wear levelling. Encrypted data should be effectively random data (that’s what good encryption aims to produce). So encrypting the data ensures that patterns in data written to the SSD don’t end up creating uneven wear patterns in the flash chips.

As a consequence, reading the raw data of an SDD would just produce garbage. You would need to also extract the encryption key from the SSD controller. Given this encryption isn’t meant to be secure, it’s quite possible to extracting that key is quite easy. But I believe that secure erase on SSDs is achieved by simply rotating the encryption key used for wear levelling, so maybe it’s reasonable well protected.

I would expect an SSD to quite aggressively erase TRIMed blocks where possible. Erasing a block of flash memory is about 10x slower (2ms) than writing to flash memory (200microseconds), so there’s quite a large performance hit once a drive runs out of empty blocks and needs to start erasing blocks in the write path.

Overall I suspect that simply TRIMing most SSD is secure enough for most applications. At least secure enough for anyone that even asks the question “is TRIMing secure enough”. For everyone else, you either don’t care at all, or your really care, in which case you’re using multiple layers of security such as full disk encryption, secure SSD erase, and shredding drives already.
I use iSpy. Its free and open source and you can connect as many IP cameras to it you want. Need cloud backup? Save the videos to google drive. Need text notifications? Theres apis for that.
I think the issue is that the people building wood apartments aren’t the same people who care enough to ensure there are no small holes in the wall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Peddle

The mind behind the 6502 was interviewed at CHM.
Relevant podcast: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-97-porch-pirate-p...
Sure, they work for chlorine, but there are plenty of other issues (arsenic, PFCs, other VOCs, glyphosates, TTHMs, lead for non 'Elite' Brita filters) that Brita filters are woefully inadequate to address.
You want a device driver written in Java?
I think virtualizing consciousnesses is most thoroughly investigated in Surface Detail.
All good except of the last sentence.

All the sluggish steps led them to the usage of the web app they need to use, and they need it to be fast. At least, faster than rest of the crap so far. Heck, they may spend rest of the day with this app..
> The most common example for the Americans reading this is NAFTA, which makes workers in Detroit compete with workers in Mexico (suppressing wages in both location)

I don’t understand how Supply side wage competition would be alleviated by allowing workers to move freely between countries. It seems like it could potentially make it worse for higher wage regions of the world?
Really really cool! Will have to give this a try with my monochrome camera.

I wish there was a bit more detail on possible lenses, its hard to find optics that work well past 1000nm.

It’s pretty interesting how much the fall off is between 920 to 1070nm - on my camera, 920nm can be exposed perfectly in daylight at around 1/10th of a second, 1070nm needs 4 minutes worth of time to match the same exposure!
Its one thing to not like a style yourself, its quite another to say nobody else should be allowed to have it either.
They’d do anything to lower supply to increase demand for their homes
I think the weight comes from expanding teams and developer turnover. Small teams can avoid both these issues.
Besides lemon juice or apple cider vinegar, any other recommendations??
Fruit juice is generally not healthy because it excludes most or all of the edible fruit pulp, which includes all of the fruit's fiber and much of the fruit's antioxidant content. Whole fruits, on the other hand, have been shown time and time again to be a healthy food choice for most people.

> Our findings suggest that there is significant heterogeneity in the associations between individual fruits and risk of type 2 diabetes. Greater consumption of specific whole fruits, particularly blueberries, grapes, and apples, was significantly associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, whereas greater fruit juice consumption was associated with a higher risk. The differences in the associations between individual fruits were not accounted for by variation in the glycemic index/glycemic load values of individual fruits. Overall, these results support recommendations on increasing consumption of a variety of whole fruits, especially blueberries, grapes, and apples, as a measure for diabetes prevention.

https://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f5001

People who look at only the macronutrient ratios (fat, carbohydrates, and protein) while disregarding everything else tend to underestimate the health benefits of fruits. Nutrition is more than just macronutrients.
Would this be covered by proposed right-to-repair laws? Imagine if auto manufacturers said you can only use their parts and if you didn't your car would refuse to run?
How does your model illustrate specific feature combination for deep learning models - let's say instance segmentation
Likely because the Linux server market is massively larger than the Linux desktop market where power management is a critical issue
Sure, but for people who are getting perfectly safe water from their municipal water supply, and just want to get rid of the chlorine taste -- that's where pitcher filters work perfectly. You don't need anything else.
> With respect to the question of having consciousness and free will -- don't we all just reduce down to atoms obeying the laws of physics? Are our actions not therefore deterministic?

The majority of living humans profess a religious faith and probably would not agree with that statement. That doesn't make it wrong obviously, but I don't think you should treat it as a settled question.
A big problem in the US is we don’t allow tiny elevators, except in pre-WWII buildings that already have them. In Spain I’ve seen new 4 story flats with 1-2 units per floor with a small 2-person sized elevator. In the US that elevator would need to be much larger, as it needs to fit a stretcher (despite the fact that if the elevator wasn’t there, the stretcher would be taking the stairs anyways). But because a single elevator in the US takes up so much space they cause floor plans to get really weird and it makes it difficult to justify the expense.
> For me, a search engine's job is to find relevant web pages quickly.

I disagree even with this. Please, no "relevant" pages bullshit. Give me just pages that contain the search terms verbatim.
> The lawsuit alleges that the owners of Freenom “are part of a web of companies created to facilitate cybersquatting, all for the benefit of Freenom.””

I'm looking forward to seeing them present evidence to back this alegation.
> The lawsuit alleges that the owners of Freenom “are part of a web of companies created to facilitate cybersquatting, all for the benefit of Freenom.”

Don't the grand majority of registrar work this way? They usually don't care about unethical activities as long as it brings in profits. Cybersquatting is not illegal in most countries, and registrar themselves often do it themselves.
I would like to live in one instead of my current situation but the noise is what is concerning. Newer units should be more quiet than past buildings. I don't know what modern building techniques they use, if any, for sound isolation. Are there airgaps? I'm guessing no concrete slabs between floors? To me it seems like it's the difference between a high rise hotel/apt where it's like a tomb in the room and a smaller building that uses less expensive/more robust material and you can hear much more from the outside and your neighbors.
With the notable exception of Christian Dorner.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dorner_shootings...
This use case led me to Sumatra as well. Haven't used another pdf reader on Windows since.
I also get

zsh: exec format error: ./djngo.com

on my m1, but it works if I use bash.

Do the Cosmopolitan/Blink/αpε hacks only work w/ bash on arm macos?

edit: looks like it's a known issue https://github.com/jpe90/hello-cosmo#note-running-with-zsh
This looks great too! It's using the actual ChatGPT UI it seems, so does have a real chat with context, right?

When OpenAI published there API access to gpt-3.5-turbo last week, I updated a similar side project I have to use the API. It's here, if you'd like to take a look: https://github.com/wunderwuzzi23/yolo-ai-cmdbot

Its doing individual statements with some system context (like what OS and Shell) in the initial prompt, but not submitting chat history.
This is a pile of vaguely relevant facts...

I think in my HN comments I'd prefer a couple of facts and a conclusion, with citations for more detail.
Thanks for correcting me on the retention period.

What realistic use case am I missing that would require 60 days let alone, 180?
Yes. CEQA lawsuits are generally inconclusive initially and the first step of the lawsuit is that the builder has to conduct more expensive environmental studies. The studies may result in easy to implement solutions or small environmental impact but there is no liability on the potentially anonymous lawsuit bringer so even if the builder eventually wins they are out the entire costs of the court fight the entire costs of doing the additional assessments and the entire costs of delaying the project.
Eh. I used Debian Sid for a year, and regular updates broke it two times in that period. For regular users, that would be worse than the Windows 11 "telemetry".
Wow, this is fascinating.

> Plankalkül (German pronunciation: [ˈplaːnkalkyːl]) is a programming language designed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse between 1942 and 1945. It was the first high-level programming language to be designed for a computer.

Apparently it influenced ALGOL 58 as well. Implementations were made:

> Plankalkül was more comprehensively published [vague] in 1972. The first compiler was implemented by Joachim Hohmann in his 1975 dissertation. Other independent implementations followed in 1998 and 2000 at the Free University of Berlin.

Here is something about primitive data types:

> The only primitive data type in the Plankalkül is a single bit or boolean (German: Ja-Nein-Werte – yes-no value in Zuses terminology). It is denoted by the identifier S 0 {\displaystyle S0} {\displaystyle S0}. All the further data types are composite, and build up from primitive by means of "arrays" and "records".

Cool.

Also this reminded me - nothing happens in a vacuum:

> In 1945, Zuse described Plankalkül in an unpublished book. The collapse of Nazi Germany, however, prevented him from submitting his manuscript.

I don’t know what the significance of that statement is and I won’t baselessly speculate, but it sure makes me curious. It also reminds me of some messages I remember seeing from Russian founders in the recent past.
Money buys something much more important than happiness- it buys you freedom.
Would help to add a new column and group by whether the recruiter was a contractor or in-house
I support this. High density housing destroys property values by enabling poor people to move in, and results in higher crime. NIMBYism works. Keep the immigrants, criminals, and homeless centralized I'm the dystopian cities and the rest of the state can survive. The point is to pretend you care about the poor and the environment while really just using these as covers for your own self interest. Then just demonize those who oppose said policies as bigots or uneducated. Works every time.
> The author did not suggest anything about human physiology. He mentioned this as a curiosity when informing us that this chemical is generally considered biologically inert. He was giving background on the chemical.

In either case, it's still misleading and irrelevant. Whether people think a chemical is inert doesn't say anything about whether a chemical is dangerous to humans. If one wrote an equivalent article with the thesis that water bottles should no longer be sold, and the author points to the curiosity that thousands of people drown every year, that only serves to persuade gullible readers into believing that drinking a bottle of Aquafina and drowning in a pool are connected in a way that is relevant. If Derek Lowe's point truly was that people should not see erythritol as biologically inert, he should have said something explicit stating as such. The fact that he didn't communicates that his goal was to lead the reader to the conclusion that he's made quite clear in his final paragraph.

> It was not totally irrelevant to an article discussing erythritol but it is irrelevant to human physiology.

It's irrelevant to the point that he is explicitly making, and is no different than an article about weight loss telling people to stop eating so much chocolate and, oh by the way, did you know that chocolate is toxic to dogs?! Gee whiz! And you thought chocolate was a harmless treat!

> The article need not be limited to one point. If that were the case most articles would be too boring to read.

So you read articles for the factoids? I guess there's nothing wrong with that in isolation, but the insertion of factoids into articles is often misleading to those whom are less scientifically minded, which is a problem when an author is acting as a science communicator. There's no reason a site called Science.com can't have articles that are written to both fit the parameters of science and be interesting to read.
It's especially bad if affordances for green space aren't taken into account. New York City, for all its problems, has done an excellent job of ensuring that there are trees and parks basically everywhere, combined with generally wide sidewalks, which makes the endless rows of 3-5 story apartment buildings feel comfortable to inhabit.
AFAIK, perl still comes by default with all Unixes that are actually used.

But well, most languages support piping program together. You will need a 5 to 10 lines wrapper on the most used ones, but it's always well supported.

And as a bonus, you get to explicitly say how the pipe should behave, instead of searching the docs to learn how to handle failure or early stream termination.
Does wine have the ability to package windows binaries? That would probably be lighter weight, assuming it performed a tree shaking pass.
Share the same experiences as here, don't care about the outdated UI, I spend a lot of time figuring out how to build my rather simpel model, but always had to relearn stuff to make modifications. Went over to onshape and works great for my use case (free version)
Show HN: I built a blog where I drag-and-drop doc files to upload articles
Hi HN, this is my first time sharing something I built after "lurking" here for a long time!

I wanted to build a simple blog where I can publish some thoughts and ideas. And I thought it would be nice not to rebuild an online editor. I wanted to work on articles on a desktop editor (e.g., Word/Pages) and just drag-and-drop the file on the website to upload it. I am quite happy about the results.

Let me know what you think! I added a video demo/explainer to the page as well :)

Happy Wednesday and happy hacking everyone!
I love that you used "chrome" in that sense of the word (useless UI embellishments) -- it reminded me of "Burning Chrome".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Chrome
Better to direct people to the catalog: https://boards.4channel.org/g/catalog

Browsing page by page is not a good idea.

Search for "aicg" or visit https://boards.4channel.org/g/catalog#s=aicg to see the AI Chatbot General thread (a new one is created every time the previous one hits the reply limit).
I love all of these random "companies" popping up that just make either one or a handful of API calls to OpenAI. Come on people, try harder!
> Governments (at the behest of businesses) enforce borders so that labor cannot effectively organise.

This is backwards, and I'm having trouble understanding how a more diverse, more transient population would find it easier to find common interests and unite. Suppose a factory unionizes - without borders, the owner will find it easier to import non-union workers. While moving a factory is challenging regardless of borders - it's a big, heavy thing, tied into local infrastructure and supply chains. It's even reflected in the rhetoric - "immigrants will do the jobs Americans won't".

It's also reflected empirically: Whole Foods' heat map says lower rates of racial diversity increase unionization risks - https://www.businessinsider.com/whole-foods-tracks-unionizat... (unpaywalled: http://archive.is/1khJw)

And in the strong Danish unions as far back as 1981 (https://mattbruenig.com/2021/09/20/when-mcdonalds-came-to-de...) when Denmark had only 3.02% of immigrants and their descendants (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Denmark#Modern...)
Regulators Investigate Tesla After Some Steering Wheels Fall Off
Interesting thought. We ran into the same issue working on a recommendation system engine as well and previously tried to build a solution around it. Curious to know what’s driving your interest in post-analysis?
> "Dismantle" "excise" - funny words for unemploying thousands of people because you don't like their approach to selling printer ink.

We put people in prison because we don't like them selling drugs. If that makes sense, so does this.

Besides, those people can (theoretically) get other jobs. And if we're really worried about it, then 'excise' in this case can just mean nationalizing the company.

To say that we should continue to employ people to make the world worse for the sake of economy is just the broken window fallacy.
no. inflation is really good in an economy where salaries rise.
its good to borrow money, its good for the working population (the one that makes the country thrive) and it is less good for retired people (that already own wealth and lived through better economic times)

In France think about it, the majority of the working population voted for Marine LePen, the majority of retired people voted for Macron, Young non working people voted for Melenchon. Hence why macron needs to satisfy his base, old people that retired early and now wants us to work more so that they can enjoy more their stress free life while everything is more expensive for the rest of us.
>California has global problems such as "where to get the water"

Yet is still growing almonds in massive quantities.

This discussion is starting to remind me of when Trump got really invested in the number of birds killed by wind turbines.
ahhh the units in this post are making my eye twitch.
Ask HN: What was the family that made their own computers all by themselves?
My memory is not serving me well, but I barely remember (maybe 10 years ago) a news article about a family that made their own computers and operating system etc. It was most probably from Mexico (or another Latin American country). Anybody remembers?
GSMA Introduces New Era of Earth Computing
This project is meant to be especially for educational reasons, which is why it's entirely open source
Unsure I follow. The title is "banning single family zoning" means it no longer exist - which seems equivalent to "banning single family only zoning".

Direct link to bill page: https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1110&Year=2023...
Had my first colonoscopy about 3 months ago.

The experience in total was far less of a problem than what I had anticipated based on the comments of others who had gone through the procedure.

In short, it is really not a big deal, including the fasting and cleansing part.
4 letters. HTMX.

Or look at https://www.phoenixframework.org/ to see what a web framework would look like if real-time updates mattered. (That said I do find that simple IoT applications like a volume knob for my smart speakers in party mode or that can toggle my lights do work well with websockets + mobx + React.)

As for DX, I think waiting for "npm run start" to get out it's own way is a large enough decrement that I don't have to get into all the many problems w/ JS build systems.

I will grant that React is nice for an animation-heavy UI and I play video games enough that I appreciate such things. Another thing I like about React vs similar competitors is that the rendering model is flexible enough to enable things like react-three-fibers which is another reason for me not to invest in Vue, Svelte and things like that.

As for user experience isn't it the dark truth that Google and Facebook want "as many UI redraws as possible?" Let's face it, the honest clickthrough rate on ads is indistinguishable from zero but when you visit some site like anandtech it is by no means accidental that the layout rerenders endlessly because each rerender is a chance that a click on a link is transmogrified into a click on an ad. It's covert click fraud and is a large enough decrement and between that and the endless staring at spinners and waiting things to load any possible increment in user experience is at best hypothetical.

(e.g. in another window I have a completely SSRed app that uses HTMX. It uses zero spinners, runs as fast or faster than a desktop app, and never has the UI move around mindlessly. I grant it would be cool if it had some more animation but would I trade that for rock solid responsiveness?)