skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
KDE person? Please allow sending crash dumps without friction.
I mean based on the number of repos they identified buying stars and prices advertised, the revenue just doesn’t make sense. The sellers have made like, hundreds of dollars at most. How much effort have they invested for this meager return?
Why do you think they make huge profit on bandwidth. Larger customers all have PPA agreements with very large discounts. Smaller customers get the benefit of a stellar network with elasticity in the Tibps plus range for a small $/GiB fee.
That's how I also interpreted the article. The author makes a decent argument for how this is an anti-consumer practice, but doesn't highlight how the very intentional business design decision to invite consumers into a walled garden for a lower cost is anti-competitive.
That doesn't work so well when the government is one of the bad actors.
Go Slow to Move Fast
At least in late 2021 - Google by itself was substantially bigger than Amazon + AWS in terms of data centers.

In terms of private text, FB is orders of magnitude ahead of Amazon.

Amazon is not a 1000 pound gorilla in this space. It's just another player in a game for 5.
We do deep littering and I don’t notice any smell unless I stick my head into the coop to clean it.
I struggled with the same. I tried all sorts of practices, "sleep hygiene", supplements and devices. What I eventually learned is that frequently what's need is changing your relationship with sleep. I couldn't find a CBT-I[1] psychologist in my area. So I ended up taking the sleepio.com[2] coaching class as a trial candidate. It walked me through the steps of CBT-I and got my sleep back on track. The recent book Hello Sleep[3] by Dr Jade Wu also does a good job re-framing your perspective on sleep and walking your through CBT-I. You do need to commit to the CBT-I process. It could take several months to complete and one of the initial sleeps often leads to sleep deprivation, so it may feel worse before getting better. But after following the process my sleep improved dramatically. I still keep in mind what I learned when I have the occasional bad night of sleep.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy_f...

2: https://onboarding.sleepio.com/sleepio/onboarding-sleep-test...

3: https://drjadewu.com/
agency is just a matter of setting up continuous streams of input. GPT-4 reacts to input(even its own).There's no rule the input has to come from you.
> You are right about one thing: I refuse to purchase a Windows computer, and have been refusing for a decade.

I still use Windows on my personal machine due to gaming still not being comparably good on Linux across all of the titles I want to play - sometimes native releases aren't available, other times even Proton has issues running stuff on Steam. Apart from that, there is actually very little holding me back, since a lot of things on Linux are just better (mostly development related) and in general most of the popular distros feel good enough as a daily driver.

I wrote about my experiences before: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/a-week-of-linux-instead-of-... but I don't think that in regards to gaming (or other software) all of the titles will ever be supported, so a Windows VM with GPU passthrough might be an okay choice in the future for entertainment and running some specific software packages, with some Linux distro on the host for the rest of my computing needs.

Which is a shame, because on a technical level Windows is okay and has lots of good software built for it in the past. Even the Edge browser is an improvement upon what they did previously (IE and the old Edge, though I'd say the old Edge was reasonably okay too). It's just the project management aspect of it that's annoying - the OS being taken in a direction with mainstream appeal (which is debatably not an issue to many), but without ways to always turn those customizations off and do it easily.
Congratulations on the launch folks. Will be interesting to see the open source product and offering.
Self hosted version of this with ease to change the environment will some great addition.

BTW, good folks at https://www.hypertest.co are doing something on same lines here in India.

Cheers!
Podcast episode name please
Bubble-forming is one possible downside of community-forming, yes.
Flash dev work was my first exposure to signals
We already publish in journals that ‘garner’ negative reviews; we don’t get to see the review scores. Editors already comment on papers, and we don’t see their comments. Everyone knows that some mediocre papers are accepted and some excellent papers are sandbagged behind the scenes, for less than honorable reasons. Maybe publishing the reviews and editorial comments would shed some valuable light?

Why wouldn’t tenure and grant committee members take into account high review scores in a journal that has high status and maintains an excellent review system? As long as eLife can maintain their status, maybe this could be a model for a positive change in science publishing, without making it any harder for people to get tenure, promotions, or grants?

Side note, it seems like this thinking that we need to have peer validation gate-keeping the publishing process is part of the reason for the reproducibility crisis; the reason nobody dares writing reproduction papers is because it’s so hard to get them published. Could help if journals accepted these by default?
> It's still getting starred...

clearly you did too good a job on the README
I love HN topics+comments. Not only is it it my daily reading, but I can easily imagine a high school or college discussion class centered on it as part of a truly liberal education.
We HN folks are basically selling crack and making people unhappier in exchange for their time and money.
(This is also an answer to your sibling.)

My primary motivation was this was something I wanted to do in that specific car. When I checked prices, I discovered that shipping a vehicle was actually cheaper than renting. One way across the Atlantic was about $1,500. Good luck renting a car for 10+ weeks for $3k.

The car was a 1998 Citroën Xantia Activa V6. So my tour of North America primarily involved visiting Citroën enthusiasts across the country, of which - apparently - there are plenty, even though Citroën hasn't sold a car in North American since 1974.

Of course, I had no spare parts there, so I brought an oil filter and a drive belt with me. So amongst the car's history is a bill for an oil change in California. I had no problems with the car, except a brief bit in Louisiana during a heavy rainfall, that the left windscreen wiper leapt and landed on my side mirror. Fortunately, there was an exit almost immediately, and I was able to pull over to a fuel station to fix it (I obviously kept a toolkit in the boot).

So yeah, part of the motivation was also having Citroën fans in the US see a car they rarely see. And - perhaps something only I appreciate - the look on people's faces when they see a car on European plates (and not just fake front plates).
Yes. People have the hardest time with the nuance on innovation / invention.
I have vague recollections of someone floating the idea of having a linux kernel mirror on github, where pull requests would interop with the mailing list.
> Fair? Sure. Interesting? Not even slightly.

Anyone can opt to go off tangents playing semantics games. Meanwhile, if a company portrays itself as selling cheap products and services and then charges a hefty premium in exchange for nothing, they deserve being called out on what amounts to false advertising.
Global Cystic Fibrosis Therapeutics Market to Reach $46.8B by 2030
I'm far less worried about being intimidated into voting a certain way by someone who is avoiding the authorities online.

Much more likely is that I'll vote ignorantly because I lack information that someone withheld because they're intimidated by the authorities.
I’m conflicted about this. Sourcehut, Codeberg, etc are great. But having everything I’m looking for on GitHub is extremely convenient. I use the “Add to List” function extensively for bookmarking.
I find stars helpful when I'm evaluating several different repos to choose a particular tool for a job.

If one of the repos has many more stars, I weigh that strongly when choosing. Freshness of commits is definitely important, but for me the fact that many other people starred the repo shows that there are eyeballs and activity.
Look, I don’t even know for sure if this is a Home vs Pro thing. I’m just deducting that from the comments here. I’m not arguing against the virtues of an ad-supported software product, I’m arguing against the obscenely braindead way Microsoft is executing it.

If there were a free ad-supported Windows and a paid ad-free (and news-free!) Windows I’d be a happy paying customer.
No, much younger. See https://oberon-lang.github.io/2021/07/15/motivation-for-a-ne...
DISCOVERABLE configurability. Things I can find in the UI. I hate the universal "add this line to <obscure config file> to fix that" thing that's prevalent in Linux.

Having a gui for settings helps with not having to memorize in what forsaken directory an application keeps its config files, because apparently that's not standard. Is it in .config? Or maybe .<app name>? Maybe /etc/thing?
I don't even understand the benefit of preinstalled Linux outside of the possibility being higher that they tested the hardware with Linux. Why would I risk their backdoors and crapware? To save the 15 minutes it would take to install something safer?

edit: have bought two Zareasons and a Dell with Ubuntu preinstalled. The support with Zareason was great at the time, and I'm willing to support companies that ship Linux because they have support that uses Linux, but I'm not going to be running some retailer's OS unless I'm forced to with locked hardware.
Can you name an innovation that had no danger?
Apparently seven is the sweet spot for visual recognition at a glance, so I'd go with AAAAAAA Plumbers instead.
Indeed. Even from the outside I can see similarities with family dynasties in the political elites. We have the Kennedys, Bush, Clintons, and who knows what will become of the Trump family going forward.
AI fooled voice recognition to verify identity used by Australian tax office
You can set it to have different activities for each desktop and then have different desktops on each screen. Have a look at that too https://github.com/wsdfhjxc/kwin-scripts#virtual-desktops-on...
For me one of the most interesting hypotheticals is that at the time of his death Julius was preparing for an invasion of Parthia.

Crassus had failed before him and Marc Antony would fail after him, and that probably contributed in o his fall as much as anything. Augustus saw these lessons and wisely decided not to risk an invasion of Parthia and instead reached a negotiated settlement.

It would be about 150 years before Trajan lead a successful invasion of Parthia.

With regards to Julius, Alexander was his idol, and I am sure he would have loved to emulate him in conquering the lands of the Persian Empire (now ruled by Parthia). Julius was also one of the great generals of history and it would have been interesting to see how it would have gone.

A Roman Empire extending East into the heartland of the old Persian Empire would have been interesting. It might have led to actual direct contact between the Roman and Chinese Han courts.
I work with AI PhD’s who have the same complaint.
I like the way you are thinking about this. And yes, formal math is the future! If you want to check out how to deal with quantification properly, or more generally with operators, without a need to explicitly introduce types, check out https://practal.com .
but what about reverse falling cartridge? Will spacetime around Earth change from "hole" to "hill"?
Please stop trying to diagnose me on HN without any context or background information. It's not helpful, and it's extremely condescending.
Interesting project. How does i2 compare with other languages used in verification / theorem proving, such as Agda, Lean, Isabelle, etc?

From your site:

> i2forge is a commercial venture, unlike i2

How are you planning to monetize i2forge?
Most of those have happened before, and within the last ~100/120 years or so (indeed, lots around the 1920s) - Jim Crow laws, WW1, Spanish Flu, WW2, the Great Depression, the Red Scare / McCarthyism, the Civil Rights movement, etc, etc

I think the point is is there something different this time, perhaps because of the internet or social media? Or is it just that a lot of these things are overlapping?
Because where everything you mention is a serious problem, most of them are smaller versions of problems that we've been through already.

On the front page right now: (Nature paper: Negativity drives online news consumption - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01538-4 )
In a similar vein, Steampipe [1] has a Google Sheets plugin [2]. It uses Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers instead of SQLite as the virtual table engine. (Disclaimer: I'm a lead on this open source project.)

1 - https://github.com/turbot/steampipe
2 - https://github.com/turbot/steampipe-plugin-googlesheets
The argument would carry more weight if it included data on pricing; how much more do AWS managed services cost vs bare ec2, and what are typical amounts of bandwidth costs for the non-aws managed options. Just because AWS rolls the pricing under single pricetag doesn't automatically make it anti-competitive
Modulating Pretrained Diffusion Models for Multimodal Image Synthesis
Around ~15 years ago ios as a platform became a big thing. It's what powers iphone, and you can write apps for it. You can only write those apps on mac hardware. There are hundreds of millions of ios devices in use, all using apps sold to ios users, developed by people running on macs.

> It's more buggy than Windows, it has the same malware problem as Windows, it's spy- & adware as Windows, it's inflexible,

Citations needed please.

Yes, you can get malware on a mac. That's always been a potential, but malware problems on mac have never come anywhere near the scale of malware-on-windows. Not even close.

> The usability of macOS is even worse than Windows, imho. Still it's very popular.

So what we can conclude is that your 'ho' aren't very popular(?). So what?

That can't be it. It must be that hundreds of millions of people are 'brainwashed'.

I got tired of various windows laptops and every linux distro failing to 'sleep' properly when I closed a laptop lid. I got tired of not being able to have 2 apps both play sound at the same time under linux. Oh shit - pulse? jack? alsa? Oh - you chose the wrong version of the wrong distro - recompile your kernel to make that work right - just copy these 87 lines from a linux forum and paste (as root!) in your console and reboot - just be thankful you're not being 'insecure' like Windows.

"But none of those are problems now! You did it wrong! My mate Paul said it's always worked!"

I moved away from daily Linux-as-desktop in... 2008, because I'd spent a good 6 years on various laptops/hardware/etc trying to 'make it work right', and whenever something didn't work, it was always somehow my own fault for lacking some 'easy' piece of info - if I just keep searching/researching/testing - this time it will be better/fixed/good.

I lost a weekend in 2008 trying to get a new laptop set up. Video worked, but could not connect to an external projector. Hours later, eventually connected, but only mirrored, not two separate screens.

This was a days after I'd been assured "oh no... yeah, I know you've mentioned problems before, but these days, it's all just fine - I never have any problems with my linux/laptop!"

I decided ... 6-7 years of chasing/learning/compiling various options was more than enough.

Forgive me if I'm skeptical after many years of hearing "it works great!" and continually hitting walls where no one could ever help. Then... moving to a platform where... you close the lid, it sleeps. You plug in a monitor, it works. Plug in a printer, it works. Plug in a camera, it works. And then... being told somehow that all that end-user experience is somehow subpar to Linux... just doesn't ring true.

I do daily use Linux servers. And I've been tempted to give desktop linux another spin 15 years later. I have family running daily Linux/desktop/laptop - it's mostly working for them, but I still hear about weird issues I've not had to face in years.

If/when I find myself with a lot of free time, I might give it another spin, but... I'm in no rush.
I don't appreciate your veiled attempt to conflate accusing a company of false advertising as being a kin to mysiginy and sexism.

Namecheap advertises cheap domains when, as covered in this discussion, it jacks up prices. This is impossible to defend even by the staunchest corporate shill.
Understanding the Origins of DTrace
I love Kenji, his youtube channel and his cookbooks - I wonder if he is working on a new pizza cookbook.
I'm just curious, but have you ever been confined in a hospital because of a misunderstanding? This is something that actually happened to me, it was an awful experience and I was treated like shit and then left with debt collectors chasing me when it was all over (despite being vindicated of the accusation). I'd like to believe humans aren't capable of misunderstandings, but sadly this doesn't match my experience of reality.

It's honestly quite an astonishing revelation that you've said being cautious about these possibilities in this way is a certain red flag. That's basically a "thought crime" where being cynical of the system makes you an even bigger concern than someone who says they have a plan to end their life in the next 24 hours which apparently only earns a "might" be a flagging. Thus I choose not to interact, to the extent I can, with said system.
That's a cheap 1% boost!
'Don’t they understand that this is what drives people to Macs and Chromebooks (and nerds like me to Linux)?'

Maybe that ship has already sailed and they know who their core market is?
On the other hand, if you repeat something in the chorus, maybe you should make it your song title. Like in the song “I’m Gonna Be”, or “Rainy Day Woman #12 & 35”.
thank you Leonid for the GoReplay. A great ecosystem of products will be built on top of it.
What benefit do you derive from changing which hours you are awake?
I think you have the story backwards: the artists starve not because the IA shared books in a planetary emergency. It's because publishers don't remunerate the creators fairly but turn cash to the executives and shareholders instead. Doctorow and the EFF have multiple explanations of why this happens and it has nothing to do with Napster-like tech.
> The “magic” seems little more than not having to compromise, allowing you to be selfish without the guilt of hurting others.

You say that like it's a bad thing. Don't get me wrong, I completely agree on the value of shared memories from traveling with friends. But as you said, by definition the memories will be of experiences that were shaped by compromise. When traveling alone, the experience is yours alone and defined by the memories you want to make.

Is the value of shared memories worth the tradeoff of potentially missing out on some memories you were looking to have? I think it depends a lot on the person, the trip, and the group, but it seems silly to suggest there's an obvious right answer that's universally applicable.

The point of articles like this isn't that solo travel is the only valid way to do things either. But it offers an alternative for consideration in a world where group travel is the default. And the worst travel experience is one you don't have at all because you didn't have anyone to go with.
This sounds like a great use case for VR workspace. Is that a thing yet ?

I haven't touched anything VR related since original Oculus - how far away are we from buying a 1000$ headset and it replacing all my monitors (and ideally I can travel with it) ?

Anyone here using such a setup ? What gear would you recommend ?
During the SVB crisis, Rippling was holding $300M in SVB, much of which was actually Rippling customers’ money that had been stored by Rippling for March 15th payroll.

I’m no lawyer, but when Rippling started emailing me “hey, your payroll money is actually with SVB and we need you to contact your bank to try and reverse the payment,” my first thought was “isn’t it your job to make sure my payroll safely reaches my employees?”

I imagine they had to make sure all their customers were made whole and quickly even if SVB money wasn’t able to be recovered, and then decided it would be a good plan to always have more than enough cash to cover the payroll they’re holding for customers.
Agreed, this is the definition of short term profits
Rather than a blanket "Linux Preinstalled", I'd like to know about S3 sleep support. Eg, it would be nice to know which laptops still support real S3 sleep, and not just the new "Windows modern standby" mode.

I watched an LTT that indicates that Windows modern standby apparently doesn't even work right with Windows.
("Microsoft is Forcing me to Buy MacBooks - Windows Modern Standby" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHKKcd3sx2c)
When you have some people not doing it, that's fine, they own their time. When you have have almost no one doing it, that's a cultural issue. I'm saying Linux/Unix man pages have inherent and probably very old cultural issues leading to a lack of baked-in examples.
I've never quite understood why Framework don't offer Linux as a pre-installed option.

I'm told that their machines work well with Linux and I like the user servicing options so it just seems weird.
Seaweed has been used as a fertilizer in Scotland for thousands of years. It's hardly new.
I think that's a valid concern. You read the nix pills and think you know what you're doing and then it turns out that the community has wrapped the things you've learned about in things you've never heard of, so you still can't learn from other people's repos.
IMO to take this benefit to a bit of a higher level, it also helps to have enough interests to bounce around between them. Especially when one interest may become annoyingl or irritating with too much focus.

I also noticed there's a very risky delay in the subjective monitoring/signaling loop which maintains conscious interest in a hobby.

If the original, reliable interest signal isn't really there anymore, but one acts as if it still is, the result can be a burnout/workaholic effect with hobbies, and it can be more devastating there than at work.

The mind will additionally tend to try to switch between blaming self and blaming hobby, as it reconciles precious identity and social signals and so on.

This in spite of the fact that it could just be that the person who previously enjoyed the hobby didn't take enough breaks.
Your explanation is trying to insinuate that it’s because they’re black, but they deliver to black neighborhoods inside SF limits, therefore you can’t just say “oh they’re racist”.

If my original example is what we went with, you could because tenderloin is smack dab in SF, and it would be clearly discriminatory to pick up passengers from everywhere in SF except that one neighborhood.
Microsoft often do this. They introduce an unwanted feature but they include a checkbox to turn it off. After a year or two they remove the checkbox. My Windows profile doesn't have any ads or Bing integrated search or other nonsense but the options I used to achieve this live on only in the registry. When I get a new computer I'm not using Windows.
The author is active on here, that's probably why :)
That seems new?