skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's also known for hinging a lot of what he says on the concept of rapid onset gender dysphoria (the idea that kids are spontaneously turning trans with no previous indicators due to a "social contagion"). The original study for it is a survey of posts from parents who don't want their kids to be trans. It shouldn't surprise anyone that those parents weren't in the best position to catch any hints when their kids might have caught on to the idea that their parents might not like them being trans.
> What the article describes is correct, but I don't think the words "average" or "homogeneity" or "conformity" are the right terms, as they seem to carry negative connotations here.

But this is the essence of article, that the average has bad tastes when it comes to art.

Salvador Dali has way less exposure than some random Instagram influencer and Bach has way less exposure than some random hip hop "legend" from Brooklyn, NY. Some random people from Tik Tok have more exposure than Friedrich Nietzsche.
There is a C API for anyone who wants to use Rustls from C:

https://github.com/rustls/rustls-ffi/
You are precisely the consumer demand that drives conformity here. You are real! That doesn't change any of the other things I just said: in fact, it exasperates the issue, because it isn't wrong to target your familiarity as a reliable selling point.

The problem is that it's also a good thing to try create new designs. I have a keyboard that you would hate to use. That's how I feel about the traditional design you prefer. We can both be served by the market, but only if designers have enough confidence to do so.

You wouldn't even care about this if you had originally learned to type on my keyboard. If that was the ubiquitous thing you started with, then we wouldn't even be having this conversation. Had the progression of keyboard design been free to explore other options, it might have naturally converged on something more ergonomic; which would serve both the need for familiarity and the desire for ergonomics.

We are already seeing ergonomic keyboard designs converge to 3 shapes: Dactyl-like extreme ergonomics that place keys as close as possible to the resting fingertip; flat compromises like ergodox that can use a PCB; and grid layouts like planck that optimize the difficulty of conceptual memory layouts when using many layers. All three place keys in columns, so they are pretty easy to switch between. The only real mystery left is the thumb.

Most of the discomfort involved in switching from the typewriter layout stems from how obscure and unwieldy it is relative to anything else. Like a Who from Whoville, we look at the elegant hammer - as a replacement for the familiar Whabam - with distaste.
Dumb phones are on the rise in the U.S. as Gen Z looks to limit screen time
This commentor is a troll, see history if the above comment isn't enough.

Edit: what the fuck is going on?
I meant they tried hard to keep C# and VB.Net equal, not VB.Net backwards compatible to VB Classic
This is an impressive project, but I was hoping the UX standardization would continue. Seems to have slowed?
I've started using it this month due to hearing things had been improved, but what did I find?

- Window always opens maximized, which I never want. Couldn't find a way to change it. (A common arrogance of media apps.)

- F11 key doesn't toggle fullscreen. To its credit I was able to change this. Defaults are important however.

- When in full screen the top left menu doesn't extend to the edge of the screen. So you can't easily hit it without slowing down. I first learned about Fitt's Law in the 90s, not exactly new:

https://www.asktog.com/columns/022DesignedToGiveFitts.html

Is this a lack of interest? Or special-snowflake syndrome?

Another quibble with media apps is that they want to use their own special hotkeys for zooming, panning etc, but I never want them to be different from my browser and/or web maps, which are used every single day. Option doesn't seem to exist to change them in a group to standards. Probably could do individually, but don't yet have time, and risk conflicts.

To be a good desktop citizen these things still need to be addressed. Looks like they have profiles now so non-standardisms could be moved to the classic profile.
Eating Disorder.
I'm actually thinking of pivoting from web dev (10 years a laravel dev) to prompt engineering, and entry-level ai stuff, I'm not going to perfect the next big algorithm, but I can use langchain to create custom KB enhanced chatGPT instances, or automation agents for small-to-mid size companies.

I'm super obsessed lately w/ AI, on youtube, github, HN, reddit, etc... and working on actually building a clone of myself to do the mundane parts I don't like to do... hehe... this is kind of a green field, and the opportunities are huge, might be the last dev jobs when AGI hits -- training custom AGI's...
I use a syncthing. I'm not yet sure how it handles conflicts, but I think it'll ask me?

Even if one needed a server for syncing files, should each application that needs synching require its own server?
Prince Harry: royals ‘agreed not to sue’ newspapers over phone hacking
Yes, this is the real dark future right here.

It will be a continuation though.

The uppermost echelons of society have waged information warfare since the dawn of modern PR in the beginning of the 20'th century. Lots of theory on this have apparently been memoryholed, but it's easy to just start with the genealogy around Edward Bernais and the plutocracy and robber baron families still existing in the interwar period.

The masses don't really think about or realise that manufactured circus and foreverwars have been going on for a hundred years while a microscopic elite that controls the media and various organs in the state have been siphoning most wealth towards themselves in a increasingly dense cloud of smoke, while promoting rebranded ideologies for the genpop and systems of control that has become advanced cybernetic systems that steer the flow of information 100% from top to bottom.

The sad thing is that you could deduce this in the noise if you visited the last remnants of actual research journalism on the internet, but that will end now.

So where is one going to get to know the powerstructures of the world? Old physical libraries only, some dude on the corner, some "crazy guy" with a harddisk from before AI took over.
Yeah, I know. Apologies. Stay tuned though! For the tech preview launch we really focused on a golden path (narrow). We'll be expanding compatibility as we march towards GA.
> I genuinely don't understand what you mean by huge expectations of "having it all" for women

I think the OP meant the whole "lean in" movement. I'm not sure why that would affect teen girls though. Social media and decreased socialization seem like much more plausible factors.
Well, asking the ethicists if the ethicists are acting ethically would not be unbiased.
If it is phones, we'd have to have different experiments to investigate different possible methods of action. Is the content being consumed, is it something related to lack of physical interaction, is the anonymity promoting more hostility, etc.
You can find this kind of reply on Reddit if you’re in the right subreddit. /r/science and /r/drugnerds come to mind as potential candidates.
> With libadwaita being brought into GTK+ I think neither looks any good out of the box now, but the tooling for GNOME seems a lot better at least.

Yeah, this is the part that hurts. So much work done on the backend and so many great apps, then to lock everything into that...
https://youtu.be/xSSWrZ_4xb4
The good thing about living in today's world is that nothing is as easy as escaping the blandocracy. You don't want big franchise video games? There's a googol of indie video games on itch and steam and co. You want weird ass looking appartments. Guess what, they're on airbnb too. You want music? Books? Software? The weirdest communities? A text-mode orange website? They're all out there for you to use and discover.
That's how google started as well. Ads is a tried and true model and is not going anyway anytime. People won't pay for bing chat search
Rape feels good for the victim? I was always under the impression that rape is a horrible, terrible, painful, and humiliating atrocity. I've never been a democrat, so maybe that's why I don't have a favorable view of rape and think is feels good for the victim.
They mentioned my tiny contribution and my name in changelog. Now I can die peacefully (:
The biggest disadvantage in my mind of the Prusa MK2/3/4 printers is they use the original i3 design. It's a good design, and very simple to build, maintain and program. But it limits the print speed due to the amount of mass that has to move, particularly in the Y axis. The entire bed has to move which induces vibrations at higher speeds.

Newer printers (including the Prusa XL) use a CoreXY design, where the extruder is controlled in the X and Y axes by belts, which results in less mass that has to move, and allows the printer to print much, much faster. In the case of the Bambu Lab printers, it can be two to three times faster for a similar print quality.
Not only is Toyota's warranty on Prius batteries quite good, a good chunk of the battery issues with older Priuses come down to corroded terminals. A dealership will happily throw a new battery in there for a few grand, but a good indie hybrid mechanic knows to try the cheap and easy fix of cleaning the terminals before replacing the battery (and will recommend reconditioned battery packs for a serious $$ savings)
yeah, it's basically like updating the 'cutoff date' on chatGPT but only w/ specific data pertinent to a specific topic, right?
Kojima is kind of prescient, he was talking about AI and fake news years before it became mainstream, and Death Stranding was scarily well-timed with COVID.
Jan 2022
I never have a search problem.

I need either information, a service or a product. Or information about a service or a product.

I never need a search, a website or an app. That's never the problem I'm trying to solve.

Search, websites and apps are the tools I have to use (currently) to solve my problems. In the process I have to:

- deal with the fact that the interest of the makers of the app or website do not align with mine

- deal with privacy invasions/ads/notifications

- deal with things being phrased disingenuously

- deal with apps needing to update, website being broken/bandwidth wasted

And most importantly, unless two vendors implemented an integration together, I have to integrate their services myself!

I never want to leave the chat. I want to do all my transactions from the chat. All of them. On my terms. With my prompts.

Whoever facilitates that can take a 5-30% cut on all my online transactions.

Examples:

- book me a highly rated hotel in Berlin around 100 euro p/n most suitable for a staycation for next week Monday to Friday. Make a reservation near that hotel for the highest rated traditional German cuisine restaurant with a price per plate of 20-30 euro

- send every contact ive emailed with from my work email in the last year a Christmas card with a funny but professional pun about the invention of the steam engine. Send it to their work address.
Okay, I can't speak for ALL engineering teams, but at the very least I know THIS engineering team absolutely does.
Do you happen to have a recommendation?
Books have the unfair disadvantage that they are out-of-date the moment they hit the printer.
I get orders of magnitude better support from Lenovo than Librem. And that's just from the company. And the community is also much better for Lenovo, support wise.

>> NOT happy with the Librem laptop.

> Then choose a different one?

I did. Lenovo. I don't have a problem.

> I personally am glad to live in the days when Linux is an option and will be quite annoyed if it goes away again due to others' short-sightedness.

Lenovo's Linux market is huge. It's not going away. People buy them because they work great with Linux.
that does not get rid of snaps forever when you want to 'apt install firefox' or any package that is snap only. That's all it takes
I keep the windoze partition on my thinkpad if nothing else to update the thunderbolt 4 dock firmware, as the TB3 dock just finally got fwupd support within the last few days and no telling if/when the TB4 will. It's an important part of my use, and was and is quite quirky under linux since I got it that has improved with firmware updates. I just resize it down to like 100gb that windoze can keep itself and the lenovo hardware updated when needed with their eazy button app native to their build, and build anything linux after.
I don't get how you could conclude I'm a troll? I'm not spamming nor arguing with anyone, just sharing my opinions and experiences.
Related:

Gambas: Visual Basic on Linux - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22574385 - March 2020 (82 comments)
I’m a big fan of this library, using it at work and on my own stuff. It’s faster, leaner, and most importantly, safer than OpenSSL for a reasonable definition of safety. It gets less eyeballs and use than OpenSSL, but also fewer issues and rust itself protects against memory safety issues. The project is well run and there’s a non profit behind it.
> why are your colleagues disengaged by default? Most people happily do things they find important.

Almost nothing is important. The vast vast majority of people work for the paycheck. If you only hire people who truly think that what you're doing is important, you'll have a hard time finding anyone.
An important thing at play here is that for many engineers, and craftspeople in general, it is painful to do things in a way that is inelegant or "wrong," even if it's best for the "business," which is to say there are other tradeoffs at play.

There are two ways to resolve this. One is for the engineers to learn to accept "wrong-ness" through therapeutic techniques. The other is to remove the external pressure somehow.

Either way, there is pressure that needs to be relieved.
> Is this the new "think of the children"?

As in it’s not about the children, it’s about control? Yes.
There are quite a lot of videos on YouTube of people eating rotten meat, they claim it 'gets you high'. Perhaps one reason it's considered a delicacy?
> Your current criticism is at the "ad hominem" level.

Allow me to rephrase. I am deeply concerned that there is a possibility that some of the powerful parties backing this may be trying to catch up and using an enforced or agreed to "ceasefire" as a means to catch up in capability. I also worry that some may be able to use political strong arming to accomplish this as a means of unfair competition.

> It is entirely beside the point what Elon Musk's motivation is.

Is it always beside the point what anyone's motivation is? Motivation matters.

> if the risks referenced in the letter are real, which they certainly are.

Your opinion.

> There has been informed thought on this for more than a decade. Recent LLMs have made the dangers even more clear.

> 2) is the letter's proposal of a 6 month pause useful.

More opinions.

> It's the most useful and plausible step I can think of. We need to take stock. It's not up to a handful of researchers to endanger the lives of 6B other people. 3) Is it actually plausible that we could get such a pause. We'll see. I doubt it but also search "death with dignity" by Yudkowsky.

All of this is your opinion.

> Back to Musk as an "authority", the headline is about him but more than 1000 other concerned parties have signed.

I didn't even mention Musk. I have several other names in mind. Lots of folks with AI companies (including LLMs!) that "may" be experiencing FOMO and sensing a strategy here. Maybe. Hypothetically. In a non-"ad hominem" way.

> I will sign. Their signature vetting process is stalled because to the volume of signatures, otherwise there would be many more.

People are starting counter petitions, which I'll gladly sign. The one by Suhail posted on Twitter was hilarious af.

I'll also go to whatever country doesn't "pause", because this tech is literally the most exciting development of my lifetime. And I want to spend my life doing something that matters instead of gluing distributed systems together to process financial transactions.
So this is where Tailwind comes into play. With TW, you don’t need to any custom properties. They include base stylings and preflight styles that fix and reset just about any browser quirk or bug. The end result is a consistent styles that look and function exactly the same on any device or browser.

There are hundreds of little tiny css style rules and fixes for a perfect website, and you have to remember them all. Tailwind has done all of that, plus a bunch of more.

Their utility classes are their biggest feature in my opinion. Just the ability to set dark mode styles inline with my light mode styles seal the deal for me alone.
Germany to change immigration laws to attract skilled labor
With Qt, the drama has been usually around licensing, GPL fearmongering etc..
That being said I do like their API design guidelines ( https://wiki.qt.io/API_Design_Principles ) and coding conventions ( https://wiki.qt.io/Coding_Conventions ). Valuable read for any developer.
The printer is on par with dirt cheap Chinese competitors like Sovol.
> For a movie studio that lives and dies on presenting imagery so precisely and thoughtfully crafted that it leaves a lasting impression for decades

I'd hope so, but there are a lot of films churning out the next Michael Bay Transformers-type movie which also get the vast majority of VFX work and make the most revenue that upending the VFX industry might remove a lot of jobs.
Miscarriages are abortions. Often times if the miscarriage happens late enough, a doctor must intervene to assist in the removal of the dead fetus, which is the same medical procedure as one may remove a viable one.
It's actually BZ4x. Beezey Forks.

Toyota press people don't like people calling it the Beezey Forks. But much like the XBone, once you hear the name, it sticks.
Try solvespace. There is also the CAD sketcher addon for blender, but that's big software compared to solvespace.
The most impressive thing about this is not the overtone singing - one can learn that given some practice time - but to me it's how LOUD the quartet sounds.

I'd recommend being in the same room with them if you can, the feeling is just incredible, and videos and recordings absolutely do not render how powerful this kind of singing can get with the years of practice that they put in.
Actually, "Ban the Box" legislation has been enacted almost everywhere. But you're right: it does suck.
I don't know the details but I know the one of the original Reddit founders @Yishan has a company that does something with climate change. Terraformation. might be worth checking out. good lukc on your search.
I like books and lots of little nougats of information you can piece together: like how you can learn code or an SDK. So for me, this book has been great: https://www.blendersecrets.org/book
Tailwind depends on @apply in PostCSS to function, something that was never officially proposed for CSS, but has been killed by its author and we know for sure CSS won't do, for the reasons the author of the original @apply idea lists here: https://www.xanthir.com/b4o00

So we have known all along that this will never happen. It was rejected for some very good reasons before Tailwind began.
The size of a black hole’s event horizon is pretty much directly correlated to its mass; I think the only thing that really modifies it in practice is very fast rotation.

(Remember, it’s a phenomenon of gravity, not a physical object. The physical stuff inside is just some really intense matter squeezed together in ways that might be interesting, if they were observable.)
A good guideline to use in internet discussions where this is raised is: It’s never lupus. Er, RICO, never RICO.

This is…not an exceptional case in that regard, AFAICT.

(RICO has a very specific definition of a criminal enterprise which, while it may occasionally apply to something that doesn’t look very much like the Mafia, usually doesn’t. It is not “any enterprise that involves crime”. There are a whole lot of predicate offenses, but they aren’t all crimes, and the enterprise has to relate to them in a particular way.)
I can't find the link to it right now, but there's an article / post that says a lot of the blandness in our surroundings / houses is because we subconsciously try to balance it out with all the color we have available on our digital screens. Walls are bland white / gray because we have televisions, everything else is bland because the entire world is in our phones.

And yes, globalization is yet another reason why. Even travelling to places is pretty boring now, it's just the same things. It takes a while for the reality to sink in, but our entire economy is now based on being bland. To the extent any country deviates from the USA it is deemed "undeveloped".

Edit: found it - https://old.reddit.com/r/Anticonsumption/comments/10njiwd/co...
I would be as concerned about the health implications of the sound. The constant background noise adds to the baseline stress level of the environment, and it's difficult not to intersect printing and sleep schedules.

So I recently moved mine from the middle my medium sized house to the far end from the bedroom, behind a door. And even with that I'm considering enclosing it in a cabinet, to reduce the noise on that side of the house too. Yet the model I have is not particularly loud.
> It wasn't that easy to understand

Yes it was.

https://www.dartmouth.edu/basicfifty/basicmanual_1964.pdf
(Seemingly) Inevitable climate change and ecological destruction, growing income inequality and falling standards of living, a deathly pandemic that's still killing people while we pretend everything is back to normal (+ long covid probably bringing about a disability crisis in 3-5 years), increasing tensions between various nuclear-capable states (Russia, China) and the West, changes in the age distribution in most western states meaning that most young people will probably work until they die (retirement? lol) etc. etc.

This is a multi-faceted issue and let's face it, part of the problem is that the world is just getting depressing as hell for young people who see less and less of a future for themselves.
> The great mistake that this article makes is thinking that people need to be constantly expressing themselves in some unique way that nobody's ever done before. But the world has almost 8 billion people, few things are as unique as you think.

I think you got it wrong. We shouldn't express different and we needn't to as ordinary people.

But as creatives, as creators originality it's what should define us.
Did nobody else learn to spell out an acronym the first time it's used?

I had heard of it, but I had to read "NBD" far too many times in that repo before I saw what it stood for.
The problem this article is pointing out is that you could have that database and still struggle.

It is easy to make a database of effects that work in isolation, for that matter GPT-4 will do a great job writing CSS to make isolated visual effects.

It’s when you need to put those visual effects to work inside of a real application or web site that you find it doesn’t work or rather almost works because of very fine details in how HTML and CSS work. Often you find you can move something forcibly a few pixels this way or that way but what works for the personal web site will be a nightmare for a complicated application that has multiple parts that multiple people are working on because you’ll need more hacks to deal with the consequences of those hacks.

It is real, global, and comprehensive understanding we need, not just another cheat sheet.
I just explained explicitly how and why an LLM is not, and never will be, an "extremely powerful tool".

A program that is actually a person in a black box would require the level of concern you are showing. Thankfully, that is not even remotely what we have here in reality.