skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's terrifying. The child protection stuff sounds like a total mess, but it bleeds way beyond that.

After leaving Windows behind in 2007 (Mac or Linux machines only), I switched back to Windows to do game development. I can't believe how much of a piece of crap these Windows machines are. All the apps that are preinstalled is one issue. Another is the stupid stuff they add to the search bar to make it look more like the Google landing page. The news, the ads, the weather, the notifications...and don't get me started on how you can't disable the use of the Edge browser when clicking on web search results from the search bar. It constantly feels like I am slogging through crap that they forced into onto the machines. It sucks because these are not productivity and work machines. They are built to get you to consume while pretending to allow you to work. I gave it a few years time and I'm still stuck with the same response. Working on a Mac or Linux is insanely more productive and enjoyable that dealing with Windows.
processing. . .
It's kinda funny picturing either of those words as we play Dark Souls (videogame) on these devices.
Yes of course that's "all math", still!
+1.

YAML is a terrible foundation for a declarative config. You need a language designed for declarative config.

Some commenter above said that this space is too messy for a purely declarative language; someone else said Pulumi should be thought of as a macro language to generate a declarative spec.

Instead of bolting on a whole Python interpreter to work as a macro language to generate a theoretical declarative spec, why not instead just write a declarative spec in a sanely declarative language?

It's not that hard to learn Nix. Stop procrastinating, everyone, and go learn Nix :)
> emphasises that not restricting certain generated content would hurt users.

Being nice to person B threatening person A is not being nice to person A.
These are some very good examples.
This is just whataboutism. Also, some of us dare to dream of an OS that doesn't track you and also... works. Don't limit your imagination to the status quo.
Parisians vote to ban e-scooters from French capital
While I don't think MS has the right to just ignore copyright I think this is closer to the idea of code reuse than previous approaches where someone had to choose a specific level of granularity and abstraction and hope the result can be effectively used without any change.
And still being sold by Unisys to this day.
> So, ironically, banning TikTok would suppress speech critical to the CCP more than banning Midjourney, a US company.

The ban would be outside of China. Speech critical of the CCP is only really effective if it reaches inside of China and banning TikTok outside of China would have a negligible effect on the other side of TGF.
It does. That message is “this person has power over you” and “this person is to be feared” while the alternative is “this person is to be mocked” because in mockery society reclaims power over dictators.

It’s not an accident that most dictators try to control political satire.
The lady in the intro paragraph would be shocked to learn that Danes leave their babies to sleep outside in a stroller, in midst of the winter, meanwhile they are enjoying a coffee or buying something indoors.

To be clear, I think that’s awesome.
What does the rural area have to do with starlink’s competitiveness in the urban environment?
This has happened before. Across my lifetime, several times. The US strategic reserves have been used in the past to prop up supply, but that too is a choice which has to be made.

the 70s oil price shocks, Iran blockades, and events around Iraq I and II, as well as disputes between OPEC and the non-aligned oil producers, and within Opec

For the 70s oil shock, the UK government re-issued ration books for petrol: they were printed during the suez crisis and had been warehoused "just in case" so re-used 20 years after printing.

"Peak Oil" is in here too: there's immense profits to be made in a time where oil exploration is being supressed, from people sitting on otherwise expensive to extract but existing reserves. We're not actually running out of Oil as much as running out of a willingness to pay the externalities related to Oil. Canadian Tar Sands are heinously bad to use.
>The worst managers of all will tend to give you the answers you most want to hear in these situations.

How is that different than employees giving the answer employers want to hear in the interview just to get the job? Do you think everyone is 100% honest? Everyone puts on a face.
China can get data from TikTok whenever it wants, that's not quite the same as success campaigns for selective censorship.
Introduction to Oversampling for Alias Reduction
Not expanding posix will get you a lot fewer blank-eyed stares than not expanding crdt (not that the expansion is particularly useful to someone not already in the space, but it's better than nothing)

Apropos, there was an initialism that had "commutative" in it, was that also crdt or something else?
Revisiting the Alienware M11X R3 review 12 years later
I like that they exist, but I think there are way too many companies competing.

I would rather see the EU:

1. require that they cooperate on one app to use to rent them, and require that all scooters in any EU city work with that app
2. require the use of helmets
3. require designated parking areas (this could maybe be a city by city choice I guess)

I fully expect that if such rules were enforced, many of the companies would likely just choose to move their operation elsewhere. I'm fine with this, dumping scooters on the streets because there are no laws saying they can't is a vile approach to business.
I don't know about the beginnings of YC.
The point of the original comment that certain common positive aspects of 50s American life, namely single family home ownership, one-income households, and lower CEO/worker pay ratios are less common now. To bring up the point of racism and sexism seems to imply that those amenities were only possible due to racist and sexist structures. Is that what you believe, that the lack of home ownership, massive CEO/worker pay gap and necessity for most households to be 2 income to support a family are a necessary consequence of achieving gender equality and civil rights?
I have heard from some people that many companies specifically ask for your github profile, in many places only the user tag, not a link which can be changed to gitlab or something else.

So it will effect your job chances, even if the job has nothing to do with managing GitHub.
Without AMD releasing AMD64, eventually WinIntel would be IA64 no matter what.
Fail to deliver? Wut? They never commited to any timeline and have just began. What do you expect, brain computer interfaces and robot brain surgeons in less than a decade of development? That's crazy. I expect at least 2 decades, if not more.
My kid is learning lots of skills with XFCE, launchers, folders, usb maintenance to bring things to school, he apt update and flatpak install things.
At school they use windows and he has no trouble at all.
You agree to Microsoft's ToS before you can put any code on Github, regardless of the license.

You can't opt-out of those terms, regardless of your license, just as you can't opt out of Facebooks terms which give them the right to use your content for their business or marketing purposes, even if the various chain posts that have spread there might claim otherwise.
> Edit: I googled "fair use copyright US" and have now decided that US copyright law is stupid.

Don't be like that. Fair use is what allowed VCRs to continue existing, what allows Google Images and Books to exist, what allows the development of emulators... I could go on.
You can probably feed a curated list of allowed packages for this step
Good, I think that is somewhat of a feature - It serves as a bit of a moat to people who would hurt themself in their confusion.

This might sound a bit harsh but Microsoft actively cultivated a type of user I would call "long time novice computer user" and combine that with the poor choices that were made regarding security design and you get results like the ninja updates Windows has these days.

As for hardware compatibility Windows has the big advantage that everything is tested on it. One can definitively minimize the risk of issues by just selecting appropriate hardware for linux.
Introducing Trurl: trurl is a tool in a similar spirit of tr but for URLs
Sorry for the broken archive.org link, you can see the corrected one in the linked comment or here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130625181118/http://weekly.ahr...
I enjoy how the brightest minds of hn were taking an April's fool joke so seriously
Retort Engineering is mostly involved in the design stage, they can send a prototype, but you probably would be better off contacting the Technicians in “Snarky one-liners.”
He takes questions at Tesla earnings calls that other CEOs would delegate to lower level executives, and can talk about rocket science when prompted (see Tim Dodd's videos). That's not to say he's an expert on everything, one thing to note is he's also been working at those companies since the start. In my view, a big part of why his companies are successful is he actually does understand the product portfolio to a great depth that most CEOs who simply do management don't. I'm not talking to the level of "I can code this myself", I simply mean "I understand the software used to make this, how it talks with X and why we do Y instead of Z". It's easy to bash on people because you don't like them, but it doesn't make for a convincing argument with blanket statements like that.
I thought Midjourney works only on Discord, which is blocked in China?
"When I was young I found X. It was wonderful and full of stars! As I grew up, things changed, but I stayed with X because I was used to it. Finally, Y happened and I have to leave X because I really dislike Y. Goodbye! (ps. I'm not actually leaving because I want to be involved with things that are still going on there, but I want it to be known I don't really like X anymore)"

Replace X with GitHub, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Usenet, IRC, ... this is an archetypal growing up and facing change in the world story.
It might be worth using hardware that is more adapted and tested for use with Linux such as Framework, System76, Starlabs, Tuxedo etc. Typically these computers have better HW driver support than some others and also a HW company with an interest to have their laptops work with Linux backing it up a bit.

After all Mac OS only runs on a few dedicated Apple computers and that's partly why it is a smoother experience overall. If Linux only had to support a few Laptop models it would have been easier to get it all working.
At this point, anyone using the term "stochastic parrot" is just giving credence to my personal belief that humans are also stochastic parrots.
Douyin is still heavily censored like all other Chinese platforms, right? If so, why are the above content restrictions so unbelievable?
> No Oculus headsets shipped to consumers until after the acquisition by Facebook. The DK1 from the Kickstarter started shipping a few days after the acquisition.

Pretty sure your timeline is wrong here. I remember the news of the sellout coming in while waiting for my DK2 shipment.

I knew I was gonna get a device which would instantly get obsolete by a move into an Apple style walled garden.
Because it isn't about aging, it is about solving the "ai alignment problem."
> Now laptops are a different matter.

And laptops are most client PCs sold these days, people barely buy desktops anymore:

https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/global-pc-market-Q4-2021

Linux is skating where the puck has been.
Article has close to zero content. Total information: "Servers are running out of room for memory slots. DDR5 MCR will send 128 bytes at a time. Speed will increase from current 4.8 Gbps to 8. Expected in 2024 or 2025." No descriptions of what's actually different. More lanes? Faster clock? More transitions per clock? How does it affect latency? How does it affect cache? Will going from 64 bytes to 128 cause problems with false cache line sharing? Etc...
Propaganda has seemed pretty effective even with unfettered access to information, LLMs and free speech in the west.
I bought the scores for Bibou No Aozora and a couple other pieces from his site for my wife to play and she commented that he must have big hands
The situation has well changed since 2019.
No idea how widespread AM is across the pond but during the 23 years I have spent living in Poland, never have I listened to an AM radio station and trust me, I even intentionally tried to find such stations.
Blockchains as commonly deployed seem to be more AP to me: you can get into split-brain and while there's a way to select the canonical form after the partition is healed, that's after the fact. Whereas e.g. Paxos won't even let you do anything without knowing it has quorum.
Either you make money in China until the Chinese clone your tech and undercut you, or you don't make that money and they eventually clone and undercut anyway. Might as well enjoy the boost for a few months.

I don't like that we're self-censoring in the West in a way that furthers the ends and whims of authoritarian regimes, but hey, it's only business...
Most likely pre tax. In software development range will be probably 70-95k euro, for mid to senior dev in a big city. After all taxes, contributions you are getting around 60% of this.

So mentioned 75k, will be 40k net.

I live right outside a big city. Here 50 sqm in quite a new building costs 1200 monthly.
The reason in the first place why there are English words in the day-to-day Italian is because a majority of the population _uses already these words_.

Given that, this goes against the "preserve communication" argument. After all, this is how Italian was born (at least that's what we studied in school), there was Greek, there was Latin, somewhere the language got distorted by common people all the way until it became Italian and got shared by many, many people.

The language was not defined, it evolved with how people used it.

This process has been going on forever, I don't see why it should change now with artificial constraints.

For what is worth, official documents should be allowed in English language for the entire country, given we are part of the EU, there is a whole money-sucking machine (and time-sucking!) to translate things in English when interacting with other EU countries.
The fact is, I see countless people using electric scooters every day, I can’t think of a single instance seeing a folding bike in person, despite them existing for a whole lot longer.

Clearly scooters have won.
Well, yes, those AIs are used inside of china, instead of tiktok which only exists outside of china. But AI represents a conundrum for censors.

Normally they would just steal it with some cooperate espionage, but they then have not the expertise to retrain it or censor it properly themselves. So i guess the censorship is only temporary, until a chinese version of midjourney can be retrained on the data from within the golden shield project.

But that AI will be largely useless, as it will spout mostly little red book Xi thought and other propaganda.
what is so bad about the UI/UX? i'm not a frequent gitlab user but it doesnt strike me as anything out of the ordinary
One major annoyance with these e-scooters is their "take it from anywhere, leave it anywhere" rental model.

Sure, it's practical for the user, but it litters the pavement for everyone else with scooters badly parked, sometimes even lying on their side on the floor, requiring teams of maintenance people to patrol the streets (with petrol trucks) and set them back up in an orderly fashion and grouped at strategic locations.

Same thing goes for (e-)bike rentals.

Paris also has a non-private bike rental service (Velib'), which uses fixed stations. You can still park the bike temporarily anywhere (eg: pop into a shop), but you have to return it to a station.

The market supremacists might pile on in the replies, but having a well-subsidised, self-service public transport system with fixed stations is much neater in a tight city than a free-for-all model.
Status is a social construct, and we are social animals. So it really, truly does matter. And money is not the only thing that can convey status.
Great for the fraction of a percent of Londoners who use them, terrible for every one else
Money isn't all there is to status. A surgeon has higher status than a lottery winner or heir to a fortune. So Naval's point is that a desire for status can sometimes conflict with getting money, because it pushes you down a conventional path which is competitive and therefore unlikely to make you rich.
You're allowed to make money from Free/OSS code, and plenty of companies have (Google, Amazon etc.), but they have always also at least given back something to the community to earn some good will. The situation with AI is new because it not only doesn't give anything back, it actually takes something away by threatening developers' jobs etc.
It was fun and had more people lurking there.

Since you are using SSH keys, why not looking into NOSTR integration?

You are already done the basics, and adopting that protocol would help to keep this project alive since anyone can participate there with their existing account and those posts can also be seen from the outside: https://usenostr.org/
What happens if you ask Midjourney for a picture of Mohammad?
Wondered what the acronyms mean, so asked ChatGPT:

Given the acronyms DEI, ESG, AI, and trad, what does each stand for?

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DEI: DEI stands for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. It is a term used to describe efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace, in education, and in society more broadly.

ESG: ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance. It is a framework used by investors to evaluate the sustainability and ethical impact of a company before investing in it.

AI: AI stands for Artificial Intelligence. It refers to the development of computer systems that can perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and language translation.

Trad: "Trad" is a shortened form of "traditional," and is often used to refer to traditional values, beliefs, or practices, particularly within certain subcultures or communities. It is not an acronym, but rather a colloquialism.
If someone says "stochastic parrot" as an argument I know they have no idea what they are talking about.

That's calling a human a bunch of cells. It's true, but you are losing track of the (astronomical amount of) emergent properties.
> I googled "fair use copyright US" and have now decided that US copyright law is stupid.

Fair use helps artists, journalists, and (indirectly) the general public. It prevents censorship of critical or opposing views, among a lot of other uses that are beneficial to society (see sibling comment). US copyright law is backwards in a lot of ways but this isn't one of them.
> sysv init (no systemd)

Rose tinted glasses. Each distro had its own scripts and layout.

SysV sucked.
I stopped a while back. And now I'm unsure what I think given the AI revelations.

On the hand MS gave a great product to programmers for free, and on the other they've used the code therein to do a lot of junior programmers out of their future jobs, and then again this will increase the productivity of many programmers, for a profit.

It's hard to be too critical yet I'm no fan either.
I just walk past them when I'm not using them. Very easy. Hardly a problem.
Agreed. Vrioon is my favorite -an exceptional album. The frequency range on those compositions is insane. Needs subs to truly appreciate it.
Nothing new or unexpected sadly. Even the most vocal critics of the US government and its policies (including all the "pro freedom of speech", "anti woke culture" types) will quickly get in line and shut up as soon as China is involved in the conversation. Absolute authoritarianism and economic power is a very dangerous combination.
It's 2023, do people still have driver issues on Linux? Last I had to worry about that was when Ubuntu was <10.xx. It works well on random machines IME for the last two decades almost.

(Admittedly, I've done well by staying away from nvidia)
"stochastic parrot" is an interesting shibboleth for a certain school of thought on the capabilities of LLMs, but i think it is uncharitable to make the leap straight to "has no clue of how neural networks work". on some level, all of us who spend our free time enough to know what "stochastic parrot" refers to have some idea how NNs work, and on another, none of us know how NNs really work.

we could all do with a bit more humility dealing with this topic and each other.
> The people in charge get voted in by a minority of the people who go to vote

Except for a couple examples in the US, I'm not aware of democratic countries where this has actually occurred.

And in the US, it's not a common occurrence.
The site allows three free downloads, have you reached your limit?
> You’re repeating some of the words you heard elsewhere out of context.

That is quite an arrogant claim, sir. You know not me, nor which words or contexts I consumed.
AI has a privacy problem right now where the most capable models are available only on cloud services that censor and access your input and output data. The gap between the state-of-the-art and private alternatives is especially large in text generation.
See I've been doing Open Source for a long time and I love that GitHub/OpenAI/Microsoft is training on my code.

I want it to be helpful.

I'd prefer to run my own version, but we are I guess between 3 and 6 months from having competitive open offerings.

When I write open source code I'm serious about the open, non-discriminatory nature of it.
> It's not an understatement to say that he has been not-quite-single-handedly carrying the hardware side of the enthusiast/cottage-industry FDM market for well over a decade

In fact it's not un understatement, it's plainly a false statement.
Nothing of Prusa is an original Idea, everything has come from the community and they have refined and calibrated it.
The differentiating factor Prusa Had was a pre-calibrated Printer and more quality control on the parts. If you rigtly say that the refinement is the important part, there's plenty of refinement on various things also on the "clones"
Cachy Browser
Never heard about it. Does it run on bare metal ? /s
Lived in a small city which had mixed use of cars, bikes and shoes for many years. Never saw an accident of any kind. Generally mature and sedate drivers and bikers, but a culture that widely enjoyed adventure sports etc.

E-scooters introduced. In one year I saw three accidents where someone was hurt to the point they require attention, and multiple close misses - one of which would have been extremely serious but for a split-second stroke of luck.

All involving e-scooters.

My observation is the combination of silent operation, effortless acceleration, and the impulsive enabling of randomly deciding you need to go faster right now both at rental and on the scooter, is a hot mess.

I'd frequently have people whizz past me at high speed, inches away, and have no idea they were coming. Had I happened to move slightly, say to avoid an obstacle or bend around to reach for my bag, we'd both have been screwed.

While this can happen with a bike, it's much less often - as the effort and room required to pedal doesn't lend well to instantaneous impulse, nor the "sneak through a tight gap" temptation, it's all simply louder and slower.

I'm sure different demographics and cultures experience scooters differently, and maybe some safely, but where I was, and I can presume in Paris (given how they drive...) it was not a good mix, at all.