skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve run arch and gentoo for years, i’ll be setting up my kid with a mac unless he expresses extreme interest in the depths of linux. Learning linux trivia is misrepresented as virtuous and there are more useful things to do with your time.
Sad that war and America are believed to be inevitable. Twice as sad is that fact that most won't even recognize its been so normalized.
A book is a linear and deterministic source of information. Video games, as play in general, is a different realm that no functioning human can confuse with real life (in fact your comment made me think that rolling LLM out in context of play only, I think, could in fact be a responsible thing to do). In case of guns, keep in mind that an LLM user is a gun victim—LLM operators are the ones wielding it.

Proactively Googling up information is one thing[0], but arriving at some conclusion after a conversation with something that talks like a human—moreover, a wise all-knowing human, which we instinctively still associate with age and have grown to appreciate and respect, and would expect to not just produce reference but guide us—strikes me as a completely different instance.

I strongly agree that mental health is underemphasized in many countries (don’t know about Belgium in particular); but that is not an excuse if an application of technology is irresponsible. As an extreme example, putting a nuclear launch button in everyone’s home, knowing not everyone is mentally healthy, is a bad idea.

[0] Still note that on some sensitive topics Google will show a notice, sometimes country-specific, which further advises you that results should not be actionable; whereas in case of LLM there is no separation between the message (which is based on whatever happened to go in the training dataset) and the medium (data retrieval tool that many are tempted to treat as a sentient human-like being).
Just not if gaming is the goal. Steam would be only available as a Flatpak, says https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Steam. And the Flatpak version is problematic.

Void would be a better choice if liking simplicity. Or to keep it simple, maybe Pop!_OS. Or Debian. Or Arch. Pretty much everything not Alpine ;)
Wow you have to pay $100 AND also pay for OpenAI api usage? That seems quite excessive.
As a comment on exercise: I also see exercise as torture when I'm doing it wrong.

For me, I needed(/need - this is not a solved problem) to find a way that works for me, and also take it in the tiniest of little bites.

I tried for years to get into running. Never worked. I hate running. I tried to go to the gym, but all the classes went way too hard for me and my local didn't do "just show up and lift", only classes. I tried riding a bike, but I could never find a way to do that where I wasn't dodging cars, rain, hills and heat.

Finally last year I bought a rowing machine and a heart rate monitor. I put my headphones on, listen to a podcast, and focus on keeping my heart rate in a specific zone for a certain amount of time. If it's hot, I turn on the AC. If I get sick of it, I stop. I dont have to dodge cars, so I can completely dissociate and listen to the podcast so long as the number is where I want it to be.

It's great and generally not torture, which is nice because apart from team sport it's literally the only way I've found that isn't.
I ran windows 1.0 back in the day through 11 (arm) in a VM now. I ran OS/2 at a prior employer years back so I could do builds for Windows 16 as well as do other work. Windows is a tool. I have run laptops using Windows to FreeBSD. I run MacOS as a choice because Linux sucks for dealing with multiple environments and printers and the things that make a "desktop OS" useful.

Windows 10 / 11 let marketing be stupid and added things like Candy Crush, etc. I'm not a fan and wish they had done different. There are things to "like" about windows - backward compatibility being one that has been pretty amazing.
I actually think they're working on it (at least the paging.) Although I also think there's no hurry, because if a thread on HN (or Reddit for that matter) is too big, it's probably also terrible.
Seems to be Linux 5.15, so it has a chance but SBC manufacturers don't have great track records on this so wouldn't hold my breath
Sure, it’ll work on more powerful older computers; I’m just saying practically any recent windows PC will work.
I just had to set up the first Windows machine I’ve owned in 20 years. Between Windows 11 itself and the garbage the hardware manufacturer throw on there, it’s awful. Upsells everywhere. Horseshit I do not want clotting things up. After spending most of my time on macOS it was really quite shocking to see how atrocious things are on the Windows side. I’m sure you can eventually get things tuned how you want, but who’s going to trust an OS that so anti-user right out of the box?
I would say this is wrongheaded. There are compliant ways to use offshore jurisdictions that result in not paying annual taxes, there are compliant ways to use domestic tax vehicles to not pay any tax as well. The IRS helps you in both circumstances. The framing by politicians and their constituents is just inaccurate.

The roads and airports that were going to get funded still get funded. No amount of taxation is going to fix the neglected area with poor people, its not going to happen. The taxes will continue to pay interest in debt that governments issue, excessive amounts of capital that… will never go to the neglected side of town ever.

Your civic duty is reporting tax events, paying what is legally owed. Nobody knows what “fair share” is.

And then… its not even about tax. Its about regulatory burden. Bureaucratic requirements to accomplish anything. Caymans has a fairly seamless and modern processes, intelligent and competent staff. Most jurisdictions do not. Its easy to think “there must be a reason for the bureaucratic requirements… in my country”, which country? USA? Netherlands? China? Surely one is less true than the other, the point here is to spark introspection.

Cayman services all, it doesn't have the geopolitical baggage while adhering to broad sanctions lists.
> The person said they were living in an apartment and would never move to a house.

Yes and I’m keenly honing on on the benefits they highlighted and how those benefits don’t have to be unique to (as they are describing) a dense urban center with apartment only dwellers. Also the OP could just live in an apartment in a mixed-use, medium density neighborhood. They could be your neighbor even!

> Also, I would like to point out people don't drive 5 miles to get a loaf of bread.

Hey there! Yes it’s me. Fellow suburbanite for many years who can tell you first hand as a 100% fact that people do in fact drive distances like this for a single loaf of bread. You can to it for other items too. “Whoops forget sour cream for taco night”, “oh I’m going to make a beer run”, “better grab milk and eggs for that snow storm!”. Etc.

> They buy stuff for the whole week/month in one go, which you just can't do by foot.

You don’t need to do that and they likely do that (most make multiple trips) because you have to go drive a while to make it to the grocery store and deal with traffic. There’s nothing wrong with walking 10 minutes to grab a few things a few times/week. It’s better and healthier. You’re describing “how things are” and not using your imagination to understand how things could be.

Saving this for last:

> What you're proposing (making 5 random houses into apartments), would probably still have most people living in apartments

I just told you that you can take an existing neighborhood and modify it by transforming a few houses so that they have different functions. This is only limited by zoning. Why in the world would that result in “most people living in apartments”? No apartments would be required!
> Then magic happens? Who does it?

You do it after hours or on weekends or hire help for that. A lot of couples with kids figured that out before the pandemic so not really any rocket science stuff about that.

> Google offered the tools for their employees to bond online that it would not work?

My company has gone all in on making remote-first work and the leadership is sincerely trying all it can. We tried many tools for online socializing (games, food and drink, some social apps...). They all sucked. Finally the company gave up and started shelling up big bucks to fly everyone in for offsites. And that has its big challenge of crazy expensive flights and hotels, or a lack of dates/locations where everyone can make it. If you got any tools which did the trick for your team, please do share.

> follow a different schedule and call them coasting

Your literal words: "do household work whilst working from home". That's not having a different schedule. That is coasting.
Windows 10 LTSC. It has nothing just the base system + Edge preinstalled
Nationalistic flamewar will get you banned here, as will other kinds of flamewar. We've had to warn you about this more than once before. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
The key part:

> Toshin found Pinduoduo to have exploited about 50 Android system vulnerabilities. Most of the exploits were tailor made for customized parts known as the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) code, which tends to be audited less often than AOSP and is therefore more prone to vulnerabilities, he said.

> Pinduoduo also exploited a number of AOSP vulnerabilities, including one which was flagged by Toshin to Google in February 2022. Google fixed the bug this March, he said.

That's probably a good enough reason to stick with Pixel smartphones, if choosing Android.
Yes, I read the article. The reality is that buying prebuilt was and still is a working-class family experience. It's all we ever did until I grew up and built my own. Today, many kids are given laptops instead of towers. Those are prebuilt too, and they all ship with windows (and junk) installed.
I didn't say the break was intentional :). I run out, but I figured I'll just wait until the next appointment and see how I take a prolonged break, because it's been years since I did a break longer than a day. The problem is, as a father of two small kids, my family life and professional life are in fierce competition for my mental faculties, so I never feel like I can "afford" a break. I do recognize it's an irrational and self-defeating thought, but if that realization could impact my behavior, I wouldn't be on stimulants in the first place ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

RE my break, I maybe had only a day of "withdrawal" that was more of a little panic mode, that lasted until I realized I'm really managing just fine, only maybe slightly less so. Week later, I was still managing fine - though everything was noticeably harder, and I was only compensating with habits developed since starting the treatment (and perhaps novelty of such long break itself).
You will love canvas ... (not).
That's more or less true, it just wasn't so severe I think at a point. It was out of reach for my poor prairie single parent family, but that was for a giant single family house. If the circumstances prevailed in 2015 when I moved here, I definitely could have afforded even a pretty nice 1 bedroom condo outside of downtown.

Regarding east van where I live now, I went to an open house yesterday on commercial drive that was 1 bedroom for $750k facing west and looking at buildings that have been there at 1 story since maybe the 50s.

The gap is just so enormous, considering we rent a studio basement down the street for $1500 total.
Swotting
https://wpd.app/
> Culture is defined by people, not some sacred thing that needs to be preserved

A counter to this is the Académie Française [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_Fran%C3%A7aise
> I think instant ink is a better product in terms of money saved, especially when you account for the risk of cartridges drying out.

They created a problem for which the solution was a subscription. Laser toner doesn't have this issue.

> I think we should just move on as a society from the idea that you somehow “own” cheap personal property like phones and printers and fridges, etc.

You do own it. If you want to pay someone a monthly fee to help you manage it, that's your choice. But to say that everyone else should "move on as a society" because of your personal choices is very arrogant.
> And ethnicity wise, I'd honestly not be surprised. Gujarat/Sindh/Punjab/Pakhtunkhwa/Balochistan/Kashmir all literally neighbored ethnically Persian regions like Sistan and Khorasan.

From the DNA results I've seen, I believe most of the Iranic like ancestry in these regions is older and from the BMAC / Oxus civilization. Some Syed groups have some recent middle eastern ancestry but substantial amounts are absent from most communities. Coastal South Gujarat seems to be an exception with some Sunni Muslims farmers having substantial foreign ancestry.

> Modern Shia and Sunni Islam is heavily modernized/reformed in the 19th century due to the impact Imperialism had on the Ottoman, Iranian, Bukharan and Mughal spheres. The same thing happened to modern Hinduism with the influence of revivalist and reformist movements like Arya Samaj and Sarvarkar and modern Sikhism with the Akali Dal. While the older traditions still persist in smaller towns due to the time capsule effect, those traditions and folklore are slowly dying away. Such is society I guess.

Our Islam changed quite a bit during this time due to Wahabbi/Deobandi preachers coming to Gujarat. Hindu practices and consumption of alcohol were heavily frowned upon afterwards.

I'd definitely like to read more about the topic, but no big deal if it's hard to find the sources.
+1 for LTSC
Which take are you talking about?
If we start losing the moths it'll be even harder to bring back from the brink than bees.

Like the proverbial starving migrant, unpopular animals are left to the wayside[0]; bees making honey and being well known plays to their advantage, but I'm 100% sure you could tell someone moths are going extinct and their response would be "finally, my closet was shrinking every year!"

[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/are-ugly-anima...
AC Power Filters and Electromagnetic Compliance: A View from the Field (2017)
We've banned this account again for egregiously perpetuating flamewars. Seriously not cool.

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If you have to use lighter fluid to BBQ you’re better off just using a stove/oven.
I think you mean overestimate
It's starting.

Most of the rest of the U.S. thinks the layoffs that have hit the tech sector are because they overextended and made poor decisions during the stimulus-fueled boom. That may be true, but a falling tide grounds all boats. We'll see some big names in the economy do mass layoffs this summer - that's the whole point of the Fed's actions.

My marker for when it's time to re-enter the stock market is when an S&P 500 company goes bankrupt.
They are permissive because the same people who own stock in the manufacturing industry of these containers and food industries also own stock in healthcare. They make money off of the suffering.
Its the same basic concept you can use in multiple ways. But yeah of course security was not what tagging was used.
https://momentummag.com/paris-to-become-100-percent-cycling-...
If your job stops paying you then you can find a new job.

If your government stops paying you, you can’t find a new citizenship.

A world where work is replaced by UBI is not a utopia. It’s a dystopia where the government controls if you can eat today. In which politicians divide and conquer by differentially giving and denying nutrition to different groups in order to gain votes. Give me a corporate hellscape any day of the week over that.

UBI is one of those “semantic stop signs” where people just stop thinking whenever it is mentioned. The term is a stand-in for whatever utopian society the user has in mind. But the implications of UBI as a policy are completely contrary to the stated goals of the users of the term.
Ecuador allows gun ownership & carry by public, in historic shift
I was actually referring to precisely that. And sponsoring Renaissance artists and scientist contributed to the eminence of Florentin.

Control over the Church was rarely as useful within Italy as outside of it. The papacy always had strong enemies on the peninsula. Much of its policy was dedicated to keep them divided and to ensure that those didn't ally with outside powers.
Please don't perpetuate flamewars on HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

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Theyre transmitting every keystroke to their servers, thats whats happened…
You posted well over a dozen flamewar comments to this thread and broke the site guidelines egregiously. We ban accounts that do that. I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and avoid this kind of thing in the future—regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are—we'd appreciate it.

I understand how provocative nationalistic flamebait can be, but that's a reason to take a step back and consciously not take the bait. Otherwise we end up in a downward spiral, as happened here.
The question is "what is the most efficient way of getting hydrogen at the source?"

Shipping it directly has problems with hydrogen being such a small gas and it is damaging to the vessel that it is transported in ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_embrittlement ).

Pushing electricity to the source needs a lot of power to work on the scale of steel production. Generating electricity from further away means power loss. Pumping water from the ground for hydrogen gives you ground water depletion (a serious issue in many parts of the world).

Ammonia is already a well understood compound for shipping. It doesn't pose the losses of shipping hydrogen and is already something needed in various places (fertilizer production).

Note that part of this is indeed doing electrolysis - at the location the ammonia is made rather than at the steel foundry. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonia_production#Haber-Bosch... )

In https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/2299bce2-54a9-43ce... you will note that the cost of hydrogen production is the same - but the other costs of conversion and import / export terminals is much more.
I didn't mention anything at all about a hysteresis parameter.
Rediscovered Windows on a new Surface recently (so the pure Microsoft experience...), and yes it's pretty bad out of the box. Not just the ads, but the presets and aren't great either, so you're expected to take a bunch of time to make it sane first.

The general advice I got was to start with a debloating program [0], especially for people new to the platform.

My take is, Windows 11's lows are really low. Having to debloat is one thing, the overall mild bugginess is another (everything kinda only works 99% of the time, that 1% of FU doesn't seem to disappear). Then the arcane science of digging through old layers to resurect past UIs that are still more powerful than the newer ones.

On the other side the highs are way way higher. People stick with all the crap because that's the only path to where they want to go.

[0] https://github.com/builtbybel/BloatyNosy
it's like those books from the late 90s

"Google for Dummies"
Our office has been back open for months and months now. Barely anyone comes in.

Unmentioned in this article is what I think is one of the big reasons why, which is the housing affordability and vacancy crisis.

For older and wealthy workers they may have housing near the office, but for the new generation they've been priced out of anything in the cities, and young designers and programmers at my work are often still living at home in their parents' suburban basements. Of course they'd rather WFH than waste their day commuting in. I don't blame them.

On the other end of things many older workers with families used the opportunity to move elsewhere hours and hours away from the office and get a "cheap" SFH. They now have no option but to WFH.

Basically the government's complete inaction on housing policy has created an environment where everyone, except those lucky enough to already have housing, is worse off continuing to work in the big cities.

When I was a 20 year old I moved to Vancouver and got a cheap apartment in a cool part of town and I didn't even have that good of a job. Due to bad housing policy, that sort of opportunity is completely closed to young people these days.
When you're a kid it's precisely the time to learn about and deal with all the minutia. Tell them it's like Minecraft but you're building an operating system instead of a world.
I don't read the post as drawing an equivalence across these four, but I think the two you picked out are actually the most comparable pair. Certainly corporate profit interests have harmed ESG discourse, but the leading AI developers right now are corporations and it's only a short matter of time before whatever legitimate AI risk concerns will get contaminated by profit-protecting PR campaigns.
> No its not.

Yes, it is.

> while hydrogen electric is a basically a fantasy thing

No, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are practical realities.

Planes: https://labusinessjournal.com/transportation/aviation/univer...

Trains: https://newatlas.com/transport/china-hydrogen-supercapacitor...

Automobiles: https://www.greencarcongress.com/2023/02/20230219-solaris.ht...
> What if the vast majority prefer some level of isolation?

Many preferences are not necessarily the best for us. I would prefer to eat nothing but hamburgers and never exercise, but that doesn’t mean I should.

> What if they prefer to socialize with people outside of work?

For most people, I would argue this simply doesn’t happen very often. (Hence my question in my parent comment)
The German government did indeed messed up their transition. As has the French one (their nuclear park is in a dead end, while they are nowhere with new nuclear or new renewable). The French situation is in fact way dyer, but because they are "borrowing to the future" (for example, their electricity cost is low, but they are not building up the budget that will be needed for older power plants dismantlement, so they are heading for a very big crisis), people don't notice.

Not that the Germany is better than France. My point is that it s true that people who have a rage boner about Germany are not fair: if they really care about f* up, why they don't care about France?

I don't buy this idea that the German transition was an ideology driven f* up. The project was designed and supported by a lot of experts. They published their results, with their computations and all, and no real flaw was discovered. Sure, there were some pro-nuclear partisans who, like the anti-nuclear ones, would never accept that such studies were scientifically sound just because it did not say what they ideologically wanted to hear.

At the time, the project was scientifically sound. It did not work out because 1) the government did half of the things the project said it should do, 2) as every long-term project, it had some uncertainties, and it turned out some elements did not "aligned".
An alternative project of keeping with nuclear generation was also scientifically sound, but it is not scientifically correct to pretend that this one was "better", or "more rational", or even "less ideological". People who come here and say "it was an ideological f* up" are just people who see it did not worked out and are not smart enough to not think "obviously, if it would have be me, I would have done it way better, the only reason it failed is because they suck and are irrational while I'm wayyyy smarter than everyone and soooo rational".
My blog is about the creation of a coding language that, once finished, could allow for the compilation of the text of the whole blog into a program that would erase the blog. Which is total nonsense.
Sure, kid.