skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trump is a bad example considering satire should punch upwards to be successful or you just end up mocking someone. With Trump you had had billion dollar companies, media, Silicon Valley and Hollywood backing the movement. In contrast, we have serious discussions on "how far-right groups use memes to radicalize people". Satire works by creating a discussion and pushing opinion on dangerous/sensitive topics but it only works when you're the underdog.
Predatory dinosaurs such as T. rex sported lizard-like lips
qq: was it not possible to take money off the table? AFAIK, it was common 2020-2021 that even series B raises let founders take some money off.
> Also makes me wonder what a proof would look like.

Start with the simplest possible maze (i.e. one square with a start and a finish) which will be in two pieces. Then show that all possible additions will not add further pieces except for when you "cut" into an existing piece to make a separate non-solution route (i.e. a looped route that takes you back to the same point).

(Having any loops in the maze would break the condition of there being only one solution as you could take a detour round the loop as many times as you like and thus have an infinite number of "solutions")
+1 on this.

Interestingly, I use a car sharing service which has fixed stations (cars have designated parking spaces where they're picked from, and you leave your car where you found it), and I find myself multimodalling (walk or cycle) to their EV stations (they also have petrol cars).

They also have a free-for-all offering where you can pick and park anywhere within the city limits, but I've never had a use for it - I only rent a car when hauling large enough things that wouldn't fit in a bus/tramway.
I don't think a simulation needs to simulate anything real. Eg. if I have a program that runs Conway's game of life, that would be also be a simulation, but there's nothing "real" it references against.

In other words, the universe simulating ours might work completely differently, and some beings there are just testing how different laws of physics (i.e. ours) work out.
Window Search works well for me. I turned off the web results for Windows Search. It only shows me my local files and applications and loads instantly. (Use O&O Shutup tool) Searches inside text and docx files, as well. I agree it could be better, but it's not trash.

Audio devices are easy to switch than ever now. Click the wifi/sound button on taskbar, then click the icon on the right of the volume slider. It's not obvious but clicking it allows you to switch between all available audio devices.

AppData is where your preferences should be stored. ProgramData is for app store stuff. It's confusing and should hopefully clear up in a while. It's a step up from storing everything in <userhome>\Documents.

OneDrive only does it if you click Next without unchecking it - just turn it off. It's a bit of a dark pattern, I agree, but I don't have that "feature" enabled. There is only one "local" Documents folder (in <userhome>\Documents). But OneDrive wants to push the Cloud version of it (in <onedrive folder>\Documents). I think this where the confusion lies.

Settings is pretty well done, imo. Let's talk about recent macOS settings changes now.

No idea on network proxies...? I'll take your word for it, sucks.

> separate workspaces per monitor

I prefer how Windows does it. And GNOME only does it for the "primary" monitor, the other monitors do not get separate workspaces.

> the _only_ thing MacOS has going for it is a bash terminal that is well integrated into the OS.

It's zsh by default, and it's not "well-integrated". It's a leftover vestige from NeXT and they just didn't remove it - it literally has BSD underpinning its OS.

PowerShell with Windows Terminal is very powerful and I like it. It's completely integrated with Windows, and is a first-class citizen, just like on macOS and Linux. You get the added bonus of using WSL2 and having access to all of your Linux tools.

Learning PowerShell has been enlightening and does much more than bash/zsh.
> do you suppose that is the real reason Elon bought Twitter? To gain insight into that?

Or to gain control over it, therefore gaining political power as well.
Who said anything about a US state?
It seems to be the sales tax (GST) applicable in India for iPhones & iPads.

Plus customs duties.
as someone who lives in a city with (imho) one of the best public transport systems, i still like to use scooters for travels where public transport either can't provide an easy way to get to the destination and/or the wait times are longer than the travel itself. usually, i just use my bike, but there are still situations where an e-scooter is just an insanely practical choice.
> He's stated multiple times he bought it because of freedom of speech.

Can we trust such a statement at face value? Should we?
Not quite 3 €, but there are many OEM license resellers selling them for anywhere between 5-30 €, for example: https://www.mmoga.com/Software/Windows/Microsoft-Windows-10-...
> people want to be able to use any programming language with them.

And then, except for a few rounding errors, they actually use C.
True, and HTML too :)
GM kills more than CarPlay support, it kills choice
maybe they mean they are spending 10.8m + 925K a month, though seems a weird way to say it. Still who am I to complain, communicative ability decreases with stress.
I stopped paying attention to FreeBSD since the day they adopted their moronic code of conduct.
Maybe we can make a comparison with 2001 MSN messenger and it’s more or less instant appearance?
Go stdlib regexp package: A DFA experiment
modernc.org/regexp @v1.2.0, relative to the stdlib regexp package:

- performance sec/op, geomean -14.51%

- throughput B/s, geomean +25.99%

- regexredux-dna, wall time: -63.4%
> they have always also at least given back something to the community to earn some good will

The busybox authors disagree: https://busybox.net/license.html
> And cutting revenue while you are also trying to sell the company is going impact valuation.

In all cases, you have to sit on your losses. What you need to think about is how much you're still wanting to risk for future profit.

I guess the point of the parent comment, is that one way to make sure you end with something is bring the business to profitability by cutting expenses right now to almost zero, and see how much revenue remains.

That profitable business would be:

1. making money for YOU,
2. and give you a much better view of how much you can sell it for.

In a world where money is no longer cheap and available, that may be a good idea to consider this option.

Losing control of the board and getting fired means you put that business in the hands of people who may not care about losing it all (and yours with it).
You're comparing owned bike vs rented e-scooter. Try comparing rented bike with rented e-scooter or owned bike with owned e-scooter and you'll see that there isn't such a stark difference.

Not sure why you call me close minded, I never mentioned any of those "alternatives" you mention. I walk to most places I go to, as I currently live in a walkable metropolitan city in Europe.
For some reason you've got two replies talking about the "far right", missionaries in Africa and other weirdness that doesn't apply to Europe and never comes up anywhere.

The way most people experience this is partisan ideological fighting that spills out into the rest of the world, especially left wing social movements. This is how you get people yelling "hands up don't shoot" at unarmed British police, and BLM marches in central European cities where there's no history of slavery and famously civilized police. It makes no sense in the local cultural context but people are bored and copy what they see on TV and social media.
cries a little

I too am in Australia
With only 5m in the bank, 12m burn and 130m in revenues, is there any way to optimize your cash flow? If you can get a 180 day line of credit from your suppliers your runway will look a lot better. Your suppliers are the only ones who care if you go out of business, and if you’ve worked with them for a long time they hopefully like you.

And you have to cut costs too. It’s not fun but you have to do it. Renegotiate every contract, and just stop paying for things that you don’t 100% need.
I thought so, because the first area of surface tension he pointed out is disconnected from the rest of the water. So that surface tension alone would have to explain it. But there was a lot of water up there!

I guess it is the same as the upsidedown glass of water with a sheet of paper underneath trick.
> Try asking _anyone_ who doesn't have English as their first language in a serious context how they feel about their language and you'll struggle to find someone without a genuine fondness for it.

I‘m German, and I don‘t care for that language. It‘s unnecessarily complex.
India towns/villages dont have reliable electricity. So not sure what is the point of bringing up India.
Starlink is also having a bad side-effect in other areas - apparently the frequencies on which it communicates muck up weather prediction technology[0]. I'm sure it works great if you're rural/have literally no other means but if you have the infrastructure for it, don't use Starlink.

[0]: https://nltimes.nl/2023/01/27/dutch-meteorologists-say-musks...
To be fair, you can easily use apple hardware for 5 years, where windows is just completely dead and unuseable after 2.
Simple - figure out who reputable field leaders are, subscribe to their email newsletters. No junk, minimal distraction, can lead to 1-1 relationship very quickly...
The standards for what constitutes adware are a bit higher than on other OSes, however I also see this as a warning sign and I despise snap. As someone who also vets Linux installs for some relatives I used Ubuntu on these and I regret it a bit. It's nothing you can't fix yet, but it becomes an annoyance.

This and the silent introduction of phased updates and some broken updates makes me avoid Ubuntu in the future for sure. My go-to would probably be Debian which I personally use, however something like Silverblue or microOS might also be attractive in the future ... but not yet for casual users.

edit: Or maybe vanillaOS, if I ever get over the waste that is a/b partitioning.
Starlink: Satellite-to-Cell Service in New Zealand by 2024
I don't doubt that apps installed by Lenovo are exacerbating the problem, but even with a clean install it's still Windows. I use Linux for a variety of reasons, some technical, some aesthetic, but mostly because the systems are usually designed to respect their users in a way that Windows and Android don't. Not that there aren't plenty of problems with Linux as well. They just tend to be usability shortcomings rather than design features that are personally offensive.
Hunts' Guide to Michigan's Upper Peninsula
I've submitted the web archive link as the domain no longer points to this site
Depends on the programmer.
Ask HN: Any interesting work in using multiple LLMs in concert?
I've been messing around myself trying to get multiple LLMs to work together to solve problems.

I'm sure this must be an active area of research.

What I've been trying:

A "memory retrieval" LLM that looks at the input and decided what data to pull from long term memory
A "processor" LLM that takes the input and combines it with the data from memory to produce an ouput
A "memory store" LLM that looks at the input and output of the processor and decides what should be stored in long term memory.

And finally a "supervisor" LLM that looks at the input and output and decides if "thinking" is complete or if everything should be fed back through the system again.

Currently, I'm just messing around with ideas, but would like to see what's going on in this area.
The start menu and taskbar are disgusting. There are times where it feels like they’re making a round trip to the moon to get data.

It’s not consistent enough to debug either.
As someone who has been on both sides, developing cheats and working in anticheat, AC on linux will always be significantly gimped compared to windows because of GPL related issues, anyone saying otherwise is doing it entirely for marketing reasons.

On windows a closed-source driver that can utilize and scan for anomalies in reverse engineered undocumented internal kernel structures is feasible. If you want to do something similar on linux you need to find a reverse engineer that has never laid eyes on linux kernel sources(good luck with that), have them reverse engineer and take very detailed notes on relevant kernel structures and functions, and then find a software developer that has also never laid eyes on kernel sources to write a driver according to those notes. Needless to say, this takes a fair amount of time and therefore money.

The alternatives are to implement your detections in usermode, where they can easily be fed false information from the kernel, or to publish the source code for your detections making them almost worthless.

Cheat developers have it much easier, they do not give a fuck about licensing and will just read kernel sources and ship a closed source driver, or ship a hypervisor that tampers with kernel data structures that they are able to just copy and paste out of the sources.
As I saw it reading his book, he correctly identified what was wrong with Apple to get it to the point it was, and had good ideas to fix that. But he didn't have the respect of the rank-and-file to implement the ideas without being undermined, and his ideas for what to do next were all wrong (the stuff in the last chapter of his book when he rails at Jobs).
> The whole argument about "they clog the streets" and annoy me is absolutely contrary to the actual incentives to cheaper and more ecological transport.

Bullshit. These e-scooter sharing services operate on cities already covered by all sorts of public transportation services, including municipal e-bike services.

The key difference is that municipal services address and avoid the problem of abusive occupation of public space by employing networks of pickup/dropoff spots.

> Hey, Citizen, if you don't have the means to buy, store and charge your own and occasionally would need one to deal with the craziness and unreliability of public transport, we are going to make it harder on you.

Bullshit. These escooter sharing services operate in cities where public transportation is highly subsidized and monthly fees are mostly symbolic, with some cities being even totally free.

Also, a cursory search for escooters shows that there are scooters in the market for 120kg/13km autonomy for less than 300€, and they can be charged by simply plugging them onto any regular electrical socket.

> Many countries in Europe keep punishing people who don't own cars or other vehicles while pretending they care about the environment. They do the same with bikes or e-bikes.

You have zero insight or basis on reality to support any of your personal assertions. You've managed to be entirely wrong in each and any assertion you made.
> . I would entirely support the EU making it illegal for EU nationals to do business with Cayman in the same way the US makes it illegal to do business with Cuba.

because Cuba is a tax heaven ?
> his monitor's display suddenly became weird

Not experienced that for a decade on Linux, but it happens every day for me on MacOS. Not sure why, but coming out of sleep, half the time one monitor will be at the wrong resolution and a third of the time the other monitor will be rotated 90 degrees.

I've resorted to leaving the displays setting window open so I can change them back when it happens. Really frustrating and the same monitors, HDMI cables and USB-C hub cause no issues on Linux.
That's not a cultural export. Opposition to abortion is found around the world and European abortion laws were generally more tough than US laws before Roe v Wade was overturned. Opposition to abortion is largely associated with Catholicism which is far stronger in Europee and Latin America than North America.
Django 4.2 Released
Don't use Ubuntu then. Use a libre distro, as Trisquel.
Until the next update. I spend far too much time trying to make Windows behave in a non-obnoxious way.
OP talked about burnout which is seen as a lack of mental energy. Mitochondria would be the first thing to look at when it comes to energy as it's a "power plant" that makes cells work.
Really curious how and why North Korea has a number of Scratch users per capita 3 times higher than South Korea
But how much 5G infrastructure is there in rural areas? Around my parts, not a lot. So the piggieback argument feels less relevant here.
This is the French thing that I'm the most ashamed of. I'd rather defend Napoleon post 4th coalition or any king post Henry IV than the 'académie française'
> On the one hand we happily train humans on GPL code. Those humans can then write their own functions,but for trivial functions they're gonna look a lot like GPL Source.

Exactly. People are getting mad that Microsoft is making good money while the people who made all that free software available mostly did it for free (like in no money and no recognition). It can sound unfair but that's the deal. If you didn't want people or AI to learn from your code, open source was not the right option.
If I launch a random cellular automaton there isn't as much a real reference I'm trying to compare it to as just seeing what cool things it does. Maybe I can coax it into something comparable if I want, e.g. pick rule 110 and set it up to run ChatGPT and write this comment, but the only "realness" requirement is it follow what logic allows not it has a real reference it's supposed to emulate and be compared to.
Even without consciousness, the existence of the universe faces the same causality issues.
How much of your margins are COGS? How competitive is this industry? Do you sell big-ticket items to a small group of customers or the opposite? Is there room to raise prices a bit? If you told your customers that you're losing a million dollars every month and you might shut down soon, would they easily find alternatives or would they be in a bind themselves?

Why are you really raising money -- to make capital investments that will actually make the company profitable (operating basis)? If the first $187 million didn't do the trick, how & why will this extra $30 million do it? Or are you raising money just to keep the hamster wheel going a little longer?

Are your revenues growing? Or flatlined? 925k/month loss is an awfully specific number, is that better or worse than a year ago, or 6 months ago?
I'll raise you on the report and propose that scooters should report themselves when badly parked. Unless incentivised, nobody would report bad parking, or it could be abused and whatnot.

Most of them already have a GPS system for fleet tracking (takes care of where it's parked), and an accelerometer would easily detect those laying on their side (plus fall detection for added marketing benefit).
Well you might not know enough people to make a statistic.

The modal share of car in Berlin is 26%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_share

Please first reduce by 95% the amount of car, taxi and motorcycle and then we'll talk about scooter.
Doing something similar but with an iMad G3 - no direct internet access before they are in school.
> I don't understand how Microsoft can cheapen their main OS that much.

There's genuinely no economic incentive for them not to sell their own OS down the river at this point.

Mac has established itself as a only-on-mac-hardware market, which rules it out as an option for the majority of corporate and educational settings, and while I wish the year-of-the-linux-desktop was actually coming, most coorporations just aren't set up to / don't understand how to manage OSs without the fallback of a company guaranteeing support.

I see a lot of people celebrating Windows 95 as a high point, and it isn't really a surprise - that was one of the last times that Windows had to genuinely attempt to compete economically for their OS share.
Who downvotes the above? It's obvious allowing NSFW content is not a problem if you simply separate NSFW from SFW content. This "problem" of NSFW content seems so artificial to me, it has been solved decades ago.
What kind of business are you in? Quite hard to understand without hearing what kind of thing you're doing.

Sounds like you want to buy yourself some runway, and the only way to do that is to let go of staff. Alternatively offer people equity-for-salary, because your equity ought to be cheap now.

Sounds pretty stressful, don't beat yourself up over it. Wanting to do well for the investors is good, but everyone knows about the principal-agent problem, and they could have aligned your incentives better. It's exactly this case they should have thought about, what do I do if the founder is in a position where they want to drop everything, blowing up the business, because they won't get anything out of it?
Factorio running inside minecraft running inside roblox.
The cumulative impact on society of all of the violence that happens in the United States is likely lower than, for example, the invention and wide distribution of the smartphone. AI is likely to have a larger impact than that.

You're talking about only one small part of that violence.
Do you know if the issue of congestion is bandwidth, or if its bound by satellite to ground connections?

If its the latter, have you tried finding a neighbor or two and paying $60 each or $40 each?
I wouldn't call that a simulation though, it's just a looping process with rules. A simulation implies imitation, so if it's not imitating anything is it a simulation?
three.js mostly. Here’s the repo: https://github.com/poeti8/unknown-pleasures
> leaking your SSH public key may not be what you want

Can you please elaborate why this is not a good idea?
What exactly is the problem? If you walk away after raising the additional funding (and luckily the current market logic still says companies with no profit can still be worth billions), you'll end up with a still-substantial part of the company, which will be run by people who will have vested interest in making some sort of exit. Sounds like a win-win?
How can I convert text into video
Spanish it's more widely spoken natively than English and ISO-8859-* and it sucked a lot.

Yes, you could map ISO... to ASCII to avoid 'cosas horribles de ver cæmo ⌷stas'. Most words can be read fine without the stress mark in Spanish,
except for some verb conjugations where they look odd without them.
But, reading n instead of 'ñ' gets tiring after a while.

Thank Plan9's gods for UTF-8.

On the rest, a separate comment it's better.

Also:

I use Hyperbola GNU/Linux. UTF-8. IceWM. Rox if bored, or for photo galleries with thumbnails, here a file manager makes sense. Metal2 theme with CDE icons. I liked the aesthetics from late 90's/early 2000's. I still use

gv -smartan

and

mplayer2

But... X.org works. No 30-70h, 50-160v, you know what I mean. Sndio works perfectly, so does ALSA. No encoding issues on switching from English to Spanish making voodoo in order to guess which $ENCODING_OF_THE_DAY does use the Spanish Slashdot clone. Everything works universally. Unifont for the terminal it's a godsend.
I based this on the intuition witnessing his incompetence managing Twitter. For a great engineer, he certainly lacks awareness that I attribute to either ignorance or being more accustomed to handling things in abstract - not in practice.
Use ShutUp10 then reimport after update.

Or better:

1. You disable update (group policy or WuMgr tool or whateva)
2. Install-Module PSWindowsUpdate then cherry pick with Install-WindowsUpdate
3. Reruns scripts you created in pwsh to disable junk.
Apple is probably Apple because individuals in management believe that maintaining "good taste" is in their professional interest, above goals like boosting a quarter's revenue through any means possible.

That's not a simple switch you can flip on in an organization. Especially if you lack a culture that has a consensus view of what good taste even is.