skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But alignment and legibility are productivity.

10 employees working fully aligned will achieve much more of what is valuable to the company than 10 employees working just as hard but on things that don't sync up right.

And legibility is needed in order to achieve alignment. A manager needs to make sure all the parts of a project come together by the deadline, and so tracking progress allows them to quickly say OK let's drop that feature or I need to unblock you on this so I'll reach out to the other team's manager.

Productivity isn't a scalar quantity produced by employees that simply adds together. Think of it as something more multiplicative, where a "zero" from a key employee tanks a project altogether. (E.g. your team of nine back-end engineers and one front-end engineer achieves zero productive output if the front-end engineer doesn't deliver anything workable. Or the back-end database engineer fails at their tasks.)

So alignment and legibility aren't detrimental to achieving objectives -- they're critical.
Microsoft has a habit of flipping settings back to stock, but so far as I know, this has never happened for group policy. I've been using GPOs to reliably flip things off in Windows 10

Can't speak to 11 but I imagine it's the same; GPOs are one of the few things Microsoft wants to make sure never break with an update given the market that uses them.
Windows 11 start menu search is slowest shit i've ever seen

I can't stand when I type app name (e.g paint or vs) and it appears but click needs like 5-10 sec to be registered

what the hell

It worked perfectly fine on Win10 on the same hardware (my OS has been updated recently either automatically or by company).

I'd call Windows 11 pretty OK once you tweak one or two things in register settings, maybe the lack of right click menu on task bar sucks (e.g show desktop), but search being slow is ridiculous, it should be blazingly fast
Is there any rock solid program that effortlessly lets me shut off contentious “features”? Ie. no unreliable registry mucking or other stuff. I just want to open an application and begin unchecking checkboxes.
We seem to have imported Naziism from Germany with little problem, so the circle is 2/3 complete.
>Lets assume for a moment that I haven't read any papers in those fields, that I don't have any childrens, that I haven't trained any LLMs or worked in "reinforcement learning", or even read any computer science papers in the last 20 years (the answer to 90% of that is yes): I don't have to be an expert in physics to know that pastors can't levitate, regardless of what they claim.

....what? You're saying to assume you know nothing about a field but to assume your claim is correct? You said to "talk to an expert" - who should I talk to? What should I read about here? If there's something I'm missing I want to correct it, I simply can't say "well this random guy commented and said I'm wrong, better change my understanding of this topic."

> you gotta understand after the 200th time of seeing this unfounded sentiment bandied about I'm not phased.

All you've said is "I've disagreed with everyone on this topic, and while I have no information to offer other than it's 'common sense'". That does nothing to either improve our understand, or further a conversation, it's literally just saying "you're wrong and I'm right" with no elaboration.
Makes me wonder if anyone made a chart of various organisms depicted as ranges on a "degree of energy separation from sunlight", where plants are 0 (they eat sunlight), herbivores are 1 (they eat plants, which eat sunlight), etc.
Would they not have been effectively blocked by the concrete wall the capsule was embedded in?
I use 10, but only as essentially a glorified console. Time for work? Time to boot into the Linux partition.

I look vaguely fondly back on XP, 98, and 95… but at least, XP was pretty bad with frequent crashes. And of course the idea of security was added on afterwards, which was not really successful and kind of a dumb idea.

Anyway I think the death-date of Windows is essentially a personal thing. It is the first day you look at it with at all a critical eye.
> That is what anti consumer looks like. Not SIP.

It's not an either-or. Both of those are super anti-consumer. If you want an OS without anti-consumer "features", then install Linux.
I don’t think the issue was the randomness.

I think it was avoiding trusting a third party.
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> The worst managers of all will tend to give you the answers you most want to hear

i don't think the worst managers even know what the right answer is.
> if the EU is so "dead" then why do US manufacturers respect its regulations?

What does culture have to do with companies wanting the European money?
$5.6 million: https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-990...
Generate an Elixir Library with ChatGPT-4
If WAL mode is enabled and the inserts are running in a separate thread or process then the performance will be exactly while any amount of selects are running.
Shutup10 is a good start.
The thing to note of course is that this is single core. Only one core lights up when running.
I had 30k with PostgreSQL 6.5.3 like in 1999 on a PIII-400 or something like that.
There’s a bit in the American TV series Fresh Off The Boat where the parents start shouting very normal sentences in Chinese so that it looks like a fake heated argument, and the salesman offers them a discount to get them to stop scaring the customers.
I’ve been on Field Studies Courses on butterflies and moths.

Apparently, and I find this hard to believe, people weren’t too fussed about studying micro moths, the smaller ones.

I guess one could put a killing jar out and I’d or read the DNA of the fallen. But I’m guessing micro moths deserve more study. This was a while ago, and maybe the field guide had a thing about micro moths.

Edit: Seems they’re properly appreciated:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microlepidoptera
Another recent example is Myanmar. Started off as civil disobedience and protests but the military shot them up and it's now a civil war. Certainly the population would be better off had it not initially been a one-sided fight?

People who protest the war in Russia get arrested not shot because that's all it takes to suppress them. This is an argument against your point, not for it. Nor does it mean that Russia wouldn't apply harder measures elsewhere, if they thought it necessary.

Russians aren't referred to as orcs, only their soldiers.
> Friction is what prevents people using these things

No, in this case it's the outright city ban that prevents people from using them.

> The scooter companies should

Lime and dozens of others have been around for about 6 years by now, they are doing just fine* and they can probably figure out the promos if they manage not to get banned?

* https://www.li.me/blog/lime-becomes-the-first-shared-electri...
crowdfunding could be handled in a way that organizations decide what issues/features to accept, like they would now, but instead of putting up a bounty from their own funds they say: we don't have the funds to pay for this feature, but if we get enough donations then we can pay someone to build it.

so instead of the crownd deciding what they want to fund, the organization puts up something like a kickstarter for that feature and then asks the crowd to chip in.

or put differently: now you only support bounties that are already funded, and these would be bounties that are not yet funded, and like a kickstarter they are waiting for supporters.
"adding that it is even worse because the UK is no longer part of the EU."

Ireland & Malta are so tired of being forgotten.

(Yes these countries have other languages, so does the UK.)
Instead of banning cars, they banned rental e-scooters...
That's all I use, pared down further still with RES.
“Going back to my first sentence about “at the margins”: optimize at the end. Apple famously added a “jvm” instruction — must have been the fruit of a lot of metering! Note that they didn’t have to do this for Objective-C: some extremely clever programming made dispatch cheap.”

I’m struggling to think of what you are referring to here. ARM added op codes for running JVM byte code on the processor itself, but I think those instructions were dropped a long time ago. ARM also added an instruction (floating point convert to fixed point rounding towards zero) as it became such a common operation in JS code. There have also been various GC related instructions and features added to POWER, but I think all that was well after Apple had abandoned the architecture.

I may be forgetting sonething, could you clarify?
It would be more effective to put Nyan Cat on repeat and the Zuck would save some bucks
It’s not Windows. It’s the broken social contract the entire PC industry has in believing it’s ok flood us with ads and surveillance driven “marketing”. Any retail PC is a sewer of bloat and crap ware.
As much as I want a cool AR / VR future, it seems like the tech just isn't there yet. If anyone can pull it off, it's Apple, but the truth is that Apple hasn't really come up with any truly revolutionary new platforms since the iPhone. I predict that these headsets will go the way of the Apple Watch - cool, good to have, but not mandatory in any way. Our actual "Ready Player 1" style VR / AR future will have to wait. Maybe it will be AI that gives that future to us.
Is it?

Surely you're not just waving out the supply chain issues and reduced productive capacity of the whole world due to lockdowns.

Was inflation in the USA higher than inflation in countries that didn't do direct deposits to people? As far as I know, it wasn't. That seems like a more fair starting point on studying effects of direct deposits.
Not to be pedantic, but the $10/kg number came from a graphic published by the journal Science, not from Musk.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1571540353978859526

See also this tweet clarifying that fixed costs are expected to exceed marginal costs:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1328770804222468097

"looks like marginal cost of launch will be less than $1M for more than 100 tons to orbit, so it’s mostly about fixed costs divided by launches per year"

Not trying to nitpick you here. Just hoping to correct some of the confusion that results from playing Telephone with secondary and tertiary sources.
It was pure garbage - a failed attempt to learn Rust.
Probably one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever read. Wow.
You're missing the point: I don't live in the Sierras. I live on the coast, and I drive to the mountains.

What do I do with the windshield wiper fluid that is in my car, before I go to a freezing area? Do I waste it all by overusing it on the drive up? Do I set calendars to make sure I cycle my windshield wiper fluid, so that I'm low enough by the time I get to the mountains, I can buy sub freezing fluid, that my remaining fluid won't freeze?

What I end up doing is making my own blend on the coast because (thankfully) I know how, but it's a ridiculous limitation of California environmentalism.
I recently moved back to Linux, perhaps permanently.

What kept me from it was not being able to reliably play games, but I can confirm that is no longer a problem.

I can't properly describe how happy this makes me.
If you were going to download an os to install that you wanted your kid to be able to tinker with and reinstall and you had not used windows in 8 to 10 years why would you download windows 11 rather than ubuntu or Mint?
One issue is that it relies on phrases a lot - so much so that Google Translate has a hard time figuring out the intended meaning.

Also, like everything in Italy, phrases used depend on the region.
That's a good answer. I think you're right.
"boilerplate generator"
I'm seeing the software equivalent of flat earthers and I'm treating their ideas with the respect they deserve.

> without engaging with their arguments. This does not lead to good discussion.

There is no useful discussion to be had with a doomsday cult that's more interested in an ungrounded fantasy it's indulging in than anything to do with the real world. The adults will continue doing what they're doing and the cultists will be ignored, and that's the way it should be.

> I think that unaligned and sufficiently smart AI could kill everyone because I looked at the arguments for and against and came to a conclusion.

In some possible world, sure. But to make that actionable today you have to construct a very shaky and unlikely series of conjectures. Public policy correctly isn't based on that sort of wild speculation, because there are an infinite number of possible worlds, and most of them will never come to pass.

Here are some questions for you: do you think GPT-5 could be the AI you're talking about? Do you think that something like that could happen in the next 6 months? Do you think that is in fact the biggest risk we face from AI, today?

The factual answer to those questions is: no, no, and no. If you think GPT has changed anything in this respect, you've been fooled by a chatbot that's simply using statistics to guess what it should say. It's not conscious, it doesn't have desires or goals other than to respond to the prompt that it's been given with a statistically appropriate result, and its next version is similarly not going to pose any of the sort of risks you're talking about.

There are, in fact, real AI risks that we should be paying attention to, but they revolve around how people and particularly large organizations will use it against other people, around its impact on jobs, and so on. If we engage with those risks and address them, we'll be in a better situation to prevent more speculative risks in future. But if we waste our time engaging with people who don't understand the technology or what they're talking about, discussing risks that don't exist, then AI will 100% certainly have a very negative impact, which has nothing to do with "superintelligent conscious AIs". Don't let yourself be distracted by scifi-fantasy nonsense from what's actually going on.

In fact, if you think a bit harder about what you're doing, you might realize that you're focusing on a purely technological risk to escape from having to focus on what humans do to each other. But that's the real "control problem".
> But if burnout is trauma, is taking a break from work really enough to resolve the trauma?

Apparently it isn't, much like in case of physical trauma. GP mentioned people switching careers.

I know a person who got burned out when their boss tried to make them do 2D and later 3D design for the company, on top of their normal assignments, because he didn't want to hire a new graphics designer after the last one quit. Said person gained basic proficiency in some CAD software, Photoshop, Corel, and then burned out on 3DS Max, to the point of having strong physical reactions at the very though of it, even many years later. It's a psychological wound that can't heal, and it closed off 3D graphics as a line of work for that person. Trauma is one of the words we used when talking about it over the years.
Other than championing human and civil rights for all, equality, the end of government sanctioned and funded inequality and suppression or minorities, non-violent protest, and overall social reform?

Can't think of a single reason.
It worked perfectly fine in windows 7. And then it got screwed up in windows 10.
They've got more money, but they're still working a job for a wage for somebody else.
This discussion is based upon a "2023 World Happiness Report" [1], which is ostensibly a United Nations initiative (though notably, Page 2 is entirely dedicated to the footnote "The World Happiness Report was written by a group of independent experts acting in their personal capacities. Any views expressed in this report do not necessarily reflect the views of any organization, agency or programme of the United Nations.")

While I don't doubt there are many truths contained within, I think it's also fair to recognise that in some respects, this is a highly prescribed version of "happiness". For example, it's telling that smiling and laughing do not form a prominent part of Finnish day-to-day life, as contrasted with plenty of less affluent cultures.

[1] https://happiness-report.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/WHR+23.pdf
What configs are you talking about? Because most things in the official UIs are carefully crafted to be permanent user preferences that windows updates don't touch.
I'd be quite happy to ban all commuter cars from cities. And then use the space reclaimed for scooters and bikes.
Sounds like hell for people using headphones at night.
Global warming is killing Indians and Pakistanis
Thank you for your anecdote. It's interesting and valuable to think about.

What's frustrating to me in my own position in life is this feeling that so much is out of my control. So in a sense it's like seeing others stealing my life from me or some such thing. Through ignorance, or bias, or malice, or whatever the case might be, it's not knowing how to do what you'd like, even when it seems relatively modest.

So this perspective, of "preparing to die has a lot to do with having had a good life," has started to take on this other perspective. Frankly it makes me a bit angry, to read advice coming from people of relatively good social status, who have the privilege to write a book that garners attention because of their own vocation, to do an interview about their ability to do carpentry in their spare time, to have the resources for it. But what about the individuals shut out of those opportunities, whatever it is they wanted?

I'm not really sure what my underlying point is but the article and your story seem like complements to me, and touch on frustrations I have with society in general, and what I see as lost opportunities for having a life one sees as good. I have mixed feelings about articles like this because they never go further than the personal despair of those experiencing the despair, and not into the deeper issues. If dying peacefully means having a satisfying life, why are we so focused on the pain at the end, and not what gets them there, and what we can do differently?

It seems to me that the pain that accompanies euthanasia, suicide, and natural death are all the same pain at some level. And in all these cases the discussion is focused on that endpoint, not how to prevent it over the long run.
>"It's meant to show that you don't need specialized "infinitely scalable" services."

1) This "revelation" has been known to any decent programmer for ages.

2) The example is very contrived and has zero real practical value as the access pattern, amount of tables involved, constraints and ACID requirements in real life are very different.
https://archive.is/jKZ2H
100% this. My journey was Windows to OSX to Linux. Couldn’t be happier. I just want a good Linux phone to free me from Apple altogether.
GPT4 Learning from Reflection
Especially since the advent of Erasmus, a lot of Europeans have learned to use English when communicating with other second-language speakers though. And beyond Brexut and americanized media contributes to British English becoming less present and relevant with every passing year.
Link: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

Except that Windows updates will turn the stuff back on over time, so I'm not sure about 'effortlessly'.
As a 23 year old, no idea what you mean. That seems more targeted towards < 20 (tiktok) and > 65 (those news) if you ask me.
One of the scooter companies was doing a pass that basically gave you 60 minutes of time you had to use in 24 hours for like 11 dollars US. It was great as you could easily just hop on and off as you stopped in multiple places all day. Fixed price you basically knew how much it was going to cost. They seem to change what they're passes do a lot though.
Can you explain more ?

I know the basics of deep learning and I found the article accurate.
> You want something that holds 1-to-1 exchange through time for it to be useful for exchange.

There’s three issues. First, 1-1 to what? For daily expenses, people want their currency to be stable against consumer goods in a practical way. Second, price inflation doesn’t matter if it’s a small enough that day to day prices don’t change significantly. Third, for a variety of complex macroeconomic factors, the economy runs more efficiently with slight inflation - for instance, it automatically reduces the price of goods that have sticky prices such as wages which reduces unemployment.

> liquidity isn’t an important monetary property

Ok you can define what is “money” however you like, but the fact is that a currency is more useful the easier it is to trade it. The more goods you can buy with it, and the less the market moves when you make a large purchase, the more useful the currency is. In fact this is one of the few areas where Bitcoin has value versus other cryptocurrencies.

> price appreciation doesn’t matter

It proves that the people who said alt coins are scams are silly. Alt coins have value that is increasing faster than Bitcoin. You might disagree with how they generate value or whether they are valuable to you personally, but that doesn’t change the fact that well designed alt coins have outperformed Bitcoin.
> There is a book written on how DirectX was created and what went on inside the team during those initial days of DirectX.

what's the title? the number of books on programming with directx sort of drowns out the search results.
AI and the American Smile. How AI Misrepresents Culture
I just stick with Windows 7.
They should be ridden on the roads imo. They are as fast as an average bike rider, if it's not safe, then the roads need to be adjusted to make it safe.
Quadratis [0] is a set of 2D twisty puzzle inspired by algebraic topology. It is mostly an experimental game so far. Here are some slides that give some insight on the principles of the game [1].

[0]: https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/quadratis/id1598700673

[1]: https://swissmaprs.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ParlierTurn...
The obsession with monetization will put otherwise good system to grave.

I used all Windows versions over all these years, but even my patience is wearing thin.

Search, Bing, search, Bing! In every effing square inch of screen real estate they can get their hands on.
On the topic of setting up a PC for a kid: I set up Debian for my 9 year old. I put Mate desktop, since I remembered mid 2000s gnome to be ok. She has no complaints about it.
Plastic dishes are not hurting the environment. This is 100% about appearances, it's actually helping anything at all.
More curious as to why the high-speed rail construction sites seem to be located there too.
Issues resolved per months, story points solved, deployments per day reduced, time to deliver increased, failure rates increased, etc.

Also plain old Teams / tracking software showing you away more often more longer.
Technically no, however it was in a drawer under their desk, they only used it to debug software written long ago and they state they have not used windows since version 8.
Sir Twardowski
Lightships
I think their argument is that most laptops from the W8 days don't support W11 mainly because of the processor requirements and check. Although the author could've burned the image to a USB disk with Rufus which has defaults that remove the W11 pre-checks during flash.
One of China’s most popular apps has the ability to spy on its users
While it has its issues, this is where Linux does still shine. It keeps the spirit of computing free alive and well.
The main advantage imo is you can bring them on trains and in elevators much easier than bikes. And for the rental ones, you don't have to worry about bringing anything or having to secure it on the other end.