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> That’s how we got Clippy (essentially similar to the text input box proposed here), “progressive” menus that hide advanced actions and features the user hasn’t been accessing, as well as the explosion of task-oriented panels in Windows XP.

You're implying those were bad decisions, but could you also explain what exactly was bad about them?

I think Clippy legitimately was a bad idea: It was a clumsy attempt at anthropomorphising the computer, and it also came over cartoonish and game-y: Effectively, used UI patterns from a video game in a context where users wanted to get serious work done. (Interestingly, it also foreshadowed a lot of later trends in tech: Clippy was asynchronous, interrupting the user with notifications even if the user never did anything; and it foreshadowed the ability of programs to actually analyze content and not just be dumb typewriters with the infamous "it looks like you are writing a letter" message. I guess Tech learned it's lesson from the backlash, namely that it needs to be more covert and subtle about those abilities...)

However, the idea to show possible actions in the context where they are useful always seemed like the most straightforward thing to me. Maybe i'm biased as a programmer, but it seems natural to structure an UI in an "object oriented" manner, where the user is presented with certain types of "entities" and can manipulate them using certain actions: E.g., if you have a file, you can copy, delete or move it; you can also launch a program to edit it. You can do the same with a folder, but you can additionally navigate into the folder, etc.

The same pattern in a lot of programs designed for creating media: The entities would be text selections in word processors, shapes and layers in image processors, 3D objects in 3D designers, etc.

That was the basic idea behind the task panels in WinXP I believe. So what was bad about them?
Smarty piggyback on Three's network and they're really cheap, however for some reason in 2023 they only support 5G on certain handsets.
Covid did nothing to cause this. Our response to covid caused all of it.
There are real logistical and engineering difficulties in making those buildings suitable for habitation. In many cases, it would be less expensive to tear them down and build a new building for that purpose.
A site with cars
Neckties are a great example.

They're a good rejoinder to Musk's recent farcical argument that since most blue-collar workers cannot work remotely, it's immoral for white-collar workers to resist Return-To-Office mandates [1]. Some jobs still require neckties, but that does not mean we should all be obliged to wear them too.

I personally enjoy commuting — a 35-minute journey in a big city via public transport. It gets me to an office full of friendly faces who also enjoy the commute. The people who prefer remote stay home. It's a happy medium.

RTO mandates in US cities with poor/non-existent public transport options are bad ideas all around.

[1] https://www.mediaite.com/tv/elon-musk-calls-remote-work-bull...
What initially "wow"s me about a game is how beautiful it is. What keeps me coming back to it time and time again, is how well put together it is as a whole.
There's also a "status" thing for people and for companies - companies are not immune to "fake it until you make it" and many pour billions into status-buildings that are perhaps not technically necessary.

And those things can change, suddenly having a huge tower in downtown NY becomes a sign of a out-of-date "old" company; perhaps the new hotness will be something like a small company "town" in the outskirts somewhere.
Advocacy has been making some impact; I joke that it's one area where I've consciously allowed Twitter to radicalize me.

I'd imagine the spike in car prices over the past couple of years contributes as well. A car is an expensive investment that eats a huge part of your income just so you can participate in society, and I'm sure plenty of people feel the pain of this.

The solve for is one or more of these:

1. Make cars cheaper, but various market and regulatory forces seem to be conspiring against that

2. Make cities cheaper so you can move to good transit, but housing isn't in great supply there

3. Make public transit better and broader so more people can use it, but this faces opposition from people in the suburbs and exurbs who have car-centric assumptions baked into their lifestyle

1 is a multilayered problem with a lot of entrenched interests, so it's hard to solve. 2 and 3 are persuasion issues first and foremost, and the persuasion battle can be a lot more localized. So it doesn't surprise me that people are fighting those battles.

EDIT: Napkin math plus some searching said it's about $9,000 a year to own and operate a car on average. $750/month to participate in society. That's 8 annual fares for Pittsburgh's public transit, by way of comparison.
The first audiobook I played for my kids was How to Train Your Dragon. David Tennant did an amazing job. Now my kids love audiobooks. Although, I still need to force them to read paper books. We also loved the Zamonia series by Walter Moers.
I agree but also disagree. Just today I searched on google via Assistant "Average cost of living in Finland" and got data back in monthly. I asked to convert to yearly and it just searched my words rather than parsing the data and doing the math.

There needs to be a middle ground so it's helpful but not full-scale, like ChatGPT, so the hallucination issue is much less.
but imagine that they weren't forced to own a car and could do everything they need to do without one.
> Many office buildings are old, with tiny windows surrounded by load-bearing walls.

Just a nit-pick: older buildings with windows and load-bearing walls are actually better candidates for residential conversion than newer buildings with glass curtain walls and structural columns. [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/11/upshot/office...]
Nuances of overloading and overriding in Java
Of course there are pockets of good work, like in any research institute. It's difficult to point to anything really pushing the envelope in AI research though. You have any evidence to the contrary?
> including talent, thought process, money, start-ups, pay scale (to lure talent)

...and a culture of risk-taking and ambition to change the world.
So this article could be summarized as "man who has running a DL company for 12 years suggested that a government institution fund DL more, and is mad that they aren't"? Disregarding the dash of woke==bad. Certainly a valid opinion, but these comments seem to be treating it as much more objective than I take it to be.

Substantively, this just seems ludicrously short-sighted. If all investment was focused on the most recent AI model to have success, DL wouldn't exist. I'm definitely saving this article for the day in the near future when people realize, hey, maybe the entire field of AI & cognitive science wasn't just wasting time for the last 70 years, and maybe those ideas will also be carried on the rising tide of Moore's Law.
No idea why this is being downvoted. It's true.
Maybe if you have been influenced by the productivity bunch (guess we all have been to some degree) and looking for an antidote of sone sort? Doesnt have to be meaningfully different to provide help.
You got the same effect with simple colored icons inside the ordered menus though.
Check out MarkMonitor. There's a bunch of companies that worry about someone registering lookalike domains, or trademarked terms on alternate TLDs. This feels like a variant of that larger problem.

Without a statement on the official 7-zip site, I'd assume it's unofficial and untrustworthy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MarkMonitor
Most humans can pass it and are clearly not intelligent.
Looks like they have had a section on key loss since at least webauthn 2[0], and explicitly rule out backing up keys. The suggested answer is "use multiple devices" which doesn't work great with platform authenticators (which are tied to a device). From the spec:

> This specification defines no protocol for backing up credential private keys, or for sharing them between authenticators. In general, it is expected that a credential private key never leaves the authenticator that created it. Losing an authenticator therefore, in general, means losing all credentials bound to the lost authenticator, which could lock the user out of an account if the user has only one credential registered with the Relying Party. Instead of backing up or sharing private keys, the Web Authentication API allows registering multiple credentials for the same user. For example, a user might register platform credentials on frequently used client devices, and one or more roaming credentials for use as backup and with new or rarely used client devices.

So I guess you are right, it is on the vendors to handle backing up the keys from devices.

0: https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn-2/#sctn-credential-loss-key-m...
Half the startups, frameworks, and programming languages out there have fursonas these days. Sit down.
People who are on the street or living in their car today.

We have a desperate need for affordable housing all over this country. SROs and hostel-style residences are perfectly reasonable as a step to keep people stable and off the streets.
Individual transportation has been a staple of civilization for the last few thousand years. As people all have individual ideas on where to go and when, individual transportation is a close to perfect solution to the problem. The question is more: does it need to be SUVs and pickup trucks?
I had a Renault Twingo (non electric, current model) once and it dawned on me that this is the maximum size a normal person would need on 99% of the days. Offer them with a slightly enlarged trunk and it would be good 100% of the time for a family of 4. Those cars take half the space of an SUV and still provide the same basic benefit of getting to places on your own schedule.

Another related topic: we should not change cars all 3 years. Why not drive them 20-30? Get replacement parts when needed, get the interior freshed up every 15 years and be happy. With the rising of electric cars, the only really critical part has become the batteries (and they seem to last longer than what we all thought).
Significant drop off in licensed drivers was ongoing before covid. From 88ish percent of 16+ year olds in 1990s to 70ish percent by 2015.

Theories all mention urban population growth putting people closer to stuff and friends who are available to run errands since it’s not a one hour one way trip from ruralandia. Taxi/ride share, delivery services, increased investment in walkable neighborhoods… it’s all really happening?

Old numbers I read a while ago. I imagine wfh has made more people realize the same only occasional need for a car.

Similarly drop off in youth participation in contact sports like football was gaining steam before covid. A contraction in college and pro participation is probable in 10+ years.

Especially as AI generated content gets to be able to simulate unique sports with photorealistic visuals; most viewers are at home already.

Propping up the status quo culture of the last 50 years is not really an obligation of future generations.
People built an entire ecosystem around llama. This could benefit FB, however their models are too limited to compete with chatGpt, so the open source tools arent particularly useful to them. FB is probably using better models by now. OTOH the open source community has an entire set of tools for the moment when Llama will be replaced with something better and completly open sourced model. at the moment , OSS seems to have benefited from their release.
But even those cost more than cheap PCs at the time.
There's a lot of people who ask questions about history or geopolitics that amount to, "why would <country> pursue <goal>?" when <goal> is a central ideologically motivating factor for <faction-that-controls-country>. The classic example being Germany's 1941 invasion of Russia--often derided as a strategic blunder in hindsight, except the rulers of Germany in 1941 had the conquest of Russia as their primary geopolitical goal in the first place. Likewise, the existence of Taiwan outside of CCP control is contrary to the goal of unifying all of China under CCP control.
I find Win 10 GUI to be technically flawed. Working with windows with 1 px borders and cluttered titlebars.

And the security model is just stoopid. It does not take into account the modern web (ransomware).
It's a chicken-and-egg concern. If there was a higher amount of passenger load on public transit there would be more eyes, accountability, and generally a feeling of being around people who are going somewhere rather than using the trains and buses as living rooms. Safety in numbers and all that.
That's easy to check for. sh implementations can vary also.
>Give Away Its Crown Jewels

More like handed out good replicas.

The model provided comes with enough legal strings attached that it's only really usable in the unofficial turn a blind eye to licenses context. i.e. Hobbyist, researches and casual use.
Glassdoor indicates that the Alan Turing Institute pays senior research associates $49,015 per year, senior project managers $48k, and senior research fellows the same. I wasn't able to identify any roles there that paid above $50k/year.

Is it any surprise that when you hire people with PhDs and you pay them less than bartenders that you don't get the best people? Those people go to Google or Microsoft and make 10x as much.
> Public transit is now the cause of the reforming classes, and the car their villain.

I wonder if this would have been the case had cars stayed as diminutive as they were becoming in the mid 70's.
I just do not understand the love for the ribbon. It's a junk drawer of icons and if you don't already have an idea of what your feature "looks like" and roughly where it lives spatially. It's painful to use.

It just feels like a visual representation of keyboard shortcuts. Spend enough time in an application and you learn how to get to stuff efficiently, but it doesn't help you if you just want the basics.
It's not, they're just dragginf their feet hoping they can pressure the workforce to stuff the genie back in the bottle. It ain't happening.

Financial district has a number of converted office buildings, which are now residential. If anything, that area is now more vibrant and cool, certainly not an apocalyptic thing.
the fall-out cards are even worse
Not only is it not more portable, POSIX doesn't even require that it exists at all.

Applications should note that the standard PATH to the shell cannot be assumed to be either /bin/sh or /usr/bin/sh, and should be determined by interrogation of the PATH returned by getconf PATH, ensuring that the returned pathname is an absolute pathname and not a shell built-in.

I don't know how this trend started but now it's been cargo-culted to death. Same with the /usr/bin/env thing in shebangs.
It is a sad state of affairs when italians talk about obedience in exchange for bread and butter. Perhaps a skill gained after causing the largest financial disaster in eu’s history, together with other south european countries.

Instead east europe demands a level playing field so it doesnt have to rely on eu funding, partly needed due to misguided policies.

If Italy doesnt like this then it can leave. East europe is increasingly more relevant.
Floor plate size. Offices are very deep and the elevators are far from the windows. Condo towers are small so that natural light can penetrate. You can’t just convert an office tower to condos. Also, office towers don’t have the plumbing to put in a shower and drain for every 500 sqft.
A hollow analogy, unfortunately.

Unlike neckties (which are entirely about appearance and perceived norms) -- there are very considerable intrinsic benefits to having people onsite. They just don't outweigh the very considerable negatives, many are coming to find. So it's fundamentally an argument about tangible tradeoffs -- not social norms.

An entirely different argument, in fact.
TIL. Here is the relevant summary from the spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/P3P/#goals_and_capabs

(for amusement, google P3P and see what comes up first.)
It’s part degrowth mindset, part climate doomerism, part immaturity, and part naïveté due to the urban-living bias in the left Twitter verse and reddit. For the last one it’s a whole lot of people who dominate the conversation live in places where public transportation is a lot more feasible than the other 80% of the US where it’s completely and utterly unworkable.
That's not a bad idea
Perhaps you're describing an "ally"?
I own both Affinity Photo and Pixelmator Pro. I find the UI using Pixelmator to be more user friendly. This could be because I come from many years of using Photoshop and I found the way Affinity deals with layers and effects to be counterintuitive to me.

That being said, both products are solid and likely a matter of personal preference or specific feature needs.
"It’s concerning that none of the projects mentioned in this document, or indeed any other major open source AI project, arose in the UK." I believe this statement is at least partially incorrect. StabilityAI is a London, UK based company, and several of the researchers directly involved in the development of Stable Diffusion are UK citizens. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stability-ai
Why are you reacting like this? It is generally agreed upon that climate change is bad. Stopping the use of fossil fuels is the only way to stop it from getting worse. I really don't care how we do, I just want it done. It's too late to start with nuclear now, so it's a bit silly to discuss what we could've done sixty years ago.
To what extent are we put into a suggestive state by the stylistic presentation of speech, not just the rythms, but the rest of the oratory and rhetoric? This is a great place for LLMs to make a contribution with neutral, consistent rewording. I hope that the boringreport.org is the start of de-hypnotizing bubble I can deploy between myself and the world.

If say a Maddow vs a Carslon monologue could be stripped down into a sequence of neutral observations and assertions and anonymized it would go a fair way toward switching off the typical tribal inflammation of the ratiocination.
I'd love to see what would happen if Walmart got banned in the same way.
So, I avoided VPNs for years because they had no practical benefit. I live in Utah, and I would consider myself very technically adept. Previously, I didn't like "VPNs" because now I'm just routing all my traffic through another untrusted 3rd party. It's like choosing between two evils, would I prefer my ISP knows where I go, or some rando that I also have to pay? Worse, the "rando" (usually) requires a VPN app which could get up to all sorts of fuckery. So. yada yada yada.

Well, then, two things happened back-to-back. The VPN provider Mullvad was unsuccessfully raided, and Utah passed hyper-totalitarian laws. On the recent PR news, I investigated Mullval, and... they're fantastic. You don't have to use their app; they support straight openvpn or wireguard and are Linux native. AND I can pay them in BTC, further obscuring myself.

Because of Utah's law, the vast majority of my traffic is now directed over a VPN. I don't even really go to porn sites all that often. It's more the principle of it.

The more the state pushes to limit and remove freedoms, the more I will do everything in my power to push the other way. It's the Hacker Mindset =D
Well now, this is an interesting take that you don't see applied to any other resource.

"If this harmful, expensive thing isn't free, a few people will steal it."

"Better make it free forever then, and force all of society to pay for it, whether they use it or not."
Right? As he explains, there are many different hierarchies of critiquing a programming language. Yet, they heavily imply if you care about “surface” topics, your feelings aren’t as valid as if you were more interested in the garbage collector.
High rises are designed to have reconfigurable floorplans. So, very few internal walls are going to be load bearing. In the absolute worst case (low fixed ceilings that prevent drop ceilings), you can always go for the industrial look + expose upstairs' plumbing to downstairs, and/or add fixed internal walls for vertical plumbing runs.
Maybe i am misunderstanding. Are you saying that a CCP controlled social media company is as bad to America as an Elon Musk controlled social media company?
Has anybody done any work or research integrating CRDT-ish text conflict resolution with a database transaction process? E.g. in MVCC when detection of version conflict (e.g. via timestamps) happens, the approach is generally to abort and retry; but if the conflict in the tuple/row is at textual level and can be resolved by this kind of algorithm, it seems this could handle some conflict resolution without full retry or abort?
Many home routers/wifi access point/mesh wifi systems are qualcomm/atheros based.

These system are almost always built on the official SDK provided by Qualcomm, known as QSDK.

QSDK is a fork of an old OpenWRT version (chaos calmer, 2018). Unlike the open source version, it includes proprietary drivers and many changes. Openwrt devs refer to it as a "frankenfirmware".
https://archive.ph/IEhOE
Why do you put CF tracking ref= turds in the 3rd party links in the article? Is that really necessary?
Harsh but fair. It's not significantly different in the US.

You know, it's not different in ANY of the empires, past or present. Look at Russia and it's just a couple decades of further decline, but the same thing.

If hackers and nerd idealists are worth anything, it's for trying to solve all this against a background of constant push-back. I sometimes wonder if the most important thing I could possibly do is try to depict this larger picture in such a way that people got it.
It was never "leaked" but rather available on request after agreeing to terms. It found its way onto torrents shortly thereafter naturally
I'm about to make your day: https://www.libretro.com/index.php/parallel-n64-low-level-rd...

That is a software emulation of the RDP from the n64 that runs in a shader on your GPU. No more visual bugs, no more artifacts, no more perfect dark missing a visual effect that kills an entire mission, and accurate upscaling, and it actually runs very well even on cheap GPUs.
Not the person you're responding to, but I didn't make a living because I was 12. I also didn't think it was practical to get paid for programming, except in extreme outlier cases.
UPDATE: I followed the instructions in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35986375 for each of the nodes and it appears to have solved the problem, at least for now. I will keep an eye on them to make sure they don't die again.

The frustrating part was that my home assistant raspberry pi was hardwired into one of the nodes that died, so my automation to change my thermostat wasn't working and it was stuck on a setting that I normally only set for one hour in the day. Obviously I could change it manually, but I didn't realize that it hadn't changed until it had been like 5 hours.
As someone with no knowledge of the fields of machine learning and artificial intelligence, I wonder how much of recent AI stuff is due to "true" Moore's Law (GPUs and such getting much faster/cheaper), and how much is due to the data version of Moore's Law (web-scale data farming/storage to "teach" LLMs and such).