skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s absolutely true. If you’re 5ft 10 or under, buy a pair of elevator shoes and go on a night out, and watch the amount of extra attention you get from women. It is so much easier to pull it’s just depressing. It’s hard to believe just how much of a difference it makes until you’ve done it.
After quitting and reopening, that's what I see, just fonts and system files. About 10 items total, not the thousands that were there.

The files it had open were files that would never have been opened with TextEdit... like, audio scratch files from 10 years ago in deep parts of the hierarchy (and not in Apple-designated folders like Music or Documents), my tax return PDFs (not saying this was targeted, it may have been ...)

As I look at the list I captured now, it's funny. It's not alphabetical. It skips around a lot. A few dozen folders from my MP3 collection are listed there, but not in alphabetical order although the files within them are alphabetical.

I use Arq for backups, and according to Arq's runs this morning and afternoon, none of those folders were modified or slated for backup today.
They need to go beyond defining intelligence. They need to operationalize intelligence.

The problems still are many. First, we've already operationalized intelligence, namely through IQ tests see Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale,
Universal Nonverbal Intelligence,
Differential Ability Scales,
Peabody Individual Achievement Test,
Wechsler Individual Achievement Test,
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, &c. Even so, HN users will both point out the (in)validity of these but also the (in)validity with respect to applying them to AI.

The real problem is that intelligence is a socially defined phenomenon, as opposed to an essential metaphysical property. If we admit that, many of the definition foibles we have become irrelevant.
What are the things in your muscle memory that can't be replicated in Evil?
You can do something like the True time trick. Services refresh the revocation list every 1s. If they can't refresh for more than 10s they reject authorization. Then on revocation you just need to wait for 15s or so to ensure that the token will no longer be accepted.

This of course means that your downtime tolerance for the token distribution is quite low, but still better than checking revocation on each request.

You can also flip it and track the state of every app server, revocation waits until they have all updated (or been confirmed dead) but now revocation time is unbounded. (And you are tracking more mutable state)
I have most of my best ideas, both work and personal, while running, so I like having a phone on me in order to reference stuff and take good notes before the thought is lost in the ether.
It's hard to do a benchmark, as you have many variables.

- what kernel you used + which settings

- what CPU model you used? what security mitigations were enabled?

- GPU model, GPU driver version, GPU driver configuration settings

- what wine version you used (e.g.: wine stable, staging, devel? proton? glorious eggroll? custom?)

- what wine settings you used: overrides, Windows version, installed libraries, etc.

- did it use the gamemode launcher or similar?

Playing with those knobs have a big impact on performance.
Https://michaelsalim.co.uk/blog

I mostly tech stuff that I think is interesting to write about.
Eh, I thought that was over-the-top enough not to be taken seriously.
Bring this to Vancouver, BC
The whole point of my comment is that reading books helps you develop skills where it is a hell of a lot easier to decipher bullshit.
Browsers have been an unmitigated security train wreck. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-2...
Thankfully, the latest release of Debian provides LXD via .deb packages.
I've worked at more than one place that considered sourcegraph and decided it was too expensive (and these were software shops with money to spend on good tooling). With language servers working so well now, I think SG may have already missed the boat and this looks like an early part of their death spiral.
35 is considered geriatric pregnancy
I don’t think the pilots are being scapegoated when they ditched a working plane in the ocean. There were a lot of things that led them there and a lot of reasons it happened, but this crash was avoidable with proper procedures.
https://www.june.kim

I like to write about self improvement and other things I'm thinking about
Will have to check it out, thanks!
The ruling proactively limits elected officials ability to speak --- based on the *presumption* that their speech is somehow "bad" --- apparently because they belong to the wrong political party.

This violates all sorts of legal precedent and will likely be overturned.

Even Republicans would vehemently object to having similar applied to them so why bother promoting this sort of partisan gamesmanship? Is this what they call "leadership"?
The Dylib scan was clean...

The PID checked out as the same that had the normal TextEdit files open (fonts, etc). The working directory was Users/[myUserName]/Library/Containers/com.apple.TextEdit/Data
is it just me or is the entire Amazon interview panel like this? "leadership principles." makes my skin crawl.
On a side note, I'm a CTO and I'm being seduced by Oracle's sales people due to their extremely low prices in my region. I'm on Azure and it's getting expensive. Can someone with actual experience using Oracle as a cloud provider chime in?
> If you care about perf you would pin the kubelet

Wrong. I wouldn't use kubelet at all. Kubernetes and good performance are not compatible. The goal of Kubernetes is to make it easier to deploy Web sites. Web is a very popular technology, so Kubernetes was adopted in many places where it's irrelevant / harmful because Web developers are plentiful and will help to power through the nonsense of this program. It's there because it makes trivial things even easier for less qualified personnel. It's not meant as a way to make things go faster, or to use less memory, or to use less persistent storage, or less network etc... it's the wheelchair of ops, not a highly-optimized professional-grade equipment.
This is really what I'd guess a lot of people do. Nobody is going to go back and verify that the "conflict" actually happened.

All these interview questions just boil down to "can you carry on a coherent conversation and do you project a pleasant and social disposition" or even more simply stated, that you "are likable."

I don't care what your technical abilities are, if you are weird or fidgity or sweaty or can't make eye contact you are going to have a lot more difficulty getting hired. At least in the places I've worked. Work on your personality and your abilty to hold a conversation. The details don't really matter.
Will this allow me to run Photoshop on Linux? That’s the big thing keeping me from switching.
I do security Capture The Flag (CTF) writeups on YouTube. It's been fun, I've learned a lot, just published my 100th video.

https://youtube.com/@SloppyJoePirates
That is a significant impact to those companies and 20,000 employees.

Good, they were making money off information pollution and psychological manipulation.
I don’t know if I’m an outlier as an NVidia guy, but my frank experience is that Lutris is a janky PoS on any distro I’ve ever tried it on (Ubuntu, Manjaro, Arch, NixOS)

Everything I haven’t gotten to work in Lutris has worked in Steam Proton by importing it as a non-Steam game. With far less hassle.

Since Lutris predates Steam Proton and thus likely suffers as a result, I think it’s no longer necessary if you are a Steam user.
There's still Springdale / PUIAS, out there just trying to do their thing... not sure what route they'll take.

I remember trying out PUIAS for a short time back when CentOS was having a lot of community issues.
Sure! One of the hottest ones is called Zak.

They just received a $15 million check from Tiger Global and other top VC funds in Latin America. Here are some news articles in English:

https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/10/digital-restaurant-startup...

https://www.bloomberglinea.com/english/tiger-global-leads-15...

https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/zakpay-series-a--b9...

Their website is in Portuguese only, but I think you can ask Google Chrome to translate it:

https://www.zak.app/

Hope it helps!
How to differentiate AI-generated images and videos from real ones [video]
Yeah, snaps can go to hell. In addition to what you already mentioned, they are extremely complicated to debug when things go wrong.
https://wcedmisten.fyi

I like writing about my own projects that usually involve web scraping, OpenStreetMap, or visualizing interesting datasets. I've been at it for about a year, mostly to gain motivation to actually finish my projects. To that end it's been quite successful, and it's a great opportunity to practice writing.
The “Don’t recommend channel” button also doesn’t really work for me. It used to work, but now the channels keep coming back. YouTube has been trying to get me to watch videos from “Dr.” Sten Ekberg. After watching one video a couple years ago I quickly realised he’s full of shit. I’ve clicked the “Don’t suggest channel” button so many times, but after a short while his videos return to my feed.
Step 1: Be a consultant

Step 2: Wait for all shit to go to hell

Step 3: ???

Step 4: Profit

AI might be good for helping improve productivity, but those machines are still no smarter than the average person on the internet, and the average person on the internet is far dumber than the average developer.

It's this year's blockchain. Are there successful uses of blockchains? Sure. Walmart uses them in Canada and has streamlined their logistics and fulfillment up there by leaps and bounds. But that's a very specialized use case.
Why don't you agree?
I agree that Google and other companies will not share as much. Facebook seems to be an exception since they are sharing models.

I expect lots of good work using LLMs under the surface of large existing systems. Google Docs, Microsoft Office 365, etc. I think this is a mixed bag. I like to see popular tools get significantly better, but I also like to see open models, open data sources, public scrutiny of open models, etc. My hope is that self hoisting useful LLMs will get easier.
Which part of the compiler process interests you the most?
What's the point of comments then. Just feed it back in in three months.
https://davidbuckley.ca/?bashrc=ls%20blog

Mobile experience is poor, I suggest not trying to use your phone.
Uber didn't solve logistics, if they had, they would have used their money to actually be a logistics provider, or one of the big ones would have bought them out.

As it stands, last I was aware their current business model was fairly unsustainable without continued exploitation of drivers. Legal shenanigans aren't 'innovative' unless you're SBF.
https://www.xhu.buzz/
> everything is a sign of climate change
There's a reason I didn't rely on the WikiPedia! It can be edited.
Wow, thank you for the kind words! Really glad you liked it. I don’t have much experience with RSS but I will try to add a feed (hopefully within the next week or so)
You're showing up to Hacker News to yell about poor youngsters with "ghetto culture," and then project them as "fascist." Are you really sure about this?
The old Mozilla suite was obsoleted by Firefox much earlier: Firefox 1.0 was in 2004, IE 7 in 2006, and Chrome didn't show up until 2008 when Firefox was on 3.0.
Crazy! I’m glad everything went okay!
Many devs are the same, hence loyalty to a language
My first language, I spent months on the parser and then gave up. As I learned more I got better until now, I can write a hand-rolled parser for a simple language in under a day. There's a technique to making syntax which is easy to read/write and easy to parse with a look-ahead parser.

For more complicated languages, there are tools like tree-sitter and ANTLR4. You can even extend an existing tree-sitter grammar to augment a language without having to re-write the base language parser.
At least for our blog we've been posted a few times so we're hardly a secret, but yeah this no-context post really reads like they're fishing for training data.
This is an interesting concept. I like it.

There isn’t any real information about the site available though, or not that I can find anyway. No about page, no T&Cs covering e.g. who owns the rights to the audio, no FAQs, etc.

The audio clips could do with the ability to rate and comment, e.g. to discuss the work, or to suggest improvements about audio quality etc. You could also do with a place for creators to chat about ideas, if you don’t have one, be it a forum, discord, or a social network (which looks like the direction this idea is heading in eventually anyway?). I’ve listened to a few clips and I think it’d be interesting to see contributors team up with animators to add visual appeal to the content too.

Anyway that’s enough of my points of improvement- I think this is a great idea.
Blog to let parents semi-anonymously share their stories about parenting.

HTTPS://www.babyblackbox.com

Technically not my blog but built it.
The submission title has been editorialized. The real title is "A lot of people are checking out Mastodon. The number of active users rose by 294,000 over the weekend", which doesn't even mention Bluesky.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://weller.ml

Started writing this year; just a few posts so far about topics I find interesting.
Thank you for this, which is in the same direction as what most parents feel, of those men on both sides that have been forced to take part in this fighting.

The lyrics of this SE Slavic folk song is the theme of the perspective of that parent (clicking on 'more' expands to the lyrics)

https://rumble.com/vrs2de-cossacks-lullaby-english.html

I also hope this conflict comes to an end as soon as possible with least amount of destruction and tragedy for these families, and their generations to come that must live on this land.
The only purpose of the noscript tag is turn the visibility back on and maybe setup some other noscript-specific styling.

<noscript> <style> body {visibility: visible; opacity: 1;} </style> </noscript>
https://b.yuxuan.org

mostly go related
Not self promoting at all, I love your posts! I'll go check it out, I've been a big fan for years. Your post on what companies need in a VP of PM was very impactful on my career.
You can enable all of the things you've mentioned after applying the patch if you need them. It's mainly targeted for gaming use cases, where security is sacrificed for optimal performance.

I found that it improved the responsiveness of my system immensely, even after re-enabling most of the security features. Right after booting, I have 1GB of memory usage and only 50 total processes running, whereas a fresh install would use around 3GB of memory with 120 processes.

Of course, don't install it if you feel happy with what you can get with the scripts/programs you've linked. I've used those in the past, but they are generally more limited in scope.
"As a side gig" -- I like that -- it reminds me of I had a friend who played in a band that claimed they were just rock musicians to make ends meet until their programming careers took off.
There's nothing foolish about it at all, it's just not simple. You can keep a classic car going forever if you keep replacing parts when they wear out. Of course, you eventually end up with the Classic Car of Theseus, but so what? Humans are already like this: your cells have all died out and been replaced over the course of ~7 years. I don't see why the same won't be true of humans eventually: it'll require constant maintenance of course, and maybe artificial parts or implants, but there are other organisms out there that are biologically immortal, so it's certainly not impossible.
I've known about wine for years and literally only learned that CrossOver exists this morning on HN in the steamdeck thread.

> and CodeWeavers’ usage of it.

To clarify, what do you mean by this? Does CodeWeavers use the term "Wine" somewhere in a product? (I thought that's CrossOver?)
Depends on the game, and the anti-cheat software it uses.

EAC for Linux works
If you're not going to believe any references, why ask for them? "That one guy" is a fake and a fraud, but if you want to find something on the web that supports him, I'm sure you can succeed.
https://mgsloan.com - 11 posts about unorthodox computer ergonomics. 6 posts about Haskell ideas / weird tricks. Haven't posted in a couple years but would like to get back to it. Notable HN discussions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28118381 - Supine Computing (2019)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21842663 - Outdoor Computing with a Deck Desk
I stopped reading or watching news about a year ago. Other than HN and conversations with people I don't have any exposure. I always find out about important stuff some way or another, and have overall a more positive outlook in life. Highly recommended.
+1 I use CrossOver, I bought the lifetime license to support them since they also upstream crazy stuff like running 32bit Windows EXE in MacOS etc.
https://aaronbos.dev/

I can’t always say my posts are great, but I try to stay consistent with posting at least twice a month. I find it to be a great way to organize my thoughts and learnings.
I'm not enough to know they used "bottles"
Not exactly[1]. First comment said that they could do this using some command then after some explanation by the founder, the commenter said: "You are correct that this presents a very good, easy-to-install piece". The second comment said "This is genius. It's is problem everyone is having, and everyone knew it". Even just by quantity most commentators said it was great. Just first comment is taken as fact that it was panned by HN.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
I always liked the Netflix reframing of 'professional sports team's vs 'family' because of that reason. At the same time.. I'm sorry you've had a professional career with so many folks lacking loyalty. I've been lucky enough to work with a variety of 'recognized' great people, and with them, loyalty is so common that it has been the folks who lacked loyalty (and often in politicized bigcos that seems to encourage that) who stand out as the exceptions.

Fwiw, I'm using 'work with us' in the sense of taking ownership over a problem and ability & interest to work through many unknowns, vs preferring a weekly jira with big decisions made by the time they reach you.

The analogy of 'mercenary' specialist may align with your world view. Sometimes that type of person can be worth their weight in gold. We like that for short temp consultations for example, and in big enterprise engagements, I often like when a mix of them + lifers are involved..
Murder is the major issue in São Paulo. Does that mean nothing else should be discussed or commented upon?
There's probably more dimensions to hubris but typically I understand it as flying too close to the sun, the other way for me is humility.
All my evidence is anecdotal, based on talking to my users. But that'd be a great topic for developer survey.

Also, I'm quoting Perens' definition of open source.
I agree with that, but that might take generations. In the meantime, measures have to be taken to reduce active and intentional racism.
Don’t mix in person friends, professional colleagues, and online personas.

Ever.
I wrote a great tool for this: https://github.com/ferrislucas/promptr

It’s great for making changes to existing code because it automatically includes the relevant files for context.
You're probably right, but they made the loop turn the wrong way.
https://www.daniellittle.dev/
I blog occasionally just to share or think. Regular topics include the web, fp and dotnet.
Lutris is SOL now that steam proton runs everything, including that
There are women that are attracted to climbing mountains, there are many women that are more interested in other attributes and are more than happy with men their height or only slightly taller.

There's a good chance the difference you're describing experiencing comes mostly from your own internalised perceived confidence from feeling taller and feeling a difference in body image.

If you can seize onto that feeling and change in outlook and use that w/out the lifts in shoes you might find it's less to do with the markings on a door frame and more to do with attitude.
In my experience, all but a non-issue, unless you are a competitive gamer
I think you may be confusing the etymology of a word, i.e., where it came from, with its meaning as used by the speakers of a language.

Here's a definition from a commonly cited online dictionary of American English:

> eugenics

> : the practice or advocacy of controlled selective breeding of human populations (as by sterilization) to improve the population's genetic composition

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eugenics#dictiona...

Here's another definition from the Oxford Dictionary of English Third Edition:

> eugenics | juːˈdʒɛnɪks |

> plural noun [treated as singular]

> the study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable. Developed largely by Sir Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, eugenics was increasingly discredited as unscientific and racially biased during the 20th century, especially after the adoption of its doctrines by the Nazis in order to justify their treatment of Jews, disabled people, and other minority groups.
Moved completely off ubuntu after snaps were introduced. Sticking with gentoo now because it’s one of a few distros that doesn’t try to control what software you have to use.
import into steam as a proton-run windows app.

aaaand done
Solid state batteries, are they safer, less likely to blow-up?
Same, it really is amazing coming from the days of using Lokis and WineX and Wine trying to make things work. It was often a struggle but still some triple A games would work out of the box back then, COD1+2, quake 4 had a linux installer, MoH: Pacific Assault.
Look at street view instead of the articles pictures. It's not a big deal at all.
https://codeyarns.com/tech/

2500+ posts from almost 20 years on the web.

Essentially a place to take notes: on the digital devices I use and tips of the software I use. The main idea is to have a place I can refer to when I want some programming/software/hardware detail a second time, instead of returning to Google search again. I've found it easier to have my own notes (once I find the info I need) since other sources of info online can disappear over time or disappear from search results.
Having to run MS Teams is a red flag in general
what more do you need than a spreadsheet?

more generally, why would someone spend their time charting local temperatures manually… do you not trust the national weather service?
Ctrl-C to exit insert mode is the biggest one.
No specific experience with Oracle Cloud, but contract bullying on other products has led me to blacklist Oracle personally.
Fortunately the embedded video that the article sourced the claim from includes a side-by-side with FPS counters.
WINE = Wine Is Not-an Emulator
“Our brains are composed of many models, some heuristic, some optimizers, some solvers, some constrainers, and some generative.”

We need an AI that iteratively tweaks its own architecture (to recreate and surpass those modules which are necessary for human thought), and maps out hardware enhancements* to accommodate the new architecture.

*I seem to remember Google working on ML software that proposes new chip designs a few years ago