skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But I've never seen anybody having this as a first reaction to some software. It needs some time to kick in.

It used to take time, but the association has become common enough that it's a red flag right at the start for me. It won't make me not try it out, of course, but it does set a certain expectation in me.

The effect is strongest with websites. I think the correlation between being pretty/shiny and the site being generally worthless is high enough to be roughly predictive.
I love Qubes a lot, I daily drove it for a few years and still have it on a laptop. but i would not recommend it even to most technical people, mainly because you forfeit the ability to run things on bare metal. "dom0" is the same as on normal xen - it is a VM and has the associated overhead still. On top of that, the official Qubes dom0 runs a very outdated fedora version.

I am instead writing my own code to automate libvirt to replicate much of Qubes' functionality (ephemeral roots for vms, disposable vm support, GUI isolation) so i can still have Qubes security for most of my apps but fully exercise my hardware when I want.

There are also some minor criticisms i have of Qubes' default, mainly that appvms have passwordless sudo by default and less importantly, no MAC such as apparmor. Passwordless sudo arguably makes it somewhat easier to break out of the VM and no in-vm sandboxing means you have to run every in a separate VM unless you want to set that up yourself.

For example i don't really want my work thunderbird to have access to my work browser, so a single "work" domain isn't enough for me.
> If the boy is an underage teen, then it would also be illegal to interrogate him without the presence of a guardian.

Was this the government police doing this? Or a private company?

> If I am going about my business, but you request that I stop what I'm doing to follow you to have a chat, you are detaining me. period. you pussyfooting around this like it's not is just disingenuous at best

So all of those “on-the-street” YouTubers asking questions are detaining people? Even if those people don’t stop?
It sounds like you've found something that works best for you, and that the large Keras user base has found something that works best for them.
It's not often that the benefits QubesOS brings are what security companies (or the community) needs. If you do malware analysis, Windows VMs in isolation on a throw-away laptop is better. If you do penetration testing, Windows or regular Linux will be better, too. If you do extremely sensitive communication you're in a very niche group of people and chances are you're using a provided equipment by your superior (e.g., modified laptops).
Oh, we all have our curves that can be compared. Elon directly acts when he makes his own tweets about some BS or other. I don't recall Zuck calling anyone a pedo stiffing people for money, or lying abouth his wealthy upbringing. Early Zuck was a visible cretin too, but that was highly visible as he matured into an adult in full view of us all, while Musk's background and behavior as a white South African occurred out of our sight.

As far as their impact on society through the organizations they control, the effect is indirect and murkier, they've both got some significant area. It's not like Z is a flatline.

UPDATE: from [https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-07-11/matt-l...] today:
> Anyway now Musk owns Twitter, after paying $44 billion for it, and he is using it to talk about the size of his penis. These facts are also related.
They're also famously bad at tasting wine
Or they can just buy the data they want from whatever surveillance capitalism megacorp and not even have to bother collaborating with international orgs, regardless of citizenship/national origin/whatever.
Something that really frustrates me is that modern society doesn't seem to provide many opportunities for balance when it comes to work. I don't think I'd enjoy (and can't currently afford to) be a full time electrician. But I think some mix of doing professional electrical work and building software sounds pretty great. But expertise is critical and it's hard to build it by splitting time.
Double whammy, because sadly you can't run it in a VM either. At least that's my experience.
I think it might be more that a lot of people aren't willing to do manual labor if they have an alternative that pays as much or more. Even some contractors and electricians I have spoken to have steered their children away from trades not because of status, but that it can be really tough on your body and health.
I’m very pro-free market but I would be happy to see this structure replaced with almost anything else. We chose the worst possible combination/bastardization of systems: colleges are given a massive amount of funding by the federal government and the same government guarentees student loans via a debt shackle, lenders are incentivized to lend to students, colleges are incentivized charge exactly what the market will “tolerate” which is horribly skewed due to the abundance of money available to be loaned. This is a losing system for students, even for those who don’t take on debt are spending an absolute insane amount tuition, books, housing, and other living expenses.
> The literate coding system they're using

We need a new name for this kind of thing[1] because it's not really literate programming - you can't re-order your code blocks in the literate source files and have them come out in the right place in the code source files which is, I think, a key part of it being literate programming. Don't get me wrong - I use this a lot with the various *occos - but it needs a name of its own.

[1] Assuming we don't already have one that I've missed.
I wish the manufacturers would just adopt the USB IF marketing names and logos. https://i.imgur.com/H3unbD5.png would be a lot simpler.

I also wish the USB IF defined colors for high speed lanes absent vs 5/10/20 gbps capable high speed lanes and then 60W/100W/240W power. All it needed were two color bands on the plastic part of the plug. If colors are too gaudy then go Braille-style, have a 2x2 grid on top and bottom of the plug where bit 0 is a little hole and bit 1 is a little bump. That's 16 possible data speeds and 16 possible power levels and so far we have only needed 4 for data and 3 for power.

Intel could've added a separate row for Thunderbolt.
> It has its advantages though.

Seems the advantage is somewhat localized to the individual inference-based learner; it doesn't seem like a pro-social strategy which would optimize benefit to the group. Overall this seems like it would generalize to widespread misinformation if the majority of uses adopted this behavior.

I'm guessing it's in the best interests of the wider group to try to minimize the occurrence of this type of participation.
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-395019A1.pdf
Updating ty
My guess would be they can’t compete with the hundreds of cheap AliExpress/Amazon clones, they are good enough for a lower price.
See my top level comment about daily driving it.
This is exactly my point, and indeed the point of the parent. If you know Windows use Windows. If you know Mac, use Mac.

There is no reason to make your mom (or my mom) switch.

And while MacOS may be intuitive, its less intuitive if you come from something else. I used one for a bit and found everything "backwards". One version of Mac to another or one version of Windows to another is trivial compared to changing from one to the other.

Obviously the Linux CLI is waaay beyond most average people. So it's a non starter anyway.
> Or is this more of a server OS?

It's specifically designed for desktop use

https://www.qubes-os.org/intro/
Interesting... thanks. I was not aware these existed. Also, the mainboards are expensive, but not as expensive as I thought.
Or maybe one day people will realize render functions explicitly listening to event emitters is actually a better pattern than implicit reactivity.
My s5 had great battery life with removable battery that could be upgraded and was perfectly waterproof almost 10 yrs ago. I think the bigger driver is encouraging people to get a new phone when battery life inevitably declined. I used the S5 for about 6 years with no issues other than a couple battery replacements. My pixel didn't even make it 2 years before serious performance declines and poor battery life.
> There was never even a hint of being pushed to non-replaceable batteries from "higher up" for "reasons". Instead, it was product specs / design parameters that drove the choice.

Cynically, we should be so lucky to have such crudely overt messaging. I would expect the reasons to take the form of specs and design parameters and not be so blunt. The NSA has done just that in the past.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/the-n...
It is explicitly not a server OS, it really only makes sense as a graphical workstation OS.
Because that's a premise of a fair market? I realize there are plenty of examples in other industries of companies suing their way into dominant market share, but it's a practice that's just antithetical to a free market. If someone makes a better product (that complies with regulations), in a fair capitalist world competitors need to catch up. Not engage in shady tactics to bully their customers into accepting their own.

I realize America doesn't work this way but it's something I think a lot of people would agree with
I find comments like these a bit hypocritical. Everything you said could be applied to yourself. Like sure, maybe hating on badges is not for you, fine. why complain about it?

It is not a consistent position to complain about people complaining about things on the internet.
I assume this is the final build? https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/115.0/
> The only thing it didn't consider is that time for 9.6 laps means driving 10 laps total, since incomplete laps must be finished after time is up.

I would be hesitant to judge an LLM on the various ground rules of the real world that it happens to have internalized or not, that aren't given in the prompt.

For my uses I'd want to have prompts that provide necessary context anyway - and would actually favor ones that can do it from the prompt without needing to already know - so that it is not limited when it encounters a novel problem domain.
There is a very small part in the Netherlands where that is not the case, called 'Heuvelland' (Hill land). It even has a 'Bergdorp' (mountain village). DAF, a truck factory, does their testing there, and I even met a professional Belgium cyclist who preferred it for practice.

But VanMoof, "born in Amsterdam", I can understand they missed it.
There's no reason keyboard navigation can't work in a GUI context. In fact it might be easier to define things like "up" or "forward" since widgets will often have a natural hierarchy with direct references to each other, so there's no need to parse anything to figure out what the "sexp" is.
They are making it impossible to handle the data so everyone gives up trying so they can go on screwing people over.
PowerBI also has the ability to do some custom R widgets I think, although I’ve never played with that in particular.
I learned to type on typewriters in the late 70s. I was thrown in a typing class in high-school and I thought to myself "this is a useless class, I'm NEVER going to ever need this". Turns out it was one of the best things I learned in high-school.

Anyway, I never used double spaces after periods. My typing teacher would always give me grief for it, but for whatever reason, I just never did it. As you can see, I still don't.
> There’s a lot of good tech around

You mean Solana which has to take its network offline every two weeks or so [1] because it can't cope with yet another error/ddos/misconfiguration/what not?

[1] exaggeration.
With reference to the case I mentioned (which seems like a decent border case to point out difficulties), what you want as a consultant is something that tells you "the likelihood of the event is bound to this and that", not something that goes "Oh, everything will be all right, dear". Outside figurative: truth (say, facts, or instances of computation) and comfort may not always be compatible.

> reasonably well

But I wrote «high-ranking professional». «Reasonably well» does not cover the cases relevant to full safety.

And, by the way, such attitude will backfire heavily on false positives.

Anyway: the case presented is there to point to a few difficulties involved in the idea of «not giving out dangerous answers».
The price depends on what you compare it with.

A NUC with an i3 Raptor Lake CPU and 16 GB DRAM is slightly less than EUR 400, a NUC with an i7 Raptor Lake CPU and 64 GB DRAM is slightly less than EUR 800, both with all taxes included.

If you buy the cheapest MB, the cheapest case and PSU and the cheapest Pentium or Celeron desktop CPU, you can get a desktop that is cheaper than a NUC, but with less peripheral interfaces, i.e. without the Thunderbolt ports included in a NUC, and which will not be faster than a NUC.

On the other hand if you compare a NUC with a laptop that has a similar number of peripheral interfaces and a similar CPU speed, then you discover that the laptops are incredibly overpriced and only mobile workstations or top gaming laptops of $3000 or more can match a NUC.

None of the laptops available from a major vendor has so many peripheral ports as a NUC. None of the laptops that use the same CPU as a NUC has a comparable speed to the NUC. The reason is that NUCs have much better cooling. In the recent NUCs, the CPU can dissipate 35 W indefinitely, without overheating, even if the CPUs have a nominal TDP of only 28 W.

Because of this I have stopped upgrading my Dell Precision mobile workstation and I have replaced it with a NUC together with a 17" portable monitor and a compact keyboard. This combo has less than half the price of a comparable mobile workstation, it is much lighter, by more than 1 kg than a 17" laptop, it needs less volume in my backpack, and because it has more peripheral ports I carry less dongles.

I have always used my laptop on a desk, connected to the mains power, wherever I have to go in a business trip, so using a NUC changes nothing from this POV.
> it is within their rights to terminate the rest of the contract and ban the customer

It should not be.

Any reasonable society would make such contracts/terms illegal and unenforcable.

Citizens need to be given primacy over corporations.
It’s meant to be used in a single-user laptop or desktop.
/r/MaliciousCompliance, in other words.
I agree, and also, I'm not really sure what one nation is supposed to do about it. The US can reduce its emissions all it wants, but good luck convincing China to do the same when it means they'll have to slow down their economy. Not to mention all the measures taken thus far, like mandating EVs and phasing out ICE cars, is just stupid virtue signaling when a single supertanker causes as much emissions as every car in the US combined.
Just to add: copyright is *not 100 years. It's 'the entire life of the author plus 70 years'.

If I make a YouTube video and live another 60 years, then people copying that video would still be committing copyright infringement in the year 2150.

That's just insane.
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It's using a nearly 2 year old SoC.
So:

int main() {
printf("hello, world!\n");
return 0;
}

C knew it all along :)
I for one commend Google's efforts to improve the web's chances of long-term survival by eliminating themselves and hopefully tracking in general.
Huh. TIL. I'd personally change those laws dramatically, but luckily for the airlines, I'm not realistically considering a career change to being a politician :)

Thanks for citing some links, I misunderstood a few things!
Can you share the prompts you used ? I'm really happy with Claude-100k for summarization, but I wonder if a better prompt would make it even better.
The third party tool is just to restore a windows 10 style start bar and start menu, not anything else.
Really excited about the deducing this features. Fun template kung-fu'ing ahead.
Conspiring to commit a murder is also illegal.

Totally agree otherwise.
Literally most of the packages on the page you link there explicitly say that they're maintained by other people. The author seems to maintain an RPM and a DEB setup, which is already more than most. And my point is absolutely not that some people don't go nuts there, but that's not where or how most Linux users get their software. It's mostly coming from stuff packaged by the distributions.

And I am sure that's how most open source packages on Linux are built. Again, I spent a lot of time in that world. (Former KDE core developer, former employee at SAP Linux Lab, friends working at all major distros, have a bunch of my stuff in every distro, talks at lots of Linux conferences, etc.)

Building really isn't the problem. It's testing and supporting. Building is relatively easy. But you can't just ship commercial packages without testing them. Pulling out a Debian 11 VM because someone's having problems with your software there under Wayland, but not X11, but it seems to work in Sid... Again for the 0.01% of your customers using that configuration, ... it's hard. And it rarely makes economic sense unless you've got a disproportionate number of users on Linux, or a ginormus user base. You can't assume because something works on Arch Linux that it also works on Mate. Or that something on Ubuntu works on Debian. Or Redhat on SUSE. And then your users may have any of 3-4 versions of those installed. By the time you get to a specific configuration you're dealing with often debugging things for a single-digit number of users.
Special would have been an apt model name.
Not always subconsciously. Saw this today:

> Dürer painted himself at centre of Renaissance altarpiece in revenge, research finds

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jul/11/durer-p...
I guess Bluesky will eventually pull their thumb out of their ass and do a public launch, right?
There are a lot of managers who haven't done any of the work that their reports do, and those that do have field experience but not even expertise.
What kind of threat model requires someone to use Qubes? I know Snowden uses it and there's even a testimonial of him on the Qubes site recommending it. Is this for people on 'lists' or are high value targets because they visited the wrong site or said something the authorities didn't like and their machines are now being targeted?
Seriously? Kudos for somehow ironically incentivizing both waste reduction and over-consumption (overeating to avoid penalties). I don't even like sushi, and I'm offended on their customer's behalf lol.
Pardon my ignorance as I'm not aware of these recent developments, but what is a valid use case for this? Why would I put my database into an ephemeral serverless DB[1]?

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36684121
> It also seems to be a metric that is very easily gamed.

Fun fact: the current JS-specific metric (which is being fazed out) is First Input Delay, and it was explicitly designed to avoid this gaming:

> FID only measures the "delay" in event processing. It does not measure the event processing time itself nor the time it takes the browser to update the UI after running event handlers. While this time does affect the user experience, including it as part of FID would incentivize developers to respond to events asynchronously—which would improve the metric but likely make the experience worse.
> - https://web.dev/fid/

I wonder why they decided to reconsider this trade-off when designing INP.
Thank you, I was waiting for someone to clarify the word "detain". You're right this is more nefarious than an official police detention
Ask HN: How do you “clean” Windows from all bloatware?
I have recently got a Windows laptop which I will use almost exclusively for WSL and the Browser. Both work fine in Windows 11, but the sheer amount of side bloatware I see around in menus etc.. and the "ads" are crazy, and they really annoy me.

For those of you in a similar position, may I ask if you know of a program or script that removes from Windows everything that can be removed, except thing necessary for proper functioning of WSL and web browsing? The goal is to ultimately have as fast and slim a Windows as possible.

Many thanks
Again, why would the existing airlines agree to this?
Why do they want a “fair” market?
There may be some, but I can’t think of an existing for-profit market leader wanting a “fair” market.
Current State of the art (GPT-4) is mostly on par with experts and much better than crowdworkers. Might be overkill though.

https://www.artisana.ai/articles/gpt-4-outperforms-elite-cro...

3.5 (what is used here) is better than crowd workers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15056
Dropshipping is not sustainable.
I think it just shows that people will talk about the interesting issue related to the topic even if its not the direct topic.

People are not going to discuss a joke that's not particularly funny. It just isn't very interesting fruit for discussion.
It's been a long time since I used Office, but what drove me nuts about the ribbon of that era (not sure if it's still a thing; hopefully not!) is that the "home" ribbon elements weren't replicated in their respective logical tabs (i.e. the home ribbon wasn't just a shortcut palette). Drove me nuts trying to find something when I didn't realize some designer at Microsoft thought the function I was looking for was "essential" and thus deserved to be enshrined in the home tab.
> That shouldn't influence what you do or say though

It shouldn't, but I'm willing to bet it does. Even if you don't notice it. In the best(?) case it influences a small number of people you talk to, but that influences your conversations with them so indirectly influences you.

But I'd also argue that such a system would also be equally powerful enough to convincingly fabricate evidence against you. They could still blackmail you, by identifying things you might be embarrassed about, but the ability to fabricate convincing evidence is still highly problematic.

I do often wonder if the next big boom in "ad" technology will be homomorphic encryption. Where the data can be mined for the useful things like data to train ML models or target populations of people, but targeting individuals would be substantially harder.
That was the way of life for any community before industrial revolution. It appears that all attempts at creating such communities have more or less failed, because they eventually become coopted either for or against capitalistic economy.
Fixed:

> if you're going to put […] carousels, don’t