skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks to e.g. Google Sheets, excel itself doesn't dominate the market like it used to. Beyond that, I've had a litany of jobs where I had zero reason to ever use a spreadsheet, one of which was one where I actually sold Microsoft Office licenses.

For a great many folks, the only time they may have encountered spreadsheet software at all was in a school computer literacy class, and even then...
Not at all! This is great. I think at a minimum I need some kind of gui with an icon for each binary (something like a very basic app launcher I guess). But what I like about your solution is that it’s about as simple as I was hoping to be able to achieve!
We know from history that exclusives are incredibly important in the console industry.

Microsoft buying ATVI will net them ownership over one of the most important game IPs of the last three console generations.

The only way this decision makes any sense is that the courts are somehow thinking that 10 years is long enough and things will be different by the time MS is in the position to tilt the deck to their favour by making parts of or the entirety of this franchise a platform exclusive.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is already 16 years old, so the courts are likely wrong as this franchise clearly has remarkable staying power to still be this relevant.
My Australian kids and 9 and 11 and we are very strict about waiting for the walk signal. Kids that age tend to walk around daydreaming, and just not great at working out how fast cars are moving. Crossing a busy road is literally the most dangerous thing they do.

Another cultural observation, when living in Boston, my partner and I both found it strange that if you were standing on the side of the road, cars will stop and wait for you to cross, even if you were nowhere near a crossing or intersection. Cars seems to give way to pedestrians anywhere an everywhere.

In Australia, cars wont stop for you unless you are at a crossing, and even then you need to make sure they have seen you. Cars zooming through a green light are not going to be looking for pedestrians walking against a red walk signal. The onus is on the pedestrian to not be hit, not the car to avoid the pedestrian.

Update: Also.. its hard not to take this persons criticism personally, so when they say "the UK / Australia model where everyone obeys some stupid rule written on the wall over their own intelligence" I would just like to respond that is a combination of wanting to be polite and courteous to the sign poster, and intelligent enough to know we don't know everything, that the sign might be for our own safety. :)
Learning from something has never been copyright violation before, even when a computer was learning (eg, building a search index from copyrighted data is fair use; cite: Google cases).
I can't fault your diagnosis of the problem. Fixing it would be... ambitious, though.

But maybe it would be easier in some languages than others. Lisp, being essentially a naked syntax tree, might be amenable to this. And Go has automated formatting tools. Granted, they aren't used for this, but perhaps they could be extended to do so.

But doing this for something like C++? That seems like something that's going to take a long time.
I hope I won’t be faulted for not “reading” the OP, but it’s a 17 minute video. I watched a little, but I don’t understand the thesis.

It does seem ironic though that on a video about the ad-based internet dying, there are several ads in the page, the video maker in the first segment has a lengthy ad where he praises whatever he is advertising, probably VPN stuff, there is a bunch of begging for paid subscribers in the summary, and comments in the comment section from third party ad spammers directing people to what appears to be MLMs.
Are you suggesting

3.times(2).plus(7)

as a good thing or a bad thing? I see a.equals(b) occasionally from the first argument is magic crowd but 3.times is novel here. I'm really unsure what the order of operations is for that expression.
I think the DMCA being a massive overreach is a separate issue from whether weights should be eligible for copyright. This is a complicated legal area and I'm very much not a lawyer so let me just stick to some examples that guide my thinking:

- Grammarly. Clear value prop, if weights can't be adequately protected then that's a significant headwind against doing processing on the client.

- Adobe Firefly. Could run locally, they understand the technical challenges well, same headwind.

- GitHub Copilot. Same.

Copyright protection is probably not a single deciding issue in their product strategy but all of those are use cases that would for most users be better run locally as hardware can support that and are not going to because it's too much of a risk. Better to limit distribution and protect as trade secret.

The most powerful force for openness I see has nothing to do with copyright eligibility and everything to do with companies wanting to showcase their research arms to build brand and support recruiting. That leads me to believe it's probably better for models to be eligible for copyright and considered derivatives of all of the constituent training data. In some ways the better parallel is sampling in the music industry. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
Every time, without fail, somebody shows a bug about a piece of code that we take for granted (In this case, the String class) the bug is related to concurrent modifications.

Concurrency is so hard that even OpenJDK developers can't prevent these kind of bugs
> type of citizens that the IC has been targeting for at least the last decade.

The really crazy part is that none of us has any clue what type of citizens the IC has been targeting.

I'd be willing to bet it's all of us.
Not a successor:

> Dusk OS is a 32-bit Forth and big brother to Collapse OS. Its primary purpose is to be maximally useful during the first stage of civilizational collapse, that is, when we can't produce modern computers anymore but that there's still many modern computers still around.
It's gotta be ironic that the most recent comment on a video about ads is some spam advertising a get-rich-quick scheme.

The sad fact is that there still seem to be more than enough utterly braindead marks on the Internet that fall for these scams and thus make the spam campaigns, scare ads and other crap "worth the effort".
youtube-dl is unmaintained. yt-dlp is a maintained fork
curious: why is that not possible?
Oh, I don't know. How well does it have to work? If anything I'm suddenly very curious what kind of results you'd get from converting line art to distance fields, averaging/interpolating, and converting back. Maybe I'll write some code...
Doesn't MST merely chop up the bandwidth of the lanes you have? So why would you update different parts of a single display using MST (each stream only getting part of the bandwidth of the link), rather than using the whole link to update the display from top to bottom at the same pixel depth and clock?
Ouch that's unfortunate :(
Here's a hot take: I think this kind of pride in ignorance of social happenings is just as bad as pride in ignorance of math/science. They both seem like attempts to paper over feelings of exclusion from one group by using feelings of inclusion in another group. Why not just let people like what they like without judgement?
Size and performance.
Well obviously (or so I thought) was referring to how it's modeled (with the crazy codes and all) based on the way the system currently is -- not on how the system "should be".

The comment I was responding to just seemed to be saying: "Gee, this is complicated." Well yeah. Because what it has to do is (based on the way things are presently, and beyond anyone's ability to change in the near-term) complicated.

Crazy billing codes are a pain signal. They aren't the underlying malady itself.
I have "seen" some of that art in person. The Plastik Man CD cover definitely caused issues for some that I know.
I defer to you, internet expert.
Activision / Blizzard / King includes: Candy Crush, World of Warcraft, and Diablo which are all heavy hitters.
The AI Boom Is Here. – The Cloud May Not Be Ready
https://archive.is/9eqAm
I daily drove a high end Chromebook with Linux containers for a couple years and in a lot of ways it prevents an even better experience than windows. The stability of the base system was unbeatable. Apps running in the Linux container were more crash prone than bare metal, but that should improve over time. I successfully ran Android Studio, Visual Studio Code, and a bunch of other tools with surprising success.
The way I interpret burnout is a disconnect between how much effort you're putting in and what you're getting out of it. When your brain catches on to this disconnect, it gets less and less willing to put in the effort.

If your job is actually making a physical thing, it's very easy to see the results of your work. There are tangible objects you can see and touch. Even if you're digging ditches all day, you can see the holes. In software, you're producing something intangible, and so it's much harder for your brain to tell you accomplished anything for all your work.

On top of this, software is cheap to iterate on. This means requirements can shift on very short notice, and the thing you built yesterday may not be useful anymore, and gets thrown in the trash. Again, your brain takes this as you putting in work and not accomplishing anything.

And then when it comes to deadlines, a lot of the time they're completely arbitrary. Someone circled a date on the calendar. Or bosses often don't do a good job of conveying why the deadline was set. Or the deadline passes and other teams aren't ready, so it turns out you didn't need to work that hard. Your brain ends up wondering why you put in all the effort when you could have done it less intensely and gotten to the same outcome.

All jobs can have aspects of these things, but I think they're much more prevalent and concentrated in software. I don't think there are any magic bullets. Maybe if managers and bosses understood this and took some care to not exacerbate those types of situations that contribute to burnout. Make sure people understand what they're contributing and give them something they can point to. If something gets canned, try to give the engineer a quick "win" with a small project before putting them on something new that might also get cancelled. Make sure deadlines aren't arbitrary and ideally that they can be met without grinding.
I’m on the north east and calling home for Tylenol is still a thing. Since I don’t have direct knowledge of the area I skimmed the article and question exactly how far it goes. Specifically “Two health centers at the largest school district in Washington State are operated by a nonprofit which provides, among other things, gender transition medications and referrals for gender transition surgeries” - the health center is operated by another entity? So the school nurse is replaced and outsourced ? Or is this something entirely different where students can get a referral to an outside? Later in the article they say they don’t provide puberty blockers. I’m not sure but this sounds more like something where the reality is a bit different.
They haven't, though. In spite of them distributing this stuff for about a decade with Nintendo's full knowledge. Not to say it couldn't happen, but IA seem to have wrapped themselves up in enough legal tape to discourage Nintendo from taking action so far.
I don’t like any of those games, but their sales numbers obviously show that others do haha.
Just like you are ignorant about Kasdashians it is totally understandable that Nelly or Kelly or whatever has no ffing clue about MS Excel. It is OK they do not have to know what it is.
His two examples are Twitter and Reddit whose ad revenue is dying because those two companies have made huge blunders. Elon seems to almost actively be killing Twitter (which the poster even states). Reddit screwed Apollo and then many of the most popular subreddits protested and did things like show porn on otherwise usually SFW content to prevent Reddit from showing ads and thus killing their profits. Those are big sites, but those are definitely attributable to other obvious confounding factors. I would definitely argue they should be the first data points thrown out in asking "is the ad biz on the internet dying?". I do think ads have gotten worse but I definitely don't think it's going anywhere for a long long time. Way too many companies have built their whole revenue model around them. And companies may spend less to post ads but they definitely still will because there really aren't that many alternatives.
Games That Don't Fake the Space
I sure wish someone made ARM systems like an Intel NUC, with reasonable Linux support.
Yes that’s Thunderbolt daisy chaining.
Same video from YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdTLj-xcqGM

(I have no particular love for YouTube but at least sponsorblock works there!)
Huge tech companies have used the Wonderlic IQ test as recently as the last 10 years. Somebody here, if this thread isn't moribund, can chime in to say which; I'm not saying. There's a meme that IQ tests are a powerful hiring tool that have been suppressed by political correctness or gunshy HR departments, but the real reason they're not ubiquitous is that they're not fit for purpose.
Those tabs are new as of a few months ago.

Here's a screenshot [1] showing how the permissions prompt originally blocked you from navigating to the other tabs, and some additional reports of the issue [2] [3]. What's worse is that very old versions of the app worked fine in view-only mode without these invasive permissions demands, but then Google decided to update the app to be completely useless unless you surrendered all your photos.

I'm surprised Apple allowed the app on their store for over a year, with what appeared to be a clear violation of their policies.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/l2sErQQ

[2] https://support.google.com/photos/thread/1939628/use-ios-goo...

[3] https://old.reddit.com/r/googlephotos/comments/rhoyb1/google...
I definitely do not remember 800x600 as spacious and comfy. The best I could call it is "slightly better than 640x480". I had to get to 1024x768 before I actually felt like the screen was no longer cramped.

And I had to get to 2560x1440 before I felt like I really had enough room for more than one window at a usable size and placement at the same time. (Not really surprising, as it's finally big enough to put 1280x720 windows next to each other.)
Call of Duty, Diablo, World of Warcraft, StarCraft, and Overwatch are some of the most popular games in the world. They may not be to your liking or mine but this is objectively not true.
Assuming you have an external monitor already, one can get pretty nice deals on Mac minis. I paid less than $1500 for an Apple Silicon Mac mini and a similarly specc'd MBP cost something like $800-$1000 more. Later on, I can continue to upgrade by replacing with a newer Mini or Apple Studio at a lower price (and better cooling) than buying a new laptop.
Google finds https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62781161/is-it-possible-... which is a portal to horrors with the answer "no"
Cool thanks for your input. Any tips to improve it?
These types of people are the reference. They make decisions, deploy it to millions of devices, and collect data.

Doesn't' mean they're right, of course.
So the actual producers of output don't get all the money? Shocked, I tell ya!
This is hilarious and it resonates with me.
:(. I've been happy with NUCs. I've been very happy to pay a premium for a product I'd certain would be consistent.

In fact, I've recently been trying to find a NUC-like system that could accommodate a 3.5" drive -- does anything modern exist?
Yes, but Java will happily accept code that doesn't use them where it needs to, leading to bugs like this one. Rust catches that mistake at compile time instead.
It's a complex topic, but it's important to recognize that, to a large extent,

> you just pay for stuff with money and if someone is "nice" to you, you don't "owe" them anything

is kind of the whole point of money. More specifically, it allows you to trade with random strangers, without having to first develop and afterwards maintain social relationships with them. It's what, for better or worse, let humanity form groups larger than a small village.

> You may be able to get away with claiming 1.75 of it and giving them 1.25 of it for a long damn time but if it becomes clear to them that all interactions between you and them benefit you at their expense, well, count on them eventually not being cool with that.

This is always the case - but it takes longer for this process to settle, the larger the group is. Money is what allows you to even have this issue in the first place, by allowing societies to reach this size. And laws exist to compensate for our social intuitions and behaviors failing at this scale.
> Wether 90% (or X%) market share qualifies as a monopoly is an age-old debate.

It really isn’t much of a debate
I look forward to a future where these videos can get auto-transcribed (accurately) so I don't have to watch the damn video.
A used 27in 5K LG. They have quality issues though so it could be a gamble. I've seen them in FB for 500-600
Stroustrup, B. (1998, April 1) Generalizing Overloading for C++2000. AT&T Labs. https://www.stroustrup.com/whitespace98.pdf
Because Warmshowers membership is $30, once and if they mentioned their service (with a tiny fraction of the users and sites) costs $100/year up front, even more people would leave.

It's all about delaying the unpopular bit as much as possible so people sigh and go "well I'm already most of the way through setting up an account..."
It was such a dumb idea that many folks decided to trade their capital for it, including you.
Thank you for putting this so eloquently!

> Many modern C++ codebases in scientific computing, rendering, or the game industry make use of vector classes with operator overloading, with no performance drawbacks whatsoever

I guess these people are all not writing "serious code" :-p
Definitely, Windows 7 not only used fewer resources than Vista but also had its upgraded UI with good scaling and smooth fonts, plus a better taskbar and clever window management extras, like snapping. The overall experience was less annoying as third party software had already adapted to the new user permissions system and other quirks over the years.

After 7, I switched to Mac, and even after all these years, I still have fond memories of that OS. Every time I tried a new Windows version, they seemed to have gone downhill.
It is entirely possible she does know and is simply acting. In fact, her entire public persona may well be manufactured, as it is by many.
Kyiv’s frustration boils as flow of Western chips for Russian missiles continues
Then you'll be thrilled to hear about Warmshowers: https://www.warmshowers.org

Last I checked, there's a one-time $30 fee.
Microsoft’s acquisition of Bethesda lead directly to Starfield not being released on the Sony PlayStation at all. I read the game’s developers were not happy with that.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/23/23771828/microsoft-bethed...
You insist people answer your stupid question but won't answer others. How quaint.
It's kind of a weird argument to make because the last glacial period was something like 115kya to 12kya. So it's likely the case that any day in the last 10k years is hotter than all the days in the last ~100k years glacial period. I don't want to diminish the point that climate change is real, the earth is warming, and this presents a grave threat to humanity. But the 100k years thing is a bit disingenuous. One could equivalently point out that the Earth is much colder today than it has been for most of the last 500M years, which is a statement that is equally true and irrelevant.
If you're looking for super simple and you're a web dev, you could script together some page and use any server language to run the command.

For instance, use Electron as your app launcher.

Perfect it later if that's not your thing.
I've got several small desktops based on Intel laptop cpus from the past ten years, none of which were put together by Intel.

Lots of products here: https://liliputing.com/tag/mini-pc/
Every time someone brings up the fact that none of these measurements are definitely accurate I feel the need to make this reminder:

It is just as likely that the models are too optimistic as too pessimistic.
MSCHF probably knows what they're doing in terms of copyright at this point, lol.
Apologies all - *2030. Source is Rewiring America, page 40: https://downloads.ctfassets.net/v4qx5q5o44nj/4LvLQrqfbIcpgvk...
https://archive.is/VxlDI
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jrbqIAdDE_w (Appears to be from the competition’s official channel; it’s also embedded at the end of the article.)

Unfortunate that the hero image gives away the illusion as I was immediately able to notice it in the video. It is otherwise convincing enough that I would likely not have noticed without that.

The video is 45 seconds; still well worth the watch.
Just going to point out Candy Crush is the inferior Solitaire and Minesweeper equivalent of the current generation.
Well I picked Java as an example specifically because it is a pedestrian "getting things done" language. I don't do much Windows development.
I think Microsoft might be willing to release the Infocom build tools and engines under an MIT license – by now they would be of purely historical interest, similar to open-sourcing MS-DOS 1.0 and 2.0.

I'm not sure if they'd be willing to do so for the game assets (the room/item descriptions/etc) – it would remove one of the main legal barriers to a competitor creating their own game set in the Zork universe. The Fortran 77 version of Zork has long been available under a "non-commercial use only" license, so they might be willing to release the game assets under such a license too (or maybe a more modern equivalent such as CC-BY-NC or CC-BY-NC-SA)
I recently googled some random topic (drag race engines I think) and got some fairly-decent article from 5 years ago that satisfied my curiosity.

The website was actively user-hostile. Multiple things popping up all over the place, the works.

Is there any other destiny for content like that? Long since written, but owned and served. Why not enshittify as much as possible, one performance review cycle at a time?
I think we really need microtransactions. Pay $0.05 to read this article? Sure. Whoever figures out the infrastructure for that (seems like it would be right up Stripe’s alley) is going to make trillions.
Ah, another one of those business self-help articles that gives you recycled insight.
> If you see a DisplayPort interface on your board where you’d usually expect HDMI, that might just be because the company decided to avoid HDMI’s per-device royalties, and do firmly believe that this is a good thing.

Wikipedia says DP 1.3 requires "mandatory Dual-mode for DVI and HDMI adapters". Does this mean that all DP 1.3 ports must output HDMI (and presumably pay HDMI licensing fees) as well?