skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To expect change in vote counts and/or ratios, you have to assume that users have sort of "vote budget" that they are going to spend one way or another. If voting is mostly independent variable and mostly depends on particular user and particular post then you should not expect voting patterns/counts to change meaningfully.

> Could it not be the case that SO is less adept at finding related/duplicate questions than ChatGPT? Given the later's facility with the language, I would expect it to be.

Given the later's facility with the language, I would expect it to be a better search engine. I would expect that ChatGPT is replacing Google as sort of tokenizer. I.e. search pipeline changes from "form natural question -> input to google -> go to SO -> if first few links do not yield answer post new question" to "form natural question -> input to chatgpt -> extract keyword tokens -> input to google -> go to SO".

There is an important bit in the article:

> > Using data on programming language popularity on GitHub, we find that the most widely used languages tend to have larger relative declines in posting activity.

Here we can form a hypothesis that reduction in post frequency comes from entry level posts with posters not knowing what to search for. Under this hypothesis ChatGPT has strongest effect on users using SO as knowledge base rather than Q&A forum. This user type distinction would affect posting frequency much more heavily than voting patterns.
Timely but I dare ask: I need to rework my thinkpad, still in good shape but with an older ubuntu distro. Reasonably fluent linux user but not expert, primarily dev workflows - what's the recommendation?
I Change My Mind
I think I held a grudge against html5 for way too long now, at this rate there is no point.
I bet the people that can only afford to fly Spirit are happy once they get to that exotic, faraway place that they couldn't otherwise afford to travel to. We'd all love to fly first class everywhere if we could.

(The drip pricing is a problem and probably needs some tegation or something, and more gates, noreairports, and more route competition. But that is a aseparate issue than deep budget airlines, which you see even in highly competitive markets.)
Om school I was taught "don't drink calories". It has served me well
That's a very big "just" given that there is no good way to train for this.
hey.... what webmail are you using?

do you know about mailinabox? can the installation be similar to that? people who use that already know how to do most things and documentation is good but having the software the work itself is better for people who are not so technically adept.

you can even do one of those 1 click install scripts
French is not an official language in Lebanon.

And most people speak Engnlish.
macOS is certified, isn't it?
I quote:

"IDEs are easy mode and waste of resources. Its ok to start with them as a noob, but down the line i want to customize every part of my toolchain. (And thats just horrible to do in VSCode etc..)"
Some fuzzy search as you type magic on the package search box would be a nice feature. Are you making money off of this?
Disney losses are because of other factors, like a whole world of new content being available... including engaging video games in all platforms and all phone apps and content and remember that any and all entertainment content competes with them.

The entire history of art relies on rethinking of classical plots in new ideology.
The cancer risk from aspartame seems to almost certainly be 0. The cancer risk from alcohol is known to be higher 0. Avoiding aspartame for cancer-related reasons while drinking alcohol is non-sensical.
That's true. I agree that taking big financial risks, especially later in life, is not necessarily the best advice. Risk is relative though. Plenty of people in this thread talking about programming projects they've been working on for years and have rewritten multiple times, never releasing anything. What would have been the risk in releasing something earlier?

I have a friend who is a musician. He obsessed over individual songs that he produces for months, and doesn't release very much. I think he has this idea that he's going to be hugely successful someday, but I keep telling him, I think you would build more of a following if you released more of your work. The worst that could happen is that people don't like it that much, but there's something about getting used to putting yourself out.

There are also people who dream of a better work environment and never apply for other jobs. It can be risky to just quit your job when you have a family to care for, but it's often possible to interview in other places without leaving your current job.
that has some cool animation and looks like stuff from when I was a kid or comic books, but what is "unsafe" about it? From the clips online it seems like just the sort of thing that can be made today without ruffling any feathers. Is there something controversial about it?
I bet a lot of people will find that more interesting, meaningful, and fulfilling than what software engineers do.
Are you suggesting the EU should start pillaging countries? What petrostate should we liberate to becone self-sufficient? As luck would have it, the US achieved that right after conquering Iraq
>lose control of your distribution and are completely commoditised

And... Hollywood is any better??
You can build this yourself using goroutines and channels, but adding "native" first-class support for this generator pattern would be easier to use and come with less overhead.
Another problem is that everyone is aiming for the broadest international market, so any dialog must be easily translate-able to Mandarin, Japanese, French, German, and so on. No more clever wordplay, double entendres, puns, regional dialects... It all has to be vanilla and the themes need to be simple and straightforward (not to mention politically uncontroversial) so it can be palatable across the entire globe.
Despite all its shortcomings, the USSR did pretty well in areas they really cared about, like tank production. And it’s very difficult to compare the value of a t80 with the value of a m1, especially when there was little trade between both blocks. The USSR sold energy to Western Europe in order to get dollars which were then used to buy grain from the US. And that was just about it.

Your problem isn’t with PPP but with the Soviet societal tendency to falsify reports on absolutely every level and with the inherent incomparability between planned and market economies.
It’s pragmatic in the same way as negotiating with terrorists is pragmatic. It’s an exploitable philosophy.
Which is exactly the point. No AMT, one less problem.
I never noticed the "vintage" exemption!
Yes I wouldn't be surprised at all. It's easy to see how much lower suicide rates are for example in so called "third world" countries that have been war torn, due to no small part by Western colonialism, compared to "advanced first world" countries, which are generally highly secular and have higher standards of living. Believing in God plays a major role in maintaining mental sanity, particularly in the faces of challenges.

Personally speaking, Islam has helped me and many others I have either personally observed or heard about navigate far from ideal circumstances. I've known people who have lost spouses, children, or even entire close families, yet they remain steadfast and strong.
None of your examples are even artistic expressions; they're informative content. The comparable counterparts would be television shows or documentaries, not Hollywood narrative films. Tiktok has a lot of artistic expression, but simply nowhere near the level of greatness found in the American cinematic canon, which contains by most measures the greatest artistic accomplishments of mankind.
I'm not sure about your 'iniquitous postulate'. If such a correlation existed, you would expect all countries with weak employee protection to enjoy economic growth that is better than their peers. That doesn't seem to be true. If you look at the employment protections of the UK[0], and compare them to the US[1], they seem fairly similar. And yet, the UK has very low worker productivity, worst-in-class economic growth, etc.

The problem with taking general economic lessons from the US is that the US is in a unique, and uniquely advantageous economic position.
You can use Whisper to transcribe the audio to text locally on the mac.

You have a great Open-source implementation named whisper.cpp and a few graphical user interfaces for it:

https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp

https://sindresorhus.com/aiko

https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper

Personally I use MacWhisper pro because it’s very convenient.
> If this is fast enough, then you could use it to render images locally for personal use. Websites could deliver prompts only, perhaps rendering different images for different users.

That's a fascinating possibility, but we're very far from that world right now: elsewhere in the thread it's mentioned that this actively uses 8 GB of RAM. And I doubt many web designers would accept the risk that a model misinterprets a prompt, produces distorted output (like the wrong number of fingers on someone's hands), or accidentally produces sexual or violent content in a context where it's not intended.

For many generative image models today, people often pick the best of a dozen or more images, and the others that they throw away may actually be quite bad.

The quality and predictability of the models would need to be significantly higher than it is now in order to routinely dynamically illustrate web sites.

But I don't want to say that we'll never get there. All of the recent models are doing things now that would have been considered inconceivable just a few years ago. (Compare https://xkcd.com/1425/ where it may even be a challenge to explain the issue behind the joke to some younger readers!)
I'd like to add that those teams could have always been playing equally-well.

This phenomenon happens even in simpler models, where it's easy to see that the eventual "winner" is only there through pure long-term luck, with zero distinguishing merit or intelligence etc.:

> If you simulate this economy, a variant of the yard sale model, you will get a remarkable result: after a large number of transactions, one agent ends up as an “oligarch” holding practically all the wealth of the economy, and the other 999 end up with virtually nothing.

> It does not matter how much wealth people started with. It does not matter that all the coin flips were absolutely fair. It does not matter that the poorer agent's expected outcome was positive in each transaction, whereas that of the richer agent was negative. Any single agent in this economy could have become the oligarch—in fact, all had equal odds if they began with equal wealth. In that sense, there was equality of opportunity. But only one of them did become the oligarch, and all the others saw their average wealth decrease toward zero as they conducted more and more transactions. To add insult to injury, the lower someone's wealth ranking, the faster the decrease.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-ine...
Disney profits have been strong and generally upward or steady from 2010 through to present with the sole exception of a massive hit to their Park revenue segment ( early 2020 - third quarter 2021 )

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/DIS/disney/gross-p...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/193140/revenue-of-the-wa...

The only apparent "colossal losses" to Disney seem to be due to Disney World attendances cratering during the pandemic.
having multiple income streams means you've (the you here is broad, could mean your company, your family trust etc) produced something people find valuable yeah. Producing can mean many things here - like a podcast episode is a "production", a youtube video is a production etc.

I don't dispute that many people are born into wealth, but over the past 20 years there has been more wealth produced in the world than ever before. There are more millionnaires and billionnaires than ever before, most of them were not born rich.

You don't become rich by reducing your expenses, you become rich by making something people want and monetizing it.
These days, loss of smell is most likely to be long Covid.
With about 60 of these and an angled interconnect of about 5.8deg you could build a rotating "Von Neumann ring" of about 200m diameter. Then depending on speed have up to 1g simulated at 3rpm...

Just casually pointing out also that their interior designs have floors and doors that are earth like. Along with the company name, I strongly suspect they are already thinking this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_regular_ring
I thought they voted to be part of Russia?
What is the advantage of using stronger building materials? Say brick vs wood frames.
And yet if your failing brakes are the reason any particular pedestrian dies, that'll mean nothing to the person you kill.

"Nothing's happened yet" is not how safety works.
What a short sighted philosophy. It hurts my brain to think this is real.
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I enabled the requested chrome:flags in Brave, but it still doesn't work. I haven't downloaded Chrome on any of my M1 Macs, and don't plan to start now.
How to reduce the damage done by gentrification
I don't think this is true. First, this is specifically not true about Witcher or Game of Thrones. Plenty of drama even if they all acted sensible.

Second, being fully grown adult does not have to imply perfection. Fully grown adults make bad insensible decisions all the time. They however do that differently then teenagers, for different more complex reasons.

And this is something that is super visible in Witcher. Original characters don't make sensible decisions all the time ... but they have adult psychology. Even when they are bad to each other, they still don't act like middle schoolers. They act like adults with issues. And show writing just completely stripped them off the adulthood.
As someone who is getting their start with coding, where/what forums exist that have a high quality/helpful community? My biggest struggle has been with relatively simple questions – with a broad stroked theme/issue to 'em for the most part. AKA having a mentor or just a group of coders who are willing to help out if you are willing to be an active member (but I'm relatively useless, aka active maybe in an off-topic lounge part of it). I'd appreciate it if ya got the sauce, a PM if you'd like to keep it on the DL perhaps? Thanks!
What cities would that be? Asking for a friend ;)
Several years ago, at my previous job, I worked on a short-lived project in Moodle. It came to me because I had some PHP experience, a decade prior and no one else had any. I hooked it up to our auth and got it running in Docker.

The project was scrapped after a couple of months as community it was intended for decided to manage it themselves.

Moodle itself seemed like a neat project. I was impressed with the install wizard. I did have some reservations about the "everything is a plug-in" architecture: it seemed possibly too clever for its own good.
Previous threads

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1094797

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2209979

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3321668

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4382148

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7852298

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8778990

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11189250

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18963841

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19359636

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19469388

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19492424
I wonder why people are asking Google search like they would ask a person?
Just googling "black nvim" yields a correct result (project repository) where you can follow the lines to get it installed/configured in a minute.

Why would someone ask "How do I set up Black with neovim to format my Python files on save?", hit the reddit/quora/another obscure forum where he finds some hostile people who doesn't well explain to him how to set up black with neovim to format for his python files on save. DAMN. Just type in "black nvim", hit return and head to repository boy. There are genuine docs and installation instructions from the author, you don't need other people to explain it to you.

Google is a search engine not an answer engine, so if you're looking for struggles instead of information you'll find it by inputting questions instead of indexes.
It's not the "allowed looks" as much as the fact that they must be all super-fit and super-beautiful, which inevitably makes it look all samey. The young Al Pacino or Dustin Hoffmann wouldn't get roles today, because they're not conventionally attractive. Tom Cruise is particularly guilty of overcasting beautiful people in his recent movies, but he's hardly the only one doing that.

The last leading man that I can remember with non-conventional looks, is Vin Diesel - and he got there by muscling (eh) his way in, not by acting.
Why isn't Chrome OS counted as Linux? It runs on a Linux kernel.
The Qur’an uses the term al-dunya for life on this earth. The word dunya means “nearer” or “something less important or ordinary.” In multiple places, the Qur’an comments on the real nature of life on earth and warns us about its true disposition. It has been described as something of a transient nature, a place of transit, test and trials, and actions. It is also a place for learning, spiritual development and growth. What one achieves here is manifested during the next phase of existence which is a constant, higher and more permanent phase of existence:

And what is the life of this world other than play and amusement? (Qur’an, Surah al-Anʿam, 6:32)

And I created not the jinn and mankind except that they should worship Me (Qur'an, Surah al-Dhariyat - Verses 56)

age of forty has special significance in Islam. Regarding aging, Allah says in the Qur’an, “… until, when he reaches maturity and reaches forty years, he says, ’My Lord, enable me to be grateful for Your favor which You have bestowed upon me and upon my parents, and to work righteousness of which You will approve, and make righteous for me my offspring. Indeed, I have repented to You, and indeed, I am of the Muslims’” (Qur’an, 46:15).
Linux uses strscpy. See [1] [2] [3]. The issues of concern are to always NUL-terminate, and to effectively know if the result was truncated.

Truncation can lead to big issues, especially if the string being composed refers to paths, device names, other resources, etc. For example you may truncate a path from /foo/bar/baz to /foo/bar and inadvertently operate on other files. An API that makes this confusing is dangerous.

See the confused deputy problem description [4].

[1] https://mafford.com/text/the-many-ways-to-copy-a-string-in-c...

[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/659214/

[3] https://docs.kernel.org/core-api/kernel-api.html#c.strscpy

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confused_deputy_proble
Thousands of Russian officials to give up iPhones over US spying fears
It’s not just a Hollywood thing; the money men ruined all creative outlets: https://www.escapistmagazine.com/bobby-kotick-wants-to-take-...

Finance is nothing more than rent seeking. The correction required is society wide movement to dethrone finance.
You can continue to use Ubuntu (upgrade to 23.04) unless you have an aversion to snaps, in which case you can go with Linux Mint - https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_victoria_mate_whatsnew.php
https://archive.li/Bcc5m
I switched about 8 months ago, and also made the switch to KDE around the same time. I'm running it on everything I own now, apart from my phone and a Raspberry Pi. I love it. Having snapper installed and enabled by default has saved my bacon twice. Most recently I did a `zypper dup --no-recommends` and my ASUS Zenbook S OLED suddenly refused to operate at any resolution other than max (amd driver / kernel update?) so I rolled back and everything worked. That's extremely convenient, especially on a work machine where you can't afford to be wasting half a day fixing shit.
> At this point, I don't know what we are paying for anyways.

You get to shift your blame on someone else. It's a commercial "covering your behind as a service", that you just blame $vendor when things go bad. It's the game big corps play, sometimes called "compliance".
With climate change, today's Russia will end up the best prime estate in the world. Unless we flood them and turn it all to shit once we're driven up there due to draught, famine, war
The whole point of contacts is contact information you want to share with apps.
I haven't dealt with Arduino the company, but even for two entirely identical products, there may be reasons why someone would choose one vendor over another. It really depends on the purchaser's specific priorities and requirements. A significant benefit could even be something a simple as "they have the same business hours"
True. Germany has strict rules against scheinselbständigkeit (shadow employment) as well. However many intrepid consultants find ways to skirt around it.
I can recommend Fedora Workstation for development
Unfortunately, we are not allowed to print the world reserve currency like there is no tomorrow, and we do not possess the qualities of the US that make them the natural haven for capital in times of global turbulence.

That being said, the policy of austerity implemented during the Euro crisis was pretty catastrophic and arrested growth prospects for a whole generation.
Agree to an extent. Contractor relationships are abused at many companies, but this is usually the case with mid to low level positions. People who make it through senior ranks and go on to become consultants get treated very differently. The latter is also incredibly lucrative.
Sequences actually were part of Kotlin 1.0. Co-routines were added later.
> The things you do for fun almost certainly has an externality as well.

About 45k people died in car accidents in the US in 2022, which if treated as it’s own category outside of accidents would be just outside the top 10 in causes of death. 2x more death than firearms.

Lots of things have externalities, very few things have as severe externalities as cars.

Said differently, go to a sporting event of 30k people. Statistically, five of them will die in a car accident this year (45k/300mn =0.015% or about 1 in 6500).

Edit: I guess it’s not fashionable to cite statistics on here. I get it, the drivers won the debate a long time ago, but at least articulate why your disagreement with words.
>And yet, most residential construction is basically the same, whether it's going to be built in Palo Alto, upstate NY, Kansas, south Florida or Portland

This was the case but it's not really true any more. Building codes have become more stringent and risk specific. This hasn't changed anything around earthquakes though as as building a single story wood building that stands up to an earthquake is easy, building one that withstands a hurricane is harder.
I agree. Web Designers and Developers will always be needed for the more unique look and feel, more unique animations and specific functionality.

I think the role of AI generated site is to help getting a better result fast, both for non professionals, but also for professionals as a starting point.