skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Winner of the worst housing policy of 2023
My first Linux experience was very similar, except graphics card driven.

My neighbor told me to try Linux, and my computer at the time was a Mac (old PPC 603e cpu), which I’d put a PC Voodoo3 in and flashed it with a Max bios. Couldn’t afford a Mac card, PC ones second hand were much cheaper.

Anyway, the basic X frame buffer was so slow I needed accelerated 2D. The Voodoo3 driver was available as a patch to 2.2.18 and I was on 2.2.16. So, had to learn to patch and compile a kernel as one of my first acts of learning Linux.

But it got me accelerated 2D which made X bearable, so I could use KDE (2) or Gnome (1.4, still my fav).

After that it was enough to get me to build my next desktop as a Linux PC through college.
php years ago was a great lang...

The fact that is less popular now, being replaced as the "new shiny" by JS and Python as gotten alot of new devs out of the space which is what caused the vast majority of the negative press around php, it was never the language, but the fact that is was very approachable and very forgiving for new devs so alot of them did stupid things
> Gas stoves are basically only safe to use if you ALWAYS turn on the fan

There sure is some grade-A scaremongering going on in this thread.

How many people die every year from CO2 poisoning while cooking?
I hate bad transcripts.
Haha, Tad Brown indeed. He did inspire A Game of Thrones and, uh, Eragon. However, this kind of makes me want to pick up Otherland (?)
oh man, i got mandrake (or maybe redhat?) from pcquest in like 1998 and what a ride that was. The monthly pcquest drop was always a monumental event to my 12yo self.
Texas A&M president Katherine Banks leaves over hiring backlash
Yeah, I also measured at my house. I was amazed at how much bad stuff comes from just heating food, regardless of energy source. All this stuff about gas cooking being bad for you completely ignores the impact of just heating food.

That said, anything that moves people away from gas is progress, I guess. Just would like to see priorities on transportation and heating sectors more than the tiny fraction of emissions that come from stovetops.
> I understand that laws and professional ethics are enforced. But that doesn't make any of them anything other than opinions.

Sure, in the same sense that any law is an opinion of the body that defined it, e.g. "It is the opinion of the legislature that a person who commits the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought shall be guilty of murder."

It's an opinion, but it's an opinion with real-world consequences... just like professional ethics, according to the atricle.
My "position" is the law, whether you like it or not.

Clickwrap agreements are enforceable, and legally enforceable agreements can place more restrictions on the use of a piece of software than copyright law alone can.

As a result, software that, for ideological reasons, does not restrict use will always have fewer protections than software with more restrictive terms.

Your off-topic rant about Shakespeare is irrelevant.
They implemented a block store with replication from scratch? That's kinda brave, considering that that's a project big enough to justify full startups for!
> Also, it is near impossible to report objectively about your inner processes in a useful way.

There are some objective ways to measure visual imagination, for example binocular rivalry, skin conductance response (influence of imagery on emotions) and pupil responses during visualisation. Differences can be seen in fMRI. Also, the VVIQ (Vividness Of Visual Imagery Questionnaire) is considered statistically reliable.

> It may well be that some people actually have some form of aphantasia, but all the self reporting of amazing visual powers or the lack thereof seems more indicative of peoples' egos than the actual differences in what they are capable of.

Over 10% of people are hyperphantasic (“Phantasia – The psychological significance of lifelong visual imagery vividness extremes”), and the average visual vividness is quite high.

I guess especially in the Internet you find more people from the extreme ranges of the spectrum who search actively about the topic. But whether someone rates himself with 4 or 5 (simplified) does not have much significance individually anyway.
This is a good explanation of why the study should be dustbined as another problematic effort to scapegoat parents for their children's mental health challenges. Like "refrigerator mothers" as a 1950s cause of autism.[1] And now, thanks to this study, every parent of an ADHD child can likewise feel doubt and experience a dose of finger-wagging from self-annointed servants of public.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator_mother_theory
pretty sure there are climate scientists who disagree, and we know that “all known empirical evidence” clearly does not agree… but I am curious, do you have any frame of reference for why you think these are reliable sources?
The economy goes from boom to bust, bust to boom, new technologies and ideas come, the novelty wears off and reality sets in (but the gems stick around!), so on and so forth. One thing that was unique this cycle was the extended period of near-zero interest rates in the rich world - this made the boom very big.

I’m not sure it’s “Silicon Valley” thinking other than as a euphemism for subsidizing losses in hopes of future profits. But now interest rates are up, money is expensive, and justifying investment when 5% return is guaranteed means you need to promise significantly over 5% return. Junk bonds are one thing but highly speculative investments like VC are less attractive.

It’s sad that Hollywood creatives are struggling but they were part of a bubble, just like tech and biotech. Will be a tough 2 to 7 years.
Just as food for thought, the two big problems I see with every single Salesforce deployment are:

1. Excessive customization. Ever seen a Lead record with fewer than 300 custom fields? I haven't! I have no idea what you do about this from a tool design standpoint but... think about it. It's a huge problem.

2. Synchronization. If you have Your System, and then you adopt a CRM, now you have state in two places. And commonly that state is allowed to mutate in both places, and now you inhabit a permanent nightmare hellscape. Figure out how to discourage this. Think about ways of modeling relationships to outside systems (ala NetSuite's externalId) and enforcing unique connections. Make it easy to request supplementary data "live" so that there's less reason to copy it in.

Good luck!
Ethics are likewise "a set of rules made up by people". In fact, all rules, by definition, are made up by people.
Does this mean Stability gave up on StableLM?

I notice that the repo hasn’t been updated since April, and a question asking for an update has been ignored for at least a month: https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableLM/issues/83
Little Debbie’s would keep us alive in a famine, or keep the home front fed in a total war.
It is unfortunate that money is a tool that makes society materially efficient but doesn't value certain members of society appropriately. This means not only Journalists, but also Teachers and just about every sort of regulator who can be bought.
I kinda hope PHP would adopt java-like types for strings etc, to somewhat clean up the mess of its functions, e.g for strings - instead of str_contains, strtr, substr_compare you can do $myString->contains("test");

https://github.com/nikic/scalar_objects provides it as a plugin, but its not fully fleshed out.
Based on some of the other comments, the consumer protection in CA is so good that insurance providers are noping out (All State, State Farm, etc), and as always the average citizen gets shafted by poorly thought out policies.
I don't remember issues like this in the 90s. I routinely left my 14.4k modem downloading warez overnight, and sometimes through the next day if my parents happened to go off to work in the morning without picking up the phone line. These were cheap 5/month shell accounts IIRC.
Mozilla and Wikimedia both have a reputation for wasting money by trying to branch out beyond their main product. Wikimedia is totally overfunded so wasting money doesn't threaten their survival but they've also been criticized for begging for donations that they don't need. Personally I don't see a reason to combine them.
I used Minizinc to come up with tiling patterns for a patio. I had m 2x2 tiles and n 3x2 tiles and wrote a model to generate patterns that had:

* a certain aspect ratio,

* rotational symmetry,

* no spots where four corners touch,

and a few other ad-hoc constraints that I can't remember exactly, to exclude certain sub-patterns.
65" OLED is fantastic (better color, contrast, resolution). One thing is that you get to see the movie sooner. May or may not be a big deal. Another is that you get a big screen with few distractions around (hopefully). Something about being in the dark room with the big screen makes the experience more memorable and immersive. You've got your popcorn. You can recreate all that at home to a large extent though. There's also something to the communal aspect -- it's at least a little intriguing to look around and see who else is at the movie. Sometimes it's a great crowd during the showing and there's laughter and applause and gasps, and that adds something to the experience. Sometimes you strike up a conversation with somebody afterward. You also get the experience of intentionally going out. Maybe you meet or bring some friends or family, maybe you get some ice cream afterward (I've also gone to a few movies alone, and that's its own interesting experience). I guess that's mostly all to say it's a little more fun. I also have some notion which is probably a little silly of supporting the thing I'm seeing. This especially applies to movies like Shin Kamen Rider, which I made sure to catch in the one or two days it was playing in the US.
Where are you seeing GPT-4?

All I see is "compares favorably with GPT-3.5 for some tasks".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_warring
>>The economy goes from boom to bust, bust to boom,

it does not have to. boom and bust is a direct result of fiat currency and manipulation of that currency by central banks
I live here in Sacramento, CA, which has an IMAX theater and I'm really happy to see this movie drawing the crowds that it already has. It looks fantastic.
Are there any screenshots anywhere to understand what kind of app this is for?
Laravel has a dedicated marketing page specifically targeted towards JS-first developers:

https://laravel.com/frontend
I assume at least one engineer aggressively argued for DB9 serial along with a Windows and Mac app instead and lost.

It was clear that the longevity of the installations would far outstrip the longevity of the Palm pilot

If I was in the room I'd even argue for DOS. As a target it had stopped moving, was ubiquitous, not going anywhere and is in enough important places that it would even survive the demise of Microsoft if they were to collapse in the future
Apple barely showed VR and basically said nothing about games other than it will run game apps from the iOS store.

They didn’t show any native games.

Seems pretty clear to me they are explicitly trying NOT to be painted as a game device.
I'm not an expert on MiniZinc, but tried applying it and GPT-4 to a toy problem: https://buttondown.email/aostiles/archive/flight-optimizatio...
I have to agree with the sentiment that men attempting to only or overuse online dating are doing themselves a disservice. They need to develop the confidence and skill to approach women and have natural conversations.

Men are severely limiting themselves and distorting their reality, because lots of online sites are wasting their time and money. The ratio of women in many sites are low, lots of disguised prostitution, lots of pranksters wasting people's time, paid geeks (other men) to just string customers along, etc...
I really like Alpine for making vm images. It is extremely easy to make the VM only run in memory or in data disk mode where the code is in ram but the files are persisted to disk with snapshots

https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Installation#Diskless_Mode
I think that's what the palette generator is for: https://realtimecolors.com/palettes/
> So how do you propose to break them up.

Court order, legislation.

> And which one has a “monopoly” to the point you can’t choose an alternative?

Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, for starters.

By the way that’s not the definition of a monopoly.

> People are using their own free will to use their products

From an artificially constrained set of options. Anti competitive behavior has clear definable negative outcomes, you can feign confusion if you want but it’s not confusing.

Or, if it’s easier for you, you can just understand that organizations that wield massive amounts of power over the daily lives of ordinary citizens must be governed and restrained by democratic process in order for society to function.
Yeah, so? It is the best restaurant in the world, from the point of view of millions of people who go there.

I personally hate superhero movies and McDonalds, but to say that these are incorrect or bad in some way is to cast a (probably class-based) value judgement on something that is adding value to people's lives.
What a delightful website, the design is frozen in time. From the News section it appears they're still running - they posted an update on a router upgrade today https://www.eskimo.com/news/
your rules will have not objective justification, and will be based on the personal philosophies of those in charge.

The "objective" safety standards are often a lot more philosophical than you think. There is no "objective" truth for road design, it is a trade-off between how important you deem the safety of pedestrians and cyclists, versus the convenience and throughput of cars.

But also, just look at fields like journalism. Journalistic ethics exist because without them they kill people.

Not ratting out your anonymous sources isn't some technical requirement laid down in the physics of the universe, it's a philosophical belief.

And yes. Choosing to not take people's personal data is a philosophical belief. But the harm isn't philosophical.
> doesn't have a monopoly because Indias farmers are smarter then US farmers

Still totally wrong. John Deere is a top-selling tractor, but it’s far from a monopoly. It’s optimised for large farms; with its technological supremacy it lets high labour cost American farms beat emerging-market farms on cost per calorie. Deere & Company has a power imbalance with small farmers, but nobody is forced to buy their tractors.
Company C will build them.

Europe standardized on CCS chargers and CCS type 2 combo plugs quite a while ago. All brands of charger on all charging networks charge all brands of EV.

Standardization drives investment and development for infrastructure.
Yes. It mostly water.
Seems like no? I mean, they are great in getting some text that looks correct but is an hallucination. LLM can help in getting something roughly ok, that a human can fix. This doesn't seem to be the case here.
> Big question: HOW?

By asking OTHER specialists. In the 1970s/80s of my experience, journalism was much higher quality than now, but reporters were still notoriously ignorant of technical subjects. Standard procedure for a reporter was to contact one or two outside specialists to comment on the case. A good reporter wasn't expected to have expert knowledge, but just to be an accurate "reporter" of what experts said.
A fever is very different, and trying to cool people down should NOT be the first reaction.
> A lab leak implies that we should cease funding work at WIV

WIV was defunded by the US 2 days ago https://abcnews.go.com/Health/us-halts-funding-access-wuhan-...
Autonomous healing of fatigue cracks via cold welding
ha, it’s definitely techs fault, and absolutely not related to all the ways hollywood gets creative with accounting when it comes to paying residuals.
Why is this not front page?
I support the strikes and hope it comes to a good conclusion; but this feels a touch forced, honestly. I get that it is in vogue to blame silicon valley, but hollywood has a littered history of killing their goose, as it were.

For fun, consider that if netflix had stuck to the DVD model, they could still be profitable. You don't need a special license to buy a dvd and rent it out to anyone. Just as you don't need a special license to loan or sell a dvd to a friend. You bought it and you can do that.

Now, if studios had their way, they would kill this. Hard. Indeed, they can refuse to sell dvds to companies that they think will then sell to anyone that is renting out in this way. They have tried that with redbox, from my quick google.

That is all to say, no, SV is not the root of the problem here. Atrocious licensing deals and ridiculously baroque rules around streaming/broadcast are far harder to comprehend than anything out of SV. Largely from the influence of hollywood...
Or, save yourself the hassle of pretending to be using a mouse, by pretending to be using a touchscreen.
> Also lots of languages have syntactic sugar around the corresponding object e.g. implicitly dereference it for attribute access and method calls

The parent comment specifically said "by utilizing the pseudo-variable 'this' (or 'self' in Smalltalk)", so I was referring to that. Yes, in languages where the receiver is implicitly added to the lexical scope chain, things get a bit more complex.

> or even give it exclusive(ish) properties like @ in Ruby (or straight up instance variable access in smalltalk). Even Python treats it specially, given a method `foo`, `obj.foo` actually returns a proxy object which partially applies `foo` to `obj`. This only works on functions defined on the class object, mere callables set on the instance don't get that treatment.

Sure, there's other features that object-oriented languages tend to hang off methods too, but my point was just that from the perspective of within a method body, the receiver's mostly just another parameter. This is made explicit in some languages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Function_Call_Syntax
Just out of curiosity, what’s the difference in price between the classic digital version and this?
I fully expect there will be data-loss bugs and poor performance during recovery in their in-house distributed block storage solution. That's just in the nature of the problem domain, and this is all new code:

https://github.com/oxidecomputer/crucible
> Heck, a manager from Blackrock just recently blatently stated that its easy to buy a Senator. For just 10k you got him in your pocket.

This is one of many reasons I’m convinced our government is kayfabe at this point. Nobody who was truly making the calls on a trillion dollar budget would sell for that cheap. The general pro wrestling level of discourse is another reason, but there are many more.
Can confirm. I have one constantly in my kitchen and it works great. Flies don’t seem to mind that I constantly dilute it by adding water to make more foam.
The flies are a worse display problem than the glass
The 1980s-1990s were amazing:

* The Legend of Zelda (NES)

* The Adventure of Link (NES)

* Starcraft (PC)

* Crystalis (NES 8-bit)

* Final Fantasy (NES 8-bit)

* Final Fantasy VII (PC)

* Duke Nukem 3D (PC)

* Mega Man 2 (NES 8-bit)

* Journey to Silius (NES 8-bit)

* Mighty Bomb Jack (NES 8-bit)

* Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES 8-bit)

* Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES 8-bit)

* Ninja Gaiden (NES 8-bit)

* Willow (NES 8-bit)

There were others, but these are my most memorable of all time.

All time.
Currency is the lifeblood of the system known as a state, what exactly would you consider an alternative?

Surely you're not suggesting a gold standard would solve the issue?
If you’re dead-set on buying online, look for a local boutique somewhere and see if they sell online as well. They generally have good return policies, and in my experience boutiques tend to have much higher quality pieces—generally orders of magnitude more longevity than some of my H&M or Uniqlo stuff, for example.

But would like to echo the benefit of trying on in-store. You really don’t know if it’s a good fit until you’re wearing it, and it’s way less hassle to do that in-person than with the order-return iteration loop.
> anything that moves people away from gas is progress,

Where I am, our electricity during dinner time is entirely from gas power plants, and that electricity costs is several times more than the gas, not including the several thousands of dollars required to run the lines required, if I wanted to convert my range.

I do dream of induction though. Until then, I have an automatic hood fan that turns on whenever the oven is on, and vents to the outside.
Microsoft's contractors say hi. An astounding number of "protective" policies end up doing the opposite of what's intended; you'd think we figured this out by now.
I have a Quest 2 and...I'm just glad I got it from my aunt for free who didn't think much of it. The games that let you play Matrix shooting are good and...that's literally just about it.

It feels like there should be better applications for it, and the reason there isn't is because the FAANGs are somehow sucking the fun out.

I mean, keep it real -- the fact that the biggest public push we saw on VR was for people doing labor in a fake office is literally beyond hilarious; it's something you wouldn't write for an SNL skit because it's so on the nose and not funny enough.
How can the “attesters” verify the integrity of the user agent? Sure the attestation is signed, but why can’t we mess with the data sent to the attester and just nullify the entire point of the proposal? The “browser acceptance criteria” in the spec, that would presumably contain this info, is just “TODO”. Thanks Google for conveniently omitting that key detail.

Also interesting that its implied in the explainer that attesters are just HTTP endpoint dealing with “billion-qps” traffic. Again, point above, but also how can we trust any attester to not use the (completely unobfuscated) information the user agent is sending them?

I guarantee that big websites will host their own attesters, only allow use of their attester, and require attestation for every request, allowing them to fingerprint every single user.
Aptos, Microsoft’s New Default Font for Office Documents
Is it that good looking people are boring or most people are boring and you do not have enough of a sample size?
As we are under more pressure due to all the factors you pointed out the odds that we are able to avoid spread of a highly contagious virus with a higher fatality rate than COVID (closer to say MERS) or a series of big famines (say 1% of global population) start to look uncomfortably lower than 100%.
i mean, the united states does still have zelle which is basically also a direct bank transfer that reveals your full name, but i only really use it for buying cryptocurrency, and transfers to actual friends who know me personally already
The images are supplied by the users, so that wouldn't be an option
No, I don't think I can make any inferences about psychiatry from those articles. My Bayesian update is the opposite of yours: because the evidence presented was weak, I'm more skeptical of any relationship between psychiatry and divorce. I was quite ready to believe it, and was disappointed to see such weak studies. It suggests to me that it's difficult to find positive results with stronger analysis.

You seem to be suggesting I'm philosophically a Frequentist. Somewhat true, but I am, like basically everyone, a Bayesian when it comes to practical decisions. Also, I have no fear of logical deduction when statistical inference is infeasible.

Nullism is a good term. I'm of the opinion that most things are random and that humans' imaginations frequently mislead us. Absent better evidence, I'm unlikely to believe any link between psychiatry and divorce.