skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Go to your preferred app.

2. Choose settings.

3. Set as default.

You never once have to touch the apple apps. That setting is in the stock apps because these are set to the default on a blank install and by putting it here, you now have the option to change it when the app launches.

HN tries too hard to invent drama.
If you find third-party promotional apps and bloatware cluttering up the Windows 11 Start menu. The blog post covers a neat little trick that will help you Debloat Windows 11 Start menu third-party apps and keep it clean and debloated.
For simple arithmetic, no. I just use my phone or the MacOS app.

For graphs, Desmos.

For anything more complex, Wolfram Alpha.
You expect too much from Sales and CIOs/CEOs. Most of them have no idea what this is, but they make the decision to buy SW products.
I never heard of that. Could you talk more about how that works, what's it's officially called, and what the intended use is?

Would it literally delete the SMS as you're looking at it? On any kind of cellphone?
The problem is there are almost 0 alternatives beyond Firefox so if you don’t like their UX you’re stuck. All the “new” browsers are just chromium skins (edge, arc, etc.) Are there any real competitors building a new browser?
Glad to know that this exists!
So you have just one data point and you want to do statistics about it? No matter what you do, the results won't be useful.

In Bayesian approach, you start with some distribution that is a wild guess and doesn't even need to base on any knowledge besides of the basics how money work and that unemployment cannot be 0% or 100%. Each data point will refine your distribution until at some dataset size, it will converge to something estimating the reality.

You might want to watch an amazingly helpful introduction by Richard McElreath here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guTdrfycW2Q
one “side effect” of this would be enabling Google to effectively block ad-blocking. And, of course, plenty of people will insist that that’s not a side-effect, that’s the end goal.
Tons of production code, even in flows directly related to money (banks, payment portals etc) are hacked together from various stack overflow posts, not always with full understanding of the shortcomings, corner cases etc. Typical is some complex regex.
> In short: ESG measures the worlds impact on the company NOT the company's impact on the world.

This is not correct. ESG tracks, among others, the carbon output of a business. In other words, the impact of the business on the world.

You can read more here: https://www.pwc.com/ca/en/today-s-issues/environmental-socia...
Trying to avoid collisions even if theyseem unavoidable seems like it would lead to more robust software then solving trolley problems and driving over lower value people on purpose.
This is just a new variant of an old attack. I have been working for a VOIP provider 10 years ago and the attack was similar: the attackers compromise a VOIP PBX (default passwords, extensions opened in the WAN, etc.) and then use it to call a very expensive value added service that they owned (like one special number in Tristan De Cuna or Nauru that costs 50€ at the reply and 10€ at minutes).
I agree, but I'm guessing parent might have been thinking of domestic politics, which has become more a lot more polarised and zero-sum.
You can choose to avoid Microsoft, that's perfectly fine. I do however find it amusing to see the very existence of Microsoft casually skipped over, as if they weren't one of the world's biggest corporations.

Imagine if someone listed "modern UNIX-like operating systems" and the list went something like: NetBSD, OpenBSD, AIX, OpenSolaris, and then went through dozens like that into ever more obscure things nobody has ever heard of, but skipped Linux like it didn't even exist. Just some Finnish guy's hobby project, not really worth discussing, right?

It gets to the point where it's absurd.

As a real example, someone made a printable SVG/PDF poster of "big data" and "data science" companies and technologies. They were listing dinky little startups that had a total value smaller than the annual cost of an individual Azure storage blob container that I deleted to save money. That was an "oops" by someone that the customer didn't even notice.
The video explicitly mentions -- "you can't put things in front of vehicles doing 60 or 80kph" (~40-50mph), I assume with the implicated "without causing damage to them or making road conditions unsafe".
The true meaning of 'it just works' in Apple-speak is 'no configuration is required to start using it'. Once you realize this, you also realize the following:

In practice, 'it just works' often simply means 'you cannot configure it'.

It's not a claim about simplicity, robustness, compatibility, etc. It's about taking a stance against configuration.

This default mail app thing is just another case of it, on the less extreme side of the spectrum (you cannot configure it for now... first you have to do some stupid bullshit).
Or a barrier that will do a lot of damage to the truck and stop it but be easy to remove when you need to unwedge the truck and pull it out? You could make something like this out of cheap steal and paint it brightly then bolt it to the higher roof ahead of the actual low roof.
You use quotes around “multipolar world” but it’s not a quote. I think you should be clearer about that. The final paragraph suggests we should avoid “the trap of political absolute-whether socialism or capitalism, economic pragmatism or national populism—and using the power of irony against those who claim to have found the ultimate truth.”

That seems like a very healthy suggestion to me, irrespective of whether you think randomly invading your friendly neighbourhood democracy is reasonable or not.

Even if the author is shown to be obviously pro-Russia in other sources, this here is a suggestion to resist absolute truths and to read you some Kundera. There’s nothing wrong with that.
It isn't an adhom because it is irrelevant.
Yeah, that's true. Someone at some point started using the term wrong and it stuck. Kind of like the words occlude and albedo which are also typically used incorrectly in graphics.
I suppose we have to start webrings again and ditch Google. Today they would be more feasible, since you can announce entry points on Twitter etc.
> The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe.

The messaging is getting to a comical level at this point. It's like a bad version of a character from "Silicon Valley"...
Aa long as chromium is open source and various entities are able to build and remove/modify anti-user features, i don't see a problem with alternatives being a "skin". If Google makes moves to make it difficult to modify chromium then browser maintainers will quickly migrate to other engines.
Frankly Firefox is barely a hedge against Chrome. When it comes to things like JPEG-XL they are in lock step with Chrome.

Safari ended up being JPEG-XL’s unlikely champion.

I kind of wished Apple would release Safari for other platforms again.
This is partly rewriting history. Yes, Chrome literally outperformed Firefox, but there are other parts to this story. First, Google pulled engineers it had paid to work on Firefox, including the project lead, to kick-start Chrome instead. That's fair game (and Mozilla's fault for not seeing it coming), but it obviously set back Firefox as Mozilla had to scramble to fill those gaps without much of a forewarning. Secondly and perhaps most importantly, Google dumped countless millions of marketing money and often engaged in dark patterns to promote Chrome, e.g. bundling it with random shareware and freeware that would automatically make Chrome the default browser. That was even before they paid laptop vendors to preinstall Chrome, something that Mozilla could never afford, and Google could only afford because of its monopoly in search / advertising.
That’s the “nerd history”, which I mostly agree with. Normal users however don’t care much about performance and whatnot. Their PC came with Chrome, so they use it. If you give them some other browser, they probably won’t be able to tell the difference.

Chrome didn’t “win” because it was good. It won because of Google’s hyper-aggressive marketing on all channels. They basically did was Microsoft was fined for by the EU back in the day.
For some reason this is not mentioned in the article but is mentioned in the video.
Volvo now only sell SUVs in the UK: Swedish brand axes saloon and estate cars
Even if it were fuzzy (which can be tested piping Powershell's 'Get-ChildItem hklm:\' into fzf for instance), you'd need a lot of filtering to make that useful though (I'm guessing you don't want to see recent files whichhappen to contain the name of the thing you're looking for) and/or search specific trees only and/or limit depth. But even that won't immediately solve the usage of cryptic names.

Better starting point would be Group Policy, which is mostly a layer over the registry but containing pretty good descriptions of what a setting does. It has a Powershell module, so combining that with fzf and a preview pane which shows the description might ctually be pretty neat, but probably not very fast.
Did not say this article in particular, but its author. Other commenters posted links. But basically he is pushing the Russian whataboutist narrative.
--When I open the link of the parent, I see a graphical calculator, qalculate, but the description hints at something else, more of a text input calculator. The web app linked from qalculate looks like it. Is that available somewhere?--

Never mind.

I installed it, and it is two applications, one text input, one graphical, ... which also has text input, but responds differently from the examples. E.g. sqrt(72) doesn't mention it's 6√2. Confusing, but I'll find out, I guess.
Yes, that was exactly it although I should have qualified that's what I meant.
That's nothing. I actually lost a trillion dollars just now. Apple is worth about $1T, and because Apple and its shareholders didn't simply gift me their entire company, I've now lost $1T. And that's just a drop in the bucket for money I've lost in the last few minutes!
Browsers aren't a business for Google (or any of the other big browser suppliers), they are an adjunct to other businesses, in Google’s case a way to shape the web—initially through client performance—to support the kind of online app environment that Google’s actual profit making ventures rely on.
I recently started my own project to solve this problem for myself. I found other solutions not really working in the way I wish, and not having enough control. I think finance is very personal, so I will continue down this path.

Good to see I’m not alone. How is it going so far?
Brave uses Chromium: an open source project controlled by Google. They can submit patches back to Google, but if Google don’t want to take them they don’t have to integrate them. So that leaves Brave with three options: they can take Google’s Chromium as is and focus on the browser interface potentially flipping a few config switches, they can maintain their own set of patches and update over time, or they can fork and go it alone. So far they’re hovering between options one and two. The closer they get to three the less influence Google has but the more it costs Brave. At the moment they’re not being particularly courageous with reducing their Google alignment.
> No matter what, there's always a way in. There's always a hack. The harder you make it to hack, the more motivated those crazy people at defcon will be to break it.

Absolutely, but I don't want to have to use 0days like a criminal or to open up a TPM chip in an $1M electron microscope just to have my PC render webpages the way I want it to (without ads that is).
Yep - weakening Big Tech in the US will strengthen China's Big Tech, which no one wants.
What are the other few places that you go to for interesting content/community?
> I’d encourage everyone who cares about OSS to participate and consider the changes happening in the broader technology sector. [...] We need to look deeply at the goals of open source and how we can continue to achieve them, and that isn’t going to be arguing about what once was.

This isn't a change to achieve open source goals, this is redefining the goals of open source to suit your business interests. You want to take the positive marketing of open source and use it without taking the same risks, by affording the fundamental open rights, which other actual open source projects take. It's not that folks don't respect your right to protect your business interests via the license, but you simple don't have to use the open source term to do that, attempting to redefine what folks love in the process.
Genesis House: 33 Turk Street, San Francisco, CA 94102, Phone: (415) 861-2749 is an option if you're looking for a community-oriented space.

https://sfgenesis.house/

The Mill: 500 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102, Phone: (415) 346-9999 is a larger coworking space with with amenities like meeting rooms, private offices, and a communal cafe. It's a good option if you're looking for a more traditional coworking space.

https://www.themillsf.com/
I’ll likely get downvoted, but ESG is a way for finance/banking to punish companies that don’t align with their politics.

My favorite part about the whole thing is how it went from “conspiracy theory that will never actually be implemented” to I have to do ESG training at work within a few years.
GIL removal and the Faster CPython project
In the long time limit, there are about the same number of heads and tails, and since all changes are multiplicative, the coin tosses can be permuted.
We can thus divide the game into two sets of coin tosses: excess heads or tails that represent a negligible amount of good or bad luck, and many HT pairs, each of which shrinks EV by 0.9.

Put another way, for each HH pair you should expect a TT pair, and a HHxTT or TTxHH sequence is worth the same as HTxHT, losing the usual 10% every two tosses. 2.250.36=0.81=0.90.9.
Wow. This works much better than I had anticipated. How did you get it to work so fast? Usually there’s a huge delay from the LLM/TTS/STT processing.
If you want LTS, target Windows. I have stuff I wrote on NT4 that still runs today. Linux and macos can't get near that.
> Album sales rarely made money for musicians

Before Napster they definitely did. The saying is that you used to tour to promote the album, now you make the album to promote the tour. Artists have always been last in line to get paid, but there was much, much more money in it before 2000.
How are they used and how should they be used?
No need to limit it to the USA. The United States is not exceptional in this regard. Pragmatism has been a feature of the exercise of power for millennia.
> Not unless you ask

Yes well that's what the interviewer is doing: asking things,

And the interviewer can have a question in their list: Ask job applicant about their strongest skills?
(And maybe inform the applicant beforehand if they want to think about what to say)
Good point. If there is any other platform providing a community specifically from people of your work domain, will you consider joining it?
Why is it that I've seen this argument online a few times just recently? It's wholeheartedly idiotic, please stop.
Not compared to the claim of zero restance up to 400 K.

But with how difficult the samples production seems to be, maybe we will get 400 K superconductors still
Forcing your computer to rat you out
I'm very rarely, I'm mostly using qalc on the commandline, but I do have a TI-30 from between 1976 and 1978 (the LED version) on my desk that I sometimes do basic calculations on.
They could be, but they’re not.
Many people noticed that the common cold disappeared at the same rate at which COVID appeared.

Strange.
Ok, interesting :-)
You can already lock out Googlebot because it respects robots.txt and its IP ranges are documented.

It's very hard to "turn the tables" on companies when it comes to remote attestation because companies rarely directly lie to consumers about the true nature of their operations. When they do they tend to end up like Sam Bankman-Fried or Elizabeth Holmes. That's why all the big cloud vendors support remote attestation of servers to clients:

https://cloud.google.com/confidential-computing

So not only do they want you to demand remote attestations from their servers but they even document how to do it and provide significant infrastructure support to do so.

Not many people are using it though, and when they do it's usually to generate trust in non-tech firms running software on top of those clouds. Which is certainly a decent use case, but it's more like defense in depth than something existential for most companies. Whereas the inverse can be existential (multiplayer shooters without anti-cheat will rapidly become unplayable because so many players will lie to get ahead).
Anyone that ever belived into the "Do no evil" motto was only fooling themselves, companies only care about their profitability.
Same, as well as in Spotlight (both on iOS, and macOS)
It is weird that a platform that he was a big part of and that supposedly supports his values, has apparently turned into they used to oppose.

But I've got to admit I stopped reading BoingBoing a couple of years ago.
Curious, why didn't they use a larger current for the measurement?
No, it is a hidden way of saying that small countries have no choice of their own and they have to belong to some pole. And as luck would have it, the closest pole to central Europe would be Russia! How can someone not want that?
Kinda reminds me of neverthink.tv. Similar idea of endless video but curated into categories.

I wish I could find an alternative.
So at the end of the day Google are a full monopoly that can do what they want... Nothing new under the sun.
In Linux you can Mount a folder as a drive so maybe it’s possible on Mac too?

Although it’s an annoying workaround.
Awesome app! I don't know exact steps to reproduce, but I was just alternating between selecting a language and starting a conversation a few times, and at one point the conversation box filled up with the prompt:

> You: You are a human who speaks Czech. In this conversation, you are interacting with a beginner who is learning your language. Your role is to help them practice and learn. Keep in mind that they will make mistakes. Your main goal is to maintain the flow of conversation by asking them questions about themselves, and make your responses as simple, short, and quick as possible. Please speak solely in the Czech language, without providing any translations or switching to English. Please start the conversation by saying something like Hi, how are you? or Hi, what's your name?
Polly: Ahoj, jak se máš? Jak se jmenuješ?
Everybody seems to be raving about this app but I'm running into one big issue.

Everytime I try to speak the system states I spoke the following:
Subtitles created by the Amara.org community

sooooooo, guess this just doesn't work for me.
You've sliced up what I've said to the point it doesn't really make sense. This is exactly what I said was confusing. I'm talking about Bayes factors and you're talking about null hypothesis testing.

I'll just answer your question, why there can't be a null model. You can have a hypothesis that represents all differences between groups are due to chance. To make this a statistical model, something that can calculate the probability of an event, you have to make assumptions. Maybe it's just about the distribution. Maybe it's independence. But, it's always something. You said it yourself "You don’t assume any belief on the probability of a specific model to be true." To be a statistical model, to calculate the probability of an event, to calculate marginal likelihoods, to calculate Bayes factors, you have to do that.

This is largely a philosophical point. You can have a null model. Something you pick to represent "no effect". But there's not the null, this belief free model that's categorically different from a model with priors.

If there's a belief-free model that can give a marginal likelihood, then I'm wrong. I'd also very much like to know about it.
The cli tool qalc is usually bundled with libqalculate
nthing the consensus here - it's very good as-is, even though I maxed out my conversational ability fairly quickly.

The only changes I would make are to the UI, clicking the start and stop listening button feels awkward. Perhaps make it so you can click, talk, and release the button. And perhaps the option to select a few different voices.

Also intrigued to see where you go with Anki integration. Excellent work, you should feel very proud of what you've built so far.
Noob question: how do you know you're not going from x >>> 0 to 0 + e?

Not clear to me how you know the resistance is nothing at all vs just very small.
I have been using Brave for about a year. Dont miss Firefox or Chrome.
So I'm guessing you're using no sites hosted on Cloudflare or Fastly? They already use exactly this kind of remote attestation technology for traffic from Safari.
An individualist perspective.

I believe that humans are social animals, and that a view on enshittification that ignores society is useless. Media is, IMO, holistically worse now than in the mid-90s. An individual cannot undo that. The negatives are not wished away by "no one's forcing you".
AI.com once took you to ChatGPT. Now, it goes to Elon Musk's xAI : https://mashable.com/article/ai-com-domain-redirects-to-elon...

ChatGPT Shared Links FAQ : https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7925741-chatgpt-shared-l...

Ask HN: Why is ai.com redirecting to x.ai - (10 comments) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36981190

Edits; to add links

ask ' x ' ? - coming to plucked birdie?
These days, you're lucky if you get 5 years.

Worst offender I have to deal with is "Jenkins LTS", which is supported for only 12 weeks.
I agree that big tech is huge part of the American economy.

In the 1900s, Teddy Roosevelt busted up the biggest monopolies and did it boldy. He was a strong believer in capitalism and market forces, and he believed that government had a responsibility to keep market forces working well.

I know we are not in the early 1900s anymore, but I think it is interesting to ponder how the only politicians who dare to say something similar today are the furthest left we can imagine (Bernie Sanders and AOC and the like).
Assuming you are talking about OS kernel API, what if you static link your libc? My understanding is that the linux kernel API famously does not change [0].

[0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75
Maybe Elon owned it going back to Paypal Mafia days, pointed it at OpenAI while they were friends, and then remembered recently about owning the domain (I assume being the wealthiest person in the world involves constantly forgetting about all the things that you own) and changed the CNAME or whatever.
Just want to flag that Twilio’s 2FA service, Authy, is tightly tied to SMS. For example, if you want to login to iwantmyname.com, it asks you for your Authy totp, but if you don’t remember it, they’ll settle for an SMS code instead. And that’s a ‘feature’ of the Authy integration.
Chrome is probably the best example. I don't really know how people would expect that to be a company or even a division under Alphabet. It's rather unfortunate, because I don't think Google can be trusted to build a browser anymore.

Android is also a weird case. All funding is coming from Google, but the revenue isn't coming from licensing of the OS. Separating out Android and require manufacturers to pay a license wouldn't kill it at this point, but it could fragment the Android market. Like with Chrome, Google isn't the best steward, because their interests are primarily data mining and advertising, but building the best mobile operating system.

DoubleClick, analytics, Youtube and search are the divisions I'd go for if I where a regulator, but there where would Chrome and Android go?