skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, the phrasing is confusing, because it's not clear whether people with very low happiness measured in terms of N are what we consider unhappy/sad, which is actually negative utility. I believe with this measure, positive N means someone is more happy than they are unhappy.

Second, what's "obvious to everyone" is just based on how you're phrasing the question. If you suggested to people it would be better if the population were just one deliriously happy person with N=50, vs 5 happy people with N=10.1, people would say obviously it would be better to spread the wealth and increase overall happiness.
Steve Mould is top-notch
That's an odd takeaway but even if you're right, people who don't use computers suffer a massive disadvantage. Even more so if all their peers used computers. Doesn't change the fact that GP's "parents, teachers, and students
[...] should never have been using computers in the first place" is nonsensical flamebait
Yeah, this certainly isn't on the users. The change is monopolies but perhaps even more, the end to the growth of the Internet. Both of these imply that each company needs to leverage each user it has. And that basically means pushing the users to make choices in every single situation where the user can be pushed.

Here, you have various ideologies of user interface. One is approach that users are idiots/"easily confused" and need to be treated-as-such/"given clear direction. Another seems to this reference to the marginal user - that our product is craptasm of dark pattern 'cause we have to satisfy the least common denominator (it's Google, so maybe we're just on dark gray patterns currently).
Certainly it would be helpful if an LLM asked clarifying questions, if that what you're suggesting. But it doesn't seem to be what the author thinks; instead, they give the highest scores to answers that give direct suggestions on physically capturing ducks.
Well, at least we know their blackstart systems work. I would have my doubts about whether the Texas grid could do a blackstart because that's stuff that's extremely rarely used but costs money--does it even exist and is it maintained if it does exist?
> They'll do just fine with positive word-of-mouth.

Sometimes you don't even need that.

If you ever want to feel depressed, go to your city's subreddit and search for "what business will you never go to again?" I remember one popped up on my city's sub recently, and it made me incredibly thankful for my dentist. The sheer amount of shit some get away with (while having ritzy offices in expensive neighborhoods) is incredible. And sure, such a thread is bound to attract people who have had negative experiences, but the sheer quantity of complaints some places had (with nobody chiming in to defend them or say something to the effect of "I've never had any problems like that") spoke for itself.
You are being pedantic.

If you want to consider dark energy perpetual motion, sure, but then it's excluded from the "we know that perpetual motion is not possible" rule.

"we know that perpetual motion is not possible" is based on the fact that you can't break the laws of physics, which perpetual motion is doing, but if dark energy is part of physics, it can't break those laws by definition.
The problem with that is that when you have a situation where the punishment is known to be lenient and there's someone threatening your life, you might just be willing to pay the price for revenge.

Yes, I'm aware that some places don't do life in prison or such. I'm pointing out the harms of that.
They probably just keep a list of known VPN server IP’s.
Today I learned: Electoral reforms are one of the goals for the Forward Party and the Common Sense party. If you're a voter in California, you can help them with this by changing the party affiliation on your voter registration to the Common Sense Party to help them get recognition (they need 72,000 members).

* https://home.forwardparty.com/volunteer_find_your_state

* https://www.cacommonsense.org/
its a quote. would you rather they mis quote?

plus its prefaced by blackout, so the context is clearly (electrical) system.

Finally it's a headline. You're supposed to read the article before judging whether it's 'irresponsible reporting'
There are repair shops that will replace them for you. With good equipment and a steady hand it's certainly possible.

But if you go to an Apple-certified shop they'll just swap out the entire board and call it a day. In Apple's mind those are not replaceable. In their repair system Apple treats a MacBook as a collection of maybe 20 parts and a bunch of screws.
https://thelist.best/ please, thanks
At the same time, with "just" removed, those questions are often pretty good I think.

It seems I would just remove just, and make the question great again
I think for many companies, Marl is the CEO
One thing I've realized about this site are the insane amount of software engineers that have a disdain for the medical field. It comes up all the time deeper into comment threads where people say medical school entrance exams being so hard is a form of "gatekeeping" - which it is, on purpose, but they're using it as a pejorative to tell themselves "I could've been a doctor too if they didn't make it so purposefully hard."

The other very very disturbing trend are the "makers" who denigrate medical devices as overly complex. One thread I'll never get over was on old pacemakers. The prevailing sentiment was they're designed for failure because "evil medical industry profit", not that, you know, they wear out.

The other part felt like watching the theory of memetics demonstrate itself in real-time. One person commented that the single small mechanical component is rated to actuate 5,000,000 times or something like that. Someone dismissively said "Well yeah but Adafruit keyboard switches are rated at 2-3 million presses, they mass-produce them, thus it can't be that hard" (adafruit's data sheet says 1,000,000 btw). Very quickly, people picked up that line and repeated that the actuator in a pacemaker isn't "actually that complicated", citing the 2-3 million keycap example. I still see that keycap "argument" pop up all the time.

BTW: Pacemakers are actually rated for about 100,000,000 stimuli cycles.
> doesn't explain why a built-in app would ask for permission to do anything

> that personal data is being harvested by default en masse

You seem to be agreeing, at least to the point that a built-in app is usually granted permissions without requesting from the user. I think it would be more correct to say "bad implementation" instead of "bad design" but the point seems to make sense.

But ultimately it seems that you and OP both agree that this "bad implementation" (ask the user for permission instead of being granted by the OS) is the intended design (require unrelated permission for basic functionality).
This is something that Quanta Magazine does all the time and I hate it. You can't just tell us about an interesting conjecture/theorem and then not state it.
This is not necessarily the gaming community. If anything, the devs who are currently revolting are usually pretty critical of said community
Context matters:
Don't use these words because it might let others know that we're monopolists.
Don't use these words because we don't want to become monopolists, and if you use these words, it indicates that you might be doing something monopolistic.
My reaction is simply that poor schools will soon be budgeting a 10-year Chromebook cycle. In 2033, students will be typing and tapping on Chromebooks that could be twice their age. Yuck.
Leaked email outlines VMware employees' potential fates as Broadcom sale closes
I fiercely despise Google and want them to go out of business legitimately, but this argument is right up there with “the defendant used encryption, that proves they must have child porn on their computer Your Honor!”

It is not the responsibility of any company to make it easier for prosecutors to CTRL-F their emails to indict them, especially given how prosecutors can and will go on fishing expeditions.
To be fair, boiling something down to a simple statement does indeed tend to produce simplistic statements
would be nice if at end of support they would allow to install another OS, like some linux distro
One problem I've heard about Apple offering similar bounties is that it creates a conflict of interest for their employees.
""
> I would describe myself as extremely positive / confident to "Science, the >approach/method
""

But what does that actually mean?
How do you manifest this in your daily life and in your decisions?

My grandmother told me
God told me
I heard on the news

Well, that does not seem scientific nor following the tenants of science.
But how can you evaluate information you receive that is called science
and in so far as you know from a source of a scientist.
Esp. these days in the US everything is incredibly politicized.

There is no way to dig deep enough into every tidbit of knowledge we are
exposed to. A lot of scientific fields these days are so complicated that
you need a degree to start understanding what is going on or to evaluate
data.

If we are lucky we know a few people in different fields whom we trust.
We trust the people to we trust what the say, since they are scientists.
We all walk around and -believe- in various things we hear and elect
not to believe in others.
Then we claim that we believe in this or that "because of science".
and because of the scientific method.
But we dont know that for a fact because we dont know and probably could not
understand all the steps from beginning to end needed to ensure that the
scientific model had been applied appropriately at all stages.

I dont think real science should state
"THIS IS TRUTH BECAUSE THIS IS SCIENCE"
it should be
"This is our best understanding right now, and there are some other theories out there
that may also be valid."
My understanding is that a large number of Unity installs are mobile games, and a lot of those are free to play with microtransactions. So we're not talking $30 earned per user. We're not even talking $1 earned per user. We're talking, in some cases, less than $0.01 earned per user (on average), since some users have paid nothing to play the game.

There's also the fact that Unity charging "per install" also includes things like game demos (which are free), or games given to subscribers of things like PlayStation Plus, where the creator is paid a fixed amount upfront based on an estimate of how many people will download the game--but, if more people download the game than originally estimated, then you could end up losing money thanks to Unity.
Segmentation fault (Core dumped)
If you want a scripting language appropriate for that environment I think it's OK. You gotta remember that Microsoft BASIC fit comfortably in real small machines back in the day, like my TRS-80 Color Computer that started out with 4K of RAM including video RAM!

Personally though I think even C is too high level for the AVR-8 and like coding assembly with the caveat that there are two ways "up" if you outgrow AVR-8, one route is to go to ARM or ESP32 in which case your C is portable, the other is to go to an FPGA with a soft AVR-8 and talk about playing on hard mode.
This is correct. Imagine in the days of yore, some two decades and change ago, when I was charged with implementing putting some music reserves "online" for streaming ...

[Harp music, progressive diagonal wave distortions through the viewport ...]

We had two layers of passwords (one to get to the webpage for the class, one when actually streaming via the client, which was RealPlayer) as well as an IP range restriction to campus (you live off campus? So sorry) because our lawyers were worried about what the RIAA's lawyers would find sufficient in the wake of a bunch of Napster-baited lawsuits launched at universities. The material itself was largely limited to snippets.

I wanted to say, "Calm down, have a martini or something. College students are just not going to go wild to download 128 kbps segments of old classical music," but alas I was not in charge.
From my personal experience (thus does not have statistical significance), it's not the amount of knowledge, but the position. Teachers/professors are a group of people that I interact frequently with (both my parents and parents of my friends are university professors/lecturers), and it just happens that the ones that I know the most are all overconfidence.

Basically they think they know everything, to the point of educating the doctors about medicines when they are in the hospital (as patients). I don't know what got them into this but I found the arrogance distasteful.

Maybe it's in the culture though. Back in the day teachers were respected and the relationship between teachers and students are somewhat closer to father-children than customer-merchant. Now time changes but old habits stay hard.
Running "winget list" on my system lists all installed application, no matter how they were installed.
Even if the programs you used all supported it, there'd still be no getting around the fact that you'd need to learn some kind of framework or system to modify the UI to your liking. I guess we'd need someone to create one that was intuitive to use and very easy for programs to support, then it'd have to be popular enough with programmers that they'd actually use it. The closest thing I've seen would be websites, since we can remove elements or use customer CSS to change them. Maybe GTK, and those interfaces aren't exactly pretty.

It'd probably have to be free, fast, secure, simple, attractive, flexible, powerful, able to work with all kinds of platforms/screens/inputs, and make creating GUIs easier for programmers to create in general (seems like there's a need there), but even then it'd have to contend with companies who want control over what users see, artists who think they know better than everyone else, and support teams that want documentation full of meaningful screenshots.
>All Chromebook platforms will get regular automatic updates for 10 years — more than any other operating system commits to today.

I suppose Microsoft technically doesn't offer 10 years of support with Windows 11, but it has done with Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8/8.1, and 10.

There's also a footnote on the Google article:

>A small selection of device platforms may not receive the full 10 years of automatic updates, and some features and services may not be supported. See our Help Center for details.
Q: "How can I enter the United States?"

A1: "Apply for a visa online"

A2: "Walk across the Ambassador Bridge from Canada"

Which answer is more correct?
What happens when your business has a portfolio of products/services over multiple departments, spanning various platforms, and only one consumer mobile app uses Unity for an augmented reality component that's not a core offering (premium feature)?

Should Unity still be entitled to the same cut?
What's great about zombocom is that the only limitation is yourself.
The researchers assessed 25 popular brands’ privacy policies and found that 21 of these allow car companies to share or sell customer data with external service providers, data brokers and other businesses. Privacy policies from two brands—Kia and Nissan—even include a clause that notes that each company may collect and disclose data on users’ sexual orientation or sexual behavior.

Failing regulatory actions or lawsuits, the only way these companies will change such policies is through very public airing, which includes criticism and ridicule.
I think it's wise not to discuss some things in a discoverable media because that media often ends up... getting discovered, and then all-too-often abused by lawyers, then tried in the court of public opinion. Very frequently there is missing context that leads to angry mobs over something somebody said in their email.

(I do accept that some people email things that are promoting something illegal, and those folks also learned to move to other media types)
afaik you can't install another OS on any chromebook, some are locked
Being successful is ok. Exploiting your success to prevent others from being successful is not
It’s a weirdly specific analogy referencing Tom Lehrer. I’m not poisoning pigeons :)

https://youtu.be/yhuMLpdnOjY
Show HN: Python SDK for iWF – workflowAsCode API orchestration engine
Main repo(with docs/wiki/discussion): https://github.com/indeedeng/iwf

Samples: https://github.com/indeedeng/iwf-python-samples
Ask HN: GPU Resource Estimation Text to Speech
Hello All, Have a question on GPU Resource Requirement for a Training Project I am doing with Piper.
https://github.com/rhasspy/piper

Following the Training Guide and the video by Thorsten Müller.

https://github.com/rhasspy/piper/blob/master/TRAINING.md
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_we_jma220

Data: Single Speaker, 18,000 files, average length 3 seconds, Sample Rate 22050, LJ Speech Format

Batch Size 32, Number of Epochs 10000, Precision 32, Quality High

Training is resumed from the Lessac High Quality Voice Checkpoint on Hugging Face.

https://huggingface.co/datasets/rhasspy/piper-checkpoints/tree/main/en/en_US/lessac/high

When running on regular CPU, facing challenges with OOM program exits. The free T4 GPU on Google Colab is not always available. Even when it is, it takes a long time to run through 1 epoch.

Trying to get an estimate of how many and what type of GPUs I can rent on Lambda Labs and how long it would take to run an epoch.

I have also read that to get a good quality clone on models like Piper and Tacotron need 100K steps (steps = batch size * number of epochs, so 32 batch size * 10000 epochs would be 320,000 steps); any advice there as well would be appreciated, thanks.
>Yes there are BLE versions of everything, but they absolutely suck batteries.

That's just not true. ANT+ is rapidly moving towards obsolescence because of the popularity of BLE. ANT+ is a proprietary standard controlled by Garmin, so the rest of the industry (i.e. Garmin's competitors) have eagerly embraced an open alternative. Nearly all current-generation fitness sensors support both BLE and ANT+ and have indistinguishable battery life with either. If you're implementing an ANT+ sensor in 2023, your only reasonable choice of chip is the Nordic Semi NRF52/53 series, which also has BLE and Thread support. BLE is essentially a freebie for the manufacturer and offers a lot of extra value to the customer, which is why even Garmin sells dual-standard ANT+/BLE sensors.
Do you have a separate neovim instance (config and all) in every container? Or a single neovim instance on the host which can access all container volumes? What about shell instances?
https://archive.ph/HLdvt
The advantage came from being better at it sooner in life. That’s an advantage for a productive society.
>Why can't I rip apart the UI of an app I use every day and rearrange it the way I want? And I mean, far more than toolbars and rearranging drop down menus. (BTW, remember those? Those were great).

IMO there's no reason you can't. Just yesterday I was playing with pavucontrol and thought "There needs to be a GNU Radio like view, where I can drop boxes which represent sound generating/taking programs/devices and draw connecting lines arbitrarily," then I thought why not the same thing for video treating even the contents of windows themselves as video sources too!

Table formats are easier to implement I guess...
C'mon, get real. How can you drive a vehicle without a huge screen blocking your view? That you have to take your eyes off the road to actually read, or to change the volume?
Yes. I didn’t even start this for weight loss. I started it after reading Jason Fungs book on type 2 diabetes prevention
Vaccine promises to reverse autoimmune diseases without shutting down imm.system
direct link to the study (paywalled): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-023-01086-2

sorry for the editorialized title, had to shorten it. full title was
>“Inverse vaccine” shows promise to reverse autoimmune diseases without shutting down rest of the immune system
Fortran was created in the 1950s. APL — 60s.
Agreed. They have the lease excuse of any vendor to say drivers are hard to support.
The user should be free to move and delete anything

The problem is while the user is moving the comments are not, only deleted

Which will probably damage another user more than hurt reddit

Besides the user might delete things that would be interest read years later
>ultimately it's not some new or really interesting idea but rather just an attempt to make some money

You just described 90% of startups
This is also an assumption of any approach that uses statistical analysis.
Really interesting, shows yet another part of the economy wrecked by the interest rate hike.
I am just happy a prototype leaked rather than deployment of a fully developed weapon. We got lucky this time.
I disagree, I felt it had the features a typical user would be ok with. II didn't really feel like I was missing anything but maybe im too much of a lite user.
My favorite part is the core guidance Google always told us was:
"how would you feel if an email wrote showed up negatively on the front page of the New York Times".

I lost count of the number of times that Google execs (and senior directors) emails showed up on the front page of the Times after that; one time I opened the Times to see my own manager's email advising the android team that it was fine to reverse engineer Java code from Sun into Android.
> A lot of the weight of a bundle of alfalfa is water - probably most of it when freshly harvested. When processed, it's left to dry for a while, but the alfalfa that gets sold is probably still 10-20% water.

And for every liter of water that's left in dry alfalfa, it took ~4,000 liters of water to grow it.

You, like the parent poster, are making a huge mistake, in thinking that that one liter that's getting exported is at all a meaningful part of the water sustainability problem with going alfalfa in a desert. It's not. The unsustainable part of it is the other 3999 liters.

'Don't export alfalfa grown in a desert' optimizes the part that isn't important. 'Don't grow alfalfa in a desert' is what people actually need to be doing.
I've got a 62 fairlane that's easier to work on than my lawnmower so I hear what you're saying. Some of the complexity under a modern hood is necessary to hit fuel efficiency and emissions requirements, but the rest of it is unnecessary bullshit. I've kept up with new car developments mostly due to annual trips that involve renting a car for a week. On my last trip I got handed a new forrester and between the center console display, blinky shit on the dash and rearviews, and the lane assist feature consistently freaking out whenever it encountered a seam in the pavement I've never had a harder time keeping focus and control over the vehicle I was driving. First thing I did the morning after I picked the car up was spend 45 minutes grovelling through every settings menu the car had looking for shit I could turn off.
> This is why I like to pay for things. This dynamic only really exists for things that are given away for free.

There's cable TV.

To be fair though, cable TV was the original Poo-To-Marl Service and has been getting supplanted by free versions of itself. So I guess it proves your point anyway.
If future users are markedly different than past users, a p-value isn't going to help you here.

It's not unreasonable to assume it's a sample, I just don't think it's worth getting paralyzed by worrying about whether or not you have power, or getting into hacky tricks to try to fix it.

...but most power calculations are also sort of bullshit.
The only real caveat is that if you and your friend get in a head-on collision on the highway one of you is probably going to come out of it a lot better.
/me scratches head