skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slowly boiling myself away from this and subscription software. The last few months have been moving my data to portable formats, open source software and on disk rather than in the cloud. The first step was to move away from macOS to Windows ironically because I can dispose of the Apple hardware and use my target hardware and what remanining software I am locked in to will work on windows. I'll boil the last few things off on that then migrate to Linux.

The biggest problem remaining is what to do with email as I need access to it on the road and I've got used to outlook/o365 for that. A half decent neutral IMAP service would do the job. Any recommendations?
Even more impressive would be if I don't want to know pottery anymore, and I can delete that knowledge to make room for something else.
> With that said, GPT-4V did make a mistake. The model said the fried chicken was labeled “NVIDIA BURGER” instead of “GPU”.

Any midwesterner could tell you that CLEARLY it's a tenderloin :)

https://www.seriouseats.com/best-breaded-pork-tenderloin-san...
I guess it's time to bury the old sonuvabitch...
In a lot of sci-fi, the most “developed” civilisations have their children raised by robots in crèches.

I don’t think it was supposed to be aspirational.
That's why they switched to focus on Enterprise customers a while ago. It's all about being a secret store for Kubernetes and other deployments now. I doubt they lose a lot of sleep over personal licenses and the loud group of people complaining about the non-native macOS UI (Including myself there).
Hi there, I'd like to share my approach to generate good video summaries for the tons of lectures on YouTube. As a result, I came up with a two-stage process using carefully designed prompts for GPTs and my workflow library to make it work smoothly.
Just use Nix
My dilemma: choosing between Windows that has too many ads and is increasingly buggy, a Linux desktop environment that requires lots of time to configure and always has something not working, or a Mac computer that has atrocious RAM and SSD markup. (A mac mini that matches my current $500 pc with 32GB/1TB would cost $1,899.) I decide to live with Windows and find ways to turn off the ads or ignore them.
They will be the best input mode to play flight sims?

I am being a little facetious, but you made a bold claim.
For those that don't know. In Clojure it is also perfectly valid to drop the parantheses for each subsequent call in a threading macro if you don't want to pass in any additional arguments:

(-> x f g h)

If you need to pass an additional argument to g you can always do:

(-> x f (g foo) h)

There are thread first ->, thread last ->>, and even a thread as "as->" depending on where you want to place the argument when you pipe the result through the thread of functions.
Because as a society we found that a government is the (as of know) the best way to manage us. To fund this system we give power to government to levy taxes.

One of those taxes is a tax on the value a business add to good and services, another is on the product of your labour, etc.

Now, you are arguing on a different system where this tax is not to your liking. This is a political choice and up to you to vote and promote other sources of government revenue.
I bought my first Mac in ~30 years because of the ads in Win11. Yes, you can (kinda) disable them I'm just not interested in fighting that sort of nonsense in an OS
Surrendering to Chrome isn't user freedom either
Apple is just starting this journey with ads in settings. More to come...
Apparently the main SunGlacier device is a free standing device consisting of a Solar Panel attached to a Peltier Junction, which is attached to a metal cone on the cold side, which apparently can capture ambient moisture from the atmosphere, even in desert climates...

(Or, think of it as Star Wars' Vaporator -- version 0.00000001...)

Related:

https://sunglacier.nl/project-outline

https://inhabitat.com/produce-your-own-water-from-thin-air-w...

https://theindexproject.org/award/nominees/1928

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_cooling

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect
… and the platform’s more restrictive. There were two factors I mentioned. And that’s just store revenue—it’ll skew harder toward Apple if you include other ways of making money on mobile.

I don’t recall Facebook publicly throwing any tantrums over Play Store policy changes.

It’s also possible that being able to put a store on both platforms is the kind of thing that would get, say, Facebook to expand the Quest software store to mobile. They’ll want to do that for Apple’s headset at least, if these changes open that up to them—expanding that effort to include iOS and Android seems like something with decent odds of happening.
The Internal State of a Large Language Model Knows When Its Lying
Related -

GPT-4 logits calibration pre RLHF - https://imgur.com/a/3gYel9r

Just Ask for Calibration: Strategies for Eliciting Calibrated Confidence Scores from Language Models Fine-Tuned with Human Feedback - https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14975

Teaching Models to Express Their Uncertainty in Words -
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14334

Language Models (Mostly) Know What They Know -
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05221
On the other hand, VsCode dominates the basic editor space. TypeScript basically became the standard in web development. GitHub is MS, NPM is MS. .net is now open source and I'd not be surprised if it starts getting popular again.

I'd say they are in a better place in terms of developer relations and perception compared to a couple years ago. Might be my network bias though.
IMO there should be at least the possibility of paying for an ad-free experience, whatever the monetary value of that per user might be.

I used software called RaiDrive on the desktop a while ago and they have an ad-supported free version - there is a banner that shows up on top/bottom of the app window, IIRC: https://www.raidrive.com/

If developers need money but users want free software, wouldn't that be a possible option in the case of OSes and desktop software, in addition to that being the status quo on mobile? Then smarter users who don't want to pay can use a PiHole or something like that, users get the software and devs get some additional money, OR people can straight up pay for an ad free version and/or more features, or use an open source alternative.

I think the only thing holding us back in that regard is a lack of proper sandboxing for most desktop software, e.g. the user data that you agree to give it, rather than having spyware/PUP getting installed and so on. I do wonder why there are no good reputation ad networks for desktop software and such, say, AdSense for Windows/Linux.
> Thinkpad X13 Yoga Gen 3

Sadly it has that shitty modern Lenovo keyboard, with Fn in the left part of the keyboard (I'm not talking about Fn/Ctrl placement), Insert on Fn+End combo (Why?! WHY?![0]) and the stupid PrtScr under the right thumb, like you are taking screenshots every minute.

This alone averts me from any ThinkPad past x220 (and even x220 has elephantitis on the Del key..)

[0] and now I'm talking about Fn placement on the left side - even I can't make Fn+End with one hand. Compare it to ASUS TM420 keyboard: https://i0.wp.com/techraman.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/A...
Exactly right, the ads are tiring. They keep introducing new ways to shove ads in your face with silent updates or they just restore the original settings even after you spent a considerable amount of time disabling them.

I paid for the product, stop showing me ads.
At least in nordic countries there was a systematic (and even somewhat successful) political agenda to reduce working hours in the 1980s (when social democracy was the leading ideology). This has appeared sporadically in discussions as well but in practice during the neoliberal era the push has been to longer hours.

IMHO having to work more when productivity and automation increases is quite a clear sign of a fundamentally broken economic system.

https://www.atlasofplaces.com/essays/on-the-phenomenon-of-bu...
Well, that's even worse in some sense... now I cannot properly debug it when it breaks...

I still see no reason to use it.
Not ripping children from actually abusive families is more developed. There are many cases of abuses families who need to lose their children, and in some those families still have children. There are other cases where good families lose their children.

Note that I carefully did not say anything about what abuse is. Unfortunately there is no agreement and I don't want to get into that debate (it is well worth having, but it would change the direction I'm trying to go here).
> but do not force others to go into the garden to play

I choose to live in the walled garden, and there is another option (android) for those who don't. You telling me the walls have to come down is you bringing your rules to the garden _I_ choose to be in.
The conclusion I've come to is that faith and logic occupy different portions and use different pathways in the brain. They're one of the things where the cognitive dissonance isn't as hard to hold having dissonance over other ideas - simply because they occupy different spaces in the head.
Your job will change in fundamental ways at least.
The moment games either natively support linux or Proton becomes less of a hassle to use, I'm dropping Windows entirely.
Until then, running a de-shittified Windows 10.
Hi I shaved off 40% more just by replacing multiplication with bitwise operations and ported the code to a standard Python C Extension to avoid relying on JIT.

https://github.com/szabolcsdombi/optimized-floyd-steinberg-d...

X * 7 is equal to (X << 3) - X

X * 3 is equal to (X << 1) + X

X * 5 is equal to (X << 2) + X
ESRI is as evil as Google (if not worse). If pricing is the only consideration, maybe ESRI is the way to go, but I would take other aspects into account, too (e.g. walled-garden signals, tricking customers, software-lock-in).
Oh I love this

Especially since everything else is “sign up to our waitlist”
I'm a designer and primarily use my mouse + keyboard shortcuts. Keyboards with numpads push my mouse position further out right, which is actually quite awkward on the shoulder (it has to be twisted outwards). With a tenkeyless board, my shoulders and forearms are straight.

I would consider a separate numpad so it can be moved around if needed, but that need never really comes up for me.
I’m sure they did, it’s even stated in the first paragraph I quoted: “But first, let's clear a few things up: is this kind of logic new? No, it certainly is not.”

It’s just that influence is not all about being first.
The two are not mutually exclusive. Your "thing" may not be great when you first start out, but it is important to get content out and see if you can make it fun.

Deus ex is sort of that way. In deus ex it is the conversation engine. It was the first thing they made and is really the mechanic around which the game is built.
I was in the same boat. I switched to linux on my main dev machine (linux lite), and it works for everything except certain games (a racing sim is the main one I care about). Various compatibility versions of proton got closer, but I couldn't do a full race. I ended up doing bootcamp on my mac (also for dev but less frequently used) and only booting into it for games. All my productivity and daily driving is on linux.
The part that makes tree-sitter useful for this kind of thing is the error recovery. It's hard to do error recovery correctly. Tree-sitter gives you the ability to continue parsing your code which makes it useful for authoring tools.
The software problem is still a thing. Games and many commercial software packages that people need to get work done. Adobe Suite, AutoDesk, Microsoft Office and I'm sure there are more. Things are tons better now than they were even 2-4 years ago, but it's still a thorn in the side of Linux (due to the fault of the software vendors) that keeps people on Windows.

Two other things that irk me with Linux is Remote Desktop and internal drives. Remote desktop on Windows has been solved at the basic+ level for years (RDP, Terminal Services). VNC on Linux is often barely useable or a lag filled struggle, even on LAN. I know there are 3rd party solutions, but none are cheap (TV, AnyDesk, etc) or as elegant (NoMachine, etc) out of the box as RDP. I should be able to turn on a toggle "Enable Remote Desktop" and connect from a client machine. I guess that's why Gnome is moving that way? I don't know.

The next is on Windows I typically have a plethora of random internal drives I use for storage, scratch disks for downloads or video encoding, temp storage, etc. These just format and assign a drive letter and done. Maybe I haven't done it enough but it always requires a guide, editing fstab, getting permissions right, mounting it as a folder or other witchcraft. Again this is probably me, but it's harder than it needs to be, IMHO.

Back on gaming, Steam really doesn't get enough credit. They have pushed developers to consider Linux for the first time in history. They have helped create the tools and the store front. The steam deck is a good PoC. And now that game engines are allowing cross platform type tools, it's never been easier.

Time will tell, but just like Firefox, I hope Linux on the desktop sticks around.
No one has mentioned Lightroom yet, it really is quite good. I say this even with some bitterness for the death of ‘classic’.
That's a contradiction. You cannot release a software that you didn't release. :)

If you release it, it has to start with version one. Zero is for non-released versions.
Article claims that SSRI are overpresribed, and that only 15% derive any benefit. To me it seems that people who don't need it and were over-prescribed the drug do not derive any benefit. But it does not mean that drug efficiency is 15%.

It's like giving aspirin to people without headache, and claim that aspirin does not work.
Because tree-sitter lexes as it parses, you may have to use an external scanner in order to deal with this kind of stuff. Where are you stuck trying to deal with forward declarations?
Just to add to the mutton pool, you also have old female sheeps that are no longer able to give birth.
There's a chap in Cornwall adding value to these old ladies by giving them a bit of a retirement, getting them fit and healthy before slaughtering and dry aging them for some top UK restaurants. Check out The Cornwall Project - Matt Chatfield.
Bit more about it here - https://www.scottgrummett.com/blog/the-cornwall-project.
I am not affiliated, but would like to try it someday.
Ironic how most egalitarians are themselves elites. They want less government, when it hinders them. For all other reasons, government is good. E.g. fighting wars to get oil...
Job will be okay. Career is over. Maybe we should join the writers on the picket line?
I love Linux and despise $MS in general. VS Code is the only thing from them I genuinely enjoy using. Since most of it is open source I have some confidence it will escape the usual $MS enshitification, or at least VS Codium. There's just not anything I've come across that's as versatile.
Microsoft, having made huge enemies of everyone in free software, seems to now see business as its new target to antagonise. I genuinely don't understand what they are playing at with Windows. They seem to be gladly sacrificing the one thing keeping people tied to them.

I remember when OEM Windows came with a bunch of crap. Now there is no version of Windows that isn't full of crap.
I heard Brian Merchant on 99% Invisible and this take is slight historical revisionism, but I'm ok with that.

It's revisionist because he's conflating the earlier movement when workers tried to negotiate with factory owners and organize with the Luddite movement. True - the failure of the first movement led to Ludditism out of desperation, but the groups are separate. Luddite literally is named after Ned Ludd smashing machinery, so it cannot be the name of the movement that was around organizing and negotiation because they only turned to smashing when organizing was made illegal. Basically workers tried to negotiate, were stymied, and a bunch of frustrated people started smashing machines, which caused a positive reaction from people so it started spreading and others started smashing stuff too.

When I first heard of Ludditism it was with more nuance that it's used today - to be a Luddite was to rage against technology with the art of a bull in a china shop. It wasn't a blanket term against "anti-progress" like it is now, but rather a dumb approach to dealing with change. Of course now it is used just to shut down people who don't like technology, so that's why I'm ok with some amount of revisionism, since the way it's being used currently is revisionist itself.

The only danger in conflating these legit concerns about automation with a violent movement is this implication that violence is the only way to bridge this gap, and I can see a strong argument that is was true back in those days, due to the Crown literally making any organizing and collective negotiation illegal, I strongly don't believe it's true today. I believe a violent reaction today would cause more harm to workers rights than help.
It's always a treadmill finding the 'good' version. W10 on our domain with the right group policy was perfect, never saw a Microsoft ad after disabling cortana & weather on a new machine. In the last month or so XBox notification ads every few days.
He underwent surgery to remove the excess of fluid around the brain, and his condition progressively improved. It could have worsened without the operation, we'll never know. Now, at almost 8, he's doing great.

I've seen cases where parents call the ER after a collapse of their child, only to see their child wake up just fine a few minutes later. The EMT tells them it's not necessary to bring their child to the hospital given the child has recovered, but the parents insist. At the hospital, sometimes they have to insist too for a CT scan to be performed. This is where doctors find subdural bleeding and the parents end up accused, the child is removed for months, etc. Yet, the child gets no particular medical treatment. None of this would have occurred if the parents hadn't insisted!
No
It is pejorative in First World also.
I'd say the dominant view is that it is pejorative .

Really, all through collage and career, in the US for last 30 years.

Calling someone a Luddite was an insult, someone that is standing in the way, not smart, desiring to just go live on a farm without any technology because it is all just too complicated.

I've never heard the term used in a positive way.

Not saying this is true of the actual Luddites, just how the term is used in the US.
Chase UK to ban cryptocurrency purchases over fraud fears
This software is great, and I love the 3 levels of defaults that you can choose from. Also creating a restore point automatically is nice.

I've used other O&O software (backup) and found it to be pretty solid, so when they first released this tool back for Windows 10 I was surprised to see it free.

AppBuster is another good freebie from them.
I’m impressed, technically, but this seems niche.

Who holds their phone up and takes a photo then wants to know it was a photo of?

That’s weird. If you don’t know what it is, wtf did you take photo?

The obvious use here is natural language improvement / photo editing for photos, but this is just a stepping stone to that, and bluntly, as it stands… the examples really don’t shine…

Great for the vision impaired.

…not sure, what anyone else will use this for.

The only really compelling use case is the “code this ui for me”, but as we’ve seen, repeatedly, this kind of code generation only works for trivial meaningless examples.

Seems fun, but I doubt I’d use it.

(Which, and this is my point, is a massive step away from the current everyday usefulness of chatgpt)
> The McDonald's hot coffee lady case wasn't frivolous.

No, this isn't "twisted in our living memory". The people who think that the lawsuit is frivolous haven't forgotten that the coffee was hotter than other fast-food coffee, or rather, it has no bearing on their assessment.

Coffee is a hot beverage, and it's in your personal responsibility not to put a flimsy cup containing a hot beverage between your legs, especially not while sitting in a car. It's completely irrelevant whether the coffee was 85°C, 75°C, or 65°C, or whether there's a large warning label on the side of the cup – as an adult you can be expected to exert common sense, and if you don't, then McDonald's shouldn't be held liable for your clumsiness.
> I’m not sure there’s any value in trying to align ourselves on this.

Same here.

> I still stand by my original stance which is that no one is owed anything, especially when they do something no one asked them to do.

I understand your point, but nothing is mandatory in Free Software. However, this is not about internet points, but it's human decency with consequences.

Strip the event from The Kernel and computer domain, this is plain rude, unjust and unethical. The author says this, and I concur.

First, we need to do better as humans. This is the lesson.
And how about with an electric vehicle?
> Match.coms monopoly power over our love lives is very very bad for everyone.

When enshittifier-Capitalists disintermediate and tax basic human connection --

When they have, by public relations fiat, claimed control of sex itself --

(Like a mining company showing up on tribal lands with bulldozers to claim it. Like a hedge built through the middle of India to divide it and tax the trade of salt.)

-- then to communicate directly becomes a revolutionary act.

We know DeBeers manufactured the diamond tradition. Surely these new companies are likewise influencing the ideas that are conditioned into peoples' heads.

Whatever ideas cause people not to communicate directly here -- to turn towards disintermediation -- are necessarily in the service of these empires. Astroturf taboos may have to be flouted to make human progress here.
Amazon Is the Apex Predator of Our Platform Era
I just use a bare git repo.

https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles
If you're so violently allergic to JavaScript just use OpenHAB, which is written in good old Java.
> We’re the only medium in the history of humankind that can turn every consumer into a creator and, astonishingly, we do that through the power of play. Think about that!

I mean, games are an incredible medium, but I think books can blur the line as well. I think "S." is probably the best example. It's not a traditional gamebook (which would be cheating since they're explicitly games), but it is a physical book which presents itself as an artifact of the story it's telling (it's produced to look like an old library book written by a fictional author with notes in the margins between fictional characters).

It's really three stories in one: the story of what happened to the fictional author, the story of two characters trying to unravel that mystery, leaving notes in the margins and clippings inserted into the book, and the story written in the book itself.

But in a sense it requires readers to become creators by connecting the clues linking the three stories and determining what happened, thus completing the story for themselves.

Another example I grew up with was "The Eleventh Hour" which is an illustrated children's book with ciphers and puzzles and a main mystery for the reader to unravel. This is a bit more traditionally "gamey" than "S.".

You could also argue religion is a form of this, especially Judeo-Christian religions which have sacred texts but also millenia of extra-textual canon and tradition.
Dude needs to educate an audience on why they should buy a domestically built $400 fire pit.