skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still have one. Still an amazing machine. And still performing quite nicely despite being more than 10 years old by now.

The only limiting factor is the iGPU, which is way too old even for 1080P playback and DX10-level features.

I wish there were any expresscard-sized video cards available, even an heavily downclocked current-day mobile chip would be good enough and within the termal and power requirements of the integrated port; The x220 is fully capable of deactivating the internal video card and sending the signal from the pci-express bus to the integrated display when it detects a discrete one, I've tested it with no issues using an nvidia 750GTX ti and a pci-express adapter.
you can also get up to 2k screen: https://www.xyte.ch/mods/x230/#x230-display

note: the author of the site has been awol for a while
No images being loaded on FF.
Yes -- They even ship the products directly from China to Amazon, who handles all the logistics of importing.

https://www.sellerapp.com/blog/how-to-get-your-shipments-fro...
VSCode is popular due to the lack of a free alternative with the same feature set.

Jetbrains Fleet is already looking to be a let down, with it being a larger resource hog by VSCode.
so what's your go to for content that isn't crap?
I don’t know, I hate the idea of having to hold a natural-language conversation with a computer in order to make use of its functionality.

It feels like being one of those Futurama heads in a jar that can’t do anything by themselves.
Would like to know what they consider to be innovations in Windows with 11. I mostly see it as a step back.
>>Who holds their phone up and takes a photo then wants to know it was a photo of?

>>Great for the vision impaired.

Yes, this is great for the estimated 285 million vision impaired people around the world[1].

[1] https://www.bemyeyes.com/about
Very dangerous.

Of course, they explicitly push responsibility to the user by saying things like:

> No. Do not use Be My AI for scanning medicines, reading dosages, or other safety issues

God forbid that we acknowledge this tech is fundamentally flawed. There’s money to be made!
I'm glad you made that change because the interface can't really solve every single thing. Most of what I do on my phone is read eBooks. AI can't inject the knowledge directly into my brain. Text on the screen is as good as it will get for the foreseeable future. Most of what I want to do in my home is cook, clean, sleep, and have sex with my wife. Software can't do any of those things for me. Most of what I want to do in a car is get where I'm going, which software control can arguably make somewhat easier, but the driving isn't really the pain point. The distance and traffic conditions are the pain points. AI can't change external reality, at least not yet.
> transporting PCM samples between the USB host and the USB device.

Seems like a great and simple idea but it might be not easy to negotiate between available PCM implementations on transmitting and receiving devices, I don't even know about what bus should be between two USBs and how to transmit silence to the receiving side if the transmitter device is unplugged, at least it requires to have a synchronized clock between two devices with fundamentally different ones.

I expected this functional in Bluetooth, because Bluetooth has some established codec solution, but I have not seen a Bluetooth dongle which can transform a PC into Bluetooth-speaker.
Right but wouldn't looser security around the App store open up more fronts for attack?
> In India is mutton usually goat?

It depends on which part of India you're in. The parts where sheep are reared will serve sheep. The others will sell goat (but will label it as `lamb')
The allure of a PC is (was?) to buy one machine that can do it all. I guess doing it all now includes having ads shoved into your face from every software vendor around. I don't know what the landscape for ads on consoles are, but I can't imagine it's much better.
The ironic thing here is that these sorts of innocuous bumps and minor traumas regularly lead to severe medical complications and deaths in older children & adults, too. The only difference here is that babies & toddlers are too young to be able to verbalize and advocate for themselves in ways that most adults recognize & respect.
It’s called the iron law of oligarchy.[1] All democratic organizations decay into oligarchies - a minority group of elites that are in control. So the question becomes who gets to join that elite and how do people get cycled out of it. When there isn’t a sufficient cycling (people who shouldn’t be a part any longer remain - nepotism etc; people that don’t deserve to be a part are invited - diversity for diversities sake, etc) people then it becomes rotten.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy
Only for things where a high rate for sizeable errors (maybe >1% or >0.1%) is tolerable.
Unless there is a neural interface, keyboards, digital stylii, etc are still a superior UI to letting an AI guess at what you're thinking.
Looks like the (Ghost?) image CDN got hugged to death. We'll update the URLs.

```

403. That’s an error.

Your client does not have permission to get URL ... from this server. (Client IP address: ...)

Rate-limit exceeded That’s all we know.

```
It's not unhealthy until you buy a Topre.
Switch to Linux and get an Xbox. Life is too short for PC gaming.
Not just a US thing. Europe is even more prevalent.
I don't believe that article is accurate. It's more like some guy's biased opinion than a serious quantitative analysis.
Things are changing quickly
The vast majority of people I work with use VS Code, from recent graduates to very senior and seasoned devs, myself included.

I don't like Microsoft, and before VS Code I had high hopes for Atom. VS Code became nearly everything I wanted on an editor.

I could never get used to "full IDEs". I find them awkward and I always feel constrained by them, not in a good way.

I experience zero typing latency on VS Code (and I'm very sensitive to that). Granted, memory usage could be better but along with the browser it's my main work tool so I don't mind much that it uses a considerable amount, as long as it doesn't bog down my machine.

Of course, to each their own. I hate Microsoft as much as the next person and I wish someone would step in and give me a modular editor with extensive LSP support and an excellent extensions marketplace to replace it. I would consider paying for such a product if it was adequate.

I had high hopes that Jetbrains Fleet would be that product, but after having tried its pre-release a few times I'm not holding my breath.

I say all this as a former hardcore emacs user.
I mean, autopilot is a thing. You would just instruct it what to do and it will make a flight plan and do it.

It’s gonna take the fun out of the experience a little bit though!
The efforts Synology made in pursuit of data security
I think this says more about corporate consolidation than innovation at Microsoft.
Turns out it's about Windows. It would have helped if it had said so.
woah! Didn't know this existed https://shell.duckdb.org, it's pretty cool!
I would not say functionally identical but more productivity tools are available on all platforms. For a developer I can only say that it is a must to use Linux. No emulation required to run docker for instance...
side info side info: This doesn't disable any advertising. Even Enterprise isn't immune from tales on /r/sysadmin.
Same here, and I subscribed to most Linux Journal issues since the early days.
Did you read my comment? I literally said that it’s for vision impaired.

That’s great. …but it’s niche.

I’m sitting on my couch right now and I can think of like 20 things I could chat to chatgpt about.

I can see literally nothing in my visual range want to take a photo of and run image analysis over.

It’s like Shazam. Yes, it’s useful, but, most of the time, I don’t need it.

I would argue this is true for this, for most people, including the significant proportion of people with minor visual impairments (that would, you know, put their glasses on instead).
The "Why is this image funny?" test reminds me of https://karpathy.github.io/2012/10/22/state-of-computer-visi...

In 10 years we went from "SoTA is so far from achieving this I don't even know where to start" to "That'll be $0.0004 per token and have a nice day"
He’s not saying it’s the users fault for how they phrase the question. He’s saying the bot is limited in how it interprets questions.
I think a lot of Android manufacturers would be willing to pay Apple for iMessage access/licensing. I strongly doubt that Apple would be willing to sell that without the EU forcing them to.
LOL. What is wrong with those reasons?

Everybody does this:

1. Yes, I'd like some credit and status. -- Every human ever.

2. I have a problem, I would like to fix it -- Every programmer with a problem.
You're right, for actually playing the sim, you'll likely need a game controller or something like that. I edited my comment.

But keep in mind that during the sim, you'll be able to ask the computer what you want the plane to do, and the computer will magically make it happen on your display.
>A half decent neutral IMAP service would do the job. Any recommendations?

Fastmail is a good service, not free but imho good service doesn't need to be free.
Sometimes I get the impression that nobody knows O&O Shutup exists. Yes it sucks that such a third party app is necessary but Windows 10 is basically unusable without it. I have literally every disable option possible selected except two. One that makes the network applet know if there's a connection and one option about Windows update without which even manual updates don't work. (I remembered that it's actually 4 the other two having to do with camera and mic permissions)

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
You should see how the second hand smoke studies upon which all other second hand smoke studies were based were done - very similar methodology - cotton swabs were saturated with combustion residues from hundreds of cigarettes, making them into tarry masses, which were then applied to 100% of the bodies of infant rats, every day for several weeks - and they were then observed for developmental abnormalities. The discussion then explicitly states that this should not be taken as a human analogue, as the rats were seen to lick the residue off their bodies, thus consuming all of it, and that further research would be needed.

Further research was of course done - on rats - with much the same methodology.

Medicine is really prone to falling for this sort of thing - and it’s honestly no great shock, recalling the calibre of people at school who went on to become doctors. I studied physics, for Christ’s sake, and knew more about metabolic pathways than third year med students who I would help cram.
So you won't be able to do anything without Internet connection to the AI mainframe? No thanks.
> Each volume took about three weeks to produce, including designing each circuit and building it four times to make sure it worked.

Just 3 weeks?
Apple's latest OSes switch iCloud Keychain on without user permission
Show HN: IDE Code Reactions and Comments that don't pollute your code
Ask HN: How can I RAG privately?
I really want to "talk" to my local and cloud based documents. However, given some privacy constraints, I really can't do that. Short of building my own locally running LLM and db, is there a solution to do that yet?
> ...there is no good way...

Agreed, but it's at least possible. My usual install is just cloning Homebrew to ~/homebrew and setting up a symlink. It's far from ideal, due to the number of packages I need to build from source, but it works, and it's allowed me to function normally in tightly controlled environments.

As far as I can tell, the initial installation for Nix doesn't allow this, though iFreilicht pointed out some options that I haven't seen before, so I may be wrong.
Thanks for making that connection, Joy was an interesting voice back in the day. Curious: has he done anything in longer form than that Wired article to expand this idea?
This is true. Just look at Fords decision to go with an aluminum bed on their F150. Going with a material that is more expensive and less durable on their best selling vehicle that’s also a work truck is a big deal, but worth it given the weight savings.
Now that's interesting. I use Homebrew in a similar way. It does mean I have to compile a lot of things from scratch, but Homebrew has knowledge of which packages are relocatable and which aren't, so I get to use binary "bottles" for about 25% of the packages I install. I'll have to give this a try.
As a user, my biggest concern is that it won’t describe certain content, such as adult content or something that might be considered offensive.. I feel like I should be able full control over the output.

On the other hand, I’d like to be able to test its ability to describe graphics to me. If it’s able to turn graphics into an accessible table, I can browse with my screen reader that would be revolutionary.
I was expecting to see 10s of keyboards as you'd see from most in r/MechanicalKeyboards and was disappointed to only find 5.

Not an unhealthy relationship at all!
The more people say that, the less convincing it is

There is no way I would have a UI developer onboarded when I can generate many iterations of layouts in midjourney, copy them into chatgpt4 and get code in NextJS with Typescript instantly

non devs will have trouble doing this or thinking of the prompts to ask, but the dev team asking for headcount simply wont ask for headcount, and the engineering manager is going to find the frontend only dev redundant
i currently use x2100 (x200 with 10th gen motherboard and a 3000x2000 13" ips)

https://www.xyte.ch/mods/x210-x2100/ (note: the seller is awol)

would be happy to upgrade to a similar x220 mod with e.g. amd zen 4.

unfortunately, from what i understand lenovo sued the 51nb folk (motherboard designers) out of their business.
Business models that work for solo-founders
Thanks for the recommendation, the keychron K1 is definitely something I've been looking at closely. I've heard some complaints about the bluetooth connectivity not being great.

They recently announced a budget friendly version the C3 Pro that's wired (USB-C) only that looks like it might actually satisfy my requirements.
One application can be objects recognition in security camera
My text editor has this feature, all non-English symbols use to render like ▯▯▯▯▯ ▯▯▯ ▯ ▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯.
Are you suggesting they don’t release it until they can prove no hallucination?
I don't think it's because you are from Europe

> I've seen clips and eh'.

I think it's because you've watched clips instead of watching a story, and judging it based upon today's films being so shallow that they can be summed up in a clip.

Not that Starwars is deep, but it's a lot deeper than anything out of the Marvel stable.
You can now use WebGPU in Cloudflare Workers
You help by voting for people who will (continue to) throw out the intellectually and morally bankrupt Chicago School ideas of antitrust, and will hold big companies of all kinds accountable.[0]

Because enshittification isn't a big-tech-specific problem. It's a problem in all the industries that are massively overconsolidated.

So vote in every primary and general election, for every office on the ticket down to your local school board, because all of them are part of the system that actively enables enshittification—and can, if we can get enough people into those offices who believe in fixing it, work to oppose enshittification and dismantle the structures that allow it to continue.

[0] Hm, I wonder if one political party is pretty reliably for this sort of change and the other one is pretty reliably for making things even worse...
Drop the “app” from store for a second and make your argument again, except imagine a scenario where there is just one physical store for all the consumer goods you need, and you’d be upset about that being broken up because now you’ll be inconvenienced.

But what you won’t be is under the thumb of a single company that has way too much power over you.
Countries (governments) make lots of decisions as (governmental) entities with their own (effective) lives. Probably too many too fast. The problem is they often make the wrong decisions in spite of having very large and often educated staff. That's a problem. Someone asked recently what are the large problems facing humanity going forward and I think this is one of them. Government as entities will make lots of decisions in this case and no doubt most will be at counter-purpose. And this is a huge problem for humanity in general (because of the gross, terrible economic inefficiency of the process.)

We must find far more effective ways for governments to think, deliberate, simulate, act or not act, implement, enforce.
Yeah, instead of having keyboard users do the normal thing to check their WiFi, interacting with the menubar, they should instead, every time, 1. Open System Settings; 2. Type Cmd-F; 3. type "wifi"; 4. press Tab 2 times
Feldera – a more performant streaming database based on Z-sets
I want this. I'm a paying GPT-4 customer I hate how these rollouts go. Why do I pay just to watch everyone else play with the new toys?
> Oh the good old, violent Easter European bias mixed into crap science.

Honest question, trying to parse your statement (and bear in mind I don't live in Europe, so I'm surely missing the obvious): do you mean that in Denmark there is a bias against Eastern Europeans, such as Romanians?

Edit: excellent, got a downvote for asking an honest question and clarifying why I wrote it. Is this an example of the fine discourse we are supposed to have here? This is an honest question, I'm neither European nor a native English speaker and I have difficulty parsing the sentence I quoted. How on earth does this warrant downvotes?
Compared to a lot of programmers here, I totally agree (but my parents and girlfriend might disagree).

But gotta generate that clickbait headline ;)
Nah, try home grown vegetables vs supermarket vegetables. There's a clear lack of flavor across many of the supermarket vegetables.
You're deliberately avoiding my point and my preferences. I want to use Meta's services, play Genshin Impact, and use microsoft apps on windows. I want to manage my subscriptions via the app store. I bought an iOS device _knowing_ that was the setup.

We've seen this change with uPlay, battle.net, epic launcher on PC. Users don't get "more choice", we live with the rules the developer sets out for us. I _want_ to be on a platform where the developer sets standards for payment handling, authentication options. I don't want to have to provide my payment deatils to Genshin's app store, but I do want to pay them.

Stop telling me that I will have a choice when I have already made a choice, and _you_ want something different.
> who takes a photo then wants to know it was a photo of?

I find myself doing this rather frequently. The scenario described in the article is quite common for me: capturing a photo of a plant and utilizing an existing classification service to determine its identity. It could be driven by mere curiosity or practical concerns like identifying whether a plant is poison ivy.

Wildlife identification also falls into this category. Recognizing different bird species can be challenging, especially when it's not a familiar species like a blue jay. I often find myself engaging in this activity quite regularly!

EDIT: I should also point out this happens with other forms of ‘unknown object identification’. There’s an entire subreddit that’s quite popular devoted to just crowd-sourcing identification based on a picture.
Luddites were very careful not to hurt any people (I think in one case they were cornered by defensive action, but that was clearly in self-defense), and they even only targeted specific machines they had problems with, leaving all other machines intact.
But just the same I don't agree with their methods since any violence is easily co-opted to paint them as bad and ultimately hurts the goals they were trying to achieve.
Interestingly enough, no bigger offender then the psychiatric and mental health community. There's a very sophisticated system for shutting down criticism and lashing out at patients that have civil rights concerns.

They do a lot of mental gymnastics trying to run from the idea that their main function is to imprison and take away peoples rights, often without due process.

Medical industry is rife with abuse. They routinely kill people out of spite, torture dying people and their families, and want to be shielded from any criticism... so fuck all the patients and look for reasons they're "not righteous", etc, so you can dismiss them.

It's quite interesting (and disturbing) to see how much culture evolves around deflecting blame and victim blaming.
The data (linked in my comment) shows that incarceration rates have decreased in all of Europe as well as all of Northern America and increased in Australia and New Zealand.

If you consider "the West" to be (as is commonly admitted) Europe, Northern America, Australia and New Zealand (with maybe Japan included) then incarceration rates have decreased in the West. Even if they have increased in minor countries (AU + NZ).

You're getting stuck on a sentence of the summary that talks about a subset of the data, but I'm not sure why. I also have no idea what you mean about a "nation colonized to be a prison", but honestly this looks to me as if you're just trying to push some idea without vocalizing it, which is a bit off-putting. If you're talking about the US, then yes it does have a much higher incarceration rate than anywhere else in the West, but it's a clear exception within the West and it is still decreasing.
Less dangerous than walking through the car filled city with a stick and no vision at all.
Regulated by tire or by axle? In the US, it’s generally the latter.
Tell that to Unix/FP lovers.
Is anyone using this or trialing it? I wonder if it lives up to the hype. It kinda reminds me a bit of RethinkDB.
Long Covid risks are 'distorted by flawed research', study finds
What Is Skiplagging–and Is It Worth the Increasing Risks?
> Microsoft doesn’t have a monopoly anymore.

Maybe at home. So many businesses relies on software only available on Windows.
Yes, Innocence Project cofounder Barry Scheck was the defense attorney in the Woodward case and he wrote a long foreword to our book about it. It starts like this:

"After a Quarter of a Century, Have Any Lessons Been Learned from the Trial of Louise Woodward?

Twenty-five years ago, the Louise Woodward trial in Boston (the ‘nanny murder case’) thrust shaken baby syndrome (SBS) into headlines across the globe, raising worldwide consciousness about the hypothesis that infants and toddlers could be seriously brain injured, even killed, by violent shaking. Although the case was tried in the early days of SBS prosecutions, the underlying science was fiercely disputed and litigated at trial. A quarter of a century later, although science has advanced, the issues remain just as hotly disputed and poorly understood, and yet parents and caregivers continue to be prosecuted and families torn apart based on the hypothesis."
the zoomers have known no world without smartphones; it's their reality since they were kids.

hell, I had a flip phone in HS and while it wasn't good for much except making my parents feel like they had a line to me, it's been something I carry everywhere all the time for decades.
SerenityOS is doing exactly that:

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Ladybird

I also like their Jakt programming language:

https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt

Though I'm more enthusiastic about Redox (doing it in Rust):

https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox/
Loving my Q3. Stock it's fine, but after I modding it quite extensively (new switches, keycaps, tape mod, foam, etc.) it's been amazing!
For a safety-critical application like this, absolutely.