skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there is no dark side of the moon
matter of fact, it's all dark
What was apple/mozilla’s feedback?
The team has both made a ton of effort switching off their proprietary Skia based rendering tech and adopting standard Wayland, and has put forward huge effort to making running incredibly well integrated real Linux containers just work.

The headline is true. ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment. But it obfuscates the details. It's a damned by omission statement. It has some really good sauce to help you not notice often, but it's not at all a Linux desktop environment one can regularly use. You can do a lot of Linux desktop-y things but only through well crafted special unique wrapped processes that mostly but not fully help mock & emulate a regular Linux desktop. Even though it now runs Wayland, the apps you want to run will have atypical intermediates up the wazoo.

And no one else uses any of this tech. ChromiumOs has so much interesting container tech, does such an interesting job making containers think they have a regular Linux / FreeDesktop environment. It's far far far far deeper virtualization than for example https://github.com/containers/toolbox . But you know what? Google has made zero effort to get these pieces adopted elsewhere. It's open source but not intended for use outside Chromium/ChromeOS. I respect & think ChromeOS is a quite viable Linux, and it's so much closer to the metal & more interesting, amazing tech, but my gods Microsoft has gone 300x further to establish wsl2 as a sustainable community effort folks could use & target, in a way that ChromiumOS has done nothing about.

It's sad how Google has transformed from a company that appreciated & worked with ecosystems, that drove things collectively forward, into an individual player that does their own things & delivers from on high. ChromiumOS is such an incredible effort, but it's so internernally drive & focused, and it's hard to believe in such a wildcat effort, even though it's so so good. It keeps coming into better alignment with Linux Desktop actual, but via shims and emulations that no one else cares about or which seems marketed elsewhere. And that inward focus makes the whole effort both so exceptional & promising, but suspect. Such a different nearby but alternative & separately governed universe. ChromiumOS/ChromeOS do excellent at faking being a Linux desktop, and wonderfully have increasingly drawn more strength from that universe, but are still wholly their own very distinct very separate very controller other space. In many ways that's great, secure, good, and miraculously transparently done. But it's still hard to really trust, being such a weird alien impostor, faking so much for end user apps, and there's tension in believing ChromeOS will keep straddling the rift in pro-user manifestations forever.
I went through a phase of following a lot of “indie hacker” people on Twitter when everyone was posting their growth numbers and other stats in public. It was fun to watch them try different things and experiment.

Then slowly, nearly all of them stopped. Some got jobs at big companies. Others quietly stopped posting after numbers flatlined or declined. This includes a lot of people whose projects were “Ramen profitable” and then showing huge month over month growth, which was supposed to be the start of something bigger.

A disappointing number of them have pivoted into personal brand building and selling courses. It’s a lot of “follow me/subscribe to my newsletter for more advice” which turns into “sign up now for an exclusive spot in my new course” after a half a year. It’s like a switch flips after a certain number of followers where they realize it’s going to be easier to sell courses/content than to build their project into a successful company.
I have it set up with my wife. We trust each other enough to only use it in emergency situations.
If the question is about Google, they use the Chromebooks to connect to cloud hosted dev environments. Often these days that's the internal cloud based IDE whose UI is VSCode based.

For many legacy command line tasks, you SSH to a cloud workstation. More than ever though, you can get away with a lot of programming tasks without ever touching a terminal.

For those who really want a traditional Linux Desktop environment, you use Chrome Remote Desktop to connect to the same cloud VM that you SSH to.
While my exposure to Xitter is limited to Xits that others post and very occasionally reading an associated thread I think there's *some* merit here.

URLs can be bulky and making them short has it's merits. However, it also reduces the information--what they are seeing as "engagement" is often going to be people clicking it, seeing it's garbage and closing it. Thus I would favor a middle ground: Short visible URLs but the whole thing is displayed if you hover over it. I have no good answer for mobile.
KeePassium

Things

iA Writer

Bobby

Streaks

1Writer

Anybox

Bear

Doppler

BookPlayer

Reeder

That's pretty much all the apps that I use. I can't support Ads and I pay for quality apps that doesn't have to rely on them.
Roughly, that they had privacy and security concerns with the way Google wanted to implement it, if I recall correctly.
OSS EU and Rethinking Open Source Licenses
Something that often gets left out of this conversation is that "writing code" is VERY different than "maintaining code", and maintenance is 99.9% of the work. So what happens when the AI-generated code fails? You might say "well I'll just ask the AI to fix it!" Okay...what if the code is part of a distributed system and therefore would require investigating traces across several components to diagnose? What then?
Not sure why you rewrote the headline, which was far more clear than your version.
I'm surprised they got around windows file protection! That had been around since at least XP so I wonder what they did to avoid it.

The writers of the malicious software lenovo has so far been caught including in their products were specifically targeting windows users, but I see no reason to think that they wouldn't include malicious software that targets linux if some seedy company decided it was worth the effort to write it and offered lenovo enough cash. Their total lack of integrity and respect for their customers is enough that I could never feel fully confident that I was safe just because I was running a non-windows OS.
> but airlines are sometimes weird in not supporting those for specific flight/booking combination, and they need power
Hold to maturity investors change when inflation shifts so much.

Someone may have bought 10 year 2% notes intending to hold to maturity because they thought inflation would stay at 1% and they just wanted to park cash. But with inflation at 3-5% they now need to dump and buy something else.

People change their tactics to achieve their strategy.
Nobody wants to start off their comment with, "this is an utterly banal statement," not enough gravitas.
That and it runs on linux
They have a couple more joke physical JP input methods: https://github.com/google/mozc-devices
Related question:

I used to be able to use wifi when my microwave was running. Then one day with no apparent change it started interfering, so that I can no longer use wifi if the microwave is roughly between the two devices connecting over wifi.

Of other microwaves I’ve encountered, most haven’t interfered with wifi, but one or two have.

Is this a problem?
You're right, but: I think we could imagine finding something like "if the universe is infinite we can describe it with this simple set of laws, otherwise we need to use this much more complex set of laws." That would at least be suggestive.
Honestly I could probably fit into that group you're describing on technicality. I usually do informal contract or commission work that I have to self report come tax season. When things slow down in the fall or right around New Year's I often pick up seasonal work or just reply to random help ads to get a few hundred dollars to cover the shortfall. I'm in a grey area already, which makes what content creators like livestreamers do even more of a mystery to me in regards to whether they're considered self-employed or doing the digital equivalent of street busking.
Something that has never sit right with me. Why do we not have clear evidence of past major civilizations in the main habitation zones of modern North America?

Shouldn’t we see ancient cities in New England, the PNW, Bay Area, and southeastern US? What made South America, and the southwestern zone of North America special in this regard?
It's only steelmanning if that's what they meant, and I don't think that's what they meant.

Trying to strengthen an argument by finding a way that a word could technically work, but not with the original implications, isn't very helpful. I'd even argue it hurts clear communication in a situation like this.
> I think a sort implementation should return elements in an order consistent with a subset of the comparison calls it makes, and that subset should be such that it fully determines the order.

> An even better guarantee is that the subset should be the whole set of comparison calls.

For consistent comparator functions, all decent implementations “return elements in an order consistent with a subset of the comparison calls it makes, and that subset should be such that it fully determines the order”, because that’s the definition of sorting.

They also have the added feature that that subset is the full set of the comparison calls they make. Why would they make more calls than necessary?

For buggy comparator functions, once you hit even a single inconsistency it can’t be the whole set of comparison calls.

Also, for a buggy comparator function, you can’t count on the comparator function to be antisymmetric, so it may both say that a < b and b < a, and you can’t even count on it returning the same value when called twice with the same arguments (a comparator could return a coin flip, for example)

However, if you’re willing to make all the n × (n - 1) comparison calls, it seems reasonable to me that you can find a subset that defines an ordering.

I can only think of an heuristic argument for that, though, not of a proof. That argument is that there are n! possible orderings you can return, and each has a ‘chance’ of 1/2^(n-1) of only containing links that are consistent with the comparator function, and the former is way larger than the latter. Given that chances are at least one would be consistent, and define the order.

However, I don’t see what good that would do. If your code can detect that the comparator function is buggy, it’s better to signal that than to spend time finding some semi-random ordering that partially satisfies the comparator function.
On the subject of this "feature", I found this handy

https://michlstechblog.info/blog/windows-identify-a-wpbt-bin...
You can be a software engineer and not know a lick about syntax or write algorithms, but you have good intuition and can use tools (LLMs, autocomplete, etc) to take what others have done to make something others will like/use/pay for/etc.
The government pays for the development costs. They will not pay for a subscription unless the contractor takes the up front risk of developing the software.

Federal contracting rules also limit the profit that can be made selling to the government (you can argue this are not effective).

Some 'agile fans' have been promoted up a few notches at Lockheed, that is all this is.

The USG likes to pay for and own source code and weapon system designs.
You can already download alternative browsers, their engine isn't what is stopping them from running spam, it's the app review process. And in any case, I have older relatives on both platforms and I don't see more problems with dogy apps on the pixel than on the iphone, both of them are full of spam notifications but otherwise totally functional.

Most users won't change the defaults anyways, I think this fear is well overblown.
Deepfakes: The Marvel of Creation and the Menace of Deception
In an age where seeing is no longer believing, deepfake technology has emerged as both a marvel of modern AI and a potential weapon of misinformation. These AI-generated synthetic media have the power to place anyone, anywhere, doing almost anything. This capability raises profound ethical questions about truth in the digital era.

The Magic Behind Deepfakes
Deepfakes utilize advanced neural network architectures like Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to fabricate videos, images, or audio files that seem incredibly real. The initial purpose of this technology was benign, primarily for art, entertainment, and research. For instance, filmmakers can resurrect actors for crucial roles or simulate realistic environments without the constraints of the physical world.

The Darker Side of the Technology
However, with great power comes great responsibility. In the wrong hands, deepfakes can:

Spread disinformation and fake news at an unprecedented scale.
Compromise personal privacy and be used for blackmail.
Manipulate stock prices by generating fake announcements from influential figures.
Undermine trust in visual evidence, a cornerstone in journalism and justice.
The Ethical Conundrum
The central ethical question is: Should we curb the development and dissemination of a potentially harmful technology, or is it our responsibility to develop countermeasures and public awareness?

Countermeasures and the Way Forward
Several tech giants and startups are working on deepfake detection tools. However, it's a continuous arms race, with deepfake creators often outpacing detection methods. Education, media literacy, and public awareness campaigns will play a crucial role in this battle.

Moreover, a proactive approach involving policy-making and regulations may be essential. Implementing digital watermarking techniques and maintaining the provenance of digital content can act as significant deterrents.

Concluding Thoughts
Deepfake technology exemplifies the double-edged sword of AI. While its creative potential is boundless, so are its avenues for misuse. It beckons the tech community, policymakers, and the public at large to engage in a deeper dialogue on the ethics of AI-driven creations.

The way forward may not be clear-cut, but one thing is certain: our commitment to preserving truth in the digital age will define the legacy of our technological advancements.
I appreciate your righteous screed. I imagine it won't be a decade before we see a fork in society between those who embrace a UBI and a world filled with bots, centaurs and llm-mediated-hive-minds and those who simply want nothing to do with it.

Maybe the luddites made it clear that destroying capital doesn't make for a winning endgame, the Amish might be a better model - they still participate in the broader economy but they've built their pockets of antiquity where they get by with more elbow grease than they otherwise would have to, and have a spiritual basis for meaning that most of secular society lacks. I probably won't be joining them but could see a new movement that accepts diesel engines, lithium batteries and computers, but draws the line at anything that starts to mention "hidden layers" or "nondeterministic behavoir" (outside that randomness needed for accurate simulations and cryptography)

Haven't come up with a name yet.
It feels like Microsoft has a paid fleet of AI evangelists prowling the forums praising anything related to AI no matter how ludicrous.
BB(n) isn't computable, even given unlimited computational resources.

Running all n-state machines won't work, because you may have some machines that continue indefinitely, but without repeating. (Remember that while the number of states is finite, the tape is infinite.) No matter how long you run them for, you can't be sure whether they are going to terminate at some point in the future, or if they'll continue forever without halting.

This is why computing BB(n) for arbitrary n is equivalent to solving the halting problem.
I do this too. And the flipside is many audiences dont care about the idea or do but find one problem and churn off. So external feedback is hard. tricky one to solve. scratching your own itch can keep you motivated but doesn’t answer the demand question. The other way is to go full mom test and just do full time market research and product hat for months and only then build.
You can upgrade to the family plan and add people
Sheriffs are the only cops who are elected officials and therefore have the ability to speak the truth
The relevant question is whether students are empowered to do actual STEM work (in git, with python, and notebooks and/or an actual IDE) in application of the K12CS Q12 STEM curricula.

There should be a specification of things that we need the computers we buy for the students to support; a rubric to consider in acquisitions and discussions with vendors attempting to solve for the needs of education and learning.

Seriously, compare the results of canned flash games (with metrics) vs locally coding math to do a scientific experiment or solve immediately-graded exercises with code.

I've reviewed the curated app catalogs here and TBH the tragic gap is perhaps at "how to computer math" [in notebooks in a version controlled (e.g. git) repo] [in Python [with JupyterLite or vscode.dev w/o devpod/codespaces [due to Chromebooks]]]; just a video of Arithmetic in notebooks instead of a calculator.

GeoGebra and Desmos are neat. Geogebra has a CAS (Computer Algebra System) built-in, but it's not Python with test assertions. And when the canned math app e.g. fails with weird complex exponents of e, it's a good idea to reach for Python (or Julia, or R, or) instead of only the apps in the Play Store.

Exercise: Install Git and Python (maybe in Termux from Fdroid) on a Chromebook, then run repo2podman {with a FamilyLink account,}

Exercise 2: Create a Jupyter Notebook on a Chromebook and save it to work on from home {with Gapps Edu and Family Link} when Colab isn't allowable and JupyterLite doesn't have a gdrive plugin yet.

Containers in a local devpod (~codespaces) VM for the students might solve.

This should also work on computers to support real-world STEM workflows:

<alt-tab> make test
make clean

<alt-tab> <up arrow> <enter>
dislike karma: its a kids game, its not appropriate here
Missed opportunity for MS, they couuld promote Win11 to users who have old laptops, and show them ads for new compatible laptops.
With kids: vague set of goals; expect chaos! Some must haves such as getting dressed and coffee
Just because you have no sympathy for the large corporations doesn't mean they should be treated unfairly, and going to jail because of actions that actually weren't in your control is definitely unfair.

Corporations are made of people, and can by large multinationals, or small mom and pop operations with a few tens of people (or less). Should someone that has a company that runs a few ice cream shops in town go to jail because of actions of people under them? Because it's not like it's always going to be something that was condones or expected from management, and while I'm okay with monetary damages that don't aim to dismantle the company entirely even if management didn't really know what's going on (that's maybe a good way to make them care and pay attention), I'm not okay with sending them to jail because of mismanagement.

Not only is that unfair, it would have a huge chilling factor on entrepreneurs. And not just the startup kind, the people that want to open a restaurant or run a small business.

And to fully put this in context, this is under an article about booking.com paying slowly. You think jail time is appropriate for that? What if they're having cashflow problems? If they aren't and it's intentional, how do you distinguish this from that?
Windows is certainly dead to me. Grew up using Windows, bounced off of desktop Linux a decade or more ago, then eventually got fed up with the increasing ad infestation as Windows enshittified and realized the desktop Linux is lovely and usable nowadays (and the Steam Deck exists for any games I want to play). I'd sooner give up on computers entirely than go back to Windows, unless they drastically change course and remove all ads from the product, permanently.
No, the natural numbers are defined as infinite. The rationals are proven to be infinite (with the assumption that the naturals are).
This wouldn’t be possible if people started choosing interoperable protocols over centralized platforms.

Why should the RIAA or Discord get veto power over groups communicating on the internet? Something is fundamentally broken here.
That's wrong though, it's got nothing to do with different buffering (which is usually done at the application level, by the way).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Brain

But who's gonna pay for it?
Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin Internet Time Server (2023)
In the 1990s HP was a great brand. Nowadays it's a nightmare. My neighbor asked me to troubleshoot one. Obviously the whole printer cannot be used without WiFi and a connection to HP cloud nonsense. Only that the cloud and Windows driver could not agree whether the printer had been set up or not. And the neighbor could not remember their HP account. It took me 2 hours to figure out how to do a factory reset.

1990 a printer was a peripheral and if you had a driver it worked. Today it's a spyware, ink-selling nonsense.
There is this very popular night market where I live, and whenever I drive through a corner of this market, the Bluetooth in my car just stops. I always wondered what this was. There is just so much interference on a square meter.
WeWork did have a small moat, namely the worldwide membership plan ("WeWork All Access") to 500+ locations incl. conference room. Even given they massively overextended on real-estate (by paying insane commissions up to 50%) and are about to go boom, it (is/)was still good value in the short term, if you change(d) location often.

(Regus similarly has access to lounge, coworking and office memberships worldwide 4000 locations).
Nothing that can be blamed to the (web)app store, but I found it curious the overall very poor first impression experience that these small niche (or not so small) websites tend to offer... some have the feeling of just being an excuse prototype to be a quick grab for money / user accounts. I guess that not too unlike actual installable mobile apps, to be fair.

My experience has been:

I tried the Linear app, but couldn't see anything more than a pretty landing page before an account was required. Next.

Replit. Wanted to get a feeling of how it works, but again, just a landing page and a button that says "Start creating" but instead it should say "Log in". Next.

OpenDream: "Create original art in seconds with AI". Cool -I say to myself-, let's create a couple of crazy pictures just for fun. Oh, well, these at least don't pretend to be fancy, the login prompt appears first thing right in your face. Next.

Replika. An AI companion, so curious. But the website's only purpose is to show a "Get the app" that brings me to Play Store. Wouldn't call it a webapp. So next, I guess?

Let's have some fun with some silly phrases in VoiceMaker! But after trying it out with "Casper, Male", I just wanted a second try with "Patricia, Female", and it already prompted me and didn't let me play anything any more. Bummer. Next.

Funnily enough, the best initial experience of these webapps, by a wide margin, has been Tower Game. It just does what it promises. It's a tower game. It runs straight out, and lets you play. No fuss. 10/10, best webapp of the ones I tested!

(PS.: PromptPerfect, "Your IDE for professional prompt engineering". Wow, it's crazy that we got to need such things, the world of LLMs is running too fast for me)