skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What was worse in Windows 98? Or Windows 2000?

Nothing. Those are just touch ups of the Win95 UI. Smoother color gradients from using more colors and smoother animation.

XP was the next big change. Never liked it. Felt like I was dragging around bitmaps. It’s “heavily” for no reason - no usability improvement nor does it even look that good.

Edit: Oh right I forgot about Active Desktop and MS’s attempt to turn Windows Explorer into Internet Explorer. Not a fan of it but at least it didn’t impair usability that much. Visually it still use the same “language”.
And educate himself just a tiny little bit? ;)

Then in his next web project, he just might use https://github.com/pa11y/pa11y and make the world a better place!
I would still say that in no case is the DM supposed to just change the rules as they go along. Whatever the method used by the DM, it should really be consistently applied.
It was more about the spin axis: timezones are vertically cut on a South/North line, while the earth rotation deviates from there.

I actually couldn't find how much it deviates. I assume there's variation depending on the seasons as well.
UAE is a huge purchaser of 0days and hacking tools. If they were able to add their own icloud account and were "kind" enough to send it back. I wouldn't touch it.
I have dreamt in VAX assembly
A quick look at the Australian Apple store shows iPads are AU$749.00.

Why would you put goods to the value of $749 in your shopping cart, much less leave it behind there?

It saves your ass, yeah, but maybe you should ask yourself if you would have learned a better lesson leaving it in there once and losing it forever and then being more careful in future.
Still, Apple chose to keep the keys of Activation Lock although they could have made an autonomous system that they could not disable themselves.

By keeping a copy of the keys, they are also getting the responsibility to use them when the owner needs them because if they don’t, it raises serious concerns as to why they keep the keys in first place.
Except that in one I can say "my president is an idiot. We need a leadership change" without wiping my credit score or being detained.
Apple Silicon Macbooks took laptops a decade to the future, but PCs keep acting like nothing happened.

I hope to get a good Linux laptop again some day since the OS and UX are so much better there, but that day isn't here yet.
Yeah, I sadly only heard about it, not actually witnessed it. It doesn't really work anymore, unfortunately, and criminals are kept alongside normal people for far longer than acceptable.
>- "Everything 'smart' must fall-back to normal 'dumb' operation

...immediately, every single time the occupant wants it to do that. Regardless of the state of any other component.
>I think every carpenter wishes they could make furniture exclusively for the wealthy and famous. But they have to compete with all the other carpenters at similar skill level for their business.

I guess the metaphor applies here too. Some will take that pride and rise up. Some will take that pride and fall behind despite being equally qualified as the ones who rose. Others will coast along and make stable business.

I think where the metaphor breaks down is visibility. Sure, that cheap plywood isn't normally visible, but a customer who looks will find it. very few iphone consumers have the skills to find bad code and fewer care as long as it does what it is intended. It's probably more akin to selling hot dogs than selling a chair.
Well. Someone had to say it :p
> scroll wheels on a mouse

But that breaks down if you have to scroll a very long way.
Do you have any counter cites? Because it seems pretty close!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_plates
Ah gotcha. Haven’t had to deal with that yet. Maybe possible to add a static pod via the machine config? But yeah it’s basically throwing out a bunch of linux admin muscle memory.
"it's misleading to call them sprites"

"Sega calls them ‘distorted sprites’" [0]

[0] https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/sega-saturn/#graph...
It's basiscally saying that you should put your requirements before the customers'.

All the respect to Steve Jobs, but I know I'm not him, someone who is probably top 0.1% in intelligence and luck. I'll put customers' requirements before mine.
https://www.stonkys.com it’s my blog. I’m pivoting to an e-commerce site where nerds can buy cool t-shirts(and maybe other cool things).
I still kinda want it to be a blog too.

Not sure yet where to take it (but be sure to bookmark!)
I assume it was supposed to start with a 'y', otherwise I have no idea
The other tracking devices have no anti-stalking protection, regardless of your phone or app.
Apples and oranges. Google bills you directly, Twitter/X bills indirectly through platforms who do not provide sufficient transparency to prevent repeat abuse.

Last I checked Twitter/X had no way to prevent you from signing up again after a ban if you paid via Apple Pay, as an example.
The location was actually in New York. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_plates

And the history of why the temple got burned was basically ‘because he was stealing all the women’. According to the angry mob that burned it. If I remember correctly.
They don't really have a caste system anymore, and haven't for a while.

At least one of the Founding Fathers of India (who authored
the Constitution) as well as the current Commander in chief equivalent are both "low caste" background, as are plenty of other high profile important folks.

The only reason the caste system exists is to enable reservations (kind of like affirmative action).

And finally, caste in and of itself was something introduced by the Portuguese. The original term was Varna, and it denoted your occupation/subject matter expertise. You could change your Varna, but usually you didn't do this because the opportunity cost was pretty high in the past.

However, all Varnas were considered important, whether it was military, trade, farming, or sweeping the street. I'm sure that there was prejudice, just as many on Hacker News in First World Western countries are prejudiced towards those in the Second and Third worlds, or a stockbroker may be prejudiced against the person making his McDonald's.
I wonder how the Sophistry will play out over teletype.
I don't think there's any company out there that would actually care to fix a situation like this. We're all just disposable customers to them...
That’s too bad. Is it the texture you don’t like? I know a lot of people don’t like mushrooms. I love them!

A good cream of wild mushroom soup with some crusty bread is one of the best meals on a damp, chilly autumn day! Drizzle some extra virgin olive oil over the soup! That is just heaven in a bowl!
I recall a site that had progressive scrolling and some content in a footer I was trying to get to...
> No one can not consider that life changing in that context?

Money only changes your life when you do something with it. If you just just let it sit (for retirement or whatever) and continue living as before, then your life hasn't changed (yet).

If you dispute this, then consider the most extreme case: what happens if you (say) die before you have a chance to use that money during retirement? Did that money change your life then? In that case your entire life was (by definition!) the same as before; only your retirement account ended with a higher balance than it would've otherwise. The only thing that changed was your expectation for the future, not your reality.

And you can imagine other situations where the money ends up not changing your life in any significant way... like the money getting stolen before you use it, creditors taking it during bankruptcy, hyperinflation rendering it effectively worthless, etc.

Point being, as long as the money hasn't actually changed anything in your life, it... hasn't been life-changing. (I guess in some sense this is a tautology.)
Have you tried dealing with support for any electronics company? They're all bad and it takes a lot of arguing to get anything done, even when you pay for the extended corporate support.
An important thing to take from this is that if you pay your teachers well, and also make sure that all the kids in school have a house (since military folk get housing for their families), and at least one parent is paid well, then the kids do well (and don’t write run on sentences like me).
Have you looked at Q4OS with the windows theme pack?
https://q4os.org/ and https://xpq4.sourceforge.io/

It's does not seem well known but it looks and works very closely to old Windows.

I have a side project plan to take this, combine it with a decent laptop, pre install libreoffice and a browser and sell it as "Stable OS" with a long term "no-change" policy to anyone who just needs a basic computer where not everything changes at the whim of someone looking for a item on their resume.
yeah, I get that there'll naturally be fewer people able to double check some languages, but it sounds like online translators would have caught this. Words that wouldn't stand out so clearly might slip by a lot easier even if someone went through the trouble to copy/paste the text into babelfish.com
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your comment, but I'm reading it as saying if I can show I bought it at one point in time, then nothing else should matter, and they should unlock it for me. But I believe I must be missing something, because that proof of purchase doesn't necessarily prove it's my laptop after it's been locked by someone else's iCloud account.

For instance, I've given family my old laptops, and they setup their accounts after they take ownership of the device. The way I interpret your comment with regards to my scenario is that Apple should disregard the fact it is locked to their iCloud account and unlock it for me, because I can prove I was the original purchaser - even if they accidentally left it at my home or I steal it from their home.

Is that what you meant, that if I can give Apple a receipt then I am the de facto owner no matter what? Or am I just way off base?
I'm getting sick of a right-click "copy" pop up appearing as I try to scroll pages these infinite scroll pages on my touchscreen, too.
> Arxiv has been working just fine for a long time, there's no need to change it.

Exactly, that's why I am not suggesting any change to Arxiv.

Think more of people eg submitting Arxiv URLs to Hacker News for what I have in mind. Or discussing Arxiv submission on a forum or in a wiki etc. You can imagine some specialised software that has some better support specifically for material from Arxiv.

That's what I mean by 'overlay'.

Or think of Slatestarcodex publishing a blog post with links to his favourite Arxiv papers for that month. That's pretty much equivalent to what a journal produces. And if Slatestarcodex compiles that link list by doing some peer review and chatting with the authors of the papers, that's almost exactly what the journal does.
In information theory, information is a property of the distribution generating your data. Informally, for a given distribution, information is defined in terms of how much you learn from observing a sample from that distribution on average. If your distribution just puts all the probability mass on the number 3, you learn nothing new by gaining a sample. If your probability mass is really spread out, you gain a lot of information from observing a sample.

I haven’t been keeping up with the LLM papers because it’s not really my academic interest but I do find them impressive, so maybe this has been figured out but there are two reasons they could accommodate new data modalities really easily: either the sequential data we generate in the real world is more similar than we would have guessed or the hard part isn’t in handling the domain-specific data, but learning to process and predict future signals really well. The former case would be more surprising to me but it is certainly a possibility — most domains have a “language” of sorts, e.g., visual motifs or licks that get passed between musicians. The network could be picking up on those “linguistic” features born out in data it is fed and just needs to alter its vocabulary from words to pixels or whatever. The second case would be my guess. If you have an algorithm that is good at predicting the future based on the recent past, the hard part is done. The rest is just optimizing it for the task (language, sound, video) at hand.
got a write-up of it someplace?

The music quiet when phone call thing is particularly attractive. I think I have most of the pieces of it here. HomeAssistant, Owntone, airplay (shairport-sync) speakers, a phone running the HA client.
> scenario that tries to show some absurd conclusion about a moral theory

So, the trolley problem? "Philosophy is bunk".
Why not do both? I run a five-player in-person D&D 5e campaign with a VTT (Foundry) and it works out pretty well for us. We offload much of the bookkeeping, tokens, maps, etc. to the VTT and still keep the in-person RP experience.
> Everything old is new again? I remember when people were deriding Windows XP for being "Fisher-Price" in appearance and preferring to run Windows 2000 because it was more stable

That’s more of a truth universally acknowledged. XP was goofy then, it’s goofy now, and it was goofy at every instant between.
How do you scroll to the middle or end of an incredibly-long document? e.g., 200+ pages, if printed.
brilliant name
> Who cares about the 0.5% of disabled people

But it's not just disabled people. I'm not disabled, but curse the scrollbar and window frame situation every day. Their minimization makes actually using the UI a greater pain in the ass.
So what is the real problem, pray tell?
It's @iquilezles's work who is a ray marching wizard, in the most literal sense of the word that still comports with reality.
That article was pretty widely derided because it’s only applicable to third party companies trying to resell the entire Mac.

They don’t have a way to prove ownership but could still salvage the parts, but don’t. They’re the ones who are choosing to accept these devices and then scrapping them.

It’s a grey market issue
Shell does not operate any EV chargers in Australia.
Zero mention of serial number in the entire article though…
There is no other way to test microgravity effects.
maybe not more offensive, but bad.
Getting Bored of Cyberwar
"There has been substantial commentary on the role of cyberattacks carried by low-level cybercrime actors in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. We analyse 358k web defacement attacks, 1.7M reflected DDoS attacks, 1764 Hack Forums posts mentioning the two countries, and 441 announcements (with 58k replies) of a volunteer hacking group for two months before and four months after the invasion. We find the conflict briefly but notably caught the attention of low-level cybercrime actors, with significant increases in online discussion and both types of attack targeting Russia and Ukraine. However, there was little evidence of high-profile actions; the role of these players in the ongoing hybrid warfare is minor, and they should be separated from persistent and motivated 'hacktivists' in state-sponsored operations. Their involvement in the conflict appears to have been short-lived and fleeting, with a clear loss of interest in discussing the situation and carrying out both defacement and DDoS attacks against either Russia or Ukraine after a few weeks."

So mostly noise.
This is a clickbait title that is totally unsupported by the article itself.

The article just confirms what people do:

> The same can happen with plane tickets: when people visit a website like Google flights or Kayak and search for a ticket, a wide range of different flights from the same airline appear. Travelers tend to make selections that balance convenience and price. The price of one flight might push people to select a slightly less convenient but cheaper flight.

The article then describes certain aspects of how airlines set prices, but it never substantiates the headline claim about comparing fares being a waste of time.
Nineteenth century scientists set out to solve the "problem of American storms"
Since you seriously seem to doubt that 3.85V batteries can possibly exist, here's some additional reading for you. But I don't know if I can change your mind with any materials, since I've shown you the actual pack for my phone, you can see the nominal rating, but you refuse it. 3.6V is a thing, 3.85V is a thing. I don't understand why someone who clearly does know a bit about batteries seems to refuse the existence of a 3.85V battery.

https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-303-confusion-with-...

And sorry, didn't realize it but it's actually a 30W charger I'm plugged into right now. I didn't have to splice anything, it's what came from the factory. Or did you think all phone chargers were also 3.7V?

https://store.google.com/us/product/usb_c_30w_charger?pli=1&...

You really didn't need to be nearly as rude in your comments here.
gsettings don't just apply to gnome desktop environment. They impact the entire gtk ecosystem of dozens of desktop environments and innumerable gtk programs.
Very confused article. Hopefully the original paper (paywall) isn't.
Are you serious? Shoplifting has huge negative externalities that affect more people than the megacorporations you think you're sticking it to.
Seems like a warranty claim if your device is broken
> petrol
> vacation

Pick a lane ;).
Don't the airtags themselves beep?
>Time that could have been spent experimenting on new techniques, trying new ideas, taking on new projects.

this mindset seems to be the exact ones that coporate companies sinking in tech debt has. The absurd extreme of this is that carpentry is a waste of time when you could be making more money as a doctor.

Fact is you don't need to be 100% optimal on time and resources and you don't need infinite money to live. I'm sure carpenters work on thin margins but a few pieces of plywood won't bankrupt them and leave theif families on the streets.

If someone sacrifices a little time and money for personal satisfaction and pride, that's fine. If they want to maximize profits that's also fine (as long as they aren't abusing their labor to do so). C'est la vie.
I don’t think people in those days wrote bullshit. You had to know how to write, and if you did, no one was entreating you to write grocery lists.
I'd have the same question about them. I'm not disputing that it works, I just don't understand how the body isn't constantly fighting it. Or leaking.
Here’s the thing. I use Nginx. Some of the configurations in which I use Nginx were mostly copy-pasted from recommendations from third-parties. Hence, my initial assumption which had been that no action was needed when I didn’t find anything mentioning Nginx with this attack when I searched a few days ago, needed to be revisited.

Because when I saw the op article it turned out that there was reason for me to have a closer look at my Nginx instances. To see if any of the configs that had been recommended by third-parties involved changing values that could lead to this attack being able to affect me.

> you clearly sucked it up

Clearly not. Or at least, not without reason.
If you want to reach people using Instagram, then ya you'd want to use Instagram to reach those people...
This looks like midinous! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1727420/Midinous/
They can tie your purchase to a serial number. It’s listed on the invoice. That should constitute proof in my opinion.
Sure but if you take cars back with you when you leave… just like a laptop
This just means that companies will only work with people that agree to have their likeness be replicated by AI. I really think that we'll start to see celebrities that are entirely artificial within 20 years.
A few comments in-line, but I don't want to "sell" anything to you, so just FWIW.

> The amount of "gotchas" in this process and the tooling required just to use git + email seems insane to me.

The base system is really, really simple, but there are some common rules/guidelines that just help when working together, and those are required for forge based workflows too (or do you like a single commit touching a dozen completely different, unrelated things, or just no info at all in the commit message, or pull request, for why a change was done).

The core thing from this workflow is using `git send-email --to=mailing@list.example.com <commit-revision>`, the rest are a few details, possible slightly intimidating if viewed from a distant, but each separate and easy to master/implement on it's own – and most are a "set up once, be done thing", so not constant work.

> If it works for you, great, but I don't expect a new hire (experienced or not) to pickup this flow and run with it.

As mentioned in another comment: We hired over 15 people in the last year, most of them had no experience with git send-email and mailing list development, but they all accustomed fast and after a few weeks most of them stated they find it nicer (as in simpler, less clutter quicker to do submit own work or review others) - I myself started out over eight years ago at this place, i.e., without much experience in mail based development, and I never ran into bigger problems – on the contrary, this workflow felt like a breadth of fresh air compared to what was I used before (mostly GitHub and GitLab).

Note: this works not only for small to medium, but also is the only way that actually works for the biggest projects in the world (e.g., Linux or QEMU).

Just to be sure: I do not say mail(ing list) based development workflow is Just Perfect™, it sure has its problems and can be improved, and may we get some good web GUIs that tie a few of the components together, currently I see https://sourcehut.org/ as strong contender here.
Url changed from http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cfs/472_html/Intro/TinkertoyComp..., which is no longer online.

Related:

http://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~michaelh/110/ttoy/ttoy.html

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/X39.81
Why are people still buying Apple products?

For another two weeks I am making my living as an Apple developer.

Then I'm gone.

I started programming in the late eighties on Mac Plus

In the intervening years, they have gotten awful

Everything looks good, but it all mostly works

Mostly works is not good enough

Just walk away
Is it possible to model anything with a single equation?
Looks like the pricing model is different. The linked article only mentions "50 credits" with no further details, but this page[1] says it's $15 for 115 credits. In comparison, Adobe's Firefly appears to be 25 credits per month for free or $4.99 for 100[2]. But I guess users are already paying a monthly subscription fee to use Adobe products, so maybe Paint comes out to be cheaper.

[1] https://openai.com/blog/dall-e-now-available-in-beta

[2] https://www.adobe.com/sensei/generative-ai/firefly.html
My county wanted to put in trams. You know the things that require non-alterable tracks? It was $14m per mile.

We have buses. Why couldn't people just use the buses? Because they're filled with trash and crime. So instead of just enforcing the law and imprisoning criminals, the county was courting spending hundreds of millions for a tram system. And the non-enforcement would have turned the trams into the same state the buses were in within a few years.

Just insanity.
A quick search shows that Mark (I worked at FB where we were all encouraged to call him Mark instead of Zuck) has a net worth of ~$100 billion. So its basically a side bet. His real estate holdings are probably worth more.
There is plenty of non-backdoored cryptography to use. It’s just the US forces various entities to use their backdoored crypto in order to get grants and government contracts and regulatory approvals.

For example, Satoshi Nakamoto chose a very interesting, lightly used elliptic curve secp256k1 for Bitcoin because for various reasons he was very confident it wasn’t backdoored, and obviously it has stood the test of time https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Secp256k1