skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Walk away to what?

A reasonable question

> I am currently using Linux on the desktop on my work laptop. It's fine, but lots of things don't work...

I have been regularly developing on and for 3 OSs, Linux (Mint and Raspberry Pi), MacOS (including iOS), and Windows.

My verdict is:

* as far as user interface goes it is taste whether Linux or MacOS.

* The Linux machines are more reliable than the Macs, just. It is close run and other people probably have different experiences. But they are on a par

* Tools. Linux wins by a big margin. The MacOS command line is a Unix (BSD I think) command line ten years out of date. The package management is either the official App Store (is it called that on MacOS?) that is full of utter rubbish or homebrew, which I really appreciate, is a good effort, but a long way behind Debian. The compilers on MacOS are unreliable, the default IDE (Xcode) has a lot of nice features out of the box, and in the three years I have been using it some are starting to work better, but it has a long way to go. Swift would look good, if Rust did not exist. The ergonomics committee from Rust - if any body listening - I love you people. Swift has nothing like that. Swift's concurrence model is really bad. Really bad. Embarrassingly bad. ARC was a good idea in the nineties for simple languages but there is no excuse for using it as the main memory management in the twenty first century.

I will stop ranting now, but you get the picture. I could have a rant three times as long

For the tools on Linux, less promises are made, quality varies, but it is all fundamentally honest. The underlying Unixisms are up to date, the compilers are top notch, all the languages I could ever want are first class citizens (I have no interest in .Net - it might not be) etcetera.

So, from my perspective - perhaps not others, it is Linux that I have walked away to

No need to even talk about windows. Makes me weep
Just thinking, HN is not an academic forum. It is ok to propose not so well-thought-out questions and propositions here. Nobody is really trying to scientifically prove anything here. Stupid questions and propositions are good here, because then someone can explain why they are stupid. They would not be ok in academic setting of course.
For generating ASCII/Unicode tables I recommend https://ozh.github.io/ascii-tables/ , especially the Unicode (single line) style.

┌──────┬───────────────┬───────────┐
│ It's │ occasionally │ useful │
├──────┼───────────────┼───────────┤
│ for │ HackerNews │ comments │
└──────┴───────────────┴───────────┘
To make it interactive for example.
It is unlikely to be the cause.

A kid can learn as much as 5 languages at a time as long as it is context related (like one language with one parent, another with other parent, another at school, another with a grand parent, another in another context).

Sure they may be times when the kid will mix'n'match because a specific word comes in his head in a language but he will still be fluent in all those languages after a few years.

Problem arise when there is no boundary in how which languages need to be used. Sometimes the brain feels like a piece of furniture full of drawers. I speak 4 languages and understand well 6 but when my mexican speaking partner ask me something in spanish right after a teams meeting in english I sometimes answer to her in english because my brain didn't have time to close the english drawer and open the spanish one. Same when we are at dinner and me and my daughters speak in spanish although we're all french but talk about what happened that day, which happened in spanish. At lease that is how I visualize it.
>Banana republic, derogatory term for a country that has an economy dependent solely on revenue from exporting a single product or commodity. As a result, such countries are typically controlled by foreign-owned companies or industries. Banana republics usually have a highly stratified socioeconomic structure, with a small ruling class that controls access to wealth and resources, and are politically unstable. The term has its origins in the development of banana plantations by American corporations and their exploitation of land and workers in Central and South America beginning in the late 19th century.

- Dictionary Brittanica.
All consoles have console exclusives. Nintendo has Mario/Zelda/Metroid/Pokemon, Sony has The Last of Us, and God of War Ragnarok, and others.
It means your account gets a higher risk score, which may mean it gets given a "timeout", gets downranked in "the algorithm", gets outright shadowbanned, or may even get completely shut off. All in a completely automated way.
I mean sure, those upsides are nice, but don’t you hate it when your wires get a knot in them? Ruins your whole day.

Totally worth having to deal with charging, fiddly volume controls, losing them, and the complexity and power usage needed to transmit audio to them wirelessly, to eliminate that possibility from ever happening again.
Some kids are just better at language than others.

My sister's kids are 5 and 8. The girl (5) speaks extremely well in French, and can carry conversations in English, the boy (8) speaks well in French and knows the basic stuff (numbers, colors) in English.

I personally learned English watching Pokemon as a kid, then transitioned to reading English books, but didn't speak English conversationally until I started working at 20.

Now I speak English with a slight accent.
To beat water's specific heat, you have to cheat and use a phase change material (special wax) that melts near the desired water temp, or a bit higher if you use a cold water mixing value.
Starlink got there on time, is in use today and powers other islands next to Tonga that didn't have their fiber reconnected.

I know this because I was part of an org that sent equipment to Fiji schools
> Yours appears to be the only response which acknowledges some kind of subtlety in the question.

There is no "nuance" in your question. Your question was pretty black and white; in your own words, the question is whether "they []ever heard of Joel at all, as in, never heard the name and never came across any of his writing."
> Is it still okay to make "nothing sucks like a VAX" jokes?

Please!

I was a stage II CS student learning assembly programming on a VAX simulator. Wrote a VAX simulator, in VAX assembly then ran VAX assembly programmes on it.

Was a lot of fun. The dreams were weird tho
Depends on the game I guess. I don’t really care. I find resolution greater than 1080 to be invisible once you’re actually playing a game or watching a show.

DLSS upscaling tends not to work well on my laptop but I also think caring about that is dumb
Maybe don't assume that PhD-level NLP researchers are out of touch on cognitive neuroscience topics related to language understanding. The latest research seems to indicate that language production and understanding exist separately from other forms of cognitive capacity. This includes people with global aphasia (no language ability) being able to do math, understand social situations, appreciate music, etc.

If you want to follow this more closely, I'd recommend the work of Evelina Fedorneko a cognitive neuroscientist at MIT who specializes in language understanding.

Check out these talks for more details:
https://youtu.be/TsoQFZxrv-I?t=580
https://youtu.be/qublpBRtN_w

What this means in the context of LLMs is that next word prediction alone does not provide the breadth of cognitive capacity humans exhibit. Again, I'd posit GPT-2 is plenty capable as an LM, if combined with an approach to perform higher-level reasoning to guide language generation. Unfortunately, what that system is and how to design it currently eludes us.
This 11.1 figure doesn’t include all the money they had to spend on wine and golf club memberships to gift to the owner class.
Before or after the Activision aquisition?

I never played WoW, but I think every other game up to D3 is a masterpiece.
Isn't it like saying that now when all browsers can natively render SVG, the job of Inkscape is done forever?

I'd say the opposite: now we can safely use MathJAX to translate TeX syntax to an efficient rendering representation.
Lithotripsy has been used for kidney stones since the 1980s.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-t...
I was never actually able so see an MX-30 in person; they weren't very numerous even in California
Gaming is about as far from a monopoly as you can get.
This article contains some truths but unfortunately also some untruths. For example:

> Several important connections (TSS, OCSP) are made from Apple devices in plaintext (that is, completely unencrypted). This began for historical reasons, but has been repeatedly reported to Apple. They have not fixed it.

This is inaccurate. Apple did in fact switch from the unencrypted ocsp.apple.com to the encrypted ocsp2.apple.com.

> Apple committed in writing a few major versions (i.e. ~3 years ago) to providing a preference setting for disabling online OCSP checks in macOS when I made a stink about it, within one year.

The author is mistaken about his role in this. The reason was not his "stink" but rather the fact that Mac apps around the world suddenly refused to launch, which everyone noticed:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/12/21563092/apple-mac-apps-...

> Apple does not allow plaintext server communications in apps released by developers in the App Store.

This is false, as I can attest as an App Store developer. I have several apps with NSAllowsArbitraryLoads.

I wish that "sneak" would be more careful in his writing. He has a tendency to undermine his own valid points by burying them in carelessness and overblown rhetoric, which causes people stop taking him seriously.
That's a great resource, TIL ty.
Good Mitchell and Webb bit about "identity theft":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
Building LLM poowered web apps using client-side technology
OTOH you guys take the car when we take a walk to do our groceries and fly as easily as we take a city bus to go to another neighborhood.
That guidance has changed and will hit stable for 1.74 (5 weeks).

For the new guidance: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/cargo/faq.html#why-have-ca...

See also https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/08/29/committing-lockfiles.h...
> traditionally suppressed adult lifestyles

It's a Chesterton's Fence issue and an individual vs social harm one. Maybe, just maybe, those traditionally suppressed lifestyles were suppressed because those societies had memories of what happens when they are not suppressed.

Apparently there is some meme on Tick-tock these days asking men how often they think about the Roman Empire. Quite a lot, it appears. Learning about fifth-century Roman society may be instructive. History may rhyme; it may not. What are the risks and benefits?

I am old; I have no dog in this fight either way. Purely intellectual interest.

> All you've done is hurt a local industry with no actual social benefit gained.

No, you have re-deployed resources in more pro-social places. There is a net benefit. Shut down Only Fans, and some of the performers will find work as gardeners or hair-stylists' assistants. Some of the viewers may venture out of their basements as well.
Congratulations weiwenhao! I like what I see so far and am looking forward to following the continued development of the language. Do you have any social media accounts set up for the language (e.g. X, Mastodon, Blue Sky, etc.) that people can follow?
> knows wouldn't work and passing them off as correct, framing it that way is laughable.

I don't think this completely true. Considering something that wouldn't work often still leads to ideas, because it kicks your brain of a rut it may be in. This is why it can be incredibly useful to brainstorm with someone that doesn't have expertise in a topic. They'll say zany things that can be inspiring!

Random word sequences are a pretty common way to get inspiration. Something more "on topic" can't be that bad.
The test data is 300k different time series. There’s no way to do an arima in a reasonable amount of time and/or money on that volume of data
There is http://asciimath.org/ .
Totally agree. I wish that new languages would state the 3 things that are unique about them
A lot of theories make sense given the evidence we have.
I've never played with fingerprinting per se, but long ago I did write a program to detect near-duplicate images. It was based on comparing square of the differences of extremely downscaled images. Quite good at it's intended purpose, exposed the fact that a few images were photoshops and revealed that images that were inherently low-contrast could easily be confused by that approach--beaches looked an awful lot like beaches.
As someone who speaks several languages myself and native in Spanish and French, this is not a big deal.

People in my family do that all the time, each parent speak a different language, and in the school-outside they learn another.

As a kid you just get used to it. You are not going to become a master speaker as you will learn to speak the language but not write it as an educated person and have to choose later what do you study advance grammar and so on, but being able to read books in a language is a huge deal for getting advance grammar on your own.

It also makes very easy to learn new languages and opens you a lot of gates as you can basically move anywhere in the world and adapt to their view. People react differently if you speak what they speak.
I had a peek and it looks like it's the youtube lounge API. Basically this is casting with some bonus features. If you are playing on a Screen (a tv or console) then Remotes (usually your phone) can automatically notice it and automatically show what is playing, let you use controls, add stuff to the playlist etc.

This program registers a remote and automatically skips forward when a sponsorblock segment is present.
Regarding the first part, if that really is the relevant policy, fair enough. I don't know the specific policies used to include or exclude a given image. Where can I find the details?

I consider someone looking at pictures from my local device without my consent to be an attack on my privacy, regardless of the content, or whether they send me to jail afterwards.

The reason apple's threshold exists in the first place is because individual false-positives happen. Some of the images leaked from the victim's device may be entirely unrelated. In the specific example of an environmental protester, there might even be images documenting "crimes" (entirely unrelated to CSAM), due to increased criminalization of protest techniques.

A system that may be manipulated (anonymously, from great distance) to trigger spot-checks on the devices of anyone I don't like is a broken system.
I agree. As things are it seems doubtful that Apple will be able to increase performance very significantly in the coming years unless they make some drastic change that would require a whole lot of new engineering.

Now they have chips that are low power but also not very competitive at any price point so it's not particularly exciting (batteries are cheap...).

On the higher end chips the power consumption advantage isn't as big of a deal as they make it out to be and doesn't matter that much in real world applications (if you run an M2 Max at full power, you gonna get less than 2h of battery life anyway). But they lose hard particularly in 3D (GPU) applications.

The hope with M3 is that they at least figure out how to make GPU somewhat competitive with similarly priced offerings from NVDIA. As is you can buy a mid range windows laptop and get better perf it doesn't look good...
I think having their own community that they control. I suggest joining some discords and talking to the people.

I somewhat dread hearing an open source project does support in Discord but sometime I’ve had it work out for me.

As for gaming it was a while ago so I’m not quite able to give a breakdown feature by feature why Discord was better than the communication tools in LoL and it might have been more the social selection effect. Play unranked and you can spend forever in the queue because three people show up and they all want to play top or nobody wants to jungle (I learned how to jungle pretty quick so I could avoid that one.). Play ranked and you find a lot of people who think they can’t get ahead because they get matched with losers, starting with the jungler.

Just getting a bunch of people with a P.M.A. and giving them cohesion means you will have more fun and play better.

So I think it is a people problem. Imagine a social network for an extended family or a ham radio club or something that has maybe 30 people in it. No way you can get my mother-in-law to pay for it or individual cheap-ass hams but I might pay for my whole group or the club can find $30 a month out of its budget.

I think of a wedding where you meet a lot of people you don’t know but what if you knew a little more about who you were going to meet and had some tools that were aimed at you developing a more permanent connection with just two of the cool people you meet. The wedding has a stupendous budget but a tiny extra spend on the right social tools could multiply the social benefit it has.

That’s the way to think about it. Discord has shown you can get one person to pay for all the users of a small social network, it is the business model that impresses me more than the product itself.
get_acceleration_in_m_per_s_squared?
I love this point.

One of the things that has been on my mind of late is the idea of how much of what humans call “correct” or “right” is actually socially generated pressures to conform.

Berns and Asch’s various research on social conformity around what we normally would consider objectively correct answers seems to have some potential applications worth testing in AI land. AIs may be much more performant with AI “social inputs” (and of course all the long term memory improvements currently lacking required to use it as a tool). I am very much excited about the network AI and pipeline work (small teams!) currently coming into vogue. Feels like the “right direction” to make incredible progress.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/am-i-right/201404/th...

Otherwise agree with your points exactly. Good comment.
Because neighbours don't do that and if someone does that you can politely ask stop doing it. Not everything has to go through the government I'm not everything has to be a lawsuit or regulated behaviour.
I'd go with Win 7.

Mac is all secret handshakes, nothing discoverable, terrible af keyboard-primary work. Windows was very good at letting you stay on the keyboard.

In the spirit of scroll bar discussion, the standard of Ctrl-Home, Crtl-End, Shift-Ctrl-Home and Shift-Ctrl-End are so good. No such "begin of doc" and "end of doc" on a Mac except if an app wills it.
Even after 2013, after we knew that Apple too participated in the PRISM program ?
This is probably a state-level actor doing it. They're not at risk.
Washington Is Using China to Destroy Open Source
To me it seems like a poor study design to have the placebo be a glucose infusion rather than a matched quantity of sodium chloride. They cannot say that the beneficial effects were not just due to sodium. Figure 3[1] shows that sodium concentrations indeed rose compared to placebo. They acknowledge this in their limitations, but this is a flaw of study design that could have been foreseen from the beginning.

1 = https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-02...
A paywall on an article about something being available for free.

How cute, heh.

The current state of online publishing paints a grim picture for the future of the internet :o(
Wasn't it the USPS that used to have much more complicated postage rates, until someone did the calculation that the extra employee hours required to calculate and enforce the system were more expensive than reduced revenue from just making the minimum rate a flat rate everywhere?
> many of my second-generation immigrant friends are now effectively monolingual because of that.

This is mostly to do "nervous spartan syndrome" from the parents, who are so anxious at losing their cultural heritage, that they overcompensate with their kids by correcting their pronunciation at every word, essentially punishing effort.

Families where I've seen this work well are the ones that take their kids yearly back to the old country to soak in the language with the locals. Of course, that implies money and time.
>Problem arise when there is no boundary in how which languages need to be used.

Yeah, that's probably it. Knowing my parents, they probably both used English and Italian to speak to me. In general, my family tends to use both languages randomly when talking to each other (e.g. start the sentence in Italian, switch to English halfway through, and then switch back to Italian to end it).
Starlink doesn't have a LEO monopoly. I know a British company that does the same thing
I think there's a reasonable case to be made that consoles (and the vertically integrated business structure that they represent) inherently encourage more diverse kinds of games development while also attracting new buyers. Their business practices aren't ideal, granted. But it's not entirely clear to me that a walled garden constitutes a true monopoly. That is to say that the console makers aren't using their control over their own systems to force their way into adjacent, unrelated markets.

Also, the standard for what constitutes anti-competitive behaviour is different in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The US uses higher pricing as the prime signal, whereas the EU uses a lack of viable competitiors.
I can't find the TimeGPT-1 model.

LICENSE Apache-2

https://github.com/Nixtla/statsforecast/blob/main/LICENSE

Mentions ARIMA, ETS, CES, and Theta modeling
In cargo (Rust's primary build tool), there are two ways to pin dependencies:

- `Cargo.lock`: handled implicitly so long as you check it in which, as of rust 1.74 (next release), `cargo new` will scaffold all projects this way by default.

- `Cargo.toml`: requires using a `=` version requirement. We generally recommend against pinning this way; see https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/specifying-depende...
> The CIA gets blamed for anything and everything, much of false and outright deranged.

I guess people in 1953 said the same.

Know knows what will be admitted/acknowledged in 70 years?
Knife Sharpness Chart [pdf]
I’m not sure what Blizzard’s strategy with esports is (or now Microsoft’s), but they basically imploded the official Overwatch league by being extremely ambiguous about whether or not it would continue, buying out franchise contracts to leave the league, and leaving Twitch for YouTube.
If you think I was arguing that Nintendo and sony do not have monopolies, then I believe you misread my argument. This is why I named Microsoft et al.
> Ok so a lot of folks have fine motor control problems.

The scrollbar is not there so you can use it to change your scroll position. It's there solely for the purpose of visualizing what your current scroll position is. Every device and every application should have a way to scroll that does not rely on the assumption that people will hunt out some narrow area of their screen and hold it while dragging to scroll. That's just a horrible interaction that never should have been considered in any setting.
At least that's my opinion.
My verified account expired.
That article and subsequent ones I've seen from that site are disinformation
One might be the MTHFR mutation. I forget the percentage, but a dizzying amount of westerners suffer from it - and it basically always gets misdiagnosed as depression.

Supplementing with B12 helps, to a degree (you're providing more input to a broken machine), but you can supplement 5-MTHF (methylfolate) to get what the mutation inhibits your body from producing.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326181