skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What will that mean for bona fide quality sites?

I probably know what you mean by quality, because we’re in the same demography: sites that offer free, unobstructed reading material and software on any subject, technical or prose. Sites maintained mainly by individuals, universities, interest groups, source forges.

There will always be a market for those sites, but they’re a little harder to find via Google lately. There was a time before Google was great, and it was an exciting time, too.

What Google will continue to do great is provide a platform for quickly finding things you can pay money for.

The only time I search Google is when I prefix the query with “buy”. I can be sure that the companies most interested in selling me this have put in ads, and price comparison and review sites have gamed the SEO.
Yes. I had tried it out, for a while, many years ago, at a time when Linux distros fitted on CDs, not DVDs.

Installed it off a CD that came with PC Quest Magazine, onto a partition on my PC.

QNX was really fast, not just compared to Windows, but even compared to Linuxes of the time.
I suspect that for whatever reason (genetics, or the particulars of the trauma they grew up with), it’s much easier for some to overcome their environmental disadvantages than others. They then assume that if they did it, everybody who doesn’t just has some moral failing.

Probably some version of the typical-mind fallacy.
So charge while locked only, or use an adapter.

It's probably safe enough to recharge your battery pack and charge the phone off that, even at the same time if supported.
I read some of his Russia posts and they do seem somewhat suspect. Can you link his far-right and anti-vax posts?
That's great but there's a step 2. The sub-culture of people who like things better that way need to sustain each other and itself. Ideally, to grow in happiness and other measures of strength such that the surrounding dominant culture cannot destroy it, and in fact can influence the dominant culture to become more like it. It's that step 2 that I think we haven't figured out yet. Without step 2 we are merely opinionated nerds that are easily isolated and alienated and ignored.
>The criticism of his former employer came as Mr Suleyman told the Telegraph about plans for a new international body to monitor AI threats.

I hope they first threat they choose to monitor is the monopolisation of the AI services, all while the huge monopolies preach about "the dangers of ai" to increase the barriers to entry for the small guy (we all know disappearance of open source models and a ban on sale of hardware capable of running them to individuals is their most desirable wet dream).
this is like minecraft.
Kitchen knives are a laughably low bar for sharpening and most chefs don't care because their knives are destroyed, damaged or stolen in short order anyway

In kitchens I have worked in, knives were delivered by a service once a week, no one wastes time honing. Those chefs showing off their $5k custom knives get them stolen by dishwashers, these are for home users only imho

Sharpening straight razors is where you actually learn how to hone
It is more likely to have your finger and hand prints stolen using a Dyson hand dryer in a public bathroom than a public USB charging port doing anything. Like the Dyson hand drying instructions say, move your hands spread out slowly up and down...
If they appear to work now, it's because the SEO leeches haven't found them yet. If they ever become popular, they'll get inundated with garbage too.
All major browsers have now removed HTTP available as default = you need to change a setting to even be able to access a HTTP url.

Anti-virus software blocks native apps that try to connect on port 80 and you cannot make them open the port even if the setting is available.

I will always use HTTP/1.1 on port 80 but my customers wont be able to connect even if they try, my only option is to tell them to uninstall their anti-virus and hope that works.

To force a certificate that is gate kept by root-certificates and forces you to identify yourself is the largest censorship humanity has had so far: It protects the consumer from those that don't have a root-cert., but hurts a producer that is not complying with the authority.

And HTTP/2 & 3 tries to insert the cert. as a base function meaning you wont even be able to connect without it.

Pseudonymity was always the most important feature of the internet.

Watch them come after TCP and UDP soon: They will say that to use unencrypted protocols you need a license from your government.
People who are capable of learning on their own pace are already doing it and the ones that can't use this approach shouldn't hope that a software system is going to allow them to. For me the questions of which professor explains better or the suggestions of not taking a course because the proffesor can't explain, were always meaningless. I never relied on a professor's lecture for learning (but had to sit through them) and my method was possible because engineering is not opinion based (Obviously I did terrible when the course was a amalgamation of different subjects from multiple books). But people who don't have the motivation to start reading a 1000 page textbook by themselves wouldn't have the will to watch 100h of videos around the same topic. In fact it might be even worse for them just watching the videos and not paying any attention.

My buttom line is personalized learning has existed for centuries and changing its medium from books to videos won't make it possible for more people.
What is TI's angle here? (Asked naively by a software person.)

Is TI hoping to grab RISC-V developers/enthusiasts with the Beagleboard now (keep them from moving to Chinese RISC-V SBCs), and later migrate these users to a TI RISC-V SoC & Beagleboard when it's ready?

Is this a royalties negotiating tactic with Arm?

Odd negotiating tactic with US lawmakers (e.g., "If we're restricted too much in international engineering collaboration, we'll have to source a black box from China, and put it into everything")?

Symbolic deal with some entity in China?

Some Beagleboard business unit trying to increase its own profitability, not just a devboard to promote TI chip products?

Something else?
> The "charge only" option has been there for over a decade.

Are you sure it block HID as well?
I wonder what the author would say if he would view now a couple of the cartoons he saw as a child. When I stumbled upon an old cartoon I was seeing I was kind of amazed/put-off by how stupid it felt and how many "bad messages" (according to my standard now) I would see.

I do not have much experience with the topic but my impression is that toddlers/kids experience things quite differently (ex: liking to see the same cartoon N times, with N rather large) so we should be careful when trying to draw conclusions about good and bad.
You can. There are even special adapters that block data, even for USB C. They call it "USB condom": https://www.zdnet.com/article/flying-this-weekend-this-6-usb...
Nobody will need to serve terabits-petabits of video every day. PeerTube is distributed, and every instance only serves its own small share. There are already instances that take a small fee for usage, so you can be sure that they will not suddenly disappear.

There are also paid Mastodon instances, and I recommend to use those, if you care about your account.
On desktop I was confused for a second, not realizing you can click the headlines -> you can use "cursor: pointer;" in the CSS to avoid that :)
Also, if you include miniDP and don't include HDMI, you don't have to pay the HDMI licensing fees.
iOS requires you to enable an accessibility feature called AssistiveTouch [0] to use a mouse with a phone/ipad.

If you already had it on, you could probably use it own the device pretty quick, but it's not enabled by default.

0: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210546
> reddit redirect will randomly stop working

One of the goals from https://github.com/mushroomlabs/fediverser is to mirror reddit discussions into different Lemmy instances. This coming week I'm planning to work on the part that lets you connect your reddit account to a respective Lemmy instance and migrate your posts. Would you like to try it out?
I have experience with all three manufacturers. We deploy them at work and the integrated AMD GPUs work just as good as the Intel systems. However I can't say much about the discrete AMD GPUs or older hardware.
Just yesterday I changed one nvidia system to the proprietary Wayland driver and started gnome with a three monitor setup. Works like a charm.
Don’t they require approval before that happens?
Going back to the 1950s, there were futuristic concepts renderings of "the kitchen of the future" in which wifey could use her computer terminal to easily call up recipes.

My trigger point arrived about 3 years ago when I couldn't find a basic brownie recipe using Google. Just page after page of SEO shit. Google failed at the future.

Although, to be fair, I'm so accustomed to being able to effortlessly access some kinds of information that one forgets there was ever a pain point there in the first place.
In my local currency it used to be the equivalent of $5.83 USD, with price increases and exchange rate changes it had tripled by 2019 from when I signed up to google play music in 2013.
Advertisers will simply begin to pay more money to inject their content on those platforms, to have it end up inside LLM models. It could be even worse, because it will be less obvious that the content we'll be consuming through LLMs is polarized/paid for. There will be less transparency.
Yes, such a thing exists and its a build flag in the Linux kernel.
Here's how I use youtube, usually without opening web frontend at all:

Install mpv and yt-dlp.

Use play-with addon to open youtube or other video links directly in mpv.

Periodically convert youtube subscriptions into OPML using an userscript.

Import OPML into freetube or other RSS reader to check for new videos.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/play-with/

https://github.com/theborg3of5/Userscripts/tree/master/youtu...
Why? Starting a process at random seems like a one off thing.
Unfortunately I don't have anything at hand better than what Google would provide.
It requires competence and time to self host.
> Do you have a source for that? Because it doesn't make any sense to me. The enemy is unlikely to be willing to site a DGPS base station nearby to increase the accuracy of missiles being used to attack it.

It doesn't require the cooperation of "the enemy" - one side alone can have a mobile firing control station which parks up (assumes a fixed position) and broadcasts a DGPS signal in addition to other CnC comms to missiles that it fires and controls.

> My understanding is the military has always had access to multiple GPS frequencies,

They've also planned for continued functioning as best possible in case of full and|or partial loss of GPS frequencies.

To recap, there's always been a coarse L1 GPS signal - that was delibrately made worse until 2000 by the addition of a keyed random clock error that required a daily key to revert (Differential GPS could fix that for anybody, the US Coast Guard broadcast a DGPS signal to "fix" that), there's always been a second L2 frequency that dual frequency users with both the coarse L1 daily key and the additional L2 key could use to improve accuracy with dual frequency tricks .. and, again, Differential GPS could improve that even more (by eliminating ionospheric errors, etc) - by the magic of Kalman Filters.

There's a history of DGPS use here:

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

It's mainly focused on civilian (and US Coast Guard who apparently weren't "military enough" or something <shrug>) efforts to get military grade GPS via their own DGPS adventures ... but it was also the case that even the US military with dual channels and all the keys to enable real time reversal of broadcast errors could also benefit from increased accuracy via local theatre broadcast DGPS.

Do I have sources for the US military use of DGPS in the late 1980s and 1990s?

As an Australian involved in international high precision surveying I have vague recollections of articles stating as much in Scientific American type journals of the day and various AGSO publications .. anything else that I might of seen via some kind of five eyes agreement I'd have to really dig about to find and then dig even further to find if it's now in the public domain .. way too much work.
Evil needs an evil plan and stupid is to stupid to do
it.

Stupid can be evil, though. But still, it needs a planing capacity of the stupid brain.

For example, stupid switches off the electricity of a local hospital as revenge for firing him. Done a stupid thing. It's evil because a lot of people could get problems.

Vs.

Evil gets fired and make an evil plan to destroy his ex employer. After weeks of planning, the electricity had been switched off.

That's my logical and philosophical approach.
I am always a bit cautious, when I listen to arguments from competitors, who compete with Google. Is it an argument or marketing speech?

First of all, Google is not the internet. Is providing search results a challenging business? Yes. Could do Google do a better job? Yes, so could do others. The fact, that Bing does not gain market share even though pushing everything ChatGPT related may confirms this notion.

Content and consumer habits changed.

In the 90th, website where dominated by text. Compared to today, every page that was suggested by Google resembled a book. Today most websites look like easy to consume snippets due to lower attention span, less time.

Then came Twitter, TikTok, Facebook etc.

So I would not blame Google in the first place.

Will ChatGPT replace Google? Not entierly, but they are working on it.

Will we say the same ("ChatGPT send LLMs into 'spiral of decline'") about ChatGPT in 10-15 years from now? Maybe.
Which organization you wouldn't trust?
Yeah. IIRC, the GUI was called Photon.

I wonder why so many lighter, good products don't do well, while heavier, worse ones do. (The "worse is better" thing.) (1)

Good at tech but bad at marketing?

Not enough financial clout?

Or don't know how to, or don't want to, wine and dine corporate buyer honchos? Ugh.

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better

Update: I submitted the Wikipedia link above as a new HN post, for anyone who wants to discuss it, including their own experiences on this, apart from general thoughts, although those are welcome too. Would be particularly interesting to hear from software creators who created a better product, compete(d) against a worse one (or vice versa), and failed or succeeded, and why they think it worked out the way it did.

Edit: Sorry, forgot to put the post link. Here it is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37888214
> More websites could offer a paid API though

If you are offering a paid API it becomes a product that's most likely very different from your main product you should be focusing on. So instead of deprecating fields, breaking the format and quickly iterating you'll have to version APIs, add authentication, keep a change log for your paid customers, have customer support for your API customers and make sure you are not doing backwards incompatible changes.
Mustafa got it wrong. "Click bait" is not the problem. A click bait is an article on the form "Famous celeb did this outrageous thing" where both the celebs name and the thing is not in the title. The point is to make the reader open the article to see what celeb did what and get more ad views. Most readers wont read the article anyway, so it is just enshitification of the user interface.

I believe ads in them self are the root problem. It sets up the incentives wrong, where the product being sold are the readers, not the article.
Microsoft deliberately named it "C:\Program Files" for exactly this reason.
Quality typically costs money because its valuable, short of providing it as a public service, most people - like today - will not be able to afford it (who has a Bloomberg terminal at home, for example?).
If we had to make a comparison, what would each Cortex M be equivalent to in microprocessors?

I wonder how fast is a Cortex M0, an M1, an M3, an M4 and a Cortex M7.
Funnily enough the site which changed to next.js did, they actually had a lovely offers.json file (~1MB, thousands of offers, just without a long-form HTMLy description) but they were also using it for their transactional needs (meaning that everyone had to load this file before the offers showed up). So they rewrote everything to next.js instead of adding some pagination...
I've been thinking for some time that we could do with having a sort of private internet for the nerds. The internet itself used to be like this back in the late 90s.

Nowadays 95-99% of the web is the general public which means that it has turned into what TV was - the happy happy box to keep the dummies occupied.
I've yet to encounter these also. I've assumed it's just been luck with the A/B testing.. But perhaps it could also be that I've never allowed doubleclick.net scripts to run in NoScript, or that my ublock-origin setup has taken care of itself, or that because I've actually participated in youtube's other non-premium monetization schemes (channel memberships) from which they take a 30% cut and they want to upset somewhat paying users last.
Introducing: The Cybertent
Um..no?

I just looked up the long haul I've taken most - Detroit to Tokyo.

Delta economy is $1160. Delta business is $16,983.

First is available via United, for over $24,000.
I guess? Most of these things are not really major issues for Appalachia. Anyone who has lived there will tell you that. It’s an order of magnitude lower than Florida or California or Tornado Alley.
> Thomas the Tank Engine exists to delight children with the mystique of steam engines, and to provide the back drop for simple lessons on pro-social behavior that children can understand.

It's kind of weird seeing someone claim "lessons on pro-social behavior" in a direct reply to a quote on how the show depicts immurement as a reaction to refusing direct orders from the company owner.
> the growth of large language models is only going to amplify this practice dramatically.

Do you mean LLMs will be used to generate more SEO content that is irrelevant?

Doesn't it work both ways? You can use LLMs to filter out irrelevant content better than ever? A lot of the time I use ChatGPT-4 it's as a search engine - and I don't even mean with the Browser plugin, I mean it's quicker to ask ChatGPT-4 for its encoded knowledge than to Google and click on links.
Plus the browser usually had so many f#*($ toolbars that 4:3 was shrunk down to more like a mail slot.
>In the desktop search world, google used to respond with large comprehensive articles on subjects that not just answered peoples questions but also educated them on the subject around their question. This was the golden age so to speak

IDK, for me it seems the worst plague are the sites that when you search for something like "how to reverse a pushed commit in git" don't give you a single sentence answer you seek, but you scroll and scroll over, what is git, how it works, why do people use it, how to install it, if you're lucky the answer will be at the very bottom after you clicked through the infuriating cookie consent and you closed two full page video ads. If you're unlucky the answer is hidden somewhere in the "content"...

Oh and comparing mobile with desktop? What is it on the desktop with all the shitty sites that try detecting you're moving to close it(often when you just move your mouse while reading) and they suddenly try to take over the entire window with some full page flashing modal dialogs. Insanity...

My take on why this happened is twofold: 1- Google, yes. 2-the stupid cookie consent law of the EU. Yes, it made launching a huge window obscuring the entire site's content on entry acceptable. It was all downhill from that.
There's a social science experiment where some folks are asked a question along the lines of "could you land a jumbo jet airplane while an experienced pilot talks you through the process via the radio?"

If they ask 100 folks, they'll get something like 101 responses of "HELL YEAH!" but then when they pop people in a simulator to try it, no-one makes it out alive.

I've often wondered if i could make it out alive if i had to start over from scratch. Keeping the life skills and knowledge i have today, but with one exception - NOT being allowed to rely solely on my programming or sysadmin skills because that feels like cheating by making it too easy to succeed.

So a job or entrepreneurial venture, in a different field, starting from nothing and build up. Could i make it out alive?

My answer is always yes. Like i have zero doubt. The only ways i can doubt myself in this thought experiment are if i do something really extreme like start off in a remote African village or imagine starting with a disability of some sort. In those cases, i can see a possibility of failure but in just about any other starting scenario, i jump straight to seeing how i would deal with the obvious problems that would happen along the way like having my stuff repeatedly stolen / trashed, being dragged into fights etc. etc.

Can't shake this niggling feeling that it's hubris. Am i Mr 102 full of smiles who high 5's everyone as he triumphantly strides out of that simulator? Or am i just on the wrong side of Dunning Kruger?
The old menu system approach was spectacular for education.

Menus were more like categories, types of operations, and within those sections of the menu grouped like operations.

Each menu had a shortcut for invocation, usually Alt + the first letter of the menu, but sometimes an underlined second letter, or maybe FN key directly.

Within the menu most entries had an underlined key - if the interaction focus was in that menu, that key would invoke the related option / operation.

If there was an action the end user wanted to do frequently, nearly always there was also a direct keyboard combination that could trigger it while in the edit plane.

Many users learned of Ctrl+C / Ctrl+X / Ctrl+V (copy, cut, paste, respectively, for early 'dos' / Windows) or even on Macintosh whatever the respective keys were, from the edit menu. They tended to work in most applications and in the standard OS widgets (think text boxes of just about any sort).

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These days, that sort of in-situ power user education, to empower new users is much harder to come by. It really doesn't help with so many things are designed mobile phone / web (no OS at all) / console and ported to PC (OMG all the times that inventory or design system in a game irks you).
Wasn't he kicked out of deepmind due to toxic behavior and bullying?
I think we're at least partially talking past each other (quite probably we also disagree). Let's revisit:

> The programmers a company wants to hire have options that don't require a cover letter.

Ok. That sounds like they expect to be recuited - not needing to apply for a job?

Is there a small group of candidates that will read a job ad, be qualified, want the job enough to apply - but only willing to customize the email address they send their resume to?

Or are we talking about completely separate candidate pools here? Ones that read and respond to ads, and those that expect to be recruited?

> If it's just an open-ended "cover letter"? Then yes.

> They have time for substantive stuff, not nonsense

But it's not nonsense? It's a job application?

Or does "cover letter" strongly imply "fawning, vapid, nonsense" to you?

What is the alternative? Having the first interview as first contact certainly seems like a waste of time?

(Not to mention writing skills being essential for remote work - which I hope is an option for most software positions these days)