skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of these grievances are more about changes in the architectural direction than anything else.

I don't see how using the Cell processor could be considered "anti-consumer". After all, we are talking about a time when consoles didn't generally use "off the self" processors - Nintendo had a customized PowerPC, too. Using more generic architectures is a quite recent development.

> Paying developers either for exclusive content or for exclusive third party games.

Both Microsoft and Nintendo do this, in different ways. Let's not forget that some of Microsoft exclusives came from Rare and Bungie, studios with a relatively long independent history.

> There are likely a few others that I can't remember right now but I am about to hop into a meeting. But has Microsoft done some of these things? yes, but before Phil Spensor came in and changed Xbox.

Spencer was the GM all the way back to 2014, so I don't think that's true.

On the other hand, I honestly cannot believe that we are discussing if Microsoft is more anti-consumer, or more monopolistic, than Sony.
Perceptions of religious imagery in natural phenomena
I organize my life primarily by keeping it simple enough that it's not very hard to keep track of.

I keep a paper to-do list. My calendar I know. My social calendar my wife keeps, because it's mainly her social calendar, and I just show up when and where she says.

My weekly to-dos don't go on my to-do list. I kind of have a rhythm for those; I do them when I always do them.

The virtue of this system is very low overhead. The downside is that, if you're not like me, if you want a more complicated life, it probably doesn't scale to that.
Quite, according to the Excel spreadsheet, "remark458" is "it takes many a mickle to make a muckle", that must be a typo for "remark485", oh, or could be the comment is in the wrong place. If only there were a single source of truth.
Mostly some version of GTD.

A todo list managed by http://todotxt.org/. Items are dated and I make sure I review (remove or modify) items that have become stale.
A similar list for non-actionable ideas (called inbox in GTD). I think I end up removing most of these.
A text file with dated items for a "waiting for" list( e.g. waiting for an answer to a message), reviewed regularly.
A list of "projects" (somewhat vague, but list priorities, reminds me of bigger goals). I don't really do "proper" project management for personal things, I guess I could, but the overhead would be too big for me to keep this consistent over time.

A proper and reliable calendar. I use calcurse (https://www.calcurse.org/) as I like curse-based interfaces, it makes it trivial to use my setup via ssh. I'm always shocked when I find out some people don't really have any calendar and just hope they'll remember appointments and events. It becomes obvious when they inevitably forget to show up somewhere and have to deal with the consequences.

"Notable Plus" (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.icechen1.notable.pro/) for very quick notes on mobile (that I write down properly in one of the previous lists within 24h).

Lately I'm also experimenting with some priority queue based on dates to make sure I do some things regularly. Let's say you do 5 different sports, and you want to do all of them (at the cost of doing any of them less frequently). You could keep track of the last time you did them, and to choose what to do next, you do the one you haven't done in the most time. There are few things I do once in a while, and when I do them, I often think "why didn't do that earlier", and I think this applies nicely to this when time is just limited. E.g. reaching out to people, going to some places...

I edit most of these text files using vim, or Markor on Android (https://github.com/gsantner/markor). Shared via Syncthing on my personal devices. Automated version control via Git (meaning daily automated commits), although in practice I so rarely use this that I could get rid of it. I guess it's cheap so why not.

A mobile app (https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits) to keep track of habits. At this point I have enough of them that doing them all in one day means I had a good day. That removes some thinking when I have little time and I'm not sure what I should do: just try to tick one more habit.

Org-mode looks interesting but I've never managed to migrate to it, I suspect it's because I'm already too efficient with my current setup such that it's too much friction to switch to org-mode and spend months just reaching the same level with it.

Overall whatever works for you, but I'd advise against proprietary apps and services: I've had about the same setup for about 10 years, I can't imagine how many productivity apps were created / deprecated during that time. It's very likely that my setup or a similar one will still work in 10+ years with very few changes required.
Classic style actually worked up to and including Windows 7:

https://betawiki.net/images/d/da/Windows_7_classic_theme.png
Most plugins used in music software do take that approach. Where the plugin interfaces are modelled to look 'like hardware' in most cases, with nobs, sliders, all the things you'd expect on a hardware compressor / synth etc.

I like it.
OpenWrt 23.05 Released with Rust Package Support, MbedTLS Replaces WolfSSL
Takeaways from hundreds of LLM finetuning experiments with LoRA
Flutter has a multitude of problems, at Google's inability to support anything long-term is probably the smallest.

Flutter apps don't look or work like native apps, and the only people who will put up with that are people who have to do so because their enterprise mandates it. Flutter apps have horrible battery performance. Flutter apps are always at least six months behind what is possible with native toolkits and SDKs. Flutter apps use a language that literally no one other than Sass or Flutter developers actually want to use and that offers exactly no benefit over the dozens of other possible languages out there.

Flutter is Java Swing, but worse in pretty much every way.
>500k revenue doesn't leave a lot of room for outsourcing work

If you keep your business small, there's not much need to outsource work. In software circles, it's easy to think you can just keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger, because it's so easy to scale, but if you keep things small, a business really only needs to make enough money to keep the person running it fed and comfortable enough that they can do the work they enjoy.
My (briefly viral) personal take: https://meat-gpt.sonnet.io

- a huge chunk of my traffic comes from people who believe this is a real project, because AI tool catalogues keep hallucinating pitches for my AI PRODUCT

- this almost won an award but I lost to a site with 3d rotating sandwiches

- the silver lining: I met a guy who pivoted from startups to making beef jerky. We are a small, exclusive community known to some as the meatverse.

I also made https://butter.sonnet.io and people offered to pay me for it.

Perhaps I should monetise my Medieval Content Farm with those native ads in blackletter: https://tidings.potato.horse
SHA-2 is has more reliable HW acceleration from what I’ve seen.

SHA-1 SW according to smhasher is 350mib/s as is MD5, so never use MD5 as SHA-1 is always stronger (sha2 supposedly is 150mib/s). Hw accelerated SHA-1 and SHA-2 are both ~1.5 Gib/s and on x86 HW acceleration is always available.

Blake3 is the most interesting because it’s competitive with SHA2 even without HW acceleration. I wonder how it would fare with HW acceleration.
> Funny how I could use the same logic to defend Hamas.

Nonsense. The difference of intentionally executing babies and children and kidnapping civilians should be stark. Shame on you.

Unlike the Hamas Israel tried to have a peaceful solution multiple times. Including a Palestinian state. They are not fighting for their people, they are fighting for their god, it's a war for the purpose of death not liberation.

> incursions into the al-Alqsa mosque there’s a rage going on here which is exactly what the IDF wanted.

Just like the Palestinian people are divided so are we. The IDF doesn't want anything, its an army. The current government includes people who are terrible racists and they did the al-Alqsa stuff. They are the Israeli counterparts of the Hamas.

I understand that rage and I honestly understood the recent incursions in Jenin, they made sense. They focused on settlers and on the military.

> Do you think that the Israeli leadership is not be blamed for the hundreds of dead infants and thousands of dead kids?

To some degree yes. I do. I think they will need to explain the justification to what they're doing. Unfortunately, Israel never recognized the authority of the Hague court. Also with the weakening democracy in Israel this is even more of a problem.

> Does the genocidal IDF have no responsibility for telling a million+ Gazans to leave their homes or be bombed to dead? Do you support the ethnic cleansing of Gaza?

The word genocide is problematic here. The IDF specifically issued a clearance warning indicating its targets in advance. That's not something you do if you plan to kill civilians.

Calling it ethnic cleansing is untrue at the moment. Even the inflated numbers published by the Hamas don't back that up. Notice that even now the Hamas is still firing missiles onto Israel and I just walked out of a shelter...
War Shows Just How Broken Social Media Has Become
Microsoft thinks it can succeed where Google failed with AR glasses
Hey web perf folks: the visa.com waterfall image on this page... what was used to generate it?

Also, I love mdn. To this day it's the best technical writing about web development. Every concept is so well explained.
The GitHub CLI is a completely different tool than the git CLI

https://cli.github.com
And XP was Windows NT 5.1 (as also seen in your link)
> I disagree

Have you played many games on PSLinux?

> in any case, publishing deals offering money to studios for them not to publish on XBox like came up on the trials.

If you suggest that buying exclusives is a bad thing, then you should agree that buying large independent studios is, too.
I think the gun was probably a big one, prior to nukes.
I've never heard/read of that concept before. Is it the same as there is no such thing as an honest person?
Only if you don't value your battery life, usability, proper accessibility, or developer ergonomics with a language that has no raison d’être.
Wait.

Do I understand this correctly? Are you saying you removed that root password, such that it wasn't possible to log in with another (but different) root password?

Or are you saying that you merely changed it, to one the customer no longer knew, but was the same password across all of your install base, for every customer?

How would that be any improvement, if the latter?
I use an old Asus RT-N56U for great (Gigabit) switching performance. Wifi is only N, and you have to be careful, there are two HW revisions, that are indistinguishable from the outside. An alternative could be different TP Link devices, but I never tested these.

For more modern purposes I use a Linksys WRT32X with divested[1] image, but you could also go for the 1900 or even 1200, depending on your needs...

Maybe also take a look here: https://www.libe.net/openwrt-devices

[1] https://divested.dev/unofficial-openwrt-builds/mvebu-linksys...
Yes, and if I had a car that depends on Internet connection to function as a car, I'd be quite pissed. :)
This article could just as easily be "why you should not try to be a rock star", or "why you should not try to be a college professor". Both are non-ergodic pursuits where the chance of success is low and the expected financial ROI across all aspirants is negative. Coincidentally, I've done both and failed at both and I don't regret either one.

But contrary to the article, I did get valuable non-financial rewards from these experiences. I wouldn't trade my rock-band experiences for anything. Twenty-five years have passed since the last time I seriously got on stage with my guitar, but my old bandmates are still my closest friends. My PhD taught me so much about how to tackle big ambiguous problems, how to think deeply about things, how to be patient when clarity comes slowly, and how to drag a hard painful project over the finish line. I also made career contacts that were invaluable later.

It sounds to me like YC might be worth trying once, especially for a young person, and when you get to the point where you have to pivot, you should take what you've learned and bail. If the terms of the agreement make that impossible, then maybe it is a bad deal.
https://halecraft.org/mindspace

Code: https://github.com/canadaduane/mindspace

I love mind mapping as a tool for exploring ideas, feelings, and connections. But I needed it to be fast, and get out of the way--no fiddling with dragging lines or worrying about DAGs vs cycles. The intro video on GitHub has a good overview.
In this case, only one version out of three (the middle one) had this vuln, so it's very likely it was introduced by mistake. But your scenario happens all the time too.
Scroll bars have been a problem two ways:

1. Out of context bare-ui style scroll bars in web textareas and mis-sized iframes in most web browsers.

2. Lack of screen real estate on early, lower resolution mobile devices left designers looking for something better.

On the web design front, scrollbars have been customizable via JS and CSS for some time now. On the mobile front, swiping is fun, but it's really nice when you can just tap about where you want to be in whatever you are viewing.
What is the point exactly of requiring no other available options in order for emergency approval if you just sandbag the available options in order to gain emergency approval? Shouldn't we look closer at where that requirement comes from?
Too bad there aren't a ton of SHA-1 ASICs sitting around, but that hash was never used in cryptocurrency mining.
See https://archive.ph/2023.10.13-032635/https://www.theatlantic...
The issue described here, to my understanding, is that you find or create csam and then manipulate it so that its fingerprint collides with another image that you want to be flagged as csam. You then submit the manipulated version of the found or generated image to the authority.

First, at what point does the authority go "uh... Where did you get this from?" Practically speaking, the people doing this would have to be authorized law enforcement, no? Like if an ordinary citizen showed up with csam the excuse "oh I found this JPEG in a trunk in my late grandpa's attic" isn't gonna fly.

My assumption is that the central authority that compiles the database isn't just taking fingerprints, they want the actual source images. And I'm assuming they actually look at them to ensure they are, in fact, csam. Otherwise anyone could put anything into the database.

Now let me be very clear: I hate the idea of my device scanning for csam on principle. But what's the attack here? That someone looks at my device and determines that I do not, in fact, have csam? And that false positive might even be investigated and reveal that the bad actor sought out or generated CSAM for the purposes of perpetrating this! Which is even worse!

If the police want to look at your device, they can do that already through any number of other sketchy means that don't involve what's likely weeks of effort. The US searches phones at the border when they're feeling like it. I don't want to defend this stuff, but the potential for abuse in this specific case seems vanishingly small.
I know it feels clunky (perhaps) aesthetically to have thick scroll bars and thick sliding dividers and thick window borders, but I would choose ergnomics over prettiness.

Even as a normal human with good motor control, good equipment, and decent eyesight, I routinely encounter situations (macOS) where I have to carefully move the pointer back and forth across a region where I know the "line" (divider, border) is so I get the opportunity to move something.

Another related problem is the overloading of the title bar. In the past, the title bar was always there for each window. Grabbing and moving a window was very easy. Now, many apps try to move menus and other controls into that space, leaving the user to find the few pixels here or there which can be grabbed to move the window (rather than taking some action within the app). Some apps allow you to revert to normal title bar (thank you Firefox), but some don't. And true, you gain some valuable screen space from what would normally be a wasted big area of title bar, but the tradeoff sucks when you need to move something.
> the regulations also mean that some people die because they can't afford the healthcare.

Healthcare costs have no relation with how many people can get coverage.

Civilised societies provide healthcare to all residents; the related costs impact taxes, but not number of deaths. People dying for not being able to afford the care is only a problem in barbaric countries.
I wonder how differentiating 'AI Wrappers' can really be given the power of GPT4? There's definitely some use cases I've thought of w/ finetuning for very niche programming languages (Source Hammer from Counterstrike for example), but in my everyday use I haven't found anything that beats GPT4 + proper prompting.
TIL the idea that flooding an economy with cash and cheap debt leads to inflation is "dogmatic".

I guess I will file this under similar "dogmatic" beliefs like "CO2 causes global warming" and "Vaccines lower mortality rates".
It only counts aircraft as experiencing interference if they have previously reported high navigation accuracy on their flight, and then begin reporting low accuracy. It's not going to just show places where INS drifts. However, it may show areas, typically military, where aerobatics or hard maneuvering are taking place, which can mask an aircraft's GPS antennae from the satellites.
Yes, that's fair. Sorry for misunderstanding at first.
> Phone and tablet usage has outpaced regular computer usage for quite some time

This does not excuse making terrible user experiences elsewhere.
If I understand correctly, both of those technologies use quantum dots to increase brightness. The difference is that QD-OLED also increases contrast since there is no backlight, and the pixels themselves emit the light.
A key question is: why so little runway with such a large compensation? Even in the Bay Area that’s a bit odd.

I also am obsessed about financial independence, in the Bay Area, with comparable years of experience, started from 0, but circumstances are very different from yours (with a partner but no kids). I currently have 100 years of living expenses saved up, by a combination of frugality, aggressive job hopping to find the highest bidder, and diligent investing. For me there was never anything else than financial independence.

Is it possible that you are really not optimizing for financial freedom, and that’s not as important of a goal for you compared to providing a really good lifestyle for your family, which you clearly are?

You don’t need to answer me, but please ask yourself this question.
Demystifying GPT-4: The engineering tradeoffs
I know exactly what you mean, but this kind of people were sold on a particular idea of what being a founder/entrepreneuer is. Just grind hard and make products and at one point you will make it. They see emerging trends as opportunities without having a knowledge about them, and if they are lucky, they will convince some people to actually buy that.

But again, one would think that venture capitalists who are throwing apparently, hundreds of millions of dollars into it, would have an eye to filter out this kind of characters.
https://beets.studio/

https://github.com/brandongregoryscott/beets

I started building this audio workstation web app using Tone.js, Supabase and Evergreen, Segment’s design system over two years ago. “Digital audio workstation” may be an overkill descriptor, but it has sample sequencing functionality, which is what I was aiming for (similar workflows to the SP404 or PO 33 K.O. samplers).

I haven’t ever really promoted it and I’ve slowed down the feature work on it, but it was a lot of fun to build, and I learned a lot - I was an early adopter of Supabase, which the entire backend is hosted with.

Maybe it can serve as inspiration for someone else’s passion project - it’s all
open source!
No deal. I get 50,000 map loads per month for free, and have only exceeded that once. That time, mapbox did give me a freebie because they liked the project.
Keep in mind that Home Assistant provides ready-made images that behave like an appliance and can auto-update. In fact, it doesn't even give you a shell/SSH by default and such access is discouraged.

Thus the Linux/RaspberryPi underlying complexity is irrelevant to the user - the "complexity" is to dd/BalenaEtcher/etc a downloaded file to an SD card, put the card in the Pi and connect it to power. From there it's available over the network and can be configured through a web browser.
Where did I say USPS doesn’t have unions? The whole point of my post is that this is a unionized sector, and that unionization got results.
The most successful might be from category two, but what is the denominator? How many with that attitude failed? I suspect category one has significantly higher survival, probably close to 100%.
Haha, no :) I understood what you did there, and by taking your question literally, used your reply to add some more context about how I think, and create a bit more force to help OP by showing that other ways are possible.

Yes, what OP does is not very conventional, but I felt that redirection of this ambition to more practical ways can return OP as another productivity boost.

IOW, I repurposed your comment. :)
> All of Google is AI. But you don’t see them bandying it around like a kid with new light up shoes.

I was at Google Cloud Next London yesterday and I hate to disappoint you but _everything_ seemed to be about AI. The keynote was about AI. The decor was all AI generated. Each breakout had to mention AI, to the point where a couple of speakers joked that they _weren't_ going to talk about AI. It was a bit depressing.
Nah. That's important, but secondary problem.

Lots of companies thrive without trying to be cheapest in the market. In most markets there is "expensive", but quality option and then there is a cheap option that everybody knows may be less quality. Companies make these choices all the time and those more expensive options are still successful.

And Cisco is actually positioned as an expensive option. For decades in many segments of the market, Cisco was the top option that you had to pay for through the nose.
My understanding was that you generate a csam with a colliding fingerprint and put it online and trick somebody with an iPhone or whatever into clicking on it. Now they're on a watchlist and will get harassed by the police.
Anyone who thinks the injection of malicious hashes is an unrealistic scenario should take a look at the games now being played with Youtube‘s content protection system which is leveraged by scammers and blackmailers.
It's useful to focus on how neither entity is unified or homogenous I think. There are factions within israel that benefit from hamas having power relative to other options. https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...

A good bit of it is quite simply explained by "they want to do a genocide and this is an effective way of doing it."
I really like Cal Newport's thinking in this area. Basically, yes, you need a system that you trust to keep yourself focused on what matters most in each of your roles. The specific tools don't matter and are often an excuse to distract yourself from doing the work.

Here's a good podcast covering this idea: https://overcast.fm/+b1V3bnLPc
What is stated without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Israel was being asked about it for days by western media and refuses to provide anything.
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