skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Trying to force people to make do with less is not a winning proposition for a political party

There are so many assumptions baked into that sentence it is hard to know where to start. But it exemplifies the problem - we're talking about the survival of the species, and people are shutting the conversation down because they are locked into thinking of things in terms of the status quo.

The changes we need are going to come from a much larger re-thinking of our world.
It's call UnitedHealthcare
OK, I'm typing this comment on Firefox for Android BTW, so I keep trying to like it.

Here's my current annoyances:

– on Android, scrolling and performance is very poor on certain websites, on a high end phone; this including Mastodon, and my report was dismissed;

– on Android, the UI has issues detecting between light and dark modes at the system level; it has other obvious bugs, too, that are reported but remain unfixed;

– poor integration with the OS for player controls; both Android and desktop (macOS);

- unreliable HDR support; in macOS it works, but I sometimes get flicker, and it might get disabled if the viewport is small;

- poor battery life on macOS; this used to be true for Chromium as well, ans Safari is king obviously, but lately Chromium has an edge over Firefox;

– incompatibility with certain online apps, like MS Teams; in fairness they worked hard to fix Meetup at least;

– poor PWA support, no SSB; on both desktop and Android. I prefer PWAs to Electron variants: better sandboxing, use of browser extensions, often better memory use; see: https://howfuguismybrowser.dev/

– no customizable keyboard shortcuts and poor accessibility preventing OS-level solutions; in macOS I can set shortcuts for Chrome, for various Tab actions, like Pin Tab or Close Others. And Brave/Vivaldi have customization built into their settings;

— poor extensions security: for LanguageTool or Google Translate I'd like the "Click to Enable" option or the ability to disable by default or enable per-hostname;

– unusable profiles – in Chrome different profiles have different history and extensions, so for security purposes they are above Firefox's containers; I actually don't get the point of Containers at all, being useful only for logging into multiple AWS accounts, otherwise they have no privacy or security benefits;

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Firefox does have certain advantages. They aren't enough to keep me using it, though. But in the interest of fairness:

+ History sync actually works;

+ DNS-Over-HTTPS works with fallback to system;

+ Tree-style-tabs;

+ Better bookmark management;

+ Reader view (Android & desktop);

+ Ctrl+Tab;

+ Non-admin upgrades;

+ uBlock Origin;

+ Total Cookie Protection;

+ Android: multiple search engines;

+ Android: Open in app;

+ Android: Dark reader / uBlock Origin / other extensions;
For that price I can purchase 3 Google home smart displays which do all this and more.

I guess the main advantage would be always-on with little to no power consumption, but all your pictures still have cables.
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38296615
Our neighbour has a modern, top-of-the-line, highly efficient wood boiler. Still makes the area smell like a parking garage for a couple of hours each day during winter.
Once you make a system like that distributing money, it becomes a game and people start exploiting it, and it all turns to crap.
Now Change is owned by United Healthcare, so maybe the model you mentioned did live on..
"We got the introduction completely wrong" seems to've been one of the takeaways according to the article.

I suspect the underlying problem was the limitations being obvious to the research team and them being excited that it was -less- limited than previous attempts in the same direction and not realising how people who didn't find the limitations it still had obvious would react.

All very predictable in hindsight but because they didn't see it as a 'real' launch I don't think people with enough of an outside view were involved, and ... I think we've all been there with the "but that's obvious" problem, so (a) you're right (b) I'm still kinda sympathetic.
Yea and what if a little kid stepped on the track and got electrifried. But at least if it got hit by a lightning it would get some free juice so there's plussed and minused.
And by everyone you of course mean everyone that wasn't arrested because he thought maybe bread with bread and a shared appartment is kinda shitty.
As opposed to other writers whose perspective is "I'm wrong"?
The question of preference at the end is moot. Those with the power long ago made the decision that 'a few people should have a amazing lives while vast numbers of people suffer needlessly' is the way that society should be structured and structured it thusly. This is/was even true in countries with central planning as you've described above. There is/was always a select group of people at the top for whom the rules didn't apply and had all the luxuries that could desire.
The Changing "Guarantees" Given by Python's Global Interpreter Lock
Is the Arch Linux or Debian package shipped with those distros officially supported by Valve?

I’d still take an unofficial wrapper over that time Steam was wiping home directories.
I think people should expect accurate information.

Kinda the same as with justice. We know justice is served by people in nice togas and juries of peers who are really a nice name for your neighbours. And yet we still demand and hopefully will continue to demand justice, even if those people make mistakes or sometimes behave fraudulently.

The problem with Israeli-Hamas conflict isn't that the accurate information isn't available. It is that too many people decided to side with either belligerent and are selectively accepting information. It is that both sides of the conflict decided to use misinformation to bolster their media presence and their right to defend themselves. It is that the people who have open and measured view of the situation are not feeling safe expressing their views and feel pressured to support either side or shut up.

I am personally suspicious of radical opinions, but I feel no way to express any support to more moderate and rational opinions without exposing myself as target for both sides.

This problem in turn is result of some more general socio-politic changes, poor education and capture of media by organisations who discovered it is better to serve extreme views on any matter because it lets them steal more of the focus of consumers by exploiting our natural biases.

Because of the polarisation, you have to choose a lesser evil. If you don't like "trumpism", you have to side with "radical left". If you don't like "radical left", you have to side with "trumpism". This is how masses of people can be captured by extreme views, which should not be the norm, in my opinion.
"Skip the middle man, get it at Chinese Amazon instead"?

If you want to skip the middle man, order it directly from the manufacturer.

And there are tons of webshops selling a very wide selection of led lights. No need to send people to the big monopolists.
Not an expert, but unfortunately I think you're right in identifying a potential attack vector with the Flathub maintainership model. Even if flathubbot is being used, manual changes can still be made by maintainers.

And I think there are far more maintainers to trust, than for say scoop or winget. The difference is, Flathub has one repo per package (and hence allows more maintainers).
> CLI tools do not implement auto-complete themselves. What you are seeing are auto-complete scripts for your shell that make network connections.

nit: This is incorrect. Robust auto-complete scripts call the actual program to provide completions.

That is what Flatpak does. It is Flatpak itself that makes the network connections.

https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/blob/main/completion/flat...

Not that it would make any differencen if it was implemented in Bash seeing as the Bash script is also provided by Flatpak.
> So what is your proposal? A realistic one, please, not a scenarion of "we should have done X decades ago", but one that can be worked on right now, on the basis we have.

Sometimes the only realistic answer is "We should have done X, many years ago" - I think society and humans in general need to get better at admitting this. Sometimes we back ourselves into a corner and we just need to accept that as a fact.

But due to the situation we are in, the actual realistic answer I have is continue to burn coal and gas as a bridge while we do a crash program to train up the next generation of nuclear engineers and construction workforce.

Start 100 reactor sites right now and understand they are mostly going to be used as on-the-job training for construction crews for the next decade while we burn co2 and learn how to build things again.

Of course continue to install as many gigawatts of solar and wind during that time period as you can while expanding the grid. As you spin up your "nuclear batteries" you can then start spinning down coal and gas and let your renewables take up the peak loads. Load prediction and larger grids have become reliable enough now that you can spin up nuclear in a predictable fashion for load-following, with a small amount of grid battery hanging around for those few hours of surprises per year.

Hydro is interesting but effectively 100% utilized worldwide at this point. Once you get your nuclear workforce geared up and the initial surge of demand completed, perhaps start looking at modifying as much hydro capacity in the world to act in both directions as pumped storage. Imagine pumping water back into Lake Mead from downstream when there is excess power generation. Exceedingly inefficient - but starts to become interesting when you have grid-tied batteries that actually work at scale.

Edit: Nuclear is only dead in the developed world because we chose it to be so. Society can decide tomorrow to change that decision if properly motivated. We have many times in the past for much harder things than building a few hundred industrial plants we already have built before.
It's more about a conflict of interest.

An advertising company investing in a new API that will make it earn less – that's the point.
Not RMS!

http://www.art.net/studios/hackers/hopkins/Don/text/rms-vs-d...
How exactly is importing gas from Algeria (which delivered to the yet to connected to the German gas grid in Spain for decades) related with anything Russia does?
Closing costs in Germany are quite high... about 12%.

- 3.57% RE commission

- 2.00% notary

- 6% for the land transfer tax

And the seller also pays 3.57% of the RE commission. So over 6% at the end of the day :)
Will Instagram Remove This AI Nazi Taylor Swift Image After I Post This Article?
> Not a fan of Musk, Media Matters, the ADL or culture wars. Everyone is too quick to jump at their perceived opponent's throat. There's no dialogue, only demonization.

Precisely this. The media folks are ready to spin a story to suit their agenda enough to clickbait their readers for outrage.

A backwards approach in so called 'journalism' with the need to create a villain out of anyone they do not like.
What I don't get about all of this is why one of the big players don't invest heavily in Plan9/Inferno and promoting it. Surely having the networking and clustering code baked in to the OS makes the whole thing both easier and more efficient to run which would mean they'd be able to offer a product that significantly undercut their rivals in terms of price as well as allowing the companies using it to reduce their DevOps team sizes due to the reduced complexity? Unlikely that MS would do it given that they'd prefer everyone to run Windows but I don't get why AWS or GCP aren't jumping all over it.
Um, I'm assuming that's *hiked...?
My biggest issue with coat hangers - including this one - is that they are all thin so forget putting heavier shirts, sweaters, and especially jackets on them - they'll stretch out part of the shoulder and you have this visible piece of material sticking out when you put it on.
I haven't heard the death panel canard brought out since Canada started it's death panels. It's like the classic idea, but instead of letting you die from lack of medical care they drive you into depression prior to killing you.

> Are Canadians being driven to assisted suicide by poverty or healthcare crisis?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/11/canada-cases-r...

> Why is Canada euthanising the poor?

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-canada-euthanisin...
If that's true, why then did it take me 10 seconds yesterday to find an extremely obscure fact of 18th century history with ChatGPT 3.5? I tried Google queries for over an hour, without success. ChatGPT first gave a wrong answer (because my question actually wasn't accurate), but after some clarification answered something that appeared correct, and after 1-2 minutes of further research and validation, I was 100% that it was indeed the correct answer.

> AI systems like ChatGPT are trained with text from Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and other huge archives of bullshit, alongside plenty of actual facts (including Wikipedia and text ripped off from professional writers). But there is no algorithm in ChatGPT to check which parts are true. The output is literally bullshit.

Well. Any philosopher, mathematician, scientist, or novelist was trained on plenty of actual facts (established works of other people, school learning, experiments) and huge archives of bullshit (individual day-to-day experiences that cannot be called scientific, casual conversations just like Twitter conversations, propaganda, lies). Their output then would also be bullshit, and by extension, everything humanity ever created.
> It's the same in this context. fsync uses a blocking API to implement atomicity

No, it doesn’t.

In that context fsync is a write barrier. It doesn’t make writes atomic. The difference is this: If you issue a handful of writes then your computer crashes, some, all or none of the writes may have completed. And some writes might be “skewed” - where part of the write succeeded and part did not. Atomicity means a set of actions happens as one indivisible unit, and it either all happens or all doesn’t happen. Think database transactions. Filesystem writes are not like that. They are not atomic operations[1].

Fsync does not change the behaviour of the write system call. Fsync only stalls your program until all writes have been written to disk, at least assuming your drive isn’t lying to you. Just like a memory barrier. If your computer crashes before fsync returns, all bets are off.

[1] With the exception of aligned writes under the device block size. Allegedly. I’d still like to see this actually documented somewhere.
I have the same reservations

That said, I think there's a slight difference in that this is targeting a specific individual.
A few years ago I started my own battle with social anxiety, which I'd had for my whole life.

At that time I couldn't really name the problem and I didn't know how to approach it, so I started searching for podcasts--self-help, psychology, you name it.

I found a podcast named "Feeling Good", co-hosted by dr. David Burns, author of a book with the same title. And without much exaggeration, it changed my emotional life (or at the very least: it started/kicked off the process of change).

Just in case it might help someone, I quickly search for "shame attacking exercises" (technical name for making yourself look stupid in front of people :)) on dr. Burn's page and found this:

https://feelinggood.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/3a407-sha...

IMPORTANT: Theres a whole theory behind exposure (which shame attacking is) and if you do it incorrectly, it can make things worse (for instance, if someone starts laughing at you, your anxiety might worsen). So if you're in a rough place, or unsure if it's for you, better do it under therapist's supervision!
No. A BMW 5-series from the 80s is about the same size as a 2023 3-series. Almost every manufacturer I can think of has been doing this and in all market segments. VW had the compact Golf, the subcompact Polo and the even more compact Up!. The last Up! model is about the same size as the first Polo and the latest Polo same size as first Golf (both also from the 80s).

Of course that growth rate is still nothing compared to some pickup/off-road models. Every time I'm in NA I am shocked by the size of these behemoths. The crazy part is that more and more people are buying these things in my corner of Europe, preferably if they live in an old village with roads that are barely 2m wide per lane.

Some of these child decapitators have worse visibility and maneuverability than (EU) trucks. Ffs, if an 8-year old runs infront of your F250's grille they become invisible. This would be a valuable area of regulation imo, instead of mandatory speed limiters and breathalizers.
It’s not clear from the voice alone
From all the discussion here and previous it seems OSS is unsustainable.

People pay for software, notably Office, IntelliJ, OS, Adobe, video games, enterprise s/w and many more. For normal consumer products things are simple you pay some money for product and can have simple expectations that s/w will work. Every once a decade the direction a s/w takes major change, and you have to decide if you want to stay with it or move to something else.

Now with OSS both sides expectations have become implicit and ambiguous. In letter they come with no warranty but in spirit it does. No sane person would depend on database/compiler which can stop working or won't fix bugs without recourse. It may be OSS but I don't have time/skills to fix myself, so implicit understanding is that community at large will fix it.

Next is the issue of payment to the community. how much should be the payment, who should be paying and should be paid? No payment was discussed up-front, but it is expected implicitly. Should I review all s/w I use to understand the payment I should have been making. Maybe I should stick to only commercial s/w as expectation of payment is clear or maybe s/w being free but created by large corporates are ok as no payment is expected. Is making s/w in NodeJS / Python risky, as I don't know if community is paying for all the libraries I am using and how much I should be paying?
Yes, if it's open source then users don't have any right to expect that it'll be maintained by someone, but if a project deliberately uses the bait and switch trick to get people to start using the project when it's open source in the hope of trapping them, then that's clearly manipulative and ruins trust in other open source projects.
Women sue Pornhub in latest San Diego case involving GirlsDoPorn videos
Ehe no worries I'd do the same for that kind of project/at that stage. If you have the time/will a bit of photoshop would eliminate most of the issues
This is one area where cryptocurrencies are useful. Don't need anything other than a wallet address.
>Thus it is fair to state they are preventing adblockers

No it's not fair to say that. The same way it's not fair to say Apple is preventing adblocking in Safari even if the current state of adblocking there RIGHT NOW is exactly how manifest v3 Chrome will be(using declarativeNetRequest)
Sounds like an issue to take up with your government. Don’t complain that other people spend _their_ money in a way _you_ disagree with.
I think the pictures are pretty good already, but yes, perhaps.

If you wanted to dive into more feature work, possibly the next thing is thinking about CEOs who might want a) Outlook integration, and b) a way to shade off their calendar for privacy somehow. Another thing could be to stick more with consumers and have a way to display recipes on it? Maybe if there's a recipe service you could partner with that has a decent API?

But in general I reckon you should market the Google Calendar stuff, which already exists and looks awesome!
Ah, that's a very fine point. The rpmfusion RPM isn't officially supported by Valve either.

Edit: Valve releases tarballs and a .deb package. Why would they release a .deb when Arch (which steamos is based on) doesn't use .deb? Releasing a .deb makes me think they test the thing on Ubuntu or Debian
Ask HN: What's the future of advertising in a post-LLM world?
A significant portion of the internet was funded via advertising revenue. Users would get free content, entertainment, etc in exchange for giving up some of their attention to advertisers/marketers.

It seems the success of LLMs could change this model? Why would anyone go to allrecipes.com (ad funded) when they could get recipes ad-free from ChatGPT?

Is this the beginning of the end for ad funded publishers?
You forgot the part where the central planners herded millions of people into Gulags, starved tens of millions more to death, then executed a few million more for good measure.

Other than that, spot on though.
No? What the fuck is this crap logic every time someone suggests we may not be living under a great politico-economic system? How did we go from "maybe we should tame inequality" to "let's resurrect Stalin"? Fucking fuck.
I think one of the side effects of Open Source has been the devaluation of source code. Many decades ago, Microsoft destroyed the IBM PC by licensing their source code to other hardware manufacturers. Not only did that destroyed the power of IBM hardware, but it also allowed smaller hardware players like Dell to enter the hardware market and defeat hardware giants like IBM.
Move on to the present day and software is no longer the king it once was, only because the major players like Microsoft, Google, IBM, Amazon etc now all tend to use the same Open Source software.
However, they now run that common code on proprietary hardware systems meaning we have come full circle where hardware is once again the king of the castle, and the real money is the hardware and not the software.
And the real problem is, unlike earlier times when a small players like Dell could take on massive players like IBM, these days with hardware once again king, it now requires high levels of capital to compete.
Google doesnt want to disrupt its own business model, search no longer makes sense.
> ChatGPT first gave a wrong answer

I think you answered your own question there. It doesn’t say your question makes no sense, or that’s incorrect. It just makes up a bullshit answer.
The main advantage Emacs has over other, more modern IDEs is ELisp, and the vast ecosystem built around it. I don't see how supplementing ELisp with JS would make Emacs more attractive; most of Emacs' shortcomings originate elsewhere: single-threaded core, IO-blocks-UI, ELisp defaulting to dynamic scoping, bad defaults in general, poor OS/GUI integration, antiquated nomenclature, and just the sheer number of third-party packages and config tweaking that it takes to bring features that should work out of the box (sane dired, LSP, (ma)git, tabs, etc).

Emacs desperately needs to deal with its tech debt, but adding a new language runtime without addressing the mountain of architectural issues is just circling around the problem, without actually even looking at it. Hats off for the effort but I'll pass.
In the UK, the market rate 1.5% paid by the seller on completion. Nothing to the buyer and rarely any fees for a failed transaction.

Then approximately £1000 in legal fees when buying or selling.

Then the big one which is stamp duty (a government tax) which is between 0 and 12% of the purchase price. Typically the lower end of that scale though. (https://www.gov.uk/stamp-duty-land-tax/residential-property-...)