skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your perspective is totally correct, thank you for sharing it and checking my vitriol.

The only thing I would challenge is that the pain of inconsistency (from distros to stacks, e.g. systemd, etc.) is exactly what I believe drives people to desire/aspire to automation and strive for the consistency.

That inconsistency, while absolutely frustrating at times, also forces users (often against their will) to understand the core concepts behind the software they're using or managing rather than memorizing GUI workflows.

In my opinion, a number of Windows folks seem to take consistency for granted, and become all too reliant on it. They get comfy and have little clue how to overcome adversity when it rears it's ugly head.

I don't think that sort of laziness is unique to the Windows world, but I do think Windows makes it easier to fail upwards. It's much harder to hide incompetence in a Linux environment, at least in my experience.

In other words: if you'll excuse my reductiveness, what doesn't kill, gives strength. Or at least hardens one's resolve.

Honestly my biggest gripe boils down to how easy RDP makes it to form bad habits, and how there is little (short term) consequence for operating in reactive ways which lack reproducibility because "I'll just pop into the server and click around for a sec"

Windows with RDP is faster, and it is easier. System admin that way (mostly) works. Best of all, for the majority of those who grew up in the PC age, it's familiar.

But I unfortunately don't trust a lot of my colleagues past and present not to abuse it.
Can vouch for this option. Works reliably but still worth disconnecting internet to make sure local account creation is easily available.
>This feels like the coverage of Trump all over again.

What's the connection?
React Native 0.73 – Debugging Improvements, Stable Symlink Support, and More
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/stacked-diffs
In later years, I thought it had changed to "relatively stable"... as in elements that have half-lives in minutes rather than in milliseconds.
No, there's a difference between treating someone as a foreign agent because they actually are working as a foreign agent and treating someone as such because of their ancestry.

Its kind of weird to have to point that out.
If they're coordinating with Israel or making it so Israel can take Gaza, it is.
It will get updated. This is pretty common in research papers. They're just getting the link attached because it's easier to update the repo than the paper.
> But saying all criticism of Israel is antisemitic deflects legitimate criticism

Who is saying this? All I've heard are people on one side insisting that people are saying this, sounds like a straw man
By your logic, any peoples defeated in warfare and kicked off lands are justified to commit murder, rape, to pillage, and to kidnap occupiers.

In America that would include hundreds of Native American tribes today whose descendants could resist that way against Americans, yes?
There is a big difference in value between different degrees in the real world. Yet the costs are similar. What someone studies is very important and universities do not do a good job of telling people that.

There is nothing wrong with art/music/history. If you are interested by all means take a lot of courses in them. You can learn a lot of valuable skills which is why good universities required a diverse background of "generals" that these (and many more) fit into. However they give far more degrees in these things than are needed. (even physics gets more degrees than the world needs - but most getting a physics degree can better pivot to something else well paying).
Because other engineering domains are "actual" engineering domains. They didn't just co-opt the word to have fancier sounding job titles.
Una-Cybertron-7B
I install high voltage switchgear on site.
A common problem is all the changes that has been added during the design stage, circuits that have been removed or altered, work that has kind of mostly been done to the schemes by the overworked secondary engineer. Sometimes, the schemes have been changed after all the wiring is completed and shipped to site, making it my pain in the ass when it's time to do the commissioning.

The end result is never 100% perfect, but somewhere in between "not too bad" and "good enough".
What do we do if that's not true?
"Can't believe they weren't kicked out" is not exactly anger.

And the word "guilt" is being tied to the hypothetical version where we do have the information.
Coping with Other People's Code
It went viral on social media, the other conflicts didn't. That's really it. Many people's awareness of the world and the moral weight of what happens there comes directly from social media.

A lot of people were upset about China and the Uyghurs as well, for a while, but not until after it became a thing influencers talked about. And then they stopped caring after social media moved on. Even on HN, where anti-China sentiment is rampant, people no longer seem to mention it.
There's no confusion, had Israel or the US busted into civilian homes and raped and murdered women and children, live streaming it - Would you be fine with people marching down the streets the next day in middle eastern countries with Israeli or American flags saying the same thing?
One of these things is not like the other. Altman led OpenAI to an industry leading position and produced record results in product adoption. Even if that is over-praising him, Microsoft's fast and enormous investment in OpenAI was evidently closely linked to Altman. Just springing a surprise on Microsoft was dunderheaded enough to make it obvious that, whatever the board was doing, it was the opposite of what should have been done.

In contrast, it is equally obvious Elon dragged $44B into the road and set it on fire.
US has toppled governments and occupied countries over far less... probably not the best example.
Interestingly I've seen a strong pro-Israel bias, particularly on the larger subreddits (like the default ones). Some of the smaller ones do seem to have a pro-Palestine (or pro-civilian) outlook but nothing that I would describe as "strongly anti-Israel"
The squat house that the Pope fell in love with bothers the Italian government
Essay: I am going to die (on Wikipedia demographcis)
Due to the X-Com franchise, some part of me will always think of it as Elerium-115. [0]

[0] https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Elerium-115
I have been, at various points in time, taught how to build quality software. I think the large majority of people I work with have been taught about this as well. So I'm not sure who the "you are never taught ..." is referring to here. Should it perhaps instead be "I was never taught ..."?
In the same vein, leaving those poor people in Gaza in this purgatory where they will obviously never have enough power to fight for what they want/need is tragic too.
Glad to see actual discussion on this topic related to technology. Many investigations into social media being used to suppress pro-Palestinian activism, and the involvement of VCs is no less surprising. Anyone in tech who doesn’t care about what’s going on should really take a look into the huge efforts to silence people who are just trying to protect human lives.
The question is robots (in general, maybe not theirs) only a few more developments away from ready for those things or not?
What about real people who are living in huts right now? With few million you can drastically improve thousands of lives.

Are they not worth saving? Because they are far away and have small purchasing power there is small sense to help them.
Hamas will only end along with the Zionist occupation.
Unfortunately, it doesn't protect against Rubberhose cryptanalysis.
It is interesting to note there are about as many Jews in the US as there are in Israel. There are about 7.6 million Jews in the United States [1]. There are about 8 million Jews in Israel [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel
This is in fact what the optimizer does. At least in the original paper, the model learns to skew and rotate the gaussians.
I haven't had issues with any of that stuff (using Debian) for years. YMMV, of course.
My friend, not conflating groups is literally one of the standards for public discourse in 2023.
Nice enhancement to Lago!
The Native Americans definitely had the right to fight back against occupation and did famously on many occasions. Sadly they were successfully ethnically cleansed from the land.

The Palestinians are 75 years into the process of colonization and ethnic cleansing. They are actively resisting, as would anyone.
Two possible reactions to a competitor raising prices:

* let's not raise our prices and try to gain market share

* let's do the same and see if we can all just bring in more top-line revenue

Two possible actions when your costs go down compared to your current prices, but nobody has lowered prices:

* let's stay where we are, no need to be the first to make a move, we have nice fat margins right now

* let's get aggressive and lower prices

These are all rational actions. A "greed" aspect of inflation only requires most players in the market to take the actions that keep their prices higher.

The high-school-econ level common belief is that companies will predominantly choose the "let's go for more competition!" price move. But ... why? Competition is stressful and higher-effort than coasting and maintaining the status quo, especially when your profit margins for the status quo are now healthier than they were 4 years ago. Especially since it isn't guaranteed to work out financially better for you.

The "invisible hand" is limited in terms of forcing players into the price-cutting competition unless people are so broke that they can't keep going. But if it's the difference between saving 5% and saving 6% of your income, or the difference between putting an extra $100 on your credit card debt every month or an extra $110... there's no overarching benevolent force here that should make you think companies won't be as greedy as possible.

The "anti-greedflation" argument you're making is basically just "they would lower prices if they could" and that's patently false for the vast majority of products in the vast majority of transactions. They will avoid lowering prices until there's no alternative.

Mercedes being more expensive than Honda is not an example of "greedflation" - it's an example of consumers making decisions on other things than the instantaneous lowest price". And in a world where you agree that consumers aren't always motivated by price, you should see how that extends to "price wars won't always result in the instigator being guaranteed to win significant market share" and* sellers not always being motivated to favor market-share over all other metrics.
you should look at the r/palestine if you want see manifestation of hatred. or any heavily left leaning subs.
Pretty cool, I wonder if it changes the chemical composition of the soil in any way compared to a regular potato.
> You don't need specific hardware, it will run on non-TPM devices as well.

Oh, because the update button in the settings says my hardware does not meet the requirements.
related: a diagram of cognitive biases https://www.visualcapitalist.com/every-single-cognitive-bias...
Small memos can make large organizational changes
> /s?

I thought the GP was so obviously sarcasm that it didn't need an explicit tag
Replying to all 3 comments ... I considered a couple of options.

Option 1: I chose this path. I used this company [0] for convenience. They were easy to get a quick quote and found a person local to my area (I'm located in the mid-Atlantic) to do the scan. For < 4000 sqf homes - it takes about 3 - 3.5 hours to fully scan. Cost is dependent on size of area scanned and was in the 3 digit range. Post-pandemic, I suspect with a bit of hunting on gig websites, you can probably find local 3-d scanners who usually are hired by realtors for home-sale scans - but are equally willing to do other scan jobs as well. Many of them use Matterport equipment and from my small anecdote sample - scanning was a hobby which then got turbocharged into fun gig work by the realty virtual tour boom during the pandemic. They own the equipment ... and do scans for some side money.

Option 2: Buy the scanner camera equipment and DIY.[1]

At the end, I received a matterport model that was transferred to my free hosted account - limited to 1 model. While I have no need for more than 1, I did want to archive a backup of my model locally for safe-keeping. This project pointed me in the right direction [2]

Closing thoughts. I love being able to travel back in time through a 3-d render of my home when it was still just the skeleton. There needs to be better ways to achieve archiving of the model - given its value in terms of cost to acquire and security. While I didn't appreciate it at the time, using the model for quick virtual measurements of areas within rooms has also been handy when looking at furniture and rugs. If I forgot to measure before going, I can pull it up on my laptop and get a quick ballpark measure within the house. I'm thinking of doing another scan after I'm fully settled in ... to easily capture and annotate my stuff for insurance purposes.

[0] https://virtualspace.global/

[1] https://matterport.com/

[2] https://github.com/rebane2001/matterport-dl
Provoking an overreaction was the intention... and yet that is not factored into the criticism.
He was mean, even though everyone liked him.

Did the Washington Post really publish this?
It is interesting to me how your narrative went from somewhat reasonable to talking about “imparting hatred” and concluding it is anti-Semitic.

Which is kind of what the article is talking about.
If they follow their app pricing model, it will cost €13,55 more in my country for absolutely no reason.
Not really. There are many things named after Gauss but a "Gaussian" is almost always meant to be a probability distribution / density function that is very well understood and defined (and common)
Don't use twitter but I guess I might need to.
I don't know how many times you need to hear it, that is those people's home. You cannot kick people off of their home, even if you think it's "good for them".
I don't understand how stringing along assertion after assertion makes a great write-up. This is the substack version of gossip.
Of course it would, you would enumerate lengths too. If the lengths need to be larger than polynomially bounded then we can be sure it would never be found by a human anyway.
What do you think about the historical evidence of Netanyahu promoting Hamas for this very reason?

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...

Anyway, we can make a similar argument about the Netanyahu regime: it is actively making Jewish, Israeli, and American people around the world less safe. It is almost treasonous that our elected officials are supporting this dangerous regime so uncritically.
I still use BluRays, but the cost/GB has not kept up with everything else.
This is true but not the whole story. If Hamas were dug in under an Israeli school or hospital, would it similarly by okay to treat civilian deaths as 'just Hamas fault'? Obviously not. The problem here has that the situation is between a war and a policing situation. Gaza is not a state, but it is not a suburb of Israel either. So who is responsible for the safety of Palestinian civilians?
Certified refurbishers usually sell fine machines, and give a year of guarantee, or so.
Why Violins Have F-Holes: The Science and History of the Renaissance Design
How is it equally obvious Elon dragged $44B into the road and set it on fire? Are you sure you aren't speaking from a perspective of bias that already has a disdain towards Elon?
I never mentioned kicking anyone out. I wrote

>accepting Palestinian refugees?

If I am a parent in Gaza, I would not care about “home”. I just want my kid to have a future.
Yes! everything changes when using containers, whereas in gitlab everything is based on containers to begin with
Indeed. We calculate a $1 dollar fix in the factory costs $100 to fix on site.
There must be a underlying commonality for that to be possible.

What would a whale call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese?
I understand the dilemma, but many of those same children you are thinking of live in poverty in places such as Africa and with the misfortune of sickle cell disease.

If we prevented treatment because the money could be used elsewhere, we likely wouldn’t/won’t develop a drug that we could eventually[1] make cheap enough to cure these kids and give them longer lives too. We can do better!

[1] There is a cynical take here about drug costs, geopolitics, etc. but I am rejecting that cynicism.
LMMS appears to work as such. I have to admit I am not a musician and my only use of it was to test some midi control input from a midi dials and buttons box I was playing with. So it may be terrible for actual music creation for all I know.

https://lmms.io/

Update: so I looked at it a bit, still not a musician but it looks like lmms can only export single midi tracks at a time. So probably useless for actually creating a midi song. If you really wanted to beat your self up you could set up each track as a midi output channel, then play the song while recording the midi stream. But that does not sound like much fun to me.
I've planned for this by migrating to Linux; I received a new machine with Windows 11 and was so abhorred by what an abomination it is that I switched my OS after using Windows for what feels like forever. Maybe 2025 will be the year of Linux on the desktop and we'll have Microsoft to thank? I know I have Microsoft to thank for opening my eyes to a Linux desktop.
I shift from making myself not think about it to becoming a complete paranoid nut to telling myself it probably isn't so bad and doesn't matter a few times a year. There are levels to this sort of thinking, and it exists on a spectrum. I think everyone can agree on a conceptual level that manipulation occurs. A basic, mostly harmless example would be a music star "organically going viral" and "being discovered as a result" not being quite as organic as it seems. Where it changes from healthy skepticism to paranoia is a line I struggle to draw personally.
I find this whole thing very weird, it's all about what side are you on as if it's a game to win. Are you pro-Palestine or pro-Israel, wrong answer and you're out of the club!

Are you not just allowed to have an opinion without you being classified as some sort of adjective? The same thing is happening with politics, you're either a republican or a democrat. Well, what if you're just a regular guy who pours concrete for a living. Why can't you just be Bob Smith?
Most of the time they aren't that good at approximating geometry. They are good at approximating the "appearance" of geometry. However, many regularization techniques and priors can be introduced to make the Gaussian splatting technique better at geometry approximation.
There were six board members. Sam and Helen were two of them. The conversations were with the other four board members. So it would be something like this:

Sam to A: We should get rid of Helen. B, C, and D agree with me.

Rinse and repeat. Typical Mean Girls stuff.
I'm cool with that if they look IDENTICAL to the flex post so random doordash driver who decides they want to park in the bike lane may or may not end up with a caved in bumper.
Thanks for saying this. I think we in software engineering tend to think too binary: either the product is perfect (100% bug-free) or it's shit. There's always room for improvement, but compared to other engineering, overall, I think we're doing pretty good. As an example similar to your wife's, my friend used to work for one of the major car manufacturers doing almost the exact same job as Edward Norton's character in Fight Club. The cars had "bugs", they knew about it, but they didn't publicly acknowledge it until they were forced to.
Well, I do own a home. But the only people I know my age that seem to own homes (that don't have high paying jobs) took advantage of something in order to get the money together for the downpayment, like lived with their parents for years rent-free while saving, or their parents just outright provided the downpayment.

Or they bought a single-bedroom apartment as a condo for like the same price that most people used to pay for full-size homes back in the day.

And that was all pre-pandemic, when prices were like 70% of what they are now and mortgage rates were super low (that's when I bought mine also). I don't know of anyone who's bought a home my age since then (and I'm an older Millennial, it should be mostly us buying homes right now).
Extending Rust based UI (Slint) with KDUtils (C++ libs)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_quality

It’s not that crazy.
Wahabism dates back over 200 years, the Sunni/Shia divide over a thousand years.
VdL has 'destroyed her career' many times over, during her stint. She repeatedly tried to look decisive rather than wise; sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.

The truth is that the Commission President continues to be a job in search of political weight and legitimacy, but you can't get that after you are nominated to the post by scheming national rulers - it has to come from the ballot box. She tries hard to compensate for what is a structural weakness that was supposed to be fixed by the spitzenkandidaten process... a process that she blew up herself.
It's one of very very few issues where America and most of the west have stood firmly in support of violence and oppression for decades, even on issues like settlements where the US formally acknowledges the illegality and takes no action.

Of course people care primarily about the actions of their own democratically elected government, that's the whole point. There's no need to protest when people agree with their government.
Nah, it was like a good episode of Succession!
Wow really? That's annoying. Why go to all the trouble to add the switch if they won't implement it correctly
> However they often come out lacking important skills that are needed.

Companies that offer the jobs are the ones that need to offer the job training.

> (I think this is the point you were trying to make?)

Not really, it's that university education is kind of meta/self serving (the goal is not to train X number of students to do Y jobs, it's to give every student at the institution what that institution defines to be an education).

But like you said, the fact this produces better workers is a second-order effect. It's not the goal of most institutions. But not all institutions; some define "well educated" to have lots of industry practicum, and if you want that, go study at those institutions.

My main point is that it's not a "disservice" to eschew practicum or industry training as an educational institution.
> The underlying cultural memory is that of the Holocaust, and of thousands of years of oppression and pogroms before, where nobody would ever help the Jewish people if they were in danger. Thus the belief that the second the Jewish people became a political minority in Israel, they would be immediately and inevitably subject to ethnic cleansing and persecution by the government. Jewish supremacy is viewed as the only way for Jews to be safe in a world full of people who either hate them or don't care enough to help.

You're describing the reason that some Jews say they support the creation of an ethnostate. That's still an ethnostate, and treating Israel as synonymous with a Jewish ethnostate is the defining right-wing characteristic of Zionism.

It's important to note that what you're describing is not representative of the general opinion of Jews, either globally or in Israel. Many Jewish Holocaust survivors and their descendants oppose the creation of an ethnostate through ethnic cleansing.
They did that. In fact, the US waited quite a long time to see if the Taliban would give up bin Laden, before invading.