skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are very, very actively working on the "robots can't do everything" challenge. Planning ahead for the societal impacts of that scenario instead of going "oh shit, what now?" afterwards seems... wise.

What would you do for purpose if robots can do what you can do, for cheaper, and thus put you out of a job?
as an office worker... i use linux, a bunch in my team use apple's OS. i'd say it's only about half of my team that still uses windows, trending downwards. but in general i'd probably agree that more than 72% of office workers use windows, just definitely not all of them and i'd expect it to keep trending downwards if m$ doesn't change course.
I would have read it if it wasn't published from Packt
Sorry, but this is wishful thinking. Apple/Google will put up every technical obstacle they can, plus the problem is social, not technical -- the vast majority of customers want ease of use, and that's what app stores provide.

I'm filing this along with those "this is the year of Linux on the desktop" predictions
I mean, while K exists in the Portuguese alphabet, no words use it.
> “Social media research has largely assumed that [so-called] social media addiction is going to follow the same framework as drug addiction,” said Turner. Orben’s team and others argue that this is likely to be oversimplistic and are investigating whether the teenagers cluster into groups whose behaviour can be predicted by other personality traits.

> It could be that, for some, their relationship is akin to a behavioural addiction, but for others their use could be driven by compulsive checking, others may be relying on it to cope with negative life experiences, and others may simply be responding to negative social perceptions about “wasting time” on social media.

Finally! I feel less smart for not having thought of this myself!

I was unable to meaningfully change my own phone habits (despite serious effort and roadblocks) until it clicked that I was coping for something. What that was and what I was doing to cope highlighted parts of my life like nothing else. Instead of simply abstaining from using my phone, I put time into activities that benefited the withered branches of my life. Old habits still die hard, but knowing that I'm coping as I'm coping helped me separate the good social media use from the bad.
Posting this because the title itself constitutes an intellectual curiosity.

Edit: funnily, they changed the title/story [1]

[1] https://www.foxnews.com/media/associated-press-calls-plagiar...
One thing that I've found interesting about Iceland is that it is the country with the most authors per capita:

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24399599

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/444296-mo...

But of course most of these authors aren't full-time authors whose income comes chiefly from their books. In fact, the Icelandic Prime Minister recently released a novel:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/28/iceland-pm-rel...

Having a small and sparse population, Icelanders seem to have a tradition of wearing multiple hats rather than sticking with one specialization. When the men's football team made their first World Cup, the head coach wasn't just a football coach, he also happened to be a dentist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimir_Hallgrímsson

It seems like a lot of people lament that more folks can't make it as full-time authors, but I don't really have a problem with that if the demand for their writing isn't there. But if the US were more like Iceland and typical "real" jobs paid a livable wage with reasonable hours, maybe those passionate about writing could still manage to take a shot at it without it being a big deal if their book turned out to be a commercial flop?
From experience, I think the OV-chipkaart was the best option traveling the Netherlands. You would just to remember to check-out at the end of your journey so you wouldn't be charged end-to-end pricing. And the fact that you would pay only for the portion used in a trip (there was a few eurocents difference if you took the tram two stops or three stops, same for buses) it also made a lot of economic sense versus the all you can eat model everyone else employs.

Second best from recent years I like the new system in the NYC subway: tap & go, same price as a MetroCard without the hassle of buying one.
I'm willing to bet its more about the "Fedora" than the "Cinnamon". I was an Arch user for about 15 years with a few attempts in between to try other distros (including Fedora), but recently I've been installing Fedora on my machines because the last two versions have been really good. Its very competent, software availability has improved, they take security much more seriously than any other (normal) distro and they are always on top of the latest features and upcoming "tech" on the linux world.
They have been putting features back into it each update though. We finally have the ability to ungroup open task bar entries again/etc.
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It also encourages helicopter parenting - which has its own downsides.
Our Move to Generated SDKs
If wiping the cache is a no-go, how do you handle (unexpected) restarts?
This was my tipping point to cancel Prime which I have had since 2005.

Freevee was bad enough, Prime delivery? I can wait. Prime music? Do not use. Books? Easy to find elsewhere. Gaming? I have too many on Steam. Photos? Onedrive + iCloud work. Exclusives on video like Clarkson's Farm? I know where to look as do many here.

I probably was not getting the purported value anyway but inertia kept things as they were. This shift made me look again and actually try to find the value.

There is none.
> Cooling the transistor to 77 K also offers greater sensitivity between the device’s “on” and “off” positions, with a smaller change in voltage needed to switch from one state to the other. This can significantly lower power consumption.

I might be way off, but I'm under the impression that keeping a chip supplied with liquid nitrogen (which constantly boils away) would greatly increase power consumption of the entire system compared to a conventional equivalent.
30 years into my career as a programmer, and I've never had to understand how any of these worked internally, not even once.
Way to get more Twitter followers
I was able to suck it up from 8 till 10, but 11 is starting to piss me off.

I bought a gaming computer a year ago, it was fully pre-built. Somehow a 2 thousand (or whatever) computer comes with Windows Home instead of Pro (wtf Microsoft, you should really make sure OEMs are giving out Pro versions for gaming systems). This is where the fun begins, and I've posted it before on HN. I couldn't install Windows 11 offline in order to avoid making a Microsoft account. I don't like all my personal shit automagically being uploaded to Microsoft's cloud, especially when they default to on, and companies will reset settings on a whim.

So what happened next is I had to literally login, and then when I was finally on Windows, I wanted to add a new account because I don't like that Windows doesn't let me set the *username* local to the OS, if you're going to make me login, please let me set the username, I don't want my Windows path to be C:/Users/gianc/Documents or whatever. I rather set that myself, re-configuring all of that after the fact feels like it will break something, and it is not worth it.

So I go to create a new Windows offline account only to be told by the modern Windows 11 UI that I'm on Home edition of Windows, and cannot add users from that software, go to software XYZ from Windows. So I go there... guess what error I got? The same exact error telling me to go back to the previous program. I wound up installing Linux in frustration.

The only reason I don't use Linux is if the drivers stop being supported OOTB by the installer, which has happened to me before. Linux might have its own issues, but at least it's not completely FUBARd despite one of the largest companies pouring millions into its development.
> Interestingly, Suovaniemi didn’t attribute his inventions to diligence or tireless ambition, but quite the opposite. “I’m extremely lazy by nature,” Suovaniemi once told an interviewer, so “I created a pipette with nine channels.”

Engineering is all about laziness. The whole field is about making devices & structures to reduce overall labor required. Engineers need a certain sort of laziness, a willingness to work now in order to work less later (or to help others work less later). Tireless ambition rarely leads to good engineering, it leads to continued drudgery.
Ah yes, 2017, when DeepMind, an Alphabet subsidiary, invented the T in GPT. Merely 100.000 citations so far.
For pleasure? Sure
I hope that there would be architectural improvements possible that would not be realistic for current Linux, and implementing those changes would make also the internals—and thus the kernel module interfaces—look quite a bit different.
My 80 years old grandmother uses Ubuntu to browse web content and play casual games.

When my aunt bought her a new computer with Windows she couldn't use it properly and complained that she wanted a computer "like the old one". She was equally unable to use Macos in my laptop. Nowadays when people complain about Linux's usability I know that they are normally overstating or talking from prejudice because from a practical point of view no way the usability of any modern distro is significantly behind Windows' or Macos' usability, it's even the opposite I would say.
Anecdotally, recently I tried to upgrade/update a PC (at my parent's house) running a 5 YO Manjaro build and was not possible. All mirrors dead, GPG keys server dead, broken dependencies, etc... I am far from a Linux expert but tried everything I could, sometimes checking 10 YO threads and ChatGPT. In the end I just installed Windows O o.
> Sure, there are lots of scammers and con artists in the cryptocurrency world . . . but the fundamental technologies are indeed interesting, potentially and actually useful and also something that real world people who don't live in privileged bubbles of sound government regularly do use in many parts of the world.

I'm sick of hearing about how "interesting" and "potentially . . . useful" the tech is when the vast majority of real-world uses are speculative bets or outright scams.

There may well be good uses in narrow circumstances outside of developed countries. But people still try to steer so many conversations towards cryptocurrency not because of those uses, but because they want to drive the value of the currency higher.
>‘We’re not saying the people who say they feel addicted are addicted,’ said Georgia Turner, a graduate student leading the analysis

Is it common to question the validity of self-identified addictions to other substances or behaviors? Is it common for people who aren't gambling addicts to say things like "I feel like I'm addicted to gambling"?

I suppose that the lead on the study doesn't want to overstate their findings, and there's obviously a social stigma that exists around admitting to gambling addiction that doesn't seem to exist for social media addiction, but still; it strikes me as unusual to be so openly questioning people about whether or not their perceived addictions are real.
Japan jet crash: How crew pulled off flawless evacuation from plane inferno
The reason C++ std:deque block size is 16bytes in MSVC
it was a couple years ago, but when i tried to game on Debian i was shocked by some 4+ year old packages that i wanted to try gaming with, nothing worked.

it's probably better today, but i definitely recommend a very up to date distro for gaming, and arch is literally the most up to date there is. happy with arch myself, except the nvidia issues, if you run an nvidia gpu i don't recommend it just yet (getting better really quickly though)
I think it gives everyone a weapon, but I don't think it was conservatives that brought her down in this case.
It might not be good for juniors, but, as Antirez points out, is great for adapting to new frameworks or APIs, especially with search results having become so much more noisy lately
> Unless you are an iOS dev, it just never made sense to buy one.

Not sure I completely agree, if you're buying a laptop and factor in the fact that you're guaranteed to get a good screen then MacBooks have provide pretty good value, for me at least over the past 15 years.
The answer is:

- They are non IT professionals, who are forced to use Teams and Office and they get it from their Corporate default.

- Users of Windows who must have it due to applications that are not available for other OSs. Professional Audio, Video, Engineering Applications.

- They are students with their first laptop who got Windows installed by default.

- They are part of the well know 2.2% of males and 1.3% of females involved in submission and sadomasochism...
And I get that what I said can be interpreted that way but it’s far from the truth. If anything it’s easier for the weak to be noble because there are fewer decisions they are given to make.

At the other end of the spectrum it’s nearly impossible to be consistently noble if you are say, the leader of the free world, with great power comes great responsibility etc.

But in the Catholic Church for example there are just as many saints who had small influence, often not even extending beyond themselves to another person, as there are saints with massive, global influence
Recording your business meeting without consent. Is it legal? [video]
Postgres and SQL Server have always had transactions; but unless you frame your DML in BEGIN TRANSACTION/[COMMIT|ROLLBACK], each statement is committed as executed.

If you broke in on Oracle, where you must explicitly commit statements (unless your client sets up auto-commit), this can take some getting used to.
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Anyone feel this is going in circles?
If I understand this project correctly it's going for syscall compatibility, and can run some subset of Linux binaries already.

Which is cool, but...

In any case, I wish the author luck, and it'd be cool if it went somewhere, but I am disappointed by the choice of license. But that's up to them, in the end.
I would easily believe it. In fact, I don't think I know anyone who doesn't use Windows - all of my friends and family use it (as far as I am aware), and while I use Linux on my personal laptop, I am stuck with Windows on my work laptop. I think Windows is still quite dominant in the corporate space, and amongst people who are not tech literate at all.

I used to dual boot Windows and Linux, but the most recent version of Windows I tried (11 I think?) really pissed me off during the setup process, mainly by persistently badgering me to get a Microsoft account. Between that and Linux getting a lot better at running the (relatively few) games I play, I decided to get rid of Windows and just use that drive as extra storage.
> What the hell is muscle use above a curent baseline? What does that even mean?

Meaning, a conservative increase over your current training regimen, as opposed to over-training. If you go from couch potato to running several miles a day, that's going to be way more stressful than gradual ramp-up. I made that caveat because intense over-training can cause really bad things such as rhabdomyolysis at the extreme.

>I’m pretty sure you’ve never taken a science class in your life.

I'm pretty sure I have a BS in chemistry and worked as a synthetic chemist for years, and you are talking out your ass.
I think it's rather unfair to say that we can't accurately judge sincerity unless you talk about levels of precision.

Because, for instance, accuracy in judgment of sincerity is a basic requirement of getting through any day for any human. In other words, we can certainly judge it accurately enough for many purposes.
To be honest, normally I'd agree with you--there's a core set of important algorithms and data structures that pretty much every programmer should be aware of and understand well enough to be able to figure out how to look for them should they need to use it. And while I normally have a visceral reaction against "XYZ every programmer should know" because it's almost invariably far more detail than what every programmer should know, your basic data structures and algorithms actually are important enough to fall into that category, and there's a reason that a course on the topic is essentially course #2 in a CS curriculum.

But after reading the table of contents here, I'm thoroughly convinced that this book is not about that. About halfway through, I gave up trying to count the algorithms it was covering because it seems like it randomly decides it wants to be an AI textbook instead. Its focus on AI is weird; if you've got time for Naïve Bayes classifiers, where's convex hull? Where's simplex [1]? Fast Fourier Transform? Union-find? Constraint satisfaction? Hell, where's quicksort?

Another harbinger of quality: there's a section on "Choosing between MD5 and SHA". If you have an entire section on that in a book published in 2023, something is wrong. Then again, an algorithms book needing to have a section on that topic is itself... o_O-worthy.

[1] Okay, there's a section on linear programming. A section. Which, based on the section headings, seems entirely focused on "here's how to use a linear programming solver" and not anything on the actual algorithm itself. My algorithms textbook has an entire chapter on simplex, with instructions on how to code the algorithm itself.
Uncover evidence of internet censorship worldwide
Editorialized title, because it’s a Reddit comment. Admins, feel free to change it if that’s not ok in this specific context.
I remember when stores used to be closed on Sundays.

We can close social media on Sundays and reopen monday morning aha
It's often tossed around that reactors can work for 80 years, but not a single one has managed that yet. The longest running nuclear plant is Beznau in Switzerland, now running for 54 years. But it needed extensive and expensive repairs around 10 years ago costing billions [1]. Swiss media reported that the reactor contains thousands of holes. [2]

So the reality is less simple and rosy than people like to pretend.

[1] https://www.axpo.com/ch/en/about-us/energy-knowledge.detail....
[2] https://www.thelocal.ch/20151008/worlds-oldest-nuclear-react...
>rather than some kind of ideology about software freedom.

And correctly so. "Open source" was explicitly intended to strip the ideology in order to more effectively market the bazaar development model to businesses. That's the difference between Open Source and Free Software.
I would add on to the "don't care" to say that (in my experience) your typical computer user doesn't even understand what an OS is. With many people that I've interacted with they just equate the computer and OS as one thing and have no idea what OS they're using, much less that it's actually replaceable.
Yes I did, thank you for continuing the conversation.

Those enzymes that it unregulated, those genes that they upregulate… do you know what they are? Let’s talk about one…mnSOD or SOD2.

Do you know that enzyme needs a co-factor and that co-factor is manganese. What do you think happens when you keep exercising, but do not replenish your manganese? mnSOD does not work as fast and this leads to a buildup of superoxides and disease.

Up regulating these enzymes because we’re exercising is not decreasing oxidative stress, it’s getting rid of the oxidative stress that we created. And all that results is that we deplete ourselves in manganese.

Does this happen for everyone? No does this happen for people who might have polymorphisms in there SOD2 genetics? Probably.

https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajpcell.003...
If Windows 8 broke you Windows 11 is going to to make you wish you stayed broken.
They got rid of a lot of nice things in the UI like ability to move the toolbar (what Microsoft calls taskbar) to the right (hiding it completely would be nice but of course you can't have that without unreliable 3rd party scripts), shoved MS account through users' throat, introduced "lock screen" mess which you can't disable while breaking on battery behavior. In my case it made my laptop completely unusable on battery as I either need to type my password 30 times an hour and/or deal with screen going dark because of "inactivity". No matter how many settings I disabled the behavior is still there. It's widely reported on the Internet but pleas to Microsoft to just let us use our computer in peace by disabling lock screen and screen dimming are unanswered.

So now Windows forces you to use Microsoft account, shoves ads and crapware into your face (even in "pro" version), makes significant part of your vertical screen real estate unusable because of popping up toolbar like in good old days of internet browsers, makes using laptops on battery a mess. They removed a lot more options to tweak the UI. It's just full on assault on usability. It really does seem like they want to get rid of power users so they can continue shoving more ads and dark patterns on remaining ones. Like those Nigerian Prince scammers who make glaring grammar errors in their emails so people with any kind of critical thinking skills won't bother them responding.

If you wonder why I upgraded - I really didn't want to but at some point they must've sneaked a dialog somewhere where I had a habit of clicking through and to my surprise it was Windows 11 from now on. I resisted for a long time but they have won.
Agreed, after all the biggest OS today by a big margin is Android. Mobile is the new PC.