skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that is the norm on Pop. They removed snaps in the standard setup and have their own package repository. You can install stuff normally and if you don't find something you can use flatpaks.
> In the niches of fantasy I read there are no traditionally published authors any more, they all monetise via patreon, kindle unlimited and audible. From what I've gleaned no traditional publisher can compete with this.

I see this too, but I've also seen the next step: Publishers chase them down for book deals. Azarinth Healer is the one that comes to mind (since I'm working through Book 3 again), where the author monetized via Patreon for years, then got a publishing deal through Portal.

Honestly, it's been a good thing overall. The audiobooks are high quality, and the editing has done the story a tremendous amount of good.
The only reason there is one Linux kernel everyone uses is because of the license. If it wasn't GPL2 there would be "Microsoft Linux", "Google Linux", "Oracle Linux" all with different features and potential incompatibilities. At least with the GPL2 license those flavors have to contribute changes back upstream so everyone gets the benefits.
Kids like Windows because it is best for games. If Windows continues to be the best platform for games it will probably be fine.
> Everybody associates the term with a feeling—frustration, usually—but they don’t have a precise idea of where that feeling comes from.

The majority of the time that I hear people using the term, they aren't expressing a feeling, they're expressing "necessary work that has been postponed".
How I would deploy application on Kubernetes
I wrote down about a process to deploy applications in Kubernetes, from application source code, to container image, to Helm chart, and to deployment to a cluster.

Any feedback appreciated, be it on content or style.

Nothing is written in Rust, nor Go, it's not about an Apple product.
I'm talking about contemporary literature. It has been this way historically and nothing about it has changed.
I'm making significantly less than I was 5 years ago.

I don't see it getting better anytime soon.
Linux already has the largest market share because of Android, ChromeOS, embedded devices.
The 4% here actually refers to GNU/Linux.
Genode runs on sel4 and has a desktop gui.
It sounds great until you start doing the math. We can't decarbonise without nuclear, just look at Germany. It's a poster child for renewables yet it's barely doing better than Poland (where I live). Meanwhile France is (as of now) emitting 1/10th of Germany's CO2 per unit of energy generated.
I ran a few searches like "Oil paintings for sale" and found the vast majority seem to be human made and sold. Same for "scenic art", "fantasy art", "animals playing cards art", and so on.

I've found no searches where AI made art is "drowning out the art made by humans". Do you have some example searches where you find this to be true?

Also AI tools will let more people make art they like, and perhaps sell some to others that like it. I suspect this will be like the claims recording music would kill off musicians since up to then music was live. If anything, it expanded music by making it available cheaply and easily to more people. (See the Luddite story on textiles for yet another example).
Not trying to negate your experience as all that's pretty awful, but I purchased my Windows 11 legally of course, and then immediately used modified/pirated install media to install it:

- Without a Microsoft account

- With telemetry disabled (as much as is possible anyway)

I haven't seen any ads in the OS... maybe a OneDrive one? I have no idea what you're talking about with a toolbar though, the only thing of size that pops up on mine is the start menu. Unless that's the new search thing I disabled.

I dunno. On balance, I LOVED Windows 7, Windows 8 was a mess, Windows 10 was... more or less just 7 with an uglier and more confusing interface, and if anything, 11 is a step back towards 7 in my mind, both in aesthetics and usability. Though I was also never one for the side taskbar, so if that's your bag, I can absolutely see you not enjoying it being gone. Other positives:

- They're finally reunifying settings into a single interface, hopefully they finish this time before starting a new one

- New display configuration options are much more sanely organized

- I've had just, WAY fewer issues with drivers in general

Some negs:

- Audio settings are now in five places, any of which can and can not apply to whatever you're doing, seemingly on the fly

- They replaced the context menu with a different context menu that's only slightly different and instead of just carrying over old options with some sensible defaults, hid them in a sub-context context menu which just... ugh

MacOS is still bae though. And that's probably why I like 11 okay is because it feels distinctly like Microsoft chasing Apple with regard to OS design. But as someone who would definitely consider myself a power user, I have no issues using 11. It's an improvement on 10, IMO, which was a distinct downgrade from 7 but itself was a massive upgrade from the train-wreck that was 8, so overall the trajectory is acceptable.
hang in there. I'll be rooting for you.
I have a question for you both (drakonka and turkeygizzard): Would you ever sell all or a portion of the rights to future earnings for your already published books to a third party? We've seen in the music industry PE firms basically acquiring known catalogues for the residuals and I'm wondering why that doesn't seem to happen in the publishing industry.
This is completely idiotic policy for Netherland's own interest. They are closing themselves from a huge market, just to satisfy the misguided ideas from the neocon think-tank spawns that infected both the last and the current US administration.

It won't fucking work. Sanctions only work when targeted against weak countries, where they can have a devastating impact. Against a country like China, they just protect nascent industries. Yeah, profits are gonna suck for a while, investors are screaming bloody murder, but in countries like China, they don't care as much about what their wall street thinks, and investors understand that they sometimes are going to lose, something which became anathema in the west.

We are not in heydays of early 2000's globalism. Nation-States are not going anywhere and strategical national concerns became fashionable again. No force can stop it.

What is the US going to do? preemptively attack china? Have anyone thought about the logistical nightmare this entails? the fucking tragedy for supply chains and global commerce? How exactly the US thinks it is going to send a naval expeditionary force to south china sea? How those nice and expensive carrier groups pretend to survive the barrage of missiles, especially hypersonic ones? And then what? Hunker down in Taiwan while engaging in a decades long attrition war against China. Turning ourselves into a war economy so we can produce the mind-boggling amounts of ammo this would entails? and then to defend exactly what? the sacred ruins of bombed TSMC factories? Does those morons in the Pentagon and the State Department ever heard about the fact that wars cost money, and attrition wars even more, and that printing money by itself is not enough, because digits on a computer don't win wars, but raw steel, diesel and chips do?

The only way of dealing with China is keeping them dependent on western technology, leveraging the west's advantage not only in lithography, but also on optics and software to ensure that there's no economical way for them to develop a competing industry, simply because there will be no reason for China's industrial behemoths to shoot themselves on the foot by buying native chip technology that is worse and more expensive.
I for one absolutely love their hybrid window tiling shell and architecture as Gnome plugins. I don't think KDE has something quite on the same level although there is movement in that space.
The year millennial internet ended
> overwhelming evidence supports the theory that a combination of strength and cardio training leads to better healthspans.

Better for who? That’s my point. Obviously my grandfather didn’t need it right?

But I’m against these simplistic explanations for something much more beautiful happening underneath all this bro science advice.

There is no evidence that strength and cardio ALONE leads to longer life and health spans. what I’m arguing is that there is something beneath what you’re all looking at that would help way more people if we understood it completely. And what that is is the balance and mitigation of oxidative stress. It is quite probable that because my grandfather did not work out, he did not create a lot of oxidative stress, and that’s what helped him live longer. What would be more important for humanity is understanding oxidative stress.
I never argued for that:

> The way I see it, western countries and US should take a clear stand about Taiwanese statehood, and Taiwan needs to do it first on their own in order for the rest of the world to take a stand, as they legally still lay claim on the entirety of China (and beyond).

and this:

> This tension can only be relieved by de jure integrating Taiwan in Chinese statehood under very huge degrees of autonomy, which no one, let alone Taiwanese people ever trust or by unilateral statehood declaration.

I argue that at some point there is a need for a de jure resolution of the Taiwanese matter or this issue will come again and again.

And, the way I see it, it has been US starting from Bush but most importantly under the hawkish Trump presidency that has made the matter relevant again combined with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
IMHO usability on Linux is good for advanced users who can more or less understand how packages work and can use the command line to some extent and also for people on the other side who are fine with a 'static' system, use a very limited number of apps, have fixed workflows and don't need to change/install anything themselves.

In between there is a giant pit with hard/impossible to solve cryptic errors (or no errors and just silent crashed on launch unless you try to open the same app in the terminal). Confusing and half-baked documentation (because there are dozens different way to accomplish the same thing depending on your distro and config, good luck figuring out which is the right one for you) etc. etc.

A lot of these issues are not really "bugs" and just a natural outcome of the decentralized nature of Linux (non-kernel part) development. They can be solved by power users but not by people who are used to much more user friendly workflows on macOS (again IHMO) somewhat less (but still more so than on Linux) on Windows.
Yes, all of which sentencing is also based on human judgement of persons character, witness statements, expert statements, presentation of evidence, etc etc

Judgement of sincerity is woven into the entirety of court procedures. Why would you exclude this additional relevant data point regarding sincerity of allocution?
Out of curiosity what part of the world do you live in?

I currently work remotely for a company that is head-quartered in California. The company issues MacBooks unless you ask for a Windows laptop. Most of my co-workers in California grew up using Macs and love them. Whereas it seems that, for some reason, the majority of the non-Californian employees grew up using Windows.

My current manager came from Microsoft and was the one that pointed this out to me (because, like you, I also have always hated MacOS ... before our company started issuing Windows laptops to those who request them I tried really hard to get used to it and just couldn't). My manager's claim, though I'm not sure how accurate it is, is that Apple seems to have a cultural hold within California, with lots of businesses using them as well as consumers ... but outside of the state Microsoft has the hold. Again, it's a hypothesis, I don't know if there's any validity to it ... but I'm curious if there could be some truth to it.
The naive tldr:

Render the HTML server side instead of client side, then the client is only doing DOM updates.
I think it's possible to run Genode[1] as a desktop on top of seL4 (Genode supports different kernels). However, I'm struggling to find a tutorial to get that up and running.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genode
No thanks. No way. I'm working on adding algorithmic feeds to my Mastodon instance because it's the biggest issue I have with Mastodon. It's also making me spend more time because I have to scroll through a bunch of stuff I have no interest in to see the stuff I want to see.

Put another way: To me, your statement boils down to telling me I should be less social. These kinds of places are the social contact I grew up with - starting with BBS's in the early 90's onwards - and where I've met and keep in touch with most of the people I know.

I have no problem accepting some people have problems controlling their social media use, but at the same time to me talking about limiting or shutting it down is about as authoritarian and restrictive as enforcing curfew. In fact, more so - it'd affect me more negatively than being forcibly locked in my own house 8 hours a day.
"If you were always moving out of the way when you were smaller, because you had to, is it so noble?"

There are other ways to be precieved as dangerous. Appearing to be dangerous is the real choice. Having the image of being bigger/stronger can actually have negative effects as well when considering things like what level of force is considered justified against you, other people seeking to prove dominace just due to your threatening appearance, etc.

"Becoming attractive unlocks doors in the world that were previously locked."

Not really. Sure it would help in certain things like mate selection, being an OF model, etc. Maybe you get slightly more courteous treatment. But it's not really opening doors that couldn't be opened in other ways. Not to mention that being attractive does not require big muscles. There are other ways to achieve that.
App stores are an ad delivery system these days. Apple/Google don't make money hosting a bunch of apps, the filthy lucre comes from companies paying to have their apps in the top slot.
Another set of tradeoffs that we used to think JSON over the wire would mitigate. They, of course, brought their own tradeoffs.

Case in point for partial HTML updates: you update the backend in such a way that HTML it sends is no longer compatible with the frontends running in the browsers.

(You won’t believe how long can a page be open without a refresh.)
The tragic demise of Plants vs. Zombies [video]
What historical data do you have?
I think under any reasonable definition of transformative it's impossible for the weights themselves to not be transformative. The weights of a neural network are substantially different in type and nature from the omnibus of works that generate them. The more pertinent question is whether the outputs generated by the weights are all transformative. The weights themselves being transformative is not sufficient to make an entity hosting an AI model not responsible for outputs that are not sufficiently transformative and I think most AI models we've seen to date tend to expose direct copies or near copies of their input data in part or all of a response.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/21/us-can-get-to-100percent-cle...

https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/11/01/most-scenarios-tod...

There are lots of grids without any nuclear power already. Poland only has ~34GW of total fossil generation, very easy to replace without nuclear.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/PL?wind=false&solar=fal...
SMIC achieved a competitive 7nm node on their own.

5nm has also been achieved on their own, albeit the yields are not enough for mass production till 2024 and it doesn't uses EUV litography.
Most might have a controller and use one for some games, doesn't mean that most players always use one.
JS and Rust are memory safe languages with a culture of pulling in hundreds if not thousands of dependencies. So unfortunately, in terms of culture, at least those languages are not Pareto improvements.
We just recently got Geo HVAC, for our two units it was 800 total feet divided into 2 wells. And drilling was in the area of 25% of the total cost. 50% for the units themselves, and I guess 25% for the other parts, labor, and misc stuff.

While drilling is definitely a big chunk, all of it is so much more expensive than traditional air heat pumps that even without drilling it would still be at least 50% more expensive. Double without US Federal incentives.
It's just the start as well. I was thinking today - if training data is allowed to violate all copyright protections, forever, then the incentive for human artists to keep producing works will collapse.

Imagine ie eventually you could get new episodes for any podcast in the world through AI. It would ingest the data from the hosts, it would ingest the data from everyone who's ever been interviewed, and you could ask it for say Marc Maron interviewing Abraham Lincoln. Or if you are into conspiracy theories, you could ask it to produce new episodes of Alex Jones on Joe Rogan, using current headlines as data. You could do this forever.
>Looking at December it shows Windows rising too, with macOS dropping down.

I posted something similar except for browser. [1] Desktop Browser Market Share Worldwide – December 2023, Safari saw a sharp decline to less than 9%, down from 14% in June.

It seems for whatever reason a lot of people tried Safari but then switched back to Chrome.

I wonder what were the reason the drove this action. And on the Linux 4% sharp increase in December.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38833412
I install everywhere Fedora for the same reasons. As long an the users aren’t Windows-Users and believe they know computers they will be happy with a plain Linux. They update itself, they upgrade it self and they’re happy not forced into updates.
GNOME can be criticized for missing options but it features a simple and neat interface and keyboard centric usage makes it a bless.

I myself using Arch which for more than 14 years now and it is a perfect fit for professions and enthusiasts. But in case of an average user, Fedora.

What I mean with Windows-Users? People which believe they need to install “drivers“ themselves. Which argue against Linux anyway because it doesn’t support the weird „Desktop Metapher“ from Windows 95. And usually argue that weird hardware like 3D-Shutterglasses or some kind of HDR-Something (just insert here some hot new stuff) isn’t supported. The broad majority of users don’t want that and don’t need it. What matters is HiDPI-Scaling (good, with exception of the awful thing named Electron) and easy to configure sound-system (Pipewire nailed it). And unification of which we achieved through Linux, LIBC/LIBSTDC++, Coretuils and finally Systemd and Flatpak. The point here is the chain of parts building upon each other.

Recommendations
Stay away from Nvidia. Use old ThinkPads if you have not special requirements. Use printers with AirPrint (IPP-Everywhere).

Teaching
I would be happy if people start teaching the users to read the interface (like a book or an info grahic), think and then act. Input, Process, Output. TUIs foster that and I think that is why users accustomed to them love them - and dislike most GUIs and nearly all websites.

What computer courses do for decades? Not teaching users using the interface. They just drill them to click on a specific icon (once, or twice or with the wrong mouse button).
Just see them happy when the type “Email” and Linux offers Evolution or Thunderbird. And if they don’t find it two months later? Again “Email”.
It happens quite a bit! I mentioned it in another comment here, but one thing that publishers can be very useful for is audiobook rights and translations. These are very costly to produce and it sometimes makes more sense to offload that part to a publisher. That is definitely something I'd consider doing if the opportunity came along.
IMO, in the age of Kindle Unlimited, yes. I, myself, have a very hard time justifying purchases over $6. The reason is pretty simple, the higher priced books are not guaranteed to be better, just written by a more widely recognized author.
The Transformer paper, ie "Attention is All You Need", was a Google Brain/Research paper, not a Deepmind paper.
My daughters (gen Z) prefer physical books, though we'll see if that persists past the first time they have to move apartments themselves.
DOS from HN's very own Slashdot effect...
I like where the Rails team is going with Rails. No JS bloat at all, just simple and clean JS. No compilation step or anything.
pretty sure the super hard question from airbnb is a very rote and standard med LC question https://leetcode.com/problems/trapping-rain-water/descriptio...
Friends of mine who were laid off this year can't find jobs. One moved back in with his parents and gave up on the job search. One started a full-time dog-walking business. One works at a grocery. It's really bad out there.
I have to wonder if AI is going to cause more interest in user privacy. It's been an issue with ad business models and AFAICT Microsoft also reserves the right to use your personal info to "improve and develop [their] products."[1]

[1] https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement
I appreciate your shared experience as I have a rather similar one. I've been on a platform SRE team for about eight months myself, with seven years of SWE experience before that, and feel as though I'm just able keep my head above water. It's one thing to learn about k8s, the cloud, terraform, etc, then quite another to pile it all together, particularly since it all becomes heavily customized. It's a different job than code-writing software engineering, that's for sure. To me, it feels less like there's a 'stack' so much as there's a word cloud of DevOps buzzwords to start throwing at problems. Even when directed by architects & principals, it overwhelms.

I resonate with feeling incredibly dumb whenever I pick up a new ticket from our backlog. It feels like gaining deep knowledge of these systems will be a nearly insurmountable challenge. It's been eight months, and while I know far, far more than I did on day one, I feel that every day is a day one of sorts.
As usual, I will allow Han Solo to critique your argument.

> There’s not enough life on this ice cube to fill a space cruiser.
The first thing authoritarian governments do is take away citizens’ weapons.

It doesn’t mean that disarmament means that the government means to turn authoritarian, but in the last century, we have yet to see a case where it didn’t.
I’m not a 2nd Amendment zealot in any way but an armed population is, among many many other (mostly bad) things, a real counterweight to government overreach.
serious question: how much additional safety do you get over best practices and tooling in modern c++?
It's almost as if there could be a web site that featured human-only art (how would this be verified .o(thinks)). Might do very well ...
Well, since I'm such a simpleton, perhaps you can ELI5.

But rereading what you wrote, I do think that my paraphrase -- while certainly harsh -- is not inaccurate. You were pointing out, quite correctly, that choosing to use something like Electron is choosing a particular tradeoff. That tradeoff is to reduce development costs at the expense of product quality.

I'm not saying that's always an inappropriate tradeoff, but we should at least be clear about what the tradeoff is actually about.