skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've published traditionally and it was a great experience. The publisher (O'Reilly) was great to work with, and the editors made a tremendous, positive difference in the finished work. That was many years ago.

Since, I've moved to fiction and self publishing, and that's been hard, but rewarding. It's hard and expensive to build a following on your own with just books and ads.

Now I have moved to web serials and subscriptions. I'm convinced this is the best time to be a writer. The hardest part, finding an audience, is as easy as sticking to a publishing schedule and engaging with readers.
Totally agree that it has lost its meaning. We call things “incomplete work” that are, well, incomplete work.

I wrote more about it here: https://github.com/aaronjensen/software-development/blob/mas...

Also the advice in the article about noticing the issues and tracing them to their root is spot on. We record setbacks and mistakes in our work logs for our team to see and socialize common problems so we can address them holistically.
Though the original, supposedly superconducting LK-99 sample, was produced in a way that caused it to be contaminated with sulfur. So this might be why their sample acted the way it did.
This is the solution for a lot of behavioral problems. The instinct is to do the bad behavior less, but the solution may instead be to do something else more.
120-light years from Earth: https://www.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/webb-discovers-meth...

Probably inhabited. At least by creatures if not beings :)
Tangent, but I love this Gource thing that the author made the contribution video with. I'd never seen it before but had an idea to try making something like it a couple of years back - no original ideas it seems!
My point was moreso that its silly paying thousands of dollars for a computer and only getting a basic version of Windows, considering they give OEMs an insane discount on licensing (I really doubt ASUS paid $100+ for my Windows license). By comparison my Surface Book 2 had Windows Pro, granted that was a Microsoft system yes, but it would have been insane if it only came with Windows Home edition after spending over a thousand dollars on a laptop. I buy gaming systems because it meets my hardware requirements for dev work. Visual Studio consumes all available memory. Windows Home has strange limitations which I just don't care for as a literal pro user.
The angry tone is making the details harder to grasp. The first thing the article does is point to an older article about a previous FTC statement. In it, TechDirt seems to disagree about what fair use is and then uses that disagreement to say that the FTC is saying that fair use itself is bad.

Am I reading this right? That posturing is frustrating.

Still... The argument that developing these tools under the assumption that publicly available data is fair use is what allows upstarts to develop LLM AI tools instead of giant companies is very astute. I think it's 100% correct. It makes me understand why LLMs are a battleground for copyright reform.

I appreciate that the article makes the stance of both sides understandable. It's enough to make me begrudgingly say that I'm glad for having read it.
That is true for the internal implementation details but HashSet provides a different API, it is not just a type alias. So you don't have to worry about semantics of what the values mean (like the bools in Go), and it has no size overhead.
Operation Triangulation What You Get When Attack iPhones of Researchers [video]
My experience:

- I have several rasperry PIs that perform various tasks, so yeah, they could generate Linux traffic (at least 3 of them are running)

- I game on a playstation. After work, I do not want to update steam, windows, uplay, drivers, origin, battlenet. I still use discs. When I want to play I insert disk and play

- I do not want to deal with limitations of Windows. Some programs display too much ads. I prefer fighting with app setup once, compile, etc. After creating scripts I can setup my machine again without any problems in minutes

- If my windows machine becomes slow it is often slow to download fresh ISO, and install it. I do not want to restore it from partition as I am not sure what kind of bloatware was installed by the manufacturer. On Linux I can download ISO and install it in maybe 15-20 minutes

- Most of my apps, self hosting is much easier for me to set up on Linux than on Windows. It may be because I do not know how to set it up properly in Windows

- In Windows I feel as guest, rather than admin of my machine

- I have set up some mini-PCs for my friends, since their Windows became unusable. After using Linux they could still use their machines (they use only browsers, Libbre Office suite, etc.)
An ad hominem, even against myself, would be fallacious when used to discredit factual statements. You're also inventing a strawman of 'needless' killing.

In any case I've seen small children playing in places I 'formerly' saw a snake, and I'm willing to take all the 'discredit' in the world to not live with the guilt of finding out they were bit not long after I encountered the venomous snake. I don't give a shit about some snake off the beaten path far from where the vulnerable roam, and indeed I leave those alone.
This article is really thin and disappointing.

It's perfectly reasonable for the FTC to be involved here, and what constitutes unjust enrichment and anti-competitive practice when covered works are used as components in a training set is within their purview.

The USPTO will be involved in issuance questions, and the legal system will be involved in determining single cases.

On this issue, the following is my opinion (not a lawyer, not legal adv.).

A training set is a collection of representative input, which may or may not be covered works.
The training set is a simple aggregation, it does not alter the works contained in any significant way, so it is not transformative.
Therefore, the training set is as an omnibus of other works.

The weights of an system are a product of the input training set (if DL is used), and the parameters of the training environment. 1 is an omnibus of potentially covered works, the other is likely non-covered (but maybe patent-eligible in some cases). It is unclear if this is transformative, but it is certainly not covered by any of the existing exemptions (such as covers of songs).

Therefore, it is possible that the product of the above is a non-transformative derivative work based on one or more covered works, and therefore would have required a license or grant from the author(s) of those covered works. Note that authors often retain their ownership of UGC, and grant a service provider the ability to make that available to others in limited capacity for specific purposes. Some service providers (Like stack overflow) require that contributors license contributions under a specific license, and yet others transfer ownership as part of the terms of service.

If the training set was built from only entirely public domain works, then there wouldn't be a question, but the extension of copyright term over the years has robbed the public domain of anything even remotely useful for these kinds of cases.

On a side note, StackExchange contributions are CC BY-SA, which means that if the training input included anything from stackoverflow, the weights could be be affected by the Share-Alike requirement, which could lead to some interesting results if someone ever tried to request them. (However the attribution would probably be pretty easy, because you could pretty much say "all stackoverflow contributors" and be correct)
Isn't it an inevitable part of Capitalism though? If the directors of a corporation start acting to not maximise the shareholders profits, they'll soon be replaced or the corporation bought out by more ruthless/sociopathic people.
Yes, though its not geothermal preciously - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Landing_Solar_Community

> The Drake Landing Solar Community (DLSC) is a planned community in Okotoks, Alberta, Canada, equipped with a central solar heating system and other energy efficient technologies.

> In 2012 the installation achieved a world record solar fraction of 97%; that is, providing that amount of the community's heating requirements with solar energy over a one-year time span.

> In 2015–2016 season the installation achieved a solar fraction of 100%. This was achieved by the borehole thermal storage system (BTES) finally reaching high temperature after years of charging, as well as improving control methods, operating pumps at lower speed most of the time, reducing extra energy need as well using weather forecasts to optimize transfer of heat between different storage tanks and loops. During some other years, auxiliary gas heaters are used for a small fraction of the year to provide heat to a district loop. The systems operate at coefficient of performance of 30.

https://www.dlsc.ca

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/drake-landi...

http://proceedings.ises.org/paper/swc2017/swc2017-0033-Mesqu...
There is a huge blindspot, I've noticed, where people mistake familiarity for ease of use (and other qualities too). Of course familiar things are easy and comfortable, but this thought doesn't seem to occur to most.

Software usability discussions are particularly prone to this bias.

EDIT: another fun one is internet discussions about metric vs imperial systems, with one side or the other swearing that one is inherently more "intuitive" for a particular use. Due to some extraordinary coincidence it's always the one the writer grew up with...
How do gun control laws make a country authoritarian?
For the rest yes it is not sounding good for UK citizens and residents.
A fair number of the gnu utilities were originally written as part of the 4.3BSD Net/2 effort to get rid of AT&T code. When the gnu project adopted the code it got relicensed from BSD to GPL.
Gullible people and great liars abound. People fall for "we're the IRS and we need you to buy some iTunes gift cards" all the time, the entire country is deeply split on what's "fake news" and what isn't; we're clearly not cut out for these assessments. Normal life works reasonably OK, but sentencing isn't a "normal life" scenario; it's the sort of thing that sends people to jail wrongly for decades fairly frequently.
No, I don't think so. Here is a screenshot of what it looks like to me:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C35Wc8toNQ9RN6ylOZ_bK6IRUjb...

However, when I loaded it in a new firefox profile it worked fine. A little confused because I tried running it with dev tools loaded and cache disabled and I still had the problem, but I have to think that the problem has something to do with adblock/privacy badger and some stored data. But maybe disable cache doesn't apply to the local storage API.
The opening of the Elizabeth Line was partway through the statistic period used here. That line provides the cheaper and almost-as-fast option to Central London and beyond, using the same tracks as the Heathrow Express but also stopping at some intermediate stations.

Unfortunately, Heathrow Airport have very good signage to the Heathrow Express, and abysmal signage to the Elizabeth Line. I assume this is intentional.

I'm thoroughly confused on what it costs. The airport supposedly adds a surcharge as they own the last bit of track, but I can't find an official website saying what this surcharge is. More than the tube, but significantly less than the Heathrow Express, anyway.

(Before the Elizabeth Line there were also non-"Express" trains running on the same tracks, but the service was less frequent. Not many people knew about it.)
One would imagine that the west would then engage in China's favorite playing field leveler: they'd steal the technology by whatever means necessary.
Not really. There are two key traits one needs to memorize for general purpose programming: time and space complexity. Literally a “cheat sheet” with a list of order notations is sufficient to memorize.
What do you think are the most worthwhile Pragmatic Bookshelf titles? I just looked at their publications list and there's a lot more of them than I had thought before I checked.
4 Things they don't tell you when you start your career as a Software Engineer
When I became a Software Engineer, I was always told about this greenfield project by recruiters I would get to work on, I seemed to have a lot of language specific tests in interviews, Maths was a significant part of my degree and the ‘no estimates’ movement was making a lot of noise.

There are 4 things that you learn when you gain experience as a Software Engineer that you either didn’t get told, or fly in the face of your experience when entering the industry.
To mangle a quote, in its majestic equality the norm forbids both liberals and conservatives alike to plagiarize. I'd guess that both groups do it at about equal rates. But since there are so few conservatives left in those jobs the risk has become highly asymmetrical across ideologies.
If you're punting to an operator why k8s? There are lots of managed database providers and if they're managing it, then k8s (or not) is an implementation detail for them to worry about.
The most hacking I've done to get a Steam game working on openSUSE Tumbleweed is some copypasta sed magic to bypass the Private Division launcher app for Kerbal Space Program 2. Other than that, setting a command line parameter to ensure my eGPU gets used (which should be a relatively uncommon scenario), and forcing a few games to run through Proton, everything just works.
...and hence perpetual <5% adoption.
> But there are also experienced Windows users and frankly a lot of the garbage added isn't that big of a deal. Yeah, it requires a bunch of configuration work, but after a few hours you can get Windows to more or less work how it's always worked.

Yeah, people like to complain about the amount of time they spend getting Windows to work they want, but they’re willing to spend hours trying to get sleep to work in Linux.

There are plenty of scripts out there to disable as much or as little of the telemetry and everything else as you want, using the Pro or Enterprise editions lets you skip the cloud, and then it just… works.

There’s a certain give and take with all OSes about how much you adapt to it and how much it adapts to you. At work I use a Mac, I have two Linux servers in my closet, and my personal machine runs Windows. They’re each the right tool for their respective jobs, for me.
qutebrowser binary is 424MB (on macOS, at least). Is that considered light?
Plenty of developed Catholic countries too.
CEO pay is similar to other payments, where everyone is trying to claw themselves as much as they can, to certain personal limits. Powerful roles attract people who want power, and so, the higher up you go in a hierarchy, the more "dark"[0] traits you find, which equates to lessening personal limits to power / money gain. If you think of the ability, willingness and perseverance of one to further one's personal power as merit, then this is a meritocracy after all.

With regards to accepting that, culture plays a big role. Governments effectively groom people into accepting the status quo, some stronger than others. They build on features of the human psyche that otherwise support this too, for example, in many cultures it's taboo to question elders, and also, many cultures observe different classes of people, where the different classes wield different levels of power by default. If you're interested in the psychology of this, I would suggest to look into how societies are organized over the recorded history of humankind.

The charisma and image of the well-off leaders also plays a part in making people accept, and support their advantage. This is also something that people are much cleverer about than in the past - the art that is currently called public relations. The idea here is that whatever people perceive, must make sense in their mind, somehow. If it makes sense, then it's accepted much easier, and if it doesn't, it's bothersome and makes people think about a story where it makes sense after all. So, one aspect of public relations is and making certain things observable, others obscured, and crafting a narrative about the observable things. This game is "history written by victors", but a bit backwards - whoever sells the most compelling narrative, comes out as the victor.

At the end of the day, the question is "what are you going to do about it?". Certain things just are because we're not doing anything about it. Doing about it is a ton of effort, might not be possible, might not worth it at all because the effort outweighs the results, might not worth it because the side effects are greater than the potential gains. Or maybe people care about other things. And because all of these concerns exist in all humans, those in power can exploit these too, in order to keep or further their power.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_stratification
Your employer must have the nicest IT on this planet.

Bringing a different OS to a company is almost impossible.
Yes this is why I've been trying to ski as much as possible this winter.

1. Helps my eyes by letting them see things at a distance. staring far into mountains on the lift ect.

2. Keeps me away from internet. I have dumb phone and a whistle with me in my pocket.

3. Helps me reconnect with my body and rediscover what it can do.

4. Mountain air seems to clear up my sinuses

5. And ofcourse benefits of physical excerscise.

6. I just feel very fulfilled at the end of day a stark contrast to depression of day filled with daze of the internet.

7. This is bit of bro science but seems to improve my digestion. Being in internet daze all day seems to put a pause on my digestion.
I would miss it. I would also make it a matter of principle to refuse if someone tried to force a shutdown on us - I've got my Mastodon and Lemmy instances, and if we were to have to go underground, we'd go underground.
> just "enjoy" the awkwardness.

Oh now you're talking!

That's a x100 superpower.

I recently met someone who is about to start a (psych) PhD on
"Awkwardness" and I had one of the most interesting conversations in
years.

Some people fear embarrassment more than life threatening danger. As
one of my favourite philosophers put it, terror management cannot be a
plausible theory because "people aren't afraid of dying any more,
they're afraid of being seen wearing the wrong trainers".

We should all try to understand "awkwardness" and social pressure
more, because I think it's role in widespread manipulation is
unrecognised.

There's something very, very powerful about being kinda resistant to
awkwardness without being a callous asshole who feels no shame and
delights in other people's discomfort.

One insight is that it's highly contagious. and its powerful to be the
chain-breaker who can spot it, name it, make a joke or otherwise
disrupt it. People really appreciate you for that.

When I am in a group of people who get phomo (that nervous wave of
synchronised checking and tapping) I just walk off now. I used to
stand there watching them all, but have since realised its me who
makes them feel terribly awkward. I don't feel awkward, I feel mildly
insulted.. but that's my baggage, so I just politely extricate.

Edit: Someone flagged this entire topic. Since I cannot find a single
untoward comment in the threads I assume they just felt awkward
about the whole discussion. QED.
Well that's the thing. Mozilla is not a private for profit corporation, the money isn't from investors, and the goal isn't to make a profit at the end of the day. Non profit CEOs always have a much smaller salary, and much smaller increases. That's just how it usually works because the money they have is supposed to go into fulfilling their objective, not make people rich. Why does Mozilla get a pass for this? It's so weird to see this defensiveness whenever the subject is brought up, because you can clearly like and support Mozilla and still disagree with a non profit paying 1% of what it earns to an underperforming ceo. That sum would be weird even if Mozilla was doing well.
Yep. Microsoft has forgotten what their value proposition for Windows is. Once they started to see it as a tool that extracts value and not a product that provides value, everything started to go downhill. I think there is a real opening for a startup company that can create a Linux Distro that is Wine centric, letting users migrate over and still use all their current Windows software.
Windows is basically everywhere outside of the US and maybe some select european countries. Windows improved a lot in some ways, the default experience is for sure way better than windows 8, though you still have to disable a good amount of annoying features if you don’t want ads.

WSL is great if you have enough RAM, you can now rely on winget to setup your applications, OneDrive is reliable, the Microsoft Store is finally useful with Win32 applications (even SysInternal is now distributed via the store!). The settings panel finally makes sense, though not everything has been migrated yet. Windows updates are way more reliable. Windows PowerToys provides almost everything power users may need. The updated windows management is just awesome, simple to use and provides a good amount of options. Notepad is now a real text editor, the screenshot tool supports recording too, Edge competes with other modern browsers and has some unique features such as windows splitting.

That’s just a subsets of some things that improved, there is way more. But it is fundamentally still Windows, it’s just way more polished.
I don't know about directly as a battery, but there is potential for energy storage. If you have geothermal HVAC at home, it can (sometimes) be use to heat water in a water heater. Dumping the extra heat into it. And I have heard stuff about using excess energy in the grid to put extra heat into home water tanks as well, so demand is reduced later. It is not getting converted back to electricity, but still a store for energy.
if you actually care about bloat, by far the best* thing to do is set up arch linux manually (no archinstall script) and just install the packages you actually need. it's insane how little it actually takes to get a working system.

it's a bunch of effort though, both to learn how everything works and to set up all the things you're usually just used to being there by default. but once it's done you'll be able to fix any issue that pops up, because you actually KNOW what's on your system, as opposed to it being a massive collection of things you have no idea about.

*something like gentoo might be better but... compiling a browser takes ages and i recommend having an up to date browser, so you'll spend tons of time on that.
The objectives of the CAP are very much industrial and monetary in their orientation, seeing agriculture as a resource extraction activity and definitely not as any kind of land or biodiversity management. First goal is particularly crispy in this regard (number must go up, machine good, human labor bad).

> 1. increase productivity, by promoting technical progress and ensuring the optimum use of the factors of production, in particular labor;

> 2. ensure a fair standard of living for the agricultural Community;

> 3. stabilize markets;

> 4. secure availability of supplies;

> 5. provide consumers with food at reasonable prices.
LeechBlock on Firefox has timed blocks. It works on Android and desktop.

Delete the apps, use the websites.
One group that is likely to directly or indirectly pick up much of their formal English language writing from supposedly well formed LLM examples is people who speak English as a second (or fifth) language. I wouldn't want to make too many inferences about their ability or effort from that, especially if LLM phrases become as popular amongst some ESL groups as "kindly revert back" or "do the needful"