skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Amiga’s mouse never, ever lagged. Unless the thing was completely crashed, you could always wiggle the mouse and see the cursor instantly leap in the right way. The cursor was the mouse in a way I haven’t really experienced since.
> It's increasingly difficult to get high-end performance with a simple device with a good user interface.

It's actually not at all, but people [in general, not here] want Cheap + Features. There are expensive "prosumer/consumer" level no-feature refrigerators but people don't want to pay for them.
...are you going to do this experiment or not? I've got the whole setup just waiting for you.
There was an experimental auto-deref feature since Perl 5.14
And it's already gone again since 5.24.
> It is also handled quite well already, as modern people have credit cards in their wallet, in their phone and on their watch. So there is already a 3-way backup that needs to break.

Personally, I'd not use the word 'backup' if you can lose all three in a single accident.
Also, these are just different forms of access, none of these would work if the infrastructure is down. It seems you dodged my points.

I'm not advocating for cash, more like warning that an online-only system isn't resilient enough in the first place.

In the scenarios I provided, if cash doesn't exist (as per OP wishes), the only solution I see would be going back to trading goods/services. What valuable possession/skills does a person have.
I had to scroll halfway through the article to get to the real details:

> "Although the AI Assistant plugin is bundled, and the plugin itself is enabled, there is no AI functionality enabled by default, and no data is sent off-machine without your consent," said Ellis, echoing similar replies posted to some of the discussion threads. "You have to log in, accept the data policies and either purchase a subscription or start a trial."

> There is no AI functionality enabled by default, and no data is sent off-machine without your consent

> "Any data sent to the AI service is not used for training.

So many (maybe most) of the comments on HN don’t reflect the actual situation:

- AI is not enabled by default

- Code is not ingested for training purposes

- You have to either sign up for a trial or purchase a subscription

- You would have to explicitly accept the data policy to even begin using it

So the real complaint of these people is that the plugin simply exists by default, which apparently is enough to get the product banned from certain companies.

All of the comments speculating about it collecting your code for their training purposes or doing 3rd party AI things without your consent, or being enabled without any warning are easily disproven by a quick read of the article. It’s getting hard to read HN comments about anything AI related with all of these comments substituting their own assumptions and assuming the worst case scenario without any effort to read the article.
https://superuser.com/questions/7327/how-to-add-a-custom-sea...

The resulting search shows up in the search UI, whether you have firefox configured for a seperate search bar or have their default of the address bar also being the search bar. This is the same as the extension method.

If your complaint is that they also show up in bookmarks, then ehh, whatever. Most people either don't use bookmarks or have a giant dumping pile. If you're one of the 1% that organizes them, just put all your search bookmarks in their own folder.
only if the downsides are less significant.

If dealing with an ugly path means streaming data all the time to the Internet and potentially decreasing the reliability of the whole thing, just because once every 5 or 10 years stuff defrosts...
I was speaking more generally, not pandoc in particular.

But even with packages in a manager, there have been times where different packages conflict on different dependencies that when packaged up in a well written docker image (which not all are) would have obviated.

As a developer I see this more with programming languages than other things, and this very thing is what led to language "package management systems" like rbenv, sdkman, asdf, and the like.
Just hire Yehuda Katz
> But clearly "economic growth" doesn't lift everyone up equally

That’s right there in my premise! So what? It lifts up everyone a little bit; most people a lot; and one or two get boosted to orbit for a generation or so.

Your arguments against Starlink are so silly I struggle to believe someone typed them into this site. Don’t you think one more internet option for most of the globe is a good thing? And yes, it directly addresses both hunger and cancer through better internet, more research, a bigger economy, connected tractors. It’sneven helping Ukraine defend itself against another totalitarian state right now.

None of which is relevant. It’s another internet option and therefore a good thing in and of itself. You don’t even have to like it or use it for it to make your life better.
Remote VS Code for WSL feels sometimes clunky to me.

Another option: running Emacs as GUI App in WSL.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/wsl-tutorial

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-...
> It might be the same in Vietnamese

It's not, there's only 4 tones in Chinese but 6 + 2 what I'd call special syllables in Vietnamese (not sure what's the official term for that)

So homophones are pretty rare. There's never any ambiguity with the Latin script.
What I don’t like about all of this is how at work, The secure windows terminal servers we use , on the corp vpn , now only have have edge . They removed Firefox and we were told it was due to the facts MS said you can secure edge better . Total garbage . What that is leading to is less testing of web stuff Is Firefox . It’s a vicious cycle. On top of that your edge settings are wiped every week. So I get the honor of turning off the ai, recommended sites bing search and other stuff once a week .
I don't feel that way. A 10% discount simply sweetens the deal for a commodity (clothing, furniture, etc) I could get at many other places. It's the cost of acquiring a new customer.

The whole reason I'm stopping to look around is because every price tag just got 10% lower.
You don’t know what an ETF is or the SEC?
What's the point of rewriting from C# to Rust, as C# is performant enough and already has memory safety? What will offset the huge rewrite cost?
There's a difference between being frugal where it actually moves the needle and pinching every penny when the effort/scarifice far exceeds any benefit.
Am I the only one who uses and likes the integration
> Yes, it's so weird how that 7 MHz thing ran a perfectly usable graphical environment with a command line shell within the GUI and all.

Perhaps not as advanced as AmigaOS, but Commodore 64 famously had GEOS for a good few years in the second half of its lifespan, which ended up being very popular for that machine. On a 1MHz 6502! Although I don’t know if it came with a command line.
No, we just have a habit of putting up with needless inconvenience. It's ingrained in us somehow, possibly as a result of the deprevations during and after WWII.

At some point you just have to accept that there are certain things the Americans have gotten right, and we haven't. Family-sized fridges, laundry machines which are roughly colocated with clothes storage and (arguably) sink-based garbage disposals are examples of that.
I think philosophical rigour is just not something he cares about. I recently read his "You can't argue with a zombie" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31807798) again, arguing that machines could not have consciousness or that human consciousness is non-physical, or something, anyway it's very rambling and none of the arguments hold up if you try to follow them from one statement to the next. But it's written in 1995, different times, different atmosphere around AI and cyberpunk, plus ofc he was 30 years younger.. So this made me wonder if he'd still hold those same views and argue for them in a similar way today. Apparently, mostly, yes.

So I think you can read him as simply vouching for implementing certain technologies in a certain way that would make him happy, and frankly you don't need much rigour for that. He's really just saying that he wants some prototypical human experience to remain the most valuable, and if you also want that, here's how you'd want to use VR. As for why that kind of experience is or should be valued, you won't get that from him beyond a bit of emotional handwaving, because it's just not what he's setting out to do.
I wonder how many of these are actually carefully optimized single-colour PNG files vs... just PNG files. Going into Photopea, creating a 256x256 solid blue image, and hitting save gave me a 137 byte image. That'd be a 2nd place in that list. Doing the same in MS Paint gets 5th, beating out the last 2.

What seems more likely to me is someone didn't consider the compression settings problem worth optimizing at all (the last 2) or put some work into making sure the images were generally encoded with decent settings (the first 4). After all, optimising your best case which happens to be one of the very few images that can be cached to be reused across multiple tiles to be a few bytes smaller is probably the least efficient way to spend your "efficiency increasing time".

Similarly I wonder if saving a few bytes to encode a 1x1 you have the browser upscale is actually an anti-optimisation in that a few extra bytes transferred might be the faster overall method. Would need benchmarking to tell, but again it'd be benchmarking to test how to make the least problematic performance ever so slightly better.
you can't slide the top of the window off the screen

You can use "move" in the system menu. Once activated, the arrow keys in the keyboard will move the window outside the desktop window, not sure if you can do it using the mouse somehow.
The slo mo shot still gives me chills.
Vmware community-version download is no longer searchable on vmware.com website.

Only a 30-day registration-free (it doesn't say "trial") version of VMWare Workstation Pro 16 but you would probably need to fork over your credit card afterward.

In short, Broadcom hamfisted the VMWare way into only a full-commercial product ... as originally planned.
Show HN: Hacker News Userscript Written in Rust WASM – Filtering and Hiding
Hi everyone,

I present you the Hackernews Userscript - a userscript written in Rust Wasm that provides functionality to filter stuff based on keywords, as well as implements soft-hide: HN's default "hide" button behavior stores hidden items server-side, plus it pulls the items to the front page from the next one, so the page is always full with 30 items. Userscript's "hide" hides the stuff locally, and it does not pull anything, so you can hide the entire page to save your valuable attention. You can also use this function to mark the already-read articles.

I've had this idea to implement such a script since quite a while ago, in fact, back when Wordle was all the hype. Now we got some other hypes, and all of that is filterable - via a textmatch, or via regex.

The script is written in Rust, since I wanted to checkout the wasm bindgen functionality, and also for the peace of mind did not want to use JS.

It is published at both Firefox and Chrome web stores:

- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hackernews-us...

- https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hackernews-userscri...

I've also posted the extension page to my blog:
https://drakerossman.com/blog/hackernews-userscript-in-rust-...

Looking forward for to implement more features, stuff like favorites, autoupdate, etc., and currently refactoring the codebase.

Your feedback is very welcome!
Before the new year, some executives made it known they wanted a chatgpt like interface to answer questions about a service. Current page gets less than a thousand visits a month. Current page has a list of answers on one page, and costs a few cents to run. Executives want AI everywhere to the point of fiduciary irresponsibility.

My poorly made point being: executives have been driven insane by AI/ML hype.
If you look at modern crypto libs you’ll see most operations require an rng function. This isn’t because random data is added to the operation, it is to make sure the operations on the data are obscured during lengthy operations that can be replayed for differential power analysis. Like ECDH secret mixing will add random numbers to the points and the normalize them out after the point multiply. It’s pretty damn clever.
And if you use a modern switch-mode replacement, you don’t need a heat sink at all.

I know some folks like to put small heat sinks on the ULA though.
> A persistently visible ad for a paid service you don't want, in a paid product you paid for?

Yes, this bad, but outrage described in the article is not because of this.

All unhappy customers are complaining the plugin sends the data and they cannot uninstall it.

It is opposite: they need to enable it, accept terms and start paying for the service and only then they concerns might be correct.

I am not even JetBrains user but this is just a FUD for me
It’s not as if Apple provides server side tooling anymore.

Though, even if they weren’t going to provide a server OS, it seems like they could still offer IDE support for the droves of web devs working on Macs a deploying to Linux (like I assume their devs do).
No but the impact (in terms of risk assessment) of a car crash is much worse than the impact of "hey, I forgot to completely close the fridge door"
Semantics. All the funding comes from the state.
If’s rather annoying always having to make this distinction clear, coming from a Catholic background myself.
Not used a coin or paper bill for several years now. It’s now at the point where I don’t know what the most common bills and coins look like since they were changed a few years back and I have never owned most of them.

I should keep cash as a backup just like I keep some canned food, but I wonder how society would work in that scenario when many stores don’t have cash registers, many bank offices don’t allow cash deposits and so on. The US would be far more resilient in that situation.
what has annoyed me most is that it took the first spot in the right click menu and pushed down show context actions in rider.
> A persistently visible ad for a paid service you don't want

Are you referring to the spiral-like “AI Assistant” icon in the right tray? Because that you can easily hide. (Right click → “Hide” → gone.)
> At least if they either use the user's code in training

JetBrains makes it clear that the code is not submitted for training purposes, contrary to the speculation in a lot of comments.

It’s also not enabled by default and requires a trial or subscription as well, so it’s not something people are going to stumble into accidentally using.

I’m sure some strict companies will forbid the use of any product that might possibly have an AI component, but they’ll be refining policies and making exceptions as everything from operating systems to web browsers start coming with optional AI features.
Let's be real here: You, I, and most of the people in this thread talking about privacy concerns when it comes to cash and what not are playing pretend. I say this because the odds are we have a significant amount of our money invested in some form of digital investment. Whether it's stocks, certificates, money sitting in a bank account. The nature of cash means it scales up poorly; and the nature of holding cash means you are literally losing money year over year thanks to inflation. The system is built to encourage this.

If the government wanted to freeze your accounts and take most of your net worth, they can. And while cash transactions can be secure, in our day to day life where our transactions are done cash is not meaningfully adding anything to our privacy. To actually achieve any sort of privacy with cash involves operating purely with cash: That means no bank accounts, no investments, you are paid directly by your workplace with cash etc.

That's why again, cash will not protect you. It will not protect most of the people here acting like it will.
I live in an area with high levels of PFAS in the water, so this isn't always true.
Hey author here.

I understand that you might have some context about package managers that I am missing. Would genuinely like some resources about your comment or maybe a bit of explanation.

Thanks
Regrettably the folks who have been using it for years aren’t going to be give a lot of specifics, but generation of k8s yaml / jsonnet in particular was exceptionally common. One example from the other thread:

> My team migrated several kloc k8s configuration to pkl with great success. Internally we used to write alert definitions in pkl and it would generate configuration for 2 different monitoring tools, a pretty static documentation site and link it all together nicely.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39235425
Most backup tools allow you to verify a random subset, say 0.1% of the backup. If you do that together with every backup you would eventually notice.
Upvoted for useful information that’s harder than it should be to find.

But “maybe brick my box if my hands shake in a weird mode with weird dots” isn’t what GP meant: those of us who are properly backed up and have great net connections can merrily pull stunts like that but it killed the “customize my Mac” apps and stuff, even to the tune of “same size and format of image, even bounce the hash off a server, just square corners”.

So it’s like “pretty sure I’m not driving to the Apple Store today” to “anyone who disagrees with us about shapes should be treated like malware”. That’s quite a leap.

Right now the hardware is such they can pull that: they bought out all the hot shit TSMC stuff.

But Intel 18a is sitting on people’s desks at least under a black cloth: you have to continue to lead on the fundamentals, and hackers liking your shit is maybe the most important one.
It's definitely cool that Vietnam ditched the overcomplicated ideographic system, but the Latin-based script could still do with a lot of improvement. The need for multiple diacritics on almost every vowel reveals starkly how ill-fitting Latin is for a tonal language. Meanwhile, for the consonants, Vietnamese spelling adopted French/Portuguese-inspired digraphs such as qu and ph when the much more internationally recognized k and f would have been available and clearly be preferable.

I feel it's a missed opportunity. Vietnamese writing could have been a lot cooler. The ideal would have been a specially crafted writing system designed for the language, much like Hangeul is tailor-made for Korean; but even if adopting Latin letters were somehow a requirement, it could have been more thought-out than the French-imposed hodgepodge that we got.
My take on this is that there is not obvious reason not to, but it just so happens that typed configuration languages are not rich enough and not integrated enough to be that useful.

Those languages that arrived with the JSON hype train like yaml or toml might be great for dynamic languages, where you can load them to some native object. But in statically typed languages you are gonna declare your types, in code, anyway. So configuration providing types doesn't really do much.
Ty. Glad that you find it useful :)
Weirdly, I felt like it worked a little bit.
LOL'd as well, which caused my 1.5 year old to laugh; He gets it. Every time I use the Google Cloud Platform web UI I feel like someone is reaching through the monitor to slap me upside the head for not doing Infrastructure as Code.
I have never had an account banned for using this. I do my utmost to avoid being banned, including setting up headers. If you are concerned, try this on a non-critical account first. And, of course, spamming or making too many requests can lead to a ban.
it's multi-stage build. they only copy fzf bin to the final image (scratch)
I don't think barter is a realistic way to circumvent the disappearance of cash. Sure, it'll work once in a while, when you happen to have something of equal value that the other guy wants—but most of the time it'll be such a drag on every transaction that transactions just won't happen often. Want to get some groceries? Are you just going to hand the cashier a pair of shoes in return? There are good reasons physical currencies have existed for thousands of years, in many forms across many societies. I think rather than barter, we'd have to fall back on something like gold, seashells... Something that's hard to fake, hard to make, easy to appraise, and easy to carry. Like cash.
I don't think OP was arguing to completely get rid of all wired transactions. And for all the points you made you still missed OPs major gripe, paying a third party for every single transaction you make. Wanna give your children pocket money? bank gets a cut...doesn't seem right tbh
If Perl6 hadn’t killed Perl, would we still see it in use today?
9 out of 10 times, those online coupon finders never worked. You needed to use them pretty much on the day they were posted to the site, otherwise there would be too many redemptions by the time it found it ranked on Google search.
Aside:

I know the post was partly an emotional exploration. But, as this is HN, I figure I can step into the pedantic.

This is related to a 'Stopping Problem', correct? The trouble I'm having is I'm not all that sure which one he's in, so I don't know what the optimal solution is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_stopping

I think he's in a case of the 'Opera Parking Lot', but then the solution for that isn't really all that easy to find and I'm not about to try to derive it.

Does anyone know the optimal solution for parking at the Opera? Also, am I totally wrong about what stopping problem he's in?
I'm actually sort of curious why, sometimes substantial, mail-in rebates seemingly largely went away? I haven't seen one in years. A significant customer of a former employer processed a lot of these out of Minnesota.
Agreed that's false outcry.
It is annoying because of its updates and the fact that it shows prominently in the UI at first start. But that pretty much all unless you activate it which I tested when it was in beta and require indeed that you agree to those agreements and log in.
> I've had to build a deb package once. It's crazy how few docs and resources there are to do so, and how of poor quality they are.

After doing the first one, I was able to build binary, Debian packages in 5 minutes tops, while chatting with a friend during the process, too.

flatpak and snap are designed to solve different problems than OS native packaging paradigms.

Also, .deb and .rpm are much more capable and sophisticated than they look on the surface. Lastly, extracting a source and binary Debian package provides great documentation in itself.

Lastly, use lintian. That thing is a godsend (and does binary static analysis, too!).
> forced upon you and taking up valuable real estate,

Right click -> Hide.

Problem solved faster than it took to write this comment.
Why the downvotes / disagreement? “People using coupons -> worse customers” makes sense to me. The shop isn’t getting more money from these customers.
So a model trained on one task, performing reasonably well on an related task?
No because you have to explicitly enable it for it to even start to send things.
> Nom is pretty much Chinese word meaning + Chinese word pronunciation.

Hard disagree, from a Japanese speaker standpoint. I suspect it's almost deliberate that any mixtures of Chu Nom and Chinese can be handled natively to Vietnamese speakers, and nobody else. Nothing in it makes sense to me, far less than Chinese text do.
The best thing to do is for the city to own both fiber and electricity, and let providers compete for both. With Virtual Power Plants, the grid can be reimagined and it will happen faster if competing ideas/companies battle it out in the marketplace for consumers.

Second best is for electric utility to offer fiber, like EPB of Chattanooga, TN.
Don't leave is hanging, how was your experience?

(Pkl, not Apple :p)