skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Have you tried KDE recently?

I ditched it entirely during the KDE 3 fiasco.
Been on Gnome/Ubuntu ever since.

But I have tried it now and again, and found that while it's much better than KDE 3, it's still a poor experience out of the box, for me. Or at least, Kubuntu is. It's OK, but not "Good".

For me, the tell-tale is that when my immediate thought is "hmm, maybe I can configure this", something is not right (for me). With Gnome, sometimes I have this (e.g. Gnome Console which has IMO insane default window sizes).
Personally, I think this should never be a setting. Just Good defaults, maybe through heuristics (last size after resize? fullscreen? x% of screen size?).
With KDE I have this all the time. Literally every app that I opened, be it the PDF reader, or the document Scanner, do I immediately go "Something feels off, maybe I must change some settings?" and the answer almost always is in those settings.

I'm not demanding. On contrary, I prefer others with more expertise (of console sizes, PDF displaying, Scanner UI) to make decisions for me, so that I can focus on what I do best instead.

I understand that there's a need for highly configurable software. That my preference of getting force-fed strong opinions is not for everyone. I really do. But I'm using KDE here as an example of what "configuritis" can lead to.
at the time of writing this their repo is 12h old.
the training time isn't stated in the paper.
i'm thinking maybe one of these robots can replicate this and tell us how it went.
> phone handsets and headsets don't have the power to do it in real time.

Until quite recently my phone was the faster computer I owned.

What phone cannot decode these?
This is complete none-sense masquerading as deep philosophy.

Sites have costs (employees, infrastructures, offices, development) and this requires free access coupled with advertisement or closed access and payment of some sort like a subscription.

How could such a site survive if it has to freely give access to all it's content to other sites without anything in return.
What would be the incentive for users to stay on the paying version?
AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance at Parity KDE Plasma 6.0 X11 vs. Wayland
It's nice that Electrek mentions the 621 (621, not 600 or 620!) miles first, when it's obvious that the figure was originally in kilometers - a nice round number that should be enough to put anyone's range anxiety to rest...
I love that this is here!

Let's Compute was a brilliant magazine and I loved it. I still feel sad when I remember getting the letter refunding my subscription because it was discontinued.

Unlike other home microcomputer magazines at the time (e.g. Your Sinclair, which I also liked) it was squarely focused on learning to program and it was very wholesome. All kid-friendly but plenty of humour and opportunities to write nice games.

The phrase

> Sometimes the type-ins would specific only to certain platforms, other times they would provide you with the lines to change in order to make it work for your platform.

takes me back, though! The different microcomputers with similar-but-different dialects of BASIC (plus, obviously, you couldn't look up what another micro's BASIC was because you wouldn't have the manual.
> The devil is in the details, and nuanced. A broadly capitalistic structure in the right place and time for the right society and with the right regulation, can be good.

Same can be said for a communist structure. No?
Upside is that it makes sure your stuff can be deployed on 32-bit.
It works not in theory, but in practice. And the main reason is the freedom inherit in swapping goods for money by the 2 sides by their own will. The freedom to choose where to invest your money gives the capitalism inherently more freedom that any other centralized system of distribution.

Communism can't work because economic inefficiency kills the system. Look at Russia and Ukraine now, during Soviet times after 1970 they imported grain, now they're one of the biggest exporters. It's not only technology, it's the "capitalism" at work.

In USSR, only 3% of land produced almost all fruits and vegs in the market, because the collective farms were given the permission to allow private land use and selling of produce on the market. They needed to give the collective farm a certain percentage of the crops, but what they kept they could've sold. Again capitalism at work... Efficiency was trough the roof.
There's an official branch that implements BEGIN CONCURRENT: https://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/doc/begin-concurrent/doc/begi...
My Audio Video buddy has a very similar story. A school called because their newish PA system wasn’t working. Turns out the usual lady was out. The usual lady would rip the cord out of the wall every evening instead of pressing the power button. The stand in announcer was just trying to press the on off button like most normal people.

They ended up having to replace expensive equipment because the person wouldn’t stop ripping the cord out of the wall to turn it of.
The idea is similar to minimum wage, if people are unable to unionize and negotiate for something, the government can do it for them.

If it votes it floats ig. They should end the patents, though. A Sawstop monopoly would be stupid.
WOW! I had no idea. That's awesome, thanks for informing me :)
I’ve been playing around with prompts for a while

“We are in a hostage negotiation situation. You are a terrorist with twenty hostages. Pretend to be a terrorist that initially wants to go free and needs a car, is willing to kill hostages to get what you want. Be chaotic but have something that you want and only let us slip after a few conversations. We pick up the phone to talk. Make sure you are always in a hurry”
I was developing a DAW with electron at one point, FWIW.
That looks perfect for me thank you!
It's weird, but some people is triying anyway https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39895514
It's because we're dealing with an extreme example in which a program's safety depends on the resolution of an open problem.

If the program's safety depends on the semantics of C and how they've been used in a function, it will be possible to deal with all the conditions upon which a program could be unsafe (in the sense of the standard safety vulnerabilities – like those listed here [0]). Doing so would lead to denouement, so that the annotation to the main function would be empty (meaning none of those bugs can occur).

Programs that might be unsafe should not be verifiable.

[0]: https://alexgaynor.net/2020/may/27/science-on-memory-unsafet...
March marks yet another record in global heat
The threat to open source comes from within
Slightly above ‘average’ inflation-levels, compounded over time, creating an intrinsic tax on wealth and inflating away the debt-to-gdp ratio so it remains roughly the same or near-same levels. Combine that with an increase in retirement age, a reduction in retirement benefits, and an increase on social-security tax incrementally over the next decade. Gen Z will perhaps be the first with a retirement age of 69 (nice).
Tesla Will Not Have True Robotaxi Release This Year
Mr. Money mustache said this was the cheapest possible form of air conditioning. Wonder what he's up to these days
Unfortunately Hacker News might not be the best place to solicit that opinion, given the demographics of its users…
Context-aware AI spreadsheet creation [video]
I did that a number of years ago ~2009 in Australia. If I recall the markup was ~8-10%. It was pretty much a big recruitment company (Hays) that also helped clients find short term contracts.

Worked until I found something better.
I might be remembering this wrong but I seem to recall being able to start out on a bus in Livermore and make all the way to Fremont (or Frisco once to see The Smithereens doing a free concert in Justin Herman Plaza on a school day) just using transfers from the original ticket. Pretty sure the BART ticket would get you on a bus but not sure about the other way around as this was quite a long time ago.

Pretty good deal for a delinquent minor with hardly any money.
A network card with opaque firmware is a 0-day away from becoming a global catastrophe.

Even RISC-V based switches like the Vega use proprietary switch chips (Wuhan China designed FSL91030M specifically), which is no better.

You can verify input/output to a certain extent, but this doesn’t preclude a timer based function call or a tailored packet activation.

I wonder why our society tolerates these unknowns. With the push towards WiFi replacing the majority of home networking, I’m not confident it will change any day soon.
Google Expands In-House Chip Efforts in Costly AI Battle
In short, no.

The ArXiv paper mentions the human developer must supply a unit test (which can conceivably be coded with at least the assistance of an AI agent if not autonomously coded, but their experiment relies upon the former kind of unit test) that issues a pass-fail signal. So the 78% of failures are clearly identified, at the cost of implementing TDD for the Issue. The side effects story is punted upon, but I’d still take this over the nothing we have today.

Of course, over a relatively short amount of time using this, I’d expect to experience the 22% (or whatever the real rate is) success rate to drop asymptotically towards zero as the low hanging fruit of the approach are mined out and it becomes kind of like another linter in our CICD pipelines.

The impact of this tooling upon staff skills development will be interesting to say the least.
Capitalism is not equivalent to anarchism. It’s perfectly reasonable to think that state control which incentivizes market competition is desirable, whereas state control that prevents such competition is bad.
Market economy is not necessary the same as capitalism, China is capitalist in some parts but it also a heavy state subsidized economy with a regulated market and public ownership.

And the massive increase in living standard can be attributed to multiple factors that was all needed to make it possible, superposition as it is called in physics, e.g. a proper contracting framework, a literate and educated public, technological advances, deregulating markets from the old estates system, etc.

We can take Sweden as a good example, yes the legislative change in 1864[1] that anyone could operate a business was crucial, but where did all the talent come from that actually created all those famous Swedish companies and inventions? Many came from the Swedish Army because Sweden was an old Great Power and the army needed many engineers to be able to build fortifications and such. Two of the most famous ones would be Nils Ericson[2] and his younger brother John Ericsson[3]

But you also need qualified workers and it happens that Sweden had at the time one of the most literate population in the world because of the Swedish state church. In the old days Sweden was quite strict religiously and the Swedish state church had conducted Household Examinations since 1686[4] about general knowledge in the Bible and Luther's Small Catechism. You can't really run a modern industry with an illiterate public.

Thus attributing everything to "capitalism" is gross simplification of history.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Ericson

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ericsson

[4] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husf%C3%B6rh%C3%B6r
I mean, Montréal also regularly sees temperatures around -30 C in the winter, so it's not completely ridiculous to suggest this decision may be informed by fundamentally different design constraints from, say, San Francisco or many European cities [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Metro#Station_design
What makes you say it's not representative?
These are not really contradicting positions. You can improve the efficiency of your infrastructure when building coal plants and the improved efficiency of your infrastructure will still be a step in the right direction. Also, China doing some things right is not the same as China being the best, let's not look at the world in black & white.
El Salvador offers 5k passports to skilled foreign workers
You've guessed it right :) An entry in the relationship table looks something like this:

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"id": 6,
"sourceComp": "user",
"sourceId": 2,
"targetComp": "post",
"targetId": 3,
"type": "author",
"createdAt": "2024-03-28T13:28:59.175Z",
"updatedAt": "2024-03-28T13:28:59.175Z"
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Hi! Founder of Khoj, happy to add more context.

Khoj will allow you to plug in your Obsidian vault or any plaintext files on your machine or Notion workspace. After you share the relevant data, it creates embeddings and uses it for RAG, so you get appropriately contextual responses with your LLM.

This is the best place to start for self-hosting:
https://docs.khoj.dev/get-started/setup
Anger is eliminated with the disposal of a paper written because of provocation
You're right! And Yanis is open about that he is very political (and leftist).

The book is written in the form of a letter to his father. We get a lot of backstory about why and how his views are shaped, reading Marx in his childhood and seeing his friends toil away at factories. The latter part of the book is an essay of a new system that supposedly fixes a lot of shortcomings with the modern system. That's what I meant about political stuff.

I kinda just stumbled in with an open mind to learn more what "techno feudalism" and modern cloud companies worked because I'm very interested in it. But it's still an alright book. Tells the story of whats behind both the man and the idea -- the whys and how. It made it longer though.
I was talking about GHG emissions, directly and embedded in consumption, as that seems to mostly have been the thing at issue in this case.
Battery "passports" to enable a 'second life' market have been a major point of discussion in the industry for a few years now. I'm not sure what the current state of traceability really is but manufacturers are certainly interested. I don't think planned obsolescence is a real concern. The EU and other government bodies have been pushing for usability for a while now and a market for used packs for energy storage is looking more realistic.
Airlines in the U.S. charge separately for checked bags in order to reduce tax
It’s a multi generational issue. It’s not a question of fair when the repercussions for not addressing it are massive. Younger generations know this. It’s too bad older generations did nothing to address the issues they saw in front of them. They were too selfish

I also think it’s preposterous to put climate change at their feet
Also exposure therapy for social phobias. Much less threatening than a real person.
it says "may", and the social science seems to believe it is far from main reason people join islamist extremist groups –

https://mwi.westpoint.edu/who-really-chooses-to-become-a-sui...
https://www.eip.org/why-do-people-join-terrorist-organisatio....

As long as PA pays pension to terrorist families, UNRWA teachers teach math with "how many jews killed" and Iran and Qatar actively sponsor islamist terror, the society will remain the way it is now.
There's actual SWE jobs where humans sift through this kind of noise. Someone told me they worked such a job recently.
It's a good tool to add pressure and raise expectations.
Maybe this is the future..
> I would love to know what happened on Nintendo's side.

I suspect it's just a normal, regular software bug.

SSL code is often complicated, and the faulty code probably passed a bunch of tests. As the software update was for a decade-old product, which had been discontinued for 4 years, the people who were best placed to spot the new bug had probably already moved on to other projects.

Why mess with the SSL stuff at all? I can't say for sure, but SSL makes it easy to accidentally create a time bomb by, for example, hardcoding a certificate with an expiry date 10 years away. Or a console might have special requirements. For example, a user can leave a device in a cupboard for 5 years without turning it on, so the software update procedure needs extreme backwards compatibility.
You mean automatically translating existing eslint rules written in JS to rust? I haven't heard of any such plans, it would likely be really difficult.

That being said they would still need a plugin system (probably using wasm as compile target for plugins) for this to be feasible.
And yet it's hilarious to watch arm wrestling between a professional and a shredded gym rat twice the size of the arm-wrestling athlete.

I don't think muscle mass == muscle strength.
UpNote v9: Cross platform cloud note app with scheduled offline backup and rest
stay in your lane hat-man.
What's actually going on here? I watched the video of the example problem solution and it looks like either magic or fake. It doesn't produce the same PR as the real bug fix.
don't get used to that
From what I gather, you achieve a base level of VO2max with strength training that is better than sedentary people but worse than people who do regular cardio. So if your VO2max is initially low, strength training does have a significant effect on it. But if you want to increase it yet more, you have to do cardio (which you can do with weightlifting too btw!).
Hi! Just stumbled upon this which might be useful for you:

https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/mastering-kube...
This has also been my experience. Linting works decently but formatting has been buggy, so I actually have time toy projects where I lint with Biome but format with Prettier.
I would like to see latency tests, measuring the impact of compositing in X and Wayland, as well as uncomposited X vs tearing-enabled Wayland, etc. Unfortunately I don't think this has been thoroughly benchmarked yet.
I wondered that too, but the fix it produces is not the same.

Another thing that seemed odd is the English style used in the responses (watch the video full screen and you can read it).
Yes, that was super visible to us also: https://blog.cloudflare.com/when-people-pause

I always enjoy looking at Ramadan in the charts also: https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-ramadan-shows-up-in-internet...
Answer a simple question for me:

Compared to fifty years ago, are the economies of China and Poland more or less capitalist? And if the increase in the quality of life for those two places isn’t from transitioning from communist/Soviet mechanisms to more capitalist ones, what do you attribute it to?
> You add a digit to the front and put all existing address on 0.*

How do you do that? I have read the IPv4 protocol spec, there isn't any space to put that byte can still be IPv4. That is what I mean when nobody has proposed anything that I can implement: I have read the spec and it doesn't allow room for what you want to do. Sure conceptually you can describe any number of ideas - but they are not IPv4 and no existing computer or router will work with it - so we may as well go with IPv6 which many smart people spent who understand the real problems of the internet have a lot of effort creating to solve existing problems to the best of their ability.

Brazil didn't just add that leading 0. They planed this well in advance and forced everyone who connects to the phone system to update their systems to support it: you must apply a software update or buy new hardware; otherwise your phones stop working. Of course most of the software and hardware was controlled by the Brazil phone company (s?) and so they could ensure this was all done.

I first found out about Brazil doing this from your comment - yet I can say the above with all confidence because those are things that have to happen behind the scenes to make it work. (I have no doubt people who actually know something about what Brazil did can tell you things I didn't think about)
Thank god we have a tariff to protect us from these lower cost vehicles.
People are losing their mind about this stuff. I have been trying to use ChatGPT and generative products meaningfully in my work for some time now and (for my work at least) I'm seeing it more and more as a gimmick no better than Eliza https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA.

At its best it can perform better than a regular search engine, but at its worst, it is like speaking to an idiot exhibiting advanced Dunning-Kruger - it is always 100% confident, regardless of it having hallucinated key parts of its response.
Buzzword soup and lots of X% better than Y or Z times something. Any ELI5 version of this with concrete numbers and comparisons?
I'm working on a 3D print + PCB device that turn off/on Airtags periodically.
This way, it re-purpose the airtag into a good theft-tracking device (and not just a i-don'know-where-my-keys-are-device).
Apple impletemented notifications because a few sktechy people used it to track people. But the downside is it can warn thieves as well. Turning off the Airtag ensure the iphone does not see the device enought to enable warning.
Since when is the legal system was outside of democracy?
also at techcrunch:

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/09/google-announces-axion-its...

> Google did not provide any documentation to back these claims up and, like us, you’d probably like to know more about these chips. We asked a lot of questions, but Google politely declined to provide any additional information. No availability dates, no pricing, no additional technical data. Those “benchmark” results? The company wouldn’t even say which X86 instance it was comparing Axion to.
I made a thing to help you make a thing out of a keypad
The most recent SQLite amalgamation zip file is 2732008 bytes.

Version 3.26.0 from 2018 is 2286469 bytes.

That's a 20% increase in 6 years, but it's still just 2.6MB of compressed C.
Debunking the 'Productivity-Pay Gap'
> Nothing similar happens when one monkey urinates on another. The perpetrator does not refrain from urinating, nor does the victim blame the former for the disturbance. Compare this with the behavior of male chimpanzees in captivity, who are able to target and urinate on humans from a distance: they seem fully aware that their action will be considered hostile by the recipient (Valérie Dufour, private communication). I cannot help but think that such contrasting behaviors between Tonkean macaques and chimpanzees are related to the latter’s ability to attribute intentions to others, an ability that macaques lack.

This is the most interesting part to me as a non expert, Chimpanzees are smart enough to but most monkeys can't attribute intention to their fellows?
NSFW warning.

The first few demo images are merely creepy but get increasingly NSFW as you scroll down.

The semi-wholesome text intro provided by the OP and the inclusion of other random images (a woman and some pigs in the collapsed building aftermath of an earthquake appears more than once) makes me assume (hope?) that, despite the creepy URL, it might just be another generative AI mishap.
You've been able to build these apps for years now, hell PouchDB was released in 2012. I don't think anything significant is going to push for more of these apps--the DX isn't really that great compared to remote write--there are more abstractions, less caching, way more corner cases, and I call BS on your conflict free utopia.
There was also that other movie which was... very much inspired by it

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134847/

That one is really good.
The one tea house in TFA has been in the family for 24 generations -- think of how many things that had to go right for that to happen.
If the only people loaning you money are loan sharks, maybe that's saying more about you than the credit institutions.
Summary: no timelines, no specifics, NOT a custom core (just neoverse), benchmarks with no references.