skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I justify expensive displays because I sit at my desk 12-16hours a day 6.5 days a week. I usually buy a top of the line display (or array of displays) every 3-5 years. The difference between a great flat panel and a good flat panel is huge on the picture it outputs. However, this translates to marginal productivity gains. The 1000R curve is much better ergonomically, it means a much smaller head/eye movement to focus on different parts of the display. The 120hz display, especially with moving text, reduces my eye strain. Display lag, image settings, color quality, and HDR are big for gaming. The KVM switch can be good productivity, depending on your situation.
Wait what ? Not a single of my 239 steam games have any issue running on Linux. And I don’t even count my GOG & EGS games with Heroic Launcher.

I’m certain there may exist SOME titles which don’t work well but they are so exceptional that I never encountered them.

It’s hard saying "Linux gaming just isn’t there" while you can play more games on Linux than on any released console to this day (and I’m not even including emulation).
Demonstrably false
... then one day someone close to you talks to Siri ...

"Siri, remind me to turn the gas off"

"Siri, remind me to put the cats out"

You, in your home think .... what?

Tech turned against you?
What? How would it? Do you understand what is meant by that?

The problem being referred to here is that a change on one line causes changes to unrelated lines. It makes it harder to pinpoint which line was changed intentionally in a diff and which ones were just caused by tab issues.
Also added Llama 3 70B to our coding copilot https://www.double.bot if anyone wants to try it for coding within their IDE and not just chat in the console
>OpenAI keeping it close to their hearts but have great developer apis

Interesting. Aren't all the APIs basically the same? Provide a prompt, get a response.

I'm surprised there's room for some APIs to be significantly better than others, but then I've only used the openai one.
True, it is possible to turn it off. I find it hilarious that the middle ground between the two modes is a “hazards only” option. A smarter guide would be nice, but maybe I’ll just keep using Waze.
Yea probably, but I don't think Google as a company is trying to do anything open regarding AI other than raw research papers

Also google makes most of their money off search, which is more business driven advertising vs showing ads in between user generated content bites
Yawn. Get back to me when something of actual note gets launched.

Mobile OSes are now a boring, stable environment. All this noise about AI seems like an attempt to convince investors that some paradigm-shifting change is on the way. It isn't. A mildly better Google Assistant is on the way.
What you're describing is the Get Things Done (GTD) method. Have you read the book from David Allen?

With that note, I higly recommend the book to OP!
US Electron-Ion Collider hits construction milestone
So the team that is in charge of the OS which is licensed to Hardware vendors in the world is the same team that's in charge to create competing Hardware?

I'd say that creates a huge conflict of interest.

That's one of the big reasons why Nokia Series60 didn't take off as a licensed OS: Whatever Samsung or LG or Lenovo wanted to build on that platform to differentiate, they had to involve Nokia during the development (who then developed the needed OS-feature in parallel to the Nokia product that will make use of it).

Google is either very secure that their grip on all these HW-vendors is strong enough forcing them to stay, or they are no longer part of Google's long-term strategy for Android.
It does seem uncharacteristic. Wonder how much of the hate Zuck gets is people that just don't like Facebook, but as person/engineer, his heart is in the right place? It is hard to accept this at face value and not think there is some giant corporate hidden agenda.
> Sure, but what do I do, if that service just closes tomorrow?

You're far more likely to die tomorrow than Notion to close abruptly tomorrow.
Why? In the age of ubiquitous scams online, including at "trusted" places like Amazon or Walmart or Target that all function as weird drop-shipping storefronts, the ability to walk in, see the item, see that it's not fraudulent, that it's real, and can be returned if it is incorrect or broken with minimal hassle, is real value.

I peaked in Internet shopping around 2010 when Prime was, you know, good. Since then I have vastly preferred going in person.

Clothes? You can try them on. Electronics? Won't set your house on fire. Food? It's fresh and I get it today.

If you told me in the aughts that Newegg would be a ghost town and that I'd prefer going to Best Buy, I'd've called you a troglodyte moron, but today that's exactly how it is.

These are all anecdotes but I can't possibly be alone in these feelings. 15% sounds about right to me. I order online when I must.. otherwise, I drive to the store.
Think of it as a 50B spending spree where he gave that to VR tech out of enthusiasm. Even I, with the cold dark heart that I have, has to admit he's a geek hero with his open source attitude.
The Wii proved grossly underpowered consoles can still be a lot of fun. This is the form factor it deserves!
I guess we differ in that you call generating 20% of the energy in the USA "not a success" lol
Hydrogen trains could revolutionize how Americans get around
I kind of wonder. Does what they do counter the growth of Google?

I remember reading years ago that page/brin wanted to build an AI.

This was long before the AI boom, when saying something like that was just weird
(like musk saying he wanted to die on mars weird)
Steam on Linux.
If you're looking for a system that has more features, is user friendly, a nice admin ui and easy deployments compared to Keycloak. Please give https://goauthentik.io/ a shot. Not affiliated in any way, just a very happy user.

It has

-an admin UI

- Supports (LDAP, SAML, OAUTH, social logins)

- MFA, Passkeys

- Application access based on user groups etc
The "mass market" in almost every country outside of NA is already adopting EVs, and a large part of that has been Chinese cars which aren't sold in the US due to protectionism and regulations. Take a look at EV adoption across EU or Asia or anywhere else really (BYD in Brazil for example), and you'll see the same story everywhere. It is pretty much a NA centric perspective that "EVs aren't there yet" cause the definition of "there" is bulky pickup trucks with 1000 mi range.
That doesn't help the problem here. Part of the revision is still relevant (say, adding a new, longer field name to a struct) and the rest is just extra spam. But you wouldn't want to ignore the entire revision.
Cryptography Tricks Make a Hard Problem a Little Easier
In a way they've done that with the iPhone. There are a lot (billions?) of people who would have bought a computer, but got a smart phone instead.
Swell v1.18.0: the open-source Postman alternative
Me and my fellow contributors are excited to announce that we're releasing version 1.18.0 of our application Swell. Swell is an open-source backend testing tool similar to Postman, but with a more broad range of endpoints and technologies supported. Let us know what you think!
A Worldcheck sub gives you access to all the lists. How is this "hacking"?
> Perhaps that's the optimal way of reading a webcomic (waiting until it's binge-able)?

Man, I tend to think so. (Though... I say that, and I've been reading Gunnerkrigg thrice a week for what seems like five years now, so sometimes I think one thing and do another sometimes. ;))

It's a good comic, IMO.

> The only time I've noticed any kind of delay or ghosting like that is when I have it in extremely low brightness settings (reading at night in the dark), with "extra dim" enabled.

I would have never thought to play with the brightness settings.

So, I nearly always have my screen on "8->10% brightness, automatic brightness adjust, 'extra dim' disabled.". I played with the brightness settings just now and discovered that I have to get the brightness up to 100% before the smearing is _nearly_ gone. At 50%, the trails are much, MUCH smaller than at ~10%, but still obviously there. 75% is not _that_ much better than 50%.

> [I have a] Pixel 6a

Hmm! Maybe in the year between the 5a and the 6a's release, they got on display manufacturers' collective asses to substantially reduce the amount of color smearing in the display that they selected for their next phone.
But ... even if you have just 1 or 2 people, you have to manage them. You need to have regular meetings to discuss what's done, what's to be done, you have to plan work for them. Large part of why I'm a solopreneur is because I do not want to manage or be managed. It would be awesome to find someone who just magically does great work without needing any attention. Just brief monthly summaries of high quality contributions, better than I could have done. But I'm not sure how to find someone like that, and I also don't think I could afford them ;-)
I think you're making the classic mistake of thinking that because your on-ramp isn't available anymore there are no on-ramps anymore.

I read an extremely similar comment two decades or so ago about a dev saying that no-one would learn computers anymore because everyone now used GUIs instead of CLIs...

Yes modding might be harder nowadays, but you have things like Scratch and Hedy, or the freely available Unreal/Unity dev tools with asset stores.
You're right to be confused, it's fairly ungrammatical, one would typically use the adjectival form there: "... things happen justly" but then it wouldn't scan as well.
Because the people in question aren't necessarily criminals. You should be careful of how easily that you may be hypnotized by language, including but not exclusive to accusations.
Even random seed could cause bad big shift in human eval performance if you know you know. It is perfectly illegal to choose one ckpt that looks best on those benchmarks and move along

HumanEval is meaningless regardless, those 164 problems have been overfit to the tea.

Hook this up to LLM arena we will get a better picture regarding how powerful they really are
Or be your own lawyer.
The major trick, IMHO, is not to grow.

While a "normal" startup is focused on growing! growing! growing! a small company should instead think like a physical restaurant:

"I have 10 tables * 4 seats. 4 waiters. Operate Lu-Fri 10 am - 6 pm. I can serve only up to 40 customers max per hour. My income will never be bigger than 40* Average meal. My income needs to be at minimum Costs + 3% profits".

Then you see you have too many waiters. You cut it to 2.

Then you see your meals are too cheap. You increase it a little.

Then you see you have little customers. You grow a little.

Then you see you have TOO MUCH customers. You stop growing. More costly take-over, increase the cost of the meal, etc.

What you NOT MUST DO is grow more than your max capacity.

That is it.

Size your capacity. Figure a nice profit. Keep it small.
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Is it that unreasonable? An adult-sized person was waving a realistic looking gun around and (allegedly) pointing it at houses. Some attempt at deescalation needs to be made, but if that fails, I wouldn’t want the cop to just shrug and leave. I’d expect him to do whatever it takes to remove the gun from this individual.

There’s a huge difference between simply owning a gun vs wandering around in public pointing it at people.
It was about availability for future recordings, not price. If cost was a concern they wouldn't have had Nolan North rerecord all of Dinklage's existing dialogue, just replace him going forward.
Israel did initiate a starvation campaign though
That's weird I have not experienced that issue. Alexa is pretty responsive for all my queries. I use it every day but mostly just for setting kitchen timers.
Intense exercise, especially a competetive sport where you train with other people tends to do this
As per the article, the modded CPU isn’t required.
It isn't necessarily a failure "yet". Don't think anybody is saying VR/AR isn't a huge future product, just that current tech is not quite there. We'll see if Apple can do better, they both made tradeoffs.

It is still possible that VR and Generative AI can join in some synergy.
There are Linux builds with widevine IIRC, but those aren't the "from source builds" from the distros. I also recently saw a video of someone running PowerPoint via Wine. Dunno what they did or if it was a plain Wine build, but it was running and it did do stuff.
Ease of onboarding and usability for new team members was very important during ZIRP when headcounts were exploding and people were changing jobs for 40% raises all the time. I'm not sure it's going to be such a useful optimization target going forward.
There's probably all sorts of things that happen for reasons we'll never know. These are both immensely powerful men driven by ego and the idea of leaving a legacy. It's not unreasonable to think one of them might throw around a few billion just to spite the other.
he said "Q4" - meaning 4-bit weights.
It’s a shame it can’t just be giving back to the community and not questioned.

Why is selfishness from companies who’ve benefited from social resources not a surprising event vs the norm.
> Non-enthusiasts are not able to troubleshoot problems in Linux.

Fair, but that does not really reflect the HN crowd. That said, at the rate MS is going, ChromeOS is looking like the better deal, and, surprisingly, it has less nagging/ads than Windows does!
I made hackerer.news[0] that filters all stories for the day into groups. I should add a paywalled group since I usually skip them too.

Sometimes I'll just google part of the title and read a different article on the topic. It's rare for a story to only be reported by one source and I usually only care about deep details for tech which tends not to be paywalled much as business or politics.

Edit: I just wanted to make an issue for this and realized this is still on GitLab[1]--should move it too.

[0] https://hackerer.news/
[1] https://gitlab.com/karmakaze/hackerer-news
Why is the identity of a wrongly accused person, formerly kept private, your business?
> Policing the language here seems more about pedantry than correcting actual misconceptions.

Feel free to blame me, if it helps. I've got broad shoulders.

However the fact that we're (collectively) losing the mass "mindshare battle" doesn't imply bad faith. Some of us are still fighting the good fight, and I don't see a problem with that.

Personally I think this only means we should fight harder against these dangerous beliefs, not throw in the towel (or worse, friendly fire against fellow educators).

And yes, it's human-side beliefs that are dangerous, not the tech itself. If an LLM "suggests" to kill <group of people> and we know what an LLM really is, then it's harmless. However if a large fraction believe an LLM is some infallible AI oracle or genie (a surprisingly common belief), then this "suggestion" could cause catastrophic harm.
It's a bit too early IMHO to declare the metaverse a failure.

But that said, I don't think it matters. I don't know anybody who hasn't been wrong about something, or made a bad bet at times. Even if he is wrong about everything else (which he's not, because plenty of important open source has come out of facebook), that doesn't change the extreme importance that is Llama and Meta's willingness to open things up. It's a wonderful gift they have given to humanity that has only barely started.
Theory and practice hardly even exchange notes, when it comes to digital accessibility.
Worldcheck is an aggregator of lists for political sensitive persons and anti money laundering. Many of the lists they aggregate are public.
A decent amount of games let you toggle fullscreen by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Enter
His engineering mindset made him blind to the fact the metaverse was a product that nobody wanted or needed. In one of the Fridman interviews, he goes on and on about all the cool technical challenges involved in making the metaverse work. But when Fridman asked him what he likes to do in his spare time, it was all things that you could precisely not do in the metaverse. It was baffling to me that he failed to connect the dots.
Only if you have an attention mechanism.
This is an awesome strategy!

I want to print this out and put it above my computer.
this is the way. put it on Craigslist "Free" and FB Marketplace, drop specific coordinates / locations / picture.

"first come, first served", then walk away. Like one time I put the furniture and other stuff at the end of the driveway and then took a shower, and when I went back to look maybe 30 min later it was gone. deleted the posts and got on with life.
It is just the reverse: he is successful because he is like that and lots of founder ceos are jellies in comparison
Do you think Gabe Newell or the countless other successful obese people are somehow immune to this complete lacking in self control? Perhaps they are just puppets controlled by little aliens?
Now that we've got a bunch of free ChatGPT alternatives, I'm not sure that we need Siri to compete with those, but certainly needs to be improved.

My wish/expectation would be that I could at use Siri to 100% control my phone and access content on my phone, certainly anything from Apple's own apps (photos, messages). Preferably it could also access content from apps I've got installed such as GMail or WhatsApp, and maybe control those apps too ("send gmail to ...").

Given that Siri tries to answer more general web-based questions, it needs to do better than "Here's a link about that". Siri doesn't need to become ChatGPT, but if it's going to do web retrieval to answer a question, then it should be able to summarize the content and read it to me.
Removing technical debt and improving tooling is often a good way to add value. Sharpening your tools makes you work faster.
> I could argue the opportunity cost of high school was a million bucks, too.

Absolutely. We can go down that road and all the problems that exist there, of which there are plenty, but for the sake of the discussion taking place here, those lower levels of schooling are mandatory (under threat of government force!), so for all intents and purposes you don't get to choose.

College, on the other hand, is entirely your choice. Opportunity cost is significant here because you can, without persecution, do something else with that time.

> The United States is chock full of examples of people who worked through their college years and are dead broke.

And? You can't meaningfully compare yourself to other people - only the other choices you can make.

There are no guarantees in life, sure. Shit happens. Hell, plenty of people have attained their master's degree and then discovered a love of cooking and went on to be low-wage cooks at a restaurant. Such is life. But in terms of high probability outcomes, you pursuing a certain career path that pays "way more" was no doubt on the expected horizon, but at the same time so was pursuing some other career during those college hours and investing the proceeds at an expected rate of return. The latter serves as a good benchmark as it is an opportunity virtually everyone has available to them. Of course, individuals can do even better in many cases.
literally always. How could this possibly not be a political belief?
I find neither the aperture grill nor shadow mask aesthetically appealing.

Throughout the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s I spent obscene amounts of money trying to minimize them. Smaller and smaller grills, the switch to shadow masks and their infernal lines, it never stopped.

To me, any screen technology where I can look at the clock in the upper right or lower left corner and see the pixels comprising the numbers (or a blurry smear) is trash.

The same with colors. Any screen technology that cannot accurately reproduce colors is trash. Asking a CRT to accurately reproduce colors, even something as minimally acceptable as Rec.709, is like asking me to perform brain surgery: it ain't happening brah.
I've been working on Temple Tools[1] (CRM for Synagogues) during evenings and weekends while maintaining my day job with no drops in productivity or outcomes (in fact I've performed better) for about 9 months and have gotten a good amount of traction. I was really afraid that it was going to take over my life but I'm very happy with how straightforward things have been. Building a CRM solo has been quite a lift but it's gone quite well.

Here are my tips:

• Get your first customer as early as possible. I know this isn't "new" advice but feedback from one customer was enough to keep my busy patching holes in the product for a good 2 months straight. If I waited and got my first 10 customers all at once I would have drowned

• Separate functions into days of the week as much as possible! I've found this to be critical for not burning out and maintaining high productivity over extended periods (9 months doesn't sound like much, but it's a long time to put in essentially an extra work week). For me Mon is Marketing, Tue-Fri is coding, Sat is marketing and non-urgent customer support, and Sun is coding

• Don't stop exercising. Exercise MORE. I'm a night owl but I transitioned to the "at the gym at 5am" guy, lunchtime run, and Jiujitsu in evenings; and I ended up somehow spending more time plugging away at the keyboard. The mantra "the way you do anything is the way you do everything" really comes to mind.

• Put dates on your calendar for meta-tasks. I have a recurring bi-weekly task to update my finances, a task to do keyword analysis, etc etc. It's too easy for these to slide otherwise

• Creative uses of ChatGPT! I'm using Nylas' free tier and the ChatGPT API to automate triaging my own customer support emails, and texting myself if it's urgent. This lets me have near-zero interruptions during my day job from my side hustle.

• More ChatGPT. If you don't know how to do something, talk to ChatGPT interactively to get "good enough" at it quickly. This could be anything from finance to SEO to cold outbound. You still have to think critically enough to ask good questions like "what am I missing here" or "what's going to bite me in the ass". You absolutely need a paid subscription (I use both ChatGPT4 and Claude)

• Be your own project manager. Do NOT wing it. Sit down every once in a while and list off everything you think you have to do, break it down, triage it, prioritize it, and start burning it down. This includes both product-level tasks and business administration and marketing. This lowers cognitive load so much that you'll find you can actually take work off your mind when you're not working

• Identify opportunities for crunch times and adjust routine. I've rented an office on three separate months while working on this business. It was a fantastic way to break up the routine and get a huge amount of productivity for a short time

1 - https://temple-tools.com
If you're yelling that they're using it wrong, you're doing something wrong.
Yes. And, could potentially diminish OpenAI/MS.

Once everyone can do it, then OpenAI value would evaporate.
How did John Gruber lie?
I guess it makes them more like Apple, having a vertically integrated division for making phones. TFA says it might make other phone manufacturers struggle. Although I get the impression they are already struggling with the Open Handset Alliance terms from Google that they don't like. Maybe the best outcome is that AOSP gets multiple active forks supported by manufacturers, Google apps stop being distributed by default, and the phone software ecosystem gets more decentralized in general.
Luckily I can make my username a nice 5 letter word (Nekko), the terrible part: They for some reason decided to the email name as what should be truncated, which isn't related to my username.
Insatiable: A life without eating
There is this tactic when you cannot win, try to make your competitor’s strength commodity

“Thanks” Zuck