skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Imagine if this truth were more widely known...

Right wing media controls all but a thin sliver of the airwaves, and the remainder is considered state propaganda. Red states are the welfare queens of the union, but the smallest tax on the rich riles up those media barons, who flog their flock into a frenzy. The truth just isn't profitable.
hackmd.io
Wait, what is this?? I am on Kubuntu 22.04 and have never seen any advertising. I might need to pivot if the upgrade is going to hurt.
Why is this so difficult? We had styles in Wordstar on CP/M over forty years ago. I don't remember it being difficult.
Amazing collection. Thanks for posting! Could you share a bit of your process for finding and restoring? The work involved must have been extensive.
Ah, that's one annoying thing I had forgotten about ubuntu, thank you for reminding me!

So i've been using ubuntu for many years (my first release was 6.06). Updating to a new release never worked. Around 12.04 times (when I started to seriously feel the need for stability) i started to only to LTS-to-LTS update, which basically meant a full reinstall, but once every two years was a more manageable.

Nowadays I run fedora, so far the upgrade experience has been incredibly great. I already did three versions jumps (36 to 37, 37 to 38, 38 to 39) and it didn't break.
I consider myself technically savvy, but I end up with countless different passkeys for different devices, and then multiplied again by all of the different services out there.

I have so many keys scattered everywhere that I would need an excel sheet to keep track of them. I regret not doing that already .. or perhaps I regret using passkeys at all. I am still trying to figure that out.
>billions of ppl access the internet thru nat everyday

A caveat is that a lot of people are knowing or unknowingly relying on things like UPnP and NAT-PMP to have services operating normally under NAT. That conveniently masked a lot of the issues with NAT in P2P usecases such as online gaming and torrenting.

Unfortunately, even that is broken under CGNAT.

The more layers of NAT you put on your connection, the more things you break.
It's like this: imagine your neighbor is a raging alcoholic, and you say - he can get drunk and beat his wife, so I should too. And anyone who says this is bad can clearly see that he was the first one to do it.
I mostly admire their patience. Can imagine flipping a table or two during this process.
> Why do you need more than a single phone plus a hardcopy of your Google recovery codes

Because, as I can tell from a similar experience to GP's, they also won't save you if the authentication infrastructure decides you're not who you say you are.
The real story is that these vulture companies chase government subsidies and then, when they are exhausted, go find a next handout.
Will I finally be able to use a bluetooth headset's high quality audio output and its mic at the same time without significant changes in the terminal?

It's getting embarrassing that every other mobile and desktop OS has no problem doing this but not Ubuntu.
Email body is in the “body” form field, subject line in “subject”, destination in “email”.

https://www.w3docs.com/snippets/html/how-to-create-mailto-fo...
Games need async/await for two main reasons:

- coding multi-frame logic in a straightforward way, which is when transforming a function into a suspendable state machine makes sense

- using more cores because you're CPU-bound, which is literally multithreading

Both cases can be covered by other approaches, though:

- submitting multi-frame logic as job parameters to a separate system (e.g., tweening)

- using data parallelism for CPU-intensive work
The distribution IS the os, until you complain about ports packages not compiling, then suddenly it's not their problem, contact the ports maintainer.
After 18.04 LTS the distro has been headed in questionable directions.

However, it is the only distro that came very close to unifying the desktop, mobile, server and embedded application spaces. In a way it greatly impacted how people approached designs, as the classic heterogeneous build circus approaches often became a trivial role assignment.

It takes a bit of work to get the current builds "usable", but the FOSS curse now tightly couples release cycles to specific application compatibility versions. Or put another way... everything is perpetually Beta eventually, or becomes a statically linked abomination. This is the very real consequence of the second system effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect

At least they haven't jammed an AI search indexing snitch into their interface... yet...

Cheers =)
Thanks a lot! Our whole idea was to create an HR platform for the hospitality sector (Hotels,Restaurants, Cafe, etc) that works without job ads. Candidates create their profiles and upload them to our system ,then recruiters can filter and choose a specific person for the job they want.

If you wanna give it a try, sign in as a recruiter with demo@gmail.com and pass: 1234
> Are you saying mcdonalds gets a free pass on price increases (on which they at least partially blame on rising wages), because they have employees rather than contractors?

McDonalds follows labour laws (whether you think they are fair is immaterial) so they are not in the news with quotes like

"As we have repeatedly make clear in recent months, the ill-conceived, extreme minimum pay rate for food delivery workers in New York City will have significant consequences for everyone who uses our platform"

or

"“Merchants may experience significant declines in order volume as well as negative impacts to service,” the aggregator said in its announcement."

whenever they are forced to follow a new labour law.

> As the consumer, shouldn't I be equally angry if mcdonalds is jacking up prices to pump their profits under the guise of "higher labor costs"?

This post is about worker wages remaining the same (according to their analysis) while DoorDash is out in public claiming the price increase is because of labour laws.

> Sure, there's plenty of reasons to hate on companies using gig labor, but hating on them for price increases specifically seems closer to bitch eating cracker syndrome[1] than any sort of rational analysis.

They are being "hated" on (in this instance) because they are out in the media saying "we had to raise prices because the labour laws are making us pay more" and this post is saying "you do not seem to be raising the wages, so despite what you say there must be another reason".
I like the idea of autolayout like flex for routing wires. There needs to be things like busses etc., feels like there is something there that could be flexed. Problem is the multiple dimensions of connections, so maybe something inspired by grid layout and grid template area?
I think this is the result of how bluetooth itself works for bi-directional voice headsets, no? I do get bad quality on every OS when I have to do this, unless it has to do with the audio codec.
Even works in reader mode.
I don't see how this is related to the topic at hand. A zero-day attack can be patched, but the security issues with X11 are intrinsic to the protocol itself and are nontrivial to fix.
Styling predates the Internet - Microsoft Word 1.0 for MS-DOS had style sheets. WordPerfect 5.0 introduced styles on that side. Hierarchically structured text documents with headers, paragraphs etc. are even older: IBM Generalized Markup Language began development in 1969.

Lack of tooling for hierarchical structure manipulation is the mark of aiming for the lowest common denominator - casuals who edit short documents one-off.

Microsoft Word Outline Mode is life. My pet feature request: outline mode - with a ticket opened to Libreoffice since 2011, preceded by an Openoffice feature request from 2002. Probably won't ever happen.
As a current Texan who (in the last millennium) lived in California for a few years, I can say that most of the stuff written about either state in newsmedia is either mostly or entirely bogus. For one thing, both of them vary dramatically from one part of the state to another. Interior, small town California has a lot more in common with small-town Texas than with L.A. or SF. Austin has a lot more in common with SF than with small-town or rural Texas.

I do not ever recall an emphasis on being in competition with California; the emphasis has always been on the difference with Washington, D.C.
I don't know how well Sassoon's poetry has worn. But his George Sherston novels--Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, and Sherston's Progress--are very readable.

[edit: corrected spelling of "worn".]
Yes the good old days of spaghetti code where everything was simpler before it became complicated for me.
Let me code my soup of ifs in methods returning void / Unit, there is nothing better, and that these FP lesson givers leave us alone.
Your experience tells you two things.

One, that the people you want to impress are unimpressed by your effort to impress them.

Two, for the people you want to impress to accept you you have to hide truths of who you are as a person because they would rather discriminate against you for superficial reasons than get to know you.

And from that, you conclude that the people you left behind are to blame more so than these people you want to impress?
> "Once you remove politics from the picture"

...is doing a lot of lifting here.

Not having my loved ones' freedom and reproductive rights taken away was a huge plus for this native Texan fleeing Texas, for example.

A coworker still there talks about how the school board is being taken over by right-wing, book-banning, religious fundamentalists. He now homeschools his kids and has asked me about moving to my new home state.

In general, it's nice not being stomped on whenever the governor wants to score some cheap political points. It's weird when your government is acting like that friend that always starts fights (sometimes with you) when drunk and always seems to be drunk.

Granted, with the way things are going there, I'm also a climate refugee.
People on r/fuckcars might not agree with you.
I had ChatGPT design a programming language for a specific uncommon purpose and then use it. It's creative enough.
There will absolutely be stuff like ground pours (probably via a <pour /> component) and the ability to create user-specified constraints and static analysis.

Going from schematic back to JSX is a major goal, I'm building an LLM that can do this as well as read datasheets- this is in part to bootstrap the registry with components that come pre-loaded with the recommended decoupling capacitors.
The whole original point of what underpins FIDO2 was device locked, unphishable credentials. Wanting to export and move passkeys between devices is kind of counter to that. And I would argue vendors completing the attestation process are much more trustworthy than storing your own keys god knows where.
Godot C# works pretty seamlessly with VSCode and has improved dramatically over the years. It did regress a bit in Godot 4 after swapping to the newer .net "core" (in terms of platform support) but as of 4.2 I have had no issues at all.
I am not talking about making it not engaging, I am talking about making a business model that doesn't rely on maximizing engagement.

It would likely be even harder to start as it certainly wouldn't go viral. But eventually people would get there to write and consume insightful content from strangers or just connecting with family and friends as social medias were initially intended to.
We need a lot more. Actual US manufacturing capacity is very low. We can't even supply Ukraine with enough regular artillery shells

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/10/politics/russia-artillery-she...

The Navy's fleet is actually shrinking because we lack shipyard capacity, and can't even maintain the ships we already have.

https://breakingdefense.com/2024/03/navys-new-30-year-shipbu...
super cool...thanks
Try disabling the Bing integration. Add DWORD registry key and value DisableSearchBoxSuggestions = 1 to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer

Classic case of a network call being slower than staying on the local computer (someone in Redmond should have known better)
It's very good.

I probably shouldn't say that but I have been daily driving Ubuntu for about 10 years. There are certainly 'rough' edges but anyone technical should be comfortable getting it done.

Increasingly I think Windows is an self-driving automatic car where Ubuntu is a manual car that you have to drive. Sure, you'll have to bang around under the hood occasionally but if your job is working on cars, it shouldn't be a problem.

The common refrain of Bluetooth not working is completely gone in my opinion. I haven't had to mess with BT since I put a BT dongle in and installed Blueman. My current issue is that if I boot into the most recent kernel, my Wifi doesn't work. No problem, just boot into the last kernel. I am going to guess the wifi thing is probably my fault because I _abuse_ my installation with all kinds of weird things. Again, it's a manual car that lets you bang around under the hood.

I have seen others work on Windows and it is astonishing to me how often their development environments break. I have to get on calls with them and try to step them through how to fix their environment because a) windows sucks b) it's an 'automatic car' that doesn't want you banging around under the hood, it actively tries to stop you c) it doesn't use a sh shell language so you have to specifically cater to it
Contributors are humans, so it doesn’t work like that.
> state actors will do anything for specific targets.

That's either not a problem for me because I am of no interest to them. Or it is a problem that no amount of fiddling with software can mitigate because they can just beat me until I give up.

See https://xkcd.com/538/
> China's fall from might, from national glory

Haha, haha, ha...

Have you ever been to China? They have made more progress in the last few decades than the whole western world combined. And the west in in a serious decline. If anything that statement should be backwards.

Before you reflexively dismiss this argument and go hit that downwards triangle: what you are saying is China had more glory during the Opium wars than it does now. Surely you can see how absurd this statement is.
The Turgo versus the Pelton Turbine [video]
FSRS 4.5 landed in stable Anki release earlier this year for Desktop and modile clients. Strongly recommend you give it a try if you're reading this. It's a per-deck setting near the bottom in the Advanced deck settings (not application settings). You can integrate the FSRS 4.5 scheduler into your software.
A curious title.

"So you want to scrape like the unethical boys?" I guess doesn't scan so well. Bad boys maybe?

I'm pretty sure Internet Archive, etc don't in fact misrepresent what they are to crawl websites...
Definitly! Check for example https://github.com/ShironekoBen/superrt allows for realtime raytracing on the Super Nintendo using a Cyclone-V FPGA.
I just tried this locally with llama3-8b and it handled it fine. Claude 3 Sonnet passes your test too, in case you don't have the hardware for a local model. You might want to consider moving on from ChatGPT since their models have been RLHF'd to hell in the name of "safety" and are falling behind in many ways as a result.

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transcript:

$ ollama run llama3:8b

>>> tell me an interesting fact about etymology

Here's one:

Did you know that the word "quarantine" has a fascinating etymological history?

The word "quarantine" comes from^C

>>> tell me an interesting fact about etymology. just the fact, don't mention it's interesting.

The word "robot" originated from the Czechoslovakian word "robota," which means "forced labor" or "drudgery." This term was used in
Karel Čapek's 1920 play "R.U.R." (Rossum's Universal Robots), where it referred to artificial workers.
Interesting observation, that in 20 years installer iso size grew almost ten times: from 643M CD to current 5.7G image, that won't fit even on single layer DVD (not that someone are still using those).

I was also surprised how little difference "default selection" and "extended selection" makes in disk space usage - "extended" is taking up only 1GB more of disk space.
I believe the last time I've sent an e-mail was in July 2017, when I was finishing my Master degree thesis, and I was glad I'd probably never have to do it again. Please don't ruin my dream?
If you're contending that LLMs are incapable of reasoning, you're saying that there's no reasoning task that an LLM can do. Is that what you're saying? Because I can easily find an example to prove you wrong.
You can find the problem described here. It also has a link to solutions in different languages.

https://leetcode.com/problems/invert-binary-tree/
No, I don't think they do non-targetted advertising. Also this case was about the fake engineered consent for targeted advertising.
Show HN: A Neuro-Symbolic Agent framework with automatic optimization/finetuning
We've developed a neuro-symbolic agent system that can be programmed entirely in Cypher language. Allowing programmers to ship agent behaviors as software.
You can also reduce your attack surface (dependencies).
My self and a colleague who both grew up in Texas ended up on the west coast working for tech. I still recall his quote when leaving the big urban area of the west coast “I thought that we invented red necks in Texas.” People are people
> Because even if we assume the labor costs are zero in the developing countries, that means the platform is only earning a couple dollars per order.

1. That's gross profit, and doesn't cover stuff like marketing spend, which presumably is also more expensive in developed countries. If you look at the linked financial report, just under "Gross Margin" (and is cropped out) is "sales and marketing", which is nearly half of the gross margin.

2. The $10/order profit figure in the report includes restaurant fees as well. If you exclude that, their revenue (ie. all fees charged), and their profit (ie. revenue minus whatever they paid to the driver) drops by two-thirds.

Taking the two factors into account the doordash premium (for lack of a better term) over the Asian delivery companies decreases significantly. If you factor other expenses (eg. customer support/admin) and/or factors (eg. whether the Asian delivery companies are currently trying to gain marketshare as opposed to trying to take profits) probably decreases the discrepancy even further.
Here's what I would do:

1.Get first Techcrunch news :)) also I'd ask them to connect me with people in their network who could help with more PR. I'd also pay influencers to talk about my product and highlight its unique position, like being a no-plugin platform or something that stands out from Shopify and WooCommerce.

2.I'd hire a sales VP with over five years of experience in the ecommerce industry and let them build a team for outbound sales.

3.I'd create a landing page and marketing content focused on just one vertical (like restaurants or fashion), then run ads on 3-4 paid channels. I'd double the budget on each channel if the LTV (based on the first 3 months ) > CAC; and repeat it.
This is apparently only affecting people with `me.com` and `mac.com` accounts.

So, that sounds just like a bug after a migration of these services to some new APIs.
It's wild that this article only mentioned Haskell in passing when libraries like FreeR, fused-effects, and etc have been been around for a long time, and what people really worry about at this point is how to get mtl (monad transformer library) speeds out of effects systems (and even that was solved IIRC).

Sure it's a scala-focused article but come on -- Haskell is far more ergonomic, and honestly easier on the eyes than Scala.
> […] at what point did it become inevitable?

I do not have an answer to that question, unfortunately. Given choices A, B, C, D and Z, what motivates people to make the worst (short or long term) one out of all alternatives? There is no answer to that. Personally, I link it to the self-determination theory and the intrinsic motivation, yet neither can be rationalised nor yield a deterministic answer.

Hypothetically, if Kaiser Wilhelm II had access to a time machine and an opportunity to reflect on long term consequences of his own actions, would he have made the same choice to go to war, made a better choice, made a worse choice or anywhere in between? One can't know as human nature is an enigma to date.
This is ridiculous Apple should just include a microSD slot. Who even uses 512GB of storage on a phone? It's a stupid way to try to rip off the wealthy.
iTunes didn't even allow you to add your own album art. To do so you had to be signed in with Apple ID, so Apple could look up the album details on the iTunes store and set the image that way.

This was in 2008, so the software ecosystem lock-in strategy was already well-established back then.
Unfortunately, our enemies also get a vote. Perhaps you can convince them not to do war? Because telling them not to hasn't worked.

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-vladimir-putin-moscow-r...
Ok, I’ll bite a little. I’m not from BC but live two provinces east from there and we have similar problems but not nearly as bad.

One of the causes of this is inter-generational trauma and the chain reaction that this causes. In my province a significant fraction of homeless and drug-addicted people are First Nations (for non-Canadians: aboriginal, “Indians” although we don’t use that term much). Our government has done horrific things to this population; significantly worse historically, although some of it still persists today. Here’s how the chain reaction persists:

- a child in the 70s was forced to go to a Residential School where they were separated from their parents and culture and frequently endured physical and sexual abuse.

- that person leaves school broken. They have complex PTSD and no supports. They start doing drugs to forget the pain. They get pregnant.

- maybe not right away, or maybe immediately at birth, the government takes their child and places him or her into the foster care system. Some of the parents in the foster care system are great, many are not and treat it as a way to get additional income every month while doing the bare minimum to raise the child. Many children in the foster care system suffer their own abuse.

- To manage the PTSD from being in the foster care system without significant mental health support they start doing drugs…

Repeat ad nauseum.

I have several friends (saints, really) who work in the Ministry of Social Services who genuinely care and want to help change things by providing support etc but the ministry is perpetually understaffed and underfunded. Many go into that line of work bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, ready to make a difference, and after a few years end up bitter and jaded.

While I partly agree with you on the hedonic treadmill part, it does also change the externalities of the situation. Someone who has a home (apartment, homeless shelter, whatever) might still choose drugs but they’re probably not going to choose to sleep under a ragged blanket on a park bench.

It’s an incredibly complex problem. What happens to someone who uses drugs in public when that is criminalized? They can be fined (which they have no means to pay) or they can go to jail for a bit. So now they’re in jail and meet more people who come from similar situations. Our prisons are also full of drugs (how?!?) and are definitely not the place to finally have a chance to work on your mental health. People then get released with new friends and more PTSD.

I don’t have the answers by any means, but around here at least our government was responsible for a huge amount of the damage that was done years ago and continues to be responsible for perpetuating its effects.
> unethical

Using and transforming information in useful ways is unethical if it results in a profit?

That's what our brains do, too.