skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. Then you combined both in the one message for ultimate effectiveness. :)
Agreed! I find XFCE to strike the best balance between simplicity, performance, and features.
Wayfair to open its first large store, as physical locations make a comeback
My guess is internal politics in the development team(s) rather than commercial reasons.
Projections: "Things are not normal" [pdf]
It gets massively cheaper when those priorities include reloading your own ammo.

My most well off neighbor is the most prolific shooter I know. He shoots targets almost daily with his .22, and I don't hear it at all from 1/3 mile away. He doesn't use a suppressor, but some kind of quieter round. I guess that means slower.
Was yours the pizza transport box for Pizza Hut? ;)
I've never given KDE a shot (only used Gnome and XFCE) but...not that Linux needs more fragmentation...System 76's Cosmic Desktop (don't make us use all caps please) is very interesting.

FWIW, I like that Gnome is more "opinionated" than KDE.
I can't get my head around why Gnome doesn't have an option in settings to prevent laptop going to sleep when lid is closed. In KDE you can configure that and much more regarding laptop behavior when charging vs on battery.

Why there is no option on Gnome to ungroup windows in dock/launcher without installing third-party extensions. On KDE it's one click. Not everybody likes to click 2-3 times to open desired window.

Gnome's default image viewer can't even crop or resize photos.

There is a ton things like this that make KDE far more usable out of the box than Gnome.

The only thing that is better on Gnome is HiDPI handling. KDE works kind of OK with wayland on HiDPI screens but some apps have issues with very slow scrolling, e.g. SublimeText and LibreOffice apps
> no, you can't install Instagram

They go to the website. They turn off wifi to evade the home filter. They get a buddy from school to show them how to set up a VPN or use a proxy. They use their (required!) school computer you don't have admin rights on. They log in at a friend's house.

Now they can enjoy the "why and how you should kill yourself" content barrage in peace. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-20/tiktok-ef... / https://archive.is/SO98F

It is remarkably tough to keep a smart kid off a social network they're interested in.
To carve any niche in a space like this, one needs extensive personal connections, money of their own to apply and put in the game, time to spend on it, and the belief that this is the best use of all of it.

It may well be that far better arrangements exist, but how would a slumdog or a small time farmer or a stay at home parent ever get the ball rolling? Who would play ball with them?

It would pretty much require that an existing VC or an empowered member of their ecosystem have the idea and see a path to it enriching themselves in order for them to spend time on it.

This is a major issue with pure market maximalism like the above: not everyone has agency within and access to every market, and no agent within a market would just let it change unless they personally stand to gain. Many potential solutions pass through empowerment or enrichment of different groups than those currently holding the reins, and this may mean those solutions are impossible to explore.
>> Sugar is addictive. Do we ban sugar, or regulate its consumption? No! Instead we educate parents to limit their childrens' sugar intake.

Wrong. Sugar is very regulated, specifically in regards to foods marketed towards children. Has been for decades.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2016-11-01/pdf/2016-2...

>> In addition, FNS is correcting the breakfast cereal sugar limit. The final rule provided a sugar limit of no more than 6 grams of sugar per dry ounce (no more than 21 grams sucrose and other sugars per 100 grams of dry cereal). The intent of that limit was to be consistent with the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Woman, Infants, and Children (WIC). However, due to rounding, the breakfast cereal sugar limit in the final rule that appears in 7 CFR 210.10(o)(3)(ii), 210.10(o)(4)(ii), 210.10(p)(2), 220.8(o)(2), 226.20(a)(4)(ii), 226.20(b)(5), and 226.20(c)(1) through 226.20(c)(3) is inconsistent with WIC’s breakfast cereal sugar limit of no more 21.2 grams of sucrose and other sugars per 100 grams of dry cereal. This correction amends the breakfast cereal
sugar limit to align with WIC’s breakfast cereal sugar limit and corrects the other errors described above. Note that the Special Milk Program regulations at 7 CFR part 215 were amended in the final rule, but no technical corrections are
necessary in this amendment.

https://news.sky.com/story/kelloggs-loses-legal-challenge-ag...
> A good rule of thumb is to assume that around 90% of the information you see in Elicit is accurate. While we do our best to increase accuracy without skyrocketing costs, it’s very important for you to check the work in Elicit closely. We try to make this easier for you by identifying all of the sources for information generated with language models.

A 90% accuracy rate seems like the sweet spot between "an annoying waste of time" for honest researchers and "good enough to publish" for dishonest careerists.

I don't like disparaging the technology experts who work on these things. But as a business matter, 1/10 answers being wrong just is not good enough for a whole lot of people.
GNOME is my perfect DE. I love how it actively tries to stay out of my way.

I have no interest in KDE. It looks a little too much like Windows for me, and my time is limited, so I'm looking for out-of-the-box solutions and as little configuration as I can get away with.
Can someone explain to me what "quieter" means in this context and/or how it's calculated? I don't understand what they mean when they say reducing the noise by 2 decibels made it 37% quieter -- it wasn't making only 5 decibels of noise before, was it?

>>Their design cuts the most shrill and annoying frequencies by about 12 decibels, which all but removes them, making them 94% quieter. The team reduced the overall leaf blower noise by about two decibels, making the machine sound 37% quieter.
Monitoring bias in artificial intelligence chatbots
It's amusing to me people consider, say, the SAD as "meat-based", when the average american gets about 70g of red meat per day.
I'm not going to argue for or against any specific conclusion here, but there are several reasons that observational nutrition studies (and reviews of such work, like this one) need to be taken with a grain of salt, including:

- healthy user bias: People who choose a plant-based diet (or in fact, probably just about any structured diet) are more likely to be health conscious in general and more likely to have other healthy habits like exercise.

- latent variables: "meat eaters" follow a wildly diverse group of diets, including those who eat just fresh lean meats, and those who eat heavily processed foods like bacon and sausage. Or those who eat just chicken. Or just fish, etc. A lot of the contradictory claims about "meat" seem to have a lot to do with these distinctions.

- self-reporting errors: Most observational nutritional studies rely on self-reporting of diet - there's a ton of research that shows that people regularly misreport what they eat in these studies (both qualitative & quantitative).

All of this is not to dismiss the results either - a lot of the time observational nutrition studies are the best we have! Doing randomized controlled trials on these kinds of interventions is difficult, so observational studies are often the best we can get, but they're really only a piece of the puzzle.
If they're only shooting when the Cowboys score, at least they'll save money on ammo.
The real SBF was Stanford and Jane Street
> That said, there are personalities who genuinely benefit from hands-on management. Some just don't have a lot of initiative and will just do nothing until they're told what to do next.

Absolutely.

But you don't need physical handholding for that.
This logic is akin to blaming the victim and removing all the responsibility from the perpretator.

Why not have the parents of the CEOs teach them that it's bad to make addictive products that have nefarious consequences to people and society?
> Do we ban sugar, or regulate its consumption? No!

But we (in the UK) do tax it, which is arguably a form of regulation: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/soft-drinks-industry-levy... https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/sugar-ta...
Subscription implies that your costs are roughly the same across different usage patterns by different users (otherwise you collect expensive users who under-pay for the resources they consume). Or, that you can tier your subscriptions in a way that makes sense for the bulk of your users.

Usage-based comes with more work in the short-term: more internal metering, controls for bill-shock, observability so users can see usage by billing vector, pricing/marketing work to help users understand their expected costs for different workloads.
I hope they won't go ahead with this. Having used both, Gnome's UI/UX is just better than KDE's.
Unlimited possibilities. And more is coming - we're only in the beginning stages of this tech. Truly exciting stuff.
> Sure, but only for specific properties that are inductive. Most properties that programmers care about aren't.

Yes but in practice, we keep finding ways of making more such interesting properties "inductive" by placing appropriate restrictions on how the program can be designed. This is how the Rust borrow checker works, at a high level.
Besides the caliber, that can also be due to topography and wind.
I've never met a manager that was good at these things. In my industry they just look for any defect and then start applying pressure, until they get someone new, or you change.

Pretty atrocious policy when disability, mental health and trauma can come into play. It essentially relies on inducing despair. I know for a fact much of big tech is like this. Atlassian has been called out for it.

Perhaps you work for a small-to-midsize company.
This is completely backwards.

The parents are educated, they elected representatives and those representatives are pushing for this. Democratically elected officials aren't some otherworldly force, you argue that the people should act, this is the people acting.
Connected cars' illegal data collection and use now on FTC's "radar"
You can definitely be vegetarian and still be unhealthy. Excessive pasta, bread and cheese is one good path, but also processed foods and sugars. It gets a lot harder to be unhealthy when you're vegan but nothing is impossible.

Many of the other blue zones are heavy on the seafood, but on the flip side there are problems with seafood that have nothing to do with the actual fish themselves and everything to do with chemicals and the way we're trashing out planet.
I have all electric lawn equipment as well, though my mower is a Toro. No disagreements that a 13A blower connected to AC will beat the shit out of a battery-powered leaf blower, but I'm sure you do and hopefully did realize that, the math just doesn't work out. The one place the Ego does excel at is stuff like edging and string trimming, where there's not nearly as much power needed. They definitely struggle a bit on things like chainsaws and blowers where more power is just generally better.

The place where it is weakest is probably snow blowing. They now have a 2-stage electric blower, but I am pretty sure it's just nowhere near gas. I live in the midwest in an area where the 1-stage Ego electric blower is already kind of overkill, so that's what I'm running. It has its negatives and positives: it always starts without having to worry about the fuel sitting over the seasons, it's quiet during operation and doesn't pollute, the batteries are always ready since they are on the charge when not in use, and I have enough battery to run it for much longer than needed. That said: the batteries are, indeed, simply too expensive.

I'm surprised the mower sucks, this Toro electric mower feels reasonable compared to anything else I've ever used (granted, I do not have much lawn and have never used any serious mowers. Just your average lawn mowers). I wonder if it's true that all electric mowers suck or maybe it's just that Ego isn't/wasn't doing a good job on mower design.
The article seems to lay that out fairly effectively.

What in particular do you want to say that you disagree with in Masnick's work, and what's your justification?
Related, an all time classic:

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (https://paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html)
KDE4 was great. KDE 4.0 was terrible, but everyone ignored the developer advice to wait for 4.3 (which is when KDE 4 became great again) and the concluded all of KDE4 was bad even though it was just the first release.
How’s your SaaS doing now, if you don’t mind my asking?
> The deck from March says that they have been sending the deck around since March, and are still looking for investments

You're assuming that most businesses seeking VC money are fundraising full-time.

I read this and assumed that the founder was was working on building their business full-time and passively looking for VC. For example, they might not be ready to do active fundraising, but want to "dip their toe" into VC so they're much better prepared in 6-24 months when they are ready to actively raise money?

The attention that a business needs gives to fundraising really depends on what the business is, and how well organic growth helps them now.
I couldn't agree more. We spend so much time cleaning the inside of our home, then we go outside and clean up nature. It's messed up
>That’s an awfully uncharitable projection.

It's neither uncharitable nor a projection. My dad is one of these - the loudness is entirely the point, by his own admission. He told me this. He intentionally buys the loudest most powerful/obnoxious tools he can rather than the most practical and dicks around with them.

My dad is also the laziest man on the planet and does ZERO housework. He only does lawn work because it's an opportunity for him to play with his toys.

>The lawn business people I know

Nobody's talking about people with lawn businesses. Businesses will want to just get the work done and move onto the next client.
> So now it's the frequency that's the issue, rather than not having a defined stop point?

You have a physical problem, you go to the doctor and he fixes the problem or gets you the information you need to manage your problem. That's the stop point for medical intervention.

You have a mental health problem, you go to a therapist for a mental health intervention, and now you're in weekly therapy for years. Not so much an intervention, more like a new part time job.

Yearly checkups is not a counterpoint to this general trend. A yearly mental health checkup could be totally reasonable, but that's not the norm.

> Not everything is a problem that can be fixed.

The real issue here is that you keep bringing up outliers like your mother's palliative care and I keep talking about the norm, ie. that most people in therapy are not like your mother. Therapy has become fashionable. Everyone is "working on themselves" and plenty of therapists like patients that are well off and so can pay regularly.

> I get it. You are convinced therapy is intrinsically a scam

No, that's not the point I'm making. At best, you could maybe case what I'm saying as "the therapy industry/fad is a scam, and plenty of therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists are feeding into it".

There are people that legitimately need therapy to develop coping strategies to address trauma or retrain maladaptive behaviours, because even as ineffective as it sometimes is, it's better than nothing. My point is that a lot of people who go to therapy probably don't need therapy, and even if they do they don't need as much as they think they do, the techniques in therapy are not very effective even in the best case, and that therapists are not incentivized to stop seeing patients that are paying them well and triage to cases that need more urgent intervention and probably can't pay them regularly.

Part of this is probably because of the US's dysfunctional medical system, and another part is because psychology and psychiatry has not had a good track record for empirically sound practices. It's getting better but has some ways to go.
I don't believe that part - the ones shown in the picture/videos are brushless motors, quite efficient (90%) and really silent on their right own.

The noise comes from the need to move air (and the noise is just air waves), along with certain vibrations. A brushless motor is super silent if you exclude the fan(s) cooling it.
yep whenever i see things like this im like... yeah obviously vegans eat healthier because of their conscious attitude towards diet. That doesn't mean you can't eat some meat if you actually avoid processed stuff.
Back in the 90s we reverse engineered / patched the classic MacInTalk to speed up playback. Our testers had it cranked so fast as they navigated the UI that to me it sounded more like musical notes than text.
I've watched all the Dario/Daniela interviews I can find, and I guess that's a fair way of putting it. It seems they genuinely felt (& were) constrained at OpenAI in being able to follow a safety-first agenda, and have articulated it as being "the SF way" to start a new company when you have a new idea (so maybe more cultural than looking for an angle), as well as being able to follow a dream of working together.

From what we've seen of OpenAI, it does seem that any dissenting opinions will be bulldozered by Altman's product and money making focus. The cult-like "me too" tweets that huge swathes of the staff periodically send seems highly indicative of the culture.

Anthropic does seem genuine about their safety-first agenda, and strategy to lead by example, and have been successful in getting others to follow their safe scaling principles, AI constitution (cf OpenAI's new "Model Spec") and open research into safety/interpretability. This emphasis on safe and steerable models seems to have given them an advantage in corporate adoption.
Rakes exist.

It's (often but not always) slower work, but it's quieter.
I gave it a topic I researched in depth recently. It gave me mostly incorrect summaries (one said hypothesis X is confirmed; nope it hasn't, would have been all over the news), missed key papers, dug up obscure and irrelevant ones. Par for the course with LLMs.

Edit: After looking at the examples on the front page "What are the benefits of taking l-theanine?" this seems geared for the general public, so maybe it wasn't the right test.
> Those changes weren't managing to get flushed to the old disk with the now-RO filesystem, but they were apparently hanging out in buffers and were available for reading... or something? That makes sense, right?

This is a fun issue that I've run into before. We had remote FreeBSD 11 boxes using ZFS. ZFS said the pool was fine, OS said the drive was fine, writes appear to work, but they are only going to RAM and are lost on reboot (which happens once you run out of memory, the box locks up, and someone on-site pulls the plug). Dealing with drives going bad with no indication is an interesting problem, especially when on reboot they appear to be working expect they have "time-traveled" backwards (to when the drive first went bad).
I have to agree with the feature owners who propose simply updating the website to better communicate what the options are, but not actually change anything fundamental about Fedora releases. Although, amusingly, the website basically already does that.

It seems we as an industry just can not help ourselves with constantly nitpicking things that could just be left alone. Gnome has been the default for ages now. Anyone who uses Fedora regularly is aware of the spins, is aware of KDE, and could, or would, use an alternate desktop environment, should they be so inclined to do so.

Changing the default would just create work and not fundamentally solve any problem. Having a robust default out-of-the-box experience is critical, and gnome already provides that.
They collapsed, because they couldn't deliver anything remotely close to what was promised. IMO they knew all along it was a fraud and just kept the story going as long as they could.

I think they renamed themselves "sonic energy". Excellent thread on eevblog:

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/the-ubeam-faq/1900/

Now Perry is pumping some neuro-ai-sleep-aid nonsense.
The total of these two comments make no objective claims, rather says there are nuances, and complexities. But in all these complexity they are sure that Israel is right in their actions. Bipartisan support is on shared values, supposedly. Not so surprisingly, it even has a
> I have <insert race/group> friends paragraph.

I got to say this is a pretty masterful deceit.
Decibels are log scale, reducing by 3db cuts energy by half.
I don't think the message is clear in the startup industry (yes, industry). The startup industry gives a lot of noise to inexperienced founders (obviously the great majority) making them think the game is more even.

The corollary are the following questions:

- What a founder without VC connections should do?

- How long will it take?

Even if they have a super product in mind (not a time machine) they will have an annoying experience pitching VCs who doesn't have any idea of what you are talking about.
Can you imagine how much cocaine would be in energy drinks if that was legal (again)?
Video chat also has enough of a delay it short circuits a lot of collaboration thought forming. Creative discussions go from free flowing back and forth to queued up saying of pieces with little interjection.
Tesla's alleged lies about Full Self-Driving brought a dead lawsuit back to life
Agreed, just the other day i ran a pi 5 with official power supply through a kill-a-watt while watching youtube etc and it was generally below 10 W at the plug
> In the long term there will be a very strong evolutionary selective pressure against this type of behavior

That's an interesting point that I haven't considered. It might be true, but alternatively, I also see a shift towards a "Brave New World" kind of approach to reproduction, which is entirely separated from relationships.
It's really bizarre to me that people think that companies have been built on sand.

It's really fucking hard to make a sustainable profit in business. Most businesses fail.

Yet HN turns around and says - no, management are clueless, I, the worker, know all.
This seems basically unenforceable. It very quickly becomes the war that schools are now waging on plagiarism.
Leaf blowers are pretty terrible for the yard, so anything that makes them more acceptable will just make things worse.

Bad because they blow away topsoil, leaving a hard pack behind that absorbs little water. Just walking around my neighborhood it’s clear who doesn’t use a leaf blower: the dirt is crumbly and the plant life better. If people have pots as well you can see the difference between the two.

Also bad because they blow away all the decaying leaf matter and bugs from under the bushes, again hardening the soil and losing a;l the advantages of bugs perforating the soil and drawing nutrients below.

Of course you can try to fix this by adding chemicals…ugh
> Ultimately what brought fiber to my city was covid. The monetary tsunami unleashed by the federal reserve and the government made it possible for a local private company to build a fiber network.

Same. Federal broadband funds led to fiber deployment here. We went from one ISP to ~10.

We went from 40Mb up w/ 40ms latency for $119 to 1Gb up w/ 4ms latency for $49.

Over 20+ years, I've read dozens of articles about major ISPs receiving government money/incentives (billions in total) to improve consumer options.

This is the first time I've witnessed an internet company keep that promise. Predictably, it wasn't a major ISP.
Weekly Epidemiological Record – Malaria Vaccines: WHO Position Paper
I prefer Gnome. It's simple, it's to the point, and it stays out of the way. My focus should be my work, not my DE.