skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider yourself lucky!

During the "stain gate" incident where the anti-glow coating came off by itself ruining the display, I went to the authorized repair shop to get the free replacement.

Apple rejected my repair because the screen has a small cosmetic dent at the corner. The free replacement replaces the whole screen unit, but no, that minor dent precludes my laptop...
For its energy usage claim, this article links to another article[0] which gives "about 500 metric tonnes of CO2" as the figure for the training of "ChatGPT-3". Unless I'm making a mistake, that's about 6% of Taylor Swift's annual private jet usage[1].

ChatGPT has 180 million users, and the underlying model is used through API access for a huge range of genuinely useful tasks. I think we absolutely should give more leeway to energy uses that advance technology and benefit many (ideally by being open-source) than to those that just serve the exorbitance of a few. Obviously we should still aim to reduce both.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/08/artificia...

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/EP0Gbtk.jpeg
https://archive.ph/3rCIZ
people can't do that until AI is more advanced and self-serving
Thanks for pointing out and also submitting tools. Will update the fields to clearly reflect the meaning.
No, I still have them.
Most people in the US don't live in an HOA. You may join one and enjoy its benefits, or not. Nobody is forced to. Many people want to join an HOA to enjoy its benefits but not obey its rules. These are the type of people who believe they are the center of the universe yet are in such a unique position that the laws of the rest of the universe don't apply to them.
Batteries on ordinary work laptops (Dell, HP, Lenovo etc) are generally easily replaced — often with just ordinary screws!
For what it's worth, Apple says "The battery is considered consumed once it reaches the limit."

That limit has been 1000 for all models since about 2010.
But when those groups are tied to real estate ownership they aren't free associations, they are serfdoms.
Happened at my job yesterday.
You are falsely equating repairability with customer experience as a whole.
There are two churches in Ukraine and contention over their jurisdiction has a long history.
Derivatives of Firefox can take or leave features that Mozilla is pushing. For example Pocket isn't in LibreWolf. Google and Mozilla have less influence over what derivatives do - well that's my hope anyway. It's still not ideal. Can you recommend any alternatives that have good fingerprinting resistance and are not Chromium / Gecko / WebKit based?
A lot of my friends who in their younger years held this position rapidly backpedaled after they added babies to their homes. There are very effective sound mitigation solutions available though, if you're willing and able to afford to remodel the room(s) you want to defend against such external sounds.

I interpret such actions as what to normally expect in a lower trust society and culture. We pay for such settings in many different ways.
The way I think about it is LLMs are good at DOING for you, and poor at THINKING for you.
Thank you for sharing. The list is impressive.
The problem isn't really the hardware. I actually do have a Mac mini that I use for testing. (And I still have a couple of older MacBook Pros, though they can't run the latest macOS versions.) The problem is my software setup. Like I said in the blog post, I've got everything on the MacBook Pro. To get everything I need in working order onto a secondary Mac, and then "sync" all changes in various software back to my main machine after a period without it, would be a major pain in the butt. And that's never been an issue before, because like I said, this is the first time in decades of computer ownership that I haven't been able to arrange same-day service. Even overnight service would be ok, but mail-in is out of the question.

And keep in mind, my laptop batteries have generally lasted over three years, and I might be able to postpone this battery replacement for another year. As a lone indie dev, I don't make a huge amount of money, and it would be ridiculous to have a clone of a $3000 computer in a closet for a once-in-three-year occurence. That specific time vs. money tradeoff doesn't make much financial sense.

Rest assured, though, I'm not "one dropped cup of coffee away from not being in business anymore", as one silly reply suggested.
Squats. Squats. Squats.

Social influencer starting point: knees over toes guy.

Also, recommend Percussive massage guns (theragun is the brand name).
Well at companies is much less compromise than politics. Over decaces I saw two main schemas:

- product must be purchased because its vendor is somehow connected to the upper management or the investor

- product must be purchased because the person who has chosen the product is at the moment perceived as having some kind of holy cow status and can't be criticized, so people around put that to the extreme

Happening at most of companies everywhere.
Discord and Reddit are terrible dark holes of knowledge
Welcome to this blog post, where we’ll explore using GraphQL to connect data with the Syncfusion Blazor DataGrid component. We will cover various operations, such as sorting, filtering, grouping, paging, and CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) actions. By the end of this guide, you’ll better understand how GraphQL can enhance your data management capabilities within the Blazor DataGrid.
Slightly off topic, but does anyone have experience using the book this is based on to teach or learn programming? If so what was your experience like? What was good or bad about it for example?
Building a device optimized for repairability is possible and has been realized by Framework.

You post suggests you think optimizing for other things (cost, weight, thinness, etc) is bad. People can and do vote with their wallets by choosing products that optimize things that are important to them. That's not wrong.
That's ... a somewhat freighted avenue, and it's difficult to determine where to draw lines.

Hubble itself strongly leveraged Key Hole, as a further extension:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_KENNEN>

As for the Manhattan Project, it was sufficiently close to the first direct theoretical and applied theory and proofs of sustainable nuclear chain reactions (roughly a decade or less following each), and a lack of understanding of the corresponding risks (which greatly increase costs) that there simply wasn't time to have spent all that much money.

By contrast, Hubble and JWST are both late-stage, highly-evolved technologies, pushing the engineering envelope in many dimensions simultaneously, all of which tends to increase costs.

See for example the ELT (extremely large telescope), an Earth-based instrument currently under construction in Chile as part of ESO (European Southern Observatory). Tom Scott's 'splainer video on the project explains how costs risk exponentially with increased size for numerous reasons.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Large_Telescope>

<https://yewtu.be/watch?v=QqRREz0iBes>
Skills Parsimony
> People aren’t ASCII or UTF-8 machines; “e” and “E” are the same character

They are the same character to you, a native speaker of a Western language written in a latin script. They are the same to you because you are, in fact, an ASCII machine. Many many people in the world are not.
HOAs are not the only thing that controls where people can build abattoirs. In much of the US, this is controlled by zoning. And zoning is decided on via local politics, not via a HOA.

I'll take a small town politics over an HOA any day, because the few local HOAs are far more likely to make weird and obnoxious requests.

I live on a dirt road in the woods. I don't care whether my next-door neighbor cuts his lawn or what color he paints his house, or whether he decides to start keeping goats. The landowner across the street is running a tiny part-time farm, and I'm a fan. I know most of my 20 closest neighbors.

I don't mind the occasional HOA for people who want that sort of heavy community control. For me, it was an automatic "no" when buying a house.
Is it a design choice? Ifixit sells a replacement battery for his laptop for $150. Apple refuses to sell a battery only, and instead sells a battery+keyboard bundle for $600. This doesn't seem like a laptop design choice, but rather a choice of what replacement parts to sell individually vs bundled together.
Easy to say now, when you know it won't (can't) happen, and even if it did, it would have no effect on governing the nation.

As defrost said well: "the question of whether this was fair or unfair rests on whether other POTUS's have skated on criminal acts [for which they didn't have immunity as President]". Other POTUS's have, so, it was unfair.

Changing that may be a good idea, or it may simply lead to more abuse of power as the party in office investigates its enemies. I guess we'll find out.
> stress increases production of certain hormones, raises blood pressure etc., which over time can be harmful. How is this materialism-inconsistent?

Because this roughly simplifies to “stress causes disease” with extra steps inbetween. Materialists are allergic to such claims.

> because no one argues that computer carrying out the arithmetic operations does the thinking. The program running on the computer does the thinking, and it does not matter what mechanism is used to implement the computation [1]

That’s a theory in philosophy of mind, too—a non-falsifiable speculation, like the rest of them.

> Creating software that does things similar to what mind does, is now not simply a science but already a field of engineering, so i don't understand what do you mean.

You said “science is concerned with an implementation of device that behaves like a human would”. I said what we are talking about here is not about that, but about whether that implies there is a consciousness or it’s an unthinking machine. Whether outputting things like a human is enough to consider software conscious, thinking and self-aware in a human-like manner (and thus we are abusing human-like thinking, conscious and self-aware creatures by using ML the way we do), whether consciousness is the substrate as opposed to material world (like Schrödinger, among others, believed), etc. That’s the point of what materialism/idealism/dualism is about, making computers and programs is irrelevant.

> If we manage to simulate brain with high enough accuracy and it does not produce a behavior similar to human behavior, that will be a proof that you are right and computationalism is wrong

No, it only means there is a program that produces behavior similar to human behavior—the “proof” you imagine is not a proof, which can trivially be demonstrated logically (as Chinese room shows). Manipulating syntactic tokens as an LLM does does not mean understanding and manipulating ideas like a human does, unless you hold a particular non-provable and non-falsifiable theory of mind.
Meanwhile... the mastodon page takes over 3 minutes to load.

I don't know of any pre-2010 forums that are still functional and searchable.
At least reddit is indexed by search engines, right? I find that for a significant portion of my searches, appending "reddit" cuts through SEO/blogspam results and I get an answer without having to wade through too much nonsense.
The bigger issue for me with having a MacBook as a professional is the turnaround time for a fix. I once had an SSD problem on my fairly new MacbBook Pro. The machine kept getting write errors and eventually they started leading to daily kernel panics. When i sent my machine in the repair shop had to order a new SSD from Apple, this only took a day or two, but the new SSD was DOA and they had to order another one. The distribution center didn't have any more in stock and had to order a new one from China, which would take about a week to arrive, and at this point it had already been almost a week.

The big issue was that the repair shop wasn't allowed to keep any parts in stock. They always had to order a part from Apple and then promptly return the defective one.
I discovered bouldering recently, which is the latest sport i found that feels more fun than a chore, so I find myself wanting to go more often than not.

Use your peers, friends and meetups to take any chance to try a new sport. I found that most sports I tried they are actually fun, and I had just ignored them.
I know someone who works sales at a heroku clone who has this same mindset.

“Save devs from devops”
I lived in Shoreditch for 7 years and most of my flats had almost 3G internet speeds. The last one had windows that incidentally acted like a faraday cage.

I always test my projects with throttled bandwidth, largely because (just like with a11y) following good practices results in better UX for all users, not just those with poor connectivity.

Edit: Another often missed opportunity is building SPAs as offline-first.
Similar situation here with a patch of trees.

From the About: "The shadows displayed by default are estimates gathered through indirect means like crowd sourcing and low resolution data."

Not sure what low resolution data they are using for the trees (I can't imagine mine were crowdsourced given I'm the only house around). Probably not worth it for me but apparently the premium version has more accurate/current data.
Yes, and therefore subject to pressure from the political parties that support them.
Sounds like developing in QT is awful. They have had to do so much work porting it to new versions of QT.
She might like Adventure Time (which is also very entertaining for adults). One of the main characters is Princess Bubblegum, a very competant scientist-princess (albeit with some megalomaniacal tendencies).
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Not a single parallel universe. I suppose that makes sense, since it's not a TAS.
OpenStreetMaps is pretty coarse with building heights. Seemingly just an integer with most buildings being 1 (stories?) from what I’ve seen.
I hated exercising nearly my entire life but I discovered that for me the secret of staying fit is finding activities that I enjoy enough that the sweat and effort are worth the fun. Here is my list of things I do to HAVE FUN and stay in shape in no particular order:

- VR with games that make me move (Beat Saber, Thrill of the Fight - especially this one)

- Swimming. I really enjoy being in the water and swim any chance I get

- Pickleball. I always wanted to learn tennis but with my clumsiness I never could master it enough to be enjoyable. Pickleball is a great inbetween sport that is played in the open air or on a gym court similar to tennis

- e-bike. I know that many consider power assisted bikes to be lame but when I'm at my summer place in Europe it is a great way to do some excursions to nearby towns and sweat much less than with a regular bicycle
I got news for you.

The 1M GPUs that meta purchased running at full (or less probably) load 24/7 is more than the energy of a single household.

The energy cost is in training, not inference.
https://www.discourse.org is great, best forum software I ever saw. You have probably used it already somewhere.

They have a paid hosting offer, but you can also self-host it for free. And it’s open source.
Yep, this is my problem with HoAs. Everyone supporting them loves to bleat about how "voluntary" they are - but any new construction since perhaps the late 80's in my area have been nearly 100%, if not 100%, HoA. This is not voluntary - it's pay to play, and you are practically forced into these living arrangements if you are within a certain socioeconomic class and want to own a home. That I won the lottery and can "opt out" of the situation personally is immaterial. I find the situation at best unethical.

These don't even exist for the standard reasoning any longer. It's turned into a financial grift for developers to avoid paying for improvements, and municipalities to expand the tax base without having to pay for infrastructure. Plenty of "communities" out there currently having their cake and eating it too - at least for the first one or two generations of owners. It's about as sustainable as you'd expect such arrangements to be the more you look into them.

If you want suburban new home construction in my area you have had to buy within a HoA for the past 30 years. It's getting to the point where only the older "city core" and inner ring suburbs come devoid of a HoA. So it's either exceedingly expensive dense urban living or a 2 hour drive from a rural property. Such "choice" indeed.

HoAs kill freedom more than they offer it from my experience. They also slowly suffocate any future development forcing everyone into exceedingly hard to break covenants of the past. The ossification and hollowing out of middle class America continues.
Yeah I also hate technical discussions on (legal) hacking and tinkering happening in some obscure Telegram or Discord groups that you only find out if you know a guy who knows a guy who found the Discord link on some Reddit post. WTF?!

I get the need for non-open communication channels if you want to stay away from Nintendo's lawyers or something but otherwise come on, just have the discussions in a more open place FFS.

I also hate Reddit but at least it can be reached via search engines.
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Yeah, sadly tablet support is one of the areas where wayland has been particularly slow in terms of getting its act together (it's explicitly disabled in krita because of this, which I think is a combo of standards not existing, compositor support, and Qt support). It's definitely the main reason I'm still on Xorg.
I thought "Intuitive Biostatistics: A Nonmathematical Guide to Statistical Thinking" combined with "PDQ Statistics" did okay. Way better than the awful instructor textbook taught as an intro to higher-level stats with R and S-Plus, and a useful supplement to the basic 101-102 level applied statistics textbook.

But probably the most useful thing was a college course where we implemented all the 101 & 102 level statistics algorithms in Excel, so you could see precisely what it was doing.
IMO this is the worst possible solution, as what you are seeing is not what you are getting. You do not actually know what is being stored on the file system, and your searches are fuzzy rather than precise.
How could you end up in an HOA without choosing the be in one? You couldn’t…

Freedom of association isn’t a magic ability that means you can never regret entering a contract.
Call me paranoid, but I think it's harmful for Krita when someone frames it as a Photoshop alternative - because it really isn't.

It is a program targeted specifically at digital painting. Yes, it can do some "basic" image manipulation like Photoshop does, and even you can do some animation stuff too - but it doesn't intend to target everything image manipulation wise as Photoshop does. I for one as a graphic designer use more tools alongside it, as GraphicsMagick or Digikam's Showfoto, because there's some stuff that it's easier to do with them, or they can do some stuff Krita can't.

People hears that Krita is "a photoshop alternative" in countless comments, blog posts and etcetera and can get frustrated when they find something is lacking. And they can be one of those people that bitch about FOSS because they couldn't manage to do that specific task they can with propietary software.
Wouldn't surprise me if schools go the route of forcing a cloud toolset (e.g Office 365 or Google Workspace) and measuring proof of work - in a very literal sense, not a cryptographic sense.

Ripe for being gamed but is probably the only way to do PoW without becoming wildly intrusive with personal devices.
Factorio Friday Facts #413 – Gleba
Cycling is usually taking your life into your own hands in most of North America.
I've noticed over the past few years that the role of the Platform Engineer is increasingly being rolled into that of the Software Engineer.
A few ways:

* I run a 5K over lunch or after work 2-3 days a week. Very good for clearing my head when working on something tricky. Also fantastic for getting through audiobooks!

* If it's a nice, quiet weekend and friends are free, we often go on a hike somewhere outside the city.

* If it's a nice, quiet weekend and friends aren't free, I'll go on a bike ride somewhere in the city.

* Every now and again I'll go bouldering with friends, or maybe swimming.

* Finally, I walk a lot, because I live in London. You rack up a lot of steps just getting places here.
Where would it end, though? Should the developer also provide build instructions for Haiku and AmigaOS?
I think that heavily depends on the definition of "screened", which I doubt a chain link fence satisfies.
You're better off emailing mods to inquire.

A frequent reason is the flamewar indicator lighting off, where comments > votes. Though this particular post seems to be running healthily under that ratio. Probably member flags, for whatever reason.

The title immediately annoys me as being excessively vague, FWIW.

... and having read most of the article ... despite my own strong aversion to Amazon, Inc., it's a fairly generic sort of corporate-vibe hit piece. There are things I'd criticise Amazon for, or even ways I might spin this piece. The subject and nature of criticism are ... weak sauce.
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Here's to surviving in the face of a near century long ethnic cleansing and apartheid.

Its gonna be very strange one day to look back on this period of history and see everyone claiming that they were always against it, just as they do now with colonial india, south africa, slavery, anti-semitism, and black civil rights.
Trump's court transcripts were just released, and they're massive—350 MB across 360 pages, packed with information that experts can dive into.

To help make sense of it all, we built a Q&A RAG chatbot using the extracted contents.

Want to learn how we built it? We used MongoDB's Hybrid Search, coupled with Jina AI's embedding models and OpenAI chatgpt-4-turbo. All orchestrated in a pre-built Mixpeek pipeline.

End-to-end tutorial on how we built it: https://learn.mixpeek.com/trump-court-transcripts-chatbot

Happy searching!
Where is the Wordpress.com (i.e. commercial hosting) for forums? I maintain a SMF forum that's lasted since 2000, but I get why most people aren't jumping into creating a new forum, because it's rather tedious compared to Discord. Hell, better ask instead; where is the Discord but for forums (real ones, not Discord)?
This is absolutely a crime - you really don’t want to tolerate politicians committing crimes to conceal information from voters. What makes it different is that it’s entirely at the state level so you don’t have political interference: he can’t have judges he appointed running interference and prosecutors are not wondering whether the guy they’re charging will be their boss. I suspect that if the national GOP hadn’t purged opposition figures you’d see more cases brought with the protection of a hypothetical “law and order” wing of the party.
We (Hyperledger) got a ton of positive feedback from our blind users when we moved to Discord. Apparently the UX is extremely well laid out for screen readers.
Compared to Krita's interface, abstractions, and capability, GIMP feels pretty archaic. It's a vaguely capable photo editor but it's awful for digital painting.
Gorbachev sent the tanks rolling in Lithuania (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_Events).