skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not a physicist, astronomer, mathematician or anything like that. But as a lifelong musician who's learned a thing or two about acoustics, I am familiar with the topology of a space affecting the perception AND measurement of vibrations produced within it.

Example - take a speaker with good bass response, play something through it holding it above the floor in the center of the room, then on the floor in the center of the room, then where the floor meets a wall, and finally in a corner where 2 walls meet the floor. You will perceive (and measure) a 3dB increase of low-frequency for each of the boundaries at that position. This is a trick I've used as a DJ to fill rooms with sound from very small speakers.

Is there any way that the topology of the universe/higher dimensions could affect measurements of things like dark matter, etc.? Again probably a very naive question as I know not all modes of vibration are identical.
We're gonna be like those people from Rainbows End who are still rocking laptops in an era where everybody is semi-permanently interfaced to the net through wearable gear.
I don't really get what part of the bandwagon Linux users will really miss out on at the OS level? It's not like you can't use stuff like github copilot and it's really only a moderate productivity boost in many cases.
Windows Timeline stores a list of recently opened apps and documents, not screenshots.
We need another AI winter to get these dudes off the train.
All-optical complex field imaging using diffractive processors
I've observed the opposite.

A realtor once told me that "the only people who serve on HOA boards are people who have no power anywhere else in their life."

Since then I've learned how shockingly true that is.
You're still a man though. Messing with your hormones doesn't alter that reality.
This brings to mind Chernoff faces[1], a type of visualization where facial features are mapped to data points.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face
I think this doesn't mean you shouldn't ever use sentinel errors, just that you should be mindful of the performance cost, as it isn't free. If you're doing this for a loop where the iteration of the loop is vastly slower, e.g. because it is performing some sort of I/O in each iteration, or if you're doing this for a loop where you know the worst-case amount of iterations is very low, then you can probably safely continue to eat the cost of using sentinel errors. The only time where it is genuinely better to avoid a performance pitfall at all costs is when scaling comes into play, since then it's very likely that it will creep up fast and make the performance absolutely unusably bad seemingly out of nowhere.

In practice, if you are really writing performance critical code, you kind of just need to benchmark and determine which bottlenecks are holding you back. Knowing the performance hit of some patterns is still useful, but it's not a substitute for actually measuring the performance.

That said, the even better solution would probably be if future Go versions could just make the idiomatic code faster somehow, so that it is less likely to be a bottleneck. But, this is the case for many patterns in Go, as Go and its stdlib doesn't really prioritize performance or zero (runtime) cost abstractions. (They justify this with data; in developers surveys, time and time again Go developers greatly express their priority in having robust, "safer" code over higher performance code.)
They didn't really need AI to accomplish that
Some people can admit when they’re wrong.

When was the last time Trump admitted he was wrong?
I'm not sure it is. I'm looking forward to several of those features (including recall) because they will undoubtedly improve over time, for all their flaws.

LLMs and "AI" features have made my life significantly easier over the last two years.
please make sure that part time jobs are included as long as they reach a fulltime equivalent of 100k. that means a 20h per week job should pay at least 50k a year and still be considered a 100k job for the site.
That's a bit of a unfair comparison.

In the context I was discussing I consider it a pragmatic take because our response to these issues needs to be understood across multiple domains including privacy.

That's not to say that nothing should be done. Personally, I'd like to see measured legislation placing more security, privacy and liability onto manufacturers and providers.
The Sun Also Rises is easier than Winnie the Pooh. I can buy that.
Sadly, if you move to Linux and you DON'T use AI to help you learn the command line, you are officially Doing It Wrong (tm) - and your free time will judge you for it.

Consider local LLMs if you need privacy. They

1. Are Private

2. Are not (yet) evil enough to hijack your machine

3. Can help you learn cli with maybe 5x to 10x less blood, sweat, and swear words
@quuxplusone and all
I fixed my dunderheaded debug output commit that meant the "outputs ZIL" was a lie. This temporarily puts us back to a state where the Things have no locations in the ZIL, but I am working on that. I just wanted to show that it is back on track. Thanks Q+1!

https://github.com/scottvr/wadzilla/commit/b92f90070726088ba...
Apples making a shit ton of money selling all of us expensive ram upgrades that we happily buy.

IF the authors Mac is managed by corporate overlords he might be right about the battery. They are stuffing so much security and monitoring shit on there now that I feel like I'm running a spyware and toolbar riddled xp box. Even an older Mac without the corporate crapware is snappy.
> As they add more features, we have less and less control over our computers. Dropbox, iCloud, Copilot, and all of Apple's Continuity features rely on the cloud, sending data back and forth.

I don't use any of these on Windows 11. I have complete control of my computer. I can cut it off the internet if I want to. I can block telemetry if I want to. Windows is a a very hackable system. I use Claude AI for my AI explorations. I'm happy with one caveat: If Microsoft 'recall' is not opt-in so is forced on me I'll switch to Linux, which I like too. It's not as nice as Windows imho but it works.
Microsoft is still fighting the browser wars of the 90s. They're not going to give third-party browsers any quarter if they can avoid it.
There are several of these stations, they are maintained and operated by NIST. Two of them were almost shut down recently due to budget concerns:

https://www.radioworld.com/global/why-wwv-and-wwvh-still-mat...
Yeah. This is absurd. And, as if the reason for this “degradation” isn’t for user-centric functionally, and that the functionality can’t be turned off. This is just “old man yells at cloud”.
I cured my insomnia with MJ brownies. Eat one, and in 1.5 hours you can turn off your brain like it has a switch. I’d take them daily for a period of about 2.5 months. You can fairly easily make brownies cheaply at home using the cheapest store bought MJ. YMMV, I’m not a doctor, etc. I know what I’ll do if my insomnia comes back though. If it’s due to an overly active mind, you can easily make it a lot less active
The practice of how Snowflake team uses customer data and builds/helps them and their access is not expired is still on Snowflake; such access should be temporary in nature, tied to an active ticket upon its closure to auto expire. The fact that Snowflake has managed to attain (and/or keep?) their FedRamp High certification despite this, is a separate story for some investigative journalists (not just for the label but also to look into what public sector data might be at risk or already compromised...)
I doubt every "qualified appraiser" is above being bribed.

I thought it was implied that writing off $39 million didn't mean a $39 million dollar reduction in taxes.
You can, from Dell
In WW2, the Japanese Zero did not have armor on the theory that the lighter weight would make the Zero more maneuverable and that was the best defense a pilot could have.

The Zero's first adversary was the P40 Warhawk. The P40 was inferior in every way but one - it had forward armor. The pilots figured out that the way to beat the Zero was a head on attack, with both pilots blasting away. With no armor the Zero would get shredded. The Zero pilots had a pretty hard time of it during the war.
I've been married for ages (so I can't speak to this first-hand), but my single friends in their late-20s to mid-30s say that NOT having an iPhone gets them rejected fairly often.
Honest question: do Apple and Microsoft currently capture passwords in a password manager, health info, SSNs, and the like?

I'm sure they do if you push them to their cloud drives or use their password managers -- which is somewhat applicable, but that's not what I'm referring to. I'm just not sure how panopticon-y they are when it comes to the actual content I type out or view in the browser.
Sadly yeah. I managed to install it both on my mom and dad's computers. I didn't push them, they were genuinely curious and sick of having to remember their Microsoft account to do some stuff on windows. They have been running Linux Mint for 2 years and quite happy about it.
But I hope they don't constraint themselves due to this, I don't watch their everyday use, but I know that Linux is not always easy on the non tech savy people.
Mine is Mindscape podcast. The AMA episodes are multi hour and filled with intelligent information. I do worry that on bad nights I might not be getting the sleep my brain needs because there’s a feed of input unrelated to my life.
What happened specifically in the Donbas on Feb 16, 2021?

And from what sources do you know this from?
rough.js is great. It is also powering excalidraw.
Thanks for the clarification of other kinds of spying that this enables.

Nevetheless I still have difficulties seeing how this is supposed to make money for Microsoft.
One good way of measuring economic success is by ignoring the income and wealth of the top 10%. The exact percentage is not important. What matters is the idea that the success of the well-off only benefits the society to the extent it improves the lives of ordinary people.

Many government activities make sense from that perspective. By redistributing money from the top 10% to the bottom 90%, they increase the economic success of the country, though possibly at the expense of economic output.

And fairness is also important, because societies are built on trust. When people don't trust government institutions and each other, everything starts falling apart.
The very next sentence highlights that the same problem existed before the Pandemic and police protests from 2020;

> Covid may have accelerated this trend, but attrition and hiring issues predate the pandemic. In the 2019 budget, Council approved over $700,000 for hiring incentives, citing the police department's difficulty filling positions.

Actually the very first sentence in the article immediately refutes your claim -- what a bizarre source to 'back up' the argument that Seattle defunded the police;

> "Why has Seattle lost so many police officers?" The answer is not that the Seattle Police Department was defunded.
Judaism is a religion. The intentional attack on the USS Liberty was an intentional act by the Israeli government to draw the US into a war with the USSR aligned Egypt to aid them in that effort. I don't understand why you're attempting to conflate the actions of a sovereign ethno-state and a religion.
I'm really curious about AI and the terminal. Do you have good tools to recommend ?
Linux should be something you have to do yourself
1. Turn user activity into data

2. Turn data into AI that replaces users
> I can't speak to all distros out there, but I've never seen a linux system force a restart in the middle of the day.

My point is that there isn’t a technical reason that prevents Linus distros, or any other OS, from restarting your computer whenever it feels like it.

By definition the OS has control of the hardware and software and thus whoever writes the OS inherits that control.

I completely agree that there are good reasons to not trust Microsoft and people who don’t should not be using Windows.

I just dislike the framing of this issue as a recent development rather than an inherent problem of running software you didn’t write.
i get the opposite take from this info. the fact that, in just 10,000 years, the gene spread to over 1/3 of the population shows how useful of an adaptation it is.
Every other body system—pulmonary, circulatory, nervous, skeletal, and muscular, just to name a few, shows marked long term physical changes, called adaptations, to stresses. See Selye for the basics.

Why would the optic system be any different? We know beyond a reasonable doubt that myopia is a kind of environmental maladaption. The only question is what stressors cause it and which can act as training stimuli to mitigate or reverse it.

That’s not to say that training stimulus will look like exercises. I don’t really know what it will look like. I do know however that my own myopia stopped progressing when I stopped letting my optometrist change my prescription.

I would not be at all surprised if the standard of care is actively harmful and significantly contributing to the skyrocketing myopia rates. But good luck funding that study or getting enough optometrists to go along with demonstrating their entire field has been screwing up for a century.
The photo shows them walking in a line next to a guard that doesn't have to walk? I don't get it.

A lot of prisoners get treated badly, but the inherent idea of being forced to do labor doesn't strike me as ridiculous. Just about everybody has to work. Comparing it to sacrifice is stupid.
I find the irony that I keep getting advertised the podcast* by some VP of Security ding-dong at Microsoft *delicious*.

(* I am intentionally not stating the name because they don't deserve the attention or free advertising)
> AI is already firmly embedded into our computers, powering text autocorrect, recognizing our friends and family in the pictures we add to our photo libraries, and so on.

The fact that the author is so keen to lump together all these distinct things that are only lumped together as AI for marketing purposes, yet speaks so strongly about how bad they all are, speaks absolute volumes. If the author just doesn’t like change and wants their computer to work the way that it did in 2003, they should at least own their grumpy old man attitude.
I like toying around with local AI models. I do so a lot actually. But the AI gold rush is starting to leave a sour taste in my mouth.

It's astonishing how quickly this technology went from "new" to being used by profiteers trying to milk it for every last dollar. I can't even remember how many new projects/websites I come across on a daily basis, which are mostly just a wrapper for ChatGPT with custom prompt. Not to mention what the bigger companies are doing, as stated in OP's article.

The irony is that even the "Wild West" of cryptocurrency (I know) had a brief, innocent era where enthusiasts drove innovation for the sake of innovation, not just profit. That guy that bought pizza with bitcoin for example, it was fun and kinda cool.

AI however, went from something most people had never heard of to full-speed exploitation. It's as if greed just keeps getting worse in this world. Everything is a potential source of income now. Apologies for the rant...
It's a double-edged sword in some regard, though, as for some (like myself) the stress of a high-stakes job and the potential consequences of poor sleep are exactly what is preventing sleep in the first place.

I feel very lucky that the sleep physician that ran my CBT-I course helped my realize that I was able to function just fine on less sleep than I wanted, and that I sometimes functioned suboptimally on a full night's rest. Good sleep was neither necessary nor sufficient for me to passably do my job.

Thankfully, this realization helped me make more progress on my insomnia than years of sleep hygiene, and I suspect this helps me do my high-stress job better than "passably."
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17146451 (650 points, 121 comments)
Yeah, I wished it were an open source fork of that. That nailed a certain cross section of usability and features that I haven't found since.
Wayland was first released in 2008, so it's 15 years old.

Xorg was a fork of XFree86, which was released in 1991. So that codebase was 17 years old when Wayland was first released. I don't think the date of the fork is what's relevant here.

I could also argue that you should be comparing the Wayland protocol (2008) vs the X11 protocol (1987), or even older versions of X (1984).
The "html5 native way of doing things" is not necessarily inherently fast (or reliable) without scripting tbh.
It doesn't matter where our laws against murder were invented originally, historically.

Today in the US they are codified into actual statute.

I have never in my life heard the claim that the codification of law is an attempt to "undermine the judiciary"... after all, statutes passed by democratically elected representatives is the very cornerstone of democratic governance.

I'm genuinely curious, is your perspective something you've come up with on your own? Or did you get it from somewhere else, is there a name or movement behind it?

I've simply never come across the idea that the power of courts should be elevated so far above that of legislatures. (I mean, judicial review is one thing, but that's limited to conflicts between legislation and the constitution.)
It's the first time I heard from Hudson and they didn't start out great reputation wise for me
Neat! I also have been frustrated while creating css animations.

My feedback: I wasn't really sure what to ask for in the AI prompt. I like your examples at the bottom. Maybe add more complex examples (using colors, gradients, overlapping shapes, etc) for inspiration.
The person you are responding to is saying that Seattle did not defund the police. Literally the second sentence in your link is:

>The answer is not that the Seattle Police Department was defunded.

What do you think you are refuting?

Edit: And how on earth do you cite a hiring bonus as an example that they have been defunded?
TFA is using a preview release of Windows modified to run on hardware that isn’t officially supported, I would lean towards trusting the marketing material on what will be supported at release.
https://bytes.zone/posts/what-is-the-randomart-image-for/

> what is the randomart image for?

> you can set VisualHostKey to yes in your SSH client config to get that information every time.

> I left this on for a while and see if I started to be able to recognize the randomart images in the way the manual implies I'd be able to, and it turns out it worked! For example, I've started seeing the GitHub fingerprint (above) as something like the Statue of Liberty if it were a cat (don't ask why; that's just how my brain sees it), and the signature for git.bytes.zone (below) as the Vagrant logo. How interesting!
Power user features were part of Firefox's marketing from day 1. They never targeted geeks only. But they did target geeks.
> AI however, went from something most people had never heard of to full-speed exploitation.

To be fair, the timeline goes a bit further back. Markov chains had their moment in group chats a decade ago, it's hard to find a communal IRC room without someone's Markov bot lurking around. Then came BERT and GPT-2, both of which had their innocent days of getting finetuned into somewhat-usable form. After GPT-3 was the "oh we can sell this" moment, and all the cutesy, semi-efficient research that was being done got sidelined so people could make their own ChatGPT-killer. That is the disturbing part to me; so many people (OpenAI included) abandoned efficiency for marginal gains. This seems to be the trend going forward, likely exacerbated with GPT-5; we're going to need bigger boats (servers).
Can you explain what you mean by state space collapse?
How does that compare to human lawyers? How often human lawyers produce plausibly sounding wrong bs?
I don't think msft will give you the code for windows to review it if you ask nicely, unlike linux where it's already available.

if you're paranoid about the distribution of your pre-built distro you can compile everything by hand and some do that for fun.

so putting them on the same pedestal is weird mind gymnastics.
I think it’s typically an auction system so generally speaking you expect the plants with the cheapest energy to undercut the rest. Off the top of my head I’m not sure how concerns of collusion are dealt with when there’s few participants. There’s probably some sort of regulatory stick in there.
Agreed. Even knowing that, just yesterday I was surprised to find my M1 MacBook Pro still had 28% battery after more than a month on standby. When I closed the lid it was at 60%, so that’s less than 1% per day. Very happy with it.
In that case you also need to make sure that if you are grinding it, then grider's moving parts are not plastic.
Recall needs to ship as a completely separate application. In fact Microsoft should also charge a nominal fee for it so no one accidentally installs it.

Still this is the worst spyware ever made. Have a telehealth appointment, lawyer conference, loan application, now Recall will store all that like it or not.

This made me decide to go with a non Snapdragon Laptop since I want nothing to do with this. Gonna dual boot with Fedora ( sorry Debain, but it looks like Stable is a bit behind what I need hardware support wise).

Microsoft is making a serious argument for going full Linux + maybe a PS5 for competitive gaming ( since anti cheat is Windows only by design).
Sure there's a good market for secondhand AC's but AC's also break at some point.

Also newer AC's can be vastly more energy-efficient, which is something to keep in mind when you can easily spend more on electricity over the course of a single summer than on the unit itself.
We are using Amplify and I can't agree enough with this. The gen 1 to gen 2 migration docs are literally: just stay on gen 1.
I didn't attribute a difficulty ranking to it or suggest any particular scale, or suggest I'd be the one to do it, but I have no doubt it would be difficult.

Would it not be in the same ballpark of reasoning though as updating your older products to intentionally slow them down and influence more sales, or updating your trains to conveniently not work when they're at a competitors depot?

Sure it'd be a more blatant demonstration of sociopathy and criminal intent to commit widespread theft of tools, but really we'd only need one missing detail, and that's a connection back to the companies, the theft is already happening.

In this case it doesn't seem it's nationwide or one particular manufacturer, but if you're in a position to even consider such a thing, I'd think you either don't care or don't anticipate being caught, and perhaps don't care about precision or results, which really reduces the problem. Like if you're a popular retailer of many brands, but seeing sales slump. Now you can just find someone who already coordinates thieves to steal any equipment in some region, and if all you care about is that warehouse is filling up and your sales are increasing, your first problem is solved.
Fascinating. Time to go buy dishwashing liquid from my local restaurant supply store instead of the grocery store then.