skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, things have changed since then. Good luck running modern Linx distros on anything less than 2GB of ram.
This is one of the main reasons I use Pop! on my Thinkpad. Their power management works great out of the box, I get three times the battery life compared to Win 10. Suspend often doesn't work properly, but to me, that's a minor issue, likely hw related.
Krita at least can use any Qt theme installed on your system, so you can make it look like that (and actually i think even that specific theme is ported to Qt5).

I use a theme called "CDE-esque" that adds little bevels where appropriate. It isn't really CDE/Motif, if anything it is closer to Plastique (which i think is the theme in your linked shot) but it isn't overly flat either.

The icons are still monochrome but they look distinct enough for me to not bother me (and i tend to use the shortcut keys for most things anyway).
Yup. There's definitely too much unnecessary complexity in tech and too much over-design in presentation. Applications, I understand. Interactions and experience can get complicated and nuanced. But serving plain ol' content? To a small screen? Why has that been made into rocket science?
And do what with it? Type novels in vim? The moment you open Firefox empty tab, let alone Reddit/Youtube, everything goes to swap.
I remember a similar sentiment being expressed in IRC chats back in the day, ie. that it was way better to use mailing lists because they publicly recorded all the problems and solutions.
Cool tip! I learned that reading other people's code and seeing how much they could get done with far fewer lines of code and much faster than I cause they didn't over-engineer from the start. I got the bad habit of making a big architecture from the beginning because I read many books from academics talking about beauty and elegance, while I admired people in the industry the could get cool things done.

Now I have the experience that most of my projects I only understand after months (or years!) of development, observing the users and testing. Only after I have experience in the project I can actually know what should be the focus of my engineering.
I'm not the first to say this, but Discord is essentially IRC. It's great for ephemeral chatting and arguably the best platform for that currently. The content on it is not indexed and not discoverable with web search engines.

I have been wondering: is it even possible for a platform to fulfill both needs?

For searchable, "forum style" discussions, we already have a large accessible platform: Reddit! I genuinely ask myself: why is "Join our Discord" much more popular than "Join our Reddit"?

I personally prefer "forum style" discussion over "IRC style" discussions, but the polularity of Discord even in technical circles proves to me that a lot of people like the IRC style of communication.
When QT arrived Ubuntu wasn't even planned.
Let's go back to Usenet.
I would assume any differences in service quality come down to regional differences too.
Also why now and not before? Trump is a New Yorker and a famous one at that.
It seems like his great crime is that he won against their diva.
I am already distracted enough and now you are getting me interested into construction!
When you do find a community that you enjoy, make sure your support it. I donate $10 a month to the small forum I frequent. Hosting ain't cheap.
The problem is most people are not experts on laptop design trade offs and only find out about these malicious practices years after purchase at which point they cannot vote with their wallet.
Then you're not the public they're targeting but if we want things to change, we need to be cognizant of why people like Discord.
Fedora and Debian (stable) are not really directly comparable, they have different goals. Fedora is essentially a beta channel for RedHat, equivalent to Debian Unstable/testing. Fedora will ship a more up-to-date desktop, but Debian will be better for servers and/or users who don't need the latest Gnome.
> MacBook Battery replacement with whole keyboard has been a thing for 12+ years at least.

As stated in the blog post, my last two MacBook Pro battery replacements, without AppleCare, were $200 not $600, so clearly something has changed.
I do find it very strange. It assumes I've been "invited" when I just clicked on a link to join from a website. I can't tell why I am or aren't logged in when I join. It's full of animations.

Maybe it's the Gen Z take on IRC, but it seems a bit much. The client is very smooth in performance, though, which is nice.
Breaking: people in public don’t want to be seen by the public.

It’s a detailed breakdown of a technically impressive project and your main takeaway is the 5 seconds in the demo where a guy covers his face?

Kudos to the author for making something neat and sharing it.
The main one for me is not pushing snaps and other weird canonical ideas.
Yes, but you only need one unit per building to be over-bid and that then drives up the prices of other units in that building? It might not be an occupancy issue per se, but it doesn't help the overall residential market.
We don't have the technology for that yet, unfortunately. We can sell you a second MacBook though.
Let’s please get back to forums for knowledge. I am/was in discords where very deep tech talks are shared and then it’s closed suddenly; all is gone. It’s depressing. It’s very terrible. People said here before ‘but you can index it like irc’; lovely, but we don’t now, do we? At least not in any structured way.

Chat fine, do deep discussions that could benefit people months, years and decades from now somewhere else.
Yes, but sometimes, I think the director might ask for the script to be delivered exactly as written
> On conventional forums on the other hand, I have learned so much from reading threads from the past.

I agree, this is a great value. I don't argue against forums, they need to exist.

I was just pointing out that Discord, in my experience, has not been a place of disdain like the original post claims.

Discord has done a lot of work to help foster a good community for all types, especially for the software development communities. If you haven't yet experienced Discord's forum feature, it's worth at least exploring. Here's an example from the Elixir community: https://share.barkerja.dev/4o8Ozk.png

If Discord ever did decide to make this content SEO, what then becomes the major point _against_ something like Discord and your traditional forum?
Haha yes, thanks. I used Wireshark extensively the past days to debug a weird http/2 issue so I guess that messed me up a bit ;)
You can have both. The forum I use also have a irc-like chat section.
but there is no competition among HOAs. there isn't enough freedom to move around. there isn't even a chaotic choice because most HOAs are the same. and when 80% of homes sold today are governed by an HOA there is also no choice not to join one.

and i am not buying the whole argument. if we accept a hierarchy of governing structures, from the HOA at the bottom, and let's go all the way, the united nations at the top, each level has a a certain set of responsibilities and powers. the difference in the levels is determined by how centralized or distributed those are. but there is no escaping the levels.

the problem is that it is unclear who is responsible to deal with overreach. in the US HOAs are largely unregulated, and so there is no protection against overreach. and in particular, they are not government but private organizations.

i am of the opinion that mandatory membership in an organization makes that organization an extension of government, and thus it should be bound by the rules local governments must follow.
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> If it was there at a fair price, lots of buyers would pick it.

I don't think this is true. Lot's of folks on a forum like this would pick it. But the social norms around repair have degraded significantly (in large part no doubt, to it not being a cost-effective option). But my main point is that it will take more than just availability. And thus there is no market pressure, so it doesn't appear to me that this is indeed a market failure, instead it looks like the market responding to the demand.

Let me illustrate further, if a top provider of electronics and appliances, but not fully market dominate in many niches, say LG, pledged and followed through on their pledge to ensure the repairability of their products, and remained price-competitive, would they gain significant market share over their competitors? In phones? In appliances sold at a big box store? Or would people choosing an Apple device, or GE Fridge still choose those options because of features and market clout and ignore the repairability? I predict they'd gain some marginal sales, but really wouldn't incentivize change amongst their competition.

Now there are markets where the dynamic is different. Farming equipment, where there are some strong challengers to Deere and one of the things they sometimes use to different is repairability. There the market failure I'd be concerned with is the vertical alignment of dealers with service.
> the system promises to consume only 500 kilowatts of total power.

I don't understand, if these 500kW is the power consumed by a computation itself, or does the cooling equipment consumption included? To suck out 500kW of heat out of a shoebox box while keeping box's temperature at 4 kelvin... it seems to me impossible.
I would have said "property is theft" but even birds stake a claim, even if it is just for a few months a year.
"Professor Nabila El-Bassel at Columbia University is leading an initiative to integrate AI into community-based strategies to reduce overdose fatalities. Her team built a GPT that analyzes and synthesizes large datasets to inform interventions, reducing weeks of research work into seconds."

That sounds impressive but the link they give to this research just describes a (huge) NIH grant, and speculates on all the ways that AI can help allocate opioid treatment. Is there a paper with actual results from using the described GPT?
> Fair trials of political leaders is a hallmark of functioning democracy.

Yet this is the first time a US president has ever been brought to trial.

And one could argue that the case against him was based on a legal technicality, where the crime itself is hard to define (and the prosecution wasn't required to fully define it, or the jurors required to agree on it).
What's your alternative action? I tend to agree with you, but personally I've tried to stop pointing out problems without providing solutions; failing at something is better than preemptive surrender.
Reimbursemenet rates are not the same. Some doctors will accept 1 and not the other.

I used a hospital for a new baby birth. Because my plan was on-market, the provider doing delievery didn't accept it (Despite it being on the in-network list). So I got to be stuck with a ~13k bill. Was super cool.

This was back ~8 years ago, so perhaps it's all been sorted.. but I have such a bitter taste in my mouth after having to pay this out of pocket, I won't touch on-market plans with a 100 foot pole.
Orion's mysterious free-floating planets
you're mistaking messages and notifications.
Has anyone attempted to compress network size further by extracting the symmetry invariants of the network—e.g., those that correspond to the permutation invariance of node shufflings that leave the DAG unchanged?

I did a rough calculation, and as the precision of the scalar weights decreases, the information content of the specific network permutation becomes a much higher percentage of its overall size.

Depending on the particular neural network architecture, there may be other symmetries beside the symmetric group that also represent compressible redundancies.
AT season 6 I think it is - covers more philosophy than my intro to philosophy course at university.

That ending theme song still breaks me everytime I hear it. Such a great show
Dr. Calhoun's research, if you can call it that, has been roundly debunked due to flawed experimental design, lack of replication, anthropomorphizing, etc.

If you're interested in more up-to-date and relevant research on the sociological impact of the internet, I recommend checking out Sherry Turkle and her associates, or reading some stuff from RAND on psychological war, and then branching out from there. Jaques Ellul is also a more 'liberal arts' way into this field that I'm betting you'd enjoy.
Ok? That's just being pedantic. The point I'm trying to make, is that we need to find why people use Discord and offer something better for our (devs+technical users) use case; that'll also need to go the existing network effect.
Camera obstructions are big problem, yes. A combination of hardware fixes (making it less likely for obstructions to happen in the first place), redundancy, and detection of the issue coupled with an escape plan, is the general approach to fixing it. (the escape plan is a big one: a lot of effort goes into making sure the car can stop/pull over safely if something goes wrong)
Some of the use-cases mentioned would mean FERPA applies: https://studentprivacy.ed.gov/faq/i-want-use-online-tool-or-...

Surprised FERPA wasn't mentioned explicitly. At least this version doesn't use the data for training, but I shudder to think of all the college administrators dumping student information into their personal ChatGPT accounts right now...
Do you care to share what forum that is? And is its irc-like chat section searchable? Otherwise it is just forum and chat available under the same domain. But information in the IRC section is still ephemeral.
You clearly don't have the live chatting feature in a forum or on reddit. I'm assuming it's a tongue in cheek comment, and not to be taken literal, but there are many features that Discord have that other products do not.
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I am typing this from Dillo with a GB sized netbook; but with ZRAM I can spawn Luakit without too much trouble.

CWM and GNUinos makes it possible.
The next login into ChatGPT will require a retina scan...
Been precisely there with NPM, where you're left with a near un-buildable mess. So much good software has been lost.
Perhaps the idea could be reverse: to ENFORCE mandatory non-screen time

It's been proven that children need sunlight to avoid the effect of myopia, and they need sport activities to fight obesity and sedentarity, and social "in-person" activities

perhaps when they have enough of those per day, you could then let them do what they want on screens, as long as they have enough of creative and social activities
ah, right, but those are only in apartment buildings. it's a good place to research though what responsibilities and powers those have.
The gif on that page just shows a blank square for me, even with all ad blockers turned off.

Do you have a direct link to the file?
Author here. Having been neck-deep in steam engine history for years, the possible confusion caused by the title didn't even occur to me. It's obvious in retrospect. I guess I created accidental clickbait.
In an imperfect world where things break repair is a part of customer experience.
I somewhat agree but think "freely entering into" oversells it a bit. On one hand in a very literal sense sure, nobody is going to send you to jail for buying a home without an HOA... but it's also not something you really get to pick yourself, the house's history does and you're "free" to pick a different house not anything about the HOA itself.

That doesn't inherently mean HOAs are wrong in my book but I can also see why folks don't like to say you're free to pick in that there are certain useful forms of the meaning of free that aren't present. The trouble in terminology is that might not align with everyone's default interpretation of what free means when they talk about it. It reminds me of topics of "free speech" where you have some literal absolutist that mean any speech should be allowed and the more typical approach which means more or less "mildly restricted speech" where what is restricted is often assumed to be the same but is often subtly different.
I've said this before but (as a noob) I don't think cramming all human knowledge into a model is the correct approach. It should be trained enough to understand language so that it can then go search the web or query a database for answers.
Except that is not true, it is sometimes convenient, and sometimes very inconvenient and not wanted. My reasoning for file systems that are case sensitive is the following:

1. Some people want file systems to case sensitive.
2. Case sensitive is easier to implement. This is very much not a trivial thing. Case insensitivity only really makes sense for ASCII.

In the camp of wanting case insensitivity:

1. Some people want file systems to be case insensitive.

There is more in favor of case sensitivity.
What is it plagiarized from?
Anyone else find it unnerving that the rendering looks just like the T-800 CPU from Terminator? https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/19cAAOSwOI9kZH-d/s-l1600.webp
> I use Discord quite a bit in the Elixir community and find it quite useful. Messages are persisted. There's a wonderful forum feature now built into the platform; and it's all searchable with a pretty robust filtering mechanism.

Still have to register though and the content is not indexed by a search engine.
Fun. I guess I’ll have this project on my to-do list when I get back from vacation. We already have a managed GPT offering from Azure so it’ll be interesting to see where these intersect.
As I understand it, the essence of the post is not to benefit the IT industry, but to promote something unnecessary, while it is significant to minus absolutely all the answers of those whose opinions radically differ from the author’s
I've been on Discord channels where the mods are constantly getting pissed off because people keep asking the same questions, so much so that they ban people when it happens.

I'm starting to think that this is part of the appeal. Having an emotional outburst and power tripping is fun for some people, and Discord provides ample opportunity to do it (+ in real-time)

However, I will admit that I much prefer seeing that a community has a Discord channel over being exclusively located on Github/Gitlab issues.
If you are a photographer, I can recommend Sun Seeker on iOS. It integrates with compass (so you can see, e.g., where the sun will rise/set in real time), but also has this map mode showing sun position relative to terrain, angle relative to horizon, etc., at a given time of any day. Though it doesn’t try to paint shadows (which I think would be error-prone anyway for most locations), it is a one-time purchase that costs comparatively little and does not try to upsell a premium version.
> seems to be one dropped cup of coffee away from not being in business anymore

Completely untrue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40534047

Some commenters (see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40533735) seem to want to assume that I'm an idiot, but no, I'm not. I'm trying to avoid a hassle, but I'm not facing any kind of existential crisis to my business.
>The intern who files most things perfectly but has, more than once, tipped an entire cup of coffee into the filing cabinet is going to be remembered as “that klutzy intern we had to fire.

On the flip side, "we" will be remembered as people who fired a diligent worker because of a coffee cup mishap. It cuts both ways.
I avoid people who act as if every one else ought to be spotless.
My experience has been that performance has gone down significantly since students have access to genAI. I probably get a fifth of the number of high performers that I was getting before. So I'm not worried about the hypothetical tiny minority who can write good prompts. I am worried about the larger group who could have done good work but ended relying on chatGPT too much.
I don't understand the issue here. The author of the post is mad because people have the choice to not publicly discuss things? Why do they owe the author their conversations? Is this AI/data scraping related and the author is mad that they can't get a portion of data out there?
Can we change the title to "Stop using Discord for anything else than just chatting", which more accurately reflects the author's point?
What is asserted without evidence can be denied without evidence.

So far as I saw from following the trial (not super closely, so I may have missed something), no defense witnesses were prevented from testifying if they had relevant evidence. (You don't just get to put, say, Trump's hairstylist on the stand, unless they have something to say that touches on admissible evidence.)

The part that seems more in line with the claim by the green account was not about witnesses, but lines of argument.

There's a claim called "advice of counsel". In this case, it would be claiming that Trump's lawyers told him to do this. Well, in a criminal trial, you don't get to just claim "my lawyer told me to do it" and that's automatically a get-out-of-jail-free card. No, the prosecution gets to examine that claim. In particular, they get to put your lawyers on the stand and ask them questions, under oath, even though those questions touch on matters that would normally be covered by attorney-client confidentiality. [That is, asserting that defense leads to loss of attorney-client confidentiality in areas covered by the claim of advise of counsel.]

Trump's attorneys chose not to assert that defense. They told the judge, before the trial, that they weren't going to use that defense. Then, during the trial, they wanted to make an argument that was something like "recommendation of counsel", where it would sound to the jury like "advice of counsel", but the prosecution wouldn't get to grill the lawyers. That is, they wanted to have their cake and eat it too.

The judge didn't let them do it. Trump's lawyers tried, at least twice with different wording, and the judge blocked it. Rightly so - you don't get to skirt the restrictions by trying to re-word the label.
Yes, please! Even more layers of needlessly complex crap will definitely improve things!
These don’t really read like “myths” exactly, but I appreciate the attempt to clarify the practice of platform engineering. The big question is: what is the platform?

of course it depends, but I think the industry is moving toward specific criteria.

I work directly in the space, fellow coworkers just published a series of articles attempting to answer the question about what the “platform” actually is [0]

0. https://developer.app
> Out of curiosity, is any of that useful information on the Elixir Discord available to be searched for with Google or any other search engine?

It is not, and that is the one major knock against Discord. But see my response above about that.
> Stop dumping knowledge into a black hole. Use forums. Use the open web.

I feel like there are two discussions to be had:

(1) Discord as a commercial platform vs. open web; (2) Discord as an IRC-style platform vs. forums.

For me, only (2) is about the point of OP of "dumping knowledge into a black hole". It's a black hole because it's IRC, not because it's commercial.
80% of homes on sale today come with an HOA (according to john oliver)
except I am not american and was distracted when writing the original comment and apparently missing the "america" in the title.
That is an actual law of the land in a democratic society that could change it if we all wanted. Everyone plays by the same rules there.

Meanwhile an HOA deed restriction is you giving a private non government organization the permanent and irrevocable right to remove you from your home and sell it if you do not comply with whatever extra-legal discrimination they make up to impose on you.

Plain and simple, HOAs are not a country or a government. They are a scam.