skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is the thing. MS Windows has no alternative. There is no other OS that:
- is primarily user friendly (no terminal use, good accessibility support, well known patterns, well made paid human translation)
- has drivers working out of the box with every single hardware
- has long term software support
- has long term hardware support
- has a healthy closed-source specialized software ecosystem
- has good developer support
- has not perfect but reasonably future proof API
- good interoperability with majority of the other software

Once you step out of programming or hobbyist use it is 90% Windows for the use cases one uses a full fledged computer. Yes you can replace many things with a tablet or a smartphone.

You can't replace a PC with a tablet for accounting, customer management, CAD, printing, publishing, manufacturing, simulation, advanced reporting, large document processing, centrally controlled IT and many other things.

The professional grade software you do those built on Windows, Office and Active Directory. They trust the backwards compatibility and wide range of API and integration Windows ecosystem provides.

People don't use computers because they like them. They use them because they do work for their goals.

Even for nonprofessional use case Windows still has the best hardware support. For example you cannot use old low DPI monitors with Macs anymore; the text is unreadable. Certain audio workstations doesn't work with ARM chips.
In the US, adverse possession is a takings by a third party, not the government. And it’s not permitted when a land is unoccupied since one of the central tenets of adverse possession is open and notorious occupation. And, as you know based on your prior replies, adverse possession has a time component. The GP’s post is about merely leaving a property unoccupied. They don’t list a timeframe but we can pretty easily assume that if one exists in their mind it is less than the >5 years required for adverse possession based on the context.

I am not a commonwealth lawyer, but my understanding is that they have a similar modern rule in the UK and other commonwealth countries. I am not a continental lawyer, but my understanding is that civil law is similar with respect to government takings.

I will give you credit here because you may have interpreted the GP’s statement of “or forfeit the property” to mean generally lose possession of the property (including to a third party) rather than in the context of the prior sentence that references “the state allowing.” So, some backwards ancient legal principles that have been rejected or severely limited in modern times MIGHT support the contention that a third party can take someone’s land due to it being unoccupied and no modern legal principles support the contention that the government can make someone forfeit their land to the state merely for it being unoccupied.

The answer to my question (Does/should the government have the right to make you surrender that building without compensation (because that’s what forfeit means) simply due to it being unoccupied? Why?) is then “Maybe to someone that is occupying the unoccupied building (however that works) but not to the government.” Got it.

And it’s clear we both know that I have been talking about GOVERNMENT takings (“The government should tell property owners that they are required to keep their property occupied otherwise the government should seize their property?”).
I think you really put this well:

This is in opposition to the usual "the only point of a business is to make money" ethos that so permeates neoliberal capitalism that we hardly even notice it anymore. The latter is dysfunctional, inhuman, and ultimately bad for business.

Call it cynicism, but decision calculus from upstairs always work in that direction (i.e. gotta hit arbitrary financial goals for this quarter because that's how bonuses and comp gets dictated) so I think in that mindset so I don't setup myself for disappointment or surprise if a decision that doesn't appeal to that shorted-sighted thinking doesn't gain traction.
Someone will usually poat an archive.is link in the thread for paywalled articles
I know what you mean. Unfortunately, it's easy for frank and concise language to be taken the wrong way when in written form (and sometimes even verbal form). I wish I didn't have to make qualifiers about my intent on my internet comments, but I often do, to try and make sure that other people take my comment the way I intended it. I think it generally leads to better discussion.

I don't blame people for not wanting to talk this way.
The same Operations Research group has scheduling examples for restaurants: https://developers.google.com/optimization/service/schedulin...
I used to get into loops with that - I thought I understood something, then I'd try to implement it and hit a corner case, or even a caveat would come to my mind, and suddenly my understanding is crashing. I developed anxiety around this, because thinking and rethinking would mean I could spend days without anything to show for it (other than a thousand lines of semi-coherent ramblings in an Org Mode file). I started to lean towards taking things simple and direct, solving them more by feel than explicit analysis, in order to create a bedrock of something I could then iteratively improve or rewrite, without having to keep the entire problem in my head at all times.
I don't think most people will buy new hardware that Mac requires if they can just boot from a USB on their current PC...
From naïve to authentic progress: "A Vision for Betterment" [video]
Have fun getting hacked with BadUSB.
Apple created OpenCL. It was nvidia who made everyone else avoid it.
So good. I had only ever played a couple of games in my life, mostly in a small pub here. I jumped into a game at a tech meetup in London about 15 year ago where I quickly found out that spinning the rod/players isn't allowed, the guy I was playing against got very upset while I was having a great time :D
Rocket regulations apply including ITAR, FAA and others for any payload human or cargo launched on any vehicle . The launch doesn’t have to be even to launched from the US, rocket lab have to comply with them even when launching from New Zealand.

There are host of rules that NASA has for human spaceflight these are not regulations per se. Till now NASA has been the only buyer[1][2] of human spaceflights or the destination has been ISS which is jointly managed by them so even private operators to comply with these rules.

SpaceX and now Boeing human rate their spacecrafts to these specifications to allow them to compete for commercial crew contracts or dock to ISS[4].

In the next few years this will change, NASA is research organization not a regulatory authority sooner or later regulations have to move to either FAA or another new entity.

Currently no regulations exist for space proper. FAA does control a lot of launch related items, but don’t regulate things like spacesuits that now spaceX is developing currently.

There are no strict limits to FAA authority they do control Virgin rocket planes although it does cross the US defined line for space .

Knowing Musk’s temperament, what is likely to happen is FAA will try to extend their authority that he deems is overreach and he will sue in court saying they have no jurisdiction, either Supreme Court will say they do (not likely in Robert’s court) or congress will have pass law regulating this ( less likely in current congress it is too dysfunctional) but these things may change in the next few years when it does happen

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[1] Axiom buys private launches from spaceX but they still dock to ISS so I expect NASA rules apply.

[2] Jared Issacman’s last mission was the true first fully private mission to space but still used mostly stock Dragon so they mostly likely followed NASA rules

[3] all this from US perspective , Soyuz and China has capabilities and Soyuz and also in Mir space station have had some commercial flights of course

[4] only place you can go today , end of this decade there maybe private station or moon or even mars but not today
I feel like Mint + Cinnamon is such an easy switch from Windows, comparatively, and that Linux users should be more comfortable recommending it to newbies. For people who don't know what they're doing with Linux/unix at all, there's no point in even saying "you have all these distros, pick the one you like!" when they're mostly too advanced. It should be, "Pick Mint. If you like it, you can change later and start working on something more complex."

Now, I am sure there will be not a few disagreements that Mint should be the canonical beginner's choice. Honestly, fine, if there's a distro even more dead-simple it could be that, but bike-shedding won't help. We don't need to find the best distro for each user, we just need to give them a safe and comfortable starting point.
The "nitroplast" – The first nitrogen-fixing organelle
By like covid I meant sarbecoviruses. I guess we are just going to differ on this stuff.
If I was desperate and suffering from something as serious as IBD, I would be happy for people to casually suggest trying something that has shown to work for others anecdotally. Especially given the context of this very article, which shows we don't entirely understand it .
It is really worth a try when demurrage is not even accounted for?

https://developers.google.com/optimization/service/reference...
I'd like to get into the nuance of Frontend vs. Backend vs. Full stack

Having a *backend* platform that has opinionated answers to schema / db access, file storage, auth, scheduled jobs / async workflow, text/vector search, subscriptions/streaming, scalable hosting... is awesome. That is a huge pain point surfaced by this whole debate. However, this doesn't need to tightly couple with html rendering / all your frontends.

Having a *frontend* framework that has amazing inter-op with your backend framework is amazing. E.g.: end-to-end type safety, reactive / realtime updates, authentication flows, etc. However, this doesn't need to be the same framework as your backend (and probably shouldn't if you care about mobile).

*Full-stack* is exciting b/c the same developer can work on the frontend and backend at the same time, ideally in the same language, with the same models flowing through. Full-stack development is about enabling full-stack workflows. It doesn't require that the same company makes your backend and frontend abstractions. It's actually nice when you can have multiple frontends using different frameworks (RN, React, Swift, Kotlin, etc.) or change frontends over time, while still being owned by a single full-stack dev.

For example, with Convex you can write your backend in TypeScript and your frontend with Next.js, Vite (Remix etc), Vue, Svelte etc. and they can all talk to the same backend API with end-to-end types and real-time reactivity. Convex has a built-in reactive database, serverless functions, subscriptions w/ automatic caching, file storage, auth, scheduled functions, text & vector search, automatic scaling, etc. It's the opinionated backend for TypeScript developers. AND you can hit the same API from golang / swift / etc. without getting html in response or duplicating all your business logic into opaque `/api` routes.

This enables you to ship frontend components that have associated backend logic, and makes it easy for people to drop that into their Convex projects, since the database models and logic is all speaking Convex, which isn't possible when the backend might be using any number of database connectors with varying degrees of transaction support (Convex has the highest (serializable) level of Isolation in its ACID guarantees).

disclaimer: I work at Convex.
disclaimer disclaimer: I pivoted my career to join b/c once I used it I didn't want to go back.
> Jumping straight to the Linux Desktop deep end after using Windows for years is an unlikely change path for most. These arguments ignore the fact that most Windows users have a lot of Windows-specific apps that they use, such as games.

I think nowadays you would have a much worse experience switching from windows to mac, as you said, the user wants their apps and games to carry over, but you are actually going to have a much better time getting those to carry over to linux. Specially regarding games, just the fact that Steam runs almost any Windows game effortlessly on linux is a big deal. Meanwhile, Apple has made sure to burn all the bridges they could with game developers and game compatibility in the last decade or so.
What we're hoping for (and is the theme of the piece) is that we are and can and should be both and more -- taxable citizens, members of illegible communities, and many more things. It's a both-and perspective -- life is and should be composed of many overlapping systems.
I did this once for an experimental project and found it really difficult to keep the version of gVisor I was using up to date, since it seems like the API is extremely volatile. Anyone else had this experience? If so, is there some way around it that I don't know? Or did I just try it at a bad point in the development timeline?
> The main threat to Nvidia is the fact that big clients might start producing their own chips (like Apple is doing and MSFT has started).

What shovels are Apple and MSFT buying to make their own chips?

I mean, who is making Apple's and MSFT's AI chips? I'd buy their stock.
> Another argument is that licensed data is whitewashed by being run through a model. So you could have GPL licensed code that is open source run through a model and then output exactly the same but because it has been outputted by the model it is considered "cleaned" from the GPL restrictions. Clearly this output should still be GPL:ed.

I don't think anybody is making that argument. The NY Times claims to have gotten ChatGPT to spit out NY Times articles verbatim but there is considerable doubt about that. Regardless, everyone agrees that a verbatim (or close to) copy is copyright violation, even OpenAI. Every serious model has taken steps to prevent that sort of thing.
Water isn't a great example, but decision paralysis at stores from too many options is a thing.
You could implement error correction code on top.
"had multiple underlying medical conditions and had been bedridden for three weeks, for other reasons, prior to the onset of acute symptoms"

I don't see a quote from the WHO that says this person died of bird flu, just that this person who was already very very ill was tested after they died and it was found they had bird flu.
There is also a perspective that the worryingly popular ‘silence all dissent’ mentality is vastly more of a threat to democracy than anything Elon has done.
Of course transport 10 tons of paper product has zero energy consumption according to Law of Newtonian Physics. More weight, less energy. We successfully keep the ocean clean, but all turtles are dead by stopping ocean current with global warming.
We need to finish building the Fediverse
This is correct. Unfortunately, xdg-tools is a set of almost forgotten scripts that need some more eyes and collaboration to polish. I've seen many problems there. Nobody is actively maintaining it, but a couple developers could get the ball rolling. (I'm interested)
i'll give it a shot, thanks!
Are GANs useful for synthetic data generation for transformer based models?
When another app did this (horrible unity ads which also blasted audio in what was otherwise a silent app) I developed a reflex of closing and reopening it. Eventually they went away, so I expect that was most people's response.
Mass does not strictly matter, it is the ground TWR of the launch config. Heavier rockets do tend to have a lower TWR but it is not a universal rule.

Starliner is also held for confirmation of all systems being functional even with the SRBs. Better to let them burn out on the pad and clean up the mess than to risk release with, say, asymmetrical thrust. That said I'm sure there are variances between the two rockets' procedures which could make one appear faster.
I wouldn't think of this as a full-fledged business yet, but as a way for the Operations Research team to get their work tried out in the real world.

If they're really improving the state-of-the-art, to the degree that real money is saved, and the industries are big enough, these APIs will probably get used a lot and moved out of research or licensed.
Ramping up at a new company also costs employees time, so even though the employer has to pay this fee more, so does the employee. So the employer can play chicken on this and eat the cost more statistically than the employee.
> Another weird/fascinating factor for me at least is that less convenient access to a toilet seems to correlate with less symptoms. When I'm hiking in the mountains I never seem to have a high frequency of needing to take a dump.

AFAIK I don't have Crohn's or any inflammatory issues, but boy is this an accurate description of me. My theory has always been that my need to use the bathroom was strongly correlated with coffee and food. When I'm home I'm constantly drinking coffee and snacking, when I'm away from home I'm not.
> unless you believe in ghosts it's hard to make a case that human-like AGI shouldn't ultimately be possible

The argument that any non-materialist position (panpsychism, substance dualism, monadism, etc.) must "believe in ghosts" is comically reductive. Metaphysics is a thing, you know. So is moral philosophy. I mean, heck, so is logic. In all these subfields, arguing that their respective first principles are purely materialist is an uphill battle. I get a feeling that post-2000s materialism is basically logical positivism 2.0 (and we know how that ended).

> It's not a claim that AGI is nonsense in principle

You're playing a semantic game here; but in any case, understanding is a function of intelligence, so (working backwards), you're actually shooting yourself in the foot, anyway.
> Even a 80 Euro Berhinger USB audio interface has balanced outs nowadays.

Yeah but who outside of people already interested in DJing buys that kind of stuff. It just looks ugly, unlike your classic home theater setup.

Out of "looks decent (=passes the Spouse Acceptance Factor test)", "reasonably affordable" and "has decent quality", choose two... unless you got a partner accepting you literally putting up a 2m truss with lasers, movingheads and a strobe in your living room that could compete with a mid-range disco, and a 1.200W fogger on the ground. I'm lucky enough to have such a partner, but I'd say about 99% of people don't.
How does that stop Apple from supporting Vulkan on their system? It is pure political sabotaging. And you can't pull any excuses like "it requires effort". Apple have pools of cash to do the right thing for users and developers. They simply very intentionally oppose it due to their dinosaur lock-in mentality.
I'm curious what the challenges are around using mRNA to synthesize antibodies in a person's own cells. A little googling turned up this company: https://acuitastx.com/technology/mrna-therapeutics/ but I'm curious if there are any obvious showstoppers for that kind of thing.
Kubernetes turns 10: How it steered cloud-native computing and what's next
Traditional textbooks on networking are so verbose and tedious... often very focused on theory and less helpful for every-day networking.

I would love to see courses based on tools like shadow [1], encouraging a more hands-on learning experience. Network simulators seem pretty cool, but it is hard to benefit from them using the docs alone. With shadow it seems I would be able to run actual software on a simulated network.

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1: https://github.com/shadow/shadow?tab=readme-ov-file#why-is-s...
Don't worry, I'm pretty sure someone will find your comment useful

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Thanks for the feedback:
1. You're right, the UX can use some improvements there
2. I've just updated the landing page with a before/after example
3. Ooh, that's not good, thanks for reporting this, I'll look into it asap
That's a good question, though I think art is one of the few things that is in some sense a parallel. While masterpieces of the past remain masterpieces today, the scope of what is considered art has been expanding, and while perfectly good work is being done today in styles that would have been recognized as art in the past, it probably will not attract the attention it would have gained if it had been produced in the past.

Perhaps the thing that makes AI different from other aspects of computing, in terms of how its progress is regarded, is that the term invites lofty expectations.
Well if we zoom out to the moon so that everything looks the same “in the area we are talking about” then I guess there are no distinctions between anything, are there? A person that gets robbed is the same as a person that forgets their wallet on a train, they both just failed to meet their obligations (in one case an obligation to not let someone have their wallet and in the other their obligation to remember where they put their wallet).
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As a counter-example (and not at all to doubt your story), I had my first (and worst) UC flare when I was literally the happiest and most content I've ever been in my life. I had my second, a few years later, when I was on a religious retreat, and under absolutely no stress whatsoever!

My UC is entirely diet related.

A doctor friend and I think we have - as amateurs, mind: his specialty is very far from GI, but he reads and shares with me every UC paper that's published; I have no medical training, but am a motivated auto-didact on this subject - identified three or maybe four etiologies which are lumped together as "UC". The best gastro doc I've seen kinda shrugged, and said (roughly) "probably so, but they all respond to the same drugs in the same ways, so there's not much motivation to draw distinctions".

I'm not quite sure what to think about that answer. I do think it's good for patients to identify their own triggers.
Burden of proof is for you to find specific examples, quote them, link them, then find data that those items did not come to pass. Following that, find more quotes that are similar, enough so that it's a persistent and significant percentage to constitute an actual trend. Until then, it's anecdata. You are the one making the claim, it is up to you to provide the evidence to back it.

Let's say I did read "those thread". If I were then to come back and say "nope - it all checked out, the histrionics were in your head." I'd wager you would respond by saying I read the wrong threads. I doubt you are willing to engage in a good-faith discussion further at this point. I'm not sure exactly which point you are making, which threads you are thinking, and I'm certainly not going to go try to find the evidence for a very vague claim that you are making.
32-bit is the only change that actually broke anything, and it had been deprecated for a decade.

64-bit OpenGL/x86 games work fine on ARM.
True, today time is the greatest equalizer. Even the rich and powerful will eventually kick the bucket and leave the future for others. If life extension takes off, the rich and powerful may live forever, while the less fortunate may still be mortal.