skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends where you live. I had a state ID for a little while when I was a young adult because I didn’t get my driver’s license right away. I used public transit and didn’t have a car anyway.
I wouldn’t think there’s any conceivable way of training anything we currently see as the state of the art in machine vision ML/AI (and definitely nothing in the area of LLMs) to meaningfully interact with the human spinal cord.

Think of the spinal cord as basically an undersea cable, itself composed of an extremely complex outer insulating structure surrounding thousands of individual microscopic cables, each requiring their own insulation (in the case of long nerves something called the myelinated sheath) to function. Nick the insulation and you change the flow of data… sever the cable and you’ve got to reconnect both that cable and its insulation to get it functioning again. Now, understand that all of this is grown by the human body, rather than lain down according to some plan, and further that every fiber is connected at randomly distributed points along its length to an unknown and likely unknowable number of other fibers and junction boxes and such. Oh, and all of this relies on both chemical effects and quantum physics to work, so really you should throw out the cable metaphor because these nerves can rewire themselves dynamically while working.

Having and repairing a spinal cord injury is pretty much like taking one of those enormous industrial chainsaws that get attached to front end loaders and using it to carve through a room full of computers and all their network gear, then expecting a human being (or a robot helping them) using only another set of huge industrial manipulators to make sense of putting all those chips and wires and infrastructure crudely back together and hoping the results will do the same job.

Honestly the best hope in this area is and always has been stem cells, and specifically embryonic stem cells, which could lead to treatments that allow the specialized cells of these nerves to heal themselves by growing uninjured replacements rather than trying to reconnect the injured cells. If you’re going to use AI in any way to make a difference here, get it to figure out better ways of convincing people to abandon their fundamentally ignorant opposition to research involving embryonic stem cell lines (which means getting them to abandon their religious-based thinking on abortion or at least the idiot idea that budding zygotes that could eventually be people are in fact already people).
https://archive.ph/WLmYA
That Michael Reeves is so cool just discovered it through your post here. Thx
I have used both aerospace and yabai, and aerospace was far more simpler to configure. I really like it. Thank you for the great work!

I had to unfortunately stop using aerospace due to some bugs. If I switch from workspace a to workspace b, sometimes aerospace keeps switching back to workspace a. It is annoying when you are trying to press the unmute button in the middle of a call but aerospace keeps taking you away from that workspace. The root cause could be that the apps that I use (internal tools) are misbehaving. I'll file a bug report if I can reproduce it on my personal mac.
Tom Murphy VII is, on some very real vector of nerdy-ness/retro-ness/recursion-ness/detail-oriented-ness/easter-egg-making-ness/etc., a giant.

No one I know of comes close.
There are actually several problems for desktop linux, or more exactly, for linux on the home computer.

Some are independent of linux itself: the lack of drivers, the lack of some very common software is external to whatever the linux devs (both linux the OS and linux the distributions). I would even say there are very good at compensating it, even if it is not sufficient.

Then there are the things that are linux dependant, such as the publication of software, the updates, the choice paralysis etc
You could not pay me enough to stand there…
It's similar in many ways to "leaderless" organizations: getting rid of people with formal management titles doesn't mean you don't have managers, it means that it's not clear who the leaders are and that it's impossible for the organization to guarantee an orderly transfer of leadership when the shadow leaders eventually leave.

"Identity-less" societies are the same. You don't actually guarantee privacy, you just shunt the need to prove identity onto systems that are less suitable for the task (like driver's licenses and Social Security numbers), with less transparency and portability as a result. So where, exactly, is the utility in the collective lie?
>Microsoft, who land up at the door of whichever large corp or govt org that decide to switch, with unmatchable discounts, freebies, bribes, lies and threats to ensure their rent collecting empire is defended at all cost.

I'm relatively new to the industry, but we just saw the exact pattern in our switch from Splunk to Sentinel. A massive discount, and a severely inferior product.
> Coming back from suspend e.g. was gambling.

I can confirm. Using latest KUbuntu + KDE. It's very nice usually, but almost every time I do a major upgrade something breaks. Now, after suspend, the freaking keyboard is not detected. Like, at all. It thinks I am on a tablet, I believe, maybe because I have a touchscreen monitor. This only started after the latest upgrade, and I spent hours trying to fix it, to no avail :(.

And this is a laptop that came from factory with Ubuntu (Dell XPS13)!

Quite frustrating. I really like the KDE DE but because of this sort of problem (it has been touchpad problems and sound issues before) I am seriously considering something else, probably plain Ubuntu though I hate the defaults they come with nowadays.
No novelist wrote a novel without first reading other people's work, no painter painted a picture without studying other painters first. And then sold their work for money. All knowledge is derivative. AI just happens not be a person, that's all. But it isn't any different. As much as I hate AI, I don't see any problem with training models based on other people's work.
really? the one I went to felt more like having a parent for an hour a week, and what she did was help me identify the emotions I was experiencing and asking the right questions to help me come up with strategies to deal with those emotions.

she was not the one telling me to learn to be happy with less - I demanded that for myself.
This law was rushed through before the election, but is actually large and wide ranging. There's certainly some good stuff in there, like banning "Drip pricing" (where fees get added to the price after you have already put effort in, like with airlines or Ticketmaster), banning fake reviews etc.
Fastmail are a popular choice. Regarding storage, Dropbox, PCloud, or maybe a NextCloud provider.
Somewhat. I have a corporate laptop that include a bunch of system admin/security/network apps, plus others that don't show in the dock (Meeter, Magnet, etc.).
"The first obstacle you run into as a newcomer, is the ridiculous number of different operating systems that exist under the Linux umbrella. The Linux community loves to call them "distros" as a way to express that there are not many differences between them."

I have been trying various distributions over the years. Being someone who likes to compile software, and coming from BSD, I am still not into package managers. (Yes, I tried Gentoo.)

I have arrived at Frankenstein Linux. It's a hybrid of glibc/musl, various portable BSD stuff and custom text-processing utilities. Linux distributions contain multitudes of software I never use; I removed all of it. Every program is statically-linked, even GCC; I keep no libraries other than what comes with the compiler. There is also an area for running dynamically-linked binaries using a musl or glibc dynamic linker, when that need occasionally arises.

I am not a graphics person so Frankenstein Linux is command-line only, textmode. It's smaller than LFS but larger than Tinycore. In the process of creating and using it, I have discovered many interesting compilation-time and run-time facts about various software I use, stuff I see written about nowhere. Linux overall seems generally hyperfocused on binary packages. When in a rush, these can be convenient but I do not think I will ever prefer binary packages over software I compile myself. I am not a fan "package maintainers". I learn nothing about the software I use by choosing binary packages and these maintainers too often make compile-time choices I would never make myself.
> Stating facts is not "debating".

But alternative facts?
Anti-universe could explain accelerated expansion without dark energy
Judging by the last thread about Bartender, when people were discussing alternatives, some people did not even know that was how you can rearrange your menu icons. So I can see why it's worth mentioning.

Also worth mentioning that this behaviour is completely undiscoverable, just like most power user interactions on macOS.
That’s obviously not true, men don’t have 7x more grey matter.
Yes, a ship that big makes a big hole that physically allows the signals to escape the plasma envelope, but beyond that, it has to have a coherent signal with enough bandwidth for us to watch the video in high definition in near realtime, whilst thundering through the atmosphere at 20,000kph at the same time parts of the ship are being torn apart from the stresses of re-entry, which I find is astonishing.

I very much doubt that the same bandwidth and signal reliability is currently available from just "any orbiting satellite" outside of some military constellations.
Observer Effect in Abelian Probability Theory – Code
Yes, my memory may be inexact as to the specifics. I'd hazard a guess the prompt ran a git fetch first so that status accurately reflected the state of the remote (rather than just the state of the local tracking branch)
> In general, men have approximately 6.5 times the amount of gray matter related to general intelligence than women, and women have nearly 10 times the amount of white matter related to intelligence than men. Gray matter represents information processing centers in the brain, and white matter represents the networking of – or connections between – these processing centers.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/01/050121100142.h...
Thanks both of you for your consideration, but I don't think it's something a therapist would resolve. I think it's just a matter of accepting the reality, which is a gradual process.
Do you believe this is "gate-keeping?" If so, is gate-keeping universally bad?
Even without appreciation - my RSU grants were 50% of my TC at the time of grant
Not simply convicted

>His probation would be conditional on his agreement to undergo hormonal physical changes designed to reduce libido, known as "chemical castration".
A Yubikey is very convenient to use to carry around keys between several computers in a relatively safe way. One can use it because of its practical side rather than because they have super sensitive data on their home computers.
Ill say. If I follow GPs life-hack for 30C I get 60F, which is significantly different from 86F. Some life-hack.
Parody is fair use, and this is part of a submission to SIGBOVIK 2024. http://tom7.org/bovex/ It's also clearly not competing with the original, since its contents are partially nonsense.
It's a tool. Technology is neither positive, nor negative, nor neutral, it simply is. You might as well claim that banning guns will solve social violence and nobody will murder anybody anymore. The key is not to try to ban the tools (a deceptively alluring easy fix) but to fix the social ills (much harder).
It seems there is no archive audio or old video from Alan Turing?
Over a decade ago, I had the chance to interact with at a startup with a Microsoft senior person who joined the firm as CTO. One piece of advice he gave stuck out:

"Heroism doesn't scale"

This wisdom of it was instructive (and you can see it in Estridge's early struggles with success), but so too was the sense that perhaps this "wisdom" was part of what underlay Microsoft's malaise of the late 2000s against Apple and Google (and IBM's in this story and your final comment.)
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Back then it was perfectly aligned.

Homosexuality was seen as a perversion in the public eye.
> your goal is to terrify enemy civilians, which is not a legitimate military strategy

This seems like a perfectly legitimate military strategy? It’s a strategy which the allies used to great effect in Germany and Japan :/

The Germans used rockets instead of bombers because they couldn’t, not because they didn’t want to.
AI Requiring a New OS
I think they had a tug go out to drag it to deeper water and make sure it sunk - there was some ship (ocean) commentry I saw in a couple of places showing the tracking data.
Uh, windows has pretty great tiling builtin (albeit disabled by default) and it gets even better by installing Microsoft powerToys (FancyZones) .

It's not fully automated (or "dynamic") like i3/sway but works great. it's in many ways a lot better (i.e the preconfigured tiling setups you can quickly activate by hovering over the maximize buttons etc).

In other ways it's indeed worse, mainly because its not dynamic. But it's not just worse
I've only used Fedora for the last 3 years as my main OS but some things you've mentioned (which I consider important examples) are far better than you might think. What I know of that has been solved well:

- "Multi-monitor usage sucked" - GNOME with Tactile extension gives you basically what PowerToys doeas for managing windows in Windows which is the top productivity experience of what you can gat on the desktop in general. Better than anything on MacOS for instance. And zero issues with multi-monitor.

- NVIDIA drivers failing on updates - I dind't have a chance to experience that during the last 3 years and I use one of the worst GPU setups that are known to have stabilibty issues on Linux - a gaming laptop with 2 GPUs, Intel + Nvidia.
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Moreover, the overall OS stability is top notch. If it's not a clever GNOME extension called Another Window Session Manager saves my work and all opened windows every couple minutes or so (a GNOME session can be revoked after restart).

- "Music (half backed)" - a free Strawberry music suite is one of the best you can get and if that is not enough you can buy Jriver which is one of the top 3 best music platforms in the world. Or host a Logitech Media Server in a docker container locally. Plenty of very good options.
(I'm a hardcore audiphile myself).

> "full of bugs and incompatibilities" - I wouldn't say that at all. I consider myself a kind of person that doesn't like even minor unnecessary issues in my life and if Linux wasn't good enough for me I would not use it.
(With a disclaimer that the fact that there's nothing like Linux from the privacy and freedom standpoint I'm willing rarely to swallow an issue with it here and there to remain free person in the lengterm).

> Linux might not be OK for content creators, though. Or people depending on a lot of niche software, etc. In that case do what I did and find alternatives. Before you start thinking about switching an OS! Apps are more important than the OS.
To be honest I'm pretty sure that with what the future might bring regarding how major operating systems work (as hostile entities) one might want to consider alternatives now regardless of how inconvenient it might feel... Linux is fine. You'll make it work if you want to.
This is a false equivalence.

When someone is using an LLM they are still the author.

Think about it like someone who is searching through record crates for a good sample. They're going to "review" certain drum breaks and then decide if it should be included in an artwork.

The reviewing that you're alluding to is like a book reviewer who has nothing to do with the finished product.
Seems similar to reflex, just a little more pythonic. The only thing I'm currently missing is a properly working node-graph editor/library implementation or wrapper (e.g reactflow).
I was denied tenure – how do I cope?
yeah, that's fair. Maybe just remove the share link for daily puzzles? Great puzzle btw.
I went through a "keyboard wanker" phase. Spent $2k on different boards and trying out different physical layouts. I settled on a simple 60% keyboard with a normal US format, with CAPS as my meta key for accessing arrow keys, navigation ,etc. I use my laptop too much to be dependent on a custom layout. Instead I use a keyboard layer emulator so I can use the same shortcuts on my MBP
Their margins actually did go up but it’s kinda hilarious when you see it — they’re squeaking out ~3% these days while it was a razor thin 1.x% before.

Yup that’s an extra buck fitty on your $100 of groceries
> But when you start talking about emergent behavior from machine learning, the failure modes are much harder to reason about.

Sure, this is basically why so many are concerned AI might kill us all:

Lots of observed emergent phenomena that are not expected (basically everything ChatGPT can do given it was trained on next token prediction), as a result of doing exactly what we said instead of what we meant (all computer bugs ever), doing it so hard that something breaks (Goodhart's law), doing it so fast that humans can't respond (stock market flash-crashes, many robotic control systems), and being so capable in smaller scale tests that they tempt people to let go of the metaphorical steering wheel (the lawyers citing ChatGPT, but also previously a T-shirt company that dictionary merged verbs into "keep calm and …" without checking, and even more previously either Amazon or eBay dictionary merging nouns into "${x}: buy it cheap on {whichever site it was}" with nouns including "plutonium" and "slaves").

If people had a good model for the AI, it wouldn't be a problem, we'd simply use them only for what they are good at and nothing else.
Scars of Conflict Are Deeper and Longer Lasting in Middle East and Central Asia
I've found that it is a force multiplier for my hard work.
Not if they use Gemini Advanced...It's so far behind Claude or ChatpGPT4 as to be laughable.
I agree, my comment implied making a living from it. You can do things for the sake of doing things, that will always be the case. But will you be able to make a living from it that's another question and the answer is most likely no.
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Framework Laptop 13 Deep Dive
I've never heard of anyone proclaim 30 deg c as being "so chill". Also much hotter than what I would expect a cathedral to be.

But then again, I am sensitive to heat.
Blog is up and running again there:

https://sebastianof.github.io/GeoDsBlog/posts/gds-2024-04-20...

Sorry for the temporary disruption.
Alternatively, fzf --preview 'convert {} -geometry 800x480 sixel:-'.

It also requires ImageMagick installed.
The novel "Machines Like Me" by Ian McEwan explores a Britain where Turing survived.
If ARM implements the UEFI specification then there are escape hatches to enroll your own PKI.

I don't own ARM machines with UEFI so I have no clue.
Why go all the way back to Harris and LeMay in the 40s? The US was using napalm and chemical weapons in Vietnam when Marvin Gaye was in the charts
My feeling is that Valve's approach via using wine/proton is pragmatic in terms of getting something that works for them and reduces how much they're held hostage to windows, but it's a missed opportunity to go further and decouple PC gaming from windows. As it stands they are downstream of whatever MS does to the 'reference' platform and how developers use it (because that's where the majority of users are).

I'd love to see what would happen if a consortium was formed to take responsibility for gaming on the PC platform, and I wouldn't be surprised if MS wouldn't mind abdicating maintenance especially if their xbox fortunes have waned and there's less mutual benefit for them.
Untrusted – a meta-JavaScript adventure game
CBT with exposure therapy. They’ll probably just start by getting you to look at pictures of spiders, and then get you used to being in the same room as one etc etc until you can hold one.

I’m a little bit scared of spiders. Especially large ones. I have been to Australia a few times, and I personally think snakes are actually worse than spiders… especially the snakes that just leave behind their skin, so you know they’ve been there… but you can’t find the actual snake.
I buy computers that run macOS for a couple reasons:

- it’s generally smooth and stable from a UI standpoint

- it has mostly sane defaults

- it has great font rendering

- the video and audio subsystems are rock solid

- it has access to every development tool I need daily via homebrew

It seems like there are generally two perspectives:

- “I shouldn’t have to change the way I want to do things”

- “I don’t mind changing to another way of doing things”

The first group I think has a harder time with macOS.

A while back I decided to experiment with only using the default first-party apps for macOS for everything, and it greatly changed the amount of OS customization I did from that point on. I still live in iTerm for most of the day, but I don’t really feel hindered by the OS in any way anymore.

From my experience Windows actively attempts to subvert my clear, authoritative commands, second guesses every admin instruction, interrupts me with focus changes and dialog boxes instead of giving the active window absolute priority (this happens sometimes with macOS, too), and comes with bloat right out of the box. When this developer thinks about a hostile OS, Windows 11 is rhe first thing that comes to mind.
Yeah this roenxi user is one of the most talented mental gymnasts on HN. In past arguments I have been honestly suspicious that I was taken in by a performance artist.
I greatly enjoyed that book (although I enjoy Ian McEwan's writing in general and YMMV).
To me, this boils down to the challenge. It's far more rewarding (for our brains) to work under some constraints. This boosts our creativity.
Historically a lot of property was forcefully removed from their owners, and it was such a success that it became one of the foundations of modern societies. Slaves for instance were property until societies decided that human rights take precedent to property rights. Also laws don't govern natural order, just how societies of humans want to function, so if they decide they want to prioritize one over the other it's their right. With all that in mind, I can definitely see the world where people's right to have a roof over their head is more important than someone's right to extract rent from multiple properties. Not sure what's the benefit for the whole society to have people not doing anything productive anyway. As far as I can tell, people living in their homes are protected and anybody trespassing will be promptly evicted, so the "little guy" or "normal people" are covered.
What is the "God Mode" folder in Windows 10, and how do I enable it? (2022)
Are you sure that rates of autism are evenly distributed?
I think this should explain it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40602519
(TLDR: its not Vienna)
lack of drivers, for what exactly? linux actually has tons of drivers for old like for new stuff.

on the other hand, i recently bought a new windows laptop and tried putting in a new bigger ssd and guess what; when trying to reinstall windows on that the setup program didn't even find that ssd. no, you had to get an extra driver from intel.com - embarrassing. linux comes with all drivers included.
Countless humans got their lives destroyed because of this perfectly normal variation of human sexuality, that's atrocious and so we should never forget what happened to Alan Turing because of essentially religious fundamentalism.
On a more serious note, how does this get featured on product hunt? Do they even check the app? Is there any bare minimum?
The Most Confusing Part of the Power Grid [video]