skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh don’t tell me MacOS treats me as the true owner. Would you want to switch to Safari as the default browser?. Would you enable iCloud sync, your disk is low. Would you update tonight or tomorrow? Can be annoying just as Windows.
This is a popular narrative not supported by their production. Occupying Taiwan isn’t troop intensive; it burns materiel.
There's basically 2 reasons I haven't been able to switch to linux:

1) Fusion 360 - Just can't get it working under linux well enough.
2) Monitors - Always issues mixing highdpi and low dpi monitors in linux, my main is a 4k 144hz 43", the sides and tops are all 2560x1440 27s. Oh and there's my Ceiling 4k projector which I turn on to watch movies or baseball when I lean back and think. Which leads to the other issue, Nvidia seems to greatly limit the number of outputs you can have under linux compared to windows. With 6 monitors, I've never gotten it to work even with 6 of the same monitor, let alone my messed up setup.

Yes yes, woa was me. I've had linux as a daily driver for at least 10 years of my main computer use since 1998. I do really prefer it but so far just making the tradeoff.

Also I tend to play games that have anti-cheat like CoD / PubG, etc which further locks things out.

I do like the direction things are going
> Every time I search on the start menu there is a web search, impossible to turn off. How is that acceptable?

YMMV, but this is what I used to disable web search on my Win 11 Pro workstation:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer]
"DisableSearchBoxSuggestions"=dword:00000001
And yet you still don't need to sign in with an Apple ID unless you want to. Microsoft makes it annoyingly hard to set up your computer with a local-only account.
It's been so long since I used XP that I can't recall Alt-Tab behavior being different. But I guess for my purposes, this app did the trick.
Interesting idea.

It looks like powers of larger primes are currently rendered with the exponent ring overlapping the "main" rings, e.g. 7 and 49 look the identical, while 343 has an overlapping 2 and 3 knot.
> You can publish a book and give it away freely.

> But few do.

Are you kidding? It's true that few people do this in the same sense that it's true that few people publish books at all, whether they give them away freely or not.

But far more people publish books and give them away freely than publish books and offer them for money. Remember Livejournal?
Never, between my windows PCs, family ones, and ones I manage at work I've never had one randomly not boot other than hardware failures.

They're all basically maintenance free, nothing really breaks and they just chug along.
I assumed that too. Probably cheaper and more space efficient to have just one actuator position in the HDD enclosure though and they split it vertically.
If they're selling an ebook, I'm pretty sure that counts as in-print. You don't have to finance that. We don't need to kill trees to read, just like at one point we stopped killing goats to read.

> That's why current copyright status should be the bar --- that or granted permission from the copyright holder.

Copyright terms are nearly infinite at this point.
True, but the judge's conclusion was "Even full enforcement of a one-to-one owned-to-loaned ratio . . . would not excuse IA’s reproduction of the Works in Suit." So even if they had done it right, this wouldn't have gone their way.
Is there some technicality whereby one could still hold rights to illustrations and the colour of the bindings and so on.
Running Windows in a VM us still running Windows.

I would consider Wine instead, or Proton. It may work really well with some software, but may have trouble with other software.
Did you mean colleague or college?

In the latter case, some (most?) countries require the use of open software and standards in government and various regulated environments unless there's a specific and documented reason why that's practically impossible. You may be able to tell your college they need to support open software rather than requiring everyone to buy proprietary licenses and get familiar with those specific products

(A bit off-topic, but I can recommend using a translator to turn what you've written in English back into a language you're familiar with, to check that it says what your intended. That way, you practice writing and can check the result for good communication also. I've been doing this for German and this is helping me practice in situations where I otherwise would use a translator from my languages into German because the translation's correctness matters.)
To the publisher, if copyright was to terminate upon death, would the publisher then pay less for the works from a 70 year old author compared to a 30 year old? Or one that is fighting cancer or one that has sky diving as a hobby?

Is the value of the work of the author to be measured against their remaining lifetime?
https://www.marxists.org/chinese/maozedong/marxist.org-chine...

(1938-05)

"由此，游击战争的指挥原则，一方面反对绝对的集中主义，同时又反对绝对的分散主义，应该是战略的集中指挥和战役战斗的分散指挥。"

Glad to be able to be meatgpt for now
- stock is at all-time high

- "all the people" is probably actually well under 1% of users

- successfully switched all corporate accounts from single-purchase w/ occasional renewal to ongoing monthly subscription

- also a lot of of consumer subscriptions

- Azure

- Github

- LinkedIn

- OpenAI investment

I actually agree with you that the Windows experience is getting worse, quickly. But on balance, seems more is going right than going wrong.
That's a good point, as if you don't seek, the total number of disk platters, rotation speed and bit-density is still the same regardless of two actuators. (Or do they have more platters?) Makes me wonder how come they advertise 500+ MB/s sequential IO rate then.
Maybe I was too quick to judge based on the splash screen.

Pop quiz: you click on a chrome window, then a terminal window A, then a different terminal window B. Does pressing alt-tab-tab take you back to the exact same chrome window?

The idea is that it’s a history-based list of active windows. So each time you press tab while holding alt, it goes one further into history. It’s immensely helpful for maintaining context when you’re switching between four different apps during a dev session.

But, I appreciate the recommendation. I’ll test drive it tomorrow.
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Well that would explain it. I’ve been trying to Google it and it and everything I’ve found matches what you’re saying. Thank you.

You’d have to make sure that your data is always on different sets of platters to take advantage of the double throughput though. You could get 2x throughput if it was all on platter 1.

With the misalignment issue you mention exist if we were using multiple heads? If things were ALWAYS done in parallel across the heads didn’t wouldn’t the tracks always have to have the same micro alignment as well? Wouldn’t the problem only exist if a track on platter A and a track on platter B were written separately?
This illustrates just how ridiculously screwed up Windows is now.

No one should have to resort to registry hacking or the many scripts or hacks available to regain control over basic UX, privacy, or usability selections. It is absolutely absurd.
Win11 install was v.slow, much slower than Pop_OS!, say, and infinitely more annoying. And each user (on Home edition) that logs in has to be configured ... "we're still going to advertise to you, you may as well let us spy on you so you get adverts you'll like" ... sheesh.

You're immediately hit with apps you can't uninstall (Edge) too.

Fwiw, CS2 ran away smoother for me on Kubuntu than it does on Win11 (same hardware). I wasn't expecting that.
Compatibility with hardware and software means I have to use it even if I don't want to.
My prediction for power users: Linux distros away from Ubuntu.
MacOS will be AI crap-ware in no time. People love this bullshit. As usual.
Windows Adware AI crap-ware will stay for gamers and specific apps.
And please, use simplewall. It's a free app which solves a lot of problems, as Little Snitch on macOS.
This is really the core of the issue, all the stuff about what a world without copyright would be like is navel-gazing that will never happen.

But specifically a lot of us have an issue with the fact that beginning in the 20th century, copyright durations have been increasing so quickly that it's starting to look more like copyright is becoming permanent.

The founders were well aware of the negative societal effects of monopoly. We are well aware of them and suffering under several forms of monopoly today, many of which are enforced through copyright. The founders chose to grant a LIMITED and TEMPORARY monopoly to copyright holders, not an UNLIMITED and PERMANENT one, because of this. The eminently reasonable and middle of the road position is that we should reduce the duration of copyright, restoring it to its original intent. This corrects one of the general class of pro-monopoly errors we have made which have increased wealth inequality and damaged our society.

It is truly extraordinary how much damage Disney has done (with government as a willing collaborator) against the original intent of the founders and the will of the people.
I don't know for Microsoft but xiaomi has been saying this

https://www.androidauthority.com/xiaomi-ads-business-966584/

>This advertisement business is what allows Xiaomi to subsidize and offset the cost of the hardware and reach those astonishingly low price points.

So it wont be surprising if Microsoft says the same
My start menu hasnt even worked for over a year on 2 seperate computers now.
And I think that's why Windows gets worse. They just don't care anymore. I have wanted to like Windows and hoped Microsoft to get serious against these consumer-centric companies like Apple and Google, to use their cloud revenue to pump Windows up. That hasn't happened.
What business is it of yours?

Or Microsoft's?

Or Apple's?
> you can’t risk having documents being sent to clients looking bad

So I have some terrible news for you about what happens if your client has an older version of Office than you do...
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No, it really isn't. That person, and you, don't understand how publishing - or mass production of any kind, it seems - works.

A publisher "stopping printing" of a book is completely normal - books are like any other mass-produced good, in that there are fixed and variable costs to production and a factory can't economically crank out more than a certain number of different things at once.

Sp, there are "printings" - ie a production run - and then that inventory is sold to distributors. When the inventory is sold out, it is "out of print." That does not mean it's not available - there's still stock at distributors. And likely on shelves.

When it sells out at distributors, then it is backordered.

It is completely normal for a publisher to wait until they feel there is enough pent-up demand for another printing - increasing the size of the printing to improve per-copy profit (or make it economically viable at all), and then sell it to distributors because the distributors think they can sell the inventory at a high enough rate.

Distributors don't want to keep around books that don't sell very fast, because that means they don't have warehouse space for books that do sell quickly. And if they have books that don't sell and need the warehouse space, the books might get remaindered (sold to a low-budget distributor for sale at well below original price) or destroyed (cover stripped as proof of destruction and the rest destroyed/recycled.)

Things have changed with digital press technology improvements, opening the door to more print-on-demand books - but printing one copy will never be anywhere close to as cheap as printing, say, 1000 copies.

There are also other reasons it might not be for sale, despite the author trying / wanting to sell it.

If you know nothing about how book printing, publishing, distribution, buying, and retail works - you probably shouldn't be forming opinions on how it should be subject to radically different regulation, much less offering them up.

https://pinestatepublicity.substack.com/p/book-distribution-...
This question is even covered in the readme.

> Why bother, you're probably asking? Well if you have to ask then perhaps you're not the right audience. :)
He was merely investigating what happen if persons touch one another after exciting the tube, on or off wax.
Just an update on my initial impressions of Claude 3.5 Sonnet. It's a better programmer than I am in Python; that's not saying much, but this is now two nights in a row I've been impressed with what I've created with it.
“Drop by my office with a tape” probably would’ve referred to DECtape (TK50), the ancestor of DLT. That and QIC-24 were the sorts of tapes one would carry between offices in those days; TK50 was extremely common in the DEC world and QIC-24 was used pretty much everywhere else.
It comes from the Latin "laevus".

Funnily enough, although "sinister" came to mean "the bad side", it may have come from Proto-Indo-European for the "favourable side".
Farm: Fast vite compatible build tool written in Rust
What logic does it use for when to use a +1? One thing I noticed: if I give it 100,000 it gives me 2^5•5^5. But if I give it 100,001, instead of 2^5•5^5+1, it gives (2•5 + 1)•(2•3^2•5•(2^2•5^2 + 1) + 1), which seems sub-optimal.
Will do! We went even when the kids were a little on the young side too, but that was mostly because my wife is an Oregon native, but not me. So she just had to introduce me to the place.
Was this response supposed to be relevant to the age question under discussion? Because that was the context of my response.

Second, my response both implies that the game and the government are indistinguishable and that what it is supposed to accomplish is as much a question that comes with experience as is the knowledge of how to play.

The output of a system is always its purpose, which is an upscaled cognate to the maxim that there are no mistakes in politics. The key to overcoming cognitive dissonance is to understand that this may not align with your perception of that purpose nor your perceived interests. Such is Life.
> It would be very sane to be able to compute, for any two numbers, which one is
> larger (or whether they're equal), but sadly this is not computable for the
> computable numbers.

I'd like to understand - Can you explain this? It seems like it would be easy to have a Turing machines that uses the other two Turing machines, adding one digit at a time until it finds a difference.

> I mean, I've thought of noncomputable reals like Chaitin constants.

Heh, but how many digits can you actually provide? Not too many. So have you really thought of the number in any meaningful sense when you barely know any of its digits?

Also interesting that computer languages themselves are countable, so while it's hard to specify the digits algorithmically for the Chaitin constant of any computer language, you already know that the set of ALL Chaitin constants are countable.
Well, I'm stuck in an urgent care waiting room, so let's give this a shot.

Mach 2 at sea level: 1,522 mph, or 2,232 feet per second.

1 square foot of lawn has around 3,000 blades of grass.

2,232 square feet * 3,000 = 6,696,000 bps (blades per second)

Hard drive transfer rate around 30 years ago: 80,000,000 bps (bits per second)

So honestly, closer than I expected! Hack the width of the grass strip a bit and you'll get a perfect match.
To be fair, I still have no idea how to set the DNS server on an Ubuntu server in a way that won’t get wiped out on reboot. Is it resolv.conf? Nope, that’s generated by another tool. systemd-resolve? I think that’s getting closer… network manager? By the time I figure it out they’ll add another one to the pile.
To paraphrase Wayne Gretzky, you pass 100% of the tests you don't write.

All you have to do is not care about the next person doing your job and it's easy —the poor shmuck.
The experience of using Windows is so much better these days, IMO. I too started on Windows 3.1.

> At this point, I have lost count of the number of times that I've left my perfectly working Windows computer at the end of my work day, only to return to a completely broken computer that won't boot the next morning.

What? I have had this happen maybe three times in my 30 years of using Windows products (from automatic updates). Do people really forget what a pain it was to patch things from scratch in 98, Win2k, or Windows ME? (Probably before then as well, but I didn't have the Internet). I remember using CDs for service packs, specialized software to download updates that MS didn't serve anymore, so many things. When that process failed, it was a all night event for one system.

I do remember rampant malware on Windows (unless you kind of knew what you were doing) until about 2007 when windows defender actually started helping and you didn't need to nuke your computer with Malware Bytes or something every time you used a web browser.

This belly aching and nostalgia is everywhere on the web, and I really think there is a trend toward selecting only the good memories.

We get old. It gets harder to deal with change. IMO, drop the ego, and say what you really mean.

However, I agree with the privacy and advertising gripes.
Strange article. I'm not sure if it was AI written or what, but very low quality.
Kinda like any invention after two years: the telephone in 1878, radio in 1892, airplanes in 1905, computers in 1947, the internet and web in 1992... Had they changed the world yet? No, just stupid hype!
The saddest thing is that this "innovation" was mere automation of:

> reentering data from one spreadsheet to another and annotating it with additional data from another system

Basically pretty much routine informatics - about the lowest bar you could possibly have.

Which is to say the whole article is really about simple baseline competence to implement process. If a place can't do that then they certainly won't be able to implement things that embody actual novel ideas. But framing it as "innovation" understates the severity of the problem.
> what was the rationale behind the Internet Archive initially adding these books

They believed they had the legal right to distribute the books.

You can read the whitepaper about it here: https://controlleddigitallending.org/whitepaper/
Until some update resets all those values behind your back.
Authoritarians, always the same, always stupid enough to make martyrs.
2nd hand car auction site spam.

Links to nothing more than a listing page and a popup.
But AT&T doesn’t get that money.
Is it wrong to say that this is mostly just two drives stacked on top of each other, inside the same enclosure? If so I'm not quite seeing the benefit over RAID 0.

I was expecting multi-actuator to mean two sets of heads sharing the same platters. Now THAT would be a fun engineering challenge.
On Pro it would be better to use the group policy editor. As a bonus this also ensures the setting survives updates, which is not always a given for raw registry edits.
TL;DR sample the top N results from the LLM and use traditional NLP to extract factoids, if the LLM is confabulating the factoids would have random distribution, but if it's not it will be heavily weighted towards one answer.

A figure from the paper shows this better than my TL;DR: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07421-0/figures/1
If Node is your backend then JS is what you need to use. Whether directly or via Typescript.

JS is just the language. Avoiding JS on the front end is more about avoiding front end code, state management, mutations, a11y issues, frameworks etc. rather than the JS language itself!
Default Ubuntu is still pretty good. I have been using the default Fedora Workstation for almost a decade and it works great for me. I also don't spend time on tweaking it anymore (used to be the complete opposite). The defaults work, I concentrate on my work, side projects and games.
I found the <script> capability very useful for making interactive SVGs for CNC assembly diagrams for the Shapeoko 2.
Feel free to start, just don't force anyone into it, and take a honest look at past examples and their outcomes.
Now you get into the definition of "locally". Gene pool local or individual local? I think it's evident that cooperation has proven highly effective at the gene pool level. Will it prove to only be effective short-term local and flame out over longer-time spans remains to be seen. Will there be anyone to document it? Not sure, but it's been a helluva ride.
> Is designated market maker able to get filled before an order in the FIFO order queue at NYSE, NASDAQ or CME?

“Unfortunately, I cannot comment at this time.”
I'm curious about the argument that is framed with "it presumes the unnatural (even if useful/positive) present state of copyright as a naturally occurring thing."

I don't think this should be discounted so quickly. Nothing in this domain — money, private property, laws, justice — are obviously naturally occurring things. One of the great traditions in the effort to understand how rights and value come to be is the creation of narratives that connect the rights to early natural states. We see this in Locke, Rousseau, Rawls, etc. You could just ask the question of whether the current state "works well", but then you are in the wheelhouse of Jeremy Bentham and other utilitarians. Fine, but so far these kinds of arguments don't lead to worlds many of us like.
Thanks for sharing your perspective, it’s broadened my own. I’m pro-ai, I believe in the potential. I was asking if GPTs or image generators have replaced human jobs yet. The loss of jobs seems like an over reaction. I personally think like all major tech breakthroughs it will create industries/markets not previously possible.
he's actually using a preproduction model I lent hin
Chinese cars? really?

They are at best a hazard.

The Chinese government dumped tons of money into every one of those cars, they are being sold at a loss. Not because it's good for any one, rather because china fucked up.

Every single one of those cars is a state funded fire hazard about to go on the road.

EDITL: cause looking up data is hard apparently:

western data:

https://www.edmunds.com/electric-car/articles/electric-car-f...

The data we see from china:
https://news.metal.com/newscontent/101781161/there-are-about...

The anti china reporting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMKpCiDomgM

Do note, that were talking about a nation that will happily NOT report on stats like youth employment when its bad, so take what you read with more than a few grains of salt.
I lent him my preproduction model
I don't know if I'd say its a choice between a squabble or no squabble, its just a different set of squabbles.

For me, there are evenings when I am hacking away on a hobby project for 2 or 3 hours. Then suddenly just go, 'I wanna just veg out for another 2 hours then go to bed.' When I'm in that mood, I don't even want to be bothered changing machines. Just hit the steam icon and veg. Thats also bout the only time I end up gaming though, haha.

Last time I dual booted though, I remember why I didn't for along time. Did a Windows update, windows rebooted my computer and it did something with grub and I couldn't easily boot into linux anymore.