skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it is better to cry in a Mercedes than on a bike

Do you perceive bicycle as a poor man's mode of transport?

Rich countries is where everyone can travel by public transport or bicycle (or car).
Poor countries is where everyone HAS to travel by car (locked in car dependency)

I see what you are trying to say: its better to cry and have wealth than to cry and not have wealth. But bike=poor, car=rich is not a good analogy. It sends the message bikes/public transport are for loosers, when its not. Well it might be in car-centric societies, but not in more fair societies.
My hot take is that GPT is getting better everyday at generating complicated and correct code that's maintainable, but its still got quite a ways to go.

On the other hand today it's already passably good at generating stuff that requires less precision and less accuracy (i.e. humanities type stuff, marketing, managerial/secretarial tasks, etc.).

So while you might be looking at your own CS job eventually being in jeopardy, whole swaths of alternative careers you aren't looking at are probably way, way more in jeopardy.
What? I hate surnames like 'Bill', 'Chuck' and 'Dick' and wouldn't want them for me, but if some Charles explicitly asked me to call him Chuck, I would call him Chuck, I'm not an asshole.
> "you can click on that? I thought those were just decoration!"

That is hilarious, that is one of my main complaint about modern flat UI is that it's almost never clear that you can click something. Everything looks like decorations or just text.
Every time someone criticizes the state of Linux desktop as an overall experience being generally troublesome for the average consumer discussions always devolve down to anecdotes that only serve as proof that tech savvy people who are willing to either push through the issues or find alternatives did so, therefore the same experience is valid for those who didn't, making it sound like a "skill issue" and not a "desktop experience issue".

I would argue that, outside of clicking some folders and adding/deleting stuff, the skills required to make ANY desktop experience useful should be as low as possible. Example: I convinced a fellow gamer to give Ubuntu a try, and I helped him with the dual booting process. Then he realized that his framerates feel janky, due to issues with Wayland and vrr. His display had light surfaces flicker while gaming and, while we managed to make Final Fantasy 14 playable, we faced jarring mouse cursor movement when the framerates dipped, which didn't exist on Windows.

While reading this message I'm sure some people will feel an urge to say "oh that's just the monitor that's faulty", "that's just KDE and how it handles mouse movement", and they always miss the point: Just like a teacher doesn't care if a dog ate a homework, and the ISP customer if it was raining, the end user doesn't care if it's Wayland, KDE, Ubuntu or whatever. All they care about was "getting IT done", they couldn't, and now they have to accept a workaround solution or just go back to what they always used fine.

Part of the reason why is that, there's no focused effort towards a small amount of directions, and there's lots of opinion on who can do it better, even the definition of better. Since we're mostly developers, it's akin to working with .NET versus working with nodeJS. The fragmentation is inherent to the system, and the target audience loves it, even at the cost of the end user.
If you are interested in narrative films about leveraged buyouts I recommend Barbarians at the Gate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate_(film)#....

I watched this a while ago on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/Z3HiONtjZSM?si=HQPNiA2dBLk4qqeT

It was a made for TV movie about the true story of rjr Nabisco trying to go private through a leveraged buy out because their cigarettes and how everyone everywhere was greedy. It's kind of absurd how greedy and stupid everyone is in the movie.
> Maybe for you. Not for everyone.

Hence why everything tends to be public and open source for Bitcoin, so anyone who is conscientious and capable *can* do this.

Trustlessness is a scale, not a binary. It just so happens that in traditional banking you start at the very bottom of the scale and you pretty much stay there. With Bitcoin you get about as high as you can get on this scale for a form of money.

> That's a skill that many people have a much easier time picking up than coding or public-key crypto.

As much as they learn about the meanders of the traditional banking system, it still won't make them more in control of their assets, the more custodians and regulators you add between you and your assets, the less in control you are of them. And we aren't even talking about another form of control you lack with fiat currencies, their almost constant expanding supply.
Because I manage Windows based servers that run various business applications. And as it happens, when things go wrong, you want to be able to see all settings and options, not just three options that don’t help you. And don’t even get me stared about netsh…

I failed to mention in the initial comment that I am refferring to Windows Server, but I got triggered by “we’re removing the lasr useful bits of Windows configuration options”.
How nice of them to collect this list of working piracy solutions haha
Wait... I can just declare one of these in HTML without doing all the CustomElement JS jiggery-pokery?
Why not use Libre Office?
A Generic Approach for Fuzzing Arbitrary Hypervisors
Windows 2000 Professional was the best OS ever. Only downhill from there.
Now it would be a good day to play sail(6) then.
Hoooooooo, it was a joke! (and I noted that). Honestly, this does not require a comment like that.

This is from someone who commutes to the office by bike daily (30 km) in a country where biking=good! :)

Actually the joke was Mercedes vs "trottinette" but I did not have a good translation of this French work handy (a kind of scooter you stand on and you traditionally move by pushing your foot on the ground - now they are electric). Which of course does not change anything because the scooter is good and comparing this in car-centric countries etc.
I didn't want to do a "Show HN" (yet) for a couple of reasons: 1. The website needs a redesign, and 2. my rinky-dink web server can't handle files coming in from 10,000+ viewers, so I will need to start acquiring customers slowly.

I hope you enjoy it!
Enshitification at work, in glorious technicolor.
Arena FPS of the Quake/UT era have been supplanted by CoD-style tactical shooters, slower team-based FPS like Halo, hero shooters like Overwatch, and battle royale shooters like Apex Legends. I don’t think a popular pure arena shooter exists today. (Though Splitgate and, to a lesser extent, Halo Infinite scratch the same itch for me.)

I’m optimistic, though. Adventure games were dead for a while but eventually came back with a vengeance. I doubt the desire for quick, pure shooty fun will ever go away.
Neat! Can i use it with Brave browser‘s local LLM festure?
CPU security leak Sinkclose: Firmware update also for AMD's Ryzen 3000
They’d censor genitals in porn, but erotic cartoons involving children seem to be socially accepted? I don’t know, it’s hard to understand them.
I think just running a process and exposing a port is fine, but the second you get into running a bunch of services together, or caring about environments, the k8s abstraction is simpler.

In the last 6 months my job has been to get production ready vault instances on azure. There's a bunch of complex, unreliable and not very fun APIs here.

Much like AWS, there isn't really a StatefulSet ( PetSet ) abstraction. To you need to write a bunch of bespoke logic where you figure which IP addresses, names, IDs, and Disks you need to attach to a new VM.

Whilst iterating, the azure APIs are eventually consistent that cause all sort of niggly problems. Resources that are created don't get added to TF when there's a failure.

I create a new vault on a PR and it takes 20 minutes to deploy.

The problem took a couple of months and I created a bunch of code.

On k8s I can just deploy the helm chart in 2 minutes. The abstractions are cleaner, it's more reliable, and way more fun.

At the end of the azure project, the team agreed to do a AKS poc, where we gave the task to the junior of the team, and the entire thing was done in a week.

If you're not doing this type of work, maybe you don't need k8s. But if you're not doing ephemeral test environments, do you actually not see them as a positive, or is it an effort thing? Because it takes me no real effort.
I think the fact that they publish the site in a readable state first and adding the paywall after some time (after getting indexed / shared a bit) and services like archive.is just provide a copy of the original state makes it debatable if this is a circumvention.

If I publish a project on GitHub with a BSD license and after some time switch to a proprietary license the old code would still be licensed under BSD, right?
Good use of Fermi reasoning
Well, you would go belly up first, that's the idea
No, you are absolutly wrong. If you would automate it yourself then its correct way of doing thing. You learn by the process, increasting your skill. But no, you choosed to do automation by AI, so you become nothing more that a frontend to put data in. Also, you are slowly loosing control about stuff you doing. I know, todays engineering culture is weird. Dont ask questions, its not of your concern, etc.. I wonder when that stuff finaly collapse.
Another cure for pops is that when a p is coming, substitute a b for it. Nobody will tell the difference.
Should I learn Python with GPT?
Hey guys how do i start learning python?
Back then you could still tell someone the thing they worked hard on sucked, it's terrible, it needs to be deleted and we need to pretend it never happened. Then you worked all night to prove it sucked only to be told you made it worse. And then, you started over. No crocodile tears, no excuses.

Besides all this politeness getting in the way of honest opinion, scaling this to throwing away a multi million project 10 times in a row is hard. Might even seem illogical.
You could, but the you lose most of make's benefits, this way you are only using make as a script bundle. Looking back now it does align with what the article is proposing. But I still a bit annoyed that we don't get proper use of Makefiles, and that we need to reinvent incremental building for every tool
IMO it was a pretty good gamble. Even if his mental decline seemed obvious, it wasn't obvious they would be prying X from his cold dead hands at all or nearly this late.
I didn't mean to imply that. A hard limit at X that stays inactive <X, and at >X, leaves you with a bill of X and an outage is the easiest approach from a technical side: Terminate the service when X is reached, and bill exactly what was provided. It is something you would instantly come up with when asked to implement a cost limit, and you don't for a second put yourself in the customer's position.

Of course cloud vendors do put themselves in the customer's position, and that's why they say that customers would not be happy with a limit, even though they are asking for it.
This also works on QNAP/Synology Arm devices with a serial console, where Debian can be installed and launched by uboot.
No need to declare anything, just use the tag.
> I feel like people have imagined portable communication / computing devices forever

Yeah, the visionaries. 90% of the population didn’t, and now they all have smartphones.
Start -> Run -> compmgmt.msc
could you link the bugreport or sth pls. apple has such weird bugs. on my iphone if i set an alarm and late at night i decide to tell siri to put another alarm she deletes the first one. did miss some flights because of that. and sometimes it doesnt ring at all. have a analog alarm for that now.
When you have no external business to compete with you end up with managers competing internally. They're literally just burning cash trying to look busy and distinguished.

Anyways.. watch any Microsoft "vision of the future" video from 1990 and it's basically just Teams. It took them 30 years to fully establish the steaming pile of bizarre Share Point plugins that is Teams.
The article makes this pretty clear. Some of us work simultaneously in different stacks: js, python, php, go, whatever... each and every one having their own dependency/building tools. Having a consistent DX (make this, make that) across all projects has value.
> I've never figured out a good use-case for that mode

In studio product photography where you control 100% of the light and have 0 movements
If you were to believe the universe was a simulation, would you do anything differently? could you?

(this line of approach, less formal and perhaps more congenial to CPS' other culture, is inspired by Dewey and James' pragmatism, in which philosophical problems are only well-posed if they have "cash value". We hackers don't make comparisons without subsequently using the flag value; they didn't ask questions whose answers are moot)
Are your audiobooks mainly non-fiction books? I would really miss the personality a good speaker can give each character.
I think an interesting follow-up discussion/blog post would be - okay getting a job in tech may suck... but doesn't getting a job outside of tech suck even harder?

In other words, if you were starting college today, would you still do tech? Is it still better than getting any other job for equivalent pay bands?

Specifically comparing early career job seekers:

* Easier/harder to get $50-100K tech job versus $50-100K job in other fields?

* Easier/harder to get $100-150K tech job versus $100-150K job in other fields?

* Easier/harder to get $150-200K tech job versus $150-200K job in other fields?

Other fields are things like marketing, accounting, law, medical, biotech. A quant/finance job is probably CS or CS adjacent these days so its basically a tech job.

My take is that by the time you get above $130K there probably is not any other field outside of tech where this is possible unless there is some very unique skill.

And instead of annoying but somewhat objective leetcode/live coding whiteboard interviews; hiring is way more subjective, credential based, network based and gate kept.
Is noone using Apple‘s Pages app? I hear it‘s decent for creating EPUB files.
What is the meaning of "outside"? What if SQLite founder decides to step down. In case of `xz` a fresh insider was a malicious actor who was supposed to help keep up the maintenance. I think open-community projects like Linux Kernel have benefits as they won't die with founder interest waning, still there is more eyes to find issues very early.
Man, i just hate the new reddit, but in a way i appreciate the fact that the update literally stopped me from continuing to use it.

It was my togo app, i spent hours browsing and reading random comments and articles, my English got surprisingly better than most of my peers and all it took was a mild internet addiction.

Now it's short form content for me. YouTube mainly (premium helps a lot, tiktok enshittified a little with shops and the slideshows).

I mourn RIF and count the days untill old.reddit is no longer supported.
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> If my mac had a built-in cellular modem, I'd leave the phone at home most days.

I can’t imagine having to open my wallet every time I want to pay for something. Apple Pay is my favorite feature out of all. Instant communication comes close second. The way we used to live… not being able to ask your partner if we have enough milk in the fridge.
I hope for the privacy focused among of us, that this fails.
Control panel has a good interface showing both the sections (large) as well as detailed items. If you know what you want you can go to the details directly.

Settings seems to be designed for touch screens that nobody uses. My laptop screen comfortably fits 70 lines of information. Settings gives me 17, less than a Commodore 64 which had 25 lines 40 years ago.
Next backdoor being prepared
Unless perhaps you're severely disabled, holidays are so much more than just your eyes and ears.

Not just all of your five senses, and your ability to interact, but the social and human side as well, and your ability to interact physically with it all.

People said the same kind of things about TV - and while, on the one hand, they perhaps underestimated the profound effects of TV on society, nobody would confuse it with telepresence.

I'm not sure what VR offers here that web panoramas, detailed photos and customer reviews don't.. there's a marginal advantage there perhaps but it feels like a $250-300 peripheral rather than a $kk investment.
It's not about the hardware but about the content. There's a lack of compelling content. And because the audience is so small, publishers aren't in a hurry to create that content. And they cross publish what little they create to boost its value. Which further dilutes the value of these devices.

Apple and Meta need to start investing in exclusive content for these devices. Neither of them is really doing that. Apple has some bits and pieces but it doesn't really add up to much. Both are spending billions on the hardware; but not on the content. They need to be doing both. And not just on launch content but on a steady stream of content, games, and apps that people will want, talk about, review, etc. That will create demand for these devices.
I agree with you. If I develop for the browser, I'd like to use browser APIs. If those browser APIs are too complex for me to use without abstractions, that's another problem in itself that has to be addressed separately.
You go to the court. It is in a law that you can sue and dispute deleting your account or data.
I used to feel this way but having installed Ubuntu on a friend's old laptop for him, it's crazy the amount of stuff you forget you do because it's second nature. I certainly think it's too far to say "absurd".
The narcissists are the ones who, when St Peter makes the introductions, tactlessly and without regard for potential embarrassment, demand that God explain turbulence?
Sounds like you did not jump into the pool of flexibility and reusability.
This use-case is decades away from being compelling and to a rounding error, nobody wants it.
> ...and justifying the perpetuation of them.

Did you skim the second half of the article? Maybe I'm overlooking a "/s?, but it seems to be a call to action and plan (yes, vague) for making sure that those "generational knowledge" advantages are offered to 100% of a firm's employees.
> Now it's short form content for me. YouTube mainly

Videos take much longer than reading text . And they mostly say the same things. It's just that the better content has moved to youtube, where it can be monetized better
Geddit still works and it's a great app (it can read posts labelled nsfw without an account). The other working one I know of is RedReader, which Reddit have left unbroken due to its advanced accessibility features for disabled readers (but it cannot access nsfw things -- you get a message saying to use the website).

My shared IP has been network blocked by Reddit and anonymous browsing is disabled. I also see about fifty captchas per day. I really, really miss the old web and plain text too...
For technical writing, journalism, etc., one can follow the simple rule no adjectives.

For prose, replace all common adjectives by more specific or descriptive one, or even remove them too and describe properties. For example: The F-35 passed by my house. When I heard its sound, the jet had already disappeared at the horizon.
(This describes super-sonic speed without an adjective or an overly precise speed number.)

Edit: past perfect based on comment
> expose all the settings, consistently, in a single programmatic way.

That is the registry. It has an API and everything.

> apart from being an incomplete way to control all the settings

Well, if you want "all the settings," so you have to accept 'all the complexity' that comes with that. A decent example would be VLANs. They offer a very complex configuration surface if you consider all the deployment and standard options combined with the fact that not all cards and drivers implement them in whole or in part.
The benefit of "The service is now ready. To check the service's status, ..."

Is when someone needs to amend this sentence later, e.g. inserting another point:

"The service is now ready. This means you can query the health endpoint. To check the service's status, ..."

It makes the writing less likely to become ambiguous.

Most documents I see in work will constantly have sentences added/removed as things change.
Another point i would like to discuss, if someone has more knowledge than me:

How the fuck was reddit not profitable?

The founder said it but i still don't belive it.

Was all the money spent in bullshit features no one still uses or it was before that?
Doubling the mpx count doesn't even add 50% in term of linear resolution.

That's why 4x the mpx count isn't "4x better"
Last time I tried it was unskippable via UI.
Yesterday I wanted to find a conversation snippet in ChatGPT of a conversation I had maybe 1 or 2 weeks ago. Searching for a single keyword would have been enough to find it.

How is it possible that there's still no way to search through your conversations?
how didnt porn run this over? honestly porn did advances the internet because it, and gaming, was THE usecase for most people. youtube etc wasnt there at the time it was porn and games. And porn and games should be the reason why VR shall sell
Apple doesn’t do public bug reports
It's using llama.cpp, so it's going to be the same benchmarks as almost all other apps (given almost everything uses llama.cpp under the hood).
Rust has a great package manager, so moving libs into std doesn’t bring much benefit.

On the other hand a change like this perf improvement can be released without tying it to a language version, that’s good too.
Although people here are focusing on the conversation part (understandably, as it is part of its marketing), I also find the voice memo part interesting, especially for situations where you are working with both your hands but need to remember something. E.g., while driving, doing carpentry, working in a fume hood, and so on
There’s a reason why many avoid boost.
> Is there a real pixel shift use case outside of "I want a picture of my 4K monitor"?

Anything that requires good color reproduction. Archiving for example (museums &c.)
I had that realization recently when a younger friend of mine used tiktok as a search engine to find a restaurant in a city....

"This is so ridiculous and funny " was my first reaction but then mind broke at the realization that this is the new future.

The same with ChatGPT...it's sad that it answers better than Google for generic information search, especially if you aren't familiar with specific terms in that field.

Text is dead
Are you complaining about OpenAI's ChatGPT's web UI interface?
I suppose it depends on what you mean by "uses", but it does store the map as voxels, even if it renders via a polygon mesh.
Reddit has way less users than it claims. I don't know what percentage are bots, but I'd guess it in the 30 to 40 percent range. It's not uncommon at all to find identical comments, or to reverse search any upvoted post and realize it's a repost, with many identical comments from the last time.

The real users probably aren't worth much, advertising wise. The key young demographic doesn't use it, and only a small portion of the next most valuable does.
The scientific community, or the ministry of science of some country, or a university - might find that paying for peer review, for example, might be more effective in promoting good science than paying for publication.
Can recommend EverythingToolbar + Everything + StartAllBack

fixes 90% of my gripes with Windows.
My Apple Watch regularly gets burning hot and drains the battery. Sometimes overnight, sometimes during the day. Very annoying. Reset several times, Apple Care was of no help, no fix to this date either. Only way to alleviate is to reboot the Watch.