skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a moderately successful hardware side project (eink calendars) and I am constantly torn and questioning myself.

Am I spending

* too much time on it, given how little money it makes?

* or too little time on it, given that it’s already making money and maybe if I worked on it more, I could grow it enough so I can quit my day job ?
We didn't have any of these presses in WWII. We have several of the article's presses still operating today.

Furthermore, all presses mentioned in the article have been surpassed by a 60,000 ton press that opened in Los Angeles, in 2018.

People with agendas will happily feed others narratives about the US not investing in manufacturing anymore, but it isn't true.

US manufacturing output has been steadily increasing since always, with the occasional 1-3 year dip during recessions. However, manufacturing does represent a lower percentage of our GDP with each passing year, despite the absolute value increasing.
Does boat self-right? Capsize Test [video]
Restoring speaker voices with zero-shot cross-lingual voice transfer for TTS
TIL the "cravat" was named after a "Croat" light cavalry unit — essentially southern slavic hussars?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croats_(military_unit)

> Hussars never take money —Lt. DR

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_Croats_and_Croati... mentions a toponym, Chrawat, so maybe something similar is the source of the 'v' in "cravat"? Or did the french simply add the 'v' in because they were transliterating à la hussarde?)
I think politicians desperately want to report only positive news, and with the election coming up, it might make it easy for them to overlook certain ethical parameters. I don't know if this was purposeful deception, perhaps optimistic deception is a better way of putting it.
Ah, ok, thanks, now I see the point the article was trying to make.

Yes -- supporting structural typing + also runtime casts means you support duck typing.
What about using rufus with preset settings like not have to use a Microsoft Account and so on? Just drop a Windows iso in it and it will make a nice Windows copy out of it.
Paulo Portas still has his cushy prime-time pundit job to this day, he's in line for the presidency.

His stack of photocopies protects him from any whistleblowing...
And that doesn't indicate its normal, it just suggests that at times people have lives outside of work.
It's just that some people check the Linux compatibility before the hardware purchase, while others rely on pure luck.
I get

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
I’m sorry to break the news for you, but masking will not stop you from getting sick. It’s the other way around, it helps to reduce spreading when you are infectious.
Ryzen 9 9950X runs 16% faster on an Intel-optimized Linux distro
My point is more that many rust programmers like rust because it’s an ML not because of the borrow checker. Most cli apps / web services are probably better off with a high performance managed runtime (go & swift are good examples of imperative languages that have successfully made similar tradeoffs).

There do of course exist many important use cases where a better c++ is actually what you want, and the complexity tax of that is worth paying.
Thanks for the link. This illustrates my concern pretty well. Instead of having one highly relevant index we now have a multitude of smaller services that hold information about the podcast universe. And afaik they dont confederate in any way. So one would need to query all of them...
I'm pretty AI pessimistic, but I still found the more optimistic AI story refreshing and nice. A reminder that new technology is actually supposed to make our lives better, not just funnel a lot of money from a lot of people to a small number of share holders (ie. "create value").

It's extremely believable that the downfall of some public good like Abelique would be primarily sales and marketing getting in and trying to steer it and advertise for profit, and it being otherwise gamed. It's so hard for something to just be good for everybody; somebody always wants to maximize their own benefit, even at the expense of everybody else (relevant example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40862865).
there's a lot of shade-tree mechanics who have successfully rebuilt engines with thousands of parts. essentially figuring out how to rebuild an engine is similar to figuring out how to build one from scratch, which is within human capacity, particularly with background knowledge. but the guy rebuilding the engine has a lot of hints

granted, he'll probably fuck up his first two or three pretty good without haynes or chilton
The reality is that, depending on circumstances, a highly skilled craftsman of yesteryear could have any number of obviously less-skilled assistants. Some would be "career track", some semi-skilled seasonal help, some minimally-skilled (whether due to youth, infrequent day labor, poor talent, or social status), and some in supporting type of skilled work - animal handling, cooking, bookkeeping, etc.
I think the closest equivalent in Java or C# would be to use reflection to pull out the Swim and Quack methods.
You run the best OS for productivity as a base and virtualize other systems you need.
many people in the usa say 'the world' when they mean 'usa'
I think you might use “favorite” the way I mean “fun” (if I say fun at work, it’s because we are having none)

A lot of my opinions on code and the human brain started in college. My roommate was washing out and didn’t know it yet. The rules about helping other people were very clear, I was a boy scout but also grade-a bargainer and rationalized so I created a protocol for helping him without getting us expelled. Other kids in the lab started using me the same way.

There were so many people who couldn’t grasp that your code can have three bugs at once, and fixing one won’t make your code behave. Some of those must have washed out too.

But applying the scientific method as you say above is something that I came to later and it’s how I mentor people. If all of your assumptions say the answer should be 3 but it’s 4, or “4” or “Spain”, one of your assumptions is wrong and you need to test them. Odds of being the flaw / difficulty of rechecking. Prioritize and work the problem.

(Hidden variable: how embarrassed you’ll be if this turns out to be the problem)
Good. Linux desktop is the future.
Is there a significant difference between built in and loadable module?

Aside from source availability and maybe the risk of version mismatch, I mean.
What is the hold up on adding Chrome like tab groups with colours and ability to collapse them?
> It’s really difficult to make solid state components that work at million+ volts.

You can split (or add up) the million volts as transmitted at either end so the individual components only work across a small fraction of the 1MV potential difference. This is how can get 12V from 1.5V batteries or use 1V LEDs from a 12V line.
I've always wanted to run a traffic simulation to see how well that type of configuration would work. Because if you look at your car's trip computer the average speed from stop and go traffic tends to hover around half the prevailing speed.

Traffic signals in holland seem to operate similar to how I described. I'm just not sure how that would translate to somewhere like the US where you have much higher traffic volumes and faster (crazier) drivers.
That makes more sense than what I said :)
I think the frontpage/recommended on Udio and Suno both have some decent music these days. By decent I mean on the level one could expect from say browsing music on say YouTube in areas one is not familiar with. There is of course a lot of meme/joke content, but also some pleasant/interesting sounding songs.

The really good stuff probably will not be marked as med with AI - and probably will also go via a DAW and proper mastering.
I think Zed is starting with a more transparent elegant foundations and then they'll build in more optional magic from there. For example, they're working on automatic codebase RAG
Custom Serial Bootloader for the RP2040
1) If you want to sell your game, you go where the users are buying: Windows.

2) Visual Studio still offers a second-to-none developer experience. If you're targeting Windows exclusively (which you are in PC gamedev), Visual Studio is pretty much a must.
> A bit of a cynical take (on Hacker News no less) but after being in the industry for a while, my view is that the best definition of “level” is self-referential: it corresponds to the ability of a person to convince others that they are at that level.

This is of course not just in "the industry" -- for an extreme example there are a lot of elections arund the world in 2024 and almost all of them have at least one candidate trying to convince the hiring team (i.e. the voters) that they are qualified to do a job they've never done before.
I mean you are free to keep masking, but the rest of us have paid our dues and aren't going to live the rest of our lives in constant fear.

Its nothing personal, but if you're in a uniquely high-risk position its typically on you to take precautions, not every other living being in your country.
Midjourney's "house style" leans towards fantasy by default.
Enhancing Open Source license compliance through Open Source data
They have complete control -- until they cut a deal. They don't have to work with Elsevier if they don't want to do so.
> But most people who drive metal boxes would actually take long fast metal tubes that don't have issues with traffic if they were given the opportunity to. This means all the people who really want to drive metal boxes or have to drive metal boxes don't have as much traffic.

Even if most people would take the tube, that still leaves millions who need to drive into LA for work. Since everyone has a backyard and the population density in the suburbs doesn't come anywhere close to Tokyo's, it's neither economical nor practical to build public transportation options out there.

> Tokyo is of comparable size to LA and they don't have these issues. LA used to have the largest streetcar network in the country but they stripped most of it out circa WWII. See also NYC, London, etc.

Used to, but those days are gone and it's now 100x harder to reverse that decision. Los Angeles is currently spending the most money out of all the cities in the US on its metro system in preparation for the 2028 Olympics, and even that is still scratching the surface.
It works until you need Excel. I have yet to find a business which doesn't use Excel in some capacity. As in proper Excel, not somewhat dubious compatibility Excel (LibreOffice).

I'd still argue large swathes of things we take for granted on other platforms don't exist or don't work either.
Trying to apply heuristics like patterns to this problem is attacking the wrong thing. It boils down to a lack of belonging, trust and motivation of reviewers to do the right thing. Absentee leadership not holding engineers accountable for their inaction or slow walking of reviews being the enabler.

This kind of dysfunction happens more often on teams with incompetent people in control but sometimes temporarily happens on otherwise high functioning teams when multiple people are fighting over philosophical control of the project.
I think Windows 10 was the best desktop experience. There was a period when OSX was nice. Linux is doable but it’s always 80% there (speaking strictly in terms of DE). Things break more often than I’d like. Not a problem if you do everything in terminal.
Then you should probably be taking measures to protect yourself from severe respiratory infections. You can remove a mask, but you can't remove pulmonary scarring.
Linux seems to be the only OS that makes good use of the middle mouse button, unfortunately many mice are not designed for that kind of wear on the button, so this is always the first to break :(
The thing is compliance was impossible because the weapons did not actually exist. Saddam's underlings were lying to him, claiming things that never happened. Our inspectors kept letting stuff slip through our fingers because it wasn't really there. Intel would tell them to look at X. We would go to X, find nothing. Whoever was in charge of X would report to Saddam that they successfully moved the stuff away from the inspectors.

We were tapping their communications and thinking we were failing when in reality there was never anything there--we had already destroyed all the real stuff. It was all a massive deception, but not aimed at us. Saddam was emboldened by apparently repeatedly giving us the finger when in reality he didn't have a hand to raise at all.
Perhaps your rental provider does a better job of maintaining and managing thier fleet than what we have. It is a regular thing to find rentals tipped over on the side of the road or blocking the sidewalk. I can see two at the moment in the canal.
That's a fair proposal though.

My issue is, if you want other things done, make issues for them. Don't try to address every single thing you don't like, that is remotely around the code I am trying to get this fix in for.

Like, he has great feedback. It's not the quality of the feedback or content, it's that it has nothing to do with what I currently need urgently implemented to fix a problem.
Doesn't Russia launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome which is nowhere near the ocean. So maybe China doesn't mind it.
Interesting that multiplayer works well, I thought anti cheat guards would prevent this in many games running on Proton.
Apart from the bit where it didn't like the fractional scaling that still doesn't work properly, the power management issues, the absolutely terrible inconsistent user experience, the poor photo management and editing applications, the non-existent support for working with other people via the apps that they use etc etc.

It works for a narrow group of vocal people who use it for specific tasks but generic and usable, it is not.
Students Flee Field as Computer 'Fad' Fades (1987)
Exactly.

These people are stuck adhering to the mask propaganda from 2020.
The lies were 'justified' at the time because high adoption meant spreaders were covered.

Unless you have advanced medical grade masks and swap them regularly, surgical masks and other common covering do literally nothing to protect the wearer from COVID. Once spit particles are airborne, even N95s don't stop much. And yes I've seen the videos about static attraction. Which is maybe partially true for fresh masks, but the attic attraction fades quickly as your breath saturates the material with moisture
I really don't think I can say enough good things about the Steam Deck. If you haven't seen it, they have even supported the device helping people install Windows on it.

I am aware that Valve has done some shady stuff in the past. Given time, I'm sure they will do more in the future. Today, though, they are such a breath of fresh air for the support they have shown.

Link: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/6121-ECCD-D643-BA...
It wouldn't be an argument for safeguarding it because the current tech is out there and allows you to do just all that. Photoshop has existed for some time and governments use it to manipulate people too. It's not a big deal and actual harm is not as big as the imagined ones.
The highest share seems to be in India with 16.21% Linux. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/india

I wonder whether that's real or a mirage caused by Linux servers masquerading as desktops.
Windows has a lot more jank these days than the average Linux desktop.
Yes. It will be released in October.
Does not google require a telephone number to create accounts nowadays? In some regions there are no anonymous SIM cards by law. (Temporary number services may not work well.)
I think honestly PEBCAK.

I use an AMD GPU. When I installed windows, windows kept insisting to downgrade my drivers. I looked it up and the official solution on Microsoft was a regedit to disable auto updates for GPU drivers.

This actually happens pretty often when I’m using windows as a power user.

On Linux, I’ve setup endeavourOS once (and by setup I mean installed it, and then installed Flatpak for the rest of my applications). I run yay every once in a while and everything works.
You might see something that appears to fall into nothing, with observable massive fluctuations in gravity - anything close by would get disintegrated, observing such an event would result in a treasure trove of data, as long as it's very, very far away. The secondary damage would be something like a particle accelerator bubble on the scale of multiple solar systems.
Digital Interpersonal Emotion Regulation via Content Recommendation
Best of luck my friend. Can you share your general area your team is working in? For example I know the African fintech scene if very vibrant
They are pretty distinct. Having good CUDA drivers didn't mean raster graphics were accelerated well, and for a while the bulk of Nvidia's efforts were focused on a depreciated backend.

The good news is that those days are mostly behind us, with the more recent Nvidia drivers. Guess the crypto/AI boom helped them find the cash to hire better Linux devs.
Also, stay away from Team Blind. It is worse than reddit for toxic comments.
India is rather poor, Windows screams for new hardware (and Windows 11 just obsoleted perfectly fine hardware that's still plenty fast).
Personally, I'm kinda hoping the AI overlords will keep us around as pets. Take us along in little cryo carriers as they explore the stars, throwing us microwaved pizza pellets now and then and maybe letting us on the forums once or twice a day when we want to commune with others of our kind.
println(“1”);

…

println(“2”);

…

println(“wtf”);
You don't need to convince me. Convince all of the authors out there.

They have the power to send their work wherever they want. Really. They do.

The fact that they continue to choose the publishers after all of these years suggests to me that the publishers are doing something that the authors want.

And btw, who do you think would do this work for a fraction of the cost? Are you going to pay them? What if they unionize and demand a fair share of the grant money?

I feel like the Wizard of Oz telling Dorothy she had the power all along.
> You need to develop a polite but curt tone of voice for customer support

If this makes you uneasy, it can be easier if you sign initial support replies under another name.

Hey, this is John, I'll be happy to help you with that.

<Blah blah blah.>

Let me know if that helps.
--John
I'm a hardcore Linux user, and most of my machines always had some driver issues.

The laptop I'm writing from needs my mobile phone as wifi bridge, because the Linux driver is poorly written, and it causes extremely poor signal quality. I also can't workaround tearing that plagues the whole desktop environment.

My other laptop has issues with the speakers that will never be fixed. And another one or two issues that I can't remember.

I wanted to buy a certain Lenovo laptop that is officially Ubuntu certified. Lenovo doesn't offer the OEM Ubuntu that they used for the certification though, and the vanilla version doesn't work (I've stopped checking after an year or so).

My desktop has a wake from suspend problem.

To be fair though, I have no doubt that if one chooses a certain machine (laptop) based on Linux compatibility, they will be happy - but it implies a certain sacrifice upfront.
FLUX.1 [Schnell] – a Hugging Face Space by black-forest-labs
At 46:10, David is showing an article on AI and UNIX from UnixWorld magazine in 1984 and subtly comments "Nothing new there..."
> Integrating FOSS code into a proprietary product is what restricts the user's freedom. Copyleft licenses prevent this restriction.

This is like saying "black is white".

Users are free to use any products - open source and proprietary. They don't care about licenses most of the time - they prefer the product with better usability. Copyleft licenses prevent from creating proprietary product with better usability on top of open-source product with mediocre usability. E.g. copyleft licenses restrict users' freedom to use the best product - they force users dealing with the mediocre product.
It's the local, when you drive you don't stop every 5 miles and pick-up/drop-off a couple dozen people :)

The bullets (limited stops) is actually really fast (~45 minutes MTV to SF).

At rush hour when it's 1.5 hours from Sunnyvale to downtown SF that's when the bulk of the bullets are scheduled and it's twice as fast as driving, plus you can have a beer ;)
I've been using it for a while and it's amazing :)
Periodically send out a newsletter targeting kill-the-newsletter email addresses to announce the "new" RSS feed support.
I'm in a similar boat - uv's workspaces look tantalising.
"It's not an easy business, really, when you couple that to the negative press the computer industry is getting"

"1.6 percent of the freshmen who entered college last fall wanted to major in computer science. That compared with 2.1% in 1985 and 4% in 1982"

It's so over lads. Selling all my NVDA
> I wonder if it's possible that she checked herself out but immediately died outside the hospital

I find that really unlikely.

I mean, for starters, they had her body and knew it was her body in storage. That doesn't happen if they don't have IDs attached to the corpse. I find it unlikely that the hospital wouldn't be ringing the family like crazy because of a body they want to unload. Especially if they have the paperwork showing that she'd checked out. There'd be no reason not to almost immediately say "Hey, actually, we found her right outside the hospital dead, sorry for your loss".

I'm guessing an obvious fuck up killed her like 10xing her insulin dosage by mistake. Or administering something other than insulin.

And it wouldn't surprise me if, conveniently, 17 or 24 months just happens to be the retention policy for medical records.
You can do the grayscreen thing on Apple phones as well. Double the distaste!
Exactly. I’m someone who can fix his broken Linux install because the driver update broke something again or because the display scaling is fucked again or because the game won’t launch on Steam or because wayland crashed again or because the application is missing some weird dependency, but I really, really don’t want to. I want to use my computer to do my work. I don’t want to work on my computer.
I just got off the phone from my aunt who was filling forms in with Adobe Reader, editing word documents sent from her solicitor.

No it's not all in a browser. That's a shitty assumption and one that should not be forced upon anyone.

I always wonder how many people have been fucked over by a helpful relative giving them a Linux install with a browser and telling them to get on with it ...
The thing with saying “I don’t know” is if you use it judiciously, people believe you more when you say you can do something they think can’t be done.

If he didn’t know he would just say. But he says he does.