skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very strong jart feel about this person's blog, that was a nice read

> We would need to reinvent the wheel, but this is quite neat if you think about it.

Is this real or ironic though? I read it and started laughing at the writer but the rest of the page seems quite heavy on self-deprecation
> you are the problem.

I wonder if Linux advocates could take a small amount of ownership over the user/customer experience instead of projecting all flaws upon the user. It's an operating system. Most people aren't interested in making it their hobby or full time job.
I wish Claude had a better value proposition. Just 5 times as much as free doesn't sound that appealing.
> Then he realized that his framerates feel janky, due to issues with Wayland and vrr.

Is Wayland a viable windows system ?
Why didn't he used X ?
There's a thousand of graphical frontend installer for Arch and Arch-derivatives, like cachyOS, endeavour, etc. Hell, it even has an archinstall script nowadays.
I installed it a couple times by hand for fun but if you want a rolling-release Linux distro that uses pacman there are many ways as easy as Ubuntu
this is a good article on styling with custom elements too: https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/css-classes-considered-harmful...
Indeed - there's of course still plenty of exploitation in the world market that puts a damper on the awe for me, but it's starting to feel like science fiction such as Star Trek is becoming reality ahead of schedule. At this moment, I have around fifty distinct objects near me, each with at least one pin-prick-sized computer inside them, and I could probably purchase all of them again with no more than a days wage.

As for audio quality, should anyone be interested: I had also bought a pair of those wired, ~$1 ones, and I'd say that the Xioami J18 have slightly better audio quality, but that's cancelled out by the occasional bluetooth glitches, and the deafening "CONNECTED" message when you turn them on. They also have better audio quality than the ~$25 Sony on-ear headphones by a considerable margin, but that completely pales in comparison with my Audio-Technica ATH-M40x over-ear headphones, which are like having a hi-fi strapped to your head!
Windows Server 2016 onwards: updates are all or nothing.

The default is the new settings app and you have to be very persistent if you want Control Panel options. Everything is oversimplified and dumbed down.

My example with network settings: Removing useful admin info for no
reason.
There's also Letterboxd.com. It's like Goodreads but for film buffs. I enjoy that site immensely (I'm a Patron there) and I think this one will compliment it nicely.
I was just thinking a couple of weeks ago how the new settings app is basically a bunch of text. Personally, I find it hard to navigate compared to colorful, differentiated icons.

The whole point of icons - to encapsulate meaning efficiently - seems to have disappeared from modern UI. Flat lists of text are fundamentally what we had in the early 90s before advanced CUIs and GUIs took over.
A former boss had the idea of fence.io - a digital stolen goods fence service allowing thieves to anonymously sell back goods to their original owners.

It was a joke... mostly
Small consumer base for porn or for the current $3000 apple headset?

The immersion is really good.

Apple would never allow it in their ecosystem, but OnlyFans + immersive VR could sell very well.
When I look at the commonality between all the successful consumer electronics, it's really about how easily they fit into people's lives. The AirPods and Apple Watch were two of the most recent smash hits because they are an improvement on what existed before

For me to watch a video on a phone, tablet, laptop, or TV is easy. Turn on screen. Play video. With wedding photos, you can make them your phone screen background, you can printout photos and put them on your wall, they fit into your life.

With VR, I have to blind myself to my surroundings, I have to either not move around sitting perfectly still or clear out a bunch of space. What has become more popular in recent years is Podcasting and a huge reason why is because how nonintrusive it is, you can listen to a podcast doing the dishes or on your way to work. VR is the opposite of nonintrusive.

I feel the immersion of VR is what's holding it back, not why it will be successful. It's only when mixed reality takes off that I think we're going to see a big change.
I said I'm MacOs novice, but I'm not that green, of course I immediately searched for shortcuts. And these are not a replacement for a single key, especially since I'm often combining these keys with Ctrl and Shift. At least on Windows where I'm doing real productive work.
The author of Setris was obliged [0] to change its name to Sandtrix, when it exploded in popularity.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37218685
Sounds more like a HP issue than a Windows issue to me.
heh... IMO AI often works better when you ask it "how do/can I?" instead of "do this for me!"
I'll add it to the todo list :)
>The idea that it has anything to do with Tesla, as opposed to anything else, is a bit weird.

At the time of Biden's electic car summit in 2021 to which Tesla was not invited, Telsa had 75% of the EV market in the US.

The idea that US's EV policy didn't have anything to do with its largest EV company is perhaps surprising.
But now what do you do when you want a sticky footer too?
Somehow I doubt the default setup has nvidia (with proprietary drivers at least) and ext4 in mind.
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> It did this using highly-optimized code, written in assembly language, by very skilled people.

"People" here meaning Anders Hejlsberg almost single-handedly.
>How Hard Is It to Frame Your Own Artwork? Harder Than It Looks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/realestate/frame-your-own...

https://archive.ph/NzBn6
Good. That part of windows needs to be nuked from orbit.

Feels like every part of the UI was designed by a different team in isolation, glued together and shipped.
But is that illegal? Or is that violation of copyright?

You're accessing content that can be viewed by Googlebot, or by disabling Javascript or some other simple browser tweaks.
Awesome to hear that you like Vega Altair. With the recent integration of VegaFusion you don’t need to embed the data in the notebook anymore and I’ve found Altair to scale quite well. Give it a shot.
It would be great to have a personal rollercoaster at home.
The same trick works for footers, just use bottom:0 instead of top:0
> So what happened to Turbo Pascal? Three things, at least, contributed to its eventual downfall

The fourth thing is that it lives on as Delphi:

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi

And there's Free Pascal and Lazarus. One of the goals of Free Pascal is to be Turbo Pascal and Delphi compatible:

https://www.freepascal.org/

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
> often needed

It's never needed, it's just often convenient for something quick and dirty. You can always write a guard to accomplish the same thing—roll your own runtime safety. If you want to avoid doing it manually there's Zod. It's not that much different than writing a binding for a C library in another language in that you're manually enforcing the constraints of your app at the boundaries.
I think this really depends on your definition of EdTech. I don’t think anyone would contend that turnitin or Ellucian haven’t scaled well.

Tools that cater to the organisations that have money can absolutely do well, but trying to sell to people without the means to buy your stuff will always be unsuccessful.
I had the advantage of having a mentor early in my career hold my code to the highest standards with regards to using the semantics of HTML. We were working on a big redesign of a large website for BigCorp, but we were still a small team on a deadline. She would not accept any excuses, and she guided me to think through HTML element selection until we found what we considered the best choice. I was taking the bus to work most days and used the time to read on the bus and at home the thick book "CSS: The Definitive Guide" by Eric Meyer cover to cover.

As you mention, working with HTML, and even more so CSS, can be a source of frustration. The UX of actually working with them is tedious work. However I can write today that all these years later, the high standards that my mentor held me to (and the project required) helped me to master HTML and CSS in a way that made doing that work less tedious, and easier over time. I was being paid to be educated by an expert - I considered it a great opportunity, and believe I have been proven correct.

In the post Vasilis writes that they told their students the assignment "doesn’t have to be semantic and shit". I consider this a missed opportunity to hold them to higher standards and help the students build a strength that can help them for years to come. More broadly, I believe this to be an example of current generations being limited by their mentors and educators lowering standards, and potentially robbing them of opportunities. Impedimentum Via Est.
> They've already tried sanctioning Korea and Japan over petty issues like Fukushima water waste.

Well China wasn't the only one with concerns, but probably the only one with the balls to sanction: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/21/world/asia/korea-japan-fu... - and why shouldn't they?
I actually find ChatGPT to be super helpful in preparing information for Anki decks, which are (via spaced repetition) really the gold standard in improving your memory and remembering things. Typical prompts include:

- Give me a brief glossary on X subject, formatted as a series of questions and short answers. Put the answer text inside brackets, {{c1::like this.}} (This is for Anki Cloze, or fill-in-the-blank, cards.)

- Generate 10 questions from this piece of text

- Give me a year-by-year timeline of events in X place from years Y to Z.

- Make a mnemonic song that explains how X works.

And so on.
Just use the API.
As with polio and the Holocaust, I'm concerned MAD requires direct memory of how miserable it is to live under that constant threat.
Just set it up 2 days ago. I fully agree with his take. Cursor does a lot to reduce the headache of copy pasting results from ChatGPT/Claude.

Makes coding with AI much faster and less of a chore. You still need to know what you're doing as the models are fantastic at boilerplate but often get things wrong. But it's significantly sped up iteration for me, and hence translates to more fun.
The article ends with an unwarranted jab at "bloated Java apps". If anything, Java nowadays is like Turbo Pascal back then, striking a reasonable compromise between complexity, readability and performance when compared to Electron apps.
The actual paper [0]

The yield rate is unimpressive (100 wafers/hr) compared to existing ASML EUV lithography machines (170-200/hr) or even DUV lithography (300/hr).

[0] - https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.11717
Was TP for Windows considered TP7? I spent my youth in Turbo Pascal 7 writing graphics based apps in DOS and never even know they made a Windows version. Not that my 286 could run Windows.
I really do miss the days I was locked in an office with no internet connection with a free coffee machine and could be productive. Things were small, understandable and had documentation on paper.
We've been at war with Russia for a few decades at this point but only Russia has noticed.
I like the white space and the look. It has personality.
Love the aesthetic they're using here. Reminds me of another project in this same vein https://mmm.page/
Remember .ini files? Yea how relevant is that today?

AFAIK there's nothing stopping you from writing software that pulls config info from an ini file. Has something changed?

Edit: I think I've edited ini files to configure video games somewhat recently.

How about using a DOS prompt recently?

I host my command prompt inside a 3rd party program, but I still use the Windows command prompt all the time. I think that's pretty normal for "power users" who haven't moved on to PowerShell (I use PS when I have to, but it's not my go-to).
and some of us find it does a lot more...I have been increasingly relying on ai-generated code...it's been remarkably effective in automating nearly 90%+ of what-i-now-know-to-be tedious, manual tasks.
I guess it also does not default to cloud saving over local.
NASA's long-awaited decision on Starliner is imminent
Agree. Too much scrolling required.
Note that the above article is not just about attribution but also about inclusion of licenses with the copies of licensed code, something that, as far as I can tell, no LLM ever does.

Is this because the code is so mashed together that it's impossible to say which bit was copied from which original source? Well, then, that's a very big problem and if a human did this we'd rightly label it plagiarism.
I'm not sure I would trust a Russian mirror if the author didn't post it. The main issue with this extension is it has to be updated very regularly. To continue to bypass the paywall requires constant tweaks & edits. So, unless someone makes a fork & wants to take over the project, mirrors aren't particularly helpful.
First: citation needed in spammers using paid accounts. Why would they pay to spam, go through credit card fraud detection and so on when a free account is (by definition) zero cost? Mind you, I am talking about pure spam and not crazy sophisticated phishing scams. Those certainly exist in Twitter.

Second: scale. Twitter has millions of users, it is not profitable and is suing advertisers in a desperate attempt to justify its lack of revenue. Let's just say that a miracle happens and I get my dream number of paid accounts (10k at $29/year). The operation would be profitable enough to pay myself more than I ever made in any job and still contribute back to the downstream projects. I could literally close registrations on my service, or start a different vetting process.
>But who needs a Turbo Pascal, when you have 128Gb of RAM attached to an 5GHz CPU, for a hastily-written, bloated Java program to burn?

I mean we are in 2024 and should be well past the Java joke. Not only is modern Java seriously fast and could be efficient as well as natively compiled with Graal. ( Where 20 years ago GCJ was experimental at best ). The modern equivalent should really be Electron.

But back on the topic, I really miss Pascal and Delphi.
Reddit has not yet earned a profit.

https://companiesmarketcap.com/reddit/earnings/
> For example, imagine a Reddit clone, but every comment you want to post costs one cent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwELepvBAVY

> He said "if I was in charge of Facebook, mate, I'd be saying like 'fucking QUID A GO!'"

> It gave me a small sense of hometown pride when I realized the guy was serious... small sense of hometown pride that there must be very few places in the world where Mark Zuckerberg would be offered financial advice from a guy who was 15 pence short for [his bus fare]
It is sad. I don’t browse Popular anymore and stick to the subreddits I care about which aren’t political.

Even if you run across a “news” subreddit and comment on something that doesn’t seem Left, you will get banned right now. It’s very toxic.

Best to stay away from Popular
> The first is corroborated by the lack of unit numbers. Who does such a thing?

The entire country of Germany for example. It's super annoying.

Although they have the decency to assign distinct numbers to stairwells and when you register where you live for administrative and postal purposes you give description at which floor and on which side the door is located.

The funny thing is that in Germany you have to pay TV license which is paid "per apartment". But since apartment doesn't have its own number, just street name, building number and freeform description then the authority responsible for collecting tv license fees doesn't know it a fee for this apartment is already being paid. So when you move in anywhere they always send you a letter so that you either start paying or provide TV license I'd number of a person living in this apartment who's already paying.
Unblock Origin is best in class for sure and I use it on my other browsers, but when browsing on Safari I don’t notice any real difference in the number of ads I see compared to Ublock Origin, that is to say I don’t really see any ads on any browser I use.

My point being that the statement that there’s “no good ad blocking on Safari” is just not true. Saying “there’s no Ublock Origin on Safari” is true, but that’s not the same thing as “no good ad blocking”. AdGuard works just fine.
What does jart mean?
Really cool! Love the demo option to try it out instead of just signing up.
I echo your sentiment in these regards. It is much easier to do certain tasks in Control Panel (Networking and Power Options being the two biggest examples of this in my opinion), while other things are easier in Settings.

I think the real problem is that Microsoft hasn't place enough focus on getting the Settings app correct from a UI/UX perspective like Apple did with their Settings app. There's nothing technical preventing them from offering a streamlined experience in Settings that allows you to easily configure advanced settings when necessary. It's just design effort on their part.

If they can get their Settings app to the point where nobody wants to use Control Panel anymore, then that's the right time to deprecate it.
You want people to think you're a specious disingenuous person? It's of your own doing.
" This is PalmOS, a solution that is too early to the market."

But Apple has the resources to keep supporting and evolving it in response to user feedback until it can be cheap enough for mass use, at which point, if they don't blow it, their lead will be hard for competitors to overcome. They know exactly what they're doing.
> Question is, will they be able to actually commercialize it before ASML manages to get improved versions of their current litho machines out the door

Canon and Nikon don't need to be bleeding edge. Majority of the chip fabrication market is 20nm, 28nm, and 40nm along with analog chips (60nm+).

The sub-20nm chips will become more common as more and more fabs get turned on and EUV eventually gets commoditized, but the RoI isn't there yet for most electronics aside from high margins consumer electronics like GPUs, high end cellphones, etc.

> Chinese universities and companies are working on particle accelerator based EUV sources

Both the Chinese (SMIC) and the Japanese (OIST) attempts don't have great yield rates (the OIST project above is barely 50% of ASML's and SMIC's is reported to be similar).

Both will crack it eventually, but the order book for ASML's High NA EUV (3nm and below) is entirely Intel, Samsung, and the American fabs for TSMC for the next 3-4 years so by the time a competitor is ASML comparable, a significant subset of high end US and SK fabs will have transitioned to 3nm.
Thanks for admitting you made up that statistic. Microsoft's hegemony is challenged in some areas, with Google Workspace being a credible threat. Microsoft is still dominant in some regions, but Google's made significant inroads. $16 billion to $64 billion, which works out to be 75%.

As far as devices, Microsoft makes the Surface. The fact that you didn't mention it speaks volumes about how successful it has been.
Just to note, Quest 3 has significantly improved on it and has granular IPD adjustments now.
The new hotness was C++. Object orientation was the AI of its day. TP jumped on it so fast with 5.5 it ended up throwing away that object model for Delphi a few years later.

TP had little impact on Windows, I agree. TP was for a particular niche, small software shops targeting DOS. And it was a big success, it paid for a nice building in Scotts Valley, but it also fuelled the ambitions of a bunch of executives who got derailed, getting into databases, a multi-pronged bet (Paradox, dBASE, Interbase) that didn't really pay off.
Do not obsess, do not wait too long or at least spend some time on taxes anyway. I needlessly paid so much tax in my life because I reconned we would figure it out when the company gets proper revenues. Whatever that means. Others that I know who started at the same time immediately optimized at their first 10k income. They did vastly better than me in profit (at the time; they showed me how to fix it). No need to obsess to make sure you are not getting shafted left and right.
Thanks! Something like what you want is in the works, but I'd like first to be able to authenticate Lemmy accounts in a way that does not scare users.
Huh... Moved on to where?
The author did post it. I'm pretty sure the bpc_updates repo was managed by magnolia, and that's where it was linked
How many rug pulls do you think are acceptable before you'd stop wasting your time trying to work with a corporation?

I think one is a perfectly sane and acceptable answer.
I do not see how this is remotely controversial - if you had trashy parents who spent their time partying and fighting the neighbors while living paycheck to paycheck, you probably have a harder path to success than if your parents had stable employment and taught you how to save and invest.

Does that mean that people can't come from nothing and achieve great success - not at all - and it's likely that you know someone who has. But as the article points out, "in general", if you grew up in a situation that normalized behaviors that are likely to result in better educational and work outcomes you will have an advantage.
The article explicitly states that they verified the owner and how
Here's the best data I found so far [1]. They call out an increase use in 2022, but that's global and doesn't account only for countries that largely moved to LEDs.

[1] https://www.iea.org/energy-system/buildings/lighting#trackin...
How's it different from meibo's post? If the hardware is well supported by the OS, everything works fine. If it's not, you're gonna have a bad time.

My point is that you can't say Xos is great because it works well on this particular hardware.
Anders Hejlsberg, also of C# and Typescript fame. Oh, how I wish we had a RAD Delphi-like IDE for the web.
> It's a filter thing.

I'm reminded of this quote from Ben Thompson:

In short, the analog world was defined by scarcity, which meant distribution of scarce goods was the locus of power; the digital world is defined by abundance, which means discovery of what you actually want to see is the locus of power. The result is that consumers have access to anything, which is to say that nothing is special; everything has been flattened.

Instead of filter, I tend to say curate. There are so many papers being created no institution has the time to vet and curate. They want to use open access repositories and journals, but they don't want to bring hundreds of thousands unvetted papers and books into their local catalogs.

There's also the prestige of certain journals, but like you touched on, at a meta level that's just curation. Citations and other scorings are attempts to address this issue, but those end up heavily weighted towards older publications that it's hard for new, possibly better research to bubble up.
I was wondering what crazy kindergarten cult or little person village produced identical tricycles and clad their kids in identical pink parkas... Then I realised it was some kind of time lapse.. Nice work!
Assuming they mean we've been at economic war with tariffs, etc.
Fickle? It’s been Russia and China for like 100 years. I’m no expert but it might be due to crushing political oppression and aggressive empire building. Japan, S Korea, and Taiwan are all chip manufacturing power houses, and the only one not happy to see China blockaded is China. Though I’m sure they’re working on hacking into and stealing these new designs as we speak.