skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And this is how the decline of learned society begins.
Yes, but if you invented a system of crop rotation that you could play Doom on, now that would get some traction :)
Kindred spirit! My old Apple Watch is at the bottom of the Colorado River near Moab. Still paired in Find My.
I don't even see it as increasing KPIs or sales. Unless it's sales as in selling the idea to the leadership.

A lot of it is trying to make it look visually and superficially impressive trying to apply the common hammers like whitespace, very little visible content at once as to not "overwhelm" the user and other rules to anything, and then trying to pretend whatever that is going to increase the sales by doing non-sensical user research, only listening to what proves their initial vision and then later trying to cherry-pick success metrics.

A/B test the new Settings panel:

If User spends more time in the Settings page -> We just increased engagement. They must really like the new Settings page and find that pleasurable to use. That's a win.

User spends less time in the Settings page -> We made it quicker to find and tweak the correct settings. That's amazing.

Either way, any change you make you can find wins. You could even keep going back and forth between two versions.

Also another common flaw I notice with some redesigns or things in general is that when the features, e.g. config settings were initially released, there was very thorough understanding and need for that feature and whoever put it there knew the technical implications and why it is needed, and they put it there in such a way that it's reasonably easy to use and makes sense with other things.

However when redesigning, you are going to be exposed to all those features and nuances at once. And you won't have a good understanding of everything at all and all the little details and implications. And you might want to start with some sort of feel, framework and design to handle all of that. But then you are going to approach those features from an aspect where you have to take the features and make them adapt to the design as opposed to considering what makes sense specifically for that feature. And you won't have good understanding of the features, so either you are reducing the scope a lot or also just implement features incorrectly or in a poor way, not working well together with some other features, etc.
A licensed copy of the most feature-packed Windows Server Datacenter edition will run you ~$6k (16 core license).

Now, assume your hourly consulting rate is $200. You would only have to spend about 40 hours of time tinkering on linux before windows would have made more sense for the time/money equation.

Frustration is another economy that I think is even more important for getting things done. How badly do you actually want to build? Maintaining morale through the hard bits of the target problem domain is usually already a struggle. Why do you want to be fighting with boot loaders, drivers and arguments on various forums on top of all of that?
Too soon :`(!

Ah, those were the days! TP v4, v5, v6... i'd graduated to C by the time 7 came out.

> That almost nobody has the skills these days to implement something like TP is something we could eventually come to regret – or, rather, our grandchildren could. Software development is becoming a semi-skilled industry, and I doubt that the rise of AI will entirely compensate for this.

If anything, the rise (read as: shoving-down-our-throats) of AI/machine learning will hurt the collective ability to code, rather than compensate for it in the least. So many modern developers take pride in using their CoPilots and related AI/machine-learning tools to assist in coding, all the while ignoring that such usage actively keeps them from improving their own coding skills, in the same way that copying a classmate's test answers might let the copier pass the test without actually teaching them anything.

When that day comes that AI can pump out a complete, working, bug-free application based on natural-language descriptions, we will have lost the ability to code entirely, as any code such a thing generates will never be maintainable by a mere human being.

_Sigh_.

Well, it'll be fun while it lasts. The Machines can pry my makefiles and C compiler from my cold dead fingers.

PS: _GET OFF MY LAWN!_
That's not how "free" works at all...

Free just means it did not cost you any money, a free hammer does not also imply a free new roof or whatever you want to build with it.

Linux is a tool, men use tools, be a man and use Linux.
Where’s the AI? Feels like an obvious add-on for something like this. :)
VW Touareg Towing a 747 Jumbo Jet (2014) [video]
> Anti-vax people or climate change deniers also object to well-replicated results and would believe what they want to believe anyways.

Accusing your enemy of being beyond argument is just an underhanded way to avoid making an argument.

There will always be bad beliefs, we will not always know at the time which beliefs are bad, and the response to what we think are bad beliefs should be good science, not massive fraud studies on hydroxychloroquine published in one the most prominent journals in the history of medicine.
I use various LLMs for all kinds of search queries. Sure, there is a danger of hallucinations, but for most queries I can tell whether is wrong because now I can make a much clearer Google or Kagi search because I better know how to formulate my search.

Also, more than once have I done a Google or Kagi search where most answers I found also are or were wrong.

I really don’t get the kind of people that hate on LLMs because of “hallucinations” (or worse, ideological hate, easily identified by their use of the “stochastic parrot” term). I find them genuinely useful in delivering better search results quicker. I also don’t have to wade through wades of SEO optimized shit.

Just today I wanted to know the Croatian word for “Orange” and a quick GPT “orange in Croatian” delivered faster and more concise than google
owned by MS
> I think they mean "Friend-like" pendant.

This renamed from Friend, and still (as of this comment) refers to itself as Friend in the home page footer links to the two variations of the product, Friend and Friend Dev Kit.
My god man, not everything needs AI.
A war party?

Si vis Pacem para Bellum!
this is 2013, but so little has changed... https://jancovici.com/en/energy-transition/societal-choices/...
Ask HN: What cloud storage are you using?
What personal cloud solution are you using in 2024 and why?
Also, what is one feature that you would love to have in your existing cloud storage provider?

Personally, I am using Google Photos for Images and Drive for Photos, for a period I used Skiff, unfortunately the closed.
Same here, had trouble controlling the habit before, but was surprisingly easy to drop it when RiF died.
> we need the government to encourage housing policy which produces a lot more housing stock.

It’s really not “the government” but existing homeowners and especially old ones. Many politicians would love to add housing and especially density because that boosts businesses, tax revenue, use of local services, etc. but the idea that your house is going to pay for your retirement has a lot of people afraid of changes which could lower their valuation, and that makes it extremely hard to get things like zoning laws changed.
You don't strike me as someone who has hired a lot of faculty members... If you're hiring in your own field (which you should), you don't have to read the papers. You're already familiar with most of them, and judging by the venue their published in, you also know their "level", so to speak.

As for open review ... You also don't strike me as someone who has reviewed a lot of papers.

I've served on several program committees, and reviewed hundreds of papers. I'm happy with blind reviews.
Since the Russian invasion until November 2023 30,000 soldiers where killed.

>In 2023, 43,163 people died in the United States from gun related injuries.

Seems like the deadlier form of combat is just living in the US.
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Right. people don't seem to get that. there's this narrative about how Elon Musk overpaid for Twitter, as if there were a vibrant market of buyers and sellers of Twitter. there's only one Twitter, and it's worth whatever someone wants to pay for it.

Say somebody comes up to you and says hey, nice jacket. Would you like to sell it to me for $5,000? You bought the jacket for $500, and it was mass produced and you can just buy another one with that money. sounds like a great deal! But if I add that we're in Boston and it's winter and we're outside, miles from shelter, and it's snowing. Suddenly, sellling your winter coat is a way worse idea and not worth making $4,950.

Americans have long held this belief that prices are prices. If I buy a can of beans, it should be the same price if you buy the can of beans instead of me. But in reality, prices are totally made up. Hopefully the price of something is greater than it cost to make it, along with all the other expenses, so the business can remain open and continue, but businesses that go out of business have to sell their items at a loss. Which makes their inventory worth exactly as much as people are willing to pay, usually at a discount.

Sure, he wanted a better deal, but there's only one Twitter, and it's his (plus a bunch of investors and Fidelity). He didn't overpay for anything, he gets to run it how he wants, now that it's his.
Surely it depends on the type of contract. Prepaid SIM cards stop working the second you run out of credit.
Technically they could already do this as JPEG allows adding arbitrary data to the file after the image data. ZIP files allow arbitrary data BEFORE the image data, therefore a file can be a valid JPEG and ZIP at the same time. So all you need to do is to put the MOV into a ZIP and append that to the image file, done. Live Photos in a single file!

Btw., you can abuse the „unlimited“ „free“ photos storage that comes with Amazon Prime that way.
I have been bearish on VR, but could never overcome motion sickness. This obviously puts a limit on viable content types for me.

Can anyone speak to any differences in motion sickness between VR and Apple’s implementation of AR/MR?
One is OpeX and the other is CapeX. I would argue they are both important.
If you have elasticity then make sure you understand the limits. Even Serverless has these knobs but for various reasons they default to high elasticity.

But many folks don’t need the elasticity at all. So you should factor that into your architectural decisions.
According to MS it does.
That sounds like a cool research project. However I think it would be enough to simply (1) not erase authorship data, and (2) not fine-tune and monitor LLMs to suppress outputs that mention people. It's an emergent property that they can trace the provenance of text. For example, if I give it an often repeated quote from a book written in the 1800's, then it can tell me where it came from. That's hundreds of years of noise it's weeding through. Imagine what language models could do for recently created knowledge.
It's not a double standard but the simple truth.

It is true, if you are having a problem with Linux 9 time out of 10 it's possible it fix the problem, aka, you are the problem.

My limited experience with paying for an OS means if there's a problem your just out of luck.
> My god man, not everything needs AI.

1. This is a tongue in cheek website builder, something generative AI would be great at making images (Dalle, Imagen, MJ) and text (GPT4, Claude, Gemini, etc) for a product like this

2. Basically every website builder of substance has AI features now

So maybe chill with the hyperbolic language? ;)
Ever heard of doctrine of MAD?
Turbo Pascal was by far my favorite programming language in the 1980s. I switched to C reluctantly in college because it was portable to the 32-bit Sun workstations we had, then I was a Linux Zealot for a decade or so so I never jumped in the Delphi (sequel to TP) train.

In the early 1980s there was a push for “anything but BASIC” for teaching languages. Before TP, in my mind PASCAL had the stink of failure between the watching-protons-decay slowness of UCSD Pascal and the inadequacy of ISO Pascal to do anything but solve leetcode problems.

C on the other hand accomplished what PL/I had set out to do in a “worse is better” way. TP added enough of what ISO Pascal was lacking to be fine for systems and applications work like C but it was saner, didn’t have the null terminated strings which made strcpy() + a later return Turing complete in C.

TP felt just a little more disciplined than C, like a pop version of Ada.
> I use Home/End/PgDown/PgUp all the time, and not only that MacBook doesn't have these, it doesn't even have Delete key (opposite of backspace), which I find mind-boggling

Fn + Delete, deletes forwards

Command + arrow keys moves cursor to beginning/end of paragraph/doc. Option jumps by word. And you can combine them with Shift for selection.

Spacebar scrolls a full page.

If you want the actual Home/End/PgDown/PgUp you can get them by combining Fn with arrow or F keys, depending on your keyboard, but I never use them.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102650
Why Is Custom Framing So Expensive?
"Software Engineering" circa 2023
Turns out the new generation only understands flat icons. If you make a row of the machine like win 95 buttons they don't see it. "you can click on that? I thought those were just decoration!"

I don't understand how Win 95 icons are meaningfully different than the icons on a smartphone home screen. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you meant.
https://archive.ph/yw3eF
Well first you got to get an agreement from some reasonable Chinese engineer that the drunk neighbour really does need tutelage, and then yes, peaceful skies...
Just chiming in to say I had the same problem and found a solution.

For some reason, my AirPods silently connect to my iPhone while they're in their case and both devices are asleep. Why they do this, I have no clue. Just quality 2020s Apple programming.

Anyways, there's an easy solution: go into the settings app (not the drop down menu) and turn off Bluetooth on your phone/ipad when you don't need it. Your AirPods will no longer randomly drain at night. Neither will your Apple Pencil, if you have one of those.

You'll find a lot of comments on Apple support forums/reddit/etc saying it's impossible for it to be Bluetooth and that you should never turn it off for any reason because it's crazy. People for some reason are very assertive about that. But they're wrong. I now make a habit of only turning Bluetooth on precisely when I need it and immediately turn it off afterwards and now nothing gets drained needlessly.

Now the only AirPods bug that drives me insane is the volume randomly shooting up halfway to max randomly sometimes when I connect to my computer, but I made a script to somewhat fix it.
They might reconsider.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-JPEG-XL-Seconds
The new rules linked by another poster do not say anything about "carrying" knives.

They are rules about "owning" knives and the current owners of such knives are pressured to deposit them at the police or risk criminal charges if caught later, presumably during a home search done for any reason.
I’m sure there’s some bozo GitHub repo out there that does exactly what you’re asking for. But you or someone needs to make a serious pitch with a viable roadmap and explain how it will add to society, and be prepared to tirelessly champion it as a movement, not just another shitty pet project.

If it’s to service a nostalgia kick then that’s not going to be a big enough sell. Otherwise it needs to be a business, which is obviously not an option either.

Xitter obviously made a lot of mistakes, but the appeal to society wasn’t one of them (the execution is another story), but that’s the only reason it is still around. There’s obviously a demand for it that isn’t being fulfilled.

I’m not referring to “free speech”, I think that is the wrong message to focus on, though I do think big tech and Reddit had that wrong. Social media is responsible for the enshittification of society at large. It just takes a click to make someone an un-person at the slightest offense. Whether that be to exclude them from their social community with a block or ban, or expose something they said out of context.

It’s not really a censorship issue as much as it is a self-censorship issue with the secondary effects that has on society as a whole. To put it more plainly: people are too afraid to express themselves, even under pseudonyms. There are exceptions but when they stand out it has a tendency to look weird, so it’s passively discouraged in that way as well. Even if you are allowed to do so, that doesn’t stop cancel culture from taking things you said or did out of context. You can’t have the old web culture back until that’s solved, and I don’t even know if that’s possible to do.

So instead, we are stuck with gatekeepers and overzealous moderation (though the latter was a problem in the old days too). What a way to live, eh?
>I’m pretty sure others have other gripes with the “streamlined experience”.

A simple thing I find infuriating is that the entire 'app' is a singleton. I can't have one window open in one submenu with another window in another submenu, despite no direct relation.

Every OS I regularly lose seems to have lost track of the value of multitasking. Perhaps a side effect of them being treated as a tool to launch a browser.
Racism is real, but that doesn't mean that the idea of "biological race" is real
He does have a point though, not everything needs AI.
I was around back then and there is a lot of nonsense in this article. The biggest one being overstating Turbo Pascal's role in Windows' adoption. Nobody cared what tools programmers used back then. MS-DOS dominated and Windows dominated because they were the OS that came on IBM compatible PCs. And that platform was by far the dominant hardware platform at the time. All the software users wanted was on MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 was backwards compatible with MS-DOS. Etc. Etc. (And while some of that software was written in Pascal, most of it was not.)

Pascal at that time was like Ruby or something is today. Definitely widely used but a far distant to the incredibly dominant C. There's no way to explain to folks today how dominant C was back then. If you were a software engineer learning C was just a given. You may or may not have bothered with BASIC, you may or may not be comfortable getting down to Assembly, but if you were serious about coding, you knew C.
Retiring a Great Interview Problem (2011)
Yes, they make sense. But the point was that it's how you can recognize the EV version of a BMW.
there is also not that much money in the state run that the majority of people education follow. Teacher salaries are already squeezed. Its ironic, everyone says get a good education, old grumps complain the kids don’t know anything, but when it comes to actually paying for it its crickets. Software could help make teaching more efficient but requires up front investment that no one wants to make. State run software projects tend to suck because they are based on minimising cost. Maybe if the act and job if teaching had the same social status as doctors and lawyers it would be different.
>The US has made it clear that it sees semiconductors as a vector to attack power centres in Asia. Today it is China. Democracies are notoriously fickle, tomorrow it could be India, Japan, Korea or anyone really.

Sorry but this sounds more like propaganda. China also sees supply chains "as a vector to attack power centres in Asia", that's applicable to anyone and anywhere. I'm not sure why Asia is a singled out here, sounds like one to trying to construe a racist motive when there is none.

The aformentioned India, Japan & Korea aren't worried about USA, their primary concerns are China and their neighbours. China's explicit objective to control the entire supply chain places them at a direct conflict of interest with those countries. They've already tried sanctioning Korea and Japan over petty issues like Fukushima water waste. Trying to appeal to some vague "Asian" solidarity as opposed to the existing OECD and actual shared norms sounds more like an attempt to divide allies rather than actually caring about those countries' interests.
Starting a panegyric to JV Stalin with words from IE Aleshkovsky is an editorial choice which shows AA Elbakyan takes CE Shannon seriously; I for one am looking forward to a future essay equating pirate site shutdowns with the 7 June (415 BC) early morning mutilation of the herms.

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu6oziDE5wc
> Democracies are notoriously fickle,

are they really though? At least in democracies things require oversight, debates and people are being held responsible.

It's exactly authoritarian regimes that can turn on a dime, if the supreme leader feels like it.
Strange but lovely design
ARRL: Report on Security/Ransomware Incident
How to Train a FLUX.1 LoRA
I was imagining the cap would be a rate, not a total.
Interesting. I have a pen-f and the high-res mode absolutely increases the resolution. Everything is very sharp when viewed at 100%. If the scene is stationary (no water or leaves blowing in the wind) I can't detect any stitching artifact.

I also think that the lenses have to be able to resolve this resolution. My 12mm prime looks somewhat sharper than my 8-25 zoom in high-res mode, even though there is no difference in regular mode.

I'm not sure how to quantify the increase in quality, but the details are sharp. However, I'd say that the real benefit of this mode is that the image is smoother than in the normal mode. Tonal transitions, in particular.

I can't find any specifics, but just taking a picture in this mode and looking at my watch, I think this particular camera takes 8 exposures.
Not my project so can't change anything but I posted this because I got those Geocities vibes too :)
Not a new backdoor, this is about the April backdoor which has been discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39865810
This sort of extreme argument is silly. Yes in that instance you need bureaucrats who parcel out what's there. But almost all the time (except in countries where governed by "social good" politics, where millions have starved to death) you aren't in a life or death situation and can just proceed normally, producing what people want to consume, or being further back in the supply chain and producing what businesses want to consume, is by far the best approach. Let people decide what they want to do and what they want to buy, and leave them alone as much as possible to achieve that.
That's how Google started.

Then they needed revenue.

Enjoy it til it lasts but there will be ads and AI search optimizations.
I was actually curious what your serious reason is.
I’m too dumb to understand any of what you’re trying to say here.
Most of the listed shareholders were shareholders in Twitter well before Musk bought it - in fact, it was during Twitter's IPO roadshow.

For example - DFJ (2010), the Al Saud family (2011), and Fidelity (2011).

In this case, these are minority investors restoring their ownership stake.
there are two jokes to be had, it depends on how you see Twitter. One is, as you mentioned, how certain aspects of Twitter don't align with Puritanical beliefs. The other is how Twitter's far-right following adheres to certain Puritanical beliefs.
Play: How random can a human brain truly be?
So you want to maximise economic rent on the education of the masses and you wonder why societies are resistant to that, plainly because the outcome is horrendous.
I've started exploring this topic a few days ago, and wanted to start sharing what I've learned. This is a short tutorial explaining how to train a custom version of FLUX.1 with your own images, using Replicate.com and HuggingFace
"Psychology can't produce real results because we can't even model a single brain cell perfectly. They only have stats, and stat models."