skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i mean look at instagram itself, they have vastly deviated from the original idea of being a photo sharing app to a platform that is reel sharing app. also it will pull you in into doom scrolling if you dont have the ability to limit yourself.
>We don't always have the engineering tools to predict strong "wear and tear" models of such things in software like civil and mechanical engineers have for common bearings/gaskets/lubricants

Because it's not wear. Wear can be measured. Wear is predictable. This again comes back to the mental model.

>most modern OSes now experience major changes once every 6 months, often with alternating (1 year) "LTS" releases

For the OS, this is a fair point. Maybe it should be mandatory to plan for OS updates, which often cause a host of issues.

>some ways the software industry still maybe needs more of a better defined engineer/mechanic split than it has today

I think the reason we don't have a proper split here, is because a split here isn't really possible. Maintenance work _is_ engineering work, you need good judgment to decide whether a dependency update is ok.

A proper test suite can help make the maintenance easier. But there's no mechanic equivalent, since there's not necessarily modular parts to be replaced when interfaces change.

I think all in all we need to move away from engineering analogies. SW engineering is different enough that these analogies do more harm than good. And in the end we should have the self-confidence to ask our managers to understand software as its own discipline.

If a manager doesn't understand what they're managing without heavy-handed analogies, they are in the wrong position.
does it use whisper.cpp?
> I'm not sure if it benefits microsoft in the long term, because the "backwards compatibility" features of Wine need to be implemented in Windows already as a part of the system.

Sometimes running old software atop Wine on Windows is the easiest - or even only - option to have said old software work on new Windows.
A legal authority (judge) issues a legal request, which must be complied with to the best of your ability. If you don't comply, you're acting unlawfully and thus you're detained by law enforcement (police).

It's a pretty straightforward logic.
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Alright, before I continue my comment. I love the look and overall feel of the website. From an aesthetics point of view, I think it looks awesome. However... this sentence

> Maybe we’re just brainwashed from spending years in terminals?

Made me go ... Ugh...

Yes, I very much think so. To be fair, they do a fairly good job with the monospaced font they are using on this website, which is fairly legible. They also seem to actually have put thought into it, other than just doing monospaced fonts for aesthetics.

But, if your main content is semi long form text, then a monospaced font is simply not a good choice. Certainly not when the majority of people who use it on their blog don't give it nearly as much thought and attention as the author of this website.

I know many people on HN don't see it as an issue, certainly not people responding in this thread. However, there are decades worth of research into typography and typesetting on displays that makes it clear that a sans serif font (or even a serif font on modern displays) works better for readability. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/06/02/prosus-acquires-stack-...
From what I understand, this project does not send a "password": its impossible to replay the requests.
What about Gemini 1.5Pro? I think its also quite good. Any comparison points there?
Hah, good plot for an "AI gone rogue" story... task an AI to code a nuclear launch detector, making sure to be a clean coder. It decides to do an integration test.

The twist would be it'd be the 100th nuclear launch, everyone on the planet is already dead and it's just the AI "alive" in a bunker under some mountain.
> average data usage of macbooks

With all sincerity, I honestly don’t know what this is supposed to mean.
Same here on my issue tracker, seems to be GitHub wide.

https://i.imgur.com/jJljJp8.png

They reply with the message to new issues, which makes their notification email look like a direct solution to the submitter's issue, so they'll probably catch out a lot of people...
Don't give them ideas lol terrifying stuff if that happens!
Oligarchs: Found this today while travelling the net
Isn't Labour party far left?
Cool idea, however I feel the linked topics are pretty narrow and may not be very related. It could be more like a map.
Unfortunately the one thing that will always keep me to Fedora is System76's disinterest in keeping the repositories somewhat up to date with the rest of the world. It boggles my mind why is there no Debian-based distro that are either bleeding edge or at the very least on par with Fedora's freshness in terms of updates.
It was sold to something called Prosus in 2021 for a tidy 1.8 billion USD
well, i didn't post the full question - right? b/c i'm not expecting an answer here ... but to be a little more clear: data usage refers to up- and download.
Typography improvements are always pretty high on Apple's priority list
include a screenshot and a description of its key feature. give a bit of context!
It's not just about death counts. It's about pollution as well. Chernobyl has polluted a huge area which is closed off to this day and won't be able to be used for decades more. Fukushima pollution is all over the Pacific.

And dismantling is a huge cost that is often left to the state because the operators don't bother factoring it in.
macOs: “IOGraph.app” cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified.

Had to go into the Settings -> Security and confirm with my password to run it anyway.
I feel fixing stairs would be very actionable though, and something that I'd not remember other than when it almost fails under load or fails entirely.

I personally don't need a reminder to go off for a thing I need to do today or tomorrow, but something happening next week or next month that I need to check up on or arrange. Those tend to be the kind of expensive and really annoying thing to fix after neglecting
That is useful information, thank you.

If running upstream Linux with guix userspace is a somewhat well established path that solves the firmware problem. I'm a little unclear on what the various distribution patches to the kernel usually achieve but I'm hopeful that moving from Debian's kernel package to upstream would work fine in practice.

I should give it a try. Thanks
Thanks! For some, it's the only method that works (myself included).

> How are you guys making money? I see you have a single-person tier for $3 an hour? Even so, that's crazy.

Update: First of all, users are _not_ our product. Our only source of revenue is subscriptions to our service.

Each user has a dedicated Productivity Partner, and they connect with them in a 1-on-1 video call. 90% of the time, Productivity Partners do not interact with users; they just ensure the user is present and (optionally) monitor their screen to make sure they're not scrolling through Reddit. This allows each Productivity Partner to work with multiple users simultaneously.

By the way, screen sharing isn't as scary as it seems. We lower the resolution and bitrate on the user's side to such low levels that we're not able to read any text or even distinguish images. However, it's enough for us to see when the user is on Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, etc.

Edit: more context in quoted message.
Edit #2: clarification that you're not our product
> isn't particularly hard

At scale it’s incredibly hard. Impossibly hard even. So hard no one has successfully solved it! Ever!

But what you’re describing is Valve’s Overwatch system for Counter-Strike. It’s a key component of the anti-cheat ecosystem. But cheating is still rampant in CS and one of the biggest complaints.
Yeah it would be so easy to stop cheaters if they only stopped to think about the problem for a few minutes.
Let me tell you about the flesh-eating bacteria living in your sponge. You better microwave it beforehand.
This documentary on the drug trade in Belgium has a segment on the uberisation of drug dealing and shows the usage of telegram for that purpose: https://youtu.be/9-DwggVrt2c?t=2613&si=SBct_5WUZCoJmcgA
just a daily reminder
How does it know how many times it needs to shoot the zombie before it dies?

Most enemies have enough hit points to survive the first shot. If the model is only trained on the previous frame, it doesn't know how many times the enemy was already shot at.

From the video it seems like it is probability based - they may die right away or it might take way longer than it should.

I love how the player's health goes down when he stands in the radioactive green water.

In Doom the enemies fight with each other if they accidentally incur "friendly fire". It would be interesting to see it play out in this version.
IO wait time for disks is a great one too for catching IO load, `glances` and `atop` do a good job of surfacing it when it's an issue.
There absolutely are issues, whether you accept it or not, and it is nothing to do with 'not trusting TPM'.

Apple SSDs engineered in the worst way possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qbrLiGY4Cg

Exploding USB-C MacBook Ports Explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAGnMR1aVuE
If anyone likes the idea feel free to steal it.

One of the projects I have on my endless things to do is to create a computer RPG (maybe dabbling in the action RPG genre) in where the characters are dressed up and playing in a LARP.

Weapons are foam weapons. Confetti or water balloons for area effect spells, serpentine or other similar effects for line attacks, ... . NPCs are also people dressed, and maybe some cardboard cutouts for goblins, kids, and other things that could be big in numbers or shouldn't take part in a larp.

I don't know what things go in the back, such as, should some NPCs just be GMs doing the rolls and acting on the scenery? It probably would be easier to make it straight, but it would be less "fun".
it not being Gnome

Gnome comes with a lot of baggage both technical and organizational, this has lead to situations where Pop_OS! wasn't able to manage/change/improve things like they think they needed to do hence why they started to create Cosmic. Just be clear this was a business decision by system76 to some degree, not just some "I don't like it so I created something even if it doesn't make sense" decision.

it looks like Gnome because it's for people which had been using Gnome so far, but it's just similar not the same and likely will only diverge more over the next many years assuming it succeeds
You haven't found a single Thinkpad without serious complaints? What kind of complaints?
Tesla's self-driving is still not working in Boring Company's one-way tunnels
Bots Spammed My ProductHunt Launch–Is This Fair?
Hey HN,

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However, it didn’t take long before I noticed something strange. The names and profile pictures of the commenters started to look suspiciously similar. After seeing this happen repeatedly, I decided to check a few profiles, and it became clear that they weren’t real users.

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Good news: I heard on a podcast with someone from System76 that they plan to support Fedora with an official Cosmic spin!
France also invested heavily in nuclear because they develop their own nuclear weapons. So a knowledgeable industry is key, even though the materials aren't exactly the same.
You could improve the grounding instead of spending time making such a light.
Gnome looks good?

It's Rust based and brand new (more secure, less bagage, Wayland native, no fragile plugin system, etc). I'm really looking forward to it.

I love Gnome but I want (at least) quarter tiling, but rather have the flexible tiling KDE offers (where you drag windows into predefined areas and they snap, preferably windows always open where they are dragged once). I want speed, I want it to get out of my way. My current flow is: Open window, hit win + left arrow, open another, hit win + right arrow, have 2 windows together on ultra wide. I do the same on 2 or three other desktops. And then I start working.

Oh, something nicer than Network Manager would be nice, something simple with super simple WireGuard VPN integration, etc.

Currently I'm still very happy on (daily driver) Gnome on NixOS, but will surely check this out soon.
What is there to feel victimized? This is a policy proposal and it is ridiculous. That's about it.

> hypothetical tax on people

It is literally part of Biden's tax proposal and is endorsed by Kamala's campaign. None of us are making this up.
The point should be to reduce what doctors and carpenters alike to what the billionaires pay to “the crown”. A 42% tax rate is obscene. A 32% tax rate too. 10% should be the target.

I have moved from a high tax society(Sweden) to a low tax society and I prefer it.
What I understand is the folloeing: If this works so well, why didn't we have good video generation much earlier? After diffusion models were seen to work the most obvious thing to do was to generate the next frame based on previous framrs but... it took 1-2 years for good video models to appear. For example compare Sora generating minecraft video versus this method generating minecraft video. Say in both cases the player is standing on a meadow with fee inputs and watching some pigs. In the Sora video you'd expect the typical glitched to appear, like erratic, sliding movement, overlapping legs, multiplication of pigs etc. Would these glitches not appear in the GameNGen video? Why?
Install this, instead of a light in the bathroom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_rod
How is that "best"? Seems pretty bad, if they dont reverse ban even after being informed of possible false positive.

Having anticheat ban everyone doesnt make it good. What makes anticheat good is it banning cheaters while leaving honest players not.
You're right. For me personally, Discord was killing Stackoverflow about a year earlier. Waiting a week for a reply on Stackoverflow was becoming dull while discord live chat rooms were buzzing with instant feedback. Even as copilot first arrived it wasn't a scratch on asking an room of professionals at realtime. But now chatGPT has become a bit more fledged you can see why it would dent other platforms. I've often thought about this as how would you train future bots if all we do is talk with them now?. Where will they read their answers?
Well, whether it matters depends on the workload: IB is basically remote DMA so if you need to pick and poke remote data I guess it'll work as another NUMA tier.

But for AI training, where you're simply shuffling around large stacks of matrices, my guess is latency constraints weaken.
> most of the generally valid questions have already been answered

My experience was that SO excelled at answering basic questions with definitive answers, but anything creeping outside that sweet spot would be poorly understood by both answerers and moderators. It’s still a useful resource for that historical record of basic answers, but it feels like complex, niche or subtle questions are not welcome.
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To answer your question with another question: what exactly is the PHP queue library interacting with? Where is the queue being persisted? How is that persistence layer being deployed/run?

I am a dev, so your translation is indeed cynical and uncharitable (and inaccurate).

I also don't understand what you have against DevOps or UX. DevOps is just how you actually run the applications/services/etc (that you've written with code) in production. DevOps can be done by a developer or by people dedicated solely to that task. UX is just caring about how end users actually interact with the application/services/platform. This can also be done by developers, or by designers, or by UX specialists, or whomever.

These concepts exist regardless. Sure, you can choose not to care about how your application and its required dependencies are run. Sure, you can choose not to care about how your users interact with the things you are building. But not caring about those things doesn't mean they go away.
The villa murder (De villamoord) is this a big deal?
This is a six part documentary (In Dutch, not sure of the documentary is streamable outside of the Netherlands) about a murder that happened in a Villa around 1998. Shortly after, 9 suspects are arrested, convicted and jailed.

https://npo.nl/start/serie/de-villamoord

One commits suicide. The documentary clearly shows (IMO) that all 9 people were jailed on fabricated evidence.

A member of a project called "The innocence project" writes a book about this, with a few weeks it's pulled from the shelves and the writer is fined 17,000 euros.

At the end of every episode the documentary maker state that the responsible prosecutor refuses to answer the documentary maker's questions.

The highest courts in the land have stated they will not be repopening the case to come to a new conclusion.

The responsible prosecutor was not fired, but promoted to a very high position in the Dutch judicial system, where they still are today.

What do the people on in this community think? Is this a big deal or a great big mwaaa, no big deal, not a problem.
varför inte?
"middle of nowhere" is really vague here. I'm not talking about a station in WA not accessible in the wet season. There's a good number of 30k+ towns around VIC/NSW where you can find lots of social contact.
It gets a number of previous frames as input I think.
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The reason multiplayer servers implicitly trust clients is because it's a cheaper and proven (less risk) solution.

The traditional anti-cheat can be just slapped after the game is developed in most games. If the game is very successful then you can just update the game with extra paid protections provided by the anti-cheat tool.

The alternative is local game engine that works with a partial game state which is a challenge on it self. If you still can make it work, you will still have to deal with people "modding" the client to gain an advantage. E.g.: enemies are painted red instead of camouflage.
Because video is much more difficult than images (it's lots of images that have to be consistent across time, with motion following laws of physics etc), and this is much more limited in terms of scope than pure arbitrary video generation.
That’s two perfect examples! Racket seems to try to use native widgets, and looks horrible as a result, at least on macOS

JavaFX uses the same approach as Humble UI: they draw all the widgets themselves and have custom cross-platform look and feel.

We aim to be better quality version of JavaFX
I would have thought it is much easier to generate huge amounts of game footage for training, but as I understand this is not what was done here.
Tools are just that, tools. 150 years ago someone might have said the same thing about a pocket watch or a paper calendar.

The question is, whether the form of task keeping the tool encourages fits to your practice. E.g. if you have a well ordered software engineering life, thst thing might be perfect, if you are a mother of three that works as a alpine guide a paper based system might work better. Or you might just not like the choices they made — which is a perfectly fine reason not to use it.

What I have learned is that procrastinators will hunt for the perfect tool to manage their backlog, especially when it means they can avoid tackling their backlog.

One thing tho: time tracking can be an eye opener. Many people do 30 minutes of effective work a day, while (understandably) feeling stressed for not getting shit done. Task Warrior has a great time tracking extension. So depending on your life and needs it might be well worth figuring out where you spend your time.
Denuvo isn't just a flag on a process. It's no more relevant to your suggestion than encryption would be to a suggestion that audio files have an option to prevent them being copied.
That is also true. That’s a good reason to block certain IP segments.
Microsoft Copilot: From Prompt Injection to Exfiltration of Personal Information
Depends how much patience you have.

Firejail if you want ease of use (there are a lot of ready profiles to be used).

Bubblewrap if you want more security, at the cost of having to do more manual work.

TL;DR Firejail is a blacklist of things, while bubblewrap is an whitelist, so bwrap policies tend to be tighter.
Now try to buy from them. They are just scammers who are nowhere near you. They will ask you to send codes from gift cards.
This is a common misconception. Some players are extremely good at video games, and they look like statistic anomalies / outlier when mapped across the full distribution of players.

Consider, for example, professional gamers. They spend countless hours practicing, and they can easily outcompete casual gamers who don't have the time to refine their skills daily.

Statistical anti cheat is extremely weak in any game where legitimate human players can end up as outliers.
Got it, so it's more about removing microcode.
Certain categories of youtube videos can also be viewed as some sort of game where the actions are the audio/transcript advanced a couple of seconds. Add two eggs. Fetch the ball. I'm walking in the park.
It’s a mood.
If only it was affordable.