skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am the only one to be a bit upset by the term "fake artist"?

While AI is evoked, this is not what is talked about here. The article mentions Epidemic Sound, and looking at their page, it "doesn’t currently use generative AI to create music".

It means that we are talking about real people here, there is nothing fake about them and their work, what they do takes skill and effort. That they focus on quantity over quality and are under-recognized does not make them "fake". Otherwise, I bet most of us would be called "fake engineers".
Not relitigating this but wishing someone dies in a cartoon explosion is still wishing they were dead
What is it that outweighs cortana, telemetry, license fees, ads, silence on security issues, and a 6% performance penalty?
> the degradation of culture and is destroying the market for quality music.

I dislike almost all pop music with vocals and rock and metal and all that overly guitar-y stuff. I very much prefer the music available to me today compared to what I had an option to listen to in the 1990s.
I'm not sure it's possible to solve for that with additional prowess.

If you are wronged by a machine you are always going to be emotional about it, i.e having your email account unceremoniously terminated by Google without recourse by an essentially automated process.

The thing to solve for is the lack of recourse. Very very difficult in American society given how skewed the relationship is between corporations and people (or the government for that matter).

If instead when a Waymo demonstratively caused an accident the payout was 10-100x higher than if a human was involved I suspect many peoples qualms would go away.

While I think just the "knowledge" (assuming Americans would accept facts...) that the driver is X% better than the best drivers on the roads would provide little comfort to most.

I think in societies outside of America these may be more successful actually. i.e most parts of Asia.
Thanks, MS did take a lot of efforts on the security. Searching for X360 keyvault gives a lot of webpages. I'll read a bit.
For 10 USD more than the carbon case, I prefer using the following item for my wallet. https://nomadgoods.com/products/tracking-card
"red" is blue, and "blue" is red!
blaylockbk/Herbie: https://github.com/blaylockbk/Herbie :

> Download numerical weather prediction datasets (HRRR, RAP, GFS, IFS, etc.) from NOMADS, NODD partners (Amazon, Google, Microsoft), ECMWF open data, and the Pando Archive System

The Herbie docs mention a "GFS GraphCast" but not yet GenCast? https://herbie.readthedocs.io/en/stable/gallery/noaa_models/...

"GenCast predicts weather and the risks of extreme conditions with state-of-the-art accuracy" (2024) https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gencast-predicts-weath...

"Probabilistic weather forecasting with machine learning" (2024) ; GenCast paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08252-9

google-deepmind/graphcast:
https://github.com/google-deepmind/graphcast

Are there error and cost benchmarks for these predictive models?
The problem is little to no funding. Programmers generally have to be paid to do the not fun parts of programming like fixing issue #74738547 “settings app labels have the last letter cut off when running on a high DPI display on a Tuesday when it is raining in Delhi, India but only on an even numbered year.”

UI development is an endless procession of nit picky long tail aesthetic and usability bugs.
You cannot blame consumers for the literal failure of the free market. Consumer psychology is what it is, you cannot change it, and actors in the free market will gladly abuse it where they can.
For as long as I used Windows it always had a bizarre strata of inconsistent and increasingly archaic GUI styles going all the way back to Windows 3.1. I'm a regular user of Ubuntu, Fedora, and PopOS, and they all look and feel better than Windows.
Almost everyone can be put into a situation where they rationalize a “negative” into a not negative, most easily visible in cases in which the item being disputed is a scarce resource essential to survival.

> the concept of that's not yours and is actually someone else's isn't the most compelling reason?

At its core, this concept is more of a truce where multiple parties agree that the costs of physical violence are not worth it, because the alternative is more acceptable. Hence the saying that “society is only 3 or 6 or 9 meals away from revolution”.
Enum of Arrays
> Since the Dwingeloo telescope was designed for observing at lower frequencies than the 8.4GHz telemetry transmitted by Voyager 1, a new antenna had to be mounted.

Is there any info on this new antenna?
What the F is This Code Doing?
It looks pretty similar in magnitude to the siege of Grozny by the Russians.
6% faster on Linux. I don't come for the performance gain though it's nice.
I can't imagine going to my theorerical wife-in-open-monogamy-relationship and tell her that the girl I had sex with at work's Christmas party gave me std because, despite she had her pills, but the rubber fell. It's just not mixing up in my head.

Also, if I give myself to my wife as a whole (i.e. I take care of her, the home and the children) I do not have time really to have another affairs. The rest of the time I'm left with I either sacrifice to be with her or have my own time like play games or compose music. There are lots of things to be done really, and I couldn't imagine sacrificing my family and duties to pursue sexual satisfaction with other people outside of my family.
I think its decent considering it requires money , and even chatgpt in its early stages didn't allow for anonymous chats / unlimited chats and I remember going on all these chatgpt clones becuase of that.

I also understand the hilarious spin that you added considering tldr (too long didn't read) lmao. but still its worth your email.

Crazy how I realised that tldr meme after I had written the first paragraph
I think the article is too easy. I would like to see actual experiments.

Group A writes a couple of tasks without typing. Group B writes it with typing. Compare development times, execution times, quality, security, etc...
I have far more annoyances with Windows 11 than mint these days but that is a matter of opinion and use cases I suppose. I actually generally used to like the Windows UI, but it keeps getting less responsive. I wish they'd just stop.

Here's one: Why does the OneDrive option load 3-4 seconds AFTER the new right click context menu loads causing everything to move down and for me to click the wrong thing as it moves under my mouse cursor? I hated that on the web so they brought it to the desktop UI.
Most people wouldn't realise they can't recover their TOTP codes. But the hacker would still need to know your password surely
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Yes, that’s’ why a switched to Apple Music
You're saying it like it's a bad thing. This is one of the major reasons I use FOSS UNIX-like operating systems. (Not just linux, but FreeBSD too.) Because the desktop environment of my choice has stayed the same for more than 20 years without the need to relearn everything and adjust your workflow every time somebody in Microsoft needs a promotion. Scary to think how much time for bullshitting on internet forums has been saved over that period.
Really? What about all the dead hostages ?
Yep, I have an rsync script which I run from WSL to backup both my WSL home directory and a bunch of files on a separate Windows drive to an external hard drive.

It takes something like 8 minutes for rsync to get the metadata about files before it starts potentially transferring anything. On native Linux a comparable amount of files takes less than 10 seconds.
In my case I tried to work on Windows with some ThinkPad 5ish years ago when I got annoyed of unrealiable docking behaviour on Linux. It turned out it was flaky hardware of firmware on the Lenovo dock and it didn't work appreciably better on Windows.
this is great, thanks for the deliberate thoughts, I definitely need to change the homepage as suggested
...so you agree that this is missing the '2' in 2FA?
> From what I can tell, there are 4 main reasons why some don't upgrade.

You missed the most obvious reason to not upgrade: there is no good reason to do it.

> There have been huge improvements not only in the language itself, but also performance and memory use.

That's debatable, and even if we blindly assume that then it's debatable whether the upgrade justifies the gains.

More often than not, it doesn't.
I guess there is no accounting for taste, but I really find Gnome Desktop to be the one that wastes me the least amount of time. Mac is a close second (even though some things are hidden in hard to find places, such as the user's Python environment).
About once a year I try running Windows, but it's still too annoying, ad-ridden, bloated yet limiting and ultimately powerless that I'm willing to stick with the higher performance alternative.
lol, it's actually a typo, but your reply inspired a change to something like: We're all ears, tells how we can help you
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I ended up at Tldraw's London office a few weeks ago for a thing, and I remember afterwards being like 'ahh, now I understand how they end up just casually doing random cool shit and attracting the kind of talent they do'.

They should be extremely proud of the culture they've managed to foster and I genuinely hope to see them succeed as a business.
Not only that, Hamas stole the world’s money meant to feed and help and instead oppressed and killed.
Palestine people would do well to join Egypt
First release the hostages.
The war could be over to tomorrow if Israel stops illegally occupying Palestinian territory. The consequences for creating illegal settlements should be massive to let the world know that stealing others people land is not acceptable.
Just converted a month ago from windows 10 to kbuntu 24lts The first thing is really weird bugs when dealing with multi-monitors in plasma/sddm (getting into UI locked states or xrandr settings not sticking for whatever reason). The second annoyance is not having first party support for peripherals like my mouse and webcam (looking at you Logitech) or generally thick client software that has windows/macos candidates but not Linux. Third is publishers with anticheat DRM being extremely hostile to VFIO gaming. EA announced Apex losing Linux support and recently they just blocked all their EAAC protected games from running on VM.

And even despite all that and more I am so happy to be rid of windows as a daily driver.
Two things: 1) missing apps. Recent examples are 1password having a browser extension but no desktop client and I use several browser profiles, which results in me having to enter my 1password over and over again. Claude and OpenAI desktop apps missing. There are other more esoteric/personal ones of course, but those were the most annoying.
2) installing stuff is still a disaster. I most recently used PopOS and a mainstream app like Slack suggested Snap install, and I didn't have the Snap store. So I installed that and Slack installed but didn't work. Ended up installing the rpm instead which worked, but then the Snap Slack instance started working. So now I have two Slacks running and no idea which is which.

Yes, I'm a "noob" but like I said I have been doing this for 20 years. Have been a fulltime CTO for most of those years. Do server side linux admin fairly regularly as well.
Ah, the classics:

"Pedestrian involved in accident"

"Cyclist collides with car"

"Car brushes against cyclist"

"Vehicle loses control"

Amazing how responsibility shifts when a two-ton machine is involved.
Hey! To be honest, I am not sure my feedback would be very valuable. I'm probably your worst type of user -- perma free plan -- simply because I'd only use your tool sporadically. I don't do literature reviews that often, but often enough to think about using a tool like this I suppose.

I totally get it though, it's a difficult thing to balance. If I was doing lit review and deep research daily 6.99 is an amazing deal.
can you please tell me more what trustworthy middleware author mean? (I didn't get it, sorry)
> No, we don't pay as much as Meta.

>> Are you saying you pay well as comparing to the local McDonalds?

That's just disgusting.
FCC Chairwoman Rosenworcel Proposes New Spectrum Allocation for Space Launches
> Nothing

Again, you're just manifesting your ignorance on the topic.

If you know nothing about a subject, you should refrain from commenting on it, let alone wasting everyone's time with your half-baked conspiracy theories.
If they didn’t check government issued photo ID, then they really didn’t follow through.
Interesting!

Can you describe how it worked? Who knows, maybe I could make it happen.

I've been thinking of creating a more involved "demo" to entice traffic/links/SEO. Maybe something like this could be it.
Another proof that "smoke kills". /s
Building Effective "Agents"
Converting Between Any Base in Rust–AI-Assisted Code Breakthrough in 60 Seconds
Using Cursor + RustCoder to Implement a Conversion Algorithm Between Any Bases (Passed on First Attempt)
I don't get this one. I don't see ads, Cortana hasn't been a thing for like 2 years. My work pays for my license. Security seems fine in 2024. My time is very valuable.
> It still has enough annoyances that it isn't worth 6% or extra freedom for me.

It is funny that I found modern Windows an annoyance instead. Every time I have to boot my Windows machine (I boot in Windows maybe once every month), generally one of those followings things happen:

- I need to type my BitLocker recovery key because for some reason Windows always reset it (from my search it seems that the fault is my Lenovo docker that acts as a PCI-e device and Windows doesn't like when a PCI-e is removed/reattached and invalidates the BitLocker key in TPM, but it is still annoying)

- Windows need to download a bunch of updates. Not a big issue, but now that Windows 11 is all about "feature updates", at least twice a year I need to see that dreadful "Welcome Screen" asking the same questions that I already answered a few months ago

- If the above happens, this also generally also brings some feature that I need to hunt to disable. "We think it would be so fun if we can show to you a random lock screen wallpaper, especially if we can also show you some ads for money, so let's active this by default even if you already disabled this in your previous Windows install".

- Even if it is not a big Windows update, every time I boot Windows I still need to wait a while until my system is usable again since every other program will run their update process. Of course they're all separate updaters, so they have no idea they're running at the same time, slowing down both my system and network in the process

I mean, I understand your complain. If I was not deep in Linux since my colleage days I don't think I could get used to the system today. NixOS also definitely helps because once I fix an issue, I know this issue will stay fixed even if I need to reinstall the system. The fact that Linux seems to be the only major operational system that respect my choices today is a huge to me.
When I worked for Canonical, they made it a point not to have a reference corporate laptop precisely for that - we all ran different brands with different configurations (one of my colleagues had a late MIPS sub-laptop as his travel companion). The Japanese laptops were by far the most interesting and unique.

I picked an unimaginative Dell (my house was burglarized right before I started and I lost my then daily driver) because it had the shortest delivery time.
OK, great, formal verification gives some guarantees, that sounds nice and all. It's just that all the academic math nerds that are fluent in the checking tools are busy getting payed much more than average software developers, and I have a suspicion that they'll get less done per year in terms of features and refactorings of the code that immediately makes the monies flow.

I find the BEAM/OTP process model relatively simple to use, and it moves some of the friction from logic bugs to a throughput problem.
Casual Viewing: Why Netflix looks like that
The fact that Linux is still around 4% of the desktop market share is the example I use to illustrate that technical superiority doesn't always means commercial success.
You never proved she did that Matt, you made a lot of accusations but outside of a cartoon joke, nothing
that is very helpful, perhaps I didn't take into consideration that many people digitally active today don't know about it. thanks for sharing this
I don't understand why AirTags being used for stalking would open Apple to lawsuits. If I buy a hammer and use it to attack someone, the manufacturer of the hammer isn't open to a lawsuit.

Of course I'm not saying Apple shouldn't try to protect people from stalkers using their control over their products, I just don't see why it would make Appld responsible if someone misused their products.
What I love about Windows Terminal is the ability to run shaders on the contents of the windows. This should be a feature of the whole Windows desktop.
I put the agents in quotes because anthropic actually talks more about what they call "workflows". And imo this is where the real value of LLMs currently lies, workflow automation.

They also say that using LangChain and other frameworks is mostly unnecessary and does more harm than good. They instead argue to use some simple patterns, directly on the API level. Not dis-similar to the old-school Gang of Four software engineering patterns.

Really like this post as a guidance for how to actually build useful tools with LLMs. Keep it simple, stupid.
"Sam is harnessing powers that few of us ever encounter in our lives. He’s directing them in order to reach down inside of this deck of tarot cards and transform the very atomic nature of its being. He’s doing what sorcerers do: magic."

This is how I feel when I practiced welding. It really is truly sorcery. All the fantasies and stories of olde, with wizards wielding wands that spout lightning. This is it! We can actually do it! But I'm not very good at it :)
The point of GribStream is that you don't need to download the grided data (cause as you say it is huge! and it grows many Gb every single hour for years).

This is an API that will do streaming extraction and only have you download what you actually need.

When you make the http request to the API, the API will be processing up to terabytes of data only to respond to you with maybe a few Kb of csv.
Why did Bottles become such a hostile project?

They asked for non-support and shit talked about packagers.
And, if you appreciate consistency that much, even CDE is available as an option (although I don't love it that much).
Ultimately people care only about what they see, not what they cannot see. An OS is useless if it can’t run Microsoft Office or the thousands of other Windows-only printer drivers. Not to mention the “where’s my start button” crowd.
This.

Also healthcare providers, though they seem to have finally wised up. They would call me from poorly configured phone systems (so unrecognizable caller id) and the first thing they would ask is to confirm full name and date of birth.

Patterns like this do a great deal of damage in desensitizing folks and making them accept dangerous patterns that get exploited by scams.
https://github.com/mapsme/omim/ was forked in December 2020, with all new changes up to the last commit of Apr 28, 2021 merged into https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/ later. MAPS.ME is alive, but they publish the source code anymore since that.
Can Rust Solve the Birthday Paradox? The Rust Code That Calculates the Odds
Using Cursor + RustCoder to Calculate the Probability of Two or More People Sharing a Birthday on Any Given Day
It would take a very awesome job or a very bad market for me not to accept that I think.
Very much this! I was also at a thing at their office a few weeks ago (some thing? "Local Thirst"), and Steve gave a demo of this. It is incredible.

I've joked before that the last generation of human machine interfaces ware invented at Xerox park, and the next generation is being invented at TLDraw of Finsbury Park. But it's not really a joke, I genuinely believe it.
My take is the issue is really human-driven. In the Linux community, there’s this tendency to say, “This thing should be better,” and instead of working with others to resolve the issue, they just start a new project instead. The result? Time and attention are split across countless forks and alternatives, when they could have been collaborating to make something truly exceptional.

Think about how many man-years have been wasted trying to "fix" the same problems—whether it's the KDE vs. GNOME divide, the battle between package managers (RPM, DEB, Flatpak, Snap...), or the scattered efforts to create a mobile Linux OS. Imagine the impact if even half of that energy had been pooled into a single, shared vision.

It’s great to have choices, but at what point does “choice” turn into unnecessary fragmentation?
The worst case scenario is when the data has to go over the WSL border twice (one to be processed by whatever Unix thing you are using) and another when it's written to an NTFS filesystem somewhere else.

My personal happy space is actually Cygwin. It's Unixy enough and doesn't cross the WSL border. Not great because NTFS doesn't perform that well under it, but definitely better than WSL.
The ability to actually use all of the hardware I buy.

Also using an external monitor without scaling issues is nice.

Also not having to spend days on figuring out whether I want Linux or Unix and then which distro, window manager, audio driver, package manager, etc to use is quite nice.

Being able to configure all of my hardware (including mouse scrollewheel) without resorting to writing scripts and hacks is nice.

100 percent worth dealing with extremely terrible Microsoft Windows, because the alternative is even worse in terms of usability.
It's Betamax all over again ;-)
Even if you recognized it, the number shown by Caller ID is easy for the caller to spoof -- or at least it was a few years ago (the last time I paid attention).
I was being sarcastic.

Perhaps in the future I'll have enough trust in autonomous digital systems (and their designers) to close my eyes and walk across a street while high-speed traffic seamlessly weaves around me, but the sum of my experiences to date don't give me confidence that these sorts of systems wont occasionally fail in extremely catastrophic ways.

At least when I cross in front of a human driver I can ensure that they're looking me in the eye while they run me over.
Banks maybe, but Google? Google only has "AI" support and that doesn't call us yet. So it's safe to assume that any call from Google is fake.
> And it doesn't even occur to you that the problem is the poor infrastructure?

It has occurred to me.

> Do you honestly think that the optimal solution here is just to keep waiting for some trillion dollar corporation to be able to sell some new product that will bring you more "convenience"

Not sure where you got this idea. I’m not waiting for anything. I’m still excited for self driving vehicles to compliment the existing system.

> at the cost of dependency and yet-more environmental costs related to cars and its required parking infrastructure

Why would a self driving car need to park? The ability to always be in use is one of the advantages.

As I said there’s no requirement that the self driving vehicle be a car form factor. A self-driving bus could improve access and reliability.

> when you instead could be doing something like, I don't know, getting your city council to improve the fucking bus service?

How?

I choose to live in a city with good (for America) transit. I vote for every transit measure available to me. I ride the bus.
I commute by bike when I can. I don’t own a car.

What else should I do?