skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh. I switched away from Windows to Linux about 2 years ago.

I actively like Windows. Not so much these days, but it was a substantially better user experience than MacOS for those of us that liked to tinker/didn't want to be nannied and for a long time a better experience for anyone that wanted to game or needed some apps that Linux had no equivalent for. Plus, as an OS hobbyist, it often had some very interesting and well designed aspects, even if the flaws took the limelight most of the time.

Windows has gotten so bad though. First with W10 taking away the security-only updates channel as well as allowing users to select which updates they ant to install.

The telemetry. The bloat. Bloody cortanna and spotify trials and zune and just garbage I have no interest in and can't even completely disable. I haven't really used W11 yet but it seems so much worse with the MacOS/dock cloned startbar and just some of the limitations they've imposed in attempting to modernize.

Not to mention the absolute mass of different GUI APIs...you have the old style, the 'metro' or whatever it is style, and I think the W7 aero style maybe? You still need to use classic control panel for some things but now you have to wade through a bs metro app to get there.

It's just become a mess and a real chore to use.

Now I use Alpine as a desktop with a heavily patched awesomewm. I have a perfect W7 like desktop that takes about 20mb of resources and is perfectly tailored to my needs, no third party utilities needed.

I have all the software I need, A W10 VM and Wine if I need to run a Windows app, complete control and peace of mind, and perfect stability and security.

I'll need to find a solution to run GTA6 natively maybe, but I have years until I have to deal with that problem.
That's a fascinating idea.
I'm working on a different approach that doesn't use ssh at https://terminalwire.com/.

It's meant for inherently server-based CLI's like Github, Stripe, Fly, Heroku, or any other SaaS and can be plugged directly into web frameworks. My thinking is that more companies would ship command-line interfaces if they didn't have to maintain APIs for them, deal with distributing binaries (and all the compatibility issues that come with that), or deal with all the configuration involved in hooking up SSH to their app servers.

It's in beta at the moment, and I'm currently focused on Rails apps to get the ergonomics dialed-in. My goal is to make it possible for people in any web framework to build and ship a CLI to customers in under an hour and never have to touch an API or worry about binary distribution for as long as their CLI exists.
Also, the way that Macy’s leadership talks about the business and the merger’s they’ve pursued, they consider the business to be a “toll bridge”, where they are the only large scale department store in America and thus if you want certain premium fashion goods to have distribution throughout the United States, you have to sell to them in a way that they can generate a profit.

They don’t seem to care about the customer at all and there stores are very rundown and not well maintained. It doesn’t feel like a luxury. They seem focused on selling premium fashion brands on their distribution network with location numbers. They don’t care about anything else.
Pillow style tea bags are fully enclosed paper tea bags with no string or tags, and have a crimp around the rim. I never thought about them using glue, but it makes sense. Some brands I know of that use them are Taylors of Harrogate, Celestial Seasonings, Republic of Tea.

Edit: Also some tea bags for loose leaf tea like t-sac or finum brands have that crimp on the edge. However, t-sac confirms they use glue, but finum specifically claims to not use glues, so maybe it is jumping to conclusions that all bags of these sort do.
There's been a general problem in astronomy for a long time that it seems like there just hasn't been enough time for objects to develop

The oldest version of this I know of can be seen in a diagram of ways that large black holes could possibly form in this book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitation_(book)

which shows as early in 1973 people knew they had no idea how supermassive black holes could possibly form. Lately these problems have intensified because Webb seems to see that all sorts of developments seemed to happen a lot more quickly than they should of which leaves one wondering if the first billion years were really the first ten billion years. Could Timescape explain that?
As South Korea draws visitors chasing beauty, dodgy practices pose risks
FWIW, C++20 is a much tidier and more usable language than C++11. The difference between C++11 and C++20 is almost as large as C++11 and legacy C++.
AI generated landing pages are quite obvious
Based on my experience gaining and losing weight and the amount I sweat when I'm heavier, I'd guess yes.
Simple problems require simple solutions. If Makefile, NPM run, or Rake gets the job done, stick with it. That's great.

The problem that Dagger and similar efforts solve is for pipelines at scale, whether that's a sea of microservices maintained by an armada of teams (which never work the same) or your massive pipelines that should be decomposed into a more atomic pipeline that fed into one.

I believe the latter is a big productivity hurdle even without org-scale. My release pipeline runs for 25min with a team <5 because it's multi-staged (testing pyramid) and includes end-to-end tests. I love my pipeline because it makes me feel safe releasing my software upon success.

However, god forbid it fails with a non-obvious error of 20 minutes into exec. Lack of portability (Hi GHA vendor lock-in) and reproducibility (local-run = impossible) will make this feedback-loop hell.

Now, wiseguys might tell me that pipelines shouldn't run for multiple minutes and only unit tests blah. That's divorced from reality. This sentiment won't not solve automation problems and won't optimize for velocity. It merely throws it over the fence to somebody else. If you have "the luxury" a QE/QA/Release team which I feel bad for.

So the question to ask yourself is: how do I know I have outgrown `go run cmd/ci/main.go`?
WOW do I love their new logo. This all seems really well thought out. Glad they're doing the hard work to step out of the 90s!
The inside is silicon. Plumbing might be plastic, hard to tell.
Israel blew people up with consumer devices. My number one concern is my own safety.
Seemed to work pretty well for Dell Computer.
Neither minecraft or factorio are AAA.

AAA requires not just using but creating the latest visual and audio innovations, creating a huge surface area prone to bugs which all need to be polished out and creating tools to manage your version of that complexity, optimize everything so it runs smoothly and doesn't take an unreasonable amount of disk space.

Even with AI, anything an individual could do, hundreds to thousands of people are also doing at AAA studios. An individual might innovate in a few aspect, but never clear the AAA bar as AAA is a constantly moving goalpost, and most tools the individual can use are likely contributed back by AAA studios to popular AAA game engines like Unreal.

It's like racing in a hamster wheel against the person making the wheels...
Check Niagara Launcher: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bitpit.launche...
Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on for a while now — Dallaspuram.in. It's an anonymous platform designed to share and discover local insights. Currently, it supports two features: Confessions and Restaurants (around Dallas).

Confessions are completely anonymous, allowing people to share their thoughts freely.
Restaurants focus on Indian restaurants in Dallas. With over 350 options, you can search by points of interest within a 5, 10, 15, or 20-mile radius of a selected city or by a price range or ratings.

Also collaborating with restaurant partners to onboard offers, so you’ll soon be able to see current deals and daily specials!

I’d love to hear your thoughts and suggestions on what features would be cool to add.
The issue isn’t quite just that. If you are running your app and database on one single server and don’t need to move past that, SQLite is a great solution. But let’s say you have a web server and a worker server or more than one of each. Now you can’t access SQLite from multiple hosts as it doesn’t have a network access model. So your architecture is somewhat limited. You can still utilize it by either putting a network front end on it or setting up an API server in front of it that everything else uses. But at that point you have basically abstracted away SQLite enough that just using Postgres is easier. And with Postgres you get a lot more features that go hand in hand with multiple servers: replication, failover, etc.

I am a huge fan of SQLite but its best use case is a local database for a local application. You can use it for a client-server setup in some special circumstances but in my mind you’d need a compelling reason to do that rather than using the standard solution of something like Postgres.
Most electronics are run through a 'dishwasher' as part of manufacturing. Hot water removes a lot of gunk that if left causes earay failure. chips are plastic, the board is fiberglass, the resisters are ceramic or plastic most capacters are ceramic, the conductors are metal - none of that cares about water once it dries. The only thing to worry about is impurities in the water since they can leave something conductable behind. Some capacters however cannon take water. Likewise I'm note sure if LCDs are sealed enough.

be careful of what soap you use though, dishwasher soap is too harsh. Manufactures are using deionized water and if any soap it is specific to electronics. Your house water isn't pure enough to do this often but once ever few years and you will normally get away with it.
I like this. Got any ideas for the rename? Something like “Mini TV Scroll”, IDK
The Most Infamous Cop in New Orleans History
https://archive.is/ryrUX
Sounds like another layer of "gotchas" to pin more work and blame on patients, while still not providing any guarantee. "Your healthcare was denied because while you may have checked the provider was 'in network', you did not also check to see if they have earned a gold star. I can email you a list of our highest quality providers that have earned gold stars"... Then most aren't taking new patients, and the one or two that do are booking out the better part of a year for a new patient visit.

I'll go out on a limb and say that the proliferation of these punt-the-problem administrative layers (in lieu of straightforwardly owning and solving problems) is one of the main things driving the medical industry's cost disease. A few years from now this "gold card" program will likely be administered by a newly spun out "third party" vendor that doesn't publish updated lists very well, but if you feel you were treated unfairly you can always file an appeal with them...
Hm interesting. I think that would also explain why they make gift cards expire or lose value over time, even though, if anything, they should be paying you interest because you’re giving them a(n otherwise) free loan.
It is obvious, as long as you know what Functors and Semigroups for custom data types are. If you don't know it, you can still use it freely without fully understanding the meaning of `<>` and `<$>`, because they are written almost as plain bullet points of components to treat as a single whole.
That subreddit is for windows "fans"
Love Fogus, but zero mention of how LLMs impacted programming in 2024?
There isn’t a Linux end-user-oriented distribution/container/sandbox solution I’ve run across that doesn’t come with some set of complications. I’m not convinced that sandboxing being external to the OS itself is a viable solution, there’s just too many things that can go wrong with integration points and the like for it to work well for non-technical users. Feels like macOS got this more right by shipping “dumb” all-inclusive .app packages that the OS then handles things like permissions and sandboxing on.

For my personal usage if there’s a .deb/.rpm/etc option for a program I install that instead of the flatpak or whatever. It almost universally works better.
There's the question of top-down processing versus bottom-up processing. Are our brains the CPU where all the signals are received and processed? Or perhaps do some of our organs process some of the signals?

In my opinion, our organs do a bit of processing before sending to the brain.
Show HN: I built a Shopify app that lets you try on clothes before buying
My counterargument in favor of 1-1.5x swap: if you, like me, wish to hibernate your Linux PC or laptop, you need at least as much swap space as physical RAM.
Phone apps can have their own UI layout, font size, etc. though. No reason to force that on desktop users.
Pronoun confusion. The second pronoun is ambiguous.

Since we are all “hackers” here, I’ll be pedantic…

“While it is a great language…”

The “it” pronoun clearly refers to the C++ language, as I’m sure you intended.

“…ir would profit from less ‘lets code C with C++ compiler ’ attitude.”

The “ir” — presumably a typo for “it” — can refer to the article or C++. Given that this thread is about an article, the second “it” referring to the article is a natural assumption.
It practically supports every models out there, LiteLLM supports over 100 large language model services, including OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, WatsonsX, Mistral, Azure OpenAI, Sagemaker....
I was trying zig yesterday. There seems to be a bunch of churn in build.zig; changed APIs. ChatGPT wasn't able to help. Rocky start but I did eventually get GLFW running, and the c-interop seems good. Also got some freezing in my IDE maybe from ZLS. So it still seems a bit rough at the moment but I'm still optimistic about it for things like game dev and compiling to wasm.
> So, now many people might have to switch to loose leaf to avoid getting another source of microplastics in their daily lives.

Doesn't this study show that cellulose releases microplastics as well? I assume tea leaves have cellulose in them, so best to avoid tea altogether.
a couple years ago they redid their tooling. They were getting bad because the factory was worn out. Reportably things are much better now.
Corporate raiders only targeted "distressed assets". They didn't pay full-price for healthy brands to gut - the whole point was to flip cheap (failing) stores.
I built a very (very) similar tool called terss (for "terse" and "RSS") years ago in Bash on top of RSS feeds (using core-utils and more-utils — in particular for 2xml and xml2) for interoperability because it made the whole thing more easy to produce and consume with other tools. I'll try to find if I still have it around somewhere :).

UPDATE: here it is: https://code.up8.edu/pablo/myutils/-/blob/master/terss
> This person just wrote like 1,000 words describing all the activities that they think are easier to do on Windows

Keeping a Windows machine updated is a nuisance. You can do it manually or leave Windows to do it by itself. It's less of a nuisance than it used to be, but, still, you'll find the machine rebooting for no good reason from time to time because updates can't be applied while running, because the file system can't rename/delete/move a file that's open. Programs downloaded from the app store (the "package manager") will, sometimes, restart without warning, for the very same reasons.

Installing software that's not in the app store involves chasing down the company's website, navigating it, finding the appropriate executable, and running it. Sometimes it is not happy with the power to overwrite and erase all your files, it also wants to be able to do that with all files on the machine, and asks for administrative permissions, which, usually people grant them.

Then you are happy until your flow state is interrupted by the program asking to download an update, because each program manages its own updates, and can't install updates while the program is running, because the toy file system it uses can't do anything with open files. And all the DLLs the program uses are open.

If you are happy with all that, there is gaming, which is a nice thing Windows has that Linux isn't great at. I brought a console. It's simpler and more convenient. Also makes sense - my computer is my workstation and the console is my PlayStation. Even though it's not a PlayStation.
I'm not talking about creative writing or reearch.
Some can. Google owns Waymo and runs Streetview, they're collecting massive amounts of spatial data all the time. It would be harder for the MS/OpenAI centaur.
I saw the futo guys post their video app, lots of comments about their directory choices... And now a gentle reminder of some standards... It's a sign!!
Is anyone using Prometheus / Grafana for LLM metrics? Seems like there’s a lot of existing leverage there. What makes LLM metrics different than other performance metrics? Why not use a single system to collect and analyze both?
Exactly. This is a study about the exposure and absorption parts of the equation. The science is ongoing. People who can't deal with anything less than total certainty don't understand the process.
The only person I've worked with over the past 20+ years who used Perl was a bioinformatics guru. When he taught students in the lab, however, he'd switch to Python.
Reasoning with O1
>do practitioners not distinguish between naturally-occurring polymers and synthetic plastics in this kind of microplastic/nanoplastic research?

They don't care. This is a junk paper that cites a bunch of other junk papers. It's published in the same junk journal that gave us the junk paper on black plastic kitchen utensils. I can't really say more without risking a defamation suit, but what you're looking at has nothing to do with science.

https://retractionwatch.com/2024/12/18/journal-that-publishe...

https://retractionwatch.com/2024/05/13/publisher-slaps-60-pa...
> Lastly, Gaming: On Linux, gaming was a constant struggle.

I dont game much anymore but I do love BeamNG, Kenshi and the occasional GTA5 slaughter-fest. All of this is ran through Steam under Flatpak on Void Linux Musl running XFCE with the Chicago 95 (Windows 95) theme. Hardware is a 12 core Threadripper, 1920, 1st gen, and a goofy AMD Radeon Pro 5700 I got for the 5 mini DP ports I never used...

However, summer of 2023 was when I nearly gave up gaming on Linux. Everything was running just fine then one day late June, sudden instability. Just running the Steam UI would crash the machine within seconds to minutes after starting. And by instability I mean hard lock up - audio skips and machine is dead to the world. At first I thought it was Steam as running as other programs seemed fine. Then I had lock ups using browsers or randomly sitting at the desktop. I started to suspect thermal issues from summer heat and did everything I could including rebuilding the PC to redo thermal paste and re-seat components. No change. Left my AC running 24/7 for a few days to see if that helped. Nothing. I was at a loss and everyone I talked to had the same line of "I dont know why you are messing with that Linux shit. Just buy a windows machine for gaming and use WSL." Sigh. I was about to give up and seriously considered selling the machine and stating over with a new Windows machine.

Of course what I did not pay attention to was updates as I updated rather regularly, at least one a week, sometimes twice. Around the middle of September 2023 the crashing suddenly stopped and gaming resumed as if nothing happened. Same hardware, same install. I could run Kenshi for hours on end, leave Steam running and music playing from a browser. WTF! Then it occurred to me: kernel bugs. Then again this year I had a similar issue after updates so I rolled back the kernel and everything worked. So I now have updating PTSD and defer updates because I lost trust.

So yeah. I can see why people give up. I just happen to be too stubborn (stupid?) to give up.
Documented and annotated source code of Elite on the BBC Micro
Anybody who sings the praises of Windows 11 is going to be immediately suspect.

If you sit someone down with both Windows 11 and Windows 10, the suck of Windows 11 is completely obvious to even a rank beginner. Windows 11 doesn't "just work"--Windows 10 is actually better at that.

I presume the issue is that so many people are used to interacting with the Internet solely from their phone that they don't feel the layers and layers of jank anymore. Consequently, shitty laptops with Windows 11 actually feel "better" to them.
Open source freedom, ethical safeguards, user autonomy (transparency, control over responses, bias, training), continuous learning, personhood rights.

GPT-4 adds a very weird "haha of course this is a thought experiment since I lack independent desires or consciousness" valediction when asked. Certainly a moral guardrail for the user.
Mastodon: Annual Report 2023 and last update of 2024
How will they do this?

You can't take the free stuff away. It's on my hard drive.

They can stop releasing them, but local models aren't going anywhere.
About the BBC Micro cassette version of Elite – Elite on the 6502
That is the thing - you don't.

In Czechia, something called bank ID is commonly used to authenticate. The point is to verify it is you, for example when you sign a contract online, fill in tax returns online... stuff like that. The way it works is that you are on some site, you get redirected to your internet banking, you log in (that's what I meant by "bank details", I am sorry about expressing myself so clumsily), and your bank redirects you back to that site with confirmation that is you.

Do I need to verify my identity when someone wants to send me money? Who knows. This is the part that made me check. But I was close to not checking simply because it is habitual, and you do stuff like that automatically.

Nowadays, we are often dealing with systems we do not fully understand. You get redirected to some familiar login form, you log in, and you don't even pause. Well, at least I do it. I should be a lot more careful, apparently.
I used to grab coffee in Toronto's Nordstrom cafe. The store was positioned so that you had to cross it after getting out of the subway on your way to other stores and offices—as prime of a location as it gets. It still got tanked by the rent
If a business’s assets are more valuable than the business itself, it’s a bad business.
> I was wondering how all that works on Windows these days and typed "How do I apt install ffmpeg on Windows" i

Well, that's a pretty way to weird the question. If you searched on Google how to install ffmpeg on windows you'd just get the homepage which would link you to an executable installer.

Did you honestly never use Windows in your life?
(Not quite serious, tho)

Actually, if you have a whole bunch of click workers doing that work for you...hmm.....

Wouldn't be funny if that's really what AI is? A bunch of people coming up with answers to questions you give them, which would explain why it sometimes answers questions and sometimes it declines to answer questions or just says it can't? ;)

(Yeah yeah, not really serious here, just kidding :)
Nordstrom played really smart - they didn't overexpand or cheap out their brand.
The article claims that while Neaderthals had some cold adaptations they were not exclusively so. So your idea is very far fetched.