skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still upcoming (already in Nightly), but I'm very excited about vertical tabs, tab grouping, and a better profile UI. And proper uBlock Origin support is table stakes for me.
Discussion (21 points, 28 days ago, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42305604
Proton does such a good job that it is difficult to justify the cost of porting games when they already run on Linux in Proton. That said, Feral Interactive is still porting games to Linux and they have not gone bankrupt:

https://www.feralinteractive.com/en/news/?platform=linux

Proton often runs games better than the native ports, so there is not much of a loss if there are fewer native ports. Furthermore, in a number of cases, Windows games actually run better on Linux in Proton than on Windows.

Elden Ring is a fantastic example, as on day 1, it performed about 15% better on Linux in average FPS, and had substantially less stutter if I recall correctly.

World of Warcraft is another great example. It is well known to get about 20% better performance on Linux than on Windows:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2_LlSaYNUo

Minecraft is another such game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytgDMgYL0eo

If you use AMD GPUs, it is more often the case that Linux will outperform Windows in games, since Valve wrote the shader compiler used for them on Linux and it is fairly amazing:

https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail...

Nvidia is working on improvements for the performance of Windows games running on Linux too. A recent driver release mentions a few such improvements:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/237587/

Not all games perform better on Linux than on Windows, although Valve has people actively working on changing this:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog
> So we force them to do the just bare minimum. Isn't capitalism great

This has nothing to do with capitalism. The Soviet Union wasn’t a paragon of information security.
> limited the number of unlocks to one per person per year

I’m wondering how exactly they are gonna enforce that.
>The west can’t see past their next quarterly earnings result,

Assuming "the west" includes the US, the biggest companies in the US have very long investment timelines, much farther than the next quarter. Tesla, whose business includes making cars, lost money for 10+ years as a publicly listed company.
You're just a hater.

I have to use Windows to test my apps, and each and every time it just infuriates me with ads and cluster fuck UI, constant notifications of different products, ads in start menu.

It's only consistent on delivering ads, not how the user interface is organized

How you have to tweak registry to remove the ad, but still can't get rid of OneDrives reminder, and then comes the forced updates. Settings are spread in between millions of places, extremely confusing, and twisted.

Search results are random, what the hell?! Can't even run the most used app with confidence, from search. Which is just a absurd.

Managing software, is freaking pain. Everything is everywhere, no proper centralization whatsoever. choco is good, but its cli, with which people have so much issues with.

And I have seen people suffering with bugs that was never solved, I had to setup another file browser just so the client can use his computer. Otherwise, it would take hours to load a simple folder.

The default Editor have no syntax hi lighting whatsoever, so streamlined developers, can't even provide a good editor, that could be compared with the most basic editor coming with gnome.

Windows is just not usable, and in my way, it's only feeding on the legacy, the apps. But Linux becoming much better now
> realized I had programmed myself into a corner.

A lesson that the world seems to repeatedly reinforce is that quests to create something complicated with rigid adherence to pure/dogmatic/'perfect' abstraction end up this way.

The systems I've seen that don't jack knife themselves into oblivion grow like weeds and age like a forest. There's a perfect kind of messy where each little module takes takes root, being tested by the ecosystem and growing or dying.

Contrary to what many think, I don't think spaghetti nightmares happen in this mode unless code becomes functionally immortal by means other than battle testing.

Sometimes this happens because somebody's ego forces any woodbe gardeners to litigate all attempts at tending. Sometimes it happens because the pressure to X rises too high and it extinguishes all the controlled burns.

I remember wanting to feel like the thing I made was absolutely crystalline. Seeing how that ends has made me appreciate the organism.
Discussion (101 points, 17 hours ago, 73 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42549343
Related, the film was shot in what is now a pretty cool small theme park close to Almeria.

https://minihollywoodoasys.com/
MAME 0.273
Only because the west and Japan are failing to subsidize their own industries. This is called competition. Yes please.
> Accidentally plugging in a dock overrides mic/speaker settings to ones that don't exist in multiple places.

An issue on macOS, too. Plug my MBP into a dock and it assumes that I want the Dock's audio to be the default input and output devices.
> Charging stations, transformers, power lines and myriad other components and systems. All made in China.

Is that really true? It has been a while since I have worked with anyone in that industry but the last time I did, quite a lot of it was made in the US.
Considering the Profile UI is basically the same since Netscape days, a revamp of this is a bit overdue. Just a bit though. :)
Those are easy to remove
This is a total yawn, and the norm. It looks coordinated because the team who focuses specifically on telecoms had their tools burned. Pick pretty much any sector of interest and the intelligence services of the top 50 countries all have a team dedicated to hacking it. The majority of them are successful.

Sadly even most people in security are woefully unaware of the scope and scale of these operations, even within the networks they are responsible for.

The "noise" here was not from the attacker. They don't want to get caught. But sometimes mistakes happen.
Do they pass American? As far as I'm aware, American safety standards are of the highest in the world, in part due to the amount of reckless driving here and general lack of road-sense.
I think Console is as in XBox or PlayStation, not as in the kind of application.
> On December 8, 2024, Treasury was notified by a third-party software service provider, BeyondTrust, that a threat actor had gained access to a key used by the vendor to secure a cloud-based service used to remotely provide technical support for Treasury Departmental Offices (DO) end users.

Reminiscent of the SolarWinds compromise.
Last I looked, it's not a verified email, you can use it as a random id, and they even documented that. (Maybe it changed?)
All the LLM companies are going to eat those "product companies" lunch in a few years. Why would I use product X when it's going to be inevitably be baked into the actual tech itself? Those product companies are just wrappers and have even less of a moat than the LLM companies. The very fact that random nobodies are doing this should signal there isn't a lot of real value there. Yes, there is some money to be made right now but it reminds me a lot of the videogame bust and dotcom bust. A LOT of companies are wasting a crazy amount of money on "solutions" that will be obsolete in a few years.
These are quotes from a conversation with the acquirer that happened <2 hours ago. Should it be included in that older post?
AFAIK this would not be news for EU telecoms : they are being operated by Chinese companies, so those have permanent access to nearly everything anyway.

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/5g-elephant-in-the-room/

So is that not the case for USA telecoms ?
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Hopefully Mozilla will eventually come up with a local-AI in the browser model, like the one currently being explored by Google Canary called Gemini Nano (which Google of course doesn't seem to want to make available in Chromium though).
Why should the green energy transition be bottlenecked by entrenched incumbent players' profit margins? Are their profit margins more important than averting global climate disaster? We have a green technology undercapacity, not overcapacity.
The claim is not over-the-top at all though. They did a survey of funny RNA sequences in gut samples and didn't find anything that links them to known sequence from other organisms. Nothing spectacular was claimed.
The CLI is the only true UI ;)

When I think about all of what I do in the CLI and what would be needed to have a GUI, even a basic beginner version, I'm not surprised no one is doing it.

I believe that computers are like cars and should be treated as such. Driving one is easy, but any maintenance requires being knowledgable into how it works. If you don't have an IT dept, go grab a book and learn how to use the computer.
This is a very ignorant comment. Denmark is a founding member of NATO and we already have 'eyes' in Greenland. We even have a military base in Greenland. Please don't riff on Trump's stupidity.
French car makers sat on their asses since the 80s. Their repair shops are dumps where you are scammed every time you go. Last but not least, they moved the production of their car to cheap countries. Their car sucked until Japanese companies like Toyota came and threatened their business. They deserve to have their asses kicked for all this.

As for the "made in China," it’s not a Trojan horse, it’s the reality we have since the 80s too. Everything is already made in China, except cars. If I want to be patriotic, I buy local food or clothes, it’s the only choice I have nowadays.

Nothing would change except a few French billionaires complaining about a foreign company eating their lunch by selling cheap cars that people can afford. I certainly can’t afford those new EVs, but I could buy a BYD, it’s the only choice I have and it’s not China’s fault. It’s the greed of all the western companies who sold cheap crap at expensive prices.
Which community can you walk into telling everyone that everything they care about is shit and they are shit and will never make it, and they will take it productively?

I Certainly admit that some Linux users are heavily in denial about linux's flaws, and don't take criticisms healthily, but this is a trait in humanity, not just in Linux users.

If your version of diplomacy is starting off a meeting with urinating on their flag, don't say diplomacy never works because no other countries can take criticism.
I've read Descartes, he has good arguments, and I know that Chalmers has a higher academic standing than Dennett. So this gives me not a lot of reason to think it's all just a pseudo problem.
IIRC Chinese EV manufacturers on average lose like 9k USD per car sold.
> It's very possible it has been a deal long time in the making.

No.

From the acquirer:

“It fits our product roadmap. It was super serendipitous…I saw that news. I was like, ‘This is perfect.’ It checks a lot of boxes for us. It was just a really good synergistic opportunity, so we went for it.”

https://multitudes.weisser.io/p/how-employercom-acquired-ben...
Labor costs are a fraction of the value of a vehicle, they can't explain vehicles costing over twice or thrice as much as overseas competitors.
I don't see how any choice the Linux developers make forces phone manufacturers to do anything.

It's their choice to use Linux. They can abide by the license or not ship Linux.

Not to mention that there are many more or less stable APIs within the kernel (which even has versioned API support in places) such as Video4Linux which manufacturers seem dead set against using.
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Don’t you need to apply filtering to the frame selection based on scene score?

Otherwise you’d select frames with 0.3, 0.7, 1.0, 0.7, 0.3 - selecting 5 frames instead of 1?

Two pass with sobel filter comes to mind.
So much would break if you changed the character set. And there would be pretty much no benefit. Making it a hundred times harder* is not nearly enough to prevent short collisions.

* The exact amount would depend on repo and method. Using base 32 and changing nothing else would slow collisions by 2^length.
There are unofficial builds if you wanna give it a shot.
I was under the impression that Tesla has put a lot of effort into building out support infrastructure? My perception is a bit clouded by the fact that I live a few miles from a service center.
The sequences they found are already in various databases and are not linked to any organisms we know. It's like discovering an interesting new insect in a national park. That's as different as it can be from psychological research. What is there to replicate?
Certainly better than the cybertruck.
Fast Fashion in the automobile industry. I wish we would focus on Cars that last 20+ years again instead.

Cars that are repairable, that have common parts across the industry so any mechanic can work on them.

Maybe even upgradeable cars so you can make it more environmentally when new technology develops.

Will they be the most environmentally friendly to drive? No probably not, but the manufacturing of cars is super environmentally expensive too.
Long time ago I participated in a Python course, where it just wouldnt work for half of the students (like 10 people) - and the lecturer couldnt figure it out.

As far as I remember Python REQUIRED to be installed on C: and in something like C:\Python where it would bring 5000 various files.

Even more time ago, I was at a Java class, where my code would work on my computer but just wouldnt work on the computer of the lecturer. I remember the guy spend like 10 minutes looking at the (very simple) code and trying to figure out why the code worked on Windows but not on Linux
Thank you for the tip ! Was looking for a portable device at home for random browsing, it will be a nice beginning of the year project ! Do you recommend installing v21 or a previous version on this device ?
While you aren't wrong about needing end to end encryption, that would not have helped here. What China was after was meta data (who is communicating with who), which is a completely different problem to solve.
It might not be a bad strategy starting up. You don't know which R&D is going to pan out, so you start a lot of different branches and let the market select the best.
To make the life of hostile foreign powers harder? Currently they are allowed to run code written by them on the devices of unsuspecting citizens, and curate the content these citizens watch.

The argument sounds like a non sequitur: because we cannot defend against all threats, we should not defend against any threat.
PRC subsidy is like $2000 per car and decreasing, substantially lower than US domestic subsidies per vehicle. They're also selling for 2x PRC MSRP abroad, i.e. Euro EVs like 15000-20000 more expensive. Explicitly to avoid dumping and to make up thin margins in competitive domestic market. They don't need to dump to be competitive, reality is western automobile industries currently can't remotely compete, hence tariffs to buy time until they can, or forever because they simply can't.
Where's the setting and will it survive an update?
nitter.poast.org is pretty reliable for me.
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You guys waste too much time building “open” stuff on S3.
I ask llms things like I would spec it out for my team, which is to say, when I write a task, I would not include things about the sport, I would explain the logic etc one would need to write. No one needs to know what it is about in abstract as I see the same issue with humans; they get confused when using real world things to see the connection with what they need to do. I mean I don't flesh it out to the extend I might as well write the code, but enough that you don't need to know anything about the underlying subject.

We are doing a large EU healthcare project and things differ per country obviously; if I would assume people to have a modicum of world knowledge or interest in it and look it up, nothing would get done. It is easier to deliver excel sheets with the proper wording and formulas and leave out what it is even for.

Works fine with LLMs.

Disclaimer; the people in my company know everything about the subject matter; the people (and LLMs) that implement it are usually not ours: we just manage them and in my experience, programmers at big companies are borderline worthless, hence, in the past 35 years, I have taken to write tasks as concrete as I can; we found that otherwise we either get garbage commits or tons of meetings with questions and then garbage commits. And now that comes in handy as this works much better on LLMs too.
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> Oh and they appear to start at $21k.

They are only $10k in China. In other countries, it's usually $17k+ depending on customs, transport, other "fees".
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The Pelicot rapes: a new form of perversion (by Slavoj ŽIžek)
I think this is worth reading. It gives a lot of interesting points and cultural references to read further.

Is it relevant for this forum? I think so because engineers don't fully understand how technology shapes how people think. The recent thread about the ethics crisis in tech https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42540862 comes to my mind. We act as it doesn't touch us, but our very passivity is the same as Mrs Pelicot's: when the power we serve take away our own personal power (even the banal ones we can see, e.g. installing our own software on our own computers), we wine meekly when it is already too late.

Slavoj Žižek touches how the 92 episodes of rape of Mr Pelicot on the drugged out Mrs Pelicot, who was unaware until the police showed her photos, mirrors how "digital powers treat us today".

How Mr Pelicot is obviously the weaker one, slave to its own compulsions, who can only act on an unaware object, and cannot deal with a person with her own will. A tale we all live in how tech removed the Big Other from our lives (I have also been reading Byung-Chul Han's "Non-Things" book, which contains similar ideas).

"we must not ignore or avoid digital media: their manipulative use is not inherently inscribed into their technology. They can be repurposed for emancipatory purposes [...] The system desperately seeks to control digital media because it recognizes their potential as tools for massive awakenings – including among women"

Finally, he tells about the "Her Story (directed and written by Shao Yihui), exploded on Chinese screens in December 2024. [...] Her Story deserves to be celebrated as an exemplary case of feminine awakening that avoids the traps of politically correct moralizing stiffness. It hits both targets: the strong presence of male chauvinism in Chinese society and the ruling Communists’ solidarity with it (not to mention other critical stabs at state power). "
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Besides, reducing all of these achievements in EV technology to mere "subsidies" is being willfully blind. CEOs of incumbent car makers have been communicating for some time now how competitors such as BYD have a real technological edge thanks to research, innovation and having painstakingly built large, comprehensive and efficient supply chains. Subsidies are somewhat involved but not that much, especially considering that (1) subsidies are declining, (2) EU and US also subsidize. Have people ever looked at EV tax breaks in the Netherlands, or more in general tax breaks for any sort of R&D work (WBSO)? Nobody ever complained about that.

Cars such as by BYD are already profitable even without subsidies. That's why subsidies are declining.

One really has to ask oneself: if we subsidize incumbent automakers, are they really going to achieve the same level of competitiveness and innovation? Or will they just use it to launder more profits for shareholders? Be honest.
the metric is in CPU cycles, not IOPS
hey we do the same thing lol, google sheets is great and sometimes if I have or want more I can just simply use pocketbase for easy solution

these 2 tools is great for easy/fast prototype various project and honestly its kinda hard to replace
you don't have to upgrade, you can have more than one python install at the same time. You only really need to know about how to manage your PATH environment variable.
BYD has been producing cars for 20 years now. They are hardly a new comer but only recently were able to make it into the "big league".
True. I was citing from memory and only recalled the most famous author.
Apple and now BYD should be the definitive argument on why names do not matter.
Were any/all of those vulnerabilities mitigated?
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Oh but they do, only they subsidize dirty diesels.

https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/subsidies-for-...
Opposite hot take: one of the main reasons I got into programming was because Microsoft Access made it accessible enough that I was confident enough to produce value even knowing nothing about how to think like a software engineer
Any devices that fare better in this regard?
> It seems unlikely that humans think in “tokens” so why do LLMs?

I can think of one reason: scrutability. It’s going to be even harder to understand how a response gets produced if there isn’t even a text-based representation to help the human understand
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The common theme was created by me. I've tried my best to make a polished theme for Jetbrains so that all colors in the IDE and the syntax highlighting harmonize better.