skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Things I've ran into on Windows 11. (Dont @ me that 'I don't have that problem', I do)

>The colors can conflict between dark mode and deafult OS to the point you cannot see text

>There are clickbait news stories that cannot be turned off

>Onedrive will fill up with data and bother you about being full

>For some reason, some programs will not display despite clicking on them. You must minimize the program infront of them

>There is no switch user button

>I was unable to figure out how to add a password to an account

>Ads are on by default

What I find amazing is that corporate professional computers have literal ads on them. I have a fortune 20 job and I have ads on my computer. These ads are for competitor products, for politics, and sports.

Anyway, LPT: For a personal OS, Fedora. Literally higher quality than Windows. Shockingly higher quality, I was a bit frustrated that I didn't know about fedora sooner. I don't consider Fedora 'Linux', because Linux has a bad reputation with things like Debian/Ubuntu/Mint that are 2+ years outdated out of the box. Fedora is different. I have a windows computer for legacy software like Adobe and CAD, but those are only used when doing work. Sometimes I have an old video game that needs windows.
There's plenty of OSD licenses that don't fit the FSD, but a free software license is necessarily open source, so the opposite can't happen.
I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

-- Douglas Adams

Let me guess your age.
Still trying to figure out why this is #1 on HN.
Working for DOGE is a much greater stain on his character (and/or intelligence if he's a true believer).

Imagine writing on your resume that you did a cost efficiency project that added hundreds of billions in costs and killed millions of people.

A script kiddie youth hardly compares.
How do you go from "successful" to "useful"?

There seems to be no logical connection from "shitty people are successful" to "empathy is not useful to society."
"AI" bs generator is not just the code, it is not reproducible without the training set.

Also the "AI" software is not something that is not possible to use on machine with 100% open-sourced environment: the newest CPU supporting open-source BIOS is 3rd generation of Intel and such an ancient hardware is not able to run it.

So, that kind of LGPB+/Climate Justice/with using artificial intelligence disservices being forced to people are very not open-source. Indeed they are very commercialized.
I agree with you on that, but I had this task on a legacy project with over 50k lines of shell scripts, and out of nowhere, it needed to start reading INI files and loading those values into environment variables. That's why this was written!
Depends on what country it goes to. Transfer to major first world countries and the money is still easy to trace. Transfer to Russia and you can't trace it
https://archive.is/78IDf
> They have a terrible naming history.

I just read the entire article being a bit confused and it wasn't until I read here that I realized that the name of the replacement application is "Windows App".

Why?!
> But users today are used to everything being saved remotely, especially on a website.

That's just a matter of training. They were trained that way. 30 years ago users were trained to "save often".
Well said. I keep reading these fearmongering articles and looking around wondering where all of these deep meaning and human agency is today.

I’m led to believe that we see this stuff because the tiny subset of humanity that has the wealth and luxury to sit around thinking about thinking about themselves are worried that AI may disrupt the navel-gazing industry.
There was tons of NFT fatigue. NFTs (outside of some niches) are essentially duds.
He's saying that the economic viability of the model is illusory.
I don't know how to explain that the feeling of solving a puzzle is a "rush of power". If it weren't, you'd be equally happy fiddling with a pile of puzzle pieces and making no attempt to solve it as you were to searching for a solution.

There isn't anything inherently unethical about enjoying power, but neither is it in any way virtuous.
>Blocks have always been a popular toy with children.

Yes!!!

I've recommended to my adult friends to play minecraft for at least ~5-10 minutes before they die.

There is something amazing about being able to dig wherever, build whatever, etc... There is a sort of freedom that I never had with blocks.

I am not telling these people to kill the ender dragon, but rather, play.
And yet here you are on HN. Turns out there is more to an economy in 2025 than physical goods.
> That's quite opinionated.

That's just a perspective from reality, where people are doing business rather than contriving impractical regulations out of thin air .

> GDPR is not that bad. It has downsides but it is not overly complex.

It might seem simple to consumers or politicians who claim they could implement it in a day, but it is highly complex once you have to implement it as a small or medium-sized business.

> Companies (including cloud services) have to comply if they want to have business in Europe

Large corporations - i.e. the supposed target of that regulation - scoff at GDPR. They have legal departments and the funds necessary to deal with GDPR however they see fit, while small and medium-sized business bear the brunt.
How Do LLMs Reason?
It's ammonia phosphates with trace amounts of heavy metals.
I treat this expression as Ayenbite of Inwit. When I use it (because I'm super pretentious) I don't mean the book itself or the saner English version of the title "Remorse of Conscience". I mean it as a parody of the later. Like, when someone comes up with a contrived blame for wrongdoing that either didn't happen or was so minor that it doesn't warrant the discussion.

I don't think author means "best minds" literally. I think they mean it ironically, more like "those who are most eager to perform the task assigned to them".

But maybe I'm saying the obvious. Irony is admittedly hard to translate into writing.
Because empathy isn't useful to society. One only lives once so you better make sure you'll be successful. Having empathy will actively hurt your own life
About 1/8 of global deaths are due to some sort of bacterial infection, pretty close behind cancer ( 1/6 ).

However for children the number that die of infection in the UK is double that of cancer deaths - ( ~15% versus ~7% ) - and that's in an advanced economy.

Infection is a big problem.

In terms of barriers to making treatments - yes in part there is a problem with the right financial incentives - but it's not the only problem - finding molecules that simultaneously kill bacteria, won't be rapidly evolved around, and are safe to take isn't that easy. Then you have the problem of selectivity between bacteria - how many different sorts will it work with - 'good' verus 'bad' bacteria etc. Then you have the problem of being able to make the molecule at scale etc.

The good news is there is a constant bacteria on bacteria, fungus on bacteria chemical war going on - hence the paper.
Generating Artificial Gravity Through Acceleration 101
Archiving NOAA All Services, Specifically Amazon Web Servies (Urgent)
That's true, and so far is being used for (check notes) cloning the peculiar style of an anime studio. Or fake receipts.
Aging isn’t a problem. It’s normal.
Lol, I've always loved that about physics. Some boltzmann brain type stuff.
NOAA AWS bucket going offline this evening, they need help archiving it.
> Regulations like the GDPR precisely try to give incentives for competitors.

It failed miserably at that, too. Apart from Plausible there's hardly any business worth mentioning that used GDPR as a competitive advantage. GDPR for the most part has been a stimulus program for lawyers and government busybodies.
It's our only chance at quickly solving huge complex problems like how to cut expensive labor costs.
https://archive.ph/6uANR
I think that's what they're trying to fix. They want stuffs around you that says "Made in China(PRC)" to instead say "Made in USA", and everyone is saying that that is a really weird hill to die on, but they want to.
The US exports alot of virtual goods, that is like technological services. I reckon non-US countries should start tariffing all US based internet services as a reciprocal tariff if there's a trade imbalance between goods versus services.
Mac Numbers now supports LAMBDA functions and MAP
I still disagree. You're making a false dichotomy that there can be either "rush of power" or "nothing". Instead, I feel a sense of achievement at a job well done. To say that that's "power" requires stretching some definitions.
I’ve heard about a guy nicknamed Condor who had similar issues but turned out to be one of the best of all
times..

What I want to say is that you can’t always judge a person by his past
University of Illinois Shrugs Off Rules on Athletes' NIL Deals
The full title is:

> In An Era of Big Money, the University of Illinois Shrugs Off Rules on Athletes' NIL Deals
I've never really played Minecraft.

But when I was 7 or 8 playing Kings Quest II was amazing to me. You walk around, and go anyplace you want, you could even swim if you type in swim, pure joy. I think this kind of freedom is the appeal to kids.
You figure if the renegades passing by throw in an argument.

Which just reinforces the point of the crisis and the dire risks still involved.
I think it's more likely that active research is on more selective treatments than just better chemo - chemo is a pretty blunt instrument.
NIST says "in general NIST’s measurements are accurate to within 2% to 5% for nutrient elements (such as sodium, calcium and potassium), macronutrients (fats, proteins and carbohydrates), amino acids and fatty acids. Its measurements are accurate to within 5% to 10% for water-soluble vitamins (such as vitamin C) and 10% to 15% for fat-soluble vitamins (such as vitamin D)." https://www.nist.gov/how-do-you-measure-it/how-do-you-know-y...

Maybe there's something where they're off by 30%, but how many people even track how much vitamin D they get from food?
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What DOGE activities are you referring to that added hundreds of billions in costs and killed millions of people?
What's written in the article would have been a good summary of my feelings when WhatsApp, an application I cannot switch away from because of the network effects, decided to add an AI icon and then integrated AI in its search.
It makes perfect sense since the operating system is literally Window-centric. (as opposed to e.g. Mac OS which is application-centric).
I did not get what this is about.
Why would you favor pushing pixels over pushing geometry?
For debloating Windows 10 - 11:

https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

https://github.com/LeDragoX/Win-Debloat-Tools

Other than that, I do recommend Linux (mainstream ones are easy to install), for sure. I have been using it ever since I was 13 years old if not younger.
I considered another app with a buddy but we never build it.
A food diary for people with medical problems.

Take a picture of everything you eat and correlate it with symptoms. Have AI figure out what may be a trigger.

(I have a super rare food disease that took years to figure out and made my life unbearable).
Along these lines, "it" most fundamentally refers to unrestrained capitalism.

(Or perhaps computing.)
Excellent back of napkin math and it feels intuitively right.

And I think training is similar — training is capital intensive therefore centralized, but if 100m people are paying $6k for their inference hardware, add on $100/year as a training tax (er, subscription) and you’ve got $10B/year for training operations.
> The only scenario I can think of is during wartime

well, it is not surprising then that war seems to be a realistic possibility at the moment.

(doesn't matter with whom, we have always been at war with Eastasia).
Brainrot?
> Dictionaries outrank everything else when it comes what something means.

TFA's license doesn't meet the definition you posted. It restricts who can use/redistribute/modify the software.
I would say exercise autonomy. As autonomy is strong evidence-based inner motivator. Also competence - still increasing their skills. More about self-determination theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination_theory
> Someone said something cool once hence it's valid ad vitam aeternam and can be used as an argument in a discussion.

Mass automatised eugenics robots ? Well if you don't like it you must be a boomer.

Brain implants that are controlled by your employer and can literally kill you on the push of a button if you don't follow the rules ? What ? you don't like it ? You dumb luddite

Between that and the "TeChNoLoGy iS JuSt a ToOl, a HaMmEr Is NeItHeR gOoD nOr BaD" people...
Alphafold doesn't exist
Plus ça change. Any jump forward leads to a sentiment of neo-luddism among some group or another (I can't deny I felt a twinge of it around the NFT fever). If the latest group wants to actually effect change, maybe they need a movement and a Ned Ludd type character to get behind. As someone who is unashamedly pro-AI, I think it's healthy to have some to-and-fro and dissenting voices, because these are really big issues we're dealing with.
> What is missing from the debate is that import/export equilibrium should be achieved on a global level, not on a national level.

On global level it's always balanced. (How can it be otherwise?)
"This study was funded in part by the International Coalition of Headphone Manufactures."

But seriously, "Music as a social surrogate"? How is this good? What we need is to fix the social structure, not find out ways to compensate for the miserable state we are in.

From https://www.utica.edu/college-community/utica-stories/fillin...

"In terms of social needs, we have a social fuel tank. This tank helps us understand if we are able to get to our destination—the destination being positive mental health outcomes, like feeling satisfied with our lives, having positive self-image, and feeling accepted by others. The problem is that past measures used in psychology research only tell us how much fuel is in the tank—not what types of fuel are in the tank, or how much of each type of fuel is in there.

In this study, the measure that I created helps researchers understand what types of fuel are in the tank, and how much of each type of fuel is in the tank, that is leading to those outcomes. It gives us a better idea of what is going on to help people get those positive outcomes."
To use a counter example, consider Catholic priests who do not marry or raise children. It would be quite the argument indeed to suggest their lives are without meaning or purpose.

Aha, you might say, but they hold leadership roles! They have positions of authority! Of course they have meaning, as they wield spiritual responsibility to their community as a fine substitute for the family life they will not have.

To that, I suggest looking deeper, at the nuns and monks. To a cynical non-believer, they surely are wanting for a point to their existence, but to them, what they do is a step beyond Maslow's self actualization, for they live in communion with God and the saints. Their medications and good works in the community are all expressions of that purpose, not the other way around. In short, though their "graph of contextual meaning" doesn't spread as far, it is very densely packed indeed.

Two final thoughts:

1) I am both aware of and deeply amused by the use of priests and nuns and monks to defend the arguments of a nihilist's search for meaning.

2) I didn't bring this up so much to take the conversation off topic, so much as to hone in on the very heart of what troubled the person I originally responded to. The question of purpose, the point of existence, in the face of superhuman AI is in fact unchanged. The sense of meaning and purpose one finds in life is found not in the eyes of an unfeeling observer, whether the observers are robots or humans. It must come from within.
The Bruijn language is a really cool language that takes some of theae ideas to the extreme and fundamentals.

Variables aren't named, they are beta reduced and referred to by abstraction level.

https://text.marvinborner.de/2023-04-06-01.html
Strategic Opportunism
> empathy isn't useful to society ... Having empathy will actively hurt your own life

Even if I accepted the second statement (which to be clear, I absolutely do not), it doesn't follow that empathy isn't useful to society. Society is not benefited by everyone running about chasing their own personal success to the exclusion of all others: that kind of world isn't even called a society. We have other names for that and they're less positive.
Honoring Dave Täht and his contributions to a better Internet [video]
I've noticed something about people's reaction to AI. People who view themselves mainly as engineers or craftsmen are threatened by AI, understandably. People who just want to make cool stuff, solve real problems or just have fun are not threatened, but love it.

And I get it, an expert furniture craftsman will not have respect for IKEA furniture, and that's fine. But it means I can affordably furnish a new apartment for $2k instead of $20k. Of course it's even more threatening because there is the risk that the AI will actually do a better job in the future. But people still play Chess and have fun with that, and people enjoy watching Magnus Carlsen play even though he can't beat the AI on a phone.

In the end, we will all have to adapt, and for your own sake I don't think it helps putting your head in the sand and being bitter. Instead of being bitter, try thinking about all the cool stuff you can make now as a one person team.
Your comment is apparently stained by your political views. It is really far from reality, lacks substance and objectivity, and comes off as unhinged.
So, is there any way to connect to these machines using Linux now?
That just sounds like the difference between a salad with and without dressing on it. Maybe not so weird.
I stopped reading at 'we realized we needed air cooling and converted everything to electricity' ...
Recently I went on a trip with a group. Lots of videos and drone footage. Gigabytes of data. The group leader got a 100GB Google Drive space. But if I upload my stuff into it, my stuff doesn't take his 100 GB, but counts against my quota, unless I modify the files to say that $GROUP_LEADER now owns those files.

Well, whatever. I try to download his videos from the web UI. Select all files in directory, wait about 20 seconds, download zip, wait another 20 seconds, finally the file download dialog shows up. It gives me a 2.3GB zip file. I open it, it's just a few files and not the complete directory. It doesn't give me the contents of the whole directory, just files until it reaches 2.3GB, and then silently fails.

Great jaaab, Google!
> It seems like what you are looking for is a discussion about whether or not it it is ethical for bureaucrats and elected officials ought to circumvent or ignore their countries democratic processes and laws.

What was the saying, three felonies a day? Society doesn't work out when people behave like role models all day long, the economy would grind to a standstill. That's why you get stuff like "shadow IT" and whatnot. Processes tend to grow ("scope creep") and no one is interested in cutting the crap.
At this point, capital controls might be back on the menu?
What's wrong with the names? Personally, I love Microsoft 365. It just rolls off the tongue and is clearly more meaningful than a silly name like "Office." Who ever heard of an office? Why mess around with a single, familiar name when it can be long, ill-fitting, AND irrelevant all at once? I'm excited to try their next product Microsoft Copilot Professional 365 Enterprise For Workgroups (which I presume will be the name for notepad.exe in future releases).

I mean, some people say One Note is a silly name, but I like that you can look it up in the dictionary and it will tell you exactly what it is: Monotonous.
> Its an implicit promise

It's an inferred promise, not an implicit promise. Lots of schools do try to make it an explicit, qualified promise (e.g. "80% of grads work in their field!"), and even more are shifting towards becoming what are effectively vocational schools, but this was never the intended purpose of a liberal arts education.
I mean I am not really talking in a professional setting or technical setting... I mean just shootin the shit with people.
In practice you're just selling shittier or unnecessary stuff. Advertising makes society objectively worse.
> What's funny is the tariffs announced a couple day sago explicitly excluded semi conductors and pharmaceuticals.

They're "excluded" because they're coming later. It was announced they'd be specific 1s in that area.
Some dress up in costumes to mimic the characters as well. And then listen to radio broadcasts debating it. They create songs to sing together. They believe they’re a part of the team and will refer to it as the collective “we” and they’ll sometimes cry when they lose.
AI is really bringing out the worst in capitalist corporatism. I think even the most pessimistic AI doomer will agree that the technology is fascinating and can do some cool things, but our corporate overlords have made it such an all-encompassing topic that it’s hard not to be disillusioned by it.

Yes, it’s an interesting technology - but seeing other interesting technologies and projects get disinvested in because it’s not new shiny AI - or watching leaders insist on creating yet another chatbot just so they can pat themselves on the back - or replacing an already-working system with a half-broken AI one just so we can say we use AI, and then forcing everyone at the company to use it just so we can release a press release saying ‘all of our developers use AI’. Watching our overall quality of work decrease, but leaders celebrate it because “mediocre but done with AI” is gold standard now…

All of it feels like a sham. Feels like we’re trying too hard to prop up AI as amazing, rather than letting it succeed on its own merits.
Shit rolls downhill, right into the algorithm.
Unsanitary Practices Persist at Baby Formula Factory; Shutdown Led to Shortages
The full title is:

> Unsanitary Practices Persist at Baby Formula Factory Whose Shutdown Led to Mass Shortages, Workers Say
Well in this case it's also beneficial given how automated supply chains are.

It's probably the most sane aspect of the whole thing.
Flying Saucers: An Opening Salvo of the Cold War?
Just like a psychological diagnosis is often based on proximity to a cluster of symptoms rather than specific ones that must be met, you can't point to one particular line that makes it AI. It is the combination of all of the sentences that aligns with our perception of AI.
Trump Fires Head of National Security Agency and Cyber Command
Building a cost-effective mechanochemical Raman system
As someone who was gaming since the 90s I didn't understand streaming or long plays in the beginning but now I really appreciate long plays as they allow me to scratch an itch without getting too engrossed in a game. I find it a lot easier to pick up and put down a long play of a RPG than invest 30+ hours of time and thought into playing it.

For mechanistically intensive games it can be enjoying to watch masters play at a high level. Watching people win 1vs3 in Elden Ring or people do high level play in Monster Hunter or Devil May Cry is satisfying for someone who knows enough to appreciate the skill without having the time/desire in mastering frame specific inputs (I prefer directing that degree of focus to learning an instrument out of personal preference)

I initially discovered game streams because I find them perfect for falling asleep to lol