skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. Once one does it, especially if that one is the market leader, then their competitors tend to do it too, because otherwise the one that did it would be able to go ahead and publish benchmarks showing it beating the others, and they would not be able to counter.

Someone, I forget who exactly, tried to limit their restriction. It said something like you could not publish benchmarks of their product against your products that had benchmark restrictions unless (1) you published full specifications and configuration information so others could reproduce, and (2) you gave everyone permission to do so.
not stupid, just good critical thinking. most people are too naive when using facebook as the past shows.
I'd love to conduct a study on the perception of computers. It seems that many people from the previous generation (born before 80s) are floating in a sea of confusion and ad-hoc reflexes. Changing an OS does barely affect the noise/signal ratio to them.
bigger point is that communities and tribes have gotten larger at least in the US, breaking down once strong barriers of trust (people becoming more numbers than neighbors)
It was until very recently.
This happens entirely too often for me, and the other result that ends up being focused on is "<x> \n See web results".

I've never wanted to search for anything on the web from my start menu, and to make matters worse, it always performs the search using the IE/Edge browser and Bing as the search engine. To date, I've yet to see any way of customizing (or disabling) this behavior.

If I had a list of the "most annoying things my computer does", this would certainly be near the top.
This is great to hear. At one point I was considering that very NUC. I'm glad to hear Linux is working well on them.
did you read the article? thats even addressed
Keybase
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/ahi737320; my proof: https://keybase.io/ahi737320/sigs/HfxotNiXGDjGEdNIrwM3l8SUVMzUadHuzVUAmkTPugs ]
3Blue1Brown is the rare exception to most online video stuff I’ve seen. It’s quite good.

But even then it doesn’t mean I’m actually doing the math like if a real person were on the other side expecting an answer.
also, did you read the article? thats even addressed
The linked article is working through some of the numbers on a pure math basis but the real world is messy in ways that article doesn't consider.

Most notably, if a drive has failed there's a reason for it and a lot of the possible reasons will be shared with other drives in the array. Was there a manufacturing issue and all of the drives are from the same lot (pretty common). Is the RAID in a hostile environment (heat, vibration, bad power, etc.)? Heck, is the RAID normally very lightly used and going to have heat problems if it's under full load for hours (days?) during a rebuild?

There are also factors like how the RAID controller is going to handle another read error - will it drop a second disk if the drive reports a failure? For that matter, if an array drops to "degraded" due to an error are you going to immediately replace the drive or are you going to write it off as a one-time fluke and let the array rebuild? Do you keep a pool of spare drives around that you'll drop the failed one into after testing? I've regularly seen an array drop a drive due to something transient, then rebuild onto it and not have any more problems for years.

Even with a 2-drive failure in a RAID5 you're unlikely to lose much data - almost everything is likely still there on the disks unless there've been catastrophic failures (e.g. an array of the old "Deathstar" drives which were prone to head crashes). You just may need to do recovery which will generally mean imaging each of the drives and doing recovery based on working with those images instead of the original drives.
My parents were on Human OS, never tried to switch them to Linux. Have I missed something?
I too have an anecdote...

I am a family friend to a older couple, and for reasons I don't want to discus, the wife who was doing all the needed things on the computer like paying the bills, checking the bank balance, checking emails, printing, etc.; and suddenly now at the age of 72 he needed to learn to do those things.

It was not easy, especially because there is nobody who can teach you how to pay your bills, and if you want to pay a bill of say 8 EUR, you need to pay a fee of 10 EUR if you go to the bank in Sweden and do it there.

He had an old Toshiba laptop which was not usable anymore (that is why they bought a new laptop some years ago which his wife took with her), so I installed a lightweight Ubuntu version on it, installed Thunderbird and Firefox and connected the printer. It took quite many times for me to show him how to log in into the bank account and how to pay the bills, and he still struggles with it sometimes, but at least the OS itself is not hindering him in doing what he needs to do. There are basically two icons when he opens the computer and then he opens the browser and writes the bank name into the search field and then google shows him the website so he can log in and do the thing.
For better or worse, we are not far from "bare metal javascript"

There is wasmjit [1] a kernel module that enables execution of webassembly via the linux kernel.

Furthermore there is AssemblyScript [2] that allows to transpile typed javascript to WebAssembly

[1] https://github.com/rianhunter/wasmjit

[2] https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript
What does fake usually mean? Deceptive maybe? I think a lot of what is being sold isn't substantial. It isn't supported by utility, but other things like marketing.

I think a lot of the market for these items aren't people who need it. Being e.g. modular is something of utility. These products usually requires assembly because those who made it didn't have that capability, they share parts with something else or they are customizable from the start. Not because the manufacturer decided that it was a good idea for marketing purposes.

What does custom usually mean? I guess that is a bit harder. You could probably say non generic. It is something that was made for some specific purpose or could be adapted to specific situations. Maybe they don't say it is custom, but that is most of the point with a modular synth. That you have many specific modules that could be changed. Either by making a better one or in how you combine them.

My argument is partly about the product itself. That it is using features of custom things without really being it. You get to assemble it, but not because it lets you customize anything or because it is really needed. You get modules that you can use in other product, but the product itself isn't really modular.

The other part is about the market in general. There is a paradox in luxury goods in that they can't have to much utility. Because things with utility doesn't usually have a lot, or as much, margin. This type of gear can only be expensive if it doesn't have that much utility. Otherwise someone would make it far cheaper. The utility of the product is to some extent being expensive.

And note that I am yet again not saying that there is something wrong with this as such. Not that this help since it still offends. It is just that when you are pretending that something is something that it isn't you are hurting the real thing. I think the same is true in other areas as well, as open source. Or being a hacker.

If anyone can say that they are doing these things no one has to really care about the real thing. As I said earlier Stockholm is awful for scrappy companies. Yet, people can point at a company like teenage engineering and say "look they are doing these dynamic things with utility, how bad could it be?". But in reality there garage work space was in the most expensive part of town and apparently filled with one of the founder sports cars.

So if there is anything I would want you to take away from this it is to not give up the real thing. A dynamic ecosystem were people can actually modify their tools and make new things. This is were all these movements get their reputation from. Being a catalyst of other things. Not by having people play pretend with expensive things with less utility.

Like the top comment implied, if you want to make music learn a DAW. You want to make your own synth as a hobby, do that (there are a number of great forums). If you want to have a company in Stockholm, where apartment costs as much as in SV, sell you expensive gear go with this instead.
Wouldn't China step in before the US if things got bad to the point of threatening the African Economy? I thought China had an economic foothold in Africa, thats why they have a military presence there.
Well, just don't switch iron/iron oxide dust for aluminum dust...

http://thehomescientist.blogspot.com/2010/03/experiment-sili...
You have completely overlooked the part of the statement advising you to use a managed host.

What do you think your email and web providers are doing on your behalf?
> However, both values don't exclude each other, that's why I'm not really a fan of a spectrum.

I see what you mean. It reminds me of the way modern computer RPGs handle character morality.

It used to be (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Fallout: New Vegas) that the player character's goodness/badness would be measured on a spectrum. You'd be considered more "good" (moral, altruistic, kind) the more "good" things you did, and vice versa. Your "good" actions could eventually negate all the "bad" actions you've done over the course of the game, as long as there are enough opportunities to gain those morality points.

Nowadays (Mass Effect, Tyranny), it leans more towards a two-scale solution, where your "good" actions are measured alongside your "bad" ones. In this case, your saving the smith's child doesn't make people forget how you'd ruthlessly killed an innocent merchant for their stuff earlier. You could be totally "good", totally "bad", and anywhere in between; a divisive figure (with both "good" and "bad" scales tipped up high), or someone who doesn't take that bright of a stance, opting for not rocking the boat instead.

(Tyranny, in particular, handles the social reaction to your actions brilliantly, in my opinion.)

> However, at home, I had trouble doing my homework, doing assignments or even learning for a test.

Now that you say it like that, I do remember that I found doing the homework at the uni more... "possible", I guess, to doing it at home. There were often "windows" in our schedule – periods where there are no classes between any other two. I knew that, if I were to go home during a "window" (maybe I was tired, or maybe I was depressed that day), I'm not going back to uni. It felt like the work day was over, in this case.

Do you have any idea why is that so? Is there some sort of mode-switching happening between the workplace and home, where different priorities take hold?

> Latin is a case where I wish I had been forced to learn vocabulary at home

Vocab is a bitch, whatever the language. It's the meanest problem I have. Grammar, phonetics, even subtle semantic differences – I grasp all that pretty well, but vocab? Can't handle it unless I rote it – which, even if you're learning a language at the uni, is a tough nut to crack for me. I just can't memorize stuff that way. I need to work with the lexicon within a context: a book, a newspaper, a film – anything. Otherwise, it doesn't work for me.
Dad has a really shitty Toshiba laptop (previously running Windows 10), barely uses it, but it was clearly infected with something. Weird alerts at all hours of the night over its speakers saying that a virus was detected. Has had a Norton subscription for years, but hasn't really done any good. My Dad was constantly complaining about not being able to log in (though I suspect he was really forgetting his password).

Switched him over to Linux Mint a few weeks ago. I had to fight with some driver issues for the wireless card, but so far he's had no complaints.
Auto playing videos with sound, automatically playing the next episode to encourage binging

I hated this, too. You can turn that off by logging into your account on the web (not on your device of choice, which really pisses me off). Here:

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/2102
The fact that the article has nearly no content besides "these are cool" and the comments on it say the download has a virus in it makes me very dubious.
This looks good, ordered.
Sorry, as a Mac user then and now, they still look as cheesy as they did back then to me.

Not that Windows looks nice these days either.
Exercise for anyone who thinks that your programming as kid counts. Apply for a job as a senior dev that requires 10 years experience when you're 21.

See how interview offers you get....
you clearly didn't understood the point i was trying to make.

I don't like Word and thankfully, don't need it myself. I'm perfectly fine with word.office.com and google docs, as I neither need nor want the advanced features.
I also don't mind if the document has an occasionally entirely different layout and sometimes even an entirely broken one.

If you are forced to use the doc/docx formats and need to share these files with other people, you'll be forced to use Microsoft Office and by extension Windows. There is no viable alternative.

all alternatives only work if you only need to produce PDFs and don't need to collaboratively edit said doc/docx

and exactly the same applies to the video conferencing tools. If you can choose your own, appear.in works fine from linux for example.

If you need to use Ciscos or SAPs (for example) video conferencing tools, you'll be plain out of luck on linux, unless you're fine just joining other peoples sessions (never hosting one yourself)
Hopefully someday. https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs/pull/489
IDE-style notebooks are a godsend for projects over a certain size threshold. They encourage people who aren't typically used to "programming in the large" to start folding unwieldy chunks of code into files, which in turn encourages them to experiment with the abstractions and structure that software engineers use to handle scale. Notebooks got this wrong, Jupyterlab (and RStudio) get it right, and it's a huge step forward!

That said, Jupyterlab has growing pains. Things like ipywidgets that used to Just Work now Just Don't -- if you want to use widgets as seen in the screenshots, you have to separately install npm, learn to grok the jupyterlab extension manager, and surf the version compatibility matrix between the backend ipywidgets you have installed and the frontend ipywidgets you have installed. Sigh. I'm sure it'll iron out in time, but every time I see the screenshot with widgets in it I have to clear my throat.
Crisis in the Hot Zone (1992)
I released v0.1.0 for dispatching event handler events as action!
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They work in Firefox if you check the “Play DRM content” checkbox in the preferences.
Fair enough, of course it’s marketing as well. But it’s so common to say ”blazing fast”. Even FB developers argued React being fast even though it used to be really slow.
These are good reasons, but how many projects really have such a need to scale, for example?

If you have let’s say a massive developer organization, some level of abstraction so you don’t have to manage provisioning servers/hosts and invest time in undifferentiated (no or low value add) activities is great.

The cost of these function as a service solutions is very high though, even in those scenarios, at least from my own experience.

A lot of people rush to these solutions and CTOs blindly sign off without realizing it’s just added tech debt.
For an example of using stdlib in Observable, see here: https://beta.observablehq.com/@kgryte/stdlib-real-time-k-mea.... Other notebooks can be found here: https://beta.observablehq.com/collection/@kgryte/stdlib.
I get differing results for the same input depending on how sleepy I am and how loaded the machine is. It's utterly useless for me.
All three. It’s a gold rush, but as with any gold rush, conditions are hard going - that’s why there’s an opportunity.

Best way to think of Kubernetes is that it was designed to be a successful open source project that was widely adopted as a standard foundation to build products. It wasn’t designed to be a useable product on its own.

We are at the equivalent stage of Slackware and SLS and Debian Red Hat pre-1.0 stages of GNU/Linux distros circa 1994. Red Hat eventually ran away most of the money by the late 90s, but in the meantime, lots of opportunity to fill an unmet need.
That's pretty much my experience with my inlaws.

They got one of these cheap Walmart computers in 2002 or so. After one too many disasters (computer slow due to antivirus sw, Windows update failed, etc), I switched them to Linux for a few years. But that was a problem due to hardware compatibility, especially with their printer.

I ended up having an iMac to give them in 2007 (after I'd switched from FreeBSD to Mac, and decided I could not stand the Mac UI & switched back to FreeBSD on another whitebox). They've been on Mac ever since, now on a Mini we bought them a few years ago. Pretty much no support calls since then. A few times a year I make sure they're doing sw updates and haven't installed dodgy Chrome extensions or toolbars, but that's about it.
Part of it may also be down to features. Windows 10 is a mess, there's at least two different control panels and more features than any one person would need. Sadly there seems to be a sense that the next version of Windows or Mac OS needs to add new features, visible features.

If you shave a modern OS down to just the features that you'd need to do your work, the economics of carefully designing a desktop and the icons becomes more "reasonable" again.

I still think that a clone of the classic Mac desktop, or Windows 3.11 would be great on Linux.
No admin and no deployment headaches. Keeping a box ticking, in a secure manner, is not trivial.
Chances are they have and you won't be able to use them.

Why would it be so ? Because it profits facebook which is the only reason facebook exists. It profits them to have original with EXIF for data mining and you gave them permission to do so while also giving them the data, and it profits them to not make them available to you to save on bandwidth and processing costs.
"I'm reading an article on HN about Japanese rail workers pointing at things." "Done."

"I'm composing a snarky comment about Japanese rail workers pointing at things." "Done."

"I'm pressing 'add comment' to post a snarky comment about Japanese rail workers pointing at things." Wait, what? No. I know better than that. Abort.
I would be prepared to completely ignore (and definitely not laugh at) rail personnel performing a naked rain dance if it meant that the trains would arrive on time more often. Hell, I'd join in if that helped.
"To err is human, but to really screw things up you need a computer"
You kinda can.
e.g. https://www.neverware.com/freedownload
As devil's advocate... The majority of your waking life is then spent satisfying the newest version of "subsistence ".

It is true that new subsistence is better than old subsistence, but its still serfdom with nicer clothes.

The chase, at least for me, is about having time and location freedom while enjoying a middle class living or better. It's not about being a billionaire, it's about being free.
martinkus> ... I have to pick out two artifacts ... pick out the correct jenkins jobs and run them in a specific order ...

russdill> The process described is not only easily scriptable, ...

From the description given you can't know that.

russdill> ... deploying to production should never depend on a series of manual steps except when absolutely necessary.

So you, without knowing exactly what this person is doing, are declaring that it's not absolutely necessary? That's very bold of you.
Tell that to your grandmother over the phone and see how much of a pain it is :)
If you do trading or adtech (which, let's face it, is trading) then yes, the overhead from virtualisation and cloud environments is an unacceptable tradeoff.

For most companies and their operating environments cloud gives flexibility in capacity planning, freedom to experiment wildly, access to practically unlimited storage[ß], plus reliable perimeter load balancing. And of course, for most companies engineering costs far more than compute. Paying the premium for cloud environment makes business sense if it means your development teams don't have to spend time waiting for available resources.

Funnily enough, even a number of high-end trading firms (including HFT shops) are moving to cloud. Number crunching for models, backtesting, CI, analysis and simulation pipelines, ... All of those require resources and rarely need to operate in tandem with the real-time trading systems. The same flexibility, ease of capacity expansion and freedom to bring transient resources online as needed saves on expensive development time.

If you're big enough, or need to operate fast enough then cloudless and baremetal are going to bring better ROI. Most companies aren't at these extreme ends, though.

ß: within limits; if you need to produce and store petabytes of changing data on a daily basis...
"Birkenstock quits Amazon in US after counterfeit surge" (2016)https://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/20/birkenstock-quits-amazon-in-...
No, I can't access any books from my German IP address.
Productivity Tips for Techies
That's a big problem there. Mastodon seems to be a EU thing. The bigger instances should consider hosting in a place with free speech. It makes no sense, imagine if all instances were hosted in China.
Is that a net environmental win? Rural housing is much lower density than city housing -- so if these million people each had one acre plots and devoted half that land to gardens (which would feed roughly half a person for a year), they'd have a population density of around 0.4 people per acre (assuming 2.5 people per household). Most of the rest of the land would be covered with houses and landscaping.

And that's assuming that each of these people are willing to work a half acre backyard farm, which is a lot of land to maintain as a hobby.

So they are consuming 400,000 acres (625 sq miles) of land, with half of it replacing dedicated agriculture, but the other ~300 square miles is going to low density housing. (which is impossible to serve effectively with transit so everyone has to drive to go anywhere)

In contrast, San Francisco houses 800,000 people on 49 sq miles of land. (which doesn't include the roughly 250,000 workers that commute there every day)
Get a KVM switch?
eBay is actually easier to use for me, now.

With eBay, you can sort by 'used' items, and there is some focus on the seller history- and by combining them you can form a reasonable expectation of whats going on.

With Amazon, you're buying a lottery ticket, every time.
You can make pure updates in RE:DOM. It’s developed for our digital signage system, and it’s really performant in a real world situations.

It’s different than React though, that’s by design, since we needed more precise DOM handling.
Interesting choice of examples IMO.

The US version of The Office is apparently by far the most watched show on Netflix (US). Even if you acknowledge it went on probably one or two seasons too long (which isn't an uncommon opinion, to be fair), 7 seasons is far longer than most BBC shows last.

And, as another poster noted, I would argue that a lot of people think the BBC version of Sherlock has definitely gone on way too long.

I think British TV has actually started taking influence from American TV over the past decade or so (or at least realized that Americans are watching and have started to cater to those audiences). Downton Abbey I feel also similarly went on probably a couple series too many.
You are both using implicit (so far) and incompatible definitions of "proof" & "proving".

(Just thought that I point it out in case you guys missed it (sorry if you didn't, just trying to be helpful here) but wanted to continue the discussion)
Not much, really..