skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On the contrary, I have direct experience with more notebooks that disproves your claim.

On the contrary, I also have direct experience with notebooks across a wide variety of makes, models, and eras (though most were from the Windows XP era, since a lot of my Linux installs were from migrating folks off XP).

> Experienced users, to be sure that you won't have problem with hardware, tend to buy either Thinkpad or Dell notebooks.

Well yeah. That tends to hold true regardless of operating system. The laptops that still manage to be terrible on Linux (which in my experience is constantly shrinking, even - and especially - for old ones) - were typically worse under Windows.

> So no, Linux won't magically work on a machine which is not continuously directly tested by enough developers.

Of course not. My point is that once it is working, it's typically unlikely that it'll regress all that much unless there's an explicit push to deprecate old hardware. The old laptops ain't popular now, but that doesn't mean they weren't popular enough 10 years ago (or similar enough internals-wise to popular notebooks from 10 years ago) to end up getting enough attention by Linux driver devs to still be usable to this day. Maybe someday bitrot will set in, but my experience with Linux support on old laptops suggests that to be relatively rare.
Sure, they'll present some controls differently, and some controls for Mac OS will need to be added (for menus for example). I'd expect them to attempt to keep differences in presentation to a minimum though.
I'm always suspicious of politicians who either lack this basic understanding of US law or fully understand it, but are posturing. And that doesn't even get into the ethics of changing the rules after the fact.
we are finally at the point where throwing more hardware/data at a dumb algorithm won't give you much better results

Recent success of gpt-2 indicates otherwise.
They are probably suggesting reducing the number of seats.
I solve the problem by always paying extra for exit seats - usually because they have extra legroom, but also because in an emergency the number of potentially stupid and deadly people between me and the exits is as low as possible.
I was replying to someone saying the same about MacBooks, but that’s clearly no longer the case.
Depends on jurisdiction, but I think in most countries it's a crime to not adhere to aviation safety regulations - including ignoring what the staff tells you to do in an emergency.

Smoking in the lavatories, or standing up and refusing to sit down when you don't want to travel with someone - that results in criminal liability.
Slightly misleading as it wasn't a traditional competition. The same page shows it at about the 75th percentile in "real" ones.
First of all love it that someone is thinking about bootloaders. Thank you and I hope you're successful in this project.

I think that the article though is only targeted towards desktop PC/laptop/servers and mobile phones. Also not sure whether the it is talking about first level bootloader vulnerabilities or of second level bootloader vulnerabilities.

In the embedded world there often is no second stage loading, there are simply bootloaders. There are many, many bootloaders and opensource is the most popular option here, both first and second level.

Here's a table of hardware filtered by the booloaders used

https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_admin_bootloader

- around 800 device types use uboot

- around 200 use cfe

Both of them are opensource.

I think we can use the research done opensource router os like openwrt[1] to design a BIOS that works across all devices. One interesting point to note here is that in many routers entire bootloader can be replaced easily using network booting. It takes seconds to flash the ROM (network booting is in-secure in theory but secure in practical since you need physical connectivity to book via a network).

While many modern machines support network booting,replacing the first level bootloader (BIOS) is (impossibly) hard.

Distributions of linux use GRUB which is nice and also opensource. But again its a second stage bootloader that comes into play after BIOS (first stage bootloader) has been executed.

I'd love to see more development in u-boot as they have already done the hard work of supporting multiple devices [2] and amazingly they also support direct booting from an SD card (not an sd card adapter via a usb stick).

Here is the list of architectures supported

/arc

/arm

/m68k

/microblaze

/mips

/nds32

/nios2

/openrisc

/powerpc

/riscv

/sandbox

/sh

/x86

Another key point to note is as a user there is very little control that I have on my bootloader (first level). Since it is loaded from a ROM which I can't replace/rewrite even if opensource firmware exists I can't use it. While I can install a new operating system I have not found any easy way to switch firmwares. Unless a project like linux foundation takes it up and brings together the stake holders to use an opensource firmware I think it will be really difficult to get adoption.

On the other hand bootloader is probably the only piece of software left that gives device manufactures some kind of control over their hardware. What's in it for them to use a free opensource technology?

[1] https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/bootloader

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_U-Boot
I’m really curious how Apple is going to solve the HIG problem.
Surely Apple won’t lower the bar for macOS apps, right? (I plead so... or why use a mac when WSL2 is out and Linux desktops are getting traction?)
My naive thought is that Apple’s Marzipan will add a layer to display UIKit components as AppKit components that follow the HIG; Currently all kind of differences are present like textbox radius, modal views(!), etc...
Maybe some UIKit components will be mapped to AppKit ones, and some others (that are only in UIKit) will also be added to AppKit?
Play control isn't impossible for GIF. I'm using sxiv for viewing images, which is as minimal as it gets, but it does have pause, single step forward and single step backward for GIF.
Do You Know Salmonella Disease?
It is common that food poisoning leads serious disease and even death. So what leads the food poisoning? According to a survey, Salmonella has become the main killer in food poisoning in USA. Thus Americans are familiar to this bacteria and around 40,000 salmonella infection cases are reported every year. Actually, the number of infected people may be more than twenty times of the number of reported patients. Because many patients with light disease are not diagnosed and more than 1,000 people are die of acute salmonella infection.

Epidemic in most states in US is related to the infected meat,eggs and milk products. For example, eating raw tomatoes have lead to food poisoning. It is usual to eat raw fruits and vegetables. However, hundreds of people had diarrhea, fever and stomachache in 30 southern and middle western states for eating the raw tomatoes which are imported from Mexico. Dozens of people had to go to hospital for the serious symptoms and a few patients even died. American’s Centers for Disease Control(CDC) found the reason that patients who had eaten the tomatoes were found salmonella by Salmonella test. So it is the salmonella that leads to the serious epidemic.

An server salmonella outbreak happened in California in August in 2010. Ministry of health in California announced that there were salmonella outbreak in many areas in the state and more than 250 infected cases were reported from June to August. Initial inquiries revealed that most patients got infected by eating eggs. It seemed that these eggs were infected with salmonella. Meanwhile, Minnesota diagnosed that at least 7 case were related to salmonella. It was reported from Associated Press that salmonella patients in other states were increasing rapidly.
I'd have thought that's a common knowledge (outside US) that "the 5th" applies only to criminal cases.
Most of Western Society refuses to build

3 1 bedroom tiny homes on a block of land for 200 per week rent

instead they keep doubling down on the old model of building on the SAME BLOCK of land

1 story

3 bedroom

1 car park

1 bin

“home” that gets rented out for AUD$300-450 per week

Which often ends up getting rented out to 3-5 different people and often only lasts 6-12 months,

till the new set of renters rent out out and a lot of the time the same place can go thou

3 different owners in a period of 5 years
At least for launch, I doubt we'll improve those mass ratios for a long time to come - chemical rockets hit theoretical limits at exhaust velocities/specific impulses of e.g. ~5.5km/s for hydrolox, and SSME already got within 10-20% of that theoretical maximum. All of the systems that can get better specific impulse, like thermal rockets or electric thrusters, have thrust:mass ratios waaaaay too low to get off of Earth on their own. (Possibly nuclear thermal rockets? But I don't think people will be overjoyed firing those off in an atmosphere.)
2FA, Phishing and Yubikeys
Gotcha; that would indeed be a problem :)
Even if checked-in fees went away, I would still try to go cabin luggage only for short trips away (anything under a week) because it is significantly quicker than waiting for luggage to be unloaded etc.

And for what it’s worth, I use a backpack, so it’s often stored at my feet due to locker space pseudo reserved for hard cases.
The most surprising thing to me was that while watching the plane driving along, turning, coming to a stop, there was not a single fire engine there.
Why is nobody talking about that? Every time I saw some kind messed up landing, I saw fire engines rushing towards and/or behind the plane even before it lands.
Was the pilot also deadly stupid by trying to land the plane without releasing the fuel first? As I understand very few pilots have the experience to do that.
Pulling up overcast (a great podcast app) reveals:

* A bunch of Relay FM shows: Cortex, Clockwise, Automators, Upgrade, Under the Radar, Liftoff, etc.

* A few interview shows: Masters of Scale, How I Built This, That Creative Life
Second-order (mostly service sector) would, but the network effects and job flexibility of sector hubs is means concentration is better for the industry. Depends what you're optimizing for; there's pros and cons to specialization.
Interesting thing to know would be - whether HN staff does not allow the stories that they disagree with, to get popular.
Carelessness in journalism leads to death penalties, yet the revealed "carelessness" in war which harmed so many more leads to medals and coverups.
> The surface area increases with the square of linear dimensions

That's for a ball. A cylinder does not increase that way.

Plus you only need to increase the width, not the height. So the surface areas goes up as twice the linear dimension, which I don't think would be significantly heavier, just a bit incrementally heavier.
Yes, it's not easy to say goodbye to 1.2 million for 5 years. The outrage over it seems racially motivated to me. It's not like white millionaires haven't bought their way into the country before this.
sh refers to a POSIX shell. The bourne shell (bsh) is not entirely compatible with the Bourne Against Shell (bash), and bash will switch to a compatibility mode if called as sh.

Additionally, many distros, including Ubuntu and Debian, do not use bash as their default shell. (Ubuntu/Debian use dash, Arch uses zsh, Alpine uses busybox sh)
I was super addicted to Bejeweled about 5 years back and my mom is now addicted to that bubble shooter.
Why do you like risking to loose your bags and constantly add 30minutes to your trips waiting for bags at the carousel? I never check bags and it's never a cost thing, only speed and convenience.
The US patent applications in the above list resolve to the following five:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160234144A1/ This one seems to be about specifying a Mimetype paramater that tries to describe the cost of image transformations requested in the target file, so that clients who know they can't perform those transformations can pick a different file.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160232939A1/ Seems to be about image sequences and specifying such a concept with coherent metadata in the container.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20150193494A1/ This seems to talk about the myriad ways that ISOBMFF can assert metadata about data elements within, but there aren't always good ways to ensure the metadata points back to a specific data element. This talks about ways of figuring out whether such loosely-floating metadata in the container is still valid for data items; they also propose using checksums to figure out if the data items changed.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20180146225A1/ This is a fancy restatement of P-frames for still images, leaving open the possibility that later frames also 'enhance' the first image in various ways e.g. upscale resolution and others.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20140314148A1/ This defines signalling to allow putting all the I-frames at the start, and all the P-frames at the end.
There are other models as well eg datalog, but popularity is a factor of many things — a major factor with databases is that historically the engine is far more important than the language; you would expect users to choose an engine, and whatever language came with it. Which implies that the decision is on the producer side, not the consumers.

Which finally implies that usage popularity is not adequately explained by user preference, because you wouldn’t expect user language preference to have significant impact on the decision making process.

But regardless, are you also going to claim that C, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, etc were optimal in their respective fields, during their respective eras, because they held total market domination? Incumbency is one hell if a drug..

Bandwaggoning and deffering to the status quo is not argument for quality; there are too many factors involved beyond quality itself. Fixable flaws in the language have been pointed out and not been addressed in this conversation chain. Alternatives languages exist, both academically and practically; they don’t come alone. Its not a competition in a void, the ecosystem has to move together. This occurs in every aspect of tech (did you ever wonder if there could be an OS other than unix and window styles?).

Asking why SQL was never beaten out in popularity is a hugely different question from whether there can be a better language than SQL, with largely unrelated amswers(Oracle/IBM were hardly fair players in anything they did)
I agree with you. Public figures need to be held to a higher standard than everyone else for their behavior and statements, but they deserve the same compassion as everyone else. It's fine to criticise Zuckerberg but this is just bullying.
Lacks 3 most successful Polish composers of last few years:
Marcin Przybyłowicz, Mikołaj Stroiński, Adam Skorupa

They created music for many video games, including the Witcher series. Even got some awards for it in game media (https://www.ign.com/wikis/best-of-2015/Best_Original_Music for example).

I find it funny that film music is considered art by some cultural institutions , but video game music isn't.
It may be time to start prosecuting people that carry anything out during an emergency evacuation. A heavy fine (at least) seems a reasonable price to avoid loss of life in future.
>Microsoft, by contrast, does not let you permanently disable driver signing on 64 bit Windows

Have you tried the next? (I haven't tried it because I don't have access to a Windows box on which I have admin privs.)

https://windowsreport.com/driver-signature-enforcement-windo...
> That’s what Amazon has agreed to do in this case, on a nationwide level.

That's kind of the problem, isn't it? They've "agreed" to do it, as if not doing that was also an option but Amazon decided generously (and not to set precedent) to comply with the law.

Corporations are not sex offenders, they are very rational. If you fine them, their delinquency stops. If you don't, it won't.
They raised luggage fees, but haven’t ticket prices actually declined when adjusted for inflation? The only key difference now seems to be that airlines are more à la carte than they used to be. And the road warrior types are already getting a free checked bag with their credit card or airline status. However the size restrictions really ought to be better enforced. There are some massive bags getting on board many flights.
> Try downloading a video from a popular social network.

That's the site's decision. You also cannot easily download images from Twitter if there are more than one in a tweet for example. On Instagram it is blocked all in all.
Why was this flagged? Good thing I am using a 3rdparty site to read HN, otherwise I wouldve missed.
As if developers weren't actively trying to kill regular images in the web! More and more sites serve me some blobs via some pointless js scripts, forcing me to use developer tools to just save the original image. Combined with lazy loading it results in some frustrating UX.
The parts are if you buy water damaged devices.

Water tends to kill the PCB (due to corrosion), but all the individual chips will usually survive.
> They are [evacuation slides] designed for no other purpose than to empty a plane of its occupants as rapidly as possible.

They are also designed to be flotation devices.
Senor Sisig did this. Honestly it never bothered me since I never have cash anyway.
People who go into some kind of dumbshit mode where they violate a rather basic social contract, by clearly indicating higher value for their crap than human lives? Yes, I'm getting a sense of acting irrationally right now: how about assaulting and trampling them? Hmm, small problem, while they deserve that and I think it would be completely ethical, their body will be yet another obstruction that will potentially cost others their lives.
Do you have anyone in your network that can test out your MVP, and actually use it in their company? What I found in the beginning, if the MVP you released is kind of crappy, which it should be, is that it's difficult to get people to make the time investment needed to test it out and give valuable feedback. When it's someone you already know they are more likely to actually commit the time.

Also, at this stage I don't think you should measure success by how many users you get but rather by how happy your users are. I think zapperdapper is spot on with saying you need to find one customer who loves your product. Once you have that customer try using her to find out how to reach similar customers. Which online communities do they belong to? Where do they get their industry news? Can she recommend your SaaS to other potential customers? Can you maybe attend industry events? What sales language does she respond to? In her own words how does she describe her problem and your solution?

Also, if you post a link here, maybe HN can help out?
They get easier to digest after you’ve read a few dozen. Or written a couple.
Distributed Consensus Revised – Part III
Really interesting bit, wouldn't have found it unless you sent me this. Interested, too, to hear what people think about it.
I'm honestly surprised that amd doesn't get more aggressive about developing towards Julia as a deep learning target, it would be way easier for their devs to optimize for performance parity than say tensorflows spaghetti code. Iirc, the raw flops performance of AMD gpus is even or better than Nvidia but their unoptimized libraries kick it in the shins (I could be misremembering thus)
Drifting Off fro the technical discussions.

>If only we had not bottom-raced software prices to levels that make it hard to create an app

Are there any product or services sold in an open market where its price is not bottom raced? Even Apple products are many times cheaper than they were in the 90s.
Chelsea Manning released from jail on contempt charge
> I can think of three mechanisms to bring down house prices: ... Reduce the amount of lending banks do

How will this reduce the actual cost of housing? If banks lend less, interest rates will go up, which will lower the value of homes. However, the value of the home will go down in proportion to the higher interest rates. So the homes will be valued less, but they will cost exactly the same taking into account the higher interest rates.

The only one who wins here are the banks who get higher interest rates.
Global Warming and Airlines
It is still possible that large companies apply vertical integration to the extent that general purpose components become difficult to obtain.
The article talks about stupidity, and these people are often marked as idiots. It is important to note that people follow patterns. Dazzled, scared, and panicking people even more so. I don't know what is the solution to this problem, but I bet the first step is to drop the labels, accept that this is how many reacts currently and design around that behaviour.

Take for example fire exits. We know masses have died meters from safety because they couldn't figure out to pull instead of push, or had the calm to handle a door knob. Did we blame their 'stupidity'? No, we mandated outward opening doors and push-to-open emergency latches.
> Surely Apple won’t lower the bar for macOS apps, right?

They already did: see the current Marzipan apps. The hope is that this is not representative of how they will release Marzipan in June.
this is the most important thing

To them, not necessarily to Apple nor their customers.
The dream of QuickTime back in the 90s
I read that in surveying passengers who hadn't been in an emergency evacuation, about one third of people said they'd try to take at least one bag. In surveying passengers who had been involved in an emergency evacuation, about one half actually did. So you're not alone.

What I did find interesting though, were the other side effects I hadn't considered. Time taken actually picking up your bag, most people will justify that away to themselves. Clogging up the aisle, most people seem to think that's something other people do.

Time wasted arguing with the flight attendant when they try to persuade you that your bag could damage the slide? Where does the inevitable pile of bags go if the flight attendants start winning that argument? One report had that pile formed in front of a cockpit door. Another had that pile form in front of the off-side exit which should have been otherwise usable.

(and only one of these points would be addressed by wider aisles!)

I do find myself speculating whether the modern atmosphere of everyone knowing better than the experts compounds the issue.
Airlines are often only marginally profitable, which is why seat spacings are as tight as they are. The seating configuration is a combined effect of limited energy availability and economics.

So yes - it does cost that much to increase space, and reducing passenger loads would lead to significant losses.

By any reasonable metric, including passenger miles and total passenger numbers, accidents are incredibly rare compared to other transport modes.

The way to deal with the problem is to make crashes and fires even less likely, not to expect untrained panicking passengers to deal rationally or intelligently with a situation they've never experienced.
That's....silly. By that definition most EU countries don't even have a "large" city. Warsaw and Krakow are both huge cities and they have 2M and 1M people respectively.
Not all airplanes can dump their fuel. Only the bigger ones can. I once had to fly circles around an airport for 5 hours to burn up the fuel, because the airplane couldn't dump it.
There was a report of people being taken off a flight a few days ago for refusing to listen to the safety announcements. They were sitting in an exit row.
See resources on this here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PsychedelicTherapy/comments/beou26/...
Loaning money to their merchants allows their merchants to buy more inventory to ship to Amazon to sell. Thus Amazon benefits by making more sales, too.