skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most power users switched to scoop, because chocolately is... not great. Scoop is much better, but has a much smaller list of apps.

I don't want to hate on chocolately too much, because it has filled a very obvious gap in the Windows landscape for so long, but I really don't like it.

The biggest problem is that there are invariably 5 different packages for anything you want to install, with no reliable way of deciding which is the real/main one.

Another problem is packages constantly breaking. This can happen because packages actually pull files from remote, primary sources, and those files disappear or the site goes down, but also for a myriad of other reasons.

Yet another problem is the reliability of the chocolately site - it seems to go down or be slow as hell quite frequently.

Another gripe is that AFAIK, chocolately doesn't support 3rd party repos.

And finally (and this one is totally subjective) the website is ugly.

So as glad as I am that chocolately filled a void, I'll also be glad for Microsoft to provide an official, reliable replacement that also supports 3rd party repos.
How would this be different than going to Amazon.com and searching for "bluetooth speaker" or "marble chess site" and seeing offers from different companies for products you can buy? Amazon also makes it convenient since you can order through their site instead of being redirected to a third-party, and they assist in the shipping/return process.
That would have been useful. In the meanwhile there is gsudo [1].

[1] https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo
Neither of which would be using a civilian GPS receiver?
For mobile apps of any stripe, pi-hole takes care of those ads, including those in the NYT app.
2 reasons to use Janus then :)
Angular, Rust, WebAssembly, Node.js, Serverless, and Azure Static Web Apps
Someone definitely had a short position make profit when Bloomberg was publishing that crap about TSMC a while ago
Tesla V100 Server: On-Prem vs. AWS Cost Comparison
11 Tips for a Better Code Review
I enjoyed the "very noisy" setting, actually sounds like most of the radio dial.
> It's still remarkably useful for a book that was published in 2013, but we are probably overdue for a "version 6.5".

That reminds me of a site I wish existed. It would mainly just present a table listing tools and technologies in column 1, and a year in column 2.

The year is the earliest year that books written for that tool or technology will still be mostly applicable to the current version.

For example, suppose you would like a book about Postfix (the SMTP server).

There are a few books on it, still available new. Hildebrandt and Koetter's "The Book of Postfix" (2005). Dent's "Postfix The Definitive Guide" (2003). Blum's "Postfix" (2001).

Does Postfix change slowly enough that some of those are still worth reading? That's what the site I want would tell you.

Of course it would be fine if the site had more detail. It might say things like for technology Foo books after 2016 should be fine, books from 2012 to 2016 should be fine except they will be missing major feature X and Y, books from 2008 to 2012 will be using an older, very different configuration system, and books older than that will be pretty much useless.
The government does not take a "hands off approach to the Internet." It might seem that way, because the federal government does that. But when you're talking about building physical things in specific places, that's largely the domain of cities and states, and accordingly most of the relevant regulation is at the state and local level.

State-and-local permitting is one huge morass. When I had fiber installed to my house, Comcast had to get permits to hang fiber on a utility poll. Then there were different permits for diverting traffic temporarily while hanging the fiber. Then there were other permits for trenching. The whole process took months. And there is a skilled worker there that has to shepard the process through the bureaucracy.

Other regulations prevent offering television service (a key revenue source) without commitments to build a certain footprint. That means you can't start an ISP with a "minimal viable product" and grow from there. You have to be willing to commit huge amounts of money up front before you see a cent of revenue.

It's very illustrative to look at the deals Google Fiber struck with municipalities, because that shows you where are the real pressure points. Two features appeared in almost every accepted proposal for a Fiber city: (1) one-shot, fast-track permitting; and (2) no build-out requirements.
I remember reading an article about circular polarization in fiber optics ages ago. They made it sound like it was just around the corner.

The fly in the ointment as I recall was that circular polarization required some additional quality gates for the physical fiber that most fiber doesn't meet. So while a lot of new fiber equipment has reused existing cable runs, this would likely require new fiber to be laid.

What happened?
There’s DoT (DNS Over TLS), which operates on port 853, uses TCP and provides encryption. But it’s also something network operators can easily block since it runs on a specific, separate port. DNS over HTTPS (DoH), on the other hand, rides on HTTPS/port 443, which cannot be blocked in networks without causing major disruptions to the rest of the web traffic.

A more detailed comparison is here:

https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/dns-over-tls-vs-dns-over-ht...
I'm sometimes tempted to use and recommend Airtable. There is a lot to like.

But their "records-per-base" limit is a complete non-starter. The highest tier of service (before Enterprise) has 50k record cap, which disqualifies it for many reasonable use cases.

Apologists for Airtable hand-wave away this concern. They say Airtable has integrations with other systems and databases; that Airtable is meant for current data only; that its not meant to store complete histories; that larger databases would be too resource-consuming.

None of it is persuasive. The limit seems arbitrary and seems obviously intended to drive businesses into the Enterprise pricing.

I've even tried to contact them about it in the past, to get a larger limit. I was starting work on a non-fiction book and thought it would make a great writing support tool for gathering facts and evidence. But I never heard back.
I don't know, lot's of tech enterprises will give you the product for free and make it up on "support". Fortunately, a lot of these environments have forums and such which means you will eventually get help, but not soon enough if your hair is on fire.
Champaign-Urbana IL, pictured in the article but not named, is characteristic of a campus that I think will be impacted. 32,000 undergrads, 14,000 graduate students, tons of research departments, and increasing (til now) corporate satellites.
I agree that considered judgement is desirable, but it seems that the recent surge in so-called 'cancel culture' has put an end to thoughfulness and patience.
Totally! It's something we've considered, and it wouldn't be too hard to implement. The reason why we've deferred it is because we've found that most early-stage startups are pretty homogeneous in their requirements, so a self-weighing system like you suggested is a little excessive. That said, I think it's very much something that we'll revisit when we start delving into later-stage-startup topics.

Thanks for the suggestion!
"We’re also working more closely with partners like Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce..."

Is Facebook Shops not a direct competitor to Shopify? Or is this just "embrace, extend, and extinguish"?
Various Civilization games have had global warming since Civ 1: https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Global_warming
Hell, even Spring boilerplate generator still defaults to Java 8.

https://start.spring.io/
The UWP project was all about Windows Phone -- it was a platform for running more constrained and less battery-heavy applications on a phone while also allowing those apps to run on the desktop.

When their phone platform imploded, UWP suddenly didn't have a real market.
Yes, I tried different variations and even tried to dig into sources, it seemed at that moment, that it only sends a single certificate. That was 2-3 years ago, I think, so may be that changed.
Also of course, like any other language, Python is not immune to I/O wait. Recently I was using Python to do some low level audio processing (nothing fancy) and wondering why it was taking so long to process such a small file. Turns out the "wave" stream reader I was using isn't internally buffered, like most of the normal file readers are, so each single-byte read was making the round trip to disk. Simply reading the whole file in one go sped up the program's execution more than 10x.

I like to think I've been doing this long enough to not make such silly mistakes, but when you're focused on a totally different area of the problem, things like this are still quite easy to miss.
Never had an issue before. What distro and window manager are you using? I'm running Arch with Sway and no issues whatsoever with the mouse.
Regardless of whether there are security flaws or not, I wouldn't install it. The Blob already has waaaay too much info on me. There's no way I'm voluntarily giving them more.
URL Radio lets you listen to your favorite online radio stream on Android Auto
Japanese won Pioneer, A fully remote accelerator
I mentioned this before. Notion is great, but the fact that they use fullstory (session recording) for a note taking app is a huge problem for me. We’re talking about potentially sensitive data being available to notion and perhaps fullstory employees for the sake of improving UX. I especially dislike the fact that they don’t disclose session recording upfront. I found out by inspecting their app webpage.

Sure there’s a way to opt out of fullstory in general, but that’s not very reliable.

I should mention that we use fullstory for our saas product and quite happy with it. However, our implementation makes it possible to opt out upfront during registration and or change your session recording settings from within our app. We don’t rely on fullstory or bs workarounds, we simply don’t load fullstory when you opt out.
>You were meant to destroy everything once in a while.

>This was even the main takeaway for some people. [...] SimCity 2000 [...]

Nooo! I didn't like the disasters in SC2000. If your city becomes too bad a delegation of citizens gently escorts you from your mayor's office[1] (game over). Also, getting disasters under control takes work and there is no progress in the city during disasters.

If there is a fire, I had to place firefighters around the fire. Sometimes it made sense to take the bulldozer and remove structures, which would have been fuel for the fire. I hope people didn't miss their houses :^). After I had successfully learned how to always get the different disasters under control, I disabled them in a menu.

BTW I wish a Windows emulator with SimCity2000 for Windows would be sold. Right now only the DOS version is sold.

[1] https://www.simtropolis.com/objects/attachments/monthly_2016...
This product announcement taught me that airtable exists and got me interested in it.

I don't know why all the comments here are so snide. I wish my company's product was validated by having TC announce the largest player in our domain was creating a direct competitor to our product. Because I know they can't beat us on price or performance, and creating an inferior product that does the same thing (with a product announcement on TC giving our f'ing name alongside it!) would make me a wealthier man. Money can't buy this kind of ad.
Microsoft wanted to unify their developer story around UWP (in all it's incarnations) and that never took hold. This is a realization of that and re-focus on bringing all their development frameworks up to modern standards (even Winforms!)

Supporting developers were they are is likely to be much more successful than supporting developers were they wanted them to go.
This is why I only subscribe to publications through iTunes/App Store. One click, and I'm unsubscribed. Not on the Apple store? Then I will not be rewarding your dark pattern. I don't need to read anything that badly.
> slaughter methods involve less suffering than all of us are likely to experience at our deaths, and likewise less than animals in nature generally experience

Sure, but that says nothing about the suffering these animals experience during their (short [1]) lives, which is typically immense [2] - >=97% of farm animals are raised on factory farms (except for cows, at 78%) [3]. So yes, people should be aware of the facts.

Out of curiosity, why did you shift away from a vegan diet?

[1] https://www.four-paws.us/campaigns-topics/topics/farm-animal...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQRAfJyEsko

[3] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/its-time-to-end-factory-f_b_1...
Optical Insights into Renaissance Art
> We also have webmentions, so, if bloggers start using it, it will help us find other's blogs.

My informal research [1] shows approximately zero adoption of webmention. For 44 blog posts I have written in the past two years, I did not have a single external link to a host that would support it.

[1] https://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/archives/2020/01/checking...
Java 8 still gets updates, but you have to have a license to get them for business use (kind of like paying for extended support for Windows 7). And then things like OpenJDK fill the gap by making an open source release available that doesn't cost money you can drop in as a replacement.

Sure, there are still products that use it (the oldest legacy Java app I still see runs on OpenJDK 11 just fine, mind you), but if you're launching a new package manager in 2020, the only apps that will use it are new apps. So you might as well start with the latest possible release. There's no good reason for Windows Package Manager to start with OpenJDK 8 as the baseline.
i've only been using it for a little bit, but here goes:

* unlike Notion, it's one workspace per instance. makes sense, but worth noting as using workspaces as for organisational purposes won't work so well here.

* for personal instances, Slack doesn't make all that much sense. i see a PR for LDAP support on GitHub, so i will play around with that

* supports embeds just like Notion - paste the link and it just works. supports codepen, figma, gsuite, youtube and others. this was the feature that made me take notice of notion, so it's good to see it here.

* even better, the embed API seems pretty easily extensible, so the sky's the limit here. i can't wait to make some sweet dashboards based on entirely self-hosted data!

* no mobile app is a bit of a bummer, but the PWA experience works pretty well. considering i'll be authoring predominantly on desktop and only reading on iPhone, this isn't so much of a big deal for my use case

* no auto-save :(

* you can share a read-only, fully public link of any page you want. pretty damn cool.

all in all i'm pretty impressed. it seems pretty robust! i mean, it's definitely not as full-fat as Notion, but perhaps that's a good thing - and OSS means it's easily extensible for whatever you need to use it for. who knows which way my opinion will change after some more extensive use, but this definitely shows promise.
"Important" in the sense that many IT organizations have predicated their data forensics and incident response capabilities on being able to intercept and analyze traffic at arbitrary points within their corporate networks.

That's not to say that those choices reflect good architectural design, to be sure quite the opposite. But like many things in enterprise IT risk management, it comes down to where you spent your money, and things like DoH/DoT force will force certain organizations to admit "a lot in the wrong place".
I'll bite here... I used to track my finances and balance my checkbook. But, it took hours of my time. The best thing I ever did was create a separate account for my disposable income. My bills account gets the exact amount it needs and everything is payed automatically. The rest of my income goes into my fun account and I rest easy knowing I can spend until it's gone and my bills still get payed.

After that worked well for me, I now put small amounts into various savings accounts, like "tires", "vacation", or "emergency". I use an Ally account with "buckets".

I don't balance anymore, and haven't for 20 years. Just a quick glance at recent transactions to make sure I recognize everything.

It's also amazing how quickly some of those savings accounts add up when I'm not thinking about them much.
I would have thought that HN readers would at least be somewhat tech savvy, but alas.

Advertisement systems are way less advanced and much more stereotype driven, than privacy freaks care to acknowledge.
Think of this - advertisers have less than 100ms to decide the best ad to show you... often multiple times per website.
Do you really think that any ads are actually personalised?

I remember having to differentiate between Bike Helmet for Barbie(a toy) and Barbie Bike Helmet(safety device for children)... Or the fact that if you let a learning algo run through the categories, they can place dildos(adult toys) right next to water guns(kids toys).

There are services that target you with offers that are highly tailored*, but online ads are not one of those services.

(Amazon's "You May also like", food delivery services suggestions, and similar things that can calculate for a long time)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n0j93sOCcg
I'm surprised there's so many comments here about demographic data while that's only a really basic view into current ad tech. Since the late 2000s ad networks have invested heavily in retargeting [1]. It's quite common that people end up in a vendor, add something to the cart and never finish the transaction. Retargeting attempts to catch behaviors like that and adjust to display the items that the user showed interest in. I haven't been in that industry in years, but in the 2020s I can only expect much more nuanced systems based on ML. And everything falls apart without being able to keep a history of what you do and who you are.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_retargeting
The idea that open source is being "hurt" by asking for companies not to misrepresent their products says a lot more about you than it does anyone else.
What is a great domain name? Decades ago it was essential to have an e in your name (eBay et al), then it was cute to replace that e with i, but the whole while the golden rule was to definitely whatever you do, do not use a name out of the dictionary, to make it easier for consumers to identify your product and to save you legal headaches.

Nowadays, companies seem to love having a real dictionary name. Lemonade: refers to the drink, the renters insurance startup, and a chain restaurant in my town, and google couldn't tell you which one I want at a particular time, because Lemonade is a terrible name for your company. Pretty much any piece of software or company with an English word for a name is immediately forgettable in my mind, and impossible to follow up with due to piss poor SEO on the 2020 internet.
You can use a normal language to well design a declarative library. That's the point.
Scoop's[1] sudo is fantastic, and works exactly how it works on *nix.

[1] https://scoop.sh/
I wonder if slashdot has a Borg avatar for Zuck yet...
Fair enough! It's just that your comment before the edit sounded a bit generic.

Sorry for the annoyance!
>There isn't even any uninstall functionality.

Control Panel --> uninstall apps

The issue is with how windows setup exes are designed. Most allow you to uninstall after running the exe again...others do not and leave traces of themselves everywhere.

This is a great first step and leads to some automation possibilities when setting up new installs.
The problems caused by "half-assed" solutions are likely somewhere down the line, in distant future and their true costs impossible to estimate.
I've got that, a couple of subsidized Tesla Powerwalls where the deal is they get to draw up to 50% of the juice during high load times. It's a pretty reasonable deal. From the customer point of view it definitely can take the place of a generator, GMP is pretty fast about bringing power back up usually so a few PW2s is pretty good even without solar. And unlike a generator PWs don't have regular testing/maintenance/consumables/noise/pollution. On GMP's side though the big point is to offset having to buy very expensive peak load power. It's already saved them a ton of money, old press piece for example:

https://greenmountainpower.com/2018/07/24/whoa-heatwave-savi...

I'll be a little curious if usage patterns are different this summer with more people home, but it's worked out well for them under typical conditions when there are big spikes in the afternoon/evening as people get back and turn on AC or the like.
Cool article. Pretty straightforward but very cool to see the interactive examples.

Interestingly I found the simple "clipped" and "clipped/boosted" functions by far the most pleasing.

I doubt it's a coincidence that's what most analog FX are doing.

The distinctions between these are usually murky but in guitar FX:

Boost - Boost
Overdrive - boost + soft clipping
Distortion - boost + hard/soft clipping
Fuzz - boost + mostly hard clipping

All the effects are generally doing one or more of the following:
- Boost signal through a transistor till the transistor saturates/cuts off and clips
- Do the same with an OP-AMP
- Use diodes to do an extra clipping stage

In analog audio the signal is literally an alternating current... the "values" in digital audio correspond to +/- voltage levels. So his transfer functions are trying to mimic what electronic components do when they hit their limits. The transfer functions can also do things that are probably impossible in the analog world.

There's a lot of weird non-linear stuff that seems to bring out harmonics as well.
The Disney Songbook Table of Elements
- Personal Analog Assistant: literally just a small notepad where I jot notes and To-Dos. A cell phone or desktop app could work just as well, but I like the paper approach.

- "Spellbook": any command that's not something bog-standard and simple gets added to a Notepad++ file; e.g. a bunch of Cisco commands go in the Network Spellbook, SQL queries go in the DB Spellbook, Linux one-liners in the Bash Spellbook, etc.
Thanks for clearing that up. Maybe the problem then is the misleading nature of the phrase "hate speech". The speech that is being banned isn't distinguished by being "hateful", but because it is targeted at certain subjectively chosen minorities.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that we shouldn't give extra protections to groups of people who have historically faced disproportionate amounts of violence (and other harms), just that we should maybe call it "selected minority endangering speech" instead of "hate speech", and be clear about the specific cost-benefit trade-off we are making by how we choose and delineate those categories of people and how much speech is covered.
Very excited! One of the most common questions within the YC community is which product should I use for X. As an avid user of Wirecutter for consumer items I think this approach is very interesting.
I'm a happy user of QOwnNotes and Markor with a shared dir with a sync tool of your choice. Indeed, committing my data to a closed (source) silo is what prevents me from using tools like this (Notion does look very neat).
I don’t really have a good excuse other than I enjoy fashion. Women’s pants take up less space than you’d imagine. I had a walk-in closet and my pants took up a section about equal to a normal sized hall closet. I hadn’t forgotten about them I just didn’t realize how many I had. I’ve since re-homed the vast majority of my admittedly excessive wardrobe in order to live out of a suitcase. Expensive clothing was one of the many ways I felt I was trapped in the rat race.