skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sadly, Linux hardware support is still hit and miss. My latest Lenovo Legion has a whole lot of issues, the biggest one being that the trackpad just doesn't work. Sound also dies sometimes when waking up from sleep. But other than that it's a beast of a machine with a killer Ryzen CPU!

That, in my opinion, is the deal breaker. My pc is a tool I use for getting things done, not something I want to tinker with every time I have to do something. I'm a literate computer user, programmer and sys admin, and I know how to change settings in Linux but I do not want to spend my time digging through mailinglists for a hack, every time I try to use my webcam/soundcard.
high privacy

If you don't care that random X11 applications (e.g. your browser) can snoop keystrokes and mouse events or make screengrabs of any other X11 application.

But it doesn't matter anyway, because any application can grab any data from your home directory.

Unless you use Flatpak, bubblewrap, or some other sandboxing technology.

Disclaimer: I use Linux 95% of the time. But we should be honest about the shortcomings. Desktop Linux is not secure and you only have privacy if you trust all of your applications.
Yes I agree with you, I only call it false data because the ADAS sensor is replaced with OpenPilot. I tried OpenPilot with my car without ADAS and adaptive cruise control and you need the extra wire for the module to give false pedal position and trick the steering. I only stopped because I am afraid to break my daily driver, but it does work and it's amazing.
Sounds like a pretty bad vulnerability and hackernews missed it (like myself for 2 days...). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24782246 had the most activities but still pretty lame.
I watch F1 for the engineering, but unfortunately it's not covered much due to the secretive nature of the sport.

> The only pair of teammates on the grid right now who have any legitimate gap are Albon and Verstappen. Other than that, it's par for the course.

Abon and Verstappen are no the only legitimate gaps; Leclerc vs Vettle and Ricc vs Ocon are also substantial.

A better driver can take 250ms off their team mate - something that would take multiple millions of dollars a year to obtain via regular engineering.

That said, I agree that a great driver such as Ricciardo has no chance to compete for the WDC in his car.
When using dd, every typo is an atomic typo.
Well, yes. It wasn't planned though. I just needed money while I was in school. Parents wanted to charge rent and I wanted to buy a car.
Side point: Whatever this article says, you don’t have to use scripts. You can simply change write permissions to the windowsapps folder, which is where the crapware gets installed

It stops windows store auto-updates, and I’m not sure about this, but I think it might stop you installing apps from the windows store without granting the permissions back temporarily, but either way I’ll take that trade-off
Hiring an Electric Scooter
What happened?

People also got lazy, why bother hosting your own website when you can just upload to Instagram ?

Why maintain bookmarks when you can follow others?

I don’t think we can blame all of the current state of things on “attention grabbers”. Consumers and creators are also partly the issue.
The minimum seating for datacenter products is 500 users, with corresponding purchase and maintenance costs. It's simply not viable for small businesses who are unable to move to the cloud.

For example, if my employer (for whom the use of cloud hosted service is simply not possible) wanted to keep using Atlassian products, moving to datacenter would cost us many thousands of dollars more per year in maintenance while wasting literally hundreds of unnecessary seats we'd be forced to pay for.

This announcement has ruined my day. Not only will we have to abandon a number of projects to implement new Atlassian products, we'll have to start planning to migrate all of our existing instances to other products and re-build all the work flow and customisations in those. At least they've given a few years window for changeover, but this is going to generate a lot of work and our confluence power-users are going to be very upset at having to move to Sharepoint or some other horror.
I'd totally missed that; how recent us recent?
The deposit you leave at the courthouse that you get back when you attend trial.
Yes:)) Every chunk of data is hashed, metadata and all. That result is saved on disk, attached to that data. If there is a bit flip before the data or hash of the data is written, there is no way to deal with that (how would the code know?). (technically, there are ways to write code that uses more energy... related to statistical computing that can detect bad results, but that is another subject)

Most filesystems silently ignore the error, and most file formats deal with it, or it's something you save but dont recall. ZFS lets you know. When you go back later, that checksum, if a bit was flipped while in memory, it's wrong and does not match the checksum (really it's a crypto hash if you use sha3) of the data on disk. Either the data was written incorrectly, or the hash was calculated incorrectly.

I _kinda_ hit the latter. The MSB of the _address_ (and hence the metadata hash) to the location on disk of the data was flipped in rare cases due to bad RAM. It was always the MSB, a clear hardware error... So the record would point to a "block" out at 128PB. Errors like this might not be found by memtest, because most of the time, that bit works... hence the ECC recommendation. Other hashed filesystems (is btrfs the only one?) would have also detected that problem, because they checksum the data and metadata too(?), but it's a random artifact of the exact hardware problem I had, and ZFS dealt with it gracefully. I was able to RO mount and get my data, and the developers were very helpful. It's mature code, and I like the license.

EDIT:

I'm rate limited... I would reply to your comment directly, but I can (thank you YC! this is a _fantastic_ forum and the rules and moderation are solid) still do so here:

So far, we have no way to 100% shield against ionizing radiation. We can only use redundant memory locations to statistically verify any single bit was not accidentally flipped by a high energy particle/photon.

Even if you surrounded the computer with low background material[1] perhaps buried a mile underground to shield from protons and gamma rays from (we dont really know[2]) that have the energy of a baseball, the material the memory is made out of will still have unstable isotopes which decay and occasionally generate a photon or particle with enough energy to flip that tiny capacitor.

I use ECC everywhere my hardware supports it.

[1] https://www.nuclear-shields.com/radiation-shielding/lead-shi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMG_particle (this page should survive the inevitable death of wikipedia)
Looks nice, but another ”free” app. Would be nice to at least know what the ”premium” features are that are locked behind that pretty high price of 5,49€.

Downloading and figuring out is just too much trouble.
On a Likert scale of None-Low-Medium-High-VeryHigh I'd be hard pressed to rate any contemporary Desktop OS better than Medium on stability. Too much stuff breaks too often on all of them.
Two reasons I still have a Windows disk, or VM.

1. Freedom to play any game.

2. Work uses a Windows specific VPN software.

Absolutely no other reason. It's the main source of frustration in my computer-related lifestyle.

I firmly believe that unless you have incredible insight, or incredibly expensive certifications, Windows is absolutely worthless to any advanced power user who wants control over their computer.
Knime. Desktop app is free, is not as polished as alteryx but with some community love it will improve massively. It already is WAY better than Excel.

Stuff is organized in a manner someone unfamiliar with data handling or programming can understand it.

It takes a little bit to master, an some stuff (like looks and variable passing) is still unintuitive.
Yes, spot on. HN mostly hates crypto but for all the wrong reasons. I learned a lot about the community here when I first realized that.
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The corollary is that sometimes you can read a word, without having heard it, and to get through the piece you have to make up a pronunciation and that just sticks in your head.

Twenty years later, I still read lingerie as it is spelled in my head before correcting myself, since I encountered it in writing and didn't make the connection to the spoken version. So I was running around with two words in my head that mean the same thing for so long that it became a habit.

I'll blame the French for that one though.
He drive differently

He used techniques that helped the car to use the maximum possible grip, avoiding sliding or throttle partialisation

For example at Monza, in times of manual gear, he could switch from 4th to 5th in between the two turns of Lesmo, nobody else could, it meant gaining a tenth of a second every single lap and the pole position

For reference, this is how Senna throttle technique sounded at Monza's parabolica

https://youtu.be/LId5SKxljqs
Don't know if there's any Linux distribution doing it, but it seems to me that it should be possible.

You'll just need to have a bootloader that's capable of reading NTFS partitions, that can launch the installation after reboot.
Yeah, I also have a hufsa cup which I use pretty much daily.
> "I'm 100% atheist but I've considered reading the bible because it's culturally significant. But isn't just a bunch of boring and inconsistent tales? is there really anything to be learned from the bible? "

The bible is not a single book; it's a collection of dozens of books written at very different times. Just reading it front-to-back is not a very productive way to read it. Genesis and Exodus are okay, but Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy are just dreadful.

The best place to start is the gospels, at the start of the NT. That gets you right to the heart of what Christianity is about, they're good stories, and there's quite a bit of wisdom in there. Absolutely worth reading.

If you want a philosophical treatise about the meaning of life, read Eclessiastes. The stories of David in the books of Samuel are exciting adventures as well as the most central part of the history of ancient Israel. It's also worth reading a couple of psalms (23 probably being the most famous) but if you read them all in one go, they might get a bit repetitive. And of course there's the erotic Song of Songs. For more adventure stories, Judges also has a couple of good ones.
Setup PiHole on a Raspberry Pi a day ago. It’s blocked so far 4800/20000 queries to the internet. Until I had PiHole
I didn’t realise how prevalent tracking was. With the correct router that allows you to configure the DNS you can protect all the devices connected on your network without any other configuration, otherwise you have to configure in the individual devices. Great for mobiles and TVs where you can’t add an ad blocker.

https://pi-hole.net/

Definitely giving these guys a donation, doing the lords work
You want to use linux. Check first if your hardware is supported. 5 min of googling and you would have perfect experience. You take normal distro like Ubuntu/Fedora follow default install and you are good to go.

I use Linux for the last 7 years. Zero issues so far. I have dual bot for gaming and windows have more hardware issues than Linux. On Windows my Wi-Fi card would sometimes fail to start.
Especially like the abstract angular nature of the 1996 winner, 'Doxorubin in methanol and dimethylbenzenesulfonic acid' by Lars Bech

https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/1996-photomicrogra...
Identity politics target people based on their private properties for nefarious political reasons.
Because it imports literally everything into your current scope, and the standard library types are named in such a way that they will likely conflict with code you write. Named a variable “min” or “max”? Function called “list”? You’re going to cause problems for yourself.

Plus, using std:: is generally a good reminder that you’re using the standard library types and not some homegrown facsimile of that type, as is common in many C++ projects.
Last week my thermostat had an update. After a reboot it showed an ad on the homescreen replacing a tile I put there.

What is going on in this world that some people think this is ok?

I will never update the device again and disconnect it from the internet. So the people who thought it was a good idea gained absolutely nothing.

It is also the reason I keep using Linux.
How do you eat as fast as possible? Without chewing solids or not eating solids?
Wow every response to you has been flagged. Really makes me think... Anyway, why don’t you take a look at every other major and minor democracy in the world and see how they do it. They require ID.
My first instinct was to google up the Socrates quote about "youth of today" and make fun of how some old men always complain about decline of civilisation.

However, I stopped when I remembered the fate of Athens and Greece after Socrates. Although humanity as a whole certainly advanced forward in the last couple of thousand years, Greek civilisation did experience decline that Socrates predicted; old man yelling at cloud wasn't as wrong after all.

I believe that humanity will advance forward in the next couple of thousand years. But it doesn't mean that it will won't decline in the next few hundred years.
> But at least with open source software you have the possibility to fix it if you have the technical chops.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/linux...
The alternative depends on the people involved. In many instances it's a relational database, perhaps in combination with Excel for charts.

One thing Excel is extremely bad at is reliably importing data from CSV. It's unbelievable what errors you can get if you're not extremely careful.
Thanks for the nerf link - nice to start a day with something this impressive!
Any alternatives in Europe?
I miss my old guestbook
Why Monopolies Make Spying Easier (2013)
What's Your True Self?
It's only a problem if you don't do your research before buying. There are a lot of laptops with stellar linux support, some even advertise it.

Some laptops have shitty windows drivers too. Whatever you end up buying, you should read the reviews for beforehand anyways.
First GDPR, Now CCPA What’s Next for Data Privacy in the US?
All billionaires under 35 inherited their wealth (except in tech)
Hope I'm not abusing HN since I don't have a question or anything to show, but I was reading this Forbs page [1] where they list the youngest billionaires in real time (daily?), and besides the people that started tech companies (such as Evan Spiegel from Snapchat, John Collison from Stripe, etc.) all the other have inherited their wealth from their fathers/mothers/grandparents/etc.

Some examples:

- Alexandra Andresen and her sister Katharina, one year her senior, each inherited 42% of the family-owned investment company Ferd.

- Gustav Magnar Witzoe owns nearly half of Salmar ASA, one of the world's largest salmon producers. His stake was gifted to him in 2013 by his father, Gustav Witzoe, who founded the company in 1991.

- Elisabeth Furtwaengler, daughter of publishing magnate Hubert Burda and doctor and actress Maria Furtwaengler, owns 25% of Burda Media Group.

- Lisa and her father, Fritz Draexlmaier, preside over auto parts maker Fritz Draexlmaier Holding GmbH, of which Lisa is sole owner.

- Anna Kasprzak, along with her brother André and mother Hanni, owns $1.46 billion (sales) Danish shoe manufacturer, ECCO. ECCO was founded by Kasprzak's late grandfather, Karl Toosbuy, in 1963.

- ...

This doesn't come as a surprise or anything, but I thought it would be something curious to show. All in all, it just makes me feel sorry for those who have to work hard everyday to earn their money for their bread and butter (me included). And it also shows (as many already know) that your initial conditions (wealth, where you were born, etc.) matters a lot!

[1] https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#24e872c63d78
So Mac at the very least is underpinned by software that is flexible in theory -- thinking that that "X" would only be "a linux" is very naive in my opinion, realistically people already think things like "my mac can't get viruses" and such.

Also, I think the fundamental business model of Macs running OSX and Chromebooks running ChromeOS are very different, and I'd trust apple before I trusted Google.
Missing from this conversation is the use of drones as weapons. We’re used to thinking of drones as tools of government surveillance. But ISIS and Iranian backed groups have been using off-the-shelf drones with 3d printed parts to make airborne IEDs. It’s not hard to imagine white supremacist militia groups using them in the United States to carry out terrorist attacks.
Clickable link: https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#24e872c63d78
For osx I can recommend Numi: https://numi.app/ It’s the beautiful love child of a text editor and a calculator, that makes it supremely easy to go back and edit your calculations.
Rust does a good job capturing that kernel.
It's also about ecosystyems - for photoshop it's plugins, and books, and tutorials, and everybody is working with it, and it's often expected on a resume.

So even given decent funding, i'm not sure GIMP could replace photoshop. Network effects are a serious moat.
I would say a bunch of average people came to the internet. Before that it was mostly reserved by geeks which valued information more than "form"/ux/beauty(irelevant pictures included)/...

Now we have just another pop culture. Sad.

But I still use IRC. It is interesting that most of (to me) relevant developers (system level development, ...) are still hanging there.

IRC is all textual and it was never filled with all the garbage you can see on web, but they did invent alternatives where all the pop culture went (discord O.o) while I can enjoy my peace on IRC.

I am really mourning about usenet. It was dying but still kicking, then google destroyed it with google groups.
Because it imports everything from the std namespace and can lead to name clashes. It also makes it harder to see where symbols come from. If you see `std::vector` you know exactly what it is. If you just see `vector` in a large code base it could be anything. Could be a hand-rolled version of std::vector from prehistoric times or people not trusting the STL for no reason. Could also be a mathematical vector or something for vector graphics or whatever else. That is why people generally always fully specify where things come from, it's not limited to just the STL.

`using namespace X;` is somewhat fine if you limit it to a scope by using it in a source file and ideally only the function body where you use it, in header files it is a really bad idea because then the namespace gets exposed to everything including that header. That can lead to the compiler calling the wrong function and you might not even notice it.
It also prevents illegal voters from voting. There are more than 10 million illegal immigrants in the US current. I think the economic arguments you’ve made have been disproven. All the states I’ve looked at allow you to get an ID for free.
That's a fair comment. But the answer there is to require them to stop banning competing products and run a neutral platform.

There are two issues with that. The first is it won't satisfy the people who demand that amazon be killed. The second is that actually running a neutral platform would mean amazon could no longer ban other products (firearms, nazi materials, alcohol, dangerous chemicals etc).

I think the issue here is that there is no easy answer to any of the overlapping issues that large platforms represent. People don't know what they want and often want mutually exclusive things (more safety and less restrictions). There is ban behaviour on all sides.

I'm concerned that mostly people seem to coalesce around the most extreme outcomes (and those are least likely to improve things). you get a lot more support for "break up amazon" than "some amazon activities may be a utility and a natural monopoly and others not. And that requires different regulation. But there are downsides to that and they are also serious and unpopular. And we also shouldn't throw the baby out with the bath water. And there are plenty of examples of similar issues in non-tech. So we have a systemic issue as well, though how we deal with this can inform further action. And whatever we do won't be 100% correct".
Discrimination due to working times, location, and ability to show ID are not racist. They may affect black people disproportionately, but they also affect millions of whites and other races too. Those things seem to have more to do with economic status than race to me.
You are right except conclusion. It just works for some people.

I've tried Windows 10 and WSL for several months. It feels like consumption OS for me, I am not that productive. I do not like ecosystem, I do not feel secure installing 3rd party binary software.

I want distribution with plenty of open source solutions that just works. I have not had issues with Arch Linux in years. That said I do not use nvidia, radeon, printer, bluetooth, netflix and VPN. I had unsupported hardware experience and check twice beforehand.

Maybe Stockholm syndrome is not about OS but how it suits user? I certainly had it on Windows, no more.
It varies a lot. Some stories are history, some stories are stories. Some are a bit of a mix: they may have a kernel of truth, but they're really more about the story than about historical reliability. I think it's generally pretty easy to tell which is which, but clearly a lot of people have a much harder time with that.

I blame the biblical literalism movement. I don't think there's anything else that has done quite as much damage to Christianity as the insistence that every part of the bible has to be taken as literally as possible. This movement is relatively recent; in the Middle Ages, bible scholars identified 4 levels of interpretation of the bible, of which the literal interpretation was only one, and generally the least important. After the Reformation, everybody had to be able to read the bible (generally a good thing), but that also meant everybody got to interpret it, and some people got a bit carried away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

It happens when a service get too many users, and it ends up like everything else.
I think what's liked about Pippi is her independence and how she believes she can do almost anything, without it becoming a cliché. It's a fine line. I remember Artemis Fowl for instance (when I was a bit older) became too much for me.
The solution, of course, is to buy hardware that supports Linux. If you are a literate computer user, that should be fairly trivial to accomplish.

E.g., both my Dell XPS and ThinkPad X1 work flawlessly with Linux.
Which is another lost-in-translation thing.

"Nijn" is the second syllable of "Konijn" (Rabbit) with "tje" being the diminutive.

So her name is an affectionate kid version of "Little Rabbit".

I have know idea where "Miffy" came from.
Things got extremely political around these experiments.

When 2 days ago Orban announced from nothing that they will provide Remdesivir to everyone, I knew that again they did something stupid...I want the experimental drug that Trump got, not some leftover drug with lots of side effects.

Now I know that it was not Orban who was screwed, but the whole EU.
Just look at what it did to congressional inquiries. You just end up with a bunch of misinformed or willfully ignorant senators and representatives asking rarely useful questions of people just so they can be on CSPAN grilling that CEO that the media currently doesn't like. No one cares about solving the issues so long as there's enough footage sent home to the voters to get reelected.
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