skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look now that Firefox seems to be supporting the webdriver protocol more closely, the progress of FF to which I don't follow that closely, so it might have caught up quite a lot, but it will be possible it'll just be a bit more work and I don't care to do that without knowing you know how many people it would really affect. I feel quite sorry for the people to who don't enjoy seeing they can't use Ff.

Also, I don't want to do it if I have to change the way I use the protocol so I would want the same methods to be pretty much available and to work the same way.
Should I sell my 2020 intel air and upgrade?
Having to tinker a bit is part and parcel with Linux in general, I find. And this is even more true if you are expecting a level of usability quality at parity with commercial OSes. My take is that you have to adjust your expectations and accept that you'll spend a few hours doing tweaks to address the things that annoy you. Once done however, you'll be left with a great operating system experience that you can just leave as-is.

That said, I've had a very positive experience with Linux Mint in conjunction with the MATE desktop. Most hardware-accelerated GUIs are slow on my old T500 which I use as a hobby machine, but MATE (being based on GNOME 2) runs well on the integrated graphics chip.

Barring that, Ubuntu is probably the most well-rounded for modern hardware. If you still encounter problems, try one of the LTS releases designed for stability.

One last comment, there will always be certain things in the Linux ecosystem that will never work the same way as other OSes (the XFCE "panels" bar comes to mind), and no amount of tweaking will leave you completely satisfied. Again, one learns to accept things and focus on the merits of Linux rather than it's weaknesses :)
What Is Googol the Number? How Is Related to Google?
>My timeline is much longer than 20 years.

What storage format do you use then? Are you concerned about Hard drives format becoming obsolete? Are you using Mac or Windows? What if tomorow Apple or Microsoft decide to stop support for their formats? What would you consider as a reliable Storage format? Do you trust linux formats ext3 ext4?
What would be your ideal choice looking from your perspective which I really share. It's really a big question for me how reliably store things for long periods of time.
I bought the new Air, but I’m keeping my 16” as it may be the last laptop of that quality that can run programs without telling some stranger over the network that you’ve run a specific program.

Current (and presumably future) macOS does this and you can’t turn it off, except with Little Snitch. New APIs in macOS 11 means that Little Snitch will no longer be able to block OS processes, so it will require external network filtering hardware.

I’ll likely end up with Linux on the 16”, and use the new one for things that are not secret/private.
When I see "in Go", I infer:

* it's likely easy to build/package, since deep dependency trees don't occur much in practice. Alternatively, there could be a binary available on Github.

* it's going to behave similar to https://12factor.net/

* it's going to be working in 3 years time (since the language and library authors value backwards compatibility)

* I can contribute to it, and not expect it to use some obscure async/web library that makes contributions harder.

They're all important to me. I think Go is a bit uninspiring as a language, but maybe I don't need that.
The bigger question is, will Windows also shift to ARM now that raw machine performance is miles behind Mac on similar pricing/weight/battery/loudness.

Last time I read, Windows ARM version isn't ready for everyone yet not to mention there's no transition kit at all for everyone to move.

Why would anyone use Windows anymore unless your infra site needs IE?
> How is Apple so far ahead even with the same instruction set?

Single customer. Apple can optimize directly for iOS workload and consider nothing else.

Intel sells into the general market and has to hit sometimes conflicting goals so that Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc. will all buy their chip.
The people you met organically did evaluate and reject you for romance over the course of a few days, you just didn't notice. Now that you know what to look for you'll see it. Feynman's method[1] has always worked exceptionally well for me. If the person is into me they like it, and if they're not they say so and time to move on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surely_You%27re_Joking,_Mr._Fe...
That would exclude many programming positions, though, since really the old Air is perfectly fine for most SWE positions. Not optimal, but you can run iterm2, you can run a web browser, and you can run vim.
> most professionals would want to use docker, virtual machines, or enough video/data to want more than 16GB ram.

Again, what definition of "pro" are you using, and how is that relevant to professionals with other occupations?
It seems like a reasonable definition to me as long as it's clear that "the computer" means that specific computer.

e.g. In this definition, if you use a PC at your office and a laptop at home for non-work stuff, your work PC is being used by a "professional" and your home laptop isn't.
I regularly drive a 5k2k display on a 16" MBP, along with glowy keyboard and trackpad, and I only get the fan when I'm doing something like a full-screen streamed video: text editing and web browsing seldom trigger it.

I like the bigger screen, so I'll hold out on this platform for now. Pretty impressed with where the M series is going, though; might hold out two iterations instead of the four I had in mind before the M1 dropped.
I have the 16” MacBook Pro. It doesn’t throttle and will happily run at max boost for tens of minutes.
It might not be the usual driving factor but deep pockets are a powerful tool in the hands of people who know what they are doing, and friction for those who don’t have them.
There are enough folks around the vintagecomputing community, there must be a parallel world of vintage studio gear, eh? Someone's gonna be nostalgic enough for the NTSC/VHS look someday, to pay top dollar for original hardware.

Anyway, I noticed something about the parent comment that I missed earlier -- "for timing purposes". Huh, like I guess the concept of genlock probably still exists, and they're probably passing around a test pattern or black frame or something just as a common sync reference signal?

(For similar reasons, a lot of telecom gear uses a 1.544Mbps "all ones T1" signal for sync, even if there isn't a real T1 circuit anywhere.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_III#Design_flaws
1 saturate a 1 Gb/s connection when downloading things from steam. That's one of the few cases where if the speed drops below 700 or so I get annoyed.

As you suggest, 10 Gb/s would be fun, but the time saved in practice would be quite minimal. I guess being able to play a game after 2 minutes instead of 6 would be nice.

Then again, I remember back in the late 90's when I got my first broadband connection. 10 Mb/s Ethernet connector installed in the wall of my apartment, I was amazed at the speed. I remember being shocked at how I could download a CD image (a Linux distribution, most likely) in only 20 minutes. It felt like the future had arrived.

Now, those speeds would mean several seconds to download a regular web page. I guess once a capability becomes available, you'll find a way to make use of it. I suspect that's true for 10 Gb/s internet as well.
Yes i also want to add the search. Just not sure the best full text search using Node for filesystem files
Yeah I'm powering 4k external display for normal things (hangouts, photoshop) no fan, only when doing a-frame / three.js stuff in the browser will bring the constant fan and provide a nice finger warmer above the touch bar
Well, yes. Microsoft has already announced they're working on an x86-64 to ARM emulator (i.e Rosetta 2 equivalent)[1] and they have partnered with Qualcomm to make ARM CPUs for their surface line up[2]

[1] https://www.extremetech.com/computing/315733-64-bit-x86-emul...

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/business/surface-pro...
All right thanks I will!
Ari Henning makes some great motorcycle repair videos. His current show is The Shop Manual on RevZilla. Before that, he hosted MC Garage on Motorcyclist Magazine.
They are trying to capture the PC market: this marketing message is targeted toward consumers and possibly analysts, not technical people, to sell and raise the stock. I suspect they will succeed, in due time though.
Several options, but the easiest is LAN separation.

e.g.

port1 = internet

port2 = LAN

port3 = wifi (private)

port4 = wifi (guest/public)

or

port1 = internet

port2 = DMZ/'public facing servers'

port3 = LAN

port4 = Wifi

or

port 1 = internet

port 2 = LAN (PC's only)

port 3 = entertainment & gaming (Roku, Xbox, Netflix,
SmartTV, etc..)

port 4 = Wifi

The possibilities are only limited by your imagination.
The more paranoid you are the more you want to segregate your services and LAN segments.
Throwing in a comment in this thread to say same. Incredible how I've used mine for 7 years and it seems new still. Only issue is 8 gigs of ram makes things like docker or ides difficult, but I get hesitant to buy a replacement because of the year to year changes. I mean, why buy a new one if you have a machine that's been going strong for so long?
The value of the physical does not imply a lack of value in the digital.

The value of the digital equally does not imply a lack of value in the physical.

And, I will assert until I’m dead, the internet has done nothing but broaden my horizons - for the internet is full of quality information and entertainment, beyond what I could ever find in the physical world, if only because without a free or cheap publishing method the information and entertainment would not exist.

Some things are simply not possible with only a “physical economy,” because t physical economy is about things, not ideas.
Air to Air seems like a no-brainer from where I'm sitting. Maybe give it a couple months to see if some obvious issue surfaces.
No, you're missing a very important vector described in the post. It's not just about making the payment page secure. Indeed, many (most?) e-commerce websites already link off to a secure 3rd party payments page. The problem is that if the originating page gets compromised, it can replace the link off to the secure payment page with a link to a malicious page.

This is not theoretical. Many websites include a primary "marketing" site built in something like WordPress that links off to a more hardened "app" site for authenticated users with stronger security policies. If your marketing site gets compromised, malicious scripts can usually pretty easily replace links to your app site to a spoofed page.
Things that are broken for me in Wayland now:

- Remote access

- Screen capture

- Font rendering is horrible

- UrbanTerror (only game I play) has issues

- X apps are blurry (DPI fixes don't work)

It seems like Wayland is going to be one of the apps that are claimed to be the new thing but will forever be a WIP.
It is but it also wasn't. The name might have come before the port. I might add that entry.
Usually the e-ink screens which flash multiple times during an update are tri-color screens; most commonly either black/white/red or black/white/yellow (and other colors are apparently available, but much less commonly seen in the wild!)

Every display like that which I’ve used could be put into a display mode where it shows only black/white, which will make updates a lot faster and result in the screen only flashing once per full update. For example, I have a very small black/white/red display which takes about six flashes and 15 seconds to complete a display update, but if I put it into black/white mode (i.e.: disabling support for red), then the update takes less than a second and only one flash.

That might be an option for you if you don’t mind giving up the third color!
Walmart Joins Hands with Cruise to Deliver Orders Through Self-Driving Cars
Nothing, and the chip does have a handful of proprietary instructions. But for the most part it's just standard ARMv8.5, which you can see because it runs ARM binaries generated using a standard compiler toolchain.
Need? There are a lot of things people use but doesn't "need".

Can one make good use of gigabit Internet connectivity? Yes, definitely. I wouldn't want to go back. If that qualifies as "need", I don't know, but it sure is convenient.
- Upvotes and downvotes made things a competition rather than a discussion

- Unsure if I'm talking to genuine humans or people who are paid to post

- Block / mute features allow users to self-create bubbles

- Certain ideas are not allowed via downvotes (frequent) or deplatforming (rare) or calling them misinformation (becoming more common)

- Too many people. I don't really know anyone in these "anonymous only" communities (HN and Reddit) but I did "know" people back in the day when things were smaller (Something Awful)

- Politics are somehow dragged into everything and everywhere and it's almost impossible to avoid it (see also Covid news)

- We all thought bringing broadband and information to people would make them smarter and more progressive. I didn't. It increased radicalization and polarization. Now everyone can easily find ammo against the "other side" and there are a million ways to start fights and create reactions. People avoid discussions with others due to their viewpoint on a unrelated matter.

- Full post history is available and people will search it to dig up dirt on you. That little thing you said 10 years ago can be used against you (extreme) or people will look at your post history and pre-judge you (frequent)

To answer your question: yes.
I am probably going to get one.

How much thermal paste are they planning to use on these things?
It does use websockets, like Stimulus Reflex. As for the rendering piece, it seems to be a different approach (SR is essentially dynamically rendering partials inside of a Rails view - obv I'm dramatically oversimplifying that)
This isn't crazy talk:

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-06-08/collapse-of-ci...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Steffen

From https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09593... :

> This paper focuses on a comparison of recently collated historical data for 1970–2000 with scenarios presented in the Limits to Growth. The analysis shows that 30 years of historical data compare favorably with key features of a business-as-usual scenario called the “standard run” scenario, which results in collapse of the global system midway through the 21st century. The data do not compare well with other scenarios involving comprehensive use of technology or stabilizing behaviour and policies. The results indicate the particular importance of understanding and controlling global pollution.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/30/environm...
"You don't need a Google Account to participate in Meet video meetings. However, if you don’t have a Google Account, the meeting organizer or someone from the organization must grant you access to the meeting."

https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9303069
How does Sense detect my devices? (2016)
I’ve seen a screenshot of someone in consultancy roles, an obvious professional by dictionary definition, trash talking hard and mean on some software developers for demanding computers that can build software, that however has no tangible merit in their eyes, like PowerPoint or Excel performances. There might be something interesting in divisions across different types of “Pro”.
I assume you are referring to climate change here. (maybe you have set omething else in mind?)

While climate change is super-important, and we absolutely need to do whatever we can to negate it, it is not a threat to global civilization.

Even if the effects of climate change are orders of magnitude worse than we expect, the planet most suitable for human life will remain Earth. Because, um, we can breathe the air, drink the water and the temperature is within the ranges we easily tolerate. (not to even get into issues of magnetic fields etc)

Will the earth of the future support 7 billion people? Probably yes, possibly no, but whatever number it does support will forever dwarf the people living in venus or mars.

Will our "civilisation" look different 50 years from now? Undoubtedly yes. But it's radically changed in the last 50,100 and 150. Certainly those times counted as civilised did they not?

There will be civilisations on earth for a long long time (baring nuclear anialation) - our adaptability (think Sahara /Siberia) is, if anything, a little too aggressive.
Sport is a much more objective measure than art.

The drugs that are illegal for sports are all about pushing the body further, lifting that extra 20 pounds or shaving off that half-second. Art is very subjective though, so it cannot be pinned down in the same way. And there is no clear line on how “drugs” affect art, because “drugs” is a broad category that conflates a lot of different things under a single umbrella.

Would Morrissey’s music have resonated with so many if he was on anti-depressants? Or maybe he is/was, and that’s what gave him enough drive to make the music he did/does. How did Lou Reed or Kurt Cobain’s harder drug use affect their music? Did the effects come from the drug or from their lived experience while taking it? Would you consider someone who uses caffeine to have a competitive advantage? What about cocaine or amphetamines instead?

It’s not as simple as pointing to steroids or amphetamines in sports (and I’m not claiming that’s trivial to do), and it is not competitive in the same way. There is an element of training to making art, but someone with all the technical training in the world can still fail to make things that captivate people, with or without drugs.

Art is made from experience. Some kinds of drugs are very good at giving some kinds of experiences. I cannot say for sure, but I suspect that someone with talent and deeply-affecting life experiences can easily match someone else with talent who has had deeply-affecting drug experiences. The commonality is in the talent and the depth of experience, not the method.
That's true. If you ran without minimize in webpack it would not look obfuscated
Mac can now help scientists find a coronavirus cure
No, just wanted to see if anyone would share their actual browser history.
Well that sucks. Caddy has supported HTTP/2 push for a very long time (except for a few months after v2 was released since it was a total rewrite). https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/push
Now this makes sense. The original comment did not. Thanks.
I run image processing (imagemagick, vips, etc.) in the sandbox, to reduce security risks with maliciously crafted image uploads.
Unfortunately Evernote has destroyed its performance by doing so. The Evernote support boards are full of angry paying users figuring out how to downgrade versions and discussing alternatives.
Did not think I would but I did, infact, watch the entire monologue.

It made a lasting mark.
Numpy and SciPy reject use of Accelerate due to faulty implementations of some routines. https://github.com/scipy/scipy/wiki/Dropping-support-for-Acc...
We have never received any feedback from Apple about these bugs.
Damn I got that issue before...Just now reported on the repo. I feel really sorry for you and all the people who haven't had the good experience of using this. I will take a look.
All of those are there.
Unified memory blows the SoCs off the M1 Macs
Dominion Voting Systems Patents
> Angle brackets require unbounded parser look-ahead or type information in certain situations

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/7t-Q2vt60J8
He'd probably say it's garbage, since all the reasons it is garbage remain true. Getting yet another garbage result hardly changes the argument.
I will never ever trust my most important files to companies for whom storage is not even their fifth most important concern. Dropbox will be my primary storage solution for that reason for the foreseeable future unless the fuck up real bad.
Docker and Boot Camp like the only things that don't work, for fairly obvious reasons.
Hey, I feel really sorry for you that you did not have a good or accurate experience of this. It must seem like it does not respect your wishes, or would not if your tried it more.

Okay so...

The config is actually located in hidden file, here: https://github.com/c9fe/22120/blob/8b6cc758f14d34f564fd3a838...

const pref_file = path.resolve(os.homedir(), '.22120.config.json');

And the port is fully configurable here https://github.com/c9fe/22120/blob/8b6cc758f14d34f564fd3a838...

const server_port = process.env.PORT || process.argv[2] || 22120;

I don't agree with you about the name. And I get if you're saying you feel the name should not be linked to a port number, but i also don't agree.

I guess i can explain my thinking, but I'm not sure if they will help you understand or like it. Basically I like the name and I did consider changing it a few times but it just stuck for a number of reasons. And I can't remember exactly now but the port number might have come after the name. I think it's a good idea and cool if you have the server running on the same board that the name is but at the same time I know you might have something else running on that port so that's why I made it configurable. I guess she might also want to run more than one copy... But I'm pretty sure that we can't open two chrome windows with different debugging ports using the same user data directory.

Anyway, that might be more info than you want or care for, and it might not help, but hopefully you have a clearer picture at least. I get if you still don't like it, but i just feel sorry for you that you didn't have a good experience of this. I did not design it to annoy you.
That must be it. They’re building a few bigger SoC’s
Tell HN: You can view flagged comments by enabling “showdead” in your profile
I've been using HN for a couple of years now and had no idea about this, so maybe others are in the same boat.

I originally enabled this to check why a particular comment[0] was flagged, but it turns out to be more generally interesting - especially to see the sorts of spam that HN has to put up with. I'm guessing a decent amount of that flagging is automated based on links + age of account.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25049339
Oof, I feel the trauma on this one. I've been bitten by too many binary file formats that I don't care to store aggregate amounts of content in them (unless it's just metadata).
What article or speech or book are you referring to?

I'd love to see how closely I channeled it, especially given my low opinion of that guy.

I would add that property rights don't work as well when rule of law is weak. That doesn't mean they're a bad thing.
I don’t think it’s necessarily good that people say Word or Excel is non-Pro tasks fit for cheap and “lite” computers.
My friends brother runs a landscaping business, purely off his iphone. He asked me for advice on how to get his iphone onto a laptop, like with an emulator or something. This was about a year ago, so the ARM mac stuff was just rumors at that stage, and I mentioned that it wasnt possible.

Now, I can say hey if you get one of the new macbooks / mac minis, you can run your iphone apps natively. He probably will be one of their first customers.

I wouldnt be surprised if there was a huge 'professional' market that is untapped. not the traditional professional market but the ones which want something as simple & familiar as a iphone, on a desktop.
Ask HN: Best Alternatives to Google Photos?
I've been meaning to get off Google Photos for a while.
I had a spin of nextcloud and it seemed very bloated with a whole office suite when I just want photo storage.

Should I just rsync/Syncthing my photos off my phone to NAS and use Adobe Bridge/Finder/anything? :D
This is very good news. Other, shitty countries, will try to subvert Western nations by damaging their families and marriages.
Does HW vs. SW Choice Affect Quality and Reliability