skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once got a contract offer from Belgium and checked your taxes. They are something like 55% for anything over 60k EUR per year? It means that, even if you get a high paying job, literally most of the money gets taken away. Seem rather hard to save significant amounts in such conditions.
All created between a 8 hour range. Definitely something fishy going on.
I had worries about him updating it and/or changing the disk state to the point where it broke and not knowing how to use snapshots.
I guess I've been doing something similar. I currently use 9 laptops (2 Windows, 5 Linux, 1 MacBookAir, 1 Chromebook). Only the MBA11 and the Chromebook were purchased new. The rest were bought on eBay for $250-$600. After getting them, I max out the RAM, replace the HDD with SSD, or upgrade the SSD. A few of them needed some parts replaced (e.g. fans). The battery almost always needs replacing at some point. Fortunately, that's easy with these older laptops. Even the MBA11 has a replaceable battery because it's from 2013. Out of the ~15 laptops that I have purchased on eBay over the past ~15 years, I think only 2 have had serious hardware issues.

I seem to have standardized on Dell laptops, mostly because I have drawers full of their interchangeable accessories, like power adapters and docking stations. I've been happy with their Precision line, or the higher-end models of their Latitude line. [Edited: to make the relationship between Precision and Latitude more clear.] The sweet spot in age seems to be 2-4 years old, probably when corporate users are refreshed, and the old ones are wiped and sold.

Off-topic: Does anyone else have a hard time reading the article due to its blue/orange background? I find it visually painful to read a paragraph when it is split into 2 colors. I have to scroll the paragraph to one color or the other.
Well, what can I say? I'm neither a Cambodian genocide denier nor a Holocaust denier. I'm sorry that you believe I sound like one just because I asked about a specific story about North Korea. I believe North Korea is a harsh dictatorship and I certainly wouldn't want to live there, by the way.

I share your disgust for genocide deniers.
The idea is to keep a portfolio of stolen identities and sell them off. There’s plenty of ways to cash in early if you’re willing to take a bit less money upfront.
it's weird that this page is not public anymore

the history page here https://timeline.web.cern.ch/timelines/The-birth-of-the-Worl... doesn't list this date - does list the availability of the browser in xmas day
Where Fedora Fits in the New Red Hat/CentOS Stream Linux World
I will never understand what his line of thinking (and argumentation towards the board) was to go Windows-exclusively on phones.

Back then, Windows had about 2% share in the mobile phone market. Betting literally Nokia's entire future on Windows Phone seemed reckless, given that the competition (most notably Samsung) was being so successful with Android.

And this exclusivity was one-way: Nokia would commit to Windows Phone (or death), but Microsoft would continue to happily supply Windows Phone to Nokia's competitors, like Samsung.

So while Samsung, HTC, and the others were building both Android and Windows Phone devices, Nokia was going to go down the Windows path exclusively. How was that ever supposed to work out?

I look forward to reading this book, because Elop's decision bet Nokia's future on 2%-market-share-Microsoft is something that I have never understood. And I may be arm-chairing, but Nokia's demise went exactly as I expected it to go from day 1 of this announcement.
...That we know of.
Ownership of palantir had a very bad influence on Sauron and Saruman, so I think it's a plausible theory.
At this point the fed seems trapped, maybe even permanently so - in 5 years asset prices will have been driven multiples higher on fed money and 0% interest. It would take a gargantuan amount of political will get the base rate back to even 3% - bringing down asset prices and corporate/institutional/individual borrowers with them.
For me (in BC), around 25-30% and I'm slightly below 100k. The deduction is usually a little more than if you use those online tax calculators.
And that too seems trivially falsifiable. You have something to cite?
TBH that makes GNOME more attractive to me as it means that simplest apps only include the code that's needed instead of gazillions of dependencies.
Boris Johnson Tightens U.K. Lockdown, Citing Fast-Spreading Version of Virus
I too, try to get 2 identical laptops - if one goes down, the other can take over, if both break, I can most likely use parts from both to make a functional one, while waiting for parts to arrive or for the service shop to fix the broken machine.

All because it can take freaking weeks in my experience, and they can mess up and not fix it at all...

Of course, I only buy used/refurb, so they're really cheap - cheaper than one new one.

There is a big difference in performance though, you can't buy something too old if you want to do anything intensive. Fortunately for me (and unfortunately for the environment), companies throw away perfectly fine workstation-class laptops every year it seems.

I'd like to get some Ryzen machines next, the performance for the money is unmatched.

I've also been thinking a small form factor desktop coupled with any laptop as a display could be a better choice - new laptops come with soldered CPUs, GPUs, even RAM, which is a shame. A desktop would be upgradeable for a good while. And I see you could build them really small, like XBox small, they'd fit in luggage rather easily.

Also, pardon me, but wtf is this about:

> tiny and messy IT shop run by a Chinese in Antwerp, Belgium. The Chinese may not have a reputation for building quality products, but they sure know how to fix things.

Really man? -_-
This is wrong, stupid and extremely confusing.
I don't think it's that so much as the need to convince consumers to upgrade as often as possible even when what they have already works perfectly.

I think they actually do a lot of market research. They know that people like you and I might buy a good product that meets our needs and keep it for 5 years or more. But the bulk of their profits are coming from people who have to buy the newest whizbang model - and it has to look different - or else how will everyone know that you have the newest whizbang model?
In the mid 1980s my local public library had an electronic card catalog with a touch screen interface. It was quite granular of course, being an 80x25 character green CRT display, but it was a touch screen.
That must be due to lifestyle inflation? If you don't save anything on a $100k+ salary, you have only yourself to blame (assuming the savings weren't wiped by medical bills or some other calamity). I suspect these people prioritize their McMansion, changing family cars every 3-5 years or funding fancy out-of-state schools for their children over freedom from work.
I bought the same model recently. Got it for a real bargain because the battery was getting old and one of the two speakers had broken. Those two things took a combined €110 and 2 hours of work to repair. I initially bought this just to hold me over until the ARM 16” comes out in a few months, but now I think I might hold onto it longer. It does everything I need, is very repairable, has good IO, and doesn’t suffer from some of the issues that newer models have.

Other than a few obvious improvements like moving from Thunderbolt 2 to 3 and shrinking the bezels a bit, the 2015 15” is pretty close to the perfect laptop.
I still have toshiba laptop, those things are like the toyota pickup of laptops
Yes. If you have several consumers of the catalog service, those consumers are bound to a specific version it. You may update the catalog service API as much as you wish, but that will simply open /v2, v3, .../ endpoints - existing services shouldn't be affected. Just like with regular REST APIs. Deprecation of older API versions will be as disrupting as expected, of course. If existing consumer of catalog service needs to make use of the new version features, you update it on its own...

Version hell? You can imagine the horrors. But technical debt on an architectural level is something you need to consider any architecture you choose to create your application in.

Point of micro services is have your components loosely coupled and independent from one another. If catalog fails, it shouldn't bring down the whole application with it. In our simple example, catalog failure means whole app becoming inert, but in bigger applications you _may_ find benefits of this.

Also worth mentioning - load can vary between components. The cart will see less use than the search service, while the catalog will be most loaded. You can make deployment decisions to optimally allocate resources for your application.
I was kind of imagining this would use an sdr to look for meteor scatter from distant VHF transmitters (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_burst_communications)
Almost everybody who has a job to make money is under duress. Do you think the garbage collector just does that job because it's their hobby?
keep in mind that PoE requires an additional PoE hat. That adds another 20$ to the bill for each Pi.

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14882
"Fuck y’all’s insensitivity" - amazing summary, really. I've seen this attitude a lot, but these 4 words is the best summary I've seen. You basically said that unless we tip toe around your sensitivity and morning mood, we all can go to hell. That's like going to a nightclub and demanding to put the volume down and to change music to something less tasteless, maybe Mozart or Bach, because otherwise you'd feel unwelcome in the club.
Getting user input in Python, the easy way
I've started work down this path for a project I am working on. I downloaded some footage of satellites flying over the earth from NASA, used FFMPEG to extract each frame of the video, wrote a ruby script which runs over every image in a folder and calls primitive (https://github.com/fogleman/primitive) on each image.

The final step is to recombine it into a single video, which I haven't done yet because I haven't yet implemented video playback in the program I'm writing. In the meantime I'm just loading each image on the fly and playing it as a sprite animation. This results in low FPS but it gets the gist across.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBFGqxWYyvI&feature=youtu.be

I'm thinking it'd still look pretty choppy even if it was a 60 FPS video though. I'm not yet sure how I'm going to smooth it out. I can share the FFMPEG command I used / script I made with you if you want, but I'd have to find it first (this was maybe a year ago). I'm sure the script is garbage.

I do not believe the go program that I am using is deterministic. You can run the same command on an image twice and it will produce a different result. It might be possible to make it deterministic, but it's not something I've wanted so I haven't looked into it.
> Maybe more than you can afford.

Nowadays there are non-recourse loans available on the market for that (covering both exercise costs and taxes). Not for all startups though and mostly late stage ones.
Cost of living is lower?

600€/ month was enough to pay off my house loan. Leaves plenty of room to save money.

I literally save like 3-4/5ths, i do think that's more than average though.

Renting a place here would be 300-900€/month. I know someone who rents at 250€/month in the city with a decent house ( that's an edge case though)

Note: I'm paying off my loan early.
It's a high-end card for sure, but "pretty close to the best money can buy" is a big hyperbole.

The RTX 2070S beats the 1080Ti by a comfortable margin, while the 1080Ti beats the 1080 by a strong margin as well. I left out the RTX 3000 as they are hard to come by, but it's beaten by the RTX 3060Ti which, at MSRP is a $400 card.
> ...almost ritual yearly dying...

Now you are depending on an absurdly literal reading of the tale to exaggerate its implausibility.

It is a well-established fact that North Korea suffered several years of famine in the mid 90s, with at least 1/4 million fatalities and probably much higher, arising from a combination of the loss of economic support from the former USSR, El Niño and a kleptocratic bureaucracy. In such circumstances, it would not be that implausible if some peasants reverted to the winter survival techniques used by millenia of nomads and subsistence farmers.

As for lying in the sun: if you are cold, famished, and have exhausted all the new-grown food that the spring has produced so far, then perhaps it is the best you can do.
I used to donate to Wikipedia until I found they that have plenty of money already. I used to donate to Mozilla until I found that they don't use the money for Firefox development but for anti-free speech propaganda like [1]. I have donated to the EFF and the Internet Archive a few times. I wanted to donate to UBlock Origin but the developer doesn't want it [2]. I'd like to give something to youtube-dl because I use it extensively but apparently that's not possibly either [3]. I should consider donating to Ubuntu/Debian, I've never done that despite being a long time user.. For my work I mostly use open source software by Google and I think they'll survive without my money. Other than that I've mostly given to smaller podcasts and websites.

[1] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/fellow-research-decen...

[2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/976

[3] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/2238
It's not just stakeholders, it's because instead of one Xorg doing everything, each compositor now has to implement similar things. So efforts are spread across all existing compositors instead of being concentrated. That slowed down progress tremendously.

I'm all for Wayland transition, but things could benefit from concentrated efforts for sure.
http://loderunnerwebgame.com/game/
A taiwanese made web version of it, no one mentioned it?
Indeed, the case is good, but they should have written better documentation.

I have found out I needed to unscrew the small front I/O panel PCB when removing the back side of the case. Then reattach back once the panel is clipped in. http://const.me/tmp/node202-front-panel.jpg
Interesting also to see here how computing power (and algos?) have improved tremendously. I assume the benchmarks are from ~ 2008. Getting to the 94% fitness levels takes 5 minutes on my phone - listed as >120 minutes on presumably a beefy workstation on this page.
There's essentially no programming oriented benchmarks out there. There are plenty of benchmarks for other professional applications.

I find this disparity perplexing and the OP all the more refreshing for it.
Essential further reading comes from mobile phone industry analyst Tomi Ahonen, who was front-and-centre in the Elop opprobrium, and coined many of the English-language quips about the Nokia-Microsoft mess as it was happening:

"Calculating the Elop Effect: He's already destroyed a company the size of Oracle, and profits the size of Google"

https://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2011/12/calcul...
The Swiss? They don't even have a navy as far as I know.

Realistically the only one who could do this is the US. But the US may not want to fight the Houthi, which would probably be necessary.
I find your comments here far more useless.

How is it noise when it's more than enough information to go perform a relevant google search, accompanied by a reason to do so for those interested in the subject.

Whereas what you're bringing to the table amounts to something like "I don't like the negativity of what you're saying, shut up, we already have enough negativity, I would like to keep my head in the sand on this one."

Talk about noise...
But not for making babies, as per the astronomically high unplanned pregnancy rate.
How well do you think KDE is in regards to Gnome regarding it's future? I see GTK 4 was just released, will this help anything in Gnome 4?
How "fast" and "strong" can those servers be?

Compared to something we all know, e.g. MBP 16" 2019, how does this rack of Raspberry Pi's stack up?
In principle it was the right decision. Opening an application shouldn't take over the root window. The was specially obvious for people who don't use gnome but use nautilus. The problem is that as you mention "The Gnome shell desktop extension is not as robust as nautilus"
I like zoom-out views. To push what you describe further, it is essentially what ancient humans or their non-hominid forebears did subconsciously when calculating optimum motion trajectories to catch or spear prey while hunting... merely a version in formal notation ... we can thank the zero of India (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0#History), the Persians (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm#Etymology), the Islamic renaissance in Europe (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/islamic-science-and-making-eu...) and numerous others for the slow development of the requisite formal maths. But a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. And perhaps, in the context of the stupefyingly deferred emergence of zero, even nameless!
I think S II was the phone that made samsung THE android phone maker. Before that, it was sony and lg and htc and samsung all fighting to figure this smartphone thingy out.

Anyway, didn't samsung just release security patches for S6?
He missed the fact that in Panama no one wears suits. And no one has a tailor. Colombia, yes; Panama, no.
Hmmm, while I have generally been singing nothing but praise for my migration to the Linux desktop. I will, as someone new and lurking around contributing, speak about something that make me hesitant to try and/or turn me off or away. This is only my two-cents as an outsider.

I think some of the issues[1] that matter to people have seen no traction over long periods of time and the answer is "it's hard; we'll get to it, leave us alone." And of course, if you look up who these people are, telling you to leave them alone, they are absolutely fucking brilliant people... they certainly know the scope and difficulty. The thing is, these folks are very likely, insanely busy and the longer their lives/careers go on; the less time they'll likely have to devote to seemingly unimportant, to them, but difficult issues.

That's life. Zero hate and only thanks to the kind brilliant folks who have spent countless hours donating that brilliance to the world... But then, this poses the big question of: what am I, the less brilliant, to do? What can I do? What other problems require your brilliance or expertise? Lurking through other issues gives me a sense of "not qualified" and I eventually stroll away. Maybe folks, who are qualified and don't realize it, also walk away.

I'll very likely contribute to apps using GTK since it's a really nice experience and other parts of the Gnome ecosystem; but I don't know if I'll ever contribute to Gnome proper.

[1] I don't particularly want to identify specific issues because I don't think the nice folks who maintain it deserve to be inundated with noise like "fix plz 10yers."
Yeah, before the palantir Sauron claimed to be a libertarian.
Bedazzled by Energy Efficiency
Apple was one of the companies that was involved in what is today known as ARM from Wikipedia:

> In the late 1980s, Apple Computer and VLSI Technology started working with Acorn on newer versions of the ARM core. In 1990, Acorn spun off the design team into a new company named Advanced RISC Machines Ltd.,[30][31][32] which became ARM Ltd when its parent company, Arm Holdings plc, floated on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ in 1998.[33] The new Apple-ARM work would eventually evolve into the ARM6, first released in early 1992. Apple used the ARM6-based ARM610 as the basis for their Apple Newton PDA.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture
Why not KDE? It easily seems like the best Linux DE, and it's so weird that Gnome is so often the default in comparison. As a bonus, all the best Linux apps are Qt-based (e.g., Dolphin [compared to which any other file manager, including Windows's Explorer, will seem unusable], Okular, Gwenview, Clementine, and Kate).
I once had a VC20 or so and Lode Runner on loan for a holiday season and stumbled into that editor while trying out every key on the keyboard to see what it does. When I gave it back after the holidays my friend was flabbergasted he had a game with a level editor and didn't even know about it. That loan payed off in an unexpected way.
In German you have verschlimmbessern - making something worse in an attempt to improve it
Not every server is useful, I guess. People used to use backdoored servers to send spam, but that's harder and harder to do from untrusted IP addresses.
Moving from Pantheon.io to Kubernetes
What's with all these downvotes? If you don't agree - comment, instead of downvoting. The post is not off-topic. Downvoting for disagreement is trolling, especially on HN where it triggers comments throttling which basically turns it into mob censorship.

UPDATE: really immature and cowardly reaction to criticism of trolling I see (i.e. downvotes to this comment ;))
The Strange Case of Dr. Ho Man Kwok (2019)
>The so called mystic Islam also known as Sufism, is a deviant sect, and is fundamentally a gateway to polytheism, as it borrows many practices from polytheistic religions.

This illustrates that you have a fundamentalist streak in you: you've described a form of Islam you don't like as being "deviant". You're gatekeeping Islam.
Interesting that ffmpeg was started on the 10th anniversary of the web: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25487711
Most 8 bit micros were designed to be just as cheap as possible.

The Beeb was a really well designed machine (both the hardware and the software). You could only expect the next step to be a great machine.