skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like distributing the non-free firmware on the installation media but only installing it with user confirmation (they can even have a short pop-up disclaimer about non-free software) is an easy compromise. The open source purists still end up with an install free of non-free software and those that need non-free software can successfully use Debian. Giving people the freedom of (easy) choice to install non-free software does not infringe on others' desire for a completely FOSS OS.

I wouldn't frame this as an "obsession" with user conversion or retention; this is literally just making a product usable by a majority (I think?) of laptop users.
We're starting to! We have people outside and as long as they overlap for 3-4 hours we should be okay. Will make it official soon.
If “by hand” you mean using your hands to type code that generates tests, then yes, I admit to testing code by hand.
How big, roughly is the planet in question? How thick, roughly, is the atmosphere? What, roughly, is the composition of the atmosphere? What is the median temperature of the planet? List all species capable of metabolizing pollution back into harmless compounds. What are their lifespans? How do they reproduce?

...hopefully my point is made, now. I can't give details because they don't exist.

If a species produces sufficient pollution that it kills that species, it is a reasonable assumption that it was also produced at a rate far higher than the planets natural ecosystem could absorb it. It is also reasonable that the pollution also kills one or more species which were consuming or absorbing the pollution, slowing the rate at which it can be removed, or maybe even stopping that process completely.
Pollution does not disappear at the same time pollutants stop being introduced into the atmosphere.

There will be a time after which no pollutants are produced and before no pollutants are detectable. That is a non-zero amount of time. That is why I say that pollution could one day be detected on a planet that has not had a living civilization for "a long time." "A long time" being "more than five minutes" if you really want me to nail it down.
What the article calls quietism has to do with inner non-resistance. That doesn't imply outer non-resistance. The two are probably orthogonal.

"Surrender" in this sense means something like fully facing reality and not demanding that it be other than it is. Easier said than done, of course. Someone who can do that probably becomes more capable of action, because they can bear the consequences of their actions.

There's a story of Beckett walking with a friend in Paris when a guy approaches saying how he's just been robbed and can he have Beckett's jacket. Beckett takes off his jacket and hands it to him. They walk on. The friend says: "why did you do that? he obviously made that up". Beckett says: "I couldn't take the chance of being wrong." I'm not sure why I thought of that just now, but he was clearly an extraordinary human.
So do you think that special relativity is misleading, or, if not, how do you reconcile this point with special relativity?
The value of science (1955) [pdf]
That's not a meaningful statistic in itself -- you need to exclude shootings within the Autonomous Zone, where the team would have been unable to operate anyway.
Look Up "[selection]" constantly bugs me. I constantly use it to define words. I feel like there are others that come up periodically. It sounds pedantic, but it's enough of a pain point that I'm itching to switch browsers.
I think this is not an experience which can be properly described as “somewhat limited”.
> I think if we could get better at being open-minded as a species, we'd make faster progress and better ideas would win out more often.

Given the current scenario we are certainly not sure if we are ever going to achieve it! Though that achievement can work wonders.
Any thoughts how you see that change can be made possible?
My conversions were lagging until I tried this
I doubt it. The article observes that Americans are buying a lot of stuff, but it's just redirected purchasing. We're buying more tech, and less clothes and cars and travel. Overall the savings rate is still very high, so spending is down.

There's a risk of (temporary) inflation when the economy opens back up. There is major pent-up demand for travel, but nobody will build more airports, or buy more airplanes, because it's clearly temporary. So expect some crazy prices then.
Interesting. I believe there are some exercises listed that work extensors. Reverse curl and wrist extensions:
https://musclewiki.com/Exercises/Male/Forearms/2

Perhaps I need to bring one of those to the first page.
I use Debian, a lot, I happily run it on most of my servers. But I can completely understand that it's not great for the majority of users.

Stable is too stable for the average desktop user - often kernel is missing drivers for newer hardware models, or system libraries are too old for newer applications.

Testing works most of the time but is not stable enough. Most recent example; zfs, which is on 0.8.x, is completely broken in testing since the kernel upgrade to 5.10 in December. zfs has not (and prob will not) backported 5.10 compatibility to 0.8.x. Last I heard, the Debian maintainers were still not decided on if they are going to backport the 5.10 fix to their own fork of zfs 0.8.x, or if they're going to do the upgrade to zfs 2.0 already.

I had a couple of servers where I had stupidly enabled unattended-upgrades, which broke the filesystems and required recovery to make services start again. Annoying, but it was my mistake.

This kind of situation is completely expected and there's really no one at fault. But it is a good example of why vanilla Debian is not suitable for many users and use-cases. Mint does seem like a better Ubuntu, though.
This is not exactly a joke, and more CS than programming related, but it's worth the read: Lower Bounds for Probably-istic Polynomial Time. http://web.archive.org/web/20080516195038/http://cs-people.b...
Not sure how many know/remember Digsby? It worked pretty well on Windows, got acquired by Tagged, open sourced, promise of Linux client and then disappeared.

Hopefully Beeper will survive.
Why does it say from 1958 and then start playing from 1997?
They fixed it for me.

Thanks atoll. Hope you are well <3
I would be shocked if any component of consumer TVs was manufactured or assembled in the US.

But if it was sold in a US store, from a US wholesaler, transported across the US, designed by US engineers, etc, it still seems like it would stimulate the economy.

I was under the impression not much is truly manufactured here in the US any more. What are you going to buy, thousands of dollars worth of My Pillows?

I'm no economist, but my understanding is that paying down debt (universally considered a responsible use of money, as opposed to TV purchasing) is actually one of the least stimulating ways to spend money. You're effectively just hoping that the lender is going to spend the money on something stimulating instead of yourself.
I don't know. But it could be that a female would be more inspired by seeing a female doing something hard. Whereas seeing a really pumped up dude doing it would be... well this guy is also on something. So I think it is a very good idea.
Well said.

> Is getting an updated closed-source firmware from Debian worse than using whatever closed-source firmware was shipped with the device?

I think so because doesn't the full Debian distro have the source of all packages--it's "open", but also literally "open source". This is what makes it universal as it is said on their website. You have access to all the source code for every single package, so you can do anything you want with the whole gigantic system, including trying to get it running on other CPUs or building other OSes (Ubuntu, etc.) on it.

Debian ultimately is meant to give you power through software freedom. Shipping closed source blobs conflicts with that value. Other OSes may have different values, and that's fine. There's room for everybody.
How do you reconcile this idea with special relativity?
I don't know if I'm a super taster, but I am a huge fan of other beverages, alcoholic or not. I collect Scotch, rare beers, meads, and I used to help organize a liquor tasting/sharing group. I can definitely understand wine tasting notes - I may not be able to tell a vintage by taste but I can tell different styles of reds apart. I just don't think I like wine that much, which I'd assert is a preference.
A data point for hosted Keycloak offering: https://www.cloud-iam.com/

No connection to and no opinion of the offering - just noting its existence.
Again - in the case that the above comment is referencing, "If the alternative is the firmware is just built into the device somehow", the user is not particularly inconvenienced, since they can still use the hardware.

For instance, almost everyone's CPUs require non-free microcode, but there's a version of the microcode built in to the CPU, possibly with security bugs or correctness bugs that the user is unlikely to hit. No user booting up Debian on such a CPU is in any way made aware by Debian that they are running non-free firmware or that Debian would not work on their hardware without it.
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Oakland is improving recently, to some extent:
https://www.portofoakland.com/press-releases/biggest-contain...

The really interesting changes will be in the ports
on the US Eastern seaboard which planned to take
advantage of the super-panamax cargo ships
dimensioned for the new channel at Panama.
Monaco-react v4 is here
I remember my mother telling that joke to her friends at a cocktail party in the 70s. I thought she was the funniest person ever.
A problem I have with the site is I want to keep it EXTREMELY simple.

How do you envision this working, with the current UI/UX?
It’s still possible to send a spacecraft in the coming years https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_object#Hypothet...
For context, I presume most of you have heard the old old joke that the two hard problems of computer science are cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. (Or the older joke that the two hard problems of computer science are cache invalidation and naming things.)
Forgive me for my ignorance, but I don't really understand this joke...

Is it something to do with the first 2 not knowing the preference of the others?

EDIT: never mind, this was also posted later in the thread and there's an explanation there.
My reluctance to using a hosted auth system (vs using passport or similar) is vendor lock-in. My impression is trying to move later would reset all passwords and oauth connections to zero. Am I misunderstanding this / should I not really be concerned about this? Would definitely make my life a lot easier.
Emerging Coronavirus Variants May Pose Challenges to Vaccines
Would you be kind and explain this joke please?
Call me cynical, but it doesn't bode super well when "in-app advertising" is one of the first features mentioned
Interestingly, trying to figure out what color Homer meant by his commonly used phrase "the wine-dark sea" was one of the things that led people to realize the links between language and color discussed in the article.

While the colors of the ocean and wine look pretty different to us, its apparently common in other languages to group them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine-dark_sea_(Homer)
In something like typescript you could represent this as a union type. If I'm expecting a location I could take a string ("Baghdad"), lat long pairs, an enum, etc. With a union type I can specify that it could be any of these but they fill the same purpose. In Java I'd either do method overloading or expect to receive an object that implements a method that would give the location in a common format. The wrong way to do it would be to have a function that has both a lat/long input and a string input and just say that they're nullable and we only expect to get one of them.
A handful of close friends would be nice

Save that, a lump sum of money. Not even a lot, but more than a little.
I'm going to guess it was the tides.
Those who make change and those who make a lot of noise are both arguably necessary, usually separate groups of people. The latter unfortunately have perverse incentives, mostly gaining virtue points on social media. They get their little boost of self fulfilling ideology. Boots on the ground folks need to be celebrated and usually don’t need the virtue signaling masses - they’re stern men and women driven by righteousness.
The inverse square law says no [0]. Even relatively high powered transmitters aren't detectable for an Arecibo-class antenna more than a few AU from Earth. If you want a signal detected light years away you need it to be highly directional. An isotropic radiator emitting enough power to be detected light years away is called a star.

So any SETI signals we might detect would almost certainly need to be intentional. That doesn't mean they would need to be responses to something we've broadcast just the sender was aiming their transmitter towards the solar system and sent a signal.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20140719094337/http://www.comput...
I once worked on making a progress bar for a process that had a known number of tasks. Unfortunately not all tasks would take the same amount of time, and it was impossible to know the relative amount of time each task would take beforehand. I did the logical thing, and had the progress bar advance 1/nth every time a task completed, with an animation to make it less jarring. A few weeks later, the product manager came to me and told me I needed to make it so the progress bar kept slowly moving up if no tasks were completed for a certain amount of time, so the user would know that work was still being done. Fine. But what happens if the task takes so long that it goes past the mark for the next completed task? Well, when the task is actually completed, it moves backwards of course.
Yeah, it would. Most people add between 4 and 7 buddies. Only add people you really care about!
Thanks for the suggestion. I actually should have this solved soon. I have a backlog of videos to edit that will populate the missing pages.
I'd tell you a UDP joke, but you might not get it.
Text reco and jump ahead can definitely quicken the process.
+1. This is a highly functional, distraction-free site.
I'd tell you an NP complete joke, but if you've heard one you've heard them all.
That’s nice. I use a workout book that isolates and combines various exercises. Looking forward to using your site.
> Right now, we're doing that for you but not for the users who don't care whether firmware is non-free.

Even the Debian dev in OP's corner can't help but give OP a left-handed compliment.

Perhaps OP really does care about free firmware. Perhaps OP is in the not-so-uncommon position of installing Debian on a laptop that doesn't come with the one lonely wifi chipset in the last decade that has FOSS firmware.

And to replace a godammned Windows 10 install! Debian + non-free is a vast improvement over Windows 10-- am I wrong about that, my dear Debian devs?

Is it a requirement for installing Debian to first go dumpster diving for laptop parts? If no, it is some sadistic shit to post a netinstall image that is guaranteed to be broken for 99.99% of laptop users out there.
The beginning of the climate/population control ...
I'd tell you a buffer bloat joke, but you'd have to wait in line first.
How to Startup Like a Bro
The problem comes when you have 500,000 lines of code across 10,000 files, all written with that style.

Add in no comments or out of date comments or comments that were always wrong about function inputs and outputs and you get ... frustration.
I’m a project manager and find it hilarious! But i’ve also been technical.
There's arguably a big difference between non-free firmware (which is relatively isolated, and doesn't even run on the same CPU as the OS) and the user-facing stuff GP is talking about in Ubuntu.
Thanks. I'm not like that IRL face to face except for a very small subset of close friends. If you like that kind of high information rate, discursive exploration, then you'd probably like or are already hanging around the folks at dredmorbius' various lairs, what used to be slatestarcodex, and gwern.net as jumping off points. I still hold wan hope the Net will lead to the kind of introspection writing tends to encourage. Thanks for letting me know hnchat is gone. I moved to protonmail.ch and updated my HN profile appropriately.
Lots of UDP jokes, the variant I was told is:

What is the best thing about telling a UDP joke? You don't care if anyone gets it.
So? Even if bad metrics push the inevitable a few years down the road it's still inevitable. China will become the dominant world power some time in the next decade or so and there's not a whole lot we can do about it.
Just wanted to chime in to share that the original post is great but doesn't do enough justice to the talent. I've been working as an engineer in the Bay Area for 3+ years and found Manara about a year ago. During that time, I've closely mentored 6 engineers and mock interviewed several more. I think nearly every end-of-program mock interview I've given to Manara students are a "Hire" with questions of similar difficulty to those used at the big tech company I work for. Having gotten to know them very well now, it's clear to me that these really are a selection of the best engineers in the region (e.g. top performers in competitive programming competitions, hackers with more side projects than university projects, etc).

P.S. Also worth mentioning that this is some of the most exciting volunteer work I've done...it's a small part of what I do each week but it keeps me disproportionately energized even throughout the rest of my week!
Do you have any people in particular you suggest?
At least with Broadcom, you definitely need firmware. As I understand it, the chips don't have any data storage of their own, so they need to provide the firmware to the chip on each boot.
Germany's power was centralized - Hitler was its dictator. I doubt that Germans would've voted to commit the atrocities Hitler commanded.

Americans never voted on segregation. So we'll never know how much sooner black Americans would've been welcomed into society if all Americans had equal power.
Sure, but ... you are not getting any less source code this way. The proposal is to make just as much source code available to you, either way. You are also not running any less non-free firmware on your system this way. Debian is not able to give you source for that component, regardless of whether it gives you the binary. What is the effect of not giving you the binary?

"Sending people non-free binaries conflicts with our values" is a reasonable answer and one I respect. I'm just pushing back on the idea that the end user's freedom - the ability of the end user to control or customize what happens on their system - is any way changed by whether Debian offers them non-free firmware or not.

And in the case where the user cannot use the hardware at all (the case where there isn't firmware flashed onto the device from the factory), I think that under any reasonable definition of "freedom," being unable to use the device at all is the least possible freedom over that part of the system!

(The values argument also explains why Debian doesn't want to just ship the firmware on the installation media but keep it disabled until a user checks a box - the problem is not that it makes it too easy to choose to use the non-free firmware and we ought to dissuade the user from doing so, the problem is that Debian ought not to automatically send people non-free things in the first place.)
Orange carrots do not have a relatively long history as part of our cuisine. Reading the wikipedia article may satisfy your curiosity - it's more than I can condense at this hour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrot?wprov=sfla1
Can you explain how you view Typescript’s type system as ‘more advanced’ than Haskell’s type system? I am working on a language currently and wonder what gives you that impression as a user who seems knowledgeable and demes to have a preference for one style verses the other.
There has not been a public outcry. And most of those that would even make a cry, are now banned.

So.. Just welcome your new Chinese overlords and shut up.
Somebody needs to start a new cutting edge lithography equipment manufacturing company. Bonus points if they name it Kurgan.
Isn't that how most apps make money today? so it makes senses when this is targeted at developers?
Good to know, I just did some googling and the wider world seems to very much agree with your opinion!
This looks great. The website seems to be down.
It is not a feature, the plugin system is the feature.

But I don’t see the issue with it even if it was a feature, game -developers- sometimes need to make money, so anything out of the box that can support this seems like a good feature.
There are a few more nuances to this, probably depending on place and circumstance.

1. It's not necessary, for instance, that the person being referred to by the kid is "known". It's quite common, for example, for kids to address an unknown stranger on the street using "uncle" or "aunty" - it's merely a respectful way of addressing an older person.

2. When used by an adult, it can take on one of two tones:

a) The genuinely respectful tone, similar to (1)

b) A derogatory way to taunt a slightly older person on account of their age, using outdated practices, etc.

The way it's used in THIS article, borders on 2(b) - taunting an older generation for sending good morning messages, etc.
Did that account proclaim the Uighur women were no longer "baby making machines"?
Ubuntu already has that option though, doesn't it?

If someone has strong feelings about using Debian over Ubuntu, I would be surprised if it were a big hassle to find the install media they need.

It just seems like a moot point to me.
I've found this website a while ago - it is a good one. And i do work out a lot, with plenty equipment / in different scenarios. I like to get some new inspiration every once in a while.
It's important to not get stuck with your 'favourite' exercise movements.
There are electric rotary cow brushes, that auto-start on touch by the cow. They swing around on an arm so the cow can control where it is being scratched.

Very common in e.g. Sweden as far as I know. See for instance products by DeLaval [1].

[1] https://www.delaval.com/en-us/our-solutions/cow-comfort/cow-...
CFCs are not the only pollutants.

An alien society may produce pollutants which last a million years. Plastics can last millions of years.

Sufficient pollution could cause climate change severe enough to keep all kinds of things airborne for who knows how long. We are constantly surprised by what we learn about other worlds. It is silly to me to presume that anything we know about Earth pollution will be a given on a planet from another star system.
In Europe, the surname of Niklaus Wirth (inventor of the Pascal programming language) is pronounced “veert”; in the United States, it’s pronounced “worth.“

Thus, in Europe, he’s called by name; in the US he’s called by value.
Great article. Especially how you tie decentralization to governance, which is actually the issue at play. The decentralization argument to me often feels like it framed like the only choices are a mercurial monarchy (Facebook) or balkanization (Fediverse). Enjoyed your ideas on alternatives.
Hey, it's not cool to steal jokes from /r/antiantijokes. I am a mod there (as evident from my username), and don't appreciate this. The joke is hilarious though.