skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, in some organisations the OS on your workstation is not a choice you can make, so for some of us that are stuck in Windowsland it's quite a treat to have all these goodies available.

Windows is probably the best DE for Linux now. ( I'd still use i3 if I had a choice)
Can we just please pass some legislation to break Google and Apple's app installation monopoly already?

Sure, they built the phones, doesn't mean we can't demand more rights than they decide it's profitable to give us (or put another way, just because the king's ancestors founded the country doesn't mean we shouldn't demand freedom and democracy).
What kills me is that Windows will forcefully power on a sleeping laptop and update it no matter what you do. There is no "off" switch for this.

If you have a gaming or pro laptop in a bag, this is a fire hazard and could kill people.

I don't know how this was ever approved within Microsoft, but it is outright criminal negligence that should see them sued into the ground. Better yet, I'd like to see executives jailed if anyone every dies because of this arrogance.

Microsoft employees, get this through your thick heads: Your updates do not matter as much as my life!
I voted for Obama twice. But his failure to properly prosecute the bad actors in 2008 was one of the biggest failures of his presidency in my opinion.

However:

1) It's still not too late to go after those people. Some NY DA should make his career on this.

2) The biggest financial crime ever has been the years of unmitigated QE which has consistently taken money from the income-earning class and handed it to the wealthy asset holding class. This is a bigger travesty than all other financial crimes. Not clear what to do about it, there is nobody you can vote for who thinks it should end.
> Again, lockdowns aren't 100% free. They also cause death, injury, and misery. Suicides are up, domestic violence is up, cancer screenings are down, drug overdoses are up, alcoholism is up, depression is way up.

In NZ the suicide rate dropped, despite a lockdown that was considerably more severe than done in many places.
Possibly making this misleading, NZs suicide rate is atrocious to begin with.

Yes, there was a hell of a lot of grim news and poor stats - but the below seems a little hard to to believe. They will lose years of life?

> Poor kids in the US who relied on school lunches as their only decent meal of the day are suffering nutritionally, and will lose years of their life because of malnutrition

https://www.mentalhealth.org.nz/assets/Suicide/Chief-Coroner...
Dash is fantastic for this. You can download all of stackoverflow and docs for most languages and keep them on your system if you want to go offline.

https://kapeli.com/dash
I’m still stuck with crappy nvidia without wayland support.

Can anybody recommend a reasonably priced amd card that will drive my 4k screen nicely?
> Now cards have more RAM than I had disk.

Now CPUs have more L2/L3 cache than I had disk!
On the contrary, for example on Android OpenGL ES you get compute shaders, but no OpenCL.

By the way, the latest version is OpenGL 4.6, it is also available on the Switch.
America is hopeless here, much better to try and fight them elsewhere.
No, but I do see people use them inaccurately in those contexts also, and I suspect that’s partially out of habit.
I didn't say it's a valuable skill, in fact as I said it would be slower for me to do so (which maybe I should have said significantly slower) that's a pretty strong indicator of its lack of value. I should also say it would be worse quality - because if I needed to add some JavaScript functionality I would need to be able to use the syntax I remembered and not what I could look up.

However my confidence that I could do this slowly and of poor quality is that - I started making websites 20 years ago so making and index.html file and linking to each file by hand and I still do this every now and then when making little static sites (like if a site is 4-8 pages I might just do it by hand). And the stuff I look up for sites like that are generally - how do I do this cool thing in CSS.

Admittedly if I did it this way the site I am envisioning doesn't look much better than Berkshire Hathaway's https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/

on edit: also there is some question if one is just allowed to do what one can remember in one's head or if, without using an internet search engine, one can use the stuff one has on local computers and devices? In which case I have some complicated stuff here to reference going back a lot of years, a lot of ebooks, local hardcopy books. So in that case I think I can do just about anything that can be done with search (except for using newest CSS, es2019 features), but still significantly slower.
you're correct. I assume they're referring to 8bit per colour (RGB) which is 24bit colour (True Colour) 16.7M
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8*3=24, 8 bit per channel is a description they use in visual effects. Recently the rest of the computing industry started using it. Yes, confusing.
Strictly speaking, most traders of US listed stocks wait two days to settle trades. Robinhood will give you an advance on your funds but that doesn't make T+2 settlement "unacceptable...in this day and age" lol.

BTW a few years ago, it was T+3.
You’re right that there are other benefits of Rust’s type system beyond precluding data races, but even still, the overhead of Rust is too steep to make it a good fit for the kinds of applications I write.
This is a decision in all scripting languages.

PHP solves concurrency very well - it just passes the problem to the web server.

If you need multithreading to service a http request then you are either doing something wrong, or over-engineering the problem. Other language platforms also service requests in a single thread, including Node.
Which makes retail harder to invest and one of the reasons why people are mad is that they are not allowed to participate in the stock market. It doesn't seem like there's a winning formula here. The term professional investor is already under fire but it's literally by the decision makers to protect you. Not many people like that.
I'm thinking back to a real dumb django 'web' frontend I built for a raspberry pi camera project once...

The whole idea was to have a page I could load from a laptop attached to the pi via a ethernet cable for quick debugging and interaction. No external internet needed, and did the job decently.
Some general reading on the topic for others:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum
> If this is actually what is happening,

That’s a big “if” though. The “abusive content” angle is just a working theory. It could just as easily be Goodge taking a dislike to a website link offering donations outside of the Play store (or something equally mundane).

The problem is, until Google respond, we have no idea why the takedown happened.

And here lies the real problem: without Google being transparent about their takedowns it leaves app developers in a difficult position where they can’t really support their uses.

The one slight good thing from all this is that at least with Android you can side load apps (which is more than can be said for iOS).
The path forward seems to be CUDA style programming, it is what Optix does.

However I would rather prefer some kind of "SQL" for GPU programming.
Why do Americans hate freedom so damn much? Why?
Humans love creating art. We have always wanted to make things look pretty.
Nobody mention the VS remote debugger and what mayhem one could cause if left running with a port open
Too bad that website doesn't specify how much space that all takes. Would be interesting to know.
I don't know how many people are aware but https://devdocs.io/ has been a life-changer, runs locally as PWA and caches all the docs you need to use, instant search across all interfaces - so yes you can write even a complex web app without googling at all.
Thanks for this point! Yes, pricing seems to be a big issue.
Might I recommend this overview? https://enterprisecraftsmanship.com/posts/when-to-mock/

I more understand the Martin Fowler article quite well, but only after struggling with it and revisiting it (sporadically) over several years, and I really think this by Mr, Khorikov gives a much clearer, more straightforward overview.
My answer is, I don't see the problems, and I don't fight windows.

I run WSL2, and when benchmarking performance is almost identical to rebooting into Ubuntu.

I've never had a laptop where everything worked well in Linux (WiFi, Bluetooth, sleeping), even when trying laptops where I was told it would work well, like the Dell XPS.

Also, I work on (open source) desktop software, where the majority of our users use Windows, so I like being able to easily debug their problems. I work in academia and get lots of word and Excel documents I have to edit, and find while open office can view them it often breaks them if I edit and resave.
just like in software: when a system fails entirely everyone is blaming someone else.
Parlez? Palais? Parley?
Not unlike the CCP.
Within a day, Google have removed 100k Robinhood reviews and suspended this application. I wonder if these arbitrary actions will become a daily thing soon.
Build an Mmorpg: Entering and Leaving Zones (2020)
Ask HN: Is there an Etherpad Lite “even lighter” version?
Requirements: no binary needed, no NodeJs needed, no client/server database.

Just PHP and SQLite.

Number of writers: just a team of 3 people

Collaborative real time plain text editing, less than 1 MB of text written per month.
Same link was posted 16 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25771314
I think the web searching has 3 use cases:

- snippets/usage:

This was done in the past by books. But those days when I’m writing and many languages where some of them aren’t my dailies. This can save me a lot of time.

- cleaner/modernize:

This is equivalent to asking a colleague that’s more seasoned. At least with C++ you discover there’s a brand new std that does that cleaner.

- issues:

We live in a package / deps manager days. Sometimes tiny change breaks your tools.
Many times the web searching could save you day(s) of hunting issues that broke due to some dependency or package update.

While the same was also in the old days. You’d naturally had less web deps and less frequent updates.
> Also, Pfizer is an American company.

BioNtech is a German company. If it would come down to national egotism, BioNtech would just kill the licensing deal and Pfizer wouldn't be allowed to produce anything.
> "It was unclear what part of the test flight violated the FAA license, and an FAA spokesman declined to specify in a statement to The Verge."

Anyone know what the violation was?
I think Gnuplot is strongest when you want a pretty plot of a complicated function (3D, parametric, etc). Grammar of graphics approach is optimized for understanding data sets.

For strengths of plotnine, ggplot, and Altair over Gnuplot (or matplotlib), see section 3.3 of the article, particularly the example

ggplot(data=mpg) + geom_point(mapping=aes(x="displ", y="hwy", color="class"))

You can easily replace 'color' with 'shape', or even faceting (getting a separate plot for each class).

I do not know Gnuplot very well -- what's the easiest Guplot way to do this? [1] I do know that when I was looking at data sets, switching from plain matplotlib (where you'd have to plot in a loop over each class) to the grammar of graphics style was a breath of fresh air for me.

Separately, and less interestingly, if you are already using Python or Jupyter, Gnuplot isn't as smoothly integrated into that ecosystem.

[1]: The first thing I found on the website is http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_5.4/varcolor.html, but perhaps there's a better or more minimal example?
> Phase III trials are insanely expensive, like a billion dollars plus or minus

Do you have a source for that?

JAMA Internal Medicine says a median of 19 million, but that's for all drugs, not specifically vaccines.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/articl...
Your conclusion might be right, but your reasoning is certainly wrong. Calling native functions in Python is often quite expensive because you need to marshal between PyObjects and the native types (probably allocating memory as well). This doesn’t “feel” so slow in Python because, well, everything in Python is slow. But you really start to notice it when you’re optimizing.
Yep. Just because it's written that they have a right to kill you and take your first unborn child doesn't mean they legally have a right to it.
You can use fdroid which builds everything and signs it with their own keys.
Wow Dinosay
This is basically the last straw for me. The past week has made it perfectly clear that Big Tech will close the circle and protect their own. Anything that appears to be censorship resistant, that allows the little guy to get ahead and compete, or that allows individuals to have greater levels of privacy and freedom, will be shut down and de-platformed.

As was predicted in 1948, "hate speech" has just become a smoke and mirrors term. Facebook and Discord used this excuse to deplatform WSB. Twitter uses this to deplatform people left, right, and center. And now Google is using it deplatform one of the few decentralised projects I had a lot of faith in.
Using notepad or your systems equivalent? I notice a lot of developers rely heavily on autocompleters and syntax hints in the editor, but deny that they need "documentation."
A redacted version of the EU-AstraZeneca contract has been made public since the article was written:

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-europe...

It's not clear to me but it seems that the EU wants AstraZeneca to use some additional factories in the UK that they're not currently using (?).
It wouldn´t surprise me if Russia and China prioritize to sell the vaccines to other countries than attend their own population.
HSTS preloading blacklists may at some future point, block PWA as well.

The real problem is indeed how much power society has given these corps. It's time to take back some power or we will never be able to.
> x-ray

Easy to ignore since it won't be hit by any.

> radio

I dunno, how hard is it to get materials that reflect radio waves?

It's probably reasonable to talk about materials that reflect almost all the light in frequency bands of non-negligible power as effectively being actual white.
This is how the web is for me all the time. I use a text-only browser plus some DNS tricks. Fast and reliable.
There's a bunch of nice tools that make most of that stuff go away in matter of few clicks
https://github.com/search?q=Windows+10+telemetry&type=
Feedback from free users is the wrong feedback. If paying customers ask for a beta of your next feature because they need it so badly, this is feedback. You're talking to people who might leave you once you ask them to pay.
Google extension uses data for personal shopping exp
My comment elsewhere got buried but it might be useful to you.

Pattle also appears to have been removed. Ditto and FluffyChat at the moment appear to still be up on the store though. For those unaware, these are all Matrix clients.
Android has it's own SIP stack. It's even exposed in the standard Android phone dialler from Google. In the settings for that app look under "calling accounts".

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/sip

I haven't looked, but I'm sure just like Firebase, services get a special exemption to receive SIP notifications.
Limitations in Debian Security Support
Until you find out that the app isn't able to use the google notification service so it puts a persistent notification in your bar and uses more battery.
Excellent question.

Really no one I think.

I'm definitely wrong about something though. I need to think about it some more to figure out what.
One of the reasons I really like Element is the fact that it runs completely in the browser, no need to install a native app - which, lets be realistic, is really only a viable option (for the average consumer) if you submit to the proprietary App Store or Play Store. Sadly, Element Web is not yet responsive, but I hope that changes soon so that it can be finally free from the constraints of the constraints of proprietary native platforms like iOS and Android.
Wow, having different pages based on state seems to be such an amount of effort that it's basically an admission of fraud to have the other version: you must make enough money of not-cancelling to justify having two.
- official docs:
Embarrassingly I often neglect to even learn doc tools available to me offline and instead rely on google for even the most basic stdlib documentation.
Your website seems horribly broken on mobile. (Brave Browser)
And while we're at it, let's disallow Google from mandating the exclusive use of their own service for push notifications.
The browser can not do push notifications when the device is locked. Which is kind of a core feature for IM.
In recent months I went from treating DuckDuckGo as some exotic search engine to using it many times a day. That is only because Google search is becoming useless, ad-ridden mess.
> Where it shines is when you're editing photos or movies or viewing them in a window

Well it's a step closer but still not enough.

Most pro camera RAW files are 14-bit, though many drop down to 12 or 10 bit in high-speed capture modes.

There are already monitors that simulate 12-bit output from 10-bit input through internal LUTs but the internal pipeline has been stuck at 10-bit for over a decade. Though it was originally the domain of Quadro cards, it's now available from all discrete GPUs.

Technology is still lagging behind what cameras can create let alone what our eyes see.
Would swapping them out for Noctuas be difficult?
How much of it not being easy is due to other people's ads though?
seems like a good library, not sure why the submission here was dead, vouched for it.
Node though multiplexes more than one request at a time to a single thread / process and no built in ability to clean up after itself.
We really are seeing the cultural revolution of technology. The era of open innovation and freedom of expression is over. And because both sides of politics can only see as far as the next election, they will just use this to their advantage to deplatform their opponents. And who loses? The proles, of course.
Just saw this—the contract has been posted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25960469
Now, what'd make this actually useful is if it either used the same pathing or auto-redirected accordingly, so I could just replace 'www' with 'lite' in a URL, since I only ever visit CNN when I'm being linked there, and visiting the normal website causes my browser to hang.
Show HN: Hacker News Clone built using React JavaScript. Made it PWA too
Demo -> https://rm-hackernews.netlify.app

Source-> https://github.com/rajat-mehra05/hacker-news-clone
Who would? To accomplish... what?
Yeah, I remember fiddling with the cgi-bin directories back in the day, with the permissions and what not.

With PHP you can just drop it anywhere in the htdocs and done.
With current workplace leadership that has already been lost a decade ago.
>> Publishers still often do some kind of promotion.

Which is almost certainly how the article about a book due to be published in April came to be written.
I purchased Factorio recently because this game looks amazing. Anyway I couldn’t manage to really get into the game because it’s just overwhelming. Can someone recommend any good tutorials or guides to get into it so I can start building my awesome factories?
Do you really need to know? I doubt it takes up more than 30 GB, you're not downloading all of StackOverflow, just the content.
Banning Element because of channels created on a decentralised network makes as much sense as banning a web-browser because of websites created on a decentralised network (i.e., the Internet). Looking forward to Chrome's imminent removal from the Play Store.
What is Article 16 and why has it provoked such fury?
Companies can and do leverage the capital provided by their stock value, so just there would be an influence (less value = less capital = less ability to make market moves), but beyond that, I think, as others had mentioned, it could have an outsize negative psychological affect on the workforce. Plus, it could cause a feedback loop of sorts, as other investors might look at the short and jump in on the chance that someone knows something they don't, causing it to further decline, causing a multiplication on the above issues.
>Aren't you able to provide examples that you've seen happening to others in this site?
Because if not nobody knows what you're referring to, and you could just as well haven't made the comment in the first place.

Why the aggressive tone?

You could activate "showdead" in the settings and watch any thread with controversial/political topics yourself.
> Chinese and the Russian vaccines were not even considered.

The Russian vaccine's "trial" was mostly a non-consensual trial carried out on their military. I expect this lowered confidence.

Does China have a vaccine with decent effectiveness yet? Last time I read about it, the number was around 50%.
Is it, though? The @bluesky Twitter account linked to it, but the word ‘Bluesky’ only appears in it once - not around the title or author affiliations.

Did Twitter compensate the listed authors? Are they the “Bluesky” team Twitter’s been claiming to fund as a wholly independent group (initially) or hire as employees (in later comments) for more than a year?
What is YC about it? It's called a predatory private student loan.
Interesting you mention WSL2 as a plus.

I've used Linux since early 2000's and OSX on the desktop since 2010+. Before that Windows CE, 95 and think Vista or 7 was the last.

I was curious about what Windows looks like these days as it's been a decade and also curious about WSL2 as it seems online posts are generally positive over WSL. The surface go / surface line of devices looked interesting for a nsmall, stuff in the bag while traveling doing email/browsing/office type of machine. I was tempted to buy one to see what they are about.

At a contracting gig last year I was given a Windows machine. I'm not sure if it was because it wasn't the best and typical corporate laptop specs, or if it was because of the corporate lock-down, installed software, av, and other junk but my eagerness to try modern Windows and WSL2 quickly diapered. I struggled getting docker running, i struggled running docker in the subsystem, i found things where not working in the subsystem, had difficulty with paths etc. In the end the machine went back and I got a mac and was up and running in an hour with full dev environment and everything set up how I like using nix-darwin. Same for the other devs, they where unable to get a working dev environment on windows so sent the machines back for macs.

Some of it will certainly be my unfamiliarity but it just didn't seem compelling enough to overcome. Clicking the start menu and seeing ads instead of finding programs was a blatant yes this is windows moment.Even the UI /UX felt old which seems odd given that Microsoft have quite a lot of material out on user interaction and ux research.

An interesting observation about modern Microsoft is a lot of the onsite Microsoft Azure employees seem to be using Macs and Microsoft give them the option of running Macs.
This exactly.

What most Linux people say when they say that they want the "Linux development environment" they mean some shell tools. Shell tools that are now available under Windows with better "fidelity" than under MacOS.
Matrix Millenium had 4MB of ram and was considered the beastiest of beast in its era. It's still peak in my brain :)
That's been possible using WebDAV extensions to HTTP (RFC 4918) since the 90s, with fair support by native OS clients and mounters in Win, Linux, Mac OS, and the BSDs, hasn't it?
They could just VDI in to existing infra + VPN.
Absolutely, the appeals to “fairness” have been particularly unedifying to hear whilst there are vast swathes of the world unable to access anything like the quantity of vaccine the EU has a hold on.