skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much time of these 8s is spend in EFI?

When I look at my PC it is so painful to see, that it actually spends more time with EFI than with the OS:

$ systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 7.859s (firmware) + 1.203s (loader) + 1.683s (kernel) + 1.356s (initrd) + 1.431s (userspace) = 13.534s
No, I (and most people) have no interest in disabling JS. Not a practical solution.
The problem with these kind of things is that now I need to ask around some IPs to connect to, as I see there's no automatic peer discovery.
Sounds awesome nonetheless.
Unless I’m completely misunderstanding you, showing Thumbnails has an obvious button on the toolbar. Go to parent is harder, but I think for the sequence you describe there’s a back button on the toolbar that will do what you want. Otherwise, you can use the breadcrumb bar at the bottom (can’t remember if this is a default setting or not) or open the Go menu and learn that Command-Up is the shortcut for “parent directory”. (A little later you discover this is symmetrical: Command-Up goes “up” out of the folder you’re looking at, Command-Down goes “down” into the selected item.)
Raspberry Pi Hardware Setup
Does anyone remember Jonathan Lebed? I always suspected he dressed up as the founder of NIA ... http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FiBKE2CGN2Y/Tdr106-syXI/AAAAAAAACz...
And it still cannot display powerline characters correctly.
Save some bandwidth and make the user wait for the images, break scrolling, etc.
New Victims' Code comes into force in UK
>Open a folder with images. How on earth do you switch to visible thumbnails?

It's really easy, or am I misunderstanding you? View -> as Icons. It even has a keyboard shortcut. Or press space bar while with the file selected.
Ha, what’s your aim with that? Making changes in the browser and have them saved somewhere?

I am pretty sure I can make this upload to s3 or something to emulate that

But a part of this experiment was its offline nature, where you can play around with tweets etc without having them uploaded to a server.

Interesting idea though about having them “sync”
Functional programming with tail calls and potentially even tail call allocation (like in the ATS language) can have C (or greater in the case of potential compiler hints) re performance/memory usage. So it's not exactly surprising.

That being said, this is pretty cool. As far as the current landscape of embedded languages go, I'd take a functional lisp over C, probably, but I'd have to dive deeper on more extensive examples and look into how easy it is to map other boards/devices.
> Either provide a list so people know exactly what to buy, or all complaints are valid.

Sure, these are two devices I have recently used with Linux that work out of the box:

Dell XPS 13

ThinkPad T14s

Or more generally, you can extend that to any ThinkPad or Dell device without a dedicated graphics card and you will have a good Linux experience.
OP somehow has issues on XPS 13, probably due to meddling with too many things. My XPS 13 (9360) has everything working out of the box with Ubuntu 20.04

A very good idea if you want to confirm just before placing an order is to google "<laptop name> Arch Linux wiki" which will take you to the Arch wiki page for that device. There you can see if there are any known compatibility issues.

The Ubuntu certified devices page is pretty good as well.

> Apple sells you the whole package: take it or leave it.

For Linux Dell and Lenovo do that too (in most regions these days).

From what I understand from the blog post, the author is expecting Linux and the software to behave the same as macOS. That is just comparing apples and oranges. If you want a system that you are used to, you should probably stick to that. As in, if macOS works for you, I see no reason you should switch to Linux. I used a Mac for ~5 years before finally giving up because I just hated the window management (among other things). But hey, that does not need to apply to everyone.
Valid point, I stand corrected.

I just can't imagine working in an environment where you have, say, 4 apps occupying 4 parts of your screen continuously.

Splitting screen in two (terminal and browser) is the common scenario for me but you don't need i3 for this.
I agree, I’ve always found the Finder extremely usable, especially once you’ve taken a couple minutes to browse the menus and learn the Keyboard Shortcuts.

One interesting thing I’ve noticed is that people don’t seem to bother to look at the menus anymore: one of the first things I’ve always done with a new application (ever since Windows 3.1 on a Pentium 90) is open the menus and skim the menu items to figure out the basic functionality available.
I agree with this sentiment.

If anyone realizes that all they are mostly doing is using, let's say, a browser, IDE and terminal for most tasks and some tooling that can be used anywhere, the value proposition for macOS (or Windows for that matter) is much lower. My last Mac I stopped using in ~2016 because I made that realization myself. Even if my hardware is not to the standard of Apple's hardware, the only thing it should do is not fail randomly on work-critical devices. That doesn't happen at all to me - Ubuntu on the ThinkPads I use work great.
Ha, would be nice-ish if browser have this pre-available, TBH most loading time is loading SQLite async, then it is instantaneous
Show HN: LinkedIn for Newbies
Some of the best friends I have, I met online and haven't actually seen face to face. Still, you can have a workplace with a reduced (not eliminated) physical presence. I know of people who do flexible office visitation, so they have two days per week when everyone is in, and the rest of the time, people are free to either WFH or at the office. Seems to work out for them for now - those who really want to be there can be, while those who prefer to work from home can do so.
What he's looking for in his post is XnView or something similar. I faintly remember it as a clone ACDSee, it has a basic integrated editor.

It's not really that popular on Linux though even though it was first released on *nix some 23 years ago. I don't think people generally recommend it, simply because they don't know it. It's more likely that you know ACDSee from Windows and decide to use something similar on Linux.

So it's not necessarily his fault for not knowing it.

https://www.xnview.com/en/
Ask HN: Should the SEC ban listed companies from April Fools pranks?
Why? Check the 5 day chart for Volkswagen stock after their Voltswagen "prank". https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/VWAGY
Mining profitability is a function of the price of the underlying asset.

Tank prices - by limiting fiat inroads for example - and you significantly limit mining activity.

The scale of waste (of electricity, human effort, hardware) dedicated to cryptocurrencies is staggering.
Selecting multiple files and pressing F2 or "Rename Files…" under the context menu is about as intuitive for renaming multiple files as I can possibly imagine.
What’s wrong with Mac? I love it.

If find it really weird people could find great fault with OSX.
You're always going to have somewhere around the world with cheaper electricity and people with asics and as long as someone has these things, they will be processing a large amount of crypto transactions and generating loads of wealth. Another incentive: if a single entity has >50% of mining power, they have control of the blockchain.

The only way the miners quit using so much electricity is if the demand goes down (less transactions and less fees) and/or a new cryptocurrency that uses proof of work starts running the game. Proof of work reduces electricity use on the scale of 10000ths to millionths compared to Bitcoin.

Your carbon tax is absolute idiocy in a world where any countries can just give you the middle finger. Would it be universally enforced with a global army that goes and sacks anyone who doesn't follow the rules? Take a look at the UN and see how that works. Many smaller less wealthy countries shit on UN policies all the time and nobody bats an eye.
I get your frustrations, yet your problem is with proprietary software and proprietary drivers. I’m sure there’s a way for you to go back to using the old drivers if you’re set on using the latest capabilities of your hardware (without it being FOSS).

You don’t have to be the guinea pig, let others do it if it’s not your thing (many programmers do seem to enjoy it, and see it as a challenge).
I don't think NFTs are a good fit even for something like NBA Top Shot. You can already buy custom emotes or skins or whatever in video games. No NFTs necessary, just use the game's database for record keeping, not an NFT.
It really was clear at the time. Even then people pointed out that the measurements didn't behave in the way you'd expect if it actually worked (e.g. thrust didn't correlate with power).

There were plenty of people saying "But imagine if it did work! We could get to other stars in a few years!" but you always get crazy optimists that ignore all the evidence with stuff like this (c.f. solar roadways).
> the keyboard for Macbook Air 2020 is too shallow and hard to press

I had to temporarily switch back to my 2013 MPB while my 2019 was in for repair (my fault, drink near laptop = bad idea) and was actually surprised how mushy the keys felt on it in comparison to the 2019. Of course it is a matter of taste, but IMO once you get used to it, the 2019/20 keyboards are actually the best Apple have made, so maybe it is worth persevering.

Certainly a million miles from the butterfly disaster! That said, I mostly work with an external Microsoft Sculpt keyboard, which is probably more like the older MPB in feel.
ISO watermarks their standards, so uploading it is pointless risk since you don't know if there are invisible watermarks as well.
He used a XPS Dev Edition Laptop... Those are officially sold with Ubuntu
Do people do it this way? Isn't using index notation + Einstein summation convention way easier and more powerful? You only need to remember two rules:

1. dx_i/dx_k = [i==j] where [i==j] is 0 if i != j and 1 if i == j

2. (AB)_ij = A_ik B_kj

You don't even need the second rule if the function you want to differentiate is in index notation in the first place.

The example of the other comment:

f(x) = x^T A x = x_i A_ij x_j

df/dx_k = d/dx_k (x_i A_ij x_j) = [i==k] A_ij x_j + x_i A_ij [j==k] = A_kj x_j + x_i A_ik.

You can also skip the intermediate [i==k] step and immediately set the indices of other factors in a term equal. For example, differentiating with respect to A is immediate, even though the method from the article can't even handle it directly:

df/A_kl = x_k x_l
What I am most baffled by with Yaml is the fact that it’s a superset of JSON.

Whenever an input accepts YAML you can actually pass in JSON there and it’ll be valid

It really surprised me when I found out and I use JSON Whenever possible since then since it’s much stricter

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#YAML
I don’t think Amazon has the power to legitimize it, they, and the gig economy if anything brought this more to the limelight.

Before this those people tended to be more invisible.
VPNs are commonly used to connect applications to databases living "somewhere else". I don't see any particular reason why wireguard would be a bad choice for that. It's certainly easier to configure than IPsec.

Do still use SSL and password authentication too; a VPN alone isn't a complete solution.
Ubuntu has been going down the drain for a long time.

The problem is that they successfully (and for good reason) became the de facto Desktop Linux for users who wanted a desktop and not mess with it much.

They’ve cornered that market to the point there are very few alternatives (at least very few that will come preinstalled and supported) but because they want to IPO I guess, they’ve stopped focusing on the desktop at all and instead are concentrating on server uses primarily, which leads to significant issues.
Scientists Just Made a Quantum Computing Breakthrough – IE
Bitcoin just won't be running all the transactions, it'll be a storage of wealth.
> In comparison, Chrome applies no limit, but requires that every push message causes a notification to be displayed.

No silent push is a huge limitation. Can't let the server send you updates without annoying the user.
> There will be no product manager somewhere that will dictate how I use my computer.

You are free to do whatever setup makes you happy, but you will be eluding yourself to assume it is free from corporations that put money into Linux, like Red-Hat, IBM, Intel, Oracle, ARM, Google, ....

Systemd, wayland, DBUS, ....
https://support.lenovo.com/gb/en/solutions/pd031426-linux-fo...

This is Lenovo's list of laptops with the minimum versions of Redhat, Suse and Ubuntu they support.
I feel like I’m missing a step here. So his tatoos showed and someone who happened to know about this guy happened to notice? Does he have a particularly distinctive tattoo?

I’m not rejecting the claims in the article, but they sure are pretty surprising. Two ideas that seem far fetched but more likely to me:

1. Some intelligence agency running voice recognition on YouTube videos.
2. Parallel construction, where he was actually caught via another source (like a tip) and they decided to say they detected via YouTube to obscure the true source.
Brain-Controlled Computer Interfaces Gained an Upgrade – IE
Depending on when you ask this question, anywhere between $.02 and $200,000
i don't know if you have any particular objections to using Windows 10 as your main operating system, but there's a pretty cool tweak called SimpleClassicTheme which can get you a surprisingly long way in replicating the classic Windows aesthetic in modern Windows:

https://winclassic.boards.net/thread/456/reversibly-enable-d...
The pc is for game dev side projects. The mac mini is my daily work horse as there’s less stuff to break (keyboard etc) while the laptop is for onsite interviews and rare meetings. Started remote work before the pandemic and expected a bit more mobility.
The real world item that the token refers to is by definition “a token off the blockchain”.
> Calmira with Windows 3.11

Ah that takes me back, I remember having a computer magazine at the time when Windows 95 was in development (and was just known as Chicago) which came with a bunch of software on the free disk/CD which "emulated" the Win95 look and feel on Win 3.11. Was pretty fun at the time. I guess Calmira might have been one of them!
definitely hibernation
Very cool demo, works great on chrome mobile.

But I'm not sure using top level await was a good idea at this time. Can't really open it in Firefox mobile either (due to import syntax).
Rule of thumb (for countries subject to FATCA) is $10k. After that, the tax department (of the local government) starts to look into the source of income.
Very short version: data:text/html, <body contenteditable>
A lossless video/GIF/image upscaler – video2xv
> 2. I need to authorize dock (Lenovo's thunderbolt dock) after every reboot.

If you're still facing this, there is UI for remembering the authorization https://christian.kellner.me/2018/04/23/the-state-of-thunder...

I'm on a AMD device right now so I can't test it myself, just sharing the link in case its useful :)
I have been running Linux (Arch) with Gnome on a Dell XPS 13 9380 for the past 2 years and I did not face major issues.

My first major complaint is the lack of fingerprint reader driver. It simply does not work.

My desktop environment is Gnome on Wayland.

The support of multiple monitors with different pixel densities is also problematic. You can set fractional scaling but the rendering was really blurry. So now I have a script that runs when I connect an external monitor that just changes text scaling in Gnome (usually when connected on an external monitor I don´t use the laptop screen).

Other than that I have better battery life than on Windows 10 even if video hardware acceleration is less efficient than on Windows (firefox is the only browser supporting it). And for server side development which I occasionally do on my personal laptop, I vastly prefer Linux over Mac or Windows (even with WSL2).
For all their faults there is one compelling feature of open and free systems: you have the source code for everything at your fingertips.

The command line might give a similar feeling of having the whole system at your control but that’s not really a differentiator these days with macOS.

If (and realistically, only if) you are an engineer, having the source code is a killer feature.
windows 10 actually does "fast startup" which is kind of like hibernation, similar to hybrid sleep introduced in the past.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was a thunderbolt linux issue. The dell "docking station" usb-c hubs don't really work well with anything else than dell windows machines. Same with some lenovo bluetooth mice.

I do remember however that contrary to macos my 2012 macbook air could drive higher resolution external monitors when running linux. So I'd put this into the Thunderbolt is a hackjob on linux box.
The feature I miss most on Linux is hitting space to get a preview of any file.
I tried to use MacOSX on my Dell XPS13. Installation was very difficult, driver support lacking and it often crashed. I find Linux much better.
Pick one:

Hyperinflation, seizure of citizen assets, stagnant/declining business growth, or cryptocurrency
I did notice something similar. We brought on one junior last year and I had to schedule about 5 in-person days with him to do actual pair programming to teach him some stuff. That said, I think what stopped me the most with being productive over video chat was not being able to point at his screen and had to describe in detail when I wanted him to look at something. Giving people a virtual pointer to point at stuff on the presenter's screen would be welcome.
You also aren't required to get your taxes right, which most jokes about "the government will jail you but let all the rich guys cheat" rely on. Ignorance is a defense in tax law.
> Corporations aren't a real thing, they're an abstraction.

Margaret Thatcher is that you
I think so considering the message on screen
But that’s a bad idea, once browser version will be locked to a database version, security updates etc would be tied and a yada yada
Sick of these startup executives, painting a rosy picture for employees
For example:
https://twitter.com/LadyAshBorg/status/1378237638671364099

But the actual reality is closer to this:
https://huyenchip.com/2021/02/27/why-not-join-a-startup.html

The same founders will lay you off in a heartbeat if the situation demands, and they keep on preaching to naive employees about trust, loyalty, and shit!

PS: To be clear, I'm not totally against working at a startup, if you like their mission, please go and work for your chosen startup. My issue is that they should be more thankful to the employees who have joined them in their journey and not treat them as a resource!
Tearing is one of the reasons why Wayland was started. "Every frame is perfect" was the goal, and they baked it into the design by making all updates atomic.

That's why I doubt the author had a full Wayland setup running. Maybe the app ran via Xwayland or there was no Wayland at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protoc...
Oh and one day Xcode will suddenly stop updating. Why? Because I lost my credit card yesterday and blocked it, so now App Store will not update a free app. Whaa?
Windows 95 was the first thing I got on CD, which was awesome for installing.

But it also came with a music video from Weezer which played FULL SCREEN. And felt like full on witchcraft after the pixelly goodness of windows 3.11
That sounds a little like telling someone that their problems are that their cows are not spherical. For graphics drivers specifically, having tochoose between FOSS and something that works is very frustrating.
Taxes are what give the rest of your money value by giving USD an inherent demand. Thinking you're losing out is bad economics because you're forgetting everyone else also pays.
> I would say if you are fortunate enough to be working with something like .NET, you can abuse the shit out of LINQ and not really feel the added complexity.

In my own database mapping code for my game (I use RethinkDB) I made a type called DatabaseLink<T> where T : DatabaseEntry, with a Value property that will retrieve the link target from the database cache. It's almost as fast/convenient as a simple field, and it serializes to a GUID.
You're right. I don't know how I missed that. Maybe it was dolphin or some other file manager...
They wouldn't be able to maintain a sewer system or a public health infrastructure though so they'd probably all get cholera.
There is no way, because the only way to make it work is to dig out a pre-historic kernel from the same year Asus released 1215B with Linux support.

Proprietary software for 1215B, e.g. Windows, is working just fine with Windows 10, even though it was originally released with Windows 7.

So we are talking about Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and several Windows 10 releases, all supporting the original Windows 7 drivers for Asus 1215B.

I have been a Linux guinea pig since Slackware 2.0 came on Linux Unleashed book, eventually one gets tired of the Linux Desktop meme.

Linux was anyway just the way I got cheap UNIX clone at home during my degree, professionally I have spent more years using commercial UNIXes.

Nowadays any POSIX clone will do the job, or as alternative we stuck the Linux kernel into a VM.
I've been racking my brain trying to figure out just what "benefit" is had by this type of scroll-jacking but to no avail. It does seem to help in any way and all it does is frustrate the user.

Luckily the spacebar behaviour remains untouched, but you shouldn't have to experiment with each and every snowflake webpage just to have the default actions act as you would expect.

It's not the author's fault necessarily. Well, they _did_ choose the template and decided to keep it. But the template comes from a company who targets WP templates towards Female Entrepreneurs, most likely in a bid to win some slice of Google's keyword share with "Feminine Blogger Templates". Not sure what my point is, except that maybe they are incredibly out of touch with a lot of things these days. And I'll it there. This is turning into an unintended stream-of-though rant. Sorry!
Did you get any help from Apple support? I hope you asked for your money back!
When interest rates are 0% (as they essentially are right now) you're losing money by not borrowing. Capital investments are good!
You'd expect MySQL 5.6.8 to upgrade to 5.6.12, not to 5.7...
There are no web apis to move a cursor within a web page. That means if you see a website moving your cursor, you see a website doing something it's not supposed to be able to do, and there's no reason to assume that that ability would be limited to the browser window or merely one tab in the browser. (Of course this website does not move your cursor.)
When I worked at ZEIT (Vercel) this was a huge issue we'd face. There was one person on GitHub that was shamelessly encouraging others to set up a docker image that ran crypto mining processes.

This is inevitable, and I'm sure every CI system has faced this issue.
This makes me sad. It's 2021 and we still haven't figure out how to serialize configuration in a format that is easy-to-edit and predictable.
My Muslim friend doesn't practice but claims he still physically can't eat pork (or drink much) without getting sick because he never got used to it. We never tried to confirm this.
Not much at all. I don't know why they bother.
The novelty here is that (almost) the entire company is getting time off, but it doesn't justify why. The closest thing to a reason is

> Since everyone is off at the same time, that means workers aren't inundated by emails, meeting notes and project requests piling up in their absence.

Which seems weak, at best.

Also, it's not clear if this week consumes days out of the PTO allowance. If it does, then it's basically the company telling you when to take your time off, which is a worse deal than having the flexibility of taking PTO whenever.