skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You said that "health care costs are spiraling out of control". Your justification for that is that you spend more money on health insurance than you used to back when you used to spend nothing because you got nothing. Making a blanket statement of "healthcare costs" and "out of control" needs to come with the following caveats:

1. They're spiraling out of control for you -
2. Because you used to pay nothing
3. Because you used to get nothing
4. Because you didn't worry about it.

Say all that. The price, for the average consumer, that buys health insurance has been rising for decades. It has not slowed down because of the ACA but it hasn't sped up because of the ACA.

You're making a blanket statement based on your atypical experience of not having health insurance and then making it seem like it affects everyone.
We ran a small drop in cafe and we're excited to run win 2k and xp on something like 600mhz Pentiums.

Someone donated an old pc. We turned it on and it had win 3.1 on and it booted in a blip. We looked at each other in amazement. It's odd what you forget. And at the time I preferred the 3.1 style to 95, though tooling was pretty horrible. Changing video modes for example.

Win 95 also didn't originally come with TCP/IP from what I remember. Pre internet os, that you wrestled with to get internet support on.

Later service pack version came bundled with the web client stuff.

Networking was very hit and miss back then.
https://cve.report/CVE-2019-8761
How dangerous is low level waste? Based on what I’ve read, it doesn’t seem super radioactive in itself, but it sounds like some of it may have a lot of “problematic” material like dust.
Great find. It is actual FOSS [1][2]

[1] https://pooi.moe/QuickLook/
[2] https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
These are the top happiest countries in the world in 2021
It already has one: GUS. A live instance is running at gemini://geminispace.info with a good index.
Not just different apps but having multiple working environments for the same app - very useful when you wreck the db on a feature branch and need to jump to another to fix a bug etc.
LSP is the troyan horse of Microsoft
To pay for college, I worked in a small computer store the year the Amiga 1000 came out. I gave a demo of the device to the local Commodore User's group and remember how everyone was blown away when I showed a 3D bouncing ball demo that was running in the background.

It was the coolest computer that we never sold and for one trivial reason. The video port used a non-standard 23 pin connector, and while we had lots of Amigas and monitors, for months the store had no cable to connect the two.

Someone finally had the idea to take a standard 25-in parallel port connector and use a hack saw to remove the extra two pins. Problem solved!
It is interesting that with 3d buttons in GUI I can immediately focus on the presable elements while I often struggle today with latest and the greatest flat designs - or rather say, my eyes are scanning for the button more time.
>Why are they upgrading their kernel every few weeks?

I'm pretty sure I had like 4 kernel upgrades on my Fedora machine in the last month.

>great window managers like i3

Tiling wms like i3 target a very narrow user base. Unless you are a sysadmin or just work only with terminal they are pretty useless.

I don't have non-maximized windows for example (except for Telegram, Obsidian and iTerm quake-like instance)
Acorn also had RISC OS in ROM. Booted in about two seconds. Yes it was tricky when you had to upgrade but I suspect the constraints made the ROMs better quality. Certainly was rare to come across bugs etc and the performance was miles ahead of the current software we have today.
Yeah, it's ironic in a way. TXT files should open as TXTs and scroll should scroll naturally and not be tampered with.
I thought so too, but after spending a while in the Gemini space it really grew on me. Having one semantic meaning per line actually makes content flow much more naturally. I find myself scanning backwards a lot less.

Sometimes what's easier for a software parser is also easier for the parser in our brains. Give it a chance; it takes time to un-learn Web habits.
When it comes to US - North African relations, Morocco was a world apart from the Barbary states. Morocco was friendly towards the US and never enslaved American citizens, it even tried to protect them diplomatically.

Dey of Algiers etc., well that was something different. Any infidels who hadn't paid protection money were a fair game for them. The British paid protection money and had free passage around North Africa - to the detriment of their Italian competitors who could not afford to do the same. Americans, after trying to negotiate via France, decided to crush the enemy instead of paying ransom.
I would try it as a part of the whole 'mental IDE' if such thing existed.
We are facing a possible fragmentation of the time zones in the EU. The northern countries (including Germany) could stay on UTC+1 all year long. AFAIK France decided to stay on UTC+2 and Italy could keep changing time twice per year.

I attempted to google those decisions but they are hard to find. Does any EU reader here know what his / her country is going to do?
I recently revived an old laptop that was sold for scrap, it was fully working... just missing a power adapter.

Dos 6.22 and Win3.11.

Much more usable than I remembered. Was kinda sorta able to get online with a PCMCIA Ethernet card.

Aside from the whole, well... lack of HTTPS support in any browser you could possibly use on that OS. Also in Win95. And Win98. But regardless...

The UI was very straightforward even then. Open folder. Click icon to run app. It wasn't hard to use. Like you say, the bigger issue was the amount of power we had under the hood. Task switching wasn't perfect but it didn't exactly hurt us then, either.

I realised that for as long as I have had a Windows system (all the way up through to my Win10 box though I now prefer xUbuntu)... I always did something that is kind of a holdover from my days of using Win3.0... Instead of using the start menu, I put shortcuts to all of my mostl commonly used apps in a folder called 'Proggy Bin' on the desktop so I can alt-tab to it when I needed to instead of dragging my mouse to the corner. So, in some ways, the old Win3.x UI was more productive in my workflow.
If you're complaining about Linux drivers please do so after using a Laptop that supports Linux (Thinkpads for example). Just like it wouldn't be fair to complain about macOS on a Hackintosh - sound didn't work well and had to patch the DSDT.

> but there are rough edges for the power user.

> I am an extreme power user, ...

> In the end, I was able to replicate most of my macOS power tools setup via input hooks and shell scripts, but it took much longer than it should have.

It's very hard to define who a Power User is. But if you've spent a few years on Linux, you'd be able to do many things faster on Linux than on macOS. For instance, it's easier to automate tasks with shell scripts in Linux than to attempt the same with osascript.

I use macOS only when I'm forced to - because the absolute fundamentals are broken. Finder is unbelievably bad compared to Nautilus, package management is terrible, limited ability to tile windows, not even a simple way to set up an Application launch shortcut out of the box (yeah, can do with Automator).
Wait, Purism actually shipped the 14?
UK Cyber Security Council
Very nice. This is the only thing I miss from windows/linux. Thanks!
The Ukraine versus Russia
A tilde is a pubnix server that also serves as a social community. They typically let users host pages on Web, Gopher, Gemini, and/or Finger protocols too.

Admins often run services such as IRC bouncers, mail servers, pastebins, or (in my tilde's instance) a Fediverse node and Matrix server.

The official IRC channel of the Gemini community is on the tilde.chat server, made for members of the Tildeverse.
That’s really interesting, does anyone have a book or blog post taking about this versioning and releasing strategy?

I feel like as a new dev there’s so much in engineering I could learn from that’s already been solved and re-solved again and again or at least addressed by existing distribution systems.

However the reading materials to learn about some of this stuff seems far and few or very niche, sitting on some cached blog post from the 90s..
I do the same thing, but it sucks having to literally dedicate a couple cores and a few gigs of RAM to a virtual machine.

It's worth using nix on macos - takes a few hoops to get running, but it's worlds better than brew. Albeit, a fair bit more complex than docker.
Crypto-Lingo
99% of the time, via the onramp through Coinbase, a central exchange or a local p2p broker.

You can tumble coins, but many people don't know how and many competent ones do get scammed.
> But if you've spent a few years on Linux, you'd be able to do many things faster on Linux than on macOS

This may be true, but the article explicitly targets people moving from Mac to Linux, not people with years of Linux experience.

I’m interested why you don’t like Finder. It does the job for me. What do you think it’s missing?
Documents and Downloads are the actual directories on disk, they're not some sort of abstraction. It's pretty simple. /Users/<user>/Documents, /Users/<user>/Downloads, etc.
What annoys me isn't boot time per se, but the sluggines that permains after login as the services-not-services start up and one after another try to steal bandwidth from a WiFi that isn't yet connected.

If I could wait whatever time and then log into a usable system it'd be fine, but no, it's a minute after login before I'm in control of local resources
Yes, you can annotate, add text etc

Best feature: you can remove pages from a PDF. Just drag them off the left side pane
Back in the day, my highschool had two classrooms with computers, but they were not connected to the internet. For that, there were two (for a school of ~1800) computers in the library that you could reserve for a 15m block. They both had a 14k4 modem to dial in.

Interestingly, all of these computers were wired to a LAN. It didn't take long for me to install a proxy server on one of the library machines, allowing me and my friends to use the internet in the computer classrooms.

At some point the system administrator (who was also a German teacher) saw us browsing the web. Instead of getting mad, he just laughed and offer to pay me a bit of money to properly set this up for everybody.

Good times!
the partition manager on windows 10 is even more unchanged from the 95/98 days than the example given in the article. it seems to literally still be the exact same interface
Originality is a myth. Cool idea tbh.
This seems like a super fun idea
(maybe this is my incorrect usage?)

I had packages installed by brew that used readline 7. This went on fine for a while. At some point, brew installed something (at my direction) and moved to readline 8. Unbeknownst to me, readline 7 disappeared from my system! Tada, a pile of tools require reinstallation. Oh, and I didn't notice until weeks later when psql stopped working.

I'm not the only one, at least... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19063175
It's actually worse than you think since the @version notation needs to be explicitly marked by the maintainer of the package.

If they don't do this then there is no easy way to install an older version of a package, you will have to get the old .rb file from the brew git history and execute it yourself.
> This way of framing the problem is weird to me. Markets are not handed to us by the Gods, we put them in place because some of us think they are a good way to solve problems.

Markets exist no matter what. I’m speaking of markets in the economical sense, not a concrete “exchanging things for money”. Look up the phrase “market of ideas” to get a better feel for what I’m talking about.

> Not nearly as pragmatic as NAT.

You are proving my point. A solution that works good enough has immense momentum because the people that care to change are dwarfed by the people who don’t want to bother. IPv6 has a pretty solid sales pitch for ISPs (CGNAT is painful to scale, manage, etc), but they don’t have any say. It’s server admins that need to drop V4 to bring any forced change... and they can’t do that without losing visitors.

> I'm just pointing out that there might be psycho-social reasons for the non adoption of the OSI model by the network community. I could be wrong of course and I'm happy to read opposing thoughts on the matter.

It didn’t offer any clear upside worth the complexity. The shared l4/l3 with TCP/IP means people can easily use the OSI model between two hosts if they want. If the OSI model was actually better for writing software, it would be widespread already.
That’s some dedication to grains and beans.
Twitter Problems
you might also like the instant text editor tab

data:text/html, <textarea style="font-size: 1.5em; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: none; outline: none; font-family:monospace" autofocus />

mostly useless but I like it
I just started migrating to taskwarrior which great due to the many clients. Actually its integration with vimwiki via the taskwiki plugin [1] is quite powerfull allowing editable views. Wonder if this dag aproach could be integrated via metadata without loosing compatibility.

[1] https://github.com/tools-life/taskwiki
How to find out the newest program version from Wikipedia data programmatically
I use a macbook for 10 years and switched to Linux 2 years ago. its great, things have come a long way. I've run Linux desktop on asus zenbook, dell xps, and lenovo slim 7.

My work gave me a macbook and i don't like it.
Use something else than gnome. Gnome devs live in their own bubble
ARMv9: What Is the Big Deal?
It’s a risk every Mac and iOS developer takes and is aware of. Sherlocking has been a thing for decades.
That is eastern hemisphere
Emoji as a Way to Learn Languages
That’s not how it works though in the vast majority of US financial institutions though. They won’t just send a credit card to a random address.

That document is written to scare people into protecting their SSN. It’s discussing what is now an edge case that may have been easier 20 years ago.
This looks wonderful, thanks for the link! I'll spin up a Linux VM and play around with this when I have some time.
There is a push to reach consensus before getting rid of DST and I don't think they will get rid of DST before 2023. So nothing is decided, yet, and anything can still happen, even keeping DST in the EU.

It would be correct for France to have a different time zone than Germany, by the way. Western Spain and Eastern Poland are currently CEST despite being nearly 3 hours apart geographically.
QuickLook for Windows – peek into a file's contents by pressing the Space key
China pressured Concordia University to cancel event with Uighur activist (2019)
A similar thing that really opened my eyes: running Windows XP in VirtualBox on a $999 Macbook Air from 2016.

It really flies!!! It's fast to boot up and fast to use. It's more usable than the host OS !!! It even recognizes some USB devices quite well and has drivers.

In 2021, the host OS of my Macbook Air has somehow rotted, even though I installed like 4 programs on it ever, and I barely use it (I use Linux for almost all tasks). Everything is slow, with both jank and "intended" animations.

On the other hand, virtualized Windows XP is extremely responsive.

It also runs in a tiny amount of RAM -- I think I can set the VirtualBox VM to 256 MB RAM or something (don't quote me on that)

This Macbook Air has 8 GB of RAM and it's slow. I think when I got it in 2016, it was decently fast. Somehow in 2021 all the updates made it slow to a crawl. As always iTunes is a big offender. Somehow playing MP3s has to be a chore. I think Spotlight is another offender and that's something that Windows XP didn't have.

I use Ubuntu for my Linux desktop, and it has similar problems. There's lag everywhere and it uses a ton of RAM. It's not more usable from a UI perspective. I see a lot of "lateral" progress, although to be fair Ubuntu from 10-15 years ago was pretty bad (definitely less usable than Windows), and they have made progress.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Set

The Temple of Set is an occult initiatory order founded in 1975. A new religious movement and form of Western esotericism, the Temple espouses a religion known as Setianism, whose practitioners are called Setians.

The Temple was established in the United States in 1975 by Michael Aquino, an American political scientist, military officer, and a high-ranking member of Anton LaVey's Church of Satan.

Dyrendal 2012, p. 379; Hume & Drury 2013, p. 151.

Dyrendal ISBN 978-0-19-518110-4.

...

Born in 1946, Michael Aquino was a military intelligence officer specializing in psychological warfare.[12]

Gardell 2003, p. 290.

Gardell, Matthias (2003). Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism. Durham and London: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-3071-4.

...

Aquino possessed a P.h.D. in political science and this formal education was reflected in the way that he presented his arguments, in which he draws broadly upon Western philosophy and science.

Hume, Lynne; Drury, Nevill (2013). The Varieties of Magical Experience: Indigenous, Medieval and Modern Magic. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Press. ISBN 978-1-4408-0418-2.

Aquino, Michael A. The Church of Satan. N.p.: The Author, 1989.

https://www.amazon.com/Michael-A.-Aquino/e/B01GEWRIMU%3Fref=...
Chinese company launches the country's first homegrown 7nm GPGPU chip
File extensions are routinely used by all sorts of software, at least as hints if nothing else. For example, gcc will handle files named .c differently from files named .cpp, and will not even work with static libraries unless they are named .a.
Could you spill the beans a little? I’m really curious about happened in the 90s with Microsoft that antagonized them so much (was born in 99, so I’ve only seen the Bill Gates who’s saving lives in Africa)
Nope, not nearly enough of them to matter. HN is one of the main gotos for big Corp SWEs as well.
The Sad Truth About C++ Copy Elision
it also isn't "open"; your username has to match the postgres database username to connect.

IE; the 'postgres' unix user is required to access databases as the 'postgres' database user.
This is the 2004 version.

"iso 8601 2019" doesn't return any results.
This was fixed in 2020 so no need for any excuses in 2021.
Probably not very much, how many people out there are running Windows 95? The botnet authors have probably long ago trashed their win95 payloads.
Yes, he should have stated, what device he used.

Linux main problems with laptops are drivers and firmware. The best you can hope for, when replacing windows - is that it runs somewhat stable.

But startup time, performance and batterie life will be much worse on standard config. And like the article said, don't expect resume/sleep to work consistently. Which can be very, very annoying and time wasting.

My use case is short(or long) bursts of working with it, and then stopping for some time and then later resuming, expecting everything to be as it was, when I reopen. And I can't do this consistently. Which sucks. On a old Linux laptop I got hibernation to work (mostly) consistently so that worked, too, but took even longer to resume. On my previous modell, I gave even up, trying it to get to work.

And now I just bought a HP Pavillon gaming Laptop. And I actually run Windows now, even though I hate windows.
But I need to get things done. And I don't want to mess with config settings, probably for weeks, to bring performance at least close to the stock values, windows provides.

Now this is not the fault of Linux, proprietary hardware support and optimisation are just very complicated. But it still sucks. And it really does not help, when certain linux evangelist claim to everyone, especially newcomers, everything is fine and much better than on windows and co.
Which is just not true.

Especially startup time annoys me. It is just painfully slow. And the chromebooks are showing, that it does not have to be that way.
My cheap Asus rugged chromebook, has by far the best startup time/wakeup time/standby life, of all the devices I ever used!
I open it and can immediately resume working. Just what I want and need. Optimized linux drivers and firmware that work. (And reworked procedures under the hood)
Everything else with ChromeOS is horrible, though. Shitty software, and lacking applications and all tied to google.

So for now I have to work with windows again, which in its stock config comes with so many bloatware, ads and spyware - that it is hard to believe people put up with this.
But what choice do they have?

I probably have to try purism at some point, but sadly with all my mobile linux experience so far, I expect just a expensive, but mediocre experience. And there does not seem to exist a version with a decent gpu?
But those are usually "consumer" parts (in the broad sense). In particular, they won't take ECC RAM. I'm hoping this will change now that AMD has a believable "enthusiast" offering that has ECC.

This to me is the main issue. Usually, manufacturers think ECC = Enterprise = Running in a computer room = Doesn't need to be quiet.

Of course, usually clients looking for thin, least-possible-U systems doesn't help either.

I've actually gotten my hands on a Lenovo tower server my client wasn't needing anymore which is really pretty quiet. But it's "huge" by rack standards. It's basically a full PC tower in height, but longer.

I could see myself running it in the kitchen or something once I get it home after the lockdowns.

The issue is it only takes 2.5" drives, which are still quite expensive if SSDs or use SMR if HDDs.
As an power user (dev), I would never consider switching away from Kubuntu for any other OS.
> I don't get this reluctance to exterminate the biggest source of security bugs in C code

The forward thinking people who care about security bugs in C code - those ones who aren't reluctant - did exactly what I'd argue you've done: given up on C. It's selection bias in action.

You started the D project. I'm RIIRing. Others prefer Python. Or perhaps one might use a language that compiles down into C, allowing you the best of both worlds - a decent programming language, and the ability to target whatever wretched excuse for a C89 compiler that has been forced upon you by whatever niche platform you're targeting.

Fixing C's biggest mistake won't fix C. Fixing C's 10 biggest mistakes won't fix C. Fixing C's 100 biggest mistakes won't fix C, and by that point, it will no longer be C. There's an argument to be made for incremental improvements, so I won't discourage your efforts, but it's also the kind of pragmatic, boring, middle ground, half answer that won't make anyone outright excited either.
I haven't (consciously) sent an email with pictures in years...surprised that author uses a lot of them.
I've done both! I don't know if you've been to America, but this is every hour of every day for employees in American retail. Something funny is a stark improvement over "normal" customers, because the rich customers don't get aggravated as much. Your average poor customer wouldn't spring for a random product by Microsoft immediately after seeing it on the shelves, and your average well-off customer would figure out what was going on.

The difference in stress between the two makes one extremely easy to deal with (since not having some stupid flavor-of-the-month cereal seems much less like a big deal for someone whose active attention isn't being consumed solely with figuring out how they're going to pay for everything). Unfortunately, wealth makes a big difference: richer customers are just able to not sweat the small stuff.