skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent almost a year in Germany and one thing I learned, and really appreciated, was that they were open and honest about the Holocaust and their role in it. It’s taught in schools. It’s never brushed over.

Compared to say Japan.

EDIT: not sure why the downvotes. Japan's whitewashing of war atrocities (eg Nanjing [1][2]). Is this Japanophilia? Or just that I'm not denouncing the current German education system?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre

[2]: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21226068
Try watching Netflix in Firefox or Chromium. Or enable smooth scrolling in Firefox and hit PageDown a couple times. The issue with scrolling can be resolved by enabling hardware acceleration, but this isn't the default in Firefox and the obscure config breaks from time to time. Until hardware acceleration becomes the default, not an opt-in, I consider this feature broken.

Aside from Netflix, I'll sometimes see tearing even on YouTube, when I put it on fullscreen. Luckily, there is mpv with builtin youtube-dl support, which solves this problem. But I haven't found a solution for Netflix, other than rebooting into Windows, or switching to my Mac.
I'm not convinced either, because there are cases of animals found after long periods of starvation when the animal probably knows it can find food at home. But it is possible that those animals are driven to hide in fear instead of braving a return to their home. Also the ones that never return may have just died instead of being truly lost. There lots of dangers out there. And there's also cases of theft.
Depends on what you tinker with. Getting basic things to work on your hardware is frustrating. Nobody wants to deal with that really. The answer for that is getting a laptop (or desktop) that is well supported. I know it can feel limiting, but with OSX you only get to choose from one vendor...

If we talk about tinkering for customizing your user experience then it's very empowering. You can get things to work exactly as you'd like and that is a productivity booster. (Even if it just removes frustration and friction.) Sometimes it means being able to undo the stupid decisions of the developers (e.g. GNOME) which may seem like the first category (i.e. you have to tinker just in order to get things work again as they used to), but if you are stuck on windows or osx you'd have a lot less chance to do so and you'd lot more likely just have to put up with it.

E.g. in the past 2+ decades I have to wrestle to get my desktop grid layout (3x3 desktops/workspaces) to work, because some idiot back around 2000 figured out that it's "not the right metaphor" or what not and they should not be geometrically related, yadda-yadda. Since then, every major upgrade of gnome breaks the external solution I use (which is different every time). Is it frustrating? Yes. At least I know not to upgrade until I know there is a workaround again. But I can keep using it nevertheless. (I used to have a utility that provided this feature on windows. The last version I've used it on was XP and even back then it wasn't available for download anymore. I'm not sure at all if I could still use it on win10 or even win7.)
great way to recognize bottlenecks in processes too
I'm certainly better off with the Mac.

Lightroom is an utter resource hog and practically unusable without GPU acceleration - reasonable given the 45-megabyte raws I develop in it, but still a constraint. Too, I use a physical edit controller that needs a driver of its own, and setting up USB passthrough is probably a hassle. Judging by the docs I've read, setting up GPU passthrough certainly is. Meanwhile, the Mac driver for that edit controller, compiled to x86_64 and not yet updated for arm64, works flawlessly and with no extra effort under Rosetta 2. (And Darktable isn't really an option - impressive as anything given the constraints the devs have to work under, but one of those constraints is relatively poor support for undocumented raw formats including those my cameras produce, so I can't get the same quality of results out of it that Lightroom gives me.)

In general, I avoid sysadmin work wherever possible these days, as for example when I migrated to Fastmail in January after 17 years of self-hosting. Back when I set that up, I had more time than money, and an interest in learning how to do it, besides. These days I have more money than time, and already know very well how. So at this point it's just a question of the most efficient use of resources, and - in part because of that drive to learn new things, which I now apply to other technologies - obtaining more money has become fairly straightforward, while obtaining more time is of course impossible, human life lasting only as long as it does.

Sure, by dint of enough effort, I could have got WSL2 working acceptably, or get Lightroom running OK under virtualization, or whatever. But at this stage in my life, I can afford to spend money to not have to deal with those problems, so that was what I happily did.
Not just the filibuster. The senate has eroded 60 vote rules on other things like confirmations. I think this is detrimental to the integrity of the system - how can a vote of less than 60 be used to ammend a rule requiring 60 or more? It's definitely a violation of the spirit of the law.

It might work for the UK, but the UK is quite different from the US. For one, the house of lords was supposed to represent the wealthy whereas the Senate is supposed to represent the states.

Secondly, there are far greater geographic distances and differences between the members of the country. This usually means there are great differences in needs and priorities. This was kind of the point of reserving most rights for the states. If using simple majority, the smaller and more rural states will eventually get tired of things being crammed down their throats. We are starting to see this already with an increasing number of sanctuary city/states and multiple topics.

Lastly, does it actually work well? It seems that almost 2/3rds of people in the UK think the rural areas are neglected.

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/7587/government_neglec...
how do you write them though
I got a feeling the only reason here is that Google is a search engine/ad business and Apple isn't.
It seems like a Whois search about the domain that's in your Hacker News profile yields lots of interesting information. Your previous comments seem to indicate that's a provider you work for. Maybe it's not related though. Or maybe it's just a way of doing PR. I know nothing.
Images to ASCII Art with Python
Haskell has the semicolon for the same reason!
I have a weird feeling when cats go missing they want a new home, or want to roam?
I bought an iPhone on day one in 2007. For me it was more about a nearly-all-screen device with a usable browser and navigation than anything else at that point. Jeez, that’s still mostly what I use it for. Pinch is certainly nice, but I hardly thought about multi touch when looking at the value proposition. The Apple Pencil is what got me to finally buy an iPad (and immediately miss the side-click I’ve been used to with computer pens since circa 2001).
https://linux-hardware.org/ here you go.
Yeah but you can do something better than playing table tennis with the people who happen to work for the same company as you.

Take a dance class. Become a volunteer firefighter. Deliver meals to the elderly. Join a choir. Play darts down the pub. Join an ultimate frisbee team.

Lots of people like offices for the social connection. That’s cool, but if you can’t get that social connection outside an office it’s a problem you should do some work on.
Why do these website keep forcing autoplay vids on you ffs.

Who decided that was a good idea, whose brainwave was that. That;s exactly what I want is to be greeted by a loud, unexpected screeching voice when i visit your shitty website.
Verifying the Riemann Hypothesis with SymPy and Mpmath
Crypto without fiat exchange is worthless..am I wrong? Like I would start minting my own illegal currency.
is it?

$ zpool status
pool: storage
state: ONLINE
scan: resilvered 854G in 04:18:32 with 0 errors on Sat Jun 20 18:30:06 2020
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
storage ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
sda ONLINE 0 0 0
sdc ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-1 ONLINE 0 0 0
sdb ONLINE 0 0 0
sde ONLINE 0 0 0

errors: No known data errors

$ grep -e '^size' /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/arcstats
size 4 8604931056

$ bc -q
8604931056 / (1024*1024*1024)
8

On could tune ARC opts and whatnot, but I'm not sure how reliable and fast the system will turn out to be.
Well done! Really cool implementation and this first time I considered compiling wasm client side. Quite clever!
The feature is typically included in the desktop environment on Linux (and Windows).
> Also, no hidden scrollbars

I agree with the rest but not this. You no longer need visible scrollbars now that you do 99% of your scrolling with the wheel or the trackpad or sometimes the keyboard. You did need visible and prominent scrollbars back when mice lacked wheels so you actually clicked and dragged them.
I am a happy user of https://tailscale.com which I think solves the same problem
Well, there are I think only two reasonable definitions. One leads to the first day of the week being in the previous year; the other to the first day of the first week being six days into the year.

Each is independently 'surprising' in that it seems 'obviously wrong' without thinking about it.
Apparently WSL 1 is different, it's a layer between linux apps and the windows kernel. WSL 2 is not great, esp. file operations, that's why VSCode has a wsl plugin.
China and Japan are the top foreign holders of treasuries, yes, but the story is a little more complicated.

https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/files/reports-statements/tre...

As of the end of 2020, there are 27.7 trillion dollars in outstanding public debt. 10.8 trillion is held by the Federal Reserve and the US government. About 7 trillion (no data since September) is held by foreign countries. Of those, China owns 1.07 trillion and Japan owns 1.29 trillion. I don't think it's reasonable to characterize the US as relying on China and Japan to cover those costs.

The other major (all holding > 100 billion) holders of US debt overseas, in order, are the UK, Ireland, Luxembourg, Brazil, Switzerland, Belgium, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Caiman Islands, India, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Korea, Canada, and France. This seems like a pretty good mix.

NB: Real yields on treasuries are all negative. People are buying treasuries despite knowing they will lose money in real terms. I don't think people giving the US free money just so they can hold t-bills is a sign of the weakness of the US dollar.

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/i....
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It is my default music player and I really love it! but I wish it had controls for the playback speed as I sometimes use it for podcasts or recorded talks.
"Especially when it falls beneath the velocity threshold of general population detection."

This kind of sentence should never leave someone's keyboard.

What about "Especially if the process is slow enough that people don't notice any abrupt change?"
So they can boost their watch time and get more advertisers.
First, thank you.

Second, as I read “... because the future is impossible to predict and it’s very likely to be worth nothing”, I thought, “Hmmm, that’s the arc of life itself, when we cut through all the delusions.”
> It could be possible to regulate exchanges dealing with fiat, but I feel like the regulable surface area is thin.

It may be thin, but it covers most people. Most crypto buyers use fiat exchanges. If those were ruled out, the monetary value of tokens would go down, and with it the mining incentives would lower. It wouldn't be the end of crypto, but it would alleviate many issues (energy, hardware shortage, etc).

PS: I don't think crypto is the only reason for GPU shortage (others being more demand from stay-at-home people, and general semiconductor shortages), but I believe it plays a part.
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Some of the (likely) fixes look pretty weird, moving at a ridiculous speed, through land and sea in a straight line, only to reach a certain point and continue as if nothing had happened.

e.g. 8 June 2012 05:00 from western Sahara to English Channel, through Sahara, right the middle of Spain, parts of France.

Another on 9 May 2012 from Southeast Asia, straight through the south of India and right through the middle of Africa to somewhere on the Guinean Gulf in about half a day.
People were still using Windows 95 in 1999.
I'll be soon doing this for a project running on LAN without connection to internet, during events once COVID is over
Verified doesn't mean identities are publicly displayed, pseudonyms are still a possibility for public details if a platform would create such a structure.
IMO things started going downhill the moment laptop manufacturers started putting touchscreens into laptops. No one uses them with any kind of seriousness, but apparently every single UI designer now designs with them in mind for some bizarre reason.
> Most of build actions is not 100% CPU bound

Unless you compile large C/C++ projects on a low core count VM.
Remarkably un-Fascinating, because Win31 was the last one ever needed. In 1995 Slackware was already running directly from CDROM surpassing Windows on o'so many levels.
When Android came about, it was also remarkably un-fascinating, but it was better with rooting and those tools needed pirating Windows XP. So I have XP on some bootmenus.
Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff29nDLBzaA

Looks like insomnia. China does move impressively fast, but what does this show? Everyone needs to sleep.
> being more stressed because the work piled up

that sounds like a badly managed workplace.
> The problem is what is illegal then? Numbers? Cryptography?

What is cash? Paper? Ink? Currency isn't defined by what it's made of.

> there just happen to be transactions on a distributed network, with some people knowing private keys to generate new transactions

Transactions in which digital tokens are exchanged for goods, services, or other currencies, and the recipient of the tokens generally receives no benefit other than the ability to trade those tokens again.

Cryptocurrencies are recognizable by the way they are used.
direct link to the indictment (also in the article):

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/press-release/file/1379176...

I was mostly curious about details regarding

> ...and also communicated via the use of smartphone applications with end-to-end encryption

but there aren't many that I can tell.
Ask HN: How is it ok for Google to desing 5 click away reject all cookies page?
https://imgur.com/a/mS85xp3

Isn't this against the GDPR? Why do I have to click `custom` first and then click `off` for all the thing that I don't agree. Isn't GDPR states that rejecting should be as easy as possible?
The USA government is the only issuer of USA Dollars. Who is lending money to the US?

Why the Chinese (for instance, now that they are fashionable) buy USA debt? Because they have a lot of dollars from selling things to the USA, so, instead of having those dollars in a checking account, they buy bonds that give them interest.

Recommended talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS9nP-BKa3M&t=1s
Slackware still has amp.
I'm really curious on how they ignored their mexican counterparts, and really astonished that the US use all the caudal from the river leaving nothing to flow through the border. How they even manage to justify that decision is incredible to me.
Sounds like a VC funded startup
This one?

https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
So you can be a hitman, but as long as you pay taxes you're a good citizen
If you're using Firefox you can block autoplay: Settings > Privacy & Security > Permissions > Autoplay > Block Audio and Video

Not sure about Chrome, but it may have a similar option.
I actually experienced pretty bad tearing running i3 on a new (at the time, last August) Dell XPS 13, but switching to Wayland/sway fixed it and its been running flawlessly on that since.
I don't have to mess around with xorg config for more than 10 years.

I'm using Debian and the only thing I had to do is enable non-free to get some firmwares.

Everything works 100% hassle free.

My experiences with macos were quite frustrating, specially around package management (or the lack of it), poor quality of brew packages (too many dependencies breaking stuff), constant slowdown and crashes with mildly median workload, screen artifacts around the desktop time to time, having to disable stuff to be able to change things in /usr or /etc, too many stuff eating up ram by default, etc.

Honestly don't know how people can use that and be happy.
Plus they’ll be making something like ‘plumbing tools, but for dogs’.

Like, I’m happy you are paying me a lot of money to work for you, but don’t expect me to be excited about that.
That is her tweet, not “the tweet she quote tweeted”

There were several people mentioned in the one I’m referencing.
It's a compromise; there are only so many letters, numbers, and symbols available in a single keystroke on all keyboards, and I don't want there to be any ambiguity with numbers and unquoted strings (e.g. interpreting the unquoted string value true as the boolean value true).

So everything else needs some kind of initiator and/or container syntax to logically separate it from the other objects when interpreted by a human or machine.
Not the OP, but I have the same problem. For some reason that escapes me, pressing the “10 sec” button 7 times produces 00 70 instead of 01 10. If you then press the “1 min” button you get 01 70
Interesting. My wife got a X1 Carbon in 2016, that worked out-of-the-box too. Wonder what they screwed up in 2019.
Seriously, CCP and their citizen are just pure cancerous.
The strangest daylight-saving time related issue in the US:

"Arizona does not observe daylight-saving time. The Navajo Reservation in the northeast corner of the state does – but the Hopi Reservation, which is located inside the Navajo Reservation, doesn't."
There is NO WAY an HDD laptop boots Windows 98 in 10 seconds. Even booting Windows 98 in a VM on a 1yr old processor backed by _friggin RAM_ takes slightly more than that.

Windows 98 used to take 1-3 minutes to boot on that level of hardware. And if you had any type of network, it was probably even more than 3 minutes. There is a reason hibernation (even at the BIOS level) was all the rage these days.

For better or worse, MS did something on Windows during the XP era that finally made it be able to boot fast (on modern hardware at least). Win2K still has insanely long "delays".
I think both apply equally?
1. Saving money
2. Need an extension that is not available
3. Running the whole app on a single node (to avoid network trips)
4. Want to learn
It's honestly surprising how absolutely horrible it is after years and the new Big Sur only have it a fresh coat of paint without fixing any of these issues
With Linux, FVWM which was damn lightweight (and still is), and some "nice" sttings I was able to do it better than W98.
Rxvt was far lighter than XTerm.
Most software was for the cli after all.
Wow...TIL...
Have you tried to install AMD proprietary drivers?

Did you installed the firmware for your WiFi card?

By the way you complain about Linux seems that you really don't like it and that nobody can convince you te opposite, but I believe that if you manage to learn the basics around it it pay off in the long run :)
All your points are great but for cross device copy paste, syncing with computer and phone, KDE Connect is excellent and seamless (I'm still trying to figure out how to connect my Android phone with my Mac laptop in the same way)
It would be interesting to see this with more recent data.

Ships taking the Northern Arctic route etc.
I agree, I would just do a self-signed cert.
I know what you're saying, but that's not a great example. In the right crowd, cocaine is very fungible. So to your point, if gov makes crypto illegal will it still be difficult to use in black markets? Idk
It wasn't even 20 years ago that people were advised to not 'use money online' because the internet was full of scams.

Sadly scammers follow both new and old tech and it takes a while for measure to catch up. That's not necessarily a fault of the tech itself.
Azure Cosmos DB Basics
If you click to about the middle of May and wait a few seconds, you get a ship flying across the middle of Africa. I wonder what happened there :)
> Haven't tried a laptop that comes with preinstalled linux TBH

Seriously? Why do you think Linux should work perfectly on some random machine that you installed it on? MacOS sure as hell won’t. If you don’t like the experience of doing the work to find the right hardware, distro, and customizing the setup with your favourite software then just buy a prebuilt system with everything installed. Like others have pointed out, many Linux users prefer to fully customize their setup, doing this is easier on Linux because you don’t have to hack around all of the default choices that Apple or Microsoft provide.
Oh man, this is a fantastic summary.
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Chrome does not, but Edge lets you do it.
Pub Sub in Angular
Four ways to speed up trains on the New Silk Road (2020)
Sure, could be. My main point was just that it’s simpler to give everyone a week off together than come up with some rotation of coverage and make sure nobody falls behind.
It still has value as 1) an indicator you can scroll in the first place, and 2) an indicator of where in the document you are.
It was doing this until recently when I set the env variable. It updates itself every time and then updates everything else too. Maybe I did something wrong to trigger this behaviour but it was definitely updating the packages
Interesting. Apart from the per-display scaling (which is basically a Xorg limitation as you said) I had the opposite experience on my XPS 13. At the end I did not want a 4K display but Dell did not offer me the option. So I just used 1080p scaled most of the time.

Battery life was stupid on Windows (~3-4 hours max, while Linux did 7-8 with moderate load). Somehow on Windows the fan would always be running even without any significant activity in Resource Monitor.

I remember playing 4K videos on Linux (Firefox though, and I only tested YouTube) without any trouble (with monitor disconnected though, due to what you described earlier).

Touchpad would work sweet on Linux but needed some tweaking on Windows (otherwise it'd 2-finger scroll too fast sometimes).
This was a deliberate form of copy protection.

A little bit sub-optimal in terms of communicating that they wanted you to purchase the game: if they told you this was copy protection, you could have just got copies of the relevant materials instead.
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I was surprised that Github Actions allows you to write scripts that anon users could trigger by opening PRs. But then it turns out this is how a lot of open source CI flows work. So maybe Github overlooked that they would become the biggest player overnight and be an obvious target?

It's really strange to me. You would think anyone offering free anything on the internet knows there are people out there who will automate abusing your compute, storage, IPs, any resources you leave exposed.

I've seen someone abuse a password reset form cuz they could advertise using that email addr '+' trick. (realuser+buy_our_scam@example.com). On a platform that didn't even have a million users. If it's free resources, there's no scam too unlikely.
How much would this have to scale up to reduce the container ship demand?
Huh, had no idea Control + Esc loaded the start menu. Of course, not really needed these days with keyboards with a Windows key.