skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tmux has bad UX? ever used this unknown program called `git`?

ultimately a terminal multiplexer (and an editor) are complicated tools with steep learning curves, that's the price of the power that they enable. it's everybody's own choice how deep they want to get into it and how much time it saves for them.

do you have trouble finding tutorials for tmux? youtube is full of them.
and there can be so many because the docs are excellent...
Apple made Macs UNIX developer-friendly (2001) before they switched to x86 (2005), so they have a good chunk of non-hypothetical past data to look at. Really hoping this means they won't screw this up.
Out of the box you're looking at probably Vista SP1, or maybe even 7. SNI support is basically mandatory now. You could install older versions of firefox or IE8 for XP, I guess.
Open the Google Cloud Console (probably the most complex Material UI example), and imagine it in Win95 style. It will be so much better.
The Linux system console is implemented directly in the kernel and is not really "on top" of anything, so I'd say that Linux having a "console mode" is a rather on-point description. This isn't always a good thing, since it includes a whole terminal-standards-emulation component that's one of the kludgiest in Linux itself.
Why not? You yourself just said "though the content is interesting." and the title might be a little clickbaity, but its not that bad. I've seen much worse reach the frontpage.
Well, officially no. I remember outside Trondheim were they would only sell half cups of coffee (the implication being you would fill the rest with your home distilled liquor).
If you can't drive you can live in an urban area and use the bus/train. For practical purposes its ridiculous to argue someone not walk.
Why on earth would you be laughed out of the room for this. Sounds like your friends were a piece of work.
You complain about power user tools, then list a bunch of Xorg tools. Xorg is dying; move to Wayland. I use Sway, but if you want something that's closer to a macOS power user experience, you should probably go with KDE[0].

Tearing? Fundamental Xorg problem. Fixed in Wayland. Wayland has some rough edges, but the reality of the ecosystem is Xorg is dead and not coming back, and it's better to be a little ahead of the curve than behind it and complaining about things that are resolved on the other side.

[0]: https://kde.org/
Something on the site triggered mcafee on my laptop.
That this behavior is called "SmoothScroll" is what pushes it over the boundary for me firmly into self-satire (and so I am in stitches playing from laughing so hard at your great description and then experiencing the actual behavior); who writes these scripts, and why? :(
I can respect “Low Mayonaise” but I come from an “Out of Cheese” shop.
> Post O365 no complaint about office on Linux makes sense really

Excel Online doesn't come close to the feature set or usability of Excel for Windows.
> If you want to achieve some specific action you need to read four or five manpages, search online, and figure out how you are going to put the pieces together. That made me appreciate Karabiner and BTT much more.

This is still accurate to this day and what they don't tell you. Hence why you always need to search for 'xorg/wayland error' this, 'dbus initialization error' that or a random core dump occurred on a freezing window. I have zero time to search for these issues when I configure what I want and prefer it to 'just work' like it should on macOS.

> On November 10th Apple showed us the future of the Mac and released again laptops worth buying. So I bought the 2020 M1 Macbook Air. You will read a review of it soon.

If you like the M1, you will also like the M1X, M2 or M3 Macs. No need to rush for last years model, hence why I skipped this one.

> The experience of using Linux as a daily driver has been very positive for me, but I do need my productivity.

Exactly. Rather than messing around or spending days playing around with my setup or window manager.
I think mainly we have shifted to just never turning off computers and optimizing for standby.
I found the book "Calculus: a complete course" very nice. It's very cheap and extremely unpretentious while also giving you a subtle taste of a bunch of interesting applications (Deep learning... bleh, give me electromagnetism!)
Yeah, there were even cases of malware making its way onto commercial software releases in those days.
> I will not leave a PoC for this chapter but I promise you, it will not be that difficult to figure out after reading the above two parts

I find this kind of annoying. Either write about the vulnerability or don't.
Not really outside. The metadata was stored in a so-called "resource fork", with the file contents proper in a "data fork", both of which belonged to the file per se. Part of the resource fork was the "creator code", four bytes identifying the application which had created or could open the file, and the "type code", four more bytes defining which, among the potentially many kinds of files a given application could open, this file actually was. Binaries were stored in the same format, with IIRC an extra bit somewhere flagging them as executable.

Classic Palm OS used an identical scheme, and for both platforms there was a freeware "ResEdit" application you could find to let you edit resource forks without paying for a real developer toolkit.
They are probably terrible for self-study, but I want to mention them anyway. I am a huge fan of David Bressoud’s Calculus (and analysis!) books. His first one doesn’t have exercises and his second one has a lot of physics.

They are all heavy on written narrative and interlaced with history. I find all four of them absolutely fascinating.

Calculus:
https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Reordered-History-Big-Ideas/...

https://www.amazon.com/Second-Year-Calculus-Undergraduate-Ma...

Analysis:

https://www.amazon.com/Approach-Analysis-Mathematical-Associ...

https://www.amazon.com/Lebesgues-Integration-Mathematical-As...
Excel and Word were blazingly fast on a first gen Pentium compared to a 486 like we had at school.
Breaking the back button is the ultimate sin in my book. This comes close.
Not true, TextEdit is exactly this, it’s just not the default. One checkbox in preferences activates plaintext mode for all new files.
I increasingly am completely at a loss for understanding how people compartmentalize "mental illness" vs. "neurological disorder".

I read that article and I'm wondering what the criteria is that makes it "neurological disease" when they don't know what the cause is.
Because people only do wash sales to capture losses offsetting gains?
The problem is that there are atomic causes, not a root cause. The problem is we're acting like a singular force causes an event instead of several factors and a long chain. We need to dispell this myth that "x leads to y". It is only true in the most simple of cases and in restricted domains.
Things like the Office ribbon were a product of Microsoft user research, I just have no idea how they reached the conclusions they did with it (and I've watched a presentation by one of the lead designers on their reasoning - which all sounds valid, but doesn't explain how they specifically reached "the ribbon" and "personalized menus moving all over the place" as a solution).

I have a suspicion that the rise of the "user experience" engineer as opposed to UI designers played a big role - they got a bunch of people, did a bunch of research, and managed to narrow their focus to "so the first time a user ever opens Word, having somehow never used anything like it previously..." and ignored "our entire company is powered by enterprise sales of this product".
They were compressed to shit back then. Like 96kbps bitrate or something. (way before variable bitrate was a thing).

I remember them being like 1.5-3 mb each. Not that bad of a download with a 56k
My understanding is that economic interdependence deserves the bulk of the credit for this relative peace. Tying the economic prosperity of nations together makes it harder to rationalise physical conflict.

But perhaps we can also thank global communications for making it that little bit harder (though still by no means impossible) to sufficiently otherise far away populations.
I got fed up and shifted fully to a Linux desktop and laptop setup like 20 years ago. Computers are silly devices and there is no end to the annoyances involved with them regardless of operating system.

I got used to it and was/am able to get what I need done. I liked the cheap netbooks when they were a thing, and I like zenbooks these days. You always have to shop with compatibility in mind. Hard edges persist in any environment though the particulars change. I am comfortable with the tradeoffs currently and luckily there are enough people using Linux to take care of most of the show stoppers fairly quickly.
Thanks for this walk down the memory lane, quite nostalgic for me; Win 95 was my first OS; boyhood days.
Russia invaded Ukraine and slaughtered everyone on civilian flight MH17. Then you come here to cheer lead the war criminals and their invasion campaign.
There were multiple successful package manager systems on macOS (MacPorts and fink) before brew came out. Brew hardly has any technical advantages over them except that maybe fink got stuck using an older version of dpkg/apt, and it made some new mistakes like installing in /usr/local.

Instead what seemed to happen is a new generation of Rails developers got Macs, decided all their tools needed to be written in Ruby by hipsters with lumberjack beards, and so they didn't want to touch the old stuff.
It says something when the top comment isn't about the content of the article but about how bad someone broke people's browsing experience.
Wow! This is such a well done!
But the log viewer shows March 31 2021?
Why don't we look at the actual data instead of supposing? Presumably because it wouldn't support your conclusion in the slightest. Please don't promote anti vaxxer misinformation.
Arial is basically a ripoff of Helvetica, except pretty much everything it changes to separate itself makes the font worse. Using it screams “I used Google Docs to make this and I don’t care about typography”.
Aha, thanks for clearing that up.

I think probably trains will have an easier time carrying batteries than electric cars do: a one-tonne diesel internal-combustion-engine car might get (in medieval units) 40 miles per gallon of fuel, while diesel freight trains routinely get 480 miles per tonne-gallon. Teslas need to recharge about every 500 miles, so we should expect battery-powered electric freight trains with the same battery mass fraction as a Tesla to need to swap batteries roughly every 6000 miles or 10000 km. A night train making it through the night isn't going to be a problem.

If that's true, then why haven't batteries already replaced diesel engines in diesel-electric locomotives? I suspect it's a matter of battery costs and network effects. A gallon of diesel is 146 MJ, so a tonne-mile on a freight train costs 300 kJ, or 189 kJ/tonne/km in non-medieval units. Lead-acid batteries only give you roughly 20 kJ/US$, and low-power lithium-ion batteries are usually more like 10 kJ/US$. You get a multiplier of about 3 because diesel engines are typically about 35% efficient and electric motors are about 95% efficient, so you only need 70 kJ/tonne/km. But 500 km of range would still cost you 175 grand of lead-acid batteries for every 100-tonne railroad car in the train, which more than doubles the cost of the train. If you use lithium-ion instead, it's twice that: US$350k a car. So, expect this to take a significant amount of investment, and therefore take a couple of decades—if it happens at all, because quite possibly it's all-around cheaper to use cheap solar energy to produce ammonia or hydrocarbons and burn those on the train.

The inability to detoxify waste is a concern because detoxifying is what we normally do with hazardous waste. Learning to handle hazardous waste in a different way is risky and will involve some accidents. I mean, it already has.
Honestly it holds up pretty well. That UI isn’t quite as “pretty” as some modern UIs, but I like it better than most in terms of it just being clear, consistent, and unsurprising.
'On the Origin of Species' was published in 1859. I suspect that a story like this was much more likely after that date than before.

One of the consequences of aging and learning is that my concept of the modern has expanded into the past faster than it advances with the passage of time.
>apt-get was a revolution when it was released in 1998 and it is still the best way to manage software today. brew is a mediocre replacement.

While apt still isn't the best package manager (my heart belongs to pacman, no matter what the haters say), I completely agree that brew is a failed imitation. I wanted to use MacOS for the longest time, because I've been told that it's a real "Unix system". Brew has distilled my fears into a sobering reality. The "advantages" MacOS offers really comes down to eye-candy or slightly more consistent shortcut mapping, but none of this really matters to me when I can't use the software I want, and the OS is always second-guessing my authority. Maybe I've been spoiled by Linux, but I don't understand the hype. Not even on my M1 Macbook Air.
WSL 1 was great, WSL 2 is probably even more amazing. The problem is it comes with a massive ball and chain called "the rest of Windows 10". Even ignoring all the ads, all the spyware, all the Windows Update shittiness... the UI is a confusing mess and easily beat by the likes of XFCE, Mate, or Plasma. Add that other stuff, and it's all just a huge pain that I don't want to deal with. So I don't, and I just run Linux desktops. They do what they're called upon to do and otherwise just stay put.

And Windows isn't even that bad. Compared to busted up 90s Windows it's a dream come true. But I've been spoiled by Linux and my "geek privilege" of knowing how to operate it all these years.
Starting Forth: An Introduction to the Forth Programming Language
> Because Apple stuff doesn't "just work" any more.

This is essentially a false statement for all intents and purposes.

Apple software does “just work” with Apple hardware.
Are Java varHandles related?
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/api/java/lang/invoke/V...
Mind blown This article was written by an AI
How real does this sound to you?
For what it's worth, I have three Macs with BigSur: an ancient Air, a Pro and a new M1 Air. The M1 is buggier than the other two, which are absurdly rock solid. My hunch is that macOS on the M1 is buggier just by virtue of being new.
Better than 100% open web standards? What do you think Flash got replaced by that warrants being called a "neck brace"?
I haven't read the whole article yet but it says pretty early on that they're indexes to an array
> Another reminder that no-one is irreplaceable.

The announcement reads as if his identification as a Steering Committee member was never anything other than symbolic (emphasis, added):

---quote---

In 2012 RMS was added to the GCC Steering Committee web page based on his role in the GNU Project, though his role as a member of the Steering Committee has been ambiguous and he was not a member of the Steering Committee when EGCS became GCC. We no longer feel that this listing serves the best interests of the GCC developer and user community. Therefore, we are removing him from the page.

---end quote---
Tell Dang:Joining repeated submissions of same URL by same user target for abuse
Hi Dang.

I've noticed that repeated submissions of the same URL by the same user will be joined into a single submission. They will be rolled up into the most recent submission, and carry the timestamp of that submission. Presumably this is meant to avoid accidental, honest duplicate submissions - for example, submitting the same URL again to correct the title. (Is a certain level of karma needed to edit submitted titles?)

However, this joining happens even if those URLs are submitted hours (even days?) apart. It's becoming a target of abuse by users who continually submit rabble-rousing - though perhaps not strictly off-topic - content. It makes it impossible to see when users are submitting such content over and over again until it gets traction.

Also, do flags transfer to the newest submission?

I'm posting this as a self-post rather than emailing you so that others will become aware of this functionality.

Thanks.
so you know what to do now...
I'm almost convinced many huge tech companies have massive staff simply to keep everyone else from hiring them. They do these "senior software engineer retention programs" paying employees to stay busy on insignificant projects. If none of the smart people are working for scrappy startups, nobody is going to invent something that disrupts the industry.
You really are a low life piece of garbage. Praying that you get what's coming to you.
Thinkpads have always been the authentic Linux experience in my eyes, especially the models after 2009. I love what modern companies are doing with Linux laptops, but the Thinkpad is still the same, unrivaled, robust monster it has always been. There's nothing special about it, and that's why it's special. It feels standard issue, and hardware failure is a lot less sporadic than Macbooks.
I consider messing with scroll to be one of the cardinal sins of web development.
> I was able to fit exactly one Blink 182 album on my 1GB hard drive.

Dang, 1GB back in these days was pretty legit.
A 128k MP3 was something like 3-4 megs per song - I'd fit a bunch on a 100 meg Zip disk back in the day and feel like a king.
What a topsy-turvy article.

Mail is fine if you use browser-based solutions. Nobody is talking about only sending plaintext emails? Wtf?

Why are they running so much stuff on wine?

Why are they upgrading their kernel every few weeks?

How does anyone think nautilus is good?

How does anyone think that Gimp/inkscape are better than affinity designer?

These are the things they find useful about linux? There's so much more that makes linux a powerful solution (e.g. great window managers like i3), or much better support for shell based workflows.
My first web development job was for a Rails consultancy, where the owner of which explicitly stated that our apps were not designed to support using the back button. On another occasion, this same person responded to user reports of page zooming breaking the site with a counter of "then don't zoom the page".

These moments were two of the first wherein I strongly reconsidered whether I had made the right career choices.
Eh. I've ended up with the opposite conclusion, at least for my purposes. Running Word is neat, but having to spend half a day figuring out what Apple did to C++ headers after an Xcode update so R will compile packages again is not fun. Unfortunately I can't really install Linux on the damn thing because of the hardware.

Also mailspring is a pretty good Linux email client with conversation view...
From the outside, he doesn't seem like a strong leader at all.

Besides him not leaving a clear successor[1][2], I think his communication is disingenuous. The kind of management-speak that aims to hide poor decision-making behind a facade of cheer and care.

People are scared of "might makes right", but I've found "nice makes right" to be far more insidious and pernicious in our society.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26674228

2. https://a16z.com/2013/07/03/shared-command-2/
Preview is probably the most underrated app of all time, with “quick look” as a contender for most under-appreciated feature.

Just hitting spacebar to see virtually any file, and the ability to open in preview and read or even markup and make small changes, is so nice. Whenever I use a non-Mac system I really miss those two features.
Eh. Lots of it as bad as you say. Some is timeless. I still like the 418 I’m A Teapot HTTP status code. This one is one of the not great ones. But then I like dad jokes
Just post the POC for a 2019 bug...
Probably a quirk of english that I don't see as a native speaker, but I'd phrase this as a gui plaintext editor.

Also, people not served by textedit are pretty niche.
"had been recognized for the invention which has contributed to bright and energy-saving white light sources,"

contributing and inventing are two different things

the real info

Oct. 9, 1962: First Visible LED Is Demonstrated
Nick Holonyak, Jr. demonstrates the world’s first light-emitting diode (LED) to General Electric suits,
Mice with hallucination-like behaviors reveal insight into psychotic illness
3.2.0 came out 5 years ago. I think it's okay now.
WSL2 has quirks that make it not the same as running linux natively. For some workflows this may not matter but I have seen it evaluated for some use cases where not everything worked.

Also, windows is, for lack of a better word, obnoxious, in the way it bothers you about updates (and other messages of various kinds), and forces you to restart frequently and kn its terms.

The few times I have used windows recently, I found it the opposite of "just getting out of the way and letting me work", and I fear that even if wsl did work smoothly for what I was doing, just the fact that windows was running in the background would degrade the experience.
My mac kernel panicked weekly for the last year. The software had stopped major development for the last 5 years on any area that doesn't help major media production or make it more like iOS.

But the software does work. It just doesn't do much interesting stuff anymore.
Yes, and it sounded great on paper but was horrible for interoperability because a file was not self contained from the POV of filesystems that didn't support the resource fork. Every file you wanted to distribute cross platform needed 2 versions. One with all that metadata bundled up for Mac, one without it for everything else. It was a nightmare

OS-X dropped it for good reason.
Yes, it is possible to use pf to do that. That is why I mention that it might be a good idea to use the script in conjunction with strict firewall rules.

The script is for disabling the WiFi per se.
Oh, smear campaigns. I though you mean people were sabotaging reactors.
It’s true. Happened more than once, even.

Some references here: https://www.allmanhandling.se/tag/scientologbibeln/

The first and most famous one: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenon_Panoussis

Essentially in Sweden, the principle of public access to government communication trumped copyright. The church of Scientology eventually successfully lobbied for a law change and it was classified as secret.

But for a good while there, the Scientologists had people go to the institution where the documents where held, requested to get access to read it, and stay there hogging it in their reading room every day just to prevent others from accessing it.
Yea, I do it all the time in Korean when joking about something with friends. 친구들이랑 그렇게 얘기해요
>and such strangers as willingly selle themselves or are sold to us.

?
What makes Homebrew a failure? I don’t generally have issues with it for my needs.
It's never "you're Tesla", even paid off the software precludes true ownership. It locks out hardware features, regulates how you work on it, and records your location.

It's 'as a service' with indefinite use (at the manufacturer's discretion) after a fixed amount of payment. They just have to monetize you differently after you've paid your share.
That isn't necessarily a contradiction.

A handgun may well not have the stopping power. But something like pepper spray (bear mace) might.