skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GitHub Actions' instances don't have a GPU [0]:

"GitHub hosts Linux and Windows runners on Standard_DS2_v2 [1] virtual machines in Microsoft Azure"

The only way to have access to a GPU is to use your own self-hosted runner.

0 - https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-github-hosted-runne...

1 - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/dv2-...
If you have a building, and the engineer says "it is unsafe and going to fail soon", then each month that passes witout anything happening should increase the expectation of failure, not decrease it.

Besides, the situation did change recently. Wikipedia now recognises China as effectively the worlds largest economy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
The title of the paper is "Determinants of female sexual orgasms" and it is a study done in Finland. I doubt you even clicked on the link before making a comment. I doubt literally anyone here is actually going to read it before making a comment, tbh.
The inaccessibility[1] of the border does help to alleviate the issue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan–China_border
Agree here. I use Windows at work and use full time Linux on home desktop since 7 or 8 years. Both have bugs and annoyances but one thing that turns me off on windows is how computer becomes more and more sluggish as the time goes on with each update. Never had that issue with Linux. Updates might break a thing or two. I am okay with occasional break/fix but just can't get used to progressive sluggishness.
> It’s an interesting end-run around the fifth amendment.

It isn't though. The fifth does not cover the production of incriminating documents (under a subpoena), to say nothing of the document being acquired through other means, except in the case where the production of the document is in and of itself (independent of the contents of the document) incriminating (the "Act of Production" Doctrine).

> What if we passed a law that all criminals are required to keep a logbook of their crimes?

That would be a breach of the fifth as it would legally require self-incrimination. And the only use would be additional charges: if you can't prove the initial crime you can't prove that there was a need for a logbook. So even beyond the fifth I don't think it would stand.
In this case, the underlying data is from exactEarth. It’s not free data. I believe exactEarth obtains the data by reading the pings from the ship’s transponders.

https://www.exactearth.com/product-exactearth-shipview
It's kind of like trying to save time on a marathon by not stopping to tie your shoelaces.

I mean it takes maybe a day or two at most to set up a CI/CD pipeline with Github actions or something similar. It takes maybe a day to set up test runners, and you can just sprinkle in small tests as you go. There are plenty of templates you can find depending on your language/platform that do most of this out of the box.

You don't need a perfect pipeline or test coverage, just something you can improve on incrementally. It's much, much harder to do all this on top of a bloated legacy codebase and infrastructure and that's when "adding CI/CD" becomes a Big Project that we'll get to real soon now.
You’ve misread. He wasn’t suggesting that the process for remapping a keyboard falls under power user, as in understanding how to do that. Remapping keys on a keyboard so they are exactly how you want them for your workflow definitely is the behaviour of a power user.
They aren't the first to be doing this, just the largest so far. I'm aware of a few companies that have done this multiple times over the past year, with similar lines of thought.

I'm not sure why you think justification is required or why it needs to be strong. They are humans, getting some time off, it's as simple as that.
I hold out a hopeless wish that the source code for Windows 95 and Windows 98 will someday make it to GitHub under a MIT licence, like the File Manager, DOS 1.0 and the Windows Console did.

Imagine it with a new jolt of life for modern hardware. Office 97 on a 16 core CPU is the dream.
From the article:

"And so there’s this way in which contemporary profits are supported by free labor that women provide in the home. And this free labor actually ends up trapping women in dependent relationships, largely with men, and that means, ultimately, that women get stuck because they have all these care responsibilities for which they are not paid. They are stuck in the home, generally financially dependent on a partner or spouse, and that unfortunately leads to people being in unhealthy or abusive or unhappy relationships."

I've lived in a few different Western countries, mostly very developed, and most of what I have seen is women working and men sharing many responsibilities. So this seems to me like a terrible starting point to build that thesis upon.
For me, ubuntu is hands down better than mac.

- Finder is a disaster

- LibreOffice on mac works far worse

- General aestetics is very unfortunate (ymmv)

But macOS has that one killer application for me that makes it worth suffering all of this: Sketch.
Last time I checked, Mao is not in charge anymore. Since a very long time. So anyway, you claim, china is worse, than the nazis regime? I would like to get some evidence of gas chambers then pls.

Also, how many wars did communist china started, compared to the US?
I can't belive no has yet mentioned Litestep

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiteStep

It was my favorite ui replacement on Win98/95 until Win2k come out.
Can an intelligent conversation really happen like playing frisbee? Even court trials, where people want to get to the bottom of the truth, happen on the adversarial dialogue principle.

Also, most of the comments under this topic were ideological. The post itself is ideological. Ideological - where two competing ideas fight. Often ideological means moral in it's root. You don't like this? What is wrong with ideological conversations then?

I am the person who can analyse, think and articulate my conclusions, but, apparently, some positions and thoughts are not welcome here.

Apparently, everybody, you, corporations, government, society, my employer want me to be an empty headed craftsman who can talk only on technical topics and avoids social and political topics because it can be discussed by big boys only.
I still remember when I bought a laptop officially preloaded with Ubuntu.

And the minute I did software update there, everything broke. (Because it was using some binary graphic driver that broke with newer kernel.)

I could not even use the computer after that, only the console. I needed to reinstall old ubuntu in order to get my data.

Never again
Covid is only mentioned once in the article, mostly in the context of ginormous astronomical compounding debt, the favorite remedy for no matter what came our way in the last two decades.

The article seems to be more about this:
"Just as the US eclipsed Britain at the end of the nineteenth century as the world’s largest trading country, China long ago surpassed America by the same measure."

that seems to be the author's new compelling evidence.

Side note, I don't see how most of the events you listed: winning the Cold War, Iraq or the Arab Spring could even remotely challenge the US dominance, just the opposite, if anything.
Come on, your gut can do better!
Micro-plastics, insecticides, lack of physical activity, water and air pollution, socioeconomically uncertainty, declining nutritional values, processed foods, depression, electromagnetic energy absorption, stress factors, insomnia, hormone pollution in drinking water systems, drug-waste, contraception usage, masturbation, heavy metal build-up in marine life...
Don't underestimate the creativity of the gut feel!
its weird that this is a 2019 article misrepresenting behavior in the YAML 1.1 spec (2005) most of which reverted in the YAML 1.2 spec (2009) as being part of a nonexistent YAML 2.0 spec and justifying a library that purports to handle “YAML” ignoring the spec.
The problem is not 'someone is not correctly following the serialization rules', the problem is 'the serialization rules are quite terrible'.

This is not some interesting trade-off, this problem is fixable on all axes by using non-ambiguous, non-overloaded typing rules for your config format.

Even JSON and XML got this right.
The very point of yaml is that it is easy to edit by hand. If you use an, I suppose, GUI editor then you don't need yaml. You could use any strictly typed serialization format. (Self describing or with a schema.)
No you can’t. To do the hash you need the per user salt before you start hashing. Which would require reading from the DB.
Waymo CEO Steps Down
Norway is one of the luckiest countries in the world. They have a vast amount of resources, can produce their electrical energy entirely from hydropower, have a great democracy, a government they can trust, a beautiful landscape and great people.

I must say that I feel a little bit of relief to see that they have problems that nobody else has, besides insanely expensive alcohol that is only sold in "wine monopoly" stores that are more heavily guarded than banks.
In the general population? Lifestyle seems to explain it sufficiently, when one takes account of the evidence.
I'd love to see Win NT4 sourced. Rock solid and minimal compared to Win95 and Win98. I loved using it... until I realised how much slower everything felt because drivers were optimised/accelerated for the other Windows OSes instead.

Complete graphical OS in ~200 MB. Miss those days.
If anything, the amount of tinkering required has increased as hardware has gotten more complex. I'm probably looking through rose-tinted glasses to some extent, but in the mid 2000s it was usually quite easy to get graphics and sound working well in Linux on generic PC hardware. And of course, most people didn't need to worry about WiFi, Bluetooth, suspend/resume, touchpads, etc. etc. in those days.
I haven't read the whole paper, but in looking for keywords and skimming through the determinants section, I don't see anywhere that the researchers have taken in to account the partner's gender. Most of the time, it's "partner" (gender indeterminate), but whenever it is mentioned, the gender is always male.

Has this paper acknowledged same-sex relationships, at all?

(Apologies for the sex/gender conflation)
why would you depreciate the assets to $0 when there's very good evidence that the assets do in fact have positive value?
I was having huge flaky thunderbolt problems on my Linux T490 - even updating the laptop firmware didn't fix it despite Lenovo changelogs indicating a bunch of thunderbolt dock bugs fixed.

Then I swapped the Lenovo thunderbolt dock with another one at work and everything just worked fine. I run 3 monitors (2 external 2560x1440) at once, but no 4k.

Maybe it was dock firmware versions - the Lenovo dock updater software was Windows only, so I had never tried it.
Video tearing could be because of xorg. Try Wayland with HW decode, you have to manually enable it. Both chrome & Firefox support this now.

My experience is different from yours. With Wayland I had smoother graphics than xorg.
I used Magnet extensively when I used a mac. There is no linux equivalent.
I’m not an expert, but wouldn’t that be something like increasing supply to deal with a shortage of demand?
Preview is awesome! My favorite feature is splitting up and combining PDF's by dragging and dropping the pages.
does the inclusion/requirement of parity features reduce the expressivity of the language?

This was a real eye-opener for me when learning Latin in school: stylistic expressions such as meter, juxtaposition, symmetry are so much easier to include when the meaning of a sentence doesn't depend on word order.
I actually follow this.

It is a military goal of the CCP to displace the US dollar.

Trump/Pompeo's policies would have strangled China in about 24 months. (Russia dissolved largely due to similar US currency policies.)

But under Biden's executive order rollbacks, the CCP has the room to advance their currency. Also, Wall Street actively opposed Trump's efforts.

One of the many things China can do is to tie BRI funding/refinancing to their digital currency. Also, after Taiwan is unified, China can tax shipping transit in the S. China Sea. etc.

The reason it's different this time is that Russia was an inward-looking country with a weak mfg. sector, while China is almost the opposite.

China is much weaker financially than most people realize, but they're very militant.

The wildcard is when the genocide/organ harvesting issue reaches a tipping point. I think that will happen in mid-2021, in which case you'll see a lot more decoupling - your brand name is everything.

Most Western countries are wrestling with what genocide really means (similar to WW2), and when they stare long enough into the abyss, will not be able to continue a trade relationship with, literally, monsters.
You could also just address it through your rate table by appropriately pricing for intense workloads, couldn't you?
I, too, always switched on Classic Theme after every Windows install. It was a large part of what drew me to XFCE/xUbuntu in the end. Numix and Adwaita-dark gets close enough to the Classic UI Windows the way I had it configured.
OBS Studio on Wayland
Management consulting companies love getting requests to study this. Again. They get to charge full price, wait three months, and then stick a new cover on the last report they did, and hand it over. It's like free money.

Of course, what the report always says is that it's a really bad idea (because it is), but for not-so-obvious reasons so the client doesn't feel put down. Oh, and don't publish it.

SpaceX's BFR changes the balance some, but not enough.

Unless maybe to power aircraft. You would need a whole bunch of satellites spread way out -- thousands of miles out -- but synchronized into a phased array to focus onto a rectenna on top of the plane. Not carrying a lot of fuel is good for a plane.
What compositor did you try for wayland?
> It’s got to the point where in the absence of any new and compelling evidence, such claims have to be treated with a little scepticism.

But there is constantly new and compelling evidence.

In my opinion there are two factors. 1. Domestic economic and fiscal health; and 2. Foreign aid.

US debt, consumer debt, student loan debt, and corporate debt are all at historic highs. Across the board there are defaults at historic highs and a general inability to service these debts at every level. In that period of 30 years you mention we have seen for the first time ever US cities and governments declare bankruptcy.

But maybe even more important to maintaining global hegemony is foreign aid. That it’s paying foreign governments to make it worth their while to support the US dollar as the global reserve. Consider from 2001-2011 foreign aid exploded from $10B to $50B where it peaked and has plateaued and even slightly declined for the next 10 years (and in reality numbers aren’t even available for the last 2 years). It should come as no surprise the explosion in spending kept the US ahead of China, but since the US peaked China now outspends the US in foreign aid. It’s “keeping up with the Jones’” on a global scale.
Auto-updating websites when facts change
Because it’s easier than telling people individually to take time off if they need it, because doing so often results in being more stressed because the work piled up and you missed important things when you were away.
Unpopular coins mostly dont have their own blockchain.
Seems like they have no discipline. In the org I worked mailing or otherwise contacting someone while on holiday was one of the biggest sins. Both ways contact was forbidden. That was really good for recharging as you could switch your mind completely.
> It has established strong foundations about Windows UI. The Menu/Toolbar couple, scrollbars with a relative size, 3D buttons, start menu, toolbar...

Or maybe windows just never progressed. If you see how much linux desktops changed over this period. Windows today just looks like a fancy clone of 95, always has.
But of course on a Win/Linux system you rarely need to use three fingers at once. On mac this is all too common for even the basic tasks you state.

Shift + End: Select to the end of the line
Home + End: Select to the beginning of the line
Home or End: Move to beginning or end of line respectively.

What's worse is when I plug in a keyboard with Home and End buttons on a recent Macbook Pro they still don't work. Do I need another plugin for that? Even if I do personally I don't find the Mac keyboard shortcuts better than Linux/Windows. Tbh after using Mac for 2 years running now every day at work I still don't quite get how people find it easier - I still wish personally for a Linux or even Windows machine to speed up my productivity.

And that's because people prefer what they are familiar with them - the mental leap to jump to another way of working for most people isn't pleasant and isn't really worth the investment. Mac still feels like a "second language" to me just as Linux must feel to mac users - I'm always translating it back to "how do I do this Linux/Windows thing" in Mac. In the end Linux, Windows, and Mac are perfectly capable OS'es and the differences is marginal between them which makes switching difficult. But I do prefer my Linux machine these days - more just comes out of the box.
Yeah, that must be it. Crush the remainder of morale during the pandemic just as a power exercise.

I'm all for being critical of corporate decisions, but this is going a bit far, isn't it?
I was about to write "if only there was an online copy of the old Amiga Rom Kernel Reference Manuals" (aka the "RKM" books) when I realized I actually never checked about that. Turns out there's something on the Internet Archive, and it's totally worth a look even today. Just look at how good is the layout of those decades old books. If memory serves there were 4 of them, I had 3, and the "libraries" linked below was among the most used.

https://archive.org/details/1990-beats-steve-amiga-rom-kerne...
My gut says modern lifestyle is detrimental to the existence of mankind.
It’s the fact that they’re the same time but different days. If we had a sensible system then there would never be the case that two places were at the same time (i.e. 8:24pm), but on different days.
The Little-Known Patterns on British Streets (2017)[video]
after finishing first 2 novels, did you see if your writing style became more similar to the books style(not just more correct)? Some of first novels I finished when learning English was A Song of Ice and Fire series, which made me use some veery outdated lingo
It doesn’t matter if the resource you are wasting is free.
Gas stove sparked a battle over climate change
I agree with the general observation, but the need for ";" ? Quite a few languages (over a few generations) have been doing fine without the semicolon. Just to mention two: python and haskell. (Yes, python has the semicolon but you'll only ever use it to put multiple statements on a single line.)
The article, despite being quite long, didn't provide any evidence for the thesis aside from a single survey of East/West Germany.

Perhaps the book itself has some actual data?
> Whenever an input accepts YAML you can actually pass in JSON there and it’ll be valid

Strictly speaking, this is only true of YAML 1.2, not YAML 1.0-1.1 (the article here addresses YAML 1.1 behavior, the headline example od which was removed ib YAML 1.2 twelve years ago), though it calla YAML 1.1 “YAML 2.0”, which doesn’t actually exists.

Of course, there are lots of features, like custom types, that JSON doesn’t support, but you can still use YAML’s JSON-style syntax instead of actual JSON, for them.
> I don't normally use Google, but just for you, I checked on it: It even has an easy-answers page.

It was at this point that this troll immediately turned tasteless like chewed up sugarcane.
I’m not sure, but I’d love to share an important story with you. Yesterday I was walking to an interview. There was a starving dog on the road. I stopped to feed him & missed the interview. The next day I got a call asking to come in to do the interview. I was surprised, but I went. Then the interviewer came in. He was the dog.

(Kidding aside, I’d love some way to filter out low effort connection requests.)
> And although officially JSON requires quoted strings, almost none of the parsers actually enforce that

What programming language? I'm not familiar with those parsers, the ones I know of very much do enforce quoted strings.

> you will find a huge amount of JSON out there that is not actually compliant with the official spec

The parsers I use all follow the current JSON RFC specification, and I've never encountered any JSON from APIs which they reject.

> Just like browsers have huge hacks in them to handle misformed HTML.

Web browsers do deal with a variety of things, not so much JSON parsers in my experience.
It should have been called "Determinants of female sexual orgasms in Finland" then, and the same title should have been used here as well.

Why comment at all?
> I'm far too used to the macOS touchpad gestures

It's a bit ironic that the Mac is now the epicenter of multi-touch, while its use on mobile platforms has seen some of a decline.

Also, I full-heartedly consent to the praise of Preview.
But it hasn't wrapped around. Instead of wrapping back to 0 hours difference, it "kept going" to get 24 hours difference.
CPU throttling is probably your best bet I'd say. Watch for things pegging the CPU

Most of build actions is not 100% CPU bound

But yeah, abusers are going to abuse
Oooh, interesting. How does this work?
I would consider this a feature of Palemoon, the question isn't why it works but why you want it to work.
I think the point is that for most employees, there is no chance of a "big payoff" (where "big" = 10X what you'd have made at an established company paying market wages).

In theory I own 1% of a startup worth $10m, but that will likely get diluted further and come to nothing. Even if it doesn't, I could have easily made an extra $100,000 over 3 or 4 years by just getting higher paying jobs at a regular company. And 1% is very high for employees, most of whom have a lot less equity.

The point is unless the startup becomes bigger than Google, most employees will lose out financially vs. working for a BigCorp.
TrueNAS eats a lot of memory for itself though. Just the web frontend thing eats 3GB on my box, and "services" eats about 12-16GB total (most of which I have no idea where is going).

Since ZFS uses memory for caching, it will perform much better with more memory, but it should work[1] with less.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/5u3385/linus_t...
> I don't see anyone complain about bash

You're not looking really hard then, but really

> When things get hard on bash, you will start to see python scripts

That's kinda the thing innit? Unless the system specifically only allows shell scripts (something I don't think I've ever encountered though I'm sure it exists) it's quite easy to just use something else when bash sucks, so while people will absolutely complain about it they also have an escape: don't use bash.

When a piece of software uses YAML for its configuration though, you don't really have such an option.

Furthermore, bash being a relatively old technology people know to avoid it, or what the most common pitfalls are. Though they'll still fall into these pitfalls regularly.
RandomX is quite easily detectable due to the unusual use of floating point operations. Proof of concept detectors have already been created, for example https://github.com/tevador/randomx-sniffer
Ubuntu has a store, Steam allows (any/game related?) software, Itch/Humble are kinda common (again kinda gaming related)

But buying little apps is simply not common on linux. Sure many would but why when you can just apt an easily alternative.

If you produce niche or major software subscription, buying licenses and co are more common anyway.