skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but because they want to IPO I guess, they’ve stopped focusing on the desktop at all

No, that's simply because the desktop, after all these years, still brings in little or no money - whereas server builds are used in clouds (at one point they were the most popular "cloud distro") and do make significant money through revenue-sharing agreements.

Ubuntu desktop started going downhill the minute Shuttleworth decided he'd had enough with the "generous mecenate" thing and Ubuntu should make back its costs. Since then, it's been a series of steers towards anything that could make some cash.
So... have this people had the experimental moderna/pfizer vaccines? That would easily explain the mystery?
> - Preview on macOS is great and no other OS has anything remotely equivalent. First class PDF support, ability to easily annotate anything, makes basic PDF editing easy.

How is the generation of 2D bar codes that many (government) forms use when you enter information into the various fields?
What is so special about NeXTSTEP and WindowMaker? I see it often brought up and I actually used WindowMaker briefly at some point in the past, but I don't "get it". Could someone explain?
Not sure what OS you’re running (my guess is Ubuntu). I’ve had no issues with wake from sleep when using Fedora, FYI. My biggest complaint is the Nautilus file browser’s address bar being mostly worthless, the Gnome terminal’s inability to move tabs into a new window, and the inability to use normal copy / paste in the terminal (Elementary OS gets this right, and I run their terminal on Fedora now... I may look into running their file browser, too...)
The real problem here is that people use Excel to maintain data. Excel is terrible at that. But the fact that it may change data without the user being aware of it, is absolutely the biggest failing here.
Show HN: Substack, but for SMS
File extensions are simple and, crucially, visible and understandable to the user. They're far better than any proposed alternative.
Chinese diplomats even go after Children books: China gets German children's book about COVID withdrawn

https://www.dw.com/en/china-gets-german-childrens-book-about...

"The Chinese consulate in Hamburg promptly threatened the Carlsen publishing house with filing criminal charges, demanding the recall of the book as well as a public apology."
TD Digest #174 – Mad Science
I do not see the phrase "abrassive asshole" or something similar in the open letter though. I see "misogynist", "transphobe", "ableist". He is clearly not any of these things, so the open letter is indeed a hastily put together piece of garbage. They should be ashamed of themselves.
There are some speed comparisons, measurements, and discussion here:

https://lwn.net/Articles/706404/

https://thiblahute.github.io/jpakkane.github.io/Simple-compa...

The thing is apparently, ninja is indeed faster, but this matters only for very large projects with tens of thousands of files.

Speed of incremental builds matters, and in this respect, ninja is an advance, but is not a day-and-night difference either.
You didn't even finish reading the first sentence.
I can't really do any work in front of the computer without any audio. Pretty sure this is a bad sign but not sure of what.
Waht a number of dimmed and flagged comments under this post.
Regarding Excel: It also happens with Somalia, which makes this issue even stranger. Apparently because of "SOM".
Aye. According to me. I have a preference for tools doing one thing, and one thing well. That attitude has served me very well.

Your opinion is that you like TextEdit for what it is.

Neither opinion/feeling is relevant.
I dunno, not my experience these days.

Our family Lenovo all-in-one windows machine with its preinstalled windows: Time synchronization doesn't work. Have to set the clock manually. When logging in and if another user is logged in the start bar freezes for up to 5 minutes before it lets me do anything. All sorts of things like this. Random problems like that.

My personal Windows machine upstairs loses sound output via my monitor every time the monitor goes to sleep and wakes up. Windows just forgets that the device exists. Sometimes plugging in a headphone and then unplugging it will "remind" Windows that there's an HDMI output device, other times not.

No issues with Linux on that machine at all. Everything just works, stock Debian install. No issues with sound, only issue being that the fan is a bit loud so I had to fiddle with bios settings to get it quieter.
> CMake used to be easier to cross-compile to bootstrap a project, but it's getting harder every year.

Why exactly is it getting harder?
> A spokesman for Ukie, the national games industry body, said that game companies had "already taken action" on the issue.

Ah, well I’m sure it’s all just fine then.
I switched to all Linux in my house a few years ago, it is a simpler and better existence overall. My kids laptops are mint, my wife is the only holdout on Mac. Mac is not bad, but for me it doesn’t have a lot of advantages and has a lot of obvious disadvantages.
I really miss this era of computing... everything was so fresh and new feeling back then and there was a lack of polish to everything. It was a lot of fun as a kid learning to use all of this stuff.

I remember being fascinated by network apps and stuff that let you send messages and data between computers... that's how I really got interested in programming because I wanted to figure out how to build something like ICQ/AIM.
In fact, I would argue that 2 is the primary use case for scrollbars.
I very rarely go on linkedin now as it's just a shell of its former self with very little value compared to when I first joined up. In past years I got headhunted twice through linkedin and landed some good roles and built up a really good network of other engineers, but now its just like a quasi mix of instagram and facebook. It's full of these annoying fuckers who call themselves 'influencers' and post cheesy inspiration / motivation crap all day like a video of some Indian construction worker who found a way to optimise how they pick up bricks or someone rescuing a puppy from the side of river.

The only contact I get now, is not around job opportunities, but people wanting to sell me some product or service 'hey, let's have a 5 minute call to talk about how our companies can help accelerate growth in exciting new ways, let me know when you're available. Let's talk!'.
If you pay in other ways, there are certain logs that they are required to keep.
I'm really curious as to Who is upvoting this take.

Making something illegal won't stop it from happening. Just because tech can be used for bad purposes doesn't mean you have to or will have any effectiveness in banning it. See encryption.

It's such a lazy take, ignores the freedom aspect and goes for convenience and feels like a concern troll, honestly.
Yes, wireguard is a point-to-point transport layer. VPNCloud includes a management layer about that. And for example deals with NATs, network management etc.
I've never seen anything that used YAML that I didn't want to douse with gasoline, nuke from orbit, and then salt the ground where it once stood.

I cry and rage and rend my clothes when I stumble upon some new thing that makes me have to use it.
> the likely first case of this mystery condition was reported in 2015

> symptoms of this condition have developed over 18 to 36 months in the patients found so far
Cookie Wall, unreadable
Regarding the lawsuit, I believe you’re thinking of Nakamura.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuji_Nakamura
I have the same experience. I bought a System76 darter pro, it comes with a linux pre-installed. I've been using it on and of for a year now but cannot 'give up' my mac:
- It is not stable at all; weekly complete freezes
- The key-bindings are a joke. Even after remapping and hacking stuff
- bluetooth support sucks, sometimes it works for days, then it will not reconnect and keep spewing errors.
- Sound drivers seems buggy, it takes 20-30s to 'switch' to a BT speaker.
- I cannot for the life of me figure out how to install Ruby 'correctly' via apt.
The most commonly used parsers only accept valid JSON - including the one included within most JS runtimes (JSON.stringify/parse). VSCode explicitly uses a `jsonc` parser, the only difference being that it strips comments before it parses the JSON. There's also such thing as `json5`, which has a few extra features inspired by ES5. None of them are unquoted strings. I've never come across anything JSON-like with unquoted strings other than YAML, and everything not entirely compliant with the spec has a different name.
This.

At some point the world economy is so much bigger than the USA's (even if no one stuffs up), the the US government simply CANNOT product enough dollars* for the demand.

Exactly the same reason why the Swiss franc can never be the global reserve currency.

* Although the current USG is certainly giving it a good go ;).
Have been using it for more than two years now. Its clean and feature rich,while being lightweight and ad/tracker free. and it didnt even have internet permission until a recent update .So although I prefer FOSS alternatives, I still use this (with internet access blocked).
If you don't like walking, do something else... But let walkers be walkers.

I personally love walking, and am doing more and more of it ("thanks" to Covid and my current personal situation). I'm happier. I'm healthier. I have more time to wander with my mind and think about things that can only surface in my mind while walking.
+1

I do indeed have a portrait monitor for throwing terminals on to, and it's the worst place for making tearing visible.
> 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.)

But then it's inconsistent and has unnecessary complexity because now there's one (or more) exceptions to the rules to remember: when the ';' is needed. And of course if you get it wrong you'll only discover it at runtime.

"Consistent applications of a general rule" is preferable to "An easier general rule but with exceptions to the rule".
The Guardian really couldn't get any worse could it. Article for the sake of an article. Yes I'm British, walking is exploration and time to think, to socialise. I don't understand the motivation of someone, like the author, to live in a country they clearly dislike.
If it ignores part of the spec, I don't think "strictyaml" is the correct name here. Instead, if it interprets everything as string, perhaps "stringyaml" would have been more accurate, though I'm sure that's not as good PR.

I'm reminded of the discussion we had a few days ago about environment variables; one problem there is that env variables are always strings, and sometimes you do want different types in your config. But clearly having the system automatically interpret whether it's a string or something else is a major source of bugs. Maybe having an explicit definition of which field should be which type would help, but then you end up with the heavy-handed XML with its XSD schema.

Or you just use JSON, which is light-weight, easy to read, but unambiguous about its types. I guess there's a good reason it's so popular.

Maybe other systems like yaml and environment variables should only ever be used for strings, and not for anything else, and I suppose replacing regular yaml with 'strictyaml' could play a role there. Or cause unending confusion, because it does violate the spec.
Can't get a log that has been wiped. But yes, Mullvad are only as good as their word. The other more expensive and complicated alternative would be to host your own vpn server, which still has the server provider as the trust anchor.

Tor is the only network sufficient enough to thwart malicious state actor's efforts.
It was not THAT coherent. The UI sometimes took weird turn to 3.11 design or even DOS

But in general you are right
I have used a Thinkpad T470s for 3 years at my current employer with Fedora and it worked quite well (including standby, multi-monitor support etc). However, I have just switched to a Mac, and I can only say I've been missing it. The consistency of the key combination, the polish of the desktop applications. It's little things but they do add up.

When I first switched to the Linux machine, I first noticed every single papercut (e.g. warning messages that felt like errors). Then I grew more and more "tolerant" of these things. All in all, the experience was fine; but I never really loved it.

Not to mention, if you pick a Mac you often care about the aesthetics of the chassis and display; my Thinkpad with its low-light matte display (with very poor performance in natural lighting conditions) and its brick-like appearance (someone love them, I honestly don't), it always struck me as pretty meh.
Tom's Hardware provides additional coverage:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/china-first-7nm-gpu-heads-...

Then of course, is the next logical question:

Which other countries will create their own GPU's next, and in what order?

If it were my money, I'd put a bet on India... but who knows? Maybe Russia or Japan or some other nation will be next...

And who knows? Maybe they already have them...

Whatever the case, I think hardware diversity is a good thing, not a bad thing...
I think the upvotes are more in the spirit of "I share your frustration and negative outlook of crypto in general" rather than an endorsement of the specific policy suggestion.
Thanks for mentioning these things. If I put some effort into it on the side I think I can turn the tide on my long term goal of learning Spanish fluently.

While I’d always be interested in learning the native language of any country I may reside in, Spanish is the only language I’m interested in learning regardless of where I live. I studied it in college and the written form is just so regular that it’s really the gold standard for languages. I love how knowing the formal rules that I can accurately spell words I’ve only heard, and do it consistently correctly. It’s under appreciated.
Me too, several different High and very low end laptops using mint, mostly flawless except one issue with wifi
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You've just used XML tech as it was designed to post this comment.

XML is serialization. I hardly believe you was concerned about serialization while posting comment or thought about attributes-tags distinction.

This page utilizes request to server for multi-user editing. But it is easy to build truly serverless (like a file) document with same interface:

data:text/html,<html><ul>Host: <span class=host contenteditable>example.com

Change it, save it, done. Web handles input of lists, maps, integers, float and much more.
Not YAML by itself, but there are libraries that parse a YAML-like format that is typed. For example this one: https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/. Technically, it is not compatible with the YAML spec.
There is a lot of elitism around bash, like the "Arch btw" thing but far worse because a lot of important things depends on it.

Powershell has been working on linux for quite a while now and doesnt seem get any attention even when it has a nice IDE support and copy the good things about bash.
If you enter the site, there's a good description of the parameters of the data used.

And if you click to the parent directory, you'll find many, many folders with interesting thing.

P.S.: don't expect too much of the Adult folder
This is indeed true. Just stock applications. It keeps my distractions to a minimum.
This is such a core issue with a tool like YAML, how the hell did this program get so popular? Are there that many developers willy nilly using tools that fail in critical, silent ways, and the horde of no-nothings follows them?
It is however true that majority of Linux software that is excellent can leak over to Mac since OSS can be ported over, but the other way around doesn't really work.

Having said that, i have all the tools I need on Linux, excepting office, which I run via wine. I wish I didn't have to, but what can you do.

I also find a lot of people complain about to be simple habit; I've been using Linux 25ish years, and was an early (too early) adaptor of GNOME 3, and MacOS just pisses me off. I know that most of my complaints are simply me not being used to it though. I could learn to live with it I'm sure, but I'm not moving to a platform that's as hostile to users as MacOS. I'd rather move to Windows.
I just use the stock applications. Mail, calendar / contacts through webdav / carddav, phone / text, and the browser. I've found I don't need anything more on a phone.
Every time you think you’ve seen Peak Guardian...
While I agree that making something illegal won't stop it from happening - in this case, banning a currency drastically curtails the functionality of it. That reduces the value of it, which in turn would reduce demand and supply.
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover snaps scenic selfie at 'Mont Mercou'
The US has a lot of infrastructure that was built around the same time period. That is why so much of it is reaching its end-of-life around the same time. The replacement phase for all of this infrastructure has not necessarily been planned for well, but we will have to see how it plays out.

China has built at an even more aggressive pace and scale. It has built an unprecedented amount of infrastructure in an unbelievably short amount of time. That infrastructure will reach end-of-life all around the same time. It's likely going to end up as an infrastructure crisis at a level beyond what the US is suffering from now.
> 3. The screen tearing sucks.

Use Wayland instead of X11.
Pro tip: Install python and do your calculations on the command line.
Yes, at one time it was renamed into Calmira. I think it was written in Delphi, but I'm not sure - it now has LFN support. The nice thing is it can run on a 386 with 4M.. which can easily be emulated on for example DosBox or Qemu. You perhaps could virtualize the whole thing in javascript and run it in a browser like here:
https://archive.org/details/win3_stock
http://www.calmira.net/
> Running outdoors had all of walking’s problems, but faster, and with sweat.

The Japanese (I don't know if this is true or not but I heard it's a true fact) have a term called forest bathing, meaning to spend time surrounded by greenery soaking up the views. If you run, you can soak in twice as much greenery per unit of time.
Source for that statement?
It’s pretty funny to point out racial tension in the US when discussing China, considering sinicization is clearly one of China’s overarching goals.
Oracle offers to move clients to cloud for free as it plays catch-up
Since I spent most of my time in browser apps now, there isn't much difference in day-to-day work anymore when switching between OS.

Linux was good enough for the desktop 10 years ago and it only got better with more and more browser apps popping up since then.

I hope with WebAssembly we will finally get better performance out of browser based apps and maybe even get rid of Windows for high-end games.
Isn't it some kind of an opinion fluff piece in the "Lifestyle" section?
Chinese Christians Held in Secretive Brainwashing Camps
Seems to work fine on iOS in Australia, where are you located?
Excel or apps that allow to edit history are much better than an old school calculator
> Among the authors' recommendations were that any regulation has extremely precise definitions to avoid any possible workarounds

I find this surprising - shouldn't it go the other way? The more strictly defined your law is, the more space it creates for "tweak just this bit to technically comply". More vague definitions are closer to "you know what we meant" position.
Glad to hear you got yourself back on track bruv and happy birthday!
Reminds me of the multiple YAML bugs that have plagued Kubernetes such as https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/82296

It is interesting how the standard of any language seems to diverge due to just the implementation from different parsers.
How do we know the above comment isn't an April Fool's joke?
You should see the other articles in the journal where it comes from! (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/computers-and-electron...)

It's cool to see people doing "real" things with software instead of serving the interests of surveillance capitalism.
People forget how generally buggy and unstable 95 was, though.

I remember as a kid, it somehow always got into a state when it always showed “restore from backup and restart”, and that window never got away after reboot.

After a while, me and my father learned to drag that error window to a bottom right corner and proceed with normal work as if it was never there. (There was no internet, and 7 year old me was more experienced with PCs than my father was.)

So annoying.

And all the BSODs. Ugh

98 and later XP were so much more stable.
The classic films of the 18st century
For most places you can get free compute power, a week's mining revenue might only be a few cents.

As long as the account sign-up process requires a captcha or phone number for the most spam-like signups, you'll keep their profits low enough to deter most people.
I seriously cannot believe music like this helps you with programming, but if it does for you then try "The Algorithm - Access Denied"[1].

For me no music is best. Followed by some white noise. Followed by classical, i.e. "Dvorak - Noon Witch"[2], "Ryuichi Sakamoto - Blu"[3].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaNgcLyNo4c

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-MSxLuI4uo

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWI5aVKvkCg
I like how it goes on and on and on. Aimlessly, like the walks she dislikes.

Looking forward to the next article on how she doesn't like sushi. Having fish and chips? A joy. A good Bouillabaisse? A delight! But raw fish with soy sauce and rice? Thanks, but no. Ok.
I'm British and I found the article funny and relatable. I'm sick to death of aimless walks.
Have you ever used Python? If you did you really wouldn't be saying this. There isn't an exception. The semicolon is used to put multiple statements on a single line. That's it's only use, and that's the only time it's 'needed' - no exceptions.
I nearly became the world’s largest counterfeiter of Fabergé eggs
The article’s a bit of a troll piece, so I’m going to ignore it. One of my favourite pastimes in London was picking somewhere on the map I’d never been and just walking there. Sometimes just the centre of a borough I hadn’t been to before. Sometimes more than 10 miles in one go. Canal routes, hidden pathways, a new park, busy high streets. Lots of time to think or just watch.

I’ve been doing quite a bit of walking in Istanbul recently, but I’m running out of options. Maybe someone can suggest some interesting, out of the ordinary routes.
Can anyone claim with a straight face that the current state of the crypto ecosystem permits use cases like "splitting a bill with your friends after lunch" or "hiding your earnings from unjust taxation"?

It may aspire to be/do these things, and that's great, but that’s not the present reality.
ugghhh, why would anyone want more texts :)
There are a similar number of downsides and abuse scenarios enabled by plain old encryption technology. Does that mean we should ban it too?
It's a humorous piece. Take it less seriously.