skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have Linux on all desktops and laptops. This has been the case for more than 10 years by now. There are still a couple Windows VM's (mainly for checking how some things work on Windows in case need be).
Couldn't you add the Bit_Order and Scalar_Storage_Order attributes (or aspects in Ada 2012) to your records/arrays? Or did Scalar_Storage_Order not exist at the time?
10 days!! You might be a real life example of a 10x dev...
Yes, I've experienced as much. Reality gives a more nuanced impression on things.
(The option+mouse action is also a natural extension of the longstanding macOS convention that control+click == right click.)
due to some suit in Indian High court
Has Linus any opinion on flatpak, snap or appimage?
Personally, I see nothing newsworthy here. Seems like Apple is using private entitlements the way they use private API: to implement something now that public entitlements that public variants can't accomplish, and maybe make them public in the future when polished enough.
Milliseconds are at least 4 orders of magnitude too high for much of HFT.
Honestly, we are very well off. Like house poor is a thing but I don't think they pay people who are _bad_ with money 350k a year to work in the finance department.

350k per year -> 29k per month
taxes (~30%) -> - 9k per month
mortgage pmt -> -10k per month

This still leaves 10k per month for living expenses. You might not be able to max out two mega backdoors, depending on corporate match, but it seems like not furnishing the home you bought is more of an optimization choice than a budget constraint.
Not scalable though is it. If everyone only goes when needing something right now, there won’t be any shops left to be able to get something right now. I love the concept of local recommendations but yes real-ish-time inventory of local shops needs solving too.
Despite your unnecessary sarcasm, this is actually a good example, seeing as the company was eventually destroyed by the US government for abusing its monopoly position.

They did indeed fund a highly successful research centre, but - importantly to its success - one that wasn't run with the same ideals as its parent. It wasn't Bell Labs itself that endeavoured to monopolise an entire industry to the point where the government had to intervene.
It’s not just about what money you have left in the short term. Financial insecurity can come from all over. If you’re on the hook for a $2M mortgage but easily paying it, and then suddenly there’s dot com bust or financial collapse or (a pandemic leading to a shift in how we work), then there’s a scary possibility that you’re laid off and won’t find another extremely high paying job, while your house is worth a ton less. You’re left underwater on your fancy house. All those events are highly correlated, making it a real scare. My place is worth a ton less than pre pandemic and I’m very thankful that it’s still worth more than I owe and that my job is secure.

Thirty years is a long time for a mortgage, and that leads to a lot of anxiety about long term risks.
1. with possible loss of information
2. as API, but an operator can do more
3. they are surely serializable, but they still need all the ugly reflection hacks that come with that (like bypassing the constructor and allowing the JVM to write to final fields)
4. that part was just presenting a benefit of records (on its own; not over Lombok/Kotlin), but the fact it's under the header "Why Records Are Better*" is confusing
Or, you know an asteroid hits us causing the 6th Extinction Level Event killing humanity. As long as we are doing wild speculative Sci-Fi the Great filter in our future is a real possibility to consider.

For now, we are an incredibly young species who has time and again demonstrated our penchant for chasing after short term incentives at the cost of longterm harm. We are making the earth unliveable faster than we are progressing towards being a multi-planetary species (which seems like an insurmountable leap given the candidates and the cost structure we have to work with). But humans are inventive and resourceful so here's hoping we grow beyond living on earth.
Yeah, just add it to your hosts file or something.
Do we really need such shops though? It's like being concerned about horses, when more and more people drive cars.
Only thing I buy in a corner store is probably bin bags and something like water if I forget to put it in my bag before leaving house.
Everything else I buy online because I can compare, read about the product, watch reviews etc. when in store being on the phone looking up products is not comfortable.
We should accept that certain era has ended and look how these store owners could transition into online world.
If a corner store was online, I could order that bin bag and they could just pop it in through my door few hours later.
They can gather the data on the infrastructure network and then carry across an air gap on a USB or tape to do their analysis. I don't see the upside of allowing any connectivity to the internet given the danger other than some mechanism for sending an alert. I'm sure creative people can air gap that too (camera on the internet side and some image recognition for example).
I totally agree. This is one of the things that makes Windows feel like a second-tier OS to me compared with Linux and Mac. If I have to do something "tech-y", on Linux or Mac, I look for it in the package registry. I trust that action would probably have been taken by the community if it were doing something malicious, and usually I can find the project on github and peruse the source if I really want.

By contrast on Windows, it usually means finding some GUI-based utility on some sketchy website filled with ads, and maybe a fake download button. Probably it's freemium, so during the task maybe I have to dodge several calls to action to upgrade to the paid version. And then a week later, maybe I check the task manager, and find out it's gone and set itself to run in the background at startup, doing god knows what, without asking.

It's just one of the ways that Windows feels less like it's my computer.
I don't mind people having different opinions, I am a bit sad to see some are not honest.

1. There are places in the civilized world without property taxes.

2. I am not proposing a regressive tax system, I am proposing a tax system based on actual consumption and frugal mindset. People are always equal until they are not - one man one vote is good, but one man one dollar tax is bad, 'cause some men cannot afford to pay for the services they get, but they have equal right to vote. That is hypocrisy. In some circumstances I am fine with people living on state care or UBI, but they should completely give up their right to vote as they are incapable of having a solid life for themselves, so they are incapable of deciding for community.

3. When you pay per service, you are a lot more careful with what you ask for and what you get for than when you pay a sum for a bucket of "something". A colleague that lived somewhere in a small town in Ohio told me they did not have a police force in their community by choice: the cost-benefit ratio was not good. A different colleague told me she was paying about half of her salary (low level manager in a big company) as property tax for the small farm her family had for generations, somewhere in West Virginia. In my part of the world most of the tax money are wasted on things that are not necessarily the biggest priority for the community, but the politicians are rarely competent and most people don't mind the waste, while others like me do. This is why I am looking at a zero tax and pay per service to eliminate waste.
That paragraph you wrote describing the online shopping process is accurate but all of that stuff still takes less time than just the drive to the store, nevermind the drive back.
Why would you need a second phone? This is one of the more ridiculous things I've read on HN.
LiveCode.com. Very compatible with the original HyperCard (I know, I had to switch. And I'm a software guy.) AND multi-platform!
Back in the early 2000's I worked for a company that was the lead firm doing analysis of email spammers for later targeting by the law firms of the big free email providers.

The phrase "be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send" certainly applied to SMTP which led to all kinds of craziness in spam.

For example:

- Emails with multiple "From" fields in the headers

- Totally bogus relay chain data

- all kinds of other garbage in random fields

- sender IPs that were faked etc

This was also around the time that spammers were switching to using bas64 MIME encoded images to get around text filters.

The company I worked for actually got pretty good at analysing the spam thanks to a combination of a IMDB style web based browser for the spam I put together and good old fashioned "leg work" to track the owner of URLs, merchant accounts etc. That in turn led to some of the spammers actually shutting down.

More details here:
https://twitter.com/alexpotato/status/1208948480867127296
Just a few I've used:

https://www.openmptcprouter.com/

https://github.com/zehome/MLVPN

https://github.com/ovh/overthebox
I personally don't feel music has to be anything.

Some music would just come to me (Gong, Sensation's Fix) and some I had to meet half way or more (Can, early Kluster).

Some groups like Negativland aren't very tonal. Are they music? Who cares. It occupies the same space and will make it's own changes in our brain, if allowed.

Ultimately, music is what it is.
There are those people, they are just a set of people that doesn't intersect the set of major tech CEOs.
Just pointing out that there’s a difference between one person being owned (your signal example) and essentially everyone’s data being available to state-level actors (what’s happening with WhatsApp)
I get that people don't like facebook but what's wrong with FB Messenger? For me I use it about 98% of the time. I does not require my phone number or access to my contact list, unlike many other messaging apps. It easily accessible on all of my laptops and desktops at messenger.com, no stupid "must login via QR code on only one device at a time BS". Also no app required on desktop (I trust the browser's security more than native apps on desktop)

It's also accessible across multiple phones if I decide to use a different phone. I have 2 with different sims and so sometimes, especially when traveling, use the other phone.

It supports groups just fine.

Also I've had almost no issue using it for audio or video calls.

I detest Line, and I detest WhatsApp. I only use them for a few friends who prefer them.
I mean, the surprise here (to many I suppose) is that their belief that Apple is one huge company with documented procedures and all-their-shit-together is not always true.

Apple is just as much a company full of little people and groups as probably any company is. And despite some things seeming really polished, others are operating by the seat of their pants, with a just-released feature that they're working the bugs out of. A team of developers who have some library that they didn't fully document yet, or are supporting on an email basis.

Just like whatever open-source project or team you might know, if you raise some legitimate need, are not a crackpot weird user, are important in some other way, and know how to contact the right person, they can probably help you. It's just that it's big Apple, so there are some hurdles to doing that.

Is it odd to realize that if a big company / user group raises an issue, it's likely to get some legitimate attention versus a curious bystander just randomly asking what this API is, with no promise of why they need the info? Don't you treat meetings at work and random requests similarly, with some judgement of credibility of the asker in mind?

Just like a company is not probably "evil" and out trying to get you -- it's probably 1-2 people who are responsible for something and its fix. And whether the company enables that to happen tells you what the outcome will likely be. It even holds true for a place like the IRS.

More often than not, there is someone who knows your issue and who you can contact to figure it out. If you provide enough coherent information and understand that it's worth their time to help fix, and find the right channel.
And mislead by fake reviews.
The two aren’t mutually exclusive! The package repo need only be a list of “endorsed” applications/binaries once they’ve been packaged. The fact that it requires so much work on the package maintainers’ part (essentially duplicating the effort for every distribution) is the main problem being pointed out — and that is original to what you’re expressing.
This problem is what lead me to building out my own s3-compatible implementation, sure it doesn't have all the bells and whistles that the official library has but it does what I need and is under 10kb in size.
So his wealth is illusory? He can't, say, buy a huge yacht or multiple homes or any other major expenditure?
Microsoft sucks at many things. Naming things in a descriptive way is one of them.
Thanks, I had no idea. I hope the case ends in favor of them, it has been an invaluable resource for me since I left University.

Does anyone know if there is a way to support them?
I lost one of my accounts last month to something similar to this. I used to have a secondary email as 2FA and then it got changed to "use one of my active devices", honestly I don't remember if there was some popup asking me to confirm the change, but one day I changed my iOS devices and the account was lost for good as I could not "tap confirm".

I tried to contact them from the email that used to be the 2FA, but no one could help me. It was a sad and eye-opening experience as I could have lost google domains and more.
"but aren't almost all currencies already digital?"

Nope. Individuals cannot own digital dollars. I have dollars in my checking account, but these aren't real dollars. If I have $100 in my checking account, this means Schwab owes me $100. It doesn't mean that I have $100. It doesn't even mean Schwab has $100.

https://www.encona.com/posts/central-bank-digital-currencies...
Presumably when they talk about starting a family, they’re thinking about moving out of their apartment. Most couples I know need to upgrade when their family gets larger than two adults.
They are probably in a one bedroom. While I grew up in a soviet 355sqft (33sq.m) box of a studio apartment, is that really what you think of as a good place to raise a family? They will need to rent something bigger and that costs even more.

They talk about investing, so 401k is a likely factor. Let’s break this down assuming you are right and the make $200k now:
$200k total comp
Less $19.5k x2 401k
Less 30% taxes
$112.7 take home
$9.4k per month
Less 3k apartment
Less $1k cars
Less $300 car ins
Less $500 health ins
Less $300 utilities/internet/etc
Leaves ~$4.3k per month before food and other expenses.

They clearly do not have enough for a 2 or 3 bedroom apartment, child care, extended parental leave (or one spouse not working temporarily) or much of anything else. Remember, it’s not just housing that’s expensive in the Bay Area, but also food and many other basic services.
$15K/month of income only goes so far, that's the point of the article.

The math without a child isn't so bad. Take out $5K for taxes, $3K for rent, $3K for food/utilities/car/etc. If they're lucky to not have other non-discretionary expenses hanging over their heads and are frugal, then yeah, that's $4K/month leftover for spending, savings, etc.

How far does $4K/month go with a child? Well, first, the mom is very likely to face a disruption in income and/or income growth. Second, childcare will be necessary in order to continue bringing in dual income. That could easily run $2K/month. Third, they will have to either remain packed into an "affordable" 1BR apartment, or find more housing at some cost (either money or commute time). Fourth, for many people, the notion of starting a family is an expectation of multiple children.

People can and do make it work, but it's not easy, and at these tight margins any sort of disruption can spell disaster. That's why people who are doing ok without children can still feel like their financial position is too weak to support a family.
Shirley you realise WinAPI is officially named the Windows API?
In the mid-90's, I had hope that GNU/Linux would eventually evolve into either GNOME or KDE as the main desktop environment with their frameworks filling the same role as Kits in OS X, BeOS, WinAPI.

Instead, it is not only the distributions, the whole desktop stacks keep being re-invented way more that what Apple or Microsoft have done thus far.

Then there are the whole set of GNOME and KDE forks from those not happy with those reboots.

Not a surprise that only ChromeOS and Android have managed to have stuck as desktop/mobile variants of Linux based OSes.

So those are the only "desktop" Linux that I ended up caring about.
I love this. I noticed there’s also an article in the same style explaining the internet. Looks like I have my reading material while I wait for my vaccine today!
Epic’s “position” that came out in trial was that they wanted a special deal from Apple. They are fighting for no one other than themselves.
No offense, but you seriously need someone with some business and sales expertise to help you.

While that may be your workflow, that is almost never what any customer cares about or makes decisions based on. What they care about is how you are going to help THEM, by how much, and at what cost. The actual workflow is rarely even secondary, it usually the last step/usage thing post-buy decision for the vast majority of people.
I use Microsoft Authenticator because it backs up my 2FA accounts to my iCloud and I believe to Microsoft's servers on Android. If you lose those you're in trouble. I'm sure there are other options that support that now. When I moved everything that I could over, the open source options didn't support this. If I wasn't happy with the best open source solution, I wanted to use something from a large vendor that would be well supported. Any vendor not named Google at least, I have the least amount of trust in them among the 500 pound gorillas.

If you want to get ahead of this and save your accounts I've been using MS Authenticator for years now and am very happy with it.
You can use CarPlay simulator for development without being enrolled into the program.
Wouldn't that cast be UB because it is type punning?
I've read a ton of speculative fiction over the years (I'm in my mid 50's) but had never gotten around to reading anything by Ursula Le Guin. One day whilst catching up on some anarchist reading I found The Dispossessed listed in a "top x books for anarchists" or some such thing. And it seemed like no better time than at that moment to dip into the Le Guin's work.

I decided I'd start reading her scifi novels in near chronological order and began with The Left Hand of Darkness which I found devastatingly good. This is the one mentioned in the interview where Genly Ai the observer is embedded on a planet where the humanoid species are in the main genderless and only become male or female during a period of "kemmer" to reproduce. I can't do it justice here but I couldn't put the book down.

Next up were the three previous novels; Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile and City of Illusions. These are contained in a handy single volume published under the S.F. Masterworks imprint. All of these are also excellent novels, if a little short.

I've just started The Dispossessed and thus far it's holding my attention.

I think if you've never considered reading Le Guin's scifi then I can definitely recommend from the limited sampling I gotten through so far. Some folks might be put off by how old these novels are, but Le Guin cleverly shy's away from using technology as a plot driver (perhaps with the exception of the "ansible") so they don't feel dated. Her writing and story telling is as fresh today as it probably was back in the 60's and 70's.

Also, and I almost forgot, Le Guin's short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" which is quite disturbing and thought provoking.
It is very common to arrange your life so that you are able to 'hand in' all work devices and walk away. Its a seperation of work and home life that is very healthy, and a reasonable self-protective measure.
More "real world" complications: how far does the rope stretch, and how far does the goat stretch?

I ran a goat for years on a 300ft runner cable, with a 20ft chain sliding freely on that. She worked out how to tie some incredible knots. I had to cut down two trees on the run because she figured out how to use them as fulcrums to lever the carriage link open.
No it's not. It's applying a philosophical razor. That is, claiming an age is decadent is an unfalsifiable claim. Therefore it is a meaningless claim.

If you cannot produce a test by which your claim fails, in this case criteria that would meaningfully distinguish an age as not decadent then your hypothesis isn't worth pontificating.

Claims of "decadence" by historians have a funny way of aligning with a narrative a historian is trying to tell about a people or place. It is uncanny how often the claim is made by some older historian who doesn't like the new hair styles or new lingo or new political positions of a younger generation.

Edit: the philosophical razor here is what Mike Alder refers to as Newton's Flaming Lazer Sword

https://philosophynow.org/issues/46/Newtons_Flaming_Laser_Sw...
"the feminist bent (among other things) makes it feel incredibly modern - I remember being impressed it was written in 1969."

Artists, musicians, and writers are often on the cutting edge of cultural phenomena, and that probably goes double for those scifi writers who spend their lives imagining truly different future societies. It usually takes a while for mainstream culture (which tends to be far more conservative) to catch up... if they ever do.

I've been kind of out of touch with the current state of sci for decades now, and wonder what new visions of humanity I've been missing out on.

Would any informed scifi fans care to give a quick summary of recent developments?
Except that all my packages are out of date, and manually install a ton of stuff because of missing features or unpatched bugs. But it's a good first start.
> The original bug report was perfectly respectful

Describing someone else’s work and choices as ‘poor’, especially when you didn’t pay them anything for it, is disrespectful.
>today both women and men are of course taught that a career is much better, toiling for the dreams of another man.

What kind of awful garbage take is this? It's objectively false, people who willingly don't have children are saw as society as second class citizens who are thought of as pathological. The VAST majority of humans have children at some point in their lives. It's true that there's a larger amount of people who willingly forgo having children than in the past, but it's still an incredibly fringe way of life.

>I would know, because I grew up on one.

Not saying that nobody should ever raise children in a rural area but the majority of people I know who grew up in rural areas got heavily involved in drugs and/or alcohol during their youth out of boredom. So there's downsides as well.

The world doesn't have an infinite amount of farmland, you can't raise "a lot of children" on a farm and have their children raise "a lot of children" on a farm indefinitely without running out of farmland. That, by definition, makes it not "ideal."
> regex will consume all living tissue (except for HTML which it cannot, as previously prophesied)

This part gets me every time!
Does appimage not solve this problem? Linus himself released software by appimage the next year (2015).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppImage