skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah hate to admit my kids watched enough of that and the Australian Bluey in the past few months she says some words and phrases with a heavy British or Aussie accent. Just things like the word “no” or short phrases like “grab the tawch (torch aka flashlight)”.

It’s honestly offputting but I figure when she has more time with random American kids in playgroups she’ll sound like an American again sooner or later.
Can confirm "to-mah-to."
To top it off, ”communism” is an idea, a utopia: not one nation branding itself ”communist” has actually lived up to those ideals because of governmental collusion with capitalist entities and nations to enrich and empower private individuals.
I'm retired, and the college finance system was very different back in the mid-seventies when I went to high school.

The whole of our culture tells kids to go to college. All the adults around them are saying they have to. The skids are greased for them to do this. I don't think a seventeen or eighteen year old following this path without fully understanding the consequences is too surprising.
Just installed Fedora 34 on a new Lenovo AIO for my elderly parents. It took a max 5 minutes of attention from me (maybe 30 minutes elapsed?), including making the USB boot disk. Everything worked on first boot. Everything.

Also note that the move from Windows 7 (their old machine) to Fedora was no problem for them, since they were already using FireFox, Thunderbird and Skype. Their setup is so minimal there is virtually nothing they can do to break it (no accidentally installing malware anymore).

As for 'spend it with your family', I've spent countless hours 'with my family' trying to debug windows problems over the phone. No more of that now.

Years ago, I bought a new laptop for my other half.
Upgrading from windows 7 to windows 8.
She tried using Windows 8 for about a week and was so appalled at all the pointless changes (weird PDF viewer with no menus etc...) that she was very much relieved to have Fedora instead, and has never looked back since.
I’m the only one who find the role (and the name) “scrum master” shocking? First and foremost anyone’s can become a “scrum master” in a few weeks and get a certificate that proves it. I don’t take it seriously because of this. Secondly, we don’t have “linux masters” or “python masters” or whatever; why do we need the silly title of “x master”? Imho, it makes a disservice to the people who actually hold such role.
“And stable long-term storage is a large part of it.”

Warning: one part of that is to store them in the dark. Light, especially UV with its higher energy per photon, isn’t good for preserving paper, plastics and paints (that’s most of the stuff typically used in prints)

So, if you want to look at those prints, you may be better of ensuring new prints can be made then ensuring a print lasts for a long time.

If you’re not worried about the collapse of society, digital storage might be a good option (AWS Glacier or similar, ideally multiple providers plus a personal copy)

(are there standards for printing the bits of a .jpg with some redundancy added, to allow recovery of the .jpg from such a print? If so, making such a ‘print’ on good paper as the backup medium, and storing that in the dark, plus a good print of the image in the .jpg for human viewing might be a good option)
So we are back to the 19th century ?

Will they have their own money only usable there and pay their local employees with it too ? /s
Lots of cool stuff in this field. They are "ultrasonic tweezers" and ultrasonic should be in the title (of og article) to give more information and lead people in the right direction.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03015...

https://hackaday.com/2021/03/19/surfs-up-a-styrofoam-ball-ri...
Lately I have been trying out $200 range phones (with Android): the galaxy A31 for instance: it is the experience of a flagship phone from a few years ago. If the pinephone was that, I think everyone would be happy and yes, this is possible for $200. At least if you are Samsung?

So yeah, not flagship but close enough for a lot of people (side by side, the a32 vs s21, for me is not worth the 4x+ pricetag, as in the difference between flagship and not flagship is shrinking fast, ymmv), however...

The pinephone is worse hardware though (In almost all respects but the dipswitches) and the software, at this point, is really alpha quality mostly. But we know this: the promise it will run Linux smoothly on a phone is enough to buy one. It will take time but I would buy any phone that allows me to freely run multiple OSs new out of the box with all hardware supported.
Is Robinhood worth $35-40B? Comparison to $COIN here
> Fact is: Developers are incapable of self organising, and would drown overnight without management's stiff hand.

If that's true in an organization, its only because either management has failed to hire developers that can self organize, or management has constructed structures and incentives which inhibit self-organization by developers. Usually, both. Often deliberately, because line managers are often more comfortable passively recieving directives from above and crafting directives for below than any other mechanism of management, since this minimizes conflicts with those in organizational power positions.
The fish knife makes it much easier to separate the flesh from the bones cleanly. But the fork is only there for etiquette indeed.
This is absolutely hilarious and illuminating at the same time. Don't think I'll be able to look at butterfly pictures without remembering this article.

It's also a great example of what I'd consider good HN content. Not necessarily useful or anything, but it certainly tickled my curiosity.
> Do you mean Pine64 has no intention of trying to control what people do with the device?

Explicitly not trying to control what you do makes up the majority of their business model.
I would not contribute to something framed as a graveyard, because the name implies commemoration of your loved ones.
If you ever want to be successful, your way will be paved with the corpses for your side-projects. You killed each one yourself and learned from it. Not a single tear shed.
S3 "Should have been called Amazon Unlimited FTP Server"
You were talking about priests of a new stoner breed and a burnt offering to the freedom seed, or something like that.
What is an example of a command line string that is split differently by Shell32 and MSVCRT? In D, we use CommandLineToArgvW. I'm guessing it's related to Unicode?
One of those places in Hyd by any chance? That city is famous of this.
I used to be quite excited for the mill. But nowadays I don't believe it will go anywhere. The mill has been in development for almost 20 years and it has literally nothing of substance to show for it. Not even something you can run on an FPGA.

For reference when the mill project was started Intel was releasing pentium 4.
> The package format is entirely static.

...what does this even mean?

Are all the packages linked without dynamic dependencies? That doesn't seem to be the case, since maintaining build rules for enough statically linked packages would have a bus factor of way more than 0, as the project claims.

Is it that the package manager's packages are all stored in a git repo? Tons of package managers nowadays do that.

Is it that the package manager's package definition use a custom format that is not well specified and has enough features to make parsing non-trivial, just because the author doesn't want to use jq or write their own json parser in shell? How is this pile of files more static than json?

If it's none of those things this just seems like a buzzword thrown in for no particular reason.
Maybe the US and Canada have too much retail space per person. The US has 23.5 square feet per person, Canada had 16.8, Australia has 11.2 and the rest of the world has less than 5 square feet per person. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1058852/retail-space-per...
Probability is higher than what? Librem 5 is already there, whereas next Pinephone is not really on the horizon.
Wikapedia – Ape Together Strong
I just went to Gunkanjima (“battleship”) island in Nagasaki, Japan. At one point it was the most densely populated area on earth.

It was used at the villain backdrop in the 007 movie.

The history of the island is that it was owned by Mitsubishi mining company during Japan’s industrial revolution thru World War II. There they mined coal from the seabed.

Apparently, some 40% of miners died. There also used forced labor from prisoners of war. Japan is filled with UNESCO heritage sites, and this site is one of them, but it’s bid was met with criticism.

In these small towns in Japan, the industrialists and barons have statues erected for them, but the story of the common worker is often lost and not presented during these tours.
The best Sunday content, I'd say.
ProcessHacker (https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/) is also a worthy competitor to the Process Explorer.
Honestly, if they were actually a government mouthpiece it'd probably improve the quality of the BBC's Covid reporting at this point. They seem to be pushing this idea that everything the government is doing is wrong and incompetent, and they don't think it violates their standards in any way to publish claims that they know are false and then quietly pull them a month later with no correction after they've had the desired effect in order to achieve this.
There’s a difference between breaking down a complex technical problem in a few days (my approach) and doing it on the fly while doing a sprint planning. Most of Agile people want you to give estimates and simple dumb tasks that break down a complex one; this is fine... but hey, it will take me a week to do so! This is not OK for them (they want the estimate while doing the sprint planning).
Carriers in the US were recently caught selling e911 location data so you should probably assume that you're being tracked while carrying any device with an active cell network connection.
Like any other failed attempt so far, assuming that they manage to keep enough money around for delivering those improvements over the next few years.
20.04 on a Dell XPS.

Possible causing factors, java, spotify, or slack.
Do they close off the whole subway system?
Yeah that's what it says...
El Salvador's Bitcoin Beach project is a great example of people profiting from a debit based value network instead of a credit based financial system: even though both US and El Salvador had USD as the legal tender, it took $10 to remit $50 through the western union network.

Lightning network (which is using Bitcoin as a settlement network) is both dramatically lowering the fees and provides instant debit transfer from an El Salvadorian living in US remitting money to his/her parents in their village (or directly paying the rent / gas bills) instead of the parents needing to travel hours by bus to the city.
There are many big ego dudes that think they know what good UX is , they never do any usability tests. From my memory only Unity did real usability tests and for GNOME many-many years ago some student attempted to do something.

So IMO a dude that read some UX book is not entitled to "know better" what actual users need, especially people that do UX design for an app that they don't even use , so they apply dogmatic principles , remove features that were added because users asked for them( this happened at my work in the past too, designrers removed stuff , stuff that users asked for and developers spent a lot of effort to implement it , ex deleting more items at a time, because they think that repeting same 3 click operation over and over again is enoug.

UX should be done by competent people that actually used the programs or even better that test their designs with actual users.
Investments do not come out of nowhere.
There are speeches to the Senate that remain and address directly the problem of luxury imports draining Rome of precious metals. Monetary policies were of great import in Roman history and Roman politics. They absolutely knew what inflation _is_, although they didn't have a complete picture. But I don't think we do either.
The problem I see with various flavors of Agile is that they don't fit in particularly well with how things actually get done at companies.

For example, teams running Agile are very reluctant to give both a delivery date and a fixed set of features. They're willing to promise one or the other, but not both. And that's a problem, because the whole rest of the organization really wants to know when they can announce the release to customers. Planning for releases tends to be a really big deal, the pressure to make promises of both functionality and delivery dates is very strong.

Also, Agile methodologies tend to assume you are in close contact with the customer, who can tell you what they actually want and decide how things should work. But this is rarely the case; typically you have a PM or something like that who is in touch with the customers, and is supposed to understand what they want. But this person is rarely senior enough to actually make decisions; important decisions are made by a dev manager or a project lead or someone like that, with the PM just providing input and perspective.

Finally, Agile has this notion that everything is supposed to be handled informally, verbally, person to person. And that's fine for small tweaks to the product. But as soon as you start building something big enough that it takes months and crosses team boundaries, it gets really useful to have an actual document explaining how something is supposed to work. Such a document is an invaluable record on what has actually been decided, and anyone joining the project or wanting to contribute to it absolutely should read it. But Agile tends to discourage creating such documents in the first place.

Given that Agile clashes so hard with how actual organizations get things done, it rarely gets adopted in anything approaching a pure form. The practices that tend to get picked up might be called Agile-light: sprints, daily meetings, and task estimation in points.
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Spot on.

I stopped using social media because I was sick of having this critic in my brain constantly judging if an experience is worth posting on social media.

Of course this is a huge trade off with not knowing what my elderly neighbor at a cottage I never go to had for lunch.
Thanks for the encouragement! Its comments like this that help me keep going. Good luck with your game, I'd love to know more when you are ready.
Gnome 40 is just about as usable as anything I’ve ever used. I honestly find it more intuitive than Mac or Windows at this point. My mom uses Linux now with zero problems, so it passes the anecdotal non-technical old lady test.
I find 13 inch laptop screen to be the best. I can’t understand all the people plugging 2 huge monitors to their laptop.
Presumably yen, being a smaller unit of money, would have the prices spread out over more logs. So Benford's law might be a better fit.
Libhydrogen ?
There are other problems with the article but currency exchange shouldn’t substantially affect the distribution.
True, i love to type "apt upgrade" instead of Windows Update...restart, update firefox, update libreoffice, update XY, why is latop slow? Ahh windows defender...update nvidia driver...life is just to short for not having a package manager ;)
> Yes YAML is a terrible choice, but his point is still correct. Use a standard format ...

As I said in point 4 above: So, if you're going to advocate for a well-known format that everybody can use, it makes little sense to advocate for YAML.
Interesting story.

Property and ownership: bad. But he accepts handouts and gifts (private property, and transfer of ownership).

If property and ownership were bad, he should consume only food and drinks that belong to no one, and not take shelter in someone's property (including the government's, on which he's freeloading while not paying any tax at all).

But hey, whatever works for him. If he makes it until they introduce UBI in Canada, he will be able to live 100% off other people's property for the rest of his life - no need to go thru trash bins in emergency situations!

Death to property and ownership!
Isn't Andrew Gelman's take more like "Look what they did, that's kind of interesting, what do you think?" rather than "look at this article, it is true"?
See also the comment section.
OTOH about $200 gives you much more from some other ... err ... proprietary vendors, lets say Xiaomi/Poco M3 Pro, with the possibility of alternative firmware.
The most ridiculous example of this is that I was forced to show ID to buy alcohol-free beer… To be fair the cashier also thought it was ridiculous but she couldn’t proceed without scanning some sort of ID in the system.
Couldn’t they fix this problem by instead attacking the gaokao and credentialism inhiring? The whole reason people tiger their kids into oblivion with tutoring is to score better on the gaokao because it’s a make or break for many poorer families if your kid gets into a top tier school.

All they seem to have done is push this underground. Are the parents who spend so much money on tutoring going to stop? No, I feel it’ll just become more of an informal cash business hiring people over DMs, etc because all of the hyperconpetitive pressures with respect to getting into a top ranked school have not disappeared.
Maybe when this crisis is over, those Linux devs should come one day earlier when trying to do presentations on our beamers, instead of showing us the configuration mighty of xrandr.
Maybe/hopefully it means that the package embeds only static data files that are simply unpacked and later removed, with nothing like dpkg's maintainer scripts or rpm's scriptlets.
>They seem to be pushing this idea that everything the government is doing is wrong and incompetent

Hard to cover this truth up completely. Did you think the UK got 128,000 COVID deaths by doing everything right?

They're giving a platform to Dominic Cummings (I assume you're referring to this?). For better or worse his claims would come out sooner or later. It's more controllable if it comes out via the BBC. Propaganda management is not all about pushing good stories and hiding bad ones it's also about damage control on negative stories and ideally owning the ones you won't ever be able to suppress.

By owning the story they were better poised to claim that Cummings was just a liar who was bitter about being kicked out, for instance.
Any chance for built-in live image stacking to get rid of the noise in still images?
Backyard Roller Coasters
I think the existing social networks are about as good as you are going to get. They are good enough for the majority, and the majority is strongly driven by price. A free service is going to win over any service you have to pay for.

Free leads to advertising. Advertising lead to algorithms tuned for engagement. Engagement leads to the garbage we have.
I'm an Australian, and of course am familiar with cockatoos. In fact a couple years ago the neighbourhood got together at Xmas, and discovered after a few drinks a cockatoo was running a protection racket on all of us. The guy across the road has his BBQ vandalised if he didn't feed them, we had our shoes torn apart, the mechanic next door has his tools stolen - and so on. Each household was targeted on a different day over weeks.

It is annoying, but I was secretly proud Australia had the imaginatively destructive birds on the planet. Then I went to NZ and found I was wrong. While I watched, a Kea took a a fellow tourists car. First the radio antenna was thrown to the ground. Then it attacked the gunk that holds the windscreen in. I left to do the tourist thing, and when I cam back some car window was on the ground, the seat upholstery was in shreds and car dash reduced to little pieces of plastic. Horrified, I rushed off to tell one local store owners, who just gave me "what can you do shrug". And this was just one bird in less than an hour. I'm not sure I could have got into that car so quickly without tools.

Later I noticed all the houses had everything more delicate that a 1" iron pipe covered in wire mesh - including the TV antenna's. (I have no idea why the antenna's still worked.) The place was like fort Knox.

They are the most amazing birds, and as you say come across as highly intelligent. Like all intelligent things, they can be remarkably deadly. Kea's have been know to eat and kill a sheep (in that order).
I'm really interested in the Mill architecture too, but I've always wondered what it's target market would be. Does it offer a power-performance-price profile that hasn't been serviced yet? Or maybe it's faster/cheaper/less-power all-round compared to any other general purpose CPU? It's hard to know without real performance metrics.
Qualcomm is a shitty company with terrible mainlining efforts and documentation.
Also curious nobody else tried to implement the core ideas independently in that time.
not as complete, but see also https://gist.github.com/miglen/f6eef81803a43dad434d

for AWS and GCP side by side in plain english
We had this since... 2000? But better.

Sandboxing is not the best solution. Too slow and too high level. The solution is Access Control (Rules) in the kernel, hooked into every kernel function call.

Example:
The kernel function for 'read some bytes from a file' is called by a user space process. The kernel function checks the access control rules first. Is this action whitelisted? Is the process x, started from user y, allowed to do this at a weekend, after the user did that other action? And so on.

That idea's most extensive implementation is RSBAC https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSBAC — the other and better known one is SELinux.

You should never try to ask a end user to set these rules. For RSBAC a specialist must configure the basic rule set for your system. Later a trained administrator can tweak the running machine if some special rules for a new software are needed.
he still uses money. Just indirectly, spent by others. He lives off the charity of other people.
> ZX Spectrum Next

And that's not slow?
To add to this: bad magic is magic that the user has to be aware of in order to use safely. Good magic is an implementation detail that the user doesn't need to know anything about.
They are doing that here in northern Spain as well with a giant logistics center being built. My YouTube is now full of ads on how great it would be to work in Amazon fulfillment
The difference between ASN.1 (BER/DER) and modern binary encodings is that people have tried to parse the former by hand but not the latter (at least to my experience). BER/DER itself is a fine encoding---sure, it has a legacy including six string types but we can deal with them---and in principle a simple library with bound checks should have been more than enough.

ASN.1 is however structured in a way that such a simple library looks like incomplete; it looks like that a correct way to parse BER/DER is an ASN.1 compiler, which tends to be bulky and annoying to integrate. As a result for a long time most ASN.1 implementations were either a "complete" ASN.1 compiler or a hand-crafted parser, with no middle ground of a library that is simple enough and prevents you from memory unsafety.
True. Unfortunately, the next person will ask about if this phone will have the same apps and games as they do on their iOS/Android device. They'll just say, does it have WhatsApp?, Netflix?, Instagram?, Snapchat?, TikTok?, Chrome?, 1Password?, etc, etc.

The fact that it has been admitted that 'it's slow, buggy, and flat out unreliable if you need to be able to receive / answer calls and texts for anything important' tells me that it is even worse than that 'Freedom Phone' since not only the PinePhone can't run the same apps as that, but it runs more sluggish than that.

I'd also write all of them off as garbage 'for now', since none of them can be recommended to the average Joe or Jane.