skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which does not contradict what I said:

> Of course IDE only allowed two devices on a bus, with generally only two buses.

Most motherboards only had two buses, which each bus have two devices. Adding another card would allow another 2x2 drives.

Adding a SCSI card would have allowed for another seven devices (later fifteen). Most folks though didn't need that many at home.
Please omit nationalistic flamebait from your posts to HN, regardless of which nation you have a problem with. It leads to nationalistic flamewars, which are tedious and nasty so we don't want them here. Instead, please make your substantive points thoughtfully.

Your comment would be fine without the first paragraph.

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apparently the average viewer spends 41 minutes per day on youtube, so that's about 20 hours per month. 1 dollar per hour is pretty cheap when it comes to entertainment, no?
"don't know" = it's in that gray ares where the more sympathetic person will probably win in court.
You're not wrong (you're probably right in the context of the article which focuses on "desktop from MacOS"), but in my opinion here we're once more generalizing too much => I think that being happy with Linux and as well distro [X] is linked to the type of work you do & the type of person you are.

On one hand telling a random MacOS/Winows-person to switch to Linux is most probably NOK.
Image&video editing & office apps and probably other stuff (doubts about audio apps - I loved Linux+"Jack"+filters when playing guitar as an amateur) are not as good as on those OSs.

On the other hand telling the same to a techy guy/girl >might< be OK. E.g. a huge amount of programming languages can be installed & handled very easily, many different filesystems (with their pros&cons) are available, same for networking stuff (e.g. Wireguard, nfs with multiple connections since kernel ~5.3, bundle multiple separate TCP/IP connections together, etc...), same for virtualization technologies(Xen, KVM, multiple container flavours), etc... is available to be installed&configured&used quite easily, a lot of stuff can be read/dealt through "/sys" and "/proc" (makes it easy e.g. when reversing-engineering a controller), etc... . It's literally "dreamland" if 1) you wish for something like that (or maybe you aren't even aware that something like that can be done easily on this SW-level) and 2) you're able&willing to invest time in it.

E.g. in my case, on the desktop, I'm super happy with Linux+Gentoo; I guess because I'm a pure techy guy + picky hehe:

I don't have a strong need for any "office" app (Libreoffice is more or less ok for the basic stuff that I need, graphics editing is more or less ok with the available apps), at the same time I want some things (e.g. placement of some windows when I start them, remapping of keyboard keys, ...) to be set up "just as I want them to be" which cannot work with Windows (and I'm excluding OSx by default as being too protective - e.g. bought many years ago an iPod nano 6th gen, could not copy to it files from Linux as the iPod storage was encrypted therefore I threw it away) => yes, Linux & the distro is not easy to handle, but that in turn made me learn a lot of stuff, which in turn made me able to handle a lot of extra stuff (e.g. recently to install ~20 different DBs to do tests & in some cases proof-of-concepts, to understand better networking & tunnels to then work around limitations at work, a lot more stuff...), which in turn made me able to handle as well servers.
flatpak and snap feel so heavy - the startup times are reason enough to dislike them
I think GP was suggesting that if you limited office space in the large cities, businesses would be priced out, which would reduce demand on housing.
If your primary concern is runway with the cash you have, I would not recommend tying up a massive amount in buying a house.

A $200,000 house would be 200 months of runway at $1,000 a month. And it’s not like you can actually live there for free. You still have property tax, utilities, maybe repairs, maybe HOA.

Then you also have less flexibility to move or scale down if you decide to go for a cheaper place. Every home transaction has a 6% fee just for the real estate agents on top of any other fees, and your house could also lose value.
Really, it's for the better. Languages change naturally over time and institutions like for French or Korean have little bearing on that. It's better to have style -guides- than to try and enforce usages of a language that differ from how it's actually used in real life.
My favorite thing about booting up my windows partition is that I immediately have to restart for updates.
You can have something that aids convenience/productivity and not correctness. You can also have something that aids correctness that increases developer convenience/productivity. I treat static typing as the latter.

Edit: Btw, the github.com/sorbet/sorbet project is really well run and surprisingly easy to get into. I've been drafting PRs. C++ is not nearly as rough as I remember from decades ago.
Wouldn't it be more likely that this [multiple sclerosis] is the cause of your symptoms?

More likely than "immunosuppressing medication that wipes out the B cells in my bloodstream"?
Do they ever sue you tho? Don't the judges have any common sense?

How about you get your friends oversquat the squatters? Who are they going to sue now?
You can look at the network tab of your browsers dev tools. You can see everything being exfiltrated that way.

In fact, that's pretty similar to the technique that you'd use to check on a local app too, except it's built into the browser.

I'm not particularly interested in convincing anyone that some app is or isn't leaking their data. If you don't want to use web stuff, don't use it. But I do take issue with assertions that 100% of all web apps must be doing that kind of stuff. It's obviously not true. You can develop your own web app from scratch that doesn't do it, which is sufficient to form a counter-example.
Yeah, i never trusted cable select either - jumpers every time.
Needs to be a role for the fire marshals. They don’t usually get the same praise as the firefighters, because they usually aren’t jumping in at 2am to diagnose and fix a pre-fire. Also can appear to be “slowing the team down”, and maybe so, but better than speeding into flames sometimes.
those software you mentioned that are on Linux are opensource. You're really comparing corporate developed software to a software that was developed by a community for free. It's like you're comparing apples to oranges. And this statement is really old, I've seen it in years. Linux apps are better now and gives more functionality and control than bloated apps on Windows and Mac.

Of course, Gimp will never be close to Photoshop because it never aimed to be
+1

~8-9 years of Ubuntu + i3 (and 11 years on Ubuntu in total), on 4 different laptops (3 Thinkpads), all using the same set of dotfiles and working stably for years.

Installing Linux on a laptop is pretty much painless these days. Also, the neat thing about being able to (re-)store my configs / dotfiles is that I can run my install script on any machine and 5 minutes later the entire machine is completely set up and feels like one of the machines I've been using for years. Back in the 2000s I went through the process of reinstalling Windows a bunch of times and I still remember how painful that was because after installation everything had to be reconfigured and customized in some GUI, which would take hours and never result in quite the same setup I used to have. Now with Linux I've been using the same setup for the past 10 years across machines. (Which is nice as it allows me to tweak my settings over time.)
I already pay $24 NZD for YouTube Premium. I'm simply using SponsorBlock to get the actual experience that payment implies - no ads.
whats your data source for options data? is this intraday, real time? or historics?
(special credits to Sam Shleifer and Huggingface team for the model and infrastructure)
Interesting idea! I wonder if this provides additional visualisation than just a line graph with a horizontal axis of Jan-Dec. Wouldn't it show the same differences year to year?

I looked for a CSV of the data that created the chart, but I failed.

And perhaps the polar chart gives a false impression of higher values being much worse than they are, because the area is skewed so large the further out it is.
Iridium is commonly used in jewelry; it's one of the platinum group metals.

It doesn't have the mass awareness of gold, but it's not some weird niche material either.
Not really. They have been working on this Lyme disease vaccine since 2017.
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar like this. It's generic and predictable, and therefore off topic.

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Psst. We're trying to keep YouTube from turning into cable TV. Please don't interfere.
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>Also, it has an implicit constructor from `const std::string` and `const char *` allowing you you define a single function like `Thing ParseThing(std::string_view line)` and accept `char *` and `std::string` as an input.
that's good, maybe it will slow down global climate change... /s
I assume cops don't care and leave it to the court systems
after brief hiatus, an upgrade:

https://hackaday.io/project/167056-fetch-a-ferrofluid-displa...

from fetch V1 :

https://hackaday.com/2019/12/10/tracking-wasted-time-with-a-...
> A comedian (David Mitchell) once joked that he's proud of the UK's terrible service reputation. It doesn't seem honest or appropriate for service staff to be so happy and enthusiastic, why would they be? There's very little to be happy about.

I remember watching this episode on TV but I haven't the faintest idea what the show was called... though it was incredibly funny
At the moment Docker and Kubernetes are the reason I’m using Linux at work. Without those I’d just use the M1.
US gov agency awards $50M coworking procurement contract to 5 firms
The same excessive Copernicanism can be seen in the notion that extraterrestrial intelligences should be common in the universe. One even sees the argument made that if you think humanity is unique it must be because of religious sentiment.
I'd largely agree on the Balkans, though the trick would either to be in one of the large cities, or in the real countryside. A lot of the smaller cities are pretty depressing. I've been to every country in the Balkans except for Romania (which barely qualifies), and in terms of bang-for-your-buck, Tirana is probably one of the more interesting cities. It has less gritty big-city feeling (if that's your thing) than Sofia or Belgrade, but still a surprisingly nice central district (for Europe's second poorest country). I have even recommended it specifically for cases like this: it's a cheap place to hang out in Europe that feels genuinely European, but where the cost of living is more on par with Latin America.

Parts of Greece can also be surprisingly affordable (with much better infrastructure than Albania), particularly if you hit a place that's a summer hot-spot in the off-season.
This is a book review. The book itself certainly discusses Lemaître. For example, regarding the paragraphs that Lemaître removed from his own article,

> It turns out that Lemaître, who had translated his paper himself, had left out certain findings because he preferred not to distract readers from Hubble’s results, which were based on more extensive data. In his supreme modesty, Lemaître was little interested in what history would think of him. He only wanted the most accurate estimates to be available—which he believed were Hubble’s, not his.
They're all over the BBC article this post is about. In fact it reads like an informercial
but what of you can only afford it because of rent control? isn't that the actual discussion at hand, elderly people staying where they've lived forever because they can afford to due to rent control?
Write once run everywhere has really become a reality with Electron in a practical sense that wasn’t ever quite as real before.

A lot of mudslinging about performance but for a devoted team it’s very possible to build a solid web app.

Love what it’s done for software
> But considering the unusually conservative old boys club that seems to dominate alzheimers research

This seems like an interesting claim, worth substantiating? For someone with no knowledge of the field.
What’s the argument against this exactly?
Your doctor measures your healthiness and if you try to get insured, it’s priced accordingly.
Older driver feel like they’re being discriminated against? Just take a simulation like this and prove your reflexes are within their defined spectrum of acceptability.
There was no reason to slow down. Microsoft was deeply aware of the opportunity in mobile, long before iOS and Android scooped up that market.

But Ballmer and a "Windows everywhere" mentality held them back, with several massive failures and right offs on the orders of billions of dollars.

There was nothing natural about Microsoft's slow down in the OS market while the computing industry was going through profound form factor and OS changes, and rocketing sales, for a decade or so.
Was thinking the same, but perhaps better doors and a security system is easier?
I think that just means you’re not interacting with the 3/4 of large companies that are not in infotech…
After someone turns 30 (according to AAA [0]) their likelihood of entering an accident decreases until they reach ~70 years old.

[0] https://aaafoundation.org/rates-motor-vehicle-crashes-injuri...
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Can't blame you for keeping HN tidy. I honestly wasn't trying to bait anyone and definitely didn't expect that crazy tangent. Will hold my tongue on off topic quips in the future. Thanks for the tip on the community guidelines!
Would you please stop posting flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments to HN?

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
You unfairly called me hyperbolic.
I finished three novels already just this year (PoG, CP and UoW). Currently reading The State of the Art, which takes place in the Earth. Here and there I'm always wondering how much agency is realistically given to humans since Minds are just so powerful. This particular passage evoked this feeling one more time:

I wondered what the ship was up to. I did have an idea (wrong, as it turned out). The Arbitrary, like every ship I’ve ever met in Contact, loved intrigues and plots. The devices are forever using their spare time to cook up pranks and schemes; little secret plans, opportunities to use delicate artifices to get people to do things, say things, behave in a certain way, just for the fun of it. The Arbitrary was a notorious match-maker, perfectly convinced that it knew exactly who would be best for each other, always trying to fix the crew placements to set up as many potential couples or other suitable combinations as it could. It occurred to me that it was up to something like this now, worried that I hadn’t been sexually active recently, and perhaps also concerned that my last few partners had been female (the Arb always did have a distinctly heterosexual bent for some reason).
For instance, knowing that Corn doesn't supply absorbable niacin without nixtamalizaion, and diets dependent on corn tend to have large bouts of pellagra, is something that took hundreds of years to work out.

Walking into a corn fed post-apocalyptic future knowing that soaking your corn in ash water and hulling it prevents pellagra and improves the viability of your group is some handy knowledge.

This is also why rebuilding a web page after deleting it is so much faster the second time around. You've solved problems on the first go round that weren't apparent when you started.
Lots of governments have spent billions of dollars trying to build the next Silicon Valley. Shenzhen and arguably Taipei succeeded, but all the others failed. It's not as simple as just spending money; the people whose knowhow makes the endeavor possible have to decide to go there, and then they have to be in charge of it.

The Manhattan Project would have failed, as the German project in fact did, if Oppenheimer hadn't been a physicist, and if the US weren't full of Jewish refugees from Germany who just happened to be physicists. Its immense budget was necessary to its success, but not sufficient.
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Bent and twisted IDE cables was just as big a problem.

Jumpers worked reasonably well. Unless you somehow dropped one and didn't have a spare.
U.S. officials provided Taliban with names of Americans, Afghan allies
Also, SCSI drives were more expensive (but usually performed better), so most stuck with IDE’s limitations.
And yet instead of leading with that, you led the argument with "well the President of the country was able to get around so you're wrong."

And anyway, employment rate alone is one tiny sliver of the puzzle. A thousand factors influence employment rates, and general quality of life factors such as "I can navigate public spaces without someone lifting my chair up the stairs" are not measured by employment.

Further, the ADA was one example of activism making at least a slight improvement in the physical public conditions that people have to put up with. That was my point. All I'm saying is you don't have to just bow your head and accept the conditions that normative society thrusts upon you if you're atypical in some way. Activism can move the needle in a more accessible direction. Perhaps you can think of some better examples of this than the ADA.
Spoke with a ex-prosecutor now Judge. They couldn't possibly fight mafia there, but drug laws were extremely harsh. Basically cops just planted drugs and it was an instant slamdunk case.
Surprise surprise, I do software consulting.

Most of the prices you list are still roughly correct in 2021. It is getting easier to spend more here but the deals are still around.

I arrived back here for my fourth trip about a week ago with no plans to ever leave. My goal is to do a startup in the tourism sector here.

If you are in town write me an email
two ways of looking at things.
on the one hand, there's the view that society exists to take care of people, including letting grandma stay in her appartment if she wants to. on the other hand is the view that society is a competiton, grandchild against grandparent, and so on. one of these views is insanity.
iCloud mail servers: https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/23/apple-scans-icloud-mail-for-c...

They claim to not scan photos in iCloud. But they could turn this on today, and folks would have less concerns than the on-device scanning.
I recently made a map (using Generic Mapping Tools) of one of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, for one of my dad’s grad students to use in a paper. That would constitute a good example of where you couldn’t just tell my # of built structures (since at certain zoom levels, there are none!)
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> Rent control is one of those policies that sounds great as long as you ignore second-order effects and pretend the population and economy never change. In practice it just creates a different system of haves and have-nots while removing any chance for the market to compensate.

Meh, rent control has almost no effect on a market where there is enough housing. Ownership of housing has the exact same consequences as rent control, and is even more likely to have crazy NIMBYs preventing anyone from building new housing (looking at you the bay area).
South East Asia (except Singapore) certainly, but you’d need to wait for travel restrictions to end.
A much larger problem is the free, efficient movement of people and the matching of those people to opportunity. Proponents of rent control act as though the ability to stay in the old neighborhood for your entire life is an unqualified good, but most of us know from our own lives that it's not. You might want to move for a new job or a new relationship or for school or just because you're curious about living in a new city. Rent control ties you to one apartment while also reducing the supply of new units, which ensures you'll be tied to that one apartment for a long time, whether you like it or not.

It's easy to find examples of people who are thrilled that they were able to stay put, but what about all the people for whom that's a curse?
I completely agree with this assessment. I hate data-lock ins, from the proprietary applications, but the "open source" equivalents have inconsistent UI. Open Office, for example, never rebranded itself or had similar effects to MS Office.
You're giving the headline writers too much credit. They want clicks. It's their job to sex up the titles, our job to deflate them, and commenters' job not to take the bait.

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A large part of what HN is about is training ourselves as a community to respond to the interesting bits in a story and leave the provocative bits. That's a fancier way of saying what I just said about not taking bait. If you think about it, it's really a multi-year—or rather multi-decade—community project, for us to learn together not to be driven crazy by gimmicky shit.

No doubt gimmicky shit has always been with us, but the quantity of it that we all encounter in the internet era is orders of magnitude greater, so if we want to have a culture of interesting conversation, we don't really have a choice.
I prefer Mint Cinnamon, which feels like a better looking and more polished Ubuntu with saner defaults.
(I'm also very much only an interested citizen)

Yeah, that gets into the whole "take the space away from cars" thing.

My opinion is that in cities due to the much higher throughput of bike lanes it can also help reduce congestion, but if the bike lanes don't get used, e.g. due to a fractured network with "high-risk" shared road in-between or very unattractive gutter lanes, that doesn't really do anything. My hope is that cities would be aware of that and that it would only be a temporary thing, but the whole point that initiatives of Strong Towns and others like Not Just Bikes make (among others) is that many cities don't seem to have a clue on how to handle transportation, especially mixed-mode.
Do you have any concrete criticism or are you just spreading FUD? How do Windows or Mac OS provide better support for commercial development?

The reason Mac OS and Windows have more users is because of pre-installs. It is almost impossible for a regular user to find a PC with Linux preinstalled on it, so application developers ignore the platform.

Lots of companies have successfully built commercial GUI products on top of linux. However most of these products are specialist tools (e.g. EDA, video editor) or embedded. I don't see anything fundamentally wrong with the development or distribution tools.
That Fresnel reflector idea sounds super interesting.

Has anybody tried that?
The covid-19 scamdemic has damaged this planet in 18 months in ways the climate scam couldn't even dream.

The most effective solution to "climate change" is planting trees. Also the cheapest, but you can't spend trillions of dollars of taxpayer money out to your corporate buddies if you just plant trees!