skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We decide as a group what we owe people.

That's only if you believe that all moral systems are equally valid so whatever the majority wants is right. But I doubt you believe that, because the majority could decide something like "it's okay to rape girls under 15" or "all Jews belong in ovens".
I'm a hobbyist tig welder. 1-2% thoriated electrodes emit alpha particles that won't penetrate skin. It's really only a risk if you breath in a lot of the dust created by grinding the tip of the electrode to a point. That said, ceriated, lanthanated and pure tungsten electrodes are widely available.
There's many FOSS alternatives out there, they're just not as easy to find!

[1] I've been a Ubuntu user for 6 years and just got a Mac for work.
You know you can always write a check to the IRS? I don't think they'll complain about free money.
The last time I configured my DE was when I switched to Xfce 15 or so years ago. Since then, whenever I get a new laptop, I just copy my home directory from the old one to the new one and it just works.
“AWS EC2 Hosted Database”
Because the rule of law?
> More people believe the earth is flat now than did 100 years ago. That's an impact.

There are more blacksmiths now too. Don't underestimate the effects of population growth.
Just like XP was the best time with toy's are us UI, Vista was the best time due to DX 10 being Vista only, 7 was the best time for whatever reason I cannot remember anymore,...

Now Windows 11 will again be the best reason to migrate, and nothing will change yet again.
I noticed on crowded bike days in the city it’s a little like being on a conveyor belt. You can try to ride a little faster but because of traffic lights and other riders there is just a speed you are going to be limited to. This is the same as driving.
There's nothing Pi-specific to this
How Indigo, A Billion-Dollar Farm-Tech Startup Stumbled, Then Revamped
I think it may be a cultural thing — I don’t have the Smalltalk blue book with me, but I think this type of modification at runtime is very common in Smalltalk environments and languages related to it.
> There was folklore that said three terminations were needed to get things to work: two electrical, one on each end of the cable; and one termination of a rooster at midnight around five black candles.

A consultant I worked with claimed that a dog toy looking like a chicken would suffice - at least for early VMware upgrades but I suspect this has been going on for longer.

They'd even stitch it together and put it back on the shelf for next time.

He was very competent in a number of other things (database design and Java) so I have just taken his word for it.

The deity I worship cares less about chickens and more about behavior these days[1] so I cannot verify.

[1]: actually never actually did if my understanding is correct)
Starliner has a heat shield and a thruster that points in the correct direction... in the service module, which is dropped before landing.

Dragon has a very minimal trunk with no thrusters. As a result, the best thrusters it has are 30 degrees off.
There is something absolutely magical and enchanting about Dead-related shows. I went to dead & Company at Citi Field last week and seeing a parking filled with tents, converted buses, hybrid structures, and all sorts of creative mayhem was so refreshing and rejuvenating - it has the same electricity as a carnival. You meet folks from all walks of life, some are selling t-shirts or glass or prints they made, others just having a little stand set up to play singing bowls...I lived the road lifestyle and know its certainly no rose garden, with a not-insignificant amount of people falling into the ditch of drugs and debasement, but it's certainly presents a compelling and inspiring alternative to the world many inhabit.
Peloton issues disappointing outlook and cuts Bike price
Oh I love these yes please!
Yes. Thank you. "free" in the land of "unfree" in the west where we equate free to surfing the net, shopping for infinite products compartmentalizing paradoxes as we go - working ourselves to death even though we don't believe in any future.
Social media makes you feel productive even when you are not
Didn't Apple require that apps must allow for at least some functionality without external signup? I seem to recall that that was an issue for the "Hey" email client.
I agree. Optimistic locking is more akin to an atomic CAS operation than a lock. The usage of the API is the same; if the compare fails, fetch again and retry in a loop. (Incidentally, it doesn’t experience the ABA problem because nobody writes a lower lock_version unless they wait until the field overflows and wraps around… !).

Nobody would call CAS a lock. If your system only uses CAS, it should rightly be called “lock-free”.
This may be explained by Simpson's Paradox. Something similar happened in Israel, if you look at the raw case numbers for the current wave, it looks like the vaccine only has a ~67% efficiency:

https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-...

The UK and Israel both have very high vaccination rates of older people, and lower fully vaccinated rates of younger people. Someone who is 75 most likely has a much weaker immune system than someone who is 25, to the point where someone who is 75 and fully vaccinated may have a much harder time fighting the virus than someone who is 25 and unvaccinated.

The data from Israel if broken down by under and over 50s, shows the vaccine efficiency is 92% for under 50s and 85% for over 50s. Israel mainly used Pfizer though, where as the UK mainly AstraZeneca, so there could also be differences there.
I'm surprised they didn't mention computing power when introducing induced demand.
Strangely Accurate AI Predictions from Blurry Medical Scans Alarms Researchers
I like scripts I write to be usable on both Linux and NetBSD. When using Linux I use cross-compiled copies of NetBSD userland utilities from the toolchain, e.g., sed, grep, awk, hexdump, lex and yacc, because I have this irrational worry about subtle differences/incompatibilities I might accidentally introduce when I write scripts while using Linux. The funny thing is I never have this concern when writing scripts while using NetBSD. I always expect they will work on Linux. I have always thought it would be cool to be able to cross-compile more NetBSD userland utilities as static binaries for use on Linux, besides only those included in the toolchain.
The most important example of that class of error is REFERER. It should have been spelled REFERRER. But nobody caught it, and you really can't change something that is part of the HTTP standard...
> If I wanted to live under US laws and cultural expectations I’d move there.

If I didn't want to be poor, I'd just be rich instead!
http://archive.today/HyYKk
He's not a native Russian speaker, despite many years of following the Soviet/Russian space program.
Looks like cult paraphernalia. Probably because it is.
A more suitable headline for the original article would have been: "US developers' lawyers agree to settle potential class action suit". I wish they didn't. There are important and rather easy wins to be attained (e.g. I don't see how the Apple Payment requirement could survive a trial).

Developers could still object to the settlement[0]. That way, Apple will still be bound by its concessions, while the suit goes forward.

[0]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28323992
Dozens of Mortgage Lenders Showed Significant Disparities. Here Are the Worst
I'm the US copyright is to allow creators control over their creation, for a time, presumably so the can monetize it. This incentives creators to create. Yes, in the long run, public domain wins. But so do the creators.
Forcing them to sell to everyone takes a lot of control away from the copyright holders.
As I understand it (I do not know that much about it), Cosmos is a multitool with features to fit many, many use cases.

You must be diligent to develop your application to use it efficiently from both a cost and performance/latency perspective.

Those that put in the work may not love it, but they are very successful at operating at scale. Massive, insane scale.
Data Shapes the Uber Rider App
Who do you want to take your money?

Someone wrote bash. There's no company behind it. It's mostly just Chet. How do you want to pay Chet? I'm not sure he even accepts donations.

Looking through my bash history to see what I use most often, I think of the OpenSSH devs wrote ssh. Then I think that lots of volunteers wrote Emacs. Oh, oauthtool, I use that often. I should figure out who wrote that. I suppose there's all of the Linux hackers who wrote each part of my kernel. Mercurial as my git. Hey, I wrote parts of that, so at least my debt there feels paid. Ah, there's the Mate developers who forked from Gnome 2 long ago and are now mostly doing basic maintenance on that codebase. Some GNU hackers wrote each of the coreutils but that was long ago and someone else is maintaining them now. Oh, Firefox, of course, the OS-within-an-OS. That also has its own few hundred hackers over the decades that should be paid.

How am I supposed to be paying all of the thousands of people who each wrote a little part of my OS? Apple didn't pay all of the people who wrote the free parts of their OS either. Did you?

There simply is no societal structure in place to pay the people who wrote this stone soup of an OS.
A part from special cases (like bank apps), you have to always allow users to sign up in app. And if you allow to do that through identification providers other than email (eg. Google or FB), you have to provide Apple sign-in too.
Yes. I personally believe our job as parents is not to make our kids "happy" but to prepare them for a good life in their future (whether that's good, bad, zombie wars, alien takeover, etc).

So most of the time should be spent with teachable moments.

I don't mean being stern with your kids. Don't get it twisted.

I means even if you and your kid are enjoying a movie, pick the movies that teach some "real" lessons, not the Disney bulls*it.

It means if you are playing soccer out in the streets you're having a grand old time, but you're teaching your kid how to kick the ball with the side of their feet.

It means if you're playing music with your kid, you're telling them about the musician's life.

It means if your kid is coming to work with you, you're giving her something to do so she learns how your business works.

It means having deep conversations with your kid when you talk to him.

It means even as you congratulated your kid on catching their first fish, you already taught them how to tie the line to the hook and attach the worm.

Every moment you spend with your kid needs to be something that helps them -- WHILE HAVING FUN.

For that, you don't need to think you're a bad father, fathers are supposed to teach kids how to be moral, how to be honest, how to take responsibility. How to be valuable to the world.

Mothers are supposed to teach kids empathy.

Don't let society or TV tell you how much time you need to spend with your kids. That's up to you and your family, not some arbitrary thing that others tell you.

But above all, make sure the time you spend with them is very useful.
No, I would rather them kick out the family, child and all.

To do otherwise incentivizes bad behavior. Worse, it externalizes the problem from a societal one (building more housing) to an individual.
gonna go ahead and collect my 2.77 from a future class action, who else is in? lol
> Do you use your mouse for gaming? Image manipulation?

Yes, often, and yes, sometimes. The "wake up" thing is a problem I remember having from one of the wireless rodents I had in the past and it was definitely frequent enough to turn me off. Granted, improvements in this and in battery life have surely occurred over the years, but I've never had a problem with a cord getting in the way (are you pointing your mouse backwards sometimes?), so that's not something I need solved. I'll just stick with wired mice for now and the foreseeable future.
Daily life is not affected at all, even economic is same or maybe better after Chinese tourists stop coming to Taiwan for general public.

To be honest, the overall situation is usually better then I expected, international/domestics politics, economic, etc.

Do war breaks out tomorrow? I don't know, it could be, but it never happened in these years even though they threaten every year to subdue us.
>- Thus, we can't have third-party billing, because that would let developers evade payment for our software review.

Except for having to buy a Mac to do development in the first place. And the developer registration yearly fee.
And you've made no tweaks or changes in the 15 years since? I have changes to my dot files on a constant basis (not to mention changing hardware needs).
When I worked for a shop running windows powered CNC machines, an update broke a bunch of more updated machines one of our partner shops used, dozens of shops were affected by this.

It took a few hours for Microsoft to fix the problem, they responded within a half hour or so of the first complaint.

Two days seems like a long time for Microsoft to respond when commercial customer's businesses are at stake. Say what you want about Microsoft, i don't really like them, but their enterprise/commercial support is honestly pretty top notch, I'm really surprised it took them that long to get on top of that considering the calibre of customers involved.
There's a Kaufland at Alexanderplatz in Berlin.
As Tim Cook celebrates his 10th anniversary as CEO, Apple faces fresh challenges
This is a very important distinction. I realized over time that what I wanted out of work was not a job where I lived at the stupid office, but not one where I was twiddling my thumbs all day either. I really want to put in serious work, but then go home.
This is pretty much same thing as other websites in general. While the content is entertaining and good enough to watch it is not consistent enough to pay for.
I have all of my students read this and we have had many spirited discussions on the contents. A great motivator for someone at the beginning, middle and end of their careers! Here's my take: https://shrirang.karandikar.org/2019/10/27/you-and-your-rese...
It's not missing the point at all.

"significant commercial application": you have no idea how many downloads or users of Ardour there are.

"mercurial set of cross-platform moving targets": precisely what is addressed.

"nontechnical users": that's a new constraint not present in the original description, but probably not much of an issue if you're discussing a specialized tool rather than a "desktop" application.

"hardware ecosystem": completely irrelevant to the case in question.
Surely not every road or destination is going to have bike lanes, so isn't everyone going to have to mix with traffic eventually anyway? Having them in some places but not others is just confusing for everyone involved.
What I hate about Gnome is that it's almost perfect but its paradigm includes huge huge window borders.

Oh well, on the plus side there's an actually perfect desktop out there already: i3. And sway potentially. I do miss Gnome's full-assedness (attention to detail and their strong opinions/focus) sometimes.
On the flip side for Apple users we get up 100 Hide My Emails in iOS 15 with the same functionality.
Fun Fact: everyone born is in terminal decline.
A roll your own open source method works if you have a good low level understanding of what you are listening to and can organize your own alarm thresholds and groupings etc. Dealing with a large number of modbus/BACnet endpoints with vendor specific device profiles and PLC logic means the vendors backend systems will handle events and trend paterns better than what most facility teams can put together. However, the history retention data by itself will have more flexibility to do it yourself, I do agree with that.
*Linus Torvalds quote
Do you mean a contiguous, legal parcel of land or a more natural division, like valleys, mountaintops, coastlines, etc.?
Again, time. The faster vehicle occupies more road but for a shorter time. That fast car down the road and that closer/slower bicycle both occupy relatively similar amounts of roadway in comparison to multi-person vehicles like busses. The fastest way to move people down a given lane is to cram them into trucks army style and then drive slow enough that each truck leaves minimal time between each. A lane can then handle a 50-person truck every 5 seconds, or 10 people per second. That's far more than can be pushed through on individual bikes riding in pairs.
> I manage hundreds of linux servers... from my windows desktop and mac laptop.

Exactly. Except I am quite pleased how OpenOffice is right now, but I digress back to agreeing with you.

I use Linux everywhere, just rarely on bare metal. All the linux I use is in memory somewhere. My bare metal machine recreational and general use machine is Mac. It runs Windows but it hasn't in two years.

The OS isn't the hill I'm here to die on. Its just the fact of life.

Gimp. I shudder at the thought. Honestly at this point, I feel the same about Gimp as I do about people clinging onto to pre-subscription Photoshop. Its like these arbitrary and clueless bragging points they now both have to rationalize life choices - whether it is an attempt to stick it to the man because they became the get of my lawn people resistant to change without realizing it, or because they actually can't afford it and this is also a byproduct of their life decisions. In either scenario, there seems to be a lack of observation that the commercial products are lightyears ahead now and there is no point in intentionally inconveniencing yourself for a cause nobody else cares about.
The Raspberry Pi 4 is barely a real computer, and hardly comparable. The Honeycomb has faster interconnect with practically everything on the board, so can handle a video card, serious networking and storage performance, etc.
It's not uncommon, actually, including in San Francisco, where there are many examples. As others elsethread have said, though, it's just not as easy or affordable as you'd expect. Here's a recent SF Chronicle article discussing it: "S.F. has nearly 16 million square feet of vacant office space. Why can't it become housing?", https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/S-F-has-nearly-...
> Up until May of last year the United States didn't even have human launch capability

NASA could have kept the Shuttle after 2011 if there were no other options. They figured they could rely on Soyuz for a few years until Starliner and Crew Dragon were ready. It's worth noting that during this time Roscosmos, like a true capitalist, jacked up Soyuz seat price to $90 million from the low of $21.3 million - [0]

[0] - https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/10/13/nasa-uses-final-purcha...
I have a similar tool here

https://github.com/89z/mech
I'd be willing to pay 5€/mo for ad less youtube. That can't be achieved by patreon in any shape or form and youtuber merch is pretty cringe.
I live next to a urban high school. In the before “school from home” times they installed a bike lane, then immediately had to install a lot more bike racks. These kids can’t drive and if they could there is no parking lot. I think it’s great.
> which provides two fallbacks if the binary on their website doesn't work for whatever reason

I wasn't addressing the fallbacks in any way.

> My experience with software development for big enterprisey customers is that you figure out what distros most of your customers are going to be using, and you test on those distros.

This is their mistake. If you instead understand how applications run on Linux in general, you can do what Ardour (and Firefox and many, many others) do: create distro agnostic binary installable versions. We don't test every distro - we don't need to. We design the package so that if certain extremely minimal conditions are met, the package will run. Firefox has done the same (even if many people use the distro version instead).
There was a lot of discussion on HN about Parlor ban. I was supportive of the ban because Jan 6 memories were fresh - over the months I've been re-evaluating my position. Not about Trump, but about civil liberties and the machinery that allows peaceful debate, freedom of expression and right to dissent.
the NFT is just a dumbass complication and doesnt add anyhting. people have been selling exploits forever. its like saying ill paint the instructions onto a canvas and sell it
The name "real numbers" predates the first formal definitions.

The philosophical debate that I pointed to predates the general acceptance of the standardization of the modern definition of the reals.

Now standard definitions literally makes no sense within constructivism. You talk about constructing familiar mathematics, but are using non-constructions that depend on questionable and questioned notions of absolute truth.

What I described is as close to standard mathematics as you can come within a constructivist framework. The tradition of calling such constructions "the real numbers" may be new to you, but is actually over a century old.
You can also pay competent developers to add it: https://libreoffice.cib.de/
Even easier if almost all users unite in crowdfunding.
Yes, this solution make sense. Find a way for them to get the issues into Excel.
Was this in the US? In both PRC and Taiwan the government guaranteed the profits of factories that retooled to make medical masks.
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> I expect everything for free, then that’s both unrealistic and parasitic.

There are plenty of youtubers who do videos as a hobby with no money and the videos still are amazing. Then there are plenty of youtubers who only make 10 minute videos so they can get as many ad breaks as possible and add sponsor ads in the videos and the video quality and content is just terrible.
The problem with that stance is that you would require ever more control, ultimately ending up with it being impossible to maintain.

There has to be slack built into society to prevent such issues. Currently it's getting ever more removed, in the name of efficiency or profit.
> I think a better way to limit mindless engagement would be the ability to pre-set and lock in which content I'm going to watch for the day. So maybe I lock in that I want to watch a movie or 3 episodes of show X, and then Netflix shuts down for the day afterwards. Maybe it could even warn that episode 3 is the first part of a two-parter and suggest I stick to two episodes for the day.

This is the right approach (giving the user tools that increase their agency) and the equivalent of the Digital Wellbeing features in Android.
Could you please email hn@ycombinator.com? I'd like to send a repost invite.
opshine
I prefer to not use a feature instead of using a hostile one.

In my more than 20 years of journey in the free software world, I never came across a user hostile free software.
This is in stark contrast to proprietary software I tried.
Honestly, I think they should've fully changed the name while at it. youtube-dl is such an antiquated name that doesn't even fit the tool anymore, as it now supports thousands of sources.