skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> hardware support alone, while better, still isn't up to what you get with the big two.

Ugh, not this again.

Apple's hardware support is fine because they only have to support a few bits of hardware. Microsoft's hardware support is fine because everyone (aside from Apple) sells their laptops preinstalled with Windows, and so of course they design them with Windows in mind, and test to make sure things work.

Linux's hardware support is also fine, if you buy your hardware with the intent to run Linux on it and look for something that's supported well, or buy something the manufacturer has built with Linux support in mind. All the "Linux hardware support is bad" stuff comes from people who already have a random Windows laptop or Mac and decide they want to run Linux on it, despite the fact that if they just did a quick web search they'd find a list of problems with their hardware.

Saying Linux's hardware support isn't good enough is like saying macOS's hardware support is not good enough, because you tried to run macOS on a random HP laptop. Run an OS on hardware that it supports well and your experience will be fine.

> UI is also not the stumbling block to Linux adoption

I agree that it's not the stumbling block, but it's a big one. The GNOME developers seem to like to completely change everything often, and break a bunch of things in the process. I don't know much about KDE; last time I tried it was in the late 90s. Xfce (which I use) is ridiculously stable (it's hardly changed at all in the 15+ years I've used it, and I think that's a good thing), but it's built by a very small team, and so it's always a bit behind on polish and covering all tasks with GUI tools. But I love it[0], and it works well and stays out of my way.

The other major stumbling block is commercial software distribution. Go check out a commercial software package's website, and unless it's Electron- or Java-based, you'll see one download each for Windows and Mac, and 10 different downloads for various distros and versions of Linux (if you're lucky!). I would hate to be the person who manages releases for all that.

I don't particularly mind, though: most of the software I use is open source and in my distro's package manager, and the few commercial apps I have work fine (because I run Debian, and most commercial apps will have a Debian download, or at least an Ubuntu one that can be made to work without much trouble). But that's just me, and an average user wouldn't want to put up with this.

Honestly, I'm afraid that too much desktop popularity would destroy Linux (and turn it into the ad-laden garbage that is Windows or the increasingly-locked-down prison that is macOS). I'm fairly happy with its current popularity, where hardware support and software availability are good enough for my purposes, but without the platform becoming too commercialized.

[0] Full disclosure: I was an Xfce core developer for 5 years in the aughts, so I'm a bit biased.
Interesting, I find the list of of ifs much less easy on the eyes. I wonder why that is.
I release maintain a small commercial open-source app (partner app for a piece of open source hardware), and I don't think people understand how burdensome "proper" Linux binary distribution can be until they actually try it.

Linux accounts for about 5% of my users, and for whatever reason the community thought it would be a good idea to fragment that minority further into Arch users, Debian users, CentOS users, OpenSUSE users, Ubuntu users (14, 16, 18 and 20, all with different glibc versions).

Modern tools like AppImage make this at least somewhat standard, but Windows has had sane, standardised installers for almost 3 decades now.
The wording makes it so you can send email blasts to free-tier users about signing up via an avenue that's not the App. Within the app itself, for digital items, you still cannot use other payment processors or even Apple Pay, and cannot allude to that fact.
Firejail?
I also feel like this is a buffer overflow waiting to happen. If somehow someone makes the header length way longer than expected (eg. referrrrrrrrrrrrrrer).
Would you also be opposed to a group of pensioners getting together and buying an apartment block, and renting it out to young people who have no savings? That way the pensioners have an income to live on — without slowly draining their savings — and the young people have a place to live without having to take out a huge loan.
California lawmakers grapple with whether to impose a Covid vaccination mandate
Keep in mind Palantir wouldn't exist without the efforts of Google, OpenAI, etc. Many of us in tech are unknowingly assisting the military industrial complex. I have seen such involvement actively downplayed in favor of more palatable government agencies who are mentioned all the time. The government created the Valley and continues to reap innovation from it.

Edit: I'll also add that there are thousands of little Palantirs you've never heard of, taking off the shelf tech, integrating it, and satisfying the needs of the 3 letter agencies. Palantir is big so they get the attention, but they're not that important in the scheme of things.
This has anecdotally been described as US work ethic to me. Ostensibly long hours and few vacation days but if you need to run an important errand on company time nobody will bat an eye.
Ah, I thought it came along with std::vector in the authorized bundle. Well, one can just use the boost containers instead since they don't have that wording.. but to be honest I used incomplete std::vector in a similar fashion for years without issues.
Not-a-GPU accelerator drivers cross the line
New evidence shows this uranium cube is likely relic of Nazi A-bomb program
> They never made it clear that it is an automatic subscription system

When did this supposedly occur? Checking the Wayback Machine, back to at least the beginning of 2020, CookUnity’s website has been lavishly explicit that what they are selling is, exclusively, subscription plans, and that those plans default to a company-chosen selection when the subscription is active (not paused) but no selection is made.
Questions about Trees (2020)
Don't forget the #datbill as well. [1]

Australia is a bad joke at this point. I thought nanny state was bad but we're firmly moving into Stasi territory now.

Even the government's obvious incompetence is looking like not enough protection in the face of all these overreaches.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/efa_oz/status/1430674903548661767
I like wakatime.com
Don't add more parallel bike lanes. Put bike lanes on every street.
What audio apps made it over? Audio is a gaping hole in Linux land. No drivers, no major support, no major DAW's, etc.. I can't move to linux primarily because of audio... not because of the other stuff you mentioned.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke
Parking is a whole other problem but in cities where everyone has to commute in/out of an area the bottleneck is more often the roads than lack of parking spots. (Parking can be built up/down while roads are built in 2d.) Underground parking structures (3d) also use space that is generally unusable otherwise. Few offices are permitted deep underground due to fire codes.
> If either party doesn't think the judge is going to make the right ruling, there's jury trials,

Apple and Epic both opted out of a jury trial, probably would have needlessly extended the process and neither of them think a jury would be able to take in all of the nuances of the case to make an informed decision.

Unless, can either party still demand a jury trial a month before/a week before the ruling?

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-09-30-epic-and-a...
Why not just use the original sponsorskip at that point?
They wouldn't approve of a bunch of German words being used either. It just tends to be mostly English at the moment.

They just view foreign influence on the language as bad, even though that's been going on since the dawn of time.
It's not 'a large block' it's just a large enough market, relative to a smaller market.

Most things in Canada are dictated (or influenced) by US standards.

Also, the EU is not quite big enough to force those manufacturers into 'same standard' on a global basis. The US actually might no be either alone. It's entirely feasible they could make $ by using different chargers in 'the remaining 80% of the world'. They don't do it partly for the reg, but mostly for other reasons.

Apple breaks other industry norms all the time for other product features, they do it for hardware revenues, and they can do it because they have market power which nobody else quite has, though maybe Samsung could try.
> Nowadays, to the average person I probably look like a technology curmudgeon

Nowadays, most discussion & thoughts about tech are far more ambivalent & concerned than they used to be. What hope & optimism there is often feels shallow & vapid. Doubt & questions & concerns seem well justified & rampant. Few individuals seem like they are a driver seat- it feels like tech is steering it's own ship and the "where do you want to go" idea, the personal computing idea, is way way way way outmoded & most tech is now us, in the hands of far greater powers that shape what tech will be.

I adore Nolan's writing & thoughts, but to cast himself as an outsider & cantankerous & a crank is not how I read the tea-leaves of society today.

There's very little shiny promising & exciting on the horizon. What progressive technology camps there are tend to have their faith in weird cult-like high high high tech AI, Blockchain, Quantum or other deeply beyond mortal reach technologies. Most mainstream tech has had a shadow but that underbelly's visibility has grown greatly & dissatisfaction & untrustability- conservative, fear based minsets- have quite justifiably exploded in adoption. Almost no where is there a practical progressive view of technology as a can-do adaptable system that we all can use to shape & guide ourselves, our lives, our way of communicating, and our way of thinking.

I for one have unbounded optimism, but it's because I think it would be very easy to start doing for ourselves. I think our assessments are quite real, quite good, I think we understand how dastardly so many of the traps we've fell into are, begun to deeply comprehend the dangers of superficial low-agency software systems & "creator" economics. We're getting enormously better at information tech, even though we're still not using it for anything remotely empowering or good. But some day we'll start to, and we'll get better fast at personal computing, once we start to see & realize what progressive, positive computing basis could possibly look like.
It's undefined because the standard says so explicitly for these containers, but if you copy-pasted all the code of libstdc++ or libc++'s std::map in a new namespace and gave it your name it would be perfectly defined.

It's a bit like naming a global variable _Weeeeeeeeee.
It's technically UB because the standard says so, but in practice the compiled code will be fine if your stdlib does not use that variable, the compiler isn't actively looking for elements of the spec to check and enforce, it's just using UB where it can as a tool to optimize
Definitely watch the presentation by the developer in VR Chat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2u7NOpzcBQ

I haven't played VR Chat in a few years, and holy cow this makes me want to jump back in. Seeing fully captured motion avatars of people is SO immersive. It's absolutely insane how the experience of interacting with people can feel so natural even when they're on the other side of the planet.

I just love watching "body language" of the presenter, it's such a precise rendering of what a "real life" presentation like this would be.

Plus, you meet people like the writer of this blog post, who are so knowledgeable and interesting and fun to talk to.
Being against the exploitation of a basic human need (i.e. housing/shelter) for profit seems reasonable to me.
are you saying that ordering counts, because I don't think it does.

>file = redirect stdout to file
2>&1 = redirect stderr to stdout which is being redirect to file

trying to state they = something seems like it would be confusing as they don't equal as much as just being re-routed.

Edit: I've never seen it described as TFA, but would have put money that I have done it in either order and worked without issue. i guess it's a good thing i'm not a gambler
Is Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield in Spider-Man: No Way Home?
New in SaaS: Prestavi – The easiest way to create and follow business processes
…that’s a sphere though
If you're seriously going for some major change in land use patterns to increase density, surely you can fit in some public transit expansion as well.
> I am now buying qty 500-1000 of any new part that is getting designed in, before the design is even started.

I bet you’re not the only one doing that. No wonder there’s a shortage.
This article reminded a friend of "Zero to One" by Peter Thiel. It was an interesting piece to keep in mind and to make some connections while going through the article.
or the offices with closed doors are in higher traffic sections of the building
This is assuming a chink of road in isolation. There's also intersections, vehicle separation, signaling, and other needs that take up less space-time on a bike than a car. Perhaps less-so than a bus, but we would probably need simulations to say more.
The end result is functionally very different. If you were given a shared updatable value, and were told that the only API was non-blocking and you would have to retry in a loop until it succeeded, would you call it a lock? It’s straight up not a lock.

The functional difference is crucial here, the non-lock characteristics are what allows them to offer atomic updates via HTTP. They couldn’t have used pessimistic locking to do this, not only because it is is limited to a single db transaction, but because they can not trust API users or the network to ensure the rows ever get unlocked.
The distribution form of open source software is as the name says source code.
Yes and yes (unless you are using iOS). KDE Connect can sync the clipboard between any combination of desktop and mobile devices on Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows. The macOS version is still in development, but there is a compatible port called Soduto that works perfectly on macOS:

https://soduto.com
Why would you set up grandma with apps that invade her privacy. She's the most impressionable person and will use it if given. I got my family and grandparents switched to Signal as the furthest compromise between usability and privacy I'd be willing to go
Not owning anything == privacy now?
Yeah, I feel like a lot of people who complain about Linux not working well for some things haven't looked at it for 10-15 years. It certainly can't run everything a Windows desktop can, but I think it's caught up meaningfully enough that people who dabbled long ago would find it sufficient for day-to-day use. I don't think it's for everyone; I wouldn't there's even a subset of the software developers I know who probably wouldn't like it, but many of the complaints I hear nowadays are very outdated.
Early header compression.
this was at +3 now at -1. anyone want to comment why you think this is off or why you are downvoting?

look like, the promise has been in the air for over a decade[1] (ed: not the best link. i was tryin to find a decent ARM / AMD A1100 Cortex-A57 intro link). it's never gone anywhere. no one gets to use ARM except massive titans of the world. we get some old old old hand me downs every now and then like rpi's or this here cluster of power-inefficient old A72's. this is dregs. this is shit. this is insulting pathetic offerings, and it's literally all we have. this is the only thing ARM has ever made available to us, generally. how anyone can be ok or happy with this is madness.

[1] https://www.semiaccurate.com/2011/06/22/amd-and-arm-join-for...
This wasn't a good look the other week at the Geelong battery:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPkYoE8IYh8

But the Hornsdale unit has paid for itself multiple times, and shown how a battery at this scale can support every other asset on the grid.

https://reneweconomy.wpengine.com/tesla-big-battery-outsmart...

https://reneweconomy.wpengine.com/tesla-big-batterys-stunnin...
I have heard claims that they are actually safer since if you take a hit, a metal ring could squeeze your finger while a WC ring will shatter instead.
It's really clear. If your home is invaded and there is no rule of law, you ambush and kill the thugs. If that's not feasible, or if the retaliation can't be handled, then you leave for a place where you aren't chattel for a gang of thugs. Because it's no longer your home. If your country won't or can't protect you and your neighbors, it's not your country, so yes, fleeing is the only rational move. They can't extort you if you're not there anymore, and you run the chance of grouping up with enough like minded others that you might be able to return and take back your land with force.

I'm not criticizing the people who find themselves in shitty situations. I'm criticizing your statement that the civilization I am fortunate enough to live in is "privilege." It is a carefully guarded and deliberately constructed civilization designed precisely to defend individuals from mobs and strongmen. That is a right, not a privilege, secured by violence and death and sacrifice.

When there is no rule of law, might makes right. Securing civilization from lawlessness universally starts with blood and death and is a horror show. It's that, or leave for a better place. By staying, you're giving power to the exploiters. Worse, you're giving them the means to abuse and exploit more people, and more generations of people.

There are no good or easy choices in such situations. You kill, you leave, or you perpetuate the hellscape, inflicting it on your local society.

The idea of the state having a monopoly on violence is the foundation of all successful civilizations. The idea being that if there is no monopoly, the right and responsibility to use violence falls to individuals, and when individuals are wielding violence without consequences, rule of law is meaningless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
zerodium does payout for zero days -- but I don't think this would qualify. Scroll down to see list of prices.

https://zerodium.com/program.html
I saw this in university. You passed the physics exam by studying hard and practicing. People who put in the work got the results. There was no just getting it.
It's so dense that over time, the corners are pulled to the center by gravity.

(the picture is a separate 3kg sphere he bought after the cube)
Thank you for pointing that out.

I have no idea what motivation it takes to take someone's words, twist them to make the person look as bad as possible, and then try to unfairly smear them.
Im not against sponsorskip.

I'm just pointing out that this should be the job of the premium team at YouTube, not left to subscribers.

so:

- Sponsorskip is a good solution to a problem that shouldn't exist

- If YouTube cared they could make this an even better experience and make sure both honest producers, paying customers and sponsors got a better deal. Today the revenue maximizing play seems to be to add sponsors on top of premium and hope advertisers doesn't realize they are being skipped.
I don't think supply and demand works at all. At all.

For example, universities and hospital bills have shot up way more than inflation, just huge.

You'd think that would lead to more competition and lower prices, but no way.

Where are this inexpensive accredited universities that charge half the price? Where are the new hospitals that charge half the price?

The only thing that actually goes down are real wages. Companies will gladly pay a lot for real estate, inventory, whatever, but not the employees. Minimum wage in 1979 was $2.35, which is $8.84 in today's dollars. The minimum federal wage now is $7.25.

From the 1930's to 1985, the top tax bracket was 70-90% taxes. The rich get richer. Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Sergy Brinn and Larry Page, Tim Cook, Larry Ellison, and the rest of the immoral patrol.
Python lists Vs Tuple – In depth comparison
It’s not YouTube vs Spotify, it’s Spotify vs every other platform. Lots of people just listened to his podcasts which can’t be cancelled.
This is wrong on so many levels. I’ve spent years biking in the Netherlands. People from age 7 up into their 70s ride their bikes regularly and safely - so safely that bike helmets are a total rarity. People ride ebikes and even gas mopeds on the bike lanes, and it all works out just fine. People drive electric mobility scooters in the bike lanes. People in wheelchairs have special adaptors that let them pedal with their hands and use the bike lanes. Your statement that most parents are physically incapable of moving their young children on bikes is proven false by the tens of thousands of Dutch parents who transport their kids in bike seats every day.

Bike travel is about as egalitarian as it gets. You can buy a serviceable bike for a couple hundred dollars, with basically no extra costs - compare that to a car, or even a bus pass, and it’s a screaming deal.
Revenuecat is perfectly positioned to do that, but probably won’t dare anger Apple in this way.
Lessons Learned from 5 years using Pivotal Tracker
By all means use vxNsr’s service (though I wish they mentioned their financial incentive before hand, props for mentioning it in the first place).

I second their approach. By using a unique email per service you maintain a bit more control by being able to filter via “to” address or deregister the email via the service provider. It’s not perfect but it’s at least some bit of control where trust is not required.

Personally I am using simplelogin.com. And full disclosure I wish it had smoother UX in many cases but overall the price vs feature set cannot, as far as I am aware, be beat.

In general: I agree. Demanding attention, whether that be in person such as via mail, txt, or phone call or digital such as via email, should be opt in and NOT opt out. Incentive wise it simply does not make any sense for it to be opt out when the cost of contact is close to 0.
It's like coming home from a hotel. In a hotel (on Mac), everything is designed and catered for. At home (on Linux), you have to do the dishes but you can set things up just the way you want them.
Thanks for the tips guys. I’ll check them out. I also pulled a copy of Box’s essays off the shelf, and while he is obviously mainly interested in experimental design he does drop in a few references to oldish books on SPC.
Is this in active use? The operating notes are significant:

> Note: Guetzli uses a large amount of memory. You should provide 300MB of memory per 1MPix of the input image.

> Note: Guetzli uses a significant amount of CPU time. You should count on using about 1 minute of CPU per 1 MPix of input image.
Who knows if you getbDelta while vaccinated and you crush it shortly afternentry if your immune system makes any changes or not.. this requires an immunologist to answer.
I use Magnet and it's pretty much everything I ever wanted after being on Windows for 13 years.
Dolphin is an emulator for two Nintendo video game consoles: GameCube and Wii
Many issues discussed are not raised like gain of function experiment, Wuhan lab people collecting and travel to and fro to the sites, first case may not be wet market etc.

Wonder why publish now with such filtering of facts.
- Chiang Mai

- Georgia

- Ukraine, but not major cities

- Vietnam, but can’t get into the country for a while probably due to corona

- Serbia

Just check Nomad List :D
10k women die in car crashes each year because of bad design
How to snapshot the state of a Python program?
Github is the best thing that happened to programming.