skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nifty trick, thanks for sharing. Will be useful to many readers. Including those booting into W10 1% of the time, for SD-Card formatters and other Windows exclusives.
Can somebody do the math on pricing vs bunny.net?
lol this was actually the first thing that crossed my mind
File operations that let the command recuse itself from doing them? Or just bad copy-pasta.
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I was suggesting that the people you see around online who claim very vocally to like nuclear power, actually can't help but undermine their own message because they feel the need to bash reneweables at the end of their comments.

They almost certainly get their news via a fossil-fuel funded media-political complex that has a long and very well-documented history of lying about climate change, its causes and its solutions.

And the propaganda has worked. Even when they think they're defending nuclear power and being rational most of their talking points don't even make sense except from the point of view of maintaining the fossil fuel status quo.

It's all very weird and fascinating.
isn't that somewhat against the whole idea of PoW? It is supposed to make cheating expensive, because you have to waste a lot of computing power to do it. If that power is not wasted, but instead used for something useful (outside of crypto transaction verification) work that can be sold for money, then cheating becomes profitable again.
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How do you guys use the internet without an ad-blocker?

With uBlock Origin used, I don't see any jet, nor do I have any video at all.
You sound like somebody I’d like to hang out with. Props for good life perspective.
> Letting your Russian employees be persecuted don't amount to "doing the right thing".

I disagree. Western companies have no moral obligation to bend their own ethics, help a tyrant, and harm a nation, in order to "save" one, or a handful, of employees from said tyrant.

Quite the opposite, the right thing to do is to take a stand and force the tyrant out in broad daylight.
In which case, consider paying for something like Infinity: https://infinitysearch.co/
I use Firefox Focus. Maybe it just doesn’t have a rule for thedrive.
My experience with Go is that it's quite a bit more stripped back of a language than Java. Could you explain what you mean by this?
Congratulations on the publication. Am I correct in thinking this is a higher estimate than the one you were using before?
I am a layman with regards to JVM internals.

Are there any differences in the targeted workloads or capabilities between ZGC and Shenandoah GC?

Both seem to be marketed for large heaps and low pause times.
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I think he's using "church" to mean any institution that's not the state itself. Which is a quite a stretch.

Less likely, it could be some weird comparison of the Ivy League to some special priesthood that gets you extra privileges.

Crunchier still, it might be an attack on secret societies like Skull & Bones.

Whatever it is, it seems very confused.
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>I’m confused why you’d feel insulted by NVC. What about it feels demeaning to you?

The reason myself, and maybe others, find this style of communication insulting is because it can come off as very condescending. It's clear that whomever is saying that disagrees with me, and I'd rather just have a real conversation about the disagreement itself rather than performatively centring the discussion around how it makes us "feel".
> If you asked the average user if they would rather that their phone crash, or have the top speed capped. They would all rather it did not crash.

No. If you asked the average user if they would rather their phone have the speed decreased, or have a slightly thicker battery (and thus phone), they would all rather it be slightly thicker.
Coming from RCS, CVS, SVN to Git, git is a game changer - yes everyone knows that.

But what was astonishing me most was the version system build into the VMS OS file system.
Ask HN: Inertial / Kinetic scrolling with libinput and KDE possible?
Hey HN,

does anyone know, how I could enable kinetic scrolling with KDE and libinput, even if it is experimental?

Sidenote: I know that synaptics[1] and mtrack[2] kind of support Kinetic scrolling, but I would like to go for libinput, since the others showed some issues with my Trackpad and libinput is more future proof.

I'm trying to configure my touchpad with Arch-Linux, libinput and KDE to support kinetic scrolling. For those, who don't know: Kinetic scrolling does not stop scrolling as soon as the fingers leave the touchpad, but slowly fades out the scrolling process.Libinput works fine so far, but with X11, Kinetic Scrolling is not possible[3]. After checking the docs, I found out that it should be possible with Wayland.

KDE and Wayland are still not considered as stable[4], but I got it working for testing purposes. Unfortunately, libinput does not support generic configuration files, but has to be integrated into the Desktop Environment / Compositor, and KDE has no config option to enable Kinetic scrolling.

It would be awesome, if someone could point me in the right direction on this.

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38909

[2] https://github.com/p2rkw/xf86-input-mtrack/issues/3

[3] https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/faqs.html#kinetic-scrolling-does-not-work

[4] https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.21.0/#kwin-and-wayland
Ruby is a beautiful language - Rails is opinionated (much like its creator). If the ways Rails is opinionated works well with your use-case, it's wonderful to use but if not, it's simply horrible.

I don't think RoR usage has declined (maybe as evidenced by the number of "I'm a newb" comments here?) but rather think it's become mainstream so it's simply missing the hype it had when it was the new hipster technology.
This is interesting. With enough computing power, and that is already dead cheap, the potential to spy is enormous.

As much as I am a fan of Bitcoin, is it not possible to create an alternative currency, where the value of the currency is pegged to the state currency, but transactions are encrypted and untraceable. Sorr of like an underground banking system.
Also, avoiding GC pauses while still being subject to interrupts and context switches is a common kind of tunnel vision. Non-GC languages are great for systems programming, but if GC wasn't going to be your biggest source of jitter anyway then using one just means more work and/or more bugs.
>Ask yourself, if a job offered you 100 million instead of the normal 100k for a software engineer would you be prepared to do things you normally wouldn't do?

Definitely not. But just to be sure, you should still make me an offer.
Now we can finally rewrite git ourselves ;)
No disrespect to Sinclair, but this reads like Great Man history to me.

Computers aren't (relatively) cheap today because Sinclair gave people the idea they could be cheap. They're cheap because of the incremental efforts of thousand of people from research scientists to manufacturing engineers. For instance, the cheaper version of the calculator was built around Texas Instrument's TMS1802NC.

If Sinclair didn't seize on the opportunity to use the TMS1802NC to reduce costs, then one of his competitors would have eventually done it.

You see it happening today. The iPhone launched for $658.38 (inflation adjusted), but today you can buy the vastly superior iPhone SE for half that price. You can go cheaper still if you're willing to go down the Android route.

We didn't need Sinclair to show us that was possible.
That'd make you a super star. "Exploiting" it means taking considerable time off -- if you're gone for a third of the year and you're still hitting your goals, you're in the top 5% and companies without unlimited PTO will also get you sweet deals.

But that's not what 95% of people are experiencing.
How about a right to privacy next?
No, actually, it IS that the battery was flat, and it IS an option. Apple chose to use a battery which was not durable enough for the requirements imposed upon it by their design. I'm not sure why you think that they couldn't have avoided it like LITERALLY EVERY OTHER PHONE MANUFACTURER (including themselves at one time).
I discovered GhostBSD from this list, but.. is their homepage[0] full of spam links at the end, or are those very small sponsors?

[0] http://ghostbsd.org/
> I hate seeing an administration i want to do good

They call it a democracy, but both sides work toward one goal: give more power to the Government.
Kirk gives great talks, I highly recommend him as a speaker. His talks about the history of BSD are amazing. I love the story about how a box of tapes containing the highly optimized Vax VMS context switch code fell off a truck that was driving past UCB, and they just had to open the box and look at what was on the tapes to find the proper owner..
Github does make it work, but you can see there's a tradeoff for that. Like in this blog post:

https://github.blog/2020-08-25-upgrading-github-to-ruby-2-7/

You see mentions of 70 second application boot times. Also interesting is the reference that a future upgrade to Ruby 3.x might increase performance by a factor of 3. That would mean they are leaving quite a lot on the table right now.

Basically, yes, they make it scale, but that's not free.
Vehicles i.E. cars?
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Yeah, rewriting everything is almost never a good choice from a business value perspective. Usually, the most sensible thing to do, is to break the system up in components, and rewrite them slowly while keeping interop with the old system. Downtime is no money time. And new features sometimes give more value, even if the programmer is grumpy.
Are there lockdowns in Germany? No masks or vaccines mandates either, right?
We had an internal RPM repo where we pushed internally built packages. Not part of CM, but part of our solution.
The first IBM PCs I was exposed to as a kid in the early/mid 1980's booted into BASIC if you didn't insert a disk into the 5.25" floppy drive.

I think if you booted in this mode, BASIC had no access to the floppy drive at all so you couldn't save your work (or we kids didn't know how). Better to boot from a floppy, then after it finished booting, swap the floppy for another one to save the silly BASIC games we were writing.

Later on, we saw models with two floppy drives, so you could leave the floppy containing DOS and BASIC in drive A: and save your work onto the disk in drive B: Eventually, PCs began to come with hard drives and these naturally became drive C: So if you've ever wondered why Windows typically refers to the hard drive containing the OS as drive C: it's because drives A: and B: were the floppy drives.
Interestingly, 1977 is also regarded as the definitive year of punk rock.
No, the deception was what got them fined. However, why do you think they chose to go with the deception, knowing that they were risking fines? Oh, right, it's because the slowing definitely would've been a problem if they had disclosed it up-front.

And you can't get a new battery, by the way. Apple's batteries are not designed to be replaced, remember?
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It says it punishes modern web design but it has my most irritating feature of modern web design: a narrow strip of text on an otherwise blank page.
NPM Package: A tiny and strongly-typed Event Emitter which is also a Store
Having talked with enough hyper progressives on the subject, the answer I've gotten and am eternally frustrated with is that progressive-social-justice-california-politics are objectively right and small-town-rural-conservative-politics are objectively wrong, therefore it's completely fine for a ruling class to force the former down our throats because they are ultimately Correct.
Why the Empire State Building, and New York, May Never Be the Same
Be kind; don’t be snarky. You’re here to share your knowledge, not sneer down at people who bring up fairly reasonable questions.
Your phone can never be hacked? Think again: https://www.hackerslist.co/your-phone-can-never-be-hacked-th...
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I think it's a great question, and one that specialists of all fields should ask themselves (-> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9formation_professionnel... ).

As a solution, everyone will find different things that work for them, but doing things that have no relation physically/mentally to work (screen time, high logic use, software related problems, sitting) and essentially are on the opposite end of the spectrum, like hiking, swimming, tennis have helped for me.
A lot of smart people gave this a lot of thought and this is what they came up with:

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...
This is really cool. I've been brainstorming how to build an app that allows you to browse major newspapers by country/region so you can easily get exposed to news in other places. I think it would look something like this site. If someone does this first or this site becomes like that (it needs an index and grouping system) I'd love to hear about it.
The buyout offer
You won't get herd immunity with this. It mutates fast and can live in animal reservoirs. Cats, dogs, deer.
> for a reasonable price

Sorry, excuse me while I go burst my sides from laughter. Apple does battery replacements for more than a (entry-level, admittedly) new phone costs. And that new phone includes a battery. ;)

Moreover, Apple refuses to do battery repairs if your phone has other problems, even if those problems have absolutely no relation to the battery, like... a cracked screen. (I'm not kidding, but hey, props to them for actually being honest[1] for a change. That's a refreshing surprise.) Personally, I know very few people with Apple phones over a year or two old who don't have a cracked screen.

[1] https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/service/battery-powe...
Good post, well written, taught me a couple of things I didn't knew and uses Ruby in a clean way. I don't think it meant to be uber scalable but last time I had to build search in ruby I had to use Ferret (a great lib) and it was not this straightforward.
I'm starting to get irate now with the hypocrisy of some who talk about how the Government need to be more green, but then follow up with "oh my bitcoin worth's gone through the roof!"
In post cold war Europe it was mostly the case. Russia is a lot less of a threat to the world, and its own citizens. I for one could freely leave Russia, which would require non-trivial effort in USSR.
not really, then i would need to remember to charge those :D
Reference counting is technically a form of garbage collection, FYI.
Have you tried Ultimate++, by any chance?
>You were FUD-ed, right to repair is not about making things less thin and not water proof.

There clearly is a trade off.

The rest of your complaints are just about commercial concerns, they have nothing to do with the environmental impact of these devices.
That is quite literally their job.
this link is returning me a 404
I would look to Westfield, Massachusetts as an example:

https://www.whipcityfiber.com/

They got municipal fiber to their town and then started providing services to other towns in Massachusetts to do the same. All the tiny towns around my slightly larger town have gigabit fiber now for $79/month while I'm stuck at 25% of that for the same price from Comcast (my town is "fully serviced" by Comcast and thus not eligible).
Facebook and PHP are kind an interesting twist on that. Facebook spent a lot of time and money on Hack/HHVM, then the PHP core devs responded with a new version of PHP that is, in many cases, faster. Though Hack/HHVM is still better for async work.
Seems like they are happy with the zero bandwidth alliance for companies like Backblaze to cover that.
But I read from that guy mike Hearn , the early Bitcoin dev that it's like a reverse search.
They check the csam database and compare to what is in your files, sounds good at first, but, big concern is...what if governments start to add other, unrelated data to get rid of people who cause political friction and other undesired elements as per their government policies?
Of course, certain applications do indeed never allocate once they have started up.
When you say you put all your focus on one, does that mean you focus completely on an MVP, or are you confident enough at building stage that you have a good product and so build as many features as you can?
Apple is doing the same thing along with everyone else. Go look at an e-waste facility, It will be less than 0.001% of total e-waste.
Explore environments where it's hard for you to be jaded/cynical. Nature or being around kids (volunteering to teach them how to code is one idea) immediately come to mind.
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What did they break in order to support high-dpi?
Perception is not taste, I'm talking about your idea that "meat has to be better than salmon" that is you perception and it forms how you think meat tastes vs. salmon.
Huh?

First off, who are you to tell me what I'm arguing for or against?

Second, "children" covers an EXTREMELY wide range of maturities. Some children are absolutely responsible enough to take responsibility for their actions.

Third, what on earth does that have to do with allowing anyone who feels like it to intercept their conversations?
Pick something useful that has low monetary value on the open market, like number theory problems or protein folding or something.

I could imagine the RandomX code execution approach being re-worked to incorporate useful scientific computation, and this being worked into the currency itself. It might be possible for people to stake money on compute units and then have the money go to the miner who solves a block in proportion to compute units performed. You'd have to put a lot of work into making this non-gameable though.

Maybe something can be done here with homomorphic encryption too, so the miners would not even know what they are computing.

A lot of interesting open cryptography and math work here.
i dont do any paid marketing
"WSL is a supplemental feature that runs a Linux image in a near-native environment on Windows, allowing for functionality like command line tools from Linux without the over-head of a virtual machine."

But since WSL 2 it does use a VM. According to wikipedia:

"a real Linux kernel,[4] through a subset of Hyper-V features."
"with a Linux kernel running in a lightweight virtual machine environment."

edit: unless they mean user overhead of getting it to work. I kind of read it as performance overhead.
That depends on your definition. Only 3% of federal firearm offenses are prosecuted. So at that level, I would say it is lackadaisical.
Such as F-Droid?
> Apple does allow Progressive Web Apps

In my view the PWA route is pretty crippled on iOS compared to what's available on Android - so its usefulness as an alternative is extremely limited.
I like the idea but could use some tweaking. I keep getting conservative christian websites for some reason. And foreign language sites
> So if you think about it, our biosphere is pretty irrelevant when it comes to removing carbon from atmosphere.

Didn't understand your point here initially but I think what you mean is - we've significantly outpaced the biosphere's ability to remove carbon from the atmosphere. It's not irrelevant, it's overloaded.
As someone who (partially) relies on online advertising to make a living (in eCommerce, not tech), I think kneecapping the industry does make some sense.

Modern online ads are a tool for selling low-quality goods to impulsive people at high prices. Do we really need them?
What does your testing process look like for each new feature or improvement you add? I presume it needs to be pretty robust to prevent any bug creep since you have 4 projects all with paying customers. This is something I am nervous about for a small product I'm building - what if I merge a big bug?!
File versioning was in BBN's TENEX, which evolved into TOPS-20 ("TWENEX") for DEC's DECSYSTEM 20 computers.

File versioning is also part of pathnames in Common Lisp, although it (the versioning, not Common Lisp) is really a fossil at this point.
Portable music ____.

If you change ‘players’ to ‘devices’. Transistor radios [1] had equal or greater cultural impact, as the _transistor_ is literally a technology leap forward—portable electronics.

I grew up in the age of the Walkman. What do you put in your Walkman? You made one of those great mix tapes. Radio was great. You could buy an album on tape and with a dual-drive boom box you could mix a tape (wow. mix tapes from radio were a cherished possession). You see. The Walkman did not succeed on its own.

You could listen to radio on a Walkman, but that’s 20+ year old tech. Not the revolution.

That’s an in the weeds argument. But the iPhone? Not as a music player. Not as a phone. Not by any one feature alone was a ‘game changer’.

Funny note. My Nokia N900 had a radio tuner! Not that I could ever get it to pick anything up.

That’s where Apple shines, by creating forward-looking products which break from the past.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=vintage+transistor+radio
> I expected...

In fairness, it very clearly describes what it is doing in the initial lines: “In this tutorial I’ll try to describe how git works”. So it isn't intending to suggest an alternative for git, but just to show what git does for you and, to an extent, how.
In a science fiction novel I read, the power problem was said to be solved with a hierarchy that was not acyclic, so nobody was another's absolute superior. I don't think this would work in reality though.
And maybe a few fertile/pregnant women.
I just want to see this incredible yacht.
More than half of Britons suffering from long Covid might not have it
> I'd agreed that's true for a small percentage of the population and that the rest are consumers.

This has likely been the case throughout history.

"Look, Bob's useless at hunting, but those cave paintings are pretty neat. Let him stay home."
It looks like the browser crashes on every screen change on Safari 15 on macOS...
All people allowed to take part in elections are sanctioned by Kremlin.

Try to sign up as a candidate and best case you'll get rejected, worst case beaten, bullied, jailed or murdered.
The article isn't suggesting using this for anything real. It's just using tools that have existed a long time, like diff and patch, to show some of the concepts of version control.
That is so untrue!1!! Our State Minister for Digitällizäyshun appeared in hot attire at a gaming convention, and one can, or at least could talk/meet with her on Clubhouse.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothee_B%C3%A4r

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[1] https://www.klatsch-tratsch.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/do...

[2] https://www.gameswirtschaft.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Do...

[3] https://images.derstandard.at/img/2019/04/10/dorotheebaer.jp...

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Over the years, taxation has gone up and down. Representation has gone up and down (universal suffrage, countered by gerrymandering and voter suppression). I don't see a relationship.
Along similar lines, the name of the famous renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci is "Leonardo". He was born in the city of Vinci, so calling him "Leonardo from Vinci" was an easy way of distinguishing him from the other Leonardos around. Nobody during his lifetime would have addressed him as "Da Vinci".