skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's all kinds of hoops to become a Doctor that aren't really necessary for most people to get the healthcare they need.

Those organizations help foster that.
Clearly there is an opportunity for an entrepreneur to fill this market niche with a lidar smart dimmer light that accounts for the distance of said buttcrack.
Isn’t it hidden by default? I installed Firefox on a new machine a few months ago and I could swear I had to unhide it.
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Ask HN: How do you deal with technical debt?
I've always interpreted technical debt as: 'Doing something in a half-assed way and then paying for it later'.

What strategies and methods are you using to combat this?
> 6. PulseAudio continues to be the answer to the question nobody asked.

Getting rid of PulseAudio though became a question to an answer nobody wanted.

Axing these *Kit MacOS wannabe software, and useless middleware is half the business these days if you want to make usable Linux desktop software.
I think this question has a much deeper implication. What is going to happen to digital data, period? Think of all the letters between famous geniuses in Physics. Today all of that is locked up in emails on server, password (and possibly 2FA) protected. Will all of this be lost to encryption, even if the "wayback" machine of the exebyte internet manages to waste all that energy on SSDs to save it all????
This is nitpicking and ignoring that the end users have problems because of all of this, and they are not addressed because of this kind of hand waving.

I donate to the FSF, I contribute to FOSS, and I take those kind of articles very seriously. Because they contain very important informations of what we need to work on next.

Of course, that doesn't mean we should take it at face values. Like for the Linux drivers situation, the idea is not to say "yeah, let's change that". But one should recognize the challenges it can bring, and find a way to make it better for those who wants to get hardware support.

Staying on the top of our ivory tower while stating we are technically correct, the best kind of correct, is not a good long term strategy.
It depends. The password would be suppressed because it was coerced from you, but the police can now say they would have obtained your data anyway through another method, and then the court will let them use the data.

For instance, in my case the police said they could break 2048-bit AES encryption and so they were allowed to keep the data after the password was suppressed.
Do you really have to? It could be as simple as using a different browser (and waiting for a minute or two after startup).
The desktop application ecosystem is kind of a mess from what I experienced; it's also possible I have the wrong expectations as I'm not usually building desktop apps. Gnome and QT generally have to be installed in order for apps that use them to work. I found that when I was trying to make an app, this ended up getting in my way far more than anticipated.

There's a whole new class of electron-like (usually WebView oriented) frameworks appearing for languages now that make building desktop apps fairly straightforward. This is kinda nice because the framework then deals with environment integration (for instance X11 vs Wayland, or Windows and MacOS) -- but at a minimum it makes it so you can build native feeling apps that are entirely web frontends. The only limitation here is that I've found UI components for OS-native look and feel (as opposed to mobile) to be fairly limited in quantity.

At the end of the day, I guess what I'm alluding to is maybe QT and Gnome are great, but I feel like a lot of applications that are outside of serving a particular OS or ecosystem will need to build with UIs meant to run on multiple machines with minimal dependencies.
If you look at customers served by an occupation it's needlessly absurd to pay as little as possible when there is a hand full of staff making millions of units/day. It doesn't benefit the economy. Many if not most of these are factory jobs that are horrific to do while supper important for economy of scale but I think with some effort we could also make a difference between a truck driver moving goods for 10000 people vs 1 customer. Or a dishwasher in a soup kitchen serving 2000 people vs a small restaurant serving 30.
They gave them 30 days to comply with the license.

They did so by contacting the company and saying "Hey, you have 30 days to make your source code available."

I'm not sure what you want here.
Ford nabs $884M incentive package for EV mega campus
There is little need for formal studies. HN is very surely different from «other social media platform[s]»: you must have never been on Reddit or YT, to provide examples of diametrically opposite places. A quick look at information density and "where the uttering came from" (say, above the neck, below the hips or other guts) should clearly show a massive, radical difference. That feelings influence voting, in terms of "hear, hear" or "thank you", is not undesirable: it is still agreement on reasoning. Expression of disagreement through downvoting is limited already through a technical limitation, which also contributes to indicate the form. Some foolish snipers (hitting without leaving any justification) are around: bad apples are not curbed, also because it apparently is not a mission for HN to create an optimal system of moderation and debate.

In fact, there are several shortcomings to adopt HN as a model for moderation and debate - it was evidently not the objective. But civilization wise, there is no comparison with many other places.

By the way:

> a story HN members tell themselves to feel special

Please. Accusing others to have unclean grounds in their evaluations, gratuitously? And, when one is "special", it is not out of some free membership that confirmation comes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3dpghfRBHE
That's brilliant. I would love to learn if that could work and wouldn't just create a bunch of radioactive plastic.
Does this indicate other incoming changes?
Multiple distros have Nvidia driver support. MX has a dedicated installer for it.
Because there is one already, and it’s free to use. If government hadn’t paid for it, you’d see much more competition in the space. For comparison, ask why no company has built a cheap, fast satellite internet yet? Apparently, some are building them right now.
Medium rare has a quite large range when you consider sous vide (129 - 134) because you can select any of them and get a medium rare steak in all cases.

When testing my sous vide device, I noted that the device is off by one degree. Not sure if that's intentional, but makes sense considering 130F is pasteurization temp, and you'd rather be over than vs under.

Since I have kids, I try to stay over 130 - I think I end up dialing it in around 131 F for 1.5 hours (which should be 132-ish, around the middle of the range), and I increase the time depending on the thickness. Fist size filet mignons get 2 hours, and I did a prime rib once for 24 hours.

And for your plastic bag question, there exist reusable silicone bags for sous vide. I can't promise you'll be able to do the prime rib in one of those, but for a single steak, most definitely.
It's a defense against trolls acquiring those patents and leverage to force license on transfer deals with other large cos.
>People are used to Windows where literally all hardware works

Hahaha fuck no. I spent two weeks trying to get a Lenovo Y50's touchpad to work properly on modern Windows. It's impossible. Official drivers are unmaintained and whatever you get whether generic or frankensteined-in works terrible compared to the out of the box experience on a Linux distro.
I love America's Test Kitchen. They are so worth the expense.

Have you tried adding cream of tartar to your brine for the beans? It's supposed to help with reducing how gassy you can get from beans.
Chromebooks are good for this.
This solves a longstanding problem. When recommending "hacker news" to people, they would immediately get suspicious. What's up with this weird address? Why combinator? It would immediately devolve into weird discussions. It's actually linked to Haskell Curry, who was neither Indian, nor Greek, despite this lambda thing. And no, this is not a new Covid variant. A real nightmare. But thankfully, all this is over now.
Windows users don't need to check as their hardware is fully supported as soon as they press the ON button on their new PC.

On top of that why waste time installing a distro or playing around with display managers, Linux NVIDIA drivers when WSL does it all on Windows?

The fact is: WSL saves time and makes installing Linux redundant and actually a waste of time.

Oh dear.
Close enough! County jail waiting for a trial.
You have to be careful with this line of reasoning.

In the absence of a social safety net, being "not skilled" or "not valuable" from the perspective of an employer easily becomes being not valuable as a person, they "deserve" what happens to them because they are at fault. When your employer is your source of healthcare, retirement, and livelihood, the idea that it can arbitrarily control the basis of your health and dignity is grotesque.

The line of reasoning seems fine when you are "skilled and valuable" from the perspective of your employer, but you might not be seen that way. Insisting that someone pays some price for that beyond simply not ending up wealthy is needlessly cruel. Despite our focus on it, there is more to life than being subservient to profit.
I think it is still important to Angels. Angels want to invest in people/teams that are "like" them. They are more likely to trust other country club types that they assume have the same background and social circles they do. A lot of Angels don't care about the money or the return, it is about having stuff to talk about over drinks or between holes on the course. "I'm in a couple of blockchain start-ups that are really promising". It is about being interesting and in the know. Viability is meaningless.
No. Don't Do it.
I can't wait for you to try it!

Also, you can shio koji any meat, not just beef for what it's worth, but I personally feel like the flavors start to go sideways. Pork and chicken I feel need a bolder flavor to prop up the dry age taste; shio koji alone on those overwhelms the flavor and wasn't that great. So if you experiment with those, you may want to try smoking them too. Good luck!
Making a murder showed a kid admitting to murder so he could go home and watch wrestlemania.
Cool! I definitely learned a lot about Unix and how OS’s work in general because of Linux, and I really appreciate that. What I also learned is I don’t care about configuring my desktop and rather spend time hacking on Web Application code.
GP said :

> Perhaps there will be a technology that allows you to write site files in the DNA directly of your children
Lots of (most?) places have permanent imbalances in # of full containers imported vs exported, it just means empty containers are shipped out or in.
But it's not FUD. These are issues that affect end real-life end users and many of them are hardware independent.
On the one hand, that makes sense; on the other, it would still be the first use of nuclear weapons since WW2. The last close calls, like Cuba, didn't even involve any bombing, just the threat of one power's blockade against another's ships, and that one is widely seen as having come close to mutual destruction. I don't think that actually lobbing nukes at each other would be less dangerous.

Also, accidents happen, and it's not clear how secure strategic weapons are against everything from a zealous airman to a submarine cut off from its command and having to make a judgment call. Daniel Ellsberg's book (The Doomsday Machine) suggests that this kind of accident during a crisis has come close to triggering a full nuclear war several times.

To summarise, I'm sure the tactics look good for China, but escalating to nukes still seems like a suicidal move, considering the risk of accident or miscalculation.
Could you elaborate? I don't know if you mean "Freakonomics = bad" or "Freakonomics = good", and if so, why?
This seems like a particularly cynical take. It seems more likely that Apple is, as they usually are, cautious about introducing an external dependency until they're confident about its reliability, quality, and battery life impact, plus how to make the integration easy for users.
Cheaper than closing the restaurant!

Plus at that price, you can afford to be picky.
I have anecdata of the opposite: my ThinkPad T590 cannot install windows with the .iso from microsoft, you need hardware drivers for the NVMe SSD off another disk during the install. I think windows and linux are about equal in terms of hardware support, with windows trending more towards good support tomorrow's hardware (it works when the new product launches) and linux needing 1-2 weeks before the new hardware gets a driver update + packages are updated.
I am a FF user and I am typing this in FF. I very much dislike that the CEO is on millions per annum and the company asks for donations. Back to Chrome for me I think..
There might be arrogance. It depends on what the person has in mind. If it’s someone making a time capsule purely with the hope that someone in the future might find it interesting and delightful, then no, I don’t think arrogance comes into that at all. If it’s an ancient king trying to preserve his face and memory by minting and burying coins, then maybe you could describe that ‘arrogant’, but so what, it’s still great for the people in the future who discover it and get a window into a different time.
Put it on Vellum!

Create a social ritual to read it so it can stay pliable. Vellum lasts forever
> I just hate how you succumb to easy thinking, an appeal to tradition

No. I appeal to PHYSICS.

This isn't an emotional argument. Or one out of "tradition".

The reusable rocket was a question of implementation, not physics. The math actually supported the idea of being able to do that. It wasn't some magical juju bean Musk pulled out of his behind. They did the math. The math proved you could do it. They built it. It took a lot of trial and error and, yes, failure, but they KNEW the math supported the concept.

This inflatable muscle thing (air or fluid) isn't supported by the PHYSICS.

What do I know anyhow? I've only been in robotics since the early 80's. I have literally seen <insert fantastical claim> in robotics and artificial intelligence since that time. And here we are, we still don't have a robot of any kind that is as capable as a house fly, even with a supercomputer running it remotely.

And that, BTW, is the test for fantastical actuators. The technology has to support an amazing range in terms of scale. At one extreme you have something like an ant and, opposite that, an elephant. Even within a human being the range of size and strength in muscles is likely 1000 to 1 (haven't done the math).

> Boston Dynamics would have never created Atlas or Spot

I don't think you have a good sense of what these machines are and are not. Hint: They are not what you think they are.
Just get/buy a PC pre-installed with Windows?

Don't most people do this?
It's not about standing up for BLM. It's that there can be corrupt liberal cops, or cops supporting liberal ideals in a corrupt manner.

One issue that this can be common with is gun rights - people lawfully carrying/owning a firearm who are harassed by police who support the liberal policies related to gun control. This has been a common thing in Philadelphia.
> In general, if semiconductors become a national security issue, I think there will be a fundamental change in the nature of the business.

Maybe, who knows what the future will bring.

But I've heard this before [1] and once recessions hit, and budgets get cut, that kind of thing quickly becomes less tenable.

And then someone realizes that it takes a constant stream of incoming parts to keep the equipment inside any factory running for any meaningful amount of time, and that supply is not protected, and neither are their suppliers...

But I agree, things will not stay as they are. The only thing usual about this business is change.

[1] The US semiconductor manufacturing sector was under serious assault by the Japanese in the 80s. That was my first "trade war" in this industry...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1985/09/22/s...
I have a dedicated monitor - so no.
Here's recent supply-chain thread calling-out a current bottle neck:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1451543776992845834.html

https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1451543776992845834
The article reads so weird. A person served another person a meal that contains a fairly common meat. So what?

The worst part was apparently the zuck is a bad chef and serve a cold meal.
> Weird list of non-problems and not understanding how Linux works

I would like to add this attitude to the list.
When thinking of 500 years in the future I'd guess encryption would be the last thing to be worried about.
Actually the web debelopment is much more stable now than it was 7 years ago.
Major frameworks and tools are the same. Web standards are much more stable now, and languages are quite established.
I haven't touch React or Vue for 5 years, but my knowledge is still relevant.
Server side technologies are very stable for 10+ years too.
I think the GUI applications thing is another of those times where it's a tradeoff. Much like the way drivers work, it's fair to be annoyed with it, but it replaces (more or less equally) annoyances in Windows's opposite approach.

Yes, your usual desktop Linux distro doesn't expect you to be running a GTK application that was built twenty years ago. If you do that, you probably need to do some manual steps. (That's why it installs to ~2 GB). On the other hand, GNOME uses one version of one UI toolkit across all of its core applications. If you click through the Settings application, you will not - at any point - come across a control panel from 1995. Meanwhile, want to make a native app for GNOME? Great, you have one option[1]. The lack of screwing around with backwards compatibility - freely dropping stuff when it isn't useful anymore - makes for a thinner, tidier stack in a lot of ways.

It's better if we can have both - obviously it sucks knowing you'll have to "fix" something eventually because Lenart invented a newer better duotronic transporter buffer - and maybe stuff like flatpak will be able to help with that in the future, but I for one am grateful desktop Linux isn't forced to drag around a mountain of shims and forgotten libraries for a minority of users.

[1] https://developer.gnome.org/
What We Lose When We Lose Thomas Jefferson – By Samuel Goldman
Everything you described just works on Windows. I have a drop down quake style terminal with windows terminal and it supports multiple tabs and sessions via OpenSSH. Combined with powershell it’s a really pleasant experience. All of this is developed and supported by Microsoft too.
I’d much prefer someone forego writing a line of code than cobbling together their own scaleable social network.
I get that you are angry about the fact that I chose to draw a distinction between moderates and authoritarians. If you are offended by that idea that's unfortunate, but Trump's EO has literally no power and never did. It was just grandstanding like most of his presidency.
I still think that baked clay tablets have the best bit retention rate of any media humans have invented. Doesn't take much skill to make or use them, either.

But for 500 years you're probably fine with acid-free paper, archival quality ink, and simple environmental control for storage (e.g., a well-designed box). Might want a nitrogen atmosphere, but it's probably not that critical.
This seems like two companies negotiating more than Big Tech bullying to me.
Looking into Stripe haha. But you're right smaller companies are much more flexible. I don't think I'll have much trouble getting a job at one of the smaller ones. Just wondering if I should try bigger ones too.

Like you say the ones that cater to American audiences are good. Even if it says Remote(US) if it's a smaller company then you can still get a job there if you can sell yourself well. You may need to be flexible with your working hours if you're in a different timezone though. (I don't mind working US hours but for some people this may be a dealbreaker)
I understand some of these are problems for some users on some hardware for some use cases, I really do. But that doesn't change the fact that I'm not particularly a Linux specialist, but have happily and without trouble used Linux as my primary desktop OS since 2007. It's gotten easier every year, with a little hiccup when Gnome got too useless and I had to learn something new. I've used it on old and new hardware, high- and low-spec machines, and have had no problems. I guess I don't get what expectation it's not meeting at this point.
>I've never had a slow cooker pork shoulder that was nearly as good as one smoked,

Um, like duh! ;-) Slow cookers aren't for the foodie types looking for best recipes, it's for the "i got other things to do" types. I use the bejeebus out of my smoker. The problem that I have is that if I'm going through the work of using the smoker, I'm going to smoke everything in the fridge. I did a few racks of ribs and a tenderloin, but the fire was soo good that day I threw on a roast. Best roast I've had.
weird. i don’t know anyone who has had a good experience, or who prefers american made products. cars, food, fashion etc. they represent bad taste and poor quality. i thought this was known globally. like how germans are technical. one of those things that are part truth, part myth.

where i come from if someone wants great quality we buy european, japanese or chinese products.

whenever i travel to different continents for work, no one i talk to wants or buys american made anything. it’s again, european, japanese or chinese.

of course software is different, due to its globalised nature.

and of course sometimes you buy american branded products. if you can’t find anything else, you kind of have to settle with the american product.
Multics and Stratus VOS are two operating systems that use structure marking[0].

[0] https://multicians.org/thvv/marking.html
It's definitely feasible to store all APKs. After all, Google does just that. It probably wouldn't even be a significant chunk of what the Internet Archive is currently capable of storing.
QR code? I think many are really underestimating the amount of change in 500 years.
I think it's just that the cuts suited to slow-cooking techniques tend to also be the cheaper cuts. Maybe that's because they are generally from larger muscles and therefore in comparatively greater supply.
No, this is not the likely root cause for reasons another commenter notes.

But I want to point something out: ports and logistics infrastructure are the most unionized, protected industries that exist. The truckers may not be, but the rest of the value chain is, often resulting in huge inefficiencies.

You note something like truckers waiting in lines for hours but only getting paid when they move the goods. 1) they are waiting in line for hours because unions strictly control the amount of labor in ports (these manual labor jobs often pay low-mid six figures) and 2) driver’s simply factor these types of costs and many others into their prices. Owner operators aren’t paid hourly, like millions of other business owners.

This is absolutely not where the current issues lie.
A law would dissuade corporate cultures that punish workers for taking sick days. It would pave the way for class action lawsuits against companies where this type of thing is a pattern.
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