skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is honestly what i never understood, why its not shared on a more "systematic" level beyond stack overflow.

A hardware and software config + the goal (print)- and a dialog pops up, offering your solution as a line by line shell script.

All this stored in a trustworthy DB and even complex problems could be plug and play on windows. Add a "support" button to finance the whole thing.

Voila.
Year of the linux desktop.
Ah, for me it doesn't invade the command line at all, perhaps because I don't have emacs set as $EDITOR?

I use emacs as my daily driver also, however if bash wants an editor it's usually a small task, so I'm just as happy to use vim or nano. Most often I can't install emacs on remote servers anyway.
What part of “He was responsible for the design”
Is unclear?
Performance and telemetry if you don't need anything Windows-centric like games are very good reasons. Upgrades though? Even if they are not explicitly forced I'd bet way more people (as a %) are fine using XP or 7 today than whatever version of Ubuntu or other popular distros came those years.
Stardew Valley is a wonderful example of what a great game framework XNA was, and what a shame that it did not receive continuing development from Microsoft. An amazingly productive tool for one person or a small team.

I'm not sure if he has moved on to Monogame (I assume he must have by now).
Around these parts we like to see some evidence before making wildly speculative claims.
Doesn't Windows have a decent terminal nowadays?
Fun and Scary Code from Qt and KDE
I didn't expect them to finish this milestone fast. But they did it. I believe that Sony will probably make a move in regards to this achievement.
I think that's an oversimplification, while I'd agree that modern life costs more to sustain in terms of required input from many different people and industries. There's also issues like the productivity/wage gap, general inertia in cultural change, the glorification of overwork, increasing accumulation of wealth by the already incredibly wealthy, how automation is introduced/managed, etc. that means we shouldn't just assume that people must work 40+ hour weeks or everything crumbles.

While some of the potential solutions I've read on this seem incredibly idealistic, I also believe there is probably a path forward where working time could be reduced significantly without the negative effects on technological, scientific or economic advancements that are presumed
price

possibly security

free software (if one cares)
isn't chip making is extremeley repetitive? (though not manual, or maybe we could say manual but through extermely complex tools?)
You honestly sound like a short seller or something. Tesla owns the vast majority of EV sales in US and other countries. You act as if other companies will easily catch up on major moats like battery tech/supercharging network/autopilot, but that Tesla can't improve on Build Quality?

Every indication is that it will be Tesla.
Show me you don't know who David Graeber is without saying you don't know who David Graeber is.
Yeah, how can a narrative book like that be "debunked"? The author wasn't making a logical argument. There is no facts and data. It's an emotional and moral argument. Certain jobs contribute nothing to the world and extract a cost on the psyche of the employee.
running windows 11 - no intrusive ads in the windows OS. Not sure what malware these people have on their computer.
My employer foists MacOS on me, I'm undeterred. VMware is worth the hassle.
I said: we should not trust profit-seeking companies to be ethical.

Somehow, this was translated into: profit-seeking companies are unethical. Which is not what I said.
Do you think that hits to the Stripe checkout page are free? Or that their databases for storing all of the payment info are free?

Stripe needs servers and bandwidth like everything else.
In what language? You can watch it on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt-RbV8KiC0 It is in Russian but there are subtitles.
Perhaps you disabled them all after you installed it?
I can't even pull weeds without ending up in bed due to a bad back.
about 1/3rd correct. It is not made with epoxy[1]. Bamboo lumber is made with urea formaldehyde just like plywood. UF is made from CO2, ammonia, and methanol[2]. Methanol can come from plants or from fossil fuels. Ammonia uses 55% of global hydrogen, and that hydrogen comes from fossil fuels. Typically natural gas. There are also No-Added-Formaldehyde brands that used soy/PVA/other adhesives which can rely less or more fossil fuels (PVA is wood glue- vinyl based).

Engineering bamboo (flooring doesn't always use UF) has ~5% wt. UF, so 20 kg of lumber requires ~.4 kg of ammonia. Using a methane feedstock that translates to ~.85 kg of CO2. 4% of the CO2 captured by the bamboo, for context. Ammonia can also be made from water, via electrolysis- .64 kg per 20 kg of bamboo.

[1]: UF does not contain an epoxide group. Note also that epoxide is an incredibly generic type of chemical- all it means is that two pairs of radicals and an oxygen form a triangular bond. Epoxides can take all kinds of forms and be made from all kinds of stuff. For instance Epichlorohydrin is used to make some of the most common epoxy resins and is produced from glycerol, which comes from plant/animal sources generally. Not all of it, but most of it.

[2]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemical-engineering/ur...
The first point I think is one of the main arguments. I've been using Ubuntu on a computer I bought in 2007. Worked like a charm (until the PSU blew up a few months back). Linux is a system that outlast its hardware!

One can also turn the argument around. What would be the reason to use Windows instead of Linux (if, like most of the people on HN I assume, you are computer literate) ?

Games I guess.
Good point, there are some specific places where Linux really excels over MacOS:

- 32-bit app support

- Nvidia GPU/CUDA support

- Encryption without a question mark at the end

- I can hide my topbar (or ostensibly move it wherever I want)

- I don't get a popup asking me to try Safari every week
I’m glad you’re having a fantastic time, but the depth and quality of power management in MacOS far surpasses anything currently in Linux. See seamless instant wake from sleep.
Never had problems with any. Ok, hibernation was a tough nut to crack, but you just have to make sure that your swap size matches your memory size... then it's just

$ sudo systemctl hibernate
The fact that those clowns insist on calling it the "Windows Subsystem for Linux" because marketing tells you everything you need to know about whether or not you should invest your time in it.
You can't say the first is left open but the second is not.

If "can I be forced to reveal the passcode" is undecided, "can refusing to do so imply guilt" depends on the resolution of the first.
Yeah, that start menu area (not sure what the real name is) has panels (I bet they have a real name too) for games and junk. Not to mention how the OS is really pushing people to only use the MSFT Chromium (aka Edge) browser now, similar to how it used to push IE. I'd call that an ad as well, though not exactly what you might think of an ad.
By default, yes. I always quickly follow the instructions online to disable all of that on a new install so I've never encountered them. For me it's no more hassle than the things I need to do on a fresh Linux install.

I haven't seen it push for Edge, in fact I don't think I've opened Edge since install day.
The problem is not ads, the problem is with Ad Tech. The tracking, user data collection and exploitation in secondary markets. There are ethical ways to have a business that uses ads a source of income and does not require "ad tech".

This is one of the reasons that I like the Brave/BAT model so much. It shows that you can have an "ad-based" economy without having to have Surveillance Capitalism. People could take part of the rewards they receive from the ad network and use to pay for their social media service. That was one of my ideas behind communick. [0]

And anyway, even if we wanted to get rid of "ads" altogether: WhatsApp was a profitable, sustainable business just by charging $1/year from part of its userbase. Facebook bought them because they knew it could become a threat to their business model.

[0] https://communick.com
I think that we have some artificial inflation because of supply chain issues and all cargo ships sitting in the Pacific ocean waiting to be unloaded. But I don't see why stock prices should not raise with everything else.
A different and often better way to downsample your Prometheus metrics
How's battery life? I think it's not great, is it?
his method of gaining information on the women he supposedly has romantic feelings for is to stalk them, hack their communications, break into their homes and steal their things. If anyone gets in his way he is content to kidnap and kill them

I haven't seen this programme but what on earth has criminal sociopathic behaviour like that got to do with the much-maligned-recently "nice guy" type?
Glad you’re having a good experience.
But compared to MacOS, and to a lesser extent, windows, power management in mobile is still garbage for OEM laptops.

Not that my opinion of what is garbage may differ than yours. The M1 has spoiled me perhaps.
>I hope you don't do anything for a living that involves risk mitigation (I suspect you do not...)

Quite the opposite, I have worked a long time very closely with reliability and have done no small amount of time studying failure. Everything fails sometimes, there are always unknowns that aren't accounted for.

>It's like saying "who cares if there's an hour a year that my car doesn't work?"

This is often the case? Oh no, you have a flat tire, a dead battery, or whatever. It's not world ending, get to your destination another way or reschedule.

>Can you visualize how someone can blow a multi-million dollar sales presentation because a key piece of data doesn't reach them in time? Do you consider that acceptable risk?

If millions of dollars are on the line and you can't figure out how to work around a simple communications issue, you deserve to lose the deal. Not being able to handle failure or insisting on 100% uptime for dependencies is a sign that you have no idea how to handle risk.
Tracked Falcon Migrates from S Africa to Finland 10,000km at 230km/h in 42 days
Which, long term, is better that just being SOL when it doesn't in Windows.
Actually (as a daily linux user) it's a nice write up! I was expecting nonsense.
Right. I was going to comment "Reason #12 to switch to Linux: you love reformatting the entire system every once in a while, typically after struggling to fix a driver for hours and completely screwing everything up in a way you can't figure out how to undo."
Make insecure software the problem of its producer, so that except for gross negligence by the user, the software vendor is on the hook (reimbursing customers) and will want to prevent ransomware from being a thing in the first place.
I’ve only ever used Windows and Linux so I couldn’t say for sure, but my impression is that it’s pretty good. Talon or Dragonfly with the Kaldi backend handle speech recognition and provide nice Python APIs for controlling the keyboard, mouse, windows etc.
> Linux has its conveniences but I think I definitely spend more times on updates.

That depends on which distro and hardware you're using. I use laptops that are known to work well with Linux and Ubuntu LTS releases. This way, I spend perhaps 3-5h a year on admin tasks and it's mostly easy stuff.

It's actually amazing how GNU/Linux allowed me to gradually transition from configuring everything (when I was a student: XFree86, custom kernels, ...) to using GNU/Linux productively with almost zero housekeeping effort.
The one paragraph you have there does not explain your idea clearly to me. And why do I need 5GB of storage for a discussion?
The Jesuits were one of the few voices who spoke for the indigenous peoples of the Americas. For this (and other reasons) the Jesuits were all exiled by the Spanish King. This caused great resentment within the Spanish Empire as most of the Jesuits were native to the Americas and were essentially kicked out to Italy. This also added to the causes of the Wars of American Spanish independence.
The issue is with your qualifier. Your implication is that what makes them unethical is the "profit-seeking", when is at best redundant (all companies are profit-seeking) and at worst misguided (boo-hoo, profit is bad)
> Git history is intended to be immutable when working with others.

That's another pet peeve (though maybe less git's fault): immutable, yes, but then rebase is pushed quite liberally. Arguably not by git itself, but by many online learning resources.

It's convenient, and mostly works, but then occasionally really stings you.

...yet undoing the last commit, arguably the least aggressive of history-rewriting commands, remains awkward.
Interpol notice - at least that'll restrict their movements
Windows Terminal + WSL 2 has been a game changer in usability and convenience.
I was planning to switch but Windows is still restarting after an update. The screen has instructed me to not turn off or unplug my laptop. I'm compliant but it's getting more difficult as the years go by.
You can just say "I don't believe you", I'll just say "OK, I came here to state an observation and not to emulate a court room, and I have other things to do afterwards" and we can all be on our merry way.
wait until you hear the average thought process of female voters on the topic.
SiFive claims their next-generation RISC-V chips perform 50% better
I usually use binenv (https://github.com/devops-works/binenv) to install binaries from releases. But maybe I misunderstood and this isn't the same.
Are they for real with that curl? Normalize better security practices!
I have been dual booting for a while with no issues whatsoever.

I develop software on Ubuntu because the tools I use work out of the box.

I play games on Windows because the games I play work out of the box.
The Life and Times of an ML Organization
On my optimus laptop fedora+nvidia work quite well, I recommend you give it a try. Use official instructions for adding nvidia drivers from the rpmfusion repository.

You can even try Silverblue. On the off chance something breaks, i do an rpm-ostree rollback, reboot and the system is on it's previous working state. I could troubleshoot stuff If I want to but I usually wait for an upstream fix before I update again.
Windows ads are mainly confined to the default windows apps, like 'news' etc. Also Cortana I think, but I never use it.
You can't even replace your phone for that much.

I don't carry less than the cost of a new phone, new laptop, and at least a week in a hotel.

All sorts of systems can fail that make cards and ATMs stop working. Look at Puerto Rico after Maria.
Most people wouldn’t watch that show, but well-off people would definitely read that Steven Pinker book to feel better about their insulated comfort in a suffering world. I guess people have different media preferences.

To Pinker’s credit, even he wouldn’t make such a wildly hyperbolic understatement of global inequality. At least not in public, maybe on Epstein’s plane.
> You can't say the first is left open but the second is not.

I didn't. I said, in summary, that the first is left open, but that the first necessarily implies the second is not.
What if the pandemic never ends?
I'm a long-time EFF supporter, but I am always concerned when they (or any other organization that defends civil rights) chooses to intervene in a loser of a case like this. The defendant will likely be convicted of kidnapping, and hopefully the Supreme Court will not use some form of twisted logic to rationalize what the cops did. The correct ruling here is to force a mistrial and forbid any testimony about refusing to provide passcodes at the retrial.
No, it never even had a resizable terminal until early win 10. Unix terminals are an economic powerhouse in themselves and binutils like sed/awk/grep (which windows never had and you need to modify windows to have these tools).
If anyone’s looking for a nice and libre ebook of Moby Dick, I produced one for Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/herman-melville/moby-dick

I also put together a collection of Melville’s short fiction, which includes “Bartleby”: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/herman-melville/short-fict...
Yet another one of thoses guides.

When XP came out everyone was going to go GNU/Linux, due to Toy'R us interface.

When Vista came out everyone was going to go GNU/Linux, due to DX 10 drivers and hardware requirements.

When 8.x came out everyone was going to go GNU/Linux, due to tablet UI.

When 10 came out everyone was going to go GNU/Linux, due to telemetry.

Now Windows 11 came out, naturally everyone is going to go GNU/Linux yet again.
Google takes two-to-four times as much as the fees charged by rival ad networks
Sure.

A better reply is: "I am here to state an observation and not to prove anything to anyone since it's not a court room. Believe me if you want, I'll not stick around to find out".
The US Classification System
> Just to clarify, does emacs/magit really pop up when you run "git rebase -i" on the command line? I haven't experienced this, but maybe that's because my EDITOR env var is set to "vim".

It would only pop up from running `git rebase -i` (or whatever) if your $EDITOR is set to emacs. I'm a heavy emacs/magit user, and even I find the idea of setting my $EDITOR to `emacs` abhorrent.
I do it out of respect for my hardware. On Windows, it wasn't unusual to be idling ~45c with Spotify and Discord open. That same workload stays well under 35c on Linux, even with my rather paltry 6-year-old CPU.
Linux is free. Did he list that?

Installing Windows is like inviting a really pushy bum to live in your house. Always asking for money.

"You want to open that Zip file? Oh well here's a link to where you can rent the appropriate application for the low low price of..."

After using Windows I feel the need for a shower. What a dumpster fire that OS is.
Using double quotes for something you've paraphrased is misleading.

In addition, reading the UNOCHR's report does not show any indication that they're in favour of such additional restrictions. It's just research that shows where the trend is going, judging by recent and in-progress legislation on this theme.
A lot of people think that standing on the constitution is a blocker for all negative possibilities. As we see with the Gabby Petito case, Brian Laundries parents did more harm to their case by pleading their constitutional rights. In other words, it makes it impossible to live in your neighbourhood or communities you frequent afterwards
Wayland is still very green, most distributions haven't switched yet, why did you? I can understand that you would want to try Wayland, but when you encountered problems why did you decide to move to Windows instead of going back to X11?
no. Only thing I've done is remove widgets from UI - don't see cortana, etc. No special removals or disabling.
I am skeptical of anyone who has read Moby Dick and not admitted how much of a slog it is.
I totally agree. I am still a Linux user, but at home I use a Mac now. Why? Because I got sick of having to work out why my laptop couldn't print things anymore after an update. Not once has that happened to the Windows or Apple devices that my family own. Linux is great for doing all sorts of clever stuff; it's not so good at doing the ordinary stuff reliably.
No, he's right. It's like maths. A vast majority of people like to not like / learn it.

I've spent a lot of time with average users of all kinds. They couldn't care less. To them it's a thing that has less value than a coffee cup.

I could, and would sit down and explain to them everything that is cool, cute about every layers of a computer, with simple language and pragmatic use, with history context, and bits of benefits for their lives. They just don't want to hear it.

Some will say it's geek stuff. Some will say "I'm too scared". Some will try and forget 13 seconds later.

The insane side of this is that these people will spend grands on a new machine that will tickle their sense of free improvement (which will not happen). Again every 3-5 years.. forced by ecosystemic pressure to push old stuff out.

ps: I agree that GP was a bit smug, but even then, the population is what it is.

pps: even at work, if I offer to explain something, or write a script, or a macro to help, most people will react negatively for various reasons (very often its petty emotions, like jealousy, or disdain).
Bid to unionize Amazon workers in New York nears milestone
One upshot of all this is that next year it might be just as easy just to head somewhere with decent connectivity within ULB, slap on a headset, and watch it that way. It's certainly less trouble than trying to get in. If that catches on, hopefully it'll discourage some amount of seat camping.
Apple products are very good for accessibility.
I don't see any either, maybe because its the Enterprise / Pro SKU?
"... a user who can create or update ingress objects, can use the custom snippets feature to obtain all secrets in the cluster." I'm not a Kubernetes guy, so I'm curious, how often is there a user with only those permissions? Is it common to have a user that can create/update and then doesn't already have some kind of other access to everything else? I don't know much about Kubernetes permissions.

(I also just learned that the word Kubernetes is in the default Chrome spell checker thing, which was sure helpful in writing this comment!)
Interestingly, floor decks in airliners and load floors in military cargo aircraft are made from a composite of an aluminum skin and very high-quality end-grain balsa wood panels, laminated together in a huge press with film adhesives. (Used to be called Metalite by LTV, who made the stuff for lots of other aircraft companies...) It's lighter and stronger than any synthetic composite for that application. Load floors obviously need to take huge abuse, but still be light, and women's stilletto heels are famous for being able to exert several thousand pounds of force (dynamically) in a tiny area.

FYI, women are also really hard on touchscreens - fake nails/nail polish is the hardest and most abrasive thing they come in contact with over their life except for drops on pavement. It's the main reason all decent touchscreens now have glass top layers.
Not Being a Manager Doesn’t Exempt You from Engineering Leadership
If you are a Beatles Fun it's fun to listen to the records "Let it Be" and "Let it Be Naked" back to back.

Let it be was produced by Phil Spector, and has a lot of the wall of sound trappings such as heavy use of effects, and heavily overdubbed string/chorus/etc parts.

Let it be naked is a remixed version of the album Paul McCartney was involved in to remove much of the Spector wall of sound parts.

For example listen to these back to back:

* (spector) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR4HjTH_fTM
* (naked) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfVAJNqWw84

* (spector) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90M60PzmxEE
* (naked) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLddD6Xf-8g
>Google Now Tracks Your Credit Card Purchases and Connects Them to Its Online Profile of You

It's literally the headline of the article I've posted three times now.

Connecting purchases to your user profile has nothing to do with aggregate data and everything to do with spying on individual users for a profit.
This "list" is awful. I think we're heading into another Vista/8 cycle. Feels like MS really fucked up with Win11, but the writing has been on the wall for Windows for a while. Unless someone splashes them with cold water and they wake up, I'm staying with Windows 10 until they (artificially) force it. Meanwhile I'll be setting myself up a new future on another drive with a decent Linux distro.
I think it's fine but the repetition sounds wrong, if that makes sense.