skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your evidence for Twitter having less reach is that they aren’t included in FAANG? Twitter’s reach aside, they’re more powerful than Facebook given that they aren’t politically neutral. Facebook may not be politically neutral either, but they at least attempt to be. Twitter on the other hand has clearly picked a side and does not hide it. In fact, they often flaunt it by applying rules to only certain types of accounts. It doesn’t take any effort to see this.
Everyone's mileage will vary to some degree and no one but you knows what your specific requirements are, obviously.

I use Linux both at home and at work and over the last couple of years have been pleasantly surprised how much the software gap has narrowed.

A lot of this has to do with SaaS software which, ironically I don't like, but in a few circumstances it makes sense. Office tools at work, for example. If you're a G-suite shop Google docs and gmail will work regardless of your system, if you're a MS shop then Office, Outlook, Calendar and even Teams will run in a web browser.

But even for native applications this gap has narrowed. Zoom, Slack and Discord all have native Linux apps that just work for me. Google Chrome, which I wouldn't use for my personal devices but I need to use for work as a Web developer, has a Linux version that works as great as the Windows version. But the most important part is that all of these tools are cross-platform now. There is no relearning a tool unless you depend on a native Windows app for which there is no Linux version (which you likely do, from the sounds of it).

The desktop environments are where the real differences come into play. I can't even comment there since I switched to Linux Mint MATE when Ubuntu introduced Unity years ago. I like MATE a lot but I customize the hell out of it to suit my needs and I'm hardly qualified to have an opinion about what other people should be using.

I did, however, recently decide to go with KDE Plasma for a TV streaming device that I put together. It's a small, low-powered machine and I didn't think I'd consider KDE because it's kind of notorious as a resource hog. But I needed something that could give me a good UI for a TV and remembered that Plasma supports desktop widgets and is highly customizable. So I tried it and was pleasantly surprised how performant it was. That's how quickly things change. The last time I tried KDE on a desktop it was sluggish and I didn't care for it at all. But my information and pre-conceived notions became outdated. Not telling you to try Linux again. Use whatever works for you. Just sharing my experiences for conversation.
Complete horseshit propaganda from the biggest pro-globalist newspaper.

> For most of us, a bank account isn’t about profit or loss, it’s about security: it prevents your life savings from being erased by a house fire, burglary or infestation of rodents

Guys, there's totally not a fiat currency collapse incoming. It's RODENTS eating CASH you have to worry about. Keep calm and trust the banks until the bitter end. How does anyone read this bs with a straight face?
I never said if it was beneficial or not, just that its not some huge conspiracy

My citation is intro to psych textbooks
To be honest, I don't really understand the analogy. Guns have been prohibited in school zones since 1990. It was signed into law by George H. W. Bush. Is there some new angle on this that implicates liberals in unreasonable behavior?
More generally, magit applies operations on whatever the cursor is on, when it makes sense to do so. This is very convenient e.g. for staging parts of a change at different granularities: I can stage everything, then unstage a file, then stage a hunk within that file. It only takes a few keypresses, compared to a long set of commands followed by dredging through add -pi.
The vaxx doesn’t do shit
Yep. I saw a sibling comment after I posted that mentioned that. It seems like a nice way to skip an additional step! Thanks for point that out!

Also during the 4 year wait for it to harden it doesn’t increase in size. So there wouldn’t be a decrease in the amount of bamboo harvested, it would just allow it to be harvested every year instead of every 4.
It's not 500 years, but you can lock objects in AWS S3 for up to 100 years, depends if you're satisfied AWS will still be a thing in a century.
Extended Databricks CLI
Devil's advocate: as a consumer, google's ads seem 2-4x higher quality than ads out of other networks.

I'd be curious whether the conversion rates on the marketing side back up my gut instinct on the consumer side. Any marketers here with numbers?
Personally I like to add the context of the string, not at what place it is used.

For example:

title.welcome = "Welcome"
button.submit = "Submit"

In my experience this makes reusing of texts much easier and there will be less to translate.
Because the same welcome title could be used in the dashboard header but also at other places.

But I think this is just a matter of taste. Use what works for you.
>The cops may do all sorts of things to you that they're not supposed to, and there's nothing you can do to stop them.

Well, this isn't strictly true. But it's a quick way to get to 5 stars.
I've tried but so many software that I am using is only available on Windows.
Also, some minor annoyances like my Bluetooth headset identifies my laptop running Linux (tried w/ Ubuntu based distros) as a mobile so I can't connect to my mobile and laptop in the same time!
It’s soft power vs. hard power. Everyone has an amount of measurable soft power and a measurable amount of hard power in different spheres. Soft power is how much everyone wants to agree with you, while hard power is how much everyone has to agree to you. Think of it as respect vs. on paper.

To lead effectively, you need both. It’s rare that leaders have both. Biden does not have the soft power to do such a thing.

Soft power vs hard power also is a part of every relationship, even with your grandma or friend.
One thing to consider: in the last year and half of the pandemic if a business hasn't figured out what their web presence is or how it helps them they probably went out of business. Those that have figured it out probably have a list of pain points.

For example, small mom-n-pop restaurants had to figure out online ordering and probably went with some delivery related service to start with, should be easy to research. Huge chain restaurants have apps - what would a mom-n-pop restaurant app do for customers? Notifications about weekend specials might be neat with pics of the dish (I always have trouble envisioning what a special might be if I haven't had it before, seeing food makes me hungry). A simple interface for them to push out multi-channel notifications might solve some pain.

Or there may be small, non-retail businesses that need more than just a web presence - like a small inventory system or things related to their workflow but isn't just a simple website.
I mean, I dislike zuck as much as anyone else, but I don't see what's so bad about this.

Zuck invites Dorsey over for dinner, and at the time he was doing a personal challenge to only eat meat that he himself had killed, to be mindful that it did come from a once living animal.

Y'know, if more people did that, we would probably have less people eating meat in general. We're so disconnected from how our food is actually made... Meat doesn't grow on trees or just magically appear in stores.
For the lazy, there's a free Moby Dick audiobook on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg84olIrn-kb
> Or have you actually gotten out and talked to some of the workers? ... I've done the latter and my take (along with that of the workers I chatted with)...

I would be curious to know how many workers you spoke with, relative to the number of employees in their warehouses. I would also be curious if the employees you spoke with all worked in the same facility/region, or if they were scattered throughout the country/world.

It's one thing to talk to a few people from the same spot, it's a completely different thing to speak to a good sampling of people that is more reflective of Amazon as a whole.
Are you sure about BeOS? Half baked? If any, the half-baked OS in that era was Linux. Until the 2.4 kernel it sucked having several sound daemons. BSD's got it right at least.

Haiku OS didn't die, and the day it gets hardware accelerated GL/Vulkan support (now it's done thru MESA/Lavapipe/LLVMpipe), we'll talk about which os is thruly half-baked.

On security, your sensitive data belongs to an unprivileged user, do unless you set your perms to ugo+r/ chattr +i to your sensitive files, you are screwed in the same way.
Yes, OpenBSD has unveil/pledge, but it's still dangerous.

You can set another user account for that, sure, but the most correct to handle that is to set that data in external media and access it on demand.

Disk storage is dirt cheap today.
NumWorks, the Modern Graphing Calculator
> The world isn't much different now than the one that caused the Buddha to leave his princely lifestyle and dedicate his life to teaching and spirituality. Those material gains over the last 200 years, sorry they just don't seem all that germane.

In my experience, the people who are typically 'shocked' by this destitution are people who have lived extremely privileged lives, believe this is the default state of the world, and then see this destitution, and are so moved, that they dedicate their lives to eradicating it, while often misidentifying the cause.

Buddha is the archetypical version of this narrative, and it's no wonder -- as a rich prince, he had no idea what the world was really like.

In reality, most of the problems you see in rural areas all around the world are human-caused problems, typically where humans are interfering with individual freedom (civil and economic).

> It hits you that it's not just that part of rural Colombia that looks like that, rural everywhere does.

Except it doesn't. My parents live used to live in rural America and it was quite nice. My brother lives in the countryside and it's also quite nice. It's no less destitute than the area of Portland I live in. Have you ever been to a city? It's not like they're some model of refinement.
The important part would be how this compared to Walmart warehouse workers, or Target or Home Depot, to determine if this needs legislation or union action.
git-imerge rebase is what you want, git-imerge is one of the coolest tools I've used.
... when Windows 12 comes out it will be half GNU/Linux
Not cryptocurrencies, just BTC. The dystopian thing to do would be not to seek the decentralized route which he is trying to, at least in a part with BTC. Not sure how that qualifies as dystopian.
Based on political contributions, police officers have donated their money to Democrats and Republicans almost in equal proportion for quite awhile... until 2018, when they became overwhelmingly Republican.

https://archive.md/bacrC#selection-1400.0-1404.0
> would be something approaching corporate suicide

No it would not. Just like in any other case where a corporation had to pay a huge fine - they do it, or it even gets lowered significantly, and then move on. The executives who were responsible retired long ago and the motto of shareholders and management always is "look to the future and don't bother me with old problems".

You make quite an assertion based on what - the opposite has already happened many times. Risk that has to be paid for much later often is worth it, especially when it's going to happen to a new team. Not that the risk for a CEO is worth worrying about (for them) even if they were to get caught, the term "golden parachute" exists for reasons.
Ah... in South Africa they print all n fingers (however many you have.)
News is, by definition, unusual or impactful.
Maybe it would be better if they were more explicit about the "what should have happened" part, instead of just saying "no, the police shouldn't have done that and shouldn't be allowed to do that."
They don't have thousands of years of evidence. The modern economic system has only existed about 200 years. It's precursor was around a couple hundred years before that. Prior to that, the economic system looked very different. And there was a wide range of economic systems prior to that.
And indeed these are points when many switch or at least try to, which is good. And some of those stick for good, some go back.
Is College Worth It? A Comprehensive Return on Investment Analysis
Canada got rid of pennies.
Little more than a troll - a third party clicked the revert button, basically.

Wouldn't wait around for it to be reviewed/approved... but I'm willing to be surprised.
Johnny LaRue was onto something with getting a crane shot into Polynesian Town.
Link to the data table you can search by major and college: https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/7583742/
Show HN: Orbital, a video file browser for digital hoarders (like me)
How do you propose we vet office holders?
I can’t know your use cases, but treetabs from opera fully solves all my needs (namely, [re-]grouping tabs, all functions from tab menu, nice styling, configurable close/newtsb behaviors in a “tree sense”). What exactly tab outliner cannot do that you are using daily in ff?
While a lot of these can be difficult to read - I personally as a Missourian like the design of the Missouri plate, it's a lot like the older 2000's plates that were based around the river motif.

Additionally, it is quite easy to read, and the nice 'city registration tag' would be nice to see implemented.
Stardew Valley has sold 15 million copies in 5 years. That may not be billions in sales, but it's at least hundreds of millions. I don't think billions is that far-fetched, especially with multiple games.
Yeah, git is certainly a low level tool. That's actually what I like most about it. There's a few fundamental concepts I get to manipulate directly with git commands. I like dealing with innards like this because I can form a mental model of the tool. High level tools are a lot harder to understand.

I think the problem with add, commit and reset is they aren't low level enough. The reset command in particular is juggling several concepts at once: HEAD, the index and the working tree. The add and commit commands work with fewer concepts: working tree to index and index to commit, respectively.

I too google the commands I don't use often. There's no shame in that.
Or - hear me out here - we could protect our reasonable expectation of privacy and not bend over.
Mark would you say more about use of KGs for organizing data sources, or give an example situation? Thanks in advance.
Aha, the latter. Thanks! Looks huge but I'll try it.
The downside to being a principled legal defense organization is that effective defense of common rights generally requires intervening on the side of people who are real criminals. A significant amount of 1st Amendment case law comes from the ACLU defending from people whose speech is abhorrent, but nonetheless protected. A failure to establish desired precedent often means allowing the court to establish the opposite precedent.

As the saying goes, "bad cases make bad law". In this case the EFF is weighing in at the appellate level to make sure that this otherwise abhorrent case doesn't lead to precedent that's damaging to all Utahns.
Hey HN, my internet name is SuboptimalEng[0], and this is Orbital - an open-source video file browser that allows you to quickly search, filter, and preview all video (and image) files in a specified root directory.

In late 2020, I quit my engineering job to go full-time on YouTube[1]. A few months into my journey, I realized that I accumulated way too many media files (images, memes, videos, screen recordings, stock footage, etc.) to search through efficiently.

I did a quick google search for software solutions, but I couldn't find any that fit my needs. After many internal monologues (where I promoted myself from side-character #2 in arc 3 to the main protagonist), I finally committed to building Orbital. (And yes, it's a desktop app built with Electron.)

Would love to get some feedback!

[0] https://www.twitter.com/SuboptimalEng

[1] https://www.youtube.com/SuboptimalEng
Many villages in Bush Alaska. Often the local store (in places that are large enough to have a store) will be sort of "deputized" as a post office, but there's rarely a bank.
Automotive giants are transforming into software juggernauts
Node.js sandboxes are open to prototype pollution
Between using Magit and org-mode, I don't know how I could ever transition away from using emacs. I've tried to resist it, I've sworn it off and moved to exclusively using vim + command line tools for several years, and yet I keep coming back. The degree of integration between these tools is making my workflow more and more seamless over time. emacsclient has made working from multiple terminals a breeze; I don't even bother with screen or tmux anymore. And just recently I've discovered org-roam. The whole experience in emacs just keeps evolving for me.

Now if I could only find an emacs email client whose interface I can tolerate...
That’s a whole lot of chaff for someone who claims to believe that global warming exists and is human caused. Also, you’ve moved the goal posts from “consensus” to “censorship” and dragging in Facebook for whatever reason, which is rhetorically suspect.

You’re wasting a huge amount of energy and time arguing about … well to be honest, I can’t figure out what your point is. Consensus is bad? Consensus is wrong because science changes? Consensus leads to censorship? Your point seems to shift around every time someone gives a counter argument, which makes me doubt that you’re acting in good faith.
20000 Leagues Under the Sea also came to mind.
Everytime Apple upgrades Xcode I am worried something in my development workflow breaks (as has happened many times in the past). Same is true for every major macOS release the last 5 years or so.

I’m getting to the point that I consider switching to Linux, but the biggest show stopper for me is my work as iOS dev. Hopefully can move to some other tech in a couple of years so I don’t have to rely on the Apple platform for my income.
You probably don’t feel like you’re fighting your front door when you walk out of your house or apartment also right?

All that means is that git tools, and your front door, work well once you have mastered them. The ease of use and discoverability of tools over the life of their learning curve is what determines if they are a Norman door.

For lots of people, using a Unix command line or Git for the first time feels like a Norman door. This is why other interfaces exist (like guis) for the same tools.

What is a Normal door - 5 min Vox short
https://youtu.be/yY96hTb8WgI
The Dyrt Is Hiring – Engineers
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will annihilate me.
If you make it a felony to pay ransoms (which I strongly support), there will be far fewer ransom demands. Yes, some of it will go underground, but in my view it’s the only way to actually decrease the demand side of the equation.
The world is a better place... For those best positioned to take advantage. Those who aren't, can go work in Amazon warehouses.
(Not an expert at all, but have read Carreyrou's book.)

You make it sound like they were 80 or 90% of the way there. But it seems like what they promised—hundreds of tests from a drop of blood—is totally impossible, which is why it sounded so amazing. They were not even 1% of the way to what they were saying they already could do. And they were giving what sound like fairly random blood test results to people with serious medical conditions, while pretending they were 100% of the way there.
The motion, form-factor and the range of movements is certainly good, but looking at some of the other videos[1] shows the arm really is the neat, tiny protuberance of much larger stack of technology. The pumps and everything else appear massive and bulky. Biological muscles are self-contained, not tethered. This is no doubt an impressive demonstration of integration, but unless all those pumps are inside the arm, the further claims about how this technology will be used seem a bit ... stretched.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s8YiEBr_u0
Thank you! Long Day’s Journey into the Night was the first movie I watch at the cinema after they reopened in 2020.
I knew nothing about it. I was very confused by the first part, but when the second part started and I noticed they weren’t cutting I was locked in like few other times. I had never seen a movie that depicts so well how it feels to dream, and be in a dream.
I recently got an Apple TV just for Zwift after using Roku for 8 years. The difference between Apple TV 4K and the Roku Ultra is striking. I got my Apple TV used for about the same price as the Ultra new. However I think paying an extra $100 for an Apple TV is a pretty good investment.

Roku is SLOW. Apple TV is so fast it makes my brain hurt. I'm so used to clicking on YouTube then looking at my phone for a minute waiting for it to start. Now it just starts up in a few seconds. Also the stupid buttons on the Roku remote keep opening Hulu and Vudu whenever someone sits on the remote.

I'll probably just switch to Apple TV for everything soon. I dislike their unreliable, overpriced, and unrepairable laptops, phones, and tablets. But the TV box seems pretty solid so far.
Really? There seem to be some people who would like to do physical harm to those of differing opinions
Disclosure: I'm a developer advocate at Microsoft with a focus on Linux, I am typing this on a laptop running Windows 11 (it also has another SSD that runs Linux), and I'm a diehard Mac user.

I hate this sort of SEO-driven clickbait that is trying to inflame wars that frankly, were settled two decades ago. Use Linux. Use Windows. Use macOS. Use Chrome OS. Use OpenBSD. Use Haiku. If you're a complete masochist, use GNN Hurd. Use whatever works.

It will never be the year of the Linux desktop (and that's totally OK!) and poorly-written articles like this do nothing to help change that.

Plus, the article is wrong. There are plenty of Linux distributions with tons of telemetry and spyware (Deepin Linux is literally run by the Chinese government) and talking points against TPMs and secure boot are so completely 2010, I had really hoped we had moved past that by now.

Again, use whatever you want. But this is such lazy writing, I'm disheartened to see it rank so highly on HN, just because people want to get territorial about what computing platform other people use.
It only happens to bad people. Um, wait ...
Well I try to update packages every now and then, security and that jazz, which has a non-zero chance of requiring manual intervention. Merging config file changes is a common one, every now and then some package mess to clean up.

Not saying it's a huge deal, though I do worry about screwing up the config changes, but it's a lot more work than what I have to do to keep my Windows machine running.