skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's generally advised to not talk to the police because anything can potentially be incriminating. Given that, your advice effectively becomes "don't have/use a phone in the first place," and I don't fault someone who doesn't want to settle for that.
Yet another one of these comments.

When XP came out, people were switching to Linux.

When Vista came out, people were switching to Linux.

When 8.x came out, people were switching to Linux.

When 10 came out, people were switching to Linux.

Now Windows 11 came out, naturally people are still switching to Linux.

Guess what? People are going to continue switching platforms and talking about it.

Oh and 25% of developers are generally running Linux, 25-30% are on a Mac and about 40-45% are on Windows...and Windows usage is trending downwards year after year. [0]

[0] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-most-...
Alot of what you wrote is true for MacOS and Windows and other major operating systems. Linux doesn't want you either.
Part of it is because vinyl is mastered differently from other media.

Mastering is the process of tweaking a 2 channel mixdown with compression, EQ, etc. for optimal playback across a wide variety of devices. Think of a "master copy" that is then duplicated and sold.

A lot of times the "master copy" used to duplicate onto vinyl is tuned differently from the "master copy" used for duplicating onto CD, MP3, etc.

If you think about it, CD, MP3, streaming, these formats are going to be optimized for loudness and EQ'd in a way to make the main elements clear when played on things like laptops, smartphones, etc. A lot of the dynamics (difference between soft and loud parts) are lost when optimizing for loudness.

A master for vinyl on the other hand is going to be optimized for playback on a record player attached to a hifi. And more of the dynamics will be left in as it's not competing for loudness in the same way as digital media.
Interesting article. How do people usually name their keys in their i18n data files? For example, do you name based on the 'what' or the 'where'?

The what:

greeting: "Hello"

or the where:

dashboard.header: "Hello"

edit:
I guess you could do both

dashboard.header:

greeting: "Hello"
Thank you neighborhood garbage man !
> There has to be some form of authority enforcing rules, or else you end up with a very anarchistic form of "market" where everything goes. That "everything" ranges from mundanities, like making a "business model" out of cheating people, to selling people like property because when there's a buyer, who has the right the stop me from selling?

Your anarchy already exists, and they fight with lawyers to decide the winner. Businesses with exactly the vision you describe exist everywhere. Government enables this kind of trickery.
Not having to worry that upgrading one app will break things for other apps.

Safe screen locking.

Not having to spend hours getting hardware working properly but unreliably.

Not having to deal with audio issues when you want sound from multiple apps.

A responsive interface that doesn't feel like a clunky children's toy from the early 2000s.
Jamstack Is Eating the World
Not so much in a landfill.
Sorry, I misread your comment as referring to throughout history, having kids was a choice and not a side effect (at least for women) from having sex.
Sanctions and a million other things. Its not "let them commit crime against us" or nuclear war. There's middle ground of course.
If someone asked me 20 years ago, I would have predicted that in the next 20 years we will have another OS paradigm. One that will actively help you accomplish your tasks. Not only the OS should not stand in your way, but it should help you find information in an instant, it should help you at tedious tasks, it should provide a framework for programs to exchange and process information. And by that framework I don't mean an Unix pipe or a Unix socket. I want a simple visual way to connect software which should do a lot of complex transformations.

Of course I've failed with predictions. We got a bit more polished UX and UI and that's it. No change of philosophy, no major breakthrough in the way we interact with computers.
Why do we keep deifying this guy?

He's a murderer who was clever enough to give his studio techniques a catchy name.
I've been wondering about who's going to use it - especially by the time it ships. People can be surprisingly unpredictable so it seems like a big bet in a very specific direction. Meanwhile, a lot of teenagers around me (I'm not living in/around SV) are flipping completely back to Real Life socializing and, too some extent, are even anti-tech. They're acutely aware of privacy issues in using any sort of connected technology and want to limit their use and exposure. There's selection bias in my sample, but it makes me wonder about the longer term future of "social media", especially large scale green-field social media like a new metaverse.
PAX Online this past July had a panel called “ A Case for Cozy: Why We Need Wholesome Games” which may interest you if you haven’t seen it yet. They did give a list of some upcoming games in the genre.

I linked the PAX page below. I watched the stream after the fact in the PAX archive on twitch but I needed to scrub through the recording for the whole day and sub-channel to find it so I unfortunately don’t have a link directly to it.

[1] https://online.paxsite.com/content/sitebuilder/rna/pax/onlin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM2R
I haven't found a more pleasant language and ecosystem to use than C#. Where am I going to go, Java with its verbosity, so my projects double in LOCs? Rust, with its cliff of a learning curve and alien syntax?
I think people always think of the metaverse as a 3D space, whereas social networks are always thought of as more of a 2D space. That's how I think of it at least
Thanks, corrected above.
Amusingly, any windows or mac python program comes with a TCL interpreter, thanks to the tkinter GUI:

>>> import tkinter as tk
>>> tk.Tcl().eval('puts {hello, world}')
hello, world
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The term "metaverse" is a strange choice. Feels like there was a room of engineers advocating for this term, based on some obscure sci-fi author they all enjoyed.

Not sure what the right phrase is, but this feels like "metaverse" is a going to be an uphill battle for users to embrace.
At least not defending it. You can find a million and one ways to justify being evil.
This probably made it to the front page because of yesterdays discussion on Hardend Wood. [1]

In my mind I can see bamboo lumber just made with the Hardened Wood process being extra “green” as no glue would be required.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28945312
Yes, I researched this for evaluating my son's previous school - there's a sharp drop off even from the 10-20-30 metre range to the 100-150 metre one, and things like wind directions certainly matter.

AusGov in their infinite wisdom built this primary school right on top of one of the busiest Melbourne streets for east-west through traffic, with long periods of bumper-to-bumper including the heavy trucks which are the worst. (You'd think cars in Aus have bad standards, but then there's the trucks.)

I'm willing to bet no-one even cared, as evidenced by the complete lack of air purifiers in the classrooms.
I'd give them a 9, knocking down a point for what happens after you collect all of the grubs
>Furthermore, those who work in clerical and administrative jobs are far less likely to view their jobs as useless than those who are employed in roles that Mr Graeber regarded as essential...

Of course, if you are assigned an easy and well-paid box-ticking job, your sense of importance goes up, but taxpayers and those who have to plough through the bureaucracy created by you would beg to differ.
There’s very little you can do when the internet mob comes for you. Staying silent was likely their least bad option.
Capitalism has greatly increased the quality of life across the board
What if a 20 mile wide bolide impacts the central united states?
Nah, successful shareholder lawsuits are exceptionally rare, except in tiny family companies. Almost any waste of money can be justified as an attempt to support some intangible, immeasurable goal.

I mean, CEOs are allowed to do spend money in ways that improve the company's image. They're allowed to perform experiments that may not bear fruit, and gambles that may not pay off. They're allowed to do things that improve employee morale and retention.

CEOs can spend shareholders' money on buying other companies the CEO owns ("I thought it would be a good investment"), outfit themselves with a super-luxury office ("We need it for meetings"), even have the shareholders buy them a private jet ("I'm paid so much, the time savings are worth it") - with the right fig leaf, it's all legal.
> he doesn't have the power to create a database listing all American citizens, let alone the citizens of foreign countries

It's my understanding that the NSA did just that under Bush and Obama though. I might have only one side of the story, but in all countries where some part of the state surveillance apparatus was exposed, the law seems to be carefully crafted to look like it forbids mass surveillance while actually allowing the executive to implement it.
In order to be excited some small part of you must be bored or as Melville explains it ...

“To enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more. For this reason a sleeping apartment should never be furnished with a fire, which is one of the luxurious discomforts of the rich. For the height of this sort of deliciousness is to have nothing but the blanket between you and your snugness and the cold of the outer air. Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale
I’ve bought Stardew Valley three times on three different platforms with no regrets.

I suspect this game will be no different.
I had no idea Jack looked like that. He has good Iron Maiden cover band vibes.
This is an interesting observation, considering that traditionally Windows has had these opaque failure and degradation modes that are "unfixable" unless you reinstall. Personally, it doesn't ring true to me - I've been using the very same OS install for around a decade now, I just kept moving it from machine to machine and I think my laptop install is actually a duplicate. I've restored it from backups a few times, though the leading cause is "accidentally powered off during system update".
Not really. There are just a lot of people very unevenly distributed--although the fact that people are willing to camp out for the talks they want to see (which many others probably want to see as well) probably amplifies the unevenness.
Glad to hear from you, Not to simplify it too much but, So instead of user <-> server <-> user2
Its user <-> cache 1 <-> cache2 <-> user2
Instead of one layer, we now add two/multiple layers and with eventual consistency. I understand this is how distributed systems are supposed to work. But,
I wonder why should anyone build a Database on top of a propriety storage engine.
Until there is much more it can do, its mostly a key value store.
I don’t mean to say cloud workers are useless, but they have a niche, its not something that would disrupt how apps are built at-least in the state it is.
Also on a side note LoC mean nothing, it may be a good MVP metric. You could implement twitter MVP in 1000 LoC, but there is lot running behind the scenes. There are edge cases.
I feel like it's only a matter of time until enough people get screwed by the system, see the blatant hypocrisy, realize that this is an oligarchy, and the system collapses. Maybe I'm just an optimist.

One thing that individuals do have power to do (but will be fought vehemently on) is jury nullification. Sadly, most don't know this, and/or are easily manipulated into believing the people in power.

2-10% of incarcerated individuals are completely innocent. This doesn't even include people who are convicted after having rights violated or other technicalities.
Look into the Coleman Hoe. High-precision weeding tool that is very easy on the back.
I'm surprised that I had to scroll this far down to find mention of fugitive. I haven't ever used magit but I use fugitive every single day and absolutely love it.
I never thought of creating an index via a template, that's really cool. Do you have a link to an example template?
Same, but I know how, and you should too.
Phil Spector records have this heavy, dreamy sound that is, oddly, _exhausting_.

Your brain can't pick out the instruments being played (beyond the vocals and some of the lead instruments) so it all folds into each other. You stand there, awash in sound.

A key aspect of this sound was the monaural setup: everything was forced through one speaker and there was no stereo separation to separate the incoming instruments. Mono doesn't work very well on headphones though imo.
While many behaviors of big tech monopolies are hard for laws from the Standard Oil era to wrap around, this is one of the most straightforward issues in monopoly law: Lack of competition and internal collusion between products means they can charge extreme and excessive markup.

While it might be hard to break up any given monopoly that offers "free" products with existing laws, this is the avenue that is straightforward.
Yes, you're right, System 7. I had a Performa 275 with a 68030 CPU and learned to program C & C++ with Metrowerks (a fantastic IDE for the time). I don't have that anymore but might still have a copy of Inside Macintosh somewhere.

>Programming is hard, let's go shopping.
Phrase borrowed from Jeff Atwood :)
https://blog.codinghorror.com/programming-is-hard-lets-go-sh...

>What you are describing is not programming, but life and career choices, which is much,
>much harder in my opinion and most of us are sorely unprepared for.

This is true, you can either simply bob along on the currents of fate and take whatever comes to you, or try and take control. At first I was just happy with a job, and luckily (all my working life actually) there's been plenty of opportunities for my skills; but later chose more carefully. I'm sure that's the experience of plenty others too.
> Magit has great support for staging parts of lines

This is news to me.

> select the section you want to stage and press 's'.

It stages line-wise for me. How do I get it to stage less than an entire line?
Yeah I think everyone feels icky about 'curl https://.. | sh' but to what degree is doing so any more insecure than other "normalized" software distribution practices?
See also:
https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1451318133021675520
1851? For some reason I assumed ol' Dick was much older than that. Neat.
Interestingly for me it is the other way around. I have Windows 10 on the main PC, KDE Neon on a NUC and "obviously" several Raspberry Pi's doing various things.

I spend far more time maintaining the Linux machines, while my Windows box just works.

KDE Neon has been much better last year, but still every now and then some conflict pops up which requires manual command line intervention.

Clearly YMMV...

That said, I'm quite happy with KDE Neon and would most likely be quite content if I had to use it as my primary OS and didn't have any need for RDP. Sadly the latter is a showstopper for me.
> But after 30 your time will worth much more.

Once you know how to start an application and how to find the ones that are installed, the learning curve is within the app.

> Software and drivers written some time ago won't work because there's no stable ABI.

Not sure what you are doing here. Are you trying to load binary drivers written for an old Linux version on a new kernel? Isn't there a mainlined driver that works? Do you think it's a common use-case?

> The software landscape is very fragmented.

If I need to install something, I either get it from the distro's repos of its "app store". Not sure what "fragmented" means here.

> From my long experience with trying to use Linux on the desktop I can give a very long lecture of why it sucks from both user and technical perspectives alike.

It may be worth writing a more detail article or blog post. User perspective is always valuable.
There are very interesting ways that we could compare architectures, but it would never get past the marketing department and it might reveal capabilities that they would rather have a secret, so we are stuck with a single meaningless number.
I don't think it's as simple as Chrome or Firefox. There's also Safari. There's Chrome-based alternatives too such as Vivaldi and Brave which utilize the Chrome engine but takes steps to ensure your privacy. If the market doesn't want Firefox then why force it to stay in existence? Maybe Firefox should address why the market is rejecting it.
I wonder if this is recreating groups without labeling them as such. To a newcomer, such a big group looks like it is composed of many smaller groups. The newcomer then first has to reduce the signal of uninteresting group before finding relevant content (or not and wasting quite a bit of time).
Taliban won't be allowed access to Afghan central bank reserves -Adeyemo
Though that's not really the point of those things in the legal code; the point is not for you to stop a cop from doing it at the point of abuse, but for you to have a legal arm to sue the fuck out of them afterwards, or to get a pass out of jail because the cops violated procedure. Yeah, it sucks for you, but it's supposed to be a deterrent to prevent cops from abusing their power in the future.

Now, that obviously that is not super effective for other reasons (QI; courts - an agent of the state - being overly deferential and siding with the state; etc.).
Am I allowed to have a contrarian opinion :)

I went through the first version of FastAI (when it was Keras, torch?/tensorflow?) and forgot most of it because never did anything with Deep Learning. Then I did the FastAI V1 course again where they use FastAI library V2.

I really liked the first version of the course because I felt like Jeremy did an awesome job of balancing understanding the guts of using a DL library with getting stuff done. It was a tough course, but I felt like I really understood things.

I felt like the version with FastAI library V2 went too far into "Here are some commands you can use in the FastAI V2 library to to do this sexy thing with Deep Learning." I completed that course and really felt it should have been titled "A Course on the Fast AI V2 Library"

I recently purchased "Deep Learning with PyTorch" by Eli Stevens. I've been working through this book and feel like it explains things a lot more. I'm haven't finished the book with it, but I do like it so far.
Personally, I don't like 11 because of telemetry as well as missing features, particularly with its new desktop shell. I can't see how removing useful taskbar features (resizing, changing position, ungrouping window buttons, etc) and turning the start menu into an abomination with less functionality then my phone's damn app drawer is an upgrade. To top it off Microsoft still just can't seem to resist the temptation and decided to include "sponsored" applications in the Start menu pinned section on a fresh install. An average user doesn't know they're not really installed, but it looks like it. When you click on them it installs the application without consent similar to how they did it in Windows 10. They never learn...
Nooope, not on linux at least

>>> import tkinter
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/tkinter/__init__.py", line 37, in <module>
import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
ImportError: libtk8.6.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 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.

Like I said 8 messages up this thread, I agree that people should have more resilient methods for handling these needs, the point is that this is often not existent.
That's like saying "make it illegal to get robbed". If I have a robber with a gun to my head asking for my wallet, I would comply. I wouldn't tell them sorry it is illegal to give you my wallet. You should not penalize the victim. Crack down on perps, not victims please.
In the era of Steve Jobs's second stint at Apple as the interim head, the Mac was designed on the very expensive Sun workstation.
I am 100% clear on it and it's indeed a conscious choice towards the path of the least resistance.

I don't like it anymore than you do, I am simply a realist that I can't change the reality of a lot of cops being bullies.

It's a "partial hack" only insofar as it's making them drop their guard and look to finalize the interaction quicker. I've seen these people's faces up close; they are on the edge and any non-cooperation will push them to physically abuse you or even drag you to the station. So I found a way to make them not think of me as a threat, even if two of the times when it happened I had not a minute to waste.

And sadly, when it comes to "people must stand up", it's never us. Always has to be somebody else. Sigh.
"protesters overtook the campus square, setting off pink and blue flares, while Stock cancelled her courses and followed police advice to stay off campus and secure her home. I asked a protester whether the demo was designed to be intimidating. “We’re standing still,” they said. “Her presence to us is intimidating.” Emphasis mine.

Is there a word to describe this? This frame of mind is deeply disturbing to me and it seems very insidious. I believe people need a term in order to understand the behavior/mindset that is being displayed here. And, to be able to inform others about it.
yeah but not in an established field by a college dropout. The whole pitch was ridiculous. We do all the tests with only one machine and we make the machine a lot smaller, oh and we do it with just a fraction of the blood.
Why do you think Dorsey is personally responsible for swinging the world towards dystopia?
Not exactly. It was an analogy for the «mindless hoard» of the conformant - the "silent majority" -, promised a dull excuse for a life, but free of care inside a social system, which «comes to get you» with that promise wanting to assimilate you; more specifically the system would have been consumerism (as in "live to have and purchase"), installed over anti-intellectualism (as was already a very evident trend half a century ago). The revealing moment was the scene in which "ghouls/zombies" drive shopping trolleys.

Romero confirmed the depiction was that of "the revolution", where "the awake" realizes the vast majority is assimilated, but discovers "humanity" inside himself and decides that it is worth fighting to defend it, as the core hidden topic in the original work which provided the inspiration: Richard Matheson's I am Legend.

All of that installed in the social crisis of confusion, incompetence and violence seen as the core aspects of the '60 in the USA.

...Since we are discussing about cash, and surely you wanted to be on topic, I assume you meant to state "ghouls also renounce to privacy", worsening the scenario Romero originally depicted. Well noted.
Sorta-sincere hot take:

Software for the masses seems to always be dumbed down, lose functionality, or otherwise become less useful over time as its targeted at the lowest common denominator. I'm good with there being an OS that's primarily for people who have the time and desire to understand their tools and want to get the most out of them.

This isn't some dig at casual users, it's about market segmentation. Not everything needs to be for everyone, and that's okay. With few exceptions, the average PC has plenty of choice in its operating systems.
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