skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CNN reported that it is a horse dewormer (which it is) and that the treatment is outright opposed by the FDA (which it is). [0]

Joe Rogan is spreading misinformation and potentially VERY dangerously at that.

[0]https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-shoul...
In a similar vein, I think the biggest value-add that Arch has over other distros is that it turns out having the filter of "can follow well written instructions through mildly tricky commands well enough to result in a bootable system" results in a community with a base level of competence, care, and patience that puts it at least two standard deviations above the other distros and at least four (I know how small the percentile is now) above just the general wash of garbage that you get when you Google for Windows issues.

It creates similar effects to the different credit card companies. Why would anyone accept Amex and its higher fees? Because they bring you higher value customers, sometimes dramatically higher value.
> Synthwave is the greatest genre of music as far as I'm concerned.

I agree - Synthwave is where my weirdest and most enjoyable music journey began.

If you are a fan of synthwave, you may also enjoy stuff like techno bunker (slightly more minimal). Spotify decided to start lacing playlists with this stuff and my monkey brain got addicted really fast.

Something about the repetitive minimalism of these genres turns me into a coding terminator. I find I forget the music is going after about 5 minutes into the first track. That's not to say this is the only reason I listen to this music, but it's one fun benefit. It's a bit harder for me to concentrate externally when listening to things like trap instrumentals or dubstep (not that these are invalid sub-genres either - I really enjoy them too).
Last time I checked, they also removed the "identity consistency between browser and cookie jar" flag that controlled automatically signing into Chrome if you signed into a Google service like YouTube. It is no longer possible to turn it off.
Flutter Widget Unit Test Wrappers
In general I would agree, but a significant part of Clojure's appeal is that it's immutable by default, because that allows you to make certain assumptions about the codebase. Introducing mutable datastructures means you can no longer make those assumptions, so it potentially has much wider ramifications than e.g. calling into C code from Python.
Do you happen to have a list of these code words for other countries?
Moderator should add (2019) to the title, as there has not been any update.
On the other hand, a Windows user is trained not to report bugs, especially in games. There's rarely a channel for reporting things & simple bugs go unfixed unless the community can work out some hack to do it for themselves. Games are abandonware monoliths on day one.

Secondly, if a program crashes in Windows and you try to force kill it, you get blocked waiting for the 'report' to be sent do Microsoft. Users are trained to click off this, so the OS will finally do what you asked it to.
> storm is tiny by East Coast standards

OK but natural water flow is adapted to local conditions, over generations.. a disaster is something that doesn't fit capacity..

I had a similar aha moment as you when casually talking to a stranger about the rain in California - she looked dismissive and said "I am from Michigan" and walked off !
And uninformed anonymous downvotes is what will make me leave HN one day. Sure, stay in your filter bubble and downvote opinions you don't like.
Notably, of those bug reports, fewer than 1% (only 3 bugs) were specific to the Linux version of the game. That is, over 99% of the bugs reported by Linux gamers also affected players in other platforms. Moreover (quoting from the OP):

> The report quality [from Linux users] is stellar. I mean we have all seen bug reports like: “it crashes for me after a few hours”. Do you know what a developer can do with such a report? Feel sorry at best. You can’t really fix any bug unless you can replicate it, see it with your own eyes, peek inside and finally see that it’s fixed. And with bug reports from Linux players is just something else. You get all the software/os versions, all the logs, you get core dumps and you get replication steps. Sometimes I got with the player over discord and we quickly iterated a few versions with progressive fixes to isolate the problem. You just don’t get that kind of engagement from anyone else.
On Arrakis, it's even worse.
As somebody who's been hit a few times by cyclists, one time suffering long-term injury to my elbow, I feel like I've grown pretty attuned to getting out of their way. Yet in Amsterdam I kept getting belled, yelled at, or pushed. The busier parts of Amsterdam along people's commute are really quite scary as a pedestrian, there's often not enough room for 2 people to comfortable stand side-by-side without getting a bell or a curse from overpacked bikes on similarly narrow bike lanes bleeding out from their designated lanes. In some of the narrower streets there often isn't even place for pedestrians to walk separated from cars and bikes, but bikes will act as if the entire area is theres.

After a few days there I finally started to get the system. Because some areas have sidewalks and bike lanes at the same level, I noticed cyclists will often use the sidewalks to pass slower bikes. I realized then that just like in any other big city, you have to stand up for yourself and when a cyclist is on a pedestrian right-of-way and decides to get up in your face, you're completely within your rights to push back and kindly show them the edges of the bike lane they've left. It reminded me a bit of figuring out how to get around NYC.

Outside of the cramped shared spaces in Amsterdam the aggression levels are understandably much lower and the separation between bikes and pedestrians is more manageable, and I never once had an issue elsewhere in the Netherlands.
> A similar issue exists with cell phone debug, where the carriers log into your phone to troubleshoot.

You cannot be serious. How do I know if this can happen to me?

> Free open source hardware (FOSH) is really the only option.

Yes.

> No user complains too much about not being able to replace the firmware for some faraway BGP router

The network is a very clear line to me. The BGP router is not my computer. It's the ISP who should be demanding free software from their hardware manufacturers, so that they too could enjoy complete control and trust.

> If a consumer thinks about the PC less as providing a personal computing service and more as an Internet terminal, then the problem goes away a little.

In these cases, the user is not using a computer. They're using appliances that just happen to have computers inside. Modern consumer products make every effort to hide the computer. There is no computing freedom if there are no computers we can use.

We must oppose all "consumer" products, all "fully integrated and converged" solutions. Computing is about simple parts in the form of hardware and software; from these parts, powerful systems emerge. Consumer appliances are these whole things that have swallowed up the entire system. They are indivisible, non-interoperable, uncontrollable, they only do what was foreseen by the corporation that made them despite the perfectly capable computer inside. I can't interface directly with the computer controlling my air conditioner, I need an infrared controller for that.

This article is linked from Stallman's website, it covers this matter with a lot of depth:

http://contemporary-home-computing.org/RUE/

> We are giving up our last rights and freedoms for “experiences,” for the questionable comfort of “natural interaction.”

> But there is no natural interaction, and there are no invisible computers, there only hidden ones. Until the moment when, like in the episode with The Guardian, the guts of the personal computer are exposed.

> Every victory of experience design: a new product “telling the story,” or an interface meeting the “exact needs of the customer, without fuss or bother” widens the gap in between a person and a personal computer.

> The morning after “experience design:” interface-less, desposible hardware, personal hard disc shredders, primitive customization via mechanical means, rewiring, reassembling, making holes into hard disks, in order to to delete, to logout, to “view offline.”
You're right about the inflation adjustment (which is separate from a net-present-value adjustment). I guess I was assuming constant-dollars.

To be clear, net-present-value is the bird-in-the-hand principle. A dollar now is worth more to you than a future dollar, EVEN IF YOU ASSUME NO INFLATION.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_present_value
I've started a Spotify playlist of songs/albums recommended in the discussions here:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/707TEJD6lGwX9mUoeKbzJS
I don't use Spotify.

My "in" was Trevor Something - Death Dream as a freeleech staff pick on w.cd. From there I've discovered a lot by searching for popular artists on certain tags and branching out.

I get my wallet out regularly for Hello Meteor, Trevor Something, and George Clanton despite being very active in the torrent scene.
I agree but those were scientists from the past that practiced real science. Meaning they accepted counter arguments and evidence; not just dictate. They also discovered through the scientific method that you can not vaccinate for corona viruses

They also were acutely aware you should never mass vaccinate during a pandemic.

They were correct and that is why you see the results in Israel, Singapore, England, and now the US, that you are seeing. That these are bad therapeutics at best. They could end up being worse.

The scientist and doctors who accomplished what you enumerated are indeed out there, but their voices are being suppressed by bureaucrats that now represent crony corrupt science; like fauci.
And the most difficult, practically impossible weather to cycle in, is winter rain. 0-5 degrees celcius and rain, good luck riding your bike. You literally can't dress for it, it's better to even walk because then you can use an umbrella. You have to cover your whole body in specialised clothing that's both warm insulating, and fully waterproof. Your feet, your hands, and even then, your head, your face...
I think it's fair to say that they've helped create more secure computers but that's different from improving computer SCIENCE. Why? Because science is about our shared understanding of how the world works. The NSA rarely shares many fundamental truths. They may help debug some crypto algorithms, but they rarely explain how and why they do it. So we're just as much in the dark before and after their help.

If they want credit for improving science itself, they need to share much, much more.
I agree that the process could be more straight-forward, especially as, from what I read, some computers may need some coaxing into changing the keys.

But the thing is that, like it or not, most people simply don't care enough, so they'll just use Windows. I remember a while ago, when there were many live CD-based distros and there was no such thing as SecureBoot, people wouldn't even be curious to give Linux a spin. All it would have taken was to pop a CD in the drive and boot up. To paraphrase another commenter, I think many people feel the same way about their PC as their washing machine: just another appliance. Of course, lock-down platforms don't help instill curiosity in people...

So you get, roughly-speaking, two populations: those who care and those who don't. And usually, those who do care are curious enough to follow a few simple steps to disable SecureBoot for the installation and then set up their own signing process.

But I stand by what I said earlier: the process cannot be fully automatic, or it defeats the purpose. But I do think that willingly making it a pain is wrong.
"It's free if your time is free".

For some reason wasting time on OSS science experiments is often seen as badge of honor.

Buy commercial NAS that works and focus on your business. You're not in OSS debugging business.

Another question would be why do you use NFS in the first place. You should be able to deliver your services with stateless Web servers, databases on block storage & S3.
For me it's having been hit several times by cyclists on shared paths, and never having been hit by a car.

(well, I was once hit by a car, but I was on a bike so....)
> I do wish to point something out: nowhere do you have a "right to safety from others."

I don’t know where you got that impression, but in many states you can go so far as to legally kill someone, anywhere, as long as you can make the case that you “felt threatened”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-your-ground_law
But chrome's security and performance is miles better than firefox.

The organization that overpays managerial people, fired technical talent, and funnels donations into political causes instead of browser development is not much better either.
See page 90:

> Google ad server employees met with AMP employees to strategize about using AMP to impede header bidding, addressing in particular how much pressure publishers and advertisers would tolerate.
> science has evolved a lot since then.

Given that there is no way to measure absolute scientific progress, this is a meaningless and baseless claim.

At the time of Galileo, scientists had, after many centuries, perfected their means of calculating geocentric orbits. Thee equations worked extremely well. Experts at the time would have told you that science had progressed significantly since the time of Aristotle. Yet it had progressed in a completely wrong direction.

There is no reason to believe science is somehow progressed perfectly today in every arena.
> iTunes was originally Mac only

When Apple made iTunes for Windows, Steve Jobs called it “It's like giving somebody a glass of hell in ice water.” [1]

I mean, was Windows Media Player really that bad? I still miss the visualizations and even the fancy skins. iTunes in comparison was very dull and barely changed in 20 years.

[1] https://500ish.com/a-time-to-kill-itunes-2d9a24529b9a
This is basically what ripgrep will do for you automatically. (ripgrep uses Rust's regex engine, which is a descendant of RE2.) But when you get up into hundreds of thousands of regexes, the NFA (and the resulting DFA) get really big. And things generally don't scale that well. Here's a good example: http://web.archive.org/web/20210302010420/https://01.org/hyp...

The problem is that for a big enough NFA, you'll wind up spending most of your search doing powerset construction to build the DFA.

> One thing you'll have to watch out for is RE2's maximum DFA size

You can configure this in ripgrep with the --dfa-size-limit flag. (See also --regex-size-limit.)
They moved a little bit outside a city, not to another plant. You can still have someone repair your truck.
The ipod didn't shuffle music and tech into a new era. The iTunes store did. The iTunes store could've turned any PMP into a titan. One could even argue it was Rio's successful legal defense of the concept of a PMP that laid the foundation for the entire industry.
I use https://mullvad.net on their wireguard without any issue: not that fast: so many IPs you can choose from

my advice: rent yourself a little server, and install wireguard yourself: very easy, very effective
the cheapest https://www.hetzner.com/cloud will work perfectly

(you know yourself you need to setup your VPN *before* traveling)
I feel the same way about ripgrep, and also fzf - especially both in combination. I only started using them both a few months ago, yet it feels like a fundamental way of doing computing.
Most intersting to me is the decision making, governance, dispute resolution, starts here (https://youtu.be/n-uH36w9xg8?t=1737)

Few notes from it at 1.75 speed:

Two separate methods, "consensus" and "dynamic governance," which are spread across three neighbourhoods, with all three neighbourhood boards meeting together once a month. Leans heavily on elder retired people who have the time to participate in the governance. Ownership is owning shares in whole co-op that are related to the size of the house.

Coexistence is apparently easier with a larger group, (30-40), and groups that are too small get at each other (10 households) and cause harm to the relationships with everyone, where a conflict doesn't impact the cohesion of a larger group of 35-40. Dilution of relationships sounds important.

This comes up again when they talk about multiple special purpose vehicles for neighbourhoods financially interacting so loss of one doesn't impact the other ones. It's kind of micro-federated, where federation isn't a response to growth, but rather, a necessary stability feature of surviving as small.

They're the size of a small village, and it seems like you need that critical mass to keep it running so it can evolve organically and even a bit chaotically, and it's not close enough to each other that they will aligning all in one direction (good or bad) and causing strife. I could see how the whole thing could be vulnerable to politics, but it looks like their federated governance model mitigates lockstep.

It reminds me a bit of a talk I heard about Native influence on the creation of the US constitution, via Mowhawk Chief Joseph Brant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Law_of_Peace
> the thing is, the Linux community is exceptionally well trained in reporting bugs

I don't have any stats to back up my claim but I believe a good chunk of those Linux users are tech folks - well, we submit bugs all day long at work, of course we are trained to do so!
Why is this legal
It does seem like the GOOGL shareholder expectation of compounded perpetual YoY revenue gains of > 25% leads to bad places. The YoY growth of end users is much smaller. Something like 5%. So at some point, the inflated expectations have to mean a dirty playbook.
the top one will fall off in the process, and most of the forklifts aren't meant for that angle of leverage
Thanks. Yah. 2 weeks is not enough. But I could sense the overall trend. Yes. I need to make my resume marketable. My linkedin activity also is empty. Although, I have done a lot of POC's, none of them are in public places like github etc.
Agree with you that skills, quality of work etc matter the most. But that can be proved only after getting an interview call.
Scientists have found a way to harden wood to make a knife that rivals steel
Can you get a trademark for Foo-town Yard Care?
The PBS News Hour is head and shoulders above anything I have seen on cable. I consider the latter to be strictly “infotainment”.
> When the iPod first came out it wasn't anything obviously special.

As the story notes, it was immediately "special" due to the polish, relative ease of use, and internal micro-HDD that allowed it to store far more music than any other player with any market penetration - while some prior models also used a hard drive and offered comparable capacity, it wasn't until the iPod came along with Apple's marketing behind it that portable digital players really started to displace portable CD players.

Remember, too, this was in 2001, well before flash had gotten as cheap and reliable as we're accustomed to today, and well before anyone was in the habit of encoding at higher quality than 128Kbps MP3 could provide - 5GB in a portable music player was huge.
DS4Windows – Open-Source Gamepad Input Mapper and Virtual Emulator
I basically agree with the sentiment that, even with the sliding transducer not being in a library, the code he ends up with is far better (using keep w/ the checked - is probably the clearest version). With tests you can get convinced the transducer basically works even if you don't understand it, and it _is_ the idiomatic way of writing a transducer, even if writing them at all is unusual.
I believe this is how the main RSS news.ycombinator.com/rss works. You should only get the "frontpage".

I am not sure you can filter. Maybe you could obtain something more specific building a special RSS feed through the API ( github.com/HackerNews/API )?
So not even art can contain lies now?

Will I am the walrus be fact checked next?
Maybe. But they’ve also invested massively in infrastructure and transformed their roads. So it’s not clear to me which is the most important factor, but conversely American cities have terrible cycling infrastructure and car-serving cities everywhere and everyone drives, hilly or no.
Billions of people have been safely vaccinated. Tell your wife to stop trying to do epidemiology from anecdotes. And you stop spreading that misinformation on the internet.
No. It won't be like MMR vaccines for kids. It will become like the common cold which we don't vaccine kids against because they are at low risk. We will only booster the elderly and immunocompromised. But don't listen to me, listen to this doctor:

ZDoggMD: Turning COVID Into The Common Cold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDRjIuC2eZE
I think a quick glance at the headlines on CNN and Fox News on any given day show them practicing the same type of intellectual dishonesty to further their narratives.

I'll give you OAN, that's an entirely higher level of misinformation.
That's a hard question in large part because the specific timeframe depends on responses, reactions, and potential disruptive events. There's been a lot of ink and pixels spilled. Much of it comes from those wanting to deny the problem, those looking to sell you something, and those who poorly understand the problem. I hope I'm in the last camp and not the first two....

Economically, the most significant issue is that the marginal cost of oil under supply constraints varies greatly, and that's what has been seen in price history since 1973. You'll find a price history of oil dating to 1861 in BP's Annual Review of Energy, I'm looking at the 2021 report's graph on page 28.

Those swings have increased in amplitude since, resulting from and leading to political, financial, and economic disruptions --- causality seemst to go in both directions.

Remaining fossil fuel reserves will be increasingly expensive and difficult to extract. There will be "some" oil in the ground, in the same sense that after you've poured a beverage or eaten a tub of yoghurt, there is "some" food still left in the container, but 1) it's a finite amount and 2) you've got to work harder to get it. At some point it's simply not worth the effort.

Total geological deposits, recoverable deposits, and the rate of effective extraction, all differ, though the latter two depend on the first.

Those factors are insignificant, if we're lucky, next to the likelihood that further consumption of fossil fuels will be curtailed due to their output effects --- carbon emissions --- rather than supply limitations. Coal, oil, and gas that remain will have to be locked in the ground because we cannot afford the consequences of further use. Unfortunately, trends toward net zero carbon have greatly lagged what's necessary to avoid catastrophic consequences.

Which in the absence of either resource exhaustion or effective regulation could possibly end large-scale global technological civilization reliance on fossil fuels.
Simple googling shows that the article was cribbed from https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-two-weeks-1-million-viewer.... I've banned the site.

Normally we'd replace the URL above but I don't think this thread is salvageable.
I bought a ThinkPad X1 that came with Windows. Had no trouble changing that to a dual boot arrangement with Debian. Kept that for a few months until I realized I was going weeks without booting into Windows. Ended up making the switch to a full Arch Linux installation with no Windows. Has worked well. I have a fingerprint scanner but haven't bothered with it—that worked poorly under Windows anyway so never used even under Windows.
You can do it fairly reliably selling calls against large equity holdings. Doesn't have to be 10% if capital base is higher.