skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spent the past 6 months on Linux before switching back to Mac.

I bought a new Dell XPS 13” with Ubuntu preinstalled. It was still a nightmare. Some of the hardware/driver issues I encountered:

- Laptop would constantly get stuck in suspend, often when plugging or unplugging my thunderbolt docking station. The only way out of this was to hold the power button for 10 seconds, which I had to do almost daily.

- Sometimes the laptop would randomly wake from sleep in my backpack, resulting in a burning hot laptop.

- The battery seems to drain very quickly even while in sleep mode. Possibly related to previous point but it seems to lose charge in sleep mode even if it doesn’t not spontaneously wake.

- Doesn’t seem possible in Gnome to run an external display at a different DPI from the laptop display. This meant I had to constantly switch DPI when I moved from external display to laptop mode.

- Couldn’t get my jabra Bluetooth headset to work. I could get sound, but it required switching the Bluetooth profile every time I connected them, and I couldn’t find a way to get it to remember the correct setting despite hours of searching. I also couldn’t get the mic to work whatsoever.

- Doesn’t seem possible to configure keyboard remapping on certain keyboards only (e.g. swap modifier keys on my external keyboard).

- Couldn’t get scrolling to work with my apple Magic Mouse, had to buy a new mouse. Maybe a minor issue but it works fine on Windows.

- Not a hardware issue but I had a weird issue where google chrome tabs could not be repositioned without the tab becoming “detached” and creating a new window. This was incredibly frustrating.

I don’t think Linux is ready to be used as a daily driver for people who care about getting work done and not tinkering. Maybe if you use a desktop with a couple years old hardware it will work, but latest gen hardware, laptops, or external devices are a recipe for pain.
I was referring to the Oroville dam in the GP comment. The 180k people displaced started returning literally 2 days later with zero casualties.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroville_Dam_crisis

Yes two generations ago (that's how old the China disaster you're referring to is) especially in developing economies, there were major dam disasters. You don't really quite see them today - especially in developed largely economies which are also likely to have Nuclear as an option
Sure, and I think it's hard to find someone who is perfectly satisfied with the status quo.

Coming up with a replacement is the hard part.
Tends to be a term that unusual groups (Asperger patients, people who are awkard but don't get diagnosed as anything, incels, etc.) use to refer to normal people that is somewhat pejorative.

My particular use is a bit ambiguous and ironic. I'd see both the crypto enthusiasts and HN users as not normal. In terms of hierarchy however, I'd say HN users are relatively more normal than crypto enthusiasts, but that's half my opinion and half being provocative. (e.g. it will cause some people to make unforced errors.)
I have a handful of GE shares, so this will be interesting.
I have a mixed experience. Let's just say that I learned how to work with VUSec security classes when we were replicating rowhammer attacks. Practical? No, but it did give me an intuition for finding very difficult SQL vulnerabilities and completely pnwing my employer (with their consent). So that was really useful.

The fact that I did a course in distributed multimedia systems wasn't useful.

IMO a master CS degree is much better if you already have a few years of experience and have a feel for what you want to learn now.
Proctor-spyware is also famously biased:
https://library.auraria.edu/news/2021/why-online-test-procto...

I opted out of using spyware in the university physics courses I taught last year, and caught my cheating students the old fashioned way. Proctor-spyware, like airport security, is more about theater than effectiveness. You aren't giving the USMLE or a Bar Exam, so you can take the time to write a good exam and evaluate it correctly.
I’ve never seen a critique of proctoring software that offers an alternate solution to the problem (remotely delivering a skills assessment that is used to allocate resources in an environment known to have rampant cheating)
Perhaps the flow of water or air nearby could lower the temperature? Maybe pressure changes? Maybe coolant systems next to or integrated into the part? Hers was not to reason why…
> Which is the same as killing the company. If the executives are going to be permanently jobless and destitute, then there's a strong temptation to try to cover things up, which is the worst case scenario for the Navy.

My response might be harsh but tough shit for the company. If the company made a choice to fraud the government, then they should be accountable for their decision. The board of directors is fully responsible for every action of their company including their employees actions as the employee are in capacity and representative of the company. If the employee went rogue/lazy then it is the company due diligence to ensure that every data is verified and correct as the company is still responsible for everything.

They simply can fire the employee and could keep fudging the data. Whelps the company did it again, gee whiz. They can fire the another employee and say it is all good. This mentality is why companies are pushing the boundaries with the governments and still can blame on their employee and get away from the accountability.
Don’t read the EULA; just mindlessly click ‘Agree’ like everybody else. The corporations have already won, so there’s no need to give yourself anxiety over it.
the space in the filename does it for me. What a savage.
The article states the software won't run in a VM
How do enroll in a Msc program and not read how exams are done? I took remote university for a while, you either go to some exam invigilator and pay the $20 for them to monitor you (some campus libraries it's free) or you have someone volunteer to do it who meets the criteria. Big deal this article is a twitter quality rant.

The problem is of course regional accreditation rules of proctored exams
Gaming on PC generally means Windows, many of us don't want it on our computers, which would mean "getting a PC" would not result in a computer that you'd want to use for other things.
This may be a dumb question, but why should people pay to "own" the art if it can be digitally copied and given to others (can it?)? I understand the artists need money and support, but other than that, why would anyone want to pay a lot to own a file that's accessible for viewing in a free way?
Ask HN: In an early stage startup does software quality matter?
Or is it just about pushing some thing to production so that users can start using it?
Having visited several times for meetings, the main thing that stands out to me is how the interior has the decorative sense and aesthetics of a shopping mall. It’s pretty awful.
5th Circuit: Man Cant Sue Feds for Targeting Him for Refusing ToBe FBI Informant
This kind of software almost universally detects and refuses to run in VMs.
My personal management style is to avoid being a hoarder. It can be a challenge, but really most of this stuff doesn't need to be kept long-term.

The main threat model these days is digital, rather than physical. I favor paper records, in a folder by tax year (sorted by month). The iPhone Notes app has a really good document scanner built in, if you need a digital copy you can create it, then delete it. For the house I have a house folder, for the car I have a car folder. I just pay cash for cars, so that really cuts down on documents needed (this kind of thing should be part of your decision-making process!).
> You are not factoring in opportunity cost: that $30B would buy a hell of a lot of solar panels and wind turbines, with perfect reliability.

What do you mean "with perfect reliability"? Do you mean it can buy the panels and turbines and batteries? How much reliable energy capacity does $30B buy?

> Displacing a megawatt of carbon-generated power now is worth a lot more than displacing that same megawatt in 10 years, because 10 megawatt-years worth of carbon did not, thereby, go into the atmosphere.

Yes, there are different return-on-investment curves and the short term obviously favors things which can be deployed quickly. The question is which pays off the best for the relevant timescales. Also, we should invest in both--now isn't the time to pinch pennies nor to put all of our eggs in one basket.
Isn't this just the scientific method?

Disproving a hypothesis is much easier than proving one.
Show HN: GetIpsum – The lorem ipsum text generator that lives in your menu bar
The false hope of Explainable AI
Also a digital item should have a value irl otherwise it won't get any respect irl. What you describe here is similar to any old-style password or subscription code, while a NFT art doesn't give you access to anything extra.
At some point we'll probably see a cartel or street gang actually take complete control of one of the Central American countries. And then they'll technically become lawful combatants.
This looks like something the UK Gov could use for SELT exams, visa & immigration tests or other similar secure tests approved by the government.

At the moment these are taken in person in secure buildings where you are identified at the entrance, your belongings are stored in a locker, and the exam itself is taken in a secure room on computers with no/limited internet connection, etc. You are timed and monitored.
The lie is that they are racist today, not 50+ years ago.

The examples in that list of controversies are weak to say the least. In each case that could vaguely be considered racism or antisemitism, the higher ups at the magazine issued a rebuke and often dismissed the writer. Is this really all you got?

Meanwhile, the NYT posts shit like this: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/11/opinion/sunday/interracia...
Definitely not a clear description, but I believe it stands for "pattern matching in". Ruby's new pattern matching uses a sytax of

case {{ value }}
in {{ pattern }}
{{ code }}
...
end

the new feature apparently allows expressions, rather than just local variables, in the pattern spec.

They probably should have included the link to the feature ticket: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/17411
I'm waiting for the world to catch up with the fact that looking up information while you are working is a core part of any real job. Do I care if my Linux Security Professional spends a few minutes looking up information on the internet before taking some action? It's not the case that anyone can solve any problem so long as they have a search engine. Without domain knowledge, an open ended web search is not going to lead to a convincing answer except for the most trivial questions.

This extends to coding interviews as well. Using the resources at one's disposal to get a sense of the landscape before diving into algorithms must surely be part of the job, right? What do I care if a developer needs a quick reminder before diving into a solution, or even reads up a bit and scans someone else's code before answering?

What is the value in ensuring that people have perfect recall if this is something that will almost never be necessary in a real world job?
They also lie about supporting Firefox. A family member needed to use this for a professional license. Following the instructions (which is basically turning off most security warnings and installing a bunch of malware) didn't work and the first thing support said was to install Chrome.

Shockingly, this was due to some JavaScript relying on an older Chrome proprietary API so there's no possible way they actually tested it against their alleged support matrix.
But how is this relevant to what we're even talking about here? Yes, Gucci would have to do work to create designs and minting the NFTs. Yes, the game developers would have to do work to integrate those assets into the game, and support the chain they are on. Yes, the users would have to actually purchase/sell stuff in order to access it.

None of those things have been argued against in this thread, yet you argue for that "Yes, those things have to be done!". Yeah, duh, we know this, what new information are you trying to provide but fail miserably at actually provide?
Totally agree. We have been living a long period of low inflation with a huge QE at the same time...
Well, a painting is of one a kind. It can't be replicated with exact fidelity, unlike an abstract sequence of 1s and 0s.
Bitcoin IS a fungible token! NFT literally is "non-fungible token". Do you even know what you are talking about? Please go take a casual 5 minutes to google a topic you are unfamiliar with before spouting off about it.
I have was a denier of: CO2 emitted by humans causes global warming until I studied chemistry. Then it hit me. The earth is warming, we are making it warm faster. This place is normally hot...we are making it worse.

The claims sound fantastic if you don't have a solid education. The people you are trying to convince do not have an education that will allow them to understand for themselves. They fundamentally distrust the people trying to convince them. There is no "to be believed." That has already reached the saturation point.
It is not hard to create a hardened VM. If anti-cheats can't detect it, neither can some off-brand user mode teaching software
I've never graded tests or papers, but I always assumed cheating would be obvious because if you go to chat with a student about the problem, they will not have anything to say.
Or alternatively basic privacy laws that cover students, etc too.
Nice story, but it's just a coincidence that the platform you found uses NFTs, as far as I can see just as easily it could have been regular centralized platform operating over Stripe or PayPal.
Taste. I’m not sure it’s quantifiable.
It is not in the same mould at all. Reposting my previous comment:

OK, I found an article with a floorplan[1]. This thing is not at all comparable to the Michigan dorms. Recall, in the Michigan dorms you have an apartment housing 7 people with a spacious, well-lit living room (6 windows, but the count isn't important.) Sure, you don't have a window in your bedroom, and that sucks, but to see the sun you just go through that one door.

But in this proposed building? Look at that insane floor plan[2]! It looks like a maze! If you're in one of those inner rooms, you exit your bedroom (no windows) into your apartment's common area (no windows), exit that to a long corridor that eventually leads to your "House's" common area, which finally has windows. But is the opposite way from the building's exit.

Yeah this thing is insane.

[1] https://www.dezeen.com/2021/11/02/architect-resigns-grotesqu...
[2] https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2021/11/munger-hall-univer...
Does this mean it updates using the Windows Store, or does it still use the Mozilla Maintenance Service?
took too long to load didn't read
14B is a lot for the privilege of embedding A/V Crapware on new Dell computers.
Inflation Is Far Worse Than the Government Admits
Be careful not to point your scraper at those mommy recipe bloggers that have a story about their grandma before the recipe. Most of the well know ones are making 6 figures a year from their blog and will fight, tooth and nail, to make sure their content is not reproduced anywhere on the internet (not even the title), except for a SERP.
At least Proctorio (despite suing a college student under DMCA for reversing their software to show the extent of its capabilities [1]) doesn't go to this far a level. It's a browser extension that I can install for an exam, and remove afterward. It gets microphone, screen, and camera inputs, and permissions are handled through the browser.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26898651
My favorite moment when my institution was evaluating proctoring software was when a faculty member asked: "What if a student's naked underaged sibling/child walks into frame during the exam? What is your corporate policy on evaluation and retention of child pornography?"

Shockingly, smarmy ed-tech hucksters don't have a good answer to this one.
It's not like you have a choice. If you refuse the EULA you will fail the class.
The survivorship bias argument has two major problems:

1) There are many older cities in Europe where the entire city center is beautiful. Paris, for example, or Tallinn. These aren't just rare 'survivors.'

2) Where are buildings from the last 40 years that will be the 'survivors' of the future? In NYC alone dozens of beautiful buildings were built in the 1920s and 30s. Where are the dozens of modern equivalents?
For some reason everyone on this site sees the term “whataboutism” as an immediate way to invalidate a statement they disagree with.

I believe OPs point was that in fact, Russia is as corrupt as other world powers…so you shouldn’t be shocked by their tolerance of cyber criminals.
>DLL hell stopped being a problem a lot sooner than you probably think, too

Does not match my experience at work unfortunately.
It took me a while to parse that headline. It reminds me of the Me Saw Who meme from Among Us, which should be a lesson to everyone not to name yourself after a pronoun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g09LWh5ZsI
> full-disk encryption in combination with dual-boot is doable, but not easy

Kinda. You can't configure it during install, but I think it would be pretty easy to set up LUKS afterwards.

> most of the software is either late with updates, or worse

It really depends on your distro. Many of the 'stable' options will try to hold back updates in order to prevent breakage, which is why I personally prefer a more cutting-edge, rolling-release design. To each their own, though.

> every system update carries the risk of the OS not booting up any more

Ironically, the thing that got me to switch to Linux was having my entire PC bricked by a Windows update. The bootloader and partition table appeared to have completely erased itself off my drive, so I pulled the trigger and just switched to Arch. I haven't had my computer refuse to boot since, but I have gotten some surprises when my desktop updates behind my back. YMMV, but I feel like every OS is horribly unstable these days. At least Linux obeys my commands when I ask them.
You're misinterpreting the situation completely. China is running a trade surplus vs USA which means China has lots of dollars. Because of foreign exchange policy it will not use the dollars on imports. The only thing the money can be spent on is financial assets. All the Fed does is lower interest rates in response to this "savings glut" and that is the right thing because oversupply should result in lower prices for anything including money.

Because of the reserve currency status almost every country on earth is running a surplus vs the US and buying their financial assets.
In case you didn't know, Physicist Richard Feynman proposed the idea that positrons could be electrons moving backwards in time in his paper "The Theory of Positrons." He even takes it further to say that it could be that there is only 1 electron in the entire universe and it is traveling forwards and backwards in time to appear in the positions of all the electrons and positrons.
Dev communities are actually primarily for writing ad hoc documentation. From that perspective, the answer to which platform one ought to use for them is very clear.
So, now they will be Specific Electric?
It would be nice if the title would capitalize ARM.

I was wondering if this is about ARM, the Army or even a human limb :)
Perhaps I'm dim, but I don't understand how that means you don't have to mine the site.
Doesn't that simply mean you could perform the process all of the URLs in the database here by making the http request, grabbing those`recipeIngredient` sections, converting units and such, and then populating your simpler database from that?

That seems like pretty textbook (albeit very simplistic) mining to me.
Because opinion is transient and can be changed on a whim, unless what is part of the identity of the person (physical apparence, religion and other cor values). Being exclusive only reduce cohesiveness.
I am a big fan of Venturi and loved his analysis of how Versailles was really a collection of "decorated sheds".
Why would the blockchain help you circumvent anti-money laundering laws? Do you think Nintendo are going to be less worried about a money laundering operation than Valve?
Can you complain about theft if you name your company after the most famous thief of all time?
For another similar rating system, there's also this one: https://steamdb.info/blog/steamdb-rating/

Not exactly sure how the two compare.
Physical activity -- muscle movement -- also increases the flow of interstitial fluid back to the circulatory system. This is how the body "takes out the trash" which is essential to the healing process.

I have a serious medical condition. I sometimes go for a short walk when I feel awful because I know from long experience that doing so frequently makes me feel better and I've gotten good at telling when I feel awful in a way that will likely be helped by taking a walk.
Thanks! From scratch -- I think there are quite a few already existing React components / component libraries for table views like this, but I'll think about if there's anything I can generalize.
...to secure the thing known as "secure shell"
Yeah, I would call that trusting the notes to retain their value by lunch time. It’s confidence in the currency and ultimately the central bank/government. If you don’t have confidence in it, you don’t want it.
While reading through the comments here, I've been thinking about doing this exact thing, in particular with Instagram. It's the main platform for me to stay in touch with (mostly overseas) friends, but I have the tendency to get stuck in the suggested posts and waste too much time there.

Ideally, I'd like to have an app for Instagram which has ONLY posts from people I follow (and messaging). No suggested posts, no ads, no reels. I don't think even things like Instagram++ can do this though, unfortunately.
Interesting. I used to have considerable swap as the last line of defence against certain memory hog cases, back with not-very-fast spinning rust (Thinkpad R61i). I rarely had heavy thrashing, and worst case I had the choice of killing Firefox (4.0 back then!) or making fresh cup of tea - but usually it meant that things would spill over then get back into good condition.

Funnily enough, I mostly suffer from thrashing today, on Mac, especially with chrome. And it's mostly with compressed memory, though overzealous nature of swapping in macos doesn't help.
Got some links to resources about doing this? Would be interested in having a hardened VM on-hand for things like this.
If that’s true, then it leaves me even more confused than before.
Mars? That's your best argument? We're on Earth, so let's design for Earth.
One of the authors here — I think that systems that produce things magically often run into this burden. That doesn’t mean that the magic is bad, per se, rather that the thought put into operationalizing it (the user experience) is often << than that put into executing it (the engine).

In our case there’s very little magic, and a dead simple engine (so far). We (from a DS perspective) have found that expressing transforms in this manner simplifies the code making it well worth the added layer of abstraction. As a platform team we’ve focused on debugging (viz, etc…), but this is part of the reason we open sourced it! The more voices we get the more operational concerns we can iron out to avoid painful debugging experiences.
> “It’s become clear to me that algorithmic proctoring is a modern surveillance technology that reinforces white supremacy, sexism, ableism, and transphobia. The use of these tools is an invasion of students’ privacy and, often, a civil rights violation."

Must all of the cards in the deck be played at each turn? Things cannot simply be bad/user hostile/privacy invading, etc.