skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your definition of "common" is out of step with most people's. It means not-rare, or widespread, for example jobs in trucking, retail, and tech are all common in America without that implying any of them make up 50% of the country's jobs. Or another example, in the UK the NHS classes probability of side effects into groups where "very common" means "more than 1 in 10" and "common" means around 1 in 10+ (with the next grade being "rare" for 1 in 100+).
I recently tried a telepresence software from a start-up that allowed me to control a robot factory arm almost a thousand miles away through Oculus quest.

It definitely had that 'wow' moment for me although the product was not production grade quality yet.

It did open my mind to possibilities I had not considered before around the future of work - mixed feelings - I mean think person in <low cost country> operating a robot arm making a food dish in <higher cost country>. Some ways it can be considered a bit depressing but in others it opens up opportunities that have never existed before.

Its a sort of half way stop between no automation and full automation for certain tasks where real intelligence is needed or cheaper.
Are you on the Insiders build?
This is a big trap to fall in to. I dont understand why network trafficking is so expencive also in AWS. I once had a 2k monthly bill purely from networking because i accidentally routed a lot of requests through a NAT. That hurt haha. Now i stay away from those things :D
Symantec got this covered already.
That strongly depends on "your" arch linux setup. My Sway/Wayland only system is not stable at all, but that's not what i need in a desktop/gaming setup
I only use Windows for gaming and I've yet to find a reason to upgrade to Windows 11. Seems like I'd be wiser to wait for whatever is going to be the Windows 8.1 of Windows 11.
I have five Linux boxes in regular service (not counting the dozens of RPi-likes and VMs), with multiple configurations (mostly different filesystems - BtrFS, ZFS, XFS, LVM or bare metal, depending on requirements) and the only machines that give me surprises are the two Windows boxes, which, really, never do anything "weird".
Doesn't the US president also have unchecked authority to nuke any place on earth?
Loss of habitat by the obsession of mowing anything at sight is also a problem.
Russia is fine.
I believe renting dedicated servers is often overlooked. You pay someone else to install hardware, ensure network connections and be on-site for hardware swaps etc but still have the maximum degree of flexibility.

Even larger companies can work well with that model, traffic also tends to be cheap enough that you can spread across different vendors to avoid lock-in. And in that case, your sysadmins can sit wherever they want, no need to be physically close to the servers.

Also, as there's much less knowledge to be a dedicated server provider, competition is strong and prices are comparably low.
I use VueScan which is available for Linux with great results (mostly scanning 35mm and medium format negatives).
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> And then go back to my family - because not worrying about Wayland, that new driver or that new update or "that new thing "- suprsingly leaves a lot of time that you can spend with your family :)

What about the times when windows take forever to "getting things ready".
I once spent around two hours updating windows. And just after the reboot there were ten new updates.
I've been "captchaed" with Chrome, so I'm not sure the anecdotes amount to much.
Interesting strategy regarding the sitemap but seems like something Google would catch.
Also like to see how this changes as daylight time moves over the map.
I'm 40, and I've found current-day Linux to "just work" as well as Windows or macOS ever has for me in the past. I run Xfce on X11, as I've been doing since 2004, on Debian, as I've been doing for the past decade or so. I see no need to switch to Wayland or constantly chase "that new thing".

I don't game all that much; most of what I play that doesn't have a Linux-native build runs fine through Proton on my laptop. If I did do any serious gaming, I'd probably reluctantly have a separate Windows gaming rig that I'd use solely for gaming, but otherwise avoid it like the plague. Life is too short to deal with user-hostile OSes.
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You wait as long as seems reasonable for you. It's your child after all, they're all different.
IF (intelligence.getAnswer("What is the meaning of life?")) {...}
"Other" is missing.

I'd also like to see what platform people are developing for.

(Of course the options should include web and mobile platforms).
It does actually update itself every now and then even though it shouldn't be. In the middle of the night no less. You may want to check the logs. No feature updates, just patches, but still.
Once we were having trouble with GKE hosted in Asia, it was causing out business a major outage and it wasn't something which I had the power to fix, from memory, half way through a cluster upgrade, Google ran out of compute so the upgrade was stuck half and the control plane ended up in a bad state and some how this impacted the networking (it shouldn't but it happened). I was unable to provision a new cluster due to the lack of capacity so we were stuck.

This wasn't the first problem we'd had either.

There was absolutely no one to call, no one to even alert to warn other customers, the status pages were all green.

Instead of bothering with Google, I just opened an account on AWS and migrated whole stack to AWS in ~ 3 hours, pointed DNS at the new load balancers and we never went back and continued doing business without issue for as long as I can remember.
At this point it is obvious that you wouldn't accept anything except a trivial translation to ASM. That's a perfectly reasonable thing to want, but you'll also understand that's not what 99.99% of C and C++ programmers want; even assuming (but not conceding) that might have been the original intent of the language, 50 year later user expectations have changed and there is no reason compilers authors should be bound by some questionable dogma.
Excuse my ignorance, but is there any kind of at-table testing you could do to determine whether it contains sugar? Almost like a dip-test?
Perhaps evaluating the situation and leaving immediately shows just how smart they were!
I think tech culture is just very segregated.

By contrast I'd never seen a developer use a Mac until a few years ago except maybe a few people at conferences. Then the past few jobs I've had have all been Mac-dominant.
> Those laws your bring up, (if scientifically valid at all) likely refer to an extreme generality. [...] These laws obviously don't refer to windows, they refer to everything and as a result are only generally right, and not exactly right about everything.

If you look up stuff that's referred to in stead of just spewing the first thing that comes into your head, you embarrass yourself a lot less.

If you had looked up Fitt's law, for instance, you'd have known that it says "it's easier to hit the edge of a screen with a mouse pointer than some line in the middle, and far easier to hit a corner than some point in the middle".

Now please explain how this "extreme generality" does not "refer to windows". (It's not like it's a "corner case" (hnyuk, nyuk).)
> I’ve been working from home for the past 18 months now and at present there’s no indication from my employer that I’ll be going back to full time work any time soon.

First of all, lucky you! I have been WFH since the whole kerfuffle started, but now and then there are noises about making us go back to the very contagious place.

What works for me is to keep it small, incremental and consistent, as per "Atomic habits" by James Clear[0].

I researched exercises for different muscles using MuscleWiki, a Show HN from a few years ago [1], then used a private Github repository (basically a .txt list) to hold my "daily commitment", ie. the exercises and reps I commit to doing every day (or rather Mon-Fri, as I rest weekends).

It started tiny, something to the tune of 5 abs. But, if I meet my commitment for a whole week, then I allow myself to increase it (ie. add a new exercise with 5 reps to the list, or pick an existing exercise and increase its reps by 5).

To me, it has finally cracked the consistency issue, and I'm at a stage where I can notice my shape getting better.

[0] https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25854523 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11202522

Edited to add: The best thing about it is that it doesn't need a lot of specialized equipment or space. I use a free-ish corner of my home office for floor exercises, and bought a couple of dumbbells, and that's about it.
having just started boxing, I've found that skipping and simple exercises can work quite well. Take simple body weight exercises such as squats, push ups, situps, burpees, etc and do a few minutes of skipping followed by one of the exercises for a minute or so, cycle through skipping and the next exercise without stopping until your set is complete.

It's not perfect, but it can get your heart rate up pretty quickly and can cover a variety of exercises each set. The only equipment needed is a skipping rope.

That said the motivation to do this is a different question entirely.
I find Windows 11 to be the most bloated of all windows version with such stuff as Microsoft store, xbox app, cortana, or security center getting nastier on the user; You turn them off in the settings panel but they still keep running in the background. Now you have to fiddle with obscure registry variables, manually turn off services, ... to get rid of them.
I've had exactly the same issue before. The only way I could resolve it was by "confirming" my phone number. I didn't have a phone number connected to that account, but Google helpfully let me confirm it anyways (i.e. it just accepted the phone number as proof of me being me, despite never seeing that phone number before).
See also Let's Encrypt: https://letsencrypt.org/2021/01/21/next-gen-database-servers...
apt install nginx
How's that? Setting up a revers nginx proxy with cache takes probably less than an hour even if you've never done it (speaking from experience). And otherwise, if the files don't change that much just ssh in, copy them on the server and serve them via nginx and cloudflare tunnel?

I'm in no way a sysadmin and have set up these configurations manually in less than an hour for side projects. Cloudflare tunnel also allows you to lock down the server for everything but ssh with pubkey auth so the attack surface is really small.
Treadmill desk has worked for me so far

If you have a standing desk already you just need a treadmill

I worried before I bought the treadmill that I would be too un-stable to use a computer but that isn't the case it works no problem I run the treadmill at slowest speed but I can work at higher speeds too

It's also nice to get out the house so if you can fit in a chore like take the rubbish out that'll help wake you up a bit in the mornings
In that case, you can use something like Questionary.

https://github.com/tmbo/questionary
Just a reminder to watch out for connection pooling problems when using advisory locks. If you've checked out a connection from your pool that you use from the time you take the lock to the time you release it, you'll be fine. If you operate on the pool itself, or checkout a connection from the pool each time send a query, there's no guarantee you're running subsequent queries on the same connection that you took the lock out on, or that you're releasing the lock you took (if you wind up releasing on a different connection).

I wrote up more details on https://sudhir.io/understanding-connections-pools
That's because of the sweeteners they use, aspartame and ace K. There are a lot of low calorie sweeteners that have a completely different flavor profile
17% market share for MacOS? That seems high?
Would have like to have seen BSD + Android + Chromium OS + and the last catch-all of "other".
The Shift+Ctr+G feature is awesome, it lets you to pass the output of the last command through a pager. It is a lifesaver when you run a very long compilation job and at the end it tells you that it failed.
And cloudflare tunnel which allows you to block even ports 80 and 443. The only attack vector is then through ssh but with passwords disabled I wouldn't worry too much about that.
I suspect that it’s mandatory, quite frequently. I’d bet it would be a majority, in other communities.

I’m not surprised to see Linux so well-represented (in this crowd). I’m wondering if Unix folks pick that, too, or just don’t participate.
What do programs on linux do when they get the sigstop? Especially complex programs like browsers?
I was interested in why there's a coup.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-60102087

The mutineers made several demands, including:

* the dismissal of the army chief of staff and the head of the intelligence service

* the deployment of more troops to the front line to fight the insurgents

* better care for wounded solders, and the families of those killed in battle.

This apparently centers around:

> The killing of 53 people by suspected jihadists in November heightened public outrage against the government, and raised fears that the military would take power - just as it had in neighbouring Mali in May.

> On Saturday, dozens of people were arrested in Ouagadougou for holding a banned rally to protest against what they described as the government's inability to deal with the militants.
In terms of computer security, this is revolutionary.
I am just a couple of years older than you, also using Windows since 3.0 (and MS-DOS for years before that) and Redhat Linux since the 90's.
I've moved all my family over to Fedora, and support calls have dropped enormously. Windows 8 was the straw the broke the camel's back for most of them. They actually found Linux (sometimes with skinned XFCE) more familiar coming from Windows 7. I will accept that if you buy new low end hardware you may occasionally have driver issues, but the last few Lenovo AIO and Thinkpads I've bought all work flawlessly first time around. I will add that I've tried many vanilla Windows installs over the years, and without the special vendor drivers built in, found it to be even worse than Linux for compatibility. The hostility of modern Windows is just hard to accept to be honest.

I get that my use-case doesn't apply to everyone, but I want people to know that if you do mostly web stuff etc... even as a non technical person, Linux can "just work".
I'm a similiar age (few years older but nothing too signficant) and have used nearly every version of Windows. Inc pre 3.x versions, pre-NT4 versions, and most of the CE and embedded versions too. And like yourself, used Linux since the 90s too (Redhat, SuSE, and Slackware were my favourites up until I discovered Arch).

Ironically I switched away from Windows and onto Linux precisely because I was sick of things not working on Windows. Sure, it has the best desktop application support of any operating system but to use it for anything more than just a desktop machine requires hours of configuration because everything is tailored to supporting technologically illeterate people (eg file extensions being hidden). Very little of any of this config can be automated -- or at least not in any easy way. And then Microsoft will pull some bullshit move that undoes half your config and you need to start all over again (much like the author of this submission has experienced). Or every few years you need to upgrade to a new release of Windows and you have to find where to change all those settings again plus learn a stack of new settings you need to change too.

Eventually I realised I was spending as much time maintaining the OS as I was actually writing software on it. So I stopped using Windows. Or rather decided to keep Windows around for emergencies but use Linux as my primary desktop (instead of keeping Linux around for emergencies and using Windows as my primary desktop).

My experience with Linux has been that you have the same install running for 10+ years (this is especially true for Arch because you have fewer risky distribution upgrades), but you can keep your config in Git so it's sync'ed across multiple machines or kept safe if you do need to reinstall your OS. Everything is automated and just works. Plus these days more and more software is browser based so you don't run into nearly as many "Linux not supported" issues as you did when I first gave up on Windows (back when XP was new).

I'm not saying your experiences are wrong but just offering the counterpoint that "thing that work" might differ for different people.
Business as usual: it's Microsoft.
They know what you want more than you do.
> That's the issue with Linux desktop users - they are fanatics and obsessed with their 'freedom of choice'... taking 2-3 hours per week to perfect their desktop with the perfect background and then post it on some Linux community site.

Oh please, that's absurd. I probably spend 2-3 hours per year cumulatively on system maintenance tasks, and the rest of the time I get my work and play done.

> Spending more time on forums defending their 'right choice' that doing actual work

Pretty sure that's what you're doing right now. I don't think Linux is right for everyone, but your criticisms don't make sense. You're not even criticizing the platform itself, you're making up weird things about the people who use it, which kinda says a lot about you right there.

> Let's move on.

Been there, done that, moved on from Windows, never looking back.
> and it says nothing about the future, so I don't know why you think "likelihood that life is possible in the future approaches zero".

Because usually the assumption in the context of the anthropic principle is that the likelihood of life is small, but the anthropic principle makes it appear as if it's 100%.
There are quite a lot to demands from fraud and change monitoring.

For instances;

1. Govt-Private billion dollar construction mega-projects needs regular tracking of discrepencies on area of construction, excess or the lack of areas covered, etc.

2. Planning of train tracks, especially in developing countries, and the eventual tracking of it with proof of work done, etc. Drones cannot fly all the time (weather), costly area of coverage.

Commercially available data, not just from optical but SAR[a] is the other thing. SAR may in-fact be more appropriate to track, count trees etc (if the cost becomes more economical). East Asian regions uses mostly SAR to look at Palm Trees and the likes.

a. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic-aperture_radar
But if you have a heatpump instead of boiler it maybe doesn't have to work as much harder.
As I use Debian in production ($DAYJOB, https://afpy.org, https://hackinscience.org, https://mdk.fr, ...) it make sense to also use Debian to develop (which I use since Woody), so I have Debian on my laptop and even on my phone (mobian exactly) :D
That sounds pretty good. I do something similar but use POP and Thunderbird, which I'm looking to move away from. Does ProtonMail automatically set the From address when you start writing an email to a company you have a dedicated address for?
Windows 10 with Visual studio, Vim and Visual Studio Code (that can now connect to WSL). I have WSL2, so I can use a mostly POSIX compliant OS at the same time (and use app like grep/sed/uniq/wc etc...).

I want to run on the same environment as my users.
Edge was pretty okay soon after the relaunch on Chromium. I've had to go back to Chrome by now though, the blatent disrespect for your preferences is all over this product. Search in sidebar with Bing. Search with Bing in the marked text menu. Address bar goes to Bing no matter your defined preference, unless you change a very badly explained setting from "Search box (recommended)" to "Address Bar".

As for other Microsoft products - if you can aquire 21H2 LTSC, it's a very good alternative to Windows 11.
Anyone can please fill me in on why I am seeing a daily wordle post on HN for the past week or so? Is there a competition that I missed?
> WSL2, running Linux on Windows, VS Code, VS 2022, it's all good.

Actually, I decided to downgrade to WSL from WSL2. I often need to do some quick work in a Linux environment, and sometimes this even involves some files on my Windows machine, so WSL comes in handy. The problem is, WSL2 startup time is terribly long when compared to WSL. With WSL, i type wsl and a second later I run a couple of commands. With WSL2, once it has finally started, I already forgot what I wanted to do.
Cloud providers should always have a max spend and it should be a standard feature. The cap shouldn't even be some optional feature or notification service. It should be a hard cap that you can move - at your own risk.
> Ability to engage community in any form is important

When projects are riding the hype wave and getting popularized by reddit or HN it's not a proof of commitment. On the contrary, it takes more commitment to maintain a project that is not hype-driven.

There's already too much churn and focusing developer's effort on developing the hot new thing of the week to be github-famous is harmful.
As an aside, I use Ubuntu, but their commitment to Wayland is creating multiple issues. Any Debian based distros that are going to stick with X11 that people can recommend?
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Of course WSL2 can never be as good as running Linux natively. But as someone who needs software that runs on Windows, I like WSL2 a lot.
For me the choice was native Linux + Wine or native Windows with WSL2. I have tried both, and I have to say that the WSL2 option runs much better in terms of both performance and stability.
I had this exact idea of using peltiers to reclaim energy from waste pipes. Think about big industrial systems. I knew from reading the specs that existing peltiers wouldn't cut it. So I decided to let it go until progress in material science (maybe graphene) made it more efficient. There is a theoretical design that is radically more efficient. It uses an S shape design, but it's not possible at the moment. This looks to be using ordinary peltier designs but sliced up. This could be used like a stove-top heat pump that uses a peltier, and the heat from a stove to power a fan that helps circulated the warm air more efficiently. Of course this would add some insulation around the pipe too, so it may not be the free lunch it seems.
Have been Windows 10 insider since 2016ish maybe, before that installing whatever WzoR iso put out. This PC I am writing from - had Windows 10 installed on it 2018 with Windows Insiders builds, upgraded to Windows 11 around August, joinned the beta/canary channel, right now I am on:

https://changewindows.org/platforms/pc/releases/windows-11-c...

[Version 10.0.22538.1010]

I had ZERO (0) issues with upgrades or downtime.
They should sue the idiot to oblivion...
DOS ain’t done till Lotus won’t run.
Buy a Mac or install Linux.
> they are fanatics and obsessed with their 'freedom of choice', by using desktop environments that mimic the same thing they migrated from :)

Have you ever met a Linux user in person?

I ask you because most Linux users I know just run whatever came with their distro and, when unhappy, change distro. I'm running both Fedora and Ubuntu and I'm quite happy with both. The biggest change was to use the Gnome wallpaper because I didn't really like the Ubuntu one. My Fedora laptop is mostly vanilla.

> Spending more time on forums defending their 'right choice' that doing actual work ;)

We just like to correct people who write some baseless criticism and attacks on our professional attitudes, because, you know, these kind of comment is not really nice. Or professional. Or even correct.

> Been there done that. Windows just works. Let's move on.

Been there, done that, Linux just works better, and keeps working. Let's move on.