skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slackware 2.2 was my first encounter with Linux in 1995. I was already fairly comfortable with Unix having to support a bunch of SCO Unix systems for our customer base.

I gave up a weekend of beer to get it up and running on some random motherboard and pilfering some known good compatible bits from our spares store such as an actual NE2000 NIC :) Within a few days I was doing kernel rebuilds to get a sound card working properly or some such thing. That was a lot of fun.

Due to a career change I ended up running RedHat (then CentOS) mostly, but dipped back into Slackware now and again. It's nice to see what was one of the OG distros still getting releases.
I'm curious what do you think should have been done differently?

my un-educated thinking is

(1) kids catch covid like everyone else, they don't get bad symptoms, but they bring it home and give it to their parents, grandparents, etc. I know 3 families where this happened. Kids got it first, passed it on to everyone else.

(2) lockdowns and/or similar measures, have been needed to keep hospitalization numbers at or below capacity. Some people claim lockdowns are about power but I see zero political upsides to lockdowns so it's hard to see how proposing them is a power grab.

(3) vaccinations, same as above, needed to keep hospitalization numbers at or below capacity

Note: My personal anecdata, my unvacced 79yr old father died from covid 2 weeks ago. His wife has had a harsh case as well but at the moment it looks like she'll pull through.
How do you eject someone from a protest? There is no ticket gate.
Normal is different for different people. It feels much more natural for me to breathe through my mouth. But I suppose the fact that "mouth-breather" is an insult meant to attack one's intelligence is a sign I'm in the minority on this.
In the last political protest of at least 250 people that you attended, do you think there was at least one person sympathetic to communist ideals?
It was enjoyable to read about the history of mRNA. It reminds me of the great story of CRISPr (see the Radiolab episode about that if interested). Both are stories of real science and how the most obscure of paths can lead to big breakthroughs. There isn't, imho, a great funding solution -- other than more funding for basic science. You never know which path might lead where.
Web3 is the future, or a scam, or both
Justin LaFace, the Ontario leader, is a member of Soldiers of Odin.

Alex King, one of the cofounders: https://twitter.com/VestsCanada/status/1159997274900041729
See the Bayh-Dole Act.
It'd be pretty trivial to throw together some automation that reinstalls your sideloaded apps nightly.
ffmpeg can copy streams without transcoding. For example: ffmpeg -i input.m4a -c:a copy input.mp4
They explain their position on the American side of the problem in the interview itself. I have no idea whether they are right or wrong, but they are not morons.
Isn't this a basic function in Audacity (for audio)?
The site has some weird scrolling issues. There is some noticeable lag for scrolling which is very annoying.
You are describing a problem with propaganda and corporate media, a problem with marketing and perception, not a problem with immigrants.
My parents have it - first to do load balanced DSL, and then later to do DSL fail over for Starlink. Both of those features were critical during the virtual schooling timeframe and having enough bandwidth to support two school zoom sessions and household usage.

When discussing it with some of the sysadmins that I work with, they had a "hmm... interesting" thought with it - the configuration for it compared to the dual wan router setups that they have for their home labs is (from their standpoint) much easier.

The issue isn't so much a "can you do it" but rather a "how much time do you want to invest in designing your own setup?"
Without a README file, it's a bit hard to tell which of the many ARM-based platforms this is intended to run on.

Digging a bit deeper, it seems this is intended to run on a 32 bit ARM-based Linux system. (Cross-)Compiled out of the box with arm-none-eabi-binutils (obviously no gcc required...), but I haven't tested the binary so far.
It's because they're using the WordPress theme builder Divi, which scroll jacks by DEFAULT. I hate it.
"I hacked SONOS and YouTube and HN on the same day".
I mean it's not super exciting as a user that apps are gonna wholesale migrate away to the whatever store has the fewest rules and lowest cost to publishers. I see the value-add from the publisher side -- yay we can spam, charge for notifications and dark mode, and freely track users!

I mean it's absolutely nuts that the web is basically unusable without an aggressive content filter but obviously native apps are gonna be angels.
> I'm no fan of Facebook, but Apple is literally showing the world that their platform can sink trillion dollar businesses with simple policy changes.

Sink? I think that's a bit of an exaggeration. Furthermore, if Facebook's business model is predicated on actively harming Apple's customers (and Facebook is harming them in a multitude of ways, including this tracking), this isn't Apple's fault at all, it's Facebooks.

> When you're "America's Computer" with a 51+% entrenchment, you shouldn't be able to govern commerce. You're a common carrier at that point.

Yah, no. Apple's marketshare, even in the US, as of January is estimated to be ~33% (iOS and macOS) combined.
Yes, I'm sure those are at least double pane. Modern windows (especially high end) can be both energy efficient and nice looking. Same goes for their concrete walls--its quite likely that they have insulation in wall cavities or embedded directly in the concrete itself. That being said--I'm sure it still costs a pretty penny to heat in the winter. Its just probably not as bad as you might think.
So if all that value is gone now does that mean WhatsApp ceases to exist? Or does it have negative value now?
Congrats on the launch Shah! I can tell you stayed up late giddy for this launch :D. As another peer building for video creators, I am delighted to see more efficiency features like this released.

This approach was the one I tried first also (I also tried the frequency one fwiw, which has its own, worse drawbacks). But using loudness runs into issues if the source loudness isn't (relatively) even across the entire source media. Using a single sensitivity setting like this would be a problem if:

* recording gain is set to automatic, and there are sudden changes in noise floor like wind (if recorded in 24-bit or lower)

* crew adjusts gain partway through recording (big no-no but happens)

* talent/host moves in and out of microphone sweet spot

* talent/host adjusts themselves in a squeaky chair during silence or transition-to-silence (or coughs, or breaths loudly, or ambulance goes by...)

If you apply the edit w/ a single sensitivity and something like the above is true, it would cut in the wrong place. Unfortunately, you would have to watch the entire show, skipping to boundaries with your full attention to know that ever got a cut wrong.
It seems that they have a chart for pay gap by tenure, which is by years of experience.
>It seems asian workers earn even more so it's weird how only white/caucasian is called out.

The ethnicity graph in that section begins with, "Asian and White/Caucasian workers see similar annual pay".
Yep, I find it quite reprehensible how quickly politicians (the ones in public health and elected leaders) pivoted from "the vaccine will end the pandemic" into "this is the un-vaccinated peoples fault".

I guess politically they had to throw the minority group under the buss to keep the attention off of their own failures.

It worked though, I have had people tell me I'm disgusting more than once for not being vaccinated. Nevermind that I've had covid twice, am young and in very good health, have been taking vitamin A/D since 2020 and have high levels of sufficiency of both. It appears I'm the bad guy because I would rather a 75 year old in a poor country have my doses of vaccines than take it just because I'm being pressured into it.

I'm not sure many liberals survived this pandemic, at least not vocally. I feel truly bad for any minorities that really shouldn't take the vaccine for medical conditions. I know for a fact there are doctors who have recommended against taking the vaccine because of preexisting conditions but wouldn't write a doctors note for fear of losing their license.

I'm actually missing out on a vacation in Cali right now with the partners family because I'm afraid I'll get a positive PCR test and ruin it for them (since they require tests or vaccine cards most places, as I understand it)
I see more damn arguments on here and EVERYWHERE else that could be mostly avoided (or at least a lot more civil) if people just talked about and agreed what the definition of "Immunity" even means. The problem is that in popular useage, as in not medical, people use it to mean someone is completely and utterly without consequence to whatever thing they are referencing.

Example:
The spies were all granted immunity from prosecution.

The problem with this is that the medical definition of Immunity is quite a bit different and this is an important distinction. See example below from Oxford Languages:

"the ability of an organism to resist a particular infection or toxin by the action of specific antibodies or sensitized white blood cells."

If we all just agreed beforehand to actually define what we mean by "Immunity" I swear 75% of these arguments would go very differently.
he is wrong about a few things:
1: checksuming is worthwhile, I have had silent data corruption on both ssd/hdd.
2: compression is also worth it: home dir 74G/103G, virtual machines dir 1.3T/2.0T
3: zfs was never supposed to be fast, data integrity is the target.
4: zfs does not need a manual repair tool, is automatic and data at rest is always consistent.
5: in the future x, y, z - yeah sure.
It's also a pretty dumb article which is very surprising coming from Vitalik. 51% attacks of the sort he describes are (remotely) possible whenever a blockchain interacts with any sort of system, not just another blockchain.

In his example, someone uses a bridge to create wrapped Eth on another chain, and then 51% attacks Ethereum, returning the Eth they used to themselves, while keeping the wrapped Eth on the other chain.

It's just as easy to have a scenario where someone sends Eth to an exchange, sells it, and then does the same thing.
The story and characters are phenomenal, but random battles are cancer. That's where Chrono Trigger wins IMO. Sticking with random battles was an absurd decision which I never understood, and the momentum lasted way, way too long at square.

There is nothing wrong with turn based combat, but structured encounters with meaning always beat infuriating RNG encounters that are there just to run out the clock so they can claim a "40h experience".

Did I mention I hate random battles?
Wayyyy back in the day, people thought they could make smooth scrolling "better," e.g. nicer easing, more responsive, etc. There is, however, no actual benefit to this, no.
Just mass hysteria, encouraged by those that feel they can derive by benefit from it, be it increased attention or more political power, anything really. Fairly typical situation actually, maybe even the default state of the human race.

What are the more detrimental things you had in mind?
This is an insane argument.

> They could have done tons of features to benefit users, but they implement those which damage competitors.

Why does Facebook rely on unethical and shady business practices that harm users? Facebook is harming itself. And how is Facebook, in any meaningful way, a competitor to Apple? Apple's ad's business is PEANUTS.
>If we end the visa lotteries, curb illegal immigration, we'll have more room for merit based immigrants.

This is a total non-sequitor. Having "more room," removing the entirely artificial barriers to citizenship, has nothing to do with illegal immigration and visa lotteries. The people in charge can remove the barriers whenever they decide to, but instead they work to convince you that "illegal immigration" is causing the problem. They blame "illegal immigration" because it provides an easy scapegoat for their negligence, a convenient foundation on which to build mass support for their subsequent election while ignoring the problems their base actually has.
Well it’s cold in the winter but I thought Vancouver was reasonably warm in the summer.
> how come these independent institutes and government funding agencies don't get equity (warrants, options, whatever) in the entities that ultimately commercialize and patent this research?

Because if it was trivially easy to provide such "equity", the research would've been funded by non-government, private sources already. The whole point of public research funding is to deal with fields and scenarios where this is not really feasible.
YESSSS

I'll be downloading this when I get home from work! The time I've spent on 14.2 has been too d&mn long.
It's not, that's your rationalization to make your anecdote more important.
Designed for mobile, I think.
And there’s also a 3 app maximum

Although you can always pay Apple $99/year to get around it!
True capitalism has never been tried, we must just try again comrades.
For myself, it was literally _the_ distro. There simply wasn't any other available to me, at the time.
New Release of Raspberry Pi Imager
> Where I live health systems are not overwhelmed. They were never overwhelmed even before the vaccines.

This is an interesting statement.

Where I live, one hospital 30 minutes in one direction was never overwhelmed. In fact, they had to fire people because they were so empty due to cancelling all optional procedures.

Another hospital 30 minutes the other direction had to place patients in offices, conference rooms, and tents in the parking lot.

So I guess the health system where I live was overwhelmed. Or it wasn't. Depending upon who you asked and/or the narrative you wanted to convey.
5 dayw of sleep deprivation torture goes beyond "uncomfortable".
Air Quality Control
Oh, I didn't think you were calling them stupid! That's part of what I mean as the culture shock - that Westerners will respond to being told they're doing something stupid as if it was an insult to themselves, and not an insult on what they're doing, disregarding the fact that smart people can do stupid things and vice versa. What the OP was trying to do _is_ stupid, but that doesn't make them a stupid person. They could in fact be a very experienced engineer who has delivered beautiful and capable web apps. I don't believe your intent was to make the OP feel stupid, but perhaps the lack of sugarcoating and straightforwardness of your response makes it seem like that. I don't think you were impolite either, it's just that terse responses usually signal impatience and may get misconstrued as anger, despite the intent being to clearly communicate a simple message.
I have to wonder:

If we had protected the vulnerable the best we could, focused on treatments, and let the vaccine rip through the remainder of the population (particularly healthy children) as fast as possible would we have arrived at Omicron levels of deadly much sooner and saved more lives overall?

Not suggesting we should have done that. Just wondering if it might be the case. Guess we'll never know for sure.
> DoorDash are able to take that much of a cut from sellers and restaurants

You are building a perfect argument against Apple here. As DoorDash rates grew I stopped using them less and less and started driving to the restaurants myself. And DoorDash rates are still far cry from 30%.
iPhones are surveillance tools(Mesh network and Client Side Scanning)
The device has to be unlocked, and non-Xcode builds require connecting the device to the computer using a cable.

So it’s not as trivial as it seems.
"Aspirational".

Belief that the mechanisms cited actually work, or at least its prima facie plausibility, is necessary to gain buy-in from people making decisions.
There were more than two options. Hotels in NYC were used to safely house people during the pandemic, including homeless. For more details, there were multiple reports and investigations, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_COVID-19_nursing_home...

https://nypost.com/2022/01/23/nursing-home-families-blast-ho...

> the 9/11-style Nursing Home Victims Compensation Fund would earmark $4 billion to families whose relatives died amid the state’s nursing home debacle at the start of the pandemic ... Kim’s legislation is in response to a provision included in ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 2020 state budget called the “Emergency or Disaster Treatment Protection Act,” which granted health care facilities and workers liability immunity from negligence suits during the early days of the pandemic.

> The corporate immunity clause was supported by New York’s powerful healthcare lobbying group, the Greater New York Hospital Association – which has donated millions to Cuomo’s campaign in the past, according to reports ... "The former governor took millions of dollars in donations from the millionaire nursing home owners, gave those friends blanket protection for their negligence which led to 15,000 deaths, and then tried to hide those deaths from the public”
Because those other things haven't been dealt with via massive overbearing state intrusions.

Climate change is a far far graver threat than coronavirus.

But we're not really doing anything about that. By contrast, it was illegal for people in the UK to visit their friends and family for six months and an enormous propaganda campaign was launched which ensured that even without policing this people were convinced into dismantling society.

That's why I'm upset, anyway, because my life was turned completely upside down for something that's actually quite minor in the grand scheme of things, whilst we're leaving the big stuff alone.

If we banned fast food it'd be annoying and I'd be pretty pissed off. I don't think we should do it, but it would have a massive impact on obesity rates and add a bunch of quality adjusted life years to the country.

But it'd really not be that big a deal compared to stuff like saying "healthy 20 year olds in their prime at near zero risk from this virus are now legally forbidden from dating".

I often wonder if people have already forgotten just how hilariously ridiculous 2020 was.
Sure but step 1 is reasonably attainable for lots of people working in tech in North America. It seems like a ‘have (two?) good tech jobs for a while and get a bit lucky’ money rather than ‘inherit some enormous fortune’ money.
15 today.
14.2 was 2016
Just the Go benchmarking tools built into "go test", as well as a couple of scripts of my own just using "time ./goawk 'BEGIN { ... test script ... }'" and that kind of thing. Nothing fancy!
Really? I’ve been doing it continuously since mid-2016, and I don’t think I’m alone.
As a teenager I would have pleaded discomfort for being taught any history, and claimed exemption from any exam related to the subject because of said discomfort.
Academic history books are so very different from history textbooks as fed to children...
I invite any affected reader and their parents to go ahead with this, flying-spaghetti-monster style.
when you say "it's seasonal" what do you mean? It certainly is not a "winter" thing given that until omicron, Japan's highest numbers were in the middle of hot and humid summer.
I am not disagreeing with him, but Cleveland (where I grew up) and Pittsburgh nearby had vibrant Hungarian communities.
You just connect the left sensor to the right motor and the right sensor to the left motor. I think the "light sensors" are measuring the brightness of the ground underneath the car or something. Hence if one of the sensors goes over the black track it won't register.
oh they work. Tell you what, let's each launch mobile apps. I'll spend $10,000 a month on advertising and you spend $0. At the end of the year we'll see who has more users.
I have astigmatism and dark mode is a nightmare for any length of time. I'm not a fan.
In this case both mp4 and m4a (which are the same thing) use AAC. So no transcoding, but mp3 is not. So in the case of mp4 > mp3 it need a complete re-encoding of the audio.
I uninstalled a few noisy apps (that is until Android added a per-app mute for notifications).
thank you for the insight
The epidemic will be over when COVID-19 IFR will drop below acceptable level, even when SARS-CoV-2 will continue to circulate. I.e. when covid will be like regular fly, nobody will worry about it anymore.

Is it wrong?

There are two main strategies to achieve low death rate:

1) Natural — let weak people die. Cheap.

2) Semi-natural — let weak people to be infected, then try to rescue them. Costly.

3) Supportive — support weak people with vaccines, to help them survive. Costly, but cheaper than (2).

Which one you prefer?
Exactly. Vitalik Buterin even shared his concerns on the fundamental security limits of cross-chain bridges earlier this year:

> For example, suppose that you have 100 ETH on Ethereum, and Ethereum gets 51% attacked, so some transactions get censored and/or reverted. No matter what happens, you still have your 100 ETH. Even a 51% attacker cannot propose a block that takes away your ETH, because such a block would violate the protocol rules and so it would get rejected by the network

> Now, imaging what happens if you move 100 ETH onto a bridge on Solana to get 100 Solana-WETH, and then Ethereum gets 51% attacked. The attacker deposited a bunch of their own ETH into Solana-WETH and then reverted that transaction on the Ethereum side as soon as the Solana side confirmed it. The Solana-WETH contract is now no longer fully backed, and perhaps your 100 Solana-WETH is now only worth 60 ETH. Even if there's a perfect ZK-SNARK-based bridge that fully validates consensus, it's still vulnerable to theft through 51% attacks like this.

[1] https://twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/147950136619213209...
That's fine. But don't take away my freedom to decide that for myself.
I imagine the truckers in Europe are also smaller than their American counterparts.
“Progressive Web App” is not an app. It’s a website, and it’s moronic to pretend otherwise.
Tangential, sorry. In the 70s/80s I grew up ~1.5 km from a Swedish Air Force Base's runway (located in the middle of nowhere, near our tiny "city" of 5k people) equipped first with Draken and later Viggen aircraft. Our kitchen was ideal for watching takeoffs.

It was a very common thing to see a few them take off in the morning during breakfast just before going off to school. Especially Draken made such a glorious sound when taking off:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7L7_3cwptk (remind yourself that this is a 1955-1959 aircraft when you see it taking off)
Fair enough! I feel like with questions like this, there is a lot at stake because they will be referred to in conversations (“should we use this field? seems like it’s no big deal”) so perhaps some of the bluntness of the property name rubbed off on my response.
> That's why I'm upset, anyway, because my life was turned completely upside down for something that's actually quite minor in the grand scheme of things, whilst we're leaving the big stuff alone.

I'm going to be frank - I don't think you care about the bigger stuff that much in comparison. You just care that your life was affected. Just like you don't care that much that some random civilians in another country were killed because of <insert injustice>.

Am I wrong?

EDIT: I'm not saying I'm any different. But I have experienced the effects of COVID19, so to me it's not a "small" thing. I'm still living with the effects every day.
In this case it's crazy choppy for me. My firefox updates my scroll position on this page at like 10FPS on a recent ultrabook. So definitely not a success story for "better smooth scrolling".