skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slackware seemed the most mature at the time I started. Also, I really liked the way they split the packages into directories. I could just download the things I needed in one go. When you only have access to dial up, having to download stuff during installation is painful. So, I’d download all I needed over the course of a couple days, then I’d install it with all the needed stuff already in there.

After I got more used to how things worked, I eventually moved towards Redhat until I finally landed on Debian.
The Age of Intimacy Famine
Like Tetris is so "bad" about this, it has a syndrome named after it. Where people see how to Tetris things together outside of the game and/or have dreams about it after playing it so much.

Such a terrible game. Should never have been created. /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect
I doubt firefox actually measured how many people use lots of tabs, because I don't think it's actually that few.
Surprisingly I still use Slackware (current) and actually install it on our physics department computer room using packer to generate virtual golden images and then imaging the computers with clonezilla. Slackware performs well even on those 11 years old machines that we have there (combined with some new ones). Currently students access remotely using x2go and Xfce and it works pretty well. Of course there are some problems sometimes but in general is very stable. My first Linux experience with Slackware forced me to learn how to compile the kennel to get sound... oh I had time on those years. Congratulations and thank you, Patrick!
Build a european spec house in Dallas and it will still be way cheaper.
You would have added some expletives too if you had worked as a support engineer.
I really like your use of "straightforward" here. Not a word I would have thought to use, but does a great job describing the nuance of something that's well-understood, but may not be quick to do.
A bonus point is that Slackware does not rely on systemd. it is still a bunch of bash scripts that you can figure out what is going on.
> 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".

This idea that young people are at near zero risk is not true. Pro athletes in their prime have gotten covid and suffered terrible side effects. Jayson Tatum is 23 and needed an inhaler after getting covid because he couldn't keep his wind. Tom Sweeney got myocarditis and had to end his football season early. Several young MMA fighters and pro wrestlers have nearly died. These are all people in their fitness prime.
In the same spirit, I suppose one could say that it's weird that, in your first post, you didn't mention that it does ultimately say that on the website.

/shrug
Do we know how the CAN-SPAM Act might protect people from over-noisy apps? Or is that only for email? Or?
Maneuverability. There's no articulation point between the cab and the dump. The gap between the dump and trailer allows for very tight turns.
So, according to this, are we to take it that we are currently, or about to be, in the "Fear" stage? If there are some more/bigger scandals this year that make the front pages of the MSM, then I can see this happening as the hoi polloi retreat.
In the central and eastern parts of Canada the summers can get scorching hot and humid and a pool would be lovely to have.

In this particular part of Canada though, more known for its mild summers, not so much. In Vancouver there's honestly maybe only two weeks in july when it's hot enough when you'd really appreciate a pool. Now this is a bit inland, so maybe it gets hotter, but still, yeah it's a luxury that is not gonna be used often.
Ask HN: How do I learn to write good modern Rust code?
I am coming from a C++/Python background and want to shake the shackles of their associated paradigms when writing Rust.

I’m particularly interested in finding good codebases to study or problems to solve that are natural fits for the Rust language.

Also, what resources should I avoid?

Thanks!
That just makes it sound like it's cyclical or random which type of game is on top. Otherwise how would that be happening over and over?
Boogaloo Boys are regularly present at BLM protests. Does the failure to kick them out mean the people around them endorse the murder of police and the violent overthrow of the US government?
I would guess this has to do with maneuverability. It's very hard to back up a trailer when the drive vehicle wheelbase is long compared to the trailer. Adding a bunch of tongue length helps a lot.
Having mouse and scrolling acceleration is preferred by almost everyone, and most people enjoy the Mac’s mouse/trackpad behavior. Wanting linear scroll speed is a niche preference, a perfectly reasonable case to leave to third-party utilities.
The Bible is a terrible, bigoted, hateful book and you should be allowed to quote it
For heaven's sake, don't give Apple any more ideas!
One thing, there is no such thing as "DB-9". It is DE-9. The "E" is the size of the shell. (The B shell has room for 25 pins on 1/10 inch spacing, an E shell room for 9; or 15 with pins closer, as in a VGA connector.)

That fact doesn't stop retailers from listing DE-9 hardware as "DB-9" to attract confused customers, who then remain confused.

My favorite thing about these old plotters is that you can get knife pens, meant for cutting ruby-lith to send out to a circuit board fab. You would peel off the red part wherever you didn't want copper on the board. The board shop would photo-reduce your mask to actual size, often a 10x reduction for manually produced designs. Which existed!

I wonder if you can still get ruby-lith.
> On native apps, there's no scary warnings

That's not really relevant because the content is delivered the same way to native apps as it is delivered to the browsers as there are huge advantages to using the same tech and the same infrastructure, so it's geared to work well with browsers even in cases where the client is not a browser (this includes things like Rokus, Apple TVs, Chromecasts as well).

> https isn't free. Especially at scale.

Actually, it's a very small premium if you use a CDN's public pricing, but if you're using a CDN's public pricing, you are almost certainly not doing anything at scale. :)

As soon as you're doing an interesting amount of traffic, every CDN out there will happily negotiate better rates with you, and the HTTPS premium is something they are happy to drop, though it's already so small that, for media streaming at least, nobody actually asks for it - the main negotiations are all about the bandwidth pricing (heck, sometimes they'll even drop request pricing altogether - it's just too small to matter to you or them).

If you're not doing media delivery at scale, the HTTPS premium is still tiny. Using Amazon CloudFront's public pricing, for example, an HTTPS request costs $0.00000025 more than HTTP. Given a media chunk duration of, say, 4 seconds, it would take over 4000 hours of streaming for that additional cost to add up to a dollar.
> I did it grudgingly

For me it was the opposite. Back in Sept/October govt was telling people "no need to get a booster; it's fine" and then "get it after 6 months only" while reading about the Israel experience would have told you that it was safe and prudent to just get it after 5mo
WHere could I find the v7/86 source code?
Near zero is not zero, I agree.
You're ignoring my point. Why is imitation human meat not an acceptable thing, but imitation animal meat is?
I'd focus on the basic needs: hygiene, sleep, food. Those tend to be the canaries in the nerd depression mine, in my experience. Try to gently steer things in the right direction.
No Amazon doesn't deliver in rural areas (central Kansas, USA, anyways), if you mean Amazon trucks/drivers. However we can still get Amazon packages just fine via UPS, FedEx, or the US postal service.

Actually I've only seen an Amazon delivery vehicle one or two times...
Tips on Writing an Engineering Resume
No, too many apps wants to interrupt whatever I am doing to nag/inform me about non time critical stuff.

I have disallowed notifications for almost all apps on my iPhone. I will check an app when I want to check it, not when the app developer wants me to.
Well, ZFS not being in the kernel is the easy reason I don't use zfs.

The reason I don't use btrfs is I don't want to deal with problems I currently don't have. ENOSPC with space available, performance issues when space available, quotas.

I want evolution from where I am, not jump ship.
Curious if this can work on the GBA ARM platform? I’m under the impression that the current gb emulator is a bit lacking.
Scientists have been against cancel culture for a while now.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/states-that...
That's what you would expect. Inflation also affects labor prices.
I think it will vary greatly from company to company. Some companies were full remote from creation and others decided to go full remote forever. A lot of companies will be hybrid and need to consider the fact that some people want to be in an office with their co-workers. In companies that deal with security, like banks, government, and military/defense industry, on-site will be required. I do believe that, besides exceptions I've mentioned, remote will be very common.
No, I said you don't care that much about bigger things in comparison. Think about it - you cared enough about this "small thing" to make a throwaway account. When last did you do that about anything else?

In any case, I'm not here to preach. I would just like people to have some honesty and perspective in their opinions and arguments.

You're willing to risk the lives of the elderly and people with people with a less-effective immune response if you think the lives of the general population would be "better off"? Just say so. If people feel uncomfortable doing this realise that part of that discomfort is called "cognitive dissonance" (and realise that decision-makers have to do the same thing). Have a serious conversation with yourself before you decide that you need to create anonymous accounts on the internet to air your views.
There's a difference between some people choosing to bring a temporary phone to the US, and a government asking all travellers to XYZ country to use a temporary phone.
Has anyone actually tried FF Reality/Wolvic and can comment on the text quality in XR?
It attracted a large enough number of toxic users that many parts of the site (those not aggressively moderated) were littered with personal attacks and hate speech, which was unpleasant for everyone else.
this is super useful insight for us, thank you for sharing. yeah another product we're working on is "auto audio leveling", which I hope solves some of this, but we'll see.

and yes, I was very excited, thank you for checking it out, Van!
Ever heard of messaging apps? The kind you want to beep when somebody sends you a message?

Currently you have 2 ways of providing this to your users: run the app in the background, maintaining a persistent connection to the server, or via push notifications, where an app is woken from disabled state and displays a message. And background processes are killed off on iOS in less than 15 seconds (the documentation states 30 seconds, but we've never seen it in practice). That leaves push notifications the only choice.
Not gonna enter the debate but this is probably the sort of quote we are speaking about

"If a man lies with a male as one lies with a woman, the two of them have done an abhorrent thing; they shall be put to death—their bloodguilt is upon them."
I bet part of the reason for that is because of how it's presented. Google puts up several warnings that you have to click through and they're all along the lines of "this will ruin you phone!" IMO having sideloading isn't anything more than a well thought out, long term plan to deflect accusations of anti-competitive behavior. In reality they do everything they can to discourage users from sideloading.

The biggest issue for me personally is that it's not clear how, or if, sideloaded apps are sandboxed and how they're granted permissions. The warnings seem intentionally designed to play on those fears. If they're sandboxed the same as other apps and have fine grained permission controls I'd do a lot more sideloading.
> Yes, washing hands help against bacteria and other some types of viral infection including COVID19.

This is pure conjecture, at least when you try to apply it to covid. There is no evidence that has linked hand-washing to a lesser incidence of sars-cov-2 infection. There isn't even a single case definitvely linked to a fomite even 2 years later, afaik. From day one, this was a respiratory disease that spreads through respiratory droplets which travel through the air.

In the context of covid, hand washing is just a ritual that lowers your anxiety and gives you a sense of control over the randomness of the world, much like rain dances or haruspicy were for ancient people.
Your typical senior coder in Vancouverite can't afford a decades old teardown trash house let alone this. haha.

This is less due to poor Vancouver salaries and more due to a basket of real estate issues, but yea the salaries aren't that great either.
It is acceptable, where did anyone say it wasn't?
I have never had it.
I just order enough to get free shipping and then they sit on it for a day or two and ship it prime.
What We Know About ‘Johns Hopkins Study’ on Lockdowns
From Barrier's github repo[1]:

> We will also have our eye on Wayland when the time comes.

Every time I've inquired about $simple_x11_thing for Wayland I find smells like this one. Does Barrier work under Wayland, or not?

1: https://github.com/debauchee/barrier
Worst case the night is still going to be very effective here.
There's also a big implicit bias towards the concept that research is done in universities - in some places there's a distinction of institutions where universities focus on teaching and most of academic research is done outside of universities in separate research institutes (e.g. the Fraunhofer institute chain in Germany which employs many thousands of researchers and has resulted in a lot of high-impact science); a professor might be involved in both, but his research work wouldn't count for the university's rating (because it's not affiliated with the university) and the institutes are excluded from that rating because they don't teach undergrads.
I secretly hope for us to find alien life out there so we can truly unite under one banner - Earthlings - and focus our hate and distrust of those who make different choices than us outwardly.

Either that, or be so inferior to our opponent that we are subjugated and humiliated equally.
How Resident Evil 7 Saved Resident Evil [video]
You've created a strawman of my position.

I don't believe in risking the lives of the elderly and those with a less effective immune response, I have friends and family members in those positions.
When you are competing against stores that require you to use their ad-tech framework to make up the difference it is a different equation.

The idea of billions of devices out there with constantly running background ad-tech frameworks horrifying to me. It would make the AirTags stalking seem like a joke if every phone secretly tracked every Bluetooth. Right now Apple is in the stream to say no to that.

The argument seems to be Apple should just lock down things even further to prevent it from happening…
And how is that going to be funded?
Personal anecdata(source: had covid-infected roommate, and close contact with someone who tested positive a day later): I got boosted 2 weeks before my roommate got covid, I took no precautions and didn't get sick. The second contact was the beginning of this week and didn't get sick. As far as I'm concerned, vaccines have kept me from getting covid in known-risky environments.
That's because I'm a time traveler. I'm living in the future (of the last hype cycle).

Strapping on a VR helmet is the opposite of everything most people want to do with their faces, their bodies, their lives. Contact lens form factor AR, if it ever arrives, could change the equation wrt human nature.
I thought the GBA literally included the GB chip and just passed control to it though?

Would be cool to see this run on the GBA still.
This is an extremely limited way of thinking.

Do you want WhatsApp to deliver a message to you from your mom or special one that they urgently need help? Or should they wait till you will want to check the app?
How far back did Carbon support go?
Ask HN: Database or Maybe Google Programmable Search Engine?
Hello HN!

Long-time lurker here. I'd appreciate some feedback on what to use, i.e., some sort of a database, or Google Programmable Search.

Background. I am putting together a website which will host files - primarily PDF at first - of publicly available information, for example, company annual reports, government notices, and other types of file formats (e.g. Excel, Word).

I am still fleshing out what problem I want this site to solve (it's broadly defined in my mind, but not laser-focused as yet).

However, what I do want is that the site - or rather the collection of documents on the site - be searchable by visitors.

I'm not a database specialist, and most websites that I do are largely static using HTML and CSS. Given the 'unstructured' data that I will be accumulating, I was reading up on NoSQL type solutions vs. traditional RDBMS.

I'd appreciate any thoughts/feedback/suggestions on what I should use for site search.

Thank you.
It's great that you have the choice to disallow notifications.

Conversely, it will also be great for any possible sideloaded app to also have the system give the user that same choice.

Now if one side starts to impose their choices on the other is when we start having a problem.
> criticizing the neutrality of modern liberalism as being part of that racist system

This makes way more sense when you realize that CRT was originally a niche interest of folks interested in criminal justice reform, long a conservative/libertarian pursuit that liberals and progressives were otherwise quite skeptical of. The whole point was to ask questions like "can we really suppose that the U.S. is a colorblind society when even influential liberals like Sen. Biden - who should know better - go around calling black people 'super predators'? How does this make any sense? It makes no sense! And if Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit." (Seriously, postmodern academic rhetoric has a lot in common with the Chewbacca defense. It's not called "wokie" ideology for nothing!) It spread around from there.
I suppose the point I tried to make is that the conclusion presented in the summary omits asians as high-earners and that changes the take-away.

My conclusion would have been:

"With a broad stroke, male, asian and White/Caucasian workers simply earn more than their counterparts."

which is different from:

> With a broad stroke, male and White/Caucasian workers simply earn more than their counterparts.

I could be misunderstanding the point you are making.
Are there limitless resources? Is there a limit to immigration? Do other countries have limits? Answer these questions. Noone convinced me of anything, I determined my opinion based on experiences and facts.

Yes illegal immigration takes away from legal immigration. Yes our immigration system needs updating. No, we don't agree on how to update it.

Both sides have had congress. Your quarrel is not with me, but with your representatives. I scold mine every election cycle, have you ever?
Multiple right-wing legislators in the US are obsessed with banning "critical race theory", and when you look at their proposed bannings it seems more like banning anything that would teach the history of racism in the US. This affects millions of students, but sure, the problem is "the far left".
Heating is not just room temperature. For who prefer radiant heating, resistor heater is easier option. Possibly heat pump based radiant heater is available but temperature is not high as resistor.
How long did it take to try all 256 codes?
What you say is true, but it's not a counter: it's not at all at odds with what I suggested as far as I can tell.

Evolution only suffers brains to exists, if their advantage outweighs their costs. (Though keep in mind that the example I gave is a bit broader than just brains: any way for an organism to learn would fit the bill. That doesn't necessarily need to be a full sized brain, if fewer nerve cells do the trick, too.)

Similarly, smart and resourceful leaders for your company are only useful if their advantage outweighs their costs.

In any case, read the linked Gwern article for a deeper discussion. I'm just rehashing the main point here, Gwern has more to say.
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It will work against hoarding, such as buying 3 cases of paper towels when you only need 4 rolls.
I've been exposed twice with known-omicron and have not gotten sick yet. YMMV.
it's remarkable how dumb kids are (compared to adults). most people understand intuitively when talking to a child that they are going to be dumb and we need to treat them differently (or have a different standard), but the internet's anonymity shields you quite a bit and it's easy to think you're talking to a really dumb adult when really you're being a horrible person. If that person knew you were an 8 or 9 year old child I would guess they would have praised you for your curiosity, tenacity, etc.
This is dangerously close to "no true scotsman". "This game isn't true art!" Trying to categorize things as artistic or not is a losing battle
The first freeway ever was made in California. California is a huge state with widely dispersed population centers (since well before cars), and population growth only really took off around the time of WW2 and the widespread production and adoption of cars and trucks. It’s had a very road and car centric culture since then.
Adding methods isn't patching or altering.

It doesn't change anything because nothing existing knows or depends on the added methods.

If you want to show that something is rotten/bad, you have to show that existing methods are being redefined. This article makes no accusation that ActiveSupport adds this; it just gives evidence of and discusses methods being added.

There is a problem when you don't have Lisp style symbol packages. If two developers add a frob method to the String class, they have a clash.

With Lisp style packages, they can make it abc:frob and xyz:frob: different frob symbols in different packages. They are completely unrelated and so the methods just coexist.

But if you have no such thing and classes are your namespace, then ... oops!
Cascade layers are coming to the browser
This? https://www.nordier.com/v7x86/v7x86-0.8a-all.tar.xz
Astronomers set up center to counter threat of satellite swarms
Wow, that is a name that brings back memories.

Now I'm curious, anyone knows how good is the package management in modern Slackware? I ask because back in the late 90s it was quite far behind Debian.
I really wish things like this were cross platform. Without a smartphone, there's no way to make use of it, despite the fact that I have a laptop running Linux and a Surface Tablet running Windows.
And if the US government banned all mobile manufacturers other than Apple, the Apple fans would say you can always go live in a different country. (If all countries banned non-Apple phones, then presumably the advice would be to start a new country, on a new planet if necessary).
One question I always have when people build houses with large windows: don't you worry about someone smashing the windows and stealing stuff when you're away?
If you refer to 7th edition Unix for x86, this is still available from https://www.nordier.com/ (link to sources and binaries at the bottom of the web page)
Thanks let me explore this more and how this works.
It's not mobs that make decisions to censor but owners of companies and universities. Twitter can't get you fired because that decision falls on the bosses.