skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea those are the expected devices. I think that pretty mimics their botique line which are adorable little synth replicas of the original. They're so cute I had to collect them and have them displayed on shelves in my living room.

Damn, I really wish they would have given these away as VSTs instead. I'd love to bring an official Roland 303 software synth into my setup without paying their ridiculous subscription fees.
since 6.2 most of the big qt5 modules are ported I believe
i find it very hard to suggest an intel/amd laptop nowadays now that M1 macbooks exist..

M1 is a league on its own, everything else is just tech junk at this point
I pretty much only get southern California and southern Florida with my ideal range.

I wish this website supported Europe and Asia.
I mean, I agree with all that, but also in practice there actually are English utterances that a vast majority of native English speakers will interpret as indicative of a profound lack of familiarity with the English language, and it's reasonable to describe those utterances in normal conversation as being "grammatically incorrect."
"Death to the Russian invaders" is nationalistic propaganda of the sort that Putin likes to point to when he calls Ukrainians "nazis". It's not a sensible call to engage in self-defense. For one thing, it does not properly distinguish between ordinary Russians, of whom there are plenty in Ukraine (Russian even used to be an official language before the Ukraine government removed it as retaliation against the Crimea referendum) and the Russian military involved in the "operation".
This is really good work, I played around with a script to calculate this info from GIS data but the drawing of the view didn't even occur to me.
VMAccel looks very interesting! Send me an email and we can explore how to collaborate.
Again, just want to be clear here:

> The moment it starts to openly prefer one kind of misinformation to other

When we talk about misinformation, it is not misinformation to say that Russia unjustly invaded Ukraine.

I think it's really important to clarify exactly what kind of misinformation we're talking about, because the Ukrainian narrative that Russia invaded for its own personal interests and not because of a territory dispute or to stamp out racism -- that narrative is not just another side of propaganda, it is the correct reading of the situation.

If you're talking about wartime propaganda like how many tanks have been lost, or about staged photos with prisoners, or whatever -- sure, that's propaganda that comes out of both sides. But that Russia invaded a country unjustly and is committing war crimes against it -- that is not propaganda, it's just the truth.

If you're upset that DuckDuckGo isn't treating both Russia/Ukraine's story about the cause of the war equally, then frankly, they shouldn't be treating them equally, because that's not a matter of opinion or something that needs to be tailored to the user -- regardless of who's using the engine and where they're located.

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> Who has higher moral ground in a human conflict should be irrelevant from a standpoint of a general purpose web search engine, which DDG used to be.

There's a weird amount of conflation here between:

- moral judgements

- narrative about facts and conclusions drawn from facts

- factually incorrect claims

People can debate about the first two categories there and how search engines should respond to them, and we don't know exactly which sites DDG is looking at downranking or what their policies are for when they downrank a site. But if they are targeting the last category and if they are targeting outright lies about the cause of a conflict, then that would absolutely be something that's reasonable for a general-purpose search engine to do.

It's hard to debate about which category they're targeting if we don't know what the sites are (that in itself might be a criticism of the policy). But, still very important to understand that those three categories above are not all the same thing and not all of them should be dealt with in the same way.
I understand you are mentioning many countries. But to touch just on Mexico. Personally, I do not believe Mexico to be an ally. Mexico seems to be a narco state that is largely run by cartel sponsored politicians.
One major problem with it is that even in those dialects, a double negative can also be a positive, and outside of some semi-fixed constructs that mandate one or the other interpretation in that dialect, the distinction relies things like tone and/or stress/emphasis, which of course are lost in writing. This makes it rather unwise to use in writing, unless context clearly dictates one interpretation.
I didn't pay for my second computer, work did.
> I have so many customer support issues to deal with because some of the SaaS platforms we use are not compatible with ad blocking software.

That's amazing. I hope this keeps happening until businesses are forced to fix their sites to make it work with uBlock Origin.
There have been many wars around the world since Facebook was founded in 2004. What about these circumstances is different than with other armed conflicts? Why should the principles change?
I think ergonomics / general slickness goes a long way for a dev laptop, not just pure horsepower. Form factor, keyboard etc. Everyone has their preferences with these things :)
If you want a "real", no-compromise EV, there really isn't any alternative to Tesla. For me, the killer feature was a supercharging network. Without it, you have an expensive toy unless you are just going to potter around town on short trips. Even though most day I just charge my car at home, there's no way I would have bought a Tesla without the supercharging network.

Re. panel gaps and build quality, yes, the outside build/paint quality is about average (the seats are _very_ nice) but this is not why I bought a Tesla. I wanted the next generation vehicle tech and a car that can really go without making a fuss. Had I wanted absolutely even panel gaps, I would have bought a German or Japanese gas car.

Re. OTA updates, my 3+ year old car feels it was bought this year because of OTA updates. I have no desire to acquire a new model because the newer model will practically be identical to mine, apart from the mileage.

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I like this, I'll strive to buy more forks.

> Being a little rude like this won't ever blow back on you in ways that you can directly measure. But it will blow back.
I do want to comment that I consider the just saying hello messages to be rude, itself. It's a balance isn't it, I don't want to be rude to others (buy more forks), but I also don't want people to be rude to me. So depending on the situation I might comment on that, but probably not with a link to a website like this, unless I think I can manage it with a humorous tone.
Teaching children to respect other's views is very much something that I want schools to do. What's the legitimate alternative? What should the teacher say there?

> The problem is, that's science-denial, so yes, it would be inappropriate for the teacher to say that.

So - imagine that little Timmy has religious parents, and thus believes that God created the heavens and the earth in six literal days (a not-uncommon belief held in the fundamentalist Christian community). Suppose then that little Susie overhears it and asks the teacher about why her parents told her that life evolved gradually over the course of eons.

In my mind, an appropriate response could be "some people believe that the universe was created by a deity, and their views should be respected." But you've indicated that "some people believe <x> and their views should be respected" is in fact inappropriate.

What would you suggest be done, otherwise?
Not even close - look up COINTELPRO and how many of the letters that were sent by the discoverers of that information ACTUALLY made it, let alone how few that did make it actually got published. Hint : very few.

The media has always had to kowtow to some degree to local authority, and there is always the element of ‘the truth we choose to believe’ (or are being told to believe) being published over harder reality. The west tends to be more transparent than most, and more honest than most, but everyone is very far from, and has always been very far from, any sort of unbiased view.
The GM of BIS can declare that all they want - banks are powerful entities within the US and won't go down with out a fight.
Same. I'm moving from FL to the SW this year. People see our summer weather - 88hi, 78 low almost every day and think it's perfect. It's not, and it feels gross down to about 72 degrees because of the suffocating humidity.
There's never a need to use anything else than Celsius, in Europe. Ok, we do learn Kelvin in school but you wouldn't really use it in a normal conversation.
Connect it to a monitor?
It is more complicated. It is not exactly rule of law in Russia. If you are accused of overthrowing the government, having a page on Facebook, which is extremist organization, might be considered aggravating factor.
You are correct, but to go further, tax and import tariff should be added for any carbon energy source or the products made with those sources. If you tax the source, then that raises carbon energy generation prices, which raise the usage of carbon energy, which raises the price of the things that use that energy. Then you can truly see the costs of things that are made with that energy. Maybe then we'll have more competitive nuclear power or whatever else we can come up with that doesn't use carbon fuel sources. The hard part is ensuring the tax or tariff is bulletproof without loopholes and stuff. Good luck with that.
>Everything that is true is there, but so is every lie, and every near truth. But because all information is equally available without regard for truth, the library is effectively useless. That's what an entirely uncurated internet becomes.

I don't disagree with most of what you said, but I don't think that's a justification for censorship. The non-curated internet did come up with Wikipedia and a lot of great sources. Some of those sources go from great to bad. Do you trust Amazon reviews? I don't but I used to; I think a lot of people feel the same way. Amazon tried to "fix" it by censoring what it felt were bad reviews, but it didn't seem to work.

I think the main disinformation comes from politics, which, by nature is disinformation. I don't think that, to paraphrase, "people believe dumb things," is a good justification for censorship. Think about what passed as truth in 1850 or even 1920. Darwin of course was censored and the Snopes trial are just examples of where any type of censorship, allowed to stand, halts the progress of a civilization.
> Then what is the role of the guidelines?

So that the community has a touchstone.

But they are guidelines, not laws.

> Things are moderated - but with no consistency.

It's a big job, so it isn't done perfectly. But I'm sure they'd love to hear about specific instances of moderation that are or seem inconsistent.

But note that the moderation isn't all done by the moderators; the community moderates too.
Err, actually yes, I didn't realise but it is :)

While we're all venting: How's about when you're writing a considerate reply that takes a while because it's a complicated answer, and they just blooming fire off another random message in the middle, destroying thread chronology!
I had a plan to run older period VMs or even period hardware to play older PC games, and use something like parsec to view them. Unfortunately, despite there being a number of desktop streaming solutions available I couldn't find any that supported even WindowsXP, much less 9x. Windows 7 was about the best I could do.
Unreal. The follow up tweet is also quite amazing. "Update: The professor who was asked to suspend his course on Dostoevsky resigned.

The University told him that he could reinstate the course if he included Ukrainian authors.

He said he wasn’t an expert on Ukrainian literature, so he decided to teach Dostoevsky elsewhere."
I like the Lenovos (not affiliated with them).

Had various of their laptops: T42, T500, T440p, X1 Extreme gen2 (dumb name, but nice laptop).

They usually run Linux without any problems, are solidly built (even after being taking over from IBM).
Sounds like my information is out of date!
Sure, though this discussion doesn't have to be limited to the OP's constraints.
Personally I'm waiting for the new ARM ThinkPad X13s. I rarely buy things on day one but that will be one for sure. Not sure which distro will run on it but I like tinkering with it.
I thought part of the point is that 40% or whatever never gets sent to your device in the first place - speeding up requests, reducing usage. Those seem like good things.
The moment I saw Alpine Linux in the title, my first guess was "I bet this is something to do with musl libc". Briefly looking through the blog, it looks like my gut feeling was correct.

A while ago I evaluated Alpine Linux. I wanted to like it, I really did, it ticked so many boxes.

But time and time again, I kept on running into issues with their adoption of musl libc.

The last straw for me was when I discovered packages in their package repo (some of which were well-known names) that were compiled against musl when the upstream developers quite clearly wrote in their docs that "if you compile X against anything other than glibc, you're on your own". For me, the fact that Alpine ignored this and compiled against musl anyway, was a big red flag. (And yes I raised some of these as bug reports, but the cases got closed and nothing done about it).
Back in like 2005 or so, I would get all my music and movies from the library and just make rips to blanks to grow the collection at home. I did that with netflix dvd service too.
Also a big rental company can put pressure on the OEM.
I agree with you, but if you find yourself feeling burdened, perhaps there's a genuine opportunity for introspection: why are you feeling burdened? You don't owe them anything, they're asking you for your time. You're doing them the favor; you're under no obligation. Feeling burdened seems self-imposed.

It can be sometimes easier to shift your own perspective than it is to change the behavior of others.
That moment when one refers to fcking KP to prove that something is false. LMAO

I hope that you are kidding. Otherwise, you are a joke.
To be honest though, I think the US really screwed itself here. One big issue is that the mentally ill can get to the point where they are no longer of sound mind and should be committed. But involuntary commitment draws flack as well, so the response becomes to do nothing.

It's also interesting how much impact a single movie had on mental health treatment in the us.
I can't speak to the accuracy, I only have a few bits of hardware, but V collection sounds really good on its own. As for the DX-7, Dexed is really popular.
I've read that the Ukrainian war is a problem for China for exactly the opposite reason: the invasion of a sovereign country by another is somehow like outside countries (the US, Japan) supporting Taiwan, which China claims is a part of their country rather than an independent country. I'm not sure I really buy into that argument, though; your suggested viewpoint seems at least as valid.
I’m considering quitting engineering altogether due to chronic burnout. I suspect I’m not the only one. I would love a part time position that gives me recovery time, and I would happily take the reduced pay that comes with it.
> Why is it a war on our attention?

Entitlement. They literally think they have a right to our attention. The audacity of these people never fails to impress. Paying any amount of money will only make them bolder.
Anecdotal, a colleague of mine absolutely hated his to the point where he didn’t even sell it, it just ended up in a drawer until he’s calmed down enough to sort it out for sale >_<
Think about having a switch on a laptop. And if the switch doesn't just kill power (which it shouldn't to safely shut down), then it shouldn't be a switch it might be better as a button.
To be clear, this is an increase from calendar year 2020 to 2021. The 2020 baseline was artificially low with the pandemic. This isn't a trend, it's one skewed data point.
If the "national vision" can only be realized by oppression maybe there is something wrong with it.
I think it depends on your needs, really. When I bought a laptop in December of last year, I narrowed my options down to a Dell XPS 15 and a Thinkpad T15 (both with the Intel CPUs, although AMD seemed to perform better on benchmarks, Dell doesn't even ship with them and the Thinkpad with AMD wasn't available in my region). I didn't consider System76 much because I need Windows support, and sadly couldn't go for a framework because they didn't ship to where I needed.

I ended up going for the Thinkpad even though it has a worse screen, because I read many negative things about defects in XPS laptops, the CPU was of a lower tier but apparently more energy efficient (also I learned that laptop CPUs are a mess), the Thinkpad has more varied ports, and it has the trackpoint.

I was pleasantly surprised to learn that many top of the line laptops (not counting Apple of course) now have user upgreadable components -- both of my options had upgradeable hard drives and ram.

Back to my original point, for my workload I didn't need more than 16gb of ram, or a dedicated GPU, or good Linux support (although I heard it's pretty good for Thinkpads at least), so my option made sense to me -- and still it set me back almost 2 grand, so not an easy choice. I expect this device to last at least 5 years, which puts the cost into perspective to me.
If you hold alt while highlighting, it bypasses the click events letting you highlight to your hearts content.

Sometimes this doesn’t work when the site is using JS to do some kindof click handler, but it should work fine for an a tag
Bingo. Esp considering I'm middle eastern.
Also, in reference to Black September, the whole point of the Black September war was that the Palestinians considered themselves the rightful rulers of Jordan/Palestine rather than the British-installed Hashemite monarchy, and Israel has no contention to this, besides that the monarchy is not inclined to war with Israel. Still, “Palestinians living in Jordan” to them _are_ Jordanians, and Jordan is in fact the Palestinian state, which was the whole point of the British partition. The British making awful partition plans is not unique to the Levant, by the way.
MakeMKV makes it trivial.
Eh, journalists are human and many have very strong political and ideological views that are quite apparent in their writing. Editors try to tie together the paper into a coherent voice and brand, which also needs to be able to ‘feed itself’ somehow.

I wouldn’t put anyone on a high horse here.
Are we sure this "truly internet first generation" is primarily using laptops? If they grew up with an iPhone/iPad, there's no guarantee that they even have adblocking as an option.
Would you pay X% more to be able to repair Y?

Most consumers will buy the cheaper Y if it provides the same day-to-day value as the more expensive but repairable Y.

Right to repair is a much greater proportion of pining for the "good ol' days" than anything. When the complexity and manufacturing maturity were not that high, increasing complexity usually meant reducing reliability.

The idea that products can deliver greater sophistication, comfort and efficiency without adding complexity is preposterous. At some point the complexity becomes so high that it's not safe for a non-expert to work on it.

Imagine a customer bricking a $30,000 car because they wanted to repair it. Who would they blame? Themselves? "Well they shouldn't have made it this way!"
Not noone.

If there was a low-end car that could drive my kids to/from school without a licensed driver present, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

So would any other parent who has the money, and regularly has a conflict between where work would like them to be, and where they need to be for their children's school. (Yes, I'm familiar with and have used rideshare. Uber's liability won't cover taking kids, HopSkipDrive will, but they cost a lot more and every so often you get the situation where they don't find a driver. The convenience of, "Don't have to worry about it" would be worth a lot to me, and would give the children a lot of freedom.
The owner is going to be liable, regardless of who is in control. Just like if someone else is driving your car and causes an accident, you (the owner) are the one who will pay.
Will you be factoring in the cost of an accident (you can adjust the rarity of the accident to get your expected value) destroying the entire economic engine of the state?

A lot of nuclear closures make no sense. Germany's indiscriminate shutting down of all the nuclear power plants in the country without waiting for renewable alternatives to be online was a bad idea.

However, specific shutdowns do make sense. A nuclear plant situation upstream of the biggest city in the US, right by the entire city's water supply is very high up in the list of existing nuclear shutdowns that make sense.
SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure (even for milder cases)
I think mobile-friendliness has to be blamed for this. Most browsers these days have "copy link text".
Loads of NOPE, thank you.
This is one of the functions of the new James Webb telescope right? From what I remember planetary defence was one of the few recent things a lot of countries agreed upon to mutually fund as well
If I could replace my System76's keyboard with a layout that I like, then I would have zero complaints.

I <3 System76
See my sibling comment.

tl;dr hold alt
Woah Quebec seems to have the lowest (?) Carbon intensity on the map. Hydro power is just amazing, and I'm glad we had very forward looking PMs back in the 60-70s who pushed for massive hydro projects even when the costs were gigantic. There's still so much hydro potential in the province that isn't being used though.

Makes me wonder if it would be possible to build up our hydro capacity specifically for export instead of just exporting our surpluses like we do now. Maybe it won't be profitable now, but would it be too energy inefficient to transport much more electricity from the north of the province to further south than New England?
>Is AdBlockPro needed with uBlock

Nope

>does uBlock do everything ABP does and more?

Yep
> russia or china, for example. their rates of violent crimes like this are far below that of the US.

Hm. I am myself not from Russia exactly but from 90s Baltics and I personally remember repeated occasions I had to do end up in fights with local “trash”.

Once that ended with a guy punching one of the girls from our crowd in the face because she was being too outspoken about him trying to incite a fight with one of us. To be fair we should have expected that but none of us had any time to react.

To be clear that is actually quite a normal thing. Well, at least at the time it was and the area I lived in was not one of those incredibly poor areas. Russia has way worse places.

So yeah, we never reported that because truth to be told it was very usual and the whole general philosophy is to endure or to fight back yourself and not go to the police. So I would not think this stuff ends up in statistics.

What ends up in the stats is all of the really bad stuff like rape and killings at the same time. I would not even expect any medium-hard definition of “rape” would be reported on a regular basis let alone someone getting punched in their face.
Possibly ask on #musl or submit a patch?
This article is a nice nuts and bolts discussion.

However, for a different perspective, here's a couple of articles by experienced developer relations folks about that first hire and the tension between tactics and strategy, among other things.

https://talktotheduck.dev/youre-doing-it-wrong-recruiting-a-...

https://taylorbar.net/posts/recruiting-your-first-developer-...