skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
fyi there's a tiling plugin for gnome that was also highly regarded on r/unixporn. I know popOS (sys 76's ubuntu distro) also has good support for tiling out of the box.

I often wonder where people get the energy to fiddle with things like this. When I was a student with plenty of time on my hands, I used to tinker a lot. Now I'm older and I just want something that 'works', gets out of my way and let's me get to coding. I only invest time into things that have an immediate improvement on my workflow. If I had a large 4k display I might invest some time on tiling but for now simple L/R splits work fine for me.
> Are you suggesting that there is a default default font

Yes, the `font-size` value when you freshly install the browser: 16px. This changeable value had a lot of historical importance, as it was the only way users could scale sites up.

Good Samaritan CSS authors had to write not only all font-sizes in percentages or em's to respect that value (rem came later) but also think about things like min/max-widths, padding/margin, breakpoints, etc. Folks would later use pixel-to-em converter functions in early tools like Bourbon and Compass. You can still find old polemics on authoring explicit pixel values from folks like Jakob Nielsen[0].

These days, Cmd-+ in browsers zooms instead of scales font-size, and things just work out nicely: padding and margins magically grow, breakpoints trigger as expected, etc. As a result, direct font-size adjustments have gone from living in the taskbar in IE4 to being buried in Google Chrome in Preferences > Appearance > Font Size.

In my opinion, it's for the best. Users aren't left out in the cold by nonconforming CSS, and CSS devs don't have to do battle with scalable values.

[0] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/let-users-control-font-size...
If OneWeb wins, SpaceX makes a ton of money launching for them, and doesn't have to bother running an internet company.
Gnome has big buttons and giant paddings because they target touch screens. But my point is that I don't care about all buttons have exactly same corner radius, I need features like a tray system to be able to access my non Gnome apps quickly(like I need to change the TTS program language), GNOME is good for you if what that big ego designers imposed is what you want, if it is not what you want then even GNOME community will tell you to use some else because GNOME has a vision, minimal features, form over function, excuses for incompetent developers
It's pretty well known that cookie-walls are rife with anti-consumer patterns. Going to something like formula1.com requires me to click more than a 100 times to object to the 'legitimate interests' of as many companies. Which is a pretty terrible anti-pattern when I don't want to be tracked at all...

After reading the abstract, it seems the authors try to classify cookies using a special browser extension called "CookieBlock" [1]. I hope they are successful, because I hate being tracked on the internet.

[1]https://github.com/dibollinger/CookieBlock
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if your site is running on apache with default logging, or a shared host like DreamHost, you are probably not fully in compliance with the letter of the GDPR since you're logging IP addresses and aren't using them for necessary site operations.

... especially if the log just grows and grows and never rotates. The GDPR is a very wide-reaching law.

Of course, there's no real need to worry since, practically speaking, it was intended as a cudgel to beat FAANG with and not a dagger to stab indies with. If you're comfortable with the safety of your operations being "The folks with legal power to enforce won't wield it on you", you have nothing to worry about.
modern gas cans are a nightmare in comparison. some genius thought they were building a better mousetrap but its objectively worse than what I had back in the 80s

it certainly solves some problems -- ones I didnt have before

it adds several new ones -- ones I didnt have before

reminder to self: TODO buy an 80s style the moment I can find one. I've had it with this little red 2022 abomination
I like Gnome, but this decision always seemed technically wrong to me. From a practical point of view I don't care if GTK or the compositor handles it, but if I put on my programmer hat it seems like the compositor should be doing decorations.
Where did that quote come from? I know that FB took some flack for their rule change and issued a second statement on it that walked things back a bit. Is your quote from that?
Ignoring morality entirely for a moment it is rather remarkable that Russia watched the US experience in Afghanistan and Iraq and said "yes, we'd like that for us, but on hard mode".
Ooooh boy does that romanticize being the child of alcoholics. It's not an adventure. It's not something that inherently makes you a stronger person. Being the child of alcoholics teaches you how to be mentally ill. That's it.

Source: me.

Alcoholism is poison. Slow, creeping, invisible poison in the family, the children, the community. I have never understood how some drugs are absolutely illegal, but alcohol gets a pass.
Not that odd, oneweb sells b2b only , spaceX does mostly b2c and some b2b.

Also spaceX launched iridium next gen satellites as well.

OneWeb (and iridium) will just operate in their own markets .

Iridium for example could work in different devices than starlink as they are not LEO and do not need the complex phased array setup starlink needs
This was more of a problem in my previous apartment where the computer desk was in a nook behind the living room couch. Sitting on the couch would only put you about 4' away from the computer.

Not positive if it's still happens in my current layout, I got in the habit of pushing the keyboard back below the monitor when I get up so that the cats won't walk across it.
I've had a look at NetBSD's codebase before. It was fairly easy to follow.

I've also heard good things said for OpenBSD's readability.
> I realize that to some in the tech industry $180k may seem like nothing

But once you have a degree on MIT, you'll be one of those people in the tech industry to whom $180k may seem like nothing. You will be able to pay those loans off after graduation. By the time you're 40, you'll be kicking yourself for not taking advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity if you don't take it.
Swiss. It was easy to get in for me as a Swiss, but they filtered heavily during the first couple years.
What are the alternatives with these specs (power draw, mainly)?
While I love the idea, the requirement for Ubuntu means I can't contribute my compute though (and neither can any of the PC gamers with Windows machines, or anyone else on other distros it seems). As much as I would love to do this over mining a cryptocurrency (which I don't do in the first place), I can't.
This shouldn't be entirely surprising. The states that have developed nukes have done so not just for defensive purposes--the threat of nuclear retaliation for an attack--but also as a not-so-subtle threat against their enemies. It is surely why Iran would like to join that club.

it is also not so surprising that Russia would pull this card out, when it has become clear that in a conventional military sense, Russia would lose in a fight with the full force of NATO against it.
> Many philosophers and public members are sad that you insist on ignoring their input

On the contrary, I strongly encourage them to give input, and I criticise those who would rather give up, dismiss the questions as impossible to solve, and lament how technology has been destroying society for the last 2000 years, while self-driving cars still start being used leading to suffering that could have been prevented by thinking about things more and seeing them from more points of view.

Which inputs by philosophers or the public are being ignored?
The "mediocre humans" you cite are the everyday folks who drive cars, most of whom do not get into accidents. That makes them quite a useful model to learn from.
un·u·su·al·ly, adverb
/ˌənˈyo͞oZH(o͞o)əlē/

2) to a remarkable or unusual extent; exceptionally. "there were an unusually large number of excellent performances"
It didn't "require prodding" because it was assumed from the get go that there was more money (and/or less scrutiny) to be made 'playing it safe' than much else.
I always thought of oneweb has a kind of govt boondoggle project for the UK.

These are the projects that aren't commercially able to attract funding (which in this day is a bit wild) but have some weird pitch that gets a government somewhere to jump on them.

I believe the UK claims this will result in jumping the UK to the forefront of space commercialization? I thought secretly that oneweb was actually maybe making the sats in the US and the UK mfg of the sats was basically just govt hype? Anyone know the real scoop?
Isn't every webserver that uses the standard access.log format (thus including IP address) already non-compliant?
Gnome on PopOS has been perfect for me for the last couple years. It feels as productive, functional and out of your way as Windows 7 used to feel. The settings and other menus are all consistent and easy to find things inside. The file manager does exactly what it needs to do and nothing more. I have no complaints at all and wouldn't change a thing.
Not really.

Starlink is their main competition, not SpaceX.

This just seems practical and in everyone’s best interest. SpaceX get another recurring paying customer, OneWeb get their sats up.

This is more common than you’d think when companies are large enough to have products in so many different categories.

As an example: Amazon runs Prime Video, but also hosts the infrastructure for Netflix, which to my knowledge Netflix has always been happy with despite relying on a direct competitor for their service.
Couldn't he just want... a plain-text interface?

Why are we assigning motives to creations where none is stated? ASCII art loads fast and the miniscule stylesheet and script barely slows anything down.

Plenty of people who aren't disabled like minimalist interfaces, because minimalist interfaces tend to stay relatively static.

Plus, in this case, the main utility seems to be that there's a single place you can check the results of any mainstream sports event, rather than going through the million hoops to get search engines to give you a page where you can find results.
The ones usually sold these days with the plastic caps on them are worse than useless, they leak all over and the safety nozzle on them leaks like hell too.
https://rectangleapp.com/ might make your life easier on MacOS
They still come with breather tubes...

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Scepter-USA-5-Gallon-Plastic-Gasoli...

This works great for filling my tractor, though I have the diesel variant
> This naturally raises the question - number of what? Does "50" mean `50px`, `50vw`, `50em`, `50rem`, `50%`?

Because it's React, the expectation is "px", using a string with a suffix to override it: https://reactjs.org/docs/dom-elements.html#style
Yeah, that's what I meant. People who program or do sysadmin, ie anybody who will ever need to call a sleep function, should know what a unixtime is.
> for what?

For Bin Laden.

America has done terrible things, but what Russia is doing to Ukraine is much worse than Afghanistan or Iraq.

When in recent history did the UK surround a city of another country and starve it to death whilst deliberately shelling civilians?

There isn't a comparison. Russia's actions in Syria are the most similar to the Ukraine situation that I'm aware of in recent history.
This is probably the most pithy distillation of what the actual cause is.
Why Do Electrical Plugs Have Holes in the Prongs?
Russia did the same thing in Afghanistan shortly before! With the same result!
Yep, raspberrypi, arduino and in the last few years, esp* are defacto standards just because of the great software (and library) support.

Yes, STM, XYZ, CabbgePi, etc., is better, faster, has sata, has emmc storage, has more pins, less power usage, has this and that, but if I can't program it now, because of software bugs, and won't be able to program in in 5 years, because the toolchain will be abandoned by now, I really don't need it.

source: I have a bunch of microcontrollers and single-board computers, collecting dust in a drawer at work.
From the article you linked in your comment
Sure, we got used to the format. I have a gist that among other things lists all of the cases, including the harder ones such as "10ms", or "3 days".

FWIW, in "TimeSpan for the .NET crowd", you would write "00:00:50" for (zero hours, zero minutes and) fifty seconds. Hours, minutes and seconds cases are easy now that we know the format.

Yes, you can omit some of the zeros, but your comment above makes the case that for clarity, you should not.
Will fix this, thanks. Any further info would be helpful
I had assumed that Russia would want to embrace trying to land first stage boosters after SpaceX proved it was do-able. With the vast amount of territory they have they could avoid the trouble of trying to land on a droneship and perhaps even develop a large structure to catch fairings downrange.
You've studied hard - but what do you want to do? What do you want to do with your life once you're done with school?

School isn't end-all, be-all of life. I'm a martial artist. Many people look at the martial arts and think obtaining black belt is the goal. Here's the secret - obtaining black belt is the start. Now you're ready to study the art!

It's the same with school. Getting degrees isn't the goal, it's the beginning. The beginning of what? That's up to you!

You already know you can learn on your own, so you should have learned by now you don't need school to learn. Your internships are going to be the most important thing you do - that's where the doors are going to be opened.
Phlogiston theory always comes to mind for me.

I think we will see these fields as attempts at science while completely lacking the instruments to properly study the field so all kinds of nonsense conclusions were drawn.

Economics though is so especially perverted because of monetary incentives for economists. A somewhat correct prediction is worth so much but terrible predictions don't really harm much at all. "It is economics!?! It is stochastic, the coin came up heads, not my fault. The theory is still correct".

Or maybe in 50 years we will just have an honest econ textbook that is just a 1 page pamphlet that says "When the stock market goes down, print money. Make up everything else as you go along to justify this".
My guess is that it is not a cost. It is a small annoyance, and I would be delighted for it to be gone. But... I really can't support any argument that inflates the cost of it.
So I take that as a yes, then?
> Did we consider that if everyone is breaking the law, the law itself might need a rework?

Agreed - IMO, make cookie banners illegal and make 'minimum cookies' the default. Done?
The article is biased and very light on evidence. The biggest accusation I could find is that "The @ChalecosAmarill account often “posted disturbing videos that strengthen its digital influence and activism. (...) Although several of the videos and images are likely true, the context in which many are presented does not appear to be accurate.” If you go into the actual report, the evidence is also thin, and very naive. One caption mentions "@ChalecosAmarill’s post claiming the United States financed coups in several countries, including Colombia, without providing additional information to support the claim." US intervention actually caused the appeaarance of the first guerilla groups that became the FARC [1], suggesting the people doing the report know nothing about Colombia's history.

I have no doubt there is disinformation being pushed by many state actors and this account may very well be one of them. However, I fail to see the difference between that and what those think-tanks like the ones who produce this type of report are doing.
For TypeScript, Ghost: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost
The only other affordable choice could have been ISRO with PSLV , there was some merits to this as oneweb is owned partly by Bharti an Indian telecom major.

However that was always a long shot, Russia collaborates deeply on the Indian space and missile programs. The cryogenic 4th stage is still a Russian engine on GSLV, ISRO won’t likely risk that partnership as America has always refused any tech because of dual concerns, and ISRO also is not very expandable on launch capacity so it would not be easy even if they wanted to.
You mean aside from the fact that Vulkan was announced a year after Metal was first released? Probably just because Apple never cooperates with anybody.
The best runs I've had working on others' codebases is to jump into documenting it. Many projects love having someone read, ask questions about, and document code, even (or especially) from a naive standpoint since that's who'll benefit the most from it, and in the process you learn how the code's structured, track where references lead to, and more often than not kick over some bugs worth fixing in the process.
ESA have also pushed pause on their side of the new mars rover too. There's a complete bifurcation that seems to be happening.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-work-solo-mars-m...
I run Ubuntu 21.10 on a Dell XPS laptop. Smooth as silk. Works with docking station and multiple monitors. MS Teams beta is good except for screen share. I just use brave browser for teams meetings and can share screens and individual windows.
Samsung will happily sell Apple parts.

If you have a competitive advantage in launching, why limit your exploitation of that? Worst case, you find out that your satellite engineers were coasting off that advantage. Best case, you make money proving they aren't.

Plus you're now antitrust-proof, if that's ever a thing again.
I am not going to speculate about this crash, but the claim made here about stability is missing one very important fact: just about every airframe exhibits spiral instability and will eventually undergo spiral divergence unless controlled by a pilot or automatic system. This results in an airplane descending in a steeply nose-down spiral even though it is trimmed for level flight. As a result, most spatial-disorientation crashes end in a steep nose-down impact with the surface, as in the case of JFK jr.

Such accidents are way too common - Informally, I get the impression that there may be up to one a month in the US alone - but they are rare in airline operations and I am not suggesting that this is likely here.
It certainly tagged along with Unix but with 16-bit systems like the IBM PC, Macintosh, Atari ST and Amiga, it began to take over. We had safe languages like Pascal and Modula-2 at that point but computers weren't networked back then and programmers cared more about saving a few CPU cycles than having more stable programs. Today we know how dangerous C is for online security. Sure, safe code can be written in C but it's a lot more work for the programmer than using a language that is designed to be safe. It's good to see Rust come along and I'm hopeful to see safety being added to existing and new languages.
You're right, it's a GNOME issue. Doesn't make it any less critical though, I'd like to restart my compositor without taking my entire window server down with it.
He was upset that FB has content only in one direction, anti-Russia. I said this is not true and I am expecting a lot of ani-Russia, anti-Putin content to exist on FB, but don't pretend that this is only one sided.

Anyway , weird Putin coward and did not unplug the Internet yet, they were testing this in the past so I am wondering why still keep it, young Russian have access to the truth and this is a big danger for the war-criminal
Debt is a very useful financial tool that's misunderstood by a lot of people. These kinds of "TAKE THE MONEY" comments conflate credit cards used to buy a TV with a student loan to go to MIT. This "TAKE THE MONEY" will be almost worthless compared with the enormous returns that you get from an MIT education.
> I ended up going to Virginia Tech on a full scholarship.

I think compared to Boston, Pasadena or Stanford, Blacksburg is far more conducive to mental and physical health. And even without your scholarship, VA Tech is cheap, and absurdly cheap compared to you backup schools. Well done. Go Hokies.

FWIW my first choice was CMU, got in early acceptance, but my father's income prevented financial aide. It has increased since, but at the time CMU was $22K/semester while VA Tech in state tuition was $2500/semester. Rents are also much more affordable in SW Virginia than they are in Pgh (or Boston, Pasadena or Stanford). I looked at MIT, but I could not identify the campus; it was just city buildings. To me, Harvard reminded me of a penitentiary.
Humans also directly suffer consequences for those actions. They show remorse and suffer emotionally attempting to grapple with the outcome of their choice. The legal system takes remorse and suffering into consideration, as it is designed to do.

Do self-driving engineers personally commit to be punished and suffer remorse for their algorithm’s choices? And before you say “it’s not fair, the CEO is at fault!” think about who’s writing the code. The CEO doesn’t make the self-driving car possible, the engineer does.
Is it ok if I don’t like the term “reverse proxy”?

I find it entirely confusing and non-intuitive. I put it up there with idiotic terms like “OTT” which AFAIK just means “connected to the internet”.
OP's argument is legit: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/11/facebook-...
Manjaro's best boast is its stability. And I simply can't accept that the second most commonly used linux distribution is a 'small derivative'.

https://www.tecmint.com/top-most-popular-linux-distributions...
> Did we consider that if everyone is breaking the law, the law itself might need a rework?

No, GDPR is doing tons of good works.

The whole web is a privacy and security nightmare and we've been tolerating this mess long enough.

Many companies are engaging in malicious compliance by annoying users with popups and push the blame onto GDPR.

The reality is that 99% of websites need zero cookies, zero popups and no logging of IP addresses. The ones requiring login can set a login cookie without pestering the user.
Galileo too, quite likely.

https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1505879400641871872 (Eric Berger / Ars Technica)

- "Notable: Important space officials in Germany say the best course for Europe, in the near term, would be to move six stranded Galileo satellites, which had been due to fly on Soyuz, to three Falcon 9 rockets."

- "This will almost certainly be resisted by France-based Arianespace. However it may ultimately be necessary because there are no Ariane 5 cores left, and the new Ariane 6 rocket is unlikely to have capacity for a couple of years."
Ignoring morality entirely for a moment, it is rather remarkable that the US watched the Russian experience in Afghanistan and said, "yes, we'd like that for us."1
No, the facts were pretty obvious and statistical in nature. The only argument was whether this was legal or not. Even pro-Affirmative action groups like Vox agree that there is discrimination against Asians
Zhihu is delete the links
China Tells Microsoft to Turn Off Bing Auto-Suggest
They have been using the same rocket for like 30 years. I'm not sure they are organizationally equipped to innovate anymore. Similar to the standard NASA contractors, who are rearranging shuttle parts to make the SLS and costing and order of magnitude more than even SpaceX's outlandish experiments from scratch.

Also its entirely possible the cost of a Soyuz launch is cheaper than a Falcon9 despite re-use, due to it being used for so long and slightly smaller.
I second Postgres. Not only is the source code a pleasure to read, there's also an unusual amount of well-presented material about its internals available online.
What's the definition of minimum cookies?