skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ubuntu user since the 5.04 days. The vertical integration the apple ecosystem offers is incredible and not something linux can ever compete with. I see my fiancee use her iphone with her apple tv and her mac - everything connects together, seamlessly. There are walled garden elements to it but look, I'm done fighting the FOSS fight I waged in my late teens and early 20s. I got work to do, my life to live, etc.

My advice to the Ubuntu, Fedora, etc teams: focus ruthlessly on creating a smooth experience for the office/enterprise clientele who mostly use a narrow set of hardware (thinkpads x/t, dell inspirons, etc). Get this to a place where everything just works and lobby partners when it doesn't. Example from two days ago: shared my screen on zoom, clicked to stop screen sharing and the UI on my side didn't update. So another attendee went to share their screen and I couldn't see it - I had to rejoin. Worst still, that happens intermittently.

That said, I'm personally bearish on this ever happening against a much more well funded incumbent that is now producing ground breaking hardware with the M1s, etc.
I have fond memories of a group chat with my internet friends, complete with custom emoticons and file sharing. It might have been called "Windows Live Messenger" at that point.

When the product was killed, I lost contact with a lot of old friends who weren't online as much.
What kind of arctic wasteland must this developer live in to think 13C and cloudy is shorts weather?
Ah, to have loved and lost. Such is life.
Predecessor of the infamous hamburger menu?
You are actually right :) Stupid me. But other similar searches have failed me in the past.
I was never, ever on those platforms, after the Uni I have just use word of mouth and acquaintances.

I consider matching platform useful in the modern time because remote work is a thing and cross-country job seeking is common, but for me such platforms MUST NOT be public and must be very limited in terms of data they grab/display because is not a matter of oppression or "build my own CV" but a matter of how we seek workers.

The actual system is antechamber of the Chinese one in western sauce, that need a social score, witch can be in various forms, including "number of stars/upvote and positive comments", and the social score is harmful for the society because no one can really control "the honesty" of the score and many can trade it. You probably know well the river of cyclic polemics about Amazon reviews/buyer feedback, same for TripAdvisor etc: in theory the social score is good, in practice the seller give something to the buyer in exchange of a good review (corruption, cronyism), the platform manipulate reviews for it's own interests, the State give bad scoring to political opponent etc, see China for a practical example.

The society of interpersonal relation have "a bit of risk/incertitude", but can't be manipulated much because of scale and kind of parties involved. The social score still exists, but only at small personal scale, like the personal scoring systems you might have on emails, nntp news, ... anyone have it's own and share it to friends/relatives, it's a limited and distributed one that encourage honestly and can't do big damage on scale when honesty lack.

Also you might have read about other river of polemics from CVs crafted to pass the "initial ML pre-selection" with even people who try to make a business selling crafted CVs to stories like https://idiallo.com/blog/when-a-machine-fired-me again the solution is simple avoid conditions that can give such outcomes.

Just try a small game: how much people and enterprises in mean have earned in the '60s than now? For my knowledge now VERY few earn far more, but in the mean 99% earn far less. That's means a thing: the system is broken. There is no free market capable of self-regulation, there is no leviathan PUBLIC State that regulate (classic liberalism and socialism) but just a corrupted clepto-corporatocracy. Do you really like actual system? Beware: "coming back" does not means dropping good things born thereafter, does not means travel back in time, means just take the good, correct the bad and keep going. It's name is not time travel but evolution.
European (mainly French / German) attempts at 'strategic autonomy' had been consistently thwarted by the UK's recalcitrant presence. Brexit should've been an opportunity, but Putin's invasion of Ukraine quickly shut that window. With the Germans now re-orientating their energy dependency from Russia to the US, as well as committing to buying billions of dollars worth of US military hardware, there is no chance of any 'EU led third way'
Pants weather is a myth.
Just to speak to a common misconception - this is not what Wu Wei means.

Wu Wei is a core part of Taoism, and translates (very) roughly along the lines of "following the way of nature" or going with the flow.

It most definitely is not nihilism.
Yet it’s California that has double the murder rate, massive homelessness issues, not to mention substance abuse, armed robberies and car theft in broad daylight, the list goes on… and ends in an incarcerated population of over 2 million people, whereas Liechtenstein is incarcerating around twenty people. (TWENTY! In the entire population!)
I guess that this is also a good marketing move: anyone can start a new server. It gives you a sense of power - you have your server, and it is super easy to set it up.
If you long press then press "not interested" on all the Dutch videos I think it would stop showing them.
I mean clubhouse.com is their actual address
The right to be forgotten is in tension with the need to preserve public discourse.

Nevertheless I have deleted many comments within the available regret window. I do wonder whether they're actually removed from storage, or merely elided by software.
The fact that they've got enough evidence to take Tesla to court on a systemic level is a big red flag.

A lot of middle-management level racism exists across the country. But the court-case is suing Tesla, the entire organization, for high-level systemic racism.

This is the difference between "murderer kills at High School" and "the entire upper management, from principals and superintendents and teachers are involved in a murder".

Both involve murder, but one is worse since it includes leaders. Similarly, this Tesla case isn't just some "low level" typical racism we see all the time in this country. This is a systemic issue, where black people work at "The Plantation" (literally called out in the court case documents).

The relevant court case document can be found here: https://www.dfeh.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2022/02/...
5G isn't LTE. It's NR. I'm not sure what the point of questioning the terminology is.
Just anecdata. My SO is currently working for a very small regional dairy producer (think 18 people total). Naturally they have a website no one really knows how to handle. My SO needed to update stuff, received the login info and the first thing we saw was WordPress stating that php5.6 is too old and should be updated.

After some arguing with the company that is payed to manage their IT environment she got them to finally update the php version and now the server is running 8.1.

I was glad that at least wp was up to date. Current wp running on quite old php version and exactly nothing broke with the update.

I was positively surprised. Would have expected more problems from my experience with other projects in other languages.
Presumably refers to technology that was supplanted by an alternative technology or implementation for wider use. Inferred meaning, no sources to cite.
I am not a cryptographer but I do work in security and The Code Book by Simon Singh is an excellent history of the history of cryptography/cryptanalysis presented as periods through history where the pendulum swung between giving the edge to the code makers or breakers. The code makers have been ahead since about the 1970s.
"Look the fundamental problem here is that the world, the universe, exists inside a framework, and we exist in that framework. We can manipulate it to some extent, but we aren’t gods. We cannot rewrite the framework. You don’t have to like the framework, but you can’t fundamentally change it either."

This is a belief, not a fact. Delusion is where you use mental gymnastics to represent your beliefs as facts. Humans don't fit into frameworks, and you nor I know what those would be even if they do. Psychology, again, is a heavily flawed and infant science that can't treat the overwhelming majority of people.

Biology says nothing of how we as humans identify ourselves, it says nothing of sexuality. The deeper you look into biology you discover the core differences are almost entirely hormones. The science of biology is why we can transition our bodies, it does not prevent it.

Xy and xx chromosomes don't represent sex either. They're signals of what may be identifiable as man or woman but are not exclusive. When you look at the difference of male to female reproductive organs the core difference is a few genetic switches and hormones at an early stage. 8th grade science class on human body development is not representative of this more complicated reality.

Your framework is not based on reality, and you nor anyone else can claim they have a framework on human biology or psychology. That's not how science works. If you want actual answers look towards those that study genetics in relation to body development. We have more questions than answers.
It became Shortcut: https://shortcut.com/
Sure. Needs work. When you say you "hate this mentality" it sounds like you want to toss out the entire legal concept. In further discussion, you're hyperfocused on some edge cases. I agree, those edge cases need work... but you haven't convinced me that the entire concept is unworkable.
Nothing happened to it. It still exists, and still has users. The buzz it had a while ago has died down, and several competitors have emerged (like Twitter Spaces). I imagine it still has a boat load of VC money in the bank, so whether it can figure out a successful business model or not remains to be seen.
That sounds plausible, too.

Various nationalism and other thinking, in different groups, at different times, are still largely a mystery to me. It seems relevant to group thinking we see today, which is still confusing (e.g., why is much of the thinking and dialogue around the two main US political parties doing what it's doing, and how is that representative/determining of what the broader population actually thinks).
I use a LG CX 48 as a monitor.

Every time I switch it on I get an ad for Apple Music that I can't disable.
Google's search results are bad by default because they're hijacked by SEO farms. Despite this, I find that there's almost always a way for me to find what I want with Google. If I want thoughtful discussion about a topic, I'll append "from:news.ycombinator" to my search. This also often surfaces great personal blogs or old documents or other things that don't rank high in search results.

If it's not covered on HN, I'll append "from:reddit" instead (they're not always wise but as at least they're not getting paid per word written, and the upvote system gives me a sense of what real people think). If I want a broad survey of a topic, Wikipedia or some other wiki are usually great. If I want a really deep dive, I'll append "book", usually in conjunction with "from:news.ycombinator". Lastly, I sometimes add a time filter, e.g. "after:2021".

Clearly this is an awkward pattern. But it really works, and I'm having trouble thinking of something that would be meaningfully better. I suspect most people have found ways of using Google that work well enough for them. So I'm afraid Google Search will stick around for awhile.
I expected to see this one or "The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman. I don't know a designer who hasn't read one or both.
Chrome is currently a major component to Google's hold over its users' web experience. When it is measured in terms of market share, it appears to me that the browser wars and search engine companies fight in the same battles.
The Google list is absolutely aiming to shame Google. They break promises they made even just a few months earlier (Stadia is a recent example).

Microsoft is a polar opposite: they kill unpopular things, monetize popular things, and provide ridiculously long support (and backwards compatibility).
Stardew Valley originally used XNA, then used MonoGame for non-Windows compatibility, then switched to MonoGame entirely last year.
> Decades of constant failure from supposedly elite people in every possible field have lead to a reaction where people just don’t trust them no matter what they claim.

That’s a big claim to make without offering any examples.
Is there a way to exclude terms from an hn.algolia.com search? Would be great to exclude this very thread
"The Molecular Biology of the Cell", an actual textbook. It's like the owners' manual for your cells.
Technically they are equivalent, meaning that theoretically you can implement one with the other. The main advantage of sorting with [-1,0,1] is if you are sorting by multiple parameters

Convoluted example: sort some cars by year then by weight except with all Toyota first

In general it is easy to simulate multiple SQL `order by` clauses with [-1,0,1].

Using primitives you can map each car to something like "0t-1994y-0300kg" (remembering to left pad numbers) and sort by that.

In practice they are equivalent (when used correctly) but it is easier to implement primitive sorting with [-1,0,1] than viceversa.

Sometimes I wish languages would have native equality and order operators on (immutable) arrays, so that [1,1]<[1,2]<[2,0]<[2,0,-1] would work...
The underlying technology is not Skype anymore.

I tried to Skype with relatives recently and the application ground my (recent, powerful) machine completely to a halt. It was insane.
I can't relate to any of this at all. My Smart TV (LG) is not slow or unresponsive. It doesn't show any ads and the picture control is easy to understand.
> Microsoft Edge just switched its technology and still exists.

"Just" is a severe understatement, especially because they switched to the monoculture.
Everyone now has a recording device on them at all times nowadays. It would have been easy recording them and make a lot of cash with a well placed lawsuit. Somehow they decided not to.
People on HN do the same with just about everyone and everything outside the community, all the time. The site guidelines prevent HN from getting what it gives so some people choose to seek catharsis elsewhere.
Yes! Teams is by far the worst "popular" software i've ever used.

It's so bad that eventhough most businesses depend on teams, they, as well as everyone else, would be better off if teams suddenly disappears from one day to another.

edit: Just a few things that annoy me basically on a daily basis:

- The status isn't always up to date. Sometimes it takes minutes to you or your contacts to show the correct status.

- It is (unsupprisingly) not very responsive

- It hogs my CPU when its idle and especially during video calls. So much so that the fans of my 2020 MBP start spinning up - which otherwise only happens when I run a build/tests. This is especcially bad considering all other video call software (zoom, discord) run just fine.

- The UX is terrible when you are active in different organizations. It's riddled with bugs. Every time I switch organizations I have to type in my password twice because for some reason the login session expires instantaniously. If I switch back an forth sometimes some functionality like shring screen or accepting calls just stops working and I have to restart teams.

- It tries to include the formatting if you copy+paste in chat. It always looks bad and sometime is ittetating because the font size is way smaller.

- Cameras or shared desktops regularily freeze

- You cant set the audio level of individual participants. This is especiallly annoying if you're in the same room as other participants of larger meetings since you'd then head them twice.

- Because of the messy permission system between multiple organizations it's often not clear wether or not you can certain contacts of are allowed to use the chat in meetings.
Microsoft, contrary to the name, writes a lot of software!
You are right, I'm wrong. You can get left, right and inner join by applying constraints to an outer join, but you cant get an outer join from a cross product.
Marginalia Search: 1 Year
Brit here. When dressed, I always wear pants. But I switch between trousers and shorts depending on weather and circumstances.
I came here to mention this book. I think it's a great introduction to how computers work and well written.
Divide and conquer approach of the populace, IMHO. From an international perspective, though, it may be useful to spur competition.
Could you give some examples of how the "UK's recalcitrant presence" have 'thwarted European strategic autonomy'? Because the last time I checked, the UK was doing a lot of the heavy lifting of European security.
Copy/Paste code often doesn't work for me, especially SQL. There is a dedicated component to do that, but that's not convenient at all.
Although today it wasn't pants so I wore shorts
But the Spotify soundtrack that was linked is 5 hours 27 minutes. Even with poor mp3 encoding, some space for code and data, it seems like an awful lot for one CD. Maybe they just had song excerpts?
Comments like this make me wonder what the point is of posting links like this on HN. Most people here seem to generally be clueless about geopolitics, history and military.
Backer: Storing data on VHS tapes (2003)
Thesan Simulations: How the first stars evolved, immediately after the Big Bang
Rust or Golang are faster. C++ too.

Your mistake was to use CGI instead of FastFGI or using a reverse http proxy. CGI spawns a process per HTTP request, which is very slow whatever the programming language is.
On any Mac you won't be able to get 4K 120Hz if that TV just has HDMI.

It only works on monitors/TVs that support DisplayPort.
That's about as warm as Iceland gets. Maybe they're Scandinavian?
There are features of the 5G network that will enable carriers to provision certain services more efficiently and cost effectively than they currently can on 4G networks, regardless of whether those services (and business models) have any use the for the potential extra bandwidth available. Now whether the carriers will actually launch such services, and whether there will be take-up of them is another question.
Interesting, I didn't know.

I've only ever seen Twitter Spaces not Clubhouse, that's why I asked.
Did anyone get a copy of the actual source file? Seems Internet Archive didn't.
Google "UK opposes plans for EU army", ca 2016
The conclusion reached by the author is filled with incredible hubris. In reality, musl literally abandon portability and compatibility by taking this stance, which makes the entire library worthless for use with code developed on standards compliant implementations.

In turn, this decision undermines - if not actively destroys - the potential value of Alpine as a distribution, because it potentially represents the tip of an iceberg of other compatibility issues.

After running into this issue, I gave up on Alpine entirely, because I do not have any inclination to support people or projects that actively choose to go against established standards.
What makes you think those "abstract symbols" are not real?
They are not "technically equivalent", as I've shown above. You can implemnt papre/scissors/rock with [-1,0,1], which is not linear ordering function.

And you didn't show anything for which ordering cannot be defined by mapping objects (with any number of parameters) to strings, which is kind of the whole purpose of sortBy anyway.
Just curious, have you calculated what it would cost to have the equivalent of those 50 servers as dedicated bare metal servers?
“Add up all the of contracts we know about, and AeroVironment has received at least $105.4 million worth of orders for 1,500 Switchblades produced -- which works out to a unit cost of more than $70,200 per Switchblade. Minimum.”

https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/05/11/aerovironm...
Sure, UI/UX can be a whole science, but in the end, a lot of it boils down to preference. As you can see when reading through this comment thread.

My personal biggest pet peeve: I hate, Hate, HATE that they changed the default behavior of clicks into the address or search bar, from simply "put the cursor here" to "select all". Oh my goodness, do I hate this, even after all these months. It breaks a fundamental behavior of text fields since, I don't know, the beginning of time?

Even today, I don't know how many times I keep inadvertenly deleting the contents of my search bar when all I want to do is add another term at the end. My brain is probably just too old to learn something new, I guess.

Also annoying: with the new add-on system, you cannot even write a plugin to restore the previous sane behavior.
Do either of Visible, Mint, etc install their own infrastructure or buy bandwidth from ATT and/or Verizon?

Also, their services are spotty at best compared to other providers. There's a reason for their prices being lower similar to how Spirit Airlines is cheaper than other carriers.
Thesan simulation of gas and radiation evolution shows rendering of the neutral hydrogen gas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17iLOLn9znY

The thesan project: Lyman-α emission and transmission during the Epoch of Reionization

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/...
I would be less scared of one of those monitors, if I could use them as two virtual monitors - that is, the OS would split it down the middle and treat them with separate wallpapers (if desired), along with the keypresses and mouse shortcuts associated with tiling/managing dual monitors.
Alright, fair enough. I know about these things on some level, so that's making more sense now.

Maybe it's just the way they wrote it, but it felt very much to me like it was some sort of sly joke. A gas that spreads easier the more you force it. Hmmm....
I have a hand-coded backup system for my photo library that writes to S3. It runs every night at 2AM.

The one feature I have that's important to me is this: it will figure out what files need to be uploaded and then upload as many as possible for an hour then stop.

That means that it runs for at-most an hour a night.

The reason I need/wanted this feature is that I might come home from a trip with (eg) 30G worth of photos. My (cable) internet will upload at around 1G an hour. I don't want this thing to saturate my internet for 30 hours straight. Instead, it backs up a small amount every night for 30 days.

Am I the only one that wants a feature like this? I've never seen it in any other backup system. (At alternative might be to have configurable bandwidth for uploads.)
While that's true, constant UI changing certainly didn't help retain what little market share it already had.

It made the browser compete with itself, and pushed people into alternatives. After all, if you're going to learn a new UI, why not try another browser altogether?
The N word as an unsayable totem is one of the big white collar/blue collar divides in the bay area. It's almost an um depending on the group of people you're with.

If this was their engineering office I would agree.
Both restic and borg are lightyears ahead of duplicity.... backups are soo much faster (and smaller), restores are much easier.
Wealth Inequality and Homeownership in Europe
Doesn't the exchange match people with another person who is buying / selling it? Every single cryptocurrency or video game exchange I have used has settled pretty much instantly.

How hard is decrementing the shares of one user and incrementing the shares of another.
On a reasonably elementary level, I like Perrone's Notes (with examples from basic math) and Barr's book "for computer scientists."

Books for a more general audience I know of are Conceptual Mathematics by Lawvere and Schanuel, and one "for the sciences" by Spivak.