skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a Seamaster guy (Aqua Terra 38mm w/ steel bracelet, blue dial, & date complication only). In my mind, this is _the_ perfect watch. It's classic and timeless, has the features you'd want with none of the over-the-top stuff watches tend to stack.

I'm finding this Swatch x Omega craze to be highly ridiculous. The new watches look like cheap fakes. At least with the weird plastic (sorry, bioceramic) and funky colors nobody will try to pass them off as the real thing. Still, it cheapens the brand and the mark of quality the Omega logo used to represent when these plastic / quartz / velcro pieces flood the market and perform like a Swatch and not an Omega.

People like Omega because it's the watch that first went to the moon, it's the watch of James Bond's wrist, and it's the watch that times the olympics. That's the classiness people want to be associated with. Not with the urban appeal of a bunch of people trying to scalp these like they're Supreme hats.
That's weird. I wonder if the solution file has already been migrated to a version about 6? Also, I remember 6 having a bunch of service packs and shit, right?

I wrote this in VC++ 6:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abomination:_The_Nemesis_Proje...
Yeah no. The Air is defintiely better than my 2018 MBP but the 2018 MBP gets in tthe way so much. Crashes multiple times a day for no reason. This macbook fanboyism is tiring

The m1 locks up when doing basic haskell compiles. People fight that comparing apples ridiculous pricing to pc is not apple to apple and yet here were comparing the work of volunteers to a greedy company that exploits the planet through planned obsolescence and pushes for that. And does green washing in marketing.
Not really. Just have a look at ebay: Macbooks from 2015 are still expensive.

Partially because Apple's naming is useless, e.g. would you like to buy a macbook air or a macbook air or a macbook air? All very different machines from different years.
People are saying Fuchsia is only usable on IoT devices, not much progress, etc.

However, not many new operating systems have a Chrome browser [0] on them and Fuchsia has this, not many people realise how huge this is let alone on a new from the ground up OS.

So I don't think Fuchsia will be going away, in fact I would say it is coming pretty fast.

Whether you like it or not, this tells me that they are targeting the desktop, laptops and chromebooks next.

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rg9YgWXLfEo
The drone operators who halted Russian convoy headed for Kyiv
If you have an Intel Mac, it looks like Parallels Desktop will run older versions of Mac OS X.
Honestly not sure what you mean.
Not sure what your prior experience is in this matter, but here are my general thoughts on book writing.

I have written, or been involved in the writing of, a few books. My e pertain every was that it is easier to start a book from the TOC.

I am assuming you will be using LaTex or something similar? Writing a book in anything other than a structured writing environment can be hell. Certainly avoid ms word like a cockroach should avoid a hammer.
> much money Google has thus far sunk into Fuchsia for (AFAICT) very little in return. It was in the billions... years ago.

Citation needed
If you have your number up on the net somewhere, you will recieve calls. For example that domain registration you did 30 years ago that required a phone number... I got myself a smartphone for the reason I could easily block out of country phonecalls. I haven't had any recent spam calls though, was many years since the last one.
I remember Balaji and Naval promoting it so much (one founder is of Indian-origin I think) like it's just gonna break the entire social media industry and whatnot.
A breakthrough.

Now they won't even mention it. I hate (and laugh) that they don't take a stand on what they promote. Their tweets so ephemeral. Yesterday it was Clubhouse, today it's bitcoin, tomorrow it's xyz. No spine. Just surviving via capitalism with hit or miss investments.
Even if you registrar's DNS you could change it in the same way. What would using different DNS acheive?
I just wish they supported IPv6.
COmmuting? It takes me less time to drive into the city, than it takes a resident to cross town.
Windows updates are unpopular due to their implementation. Among other issues: they require a restart, they run complicated transactional flow rather than snapshots + patching the files, they kill the desktop state, they require extra processing on the next startup right as you want to actually do work, the whole delivery system is super complicated to suit enterprises, and yet it is still not able to handle user apps in the same flow.

If they implemented a proper A/B booting with preserving the intent/state of open apps most people wouldn't even realise an update happened and wouldn't complain.
Not the poster you asked, but a lot of times the address boxes will "help" you buy parsing what you write and correcting it. Maybe his penthouse address gets corrected to the second line and USPS delivers it incorrectly.

My personal issus are the apartment selectors. I live in a complex with about 300 units and having to scroll all the way to the bottom is a huge pain in the ass. lol
thats a lot of words for 'i hate san francisco'
Not always,

XNA (C#) => DirectXTK (C++)

C++/CX => C++/WinRT (back to ATL / Visual C++ 6.0 dev experience)

Form/WPF => UWP (.NET Native / C++/CX / WRL) => WinUI 3.0 (.NET with CsWinRT, C++/WinRT)

.NET Framework => .NET Core

All of them require rewrites, leave relevant use cases behind, at least they leave the lights running for them to still be targeted, which makes many stubborn to keep using the stuff that actually works.
But how do you know the origin?
I do remember seeing several computers in the 80s having this switch, but they were all modded. They also required you to have a more expensive monitor that could handle the format change (PAL/NTSC and 50/60hz)
If you have a good idea and small business around it, how do you protect your business from big companies?

Because twitter literally took Clubhouse’s business.
> games where you just buy the game and play the game without spending additional money are a rarity.

it might look like a rarity, but it's not imho. The absolute amount of indie games that come out, even if you don't include the free ones (which would only push the numbers higher) is absurd. have a look on itch.io, let a lone steam.

The quality varies, but it's acceptable. The "golden age" of gaming, back in the 70's, 80's, and 90's, don't compare to today in terms of quality and amount.

It's only a rarity if you count monetary successes and the ratio of commercial successes vs the number of games. Success is always a rarity, and it's sad that exploitative games tend to be more successful - but they aren't the only ones with success.

And these mobile exploitative games aren't all that different from the arcades of yester-decades. I do agree that the arcades require honed skills, where as today's mobile pay to win games cannot be won via pure skill - the key differentiating factor.
> New subdivisions being built are including fiber.

This is good to hear, as that was my main concern. That the deployment of fiber would freeze in the state it was in 2020.
That depends on how good the concept is! Plenty of indie games have succeeded without gambling mechanics, look at something like Baba Is You for instance. I don’t know that the developer became rich off of it but be seems to have done well enough.
Artificial scarcity is bad, actually. Things that don't cost money to duplicate should be free, we need UBI and maybe a general shift to patronage-based models, luckily this is starting to happen.

There are also plenty of games that implement a cometic lootboxes that don't impact gameplay model that are totally fine.
Tell HN: If I could chose one new Firefox feature, it would be this
"Oops, your tab just crashed" -> "Reload" -> "Just ooone more thing before we start" -> "Restart firefox"

At that point, I don't care about the severity of the bugs fixed, I just want to continue my browsing session, i LITERALLY just want to read what's in that one tab, but no.. that's the point, always this point, where I am in a flow, and context matters, that my beloved browser will chose to tear me out of it.. Sometimes, I'll just simply stop opening new tabs for a while, while reading what's on the ones already open..

Come one mozilla! Stop playing around with burger menus and skins and make an actually useful change for once! Make firefox politely notify me that an update is available and will be in effect next time I restart the browser, POLITELY! and then continue functioning.
Developing software for a non-tech company is always to going to be hard as your outputs are not part of their core products. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Here is something I'd like to have in fedora (or desktop linux in general): A sort of “workspace manager” using bubblewrap for isolating user-defined groups of applications and file hierarchy.

I imagine it as some kind of GUI with “boxes”, each defining a “workspace” with specified permissions (access to that and that folder, network, etc), such that the user could easily drag and drop apps into new workspaces.

This way, I could have a “banking” workspace just containing, say, firefox, and a “work” workspace with, say, firefox and thunderbird and whatever, etc. The “workspaces” would by default be as unprivileged as possible, with the possibility to give access to folders, or even maybe to use unionfs or similar to combine the views of different workspaces.

For ease of use, I could assign a color or icon to each workspace, and the manager would automatically generate desktop files so that I would easily be able to spot “banking firefox” from “work firefox”.

I feel like with bubblewrap, this is only a short python GUI away, and would be super helpful to strengthen security on linux, even more so for non-technically inclined, or lazy people.

[Edit:] If someone wants to discuss things further and even maybe try and write a “MVP”, I'd be happy to try.
that's not very reassuring....was excited but unfortunately, will be a no go from me.

if anybody knows an alternative to this, i would be very interested, i understand we all need to get paid but hmmm yeah open source is not easy to make money from since most people just expect everything for nothing, and this is just the reality of this space.
there is same issue in Slovak/Czech vs English, which is very confusing with my kid which was raised at first in English and later we added Czech

English is quite logical - half PAST nine = 9:30, but in Czech/Slovak you say literally "at quarter on ten" (9:15), "at half of ten" (9:30), "at three quarters on ten" (9:45) and that "on" ain't really obvious for someone who is not familiar with this terminology, personally I completely stopped using this terminology because I always found it archaic and extremely confusing and just use digits "nine fifteen", "nine thirty" etc.

same goes for fractions vs percentages, I don't understand media love for fractions, instead simply writing 60% they write three fifts, so I have to calculate it in my mind back to 60 to know what they are talking about instead if they used one simple digit
Some of that is that Apple's App Store search remains the worst search engine I'm forced to use, but some of it is evaporative cooling from Apple Arcade.

Most of the decent games have migrated there. I barely use it, but I think it works out to two bucks with the other iStuff I'm happy to pay for, and having a few games on my tablet or phone can be nice when I'm traveling.
He did not get censored. Did the US government force YouTube to delete his stuff? I doubt it.

It was the (probably algorithmic) decision of a private entity not to provide free hosting and traffic for something they didn't like.

Can we please not denigrate real censorship victims because someone felt entitled to YouTube hosting and spreading their stuff?

Maybe banned, deplatformed or something like this. But technically (and legally) only government can censor you. At least in my jurisdiction free sprach protection does protect you "only" against the government. They are not allowed to use censorship. A private entity doesn't need to accept you on its platform. To me at least that is quite a difference.
All I know is FEDEX ships packages to my house. UPS ships packages to my house (with a smile).. USPS either stuffs everything they can into my mailbox like they are packing a mortar tube; or more often than not, they simply tell me to suck it and come pick it up.
Many car infotainment systems are either QNX or hypervised on top of QNX.

https://blackberry.qnx.com/en/industries/connected-autonomou...
Interesting that a letter sent from NYC will take 1 day longer to arrive in Fairbanks or Juneau vs what I presume are the oil fields on the eastern north slope near ANWR. Yet a letter sent from Fairbanks takes a day longer to arrive in the same oil fields area than the rest of the interior and the quite remote NW.
You confused the business model. Google doesn’t sell YOU ads.

You provide valuable behavioural data to Google, which uses it to create very targeted demographics which are used for targeted advertising and analytics that are sold to advertisers.

Seen in this way, it’s quite darker than that, in my opinion.
Let me try: Blaming 'the system' isn't abandoning responsibility (or isn't necessarily). It's a statement about the structure of the problem.

Some evils are caused by the intent of one individual. Remove that individual, or change their behaviour, no more problem. In other cases the situation is perpetuated by a structure of social relations which isn't visible if you only consider individuals.

Yes, ultimately individuals have to take responsibility and take action, but that is necessary but not sufficient. To understand what it will take to cure the disease requires understanding 'the system'.

Suppose in this case, one year we manage to remove all abusive staff from these schools. That's a solution at the level of individual responsibility. And well worth doing. But soon enough abusive individuals will work their way into these positions again. Only by recognising that this system is inherently prone to result in abuse can you figure out how to prevent it.
Thanks for creating this content, this looks pretty good and it was a good time for me to refresh my basics about computer networks.

I tried checking the content with my kindle (a Kindle Touch paperwhite 6 inches) and the first chapter rendered pretty good, with images and text aligning as intended. However the second chapter did not render the first figure and beyond. Chapter 3 rendered OK, similar to Ch 1.

A few more feedback if that helps for enhancing the format even more:
- Colors, and references to those do not work on a kindle. I only saw one minor use of colors (red, green) in Chapter 1 so that's not a blocker.
- For some reason, the kindle browser doesn't put left and right margins on the page, so the text uses the full length of the device.
- Links are rendered with a pale gray, sometimes hard to distinguish.
- Figuring out why the Chapter 2 did not render would definitely help.
The drivers part is easier to answer. Where Linux started drivers were compiled into the kernel. A few years later modules came along to dynamically load drivers (and other things). But modules could still (and can still) crash the kernel and the drivers don't necessarily have a particularly stable interface.

Compare this to Windows. Drivers were once the bane of Windows and a huge problem for stability. Microsoft invested heavily in this and it seems to have worked. The Windows driver interface is I believe stable and has been for many years at this point and drivers themselves are more insulated from the kernel. Not completely but it's better in many aays.

Android really has its hands tied here by what Linux does. You may agree or disagree with that but the above is a view held by influential people within Fuchsia.

The ecosystem is really around the process by which updates are released. This is a tedious process of maintaining many Android trees and updating them with new Android releases. These need to be patched onto the existing trees or the changes made to the existing trees need to be ported onto the new Android tree. This is a nontrivial task either way. It's why Android phones get limited updates and those updates can lag behind the official release by months or even years.

This isn't a situation Google likes so some want to make the manufacturer responsible for less, most notably the drivers.

Remember that Samsung is motivated to sell handsets, not update existing handsets.
The idea that microkernels will have insufficient security due to additional context switching is a concern I’ve not heard before. Care to elaborate?
Cops aren't allowed to stop you from saying neo-Nazi things on a government-owned public space unless you live in a country where free speech doesn't exist.
yeah well its to be expected. since they can't compete against the West conventionally, they focus on asymmetric warfare, which means giving zero crap about anything we value here in the West.

they are truly on survival mode, and given Russia's recent performance in Ukraine, its really eye opening to see just how much of a paper tiger their military is, relying again on asymmetric weapons of indiscriminate destruction of all things human.
I was there in 98-99 so it’s been a long time.

My relationship with my parents is good. They truly sent me there with the best intentions and I know that. They have expressed remorse and have apologized many times over the years.
A mod from the early days of Civ V was Communitas [0], it became the Community Balance Patch and is nowadays called Vox Populi [1]. It vastly improves AI, balance and adds a ton of features. There is still regular development, with stable versions being released every 1-2 months.

Without this mod I’d have long stopped playing Civ V, and the lack of such a fix/balance mod (Civ V had an official source release and SDK which is what made the mod possible) is why I can’t get into Civ VI

[0]: https://civmodding.wordpress.com/2010/10/17/balance-units/

[1]: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/community-patch-how-t...
Let's not forget Sunrise calendar, which Microsoft purchased and supposedly integrated into Outlook. I miss Sunrise calendar so much... I've yet to find an alternative that reads from other calendar services and task managers so well.
Gambling addicts are financing these games. Most of them are not rich at all.
I can't imagine this ever being intentional. No one tries to leave a site and goes "Well the button didn't work, guess I'll keep browsing".

It's pretty much always the result of a broken redirect / history api usage. You go back to the page which redirected causing it to redirect again.
The tower of Babel that "serverless" requires to do the simplest tasks (like running tests) should scare anyone. And yet... "We deploy to cloud and then shim calls via websocket to dev machine which then shims something else while requiring individual accounts with full prod access" is magical
Unless you force people not to give birth, no you can't cap the population of a town.

If you mean restrict new residents from moving in once some limit has been reached, sure that is possible, but ultimately what issue does it solve?
"However, no private company owes you a thing."

Technically true, but I have yet to see someone who actually believes it. Everyone has a limit somewhere, for some people that limit is wedding cakes for gay marriages, for others is discrimination on some certain characteristics of a person. The point is that this kind of policy at the end of the day makes our society slightly worse.

"it is not the government's place to be regulating what private citizens or private companies are saying or not saying."

They are doing that but indirectly as to not break any law. See the senate hearings about facebook for example. They can force that via blackmailing (if you do not restrict X we will make a law that increases your tax or responsibility for what users post or whatever, deny funding or provide funding to competitors, prosecute crimes that we ignored before, etc)
Allora so-called OSes are missing, Venix included.
You could add it as another 'filter' for a general HVAC filtration & ventilation system. Nobody would actually need to be exposed to the UVC light, and you could do potentially do other wavelengths that would not be the safest to expose people to but would be more effective. It would also be good for a retrofit filter, because adding a light to an HVAC conduit means you don't need to increase the power of a current HVAC fan to push through filter material, and you'd probably wont need to replace the 'filter' that often either.
Also, Restic has rclone backend!
I’ve lived in a high rise in SF with a lot of neighbors and I never heard anyone around me, nor smelled them. It’s possible.
if npm i is overwriting the lock file, it means someone updated the package.json, and didn't update the lock file (as in, did not install the update).

btw ci is super fast (caching) unless you have one of those modules that download the whole effing chromium after install (brain dead behavior).
macOS is a great system to watch videos, collect photos, take notes and do casual and very common multimedia tasks. It is excellent and unrivalled at that. But for engineering and power users it becomes more restrictive the more your mastery and requirements increase.

Linux is pretty crap at multimedia. But for computing, tinkering and pushing your hardware to its full capacity it is absolutely the best.

Windows is average, and that's not to disparage it, au contraire. It's decent at multimedia, not as much as macOS and decent at tinkering, but not as much as Linux.
I think the point is that you're not paying for the branding, you're getting a watch with an Omega logo for 5% of what it'd normally cost you.
As someone who's not a marketing guy, this makes me feel dumb: there must be some genius thinking behind this thing, but I cannot figure out what it could be.

I agree that this cheapens the brand.

Fun fact: Bulova is the "other" moon watch, after an unfortunate mishap with David Scott's Speedmaster.
> you can't just download a blob, open it and just have it work

Isn't that exactly what appimages are? E.g. download Krita, double click, done.

Also, I thought with mobile people finally realized that "download blobs" is much worse than just installing from stores/repos? Even Windows has winget by now.
I already have this in my home. It wasn’t terribly expensive.
Even in utopian depictions of the future energy tends not to be limitless. Extremely abundant maybe, but never limitless. It seems strange to even pursue it.
This video is age restricted. It will be unviewable by a large number of users.
This only works if you either already have a brand like Zachatronics or if you have the patience to support/polish these small games for years till the random slot machine of the universe drops you enough reviews that you get critical mass and decent sales… or you pay for PR and you can successfully profit from even a shit game with enough PR money so why bother at that point…

Your right about a good concept winning a lot of good will and making success possible with less polish, but these days it doesn’t subtract the “risk of never being discovered” if you make an iOS app your just one of millions in the App Store if it’s on steam the shovelware isn’t as bad and discovery is better but it still requires market understanding in order to stand out.
Luckily for me, I have an Apple watch I wear on special occasions only (if I go somewhere too shady to wear the real Omega, or in rough waters since my butterfly clasp is a little loose and has a tendency to come undone in water), and every single time I hate it and can't wait to get back home and switch back to the real mechanical watch.