skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP here, gonna double post a couple of general replies to common themes, here's the first:

For those who mentioned/wondered about my day job / income, I work a "humble" warehouse job at a university bookstore, so I get to work with textbooks and general books regularly (though not all the time). This was how I got exposed to all these subjects! The pay isn't the greatest, but the university has great employment benefits and security.

And an interesting backstory: I actually started working here as a part-time seasonal cashier after dropping out of grad school and had to find something "random" to pay some bills. After a couple of seasons and no luck finding a "real job", my supervisor suggested that I apply for the warehouse opening. I was aversive to the idea, because I never would've imagined working a seemingly "lowly" warehouse job, especially as a "university grad". I applied anyway because I had no luck elsewhere, and I've stayed here ever since!

Honest to god, if I didn't work here, I would've stayed in the sciences with my head in the sand, clueless about other disciplines, clueless about the world.

Gonna quote one of the comments here: "The universe has a strange way of putting the pieces together... It will make sense looking back on it." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30928282

PS I love that you folks are actually thinking about this constructively. I'm blown away, can't thank you all enough!
Imo Yes, because that’s the main difference between Google search and everyone else. Out index Google, and it’s possible to beat.

That said, I do like the feature of ignoring entire domains. Google used to allow that
Jenkins sucks from a UI perspective, and from a maintenance perspective, but it's very powerful in ways that most other CIs are not.

The classic example for us was concurrency control. We did continuous delivery, and so it's critical that you're not trying to release the `master` branch multiple times concurrently, especially when database migrations might happen, etc.

With Jenkins you could quite easily say "only 1 of this job at a time", but this wasn't (at the time) a feature of CircleCI, GitLab, or Travis. GitHub Actions added it about 2 years ago I think, and Semaphore has had something similar for a while.

While I agree Jenkins is painful, having this feature and the reliability it brought reduced pain significantly. CircleCI not having this feature, for us, caused a lot of pain.
> elbow grease and ingenuity can remove theoretical hardware limitations

Of course, 'theoretical' hardware limitations aren't hard limits -- they're soft[ware] ones. However, if you find yourself battling concrete hardware limitations, what you need is to put your back into it and a little know-how.
This logical breakdown is super useful for me. Thank you. Some further comment:

Point 1/2 - self-doubt = recognition of scope to improve - I like that. That resonates a lot with me.

Point 3/3b - This is a feedback loop that I can see working. My ill-thought often comes from not nipping in the bud issues of self-doubt.

Point 5 - saw this too. Enjoyed it a lot!

I think from this I see these actions:
- look up “the four agreements” - that’s new to me but a quick wiki says it’s something that I’ll probably enjoy
- make a flow chart, stick it above my desk starting with “are you having a wobble?” if “yes” then what do you want to add to your learning list for later - leading on to…
- curb rampant knowledge building in an attempt to avoid problems, and instead just do the job, find the problems, and then learn what you don’t know
How much of Python's success is down to the BDFL(-delegate) approach of governance? It seems a lot of projects have adopted it and Python's PEP system for managing new features. I wonder if Debian could use a similar sort of elected presidential system.
When HL2 came out we were forced to install Steam whether we liked it or not. I hated it at the time because I bought the game on DVD (as was usual at the time) and just wanted to play it. I was on 56k dial-up and didn't want to be forced to download updates. I remember thinking they must have been completely crazy to do this.

It was about a year before always-on broadband became widespread for everyone. Then it all made sense. It seemed to me Valve wasn't just riding the wave but actively driving it.
I think there is terminological difference between ground source heat pumps and geothermal energy. First is in actuality naturally stored solar energy. Where later is from internal activity of earth.
The patch has already appeared, but it isn't yet in a mergeable state.
Godwin's law is not exactly a law, but an observation. Your comment is justified, because the current zietgeist is "majority wrong and minority right" and your comment is highlighting the dangers of such a process.
Seems self explanatory.

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this is what i think as well. When there is Agnelli family involved is just for have something from the state in some way or another. But we'll see. I hope to be wrong.
First time I'm seeing it on HN though!
I am doing this right now, Stripe Atlas Delaware C-corp but operating in Germany. I could have incorporated a GmbH for €25,000 (goes into an account to act as collateral against future liability) - which uses all my savings basically, or a UG for €1 - but then I can't add other shareholders until I pay an additional €25k to convert it to a GmbH. For my startup, which is capital intensive, I have no choice but to use the US system.
My ( OlaElectric) E scooter dream was short lived
Were these injuries in training or in War ? I thought that paratrooper training was made really safe nowadays with extensive basic training done by Sergeant Airbornes in the BAC course. (assuming US)
Is there perhaps some kind of legal thing where they turn off the red blood for the "teen" version?
I don't think we will see that until we have a serious downturn. There just don't seem to be any competitive pressures that would do it.
The site you link is nearly identical to mine, only less visually-oriented (which I feel is excusable as my site focuses on visual arts, not programming).

> Just the content, presented pleasently.

Please explain which part of my site isn't just the content, presented pleasantly?

> minimalism in look-and-feel, but also technically [...] weighs in at under 200 KiB

The exact page I linked to [0] weighs 160 KiB, less than your example. I'm confused about you bringing that up. I win?

[0] https://hypertele.fi/ec997be8c5933e87
Loads fine on my 100€ phone on Firefox, even the Lorem sample page
This looks very nice! I am looking for a spreadsheet like component for a project I am working on. Had evaluated jspreadsheet before. Question I have is, how would one go about integrating formulas and references? The demo doesnt seem to support that.
The A/B system upgrade idea is intriguing. And kinda painfully obvious, in hindsight. Why don't the distros that have merged /usr do that already?
The original point of a non-merged /bin (and /sbin) was to contain essential binaries for system recovery and early boot, that should be available even when a separate /usr/ partition is not yet mounted. Keep in mind that the approach of booting from initrd is quite non-idiomatic and used only for convenience wrt. a generic distro install; you're generally meant to recompile your kernel so that it can mount / directly at boot and find everything it needs there, without requiring to mount either a ramdisk or a separate partition. This means that early-boot stuff must live there in order to get the benefits of separate partitions in the first place.
> the tiranny of the majority had flaws (but to me is mostly unavoidable due to the natural economies of scale it grants).

In a different context, this is a source of frustration for me as a (partially) blind person advocating accessibility for blind people. The world is designed around the assumption, correct for most people, that people have the high-bandwidth, low-latency sense of sight. And that does lead to the most effective interface for most people. That assumption is so thoroughly baked into everything that I sometimes think it might have been better if, through some kind of eugenics, I and people like me (blind from birth) had never been born at all, so the world could go on with that assumption (as it mostly does anyway) without leaving us out. I know eugenics is a taboo idea though, and it has its own problems.
This sounds interesting. Are there any prominent European startups who did go that route?

Would you like to write a blog post about it?
OP here, the second of my general response, to these types of comments:

> I just want to mention here that "swimming in ideas" does not equal understanding.

> How do you know you are really moving anywhere but not standing?

> OP wants to read "textbooks to learn basic concepts" and "swim in their ideas". That doesn't equal competence.

> The reading/learning you are doing is entertainment. It's not that much better than watching TV - if anything it's worse because you can kid yourself into thinking you are doing work, or that it's important.

> AKA procrastinating.

To clarify, I completely understand these sentiments, and I am fully aware of the distinction between "understanding" vs simply "reading/learning", "swimming in ideas", etc.

I was once a young naive soul celebrating how I was such an honorable keen "learner". But as I matured, I started to become aware that this habit of learning that I (and many others on the internet, including on HN) was so proud of, was (often) mere accumulation of knowledge, without synthesizing or juxtaposing anything together. We consumed "knowledge" like some baby food, instead of actually engaging actively and critically with the material, chewing through it, etc.

Over the past several years, I've spent a very long time thinking through topics just like this, trying to dissect and discern basic concepts like "learning" vs "understanding", as well as a host of other fundamental topics that many people (including intellectuals) seem to misunderstand. The only reason I've been able to do this is because I've jumped from discipline to discipline, getting an overview of how they relate to one another, trying to piece together certain universals, or spotting points of disagreement between disciplines. Of course, I lack actual expertise in any of these topics, but I do understand the nature of complexity that underlies everything (I think my background in ecology and evolutionary biology has trained me well in this regard).

All this was why I specifically used the phrase "swimming in ideas", because I know full well that I am not (currently) doing much to actually understand these concepts and topics. I also stated "moving from ignorance slowly towards understanding" because I am deliberately moving very slowly through topics knowing that my goal is to gradually understand them more, rather than to simply accumulate "knowledge".

This isn't meant to be a hit-piece on people who simply love to learn for learning's sake. It's just my own philosophy and my path in trying to figure things out. Hope this clarifies things. :)
I looked for "Rewe" to see wether I get informations about local supermarkets, got a panel-view that is expensive to parse (eyes have to move in multiple directions, content is not clearly focussed), and was rewarded by getting no information about the local markets. Panel view only, forever, seriously, ONLY makes sense if you already know all the elements that will be displayed. Two giant rows of icons are terrible UX. Please make your default view easily-digestible. I enter a query, get a set of results. That set needs to be represented in a way that the brain actually wants to operate on. Nobody wants to operate on a set by digesting a table of unknown contents. The correct UX is a list.

I didn't bother checking customization-options, the ux was hostile and the results did not give me what I want. Pass, sorry.
I would argue that statistically the most people don’t pay for their email provider with money. In that term not a very strong argument.
Yeah, that's true. I know you're right it's just a bummer. Doing it for real doesn't make sense in the context of today's real-world constraints - it would just be a symbolic move in the sense that in a true "world of tomorrow" fusion reactors would be commonplace, and there'd be no reason not to have one. Like the fusion reactor on the DeLorean in Back to the Future II - just an ordinary piece of future life, no more remarkable than a car or a refrigerator.

I think your (quite valid) perspective reflects the difference of the view on risk in Walt's day vs today. When he was setting the vision it was considered worth the risk to fly a real jetpack over the park. Today it's "too risky" even though actual jetpacks are much safer than they used to be.
Right. Their premise is “There’s no average human”. IMHO, it is ridiculous.
The majority of people are just average every day normal ones, and they don't give a flying fuck about customizations.
I think Italy is below Germany at a bureaucratic level, I am not fully convinced that bureaucracy is the main issue, I think the main issue is the lack of electronic and fast and reliable and documented ways to complete requirements
If you are running testing, it doesn't get security updates except through regular package migrations from unstable, so I recommend pulling in security updates from there manually or automatically. At least Firefox and Linux have regular security fixes in unstable, so you might want to use apt pinning to use the unstable versions. You can also use debsecan to automatically and temporarily pin security uploads to unstable using the technique mentioned here:

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting#Best_practices_for_Tes...
I think it is mostly to do with problem of plenty. It easy to get distracted and lose focus on digital vs. being stuck with a book and reading enough to start enjoying it.

Even for exercise, a 30mins gym workout is often much better than an hr with digital platforms.
MacBook Keyboard Replacement Is Needlessly Difficult
I don't think there was even any dual dual-core solutions for x86 available in 2004... So must have been some quad socket weirdness...
Hey Victor, would you mind sharing that piece of code?
> I'm surprised that they are pushing to remove /bin and keep /usr/bin. Why not the other way round?

That is explained in the “Case for the usr merge” essay: having all the readonly system stuff under a single root directory makes the system much easier to manage, and simplifies useful scenarios like having the system on a network share, or sharing the host’s read-only across guests: with a merged usr, you just have to manage a single mount point or directory rather than half a dozen which must be kept in sync.

Also /usr is not just /usr/bin. Sbin, and lib (and lib64, and lib32) are also part of the usr merge.
Your site is great (and minimalist) -- honestly, really really very good job.

One note: in general there's a UX recommendation not to use flags when you mean languages. http://www.flagsarenotlanguages.com/blog/

I'm not exactly sure the best way to solve this for your blog. Maybe something like adding alt-text to indicate "German Language" and adding a parenthetical to the end of titles "(German)" or something?
I don't think it would be hard to grab the text along with the screenshot and set the alt text.
> When you have engineers working into the wee hours of the morning because you don’t want a cursor to blink on a text field, (...)

You're grossly misrepresenting the problems being faced and what forces engineers to work into the wee hours of the morning.

Just because stuff seems done to you or you notice no change, that does not mean nothing is being worked on.

Let's take basic A/B testing. To you, it's a blinking cursor. For the company, it's a bunch of business metrics being reported from N different components feeding into a data lake, with different versions of the same feature being deployed simultaneously to specific subsets of all customers based on their profile. But the cursor blinks differently depending on the market, and needs to comply with accessibility guidelines, on all X supported browsers regardless of their quirks. Some markets might not even have a cursor at all. Perhaps your cursor is only expected to show in a specific geographical location.

But you see a blinking cursor, and as you are oblivious to everything then you think it's just a tag somewhere. To you that's just a line of HTML, right? How hard could that be?
Witchery: Tools for building distroless images with alpine
I am of the opinion that BDFL style governance is best in software. In the real world the problem is a bit more hairy, but if you have an issue with a tyrant in open source, you can just fork the project.

A BDFL solves the bureaucracy problem (they mandate, everybody implements) and the big ego problem (the biggest ego is at the top by definition). Also BDFL can have vision, something a committee will never have.

In my humble opinion, people like Torvalds and Jobs are the secret to wildly successful software.
Note that this is Windows Terminal, not the default terminal that actually ships with Windows (unless that has changed in Windows 11?)
It makes no sense in using a terminal that is not open source, has outgoing requests, telemetry, et al; requires login and is VC-backed: what's next to please the VCs? Track user input? Ads in your terminal? Subscription based?

Besides many on the pain points / motivations you mention, like "Developers work in teams, but terminals don’t support collaboration" just make me think that what you want to develop is a productivity and collaboration tool, but don't want to call it that.

I do enjoy someone is looking into the terminal but not this way...
Some Russian journalist made an inquiry, and reportedly Airbnb clarified that Russian and Belorussian will be able to book via Airbnb abroad, but the statements on their website remains unchanged.
Some more information in this introduction post: https://ariadne.space/2021/09/09/introducing-witchery-tools-...
>> As for "tyranny of the minority" - I hope to never see that phrase again. Protections for minorities in democracies exist for a very good reason.

I digress, but how are these protections an inherent feature of democracies. Even in a democracy (most democracies are representation democracies) people can vote for policies which may discriminate against people. This would be again democracy in action.
Yeah like I am not sure, when I was living in London, not being Schengen, at a certain point I got in mind to just go to "Questura" and make my electronic passport so that I could go through the fast automatic gate, I went there, paid the "Bollo", and I explained that I had to depart in a couple of days, and I just got the e-passport the morning I had to depart.. like it was blazing fast, I mean for my experience, getting passports in Italy is really a no-brainer
I think they do, Fedora's workstation product is meant as an appliance and I think it uses ostree to do something like the A/B upgrade thing.

Some folks also do something similar using LVM, BTRFS or ZFS snapshots on various distros.

Many users prefer the flexibility of package managers to appliance installs though, so having both types of installs is still a good idea.
Nuclear might not have been competitive against gas or coal but nothing was. Funny how everybody is willing to pay extra and throw decades of support behind solar/wind but not nuclear.

And nuclear if you actually produce them in larger numbers it actually gets quite cheap.

Had Germany spend all the money they put into solar/wind into nuclear 20 years ago they would be finishing 1-2 nuclear reactor each year right now.
AirBnB’s mission isn’t “create a world where anyone can belong anywhere” it’s “get people to pay money to stay in each other’s properties”. Perhaps there would be slightly less misalignment of expectations and values if we were a bit more honest with ourselves?
"Hart is known for his research on drug abuse and drug addiction, for his advocacy for the decriminalization of recreational drugs, for his controversial view that drug use is not necessarily unhealthy, and for his acknowledged use of heroin."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hart
Haven't run debian en-mass for a long time, for stable servers I stick the latest ubuntu 2004 and have unattended upgrades on, I haven't had any issues yet
A bad UI message prevented us from resolving a 5 days feature downtime
> Twitter is under no obligation to retain this kind of stuff on your behalf.

You have badly missed the most crucial message of the post.

When you copy the embed link, you are copying the string literal of the tweet too.

You put this text on your site. You are the one retaining it.

The twitter module is hiding the text from the rendered page, rather than loading the local copy.
Sure, except despite the dark patterns the actual experience of using Plex is much better than Jellyfin.

I have a smallish 100TB library I'd really love to move away from Plex, I regularly test out Jellyfin to see if they've finally made it usable. But sadly Jellyfin is still very far from being a good Plex replacement, it's just janky as fuck.

Constant playback errors, terrible client support, significantly higher resource usage.
Yes, many product segments have non-transferrable warranties. NVIDIA warranties are non-transferrable, as are Herman Miller warranties. That being said, you can have the original purchaser make the claim for you or you can pose as the original purchaser/doctor the receipts, but it creates a big hurdle for secondary markets.

I don't understand what you mean by iCloud/Knox lock. As far as iCloud lock is concerned, it is only for stolen devices in which the owner did not deactivate their own icloud account. Where are your sources for gray market of company workers defeating the lock? I'd imagine if an Apple activation lock is bypassed it would have to do with resetting the password on the iCloud account.
My solution was to close the tab...
> The /usr merge idea was first raised in "The Case for the /usr Merge" by Lennart Poettering in 2012. It came out of the systemd community

Well that's a recipe for a long drawnout battle
You still need an initramfs in the case your bootloader/kernel doesn't support your filesystem; for eg GRUB didn't support LUKS2 and the Linux kernel can't boot LUKS directly without userspace tools to input the passphrase etc.
I feel like I'm the only one who is pretty happy with Google. Can someone tell me what they're searching for where Google is not satisfactory?
I allways wonder how secure caldav is, when exposed to the internet without vpn? (Running on Synology)
Hey dude, I just want to give you some feedback as an outside observer.

You advanced your own website as somewhere between a solid execution and an ideal for minimalistic design. Virtually every reply you've gotten has been some variation of "Wow, I don't much like this design". You reply to each of the replies insisting you're right and demanding people explain to you how you're not. People are taking time out of their day to give you (admittedly critical) feedback. It probably doesn't work that well to demand more of their time. When you send signals that you're not internalizing the feedback you're getting, people are going to be loath to offer more.

It's OK if you don't want to incorporate feedback because you're happy with your work, but the context under which you linked it is such that it's perfectly natural people are going to give it to you unvarnished.
It is also necessary to get ahead of the trend. You will be able to offer something that your competitors don't have. Getting services of professionals for EV charger installation in Portsmouth is the need for mobility vehicles. Professionals may offer comprehensive solutions and on-site analysis that are perfect solutions for your charging infrastructure.