skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if I want a square of area exactly two? Or an angle of 27° precisely? I will be difficult to have _exact_ measurements anyway.
> In contrast, evolutionary theory puts humans (or hominins) last, just as does the biblical story of Genesis. Yet in all instances, the position confers on Homo sapiens a unique status, thereby separating us from the rest of the animal kingdom.

Ha ha ha, no. That’s a wild misunderstanding of evolutionary theory, that humans are somehow “more evolved” than other current species. Modern apes are our siblings, not our ancestors. And nothing fundamental “separates” us from other animals: we’re yet another species, granted with some unique features that we ourselves consider very important.
AFAIK anything that binds you a ToS (e.g. registration) is offlimit for legal scraping in USA as USA can literally put you in prison for violating _terms of service_, which is pretty crazy. Other countries are much better about this, though you should always consult a lawyer if something you want to scrape is behind a login page.
I tend to be more of a type1. I recently read a blogpost with some mental tools for not getting bogged down (the whole series is good).

https://www.cold-takes.com/useful-vices-for-wicked-problems/
Right but that doesn't make them any less useful as a general purpose computing device - they still serve that function perfectly well with or without them slowly eroding our mental capacity and stealing all our data.
UAE hacks UK give officials using Israeli cyberterrorism software and there are no consequences?

I'm sure Abraham would be proud to have had his name attached to essentially a weapons contract masquerading as a peace deal between two evil governments.
Why? Assuming you can control environment to make it habitable, you might as well live anywhere.
The installation asks you yes/no if you want to install non-free firmware
That's still where we are for a lot of modern Broadcom wifi, which was also the biggest issue in the ndiswrapper days.
Doesn't the article show that newline isn't harmless at all?

Of course EOT doesn't end anything by itself, nor does 0x0a end a line by itself -- all that happens through code that interprets those characters in a particular way, so talking about the "danger" of a character in absence of any code that operates on it is meaningless. In the presence of code, on the other hand, "harmless" in the extreme sense means "there exists no code that will act up when presented this character", which the article shows to be wrong.
Speaking for the human race, some of us just want to meet a friend we feel superior over to make ourselves feel better for a while.
Anonymity, people don't hold back when there's no reputation to lose.
In regards to memory alignment, it's even worse. Most instructions work on unaligned data. But some instructions require 8 byte, 16 byte, 32 byte, 64 byte and I think there's even some 128 and 256 byte alignment. One of the more common pitfalls someone can find themselves in when coding x86-64 asm.
> Is that a function of Linux Desktop simply being more capable nowadays?

I don't think so - it's more a function of hardware becoming more complicated, and vendors choosing to put a lot of the logic in firmware rather than putting it in ROM because there's a much lower chance of them getting it right first time now than there was in the past.
Thanks. I am planning to use AntLR for the main parts and Flex/Bison on an as-needed basis.
that might be a corrupt filename that can be opened only by its inode in debugfs or similar.
As a long time non-contributing Debian/Ubuntu user (I hop between the two whenever one of them annoys me too much), I've had a lot of issues locating and using non-free firmware when required.

For the longest time (since fixed), trying to use Wi-Fi in debian-installer simply didn't work, regardless whether I used the unofficial image or dumped the firmware debs on disk. Can't complain about that anymore since it's fixed.

Now that Wi-Fi works when available at install-time, let's try to install a bog standard desktop system. Did you run the text installer or the graphical installer? If you used the text installer, you might be surprised to get an unescapable gray screen on an otherwise fully working booted system! Your video out doesn't work properly because kernel modesetting doesn't work without firmware or some mumbo jumbo like that. Your options are:

- Run the graphical installer in the first place so that the GPU firmware is used/installed by the installer

- Run a shell in the text installer and do "apt-install firmware-blah", a command which is only documented in a dusty unstyled html in a file cabinet hidden by a beware of leopard sign copyrighted 2010

- On boot up, use some relatively arcane GRUB magic (I'm just a user, so I have to look it up every time, okay?) to boot into some kind of safe non-graphical mode and install the GPU firmware

(Bonus: the unofficial firmware-included disc image symlinks the firmware debs, so the image only works when you DD it. The most popular Windows disc writing software Rufus recommends writing disc images in ISO mode (file-by-file) so that you can use excess free space. If you're wondering why the firmware directory has a bunch of 0 byte files, that's why, and you need to switch to DD mode.)
How much different must the dna be to be considered a new hominin?
By all means, the "free software community" should promote HW with free firmware, and giving the top spot on the kernel.org pages sounds like a good approach. And yeah, I spent a lot of time looking at wifi drivers when getting a wifi router. ath9k was the gold standard here with no blobs, and as a result was the favored platform for the wifi bufferbloat work. Unfortunately the follow-up ath10k needs a blob.

But I don't think punishing potential users who just want to get their laptop to work is particularly effective free software advocacy. Most likely the user has no clue what wifi chip their laptop has.
I thought this was an April fools article. His reasoning could apply to every drunk redneck that has seen the swamp ape in Florida
Mobile games are popular on mobile. The medium is somewhat limited, but there at least there is still a theoretical chance you can develop a blockbuster without a massive bugdet.

> would AAA games be so popular without the millions spent on advertising?

Kind of a hypothetical, but I'm guessing yes. But to spend a billion on a game and then not tell anyone you did would be kind of silly. It's not like "advertising" or "marketing" is some kind of scam to get people to buy things they don't really like.
Keep in mind there are already states like Washington, which has mandated no new licenses for non-EV personal vehicles after 2030. This isn't to say that EV will completely replace ICE in that timeline (or even on a multi-decade timeline), especially for commercial and specialized industrial vehicles, but for Jane and John Q. Taxpayer, it certainly feels like the end of ICE vehicles as daily transportation is drawing to a foreseeable conclusion.
For me it is the build quality, obscene 18hrs+ battery(+standby) life & unplugged performance which is the same as plugged in.
It is annoying for sure, that for something like AMD GPU you have to go out of the way to get a "non official" Debian installer that includes amdgpu firmware, otherwise installer won't be able to work.

For the most part this annoyance affects the installation step. After your system is in some semi-working state where you at least can install packages or have access to network, you can add any firmware you want already.
I feel like a scam would imply that an effort to conceal the nature of NFTs is occurring when in reality they are just throwing it out pretty transparently and saying buy it anyway, it's cool and there will be a greater fool, and then people just buy them.

That's just stupidity on the part of the buyer IMO, not really a scam.
I’ve found Boxy SVG (https://boxy-svg.com) to be a good visual SVG editor. You can edit the SVG markup or use the visual tools. The markup is preserved on save.
Do you mean https://lobste.rs/ ?
It seems ancient unused dna just sticks around
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mutant-chicken-gr...
> Owning a home is a key part of the American dream

This is wierd. Why would owning a home be part of a dream? Owning a home is par for the course in most parts of the world.
Even better (and I expect you're aware of this already), you can run Webassembly workloads under Kubernetes control:

https://krustlet.dev/
Exactly this: speaking from experience fund returns are highly bespoke and depend on the individual LP. People should be very weary of publicly stated returns, especially for VC funds.
But if you’re changing phone numbers, why don’t you just set the new one in your Google account while you still have access to the old one?

Also wouldn’t backup codes help in this scenario?
Do your research about ycombinator.

HN articles don't write about owners of HN so much.
Pragmatism of decision is orthogonal to quality of execution :>
I’ve assumed that homo erectus are the elves
Manim Animation of 5 Ways of Matrix Multiplication Interpretations
Intuitive linear algebra animation of showing 5 Ways of Matrix Multiplication Interpretations using Manim. Idea comes from MIT 18.06 Prof Strang course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbj-nyJyP-Q
> This fits with rare enough encounters that interspecies sex only happened once every few generations.

Interspecies sex happen a whole lot more often than that. Having viable offspring might have been the rare part.

Dr. Eugene McCarthy has a theory that humans are a hybrid between pigs and chimpanzees https://phys.org/news/2013-07-chimp-pig-hybrid-humans.html
The original phrasing of Murphy's law was: "every component than can be installed backward, eventually will be".
Unfortunately newer thinkpads are prone to goddamn cpu throttles, though that is in part due to intel. Nonetheless, at work I had to replace a brand new thinkpad t14 because other than manually tweaking the CPU frequency (which is not allowed by company policy but I did anyway, otherwise I may have thrown the laptop out the window which is even less in line with company policy) it throttled like crazy at random times. I even have this problem on my thinkpad t480, though it is not as bad there. The T14 throttles down to goddamn 4-600 mhz, where it is practically unusable.

But I agree, for family members I always try to find a used <T480 laptop in good conditions, because these are faster than similarly priced low-end laptops (seriously, what they offer at the low-end is just criminal, they want to take advantage of the technically illiterate), and basically everything can be changed inside.
> OpenSSH has been battle-tested to death

So have wet paper bags ;]
From the title I was expecting a treatise on how the bonobo should be considered a hominin
Infantile? Which parts?
> I don't think you read that sentence correctly. Three things:

> 1) Positive rights should not exist, because: 2) Positive rights cannot exist without violence and slavery

Violence exists regardless of whether "positive rights" exist. You are stating this again, but you haven't proven any kind of relationship beyond the tautological one.

I can't move on to the third point until you clear this up. Everything else seems like a distraction:

If we can agree that violence and slavery is bad, why can't we agree that some kind of retribution is required? Maybe this is why:

> something that isn't actually violence (agreeing to employment), or something from hundreds of years ago ('stolen land'). Neither are good arguments, in any way.

They're excellent arguments. Even agreeing to be "employed" for room-and-board in exchange for work could be slavery, especially if the person agreeing doesn't know if they have other choices. "Stolen land" was still stolen. What's the good reason for a statute-of-limitations on this?

I think you are dismissing these out-of-hand, and if you can't address them, maybe this is what is wrong with your entire philosophy?

> There is nothing stopping me from defending my property myself.

Of course there is. What are you going to use to defend your property besides violence?
What separates us afaik is - in bible terms - that we left the paradise, by becoming conscious.
> when players discuss skill, they generally mean a (somewhat fuzzy) combination of both deckbuilding and "piloting" ability.

I think the "piloting" ability is mostly (but not entirely) independent of the deck. You can see this most plainly in draft, where everyone is basically playing with a new deck. There are "soft" skills that are contextual and format-dependent, like knowing the cards that you need to play around (white just foretold turn 2, is that a Doomskar? Maybe I shouldn't play a creature this turn, etc). There are "hard" skills that are almost always valid (generally wait until after combat to spend mana, cast instants during your opponent's end step, etc).

But certainly deckbuilding talent is not necessary, because anybody can grab a decklist and head to TCGPlayer.

On that note I'd guess that draft (or sealed) tournaments are the best scenario to measure pure skill using Elo alone, since going into a tournament, everyone has equal chance to open good cards.
Actually, my point above was that if we are going to get rid of net neutrality, it makes logical sense to also get rid of neutrality for electricity since it's more likely to be beneficial there than for the internet.

I'm honestly surprised at the backlash against net neutrality on here.
Setting aside the ideological arguments, the primary reason you should not be installing video drivers, or any other device drivers, outside of what your distro has packaged (if you can help it) is that they have an annoying tendency to break when you do a version upgrade leaving you with, if you're lucky, only the ability to log in via the command line or ssh. Worst case, you can end up with an entirely hosed install. Even if they work (for now), keeping them in sync with the rest of your system can be an exercise in frustration.

As someone who is currently dealing with proprietary AMD drivers (and previously proprietary nVidia drivers) on Debian testing, it's pretty much only a matter of time before things will break... you've been warned but I understand if you need to do it anyways (as I do for compute support with AMD currently.) I'm very much looking forward to the day when we have Debian packages (at least in the non-free repo) for current AMD GPU compute stuff.
> Top of the list for small customers are probably high-end real estate agents… [want to monitor] backyards/pools that are being neglected.

This is basically corporate surveillance and I’m not at all comfortable with it. If you changed ‘real estate agent’ to ‘large landlord company’, the public would find this exceptionally unpalatable.
There is now REACH in EU.
"Media. Let us think for you."
EPB of Chattanooga is always the model system for muni internet. They also said that their goal is not to dominate (which is their current position now), but to make sure that at least competing companies will match up their offerings (which commercial consumer ISPs tried until EPB rolled out multi-gigabit symmetrical speeds).
This argument is always really odd to me. You'll hear people say things like "if evolution is real then why are there still monkeys?"

As if anyone is claiming we're derived from modern chimps...

Meanwhile the ancient apes that we share as common ancestors with modern apes are long extinct.

Not to mention evolution doesn't require an extinction as far as I know. See polar bears
Why did you expect it to fail? You have some inside info about the problems they were facing?
I lived in San Francisco from 1997 to 2017. I have friends that have lived there since the early 1980's. Car break ins have always been a problem. Couple of years ago a guy was found murdered in Bayview. Cops said the guy had been breaking into a couple of cars a day for years. They'd arrest him. He'd spend weeks or months in jail. Get out and go right back to it. Eventually broke into the wrong car.

Pro Life Tip: Get tinted windows.

Other than that general feeling. I think there is an uptick in nuance crimes due to the pandemic[1] and the housing crisis. But physically SF is safer than 20 years ago and hella safer than 40 years ago. Back in the 80's if a women didn't carry her purse like a Joe Montana carrying a football someone would try to grab it.

[1] Pandemic has caused criminals to target residential neighborhoods.
> The assault rifle over the back was definitely something weird but quite a bit of America is like that

Not really. Nearly everyone in my family has owned guns, including myself. We have family who hunt professionally. Several of us know people who concealed carry for legitimate self protection. Carrying a gun on full display is something you do because you have a specific purpose to use that gun. Doing so for entertainment is ridiculously unsafe under most circumstances and to the extent it’s part of American culture it’s a particularly toxic variant of that. But that’s a very limited subset of America. Most of our shitty gun culture is much more just plain American toxic culture generally
And in the same way USSR didn't fight in the Vietnam war.
Israel was also behind many of the efforts to smear the former opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn - https://www.middleeasteye.net/fr/news/israeli-diplomat-sough...

The current government is a huge ally of Israel.
Study evaluates deep learning models to decode functional properties of proteins
The greater myth is the existence of a definite "Linux community", maybe beyond lkml. And I don't think anyone is trying to sell lkml as particularly welcoming place :)
Yes, it case it wasn't clear, this is exactly my point.
I don’t know, I am a recent convert to Mac but OSX is much much more buggy than ios (I guess due to tech dept and backwards comp?)

The underlying UNIX often seeps through the layers and it is simply an objectively worse UNIX than linux. Sure, its user space has plenty of cool features but even those are half-assed and buggy. Like, how come switching desktops is not smooth? Sure, I don’t have an M1, but a goddamn last-intel MBP, it should simply never lag at such a user-facing interaction. Sometimes I feel my T480 is better with gnome on input latency..
The instructions tell you that the power up can used immediately or saved
I quite like the idea of this, but it would be a very hard sell to most infra and security teams IMO. Installing a 3rd party agent that in some way permits shell access to a server and (I assume) needs to run constantly is definitely going to raise a few eyebrows especially when the benefit of using is actually fairly low.

BUT! I would 100% use this as an interview tool; I run our more junior candidates through a couple of short troubleshooting scenarios that involve them SSH'ing to something and doing some basic Linux troubleshooting. This tool would make that process much much better especially now that our interviews are mostly remote.
No they can’t.
> If the EU had forced a common standard before USB C became prevalent we would be stuck with USB A.

No we wouldn't.

> GDPR made web browsing worse with cookie pop ups everywhere.

Cookie pop ups are not happening because of GDPR.
I prefer byobu as a UI, but for sure this is way simpler than the post.
I would call it linkedin tier content. Makes non-technical people feel like they've learned something new. Like their chair just slid an extra inch towards the dev team.

As for the front page, it only takes a couple (<10) upvotes early on for something to be shoved in front of a critical mass of people.
Don't you mean NUL, not null?
I think it can be both entertaining and informative, but it definitely feels like they try too hard to be funny at times. Do you have an example where the information they stated in the show was factually incorrect about PFAS?
Yeah, krustlet is great for integrating into existing Kube deployments. I'm just tackling the problem from the other side.
Unless you're running one of the handful of 'officially' supported distros/versions, it really isn't that good yet for at least 6000-series cards. Sure, the upstream video drivers work fine if you just need basic functionality. But if you need more advanced capabilities (i.e. monitoring/managing frequencies/power consumption/etc) or do GPU compute, you're pretty much stuck using the AMD repos which are built for LTS releases of enterprise distros. They can be made to work (with varying degrees of pain) for some releases of desktop distros but it is currently very far from painless.
We are last in the sense that we are leaf nodes on the tree of life (at least for the moment)? But of course that is by no means a unique trait, the tree would have many many leaf nodes.
What device do you try to install linux on? Linux has perhaps the most expansive driver support but it doesn’t mean that every driver (or hardware!) is made equals. It is often unfair to compare the top-of-the line wifi/sound card hardware found in macs (with vertical integration) to some noname doesn’t even work properly with their own drivers hardware.

On a thinkpad with “standard” hardware, there is absolutely no driver problem of any kind.
> it doesn't solve the problem that this post is talking about; when devices have no pre-installed firmware and expect you to upload (proprietary) firmware on every boot. This is usually things like WiFi chips, GPUs, Ethernet etc.

Same as Fedora, Debian seems to package linux-firmware?

https://packages.debian.org/sid/firmware-misc-nonfree
If you read a lot of ancient mythologies there is a pattern that the "gods" are regularly mentioned and read as a separate species or society that interacted with us.

Personally, I have a guess that it was interactions between Neandertals and early Sapiens that led to these myths. Two separate societies, viewed as independent.

I won't make any guesses as to which is which, but I think the possibility makes sense.
What's important is not only the amazing products, but also that they solve problems and that they can actually be bought by people who need solving those problems.

My anecdotal experience is that every time I run into some amazing 3M product, it costs $300/liter.

Nile Red recently posted this cool video of extinguishing a book with this fancy 3M liquid. Looked, yup, that's about the price.

If you wanted to experiment with fancy computer cooling, Fluorinert is also an arm and a leg in the quantities that'd be needed. It was apparently used in the Cray waterfall, but it seems after more than 30 years the stuff is still bloody expensive.

And so on.
> Gas stations make most of their money as convenience stores, often selling gas at very narrow margins.

Right, which they increasingly won’t be able to do as demand for gas drops. The timeline might be longer than above, and it’ll be stretched out by the fact that so much infrastructure has already been built, but I think it will happen eventually.
Strangely enough I can also share this experience. Mac is absolutely less reliable to me than a linux laptop.
Despite the slight language or spelling barrier I still feel like I got what OP was trying to say without much trouble.

I'm actually curious if you're trying to illustrate the following part of their comment with your replies?

> Also also, not sure if this is specific only to me or if it happens to others who's first language isn't English but quite often when I ask a question users assume the worst and think that in just trolling and down vote, making the website less useful...
It is possible that a lot of it was done at the province level.

There are incentives to both under report & over report (to get more resources allocated).