skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've been daily-drivering on Linux for Desktop and Laptop for months and Linux across 4 different distros has made me feel more helpless than Windows ever did. Sure, the Windows "police" would come in and straighten my update settings (which is ultimately why I abandoned Windows), but Linux you get the helplessness of sometimes having something break and the only answer you can find after spending half of your weekend searching for solutions is just "idk, give up and reset your entire OS"

So a long time ago, I installed Gentoo running GNOME 2.

There was a menu in the topbar labeled with some kind of icon in addition to the text. Probably the GNOME foot.

Anyway, since Gentoo was all about letting you make the customizations you wanted, I thought it would be nice to replace that icon. I had found an icon of the Gentoo fish wearing a wizard hat and I thought that would be appropriate.

So I looked through the documentation for the menu. I found the file where the icon associated with the menu was defined. And I replaced that with a definition pointing to my preferred icon. This did not work. The icon displayed in the name of the menu didn't change.

It's not that there was no effect. If I viewed the menu properties (you know - right click, "properties"...), my fish-wizard icon showed up (in the properties view) as the icon for the menu where I'd tried to put it. It just wasn't displaying in the topbar the way I'd hoped.

I was unable to figure out how to change the icon the menu actually displayed, and had to give up. The documentation was no help. :(
Understandable, and thank you!
This is great! Unfortunately, for better or worse, it does seem to be limited to more rural areas.
> https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-oldest-story-astronom... shows that the myth about the Pleiades, aka "seven sisters", likely date back 100,000 years.

This is definitely a fringe theory, based on a very literal interpretation of a myth, and ignoring the importance of numbers like 7 in the human mind.

Edit: fixed link
Very curious where you see the advantage of using Webassembly there. Presumably this is not running in a browser.
Other than the functionality of the phone itself, what practical difference is there between the iPhone and the Nintendo Switch?

What has Stallman said about walled gardens and app stores?

Maybe a GCW Zero or an OUYA or similar (and yes, I'm aware of the current status of the system). Fortunately, because these are linux or android based and thus open source, you still have the freedom to compile your own kernels for them.
> still have no idea how the video drivers work.

Why would you want to? This is not something I want to actually have to care about. And also I absolutely don't have to.

> What is going on and why isn't it as simple as Window's where I run an executable and a setup wizard does the rest?

Do you mean the included drivers? Or the OEM ones? Or the Nvidia ones? Current or beta? Also, it is even simpler than that on distros that support nonfree stuff, e.g. on ubuntu it is just click here for which nvidia stuff you want and done. As opposed to navigate websites, versions and wizards in windows.
Kukkee has public polls too which won't require users to have an account.
>The shareholders of Twitter don’t have interests beyond making a profit

The shareholders of Twitter generally have 99.9% of their assets in other companies.

Therefore their interest in profits doesn't necessarily translate to an interest in Twitter profits. Even with the most abstract theoretical profit-maximizer model, damaging 99.9% of your investments in favor of 0.1% is not how an entity would act.

This is generally a good thing, but it's also what people are complaining about with the board of directors.

If shareholders and directors are not diversified, then they can make a lot of money through destroying democracy, poisoning rivers, whatever, and then escape to New Zealand or somewhere. You know, "externalities". Monopoly-guy in a top hat.

But if they are diversified, then the profits are not worth it to them, because many of the externalities are now internalized.
I envision the same system to later verify the votes I bought
So if Debian were some megacorp, someone would already be complaining about the "dark pattern" that puts the link to the directory (n.b. not the actual images) for non-free images down the bottom of that page in small print inside a box labeled like a warning, and calls them "unofficial".

As opposed to making it clear that this is the one you need if you're doing something outrageous like ... using a laptop or something.
OT but I'm constantly infuriated by media outlets' incapability to properly use units of energy and power and distinguish between them:

"There are eleven commercial geothermal plants
at the Salton Sea, producing 400 megawatts of
geothermal energy a year."

Is this really so hard? Nobody who took physics in high school able to proof read this otherwise excellent article? None of the chemical engineering/geology professors interviewed for the article able to land a hand there?
I think it is the factors in the world today that has drastically reduced quality of all system, including macs, I'll grand to a far less degree, but I use to be able to buy apple hardware and I just didn't worry about returns or manufacturing faults.

But in the last 3 years, we've seen endless failings, across all brands, Dells and their shit batteries and docks, Lenovo and their cheap build quality, faulty keyboards, screens with ghosting and dead pixels, cases cracking, Apples big issues we've seen is motherboards, and power circuitry.

It is just so frustrating to have to go through the read tape, and headaches only to be told that a new unit won't be available for a weeks.

I wish, there was a reliable vendor, but like so much else it just seems that quality is the lowest concern.

I miss the pre-2016 macs
Debian is a great project I know. But the comment that they only use debian for its principals directly suggests they would use something else if principals were not considered. Suggesting the other distros are better for their uses. Anecdotally I don't think I have ever seen a debian desktop user, and I wouldn't pick it for desktop either because they don't make it easy to get everything working like other distros do where you check a box on install to include the proprietary bits.
If it has a $2T market cap and people are actually using it for that usecase, what the fuck are you arguing then?

But like I said before, these kinds of discussions are totally useless.

You don't get the usecase, fine, no problem, move on already, there is no point of discussing this any longer.
I beg to differ. They might not be suitable for "power users" or Stallman but for most people they're fine. I've got at least a few non-technical friends that haven't owned a laptop or PC in years and do all their "computing" from their phone and maybe an iPad. The only reason my parents still have a computer is because they like to look at their photos on a large screen, but outside of that one use-case (which could be solved in other ways) they barely ever turn their PC on.

You can bank, search, chat, consume content, and shop from one device - it doesn't get much more "general purpose" than that.
Anyone else read the title as ELO scoring (as in electric light orchestra is scoring)
mesa is the thing that handles opengl and vulkan for most cards that aren't nvidia.

Generally you don't have to touch video drivers at all in linux except for arm stuff and nvidia. (that's not always the case,but mostly) Just keep your kernel up to date. That's the main problem with debian and wanting to say play games or have newer hardware.
I don't think this comment addresses the (very philosophical) point of the parent poster when they try to explain the difference between "is" and "ought" by doubling down on details of the "is".

To me it looks like this comment describes in detail how international relations work through realpolitik (which I agree is basically how it's done if you want any semblance of predictive power, as opposed to focusing on any stated moral values of players).
> If you want to level-up the mathematical precision

I absolutely do! Thanks for the link, I’ll definitely check it out.
This one reviews it in a different game, and there the defense fails if the seas are too choppy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxwh6MGLJNc

I would say these are all games and have little value but what do I know.
I wouldn't say the x86 is the weirdo in these cases, it's just not a RISC.
Heroku still hasn't reinstated GitHub integration
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*Which Heroku features have become non-operative due to the removal of the Heroku-GitHub integration?*

* Enabling review apps

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* Deploying (automatic and manual) review apps

* Deploying an app from GitHub (either manual or automatic)

* Heroku CI cannot create new runs (automatically or
manually) or see GitHub branch list

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You are unlucky - Macbooks are fine options, but the only viable laptop based on anecdotal experience? The M1s even have serious issues and limitations with external displays that are well-documented.
It wouldn't be that surprising if the navy was corrupt and inept as well. The weather conditions, the command structure, and the fact that it was night time could have also played into it. If the people on watch were tired, it could have slowed reaction times. If they weren't allowed to launch counter measures without the captain and the captain was sleeping, it could have slowed reaction times.
> somehow they didn't see the need to upscale it for transport

If you weren't aware, the Aztec capital was built in the middle of a lake, a kind of larger version of Venice, so the most effective way to move goods around would by boat rather than any land-based transportation. The area outside of Lake Texcoco would have been quite mountainous, with lowland regions largely being dense jungles, both regions that are obviously poorly suited for wheeled transportation in general.

This is the kind of terrain where the modern US Army, with all of its technological access, will still rely on pack mules to move goods. Do you really think wheeled transport would have been a viable invention in such circumstances?
The canonical firmware is the BIOS, I was pleasantly surprised when Fedora updated the BIOS on my Dell XPS device by itself recently... historically that has been somewhere between a nuisance (Reboot and then UEFI network update), a struggle (dig out the image from an EXE on a flash drive), or impossible (some windows-only app that doesn't work via a VM). And whatever the annoyance level, when done manually it was usually done months or years after the BIOS release.

Other firmware the cpu microcode is handled via packaging.

There has been a lot of work packaging peripheral firmware for things like mice... it's not like it is going to go away. This is also distributed in packaging in Fedora now.

It's not ideal that these are proprietary blobs but some accommodation is needed I think.
I feel like we're just chasing are tails with definitions. Even countries like North and South Korea have discourse. I guess the original article was a little rigid with its 2 definitions. Since countries have stopped declaring war, formally ending Wars how to become a lot less clear
Congratulations, you found the solution to the problem. Hold companies liable for the damages their sloppy security practices create. Bruce Schneier wrote an excellent article on the topic in 2003 [1].

[1] https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2003/11/liability_c...
As a programmer, I learned to always be looking out for corner cases that might cause problems. Pointing those corner cases out to others, could be mis-construed as snark.
> https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-oldest-story-astronom... shows that the myth about the Pleiades, aka "seven sisters", likely date back 100,000 years.

I think it's very, very far from showing that.
Chile, Bolivia are the easiest to mine. It really is trivial, and incredibly cheap. See https://blog.grabcad.com/blog/2018/02/20/how-does-lithium-mi...
I just wrote a long reply to your comment, but I realized it ultimately was just a ramble, so I'll scrap it.

To answer your questions briefly:

- Sure, I guess we can call it that.

- Term limits seem orthogonal to the lottery system though? You can have either with or without the other. Not sure I can see them as being versions of each other.
I seem to remember reading that in some areas of southern China the wheel didn't see widespread use until the twentieth century.
On a much less impressive (though more acccessible, at least for those of us who don't get to tool around with space telescopes on a regular basis) a similar technique is actually pretty common in consumer audio applications.

A number of Apple devices employ this technique, like the new iMacs. I know the 2019 (and presumably, the 2021) 16" MBPs do: https://thenextweb.com/news/the-new-imacs-have-force-canceli...

It's popular in higher-end subwoofers. While not the cheapest solution, a whole host of design issues is solved by simply adding a second amplifier and a second driver firing in the other direction. https://us.kef.com/kf92-subwoofer.html

If I'm not mistaken a fair number of portable Bluetooth speakers use something similar. If you're hearing a surprising amount of rattle-free bass come from a device that seems too small to pull it off, there's a decent chance they're using dual opposed drivers.
I felt stupid for the longest time with this phrase. Even after looking it up. Until I knew the history more I didn’t get it.

The confusion comes from the fact that beer generally isn’t, well, free!
Interesting is how this applies to interpolation with industrial robotic arms.

Shortest path for each joint moving from a -> b does not create a linear path for the end-effector of the robot. Linear end-effector movements require inverse kinematics and are limited by how fast the slowest joint can move.

Quaternions are also useful because you often don’t care the particular rotation you approach and object with, just the angle/direction so you can leave theta as an arbitrary value.
I would guess the best approach is to try to have as small an attack surface as possible, meaning as few applications etc, and the simplest possible operating system.

Like for example a minimalist build of the PinePhone with software that literally never updates unless there is a security issue. Maybe something like a stripped down Slackware, or I was gonna say OpenBSD where even the proprietary hardware drivers are re-written to be open source (and free), but I guess for the PinePhone, the hardware is already open anyways.

edit: A stripped down Slackware I should say
I’m so sorry for the loss of the 100-1000 hours of your lifetime I just threw in the void.

But, be brave. You’ll learn that, friends and family are ok, but maybe they are not up to a fully optimized supply chain neatly packaged in a beautiful building, from where your goods reach other factories by train to be transformed to finally reach their final destination.

As long as you haven’t been locked in Factorio and Minecraft in the past, you’ll be ok. Otherwise …
This is interesting to think about. I spend my life reducing SVG precision and simplifying them for inline use.
Aliexpress is not a retailer. They are another outlet for the manufacturer -- not even the wholesaler. So, you're cutting out at least two layers of the traditional sales channel. It makes sense that their stuff would be much, much cheaper.

You cannot reasonably compare their prices with any other wholesaler or manufacturer.

But you do you.
Years ago I had the idea to use this tape to make solder-free PCB kits to teach electric circuits (the tape would connect the chip pins to the board, without shorting sideways). I bought a roll, and printed some boards for LEDs and 555 timers and such.

Unfortunately it didn't make reliable contact for the chip pins unless you were constantly pushing down on it. As I recall the datasheet states as much. That seems like a solvable material science problem, but alas perhaps not valuable enough.
I’m not sure if it works in the FedEx case, but one thing I have noticed: most sites forget where you wanted to go before logging in.

So here is what I do:

- open the mail link

- log in

- go back to the mail program and open the link again to bring me to the page I wanted to see in the first place

Would that work in your case?
My experience was absolute thresholds from F to C-, and a relative curve above that. Seemed fair. And seemed practical when I was on the other side doing the grading.
Do you actually use nix and have an experience to share?
Why not buy a System76 machine?
Are S-300 missiles kinetic or do they explode in proximity? Maybe they were fired but failed to go off.
Sacred Poetry from Around the World
I honestly find America's tax system to be one of the most bizarre things about the country, TurboTax shenanigans being part of that.

Every year around this time I'm reminded how lucky I am to have at least a somewhat sane and pain-free taxation system here in AU. Me filing a tax return involves bringing a folder of receipts, a page of notes, and handing them over to my accountant who charges me about $120 (tax deductible) the end result of which is I normally get a small refund from the ATO a couple of weeks later.
Well, that is the whole point of UNIX.
I agree. sidenote: Lend. Lend a hand.
You could copy over the nix store, though your path wouldn’t be set up correctly to find the programs you want.
> LOL. Yeah sure,

> But common sense is quite uncommon nowadays.

I see on your page you say "I take pride on behaving righteously and honestly". Don't forget also:

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Nope: https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/17/32/42/20818085/3/ratio3x2_1...

Yes, car break-ins are up. But robberies are down, rapes are down, as is other violent crime. This is a made-up moral panic.

And, no, it's not people suddenly deciding not to report crime. Rape and murder tend to be noticed. Victims of assault will, with some constant factor, seek medical help. Robberies are reported because that's corporate policy. If anything, it's the relatively minor smashed car window one might not report.
I like this article. I think it would be a finished or complete piece if you can also describe where to use “npm link” as an edge case.
That firmware update was made possible by the fwupd software project (containing various firmware updaters) and the LVFS project, a service for hardware vendors to upload their proprietary firmware updates for mice, the BIOS/UEFI and other devices to.

https://fwupd.org/

While it is great, 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.
Mommies Who Mushroom
Runway length was a big deal for oil-rich ranchers who had landing strips on their ranches.
Isn't fastmail hosted in australia?
Please add the Ukraine war, Georgia (the country) and even Afghanistan to the list of oil/gas drilling or pipelining related.

Ukraine:
https://www.trade.gov/energy-resource-guide-ukraine-oil-and-...

Georgia:
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/the-gr...

Afghanistan (more disputed though)
https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/pipeline-politics...
This is really cool, but I don’t know if I see the appeal for actual nix users — if you are a nix user and have it set up in CI, you can easily build docker images yourself using buildLayeredImage.

And then if you aren’t a nix user, why would you use this? Installing packages with, say, apt, is decidedly not where my pains with docker have arose.
I use the same strategy.
I have seen an ex-military comment on the recent pics of the Moskva and it somewhat corroborates the hypothesis that the ship didn't engage the defenses.

The person said that the AA radar was in the inactive position and the AA launchers were down in the wells. Obviously it is possible that they were retracted after the attack so it's not a hundred percent proof.
I wouldn't immediately assume it's insecurity. I used to be an atheist for a good decade and a bit. I remember making fun of Christians in high school. You get to be edgy and the Christians start to feel real bad because you're making fun of what is their "silly sky daddy" to you. But the extra fun part is they're conditioned to be nice in response so it's like you get to sit on a tall branch and drop things on their head and you don't have to take so much flak from them. And if they do act out, you can call them a hypocrite and insult their faith because it clearly doesn't work. It feels like a fun game you can't lose, until one day things get too real and you discover in horror what you'd been doing.
> "For the people that complain about the staffing requirements for a paper-based election: it's a feature, not a bug. The sheer number of people involved make it virtually impossible to rig an election."

There are two ways to rig an election. The first is miscounting or changing votes but I think the other is the real risk and likely dates to the very first time we as a species ever started having votes by anonymous ballot: ballot stuffing. If, at any time in counting process, an individual could successfully insert a single valid but fabricated ballot into the process, the entire system is vulnerable.

And the number of votes required to change elections tends to be shockingly low. In the 2020 election, more than 155 million people voted, but the outcome of the presidential election itself was decided by a total of less than 43,000 votes [1]. That's a margin of victory of 0.03%. So a system that was 99.9% accurate at ensuring that each ballot was completely legitimate would be insufficient.

[1] - https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2021/02/10/wapo-the-...
That's only viable in countries/situations where secret ballots are not a strict requirement and vote buying is not perceived to be a problem

With paper ballots if you want to be sure that your vote was counted correctly you generally can go and see the counting process, as a bonus like that you help ensure that every vote is counted correctly