skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When multiple different people and multiple different circumstances align in just the right way, I do believe it's magical. Literal magic.

My experiences as a person tell me that people and egos and circumstances constantly conspire against goals, ambition, and vision. There's always something that stymies a project. Maybe it's someone's ego. Maybe it's a problem that drains someone out completely. Maybe it's just a bad day for someone.

When networks of people are able to join together and fight entropy enough to sustain the life of a project... Wow. Just wow.

Anyone who added any type of energy into Linux that sustained it for everyone has my admiration.
You can have what I would consider deep knowledge of a system without the ability to manufacture it or modify it. For instance, we have pretty deep knowledge of how the sun or other stars work, but we can’t even begin to dream about creating one, or controlling one.

In the same way, we know a lot of how biology works. Obviously nowhere near all of it; but we are far beyond just scratching the surface. It just turns out that modifying a working complex system is pretty hard.
Literally every company exists to make money in innovative ways.

is this really what we're complaining about?
another reason they're nonstandard is to keep freight rail companies from demanding to use them. part of the reason rail on the us is so slow is freight companies have had a 150 year monopoly on the right of way.

You're confusing two different topics.

Freight railroads cannot "demand" to use rail lines owned by passenger railroads. Passenger railroads can, if they choose, allow freight lines to use their tracks, and vice-versa.

You can see examples of both in Chicago. CTA, a passenger railroad, used to carry freight traffic, but chooses not to do so anymore. Meanwhile, the local freight railroad companies choose to allow Metra, another passenger railroad, to use their tracks and rights-of-way.

It's not anywhere close to the black-and-white situation you present.

Where passenger railroads own their tracks, they get to decide what runs on them. The problem is that passenger railroads in the United States own very little actual track, and rely too heavily on using freight-owned tracks.

There's lots of railroad magazines that write about this ongoing problem every month.
This is a weird take to me. The stuff in these videos is on par with how Europeans treated Africans for a couple of centuries. The fact that racism is angrier or more violent in other regions doesn't make this stuff any less racist.

Lest we forget that "racism" in the West was a later development that followed and serve to justify economic and political exploitation.
I agree. Although I think the closest a programmer can come to being a "real" artist, whatever that means, would be being an indie gamedev.

Which I once aspired to be but never got there.
Same for me. Using it for years and it's been extremely reliable on my desktop.
Though I have to admit, that I miss a good DE integration for my laptop.
I tried both Plasma and XFCE, but both of them have some quirks while having bspwm as the WM.

Maybe I'll try out GNOME with Pop Shell. Seems pretty nice out of the box.
when i say "My body my choice" applies to vaccines, abortions, drugs, tanning beds; many seem to disagree. "want it both ways" cuts both ways.
No, I think that's definitely fair and I absolutely agree. I just used syntax highlighting in place of colour schemes as I feel that's how most people would interpret it these days.
Of course you can do that, if we couldn't detect state collapses then they wouldn't be a staple of quantum mechanics. If you measure a rotating wave function over and over then it wont rotate since it will collapse into the same state again, while if you let it be it can rotate into another state giving you another measurement result.

This works since rotations aren't linear, small rotations are quadratic and hence will almost always result in the original state. You can also use this technique to rotate a state by making many measurements slowly changing the axis, so each measurement results in a small rotation.

Edit: But you are right that we can't see the history of state collapses, but they are definitely required for our current theories to work as you get the wrong experimental results without them in the theory.
I'm guessing the author wasn't a Linux user, and possibly wasn't alive at the time.
Farming existed before weed killing. It's extremely useful but output doesn't drop to zero without it.
The nativity to expect that they wouldn't want to cut costs after buying the company is astounding.
The POTUS you are thinking about, at least could never be impersonated by Deep Fakes. Anybody would notice the missing outrageous statements.
Seems a strange requirement indeed. What happens if you didn't want to save the changes? Rather what is good to have is saving the state so can be recovered but not committing changes to file. Protection against losing progress isn't only related to the software itself but also the environment. E.g. window manager crashing, operating system crashing, power outage, etc. All the times I had to recover file changes wasn't because the editor crashed but due to something else.
> High res screens love to use smoothing and subpixel rendering and I very much prefer none of it.

Quite the opposite! These are hacks for low-res displays to make type look better. Sufficiently high resolution displays disable these because they are high resolution enough that your eye perceives a smooth line/edge already without having to resort to hacks to avoid stairsteps.
Yesterday's outage was not an L0/L1 problem, it was L2 and L3. Rogers wavelength services continued working perfectly fine (I have 3 x 10Gbps circuits from them). Even the Rogers owned data center my gear is in was fine as they were an acquisition that still has IP connectivity from other carriers (including Zayo).

As the owner and operator of a small non-dominant carrier, what would really help is to have access to fibre local loops and transport at reasonable costs that reflect their 30+ year operational life. Existing fibre owned by the incumbents doesn't need to be duplicated. Unfortunately that's not the path the CRTC has taken to encourage competition. I really need to write a new Part 1 application on this.
GitHub is toxic though, it’s focused on social justice these days. Meritocracy is dying and everyone rejoices, probably because they can’t bring merits.

Has GitHub stopped violating our licenses already?

http://www.mirbsd.org/permalinks/wlog-10_e20170301-tg.htm
I vaguely remember using KDE in the Konqueror days, and Gnome in the early foot days, but I haven't used either for 20 years, using black/fluxbox and more recently xfce
Almost the entirety of offline computer graphics tooling is written with Qt. Maya, Katana, Nuke etc...

Chances are, if you've seen a movie with any CGI, or played any 3D game, in the last decade, Qt was a major component in making it happen.

Qt also powers the Tesla screens, and most KDE apps and Krita.
That's not theoretical soundness, that's actual correctness. I'm mostly talking about things like io monads.
6th paragraph: Someone should have said this to me: Imagine a flashy spaceship lands in your backyard. The door opens and you are invited to investigate everything to see what you can learn. The technology is clearly millions of years beyond what we can make. This is biology. –Bert Hubert, “Our Amazing Immune System”
>city reduced to these conmen.

Not so lovely built from these.
Elon Musk has been expressing buyer’s remorse over Twitter for months
> Not sure what you mean "you can just 'hear' scales". "You don't need to practice them any more"...except for the main reason you play them, for "warmups and physical training"? i.e. you do need to practice them. Or at least, they're the best thing to practise, I've found.

Beginners will learn the "D major" scale or a "E harmonic minor" as separate units.

Whereas advanced players have the hand-ear coordination to think of "a major scale" as being a 'sound' (intervalic sequence) that can be transposed to any key. For me, it's much more important to be able to sing a particular scale pattern, once I can sing it then I can play it on any instrument that I have proficiency at.

For physicality/warmups, the kinds of scales that I like to practice are symmetric scales (e.g. chromatic, diminished, wholetone, etc). When practicing scales for physicality it's especially beneficial to use the metronome.
I will never forgive Oracle for killing the Sun.
Yeah, more or less. I have to find ways to kickstart motivation. Probably why I like owning my own business. xD
For my personal use cases, I use Windows and macos.

For running web apps and hobby projects, I always use Linux (Debian and Ubuntu distros).

To me, Linux is the operating system for anything where I only interact with via the command line. This usually means VMs or containers for my web apps and hobby projects. Most cloud environments that I know of (AWS, Linode, Digital Ocean, Vultr, GitHub actions) support Linux.

While I have been curious about trying out other OS's like OpenBSD or CoreOS, my experience with Linux seems to be the most portable. It would never occur to me to even try running a web app on a VM or container that isn't Linux.
I’ve spent decades building such things. But it’s not something that’s done much after things are threshed out and work assigned. Fine, gather the clans to start things up, divvy up work, and get out of their way and let them work. Better?
Not-so-hot take: Both of you are wrong to state with certainty whether this discovery of glyphosate in our urine is good or bad for us, or whether we should discard this because of "data torture". From the article:

>Cynthia Curl, Boise State University assistant professor of community and environmental health, said it was “obviously concerning” that a large percentage of the US population is exposed to glyphosate, but said it is still unclear how that translates to human health.
How does this compare to two regular monitors stacked on a monitor stand?
Xfce started as a CDE clone. I wonder what made them resemble Windows instead.
This is a great read on setting up a WISP (wireless ISP)[1]. It might be US-centric, but has a lot of good resources for the process. Probably smaller-scale than what you're talking about but still a good read.

[1]: https://startyourownisp.com/
Indeed, I classify the main difference between life (biological systems) and technology (civilization engineered systems) is about the structure of complexity.

Human civilization is severely time-limited (or just time-pressed). We can't wait millions of years running a simulation to optimize a little widget. We need to rely very much on high level design and comparatively little on efficiency and optimization. On the other hand, life cannot afford huge DNA (very costly), or energy waste (generally disfavorable from evolution). So human built systems tend to be of a low "Compute complexity": the computational complexity of obtaining solutions and solving problems themselves (like civil engineering structure problems, or design of objects) must be fairly low. For life, systems can be amazingly intricate, every tiniest cell a wonder that would probably take thousands of years for civilization to maybe be able to replicate. But it all ranges from about 130kbp to 8Mbp[1], which would be around 16Mbit/2Mbytes at most. So it fits (uncompressed) in a diskette (floppy).

Even now with powerful computers, we're still mostly constrained by cognition (specially human), you see simplicity all around you.

So if you look at the human world, you see (computational) simplicity everywhere, but the natural world has undergone trillions of generations of optimization to arrive at almost perfect (in an almost literal way) little machines, complicated but with a hidden amazing (size) simplicity.

I think there's a connection to be made to algorithmic inference as well. Originally we came up with ideas for Universal Inference (from ideas from by Solomonoff, Kolmogorov among others) [2][3], the most glaring candidate was the "size prior": evidence explainable by the least algorithmic information ought to be most likely (Solomonoff inference). Later, there were promissing ideas around an additional term: the "speed prior" (from Schmidhuber[4]) -- the biological word is one where the "size prior" (simplicity is most likely) works almost perfectly, and human civilization is one where the "speed prior" (computationally easy is most likely) is helpful.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_genome

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_probability

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_prior

Side note: I think intellectually one of the ways we're really far behind is recognizing Algorithmic Information theory as a foundation for statistics and metaphysics. We're very stuck making little progress on the metaphysical realm (which physics is advancing more into) because of a lack of widespread acceptance of those advanced tools for science. Algorithmic inference gives a solid basis for comparing metaphysical models and deep questions about the cosmos.
> if SSDs were installed and put into service at the same time they are likely to fail almost concurrently

This was the same bug that killed the HN servers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32028511
This could be the most ambitious logistics tunnel since the Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel [1] entered operation in 1977.

[1]: https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_...
When I watch animations of how the cell works at a molecular level [0], I can't help but wonder how can this level of sheer complexity in dna transcription, protein production, and many other supporting functions in a single cell works in perfect harmony. It's mind boggling.

I admit that I'm biased, but I don't think this could have evolved through random processes. I'm a believer in Intelligent Design.

https://youtu.be/X_tYrnv_o6A
https://youtu.be/7Hk9jct2ozY
https://youtu.be/fpHaxzroYxg
The idea that even as a locale becomes more desirable it should remain just as affordable is dangerous to our economy.
It's irrelevant because they are all GPLv2 and intercompatable.

Distros are just that: different distributions of the (largely same, interchangeable) software. There is no splintering where it matters: legally and technically.

In the BSD world you will have companies like Sony take BSD into their closed source world. The linux equivalent would be some semi-free environment like Android.
Not really. It's easy, but the feature set is rather limited compared to what KDE (the FOSS project I'm closest to) has.
I love this comment. So niche to the general population, but deep to participants here.
Adobe Animate, formerly known as Flash (the authoring software), supports HTML5. But since it doesn't support ActionScript with HTML5, only JavaScript, it might have lost a lot of its old momentum?
extremely popular in certain right wing circles
It is also helpful to have a 3.7-billion-year head start.
Please do. And good luck with that. The level of national frustration with telecoms must have reached a new record yesterday.
Deere bought the startup Blue River for $300M. Drones to identify and specifically spray just them. Not quite mechanical removal, but closer than spraying the whole field:

https://medium.com/@dcvc/john-deere-acquires-blue-river-tech...
They learned from the community adoption of Apple products that the majority only cares about POSIX CLI and not really Linux as such.

If they cared, they would be buying Linux OEM hardware instead of giving money to Apple.
Browsers stopped displaying EV indicators in the URL bar. Barely anyone noticed.

https://duo.com/decipher/chrome-and-firefox-removing-ev-cert...
Difficult to disentangle the fact that the n-grams talking about these topics have become highly profitable as an industry unto itself. Not just click bait and doom scrolling of recent years but the books, TV shows, and especially medications that talk about and claim to address the ill effects of modern life. Prozac Nation was published in 1992. Oprah was launching in 1986. People have been getting paid and made focusing on these topics in ways it’s difficult to find a historical precedent. And let’s not forget that depression as a medical condition was marketed by a Pharma company with the first SSRI cleared by the FDA in 1987.
> ranking below many other things such as unification, safety, order, health, etc.

I got a similar vibe from talking to some Russians. Freedom is not important, it’s warranted that it’s limited, we’re not the West, we value it less. I suspect it’s Stockholm syndrome, a consequence of a self-preservation instinct.

Many Westerners don’t approve of their governments—their countries have comparatively prospered for a while, and now it feels like the growth has stopped. By contrast, in some other countries the generational memory of significant hardship and poverty is very fresh, and quality of life is still on an upward trend from historical lows.

Of course people in these countries value things like safety, order, health very highly.

Unfortunately, in some of these countries—this includes both Russia and China—the upward trend coincided with oppressive governments. This led to citizens rejecting values like freedom of action, thought and speech (which is a requirement for individual moral growth—if people live under strict rules imposed by someone else, they don’t have to form any rules of their own), considering such values “foreign” and “not suited to their culture”.

> China will automatically become great if only we kick out all the bad guys (= CCP)

I would never say it’s so simple. There would be a downturn due to uncertainty, and the unfamiliar degree of individual freedom combined with suffering moral values/inexperience in making choices (an outcome of oppression and surveillance) would certainly cause a dip in quality of life.

However, I believe a society where everyone has access to information, a country that treats its own citizens as adults and trusts them, a country where policies are not set by a few self-selected humans with the first-order goal to maintain own power (humans are fallible, and power corrupts), would after growing pains prosper much more.
Didn’t they modify an existing Union Pacific right of way to accommodate BART for that extension? Changing the gauge would have probably be an excessive cost on top of that (although maybe it would have been worth it in the long run).

I think they plan on doing something similar with the Valley Link project between Dublin/Pleasanton to Lathorp in the San Joaquin Valley.
This is rubbish and proven wrong. Tesla claimed to be years ahead, European Regulators beg to differ
Which ones don't? I never heard of such a thing.
Can you share one or two aspects of FOSS office software that caused problems for you?

(from my perspective, it's a modern miracle to be able to run "apt-get install libreoffice" at a command-line and have freely-available, no-license required office software available within a few moments including nearly like-for-like functionality and file-format compatibility with other office suites)
Promotion-driven development strikes again.
I am glad there are still some logical and reasonable reply especially relating to patents on HN.

Well we are only a few years away from having patent free H.264.
Don't see any citations on either side of this discussion.

WHO says yes [0] while EPA says "not likely" [1]. Until the experts agree people can decide for themselves what risks they consider acceptable. Or at least they can if they can afford buying from farmers who don't yet use the chemical.

[0] https://www.iarc.fr/featured-news/media-centre-iarc-news-gly...

[1] https://www.epa.gov/pesticides/epa-releases-draft-risk-asses...
I have used 1080p all my life and never thought that I need it to be higher resolution. So for me the risk of Linux high DPI support not working, high cost and higher power usage make no sense to me.
Texas Freedom Caucus Warns of Illegality for Companies Funding Employee Abortion
I like to work on cars, I think the debugging is pretty close. But it isn’t a great job, it wears people out.
never mind... looks like its owned by Xerox: https://bgp.he.net/net/13.15.0.0/16
Right now I'm trying out JetBrains mono. I don't really require much from italics but at least some visual distinction. So far I'm enjoying it.

I used Victor Mono for a bit there and I'm still unsure if I like cursive italics or not. They're interesting and fun, but sometimes I think they're a bit too out there, if that makes sense?

My go-to is usually Ubuntu Mono. That might be my favourite font.
Envy Code R is pretty will hinted between the 10-16px range.
i used it without antialiasing any it's great on lower resolutions. u can still pack a lot of code onto a (sub)FullHD screen readably.
Assuming you're using a non-backtracking library, they should both be O(n).
How come? Is it not true that ~0.75% of Americans have celiac disease?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeliac_disease
Very cool - thank you for sharing. I like the idea of task-based benchmarking for UI toolkits, and I'm also happy to see more tview code for me to study.
Yet another reason to avoid grains, soy, and processed foods.

I would love to see some meat tested to see if it’s still detected in the meat after the animals eat the tainted corn.
no bezel comes to mind. also easier to mount than try to align two perfectly
Only one image (unless you use the split feature) with no gaps in between, and only power input.
>Mattel missed something here. The secret cipher could have been a big selling point for their target audience.

While I agree a spy keyboard would appeal to all children, tacking the Barbie brand on it feels strange.

Imagine a box saying "Barbie Keyboard; Now with 4 unique cyphers!" The two have nothing to do with each other, unless there is a Barbie spy line I'm unaware of... searching...

Yep there is a "Barbie Spy Squad" movie released 2016. Of course.
I guess bigotry is a normal lifestyle choice?
The best time to learn Emacs was ten years ago. The second best time is now.
Look at the URL. It’s monetized. HN is a marketing arm of Y Combinator. HN contributed significantly to Y Combinator’s early success.
Nobody should be forced to buy something they don't want to.
> BUT HE AGREED BEFORE!
He changed his mind after Twitter didn't provide the information they said they would.
> BUT HE HAS TO BUY IT NOW!
No, he doesn't have to, people can revoke buying offers. I'm afraid to ask your views on sexual consent.
Has anyone tried one of these? I'm intrigued. How well does it work?
Solving problems. Like, the happy path may have a UI, but if that doesn't work, or isn't quite right, any troubleshooting most likely will not have a UI.
PowerToys 0.60 adds improvements for Windows 11 users
None of these are why. Linux succeeded because the incumbents were so intent on fighting Windows NT without making real changes that they created a terrible situation for developers and operational staff. Entire companies existed to make multi-vendor Unix frameworks and the vendors themselves weren't in great shape by the late-mid-90s.

Given the choice between standards and varying compliance (and there were a plenty of these and so #ifdef IRIX... never went away) and just picking one sub-optimal solution that was available on commodity hardware, the outcome was obvious.

The same situation is playing out in other industries as well right now.
Proof? Legal Discovery will force the burden of proof on Twitter.