skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it can't.

You can't move all the app's menu bars into a global menu bar when the new UI guidelines means that GNOME-conformant apps do not have menu bars.

You can't have a search tool that searches menu trees that aren't there.

You can't have add-on status icons in the top panel when the developers have removed the APIs for add-on status icons and combined their own status icons into a smaller number (gods know why, but they have, and it sucks.)

You can't make intelligent use of title bars, for example optionally putting menus into the title bars, or hiding them for full-screen apps, when the GNOME guidelines say don't have a menu bar, use CSD and put dialog buttons in there.

KDE can fake up a global menu bar; GNOME cannot and the GNOME team actively seek to prevent such things.
I immigrated to Germany from Turkey and I witness through the media that sometimes people in some parts of the US behave very similar to the ones in Istanbul, with all the bad and good things associated with it.

I've grown up being exposed to the American culture that's sold everywhere else, but after the weird events in politics I started paying more attention and it's disappointing me.
Plenty far.
Will Microsoft open source this ?
English is, of course, my second language, maybe that's why you didn't quite grasp what I was saying.

The burden is not in knowing another language, the burden is in making the "less useful" language your main one.

Your parents and all of the parents in the immigrant community you live in are very happy that English is now your main language which you acquired through school, friends, tv etc. Or maybe they put you in your-language-only schools, made sure you socialized with your-language-only friends and watched your-language-only media?
I bought one of these laptops. It came with Windows 11. I followed the steps on Ubuntu website to flash a USB drive and the laptop didn't boot from it, despite selecting to boot from USB. After disabling Secure Boot from BIOS, I was able to install Ubuntu. Windows continued to work just fine.

iirc whatever cert grub was using has been blacklisted by Lenovo because of some recent security issue in grub (I can't find the details right now).

Whatever your stance on Secure Boot, this increases friction and raises the tech bar for people to install other OSes. I imagine that even a "power" user wanting to try Linux would be very confused and would probably give up after not being able to boot from USB.
How would the GIL prevent the use of "green" threads? Don't confuse the programming model with the implementation. For example, as far as I understand, gevent threads are not affected by the GIL when running on the same OS thread.
It's not like I don't buy my laptops at the same places average users do. Can you show me one model of a laptop in sale today with Windows 11 that does not enable Bitlocker by default ?
Protect themselves from what? Unhinged people with guns? Seems like recursion.

People in other countries where guns are illegal seem to do just fine without having to protect themselves using their own firearms.
It is not a solution, it is a bad workaround.

> device guard and secure boot are different things, related, but different.

The problem is that it can have potentially catastrophic impact. If the user enabled Bitlocker, and didn't save recovery key (it will happen for mainstream users), he can lose his windows drive when he tries linux.

As I wrote above, another extra-hop for those who would like to go off the beaten windows path.
> This is why, for example, CCP and Putin enjoy popular support: if people’s quality of life has improved, they must be onto something!

We /assume/ they have popular support, in reality we don't really know.
>Simple and sensible.

No, it only works in artificial environments where you get to sample a bunch of outcomes under the same decisions, with a known fixed probability distribution, to work out to an overall net positive.

Economic policy is anything but this, a wrong decision can have catastrophic events where you don't get to make more than one decision, probability distribution is extremely complex and ever changing, and you need to account for that. You definitely don't want to apply artificial game logic.
I think Apple’s trademark lawyers would be not amused by that at all.
Shhht. Don't tell PETA.
I have a newish X13 and have owned several ThinkPads since the T40. It is the best made machine from them that I've used so far. The keyboard is still good, not as great as the X230 or previous (not full size). The memory is soldered I believe, but harddrive is not. Screen is fine. It is AMD and had a few problems to start with which have ironed out.

I would say, overall, this is an excellent machine for doing work and build quality is excellent. It's a shame that Lenovo have such dubious ethical standards.
Immigration is probably the only thing right now that mitigates the problem of consecutive declining birthrates. AI and robotics aren’t there yet. Historically, while immigration does have some downsides especially if your system has a lot of entitlements, the pros outweigh the cons. Imo it’s a big reason why the US eventually surpassed Europe, and a large reason for slowing down our decline.
> A gallon of gasoline emits about 11.8 kg of CO2 if you include refining.

A gallon of propane emits about 0kg of additional CO2, if you consider that it's just going to get flared off as waste gas anyway, and we need to refine lots of oil to make the plastics to make electric cars.

Why are you still wasting time running things on petrol when propane is better in just about every way?
Abe is the most important Japanese politician (or maybe the only important Japanese politician) in the last 10 years, so you don't need to describe him by one thing you read on Wikipedia.

Though I think Taiwan would like him as he's one of the best in the area at resisting China's invasion threats.
Which anime?
This calculation illustrates the problems of subtracting a big number from another big number.

Here's some of my math:

* Each customer brings in $1.2k/year.

* Satellites have 20 gbps of bandwidth, and consumers today are reporting about 50 mbps links.

* Maximum capacity is then ~1000 customers/sat because a 50 mbps connection takes 100 mbps of capacity to run duplex, and you need to double that again because customer data needs to get to backhaul.

* Satellites will spend significant time over water, and even more time over people who aren't paying - remember, metro areas all have cheaper cable internet. I would give these ~10% capacity at most.

* Satellites have 5 year life, but some fraction of them fail early - let's say that averages to 4 year replacement, and that estimate is at the high end of Musk's original estimate.

* One satellite is capable of $1.2M annual revenue, assuming 100% utilization, or $5M revenue over its life.

* Satellites cost $250k to manufacture, and $1M to launch ($50M per launch of 50 sats, making the math simple). Let's raise the unit cost to $1.5 million assuming a very good yield on satellites making it to orbit.

* The profitability of a single satellite is heavily dependent on utilization: At 10% utilization, each satellite makes $500k of revenue over its life. Satellites have to run at 30% utilization to break even.

* Customers receive a ~$1k subsidy to access the network in terms of the discount on the dish. This means we have 1 year per customer to break even on the customer. Assuming 3 year customer/dish lifetime (and assuming we will subsidize dish replacements when they break), we have only ~$2k margin per customer over 3 years, or $700 per year amortized.

* Now, the per-satellite gross margin drops to around $3-3.5M. This means that you now need up to 50% utilization to break even on a satellite.

What this all means is that starlink, if it is ever profitable, will be profitable based on niche use cases where they can charge extremely high subscription prices. Use cases like airplanes, yachts, offshore oil platforms, and military deployments. Customers who aren't paying a lot per subscription are dead weight.

By making slightly different assumptions, we have dramatically different conclusions.
I don't think you can carry in open though, those are meant for hunting use. I don't know the details, but for example in finland, gun license only allows you to carry a specific gun in specific places and at specific times, you need license for each gun and for each purpose.
I see US as a rich and powerful nation but not a developed one, along with Saudi, Qatar etc.
If everyone around you is wearing masks, not wearing a mask would stand out and attract the attention of security.
Stop making stuff up guys, I just know that someone at the YCombinator HQ tripped over the power cable of the Raspberry Pi you're hosting this on.
My X13 Gen 2 AMD goes to BIOS setup when hitting F1, just like other Thinkpads I've had.
I foolishly made it a third of the way through thinking this was some advanced markov-chain generated blurb based on HN blogs or comments or something, before realizing it was a human-written story *about* markov chains!

Nice story, ty for sharing
We could have universal Covid vaccines if we urgently reform the process
> very strict immigration laws (basically anti-immigration RE: chances at citizenship), long history of nationalistic behavior regarding homegrown consumed goods rather than taking advantage of trade economics of scale

These are all things that Abe’s government and policies strongly supported.
If you are interested in the topic - try to get a copy of "Migropolis: Venice / Atlas of a Global Situation":

https://www.hatjecantz.de/migropolis-2388-1.html
Let me guess:Redhat?
You can infer that from who the victim is and no other information. It's not exactly "was shot accidentally in a convenience store robbery".
Probably a decade or so. I imagine it was always a possibility, with steps being taken towards it over time, even if it wasn't a well defined goal yet. Requirement of uploading App Store apps as LLVM IR instead of machine code comes to mind.

>watching everyone on the internet complain

What's especially amusing in hindsight are the (then justified) complaints about thermal throttling in the last Intel Macbooks. They knew damn well those chassis would not be good enough for Intel CPUs, but they didn't care, it was designed from ground up for Apple silicon.
Really stunning visuals for super interesting content – yet again someone's taken the guts of an idea I had and executed it 100x better than I ever could! Love it
The lead years
Less than 1.5% of PC's are on Windows 11, I don't think it's a representative sample of "average user".
The general legal principle that a taxpayer-funded service may not be in direct competition with commercial services is pretty much long-standing EU tradition and not a "war against free standards", see e.g. the requirement for public broadcasters to take down content [1].

The US follows a different tradition, wherein all works created by government employees are in the public duty [2].

Personally, I believe both ways of traditions are reasonable.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depublizieren

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_t...
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2012/10/electric-velomobiles...

This old article mentions a lot of advantages of electric velomobiles vs cars like doing average commutes in roughly the same time, dramatic increase in road capacity, tiny power consumption if everyone was to switch etc etc

But write-ups hardly ever mention how hard it is to damage a pedestrian with it. Crashes involving just velomobiles usually leave little more than a scratch.
The “long tail” you mention reminds me of the “dead internet” conspiracy theory.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/08/dead-...

I wonder if anyone can quantify and keep trends through time of an estimated percentage of auto-generated/bot content, at least for major domains.
I agree that random people with guns has nothing to do with US dominance globally, but you're wrong that the US army would win versus the armed civilians in the country. There are only 1 million US army soldiers and over 81 million armed civilians in the US capable of fighting a sustained guerilla war. You only need to look at history to know that's a bad scenario for any armed forces trying to take and hold control of a region. I agree the cost of mass shootings and also just regular daily non-mass shootings are not worth it in modern society.
I also find `ssh-copy-id` useful.
My SO used to work seasonally in Venice so I was a frequent visitor.

If you haven't been there I recommend arriving by train. It's like setting foot on an alien planet.

As for everything else: much to the locals' distaste the city, like many others in Italy, is slowly turning into a theme park.

Good thing they at least managed to put all the party people on Lido.

The general outlook is grim - young Venetians are increasingly moving out due to high cost of living combined with few employment opportunities outside of tourism.

My fondest memory of Venice will always be the experience of running through the city - I needed to catch a train. It's possible, but frowned upon for the same reason that cycling is forbidden in Venice proper, namely the risk of falling or pushing someone into one of the many canals.
The deadliest terror attacked in Europe at Utøya, Norway was carried out with a gun that the terrorist was a registered owner of. He had imported a high capacity magazine from a he US, as those are illegal in most of Europe.

But gun violence in Norway related to gangs is mostly from stolen guns. A terrorist however may not have a criminal network to use in order to obtain a gun. This they may have to go through the much slower legal route.
The math required for building most websites is elementary school level anyway.
There are some policies that the EU introduce which make some level of sense but have unfortunate consequences.

I remember one such case with regards to Estonian air.

For those that don't know, estonian air was losing a _lot_ of money, but the Estonian government kept bailing them out. In fact it was considered the "cost of doing business" and took it as a form of investment in tourism.

Of course, this is still a private company, and subsidising the airline means that nobody can possibly compete at that price point.

So the EU ruling is sound, but the effect is that people are having a lot harder time getting to Estonia now.. which is a net loss for Estonia overall.

Saying the EU doesn't serve the people is a bit of a lie, but there are circumstances where the EU does something and a subset of people are worse off, even if it's a better idea.
What solved it for me was trying meditation, just of my own accord. I wasn't even trying to sleep, but nearly blacked out 3 times in 20 minutes just clearing my mind and focusing on my breathing in a dark room. After that I just do the same thing in bed and it works a treat. Before I figured this out it felt like I forgot how to sleep.
Or there's some hot topic with more than 2 replies that's making the server pull its hair out...
This article contains a summary of the Selfish Meme Simulation Theory (SMSTEA — the theory-of-everything one can read while enjoying a cup of tea) that is adapted to the attention span of the average Medium reader, as well as a logic argument for why we must live in a simulation.
It seems to have happened quite a lot. Far more so than almost any other country? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presiden...
So was I, but the other responder is actually right, it's lower than US and "After peaking in 2003, suicide rates have been gradually declining, falling to the lowest on record (since 1978) in 2019."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Japan
Nobody even moved after first shot, they were frozen in astonishment. Not something you expect from guys protecting retired yet powerful ex-PM and party leader.
It may be a business opportunity. Order a bunch of Linux-unfriendly Lenovos, install Linux distro of choice, sell for a few <insert currency here> more.
Wages of English teaching are lower than jobs you can get in the US. Or for that matter tech companies, though it's fine if you work for an international company.
I think you are right, but how would you know all of the commenters are from the US?
VFIO doesn’t work on emulated architectures. Maybe on Talos it could kinda sorta start, but then again, you’d have to build a contraption to physically fit old PCI into PCIe.

You could also start a reverse engineering effort for one of those old cards and emulate it properly in QEMU. Once done, it would be much faster than the original. It could be ready by the time my grandkids entered adulthood.
Oh c'mon be serious. This is a technical forum. Don't play that line. I thought better of HN.

I oppose non-retractable technical measures which can be repurposed for total surveillance and information control.
Python event loop using io_uring and kTLS
> Yes, because the same way you have to enable booting from an USB stick.

NO. It's not the same way. On most if not all devices I can boot from a USB stick literally from the Windows settings panel itself (search for Advanced Startup)! No need to even see how the system firmware looks like. Even on hardware as "locked down" as x86 MS tablets, I can hold Volume Down key during boot to boot from a USB stick. Again, enabled by default , and no need to even look at the system firmware !

From that point on, _if the UEFI CA signature is installed_, the distro's setup experience takes over, which is already under the control of the distro itself.

> Making a fresh install of Windows is equal in complexity, but it is preinstalled more often certainly.

"Equal in complexity" to what ? Most distros and even Windows install can be done with your eyes closed and hitting the enter key repeatedly, specially if you are just overwriting whatever was on the computer before. Installing OSes are typically designed to be as easy as possible. We've had decades of improvements here, both for Windows and non-Windows.

Changing settings and disabling secure boot on the system firmware is NOT designed to be as easy as possible. In fact, many times it is explicitly designed to be as scary as possible, precisely for security reasons! (with the intentional addition of Scary Boot Prompts). But worst of it, this part of the experience is NOT controlled by the OS vendor ! That by itself is already suficient to have a completely unfair situation. No matter how much effort you spend on making your OS install flow as smooth as possible, your user still has to fight the system firmware... but only if you're a non-MS OS!

> That's not a case with Secure Boot alone, it's a case with Device Guard. Device Guard you can disable. It's a toggle like all the rest, no promises broken.

The promise is that there would not need to be a toggle to switch. That's what's been broken!

> Yes, because what you've said is not correct.

And it is not correct because ..... ?
It can only be applied rigorously in artificial environments where distributions are known or where distributions can be easily sampled from.

But the mindset/maxim can and should be applied everywhere. If an economic policy had bad outcomes because of bad luck, and the unlikely adverse event was appropriately considered as a possibility when the decision was initially made, then the sheer bad luck shouldn't count against the decision when we are retrospectively evaluating it.
Unlimited tolerance must not be extended to the aggressively intolerant, because this will destroy the unlimited tolerance. Central philosophical principle of free society. Karl Popper.
Uneducated suggestion, feel free to ignore if inapplicable:

I don't know if this is common cross platform, but my Windows has an audio in device called "Stereo Mix" which is just all audio output played by all applications mixed together and looped back to an input device. If you could set your live mode to listen on any input device, then people can select Stereo Mix and use whatever existing software they have for playing/playlisting and have astrofox produce the visuals. You'd be a sort of Winamp-less Milkdrop!
> It is not a solution, it is a bad workaround.

it's a configuration option.

it's a bad workaround for you.

I disagree.

> If the user enabled Bitlocker, and didn't save recovery key

then the user is responsible of being incautious.

case closed.
Perhaps disable the CSS, if you can stand the 8px margin :)
> edit: article says 'default' a lot, are we talking flash new firmware to get something working or changing a setting like secure boot = off, as they're not really comparable.

The latter, you need to change a setting.
For non gun users - I recommend watching the heist/ambush scene in Heat at a painful volume. This is a reasonable simulation of the loudness.
>Whatever government that is less likely to raise my taxes!

"I'm alright, jack"
I’ve kept up with him for years. His importance is irrelevant. Does this mean we now write only good things of Putin or Xi just because they’re important? Context still matters.

The Taiwanese, like most of Asia, are also not fond of Japanese war criminals or their supporters.

Btw I don’t appreciate personal insults, especially when you pair them with weak arguments.
Perhaps intelligence is rare, but I think just like the laws of chemistry, physics, maths, there are laws for life. Things may vary heavily but I think there is life in abundance throughout the universe. Maybe we are unlucky and our neighborhood is dry. We find traces of ingredients everywhere, and I am sure somewhere out there the mixing is just right. I even think that it is our duty to spread life. By going to space ourselves we take our little buddies with us (bacteria, viruses, plants, animals), thus fulfilling a natural tendency of life itself to spread.
A nearby gunshot is loud enough to be painful.
The working class of Russia has been busy genociding entire Ukrainian villages and looting their washing machines to take home to their wives. Remember, they don't have class consciousness, because they're not secretly communists.
Can you give an example of something that would be more than just a CRUD? To me everything feels like CRUD, that's why I'm asking.
me too, I've never even heard a real gun shot, not anywhere
I always understood that usage to mean that there are deeper, unexpected layers, not that the time spent is necessarily valuable. “Discover the lost art and science of the London system” (in chess) would be a deep dive into it, rather than an explanation why playing it is a better use of your time than learning other openings.
Of course, I was stupid. Thanks for correction!
This seems to be a trendy approach. Intellij Fleet (https://www.jetbrains.com/fleet/) Replit (https://replit.com/) more... (ssh + vim) ;)

They are all a bit different of course. I do worry the MS + GitHub hegemony doesn't have our best interest in mind though.
>It was not even an actual gun.

I mean... I seems like a real gun to me.
I'll mention two examples:

One in which dealers with guns, packages of heroin and cooking up crack cocaine, police be like ok we will put on our intel system, begged to send somebody nowt. I mention egads I might as well just kill myself was joking but once said that the operator wasn't going to let it go without the police checking upon me. Who then wasted their time and they still ignored what was going on in flat below.

Another one was they with lanlord knock on their door, they had dealers in, and waitied 5 minutes - could hear them flusing the toilet 3 times as they flushed all the drugs and only once got rid did they enter and go nothing to see here, didn't even bother checking the system tank etc - pure joke.

Was saying that the local police were akin to the keystone cops, though honestly they made the keystone cops look like the SAS.

But those are just two examples and far bigger and wider than that with too many to go thru, but helps when you do your own intellegence gathering and with that about 4TB of stuff to get out and far far worse.