skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Does Notion sometimes lose notes?
Somehow the entire task list is gone from the Android app, and the webpage version cannot open at all (spinning after clicking login). Did any experience anything similar?

Anyway I probably will never use anything that doesn't store things locally again. Can anyone recommend a solution that covers both Android and windows and can sync between each other when both are in the same wifi? Thanks! Or maybe should it be my Android learning project?
HDD -> SSD is an enormous difference. SSD -> NVMe, better but not so dramatic.

1080p -> 4K is an enormous difference. 4K -> 8K, better but not so dramatic.

The rate of improvement is not linear.
"Shit show" is a bit imprecise. What would you say are the major shortcomings in Go and how do they manifest as problems in practical reality?

Also, it would be interesting to hear your take on why you think languages that are, as you say, from "a sound theoretical foundation" tend to struggle with adoption?

Could it be that you fail to take into account that the things that make a language appealing in an academic sense may not make the language a particularly practical language?
as someone who regularly uses a 1080p windows laptop and an 1800p MacBook pro, it's certainly not the requirement for me it appears to be for you. It's an improvement, but so is the matte finish on my windows display
Since it was shown in the last years that legacy car makers are perfectlh able to transition to EVs, regardless of market segment, I think we are approaching the point of realizing that both, EVs and ICEs and everything in between, are just cars. Meaning that purely EV makers should be compared to ICE makers. What that means for companies like Telsa is everyones guess, at the very least so it would just be fair to treat Tesla as a car maker and not some SV style tech company.
It’s mine although probably influenced from various sources.
Two of your three examples are incorrect as they're missing backslashes. /^nw*g$/i should be /^n\w*g$/i and (?=.*d) should be (?=.*\d).
Ah, yes. I never leave home without them.
Yes and it doesn’t have to do with rich/poor. Until someone either takes an action on your behalf or physically forces you to take an action you can ignore their requests all you want.
Was gp sarcastic? Are you sarcarstic? (I need an app for that..)
> Yet another nail in the coffin of human exceptionalism. Consider not what you are eating, but who.

This is an interesting take. If we refactor meat out of our diets out of empathy, wouldn't that imply human exceptionalism considering non-human carnivores and omnivores haven't been observed doing the same?
Ah I see.

If you scroll further down the page, you'll see there are actually 4 zeroes you can choose from and 2 sevens.
Is there anyway for Elon to prove there are more bots than Twitter claims? If so, would twitter then be sued by the sec?
A variety of things nobody else will care about, but the big one was VM support. I can't do my job without the occasional Linux VM.
I love funky italic like cartograph or victor mono!!!
Ad. People got wound up about spike protein side effects. Embedding nano particles with lots of them pretty much sounds like the conspiracy people’s wet dream. If there is a conserved region of the virus that is required for activity, that might be used as an antibody target. If so, and the complex doesn’t show activity things can proceed. Assuming people will take it…

Or, like the flu it will remain variable making each year’s shot a guess. And with the occasional “oh, shit” years.
There are a bunch of sellers of laptop skins who will solve your problem for about 30 bucks. At least one (skinit) will let you give them an image to put on the back of your laptop.
They understand the needs of Windows developers.
The latter, they literally can't recognize the truth.

I hope for their sake a large portion of them break free of their ideological prisons during their lifetime.
Xiaomi laptops don't have any logo on the exterior, just clear slate. Looks very slick
Meh, I switch between a Macbook Air M1 and a Linux desktop with 24" 1920x1200 screens and it's fine after tweaking the font hinting a bit.
You don’t remember correctly.

The breakup fee is if an outside influence prevents the deal from going through. It’s not just for cases of “uh-uh i don’t wanna.”
> However, that is not increase in security. It is to increase the lockdown.

In this instance it is both

> And increasing lockdown is a poor proxy for quantification of security of specific images.

You do realize that locking stuff down is one of the core tenants for securing systems?

> By the same token, locking out Windows images and allowing CentOS images also increases the security

If your system is shipped to run Linux then yes, locking out Windows images would increase the security.

> but then the argument would not be about security anymore, but change to convenience of majority.

You're flip flopping all over the place with different topics. If you want to talk about convenience then I agree that locking systems down affects user convenience. It's a well known adage that security is usually a trade off between convenience and protection. But you weren't talking about convenience, you were talking about security. Which is why I've been talking strictly about security.

With the greatest of respect, you're coming off a lot like you don't really know this subject matter considering how poorly you're sticking to topic and how you're misunderstanding even many of the basic principles of security.

> It is another significant hoop the users have to jump; and it just happens to more complicate Linux usage.

I agree it's another hoop but you haven't yet demonstrated how it's significant despite me asking you to substantiate that claim a few times already. It feels to me like you're just throwing in adjectives for dramatic / emotional effect rather than having a rational conversation here.

> Those incompetent Linuxers, cannot make anything user-friendly...

Why should you care what other people think about Linuxers. Just use the platform you want to use instead of seeing this as some kind of holy war where you need to convert Windows users into Linux users.

> Many normal users are not thinking about Linux when they purchase their gear; they will want to try it later, once they used the hardware for a while. If this wasn't a case and users would do research ahead of purchase, the majority of hardware problems under Linux would not exist.

I've been using Linux since the 90s (and as my primary OS since XP was released and BeOS deprecated). I've never once shopped around for Linux compatible hardware and never once ended up with a machine that couldn't run Linux because of it. Peoples complaints about Linux compatibility are, in my experience, largely over told.

> My point is that it is not a technical issue. It is political issue masquerading as technical one. So a party A designs a system that favors products of party A and it just happens to thow a curveball at everyone else. Color me surprised. Real technical problem would not favor a specific party.

I think you're talking this far too personally. The simple solution here is you can just buy someone else's equipment instead. Getting angry on a forum isn't going to change anything (tbh neither is boycotting Lenovo but at lead doing that can give you some level of control).
I consider it is a matter of taste. The large logo could also be a requirement from the marketing department.

In this view, it should therefore not be a hint about the overall quality.
It's fine, I'd rather have 16:10 or even better 3:2 than hidpi.
I'm fine with my 15.6" 1080p screen. The reasons I'm not considering this laptop is the lack of 3 physical buttons on the touchpad. It's Linux after all. Left select text, middle paste, no need of ctrl-c and ctrl-v. It's much faster and I'm using it all the time. Btw, I disable touch to click because it tends to move the pointer and generate misclicks.
I think that’s what Evernote uses and it’s one of the features that keeps me paying year-after-year. It seems to be able to index just about anything I upload including photos of handwriting.
Where I am outside of the US, the anti police-corruption police are hated by the normal police, which I think is a pretty good indication of how many police don't like being held accountable. A lot of police misconduct really relates to a culture of closing ranks so it's seen as a betrayal to investigate that properly. It doesn't need to be said that police should be held to a higher standard than anyone else since they gain pretty major privileges and powers, obviously including the legal ability to use deadly force.
> The reason this idealistic world does not exist, is simply because the distributors do not wish it to.

Companies can only do what the laws allows them to do, and as I already linked, laws exists to prevent companies from double-dipping when it comes to physical IP goods. Once the thing is sold, it's out of their control and people can resell it as much as they want. Apply the same principles to digital goods and the problem is solved. But to do so you need a technical framework for digital good ownership to work in a similar fashion to physical goods, which NFTs could do.

> Sony have already acknowledged that they are cutting off owners. They are aware of ownership.

It's not "ownership" when Sony has full and exclusive controller over it and can terminate it at any time for whatever reason they chose. That's clear violation of First-sale doctrine. Especially since they love to pretend that you "Buy" the things in their digital stores, without clearly labeling that it's actually a "Rent for an arbitrary and limited time".

> When the distributor doesn't distribute... You can't do anything.

Piracy exists. Companies don't have to play nice to allow any of this, the law just needs to scale back a little in protecting them.
It is good to see it but a bit ridiculous to see companies marking up the pricing just to install an OS which is pretty simple to do with almost any hardware.
Few people grasp the amount of effort Daniel Gackle expends running HN (2020)
Sounds like a very unpleasant experience, sorry to hear. But I'm not sure it's a good precedent for this case, for two reasons:

a) You were happy to settle, which sounds understandable. But when the stakes are $44bn and most actors on Twitter's side are but agents for Twitter shareholders, their chief concern will be not breaking their fiduciary duties if they accept anything less than the maximum amount they could get. It's a bit hard to imagine how the legal bills for seeing this through could stack up to even .1% of the purchase price ($440m), and that's nowhere close to the discount that Musk will be looking for (with good reason imho, btw).

b) In your case the other party might have gotten away with dodging a court order to pay (or at least made it appear like that). That's pretty much unfathomable if you are literally the richest man on earth and live in the US.
A modification of a decades old meme popularized on the defunct SomethingAwful.com forums

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=omgwtfbbq%21
The switch to standard gauge in Toronto isn't to save money (because it doesn't), the reasons are purely petty political.

Then again, the original choice to use the broader TTC gauge was also petty political.

The point is, it's not an economic or technical decision.
They (mostly) don't make the bigger decisions, bigger design choices, true

But for minor stuff/fixes it's easy to slip something that's awkward or not very usable.

Or a legacy interface is still being used (because the developer thought it out - since the company was smaller, or a specific screen was overlooked) and that's not a great interface
While something may be well understood in an academic sense doesn't mean that the application of that understanding to implementation humans will take a liking to is well understood.

If you look at the programming language landscape I think one wouldn't be unreasonable in pointing out that very little is understood in terms of how you go from good ideas to widely adopted language.

What affects reality is important.
I have been using it for a bit more than a year, very much worth its price. I like it, it’s very readable for me, and I don’t spend time looking at other fonts anymore because I paid for one so I must use it.
CEO Charged in Scheme of $1B Counterfeit Cisco Networking Equipment
127.

I don’t think bit masking alone will get you there. You want to map anything over 0x80 to 0x7F.

I think you can do something like

x + (x < -127) * (x + 127) + (x > 127)) * (x - 127)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

can give you clamping, but haven’t checked it ((x < -127) is minus one for true or zero for false, so the part marked ^^^^ subtracts x + 127 from x when it is too low, and that’s equivalent to subtracting x (yielding zero) and subtracting -127 (yielding -127). The other part is similar, but for values that are too high.

That expression can be put in a DEF FN.
How good is your eyesight? 150%? This is a 14" screen.
I suspect your colleagues prefer Windows & Mac over Linux not because of Wayland incompatibility but rather because the software selection is better covered over there. E.g gaming software generally targets Windows OS.

It is no secret that Linux software has historically not been targeted at the masses. Add to that, developers who are not interested in publishing software on Linux platforms. You can see why the overall experience might not be that great on desktop Linux compared to Windows or Mac. Even though this might be changing as more users feel comfortable with Linux.

IMO iOS, Windows, Linux all have their strengths and flaws; it would be wrong to compare them side-by-side.
Dog caught bus. Attention span deficit. Lawyer or advisor finally penetrating the reality distortion field with “wtf are you doing?”. Wanted to embody the boy cries wolf cliche? Simple desire to own the news feed?
Not all waves can be split, e.g. Solitons which are named because of their particle like nature and can be observed in optics, water chains of oscillators and more.

I think that is the crux of the issue, we have waves with a discrete energy, we can call them particles but they are very different from the traditional image that people have of what a particle is.
The due diligence was done already, and this being a public company adds a layer of regulation on top
I have an older XPS and I'd never buy a newer one with 4K display - too much battery life consumption for marginally better results.
> I have a real problem with the distinction between "religious people" and "non-religious people" because it presumes a distinction that I don't think exists

The distinction between people who believe that someone is watching and judging and people who don't does exist (ask them, they'll tell you which camp they fall in to).
If real estate is to be a good investment, it must become less affordable over time. The idea that real estate in general is a good investment is dangerous to our economy.

The solution to housing is reducing subsidies and removing supply side restrictions. However these are not politically popular in a world where people want housing prices to go up.
Various, generally older, ThinkPads are popular in the *BSD communities too.
YMMV, but before you gave me the link [1] the original link [2]
yielded only this:

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Despite not being fully Emacs compliant the link you gave me worked in
w3m just fine. Thanks! :)

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8325314/?report...

[2] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2102061118
This is great. I wish this existed 10 years ago as I had struggled to find this information and eventually gave up. Bookmarked
You can make money flipping houses. However it becomes a job and you need to treat it like one. You have to invest in the right house, a house that only needs paint and it will sell for a thousand profit vs a house that needs to have the main beams replaced to get $50000 profit. The above numbers are real required profit because of the risk you are taking, and also the time that you own the house paying intrest waiting for the next buyers to take over. There is a different type of flipper who gets into each of the above, getting the wrong house will break you. Either way you need enough houses in progress to always be working, and there are so many houses in any city to work with.

Yes you can make money, but that doesn't mean you will. It is a complex job and not for everyone.
A lot of people in America is looking for a quick buck. Real estate flipping was very successful in the last decade with cheap money. There are entire TV channels ( yes, channels, not shows) showing flipping and renovation in various ways.

Many Americans are so tired of the rat race that they are lured by the glory of being able to get off the treadmill and riding off to the sunset. Bubble economies help fuel that dream
There has been growing violence and intolerance. Ignoring the issues on your own side to blame the other is part of the polarization. Such positions are symptoms of what is coming.
I'm wondering with the (permanent?) switch to work from home if laptop sales will go down.

I've replaced both my personal and work laptops with System76 Meerkat mini PCs both running stock Unbuntu using Regolith for the desktop environment (https://system76.com/desktops/meerkat). They are stacked on top of each other on my desk and take up next to no space.

I work from home (and have since 1999) and don't travel for work (since Covid) so I have no need for laptops now. I have a larger monitor and for now I'm using an old USB switcher to share a wireless connection for my keyboard and mouse and use the input switcher on my monitor to switch between machines. In the future I may get an integrated hdmi/usb switch.

Has anyone else abandoned their laptops in favor of desktop/mini PCs?
I was wondering how that got that battery life. I have an old system 76 (8th gen intel and nvidia) and while it’s quite speedy and can game, battery life isn’t great.

The article hints at Linux now using intels new low power cores. Though I’m not sure exactly how.

“Like Windows, Linux had to have some serious tinkering under the hood to prepare for the mix of Performance and Efficiency cores in Alder Lake chips. However, rest assured, efficient hybrid scheduling is taken care of with the two OS options that can be pre-installed on the Lemur Pro.”
My main question is how this compares to nom which has long been a solid choice for parser combinators in Rust. But no mention in the readme?
It is equally wrong to view them as classical particles as it is to view them as classical waves. Classical particles with a probability wave is more accurate than both of those, but still not fully accurate. However I don't think there is any better likeness than that, to explain better you'd need to teach the math and equations behind quantum mechanics which usually takes years.
Gitea is a good and lightweight replacement for github
I will remember that when running from other expert animals trying to have me for lunch, maybe they will stop for a second and think otherwise.
> However, I don't see cities beeing clogged by parcel delivery services.

Cities are clogged by any kind of vehicle period. Particularly delivery trucks will run into issues in the future as more and more European cities start enacting low emission zones/diesel bans inner-city [0], yet the overwhelming number of delivery trucks are diesel.

> Transportation of goods is more problematic on the inter-city level.

Inter-city has rail and lorries with trailers, both do not work inside the city where every extra vehicle leads to extra congestion due to the high density of everything.

> Unless Switzerland's traffic is looking completly different from what I know from Germany of course?

Berlin, Darmstadt, Hamburg and Stuttgart already have diesel bans and low-emission zones inner-city. In most bigger cities driving into the center is an exercise in frustration, not just due to congestion but particularly due to lack of parking spaces.

[0] https://www.transportenvironment.org/wp-content/uploads/2021...
It's a Chesterton's Fence situation.

An outsider is just as likely to be an arrogant fool, and an arrogant fool is more likely to find skepticism offensive than a normal person. There are plenty of people, even on Hacker News, who assume that they are by default more knowledgeable than anybody else, and therefore are obliged to look at any given situation, opine, and set the record straight. Other people don't matter, and certainly their 'experiences' won't count. So, it's not surprising or offensive to run into the 'water squirt bottle of correction', where kitty gets unexpectedly hit with the message 'opining on experience you've never experienced disqualifies you as a first class advice giver'.

Chesterton's Fence is of course the idea that, if you encounter a fence and you don't know what it's for, you don't take it down until you do know what the fence was for. People tend to get worked up about the things they see that, to them, seem to be there for no reason, and advocate all the more vigorously for removing such things when to them, the existence of the thing is obvious nonsense with no possible justification… they would rather think that a thing was done by a total fool who's so inferior to them as to be hopelessly incapable, than consider the idea that their superiority might be questionable.
I had to resort to unabated onanism during the outage. I am now 30 pounds lighter and when I walk it sounds like two dried beans rattling round in an empty coffee can.

P.S. This is one of those comments where I debated 'should I or shouldn't I post it' so probably not a good idea to do so but meh, what the heck. Dan & co did a sterling job and it sounds like the CEO of M5 gained some useful insight so every cloud has a silver lining etc
Condensed fonts masterrace. Most programming fonts are just too wide, but Iosevka is just perfect.

I've been loving Noto Sans Mono Condensed these days as well.
Thanks for the detailed response. I'll mention it to our SaaS partners.
It's an added context switch. It takes a small amount of time and the end user has the convenience of not needing to do it, the end user chooses to pay for that.

disclaimer: I've never touched a s76 machine.

I would never run an OS that was pre-installed as the install image can't be verified.
Also see this paper on the rise and fall of rationality in language (previously shared on HN)

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2107848118
Ask HN: What Happened to CoffeeScript?
It does, just not every app has updated to support PipeWire (which is necessary for Wayland screensharing). Zoom has, Teams hasn't for example.
It's been in my wishlist for years. I still find it hard to pull the plug (and then get bored of it), but PragmataPro is truly a work of art.
Command Line Gmail Client
Their conclusion 'Being physically active indeed appears to be associated with a higher life expectancy. [some authors] reported a mean reduction of mortality of 31% to 35% in persons who participate in regular leisure-time or daily life physical activity compared to that in inactive persons. Assuming a 40% lower mortality corresponding to a 5-year higher life expectancy, regular physical activity should increase mean life expectancy by approximately (31% to 35%)/40% × 5 years or by 3.9 to 4.4 years.'
Do you have any plans to support Web Authentication (webauthn.io)?
I show the priciest option (2999/y) first, but my sales volume is too low to measure any difference. It does make the cheapest plan (149/y) “feel” cheaper.

The problem is that anchoring apparently also works with unrelated numbers so first reading “1500 happy customers use this product” could impact how the 2999 price point is perceived.