skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and there's no format agnostic API to access that information (you can open it, but can you understand it?).

One of the critiques in this article is that, because you have to know/guess/assume what encoding is used for various strings, there isn’t one for the registry, either.

If so, both approaches suffer from that (but Unix a bit more because it tends to store multiple items under a file system ‘key’, while Windows programs rarely store multiple items under a single registry key)

I do wonder what RegEdit.exe does here. Does it infer encoding, have a long list of key-to-encoding mappings, or a combination of the two?
What amazed me is pathogen does not seem to be used anymore. Maybe I'll have to try the new way.
To be clear I'm not saying: don't eat meat.

What I'm saying is you don't need to eat it 2-3 times per day. I don't eat meat by choice.

> Historically humans depended on animal protein for essential amino acids. It seems far-fetched to suggest we could scale up quinoa to 7+ billion humans given current global realities.

I'm curious how you think we're feeding those 7+ billion today? If you're saying that animal production globally is efficient with respect to natural resources and waste, well that's even crazier than growing plants via alternative farming methods.

> Humans naturally consume animal protein out of biological necessity.

This is where the argument is lost on me. I'm not sure what point is being made here but it reads as if you're saying prehistoric humans got their protein through animals and animals only. This just isn't true and some research has stated only 40-50% of protein was acquired via animals. But the real problem here is that sales and marketing has led us to believe that we need more protein. Way more than we actually need. So much so that we're polluting via urine because of overconsumption of protein [0].

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/eating-too-much-p...
> Likewise if you try to tell the young Croats about the freedom, they don't believe you. They're indoctrinated in school with hate for Serbs

i will happily disagree with you. actually just right now my friends from belgrade have come to visit me. in the last period there have been growing number of interactions between serbs and croats, particularly amongst the youngest adult generation

correct me if im wrong but from personal experience i believe you no longer live here and base your perception on the diaspora. i find people in the diaspora to be way more nationalistic than people here (here = ex-yugand exceptions always exist) and perhaps thats why you are saying that. but its too simplistic and very incorrect to say that about younger generations here

also dont forget that many croats have grandparents who were in the partizans ;) we know quite a bit about yugoslavia (positives and negatives)
It's far from being a single file. Registry is split to hives. Besides that, each hive is a bunch of files (actual hive, a pair of integrity logs - which was just one log file before Vista - and hell knows what else, some KTM-related stuff I presume):

> dir /a C:\Windows\System32\config
...
29.07.2022 12:33 44 040 192 COMPONENTS
21.11.2010 10:21 1 024 COMPONENTS.LOG
29.07.2022 12:33 262 144 COMPONENTS.LOG1
14.07.2009 05:34 0 COMPONENTS.LOG2
29.07.2022 12:33 65 536 COMPONENTS{016888b9-6c6f-11de-8d1d001e0bcde3ec}.TM.blf
06.03.2021 21:44 524 288 COMPONENTS{016888b9-6c6f-11de-8d1d-001e0bcde3ec}.TMContainer00000000000000000001.regtrans-ms
29.07.2022 12:33 524 288 COMPONENTS{016888b9-6c6f-11de-8d1d-001e0bcde3ec}.TMContainer00000000000000000002.regtrans-ms
This is also what it felt like to me.

I came back here to write pretty much this comment.
You've linked the entire profile, I guess you're referring to this tweet list? https://nitter.net/hashbreaker/status/1548359451752640520#m
Cambridge UK shows John Maynard Keynes. I think Charles Darwin, Stephen Hawking and Isaac Newton might dispute that!
This looks pretty useful and I will definitely be trying it out. I see you can upload CSV files for visualizing. Is there a way to send data as it's generated?

Another question would it be possible for Marple to use the data locally (or from say my own s3 bucket or database) instead of having to upload it to your servers?
Apparently those no shirtless walking signs were not based on any laws so they can't fine you, I just remember seeing that on news. Island cities did put up the signs, which was my point about the local attitude.
It's a new one, made in China.
I’m not sure how you could say the 13 isn’t faster than the 7. That seems like a perception/expectations issue.
>the various Linux-based systems where any software package is installed only inside a private directory

Which are these? I assume Qubes OS sidesteps the problem entirely... NixOS?
Fixing the Next Thousand Deadlocks
This, and as the other comment says: Couch computing.

They weren't great computers as such, but for quickly looking up things or surfing the web they where fine. My father in-law kept one on the coffee table until it the battery just died after ten years or so. It was just a quick way to look up stuff or check emails.

There aren't really any good replacement. Personally I want a keyboard, so out goes the iPad and phone, Neither are device I truly enjoy using anyway. Even the modern ultra books are to big and devices like the GPD are too expensive.

Technically it seems like it would be way more feasible to build some like the EEE form factor today, but the market might be to small.
Still pretty hacky on my Acer Chromebook Flip C302, could never get audio working quite right. I'd agree and say GalliumOS on most Chromebooks is like mid-2000s desktop Linux hacky.
If you believe this will seriously curtail illegal trading by Congress, you're dreaming. This is nothing more than a show bill leading up to the election. The dinosaurs in Congress like Pelosi, McConnell, et. al. are corrupt to the core. They've worked to manipulate the election system in their favor, giving incumbency a massive advantage. One need only look at what Trump's administration was subjected to, to understand how extreme the measures that the ruling class will take to insure their power. Agree with his policies or not, Trump naively believed he role was to solve problems. That can't be allowed. It costs the ruling class too much money and too much power. As I've noted previously, why haven't the democrats, who control everything, passed an abortion bill - because resolving problems cuts into their money and power.
And they were incredible. A $200 laptop you could buy in 2007 that ran Linux and had flash storage. I credit mine with learning the command line for the first time.
Python Package Manager Shootout
“One neat thing about Suns is that they really boot fast. You ought to see one boot, if you haven’t already. It’s inspiring to those of us whose LispMs take all morning to boot.”

— John Rose, Pros and Cons of Suns (1987)
I take a day off to avoid the akward feeling of having my co-workers singing "happy birthday" to me.

Besides that I don't really celebrate it. I enjoy celebrating achievements, like some success at work or a big milestone in my side project. Surviving yet another year on earth is not really an achievement (I mean, I've done it more than 30 times already), but maybe I'll start treating it as an achievement once I turn 80.
An analogy the company I’m at (Rec Room) has used is “Data can help you climb a mountain, it can’t tell you which mountain to climb.”
Either you can prove things or they are equivalent to stories.

Stories like the bible, other fantasy books, scifi, etc.

You give meaning to things and speculate were there is none
.

And about your snail thing:
'However, it proved to be as unreliable then as it had originally been.'

But you know I think we are so far away from our core beliefs that further discussion will not change any of our minds.have a nice day.
Was on the fence last year between a 12 mini and the latest SE (which this article is about, I think).

I somewhat regret the 12 mini, not because of the size (or even battery - it's fine for my daily use), but the face ID. As others have said, it's just too interruptive. (well, they didn't say that word exactly, but it's what I think).

Rumors I'd read last year would be that a 13 or 14 would have a 'button' underneath the glass screen, so we'd effectively have a 'home' button without the need for a physical button. Not in the 13, and I've not heard about it in the 14 (yet?) but would welcome that. The touch-id flow I had grown used to was so ... useful and fluid. Part of the reason I don't think I recognized it as much was 2020/2021 - so much of my regular life was thrown out of whack (travel/meetings/etc) that the impact of moving to face ID wasn't all that noticeable. As we're 'returning to normal' more and more, and I'm 'out' more, the day to day impact is more noticeable.
Show HN: A simple, pretty alternative to strace written in Rust
Hilarious view of what is going on behind the scenes, thanks!
A Holographic Fan
Notability seems highly inflated towards recent and pop culture.

Like favouring Neil Gaiman over Isambard Kingdom Brunel?
We explain the differences between Border Wallets and brain wallets here https://www.borderwallets.com/docs/faq
I was being rhetorical, echoing back SV's/tech's dominant ideology. For what I really think, see my replies to these threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10793226
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15659455
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14282791
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10451733
Hi! Like strace, lurk allows a user to trace system calls. It implements an opinionated subset of strace. Compared to strace, lurk is optimized for readability and supports structured output in JSON format.

I’d be happy to receive some feedback : )
I hate this fanatical love of the UNIX way. I really hate that as of today Windows is the only non UNIX OS. I trully believe that this fact set us back. No more exciting new OSes only boring unix.
Sabine Hossenfelder is great.

Also try UpandAtom for Physics
Real name policy. Now you practically need to send an id and a birth certificate to get a free email address, but the overton window hadn't been completely forced yet during the period Google+ needed growth. Combine real names with they fact that they would pull your youtube (and any other google property) account in, and it was really repulsive to people. And Google held strong and kept trying to push that for years before shutting it down.

I think they thought that it was necessary to leverage the rest of Google to give them an advantage in social media, to draw people into a Google ecosystem, but really they just needed to do Facebook better, and take advantage of whatever anti-consumer move that Facebook would make and market "That doesn't happen here!" You can close the net once people are in. Instead people with gmail addresses and youtube accounts felt like they were under attack.
I would agree - the round edges are a PITA. The glass back makes it very slippery as well.
I'm using an 8 Plus still as it has TouchID (I find FaceID far too creepy) and a large screen, which helps with my failing eyesight. It would be excellent to have something like this but with flat edges.
I worked for 2 years with a netbook as a main machine. A Samsung N250; I might have bumped up the RAM to 2GB.

I could carry it everywhere and it was fast enough for KDE, Arch Linux and web development.

I was also young enough not to have problem with the 11' screen.

I think the screen broke during an hackathon (I think it fell) and I just plugged it to an external screen and kept on working.
Hey, thanks for adding more perspective to the discussion. I think these are points to meditate on.

Clarifying, I didn't mean to express animal/human as a dichotomy. I see it more as a spectrum.

We surely have a LOT in common with animals, but it's also evident that we have the freedom to face everything we do in a different way.

Some animals will stop feeding their cubs to concentrate only on the strongest one. They will also stop feeding a cub if it's anomalous (i.e. physiological malformation).

On this matter, humans used to behave exactly as animals in ancient Greece (i.e. in Sparta). But we chose to live in a better way. We chose it is superior to use our faculties and ingenuity to be able to feed typical babies without sacrificing the atypical ones.

So, yes, for sure, we feed our babies. But we don't have to do it the same way as animals. Animals evolve slowly, pushed by nature. Humans can decide to evolve by their own volition.

That's where I draw a line between humans and other animals.

Perhaps one day we will have evolved to deserve our own kingdom. As we behave right now, I agree with you that we're still much closer to the animal kingdom than anything superior...
Building a company around an Open Source Project
Open Source Collection of insights that can help building a Company around an Open Source project, from Hugging Face, dbt, Supabase, Airbyte, Cal.com etc.
You get fast, powerful and easy to use communication tools for free when you use Facebook and its family of apps. Why do you think Whatsapp is so popular now and not SMS anymore?
This map has huge generational and institutional biases.

Who is Lee Norris of Greenville, NC? Does anyone know of him here?

I can tell you 8/10 people under 20 know who Mr Beast is.

Does being the leading content producer on the leading content platform not make you more "notable" than someone who had two backing roles on 90's TV sitcoms?
I'm curious: What's the use case for those two specific things? I personally don't even have a banking app installed on my phone - I use online banking and/or a desktop banking software. For 2FA, I have an OTP app installed that I simply open whenever I need to do 2FA.
> Because that’s what people buy.

Because that's what companies make. There are examples of smaller phones that were not successful, but they sucked for one reason or another.
That's because both Sean Connery and Maxwell have their birthplace as just "Edinburgh", and Connery's notability rank is 261, while Maxwell's is 683. So Connery is shown instead of Maxwell.
I didn't mean to imply it was racist, the western world contains many races.
Still under debate. That theory is indeed 2 years old, I remember seeing a video about it in the early days of the pandemic.

It hasn't been confirmed, not at all, proponents of the theory claim a trillion to one chance of a coincidence (19 bases => 4^19, a naive interpretation), but a lot of scientists disagree. I you said, research it for yourself. And by my own research, the hypothesis is unlikely, so I take it as a "no" until the "further investigations" are done.
And I think the responder is arguing that some media censorship is consistent with the concept of freedom.

My freedom to swing my fist ends where your nose begins, the saying goes.

I don't like to turn on the TV and get porn content, and especially I don't like my children to be exposed to that content. I'm not opposed to porn content to exist, as long as it is somehow ringfenced from the access of minors. A majority of the population in the US agrees with this stance. Putting porn out in the open is like swinging a fist in their nose. It's not freedom, it's aggression.

If this argument feels unconvincing to you, just replace "porn" with "Holocaust denying propaganda", and read it again.
I used to feel super awkward about celebrating my own birthday.

For a good while I just avoided celebrating it.

Now I've decided to get pizza and beer, and share it with family. It was short and sweet.

Might switch things up from time to time.
Chris, why don't you write a history of how Fallout was born, from your perspective?

Of course the most passionate ones among us will have already found material from Tim Cain (the speeches). We would be grateful for your stories. Already this bit of info about Canticle for Leibowitz, Road Warrior (the sequel to Mad Max, right?) and Jeunet-and-Caro's La Cité is quite precious.
Your business career is also your private life. Why would the whole world need to see it or anybody who uses the internet?
> but selectivly use data to do what the executive wants to be done.

the thirst of some people when I give them something that sounds like what they want. When they re-parrot last years findings back to me incorrectly because they only listened to the parts that backed up their instinctual beliefs. Makes me angry I waste my time on the data when all they wanted was an excuse. I coulda given them an excuse without having to do all that data digging...
Looks like it's about the same size as the Zenfone 9 currently on the homepage here. Given it's a fraction of the price and has quite a few pros that probably appeal a lot to the small phone market I figured I'd just make a new thread to raise awareness about it some. Not for everyone but really seems like a close to ideal phone for a lot of people who are otherwise quite annoyed with modern selections.

- MIL-STD-810H compliant, designed for heavy duty outdoors work, so really shouldn't need a cover

- dual sim

- can easily swap batteries

- IP68 despite removable back

- is likely to get at least another 2 years support from Samsung (possibly more given it's an enterprise device; iirc they still do security patches occasionally for the S8 Active)

Cons include the "small" 5.3 inch screen and only one rear camera. It's very very much a functional phone in design.
> Do we compare car fuel tank sizes?

I mean, we kinda do when it comes to EVs.
Surprised that the article doesn't at least mention the fun fact that horses (and camels!) originally evolved in North America, only becoming extinct around 10,000 years ago as a result of the cooling caused by the last ice age.
We have in our society a group that believes if you just redefine words you can alter reality. We see examples everyday with updates to the meaning of words like “racism” and “woman” and “recession” and whatever else is inconveniently in the way of their worldview.

Unfortunately reality has a way of ignoring religious ideology.
Yeah, similarly Dorothea Jordan, 17th century actress, is ranked above John O'Shea, premiership footballer, or Thomas Francis Meagher, originator of the Irish flag, leader of the 1848 young irelanders rebellion against British rule, and later US general in the american civil war.

If you're going by contemporary sources, I'd expect O'Shea to be on top, if we're including historical sources, I'd expect Meagher to be on top, unless Dorothea has some significant fame elsewhere than her city of birth
yep. It is great when you are optimizing a process. But you can't optimize a wrong direction. In some cases it makes it worse.
I have seen 25 years of internet trolling and this kind of attitude is gendered yes. Not in a binary way but in a bimodal one. I could have avoided the point because it's obvious though. I don't hate men because as you found out I'm one myself.
> Unix simply doesn't have a "way" in that regard, other than a loose convention to put text files in "/etc".

So? The registry doesn't have much of a way either - the actual fields are simply a loose convention.

> Every application comes up with its own format.

Same with Windows applications - one application might store an IP address as a dotted-octet string, another might store it as a single 32 bit integer.

> Parsing that file is application-specific.

Same for Windows applications; the subtree for any application is very specific to that application and almost always differs from the subtree for other applications.

> Updating a value in a text file means re-writing the whole file again.

Not a problem, when it means that breaking a value in a text file breaks only that one application. Break the registry almost always breaks something else, if not the entire system.

I'm not saying files in /etc aren't without their problems, I'm saying that all /etc problems are already present in the registry, but the registry adds a few more of its own.
A semi-off-topic question, is there any real health difference between honey and other types of sugar?
Joni Mitchell learned to play guitar again after a 2015 brain aneurysm
Agree. I think most software of the era did that kind of thing.

Most of it wasn’t popular enough and/or got abandoned soon enough for ‘the internet’ to notice, though.

If your software runs in 256kB, writing to a floppy disk, you pack your data structures, use bit fields where possible, and you’re not going to waste CPU time, RAM and disk space to write a format that’s easy to understand and extend.

(Of course, they extended it, anyways, as everybody would)
> even 10 years ago, the concept of dancing in front of a camera on the street was odd, but now almost every teenager and college student does that.

This is not true. Before youtube started aggressively curating/deranking/demonetizing, there were thousands and thousands of dancing teenager/young adult videos on youtube. Youtube actively purged the TikTok inside of it.
This is called "browbeating", and does not make your ideological opinion any more based in fact.
The text app has notifications enabled. The banking app doesn't, but I open it when I need it (which is, extremely rarely, now that many ecommerce websites allow wire transfers).
It's a neat project, but does it ignore movie stars?

I zoomed into my hometown of Springfield, MO where Brad Pitt is from and he wasn't listed. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure he is a globally recognized actor.
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/#asus

ZenFone 8 is being supported. So, there's good chance that ZenFone 9 will be as well.
At a high level, the Kalman filter offers two advantages over a simple arithmetic mean (which correspond to its two steps, update and observe):

* The Kalman filter can account for changes in state. This is useful the value you're measuring is changing over time (e.g. the position of a moving vehicle, or water level in a bucket being filled mentioned in another comment). The type of variation that can be handled by the Kalman filter will depend on what assumptions you make - how you configure it, if you like. Often you would account for velocity, but you can go a step further and account for acceleration too. A moving average will always lag behind a bit, even when movement is totally linear and there is no error in the measurement at all.

* A Kalman filter effectively gives more weight to recent measurements and less weight to older ones. e.g. a moving average with period 4 will have weights of (..., 0, 0, 0.25, 0.25, 0.25, 0.25), whereas a Kalman filter might effectively have weights of (..., 0.125, 0.25, 0.5). You can even have a continuously-varying time gap between measurements, so if a new measurement comes in then it will update the estimate a lot if the previous measurement was a long time ago, whereas if the previous measurement was extremely recent then it will effectively be averaged with the new one. One downside of this is that if the state changes a lot very suddenly then the Kalman filter will remember the old state, to some extent, whereas a moving average will forget it entirely once it drops out of the window; but this is offset to some extent by the previous point.

If you don't have a model of the various confidences then you'll need to guess them - if you do a really bad job then it might work out worse than a moving average. But if the Kalman filter's working better then you can always make use of the state estimate while ignoring the computed uncertainty.
I still miss the headphone jack.
I think anyone who has DM'd a game of D&D and used Spotify knows the pain of having your Discover Weekly taken over by "Epic Battlegrounds - The Drums of War 16: Dragons in the Sky"
This dude's blog has more elitist bullshit than a kardashian orgy