skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
America is an oligarchy. Sure, we have elections but election means little when the representatives we elect basically are run and controlled by the oligarchs and sometimes themselves are part of the oligarch ring. There is a reason most of the pew polls find the approval ratings of our members of the house of representatives below 20%.

And there is noting the oligarchs want more but to distract the populace. That’s why the part of the population that embraces these idiotic woke dogma the most are the elites of NY and SF and other wealthy areas.

The real issues as you say are the destruction of the working class and middle class with wage stagnation due to offshoring + cheap labor import, lack of housing, quality education and healthcare, very little infrastructure improvement since the 70s and many other things. The morally bankrupt leadership of a declining nation run by oligarchs figured they would rather fight a culture war and let everything else decay because these issues are now too endemic to fix.
That can't be an unintended reference in this title https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consider_the_Lobster
The same way that adding options is a form of implicit admittance that they don't always know best what their users do?

Apple's attitude has always been condescending. Forcing users to fit the product, instead of the other way around. Then again, this totalitarian mentality isn't only confined to Apple.

No, if they added one it would show that they actually care about reassuring their users' privacy, instead of merely saying "trust us".
https://archive.ph/8x7tD
Not a single substantive thing was said by the time I reached the paywall. Even if there was something meaningful to say, they buried the lede so deep that I have to pay to find out if the article has more than just triggers targeting rage in a specific demographic
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I don't think handwaving away an entire field of study is going to benefit you in any way, flawed as that field might be.

Living is easy with eyes closed. Dying is too.
I find it odd to have `git status` shown only at the end and presented as a bonus. That would have been the first command I would speak of after `git init`.

I use it so often that I have an alias in my shell for it: `gis`.

It shows all the relevant information and generally suggests commands that would perform what you might want to do in the situation you are in (new untracked files, tracked files changes, staged changes that you may want to unstage, merging conflicts, rebase in progress, etc.). It really helps with Git discoverability, which is not negligible when you set yourself to present such a complexe tool in two minutes!
You get this in the UK too; libraries have become spaces for everyone to enjoy with the inevitable consequences.

Around ten years ago I didn't have the money for an office so would work a few hours each day in the 'quiet' section of our local library. I could sometimes go a whole 5 minutes without wanting to murder someone.
> Worse actually, there is no physical indicator LED on the latest (M1) laptops, it's an indicator icon in the menu bar.

This isn't true. I just tested it. There is definitely a physical LED next to the camera, within the "notch" area of the display.
This is similar tools: https://github.com/huginn/huginn
https://n8n.io/
Do American parking lots have trees? Pictures I have seen are usually barren asphalt wastelands.
> I don’t think a direct comparison is possible or makes sense

I agree.

> I’ve yet to see a scotch cocktail I like!

I don't think scotch is for cocktails, although I sometimes have a scotch with ginger ale, and I often take my scotch with a wee splash of water.
It's the data I had easily available.

While the amount of spending money has an effect, wisely spending the money pre-war and wisely executing war plans is obviously critical. Russia is demonstrating the weakness from widespread corruption (they got stuck on roads because they did not invest in logistics and on maintaining their vehicles), combined with spectacularly poor planning in the initial attack. It would be unwise to assume China will make such mistakes.

Anyway, it is my hope that war does not break out. The one guarantee about war is many deaths.
This thought crosses my mind a lot too. When we're working with code, we're shaping information into structures and patterns. And so our brains are tasked with translating those structures and patterns into text, making sure that text is written exactly right, and reconciling the difference in the observed output of structures and patterns with the text we've written. What if we could stay at that higher level of abstraction?

My de facto example of this that I keep coming back to is syntax highlighting. It's immensely useful, and yet once you get used to it, the brain is able to skip the (conscious) step of breaking it down e.g. "this text is green so it means it is a function name, so the next text should be blue because they are function parameters", etc. It's more like "okay, green, blue, bunch of stuff between the braces, checks out". Indentation, squiggly line error highlighting, etc. all serve a similar purpose. They rely on our minds' fundamental ability to recognize visual patterns without having to fully process them through our language centers.

So I feel like there is a huge unexplored space there for more efficient and natural programming. VR with 3D representations of code as, I dunno, pipes, gears, something like that? Function declarations in specific colors and then call sites in mixed colors when one function is called from another? Anything to reduce the friction from thought to working software without having to worry about syntax.

This is all very abstract and I probably haven't explained it well, but it's one of those things I can't shake because I'm fairly sure there's something there.
It's not just in the US that this sort of thing happens. Sitting here in sunny South Africa, where we have regular rolling/controlled blackouts (load-shedding) because the utilities simply aren't able to generate enough electricity to cover all the demand. You'd think they'd incentivize people generating their own solar like crazy, but they don't. They actively punish people that push back to the grid with onerous requirements. The dirty little secret is that a lot of us have "old" "analog" electricity meters, which can literally go backwards when you push to the grid, which many do.
Musk challenges Twitter CEO to public debate on bots
Again, for low pay and hourly work I get it. But still, pay or not treat customers right or go work in a warehouse or something. Treat others the way you want to be treated, if I am in a retail store or a restaurant I don't give a shit how much they get paid they don't have to work if they don't want to. They can form unions, have strikes etc... but taking it out on me their customer is called being an asshole.

If anything, I am growing less and less sympathetic to pro-labor movements because of this. The scale at which this is happening means it has no effect other than to be mean out of spite and empower laziness. I can't go to another business to encourage better pay at this one and tbh, if you mistreat me because you don't get paid enough I only want permanent unemployment for you and nothing more.

If you work for amazon and meet your minimim metrics though, power to you. I have no problem with packages being delivered late lol.
This fucking guy.
> you can't expect to read a recipe and suddenly make five-star dishes either

Who claimed that, or anything similar?
> Good old MacBooks had a LED indicator for the mic.

No, this is not true. Apple never included a physical indicator for microphone use on any computer.
> Good old MacBooks had a LED indicator for the mic

Are you sure about that? I've had the plastic MacBook and a few MacBook Pros, and none of them had a hardware visual indicator for the mic.
> Do you remember how people on HN used to take comfort that AI couldn't write code?

This was posted four years ago about a precursor of Copilot, there is no comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18147697
I have never felt more dumb than when trying to use and learn anything nixos related.
Its awesome technology not meant to be used by humans. I am using cs.github.com, open ai chat bot and usually like 4 tabs describing the same thing from different months using different commands + few versions of what seems like official manual while still having zero idea what I am doing. It feels more like I am reverse engineering something rather than using it.
There is something seriously wrong with what is acceptable ergonomics by whoever is designing the user interfaces. I really wish they fix all their problems because when it all works its awesome.

I wanted to give guix a shot does anybody know if its any better ignoring their stance on non-free software as I think you can work around it.
The word I am looking for was a bit "catchier"
I don't know about mba programs but that is categorically untrue. People in well paying jobs (like tech for example) that love what they do, typically do more than minimum. Managers also make a difference, some of them are so good theit works want to put in their best work. Also, vitality curve is a thing (20/80 principle).
SDF.org ;)
You’re mostly correct, for me, it is mainly about who I am at my core. However, being rejected on technical grounds guides me either toward addressing the deficiency or something else I’m better suited to.

While I think it is important to be volitional in making my choices, sometimes singlemindedness in this regard can blind me to the gifts of things I did not choose. So sometimes self love manifests as making myself available to receive the unexpected, the thing I could not envision for myself that is actually much better for me.
Ransomware Negotiator Is a Thing
Here interviewed in the Register
Latest stable version includes a GUI installer? Or perhaps you meant the app is not intuitive enough...
While (as others have pointed out already) there is a hardwired LED next to the camera on all portable Macs, you can buy very thin, reusable camera cover stickers e.g. from the EFF: https://supporters.eff.org/shop/laptop-camera-cover-set-ii
Flash still lives! It’s now called Adobe Animate, and exports to HTML/JS instead of a proprietary swf. Adobe was just unable to communicate this so no one knows it.
Also look at Construct 3 (it’s awesome!), or even Godot (which exports to HTML5) - both are Flash’s spiritual successors.
Apparently, one of the companies actively pursing psilocybin for medicinal purposes has just patented one of the main methods of synthesis. From what I remember from the article that hit HN just last week regarding one of the main chemists for this company, this may be putting off researchers and others from using anything other than the natural mushrooms in their trials, tests, products, etc.

* https://www.vice.com/en/article/93a5x3/judges-deny-challenge...
Hmm, this isn't really a "howto" post. It's the authors' disdain and insecurities masquerading as one.
I'm from UK, so it's the first I've heard of this. It seems that their solution to curbing inflation is by spending money. Hmmm.

The concept that you can battle inflation by passing laws strikes my as deluded in the extreme. Battling inflation comes from sound economic principles (that you learn from your mother, not some economist). You simply can't will away inflation.

If you really want to battle inflation, just follow Warren Buffett's suggestion: you're no longer eligible for re-election if inflation exceeded 5% during your tenancy.
I blame it on unchecked risk free liquidity which some people seem to confuse with "wealth".

Just look around you, the interests of the savers override those who are still working for their own wealth. Housing and money are supposed to be appreciating investments instead of shelter for people and a medium of exchange for workers.

As people get wealthier, they want their wealth to be in forms that are harmful to the rest of society that isn't as wealthy.
People driving into structures is already a solved issue in any covered parking, solar or not. We know how to build structures on steel poles that does not fall apart when people accidentally hit them with their car. You can even add steel bumpers around the poles like in any covered parking lot.
> I remember why I chose linux in 1998 for my desktop, and would choose for my server.
>
> Features like SMP or journaling file systems were a bit late in FreeBSD

Yep, it was timing for me - the Asus BP6 allowed dual Celerons but only Windows 2000 and Linux 2.6 supported SMP. I was using FreeBSD at the time, but had to move because of hardware support.

But I wouldn't say it was hardware support alone - I think GNU/Linux won because of the licensing - FreeBSD not having a viral license would have turned people off contributing only to have their code distributed closed source by companies... that's my take anyway.
As someone who used delphi throughout the transition from borland, to inprise, to eventually getting bought out by embarcadero my perception was always that their management wanted to be in a different business than desktop developer tools and would use the revenue from delphi to “diversify”, while structurally underinvesting in the product and regularly raising its price. It wasn’t necessarily wrong to see desktop development as a dead end, but they failed to make something as great as delphi to replace it, and gradually became irrelevant.
Flinders University (South Australia) covered some large carparking with solar panels just a couple of years ago. The solution to the problem of funding seemed to be to get the staff and students to subsidise it through drastically increased parking fees. The idea rapidly turned from popular to unpopular, though was implemented anyway.
Interesting. Does the Geophysics Department use a different OS now to run the workstations?
Archive with full text of article: https://archive.ph/4Nn6B
The $ per acre per year one would get from putting PV there is much larger than what you'd get from agriculture (especially pasture).
To be fair they are not going away soon, perhaps in a decade the initial investors will make $100 from it.
This type of circular argument sometimes hit a nerve when it about a thing cares about, but lets remember that the literal sense of "mediocre" is "middle" or "average", so its kind of a tautology to say that in general, software is average.

It takes true nerds (or "geek" in the sense it had around 2000, when it was still a bit derogatory and not yet a fashionable identity marker) to go off the beaten path.
> libraries (which have effectively zero collaboration)

Have you never studied with other people together at a library? Most of my time spent in library during high school and university was spent working together on assignments or studying in groups for exams. It's not just me, whenever I go to my local libraries, they're always full of students studying (many studying in groups).
Thanks for the recommendations. Unnameable Books looks nearby where I'd like to live.
It doesn't have to be 100 times more capable. It has to be 100 times closer to full self driving before it's really a "beta" of full self driving.

As an analogy, let's say something is 30cm, and you want to get it to "almost a meter". If that's 95cm, then you need to get about 15 times closer. That means reducing the gap by a factor of 15. It doesn't mean you need 450cm.

Though I'd be fine with your time metric too. I do want to get to the point where 33 hours without disengagements is routine before "full self driving" is talked about as almost done. I wouldn't want to require that before it's released at all, I just want an accurate name applied.
If I were to speculate I think the absolute brutality of initial learning curve filtered anyone who perceives the usability as a problem so it never got improved.
How does it compare to Sublime Text? This seems to be a FAQ but the link appears to be broken, and I didn't find a corresponding entry in the Wiki.
I would look at it the other way round: Books teach solipsism. How much is that needed for our civilization and future progress? Without book, you have spoken words. Their meaning is also coming from one's head, but civilizations without books aren't that famous.
TikTok overtake Facebook in influencer marketing spend this year, YouTube by 24
From an industrial designer's perspective (I'm not an industrial designer), a physical camera cover adds moving parts that can break, get stuck or wear out. It also makes the laptop's lid thicker. And it adds some friction to video calls as people would just forget to open the camera cover.
Take a look at Kuhl brand pants. Lots of their designs have stealth phone pockets.
Thanks for the recommendations. My probable roommate wants to live near Alabaster Bookshop.
Coming from Ansible in the past for configuration management and various deployments of Gentoo as a base-distribution, the fact Nix employees similar concepts but more declarative and less 'ad-hoc' has a certain intrigue to it.

Curious from others who used similar in the past and use Nix now think about it.
And for hardening ssh:

https://github.com/bsdlabs/ssh-hardening

Then lock-down with PF (firewall).

Overall hardened FreeBSD:

https://hardenedbsd.org/

Or take parts of this Gist:

https://gist.github.com/jahil/4565d8dfa06254f0c11d
It cached in web archive too

And if you accurate and patient enough, I think, you can manually copy latest state of repo

http://web.archive.org/web/20220801082043/https://github.com...
And in the end it’s you again who has to rush to take care for the suddenly important item. You simply cannot win.
"Fonts"

This complaint has nothing to do with Linux. If you copy the Windows fonts or the MacOS font to a Linux computer, they will work as well as on the original systems.

I have stopped using my Apple laptop many years ago, but I am still using on Linux a typeface kept from the Apple laptop, i.e. Hiragino Mincho Pro, because I have not found yet a better Japanese typeface.

The problem with fonts is that the free fonts used to be very ugly, so the default Linux installations were also ugly.

Now there are a few high-quality free fonts and everyone who wants better fonts can choose to buy good fonts from the many online stores.

For me, the quality of the typefaces is an extremely important part of a computer experience. I would not pay money for Windows, because it does not offer any feature that is useful for me, but I have bought a large number of beautiful typefaces and I use them on my Linux desktops and laptops, instead of the default fonts provided by most Linux distributions.

So my Linux documents look even better than any documents using the default Windows or MacOS fonts.

The quality of the fonts has nothing to do with the operating system but only with what you are willing to spend. When spending money on Windows or MacOS a part goes to the included fonts, so it is expected that those must be better than free fonts.
In 2022, Android & Chrome are the most valuable pieces of Google.

For instance, if Microsoft controlled them, they could just point the search functionality toward Bing, and most users mightn't even notice.
I wouldn't say "instability" as much as lack of focus

Especially as with some evolution it seems it's always a mix of people complaining new change means some X program made in the 70s will break and people who wants to redo something made in the last 6mo because it is "old" already and meet the newfangled thing which is 50% breaking changes 50% barely new things
> I guess he’d have to prove they used a formula that they knew was wrong for it to be fraud?

They could know the formula was wrong - inherently every measurement is wrong to some extent which is why you see a +/- error, that is not fraud.

For it to be fraud, they would need to measure it in the way they claim to, get a result they dont like, and report it as <5% anyway (with intent to defraud people). Which could happen in theory, but seems highly unlikely.
I’d love for nix to actually ever work and not just everybody making annoying PRs to all repos all the time
That was mostly misuse, but ZFS does have its fair share of bugs.

My favourite aspect about ZFS is the 13yo Python script for reverting transactions by destroying uberblocks being the to-go even now.
Many people spend the time to cover their computer’s camera — either justifiably so or otherwise — but how many of those same people cover their phone’s front-facing camera?
The best military technology needs the best silicon. The US has long placed export controls on technology with military applications.
thank you! did not consider using game engines as i'm only interested in making websites / simple crud apps, not games, but i might just try building a web app in construct or godot and see what happens :). do you have experience with this?
It hardly matter much, but yes, worth checking.

As a former colleague pointed out: If some on is so far into my computer that they can disable the camera LED and turn on the camera, having leaked pictures of me walking around in my underwear is the least of my concerns.

He had a point. We're so afraid of bad guys spying on us using the built in camera that we forget if they are so far into our machines they can steal pretty much everything else.
Growing Up as an Origamist
What many seem to fail to grasp is that the problems do not originate from anything that a violent revolution would resolve, the revolution would only shake things up for another human lifetime until old structures re-emerge.

The problems actually originate from the way we engage in peaceful transactions and activities among each other. It is pretty much universally agreed by economists that something akin to a land value tax is suitable for the efficient allocation of land. This should be used as an opportunity to give everyone an equal share of land on the planet. By that I mean parts of the revenue of a land value tax would be paid out as a citizen's dividend, it is almost as if you were receiving a land certificate but was automatically renting it out for money. You can then use that money to rent your own land.

This would fix the "rent is too damn high" problem. The money problem mostly fixed itself in its own but anyone who would advocate for e.g. a demurrage currency could introduce it as an equivalent to food stamps, not necessarily for the entire population.
Same. Obra Dinn is a much more complicated and interesting game. It's 10x the game Papers, Please is.
You guys are definitely doing hype right, this post, and the number of other posts I’m seeing on HN surely are going to contribute a lot to the growth of nix. When is the nix conference happening :)?
I've been using the daily builds from GitHub on an Apple Silicon MacBook Pro (M1, 2020) to stream on YouTube for months without a problem. The performance has been great and these versions have allowed me to stream at 1440p (2K) and 30 fps without loosing any frames.

Most third-party plugins aren't available yet. For instance, Elgato Stream Deck doesn't work with these builds but Elgato is working on a compatible version for OBS Studio 28, which mainly means updating from Qt 5 to Qt 6.
Lovely. I really admire the mechanical skills involved in making such a calculator. Mechanical devices seem intuitive. It’s almost as if you could grab a chisel and a few pieces of wood and build something similar yourself, and that’s when you feel the complexity of the design.
Sure, those options are nice, but they use the same code paths as regular reading/mounting does. If you've got some corruption that causes a crash, *all zfs tools are useless*. You must whip out some idiotic 13yo Python script to destroy uberblocks and you might make it work.

Usually bug => corruption => module crashes => no zfs own tools work.