skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know there are many reasonable and respectable people in the Linux community, a lot of my friends are as such, but they are sadly not the guys at the forefront of Linux development and marketing at large.

I have no plans on reconsidering calling certain parts of the Linux community neckbeards. If they want to force their ideologies down other peoples' throats ("you fix your intellectual property problems", "proprietary code is evil", "use the terminal", etc.), I'll call them how I see fit. Respect is earned, as they say; and they certainly aren't respecting the users nor the world at large.

That aside, objectively it can't be denied that Linux doesn't satisfy most users' needs. If it did we wouldn't be having this discussion nor would Windows have 80~90% of the desktop market. You're fortunate to be someone that desktop Linux can sufficiently provide for, but not everyone is like that.

Windows/Mac/iOS/Android for all their faults can satisfy the needs and desires of almost everyone, it's something Linux critically fails and needs to improve on regardless of worldly aspirations.

Nvidia open sourcing large portions of their driver was a welcome turn of events, though like you I'm not sure if credit for it should be given to the anti-proprietary diehards... :V
I used the same Arch Linux installation from early 2016 until summer 2021, and had a very similar experience to the author's.

There was a significant initial setup investment, by modern standards, although not by historical ones; I had used Linux on the desktop continuously since I was a child, around 1997 (I think I started with RedHat 4.0 and kernel 2.0.29), so I remember all initial setup to be fairly burdensome in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Arch seemed a throwback to that. This is not a criticism, to be clear. I was very aware that this was part of the Arch philosophy, and I embraced that in my switch from Ubuntu.

However, once that was done, very little of interest happened over the next half decade. It's not that nothing ever broke, ever, but the rate of breakage was impressively low, and much lower than I had the previous 7 years on Ubuntu, or desktop Debian beforehand. Arch Linux was eminently stable.

In 2021, I switched to Mac/OSX -- the last of my social group of techies to do so, late to the party by a decade or so. While this has some advantages, my work kinetics will never come close to the raw efficiency and speed of my Arch Linux + i3wm setup.
Indentured servants were largely literate. [NB: Even under slavery, American slaveowners frequently completely disregarded late-stage laws passed against slave literacy in a bout of political hysteria because not only were slaves commonly traditionally taught to read and write, slaves were much more useful if they could read and write. So you can find firsthand accounts from slaves throughout American history as well.] You can read what they thought for yourself.

I have been long thinking about how to address comments in this general style. You can see how they happen - we all agree indentured servitude and certainly slavery are fundamental moral wrongs, so grand historical narratives get crafted where each individual as part of the collective suffers all the worst wrongs of the institutional system, rather than accurately representing the average life. "Read more primary sources" is obviously not a feasible solution for a general audience.

But briefly, I would say that people can suffer, be unhappy, and feel and be terribly wronged without anxiety and depression, which become more common when basic social needs aren't met. It isn't surprising that anxiety and depression are on the rise when fewer and fewer people live consistently in the same household with the same people embedded in the same community with strong real-world social networks. People can thrive in crushing poverty of the likes the average American has never imagined when those conditions are met.

If you aren't satisfied by that, take this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...

and compare it with:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

In terms of material comforts and opportunities, it seems doubtful that the average American is worse off than the average Congolese, but the American is more likely to kill himself. Some of these countries with lower suicide rates have de facto slavery. And again...a fifth of Americans are also on psychiatric medications that a lot of people can't afford and we're still killing ourselves at this rate.
Do you mean that there is a silver bullet,or that innovations don't add together to provide solutions?
> Sorry, I just can't see the change Satya brought to the company.

I would say that if that is your perspective, then you probably didn't have a close up view of them and how they operated before and after. There's been a lot of spilled ink about it; I won't rehash it here.

> it feels like Microsoft is paying Canonical in order to get help for strangling Linux desktop inside the Windows ecosystem, finally extinguishing desktop Linux installs once and for all.

I expounded on this in another thread - Desktop Linux isn't likely to be something MSFT spends any amount of time concerning themselves with as competition. Realistically, it's not real competition and any harms done to it probably were borne out of callousness or ignorance rather than competitive spite. The competition is OSX and ChromeOS (which I would not consider 'Desktop Linux').
You don’t normally have hundreds or thousands of nodes trying to achieve consensus. You have 3-5 nodes trying to achieve consensus and then serving requests to the other 100s-1000s nodes.
Came here to say this :-)
It's bad that something invented as a standard for dead-easy self-publishing has been usurped and perverted into animated TV and app delivery. And having the player app (the browser) and the content coming from the same party is a bad result, too, considering how much public money and community work went into the web. We had proprietary nets and bogus media and protocol standards with CompuServe, AOL, and others already - we didn't need a 20+ years detour to arrive again at square zero with monopolistic middle men.
The issue is severance really varies. I've seen it at month per year of service, I've seen it at a week per year of service. I've seen caps of one month severance. For me personally it would make a difference if I got a big sum.
DALL·E 2 and co are pretty neat, but the output mostly sucks as art. Good art comes from somewhere, having provenance in person, place, culture, and time. Really great art can be quite moving, and I've yet to see anything AI generated that elicits more than a chuckle or a mild "huh neat" from anyone who doesn't know why it's technically impressive.
It solved the problem where distances are long enough that walking would take too long, but short enough that its seems a waste to take a car. For example 1 mile.
You implied it.
Couldn't we just use low enriched uranium for that? And as long as you aren't actively powering it up on takeoff, even in an accident, how radioactive would it be?
Then why can't people lose weight by just drinking fewer calories of gasoline than the calories that they burn in a day through exercise? Is it possible that the kind of calories one consumes effects the burn rate of calories by the body's metabolic system? What if some calories are consumed but not burned because they are instead used for rebuilding bones or muscles -- how do you account for that?
The proliferation of solar farms is well underway and not abating with or without e-fuels, this just gives greater optionality to the energy they output and helps with intermittency. The land-use footprint of their tech as such is 100,000 gallons of car fuel per year per 'forge', each of which fits on a flatbed truck, plus a slated 5 manufacturing facilities to make the forges. That doesn't seem too bad.

On the land-use of the solar panels themselves, I wonder if at some point in the future it might be possible to beam a directed laser to earth from space-based solar arrays, so the earth-based footprint is reduced.
The idea with the touchscreen controls is that the driver shouldn't really be using the touchscreen at all while driving except as a quick reference to the map.

You're not supposed to be using the screen to adjust your media while driving, there's steering wheel and voice controls.

You're not supposed to be adjusting the climate controls while moving, auto climate should just handle it. Why would I want to be distracted by needing to change the climate controls? I shouldn't have to adjust them while the vehicle is in motion.
Who knows? I'm not Alphabet CEO or even upper management. Anywhere.

I do know that questions like yours were common when MSFT made IE 6.0. We all know that ultimately was a disaster. Give Google a year or two of "not directly affecting" other businesses and then get back to me
If you can demonstrate that the comment I was replying to was talking about South America, give me your address and I will snail mail you a cookie.
Yes, The Netherlands.

Government: https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/

Tax service: https://www.belastingdienst.nl

Corona dashboard: https://coronadashboard.rijksoverheid.nl/

Student loans: https://duo.nl/particulier/
Face Space
I don’t understand why NIMBY hate is in vogue.

What’s wrong with letting a nice town stay nice? We don’t need to turn everything to shit just to satiate socialist schadenfreude.

Build it somewhere else
What is the balance of experience between touch, aural/tactile/visua push response on screens, and actual physical buttons which go "click" and light up?

I think the place we know most about this, is the Aircraft space. I am interested because I used to live in 'press it go click' world and now live half-blessed by a car with some controls which are real and a lot of controls which are soft, and I have to say I don't entirely like the experience.

When you look at a Concorde control deck, its a 3 man (4 man?) crew, and its unbelievably complex. The replacement in a current spec Boeing or Airbus is simpler, but it's hardly one touch screen.

Tesla has gone off the deep end.
A man who bought Pine Bluff, Arkansas
I yearn for my arch days where 'ls /etc' only yielded things I knew about.

These days I am stuck with WSL, and that sadly does not work with Arch. As far as I can tell the Arch community does not want to support WSL because of philosophical disagreement.
I have a libvirt VM running Windows with GPU passthrough to the GTX1070 (the main GPU is the RTX 2070 Super) and use looking-glass-client and scream to pass the audio to Linux, which I use for gaming. No need to even multi boot, though I do still have the Windows boot available if I need it, which is rarely.
Which cars have touchscreens and don't have steering wheel media controls?
There's so much wrong with this trend.

First, from a purely operational and pragmatic point of view, I'm stunned how paranoid well established networks are about the Tiktok competition, willing to make existential changes to mimic them whilst potentially destroying themselves.

Why can't there be differentiation? Why not improve your own network, fix its many issues, allow for some co-existence? "Innovate or die" is an exaggeration for Facebook and Youtube, they aren't going anywhere anytime soon.

Second, I'm shocked (but not really) how not a single of these companies (or governments) take a shred of responsibility in even thinking about the human impact. There's already a laundry list of serious problems associated with social media and the trajectory is to just escalate it even more? A machine rapidly feeding you short videos, many to be AI generated, as the ultimate "solution"?

Third, we've already established how the combination of social media and misinformation can lead to fatalities (example: FB and Myanmar), political interference, escalating polarization and instability, and more. The only counter force, ineffective as it may be, would be real users pushing back and trying to "correct" things.

The next generation has no such pushbacks. It's all just one recommendation engine with ultimate power. Do we even know what the fuck we're doing?
Why is traveling at that speed necessary? Are these planes emitting less CO2 than existing ones.If you need to meet someone quickly use Zoom/Teams/Meet. These plants make no sense in the current environment. Just saying
Not for fields that require some kind of performance
They accept entrepreneurs on merit.
Not really. I literally only bought this because I was interested in the bottles that came with the kit. Well, I looked because I'm interested in the subject, but I bought it for the bottles because they are nicer looking than what I was using prior. The kit came with a sampling of different types of dried peppers, so I'm using them for things as well.

If you want to go for a kit, find one with several types of peppers. There is a lot of variety in flavour and heat levels. I mentioned cascabel, for example... they're not particularly hot, but instantly make you think "Mexican!" when you taste it. Even with kits, you still have to buy all the other ingredients, so I think it is actually better to just go that route and use ingredients you already have or buy with groceries.

If you are going to ferment, I did use a water bubbler that I got from a wine brewing place. They are not expensive, since they are simply clear plastic valves and a rubber sealing ring. Just add water. I've seen them for super cheap on Wish dot com even. I don't use a pH tester (although I may in the future), but after 2 weeks, just taste it. You'll know if it is ready because it'll taste very different than how it tasted when you bottled it. Chance of it still fermenting after 2 weeks is nearly zero anyway. At least that's the general consensus I read online, and it worked out that way for my first attempt.

I recommend doing vinegar based pepper sauces to gain experience with how things taste, etc. You'll know very quickly how they turn out. With fermenting, there's a long agonizing wait. Mind you, my first attempt came out so well, I am glad I made both in the same day, so I wasn't without some homemade sauce while I waited for the fermenting one. And with fermented pepper sauces, you use fewer ingredients, so maybe they always turn out well.
Are you really surprised the consumer market isn't buying a product that doesn't exist?
The man who bought Pine Bluff, Arkansas
And here I was thinking it was used by people that appreciate their local police force and understand the stresses they are under.
I have a 2020 Mazda 6 and I love the safety focus of its infotainment. But the ludicrously bad latency is infuriating. Button presses - especially <change radio station +/-> will sometimes get buffered for 10/20s and sometimes they're ignored altogether.
They could have done even better if they'd also put one wheel in front of the other instead of side-by-side...
let's assume we can scale renewables+nuclear fast enough so that our civilisation is not damaged too much by climate change.

let's also assume we stabilised biodiversity and avoided a mass extinction.

should we continue to produce massive amounts of energy so that some can commute by plane daily and others can stream cute kitten video in 8k?
On earth a great deal of life's variety happens at the boundaries, such as in tidal zones and estuaries. There are no oceans on Mars but there is also very little atmosphere. I suspect we will want to engineer our oxygen producing equipment to make estuaries and tidal zones for atmosphere, where there is either a steady stream of atmosphere, or daily pulses that push life to adapting to temporary deficits and surpluses of resources.

Later on that could be accomplished just by routing the exhaust down into the canyons, but early on that may have to go through greenhouses, which either vent above a certain pressure or aren't quite hermetically sealed.
> You are wrong on this, the private part indicates the privacy it provides not the destination.

Sorry - that's just not the case, you're retconning VPN terminology. VPNs were originally implemented to replace dedicated WANs and dial-in access to private networks - they were not originally designed to provide privacy for individual access to the Internet. Heck, even the RFC for VPN terminology makes that clear (RFC 2764 is over 20 years old).

Oh, and this:
> There have always been client-access VPNs

If your first exposure to VPNs was from shady privacy-snake-oil salesmen, I can see how you'd think this, but take it from the people who were there before client based VPN access was even a thing: Site-to-Site VPN was the original use case for VPN, and you didn't waste tunnel bandwidth (encryption chips were slow and expensive back in the day) routing general internet traffic over your tunnel...
Problem is, Web Components still don't support reactivity and passing complex props, so you need a framework anyways, and at that point it might as well be React.

I've seen people do abominations like each web component is a React root, message passing systems on the side for complex objects... better use React directly
Thanks! And I’ve actually been joking that now that I’ve sold something, I’m an artist. “Art is whatever you can get away with,” someone once said.

I don’t yet have the curated pieces available online, but that’s on my TODO list. I really appreciate you asking, though, especially now that I’ve got the physical part figured out, over, and one with. :)
How do you account for the fact that people can lose weight by increasing the number of calories that they consume while reducing their exercise if they eat only ground beef and sardines?
To be generous, if we're talking coding specifically, 4-5 years is a reasonable cap in my opinion.

Coding is not the same thing as software engineering or systems/architecture design or technical leadership or... All of those things can be improved significantly through a human lifespan. The act of writing code? Not so much.

The other caveat is that most people will not be getting enough experience to hit that cap in 5 years. You need the right environment, mentors, etc.
This how routing behavior has been on Mac OS for about 15 years now.

Mac OS route selection always takes into account the source address of the IP packet in addition to the routes in the routing table.

If a socket binds to a particular address, the Mac OS kernel will choose routes associated with the interface that address is on and ignore the others.
Pinecone doesn’t use Faiss, nor ScaNN. We love Faiss and even teach people to use it[1]. There happens to be a sizable population of engineers who need more than what Faiss provides (like live index updates and metadata filtering, for example), and can’t be bothered or aren’t being paid to customize and manage open-source libraries all day.

[1] https://www.pinecone.io/learn/faiss/
Yes of course there is: reselling the same game over and over.
Get rid of downvotes. They serve no purpose but to chill free expression.

Secondly, stop thinking of free speech as a right that protects us from the Government. The Government is rarely the issue in the US. The free speech ethos should be something in my head that protects you from illiberal outbursts or actions on my part.
Sure, but we actually provide business value and our toolset is applicable to a broad set of problems.
Why not use PublishSingleFile for containers instead and get image sizes well below 100MB?
Can confirm. I have an F-150 Lightning. The UI sucks and is slow. Much worse than my Teslas. It takes like 30 seconds when I get in the truck and turn it on before it's even usable. Switching between CarPlay and the native interface is ridiculous. It's a great truck though. Love it. :) AMA.
Although my experience as a walker with bikes in Japan is that they'll try to navigate through a crowd of people that's almost too dense to walk through. And, while this may be what you mean by "rules of the sidewalk," I also found that I had to be very conscious of making changes of direction without checking behind me lest a bike on the sidewalk clipped me. (It's not like I'm going to randomly change direction in the US but I'm also not going to expect to be hit by a bicycle if I turn right.)
What about updated Dart support and functions?
Yeah well I don't have the numbers. Just saying it's still not easy.
How does that work? Does it try to autodetect whether you're speaking SOCKS to it? What if you want to reverse tunnel a socks proxy from another process like Tor?
Yeah, it's weird. The music scene is as live as it ever was here, along with all other parts of the normal city life.

It's not really a new situation for us. This war continues for 8 years, and all this time the front was about 200 miles from us. During this new phase of the invasion the frontline got a little closer to Dnipro, but not that much.

Regular life here stopped in winter-spring, when we didn't know which cities will withstand this phase of the invasion. Tragically Kherson, Mariupol and many others are lost as of now. But we in Dnipro were lucky enough and life kind of continues here.

There are changes of course. Practically no artist in Ukraine gets paid now at any level. Every single concert is for charity, gathering funds for arms or refugees. And, as with all other life, there are constant interruptions of air raid sirens.

Other than that, music scene lives as usual. People still go to concerts and artists still perform. Predictably a lot of sad sad songs gets written now, but honestly no one really wants to hear them - everyone here gets enough negativity from everywhere else. The best bet is to stick to the happy and hopeful stuff.
The fuel is also transportable...
Was going to say the same as sibling @ReadTheLicense, but further Web Components were started before React so the idea that they are more modern isn't true.
I've had the same Arch installation running since Spring 2020 on a desktop from 2012 or so. It's not my daily driver, but still works just fine. Even with some long periods between updates, I don't recall any serious stability issues.
This doesn't explain the value of eating cold, unappetizing food for a high price, though.

If you're only trying to consume nutrition, there are any number of ways to do that both cheaper and faster.
From the parent article:

>Importantly, this diffractive camera is not based on a standard point-spread function-based pixel-to-pixel mapping between the input and output FOVs, and therefore, it does not automatically result in signals within the output FOV for the transmitting input pixels that statistically overlap with the objects from the target data class. For example, the handwritten digits ‘3’ and ‘8’ in Fig. 2c were completely erased at the output FOV, regardless of the considerable amount of common (transmitting) pixels that they statistically share with the handwritten digit ‘2’. Instead of developing a spatially-invariant point-spread function, our designed diffractive camera statistically learned the characteristic optical modes possessed by different training examples, to converge as an optical mode filter, where the main modes that represent the target class of objects can pass through with minimum distortion of their relative phase and amplitude profiles, whereas the spatial information carried by the characteristic optical modes of the other data classes were scattered out.

It seems like that may not be so possible.

Later on in the article:

>It is important to emphasize that the presented diffractive camera system does not possess a traditional, spatially-invariant point-spread function. A trained diffractive camera system performs a learned, complex-valued linear transformation between the input and output fields that statistically represents the coherent imaging of the input objects from the target data class.

Note here that the learned transformations are linear, and the Fourier Transform is linear, but you cannot invert from output to input because the sensor measures real-valued intensities of complex-valued fields. All the phase information is lost.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19866584