skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reddit has declined so significantly in quality and (in particular) moderation that it's hard to get much out of it. I used it from the very beginning and now overall quality (both posts and comments) is as low as I can recall. Mods have ridiculous power over any users that actually participate in the comments and, in my opinion, the "weaponization" of moderator ability as well as of reddit's newer mod tools has gotten to the point where you participate at your account's peril.

If you want to graze it on the toilet, fine. If you participate in a niche subreddit where the mods value a lack of censorship, fine. Outside of that it has become a place for reposted content, low quality commentary (literally the opposite of a place like this) and a rapidly increasing moderator tyranny.
> - Corporate ESG sucks.

Let me explain. ESG is a way for politicians/administrative-class/elites to force ideology on the public without having to go through the legislative process and gaining public support, thereby bypassing writing laws. Constitution has deliberately made lawmaking process difficult and lengthy, that's a feature, not a bug. Instead, power is exercised through the proxy of corporations.

It is anything but democratic. It is totalitarian (even though I agree with some of the ESG initiatives).
Not sure this is unpopular per-se.
Those look like outstanding resources, especially given their history; will dive in later today; added links in the article overview and references.
To counter anecdote with anecdote, my M1 MBA is still kicking and has survived untold abuse. I carry the computer by the display, have dropped it multiple (over tens) times on to hardwood, linoleum, and concrete floors from 3'-4' high. The computer was on the ground and I accidentally dropped my phone on it, which left a nick in the screen but nothing greater. I spilled an entire pitcher of water on the keyboard and every component is working as usual.

So maybe my computer would pass MIL-SPEC ten times over.
Or was that Mailgun? We'd used and got frustrated with each, so could be both!
This is not realistic, though in the long term who knows
I ran into the oddest thing after switching ISPs. IPv6 kept dropping out with my devices and I traced it back to the LAN side of my router accepting router advertisements from inside my network. Easy enough to fix, I flipped the flag to not accept router advertisements on the LAN interface.

The weird part is that I traced the router advertisements as coming from an old Google Chromecast. It was advertising the prefixes of my old ISP. Bug or intended? If the latter, why?
This wasn't a problem with the game itself. It's their anti-cheat malware that stopped working. On Windows these things are implemented as kernel modules designed to own our computers and take away our control so we can't cheat at video games.

It's always great when stuff like that breaks on Linux. I'm of the opinion it should be impossible for them to even implement this stuff on Linux but broken and ineffective is good too.
Gen-pop on Reddit is terrible, but as someone else pointed out, it’s massive and very specialized. I’m in a forum about CPAP machines, mechanical keyboards, my city, coffee, and UX dark patterns. That’s not stuff that works on HN. They are completely different needs / value.
If you work a 230-day year, every ten minutes on your commute is over 38 hours of time. You're spending the equivalent of 17 work weeks in the car, or 37.5% of your 230-day work year.

That's a lot of time.
I’ve been doing the same for thirty years. I do get spam to these addresses.

The most frequent recipients are the ones I rotate annually for LinkedIn. Mostly UCE rather than scams. Anecdotally it looks like 2019-2020 was a lousy period for their information security.
He should have run for president.
>So why are they fucking with disks if ScyllaDB is so good?

The database layer isn't magic. The database can't give you low-single-digit P99 response times, if a single I/O request can stall for almost 2ms.

That said, I don't think AWS would fare any better here as the infrastructure issue is the same. Networked EBS drives on AWS are not going to be magically faster than networked PD drives on GCP. The bottleneck is the same, the length of the cable between the two hosts.
https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf

> black ball: a technology that invariably or by default destroys the civilization
that invents it.
<<but it comes with the assumption that the information found is reviewed critically by the searcher>>

who brings this assumption?
have you tried an oculus quest? Its amazing for what it is, and in my opinion its only like an original xbox at this stage.
ANT+ is easier to develop for and has far fewer issues and was available at the same time as Bluetooth, so we had something better:

https://www.thisisant.com/consumer/ant-101/what-is-ant/

But phone manufacturers opted for Bluetooth instead. Go ask them why. Sony still supports ANT+ on their phones, but it's mostly only used to connect to fitness equipment (which has also mostly moved to Bluetooth because it is what most phones support.)
Seriously, what a ride this thread has been.
I don't. Those old plastic screens would get scratched so easily. Cleaning the screen with a microfiber cloth invited a 50:50 chance of damaging the screen due to some micro abrasion. There used to be a cottage industry of products specifically for screen cleaning so as to reduce cleaning cloth contamination. It was a mess. I can now take my shirt, a tissue, or wet paper tower to the screen with no issue.
>You are positing a zero-sum game between utility solar and rooftop solar.

Consumer rooftop solar is the most expensive way ever thought of to provide electrical power. Money is fungible. A dollar tied up in building a one-off consumer solar is exactly a dollar unavailable for building out utility grade solar which can be done at a fraction of the cost.

>States (and the USG) subsidize fossil fuels to the tune of 10x what they subsidize solar. All energy sources require subsidies, but the solar subsidy is one of the lowest.

There is no need to change the subject. We are talking about utility grade solar and consumer rooftop solar.

>…PUC rates going down for solar buyback will do nothing for the non-solar users.
The fact that (some states') utility companies are regulated doesn't mean the regulation is protected from regulatory capture.

All states have a public utility commission. The fact that states heavily subsidize power generation by consumers means that those without solar have to have increased rates. As an example, at the current time, non-solar households in CA pay an estimated extra $115 to $245 per year to cover the subsidies given to their wealthier neighbors. It is estimated that as the number of consumer solar installation increase, that increased cost will grow to between $385 and $550 per year by 2030 for less wealthy households to cover the costs of wealthier households. I can understand why those getting the subsidy like it, but that doesn't make it good public policy.

That "energy independence" that you say means a great deal to you is totally dependent on the grid to provide electricity to you at night or when the sun doesn't happen to be shining. In many places the costs to maintain that grid are comparable to the costs of providing the actual electricity.

Why is it fair for consumer solar households to use the grid but not pay their fair share of the costs? Why should the utility have to electricity from them at up to 10 times the price paid to commercial providers of electricity?
Have a look at Wallabag. You can self host it, it has browser and phone plugins, and works quite well.
Honestly, that's what you get for using AppEngine, one of the most insane platforms I've ever had the displeasure of using. Hopefully this has changed, but you couldn't even make a raw HTTP request from an AppEngine application. You had to tunnel your HTTP requests through a proprietary "fetch" service. Now that Kubernetes exists, Google should really deprecate AE.
That’s weird. Worked on my Mac in Firefox.
I didn't know about md and this "write-mostly" option, that is a pretty neat setup.
On shore wind has the lowest LCOE (even excluding subsidies) of any utility scale type of energy; significantly lower than coal, and a bit lower than solar or nat gas.
FOSS is great because great people supported it even when it did have, figuratively speaking, a big fan.
4 day work week
I can't wait for matrix call! OIDC identities are interesting also, great work matrix team! I hope you achieve your goals.
This is great, thanks for sharing. Let's submit comments. Doesn't have to be an essay, you can comment on the individual items listed there. If we all here tackle one or two items, we should be able to make a sufficient impression.
Glad the article mentions y2k. The massive hype and hysteria resulted in all the systems of significance being patched.
> the current market

The one with all the layoffs and hiring freezes?
It would not muddy any waters, because it's not a jury trial.
Perelman and all the surrounding controversy is the most extreme examples in modern times and I feel the mathematical community has got much more accepting of group contributions in the last 2 decades.

But yes, if the proof is only missing easy plug-able gaps then likely a mathematician would reach out to the author so they could co-author the paper. Anything else would be rude.

I was more meaning in the case where the proof has some insight but not apply it in a way that actually disproves the Riemann Hypothesis.
This is embarrassingly simple, but useful.

manps()
{
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo usage: $FUNCNAME topic
echo This will open a PostScript formatted version of the man page for \'topic\'.
else
man -t $1 | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app
fi
}

This is for MacOS. All it does is display a `man` entry as properly formatted Postscript. If you were around in the 80's when we had ring-bound paper manuals, you may remember how much easier they were to read as compared with fixed-pitch terminal rendering of the same page.

Sorry, no Linux version as I rarely have a graphical desktop open on Linux. It should be easy to rig something up with Ghostscript or similar.
I used to work for an ECAD company, very few customers used 3nm, maybe there are more now, but I don’t know what GAAFET would be used for
So the linked article is the work of a crank, but it does raise a fair question: is the density of small distant galaxy smudges on the Webb image consistent with Big Bang theory?
Yes, correct. I probably could have phrased that more clearly. Sorry. :-(
what is this? a no-code solution? I am looking to build an enterprise web app, how will this help solve it without needing to hire devs?
If snaps or flatpaks are the only future for Linux desktop software distribution then I'm switching to windows+wsl
Yes, it does mean folks can generally only buy a home later than they would have before - but that's not what we're measuring. We're measuring how well off they are. Over this period, the 1970s to present, equities have way outperformed real estate. So folks rented, and saved in the equity markets instead until they could make their down payments - without diminishing their quality of life.

In a very real way, the 'starter home' became a 60/40 equity/bond portfolio plus a rental unit.

Between that and FHA as a peer comment pointed out, folks could actually be quite a bit better off today in spite of the bigger sticker - and yes, in spite of PMI (generally only 0.5% to 1%) which can be waived once you reach 20% LTV. (2.5% + 1%) is still way - way - lower than the 18% rates we saw in the 80s.

That's why I said housing deserves its own post, rather than letting it get lumped into with the chart crimes.

Owning is not always better than renting (although it can be). The biggest driver of the delta between owning and renting is actually the opportunity cost associated with not investing the down payment into the equity markets. The point at which folks buy has shifted older, yes. That isn't always a bad thing. A higher down payment is still your own capital. You get it back when you sell.
Pictures: South America's 'lithium fields' reveal dark side of electric future
stipend for books and/or conferences
Two economists walk by an exotic car dealership. One economist points at a Ferrari and says to the other, "I want one of those." The other economist says, "Obviously you don't, otherwise you'd have one already!"
Well then it's unfortunate that our economy is structured to deliver economic returns to early stage investors that are grossly disproportionate to the company's actual performance in the market.

Flow will be no different. They will need to hire thousands D's of people with low interest VC cash and expand to 10 countries in order to deliver the same profitability as say a mid sized law firm. .
....kind of. It's got a deductible for accidental damage, and the deductible can be fairly significant.

You're going to be out an additional $99 if you only damaged the display or only damaged the top case. But if you had a liquid spill or significant drop, you're likely going to be out the $299 (for damaging both, or for damaging the logic board/anything else internal at all).

It's a decent deal if you've got a high end machine, but it doesn't as much sense IMO if you bought something like an Air or a Base 13".

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In contrast, ~$160 on a $1.5k Dell Latitude will get 3 years of warranty + accidental damage coverage with no deductible.
The U.S. Order of Precedence [pdf]
From my 5-minute reading of the Signal source code it seems that disabling the PIN results in the generation of a random 256-bit master key for cloud storage encryption:

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/blob/main/SignalServ...

The primary developer has stated previously that cloud storage is still used even with the PIN disabled:

https://community.signalusers.org/t/beta-feedback-for-the-up...
My dad uses y2k as an example for why climate change is overblown
Wouldn't the same tactics work (maybe lesser) on the judge?
My car in my garage has the battery capacity to power 2-4 houses overnight. This problem is not impossible to solve.
I used to use this _extensively_ years ago. It sounds great in theory but very quickly gets in your way.
Solving this problem is far outside my expertise (and pay grade) but it seems like properly constructed incentives would help.
GCP isn't some rinky dink hobby computer company.

So they suckered one big company into signing a deal with them. Hell, maybe they even suckered a handful into doing so. But there are good reasons that Google is barely (if that) playing on the same level as AWS or Azure. Last I saw they had about 10% of the cloud computing market, compared to well over 50% for AWS and Azure combined. And I don't think it's any kind of stretch to suggest that Google's reputation for lacking long-term commitment to its products is one of those reasons.

And make no mistake... I take no glee or joy in saying this. I was a google fanboy (like many people my age) for quite a few years after Google first came along. And I'm still a fan on many levels. I don't want Google to fail, I just think they are going to fail (at selling to the enterprise at least) if they keep displaying the behaviors they keep displaying. Now the Search and Adwords businesses might sustain them indefinitely, so I don't expect them to go out of business. But as far as selling SaaS services, especially ones targeted at enterprise users, it's clear that Google just does not "get it." And I doubt they ever will. So unless they're going to find a way to change that state of affairs, I suggest they just exit this line of business. It would be easier for everybody, IMO.
> [WSL] is fine for running simple docker containers

WSL is passable for running Docker containers, and that is if you add a ton of complicated socket forwarding machinery and Window-side service management automation to it, which is what Docker Desktop does.

Without that, WSL2's lack of a proper init system means that you literally don't even have a way to automatically start `dockerd`. And you have the same story for the integration of that Docker daemon with the other Linux WSL hosts.

> Comparing it to the real linux is like comparing powershell prompt to full windows.

True, although in a way this comparison is unflattering to Linux because PowerShell is generally better made, better documented, and less hostile to automation or customization than most software that comes with Windows.
OpenAI should probably rebrand lol the "open" part is basically parody at this point
A learning-based method for high-fidelity database generation
Putting the rest of your comment aside;

> the most upvoted solution can be completely incorrect

This is correct. The value you get from a good Reddit conversation is like a good Wikipedia page; it gives you the lay of the land an an idea of what people believe, which is surprisingly valuable.
Why do you think these shell tools exist in the first place?

These tools were processing and generating phone bills in the 1980s with computers with less computing power than your watch.
Agreed. I'm progressive and try to engage in good faith, but have been banned from a number of subs such as whitepeopletwitter (racist name), politics, latestagecapitalism, and several others because they are safe spaces. They are agitation echo chambers. I get that sometimes, skilled trolls play devil's advocate to take conversations off the rails, but the banhammer falls far too quickly on the large subs. It really is propaganda trash.

Reddit is alright for municipal subs, hobbies, and technical stuff. As well as mindless entertainment, my favorite is idiotsincars and catastrophicfailure. Anything where inside jokes are rampant or memes are allowed is trash (political compass memes, programmer humor). Political subs are good sometimes, only if you find a good highly up oted comment with good sourcing of data. But the bulk is just as simple minded as a fox news comments section.
This discussion should link to the Reuters article[1] it quotes from rather than a site whose Google search meta description reads “Trump News, and Breaking News Updated 24/7.”

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/twitter-ma-musk-idUSL1N2ZR1N...
Many have commented on correlation-vs-causation. We get it, there is lag in the economics and the profits have partly been boosted by COVID. However, there has also been inflation-riding on behalf of these companies, and the same argument can be made in reverse: what evidence have they presented that WFH is causing a drop in productivity? None whatsoever. This move is simply to get employees back on the chairs so that the corporations may exert the same level of control they had in the past. On the other hand, those that are doing just fine and aren't cynical about their work practices are embracing WFH.
Why do people downvote stuff that simply triggers them? This is useful info
Kits and YT videos pretty much always means "beyond the average consumer", meaning either paying a repair shop hundreds of euros in labour/profits, or just replacing the device.
Ask HN: Where did you learn to design UIs?
I feel as if this is a skill that I may be lacking, and it's coming through in a side project that I'm working on. Any blog posts, courses, or just general tips on design, UI or UX would be appreciated.
I'm on NixOS atm, but I've been considering going Ansible+btrfs on some rolling release distro instead, the declarative approach is cool but hard when you're off the beaten path!

For PipeWire I'd say we're already there, it just works better than pulse when doing pulse things, and they also implement JACK and ALSA if you need them.

Regarding Wayland, yes a lot of old DE's and WM's will die, but that's just the way of nature, there are still many great options for people to use, we must deprecate things eventually.

Wayland impressions so far: Annoying that windows can't take focus, annoying that electron doesn't default to it yet, TouchPad input works better, scaling works better.
Some apps (vscode) shows a generic icon in Wayland rather than vscode.

Remember that you can run XWayland on Wayland. XWayland will keep most X11 apps working just the same, and X11 really needs depreciation. I'm almost most excited about "Waypipe". When it's mature enough it'll run circles around X11 forwarding while being performant and secure!

I mean I realize how I've turned into one of those "you just have to do these easy things to make it work" kind of people, but for "dumb usersč on "good hardware" (Linux compatible) it's really quite nice, my father had less issues on Linux Mint than Windows.

The year of the Linux desktop is here, it's just wrapped into a VM (crosvm) or a gaming console (SteamDeck/SteamOS).

Honestly with a bit more customization options, and no tracking I would probably get a Chromebook as the next machine (They run Android and "Linux" apps now)

With Waydroid or Anbox you can run Android apps on Linux too, but last I tried wasn't great.

Progress is being made on the shittiest of fronts too! NVIDIA moving code from the driver into firmware is "great" from a usability perspective, I don't really care enough about FLOSS to demand my GPU implementation details being open, as long as compatibility is good.
This is mostly Knuth/TeX/TAOCP history rehash. To me it is a little creepily tinged with religious language (TAOCP as a Bible of CS, disciples must carry on TeX) -- not because religion is creepy, just a strange juxtaposition here IMHO with humble Knuth. I'd speculate that the author couldn't reconcile his religiosity.

This was new and HN-interesting:

> Before he can rest in the promised land, Knuth faces one last mountain. He must redesign the generalized computer used in his book for programming examples and exercises from a 50-year-old von Neumann-style machine with inefficient commands to a more modern RISC (reduced instruction set computer) system permitting faster operation. (Intel processors in most PCs are of the older variety; PowerPC chips in recent Macintosh models are RISC.) “I’m trying to design it so it’s 10 years ahead of its time,” says Knuth. “I’ve studied all the machines we have now and tried to take their nicest features and put them all together.” This super RISC machine, which he calls MMIX, is essentially a teaching concept. But he says he “would love to see it built. I’m spending a lot of time documenting it so someone could build it. The design will be in the public domain.” In the midst of his “Computer Musings” series of introductory talks on MMIX, Knuth is mere months away from completing this phase of his work.
Haven’t most distributions moved on to nftables?

I’m looking for a Linux firewall with declarative, file based configuration I can emit from configuration management. Probably driving nftables. I’m currently using firewalld, but I run into enough bugs and challenges. Or I could jump to something eBPF based.