skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The CPU gets the i/o completion for the read, and is in charge of the ram address where it was stored, but it doesn't need to read that data...

Modern NICs use packet descriptors that allow you to more or less say take N bytes from this address, then M bytes from some other address, etc to form the packet. So the kernel is going to make the tcp/ip header, and then tell the nic to send that with the next bytes of data (and mark it for TLS however that's done).
I believe it should be their choice to make. The case in which I'd be skeptical is if someone were just beginning to experience mental illness. The onset of mental illness can be very difficult, confusing and disturbing. People often don't know what's happening to them and they don't know what treatment may be able to do for them. To allow them to choose suicide in an dark early moment of their disease which may stabilize seems callus to me.

I'm not sure how you structure this limitation but bottom line is anyone with significant experience of their own mental illness who doesn't want to live with it anymore shouldn't have to.
You want Xrdp or Xvnc. Whether they are as performant as you want, I have no idea, but each of them can maintain the session and you simply connect to it with the client.
I installed Ubuntu on my Acer laptop a few years ago. Fans didn't work after waking from sleep, so it'd overheat. Wifi was finicky. I didn't even try Bluetooth. Couldn't run Adobe Flash and thus couldn't watch the World Cup on the only legit website to watch in the US (Fox Sports).

Yeah, "not the OS's fault" etc. But Windows did all of that fine.
It also amazes me that the US's primary geo-strategic competitor is allowed to run a data harvesting campaign on such a massive scale inside America, whilst simultaneously being allowed to block all foreign media (mainstream & social) within it's own borders.

Who knows how that data is going to be used in the future, as AI becomes more and more advanced.
You mean experience boredom in real life? There is absolutely nothing to see there.
> low power gradient

What does this mean?
Recognize that energy and utilities have both real value and real costs and discard the initial assumption.
I think more adapters/docks with an RTL8153 suffer from this issue. E.g., I had a Lenovo USB-C Gen 2 dock that would fairly reliably take down our office network after suspend-wake. Just avoid Realtek NICs like the plague.
What a depressing future we're headed into :/ Instead of iPad becoming a "proper" computer, the Mac is being dumbed down to become a tablet with a keyboard attached. Sometimes I wonder if the people making decisions at Apple, Google, Microsoft etc. live on a completely different planet than me.
Not a Mac developer here, but I spent significant time on both plattforms and run Kubuntu/Linux since 4 years.

It depends probably on what you are developing, but when you are doing stuff for backend, it will very likely end up running on a Linux box. This means having your platform, terminal and so on closer to Linux is useful (e.g. you have bash).

Windows has WSL now, so this would be a way as well.

From all UIs I like KDE Neon the best. It is truly a good experience.
Anarchism doesn’t reject “rules”. It’s certainly not rulelessness. It advocates freedom of self-organization of communities. So, communities will have their own rules.
Let's hope there is a huge gap between "soft" decarbonization and going back to the age of stone so we can at least manage some peaceful escape...

But one thing is pretty sure, if we don't do anything, the problem will solve itself (which usually means war...)
This. x2go has served me well and can be tuned to be even more performant with some X11 settings changes.
https://archive.ph/g2yea
For me it's the opposite when it comes to lan. Vnc is buttery smooth with no perceivable delay, while RDP still seems to limit to some low-ish fps.

For low bandwidth/high latency links, RDP easily wins.
This matches my experience. With a Gigabit Ethernet connection, I find it very difficult to distinguish a desktop streamed via Parsec from a local one. RDP is noticeably laggy in comparison. I would even say that Parsec over a good internet connection (a few 10 MBit, ~10 ms ping) feels more responsive than RDP over LAN.

What I don't like is that Parsec relies on third-party servers for the session initiation, and that streaming Linux desktops is currently not supported. Maybe the open source implementations of Nvidia's GameStream (Moonlight and Sunshine) could be an alternative.
There is enough work already done in game theory about the dangers of nuclear escalation. Current state of affairs pretty much ensures no rational agent will want to use them.
On the other hand, when you model the interactions of significantly more intellectually capable rational agents with us, the "calculus" is not very favorable, to put it mildly.
Do your server a favor and add thumbnails for list view. There are some huge 2MB images slowing down loading.
The only way to get the savings yourself is to zstd yourself in the first place, which is what we do.
"If I don't do it someone else will"

"May as well get mine"
The answer is basically that in Unix-world (Mac and Linux) we focus a lot more of our attention on the command line. I have mostly remote Linux servers but also a couple of Macs I can remotely ssh into. You use your own computer for UI. The thin client dream is a bit.. 90s.
We have to have endpoint monitoring software on all employee computers for SOC2.

We keep the monitoring to as minimal as needed to meet that requirement.

If your workstation stops checking in, or tells us your workstation doesn't comply then we will ping you to fix it.

It's always polite: Your machine is reporting X please fix that.

E: I should point out that our monitoring doesn't involve wifi like the person you replied to.
This image does a better job of representing the scale:

https://preview.redd.it/3bnqb0cali771.jpg?width=640&crop=sma...
I'm with you, I'm a dev who prefers Windows over Mac. I'm convinced that most Mac users don't use multiple monitors and they're completely fine with the really poor window management. It boggles my mind; I am objectively less productive with a single monitor than I am with multiple.
Fair enough, I should have written "safety" instead of "security".

Because you really don't want a script written by a end-user to crash down your $10B / 20 years of planned mission hardware.
The design choices to be different really grind my gears. For example the window close buttons. There's no reason for a western user group to put action buttons on the top left of the window, but Mac did it, to be different.
> so everyone draws stuff on their own, since it's far more flexible and faster

Faster for which usage? Locally yes, but not remotely where it's worse..

In the beginning Unix desktops were optimised for LAN, and in the process of being optimised for standalone PCs to the dismay off those who access their Linux desktop remotely..
I think you mean "I don't like this art"
Ok. I would kind of like it, but environmental impact of that needs to be insane. I guess 50 years ago people were not that concerned about it. And then how much energy they will have to spend just removing sand. Seems like a pretty pointless job for someone.
Agreed. What a monumental waste of money to create something that's ultimately boring as hell.
This.

I had a contract a while back that meant I had to work on desktop Linux for the first time in years.

The experience on my XPS13 is not as good as macOS[1]. It’s not far off though …and FOSS is always improving.

They have the edge right now but if Apple keeps neglecting macOS, degrade it to be more like iOS[2] or keep adding rent seeking nagware, Linux will be “good enough” for me.

1. Seriously, why can’t I have subtitles off by default as a preference in Gnome Video again?

2. Why is there an unused dictation toggle on my iOS keyboard but no undo key? Why can’t I copy and paste in every iOS app? Why is the spell checker so hard to trigger? etc, etc
Have you edited a PDF recently
I don’t think you could say that about everyone. I’ve known unreasonably sociopathic people.

And even then, the buck stops somewhere. To whom is the king of the hill beholden?
Would it be better spent paying Stanford grads to make an app that can get you food in 25 minutes instead of 30?
I have been a Mac and iOS developer for 7 years now and am moving away. I feel like Apple treats developers really poorly from App Review process to forced updates of your hardware/OS/Xcode.
Singapore seems to be not doing that for a benevolent dictatorship. Neither are the oil producer middle eastern countries. Every citizen get a check from the sovereign fund that invests it for future returns.
Acoustic Fields: How to Build a Diaphragmatic Absorber (2019)
Please, build MORE simple apps. I would pay for a suite of simple Android applications that respect privacy, take least amount of "disk" space and RAM, load and work as fast as platform allows it. Replacements for bloated system apps, like calendar, messages, email etc., also some other apps like qr reader, notes and similar.
It's a bit of big claim to say that Steve Troughton-Smith has no idea what he is talking about.

He's not just 'this guy'. STS deserves more respect and credit for his opinions than that.

Others may not agree with him, but he does know what he is talking about! :-)
Well, it looks like an art object, definitely - idea, style, composition. But it will only look good in a desert.

Real cities should be green.
In Barcelona, we have a place called “Parc del Fòrum” - a huge area covered by asphalt (14 acres, 5.7 ha), with just a few buildings. Looks great, for sure (you can ride a bike/scooter here with a wind). Mostly being used for music festivals.

But before every festival, organizers put artificial grass to create the areas in front of the stages. And the rest of the time you can find just a few young souls riding here (2-5 persons). There is only one place in Forum Park where you can always find a lot of people - the children's playground. Because it has trees, grass, and shadow.

What might look great and stylish isn’t always comfortable. I love Parc del Forum because I like to ride and it has spectacular sea views, but I think it was a great experiment to highlight the importance of trees in a city design.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parc_del_Fòrum
When I look at it the three things I note are

The high speed rail from Grapevine to the San Fernando Valley isn't going to happen because of geology + money. Which leaves Bakersfield, Tehachapi, Palmdale as the viable route.

Gilroy to Bakerfield is the same distance whether you go down I5 or HWY99.

And the current rail corridor needs a bunch of grade separation work done. It would be dumb to build grade separated high speed rail on the west side of the valley. And at the same time also build duplicate grade separation on the east side.

If you look at the current work being done about half if it is the above mentioned grade separation.

I'll also mention the point of high speed rail was to carry passengers quickly but not as fast as possible from SF to LA. Really there are four goals. Connect the northern and southern passenger rail lines. Grade separation in the central valley. Commuter rail in the Bay Area and Socal. And avoid having to upgrade airport capacity.
This book is available at archive.org

https://archive.org/details/art-of-electronics-3e

The first four or five chapters are quite nice. Beyond that it's too advanced for me, but I mostly dabble in analog guitar and audio electronics.
As far as I understand, since they do look the same and are both in the same field/industry (laptops), they have to do this or else someone else could infringe on their trademark and not get in trouble because they didn’t enforce it in the past.
Note that electrification is a form of energy efficiency. Yes, if we convert transportation and industry and heating to use electricity instead of fossil fuels we'll need twice as much electricity, but since electric motors are more efficient than fossil motors and heat pumps more efficient than furnaces, full electrician means we'll be using a lot less energy.
Can we have a VR version pls
For all the hate MS gets, windows 11 is pretty much perfect. Never had any issues with it whatsoever. Even teams runs well on it, not so much on Mac from what I hear.
"I can't share my screen" "Teams has crashed"
I would be furious if my 2k EUR Mac couldn't run a chat app.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32529645

I posted this if anyone is interested. It's Ultima Online in a browser, allows you to connect to official server or private.

All written in C#.

These different games in browsers are incredible. Always blown away at the cool stuff people do.
The Parliamentary Budget Office is independent and nonpartisan. It's literally their job to provide cost estimates for parliamentary proposals. They're designed to hold the governing party accountable for the financial implications of proposed legislation.

It's perhaps also worth noting that with 38 million Canadians, you're talking about roughly $2 per person. I don't think that's a meaningful amount of money at the national level. Government spending on healthcare is roughly $8000 per person.
Statements made by others about social trends in the US are so often misconceived and misconstrued, you will have to forgive me if I don't make many serious points, but on the low levels of voter participation and under the gerrymander it would be almost impossible to say the 49/51 class split in voting was indicative of real social trends.

US media is quite progressive overall. US education system is quite progressive overall. I am amazed the women of America did not rise up and slaughter their political classes and judges in the red states and the federal courts, but that goes to my bewilderment at the mixture of progressive and regressive tendencies which make up America.

To all practical purposes at this time in many ways the US is an illegal theocracy operating in a nation state which constitutionally forbids it. More of them are practising Christians than any other comparable democracy. Yet, they legalised cannabis and stop kids drinking until they're 21, after they can die for their country. It's strange.

HN isn't only about America, but the progressive regressive questions tend to be from an American perspective.
For as long as humankind has existed, enough has not been enough. Energy in abundance will only lead to people wanting, and consuming, more more more.

Perhaps 'less'is not the answer. However, 'more' certainly is not either.
"When I'm using it I have to Google how to do simple stuff like copy and paste."

Really? everytime? :-)
If you rely on blocking I/O, you've got to deal with blocked processes as i/o isn't instant.

You can deal with that by having lots of threads or processes doing the work, but coordinating many threads can be difficult. With async sendfile, you let the kernel manage all of this without needing userspace to do anything, and the kernel is well organized to manage pushing data to the right place when disk i/o completes.

If you just want to write code in blocking style, check out Erlang, but know that under the hood it massages most of the blocking into aggregated select/kqueue/epoll/etc calls.
No. Despite a global membership, it still appears (to my foreign eyes) to be overwhelmingly (and annoyingly) US-centric.

Many posters demonstrate this through their language (why say 401k when you could say pension scheme), assumptions (guns are legal), and the scope of their posts and commentary.

You only need to read threads on crypto, gun control, politics, etc for this to become abundantly clear (irrespective of the side of the argument taken by a commenter).

Of course, there are exceptions, but, by and large, HN does seem to be like this.

Many posters and comments just _assume_ a US frame of reference without stopping to consider whether a global one, or a non-US one might be better.
According to the EU website's : "REPowerEU is the European Commission’s plan to make Europe independent from Russian fossil fuels well before 2030, in light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine."

and "In the short-term, we need alternative supplies of gas, oil and coal as quickly as possible"...

So it's about a third of the EU consumption and it may include just changing supplier, not reducing oil...
Agree, core feature of Python is to be readable and familiar. While I enjoy reading more advanced deep dives in language features, at the point you’re being crafty to flex, it’s likely bad idea; aka if next person reading your code mostly will have no clue what it’s doing, it’s likely a bad idea to do.

Wish there was a way to visualize or rate how average code is - especially two separate versions covering same concept; hence my other comments on resources to quantify usage patterns.
Websites "load" very fast for me because I do not use Chrome. I retreive data/information from the www without running Javascript, processing CSS or auto-loading resources. I have no trouble making online purchases, conducting online banking, etc. with a popular browser when that is necessary. The only regret is having to use a browser controlled by an advertising company (or supported by one) for those tasks. HTTP/1.1 works great for me.
That’s a lot of divots and some shapes in the desert!

I am not familiar with this artist or what this is intended to evoke, but I don’t think I’m the intended… audience?
There are CubeSats with various propulsion systems like ion thrusters and pulsed plasma thrusters in development. It's relatively new though iirc. These thrusters can last for an insanely long time. So maybe in theory it could reach a planet one day, but it would take ages. So in practice probably not practical and it just makes more sense to launch one from a rocket that is going to that planet.
On the contrary, it would be easier because you'd only need to take a mortgage on the improvement value, the land itself would be very cheap. Sure, you'd have to pay ground rent to the government but that would simply offset other taxes you would've owed regardless.
I somehow found bluetooth and sounds in general to be the achilles heel of Ubuntu. Both installations I have/had in my family either sound stopped overnight or bluetooth didn't work anymore after an update.
How can you evaluate an experiential project after looking at a handful of 640x480 pictures?
YSFlight is an open-source flight simulator
>The Android team does a great job of introducing features, I just wish they were better advertised, as I am sure there are so many people who (unfortunately at some point) would benefit from these features.

This.
Android has so many great features that i always find too late. While apple advertises their features so good that everyone, even non apple users know about it.
This is "explicit is better tha implicit".

I would think that Inwoukd hate the above code but actually I appreciate it and prefer it. It's great.
I like to save that 48 dollars per year and just use the free tier of google drive.
The debate on whether renewables can account for 100% of society's needs has already been settled, apparently[1], and the answer is clearly yes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%25_renewable_energy
>The garbage man doesn't show up unless he's paid. Farmers don't grow enough food for others unless they're paid.

>To first approximation, no one provides any essential service for free.

That's pay.

Profit is proportional to capital, not effort (even if it requires effort to materialise). Wage or earnings don't prodce the same pathological effects as profit, even if one person earns $500/hr and another earns $5/hr, the inequity and power imbalance is a constant and relatively quite small compared to exponential inequity entailed by making earnings proportional to wealth.

The assertion that a factory, or a 1000 hectare farm, or a house that you don't live in can be owned is a positive statement, not a brute fact of the world, or a necessary consequency of commerce and trade. As soon as you maoe that statement you are saying that owning these things entitles the owner or shareholder to an exponentially increasing share of control over the world and other people while your farmer and garbage man slowly go bankrupt.
> it provides easy cover for opportunists to exploit it

I’ve always thought the opposite is true. A set of rules is bound to be gamed. More rules create more opportunities to exploit (regulation only benefits leechers). When rules are global, profit of exploitation is greater. Therefore, there are more exploiters and exploits. In anarchy, the extent to which a set of rules apply is limited. Therefore, there is less profit from exploitation, and in turn, there are less exploiters.
> However, 'more' certainly is not either.

Why not?
> nor a reason to punish them

Locking people out of their account (which sometimes means a large chunk of their real life) with no recourse is very punishing and inexcusable.
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Book Review)
Maybe you're refering to subpixel rendering, which Windows still has, but has ben phased out on Mac with the introduction of retina displays? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering#OS_X
Energy should be free. Electricity..for example..is basically like traffic passing through a street. The real cost that is our electricity bill is for wages and pensions and buildings that house employees etc.

Same with water. We have public utilities because we are no longer allowed to dig wells for potable water.

The cost of most public services is really the wages of public sector employees and costs associated with these jobs.

A thought experiment: It should be possible to provide public housing, free medical, education, utilities, basic city administration for a flat tax rate. Each city with a capped population can obtain superior standard of living by increasing taxes or reduce population if taxes aren’t sufficient.
Monkeys in Indonesia use rocks as 'sex toys'
Same as Google. Announces new product, initially solely in the US. There are 5x as many Google consumers or more outside the US than inside and they kill the product on a whim if it "fails" some US centric market test.

I wonder if the American Python community (for instance) even realises Guido is Dutch. Or marvels at his fluency in English.

Many HN participants are FAANG and so US centric thinking is strong, noting of course the huge disparity on pay and conditions and inside and outside the US.

There may also be a time of day effect. I'm gmt+10 so maybe I'm camping on end day ranked stories, responding to midnight owls in the US who tend to more extreme views.
Or C) electric car adoption allows average speed or highways to increase to 150mph
There are chances that in the future data centers the DIMM sockets from the CPU boards will be replaced by a combination of soldered DRAM on the CPU boards, for the lowest latency, combined with separate memory boards attached to the CPU through CXL links, for high capacity memories that can be allocated flexibly to the CPU boards, and that can be replaced or expanded independently of the CPUs.
Seriously, how hard is it to implement look-behind regexes? If you have even one in your code, the page will crash in Safari.
https://caniuse.com/js-regexp-lookbehind
It's not Vista bad! LOL

Stage Manager is a disaster though!

Like, really horrible as a desktop macOS feature IMHO.

I feel like Apple are trying to shoehorn bad iPad features into macOS to unify them. Instead of making iPadOS more like macOS and therefore more useful generally.

I dont know - something is screwed up in Apple's strategic thinking.

They admitted as much though with their back-to-the-mac push a few years back.

Shrug.

I've been using Macs since the mid-80s, and i'm very conflicted.

The experience isn't the same anymore, for me But then the computing world isn't the same, and my needs aren't the same.

I used to customise and feel a personal connection to my Mac. Now they are interchangeable and disposable. Like servers, they are cattle not pets.

The new M1 Macbooks are amazing though and we've never had it better in many ways.