skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm joining the discussion late, but can convey my experience with HP Omen 16 (Advantage Edition).
My primary requirement was full sizes cursor keys, and the PgUp/Down, Home/End/Insert/Delete keys. Proper keys are essential for developers. The keyboard is very good. The laptop has a full set of I/O (including 3 USB-A connectors). AMD Advantage Edition has proper Linux driver support (no nVidia), and the built in Vega is OK for low power mode.

However, the laptop is not without it's flaws. The power supply is a chunky brick, there is a driver bug with the Elan Touchpad (so you're constantly hitting Fn-F11 to disable/reneable touch pad when you dont have a mouse), and the dolts put a Pause key where Delete is (and put delete on top row, to the right of power button). The designer should be hit with a bag of potatoes, it's idiotic.

Otherwise, great silent laptop, works well in Windows 11, Linux and even Haiku (minus an ACPI powerup delay, but once it finally boots, it flies).

7 out of 10. (-1 for Pause/Delete/Power key placement, -1 for Elan Touchpad drivers, and -1 for placing 4 stupid stickers on the palm rest area). 7 out of 10 may look low, however I'd give other laptops an even lower score. My old 2014 MacBookPro would get 8 out of 10, and that is the best laptop I ever had. Sadly, not suitable in 2022.
Like all things internet, if its history isn't being curated and cataloged, yesterday links eventually break and old content is lost. This is the only weakness in an otherwise solid technical and professional atmosphere.
Found 80% too high, so I looked it up and it's around 60% (would be 70% if there weren't temporary limits), which is still a lot.
To me, this is why HN is sometimes worse than Reddit. At least with Reddit, it's pretty easy to tell when someone is objectively wrong. With HN, I feel sometimes, after reading something convincing, that perhaps I've just been hypnotized by good rhetoric.

I see people making objectively wrong comments here on HN all the time in my own niches. So, I'm sure when I'm reading something outside my niche here that I'm reading BS - but it doesn't read like BS.

The only thing outside my niche that I know I can trust here is tech stuff, and that's why I started coming here many years ago. But I've also seen HN's quality go down over the past few years, slowly becoming Reddit-like, unfortunately. I think dang's emphasis on discourse style will ultimately keep HN's quality satisfactory, though, no matter how many Redditors migrate here.

HN will probably remain the best forum for discussions on a wide variety of subjects for the near future.
It forces the use of a new password specific to that site. Reusing passwords is considered bad for security.
Re: reference letters and cultural clashes: "all in all a very good second-rate mathematician"

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/53122/mathematical-urban-...
The modern state of Israel declared its independence in 1948 (and was immediately attacked by all of its neighbors, something which re-occurred multiple times). The ancient "state" of Israel has been in that land for north of 3000 years. As archaeological evidence continues to demonstrate.
I’m generally averse to offering my skilled labor for free, so I spend the same effort fixing stuff on internal things and coaching coworkers. This has paid off big time for my career.

I also have a lot of hobbies that scratch the same itch, like making music. In fact, making music feels like more of a whole brain workout than programming, so I’d much rather spend more of my limited time on Earth doing that than writing more code.
> Getting money for running websites is also non-mandatory?

Your business problems aren't our concern. If you're financing your business by stealing personal information from users and selling it to data brokers, then you're a crook. Crooks tend to have high hosting expenses.
> The animosity comes from being tricked into vendor lock-in with "free" samples.

Care to name one of these lock-in licenses specifically rather than generally?

> I would much rather have a paid free license than a zero cost non-free license.

As someone who earns money from opensource software used by both companies and individuals I really have no idea what this actually means. Care to elucidate for the rest of us what a "paid free" or " zero cost non-free" license is? Literally just an example link to one of those types of licenses is all I'm asking here.
In my experience, typing dot requires a lot of quoting and brace-matching, often in editors without the best affordances for those operations, with so-so error reporting.

The result is that it’s very challenging to type syntactically correct dot at “line-speed”, e.g., if one is taking notes.

(This is one of several reasons that I think there is definitely still room for improvement in notation for graph-drawing, as I have begun exploring in my own work.)
Thinkpads are very good, I almost got myself one after around 5 years of working on macbooks, but in the end I got myself zephyrus g14 (2022 model). Surprisingly good battery life, good display (anti glare as well) and keyboard, amazing touchpad (very similar to macbook's one) and I actually like how win11 works on laptops after spending one day on tweaking settings and looks. Fantastic machine that performs as well as, or even better than, maxed out 14" mbp
We solve that with poacher-poacher-hunters. And it continues forever!
Technically yes. If you block them through your system volume settings, then YouTube will be none the wiser. If you mute them through YouTube, then they'll probably save that into analytics.
I come from a quaint society where we hire people based on their abilities and talents, and we don't announce ahead of time what sex and skin colour they're supposed to have beforehand.
love how you plug the URL like a regular up and coming person would. congrats garry!
As I mentioned elsewhere, airlines have to do a good bit of special-casing anyway, largely for weird airports. If the Wong Sort of A318 lands in LCY, say, it may not be able to take off again (and in any case it would probably be a major regulatory incident).

There’s also a human in the loop who should catch scheduling software mistakes; it’s part of the pilot’s job to confirm that all is well before taking off.
I can't avoid notice the irony that, although NASA is still investigating, you already seem to scope the issue, and troubleshoot it as a minor mechanical problem...

What's is your analysis on the SRB's being 1 month past their validity date per @gsibble reference?
It’s worth noting Krispy Kreme continued with its Artemis donut mission nonetheless. Another victory for private space flight.

In all seriousness, can’t wait to see this thing take off safely!
I remember seeing data on Reddit users some time back. You're not dealing with adults, in general. It's mostly bots, kids, and young adults who still live in their parents' basement. You shouldn't go to a Fortnite convention and expect to have adult conversations, either.
I agree.

Delaying the launch is not a big deal.

Launching and going boom is a big deal.

There isn't much to discuss because this is literally business as usual in this line of work.
I'm in a similar boat, except for recipe sites. That's the one time I find myself bothered by ads.
Wow, exciting news!

Congrats Garry.
Feels like a John Frusciante comeback.

Really hoping to be part of the W23 batch.
The silent majority are mostly corporate devs building internal tooling. Microservices are a fantastic method for building distributed, horizontally scaling, dynamic services in a way that's sane. But the overwhelming vast majority of services would be perfectly ok with a simple monolith that occasionally gets a VM spec bump.
Which is probably the only reason the measures are allowed to work (relatively) painlessly
Someone tried to do a bullet point version but it got blown up recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
Yeah, I want an ads-free music streaming service so getting YouTube ads free is just the icing on the cake.

If one is unwilling to pay for a service but still use it one needs to realize some other form of monetization will be required.
Yeah for what did we consolidate the whole industry into a few giants like NG, LM and Boeing when you can not then ask them to shoulder some risk?

> And "total mission success" isn't the only goal of these programs. Progress in manufacturing and engineering is a considerable factor.

This is such a copout and nonsense. The idea that SLS does anything for 'progress in manufacturing and engineering' is a bad senator talking point with essentially no relevant for the real world.

In fact, giving money to innovative space companies would achieve those things far better.

> Governments, like big banks, are better at taking on risk

The whole point of SLS was that it was low risk legacy technology. SLS is the EXACT LITERAL opposite of what you suggest, its low-risk incredibly conservative with minimal technological advancement.
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> As there is not Firefox+uBlock available

Install Firefox Focus, it istalls Content Blocker which you then enable in Safari settings. Plus Ka-Block!. These two together do the trick.
Pay for YouTube Premium?
Is it? Chrome is definitely not snappier than Firefox with ublock origin on Android.
This is exactly it. Something somewhere broke on someone's password (think Bobby Tables) and so they forbid the character that done caused it.
Thanks for this. I will check it out.
Wii U Emulation: Cemu 2.0 released, goes open source, Linux version now availabl
Registrars are just pass through to ICANN to some extent.

So they began reporting it as expired after their client retroactively failed some heuristic that they previously let the client pass.
> many of those tools are written while building those critical systems and scale

Very, very few come out of teams working on the real stuff. Both FAANGs and other companies are not going to release their crucial internal tools and not even discuss them in public.

> may include both the learnings as well as the mistakes

"release early" is not something anybody should do for production critical tools like devops stuff.

> frankly, most people aren’t building things that are critical or require scale

100% agree, but if I build ships they have to fit safety standards even if most people never meet rough seas.
The syntax is a little unorthodox, but just having a literal syntax _at all_ for things like lists/arrays beats having to call `new` on some random class you have to import and then doing a bunch of in place updates to add all the data.
NASA has already changed. SLS/Orion are left over relics from old NASA propped up by congress.
I can only imagine the scenario...

lay person: See? Even though i turn the volume up on my speaker, there's no noise during our zoom/Teams call, etc.

tech support: oh, i see the problem...you've somehow disabled your audio. why would you do that, i'm curious?

lay person: oh, right i had forgotten that i did that...well, i started using some tool to audibly inform me whenever my data was being sent to google...so it go so annoying - constantly dinging all the bloody time, like incessentaly! - that i just disabled the audio, and its been peaceful ever since...but i see now, that my approach isn't ideal...maybe i should uninstall that tracker beeper thingy?

tech support: slaps their palm to their face, multiple times...

This of course should not take away from the awesome value that this toool - for those of us who really care about privacy - would bring! Kudos to the author (and ignore my jokey scenario)!!!!
Easier Image Generation with Stable Diffusion Helper Scripts
You Kill Your Brain Cells Rapidly with These 5 Stupid Daily Activities
> This is completely in line with the original post which states that their prior version which did on device filtering would be banned and their current version which works in conjunction with a remote server to perform the filtering would be allowed.

On-device filtering was never allowed. For as long as I can remember, it has always been against Play Store terms of use. That part isn't new at all.

Though, it could very well be that Google may come down with stringent / permanent bans on VPN-based apps starting November (they, notoriously, only allow two violations before permanently banning a developer account; in some instances, developers have gotten two strikes at once, leaving them unable to appeal).
Ferret is a literate program! Check out the source/manual, it's quite a trip:

- https://github.com/nakkaya/ferret/blob/master/ferret.org

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming
> > Can the Framework laptop be powered via USB-C or are they still using power jacks like in the 20th century?

> Powering via USB-C would be OK only on laptops with at least 4 or 5 USB-C/Thunderbolt ports, but such laptops are non-existent.

Isn't the Framework an example of a laptop with 4 USB-C/Thunderbolt ports? (IIRC, there's also some Apple laptop model with 2 USB-C/Thunderbolt ports on each side, for a total of 4, said model being infamous for having performance problems whenever a charger is plugged on the "wrong" side.)
dupe of

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32637598

("Artemis Launch Scrubbed", 67 comments)
I do read HN with "showdead", and I wouldn't say that it's staggering - IMHO, maybe 1/5 or 1/10 shouldn't be dead.
>While browsing HackerNews, I sometimes get the feeling that every developer out there is working for FAANG

Bubbles on HN;

Entry level Web Developers are getting $200K per year working in FAANG or Big Tech. Non-FANNG are getting $150K anyway.

Ruby may be dead, but PHP is even more dead.

Java may rule the enterprise, but you should not mention Java.

No one uses Oracle or MySQL, why would you want that? Postgres is the only DB forward.

Everything should be Remote. Communication should always be Async.

Oh, Ada is the second Forbidden Fruit on HN.

Facebook is...... OK I guess we shouldn't go there.

USB-C will solve all cabling problems. Everything should be USB-C.

5G is useless.

AV1 and AVIF. The video and image standard to rule them all.

Nothing should be centralised. Everything should be distributed.

Finally, The unwritten rule of HN. You do not criticise The Rusted Holy Grail and the Riscy Silver Bullet.
I do wonder at times if the jobs focus isn't super specific to USA, but I don't know many other places. Here in Poland usually the issue is about "will it be done in country or bought elsewhere?" and the likes, though there was obvious malfeasance based around local jobs with the canceling of Caracal contract
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Apple applies for AR headset name trademarks ahead of launch
Read that comment again, but slowly this time.
it's very important when you're storing passwords in plain text, so typically it's a sign the website is dangerously insecure, though sometimes it's also just some product manager going "well everyone else does it, so it must be important".

That said, I did actually run into an instance where having ";-- in your password would trigger the WAF during login and because we needed to ship ASAP the easiest way to get around that was to ban ; in passwords. I don't think we ever went back to fix that one...
You're suggesting that they won't be able to do it simply because it hasn't been done?

Do you have any idea how many firsts they've put up? The craziest was reusable boosters.

For this one the problems to solve are fairly well-known. There is no particular reason to believe that it will be harder than what they already do.
What nation is not in an on-again-off-again state of war throughout its existence? I think that may be the rule, not the exception.
When I see "lazy" and "real-time" together, I have a cognitive dissonance. Laziness is often unpredictable.

How does Ferret address that?
But...we still transact with China....?

The mental gymnastics required for holding both of these opinions is...something.
Many cities and their suburbs were car-centric before Uber and many will be car-centric after Uber. Perhaps somewhat fewer will feel the need to own a car (or a second car) but that doesn't really change the basic nature of transportation options. If anything, there's probably been a (little) bit more attention paid to public transit and things like bike lanes in some cities during the period Uber has existed. Many of us use Uber or Lyft once in a blue moon. My life wouldn't change one iota if Uber vanished tomorrow.
Why Remote Works
Killing brain cells is easier with alcohol.
It's not like NASA hasn't been launching rockets in the time since Apollo or STS. SpaceX has spent upwards of 10 billion dollars on the Starship program, with a finished product still not on a launchpad. SLS is the largest rocket ever produced and will cost an insane amount of money, the actual price for this launch is actually around 4 billion dollars according to NASA itself.
I don't get the issue here.

This command basically downloads and execute something. Yes, it requires you to trust the author but that's what you always need to do anyway alas you don't read and compile yourself anything you install on your computer.

Or did I miss something ?
>what were you trying to say

I see this type of behavior a lot as of late, especially on HN. Mostly when someone says "I donated to X charity" then inevitably a brave contrarian comes out of the wood works to say that they could/should have done XYZ
I had a Zephyrus G15 (2021) which ran great, but the screen brightness wasn't great. When I heard this year's G14 had a brighter display and an AMD CPU and GPU, I dove in and installed Fedora. Other than standby, everything just worked.

The thing I will ding Asus about is serviceability. It's easy enough to remove the screws to take the bottom panel off, but there was always one screw for NVME/Wifi that had so much loctite that I ended up needing a special pair of plyers to remove.
thats a semantic argument. "source available" is in practice the same thing as "open source", unless you are a business trying to make money off free software.
I once used a special character in my login password (on Ubuntu I think) but the keyboard settings at the passwd prompt happened to be set differently from the ones at the (graphical) login manager at boot. So in the one case, something like 'e was interpreted as é and in the other case it wasn't.

I think it took me about five reboots in single-user mode and password resets before something clicked. I wish Ubuntu would not have allowed special characters. :)
I'm literally paid not to.
Show HN: Sidekick - Live application debugger is now open source
Sidekick is a live application debugger that lets you troubleshoot your applications while they keep on running. It allows you to add dynamic logs and put non-breaking breakpoints in your running application without the need of stopping & redeploying. Currently supporting Java, Python & Node.js runtimes.

Sidekick Open Source is here to allow self-hosting and make live debugging more accessible. Built for everyone who needs extra information from their running applications.
Support for iCalendar Relationships
Just push it through an arichiving service?
Single occupation*
The company filtered the LAION 5b based on undisclosed criteria. So what you are saying is actually irrelevant, as we do not know what pictures were included or not.

It is obvious to anyone who bothers to try - have you? - that a filter was placed here at the training level. Rare activities such as "Kitesurfing" produces flawless, accurate pictures, whereas anything sexual or remotely lewd ("peeing") doesn't. This is a conscious decision by whoever produced this model.
Not much work ou-of-the-box.

In the home directory (~) run:

git init
git remote add origin https://github.com/username/dotfiles
echo '/**' >> .gitignore;
git add -f .gitignore
git add -f .gitconfig
git add -f .bash_profile
# etc and push

On the second machine:

git clone https://github.com/username/dotfiles tmp --no-checkout
mv tmp/.git .
rmdir tmp
git reset --mixed
The Sellers Strike and Housing Inventory
On mobile, keyboards typically auto capitalize the first letter of the first word.

So if your password is "password", it will get entered in as "Password" - and the user will get confused why their username/password aren't logging them in.

So a UX pattern is to actually lowercase the first letter on the backend.
Making intentionally and obviously bad plays that directly work against the agency's goals because that way they get more free government money is corruption.

The ‘a 50 year old rocket that was the first of its kind was expensive too!’ excuse doesn't make sense when anybody with the most modest bit of understanding about how rockets work can look up the industry and come up with a plan about a factor-10 more cost efficient that's significantly safer both from a human and a technical risk perspective, and could have been done on much shorter timelines.
That is quite unrealistic though. You either need to pay up or put up with the consequences of wanting a free service, such as dealing with the never ending battle of blocking ads.

I wish companies would offer the opportunity to pay what you want to remove ads. People with adblock are probably more likely to pay for it, because anyone not running ads is probably not bothered by them anyway. And people running adblock are unmonetisable. So a little bit of money is better than no money.
Quitting a Job Changed My Relationships
Several parts to civilization: culture, environment, people. Hard to nail any of them down up front.

Anyway, who wants a how-to manual from a failed civilization? Presuming ours(?) failed and the manual is needed.
Can you elaborate? It seems like it just enforces a specific type of password which is entirely reusable.
Congrats! Exciting news for YC
Is data localization coming to Europe?
I'm not familiar with that situation. Many very cowardly and misguided things happen when people are convinced, coerced and congratulated for adherence to dictates.

I would not be surprised at all if it did happen to a large number of people in disadvantaged positions. We know school teachers were bribing children with pizza or attempted to subvert the law and circumvent parental consent.

These people all believe they hold the moral high ground. As does the commenter above. This is "service to the community". Protecting you from something dangerous. With government approval
On (a): Reddit can be extremely useful as a search engine. Adding site:reddit.com to a search for, say, a product or troubleshooting, will generally give you better results than the Google default. It's also pretty good for search for local issues (e.g., "Where can I find X in Y?") and for quick answers that are usually buried under a whole blog post otherwise for SEO purposes (e.g., "How do I unlock secret X in game Y?"). The latter Google default search will give you blog posts that get to the answer after several paragraphs of "Game Y is a game full of secrets, which is why gamers really love it" and "Secret X is really a game-breaking weapon that will make your character extremely strong for the last half of the game."

In short, Reddit serves a purpose that Google used to serve.
Yes, this analyses has been done. And unlike Kerbal we literally already have very good certified software for docking in orbit and its something that has been done for literally 60 years.

2 Falcon Heavies for 140M each, would give you literally 1.5 billion in extra budget to change your in space assets and for operations.

Are you seriously gone argue that docking a capsule and a service module in LEO costs 1.5 billion?

This is juts a kniejerk response. If you actually seriously sit down and you do the analysis, no sane person would ever use SLS.

Seriously, go try it with realistic numbers and see what architecture you end up with. Nobody that is not forced would include SLS in any architecture.
What beautiful land of personal freedom are you calling from, friend?