skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To make a long story short: I bought a laptop to run Microsoft Office a couple of years back. Being a Linux user, I quickly became frustrated with Windows. Being a slightly rabid Linux user, I bit the bullet and installed Linux on a machine that was not purchased with Linux in mind. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that it worked well. Office was a dual boot away, but that was the price to maintain my sanity.

Now Windows users would probably find issues with Linux on this machine. That's fine. The thing is, I am not going to miss a feature under Linux that I never even used under Windows. Audio, video, and networking meet my expectations. Sleep and hibernate work, and appear to be more reliable under Linux. I have never felt the need to compare battery life under both operating systems since it is acceptable under both operating systems.

As for that dual boot thing: I ended up giving up on the standalone version of Microsoft Office. Online solutions are better for anything that involves collaboration. LibreOffice documents exported to PDF works perfectly well for anything where the product is what matters. The option to dual boot is gone.

There is one big difference between the article's author and myself: after trying a couple of the boring distributions and finding they didn't meet my esoteric tastes, I settled upon the exciting route. Tweaking my workflows is fun as long as it doesn't interfere with my ability to work.
I think Leetcoding is a worthy investment for career. Why not .

I understand that it feels like its waste of time with no practical use but the upsides are that they make job hopping trival because you know what to expect and feel confident.

I think its a tiny investment for big returns. unparalleled to any other activity you could invest your time in.
I think that there should be a list of officially supported laptops and if you bought anything else then it is your problem and you are welcome to write necessary patches.

It is unfair when people install Linux on an incompatible hardware and then complain.
Can't you just use an incognito tab? It'll delete all the cookies when you're done.
Probably the wrong word for a monarchy. My point was that vanity gov sponsorship of some sort is required. You’re not going fast because you need to; you’re going fast to flex.
My non-work laptops all run linux, and have for ~20 years. My oldest laptop is a 14 year old Sager (Clevo) notebook, whose display seems to have just died last month. My newest is a 1.75 year old HP Omen with Ryzen 7 4800H AMD and NVidia graphics. All run linux, specifically Mint. Same release. All (apart from the dead 14 year old Sager) work well.

I am typing this on my 4.75 year old Sager (Clevo), running Linux Mint, with an Nvidia GTX 1060/Intel iGPU unit, 1.5 TB of SSD (SATA), 64 GB ram, 4 physical cores. Everything works. It worked when I first installed it.

My personal office deskside unit is an AMD Epyc 16 core, 128 GB RAM, with NVidia RTX3060 workstation, running Debian 11, as a deskside workstation. I have some older units based upon E5-2687W CPU tech, old NVidia cards built cheaply from ebay parts. All running linux in desktop configs, though most don't have a display keyboard attached. I've used all of them as desksides at one point in time or the other, and still use them for larger personal computing projects unrelated to work.

I've been using Linux on laptops and desksides for the last 23+ years. My first laptop, was a 75MHz pentium unit with 16MB of ram, I triple booted DOS, OS2, and Linux on in 1996. I had a tiny 20MB hard disk with it. I wrote lots of my phd thesis on that under linux, and my home SGI Indy (the perks of working at SGI in the 1990s).

Linux was hard for laptops/desktops until about 2004-2005 or so. Then things that were hard to make work, started working out of the box. I didn't have to think about installing most drivers, apart for things like some usb based devices. That got better in 2008 or so.

Over the last 14 years, everything pretty much just worked. As the OP notes, its been boring. For the most part. Occasionally I'll run into a cheap USB peripheral where the driver isn't updated, or its missing updated firmware, but this is, and has been for a while, the exception.

I know there are many who have disdain for linux desktops. That's fine, have your own preferred environment. That noted, please recognize that there are many users out there using linux desktops, successfully, productively, without problems. From installation through normal/intense usage.

My home office has a Mac M1 Mini running MacOS 12.6 , 1x HP Omen 64 GB RAM, 8 core Ryzen laptop with Nvidia 1660Ti gpu running linux mint, a deskside 16 core Epyc, 128GB RAM machine with RTX3060 running Debian 11. All configured with my various monitors and networks. Its productive for me. We do not have an operational, regularly in use, MS Windows installation. And we're happy with this setup. It works. Everything just works. The way it should.

[edited to fix HP laptop brand, Omen, not Open]
In all my years I have yet to see HDMI output from a laptop to a monitor work on the first try in Ubuntu. Always need to install the proprietary drivers for that to work at all. If it can't even do that without a headache, after 10+ years of Linux use, I would call that a Linux problem, not a hardware problem. My colleagues seem to run into the same issue frequently as well. This article seems kind of ignorant. I'm glad it worked on the first try on his ancient ThinkPad. That doesn't mean Linux is stable enough for most normal use cases on most hardware for me to recommend it to any of my non-tech proficient family.
Well, the ones from the Hammer films perhaps -- or as it says in the links "[the above] castle provided a visual palette for Bram Stoker when he started writing the book in Cruden Bay".

Historical Dracula (Vlad III) lived in Romania tho
Um... 40 year old calls himself "an aging programmer"?? Okay. I wasn't ready for that this morning. My first professional gig was in 1981, which means I've been programming professionally longer than he's been alive. And I wrote my first Lisp program in 1974. And yet I don't really feel that old.
len("foo") certainly does, and the global constant is a great place to put a comment, if the name isn't descriptive enough.
> but even having to install new firmware when you are using Linux can cause major headaches and worries.

I thought lvfs ( https://fwupd.org/ ) had fixed that.
Whatever… I'm glad to no longer have to fight my operating system to work with my hardware like I always had to on Windows - "Plug and Pray" was a joke for a valid reason. Installing drivers is for rubes. I'd rather plug stuff in and just get to work without going on a freakin' scavenger hunt for drivers… If you hate Linux so much, then just don't use it. Simple, yeah?
We could randomize the overlaid syntax taken from other languages.
> Your client is simply purchasing a service from your LLC or S-Corp, with a contract.

And if that's a fiction, a judge will see straight through it. Ask a lawyer if you don't believe us. I can think of several examples in the news lately in my country of residence.
Silphium certainly seems to have been a member of the (200+ strong) Ferula genus given their physical similarity to the plant depicted on ancient coins from Cyrene (in modern Libya).

However, there seems to be some doubt whether this particular plant, Ferula drudeana, from Turkey, is the same plant or not.

The romans, who so valued Silphium, also sometimes used a different plant, Asafoetida as a cheaper alternative, so the properties of Silphium obviously weren't totally unique, and Ferula drudeana may well be very similar if not the exact same plant.

The appearance of Silphium on coins does differ a bit from these plants - more fleshy "arms", but maybe that's just artistic interpretation.
Software I live in,
Visual studio on windows. I have started with 6.
Far Manager is old school 2 blue panels file manager.
Tortoise merge is now accompanied with Araxis Merge but still my favorite.
7zip, gets slowly replaced with zstd.
Perforce. I have never liked this version control system but it still runs the world for me.
Profiling tools, my workday is bad if I havent run one of those. Unfortunately list is too long and was rotating fast over years.
From relatively recent things I would probably pick LLVM/Clang and Everything.

Old things that were useful long time ago but long fallen from grace at home: Firefox, uTorrent, WinRAR. Home software I still use and want to mention - Steam.

Judging from rest of the topic i spent my life on completely another Earth planet from rest of ppl here. And there most fun software was games written in C++ and running on Windows like OSes.
I think it’s a combination of innate ability, deliberate practice, and opportunity (luck). The same answer to any question of the form “How does someone get really good at X.”
Have they ever? It's not like they're known for their service at all. They're domestic carriers trying to fly international. Business class on a European or Asian carrier is a totally different experience. Not to mention the opulence of some of the Middle Eastern ones.

I got super lucky once and got to fly first class on points to east Asia via Asiana and ANA and holy shit the level of service is just out of this world. You get personal service from airport to airport, including an employee (or sometimes even more than one) escorting you from lounge to gate. The catering was among the best food I've ever had, and they turn down your seat and give you pajamas. In retrospect I'm especially impressed because I was a dumb twenty-something year old with no business being in a first class cabin.
There was a recent post about the Frame.work laptop now offering a ChromeOS version. The Linux container support in ChromeOS is excellent, and basically ChromeOS is optimized to work well with all laptops that it runs on.
I've met all kinds.

People who are stellar managers, have extremely high empathy and EQ, understand their engineers, prop them up, help their career, guide them toward both professional and personal growth. They also did not have a single ounce of leadership or charisma in them, very low technical chops, no vision, and not interested in providing team leadership.

I've also met stellar leaders, visionaries, who inspired, entranced teams with every single word that came out of their mouth. They provided short and long term directions, technical and product guidance, motivation. And they were absolutely terrible human managers. Could not place themselves in other people's shoes. Didn't really care about managing the career or growth of people on their teams. Were only focused on matters that did not involve any human feelings.

These kinds of people both have their places and they complement each other wonderfully.

And sometimes, you find these two very distinct, polar opposite qualities, in one single person. But like I said, this is much more the exception than the rule.

And of course, the reality is that most people lie on a spectrum between these two extremes.
Reasonably regularly do long haul, and spent a number years in Canada doing NA flights. There is absolutely no surprise to this subject line :) Just flew Singapore and it's level of service, even in cattle class, is top notch. You're made to feel human again. When I get to North America (including Air Canada) my heart just sinks the minute I realise I'm about to board Delta/American/Air Canada etc....
And Python!
This isn't really shocking.

US carriers seem to be hyperfocused on going as low as they could possibly go without having to resort to ultra-low-cost-carrier schemes of charging for literally everything. (They're almost there, though.)
Ask HN: Have You Worked for a DAO?
I'm in the market for a new opportunity, and recently listened to a podcast about working for a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) e.g. yearn.finance .

It got me wondering - is it possible to work at a DAO full-time and make a comparable living wage to a full time salaried employee? If so, it seems like something interested to try.

Have you worked for a DAO?

What was your experience like?

Did you make a living wage comparable to other roles you had in tech (assuming 40h work week)?
I don't think this is directly more homogenizing than (say) makeup, which has the added property of being cemented by centuries of public presentation and beauty expectations.

That being said, I think there are probably lesser social ills that come from these technologies, ills that we'll have to adapt to. For example, we know that human interaction and emotional feedback are an important part of child development; it's as of yet unclear what effect this will have.
Yes I think you're right on StrongARM which was the most powerful ARM CPU for a long time. Eventually made its way to Intel I think.

I think everyone eventually had their own RISC - IBM, HP, AMD, Intel (i960) plus MIPs and SPARC of course and a few others.

Arm eventually got traction because of the business model and because they intentionally didn't go head to head with the Intel x86 juggernaut. It wasn't obvious for a long time that their model would work though.
It amazes me that crypto-fanboys simply refuse to think through the failure modes of their toy projects. If you put your domains or your money on the blockchain, and you lose your keys, your domains or your money are gone with no recourse. This makes it obviously unusable in practice (keys get stolen all the time), and the only solution is centralized governance. This is fundamentally the oracle problem, and adding more and more layers of bullshit complexity won't fix it.

Some ZKP-Voodoo may provide weak anonymity (the votes are not immediately obvious), but the voter can still prove to a third party who he or she voted for. Obviously this makes it vulnerable to vote buying and voter intimidation.
> that we're somehow getting something for free.

The splay tree also falls squarely into this category for me. The core bit:

> [...] splay trees can take better than logarithmic time, without requiring advance knowledge of the pattern. According to the unproven dynamic optimality conjecture, their performance on all access patterns is within a constant factor of the best possible performance that could be achieved by any other self-adjusting binary search tree, even one selected to fit that pattern.

I've been iterating a kind of append-only log + database system using this as a technique to optimize I/O patterns. Many forms of storage are very happy when you feed them sequential bytes and prefer reads from more-recently-written physical blocks.
Better monitor, perhaps? Apple has had exclusivity on retina displays for some years, although I think that was over now.
https://archive.ph/ZGoI4
I cannot find any reference to this online, but your post reminded me of a similar message to the Russians from the same era. The roof of the Northrop plant in Hawthorne, CA (now SpaceX) had "Yeb Vas" written in some fashion so as to be visible only from the ISR satellites of the day.

https://mymemory.translated.net/en/Russian/English/yeb-vas
COVID killed more than 6 million people.

That number would have been much higher if there were more people like you, going against medicine and scientific recommendations.

We won this battle despite people like you, so please, leave your bad science, conspiracy theories out of this technical forum.
Ahh, brings back memories of the golden days of playing Deus Ex and Diablo 2 with a voodoo4.
The Germans knew long before D-Day that they were going to lose.
Thinkpad T400 G2: the fan keeps running in full speed randomly.
This is not news and not surprising at all. American airlines suck.
It's not about new vs old but who makes the main parts and chipsets. Intel everything is always a really good bet, even when they're brand new, but there are other safe choices.

It used to be quite hard to find new laptops with hardware combos that worked well with Linux but it's become a lot easier in recent years.

Also my experience with windows has actually gotten quite a bit worse, actually, unless you use the stuffed-full-of-garbage oem installs I've found it way more likely that I get stuck in a catch 22 where there's no network drivers for either the Ethernet or wifi so you wind up downloading some drivers off a sketchy site to put on a USB stick just to get started.
> Most distributors don't enable it by default for a reason.

Every Linux system configured for overcommit (every major distribution out of the box) will invoke the kernel OOM killer upon demand. There is no such thing as distributions not "enabling" this thing. You're talking about things like systemd-oomd, which act as a layer on top of the kernel OOM killer.
I think it is worth pointing out that this tool does support querying Delta Lake (the author of ROAPI is also a major contributor the native Rust implementation of Delta Lake). Delta Lake certainly supports transactions, so ROAPI can query transactional data, although the writes would not go through ROAPI.
Corroborating this on the asus, I got one back in 2020 when my laptop gave up the ghost. Tried trudging through but I couldn't get comfortable with opensuse, things like on boot the mouse not responding, spontaneously rebooting when I tried to change volume, wifi card being throttled or just useless. All of it failing just enough I never quite trusted it.
I read it as Pomeranian group therapy
I've never had any issue with HDMI or DP output. But it's true that my only laptop with a dedicated GPU was an MBP, all the others have or had integrated graphics.
You sound fun to work with. More power to you.
A single IP can host many domains, each of which may have separate technical and administrative contacts. Conversely, different subdomains (and MX for email) can live on different IPs. If I use dyndns, there isn’t any fixed relation between IP and domain at all. I happen to own several domains, but I don’t own the IPs where they are hosted.
0 A.D. Alpha 26: Zhuangzi released
US airlines were the best in the world in the 1960s. So what happened?

Unions...
Which consumer laptops are there out there with Power or RISC-V chips?
The beauty of individuality. I’m of similar age and have learned a lot about myself as well. I would say quite orthogonal to both OP and you.
Pretty much the same as right now, or 200 years ago:

The ability to learn new skills on short notice.

Grit.

Emotional and intellectual maturity.

Most everything else is just details.

That said, there will likely be plenty of Enterprise Java, C, hardware, and whatnot lying around that needs old folks like us to maintain it. Those big AI models are gonna have to run on top of some hardware somewhere, after all.
<sarcasm>Ryanair didn't make it?</sarcasm>
> I tell this anecdote to make a point that will be obvious to nerds, but may still be news for everyone else: Linux on a laptop or desktop computer works amazingly well these days.

Which one? Because you can't download and install "Linux", there is no linux-stable-09-2022.iso that you download from linux.org that you then use to install a full OS that "just works(tm)". In fact, if we're talking about an 11 year old laptop, the actual version of Linux installed on it might not even exist anymore, but happens to have been set up in a way that it can use still maintained PPA. And which laptop, with what hardware? Because it's trivial to support a generic network adapter and an ancient 1200x800 WXGA screen, but good luck getting linux to "just work" with your wifi6e and retina 4k screen.

Downvotes notwithstanding, as an anecdote this post effectively undermines itself, because installing Microsoft teams worked contrary to the author's expectation. They expected this to be hard, so concluding that Linux on a laptop "just works" based on a single activity unexpectedly not being an absolute nightmare is not drawing a reasonable conclusion.

(Not sure I buy the argument that Linux works so nicely, because "Most software has migrated to the browser" either, that feels like a false equivalency routed in anecdotal evidence for what "most" means to the author. Some productivity apps have decent webapp equivalents, but they all suffer from the fact that they run in the browser, and folks aren't going to run dedicated browser processes for each web app, so the regular browsing on the side can, and will, stall or even crash the browser)
At least one customer will now never buy a Fitbit again.
I love flying in Singapore airlines.

Also like air New Zealand and China Airlines (after I found out it’s Taiwan not China owned, never flew on it prior to finding that out)
> I think you probably aren't clear on what the Citizens United decision meant

Should I take this as a prompt to assume random crap about you?

CU drastically increased spending by outside, untracked groups, on the ridiculous premise that money is not a corrupting influence in politics. It was the end of meaningful campaign finance regulations.

> Also the idea that you can just reliably buy congresspeople by spending money on ads is a farce.

Why are companies and groups spending so much then, including spending on both sides of many races?
> There is also a trend of people harassing unwilling bystanders. That’s shitty.

Also dangerous.
I'm 60. I've been writing software since 1983.

For 25 years, in between, I was a manager. At one point, I progressed in my career, until I only managed, and did no coding (for money).

So I coded on the side. That's a big reason for all the open-source stuff that I have in my portfolio[0].

When I was told that the software industry has no use for old coders, I took my toys and went home. I was kind of butthurt.

But then, I've come to really, really like not having people interfering with my work, treating me with disrespect, and, worst of all, trashing my work.

So it's all good.

[0] https://github.com/ChrisMarshallNY#browse-away
Who is "we"? In "should we allow"... NK can nuke SK whenever they want since SK has no nuclear umbrella, same goes for any asian country. That said, I wonder how China would react.

I don't see putin's regime occupying the whole ukraine, but some territories with pro-putin's regime ukrainians... which would actually become part of russia. That seems perfectly realistic.

They did not throw everything they had: nukes. And the failing of putin's army is extremely dangerous. He could use nukes to account for the failing of its army.

That's why it is urgent to find a way out of this weird, really weird conflict.
Precision 5570 is a dream on linux. I have not a single complaint.
Okay I mostly agree with that. It’s difficult to lose weight while not eating meat and maintaining a high protein diet.

But my point isn’t that, it’s that for an average person eating average calories it’s not difficult by any means to get enough protein.

To be fair though, plant based protein powder is about 700 calories for 150g of protein too :)
Clock frequency and cores were never really enough. When I benchmarked hardware for <ABigBank> years ago, the OS made quite a bit of difference as well. Eg WinNT was maybe ~2x slower for I/O for a given MHz of CPU than SunOS or Linux, IIRC.
Sorry; it looked to me like x.split('=')[1], query_params is a tuple being returned by the lambda. But of course that leaves map without the needed argument.
> But your mom's acer laptop she got from Costco.

Hah Acer's actually work pretty great. No funky hardware, BIOS, etc...
Snap judgements: how who lack trust in news navigate information on digital
err, most other parts of the world were still recovering from a lil war?
I specifically searched for "Pop" in this thread, because I wanted to give them a thumbs up. In recent years I've been moving on from macOS to Linux, and I'm so pleased with my new Thinkpad running PopOS (and Nordic theme). It just works - quiet technology.
The Wild Plan to Export Sun from the Sahara to the UK
I feel sorry for the man and respect his cuorage to come forward and openly discuss the possiblity.
In 1978, airlines were deregulated. That triggered a race to the bottom.

Absolutely ridiculous to try to blame unions.