skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the point. Why do you need to disagree that they don't like it? They can expand, and say "I don't like it, for these reasons". Then if you read it, maybe you feel moved to engage and share that you like this or that aspect. Or maybe you like something the other person didn't like. And then you can compare viewpoints. And maybe learn something about each other. Before long, you've got an actual conversation going!
I agree with the other poster. Far better to leave it out of the faq.
Those who care about privacy don't have adjust their summer reading
list. Those who don't care, don't care.
I think some of the point he is making is that, for Tolkien, destiny and inherent character really mattered. In his world, words _matter_. Some vows simply cannot be broken and a lot of the tragedies in the Silmarillion are due to hasty or careless words.

I am reminded of this quote by Gildor: "Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all counsels may run ill."

Galadriel and Legolas are very different characters in more ways than just sex and ignoring those differences makes the characters more superficial. I read the critique as suggesting another kind of sexism in play: that Galadriel had to be portraited similar to Legolas (in a kind of macho way) to be seen as powerful, rather than exploring the traits that Tolkien gave her. For example, when I read the books, Galadriel gave me associations to Virgin Mary - and for Tolkien, a resemblance to Virgin Mary would be the greatest honor for any character, far more than being competent with a sword

I agree with you that the films also contained violence - and the author does not deny this. But I agree with the author that some of the scenes are more explicit than necessary and they made me too uncomfortable
> Never used LXD, but LXC does not have layers per-se.

It's kind of a similar situation in LXD, where that sort of functionality being available depends on the storage backend/driver in use, for example LVM thin provisioning, various options via ZFS, or btrfs like you mentioned.
Imagine this filled with churning whitewater: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/USA_1009...

You're not coming out alive.
I ride exactly the opposite - I move over the right side and let cars pass me unless I'm about to turn left.

And I've never once had a single car get mad at me - quite the opposite they are respectful of me, as I am of them.

I am aware that I drive slower than cars, and I act that way. Cars don't get mad a bikes for being not-a-car. They get mad at bikes for being slow.

I also drive, and when I see a bike acting like he's a car, I also get annoyed - and I'm a bicyclist too! A bike is not a car, and should not act like one.
The Wikipedia page does not make this clear but Microsoft did not actually lose on the tying claim. The district court ruled against them but this was appealed and the appeals court vacated that ruling and remanded the case for further analysis (which never happened as the case was then later settled).

> They not only lost that case, but the initial judgement was that the company was to be broken up.

That judgement was also vacated by the appeals court who concluded that the district court "failed to provide an adequate explanation for the relief it ordered".
That's pretty much what I've been saying: I don't like that they're contradicting all the events in the Appendix, but at least the stuff they invent isn't quite as bad as The Hobbit. Because how they managed to mangle that brilliant adventure story is just incomprehensible (and yet I even managed to enjoy that, if with sadness about all the stuff they messed up).

Still, low bars everywhere. Why can't these sort of shows be made by people who simultaneously love and understand the source material, but also know how to write a good story?
Pretty much all of the games on Switch have very long loading times. Some stretch even into minutes (XCom and Civ6 come to mind as being pretty bad).
It's also honest to start with "We hold a very high standard for privacy". Maybe they don't care about it very much, but Microsoft is held to the same data privacy standards as every other company in their vein. They comply with the same ISO standards and go through the same audits - they are "secure" in the baseline modern definition.

Mostly though, I don't understand why Hacker News of all places is angry about this. How can you be surprised when people have access to the data you give them?
Another annoying part of this is how every function declaration effectively doubles the list of parameters, once as type signature and once in the usual JS function syntax. And those don't even have to match, neither in length nor name of the parameters.
You have to wonder what Mozilla are doing with $400m a year.
That’s how easy it is these days.
> Yeah, kind of reminds me of the Star Wars sequels (well, I actively disliked the last one also, but the first two sequels anyway)

I can definitely relate to this. I didn't mind the first two at all, but the last one was not enjoyable at all for me. I'm the type of person who usually has absolutely no interest in cinematography as an art form (tending to roll my eyes a bit internally when someone actively makes sure to use the term "films" instead of "movies"), but watching The Rise of Skywalker was the first time I ever felt strong negative feelings towards a movie purely based on, well, film-making reasons. I was almost overwhelmed by how quickly the camera shots were changing; at one point I started counting how many seconds each shot lasted, and it took several minutes before I counted one over four seconds. The dialogue also felt extremely stilted; I remember reading beforehand that they had used existing footage of Carrie Fischer due to her dying beforehand, and it seemed like their solution to shoe-horning in the lines of hers they had without making them stick out was just to edit it so that all dialogue in the entire movie felt spliced together rather than the actors actually being on set together.'

The Rise of Skywalker may have done a better job of catering to people's nostalgia in terms of where they expected the plot to go after the original movies, but I don't think that doing what people expected is what made the original movies good in the first place.
Yes in order to make the One Ring more powerful than the other rings he had to put his own strength into it. However the elven rings weren't made by Sauron so he couldn't control those (eventually worn by Gandalf, Galadriel, and Elrond), and if I remember right the Dwarfs were too stubborn to be controlled (or something), so only the humans ended up being controlled anyway.
I'm convinced at this point that the real way to manage an organization is to only manage some small number of people you can track in your head, maybe 10, and they do the same. Instead, I see all these insanely complicated work-tracking tools that are somehow supposed to tell someone levels up who I've scarcely met how I'm doing.

You could look at my team's tickets all day and never understand how things are going. Or you could interview anyone on the team for 5 minutes and get a real answer. Massive projects are inputted as full-on DAGs of tickets, but the real tracking is done in a way simpler text doc or spreadsheet somewhere, or in someone's head.
What was the competition though? The NES pretty much single-handedly revitalized the home console market after the video game crash of 1983 by marketing it as a toy that happened to hook into a TV (R.O.B. the Robot, the light gun, all sold together), so it didn't really have any competition. Sega ended up slipping a 16-bit machine to market before Nintendo by a couple years with the Genesis, but the Genesis and SNES were directly competing for each of their respective lifespans, and both were fairly comparable, each having their own advantages in different areas.

I suppose you could compare to the Neo Geo which was far superior technically, but it was at such a high price point that it never made much of a dent in the market. That generation was pretty much defined by the SNES and Genesis.
I don't think that's a useful distinction here. For context, I often work with high reliability software, including formal methods.

What's needed for actual programs is the ability to say one of two things:

A) There is no UB in program X or

B) UB in program X cannot lead to a violation of constraint Y

The current situation in the C family, whether you're using formal methods or not, is that you cannot generally prove (A) and the time traveling, no-holds-barred results of UB in the spec means that (B) is impossible.

While rust doesn't entirely solve this, the fact that those statements are true everywhere except unsafe means that the scope of code you have to manually review is limited to something smaller than "everything".
There are a few places in Windows where Microsoft does force links to open Edge instead of whatever your default browser is. Depending on your usage patterns I guess it is possible to never stumble across those places [1], but they do indeed exist [2].

[1] E.g. I've only really encountered them in one place so far, and it's easily possible to avoid that place, too.

[2] That one place I certainly know of is the lock screen in case you've kept the default "Show random pretty pictures" setting turned on.
The level of impatience I observed among drivers in Spain was pretty amazing. Europe is a diverse place.
I used LXC to virtualize Mastodon instances for a while. It works as intended. The illusion was that there were separate kernels all on the same machine.
And I guess bike can do that too?

Is that how you prefer to live your life, in a constant war?

How about each side respect the other - cars give bikes space, and bikes move over for faster moving cars.
I only use Nintendo hardware for Nintendo software and I'm never disappointed!
fractional executives are all the rage these days, it could be fun to try and convince them that they're only paying you for part-time
As others pointed out if this is allowed then OS projects will start to be used for money laundering and that's probably bad for open source
I'm not an expert on the web tech. so apologies in advance but wouldn't it be great if Mozilla spent all that money Google gives them on something more revolutionary like a new runtime for ephemeral apps and the corresponding UI engine that's not bound to the legacy JS and HTML and has near native performance and access to hardware sensors? Add to that the support for multi device setups where you can move an app session easily from your phone to your desktop. There're so many cool things to do there.

Instead we're dealing with the "diversity" of the web (HTML,CSS,JS) engines and endless arguments around Manifest v3, etc. So many precious man hours are going to waste.
Ask HN: Take time off on these uncertain times
Economy and everything seems to be in a place that no-one knows the future. Everyday I am feeling more and more like I don't fit in at work (I'm a cynic, I work for money and nothing else) and my current company assigned me to a new project where I don't really believe the direction.

I have around 3 years of expenses saved up (assuming 0 income and no change of lifestyle, 4/5 years if we reduce some things like gym/sport classes/streaming/etc (flat is paid for, we are very frugal and live minimally except those sport things). My gf makes enough for us to continue with our lifestyle if I stop working 100%.

I want to take 1-2 years off and just focus on writing some software I enjoy, that may or not make money, but something that actually makes me enjoy looking at a screen vs wanting to punch it.

I have 20+ years experience and until now I never had a problem finding a job (even after the 2008 situation), but now with a kid, older, afraid that this economic situation will be multi year long and that if none of my projects I want to make takes off, there may not be a decent job market to come back to in a few years.

Long post (sorry), but if HN users had 2/3 years of savings, would you take this time to recharge and work on your own projects, or keep it safe and keep a stable job with decent pay (4x your monthly expenses)
> Why is it that there is no standard applied to those who publish code for distribution purposes?

Because it's rude to make demands of someone who is doing you a favor.

Because a system that adds costs to profit-free work will collapse.

Because your "distribution" line-in-the-sand doesn't exist. I assume you're thinking of NPM or pypi, but ex. Debian doesn't ask people before including their packages, and ex. nixos pulls directly from those "non-distribution" channels.

> My point is that they don't legally owe anyone anything but we should impose a moral standard in lieu of a legal one. If you are saying "here's this code, I've packaged it up and sent it out for distribution" I think it should be perfectly fine for us to say "did you do the bare minimum to make this code acceptable for others to use?".

Okay; let's also make a moral standard of paying people when we derive value from their work. I think it should be perfectly fine for us to say "did you do the bare minimum to repay the person who gave you this code to use?".

> I don't get why we say "you have no ethical obligations in open source", why do we do that? Who benefits? I get not having legal obligations, but once you're distributing code for use it seems absurd to say that you have no ethical obligations.

We do that because we benefit. Making things easy for the people who are giving their work away for free helps foster an ecosystem where people keep giving stuff away for free.

> You chose to do that, you chose to distribute it, you didn't have to do that.

Yes, that's the point. We'd like people to keep giving things away even though they don't have to. If you try to impose costs on them for doing that, you'll alter the incentives so that they do the rational thing and stop giving stuff away, and/or start charging for it.
BBC says that only about 10% of people brush their teeth with the proper technique [1]. I've tried it and my hygienist confirms it helps a lot. I'm using the Braun Oral B 4000 with round brushes. I tried water jets but with poor results probably because of almost no abrasion from the toothpaste. Your mileage may vary.

[1]https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220718-the-best-way-to-...
I wholeheartedly disagree. Wherever bicycles and cars share the same routes, at roughly the same speed, they should share the same roads - at a speed that is safe for everyone, so about 30km/h. For routes and speeds that are different (highways), roads should be separated.
>Sure, but if you are homeless and starting your motivation to steal go up because that money represents a greater marginal improvement to your life. Would you disagree with that?

No. I never claimed that nobody has ever committed a crime due to being poor or homeless. All I'm saying is that the claim that solving homelessness and poverty would also solve crime is objectively wrong.
Terrible advice when he lives in a high cost of living area.
The absolutely can be on the same road - but bikes need to acknowledge they are slower than car, and act that way. Move over and let cars pass. And cars need to give bikes space when passing them.

If we just respected each other, it's easy to share.

And I say this as someone who rides both, about equally.
> 5) message each other about something. However you need to source your ideas from something offline, like a book from a thrift store or the like. maybe an old magazine. open a page, pick the first thing your finger lands on. this will eliminate the "I heard about x" or "i'm in the mood for y"

Wait... If WhatsApp is really E2EE encrypted, why would any of the other steps be necessary? Dude and his wife can simply pick at page at random from a magazine in a store, never search anything online about it, start talking about it using WhatsApp as if it was something of great interest to them. If they start getting related ads, obviously something shady is going on. There's no need for new phones / new GMail accounts / etc.
Jesus Christ, I definitely dodged a bullet.

That definitely sounds like pushing you to be “productive” as much as your body allows without burning out.
I’ve seen some episodes of House of the Dragon too. I have never read the books. So the black characters may have been shoehorned in. I have no idea. But a bunch of stuff has happened. Definitely a better show.
Here you go, friend: http://blakearchive.org/

Note that the search identifies both text and images within the illuminated texts.
Of course you don't need rare earths to build electrical wind turbines; the Europa paper I linked above explains that even today 25% of wind turbines are rare-earth-free, and people have been building large-scale electrical generators for 156 years even though rare earth magnets were only invented about 50 years ago.
I avoid tech that I don't need. Internet phone, home automation, smart *, iPads (are they even a thing anymore?), Subscription services, games, digital entertainment, etc. For me, a number of reasons. Mostly, I just don't need any of that stuff. I want to be present in the world rather than be at the mercy of constant dopamine hit, shiny, need to be constantly using tech, whatever. Financially, I can't justify the ROI. Morally, ethically, socially and psychologically, I've"seen behind the curtain" of tech and thoroughly reject it. Perhaps my decades in software have just made me bitter and tired.
When government agencies behave within the law, it is by coincidence, if not an accident which will soon be rectified.
> Independent Entrepreneurship is the only way out

Entrepreneurs are systematic slaves too - that is one point of The Wire.

Everyone is embedded in a society, a system, and our choices take us down paths that control the rulesets that apply to us. You can escape certain rules, but you get other rules in exchange (in my experience).
> Notice that "ends" in "end-to-end" are users, not applications.

That's not right. First, it's technically an impossible, since users can't do encryption themselves - it's the application that does it. That's where the e2ee boundary is.

Second, we've got e2ee communication between non-user entities as well. There's are servers using for example zerotier which communicate e2ee through other nodes. Third, applications can definitely send the data to other parties automatically. WhatsApp executing backups as configured does not make it not e2ee.
I adore fly.io and hope for 1), but

> We have the same incentives as our investors.

this is wrong, even if today it looks right because the different incentives result in the same concrete things.

You have a company; your goal is to make the company succeed. Investors have a portfolio; their goal is to make the portfolio succeed. Your company succeeding is only one aspect of their portfolio succeeding, and one whose importance and externalities can change drastically for reasons outside your control.
What do you mean by vertical tabs?
I mean if something I design as an electrical engineer kills people because it was faulty, it doesn't matter if the components sucked, because it is my responsibility to choose components that do not suck and to test them as well.

As someone who also does web development I know that this degree of liability is completely foreign to a big part of the software world, and IMO this is an part of the reason software still sucks big time in terms of efficiency, reliabilty, safety and security.

Because if you have to think about liability suddenly the simple rugged system starts to look lot more attractive.
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> Google and fails to makes its own websites fully compatible with competitors

More than that: Google actively prevents competitors from working when competitors would work fine without any extra "help"
It’s true, cyclists should not be on roads with cars. But they can share the same streets. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroad)

Streets that are cyclist-friendly are also pedestrian-friendly.
> Switch and yet Switch can run Doom / Skyrim just fine.

That "just fine" hides a massive understatement on just how compromised these games are on Switch. They usually run on settings even below lowest possible on PC and regularly drop resolution way down to even 640x360, making everything extremely oily and blurry.

These games run and can be enjoyable - but "fine" is not really a word that fits into their performance :)
Show HN: I wrote a short story about “smell” in VR
Wholehearted second this. The best advice to bikers who aren't traveling at kids speeds is "take the lane". Prevents dooring and being run off the road.

My only take is that I wouldn't be comfortable doing this if I didn't have proper lighting (front headlamp + Garmin Navia rear radar is huge confidence boost) and comfort in demanding drivers acknowledge my presence.
You feel intellectually lonely. What are your interests?
Another useful feature of the horizontal desktop design is that putting the monitor on the case brings it closer to a comfortable viewing level.
Rate the room
Why is this flagged? Why can’t we talk about this?
Hello! Mid 30s guys here. I share this trait. This is trite advice, but it works for me.

First of all, I am always a little bit lonely. I have trouble letting people getting close, and it takes me longer than other people to show any vulnerability. I am a homebody who would prefer solo projects or video games to going out an talking to people. But I still have friends and a good relationship. So I guess step zero is to accept that things will never be perfect and are always a work in progress. There is no perfection, at least not for me, only improvement.

Advice number 1 is that familiarity breeds friendship. Find something that you don't hate and keep going to it, week after week. Board game meetups, religious/atheist meetups, political groups, volunteering, anything. The important thing is to keep showing up.

Advice 2 is that vulnerability is a big part of what attracts others to you. Don't over share too soon, but share some qualities about yourself. Don't be a faceless needless perfect person. Let your guard down a bit and be willing to stand on your own traits, and be accepted or rejected. It will be difficult and painful, but if people don't accept you for who you really are, then that group wasn't for you anyway. Also, vulnerability is an ongoing process that deepens over the course of a friendship.
Not a lawyer, but I'm assuming anyone who's mentioned in the Hobbit, the trilogy and the annexes (ie the stuff Amazon bought the rights to) even in passing can make an appearance. However, if these people do things exclusively described elsewhere in the way they are described in those other works, there's an issue...
My understanding of the 0.x CPU measurement is that you're sharing a single CPU core with other running applications.
Uh… a bidet is not a substitute for using toilet paper.
Department of Labor might have had something to say about crypto mining.
I thought Ms. Marvel was really good, and compared especially well to Moon Knight, at least in terms of how they represented their respective cultural influences. It's pretty rare that I'll watch a show like a Marvel show and actually learn some stuff that I didn't even know I didn't know (Pakistani history, the partition, etc). With Moon Knight it felt like anti-learning, like I felt like if I wasn't careful it would make me more ignorant.
Somewhat related, but I recently discovered the Calibre "Fetch News" function. It parses the articles (similarly to archive.org I assume in that it also bypasses paywalls) and puts them into a nice EPUB format. I run it in server mode on a RPi so every morning I can just load up the Calibre web reader on my phone and read the news in pure text form.
Correction, Graviton 3.
For offline alternative to Figma check Lunacy. It's quite powerful, multiplatform and free. UI and workflow is well thought out.

It seems it's written in C# as it uses Avalonia UI.

https://icons8.com/lunacy