skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, I just saw someone making an argument on Twitter with respect to VR in education that one of its benefits might be that it would force kids to pay attention and be involved. Not sure I buy it but it's interesting.

This of course is also one of the reasons that I wouldn't want it for most business settings. I either don't need immersion that goes beyond video or even just audio for most conversations. Or I actively want to just be partially engaged--most big meetings I'm in.
It will be real fun with the incoming widespread blackouts.

In Sweden a while ago an entire chain of supermarket had to close for a weekend because some hack that happened to a company in USA completely blocked their capability to process payments.

Also occasional downtime of debt card network does occur.
There are a few more than two...

The third is organizing a union and striking until demands are met. The fourth is regulating them with laws. The fifth is borrowing enough money to gain enough stock to force some allies onto board seats and implementing change from the top down.

I'm sure there are more.
It's funny to see peoples in such a deep bubble. For example in japan you hear *bsd as much if not more than linux.

Also many firewalls use freebsd/openbsd, from pfSense to opnsense to genugate.
Would someone please think of the performanz!
still those probably are treated as Integer of a millionth cent
> average beat cop

Hahaha, average beat cop, in the UK. We defund all those years ago.

The police don’t have anywhere near enough time to deal with violent crime, never mind non-violent crime. The only way enforcement will work in the UK is with automated systems that let an officer review 100 cases an hour. Anything else costs too much time.

Or we could fund our police properly, but given the current situation, it’s more likely they’ll see further cuts in the near future.
Ah yes when the system thinks you owe them 0.0000000001
I'm not sure anything of the first article can really be said to be unique value propositions, though to be fair this is not what you are claiming either. But just to go into some specifics.

> One of the best features of FreeBSD is that it can be used as a general-purpose operating system. That means that FreeBSD can be used as a server, as an embedded system, or in networking.

Same for Linux.

> FreeBSD provides simplified software management with the help of its packaging system and the ports collection.

Not a ports experts but the difference between ports and Gentoo portage does not really seem that big, certainly nothing of FreeBSD itself makes it more suitable to working with ports than a Linux kernel. And there is guix and nix also which really should cover most software management needs and flexibility anyone has.

> One of the many great advantages of FreeBSD is that it allows you to customize the operating system, according to your needs.

Again Gentoo, nix and guix covers this quite well.

> You don’t need lots of cores – but you can definitely run it on huge multicore systems, can easily run a highly graphical interface, or choose the simpler way; FreeBSD will support you either way.

Linux definitely does scale up and down, maybe FreeBSD scales down a bit smaller than Linux, but I would have to see numbers to back this up, and I don't think it is that significant in difference.

> FreeBSD has been ported to a variety of instruction set architectures.

Again this is not something unique to FreeBSD and Linux has a proven track record of portability.

> FreeBSD includes two native file systems, the Unix File System (UFS) and the Z File System (ZFS).

I guess "native" ZFS is the closest it comes to a UVP, but given Linux support for ZFS is quite good to the point where ZFS on root is possible I'm nto sure it qualifies.

Not saying FreeBSD is not great, but not sure it really has any unique value propositions.
Thanks for your suggestion mate! But the cost is quite high and it's also the main reason I'm finding a Hubspot alternative. Do you have any better recommendations?
So if I had signed up when this bug was live, I would have received money in my account?
Exactly. The checklist has no endogenous enforcement capacity. The software defined world is wholly different.

“In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one could argue, to whom one could present grievances, on whom the pressures of power could be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.”

Hannah Arendt
is the new UI somehow blocking solving the problems that you mentioned? no. companies can work on multiple things at once.
Imagine if this was an intentional publicity stunt.

Atlassian would have thought they'd get a free press but instead they're rightly getting ripped apart with sarcastic references to their own product.
finally something budget friendly for the team
Wondering if that means Raspberry Pi will be available again.

Still no sign of stability in supply.
Distrowatch too...it's kind of hilarious ;)
Software people tend to hyper-focus on the one change they are trying to bring to a specific area. This means we don't always look at the bigger picture of people's lives. We tend to think that improving one little process in their day will "make their lives better", when in realty they got 99 problems and our little fix ain't one of them. So sure, our little change in their lives is a better answer to that specific problem, but in the bigger picture it just is an annoyance and makes them burn their energy in a place that was already working fine for them.

Is your change better than the prior solution? Yeah, it most likely is. And if you are solving a problem that makes people feel pain in their lives for a large chunk of the day, they will welcome the change. But most changes don't work at that scale in their users' lives.
>In a sense I feel sorry for these lads, because they are tinkerers, hackers of a kind like us,
> [...]
> Wouldn't they potentially be great engineers with the right guidance and education?

I think you are ready way too much into this. For the most part these are people who just want a loud motorbike/car and just go to a store and ask for an Akrapovic titanium exhaust. Those who can't swallow the price just buy the lower tier items.

That's it, job done.

There is no more engineering/hacking in that than kids cramming a pet bottle between the rear tire and the brake bridge of their bicycle and most of it is about copy/pasting what they saw other people do.
I'll add a (lone?) voice for diving in to the deep end straight away:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/

Documentation aimed at beginners often assumes a lack of prior programming experience, which is useful if you are (for example) a high-school student learning about pointers and abstraction but IMO not a good use of time for most people posting on Hacker News.

The Rust reference manual is well-written and comprehensive for basic Rust, and the Rustonomicon has often answered my questions about more advanced topics (FFI, concurrency).
There’s gov intervention now, not due to shortage nor Covid related supply, but strategic moves that’s happening between US and China.

With China having “seized” Hong Kong, and Russia invading Ukraine, flags went up signaling that the next major move in the future could be China invading Taiwan. And Taiwan is where the most advanced chips are made.

In parallel news, playing with the open source AI models, it’s clear that GPUs are NEEDED in order to run these AI models. Ex: an Nvidia RTX3090 (low end of A100) can run Stable Diffusion in a couple minutes, while my 2013 MacBook Pro, cpu driven, takes ~4hrs to perform the same task.

AI models applied to military uses is a game changer, as demonstrated by Ukraine equipped with US tech.

Mitigating the risk of losing Taiwan, enabling production on US shore, and banning sales to China [1] would keep the economic and military advantage on the US side a bit longer than if things kept going the way they were.

Chips might slump now, but GPUs are gonna be in hot demand, even w/o the blockchain use cases. As demonstrated by the open source AI models, we’re about to replace a lot of stock photos, news illustrations, logo services… and that’s just the beginning.

[1] https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/documents/about-bis/newsro...
More Proof That This Is the End of History – By Francis Fukuyama
I wish that was the case, but look at skateboarding. Back when I was still in the UK, I picked up a surf-skate to mess around on while there were no waves and quickly found out how much hate there was for skateboarders.

It was almost comical, because people would tell us we don't look like "typical skateboarders", but we need to fuck off. Luckily some real skateboarders saw and gave us some tips on where to go. It was pretty eye opening, I had no clue that there was such disdain for skateboarders.

Personally I rather people skateboarded than had those stupid cars.
Really excellent sound design! At first I was a little skeptical of the heavy muddy sound mix-wise but then when it broke up around 1 minute in it paid off more than well. Great track!
This is actually a pretty common practice and has been used for a long time. Here is a great explanation by developers of Kerbal Space Program, who built a solar system sized physics sandbox using the same method (and a few other tricks) in Unity: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mXTxQko-JH0
Although I'm aware that this tool is a boon to many, particularly those with impediments like RSI, I still have to echo what a number of other comments say: There really is a very large proportion of adult software developers in the market who are simply too young to have lived through the EEE Microsoft era. Add on to that the proportion of old-enough Microsoft-brand "dotnetter" software developers who simply don't care as long as they get to sit comfortably within C#, Visual Studio and Azure.

After that, what are you left with? A small enough proportion of developers, and Microsoft evidently thinks so, who don't know, and/or don't care, and/or don't have the time to fight their Extend-Embrace phase of take-over of Github.

One could argue that the purchase of Github was Extend, and their involvement with OpenAI, the Codex, and the potentially illegal use of OSS (subject to the legal investigations) is Embrace.

It's my own personal view that Microsoft held-back the progress of software development by probably a decade or so with their shady commingling with academia, blatant crippling of C# .NET to sell Visual Studio, and endlessly so forth. So I am, along with many, upset to see a business like this EEE their way into OSS, something which is dear and special to so many.

In the end, and I must state in my own opinion (since there is an element of speculation here), I am just pleased that there are still people out there who are not letting Microsoft continue their old ways.
I've had many people try my VR headset and people experiencing motion sickness is pretty common. However you can easily train yourself to delay the onset substantially, or even completely cure it. The best thing to do is immediately take off the headset, and orient yourself in the real world until the feeling subsides. Wait at least 10-15 minutes, or even better a full day before trying again, repeat until satisfied with the amount of time you can spend in VR. I've had friends who felt like throwing up after 5 minutes be able to enjoy the experience for hours after a week of this technique. Trying to push through it just makes it worse, and you will develop a psychological barrier or fear which can be very hard to break.
It's still funny and most things in life follow a template or a pattern, that doesn't degrade them.

I don't use Reddit.
I never leave the house without them. It's difficult when with people though because it can look like I'm being rude.

I like earplugs too, but again that can look look rude in social situations. My girlfriend and close friends get it, but it depends on who I'm with what I'm doing.

I think Airpods might be changing things though, it's quite common to see people with those in 24/7. I haven't tried them myself, but I've heard really good things about their transparency mode.
To the degree that VR inherently has a significant motion sick crowd that would seem to rule it out for any sort of routine business or educational use.
I agree, I ride a bicycle so I'm more aware than someone sealed in a car would be, and unless I'm not moving, I only hear loud motorcycles right as they're passing me. The headwind from cycling at 32 km/h is enough to overpower loud exhausts in my experience.
Generally decicents (10 decicents = 1 cent) makes all normal currency calculations much easier/reliable. If you need lower resolution use millicents or microcents
The U.S. Just Lost 26 Years' Worth of Progress on Life Expectancy
I'd say first try for yourself instead. I have, for over a decade, and while it's pretty slow and has some annoyances: it's not quite bad enough to hate for me, the alternatives aren't that much better and mostly have other annoyances, and it can get the job done.
> relatively, i can't see someone a 50cc 2-stroke moped putting out more emissions than a huge 3-ton BMW X5 with a massive diesel engine, awd etc. which is carrying one person at any given time.

Different kinds of emissions. CO2-wise, yes indeed the moped is less harmful.

But the other emissions... a modern car is essentially a chemical lab on wheels. At least one actively managed catalytic converter to remove NOx, another one for diesel engines to burn leftover carbon monoxide, and then a particulate matter filter to trap and burn-off soot and other micro particles.

A two-stroke engine usually only has a passive catalytic converter and that's it. It emits by design unburned fuel-oil mixture into the exhaust because the mixture is used as a lubricant, and beyond a muffler it has absolutely zero noise emission control.
If you've ever used JIRA, I'd say getting paid to use their software is beneficial for both parties...
Like I mentioned a little higher up, I used to commute exclusively by motorcycle (a 600cc two cylinder from the late 90s). For me the net benefits were:

- Simple tech that I can maintain and repair myself without expensive tooling

- Very low tax

- When riding conservatively it has great fuel economy

- Filtering is legal here so backed up traffic had very little impact on my commute time

I run my bike with a legally approved exhaust that has a nice note but is not loud. All in all it has saved me a lot of time and money, and isn't that the point of owning a vehicle in the first place?
those are just the visible gases - you can't see carbon monoxide etc.
Give me a break. "Hacking" and tinkering with bikes doesn't mean they have to be loud. Nobody's opportunities are being curtailed by asking them to be considerate of others and socially responsible.

And anyway, in my experience, most owners of loud bikes are ratbags or deliberately looking to provoke, like the guy across the road who revs his bike at 1am and wakes up the whole street. I can assure you he's not a "hacker", just an inconsiderate dick.
If you want things like the UK's National Health Service to exist, it is pretty dangerous to have someone like Jeremy Hunt wielding this kind of power. The situation might not wreck or bankrupt the country outright, but it opens the door for all manner of public services to be gutted
Longest month ever.
I'd bet that the current price of $0/month would be valid in court.

However they did not state for how long is offer valid, so they will be able to change pricing tiers later.
OK I recognize that, currently dealing with a salesforce product that is painfully slow. Seems the company that purchased that solution can't do anything about it.
Reality: *GPL licenses are proprietary licenses.

I hope Copilot and similar technologies weakens the copyright establishment.

Do Business WITHOUT Intellectual Property - Stephen Kinsella http://www.stephankinsella.com/wp-content/uploads/publicatio...

Against Intellectual Property - Stephen Kinsella https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-0
Looks like this is the intended URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13569317.2021.1...
How to Write Content for Humans
Straw man. That isn't what Github/Copilot is doing.

If open source communities are worried about having their source code copied... then don't open the source. Keep it closed, keep it off GitHub... I mean the genie is already out of the bottle, so doesn't really matter what they do now.

You can't prompt Copilot with things like: # Function that detects spam accurately

And get anything useful/sensitive/competitive

Is there really super sensitive algorithms out there that Copilot is exposing that are otherwise unknown?
In my experience FreeBSD performance and security are great but not significantly better than linux. ZFS support on freebsd seems better than linux certainly its been supported a lot longer, bhyve works really well for virtualising freebsd and linux never tried it with windows.

The biggest strength is the ports / package manager works better than anything I have tried on linux and it sticks to unix principles closer than linux.

The biggest weakness for freebsd is docker and mono support is very poor. There is a desktop distro but in general any gui stuff linux beats freebsd hands down I only use freebsd for server stuff.

I use it for production web servers, backup / storage servers, routers, virtualisation servers. I find its rock solid and more consistent than linux.
tl:dr
Global recession => lower chip demand for consumers

China ban => lower demand from CCP

nvidia RTX 4090 still out of stock in most places :|

I'm pretty sure datacenter and military chip usage will grow in next few years even if recession hit consumer market even harder then past year then US chipmakers will get fat checks just 2be prepared for China retaliation (probably feels good to be Intel in chip war time).
>They don't. - "We plan on continuing to evolve this approach and welcome feedback and comment."

That is corporate speak for "we plan to do nothing about this".
With the Skyscraper tall wall of facts that article is composed, one would think such writing would have an index of references. But nope, what The Economists publishes sounds factual but is barely a nudge above laundry room gossip with a complete lack of references, lack of accountability for that wall of facts. It is truly amazing how manipulated our official discourse is on these critical issues. How to know what is opinion?
So if the talent team becomes partly AI-based, no change on public perception. They still listen to "the artist".
I use AndOTP on Android. You can export to a PGP-encrypted JSON file so your keys are really your own and not locked into a walled garden like Authy.
Now someone should open a Jira ticket, refine the task, estimate it, define its priority, push it to the backlog and maybe the next sprint (if it is important enough), someone will be assigned, checking all the DoD and DoR boxes, submit a PR, getting it approved and then it will be fixed.
so, if I use a subvolume (not as a snapshot, but as something I can modify) I can't use send/receive on it? it seems a little weird. I'd assume I should be able to send modifications to the remote end (and my argument is, if one can send modifications, one should be able to send modifications that effectively delete all content). I temper this argument that even if true, perhaps subvolumes marked as snapshots one cannot do this to.
I like rounded buttons. I prefer a bit of empty space over having a cluttered UI filled with buttons I'll never use. I like animations.

The problems with such UI overhauls is usually that the changes overshoot the target by a mile and the designers seem to focus more on visual design than usability. Animations are almost always too long, because their purpose - for example signalling that it has registered the input - is forgotten.

At this point at least web apps should just offer options to completely configure the UI layout with a JSON or HTML file and CSS.
use https://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Other-Programming-...
TL;DR — because the author loves it, followed by what can be described as multiple paragraphs of personal preferences.
What are you talking about? If you bothered to search for it and go to the shop, you'd see there is not only a sign, but a huge fucking window with several signs helpfully telling you what the shop offers and even going so far as telling you when you might not want find the shop useful.

There's even a huge sign with only 12 words pithily explaining what the shop has inside.

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
It seems very funny until you get investigated and fired for reporting made-up hours. I've seen it used as universal "we need to fire you ASAP" tool, since as you say everybody does it.
it is actually one of the better ones in the field.
On the contrary, I find a common debugger (see questions below) an underwhelming experience, not a powerful tool.

Can it:

- assign (scenario, subsystem, level, description) to breakpoints and watches, so they can be turned on/off or selected in groups for debugging without removal?

- commit these scenarios of bps and watches into a repository?

- edit/read them in a textual form to patch or share over an IM?

- store traces of previous sessions and diff them to find out what changed?

Does anything even remotely similar exist? Most debuggers are just test-pause-and-inspect tools with “integration” in the form of eval on mouse hover. Their ux and dx sucks and the only reason I could find to use them were slow build times and too low-level runtimes, which are no more today.

Pretty sure most people avoid debuggers not because they are too hard to learn (they aren’t), but because they are too dumb to be useful, given that you can ‘if (cond) log.level(…)’ and restart instantly.
> Safety and speed

One thing I can't seem to find a quick answer to from the Rust crowed is how does Rust handle dynamic lifetimes? It seems like it does not; it simply prevents you from referring to objects that have a dynamic lifetime not known at compile time.

You either have to use 'unsafe' or use the 'handles' pattern where you have what amounts to a custom allocator but the compiler does not know that it's an allocator so it can't prevent 'use after free' bugs.

I suppose you can also use Rc, but isn't that essentially a garbage collection scheme, with similar performance characteristics? (AFAICT a reference counting scheme must be able to nullify all references to an object when it's deallocated, so deallocations can become arbitrarily expensive).

Am I missing something?
What about a zero width space?
Yep. The scooter might output less CO2, but due to the primitive nature of the 2-stroke engine, it's basically chucking a rich aerosol of unburned fuel and lubricating oil out the exhaust. The X5, by comparison, has a catalytic converter to get rid of carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and unburned fuel, plus a particulate filter to get rid of soot; it will also have secondary emission control systems to stop fuel vapours escaping from the fuel tank and crankcase.

2-strokes have remarkable power-to-weight ratios and are pleasingly mechanically simple, but goodness me they're dirty.
If Copilot makes a billion dollars, it is only because it is generating at least a billion dollars worth of value to the community of developers who want to use it.

The people painting Microsoft as a big, greedy trust conveniently ignore that Copilot would actually be empowering the ecosystem of tech companies to develop services that compete with Microsoft faster and more easily.