skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to work at a place that blocked a significant fraction of incoming Dutch emails. Eventually we figured out it rejected any message with "kunt" ("he/she can"), which is not exactly uncommon. Apparently they were flagged as deliberate attempts to circumvent the profanity filter.
> While new functionality meaningfully improves user experience, especially when it comes to gaming.

What do you mean?

The most changes I see in Windows is just more spyware/adds added to basic features.
truncate -s 1g image.img

Or fallocate if you want it to complete instantly without disk writes but still allocate the space.
Sounds quite similar to a terminal, no?
Based on conversations with (male) friends, it seems to be the place for those who can't deal with Tinder anymore.

Personally I'm back to OkCupid - it may not have the number of users the others do, but at least I now get to know something about potential matches other than 5 pictures and that they enjoy traveling.
> US net power generation is 400GW

Not sure where this number comes from. It's 1200 GW.

https://www.publicpower.org/resource/americas-electricity-ge...

> You already did it once to force people into cars. And luckily you don't need redlining to get rid of highways.

Impossible.

You are starting to sound like you don't live in the US. Perhaps you don't understand just how hard it is to get anything done here?

> It's called a trolley bus (or automated light rail). And most of california's population already had access to it once without "full self driving next year" for decades.

Also impossible. It's a reality. Sorry.

> Also I love your conception of possibility as "I think it would be convenient for me personally to do this thing" rather than the physical existence of enough U235

How about you don't resort to insults and discuss facts instead?

TWO DECADES AGO a research report from MIT concluded that, at that time, we had more than enough uranium ore to power a thousand reactors for 50 years.

Since then we have gotten very good at extracting uranium from other sources as well as recycling. I don't think we have a problem.

The question is: How much power do we need?

Once that is answered, we need to decide on what assortment of nuclear, solar, wind, hydro, tidal and, likely, fossil generation approaches we need to use over time to provide what's needed. No single technology can cover all of it. Nuclear is likely to have to play a more significant role than most people think. How much? I have no clue. There's politics involved too, so, feel free to guess.
"I am...glad you were able to afford expensive private schooling to shield your kid from the effects of the ~~deadly pandemic that led to more than a million deaths in the US?"~~ misguided public policies that are even more unreasonable than already-not-so-reasonable, much shorter school closures in e.g. Europe, and are correlated with power of local public sector unions much more than the local severity of the pandemic impact.

FTFY
> I can still run most software from 20 years ago without any changes

Well I can't. There are old games in my Steam library right now that will not even launch on the latest Windows. Hunting for old DirectX redistributables didn't seem to help and I gave up. I wouldn't be surprised if they worked fine on Linux. Wouldn't that be ironic?
Modern sailing boats sail windward too, usually at an angle not greater than 45 degrees. Flags blow 45 degrees backward. Old ocean vessel didn't sail much against the wind. They were not built for that, hull and sails.

America's Cup foiling boats sail faster than the real wind in any direction (even 3 times as much) so they always experience an apparent wind against them, same as a car or to a lesser degree a bicycle. However they don't have flags, I just checked on videos. They would blow backwards at a small angle, just as on cars.
I don't consider any kind of acute pain acceptable personally. Even if short-lived. Unless it's needed as a signal to pull your hand out of a fire or something.
I won't answer the question fully accurately in public lol, the OP question smells a bit like spearphishing.

But I have no contact with the lawyers themselves. Lawyers are, say, private access to the entity that handles the will. There's an entrance. I basically have ownership over the will. This is done by proving my identity, biologically or legally. Thus I have read, write, delete access. I'm making the assumption that with a delete request, that they would return the password. Or otherwise I might have to add something that triggers the will if I am mentally incapacitated. But for now, the risk of that is quite low.
This is a helpful reminder to me. Thanks.
The topic of bullshit jobs has been overhyped.

Btw, even if they are a problem, their impact on the economy pales in comparison with restrictions on migration and construction.
Why is it not possible? In a society where multi marriages are not allowed there's a woman for every man.
What was taken out was the narrow focus on only the works of white men.

By the time I was in high school in the 1980s, this included reading from Zora Neal Hurston (Harlem Renaissance, US) and Chinua Achebe (post-colonial Nigeria). I don't think that was so common in the 1960s.

In elementary school in the 1970s we learned about Wernher von Braun (though not about his Nazi membership). This was the post-Apollo era, after all. Nowadays I suspect the focus might be more on Katherine Johnson.

I don't think that's a bad thing.
Plan9 (which I actually used for a few years) is caught in the anachronism trap of requiring a three-button mouse to effectively use rio.

It became unbearably obtuse to use on a laptop, and I didn’t like any of the workarounds, so I eventually upgraded my “terminal” to Linux and a custom LXDE setup.
You trust Google more than Apple to not misuse your data?
I do like the module that automatically creates a home directory on first login. It works well when you use ldap or similar mechanism for authentication.
Control+Left/Right Arrow: switch between full screen apps / desktops

Command+tab: switch between apps

Command+`: switch between windows of the currently open app
Finally we're reaching CSS communism
That's hilarious. I would take that as a sign the platform is as thoughtful with arbitrary enforcement (without review) and that it's users aren't much sharper.
> There's an obscure option to GNU dd to get it to display a progress meter as well. But why bother memorizing that? If you learn the pv trick once, you can use it with any program.

On macOS and BSD’s it’s as easy as pressing ctrl-t to send a SIGINFO signal to have dd show the status. On Linux it’s a tiny bit more complicated indeed. But knowing how to send signals to running processes is also a trick valuable of learning.
Kubernetes and Dockers aren’t coupled anymore…
I was thinking his point was how there is a lot of collaboration that isn’t actually useful, just as there is a lot of sitting at your desk “working” that isn’t useful.

It doesn’t mean you never sit at your desk and work, just that sitting at your desk doesn’t mean you’re working. Likewise for collaboration.
Now install a cross compile toolchain…
Which society matches your definition of free?
I know in Word and maybe other MS products you usually get an option of

* keep source formatting

* match destination formatting

* text only
I'm not that commenter, but dipping toasted bread in olive oil is delicious. And with the lettuce, you can mix olive oil and balsamic with a bit of seasoning to make a simple vinaigrette for a dressing.
The makings of a Lonely Island music video that it's actually a pepper in the popcorn and not something else.

Sorry, I couldn't help but think of the Run-DMC tongue-twister lyrics while reading that.
That is depressing. Or maybe not.
I've already returned from the other side of my breakup with the Mac. Full cycle.

From 2002 to 2013, I loved OSX. Yes, even Puma.

Mavericks was the first release that broke the spell. Already, I could see the downward trajectory of the UX. With each subsequent release, my frustration grew.

In 2016, I ditched the Mac in favor of PC. I dual booted Windows and Fedora. Between the two, I didn't miss anything. Windows took care of all my office and casual use activities. Fedora is great as a distraction-free coding environment. I was surprised by how quickly I adjusted. Over the years, I stopped thinking much about the Mac.

In 2021, my new workplace issued me a new MacBook. This was my first real exposure to the Mac in five years.

And it's...fine. Not great. Just fine. It's not frustrating like it was in 2016. It gets the job done. But I wouldn't care if you took it away and put me back on Windows tomorrow.

I've accepted it. The glory days of OSX are gone. I've let go of my hope that macOS can reclaim that same magic. Expectations and disappointments are gone. Instead, the Mac is just one tool among many that can get the job done. And I'm okay with that.
I did a quick survey of boat games.

sea of thieves (rare) does it right. flags fly with the wind.

black wake (mastfire) wrong. flags fly with the boat.

skull and bones (ubisoft) wrong flags fly with boat.

ac black flag (ubisoft) wrong flags fly with boat.
Good read.
Also checkout https://punit-g7.medium.com/demystifying-clipboard-f96452a49... for a few more detailed cases.
macOS updates happen overnight when the machine is idle unless you disable that. I've not witnessed a mac update in years now, it happens automatically, and when I open my laptop it's done and everything is exactly as I left it.
I have always found that personally as I become more capable I get stranger and more obscure problems with computers, but never less problems. The edge cases and weirdness that you can get help with in an active forum is greater for sure.

When talking about common problems, I mean truly common, the things an average high-school student runs into like joining an online classroom or editing a document (or even playing a game!). These things do fail on linux, and without being a power user that knows where to start and some keywords to search getting past square one is not so easy.
>Heron of Alexandria described building steam engines, what if we had continued to experiment on them for over 2k years? Where would we be now?

Dead from climate change most likely.
The new system settings suck. But as someone who really cannot at all be arsed with wasting half my life pissing round with tweaking a Linux distro it's ideal.
Try to set enabled=False in ~/.config/user-dirs.conf

https://www.unix.com/man-page/centos/5/user-dirs.conf/
Are you okay with Google’s telemetry on that Chromebook?
I am entirely in agreement with you. That said, humanity has never been a defense against atrocities. If anything, it is the opposite. Humanity has for as long as I've learned history been gleefully and willingly committing atrocities in war. This is a rule, not an exception.
>Why reducing decentralisation could reduce risks in DeFi and Web3, and widen their appeal beyond early adopters.
Reduce enough of the decentralization, and you'll get more users. True. But you'll start to look more like Meta, Apple than Bitcoin.

For blockchains, choose 2 out of 3: decentralization, performance, security. Visa chose performance and security. Bitcoin and ETH1 chose decentralization and security. ETH2 chose performance and security.

I've always said this. If Bitcoin wants to perform as many transactions/second as Visa one day, it'll turn itself into an Oracle database.
WhatsApp is currently down worldwide
Let me give you an example. If you're a flat earther and you speak to another flat earther you may understand each other very clearly. But to someone outside of your bubble what you say may sound like gibberish.

If you share this guy world view, what he said may have sounded clear, but it may not have been as clear to other people.
Rewriting data on ZFS is also a needed feature to complement RAIDZ expansion.
(Full disclosure; I work for a Bumble competitor. And I applaud Bumble for open sourcing this. It's great if we can work together as an industry to protect people from sexual abuse).

There's some questions I have about this release

the interest is in the model itself. They released the pre-trained model as a zip that you can download from their website but they do not mention the license for using this model anywhere. It is unclear from the documentation and license under what conditions you're allowed to use it. The zipfile itself doesn't contain any terms of use inside.

Though they give instructions on how to tweak the model with your own additional input images; again it's unclear from the license if you can create derivatives of the Model.

One might assume it falls under the Apache license that's included in the repository. But the model itself does not live in the repository (is not bundled with the source code) so it's not clear. Also Apache isn't really suited for assets and models. it's more meant for source code.

It would be nice if they would adopt a license that explicitly mentions how the model can be used like StableDiffusion does.
Because humans are social beings, we need to signal to the others that we belong to the group and are doing our part. Our loyalty is prized more than our effectiveness or efficiency. It doesn't matter how productive you are, the feelings of the group are more important.

You can see this in many places in our society. The security theater in airports don't make air travel that much safer, but it does send a signal to the group "look, we're doing something about it!". Same goes for the war on drugs, notoriously ineffective and seemingly only makes things worse. The hunt for benefits fraud is often not quite effective, hurts the ones that actually need the benefits, but the fear of the freeloader is big enough one must be seen to be tough on fraudsters. Or school, where doing what you're told is much more important than any learning you might do along the way. Or the way China is now burying itself with Xi's everlasting reign.

If you think humans are meant to be effective and efficient, you are very much mistaken. Everything we manage do, we do in spite of it.
How long will I live? Simple sitting test predicts longevity
Exactly, but the implementation is nontrivial/nonobvious if I'm copying from the web for example.
>> but I'm not sure if there's remaining appetite for Windows target-specific development

I mean.....video games are still huge?
Insufferable answer: Emacs does this to some degree by overlaying "minor-modes" of function on top of one another, even when visiting the same file.

e.g. You have a TSV file which you might want to align visually and edit multiple fields simultaneously, so you enable `tsv-mode', and then you enable `multiple-cursors` and you have the desired editing functionality on that file.

But to answer your first question: I genuinely envision my ideal future desktop as being some smart-glasses kind of thing, where I can type by thinking. Right now, what my mind wants and what my hands want are often aligned, but my mind wanders. If I can type at the speed that I think, I have the impression that this will greatly increase my overall focus and mind-discipline.

(I can also envision employers forcing their workers to install intrusive mind-type monitoring apps, to ensure that they're actually working and not just drooling into space, but that's perhaps a separate discussion.)
The author neglects to mention any of the use cases where "dd" really is the best alternative. Such as when you need to copy a bootloader from an existing image without damaging your partition table:

# My partition table is in sector 0 and my Linux partition starts at sector 62500

dd if=random-linux-image.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=512 count=62499 seek=1 skip=1

How do you make "cat" seek 512 bytes into its stdout before writing? You can't. And even if you used a temporary file, I think the above is better than a pipeline of "head" and "tail" with uses of $(()) to convert from sector to byte units.

Once you have learned to use the tool in such situations a few times, you mentally start to associate it with "disk operations". So you start to use it also in simpler situations where simpler tools would be sufficient. You start teaching its use to others. I don't think it's that strange, or bad in any way.
> I feel kinda blessed.

you should
I scale most websites to 150-200% because I like to fit the text I'm reading so that the ideal line length is approximately equivalent to my screen's width, and so that the things I need to click take up a significant portion of the screen. I'm a little short-sighted, but more significantly: I like to scope what I'm dealing with to an extreme degree.

Many websites break down when you scale them beyond. For example, news.ycombinator.com goes out of screen at >200% on my screen.

My terminal default font size is 20, but I often scale it above that when lines output is short enough for a period of time.

I love big output without fluff like task bars and clocks and other clutter.

What time is it? I don't know, I'll check my WRIST WATCH! :-)
I am with you.

How is it that there are countless people repeating how difficult it is to maintain Linux?

It runs out of the box for most hardware flawlessly.
> ON the international currency market, one traditional role of the US dollar is exactly "store value".

I do know that 'store of value' is the term I used, but it is in reference to the people who hold Bitcoins in expectation of rising price, and the fact that they would claim it 'stores value' while being extremely volitile is indicative of their lack of understanding or their lack of honesty in representing their motives.

People who shelter their dollars overnight are most likely not expecting a return on it.
My Pixelbook Go with a broken plastic hinge would like a word.
What is anxiety except those physical manifestations and how hard they make it to think?
> there's been some discussion on HN before about today's kids & teens not knowing how computer file systems work

I don't think normal people ever cared about file systems. Windows users from previous generations apparently only know three locations: Documents, Downloads and the Desktop. Save a file in any other location and it might as well be gone.
What do you mean "connected to a VPN in which case docker will proceed to not work at all".

... i have a vpn and my docker containers work just fine?
I think, long term, apps will disappear and we will get APIs and algorithms that are controlled by an AI engine. Apps are data silos that prevent an AI from doing the things it could.

You should be able to tell the AI engine something like "as soon as the weather forecast predicts snow, order a snow blower from Amazon". The AI can only do this if it has access to weather data and an API from Amazon it can control to get you the snow blower. It should also be able to check your calendar, because you can't accept the delivery if you are on vacation.

Apps are silos that prevents the AI from doing these things. At best the AI could use the equivalent of screen scraping to use existing apps, but eventually all apps should be replaced by APIs that just extend the capabilities of the AI engine.

And what about GUIs? I think they will be pretty irrelevant. The AI engine should be able to render your data any way you want. Think Dall-E. There will certainly be designs to chose from, but you should be able to customize them any way you want ("remove that italic button, I never need it").
That's not how this place works. If you want a private conversation, use email.
Yea I came here to write the same. The author obviously works in a different environment where such operations are not standard.

The ability to specify that an exact amount of bytes should be written or read in a location is an important task. More so on special files, like device files. Even provisioning an SD card with the image block aligned is crucial, and that is not speaking of very early boot loaders that need to be available in a specific byte offset.

This discussion hopefully educates the public that this kind of tools are foundational and their use cases should be learned:

You never know when you need to read a special byte offset in a hacky one liner in a debug environment. Analysis productivity matters, and knowing analysis tools is key for that.
Yeah people enjoy bashing it like second mcdonald, but simple truth is a lot of people around the world enjoy working there compared to other corporations.

Is it a dream job since your childhood? Hardly, but they are fine. I have one friend back home in eastern europe, basically full time categorizing new items added on marketplace for couple of years. Clear promotion paths (he was promoted 3x so far IIRC), perks, he wanted to switch to full WFH anywhere and he could easily, no push to return to offices after covid heights. He had tons of opportunities to change job but he is content with where he is.
Probably the only sane way to install Erlang / elixir.

Sadly, reuses the name of a completely unrelated common lisp tool.
> Subjecting EVOO to an electric blender results in a distinctly bitter taste.

I've never considered using a blender to make a dressing. I was thinking "drizzle oil over leaves with some vinegar" type of dressing. Something like that is where you'd be able to taste the flavors of the oil. But I'm one of those weird people who goes to oil tasting rooms to find the ones I like so maybe its not a universal advice.
>When I was in graduate school I'd regularly get stuck on some stupid thing I didn't understand and slamming my head against the paper/book/whatever didn't help. Again, a quick nap and I was good (or at least better than I was).

I remember doing this, too. I would often nap 2-3 times a day in crunch time and sleep less during the night, solving many problems.

I think the problem as you say is the performative part of work, and napping really doesn't look good in that sense.

Since COVID WFH I often also nap instead of eating lunch, which is a double power boost, since a big lunch can make you almost comatose.
Yes, there are situations where side-by-side comparison is invaluable.

Large laptop screens (>15") can be sufficient here, but two external monitors are priceless.
I very much agree.

Apple isn't just fiddling with the UI. It has actively got worse with every rendition of MacOS since Lion, and the pace of destruction is getting faster.

Frankly, the UI teams have no idea what they're doing any more, other than a clear instruction from above to make it look like iOS when a) iOS has so much UI debt at this point it is a chore to use and needs an instruction manual (seriously, hand someone who doesn't spend their time a beta blog and ask them to use Stage Manager) and b) is for a completely different size and interaction modal.

Apple desperately needs someone with some taste at the helm.
> Starbucks sucks

It’s not virtue signaling. It really sucks. Next time you are in SF, or somewhere where Ritual coffee has shops try an espresso from them(the Sweet Tooth preferably).

You will be blown by the difference in taste. I get that some people don’t care for it, but I don’t it’s virtue signaling to do.
Try command tiles; that's what I use between windows. Also Commands 1 - 10 can switch between tabs on a window
I agree. Packing people in a room to "brainstorm" doesn't work.

In Design Thinking, team members diverge and ideate privately. Later the team converges by discussing ideas as a group to refine or combine ideas.
FYI You can turn off the animation and make most of the screen transitions less jarring using the Accessibility settings.

(Reduced motion iirc, I don’t have my Mac with me now)
"Contained" implies that the problem is under control. It isn't.
Check out Rectangle for window snapping. I found it good enough and not overly complicated.
> It's their engineers putting ease of use for themselves above others.

This isn't so bad. That's the system I want. A system by programmers for programmers. I guess Linux has been filling that niche for a while now.