skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My dad had never used a Mac in his life until I helped him buy an M1 Air. He loves that thing. The only thing I did was install Brave and make it the default browser.

I think he gives Apple credit for how fast his internet is, when really it’s due to Brave. But the rest of the experience— no crap ware, no spyware, no ads in the system— that’s on Apple.

Edit: forgot the main point, which is that he needed no handholding. Given how often he had to replace his crapware-ridden netbooks in the past decade due to performance degradation or something physically breaking, I showed him the trivial math that made the MacBook look like an economic decision as much as a QoL decision.
This isn’t a PR campaign. The DoD keeps actively trying to squash any conversation regarding UAP
SVG screenshots!
> Markets rather optimize for the most efficient usage of resources.

Where, in practice, "efficient" is conveniently circularly defined as "whatever the market decides". In the case of the OP, there's nothing "efficient" about grinding a computer to a halt under an oppressive layer of crapware, thereby wasting the user's time and energy (in both a literal and a figurative sense). The stark lesson of the modern age is that markets are hopeless at pricing in externalities.
Ubuntu does updates every week unless you explicitly turn them off. So you have to reboot quite often which sucks.
"its been YEARS/DECADES since the last severe vulnerability" therefore the probability of a new vulnerability in the next 10 years is exactly 0. /s
If the boring code is working it’s easier from a time and reliability perspective to go play and experiment in an other repo.

R&D or having a “lab” repo for developer experiments is a separate lane until it’s good enough for production. It’s a wonderful way to highlight what possibilities and capabilities are being explored.

Or, you can use the latest and risk having to constantly update it and let it take away time from experimenting.
A brief demonstration of my Titanium Cyborg Eye as a flashlight [video]
It might be the pricing comparison blog post for managed Prometheus solutions here https://victoriametrics.com/blog/managed-prometheus-pricing/
> I think it’s best if you don’t contribute to this discussion any more to avoid embarrassing yourself further.

Seems kind of odd to see this written on an anonymous forum
That's exactly the problem, someone is thinking of the children too much.
"Akira Yoshizawa. Japan's Greatest Origami" is a great place to start. it has models ranging from very simple to medium complexity. From there you can look into popular authors like Michael LaFosse (who appears in the documentary). He has many books for beginners (his butterflies are very famous). Once you are confident on your skills, get an insect book from Robert Lang to experience the Dunning-Kruger effect in full force.

For kids, it depends on their age. Mine started around 5 and 6 with small origami kits I bought in amazon (printed in creases makes things easier). For older kids you can find many books with specific themes. Just find one that your kid is interested in (animals, boxes, Pokemon, Star Wars, etc). They all tend to be rather simple.

Also, avoid printing paper. It only works for very simple models. Tuttle publishing sells some nice packages with 100~200 sheets that are nice for simple to medium models.

You can also find tons of free diagrams on the internet. /r/origami in Reddit also has a nice community you can check out.

-Edit
I forgot to mention Jo Nakashima. He has a youtube channel with great videos to follow.
It’s not just software execs, I’ve actually heard customers asking for auto-update recently as approving and updating it themselves was too cumbersome, or they relied on a department for this that had no time to do this soonish. They literally asked for “auto updates like chrome or Firefox”…
it’s possible to still hit cors and https issues from the terminal.
It's possible to get exploited without being a literal slave, though.

There's a vast spectrum between "I'm Bill Gates and nothing is ever out of my reach" and "slavery". Folks in poor nations with few prospects being exploited for their cheap labor often gets uncomfortably close to the slavery end of things.
I’m not sure how any of this stops Russians from shooting at you.

> But also recognize that just because someone doesn't have the answer to everything doesn't mean it is wrong.

We can all want and wish for things, at some point we have to grow up and accept reality. If you don’t have a solution, then you don’t have the answers. You should’ve kept your mouth closed as you’ve said “i don’t like war, there’s a better way, but i don’t know what it is”. How many veterans that have watched their friends die do you think are on this board (you’re talking to one now)?

War is horrible but when we fight there is no other option.
It's not beside the point. The usability of Windows vs. Linux must factor in the availability of software. I would literally be unable to do my job on Linux
I’m probably being obtuse here but I don’t understand from the article why a client component could not be async.

If the use ‘hook’ can throw a promise (and by doing so defer future renders), why would the render pipeline not be able to distinguish between a ReactNode or Promise<ReactNode> and act accordingly?

With React.memo and the use hook it’s probably quite straightforward to create a HOC that does just that.

Furthermore, quite a few of my colleges are quite displeased about the `use` hook’s name, especially because of expected search issues due it being a very generic and common word.
Then use a distro that doesn't use systemd.
Sounds like you know what you are doing, wasn't trying to guilt trip anyone, just provide options. Despite the topic of the thread, windows is a much better os than it ever has been. If it is still possible to keep an install on some (potentially older version) running in a vm that would be sufficient mitigation against unscheduled MS decisions interrupting your business. I'm not an IT professional though, I just code.
Here's a good article on the subject: https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-waste-trade
1) That's against the GitHub ToS. Both accounts will be banned and the user will be permanently banned from setting up a new account.

2) Even if it was kosher, how exactly is this improving Open Source?
> What this paper does it take arbitrary aspects of arbitrary parts of the brain, and tries to marry them to some existing computational framework.

Can you try describing what they specifically claim that you find arbitrary? Like, what are the “clearly wrong assumptions?”
In my experience, the founder(s) are one of the few people who will be able to push and innovate as others start to copy you. I think PMF is a continuum and what is PMF for $1M ARR is highly unlikely to be sufficient to get you to $10M ARR which will require more evolution to get to $25M ARR.
Why 80 Characters Wide Still Matters
I'm redoing the final two chapters before I even look for a publisher. But I've been at it (in my spare time) for six years, so don't hold your breath.

(I'm not sure if your reply was a thumbs-up or a serious question, but that's a serious answer).
First world problem but

I always ponder what I’d do if we ever stopped recycling plastic.

It would take up so much space in my trash can I’d be emptying three times a day. I’m pretty sure I’d still separate the plastic and cardboard into a separate bin just for sanity?
Honestly most of the "alternative to" programs do not meet expectations they set by dropping a big known name. So much so, that I think people are doing FOSS disservice by comparing to those who they can't meaningfully overtake.

The only exceptions could be small single feature utilities.
Is it based off of a database? Even fairly small YouTube channels seem to work with sponsor block as soon as the videos are uploaded. I always assumed YouTube requires creators to mark which sections are sponsored, and sponsor block has some way of looking that up.
Samsung's Smart TV 'surveillance' prompts FTC complaint (2015)
Look how much you are complaining and those are just straws. Wait until people won't be allowed to buy cheap cars and will be forced to share public transportation with homeless, thieves and mentally ill people. Right wing populist parties are about to live through golden age of annoyed voters.
Does anyone else remember the puddles in the road being full of worms after a good rainfall? I hardly see any of those anymore either.
> You can literally just remove yourself from the situation!

No, you really can't in many cases. And even then it isn't healthy to run every time someone crosses a boundary
Nvidia shield perhaps?

Just side load an Android app called "NetGuard" which is a free firewall app on Android (though it's only available on the Android phone, but you can still sideload it on the Shield TV). Download the NetGuard APK file and then install it on your Shield TV using a 3rd party file manager app (you can find the NetGuard .APK file on Google search, or you could use an APK extractor and extract the NetGuard app from your Android phone after downloading it from the Play Store). You might need to also download a 3rd party launcher to see the side loaded Android apps as it will not appear on the stock Android TV home launcher. Then open the NetGuard app and disable network connections to the "Software Upgrade" app, then switch on the NetGuard toggle and it will block the "Software Upgrade" system app from accessing the internet, therefore it cannot download the software update and then prompt you to install it with an annoying pop up screen message.

If you get a software update message and the software update gets downloaded, just go to the app settings of "Software Upgrade" and delete the app cache and data.

Once you have the NetGuard app enabled, it should auto start every time you boot up the Shield TV and it will always run in the background. I suggest that you regularly open the NetGuard app and have it in the background so just incase Android OS puts it to sleep.

Additionally, I suggest you go to Google Play Services and the Google app and disable all the app permissions to access storage or change system settings (though if you use things like Google Assistant or voice search, you may need to leave the microphone permission on). Do the same for the other Nvidia apps which you might think may try to control or change settings on your Shield TV without your permission.

I'm still on Android 8.0 on my 2017 Shield and I'm happy with it. I don't really need any extra features and nothing needs to be fixed. This is the only method I found to work. I have tried to delete the "Software Upgrade" app package from my computer using Android ADB but I just couldn't do it (maybe Nvidia blocked it). So the firewall method is the only option. I don't know if Nvidia made changes and blocked this method in newer updates, but try it and let me know if it works.
best practice -> good defaults

I really like your phrasing. Maybe "favorite defaults" to maintain both the original idea and the nuance.
It seems we (well at least some) have come full circle re passivity when consuming content.

TV is like this and was much worse. Back where I grew up, during forced socialism/communism there were 2 official TV channels and that was it. Then came computers and internet, me and many others and we greatly enjoyed that one felt in complete power what to do, what to see read etc.

What you mention (maybe I don't get it since I never used tiktok and probably never will due to apparent addictiveness) sounds again like passive random consuming of whatever the other side decides is appropriate. You can tune it, and maybe it works a bit, hey its 2022. Surreal to me (and not in positive way), but to each their own.
> Were you ever actually bullied?

Verbally, yes - though it never escalated to actual violence. To be fair, they weren't "career" bullies (for the lack of a better word), but simply a clique of kids (that were otherwise decent in school) that like to make fun of other people - turns out that actually not being afraid and confronting them is all it took to 1) stop the bullying and 2) completely change the dynamics of the relationship where they saw me as one of theirs and from that on we had decent interactions. The only violent incident I was involved in had nothing to do with bullying and was about stealing my phone.

> The only place where violence is tolerated is school

Violence still costs significantly more than verbal bullying, so most bullies would generally not want to resort to it if they can avoid it. If your option is 1) pick on the weak kid or 2) pick on the weak kid that shows a willingness to fight, you will pick option 1 because option 2 will still attract significant more attention from authority even if you easily win the physical fight.

I'm sure there are gangs of violent bullies, but for each one of those there's probably hundreds of verbal bullies that just pick on people verbally for fun and have no desire for violence or even significant confrontation because it's too much risk & effort. Standing your ground would at least protect you against those as they'd rather move onto an easier target. Will it protect you against 100% of bullying? No. Will it protect you against 90% of it? Very likely.
I have mixed feelings about this.

On the one hand, it's a good book and I love books anyway.

On the other hand, going shopping is playing house. It feels like creative work, but isn't creative at all. It's easy. It's comfortable. It's safe from risk of failure.

Shopping doesn't overcome the resistance to making something that will probably suck. It avoids it.
Imagining what a bootable linux distribution for seniors might look like from a feature perspective.

- skeumorphic icons
- familiar light colours
- large fonts
- emphasis on storage and management of images and videos, archiving service
- a support app that goes right to a irc channel.
- journaling for remote support, wonder what else.

Kind of like android was intended to be before google's ecosystem became a landfill. They didn't invent poverty for the internet, but they scaled it as a service for people who prey on those who are less advantaged.
For people out there on macOS, you can press Cmd-Shift-dot in Finder to toggle displaying any hidden files (including the standard UNIX hierarchy at /).

By the way, I'm pondering setting my XDG_*_HOME vars on Linux/BSD to use the macOS paths like ~/Library, just to see if the standard is actually being followed.
> Is OSX on average more reliable than Windows though?

In my personal, anecdotal experience, macos is more reliable than windows. Neither is as reliable as my 14-year-old but constantly updated and fresh today Gentoo/Linux install. But the things that a laptop needs, macos is better. So I have a macbook and a Gentoo/Linux workstation and I generally feel like I get the best of both worlds.

I also often just run a debian in qemu on my macbook rather than installing a bunch of software from macports or homebrew, which has worked very nicely.
And now the cops have been called and you’re leaving the school in handcuffs for “terroristic threats” or something along that line.
I have been programming for decades, and I have never had a time of outstanding productivity without times of times of much less activity. Creative activity, for many people, is non-linear and not a recipe based activity. Sure, writing the fourth app in a framework, you can crank it out, but coming up with a great framework for the type of applications rhat your business and technical environment requires something else, a metaphorical walk around the park, while the various possible pieces od solitions kind of simulate themselves in your muttering only half conscious imagination. The sort of solutions that achieve the agile manifesto imperative to maximize work not done. You find interfaces that simplify the problem space so much that so much possible code becomes unneeded.

I find too many people mistaking velocity for progress to be an almost insolvable organization problem. if you want to end up with mega lines of code that are all part of a useless of incomprehensible solution that is certainly a job, but might fail as a life's contribution.

I am no longer an eager youth, but when i was, the thing that hooked me to push on past limits, was my excitement and joy about solving real problems, at scale, with software, with a simple yet powerful idea. It was not any history of frequent commits or risong to rhe 95th %ile or the barren useless of a streak. It was having an idea born out of real needs and made simple enough to need almost no comlexity to implement. Having that novel simplicity go into production and be used was motivation for a lifetime of work.

I certainly have periods of stillness and more restful learning than prodigious output, but they are, for me at least, completely necessary. they may be fairly lethargic as well.
JVM is very different than Java. Many Java devs use another JVM language such as scala, etc.

Rust is the future but not mainstream and still early. Can’t wait.
Might be useful for tractors and heavy offroad and construction equipment.

No use at all for cars.
I've found the authentication options to be extremely flexible, thanks, I think to PAM[0]?

With PAM, it's possible to configure any combination of authentication requirements, in any desired order, with optional steps etc.

One can require password AND keys AND physical token, in that order, or password AND keys OR physical token, or any other combination they desire.

With PAM, one could go as far as to write a module requiring them to whistle the scooby doo tune to unlock.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_PAM
This is the style of his (relatively) new-ish "CD /" series. They focus on really specific aspects of video production, rather than special effects in general.

Everything he makes is great.
Could be because you aren’t there in the grass and fields actively looking for them. If you garden and spend time in it, it’s amazing what you find.
Why not license plastic distribution -- and have an associated fee that gets reduced by actual recycling. This fee could slowly be ratcheted up, to allow for a transition, but, in short, it would make reusable plastic increasing expensive unless nearly all of it was provably recycled.
Usually something as trivial as renaming the test function.
> and I just know the day will come when I haven't a damned clue how any of this works any more

I don't think this is a foregone conclusion, and it's easy to say this and sort of throw your hands up and go "oh well, woe is me" but it's kind of a cop out, no?

I have family in their 90's who can navigate whatever tech you put in front of them, because they think it's important to figure things out when they get stuck. My father can barely turn his phone on because at the slightest frustration he gives up and waits for someone to "fix it" for him. Certainly different folks have different aptitudes, but choice and working through things plays an exceedingly large role.
Not sure is this is the best option today, but in a previous self hosting situation I relied on CloudFlare's DDOS protection. We survived several attacks thanks to them. One attack was a 3 days long, and CloudFlare worked fine the entire time, our regular customers were lightly impacted but could still work.
> Is OSX on average more reliable than Windows though?

I would say yes, but perhaps the worst-of-worst stories in this thread are prejudicing me. Things like in this thread don't happen on OX though.

(I honestly don't know what you're referring to about "bad backwards compatibility")

But if you mostly dislike Apple UX choices, you probably are going to mostly dislike using it as a daily machine, so.
<<I disagree. Mentioning other countries is only relevant as a comparison, but the statement itself is standalone as far as determining whether it's true or not. Sure, we can argue about the degrees of corruption, and some of the subjective claims in my statement such as "deeply" and "any", but I think anyone would be hard pressed to argue that these issues are _not_ true.

Hah. Good counter. Even with Xi, who effectively rose to power on very public anti-corruption measures, it is virtually impossible to point to any country that has no corruption. I am certain corruption exists. Some habits die hard. And I base it more on my understanding of human nature than anything else.

<< Like I said, the combination of these factors is unique to China.

I accept the ascendancy to 1st world power status as the differentiating factor, which would make it unique enough. With regards to xenophobia and 'regard for human life', I am pretty sure I could point to counters ( including Ukraine, Chechnya, Russian famine, or xenophobia embedded in nationalism[1].. ).

<< This is a common tactic used by Chinese apologists

I agree that whataboutism is a thing and it is being used by troll farms across the globe. I still think that it is difficult to discuss anything without understanding how that something compares to other comparable things. If anything, I posit that not discussing the entirety of the issue including context is a disservice to the reader.

***

Thank you for this conversation. This is basically why I come to HN.

[1]https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Issues/R...
I can attest that there has been zero slowdown in the prehistoric bug death on my windshield in Florida after any stretch of time on I-75.

If you've never lived through the lovebug season here, consider yourself lucky
Just give up on low-end Windows laptops in combination with non-savvy users. Give them an iPad instead.

Starts instantly, not in 10 minutes. Great battery life. Automatic backups when properly enabled. Far less security and malware risks. Few to none resource hogs slowing down the entire system. Not really possible to get a corrupt system as seems inevitable on Windows.

Even then you'll have some support. Like that time my mum called to say it's completely broken, doesn't turn on.

It turned on just fine, she forgot her password.
I've never used proton, that was just heresay feom my gamer friends using steam decks. I remember having problems with wine in the late 90s but the single data point of that xml app was really good. I guess I just got lucky. Running a windows vm in linux has never worked as well as the ither way around, but it does work. And for people with critical software that runs on w95 or some version of dos it isn't unusual to keep it in a vm with extremely limited connectivity. Do you think that might be a reasonable approach for the gp?
It's not a red flag for you.

What would your 10 employers have to say?
Commuter cars get run to death then disposed of. Even if you just trade them in after a few years, the next owner is going to continue running them into the ground. It's why the ownership curve is inverse to the lifespan.

Cars with big engines are typically someone's second (or third or fifth) car, they get kept around longer because they're special, and also don't get driven enough to rack up kilometers.

The peak of longevity in sub liter cars is from most of them being classic micro cars and the rest being Japanese Kei cars. They don't get driven very far, but a large portion of them are from the 50's and 60's so they're skewing the longevity numbers and the mileage numbers.