skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that in cases where Apple devices don't just work you are screwed. A few years back a friend of mine had her MacBook Air's system language suddenly change and wasn't able to change it back as the option panel to do so just froze each time. I had to do an extensive Google search as most answers I found were generic variations of "bring it to an Apple shop" or "reinstall and use a backup" (which we did, didn't fix the issue). In the end I had to edit some config file to switch the language back. Safari's language was still wrong afterwards, but she could live with that.
Most Metaverse business projects will be dead by 2025
It would be nice if it can be replacement for logging stack, elastic is super hungry for ram
I don't think that's bullying. I think he was simply offended by the post he was replying to. The deliberate malice you find in bullying just isn't there.

In a way, his post was a form of negotiation. He wants the other person to stop posting opinions he considers invalid and embarrassing, so he appealed to their self-interest in order to get them to change their behavior. Real violence comes with the threat of escalation: "you better stop, or else".
Disingenuous to just name TikTok for this as if it’s some new extra evil social network.

FB/IG/Twitter all do this and have for over a decade.
What made you move away from that "naive" implemeentation? What kind of implementation do you now employ?
* We imported ~1,000,000 messages of dynamic length (some very long, eg. emails);

* Once imported, the search index weights 20MB (KV) + 1.4MB (FST) on disk;

This is almost unbelievably succinct! If you encode the document features into 8 bits per document, and thus completely forego the need to store the document ID by indexing them implicitly, that alone is 1 MB.

Getting meaningful search out of on average 21 bytes per document seriously impressive.

[For reference, this sentence is 42 bytes.]
Weird, my MBP from 2015 runs fine. Don't think I have ever updated the OS either.
I tried Wine for a variety of things in the past, but never quite could get it to work right.

Also, some of those software are mission-critical for me, and I can't really afford to use something that may break unexpectedly when I need to deliver images same day.
I'm not even talking about the color fading in 5 years, I'm talking about clothes that shed pigment from the first wash and not only discolor, but ruin the rest of your laundry...

If you don't experience it often, I imagine it might be a Europe vs. US thing. I have often heard that clothes for sale in the US tend to be more robustly made (maybe because of the widespread use of tumble dryers?). In Spain what I said above is definitely a common occurrence, and you don't even get rid of that by paying for good brands, I have had clothes from e.g. Lacoste do that. And the reason is that they skimp on a chemical that fixes the dye. It's perfectly avoidable, but they just don't bother.
OSX doesn’t surprise me in hostile ways
Breakthrough Twin-Fuel Hydrogen Engine Could Cause a Revolution
While not sexy this technology could help deal with the fact that it is unrealistic for us to be able to convert all ICE cars to EVs in time.
We focus way too much on carbon emissions. There are a lot of other environmental disasters impacting everyone on earth.
The USA is in recession and if they post a positive gdp growth in a few days, there's absolutely no way it's going to match or be above inflation.

For the economy to have 'grown' it has to be above inflation.
Beautiful and lovely.

I dread every app update these days. What buttons will lose their edges? Which icons will become indistinguishable vector hieroglyhps? Will the menu bar inexplicably become all-caps? What new upsells and attention-sinks will be forced unturnoffably into my precious screen real-estate?

This, though... you can see what things are. Buttons have edges. It's obvious at a glance what's editable and what's not. This is truly the UI of the future. I feel like, with a UI like this, the user could use the computer, not the other way around. I can't wait for the world to catch up.

Minor bug report: The first row of buttons in the "Button" section make the rest of the page move down when clicked (Firefox/Mac). The other buttons are all fine though.
We’ve had a couple polar vortexes that sat over us for a few days. Those temps tend to kill off a large number of bugs. Then it’s been drier than normal and I mowed back the long grasses that abut the property all of which reduced the bugs.
Maybe because we're in the midst of an anthropogenic mass extinction?

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1704949114

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

"The contemporary rate of extinction of species is estimated at 100 to 1,000 times higher than the background extinction rate"

"the current rate of extinction is 10 to 100 times higher than in any of the previous mass extinctions in the history of Earth."

"There is widespread consensus among scientists that human activity is accelerating the extinction of many animal species through the destruction of habitats, the consumption of animals as resources, and the elimination of species that humans view as threats or competitors."
Here's another startup, with a founder that also spent a year working on the super-hard problem of...Python hot reloading/profiling: https://reloadium.io

Hooking these two up would make for a neat programming experience. Best of all...if some $$ €€ were involved, it would show Python open source can be sustainable.
Things were simpler back then - nokia phones saved the sim pin into memory and had watch dog timers that would just reboot the phone if it locked up and use the in memory pin to unlock the sim.

If you didnt happen to be watching the display at the time you would never know it rebooted.
Would be nice if those colors were also used for category labels by the books easier to memorize and recognize color than two letters
Pronounced Space-Bacon.
What's gonna happen in 100 years? Are the insects waiting for something?
Violent confrontation has consequences, even in school. At the very least, it attracts significant attention from authority which nobody wants. So it changes the bullying risk/reward calculation, at least for "conventional" bullying for "fun" (if they're after your phone/money/etc, you will need to put up more resistance to counteract the higher "reward").

If you get into a proper fight you will lose, however most bullying is verbal and even bullies have no interest in escalating it to physical violence if it risks yielding consequences (if not for the violence itself, but their other behavior, that might otherwise fly under the radar). So merely showing the intent to fight back will make them move onto another target.

Yes, this is completely different from gangs and I'm not talking about those. If your school has a gang problem, this advice won't help you. However below "gangs" there will generally be a clique of people that may engage in occasional verbal bullying (because it's fun for them and/or bolsters their social status) but otherwise generally do well in school and have no interest in jeopardizing that standing - therefore violence will not be in their best interest, regardless of whether they'll actually win the physical fight.

> You can't avoid bullies at school. If your plan is to defend yourself, then you better be able and willing to dish out extreme violence when warranted because that's what it's going to take

You can't avoid 100% of them. You can avoid 90% of them by being stronger/more difficult than the other targets.
I thought this comment was going in a different direction:

It’s amazing how people tolerate the poor usability of windows and then prefer the poor usability of Linux.
Bluesky – Building a Social Internet
This is why everyone is buying grandma and grandpa iPads to video chat.
It’s no different from IG, Reddit and Twitter just higher information bandwidth.

Which makes it more noticeable to certain people.
Long ago I was searching on lightweight search engines that could run on the Edge, as ElasticSearch –while very popular– is also quite heavy and relies on the Lucene/JVM.

Apart from Sonic, I also found Tantivy [1] and Meilisearch [2]... all delightfully made in Rust.
My favorite, and the closest one to ElasticSearch (for its features) is probably Tantivy.

I'd recommend anyone to check up this three projects and choose on what best fits your needs... it's awesome to see that more projects are becoming available by the day!

[1]: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy

[2]: https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch
I'm not against burying plastic but the amount of carbon that's going to contain isn't going to make a big impact in terms of CO2 vs burying timber or other stuff that's much easier to collect in significant mass.
On Running a Mastodon Instance (2021)
> Sonic here only returns document identifiers

In many cases that is what you want because you have the data in a database and don't want to duplicate it in Elastisearch.
… so not this planet
To be clear I was a cringey teen lol, I don't listen to this stuff anymore...

But the song I liked was "Move Along" by the The All American Rejects. I think he also played some songs by Linkin Park too, but I remember Move Along because that was the song that got me into that genre of music. Then from there I started listening to Indie music which was more of a thing here in the UK in the late noughties - The Killers, Arctic Monkeys, etc. That later progressed into stuff like The Smiths and Joy Division, and to this day I listen to a lot of music which derives from the late 80s indie scene.

I guess you could argue I'd have found the same music another way because these were fairly common bands at the time. But I still think it's interesting that I can trace so many things in my life today back to that specific moment in time.

The game was Conquer Online. It's not great anymore but around 2006ish it was a pretty decent free MMORPG.
On 11, just click the 'login with Microsoft Account' and for email use no@thankyou.com and when you click Next it'll automatically dump you to the local setup flow.
And yet every time mobile Safari comes up people on this site go off about how it's "broken" because it does not support notifications from websites. There are legit uses of website notifications, but 99% will be spam like this.
There were Android forks in the past that were security focused, I had one years ago on a HTC phone that would offer fake contacts/camera/gps to apps and you could deny network access per app on mobile and/or wifi.

I haven't seen anything like that for a long time.
Another interesting alternative: https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch - I'm using it in one of my (small) projects and I had a good experience with it, also very helpful community.
haha, had to be the reason. I would also love a 4Runner, love the look. But the mileage and the eletronics, apart from the fact that they aren't sold in Germany make it nearly impossible.
pip (and it's predecessor, easy_install) were improvements over CPAN, PEAR or the complete absence of solutions at the time in languages like Java or C, but I think it's fair to state that a package manager is table stakes for a language now and newer iterations on the concept like cargo have surpassed pip.
Because even with the low bar set by windows, desktop linux is genuinely less usable. If you need anything outside of a browser and encounter a problem you need substantially more understanding of how the OS works get it fixed, not to mention many common use-cases are either not supported or have an inferior less stable version on linux.

For common problems in windows you can find a current guide with pictures in seconds, on linux you are more likely to find a slightly out of date forum. And thats ignoring the complexities of different desktop environments and hardware compatibility.
It's true that the market gives people what they "want", in the sense that they choose to buy that. That's almost a tautology.

But most of the time they choose to buy that because they don't have enough information, or they have misleading information.

No one wants a pair of pants to ruin the rest of the laundry. And there is food without trans fats that tastes as well if not better, but it's easier to just put trans fats or whatever the next crap product is and not inform the consumer.
Great points but imagine how much their eyes will pop once the budgets or spending reports come out and congress finds out how much they’re spending on interest payments on their debt.

I’ll do the math for you: 4%/yr of 31T means they’ll be paying 1.24T in interest expenses per year. Of the 4.9T in tax revenue, 1.24T of it or 25% of it is burned on interest payments on the national debt.[1]

Source: usdebtclock.org
> According to the actual FBI data released in the last several years gun deaths continue to decline from record highs 60 years ago.

That isn't exactly my understanding, at least over the last couple years - didn't 2020 bring a sharp rise in homicides (along with gun ownership)? Perhaps I'm just a bit sensitive since I tend to hear gunshots at night every so often and a police officer just gunned a man down in his car for nothing more than eating a burger in my neighborhood just a few weeks ago. Last I heard he was still on life support.

But overall I have to say that my experience of living in the US just feels like being trapped in a box with lurking predators everywhere. Everywhere you go, there's some scam or hidden fee (which doesn't really feel that different from a bribe now that I think about it) that someone is just waiting to spring on you. God forbid if you need some kind of healthcare - no one can tell you what anything will cost, but they will bill you something, probably a lot. I get that that might not meet the definition of low trust, but it doesn't feel like high trust either.
On the other hand, having starring a repo made into a game will skew the stars' usability in gauging a project's popularity or quality. Maybe the "most starred repo for X" is just made by someone who's really into collecting badges or marketing.
With those specs I would guarantee the update actually takes less than 15 minutes on average each month. I don't remember an update adding more than 1 or 2 minutes on my i5 8gb to my restart time since Windows 11.
Look at zincsearch. Its another lightweight elastic alternative and they advertise logging as a usecase.
We don't have enough land as it is.

Only discussing the land statement here, but we have loads and loads and loads of unused farmland.

At least, that is true in Canada, and I suspect the US, and I know in the EU some are paid not to farm.

In Canada, we have quotas on some things, to prevent over production.

There are two real issues:

* drought, or summers with few sunny days, reducing yields

* random new diseases

So we need that fallow land, just in case, which is why people are given inventives to have farm land, but not use it.

Yet we still have so much farm land, that we sell the best of it to developers, who then create housing.

We have loads of unused farmland.

One last thing. China's population is going to almost halve, over the next 15 years, Russia will have a major population decline, and the most industrialized nations are the same.

Canada has solved this top heavy, old age die off, with immigration. More than 30% of Canadian citizens, for example, we not born in Canada.

But for those with lower immigration numbers, and low birth rates (basically the entire industrialized world), populations will plummet by 30% to 50% in the next 25 years.

China had the one child program, and the birth rate in Canada is less than 1 for every 2 adults, for Canadians boen here. The rest of the West is the same.

So worldwide, our population will plummet very soon.
Switzerland (well, at least Geneva and cantons around it) doesn't even separate plastic waste apart from few very specific plastic bottles. For the rest, just put it into general garbage, no false feeling of helping planet when in reality doing the opposite.

One can't really suspect swiss to be lazy or cheap on anything, in contrary. I don't know details about general waste lifecycle here but it seems other places could take some inspiration and focus energy and resources on more sane parts of waste processing.
Yeah, it's a pitty. But you do have to scrub it more than a normal care. I gave up having a clean wind shield.
Wouldn't Apple be a better company to handle crime though? iPhones are an even bigger treasure trove of criminal evidence - they're filled with pictures of crimes, documents proving crimes and chat messages admitting to crimes.

Apple could report so many wrongdoing to authorities but instead they quietly support all those criminals.

/s
My old Macbook is 9 years old. It has no issues what so ever with browsing the web.

The customer must be running some truly ancient version of Mac OS for this story to be true.
Burying plastic in landfills? That would be a waste of resources, as it could at least be burned in power plants as a second use, if it cannot be recycled.
Ask HN: Alternative to Skype/Viber etc. which doesn't sleep?
Is there a decent alternative to Skype/Viber etc. which doesn't sleep on a tablet (iPad in this case?)

The issue I'm having is that I use Skype to communicate with my 80 year old parents. When I call them on Skype it very rarely rings, and you need to call them on the landline first.

I'd originally thought this was because of the extremely old tablet or wifi-router, but, both of those have been upgraded and the problem persists. I'm pretty sure it's just that the device is going into some kind of sleep and not notifying about an incoming call. I have tried allowing notifications, turning off "do not disturb" etc.

Has anyone found a way around this kind of issue? Am I just doing something wrong? Is there a better app to use for calling which doesn't have this kind of problem? Ideally I'd just like Skype to ring properly whenever the tablet is rung.
Responding to TDD Pushback
I strongly object to the framing where a species is considered logical to go extinct for it was not "robust" enough.

The words "specialist" and "niche" are incredibly misplaced as it comes to insects. Consider butterflies, many depending on specific host plants. The host plant is in decline hence the butterfly disappears.

Weak species. Not "robust". The point that is being missed here is that the host plant is supposed to be widely available in any half-decent ecosystem. It isn't rare, would normally be widespread, and it has very low needs. Just a tiny bit of space and healthy soil.

We're not wiping out specialists, we're wiping out the underlying habitat and ecosystem altogether.
Viewed from a different lens, these achievements seem intended for new GitHub users.

I recall merging my OWN pr into my own new repo. I was surprised with a badge. No harm in that.
TikTok is the best thing happened in the internet. Why do I say so? Remember Facebook allowing you to reconnect with your lost friends. TikTok is doing this by connecting the world. I have seen many content I would not have seen from any other platform. Interesting food, interesting places, interesting personality. Unfortunately, the same side effect happened to Facebook is also happening on TikTok. But I have to say, TikTok made me seeing more things around the world. It is great in this aspect.
<<No, but government can tax you to do so, and now maybe you can’t get the leather seats in your Audi.

You want to avoid sniping. It is typically frowned upon.

That said, believe it or not, we are not that far apart on that front. The issue I have with the argument presented is that senior decision makers do not set policies that broadly benefit the populace ( as evidenced by reality itself ).

Apart from that, why are senior decision makers even a consideration here? The recession in the article is that of the mind. It is spiritual in nature ( and that is assuming we are assuming posited argument ).

If you are going to throw suicides at me again, I will ask you a simple question.

Why are suicides are inherently a bad thing? People want to die. Why do you feel you have an obligation to stop them?
Already happened to me, I have less and less idea how my linux system works now. I haven't kept up with all the various systemd rewrites, buses and random shit I don't know about and it's annoying when I actually want to do something

has journalctl -xe ever dumped any useful information for anyone ever or am I just an idiot? when I restart nginx I want to know if it failed, why , what's the syntax error. instead old reliable /etc/init.d/nginx configtest no I have to dig around
> Disingenuous

That's true.

I'd call it western hypocrisy.

https://strategic-culture.org/news/2016/10/16/western-hypocr...
The more I learn, the more I find that “best practice” isn’t always best. It should be called good defaults.

For example “Disable ssh password auth and use keys”. It depends on your threat model. A good password can be secure and may in some cases be more secure than a stolen laptop containing id_rsa. SSH keys are more convenient but rely on physical security. It should be discussed as a trade off.
Reinstalling graphics drivers from a real TTY when the occasional update hoses them is far and away more preferable than, say, ads in the start bar (for me).
Other workflows exist; pretty silly to act like you’ve found the One True Way.
Welcome to the US service economy, where providing value is only a minor speedbump in monetizing literally everything and everyone without any regard for consequences or harm.
I'd go as far as to argue that many forms of recycling are causing economical damage by contributing to moral fatigue. Anecdata; when I am very stressed, or tired, or working on a big project, I really can not care less about recycling or sorting trash. Yes I understand the moral obligation, but in the grand scheme of things, ... it does nothing.
So I take it you would rather we did away with public education?

What exactly are you arguing for here?
Half of NordStream 2 was blown up, too. Sloppy sabotage or brilliant misdirection? I wouldn’t know.
The "Backwards compatibility" issue is an interesting one. For years, companies like Adobe used OSX upgrades as an excuse to force paid upgrades. Hardware manufactures did (still do?) this with Windows drivers. The other side is that Apple deprecated 32bit support around 2011, dropping it in 2019/20. They've also introduced and deprecated a few frameworks in this time. They have always announced well ahead of time. People get caught short by not paying attention.

With regards to OS upgrades, there has always been a vocal minority that likes to complain, ever since the System 7 days, sometimes not without reason but it's minor. Overall, the upgrades are decent, but I'll agree it's not always plain sailing for everyone. The thing with macOS is last year's Lemon is next year's gold. Rose tinted glasses are abundant online, especially with competing OSs.
Interesting, I cannot relate to that.

> I have often heard that clothes for sale in the US tend to be more robustly made (maybe because of the widespread use of tumble dryers?).

Maybe, although the Next brand I wear a lot gets shipped to me from UK. I throw my unsorted clothes in the washer and then the dryer and then fold them and put them away.

My British family spends a lot more time sorting by color, turning jeans inside out, washing them on specific water cycles, then line drying them, then ironing them.

I figured I was just buying clothes that need less work.
Creating a file if it doesn't already exist is idempotent.
Fireflies (we call them lightning bugs in the south) fluctuate yearly. Some years there are very few of them. It’s always been like that from talking to relatives.
I don't subscribe to it, but the core of the conspiracy theory is that it prevents Europe from restarting the gas pipeline out of desperation when they freeze this winter.