skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an alternative to the fragmented state of the "Linux desktop": instead of having dozens of separate projects (GNOME, PipeWire, systemd, Wayland, ...) be combined by yet another project (a distribution), which is (in my view) a major cause of the fragile nature, slow pace of development (it's hard to request features if you have to spend minutes to hours figuring out where they need to be requested from!), and other problems it faces, Haiku is a one-project-governs-all: a single development team for the core operating system and userspace ("desktop environment"), with an interconnected distribution ecosystem.

We can merge a change to Haiku's kernel and drivers, and test builds will be available with it on the "nightly" channel within hours. We can issue a patch for the system C library headers, trigger rebuilds of packages from the ports tree against it as soon as CI builds finish. We can send users experimental builds of work-in-progress features for testing, with very little technical know-how required to install such a patch or revert to the previous version if it breaks something.

There are so many huge advantages Haiku has due to how the project is structured that the "Linux desktop", whatever upsides it does possess, basically cannot ever have by its very nature.
I guess we're finding out the other side of that blade, huh?
If I spend time consuming media, things look quite different.

I believe it's a mistake to discount that media, though. People will hold their tongues in public, but say something closer to what they really believe in social media. As Mike Tyson famously said, "Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it."

The media itself wouldn't be a problem, except that it also shows up at the voting booth. That's where disrespect turns into force. Government has the ability to force people to do things and to deprive them of rights. Regardless of what people say when you're outside talking with them, it's clear that there's a link between the social media discourse, increasing incivility by politicians, and their willingness to use government to act against those they do not like.

The news may present a more dangerous picture of the world than it should, but it's also neglectful to say "Everything looks fine to me". There are genuine dangers that affect real people. Many people still do soul-crushing and body-crushing work for a wage that cannot support them, much less their families. Not everybody has a high standard of living. And many people are finding their rights slipping away under a political process heavily based on falsehoods.

I'll grant that it's not all bad. But you really need to grant that it's not all good, and a lot of people are worried for good reason. Sweeping them under the rug just invites people to believe that this is the reason why the bad things are so bad.
Use a PWM that lets you choose where your data is stored. Personally, I like Enpass. The others with this kind of choice aren't as user-friendly.
I'm eager to test this. HiDPI, modern browser, wine, emacs... that's A LOT of useful stuff.

I use lightweight linux VMs to keep different workspaces and hobbyspaces separate from my main OS. Depending on how the test goes, I feel that Haiku might replace some of those linuxes.
Yes; he's @Popehat@mastodon.social.
> If you release of a cover (ie a performance) of a song someone else wrote you own the copyright on the recording of that performance and are entitled to compensation for use of that recording.

negative. if you're covering a song in copyright you need a license agreement from the owner if you intend to monotize it. You own a copyright to your version but you can't make money from it.
Bill Homewood
IIRC Galadriel is the noblest Noldor[1] left in Middle Earth at the time of the war of the rings.

All children of Feanor (the main contingent of the Noldor) are dead by the end if the first age).

The few Noldor that outranked Galadriel left by the end if the second era after the last alliance of men and elves and the war with Sauron.

[1] which I think is also half Teleri.
Before Tolkien, elves were much closer to gnomes than immortal, super-human creatures. They were mischievious, etc.
And more generally the concept is known as a China brain
> Same in America. Certainly illegal. The question is first trimester abortions.

Each state makes their own laws on abortion, and even just saying "same in America" on any state laws doesn't make sense.

There are absolutely states in the US where it is legal to get an abortion at any time in the pregnancy, for any reason.[1] Colorado, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont, Alaska and New Jersey + District of Columbia. Zero restrictions.

[1] https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/state-polici...
I hate the world today. Every program needs its own build system. /s
I looked at these two, not just 2019 and meson looked much more difficult to use, and super-confusing, to the person who needs to perform the build. In terms of writing CMake vs Meson - I've only written CMake, but I've tried to look into meson files to understand how to tweak something, and it was hard for me.
Yes! My addiction so visible , how embarrasing!
C is a very minimal language, you can learn it in a day if you are already familiar with C-like syntax. I would recommend using it on embedded systems, such as an Arduino (technically uses C++, but it's mostly hidden), so you can appreciate both the speed and minimal memory footprint and you would be abstracted from the complexity of operating systems.
Well this brings up another failure or short coming of our implementation of "democracy". How can the voting public hold the FBI, CIA, NSA, etc accountable as people here seems to claim we do by voting if we are not allowed to know what they are doing, and if anyone that is given access to info about what they are doing releases that we put them in a cage or drive them out the country.

"National Security" is often used to cover up government abuse, the public only knows of a few rare instances of this abuse and based on those I can pretty much assume the abuses are FAR FAR more extensive than has been reveled to the public and there is great incentive by government to classify everything to ensure there is never any accountability. Just look at the actions around these JFK files that multiple administrations have tried to declassify, or the Torture report that clearly the CIA violated the law even during the investigation

You must have immense trust, not backed by any rational data to support that trust, to proclaim Snowden an enemy of the people simply because he violated state secrets laws, laws that IMO should be unconstitutional in the first place, and are completely antithetical to a functional democracy.

If the government can keep secrets from the voters, then the voters can not hold them accountable, it is as simple as that
If we qualify this as acts that don't directly impact the actions or choices of others does that limit the obvious counter-examples?
i use hacker news
Uh ... no? The release notes state it started out using the X11 layer, but then switched to using the Wayland layer.

I should know: I wrote the X11 layer, contributed to the Wayland layer, and wrote most of these release notes. :)
Indoor pickleball courts.
There are way better alternatives available. We can do way better as a society.

The issue with guns and quick access to death is suicide can often be impulsive. Something hits wrong, a traumatic event happens, or just a temporary depression. All of those can lead to death by suicide that wouldn't have otherwise happen.

There needs to be nuance. I fully support someone's right to die by suicide, but I also support a waiting period with plenty of "opt out" opportunities.

It also does not have to be cruel or painful. We have a painless methods for someone to die.
$4K is a little different than $4M. I don't think "everyone" is going nuts over this. Just some subset of people.

It doesn't really look any different than normal bail. Maybe this is many people's first exposure to the concept of bail though. Bail is also not just a dollar amount, it's about convincing the judge you've put forward enough to motivate you to stay.
This is why I charitably say “_some_ of which”.
Almost, but not quite. Making the pill itself is still a form of assistance.

The nearer analogy would be if someone published a recipe and instructions for making the pill.

I think that would still be "assistance," but much more likely to be covered under free speech laws, that disseminating information about something (publishing instructions) is generally already protected.

Even then, though, were such publication to be banned, it would still be the case that nobody is being "forced to remain pregnant."
I recorded a similar flight pattern[1] above London not too long ago by the RAF's Shadow R1 Beechcraft plane[2]. I figured it was some sort of training flight as they were circling above Northholt air force base (just north of Heathrow airport).

[1] https://imgur.com/a/1IHUfUt

[2] https://www.raf.mod.uk/aircraft/shadow-r1/
It is trivial, but too many people want NixPkgs to be like NPM with minimal friction so random inexperienced devs that do not know how to generate a keypair can contribute. That lack of friction is why it has so many more packages than most distros, and also why you cannot trust any of them.

I tried to appeal to fix this in 2018 as a total outsider but it was endless bike shedding. Most would rather have no signing at all than use the well supported tools every other distro uses with success.

https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/34

As a security engineer I lost all interest in NixOS after that. They want it to be a hobby distro run like a wiki, and that is totally fine. It just means we need to discourage it from being used in high security applications.

NixOS is a massive step forward in Linux distro design, and a massive step backwards in supply chain trust.
It sounds like you fell in love with the idea of "the tech-start up dream"... Willing to sleep in the closet at HQ to fulfil that dream, put your heart and soul into it - but don't have matching tech. And I get it, that's backwards.

But deciding to be an inventor is a tough road to walk.

And being in the tech-start up space you are going to be dealing with vipers and scorpions - not ideal. And even if YOU have a perfect idea - your chances of success are still slim.

Start small and build up. You don't need a facility, team, or anything but the smallest decent product. Build it, the rest will come.

But these influencers are going to destroy us all. Avoid for advice at all costs.
I actually prefer the US usage, as "parenthesis" is such a lovely metonym that describes the thing it encloses.

People are used to indicating so anyway in speech (referring to a parenthetical remark). And while in writing parentheses can acceptably be set off in a variety of ways, I have a fondness for the good old parenthetical brackets.
Thought this was just going to be another "check this out, I just discovered ADSB" article. I am glad I kept reading, as the correlation aspect was cool to see.

If you really want to see some wild stuff then lookup the Baltimore aerial DVR program.
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To what are you referring with "Stallman getting what he wants"? Code being open source?
It's like egui, but in C instead of Rust.
Abortion is legal all the way up to delivery in 7 states + DC. I don't exactly have a dog in this fight, but I do find it interesting how many people don't realize just how few restrictions exist on abortion in some states like New Jersey for instance.

https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/state-polici...
AI usage is increasing all the time and it is going to increase at more rapid speed in the future.
Forgive me but as I can appreciate the effort put into Haiku and working on a single user targeted OS, I still can't get why the people behind it like to throw darts to Linux from time to time. That "era of the Linux desktop" phrase is something even we Linux desktop users themselves will laugh at, as there is not such thing.

Praising the positives of your work at the expense of the criticism of other's work won't do you any favours.
I tend to agree. I've said multiple times how much I miss google reader. HOWEVER... We need an RSS 3.0. Let's face it, parsing XML is an extremely tedious and slow task, even if you are using a fast compiled language. There are a million ways to do it now and optimize it by magnitudes. Speed and size-wise.
I might be remembering the details wrong, but wasn't the main issue that users half-knowingly allowed spying on their friends without any consent required from those friends? Open API isn't the reason this abuse happened IMO - Facebook failed to prevent massive data collection on users who did not give any consent.
Not exactly a fork, and you are probably aware, but there is at least one Nix-like system with full supply chain integrity and rigid packaging standards.

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/securing-updates/
Why in the flying nine hells of Baator does a smart appliance app care if your phone is rooted? And for that matter, sending an SSL error if you block analytics is just plain evil too.
rawdog (RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur) [1].

It's a simple script that I manually trigger once a day to check my list of feeds from a config file. It caches the known posts and generates static HTML with summaries of the new posts for me to browse locally.

[1] http://offog.org/code/rawdog/
This is a case where Arduino is so far beyond any professional solution it's just insane. USB update, no problem.

If products would all just use a Wemos D1 or something on their board, none of this would be an issue.

But sadly software defined products need(or think they need) proprietary firmware and Arduino isn't set up for strong DRM.
I prefer the Unix approach - single function appliances that do a single job well.
Depends how bad the second classness is. Probably anything more than 1% death is worth fighting.
Charging batteries is one of the core competencies of Tesla.
Not sure if you went through all the comments already. I kept this tab open to try and remember not to forget and comment.

I only have encouragement for you. I don't think finding a therapist or more money for treatment is the right step.

I know nothing about you, and I don't know you. But I think you can get out of this. You have some pretty nice degrees and have proven you have a great brain. You were courageous enough to take care of a family member out of respect and duty.

Now you have a whole half of life or more left to continue doing things. There are tons of opportunities out there. I recommend doing some exercise on a schedule.

Since you have internet, go watch some David Goggins, Joe Rogan or Tim Ferris on topics like "motivation, building up yourself from scratch" etc... (These are podcasts that go over the topics you speak of over and over again)

After you can do 100 push-ups, squats and run like 5km daily. You probably will have enough natural motivation (and higher amount of testosterone in your blood) to get a short-term job. Lots of single people everywhere that need a reliable man, become that person.
While I totally despise Electron it might be a great moment for new OSes and UI toolkits to emerge. In near future it might be enough to port Electron and a web browser and your niche OS might become actually usable on daily basis.

It’s slow and a total memory waste, but web became a new UI toolkit that actually solved OS compatibility issues. Who would have thought…
Oh I see, thanks! Interesting. It sounds like this is some kind of dynamic attention, as opposed to static attention in transformers, where queries and key don’t change during the calculation of their similarity. His routing algorithm computes the similarity iteratively.

Is this your assessment as well?
Isn't adding X11 and Wayland and Wine getting you the same free-for-all toolkit and app mix in the end?
Computer security jobs. Performing code review or web application testing.
I have a long term project of room lighting that reacts to music. I've gotten my feet wet working with the LED strips already, but hadn't heard of WLED - sounds extremely promising!

Does somebody have an idea whether "real-time" music <-> light sync is feasible with WLED? I plan to have the audio processing happening outside the ESP32, but then I'm still concerned about the bandwidth requirements (driving ~300 NeoPixels), because ideally I don't want to just trigger "discrete" effects but retain full control. I just wonder whether WLED puts any significant overhead in there that I wouldn't run into with something hand-rolled...
There is an idea that sheer market forces should push things towards being honest and pleading to the user. If a customer buys rotten stuff in a store A, next time the customer goes to another store (B, C, D,..), and tells friends that store A is no good. If store A continues to mistreat its customers, it goes out of business.

But this only works when the customer has some reasonable choice. If store A is the only store in town, it will have customers, no matter how bad it is.

With a lot of daily-use software, there is a network effect: you have to use it because everybody else uses it, and you need to interoperate. Here choice wanes, and you're stuck with the same 2-3 choices. Each of the mega-businesses can inconvenience you, or screw you over, but you have little to gain by switching to a competitor, if it even exists.

Google and Microsoft are AT&T and Standard Oil of our day.
Show HN: Search HN Favorites or Export to CSV/HTML
I wrote a JavaScript tool to search your HN favorites and export them to CSV or HTML.
The JavaScript runs in your browser like a browser extension. It scrapes the HTML and navigates from page to page.

Setup and usage instructions are in the file.
Whoa - people submit thirty thousand stories. I mean I can imagine drunk commenting a badly thought out phrase a few thousand times (that's basically my metier) but ... reading an article, being amazed, and submitting it ... that's a lot

Edit: Just to point out this is not necessarily a criticism or some snide remark. I am pretty sure that back in the day I would have looked at similar Wikipedia stats and gone "whoa there are people who basically have a full time job trying to organise an online encyclopaedia." Then I would have assumed I could code it in a weekend. The point I think is not "these must be low effort submissions" but "HN has a more diverse ecosystem than a rando like me posting every so often"

In short - who knows what the forums of the future will look like or be? HN does not look like the forums from ages back - it maybe something new.
I think you are reading a little too much into it. Linux people throw darts at Haiku ("why would you ever use this and not Linux?" etc.) so it seems only fair we throw a few back. Many of us have desktop Linux installs, and some of us even have patches (or even have contributed significant amounts of work) in various Linux ecosystem projects.
I love Nix, but point #1 is arch specific. A lot of packages won’t build on Arm; although, many of those are simply limited because of unnecessary restrictions imposed by the package declaration.
I love how "ski" is such an outlier for highly upvoted TLDs. Either the Hacker News crowd really loves skiing, or ciechanow.ski is responsible. I bet there is a similar story for most of the other TLDs on the list, but don't recognize any of the others (except for home.cern which is pretty obvious).
Louis Mendes will disagree with that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8KOAj6Caf4

:D
Forgive my lack of knowledge, but I was lost the instant I found the first equation :(

H is the hash function and x are coordinates. But what is R Z?
Yes, true. I forgot to mention them because I don't have (or plan to have) any :-)
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the baker, assuming you're referring to this case:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...
Can confirm that Huzzah32 runs WLED just fine. Really convenient to have that LiPo battery connector and charging circuit built in, too.
"Everyone" is (at least potentially). That's also why I disagree that "voting with your wallet doesn't work" : it is part of the solution too !
In my experience, CMake seems to be more capable and easier to work with, both for the package author and for the person trying to build it. Also, more flexible in terms of how projects/packages depend on each other.

Now CMake is certainly not great; it has a lot of warts and baggage; and some functionality is _not_ easy to use, like installation (you need a good hour of explanation to make heads from tails with that, and then you're supposed to write 4 or 5 different CMake commands even for the simple use-case of "just install my damn plain-vanilla library"). But I'll choose it over meson any day of the week, and so would my users (i.e. the people who download and build my packages).
People are using it for high risk applications today, when anyone with phished Github credentials can push any code they want. I have to push back on that.

Run it on a steam deck for gaming, sure, but it is only suited for hobby use cases at this stage of development.
Yes, it's fairly large for most cafes. It could be one of many businesses though.
3 days ago, I installed Haiku on bare metal: an old PC from ~2004. I was not aware that a new version was planned at that time, but the upgrade was completely smooth.

My idea when I installed Haiku was to make my own version of the "old computer challenge"[1], with an emphasis on using GUI apps.

Similarly to @probono (a FOSS dev), I also found Haiku "shockingly good"[2] at being a lightweight, responsive, easy-to-use desktop OS.

After some patching, I was even able to compile Tectonic[3], a modern LaTeX engine written in Rust, and Quaternion a Matrix client supporting E2EE[4]. All that running on a single core Athlon 64 and 1.5GB of RAM.

I posted some screenshots in a Mastodon threads if you are curious[5] (but my posts are in french sorry :/). And of course this comment is posted from Haiku!

[1]: https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-07-07-old-computer-challe...

[2]: https://medium.com/@probonopd/my-first-day-with-haiku-shocki...

[3]: https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/

[4]: https://github.com/quotient-im/Quaternion

[5]: https://mastodon.tedomum.net/@tgoldoin/109554115997967651
I wonder what happens when you borrow 25% then the stock drops 50%.
I'm curious -- why something small like a DigQuad and not something beefier like a Falcon/Kulp?

(I guess I'm not sure what you mean by "large scale" -- but WLED/ESP32 doesn't really tick the large box for me)
Do you feel able to Google numbers, radiation breakdowns and formula to find out?
It’s declarative, not functional.
I think you might find that your life goes a little more smoothly if you weren't so abrasive, confrontational and dismissive. As a side affect, people you talk to won't end up feeling like shit because you possibly will treat them less terribly.
> In the context of LOTR, all the narrators are now untrustworthy.

I think that's a common misunderstanding of the 'untrustworthy narrator' concept. All narrators are untrustworthy, the question is not a binary one: 100% or not. The question is how trustworthy, and where and when can we trust this narrator?

Like real people, nobody is perfect - everyone tells >0 lies and >0 truth - but putting them all in the same basket is meaningless and aburd. Some are far more trustworthy than others.

Tolkien was very clear that knowledge had great power (Gandalf, for example) and that deception and untrustworthiness were works of the enemy, of evil. Bilbo's lie was driven by the Ring, the ultimate corrupting evil. The protagonists, including the hobbits, Gandalf, Aragorn, Gimli, Legalos, etc., were exceptionally trustworthy and took it very seriously; look at Sam's faithfulness to Frodo, for example. Boromir was depected as flawed, and ultimately broke trust and was corrupted by the Ring.
Cool, 38.7k no-context Wikipedia articles.