skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh I wonder how much difference there is from Linux Mint (it's also Debian-based, and a lot like Ubuntu.) Currently have KDE Plasma 5, working at 125%, but have issues with brightness controls. With Cinnamon (GNOME) and 125% fractional scaling, Steam renders super tiny with those settings, and I had games have resolution issues. (Legion 5, 1080p/144, Ryzen 7 4800H, RTX 2060)

Do you use native resolution at 100%? Or fractional scaling? Brightness controls?
I used to really used to like f.lux's darkroom mode for this (and coding at night - it just looks badass).
Definitely. Ian Clarke's Freenet has been around since March 2000 which is when I discovered Linux and Perl. The only thing I don't understand is why it was written in Java instead of C/C++. Napster was also built with Java, however, so even slow as Java was back then it was still fast enough for building file-sharing networks.
I was surprised regarding the 1920x1080 screen. I have a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 6 from 2018 running linux, and it has a 2560x1440 screen with 500 nits of brightness. For what it's worth, the Gen 10 has an optional 2240x1400 screen, but the brightness is limited to 300 nits, and it has a thicker bezel.

My 2018 Thinkpad also has 16 GB of RAM and a 1 TB NVMe SSD. I was tempted to upgrade it since it has been 4 years, but after looking at current offerings, it seems there is not much point (the new processors are way better, though).
I ain’t one to promote gatekeeping, but this “writing about math” thing- who let the men with only basic calc and linear algebra knowledge in!!!?!? this article was a goddamn mess
Interesting I had the opposite reaction. Had an oryx pro at home for three years. It's a beast, plays games. Battery life wasn't great but I use it plugged in most of the the time. Has the Nvidia graphics which use a lot of power.

Liked it so much I got the pangolin all Amd laptop for work. Its been my daily driver for 4 months now and I really like it. Much better battery life than the oryx pro (integrated graphics). It's fast enough And has enough cores I did some long genomic software runs on it. It's much quieter under load the the oryx. This machine is great but they don't seem to sell it anymore. I'm pretty happy with the Amd notebook cpu and if I have to get another I probably would be looking for that.
I've been through the network on a horse with no end

It felt good to scroll down again

On the Internet you can remember your name

'Cause there ain't no one horse to give you no pain
I was in a Delta flight the other day without screens, just WiFi and a contentserver.

People let their kids watch stuff on the iPad at full blast. At least with the screens headphones HAD to be used...

Some people just don't realize there are other people around them.
This was not a surprising outcome.

Rossman lobbied for it for years and all he got for his trouble was a year long audit with potential fines in the six figures for a 0.11% error rate according to the accounting records, and then having to shut down his business in New York because they couldn't even tell him how to comply with the laws they said he was being fined in violation for. Great sound-clip on his youtube channel of their response.

There's a clear reason businesses are leaving NY.

These corporations spend millions buying and paying for politicians lobbying them to shill and kill those bills that would directly impact their market-share in a monopolized marketplace.

Unfortunately, it will keep happening, and it just goes to show that there isn't true representation at the state levels for those governed areas.

They voted 147 for, and 2 against, and then neutered the bill by switching out the rules on the barn wall at 11th hour just like in Animal Farm.

In my opinion, its morally irredeemable graft, corruption and evil. They swore oaths when they entered office, which apparently mean little more than lip service compared to the lobbying they received. Its a sad state of affairs.

When you over regulate and arbitrarily interfere with business relations, eventually those with options leave, and the locals pay the price as prosperity dries up.

You would think a politician would have educated themselves enough to have read classics like the Wealth and Poverty of Nations, but we do live in an age of avarice, deceit, and hubris, where only the short term matters.

As for me, I would never move to, nor do business in New York knowing how the state government there operates.
Losing job, sure, but more broadly it's about people who work in entertainment or the public sphere - their job, to some degree, is based on public approval.
This is one of those things that seems interesting/meaningful until you give it more than 10 seconds of thought, and then you realize this is just how life works.

I could whip up an infinite amount of articles explaining how I "Found X through Y degrees of separation", where Y is unexpectedly large. It's trivial to work backwards through your life and reshape everything as a series of coincidences that got you to where you are.

I got my job through 129 degrees of separation! You see, I was born in A, where I went to B school, and met C, who got me interested in D, which led me to discover I had a talent for E, and ... etc etc etc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33509164 Lawyer. Passport. Locksmith. Gun. (A Talk About Risk and Preparedness) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ihrGNGesfI
That's a more in-depth article, so I'm going to clone that thread (it's too old to re-up directly) and move the comments thither.

Edit: comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34181339.
Electronics Plan Aims to Balance Government Access with Privacy (1993)
I'm not sure if this was sarcastic? But in case not, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Asia
Single-dose psilocybin-assisted therapy
Sorry, can’t resist the temptation: sup
>>Compared to R7 and Messi, Pele's records are mediocre.

Not a football fan, but is it even fair to compare these people from two different eras?

I'm an Indian, and cricket is very big here. The game of cricket has fundamentally changed due to insane physical fitness and coaching standards today. There is still a lot of way to go compared to others sports, but compared to only a generation back, the fitness standards are just bonkers today. I guess the kind of fitness national level team players had, is something any body today can have in a good gym in any major Indian city. Players like Andre Russel, Joe Root and even Virat Kohli just feel several notches high up in performance compared to any player merely a generation before them.

Its just what it is, Comparing the whole package available to players back then and now its completely unfair in my opinion.
clearly a freedom of religion case
Kagi search extensions (open source, available on all browers) allows you to search in private windows.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/getting-started/setting-default.h...

In additional Kagi implements the same thing you suggested basically, called a private session token that allows you to be logged in by appending it to the URL if you do not want to use the extension.
Coming from a family with a strong history of dementia, this fascination is VERY welcome
If I'm writing a computer game and I outsource my artwork to others how can I know that it wasn't AI created?
Super fast. What's the tech stack?
By checking if things are referenced or not as the basis for collection is a bad idea.

Take 2 classes that reference each other, but nothing references either.

In your example they won't get cleaned up. You'll want a tree-based collector. If an object is no longer referenced from the tree it can be cleaned up.
While I reserve any judgement on GP’s use of melatonin to help their child sleep, I think the tone of your comment indicates a confidence in pharmacology that is difficult to justify, or at least betrays significant immaturity about the complexity of these sorts of decisions…
Why the U.S. electric grid isn’t running on 100% renewable energy yet
Imagine reading this article echoing what was common sense among hackers in the 90s, and thinking Cloudflare gives a shit about anything other than being a typical shit corporation. This billion dollar company has blocked[1] Tor (and VPN, and work / campus IP addresses) from 2010-2018

1. Each domain you loaded that had Cloudflare asked you for a captcha. You would normally have to solve one captcha to unblock yourself from the site, then right click on the images that didn't load to get the CDN subdomain of the site, then solve another captcha to unblock yourself on that subdomain.

Eventually, in 2018, Cloudflare started allowing Tor traffic iff you use Tor Browser (it does fingerprinting). So I was right, they didn't need to block Tor, contrary to the idiots who would argue that there is no alternative.

Also, it was a multi minute process to solve one captcha as they used recaptcha, which has always been the worst captcha in the world, and varies from giving Tor unsolvable problems to blocking it, to giving borderline unsolvable problems. So after a few minutes you can get past one captcha after getting lucky enough to get a few borderline unsolvable ones. Eventually hCaptcha came along and Cloudflare eventually switched to it and now there is no problem, so I'm right, contrary to idiots who argued with me claiming there is no alternative.

It's still garbage though, thanks to Cloudflare the web is crippled in yet another major way. You still need to solve a captcha if you use Tor and trip the fingerprinting and WAF crap, despite that giving no security benefit to the website.

Oh yeah, and they leaked private bank sessions across the internet because their little blocking scripts were too buggy (the Cloudbleed vulnerability).
I just don't know what is left to achieve really. I have an M1 pro and I just don't really hit any bottlenecks in my workflow as is (unless I am building some obscenely large legacy codebase)

It just seems to me that we are hitting a point of diminishing returns in terms of CPU performance because honestly, the speed of my laptop could triple and it would not noticeably affect my experience in any way.

The main areas of improvement that I would actually notice are better battery life, and faster RAM and SSDs (faster networking as well)
… or maybe the assistant doesn’t exist at all.
Wouldn't the transmission over the network of the bits of the video count as an act of copying?
That’s pretty cool. I still think it would be nice to have a checksum at the end. That way, applications could return nicer errors to the user than 404.
IMHO ARM ThinkPads have a lot of potential due to their low-heat fanless design.

The X13s is nearly there in terms of Linux support, better in some regards than the M1. Next generation will be hopefully closer to the M1 in terms of performance.

However, pricing is weird in some markets. Here in EU/UK, the X13s is really expensive and makes no sense to purchase.
This is absolutely one of those cases where (assuming you don't redistribute the drm-stripped epub) there is a complete ethical justification but a failed business justification, and yet...

... also, I think this is why Jobs didn't bother protecting music with DRM (except for identification of the purchasing account).
I don't have anywhere near the background expertise that you do, but surely there's some kind of "reasonable person" standard at some point, right? Or is that just for juries in criminal trials?
>Many non-Linuxes, and some Linuxes too.

which ones can't run bash?

>Linux is not the whole world. Debian is not the whole Linux. Interactive shells on servers are not guaranteed to be available. Control over the installation image is not guaranteed, or always desirable.

I didn't literally mean "sudo apt install", I meant "install the thing by whatever means is appropriate to the platform". if you can't install anything then what are you actually doing with it? you have to get your software onto it somehow.

and at any rate, the article is literally called "the Linux Command Line"

>The portability tradeoff is valuable or essential in many real-world cases.

like what? seriously, what?

I don't get it. I understand software that has weird/harsh requirements because it's on a super constrained embedded platform. that's a real limitation. but being able to run posix sh but not bash seems like an entirely artificial problem. there's no rigorously conceivable resource constraint that would do that. if your unix is so fucking degenerate that it can't run bash then that's a problem of your own choosing.

anyway if it's so easy, you can take on the burden of porting scripts from bash to sh yourself, instead of annoying the rest of us with the "bashisms" whining.
This sounds like a line being fitted to a single data point.

Anyone who's played with ChatGPT a lot will have seen it sometimes refuse to answer wholly innocuous prompts, while other times it happily answers things it probably shouldn't. Also, its likelihood of refusing to answer has changed a lot from week to week as openAI tunes their attempts at moderating it.

In fact, when it's given me "I'm just a language model.." responses I've found that more often than not I could just repeat the same prompt and it would answer normally. If you want to draw broad conclusions about the bot's biases (and its creators' biases) it doesn't make sense to assume that the first two responses you got are representative of how it always behaves.
I think the central ethical question to piracy is that ultimately, buying a book someone wrote is fair to the author. The author is part of a society -- our planet, did something to contribute to society, and it's fair that we reward that person if we also benefit from their work. Therefore, whenever you benefit from someone else's work, how do we reward them.

Now, I think this question is nuanced. For example, let's take Harry Potter. That book has sold millions. In my mind, J.K. Rowling has already been rewarded by humanity for her work many times over, so if you were to pirate her book then I think that is a far lesser evil than pirating a book written by an author who has barely made any sales.

Basically, I view the question of piracy as follows: (a) have we rewarded the author enough for that specific work? and (b) if not, then it's not right to pirate their book, and I should buy it. I think everyone should ask themselves that question.

The same with movies. Marvel movies are a money-making machine and they have more than enough money to keep them going. An indie film much less so.

The question of whether an author has been rewarded enough is tricky. For example, if Elon Musk wrote a book, I would have no problem pirating it in a microsecond because society rewarded him enough. But maybe that's not so clear-cut because the editor might be poor. Thus, I think it's safer to go on the basis of sales rather than the wealth of the author, except of course if the author is self-published. In that case, if they are rich, then who cares. Of course, what is rich? Well it's hard to give exact numbers but if they have 10 million dollars that's definitely rich enough.
Both Kagi and OpenAI offer free limited access, and I believe both require an account to use the free tier.
They aren't bullshit judgments; they are concerns about unproven methods.
I've written a few free ebooks on CLI tools:

* "GNU grep and ripgrep" (https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_gnugrep_ripgrep/)

* "GNU sed" (https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_gnused/)

* "GNU awk" (https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_gnuawk/)

* "Perl one-liners cookbook" (https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_perl_oneliners/)

* "Command line text processing with GNU Coreutils" (https://learnbyexample.github.io/cli_text_processing_coreuti...)

* "Computing from the Command Line" (https://learnbyexample.github.io/cli-computing/)
I don't know enough about git-lfs to say. Things that need buffering should deliberately buffer, I guess?
Does anyone know of (or work on) an app still doing user-agent sniffing to determine browser features (as in, the sniffing code has been touched in the last ~decade)? If so, why do it that way?
IP Rate limiting these days is less for DDoS protection and more to prevent System B (or user B) from overwhelming System A.
I still can't believe they gave it a nipple mouse without a middle button.
DNSSEC has the same bootstrap issue. I've had a device fail to sync its time because DNSSEC validation was on and all DNS requests were failing, which prevented lookup of the NTP server address.
I wonder if many people realize mortality rates were much, much higher in antiquity and prehistoric times.
Xerox SDD and the Star were tasked with turning PARC's research into a product.
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/sdd/
and they did it slightly ahead of Apple but the big difference was their use
of PARC's strongly typed programming language (Mesa) and its single address
space 16 bit microcoded processor instead of something that was HP-like (PASCAL and segmented multitasking).
I was extremely lucky to have stumbled upon boxes of SDD documentation and source listings in the warehouse of a silicon valley surplus store that cleaned out the SDD building in Palo Alto in the 80s to get much of the documentation that is in that directory on bitsavers. More than you ever wanted to know about Mesa can be found in http://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/mesa/ Additional history of Mesa can be traced back to SAIL and SRI, but not all of that is on line yet.

also, see comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34040397
Musk suddenly becomes yuge remote work fan when he can ditch his rent bills.
I was super happy with my Purism Librem 15 for 2 years. (Weird freezing issues after that. Replacing the memory didn't help. Maybe the mainboard went bad?)

Have been tempted to try the Librem 14.

I bought a Framework, but couldn't find the right distro to use it as a daily driver. Maybe I'll find time to try again.
I think there's a fertile middle ground in the triangle between wikipedia, reddit and pinboard.
Do you have any more details about what sort of requests are being blocked?

I’ve been planning to use Cloudflare for an upcoming project, under the impression that ‘Essentially Off’ really did mean essentially off, and would only block obvious DDoS traffic. I could understand a legitimate user being blocked if they shared an IP with a host actually engaged in a DDoS attack, but short of that, I don’t want anyone being blocked. It sounds like I should look at other CDN options…
Is there a way to rank them by total chapwood index cost of living and not just by increases. I would love to see what the cheapest cost of living metros are.

Also what column are the number rankings based on?
I agree about the problem —- I might quibble with the psychology, but close enough. But that’s exactly why the distinction I’m trying to draw is so important. If we keep in mind the difference between what we can rigorously establish and what we’re fundamentally taking on faith (however well-founded), then at least we can talk to people on the other side: clarify core disagreements, examine evidence, and occasionally, with entirely too much work, change a few minds. That may sound hopelessly optimistic, but shifting one mind in fifty would be an earthquake: for most purposes,’enough to declare victory.

Treat arguments from authority as indistinguishable from any other rule of reasoning, on the other hand, and there’s nothing to do but declare people who don’t share our view of authority irrational. And then I don’t know what the plan is.

It’s exhausting when people refuse to recognize well-established expertise, but I think it’s counter-productive that so many of us get defensive about it. Yelling at people to accept our authority figures isn’t working. It won’t ever work.
> N3 is actually much worse than expected
> ~30% higher density in real-world products

I'm a software guy so excuse my ignorance, but isn't 30% higher density a pretty big deal? Why is N3 worse than expected? Were expectations sky high and expectations weren't hit, or is 30% density increase not as big of a deal as it sounds to me.

I think a lot of people may not understand how density increases relate to performance improvements
Ok, I've replaced the title with that. Thanks!

though I kind of liked "This adventure starts with git-lfs" (the old use-first-sentence-as-title trick) which was the replacement before this
I don’t know, it doesn’t seem like society is that fixed. It seems pretty malleable over the scale of decades.
> Over and over again. What we needed was the article that said "Here's A, B, C, and D, all together, and the reasonable conclusion is that the vaccine is harming some people and helping others, and the benefits outweigh the harm"... or whatever. But I'd never see that article.

I agree that this was important but am baffled how you missed the many articles like that in mainstream news sources (NPR, NYT, Washington Post, etc.), as well as the various scientists and public health experts who wrote blog posts digging into those discussions.
Start interviewing. Always be interviewing. It helps you practice and if SHTF you're already ahead.
I use the Mac M1 and wouldn't suggest it for linux unless all the functionality you need is explicitly supported. Most stuff does work for me as a java dev. However, Asahi doesn't support docking to a monitor which prevents me from using it solely as a linux machine.
A 90s retro game called “Crystal Caves”
Been very nostalgic seeing this, reminded me of the games back in the day.
Joanna Papakonstantinou wrote a PhD thesis on the historical development of BFGS and the secant method back in 2009:

https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/61898

Part of that thesis discusses the Babylonian use of the rule of the double false position and it's application to solving quadratics, which can be used to get the square root. Anyway, I'm not an expert in this history, but I believe she includes references to the related texts for those interested.
Not to understate the impact of the bug, but this is not the default for Go. It is used if CGo is disabled, as the issue you linked to describes.
Ask HN: I have 3 years of family dinner audio recordings; what to do with it?
I’ve been stashing away audio recordings at dinner time with my family for 3 years and it’s fun to go back to like a journal fo hear what we talked about, what are some ideas for what you would do if you had this?
The other responses are reasonable but disingenuous. The truth is you drive anyway. We have a fantastic drunk driving culture in America. It's really disappointing.
RAFT can easily be tuned to handle any amount of latency. It even discusses this in the paper. The issue is “how long are you willing to be in a leaderless state” and for some applications, it’s very tight. If your application needs a leader to make a distributed decision, but that is currently unavailable, the application might not know how to handle that or it might block until one becomes available causing throughput issues.

However, you shouldn’t be using TCP for latency-sensitive applications IMHO. Firstly, TCP requires a handshake on any new connection. This takes time. Secondly, if 3 packets are sent and the first one is lost, you won’t get those last packets for a couple hundred ms anyway (default retransmission times). So you’re better off using something like UDP. So, if you need the properties of TCP, you aren’t doing latency-sensitive anything.
No offense, but this is the dumbest idea. This system you’ve proposed allows for absolutely negligent recklessness, until (not unless) someone gets hurt. Teenagers or other irresponsible people would just go batshit until they killed someone, and only then, would we be able to stop the reckless behavior, which could easily have been predicted to have killed someone? No thanks, I don’t want to live anywhere near your society. We can certainly argue about whether the max limit should be 55 or whatever, but not that there are limits in general.