skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a hangover of the old convergence mindset.

Everything's going to become a tablet webapp, and Linux is finally going to be used by Average Folks. (That's why GNOME is basically a touch-based tablet DE.)

In my opinion, that's a doomed vision, both technologically and in what will occur. You can't have convergence; you can't collapse UIs or OSes down to the lowest common denominator (a mobile tablet) and have it be as good on a desktop as a UI or an OS meant for a desktop. Moreover, Linux is, and will (sadly?) remain, an "engineering OS", which is great for developers and technical people but comparatively alien and limited for Average Folk (probably for the same metaphysical reasons as the UI/OS problem).

You could say that Linux caters to the extremes: users who are SO simple that they don't even notice what OS they're on (they don't need to interface with AAA games or Netflix because they just "play sudoku") and users who are advanced enough to benefit from its technical focus. (But then again, the simple case is equally catered to by every OS, so I think "engineering OS" is the best way to look at it.) Average Folks are in the middle; they'll never touch a command line, and they want to play World of Warcraft or Call of Duty.

Your actual Linux user is either a programmer or a sysadmin, either professional or amateur. They're statistically the most likely segment of the population to actually be on a desktop computer with multiple monitors and to be finicky about DE features, and that's precisely the user GNOME targets the least due to some mix of fumes of the Converge era and the "developer first" convenience of just not having features and keeping things simple and changing them at will, downstream be damned (GTK4+).
I studied at a Chinese university for a semester and as part of the program they put on seminars on things like the media, demographic issues, etc.

One of them was about the economic system and they explained that while small businesses (think street shops, small restaurants, etc) are hands-off as there's not much value in being hands on. Large businesses are at the state's control. They explained that you can see the party serving a similar role as the "board of directors."
This is not a touch input. This is a pen input.
Religious belief (faith) is different from normal belief. Normal beliefs are purely internal. The outside world is unaffected by your belief or disbelief in something.

Religious belief on the other hand does have external effects. Your belief / disbelief is directly perceived by God, and God takes actions based on your belief.

In other words, normal belief is a state, religious belief is an action. So, whereas challenging someones normal belief is an act of knowledge sharing, challenging a persons religious belief could get them struck by lightening.
Nice. While there may be some impracticalities to actually doing this for twitter, 99% of the software out there could run on a fraction of a single commodity server. People complain about the carbon burn of crypto, and they are right, but I bet it is dwarfed by the carbon burn of all the shitty over-provisioned and over-architected CRUD apps running interpreted languages. Unfortunately with universities teaching python of all things we'll have (or maybe already do have) a whole generation of developers that actually have no idea how powerful a modern computer is.

I suppose there's a chance AI will get to the point where we can feed it a ruby/python/js/whatever code base and it can emit the functionally equivalent machine code as a single binary (even a microservices mess).
My comment isn’t about the paper. It’s only about the surprising response it’s getting from HN. This small level of evidence can be found in some paper for almost any fitness claim one can imagine. (And that is not at all a knock against the paper - as you said, it can e.g. warrant larger studies.)
JS-free archive link:

https://archive.today/EVxOk
Fate of America's Largest Lithium Mine Is Hands of a Federal Judge
NodeJS is a prerequisite?
Its been years since I've done any home brew. Its easy to start, and my recommendation is to just start with a minimal set up. Don't overcomplicate it. Try buying a beer kit from a local supplier, or online.

Temperature is a big part of the fermentation process, so ots good to start brewing in the winter to get most of the fermentation done when it's naturally cold.

There is tons of info available online. It really a simple thing... If you can do basic cooking or baking then you can brew beer. Just give it a go and see how it turns out.
Are you talking about mask mandates or vaccine mandates?
wow, grading the notes is terrible! If they helped you enough to get a good grade, penalizing you is ridiculous! Conversely if your "bad" notes are why you have a bad grade, knocking it down further seems almost spiteful!
Seems like an argument of semantics. I've had many projects with a distinct development phase (high input), and maintenance phase (monitoring, low input, a feature every now and then). To think there is only one gear of dev velocity to me seems silly, as does debating the phase labels
Whatever you do with your life, you'll always regret not doing something else.

Grass is always greener.
If you follow that to its logical conclusion the police would never show up in certain areas of the city. Personally I don't want my country to turn into Sao Paulo or Mexico City.
Hell why not a subscription plan for the police? 911 please enter your customer credentials.
Doesn't it lose a lot of money and its usefulness is directly correlated with its current massive usage.
Absolutely love this!
The accessibility of PHP within pages is easy af.
Thanks for the link and the original article. To me, OutputTracker looks a lot like a spy, except instead of verifying that the unit under test took a particular action you're instead verifying that it logged that it took an action. That would seem to create the risk of missing cases where the events emitted by code don't match its actual behavior.
Sure it’s always a question of the barriers to entry. However, the most effective barrier here is having a large bankroll to operate at a loss and drive competition out of the market. Which means charging monopoly prices just like every other monopoly.
It's not "from" HBS. HBR is a publication. While both authors likely have HBS affiliation in their past, I think neither was at HBS at the time of this particular article.

They seem instead to have created some other management consulting thing called "Humanocracy".

I'm not defending any of it, but HBR articles are not necessarily from HBS.
WAF bypass is an open source tool to analyze the security of any WAF for False Positives and False Negatives using predefined and customizable payloads. Check your WAF before an attacker does. WAF Bypass Tool is developed by Nemesida WAF team (nemesida-waf.com) with the participation of community.
Jack Ma woke Xi Jinping to the West's interference in the Communist Youth League's United Front and the grooming of the nextgen communist econocrates. Had Jack Ma run his mouth through a political focus group and understood messaging in the way of ad industry before venting on the State regulator he might still head the Ant Group.
The design principles of cellular compartments[2017]
Yup, when I was early in my career I wondered why management had so many meetings.

Then when I got more senior and closer to the decision making, I realize just how hard it is to keep large organizations on track. I've worked at companies that do it poorly and it's a mess - everyone is busy, but the company is just spinning it's wheels. Everyone with an oar is paddling in a different direction.

I've worked under leaders who are really good at providing direction. It's a very valuable skill when done right.
He was huge in Poland in the eighties, at least in the circles I hang out in. For the more geeky kids he was as well recognized as Michael Jackson among the pop listening crowd. Marek Biliński was a very distant second.
>Dolpin is excellent as a file manager. Nautilus was terrible when they introduced it. It's still terrible.

Like most GTK apps, Nautilus feels like a toy app.

Dolphin feels like a better app than what you have in any other OS.

Most of the best Linux apps seem like they're Qt, and that's because GTK is increasingly terrible to work with. The next runner up file manager to Dolphin, PCManFM, switched from GTK to Qt[0]:

```
Hong Jen Yee, developer of LXDE (the GTK version of which was dropped and all efforts focused on the Qt port), expressed disdain for version 3 of the GTK toolkit's radical API changes and increased memory usage, and ported PCMan File Manager (PCManFM) to Qt. PCManFM is being developed with a GTK and with a Qt backend at the same time.
```

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK#Criticism
Do you use a modern browser? If so, you use a piece of software that has been exploited many times by attacks in the wild. Those attacks were mostly targeting either a phone OS or Windows or macOS - not because there is anything in desktop Linux that would defend against those attacks, but because it is less popular. Perhaps some attacks did target desktop Linux; it’s hard to tell because few in-the-wild attacks are publicly documented in detail (although Project Zero has a spreadsheet of bugs known to have been exploited in the wild [1]). Regardless, at best you are relying on security by obscurity. And that’s despite the fact that modern browsers already have built-in sandboxing; without it the situation is worse.

[1] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/0day.html?m=1
I like extended software updates NOT for the price, but because I don't create as much e-waste buying 2 phones instead of 1.
Ask HN: DarkSky Alternatives?
What for desktop and/or mobile are yall using to replace Dark Sky?
This is why I’ll never work in an office again. Why would I want to get stuck on a problem and be actively working against solving it because I’m stuck at work with nothing else to do?
Learning C after working on high level languages I really like the simplicity. Though, I wish there was a C that had a few features from high level languages - or maybe an enhanced C that would compile to C.

Things like ECMAScript style modules, structurally evaluated type aliases to produce contract types, Go-like syntax sugar for associating functions with a struct without introducing classes, compile time type parameters (generics), and only have .c files - eliminating header files.
Regarding tweet distribution, I was one of the folks who built the first scalable solution to this problem at Twitter (called Haplocheirus). We used the Yahoo “Feeding Frenzy” design, pushing tweets through a Redis-backed caching layer.

Feel free to continue using that (historically-correct) answer in interviews. :P
The professional–managerial class
Even if you file USSC appeal via petition for certiorari, they get to choose if they want to hear it.

The State SCs I have researched are the same; they choose if they want to hear the case. If they decide to not hear it, the cert is denied which doesn't mean the argument was decided. It just wasn't heard by the court.

Judiciary Act of 1925

https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-re...
Good to know! The diversity on the shop floor is an excellent point.

I'm curious if you perceive white-labeling as a stepping stone or a reasonable destination. That is, it seems like you'd prefer for customers to buy directly from you, once you're ready for it. Precisely because of the diversity of vendors problem: you don't want them to think of the PrintNanny appliance/service as being from FormLabs or Inkbit or anybody else, you want them to know "We have our printers and then we have our PrintNanny". Right?
Thanks for recognising our work :)
I think you totally missed my point. I am literally saying there are Aliens only if GOD created them and it seems like there aren't.
Even though i tried to be very indirect for obvious reasons. I think it was clear enough.
The same reason all politicians are corrupt. If you choose to be the one doing good in a world of political backstabbing and make work. While your opponents spend 90% of their time figuring oout how to take your share. Guess what happens to your share.

This doesn't even include the fact that since you are doing real work eventually you will make a mistake. Meanwhile your competitors are waiting for this and doing nothing real so they can point out your failing and how much better they know than you and how you should be replaced with some guy they are good friends with that would be really great to replace you.
It's extremely "progressive". This is expected behavior for leftist baizuos. So common it's become a meme [0].

[0] https://img.ifunny.co/images/e73e5a1bb4730d79965d1a4860878e5...
This story is a perennial favorite that is trotted out every time it rains heavily enough to cause flooding. I also agree the headline format sucks because it's lazy clickbait format.
Your (1) has a term of art: "commercial speech". Warrant canaries, at least of the sort we're talking about, are commercial speech --- even the EFF canary site implies it agrees with this.
Are you suggesting that these eucaryote spores were the only source of life on earth? That would require them to have evolved into procaryotes which seems unlikely. It also doesn't really solve the question of how the alien life arose in the first place, so it lacks explanatory power.
In this context "moving" was intended to mean from one person to another not within one country.
Ironically the one-to-many broadcasts are much easier to implement on a single box than as a scalable service spread across thousands of small container instances.
They have a cafeteria, dining halls, and other eateries. Do you know how long it would take a student to walk off campus to a find a grocery store or restaurant? Sometimes quite a walk depending on your location
Wish there were more people like yourself on HN. We mostly get crusaders instead.
This isn't a binary (yes/no) answer.

ChatGPT already replaced search engines for some (about 3-8%) of my questions.

Search engines really suck at answering complicated questions that use the same word in >1 context. For example ChatGPT answers this with ease (whereas google doesn't get close):

> Are there any currencies which have two or more units of currency and whose major unit is comprised of more than one hundred subunits?
> In fact, the quest to learn more about these [consciousness-altering] substances has been one of the things driving progress in organic chemistry over the centuries.

Wow, didn't know this.
Again, Pen != touch.

I actually use a 10-points touch enabled monitor with macOS (because reasons...), it needs aftermarket drivers[0]. And even with them the macOS UI is not touch nor multi-touch ready.

And it seems there are no plans yet for it[1].

[0]: https://www.touch-base.com/

[1]: https://www.macobserver.com/news/craig-federighi-no-touchscr...
I'm not running sprinklers either. I have no idea how much I used when I did a home wash which is probably part of the issue.
Yes, here's a very rough PoC that I plan on integrating with a bigger project at some point https://glittering-narwhal-96bc3e.netlify.app/
Error 500 when testing javascript injection.

Mood submitted : javascript:alert('1');
At work I have a 43" "cheap" monitor that is more of a TV than a monitor. Meaning, at the very edges the backlight isn't behind the pixels at a desk viewing distance. i3+gaps allowed me to put a gap around the left, right, and bottom few pixels, so my text right at the edge wasn't unreadable.
What specific mandates were proven unconstitutional?
That's another question That's much more complicated. The gp said they should cut their administrators not "Harvard should reduce services so they can then cut administrators"
Show HN: Summate.it – Summarize Web Articles
tl:dr by GPT3

Paper contributes to debate about abilities of large language models like GPT-3

Evaluates how well GPT performs on the Turing Test

Examines limits of such models, including tendency to generate falsehoods

Considers social consequences of problems with truth-telling in these models

Proposes formalization of "reversible questions" as a probabilistic measure

Argues against claims that GPT-3 lacks semantic ability

Offers theory on limits of large language models based on compression, priming, distributional semantics, and semantic webs

Suggests that GPT and similar models prioritize plausibility over truth in order to maximize their objective function
Warns that widespread adoption of language generators as writing tools could result in permanent pollution of informational ecosystem with plausible but untrue texts.
Management guides priorities toward the needs of the business, i.e. money, usually. You can sell and market new shiny things.

If you can’t quantify the boring necessary tasks with dollars and deliverables then don’t be surprised when you get “oh yeah whatever.”

I’ve had to fight so damn hard with my own teammates who rail on and on about tech debt but won’t do an ounce of lift to turn the kvetching into an actual business proposal. For some reason devs have such a hard time conceptualizing that they are also one of the stakeholders to the business.

Here’s one that I made happen.

“Setting up new 3rd party integrations takes $x hours of work (here’s the cards) costing roughly this much in engineer time. Based on our sales trajectory we expect to do this many next year costing this much. The team believes that if we develop a framework for these integrations we can cut the time spent for each one to this. Our metric for success will be measured by having a dev who didn’t work on the framework convert an existing integration in the test environment.”

I’ve never gotten a green light so fast from our product management.
Thanks for the heads-up about that file; I use a similar development setup and have been slacking on wiring Make rules together because I thought I would have to touch my own files. It would be nice if the files Python installed had better timestamps, though. I'm the only one using Make on the team and install some tooling of my own, so have to chain upgrade Pip -> install deps -> install tools in the correct order. I'm not sure how to automate that order without running all three steps every time.
Operating at a loss can let you subsidize your market share, which might be a rational strategy if you're in a field with big network effects. Otherwise it won't help much, your competitors will simply not play that game.

And the network effect case is one where you're actually creating value for your customer base - at least until an even more open competitor comes along. See how Compuserve, formerly a market-dominant walled garden benefiting from network effects, had to open themselves up to the Internet.
Most converts are related to marriage and don't have strong opinions and may have done it for bookkeeping rather than true belief.
So laws are only worth having if everyone already agrees that the things they prohibit are very bad and they can't really change anything about what behavior people engage in? I think we have a lot of counterexamples, from litter to drunk driving to accessibility to discrimination. In my experience, appeals to laws being unenforceable are often made by people who just oppose the laws in the first place.
Podman is supposed to be a drop-in replacement for Docker, and I’m still yet to see Podman in action at my production deploys (barring what I’ve heard once from a discord). So yes, still makes sense to learn Docker
> I’d be more inclined to buy something like a Galaxy tablet if I could treat them like prebuilt Windows PCs and upon receiving them nuke them and put clean Android on them

I'm a bit confused by this statement.

1. What is "clean" Android?

2. How do you put clean Android on a prebuilt Windows PC?

3. Why do you put clean Android on any PC?
All commerce is commercial.
I remember when Google first arrived on the scene -- I had been using Alta Vista before then and Google's search was like a miracle. But Google these days just feels like Alta Vista in the 1999, except that the haystack is a lot bigger now and more of it is spam.
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It doesn't though. It only requires for life to have evolved on another planet, reached space and then potentially traveled lightyears through space to reach earth.

Space is really fucking empty. Seems less likely than throwing a rock out of a rocket on the way to mars and hitting a random bucket, without looking. Add to that that it would require life having evolved while the universe was younger and different to the only state of the universe that we know to support life.

Is it impossible. No. But at that point the theory has as much explanatory power as creationism, i.e. none.
Google says "tempered spring" in bold. Doesn't sound like the answer you're looking for, but it was very clear.

The majority of the search results are for places to buy a spring clamp. This is because the overwhelming majority of people who search for that term are looking to buy them, not to learn about what they are. I assume this is true for most specialized parts and equipment.

The majority of humans are more interested in accomplishing a task than they are in any form of learning. So that's what Google optimizes for. They have billions of users and most of them aren't looking to learn about how anything works on a given day. They just need to buy a clamp, or whatever.
I don't necessarily find that adding a compiler step defeats the simplicity, if simplicity is the goal. It might be easier to use a language with better string handling than C, though.
>I'm the biggest man so do what I say

This is still shockingly common method of how modern corporations are run. I've been in board rooms on numerous occasions where I was the shortest person by several inches and I'm statistically tall. Its not statistically possible for 20+ people to be in the 99.999th percentile taller than me unless its not random. In other words not much has changed in thousands of years.