skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most annoying thing is actually how bad bluetooth driver is. On multiple macbooks I had (2011-2022) the bluetooth will just not connect to things, randomly disconnect from them, unresponsive devices when thy are connected (also not responding to disconnect), problems connecting any keyboard but Apple™ Magic Keyboard, and of course, aggressive takeover of every device with a strong competition towards othre macbooks and iphone devices.
Depends on how you define "markets with money": Sun based their pre-acquision Solaris on GNOME and put a lot of money into accessibility and HIG in the GNOME 2.0 days. Similarly, Nokia started Maemo (and their Internet Tablets N700 iirc) on Gtk+ before pivoting to Qt after the acquision (with their N810, N800 and N9). RedHat and SuSE invested heavily in GNOME as well, just like Canonical did who hired plenty from the GNOME community. KDE mostly never had that kind of money (basically SuSE and was it Mandrake?), though Qt is obviously a different thing (whereas Gtk+ is a core part of the GNOME project).

Both of these were struggling in the changing workstation/PC/mobile market, so I don't consider it against Gtk+: eg. Nokia was soon acquired by Microsoft and even Qt version barely hit the market.

Still, I do believe success of KDE and GNOME has had at least some of the effect on getting Qt LGPL-ed: there is little doubt KDE was great marketing for Qt (there was a plethora of Windows GUI toolkits: cross-platform, not so much).

OFC, I was in none of those boardrooms, so it's all speculative ;)
Those older suburbs are not much denser and they often often don't have transit. People who lived in streetcar suburbs generally expected go get a significant amount of food from their garden which meant lots had to be fairly big, and if you look you discover they were larger lots than current suburbs (or at least that is the case near me). The newer suburbs tend to have dense apartments someplace as well bringing the average up.

Of course new suburbs rarely are built with transit in mind while the oldest were built around the long gone streetcars. This build form doesn't have any affect on solvency though.
We've gotten a lot of these in the last year and it's amazing how they sound the same.
yes right, How I can clear the history? How long it remembers and attaches to the API?
It is possible to build apartments that are not noisy. It costs more though.
I'm not asking why it could be bad, or even necessarily a single isolated case where it has happened. I'm asking about significant problems that have actually been caused by it.

When far bigger actual abuses in censoring and limiting and influencing speech and opinion on the internet are overlooked or even cheered on by many of the people who were advocating for net neutrality, I kind of question the purity and motives behind it, certainly for those people they are not motivated by any ideals of freedom.

Not that it's necessarily a bad policy to have, but so might thousands of different policies and regulations that limit private enterprise so I'm much more sympathetic to regulation that is designed to solve observed problems. Hence my question about whether it solved any real problems (or caused any since its repeal).
Probably happens to all of us, especially the kind of folks that read Hacker News, I just wanted to think about it, and thank them.
No '3'. The difference between '300', '30', '3', 0.3' etc is just the power of 10 attached to it.

Having 'cut my teeth' on North Star BASIC's BCD floating point representation of numbers ( "1 + 2 = 3"), with all numbers, even integers, stored as 5-byte 8-digit BCD floating-point numbers internally. It used to drive me nuts to use Lawrence Livermore Laboratories' BASIC which used binary floating-point. You'd get things like "1 + 2 = 2.99999998" (or similar, I'm working from a 40-years ago memory here).

LATER UPDATE: Sorry, I omitted the words 'floating point'. No wonder you said 'huh?'. It should have read 'Binary floating point '3' is inexact'.
French people doing what French people do best.....
First off it doesn't need to be done. You're taking a statement from the government as an axiom when it's not one. Secondly, the attitude matters. There is ni trust in the government to not swindle the population, mainly due to Macron's track record and the other mentioned things in my messages. Basically it is not about the numbers, it's about a well crafted narrative led by people who have done everything to wither away the trust given to them, time and time again.
> Why should the government be able to control which apps people install and use on their own personal phones?

The theoretical argument will be national security and “protect the children”.

> What happened to "personal liberty and freedom"?

Flies out the door for the causes mentioned above. Reasonable? No. Reality? Yes.

> Are they going to ban particular websites next?

This already happens at some levels. Note that The Guardian website was not accessible on DoD computers during the Snowden revelations. There was a practical reason (mass spillage is a PITA for folks who diligently report and process the reports of such things), but it was also a futile exercise of control.

> And what exactly is so threatening about TikTok to make it a legitimate national security threat?

1. Lots and lots of tracking data.

2. Lots and lots of real time on-the-ground info.

3. The ability to shape the discourse and mood within certain groups via the algo (assuming that the algo can be influenced by the PRC government, which folks widely believe it can).

You may not believe these things are significant, but I encourage you to chat up some sigint (esp. analysts) and psyops folks to see what they have to say about this type of data and medium.
The discussion in here is why this whole thing needs to go defined contribution. Nobody is getting screwed over by these plans except the young paying for it.
The name is definitely derived from "cotorra", and likely refers to the noisy chatter that wild groups of parrots have.
> Given that one of these modes of living reliably produces a happier population

Is that really a "given"?

> Given that ... one of the core purposes of cooperative government is to find ways to promote outcomes that benefit everyone despite going against individuals' self-interest

As I see it, government promotes outcomes that benefit "everyone" only by protecting individuals' self-interest.
Ideally I'd sync it with Ableton's clock. I'm using Ableton only for tempo and multitrack recording. Maybe this is achievable without the RPi being a MIDI device? Sending messages over the network, like GuitarEffects which uses WebSockets. My RPi 2 doesn't support gadget mode (I should probably start looking for a RPi 4).

I'm currently using an Elektron Digitakt to sequence my analog gear - it's great - but unfortunately the DT is limited to 8 MIDI tracks with only 1 LFO per MIDI track to automate MIDI CC data. I'd love a Cirklon Sequentix but the waitlist is just too long (3 years atm, arghh).

I wonder if I can hook up something like a Midiface 16x16 (https://miditech.de/en/portfolio/midiface-16x16/) to the RPi. The Midiface is Class Compliant so maybe the RPi can use it natively..(?) I'm a bit worried about performance though.

Thanks for your suggestions, I'm going to look into them!
you don't need to make it a holiday, just doing it on a weekend should suffice. E.g. in Australia, elections, Federal, state and local are all held on Saturdays.

If you actually want to improve turnout, enact compulsory voting. That is much better, but still no silver bullet to electing sane competent and not corrupt politicians.
Yes, it is a really refreshing style of writing.
Have you looked at things like power line adapters? I’ve got one and it works brilliantly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-line_communication
> There is a Netflix box inside the ISP data center that streams video to subscribers without going through the Internet.

Can you clarify what you mean by this?
I've been on the wait list since it came up, still no luck.
Colon Cancer Isn’t Just an Older Person's Disease Anymore
https://archive.ph/J1iOg

Original paper: https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.3322/...
Which compiler flags do I use to turn off UB?
I've never tried it but I read that a use for namespaces was talking a library and wrapping all the #include statements in namespace library {} or whatever to avoid one stepping on another. Depending on how the library is written (and if it's all in source form rather than .lib files) I guess it should work?
Like a lot of folks I've spoken to, I've recently switched from Fusion360 to FreeCAD to gain more independence from a subscription model. I will know that I can always rely on this software no matter what, and no Internet connection needed etc.

FreeCAD is pretty good, it's not as refined as Fusion but the functionality seems to be there. As others have already mentioned, it's hard to learn but you'll be doing yourself a favor if you watch those FreeCAD tutorials on YouTube, and maybe this User Book as well.
It should be 3. The problem with it is that it's ambiguous, and then the ISP will want to read it broadly to let them restrict anything they please.
I think they tried to do things clean with games like "Super Mario Run", I think they really really tried and even when it did kind of work investors weren't happy seeing how games like Diablo Immortal was the highest grossing Diablo game ever and Nintendo wouldn't just take the money just sitting there in front of them.

I see this game as a capitulation and it's akin to seeing Santa Claus dying.

I would support a law against this entire business model on digital app stores, not necessarily a total ban, but something. No company can resist the temptation unless they are forced to. Google and Apple are making tons and tons of cash off unfettered addiction. Good luck though - there's an entire industry making a lot of money off this and a lot of decent jobs that depend on addicts feeding the system.
Is there an actual physical book for FreeCAD too on the market?
Worked on a chart generating service in Java some 20 years ago. At that time IBM released their JVM. Upon first tests it worked perfectly and significantly faster than Sun's JVM. After testing it further, making tens of thousands charts, we deployed it to production. However, in production it would stop misteriosly after some time. Added a lot of logging, there were no issues in our code. After a while I realized it failed somewhere after 65536 charts were made! That was pretty suspicious. There's nothing in our code that would overflow some 16-bit counter, it worked under another JVM, and crash was not a Java exception. If I remember correctly it was not even a crash at all but entire process would freeze.

It turned out it was a problem with that specific IBM JVM. We created a new thread for each chart, and that JVM froze after 65536 created threads! Moral of the story, if you already test with tens of thousands requests, make sure it's at least 64k tests.
Svelte or SolidJS.
"Windows 11 calculator is creating many problems such as the app surprisingly crashes, opens then immediately closes, or not performs as expected. Some people complain that the built-in Microsoft Store application does not work after they have received an update." [1]

The fact that there are 14 ways to fix the Calculator app listed in this article, including even "Disable Windows Firewall temporarily", is simply beyond any sort of rant.

Somewhat off-topic, listened recently to Computers Barely Work - Interview with Linux Legend Greg Kroah-Hartman [2] and, as hubristic and cliché as it is, the takeaway was: we must delete every software, destroy every CPU ever made, and start all over again.

[1] https://www.howto-connect.com/fix-calculator-not-working-in-... (edit: other links about fixing the Calculator app, https://www.groovypost.com/howto/calculator-app-not-working-..., https://appuals.com/calculator-not-working-windows — the fact that these SEO spam sites exist is also a problem, an app as trivial as a calculator should have one single, self-evident button for the end user to click and fix it, whatever that might imply)

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9MjGziRw-c
In Mario kart, the dollar -> ruby -> gold -> toad chain (from the OP) is designed to obfuscate the cost and get players to spend more money than if it was just dollar -> toad.

Multiple currencies (that can be indirectly bought for dollars) is thus a symptom of a game designed to remove my money.

You seemed to be suggesting that we should not be skeptical of this, because similar game design elements can be used for other reasons.
I'm interested in what's happening in the MPA space. The Page and View Transitions API that the chrome team is working on, partial update libraries like htmx and unpoly, etc. If payloads are tight and servers snappy, many of the concerns that led to complex SPA architectures in the first place have begun to wither away.
Microsofts 3D video team always put all this effort into making the uis look good and fluid but it's all just fantasy, the disconnect between what the marketing team is saying it is and what the reality of their software is jarring.
From the comparisons I’ve seen, still well behind Midjourney.
Any archaeological evidence to prove the existence of Hindu (Brahman) dharm older than 1000 yrs? ANy written manuscript , stone inscription etc ..?
We already have a semi famous daily show here in France where they are using deepfakes of our president and other powerful people as an humorous take on the current political situation.

https://youtu.be/ampFHEXawUY

It’s quite well done and I think it proves your point: general amusement, and now face value doesn’t work anymore.
Wearable radar “burdock” is being tested in the zone of the special operation
> Not a single Stone inscription, Copper plate, Terracotta inscription of classical sanskrit has ever been found nor any Hindu site

Ok here you go.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hathibada_Ghosundi_inscripti....

> All those sanskrit books of Hindus religion were written much later infact they couldnt be written before teh invention of Devanagari script.

Sanskrit is script agnostic language so Sanskrit manuscript are found in every Indian script. If you do not know this then you are not qualified to talk about Sanskrit.

Edit: Hinduism is neither doctrine based nor centralised so every single purana and upnishad isn't authentic. Hindus and are free to discard what doesn't align with Dharma as described in Vedas.
What make you think Allopnishad wasn't written by Muslims to convince Hindus?
Forget that let’s go all the way and force everybody to live in capsule hotels.
Has anyone used Kyocera or Lexmark laser printers? I was considering buying a laser printer and HP was on the bottom of my list to consider. Thanks to their action I can exclude that option.
How does anyone trust software uploaded to the Internet Archive?
Great! you can now do online model serving directly from Databricks
It is possible to be successful without being a jerk.
Is it true that you can actually withdraw it all the day you retire to buy real estate and then the government will start giving out a pension for you? This is something I was told by some Australians.
> Restoring American Manufacturing: A Practical Guide

As in recent history: just make slavery legal. There are a lot of immigrants who are literarly slaves in US (they cannot change employer, work for low wages). Ah, and destroy the Trump's wall (iron courtain 2.0) and let more "slaves" in US. And don't forget to separate them from children. Mission accomplished. /s
It does what? I asked if it has caused actual problems, not imaginary ones.

I'm aware of some of the hypotheticals. Just curious about yours though, what's happening there? Netflix paid ISPs to prioritize their traffic over other video traffic, rendering Disney+ unusable? What would prevent Disney+ paying the ISPs as well if they wanted to be a competitive video streaming service? That seems like it would allow choice.

It might also capture some of the externalities that high bandwidth users impose on non-video users by having the ISP get some more money from them.
More of a confirmatory signal of a policy shift which has been underway since 2020. Both US and China are aiming to achieve the same thing in different ways - a reallocation of resources (investment + talent) from frivolous consumer tech to serious industrial / scientific tech
> No - Social Security for the people who are already retired is paid for by the people who are currently working. Nobody is "paying into" anything.

Don't all insurance and investments work that way?

Why make it seem that the enforced payment into SS is any different?
I use it regularly. It seems fine to me, but I do wish it had copy and paste.
Solar panels are extremely popular in Stockholm, 59 degrees North and less than 1,000 km from the Artic Circle. During winter, they produce very little electricity, admitedly... but they work well in all the other seasons so they still significantly reduce electricity consumption.
People living in certain parts of the world are robbed regularly as a matter of course; does that mean robbers are giving somebody money if they band together one day and decide to stop robbing that person?
> And what exactly is so threatening about TikTok to make it a legitimate national security threat?

Competition for US-based companies.
Svelte. If I really want JSX, then I would pick Solid.
This PL/SQL Overlord is running banks https://www.avaloq.com/solutions/products/avaloq-core
> should be like $1M/y in property taxes

why? because you want to be a dictator and force people to live how you want / like to live?
When were these document written and any original manuscript of your references?
"european commission non elected leaders"

French government is not elected either. Like all European countries, by the way.
Who said they're mutually exclusive?
FTC Twitter Investigation Sought Elon Musk’s Communications, Journalist Names
Well, he said someone misled him and it wasn't actually his fault what he did. I don't know if that rises to apology exactly.
Has the language police found a new target? Punctuation marks. Who says that we "should" use those?
ironically, said review bot will likely help you prevent checking in private API keys
No, I am talking about people around OpenAI trying to justify why they cannot be truly open, and similar.
Ask HN: Adult Autism label, cost/benefit analysis?
Any experiences “accepting” an autism diagnosis as adult?

I see some risk. Could be easier to internally make excuses for behaviors and make less improvement.
I Don’t want to become captured by the “I’m special” thing, it’s a like a warm blanket.

But evidence and expert opinions has gotten harder to reason out of, self hatred and hopelessness is mounting, repeatedly losing short term relationships and potential friends without any clear mistake made.

Being very good looking, I believe people seem to often overlook deficits for a month or two ( or 2 hours) then often disappear without explanation.
I can sometimes suppress some of my more odd emotionally unaware behaviors for a short period. Usually When drunk I can pick up some cues and display the expected reaction emotions but I don’t really feel them enough for them to be involuntary.

I am instinctually repulsed by the flimsy nature of DSM.
Anyone benefit functionally from accepting a “label”, even if you told no one after?
If it sucks now it sucked before. And the self-proclaimed "experts" who were certain it would imminently implode don't get to avoid being wrong by indefinitely stretching what imminent means or watering down what implode means.
What a great read! I’m definitely returning to your blog!
That's also used at offices to encourage workers to leave at night. Why are you here at 8pm? Let's switch off the lights every 5 min unless you get up and wave your hands.
Hydrogen is even harder to find than charging infrastructure. It’s not easy to convert a gas station into a hydrogen station.

To me the two solutions revolve around simple battery tech.

1. Charging stations like we have now but 100x as many.

2. Battery swap stations a la Nio in China. In their system you buy the car (for pretty cheap) and rent the battery. Makes upfront cost cheaper and batteries need replacing anyway so if you can swap batteries easily you never have to worry about this.
Microsoft has an absolutely terrible track record in the creative productivity category to the point that their previous entrants fell somewhere between “toy” and “joke.” I don’t have high hopes here, personally.
With the right firewall rules it doesn’t have to be a headache. You can have the printer usable from local networks only and not get internet at all. What does it need it for anyway?
It's amazing on how even Salesforce workflows can also be designed using Generative AI.

Good discussion about what went behind the scene for Einstein GPT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WBeEaDUo1s
Anyone with proper experience on C++ ecosystem knows this isn't the case.

Not only is ISO full of DR and things that probably shouldn't have been standardized in first place (thankfully some of them were latter removed), there is plethora of compilers to chose from.
This comment is good illustration of why most democratic gouvernements lose support over time. The media collect a list of disappointing behaviors, social media push said content to disgruntled citizens, and the government loses all credibility over time.

The ability for a government to not slip is crucial for slowing the decay.
The Mactracker app has a "hidden" feature (I think it is documented, but no-one reads that) - if you option-click on the Mac icons it plays the crash noise instead of the startup noise.

Only older Macs have crash noises, they went away after a while.
This seems like a very optimistic take. For some reason, it made me think about spectre and heartbleed and how my computer just kept getting slower a couple years back.
Flux is a much better gitops option.
From memory, printers are a patent minefield. :(
I have just made up a new definition of "thinking": "reaching a conclusion through such a large and diverse number of heuristics as to make it impossible to tell exactly what the process was".

I find it pretty satisfying, and certainly applies to ChatGPT.
I live in a house with a large yard for the exact reason you point out :).

I do enjoy walking on the grass and taking care of some plants, but I didn't really need so much land if not to keep neighbours away (I used to live in an apartment where a neighbour made my life hell, never again).
But the Wiki article was for '8N1' - that's why I didn't mention it.

If you add a parity bit, (say '8E1'), that makes the total 9 bits. When you wrap that in the mark-space pair that makes a total of 11 bits.

Then if you have two stop-bits, as in (say '8O2') you have 8 data bits, one parity bit, one start-bit, and two stop-bits. That makes 12 bits altogether for the single data byte sent serially.
You've completely made-up things that you believe I have done in my head. It's all false. Please just stop and go away. It's very tiring.
> It is not obvious that your component re-renders on state updates.

I... isn't it? Isn't this like the first thing in the hooks introductory material? If you don't find this, yeah, hooks are gonna be a bad time.
RIP HP Laserjet 4L. These were beasts and they worked for 20 years. Even then all they needed was maintenance but the newer ones were more economical, quieter, and faster to run.