skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Games are minor issue now, to the point I buy new games on Steam without even checking compatibility, because they just work (or have the same problems Windows does anyway).

Windows' strong point is basically some large software vendors just don't support Linux (Photoshop, finance software, etc). And of course corporate. For the day to day 'casual' user Linux is every bit as good. But, much as we all had to 'learn' Windows when we started using it, so there will be at least a little learning required for Linux.
This was done out of an abundance of caution, I'm sure.
Could be the NIH too, I suppose!
> They could literally vote for von der Leyen or not vote at all.

that's how confidence votes work on most parliamentary republics.
Depends on your definition of "dystopia".

Switzerland and Costa Rica might be candidates, but I don't know enough to be sure.
>I’d be willing to bet that you already take reasonable steps to reduce the likelihood of threat actors ending up under your bed at night.

Sadly not. Truth be told I'm kind of lonely.
> How can you possibly be this cynical?

It sounds cynical - yes, but we have to deal with reality as it is. Not as we would wish it to be. Surely that is the lesson on the last 10-15 years of poltics.

Power simply doesn't work this way. Power always collects in the hands of an organized minority - be it a king and his inner circle, or in the power brokers, government institutions, political party internal governmental structures, media hacks, NGOs, and state institutions, and the money power of western democracies.

Understand this.

There is no vote you can cast to evict any of these people.

Furthermore, they control the information dissemination aparatus. Like kafabe in pro-wrestling, they have complete control over the narrative story arcs, and they define the oppinions that are acceptable in society.

Take the US government, for example. Just think about the vast - almost boundless state power they have amassed. They spy on every single communication anyone makes on the internet. They even assassinated a sitting US president, for goodness sake.

Do you think if you just meekly ask them, they'll simply hand over the whole structure into the hands of their sworn enemies? No - it won't ever happen. Your guy will be installed, and he will find his every action is thwarted. He will be effectively powerless. And if you complain, they'll laugh in your face.

More generally:

A mass of people is powerless. You must know this from real life: you can't expect a group of 1000 people to take responsibility for achieving some objective. The group will instinctively look to a leader to guide them, and they will wait for someone to take charge. That person will then need a group of lieutenants to administrate his leadership, and hey presto: there's your oligarchy.

There's nothing wrong with this. The Iron Law of Oligarchy is a reflection of human nature. There is nothing wrong with "kings", various "lords" and officials, if they have the people's best intests in mind.

The problem is democracy is that it allows responsibility to be diffused among the people. Who will ever be held responsible for the Afghanistan withdrawall debacle? Or for the Iraq war? Or for the Snowden files? Or for the trillions of US government debt? ..to name just a few.

No one will ever be held responsible, because democracy allows the oligarchs to point the finger back at the people, and blame us for our choices, when in reality we really have no control over the matter whatsoever.

At least our ancestors could pick up pitch forks and carry their heads out on pikes if things became untennable.

We cannot hold power to account in any way at all. They don't fear us in the slightest. In 2023, this should be pretty obvious to anyone who is paying attention.
interesting played a bit with them and they seem to work really smooth
they have potential keep up the good work
It goes down every month like I said before [0]. The last time this happened was 2 days ago [1] then weeks ago [2] and it is evident that it is falling apart in front of us.

First, it was the RSA key leak in [1][3], then the site's key expired causing down time again [2] and now this.

I don't think anyone can tell me with a straight face that GitHub was any more reliable or better when Microsoft acquired it. It is now worse off.

Nothing has changed except for more outages and downtime.

So so reliable. /s

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35004629

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35295216

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35003741

[3] https://github.blog/2023-03-23-we-updated-our-rsa-ssh-host-k...
For those who missed the context of this joke: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35285390
I have been getting error when I try git push. I taught the problem is me but I saw this thread.
Well ya, your old donkey was essentially a cozy self driving seat that refueled itself by mowing your grass. Not having the heated seats at the same time as having to adjust to all the changes can be hard, to matter how nice the car/framework is.
My heart skipped a beat when "ls" failed.

The intro and all the background detail on motivation was great.
I have PTSD about 1097 :D
Not Linux but you could do that with a BSD kernel perfectly. MS could implement Win32 on top of a BSD kernel in just weeks.

Did you know Win32 runs as a subsystem on top of NT, as there are several more such as a subsystem for Unix?
>But they were surely predictable in aggregate, no?

Only in the sense of jobs seem to take at least twice as long as they "ought" to. The volume of the vessel has very little to do with it. In a refit, you know some things going in--which may indeed be relatively straightforward (so long as the right parts arrive on time)--but for bigger jobs lots of things crop up including resource conflicts and parts that need to be ordered.

If software projects added more slack, they'd be more likely to be completed on time too. There's nothing magical about software. And, in fact, software doesn't need to deal with a lot of the quirks of physical systems.
Rails + hotwire for the win!
Why a European mobile operating system can’t challenge Android and iOS
The site is up but git push still doesn’t work for me as of now.
Thanks for ruining my day
Spotify is infamous for paying artists poorly, but not being on it is risky for an artist due to its popularity. I don't know that it's fair to say it solved the problem, at least from the perspective of artists.
Cuneiform clay tablets have a survival advantage over other materials, so it's anyone's guess when the first well-defined symbolic representation of spoken language system was invented, it may have been lost to history entirely.

Highly recommend Prof Irving Fink's talk to Royal Institution on the 3,000 year development of cuneiform, how it is read, and the story of its decipherment:

https://youtu.be/PfYYraMgiBA
As I wrote elsewhere: save for a world revolution. Capitalism is a given, it's not going to go away. The degree swings a bit, but right now the tendency is still pretty "right" wing, so you've got to see the application of AI in that context. Anything else is at best day-dreaming.
Yes, the systems we construct within this reality are obviously not the bottom of the stack because we built the stack. But suppose the trading bots figure out how to manipulate the rounding mechanics of high frequency trading to jerry rig a Turing machine within their reality. Now fast forward from this and suppose they've all obtained an equivalent of a home PC. For fun they all start playing a "sim city" like game version of our reality.

So far as they can tell, money is real reality (rather than socio-economic construct), and the "physical" reality is an abstract game constructed at a higher level.

So who's reality is who's construct in the end?
Because this needs to happen as one prepares to push to day's last deploy. Back to backups.

Have backups for critical systems, people. In my case, it's building docker containers locally and luckily deploying to one server via ssh.
"Please don't give up on your child" in hotline scripts? I think that's highly unlikely.
I have used MobX state tree (MST) with react, and a lot of the concepts are the same with Pinia. Pinia still looks better, I totally agree here.
When I visit the website, on firefox, I get:

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to www.gptoncall.com. PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR

Error code: PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.
Time for another coffee
> How this is not apparent to anyone is beyond me.

It's exactly the same problem as:

Day 1: "I'm glad I finally got medicine for my chronic condition."

Day 2: "Wow, this medicine is making me feel so much better!"

Day 3: "I feel great! I don't need this medicine anymore!"

Day 4: "Man, why do I feel so terrible??"
Yea, that is the real worry with this technology. You'll be able to zoom in on a blurry image of speeding car taken at night and get a perfectly clear license plate, but there is no way to guarantee that it is the correct license plate that was actually photographed. It'll just be the most 'probable' license plate based on some inscrutable probability distribution that is locked inside black box that even the developer of the software cannot explain. I fear explaining that to a jury could be really hard.
> Jobs have been disappearing at a high rate for at least a couple of generations now, and have steadily been replaced with new ones, often high paying ones.

You don’t feel like you should quote some data for this claim?
You mean Zelensky?
Even one case of women prisoners being raped by men who are incarcerated in a women's prisons is sufficient to show that this recent experiment in removing this safeguarding measure for women inmates has been a failure, and must be abandoned.

That we have several documented cases already only supports this point further.
I had an IBM motherboard that had an odd enameled wire on it that stuck out like a sore thumb. It was a 486/33 that someone had hotwired to be more like a 486/100. Local computer shop showed it to an IBM rep that said he'd never seen anything similar. It was not as fast as a real /100, but was quite fast for the money.
Usually, I never use @ in code directory, I use either stdlib or I write my own wrapper with added semantic.
Living in Surplus
Because if you don't spend multiple days per year managing your own "backup" to GitHub, you might be left unable to push to GitHub for a few hours per year?

btw, I hope none of your CI system relies on build steps that might include pulling code from GitHub or downloading packages from GitHub Package registry. Often when GitHub is down, my CI system on GitLab is broken too.
thanks and sorry, the frontend is very basic, just a template and a link, if you have a time, try calling the service!
HN should really have a “Down HN” category, as this is the most reliable place to get this information.
It's interesting that the collectivist power differential never extends to the state vs. the individual, no the state is always grand and good, except when it's run by other collectivists.
I've been building a ChatGPT project this week and this explanation is so true it made me actually lol. Sometimes it's impressively flawless, sometimes it gets stuck in broken patterns... Even if the inputs are identical.

"Monkey around with the prompt and pray" has replaced unit testing.
It sounds like you might be inferring that $100 in deposits is both a) $100 owed to their banking customers and b) $100 in cash. It is only the former, though - the cash was lent out to make the loans or used to purchase income-producing assets. A bank with $100 in deposits and $50 in loans is insolvent - it owes $100 to its customers whenever they decide to withdraw it, but only has $50 of assets (loans) to back that. In the reverse, the bank only owes $50 to its customers, and meanwhile has $100 of assets - if the customers all wanted their money back, it could sell the loans, and as long as it got more than half of its nominal value they'd be able to repay everyone.
Same here! Was going crazy what I was doing wrong. Renamed my branch to see if that was causing anything.
Seems it's fixed now?
This would be a very long comment and I'm not sure if it's worth writing on a day old thread, because I know very little about you, your frame of reference and how far you lean which way on the genuine curiosity to winning an argument scale (I have a an educated guess with you saying "lack of sanity")

If you're interested on what shapes my perspective here beyond either of us winning an argument, I'd recommend "Endnote 2: White Fascism" by Innuendo Studios, especially the conclusion.
Solid does too.
Shameless plug for my compiler class, fully available on YouTube: https://norswap.com/compilers/
Svelte doesn't use a virtual DOM and when it compiles, it only targets what you are specifically using it for.

The thing with Svelte is that for a big project (like an SPA) you're going to end up using SvelteKit, because that's where all the development focus is for things like routing etc... and SvelteKit isn't nearly as settled. As in, there aren't developed "patterns" for doing a lot of things yet so it's a lot of trailblazing. There's also some features that are missing and on the roadmap but SvelteKit just hit 1.0 in December (these are usually more obscure things but you will still likely encounter them if you're building something of moderate complexity.)

I still think overall it would be fine to use for a big project, but a year from now I think it will be a much easier choice. Something that is happening right now is a lot of big players in the wider JS ecosystem are transforming from being React specific to framework agnostic:

- NextJS -> Auth.js: https://twitter.com/balazsorban44/status/1603082914362986496

- React Table / React Query -> TanStack Table, TanStack Query: https://tanstack.com/

This has all happened in the last few months. So it's still new, and they're still improving as they move away from being React specific. People rely on those projects. As more move in that direction I think it will become easier and easier.
We really need to stop letting ads destroy everything, even tabloid-style clickbait news seems to be spreading to sell more of them.
The government of Marcus Dutroux wants its citizens to believe that it is willing to take extraordinary measures to protect the children.
We're talking about something that exists at the query planner level, not a new feature introduced on top of that. Whether to use an index or a table scan isn't chosen by the user, it's chosen by the engine when the SQL is run. ORMs don't have any special hook to "look different" - if the database engine wants to do a full table scan, it'll do it whether the query came from manual SQL or an ORM, because they look the same to the database.
By number of copies sold or hours played even just those six are a huge chunk of "PC gaming". Including say the top 15 of the last 3 years, you can pretty much call all the rest of PC gaming a long tail roundoff error in terms of copies sold or hours played. It doen't really matter if for these 45 titles there are 4500 titles that work perfectly on Linux.
I like to reduce the single point of failure count in my projects as much as I can, with common sense. My backup system is running a few cli commands instead of git push, so it's a no brainer. YMMV.
> Linux gaming is almost in a state where I'd find it quite tolerable

Definitely agree. It's almost there. But some things are still holding me back.

1) As you mentioned, VR is shit. I don't use VR a lot, but a couple of times per year I just want to try it again.

2) There's definitely a performance hit. Some games are very jittery on Linux, while running smoothly on windows. I spend a lot of money on my gaming PC because it's one of my oldest and favorite hobbies, and if an OS just tanks the performance it's kind of annoying.

3) Some games just don't work. Mostly multiplayer games. Normally I exclusively play offline, singleplayer games. But sometimes I like to visit private LAN-parties. Which I can't really do with Linux without spending half a day with debugging.

3.1) My work-life consists of debugging linux servers and fixing them, or setting them up. After work I just want to turn on my PC and game a bit. With Windows, that's 99.9% doable. With Linux, I have to debug and fix things during my free time as well, because the chance that a game just works out-of-the-box is pretty slim for me, even though Steam Proton is quite awesome.

4) A smaller hobby of mine is video editing, which is also not optimal on Linux. Aka., I would have to find a different tool, which I've tried unsuccessfully.

Basically, I use windows on my daily, free-time PC because gaming "just works" and sometimes I like to use VR or video editing softwares. If all I'd do in my free-time was browse the web etc., I'd just use a cheap laptop with Linux on it. After all, I really dislike Windows for anything else because it's such a bloated piece of shit OS ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Missed opportunity...

{#if showFall}
<div transition:fly={{ u: 8 }}> Fools! </div>
{/if}
Its all undocumented legacy code?
Putin and Xi’s plot to control the internet will leave the West in the dust
Here in Peru the quipu system, a form of proto-writing, was invented for accounting. It is said that it was used for balancing agricultural production across different regions.
How about they implement it for all politicians and executives first, then the rest of us if that works out.

Everyone has rights or no one has rights
How sure are you that none of those commands has a dependency on GitHub infrastructure?
Ever since Microsoft took over...
Have you ever compared in-game performances between Windows and Linux?
Unfortunately, a lot of results (proofs) about infinities are counter-intuitive, and they can't be disproven simply by showing how they go against (your) intuition. A proof is not "someone else's opinion"; it is formal reasoning that stands on its own, apart from whatever opinion may have been held by the creator of the proof.

In fact many proofs went against the opinion of the proof's creator.

So, I'm not "scared"; I'm prefectly prepared to take a stand against unproven orthodoxies. But I have enough humility to realize that if I think I've found a contradiction in a proof by a great mathematician such as Cantor, and nobody else has found it, then it must be me that's wrong.
Talk over Phone with ChatGPT, (786) 829-7341: From Idea to Reality in 48 Hours
Everytime something has degraded performance or is down for me:

1. check my internet connection

2. check HN

3. check official statuspage
For me it went down just as I was logging in, I thought I was banned or something :')
It has some kind of compatibility with Python, but the language is much more minimalist.

New features can be discussed on the GitHub issue tracker, but I expect very few additions in the short-term. I consider the language quite stable now, and it has three mature implementations.
> Either that or the reg has really gone down hill...

I think it sadly did. :(
Depends on the context. I need to push to a repo and QA needs to test the app, but since I can't push, they can't. No other practical way (other than setting up another origin on Bitbucket or GitLab, or emailing/zipping sending etc).
Desperate wolves have successfully hunted moose.

I suspect at worst they'd adapt a strategy to distract the hogs and eat the piglets. 24/7 hog harassers would be much more effective than sporadic hobby hunters. The stress of a constant wolf presence could also disrupt uninterrupted eating and breeding patterns.
Also worth mentioning Sierra (I believe...) that let you login as root without password.

For me the tooling on MacOS is the only advantage that it offers. I am familiar with it which makes some tasks quite easy and the platform more powerful for me than Windows.

The latter offers alternatives by now and they are quite good as well. Powershell is in parts just a bit more modern than the average Linux shell or you can just install a Linux subsystem to begin with. For me it was a bit late to the party though, but this is one part where Windows really did improve a lot.

But both closed source OS have become worse overall. This isn't some nostalgia the parent hints at, there are certain features that can establish that pretty clearly. From ads to account requirements or thorough suggestions at least.
Except that these platforms often have 'government' specific offerings that are not the same as everyone else.
For Vue 3(at least for the composition api) ts support is very good and handles typing in templates and between components in a way that was a bit lacking in Vue 2.

As for the other ones React seems to be pretty good with TS and obviously Angular is TS only.

As for using templating logic over JSX, that is of course a matter of taste, but i find code becomes much cleaner when there is a clear separation of templates and logic, and with jsx its a bit too easy to blur that line.
I don't live in a society where they force vaccinate hiv or syphilis patients. Are you living in Africa?

People who have hiv or syphilis do not get fired from a working from home position with the Canadian government because they refuse to take a vaccine.

Your worldview is limited.
I don't know what serialization/deserialization has do with this. Does the object map to database rows and there's code that moves the data back and forth? That's an object relational mapper.
Minecraft or any sufficiently complex simulated environment. But I think people will put AI models in physical robot really soon too if it's not already happening.
Then you better refill your Zoloft because it looks like there's going to be one last big disruption before it's over. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1097#issuecomment-1404...
I know he was American and not European, but "When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself public property." ~Thomas Jefferson
Related to the Twitter source code leak, perchance?
Do you think the 3 letter agencies have better AI or just similar LLMs aimed at inteligence purposes ?
Oh yay, thanks for trying it out! Do you have your project up somewhere? I'd love to take a look.

TIL that apparently you can simply use the generic follow up prompt “did you do what I asked?” and it will verify and course correct on its own, see for instance:

https://twitter.com/ericjang11/status/1639882111338573824

No idea how well this works in practice for things like JS games with visual elements, but seemed like an interesting approach!
> dual-boot

Don't know why I never considered this...
Should try it :D

Then I could use Windows for video editing and windows-only games and Linux for everything else.
Likewise, thanks for checking it out!
I mean if you’re creating regulation just require a human to oversee any job done by AI. Instead of just protecting copyrighted works.
Someone should map out every frontend framework and it's path to everything, from SPA to SSR & which libraries that exists within that ecosystem.

Nvm, roadmap.sh/frontend came to my mind.
Its like when everything became an 'app' all of a sudden.