skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No distribution forces you to use package managers for everything. Even before flatpak/snap, distributing (especially commercial) software as just archives or executable installers was/is perfectly possible.

The caveat is, there's no common baseline for libraries. Graphics libraries, the libc itself, GUI widget libraries etc. will appear in different version combinations in different distributions, since they have different release schedules.

So if you want to go the Windows/MacOS route and ship a readily compiled program for Linux, you have to vendor in a loooot more libraries, and they have a higher risk of breaking due to incompatibilities (kernel interface for your graphics driver changed, configuration file syntax for your font renderer changed, etc.)

Flatpaks/snaps try to solve this (poorly) by vendoring the entire kitchen sink and then some, which just creates more bloat and a worse DLL hell than Windows could ever have dreamed of. So using it for everything isn't really feasible still.
Looking at the original prices and adjusting for inflation it looks like the Fiat 500 and the 2CV were about $10000, and the Type 1 Beetle was around $15000. So $25k does seem rather high for a people’s car.

I’m not sure the prices I found (450k lira, 350k francs, and 4000 marks) are all correct though.
As I said, it was just perception and I tried not to act on it, assuming that it is not malicious. Whatever, got the downvotes, but hopefully communicated what was interesting for me as well.
Corvettes had huds 20 years ago. I have never understood why it isn't mainstream.
Aspirin has been a life changer for long Covid. The other painkillers make symptoms 10x worse. Many people wonder if aspirin anti platelet/blood thinning capabilities is helping breakup microclots which brings relief.

There’s also a thing called nattokinase that apparently has similar properties to aspirin and is being studied for heart disease. It has been shown to break down blood clots and even degrade the spike protein.

NK might be a viable alternative. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6043915/
>Do people seriously think Musk is this much of a comic book villain? The article doesn't back up its assertion.

Has he proven himself to be that petty, spiteful and juvenile? Yes. Time and time again.

I don't think he's sabotaging Twitter just for the lulz, I think he's desperately (and ineptly, while seeing himself as Tony Stark playing 5d chess) trying to recoup his losses from a gamble he was forced to take, and having fun trolling the "woke hivemind."
Scooby – open-source fidelity and regression testing framework
We were using Percy but our bills were racking up.

So we've built Scooby and added some missing feature like code comparison.

We focused on simplicity and cost optimization.

Feedback and contributions are welcome!
Code is right there -- just look at it.
People have the right to disconnect, to unplug, to go their own way, without constant interference from "well-intentioned" people that are "concerned" about them. In fact the constant harassment from these people can be enough to bring someone down. The guy here is an adult, he has the right to life his life as he pleases.
Then community-solve this:

$ sudo aptitude install wine-stable

--- 5 pages of useless garbage removed and then:

62) wine32:i386 [Not Installed]

Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
65) wine64 recommends wine32 (= 3.0-1ubuntu1)

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]

In other word the suggested solution is: Do not install wine
does it require a headset? then it is not representative of the holodeck.
OP was clearly talking about pollution at point of use. But even so, having a choice of your source of energy is important. Creating and maintaining the infrastructure for gas also pollutes, beyond the usage.
> "helium" and "balloon" have a more awkward rhythm than "confetti" and "cannon". It also loses the connotations of sudden, explosive and exciting change.

Not only that, but "the confetti has left the cannon" is an alliteration, which makes the phrase even more poetic.
Just another datapoint - I've never had issues with glasses either.

My larger reading glasses tend to come off when I remove the headset because they touch foam padding but my regular glasses fit in every headset I've tried (other than Magic Leap's stupid "goggles" form factor - the Vive Elite XR however is fine).
Thanks for posting about the lead in tumeric issue. Never knew this was a thing, but it seems pretty widespread based on that study.
that's how I felt until my first `dark:text-white`. I got 'dark mode' out of the box and only needed to change a few things. I didn't need to google how to set up the css, then define a whole new dark mode. I was able to do iteratively, right on the component I was changing. This made 'more work' on the dev side, but on the testing side, you just had to find a single instance of the component and verify it looked reasonable.

I think the ability to mix up things like that is what makes it quite powerful. You don't have to go digging through your sources to find all instances of '.my-one-off-class-that-some-random-dev-also-used'.
You are the wind beneath my wings...
Because it still depends on the closed source libraries:

> Does this mean the camera stack is completely open?

> libcamera is open-source friendly which means all of libcamera itself is open source. libcamera uses a plugin system for Image Processing Algorithms (IPA) which are built as dynamically-linked shared objects, and are loaded at run-time. Open-source modules are identified based on digital signatures, while closed-source modules are isolated inside a Sandbox environment with restricted access to the system, reducing the impact of untrusted binary blobs.

I.e. libcamera needs ipu6-camera-hal (which is open-source, apache licensed) which in turn depends on ipu6-camera-bins (which is binary-only, closed source).
Researchers identify regions of the brain damaged by high blood pressure
I will start with a biggest downside - it can get lonely at times. With this schedule you can build saas tools, or do client work, but you cannot build a stable business and work relationships with other people really. Your biggest support group is a broad startup community - but not the people you work with on a daily basis.

There is that saying - "If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together" - and it's very much true in terms of this work/lifestyle.

As for types of projects - over the last ~15 years, I've built probably 15 projects ;) Some freelance work at the beginning, then mobile apps around 2012, then I built AppCodes (which was covered by TC, and landed a few times on the HN top page), and I got into crypto very early on, building a few projects in that space (Eveem.org being the most successful and impactful - the page looks like crap, but it did serious waves in the Ethereum community :) ).

Financially - since 32 years old, extremely well, I could retire if I wanted to. But that's mostly because I got into Bitcoin, and then Ethereum very early on.

If not for crypto, AppCodes - a saas for iPhone devs - kept earning me a stable income that I could live off, for 8 years straight (right now the site is still up, but I don't charge people, and it's not working any more really). I think I could earn more off it, and for many more years, if I wanted to. Besides AppCodes, I could monetize Eveem.org extremely easy - it just isn't a priority now.

And besides AppCodes and Eveem, since I did so much stuff with various techs and business, I can charge easily for workshops, or trainings. I do paid gigs once a year, but more for fun than for money :)

I also keep rejecting job offers all the time - the amounts people offer me keep getting higher every year, so I guess that's an objective value of my competencies - more than winning the bet on crypto :D
Linux supports firmware updates via fwupd. It's integrated into most distros.
It's a legitimate question but in this case my personal conclusion is that GP is right, convenient MIPI camera support is not coming for another 2-3 years.

The problem is that this generation of Intel platforms have migrated to a completely different approach to the handling of webcams. Previously, the webcams modules were intelligent black-boxes that transparently handled things like auto-focus and auto-exposure in their firmware. They presented themselves as just a framebuffer with a handful of tunable knobs. The v4l2 subsystem was a perfect fit for this approach.

Now with MIPI, things are very different. The OS must actively participate in tasks like autofocus (not rocket science, but not trivial either), be it by providing code that runs on the camera module, or by actively running algorithms on the CPU. No such thing exists right now, but as you pointed out, a few user-space projects are working on it. The big hurdle is the OS-level API. There is no successor for v4l2 yet, and kernel devs are still in the design phase. They recon it will take 1-2 years just to stabilize a reasonably general API [1]. There are proposals, but they are still controversial at the moment.

I dug into the issue because I considered buying this very laptop.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YvnybHVFmpUJs4qi@kroah.com/
Okay, I need to revisit my position. Now I'm shocked that _both_ paracetamol and ibuprofen are available "off the shelf" (without talking to anyone).

I wonder if people in general are or were always as blasé about the risks of easily obtainable medicines as the people around me seem to be today. Could trust in government regulations to protect us from harm have the side effect of eroding personal responsibility? Or could the era of click-through EULAs and warnings on everything etc. be training people to not bother reading any instructions/warnings? ("This product contains water, which is known to the state of California to cause cancer and birth defects.")

I'm rambling. Maybe I don't have a coherent point. But something bugs me about it.
It's okay if something that a company offers doesn't meet your use-case. But you should consider that it might make sense to other people.

Even if only a small percentage of Framework owners repurpose old parts as personal servers or powerbanks, or whatever, it's still a good thing that the opportunity is there.
"The dose makes the poison", as Paracelsus said. Everything (including water and oxygen) is toxic at the wrong levels.
Can you list examples of those countries?

I haven’t analyzed the whole world, but in the developed parts of Europe, EV fuel costs are clearly cheaper than ICE
Not surprising. The primary activity when programming is problem solving. The solution is then expressed in a programming language. This is unlike writing prose, poetry or miscellaneous text where the form of the text is important. Compared to natural languages, programming languages are very simple. There are no issues of formality, tone, etc. to care about. Unless you are programming in Intercal or Shakespear.

Imagine what a programming language that had things like phatic expressions would be like.

On the other hand, typing can be seen as analogous to grammatical gendering. In this case, English would probably be dynamically typed or at the very least has type inference whereas German or Russian would be statically typed without any inference (since you need to match the gender of multiple parts of a sentence in what is known as agreement). This also reminds me of Hungarian notation.

No wonder programmers never liked static typing the same way nobody learning German ever liked the der/die/das overload.
I remember really (1) intense pain in my hands from doing it and (2) teachers being really indifferent to my complaints it. It fit in with bullying in the curriculum in that they could hurt you all they wanted and you had no recourse.
An estimate of land gained and lost from climate change
My model 3 lease is up next year aand I'm getting a Ford Ranger next.
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Read my comment again please. Slowly and carefully. Especially this part:

>those updates might not be available under Linux

Just because FWUPD exists, doesn't mean that FWUPD has updates for all laptops or HW devices in your laptop. All HW manufacturers ship Windows drivers and FW updates for Windows, but not all push their updates to fwupd as well. That's why you should use Windows to update everything first especially if you don't know if your devices are supported by fwupd.
Type system of Fortnite's Verse language
Maybe 'minimum instance availability' to be specific that were referring to instances of a service rather than an SLA.
They claimed they were targeting counterfeit FTDI chips. But in reality they have no way of telling the difference between a counterfeit and a clone in software - after all the only difference is what is written on the IC package/what the seller claims it to be.
Here is a fast render of what the enclosure might look like (work in progress): https://i.imgur.com/AEYgLxU.png

The idea is however you get shielding and cooling, sit it on the desk upside down and have all the RFNM boards accessible from the top.
The make deals with big companies that force us to all use their products. It’s awful, and teams is the worst part of it all.
Yeah, but it looks ugly. That's the only thing that keeps me from getting one.
All about USB-C: Cable Types (2022)
>I get headaches everytime a patent asks me to explain why.

Maybe pop an aspirin!
Two-way can come in the sense as the main thing conquests spread was dominance of Islamic religion in a region, even if conversions didn’t not occur until later. The conquest of the Sassanian Empire for example would later lead to things like the prolific grammarian of Arabic Sibawayh, a Muslim of descent from what is now Iran. While he was not even from Arabic nor a native speaker of Arabic, he became one of the best Arabic grammarians in his quest for Islamic knowledge. Without the expansion of the Islamic nations, we would not expect to see this. Ultimately religion became a uniting force among disparate peoples, binding them into one Muslim nation.
Why would all the money flow there? Assuming the $250k insurance level remained the majority of Americans could happily keep their money in riskier banks and earn interest instead of paying fees.
> Healthcare costs in the US are absurdly high both on relative terms (things are way more expensive) and on absolute terms (more of the same things is needed because the American population is relatively too unhealthy for what you'd expect in a developed country with similar demographics). You need to ask why relatively inexpensive stuff like insulin is so much expensive in America than say, Germany or the UK.

Must be that law of economics that says the more you make of something the more expensive it gets.
What do you do with stateful services?
A good legal system provides legal certainty. It has clean and concise laws that are straight-forward to apply. In case of uncertainty, the responsible authorities should provide guidance on what they believe is the right interpretation. None of this has happened in the case at hand. The applicable (?) laws are not clear and the responsible authorities refused to provide guidance. This is poison for innovation and entrepreneurship as it makes doing business in the US unnecessarily risky. Resolving these questions in court should only be the measure of last resort as this process is slow and costly.
I think it's because involvement of a lot of the signatories is questionable at best and many have said that they have never contributed towards this poll.
You usually have to customize the order on Apple's website to do this, which means your laptop could take a few weeks to arrive.

There's also other circumstances where this isn't an option. When I worked at a public university (UC system) that had an agreement with Apple, we could only purchase hardware that was in the University bookstore.

The University bookstore only stocked base models. Even the top-of-the-line 15" Macbook Pros didn't have a 16GB option once the RAM started being soldered down.
> Um, what? To have a data race you need a formal model that doesn't exist for the hardware.

Intel and other manufacturers do provide a model for their hardware (although it is a relatively recent thing and has been formalized outside of intel).

> When they say "Undefined" they really meant it, C++ UB is allowed to do MMIO, or whatever else.

Well, I do give you that.
[edit] _Almost_ everything I try except the predefined examples returns "error". "a pencil with wings" returns something nothing like a pencil that does, in fact, have wings.

There will be a learning curve.
For young people, I would recommend learning languages they would probably never use in production. APL, Forth, Prolog, Scheme, and one or few variants of Assembly. Unlike modern mainstream languages, these really expand your thinking vocabulary.

And the practical reason why I'd recommend learning these now: you'll never have time to play with them when you're not young anymore. The whole domain of knowledge they represent will forever remain a missed opportunity.

In my book Geometry for Programmers (https://www.manning.com/books/geometry-for-programmers), I also advocate investing in mathematical education and a computer algebra system. Any system. I propose SymPy but it's only because it's free and ridiculously simple to get started with.

The reason for this is also simple. Mathematical knowledge is non-perishable. ChatGPT can write boilerplate for you, and it any language too. But to solve a real-world problem with math, you need a computer algebra system to solve your equations, and your own head to compose these equations. That's something beyond the reach of LLMs.
Very well said about doing more harm than good. Yes this "well intentioned
" behavior can be a form of unintentional harassment, that is still harassment. It's like when you have a controlling partner that keeps tabs on you because he/she is insecure and worried about you all the time. No matter what the intention, it's still controlling behavior and it's unacceptable.
This is what they used to be good at - not trying to sell you too hard.

I guess that has changed - I also had several strange unpleasant interactions lately. Either difficulty buying something, or annoyance being sold on something more or something else.
How does it scrape the documents?

It inserts them into the prompt?
I suspected this same thing.
I remember my 4th grade teacher and I literally screaming at each other because when I wrote in cursive it hurt my hand, but school policy was all work had to be in cursive.
> Snaps/Flatpacks/other binary-containerised stuff is one of the major reasons why I abandoned Linux distributions after 22-odd years (1999-2022), and am now a happy Apple user (the other one being abandoning X11 in favour of Wayland, and a switch to laptop-first usage, on which Linux still has horrible power-consumption).

Flatpaks/Snaps are almost exactly the same, conceptually, as apps on MacOS. Go look inside something in /Applications/... The .app is a folder, with all of its deps.

> Linux distros have a history of abandoning useful, well-understood technology for fads that then cause power users all kinds of headaches later-on (e.g. by cluttering output of useful tools like mount). Eventually, power users just lose the will to adapt, and move on.

"Power users" have a history of complaining about distro maintainers abandoning useful, well-understood techology because the "power users" don't actually understand the technology, nor do the understand the enormous headaches it causes distro maintainers to put a sane face on 30 year old design philosophies and continue moving forward.

The goal of distro maintainers is to STOP investing endless man hours in trying to make X work with high DPI displays, scaling, high refresh rates, a fundamentally insecure design model, and so on. The goal of systemd is/was for distro maintainers to STOP wasting endless man hours on edge cases because sysvinit didn't have reasonable mechanisms for "if anything in this dependency chain is restarted or changed, re-evaluate it" or "don't try to start this service if the mount isn't available so systems stop hanging on startup if some NFS server isn't available" or whatever.

> In the time of Jenkins et al the burden of creating bistro-specific packages is negligible.

Under the assumption that they are ABI stable, which is a bad one. Otherwise, it's the same old kaleidoscope of mapping out whether it's `libfoo-dev`, `libfoo-devel` for build requirements, whether it's a distro with a completely different naming system, dissecting the ELF header or reversing depchains in Python/Node/whatever to try to find deps and what THOSE are named in some distro, or whether they're even packaged at all, then building for every possible supported version of RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, SuSE, and down the line.

This is why "power users" aren't an important user model. Arch, Gentoo, Nix, and others exist if you want to be a "power user". Otherwise, extremely naive assumptions about the amount of effort expended by distro/package maintainers hand-wave the complexity away with "duh, just put it in Jenkins."

Flatpak/Snap are essentially a re-invention of putting things in /opt and using LD_LIBRARY_PATH or chrooting. Disk space is much less of a concern than it was before, and sacrificing a little space to AVOID the mess of shit above is a good investment.
> Is Stockfish intelligent?

> Is a system with A pathfinding intelligent?*

I'm not sure if we should get stuck on definitions of intelligence.

The fact is that these tools are useful, as are the currently existing AI's. The latter can also pass for humans, in many ways, while the algorithms you mentioned can only pass for humans in very narrow domains. Both can exceed human performance in some ways.

Eventually, AI's may be indistinguishable from human or convince humans that they should be treated differently from "mere" programs and algorithms, and at that point we will have entered a new era, call it what you will.
They will be the first thing to break.

I can't stand the amount of fragile connectors people keep installing on expensive boards. My BladeRF's micro USB 3.0 sheared off.

USB-C is even a bit contentious for me. USB-A with the 3.0 extensions is much more durable.
I think if the batteries will be too big of an issue then we will end up going hydrogen for cheap cars and battery ev for more expensive vehicles for people who drive a lot.
Secure the Border and Build the Wall (Access Control on Unix-Like OSes)
Doubt it… look at the number of first gen Volts still on the road.
Larry Wall, the creator of the Perl and Raku programming languages is famously a linguist. I was very surprised not to see him or his creations mentioned in this article.
The second interpretation (romantic) given on the page doesn't match the original; even with a creative license applied the original intention is not present.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRj34o4hN4I The future is 5 years ago.
Try to follow the Colorado River downstream of Lake Mead on Google Maps with satellite imagery turned on. It's quite interesting to see how much water is diverted away from it, primarily for irrigation.
If i create a canal from a ocean into a basin.. does that count as river?

https://en-ph.topographic-map.com/map-hjk1tp/Sahara/?center=...
I want to live in a place where this happens often enough to need a word for it.