skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I would like to see is:

1) a unified database for package names (it's all unnecessarily ad-hoc right now, with different distros having different policies for capital letters, whether libraries are prefixed with "lib", whether python packages have "py" or "python" or "py3" etc...

2) a standard format for declaratively describing how to build a package.

Basically, we have FreeBSD ports, Arch PKGBUILDs, Void templates, Gentoo ebuilds - they all do more or less the same thing in the same way, they all work really well, and they're all incompatible for sheerly incidental reasons. I'd like to see these incompatibilities papered over in such a way that I can write one template and generate all the others.
They don't require a flat and smooth surface, but do benefit from a road of some sort. How do you make a road? You ride on it over and over again. Ever seen a sheep track? Is that not natural?

A smooth and flat road, while not necessary, is better and does make things a lot more efficient. The same is true for any wheeled vehicle but cyclists appreciate it a lot more than motorists.
> tatties for all my life.

Hey, a fellow Scot? ;)

Assuming so, something that might be worth considering is medical cannabis, which has been legal in the UK since 2018 - I mention it, as very few people are aware of this. Both THC oil and dried cannabis flower for vaping are available. I use it for chronic neuropathic and muscular pain, and it works amazingly well.

Alternatively, as some others have mentioned, your body may not process codeine correctly (quite a few people can't), so you may wish to try co-dydramol, a mixture of paracetamol and dihydrocodeine. I personally found dihydrocodeine to work much better than codeine.
> (Airbnb) They tell users there's definitely an issue, and they're working on it

But the website doesn't know that... just because I got a 500 doesn't mean anyone knows or cares.
The UK charging experience has improved rapidly in the the past few years and will continue to do so. That is, buy an EV today and it's only going to improve tomorrow as more and better charging infrastructure is rolled out.
“Terrascope”: The possibility of using the Earth as an atmospheric lens (2019)
Fedora Silverblue https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/

You're expected to run most apps as flatpaks.
I see a lot of analogies between this and mobile phones.

The Motorola DynaTAC was made commercially available in 1983 and not very useful considering the lack of coverage infrastructure. Within 30 years we went from 30min of talk time and 8h standby through hours of talk time and weeks of standby to days of talk time and a day of usage, not to mention a whole spectrum of form factors and features.

And nobody, especially the incumbents, could predict the final shape the devices would take, sometimes to their demise(like in the case of Nokia).

The Mitsubishi i-MiEV was slow, expensive and small, with little range.

The Tesla Model 3 costs roughly the same (comparing to the 2011 MSRP for the Mitsubishi) adjusted for inflation, but is much better in every aspect.

That's less than 15 years of development. Who knows what will happen by 2035? Maybe we'll ditch lithium in favour of sodium, just like cobalt stopped being neccesary? Maybe the battery manufacturer Amprius will get acquired by a car company and scale the production of its 500Wh/kg batteries well beyond the planned 5GWh/yr? Maybe we'll have slow chargers attached to every streetlamp?

Norway is largely there regarding transitioning, despite having a cold climate. Took less than 15 years and their grid didn't collapse. Sounds like something the rest of the wolrd is capable of doing eventually.
Individual experiences will vary. I would say that your strategy is generally optimal, all thought harder to execute right now as the market is bonkers.

Buying 8 year old cars is a lower cost strategy ss your filtering out the lemons. You can’t buy the shitty BMW 3 series as it’s been converted to a Coke can by that time. :) Even then you’re lucky as stuff starts breaking due to age and mileage.

I drove a 2003 Pilot until 2019 and it hit a bunch of repairs at 125k and then at 250k major repairs came up just due to age and frame rust. I still miss that car!
I also just withdrew EUR (12h ago) and it arrived relatively fast.
The Science of Scale (2022)
This might surprise you, but we don't actually fully understand how most drugs work. Not just common OTC drugs, either, but also complex synthetic drugs used for things like autoimmune disorders, preventing organ rejection, and so on. Not just drugs that have been in use since the inception of modern medicine, but also about brand new drugs.

Often we have some idea how they work and what the internal end result appears to be, but the pathways that the drug seems to work on aren't fully understood. So we know the drug does something to that pathway, but it is to some extent a black box for us. But the fact that the drug operates on the pathway also opens new avenues for the scientists to gain a better understand of that pathway.

Modern medicine is optimized for end results. If a drug appears to work, the "how" is of secondary importance. We can always figure that out later. Sometimes we find stuff in nature, for example, like chemicals produced by fungi or bacteria, and we discover that they have medicinal properties. They nevertheless get productized as drugs, even when we don't fully understand them or the pathways they target.
On a related note, recent brain research found that computer programming involve the logic related brain areas, not maths nor language as long suspected by previous researchers: https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/12/17/brain-activity-while-reading-...
I wish there was a solution like flatpak or snap that does make things simpler, not more complex.

To begin with: It would be nice if the data of the containerized applications were stored in one place and one place only. Each application should simply be a single directory in /snaps/ or something.

At first I thought snap would be like that. But no. When I did some tests, the data of a snap seems to be splattered across various places on the file system.
Flooding attack against synchronising PGP keyservers
I find this whole thing fascinating. Lots of companies making seemingly bad decisions where the "metaverse" is concerned.

Meta/FB dedicating so many resources to this as-yet-truly-defined thing seems silly to me, I'm not sure how they expect to recoup their losses even if a metaverse is established. Disney, as an entertainment company, is actually well set up to see results pretty quickly.

I'm no metaverse fan. I think the simplest question one can ask any corp type talking up the metaverse that cuts through the BS is "what is the metaverse, and how do you get there?" I'm fully aware of the hardware limitations - someone on HN in the last few months has described the hardware challenge as on par with "build me a completely see-through phone," and while not perfect it's a pretty good comparison. I don't see this as something people will decide to enter and remain in for extended periods of time.

But there are definitely use cases, and Disney, of all companies, is placed to take advantage of those use cases, and they decide to drop it.
One thing I've noticed is that when I write nowadays, I very routinely leave out chunks of letters...almost as if my hand lags my brain.

Pretty sure it has to do with the fact that we type much faster than we write
I've never worked somewhere where the Microsoft suite was NOT used. It's always called a Teams meeting even, not even videoconference or Zoom call.
Connect FreeBSD 13.2 to FreeIPA/IDM
That issue is related, but not quite what I meant. I would want the app to be updated in the background whilst it is running (which works fine for APT installed packages), so just closing it and re-opening it would get the newer version. That bug you linked to is the issue that after getting a visual prompt about a newer version of Firefox being available, the "snap refresh" isn't run immediately after closing it down. Having to close an app to update it reminds me of the pain of Windows updates.

You're technically correct (the best kind) about them not removing alternatives, but you have to do some manual intervention to get them back, so I consider it being removed when compared to the previous behaviour of having them available by default.
Certainly not perfectly, but compared to the chaos that is the world of crypto, positively mundane and peaceful.
Glad to see this app is still kicking. I used it a decade ago in college to control my PC while laying in bed and watching movies.
You make it sound like so much work, "manual installing".

It's as simple as

apt-get install $DE
Is ghidra safe to use if you consider the NSA an adversary?

Every person I've asked this question has had their noses so far up the NSA's pooper that they could not imagine considering the NSA an adversary.

But suppose you were running a malware honeypot operation for the CCP. Would you still use Ghidra? Why or why not?

And please don't pass the buck and say, "I probably wouldn't be allowed to use ghidra" or "I'd probably use whatever my CCP handler told me to use" or "I wouldn't be working for the CCP in the first place." That does not inform me about the security risks of using ghidra with the NSA as an adversary.
A Petition to Pause Training of AI Systems – Daily Nous
One of the big hits on the web back in the day was webcams. They are still kind of a big deal. It seems like there would be value in a VR equivalent. Set up observation stations in public places that allow people to visit in VR through the net. That does not seem to be happening yet, at least not in a big way. Given how much modern media is about the weather and related climate trends that seems like some open potential.

Then there is traffic and since we already have automated taxis then why not turn them into remote cameras, at least when not occupied delivering rides or food.
Xsplit Vcam https://www.xsplit.com/vcam

The only other easy tools I know with bokeh as good are a DSLR w/ UVC, Lumina webcam's software (maybe licenses Vcam, it shares features?), Reincubate Camo, and now Apple's Continuity Camera in portrait mode.

All of those give bokeh that feels extremely natural. Camo lets old phones and Android phones be used as webcams, so you can use the bokeh mode in the phone. But Xsplit Vcam and Lumina's driver work with any webcam and have both a fully adjustable blur, and a "cameraman" mode that keeps you centered in the frame when you move around or sit differently.

The blur in Zoom and Teams are embarrassingly terrible. Given these tools exist, one wonders why.
Interesting people describe outdoors as sort of best thing for digital nomad. I live in NZ and really disliked visiting Iceland, but I can see how it would be nice as a developer - stay indoors because it's cold and dark, people kinda introverted, not much to do overall.
Can confirm (anecdotally)

Ibuprofen gives me either gas or the runs.

Paracetamol works just fine - but it does have a liver effect, so it's a big no-no for hangovers.
Yes, because either you, the user, must track down .NET Framework X.Y (less of a problem now that they're stabilized) or because the application packs all of it dependencies and shoves them into \Program Files or \Windows\System32 until it's eventually 30gb with 1000 copies of msvcpXXX.dll

That's not that different from the distribution model of Flatpaks/AppImage (or APK, or .app on MacOS/iOS). It's more that, traditionally, Linux packaging solutions try to only have ONE copy of glibc or any other library, and packages are recompiled from source so the symbols resolve. Something which isn't an option on Windows, as a generality.
When the ad says "Linux support" I expected well tested hardware. It's not 2001 anymore, the era of GPU switcheroo is also mostly over (at least for this kind of laptop), and we're beyond wrapping NDIS drivers into the Kernel because we have a much better manufacturer support for Linux these days.
Even a decade ago I would have agreed with you, but not in 202x.

Especially the WiFi+BT chip was/is a huge gripe for me. These are nothing novel about these anymore (unlike e.g. P and E core scheduling). They could have used an Intel chip with proven great driver support on Linux, but instead went with a chip that's poorly supported from the getgo, from a manufacturer that doesn't really seem to care about Linux.
I mean, not having promiscious mode and frame injections and all these sheningans isn't even an essential feature (I knew that I will probably need an extra adapter for that anyway, let alone to attach big antennas) - but BT crashing the system is a joke.

I get that the used chip is cheaper, it is soldered on the mainboard and they use the same mainboard for Windows and Linux machines to facilate economics of scale. But it's very frustrating, because from all the things I expected to work poorly, outright break or perform worse than on Windows (fingerprint, touchscreen, LTE modem, power consumption), that's really not the thing that I expected would happen.

(Also, the company has a contract with Dell and will usually buy nothing else, so my selection was limited - and getting another 2.5kg machine to carry around was something I was not willing to do).
Thanks!

I guess it's more common than what my personal experience suggests (which is that it never happens).
That a machine or a service has an owner is self-evident, and I’m all for providing contact information or whatever for the entity behind it. This gives the user the choice of whether they want to enter into communication with them.

But I don’t want them to speak to me through the machine or tool. As already mentioned, it’s like they are self-inserting themselves into the interaction the user has with the tool. It makes the use of the tool less intimate for the user, because suddenly there’s a third party mediating that interaction. It can feel like intruding into the user’s privacy and autonomy. In the Microsoft/Windows case, it certainly often feels like that.

It’s bad enough for users when they don’t own the tool (as they would in case of a purchased local software) and only have temporary permission to use it, but they still like to think “this is my tool I’m using”, e.g. this is my Dropbox or my Google Sheet or my video game. A third party speaking through it however breaks that illusion, as it clearly brings the awareness of who’s really in control.

The other thing is that the user knows that it’s just a stock message, in which case any emotional expression put into it can feel disingenuous.
> method calls have always just been syntactic sugar + namespacing for a free function, no?

Not quite; they're more than that for languages that have dynamic dispatch, like virtual methods in C++ or dyn impl in Rust. In that case, that argument affects which function is called. In the case of multiple inheritence (in C++), the implicit this parameter is also potentially subject to a pointer offset; if it's virtual multiple inheritence then that offset may even be computed at runtime.
To you question regarding Ethernet, USB-C is capable of running faster than gigabit. I think it's around 5 gigabit? The PCIe lane from an add-in card is still being used in either case. The power difference would be negligible.
problem with these is that they are ugly but give something that look og mini or fiat 500 and can go 125km/h cost something like 8000 euros I would buy it immediately.
Not trolling, and yeah went with a Suburban.

Point I was trying to make is not everyone’s needs can be satisfied by a sedan with a 300 mile range.
That's the problem - the city's inspection assumes full load from each of the appliances, plus some.
> Maybe a few hundred people buy this Thinkpad model/variant to run Linux

My employer alone would be responsible for several hundred X1 Gen 10s running Linux across various parts of our company, I suspect.
Another periodic reminder: Whenever you buy a new laptop don't just nuke the Windows install that comes out of the box and go directly to installing Linux, but boot into it first and let Windows Update install all firmware updates as those updates might not be available under Linux.
Quest 2 comes with a spacer specifically for glasses.
There's http://chatpdf.com already
I’m left handed as well. I had so much trouble with the penciled, 3 ring binders, and spiral notebooks that were foisted on me. After I switched to pens, loose paper/engineering pads, and manila folders, writing became much more enjoyable.
Upstart’s CLA was a non-starter.

Canonical has quite a history of the behavior you're dinging Red Hat for: Mir, Unity, LXD, Juju/Charms, Launchpad, and I'm sure I'm forgetting several.

Also it’s Orwellianly named “Harmony” effort to popularize CLAs because Canonical has long sought to control upstream technologies - and consistently failed because they do not play well with others.
PlotBranch is a side project of mine generating branching stories using GPT4. You may run into a generation screen if you request a page nobody has viewed before.

"The Paradoxical Quest" is the most popular story, but there are more to choose from on the homepage if you are interested.
Yeah man I love spending my time in the hospital.
> Binance were banned in multiple jurisdictions for fraud.

> https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=cftc-sues-binance-and-ceo-c...

The link you posted is unrelated to your claim. It is about the US CFTC suing the Binance CEO on allegations of violating trading rules.

There is nothing mentioned there about about fraud or being banned in multiple jurisdictions.
The executives get 90%+ of their compensation before 2035. So they care very little about the health of the company in 2035. What this means in practice is that companies like GM will say "We are going electric very soon" but not actually accomplish much. Here is an article from 2012. You can find very similar ones every 2 years since then. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-gm-evs/gm-aims-to-build-5...
I get a Renault Zoë occasionally through our car sharing. It's my favourite of the cars available for all but very long trips. But I agree that you have to respect the torque, even in a minor car like the Zoë. I find myself sometimes accelerating dangerously just because it's so much fun!
I appreciate it!

Sadly, no this is done out of my salary. I've lobbied my college repeatedly, but there are a lot of restrictions (read: next-to-impossible) in using state and federal funds for private equipment. Private funds that you can do whatever you want with are hard to come by at community colleges. It is also illegal for the school to sell me old (yet perfectly functional) computers to refurb for student use. They must be inventoried by the state, after which they are mothballed into storage, or destroyed/landfilled.
Penmenship's importance for a child's development of fine motor skills is highly underrated.

Like many things in education, the actual objective is often not obvious and sometimes the neurological benefit is a side effect.
>That's the whole point of Tesla making attractive vehicles, aesthetically and functionally.

Could've fooled me. Firstly almost all Teslas look like ugly frogs to me. And a Tesla Model S was also the first time I've noticed a car have misaligned front and rear doors while walking past a car.

I'm also not sure about the functionally part, unless it's just "electric motors are nice". I still see Tesla owners complain about the lack of CarPlay. Then there's the various issues that have come up. The ones that I remember: seatbelts falling off, steering wheels falling off, doorhandles breaking, doorhandles being inaccessible due to ice buildup, non-automotive LCD panels breaking inside hot/cold cars, and infotainment system bricking eMMC chips due to excessive logging. The self-driving features also look suspect, with some cars being unable to parallel park themselves, causing some weird behaviour on road, or crashing into obstacles when using the summoning.
That's room-scale VR and is already here. You just need enough space for it.
I have a Pixelbook running as a web server. It's nice using old hardware to address new needs.
Well, big companies who expect stability in their tools, and good support do.

The Google suite isn't bad, but Google Spreadsheet is no Excel either.

Microsoft Team in itself is clearly behind Slack, but it's also nice to have a single sign-on solution where your Chat app (Team) is well integrated with your mail app (Outlook), and your shared file service (Sharepoint).

Add stuff like PowerBI, Yammer, and of course the main Word/Excel/PowerPoint applications, and you can clearly understand the value proposition for companies that aren't cash-strapped, while on the other hand Google is more famous for their habit of sunsetting their products.

I say that as someone who's been mainly on Linux for more than 15 years now, loves 'artisanal' TUI tools, and who quickly gets annoyed at Windows 10 bloat and adware.

/rant mode on

On the opposite side of the single sign-on solution, I've also seen an extremely startup-ey company using Discord as the official chat app, and having the displeasure of realizing that Discord doesn't really allows for multiple accounts using the same phone number for 2FA.
I already have a Discord account, I just don't want to use it in a professional setting. Single-sign on is indeed nice.

/rant mode off
Is what you're suggesting that one has to pass that `tokio_context` into every `.await()`? If so, I personally would be in strong opposition, cuz I don't think the verbosity cost is justified, in any of the use cases for async I've come across.
We're not in Poland. Like I said in the post, I'm in the Nevada desert, in a 400 sq meter house, with a pool and a hot tub.

Here's a weather comparison to remind you that year-round, the highs in Krakow are lower than the LOWS in Vegas: https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/85104~2228/Comparison-of-...
> I'm sure someone who is more serious about this will say, "that's misleadingly simple!" but once you have a why and a what, the how is a work problem.

loved your post. I'm by far a lot less experienced for sure. There is one thing in this sentenced that stood out because my order of what to address first is always what and how.

Only at the end the why (e.g motive) might or might not become visible. It has saved me from jumping to premature conclusion (or attribution) in the past ...

Most "who-dunnit" genre of films are based on making you believe the why is the ultimate goal. For me though the why is a by-product of addressing the what/how and I find things remain smoother and with less rabbit holes to get lost in.
I use tools like this to generate html codes for colours I want, that make sense together. I don't need tools like this often enough to want to to pay or even sign up for it when there are literally hundreds of identical offerings out there for free.

One I use a lot is: https://colordesigner.io/gradient-generator
> Does the nation subsidize costs?

Import is super cheap unless it's something perishable like fresh fish and salad and needs to come over via plane. Local delivery normally costs much more.

In NZ right now a kilo of tomatoes is on par with one kilo of chicken.
Try that command on Arch, Fedora or OpenSUSE and let me know how it works.

Also, having multiple DEs in parallels rarely plays well with most distros. That's why they usually give you a downloads with one or two options already setup and tested.
Buying stolen merchandise, and continuing to keep it once you realise it's stolen, and from whom it's stolen, while definitely not as bad as doing the stealing, is still...fairly morally low.
18-wheeler not noticing you in an intersection, for instance.
This tool is mainly focused on UI design and creating color systems where you have specific requirements for colors like contrast and interchangeability.

Coming up with color families is still somewhat about feeling it out and playing around, but when it comes to then creating scales from these, that's where Atmos comes in handy.