skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a shame they are being banned in many places, because they are such a great idea. It's the equivalent to a taxi, but a small fraction of the price. It's such a great utility to be able to pick one up and go directly to your destination. All the advantages of having a bike, but without most of the downsides.

People just needed to be somewhat polite and disciplined - too many ride fast on sidewalks, leave them in bad places, etc.

As often happens, something nice is ruined by a small fraction of people.
Most software companies die due to poor product market fit:

https://www.failory.com/blog/startup-failure-rate

The source of that data isn't there but you can see it as a trend in other places.
You are conflating many different things.
It depends, does the process also require restarting the system for user app config changes?
In Windows 11 you can restart it without losing data,

So did they also fix the rather annoying issue that if you shutdown the OS in sandbox it displays a 'The connection to the sandbox was lost.' dialog instead of quitting the process? We use it to run automated tests, for which it is actually pretty great with the .wsb files makeing it easy to get data into it and run script, but it's a bit silly one needs to workaround detection of whether the thing exited by using files for signalling the script is done with a timeout then killing all involved processes.
Being offended, and censoring are two different things.

Free speech should allow speech that offends people.
I did exactly the same, except I used bash and pandoc to generate my site.

There is no friction anymore, and yet I still don't put up new blog posts on a regular basis.

The problem is me, not the tech.
essentially the general rule of thumb is: if a human (biological intelligence) can read and learn from your work, you should assume an artificial intelligence will, one way or another, learn and read from your work.
>I am reading all this and wondering how I - and my whole generation of peers - survived. I was walking to school (~15 mins on foot) alone (well, sometimes with my class mates) since I was 7.

I walked to school at those ages too. But we didn't all survive: one of my classmates in 7th grade was hit by a car crossing a busy road and died. It's long been dangerous for kids to be outside because of America's obsession with cars, but decades ago, having some kids get splattered on car hoods was considered OK and an acceptable sacrifice for a car-dependent society. Now, risk acceptance is lower so parents keep their kids inside all the time, while buying huge SUVs to protect their kids when they do go outside.
Maze solving by gravity assisted literal flood-fill [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_fill
Most swiss I met do.

It feels like a random non-educated person in the city speaks at least German and French. Any person working is services like a supermarket cashier normally speaks 3+ languages (which you know as they usually are indicated on their badges).
I'm born and raised in Sweden, and have a lot of non white friends and I can firmly say Europeans are about as(or more) race oriented than Americans. We simply banned asking the question. Statistiskmyndigheten explicitly banned taking any stats about ethnicities, while we all know well how middle eastern people are treated (middle eastern telephone salesman need to fake their name for the sake of sales).

Europeans are less race oriented in the same way Russia is a peaceful country and Russian invasion of Ukraine is not an invasion but "special military operation" to majority of Russians living there; we simply don't hear, or want to hear it, and shun people who talk about it.
I'm familiar with this, but I didn't find a way of remapping the alt/win keys with it. The closest I've found was using alt-gr for level 3. But I don't want that, I want the key next to it to be alt-gr. I also want to have it on the left side, too.

I've managed to make this work by combining that and another app that fiddled something in the registry to move super to caps and remap super to alt-gr.

> A lot of Linux enthusiasts are frankly uninformed about Windows power functions.

Because they're basically undiscoverable and require hours of googling.

The first approach I'd found, using the remap function of PowerToys kinda worked. But it randomly stopped working and would behave as if I had the super key pressed all the time. Cue windows randomly moving around, etc.
> Steve however kicked it into overdrive…
Is there a specific action of Steve’s that comes to your mind?
Just a precision, (private) e-scooters are still allowed.

The vote was on renewing or not the contracts of free floating solutions like Tier, Lime, etc
It’s all paternalistic authoritarianism… but the logic is consistent- if the majority of people think we should police how adults act and think, well, children should absolutely, unconditionally be micromanaged! The poor little fools might get hurt and then someone will get sued.
Midjourney is supposed to be used collaboratively in the open. I understand the first thing people need to use new tech for is always porn, but can you just wait? Not everyone is so eager to get to that future.
Traffic is definitely problem in Europe as well and main reason I am affraid to let my kids roam free, you don't need to have large pick up truck to kill kid driving faster than speed limit or not paying attention to driving.
I just kill the process on Win 10.
> But this makes me ask the question: who uses these? Looking at my own behavior I never touch them in the city I live in. They would be far too expensive to rely on for commuting or predictable use.

Shared e-bike/e-scooter are the most convenient solution to the last mile (there's very little alternative, actually).

The last mile problem is very concrete, especially if it's a routine two-way trip; without e-transport, it's 30/40 minutes total for each trip (on foot or bus, the latter also being nondeterministic), versus 10 minutes of ebike/escooter (quite deterministic). It's a lot of time saved.

Time-wise, Uber sits midway between bus and e-transport (there's waiting time, depending on the location), but it's considerably more expensive - in my city, e-transport costs around 0.25$ per minute, which is convenient.

Having said that, I do support either very strict regulation or straigh-out ban of e-scooters. It seems to be a teenage thing (adults hardly use them), and it's typically used very recklessly. Additionally, I prefer shared e-bikes anyway, because they're faster and more comfortable on poorly paved roads.

Without any form of e-transport, the only alternative is to bring one's own bike/e-scooter on public transport, which is possible in some cities (where the metro is large and not busy), but not so practical and limited to metro and tram.
Good Apps RIP
At the prices these scooter sharing companies are asking these days, I'd hardly call the people dependent on them "marginalised"...
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35415305
This post is also saying he wants to protect his child from social media _and_ have the ability to do so.

Windows on the other hand, is saying, we're in charge, and no, we'll make sure you can't (easily) uninstall any of this.

I never thought I'd see an OS become a thinly veiled advertisement platform, but here we are in 2023.

It was tradition, even 20 years ago to "dump on Windows", but that was generally by programmers about the Win32 api, spyware/crapware, random crashes and so on, but the UI/UX even then didn't really get too much hate (as I recall it, anyway).

I'm another 'me too' here. I've use Mac/Linux/Windows daily for work, but have used exclusively Linux (edit) at home since Windows 8, really. I keep a partition with Win11 on it, and when I do drop into it to run Windows Update stuff keeps coming back, or new crap appears on my Start Menu. Then I log out, and don't touch it for 6 months.

The irony in 2023 that increasing amounts of software have Mac (and even Linux downloads), but don't have a Windows download. Something unheard of a decade ago.

I'd love to hear Balmer's refrain in 2023. It won't be "Developers! Developers! Developers!" because we've all gone to Linux or MacOS.
> You ran X11/Xorg (no Wayland)

It was XFree86 -- with separate server binary for each chipset. Then came XFree86 4.0 with a new, hot thing: modularity. You could load drivers as modules, but that presented an entirely new way to make things more complicated. XFree86 became an OS in itself, including dynamic linker, PCI handling, vm86 emulator...

With Wayland, things are much simpler.

> , sysv init (no systemd)

There was bsdinit at the time. Sysvinit was considered bloated by the same types, who cannot consider systemd today.

> you had sane/not insanely bloated desktops like KDE2 or XFCE.

There were other topics, like switching from libc5 to glibc2. Again, unicode, localization, nss services, so much "unnecessary bloat".
Parisians vote to ban rental e-scooters from French capital by margin
If Github's ToS says that they have carte blanc to do whatever they want with FLOSS licensed code, including to relicense it, then either every single codebase on github violates their ToS or their ToS violates every single license and therefore the law. A reasonable attempt under these circumstances would be to remove every single FLOSS licensed repository on github, so I'd argue no, they do not make a reasonable attempt to remove infringing code.
Sorry, I don't quite follow, can you elaborate?
I think you are referring to Ask Jeeves / (today: ask.com)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2002/nov/26/internetn...
My only concern is whether GitHub is training on private repos or not. That would be the main problem, but I guess we will never know.
Elon: “But I’m not afraid of dying. I think it will come as a relief.”

https://youtu.be/2WX_mgnAFA0&t=26m58s
It doesn't matter how USAers see it, it's how it's propagated in the rest of the world that makes how we see them. Together with the news of course, but Hollywood is probably the most efficient propaganda machine ever created.

Also it's not just about this over-the-top movies that are completely out of touch with reality. Often the propaganda is subtle and even unintentional, made by victims of propaganda themselves.
The golden age was when most modern game design principles and techniques were established, between 1993-2005 (roughly).

My criticism is that this presentation by CD Projekt is not helpful but harmful to indie developers. It's clear in the presentation that their mindset is similar to the mobile game era of manipulation and control of the player. Ostensibly in this case to "make them want to continue".

Engagement is skinner box jargon used by companies like Zynga and has nothing to do with making a good game.

Because the presentation promotes this mindset and because it's about two games that mostly were made possible by golden age game design, and not their own innovations, I don't believe they have anything meaningful to contribute on this topic.

The quest design in Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk is neither innovative, nor very fun. It may be effective in the manipulative sense, but that doesn't contribute to the artistry of making games fun.
Personally I'd rather see something getting done than endless feasibility studies. That sort of stalling can really prevent countries from making any progress.
Using a throw away account.

I can feel with you.

Your story sound similar to mine, only that I could cash out some of my shares when a PE company took over, so I don't lose everything. I had to roll over some of my shares though, and these are close to worthless now. It's still painful getting more and more diluted in extreme down rounds, as business is running out of cash and debt is too high.

From my experience, it's inevitable that you will get diluted, you can't change that. It also does not matter what you have done for the business before, the investor persons won't care. What matters is the now and the future.

So focus on the future. You should align your salary and package with that of the COO. Your new shares could also have similar conditions as the new investor will etc. Discuss it with your current investors and the new ones. They don't want to write off their investment too, and certainly want to keep you on board?

I don't understand your fear that they will fire you? You will still keep your shares, and are free to do something new (and will probably earn much more).

You can only change the future. You seem to be a technical person (nothing wrong about that, I'm too :-)), a business person would have negotiated this a long time ago already, and multiple times.
Great support is a stretch.

A lot of the Apple ARM hardware is a black box.

Plus, good luck if you need to run legacy x86 software, for example games, on the Apple stuff.

It's brave new world or nothing, more or less.
its a good foundational book. dont underestimate foundations
> If code with a license, say GPL, goes out somewhere else, by someone else (and therefore I don't have the right to change the license) and then I fork it, as per the license I keep the license and put it on github, and Github violates that license, aren't they violating the law? Don't they then have to remove that code?

You are violating the law, probably. The ToS would say something like "I hereby declare that I hve the right to agree over the software to submit it under the ToS".
What exactly are the downsides of owning a bike that you don't have owning a e-scooter?
I can believe that there may be a policy to push educational material to kids but that doesn't contradict with the claim that such content doesn't drive traffic. So the initial claim about what's actually viewed on Douyin is way off the mark.
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My non-technical relatives are using Linux just fine. They wouldn't be able to install it themselves though: I did it for them.
I think a key difference is the type of jank we're talking about. In Windows, non-tech-savy users can get by. Most have never ever had to type a command, and it would paralyze them. Love it or hate it, the maddening level of clicks and menus it takes to get stuff done in Windows (or Mac OS) also makes it understandable to much more people. A CLI is just a much higher barrier for most people than memorizing a series of menu clicks.
I'd vote for e scooters if most people didn't behave like toddlers

Not a day goes by without me having to remove 1-3 e scooters from my building sidewalk, which isn't even a public street, otherwise eldrely people or people with strollers can't pass through anymore
They don't sell 128GB any more but 256GB isn't much better. Pretty much everyone apart from the most casual users is going to fill that up.
butthurt USAer
what do you mean ?
The weirdest thing about this sensationalist proposal is that English was born out of Latin and there are a number of English words which are a letter removed from their Italian counterpart.

The example in the article (bru-shetta/bru-sketta) highlights the absurd pedantic nature of this proposal.

I truly weep for the world which we seem to have created.
So the adverts don’t pay for windows development? Where does the money go?

Or are Microsoft double dipping?
You're in the clear. Like another commenter in the same thread mentioned, you've responded in good faith to a semi-paranoid question. In my uncharitable view, the GP seems to both have a bias for Sam and a weird anxiety over moral questions.
> Fedora is fantastic, but no matter how much I love it, Linux is janky.

Have you ever used Windows? Now *that'* janky.

Poor driver support, no way to update it, no package management, but plenty of ways to get it to show you adverts.

I feel like a reliable dependable modern desktop OS shouldn't need to connect to the Internet to pull down a new set of drivers every single time you plug a USB drive in.

Maybe 2024 will be the year of Windows on the desktop, but it's not ready yet.
The police are liable if they don't follow-up on the report, and reports are often tailored to be vague by the neighbor to ensure a confrontation with police.

That said, its not up to the police to decide the law, its up to the judge or CPS, so going to the lowest common denominator, you'll have to explain it to the judge or assigned case worker.

Most investigations are generally a guilty until proven innocent from what I've heard since the safety of the child is paramount.

All they have to do is prove there was some negligence which is a very low bar.
Copyright could be an issue. Also, they may not agree that the GitHub interface is “good”.
> I feel like GitHub has lost that magic.

Am I the only person that used Github for what it was? A place to push and pull my repos from my CLI? That hasn't changed. I rarely use the website.
New GitHub action to estimate a smart contract gas costs during development
Reddit, Tumblr, Imgur, and literally every other social network that allows NSFW content are frequently used in public, at work, etc.
Multiple updates later for me, STILL Adobe.
https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/apple
US public listed prices are tax free. Add 18% tax (if I'm not wrong), you're off by ~50$
But... we're all aware - as is GitHub - that plenty of the content there is not posted by the original copyright holders, who are the only parties that are able to enter into such a contract. That was the reason for GitHub coming into existence in the first place. You can't turn around a couple of years later and start arguing that the use of GitHub allows for a blanket exemption on copyright law, which is effectively what this amounts to.

GitHub ToS is written by GitHub, it's not a contract in the sense that no consideration has been given to the other party and as such it isn't legally binding on that other party, but regular law, such as copyright law, still applies to GitHub.
Nah, I live in Barcelona where it's very hot and humid and there are a lot of hills.

This makes bikes not really usable in much of the city due to the hills and the alternatives to e-scooters are petrol scooters or motorbikes which cause much more noise and pollution.
I've often wondered, is this vaguely analogous to the quantum wave function and what's happening when particles try all possible paths?
A computer is a computer, and our universe is a computer. So, it's possible we're living in a simulation but not one that was intentionally constructed by a higher life form, but rather, a simulation that emerged from nature (e.g. electrons whizzing along the surface of silica rock on a desolate planet). Our universe could recursively be computers all the way down.
Or maybe they just disagree with you?
I'm not sure I agree with this as a general point of view.

Speaking generally, I'm not sure that one can claim

>> The original authors tend to be the users

There are endless forks of say emacs,and I expect RMS is not s user of any of them.

Of course RMS is free to inspect the code for all of them, separate out bug fixes from features, and retro apply it to his build. But I'm not seeing anything in any license that requires a fork to "push" bug fixes to him.

>> This aligns with the reason why some people publish their work under copyleft licenses: You get my work, for free, and the deal is that if you find and fix bugs then I get to benefit from those fixes by them flowing back to me.

I think you are reading terms into the license that simply don't exist. I agree a lot of programmers -believe- this is how Free Software works, and many do push bug fixes upstream, but that's orthogonal to Free Software principles, and outside the terms of the license.

>> That's the spirit here and trying to argue around that with technicalities is disingenuous.

Licenses are matters of law, not spirit. The original post is about this "spirit". My thesis is that he, and you, are inferring responsibilities that are simply not in the license. This isn't a technicality,it goes to the very heart of Free Software.
Here in Barcelona, thieves stole the batteries from the rental e-bikes so now most of them don't work.
In areas where it's not oversold it works very nicely: 150-250 down / 10-30 up with 20-55ms ping to 8.8.8.8. Source: me in extremely rural central EU location.
It's kind of insane to me that since the 50s, they just kept fucking doubling down on car sprawl and material wealth signalling to the point where obviously most people now live in a place where everyone needs their own stupid car and nobody can function with or without one.

I got one for my first job out of school that required me onsite at the opposite side of the sprawling stupid city I'm from, and it was a 30 min drive each way. Losing an hour a day just to driving, right from the start. It eventually broke down, and now that I've been without one for a few years, the prospect comes to mind every so often to get a used thing for getting to trailheads a little more frequently; supporting the various recreational things I do. But... it scares me. It's a trap. It's a financial trap, a lifestyle trap, and more of a burden than it could ever be a blessing. Thankfully the every day risks of getting hit by an idiot in a huge truck or something are non-optional and an ever-present aspect of life no matter how you get around.

For now, I'll just continue renting one when I need one, but it does put a barrier between me and the things I love doing, we'll see if that changes in time.
Ask HN: What pieces of code do you still feel ashamed of?
Confess your coding sins: what's the most cringe-worthy code you've ever left in a codebase?
Russia confiscates passports of senior officials to stop defections
There's an answer to this, an answer which I see implemented in some places: cutting into the car lanes. Because you don't have to drive through the historical center.
I don't understand how Microsoft can cheapen their main OS that much. If they really wanted to emulate Apple, they wouldn't fill their OS with trash in every corner.

This also extends to the default landing page of Edge. This is the worst form of bullvard, it is a tiny bit better than directly advocating for penis enlargement on the internet. But not by much at all.

There should be no ads on the OS level. Especially when they want their OS to operate in the enterprise...
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Try using a bike on a steep hill, or in a hot summer.

Not everyone has showers at work.
Honestly, Chrome is the only thing I have beef with on Linux. I think I could say that it's the only major gripe for me at this stage.

Chrome on Linux feels like an afterthought. Even when it's set to use the Wayland renderer, dragging tabs doesn't work, scroll feels off, the window decorations don't resemble Chrome on Win/MacOS, nor do they feel native to Linux (in my case GTK and Gnome).

I have actually been raising bugs with the Chrome team on Linux issues, they closed the scroll speed bug not long ago - only took a year after I opened the ticket :laugh:

Though I am biased, I have a real soft spot for Linux and love how productive I am on it so I will look favourably on it.

Other than that - The file manager on Gnome/Fedora is nowhere near as powerful as the Windows file explorer - but it's about on par with MacOS's finder so the bar is pretty low there.

Aside from the installer, Fedora is actually pretty smooth when the stars align on your hardware. I can imagine it being a not terrible experience for a non tech savvy person - but I feel like I have been in the game so long I am out of touch with what it feels like to not be tech savvy
> Aside from that, it's an unfortunate language, since you can't use to communicate anywhere else beside Italy.

I was under the impression that you could communicate roughly but effectively between Italian and Spanish.
"Prodotto in italia" is already common and more targeted to italians. "Made in Italy" is mainly for exports.
Steinbeck wrote East of Eden basically on this theme about the people in this area.. and that was published 75 years ago.
I agree. It's just e-scooter companies trying to externalize the cost of parking. Tragedy of the commons and all that...