skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My HP laptop came with little more than a driver update utility and an icon with HP support in the task bar. That was all the way back when stuff came out with Windows 8.1.

My Lenovo laptop also came with nothing but the necessities to keep my laptop up to date. They added some "click to install" shortcuts for games and crap to the start menu, but they don't come with computers anymore.

The trick to buying a clean machine is to buy hardware intended for professionals rather than consumers. I don't think I've ever seen a machine running Windows 11 Pro that came with a McAfee trial since Windows 10 came out.
RedHat is still doing a lot of work in upstream open source projects, I want them to stay around and continue to do so.

To do that they need to be commercially successful.

Now, you can argue whether the recent moves are helpful to their bottomline or not (I think this is short-sighted and in the end will hurt them), but we need to acknowledge they are not charity, and also that we all are already benefiting from their money and their work.
Improving the docs as a key point was one of my takeaways from MakieCon. It's pretty time-intensive to work on them as you can imagine, but I hope we'll be able to make the structure more clear and efficient in the future. There should definitely at least be docstrings for every exported struct and so on. But I also want newcomers to get started with less friction, so the explanations/tutorials/how-tos must improve.

This is an easy way for newcomers to help out, by the way, just give feedback on how starting out with the library went and what the main roadblocks were. The better we understand them, the more we can improve them.
There's "made in China", and there's "based out of China, headed by Chinese nationals, and owned by Chinese nationals". All of India's top selling brands (OPPO, OnePlus, Vivo) fit into the latter category.
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A blog about prevention of chronic disease.
> - you can’t download while it’s asleep or in the background.

Are you saying this is something unique to the Steam Deck? If my Linux desktop is anything to judge by, you should be able to enable background downloads in Steam settings. I'm also fairly sure there should be a way to get logind to inhibit sleep during the download.
it's pretty straightforward, everything that logs takes a logger as a dependency during construction
https://blog.gnoack.org/

Mostly Linux, Sandboxing, Go and sometimes other Unixy or programming language topics.

Not posting much, but with a high signal to noise ratio.
Multi region at least doubles your infra costs. Multi cloud will probably at least triple your costs since things like terraform don’t transfer cleanly and you can’t use even hosted services like RDS/CloudSQL, EKS/GKE because you won’t be able to replicate it across cloud providers due to all vendor specific differences.
The main feature I notice to be lacking on Deck in this regard is that you can't download updates while the device is "off." This doesn't really affect me personally because I can do background downloads with the kind of games I play without issue, but if I played AAA FPS type games I would probably find this quite annoying, since those games generally have large downloads and also require as much disk performance as you can muster.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Googl....
> But where does the quantum come in?

My thinking is here:

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

> You don't need it to have/manipulate consensus.

Right, it's obliviousness to (or ideological, indoctrinated denial of) the phenomenon of extra variables/state that enables the manipulation of consensus. (I'm looking at you, scientists.)

Also, if these higher states did not exist, I'd think the problem might be either be impossible in the first place, or impossible to detect. (Noteworthy: having flawed methodologies can also make them impossible to detect.)

> What are the "weird things"?

Hallucination is the most obvious, but I would also say: just look around!

Or for a more serious analysis:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
I did a couple FAANG interviews last year, and I was pleasantly surprised.

The coding questions were novel (so no needing to memorize tons of existing questions) and non trivial, but did NOT require obscure algorithmic knowledge or esoteric math. They wanted lots of working code, and for you to explain your thought process. So I was definitely happy I practiced on hackerrank and leet code, and think anyone would still need to practice coding under some time pressure, but it was a nice experience.

Contrast that to Microsoft interviews where they would just straight up ask me "code a way to find the shortest path in a graph". "Merge two streams in optimal time". just asking for me to implement code straight from Algorithm textbooks and hackerrank questions.
And that's the crux of the matter. Specific words are input into the algorithm, to conjure your code from a probabilistic model.
Use a random sentence generator enough and at some point it'll plagiarise. It's how the human uses it's output is what is important at the end of the day.
For people who haven’t read the linked release notes: Mozilla is not dropping support for Windows 7-8.1 or macOS 10.12-10.14 at this time. Those users will be migrated to Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release, an LTS branch) that will receive monthly security fixes and some feature fixes for at least another 14 months.
Raster Master v2.2 R89
BAM Basic update
Palette Export options for BAM Basic. Palette->Export->BAM Basic
This creates correct values for Palette command
BAM Basic is also supported in RES Text Include from File->Export->RES Text Include
Right Click on thumbnail image to set properties. BAM Basic is last item in list

The Map Editor now will export part of the map if you use the select area tool. Previously the entire map was exported or you had to right click on map and set the width and height.
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I write about programming and Ruby, with passion. Not often enough.
http://goshacmd.com — mostly about React, though I haven't posted in some time
> Hydrogen cars are EVs.

The Toyota Mirai is a hydrogen Fuel Cell car.

BMW tried to create a hydrogen ICE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_Hydrogen_7
This is true, though people from Threads will likely be able to follow, and comment on Mastodon profiles and posts and cause issues that way.
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I write about math, machine learning, data analysis, and some opinions about different topics.
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I’ve been posting off and on this year after a long hiatus.
Feed Compass is sort of like that

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/feed-compass/id1458648487?mt=1...
What?
There are a couple interesting things here from the video. The high cost/investment. The engineering challenges of making the hops (and their weight) work well with the rack structures as well as dealing with wind. And the fact that it's an attempt to use the panels for more than energy generation (eg shade, structure, moisture control).
Bandwidth costs all video sites a lot.

Thats why cloudflare won't host sites with lots of video. It's why twitter doesn't do HD video. Thats why there are no startups trying to make video hosting sites.

If you hosted a youtube clone on AWS with their cloudfront CDN, you'd be paying $0.085 per GB out to the internet. A youtube ad view earns perhaps $0.004. HD video is ~6GB/hour, so a 3 minute video costs $0.0255 to host (before compute and storage costs, profit and engineer time).

Earning $0.004 for something that costs you $0.025 is never going to work out...
More thought out blog posts:

billprin.com/articles

Weekly updates, rants:

billprin.com/notes

Been off and on with blogging but next half of 2023 really committing to at least posting more monthly retrospectives and hopefully more articles .

In the past I've written more technical articles but going forward I'll be writing more articles about boostrapping , indie hacking, and software entrepeneurship which I am full time focused on

My most popular Hacker News posts were

Simplest App That Makes Money : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34101016 (213 points, 94 comments) - post about making simple and monetizable apps as an indie hacking starting point

Real Problems That Web3 Solves: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29797310 (168 points, 305 comments) - arguing that there are some valid use cases that ethereum enables

Both of those articles were somewhat controversial and I am no longer working on the first app in question nor anything in crypto. The controversy of both posts was a small factor in me deciding to focus on other things. But I guess controversy gets views since they are by far my most popular posts. But going forward hoping to get the views without the controversy by just posting useful stuff (although even then, I thought my Django vs NextJS post was as tame as it gets and I got a shocking amount of hate mail for that one).
Geeee.....

Can't wait to have interop messaging without having to rely on mobile number based signups.

Matrix-whatsapp connection and you're golden. WhatsApp users can stay there while I can at least talk to them somewhat.
https://matduggan.com/

I love to write this stuff. Sometimes people like it, sometimes they don’t. It’s still a lot of fun to do.
I've met many people who love beer and think they should start a brewery.

All I can tell them: I hope you like cleaning. Really like it, because that is what 90% of the job is.
That is one of the most deliciously dangerous sites I have ever seen on HN.

They even sell all the ingredients needed to make solid rocket fuels! By the pound!

Finally I can finish my homemade anti-d2ds (door-to-door salesman) defense system with a surface-to-salesman missile that can be stored maintenance free for long periods of time.
Is Twitter better?
Peter Woit at Not Even Wrong wondered if this word salad might have been written by ChatGPT in the first place: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13562
https://open.substack.com/pub/spyderdoc?r=kolbc&utm_medium=i...
https://www.devever.net/~hl/

Some favourites:

- https://www.devever.net/~hl/ruthlessness - Computers are an inherently oppressive technology

- https://www.devever.net/~hl/mildlydynamic - The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website

- https://www.devever.net/~hl/ortega - Adventures in reverse engineering Broadcom NIC firmware

- https://www.devever.net/~hl/sip-victory - Netheads vs. bellheads redux: the strange victory of SIP over the telephone network

- https://www.devever.net/~hl/power9tags - The Talos II, Blackbird POWER9 systems support tagged memory

- https://www.devever.net/~hl/backstage-cast - Modern CPUs have a backstage cast
Why do new services/platforms do incremental rollouts? I can understand they will have issues that need to be contained to a few users only, but that's the only reason I can think of.
It's a bit weird that the author doesn't mention System1 with a single word in the announcement. Also no word about what replaces that partnership.
It's the difference between an "identity" and a lifestyle. An "identity" pretends to be what you are, but it's really how you want people to see you, and 99% of the time is based on people that you admire (which I'm pretty sure means "look at" in Romance.) To me, it's a sort of self-hypnosis.

A lifestyle is what you do every day. Good news: If one likes to play music every day, it's a lot easier to do that to become whatever a "musician" currently represents in the society of the spectacle.
I probably should have said "fuel cell cars are EVs." But yes, you can make an ICE powered by hydrogen. It is likely to be a niche product, mainly sports cars and perhaps some diesel engine replacements.
Out of curiosity, did you personally actually use the steam controller? From what I've read/heard, it was a bit tough to get used to, but appreciated by many. My impression was also that the steam deck touch pads were just the next step in [the steam controller]'s evolution, rather than something else altogether.

All of that being said, I've unfortunately never had the opportunity to try it myself, so I don't really know.
Some alien crashed on this planet about 4.5 Gy ago so made some proteins and nucleic and released them on the planet.

Once it started recombining the alien went to sleep or maybe to play some video games while waiting for this process to develop space flight and send some probes that the alien's buddies might encounter and read the message encoded in the DNA: "Hey, could you please swing by and pick me up? My ship got a flat and I don't have a spare"
Recording of the lecture:

https://youtu.be/tz-Bb-D6teE
How could any system address all audiences of anything? Human wants are unlimited and unfixed. Might as well chase fairies.
https://shashanksthoughts.blogspot.com/

Started few weeks ago.
I hope you don't mind me asking for info, but how beefy is the vps? I can't find minimum specs for these frontends, and that would help me know if I have enough spare power at home. I imagine you want all the bandwidth you can get, but are there cpu limitations?
I LOVE the steam controller, and the deck is essentially a steam controller with a computer+screen embedded into it. But the software for customizing the inputs are extremely sophisticated and deeply integrated into Steam. I don't think the deck would have been as good without the steam controller.
Same. (Well, 486sx33) OS/2 to Caldera, to NT4 and RedHat.
https://honza.pokorny.ca/
I'd disagree that evolution doesn't care about longevity. There could be survival benefit to have grandparents around to help take care of kids while the parents are hunting or whatever. But after a point, it's a negative, as the young would have to spend disproportionate resources caring for and feeding the elderly who don't really provide any value anymore.

The old of all species die and make room for the (hopefully larger) generation of the young.
It was easy enough to fix by taping a washcloth loosely over the sensor, and obviously my opinion regarding it being a terrible idea isn't universally shared, or he wouldn't have installed it there in the first place. So I didn't feel good about dropping a score near 100% to one near 80% just for that one thing.

There was also a massive foam rubber pad on the mattress that made the first night a rough one... but again, some people who are wrong prefer those, and again, it was easy enough to remove. Or at least, it would've been if my partner hadn't already been asleep on it when I came to bed. The resulting tossing and turning was what made the motion-sensing night light a problem.

Basically I didn't want to go full Karen on the landlord because everything else about the house was comfortable and thoughtful. I felt that a four-star rating would have been projecting a combination of my personal preferences and comically-bad luck on his other potential renters.
Your experiences sound like they were based on Windows 7. Defragmentation hasn't been an issue in at least a decade unless you bought real cheap hardware.

The DLL issues bring back memories of Windows XP and Vista, even Windows 7 had SFC and other proactive system protection mechanisms.

Windows 10 came out with a task manager that shows you exactly what's slowing down startup. I don't know what hardware you bought, but BSODs have become so rare that I don't even remember what Windows 11's BSOD screen looks like, and I'm pretty sure Windows 10's changed since I last saw it.

From what you're describing, I doubt your experiences were with modern releases of Windows.
> Are building murals not associated with ghettos outside the US?

It's two things in the US. It's ghettos, as you say. But more and more it's whites who want to signal that they're "cool" with minority culture, and you see them in economically well off areas.
Upvoted simply because this claim is so astonishing. If you can back this up I implore you to provide as much technical information and proof as possible, because the PKI managers for the major browser vendors would certainly revoke certificates for this.

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-security-polic...
It’s unique to the primary non-desktop mode of the steamdeck.

If you put it to sleep, it pauses downloads. Out of the box, it pauses downloads when you play games unless you enable a checkbox that says it will degrade performance.

If you switch to the desktop mode instead, you can download things as you would on a Linux desktop with all the other requisite performance state management caveats, and it’s very much now how the device is designed to be used.
Happy 4th of July
Keep the faith and stay proud!
I love second-life retirement activities like this! Such a benefit to the world. And I think your former domain expertise can give you unique insight into other disciplines.
I read that and don't feel like I have any more idea what this is. A CMS with some "community" features I guess?

But all those overlapping screen shots make it look like there's been an explosion at the website factory and the smart thing is for me to run in the other direction.

1/3 of the Youtube videos are just "This video is unavailable".

I couldn't look at it that much longer because the colorful stars falling out of my mouse cursor was so distracting I had to close the tab.
This is so wrong in so many ways.

- There's supposed to be a computer in front of every kid since grade one. Schools are instead banning the little computers kids smuggle in.

- Hypocrisy. Smartphone bans are pushed by people who use them all the time themselves.

- This is the same thing as with corporations locking down employees' computers. It's a policy designed for the worst behaving kids to the detriment of the best behaving ones. Poor use of time and poor self-control become expected and even the best kids will slide towards these low expectations.

- Totalitarian policies like this get passed only because teens and tweens are disenfranchised. Democratic government trying to enforce similar population-wide ban wouldn't last long.

- It's not about games or social media. Those are actually tolerated far better than apps like Socratic, which are treated like criminal level of cheating. This is technophobia all the way through.

I could go on and on about this. Contrary to people nitpicking details (health, parent contact, practicality of enforcement), I think this is fundamentally wrong.
> I follow Patrick Collison's advice methodology -- wait 10 years before you can accurately reflect

I wish more people did so. The signal to noise ratio of the content on the internet would improve a whole lot.
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https://blog.kinglycrow.com/

I've only written two posts so far but I have a bunch of things I want to write about from projects over the last few months.
https://blog.kronis.dev/

I write about mostly WebDev and DevOps adjacent topics, though there's the occasional post about game engines and AI in there as well.

Still working on writing more often, probably should upload some past presentations as well.
Launching Ween.ai, the User Research Specialized AI
Hi HN fellows, we launched our product today on Product Hunt, your upvote will give us strength :)

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/ween-ai

Ween is an AI powered platform that turns customer qualitative data into product opportunities :)
And I would add to that, much hype notwithstanding, we have no real evidence for string theory.
And they mostly appear in or near the downtown area.
I have yet to not be able to run a game. I have had a couple that didn't launch, but when I configured them to use Proton Experimenal, they started right up. This includes demos for new games that are not at all intended to be run on a deck. I have been so impressed.
Very good point. And with very long lifespans (thousands of years), all of those low-probability events that may cause accidental death (airplane crash, getting hit by a car crossing the street, violence, etc.) may really start to add up to a not-so-low probability of at least one of them happening within your extended lifespan.
Show HN: LTO9 Optimizer
> In my job as technical writer / marketer1, the most common question I get from companies I work with is “how do we get to the front page of Hacker News?”

Genuinely surprising. Does everyone read HN but just never mentions it?
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If the person is accessing public information, they can plagiarize your content directly any way if that's the case. They could even think it up themselves, it happens all the time.

Ultimately the decision to check they're not utilizing copyright material rests with the human commercializing it.
...but you also dunk on hn folks on twitter *ducks* ;)
I've spent the last 2+ years rewriting it from WordPress into an entire desktop environment. But I still do blog whenever I get the courage to.

https://dustinbrett.com/
Interestingly there are still areas where most people seem to prefer dynamic typing: service APIs. JSON everywhere. Is it because JSON is actually better, or is it because we don't yet have good enough tools for schema-driven APIs

The main issue is that static typing is a global property of a program, and big distributed systems don't have such global properties. Each part can be upgraded independently, at any time.

In general, you don't own both sides of the wire. People who have worked at Google are used to owning both sides of the wire :) (I also think the model of the data center as a single computer stopped scaling, and that's why it's so hard to write software there these days)

The argument I usually make is: Why isn't the entire Internet statically typed? Why don't we have statically typed HTTP and SMTP and IRC and XMPP ?

If you admit there's a problem there, then there are also problems with static typing in the areas where people use JSON.

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Dynamic typing is basically for when static typing stops scaling / runs out of steam.

I wrote a long post about this - A Sketch of the Biggest Idea in Software Architecture, i.e. about software composition at runtime, not compile time:

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/03/backlog-arch.html

Also, static typing doesn't scale to the code even on a SINGLE machine, on either Windows (COM and successors) or Linux (Debian-style ABI compatibility, and shell-style composition)

https://lobste.rs/s/sqtnxf/shells_are_two_things#c_pa4wqo

Some people scratched their heads at that argument, but I would say it's only irrelevant if you don't care if your system works when it's deployed. If all you want is for the IDE to say green and commit your code, then you can just lean on static typing. But if you care the problem from end-to-end, you should also care about dynamic typing and runtime software composition :)

The other argument I make is that SREs are responsible for all the problems that escaped the static type system, and ~10 years ago SREs started making as much or more money than SWEs. So that is a lot of problems.

The problems that static types catch aren't the most important ones; they're just the ones that affect certain people's jobs.

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Protobufs do a pretty good job of evolution, but I've noticed it takes awhile for people to understand that field presence is dynamic, not static. They want their Maybe<> type, but that kind of static typing simply doesn't work in distributed systems.

I'd say better tools could help in some ways, but you still have the fundamental problem that even if I go and download Github's or Stripe's schema from their codebase and statically link it into my code, I don't control when they deploy their systems.

They can literally update it in the FUTURE, and static checks fundamentally can't handle that -- only dynamic checks can.
Agreed. I found the omission of System1[0] a bit strange. Maybe Alex just didn't want to mention them since they nosedived the amount of trust people had in the project, infact cancelling such trust entirely. I'm glad it's now an independent project un-influenced by an advertising agency.

[0] https://www.waterfox.net/blog/waterfox-has-joined-system1/