skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been using FreeBSD for the last 2 years on a 2015 Intel MacBook Pro, and I have been a long-time Linux user.

Things I appreciate about FreeBSD:

- init system (with real PIDs).

- FreeBSD documentation.

- installation experience (fast and hassle-free).

- stability, consistency and low memory usage.

- DWM / XFCE works great.

- ease of configuring PF

However, there are some main impediments that prevents me from using it as my daily driver:

- WiFi drivers don't work unless it's a ThinkPad I think (specifically Broadcom 4360 on old Macbooks), I bought a Realtek USB WiFi adapter, which works but with reduced performance.

- There are sketchy sound driver issues with the laptop speakers, resulting in tinny sound.

- Bluetooth doesn't work at all, although my BOSS system shows up on hcinquiry.
> think all good people have an obligation to voice an ethical objection to their company's behavior whenever relevant.

Posting a cynical tweet does not reflect a moral high ground, specially if the person doing the tweeting doesn't express any similar concern on any other occasion regarding their line of work and how they contribute directly and indirectly to that moral hazard, and apparently gets disappointed when their employer fires them.

Frankly, it all looks like puerile attention-seeking fuelled by Twitter echo chambers.
I gave you a compensatory upvote assuming that you're sincere since it looks like a real account.

The extreme politicization of this is ridiculous, really, because it was 100% bipartisan. Operation warp speed was a Trump administration initiative. Vaccine mandates were pushed pretty hard across the board with only a few notable exceptions. The far right started pushing antivaxx stuff even before there was any evidence anything was wrong, which of course forced the left to take the extreme opposite position because that's how it always has to be. If one side says the sky is blue, the other side is forced to say it's green. The bases (both of them) demand nothing less than total polarization on every issue so they can get their outrage dopamine fix.

Now that there is some evidence of problems (which doesn't surprise me that much because developing and shipping a vaccine in one year is kind of nuts), nobody can go back and change their position because the flags have been planted firmly in the ground. That's how modern hyper-polarized social media hate-laser politics works.

The reality is that the entire pandemic is a "fog of war" scenario. There was immense economic pressure to reopen the economy to get the current administration re-elected (which would have happened regardless of what party was in office because that's politics), and that took the form of both a crash vaccine program and pushes to just reopen and "absorb" COVID. Loads of data were collected but nobody understands the data yet because there are multiple variables changing in multiple ways. Any engineer knows that when multiple things are changing at the same time it becomes almost impossible to know what is going on. Unfortunately history offers few opportunities for controlled experiments.

I don't expect to see a complete picture of COVID, its effects, what measures worked the best, and how effective and/or problematic the vaccine is for years.
Replaced our entire system (furnace, a/c) mid last year. Heat pump with backup oil for colder days.

We cut the amount of gallons we used by over 50% compared to last year. Sure the oil infrastructure is needed to get it delivered (I wish we didn't need it) but I'm very happy that our heating (oil+electricity) bills are so much lower, even with the increased oil prices.

We went with a mid-range system but now I kind of wish we sprung for the "Cadillac" version.
Netflix runs a massive fleet of FreeBSD servers.
NetApp and Dell/EMC isilon are built on it. The previous Compellent product was based on NetBSD.

You can infer others if you look at the historical sponsor pages:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/

There are plenty of companies that may not use the full BSD stack but pull bits and pieces of code as needed. Microsoft is known to have built off BSD networking code for Windows.
Microscopic.. sure, they weren't intended to look microscopic.

But you're painting an inaccurate picture here, GNOME controls are a larger ratio than they've ever been to screen real estate;

For context, this is how it looked on a 640x480 display https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GNOME-escritorio-1.x...
Could you share the SD model used ?, the style its beautiful, thanks.
Why does this website use spans and weird javascript to fake links, instead of normal a tags? It means that right-click to open in a new tab doesn't work. Very strange. And very irritating.
https://grafana.adam.gs/dashboard/snapshot/HYW4MBLhhhKDJjRMH...

Fireworks near me, last night!
There is a difference between doing nothing and accomplishing nothing. Sometimes you're trying to figure out the next step, sometimes you've gone down the wrong rabbit hole, sometimes you just have a shitty day. That's much different than just slacking off or getting distracted and is easy enough to explain to a reasonable person.

I have 5 kids, live in a very remote community (so getting some things done is a multi day affair), and am fairly involved in my community. My schedule is always full weeks in advance. Even if you set aside the honesty aspect of it, I can't afford to procrastinate.

I'm always a little anxious about getting everything done. When you pair that with time constraints it's easier to be disciplined. No, it's not easy and yes, it takes practice, but it's attainable for most people.
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There's an entire universe of useful and well-designed software that isn't FLOSS. Being free or open source isn't the be-all and end-all for most people.
You are most probably right. I was being too European/French centric.

I think here, suing a medical professional is less common. At least generalists, because they don't perform surgeries so their misjudgments/mistakes are probably less impactful and thus less obvious.

It's a bit sad and scary that this is a reality in the healthcare field, but I think you got a point.

The positive side of the story is that if you have a reason to trust the doctor you have in front of you (because he's a friend for example, as you said), you should get a good advice.

On the other hand, if the subject is controversial, like antidepressants seem to be, I suppose you would need several advices from several trusted sources, and in the end you might not even have a clear path forward.
> I mostly follow somewhat niche military / geopolitical discussion, and the top ~10 replies are usually from OnlyFans creators jumping in with...whatever, the content of the Tweets is clearly not their point

Is it OF people replying specifically to military/geopolitical threads (and if so, in ways that at least act relevant or just off-topic spamming?), or is it just their posts getting shoved to the top of the feed because they paid?
We make edge AI cameras. After focusing on services for a while, it has been a different type of journey to switch to the product. We did an open source pilot product on esp32, and got surprisingly more interest than we thought, so now we are working on a high performance (4k, 60fps, AI chip) device.

Lite-esp32 camera
https://www.crowdsupply.com/maxlab/tokay-lite
Source-code: https://github.com/maxlab-io/tokay-lite-pcb

Pro camera updats will be posted here:
https://maxlab.io/store/tokay-riscv-camera/
COVID stands out as a topic.
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Pro-Russian hackers target Port of Nagoya, disrupting loading of Toyota parts
This doesn't disprove what I said. Millions of people all around the world use Safari every day.
> Some people have the perspective that if a license isn’t open source, it’s proprietary. I think it’s more nuanced than that and believe there are three more license types worth naming: non-commercial NDA, non-commercial public, and ethical.

It’s very useful to remember the U.S. government definition of commercial software: it is software that “Has been sold, leased, or licensed to the general public” [1]

This means that a “non-commercial license” is a bit of an oxymoron to a lot of people. Their definition of commercial includes all software with a license, and does not depend on whether the software costs money. (Perhaps not entirely unlike how FSF does not define “free software” based on whether it costs money.)

[1] https://www.acquisition.gov/far/2.101
re making money: the alternative to ad-revenue-through-clickbait is paywalls. Consumers have largely chosen the former.

Some have suggested that a subscription model to multiple papers (e.g. Spotify for news) would be appealing, and it might, but that doesn't immediately solve the problem of the form and content of the news. Longform article sources or retrospectives are probably the current best way to consume news.
That's kind of setting the bar so low most people would have trouble distinguishing it from the ground.

Yeah, his approach on vaccines is (were it to significantly influence public policy) more mass homicide by reckless indifference than mass murder, but I don’t really think that’s enough to shift from intense distaste to “like” for me.
This is a key question. With the latest advanced LLMs we've created something which exceeds our pre-existing conceptual framework's scope leading us into Searle's 'Chinese Room' which philosophers of mind have been debating for decades.
So unworkable.

I've personally never used Tor, but the moment this bill goes live, I'll be setting up Whonix in a VM on Linux OS.
Ask HN: Books Similar to the Phoenix Project
I really enjoyed reading this book, and it gave me new perspective to look from at my org, and even my own work, official and personal. In fact I am re-reading the book to re-evaluate my personal way of working which is not very efficient and I want to improve a lot.

I am going to read THE GOAL, THE UNICORN PROJECT and BUY THE TOYOTA WAY next.

Apart from these books, are there any more books would you recommend to read for sure to learn more? I am not just looking at IT Domain, can be any business/domain.
Oracle JDK 8 includes something called Web Start, which was a cool way of having a client Java executable that would be updated when you reloaded it from a web link. It used to be a real pain to manage updating clients in client-server apps before everything went web. I worked for a shop that had a complex GUI deployed this way. Web Start is not open source, and some of the free reimplementations didn't work. (OpenJDK does not include it).
DVD releases of demoscene “stuff”: http://www.mindcandydvd.com/

Well-cared-for in that they captured from original hardware, took scanlines, refresh rate, etc into consideration.
The margin between users who can't figure out how to re-enable the extension, and users who would have imagined the existence of a password-paste-enabling-on-bank-site extension and then sought out and installed it in the first place, has to be vanishingly small. I bet we are talking about tens of people worldwide.
Interviewer: How do you design twitter?

Interviewee: Long answer with novice RDBMS choices.

Interviewer(implicitly): I will judge you based on how you can "Problem Solve" many-many conundrum.

Interviewee: Use Cache, scaling, edge nodes, kafka because....

....

HIRED

....

Interviewee spends first 6 months writing a test framework to automatically run tests of deployment of an internal tool that runs python ingestion pipeline. Next 6 months figuring out how to help user add type hints to IDE for pipelines to help catch errors faster and how to roll it out to 100+ ICs in the company. Sadly fails.

Never ever writes a line of code to make "twitter", learns a ton on how to work with people.

....

Interviews again: "How do you design twitter"?
The average user isn’t using Firefox to begin with. In fact 5% market share for Mozilla is probably pretty generous.

I agree with you that Mozilla has certainly dropped the ball regarding this change. Much like pocket, the Mr Robot ARG, the Quantum update, DoH with Cloudflare as the default provider, and so on. But again all but the Quantum update have been user configurable, and in my experience, have not been reverted unlike my browser preferences on Windows, where Edge hijacks anything and everything with very little recourse.
Yup. I think more people need to admit to themselves that this is an addiction. When Twitter started going sideways in ways I find politically unacceptable (I have trans people in my family) I started using Mastodon. But of course, on Mastodon people would still link back to "the birdsite" and I'd gradually gravitate back to it more and more until I'd let my Twitter usage go back to normal, because realistically that's still where all the action is. Just out of habit.

It's really easy to let these habits control you.

The recent mayhem has given me another opportunity to try at a clean break.
Some people like to teach
That doesn't make sense.

If the true purpose of this was to give organizations (or individual users) the ability to control specific websites that extensions couldn't run on for security/sensitivity reasons, then why is it only a subset of extensions that Mozilla determines?

A true user-defined restrict list could, in theory, be a useful feature but as I said, this feature is NOT "here's a list of websites, don't allow ANY extensions to run on it" it is instead "Mozilla is supplying a list of websites, which you can override, but in both cases Mozilla will determine which 'trusted' addons can run on those specific websites using rules/procedures only Mozilla knows and controls."

Claiming this is meant to be org/user controllable is very inaccurate. Just because there's some about:config stuff doesn't mean a Mozilla website list and a Mozilla "trusted" addon list are anywhere close to "intended to be user defined." In fact the evidence shows that is objectively not true.
I recently watched the documentary Fire in the Blood (2013) [1] about the use, by big pharma, of patents and WIPO to obstruct access to affordable antiretrovirals (ARVs) in Africa during the worst years of the AIDS epidemic, leading to over ten million deaths. All of this when the African market for these medications represented less than 1% of the total market, in dollars. It’s absolutely infuriating!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_in_the_Blood_(2013_film)
I use Deno for all my personal projects. It's not perfect, but the fact that it's so much closer to working in a browser environment really helps a lot in terms of mental modeling. Lately, I've had no reason to revert to using Node given the current level of support for NPM packages.
Aren't they comparing to an old version of Nuxt too? From what I've seen on Twitter Nuxt 3 should be pretty close, no firsthand experience though.
Next LS and an elixir-tools update
The paint works by radiating in the infrared while reflecting the shorter wavelengths. On a moonless night a surface painted with this would be cooler than one coated with normal paint, or a mirror.

And really it works by radiating heat into the open sky, space. Clouds and buildings reflect a non trivial portion of the heat back compared to the open sky
Sounds like a unicorn. I'm only slightly jesting. I know of some sources that probably qualify, but I seldom check them, or they require a subscription.
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I have never heard of a "happy PhD"
Every integer greater than 1 is 10
That's a really cool use of a tool. I like it very much. I'll probably use `fzf -m` for it, but thank you for the idea of putting it in the middle of a pipeline which I don't use fzf for enough in my interactive shell use.
Actually iff it's user-controlled I'd love such a feature. As sibling comment notes, it'd be nice to have zero extensions (or maybe just uBo) running on sensitive sites like a bank, but I'd actually be more interested in running certain extensions only on select sites; ex. there are extensions to force videos to play at arbitrary speeds that I like for video sites, but I want to only let those extensions run on a very short list of sites (youtube, netflix, w/e) and nowhere else.
StopTheMadness is a godsend (but I recommend it only to technical users). The developer is also very responsive. Recommended.
Does this paragraph above the summary table answer your question?

> The summary statistic used is the geometric mean of the speed ratios for each regex engine across all benchmarks that include it. The ratios within each benchmark are computed from the median of all timing samples taken, and dividing it by the best median of the regex engines that participated in the benchmark. For example, given two regex engines A and B with results 35 ns and 25 ns on a single benchmark, A has a speed ratio of 1.4 and B has a speed ratio of 1.0. The geometric mean reported here is then the "average" speed ratio for that regex engine across all benchmarks.

So 1.0 represents the fastest possible ratio, where the engine ranked first in all benchmarks.

> And why aren't all benchmarks run on all engines

Because they can't be. Some benchmarks, for example, test the speed that a regex engine reports capture group offsets. But not all regex engines (like Hyperscan) support that functionality. In other cases, it's because of various limits that are hit, e.g., "regex is too big."

If you look at the individual benchmarks, more information about each can be seen by expanding the details. And if there are engines missing, it should tell you why. Look at the noseyparker benchmark for example[1]. It's absolutely brutal and most engines just time out.

[1]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/rebar#noseyparker
Malicious compliance is the perfect way to describe websites' behavior. Sites have many ways to deal with regulations, but they choose: Punish the user with terrible UX, while crying 'look at what they made me do!'
> If you apply for a targeted specialized role, you may get a system design question that relates to your domain.

If you apply for a specialized targeted role.... you still get the same generalized interview loop
Is there a list of all the things for which Firefox now "phones home"? "Sync", "Pocket", Firefox updates, extension updates, the bad site blocklist,
and this. What else?
Heating takes considerably more energy than cooling. Especially since most heating is done with natural gas, if homes were heated with a heat pump it would already 2-4x more efficient. Then if you look at the temperature delta between outside and room temp, the cold climates have a much larger difference. Taking 100 degree air down to 75 takes less energy than bring 20 degree air up to 65.
Back in the 1980s there was a TV channel in Los Angeles that had a "News" programs that would start off with all the murders, rapes, car crashes, etc. in LA, then they had all of those in the State of California, then they went on to all the tragedies in the U.S., and then they went on to entire world.

I'd get some food on the way home from work and sit and eat it while watching the "News" At the end of those three 1/2 hour programs I felt like shit.

After a few months of that I finally realized consuming all that horrific news was causing me to be pretty severely depressed. What led to that was a horrific deadly car crash in Africa that they showed at the end of their "World News".

I realized that my own life was going pretty well and I needed to keep that in mind and be thankful. So I quit consuming all that tragedy everyday.

A few years later "Fox Entertainment Group" bought that TV station and in the years after they transitioned from "horrific news" to "political news" that is focused on "outrage".

We can see now how that's very addictive for some folks. Their current outrage of the day is "Trans" folks and they will keep promoting that as long as their viewers tune in. After a bit they'll move on to a new "outrage of the day".

A good example of that is "Bumpstocks". FOX News and their viewers screamed about their right to have those for a few months, and then FOX News moved on to a new "outrage". A few months later Trump banned bumpstocks and I didn't see a single peep of outrage from Trump supporters or FOX News. I made a point to ask some of those on Facebook about that and they all said the same thing, "I don't care".

Truth is, just like that deadly car crash in Africa, trans folks have no affect on me or anyone who's not "trans" at all. And FOX News will move on to a new "outrage of the day" and their viewers will forget about Trans folks as soon as their given a new "outrage of the day" to be mad and scream about.

They are addicted to "outrage" and FOX News (and others) supply it. But if you turn that bullshit off and count your blessings you'll detox and be a lot happier.
Any software project where instructions must be followed to the letter, instead of having tech leaders communicating the _intent_ of an activity or component, where details are merely to be seen as suggestions, tend to either fail directly or be extremely wasteful.

If the dev team is getting such instructions from someone in a different time zone, and communicate with them only once or twice per week, it gets even worse.
sure
the ones inside the article: "{} simple illustration, naive style, pale colors"
the ones in the related / main page: "{} digital art illustration, tetradic moody subdued colors"
ripgrep comes out of a "lineage", before it there was ag and before that ack, that did similar things to provide a much better interface than just grep.
It's a $300 part that allows swapping the direction of heat flow. This tiny upfront cost is enough to block tons of good practice.

Nate the House Whisperer is a guy who has been trying to build a new generation of HVAC practice, and though he says he's usually a libertarian, he advocates for adding a tax to AC-only units that would eliminate this price difference (or some similar practice, I forget the exact details...)
Thanks for sharing this. It seems absurd that you needed a browser extension to manage your desktop environment and window manager theme.

If only Xfce supported wayland.
I've seen people cram their heads with all kinds of prep problems like designing an elevator, a parking lot or a social media site and I have never understood the rationale behind such questions. Design isn't something you could do in an hour. Design is also a trial and error thing. Slight changes in data flow might change the entire system architecture.
For me, writing is its own motivation. So I write stuff like this comment and don't fret about it being good.

Because it doesn't matter. Statistically, nobody is going to read this and statistically, nobody who does will care.

Just dance like nobody is watching. Good luck.
It’s hard to tell why you ran into such a problem without seeing how you prompted but I can offer a few pointers. Use the OpenAI playground instead of chat, it allows you to specify the system prompt and edit the conversation before each submission. System prompt is good for providing general context, tools and options but you absolutely must provide a few example interactions in the conversation. Even just two prompt and response pairs will strongly influence the rest of the conversation. You can use that to shape the responses however you like and it focuses the model on the task at hand. If you get a bad response, delete or edit it. Bad examples beget more bad responses.
We’re early stage, just fundraising now, but we’re working on building the first generation of molecular nanotechnology devices for machine-phase chemistry and the construction of gemstone-based nano machinery.

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And that is your personal choice, not some permanent impossibility.