skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there's a couple of reasons that people use it:

1) Until recently, Zoom's video/audio quality knocked everyone else's into a cocked hat. I don't think that's the case, anymore. Looks like a lot of folks got off their butts, and improved their quality, but I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere, by anyone.

2) Everyone else is using it.

#2 is a biggie. Monopoly inertia is pretty hard to overcome, for people not in the tech industry (we'll change on a whim).

Zoom is not easy to use. Its settings are a mess, but everyone is used to dealing with the Zoom pain, and don't want to switch.

We can be remarkably cavalier in dismissing non-tech folks, but I learned to stop doing that, many years ago. We're not the only smart people in the world.

People (in general) don't like getting sidetracked by their tools. They want to get a job done, and how they get it done is not irrelevant, but not that important to them. They develop and refine a workflow, which is usually heavily informed by their choice of tools, and that "wears a groove." They don't want to switch grooves; even if they are not enjoying their tool.

Most tech folks, on the other hand love tools. I had an employee that would stop his main project, and design a massive subsystem, just to make a simple command-line process a few seconds shorter. I had to keep on my toes. He was the best engineer I've ever worked with, but it was a chore to keep him focused.

Non-tech types are seldom like that, and we can sometimes miss it.

These are the folks that use our products, and we don't actually gain anything by disrespecting them, even when they really piss us off.

TL;DR: Want people to stop using Zoom? Produce something better, and make it something that non-tech folks will love.

That means easy to use, forget-about-it UX, and extremely high quality.
I wonder what the break down is on over 50 doing dumb shit/not dumb shit?

I remember how fun riding was after a few beers when I was young, and that's why I don't do that now, but biker gang culture, which is older doesn't care.
While the concept of "love is love" stands as a testament to the universality of emotions, equating it to the realm of sex work oversimplifies the complexities faced by those in the profession. In a society where money equates to basic necessities like food, shelter, and healthcare, many individuals, especially women, are driven to sex work not out of a "money-sexual" inclination, but due to economic vulnerabilities. Labeling them as "money-sexuals" risks trivializing the very real challenges they face, many of which are systemic and rooted in inequality. It's essential to recognize the broader socioeconomic pressures that contribute to the choice of sex work, rather than attributing it to innate predisposition. By doing so, we can focus on creating a society that offers every individual the autonomy to make choices without the burden of economic coercion.
The state is afraid of mushrooms because they let users detach from the groupthink that guides the people from birth to death. The groupthink is made of many polished thought-circuits that compel an individual to do certain things, such as buying a nice car, working an office job, going to vacation on hawaii, watching tv, and so on.
I actually feel the same about bash
Yup, I reasonably don't log into twitter anymore.
When MS announced the limitations on CPUs I was kind of gobsmacked. Now I'm just riding windows 10 pro until either all my hardware dies, I get bored with gaming, or an unexpected need arises requiring the change.

My primary machine can run windows 11 but I refuse to "upgrade" out of principle at this point...
Yeah, but then police would actually be useful to the public, and we can't have that.
I'd make the argument that Core 2 Duo was the first 10+ year capable chip. For the avaerage person, A Core 2 Duo system from 2007-2008 could easily be used up to 2018. They are now starting to slow down quite a bit on modern web pages, but certainly still usable. The biggest thing holding them back is video decoding. I have a couple C2D MacBooks and the GPU has no hardware GPU decoding.

It's crazy to think 2018 was 5 years ago....
Non-paywall: https://archive.is/wgVBJ

Seems like a win on multiple levels. Less consumption and less worker exploitation. We don't need oodles of "ultracheap stuff", we need durable goods and to reject consumerism. Environmental damage and labor abuses are two externalities that aren't priced into our economy. Given the state of both the environment and wealth inequality, it seems imperative that we as consumers dramatically shift our mindsets. Realistically priced goods could help move us in that direction.
> I don't really buy this argument since they could just tax winnings and offer no deductions, but hey ho.

I don't think this would make sense. If I walk into a casino with $200 and then proceed to lose $100 and win it back 10 times, then I lose it all and walk out, that tax law would say I had "won" and had to pay taxes on $1,000 even though any reasonable person would say I had actually lost $200.

In practical terms, I think it would absolutely ruin gambling addicts. This makes it effectively impossible to actually net profit, and I'm doubtful they'll stop.
Can "his" AI-written book be copyrighted?
>Let's face it, the Perl 5/PCRE regex syntax is atrocious.

Agreed, but god-damn is it useful.
I don't know the details, unfortunately, but I know it's connected to a financial disaster they suffered.

It's not as rare as you might think, though. 4.5% of US households are unbanked.
By accepting the ToS you consent to whatever they want you to.
So it's companies that are stealing more time from you. That has nothing to do with WFH. Don't accept those meetings.
Cherry pick if you want an entire commit
There’s no support staff at Google, much less special support staff.
There's literally dozens of them!
I think Siemens deserves to be on the list but your main point remains. They all really excel at one step or another in the EDA chain. Even they do compete generally across the all broad scopes it sometimes feels like it is not a serious effort. Sometime I wonder which is cause and which is effect, is the reason some fabs simply don't provide PDK support for all options with each company because the tools are lacking or are the tools lacking because the fab does not want to provide support.
> Since, per the application, the data may have been passed off to the driver with a successful message pass.

The application already knows that the data is not guaranteed to be delivered, or even sent at all. That’s just the nature of network programming—it’s inherently unreliable.

> And if I have to have secrets in the driver for it to be able to connect to access points and such, it seems dubious how protected from all of my secrets the system can be between all parties.

To make an analogy—locking your front door doesn’t protect thieves from stealing your plastic flamingoes and garden gnomes, but it does make it harder to steal the $50,000 in cash you have hidden under the mattress.

The point of isolation is to reduce the effect of failures. If you have a buggy WiFi driver, in a monolithic kernel, that could be really bad—it could even be a remotely exploitable vulnerability in the kernel itself. In other words, you have no front door, and the thieves can steal the $50,000 hidden under your mattress. If your WiFi driver is unprivileged, then the thieves have only broken through your front gate, and they can only steal your garden gnomes and plastic flamingoes. They need to combine the vulnerability with a local privilege escalation vulnerability, or be happy with the value of plastic flamingoes.

> For fun, it is common for the "at rest" value of peddles to be discovered at connect time.

The keyboard itself does this, either when it’s turned on, or through the configuration menu (or not at all). It’s not something that has anything to do with drivers or connecting the keyboard.
Which, I should add, is true of most professions, including software development. If a non-developer jumped in to make an app, it would be miraculous if the app and the code base were up to the standards of a seasoned app developer.
The vast majority of climate scientists believe you are wrong. A very small minority of them believe you are right. Given that climate science is not like mathematics where absolute certainty is possible it’s best for people to go with the overwhelming consensus expert opinion. In a world of uncertain knowledge this is the best we can do and it isn’t hysteria to think there’s a huge problem.

If my view wins out in the political sense then we’ll end up with a world with much more clean energy, a lot less pollution, less reliance on plastics, less resource wars, cleaner water, cleaner air, more trees, etc. If your view wins out politically, and you are correct that the issue is overblown, then we end up with worse air quality, more pollution, unclean water, etc.

Whether or not my views on climate change are correct, mitigating the harm to the environment benefits everyone. This truly is a case where Pascal’s wager makes sense. So let’s stop swimming in our own shit and create a clean environment.
Take a cue from Toronto and do nothing*.

> A spokesperson for Toronto police, meanwhile, has told CityNews that illegal dispensaries are investigated when reports are made. The service’s drug enforcement at this time, however, is “largely focused on the trafficking of illegal drugs that are resulting in overdose deaths.” It cites the need to concentrate on the supply of fentanyl in the midst of an opioid crisis.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/07/18/toronto-mushroom-disp...
I have not personally used timeshift. I have used zfsbootmenu and syncoid found it useful and fit for purpose. Personally I think its more reasonable to separate boot environments from backing up as they are two separate if related concerns. EG boot environments are for when something went wrong with an update and backups are for when your drive failed. If both went wrong you just do both operations in sequence restore from backup and THEN pick the prior boot environment and make it the default.

Insofar as timeshift consider the review source, circumstances, and nature of complaints. Users who don't have difficulties rarely post anything and yet many reviews are positive. Those that aren't seem to focus on people who didn't realize they could provide a secondary drive and just kept storing data until their OS drive filled up.

Mint leans heavily towards technically incompetent users and yet many people were able to use it successfully. Meeting every users needs no matter how incapable is probably a poor benchmark to define if somethings is "crap" or not even if those users problems are are a great guideline to a path forward to helping all users better.

For instance it might be better if timeshift only supported a fs with snapshots instead of rsync and required a secondary disk and warned of space issues long before the disk fills up but it seems quite possible to competently use it right now.
Telescopes are often built simply (and rightly) as functional tools or instruments, and that's great of course, but I wanted to compliment you on making a non-ugly, aesthetically pleasing telescope; a bit of craftsmanship goes a long way, looks great man.
Reflections One Year into a PhD
Will make this possible soon, oversight on our part that the agent doesn't expose a way to let you do that right now
Its used in a bunch of Che Guevara's writings from the 60's
I say this as a lifelong Democrat: Kamala Harris is the worst sort of useless political moron.
>obvious driver for difference between two things is that one is old and has a ton of the code you are currently behind on writing.

In this case they’re both old though, as Hurd predates Linux by a year.
Completely agree: couldn't believe the amount of conspiracy theorist doctors that pushed untested "vaccines" to a whole cohort of people which were at 0% effective risk from COVID.
ChatGPT could make bioterrorism easy
I have a broader study about the matter, but this comment box is too small to contain it.

/s
> Raku has no qualms about using Unicode operators. You check set membership with ∈. There's also ∉, ∋, and ∌.

Something to note is that there are ASCII equivalents[0] for every cool Unicode operator found in Raku. For example, the equivalents for ∈, ∉, ∋, ∌ are (elem), !(elem), (cont), !(cont).

[0] https://docs.raku.org/language/unicode_ascii#Other_acceptabl...
I have a love/hate relationship with vi and all its offspring, but I use vim pretty much every day - thanks Bram!
Can you explain more about Slackware, in what sense does it help you graduate quickly and provide educational value?
At least if you click "I have the same question" on the support page, the counter increments.
I have these 2 custom filters in Brave, and haven't seen this popup since:

##iframe[src^="https://accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe/select"]

||accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe/select^$third-party
International Baccalaureate. It's like AP, but internationally accepted. To get the full diploma, you have to take three standard-level tests and three higher-level tests.
The benefits of fusion power will come from continuous power output, rather than a bunch of one-off miniature bursts of fusion.

This experiment is very like a very, very, very tiny hydrogen bomb. It definitely produces fusion energy but not in a package that's useful for the real world. An analogy would be a car designed to be driven by tiny explosions of TNT rather than a tank full of petroleum fuel.
Government surveillance has gone too far: reject remoteID [video][18 mins]
> The idea of UBI imply that you can live in a ok way with it

Not really, or rather it depends who you ask: on the left's perspective on UBI, you're right, but on the right side (Milton Friedman being the most prominent on that side having talked about UBI) then it should be barely enough to replace all other form of state wellfare without necessarily be enough to live from it.
Artificial fertilizer (which feeds billions of people worldwide) was invented by the same guy who ran the German chemical weapons program in WWI.
Often they are general-purpose. There's a blog from maybe 10 years ago of someone launching Linux on a hard drive (it refuses to fully boot because the hard drive doesn't have an MMU, but they get some familiar log output).
Pretty convenient that he wasn't the candidate, right? Suddenly you could pat yourself on the back, convince yourself that your hand was forced.

There are loads of situations where people try to rationalize their own behavior through mechanisms like this.

Two fish are swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way. The older fish nods and says "Morning boys. How's the water?" The younger fish beat the older fish to death and take his wallet. "He should have known I'm allergic to water!" one lamented. "He made me do that".
I have the same, there doesn’t seem to be anything remotely in the same price range.

Only much cheaper slow SSDs could remove the need for the bays and thus allow more options.
The anti-union messages in North American work culture were so effective it takes an incredible amount of abuse before a workforce actually seeks out a union.
The Perl man pages were always excellent.
Identity Is Who You Are
What's the relationship between passkeys and OIDC/SAML.
Also mentioned in your link: He also named himself technoking in addition to CEO.
> a 2W smartphone SoC can offer over 2x the performance of a 95W chip

2x performance in some very specific and narrow benchmark tasks.
nice! but you should code-format that by indenting it, otherwise hn truncates the uri in some views
I don’t doubt it’s possible, but I would love an example of a Saas product that successfully scales pricing from $10/m to $23,000/m on customer segments that aren’t enterprise-scale and has the kind of lock-in you describe.

I ask because I would like to quit my job and build a competitor ASAP.

Also, the problem isn’t the potential cost down the road. If you’re scaling on any Saas product to the $23k/m tier, then congrats, you’ve made it!

The problem is, there’s a 90%+ chance all your cost optimizing upfront was a giant waste of time, because a vast majority of startups don’t work out. And the ones that do often pivot.
> a discrete card will always be faster.

And a Ferrari will always be faster than a Ford. But, for most people, the Ford is good enough to do what they want. The largest gaming segment (consoles) is already powered by APUs. Discrete GPU sales have been in a steady decline since 2009 [1].

[1] https://siliconangle.com/2022/12/29/sales-computer-graphics-...
How many trees have they chopped down to make golf courses? That seems like a much bigger issue.
Wow those library recommendations are fantastic, especially Chumsky. Thanks for sharing.
80% of people in manhattan have no personal vehicle and I would not say they are "living like it's the 1500s". The problem is that most of America has car-dependent infrastructure.
Latex in Racket Lisp
Looks nice, but what's with the clickbait title?
> Just some combination of lazy, greedy, and ignorant.

In other words, very standard human behaviour, irrespective of any racial considerations.
Does not seem so

https://nitter.net/LisaSu/status/1669848494637735936

https://nitter.net/__tinygrad__/status/1688613617422495744

https://nitter.net/realGeorgeHotz/status/1686165811386597377
const testVal3 = emailTest('hello@$%^&*()_!');
expect(testVal3).toBe('example.com')

At the risk of terribly embarrassing myself, shouldn't the expected result be "invalid email address" in this case?
I once made a circuit which would tun on an LED light when the ambient light fell below a certain threshold using an ATMEL microcontroller. It's actually very easy to do.

The coolest physical thing I tried to make (though it was mostly a failure) was a USB powered fan from scratch. I also tried to make the plastic casing from scratch using resins. I had made a mold for the casing but I had made it out of soft clay (if I remember right) and although the resulting plastic casing did solidify inside the mold and somewhat took the form of the mold, it was too brittle and the two halves of the casing didn't quite line up so they could not interlock neatly around the electronics. I didn't complete the project. I just did it out of curiosity.
Cancer cures are very often found in vitro. After all it doesn't take much to kill something in a test tube.
I really need to stop using gmail as my main email.
Scotland is aiming to replant 15,000 hectares per year, and removed 7,858 hectares for wind turbines. Seems like a fair trade.
The author is tactically avoiding discussions that she considers unproductive and does not want to participate in, hence the title of the blog post.

> Is it just me or is this post screaming with self-consciousness and political correctness?

Good writers always consider the way their choice of words will affect their audience. Are you suggesting that this is a bad thing?
Say it with me everybody

“Trade offs”
Are top stories biased towards the preferences of those who browse the new page?
This is something that has been on my mind for years as an HN user: posts sometimes make it to the front page in as few as 3 or 4 initial votes, but the demographic of users who give those initial votes is the very small section of users who make a deliberate decision to visit the “new” page.

It seems like this means that spending time on that page, and commenting on or upvoting things you find interesting is a pretty influential way to project your preferences on the reading material of HN users.

Bonus question: is this a good or a bad thing?
You can share Wasm memories between workers. It's clunky and low-level, but it's as fast as hardware can be, with no serialization steps.
Humans can rationalize anything, thank you for linking actual data.
Quite OK Audio Format for Fast, Lossy Compression
It's missing:

git diff > ../i-messed-up.patch
cd .. && rm -rf $REPO
git clone $REMOTE
cd $REPO && git apply ../i-messed-up.patch
> If you consider sex trafficking to be “all prostitution that isn’t 100% freelance”

Given the response to sites like Backpage, the modern-day Puritans are evidently happy to throw 100% freelance work into the "trafficking" bucket as well.
please tell me what problematic assumptions i am making.

to me this is quite clear. i see the purpose of life to be part of our civilization and contribute to it to move it forward. beyond that there is only personal improvement to become a better person. both are equally important because we can't wait to be a better person before we contribute. on the contrary, contributing is part of what makes us a better person. so i focus on contributing and trying to become a better person through my contributions.
> Package managers are useless for getting the latest maven, gradle, or ant version.

My package manager has the latest versions of maven and gradle. Ant is behind; upstream is up to 1.10.13 but my package manager only has 1.10.9.
Giraffe is another interesting one to explore: https://giraffe.wiki/

Giraffe is nice because it is itself built "just" as ASP.NET Core Middleware so it plays a bit more nicely than Suave with a mixed stack of C#-defined Middleware.

It's more likely you accidentally fall back into just translating C# patterns to non-idiomatic F# with Giraffe, but it's also nicer when in that case of needing to live in both worlds and use a mixture of libraries built for C# ASP.NET projects.
I imagine you are referring to https://rr-project.org/ ?

Had never heard of it, looks pretty amazing, I might actually enjoy debugging now!
My recent gripe is that I've used Linux for more than half my life and I'm well into my 30's. I feel like my ability to navigate a system has gone _backwards_, Debian no longer accepts 'init 0' as a command, ipconfig isn't a command anymore, systemd changed the whole subsystem from underneath me, ubuntu/snap decided not only to litter+bloat my filesystem with needless duplicates but also that not only would I prefer Firefox be a snap package (which broke my workflow), but that it would require me to go well out of my way to solve that, Gnome decided that I wanted a touchscreen layout (I custom compile gtk+ to remove the 'search on type' behavior in file>open dialogs, most major packages seem to default to nouveau which while a great movement seems to totally break critical path regularly.

How the hell have we gotten to a point where Linux closely reflects the instability of the Windows ecosystem. I'm not afraid of change, but I feel like the large majority of changes that are made cause me problems to the point where I now fear upgrading my distro to latest.
What I miss in this overview is the whole of analog IC design. I get the usual tendency to focus on digital logic (higher volumes, etc), but analog design has a large importance in fields like aviation and defence, for security, communications, radar, etc.
What is the most difficult thing you’ve gotten it to do?
Thanks so much for sharing that, I had no Idea something this cool had been made public. Though initially when you wrote "simulator" I though the Verilog/VHDL source code and the simulator for the HDL design would be there, but that's not it.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I asume it's a simulator for the driver, probably to simulate there's a PowerVR GPU in the system.

Just looking through the driver source code and seeing all those #ifdef blocks for all possible combinations of HW, SW, APIs, etc scattered everywhere is making my head spin.

Hopefully they had some IDE that would collapse all the unused blocks, as it reminds me of one of my gigs in embedded where the IDE didn't have such a feature and it was brutal following the code.
This is super cool. I hopped on the GTA III Liberty City map and went and found the "you're not supposed to be here you know" message. :)
... but that doesn't change anything. The popups appear on other websites that include Google's authentication script.
Train LLMs with text-based data on SEC filings, patents, + gov’t contracts