skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AppImage is basically a runnable .zip file. It contains a loader and an application with all of its dependencies, packed into a single file. If the image was uncompressed, basic extent-based deduplication could save space, but as far as I know the compressed AppImages just don't match up the files like that.

I don't believe Snap natively offers any deduplication. Snap also uses compression (squashfs as far as I can tell) so deduplicating filesystems are equally powerless.

Flatpak has its own deduplication system (that will confuse df/du if you try to run it and often leads to confusion about download time). Through tools like https://gitlab.com/TheEvilSkeleton/flatpak-dedup-checker/ you can check how effective the dedup process on Flatpak is. On my machine, Flatpak is using 10.5GB of disk space, but reports 13.75GB of files. Running duperemove on /var/lib/flatpak found two identical extents (belonging to cached files) that didn't get deduplicated already.

As for why they couldn't be unpacked: I don't know. They'd take up more disk space, I suppose. Many standard Linux file systems don't have any form of deduplication mechanism built in, so I'm not sure what the balance would be. I would appreciate the ability to decompress AppImages/snaps without writing custom wrappers for them, but if you're on ext4 like many (most?) Linux users, you'll only see the downsides.
Try to remove Windows/Microsoft from your life, Microsoft no longer is decent.

We need to migrate to Linux.
You can also learn Linux by just uninstalling Windows. 15 minutes of good starting material will save you untold amounts of unnecessary headache though.
I don't think people complain about systemd being slow. It's supposed to be faster than initV because of parallel/delayed startup.

But initV is the wrong comparison point anyway. Runit, upstart, openRC are all much better than initV. I certainly had less problems with openRC on my gentoo box than with systemD on my ubuntu box -- mainly because of all the add-ons (ntp, dns etc.) beyond init itself.
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Ask HN: Should I bypass my Colleges Oppressive Software?
I recently started college, and the IT department has oppressive software such as EDR, College controlled Windows settings. They said I can't install VeraCrypt, or run ShutUp10+/Harden Windows GitHub Script, because it's against their policy. Should I disable the C2 hooks, and spoof the CRC checks to bypass their stuff?
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The crux of the platform is that you can connect with other people going through similar things as you from half-way across the world using the power of your voice.
I think we can improve on the messaging on our landing page, but from what we have seen so far on our app, people have been able to connect with complete strangers in authentic manner thanks to using your voice.
Self-sacrifice can be good. It was the reduction of people to just productivity (yours in the original post, their "productive lives" in the most recent) that made me sad. Because while people being productive and proud of what they produce is good and important, I hate to see people only treated as their work output. Especially by themselves.
Go back to designing fjords. Law isn't your thing, slartibartfast.
The top profiles are not real people. Especially with AI now we could generate 50 ideal matches which only take paid-likes and has generic AI responses if any
99% of recruiters that contact me have no idea where I live, no idea of my work history, no idea of my salary requirements and are always trying to pitch me ditch digging salaries in Calcutta.

The number of times I receive a call or an email urgently requesting my application for a part time in person job doing desktop support in Texas or Maryland or Colorado or Florida when I live in Washington has become a satire of absurdity in my life now.

To add insult to injury is how they're offering $11-$15 an hour to start, which is ridiculous for a job that requires certifications and at least an associates degree to begin with, but I guess that explains why they're not doing any research and just casting a huge net to see if they can catch anyone to fill the position.

The cream on the coffee is when they call me and tell me about this wonderful job blah blah blah, great way to get your foot in the door blah blah blah and then proudly say how their salaries are very competitive and they're offering $40 to start.

And I say, $40 an hour?

And they recoil in horror and fall all over themselves to clarify they mean $40,000 a year

And then I tell them I won't consider any job that isn't paying $75 at a minimum.

And they say, "$75,000 a year? We might have some in that range."

And I say, "No, $75 an hour"

And they say, without fail, "NOBODY IS PAYING THAT MUCH!" as if they are personally offended that some peon pissant subhuman piece of garbage like myself is daring to waste their time

And I let them rant for a minute and then I say, "Well, I'm already making over $70 an hour, so I would need more money than that to consider a move."

And then the conversation gets real quiet for a moment, and then they mumble, "Well, if I hear of anything in your price range I'll keep you in mind..." and they hang up.

This isn't a "it happened to me once" thing. This conversation has happened 3 times in the last 2 years, and many times before that. It's beyond a joke, parody isn't a strong enough word for it. It's maddening.
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Yes. I have an instance running on the dev box. The only issue has been an issue with the right-click in Safari not properly handling PWAs like VSCode, causing it to show the iPadOS context menu over the VSCode menu.

It has been resolved in Webkit proper, but isn’t yet resolved in iPadOS, so I use a workaround to deal with it. I’m also enjoying trying out micro, helix, neovim and emacs as well for purely terminal based editors.
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Does anybody still use GoDaddy? (I do for some older domains, but I'm thinking to totally migrate to something else)
> The advantage of Snowflake is that the CIO can pick Snowflake as the default for the entire org

We are talking about companies that do not even have a CIO, which is just another way to say "most companies".
You don’t look a day over 35 on a dating app.
Often those settings are ignored or fuzzy. Tinder also doesn't show you what someone else's settings are, so you can't game that. When I'd set my age ranges to 30+, I'd still see people younger than that because the person on the other end would put older ranges in. It is kind of a two way fuzzy search engine.

I built a super popular dating app right before Tinder came onto the market... our search was intentionally pretty fuzzy in this regard.
This is amazing. (Note for the reader: look at the change <https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker/pull/2516/commits/196b1f...>).

There is so little that you stand to gain by agreeing to the CLA (and so much downside for them if they reject it and keep the status quo) that the best thing would be to say no.

And I hope that if they do keep it as-is and then someone comes along later and makes the fix, you hound them about violating your IP and cite their comment "we do not have the rights" as prima facie evidence. Make CLA worshippers bite the bullet on their goofy beliefs.
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Further information (not much) at https://9to5google.com/2023/08/21/youtube-music-generative-a...
OK, you're right, I apologize and take back what I said. Wouldn't have assumed at all from that description that blooming means adding a base.
Hydroxychloroquine has dangerous side effects for people with heart abnormalities, and shouldn't be prescribed without first determining if it's safe. The FDA warned about this in 2020, and also warned doctors to not prescribe it for COVID-19 since it's shown to be ineffective at treating it: https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-c...

The doctor never should have prescribed hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 because it was ineffective and the medical community already knew it at the time, and if they were going to they should have done a physical exam or taken labs to determine if it was safe first, and they didn't.
What you describe is exactly what has been happening in Argentina since the government of Perón more than 50 years ago. But as that economical dynamic is relatively new in the USA, it's not yet understood even by many highly educated HN readers.
Couldn't it be the other way around? That JK got into RISC-V because of its promising future?
Having started with FORTRAN in 1970, then discovering the beauty of IF-THEN-ELSE in PL/I, then using ALGOL W in college, all made Pascal a natural successor for me out of school (first MacPascal on Macintosh then Delphi on Windows). Still using Delphi 6 for projects to this day.

What was/is particularly nice about Delphi is the library of GUI objects, single .EXE output with no dependencies, and the ease with which arbitrary-length strings can be used.
One company who owes all of dating apps which decides almost a third of all relationships means they are responsible for almost every negative thing that happens. The job is also a bit too germanic for me, they are effective causing a holocaust.
I would consider following things before selecting a database offering:

- Whether the database vendor is a lock-in. It would be a straight "NO" for me if the database isn't open-source with proper license, since I can't self-host it in case, I need to move away from their SaaS offering due to various unexpected foreseen reasons: vendor decided to increase pricing, vendor has hidden pricing, vendor has reliability issues etc etc.

- How big is the community behind the database. Check their public forums to understand how community feels about the database and how their requirements are considered.

- Don't believe any random benchmarking post online but by doing my own benchmarking for my use-case.

- Check which other companies have adopted that database and read their experiences.
Stop using apps, especially if you're worried about "shadowbanning".

The open secret is that people use then to meet sex workers, who in turn sometimes troll people who they perceive as "harassing" them by reporting unwanted spam.

Imagine being lonely, going into a space to find a date, and having someone make your mental health worse because you wouldn't pay them for sex, when the whole reason you joined such a site is because you want an emotional connection and everything else aside... just don't want that.

I haven't used hinge, but I ended up deleting Tinder and OkCupid -- having coauthored a whole ass paper on the latter.

People need to be better about not using a PhD as a way to lift yourself out of economic precarity if you are unlucky enough to have affluent and absusive parents.
I've built a couple of Flutter apps and one of them was Flutter web. At the time (from 2020-2022), Flutter web definitely wasn't mature enough. It was a challenge and last time I checked (earlier 2023) there were some serious issues.

However your app seems to load very quickly and I can't see any glaring performance issues, and that leads me to think that maybe Flutter web has improved significantly in the last year. I sure hope so!
I worked at similar small newspapers for about ten years a few decades back. This sort of thing is common - get too close to some in power, and they pull tricks like this. We always said not to argue with those who buy their ink by the barrel.
I wonder how dating apps will fit into society in 10+ years - they are dominant now as the way for young people to find romantic partners, but from the accounts I've heard (all second-hand, I haven't used one in ~5 years) they appear to be getting worse and worse for people who are anything below average attractiveness (or perhaps are just bad at making an appealing profile). It makes me wonder if there will be a correction in the opposite direction where those people go back to meeting in bars, work, school, gyms, etc while the "very attractive" crowd remains in the dating app pool instead.

I have no data to suggest this will happen aside from the fact that there's a large segment of the population that is having more and more trouble finding partners this way due to algorithmic changes forcing them out of eligibility to talk to people they find attractive. I've had at least one friend get permanently banned for violating a rule she didn't violate on Hinge, and their policy was essentially "tough luck, nobody gets unbanned for any reason".

If such a shift did occur, it would be an interesting reversal from the early days of online dating (eharmony, match.com) where the perception was that it was a fallback for people who were unable to meet someone in person.
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Hey guys i made a tool with which you can create Photoshoots with a Single Selfie, you can create headshots, fitness shots, pictures for dating profile etc
I paid for whatever the premium version that lifts such restrictions is called. I'm fairly confident that I messaged everyone that matched and if the conversation died I would unmatch to clean things up.
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Steve Jobs would always make up stuff ("reality distortion field") to motivate and push people. One of his famous stories that I found very funny --

According to Mike Slade, he was working at Microsoft around 1990, and Jobs was trying to recruit him to NeXT. (Bear in mind that Microsoft was only a few years from launching its mega-hit Windows 95, while NeXT was struggling to sell computers.)

During a conversation, Jobs told Slade he would find his talents wasted in Seattle. In contrast, Jobs called Silicon Valley a hub of excitement and activity where Slade could blossom.

Jobs then launched into a spontaneous, impassioned speech. He described Palo Alto, California, as a “special place” and likened it to Florence during the Italian Renaissance. There was so much talent in the area, Jobs said, that you could walk down the street and bump into a scholar one moment, an astronaut the next.

Jobs’ off-the-cuff description of the place bowled over Slade. It was a twist on Jobs’ famous pitch to Pepsi CEO John Sculley. (Jobs asked whether Sculley wanted to sell sugar water his whole life or join Apple and change the world.)

After the talk, Slade agreed to pack up his stuff and move to Palo Alto.

Jump forward a year, and Slade and his wife were eating in Il Fornaio, an Italian chain restaurant with a location on University Avenue in Palo Alto.

“We were sitting there, in early ’91, and I’m reading the menu,” Slade recalled. “And on the back of the menu at Il Fornaio it says, ‘Palo Alto is like Florence in the Renaissance…’ And it goes through the whole spiel! The fucking guy sold me a line from the menu! From a chain restaurant!! Bad ad copy from Il Fornaio, which was his favorite restaurant, right? Such a shameless bullshitter!”

https://www.cultofmac.com/573753/how-jobs-poached-a-microsof...
I know governments aren't always commonsensical but it would seem odd if someone (not in the business) would need a business visa to attend Comic-Con or similar.
In general people throw the term shadow banned around too much. Whenever someone's content does poorly on youtube or tiktok they start claiming they've been shadow banned instead of considering their new content isn't worth watching.
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> there is the belief that 'identifying' as a women makes you a women

Do you mean that you do not believe that anyone has a brain chemistry that makes them feel like either they have the wrong gendered body or like they're not totally quite woman or man?

Or do you just mean that you don't trust everyone who pretends as such, and think there are some that are just opportunist about it?
Did they react to the announcement yet and said it'll stay that way? Otherwise that's not very useful so soon after the announcement.
Legalize apartments.
No doubt, idea languages are where the innovation happens and they're very important in that regard.
> If the most you can legally get is say $5000, then people wouldn't collect and squat in such giant volumes

Quite the opposite. They squat on giant volumes so they can stick ordinary people for $2500 instead of $10.

They should just prohibit selling domain names. It would solve 99% of the problem because then they couldn't use domain parking pages or otherwise openly offer them for sale.

Someone would still manage to sell million dollar domains by some subterfuge where it's claimed to be part of the sale of a company, but that was never the problem and has enough overhead to make it uneconomical for the low value domains that cause them to register every plausible variant of English text.
> 2. Prevent users from using "someprefix" as the prefix and show them the warning again.

Don't do this - examples in documentation should be valid. Having an example that doesn't work when the user tries it out will just lead to frustration.
You can find a mate without using a smartphone, you know...
I wouldn't try to circumvent their policies.

Get your own laptop for your studies, and just use the college's computers other than for sending in completed work.
Democtrats may be already evaluating the benefits of currency controls.
For the headline, "What Are FD&C Dyes ..." I was disappointed to see nothing about what FD&C dyes are (as opposed to a regular dye which I assumed is something like "a chemical that exhibits coloring power when dissolved").
Life, love, happiness, and hope. What wonderful things we will be denying to our children, and children's children if our species doesn't continue.

Propagation, and the want to make ourselves better through our children is an ancient need, and hope.

Why wouldn't it be the single most important thing?
I agree that it’s terrible, but you can still meet people in real life. This isn’t really aimed as a refutation your comment, but as pushback to people who are frustrated by these apps. It’s good to get away from them whenever possible.
Apple switched to Intel with first generation Intel Core Solo/Duo which were 32 bit CPUs in mid 2006. Then later that year they released "late 2006" models using Core 2 CPUs which were 64 bit. However, they only has support for 32-bit EFI so they could not boot 64-bit OS.

https://everymac.com/mac-answers/snow-leopard-mac-os-x-faq/m...
I know. I use a laptop.
Seems to have changed in the implementation indeed and I now didn't spend much time thinking through the current implementation.

But the old implementation had pointers to next and last (previous) element in the list: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/PHP-5.3/Zend/zend_hash.h...
Learning to leverage LLMs as part of software systems (distinct from LLMs for writing code, that'll be common soon as people catch on and it becomes acceptable to most).
3 Keys to dating:
Workout

don’t talk about yourself

don’t be reactive.
Well, if you don't like Verisign's service, you can always move one county over, and deal with a different TLD domain registrar for .com, just like with your Ford dealer.

(As an aside, I'd pay for a better-curated DNS infrastructure. For instance, google's font domains of whatever could just resolve to something federated, and that has TLS certs that are trusted by the alternative infrastructure. Google's chain of trust could be on a certificate revocation list.)
> antitrust law has more or less ceased to exist.

I’ve always wondered if this is because of globalisation. If you want your country’s companies to dominate the world market, then a strong home base would help.
>to things like Dollar Tree where you can pay double the unit rate to buy a small portion of a normal product.

It seems like you're implying that Dollar Tree is unethical for putting forward an investment in order to take advantage of economies of scale and then paying for overhead, shipping, and retail space to sell their goods at a profit.

What do you propose as an alternative to this? Should these goods be taken from those who are able to produce them at a wage set by the government and then distributed to those who need them, as prescribed by SSI, after nationalizing Dollar Tree and its ilk? How will the amount that the producers are owed for their labor be determined, or does this even matter?

Or maybe if this kind of discount store is immoral, maybe it should be banned. Are you suggesting that the customers of Dollar Tree would be better off if they simply went without whatever wares Dollar Tree has? Or that individual consumers should somehow gain access to the economies of scale that arise with being able to afford, eg, an entire container ship full of junk coming from east Asia?
Is this not just the general approach to system design?
When I’m writing software, my first thought is list everything that could go wrong?

Or am I just a hopelessly anxious person lol
I have to stand up for the poor, misunderstood wasp ;) First of, most kinds of wasps are not especially aggressive, for example consider the hornet or any of the solitaries. The ones you are probably thinking of when you say "asshole wasps" are the Common Wasp, the German Wasp and the Yellowjacket, which are all social nest builders. They are also very well adapted to human habitats, so we often occupy the same space. I had to spend two seasons with nests of German Wasps near my porch (they are a protected species and only moved if absolutely necessary) before they were driven out by hornets (another social wasp).

Thus I can only talk about the Common and the German Wasps with confidence. Those are not assholes most part of their short lives. They are animals and as such show predictable behaviour. Corner them, squeeze them, go near their nest, or suffocate them (e.g. breath on them) and they defend themselves. Otherwise, a busy worker wasp will just ignore you, just like a bee would.

Unfortunatly worker wasps are only busy 9/10 if their lives. The last 1/10 are a spent in a drunken stupor. Once the nest closes down the worker wasps suddenly become homeless and unemployed. Devoid of purpose, they spend their remaining days binging on sugar and fat, looking for brawls (a little bit like football hooligans). Unfortunatly the hunger for sugar and fat brings them even more in contact with humans, because we are a ready source for all of this.

Still, we can manage, most of us are smarter than them. If you have a fixed position, e.g. a porch, take packaging paper and rumple it into a football sized contraption resembling a social wasps nest and hang it somewhere visible. Wasps try to avoid other nests. If you are lucky hornets nest nearby. Hornets are usually docile, very easy to spot and avoid, but they are fierce nest protectors. They also like to snack on wasps.

When camping, sacrifice a beer or other sugary substance by putting it very accessible in a bowl a 5 or so metres away from where you are sitting. Coordinate with your neighbors if it is crowded ;) Even hooligan wasps prefer the troublefree beverage to zipping around other troublesome animals (i.e. us). Last but not least, you can almost always wave individual wasps aside. Take a sheet of paper or handheld fan and slowly produce an airstream to keep them away from that sugary pie-hole in your face.

I have only been stung once in the last 10 years or so and only because the poor thing got entangled in my shirt and panicked.
And like most large faceless companies, if you're somehow banned, you have no recourse. I have no idea what I did, when I did it, or who I supposedly did something to, but I can't use Hinge anymore on my phone number. Also banned from Match but not Bumble or Tinder. The apps are indeed a shit-show and I no longer use them. Facebook singles groups and going out in real life are how I'm meeting people now. Much more satisfying and engaging than endless swiping and rejection. FWIW, I'm a genx male, divorced with kids 50/50, and a stable job. A little dad-bod, but not grossly overweight. I'm not a 10 but I'd rate myself a probably a 6-7.
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