skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right. Linux distros were pioneers and it used to be great, but it's gone off the rails now. Running kde-neon I have pkcon, apt/aptitude (for when I forget pkcon or one of its commands), flatpaks, AppImages, and the usual rigamarole of uninstalling snap and then setting up app-level installers for the things that previously only had snap candidates (lookin' at you Firefox). On the RH side I have both yum and dnf? Mokay.

Back when I was installing KDE on top of another distro, I'd also have the Discover front-end sitting next to Gnome's Software Center (or whatever it was). That should be somewhat expected and is more an indication of the bloat that major window managers have embraced.

The front-ends are decent about showing what source a piece of software came from, which is nice, but the last time I used them they didn't stop one from installing the same piece of software from two different sources.

All to say, back in the day it was so convenient to have yum or aptitude just take care of things installing software, resolving conflicts, etc. Now we're in a bit of a mire.
There are some better resources for rubber hose animation as it is studied by designers and animators along with other popular styles/movements. (1)

Your answer is largely correct, rubber hose refers to the limbs which are thick black lines that lack obvious joints, instead they have the rubbery(bouncy) movement you've described.

(1) https://www.adobe.com/uk/creativecloud/animation/discover/ru...
There is zero chance that I, a US resident, will ever use debit cards for anything.

Does being a US resident have any meaning here? I mean, does the rest of the world not secure credit card payments, or does the rest of the world secure debit card payments like the US secures credit card payment?
A free SQLite database for every Val Town user
Create what is essentially a public API to your browsing history and sell it as a privacy feature. Bold move.

I would find it acceptable if you would set those topics yourself. Hopefully, they can at least be randomised via an extension.
I think the gp is kind to even call this "hyperbolic". There is no comparison between Amazon and a concentration camp, just because people are worked hard at amazon.

The reason Auschwitz was bad was not because people worked hard there. It was because people were enslaved and murdered there.

It would be like comparing a camp site to a concentration camp, because both are "camps". The comparison yields no useful insights.
You're missing the point. Power came not from Excel the file format, but Excel the GUI tool for editing Excel files. You cannot have drop-downs and colour pickers and separate tabs and embedded images in a single python file without writing a a whole custom GUI config tool.
iPhone 15 RAM increase Pro models get 8GB
It only works because packages are distributed via a carefully curated, centrally-managed repository with socially-enforced norms.
> outside of the US tech bubble, $100m lasts plenty long for 100 people, even with overheads.

Outside where? The EU? Plenty long... like 5 years?

150K per employee on average with overhead (additional benefits, tax contributions, health care -- whatever other expenses). 15,000,000 a year.

Add in real estate, equipment, other capital expenses. Yeah, looks like ~5 years.
If you know you might be targeting iOS, you'll be using GDScript, right? It's one of the first choices that comes up in docs or online discussions when you research which scripting language to use.
There's no good distinction, but given that browsers have caches, I think there's at least a very blurry line there.
The difference between a "package being installed by a package manager" and "an application being installed by an installer" can be as small as you want. Linux packages have "installers and uninstallers" in the sense that inside a .deb file for example there are scripts doing necessary tasks for installing and uninstalling. And whether they make a mess is only dependent on these scripts behaving in a way that doesn't make a mess.

So having a package format or package repository doesn't necessarily prevent packages from doing arbitrary or stupid things (there is no difference between a .deb file or an .msi file in that regard). The app store ore repository might add a level of human vetting, but technically there is no difference.

I would argue that it's better to have most of the vetting be technical: ensure that the package/installer format doesn't allow making a mess. Sandbox everything, prevent writes in the wrong places etc. More modern formats like flakpak/msix/etc are of course better in this regard.

And the key thing about them is that they prevent a mess on the technical level so that the human vetting (and thus repository) isn't really required.
They don't. XDG specifications are recommendations. Their only power is that your software will integrate poorly with other software (specially desktop software) if you ignore their guidelines.
I haven't used Linux in a while, but I do remember seeing browser extensions in the package manager.
There was a case a few year back around the time of the 2008 recession where a man in debt used the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to earn a decent living from their aggressive/dishonest practices. I did try Googling for the story, but I could find it.

His process was to let them lie to him - he even encouraged it, all while he was recording the call. After the call ended he'd launch a legal claim for compensation and he'd always win.

For example if they implied he could be jailed for not paying him debt, he ask them to confirm what they must said and use that as evidence of a violation of the FDCPA.

His logic was that in the good days credit companies were begging him to take on debt, but when the economy crashed and he found himself out of work they weren't so understanding about his circumstances.
The second thing reminds me of how Jest does snapshot testing: the first time you run it, it simply edits the JS source file with the result. For a test runner to edit test code feels weird at first but it works spectacularly well.
> 1. Retirement ages have generally been increasing over the period which should offset this.

It won't because you're adding like 5 years of work from a cohort that amounts to around 3% of the total population, while at the same time you're already missing at least double that from the deficit of births in the 90s and it's only going to get worse.

> 2. Immigration is a thing.

From where? The supply of immigrants who went to school is dwindling - and has been for over 20 years now because they're not born in source countries.

> 3. Kids are labour intensive so if we weren't having kids, maybe that freed up labour depressing wages that are now returning to 'normal' rather than wages being 'normal' previously.

Children aren't "full time for the rest of your life" labour intensive - I should know since I'm a parent.

> 4. What nation has anywhere near zero employment?

I don't understand this question and how it relates to what I wrote.
> The reason is that in the event of a fraudulent charge

Not sure if a fraudulent charge of a debit card is a thing I ever heard of in Europe. These cards have also been using chips for over 20 years. Maybe they work differently here.

To me credit cards sound less secure than debit cards: debit cards have chips and pin codes. With credit cards, knowing the number is in theory enough (they have digital verification now too though). Also, with debit cards, you put it in the payment terminal yourself.

With credit cards, in the US I've had the waiters in restaurants taking your credit card from your table, walking to somewhere else with it, and giving it back to you later. I had never seen that before (In Europe, they carry a portable payment thingie in which you can put/tap credit or debit cards to the table). How is that more secure? They could easily copy the number there.
Try googling for "Jaime Maussan hoax" to get an impression on the reliability of his past claims.
I assume the rest of the world is less stupid/greedy than the US here, but honestly I have no idea how this works elsewhere - that's the reason for the "US resident" clarification.
You are trying to get me going, aren't you?
It's in my profile, I wanted to focus on experience with LÖVE instead of shilling. (thanks for interest!)
I don’t have quantitative data but my employer recently released an internal llama v2 at 70B FP16. The internal front end allows us to switch between different LLMs. I would say it’s very on par and sometimes better than GPT3.5 for the task I use it for. You’ll get a lot of different answers here because not many people run 70B at FP16.
And by simply turning off you mean:

1. Go to: chrome://settings/adPrivacy

2. Click Ad topics

3. Turn off toggle.

4. Click back Arrow.

5. Click Site-suggested ads

6. Turn off Toggle.

7. Click back arrow.

8. Click Ad measurement

9. Turn off toggle.

10. Repeat the same on every computer you have Chrome installed on.

11. Figure out if this is also an issue on mobile browsers installed, and if not, when it will be rolling out to disable it then.

12. Hope that an update doesnt flip the toggles.
> Arguably prisons should not be privatized in the first place.

Private prisons house ~8% of all prisoners in the US.
CISA Open Source Software Security Roadmap
It's almost like, having a true fixed supply, land is a separate class of economic good and shouldn't be seen the same way as everything else. Georgism ftw
Coder 2.0: Keep Developers in Flow
Ummm how do you know what Slack workspace you're in?

Use case: I'm in #general. Can I ask a clarifying question about $DAYJOB's (currently private) Q4 plans... or did I accidentally leak that private information because no I'm _actually_ in the #general for _Javascript Geniuses Slacking Together_ community?
See also: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-could-ban-whi...
Something about this feels off to me; it has the form of bold transparency, but I don't end up with much clarity. I really want to hear about this from some of the game developers they worked with.
France has a huge "cellular EM waves are bad" movement so I wouldn't trust them about this either. It's weird that they are the only country where these iPhones seem to misbehave.
Unshielded microwave ovens definitely cause cancer. The energy penetrates the skin, and some of it plays billiards with the atoms in DNA, genetic transcription machinery, etc.

I can’t find a study because the internet is full of blog spam saying your microwave oven has shielding that keeps emissions to a safe level (of course), and studies looking at microwave radiation exposure near the cell phone limit, not 1000x higher, which is roughly what your microwave does if the shielding is missing or the safety interlock is broken.
> To the developers: You signed a contract, and now you expect to not have to live up to it?

From what I can tell, it’s more like they have a short term contract they are happy with, but their business model requires them to be able to extend it. They can avoid the new fees ‘simply’ by not letting any user download their Unity games after Jan 1.

But yeah, using free software would avoid this.
At the present, we don't have enough evidence to be concerned about low-power EM radiation. However, this does not rule out the possibility that in the future, we might find a causal link between that kind of radiation and adverse health outcomes. What we do know at the moment is that this type of radiation can heat tissues. What are the long-term biological consequences of that? We don't really know. My advice: try to minimize your exposure out of caution, but don't get too worried about it.
India and Germany just from the top of my head, I assume there are others.
If you are eventually granted citizenship, it can be stripped for fraud.
Google Cloud Infrastructure Manager: Provision Resources with Terraform
I can't imagine arguing or thinking seriously that the majority of computers exist even "effectively" to only hurt us in some way. By computer did you actually mean some sort of antique ball torture device? I won't argue that the companies that control and make these devices aren't evil and responsible for some pretty awful things but it's really odd to argue that most users are "hurting" themselves by using the devices they use.

I promise they would consider having the type of full control and responsibility you're describing as far more harmful and annoying than anything those big 4 could accomplish to them individually.
YAML is mainly for configuration files. JSON sucks at being configuration file format, it is mainly used for serialization in HTTP requests. Those 2 have different use cases.
>If the only installer available was one provided by the OS

There's the non-sequitur. OP never said that this is what should happen. It is strange to leap to this assumption while also wanting to define portable programs and archives as 'installers'.

In the context of Windows, 'special' installers means the programs you run to be able to use a different program that don't appear on other OSes.
You’re assuming that there’s a population of companies that failed, but also had PMF

This is a contradiction as PMF is defined as having BOTH successful business relationship and product used.

Where are these failed companies with useful products that people are using?
It's not proprietary or not, it's the level of discipline about installing software. iOS is completely proprietary and has a very disciplined system for installing and uninstalling apps. The Windows non-system of installers/uninstallers is really anarchy except to the end user it looks like a system because the installers/uninstaller mostly look the same, mainly because

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InstallShield

became a defacto standard endorsed by Microsoft and everybody else tries to look like it.

The real Windows "quirk" that this article skirts around is that Windows won't let you delete a file which is open and of course if you are running an executable that counts as an open file. This of course can be a huge hassle if you need to delete something and can't find the process which is holding the file open. It's particularly annoying for things like software builds where you really want a script that automatically and reliably clears a lot of stuff away so you can make a fresh start.

Now, POSIX has the opposite "quirk" that you can "delete" an open file and it completes right away because all you did was delete the link from the directory to the file. The file still exists because it has a link from the process that has it open, it really gets deleted when that link goes away.

That can get you in just as much or more trouble than the way Windows does it can, for instance if some series of events caused your system log to fill the disk, you can "rm" the log and the disk is still full. To really free up the space you need to "rm" and then restart the log daemon.

As for Linux it's got the problem of a proliferation of package managers in the sense of things like flatpak and snap and generally the (dumpster fire I think) of Docker images (like the place where they thought Docker would help stabilize their Python installations but somehow our data scientists kept finding strangely broken Python images that were real nightmare fuel for me; e.g. default character encodings that I didn't think anybody actually used)

Windows has realized the ability to install software in C:/Program Files/ and D:/Program Files/ and often in a user's home directory (if the installer supports it.) 20 years ago I thought rpm's sucked and thought "any software worth installing is worth building from source" where I could do

make-install --prefix=/usr|/usr/local|$HOME

that is I didn't have to beg for my sysadmin to do something like

apt-get install nethack

I am impressed with the comparative speed of installing from a package manager, but I still can't install a local copy of software with one, and I should be able to.
As evidence of authenticity, Amazon commented on the matter officially after Gizmodo reported this leak in 2018,[1] which I have pasted an excerpt of below.

> We’re perplexed as to why Gizmodo takes issue with a company wanting to better engage its employees, train hundreds of managers to maintain an open and direct dialogue with associates, and create channels to drive innovation on behalf of the customer in a caring and inclusive environment. The reporter clearly cherry-picked soundbites from the video to meet his editorial objective and do not align with our view on how to create career opportunities for employees.

[1] https://gizmodo.com/amazons-aggressive-anti-union-tactics-re...
In principle I have no objection with those options as I've had to use all of them given the nature of the Windows ecosystem.

The trouble is that MS never paid much attention to tracking and cleaning up after installations or after uninstallers has finished. Often this doesn't matter but when something seriously goes wrong untangling the mess can be almost impossible, it's often easier to reinstall Windows and usually much quicker (that's if one has a simple installation).

Unfortunately, my installations aren't simple so I take snapshots at various stages of the installion—stage-1 raw install with all drivers, stage-2 essential utilities, and so on. By stage-4, I have a basic working system with most of my programs. Come the inevitable Windows stuff-up I reinstall from a backup image, it's much quicker than starting from scratch.

Between those major backups, I use the registry backup utility ERUNT, it not only takes registry snapshots on demand but also automatically backs up the registry on a daily basis. This, I'd venture, is the most important utility I've ever put on a Windows computer, I cannot recall how many times it's gotten me out of trouble.

Just several days ago I had a problem reinstalling an update to a corrupted Java jre/runtime. Nothing I did would make the installer install as the earlier installation was not fully uninstalled, thus log files etc. weren't a help.

In the end I had to delete the program dir and other Java files I could find, same with registry entries. As expected, this didn't work, as I hadn't found everything.

Knowing the previous version number of Java I did a string search across the OS and found another half dozen or so Java files. Retried the install again and it still failed. I then ran ERUNT which replaced the registry with an earlier pre-Java one and the install now worked. This still meant that some programs that were added later, LibreOffice for example, had to be reinstalled to update the registry.

If I hadn't had ERUNT installed I'd have had to go back to reinstalling an earlier partition backup. And if I'd not had those then I'd have been in real trouble.

That's the short version. Fact is, Windows is an unmitigated mess when it comes to installations. Why can't I force an installer to complete even with faults? Why doesn't Windows remember exactly what happens during an installation so it can be easily undone?

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Edit: if you've never used ERUNT and decide to do so, always ensure you shut Windows down and restart it after installing a backup registry before you do anything else—that's in addition to the mandatory reboot required to install the backup.

You may have multiple registry backups and decide the version you've just loaded wasn't the one you want. Loading another without this additional reboot [refresh] will blue-screen the O/S. You'll then have to install the backup manually and that's very messy.
The UK -- boosters for high risk groups and people over 60 (at the moment): https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/covid-19/covid-19-vaccination/...

France: https://www.thelocal.fr/20230811/france-plans-new-covid-vacc...

Germany -- boosters for high risk groups: https://www.dw.com/en/covid-19-dont-wait-until-autumn-for-a-...

The Netherlands: https://www.government.nl/topics/coronavirus-covid-19/dutch-...

Denmark: https://www.thelocal.dk/20230609/denmark-to-offer-covid-and-...

Norway: https://www.fhi.no/en/id/corona/coronavirus-immunisation-pro...

So yes, boosters are being rolled out for older people and at-risk groups, all over the place.

I pretty much found these just by googling: <random country name> covid booster 2023

If/when you are an eligible age, will you get your health authority's recommended annual/winter flu jab? (e.g. the multivalent vacine offered to all eligible older adults in the UK).

If not, why not? If yes, why not Covid?
Phones are longer than 6.3cm, so put the other camera on the other end, with the added benefit of encouraging landscape-oriented images as well.
Does each parameter need double the allocation size?
I beg to differ. If there are indentions, it is easy to fold long lists. For TOML, it takes mental effort to check whether items are from the same list or another. Additionally, in TOML, there are multiple ways to write a list (unlike in JSON), which makes it harder to parse - at least for me.
15 Pro has the same brightness specs as 14 Pro.
You folks just fixed my iPhone 12! It was my first iPhone, and the lightning port "broke" after two months. In the years since then, I just charged wirelessly and made sure I always have a Qi pad available (battery life on the 12 series is not great). I just took a plastic twist tie, the kind you use for PC cables, and aggressively scraped the port's insides, especially the back/bottom since there's no contacts there. Lo and behold, I fished out a lapdog's worth of lint and the phone immediately started charging again.
Of course, obviously not accidental.
Offline password managers offer sync features that make that issue more tractable. Better than having using the password variant scheme, anyway.
Adobe has a great resource, but it was an aesthetically pleasing solution for needing to churn out a lot of footage. Rubber hose is extremely forgiving as there is no viewer expectation of the limb range/mobility, and this feature was often exploited to turn limbs into other objects as needed.

https://www.adobe.com/uk/creativecloud/animation/discover/ru...
> Or do they just enumerate the other processes handles to that file and close them?

AFAIK, that's exactly what they do. And it can cause problems, see for instance https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/technet-...
This just doesn’t sound realistic. It’s extremely inefficient and the pay out is low. There are a million of better ways to launder money.
I wish they would have one IDE for everything - what IntelliJ used to be.
This has been reposted many times over the last ~10 years: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=vocore

While it's not useless, it's also so underpowered, you might as well stick to the ESP32 family. MIPS 24k is not great, even if you run the smallest linux distro ever. It's essentially WRT54G tech from 2002.

As with all hardware like this, it's the ecosystem that makes or breaks it, not the product on its own. That said, it's survived this long so it must be a good fit for some people out there.
If JSON just originally had comments there wouldn't be such a proliferation of redundant configuration language, since JSON serves perfectly well 99% of cases.
The solo piano was interesting because of how clean it is. I can imagine going from that sample to a score without too much difficulty. Once it's in a symbolic format it becomes much more flexible and re-usable.

While this does not seem to be the trend I hope more gen ai in the audio and visual realms start to produce more structured / symbolic output. For example, if I were Adobe I would be training models, not to output full images, but either layers or brush strokes and tool pallet usage. Same for organizations that have all the component tracks of music to work with.
You're exactly right, I think the watch form factor is where I see it going aswell. I can't understand why companies are throwing millions into developing a light weight Pipboy as the next big think. A phone is mostly a content consumer at this point. Sell me screen freedom with voice as the primary interface for the OS.