skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have fallen out of love with Raspberry Pi due to the performance. In desktop mode, I have found it too lacking to be any fun. It even struggles to run the web browser. And things like Mathematica, that you get for free which is awesome, are just much too sluggish to be very much fun.
I'm glad you added that parenthetical postscript at the end lol.
After reading your first two sentences, I was nearly salivating over the reply button. "OH MAN, WAIT TILL THIS GUY LEARNS ABOUT /~THIS~/ CLASSIC STALLMAN SNAFU FROM YESTERYEAR!!!".
Of course, they are. I didn't claim they weren't...
Unless high inflation topples the banks.
Re: Jobs specifically, if one has cancer it's best to accept it immediately and to get chemo and other treatments that work, as opposed to colon cleanses, acupuncture etc.. Had he done this his odds of survival. He reportedly expressed regret about this towards the end, per [0].

I think about this kind of thing lot, like how I think about TotalBiscuit's cancer and his regret regarding not getting seen to earlier. The profound level of regret these people must have felt during their final days must have been frustrating and saddening, but I appreciate their efforts to warn others as they have been responsible for me personally making sure I get serious signs and symptoms seen to rather than ignoring a bloody stool as though it's normal, or thinking I can treat something myself without professional advice.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/oct/21/steve-job...
Low-Quality Image Placeholder Technique to Optimize Largest Contentful Paint
Largest Contentful Paint [1], one of the main metric to measure perceived load speed, tends to penalize low-quality image placeholder. This article digs into how, what can be done to remain on the right side of LCP when your LCP is an image, and why you don't want to just upscale.

[1] https://web.dev/lcp/
Not always.

My friend in Vietnam was saying how it wasn’t that long ago (10-20 years maybe?) when property was purchased directly with gold talens.

You exchanged Vietnamese dong for gold, then transferred that to the seller.

I assume it was done to avoid the crazy inflation and concern over validating that a massive stack of bills didn’t include counterfeits. And the lack of foreign currency to convert to.
> Besides, it was in Europe. Us Europeans do not have the same epidermic reaction to communism that Americans have.

You're just making it worse and worse. I'm also European. I'm guessing you're Western European though? I'm also guessing your country wasn't under soviet occupation for 50 years? Eastern Europeans very much do have a bad allergic reaction to communism, just like Americans, and just like everyone else who came in contact with it. Che was at best a useful idiot.
There's not much data to back the claim. And given this line you would have to expect a lot of spying going on from any other country in the world than Germany and the USA:

> Germany, the cables said, was trying to develop an optical observation-based satellite spy system with Washington's help despite objections from France, which is leading pan-European efforts in the field with its Helios satellites.
There is some soft irony that the t-shirt depicting Stallman supporting "revolution" is made in China and coming from Aliexpress.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005081587056.html
More like "not just become evil, but also be actively punished for not to comply".
Same with nazis below - if you go against, you risk to go to jail/die.
Same with corpo CEOs - if they fail to maximise the profit, they would get fired and replaced. Or if they take risk to not copycat other companies.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-66957589

"A boy, 16, has been held on suspicion of criminal damage and bailed"
I talked with him briefly some 20+ years ago and he showed me his laptop with Free software. As I was younger back then I found it quaint but as I sit here and realize I'm doing something in the same vein, doing things thanks to a mountain of Free software.

As I am prone to do when I'm brought back to that moment where I was just chatting with the RMS, I smile and wonder how many other dumb college compsci kids were exposed to a different kind of way of doing things that basically changed their lives.

Get well soon Mr. Stallman!
I presume you're being ironic.

One should listen to them.

One should also be aware of the massive selection bias in views you're going to hear.
I still do this all the time with Java. Especially because the application is rather slow to start or setup whatever I want to debug. It can also influence how you structure the code. In my opinion to the better.

If you mutate state all over a method it is harder to "restart" the method after changing it. Instead I tend to either not mutate state and return the result or work with local variables and just change the object at the very end of the method.

Or might start to more separate a lock/transaction from what is processed within because when "restarting" the method you don't want to relock it.
> It isn't sustainable, and it's a sign of bad leadership

It can be sustainable; not all FOSS projects need every possible contributor. Being a good leader is not a prerequisite, either. Direct cooperation isn’t even necessary!

The fact that source code is available allows anyone to fork and compete with the original authors. On average, only mismanaged projects will get out-competed by their forks.
Reddit knows full well we declined the cookies, but they keep """fOrGeTtInG""" to fix this bug... absolutely infuriating.
Dart is alive and well in Flutter: https://flutter.dev/
Please don't paraphrase and assume my position, it weakens your position to strawman in that manner.

Depends on the circumstances - which specific protest in the US continuously occupied and blocked off major transport thoroughfares in the USofA for a month?
www.ancienttreeforum.org.uk says: "Ancient trees are those which have reached a great age in comparison with others of the same species." "A birch tree could be considered as ancient at 150 years old, for example, but an oak tree would not be thought of as ancient until it’s at least 400 years old."

I'm not sure everyone would understand the expression in that way, though.

(As already discussed in the Wikipedia talk page, now that this tree has been felled, someone should count the rings and tell us exactly how old it was!)
All things that will come with time. What makes for a viable product is if the mind is 'tricked' enough into believing it's seeing an actual person instead of a 3D replica.
Joke's on them because debugging is already a nightmare.

I've been using Swift since its inception, it's been years since I've been able to pause execution at a certain breakpoint and do "po object" and get something back that is not an error.
something for emacs

https://orgmode.org/

lots of people love it (mostly ancients and nerds)

i'm more of an obsidian guy, just simple markdown notes.
> it would be illegal for companies to do any philanthropy at all.

Most of philanthropy is free marketing with tax deductible spendings sadly. I.e. smart marketing and creative accounting, so they spend a little to gain much more in return.
You don’t have to login either iirc. If you don’t want to use old Reddit, there is an option to open in the browser anyway. At least for me on iOS + Firefox.
It's true that in Western Europe it's fine to show the communist symbols.

To Westerner, they never saw communism in action, only propaganda.

Which means that kids can proudly wear their capitalistic-made Che Guevara t-shirt at school.

However, in Eastern Europe it's an absolute no, wearing such shirts is worse than the nazi symbols

because it shows support to extreme atrocities in front of people who were victim of them.
There are still naive people who believe the vaccines do anything at this stage?
You can still donate to the developers of the APP you use in Linux. It is like an NPR or PBS model of free stuff paid for by donations from companies and individuals.
> what does non-copyleft bring you compared to copyleft?

This is not a statement of my values; simply providing plausible answers to that question.

Usually non-copyleft free software is written in a variant of these scenarios:

1. Paid for by a company whose business model is distinct from selling software (e.g. ads) and prefers to not have to worry about copyleft licensing issues in small contributions they get back from the community and be free to integrate it in proprietary products.

2a. An individual author who will indirectly benefit (in both ego and monetary ways) by writing a popular piece of software. Copyleft in fact limits the spread of the software. Think Tanenbaum being excited and proud when the news that MINIX is used in Intel Management Engine came out.

2b. Result of a academic research that benefits from maximum spread. Lots of consuming companies prefer Apache to GPL and are more likely to use the non-copyleft software.
How long ago was this?

20 years ago, all I saw were dual mono bayonet jacks you'd need an adapter for to plug in normal headphones, but straws would get you nowhere.

I was curious so I searched: https://simpleflying.com/inflight-entertainment-headphones-e... - pneumatic headphones from the 1960s were used on Delta as late as 2003, but electronic headsets debuted on 767 in 1982.

Apparently the dual mono jacks are to discourage people taking the headphones, rather than restricting access to audio.
I hope he’s able to manage it well (since the prognosis is good) and is around for a lot longer.

We need absolutists like him who go to extremes and are known widely. For a few moments, leave aside his personality and what people have said about his behavior or hygiene. If he hadn’t been there, our world would’ve been a lot different and a lot poorer. A visionary is what he was and is.

While the Free part of FOSS is being substituted by “(just) open source” and “source available”, while DRM goes deeper into our lives, and while everything is becoming a “hosted service”, one can only hope for (and put efforts into) going back to the ideals he proposed and pushing back on the elements that control us and seek to do even more so.

We all don’t have to be absolutists (it comes at the cost of convenience, which most people prefer), but there are enough of such people around the world as far as FOSS is concerned. Whenever I see FOSS meetups and people connecting over it, that’s something I’m grateful for and wholeheartedly support (though I’m not one of them).
Aljazeera is based in Qatar - an environment not known for trees. The native Sidra tree only lives for 50-100 years. So in that context 300 is fairly ancient.

https://unfccc.int/process/conferences/pastconferences/doha-...
>our oldest tree

That's in Scotland not in England.
How did you manage to misspell ChatGPT?

Maybe we should take your insight with a giant grain of salt. Especially since it's not groundbreaking.

Why doesn't HN have a downvote option?
> An engineer could design a device gluing a inner core of hard wood or so ...

You'd probably be better off to use an internal splint/pin of some sort.

Rough guess (with no calculations done), something along the lines of drilling a 30cm wide hole both ~half a metre upwards into the remaining trunk, and downwards into the stump, then fit a matching stainless steel rod to mount the tree back onto the stump.

To keep it from spinning on that rod (!), you'd probably use a second smaller pin (20cm x 40cm?) offset a bit.

No idea how to splice the upper and lower bark together though, such that there is adequate nutrient flow. :(
You’d say the opinions of people back home would presumably be different?
I agree with the essence of what you're saying.

It's always been my opinion that the FSF screwed the pooch when it came to spreading their message. This starts right from their very name - the "Free" Software Foundation. Anyone of didn't know their message would understand them to be a group arguing that all software should be free of charge. This is completely orthogonal to their actual message of software having the ability to be easily understood and customized as needed by a tech-savvy user who has fairly compensated the original authors. They aimed for and missed badly the sweet spot message that all software should make simple things simple and complex things possible.

This expectation that users should not have to pay for the apps/software they use has partly lead to the dystopian landscape that is our ad-supported modern software experience. Users today think they're entitled to the same standard for all software they use. They expect LibreOffice Calc to be having the same feature set as MS Excel while at the same time paying nothing for it.
Hs2 needlessly cut down thousands of ancient oaks
How necessary are the programming fundamentals (2021)
The Pi 5 seems to be pretty head-to-head with the OPie 5: https://www.phoronix.com/review/raspberry-pi-5-benchmarks/3
How is it a 'blue dollar' rate?

Firstly the bars are being sold only a couple of percentage points above spot. This is a perfectly normal price for decent bars or coins in small sizes.

Secondly the 'blue dollar' concept refers to the fact that Argentines are restricted from buying more than a certain amount of US dollars. They pay much higher prices to buy dollars illegally. US citizens can buy as much gold as they like, and Costco is not an underground or illicit market.
I know you're being facetious, but it really didn't land well.
> Have you ever voted in an election?

I have voted in every election I had the opportunity to vote, including union election. And yes I think it matters. But democracy is not just about the procedural token of the election. I am also engaged in my union and in my local town council (and should probably do more).

And there is a wide range of possible actions between being a hero (which is for me the definition of great personal sacrifice for the common good) and a "selfish asshole". I am a realist and don't expect everyone to be a hero. In fact, I expect no one to be hero. I don't want anyone to have to suffer for doing the right thing, that is why I believe in collective action because I don't think personal solution are useful against systematic problems.

But by the tone of your comment, I don't think we are communicating on the same level. So let's agree to disagree and have a very good day.
It's good to see an assumption I had, be validated. The assumption was that Linux would struggle to make a dent in the desktop market until it managed to make a tempting proposition for gamers. Projects like WINE tried, but there's just not enough you can do only with open-source contributors, with such a massive undertaking. I'm happy that a big company is finally backing this effort and with nvidia open-sourcing their gpu kernel modules, I'd say exciting times are up ahead :)
I'm wondering if it's not possible to restore it. We have the technology to reattach an amputated leg or arm but not restore wood?
Nope not just that. Diet, not smoking not drinking will go a long way to reduce your risks too. And also keeping good vitamin D levels (highly correlated with lower cancer risk)
In EU, credit card processing is way more than 0.3%.
> “Dog bites man” wouldn’t make headlines

Dogs biting humans made headlines in the UK multiple times in the last few weeks.

I understand this is a saying, just pointing out that right now it is less than true. :)
The open source release of XLA predates Lattner's tenure at Google by 7 months, and it definitely existed before that -- the codebase was already 66k SLOC at that point. During his tenure it went from 100k SLOC to 250k SLOC. It's now 700k SLOC. He also has, as far as I can tell, zero commits in the XLA codebase. "Of LLVM fame" would be more accurate I think.
You cant really be happy if you completely lack money either.
In most part - don't live old. It also helps when you don't poison yourself (indeed tobacco, polluted air, alcohol, you name it, are poisons even when tolerable in small quantities) and exercise enough.
Wood thieves fall in a different category; Those are the worst offenders by number. Companies or local goverments stealing trees from public parks has became a too common activity since the austericide. Very profitable also; most people don't understand that plants have a big economical value just as raw materials. But is not this case; nobody tried to remove the wood.

Revenge is a fact. Some protected very old oaks had been killed in Spain after tourism to see them became too invasive. Probably not the same with the sycamore, but it could be a team of badly advised locals, for sure.

The fact is that there is a global pattern in Europe and USA of manipulating rednecks and gullible people against nature. Social media is doing this all the time resulting in a lot of wildfires in Europe lately. Remote manipulation seems probable here.
It's not a large part of it. There's a large vision of self-reliance, which is definitely not the whole country, or more than half the country, but that's not quite the same thing.
Kenji came up with a method[0] which actually only takes ~15 minutes -- but it does produce very mushy onions, so it won't work for all applications.

0. https://www.seriouseats.com/quick-caramelized-onions-recipe
There is virtually no evidence that bio food or organic food is better for you
Or how we like to call them, caudillos. The most latin-american thing after cumbia music and empanadas.
“Mainstream left” is a race? That’s news to me! If you meant why would you criticise the Māori instead of the Individuals? Well, the individuals in question are long dead and who the exact people responsible are is unclear.
Think is broadly right, noting the arbitrariness of 5 days. The challenge is that numerous other systems have been built around the idea of 5 days, so how to maintain a seamless 4 days or less. It’s a massive mindset shift.
> Also there is no french word for entrepreneur.

It's hard to tell whether you are being sarcastic. In case you aren't: entrepreneur is a French word. https://www.etymonline.com/word/entrepreneur
Google for “curl oauth2” for lots of helpful explanations and examples.
The one table model is exactly what "delayed_jobs" for ruby does (at least with postgres). Furthermore there's no broker; each worker does his own query for the next job/thing/action to take on, so as you scale with more workers it can get really contentiony on the one table.
Holding this (and my emotional reaction to it) in mind while reading the State of Nature report 2023 [1]

Around 1 in 6 species are at risk of extinction from Great Britain, discussing trends over the last 50 years or so, following centuries of major changes to ecosystems and habitats.

Something iconic [2] in imagery/memory/culture, next to clear summary and review.

[1] https://stateofnature.org.uk/
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2023/sep/28/hadr...
I seen him speak in ireland twice in the past 20 years so i assume he got here by plane
In all of these scenarios, the prepper stuff like stockpiling ammo and canned food wouldn't have been much help, but storing your wealth in gold bars for the time after would have been a great choice, certainly compared to cash.

The fact that society didn't descend into complete apocalyptic anarchy made it even better for the gold hoarders, because they didn't get robbed and murdered for their savings.
Sycamore is one of the trees that has coppiced in the UK for centuries and there are hopes that shoots can be persuaded to grow on the stump and roots, but not quite the same as reattaching the trunk:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-66957589
I responded to a post about cultural perceptions of tree age IN THE UK and I can do without the petty nationalism, thanks.
> Ggome-fucking-shit-smear-artist [...] if it ends up getting keyword matched during discovery

I'm forced to point out that, maybe, working at a company smuggling erotic gnome depictions should be avoided in your specific case.
You can also run arbitrary code at any breakpoint (at least for Java with Eclipse).

Want to check the content of a buffered image? Just run ImageIO.write(...) while the application is stopped. Want to check the current working directory? Paths.get(".").toAbsolutePath()

Heck you can even add code as breakpoint condition (which does not need to stop at the breakpoint), e.g. for some on the fly print debug. Changing values does not have to be a manual process but can also be injected as breakpoint condition.
Show HN: Dependency Time Machine – Update Helper for Legacy JavaScript Projects
tl;dr dependency-time-machine is a tiny helper to update package.json dependencies one by one in chronological order with an optional auto-runner.

Hey all, this is my first Show HN so glad to meet you :)

In recent months in my work, I've been responsible for updating the dependencies of many years-old project.

With dozens of dependencies, it was painful to do it by hand and think in which order should I update. Even more, some dependencies were not using semversion, had phantom dependencies, certain versions were broken, were cross-incompatible or didn't have changelogs.

So I wrote this simple tool to check versions for every package listed in package.json directly from the npm registry and sort them chronologically in groups based on dependency name. Thanks to this I was able to update like it was done regularly because packages always depend on other packages from past time. In the traditional way and not from the future like it eventually can be done in the traditional way.

I'm sharing this because maybe you will find it useful. You can check the next suggested dependency to update, generate a timeline in JSON or try autorunner. It's open-sourced, has only one direct dependency for shell interactions and runs on your hardware.
Conceptually interesting but does beg the question, given how many tools are being built around additional data sources, how relatively trivial it would be for chatgpt to offer to connect directly to external data sources either directly or through an easier zapier type integration.
For a background action/job use case though, how often would you have to re-materialize the view?
I was wondering this too, could it be repaired and continue to live?
The main cause of cancer at the end of the day is aging. The longer you live the more likely you are to get cancer. That is why most people who get cancer are above 70. Having a better lifestyle will help reduce your risks but ultimately aging is increasing your risks no matter what
Right now it’s not hard to sell. There are reputable gold traders who will pay cash, usually at market prices (minus some margin).

But presumably if the shit hits the fan and the USD is worthless, it’s a form of trade.

I don’t disagree not a great one. My biggest issue is if you want to buy food what do you do with a $2,000 piece of gold? Buy $2000 in food? You can’t really divide it up (a random chunk of gold is much less valuable than a minted coin).
Legally speaking, what could happen to him?
> The line crossed, in the view of many people who might have otherwise supported them, was the nature of their protest

Am I understanding this right? They think the government should step in and freeze the bank accounts of people who haven't been tried or found guilty of a crime, and who just inconvenienced them?
A very direct, relatively reliable indicator we could look at to see if this has happened at all anywhere recently is the gold premium in China, which has gold import restrictions. Just days ago people were willing to pay ~$100/oz over the international mark price, so there are people willing to spend >5% above the mark on a high volume asset in order to have a physical hedge in the event of a catastrophic failure of the yuan.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-27/chinese-g...
"Can't live without Electricity" rings a bell there for me.
Yes, it may be possible to regrow a coppice from the stump.
TBH, I also find Apple Maps to be generally better in the UK.