skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, hold up. Are you saying that anytime you need to ask a coworker, or maybe someone one a different team, a question you send a fax instead of slacking them? Do you all have fax machines in your homes?
Ever seen blades you can really pack in density there.
https://www.rhysmills.com/post/2023/02/10/a11y-isnt-accessib...
AI will be politically challenging in China beyond any application outside of strengthening the police state.
Then you would have to wait forever because it is a goal of Wayland not to implement all of X.
> [as a consumer, ask] Where exactly does the wood come from? Is there documentation of the origin of the wood and its path through the production chain?

Realistically no-one will tell you that the thing you want to buy is illegally harvested wood. Most sales people won't know, won't understand the question to begin with, and won't care enough to provide the information. And if they do know, incentives go against being honest and transparent. So I doubt this is very useful
Germany is also allowing lots of immigration and this helps their economy by having an available workforce.
Incredible that it never lost its bearings.
Why? What caused the boon at the time?
Question for the experts!

Has NTFS changed much in... 20 years?

Linux filesystems seem to be evolving all the time (try to install any new distro today and check out how many filesystems you can pick from the dropdown...)

Apple replaced one filesystem with another in just the past few years, with apparently some very advanced new features.

But NTFS is just... NTFS? Does NTFS today look anything like how it looked in 1994? Or 2018? Does it change radically between versions of Windows? Or does the MS creed of compatibility at all costs mean it's basically a filesystem unchanged from the 90s? Thanks!
The fact that you are so sure of what you are saying here is a reflection of your own character. You are projecting.

I am not the person you are replying to, but I assure you that “I” never wanted to be a on top of anything. I don’t want celebrity or wealth. I want to be left alone most of all, and having just enough to achieve it.

Just telling you this so that your horizons of what people want open up a tad and you don’t assume that everyone around you is a different looking copy of you.
Always view the negging of non-orthodox approaches to anything by the WSJ as anything but surprising. Furthermore, cui bono with respect to potential outcomes? I think it's the pharma industry.
Yep! Though to be fair, it's mostly because KDE and GNOME are starting to merge really great Wayland support patches.

I'm personally not much of a fan of the way Wayland was rolled out or designed, but I do daily-drive it without issue on Plasma. It's far-and-away the better option for gesture-oriented workflows and gaming, and it feels more deeply integrated with the DE (for better and worse). It's the new hotness that all the gimmeck-obsessed Windows and Mac converts are going to want. You, me and the UNIX graybeard in the basement might get our feathers ruffled, but Bob and Alice get touchpad gestures.
Not sure that's true... If the key gets compromised, having it password protected does nothing.
> Rich get richer

I don't know. If you assume rich people hold assets that are vulnerable performance wise to the exposure of equities, rich people are currently taking a bath given that the S&P is basically flat (except for dividend reinvestment) past 30 months (SPY was $411.49 on Apr 9, 2021, today it is $412.55)
I think if people listened to what the opposite side was saying more clearly, they'd see there wasn't such a disagreement, it's just the methods need some negotiation. For examples: than spending federal money on subsidies, leave the money in the would-be taxpayer pocket instead.

This makes both sides happy: reduces taxes, reduces pollution, reduces federal government waste.

This sort of win-win thinking is covered in the 7 Habits. Unfortunately, environmental issues are hijacked into voting issues and these things _have to be_ us vs them, when in reality both sides are probably reasonable. The two party system is the downfall of the planet.
I was personally affected and have a very nuanced thoughts about this and policy generally. However, they are not outside the spirit of what I said above? Purdue did run afoul of FDA guidelines. Regardless, US drug policy is very broken.
How are those two things related?
Okay, let's talk about that.

A (very) small roadheader starts at around 8 metric tonnes, and requires around 20kW of power...just for operating the cutting head. And that's a really small one.

Again, for comparison, Perseverance: 1025kg, 110W of power

> It would either need to be Diesel powered

That would be a neat trick on a planet with an atmospheric pressure of 610 pascals, where oxygen registers barely above a trace element.

> or we'd need a small solar farm

Or maybe a not so small one.

Using Tesla solar panels https://www.tesla.com/solarpanels as a reference point, they produce up to 400W and are just shy of 2m². That's on Earth. Solar irradiance on Mars is 59% of Earths, so these panels will probably produce ~240W apiece. So to meet the energy requirements of even a small roadheader, we need 83 of these panels, each of which is ~21.5kg in mass, so a total of 1.784t in solar panels alone.

Note, that is without cabling, inverters, electronics, spare panels, support structures, etc. ... or the batteries for that matter. Production numbers are also for peak sunlight conditions on Mars, so best-case daylight during the martian summer, and no dust storms.

So depending on how heavy the batteries are, I reckon we are already looking at around 12-14 tons of equipment, just for digging with a single machine. And that doesn't include any prefabricated parts, spare parts, airlocks, other heavy machinery, support beams, other auxilliary materials....

I mean, these roadheaders will require new drill heads every now and then, won't they?

What's the payload capacity of our current space ship designs again? Because...

> It would take months to dig out a cave large enough for 10 to 20 humans,

...we need food and water and medical supplies and power and space suits, and a lot of other things for all these people. Oh, and habitats, because they will need somewhere to live during all these months bevore the cave is ready.
There is a bunch of *.rst files which are readable. On Ubuntu ReText opens them. Build/install probably just moves them around and/or may be converts to html . There is not much in there.
Some interesting rare choices there (some of which would be applicable to normal userlands or even to language VMs):

* Memory access is protected, but addresses are not virtually mapped. The lack of paging of course ties strongly to the inability to dynamically add tasks.

* They wish they could have read-only shared libraries (viable since there's only one address space) so they could truly be shared, but the current ecosystem assumes mutability is possible (even though in Rust mutable globals are rare).
Wow you commented very fast !
Thanks !

Yes IDE integration is not there yet . I wanted to first work on the converter and documentation . The next item on the list is definitely going to be Vim support/syntax files .
We fall back on the tried, tested and more reliable methods and fads seem to become glaringly obvious. This can easily be assumed as inadaptability. Maybe I am just old now.
The maintainers of those are not checking packages. You have to inspect the source code to check what it's doing. Same as a script you curl.
> Assuming 0 is the bottom and 90 is the right, how is it that a person following the inside route from 0 (exiting the left lane at 180) isn't going to get hit by someone following the outside route from 90 (exiting the right lane at 270)?

The person following the outside route from 90 must yield before even entering. It's very confusing until you're actually in them, but they're small enough that what you're saying usually isn't really a problem (at least in well designed roundabouts). When the car at 90 enters the roundabout intending to take the 270 exit, they yield to traffic in ALL lanes that might be exiting. Not just traffic in the outer lane. If they were intending to take the 180 exit, they only need to worry about traffic in the outer lane (or people incorrectly changing lanes when exiting).
> When you start the next project, start it in VScode

And use Edge and Teams. This surely will awake the programmer in you. But, for god's sake, don't touch the bugs. They are dirty. /s
> If you are not English — and why on earth should you be — you may only have a vague sense of Dick Whittington

A vague sense? I've never even heard the name in 50+ years of life. LOL

> You may only have the dimmest sense of what a Lord Mayor of London does that’s distinct from the regular mayor

Again, today I'm one of the lucky 10,000 learning that there is a Lord Mayor. So... what is the difference between a Mayor and a Lord Mayor?
And I've had the new linux NTFS driver corrupt files more than once.

In fact, it just corrupted the partition table of my external backup drive this year. Which was last time I trusted it for anything but read-only mounting.
The formula seems pretty straightforward.

Take the area of land we're willing to give over to lumber farming, divide by how long it takes to grow a tree to harvest and that's how much lumber demand can be met. Adjust price to make demand meet that limit.
To my knowledge EU Regulations are simply laws that overrule local EU countries' laws, so whether it's possible or not for local laws to be more extreme only depends on such laws being at odds with what the Regulation prescribes (but I'm not a lawyer and only looked into that years ago).
If you make an app that other people use, and it becomes viral, it can quickly cost >$100 / day in OpenAI credits. I know this from first-hand experience (and btw. it's not a good feeling to shut down that one app that actually goes viral).
That xkcd is about the downside of using the dame password on many services. No service is really trusted so what we should teach people to do is, as usual, to use a password manager to randomly generate a new password for every service. Maybe that's what you were advocating but it was not clear to me.

We should also teach to ourselves to throw away all those weird rules about passwords, like 6 to 15 characters max, letters and digits and a random set of punctuation characters liked by the site owner. Why those limits when they are storing a hash anyway?
I use Tor hidden services. All incoming Tor connections come from "localhost". Every single one of them.

In order to propey secure, say, a Tor hidden services sshd, you can't use fail2ban. You must use 2fa. Fail2ban would just nearly immediately ban you from ever logging in.

I also turn down the login delay to a few seconds, just to make bruting harder.
This honestly doesn’t sound bad, since locally grown food has a lot more flavor in my experience

Like the carrots and apples and squash grown locally are totally different than the supermarket stuff
Common Package Specification – multiplatform specification of C/C++ packages
> The people have their Internet already. They like [...]

Those are the things that have literally no value me. You'd think the internet would be large enough to address pretty much everybody's needs, including mine, but it's getting pretty clear that it's not.
Driver interrupts the engine instructions, applies fixes or other does other processing on the CPU, and renders the modified code. Think as a SQL query optimizer running real time.

So, you need a fast CPU to keep data flowing to the GPU at the correct rate, without much hindering.
Yeah, my example communication was a bit contrived.

But the point still stands. There's a lot of AWS spend happening (even after being optimized) that is frustrating when you look at the raw numbers and consider how much server capability you could outright buy for the same amount. And Oxide would make it so much easier to run a bunch of VMs (and infrastructure-as-code) than standard racked x86 servers.

Oxide appears to be a complete shoo-in for companies that used to run a bunch of VMs on racked Dell/HP servers, migrated their VMs/storage to AWS, hate their monthly AWS bills, and still have the old server rooms available.
Funny how you mentioning BSD got me to thinking of Sony Playstation and Nintendo Switch. Which are proprietary and not user serviceable. A Steam Deck, Fairphone, or Framework laptop is each less proprietary and more FOSS stack, and user serviceable. Which a user may or may not want to do themselves; at the very least they can pay someone and have them manage it.

Also, Apple is just the one who survived. Previously I'd have thought of SGI, DEC, Sun, HP, IBM, Dell some of whom survived some not.

Those three consumer products I mentioned each provide a platform for a user and business space to floroush and thrive. I expect a company doing something similar for cloud computing to want the same. But it will require some magick: momentum, money, trust. That kind of stuff, and loads of it. (With some big names behind it and a lot of FOSS they got me excited, but I don't matter.)
Ask HN: Why do websites have bad designs?
Amazon, Craigslist, and Steam, those massive online hangouts with millions of users, are sticking with what I would consider "not-so-great user interfaces".

Now, I'm no UI guru, but it's pretty clear that these platforms seem to have crammed in a boatload of info without much consideration for user-friendliness.

So, what's the deal with that?
Canada's signed two Faustian bargains - one with the resource extraction economy, and one with the real estate sector.

Neither one is long-term sustainable. Eventually, the oil will be dug out of the ground, and eventually, it won't be able to endlessly generate paper value by trading rat-infested outhouses in Vancouver back-and-forth for 5 million/pop.

It has other exports[1], but they aren't the engine of Canadian economic growth.

[1] (Insert lame joke about how its biggest export is SWEs to the United States.)
Like I mentioned, I was using the term "colder" much less in the sense of temperature/heat, but more in the sense of less inviting. Tile floors do not feel cozy. There's a sense of harshness. They are also much more active acoustically as well. Yes, I know furniture and rugs will mitigate some of that, but it's just not something that feels inviting. It's great for a bathroom or kitchen, but for living spaces and bedrooms, it's just not the right feel, to me.
I'm currently investigating the feasibility of using Next.js for a major refactor of our service and the one thing that stands out to me is how fractured the Next ecosystem is. More than 6 months after the App router was introduced the most important libraries are still in beta and don't have conclusive documentation for integrating with App dir.

For my projects localisation is a necessity. I tried both i18n and next-intl and found them both lacking in functionality, buggy and missing documentation. This should just be part of the framework or at least have a tighter integration.

The same story with next-auth.js, which confusingly still exists while promoting https://authjs.dev/. For the most basic implementation it probably works, but the app router documentation is spliced into the normal documentation which creates a whole lot of ambiguity.

There's been a lot of discussion surrounding caching for Next.js 13 as well. I personally find it confusing and the behaviour described in the documentation regarding revalidateTag/revalidatePath and client-side caching does not match my real world experience. I would love some more documentation regarding user-specific caching as well, for instance with personalised user dashboards.

It feels a bit ridiculous to release Next.js 14 today as we're still getting used to Next.js 13. And though there might not be any big/breaking changes it creates a feeling where Vercel is racing forward without keeping other library maintainers or its users in mind.
> The Internet (big I) was more than just a lot of wires...

Yup, it was a series of tubes :)
> he set up his CDN so that accessing the site from any given country would get served by a server in a neighboring country (meaning that a takedown would involve international cooperation, so it would almost never be worth the effort)

I don't really see how this prevents that issue. They still have a server in that country. Just because the DNS name doesn't always point there doesn't seem like it should shield them from legal trouble.
Bird lungs work very differently from mammals. They have air sacs in front of and behind the lungs that take up a significant portion of their body cavity. The lungs themselves don't expand or compress. Air moves unidirectionally through the lungs both during inhalation and exhalation so there is no time at which the lungs themselves are not operating optimally. It is a two-phase system... during inhalation the posterior air sac fills with fresh air as spent air accumulates in the anterior air sac. The effective blood gas exchange surface area is about double that of mammals as well.

Basically: bird lungs are "pipelined" and highly optimized to extract oxygen even at altitude.
That's the Rust standard—Apache 2.0 for its patent license, and MIT for its GPL-2.0-only compatibility.
I actually have a really hard time imagining that scenario.

The scenario that is mentioned several other times on this post of a corporation or nation state or even a small group of powerful and morally bankrupt people leveraging a super-intelligence to manipulate and dominate the rest of society seems infinitely more likely and even scarily likely given the current pushes to prevent open sourcing of cutting edge models.

One of the main reasons I have a hard time imagining the scenario you describe, that I havent seen talked about as much as the other very good reasons, is that generally when we talk about a paper-clip optimizer we are assuming its vertically integrated and self sufficient. Hacking of power grids, physical installations or other necessaries to a run away paper-clip optimizer generally require nation-state level resources and often involve physical penetration of some sort.

A hegemonizing swarm is certainly a frightening idea as is Skynet and all the other scary AI stories weve told over the years but none of them seem particularly likely or even plausible with the systems that we are likely to develop in the near to mid term.
Funny thing is Stellaris has a "custodian" dev team specifically to address this.

The custodians fix a bunch of bugs and performance issues... then the features/dlc team introduce new ones.
I'm sort of reminded of the VR job simulator. (I can job!)

To someone, all this is job description stuff. But to others this is super fascinating. I've met lots of train people who would do train stuff for free just for fun.
Thanks, I haven't had to do dropping to C for a while as the improvement in performance of dotnet along with features like AOT, Span<t> etc close the gap enough for the domain I work in.

Good to know you can remain within the framework and get decent performance though with the unsafe pointers/refs. Would be interesting to see a good benchmark using only C# with latest features and Rust, although I cognisant of the fact there is more to it than pure performance (binary size, dependencies, GC etc).
Package registry maintainers do often do some things that make it a bit safer than just using things from a random person online: e.g. preventing someone from deleting a popular package, which would enable various sorts of squatting attacks. But, you’re generally right.
The asset bubble was a problem, but Japan has also suffered from excessive economic central planning leading to malinvestment. They squandered their resources by literally building bridges to nowhere. The book "Dogs & Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Japan" by Alex Kerr gives a thorough and balanced explanation of what happened.

http://alex-kerr.com/html/dogs___demons__english_.html
But that is the job. The job of developing on the web is developing for a platform where you do not know the size or format of the display or what the inputs are in advance.

The job of a UX designer on the web is to consider this kind of stuff and to build a design that's very reactive to evolving displays within the demographics and market segments that the client wants to support. If that's not happening, if the CSS people are just getting handed static designs and being told to figure it out -- the problem is not CSS or the developers, it's that the designers building those designs are not good at their jobs. And there are ways to make this easier: notably UX designers involving the CSS department in the design phase, and/or making a point to always lay out the contents of the page without styling in a hierarchical way before making decisions about how to present that content.

But a lot of programming is hard. It's hard for me to write maintainable Javascript that doesn't fall apart if a project goes over 100,000 lines of code. It's hard to document methods. It's hard for me to write code that does complicated things that can work on low-end machines. These are skills that programmers get better at over time with practice. Responsive design is the same; it's just another skill to learn.

Imagine trying to shoot a movie and having the cinematographer tell you that it's hard to frame everyone in the shot since they don't know exactly where the viewer will be looking, or the sound mixer telling you it's hard to balance dialog and sound effects so everyone is audible without it being noticeable that they're muting background audio. Or a recorder telling you that it's hard to master a pop song given that everyone has different speakers and sound profiles on their headphones. Imagine you're building a car and the designer tells you that it's hard to make sure the controls can be reached by people who are different heights and weights.

On one hand, yes it is; all of that stuff is very hard. On the other hand, yes, that is also the reason web UX designers and developers get paid money; because the job is hard and requires training and expertise, and designing a website interface requires more thought and intentionality and planning than is required to make a PDF.
> Linux filesystems seem to be evolving all the time (try to install any new distro today and check out how many filesystems you can pick from the dropdown...)

This sounds like evolution of options more than evolution of existing file systems

Is ext4 still not most popular for most end users? Curious how much ext4 has changed vs NTFS past... ~20 years (ext4 went stable 2008 apparently)
and solar panels!
does anyone here use it? I was considering buying it but I figured out I would play with it for few days and then wouldn't have any purpose.
You'll have to enable v-sync to limit framerate. I enable it always (or fps limit) because I don't like blasting my GPU at 100% which makes it hot and loud.
Yes, the website is going out of its way to explain that it's very realistic and based on people who know, but doesn't want to tell you what the game actually does.

I came thinking this was an airport ticoon, and leave with the impression that it's a series of minigames themes around airports
> How is the 90s Internet (forums, IRC, Viagra spam and goatse)

That wasn't at all the internet I had in the 90s. I know that part of it existed, but there were really great parts, too.
It is indeed deeply ironic that Sony has a long history of trying to declare their gaming consoles as general-purpose computers (to dodge EU import tariffs) and arguing that they aren't really military-grade (to be able to export them out of Japan), and finally ended up subsidizing a supercomputer for the US military :)
Not to take sides, but there's not a contradiction there. The immigration of refugees has been a topic of discussion for some time now (Brexit). Standard immigration is still difficult in most of the EU but there has been an influx of refugees who are primarily poor.

I don't agree with the characterization that the policies are due to racism though.