skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, it’s not like he created this feature, or that it’s a “weird undocumented trick” he found out…

Do you have to credit every person who shows you anything on the internet nowadays? Or is it just the common twitter-hate on HN?
I think I was in this meeting at Facebook. Yikes.
File systems only do journaling for their own metadata.

Has this been tried? It seems like an obvious idea to me, but operating systems have evolved remarkably little in the last few decades. Especially the filesystem.
Some Windows binaries are hard linked to run directly from the installation disk image copied during Windows install .

Those few kb are probably the size of the hard links to the image.
I have 16GB. I have docker running 5 containers, 3 PHPStorm windows (with multiple tabs open), Orion with 17 tabs open, Slack, Fork, Sequel Ace, iTerm2 with multiple tabs (one of them running a vite server), and Calendar.app.

Memory pressure is in the green, "using" 11GB (App: 6, Wired: 2, Compressed: 3). Not swapping at all.

Slack, which as you mentioned has "Slack Helper (Renderer)" uses 250MB.

Even with 8GB this would still work perfectly fine. Biggest user is PHPStorm with 4GB.
I see your point, but instead of giving up, i would rather we work on a proper long term solution. I am not against people using tools whichever way they see fit, but i am against the emerging trend of turning this stop gap solution into a permanent arrangement by exploiting these people’s emotional state. It is everyone’s sacred right to live life as they see fit but taking advantage of others is not.

Therefore i think we should keep working on an actual solution.
You can enjoy security and convenience without requiring users to download, install and update a dozen different system images just to run some simple apps.

I have a few apps installed via Flatpak there are multi-gigabyte updates several times a week, usually for the base images under the apps themselves. I apparently have 3 different copies of GNOME, more than half a dozen platform images, and several copies of the Freedesktop SDK.

Many Flatpaks aren't sandboxed, either.
i agree with the article, we dont need react to do things like this
> BBU

It's usually a RAID card cache Battery Backup Unit, which keeps the cache contents till the power would be resumed.

HDDs doesn't have anything like this and enterprise grade SSDs have a super capacitor to flush the cache.

Add to this SMR shenanigans.

> should it really be the responsibility of each component to gracefully handle a random, instantaneous power loss?

IMO, no. Sure, theoretically it sounds nice, but nowadays you can have literally gigabytes of data in transit and it's hard to make sure what even if you manage to write it what it would be logically consistent.

> Couldn't we have a small power bank on the motherboard keeping, say, 2 seconds of power and signaling emergency shutdown to components?

You are asking for:

a) a bank of supercaps - pricey, require proper isolation, have a lot of stored power => fails with sparks at best; or

b) LiPo rechargeable battery - pricey, require proper isolation, can pillow => fails with toxic smoke and fires.

And still this doesn't guarantee the data would be consistent.

BTW, there was a thing back in the day, UPS which could be installed in the case (usually 2x5.25"). While it sounds neat, it's the worst of all other variants:

small capacity - no place for a big battery

needs servicing - every 3 years replacement for battery

still can fail with sparks and fire
She looked for foldable coat hangers, not for a space saving solutions. I guess that's fair if that's what she wanted to achieve, but it would be nice to hear why this is a better solution. Looks nicer is a good enough answer of course.
Ubuntu uses Snaps by default. Flatpaks are an option in Ubuntu only if you install the application.
9.0 onwards never has a “community edition” release so people self-hosting that rather than paying for licensing for “network edition” have stuck at 8.x. Note that there are two downloads for 8.8.15 on the linked page, one of which is marked “open source”. Anyone who is still there has been getting security updates, but that stops being the case once 8.8.15 hits EOL.
Kick them back into the stone age. Mongrels of the software world.
Yeah, see my sibling comment. I don't know what the person you're replying to has done to their system, but I am very lazy with that too. Not at the moment, but most of the time I have 3 user accounts logged in simultaneously with their respective apps running.

Memory has never really been an issue for me, unless I try to `grep` a very (VERY) big file or something. Which makes sense, right?
But Amazon could patent the concept of "1-click payment"..
It really doesn't tell what really happened:
-This was only due to hydro production...
-The amount of rain that fell was consistent along those days, which is definitely not usual.
-The energy produced was mainly exported to Spain, but at ZERO or even NEGATIVE euros.

Does this help? Doesn't seem to me! And besides having to pay full price to the renewables producers (while exporting the same energy at ZERO), which amounts to a significant energy deficit, they are talking about even more H2 or whatever schemes??? This is the reason why Portugal has had one of the biggest rises of electricity prices in Europe over the last 15 years...
Ok yes, I was interpreting it from the POV of someone who doesn't know the person, whereas the people who memorialised it probably did know the person.

but then it is a public memorial so it shouldn't really be intended as a personalised memorial?

If a statue to a famous person is unveiled, I would expect that it would celebrate the things they are famous for, not their personal life.
What's the paper trail on these? Are there actual maintainers that are tracked?
> I can finally just work instead of worrying about of the program I'm trying to run has been blessed.

That's just because with most distros it's insanely hard to get something you want to use into the distro. It doesn't have to be like that.
It depends on the field. I know of one robots control software company planning to switch to a RT Linux stack. Their current one is a *BSD derived rtos that runs, kid you not, alongside windows.

RT Linux might not pass on some certifications, but there’s likely many systems where it would be sufficient.
They do, opening untrusted pdf from unknown senders is part of their job. It’s also one of the many reasons why cybersecurity is so hard!
I advise not building nuclear plants on a coast next time.
Recently read through all the Narnia books. They are charming and relaxing to read.

I also recommend the Hyperion Cantos. It's solid sci-fi with a good amount of depth without being overwhelming.

Also also anything by Haruki Murakami. Particularly Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. It's good weird, hard to explain.
I do find it fascinating that we are entering a time now where there are engineers who have _only_ ever used cloud services - and that they can't conceive of a era where _we used to have to do all that stuff ourselves on-prem_.

BTW this isn't a criticism - just an observation - cloud has been around now for that long. Still feels "new" to me :D
You’re the one arguing against nuclear power; where are your sources for its damage?

What about the “not so high level” waste from coal which results in trillions of dollars of health issues worldwide?
That's not nice.
Let's compare apps from the article.

"Camera, Cortana/CoPilot, and Photos can now be uninstalled". Mac and iOS come with PhotoBooth/Camera, Siri and Photos preinstalled, I don't think can be removed.

"No Bing, no Edge, no upselling." You can't remove Safari, comes with upselling to Apple drive.

Apple also comes preinstalled with Maps, Music, BookReader, NewsClient, MailClient, TV app, Notes app. For all I have better alternatives so tonnes of bloat and at worse many of them can't be completely disabled. They keep popping at some unexpected places.

For that matter popular linux distros come with similar apps, though through some maze in installer you may have been able to skip them.
It's this kind of comment that makes me worried for the future of computing.
... Which GoldenEye also had
This number is often cited on reddit too. It's only true if you cherry pick studies.
I use Flathub, but I do not like that they support the ability for third parties to package commercial software on behalf of the publishers.

https://flathub.org/apps/com.bitwarden.desktop - looks great, right? You have to click on "show more" to see "This wrapper is not verified by, affiliated with, or supported by 8bit Solutions LLC.", and prior to clicking "show more", everything looks like it is in fact published by 8bit Solutions. Because it's a third party packager, you end up with bugs like https://github.com/flathub/com.bitwarden.desktop/issues/147 (because they haven't used a particular flag to launch it, which the deb/rpm version apparently does use by default.) Yes, the attack surface is relatively minimal, but it's still there -- https://github.com/flathub/com.bitwarden.desktop/blob/master...

One thing I don't know about (which maybe somebody can inform me/us about): the wiki states that PRs are reviewed by Flathub reviewers, but I see no sign of human review on e.g. https://github.com/flathub/com.bitwarden.desktop/pull/167 (or others in that repo). What's the actual process?

(A couple other examples: https://flathub.org/apps/us.zoom.Zoom likewise is not maintained by Zoom; https://flathub.org/apps/com.jetbrains.IntelliJ-IDEA-Ultimat... same goes for this; at least in these cases the crucial last sentence is not buried by the show more button).

The other small irony that won't be lost on fellow 90s graybeards is that by sitting on github, we're moving significant parts of Linux infrastructure's distribution to be hosted by Microsoft.
The second best time to build nuclear is today.
Off topic, but:

> Micromanaging your Mac is a fruitless venture. Use your Mac and enjoy it... I run...just fine

> Apple is right. You bought too little RAM and it can't be changed now. You'll need to alter your usage habits or get a new, or newer, computer

I mean.... did I just witnessed an "Apple fan boy" everybody talked about? Not name calling obviously, just to trying to do some calibration on myself.
Well, I guess that's the difference between "chassis wiring" and "power transmission" in the table at https://www.powerstream.com/Wire_Size.htm
It's about how long your wires are going to be, and a desktop electronic project has at least orders of magnitude smaller cable than a van, I'd say.
Share your unfinished, scrappy work
> iPhone 12 can only have 1 eSIM enabled at a time. You can do 1 physical + 1 eSIM, but not 2 esims.

IIRC this is a limitation that only applies to iPhone <=12.

I am pretty sure that newer iPhone models all support dual-active eSIM, irrespective of whether or not you have a physical SIM slot model or not.
> And what kind of security do AppImages offer you?

None and no one said that it does offer any kind of security. The criticism was entirely unrelated to that.

On the other hand, flatpaks sandboxing is also severly limited by the fact that most packages do not make use of it much. In the past the runtimes offered by flatpak were also lacking behind on critical security updates [0]. Did that change in the meantime?

[0] https://flatkill.org/2020/
There are too few of them to justify the production run costs.
Spatial partitioning is deceptively simple.
Threagile – Agile Threat Modeling Toolkit
I suppose you have less Electron apps open :) I'm using 12 Gb now (1.53 in swap) with Firefox and several communication apps open. Fortunately atm all my works is in Terminal.
Nice try, Mr. I-post-my-secrets-on-stackoverflow!
At 45 degrees it will probably still take up more space. And if you hang them flat against the wall in multiple rows and columns, it will take longer to find and get the specific item you want.
No matter how you look at it, her hangers still seem like an improvement of life, and she will probably sell tons of them, good for her.
Yeah but half of these should be competitive enough. Come on.
Can't you see what happened in the US, where these big tech monkeys are roaming around, free, doing whatever they want?
I thought I would be clever and install the N edition of Windows 11, took me nearly two weeks to figure out what extra bits needed to be installed to allow a webcam to work.
DMA already paying off
I don't disagree at all. The (out of the box) cacophony of internet content jammed into every nook and cranny does my head in completely.

I care much more about that than the telemetry stuff, but I completely appreciate that others care equally or more about the latter.

Once the crap is gone, the experience is awesome. It's such a shame they have to push it this way. I'd bloody pay extra for a lean edition.
Yes, it's precisely the long hours spent behind the screen that sparked this question. But if they're passionate about it, then why not? Passion is key in this field. Without it, the job can be depressing, regardless of the perks it offers.

I also wonder time to time about other fields that often improve with experience – the more you practice, the better you become. In contrast, software engineering requires constant adaptation to new technologies, making past experience with older technologies less relevant. Staying current in this field is a continuous challenge and not always straightforward.
Yes, but folding the clothes doubles their thickness, so you can fit fewer hingers on a single rod than traditional hangers.

Also the coat hinger system uses fixed distance between the hingers (due to the slots in the rod) which seems like it would be less efficient: thick sweaters and thin T-shirts take up the same width.

It's actually not clear if the hinger system works all that well if you need to hang a lot of thick clothes; the rack looks pretty crowded in the available pictures.

I guess you would have to try this in practice to see which system works better. I wouldn't be surprised if it boils down to "the 45 degree angle is better, but the coat hinger looks neater".
> The Wikimedia Foundation's mission is "to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally."

Its mission is not just "hosting" - actually creating an encyclopedia is much more than paying for the server costs.

Wikimedia produced many very useful projects which often integrate into Wikipedia, but work well standalone as well, and work towards the stated mission - projects like Commons, WikiData, WikiSource. Some projects are more useful than others, but that's just normal.
Yeah, 1,3 billion more to go...
GSM is hard.

The specification is somewhere between 9000 and 18000 pages long, and contains A LOT of variables that can be adjusted by carriers.

Theres more information in this comment : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37592107#37594691
> You want to install a calculator app? That'll be multiple gigabytes of download. Mere mortals now have to wait half an hour to get the app.

The SDKs are shared between applications, just like a traditional package manager. So this is a fixed cost.

Also I think the sum of GNOME and Freedesktop SDKs is closer to 1GB, than multiple gigabytes.
Why not militate to your politicians and law makers to have your country also adopt consumer friendly legislation? Genuine question. I know using VPNs is a lot easier, but I feel like that's not the real long-term solution.
I think for app uninstallation to be relevant it's not whether the app resides on disk that's important, it's whether it's interfering with how you use the system. E.g. for a browser it's just important that the browser isn't registered as the default browser everywhere, but you can install your own browser. Being able to "uninstall" an app in a relevant way means being able to make it appear as if you don't have it. Whether or not the files the app uses are still on disk is perhaps relevant for disk space, but from a legal standpoint that seems almost irrelevant.
That's a hilarious story. Thanks for posting!
Ouf! UK consumers getting the short end of the stick again post Brexit.
>the baseline of usability for many areas has hugely increased over the last 20 years

But the baseline for functionality has decreased at the same time; usability has come at the cost of removing useful options in favor of lowest common denominator, not 80/20, more like 50 and "a very bloated 10...GiB".

OK-Cancel is gone, changes now are instaneous. Cancel was a useful thing to do.

You like that things have gone they way they've gone? That's great! I wouldn't dream of taking that away from you.

But why I can't I have mine work the way I like? Why do you support smashing everything into very small smooth round cookie cutters with one cookie recipe?
I'd extend your explanation to the why (do it that way).

8 + -2 = 6 as you would expect.

So a subtraction is basically the addition of a negative number and you don't need any extra hardware to keep track of that.
J, K, APL and other coders would hate this.
It's not only Qualcomm.

Most of the patents regarding GSM and 3G/4G is owned by the "big 5", being Nokia, Motorola, Siemens, Ericsson and Alcatel.
Flexibility and income, yes. I am not so sure about work-life balance, which probably depends on the place/country of work.
> The EU will finally free Windows users from Bing

You must be new here. They (MS) will just compensate with more spyware^Wtelemetry.
That doesn't matter. It only matters if there's a good reason to not measure it that way, and why another measure is better.
Just add these to your hosts file at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\

127.0.0.1 data.microsoft.com
127.0.0.1 msftconnecttest.com
127.0.0.1 azureedge.net
127.0.0.1 activity.windows.com
127.0.0.1 bingapis.com
127.0.0.1 msedge.net
127.0.0.1 assets.msn.com
127.0.0.1 scorecardresearch.com
127.0.0.1 edge.microsoft.com
127.0.0.1 data.msn.com
3 years on this? What a blatant lie. This existed for more than 30 years.
What frame rate do security cameras run at these days? Last time I saw genuine recorded footage was 1999, and that looked like 1 fps.
yes, France should build more reprocessing, but it's not like they don't know what to do with the waste. They know and they've done this for decades.
Can you specify exactly about what impact you are talking about? The CO2 emissions or what?
One reason is that there are more hands in the cookie jar in the EU. Less so in the US.
AWS IO is very good considering EVS is a networked drive. NVME is available if you need it too.
I think iforgotpassword gave a good reply to this, but I wanted to add a bit.

I agree it's not for everyone day-to-day, since I feel like inevitably you have to dive into the CLI to fix things with trying to get more obscure programs working.

As for desktop UI, IMO the tradeoff is that Linux DEs have no added cruft. I'd take that over Windows which to me seems filled with bloatware from MS before even the hardware manufacturer gets their hands on it. I've tried many DEs in my time with Linux, and I think GNOME in the last year or two is one of the best as a good mix of good visuals and highly customisable. KDE was closer to Windows but I've just never had luck with it being stable on various machines (seems to be surviving on my Steam Deck though).

Consumer device support is better I agree, though again IMO/IME that's more for certain niche hardware pieces or anything that has its own control app. Bluetooth is also something that I've still struggled with, especially when it comes to headsets.

Old games I can't agree with you on, but maybe that depends on your definition of old. I've had about the same experience getting old games (say from 2000 onwards) working, either with emulation or Wine supporting old software fairly seamlessly. And things have improved too. For example when I started using Linux around 2017, I recall Wine basically couldn't run The Sims 2 in a stable manner. Over the years since however, Lutris, Crossplay and Proton have taken the mantle and made games from that era work very nicely.
I'm not being pedantic, no. I'm pointing out that the comment claimed that Israel does not kill Palestinians. It made no mention of "collateral civilian deaths", it made no mention of "maximising Palestinian civilian casualties", it made no mention of "civilians" at all - these are all things that you brought into the conversation. The comment claimed "Israel does not kill Palestinians", no matter how many straw men you want to introduce to appease your own blood lust, this is patently false.
I don't see mention of removing news from the widgets bar. I could actually use the widgets bar for things, but it's pointless with more than half the bar dedicated to low-quality clickbait that I can't get rid of.
Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROSCon 2023 talks, The European Innovation Council has approved €1 billion in deep tech venture investments in one year, California is the robotics capital of the world, Agile robots acquires Franka Emika
Someone linked the "parallel to the wall" hanger here https://www.amazon.ca/Retractable-Adjustable-Wardrobe-Clothi... and it costs a lot. If you want to put multiple ones next to each other, it becomes quite expensive.

Also access to items behind other items becomes harder and slower. And it requires a shelf above to secure to.

Horizontal pole and foldable hanger design still seems like a simpler and better approach. The design seems so good that I bet you will be able to order these from China in a couple of years for less than a dollar.
I was introduced to incompleteness in the context of Turing Machines and the halting problem in a CS course. I think that if you are introduced to it as part of a foundations of mathematics course then the focus is on what it implies about mathematical reasoning. As ever if you can find the right bit of Wikipedia then there's a fascinating explanation clearly written by someone who really knows about it that I don't understand but hints at worlds of thought that I will spend time exploring when I don't have to get this fucking demo to work or deal with my boss. So maybe never...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_mathematics#Phi...
You can easily donate once a month via the in-app purchase subscription on iOS. Shows a nice little badge on your profile
Is it really? Including the batteries?

And we're still ignoring the fact that many days you'll get barely any direct sunlight during those 6 hours of "daylight"
I'm not. I'm actually French, and generally prefer nuclear over coal.

I'm simply pointing out that this graphic may be somewhat misleading, because it only focuses on a part of nuclear waste.

Obviously coal is pretty awful as well, from air pollution to mercury in the oceans.
Well, would a married couple who sees each other once a year have a stronger connection or someone who sees each other every day? On average.
For a model whose only output is allow/deny, 90% error rate is pretty good, you can just flip the answer and then you have a 10% error rate.

If you know the first thing about AI (or even statistics in general), that headline sounds very suspicious.
GPT-3 was prior to ChatGPT. Since it was a non-instruction tuned model, the output was quite bad unless prompted precisely.
That's not why. It's because a system of private ownership means that the state shouldn't take away stuff people have.
How would you even know that it's less impressive if you don't know the subject matter?
"kWh per hour worked" would be an interesting comparative metric, like the Big Mac index.
No, you've introduced the word "intentional" there. You were responding to a post about genocide and apartheid by downplaying it and claiming Israel doesn't kill Palestinians.
I've been using it as a digital nomad on shaky southern european airbnb and hotel connections for the past year and I have no complaints.

I was skeptical to it, until I realized it uses cgroups for isolation. Now I'm actually quite fond of it, because I've recently converted to using immutable linux distros.