skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lack of developer motivation to work on X is FAR from the only reason to leave it behind.
In 2014 in Belgium there were two casualties.[1] I still have family in that region. When I was a child, one of things I was taught was to never ever touch anything rusty / iron found in the fields close by when we visited them.

Seeing small stacks of rusted ordnance neatly at the entrances of fields is a common sight. Farmers dig them up each year, and put them aside. Bomb disposal does regular rounds.

You'd drive through the region, and the most noticeable remnant of the Great War are the graveyards. However, the War itself is still very much there, just a few odd centimeters buried in the clay soil.

[1] https://www.france24.com/en/20140319-wwi-shell-kills-two-nea...
> This is the first major data loss story I've heard related to drive in, what, a decade? 5 years?

Not bad, but still... no copy, no data.
Brian (beej71), if you are here, how do you write such concise guides? I remember long ago I started learning network from your guide because TCP/IP illustrated felt like too big to start with.
It was immediately obvious.
You turned them off at some point. To turn them back on: On a new tab, click the cog in the top right. Tick "Sponsored shortcuts".

Compared to the Google panopticon... I can live with it.
this is true, but for most american's we still use a phone number and do not have any thing like WhatsApp, Signal, or Telegram installed on our phones. The phone number ring is still gold here.
I thought the theory was created by Liu Cixin. No surprise other thought about it before, nice surprise
Bastion was a great game ... And mostly for the narrator
He uses the term “root terminal”, he writes “Start a root terminal (or a normal one and then ‘sudo su’)”, and he says he only has a single user. One will naturally assume the worst, and in spite of repeatedly posting here he hasn’t exactly made much sense about his workflow and needs beyond launching the browser.
Friends complain of FF being slower than Chrome for some actions. The CEO of Mozilla is accused of lots of things. Still - the whole Google/Chrome monopoly and tracking is just another level of irritation and I’d happily love to see and use alternatives in both browser and search. FF is absolutely okay for everyday use even the betas are quite stable. Give it a try, guys. It’s worth the effort.
Adverts are a theft of time and attention, they are manipulative brainwashing by companies with more resources than the majority of countries.
I agree —we all have a HL20xx on a shelf that still works perfectly, right?— but their SMB colour laser printers are just as bulletproof.

These have had some mild innovation and software nonsense which I'm sure will age like soft cheese, but you cannot overstate how amazing driverless printing is. Linux, Android, iOS all print, scan, no setup, full feature-set no questions asked. Blew my mind. Three years and thousands of prints later, and I'm certain it's the best £400 spent on a printer. Wish they made a large format model at similar specs and price.
Use Brave instead!
> now I'm 46 and I rent. :-/

I’m 38 and I rent.

I was ready to buy a house last year, but I got cold feet. It seemed like everyone selling was stuck going to where they wanted, depending on a buyer to relieve them of their commitment.

I think we mistake “buying” with “loaning”. I don’t have anywhere near 100% of a home’s cost in cash.

Do I want tax exemption for committing to paying debt for a decade or two? Sure! Do I want to be stuck living somewhere that is either insanely priced and easy to sell, or affordable and hard to sell? Nope!

I’ll buy a property when I’m ready to go Minecraft on the sucker.
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This isn’t how it works in the US, so… no?

People very frequently sell out of high real estate markets like the Bay Area and move to places in Arizona and Florida that have much better elderly healthcare.
One of the best things about switching to Firefox was that it has the option to "Close tabs to the Left". I never understood why you can't do that natively in Chrome.
Varies by product. In general, it is a continuous process, and backups may not be 'point in time'.
Finetuning won't add new knowledge to your model
It depends. If you're working a "bullshit job," it may be enhanced by AI. As Alan Blackwell points out, ChatGPT is a bullshit generator. But David Graeber documented many people were working "bullshit jobs."

If you're working a bullshit job, maybe ChatGPT will enable unforseen vistas of productivity in your career field.

https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/blog/afb21/oops-we-automated-bulls...
I would consider Firefox if Mozilla wasn't a total sucker for Google's money. They'll get onboard with anything google does sooner or later. As it stands now, I don't see much difference between aligning with either of them.
The only thing I miss from chrome is the easy tab grouping.
Only on the sending side.
Hmm, I think leave them, as long as they're not completely unavailable. It does lower the quality of my service a bit, though.
Hm, why the downvote? I'm genuinely interested.
> We (technical users) cannot complain that companies should not use and abuse Ads, because at the same time we (humanity as a collective) constantly show once and again that Ads do work excellently for their intended purpose.

Just because something works, doesn't mean you should do it. Using a gun or knife to threaten someone with death if they don't hand over their wallet works. Do you think people should complain/do something about it, or should they just let muggers get away with it "because it works"?
Not just grid, the wind farms need to be massively overbuilt to support a scenario where only one windy coast has to power the entire EU.
Especially for things aimed at teenagers reddit is mostly replaced by Discord. This isn't a new development though and I doubt the API debacle had much of an impact on that.
Ah, Technology Connections. Such a great channel!
If you enjoyed this video, make sure to also watch his video about the color brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU
I think that's fine, but maybe I will change the description to say "one-time payment unlocks the full game, without annoyances".
IMDS is just one option, you can still pass IAM roles to applications in other ways.
The problem with FF I find is being a bit slower on the uptake of new features. WebGPU being the current best example. It's annoying to have to swap to Edge for specific pages.
Brown; color is weird (2020) [video]
Preaching to the choir here, but yes, my Brother L2357 mono laser printer is a really good purchase.

Windows, Linux or Android, all of them connects wireless and prints, and no funny stuff with toner cassettes.

Perhaps not financially smart, but I buy my toner from Brother just to support them as a thank you for this piece of hardware.
You don't need the semicolon. Just use a newline instead; it's also easier to remember that way.
>Google Drive is meant to be my backup.

No no no, that's not a backup!

A backup has to be at least offline (a snapshot/clone of your "live"-data), off-site (not in the same place as your "live-data"), search for 3-2-1 backups.

Google Drive is live, that's why your files are away and you cant do anything against it, again THAT'S NOT A BACKUP but your files on someone else's computer.

The most important thing with backups, test your restore periodically, my rule is: No successful restore = no backup. Sound's logical, but it happened many time to customers, always a mail with "Backup ok" but when checking the data there was nothing written since half a year.
To make this work you need to set the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR environment variable to the same value it has in the environment Firefox is running in. For example:

sudo -u desktopuser XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 firefox --new-window
The risk is that the bug impacts a small number of users and they decide not to bother with a restore just to recover data that only impacts 0.001% of users.

Or they don't notice at all because the support forums have no way to get in touch with engineers.
The closest alternative to buybacks is dividends. But to be honest I'm not sure if that's what the critics want the money going.
Tree style tabs is not new. It predates containers and might even predate chrome
Unciv is absolutely amazing as well, for all the civilization fans out there!
Steal My Artworks for Fine-Tuning?
Yep, that's the one I meant - sorry, should have linked.

His series on making a GPT from scratch is also great for building intuition specifically about text-based generative AI, with an audience of software developers.
I just stick to Apple Arcade games as a rule.
It turns out that Africa and India are on different continents and do not refer to the same place.
Here’s the battlebots reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/battlebots/comments/1833d56/marc_th...

The book looks interesting but i especially enjoy the linked video with the vacuum-bot that started it all.
What about a state with a growth mindset? I feel it's a decent parallel to the behaviour of states as described by realism, or even to the Red Queen hypothesis where if you stop running you lose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis
They go up but it doesn’t matter because you’ve more than made up for it in the higher cost market.

When someone from SF sells their $2.5 million dollar home to retire to Orlando, it doesn’t really matter if Orlando median prices recently doubled from $200k to $400k.
Myth Busters wouldn't've existed as we know it without Robot Wars. Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage worked on Blendo and were interviewed on Robot Wars which lead to Myth Busters.

BattleBots was started among some Robot Wars competitors after a legal issue -

https://battlebots.fandom.com/wiki/Marc_Thorpe

"Following legal pressure, Marc Thorpe ultimately relinquished ownership of the Robot Wars name to Profile Records co-founder Steve Plotnicki in February 1999, who holds the name to this day. However, among the competitors in Thorpe's events were cousins Greg Munson and Trey Roski, who piloted La Machine with assistance from future championship-winning builder Gage Cauchois. In the face of adversity from legal action taken by Steve Plotnicki, Trey Roski convinced his cousin to close his company Impact Media and join him in developing their own competition in Las Vegas, BattleBots"

https://robotwars.fandom.com/wiki/Marc_Thorpe

Amazing legacy.
Many of those major problems (which you call annoyances) will never be sorted out because the "Wayland Comitte" has decided that even the basic functionality is "out of scope".

After 15 years of development Wayland developers have not only proven to be incompetent but also resistant to learn. As such they can't be trusted to ever come up with anything functional.
30 days has become the industry wide standard for keeping data explicitly deleted by a user.
I experienced poor perfonmance until what, maybe 2013? I really don’t understand if people really experience poor performance of if that’s just something people say about firefox.
Because I don't want to support the (in)actions of the Mozilla Foundation
I guess because it seems a trivial reason to dismiss what could otherwise be a good bit of tech.

Of course, if it really bugs you after using it for a while, then that's fine. I just think most software takes a bit of getting used to.
Another way to phrase it:
"Because chrome is the new IE, it's prevalence broke the web standards so you have no choice"

It's an argument, but not a good one. Don't be evil they said...
I've got a feeling driveFS is deleting data, and users are also seeing it deleted on the web version.

It's an official google product, and now seems to be called "Google Drive for Desktop".
But that was at least a bug, and a somewhat understandable one (though still stupid). I did my MSc on doing statistical methods to reduce error rates in OCR, and one of the methods that actually worked very well was various nearest neighbour variations over small windows of the pixel data. As part of that I did a literature review, of course, and there has been quite a lot of work on various algorithms for cleaning up images by trying to replace patches of pixels with presumed "clean" samples (sometimes from a known font, but more often by applying various clustering methods to patches from the image itself). Get that wrong and you'd very easily end up with something like this.

My own methods would also have easily produced this kind of error if you set the threshold for what to consider identical when clustering high enough. But for OCR the risk is somewhat mitigated by people not trusting it to be error-free, and so it can be an acceptable tradeoff if it reduces the overall error rate, but if you're outputting the raw pixel data and let people think it's an unmanipulated image you're begging for trouble.
They must have something, what happens to Google docs in drive when you sync them to your hd?
Does it matter for a site like this?
So cool. Looks like the proselint site is down. For anyone else who wanted to read the approach - https://github.com/amperser/proselint/blob/b5b7536bec5fd461e...
what a bizzare mystery! I wonder if they're trying to test a karma farming algorithm for later influence peddling/manipulation.
Oh for crying out loud, no, it is not broken "beyond internet explorer levels".
There is no legitimate threat from Russia to Nato within the next 6 years. Russia is struggling against a technological 3rd rate power such as Ukraine. If NATO mobilized the economy for wartime production, it could quickly produce enough hardware to overwhelm Russia. And Russia's economy would have no response.

China, though, is a completely different matter. Their industrial and technological base is an order of magnitude larger than Russia's.
I'm more on the fence of "mobile UX sux so rather just don't".

But did want to note, the AR/VR glasses space seems to be progressing[0], so perhaps with the correct peripherals for typing it might be possible to code in VR in transit in the not-too-distant future.

[0]https://www.xreal.com/air2
SGI Irix is a good case
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX

It is the windows 3.1 aesthetic on much more capable hardware.
That all sounds like a better case for sandboxing our data rather than sandboxing our applications. The application-centrism is an iOS-ism (and now a Mac-ism, but I repeat myself) designed to facilitate Apple’s economic model where they are the sole gatekeeper of what a computer is allowed to do. People blindly copy that model into the Free Software world because Apple are Very Rich and so everything they do is automatically a good idea.
> After all, it's a message and there's no point to it if it's not clear who 'sent' it.

If they want to be attributed, then it is not deception, right? In that case, it is interesting why it is so; here we'll probably move into the grander hybrid game, including the propaganda war, which also brings the risks I mentioned in case it is deception and you misattribute.
or any other browser that is not Chrome; Brave, Vivaldi (which use the same engine) or Firefox.
I've looked into glacier as a clone of my NAS before but found it unjustifiably expensive. Do you mind sharing how much you pay?
>True but really it's part of the Russians' MO to leave traces.

The mere existence of the Vault 7 toolbox means that you can no longer, in good faith, make this argument. Ever again.

For reference:

https://sociable.co/government-and-policy/intelligence-agenc...

and:

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/

See also:

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-05-04/China-issues-report-on...

Please avoid making baseless claims about the 'evidence' left behind by "other countrys' hackers" as there is absolutely no basis to believe any of this evidence, ever again. One can simply not trust the claims of evidence of hacking being proferred - by anyone, let alone the US' own utterly vile intelligence agencies.
Containers are amazing imo. And profiles? -P "profile name" is not that hard.
Which specific pages are you referring to?
Perhaps, Mozilla ought cut the crap like spending huge sums on CEO salaries, social justice projects, And anything unrelated to browser building.
The moment uBlock Origin stops working I'm switching to Firefox. Websites are completely unusable without an ad blocker.
Open one... It's a JSON file just pointing to the web URL.
They were soviet nukes. They had as much control over them as Germany has over the US nukes parked in Germany.
It's annoying that defaults everywhere are to be visually noisy and distracting. I guess it works for some kinds of people. Let's say MS Edge used to show news and other stuff on the new tab page, or in the start menu or wherever.

Yes, good users customize this but the default means it's pervasive in people's average experience.
Adobe forum is terrible for this, their "MVPs" will dismiss your question right away often without even understand it and then it'll just be the accepted answer, and that's at best often they'll talk to you with condescension, claim you're doing it wrong, claim it works fine for them, claim it's not really a real issue etc.
You can set up specific domains to open up in specific tab containers. Obviously for sites that you have never visited before this complicates things unless you have the default tab container be your “throwaway” or not personally identifying profile.

The experience there isn’t perfect and requires some effort to setup but how is that different than getting certain sites to open in specific chrome profiles automatically?
Because people want to live there while they have a career and raise a family.

Setting that aside, it’s not a Ponzi scheme when anyone can sell their security. You’re probably thinking of the Greater Fool Theory.

Either way, it’s still not correct because making money isn’t the primary reason everyone is buying homes in the Bay Area at least. They need a place to live and don’t want rent to go up in perpetuity.
Google is effectively willing to sacrifice part of their moat to reenforce their core. Is this move born out of (over)confidence, or desperation?
Didn't find any explanation nor rank 1 yet. Checking the Reviews section, higher rating is better. Rank #246 has a Quality Rating of 5244, which was the highest I found quickly by browsing.
Candy Fucker https://varstudio.net/CandyFucker/
Developed mostly bored on a bus.

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I took my muscle memory a couple of days to readjust. Switching away from vim to anything else would take me years!
Yeah, it's being HNed right now. It's usually very snappy.
Although I personally use Firefox and actively promote its use, I believe that a significant number of users may not be aware of the developments and will continue to stick with Chrome.

From a pragmatic standpoint, it makes sense to advocate for the rights of Chrome users as well, even in the presence of alternatives.
Perhaps they are helpfully evangelizing a happiness that someone else may not have considered. Not everyone without children has taken a resolute stand on the matter. Some may be on the fence. Everything is anecdotal anyway so why be so offended?
I was thinking of going this year (the previous years it was either not held or there were still too many covid measures) but the ticket and (especially!) hotel prices in the area are crazy. Even big hotels seem to be doing dorm rooms now which I'm not interested in, and the real rooms are too expensive.

Along with flights it's just too much. Oh well. I kinda moved away from cybersecurity again now so I don't have as much interest (though I'm still very much a maker)
Related: https://danluu.com/keyboard-v-mouse/ - "The widely cited studies on mouse vs. keyboard efficiency are completely bogus."

EDIT:

More on topic: I tried, but the percentage of times when my stroke wasn't recognized was way too high for me. There's a customization variable that could help, but I have enough programmable buttons on my physical mouse[1] to get by with just them:

- scroll up/down
- tilt wheel left/right
- two small buttons for back/forward to the left of the left button
- dpi change button under thumb (can be made to send other events with Solaar)

So I can directly bind 5-7 commands that will work every time without risking the "stroke was not recognized" problem. And that's without modifiers and clever hacks like mouse3.el, which allow for (almost) directly exposing even more functionality. Strokes/gestures are slower and less reliable than this. They probably can be helpful in some configurations (I wonder if Emacs on Android would be the perfect use case?), but I don't feel the need for them in my setup.

[1] https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/mice/mx-ergo-wireles...
TheForceEngine – Modern Jedi Engine Replacement Supporting Dark Forces and Mods
Windows release available. On Linux compile worked for me and was playable.
Their main innovation is the lack of greed. No cartridge lock-in, no subscription business, none of this nonesense. Just this fact makes them a no-brainer
We could use an international magazine or media channel that focuses solely on tools that have prooven to be robust and reliable. And on trustworthy companies with good value for money ratio. I'd love to spend double for some things, if I'd be able to know it lasts way longer and works better.
House prices might increase by 20% but your new deposit compared to the deposit for the initial house you bought could easily go up 100-200% (or more). Your equity has grown disproportionately to house values. That’s the massive difference and what allows people to “climb the ladder”.
Respiratory infection clusters in China not caused by novel virus
I am sure that whoever created this ticket had checked a couple of things (trash/bin) and was adamant that the state of the 'drive' was back in May 2023.

Considering through the amount of times that someone said "did you try turning it off and on again?" AND it has has solved the problem, make such forum users/helpers like that very useful.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-data-another-bro...
During Black Friday week, I ordered a Blue Yeti, and I can say it's a huge difference compared to the microphone in my T14 ThinkPad. I work remotely, and one of my coworkers immediately noticed the difference.
Peace of mind is a benefit.

I am not a long haul trucker. I put maybe 100 miles on my vehicles per month.

The cost of fuel is not relevant to me.
Indeed. I think the dry valleys in Antarctica are one of the driest deserts on earth - not necessarily where you'd expect to find a desert at all, but an absolutely fascinating place with all those dessicated/mummified seals.
Ecosystem effect.
Can’t tell if all of this is satire, both the webring and the comments here.
Pulseaudio was the second system (at least).

Before that there was a bit of a mess, esound Daemon / the KDE equivilent on OSS and later ALSA
> I just think most software takes a bit of getting used to.

I was using Firefox since version 1. First bomb was the removal of XUL -- Firefox has lost most of its appeal to me then. Then there was those changes to tabs. So it's not like I wasn't used to FF.
I didn't perceive any sharp drop-- quite the opposite. The negative press drove more people towards Reddit.

The average person didn't care about what the mods wanted.