skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I might agree, if I could ever figure out what is “meaningful” to me. I’m simultaneously incapable of sitting down and doing nothing (because I love pushing towards a goal) and also fully aware that goals are usually extrinsic and unfulfilling. Both deeply drawn towards big problems with a long march, and torn that by their very nature, I won’t get to undertake many (so choose wisely)
Which Chinese law?
Toothpaste is grit 600-800 omg that's really rough, but it's Colgate and I know that's very abrasive. I just never knew the equivalent in grit.

I actually use a toothpaste with low RDA (abrasiveness) of 40-48. (VITIS)

List of RDA values: https://www.familydentisttree.com/abrasive-toothpaste-whats-...
Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone?
Ask HN: What are you grateful for?
happy holidays everyone, it's hard not to look back on the year but what are you grateful for in this moment?

i just visited my grandpa, and spent the afternoon going through old photos and hearing his stories. my grandma passed away this year and it's been pretty hard, but im grateful for today and for that moment with him.
> It is for dead submissions. Has been the case for ages.

For those with showdead enabled, why are links on dead submissions broken? Isn’t that the whole point of showdead, to actually show the post?
> From what I've read about the American civil war is that all historians agree that the rebellion was about the right to hold slaves. The argument about federalisim is a narrative constructed afterwards to evoke sympathy for the rebels.

People often say this but I see no contradiction between the American Civil War being about slavery and it being about states' rights. It was about the states' rights to own slaves!

That aside, the idea that "all historians agree" is absurd.
> Many people say the same thing about Hyprland. I think they don't understand that what you call eyecandy allows important usability feature.

Bingo. Mac has had (crude, by today's standards) animations from very early on, because an animation helped convey the idea that e.g. a window opens "from" an icon you've clicked.

You don't need the effects to be fancy, but a tiny bit of animation helps you orient yourself. No naturally occurring object (except lightning) can change as abruptly as the contents of a screen.
Hmm, sounds like you want to destroy my nice-happy-niche social media communities there - Please don't throw my baby out with the bathwater when you do :)

(This was intentionally flippant , to point out the lack of nuance in parent)
I don’t think Buick sells that much in the USA, as far as I know the only reason it still exists at all is because it is popular in China, and all the designs from China are simply being transferred to the American market. Or they might even be selling cars/mini vans from Chinese factories? But I’d think the tariffs are too high for that.
Spoiler alert, there's only one more sentence after this, and it's of the "please like and subscribe" ilk, not any sort of conclusion.
Interesting. I guess 1974 was before "distributions" like BSD even existed, when the OEM bring-up tape was the only OS tape.

But why does Kernighan, on that same page, mention /usr/bin already being a thing? If /usr is what we would today call /home, why does it have a bin subdir?
Most peeps I know already have the insta account, so while the incentive to switch isn't very high, the friction to do so is very low.
Emacs, or vim. GNU/Linux. Docker/podman. Most of my tools are replaceable, but these are the ones I won't do without.

In general, as I become more and more experienced in the art of programming computers, the fewer tools I use. Only apprentice craftsmen obsess over their hammers.
Windows 11 was tough in the beginning - the loss of customization points compared to 10, specifically the start menu, but they slowly started adding that stuff back in (folders, adjustable real estate for pinned apps) after we cried loudly and long enough. On the whole I prefer Windows 11 current build over Win 10. The one thing that still seems like massive technical debt is the control panel vs. settings. Clearly that must be harder to clean up than you’d think.
I would imagine all those millions of non-tech people in their middle age that use fb on a daily basis.
I was under the impression that metal 'sticks' to an MRI machine with so much force it will usually puncture the machine and all the helium will leak out ..
Which only proves the point further - Hardy could have easily selected one of the other 999 cranks, yet by some intuition he knew that Ramanujan was the real deal.

After seeing Ramanujan's theorems on continued fractions on the last page of the manuscripts, Hardy said the theorems "defeated me completely; I had never seen anything in the least like them before", and that they "must be true, because, if they were not true, no one would have the imagination to invent them".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan#Contacting...
Eh, afaik /usr/local was for storing stuff installed by the local sysadmin and not distributed by the vendor… ~/.local the was for stuff compiled by each individual user and installed locally (in their home directory).

The idea is that if a user needs some kind of software and is able to build it autonomously then they can set $PATH and other environment variables to make it available to the session. Please note that in ~/.local there are bin, man, lib and other directories, so you can pretty much build, install and run what you need without bothering your sysadmin :)

These days… some package managers might put stuff in there so that they can work without needing root permission and without messing up with the general system.
Yes, it’s a lot of money in Romania. I could live very comfortably if that would continue being the case. If I had my own place.

My “not bad” remark is because I still can’t afford housing with all the money I make. I’ve been living in rent since college >10 years ago and I’m sick of it. You get no legal benefits when renting in Romania, everything is done by hiding from the state and local authorities. So you can’t even get a family doctor in your area.

Me and my wife have been trying to buy a house for the last 4 years and even tried to renovate a 100 year old house in an isolated village because it was all we could afford. Long story but we got scammed, the land plot is unusable in its current state.

Housing prices are so out of control here that even with that consulting money I would still need to not spend anything for a year to be able to afford a house that doesn’t need heavy repairs and has all the paperwork in good order. It’s very common here to sell houses that were built without a permit.
so why is nobody implementing stuff in smalltalk?
"ChatGPT didn't enable this creepy thing, it just made it easier" isn't the flex you think it is.
The entire article is discussing annualized numbers, so $50/month, a fairly middling Hetzner server.
Never knew there were so many gun fans on HN!
I appreciate your attitude around the infesability of monopolizing software, and agree with you on that and on how hysterical people are acting about AI.

I cant picture a case where charges need to be brought under a novel framework that couldnt be captured by existing laws. If you deploy a computer virus, thats a crime, if you hack someones bank account, thats a crime, if you slander someone, thats a crime.

Im personally not convinced that any of the public efforts made around AI safety have been honest. If these people were serious then like you say, they wouldnt be chasing evil scifi ai overlords. I can think of some wonderful use cases to counter things like AI generated fakes; I am actually uncomfortably suprised that every social media company hasnt added a banner below every picture that says whether scans indicate a picture was deepfaked, twitter could scan a picture when you post it and show what a variety of algorithms think. That would have a real shot at improving information asymmetry at the social level.
"collectively deciding" is a lynch mob. remembering the danger of such thinking seems more important every day.
In NixOS, programs are installed in many different unique paths that are added to PATH through symlinks. There are very few programs added to static directories such as /usr/bin. This in itself may not sound like an improvement, but NixOS as a whole has a very different idea how to manage dependencies. Difficult to explain well, but it feels like fresh air compared to the slow evolution of historical Unix principles that most other Linux distributions follow.
I think it's fun to think about.

Start from the premise that Anselm was serious, and wasn't an idiot. How must he have seen the world for this argument to make sense? (This is, very loosely, the approach of the Cambridge School in the history of ideas.)

Looking back from several centuries, we can think the argument is obviously bad. (We might have heard, for example, that "existence is not a predicate" so you can't just talk about existence as something that God may or may not possess.) But Anselm didn't have that. His argument was a step on the way to where we are now.

And sometimes if you squint hard enough at it, you come to see why and how it might make sense, and the arguments don't seem so stupid. Plato does that to you sometimes, for example.
> "If there's something so fundamentally wrong with him, why does he have such broad support?"

Stock options and a carefully built cult of personality, my friend
Needs a (2021) tag.
> I mean, really. Who is on there?

141 million people and 33 million DAU in less than 6 months.

So basically already about 15 times more than Mastodon, which was released 7 years ago.
> see Colectiv 2015

> At least 13 of the victims that died in hospitals were killed by bacteria, probably because the disinfectant used was diluted by the manufacturer to save money.

(From Wikipedia.) That's so sad to read, considering they had actually survived the fire.
> In NixOS however /lib and /usr/lib do not exist. Instead all system libraries, binaries, kernels, firmware and configuration files are placed in the Nix store. The files and directories in /nix/store are named by hashes of the information describing the built data. All of the files and directories placed in the Nix store are immutable. /bin and /usr/bin are almost absent: they contain only /bin/sh and /usr/bin/env respectively, to provide minimal compatibility with existing scripts using shebang lines. User-level environments are implemented using a large number of symbolic links to all required packages and auxiliary files. These environments are called profiles and are stored in /nix/var/nix/profiles, each user having their own profiles. Structuring the system in this way is how NixOS obtains its key advantages over conventional Linux distributions, such as atomicity and rollback support.

Source: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Overview_of_the_NixOS_Linux_distribu...
So more expressive type systems? Rust has made entire classes of bugs impossible, and you can do even better in Idris or some other dependent type theory. People don't do it because it's expensive and they're not trained it.

No it never eliminated all bugs, but if we're conflating the two problems you don't need to eliminate all hallucinations either, you just need to make them very unlikely, or a consequence of your bad specifications.
Untangling Threads
Thanks, very good point. Completely didn't realise that. :)
Well inferior might be overly simplistic. In many cultures you use formal speech with strangers as well.
I know this won't be a popular opinion but maybe it's just kids not liking being forced to care about stories spoken in an archaic form of english that make them unintelligible and thus unenjoyable to read?
Maybe the logic is, they're a GIS company that happens to use a lot of tech. (This is sort of how I thought of it when I worked at a LA media company- we have hundreds of transcoders, gobs of storage, distribution via satellite and other means, but the software wasn't much more than hacked-together glue with fancy buzzword names that sales spouted to prospective clients. We were a media company that happened to need a lot of tech).
Looks like it's censored here too.
Here in Germany its similar, maybe its could be worth for the author to consult a tax consultant as he may be missing out quite some money.
Also a wage you pay yourself is usually better off for tax readons - that's why the maximum wage you can pay yourself as business owner is limited.
You're too kind, and that's so beautiful to read! I think I can speak on behalf of Nolen and myself in saying: may these games bring them, you, and everyone joy. This is our gift for the New Year, wishing you and everyone health happiness and well-being! :-)

All the very best!

P.S. I'm supremely curious... are you noticing that some people are better than others on average, or is it ... a wash? Can one be a RPS champion? Legitimately curious if you've seen any pattern emerge in your own family. Cheers!
Submit a PR then?
I'm sick and tired of getting notifications about Threads when I'm on Instagram.

The notifications are very hard and sometimes impossible to turn off. I like Instagram, but I couldn't care less about Threads. Being forced to get these notifications constantly gives me a strong urge to nuke my profiles on both apps.
Some companies are more equal than other companies
For anyone who wants to know more: https://mashable.com/article/musk-x-twitter-paypal
Why "switch"? It's not like we are limited to only one social network :V
Working on new features for my side project which I released 2 months ago, its called summify.io
Each of the dimensions has a "primary unit", which the constructors convert into. For Length it's Meters, so Meters(2) stores a 2, whilst Microns(7) will store a 0.000007 https://www.javadoc.io/doc/org.typelevel/squants_2.13/1.6.0/...
Do you think the average engineer at Garmin is spending their time thinking about the algorithms to interpret GPS signals?
Large metal objects can cause a quench. Smaller and medium-sized ones usually won't, they will just stick to the magnet until you release them.
Why Are Alaska's Rivers Turning Orange?
An important part of passing the red hat certified system administrator (rhcsa) was to be able to recover a rhel system that was failing at booting… i got that in my exam, and i suspect that’s present in every exam session.

Good times, I miss working on rhel systems.
- tmux

- emacs

- zsh + oh-my-zsh
Are they actually posting anything?
AFAIK ~/.local/bin is not in any standard. I create this directory manually after installation and add it to my PATH because it makes sense to me, but it is not mandated by the FHS/FreeDesktop/XDG.

None of the mainstream distributions create nor manage that directory for you.
Well they have Microsoft's back who knows better than anyone how to sell to the enterprise.
Great blogpost and congrats to OP on the success.

As someone who, in a past life, also sold apps on the Mac App Store (with some success), I could never escape the sense of insecurity, whether it be Apple "breaking" (or fixing?) things every WWDC, constant pursuit of the next idea, or potential competition. Not to mention, the fact that sometimes reviews seemed oddly personal and the occasional rude customer support emails could ruin a day. (This all probably says more about my own mental psyche than anything and I'm glad some people thrive in it.)

In the end, I felt more comfortable doing the 9-5 engineering job, but it was definitely worth it and really taught me to be self-sufficient and exploratory in software development.
That seems implausible. I looked it up and the first result was:

> A one-room apartment in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Brasov, Sibiu or other big cities will cost from €350 to €500 per month

Good luck finding that in Manchester!
Would orange have been better? Avoids red/green colorblindness, doesn't interfere with human nightvision, distinctive color...
There is a reproduceability crisis in published literature. Most of these study results rely on Frequentist statistics. Many of these studies are just not repeatable, or worse, clearly wrong. Use of Bayesian statistics might have averted this situation.
>> Only two registry settings

Could the bullet time I experienced when I installed Max Payne on Windows 2000 Server been even more bullet timlyer, simply through a reg tweak? Where was this information, three thousand years ago, when I needed it?

BTW, Windows 2000 Server, the most rock solidest OS I've ever used.
Kakoune doesn't have exactly a plugin system, but a module one. There are however various plugin managers.

Its customisation is obtained by exposing an interface to the shell with various parts of its functionality.
Shared computers are still a thing (in computer labs or servers) so that use of .local is still around.
I feel like NixOS should've gone just a bit further and look closer to GoboLinux.

https://wiki.gobolinux.org/Overview/GoboLinux-Filesystem-Hie...
Great point! No, is the answer. There hasn’t been a single post yet. X is the only place where people post.
What difference would that make to the question at hand? Do you think the average engineer at Microsoft gives a whole lot of thought to Windows kernel development?

But to answer your question directly: I would have no idea. Do you?
As a former Garmin employee, a surprising number actually do.
It happened for some of us. The arrival of Windows 10 coincided with most of the essential business software we need having at least a web-based version if not being entirely online. That was enough to drop Windows after 7 and move to Linux for our next generation.

As always the availability and quality of the required software to run on your chosen OS is what really matters. Luckily we're in development where the tools on Linux are easily comparable to and frequently better than the tools on Windows. I doubt people working in some of the other creative industries would say the same though.

It's a shame the free and open nature of Linux is also its Achilles heel because it creates a reputation - which is at least partly justified - that trying to sell commercial Linux applications isn't likely to work out. If we look at what happened after Adobe went subscription-only with Creative Suite/Cloud we see that several credible competitors arrived within a few years on Windows and macOS but none of them has been ported to Linux. Even relatively small and fast-moving commercial software companies don't think there are enough potential paying customers on Linux to justify the investment.

That's a huge problem for greater adoption because it creates a chicken-and-egg paradox. Maybe a more free and open business model like crowdsourcing could at least cover some of the bigger gaps like graphics software. But if anything some of the recent developments in Linux - like the X/Wayland fragmentation - might be making it a harder target for GUI applications that would have the necessary mass market appeal to shift users in larger numbers and not just attract the techies.
> The configuration / state for a program is scattered between /etc /nix/store ~ ~/.config /var

That's not really scattered. /nix/store has the generated files. They get linked to /etc if the app requires that kind of thing - often it's just added to the arguments instead. ~/.config is for user preferences (possible to flip at app runtime or static) which are not a system setting. /var is for system services states. Those are very separate use cases and get managed in different ways. The apps should also never be aware that /nix/store is a thing.
Sometimes, the binaries in /sbin were statically linked, to make them more likely to work when attempting to recover from disk corruption or similar.
I think it is more fair to say that traditional companies are evolving into tech companies. Every "non-tech" company I've worked for in the past 10 years have had a big push to get more digital, which has meant hiring software developers, IT people, setting up dedicated divisions to various IT tasks.
How a child's accidental call launched NORAD's Santa Tracker
I think the point is about if they are a tech company… and they are very literally a software and hardware company. It’s not a question of what the average engineers day to day is.
Okay, but the concept of unauthorised access to a computer system isn't a new one, Kevin Mitnick and co were all convicted of it in the 90s. Maybe there was an argument before Apple released a statement, but it's pretty difficult to make one now.
Have a Helping of 8-Bit Holiday Cheer (2023 Xmas Demo Roundup)
Sure the “electricity” is free or maybe even “paid for use” a couple of short times a year. That doesn’t justify the massive capex investment needed to build a hydrogen plant that would be underutilised 95%+ of the time.

The economics will never get there. You’re railing against battery electric whilst ignoring the even bigger cost of entirely unproven hydrogen. The gas industry wants you to believe this so that we invest in hydrogen usage that for the foreseeable future will be made using gas.

That lie shouldn’t be repeated.
There’s an awful lot of life still ahead of your early twenties, and I had several loose friends in college who burnt themselves out on drugs. You don’t have to be a prude, but you can cut a long, bright future very short indeed without some restraint.
I’ve given a hundred people advice on handling discrimination at this point, and the thing I always stress is that it only matters what you can prove, not what happened.

Protecting yourself against discrimination doesn’t mean trusting the courts. It means being willing to lie or mislead people into thinking you aren’t in the category of people who gets discriminated against, making yourself too much trouble to fire, and finding open-minded employers.

If you’re in a disadvantaged group, you need to pick your battles, and accept that life isn’t fair.
"Elders" might have been a more accurate wording. It's a community/social concern (hence, to some degree, and to great but non-comprehensive use, "social security").
I use BEL + IFFTT webhooks to trigger a notification on my laptop and my iPhone whenever something finishes. Echo hi; notification

With an alias for notification
$ cat /etc/passwd

Look at row #3.
The whole three year thing is exactly what they said a decade ago when they moved from tick/tock to a vague three year cycle.

The problem isn’t Moore’s law. It’s that Intel isn’t keeping pace with the competition and it’s finally gotten so bad that it’s starting to erode x86’s entrenched position.

Intel is a dead company walking unless they turn the ship around fast.
Really interesting, I like the kind of “stream of consciousness” approach to the content, it’s refreshing. What’s also interesting is the fact that the author felt the need to apologize and preface it with some forced deference due to some kind of internet bashing he certainly received. I hope this doesn’t discourage him to keep publishing his notes (although I think it will). Why are we getting so human-phobic?
Could you provide some references please?

I use client certificates since they are required in my line of business and had the impression that they are only presented when asked for by the website, only I explicitly allow it.

Other than the sites that I know require them, I have never been asked to choose a certificate when browsing random websites (windows 11).
> AFAIK ~/.local/bin is not in any standard. I create this directory manually and add it to my PATH because it makes sense to me, but it is not mandated by the FHS/FreeDesktop/XDG.

Quoting https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-... :

> User-specific executable files may be stored in $HOME/.local/bin. Distributions should ensure this directory shows up in the UNIX $PATH environment variable, at an appropriate place.
Chameleon malware can turn off fingerprint unlock to steal your pin
Chlorhexidine isn't an alcohol.

Why would a bruise need cleaning? A bruise is always caused by internal bleeding into the interstitial tissues which does not break through the skin.
Gray boxes and a jellyfish could help advance wave energy