skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> After hearing people be ecstatic, I thought I’d go full-in on Linux gaming. I have a pretty bog-standard gaming PC that is very Linux-compatible (Intel i5 + Radeon 6800XT) and on there Apex Legends has horrid frame pacing issues

Apex Legends run flawlessly for me, but only on KDE/X11 with Nvidia reflex enabled[0].

If you are on Radeon though, I bet the problem is your window manager. I have the frame pacing issues on:

- hyprland/wayland (even with no_direct_scanout = true; and floating game windows)
- KDE/wayland

I also had a weird issue using gamescope as my DM where apex got resized into a tiny frame in the top left that was like 200 pixels or so wide.

> That said, these things work flawlessly on the Deck.

Likely due to running into these graphics driver -> WM and similar compatibility issues and fixing them. The other performance improvements from kernel changes probably don't hurt either.

0: Requires unreleased proton-ge build: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/pull/104...
Interesting interview, but why edit the title? Why not "Carolyn Chen on Work Pray Code" or just "Work Pray Code". Shorter titles tend to do better.
Some of those suggestions are things that sound good at first glance but are simply not great ideas.

For example, support for downgrades means you a security vulnerability can be reintroduced by a malicious user which may not be desirable. Writing software that’s backwards and forwards compatible across all releases can be extremely expensive to impossible (eg a feature in your application that requires a new OS or you need to use a now removed API when running on older releases).

There are difficult technical issues involved and trying to legislate specifics may not be the best idea vs other approaches that improve real freedom (eg you have to release sufficient details to your customers that they can write their own software for your hardware).
I did some web searching after reading this but didn’t find an answer to my questions:

This particular cultivar was brought from Africa to North America and was considered “extinct” once it was no longer planted in North America. But what about Africa? Is it no longer grown in Africa? Why not?
It would if Sony staggered software releases to sibling projectors.
Tesla Cybertruck Charging Curve Confirms Poor Charging Performance
Happy new year! Likewise, this is generally the only remaining site that I feel better after I leave it and more informed. No ads, excellent moderation, useful discussion and links. No gamification and chasing the modern web. Years of lurking and then years of sparse posting it still feels the same.

Here is to hoping this doesn’t change. Keep it up dang.
I don’t think seeing where someone is reading is enticing. I thing it’s best to extend the experience of the physical world (and if that works, it can evolve).

Ambient presence is an important goal. I’ve been running remote companies for almost 35 years and have been trying to achieve some level of this.

I’ve tried a few times to connect a couple of offices by just putting up a tablet running a chat (first Skype — that’s how long ago!) and later FaceTime. The idea is to not be spying on anyone, but showing what others would see if they were there: basically you could glance over and see if Jo was around, or basically see that Jo looks like they are really concentrating so no wonder they don’t respond to my slack. Or “look, those guys have a visit from jim’s partner!”

This is harder than it seems — the software isn’t designed to run continuously and the cameras aren’t really right.
> How is displaying a national group elsewhere not destroying it as a national group?

Plenty of nations have migrated over history. Every inhabitant of the Middle East is part transplant and/or invader.
How does a child accounting for a wild dream measure up in this test?
I see that my hopes that readers would understand that I wrote "autonomous vehicle function" and not "autonomous vehicle" deliberately to avoid confusing the two, that I wasn't using a legal definition, and that I was doing this to distinguish the majority of accidents that don't involve self driving cars or plain old cruise control from the minority of accidents that do, has not been fulfilled. Oh well, there's always next year.

In any case, drivers are not totally responsible. After all, what if there's a defect in let's say an "advanced cruise control" system and it's a factor in accidents? Can you rule out the possibility that a jury in a class action suit would assign some blame to the manufacturer?
Yep. 9300s are very cheap now. 9400s are less cheap. 9500s are not cheap. 9600s are new and pricey.

As I said, you can't recoup the ROI from the reduced power consumption, even if you're paying California or Germany power prices. Though you can definitely get the number lower!

I had this system (and the 18U rack) in very close proximity in an older, non-air conditioned home for a while. So less heat meant less heat and noise. I also deliberately chased, "how low can I go (within reason)" while still chasing the goal of local NVMe performance over the network. Which makes the desire to upgrade non-existent, even 5+ years from now.

Not cheap, but a very fun project where I learned a lot and the setup is absolutely silent!
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HN and Skimfeed, my two dailies after quitting social media.
I don’t think I am. The statistical probability is very low.
that's "Dropping a new track"; a "drop" in a song is the part where the music stops and then comes back with more energy/whatever.

example (tongue in cheek) https://youtu.be/CJzfTZlEl40?t=38 drop is at 0:41-0:43
> you are a terror supporter

Someone can support Palestinians’ rights without supporting terror. As can someone commit even heinous war crimes without rising to genocide.
> GParted was suggested in some of the results but it wasn’t installed by default on the distro I was recommended (Lubuntu

You got a less than stellar recommendation based on your desire for parity with ease of use with windows. Lubuntu is a more niche distro aimed at lower resource usage at the expense of the ease of use you are looking for.

If you had installed KDE, you'd likely have explored the start menu and found gparted or typed 'disk' into search and found gparted.
as someone who likes working in a coffeeshop full of sf strivers, i love the vibe of these co-presence ideas. I have a technical question though...

Has anyone figured out a nice way to do the partykit-like cursor stuff [0] that doesn't need a database/intermediary? It would be so nice to be able to ship a p2p presence-enabled static site without a dedicated server. Looks like partykit has a generous free tier but we all know those only last so long.

Oh and while I'm here I'll plug my friend's project that this reminded me of! StreetPass is a browser extension that helps you find your people on Mastodon by checking for social metadata tags on the sites you visit [1].

[0]: https://blog.partykit.io/posts/cursor-party

[1]: https://streetpass.social
> He thinks it's a false concept, because again most people risking jail time transporting 5lbs of weed also do other bad things

That isn't the case IME, most people in the black market dealing with weed are pretty non-violent up until you are talking millions of dollars, which 5lbs will never be. They tend to only deal in weed or weed derivatives at those levels as well. It just doesn't make economic sense to do otherwise. What little bloods and crips style stuff of favela fame is a lot less common now too from what I can tell.
So your thesis is that just because some arbitrary thing is against some law then nobody should use the word victim to describe people having their lives ruined by the enforcement of said law? Because laws are somehow divine and perfect by virtue of them just existing or something? Nobody has ever been the victim of any repressive system of government or "justice" because it was "the law?"

Many people are victims of unjust laws from laws against pot to laws against homosexuality. Thousands of people across the US and across the world are routinely victimized by unjust laws and corrupt police.
So, Dragon Linux?
Purse my dreams like my life depends on it.
If you can just pick and choose which laws are just and unjust then society breaks down.

As another commenter said, it's far better to focus your efforts on changing the laws. If they are truly unjust, then changing them will have wide support. We can already see this with the relaxation of Marijuana laws.

Even if you personally disagree with something and think it should be changed, you still have to "read the room" and see if society agrees with you. If not, then bide your time and wait for society to catch up.
I think a lot of times recommending Lubuntu or other niche distros to first-time linux users is a mistake.

Instead one should recommend using KDE or Gnome and turning down all of the graphical settings if needed to improve performance.
So maybe this was a key rotation issue instead of what we think of as a software update (e.g. bugfixes)?
The people who joined before you are the cool people, those who joined after you are the ones ruining everything.
Because it is objectively the case that the "average user" of the internet has a google cookie in their browser. It doesn't require that they be logged in - though I believe it's likely also the case that the "average user" is indeed logged into a google account - it just requires that they use google search without turning off cookies or specifically blocking google's. Essentially everybody uses google search and essentially nobody cares enough (or would know how) to turn off cookies or block google's cookie.

If this doesn't describe most people you know, you're in a very small bubble. (I'm somewhat in that bubble too, but I still have lots of family and friends who use the internet the normal way.)
In Europe such discussions are daily occurrence. I.e. in Prague is a 100 years old riveted railroad bridge. After extensive usage for a century rivets holes are fatigue ripped apart and bridge was slowly becoming useless. There were two solutions

1. Reconstruction and refurbishment of the bridge, where look and capacity would remain same. However it would require another reconstruction in few decades in perpetuity because structure is essentially broken and reconstructions would be jut keeping the bridge on living support for a little bit longer. Historical conservatives were very much in favor of that one

2. Ripping old bridge apart (except pylons) and building a new one for same amount of money as solution 1) and without a need of perpetual reconstruction, just regular maintenance. Luckily this solution has won.

https://english.radio.cz/rail-bridge-connecting-vyton-and-sm...
I love HN. Dang does an amazing job moderating this place.

My new-years resolution: to not post a single political thing; interesting technical things only. Let's see how that goes in a US election year!
Well, I'm just commenting on the utilty of LLMs, as they exist today, for my (and other related) uses cases.

No doubt there will be much better AI-based tools in the future, but I'd argue that if you want to accelerate that future then rather than applying what's available today, it'd make more sense to help develop more capable AI that can be applied tomorrow.
No leap seconds in 2023. Here's hoping that IERS blesses us again in 2024!
This isn’t proposed to become the new UI for HN is it? I much prefer the more dense display of the current site.
A bug. If you tap the comments link, hit the back button, and then hit the comments link again it doesn't work. Looks like there's some state being tracked. Consider just using a link?
This rebuttal is kinda embarrassing

>Misleading headline:
>“Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective.”

>Reality (buried in the article):
>Tesla paid for most of the 120,000 vehicle repairs under warranty.

So potentially 59k people had to pay for it themselves?
> If a drug dealer doesn't get paid by someone, they usually ARE violent with that person. If someone snitches to the police, they are violent with that person. If you insult a drug dealer casually on the street, they are violent with that person.

All of this is caused by the drugs being illegal, which prevents them from seeking justice in the usual way if someone steals from them or rips them off etc.

If you were to legalize drugs and release them, they would no longer have any incentive to resort to violence.

And the same logic applies to people in other situations. If you regularly get shaken down by two bit thugs and the police do nothing no matter how many times you report it, you're likely to eventually take matters into your own hands, even though that isn't exactly legal. So should the police use any excuse they can to arrest you, for the situation they caused, because people in that situation are disposed to commit a violent crime the state can't even prove?
If you're not a bit selective with your technique, region, or breed, tomatoes aren't de facto easy. Any winter I'm not careful enough I lose mine. Other people struggle in dry summers, wet summers, or other adverse conditions.

Peanuts are IMO similar. They require warm nights and a long growing season, so any northern or moutainous area will need _some_ extra considerations and can't rely on cold-weather breeds to paper over the problem. You might want a much longer stint indoors than other plants before tossing them in your garden. Like tomatoes, they're not crazy about excess moisture (and where tomatoes just die when they get fungal infections, there's a wide range of conditions where peanuts will still produce but the produce will be toxic). Otherwise they're pretty easy.
The format of the data on a passport is unified (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-readable_passport) but the problem is to make sure that the one who presents this string of data is actually the one it belongs to.
Same logic as why you need worker/renter rights, just find another employer/apartment. Sorry that the toaster shocked your wife, but you could have just gotten a different one with better safety standards.

It is great that the government protects consumers. Otherwise, everyone would need to spend hours researching everything before making a rare purchase.
Nothing you've said in this comment contradicts my opinion that firing for cause is different than PIP. Not even the fact that PIPs are not designed to be survived. Or that you will be fired after failing one.
There's definitely a disconnect because if that's the best example of a game theoretic prediction, I stand by my statement that game theory is useless in geopolitics.

What would China's first concrete move be after it's final final warning [1]? Which faction in the party would have most influence over Xi Jinping in such an event and how much influence do they have over the military? How much would China be willing to compromise it's status as a trading partner with the West if push comes to shove? Those would be useful predictions that can be acted on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%27s_final_warning
> Why would you think they're sufficient to handle this one?

It's a business transaction where contracts are the norm. Sony may not be very flexible on terms, but no one is forced to buy their projectors and agree to the terms.

> why would we want to lean on something as slow and complex as antitrust laws

We would if consumers had no other choice but to buy Sony projectors only - that doesn't seem to be the case, though.
It is low probably because the meeting degree they are having already take up most of the time, and may also be because for those better equipped in math they are in research that requires more sophisticated level of math already (ie self selection).

This is extrapolated from my experience in CMB data analysis. People with better math training probably are doing theoretical work via simulation instead. Some, but not all, papers involving CMB data analysis struggles to present their research mathematically, or may perform some statistical analysis in a very naïve way.
I’m a Vim user, so that wasn’t why I replied. It was your saying that it saddens you that Emacs doesn’t have many users.
I showed this to my brother, who lives in Stockholm. His response: “Typical bloody Stockholmers, thinking everything revolves around them!” ;-)
I can consistently and repeatedly make the Crosstrek attempt to murder me. Drive to the left of a semi truck, and begin to hug the left line on the road. The car will fight you to recenter in the lane. If you loosen your grip on the wheel at all, the car will immediately and violently swerve to the right, and without correction will wind up in the lane to the right. I can always catch it at exactly the right line of the lane i am in, but i imagine if you weren't expecting it you'd wind up underneath a semi.

I absolutely loathe driving the crosstrek.

edited to clarify: I can shut off steering assist, but sometimes i drive with it on because my wife does (normally) and i like to make sure it's still "safe" - so each time i get in and the steering assist is "slightly different" than the last time, i notice. She only sees the gentle curve, like maybe the cameras are dirty, or this road's lines aren't sufficient for steering assist, etc. Whereas i notice immediately that it's acting different.
This is someone's pet project- the HN UI isn't changing
Did you fully read the prior comments?

Or is there confusion about the term 'Dutch'?

This is another term to refer to the Netherlands.

Considering this is the third deflection in a row, I'm going to have to insist on solid proof of this 'overwhelming evidence' going forwards, instead of hand-waving and easily seen through innuendos.
The XY problem is poorly-framed.

First of all, it's often a false dichotomy: you can answer the X directly and dig deeper to find Y.

Second, it places the questioner in a "normal" bucket: surely they must have the same boring mundane needs as everyone else, and we just need to figure out which one it is (Y). But some people really are working on something interesting, and need to understand X to do so.

Thirdly, even if Y really is better for them, they still might benefit from an answer to X to avoid asking future variations of X.
Ask HN: Python3.12 Hosting?
Does anybody know of a shared or budget host that actually supports python3.12?
I just two-finger zoom in and out for those tiny voting arrows. I’d rather have the main use case be packing more data in so I don’t have to scroll around as much.
A month and not a year?

Switch to a FLOSS OTP solution and/or Fido2 key. If you’re service providers don’t accept them, replace them with one who does.
That does seem like a pretty much ideal use case!
A very important requirement.
Ask HN: Onboarded and overwhelmed by new code base
I am doing a SWE internship and the company shared their codebase with me on git and I am very overwhelmed with all the moving parts. Ive never joined in to a project like this and am wondering the best approach to get familiar with things.
> unlimited full-resolution image and video attachments

They don't allow for unlimited video. I ran into this the other day trying to send a 124mb video file they said was too large. It seems the current limit is 100mb from my googling. It was a 30-45 second clip (spatial video, which is why it was bigger). I hope Apple raises that limit. I was able to send it via iCloud in the end which was functionally the same expect it expires in a month.
Happy New Year everyone! HN will always remain in my heart and mind. 5 years ago I moved to Amsterdam to work on a super interesting R&D project that taught me a lot about GPS, coordinate systems, algorithms, and sadly the importance of having a short commute. I spent an hour and a half to get in either direction. That was demotivating and made me depressed and tired. HN was how I passed time, first on the train, then on the bus, reading curated articles and through thoughtful comments. I couldn't have managed without you all. Once again, I wish you all a Happy New Year and luck in all your endeavours!
Happy new years everyone.

I started regularly browsing Hacker News around the start of corona when I graduated from university as well. It has been an amazing few years, and I look forward to the coming year.

A lot has changed these last years, but somehow Hacker News always remains a solid place to procrastinate and/or learn new things.

When I tell other developers that if they want to keep up to date with tech, I tell them about Hacker News, it always goes like this: Come for the articles stay for the community. Thanks to everyone making Hacker News both an interesting and welcoming space to hang out!
This is the only social media I use, but the special thing about it is that it doesn’t really feel like social media. The content is edifying and the community is well run thanks to dang. Happy New Year everyone!
It’s probably Stanford’s MOSS

https://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/
I wonder what Baltimore, St Louis, New Orleans, Detroit, and Cleveland (and maybe Chicago?) have in common that SF, Seattle, Portland, Austin, Denver, NYC, Boston, and LA don't. There has to be some hidden third variable besides a weak correlation between crime levels and how far west a city is within the US, no?

Looking at the states,
MD, MO, LA, MI, OH v.s.
CA, WA, OR, TX, CO, NY, MA

I was thinking maybe guns but then why would TX and CO (relatively relaxed on guns) be in the lower category?

Then I wondered if maybe it's relating to the housing-challenged (more property crime maybe?), but I can't imagine that climates like those of Detroit and Chicago, with subzero temps and tons of snow in the winter, are very unhospitable to the unsheltered, probably even fatal to those who can't access shelter.

Anyone else have any ideas? I'm stumped here. I know crime is a complex social issue but it seems like there's some weird variable I must be missing.
I think an important distinction here is that most of NYC's old housing stock is not decrepit, and is in fact some of the most expensive housing in the city (in the "normal person" bracket, not the "wants to live in a penthouse overlooking Central Park" bracket).

Two of the neighborhoods mentioned (the UWS and Brooklyn Heights) are some of the wealthiest in the city.
Hmm, can't reproduce it myself, but firefox has a nasty habit of quietly "repairing" these types of misconfigurations by redirecting from one subdomain to another. I've added marginalia.nu as a SAN, should hopefully work now.
This is really hilarious to read.

You must not have met many weed dealers before have you? Specifically the examples where a "drug dealer" would be violent are so divorced from my own lived experience that it really makes me wonder if this is how some of society really thinks weed dealers act like.
He was just early: FF market share is 3% and dropping. It's all about UX
1. Complain about market dominance.

2. Any 2% of the market doesn't matter.

3. …
Happy New Year to you too!

Likewise, this is generally the only remaining site that I feel better after I leave it and more informed.

Hacker News, but also lobster.rs
>For example, support for downgrades means you a security vulnerability can be reintroduced by a malicious user which may not be desirable.

And there are regulated industries where a software update could be the fulfillment of a recall.
Happy new Year from Germany, we are not quite there yet, but in the other years it always worked and so I am confident we will make it this year as well.

Time for one more Dinner For One ;-)