skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a software engineer who chooses to use Windows.

I grew up a windows user. I downloaded the Windows 7 Beta when I was 12 years old (and still think it's the best UI any OS has ever had). When I was in college I used Linux more, but found that the only reason I used it was as glorified desktop customization software. All of my assignments were in Java and my personal projects were in C.

I switched to a chromebook halfway through college and did all my assignments by SSHing into a rented VPS running Ubuntu. After college I finally got some money and bought some used thinkpads, which I ran Windows on.

My first job out of college we had macbook pros, and I hated those frickin things. The UI was so opinionated and slow with all of its animations. There was no way to disable the paneled desktops and there was no built in package manager or tiling window manager. Their bash version (this was pre-zsh) was an ancient build from 2007 and their coreutils lacked all the neat GNU extensions features (I recommend anybody who uses a macbook immediately install coreutils from homebrew and also upgrade bash). I had a million things I hated about macOS and still do.

Other companies let me choose between a mac and a PC, and I went with PC. My current company gave me a Macbook pro and I haven't turned the thing on in a year. I use my desktop PC for everything. I like powershell, Windows Terminal, Winget/Chocolatey, vcpkg, Visual Studio, and MSVC language features like SAL. DirectX11 blows OpenGL out of the water in terms of syntax without getting as complicated as Vulkan. I prefer the Win32 API Convention of initializing things with structs and getting more descriptive return types to Linux's everything-is-an-int. I don't mind the Windows 11 UI as much as I thought I would but still sometimes customize my taskbar to look like Windows 7 (but it's just not the same).

tl;dr: I like windows, and not because I'm a captive user
It's technically possible, but will force your users to go through additional configuration steps, decreasing your audience ten-fold.
You're correct, and this is a general problem with earmarking—there's nothing to stop the organization from just shifting unrestricted funds out of that bucket to compensate. I still would donate in this scenario, because the main point is that I want to be explicit about which activities Mozilla is engaging in that I find valuable. Donating to Mozilla right now would send the wrong message.
Who not extend it to pipelining algorithms, caching algorithms if you are at it? I don’t think any programmers really know how any of that works.
I love that we all agreed on leaving this heavily bloated website / webapp architecture
So many thank to all of you for your support!
This project has represented a lot of efforts for me and it means a lot!

Right now the website seems to be pretty slow/down. There is a lot of traffic, which was not expected. I also suspect there might be a DoS attack going on.

I will try to make it work better when I get home! (I am currently at work so I cannot give much attention to it right now)

Sorry for the inconvenience, but glad you appreciate the project!
Forks are not inherently good or bad but can seriously muck up an ecosystem if they are not well-justified. Mucking up the Linux ecosystem would be BAD.
> By far the largest percentage of respondents, 79%, were white, followed by 8% Black, 4% Hispanic, 2% AAPI, and 2% Native American. Twelve percent identified as LGBTQIA+ and 11% identified as disabled, meeting the ADA’s definition. The survey did find that diversity efforts were beginning to bear fruit—Black, AAPI, and Hispanic authorship has increased the most since 2019, and LGBTQIA+ and nonbinary authors were also above average among new authors. Sixty-one percent of respondents were women, 34% men, and 5% nonbinary.

What diversity efforts did they do?

>The median book-related income for survey respondents in 2022 was up 9% from 2018, adjusted for inflation, with all the increase coming from full-time authors, whose income was up 20%, compared to a 4% decline for part-time authors.

Whatever was to increase income worked. The books they talk about are mostly what I'd consider trash I wouldn't read: generic romance novels and fan fiction with changed names. Low ceiling.
udp is supported everywhere and also in the rust standard library as well as tokio.
zmq and nng from what I can tell are both implemented on top of the transportation layer and use tcp under the hood.

Udp also has other advantages besides speed.
- Its session less, so any device going offline can simply come back online without needing to reestablish a tcp handshake.
- The udp header is also substantially smaller than a tcp segment header (8 Bytes vs >= 20 Bytes). Not a huge difference but adds up to at least 12 KiB/s with a packet rate of 1000Hz and that is without the (potential) overhead of additional protocols like zmq or nng on top.

In this particular scenario the reliability of tcp is also not really necessary in my opinion.

I think overall it may be worth investigating if there is a noticeable difference.
Even though I advocate the GPL, I am not convinced Linux was a success because of the GPL.

It's more a success because of the amazing determination and maintainer skills of Linus Torvalds and the group of enthusiasts that rallied around it in the early days. I have been using Linux (as a user, not a contributor) since pre 1.0 (0.9something on a 486, installed off floppies, fun times.) And it's just amazing where we've gotten to.

Perhaps the GPL played a role in the early day in preventing a parasitical fork by a commercial entity, and by acting as a method of funneling in contributions. Hard to say for sure why Linux won over FreeBSD, though.
I don't understand your point because humans generate novel output AND memorise and regurgitate source material.

I believe human artists consciously adjust their output to avoid copying previous artists too closely. And sometimes they choose to copy very closely or exactly.

Obviously the same feature can be implemented as an option on generative AI systems.
When the year of linux desktop comes,

it won't be because linux became better than windows,

but because windows became worse than linux.
What are the benefits of Windows 11 home vs pro for a gaming system?
Sugar is poison.

Check out the latest talk from Dr Robert Lustig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n28W4AmvMDE&pp=ygUGbHVzdGln

Its a 3.5h video, but roughly sugar is as toxic as alcohol and the food industry is adding it to most products. In short if it has a label (like most processed foods with many ingredients) you should avoid, switch to the ones that don't have (like an apple).

This book is also great "The hacking of the American mind"

`While researching the toxic and addictive properties of sugar for his New York Times bestseller Fat Chance, Robert Lustig made an alarming discovery—our pursuit of happiness is being subverted by a culture of addiction and depression from which we may never recover.

Dopamine is the “reward” neurotransmitter that tells our brains we want more; yet every substance or behavior that releases dopamine in the extreme leads to addiction. Serotonin is the “contentment” neurotransmitter that tells our brains we don’t need any more; yet its deficiency leads to depression. Ideally, both are in optimal supply. Yet dopamine evolved to overwhelm serotonin—because our ancestors were more likely to survive if they were constantly motivated—with the result that constant desire can chemically destroy our ability to feel happiness, while sending us down the slippery slope to addiction. In the last forty years, government legislation and subsidies have promoted ever-available temptation (sugar, drugs, social media, porn) combined with constant stress (work, home, money, Internet), with the end result of an unprecedented epidemic of addiction, anxiety, depression, and chronic disease. And with the advent of neuromarketing, corporate America has successfully imprisoned us in an endless loop of desire and consumption from which there is no obvious escape.

With his customary wit and incisiveness, Lustig not only reveals the science that drives these states of mind, he points his finger directly at the corporations that helped create this mess, and the government actors who facilitated it, and he offers solutions we can all use in the pursuit of happiness, even in the face of overwhelming opposition. Always fearless and provocative, Lustig marshals a call to action, with seminal implications for our health, our well-being, and our culture.`

https://robertlustig.com/hacking/
Thorium – Radioactive Chromium Fork
The world has hard edges and some certainties, but our mushy brains are the only way we can experience it, with soft edges and uncertainty .
"Just ignore the cloud features, it's fine."

"Just ignore the ads, it's fine."

"Just unplug ethernet during setup to get the option to ignore the cloud features, it's fine."

"Just edit the registry to ignore the cloud features, it's fine."

(sound of boiling water increases)
Great job! Congrats!
Right now wind is running at 16% capacity producing 6GW; you'd need ~308GW capacity to cover Texas needs from wind alone. Good luck.
Google's misleading demonstration video shows they can't be trusted to honestly evaluate their own model. Until we can actually get our hands on Ultra and try for ourselves, I wouldn't give too much credit to their numbers.
Japan to test datacenter powered by reused hydrogen fuel cells
>9-5pm maybe

i feel like that would just be convenient for work and nobody else.
Overproduction of renewables, transmission, and battery/pumped hydro storage negates the need for fossil gas for that last bit of power. Certainly, today, fossil gas is used to fill the gaps, but as the world begins deploying in excess of 1TW/year of renewables this year, that fossil gas will be rapidly pushed out of the mix. And it is arguably better to let those generation facilities become stranded and require decommissioning vs more nuclear (which is orders of magnitude more expensive to decomm due to the nature of nuclear fuel, spent, unspent, and anything it has exposed).

Once the world is awash in clean, renewable energy, we can then scale up direct air carbon capture, paying back the carbon debt we incurred through industrialization burning fossil fuels. No nuclear required.
I'm a little tired of endless lists of things I should or must know. There have been tons of them created and has only added to the confusion. It only increases my burden but doesn't really contribute to my bottom line. It would be different if salary scaled more directly with what I know.

Considering we can't figure out the minimum knowledge required to be employed, I don't trust we have a good idea of what "every programmer should know" either.

This "every programmer should know" meme has simply become lazy, useless, and harmful and prevented the book from choosing a good title.
Indeed, and I really hope we will get better disassemblers and code interpretation tools that can make that task much easier.
Hmm, HN changed the link? It was supposed to be a link to STL’s comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/18x1mty/can_we_claim_t...
This was the situation 5+ years ago.

Most games work without extra steps nowadays (as long as steam is involved).
"lower salaries or where one person would be expected to do the work of 2-5 previously laid off folks"

so only $300k total comp and 20 hrs of work per week?
Nuclear fusion is around corner, too.
That's a great idea. Utah thinks so too. Well, at least between 10:30 PM to 6:30 AM

https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title13/Chapter63/13-63-S105.html?...
Hydrogen conversion is not only very inefficient, the hydrogen plants are also extremely costly.

Batteries are better bet.
>(Eh, ) I highly doubt that it will ever have a practical use beyond teaching kids in the classroom that formal verification is fun, and maybe nerd-sniping some defense weirdos to win some obscene DOD contracts.

Uh, perhaps take a look at the seL4 foundation's members[0], who are using it in the wild in very serious scenarios.

You can learn more about them as well as ongoing development work in seL4 Summit[1].

0. https://sel4.systems/Foundation/Membership/home.pml

1. https://sel4.systems/Foundation/Summit/home.pml
Why’s that? I had him back in undergrad and he was a spectacular lecturer. Course wasn’t too rigorous but definitely inspired a further interest in security.
It is much easier to remember the traits of data structures if you know how they are implemented.
I will check them out! Thanks!
I didn’t say reactive oxygen species were bad, I said that oxidative stress is bad. And reactive Oxygen species is not an old term but nice try it in an attempt to make me look stupid.

Here are all the papers that use the terms since 2023

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2023&q=reactive+Ox...
One feels compelled to mention the family member who learned the hard way of the dangers of mouth pipetting... while working in a bovine sperm collection facility....
I think we'll see the end of desktop OSs before we see macOS or Linux overtake Windows. I know a ton of people who don't use a laptop for desktop PC outside of work at all. Their computing is accessed entirely through a smartphone. The desktop OS will become a niche thing for offices and gamers, but I think desktops will eventually be on their way out
I found this reference for Hershey Vector font

https://paulbourke.net/dataformats/hershey/

It seems to describe a "pen" which draws the character. It is indeed pretty cool!
Oh, and the Republic of India does not even begin to cover all the territory historically known as "India".
It seems you are the dramatic one based on your last comment.
That's an extremely narrow definition of the community in my opinion. And even that doesn't adaquately consider the vast majority who do have but do not exercise that autonomy---Linux container users won't care if the container is based on GNU coreutils or Busybox or Toybox, they only care about the image footprint. (And this made Alpine Linux huge in the world of containers.) I believe that, even under your definition, it is only a small fraction of that community who explicitly want GNU coreutils. Not necessarily good thing, but just a sad reality.
> care about software that works

I'm tech support for my wife's Win11 laptop, and this is rapidly becoming not the case. Microsoft is building bridges across its most.
you're usually fixed to a specific payment during that 5 year term. you can't pay it faster without paying a penalty. the bank expects their profit of X and by God they're going to get it.

during the re-up you can throw down extra money, but that's because it's an open contract, essentially.
it's going pretty well right now, but if they keep massively increasing prices, it won't keep up forever.

the company i work at pays almost double now compared to a year ago, for arguably worse service. some of us in IT are looking at options, because being locked into a service that keeps shooting up in price is a huge risk.

yes it'll be hard to get away from the ecosystem. but with the increasing price, demand for alternatives surges too, and i can't see it taking too long until we get some options.
Symphony: Lightweight, elegant music player for Android
Yes and the vast majority of gaming specifically tries to thwart moderation. Thus the poison aspect.
> What is this supposed to demonstrate?

It is supposed to show the performance of a language when you have to implement a new algorithm in the language. This may happen if you can't find the algorithm in existing libraries. If you don't like matmul, ignore it and focus on nqueen, sudoku and bedcov.
Most of what they talk about is fiction, romance novels. No wonder it's still popular to be sold, I'm the wrong demographic, to me they're the generic rags with the generic tall strong man and falling woman on the cover. They give them away at the library and nobody wants them still.
It's because you can run native Windows games on Linux with very few issues nowadays, not because developers started porting their games to Linux more often.

Not supported games are mostly online multiplayer ones, and are using extremely intrusive anticheat rootkits. Fortnite is a great example of that. Anticheat devs refuse to support Linux for obvious reasons (too many ways to escape the rootkit).
It is troubling just how many intelligent, educated parents I see are perfectly happy to give children and babies a tablet or phone to placate them.

On the other hand, have you thought about the difficulties of handling this as a principled parent?

You can either turn your child into a social pariah during key developmental years, or spend hours of your and their lives trying to regulate a device that is designed to capture and waste your attention (something I personally rejected as an equal waste of my time and effort, when I took my journey to no smartphone), or do what almost every other parent does, and just give your kids a smartphone.
Got it. Don't talk about China. Censorship warning noted.
[EDIT: I'd love to hear what those who've downvoted actually disagree with. The question as stated in the article objectively does not ask whether they see this as a problem or not, nor does it justify why they believe they can assume how respondents have interpreted the question; I very intentionally caveated this to point out that I don't have a problem with the notion that many of them probably did mean it was problematic to them, but if that was not appropriately contextualised to the respondents it is not clear how many did or did not interpret it the same way the researchers do - maybe they did include additional context; if so it's The Guardian leaving out important context. Either way, from this article we can't tell]

Overegging the results.

This is the statement they were asked to agree or disagree with according to the article.

> “I think I am addicted to social media”

Note that it does not ask them to answer whether they think they have a problematic relationship with social media. Using the term "addicted" to refer to something you spend a lot of time with is common whether you're happy or unhappy about it. Unless there is significant context around the question that the article left out but that were presented to respondents, making the assumptions they seem to be making in the article seems problematic at best.

E.g. if asked if I was dedicated to chocolate, or pistachio ice cream, I'd say yes. If I was asked if I had a problem with it, I'd say no - I enjoy those "addictions". I also enjoy my HN "addiction".

I'm sure a portion of those who strongly agreed that they feel addicted also do consider it a negative and maybe a serious problem in some cases, but the question reported on did not ask about that, so all we really know is the upper bound on the subset that may or may not consider their social media use a problem.

Maybe it is a genuinely big problem, or maybe it isn't. This data won't tell us.

What is worrying, though, is that even though the grad student leading the analysis downplays the "addiction part" (“We’re not saying the people who say they feel addicted are addicted,”) she goes on to overinterpret the data ("But it’s not a nice feeling to feel you don’t have agency over your own behaviour. It’s quite striking that so many people feel like that and it can’t it be that good") - nothing about the question asked about whether people feel they have agency, or that it "can't be that good". Maybe they all meant that, but assuming they all meant that when it was not what they were asked is unprofessional.
I have been primarily a Mac user, but Windows 7 was pretty good.

Windows 8 was awful and I refused to use it. However, Windows 10 was really good relative to Windows 8 primarily because it continued some of the good underlying tech Windows 8 brought with it, but was an acknowledgement by MS that the UI/UX needed to be user focused. It wasn't completely there...for example, the Candy Crush ads were still there in the start menu, but the direction relative to 8 was good. However, Windows 11 (and moreso Edge) shows that MS never really had that realization and continues to see their software not as tools for the users to use to simplify and improve their lives but as "products" to be used exactly as MS wants us to use it.

My disillusionment with macOS also lies with this attitude.

For me, Linux is the only desktop OS to be used by choice anymore.
It's not 100% reliable but there is a nice script called buttery taskbar. Check it out, it makes taskbar situation manageable. You just need to restart it sometimes.
Ok. I was wrong. Can someone please flag my comment dead? I don't stand by it anymore and can't delete it.
Well, yes if the suggestion is some sort of intervention. There are large groups of people that will say they are addicted to coffee, TV, video games, etc. Not a lot of them will meet the medical definition of addiction.
There are some places (e.g. https://heet.org/geo/) that are looking at neighborhood "geothermal" - basically using ground temperature as a heat reservoir for heat pumps. They're getting buy-in from natural gas utilities, some of whom see it as a way to keep using their capital, rights of way, and expertise in digging holes in the ground (and maybe in billing folks, too) to keep making money as households convert to heat pumps.
The original ‘think step by step’ also made this observation.

Other models provide better answers if you tell them it’s important for your career or that you’ll tip them $200 if they’re right, or if you tell them that it’s allowed to not know… the preamble to get max performance gets long.
All good things must come to an end...maybe it's just time that we accept that Mozilla is not an exception to the rule.

I firmly believe we need a strong nonprofit guiding standards and leading innovation in cross-platform technology, but is Mozilla still filling those shoes?

What truly innovative things have Mozilla done lately? They have been playing catch-up/follow-the-leader with various consumer-focused things like federated social networks, VPNs, VR, etc. Firefox is treading water but still slowly sinking every year. Firefox is great browser - it's not a technical reason why Mozilla is "losing" - it's cultural/hype/marketing/something else entirely. Bugzilla hasn't had a major release in 5+ years and has lost the battle of bug tracking to things like GitHub Issues. Thunderbird is back in active development and has had good improvements but has a very niche market. There's Rust, but Rust has it's own foundation now and extends far beyond Mozilla.

The MDN web docs are great, but wasn't that one of the teams hit hardest by "COVID Layoffs" in 2020?
The joke from Windows users used to be "Linux is only free if your time has no value." The irony there is that I've spent more time in the past 12 months fighting to get software working on Windows than on Linux (and it was Xbox Game Pass, which is from Microsoft themselves!).
Fire Resistance of Aeronautical Composite Materials Under Reduced Pressure
The Rust thing comes up all the time, and Theo already addressed the issue[1]. Basically it boils down to speed and the fact that OpenBSD runs on some pretty slow hardware and require the full OS to be build on actual hardware.

As for the immutable OS, OpenBSD went the other direction and relink the kernel on each boot.

[1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=151233345723889&w=2
As someone who has used windows for 20 years, and used linux for a combined total of about 3 years (including now since sept. 2022):

Linux desktop plays defense against itself. As long as linux is heavily CLI dependent to get stuff done, it's going to be stuck in sub 10% penetration. I don't see this changing either because the people who maintain linux love linux the way it is.

Don't get me wrong, linux is extremely powerful, but it's gate kept behind a fetishization of archaic and cryptic command line interfaces.