skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The canonical GNU packages are pretty arcane and difficult to build/understand (*), so alternatives with modern tooling/languages should be welcome.

But also, things like BusyBox and ToyBox are very popular alternatives which contain non-standard ports of only a subset of coreutils. A complete and mostly compatible set of coreutils would be more popular than either, but they also have some different constraints that Rust builds make difficult (eg: binary size).

* nb4 "it's just configure/make/install what do you mean" consider if you want coreutils without glibc, cross compiled, or want to bootstrap your environment without any of them. The GNU ecosystem is "easy" to build/use within the GNU ecosystem, which is not unopinionated about what that looks like and how it works.
They UK changed visa rules and will stop issuing new visas for certain dependants. The headline is a lie and misleading clickbait.
If you are correct, let's ensure the browser duopoly is broken up first, rather than forcing Apple to open the market for Google to corner it. Then it will truly be a monopoly and all consumers lose.
My very generalized perception of those HN lists are as follows:

Who Wants to Be Hired? A bunch of similar people to me or better, with that same tech stacks as me, looking for remote.

Who is Hiring? Companies with tech stacks I don't use, looking for on-site.
There is nothing wrong with peaceful protests, but blocking traffic and people glueing themselves to roads and trains are not passive acts. The police have been escorting just stop oil protesters for their own safety, as the public started against protester.

Why does anyone need a gun in the UK!? The US has 3.6 gun related deaths per 100,000 people, while the UK has 0.3. Politician in the US would have you believe knife crime makes up for the lack of gun crime, but the truth is that the US has 4 times rate of violent crime than the UK. There really is no legitimate need for civilians to own handguns.

It's true that the UK has a large number of surveillance cameras in towns and cities, but that's more of a reflection in the cuts to number of police over the years.
Nobody’s going to make you :)

Write code for the wise cracking door AI instead.
can you link some of your work? I'd like to give it a try :)
Why do you think it would show up in searches first?

I work in advertising and it's becoming common to hear that concept artists aren't hired anymore. People are using Midjourney and other tools. The thing is, they are likely not asking for a "random" style, there is a list of 400 or 4000 artists (I can't recall off the top of my head) that Midjourney is deliberately set to imitate. That means oh - I like this Star Wars concept design, can I get more in the same style of This Artist in Particular (AI) is a real thing and it's costing people real money.

My understanding of fair use is that this might be a violation, since one of the factors to be considered is the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

edit: Here is evidence for the list (4000 artist names) https://twitter.com/JonLamArt/status/1741545927435784424
All the cool companies I've worked for have had options. The coolest ones even allow you to use linux.
The thing that brings China all those boons is that they make and sell things to the rest of the world.

Absent free trade, their advantages dwindle.

So the current "just shy of declared adversarial relationships" is optimum for them. Pushed further, say by retaining exclusive access to a game changing technology, and they start losing trade relationships (arguably, already have as manufacturing reallocated to SE Asia).
The root of the issue actually appears to be that OpenBSD still supports extremely old and slow architectures (that struggle to build itself):

alpha
amd64
arm64
armv7
hppa
i386
landisk
loongson
luna88k
macppc
octeon
powerpc64
riscv64
sparc64

For a project with such limited resources as OpenBSD, it seems wise for them to drop support for a large number of these legacy platforms and focus on more widely used architectures.

I understand that, supporting more architectures actually help uncover more bugs. But you could still do that with a supported platform list that is 1/2 that size.

https://www.openbsd.org/plat.html

Look at what DragonflyBSD has been able to accomplish, truly competitive with Linux regarding performance and features, with the smallest development team out of all the BSDs.

They can do this in large part because they focus on only 1 platform (supporting arch64).
would it be possible to use a heat pump to increase the temperature to a more efficient range? Or would all of the efficiency gained be lost by operating the heat pump?
A witness who's promised something like immunity should absolutely be treated with skepticism. An expert who's paid $5k/hour to testify should, as well. They're also subject to cross-examination during those processes.

"Gee, I'm so sorry I drove drunk, please give me a lower sentence" is so transparently self-interested it should be discarded as evidence.
I suspect all these strategies work on humans as well. Makes you think!
There are already mostly compatible utils in FreeBSD*, as part of their own attempt to pivot from GPL to BSD following GPLv3 (I think it's understandable that an explicitly BSD-aligned project would seek to avoid GPL). So anyone who wants to avoid coreutils could already do it.

* With the exception of diff3.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/GPLinBase
Look, a lot of this thread was with me and I have some of my own thoughts on your comments, and why they're hard to deal with and/or flamebaight.

But I don't want to impose my thoughts on you - so if you want me to give you my POV, please let me know. Totally optional - no offense intended by offering, and no offense if you don't want me to write anything.

> And we don't even have notifications, so when people keep posting in week old threads back and forth, it's because they're both manually checking to see if the other replied.

One minor technical point - I use a 3rd-party thing that gives me notifications to replies on my threads, which is probably true of some of the people you are talking with. So FYI that your statement isn't always true (and also FYI that this exists, if you're interested).
I've used Linux primarily since the 90s. I even had a Slackware install back in the day.

When Ubuntu started getting popular I had this same opinion. A lot of my friends would tell me that they gave Linux a try but gave up because of "random things not working" whereas, allegedly, using Windows everything "just works." This didn't sit well with me because I had the opposite experience with Windows.

Until the last couple of years, unfortunately. It's almost always kernel updates, but I had the sound suddenly stop working on a Kubuntu install after a kernel update, and I've had a few cases where the new kernel wouldn't even boot and I had to drop back to the old one.

These types of things are hard to quantify. Maybe there's more random nonsense across all users with Windows than there are with Linux. But kernel updates have started to make me nervous again and that's a step in the wrong direction.
Given what's happening in Ukraine right now, this would imply that high-quality soil could become the next resource that nations literally fight wars over.
This was Science Fiction/Fantasy with major publishers early to mid 2000s. The 50% ebook royalty dropped to I think 10% not long after.
Less to do with crew than culture.
> the fact that OpenBSD runs on some pretty slow hardware

This is one of my favorite aspects of OpenBSD. I play with a lot of retro hardware and running OpenBSD is an excellent way to make any old hardware feel like new.

Oldest real hardware I've run it on is a 486 DX2-66, oldest virtual hardware was a 386 using OpenBSD 4.1. Also ran a Pentium MMX as a WiFi router for a few weeks while sourcing a replacement.
https://protos.com/tether-transparency-a-lesson-in-lying/
I wasn't talking about OS defaults. I was talking about my personal use of my machines. I don't allow any push notifications by default because the benefit of them is tiny compared to the hassle of dealing with them.
Kids use whatever parents install for them.
I genuinely can't get enough of rust tbh. It "just" works. Don't get me wrong, a few things could be better, e.g. compile times, but it's so much easier to work with.
The Everything Token
IIRC Apple was donating lots of Apple IIs to schools in California in the 80s and then still maintained a disproportionately (compared to other states) high market share in the educational market in the 90s and 2000s. This presumably had a multi-generational effect as people graduating from those schools were more likely to buy Macs and then children growing up in those households were more used to them than Windows PCs etc.
The implementation isn’t using any modern C# features?
It's neither realistic nor unrealistic, we don't really know because it hasn't been done. What we do know is that it won't be cheap. France for instance plans to invest 20-25 billion per year to keep its fleet running. But they are all in on nuclear and basically have no way out. Decommissioning of their 56 reactors would bankrupt their electricity sector so they're kicking the can down the road. The rest of the world will have cheaper options.
Show HN: FrameOS – operating system for single function smart frames
The emergence of this idea definitely is guaranteed, but the dominance of it isn’t. There are many countervailing forces that can and should be used, including regulation. One of the forces that I’m advocating for, as I believe it is undervalued and underutilized, is pushback at the cultural level. It is absolutely possible to build truly thriving businesses that include more stakeholders than just shareholders. Costco is a canonical large cap example, but of course there are millions of small businesses who serve their communities much more holistically.
Almost the total opposite of "jealousy", but nonetheless an unpleasant
emotion more like "pity".

Pity is sometimes described as an "ugly" emotion. It presumes you're
in a better position to judge someone else. Getting over pity is a big
life step of getting over yourself. Grace and compersion rush into the
space left behind. Alexander the Great (probably a super genius) said
he admired Diogenes, and that if he wasn't himself - so in touch with
his own ambition - he'd like to be Diogenes, a man so in touch with
his ecstatic humility.

Anyway with respect to technological enslavement, I think it goes
deeper than "pity". I once saw a small child running around with a
tablet photographing everything and (probably copying a parent) saying
"I have to capture moments". That sent a fucking deep chill down my
spine.
Afraid not! I write under a pen name. It's not a huge secret, but not something I advertise either for various reasons (the main one being that I'm still not as good as I'd like to be... but I'll get there).
I was issued a Lenovo Thinkpad at work, recently, for the first time in more than a decade. "Sure, let's see. I used to own a(n IBM) Thinkpad back in the day—sure I ran Gentoo on it, but it was nice enough hardware. I've used Windows since 3.1, and still game on 10, I know my way around it. I can manage. Having a USB-A port is sure nice."

40-50% battery loss overnight while "sleeping". And other irritations galore. I'd forgotten what battery anxiety was like. Good lord.

Got on the MacBook list with IT ASAP. That MacBook lost 40% charge sitting in my backpack—over a week-and-a-half Christmas break. Ahhh, back home. So much more relaxing.
Could you clarify? If you're starting from nothing and your goal is strength I'm not sure what could possibly be more efficient than SS.
I listened to him on this podcast and then attempted to follow up by reading the book, but the book (Outlive) was way too much for me.

https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/328...
It's always a good thing to have more OS's to choose from.
Long time windows user here, developer of cross platform applications for 30+ years.

Started getting very frustrated with the way windows treats its users. It’s simply a non starter for any serious user these days; what with the ridiculous resetting of all bing settings periodically, the non stop abuse of your login mode (live vs local), and man every time that fucking Out Of Box Experience wizard would start and interrupt your login I would nearly shit myself with annoyance.

…

Recently took a position on an all Linux dev project, totally removed windows from my life (and kids). Whole house runs Linux now.

Very happy not going back.
Show HN: Comflowy – A ComfyUI Tutorial for Beginners
No loss, ski resorts are pure decadence.
> its silly paying thousands of dollars for a computer and only getting a basic version of Windows

It very well may be but this one is not on Microsoft. Using their power to force decisions onto others is one easy way to land in hot(ter) water. This would probably be an abuse of dominant position which everyone wants less of.

OEMs have more negotiating power than regular users so it's no easy or cheap feat to force them. Arbitrarily defining which licenses can work with what hardware makes everything complicated for everyone, it needs constant updating as the hardware changes, it needs a lot of assumptions on how the user uses the PC, would probably create the garden variety loophole hunt for tricking the system.

The sensible choice here is to go for a product that really fits your needs especially since that market is very well served by competition. You have dozens of competitors and even the DYI option. You're not buying a black box. It can be a gaming PC with Windows Home just as it can be a gaming PC with a 4060 GPU. Nvidia or MS should have no say in what a vendor can sell.
Look. Nobody is going to pay you more than they have to. I understand that for you, maybe, entry level software development is "not that hard".

For most people out there it's hard as fuck. Overworking people is the norm in the US
This seems like more of an ad for building with HTMX than anything else. Everything they're describing is true of any server-side rendered app that doesnt need a build step. I use HTMX for my PHP app and it's great, I can drop a folder into a webserver and voila it's live!
Round and round and round she goes…
The lack of attribution on this organized and well-financed operation is the most concerning part of this attack, in my opinion. It seems unlikely that any APT would burn ALL of its 0-days for the iOS platform in one campaign, so they likely have more which they can pivot to. Of course there are 3 nation-states who are most likely to be behind this operation, but which one was it? If possible, we should be looking for other victims of this attack using the IOCs discovered at Kaspersky. If we find other instances of this attack on Taiwanese government officials or members of the Uighur population, for instance, that would be a smoking gun for attributing it to one particular nation. Finding traces of this attack on the devices of Ukrainian government officials would point in a different direction. Either way, we need to be able to attribute this attack, and the other victims of this APT might not know to check themselves for indicators. Does anyone here know if there are efforts by cybersecurity researchers to uncover other victims of this attack in vulnerable or potentially targeted communities?
Very interesting indeed! Thank you for sharing.
I think you may be right. Though, depending on where you live the supports for starting something vary wildly. And many people are in a position where it is riskier than ever financially to strike it out on their own.

It definitely feels like it's time for next wave of entrepreneurship, but the current environment may make it difficult to realize it.

I was laid off in the summer and tried some smaller ideas for a few months, but it is very hard to be a solo founder in my experience - way too much work wearing all hats. Fortunately I bagged a job to get income stream back in line, but in my gut I feel like I'm missing an opportunity.

I found that I just have too many financial responsibilities to take the leap without either/both a co-founder and seed funding (despite desperately clutching to the notion that bootstrapping is better). And that's hard for many right now.
I don't necessarily understand why caching wouldn't naturally move to the same strategies as garbage collection? Generational collectors, in particular.

I remember we had a CACHE for credentials in a big service at a previous gig, and we found that periodically we would get our cache wiped clean. Turned out, a lot of our clients were working with a third party system that would periodically log into each of the clients' accounts to check on details. To us, that was every credential getting hit in a near linear scan every hour or so. Which... was perfectly set to kill anyone that was using LRU caching.

Outside of randomness to hopefully retain enough of the items in the cache that are likely to get hit again soon, it seemed natural to have a set of generations for items that have only been seen once, and then another generation for things that have been more active. Which, sounds exactly like a lot of garbage collection schemes to my naive ear.
link to the article: https://www.bluedothq.com/blog/call-recording-laws
Copyright law sucks. "Fair use" is rarely applied in practice (see how YouTube enforces copyright, for example). Copyright terms are wayyy too long, and those with deep pockets have a significant advantage when protecting their copyright.

Having said all that, I don't buy the framing of "big bad creators vs. UwU small bean AI companies" that this article puts forward[1]. For example, OpenAI is Microsoft as far as I'm concerned. And a lot of the training data came from small-time creators on sites like Deviant Art, not from "The Disney Vault", because the former is publicly accessible while the latter is not. Meanwhile, the first movers in AI are already "salting the earth" for any AI newcomers since AI content is now flooding the internet and is inferior for training.

[1] > Last month, it published an FTC “staff report” about “AI and Creative Fields,” based on a roundtable they held with a ridiculously one-sided panel of folks from the creative industries, who more or less all agreed that everyone should be forced to give them money at every opportunity.
> For macOS developers, it’s native support for Linux VMs & containers as well as the rise of Apple Silicon & ARM.

macOS still doesn’t have official support for containers. There is https://macoscontainers.org/ but you have to disable SIP, which is a no go for most professional/work machines.
Dunno what I hope for more: better internal architecture or more HW compatibility. I think the latter drives adoption more than the first.
Bars are a good guess, but the 3rd dimension should not matter. We could manufacture thin tile as the conductor, and PCB design would be done with superconducting Lego bricks.
I learned much more from Scott Alexander's review of Ashlee Vance's 2015 bio than I did from OP: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-elon-musk
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> There is nothing wrong with peaceful protests, but blocking traffic and people glueing themselves to roads and trains are not passive acts. The police have been escorting just stop oil protesters for their own safety, as the public started against protester.

Heaven forbid their safety should be in danger, they might get trampled by a horse.
The thing is, you want great cardio capability. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

> Extreme cardiorespiratory fitness (≥2 SDs above the mean for age and sex) was associated with the lowest risk-adjusted all-cause mortality compared with all other performance groups.

Sure your cardio might be "good" now, but see Table 2 for what happens to you over time (with and without training).

Put more plainly https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6153509/

> Individuals with higher cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) showed lower risks of all-cause, CVD and cancer mortality; those with higher grip strength (GS) had lower all-cause mortality. All-cause and CVD mortality risk was lowest in adults with both higher CRF and higher. Improving both CRF and muscle strength, as opposed to either of the two alone, may be the most effective behavioral strategy to reduce all-cause and cardiovascular mortality risk.
I wish someone would write up a comparison of Turbo/Stimulus and HTMX/Alpine. The approaches seem extremely (spiritually) similar, yet seem to ignore each other.
Can someone explain what is special about this? Author gave some history then started telling about new technique and only says this for explanation

> Rather than having entirely distinct and clearly delineated perspectives for each player, dynamically adjust the camera(s) at a pixel level.

> The most interesting part is what happens in the “no-man’s land” between, where space appears squished as the camera parameters are interpolated.

What does it mean by adjusting camera at pixel level? What is happening in the wrapped area and what does that effect have to do with raytracing? Does this technique bring any performance improvements now that two camera views are being rendered.
The screen is what sold you for 15 years?

Gosh I hate corporations. They are disgusting the mind control they have, and they never get in trouble for it.
The AI–quantum computing mash-up: will it revolutionize science?
Not sure if it is specifically California because it does seems majority of US Tech sector, especially those doing Web Development uses MacOS.

But your comment does echo the some point many have repeatedly posted on HN, in Europe most of their colleagues are on Windows. ( Although some people mention UK having higher Mac concentration ) And Mac is an absolute minority, even within the tech sector.

But I have been saying for some time, at the current rate things are going I would not be surprised if Microsoft start to open source a portion of Windows. And the pendulum may swing to their favour once they have captured more of the Cloud and Enterprise revenue.
This affects Windows only.

Really feel that should've made it to the title other it feels like click bait.
> but I don't really see what sending HTML over the wire instead of JSON gets us?

REST, instead of what we decided to start calling REST
Article makes some good points...but it's far too long. And doesn't feel like it gives much insight into Elon.

My take: Musk is so far removed from both "average human mentality", and from "average human role in society", that trying to describe / measure / judge him by the "the usual" metrics (for "usual people") usually gives wonky results. Pretty understandably, most people don't deal so well with that situation.