skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ubuntu (like Debian) has always had online source repos available; they are in no way restricting access to sources here, just deprecating a legacy channel to deliver them. See `apt-get source` subcommand
Thanks for that, made my morning coffee reading routine a little less anxiety inducing. /genuine

It’s nice to read about serious problems with a sense of optimism that don’t downplay the problem.
Huygens Optics is a great YT channel for anyone interested in deep dives into optics, btw.
Understanding of RAG: core paradigms, key technologies, and future trends
Your question was ambiguous then:

> Can anyone explain how HTML/CSS/etc. can be "semantic" at the syntax layer when it is largely a means of specifying a UI?

"Semantic" HTML means that you have to use a purpose-made element when it's available. A link should preferably be done with <a>, not <div> or <span>. (<button> is more debatable.) HTML doesn't provide a calendar so you should roll your own with `<div class="my-calendar">`, or more recently, custom elements like <my-calendar>. You would have many internal parts within that element, unless hidden under a shadow tree, but at least that particular element can be said "semantic".

"Semantic" CSS means that you have to pick a sensible name. This is different from HTML because CSS itself has no semantics attached---you attach a tree and name subtrees with class or id. So the sensible name is not means to do anything other than managing complexity, and became out of fashion once other approaches like Tailwind were found and became feasible. In any case you would name something semantically, which may or may not translate to actual CSS class names.
Either the fines need to be high enough until there is a material impact to shareholders, or natural persons who make decisions within the corporation needs to be held accountable (not just the legal person), OR, we need to fundamentally rethink what a corporation's charter must necessarily include (in addition to shareholder returns).
first run!
I just rerun the experiment:
- ~46 secs on the first run
- ~22 secs on the following runs
They are at the stage of pre-application.

https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/advanced/who-were-...

X-Energy submitted 14 documents in December '23, and already 5 documents this month

https://adams.nrc.gov/wba/?data=(mode:sections,sections:(fil...
The AIVD nor the spy did know the specifics of the operation, e.g. that the waterpumps were carrying Stuxnet. Sources in the AIVD said that they felt used by the CIA.

Better source: https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/politiek-ontste...
You know who might pay? People who already pay for YouTube Premium. So your tool needs to work for logged in users. I see all these YouTube tools that don't work while logged in, which is a shame.

Also, do not go charge less than $5 per month for any service. You don't want to deal with users that are cheaper than that, they are not worth the trouble.
China’s new reactor construction has slowed in recent years, and their deployment of wind and PV has surged.
I’m fascinated by this because I think it’s going to be one of the most important stories of the 21st century. I’d be fascinated as well if things were going the other way.

This is the point of the chart I grabbed from a collection of thirty similar charts, solely because it illustrated the same trend with slightly more recent data. You can verify these facts easily yourself in less time than it takes to post to HN, from any number of sources (which will also give you the number of reactors under construction, etc.), there’s no need to pose easily-answered questions implying that maybe the trend is incorrect due to other factors, when you can easily satisfy your curiosity about those factors with a few minutes of research. TL;DR: more intellectual curiosity, less noisy argument.
To quote the article:

“C++ support level

The compiler will most likely not support a current C++ standard in the near future, but several C++ features are already implemented. The compiler can be switched into C++ mode with the command line option -pp or by providing a source file with a .cpp extension.”
> Our solution is open source but the backend and API are proprietary, and can be obtained via paid license.

So not open source at all then. You can't even "not open source" the frontend anyway (maybe minify and obfuscate).
NHS Probes Whether Palantir Influencer Campaign Breached Contract Terms
I have some bad news for you about bananas.
100% agree - there is so much similarity between those projects. They will be defended to the hilt but you only start to see the tangled vines when you try to build something without them. If you try to pull them out all other software goes too in a big clump. Then their developers ‘own Linux’.
https://archive.ph/yHY4D
The company, Wix, is the same thing as the Israeli state?

If anything, I have to give it to the state of Israel. It really has mastered the art of (purposefully) muddying the waters between the Jewish religion, the Israeli State, and any company that is created or housed by either of the former. All of which should be able to be criticized (or celebrated) independently.

I (or anyone) should be able to criticism the actions of a state without the assumption that that critique applies to all people who live in that state, or worse assuming it applies to a distinct religion. You especially should be able to do so when working outside of that state, and not be fired.
Kids in poorer states being able to read better actually makes sense considering the damage that Marie Clay's cueing system caused. Check out https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/ if you're interested. It was posted here a couple months back.
Worth noting that Wix almost certainly know she will win and don’t care. WRC claims are usually tiny
Thanks.

I'm currently sticking with using the Snap packages so that I can evaluate how well they work and the level of issues, but if they annoy me enough then I might well move back to standard packages.
I think you are making more of a distinction between optimizations and runtime, not compilation. Doing compilation is about taking a lot of arbitrary user-input (in the form of urls and cmake files and code edits) and executing that. Then optimization occurs which is a lot of pure transforms. Then runtime occurs, which is when the program takes a lot of user-input again. But step one usually is in a different language than step three, which is extra effort to learn. And step 2 doesn’t really need to visible to users, since it is pure the user doesn’t really need to directly see the side effects from that.
No idea why the personal involvement with valve pumping has come from. Atari "VCS All-In Bundle" is debian based, too. They are not playstation popular, of course. Like mentioned "no love for consoles", dont own one, not interested, either.
So it's Chinas fault the we moved production there so a few capitalists could get richer? Meanwhile their per capita co2 emissions are lower than ours while producing most of our stuff.
Post-scarcity is kind of a bad term. You’ll always have scarcity at some scale. I think as popularly used this refers to a society where the “floor” is at the level of say a US lower middle class person with some level of health coverage. This could be something like a society where tech driven deflation made most necessities dirt cheap, we started building housing again and reduced housing costs, and there is a UBI.

True post-scarcity would mean anyone could have their own private plane, spaceship, etc. That couldn’t happen without some kind of speculative singularity scenario where we get Mr. Fusion and benevolent superintelligent AI or something. Star Trek levels of post-scarcity are sci-fi.
Show HN: Rizz.farm, an AI-assisted lead generation tool for Reddit and beyond
Hey folks, I have just launched https://rizz.farm/ - an AI-assisted lead generation tool built for Reddit. Thought it might be useful for some HNers.

I'm pretty excited about this product, as it was born out of my own needs of doing lead generation in a different way. I wrote a blog post about my rational here: https://persumi.com/u/fredwu/tech/e/blog/p/introducing-rizz-...

In short (TL;DR):

Challenge:

- Keyword bidding and targeted ads are expensive

- Cold outreach are rarely answered

- Search Engine Optimisation is a lost cause

Solution:

- Warm leads over cold leads

- Personalised and public

- Infinite scale at a fixed cost

It's still early days (MVP), with more things to build, especially in terms of eliminating potential misuse (for spams, etc).

I would love to hear your feedback. Does the landing page resonate with you? Is the message clear? And if you have trialled the product (thank you!!), I would love to hear your thoughts. What worked, what didn't work, etc. Thank you!

P.S.

Tech stack for both Persumi and Rizz.farm: Elixir, Phoenix LiveView, Postgres, deployed on Fly.

In terms of the AI stuff:

Google Gemini (and before that, Google PaLM), Google TTS, Azure TTS are used in Persumi.

Anthropic Claude via AWS and ChatGPT via Azure are used in Rizz.farm.
I think you mention a very valid point that is worth reiterating: Even when you enter territory where HTMX gets cumbersome for some reason, you can still use custom JS or some other library to work around it.

I admit that I initially started to use HTMX to avoid JS, but I am now more comfortable than ever before to fall back to some lines of Javascript in the few cases where HTMX does not feel like a great fit to solve the problem at hand.

Another great side effect (that you also mentioned) is how much cleaner the project is structured now. But I also realize that this might not apply to big projects.
Yes, multiple levels of governance were unaware of these actions, including the prime minister (a covert action that could count as a casus belli might be something to mention to the PM) and the committee where the leading representatives are briefed on all matters intelligence ('commissie stiekem'). How it went down, both the executive and legislative branch of government were in the dark. That's way more trust than the system is supposed to give the spooks.

A former head of the intelligence department is quoted that not briefing the PM is more or less default ("sweeping his sidewalk"), which is an insult to democracy. Not that I cannot see the rationale for this action, but it all falls under the broad perversions of democracy and justice that our former-PM (Rutte) has willfully accepted.
https://youtu.be/igh9iO5BxBo
Not my comment, but relevant here "The problem with compiling Skia to WASM is you'll lose any benefits of hardware graphics acceleration on the device."

(From https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/discussions/6831#disc... )
I'd rather the data model be designed properly upfront so that it doesn't need to change, but can be extended with new functionality.
The first example given is for a liquor store - where a clerk is very likely to ask for one piece of ID, and in some locations, two - one photo ID, one with the customer's name embossed or printed on it.
I think and I hope she wins; but a question for the non-American persons here: Do you still feel free to post any kind of criticism online nowadays? (e.g. Twitter, forums, etc.)

At least from 2014, I feel less compelling to write anything marginally controversial online 'cause calculating the payoff between feel good to post something online versus the risk of being fired/doxxed/others is so asymmetrical that sometimes is better to go on the streets and/or talk with a representative in private than post it online.
Hey, I am trying to buy a milk board (well, a milk board with a SOC without any ARM in there, they have already those pesky hdmi/h26[45] blocks) in France.

I sent an email to their sales... MIA, nobody is answering (about their french distributors).

I will not use my credit card on internet, and amazon did stop working with noscript/basic (x)html browsers 2 years ago (usualy Big Tech trash with our non-existent regulation).
You have a few too many beers.

While your uber drive is taking you home, you sleep while using your phone and it falls from your hand without you noticing.

The next passenger is not an honest person.
This implies that your death and all others are not correlated. I’d argue that if an asteroid hits the death correlation is almost 1.
> "Seems like an excuse to hide what you did and claim your problems to be universal"

He literally tried to imply incompetence. That is a personal attack. When the entire point of this thread was to empathise with non-techy people installing and setting up a Linux distro. It's not about me, I'm able to resolve issues that come up with the myriad operating-systems I've used in the four decades of using and programming computers.

Instead this commenter got into one of those "my operating system is better than your operating system" childish positions and trying to question my competence rather than deal with the point.

Really, I was trying to state that Linux (all distros) still have some ways to go before the average human would be comfortable with it - especially once you fall off the happy path. The things that make Linux strong for the power user (myriad choices for everything, open-source, CLI driven) are not at all what normal humans want - they don't want a million options, they don't want to run scripts, they couldn't care less about the open-sourciness (other than it's free), etc. The motivations and incentives are different.

And for sure, Windows and OSX have their own problems, but mostly you stay on the happy path because they always have the drivers made for them, which means it's rare that a device or something doesn't work. And if something does go wrong then there's usually either the vendor (who sold them the device) or a single place on the internet to go to find out how to resolve.

This whole thread from my original comment down shows exactly how far away from the average user the Linux community still is. The default answer when someone has problems is "well, stop being so shit, be better - it's your fault". Or, "I've never had that issue, you're an idiot".

Of course those are sweeping generalisations, and I've made the point elsewhere that the Linux community has made great strides - but if we're ever going to have the year of the Linux desktop (I mean real Windows-denting momentum, not just the odd Linux laptop) then more needs to be done, and some of the shitty attitudes need to change.

Sent from my Linux Distro.
> Ubuntu uses more up-to-date packages than Debian

More up to date then Debian Stable. You can use backports, sid, or testing and be more up to date than Ubuntu.
> But it's a completely different statement, and it's wrong.

Well, then I have some bad news for you regarding bananas.

Which is funny, because it proves the point of the article: The optimal amount of [bad] is usually nonzero because otherwise you have give up too much of [good].
I switched to Ubuntu back in 2008, and have used it on and off since then. When it first arrived, it was IMO significantly better than Debian for end users:

Debian was notoriously out of date. Debian Stable mostly contained packages that were several years out of date, and even Debian Testing often didn't have e.g. recent drivers and browser versions in its repo. Debian Unstable, on the other hand, was too unstable due to being rolling release. My subjective experience was that things like getting MP3 codecs to work or nVidia drivers installed was also a huge hassle. Ubuntu was based on Debian, but ensured that the latest versions of all these things either just worked, or could be easily enabled.

Secondly, I remember Debian as being largely a "do it yourself" option, not so different from what an Arch user today might be after. You used a curses-based installer, selected what packages to install manually, customized everything from the terminal, and so on. Ubuntu offered a cohesive desktop experience - it gave you a pre-configured Gnome desktop with all apps and drivers an everyday user might need, and slapped on a (subjectively) aesthetic and coherent theme. The installer itself was also a friendly GUI that even non-techie friends could use. If you wanted to install it, you didn't even need to know how to flash an ISO, you just put your address on the Ubuntu website and they literally mailed you a CD containing the installer - and nearly anyone could install Linux using it.

I think "peak Ubuntu" was around 2012, after that they became too large and things started going downhill. They split the Gnome user base by creating Unity instead of contributing to Gnome Shell, they split the post-X11 development by pushing Mir instead of contributing to Wayland (I think related to the failed "Ubuntu Phone"), they added Amazon ads (with privacy concerns) in the default desktop experience, then they started pushing Snaps, etc. It's been largely downhill since then, but they had already become the "default Linux distribution" targeted by companies like e.g. Steam, so they kept chugging along.

Personally, I still think Ubuntu works quite well if you want something Debian-like that is release-based (not rolling release) but updated more frequently. But I in that case prefer using Ubuntu Server edition and installing my own packages via apt, that way you get all the Ubuntu compatibility of running a mainstream distro, but you avoid most of the clutter in the default distribution. There's many forks like PopOS and Mint that can be used instead though if you want something that continues in the original spirit of Ubuntu.
Is there a word for what he's doing with his voice in this video? Vsauce does the same thing. It's a strange cadence that would make me lift an eyebrow if someone was speaking to me like that in real life. It's like if captain Kirk removed emotion from his voice and began to lecture you.
1. Kubuntu is a good KDE distro.

2. Most proprietary software offer Ubuntu/Debian and RedHat/CentOS packages and support.

3. LTS versions , some people do not like or need latest software version with latest features and the new bugs

4. Ubuntu pays developers that work directly on Debian and some devs were(maybe still) struggle to fix Gnome bugs that Gnome ignores
I tire of repeating myself in this thread, but: I can't read meters, at least not with the time and attention I can afford to spare while driving a car.

I don't care about research, because: I. Can't. Read. Meters. While. Driving.

Give me numbers. I can read them faster, we can all be safer. Fin.
I've had recruiters ask for editable resumes because they don't want to reveal your name until you've gone far along enough in the hiring pipeline.
Agreed, especially as articles titled "no evidence..." usually contain evidence in favor of the proposition (except that there is also evidence against it).

I get similarly annoyed by the use of the term "significant" in statistics, which is a technical term in the field, not an expression of the importance or magnitude of the finding.
Ask HN: How many of you are consciously downsizing your devices/going retro?
Although Sales and Marketing would have us believe that we should upgrade our devices on a regular basis, a growing number of us are pushing back and consciously not buying new and many cases going retro and using older machines with a modern OS. I eschewed desktops in favour of laptops and now I've progressed to an iPad Mini 6 and a 2018 Android Tablet with Termux and Debian 12 (non-GUI). How about you?
The amount of work they've put into making Linux usable on desktop before the community decided to tear into them like they always do with biggest OSS contributors.

As always, people have forgotten just how much of an improvement Ubuntu was on other distros in stability, UI and feature set.
Damn.

The list of citations and sources in that post is longer than the post itself.
Does this coincide with an app the driver installs on their phone?
That being said: GPS based speed limiters are cheap, effective and not dystopian as long as they don't send telemetry back home.

> But the goal is not to bankrupt your citizens with fines,

There is this one crazy trick to avoid speeding tickets. Cops hate it.
In the original article [0] (in Dutch), it says:

> Twee weken na zijn raadselachtige vertrek uit Iran overlijdt Van Sabben bij een ongeluk in Sharjah, nabij Dubai. Hij raakt op 16 januari 2009 met zijn motor van de weg, slaat over de kop en breekt zijn nek.

Two _weeks_ later, not two years later. That is incredibly efficient of the Iranian secret service. This is most likely even before Stuxnet was starting to do damage. Almost as if it really were an accident. Or as if there was another secret service involved. One that already knew what was going on. No loose ends.

[0] https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2024/sabotage-in-iran...
bigFORTH (1997-)
Don't be a masochist... x86_64 instruction encoding...
You don't need a variable for this
You don't need a variable for this!

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A lot of the responses you're getting mention stuff that is only relevant if you're running a server or maybe on corporate desktops. If this is just your desktop machine for your personal use... the key thing to understand is that Ubuntu used to put far and away the most effort into polishing desktop scenarios, and they acquired a huge user base that way.

That user base didn't make them any money, plus a bunch of derivative distros showed up to compete with them for it. So these days they've pivoted to a server focus and it's still an OK desktop distro with one of the largest user bases, but it's not head and shoulders above the competition like it was 10 years ago.

Personally I've been running Ubuntu on the desktop for over a decade myself, but the main reason I haven't moved to Mint is... emmhh.... I have better things to do than reinstall my OS? Next time I need to do it, that may be all she wrote for Ubuntu