skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 1997-ish I failed to install Slackware from 16 or so floppies repeatedly. In 2000 I had a system up and running but could not get connectivity. In 2005 almost everything "just worked" out of the box. In 2013 everything just worked.

I have recently started reflecting on how easy it is to do things now for free compared to the proprietary landscape we had before. Virtually every proprietary software has a (or multiple) free open source alternatives. The potential for human intellectual productivity has never been this high.
I wonder how would the performance of Rust be without the runtime checks and the std_library.

And why is the std_library less performant than, let's say, C's counterpart?
Kdenlive is not a compositor though.
To be fair, DaVinci Resolve's Fusion is rather rocky as well.
But it DOES have a "desktop" mode...
Every finite phoenix has period 2
it is basically a webserver written in javascript. you can clone the git repository and run the server on your pc
Very cool.

I was interested in the use of Filament to implement an entire RISC V processor ("frisc") but the link [1] at the bottom of the readme is broken and some quick searches of both Github and the web turned up nothing. Does anyone know what's up?

[1]: https://github.com/cucapra/filament/tree/main/frisc
The experts' job is to land on the moon, not to teach you.
> People love to say this without linking to a model

Because they all have a crap screens (1920x1080) and bad battery life and we would point it out lol
You might already be turning, but completely unrelated to an upcoming maneuver that you must signal.
I did actually read that, but it hasn't really stuck with me. I think (but based on faded memories) that it was mostly things I'd already seen in school, with more detail? It didn't really open up new ways of looking at the world for me.

Alternatively, I was just too young to realise and appreciate that. It's been a while since I read it.
Unsolved Problems in Spectral Graph Theory [pdf]
"Climatized"? Is this a fancy way to say "it has air conditioning" or does it mean "this building is so big it has its own microclimate without any attempt on our part to make this happen"?
Hopefully some other group would pick up the development for this. And people whoever paid Nintendo would realize how they are sponsoring the evil.
Did you miss the 72% market share of Windows on desktop machines? That is still a massive market, and if nothing else, pulls consumers into the rest of the MS ecosystem.

So I doubt MS is abandoning OS development any time soon.
So much for savings on power lines cost (but at least there are savings on power line power losses).
Guiding Choices in UX: The Role and Ethics of Nudging
Interesting that they are counting chrome os separately since it is Linux based. That's another 2%. So 6% of the desktop market is running some form of Linux. There's another 6% unknown, which I bet might include some Linux users that are a bit savvy about configuring their browsers to not leak information. The Unkown line seems to climb faster than the linux line in the graph; which is interesting as well.
The Lost Universe: NASA's Tabletop Role-Playing Game Adventure
As an aside, the debunkers were also quite entertaining (at least as entertaining as GGS), although they weren't generally commercialized or marketed to the same degree.

I loved the team's demonstration that showed the complexity of Easter Island's civilization, and included a demo of how the moai statues were "walked" into place.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11613

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvvES47OdmY
But it is a great project. For a real (Unix-like) OS you can have a look to https://exaequOS.com (I am the creator)
Understanding the YUV Image Format
The quality at 80% package loss is incredible. It's straining to listen to but still understandable.
He's a computer scientist, not a software engineer.
There are already directives in some EU countries to choose open source solutions over proprietary ones whenever they are equivalent.

There are already plenty of schools and universities that are using cloud based solutions and just run ChromeOS.

All I'm saying is that we are closer to the point where the customer will be able to treat the OS as a commodity. That by itself works already as a bargaining chip against Microsoft and in favor of customers when it's time to negotiate their contracts.

The switch won't happen overnight, but the trend has been long in favor of Linux. This 4-5% mark is significant and can lead to acceleration.
From the title I thought this was going to be some nerdy math joke about phoenixes being reborn from the ashes through some periodic cycle.
It would be interesting to know what the market share is among the HN crowd though... any insights, @dang ?
To my untrained eye, the eastern United States and Uruguay + surroundings also seem like great places for civilizations to thrive. But for some reason those areas did not seem to have particularly large civilizations before the colonization period. Does anyone know of a good reason why these areas were relatively unpopulated compared to the areas you mention but also compared to say Mexico?
> What's your list of other cars that have the same charging network access and self-driving capabilities?

Well, the list of other cars that will kill you if you take your hands of the wheels is ... just about anything, right?

And then you're dead, so have no use for a charging network anyway, too.

So, basically, for just that one feature, you can use just about any other car.

The list is, essentially, everything else!
What Is GRAS?
>Companies don't enter random industries just because they can.

Sure they do. Facebook was so confident in VR they rebranded their entire company. Elon Musk got his horrible bluff called out and he owns the largest social media site (for now). It's not business related, but the CEO of Amazon owns a national newspaper.

Apple car didn't come out of nowhere. They and Google were working on Car Os's for years and we both know Apple cares hough about vertical integration to shun off Intel and Nvidia in order to make their own chips. Regardless of my confidence in the idea, the act itself is consistent with Apple.
With current windows shenanigans and data slurping at least there is some sort discussion about it and switching.

In my opinion main blocker which introduces huge switching cost (and even bigger policy problems) is missing group policy alternative.
Desktop market share is the only important metric.
And because of your non-understanding you minused my comment, coward?
> the transmission of cultural traits among 1,094 traditional societies

So people had already been living in a given zone. When Europeans first arrived in America, had the locals not already been there and learned the ways of that land and shared, famously the first Thanksgiving in US education, the new arrivals would have perished.
That makes sense if the goal is lossless compression. Since JPEG is lossy, it is sufficient to consider the Pareto front between quality, compressed size, and encoding/decoding performance.
Depends on if you want to file the servers running Office 365 under Azure, which Microsoft does to juice revenue to make Azure look bigger.
I had cars in which for the life of me I could not ever remember which part of which stalk controlled the wipers and which part controlled the lights.
Ah, and then there are Volkswagen and Opel which had the light control as a wheel outside the wheel-drive, on the bottom left, and you had to take a hand off to modify it.

My point: just having physical controls doesn't mean it is easy or safe to use, if the layout sucks.
That is absolutely fine to me. (I mean, I'd like answers, but I've gotten used to the idea of limits to our knowledge.) What I appreciated so much is that is broadened the range of potential answers for me, emphasising just how much I'm never going to find solid answers.
Cool...probably... But am I the only one who can't read gray text on a gray background? I can't get past it...
> That's not a run of the mill consumer set up.

It kind of is, e.g. Steam hardware survey has more than 80% of people with at least 16GB of RAM and almost a third with 32GB, and that's a measure of installed base rather than new computers.

You can now find 64GB in <$550 laptops:

https://www.newegg.com/p/1TS-000D-110E6?Item=9SIA7ABJ459240

> No, I'm actually including two separate time periods where they were busted for price fixing. They were doing it in the late '90s too.

They started doing it at the end of the '90s. By then PowerBooks were already coming with 64MB and PowerMacs with 128MB:

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g3/specs/powerb...

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g3/specs/powerma...

In the second case it started only 3 years into your measurement period instead of 7, and then right after that was COVID. It's only now that the prices are starting to resume their historical downward trend and they're still slightly above where they were when the price fixing started in 2016.

But that explains why it's not a factor of 64 during this period. It's still the case that 8GB of DDR5 is ~$24. What reason is there to not include $100 worth on a $1000 machine? Or, if some excuse for that could be generated, why isn't there a $1100 machine with four times as much?
Kialo.com is a popular debate platform with many neat functionalities.

Liquid democracy is another platform where people can vote or delegate their vote easily.

But for critical issues, I think the platform integrity is of great importance and people need to be assured that the platform can detect and deal with manipulation efficiently.
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They're looking at browser traffic. I assume people don't do a lot of web browsing with Steam Decks (maybe I'm wrong, never used one), so they're probably not being counted.

Some data I found on the internet suggests Apple ships about 6 million Macs per quarter, and they're at around 15% market share in the stats linked here. Other data I found on the internet leads me to guess Valve has sold around 3 million Steam Decks in the 2 years since they launched.

So my guess is that if you factored Steam Decks into this they'd account for about another 1% - very roughly.
I think there's more going on here than merely a piracy investigation, it just has that smell to it.

But now that I see that RCN was acquired Nov 2020 (a pandemic acquisition) I'm back to agreeing that it's about RCN, not this Mr. S.
Could be you have the right of it. I'm at a point in life where argument about intelligence is unrewarding and so like a thomist I state my view, I don't seek to rebut or defend. Belief, like faith is anchored in axioms which beg questions. I am a non believer (athiest, not agnostic) and i am a non believer in emergent ai from the current activity.

My comments to evidence are about as far as i go to argument and yes they do invite "so you are absolutist but open to evidence" and I certainly acknowledge a burning bush would be very hard to refute hallucinations aside. Not ai hallucinations I hasten to add, the human kind.
I don't understand why they even split ChromeOS out. Especially with their VM system, a good number are probably reporting as 'proper Linux.'

I can't speak for worldwide usage, but I've lived in 4 school districts in the last 5 years and all required Chromebooks. I imagine actual usage is higher than reported.
For anyone who doesn't know, the FDA approves vaccines and the CDC recommends them (or sometimes does not).
Yes, absolutely, I didn't mean to blame him. But from Windows 95 to 11 something could have been improved, from MS.
It's important to think about reputational risk when coming up with the list. You probably don't want swear words in front of your domain.
Not sure why you're downvoted, it's a valid question (the downvote isn't an "I disagree" button). I believe the answer the Puter author came up with is that the VDOM takes away too much of the control from the author. They do make life easier but they have an abstraction cost (mental overhead) and in case of some of them performance issues (execution overhead).
> how big is their OS engineering team? (…) maybe 100 folks or so?

From https://devblogs.microsoft.com/bharry/the-largest-git-repo-o... :

> the Windows team is about 4,000 engineers and the engineering system produces 1,760 daily “lab builds” across 440 branches in addition to thousands of pull request validation builds
I thought we're moving away from virtual DOM?
Good thing the trolls, by and large, aren't on HN then!
For the crappy base model. + Tax + Apple accessories like adaptors and docks.
Android's OS isn't Linux. In same way my OS isn't Java. It runs Java, but that doesn't make Java an OS.
If a touchscreen is on a phone it’s illegal and dangerous but if it’s stuck to the dash it’s not. That never made any sense.
You could just bring your own book you downloaded with VPN and read it there.

Having a public reading space is always nice
I remember DCOM starting up on windows vista and then immediately hogging 100% of the CPU for the first 5 minutes after booting.

Nobody uses DCOM, not even back then.
In fighting there are various factors at place, the size and speed of those in the fight, the area they are in, the training. Some areas are more conducive to victory for specific body types and training. This kind of dynamic plays out everywhere, the race is not always to the swift but you should place your bets that way.

Geographical factors would seem to be this kind of importance that establishes a long dominance and strong chance of success, sure, but what Geographical factor allowed for Industrialism to be established in Western Civilization, with all the force multipliers that Industrialism gives? Almost all countries nowadays are industrialized therefore there is no geographical factor that prevents industrialization in those nations.

Finally, historical trends seem not really to last more than 200-400 years, which 200 years really seems like the kind of thing that can be effected by a cultural issue - somebody who was a really bad king came along and reined for 70 years and destroyed the country, now you're in a weakened condition and get picked on by everyone else for the next 130 years. Yeah - your country's rich geographical resources finally lead to comeback but it just does not seem a very profound or interesting point the more I think about it.
food at izakaya is a shared experience. Ordering dishes together, sharing, often getting beer or sake in bottles and pouring a glass for each other.

afaik, bar food most western places, even if it's good, is ordered for yourself and so way less social
> Windows sucks in the default install, but if you know what you're doing you can remove all the junk from it and make Windows almost as efficient as, say, Linux (and way more efficient than macOS).

I can answer this as someone who, throughout last 6 months of his new job, used a Dell XPS 9570 with Windows, then PopOS, then Windows again, and just switched to an M3 Pro a week or two ago. No - you will never get close. That Dell could run fps games like CS:GO or Valorant with 100+ fps, had custom tweaks incl. thermalpads connecting to the chasis, exchanged thermal paste, was undervolted and with a custom fan curve. It still throttled from time to time. Granted - it was 8th gen i7, but it was on paper good enough to handle everything I do. Only on paper.

It also choke on my day to day work, which is WebStorm, Docker and Typescript web development. Indexing, autocomplete, builds(even with swc) took a really long time. I switched to PopOS for a while, but overal user experience was even worse to me, with constant issues ranging from monitors behaving weirdly, stuff crashing, requiring weird driver installations, even Docker didn't 'just work', I had to fight it half a day to get it to actually run.
Went back to Windows until I got frustrated enough and just bought a 36gb M3 Pro, and I'm never going back. This just works, builds take 1/6th of what they did, I can run full swc build in 100ms, full tsc build takes 10 seconds(down from around 60), nothing ever stutters, nothing slows down, didn't hear fans yet. It does have some annoyances, mostly with window management, new keyboard layout and a ton of shortcuts needed to do basic stuff but once I learned those - it's really nice.
Ever since I've upgraded to Windows 11 I am so extremely frustrated with explorer's performance. The shortest time I have to wait for it to react to a double-click is 5 seconds, sometimes it goes up to 30+ seconds when I've used the machine for a couple of hours. I don't mean the time it takes an application to "boot", but the time for explorer to deal with itself until it is able to launch something. Even a simple thing as showing the context menu and then displaying properties if that was selected. That is on a i9-9880H Laptop with 32GB of RAM and a Samsung 970 PRO.

It's intolerable and I'm preparing to move to Linux. Since there are some tools I first need to write in order to maintain my workflow, mostly mouse-gesture-related stuff, I'm still waiting for the Wayland transition to get settled.

If I could stay on X11 for a decade from now on, I would migrate ASAP, but if the Kubuntu team decides to fully switch to Wayland without using X11 being an option, I'd have a problem.
> you can't put your car in reverse without putting your foot on the brake

I rarely put a car in reverse while putting a foot on the brake. Handbrake on sure, but my foot is almost always on the accelerator when reverse engages, same as with forward gear
2024, the year of Linux.
It's striking how this paper appears like experimental science. They have a proposal and run experiments to confirm it rather than proving it mathematically. Also I love that their new DSL is named thunder kittens. I'm glad they don't take themselves too seriously.
say their names: all the "UX experts" who pushed for their removal
> Classical watches display time, but can hardly do anything else. This limitation is artificial: for instance several people confessed to be often in want of mustard... and what is the point of knowing time if you cannot get mustard?

> The concept of mustard watches comes from this basic observation. They combine the advantages of watches and mustard pots: a quite accurate display of time together with the critical amount of mustard sufficient to cope with emergencies.

https://girard.perso.math.cnrs.fr/mustard/titre.html
Easter Island's moai statues "walked" [video]
Companion article from Nature's news channel: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11613
Few people love programming. If your love is uncommon you may be able to make money at it.
Also privacy degradations.

And bugs.

And performance issues.

Still, office365/onedrive/teams is hard to beat on price for a small business.
Yeah, I eventually found it. Thanks anyway :)

I noticed it might actually be a little more censored than the lmsys version. Lmsys seems more fine with roleplaying, while the one on Double doesn't really like it
You never can when lossy compression is involved. It is commonly considered good practice to verify that the communication partner understood what was said, e.g., by restating, summarizing, asking for clarification, follow-up questions etc.
Wi-Fi HaLow Development Platform Is Compatible with OpenWrt
Wow, do not understand this approach some founders take. Being “radically” transparent by showing your cap table and talking through liquidation prefs/exit scenarios with every single employee is an absolute prerequisite for me. For me this has driven loyalty and paid dividends in culture and retention. I would not work for a startup where the founder wouldn’t share that info.
Who's "we"? React is still by far the most popular framework. I personally like Solid better but I'm just one person vs. many who actively write React code.
How is the Switch overpriced and underpowered? I picked up a switch lite with a game as a bundle for my wife for £180 brand new. If you want detachable controllers and the ability to dock the Switch to a TV, you can spend more. But those features and the built-in screen are ones that literally no other games console had at the time and is only just starting to gain popularity in the handheld PC market recently. It may be underpowered now, but the Switch has been out for 7 years. And it still has enough power to play games like TOTK, The Witcher 3, Xenoblade Chronicles, etc.

As for releasing games on PC, I don't see any reason why they would? Developing for PC is much more difficult than a single console, when it comes to handling the variety of hardware, anti-cheat, etc. TOTK and their Mario games are system sellers, with the former even releasing alongside a special edition console and pro controller. Delaying the release of these games to add dev time for a PC port is never going to be worth it.
> Are you evaluating the pay at the current place as if there was no missing back pay?

Correct.

> As "slightly more money" sounds like "lots more" when the current place isn't making payroll

Also correct.

I am also evaluating the offers in terms of what I think I should be paid to make me satisfied with the compensation on offer.
>steer-by-wire

This is the norm for most cars with servo steering.
I found out that if I don't eat for a day, I feel less gloomy and less exhausted immediately. Over here the ingredients are getting tampered with because of shrinkflation. What used to be healthy suddenly jumps into the UPF category. Feels like avoiding the poison in food is becoming a fulltime job.
Yes, please. I drive an early 2010's BMW with an aftermarket android head unit. The headunit was not a big deal for me but it was useful since maps were wildly out of date and upgrading them was a pain in the ass and having music, live traffic and all that is appreciated but that's all it is. Now... There one or two things I hate about the car. First one is not having a temperature gauge. Instead BMW added this fuel consumption gauge which couldn't be more useless. The second thing I hate is the way the indicator switch works. I got used to it but holy hell, why were BMW so keen on fixing a problem no one had. Keeping this in mind, the whole touchscreen control from everything from fan speed to driving mode is ridiculous: you actually have to turn your head and look at the screen, whereas in my car I can do that without looking at the buttons at all: I more or less know where the button is and it's size, shape and texture. Modern cars are the exact indicator switch problem BMW was trying to solve, but cranked up to 11.
That's what I had thought, but mechanic that replaced the throttle pedal assembly called it a potentiometer (had a weird pulsing in the force feedback).

Of course, could be he was wrong.
> So the Linux share would actually decrease if you exclude Azure ;)

I think it wouldn't, because that would imply 40+% of windows market share outside Azure, which I strongly doubt is even close to true.

But your point that even on Azure, Linux has a large majority is still valid!
Physical controls and warm white lights

You piss about with the touchscreen to change the temperature and lookup to be blinded by an oncoming 4x4 with low beam led's
It was as absurd as people wandering around a plane defecating on the tray tables. More ridiculous is how gullible classism has always been, continuously and eagerly falling for marketing hype.
Unknowns are BSDs.
> a Thinkpad P1

To be fair it’s not exactly fair to be comparing this to a MacBook. Dell XPS, Lenovo X1/Z/? series would be closer equivalents, of course AFAIK while the battery life is much better fans/temperature are still an issue.
There are so many different kinds of jazz. I guess you have not listened to Kind of Blue.
visual studio's debugger is miles ahead of gdb and has been for 30 years
I'd imagine it's only as much Linux as Android and FireOS are, which might be argued aren't desktop OSes. But for that matter, ChromeOS might in turn be arguably closer to Android than what would be considered desktop Linux.. (disc: have not used ChromeOS)