skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But can you paint with all the colors of the wind?

In all seriousness, I liked that line you quoted in the song. I wonder if there is a literary term for that repetition. It's not alliteration I don't think as the words themselves repeat.
My motivation to host in this repository completely vanished, the moment I realized that any Zod types are considered slow, and will not produce any type definition on JSR as a result.

On a surface level, they have automatic mechanisms for everything that my projects already have implemented, except it has arbitrary limitations, and not a whole lot of material explaining them properly
The difference is that this is self inflicted by pixiv, as neither USA nor the UK has demanded this.

However, you can certainly complain about the obscenity laws these countries have, which you know predates the internet.
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It's a dirty secret in a lot of governments that internal expertise has been systematically swapped out for consultants to ever increasing levels for decades. They allow governments to "move quickly" and "act strategically", which pretty much always means ignore those pesky regulations or people who are employed in a specific way to not face political reprisal for telling politicians that their idea/plan is bad or wrong-headed. The Canadian government has had bad PR lately for the same reasons. Whole parts of the civil service are infested with consultants who have produced not much of anything useful, yet extracted enormous fees.
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.1.0?topic=introduction-ass...
It's like junk food next to you in versus in a cupboard upstairs. One you eat now impulsively the other you won't eat due to the effort needed as minimal as it is it still slows you down.

If you put in a cassette tape and let it run you would usually always listen to it in order. To some extent a CD too but it and vinyl were easier to jump song to song.

Radio was even more uncontrollable it made you wait for your favourite song while it played other songs. Sometimes a day or two waiting for that new song to appear. Radio mercilessly teased you too. Even Top 40 radio shows you had to wait not knowing was your song now higher up making you excited but it meant you had to wait, excitement grows. Or was it lower down and it played sooner (a dreadful feeling) or you missed it completely!

I've noticed this over the years that more and more I rarely listen to anything new just what I know from years past.
That would ignore applications like crypto mining, which I'm guessing is still a biggie.

What is it exactly that sets these units apart from CPUs? Something to do with the parallel nature of the hardware?
It's funny you bring up Air France because that's one of the ones I had in mind that is beyond redemption. Truly awful customer service both on the plane and off.[1] Same with Iberia.[2] Allergic to treating customers like human beings. I fly United for the vast majority of my flights and have had nothing but great experiences even when things go wrong. In fact, gun to my head, I couldn't come up with a similar story with a US airline despite flying US airlines 20:1 compared with European ones.

[1] I flew business class on Air France and the "lie flat" seat would only go down to a 30 degree angle and they acted like I was inconveniencing them by asking for help and then told me that's how it's supposed to be despite everyone else's seat being clearly flat. Never got solved. Contacted support after and never heard back. Typical experience with European companies. Don't want to work, don't want to admit fault, no resolution unless forced by regulation.

[2] Took 2 months to get a refund of a cancelled flight. Customer service was completely incompetent and powerless, telling me that "it's coming in 48 hours". Had to call like 6 times over the span of months.

Don't get me started on how Festicket refused to give me my money back after an event got canceled, forcing me to charge back with credit card (thank you, American banks), or how there's a 50% chance European car rental places will try to scam with fake damage or extra fees. I had to teach an AVIS manager in Palma that prepaying for gas (unwillingly, mind you) means that I don't pay for an empty tank at the end of the trip.
So "it" is the collective unconscious of humanity? The egregore of us all, our collective spirit? I see.
I remember dropping bombs to make gigantic holes and tunnels. Spending hours on that single only level. Cool game.
But it's more relevant than the fact that the same word exists in Latin.

On a similar note, trademark issues can't apply to Bladerunner, because it isn't a vendor.
https://archive.ph/hCGrP
> But nowadays we have this thing called HiDPI, where 1 pixel can mean 1.5 real pixels on one screen (150% scaling), 2 real pixels on the second (200% scaling), and 1 real pixel on the third (100% scaling).

This is the wrong way to do scaling and even Wayland got it wrong and has been very slowly fixing things. What you actually want to do is just use real pixels everywhere and just tell the client "here's your NxM window size and it will be displayed in a X scale" and let the client do the intelligent thing. If it's a browser, a 3D game, or a PDF reader it will render directly at target resolution and scale with no fuzziness and those are most use cases people care about. GUI toolkits were stuck at integer scaling for a long time and thus the strange solutions to render at higher resolution and then scale down happened. All of this can work in X11, just always use native resolution for everything but Wayland is much better anyway and works great these days.
> Obviously, everything is much higher-level now; is it possible to fall back to something like low-level, direct memory access communication if something in higher layers fails?

I have a feeling that code for NASA spacecrafts is not so high-level, for a reason.
> Companies are amoral, they literally can't be otherwise.

This is not true. Some company’s value proposition is explicitly moral virtue, eg organic food brands.

They tend to be family-owned SMO rather than international publicly traded corporations. The issue has more to do with scale and diffusion of responsibility.
There’s an assumption to your argument that I don’t believe holds true, that there is such a significant difference that it should be easily describable.

Talking about the arts is difficult. In everyday conversation, well known phrases for describing the arts include “I know it when I see it” and “if you have to ask, then you’ll never know”. I’m a fan of “writing about music is like dancing about architecture”. It just isn’t easy to describing differences in performance and interpretation.

Since it’s widely recognised that describing music is difficult, and since you’re familiar with the artists in question, perhaps you could accept the point in good faith or put into words why you don’t think they are any different?
Not benevolent force for good compared to what?

Most estimates of Iraq war casualties are in 100-600 thousand range. The one estimate putting it at 1 million is an opinion poll. There are no estimates beyond 1 mil.

But if you judge by body count, you have great examples of actual millions dead like holodomor instrumented by stalin (3+ millions of Ukrainians), Chinese famine due to mao policies (10+ millions), khmer rouge massacres (average estimate around 2 mil), etc. Something is common among them huh?

US is not a saint and everyone makes mistakes but it is thanks to its influence and role in global economy we have drastically less death.
Indeed.

I've clocked ~40 years in Australian tech and managed to avoid all of those domains, web development, cubicle farms, and nearly (but not quite) office politics.

Could be why I still have all my hair and good health.
You don't provide any arguments but just grand stand and expect people to magically align with you.
OMG I used to land manually and that was the main cause of death.
I always thought that game was great but way too hard. So the fly home lands you?!
I see your approach is quite radical. But I think the real issue here is that we expect the developers currently working on Wayland working faster.

I managed to be a bystander in this debate as I've been using X exclusively but I do hope that one day Wayland gets all the functionality and performance of X, and people stop getting frustrated by it.
> Markets and products can easily exist without advertising

Source needed - seeing I don't know any company that doesn't advertise in some shape or form. The ones that I found that claim they don't, actually do advertise and use the "we don't advertise" as further advertisements. By definition I think it'd be hard to find companies that truly don't advertise, so maybe you know of some that are successful but don't do it?
It is called a fortified democracy. And absolute democracy like the Weimarer Republik is a dangerous thing. All modern democracies are fortified these days. And it is good that they are. And yes if the US is caught with the hand in the cookie jar the nation in question is not happy, but there is a difference: Spying is passive and not influencing the democratic process of the nation or disrupting it.
The concern with Tiktok is that it is active, trying to disrupt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T_Lu1S0sII

Also, unlike the Bytedance and the Chinese Government, US companies do not run intelligence operations. They are in it solely for the money, otherwise the NSA wouldn't have had to snoop on Google in 2013(?).

and this point

> And also dismantle the law where the US can request any data on any person, even abroad, if the company is US-based

I find questionable. It is too blanketed.
There are international criminals afoot after all. Red Letters do have their purpose as do international treaties for law enforcement to cooperate across borders in a bespoke manner in accordance with their and international laws.
During covid, my mom, in her 60s, was talking to her father, in his 80s. He told her the people he was really concerned about during this pandemic were "the elderly"!

She laughed and pointed out to him that his daughter was old enough to be considered high risk due to age, but he said he had a neighbor who was 104, so those are "the elderly" he was really worried about.

I think your sense of "old" also has a lot to do with the people you know!

(FWIW, both grandpa and his neighbor survived covid. Grandpa's still healthy as a horse as he sneaks up on 90, but his neighbor has since passed away peacefully.)
My musical tastes have changed a lot, I've found new bands and artists pretty much every year of my life. I listen to music from my teenage years now & then, but more often than not I'm listening to completely new music.
In the TV series Julia there's a character who's an academic in literature and hosts a public access TV show interviewing authors; I thought it was a bit of a caricature, but it may as well be accurately modelled on Ah-Sen, underplaying it even.
> You are, unintentionally, being the very sort of apologist my post above complained about.

Hint: the post you are replying to is humorous and the tone should be read as sarcastic.
We also use Nexus for .NET, C++, nodejs stuff.

Decentralized approach mostly matters for having a curated repo of what teams are actually allowed to use on their projects, instead of having legal surprised by random devs downloading the Internet into their projects.
Well, you have to forgive some for making assumptions based on your choice of username…
Thanks! They are also in a box in my loft along with lots of other classics. :-)
>A spin to a US company is not enough. It needs to cease operating in the US because there’s no surety that even with a spin data and sharing won’t get back to ByteDance China.

At this level of paranoia you may as well ban Facebook and other social media as there is no guarantee their data is not getting intercepted by China.
> Companies are amoral, they literally can't be otherwise.

Can you elaborate on why you think this is the case?

Just 5 minutes ago I was reading this article: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/24/in-the-...
The RP2040 doesn't have a good low power sleep mode. It uses several hundred uA in sleep and dormant mode versus the ESP8266 which uses only 20uA in deep sleep.

This makes a huge difference for sensor systems etc. A pico/RP2040 cannot be powered by a battery for very long.
Yes, if Red Hat wanted to, there wouldn't be nobody. Like you say, if Red Hat wanted to, they could hire those people to work on X11. Conversely if "Red Hat doesn't want to work on X11", then they wouldn't hire those developers, and now nobody wants to work on X11.
I'm also in the UK and there's a very real decline as the level of inequality grows.

I used to be able to book appointments using the NHS app to see my GP before the lockdowns. Now the app just says appointments aren't available to be booked that way and everyone just has to call at 8am and hope they're lucky enough to get through. People who don't need to be at work can go and queue up physically too at 8am, but that doesn't help people who aren't mobile enough.

Food prices are going up and up and I can often see prices change between each visit.

Energy price cap is coming down, but standing charges are going up, so I'm paying less per KW/h but actually paying more each month because I use as little electricity as possible.

Potholes are everywhere and when they do get repaired it lasts weeks, not even months.

Local library opening hours are shrinking.

I could go on and on about the decline I can witness around me.
Disclaimer: I think that Wayland is a much cleaner technology than X11 and I am planning to switch to it in, say, roughly a year - I currently don't need any Wayland features, so I'd be getting mostly downsides. You can tell that I'm not a raging fan.

But some of your points are wrong or misstated.

* Different screen resolutions are obviously supported on X11, you probably meant scale factors?

* Scaling of the, I guess taskbar, on X11? has nothing to do with the window system. It has worked for 15+ years on KDE Plasma and I'm currently using it.
BitVMX: A CPU for Universal Computation on Bitcoin
maybe it’s really saying something about modern education
I searched on mobile, so no ad blocker. There were no ads for that query, and all of the content up to maybe the 5th result was an acceptable answer to the query (i.e. on a site that wasn't plastered with ads)

If I search "plumber" the first 3 results are ads.

I'm in Australia.
X HAS those things. Ubuntu's version of Gnome for example has supported fractional DPI scaling and per monitor scaling on X11 since I think 20.04. Upstream Gnome wasn't interested because that's what Wayland is supposed to do. Xrandr has made this possible for years with some setup.

Wayland is frustrating at basic crap. Just this past month I had issues sharing my screen, getting programs to use my PATH correctly and setting options. It's insanely stupid that SO much has moved over DE that how you do things between Gnome, KDE, etc. are now all radically different. It's actually worse than X11 in so many ways.
> not non-employee investors

I must be thick, but I fail to understand how shareholders are "investors" of a publicly traded company? Yes, at some point, the company went to the market, and large sums of cash were exchanged for company shares, with the promise of a future return of part of the profit on that share. So yes, that moment could be seen as an investment.

But from that point onward, holding a share of a traded company has nothing to do with investment. Share holders are exchanging shares on the stock market, but at no point is any of that money going back to the companies they are trading shares of. They are just exchanging the "profit sharing promise" among each other, with no positive financial impact on the companies whatsoever. Quite the contrary, as they eat up a huge quantity of the available net profit, that could have been reinvested in the companies themselves.
I could spend hours writing a response to this. I am mid 30 and my style of music changes with every season I am not within trends but most songs I enjoy most are not older than 3 or 4 years. Not all of them are well known.

Even something established like Punk reached new heights with more modern approaches (ex. Sleaford mods, Team Scheisse in German)

I think music is very subjective still but new music never stopped to impress me.
[Article submitter here]

> a carry-over from CP/M

No, it wasn't, and I posted this correcting someone else on HN sharing this disinformation.

CP/M does not have command switches as standard. There is no standard separator because it didn't support switches. (Some programs did on their own.)

Didn't you RTFA before posting this -- gods, I hate the term -- fake news?
How can they do a review like this without mentioning MS Office? Not to mention Teams!
Reason #231 why web components are something of a nightmare.
Wouldn't that mean every application has to re-invent (or include) some form of scaling? Isn't it better than the display manager handles that for you?
I have not seen any ossues with results. I have found what I was looking for every time both around tech and general topics.
How is your rephrasing “more honest” when you’re guessing people’s motives without verification and getting information wrong? The Vision Pro was announced less than a year ago and went on sale less than three months ago. How is that “about a year after said product launch is fully deployed”? Do you consider a WWDC announcement to be a “fully deployed” launch?
From a Swede (top comment):

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/103xqo4/sweden_once...
> there is some power sharing agreement between government, corporations, and to a significantly lesser extent workers/consumers. We only judge that latter group on morals.

As in we don't judge government or corporation on morals? Of course people do that.
I disagree. I'm fine with overbooking because it makes travel more efficient, both environmentally and financially. However, the airlines should offer whatever it takes to fix overbooked flights. Some of the passengers will be glad to be 4 hours late when they are compensated with, say, 5000$. This will naturally lead to a proper balance of overbooking.
I want to speak to the manager of Unix!
I made it from start to finish. Just the assets are purchased from various artists (you can find their names under settings -> credits). With crafting help you're thinking a small tutorial or what is it thats unclear?
I assume the vast, vast majority of people did not go west by themselves or even as a couple at age 16. A family unit spanning various ages was probably moving together.
I agree with the other commenter. If you don't think the submission is appropriate then you should flag it. But since you commented and then called the protestors "Hamas supporters" then I assume you're okay with other arguing with you about that. Simply calling them "Hamas supporters" and "getting away" from them won't change much and only resonates with people that are already pro-Israel and/or pro-genocide. If you disagree with the protests and their claims you should at least provide some substance for others to have a proper discussion with you. Historically speaking, opposing student movements has a terrible track record of putting you on the wrong side of history (e.g. Vietnam War) so I wouldn't just dismiss them.
> What you actually want to do is just use real pixels everywhere and just tell the client "here's your NxM window size and it will be displayed in a X scale"

This is already how the Wayland fractional scaling protocol works. You have a 100x60 window and Wayland tells you the scale is 1.5. You give Wayland a 150x90 framebuffer and call it a day.

The giant problem with X11 is that it is still making the assumption that everything is one giant screen -- even if you have multiple monitors and whatnot. Even the act of sending a scaling event like Wayland does is a challenge on X11.
Imagine opening Vim and gradually typing the commands in to edit a file with a 2-day time lag. Only at the end to notice the fateful words at the bottom of the editor: [read-only].
Are we talking about Wayland or X11 here? Because like the article mentioned, Wayland is now 15 years old and still sucks. Sure sounds like the Wayland design is untenable.
2019: 35 and feel like I'm 25

2021: daughter born

2023: 39 and feel like I'm 50

A lot of this is perception but I definitely don't exercise like I used to, partially made up by lifting her and chasing her around (and I wouldn't trade this for anything).
> Hispanic generally meant Mexican, Cuban, or Puerto Rican.

Hispanic is a newer term, minted during my lifetime. I know older people who used to be white until they were relabeled as Hispanic.

https://daily.jstor.org/where-did-the-term-hispanic-come-fro...

https://www.history.com/news/hispanic-latino-latinx-chicano-...
No, You have quite the wrong idea!

Novelty is not born in a vacuum devoid of input. It comes from internalizing/assimilating a whole lot of concepts/ideas only after which can you manifest new things from it.

In Martial Arts (also applicable to other fields) there is a saying;

In the beginning the student knows nothing and hence can move freely but not effectively; as he starts learning he is confused/all-mixed-up and cannot move freely nor effectively; but finally when he masters the movement, he has internalized it and hence can move freely and effectively.

In philosophy too a "Master of Wisdom" is said to revert to "the original child-like state" (but with the knowledge of the world in hand).
Expressions like "eat your vegetables" and "life is short" are also trite. But the purpose of folk wisdom isn't to shock and awe with fresh insights. The purpose is to remind people of what they already know to be true. That way we steer our behavior more towards the kind of life we want to live.
> simply because microcomputers were not used so much until then

Not really, no.

It's not that they weren't used. It's that they didn't exist yet.

The first 8-bit microprocessor, the Intel 8008, was 1972. The first chip for which CP/M was developed was the 8080 in 1974. It took a few years for mass availability.

Given that you got your years badly wrong in your first comment, did you not think "hey I should check this" before commenting again?
The claims in the first link, at least, should set off your BS detector. The colors they claim the group could trivially identify are very near identical in terms of 3d distance. By contrast, the colors they claim they could not determine the difference between are extremely far in 3d distance. It's objectively illogical. A quick search turns up that the claims are indeed false, and were fabricated by the BBC for a documentary. Here's [1] an email chain involving various researchers that worked on these experiments. The conclusion is that:

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"The experiment shown in the documentary was a dramatization; the genuine color experiments done with the Himba, some years before, used a different sort of stimuli and a different experimental method; the stimuli shown in the documentary were modeled on those used by Paul Kay and others in experiments on other groups; but in all of the relevant experiments, the dependent measure was reaction time (in finding a matching color or an oddball color), not success or failure.

The BBC's presentation of the mocked-up experiment — purporting to show that the Himba are completely unable to distinguish blue and green shades that seem quite different to us, but can easily distinguish shades of green that seem identical to us — was apparently a journalistic fabrication, created by the documentary's editors after the fact, and was never asserted by the researchers themselves, much less demonstrated experimentally."

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[1] - https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=18237
What about Bitcoin do you think I don't understand, be specific.

If it's a claim about Bitcoin that's not self-evident, give some reasoning behind it.