skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't get how Wayland's performance and responsiveness is worse than X11's

I don't get it either. But not because "software structure X11 is better than Y" reasons. X11 and Wayland are far too complex for that reasoning to work well. For example, X11 round trip latencies are a PITA over a high latency WAN, but nonetheless NoMachine worked around that structural problem without changing X11.

I don't get it because when I ran Wayland instead of X11, one thing that immediately stood out was how much faster Wayland was. As in it was less than 1/2 the time go from login screen to full set up desktop on Debian 11 using Gnome / GDM3. I showed it to friends and they switched to Wayland based on that one speed difference demo. It really was that dramatic.

When an article deviates that much from my personal experience I start questioning all it's claims. It doesn't help that the article is a long list of assertions without any data. Nor does he explain how to reproduce what he's asserting.

It sounds harsh, but it reads like an opinion piece to me. I don't know how else you could interpret: "Panel icon drag & drop:: Wayland - Quirky, X11 - Normal" as anything but a statement on personal preference.
If money is not important, what's the harm in making it available as open source, but with a non-commercial clause?
They force-pushed the repo to remove an insult towards Tim Patterson in one of the source files.
I mean yea, making fake clips should have repercussions. This is the kind of stuff that could get a violent mob after an individual (just imagine making fake clips of someone abusing an animal. By doing that you're setting up a situation that could destroy someone's life.
Intelligence loves patterns. It's a natural form of data compression and error checking.
This is "multitasking dos 4" though, which isn't the same as the much-reviled ms-dos 4. As I understand it, it's a lot closer to dos 3 than it is to dos 4 in terms of functionality.

I wouldn't expect this to understand extended partitions, much less large partitions (that dos 4 uses)
Open sourcing MS-DOS 4.0
People have been stealing stuff, like laundry detergent or baby formula or power tools, in bulk then reselling it for half price on eBay or Facebook Marketplace.

Maybe they’re desperate for money. But they’re certainly not desperate for $20k of baby formula [1].

[1]: https://www.fox8live.com/video/2024/03/24/police-thieves-cau...
Google and Meta literally represent alternative advertising products.
Show HN: I built an AI tutor that explains questions from pictures
Hey HN! I've been spending the last 2 weeks to create an AI to help students, one tap picture -> steps + answers to solve it.

Let me know if it seems interesting and works on your questions! Would also love any other feedback
It's actually exactly correct. That comment is referring to 1993's "last supper" in which the SECDEF gathered the defense CEOs at the time and literally did tell them to consolidate/merge.

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/03/01/the-last-supper-how-...
What an odd statement. Care to explain why you think a routine buyback announcement is important?
It’s stuff like this that sent me over to DR-DOS back in the day.
That's slightly confusing, it is not this, right?

https://ubuntuunity.org/posts/ubuntu-unity-2404-released/
That isn't what money laundering is. Money laundering is taking illegally gotten funds and turning it into apparently legal funds. What you're describing is fraud: you took money for one purpose, and used it for something the donators didn't want it used for.

Notably, it is not money laundering to obscure the source of funds when they didn't come from an illicit source. Nor is it money laundering to simply obscure the source of funds, so they don't come from any apparent source. If that were money laundering, it would be illegal to withdraw cash from an ATM, which is obviously absurd.
The whole debate around the existence of free will seems almost tautological to me.

I've heard it said that the concept doesn't even exist in many cultures and that its importance in western culture can be largely attributed to the need to justify the concept of 'original sin'.

For me at least, free will is a concept with no value.
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback!

1. Yeah definitely not clear what's going to happen when you click "start interview". I'll edit the description to be clear what you're getting.
2. Definitely need to be clear on what's saved/retained.
3. Totally missed that and now I can't unsee it. Something wonky going on w/ text area. Taking a look
Sigh. I get more than enough of that in the blockchain world.

Call me a greybeard; I want multiple implementations and a spec.
My online dating profile was a PowerPoint presentation before I met my partner.

It easily quadrupled my matches.
The way to fathom the argument is to identify its strongest possible form:

Strawman: "No concern about unintended negative consequences has ever proven true."

Strong version: "No end-of-the-world, sky-is-falling, doomsday prediction has proven to be true so far."

I am not a proponent of either argument, but the latter is a tad better than the former.

It is much better to have a counterargument against the strongest version, than to shadow-box with a strawman.
What are the differences versus Arrow/Parquet?
>And this matters because DOS 3.3 was a milestone

DOS 3.3 couldn't understand large partitions -except for Compaq dos 3.31. But regular dos 3.3 couldn't. I don't think dos 3.2 could even understand extended partitions/logical drives -much less large disks.

Still -pretty neat!
The Showdown over Who Gets to Build the Next DeLorean
> This is because we would rather have many guilty people go free than send an innocent person to prison

No we wouldn't.

Or we wouldn't utilize the plea deal in 93% of criminal cases. And we use it with little-to-no oversight. Unless what a prosecutor offers is so -utterly egregiously inappropriate- that it causes a judge to double take, they can pretty much do as they like.

Which is why we use it more than 60x more per capita than any other country on earth, in those countries that even allow it (it's not even officially sanctioned in the UK, though it has happened - fun fact, nearly 40% of the cases appealed as a "miscarriage of justice" in the UK involved plea deals).

> A government spokesperson said: “Ensuring defendants plead guilty at the earliest possible opportunity means victims and witnesses do not have to relive their potentially traumatic experiences in court."

What? Not one word of innocence or presumption. Just "plead guilty early, we know you did it".

Even in countries that do use plea deals more often, there's strict oversight into what the deals entail and understanding of outcome.

Here, there's no incentive to rock the boat. Prosecutors push plea deals HEAVILY, innocence be damned, threatening the costs and risks of a trial (and the US over-charges people heavily) with a quick plea (that ever so conveniently allows our elected prosecutors to point to high conviction rates every re-election).

> it wouldn’t make sense to assume anyone who is not convicted on even one count is actually innocent

Oof. Not only is it "possible" you're not actually innocent, your attitude is "it doesn't even make sense to assume that". Screw it, why do we need a justice system? You were arrested, let's just take you straight to prison.
Sega FY 1997 – The Slow Death of a Titan [video]
For some of the reasons discussed earlier on hn today (augment) we (not augment but similar) are in stealth mode. Currently we get deals that get us very far; that’s over with when we launch…
What makes you think it would break things? We seemed to get by fine with dialup.

WhatsApp is a private service facilitated over the internet. No government would (or should) trust Facebook with their communication infrastructure.
BitNetMCU: Neural Networks on the "10-cent" RISC-V MCU without Multiplier
Free market ideology has a lot in common with religion. Ignore all data and common sense and just embrace the idea that its true. All will make sense once the goal is achieved and until then you just have to have faith.

The idea that competition is the holy grail of progress is a similar situation. Cooperation is far superior. When two lions compete, both get covered in scratches and bites and they die of infection. When they work together they can hunt and raise a family. We are always expecting companies to compete when one look at an actual megacorp will show you how much effort they spend on avoiding competition. It's all mergers and acquisitions. Buy your competitors before they are a challenge and add them to your empire (cooperation). Why does every industry merge into a monopoly? Because its far easier to cooperate as a single unit than as separate entities sniping at each other

The pursuit of the ideal free market forces us to adopt such unnatural beliefs and behaviors, and we have to pretend they are just fine.
Don't leave us hanging!!
I doubt this will unmask LLCs.
that's a pretty broad generalization. are you speaking of a specific culture?
It has little to do with the chains and much to do with society.

Big chains tell workers never to confront theft, because the insurance risks are not worth it.

Society says that thefts are also not worth dealing with.
>I fail to see how these are any real deterrent to shoplifting. Just ask to unlock the case, get the item, walk around for another minute, then walk out with paying.

Most people do not get handed the item from the lock case. I believe it's policy at most stores, the item goes to the front where the person requesting the item asks for it at the register.

People like you or I may be handed items from the lock case, but that's because we look trustworthy to the employees. (Wearing nice clothes, hair kept tidy, etc)
Looking at this code is a nice reminder that I have virtually no real understanding of how computers work, and every part I work with is a nice polished abstraction that hides 99% of the complexity involved in actually creating value with a computer.
They changed line 70 of v4.0/src/DOS/STRIN.ASM from [0]:

; Brain-damaged Tim Patterson ignored ^F in case his BIOS did not flush the

to [1]:

; Brain-damaged TP ignored ^F in case his BIOS did not flush the

[0] https://github.com/OwnedByWuigi/DOS/blob/ffd70f8b4fb77e2e6af...

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/main/v4.0/src/DOS/S...
Your interpretation might have been right before. But now you're looking at a vast majority bipartisan vote that makes something inarguably clear; China doesn't have those rights as of the most recent interpretation. That's now true, regardless of previous interpretations.
history | sed 's/^ *[0-9]* *//' > commands.sh

vi commands.sh

(edit the file to only include your big nasty command lines, then comment them all out)

chmod +x commands.sh

Now every time you want to run a command, you just uncomment that line. If it needs changes, you can copy the line, change it, and now you have another command. You can even add comments to help you remember what each command is for.
PSA: It's Tor not TOR.

https://support.torproject.org/#about_why-is-it-called-tor
> It grants the Secretary of Commerce extra-judicial power to force any IaaS to stop doing business with any foreign customer

This can backfire, as foreign customers of public clouds may switch to local providers, which erodes the US near-monopoly on cloud services. Ironically this can reduce the visibility and control the US government has over foreign nation states.

E.g.: most of the Australian government is hosted in either Azure or AWS. That kind of thing might stop if extrajudicial power is granted to pull the plug on any customer on any time.
My only disagreement with your position is that you seem to evaluate it in a void. Compared to other systems out there, is Anduril really that bad? I suspect if you're in a trench you'd much rather have a system that can down "just" 8 drones at a time than one that can down zero.
Throughout my CS degree I had a piece of tape on the top edge of my laptop screen that said "* address of, & value pointed by"
Correction. Glancing at some of the actual code, and also looking at the README.md seems to indicate this is in fact the IBM DOS 4.

For example, the src/BOOT/MSBOOT.ASM file has a revision history including 3.31 and has code for the 32-bit sector count.

But more to the point the src/CMD/IFSFUNC folder contains the code for the IFSFUNC.EXE which only exists on IBM DOS 4.

So it would seem that the pdf folder has absolutely nothing to do with the source code, it's just an archeological bonus.
Yes, I'd be curious to know how much better it is than them - from my limited understanding, they also share many of the advantages that Nimble boasts of, thus I can appreciate they'd both be better than legacy formats but it's not clear how close these two are.
I'm an apprentice programmer. I also like interactive programs. I use the library questionary[0] in Python, and ChatGPT is great at providing the necessary code in no time.

0: https://pypi.org/project/questionary/
If Tim is still around he should PR a change back; I'd not want my name shortened to "TP".
kids are now an ‘experience’, like going on trip. We can choose when and how many. We control the parameters of our experience. For many the ticket is too costly not in money, but in time and commitment.
Ok sure. Shrug. It’s still not a very large figure. 8M per year is small.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiuser_DOS
Regional response to light illuminance across the human hypothalamus
Do you have any data to back this up? That feels very wrong anecdotally, but I'd be glad to be proven wrong.
At https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/main/v4.0/src/DOS/S... it used to have Tim Patterson's full name whereas after the force push they abbreviated it to his initials "TP".

I had the repo cloned before the force push and when I went to pull it, this file was the only one that contained a conflict.
Forget about confronting a thief, I've had workers at Walmart steal my purchases. Yes, in the Bay Area. Presumably they return the items for store credit afterwards. I don't even feel too bad about it because I can't imagine surviving here on a Walmart salary. They needed that money more than I did. I did, however, stop going to Walmart.

But honestly Bay Area shopping is now worse than what you'll see in developing countries. Stores are rundown and dirty, many things are perpetually out of stock, homeless roam the aisles. I'm sure all the profit-related metrics are optimized to death though.
I'm referring to the parent comment, but pithy reply.
You have no idea of Whatsapp's marketshare in India - all small businesses use Whatsapp for all communication and even take payments. That's a 1.4B population.
Plenty of creators make a decent living selling their content digitally. Once you democratize the tools and distribution, you remove the media companies that traditionally take the lions share of all the money. In the traditional setup a few business people and a few artists get rich and everyone else is broke. In an economy where the creator distributes directly via digital then a bunch of people get decent incomes. The second option is the better one, IMO. Once we do away with the notion that creating art could make you rich, then it become less necessary to make sure that we have some centralized way to collect money for art.
Off-topic, but that's a giant fuck you of a cookie popup... it's got 3 options of "high/medium/custom data privacy", a duration of how long I would like to keep those settings (just like those nagware popups of "Try OneDrive/Teams/[whatever fucking bullshit] now!" with no option for "Get off my OS!", only "Remind me later"), a customize toggler that makes it even larger to have more settings. Someone programmed this to frustrate the user with "

And the description for the 3 options is contradictory. Above them it says, "Select a Data Access Level", but selecting "High", the description is "Highest level of privacy"... So what does it do, give the advertisers a high level of access, or give me a high level of privacy?
one of my favorite talks on this topic, "Making Impossible States Impossible" by Richard Feldman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcgmSRJHu_8

the talk is Elm lang focused, but the concepts still apply to other languages.
We can't reciprocate, because Americans have rights that the Chinese don't have. By reciprocating we weaken our rights.
Now if only Buttigieg was a more than a do nothing position and the FAA/FDA, etc stopped acting like captured agencies and do their jobs.

Boeing is like what, our one major airline manufacturer and because they're part of the military industrial complex, they get a free pass and get to murder whistle blowers after asking them to stay an extra day in town.
I agree for all departments except the state department which seems to be as incompetent as they come
By that logic the richest people should have the most kids. Other than Elon Musk does that correlate at all? The stereotype seems to be the rich city people have less kids and the poor country folk have more.
Previous research has shown that light exposure increases alertness, but this is one of the first studies to pinpoint how it influences the human brain at the neural level. I'll be outside if you need me.
Well they're not wrong, so maybe the comment was just prescient? :)
Compose all your commands into “does one thing well” and abstract the “thing” it does to an argument… if you have to. Then just chain them together as needed.
This battle has been happening for a better part of a decade and won’t seem to go away. Every time it’s defeated it seems to pop back up.
If no more optimisations could be done in OTP 22, does that mean 22 is completed software.
Well your interpretation is not correct as you can validate because I posted the source table for you.

53.4% is the share of non smoking women who got lung cancer in the study that were Asian.
In what world is some thing you wear around your neck less obtrusive than a smart watch alone? Know what people used to wear before the advent of phones on their wrists all day long? Hint: it rhymes with swatches.

I frequently wear a single earbud (since I don't really require stereo) for upwards of 4 to 8 hours a day, often forgetting that it's even there. Look up sensory adaptation.

Theoretically, everything the rabbit could do - a self-contained smartwatch could do and unlike the rabbit it wouldn't be an extra "slab" that I have to lug around in addition to my smartphone.
> The measure of success is that we all won’t be scared to answer our phone.

Robocalls aren't what makes people actually scared to answer their phone.

Depending on their specific situation, it's rather people like, oh, crazy exes, tax/bill collectors, police investigators ...

Also, in general, any time people are in a situation in which bad news might arrive at any moment.

Robocalls are nothing.
I was asking GPT some question reg a Postgres feature , it gave me the answer with the caveat that it's knowledgebase hadn't been updated in a year.

I went right back to google.
It’s the truth. Family name is unique in the US. Other than my family, there are no other people with this surname in the SS death rolls.

Your behavior is not desirable here. Stop attacking people who don’t share your world view.
sure, it depends

the first option isn’t bad once you get the htmx mental model, but preserving video elements is on the edge of what htmx is a good fit for

otoh, when it’s a good fit you can simplify your app a lot:

https://htmx.org/essays/a-real-world-react-to-htmx-port/
If there is a new administration, close to 100%.
With or Without Enums in TypeScript
(Discussion continues here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40164077)

This post was stolen from https://web.archive.org/web/20110416092916/https://jinfiesto...

OP is plagiarizing blog posts at scale, across lots of different throwaway HN accounts and fake Substack blogs.

They appear to be going through old Hacker News submissions, finding the source content, and then publishing those posts on blogs that they created. Here's when the real post was submitted to HN, back in 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2440364

OP, would you care to share more about your scam? What do you get from it?

Here's other examples where they did the same thing using different Substacks and different HN accounts - this is just a subset:

11 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5337525 (plagiarized and submitted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40081175)

12 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3425331 (plagiarized and submitted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40091392)

13 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3154446 (plagiarized and submitted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40150949)
I'd argue that working on the right projects reduces the likelihood of collateral damage.

Take for example the R9X [0]. Instead of an explosive warhead it has a set of blades on the tip. The US has used it to assassinate single people in the passenger seat of a car while leaving the driver untouched. I'd rather this than dropping bombs on terrorists that come with a blast radius that takes out everyone else nearby.

This seems net-good to me. There are certainly people alive today because of the R9X team's work.
I'm just saying, your earlier comment would have been better without the sentence: "Unsubscribe links and highly effective spam filters were already completely standard when the law was passed in 2003."
Windows 2000 was part of the professional NT line, though, and was the companion of Me for the millennium releases. As far as I know, 2000 wasn't marketed to home users. I think what the comment you replied to is saying is the the transition away from DOS wasn't completed for both professional and home markets until XP, which unified everything under NT for all markets.
For some, the transcription of this text https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD02xx/E..., via https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/index02xx.html) may be easier to read.

It definitely is better searchable.
You don't work around what is impossible. A consistency proof for a theory T is usually a construction of a model of that theory in some context we have confidence in. Godel's theorem shows that that context has to be stronger than T. This isn't some kind of obstruction, it is reality. And there are strong systems we have confidence in.
Ya we wanted to separate the MS-DOS and MT-DOS stuff, it was confusing as it was
"Ottawa announces it will require telecoms to provide backup for each other during outages following Rogers system failure"
- https://www.thestar.com/business/ottawa-announces-it-will-re...

Are you aware of this?
The majority of people retire sooner than they want to.

"In the Transamerica survey, 56% of retirees said they retired sooner than they had planned. A much smaller share, 7%, retired later than expected. Only 37% retired on their own schedule."

...

"nearly half of those who retired earlier than planned blamed their health: physical limitations, illness or disability. Roughly two-fifths blamed their jobs: They were laid off, downsized or lured into early retirement, or they were no longer happy at work."

...

"“We ask retirees why they retired sooner than planned and, by and large, it’s due to either personal health issues or employment-related issues. They may get laid off, bought out, reorganized, and it’s extremely difficult for older workers to find work.”"

-- https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2024/01/26/the-average...

That's a random survey but you will find many others that say the same thing. If you're planning on never retiring, you're not planning.