skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be specific! That's not a useful contribution. I find it much NICER to use than Cinnamon, so I want to know what you don't like about it.

In the past I've found people criticise tiny trivial things that you can fix in 30sec with about half a dozen mouse clicks, but of course you need to know where and when to look.

I ran Cinnamon as a daily driver for 5 months of irritation and annoyance, finding multiple pain points that could not be fixed, from the lack of multiple columns in status icons on upwards.

So I switched to Xfce and put up with the lack of fractional scaling, which for me is the only thing that Cinnamon delivers -- and it can't do different scaling factors on 2 displays, so it's useless on the only machine where I need that feature.
> whitherspoons

I'll be using that ...
He’s asking for the tool that everyone uses. Not a pompous lecture.

It’s called screen studio.
I have a new drug. It's called aceite deserpiente.

It's a cure for lyme disease, impotence, ALS, chronic fatigue, cancer and aging. Trials are pending but what are you waiting for, do you want to die for lack of trying? 10k/dose.
I think that's because most people consider this requires unjustified. Do you think similarly about expanding acronyms like SSH, CLI, HTTP, HN, FYI, USD, US, EU, PKI? Why/why not?
I guess it makes sense if they are cutting hiring.

It seems short-sighted though, in my company the best employees we've had started as interns.
Not only the US - the same chorus is missing in Europe
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20 billions paid just for shipping a default setting is basically 20 free billions for apple.

Crazy.
> Smoking is already advertised as dangerous-to-lethal and look how effective it is in preventing people from smoking.

Pretty effective.

In Australia throwing a few diseased lungs on the packs and increasing public awareness has seen usage drop from 35% of the population in 1980 to 11% today.

Not all the drop is purely related to advertising, price increases and restricting sale to out of sight locked access in shops have also helped.

https://www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/chapter-1-prevalence/1...
Before covid I went to the office everyday, by bike, or public transport, owning a car where I live is a more of an annoyance than anything.

If we cared we could solve the bulk of problem somewhat easily, the 80/20 rule still applies but you could drastically reduce the number of cars on the road. Of course if all you care about is short term personal convenience and individualism then we're doomed, but if you care just a tiny bit about optimisation, pollution, long term sustainability, well being, the solutions are painfully obvious
I get emails all the time from Fidelity linking me to vote for some random policy. (I tend to ignore them)
But when you're replacing, like, much of the standard library, you have to be a bit sad about all the interop work that falls on the user. It should instead fall on the makers of the bad standard library.
> The evidence that talc causes cancer is "limited at best"

Yet appears to have become an article of faith for many on here; a least judging by the downvoting and ridicule heaped on those who dared question the narrative (and questionable evidence) in earlier posts.

Frankly, this appears to be a US thing, as nobody has heard of this supposed link in Blighty.
Glad you finally made the switch.
First comment on the video - from the maker of the video - is
" FIX (worked for me): write Ubuntu ISO to USB flash with dd"

So, yeah. Okay.

(Speaking as ex-Canonical, and still Ubuntu user. I upgraded my ThinkPad 2 days before release, and it was a catastrophe I had to manually un-fudge with the help of the apt maintainer. It was a packaging problem).

My feeling on this particular release is that it was rushed out, and should probably have been kept back for a month or two. The xz and t64 (2038) issues occupied some unexpected time this cycle.

Also, there used to be a dedicated QA lab which did a whole slew of automated tests. I don't believe that still exists.

Also, also. The Ubuntu community has shrunk, which means fewer people doing QA.

Also, also, also. The guy running the desktop team left the day after the release. Read into that what you will.
Imagine: you’re abducted, but manage to sneak a photo and upload it somewhere completely random with a message for help. You don’t even know where you are.
> But in the process I probably quintupled my emissions.

What process ? WFH doesn't mean you have to move out of the city and build a huge house with all the modern bells and whistles
See also Seagull Management - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagull_management
This hack seems to affect the Dropbox Sign application, which is based on HelloSign which they acquired a few years ago. It’s still running on the hellosign.com domain and seems mostly separate, so it wouldn’t surprise me if they also store passwords differently.
> being a rocket scientist during a war isn't a war crime

Neither is being a chancellor. von Braun was much more than the super-selective characterization of "rocket scientist". His were the actions of a war criminal to anyone except his supporters and the people who benefited greatly from him not being considered as such.

Eye witness testimonies say that von Braun personally picked slave laborers from concentration camps to work and eventually be tortured and killed in the factories he personally supervised. These facts are undisputed by any historical account. The only reason he got away with these crimes is that he was useful to the US space program.

Saying "but being a rocket scientist during a war isn't a war crime" sounds willfully ignorant or just apologetic and that's not the kind of thing you want to excuse. Nobody's blaming him for being a brilliant rocket scientist, only for willingly killing thousands of unwilling prisoners in just a few short years.

If you want an analogy that doesn't involve a history book, imagine hearing that Amazon's or Tesla's CEOs pretended they had no idea that thousands of warehouse or factory workers they had hand picked from prisons were killed or raped every year at work according to rules and procedures signed off by those very same CEOs who routinely patrol the floors to see those rules are enforced. Would you still be here saying "but being a CEO isn't a crime"?
> On April 24, 2024, Dropbox, Inc. (“Dropbox” or “we”) became aware of unauthorized access to the Dropbox Sign (formerly HelloSign) production environment. [...] Upon further investigation, we discovered that the threat actor had accessed data related to all users of Dropbox Sign, such as emails and usernames, in addition to general account settings. For subsets of users, the threat actor also accessed phone numbers, hashed passwords, and certain authentication information such as API keys, OAuth tokens, and multi-factor authentication. [..] we believe this incident was limited to Dropbox Sign infrastructure and there is no evidence that the threat actor accessed the production environments of other Dropbox products. We are continuing our investigation.

Oompf.
To be fair, I’ve seen plenty of screen recordings which are far worse
And I was pointing out that governments need to be on particularly friendly terms to achieve this, which doesnt make it a universal attack vector.

Here, have an example:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/104090...
> either Android (AOSP), Linux or some variant

If it's a portable device with connectivity and a battery Android is the only choice if you want to ship it on any reasonable timeline. Even going a Linux route you'll burn months just getting power management and wifi/cellular working to an acceptable (not even great) level, so much struggle with poor to no driver support.

I'd love it if there was a better Linux solution because Android certainly isn't without some pitfalls but from my experience Android is the only viable way to ship a device like this today, not even Linux is a viable option.
I need your thoughts on SaaS Boilerplates
Initially, boilerplates were free and were called scaffolding; things like create-react-app were trendy back then.

However, we have seen major successes in the boilerplate market, and it’s tempting to enter it.

Because of these, I decided to go deeper into understanding why startup founders should use SaaS boilerplates.

Here are my top reasons:

- Speed
- Cost-effectiveness
- Standardization and Best Practices
- Flexibility and customization

I also detailed when to use boilerplates for your startup and when not to use them.

I created a blog post around it that covers it in much detail.

Here’s the link:
https://boilerplatesearch.com/blog/why-you-need-a-boilerplate-for-your-next-saas-project

I’m still exploring further on this subject. Let me know if you have anything to add.
The racket is that billionaire Bezos gives money to retired Admiral McRaven, who donates it to disabled veterans?
That is NOT a racket, and it can't be. If anything, the racket is how Bezos makes his money (Amazon, low taxes) not how he gives it away.

And the Washington Post should not depend on hand-outs from Bezos (the "missing" $100 mio).
Can't he see that's the worst position for a newspaper to be in... for example from his own personal journey at The Intercept, or maybe by following what's happening to Twitter? A sustainable business model is better than being beholden to bread crumbs falling from the table.

Furthermore, the $50/$100 million split isn't explained well either.

I see a lof of mad fury here, but not good storytelling or a good choice of stories. I think the other parts of the article – Bill not given Slack access, a hold-up on the member list and the UN vote story – are much more relevant.

I wish the author best of luck, but I think he'll need it.
Yes, one may be thinking of it as "not losing something". But it's much easier to not lose something when it's in your possession than when you depend on goodwill of some third party.

Actual Russian Federation experience with all post-Soviet states ranges from bad to mediocre. It's as far cry as possible to e.g. the EU affair where one might say "I'm completely OK with %region% being a part of other country since I am always free to move there if I want, the local population is protected by laws and conventions as good as they are in my country, and even discussing political borders creates unnecessary strife". Perhaps it was the original idea behind CIS but it became very bad very fast.
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Nothing like a deadline to make the most of 18 months. I have a 4 and 6 year old and if I were in this situation I'd cherish the hell out of that time. And hope for further improvements in treatment (and a stroke of luck) in the meantime.
There is a difference between just slashing the program and reneging on already approved internships. The latter is quite unprofessional.
It's time for unionization to spread in tech as well.
Red Bull's Adrian Newey leaves F1 team, shifts focus to RB hypercar
Are ISPs in your country providing CGNAT addresses to your router? (as opposed to public IPs)

In France this is always a public IP (fixed it but, it depends) - at least for all four major ISPs
And worst of all, he has different political opinions than the average HN crowd
I, and I bet other people bored on Earth with nothing to look forward to, would gladly sign up for a one-way trip to Mars.
> the surprisingly long and fascinating history of using immunotherapy to treat cancer

Well yeah, it has been known for a long time that cancer can do what it does because of the immune system's failure to eliminate the "defective" cells. Also, there are the rare "spontaneous remissions" where, for some reason, the immune system eventually catches up and manages to destroy the cancer. So there have been many attempts to harness the immune system in cancer treatment. Glad to see that all that work is finally bearing fruit (fingers crossed)...
Is Tesla in trouble?
> Followed by a demo of someone copying the APK and the whole thing more or less working...

Isn't this how Android works though? The interface you boot into is an APK that has some more entitlements and hits some APIs. Like how should they have made it?
Very thoughtful. Thanks.
They could get geoguessers to participate, I guess. No need to build a publically accessible model.
There certainly used to be a strong push to have internal people use the product a lot more during the development cycle. There was also a real desire to make the devel version actually usable. That fell by the wayside, sadly.

Having your developer workstation break while you have a backlog full of stuff to do, would absolutely make you less motivated to run the developer release. Especially if you're not on the desktop team.
Institutional holders tend to vote along the direction recommended by ISS or Glass-Lewis.

Those recommendations do generally follow Board recommendations on strategic topics, but frequently diverge from the board on matters of employee and executive pay (approving increases to share/option pools, etc.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_Shareholder_Se...
Estonia has more than one airport, there's no "the airport in Estonia." The article refers to one airline, Finnair, suspending flights to Tartu, not all of Estonia. Apparently only Finnair connects Tartu to Helsinki.

Relevant part from the terrible website linked:

> Due to the ongoing GPS disruptions in the eastern Baltic Sea region, flights to the airport of Estonia's second largest city will be suspended immediately and for a month. This was announced by the Finnish airline Finnair, which connects the airport of the European Capital of Culture Tartu with Helsinki. This means that Tartu Airport will be closed for the time being and there are no other connections.
But one leg will still be running a shorter distance then the other.
> Please note that offset-allocator isn't a Rust allocator conforming to the GlobalAlloc trait

Aw. Why not?

> find the next available bin using 2x LZCNT instructions to make all operations O(1)

Isn't that sort of implementation defined? The LZCNT operation itself is a loop over all bits -- the fact that the number of bits is constant doesn't make this O(1), it just makes it O(n) where n := 64. But if it was 16 or 32 bit, it may be faster, which means its not O(1), or rather, big o notation really breaks down here.
Did those ex-Twitter folks get their severance money yet?
This already happens, it's called 'compassionate use'

https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory-overview/resea...
Lunar no-atmo base jumping. See Mons Huygens as few have.
That's because I'm me and not anyone else. It was pretty traumatic for my SO and everyone else around the PI. The PI insisted on going into work and continuing on like nothing changed even as they were mentally deteriorating. If I don't include details about the tragedy it might be because I don't want to bring that energy to my comment and not because I somehow was oblivious to their significance.
I wrote almost the exact same thing after seeing Sebastian Aaltonen's original offset allocator repo which inspired me to write my own clone in Rust.

It's possible to further improve the fragmentation characteristics if the maximum size of the memory to be allocated is known ahead of time. The original used a 5.3 "floating point" scheme for the free bins, but given the maximum size you can opt for 4.4 or 6.2 or whatever can cover the whole region, giving more dense (or sparse) allocation granularity as needed.

This same idea can also be extended to allocating texture atlas regions when the regions have power of two size. 256 bins can cover all possible texture sizes that GPUs can handle, so you can get hard O(1) texture packing.

I'm also curious about making something like this work as a general purpose allocator (as alluded to by the README). For that it would be necessary to make a reverse lookup from pointer address to allocation handle, which would require something like a red-black tree covering the address space, which would no longer be 0(1). If anyone has ideas on this front, I would be happy to hear them.

This algorithm is so clever and kind of a game changer. Allocating and freeing are fast real time operations (only dozens of CPU cycles and a few memory writes). It kind of makes "bump allocators" obsolete because this allocator is almost as fast but supports trimming and freeing allocations as well. This algorithm requires more memory but the amount is quite low.
The conversation moved on from TFA, eg:

> I'm not entirely convinced that dinners at Red Lobster are what "every girl wants".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40233023 cares.
Thanks for sharing. I'm one of the co-authors of the blog post. Let me know if you have any questions!

tl;dr: We analyzed a LockBit v3 variant, and rediscovered a bug that allows us to decrypt some data without paying the ransom. We also found a design flaw that may cause permanent data loss. Nothing's earth-shattering, but it should be a fun read if you're into crypto and security!
Tesla abandons quest for one-piece 'gigacasting'
Honestly, there's nothing wrong with being "elitist" in this sense. You're looking to get away from trolls and idiots. So are we all.

If you want something publuc, the best chance is the comment section of small, specialist blogs. I am on one such blog (nope, not sharing), where there is an established group of 20 or so participants, with low turnover. It's great, and when the occasional troll joins, the moderator shuts them down quickly.
That is simply untrue. I've just self built an extension and it would not pass building regs if the inner leaf was made of heavy concrete block or standard brickwork (both of which were desired for stylistic reasons).

The specific blocks used were 1.21 W/mK externally and 0.06 W/mK for the internal aircrete blocks. That's an enormous difference. UK government research indicated a 100mm cavity may be 0.6, so the inner leaf is still doing most of the work. Adding insulation to this cavity massively increases its performance, but the materials are better insulators than the air, and the concrete blocks are the worst part of the system.

[1] - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
>No, what’s being mocked is the quality of the food

If that was the case the "quality of the food" would be mocked elsewhere, in tons of brands with crap quality. But those seem to be particular targets in the way that say McDonalds and other fast food or higher tier but still crappy brands are not.

Besides, most references/parodies I've seen (like online, on SNL, movies, and so on) always seem to mock the working class in that context (or the ignorant lower middle class), in some "lol, these people think they're eating fancy" - usually with stereotypes about their appereance and mannerisms to match.
I find this topic interesting. I have toyed with immediate mode like microui, nuklear, etc. In many ways, even with low-level programming languages, the readability can be much easier compared to traditional UI that have their own approach to breaking the views, models, events, etc.

For me, it is really about considering IMGUI over the likes of "typical" GUI apps like WPF.

Seriously, if I could find an IMGUI that allowed a free editor-like text entry with coloured fonts and styles... and a Map section (ie OpenStreetMap) -- I would be trying it out and comparing the performance (and memory) over WPF or web version.

Just trying to imagine the advantages of easy building to an exe.. even a WASM build as well.
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Yeah, if you want tech companies to move their development centers to Bangalore and Vietnam.
that's crazy. that's the second one...
how can the authorities ignore the "coincidence"?

government is really weak with the strong and strong with the weak.
Agreed.

For clarity, the barrier of entry I'm referring to is financial. Law school just costs too damned much to then go practice in the public sector and make next to nothing.

We want smart people to be judges, but we're eliminating potential candidates that opt out because some simple math finds the return on investment for law school isn't motivating in a permanent position in the public sector.

The former judges I know became judges to bump their opportunity at partnership at big law firms. They just worked some years in the public and then flipped to private when the salary offers looked good. Same for AG office, etc.
> Aw. Why not?

Because the global allocator API is defined as free(pointer address) and this used free(buffer handle).

It would require a reverse lookup structure from address to buffer handle, e.g. red-black tree. Maintaining it would no longer be O(1).

> the fact that the number of bits is constant doesn't make this O(1), it just makes it O(n) where n := 64

O(n) when n is constant is equal to O(1).

But lzcnt uses a fixed number of clock cycles so it's not really O(n) either.
My Win11 upgrade broke the partition on one of my drives that was formatted as ReFS. I was able to fix it with a one liner that read the metadata and updated the ReFS version. But until it was fixed it was thrashing my HDD and explorer would crash because it was trying to read the disk.

Other than that, not terrible. But then again, I just use my windows install for gaming and dual boot into Ubuntu for anything research related.
You mean the X-ifixion of Tesla.
>The fundamental problem is that all of these businesses are devoid of soul, and the majority of the profits don't go to the people working them.

That however is a problem of capitalism in general, not Olive Garden in particular.

And I'd say class snobbism against lower class "taste" (independent of unhealthy fast food vs fine cuisine, since for example something like In and Out is totally acceptable by the same people) is also a problem of capitalism.
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