skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mosh and NNCP will help a lot, but you need some good sysadmin
to set NNCP as the mail MUA/MTA backend to spool everything efficiently.
NNCP it's an expert level skill, but your data will be sent over very unreliable channels:

https://nncp.mirrors.quux.org/Use-cases.html

Also, relying on propietary OS'es is not recommended.
Apple and iOS are disasters to work on remote, isolated places.
No wonder no one uses Apple in Europe for any serious work
except for iOS development. Most science and engineering setups
will use anything else as a backend.

Most offline distros, like Ubuntu or Trisquel have methods of downloading the software packages
for offline installs.

On chats, Slack and Zoom are disasters. Any SIP or Jabber client with VOIP support will be far more reliable as it can use several different protocols which can use far less bandwidth (OPUS for audio) without having to download tons of JS to use it, even if you cached your web app it will still download tons of crap in the background.

And, again, distros like Debian have a full offline DVD/BR pack which ironically can be better if you got that by mail. Or you can just use the downloaded/stored ISO files with

apt-cdrom add -m /path/to/your/file.iso

This way everything from Debian could be installed without even having an Internet connection.
Not American here, so would welcome some explanation. If I own a piece of land on which my house sits. Even if it's within a district that has a strong HOA, what prevents me from leaving the association and set my own rules over my patch of land?

Surely in the individualistic land of the free, it should be a fundamental right?
Google scales back AI search answers after it told users to eat glue
Great, now not only my perfectionist hamster is speeding up trying to hit their "best result possible" goal, but I'm also stressed out of my mind for fear of missing the time limit.

I guess for some people fear works, but I'm more of a "carrot chaser" than a "stick dodger". Failing would mean that I'm both dejected for not getting what I want and frustrated because there's a non zero possibility my "best" is just mediocre for everyone else.

I'm also still over deadline and scared of being fired.
Slow internet and also slow devices!

If you're targeting the general population (so, chat service, banking app, utility app,...), you should be targeting the majority of users, not just the new-flagship ones, so all the testing should be done on a cheapest smartphone you could buy in a supermarket two years ago (because well.. that's what "grandmas" use). Then downgrade the connection to 3g, or maybe even edge speeds (can be smulated on network devices), and the app/service should still work.

Somehow it seems that devs get the best new flagships only, optimize the software for that, and forget about the rest... and I understand that for a 3d shooter game or something, but an eg. banking app, should work on older devices too!
Related mapbox-gl-shadow-simulator source code: https://github.com/ted-piotrowski/mapbox-gl-shadow-simulator
An actual directory knows its direct children.

An actual directory A with 2 child directories A/B and A/C, each of which with 1 million files, doesn't need to go through millions of entries in an index to figure out the names of B and C.

It's also not possible for A and A/ to exist independently, and for A to be a PDF, A/ an MP4 and A/B a JPG under the A/ ”directory". All of which are possible, simultaneously, with S3.
> If a washing machine costs £220, and a professional repair man costs £70 per hour, nobody will repair out of warranty.

This is because repair doesn't scale with automation the way manufacturing does. Repair is likely to cost far more, unless you do it yourself, and then it costs you time.
I've been taking this approach more recently. Something shipped is 100% better than nothing at all, even if it's 25% worse than if I whole-assed it.

It's been working, in that the 'leave room for others to step in' has worked well, and those others have filled the gaps with new and interesting ideas that I likely would not have done even had I whole-assed it. At the same time, those people weren't equipped to whole-ass something from nothing.
I haven't tried Plasma 6 on my 2013 laptop with a slow spinning rust disk, but Plasma 5 is fine. Way better than Windows 10 which i rageformatted when it took hours to apply some stupid update and i almost lost a business video call (my laptop is the only PC i have with a camera).

I installed openSUSE Tumbleweed which sadly seems far from I/O efficient, not sure why (there is almost a hundred of background processes doing who knows what). Perhaps a lightweight distro would be better since i mainly use it to make calls or try out some graphics code (it is the only Nvidia device i have), but while it takes a couple of minutes to boot up, once it does it works fine so i don't mind much as i'm only rarely using that machine.
What you are saying here is, for the lack of a better word, macro verification and that's completely valid.
Wouln't it be amazing if Chrome blocking ad-blockers directly causes the renaissance of Firefox?
Official post from Google,

AI Overviews: About last week (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40530833) - (48 comments)
And “polish” and “Polish” are not even pronounced the same.
Yeah we have to very carefully recognise when advice does and doesn't apply to us. I absolutely do not need the advice of half assing anyting. It takes a lot for me to whole-ass things and I have to think of strategies as to how to get into that state sustainably. And I agree its more about not focusing and having a strong emotional reaction to difficulty and failure, not about being a perfectionist. I'm not sure I like the way that people talk about procrastinators being perfectionists. You can't be a perfectionist if you never even get to the stage of perfecting something. It always feels like a way to make us feel better about ourselves undeservedly.
A more probable outcome of a single country doing that is that new products won't be available there
Wait, are you saying that transitioning is a surefire way to fuck up your life? Because for people with gender dysphoria it’s the exact opposite.
Usually it is not possible, so it is not even a failure to not achieve impossible.
> Why can't I as a consumer view a service manual and buy a part?

Have you ever helped a family member with their computer problems, only to notice that they often start as something benign, and the mess you are dealing with is from the family member attempting to fix that benign problem themselves?

Outside of tech, how many people do you know who actually read manuals instead of just going at it?
Wouldn't maintaining that standard make it effectively impossible to ever find any manager able to lead a team whose members have deep specialized expertise, especially if the team has expertise in more than one area?
Basically never ever abstract something if you only have two copies. Copy/paste and move on and be productive. It's usually only if you have a third or fourth copy that you start to see if there is any inherent abstraction to be gleamed.
Passport offices care and may object.
There is a lot of people that claim to care about climate, gender equality, human rights, working conditions etc... and then they keep using this shiny useless thing that goes in the opposite direction...
not even xfce ? that is kind of surprising.
And you think nature made drivers in some countries behave different to drivers in other countries?
So you wouldn't mind if someone bought the property closest to wherever your house is on your 20 acres, cut down the undeveloped forest, and built an abattoir right on the property line?
That is laughably incorrect. Mortgages were far easier to afford for boomers (typically 4 times income, whereas now they're more likely to be 9 or even 10 times income)

https://www.financialreporter.co.uk/income-to-house-price-ra...
1. No reliable way to delete already processed entries.

2. No reliable way to handle queue overflow.

Combine both and you are 100% guaranteed to have an incident. (I guess it keeps devops and sysadmins employed, though.)
Oh yeah, you are describing a leader here. They are hustling for the next best project to take on for their team and/or for the company. They have moved beyond solving today's problems and spend most of their time on tomorrow's or the next year's problems.
That is super improbable in case of big countries.
>in which authors make the author-accepted, but unfinalized, versions of papers available in the digital repositories

This is already the case, almost wveryone puts the preprints on arxiv/SSRN
Redpanda acquires Benthos to expand its end-to-end streaming data platform
But to buy that home/land from the previous owner you have to sign a contract stating you can't leave the HOA and that when you sell you only sell to those who will join the HOA and contract.

This goes back to the construction company/realtor investing to build the entire suburb and putting down the roads and such.
I work in a remote friendly company (I can but don’t have to work fully remote). In addition to being remote friendly, they are also schedule friendly. If I have to take two hours for a personal matter during the day, I just say I’m afk on a chan on slack and I take two hours, the company trusts me to just do my job, time management is up to me.

Honestly with this setup I don’t need a four days week.
Using Stockfish to identify ideal squares
"Can you move the Helicopter to the other side, I can land on your runway, I can fly 1 hour more, we have enough time to mouve. Please rescue me.

Major Bung, wife and 5 child"
It would be awesome to have some kind on playable demo in-browser, or sample output. Nice work
Oh, yes. I regularly spam HN with links to various parts of it. Check the submissions link in my profile.
False dichotomy, with what is likely extreme hyperbole on the JS side. Are there actual sites that ship 20 MB, or even 5 MB or more, of frameworks? One can fit a lot of useful functionality in 100 KB or less of JS< especially minified and gzipped.
Ten Things You Need to Know About War and Peace
a lot of Indian geeks of my generation grew up on "mathematics can be fun". amazing book.
In short: land covenants. In HOAs you will see titles containing terms about the property being subject to restrictions voted for/applied by the association. If you continually decline to adhere to the restrictions, you can be legally compelled to sell and move on.

Note: I'm using phrasing local to me, I expect there may be minor differences but the same gist.
Mystery malware destroys 600k routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span
I emphasize, because I share your tendencies. This is all personal btw, nothing to you personally.

I have to admit that failing to produce a required result in time using the right abstractions and without “overthinking” is actually just that: failing. That’s why I mentioned all parameters, including time, social reality, etc. Using too much time is failing.

Producing results is a skill. Like mastering programming languages and system internals is a skill. We should approach it with honesty and reflection: we suck at that for now and it’s OK. We can improve.

Personally I found whitewashing failure with “I think too deeply”-type of arguments tends to maintain status quo instead of improvement. Because we deeply belief that it’s not actually failure, but it is.

I actually agree with “just finish”. It’s a good first step. Don’t furnish, but also don’t half ass.
I do read manuals. They are usually badly written and often times very hard to understand because of that. Like using terms they don't explain, having multiple interpretations and even referencing buttons that font exists.

For that matter, if documentation to windows or whatever was less incomprehensible, the random people trying to fix computer would had better chance.
I have never been able to understand the argument about the supposed high water use - the water doesn't magically cease to exist after it's been used to cool a datacenter. You put freshwater in and get the same, but warmer, freshwater out. Probably doesn't require much (if any) in the way of treatment to become potable again.

Am I missing something or is it a bit of a disingenuous argument?
The size of HTMX compressed is 10kb and very rarely changes which means it can stay in your cache for a very long time.
How can we help make sure this happens? What practical steps can we take?
And most of those "professional" are people that skipped college and mostly highschool.

Having the knowledge to work on anything a job can throw at you and having the knowledge to work on what you have are two very different things.
Why would retention change if everyone works 4 days a week? At that point it is no longer a perk, you get it everywhere, so retention should be as before and the advantages of 4 day weeks is now gone.
My partner always tells me that if something happens to me, that's it for him. He doesn't want a relationship with anyone else.

To me, that is the saddest thought in the world. My sincerest hope is that he would find someone else he loves as much as me, and that he would tell her stories about me and let me be a happy memory rather than a sad one.

My uncle's wife remarried years after my uncle died after a long illness. She married a man who, himself, had been similarly widowed. She wore a gray wedding dress to indicate that she had been married before, and they placed two beautiful photos of their late partners behind the altar where they made their vows.

It was really beautiful and inspiring to see them carry on with their lives and love again, while proudly bringing along the memories of the two people they had lost and still loved as well. When I visit them at their home, it is filled with pictures of them with each other and with their late spouses, all intermixed, and it's deeply comforting to me. Even though they never knew each other before they were widowed, they tell me that it feels like they know each other's late spouses as if they had all been good friends together.

If I were the one dying of a long illness, knowing that something like that was on my partner's future would give me a more peaceful death. I wouldn't feel like I was letting him down and ruining his life — just saying goodbye to him in this chapter of his life, while finishing up my own chapter.
Honestly even if asahi linux ran perfectly, I'm not going to spend twice the money on hardware I can't ever repair.
It is the professionals, power users who in the end shift markets.

Corporations are nothing else than collections of directors and managers who have their own preferences which definitely influence their decision making.

More and more companies allow using MacOS. Small companies allow MacOS and then grow into large companies that still allow MacOS.

It is taking time, but don't underestimate the power of power users.
The library of Congress could host it. Hell I’d ask for my taxes to be raised if needed to host these publications for everyone.
> It's odd there aren't more people questioning this.

I’ve been questioning this for a long time. It’s not an enviable position: it’s isolating (very few people understand), it’s very hard to keep any kind of salaried position (since you’re not a devoted doormat), and it’s mentally challenging because you can’t ever really feel safe nor fit in.
A US supermarket is not allowed to sell Kinder Eggs - because they are "dangerous for children", BUT they are allowed to sell guns...
Yes. It's inexcusable that text and images and video pulls in megabytes of dependencies from dozens of domains. It's wasteful on every front: network, battery, and it's also SLOW.
> but I'm guessing you got slightly more done on the other days.

Or slightly less due to having to spend more time on overhead and reading up on things. There is a minimum amount of time you have to spend just to be ready to do your job, many current jobs are so poorly managed that most of their time is spent that way.
I created the largest curated directory of cybersecurity tools and resources
From earlier,

The Pumpkin Eclipse (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40525130) - (135 comments)
This would split the international version so that e.g. Canadian TikTok is separate from US TikTok.
Yes if you don’t really pay attention to any of the details then the cases look similar.
More like 450 million, much bigger market than US for example. Plus even non-members cca adhere to most rules, sometimes make them much tougher (ie Switzerland). Britain may be soon an exception, ie US food lobby right to government got very strong right after Brexit, I guess HFCS or GMOs needs more markets to sell.

Not all of it it as rich as average US, but overall manufacturers can't ignore us.
You can think the sky is green but it doesn’t necessarily change reality.
The lesson being... We spent billions for incremental gains masquerading as tectonic shifts. Whoops.
"If you are doing things badly, have you considered simply doing things well?"
I'm sure this is not what you meant but made me lol anyways: sv techbros would sooner plan for "outer space internet" than give a shit about the billions of people with bad internet and/or a phone older than 5 years.
Are you sure about that? The core rule is usually that contracts are binding. In some cases they are void if exceptionally unreasonable.

> While this proposal regulates certain business practices concerning repair in view of the
sustainable consumption objective, >it safeguards contractual freedom< and is conducive to the
freedom to conduct business (Article 16 of the Charter). The provisions under this proposal
aim at boosting the repair market without creating a burden, in particular for small and
medium-sized enterprises.

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Hit the gym up to 5 times a week, usually about 3 or 4 times. I try to fit it in as soon as I get back from work, or at least after an hour's rest so that I don't get too comfortable at home. When I'm there I do a combination of weight training (split of chest/back/shoulders/legs + abs/arms) and warm up with running for cardio. I take weekends off.
I think HOAs are horrible and I’d never participate in one. However I find the multiple comments connecting HOAs with a lack of freedom wrong. It’s a contract you’re freely entering into.

There is a lack of freedom in the US, but it’s not from HOAs.

Interestingly the most freedom I’ve ever felt was in Congo. The government there simply doesn’t have the resources to be pervasively and consistently present in its citizens lives. Of course you trade that for enslavement to crushing economic circumstances, so maybe this is one for Plato to solve.
Book clubs aside, the ability to join a HOA is a freedom. Contrarily, if the Supreme Court forces New York City to allow guns in its Walmarts, that would be a restriction of freedom.

Freedom isn’t the same as lawlessness.
It feels like manufacturers are steering the economy away from consumers "owning" products outright to a model where we consume them through subscriptions or financing arrangements. In this new model, consumers notionally own the product but pay a subscription for repairs. What are the upsides of this shift? Products become more accessible, as the upfront cost is reduced and spread over a longer period. Products last longer because the vendor has an obligation to maintain them for much longer. This is better for the environment; in a world of finite resources, we want our products to last longer.

However, there are considerable downsides. The very notion of ownership is being challenged. Restrictions placed on owners regarding what they can do with their products can limit personalisation, modification, or even resale, thereby reducing the true sense of ownership. While more money circulating in the economy benefits everyone, allowing us to grow while consuming fewer resources, the wealthier members of society will still be able to afford more upfront and get better products. They are likely to be rewarded with lower subscription costs or higher-quality products.

Consider Sam Vimes' "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness, which illustrates this point perfectly.[0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
is free country sort of
> Most of the former Soviet Block governments fell without any bloodshed.

That was Gorbachev. Most leaders of any country would roll tanks.
Well at least the techie crowd can still use /etc/hosts (or the equivs on Mac/Win) which, if frequently-enough (weekly, biweekly, even monthly is enough) updated with the https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts (or similar other projects if they exist), seems to "block" ads sufficiently well (no in-page DOM node removals of course, just network-unreachable image/script/iframe/popup URLs).
That's not "right to repair". Right to repair is:

- I can repair it myself

- with free access to schematics

- with access to spare parts

- without coupling between hardware and software

The EU completely misunderstood what right to repair is and is now implementing something so that they can say that they have "right to repair". This will damage the RTR movement even further. I wonder who lobbied for this.
I was hoping someone would make this point. A lot of digital archiving is just delaying tossing things - a hard drive is easier to deal with than boxes of paper. The contents can still be useless.

When it comes to a search solution - what kind of searches have you done in the past? What kind of problems did you come across? If the answer to either is "none" you are planning on building a useless system.
This was not an issue with an HOA, the city of Seaside sent him the letter.

"When the town of Seaside, California ordered...." and "When the town of Seaside, California ordered..."

The city sees it as a violation of their municipal code; specifically: https://www.codepublishing.com/CA/Seaside/#!/Seaside17/Seasi...

I'm not a fan of HOAs; but, sometimes they're not to blame.
I don't know how the mechanics of it would work, but some kind of local accuracy index would be very useful in such broad maps.

Because the elephant in the room with most global dataset compilations is that the accuracy varies greatly from place to place. Some countries or regions have detailed data, others have generic or unclassified blobs. Some data is older, some is newer.

An ideal tool reduces the need for detailed provenance checking upon every usage.
The complexity absolutely is in the language, otherwise you wouldn't have 4 or 5 different ways to pass data in and out of a shader, and turning e.g. a mesh renderer into a wireframe renderer would be a simple case of function composition.

The surrounding infrastructure is atrocious on top of that, but the idea that shading languages are fine is just off-base. They don't have real module systems, they don't let you compose, and the norm is still just to use preprocessor hacks to produce shader variants.

(this is why I built Use.GPU around a modular WGSL linker)
Stoic AI
Quantization isn’t a shortcut. It’s a test.

More training leads to better compression. Trimming precision off the integers reveals that there was more compression that could be had.
I think OP is applying the therapy approach of trying to "sit with" failure. I don't think this suits everyone.
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