skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Due to all this mess with Recall, force account log-ins, spamming my desktop with crap all the time, not being able to to disable telemetry, confusing privacy settings spread all through out the OS... I finally made the call two weeks ago to get rid of Windows after decades of using the Microsoft OS. I tried Pop, Ubuntu, Mint... all decent options but settled on Debian for now. It's been a slog of a two weeks and one massive learning curve, but everything is now setup and working great. I have 100% parity with my previous Windows install and it was a freeing experience being able to delete my Windows partition. My biggest problem was with video drivers. I have some utilities that require at least Nvidia 535 and Debian for some reason I can't fathom only supports 525 (obsolete by Nvidia's indication). All of the advice in Debian related forums was "don't go with proprietary install scripts" which was flat out wrong. I don't know what is causing this brain failure on the part of the entire Debian community when it comes to drivers, but they need to fix that. No need to run the latest and greatest, but when the only option is a driver that is marked as obsolete and won't run a lot of software, it needs to be addressed.

The pleasant surprise has been games. I thought I would have to abandon gaming or keep a second Windows partition, but so far all the games I have tried have run 100% -- even though it took some minimal tweaking in some cases. V-Rising, Elder Scrolls Online, New World, RimWorld... all work as well as on Windows thanks to Steam and Proton. (Rimworld required one change in the config .ini to support my super ultra wide monitor, ESO had to be manually imported into Steam. V-Rising required installing the Proton-GE version to address a problem with cut scenes). It's a bit tedious to have to address small problems like that, but more than worth it to get rid of an OS that I feel is constantly trying to attack me.

I am moving my wife to Zorin next. I can't recommend Debian to most people that just want to use a desktop. It was difficult for me and I have decades of experience in running Linux servers. I will probably stick with Debian as its working great now, but too many things were too hard to make it an option for most desktop users I would imagine. I can recommend ditching Windows for some flavor of Linux.
The US military needs to absorb the military side of the business as a state owned enterprise
Assessing the Emergent Symbolic Reasoning Abilities of LLMs
They don't care about development tools period anymore, they just make most of their business on the cloud and most of it being very dependent on Linux.
In programming, an array is a data structure that contains a collection of elements. Arrays are very useful because you can store, access, and manipulate multiple elements in a single array.

You'll learn how to work with arrays in JavaScript. We'll cover the specific rules you need to follow when creating an array, as well as how to use array methods to manipulate and transform your array as desired.
I don't really understand the issue. I click on 'play' on Steam and the game works. That's all that matters to me.
but the moment you enter your ms credentials it’ll “upgrade” your account
FAA is probably thinking that since they're the ideal scapegoat in such a situation, but I don't think any member of Congress gives a shit about how many Boeing kills, as long as Boeing continues to pay them off.
I only used Apple Id once, to install the C compiler ("Command Line Tools (CLT) for Xcode", for Homebrew).

Though that was 2 years ago - has it changed?
A) they very clearly already do, if you pay any attention to the industry whatsoever

B) it's still lazy learned helplessness
The agenda of injecting completely unsubstantiated claims into the story and trying to pass them off as fact, such as the claim that Apple hid many more violations before the inspectors could get to them.

No basis in fact, just pure ragebait conjecture.

Her agenda is about getting clicks and followers first. She’s not making companies operate safer, she’s just editorializing a public report from the agency that actually works on making companies operate safely. All of her editorializing and fake claims is undermining the actual situation by making the facts unclear and making people trust reporting on the subject less.
There’s a section in the readme explaining why it’s a bad idea haha
Same, I drove a factory-fresh F140 v12 GTC4Lusso straight off the line in Maranello while they were still being produced, and having background in German-built cars, it’s light years of difference. If I could have bought that same day I 100% would have. They’re that good.
Parent commenter meant subsidizing the actual hardware costs. The same is true of pretty much every other console, they can also sell the hardware cheaper for this reason
EU Accuses Apple App Store Steering Rules of Violating DMA, Opens Investigation
Do Americans Drink Too Much? Alcohol Is Driving a Debate in Washington
Wow, that was an aggravating read. I don’t think I would have been able to keep my composure. Is/was that user notable on that forum?
paged.js and weasyprint ingest HTML, as shown in the helloworld example.
I just checked. It's an article I wrote for my high school newspaper in 1996 about Tipper Gore visiting our town.
I meant for her personal well being. Some people are much more sensitive to chemical exposure than others.
Might be, doesn't change the fact those are Windows games.
And so much of the SEO voodoo is then codified into templates which get reused over and over again.
OP is well involved in marketing, it seems. See:

https://mrsteinberg.com/
It'd be fun/great if someone made Graal Native work with it. Then things could come full circle and I could compile my Clojure/Java binaries to run everywhere (but now without a VM)
That's fair. I used the thing I linked during that time period, but for casual vapers disposables have a legitimate place.

I can't keep a whole vape system in the house or I'll use them constantly, but when my friends are smoking cigars, I like having a vape. The battery is the most environmentally detrimental part, but it's also the least necessary, since usb power sources are everywhere.
Hardware has certainly progressed significantly over the years, but the size of workloads has also grown.

The big question is: Does a 'reasonable' workloads today fit on a single machine better than a 'reasonable' workload did 20 years ago?
Thousands of lines := time to use a real (compiled) language
> Apple has a 100% monopoly it's AppStore

McDonalds has 100% monopoly on happy meals. That doesn't make it a monopoly in the sense that you're using the term. And IOS's position in the EU or even the US looks nothing like "Microsoft" and IE.

This isn't about monopoly in the EU. This is about the EU not being competitive in the mobile space, or software in general and wanting to foster local development without having to pay a tax to US corporations.

What you're seeing is some of the first shots in attempts to unwind globalization.
To be perfectly honest, anyone approaching Linux from Windows needs caveats so that they can make their mind up for themselves and pick what's best for them. Every distro (and Linux as a whole) has trade offs and things that will need to be considered.
I recently took my windows desktop apart and put the graphics card into my home server.
Used PCIe pass through with proxmox to create a dedicated Linux VM that just hosts my steam library, and stream games to my steam deck which is plugged into my keyboard/monitor/mouse.

It works great! And I can use the deck as a normal PC for web browsing/slack/discord etc.

There’s nothing I need windows for anymore thankfully.
Wow, yeah, i didn’t even know about that. That’s another reason to never use macos.
And at the same time, corporate-sponsored nativism is on the rise thanks to coordinated anti-immigrant assaults on social media whipping up hysteria.

People may think it's a good idea, but it's yet another popular notion that will be denied as the lines blur between monied interests and governments in the West.
As a linguist, there is no such dialect of English as 'Euro English'. The idea is borderline non-existent outside of Wikipedia.[0]

In order for there to exist a dialect there must exist some kind of stable distinguishing features, and 'Euro English' has none. The errors that a French speaker makes in English are completely unlike the errors a Greek speaker makes in English, which in turn are completely unlike the errors Czech speakers make in English. What are the stable realisations of the usual English lexical set words (e.g. KIT, DRESS, TRAP etc.) in 'Euro English'? What is the internal grammatical system of 'Euro English'? What are its tenses? What is its syntax? No one has any answers for these questions, which should be trivial to answer for a living dialect.

The highest evidence that the Wiki article can point to is a few items of jargon in European bureaucracy, but this for a dialect does not make. Any random larger organisation is going to have its jargon, particularly a legal one. A staffer on the Hill might have good scuttlebutt about Tuesday's pen and pad, but that doesn't mean there's some kind of emerging dialect of English forming in the halls of US Congress.

It's fine to use 'Euro English' to refer to the few lexical items used in the European bureaucracy, but a few items of jargon are neither unusual, nor sufficient to constitute a dialect.

[0] It's worth noting the most frequently cited source on that Wiki page is a click-baity newspaper article from a British tabloid (Brexit could create a new ‘language’), and that, of the three (!) articles in the bibliography, one treats it solely as a legal jargon, and the other two (Mollin 2006 and Forche 2012) actually reject the idea that Euro English is a dialect. Someone's just on a bit of a frolic on Wikipedia.
You are one command away from having ruby in your system, is the threshold really that high?
Apple is almost a subscription service. You just pay in huge installments once every 2-5 years, by replacing the entire device when the battery degrades or performance is starting to feel underwhelming.
Home & Pro can get around it with OOBE\bypassnro and not being connected to the net. Then you get the local account option.
It’s worth noting that ePrivacy directive is an EU directive, in contrast to GDPR being an EU regulation.

Inconsistent enforcement is a feature of directives. The comment on the GDPR though is full-well valid.
Such a point of view is depressingly self-centered, and I don't see any merit in discussing anything with someone who is more interested in the attention of everyone other than the person they're actually conversing with, especially when they value imaginary internet points above truth.

Good luck in life.
Perhaps it's asking too much but it would be great to see performance comparisons of these new set methods versus naive JS.

Not sure when I'll have a chance to use them but seems pretty comprehensive in covering all the basics.
Elevating CentOS 7 to a new life
How to start reversing any React App in like 2.3 seconds [video]
I build Chrome Extensions, which sometimes means understanding what's behind the hood before planning functionality or extracting data.

Other times, it might be hooking into a library and extending it (adding new features to a map is a great example).

This is how to start reversing any React App to grab out props, functions, API keys, any naughty corners your devs might have cut etc.

I'm sharing two snippets so others can give it a go, too. Here's the walkthrough on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq2pSVrb5Uk

It's super short, and has subtitles, so watch it whilst you're next sat with your elbows on your knees, then go try it out.

Video content:
- Two Quick Demos
- First: Hooking into MapLibre from console.
- Second: Searching for public API keys on Zillow.

You can repurpose the code below to find and extend functions, edit components, hook into specific React component event handlers etc, all from client window.

You can drop the code directly into the client console if you're working with Next. Otherwise, you'll need to tweak one line.

Why am I sharing? Building extensions is super fun, and I'd like others to share in that fun.

The code is bad, and I am bad at what I do. But somehow, I make it work. If that interests you, you can have fun building extensions, too.

Gist: https://gist.github.com/dougwithseismic/156ae2d424e687d25763...

Also, PS. Please use it responsibly. Technically, you could use it to crawl the Internet for information that probably shouldn't be stored in state. We don't want that.

Reply with your indifference, praise or silence below.
Thanks for the reply.

> I was referring to Switcher, from 1985

Ah, OK. You didn't _say_ that, though.

> which I believe ran on 128k Mac's.

I don't think so, no.

The story of its development is here:

https://www.folklore.org/Switcher.html

It mentions needing the RAM, but not what system version. MultiFinder came in with System 5:

https://www.folklore.org/Switcher.html

... so, before that.

I would guess System 2, which was contemporaneous, but I don't know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Mac_OS#Release_history

> I was referring to Switcher because it set the user experience patterns and expectations for how app switching should work that led to multifinder and OSX per-app switching patterns.

Huh. OK. I had never considered that before.
They also straight up killed a whistleblower or two, apparently
Perhaps you mean corporatism? Capitalism does not define a hierarchical system.
GhostBSD (FreeBSD) welcomes everyone as well.

https://www.ghostbsd.org/download
The only Microsoft account I have is my 20 year old hotmail that has an appropriate name for a 16 year old who discovered the internet.

If I can't make a local account, I will not use it.
I'm into transit and so I did my best to understand the system last time I went someplace - and it still took me a few minutes to figure out what I needed to do last time I went to a new city. And the tourists who didn't think to look this up in front of me took even longer. Nothing was hard, but when you don't know exactly what you need it takes some time to figure that out.

The above assumes you know you will be there and so can look things up. I wasn't planning to leave the airport in one city so I didn't look up what locals do - then weather made me miss the connection and I was stuck in a city for a day.

Locals going to a new part of their own city often have the same problems trying to read the map and time tables. They are faster than tourists, but still need extra time because they don't know what is going on.
FWIW, I found Pop_OS to provide pretty (very?) up-to-date Nvidia drivers via the pop_os repos.

So I haven't found any reason to use Nvidia's installers.
> I've also observed "full duplex" conversations where people overlap periodically but don't seem to have any trouble continuing. And I've been in meetings and zoom calls where you can't get a word in edgewise until the meeting is over.

I call these people "The Uninterruptibles".

Typically they can talk for hours, while still technically on their first sentence (grammatically speaking).

Eventually you have no choice but to interrupt; an opportunity they relish immensely!
Existing fraud laws should be sufficient, no?
The main trade-off is that you don't get to enjoy the benefits of upgrading to Linux instead :^)
When I think of "sport" I think of "fitness" watches from Garmin and Apple Watch. Patek sport watch is definitely not that. What is meant by "sport" in case of the Patek sport watch?
In Vue, if a component's setup or render functions crash, the component and its children just don't render and the parent is unaffected. It doesn't unmount components that crash later either. I guess that means Vue has an implicit error boundary around every component, and if you want different behavior, you set the errorCaptured hook to do something else.
Why is it a problem with FedRAMP? CentOS 8 is FIPS certified, has STIG profiles etc.
Apple's services in the app store(in app purchase system, refunds, API's, app store distribution infrastructure) is indisputly useful and deserved to be paid, however, it could be time to relax the fee circumventing rules since they are so big and has a target on their backs now.
> (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

> o_o

> “quasi” emojis

Welp, if you need me I'll be shuffling my weary bones into a casket.
Since this article mention's Gwern's site several times:

While I admire Gwern's work a lot, I often find his website is trying to do so much that my browser will really struggle. Especially on mobile. It's bad enough I usually avoid reading there, which is a shame.

I'm not sure exactly what causes it, but it might be a combination of page length with many layers of nested, richly formatted and embedded content.
You're right about the disproportionate hate for React, but your information about Rust is out of date. These days it's 50-50 whether you'll get a lot of love or hate for a Rust project, and several of the top-upvoted Rust posts of the past year are disenchanted ones.
And so they should be, there is absolutely no reason to pay more a mined diamond than lab-grown, it's synthetically produced but it's not a synthetic product if you see what I mean, it's not like say cotton vs polyester.

It only makes sense to mine diamonds if it's cheaper to do so than to manufacture one of equivalent quality.
Downvotes on HN are (also) for mere disagreement:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658691

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392347

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
I think that is a good default. A small number of sites seem to execute sticky elements that help with long content, but only add it if you are going to test it.
https://archive.ph/oTzEP
> If they were built in Iran or Russia, they would likely need to import components in any case. Why not just import the completed product?

If they're cloning it and their goal is supply chain independence, that seems like first step.

IIRC, that's how a lot of countries move up the manufacturing value chain.
> It's also typically faster to check if an element is in a set as opposed to in an Array

What optimisations allow that? As sets in javascript maintain insertion order, aren’t lookups O(n) ?
In fact, having a browser-wide cookie consent setting was tried. The "do not track" header. After a while browsers turned it on by default because who in their right mind wants to be tracked. Advertisers then decided that the do not track header was not a valid representation of user intent, so they started to simply ignore the do not track header -- insofar as they hadn't been ignoring it already.

The EU then decided that no, you actually do need explicit user permission to track them. Advertisers, as they are known to do, promptly reached for the malicious compliance toolkit and started adding ever more annoying cookie banners and popups. Most of which are not even legal under previously mentioned EU decision.

Turns out advertisers have a hard time with the concept of "consent, freely given."
Remarkable and interesting that powdered metals can be fire-extinguishing agents. I'd have guessed they'd be flammable themselves.

https://amerexfireextinguishers.com/products/amerex-30lb-cla... ("30 lb Class D Copper Fire Extinguisher - Model C571")

- "MODEL C571 contains a copper extinguishing agent specially developed by the U.S. Navy for fighting lithium and lithium alloy fires. The copper compound smothers the fire and provides an excellent heat sink for dissipating heat. Copper powder has been found to be superior to all other known fire extinguishing agents for lithium metal fires. Not recommended for lithium-ion battery fires."
On the contrary, understanding what can be gleaned from radio waves makes amateur radio astronomy alluring. I've been obsessed since nearly 30 years.
I like to direct people to the US CSB's YouTube channel [0] to help demonstrate this. People's memory for something that's already happened before is short. We regularly have major accidents and loss of life in the hydrocarbon industry, but it's almost routine at this point, so people don't think about it.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/@USCSB
> they very clearly already do

Source? I sort of pay attention to it, and it seems a lot of folks are still hoping it solves itself.
I watched a YT video of some oil workers swinging a chain around. Because that is the tool for screwing and unscrewing drilling pipe sections. Now imagine that thing gets wrapped around someone's arm or leg? And they are moving hyperfast too.
Sounds like you’d be interested JRuby :)
Ah, I thought you referred to completion of parameters etc. not working for aliases. I checked again now, and this does not work for bash.

Of course - your own custom scripts usually wont have so fancy completion, and in any case you'd need to configure this and setting it up for both the long and short version is not that much hassle.
wrong, its 99 per developer
Before or after the DOJ finishes hitting back at Apple?
> How is longer lives, more delicious food, safer streets, more/better public transport, more/better art and culture not "growth"?. They clearly don't want less of these things.

Think about what makes a well lived life and whether unbounded growth is needed to arrive at the above at scale.

https://www.wired.com/story/happiness-measurement/

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2024/03/Pic...

https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2023/apr/three-other-w...
That's the plot of some recent, just 'so-so' action movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beekeeper_(2024_film)

You'll get to see these call centers being blown up, and some scammers beaten or killed by the main protagonist. Also government/political conspiracy, because the main villain is the son of Mrs. President. And of course the secret service protecting her and family at all costs against revenge.

Maybe also elements of persiflage of current tech-guruism.
A Mac Upgrade program doesn't have to be the same upgrade cycle, same if they went the route of doing an iPad upgrade program.

It would also help minimize the need to try to future proof your choice. I know when I go to buy a Mac I often way over spec since I am planning for at least 3 or 4 years. That conversation is completely different if I know I am getting an upgrade in 1 or 2 years.

Meanwhile if the Mac Upgrade Program could be, idk a 2 year upgrade plan. Looking at the cheapest 16" M3 Max MBP. Right now that is $291.58 month for 12 months.

If a Mac Upgrade Plan did the same timeline as iPhone where you paid over 2 years but could upgrade after a year that would be about $147.28.

But it could likely be a 3 or 4 year timeline and be even cheaper.

If we look at the lower end it gets even cheaper with the cheapest 16" MBP could be $104 a month. The cheapest 14" MPB could be $66.5 a month.

Keeps going cheaper if you look at the Air. I feel like at that price the market very much exists when the top iPhone is $74.91 a month.

The question is if the numbers make sense on Apple's side.
What do you mean they don’t want to? Their job is to report the facts in a legally consistent manner, not imagine what might have happened.
People will ask me why I'm 'torturing' myself with Linux while their preferred OS requires inputting the Konami code just to install properly.
There is. The same way as "non-toll roads", "fire departments", "public schools", and so on.

If you want a concrete american privately run and open to the public example, see Stanford's buses in Palo Alto...