skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bounce between Linux (servers, devops), Android (Kindle Fire), iOS (iPhone), Windows (help family members with their computers, my test bench computer), and MacOS for my primary platform, development.

I keep one test mule beater PC, running Windows and Linux, for dealing with problematic hardware. For example, this evening I was trying to set up a Windows PC as a games machine for someone, but needed to wipe the SSD for a clean install. If I were better at Windows I might know how to recover from a wedged Windows update that crashes everything at boot. I would be able to dive into Pre Boot Environment and tool around in PowerShell until I could fix the problem. But I don't. I do, however, know how to wipe a drive and start over. But I don't trust Windows disk management tools. I can't see partition layouts etc. I rebooted into an Ubuntu live image, ran sedutil-cli from a Bash shell to reset the drive's encryption key. Boom.

Windows has gotten more interesting with the Subsystem for Linux, cross-platform .NET and development.

Windows has always supported developers, developers, developers. Their origin product was a programming language.

It's still an awful platform to keep running, though. When I manage to break it, there's no fixing it. I don't know how, and I have never managed to learn.

I keep to a crazy BSD-like Linux distribution that has taught me what to tweak when I've managed to break it. The macOS BSD nature of tweaking config files has not gone away. Essentially most of the configuration is represented by files, often text files.

The Mac is getting ever more difficult for development. I use it anyway.

I suppose it's not a meaningful comparison, without a specific use case. Are you developing machine-learning models with CUDA? Mac would be in your way. Optimizing scientific kernel with Intel AVX-512? No such Mac.

I still wouldn't be productive with Windows as my only platform. I use the Mac because I can dig in when it matters, and I can use polished applications for creative work like Adobe suite or Affinity or Blender. Or Keynote.

Visual Basic is pretty great. I never got as comfortable in Interface Builder. HyperCard, though.

You should be doing all your development in HyperCard.
You need to remember that when TrueType fonts were introduced, a typical display resolution was 640x480 to 800x600 on a 13-15" display.

If you rasterize the Bezier curve outline of a ttf font at that resolution, you will have very crooked characters without anti aliasing and very blurry with AA.

At the same time the same font files needed to look good on print paper with a very different DPI setting.

It's a compromise between bitmap and outline fonts. Not ideal but it delivered good results on display and on paper at the time.

The hinting engine is not (?) used that much any more with large resolutions where we can comfortably just rasterize the outline with some AA and have good results.
Yes, that’s true but I suspect that what you’re doing is also what people are complaining about ;-)
Sharp corners are dangerous, I always feel like those windows will draw blood if I touch them with my mouse wrong.

Strangely enough, I stayed in an East Asian hotel (I think with Tibetan influences?) and I remember the corners of the room all being rounded. It just felt better, more soothing? It would be hella expensive to get a craftsman to round all the corners in your room here in the west, you could do it with plaster but it wouldn’t last more than a decade and wouldn’t add any resale value.
In the CV department, I recently ordered a cheap FPGA + ARM Cortex-M3 + 64 Mbit SRAM + 32 Mbit flash that does camera input and HDMI output. Like a budget Zynq for CV.

https://wiki.sipeed.com/hardware/en/tang/Tang-Nano-4K/Nano-4...

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806880637138.html
I think as Andy writes, Bill was showing off a very impressive demo, and was maybe miffed that Steve wasn’t appreciating it.

Also, the question had just been sprung, and literally no one had ever done this before.
I think the platitude is geared towards people who are chronically or continuously bored.

The subtext is that when motivated and engaged people feel bored they find something to do. They recognize that the emotion they experience does not indicate that the world is devoid of engaging activities and ideas.
between my taxes currently, funding among all things...

* a sociopathic nation state thats hell bent on bombing and relocating the original inhabants of that land,

* a private prison industry that uses its profits to lobby for more punitive sentences for nonviolent crimes

* a military industrial complex that destabilizes countires around the world

god forbid some small sliver of my tax dollars gets used to give homeless people some dignity and shocker keeping them off the streets which helps increase land value in the properties around where they used to hang out.
> My advice is to just get a tech job where you can coast

My soul dies when I try this. I can't look in the mirror and like the person looking back. I feel myself rot.

I need challenge. I need to be useful.

Most dev shops infantalise their devs and don't allow them to do actual useful hard work. So I'm currently attempting a bootstrapped startup. Because I want to work.
Fucking LEGENDS. My first show. I don't even like them that much but what a run.
What do you have against anti-Taliban Afghans or anti-Lukashenko Belarusians?
I am guessing it’s helicopter's gear.
Telegram says it has 'about 30 engineers'; security experts say that's not good
All around my neighborhood is the graffiti of "Free Assange, Oz hero". Just this morning I saw a large amount of it in a new place. Was thinking "I really hope one day it happens but I am doubtful".

And then I just saw this... wow! I am so glad to be wrong, to see my pessimistic side be completely wrong. Julian is free!
And that's completely false. You don't leave culinary school as a chef if you're going into the restaurant business, you're a line cook or prep cook, and your knowledge lets you advance much more quickly than everyone else. Sure you can get a "kitchen manager" sort of job in a hotel or cafeteria or something, but any restaurant hiring people into non-entry-level positions out of culinary school aint winning no awards. A huge portion of the famous chefs never went to culinary school. When I graduated, I was a line cook working for a guy who never went to school and he was one of the most talented chefs I've ever encountered.
Labour just said they’ll enforce the warrant for Netanyahu’s arrest. You find that lacking backbone?
nope. they are real
Wonder what the buoyancy would be like, and who will be the first surfer on Titan.
Road to hell is paved with good intentions.
> You probably mean we need to double the number of bedrooms available for sale/rent

No. I mean double the total number of bedrooms.

It is absolutely necessary public policy to completely gut the price of real estate across the country. I am aware that it'll be painful.
As someone who makes use of copyright to protect my works, I completely disagree that it needs strengthening. I'm sure the MPAA and RIAA disagree with me. 28 years is more than enough. I'd argue for even less.

Edit: and this case drives it home. Copyright makes it illegal to preserve this music history, and the owners don't give a shit.
Got it, thank you for your insights!
Some Julia Growth and Usage Statistics
Yes, “mann” was person. Not related to “human” which derived from Latin Hominem.

A wifmann was a “female person” and a “waeponmann” was a male person. Wifmann contracted to winmann to woman.
> That type of "advice" accomplishes nothing, other than maybe boosting the ego of the person making it.

That depends on whether anyone other than OP ever reads the comment thread.
I'm afghan, so i can only talk about the caliber of US-cooperating, calling them
anti taliban is a distinct misnomer, afghans I’ve met, and they are quite literally some of the very worst and amoral people I’ve ever met. They aren’t motivated by moral objections towards Islamic extremism, they have found a big daddy to lend them authority and maybe solves a few unrelated vendettas for them. Most concerning opium and warlordism. Let’s also not forget where the taliban got their supplies from. …and the fact that the sudden US retreat, and especially backtracking on guarantees of citizenship, killed more pro-US afghans than assange ever could have. People don’t hold onto a departing planes landing gear for nothing, that’s something you do with your back against the wall. Kandahar skydiving club it jokingly was called by US troops, how about yall don’t feign sympathy.
If he went back to even thinking about touching classified material again in the future he would deserve to be jailed just for the stupidity of it alone after this. The takeaway here isn’t “better opsec”.
Couldn't have said it any better. People have polarized him and his actions but it is a marbled tapestry of right and wrong - good and bad.
> Apple is doing its best to be a monopoly

Apple is quite literally a minority player in the EU.
In our internal testing we are very close to Chrony with our synchronization performance, some of our testing data and an explanation of our algorithm is published in our repository: https://github.com/pendulum-project/ntpd-rs/tree/main/docs/a...

Given the amount of testing we (and other parties) have done, and given the strong theoretical foundation of our algorithm I’m pretty confident we’d do well in many production environments. If you do find any performance issues though, we’d love to hear about them!
Dats: Minimalistic zero-dependencies statsd client for Node.js
whatever happened to the r--- allegations from Sweden, I understand that Sweden has dropped the charges but.. can we get some closure about that as interested followers of this entire saga? Hope that's not too much to ask..
The lack of support and lack of agitation by the Australian Government on both sides of parliament is a testament to how bad Australian politics is.

He was an Australia citizen left out to dry.

Disgraceful.
ChargerLab's KM003C passes in Thunderbolt 4 correctly at least.

(source: I have one and can have it between my macbook pro and a TB4 dock and two displays work correctly)
Thanks, I'll take a look. Any particular reason for these two? Just taste?
> Is there TPU-like functionality in anything in this price range of chips yet?

Kendryte K210 supports 1x1 and 3x3 convolutions on the "TPU". It was pretty well supported in terms of software & documentation but sadly it hasn't become popular.

These days, you can easily find cheap RV1103 ("LuckFox"), BL808 ("Ox64/Pine64") and CV1800B/SG20002 ("MilkV") based dev boards, all of which have some sort of basic TPU. Unfortunately, they are designed to be linux boards meaning that all TPU related stuff is extremely abstracted with zero under-the-hood documentation. So it's absolutely unclear whether their TPUs are real or faked with clever code optimizations.
This should be at the top. A good workplace is 99% good colleagues. Most people who are unhappy at work are unhappy with the people they work with. Prioritize good colleagues when searching for your next job.
Like becoming an auto mechanic, one must become a specialized machinist to make significant money. For example, my dad was an electrical + A/C mechanic to whom dealers contracted work. It follows then one should become a independent contractor in nuclear, mining, or aerospace machining to make significant money.
I’m sorry but being a musician is a job.
Maybe Assange got too much attention. McBride's attention dropped off almost immediately after he was locked up.

More than happy to locked them up unless it creates an image problem.

Unfortunately in this country, a whistle blower is a fast track to being punished.
He's also got a background as a human rights lawyer. He probably has a lot of personal interest in cases like this.
All the one time use products that currently end up in a landfill (or the oceans) shortly after being manufactured and then fail to decompose properly. A lot of plastic products don't need to be durable for very long. If it needs to be durable, there are perfectly good materials other than plastic that you could use that are probably better.

In fact, most plastics don't actually do that well over time (some exceptions of course) and aren't that durable. Quite a few types of plastic degrade under UV light for example. Of course not enough to fully degrade but they become brittle, get ugly, etc. If it stayed in one piece and just sat there not changing, plastics would actually be less of an issue. The issue is that they do degrade and gradually turn into micro plastics. Which end up in animal and human tissue causing all sorts of issues.
Cool DIY gadget automatically translates Morse code
Bash one-liner to get unsubmitted HN articles from your Wallabag favorites
If you want to know which of your favorite Wallabag (self hostable application for saving web pages) articles haven't been submitted yet to HN, you can do so with a one-liner command. After exporting your favorites to JSON from the Wallabag Web UI, do:

```
for url in $(jq -r '.[].url' Downloads/Starred\ articles.json); do \
curl -s "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=$url&restrictSearchableAttributes=url&analytics=false&typoTolerance=false" \
| jq -r .nbHits | grep -q ^0$ && echo $url; done | tee /tmp/unpublished
```

This is easily adaptable to other use cases. The tricky part was figuring out the query parameters for Algolia search API.

Previous threads about Wallabag:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14686882
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30421036
Uh, that was very very much not my experience working in high-end fine dining. I worked as a bouncer at some really violent nightclubs and working as a fine dining cook was consistently WAY more pressure. Working in lower-level cooking jobs could be insanely fast-paced, but it was way more even and the staffing levels made way more sense.
Journalists consider Julian to be a journalist.

> WikiLeaks wins top Australian journalism prize... The Walkley Award is one of a number of journalism prizes won by WikiLeaks in recent years, including Amnesty International’s UK Media Award and the acclaimed Martha Gellhorn Prize. The latter award is given to journalists who reveal “an unpalatable truth that exposes establishment propaganda.” These prizes undermine the Obama administration’s claims that Assange is not a journalist and that the publication of thousands of secret US diplomatic and military cables is illegal.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2011/11/assa-n30.html
I would encourage you to take a look at some of our testing data and an explanation of our algorithm in our repository (https://github.com/pendulum-project/ntpd-rs/tree/main/docs/a...). I think we are very much in spitting distance of Chrony in terms of synchronization performance, sometimes even beating Chrony. But we’d love for more people to try our algorithm in their infrastructure and report back. The more data the better.
They don't merely tour, they fly a space ship to spread their vibe!
Stability AI appoints new CEO, the Information reports
> PS: in the case of the article, I assume there must be a law about not leaving the kids unattended outside in the first place, with a minimum ratio (x adult supervisor for y kids), whatever the circumstances, body of water or not.

...that is definitely false, and a truly wild assumption. Why would you believe that?

13-year-olds wander around towns unattended all the time.
I hate that it is interesting.

”Logic” tells me a 20x monthly income increase would lead to more than a 1% increase in housed population.

6.5x more than _that_ only led to a 5% increase in housed population.

Sigh. Everything sucks, doesn’t it?
Another feature of tar (the 7-zip implementation, anyway, I haven't checked others) is that it will properly archive files whose path length exceeds the path length limit, and then also restore the files properly. Conversely, trying to zip up a group of files with paths too long appears to work but then results in a corrupt zip file that will not unzip. I'm no expert in this area, but that is my recollection. So if you have any doubts about whether your files to archive have paths too long it is better to tar them then zip the tar file rather than just zip the files.
The South China Sea gets a lot of press these days, but the Strait of Malacca is what connects it with the Indian Ocean and hence points west.
Compared to X, 300 engineers one product manager that tweets and part time server rack engineer.
That image really drives home how much we've lost with flat GUIs are and how important drop shadows are to buttons.

And also drives home that I don't give one iota of care about rounded vs square.
The atrocities carried by Indonesians to Indonesians slip through your comments. The religious persecution of non-muslims in Papua and Bali, and the literal genocide in East Timour.

Reminder that the "pacification campaigns" genocide carried out by Indonesian military on East Timour _civilians_ only seized in 1999 (25 years ago) after UN peace forces intervention.

In 1991, Indonesian soldiers opened fire on a peaceful crowd of 2500 people gathering at a memorial mass Santa Cruz Cemitery. It is documented that at least 250 people were killed point blank.

It takes a very special kind of evil to open fire on a packed crowd of unarmed civilians at a memorial mass. Their only crime was carrying FRETILIN resistance flag and being Catholic in a muslim majority country.

Before whataboutism accusation, I agree that former colonists should own their mistakes. But equally it is up to a People to take care of their People and not keep pointing to the past for blame.
FWIW, I am one of his constituents in Camden, and he helped us out tremendously in a pickle with Home Office when the latest war in Ukraine broke out. The issue went from 6 months in limbo to being resolved within a week.

I am not commenting on the backbone, but he is definitely there for his constituents.
My take on this would be that, if you can think of various activities to do when you have nothing to do, whether on your own or with others, you can't be bored.
> You're gonna have a hard time exploiting a text file output that happens to be JSON.

If you’re not escaping double quotes in strings in your hand-rolled JSON output, and some string you’re outputting happens to be something an attacker can control, then the attacker can inject arbitrary JSON. Which probably won’t compromise the program doing the outputting, but it could cause whatever reads the JSON to do something unexpected, which might be a vulnerability, depending on the design of the system.

If you are escaping double quotes, then you avoid most problems, but you also need to escape control characters to ensure the JSON isn’t invalid. And also check for invalid UTF-8, if you’re using a language where strings aren’t guaranteed to be valid UTF-8. If an attacker can make the output invalid JSON, then they can cause a denial of service, which is typically not considered a severe vulnerability but is still a problem. Realistically, this is more likely to happen by accident than because of an attacker, but then it’s still an annoying bug.

Oh, and if you happen to be using C and writing the JSON to a fixed-size buffer with snprintf (I’ve seen this specific pattern more than once), then the output can be silently truncated, which could also potentially allow JSON injection.

Handling all that correctly doesn’t require that much code, but it’s not completely trivial either. In practice, when I see code hand-roll JSON output, it usually doesn’t even bother escaping anything. Which is usually fine, because the data being written is usually not attacker-controlled at all. For now. But code has a tendency to get adapted and reused in unexpected ways.
It may never be cheap, but it should be possible to drive down the cost of housing to the cost of construction. A big part of getting lots of building done is to take a chainsaw to existing regulation.

* No minimum lot size

* No parking space requirements

* No single family zoning in the city - minimum is multi-family, 15 stories.

* No requirement to match the character of the neighborhood

* No height based additional setbacks

* No rent control

* Get rid of the anti-dorm laws[1]

* No historical preservation without the city buying the property in question

* No building plan for the city - replace it with a "shall issue" policy where the city has to have some affirmative reason to block the permit or it gets issued by default.

There's probably a bunch more that should probably be done away with; those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

---

1. It's very common in cities to ban dwellings that house more than x (typically 4) un-related adults.
Aus can hardly antagonize us/uk
> I’m never bored, there’s too many rabbit holes and too much work to do

It is a temporary condition. At some point on thousandth rabbit hole you'll feel yourself bored, and decide not to dive deeper, because what is the point. Probably you will be able to use rabbit holes as a means to fight boredom for some time afterwards, but it would be harder and harder with time passed.

Many people I know felt something like that with video games. Video games were interesting. Then they became not so interesting. And then people just lost the point of playing video games. My brother was constantly upgrading his PC to play newest titles. Now he is still upgrading his PC, because it makes him feel happy, but he doesn't play anymore. I never upgraded my PC to play a game, I played those that could run on the hardware I had. Now I don't play games either. I try sometimes to play to fight boredom, but it doesn't work, it is more boring to play now than not to play.

> Remove all social media, stop reading the news, get on top of your finances, keep a small but significantly valued group of friends, have a vision for your life

You know, it is easier to learn how to deal with boredom than to achieve all this points. Some people never manage to have friends or to get on top of their finances.

All these things is what maybe makes you immune to boredom. It doesn't mean it will help others: people are wonderfully different. But the worse: probably all these things have nothing to do with your lack of boredom. What you witness is a correlation, it doesn't have to be a causation, it can even be a spurious correlation.
People are reporting this, but usually via microsoft support pages, so in the end nobody really cares.
The Australian government brokered the deal [0] after their parliament voted for him to be freed [1]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/apr/10/biden-assange-...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/14/austr...
This case made a mockery out of the idea of separation of powers, which you'd know if you'd followed it at all. The case was political from day 1, and even if there is no last-moment disgrace from the US (I don't think there will be), it still will be 100% political.

They probably just realized they shouldn't dig the embarrassment hole any deeper, and think that an extorted confession is the most face-saving they're going to get.
Because the UK was reluctant to give extradition based on the conditions offered by the US. Part of the reason the US is offering a plea deal is that it bypasses the need for extradition. Australia also asked the US to drop the case.

So offering a deal only to have the UK agree to release Assange and lure him to US territory would definitely be a diplomatic issue, possibly jeopardizing future extraditions from the UK, for instance.
Who knows for how much longer this CLI escape hatch will exist though. Maybe at some point MS will implement mandatory online checks into their OS, similar to how some games DRM schemes work. Then you'll only be able to use "offline mode" if you connect to your account every XX days, or subscribe to a business plan for longer durations.
Damn, in 2024?

Do Java next!
Leather is biodegradable and an accepted material for cars. I don't see why the same shouldn't apply to this.