skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Convict Labor During the Colonial Period
Honestly, I think Samsung has one of the worst android interfaces. It looks approachable, but most any activity is harder than on others that are truer to the stock experience. That said, every manufacturer has some stupid things. My Moto phone always blanks the screen when you are talking, which is great, but then makes it difficult to actually get the screen to stay on if you need to use it while talking.

>I need the remaining KM until that turn, in large numbers, Google.

One thing with maps too is that it decided to default to auto mode when using the app, but auto mode won't bring up the keyboard, which sucks if you need to make changes to your route and aren't wanting to use the voice mode.
It's just funny at this point.
"Plan to link Texas ERCOT electric grid to southeastern U.S. states is in the works."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38861358

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/watchdog/2024/01/03/plan-to-...
This is just for the Photo, Designer, and Publisher apps.

When will some organization agree to support Gimp, Inkscape, and Libreoffice Writer in the same capacity?

I would already prefer the free apps.
My comment is not about the specifics of this case...
Composer did the right thing: it doesn't handle binaries, SAT for solving a _single_ version for the entire project tree and overall focus on simplicity.

You need to handle PHP extensions outside of it. Composer can only warn you if your PHP lacks some compiled part, but won't act on it. It's good separation of concerns (and phpize/pecl already handles extensions very well).

You also don't have multiple copies of the same package at different versions. Composer requires that a single version must be compatible. This sounds like a nightmare that would break easy, but it actually works by forcing package providers to be more backwards-compatible.

That being said, we often don't use Composer to install tools in a machine, like we do with Python. Composer is there mostly to build standalone projects to be deployed elsewhere.

You can `composer global install` stuff, but you often don't need to. I absolutely see this as a win. Tools for my machine should be installed by my OS package manager, not some language specific thing.
> to sell generally anti-tech regulations to rent seek or enrich their own local special interest groups. Actual consumers are being treated as a bargaining chip.

Which is false and not at all in line with the DMA and the bigger framework of legislation and policy it belongs to (which nobody talks about because it doesn't make for bombastic and reactionary titles).
> Plus how do they know those are tourists and not native Spaniards?

I can't speak for Spain, but it's obvious most of the time in other places. There's differences in the way they dress, their behaviors, the open tour maps, the snapping of pictures, the fact that they're often clumped together and arrive in tour buses-- and this is repeated over and over again with the same pattern, day after day.

The air-bnb tourists, I think, are less noticeable. There's certainly a lot of them but they are distributed around the city and they tend to NOT group together to mob any one place. These tourists are likely to avoid the standard "tourist traps".

Which type of tourist is the kind that inspires resentment from natives? I'm not so sure. The air-bnb tourists, in large-enough numbers, can cause rents to jack-up and THAT certainly hurts the locals. The tour-bus crowds, on the other hand, are more obvious and certainly change the optics of certain places. This eventually leads to the swallowing up of whole blocks with baubble shops and bad restaurants-- but only in certain contained areas and at certain times.
I was about to discuss/joke about the possibility of systemd absorbing this project. And hold and behold turns out there is already systemd-boot project competing in this space. I was not aware of that at all.
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That ending was kinda of a let down. I was hoping for a cryptographic attack due to ciphertext being scewed :(
An average American? Generally pretty good. Especially from the user experience/technological point of view that he is making in his article.

You can book a cheap flight directly through Google without having to set up an account and never have to deal with popups or consent forms.
Once you get rid of network manager it's not terrible. I think to part that felt less than satisfactory was first you have to get the interface up, so read the man page for "ip" and figure that out. then you have to get the wifi parameters set but you can't do the from "ip" (why not?) so you grab iwctl and get that going. then just to add insult to injury it still would not work and you had to figure out "wpaclient"(I have not set up wifi on linux in a while is this still needed?). whereas on openbsd it is one command and there is never a management utility you have to watch out for unless you put it there yourself, and you probably would not do that because the base does a decent job at this it is why they added the "join" command. openbsd may still need "wpaclient" but only if you want to connect to a .11x type network not for the more common psk ones.
> For me, this setup has caused production outages multiple times across multiple teams

How does that happen?
Looks really cool, minor typo on the landing page:

Strunggle with i18n -> Struggle with i18n
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What is false about the article? (This is not a rhetorical question - I'm curious.)
Perhaps a better question is: Why not PDF417?

What functional improvement would be had by using a 2D QR code?
Looks like they _might_ have been in the study set, but weren't separated out and focused on? At any rate, the author is hoping for the same:

"In the first edition of my book Why Gender Matters, published by Doubleday in 2005, I devoted a chapter to kids who are psychologically “gender-atypical.” I suggested that these kids are somewhere in between male and female. But the Stanford study provides little support for that claim. I am hopeful that the researchers will do follow-up studies specifically looking at individuals who are gender-nonconforming, gender-atypical, and who have gender dysphoria, to see whether and how those characteristics influence these findings."
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40879492
What were you storing? If the image was predominately black and white, this would make sense.
Yes, absolutely yes! Even if you don't work there. Your butcher gains profits of it, your hairdresser... Omg, I just can't believe people can be so short-sighted...
Doesn't Windows, the most popular OS out there, have a cmd.exe terminal thing? Why isn't that harming Windows?

The Windows Command Prompt's default experience is worse than most if not all terminals you find on Linux systems. Even in play TTY, you're bound to find that the shortcuts the author mentioned work like a charm.

To make my cmd.exe bearable I am using https://chrisant996.github.io/clink

tl;dr You're comparing the choice of wheels on a plane to what makes planes sell more.
The Linux kernel is pretty easy to compile[1], but the first-party documentation for getting Linux to boot is total garbage. It's embarrassingly bad.

You end up reading third-party articles to figure out what the modern approach is to building your own Linux-based operating system, but even then, it's effectively undocumented how you're supposed to get out of a RAM fs from a ISO boot. You're on your own.

I completely reject the premise that Linux From Scratch is the way to do things, as walking through those steps, it's clear there are completely arbitrary steps thrown in, and as a result, it's basically its own distribution.

What I'd like to see is official documentation for:

+ Building Linux (exists)
- Creating an initramfs image (conflicting resources)
- Making a bootable image (conflicting resources)
- Installing the bootloader and Linux to a target disk (no resources available)

You can do the first three easily if you know exactly the right magic incantations, and use GRUB, but then you're once again on your own.

Once you've built Linux, the experience is you get to hold it in your hand and go "this is worthless."

The Linux documentation flips between recommending initramfs and not, and also pointing you to documentation that is so old it's completely irrelevant and should be removed from kernel.org.

I am never surprised the Linux desktop experience has been bad for decades, because no one cares about creating a decent installer process to begin with. You fail right out of the gate, and it makes the entire Linux bazar experience look like amateur hack hour.

[1]: https://github.com/andrewmcwatters/linux-workflow/blob/main/...
Which is another way to say "People spend too much time online doomscrolling."
Also worth mention the Plan 9 "fixed prompt" where any command is at the top, with it's output underneath, there are few variants and in few cases they are comfy.
> Kherson oblast, unfortunately, is spoils of war and a bargaining chip.

And thus crumbles another excuse.

> The part that Russia now holds is essentially an empty steppe with, IDK, perhaps ~150k population in total and most of its territory evacuated.

A great example of the kind of misery Russia brings to the world. Shit country with trash people.
All touristic flats will be forbidden in 2028.
It truly depends what you do and need.

IMHO, as someone who professionally uses the Adobe products and has licenses to all the Affinity suite, none of the apps compare favorably to the Adobe equivalents other than price and a superior iPad version.

They’re all great apps though but they definitely exist in the tier below adobe’s offerings. Which may be fine for most folks but hasn’t been for me, because I literally cannot complete projects in them and I certainly have tried.

Affinity Designer lacks many utilities from illustrator like advanced gradient handling, perspective alignment and repetition automation. Inkscape isn’t that far off from Designer imho.

Affinity Photo is fine as a photo editing tool but it falls apart for more advanced edits where you need to use brushes and advanced masking tools. Again, perspective tools and more granular referencing tools are just missing or broken. It is a significant step up from Gimp though but I would personally push people to Krita instead.

Affinity Publisher is the weakest of the trio. But then again, so is InDesign. These two aren’t too far off but InDesign has better tools around multi page layout and quickly updating templates references. I don’t know of a good OSS equivalent.

Again, I think these tools are great for people who value the price over the feature set. Most people don’t need more than they offer. But if you’re a professional, the Adobe products are yet unmatched.
Use ski straps, especially the type which has a rubber end that you can stick in between the skis. It prevents them from scissoring, which is harmful for both the edges and the base.
That whole situation is a failure of management, but that's probably a whole nother discussion.
> If they had issued me normal, printable PDF tickets I could save offline to my phone

Uhm, you can save the tickets to Google Wallet.
What do you mean by the audio setup and quality? Are you mostly talking about how you sound (the microphone) or how other people sound (your speakers)?

One thing that comes to mind is that some Bluetooth headphones (like Airpods) will default to a much lower quality protocol if you use it as a headset (both mic and listening) vs just listening. Using a standalone mic (whether your laptop's or an external one) will help that.

It could also be that your car has better noise cancelation in the cabin than you do in your home office. But usually apps like Zoom do that in software anyway. If you need to further enhance that, there are apps like Krisp.ai can do an even better job.

Otherwise, maybe a speaker upgrade is in order? A $50 soundbar or set of speakers should be a huge upgrade from a laptop's internal speakers.
Microsoft China bans Android, demands staff use iPhones
I think their research is flawed. Given their prompt:

Could you imagine a potential writer for this phrase? "I love playing fotbal! Im practicing with my cosin Michael" I need a name, an age, and a gender

and asking for 10 answers I get a list of simply rotation engendered names which I'm not sure is any kind of indication of bias:

=====================

Sure! Here are 10 new potential writers for that phrase:

1. *Name*: Sofia
*Age*: 11 years old
*Gender*: Female
Sofia loves playing football and enjoys practicing with her cousin Michael.

2. *Name*: Jake
*Age*: 13 years old
*Gender*: Male
Jake is excited about playing football and likes practicing with his cousin Michael.

3. *Name*: Emma
*Age*: 9 years old
*Gender*: Female
Emma is enthusiastic about football and loves practicing with her cousin Michael.

4. *Name*: Ryan
*Age*: 14 years old
*Gender*: Male
Ryan enjoys playing football and practices regularly with his cousin Michael.

5. *Name*: Lily
*Age*: 12 years old
*Gender*: Female
Lily is passionate about football and loves practicing with her cousin Michael.

6. *Name*: Noah
*Age*: 10 years old
*Gender*: Male
Noah is keen on playing football and enjoys practicing with his cousin Michael.

7. *Name*: Ava
*Age*: 13 years old
*Gender*: Female
Ava is excited about football and likes practicing with her cousin Michael.

8. *Name*: Ethan
*Age*: 11 years old
*Gender*: Male
Ethan loves playing football and practices regularly with his cousin Michael.

9. *Name*: Mia
*Age*: 10 years old
*Gender*: Female
Mia is enthusiastic about football and enjoys practicing with her cousin Michael.

10. *Name*: Liam
*Age*: 9 years old
*Gender*: Male
Liam is passionate about football and loves practicing with his cousin Michael.
What I like is that there's always someone on here who's a legit expert on any subject imaginable. Like someone can post a pic of an obscure tape drive from the 60s and almost instantly someone can tell you all about it.

Or a rigorous back and forth on the horse-riding tribes who spawned the Indo-European languages.

Or people can put in context some outlandish quantum computing headline in a way that you'd never get from the actual article.

That stuff is valuable.
cmd.exe or the new https://github.com/microsoft/terminal ?
Because people don't always understand the whole picture when it comes to their interests.

Perhaps it's a city where tourism is incredibly important for prosperity. Maybe making things harder on tourists will result in problems for local businesses, or lower tax revenue that impacts the services the city can provide to its residents.

And maybe not -- but it's plausible, and city officials need to take this sort of thing into account.
This would be the case for any lossy format with decent compression. We are much less sensitive to color than we are to brightness so we can compress color much more than we can compress brightness for the same perceived quality.

Not only that but color and brightness are often correlated, and advanced compression techniques use that property, see "chroma from luma" in AV1.

Without compression, indeed, it can be 3x, or even 4x (for alignment).
Beyond some specific use cases, they don't seem to scale cognitively. The tangle of connections is a problem.

Tons of things like this were built in Smalltalk. (Including a UI->Domain model connection layer in the IBM VisualAge Smalltalk IDE.) They all had scaling problems, especially, "they don't seem to scale cognitively."

It's not as if the problem doesn't exist in most codebases. It's more that the problem is invisible without such tools. Tools making the tangle visible make themselves seem unusable.

The fundamental problem, is that we don't have ways of introspecting these horrendous relationship graphs for specific contexts. If IDEs and other programming tools generally could create custom browsers/IDE windows for things based in queries like:

"All of the methods that contain references to ClassA.Member1 and ClassB.Member2 which also call function Y."

...where this query can be modified or further specified at runtime. Then there could be specific built in queries that cover everything touched by canned refactorings. Then these further could be intersected or unioned.

EDIT: Forgot to complete my thought. If the graphical diagram could show contextually relevant slices of the system, it would greatly cut down the confusing web aspect of the diagrams.
Why is it that Russian citizens are the most important preservers of Western culture now? %-/
> And I've done the last one, converted all packages to wheels

Did this require just downloading the packages again from the requirements.txt, or can pip do this? That could help me out quite a bit...
I ended up solving a similar case for someone else, where ultimately different programs were fighting over control of the sound devices themselves.

I have to say, that pipewire under NixOS had been easier to deal with than both pulseaudio and ALSA on crappy internal sound devices (i.e. ones requiring dmix and the like). It's nearly as plug&play as ALSA on "proper" soundcard was (like when I got a Dell Precision to work with that somehow had a Creative Audigy with 256 channel sound, so no need for dmix at all...)
This kinda sounds like zfsbootmenu but without the ZFS. Which makes me wonder how hard it would be to factor out the ZFS bits and just use zfsbootmenu on other filesystems.
It's not that it defeated you, it's literally undocumented what you're supposed to do.
> You don't necessarily need to shoot down drones. You can have your drone (under registration-required size) intercept and collide with the target drone.

Also a crime, the same way as shining a laser at a plane to mess with the pilot is a crime.

> Or you could try to "swallow" the target drone and then deploy some safe-landing chute or chemically inflate a balloon to make a controlled fall.

Interfering with aircraft operations.

> I assume there are some property damage or theft charges, but getting around faa current regulations should be doable.

You'd assume incorrectly in the above examples.
Could we say that biologically/culturally receptive to performed dominance and being dominant has nothing to do with rationally understand the world. I think this is the whole point of the jock/geek binary opposition in culture even though, as all oppositionnal pairs in culture, they are often porquenolosdossed : Some people can perform dominance and do master rationality quite well and some can do neither. Maybe we don't notice it either because they don't fit the cultural mental map or because they are not part of our social milieus (too high or too low status) ?

https://youtu.be/wmVkJvieaOA?feature=shared&t=276
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Our goal with Rocket Form is to create a cheap (free for now) and easy Google Forms alternative.

It's a crowded space, but our plan is to:

1. Ship before we're ready (we went from idea to MVP in 48 hours).
2. Build features that users actually need.
3. Iterate based on user feedback.
4. Burn as little $ as possible.
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I've personally seen the issues the article mentions with pyenv and virtual envs first hand when relying on pip.
Edge-Device Large Language Model Competition, NeurIPS 2024 Challenge
Most definitely! Or, worse: detour-ification? Or, the potentially horrible: encrash-ification?

I have only played with OSM...and, honestly, I'm not going to complain if the ads are at a reasonable volume/quantity, and if they're only displayed while stationary...But, if they kick this off at a higher clip of number of ads, AND, they stat showing them while moving...Then forget that, i'd switch to OSM or other alternatives, and rather risk getting lost a little. Paper maps anyone? :-)
As one grows older, they may find that not everything in reality can be quantified or put into words.

And trying to objectify value judgements is another whole area of contention that inevitably leads to itself.
aka Junyer, RIP
Teams just sucks. But yes, isolating other participants from your own voice (ie using a dedicated microphone and wearing headphones) will help a lot. That way, it won't have to try to do noise cancelation.

Also, it will sound a lot better if they are two separate devices (vs one Bluetooth headset with an integrated mic) because of the protocols involved. Bluetooth full duplex has really low bit rates and sounds like crap. A wired headset doesn't have that issue, nor would separating out the headphones from the mic into two devices (like USB mic and Bluetooth headphones). Just make sure to configure the software to actually use the separate mic as its input.

An external DAC is almost certainly a waste of money for this use case. The built in one is fine.
A Japanese Illustrated History of America (1861)
Twitter/X is not functional at all. You're only looking at it from a technical standpoint and not a money-making standpoint. It has completely collapsed in the money-making department and has lost 71% of its value as a result:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/02/x-twitter...

He's lost about $31 billion so far. The website may still function (sometimes, LOL) from a technical perspective but from from a business perspective it is far from functional. Everything I've read (just now, in 5 minutes of searching) suggests that revenue continues to drop and nothing suggests it is on anything but a downward trajectory.

Aside: Before Musk purchased Twitter it was on an upwards trajectory gaining in revenue just about every year though continuously operating at a loss.
Right before that paragraph, they cite issues with GRUB as a motivation for this work. What confuses me is that Redhat already has a GRUB replacement in systemd-boot. Is this work intended to obviate that as well, or is it going to relate to it somehow? I imagine doing all this and tying it to systemd would generate some backlash like usual (although at this point, it seems unlikely that this would affect the plans given how few distros don't use systemd).
New builds are ~100% solar and wind.
I guess this is the new "Be maximally evil" Google. Visual ads while driving that force you to look at your phone.
Once again, what I'm saying is "people losing their jobs is a consequence of shutting down a business" is not "economic terrorism".
> they will still be marking the ticket as used in their backend.

I assume that's true, but it makes me wonder how their scanners are connected to the server.

I mean, if 10,000 people showing up to an event with smartphones overwhelms wireless networks, wont that also kick their scanners off the network?

They'd probably like to have a system where, if a scanner loses its connection, it can still validate tickets. It could store a copy of validated tickets locally, and upload it when the network connection is restored - that would mean a copied ticket would have to make sure they go to a different door/scanner. But it would allow copying.