skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you elaborate on what exactly you're doing with Linux that's causing that? I use Arch daily (programming, gaming, web browsing, etc), and the last time I had to do anything more complicated than `sudo pacman -Syu` to configure my system was over a year ago.
OP stated that there are bugs over a decade old at this point, that still exist due to the concerns mentioned.

You didn’t address his statement nor his concerns.

You avoided that part of the conversation to basically tell him to shut up.

Address the issues first, like Firefox management team should be doing, but aren’t.

I’m with OP. Firefox is a horrible user experience. And it’s that way by design. Couldn’t have Google stop paying Mozilla’s bills now could they?
I am not impressed. I'd categorize it as a nothing burger, with an ending that readers really love to read.
> Isn't this a matter of not reusing old VMs after a `git pull/checkout`, though?

Yes, but forcing people to rebase is disruptive. Master moves several times per minute for us, so we don't want people needing to upgrade as the speed of git. Some things you have to rebase for: the code you're working on. Other things are the dev environment around your code, and you don't want that to be part of the checkout as much as possible. And as per my earlier comment, setting up a fresh VM can be quite expensive in terms of developer time if test data needs to be configured.
I imagine they mean security support, but are overlooking LTS somehow
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I've tried multiple smart watches for the sole purpose of having a silent vibrating alarm, and nothing is as comfortable to sleep with and reliable in waking me up as Apple Watch.
Their Github repo provides some links if you want to try it online: https://github.com/black-forest-labs/flux
> Most of that, including remote access, comes from HomeKit or Google Home

Assuming you've bought into those ecosystems. I haven't, and use Hue directly and via Home Assistant. I don't intend to add other cloud services

> I don’t want an expensive bridge or a Hue account or another app or another way to setup automations or anything else. Just sell me smart bulbs goddamit

Then buy from another vendor that only sells smart bulbs and you have to DIY the rest? It's like complaining your Rolls-Royce comes with too many features such as TVs and umbrellas in the doors, while you just want a working car with 4 wheels - go buy a Ford Fiesta then.
Because when they want to prove that a thing happened they always rely on non-text media. "Seeing is beleiving" etc, etc.
Some people only use their turn signal when other people are around.

I think that's an odd behavior. As far as I'm concerned, using the signal is just as much of part of a lane change as is turning the wheel. Be in the habit of using it every time and you'll never forget it.
There's no difference between tracking and metrics, they're the same thing. You get your metrics out of the data you track. Browser phone home? Tracking.

And there's no way for a user to validate that any tracking is indeed anonymous. The technical level needed to asses this is just... out of reach for everyone (the quantity of people who can properly verify this is small enough we can safely ignore it when speaking generally and use the coloquialism Everyone)
> given your example it's "want", not "need"

Yes, how is this relevant? "Wants" are what drive humanity forward, not mere subsistence.

> Quick googling tells me that most European caravans are sub 1500kg / 3300lb, even the more spacious ones

Can you post a few links? Tried to find the most popular travel trailer models in Europe but not finding a good list.

Unless you're building the whole thing from carbon fiber, anything spacious is necessarily going to have some weight.
In case you're wondering if it's real growth, or just noise:

2009: 0.69

2012: 0.85

2015: 1.5

2018: 1.69

2021: 2.38

2024: 4.54
For a company workshop I wanted to pay for Midjourney to invite a bot into a private Discord with the workshop participants. We couldn't find a way of using it as a company account, and ultimately every participant had to get a sub, which was less than ideal. If it was today I would have them use Flux in some hosted version.
> We’ve also seen customer support inquiries, and in general quality of our customers, rise with an increase in price.

Yes, but it should be noted that the price is acting as a filter to exclude a subset of customers, reducing overall customer count.

Obviously it's easier to have 100 customers paying $100/month than to have 1000 customers paying $10/month, but finding those tradeoff points can be hard. It takes time for market signals to settle out and customers to churn away due to high prices.

I've been a customer of several SaaS products that embraced "raise your prices" so much that they slowly became a second-choice option in the market. It takes a long time for people and websites to stop recommending a product as the first-choice option after a price change, so these signals don't appear immediately.
Can you be specific? I like to tinker with my config so am not the comparison point, but my partner, two young daughters and my mother are all on Linux and neither do I help them, nor do they use the terminal.

My mother switched to Linux several years ago and the amount of questions I receive are less than when she used Windows, mainly because if she encounters issues it's much easier for her to find a solution herself.
Well, if this is steam, isn't it proton, which is wine underneath?

I'm not discounting your experiences at all, btw. My 11 year old has been using Ubuntu as his main gaming rig, and the NVidia drivers work incredibly well and Steam games just work. It's still mind boggling to me that it works so well.

And, I no longer have to troubleshoot removing Windows virii from his computer.
As a user of 27" 4k monitors, the terrible 150% DPI scaling has been a dealbreaker for Linux desktop for me for years. Every so often I will go out and search to see if it's any better, and I always find people insisting that it works "perfectly" now, and then I will go and try to replicate what they did only to find out that "perfectly" means something very different to Linux desktop users who clearly have never used MacOS or even Windows with fractional DPI scaling.
Statcounter's "stats" are garbage, and should not be reported on. They're computed from untrustworthy information generated from a skewed and undisclosed sample, and processed with an unknown methodology. All that's published is aggregate data that's so coarse that it's impossible to actually reason about what's happening and what's driving the changes to the number.

But fairly regularly their stats are either so volatile or so absurd that it's obvious they have no relationship with reality. Like when they reporter Windows 8.1 climbing from 0.1% to 6% market share in the US in late 2023.

One could easily come up with half a dozen other explanations for this Linux desktop market share number that are as plausible as the hypothesis of significant growth in desktop Linux usage.
Open to everyone, but you must have Google or Discord account. Has the definition of everyone changed?
> What's the advantage of Atom, which can be read on a web page or a standalone client, versus email, which can be read on a web page or a standalone client?

I find RSS/Atom more a-sync while e-mail tends to be more interrupt-driver (even with filters and folders (or *hawk*spit* Gmail's tags)).

> But what do I get by going with Atom?

Not having your e-mail address yet one more database?
I don’t believe lawyers can live without ms office
Sure, I didn't want to belittle your experience at all. It's great that vendors think about Linux as first class citizens on desktop , too.

My understanding though, is that most of "steam games" are still windows binaries + wine + patches (proton, etc). It's well hidden behind a nice GUI, but the tech couldn't exist without the legacy of pure old wine.
> taking over my steering because it thinks I'm drifting out of my lane when I'm trying to actually change lanes

Rather than being like other commenters telling you to use your turn signals, I'm going to take another approach. I'm going to ask.

Why aren't you using your turn signals?
Yes you are :). You just no longer have to set it up yourself. Steam runs Proton (their own WINE fork/distribution) under the hood for windows games.
(2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34660100
The splash screen locked up my fairly-recent Android phone. Like, I had to hard-reboot.
I had covid in 2021. I lost my sense of smell completely for a month, and I'm still not sure it's back to 100% pre-covid level. Now it looks like covid is going to be around for the rest of my life, but I don't want to have to go through that again every one or two years, losing more and more of my olfactory function after each infection. Until we get totally sterilizing nasal vaccines, I'm masking.
I don't think that's it. Games also need to run on consoles, mobile phones, and sometimes web browsers. Cross platform development isn't a new concept in game development, and all major commercial game engines work on Linux (well, they do today at least)

Most software used in the VFX industry does officially support Linux, and a lot of those tools are also used in game dev. Maybe Unity and Unreal's Linux support hasn't been great, and that's the only reason?

I guess it's easier to get into gamedev than VFX as an indie, and if you have little/no technical background then there's a good chance you're on Windows or Mac when you start looking up Unity/Unreal/etc tutorials, and then you just stick with what you know.
It depends on which day of the week it is.

Ok a bit flippant, but I've been running KDE on my NUC as a secondary desktop for years now. Most of the time it works fairly well, but then suddenly something breaks or needs tweaking. And when it does it's often not trivial for a non-geek to handle.

That said, if they can get Krdp working properly, I'll almost certainly switch to KDE as my main driver, and demote Windows to my secondary.
It was very annoying, but effective and kinda understandable, so yes, both :)
Let's think about writing for a moment... Many forms of writing heavily benefit from having a clear goal to start, followed by an outline, followed by many iterations of the content.

One analogous challenge with code reviews occurs when the reviewer can't quickly see something like a (a) goal and (b) outline. Without these two, it can make it hard to "navigate" what kind of feedback would be helpful.

a. In many cases, the reviewer and reviewee might think they have the same goal, but this is often subtly or blaringly wrong. Even people in the same organization can serve different masters.

b. Different software cultures have different ideas of planning, outlines, design documents, whatever. Some cultures wing it. Some people keep this kind of thing in their head, but it is hard to quickly share your head with someone else. Without some notion of the contours of the problem, how can you properly assess the the code?
This morning I started to stir when my Casper Glow light turned on. But what really got me out of bed was when I heard the faint gurgle of my timed coffee machine auto brewing the first cup of the day.
> He doesn't need to justify to the reviewer why he didn't incorporate all the changes. Don't give people pointless authority over others. This will solve most of the problems in the submission.

IMO this is a sign of an unhealthy/mistrusting team.

Teams often require code to be reviewed, so, yes, you _are_ asking for permission. If a reviewer offers feedback that you feel is unimportant, you can always ask someone else for approval.

Going behind someone's back like that is obviously unhealthy, so you should instead have a discussion with the reviewer about why something is/isn't important. If you feel like you can't have these conversations or the reviewer isn't taking your thoughts into account, then that's a sign that you aren't aligned.
I guess where do you go from basic info that can be machine generated, to rich information that's worth consuming for things other than link previews and specific Google Search integrations?
> The review comments should not be a stream of consciousness but properly written feedback.

My advice would be to not take it so personally and assume good intentions from your reviewers.

If someone gave me feedback that caused a big course correction then I’d slap my forehead for missing it, thank them, then move on with my life. The extra feedback of other issues is a bonus. Asking them to spend more time reviewing their review is wasted effort.
It doesn't support duck typing in the usual sense, but unchecked type casting 'any' to an interface does indeed compile. To any type, as a matter of fact.
Just recently I got the urge to play dwarf fortress again. For the first time on Linux too.

Of course you need to run dwarf therapist, a 3rd party program, alongside the game to manage your dwarves. Dwarf therapist hooks into dwarf fortress to load data about your game in real time.

Of course, as I have come to normally expect, it didn't work. It could not find the active game session, despite the game running.

So you get on the linux answer machine (google) and start looking for those cryptic codes to painfully ctrl+shift+v (note: cannot have ctrl+v like every other interface on earth) and offer up to the emotionless terminal god with the hope that things work after submitting those magic characters (no response or confirmation, you just try to do the thing you want to do again to see if it worked).

This time around it was "ptrace_scope" settings. What is that? I have no fucking idea, I just want to use dwarf therapist.

https://github.com/Dwarf-Therapist/Dwarf-Therapist/blob/mast...

So I follow those steps to make a permanent adjustment, including getting this thing called "libcap2-bin" (again, no idea what that is, could be installing a botnet for all i know). And as I have come to expect, it doesn't work.

So instead now I have to run a terminal command (i have it saved in a text file on my desktop) everytime i turn on the PC to disable ptrace so I can run dwarf therapist.

Compare this to windows:

Download dwarf therapist.

Run it.

Works first time.

It's just such a classic linux experience.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Brown_(judge)

Brown is a member of ... the Federalist Society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Society
Daily Brief: Professional Services Ranked by Gini Index
Well sure, but the point is it's done for me, and more importantly, actually tested by the developer in many cases.
More: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41308712
Usually it can't be reopened because you can't even really get someone to look at it, because issues are wrongfully closed so frequently that they don't pay attention to complaints about the closures.

Take a look at this issue to see what it takes to keep something open: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/issues/41...

(not especially proud of my reactions there, but I hate being abused, even by robots.)
I could see something like Apples new calculator drawing app taking this by storm. Writing out your code and getting syntax support and all the things in your ide but with your handwriting?

In the same way that the calculator writes in the answers in your handwriting, it could write in snippets of code in your handwriting.

If it's going to be made though, it has to be e-ink. Go big or go home!
> If Steve JOBS was alive he would ha kick everyone behind the idea of an appointment

Too much faith is put in Steve Jobs being able to turn things around these days. The man is in large part no longer alive due to a foolish assumption that a diet would miraculously save him. Hubris killed him, the market devoured everything he left behind and nothing he did during his lifespan prevented what Apple would become today.
Congratulations.

That did not work for me. Once in the last 25 years of trying apart from a small bit between 2003-2004 when Fedora worked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYVucud3ptc has good coverage of running locally and via web (https://fal.ai/models)
Airbnb could become a force for housing development
An example of how companies like Airbnb can set a new standard for corporate social responsibility, reshaping how companies engage with communities for a more sustainable and equitable future.
> What happens if the growth rate outpaces our natural evolution?

Too bad we can't anthromorphize evolution, else I'd say: maybe that was evolution's "idea" / "gamble" to begin with. Evolve the being that evolves everything "evolution" (nature) itself hasn't. Pyramids, skyscrapers, suburbs, machinery, poetry, computation, computation devices.. entirely abstract pure-thought-stuff machines aka programs.. abstract machines that "evolve" new ones.. and whatever stems from that when we/they get there.

But.. evolution doesn't have ideas or plans. Right? Nevermind that we, a self-proclaimed product of evolution, do. Did we even invent (create / evolve) .. the idea of "ideas" and "plans" there? Who could tell, other than some big overseer of it all =)

What does "outpacing natural evolution" even mean once non-random-mutation-based change makers .. just naturally evolved via the natural evolutionary mechanisms? Everything they (we) do then is "natural evolution" by extension / implication. Genes and fitness "came up with" (or randomed up) us doing all that, even us wondering and worrying whether we're "outpacing natural evolution".

Curious food for thought!
> When dealing with users, and slow processes (that you can't make faster for some reason)

The reason is that these systems all require realtime design techniques, and realtime design techniques are rarely taught in school and the overwhelming majority of software engineers don't know them, and the vast majority of software engineering managers are unaware that realtime design techniques even exist.

All computers that manage user interfaces today -- all of them -- are by many orders of magnitude fast enough to provide near-instantaneous responses to user inputs if programmed with realtime techniques.
> Plus, if work vehicles became lighter, work trailers would be forced to as well.

Try shopping for utility trailers. Anything affordable is very heavy steel & lumber. You can get light(er) trailers in aluminum but the price is much higher. I've never actually seen a contractor with one of those, too expensive.

And of course there is all the materials & equipment they're towing on it for the job. How do you suggest any of that become lighter?
The only thing I care about is are my problems solved for minimal effort and time invested on my part. Whether it's AI or human doing the solving, I don't care.
Yup. Look at what's happening in the Black Sea.

Russia has a big hammer. It can unquestionably kill a target it decides to kill and Ukraine is basically powerless to prevent that.

Ukraine has pinpricks. They have to wait for the best conditions to attack and have no certainty as to whether they can kill their target or not. But the Russian ships can't be wily all the time, they have to sometimes be sitting ducks. And the only weapons Russia has that can engage those sea drones is guns.

I believe that in reality you need some of each. Quality fights quality, quantity fights quantity. Quantity does very little against big quality, but big quality does very little against quantity. You want to knock down that LORASM that your radar just picked out of terrain? You need something that can get there fast, drones won't do it.
So google will rank them higher in search results?
Most projects do just fine with pip + venv, and that’s what they stick to.

The exception is if they have specific dependencies outside the CPython ecosystem - in which case they’ll probably be using conda. Examples of such dependencies include nodejs/cuda/cublas/specific versions of gcc. Webdev generally doesn’t have as many of these dependencies compared to the data world, which is why conda is less popular there.

Speaking in sweeping generalities here: you probably don’t need poetry, uv, or kin - at all. But there’s nothing wrong with choosing to use them if you prefer to do so either.
Following the sun is perhaps a more common metaphor than chasing it.
MJ has always been this pixar-style-hyperfit SD variant. It almost seemed to just repeat google images but with gloss.

Or at least a year ago it was like that.
One thing I also like to do is send a Slack message or leave an extra comment on a PR with my overall feelings/praising anything I can.

Also, the note about the formatter/linter is gold. I'm amazed at how many teams just live with constant nitpick comments on their PRs rather than automating these checks.
This so-called basic tech literacy is obsolete in some years. We just don’t get it how can people be so disinterested in how things work.
The blades were actually perfect crystals, with either all the grain boundaries aligned, or no grain boundaries. This lets them run at higher temperatures without melting, increasing efficiency.

Pratt & Whitney appears to have developed most of the technology.

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/each-blade-a-singl...
King John's Lost Treasure
Not only did he not correct the info, he repeated the mistake in a newer video. I stopped watching him after that.
I'll take your word for it, but the source code suggests not on all Linux distributions:

https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/2594d9f12f00ecdfbc...
From the context, I'd guess they want their motor to spin at single digit RPMs, not thousands of them.

That's the stuff magnetic motors are bad at.
I was recently diagnosed with ADD, and learning that about myself explained a behavior of mine which seems diametrically opposed to yours - the pressure of a deadline makes me panic, and somehow my outlet is bikeshedding.

Give me daily and weekly commitments, and I'll do my most focused and highest quality work.
I would really encourage you to try your hand at at a monorepo. I manage a python monorepo in prod and dependency management is hell. Poetry has some newer features that I am looking at trying to implement, but the state of the ecosystem wrt big monorepos is horrible.
> Windows 0-day was exploited by North Korea to install advanced rootkit

Only by North Korea ? /s
The vast majority of my classmates in undergrad barely even understood what it meant to have online access to the library resources. They barely even bothered getting the books for their classes, much less going and researching outside of those materials directly on the syllabus.

Even a lot of my friends who got master's and Ph.D.'s barely cared about the politics of the library and journal articles. They did what they had to do to achieve their degree and got out of there. Very few cared at all about the library.
Linux is great for grandmas and linux junkies.

If all you do is check email and watch youtube, it works excellent. Its when you are someone in the middle that it becomes a huge PITA.
> keeping issues open when they may no longer be relevant isn't helping anyone either.

If you're moving fast enough that you don't have time to close them manually, you're moving too fast (and breaking too much).
You can verify the integrity of the files yourself. They provide instructions.

https://massgrave.dev/genuine-installation-media#verify-auth...

> instead of just using Linux (and possibly making it work better?)

I want a PC that can play games without hassle. I love Linux, computing, and complexity, but sometimes I want something that just works consistently.

Linux has gotten better over the years, especially as far as compatibility goes, but it's still _much_ harder to use than Windows.