skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who wants to learn Linux? I’d be happy to teach it if there’s a need. I’m happy to answer any random questions about it. My email address is in my profile.
AFAIK, its quite rare.
Wow. This makes me really angry.

I read a New Yorker article recently about the Getty Family office, Vallejo Investments, that estimated they control $6 trillion in assets. Trillion! And here we are worrying about the billionaires.

With these kinds of wealth accumulation strategies, and hidden wealth through family offices, these people have more than enough power to control absolutely everything in our societies from the shadows.
> Seems like if it’s technically possible, it will happen, and we can’t stop technological progress.

‘The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries.’
US media in a nutshell: https://imgflip.com/memetemplate/460629937/our-blessed-homel...
I don't know how different wordpress.com is to 'typical' WPMU (wordpress multi-user) as is deployed by e.g. some large universities, where tens of thousands of blogs can exist in one single database instance, served by one single front end which has a wildcard/domain mapper.

But I imagine it is not exactly the same. They have tens of millions of tenants AFAIK.
Tooling to apply the patches is trivial. This isn't the problem I'm describing.

As the sibling comment says, the issue is when the patch doesn't apply cleanly to some subset of versions in use, or even worse if they appear to apply cleanly but leave behind logic bugs.

If distributions did approach this by "distro-patching" specific versions, then that would reintroduce the upstream complaint that distros are using versions of dependencies not sanctioned by them. So your approach, even if it did work in the general case, would take you back to square one.
The Windows 3.1 calculator has a fun bug where 2.01 - 2.00 returns the result of 0.00, not 0.01.

That always amused me.
dead "Hello World" blogs count toward stats

By the same argument, those same dead blogs on other platforms also count in the other direction too.

The "WP powering X% of the internet" is just a nice PR/marketing blurb. It never had anything to do with user choice so I would bot conflate the two.
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Then write a letter to the editor of Salon to complain about their 'tabloid sensibility', drop your subscription, and pay for real journalism.

You wouldn't be the first. There's a reason I stopped paying for Salon some 20 years back and started paying for Democracy Now.

If you only going to complain about it on HN then nothing's going to change. Propose something concrete - something more than I'm already doing.

If you expect free high-quality news from every commercial news source then it's no wonder you are so annoyed when you end up with crap.
Virtually all pornography creators have a significant presence on Twitter.
Very good work, especially for a solo developer. Feedback:

1. Design language of the forms feels too much like Typeform, you're a talented designer: differentiate the design to establish your own identity. If the forms look like Typeform, form-fillers are not going to investigate what form software it is and use it -- which was a big part of why Typeform grew.

2. The name is terrible. Blocks? The name sounds like you decided on it for a different project (some sort of component framework using Markdown?) and then reused it for this. The domain forms.md is available to register. Anything that include "form" in the name would be a significant improvement.
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What about more affordable cards? Early 2025?
I'm confused by this sentiment I've seen repeated by some.

AI/LLMs are radically expanding my abilities, and as I adapt to this new power, I'm using it more frequently in everyday life.

Sure, Nvidia stock may be overpriced, but AI is empowering. I can't imagine not continuing to expand its use. As its abilities expand, I'll use it even more. I will have much further use even as a few bugs are fixed and integrations become more frictionless.
I will never have this kind of money. It is still interesting to me from the perspective of understanding whether there is validity to claims that the rich are/aren’t paying their fair share.

Assuming the write-up is correct, it provides substantial evidence that the ultra-wealthy are capable of sheltering gains in ways that I am not.

As to the risk issue, I see no reason why the “asset” couldn’t be a combination of multiple assets, or an asset like an index ETF that tracks a diversified bundle of things. E.g. a substantial portion of my net-worth is tied up in a Vanguard target retirement fund (one asset). Most financial advisors consider this fine from a risk perspective.
They are distinct architectures, but mostly do the same thing. Pretty much all of them have a few small control cores that run matrix multiply and vector reduction units. The instruction set on all of them is different, but the broad strokes of the architecture are the same.
Thank you for that clarification.

Another question about this, presume #1 10 gb, #2 20 gb, #3 35 gb

We have #1 and #2 open, #3 is taking 50% of the 'free space' shown. Is writing data in #1 or #2 have a roughly 50% chance of destroying data in #3 or does it known mapped blocks and the overwrite only happens once the actual free amount is used up?
It was dropped in 3.0 but earlier Windows versions had a sort-of icon bar for apps.
https://www.makeuseof.com/history-windows-taskbar/
No one who is saying the bubble will pop thinks there is nothing behind it. That’s the definition of a bubble: you always need soap and water to make it, but soap and water are commodities, not this special unicorn that will change the world.
They literally said they do it for a living for hundreds of clients, and that it doesn't make sense to do it for a net worth of less than $300M.

So, they are either a lawyer who has done it for hundreds of clients worth $300M+, or they are lying.
The level of crazy driving to citations is rather low.
I'm curious, why would he be one of them?
This is exactly what I'm asking about. Was that actually true? Where was the proof? I remember reading that he was some evil guy, but clearly he's still there and nobody seemed to care once Biden got into office. So was the fear mostly politically motivated and not actually objectively true?

If he's still doing those things, wouldn't the media care to report about it since we're in another election with the same candidate who everyone was claiming that DeJoy would help out. (this is a genuine question, I don't have an opinion on this)

Others have said that the PMG is not appointed by the President, but the board of governors (who picks the PMG) is appointed by the president. So there is some indirect control.
All I know is they were banging on every door for passports, I can't say whether I was at the border, only assumed. Between Venice and Stuttgart.
diego_moita does not care about an argument. I show him an argument from the retired minister of the Supreme Court and he says: “this is old news”, ignoring that the current process is the same since 2019.

My opinion: he agree with the decision knowing that it’s destroying our legal system. You have people on right and left saying this (the brave ones, unfortunately it’s just few people that have courage to criticize the Supreme Court).

That’s ok. Brazil always fail in have solid institutions since 1889. And he is ok with that.
Maybe they never had proper tests. Something as simple as exponentiating,which is a basic functionality of any modern calculator, not working for 50% of all integers? That looks to me like no one ever really tested that stuff.
That’s why I said inside rust. If you bring in external factors then of course it can/will happen.
EV and stationary storage batteries going to last forever.
> I would be unsurprised if Automattic is using technical migration as busy-work. I would even suggest that, given this post's marketing and history[1], Automattic has realized they cannot grow Tumblr.

I would also say that migration to WordPress is explicitly a marketing strategy for word press, their main product.

Migrating a product you bought to be part of your main product is a pretty common corporate move.
Upstream CI isn't magic that only they have. Distributions run the same tests upstreams do if they are made available.

If tests falsely pass, then that's a quality problem in the upstream tests.
The reason why you should learn Linux, or more broadly Unix is because if you're going to take software development seriously as a profession for 40+ years of your life you should have an actual well grounded understanding of how computing works. It's like asking, should you learn how to read sheet music if you want to become a musician, or should I learn Hanzi if I want to learn Chinese.

Technically you can get away with not learning these things if you wanted to do the bare minimum but if you're gonna be even remotely serious about doing something as your craft just learn the things that underpin what you do. Learning how Unix systems work isn't just learning about a product, you're going to learn about file system paradigms, input/output, kernels, networking, address spaces and all the basics of CS that are everywhere.
> The railroad, lauded as one of the greatest achievements in U.S. history, also set the stage for an era of aggressive westward expansion, empire-building and the subjugation of Indigenous people.

They just had to include that last bit, didn't they? Setting aside the fact that "the subjugation of indigenous people" in the American west began long before the transcontinental railroad, and so the whole comment is debatable at best (the Trail of Tears was 1831, and the first Apache wars were in 1849; the Oregon trail was 1830-1840, and the transcontinental railroad was begun in 1863), it's the sort of drop-in to an otherwise unrelated story that makes you cringe.

Literally anything in the world can be tied back to oppression of a people, if you want it hard enough. You're writing a nice little human-interest story about a train ride...can't you give it a rest for a minute?
If anyone is new to Linux this is quite a good introduction I have used with windows sysadmins who want to learn:

https://linuxjourney.com/
I got surprisingly helpful technical support through Feedback Assistant for a problem I reported having with a >10 year old Thunderbolt display. I always thought these "send feedback" forms at big companies always just went to /dev/null, but after sending three bug reports with logs (and after six months) I got a fairly technical response which was obviously written by an engineer, including a root cause diagnosis and a workaround that actually worked. Have to say I was very impressed.
The far more risky and dangerous - ostensibly for the original caller too - phenomenon of swatting exists despite all that. I would not be so sure about the quality of society's controls and feedback mechanisms.
I second this. Please keep pushing through and don't let the peanut gallery get to you. bcachefs is our only realistic chance to bring our filesystem game into the 21st century, given that the little hope we might have had in Oracle has not been realized.
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Why not respond to the points the poster made instead of making up alternative scenarios to mad about?
s/poison/vitamin/ and you'll be happier.
"Rome was the rising and expanding power. Carthage was an old has-been. "

This sounds like "reading history with a benefit of hindsight". Rising powers may, in fact, well lose their challenge against the old has-beens. Germany and Japan in the 20th century were those rising and expanding powers, but ultimately reaped catastrophic defeats.

Rome survived and won mostly due to their enormous capability to reconstitute their forces after major losses. That was an untypical capability in the premodern world, where a single battle gone wrong (e.g. Gaugamela) could topple an entire empire.

But major losses they did have and the fact that they could still hold after Cannae was a bit of a miracle. They even recruited slaves into the army, a feat that could have easily backfired against the weakened Roman elite.
Show HN: Hotreload for a retro Python game engine
Writing games can be an enjoyable way to introduce people to programming. This works especially well if it's kept easy and with fast turnaround.

For faster turnaround I wrote a library for an existing retro Python game engine (Pyxel) that adds hot reloading for both code and assets. My library is called ReloadPyxel.

This means that even as your game is running, you can modify the code or graphics, and see the results right away in your running game.

The link has a few animated gifs illustrating what I mean, and you can download and run them yourself if you'd like. There is also a more detailed explanation in the link at the bottom of the linked page.

Since my motivation here is to use this in an educational context, I chose an approach with as little "magic" as reasonable.

This is my first submission - please take a look and enjoy! Feedback is welcome but please be gentle.
A GPU is an accessory to the real product you’re buying: a driver to interface with your software. Datacenter GPUs have drivers that are woefully inadequate for gaming.
Does the SDL terminal emulator support enough of VT100, is it, to host an [in-game] console shell TUI with advanced features?
DB2 was not part of OS/400 -- it was for MVS. Its early history is covered in this: https://mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/index.html
Direct link: https://content.wolfram.com/sites/43/2024/08/blog-image-stri...

It’s either too small or a blur on a high-DPI display, however.
> Why can’t I ctrl-v after ctrl-c from web browser?

Same reasons numlock being off is still the default and a bunch of other silly defaults (that are of course trivial to change but are still annoying): masochism combined with the need to prove something.
Threat from terrorist isn’t real?

All of these are real threats. Even the CSAM arguments have a grain of truth to it. What changes overtime is people’s relationship to these threats and their perception of what mitigating factors are actually going to be effective
Signals for Tailwind CSS (styling based on ancestor state via style queries)
i've been publishing things as html2 pages, but not interconnected in any way. so each page (or sometimes group of pages) will be dedicated to an exploration of a single subject. i then send those pages to people who i think might be interested in them. that's all, they otherwise don't see the greater internet. of course people are free to add them to link aggregators, etc. but i don't police this practice. i simply don't care for my output to be consumed by general public, or by llms, or by corporate media, or by whomever who is not my friend or in my immediate immediate circle of friends
I don’t know. People have been living without reliable access to food and potable water, not even talking about sore deformations on their faces, for a thousand years. But somehow their lives were fulfilling?
Nice idea! (and very soon you have 1000s of startup ideas ;-))
Proudly presented to you by the company that took 14 years to port the calculator to the iPad, because “if we do it, it has to be the greatest calculator app“
I think you should go read the comment chain again.

The person was saying that you can use a “Russia” line to get the population to agree to a measure or chat control.

You just went in and basically proved their point.
What has it been delivering? Who’s making money from this stuff?

To quote Steve Jobs when talking to Dropbox: you guys don’t have a product, you have a feature.
NSA has been collecting domestic and foreign data for a long time now. There’s even a dedicated data warehouse/data center in Utah (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center)
Given the potential for abuse, the insurance company probably can't really do much aside from writing a letter to the driver saying someone observed them driving dangerously.

Probably the letter should be more specific, include pictures, and it should not be entirely anonymous. You should be able to find out if someone is trying to make trouble for you.

It might not even be legally possible anyway. Insurance companies have a lot of regulation.
> prioritizing some pretty little visual animation over actual functionality

This describes iOS in a nutshell.
The author describes the same TUI app workflow I've settled on. Three notes:

- entr is a good livereload tool: https://eradman.com/entrproject/. I prefer to wrap the livereload scripts in a Makefile, under something like `make dev`.

- Managing layout arithmetic by yourself is a real pain. A widget abstraction like Bubbletea's is very helpful. Also, don't forget about weird Unicode characters (eg. emoji) potentially breaking width calculations.

- Since this follows the Elm architecture, consider storing your data the Elm way into one big, flat Model. Elm webapps turn into headaches when you split state among submodels. I think the same happens in TUI apps. I'm glad the author found a solution with a tree of models and message passing. But personally, I'd rather have a Model with 100 fields than the complexity of sumbodels.
I'm not an expert and I'm not one to get many tickets however my understanding is that they only look up individuals during renewal time or if you change policy or company.

If you got a speeding ticket on week 10 of the year there is unlikely to be any increase on your insurance on week 35.

Like I said this was my perhaps incorrect understanding of how it works here in Canada.
PC Floppy Copy Protection: Softguard Superlok
Central Bank of Eswatini > SEC
I wonder why Stripe would buy green hydrogen from them.
This look brings back old memories! Great job!
*grandeur
The 2038 bug is less than 14 years away at this point. There is an astonishingly greater amount of software out there compared with 24 years ago. I don’t want to be a doomsayer but it’s probably time to keep this in mind anytime you implement an epoch going forward.
Oh, I would not forget governments. The NSA basically paid for Kepler with a single purchase...
So glad I moved to Texas after 65 years.
Love this concept but I wish it did not pick topics that were so "distant" from the current topic.

Initial topic: Pizza
Recommended nodes: Pizzerias, Italian cuisine, Woodfired Ovens, Neapolitan Pizzas

At L1, I'd expect more of the last, such as type of pizza.
> Inconsistent shortcuts

Can it be more inconsistent than copy-paste working differently in the terminal and all other apps, though? Of course it's trivial to change and Linux is more or less fully configurable (e.g. NumLock being broken on KDE for a few years)
> Crows are monogamous, so I see the same pair flying together all the time.

We see hundreds of crows every morning and dusk. Even close up, I’m hard pressed to distinguish most of them from one another. Perhaps ours in Southern California are more uniform than yours? Or perhaps you’re viewing them with binoculars?
I realize that this is by far not the norm, but I spend nearly all of my time on a computer between a browser and a terminal. In the past, I’ve had such a hard time trying to figure out how to use windows that I’ve nearly quit jobs over it.

I hated the wsl experience and had some network issues with it that I couldn’t resolve, making it nearly unusable. I ended up finding m2 in conda, and that was for me, the best compromise. If you’re looking to dabble in Linux command line apps, that’d be my recommendation.
Honestly, it depends on what kind of developer you are. If you are doing mostly web development, I don’t think you will need Linux specifically; Windows or macOS will be just fine. However, if you are doing embedded systems, robotics, etc., then learning it is a must. Sometimes when new engineers join, I tell them to learn Linux. Some start learning it while the majority just ignore it, only to find out a few months later that the embedded/SBC is running Linux and now they have to!
Two trains I've taken recently: Mexico's Tren Maya and Kenya's Nairobi to Mombasa are both probably better than anything the US has built in decades.
Nor does it actually confirm that the plate _matches_ the car.

Otherwise i'd spend some time 3d printing something that looks a LOT like my neighbors license plate and wait until 1 AM and just blow the same red light over and over and over.
I have some expirience with Linux, but not so much as I want. I want to install Linux on a old laptop, so is there a way to quickly restore a system to some previous point in case of issues?
> At the same time, the better they do their job the less of it there will be to do

Institutionally, the police have very little interest in there being less perception of a need for police, that would result in them getting less resource, less deference, and more oversight and accountability.
Crypto does not make money, which is why most people refuse to invest in it. Investing in crypto is a game of finding someone gullible enough to buy your shares from you for more than you bought them for, but there will never be earnings or dividends to qualify their value.
You don't seem to have accounted for "stock appreciation rights" at all, which was the whole point.

> At a 0.5% interest rate they would have paid just $20M in interest.

Plus these "stock appreciation rights", whatever and however much they are.
A large group of people will look at these stories of technology being used to get the worst people off the street and say "This is creepy stuff," and a lot of that same group will listen to politicians telling them "the solution to gun violence is for everyone to have guns" and nod thoughtfully in agreement.
Having a big standard library doesn't help that much since it needs separate updates. Every other golang app I use requires updated crypto, net, or sync. In theory they come in the standard library, but the moment you need updates, they're exactly the same as other dependencies for packaging purposes. (it's very common, yes I do packaging)
Why is DPI still being brought up? And what was wrong in my message?

With timing you keep track of the volume and... timing, which (often) allows you to correlate the entering and exiting traffic...
Probably because not everybody is feeing this productivity boost. AI made me a bit more productive, yes, but not by that much. Seeing you call it a "new power" is not relatable, so it may reinforce ideas that it is a bubble.
The idea that anyone is getting a 0.5% interest rate for anything—let alone with collateral of a risky asset—when treasuries are at 4%+ is fanciful, and makes me lean strongly in the direction of the LARPer theory.
a supply-chain attack where malicious JS is delivered to the user (even from your own server, as the author of the software, maybe you got hacked yourself for example) is another way
That’s a giant if. How can you be so sure the US would have no interest in Québec? We’re not just a bunch of loser people. We have incredible talent in multiple high-investment fields, we’re the bedrock of hydro power on the continent, and we have the cool city all the Yankees want to see to pretend they went somewhere exotic.

The Americans know as much as me that quick and painful assimilation is possible. Why wouldn’t they wish to impose it on my nation?
Surveillance tech masquerading as “self driving vehicles”. Those Waymo vehicles are prime for this.