skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You might take it as a clear opinion, but I read it as he is just enjoying the show.

I think this is the sort of unhelpful emotional comment that justifies Linus' position. Arguments need to stand on solid technical ground, but the emotional and almost religious fervor some less-technically inclined of some proponents is unhelpful and detrimental to make the case.

> Rust-in-kernel project is now years old, it is about time to take a stance (...)

You see, this is the kind of emotional drama that should stay way outside the whole debate.

You're not arguing technical merits of tradeoffs (which there are, and important ones). You're arguing for an authority figure to force-feed your personal choice in spite of its technical merits, and you frame the only scenario where your option isn't pushed as an irrational outburst that shields your personal choice from any criticism.

The Linux kernel project has been a huge success in a big part because the discussions on its progress stayed mainly on a technical ground, and calls were made in spite of emotional outbursts or attachments to technical choices. In line with that principle, Rust is still an exploratory technology used in proofs of concept,and the conclusions so far were clearly not decisive. That's perfectly fine. Don't you agree?
Is it possible for these jets to hit other galaxies/stars/planets?
Show HN: I've built Google Meet reminders that work
Google Meet reminders that do actually remind you about upcoming meeting.

We use Google Meet at our (remote) company and I was chronically late because I was doing some work and not notice default reminders. Because of that I've built PROPER reminders, similar to what Amazon have internally with their Chime communicator.

Currently works on Google Chrome with Google Meet, but I plan to extend it to work will all Chromium based browsers as well as other providers:
- Zoom is in progress
- To do necessary OAuth2 with Microsoft is ... HARD. Getting verified is very time consuming (weeks/months), but I started the process.
[Talk of Europe overrun by Slavic brutes]

Hate to have to point this out - but not only is this a complete non-story (just from first principles) -- but the piece you're quoting is itself is basically a standard tabloid-style scare article. I mean, just look at the title, will you:

Russians Are Hunting Down Ukrainian Refugees in Heart of NATO

That in itself should clue you into to the article's primary purpose -- not to provide useful information, but to keep you titillated by "that awful shiny thing over there", and inevitably wanting more, more, more.

But it actually gets worse from there. Quoting Bild (a real-life, old school tabloid), when in all probability they could have connected with any of the fine regional papers up there, should have been another major red flag. Oh and did you try reading and breaking down the actual 3 stories it cites to support its grand thesis? Pop quiz - do they even pertain to the article's actual substantive claim? (Answer: the headline story doesn't apply at all; the second does (but it's an isolated incident with 1 confirmed perpetrator); and the last one does but only partially, as it obviously conflates with an entirely different issue).

That's all it is, this article -- just adrenaline-pumping garbage. All rather harrowing what happened to the victims identified, and maybe there is something nefarious happening in Slovakia -- but articles like these just aren't useful go-to sources for any sense of what's really happening in the large.

They exist simply to distract, distract, distract.
At that moment, why didn't the entire [mass of the] universe collapse into a black hole?

Perhaps gravity evolved.
I'm sort of amazed these days that we still have commercial BIOSes (well, UEFIs)

They're not a selling point, even for the enthusiasts who buy individual motherboards.

You'd think that that by now, the chipset vendors would provide a reference Coreboot image for each new platform, (which, since it would be more or less for debugging purposes, would have MAX OPTIONS) and then the motherboard manufacturers would do the bare minimum to cut off any features not relevant to their boards or swap in modules for whichever small technical deltas-- different audio chipsets or clock generators-- they actually make underneath the garish silkscreen and RGB strips.
Because LinuxCNC runs on Linux. It's an incredibly capable CNC controller.
What's wrong with research about 'degrowth'?
You actually can change which ones appear on the Lock Screen! Start editing your wallpaper directly from the Lock Screen and you’ll be able to edit them. I changed the flashlight to the calculator.
I'm not asking for a debate. I'm simply asking you to tell me what "exactly once delivery" actually means in a way that isn't circular and doesn't beg the question of whether or not it is possible, i.e. the definition that is used in literally all of distributed systems research. So far no one has been able to do that.
Is this a post posted by me? I have basically the same thought on the new control center. The new UI and edit flow truly disappoint me a lot.

The connection group is also a terrible idea. Why don't apple just let you do grouping yourself and make every button in it to be available.
Good question. And what's the benfit? A common misconception is that RT is fast. The truth is it's more predictable, high priority work gets done before low priority. But who has set the correct priorities for a desktop system? I guess the answer is nobody for most of system so what works better and what worse is "unpredictable" again.

Should audio be prioritized over the touchpad "moving" the cursor?
I had to convert and edit .ai files to get commonly used versions of our logo.
Most people use LinuxCNC with cards from Mesa now. They have various versions for Ethernet, direct connect to Raspberry Pi GPIO, etc.
Too many notifications and you get fatigued which is not good either. Maybe in future the on-device AI will decide whether to notify you. (Hmm this could be an idea, can you use a RPA tool to click those notifications on mac?)
Meh — I see where you’re coming from, but this post is about Apple violating design principles, not a pity post about this particular person. We’re all to blame for everything in our lives on some very basic level, but it’s no excuse for the negligence of others.
Kind of a shame that Windows Phone died.
There's a recent (2022) game called Ixion with an exploding moon premise. I initially saw it promo'd during a Steam sale, didn't buy it based on some very critical reviews regarding gameplay, and then forgot about it until seeing it mentioned in the 1d6chan Grimdark article.

I spoiled as much as I could short of playing the game, and then skipped through a full play-through on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvPyoPRgrFQ is a good synopsis (full game spoilers). The main writer did an AMA on Reddit with some questions answered, but also made it clear that some things were simply unfinished, or just left up to interpretation.
Damn this opened my eyes to a whole 'nother world of online marketing
You are getting a single plastid. No more, no less.
DX12 was pushed as NIH, since it was made from Mantle same way as Vulkan was. So to reduce NIH, it only makes sense to unify it all in Vulkan.

They already made the first sensible step with SPIR-V here. The next step makes the same sense.

And stuff can be translated into Vulkan if it can't be rewritten.
I’d guess hardware acceleration could have something to do with it
>> touches grass

> {..guiltily tries to remember the last time I touched grass with my hand..}

IMHO, the only time to entertain guilt is when an opportunity to act is consciously avoided. Now that "touching grass" is a memory you may want to have, the next time you can do so is the best time to do so and will be the memory you want have.

Guilt-free, no less. :-)
Only a small number that can be added to the lock screen. I meant to the widget area anyway, not to the bottom corners. Would be nice if more than one row of widgets were allowed too
Lessons from over 30 Years of Buy versus Rent Decision (2012)
Even worse:

$ svn checkout

$ ./configure

$ make

# make install
Shameless self promotion: I build a logo search engine that currently has almost 500K logos indexed: https://logosear.ch/

Also, a good source of official SVG logos is BIMI, a standard that uses DNS to point to the URL of an SVG.

Spec: https://bimigroup.org/

I recently scraped them for the top N domains: https://bimi-explorer.svg.zone/bimi/
This, I just don't understand why it seems only latest iPhones got this.
This is true. But the Switch has spoiled me on larger screens for handheld games, and telescoping game controllers turn the phone into a Switch-like handheld for my (non-f2p) mobile game collection.
Really cool. I've been an intervals.icu user for a long time and have been looking for a self-host'able alt. Iirc there are some infra complications and privacy reasons for why itnervals is closed.

Self-hosting an app you put your health info in is extremely compelling. Do you plan to monetize with licensing or something similar ever?
"Torvalds wrote the original code for printk, a debugging tool that can pinpoint exact moments where a process crashes"

A debugging tool? I do like printk debugging but I am not sure about that description :-)
The gist:

> they’re shipping half-baked software just to hit some arbitrary deadlines.

Control Centre aside, Apple is my favorite example in founder-led vs manager-led company comparisons. The same company totally changed in less than 10 years. Profits multiplied. But practically everything that made Apple craftsmanship iconic is gone. Feels like their current domination is the echo of their older investment in software-hardware co-design and recent supply chain dominance, but not real innovation.
You're overestimating the number of people who will indefinitely prefer relationships with AIs to the exclusion of real people.

And you're underestimating the number of people who were voluntarily asexual for one reason or another in the past.
> I think it is pretty clear from this interview that Linus has no intention to get involved as some Rust developers had hoped.

I think so too. From some comments in this discussion, it seems some Rust enthusiasts are mainly interested in sidestepping any discussion on the real world output, technical merits and tradeoffs of using Rust in kernel work, and were instead eager to have an authority figure dictate adoption to further push the bandwagon. Marketing and self-promotion are important, but without a solid technical argument what's the point really?
I have already tried what you're doing, and it didn't perform well enough for me. I've been developing this project for a two years now. Its memory isn't going to fit in a single prompt.

I imagine that your AI chatbots aren't as cheap or performant as they can be with your potentially enormous prompts. Technical details aside, just like when talking to real people, it feels nice when they recall minor details you mentioned a long time ago.
"By swiping Up/Down. Since its inception, you swipe left/right to navigate across screens on an iPhone."

Left/Right is generation Tinder, Up/Down generation TikTok, very easy.

Instead of night mode I want a generation switch. Oh, wait the phone knows my age, it could do that automatically. Apple, adapt to my needs!
In cryptocurrency the decimals are often a range between 8 and 18 decimals, sometimes much larger. The solution is always to use strings, and have separate fields or data models that explain the precision. The amount of languages and libraries, for tradfi or anything, is so wide that actually trying to use something other than strings for passing data between systems and applications would be self destructive
Codess: Chess, but for Coding Challenges for Developers
I have been a developer for a few years and had thought about this idea. A platform that functions similarly to chess, with two people competing against each other in a coding challenge. Everyone on it has an ELO rating. You are matched with someone who has a comparable ELO rating. You are given a random problem to tackle, and the one who completes it the fastest or with the best solution wins the round.
Oo this is fun: guessing what the meeting was like where this decision was made. Off the top of my head, there are a few possibilities:

1. Engineers like to unify + encapsulate things where possible for its own sake, and the UX people were looped in too late.

2. There was pressure from above to make things “feel different” to stave off the accusations of “the end of an era of innovation” that get louder every iPhone/iOS release, and this stacking functionality is one of the strategies the team developed early on. No amount of negative metrics can put a hole in an Organizational Priority!

3. Despite their successful efforts to minimize intimidation-layoffs, they did end up laying off ~1000 engineers. It’s possible that the engineers were/are checked out due to a feeling of betrayal, and that the times are changing.

4. Most likely by far: a combination of all the above!

I really think it has to be some organizational mistake. No way that got past a good UX person who had the power of veto.
Didn't read the full article but I feel I don't need to.

I updated yesterday and I really hate the new design. I'm not using a term for "dislike" I profoundly HATE this change.

Tiny icons, difficult to move/size items, excessive blank space around them...also the UX for repositioning elements has some bug that makes a widget dissapear for a moment and jump from "nowhere" to the desired position (if you manage to place it at first try, of course)

Maybe it's a strategy to make users of the SE line jump to a bigger screen? :-|
Reddit used to be my go-to. However, it has become more difficult (not impossible) to find subreddits with nuance. Many have become either over-moderated or entirely one-sided. Plus the enshittification always rubs me the wrong way.
> "&" inside JSON strings but yours escapes it

What escaping of "&" inside JSON are you talking about? Some unholy mix of JSON and urlencode?
WGSL was a mistake and hopefully they get rid of it, it negatively impacts WebGPU's adoption, at least it did for me, the syntax is one of the worst ever created, just horrible
That's why SimpleIcons contains metadata about that, so if you are worried about that, you can just exclude any icons that have explicit licensing information attached.
Thanks for this likable podcast. It makes me feel a helluva lot more viable to exist when the NSA/other government agencies make it such a livable country. -- DJ
NAT registers in the microseconds for packet processing time, that isn’t even comparable to Internet path jitter.
> Are they storing all of their images in RAM?

Consider the millions of iPhone users uploading new photos and scrolling their iCloud-hosted photo library. A substantial amount of photo data is in RAM at any given moment, spread across many network devices.

> I would posit that it is possible this format is less environmentally friendly because it takes more compute cycles

I'm curious how much energy it takes to send bits over cellular or wifi, my intuition is that this is orders of magnitude higher than compression or encoding.
While we are at it: Can someone explain to me, why I can lock my screen in the vertical position but not horizontally.

Press the rotation lock in Control Center and it locks the current state would be a natural thing. But that is not how it works on iOS. Rotation lock rotates the screen back to vertical and locks it there. Is this the same on Android?

Also: The icon is a lock enclosed in a clockwise arrowed ~ 350° circle. That shouts rotation lock to me. If it has to be vertical lock, at least indicate that in the icon.
At least it's documented.
Right, could be.

One of the insane things with Nix is that the suggested workflow is to manage _everything_ with it. This means that it wants to replace every package manager in existence, so you see Python, Emacs and other dependency trees entirely replicated in Nix. As well as every possible configuration format. It's craziness... Now I don't need to depend on just the upstream package, I also have to wait for these changes to propagate to Nix packages. And sometimes I just want to do things manually as a quick fix, instead of spending hours figuring out why the Nix implementation doesn't work.

So, yeah, having an escape hatch that allows easier integration with other ecosystems or doing things manually in some cases, would be nice to have.
SpaceX has physical infrastructure in Brazil worth millions. They can start there, just confiscate the Starlink ground stations.
I have a secret that I've held for a couple of years now, but I don't actually understand what touching grass means. I get the general gist is sort of "get back to reality" or something along those lines, but I'm always sort of confused about it. Is there any chance you can explain it?

It's weird being the same age as old people.
Aren’t they dominating cpu architectures as well? Is there a better mobile cpu being made today?
Why?

> It works when you don't have router.

Who doesn't have a router?
Out of curiosity, what music do you compose? How would you judge the Linux experience doing so, outside the RT topic?

Do you have any published music you will to share?

Thanks!
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I wish more people had the ability to daily-drive an iOS device and an Android, to more clearly see the positives and negatives of both.

Having long ago switched to iOS as my primary, I am continually infuriated by some of the awful UX decisions made on that platform - the control center, yes, but also the app library drawer, the settings screen, the clock app, the list goes on. I could write a rant like OP for each one.

Android has its own ways of driving me insane, but it's clear that Apple's UX has been slipping for a long time.
Buck2 looks very principled. Will definitely be interesting as it gets mature in the open source world.

I'm personally convinced monorepo is strictly superior (provided you have the right tooling to support it).
This is exclusively other people's content that's badly credited (if at all) to push Amazon affiliate links.
I know a few people who prefer online relationships to real life ones. An AI relationship seems like a small step. Especially if they don't realise they are interacting with an AI.
did you really fly all the way to Afghanistan to build a component library? sheesh
HTML only webpage, absolutely fast
sshuttle go have a read much nicer for tunnelling... sshuttle -r user@host 10.0.0.0/8

Anything on 10/8 automatic tunnel it's pretty much a vpn over ssh
The problem with AI is the way it is being presented in many cases. E.g. having a prominent pink button on top of your PDF like in Adobe Acrobat for Android with zero explaination what the heck it is supposed to be doing, how it deals with my data and no way to remove it other than going into fullscreen is feeling like they actively try to shove it into my face.

Thanks Adobe that you put an AI button I can't read onto my boarding pass which I am trying to read with my own eyes and scan into a barcode scanner. What is next? Putting AI into orange juice?
Not only that, but the rotation lock on iPads do the right thing!
Agreed! It's such an alien term to describe something quite mundane. Language clarity is a big part of a friendly UI.
Would it be a viable alternative to never update? Asking genuinely.
Updating is not a choice. The most you can hold off is 1 year. If your phone is eligible for the next iOS, you don’t get security updates. Many apps I use already require 17.0 as of today.
Apple (or anyone else) should not be allowed to violate / subsume consumer rights for its own business interests. Consumers should have access to the system literature of a device and be able to unlock the bootloaders and install any other OSes on it.
Let's say a factory builds a mega puzzle from many images shredded to identically-shaped puzzle pieces so you can piece them together as you want or need. Some pieces from some images are omitted due to their closeness in image space or due to them being infrequent enough.

This 70B pieces puzzle is an LLM.

You can reproduces likings of any hero from Marvel universe close enough using this puzzle. Or you can create

Who is to blame?
> keeping pro-lula Twitter accounts up while censoring conservative ones

Funny. Among the accounts targeted by this judge, not a single one is pro-Lula. Really curious, indeed. Are these guys saints? Are they literally never wrong on the internet?

Not too long ago, one of Lula's ministers "disseminated" some serious "misinformation". She literally said about a hundred million brazilians are starving to death right now. Where's the judge's fact checking? I wonder.

I mean, Lula himself has admitted to journalists that he just makes up statistics on the spot. You'd think he'd be this judge's worst enemy, given how gung-ho he is about "misinformation"... Oh shit, is that the judge attending a barbecue with Lula and his allies? Whew, lad. What do you know?
Damned good book, too. Well, the first half at least. Your mileage will vary about the other half.
For me Cohen is a double whammy, if you like to (or are able to?) "look at music" - his music is really fun to look at, I mean the composition etc, just how he lays it out is really really good. His lyrics are also sublime, he started as a poet, many think he's not much of a singer, his voice is.. you know, whatever, I think it took me some time to really..take the time... to look at his music properly, to see what all the fuss is about? It's pretty good, if you like looking at music he might, be the best... :) - 2:18 thru 4:05 in here is some "very cohen-ish" type stuff I particularly enjoy, it's a really fun walk. I find a lot of new stuff in this song each time I listen to it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux8s4wJXNnA
I don’t know Nix, but I’ll describe how Guix works, and hopefully it will be obvious what the corresponding Nix concepts are.

A “package” is a high-level description (written in scheme) of how to build something, like: “using the GNU build system with inputs a, b, c, and configure flags x, y, z, build the source available at https://github.com/foo/bar”

The actual builder daemon doesn’t know about the GNU build system, or how to fetch things from GitHub, or how to compute nested dependencies, etc.; it is very simple. All it knows is how to build derivations, which are low-level descriptions of how to build something: “create a container that can see paths a, b, and c (which are themselves other derivations or files stored in the store and addressed by their hash), then invoke the builder script x.”

So when you ask guix to build something, it reads the package definition, finds the source and stores it in the store, generates the builder script (which is by convention usually also written in scheme, though theoretically nothing stops you from defining a package whose builder was written in some other language), computes the input derivation paths, etc., and ultimately generates a derivation which it then asks the daemon to build.

I believe in Nix, rather than scheme, packages are written in nix lang and builder scripts can be written in any language but by convention are usually bash.

So basically long story short, the package is the higher-level representation on the guix side, and the derivation is the lower-level representation on the guix-daemon side.
Boomer facebook is filled to the brim with bad AI generated stuff and people actually buying it, so... maybe you're sample is biased.
If it looks like a coup and quacks like a coup, don't tell me it's actually a sedan.
Oh hey, that article I wrote a while back!

How'd I do on my predictions, folks?
"Man is the measure"

https://socratesjourney.org/man-is-the-measure-of-all-things... bit heavy
I'm seeing more and more of uses of it on this thread.