skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah this is it for me, cleaning up my windows installation and backing up my files, going to move to some linux distro this month.
> Even for the Republican party she’s a weirdo and she’s only able to win due to the “unique” demographics of her district

What are the unique demographics of her district? I know it is heavily gerrymandered to make it almost impossible for anyone other than a Republican to win the general election, but to get to be the Republican candidate in the general election they have to win the Republican primary.

In every Republican primary she has won there were several other conservative Republicans who were not batshit insane and were actually well qualified to be a Representative in Congress. So why is she winning?
If it is about telemetry and related stuff (like that activation), it would be Windows 2000.

Sadly I never had the chance to experience it and went with Windows ME. :(
> There is no such thing as an 'internal' email you communicate to other people outside your company with. It's just an email address. Someone at some point will leak it by accident or malice.

Sure, so personally I never use it to communicate with people outside. Also, I make sure it's never used to register with external licenses like Docker Desktop etc. as they subscribe me to their spamlist and send the usual semi-personalized messages - but as far as I can tell most of these bigger companies don't sell them outside (for a good reason). Startups, however, will do what they want and will make sure to squeeze the last drop from the info that such-and-such person works and that company and does X.
Some OBB locomotives have their PWM systems tuned so that when they change frequency, they're always on a standard musical note. There's one example of that in the video. It's a cute feature, people like it, and it's probably all in software.
Yep, but realistically, Romania (as well as Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe) will end up in the same kind of middle income trap just like Portugal within the next 10-20 years.
> it was political theater, and essentially a coup

That's an interesting relabeling of what would normally be regarded as simply the gathering, vetting, and reporting of evidence — some reliable, some not — in accordance with established statutory- and constitutional processes and norms.

If it'd really been a coup, Trump would either have been imprisoned without trial or he'd have fled the country to Russia or someplace else without an extradition treaty.
From my experience, it's still not a 100% replacement. For example, there are no drivers for a pretty common steering wheel (Logitech G923). There is a driver for an older version of the wheel that kind of works, but no TRUEFORCE support. And even then, you have to mess with some low level details to make it work, send magic values to the hardware on plugging it in.

I also noticed that games from Steam end up taking up substantially more disk space to the point where I can have only a few games installed on Linux.

And even the games without any special hardware dongles don't work so well as you imply.
And MTG is 50 and she has to know what she's spouting is nonsense, so why does she spout it? Is her audience really that dimwitted, or is there something else at play? For example, is this part of some mass brainwashing ploy? Are they Jim Jonesing millions of Americans? If so, then to what end?
I personally had zero expectations that a blog post around the subject of spoilers wouldn't talk about spoilers. So, not ironic for me.
> For example, when a judge last week ordered federal Fluoride standards to be re-examined. It doesn't need to be a total vindication of the conspiracy theorists, for trust to be substantially damaged.

This is such a weird way of looking at it.

Imagine, for simplicity, there's an optimal amount of fluoride to add, which is X. Also imagine science can guess the number but, obviously, it's not perfect.

What will happen is that we will start at some number, and gradually change it as we get more knowledge. Sometimes we'll be below X, sometimes we'll be above X. When we're above X, and we find it out, we'll say "Oops it was too much fluoride, let's reduce it a bit."

And obviously policymakers need to work on imperfect information, so sometimes we have to add Y amount of fluoride even though we know it's not optimal - because, the alternative, adding zero fluoride, would be actually worse.

This is totally natural way of how science works, and saying that this undermines public trust of science is actually a point in support of GP, namely, the American public has poor understanding of how science works, due to poor education.
I used it to allow booting from USB on ESXi VMs, which (at the time anyway) didn't support this. I remember how ridiculous it was passing through an unraid USB, booting from a plop iso which then handed off the boot to the USB. It was slow but did work.
I was going to say Fusion360 is my largest blocker, but it looks like it's now in the Silver category https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...
Yeah but we in the Anglosphere have this wonderful phrase for people that get too hung up on it: “get over it.”

I honestly don’t care if someone uses “color” or “colour” or makes ghoti jokes at the English language’s expense.
It's not exactly the same, but as an alternative to what jauntywundrkind you can use V4L2-Loopback and OBS to create a virtual webcam and use that to share your screen. I find it really handy being able to switch between either just my cam, my desktop or both.
Influencer Dynamics
Despite the dumb name this looks useful:

https://privacy.sexy/

It generates the script for you based on your requirements. Looks extremely detailed with long descriptions.
Try it.

"Please check this box if you want to proceed."
I've been to Portugal and it's lovely. But I don't think earning a low salary and not having enough is fun. Wouldn't be for me, at least.
I’ve wondered about this wrt public transportation. They keep raising prices, making it less affordable for people. Eventually basically no one is riding, so they … raise prices.

It seems needlessly expensive to me to run empty busses. I’d like to see if cheaper transportation can actually make more money.
Both dems and reps say ridiculous stuff. Or did you only read half of history in the past 30 years?
Yes, the attempts were both done by democrats. Both of which gave contribution. Do you not know how to use the search bar?
The UTR rally is one of hundreds of rallies that happened between 2014-2024. the murderer had no political ties with Reps. Whoever fed you this lie made you a disservice. You believed in a total and utter lie for 7+ years.
I agree 100% with the author. I've seen Alien,but I haven't watched it for a long time. So if I go to see it in the cinema now, while I technically do know what's going to happen - it isn't completely fresh in my mind. So to be shown all the suspenseful, scary bits I'm about to watch, out of context, immediately before the film, is absolutely detrimental to the experience.
This is the best part of indie theaters. You show up and when the clock hits about the time shown on the ticket, the lights dim and the film just... starts
Even in Canada one of my kids decided to try a different school because their class was so disruptive.
My product is for businesses but they seem only interested in a cheap lifetime price. I guess adding more features is the solution here to get them to pay more.
Wait those movies have plots?
Hurricane Milton's Impact: 70 Florida Cities See 50%+ Drop in Internet Traffic
I think some movies are so crap that they've only got 2 min of good material, so that's what they put in the trailer.
I can't explain it either, but maybe prophesies of impending collapse are a bit premature. The world has never been particularly rational, even in places that have near 100% literacy. Just look at the number of people who believe in astrology or homeopathy, not to mention that one guy who created the Earth and its inhabitants some 4000 years ago, in six days no less.
> the associated taxes, delivery fees, etc. are clearly not included, or they’ve used substitution to alter the baseline basket they’re using to compute the metric

I’m not familiar with Canadian methods. But in America, both CPI and PCE look at the bottom line, i.e. tax inclusive to taxes, delivery fees, et cetera.

> Ask 10 citizens who own/rent the same property what their utility bill was a decade ago

I can look at my own bills and say from five years ago the rates and bottom lines are identical. But I’m in Wyoming, where energy is cheap. (There is a new surcharge this year, but that’s less than 5% for me. Which for 5 years is fine.) Gas prices, too, are about flat across America from ten years ago, give or take—petrol is cheaper in real terms than it was ten years ago.
Exercise prevents heart attacks when you have excessive calories, you get adequate sleep and do not sleep outside in the winter, you have a dry place to stand and are not out in the rain and so on. Exercise leads to muscle loss when the fat reserves are depleted and calorie intake is limited.

Anyway there are ways to falsify or verify that hypothesis, but it needs some resources, not much but still, it needs time and subjects to test the hypothesis on. So for the foreseeable future, it will stay as it is, a hypothesis.
I'll adjust my definition, then. By right wing I mean republican. Conspiracy theories are that mainstream now.

> Now this is just creative writing.

Respectfully, you're not paying attention, or you are willfully deluding yourself if you believe this to be true. Democrats didn't gang up on a Trump bus and try to run it off the road. Can you imagine the shitstorm if they did?

Democrats largely don't have the devotion to their representatives so putting up yard signs and waving flags isn't nearly as much of a thing, but I assure you many people I know won't advertise their political opinions in any way because it endangers their health. And when they do put something up, it's small and unobtrusive, so as to avoid attracting too much attention.
Tabasco is fine in the pantry or on the counter.

Tabasco in particular isn't just vinegar-based, it's nearly entirely vinegar. Its ingredients list is vinegar, salt and crushed peppers that are then strained before bottling. It is a very inhospitable environment for botulism - or anything else.

Many other types of hot sauces contain oils and/or are not strained of organic matter and/or contain blended organic matter. Such as all of your thicker or chunkier sauces for the most part[1] (which happen to be my favorites). Those should be kept in the fridge and you should discard after some time just to be on the safe side.

[1] https://thepepperplant.com/shop.html
I think I'd move the quotes - the problem is too much "news", but I think you're right. It's 24/7 misinformation factories that push people to the point where they can assume that somehow the US government both has a hurricane machine and that it would use it on its own citizens, even though that doesn't stand up to any sort of rational introspection.
I don't think it's (entirely) that. Did you see the recent story about how college entrants at even highly selective schools, entrants coming from highly regarded private prep schools, are struggling to read books? That seems to me to be indicative of a problem different from what you're pointing out.
What you’re describing is the entire point of all these disparate settings.

Security through obscurity.

The security, though, is for Windows features not user’s protection.
wasm

"but wasm has to call JavaScript to use browser APIs" WasmGC is shipped in Chrome and Firefox and enabled by default in WebKit nightly
You assume that if people were better educated, they would trust science and wouldn't be so upset.

I think it's the other way around: If people understood this is how science works, they would laugh off anything they disagreed with, as likely to be overturned a decade from now.
There are lots of competing alternatives for most cases -- not search, but I doubt search would die.

If gmail disappears, people could move to another provider. Etc.
Even all that won't fix:

- assholes looking at their smartphone during the movie

- assholes who won't shut the fuck up

Gave up the whole movie theater experience. My fancy reclining sofa and huge 4K OLED TV are way better already.
Yeah it has been for a while. The steam deck runs Linux out of the box.

Valve and open source devs have put a lot of effort over the years on projects like Photon which is a translation layer for Windows games.
Oh lawd I’ve had to say ‘sorry you’ll have to bear with my ultrawide’ during pairing at least 10 times in the last week. You are a lifesaver.
Since we're throwing around anecdata, I'll say that I clicked on TFA just because of this comment, and I don't recall having heard of this movie and have no idea what these scenes are about.

I haven't seen the Noah film either but I did read the book on that one! A bit tough to get through but there were some interesting bits. Rated R for violence, sexual themes and controversial politically charged subject material.
The sad state of E2E encryption for cloud storage is a big part of why I wrote mobiletto [1]. It supports transparent client-side encryption for S3, B2, local storage and more. Rekeying is easy- set up a new volume, mirror to it, then remove old volume.

[1] https://github.com/cobbzilla/mobiletto
Go watch the interview with Mueller at the end of the investigation. He was completely senile and knew nothing about the case. Mueller himself was a puppet for other people.
Sadly, Solidworks is still in the "Garbage" category. Is there any effective way (aside from coding myself) to effect improvement there?
I saw “The Menu” and “Palm Springs” having never even heard of them. I would highly recommend both, especially if you know nothing about them.
That ignores the lost revenue from my butt missing from the chair. I watch at home lots more because of such shenanigans.
The "tricky to get right" part is so true.

One time I was involved in automating a business process. Nothing super complicated - scrapping data from a portal, filling forms, some data wrangling. It had to handle a few edge cases and involve a human in the loop. I tried to include as much data validation as possible, but this being a business in real world there were of course some exceptions. I implemented a Superuser Override which was basically a button that launched a popup with another form where the app users requested an approval from their manager to accept the unvalidated data. It was red and scary and it had Bootstrap .danger all over because it was a cool thing to do back then. Don't judge, ok?

Things worked as they should have. The automation saved tons of time, even if some fields were missing. Occasionally, there was a Superuser Override request which sent an email to the manager overseeing the process. Actually, things worked too well - the volume of processed data increased and so did the number of the Override requests. The manager - busy as they usually are - started approving all the requests. Manually at first and then they ran a macro that did it for them.

Eventually the app users got wind of it and they started using the Superuser Override liberally. Before they shown more restraint.

I wish there was some clever punch line to this story but I don't know what happened after.

If I had to do it again, I'd be more aggressive with validations, make the approval process more like a code review, involve the most experienced app users as the Superuser, and have audit logs. Oh and Tailwind instead of Bootstrap.
It’s similiar to the feeling I get with DVD menus. I sometimes feel like watching some classic movie, and so I put on the DVD. But then the DVD menu already shows all the classic scenes and characters, so when I finally have navigated all the menus and started the movie, I no longer want to watch the movie.
Greece should have never joined the Eurozone, and are basically a middle income country despite their high GDP per capita (median household incomes are comparable to Mexico and Malaysia).

That said, leaving the Euro would be too economically traumatic for Greece at this point.
Staff government with people that hate government and got elected on the principle that government is the problem. Those people sabotage government at every opportunity, thus it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Use the chaos and dysfunction you created to sell public assets on the cheap to private companies.

I've seen this trajectory far too often to think what is happening is accidental.
I saw a YouTube video from (I think) Punk Rock MBA that says that the difference between "Pop Punk" and "Punk" has nothing to do with the sound of the music, or even how popular the band is (The Clash played stadium shows), but more to do with the idea of the guys from Blink 182 hosting MTV Spring Break. It's about band members acting like legitimate pop stars instead of street kids.
Fallacies on top of fallacies. Let's look at CIA crime rate demographics again I guess. /doesnt know what a data fallacy is
Why can't/won't Linux desktop utils offer unified configuration like Emacs?
They seem to be largely rent seeking, & making similarly received AI pivots.
It’s been like that for my whole adult life (20 years). When I used to go to theaters, I would wait outside until the trailers stopped.

Knowing nothing about what I’m about to watch is my favorite way.
Sure, politicians lie. Presidents are definitionally politicians, so they lie sometimes too.

But Donald Trump's lies are orders of magnitude more frequent and worse than any previous president, and frankly anyone trying to dispute that at this point is clearly using motivated reasoning.
No, the Swiss federal constitution is based on America’s federal constitution. The American Article of Confederation, our previous Constitution, was based on our Helvetic Confederation constitution. Strictly speaking our constitution is based on the American Constitution.
Thanks! Yes, that (rminimax/ratapprox) looks very interesting.
I got the impression that this was separate from Sollya.

Fair point about the correct rounding. We'd be fine with several ULPs.
Lots of programmers only really feel comfortable in C++ because it's the language they were trained in.
Maybe anyone can chime in about VR support under Linux?

That's a huge show stopper for me at the moment and holding me back from switching over to Linux.
the shoulder rotation plotted at various frequencies sparked for me: is there an "MP3" of character animation data? The way that we have compression optimized for auditory perception… it feels like we might be missing an open standard for compressing this kind of animation data?

edit: Claude is thinking MP3 could work directly: pack 180Hz animation channels into a higher frequency audio signal with some scheme like Frequency Division / Time Division Multiplexing, or Amplitude Modulation. Boom, high compression with commonplace hardware support.
Imagine the infrastructure and energy systems we could build with that money. There isn't going to be anything left to fight over at this rate of global climate change. What a waste and sad world we live in.
> black&white mindset that modern free world grew away long time ago

Don't even know what to say. I am not sure we live in the same world lol.
My point is pretty easy to follow.

The quote, that is the title of this comment thread (we're discussing a specific thing here, the quote in question, mind you, not which banks are good and bad) was a whole lot more applicable in the past than it is today.

Yes, sure there are small banks. But if you walk around any major city or drive around any major residential area, nearly all the banks you see (and in reality, nearly all the banks people actually bank at) will not be a match for the main point this quote is making.

That's because the banks that nearly all of us interact with now, are so large, and so politically connected and interwoven with our core financial structures, that it's actually impossible for almost anyone living to have a bank at their mercy due to the amount of money they owe the bank.

So the quote, once widely understandable and applicable, is slowly starting to make less sense to the average reader.

Which is kind of interesting.
Benchmark: Trimming Whitespace in Bash (2022)
Yes, install Windows 10 LTSC, use it until end of support, then switch to Linux.

There are no new features in W11 that are worth enduring the absolute bloated spyware-ridden POS that it is.
Are you, by any chance, named Richard Hendricks?
I knew a person judging women by their height. ... I am unsure why I recall this now! ; )
I mean.. After ES6 with classes what is JavaScript anyway? Just bring Structs too, the more the merrier.
sure, those are completely separate issues from what's being discussed.
It's not that weird, France is in the same situation.
> Nobody says you need http, sqs, grpc, and queue

I give it to you that, we're it not for microservices, I wouldn't need as much of http, sqs, etc, as well requiring making sense out of all of it via tracing/metrics/logging...

I've worked enough with microservices and heard enough managers preaching the same "cattle not pets", "small focused services", and similar, enough to know that high turnover or several rounds of layoffs, unreasonably high cloud bills and clients frustrated with high latency, often caused by several services, is the inevitable outcome.
I think this comment should be framed as a solid example of why you shouldn't have non-tech people manage tech teams. Feudal mindset that doesn't represent development outside of bottom tier tech companies.

Then again... engineers like to think themselves Super Smart(tm) yet forget who's paid to do all the fun sidequests while ya'll stuck "chopping onions" for those 'dumb' Product Lords.
People aren’t people. They’re not citizens.

We are consumers, labeled and binned.

Our constitution might as well read: ‘We the Product…’.
Yeah, but I think the point is that this applicable on unrealized capital gains too. So if I start a company in Norway, raise a bunch of money and then move to the US because the company wants to have a presence there, I now have to pay the tax on the basis of the money raised; It's quite common for a reasonable successful founder to be worth millions on paper while having no cash.
It's not a deal. It's cheat to disarm Ukraine.
It's stupid to play fair game with cheaters.
I found it insightful and pleasant to see that there are people inside of a an important field being intellectually curious and honest about the direction of their field of study.
For many graphics professionals, that's like asking if you'd consider replacing C++ with Rust.

There's one answer you might provide when you've the luxury to start things over and ramp up on all the differences, but practical reality is that you rarely have that luxury. Fluency and confidence in the tools you already use provides strong resistance to switching, even if alternatives promise they're ready to meet your needs.
I go during the day on the rare occasions that we go.
My kid randomly decided that he wanted to see Deadpool & Wolverine while we were out doing errands, so we went to the theater on what turned out to be the opening day.

No way were there even 10 more people in the theater at 1PM on a Friday.

At least around here, the cinemas are never crowded during the daytime.
yeah you just have to deal with people getting drunk and slobbering down entire meals instead

one of the few times I walked out of a theater was an alamo drafthouse with some guy loudly eating wings and wiping his hands on the seats

I'd rather watch a movie on my phone on a bus, at least I can wear headphones
Decker is FOSS, and available in both a web version and native builds for MacOS, BSD, Linux, and Windows: http://beyondloom.com/decker/

If you've seen Decker previously you might find it useful to know that it has recently acquired several "escape hatches" for interoperating with software and APIs outside its usual sandbox: http://beyondloom.com/decker/decker.html#thedangerzone