skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many of those 30% are people who bought a new laptop/PC with Windows 11 preinstalled, and how many actually upgraded from Windows 10?
what a billion years of feedback loops and randomness can achieve

Half a billion, afaik. And also how technology matters. Oxygenless ~3.5B years were boring as hell.

For those unaware: Earth not always had O2 in its athmosphere - O2 is a result of one kind of ubiquitous goo that was emitting it as a byproduct. And while it oxidized what it could on the surface, it killed almost every goo, cause it is a poison. Then (and that is still an unproven theory) oxygen-breathing evolved and allowed for fast movement and carnivory, which started arms race of tracking and evasion, coordination, vision, swarming, etc. 0.5B years later here we are.

Btw, there were even higher peaks of oxygen concentration that allowed for animal-sized insects to exist. A time insectophobes wouldn’t want to live in.

Scientists know that dragonflies with wing spans as wide as a hawk's and cockroaches big enough to take on house cats lived during the Paleozoic era (245-570 million years ago). At the same time, mammoth millipedes longer than a human leg skittered across prehistoric soil.
I've had two Kindles since 2010. (My first kindle had a physical keyboard it was that long ago)

It broke because I had it in my back pocket and I sat on it. Bought a new one immediately.

I've yet to have any measurable battery degradation on either and I read 1-3 books a month. (Including 1000+ page monsters by Brandon Sanderson).
Right. WordPress is Windows for the Web, basically.

More enjoyable to develop for, IMO, but otherwise the comparison holds.

I would add that other PHP-based projects have had severe maintainability crises, poorer clarity of design, even worse code quality crises (Joomla, for example), major fallings-out and multiple forks (Joomla again).

WordPress got this far in part because it managed inevitable community fallings-out and egos much better. It's totally depressing to see what is happening.
Slang evolves.
If you include capital cost in TCO as you should, a high price up front looks as bad as it should. And since lots of cars are leased or financed, this is also more realistic than the simple&stupid list-price+runningcost calculations.
> How?

Huh... First result in google for "selling exploits" shows it's not only criminals who are buying exploits:

https://zerodium.com/program.html

(up to $500K for Chrome RCE, but probably not for this since requires extension install)

Another result is the Wikipedia article, which also talks about these gray markets:

"Gray markets buyers include clients from the private sector, governments and brokers who resell vulnerabilities."
You say that and maybe some stats prove it but then when insurance rates are significantly higher and we see horror stories of drivetrain failures or battery failures, it makes it harder to jump on board.
It may seem proselite and overly highlighted, but personally I find it very practical.

Whenever I review a tool, or look for an alternative, I always look at the state of the maintenance and the choice of programming language, mainly to eliminate, as much as possible, the many tools written in Javascript and Python when it is not suitable.

I will not necessarily prefer a tool written in Rust, but at least it is rarely a flaw.
"It’s a fantastic device to travel with—Be it by train or by plane, it offers an unparalleled opportunity to selectively tune out your environment and sink into an engaging activity like watching a movie or just working on your laptop. "

Lord forgive you have a new unexpected experience while traveling or expose yourself to the underclasses or subject yourself to the shtty social environment you helped create...
That’s the jamstack in a nutshell. I use DecapCMS to manage some client sites using that exact strategy. It’s always nice to rollback their content issues using git, it’s saved me many hours of headaches.

The only challenge is markdown is not a great store of complex component data IMO.
I get my books from different sources than Amazon. I can transfer these to my Kindle by e-mail or Calibre, without any issue. And they stay there on the Kindle and work fine. I also sync these books from my computer to other devices, Android and iOS, and they work fine also.

Use EPUB file format and your books will work on all devices, including Kindle.
There are directX to vulkan translation layers such as https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk for up to dx11. For dx12 specifically, you have vkd3d: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/vkd3d/-/wikis/home
Kepp looking at the EV market and the cars are pretty lame. The experience of an EV is bar none the best but man the available models seem to suck. I'm just waiting for my favorite manufacturer(Mazda) to make an EV version of my car because I am tired of renting different EVs only to find that they miss some criteria that my current 18 year old rust bucket has.
I randomize my User-Agent header and many websites outright block me, most often with no captcha and no useless error message.

The most egregious is Microsoft (just about every Microsoft service/page, really), where all you get is a "The request is blocked." and a few pointless identifiers listed at the bottom, purely because it thinks your browser is too old.

CF's captcha page isn't any better either, usually putting me in an endless loop if it doesn't like my User-Agent.
Technically somebody already has: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24370792
I don't get my books from Amazon, how would they be able to access my computer and my backups?
Cloudflare has been the bane of my web existance on Thai IP and a Linux Firefox fingerprint. I wonder how much traffic is lost because of Cloudflare and of course none of that is reported to the web admins so everyone continues with their jolly ignorance.

I wrote my own RSS bridge that scrapes websites using Scrapfly web scraping API that bypasses all that because it's so annoying that I can't even scrape some company's /blog that they are literally buying ads for but somehow have an anti-bot enabled that blocks all RSS readers.

Modern web is so anti social that the web 2.0 guys should be rolling in their "everything will be connected with APIs" graves by now.
There's still a lot of Office functionality in the desktop versions, such as automation of other desktop apps, and also Excel plugins (so many finance companies use that), so there's still "lock in".
ISO C forbids it, but, FWIW, POSIX requires it. So pick your standard I guess.
Browser based MS Office is crap. Half the documents produced in desktop MS Office are broken there, worse than simply using LibreOffice to open them.
I don’t follow the logic here. There seems to be an implication of ulterior motive but I’m not seeing what it is. What aspect of ‘privacy’ offered by a VPN do you think that Reddit / LinkedIn are incentivised to bypass? From a privacy POV, your VPN is doing nothing to them, because your IP address means very little to them from a tracking POV. This is just FUD perpetuated by VPN advertising.

However, the undeniable reality is that accessing the website with a non-residential IP is a very, very strong indicator of sinister behaviour. Anyone that’s been in a position to operate one of these services will tell you that. For every…let’s call them ‘privacy-conscious’ user, there are 10 (or more) nefarious actors that present largely the same way. It’s easy to forget this as a user.

I’m all but certain that if Reddit or LinkedIn could differentiate, they would. But they can’t. That’s kinda the whole point.
> original hackers did actually that on some software like Maxima on top of MacLisp

The original hackers developed Macsyma on Maclisp.

Project MAC's SYmbolic MAnipulator and Project MAC's lisp.

Maxima is a fork, which was renamed from DOE Macsyma to Maxima in the end 1990s, converted to Common Lisp and published under a GPL license.

Macsyma (-> Computer Algebra) and Excel (Spreadsheet) are two very different applications.
I always felt that valve didn't go far enough to prosecute cheaters (back in the day). I wonder if there are metrics out there for how effective methods like Overwatch actually were.
I guess only if you directly expose C++ APIs in DLLs, which is a bad idea anyway.
To be honest, as bad a surge pricing would be, I'm more concerned with the possibility that facial recognition would be used to track me for any purpose whatsoever.

Ordinarily my response would is to not set foot in stores that I know do this sort of thing. The problem is that I already do my best to avoid Kroger-owned stores, but as they buy up more chains, that's getting harder and harder to do.
Many Chinese (speaking) students in the US pick an English language name like “William” or “Wendy” because they know people they meet will struggle with a name which could be several short words with unfamiliar vowels and consonants and tone that matters.
I think maintaining anonimity is the key. Ensuring getting paid is the next thing. I'm not sure how you can achieve this in practice.
Show HN: Last CLI tool you will need
It's usually the only selling point.
Is it bad for Chrome to have vulnerabilities? I think long-term is really good. People need to get away from the browser monopoly (because it really is only Chrome here holding the power) and support the ecosystem
As I understand it Computer Modern is generated from strokes, so it makes sense for it to feel somewhat similar to other stroke fonts.
Then don't. You can find flaws with any and every company, but it gets bizarre that such a nit-pick gets commented here every time that brand is mentioned. Most people don't care about GPL.
I'm curious what advantages Jank has over GraalVM, since Graal also supports interop with llvm languages.
you gave me a good chuckle!
Same here. I occasionally encounter websites that won't work with ad blockers, sometimes with Cloudflare involved, and I don't even bother with those sites anymore. Same with sites that display a cookie "consent" form without an option to not accept. I reject the entire site.

Site owners probably don't even see these bounced visits, and it's such a tiny percentage of visitors who do this that it won't make a difference. Meh, it's just another annoyance to be able to use the web on our own terms.
Growing up in a french speaking country, we'd call all ballpoint pens "bic".

Because of this:

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bic_(entreprise)

Up to this day many still say, on a daily basis, say, a "bic bleu" (blue ballpen) or "bic noir" (black ballpen).

And virtually everyone french speaking calls a refrigerator (fridge) a "frigo".
>You should ask if a laptop goes to sleep on linux, will it wake up ? Nobody knows.

I've only been using Linux for 20 years so can you explain what you mean by this?
I don't understand why you wouldn't feel good about this job. Ultimately, you are assisting in creating (hopefully accurate) signals that help summarize risk to simplify decision-making. Seems like honorable work to me...
Café Joyeux: NYC café dedicated to employing people with cognitive disabilities
where was the parent mentioning this is a violation of one's human rights exactly?
Thank you for sharing this insightful post. I have used WP for more than a decade and must say these are very serious points, especially considering EU legislation and the questionable behavior by Mr. Mullenweg.

This will be interesting reading to EU legislators and lawyers working in the IP and privacy space.
I might be wrong but the impression is that every US company tries the same, with different rates of success, And I don't only mean SaaS companies, or even IT. And I also don't mean unknowingly, but actively trying to impose their usual ways.
Run calc.exe actually means steal money of everybody in their entire organization or blackmail the entire organization by encypting all the data they need to function.
> So clearly you aren't a fan of Gandhi. He also very deliberately broke the law.

I have to say this is one of the silliest takes I have ever seen on HN.

You only need to look at the way Gandhi broke the law, the methodology of his disobedience, to see that you cannot possibly make a comparison with Uber that shows them in a good light. It's absurd to draw this comparison.
Chrome needs to be rewritten in Rust asap
You’re heavily oversimplifying things. If you look at some random Volkswagen or BMW service plan - it’s always about engine. Oil, belts, chains, spark plugs, air filters. Parts optimized for a profitable quick replacement at a dealership. Easily 600-900€ yearly with today’s prices.

There are also gazillion things to fail and to be repaired. Sensors, hoses, cables, alternator, fuel lines, clutch, exhaust system. All these parts were replaced in family’s petrol cars during last years.

I doubt, that today’s Teslas will have battery problems. They have enough knowledge for volume production. Expect 2% early battery capacity degradation though.
So why do about 60% of people who consider themselves left or far left oppose immigration?

Cooper also claims that the Holocaust happened by mistake, so I wouldn't pay too much attention to him.
What do you mean? When I buy an ICE car I am not buying it with the expectation that the engine and transmission will die imminently. Why would you assume 70% capacity for an EV?
Or, as Ballmer used to say, "developers, developers, developers, developers."
Or the issue that currently annoys the hell out of me: if I disconnect my laptop from the docking station and reconnect it, will it continue running or will it spontaneously restart (Dell laptop and docking station, Ubuntu 22.04, Wayland)?
It’s like duty in electronics
I can't think of another CMS that lets you easily make over $1000 for a day or two worth of work, often times without actually writing any PHP or doing some minimal overrides with filters and actions. Everything is pretty streamlined for the most part. There's stable plugins that have been active for over 10 years that pretty much do anything you can think of. Page builders that output modern HTML and CSS. Optimized hosting ready to go. Secure backup solutions that let you restore everything easily without needing to SSH into a remote server. You're not locked into an obscure language or niche CMS that leaves the client stranded down the road, or with big bills because they needed to hire an Elixir developer for their Phoenix blog they deployed via wasm to fly.io 3 years ago.
That's not my experience. My kindle paperwhite (latest version until yesterday) lasts at least 3 months with WiFi on. I never turn it off.
This looks cool. When you say "there are tons of ways to solve this problem", presumably the canonical way is some sort of Fourier Analysis?
People would want to avoid awkward situation and talk to you (or about you) less.
The problem is that what WP can do is so, so much more than that. And this is the secret to its success since it can grow from a blog to "here's a bunch of static pages" to a full ecommerce site with CRM/ERP integrations, etc. Boutique mini CMS is a fine thing but won't be displacing WP.
Introducing Suno Scenes
The UAE spent $30B and a decade building one nuclear plant. The technical knowledge (and the design, and the construction) came from South Korea.
So what happened to the missing 25%, died before upgrading?
Singapore is a success because of the government:

https://www.npr.org/2015/03/29/395811510/how-singapore-becam...

"Some of the biggest sectors domestically — shipbuilding, electronics, banking, and now they're very involved in private banking — got their start because Lee Kuan Yew and the government specially directed state funds into those areas," Kurlantzick says.

The government also provided social services like housing and health care, in a way liberal economists applauded."

"He understood the politics of this very diverse place, and put together the laws, including the labor laws, that created a stable, peaceful place that multinationals were looking for," Lim says.

And it is good for you, but what about people who are not you?

"People live well, but the per capita GDP conceals a high level of inequality, so that is definitely a major issue in Singapore today and one of the things that the current prime minister has focused on," he says.
If you have never had such issues (not had them and fixed them, that doesn't count), consider yourself lucky...
Modern sleep (s0ix) is a mess on linux. Laptops will either not sleep, or sleep but not wake up, or drain the battery while they are asleep, or peripherals won't work after they wake up, or monitors won't light up, or things won't be where you left them on the monitor, or wifi or bluetooth won't work after resume, or they'll get stuck in a low frequency mode, ....
windows 12 will be out before then. As per the tradition, w12 will be what w11 tried to be. That being said, I really need to consider using linux for gaming. I only use windows for gaming so and most of my games are small indie ones.
AFAIK the reason for signed overflow still being UB isn't any exotic hardware property but because it enables some specific optimizations. Whether those optimizations are worth the trouble is up for discussion I guess.
I have never heard or never had myself any problems with sleep on Linux laptops and i'm using Linux(Arch, Debian, Lubuntu) as my only driver for past 10 years
It’s the driver. BMW tires and brakes do not last long too.
Could this be the random installers that were present in a folder of the repo? They had some C++ installers and I think a random Intel driver in there...
I read it all the way through once, but may have a missed something. Am I to understand that because he has (extremely) objectionable private views that he should be booted out of the organization he started? It seems like there is no evidence of untoward behavior, just a bunch of gross opinions?

If that’s the case, I’m completely against ejecting him simply because he publishes nasty thoughts. I say this as a guy who lived through many kinds of abuse as a child. My opinions and almost everything are the exact opposite of his. I don’t like most of his opinions, I don’t like his humor, I disagree with most of his politics, and dealing with him in person is exceptionally unpleasant.

But the FSF is an American organization, and in America we have something close to free speech. If he’s being kicked out for expressing sick thoughts on his personal website, but not in his capacity as a member of the foundation, I believe they are making a grave and immoral mistake. They have every right to do it, but I don’t agree with taking such action.
I had Hot Wheels orange tracks with loop-the-loops and stuff.

But also had the glow-in-the-dark fold out Matchbox City in a suitcase.
buildroot is a fantastic project.

I built a IRC bouncer in a box using a OrangePi Zero, buildroot, ZNC and "The Lounge" - and sold them at the CCC 2017.

The buildroot part was actually much nicer than I expected; if I was doing the same today I might try to adapt Oasis userland to it, but for a small "embedded" immutable little box it was excellent.

Here's the code: https://git.drk.sc/Derecho/irc-sbc-buildroot
Interesting if they reveal some of their investigation' findings
> It's crazy, people used to be excited when a new version of Windows came out.

I remember in 1995 a few of my fathers coworkers lining up for a midnight launch of Windows 95. By 2007 and Vista the same people were saying that you'd take XP from their cold dead hands.
If they are infinitely better why wouldn't I want them? Sorry that's confusing.
I used to love it so much but I stopped when the feed became more algorithm based (looks like they reversed much of that though). There's just a whole lot of noise to sift through now regardless. 80% of products seem end their description with "with AI". I just think the maker spirit that was previously present is hard to find now.
There were Matchbox tracks too.
This is about the most charitable thing I've ever read on this site about physicians.

As a physician with a degree in nutrition, I find most HN threads about medicine, nutrition, or the health system very frustrating, and in spite of it being the only area in which I'm formally qualified to opine, it's also where I've earned most of my downvotes (which prior to 500 internet points kind of mattered). I eventually learned to just bite my tongue here.

Curiously, I think my "hacker spirit" is what drove me to medicine. In undergrad, I was spending 5+ hours per day reading medical literature (mostly nutrition, endocrinology, exercise science) and had decided that doctors were mostly idiots, and eventually decided to change majors from ME to pre-med.

In medical school, I was a real handful to many of the lecturers, which I kind of regret now. Ends up it is really easy to publicly humiliate someone when they mis-state or misunderstand a minor detail that you've studied in depth, even if they have far greater expertise in the field.

In medical school, residency, and practice (EM), I've learned a lot about why things are the way they are. In my field, many patients are entirely obsessed about some problem and completely lose track of reality when discussing it. It becomes part of their identity. They don't know how to read or evaluate medical literature, and they lack the background knowledge to the extent that even beginning a discussion is onerous.

It's like your uncle who is far to one side or the other of the political spectrum and is well read but only in support of his biases -- yes, you might learn something this time, but do you really want to get into long discussion to find out? He already "knows" all the answers to many unstudied questions, and knows why the studies are wrong for the others. There are so many of these patient encounters that it is entirely infeasible to engage with even a small proportion of them and still get your job done, so you learn to nod, smile, and move on to determining whether or not a life-threatening emergency exists or not. You definitely don't have time -- at least in my field -- to really listen and consider all of these. Unfortunately it's not always easy to differentiate symptoms that are possibly psychological, exaggerated, self-limiting, or impractical / impossible to diagnose in my clinical context, from those that present opportunities for me to make a difference even if not a true emergency.

I still think that many doctors are idiots that lack critical thinking skills and self-reflection, and unfortunately almost nobody outside of academics reads primarily literature that isn't forced on them (MOC). I've tried to show many friends and colleagues how to set up RSS feeds for pubmed queries for their topics of interest -- zero people have seemed impressed. In contrast, I think much of HN leans heavily on representativeness heuristic and doesn't consider likelihood ratios when evaluating their test results.

Anyway, thanks for the considerate comment.
I've even seen the weird combination of the client and server both authenticating, but the account owner being given a choice if they want to 'level up'. It essentially means your public reputation and match history (and actual experience) no longer align.

I suppose that matters less if we're doing checks on the actual data, but for the player base, you cannot rely on what the game reports about the experience of your opponent, which makes for very confusing matchups (and the accusations that go with it).
Nice work! Just one quick question (maybe it's clear but I have not looked at it in depth). It says it computes the derivative for non-uniformly sampled time series data and the example image shows this. Is this also well behaved if the sampled measurements have noise (it is not the case of the example)? Or should one use a different approach for that? Thanks!
Valve's proton and VKD3D basically covers all of that. The only games that I have any trouble running on my fedora/amd system are those that use invasive anti-cheat.