skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It makes more sense when you realize that all the money being thrown into Ukraine is likely being funneled out as tax-exempt gains by one billionaire or another who gives kickbacks to the politicians who enable this grift.

The Western governments give Ukraine money, the money gets spent on weapons, the weapons are being bought from the West, Western government officials are stakeholders in weapons company growth & success.

Some government officials have a strange habit of multiplying their net work several times whilst in influential positions whilst on a relatively lower salary than would allow such gains.
Does not reflect my experience at all. T420 from 2011 is still completely usable. Haven't clocked the boot-up time but definitely not minutes, more like a couple dozen seconds. Everything worked out of box with latest stable Debian. Can do 2560x1600 over the DP connector, too. This is not even a top-spec model but the slowest i5 available back then.
> So I believe the employer is required to do that withholding.

Sure but the withholding is the responsibility of the employer. In this case, shouldn't the employer cover it and send the shares - xx%?
Wholeheartedly agree. Can't teach kids to eat broccoli if you don't eat it yourself, they're just too perceptive. I don't like phones myself, but sadly enough, it is becoming hard to keep up with society (e.g. sports groups) or even outright not accepted to be "offline" anymore. It becomes a tricky balancing act to teach your own pre-teens to deal with being left out versus fighting the dopamine goblin. I don't think technology is bad, nor food for that matter, but we really as a society have to overcome our monkey brains. We ought to be better informed about how our brains work, especially as parents responsible for developing brains; and we ought to have basic neurology taught in schools to give the new generation a fighting chance against the rapid pace of technological advancement.
Perfect way of personalized ad tracking?
I think the use cases are just too wide and varied. If someone made me the perfect DAW for my needs, it would be so narrow they would quickly go out of business.

The DAW has to cover so many different use cases and styles that I don't see how you can get around the complexity upfront.

A 6 year old could plug in a guitar and record the audio with any editing software. Once you want multiple tracks though and real time effects on those tracks and midi then you are already at the flavor of most DAWs.
fair use snip.

the court granted Thomson Reuters summary judgment of direct infringement with respect to 2,243 headnotes, while leaving for trial disputes as to thousands more headnotes,
Kind of, but if you've seen people trying to implement a chess game in Oracle Forms or similar you'll know that most people never stop at "a thin wrapper around simple database transactions"...

Like systems built in excel or locode alternatives, every CRUD application gets more and more convoluted over time and isn't "just CRUD" very soon after it's created.
An anecdote is exactly one data.

You cannot extrapolate on one data point.
I agree that tmux or screen is a must-have tool for servers.

But you certainly didn't read it all, or at least to the point where he goes more in depth of how crazy the working with Zellij is. After reading the parts of the interview with its author I'm not even going to check its webpage or trying it.

tmux for the worth.
Boring, old technology = stable, well defined, well tested, without cognitive overload.
Because life in IT is already hard enough.
Come on people, this is no platform for flame wars.
Sustainable Big Bag: Waste and Thermal Analysis of Refurbished Building Walls
Did I hear Windows subsystem for Wayland?
I think that for your example of having problems with HiDPI you might have had in mind another desktop environment than XFCE.

I have been using XFCE for more than 10 years almost exclusively with multiple HiDPI monitors.

After Linux installation I never had to do anything else except of going to XFCE/Settings/Appearance and set a suitably high value for "Custom DPI Setting".

Besides that essential setting (which scales the fonts of all applications, except for a few Java programs written by morons), it may be desirable to set a more appropriate value in "Desktop/Icons/Icon size". Also in "Panel preferences" you may want to change the size of the taskbar and the size of its icons.

You may have to also choose a suitable desktop theme, but that is a thing that you may want to do after any installation, regardless of having HiDPI monitors.
well, i guess it got me to read these comments and think, ok no thanks :D
This is what I do. I cannot call it Twitter anymore because that makes me sad (I miss you Twitter 2008-2016). I cannot call it X because that is dumb. So Xitter it is.
The difference is that we're not giving hackers direct access to weapons systems, while on the other hand, militaries are actively trying to use AI to control weapons directly.
What is 'mirror life' and why are scientists sounding the alarm?
I have a couple of ThinkPad t420s's from 2011 in active use. One has windows 10 the other kubuntu. Key part was installing a $40 sata 2.5" ssd, and both operating systems boot in well under a minute, completely unoptimized.

Big revolution of last 20 years was spinning drives to ssd. Otherwise, my daily drivers are all 8th generation Intel CPUs - I just got a ThinkPad x1 carbon for $300 cad from Facebook marketplace. 7 years old and runs brilliantly. My wife's daily driver is a t580.

Which is all to say I have no idea how Linux is taking 6 minutes to boot or even worse, lagging on terminal - something is horribly wrong there :-(
Bypassing anti-debug methods in an iOS app [video]
ApplePay is a major use case for my Apple Watches. Don't Android watches use the Google equivalent, however that is branded at the moment?

Another use case is using the watch to unlock other devices. That also seems security sensitive.

And some people may be uncomfortable about the health data that could be extracted from such a watch.
Bashfulness
Yes — the people the US Supreme Court ruled were illegally discriminated against are just “playing victim”.
Vercel: Fluid Compute
The Perils of Anthropomorphizing Machine Intelligence
>Judges, much less so.

Judges appointed by whom? Anyway, Judges are human and I think there is enough evidence throughout history of judges showing bias.
Regulating technology stands zero chance of succeeding. Technology and knowledge will always tend to freedom and the tech itself is meaningless without actions. It’s the actions and their consequences on people that we should care about.

What’s much more important is strengthening rights that could be weakened by large scale data analysis of a population.

The right to a private life, and having minimal data collected — and potential then stolen — about your life.

The right of the state to investigate you for committing a crime using models and statistics only if a judge issues them a warrant to do so.

The right in a free market economy to transparent and level pricing instead of being gouged because an AI thinks people with physical characteristics similar to mine have lots of money.

Banning models that can create illegal images feels like legislators not aiming nearly high enough or smart enough:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8d90qe4nylo
Short guide explains `-p, -parallel, and t.Parallel()` in Go programming language for parallel testing
Is it better if the phone is a book and you read alot. That might be something to encourage?

I guess it is still an isolated activity from the kid, but at least the message is "read books" over "stare at addictive device".

You can also talk about the book with your kids and they see different covers each day and may be curious (and may pick it up)
The group are not employees. They're ex-employees. There is no employer relationship in this case. The responsibility for withholding is somewhere else.
So you support people who are allowed to enter the country to pursue their happiness?
Yes, but outcomes are largely multi-realisable. It’s true that nature has a big role to play, but I think a lot of that role is expressed in how it changes nurture dynamics.

A shy child might not develop productive, healthy confrontation and resolution skills if nurture isn’t sensitive to that factor and willing to create an environment where those skills are learned.

My nature affected my parents nurture, as well as my other caregivers, mentors, and teachers. I think that’s the more significant role of nature. Nurturers could be much more attuned to this and more mindfully think through how to test for and pursue the right end goals, given different natures.
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My some friends and almost all neighbors could be my grandparents by age. And they love to invite me for a tea and share their memories. West was wildly different back then. Much better with rising economy and much better vibe. Traveling with kids was normal. Like Barcelona, Nice, Paris were normal destinations (I am in Germany). Skiing in the Alps absolutely normal even for poorer families. Rents were high, but not impossible. The job stability was there and infrastructure was built in their eyes. They saw when train line was built and the train started coming every two hours, every hour, every twenty minutes. Now the same train is constantly late and occasionally canceled. And one old guy told me openly, that he’s not envy me rising kids today. It’s kinda stupid when pay rise does not cover inflation and increasing taxes. Infrastructure is collapsing. Ancient school system is stuck producing factory workers for factories that are long gone. It’s just hard time being a parent.
Why RMH and ECommerce Integration Is a Game-Changer for Retailers
I dunno. If I use UFW on Ubuntu, I use it as a firewall, and applications that ignores my firewall, I'd consider them to be ignoring my firewall, regardless if the details say that it's still using NAT rules so technically it's just ignoring one firewall/something not called a firewall, even though it ignores the firewall you've setup.

To be frank, it kind of feels like the kind of technical nitpick argument I'd read from a Docker Inc employee trying to somehow defend ignoring the user's firewall.

The end result is that you setup rules in UFW, and Docker ignores them.
I think you’ve raised a great topic, and it could serve as the foundation for another post. One study found that the environment plays the most significant role here, especially the nonshared environment (outside siblings/family). This challenges the traditional view that growing up in the same household has a major influence on personality and intelligence.

Source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3147063/
This isn't often discussed on here. If I speak to my friends who are accountants, lawyers, doctors they generally aren't that inspired by their work either. I tend to find managers are often quite enthusiastic about work, and I think that's because the personality type required to do that sort of thing requires that enthusiasm. The only other class of people who often seem pretty enthusiastic are university researchers, but times are not great for universities in the UK right now.
LibreOffice goes collaborative and WASM as ZetaOffice
I expect that if you’re in Mexico using Google Maps it will still show “Gulf of Mexico.”

Political boundaries vary in different countries and google maps shows the border differently between India and China depending on where you are using the app.

It’s just a variable name. Different countries call the same thing by different names.
HLHDL's are clearly superior and is the way forward and there's no better way to prove the point than with real metrics on a real-time project absolutely loved the blog.
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I don't mind folks with expertise in narrower subjects to determine and pass rules that keep us safer. Congress folks can't each individually read and understand all the knowledge and data to write all of them.
This is totally unprecedented.
This might work for the first generation of steam users for now, but eventually they might require some kind of verification for old Steam accounts. Also remember that Steam is providing two things - a license for the games and a service to download them. I wouldn't expect a court to agree that a relatively low one-time fee obliges Steam to provide your or your heirs a service in perpetuity.

Why take the chance for games that you can get DRM-free and transfer independently from some live service.
Great, now go back to study before Duolingo kidnaps your family
Found a screenshot here https://www.neowin.net/software/taskexplorer-160/ using google images

a few more here https://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/TaskExplore...
I'd be interested in more technical details. What exactly is this?

Is it something like a Pico8 but emulated in the browser, i.e. with an instruction set, something resembling a bare graphics API, etc etc?

Or is it more like a high level framework for HTML5 games?

A link to source code would be helpful, maybe some docs on writing your own games for this "console"
I found that once you use tmux+vim, the built in terminal is not much of use, it's even slowing me down
This undermines governmental transparency. Whatever else happens, this is a turning point.
Lightspeed Shopify Integration Can Transform Your Retail Business
They're not "making your case for you",

they're pointing out a grammatical error in your post,

just like you pointed out one in their post.

Touché, I think.

But you already knew that.
Open-Source AutoML Frameworks: How to Choose the Right One
Show HN: Rhythmic Graph
They were probably ai-generated.
Does anyone really use an X GUI on BSD?
> time-value-of-marshmallow

Bravo! Love that phrase. Some freakonomics shit happening there...
To be fair, what has happened in modern history is that the West has lost its ability to build hardware in favour of doing software, because that was more profitable. China is slowly getting better at doing hardware in general, it's getting obvious with robotics.

We can say "this is what happens to a society as it advances", sure. But it also means that if China stops building our hardware tomorrow, we're screwed.

Enters AI: teach all your citizens to depend on AI, and they will depend on the few companies that build AI. Which are generally controlled by those billionaires that keep showing that we should fear them. Maybe that is what happens to a society as it advances, but is it desirable?

If we look at history, what happens to a society as it advances is collapsing. Usually it's painful for those who live during the transition. Turns out we are probably those who will live it.

Now if we wanted our society to be more resilient to the changes that are coming, we would have to reduce those dependencies and get back in control as much as possible. AI is doing the opposite of that.
I only started using "Desktop" linux about 2 years ago when I got my new Laptop. When I first started, I had no idea what the whole Xorg/Wayland story was up until that point. After a bit of research, I tried starting with i3, but could never get it configured correctly to use my laptop monitor and my desktop ultrawide monitor at the same time. After about a month of this, I swapped over to Hyprland and haven't looked back since.

While I never encountered any serious issues that prevented me from using my laptop when I first started, a few things didn't work properly all the time. In the past, I used to have a few issues getting screen sharing working, sometimes I couldn't launch a steam game. Since then, the experience has gotten to the point where I really don't notice any issues. Screen sharing works fine now, I can't remember the last time I couldn't get a steam game to launch. I don't even have issues with electron apps anymore. This is all while running on an Nvidia GPU.

I know there are still issues on things like accessibility, but from someone who doesn't have the time investment into Xorg, Wayland felt pretty good a few years ago, and now I really can't find anything to personally complain about with regards to it.
> 'm going to raise my prices to cover the additional expense.

Only if the market will bear such expense. If your product sells at $100 and the tariff is $15, what makes you think the importer will be able to sell the same number of units at new price of $115? Depending on the demand, the $15 cost will be born by a combo of the importer and consumer.
"problem is the entire argument-counterargument tree is hundreds of thousands of words, scattered about in many places"

An llm could solve that.
Yes. Adversity is only good for development if it’s a strong enough signal to require growth while also being within the range of adaptability, relative to your environment (support system, resources, etc.).

A given event might wipe out Child A, might cause adaptation in Child B, and might be within the recoverable range but above the adaptive threshold for Child C. The reliable path to growth is small but sufficient challenge, response, adaptation and recovery, repeat as frequently as is beneficial.
Interesting Data Sets for Statistics
I got a 16GB RAM 512GB SSD N100 minipc for less than $150 last month. Yes it could be faster (always true for any computer), but I feel I got way more than I paid for. Certainly a much better deal than an RPi 5.

PS. If you need more power than that I have a hard time coming up with a better deal than M4 Mac Mini, perhaps with some extra usb storage. It's possibly the only non-workstation computer that is worth buying in the not-inexpensive category (in the base version, obviously).
I just finished Gustavo Pezzi's NES course last year (https://pikuma.com/courses/nes-game-programming-tutorial). It was excellent and it gave me some great insights to how things work inside the NES using 6502. This looks a lot simpler. I'll take a look. :)
I’ve seen TikTok videos of her recently and was wondering about why as she’s not famous or talented.

I think it’s bad that she defrauded so many people but still has massive enough cash that she’s paying a PR firm while she’s in prison. So the lesson here is to suck, lie, and be a mean person and you still walk away with cash.

If she ends up launching a Gwyneth Paltrow-type style brand after release, I’m going to weep a little bit.
Thank you so much!

Personally, Docker Swarm works great for me. I was worried about it for a while, too, but Mirantis seems to maintain it pretty well. There are even new features being shipped, like CSI support back in 2023! I’m thinking about adding a Kubernetes backend though, just in case things get worse for Swarm.
this makes it sound very nice. i only do this stuff out of sheer frustration. not understanding stuff (i hate 'magic' , its 1s and 0s...), or not agreeing with decisions after i do understand stuff. i really dislike i have to build everything myself. though then again. i guess i do like building stuff :')... it's a never ending s/shitshow/joy/g
Works as a uBlock rule too:

youtube.com##div.ytp-play-progress{background: #f03 !important;}
I know this doesn't help but those seem like GNOME issues not Wayland protocol issues. Using Nvidia also probably doesn't improve the odds.
There’s been a phrase in the South Asian diasporas for a while that captures this idea. ABCD [0] where “C” reflects the confusion (aka two way value pulling). As a person with first generation immigrant parents who raised us in the rural Midwest of America, the C is a real feeling.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-born_confused_desi
For GOG the safer solution would be to download and backup the offline installers. Might even become useful in your own lifetime.
EU car manufacturers are also heavily subsidized. Subsidies are really hard do compare because you can structure them very differently and still achieve similar results (think direct loans or land leases, lower taxes, state sponsored infrastructure like rail, electricity, water, large state-sponsored orders, research grants, workforce education, consumer grants for EV vehicles, lower taxes for EV vehicles etc.).

Here's an article stating VW got over €9b over 8 years, for example: https://www.wiwo.de/politik/deutschland/dax-subventionen-gel...

If that is true, BYD actually gets about the same as VW.
Vision-Language Models vs. Traditional OCR in Video – New Benchmark
A new benchmark study evaluates Vision-Language Models (Claude-3, Gemini-1.5, GPT-4o) against traditional OCR tools (EasyOCR, RapidOCR) for extracting text from videos. The findings show VLMs outperforming OCR in many cases but also highlight challenges like hallucinated text and handling occluded/stylized fonts.

The dataset (1,477 manually annotated frames) and benchmarking framework are publicly available to encourage further research.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06445
Dataset & Repo: https://github.com/video-db/ocr-benchmark

Would love to hear thoughts from the community on the future of VLMs in OCR.
The difference is those were private platforms not giving a soapbox to certain politicians that were quite clearly violating private terms of service. This is the federal government deleting taxpayer-funded content, data and studies. They are not similar in any way and to imply otherwise is a disingenuous comparison.
It’s not a grammatical error though, hence making my case?

And his was a spelling mistake.
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/wayland/
Some people get really hung up on rigid thinking around "correlation is not causation" and throw the baby out with the bathwater, bending over backwards to avoid leaning on correlation at all. They focus on strict causal-logic, to the point of ignoring the truth value of of statistical reasoning under uncertainty.
its not even just arch linux. you can literally buy a PC from anyone who sells ubuntu 24.04 and you still cant properly install (and have them work out of the box) snap store items like shutter.
Agreed. I am using Sway; it just works (tm).
openSUSE Tumbleweed Switching from AppArmor to SELinux for New Installations
Sure, on one hand there's normalcy bias.

But on the other hand screeching about every little thing is just as stupid.

At the end of the day you can't use brain dead rules of thumb to alleviate the need to actually think things though. You actually need to consider the political and economic realities the various moves that various parties might make.
I remember them as mascots. I don't remember any scam. Weren't they just there to tell you put money in your CBA savings account?

There was such a thing as interest back in 90s, right? It might have even kept up with inflation?

Monthly account fees were a drain, but they didn't kick in until you turned 18 (later if you bothered to prove you were a student).
oh, and yeah, looks like a really nice project honestly. i never do frontend stuff, but when i do, man, something like this would be useful :')... typing chromium index.html -> realizing it just spawned on the different workspace because chromium is trying to be smart (more likely i am being dumb ;D).

having it side by side like that looks really nice if u have the screenspace.
I'm not understanding the situation. When I had RSUs as an employee, those grants were voided at separation. I only got to keep the RSUs that had vested before separation (which were then just common stock and that I had paid taxes on at vesting.)

Are you saying your former employer let you keep your unvested RSUs which subsequently vested at the IPO? (I've never heard of anyone getting to keep their unvested grants after separation.) Or were you still an employee during the IPO and left the company between then and now?