skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I must be reading it wrong, because I thought it was about how love was the most important and powerful emotion and how the final defeat of the two protagonists was the realization that they no longer loved each other and instead loved the state.

All of the Big Brother, Ministries of Whatever, censorship, and surveillance stuff was just window dressing for the love message.

Even Brave New World, to me, is about love. The society spurns familial love (like between John and his mother) and committed relationships (like between everyone and everyone) and pain or discomfort is a prerequisite for love and the pursuit of happiness has all but eliminated true love from the world. John kills himself because he hurt the woman he loved, he is humiliated for loving his mother, and is frustrated by the fact that the woman he loves can't love him because she is too busy pursuing simple, immediate, pleasures.

At least, that's my recollection of the two books.
Huh, I had missed that. Hope it worked out well! I knew Daniel back when we were both working with Tcl.
ShellNoob – Because Writing Shell Code Is Fun (But Sometimes Painful) [pdf]
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Similar to the two sibling posters, I find pixel-scrolling (particular with the weighted momentum feeling you get on macos) to be more visually comfortable and easier to track.

I found it frustrating in spacemacs that I couldn't get this set up properly (and I'm not even sure if it's possible too). Everything else in emacs was eye-opening and fun.
Looks like the high capacitance are the longest lead, which is what I have been finding. 10 uF and up in 0603 are hard to get.
Soma has a clear equivalent in the form of television and social media. These are things that suck up people's attention and provide short term ego/happiness boosts so that people don't spend a lot of time really thinking about the system that they're in.

Regardless, I don't think any of these things are the "central concepts" of BNW. BNW is about how a society can oppress and degrade people in a subtle and sustainable manner, without being totalitarian, without hatred or fear or the will to dominate, with people by and large believing that they are contented and fulfilled. All this simply by the inevitable progression and continuation of certain principles, e.g. that it's good to maximise how happy people say they are, or that conflict should be avoided at any cost. This all has disturbingly close parallels with modern Western society.
" it was about how history is rewritten and people are trained to change their beliefs on command."

That has been achieved in hyperpartisan US politics already. A lot of people of people will change their opinion and perception of the real world immediately once it's convenient for "their" party.
While the design is new and cool, I wouldn't call "radically new". It puts together designs that exist in different contexts.

Panels are already used by tiling WM (and I believe recent versions of Android as well). Scrolling though apps with a three-finger swipe already exists too (I have an extension for Firefox for Android that does this to change tabs, it's a nice feature)

Sorting documents by hashtag was done by gmail since its beginning
Zubrin's plan is specific to Mars in that it relies on chemicals present in the Martian atmosphere.

The only equivalent option I know of for the moon would be to collect water ice and break it down to oxygen and hydrogen. The process involved would be quite different.
Filament Group has Tablesaw which is another take on this idea. Javascript based but I think the results are a bit better https://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/tablesaw.html
it's so important to read many of the books on this list (or at least long summaries) to get a proper perspective on economics. too many (including commenters right here) make the mistake of picking a team and losing their brains in favor of defending their team, rather than carefully considering the merits and positions of the various arguments put forth (which admittedly is harder).

while economics is inherently political, it isn't a sport.
> So you can reasonably run graphics, 10 GbE, and one NVMe device off your 3.0x16 PEG lanes

Sure but you won't find any board with a setup like that. You can also reasonably split the x4 nvme lanes into 2x x2 but again you won't find a such a setup.

You'll find no shortage of boards with everything wired up to the PCH, though, and it's "good enough" even if it isn't ideal. The extra bandwidth will certainly not be unwanted. Especially when you're also sharing that bandwidth with USB and sata connections.

> The real use-case that I see is SuperCarrier-style motherboards that have PEX/PLX switches and shitloads of x16 slots multiplexed into a few fast physical lanes, like a 7-slot board or something.

I think those use cases would instead just use threadripper or epyc. Epyc in particular with its borderline stupid 128 lanes off of the CPU.
Weird reply. This is precisely a use case where VR in particular is useful.
I appreciate a combination of the two approaches, tiles and overlapping windows, so that I don't feel limited by constraints imposed upon me nor need to manage minutiae like this through endless configuration.

> I really don't judge, I just think people deserve something more efficient

I suppose that depends on your idea of efficiency. Mine is that I'm not fighting the window manager, playing Tetris with all the other tiles, to get things displayed how I want. I find that far less efficient that Mission Control and App Exposé, though I'm as aware as you that others have their own workflow.
> Whenever you pay cheaply for anything made in any third world country, you're externalizing the societal cost of pollution to that country

Much of the disposable stuff I've seen here in California were made in the US. The Solo cup company, and its parent Dart Container, are both in the US, for example.
Spot on. When coding against "raw" win32 API (or NT kernel APIs and perhaps rare native usermode NT API), using UTF-16 is the only way to keep your sanity. Converting strings back and forth between UTF-8 and UTF-16 in that kind of case is just senseless waste of CPU cycles.

One API call might take multiple strings and each conversion often means memory allocation and freeing — something you usually try to avoid as much as possible if it's something that's going to run most of the time the system is powered on.

The situation can be different in cross-platform code. In those cases, UTF-8 is a preferable abstraction.

Just don't use it for filenames. Filenames are just bags of bytes on at least on Windows (well, 16-bit WCHARs, but the idea is same) and Linux, and considering them anything else is not a great idea.
It already exists in the form of databases.

First that comes to mind is etcd.
I didn't know about the ISRU test on Mars 2020, that's very exciting!
Sadly, i don't have a 24/7 mac; i'm an iOS/laptop-only user.
Read about Australia’s stance on encryption laws and the recent raids on media offices and see if you still think the same way.

Also see the five eyes network.
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A lot of old master tapes self-destructed due to bad chemistry.

The binder material used to adhere iron oxide particles to the tape backing was, in many cases, slightly hygroscopic; over time, the binder absorbs water, breaking down that adhesion and causing the oxide to flake off when the tape is unspooled. The only known remediation measure is to bake the tape at low temperature, which will temporarily reduce the moisture content sufficiently to allow the tape to be played back and re-recorded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky-shed_syndrome
In the end, what.cd collection was several times bigger than oink
I could have written this exactly - lived it. Combine that with the crappy economy of 10-12 years ago, vomit.

Kids, you think you're dreaming now. Just imagine how much you'll be regretting later. Just quit your job, take some time traveling then go find another job. You'll feel better eventually.
Dotty 0.16 release (Scala 3 preview)
How do those semantics differ from multi-writers which can all write in transactional blocks?
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I think today's growing inequality together with distraction through social networks and "fake" news translates pretty well to Brave New World. Add to that improvements in gene manipulation over the next decades and it's easy to see how the world may split up into castes that have genetic ability based on wealth.
huh, Atlassian is on the huge company list?
A Video Journalist's Take on Mac Pro
Thanks! I think I read a different short story that used this idea, but it seems Menace from Earth likely predated the one I read - probably the first instance of this idea in print?
You're asking for a grand unified theory of solving problems across domains and multi-organizational structures. That was not what is being presented.
> This is a kind of obvious variant of Rowhammer, which hasn't generally been fixed AFAIK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer#Mitigation
> 7. The Apple troubleshooting guides are out of date. They do not note that if you have a firmware password on a T2 Mac, you cannot reset PRAM as expected and therefore cannot resolve screen brightness issues this way. You also cannot run diagnostics due to the black screen.
The buyer doesn't pay the agent, both agents' commission comes from the seller. Also, the agent we ended up with was a direct recommendation from the selling agent, and we figured this would give us a little extra "boost" with her by using her friend.
Good content marketing should be a positive force. Done well, it's win-win. Readers (including potential/current customers) get interesting/useful content; you get your brand out there at usually fairly low cost.
I don't believe there's any such thing as authority by expertise for any meaningfully sized group of people. It works right up until there's a conflict between the security expert and the UI expert, or any other expert. Then whoever "wins" ends up being whoever has the most unspoken political power or the more forceful personality. And maybe the best choice ends up getting made for the product, and maybe it doesn't. And maybe it was one of those cases where the expert was just plain wrong but all of the other non-experts weren't empowered to push back, because there's no organization and it's supposedly a Platonic ideal of a meritocracy.

Every specialist faces a lifelong moral hazard/cognitive bias in which they overvalue the thing that's important to them (because it's literally their job to value that thing above all other considerations, and their value to their employer is based on a perception that the thing they know about is really really important), and they undervalue everything else. The job of an organization is to provide an explicit framework to allow everyone to have their say, and enable an actionable consensus to be formed. And every single person involved might think that that consensus is fatally flawed because it doesn't go quite far enough with respect to whatever the thing they care most about is. But really that's just the organization minimizing everyone's individual biases, so whatever gets produced is more likely to be closer to what's ideal for the majority of users.

The flat meritocracy ideal also ignores the fact that there are very few objectively correct answers to anything in software design. Get three different specialists in the same area and you might get three different answers over what needs to be done, and three different weightings of all the different pros and cons in every decision that affects other parts of the product. Most likely, none of them are wrong, but more importantly none of them are likely to be the One True Correct Answer, but it's human nature for each one of them to feel like that's what they're offering so of course they're going to argue for it. Most likely there is no One True Correct Answer to begin with, only sets of compromises that are more or less desirable. A true flat meritocracy would only work if there were correct answers that don't involve compromising anything else, and the specialists knew them all the time.
Interesting, I was not aware I was not a "pro user" Thankfully, the 6.000 price tag educate me!

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P.D: Pro is NOT a price.
Yes, and the laptop and standalone touchpads as well. Those touchpads are more similar to Fingerworks products than the touchscreen iDevices. I would even argue that Apple's current touchpads with haptic feedback are clearly superior to what Fingerworks offered, if you install third-party software to expand the range of gesture options. I've been using jitouch for close to a decade now, and on a MacBook Pro I use multitouch gestures at least twice as often as I use keyboard shortcuts.
https://github.com/ludios/bitscrub

This is one that does it with CRC32, which may or may not be sufficient for detecting bitrot. It is probably trivial to modify to support a stronger hash.
As I read it, the point of the article is to explain how you deal with decisions when the "captain" can be anyone in a group, and not some designated hierarchical leader.

It's not democracy per se: for instance a designer can come with a proposition to give people a chance to review it. In the rafting example they're basically saying "we go right", and will do so if nobody shouts "there's a cliff on the right".
And this Fringe episode:
https://fringe.fandom.com/wiki/Green,_Green,_Green,_Red
Please don't take HN threads into generic ideological flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Thanks. Good to see some RF interviews. Been listening to your pod casts a lot lately, admittedly at bedtime, but it’s good stuff.
What Slack, Gusto, & Monday can't do for startups, this new app can
> In hindsight would have rather closed up shop than taken their money.

Very idealistic and not the way I think at all. What are you going to do? Stop using any product associated with China? Where do you draw the line exactly? And who is to say that all chinese investors are the same anyway? Are you going to vet future investors (from any place) fully to make sure they are clean in every way and their intentions are pure? Or are you simply going to decide after the fact that you did enough when it actually makes no difference at all and you can say 'wow I wish I never did that'.
Good day, gentlemen. This is a prerecorded briefing made prior to your departure and which for security reasons of the highest importance has been known on board during the mission only by your H-A-L 9000 computer. Now that you are in Jupiter's space and the entire crew is revived it can be told to you. Eighteen months ago the first evidence of intelligent life off the Earth was discovered. It was buried 40 feet below the lunar surface near the crater Tycho. Except for a single very powerful radio emission aimed at Jupiter the four-million year old black monolith has remained completely inert. Its origin and purpose are still a total mystery.
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Why not make water-zoos voluntarily, aka, the animals can return to the ocean, but can get a free meal & protection at the zoo at certain times? Oh, right, plastic in the ocean + fishing and dangers.
Atom 1.38
Cloudflare pretty good at it also.
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If a talking interface becomes a popular option in addition to a visual interface, that would actually improve accessibility.
Because people think it is. Not all people, but enough.

“Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it” - Publilius Syrus
IMHO author is missing the point here, lines are not just arbitrary decoration, they've got an important purpose to guide the eye. If line is removed, it needs to be replaced by enough white space that will separate the content visually. The 1st example fails horribly with this, it's impossible to see where the 2nd row begins without reading the whole text. Also, the longer a row/column is, harder it is to follow the separation and line is a better choice in those cases (or more spacing is needed). There's nothing particularly special about these "rules", they're just the normal typography practices and some common sense applied to tables.
> keep news sites and Olympic committee from recognizing Taiwan as a separate nation

No, they don't want to be a separate nation. It's a more complex situation than that. Taiwan considers itself as the Republic of China, where they consider the government in Beijing to be illegitimate, and reject communist rule.

Note that the rest of the world has also moved on, when we say "China" we also mean the one ruled by the government in Beijing, which makes the whole situation more complex.
I liked 1984, but probably enjoyed Animal Farm even more. It was likely a combination of the narrative itself and the fact that 1984 is more about what _could_ happen while Animal Farm describes through fiction what actually _did_ happen (not that parts of 1984 haven’t happened already).
Freakonomics
One of the most important books I read in college. I don't remember which translation to English I read but it was good.
Can you link to iOS version of Syncthing? Main page doesn't link to it.
On mobile Firefox with scripts disabled it loads a new page normally on clicking "more". It never ceases to amaze me what lengths will some people go to destroy perfectly fine user experience.
To be fair Trump doesn't inspire the "freshness" neither the fairness of his POV.
> many of the technologies in 1984 don't either

But one does: the speaker and microphone on the wall that you can't turn off.
> I must be reading it wrong, because I thought it was about how love was the most important and powerful emotion and how the final defeat of the two protagonists was the realization that they no longer loved each other and instead loved the state.

That's...an interesting perspective, but I think the audience is expected to already view love with that importance, so that the love storyline instead underlines the power of the control of the state.

Similarly with BNW. I think you are reading things that the authors perceived and sought to leverage in their contemporary audience with as being instead the message of the work: neither is about love, but the effect the dystopia described has on love is a key part of painting the picture because of what readers are expected to already feel about love.
I've seen good arguments about both being more suitable to our time. Brave New World captured more of the 'entertainment as anaesthesia' technique, while 1984 captured more of the paranoia-as-virtue we're burdened with. However, we have some very large deviations from Huxley's vision. No one would dream of sending their children to be raised by the state. If a drug like Soma existed (yes there is a drug called Soma now, but I mean a substance that acts as the one in Huxleys book does) it would be aggressively and hatefully prohibited.

One of the most prescient things about 1984 that really stuck out to me at the time I read it, and which I think someone could VERY easily get away with actually creating today with few even batting an eye was the Youth Anti-Sex League. It only gets slight mention in the book, I believe Winston's neighbors children were teenaged members. Brave New World handled sexuality very differently, with its 'orgy porgys' and whatnot. That's certainly not the state we have today, where discussion of sex is fine so long as you're condemning anyone who is having or seeking it, especially if they're outside of their 20s or ugly, fat, disabled, etc.

Ultimately, both books are a product of their times and provide interesting insights nonetheless. I don't know what benefit there is in holding one up as 'more alike' the dystopia we've created.
The made-up part was that running out of landfill space was something to actually worry about. And a lot of what was shipped over was "recycling". :-/
Small Idaho City Shows the Benefits of Open Access Broadband Networks
...That sounds like a strange scenario. Can you give me an example?
It's more a list of famous books written more-or-less about economics. They are famous, not necessarily good. You will understand economics less if you take "Das Kapital" seriously.

You'd do much better with "ECONOMICS: PRIVATE AND PUBLIC CHOICE" by James Gwartney, Richard Stroup, Russell Sobel, David Macpherson.

Another good choice is "Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell.
I agree with you in general, and I believe that if we are to begin really fixing the pollution epidemic, change will come first from regulation of big companies. But I also know that we as individuals will have to eventually exist in world where producing pounds of plastic refuse and driving our cars everywhere is not considered normal; so I try to adapt my current lifestyle to that, bits and pieces at a time. I have a hard time reconciling these two attitudes but at the end of the day, I don't believe supply and demand are going away so we have to push the bigger polluters out of existence with our wallets.
I also think that HIBP is something of a "public good" and would be best for some sort of non-profit or another. Mozilla is possibly the best currently aligned, of course.

Another weird thought is that it's the sort of "baseline infrastructure" that should be "governmental" to the internet. Unfortunately the closest I can think to an existing model for that is ICANN and that may not be something to emulate.
> I thought it was about how love was the most important and powerful emotion and how the final defeat of the two protagonists was the realization that they no longer loved each other and instead loved the state.

My takeaway was that love was the most important emotion yet the state has the power to control even love. I don't think we're supposed to believe his love for Big Brother is genuine, but rather manufactured much like revisions to history.
I didn't credit them with creating the world. I credited them with creating society, culture, etc. It isn't really a matter of debate. It's well understood the elites create societies and the institutions underlying them. The masses didn't create the US government or any of the systematically important institutions. A handful of elites did. This is pretty much true of every country/society on earth throughout history.
I use gestures all the time on my Magic Trackpad 2. Let's say I'm just surfing the web on my iMac. I might use:

- two-finger swipe left and right to go back and forwards
- two-finger double tap to zoom in and out
- pinch to zoom in and out
- pinch to view all tabs
- three-finger double tap to look up a word in the built-in dictionary, which I do a lot to get the definition of Japanese words in English
- three-finger drag to copy images or downloads to a folder or into another window, especially if I'm editing a document
- four-finger swipe up to switch to another application's window, especially if I'm dragging something
- four-finger swipe down to switch to another browser window

I'm using these gestures frequently to efficiently move things around when I'm editing a document, making a presentation, or even when restoring a file to a previous version or copying something out of a file's previous version to drop into the current version.
I found MIPS (R3000), SPARC, and MC68k about the right size for an ISA. Things like PIC (and similar microcontrollers) and older 8bit CPU like the 6502 and Z80 always felt a little limiting to me. I think those (MIPS etc.) were also a great point for higher-level (C, etc.) languages to be useful/interesting.

I guess each to their own though.
Can you make an air-tight recyclable paper box? So that humidity/etc doesn't get in the pills
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