skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you call "dedication to atmosphere" felt just too over the top to many others.

From one other review:

"The second scene depicts the mysterious “Guild Navigator,” a brainiac character Lynch devises as a literal giant talking brain floating in a tank of brine. His mouth is triangular-shaped. There’s really no clean way of saying this, so here goes: It looks like a vagina. And it secretes gas. Lynch likes to shoot this in graphic close-up, and they’re explicit enough that if you see the film cut on TV, the editors completely omit these shots."

https://www.metro.us/entertainment/in-slight-defense-david-l...

I respect your appreciation for the movie, but to most people it's objectively bad.

From Wikipedia:

"In retrospect, Lynch disowned the film and acknowledged he should never have directed Dune:

I started selling out on Dune. Looking back, it's no one's fault but my own. I probably shouldn't have done that picture, but I saw tons and tons of possibilities for things I loved, and this was the structure to do them in. There was so much room to create a world. But I got strong indications from Raffaella and Dino De Laurentiis of what kind of film they expected, and I knew I didn't have final cut."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(1984_film)#Critical_rece...
the site is pretty broken right now. I searched for company:Earnest, Onelogin, and Okta, and it came back with nothing.
Author seems overly dismissive of the sequels. While they aren’t as great as the first, many of them are still very good books with interesting ideas. The stuff written by others (not Frank Herbert) on the other hand, does seem to be dreck based on my sampling.
Note that despite being hosted on github.com, this is a commercial product, with restrictive license ("Free for personal use")

There does not seem to be any source code around, nor even a binary download link (???).
I'd like to think that, like opening paragraph brings up, this piece is an old snapshot that brings some embarrassment today. At the time it was posted I would have been excited about it. 15 years later, indulgently and exhaustively defining the well worn subject of heresy feels pretty dull.

Like most celebrations of heresy, this skips the fact that orthodoxy has its own value: coordination. Parents teach their kids to avoid bad words so that they can coordinate with others. This is not a bad thing.

A better thing still is for kids to understand that words aren't inherently bad but that being conscious of how others feel about them is good. The impactful heretics do the hard work of helping the orthodox world adapt to what they have discovered.

And meanwhile, the vast majority of heresies are authentically wrong. Celebrating being heretical for its own sake, rather than a combination of truth seeking and empathy, had enabled all manner of jerks and frauds over the years. Tech culture needs a more nuanced view of this topic.
> +1 for Foogol. Reference to commercially obscure language but annoyingly influencial Algol?

Yes, even though I don't dislike Algol and the Algol syntax style, necessarily, I just wish they'd imported more Lisp influence sooner.
I don't know if it's still true, but until about Snow Leopard I could have a smooth keyboard driven experience that completely aligned with other apps such as NetNewsWire.
Then there should be a component of the securities act that exempts some securities from some additional baggage of being a security

IRS blanket accounting rules around a security aren’t useful for these digital consumptive assets which bear no ownership of an enterprise

FINRA and Broker dealer related trading restrictions arent useful in digital consumptive assets that are also securities

If the SEC wants some level of consumer/investor related protection, sure some level of financial disclosure can still be mandated

But that holistic approach’t being pursued here and thats why its being avoided by the whole industry because a securities designation wrecks the entire consumptive aspect of these assets.
> Fear is the mind killer?

"Fear is the mind-killer," whispers Paul Atreides. "So is this movie," groaned the critics.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/03/th...
FWIW, I think that a huge amount of political alignment in the U.S. derives from aesthetic sensibilities.

The thing last year where Trump ordered McDonald's for the college football team that was visiting him because the White House cook staff was not working due to the government shutdown is basically the perfect example of this. The left though it was the most gauche, trashy thing that ever happened, as in, "I can't believe someone would server toxic trash food to a guest in their own home." And right wing people mostly though it was totally normal, as in, "Of course you would order McDonald's if something came up and you couldn't serve a home cooked meal to a guest."
So... To be clear, I agree that the task is monumental, and on this scale no tutorial will help (much like there is no "how to write a complete web browser" tutorial).

However.

> Please provide links to some of these magic tutorials that makes developing an OS from scratch as easy as creating an iOS App. Like which part of "creating an OS" would you have tackled first, using which tutorial and how much time do you think it would take you?

https://wiki.osdev.org/Tutorials > follow in order, take a few months, and you absolutely can write an OS.
Text replacement is nice -- but yasnippet is arbitrarily nicer.
Thank you. Strange that that article doesn’t at all mention Mencius Moldbug even though that’s clearly where this all inherits from.
I think if a specialised workshop can assemble a better laptop will be nice. It can open in business for those specialist who can use machining and specialities skills to quickly assemble a laptop for customers based on their choices and design.

Like in the good old days corner stores and shops can assemble pc’s. Larger assemblers like HP, Dell and Apple killed that market but I feel it will be a good time to restart it. Like vinyl took over CD sales representing going back in time.

Hopefully this can be done for mobile phones as well with advancement in technology and standards. We need IBM PC kind of open and free as in freedom standards in laptop and mobile phones on hardware level.
As a daily Mac user who started to use macOS (OS X) about 7-8 years ago, I find the insurmountable number of bugs of macOS Catalina alarming. Don’t get me wrong, the situation is still much, much compared to Windows or Linux[0], buy it is alarming to see the general quality of macOS software to decrease.

I personally think it’s due to Apple engineers trying to do so much; I remember being impressed by the number of new features and changes introduced this year while watching the WWDC, but it looks like Apple couldn’t keep up its own enthusiasm.

Project Catalyst was poorly executed; I was disappointed that Catalyst doesn’t default to ‘HIG-respecting’ AppKit controls that correspond well with the UIKit equivalents (so that modal form sheets in UIKit are translated into floating windows, e.g.), and the inability to mix in AppKit controls and UIKit ones into the same view hierarchy (NSColorWell or NSPopUpButton doesn’t have UIKit equivalents), e.g.

SwiftUI is great in theory, but the tooling is immature, it’s not available to write any decently complex apps with them.

The iCloud changes were reverted right before Catalina’s release; looks like the iCloud team didn’t have enough manpower to fix all the bugs until the release.

It’s concerning, as one of the premise of macOS was that it works as expected, though that now the newly introduced parts doesn’t.
I’m expecting a stabilizing release for macOS 10.16 akin to the stone-stable 10.14 Mojave, but I don’t remember 10.13 High Sierra to be unstable like this one.

[0]: For Linux users who don’t agree with this: I’ve never set up a Linux desktop system with all the hardware working without doing any ‘geek’ stuff like running some shell commands.
And no, the fact that Apple only allows to use macOS only on its own computers isn’t an excuse. And no, even on well supported laptops like the ThinkPad, there are a furious amount of bugs that need ‘configuring’
Only the use of violence isn't enough; you have to ban the incitement to violence. Authoritarian causes never lacked martyrs.
I disagree. I cannot trust anything related to Facebook.
Ya, GraalVM fixes it. But it requires a compile step, so it's not as nice for scripts.

My favourite for scripting right now is Joker: https://github.com/candid82/joker

Joker is a Clojure dialect which is interpreted, thus it starts super fast (but runs slower, but fast enough for scripts). Its design is to be batteries included for all things scripting. So it's just a self contained executable with everything you need for scripting. It's implemented in Go.

I use it wherever I would have used bash or powershell prior.

There is also Babashka: https://github.com/borkdude/babashka which is a similar idea, it's an interpreted dialect of Clojure with fast start times designed for scripting. The difference with Joker is that it is newer and more experimental, and it is implemented in JVM Clojure, compiled with GraalVM and has no Windows support for now.

Anyways, I really recommend the use of Joker. Its awesome for scripting. I just put its binary in all my bin folders and script with it. It's great.
I don't know if I'd term it 'cocky'. It's more that they don't have to pay attention to the competition so their mind wanders. When you're behind you can have laser focus on precisely what's important and what's not. MacOS isn't important to Apple any more which is why they have an OS full of bugs.
If the period lasts months, then sure. People go on meds for temporary events all the time, e.g. Seasonal Affective Disorder.
This argument can be flipped, though. If life were found on Mars, that might lead to a ban on manned Mars missions, because there's absolutely no chance that a manned mission will not contaminate Mars with microbes from Earth. So to protect a Martian ecosystem, we might have to use only robots to explore Mars.
Did you backup before you upgraded?
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/justice-pearl-harbor-...
>the decision will be made through rational argument

and what do you do when both sides are at an impasse because they have different axioms?
To say what I think JasonFruit is trying to say, but with less condescension:

Your questions are valid and really interesting, but that doesn't make the questions of "Do other planets have life?" and "Where did life on Earth originate?" invalid or uninteresting. Personally I'm interested in all of them.
> The inverse of this seems to be taking hold now: that it’s socially acceptable to say things which are unreasonable, outlandish or downright factually incorrect, if they’re considered to be in service of a cause that ‘our side’ believes in.

examples?
Fair enough. But we still don't need the law to concern itself with anybody's ideology.
What alternatives do you like?
I don't understand why this is a comcern, to be honest. Government agencies already have your photo if you enter the US (among other countries) legally, and they presumably have CCTV in airports that can be used to identify people after the fact. They also know when and where you entered the US regardless of whether you use the kiosk. What is so special about the kiosk taking another picture of you to compare?
> A number of treatments, from low-calorie diets to taking the drug metformin, are currently being investigated.

Everything I read about metformin is exciting: cheap, simple structure, causes weight loss, reduced all-cause mortality in diabetics (ie: they studied it long enough to make sure it works, not just to ensure it reduces blood sugar), reduces blood sugar without hypoglycemia and might prevent cancer.
I feel like I could pretty comfortably write sizeable portions of an OS if I invested as much time as the author of Serenity did. I'm not trying to talk up my own capability or downplay the Serenity author's achievement, I just think a lot of people don't realize that low-level programming isn't really harder, it's just different.
In fact these are the lines of questioning I'm most interested in and nearly none are resolved by the existence of other intellingent life, that is unless they are more intelligent.

I feel like this should be more pervasively held belief to a bunch of people with a higher than average propensity of consuming scifi. Star Trek did a pretty thorough job of showing that the same fundamental questions persist even if we assume there exist more intelligent species out there.
So this makes it like an Android tablet now?
I also liked it. The navigator really didn’t appear u til the second book, but I still liked it in the movie. The “voice” amplifier weapons were hokey, but the theme of the movie was cool, years before it was termed steampunk.
I hope domino theory doesn't come back, I don't know if I could stomach another 30 years of proxy wars.
Doesn't really matter.
Ok, so this has been locked in as one of the top posts on the front page for a day or two now. I'm sure there is a good reason. Maybe it's an interesting topic, or a lot of people agree with the particular message.

But can we talk about Twitter "essays", as I like to call them, for a minute?

As soon as I see someone chaining together 3-4-5+ (let alone) 10 tweets in a row, I immediately check out & hit the back button. That's not what Twitter is for.

It has a short character limit for a reason. It's meant for SMALL, quick thoughts. Things I can scroll through quickly, consume, and move on to the next bit in my feed. Not long, drawn out opinion pieces.

If you have that much to say, write a blog post about it. Write a post in a relevant sub-reddit. Send an OP-ed piece to your local newspaper for all I care. ANYTHING, buy try to make me follow your meandering, 10+ tweet long, stream of consciousness.

I admit I didn't read past the second tweet in the chain. I read enough to learn this twitter 'essay' was spurred by his college droping blackboard. I remember blackboard in college. It's was pretty mediocre but served it's purpose for it's time & place.

Anyway... I get the reason people do this. It's typically people with a lot of followers (like this guy, with 50 thousand) and they know this is the platform that will get the most reaction for whatever undeveloped, spur of the moment, rant they want to spew out.

Which is my point. Twitter is for undeveloped, spur of the moment rants. And if it spans more than two tweets, then tweeet us a link to your blog post. Or else don't get mad when I get distracted by comments in the third tweet, and go down a rabbit hole of shit talk before I make it to the end.

Well, sorry for the HN comments rant here. I got a little to angry I guess, but at least this is a place where long form comments are acceptable. Twitter is not.
Here's my real account saying: I'm continuing to play Overwatch. The Overwatch developers aren't responsible for this mess. And I'm trying to get good enough to make it to at least the semi-pro level, which means taking time off for all of this to blow over and people to forget means I'm severely hampering my efforts to achieve that goal. (even a week off is going to harm my gameplay disproportionately) I can't just play something else, other games aren't interesting enough to me to try and make it to a high level of play.

I can only hope that Blizzard somehow unwedges the shoe from their mouth that they're madly chewing on and figure out some way to handle things better.
Either I suck at conveying sarcasm or you suck at picking up on it.
You are not crazy! However cancellation is an advanced topic. It requires some experience to get it right - and even to understand why it's required at all.

Most people will not see the need for cancellation - until they either need to implement a deadline timeout later on, or run into the problem that lots of outdated tasks take up their memory. Those things can come up years after the inital program had been written.

It's also not purely a Go thing. E.g. in Java thread interruptions are also barely handled correct. Or CancellationTokens in C#.
What's people issue here?

If he talked about the sanctity of marriage and how under a christian system gay people should not be allow to marry and how they will go to christian hell..... would we be as equally outraged they got fired over inserting free speech into a sporting tournament?

Or is this about how we expect corporations to follow our morals?

Which as a billion Westeners is mostly pro Hong Kong, which as a billion Chinese mostly pro China, on this issue.

There's a good argument corporations should be apolitical and amoral on issues outside their domain, which in this direct case Blizzard is doing.

I need evidence they allow the opposite, pro China speech, to be outraged here.
> it made sense that Blizzard wanted to stay neutral

To me it made sense that Blizzard wanted China's money, see diablo mobile.

"Do you guys not have phones?"

Also there are reports Blizzard is stopping people from deleting their accounts.
Flying in a plane, it's apparent the scale of industrialization, be it agricultural or otherwise, we've imposed upon the world.
The real question might be if having it in one place makes monitoring and revocation easier than distributed trusted systems? Also, traditional passwords/secrets don’t expire, and if they do expire, how would you maintain trust in a distributed fashion outside of... complicated multi-part keys, something less secure like DNS, and/or more permanent tokens like the private keys used by a CA system? Somebody somewhere has to maintain a private or secret key, or you need a human to intervene. And even if you store the key on hardware, any users of the key could be compromised.

I guess what I’m getting at is—there probably isn’t a perfect answer, just tradeoffs. And if history has taught us anything, it’s a case of “when” not “if” something is attacked/broken. If so, perhaps you should partition your data, including infrastructure, to not rely on just one Vault server for everything? Outside of that, or monitoring, the only other clear answer everyone leans on is “Store it in the cloud,” under the assumption that the hardware and people processes at cloud companies will be more secure overall than anything you’d develop. Which is then the attack vector vault prevents: saving permanent access tokens. Off the cuff that’s how I see it. I’m not actually in SRE or security so I’d welcome other opinions.
This sounds like one of the billion things correlated with having less money.

https://www.citylab.com/life/2012/03/why-people-cities-walk-...
In communist Russia, minor version always have breaking change
The biggest flaw with the sequels is that they end up not ending- in the same way the Dune Messiah was a setup for Children of Dune, it seems that Heretics and Chapterhouse were leading up to the seventh book that Herbert died before writing.
because, on human level, I forgive him.

(though he does not need my forgiveness, and neither my opinion or anything matters in this matter).
VC by the Numbers
I am more intrigued by the political angle of all of this. If the wife of the United States senator cannot get her way in New York City, I’m curious if that says anything about the political dynamics.
They do this because it drives more engagement than tweeting a blog post link.
At least for CS, it was pretty clear to me that PhD and post-doc is not about becoming a professor. Instead, you are getting much more interesting projects, but also a much lower salary.

This is obviously not for everyone, but there are plenty of people who would like to do this for a few years (or much more -- then they end up as research scientists and non-tenure-track professors)
I'm not talking about detecting life. I'm talking about replicating the experiment which was performed on Mars to see if perchlorates are formed and some other reaction is responsible for the gaseous carbon isotopes.
Wow. It's always fascinating to contemplate the serendipity of what, how, & when items wind up here, but thank you for posting this, best thing I read all week. It jogged my memory as I must have read some excerpt or review or preview of her book The Recovering when it came out last year, and then read the book itself. She's a fantastic author and chronicler. Seven years, 10 months, & 21 days sober myself. One day at a time. Also for those wondering: it does get easier. But you can't get complacent about it.
Does anybody know the expected price point? This is quite exciting and is exactly what I'm looking for, but I imagine the price point will be too high to justify replacing my high-spec working laptop with this lower-end device.
Why do you think this is embarrassing? Javascript is great for small scripts. Largr codebases then sure
Crowd supply campaign: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform/updates/re-introducin...
I don’t understand from your README what this product is.

Is this a Windows-only program?

Why is SSH and Telnet listed as “supported”? Won’t any terminal emulator support those protocols via an executable?

What differentiates this from Alacritty, Kitty, or iTerm2? These “modern terminals” are not included in benchmarks.

What differentiates this from Microsoft’s new terminal?

What differentiates this from the Powershell IDE thing?
I take 2:1 glycine/proline separately. It helps me sleep but leaves me feeling hungover until about noon.
I'm guessing it's the shift for advocating for equality to advocating for diversity. eg. Harvard admissions where Asians and Whites have a handicap in an effort to increase diversity.
There’s no IDE that can compete with unix.
Sounds like you should be rooting for Bitcoin and Ethereum than Libra.
What happens when you re-upload a YouTube video 1000 times
Check out fanedit redux; it's actually a good movie, presumably something like was intended before they edited it to crap.

https://vimeo.com/62914506
If I had to translate this from corporate speak into the real world it would go something like "fuck off, we are following the money"
In the U.S. it is quite common for grocery stores to have a small bank branch inside them for exactly the reason you cite.
Ubuntu Gnome, is that you?
Walmart certainly has the infrastructure and logistics.

Doesn't Amazon makes almost all its profits in AWS? And that they also seem invincible, but they are pretty expensive.
The point is that ownership also prevents these errors. If there are never two simultaneous mutable references to something, then you can get the advantages of immutable data structures without paying the performance penalty.
Picking a queue size is a latency/throughput/determinism tradeoff.

Picking a higher queue size can increase the peak throughput. The queue will smoothen out peaks and valleys in the workload, and the other end of the queue will get rarer into situations where there is no work. If you know the duration of the "valleys" in your workload you can size your queue exactly to get over them.

However a too big queue size can easily lead to higher latencies. In extreme situations the work might be already outdated at the point of time it's processed by the receiver. And backpressure on the producer is less given.

Queue sizes > 1 can also mask concurrency issues (like deadlocks), which will then only show up rarely in production when the queue is fully exhausted. I guess that's one of the main reasons why they picked the 0/1 rule.
The author of the article is not very knowledgeable about dune it seems. Dune has quite the fan base it just never had a good commercial success in movies and TV to become mainstream.
I'd argue the real reason behind it is to skirt GDPR-like privacy laws. If microfees are used for certain interactions, even if they are negligible amounts, Facebook would be required to retain the data attached to it as it's part of the transaction.
"Wheels within wheels" is a biblical reference.

https://biblehub.com/ezekiel/1-16.htm

Edit: It comes up in country songs sometimes, e.g. https://youtu.be/g6a9sYiBtlM?t=539