skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But they're all... screens. And you're spending your time looking at them, regardless of what's on them and how you interact with it.

I do agree that they are different. But they're still screens.
So you are claiming that simplicity of system management is a strength of Linux?

Ok, we disagree on that, but I get what you are saying.

But, another aspect of what you are saying is ‘trust the vendor and don’t look under the hood’. This is no different from trusting Apple or Microsoft.

You are actually confirming the general point that Linux provides no benefit in terms of who you have to trust.

I.e. it doesn’t in fact give you a system that you own and control - you are at the mercy of a vendor.
Here is your epistemic "eat your own reflexivity" of the day: Is Popper’s falsification falsifiable?
Product(A) === Product(B)

Price(A) > Price(B)

=>

B > A

--------------------

Simplification aside, tipping is a service as well. The tipper "feels" good about tipping, the same way people donate or buy because of donations when there are such campaigns. For a lot of people the utility of that is close to 0, so they don't tip. For some its very high.

So it makes sense to have tipping as a way to implement price differentiation.
Thanks for the good game kind stranger!
You can install the hwe kernel in LTS too. Might not be a good idea for a normal user, if it is not necessary.
You are using "factory produced" code every time you use any optimizing compiler for typical general purpose language.

Compiler optimization phase ordering is NP-hard for every program being optimized and compiler writers cannot abstract that away to reusable components or frameworks.
That is not true. Google retrains its models periodically. Removed data is not used for training models. Also I'm not sure that private user photos can even be used for training cross user models because I don't see how these photos could possibly be disclosed to raters, so there would be no ground truth.
As a non-processor geek, isn't M1 an arm chip? How long will it take arbitrary software to target it?
"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security."

Very good read, thanks for this.
Reads like a mirror of whats currently happening regarding all the covid associated law changes.

/edit I added some more context in a child comment
True, but I argue that those mental health effects would be different than other kinds of screen time :)
How about something like e-ink? That's a screen, but in terms of optical properties I believe it should resemble paper.
Thanks for taking an interest. Using women as an example again:

Women are by and large outside of the HN uni-silo, and I feel their absence keenly. The thousandth go-round on James Damore is going to play out very differently in a majority female community or a community with gender parity than it will in a mostly-male community like HN.

I don't imagine that the "powers that be" at HN wish for the community's gender skew. However, I don't think that you can counter the powerful forces at play in the wider tech industry without imposing controls on debate which you would find philosophically incompatible with HN's mission.
the fees double the cost of the burrito. maybe the calculus is different if you live in more suburban areas but being in SF it is easy to walk to food places nearby.
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This is an eternal fight between people who think they know better and usurp power to decide about someone else's life and people who want to be in charge of their own destiny.
"the notion of counter-elites: those who are groomed for power and then excluded from it ... The tech industry is a better example ... Peter Thiel (classic counter elite Stanford-trained lawyer cum entrepreneur)"

Is what sense was Peter Thiel ever "excluded from power"? That's not my understanding of his career (but maybe my understanding is faulty).

More generally, is "wreak[ing] their vengeance by turning against the existing hierarchy" really a sensible way of thinking about the tech industry? Yes, the tech industry has certainly disrupted existing hierarchies in very significant ways, but it seems to me that the motivation there is not vengeance but rather profit.

Maybe I'm focusing too much on the word "vengeance". Is your claim more that there was significant "elite overproduction" in the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's, and that absent this elite overproduction we wouldn't have the tech industry at all, or that the tech industry would be much smaller?
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Ask HN: How to build a personal blog/website from the ground up?
I have always wanted to build a very simple personal website or blog.
Examples: http://www.paulgraham.com/index.html
and
http://ruina.tam.cornell.edu/.

I have some experience with web development, but this will be a learning experience. Looking for all recommendations on how best to host and develop a website that is entirely my own.

Thank you!
https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors/

give it some time and you'll never want to turn it on again.
I frightens me, that people buy and use things when they look nice. I'm glad to use free and open software - not bug free, but at least free and trustworthy.

Had a lot of trouble with Gatekeeper, signing, notarization and stapling it in the past. I'm so sick of it.

I like my Linux. It has it glitches but it seems to like me also.
I agree with your sentiment. In top of the fact that these apps in the past have ripped off the drivers:

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/8/20/20825937/doordash-tippi...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/charlesradclyffe/2018/10/16/tip...

And have manipulated search rankings to force people to use their service when they think they are talking to the restaurant:

https://www.wxyz.com/news/doordash-is-delivering-food-withou...

Than bully restaurants:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/04/14/doordash-gru...

I an good conscious can't use them.

In addition, the argument that the customer is minimally exposed is, to me, an incredibly selfish argument. Yes you the customer may be less exposed, but at the expense of the driver (who now goes to multiple restaurants and multiple houses), and the restaurant (who also has to interact with those drivers).

I personally do carry out from restaurants, and done properly, carry the same risk exposure as delivery to the customer (e.g. putting the food in the trunk of your car, placing the order in the front door and allowing you to get it at a safe distance).
Does value investing still work?
Basically, your bottom line depends on the experience UX has on the client. Considering the importance of this product, the best option would be to order the creation of a website from professionals. For example, Eleken: https://www.eleken.co/ui-ux-design
Back in 2010, he made prescient predictions about our current state of affairs. That’s why he’s getting attention.
looks like founders / VCs exiting .

btw , how is Uber stock doing these days ?
The ability to drag the notes to create arbitrary slides is really, really cool. I wish DAWs had this feature.
> That came as a surprise to me. I would have expected it to be up since so many are stuck at home and desktop computing remains the premium home computing experience.

Couldn't that be down to what data they track? From the looks of it they are only tracking OEM vendor sales of pre-built desktop systems.

But what I've observed these past months during the pandemic is that a lot of people have picked up PC building, an observation that's collaborated by new hardware (Nvidia Ampeere cards, AMD Zen 3) being in super high demand to such a degree that in many places supply is struggling to fill demand.
I saw a lot of these in Paris. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15345640/an-aixam-to-grin... This is not the same as the "A-segment" cars that are usually called "city cars", so I probably got some terms confused.
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It also has a 17 kWh battery, so the range is limited to something like 80 miles. This is a city car.
"Speaking from the I" is a technique to give prescriptive advice without giving prescriptive advice.
Similarly to the youtube-dl case. Maybe Google was indeed behind it ?
Counter-point: I've built a P2P social media application that doesn't use any client-side JS. There are challenges, mostly around composing rich text (how is <textarea/> the best we have?!) but it's entirely possible to ship features without front-end JS.
Is Google in a Decline?
I think about this often.

It’s exceedingly rare that I’ll come across some solution to a problem that is the best of all available options. That’s generally fine in everyday life. You don’t need to be the best carpenter in the world, just the one that offers the best service at a fair price in your area.

I don’t think we’ve really absorbed the fact that with software development, average solutions to problems have no justifiable reason to exist other than market inefficiency.

A lot of ad hoc software I see that has had hundreds of thousands of pounds invested in it is ultimately a buggy, feature-depleted version of SquareSpace. And yet massive sums of money continue to be spent on un-necessary greenfield projects to reinvent one wheel or another.

The UK government recently wasted unspeakable sums of money “developing” a track-and-trace app. The quotes are because it’s not clear what needed to be developed when essentially the track-and-trace API’s from Apple and Google boil down to slapping your local health service’s splash screen over the template and not much else.

I do sort of suspect that over time, as search has become synonymous with Google and internet video has become synonymous with YouTube, that we’ll end up with a one-solution-to-supplant-them-all for almost every common use case. We’re not there yet, but we’re not far off either I’d wager.

There are pros-and-cons to this. Microsoft had cornered the market on what people at the time perceived to be the most essential software in the 80’s and 90’s and those products are significantly less consequential today. Maybe we’ll operate in cycles of centralisation and decentralisation like we have with information networks.

Eventually we’ll all just be replaced by AI anyway, so maybe it doesn’t even matter.
Doordash does the same thing:

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/8/20/20825937/doordash-tippi...
> one thing I want to knock System76 for here is for not doing more around making the Linux Desktop experience more seamless

They are doing this?

> It would be worth paying for, and honestly, I think it should be Bourne by the manufacturers of linux machines, not end users.

if you want them to do more, buy their computer or support Pop_OS! with patreon-like donations. They ask for $1/month.

https://pop.system76.com/
Agreed. Meta-trends would be 'trends will change faster' or similar; most of these are fairly specific predictions.
This is super cool for a web based sequencer. I've never used beepbox, so I can't compare but this has some neat features. It's got a decent selection of samples, a filter, a few effects and ways to shape the waveform, it's surprisingly not too bad to use on mobile.

I have to say too, I really like the way you can grab a note then drag it up or down for slides.

This is definitely something i'm going to spend some time playing with. Thanks for making and sharing.
Branchable, sharable undo buffer
The important part is to find a method and then leverage orgmode for it. With out some system is hard to make it stick.
I would like to have a good explanation that might suit you. But I don't think there is a way to find it out without sitting together and working through some code.
You are shipping "bits" to phones, just as boats and trains shipped cargo to stations and ports. Its fundamentally analogous as a legal argument; whether it's corporeal items being moved (physical goods) or not doesn't really matter. The principle is the same.

I cannot ever advise a company like Epic to burn its business model overnight on a such a huge risk as you suggest, I'm sure many would agree. You of course are free to continue to disagree and advocate for a new Epic phone platform to sell.

Epic today have 116 million users by their count playing Fortnite on an iOS device. That's a lot of users to convince to pay likely at least several hundred dollars to move to a platform that doesn't exist yet. I didn't even bother to look up the Android count, the iOS user base is enough to illustrate why this is likely a pretty bad business decision.
I'm trying to wrap my head around this

> Even better, you can define relations between the types and do type substitutions, e.g.: to construct this module, you need to give me 2 other modules, each with a specific set of functions, and for which type t1 of the first module, matches type t2 of the second module, while the actual type of t1/t2 does not matter.

Isn't this essentially the same as generic type arguments in other languages? Like in this pseudo TypeScript:

class CustomModule<T1 extends Module1Interface, T2 extends Module2Interface> {
constructor(t1: T1, t2: T2) { ... }
}
It’s just longing and nostalgia for a bygone era. Oh, how perfect software was when the sages of yore imparted them to us. But we turned away from their wisdom and left the Garden of Eden.

I think we have it pretty good. We continue to build and the stuff that isn’t good, gets rebuilt. That’s fine. What’s important is that we have the means to build good, lasting software if we choose to prioritise it. We have languages and tools that the ancients did not have.
In my humble opinion passive consumption of media is entirely different from engaging in a creative process. Perhaps it's just projection on my part but surfing the web for hours reading Reddit, Hacker News and YouTube is entirely different than banging out some new chapters for your NaNoWriMo novel, updating a blog or making a github commit.
Does it matter how long destroying the universe takes, since that's in the unsorted branch? The universe with the sorted list continues immediately, the cleanup is handled elsewhere.
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The wish isn't for perfect engineers -- the wish is for the perfect not to be the enemy of the good. I just want to be able to use a "good enough" product with the knowledge that it will stick around rather than be dropped in favor of iterating the design, maybe forwards, maybe backwards, maybe sideways, but always moving, spinning, chasing the perfect version of itself.

I want stability, not perfection.
> You're still infringing copyright

Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work ... is not an infringement of copyright.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107
I use both, and they both have their strong and weak points. Purely system-UI-wise, I prefer Gnome Shell to Finder. Upgrading to Big Sur was a shock, the aesthetic went downhill.
Everything is supposed to decay. But software is effectively immortal, and that's the root of this problem. We need to introduce decay into software systems, or we end up with zombies that are too useful to let die.

We should allow software to die. It's okay. Whenever a generation feels like they can't lose the artifacts of the previous generation, civilization is in decline. Which is okay too, except when technology protects those artifacts too well, which I believe usually hastens the end.
Yes much thanks. But so to do the tempo-syncing you say I need to "use warp markers to snap the song to the 80bpm grid ...". I would have hoped that this could be done automatically (with the new feature in the new version perhaps).

If it can synchronize with live musicians, would it not be as easy (or even easier) for it to synchronize with a recording of live-musicians?
> Note that Apple's official position disagrees with you

I don’t think it’s quite that simple, as Apple has at least two different “official positions”. The first being that the iPad is more computer than you need (see their marketing around iPad, trucks vs cars, iPad Pro, etc). The second being what you described in their legal battle.

If you believe their marketing, iPad is 100% a computer. Just a different kind of computer than the Mac.
I'll go a step further: what if someone decides, "Hey, I'll shut that website up by influencing someone to revoke their certificate."

Remember everyone's eagerness to eliminate bare, unencrypted HTTP? How self-signed certs are "sketchy?"

Has this been yet another way to pull the plug on certain parties? Could someone get Cloudflared by a maintainer of certs somewhere along the chain revoking a site's cert because they woke up in a bad mood?
Probably, but the effects of different types of screen time would likely be more similar to each other than going for a walk in the woods.
Right, so just because this study doesn’t bother to differentiate between different things people can do with screens, you are saying it’s all the same?
GCC 5.4.0 is what came installed by default on my Ubuntu 16.04 desktop. I might change to a different compiler except that would be a lot of work, since I would then need to rerun hundreds of historical benchmarks, and it is not clear what would we learn by using a different compiler or compiler version.

We use many different compilers and compiler versions for correctness testing - various versions of GCC, LLVM, and MSVC with various optimization settings. That's important because different compilers generate different code and we want to ensure that they all generate correct code. (SQLite has found bugs in historical versions of all of those compilers!) But for benchmarking, as long as the same compiler and version is used consistently, does it really matter which compiler is used?

Additional compiler comparison data (from 2017): https://www.sqlite.org/footprint.html
In the light of the recent events with Apple when you cannot even run programs on your own computer without problems if Apple server doesn't allow it, perhaps some downvoters should give another thought on this
I find the soft gel ones don't do me any good. I do better with the hard pill type and even better with topical cream. I think it's something to do with the cheap vegetable oil they are packed in.
I'm talking about Susie Q and Joe Sixer. The amount of fiddling with package systems, build, and container systems is an anti-pattern. One guy on a small team sets up and controls the stuffs. Individual contributors shouldn't be messing with the env or putting new packages in :)
I'm not arguing that DoorDash creates no value, I'm arguing that it creates a ton of value for executives and shareholders while exploiting workers who are vastly underpaid using opaque payment and tipping mechanisms. Yeah, affluent urban dwellers absolutely benefit from this system. But by choosing to use these services, you endorse this exploitation unless you choose to pay drivers anything close to a living wage, because the company sure isn't going to.
I think there are big questions on what screen time actual is though. Isn't general computer time essentially social media? At least for most people? Most people also aren't watching documentaries on TV or doing things that exercise the brain. All admit I didn't read your sources but I'm assuming reading books isn't detrimental so it's probably not the sedentary nature of the activity (I could be completely off).
I do think that since these days we use computers so much that it does warrant breaking down the activity.

Does anyone have a study that does do this comparison?
I'd love to read an academic analysis of modern cultural, economic, and political trends, and am intrigued by the idea that we can study history scientifically.

But as an outsider, I have a limited awareness for arguments that might appear to be purely factual to this layman but would be controversial to an expert, and don't want to be radicalized by reading some extreme socialist or libertarian academic writing as if it were politically neutral and unbiased. Where do the worldviews and ideologies of authors in this space like like Turchin, Taleb, or Milanovic fall on the political spectrum? What can I read to get an overview of the subject?

I really enjoyed reading Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel", but was disappointed and surprised when I went to fact-check it later and found that that many of the neat and tidy organic-feeling arguments it contained were heavily disputed by many anthropologists.
DoorDash will steal from their workers tips if you pay it in-app.

The societally disruptive idea of not paying your workers is the great "innovation" of the gig economy. The oldest grift there ever was.
Budgets are important but mindful spending is even more important.
I've found that a lot of people are adding "reddit" to their searches as a poor-man's discussion filter. It sort of works but it's also sad in how it's another reflection of how centralized and concentrated the web has become.
> people who feel that they deserve to be elites

Well, that’s not a criteria that really separate "real" elite from "wanabe" elite, is it?
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Ultimately, if a platform is big enough that its policies have society-destabilizing consequences, I would much prefer to see it broken up than reined in. Benevolent dictators are still dictators.
"material" basically meant pulling an Enron when we started SOX
If you don't want to support the "gig economy" then it is better not to use the apps. Cash payments will never lead to improvements in working conditions, pensions or health insurance.
I think the innovations in this space just take a long time as they are capital intensive or require huge usage, like cloud kitchens, effective multiple delivery routing, and autonomous vehicles/delivery drones when they arrive.

There are still two large costs that may not be there in the future. The human driver and the heavy restaurant overhead of being located in premium retail space instead of behind the gravel pit.
Out of curiosity, how is the fee structure of DoorDash compared to something like Seamless?

A few years ago I would routinely use Seamless to order delivery or carry out 3-4x a week, but in the past year or so I noticed enormous service fees added onto transactions (making a $12 burger cost more like $22 all in). As such, I've pivoted away from using these apps and try to order directly from restaurants websites, usually via ChowNow.
I think we would be pretty lucky for these to happen over the next 60 years.
Ask HN: What is your wish list for the AWS Console?
Hi HN,

I'm curious what things you wish to see improved with the AWS Console. Understandably many of you use a CLI or infrastructure-as-code to coordinate things with your applications but at the end of the day there are still some things you head to the AWS console for.

I'm curious about what things you'd like to see improved, if anything.
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