skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A quick second endorsement for this absolute gem of a website: lichess.org. I've gone from a player who can't beat the computer on level 1 (estimated ELO 800 LOL) to winning 50% of matches on level 3 (est. ELO 1400). Still pretty poor, but so is my study effort. And I'm OK with it.

My colleague from another time zone struggled to recommend a book for my level and kinda laughed (albeit politely). But now we can play a quick game in our work breaks online. Thank You Lichess! canned applause

Edit: DO THE PUZZLES!!! (sorry, tired)
Well I don't think it's even roughly correct. Time is not friction or resistance.
In Australia at least you can claim a tax rebate if you have private health insurance. I imagine the UK would have a similar system.
While agreeing with your general principle, I think you're being unfair.

Two hours a day, every day, is a lot of time. I barely watch television and still, if you asked me to find two more hours every day I'd tell you that you were crazy.

I already have hobbies. I relax. I spend time with my partner. I sleep, I cook, I work, I walk.

I do not find myself with two hours that I don't know what to do with, and I'd challenge you to find someone that does.
I definitely agree and also feel like I've learned valuable lessons from SC2. It sucks to give a game up though :/.
Asking a broad sample of people seems like a approach that would get you “how to be a good engineering” at best.
Because they want to encourage developers to update their apps for the new architecture as a top priority.
Here a quote from your interesting links. It seems some were already very aware of the short comings of centralised economy:

"If a universal mind existed, of the kind that projected itself into the scientific fancy of Laplace – a mind that could register simultaneously all the processes of nature and society, that could measure the dynamics of their motion, that could forecast the results of their inter-reactions – such a mind, of course, could a priori draw up a faultless and exhaustive economic plan, beginning with the number of acres of wheat down to the last button for a vest. The bureaucracy often imagines that just such a mind is at its disposal; that is why it so easily frees itself from the control of the market and of Soviet democracy. But, in reality, the bureaucracy errs frightfully in its estimate of its spiritual resources. [...] The innumerable living participants in the economy, state and private, collective and individual, must serve notice of their needs and of their relative strength not only through the statistical determinations of plan commissions but by the direct pressure of supply and demand.

— Leon Trotsky, The Soviet Economy in Danger"
>Is faith different from organised religion?

Yes and No.

Faith in Philosophies to study and model one's life after in the context of a Society/Environment is very welcome. All Science started this way i.e. an attempt to model/understand the World and one's place in it.

Faith in the context of Organized Religion/Rituals without understanding the Philosophy behind it should be rejected. Doesn't matter who is pushing it.

There are Six major accepted schools of "Orthodox" philosophies under the umbrella term "Hinduism". But due to historical reasons, at current time the Vedanta/Upanishadic school is dominant and is conflated with the whole of "Hinduism" which is obviously not true. You might want to look into the different schools of Hindu Philosophy and see what appeals to you and model your life after it. Note that the Hindu philosophies span the entire spectrum from Vedas/Mimamsa Rituals/Sannyasa Upanishadic Renunciation to totally materialistic Charvaka/Lokayata belief systems. Whatever you choose should be in accordance (to a certain extent) with "Modern Science" to avoid/control cognitive dissonance.

PS: You might want to look into the set of volumes by S.N.Dasgupta named A History of Indian Philosophy. Vol-I gives an overview of all systems.
Essentially what's missing right now is AMD or Intel or maybe some other company releasing an ARM chipset/motherboard spec and a CPU combo that an average consumer can buy and install into a normal ATX tower. Also, different Linux distros committing to shipping ARM images. Windows also somewhat supports it already, although not very well for now.

It would seem that ARM has a much higher potential performance ceiling than already relatively optimized x86 and derivatives and so once we have enough viable ARM options for desktop or high-performance laptops, the industry won't have a choice but move along with it.

If you're building software and your competitor releases ARM support and suddenly their product performs better than yours, users will go to them.

If videogame makers realize that they can push more performance on ARM, they will start releasing ARM-optimizing games or even shift to ARM-first in time.
If it were a pre-downloaded list then this is not surveillance. What it is doing it ensuring that software hasn't got malware in and/or that the developer's certificate hasn't been removed (e.g. for distributing malware). That's a good thing, like running a checksum on a downloaded file.
> I propose only giving the right to downvote after a comment reply is posted

100% agree...
> It's actually also against what Peter Thiel says: Be the last to enter market

He also said:

"Every moment in business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them."

Regarding note-taking apps, I think few of those will turn into billion dollar companies, which is what the video is about.
I'm sorry, but your view of friendship is really twisted.

A profit motive is not a red herring, it's the fundamental difference between a friendly action with the person's interest at heart and a self-interested action with the intent of opening their wallet and helping yourself to the content.

That doesn't necessarily make your actions unethical, but they certainly aren't the actions of a friend.
Exponential growth takes some time at the start before it is noticeable. And then it's unmanageable.
Look at the time between the first and the second wave in Italy or France. It took a few months to become uncontrolled again after the lockdown was lifted. So before it was exploding in northern Italy around February it likely needed a few months of spreading throughout society too.
I find research into the placebo/nocebo effect very interesting, and from what I understand it has been shown, that

* the effect results in real physical change,

* the effect is independent of whether you believe in it.

E.g. there is a number of RCT studies on acupuncture where needles are placed randomly, still people experience amelioration of symptoms.

So I'm wondering you are thinking that nocebo is equivalent with "in your head"?
100 years would mean no processed food, vegetable oils and a lot less sugar.

But a lot more salt.
Buildings are often protected as cultural heritage, even though they are private, the owner can't change them at whim, and preserving the looks is usually not enough. Isn't the situation similar with books or art?
Historically sea and ocean navigation was coastal or as close to coasts as possible, plus influenced by winds and ocean currents. I imagine that going "straight" towards Perth was harder and less intuitive at the time that hopping near Asia and then through Indonesia and then over the Australian East Coast.
You are definitely not a sample size of 1.

Back when I was using linux 2010s or so, it had serious issues with drivers and overheating. Config files would break unexpectedly and I found myself spending a lot of time in IRC channels trying to fix stuff.

At uni they were pushing us to use Linux and I think that made a lot of sense. People would learn bash effectively and learn some lower level bare stuff as well.

A lot of time "linux is free if your time has no value" made a lot of sense.

Nowadays, I hear some good news about Linux though I would never switch to it as a main OS.
The worst example of this, in my experience, is any newspaper article about arachnophobia. They always seem compelled to add a photo of a nasty looking spider.

As an arachnophobe, I find this actually quite abusive as it seems to be deliberate triggering.
> where the car applies gentle resistance to the electric motors when you lift your foot off the throttle

are you chosing it or how much?

the answer is no.

you can't become an expert if you aren't allowed to control the parameters.

> The reasons why trucks don't usually have automatic transmissions is that the torque needed to move such a huge mass would destroy nearly every traditional hydrokinetic transmission

that's another point, automatic transmission is more expensive, less robust and increases the cost of the vehicle without adding any other benefit than being 'easier' to operate.

would you fly on a plane where the pilot only knows how to use the autopilot?

that's where safety comes in, when things take more time to master, people tend to become better at them

Manual gear is not stupid, it is simply technically superior (it costs less and lasts more).

That doesn't mean we should have levers and clutches, that's the simplistic view of wannabe futurists, trucks have something much more similar to a semi-automatic (with 10, 12, 13 gears) than a full automatic one.

Truth is car makers need to sell more cars and will gladly make them do all the work "automatically" so people don't have to learn how to do it properly.

If they don't do something now, the 15 years old of today will grow up without cars and in a generation cars would be a thing of the past (that would be great!).

How to make them survive? Well, first of all don't make them useless, make them electric and costly and cover the added cost with people taxes that go directly in car company's pockets.

Secondly make them "easy" and "cool" and "sexy" so that a teenager doesn't have to learn to drive, that's scary and dangerous, like... do you really still practice to learn? what are we, cavemen?

And make them as complex as possible, so that the price won't ever go down and a Renault Zoe will cost as much as a Tesla (a Model 3s cost about 35k, a Zoe around 33k. It's just ridicoulus!).

We live in the era of the iPhones where the promise is that anybody can do what any other people can do, even though there are people that spent their lives learning something and other that did not (I did not, for example).

Of course it is possible when what you can do is dictate by the manufacturer, because "it dangerous out there, think of your old parents! would you give them a smartphone that let them do whatever they want? of course not"

Would you give your children an ICE car?

With manual transmission?

Are you a criminal?

The whole idea that you don't know how to not destroy the planet and the car needs to teach you how to drive responsibly, while the same car has been built by those that profited from destroying the planet's environment, always fascinated me.

How did it become a good idea in people's minds?
No, killing someone is definitely worse.
That's because physics and maths ability is included in the IQ test. If you included lots of chess or chess-like problems than Kasparov would magically rank a lot higher.
He also has an article on Win 10, both are quite a good read in my opinion.

https://itvision.altervista.org/why-windows-10-sucks.html
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2020/09/analyst-probes... has the 20gbps (I've seen it in other places too). I actually think it could be considerably less than that in reality, as that's probably the raw link speed. I don't know the modulation techinque that starlink uses, but I imagine some level of Forward error correction (5/6 seems common in other sat systems I've read about), which drops throughput by ~20%, plus other modulation overheads. I wouldn't be surprised if the actual real world speed per sat is half the max, possibly a lot worse in bad weather.

I don't think uplink is a problem. Even 2TBit/sec of internet capacity is cheap (especially compared to satelite launches) so I imagine this is a rounding error in the costs. I'm sure they have thought about the uplink spectrum requirements.

The above article mentions they think that starlink could serve 1.5million US customers when the full (12k) constellation is deployed.
Yeah, this looks incredibly cool, but I was talking more about consumer-grade electronics. Stuff you can actually buy and build a PC with for work or games or whatever people currently do with computers at home.
Why does Vim use 'hjkl' for navigation?
If you don't already know, then you might be interested in the Classic Tetris World Championship, which is currently running on Twitch (with VODs on YouTube). The YouTube channel aGameScout[0] also has a lot of interesting information on the history and recent developments of the tournament.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/c/aGameScout/videos
They would never compare it to a Mac they are still selling.
Personally, I think it's two things - working hard and lack of fear/anxiety.

In your example, this Emacs bug fixing, there is a lot of people who work hard but would just think that the bug is probably difficult to fix (they would fear of it taking too long to do) and decide not to do it.

I know personally how much anxiety can block you from doing things that help you progress. It also makes decision-making slower. I think playfulness can help to alleviate it, but it's hard to maintain in a "professional" setting.
You don’t need product adverts for ‘ethical’ functions 1 and 2. Honest aggregators and reviewers which the buyer can seek out when they need something would fulfil that. I think that would also be much more convenient for the buyer (though obviously not for the seller, who wants to invent needs in people who otherwise wouldn’t think of buying anything).
There are well-known and documented PR campaigns designed exactly for the purpose of changing minds. Of course, this is big money, and the vast majority of individual ads are of the type you mention.

But it's quite likely that the majority, or at least plurality, of ad spending goes to the changing minds kind of campaign. This is especially visible in the massive popularity of lifestyle marketing campaigns, that seek to create a particular image making a product (or even type of product) more desirable. Think of the Coca Cola Christmas, "green" cars, hyper-technologized "smart" fridges/washing machines, fashion brands, Apple's success a few years ago in convincing people to change their phone each year etc.

You also shouldn't forget the disgusting world of children's advertising, where often the goal is to convince children to nag their parents or friends about an item - often by explicitly showing this type of behavior, which works wonders with small children especially.
I would invite the downvoters to try driving in southern France at their next opportunity. People pass on the right, drive slowly in the middle lane and tailgate dangerously in the left lane.

Then you also have the special letter of the law crazies who zig zag every minute across multiple lanes to pass people in the middle.
Yes, VLC will probably be able to read from new sources because the web as a distribution platform is dead, every content publisher has their own way of working that doesn't interoperate with others. That doesn't mean VLC will start creating a business model around that.
> Windows 10 OEM license can be bought for as little as $10. This is 100% irrelevant nowadays.

Really? Where? When asking Microsoft about it, they say No.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/where-...
If you pay cash; yes. But private health insurance is pretty cheap in the UK because most policies don't have to cover exceptional diseases because they cite that you will be provided care under the NHS.
Can you please tell us more about your day to day life and why 2 hours of free-time is considered a luxury?
Liability. If they knowingly give the drug for an unapproved use, and something (anything) bad happens, they're on the hook.
They tried a couple of times, but I wonder whether they tried hard enough. Admittedly, that the Itanium failed was partially AMDs fault, which breathed new life into x86 by their 64 bit extensions. But besides a slow start, Intel didn't seem to be in a hurry to push Itanium down the line and offer for example a cheap cpu+motherboard combo for enthusiasts. While Itanium for a while had a relatively large transistor count, by todays standards it is tiny, any smartphone cpu is way larger. The last Itanium was made in a 32nm process, imagine it in today 10nm. Especially with markets shifting, more computing in the cloud, Itanium based servers could be really strong, if Intel just would make them.

Also, Intel declined to make a cpu for the iPhone, dropped their own ARM line and also didn't get into fabbing for other companies when they still had a large lead in fab technology.

I do get the impression, Intel was far to happy selling x86 chips. Which worked and gave them lots of revenues, till they got stuck with the 10nm process. And of course while TSMC grew into the power it is today.
Wait until you find out that their population is about 75% of the US one.

Brazil just seems smaller because it's poorer and poor people have less disposal income for spending, travel, etc, they're less mobile so have a lower impact outside their immediate surroundings.
Haha, I do like the word "ether"!

I personally think of the water as space, rather than spacetime. I think time is a byproduct of space-mass interactions. I could of course be very wrong!
We will never know about the orgs who adopted GraphQL and wound up worse off. Admitting mistakes and failures isn't good promotion.
Naver does not manage, "pressure or influence" any of those projects with the except of their own. Again, they manage startups co-working spaces.
I learned about this from the book "Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors" by Matt Parker. It was interesting in the context of describing this concept of 'Swiss Cheese Model' where if just the right holes line up, something disastrous like this can happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model

Apart from the bolt length, the process of finding and matching bolts was broken, and the windshield, if fitted from the inside (plug type) would not have blown outward.

It's also a reminder of how we're engineering a world where human intuition alone cannot resolve these minute differences. It's a particularly scary thing in these high risk/high responsibility situations that there aren't endless fail-safes in place (think air max, challenger etc)

Quote from the book: "If humans are going to continue to engineer things beyond what we can perceive, then we need to also use the same intelligence to build systems that allow them to be used and maintained by actual humans. Or, to put it another way, if the bolts are too similar to tell apart, write the product number on them."
There is zero reason to replace clothing as quickly as we tend to. Almost all of the demand is produced by ads. Or take cars, very few people need cars of the size that they end up buying. But ads suggest that they might want to pull a trailer through rough terrain, or that bigger is more prestigious.

I think the problem here is not the ads but that people are gullible. If those people can afford to buy a car which can pull a trailer when they don't need to its not because of advertising, it's because consumption makes them happy.
China is still using five-year plans for it's economy. It seems much more successful. How is this different from the Soviet way of planning the economy?

- https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2020/10/29/china-unveils-5...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-year_plans_of_China
The problem with this kind of "we don't do it" disclaimer, is that they send the information in a way that can be intercepted (OCSP is over HTTP). Even if the information from those requests is only a partial picture, you can be certain that entities like the US intelligence services can slurp it and combine it with other data.

If Snowden taught us anything it's that seemingly innocent metadata can be used at scale for a variety of unexpected things.

This combined with Apple system services avoiding Little Snitch / Lulu and VPN software in Big Sur is a very dangerous step.

How long is it going to be a until a journalist/activist is arrested or killed in an Authoritarian state because the VPN was sending most of the information except the Apple information?
I have to agree with you.

I consider myself a geek, a fairly advanced user of software and a software developer.

I have been trying different versions of Linux since the Mandrake Linux times, so about what, 20 years?

I always come back to Windows, which from Windows 2000 has been getting better and better. Of course there have been sh*t moments like Windows Vista and Windows 8, but Windows 2k, XP, 7, and now 10 (enterprise version), have always been good to me.

I can use Linux for sure, and I appreciate the effort the community does, however, for my use case, I don't see the advantage of using Linux over Windows, and I find many disadvantages: missing software (office, adobe, although I have run it under wine), missing or not perfect drivers (energy efficiency is a problem even on thinkpads).

Again, I really like the effort, and if I must use it, I can, but I don't see the advantage.

Now, I use it on my dad's computer (he is 80), as it is much difficult for him to screw up than Windows.
Course in the US wages have been stagnant for 40 years now.
Are the meds Colchicine?
An Atlas of the Cosmos
I think this is mostly an aesthetic choice - the page just looks nicer with text broken up by a few images.
This rings close to home for me, I'm a firm subscriber of the mantra that laziness a good quality for a software engineer to have. It has saved me many times already working on difficult/never-seen-before problems, and (conversely) not adhering to it has bitten me multiple times.

Often it simply takes some time for solutions to new problems to percolate, and you need to take a step back regularly during the process. Forget about the problem completely and do something completely different, interspersed with short bursts of research and reading on related topics. Sooner or later the contours of a solution will start to form and you will (hopefully) be able to realize it much quicker and at higher quality compared to 'working hard' by pounding yourself and trying to force things.

I cannot count the number of times I almost gave up on a problem after working myself into multiple dead-ends, and almost instantly seeing a path forward after taking a few steps back and allowing my brain to work itself out of these dead-ends.

Not spending 1 week of 'hard work' on a bad solution can save you months of work in the future.
> This problem is not a bug, it's a fundamental problem with the culture of software development apple curates.

An equally annoying "Apple policy enforcement" is you cannot downgrade apps on iOS;
So you're using some app and an important part of your daily workflow is based on using this app, and all of a sudden out of nowhere Apple or the Developer decides to radically change/update the app and now your workflow is broken. No way to go back to your previous workflow.

So frustrating... we do not own our devices anymore. Apple enforces what we may and may not do with our devices.
Since events like this famous case, where Walmart outed a teenage girl pregnancy, it's well-known they mix in some "weird" or irrelevant things to give a sense of plausible deniability. "oh, pregger testers, haha, how weird they can be <nervous laughter>".

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
Reminds me of Nietzche: "Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.”.