skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This series of articles is a great peek into Mac history. My personal favorite is the iMac G4, another short lived but truly beautiful form factor. Sadly the it didn't scale up to larger display sizes because it was truly an amazing looking machine.

https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/10/20-macs-for-2020-9-imac-g...

It didn't have the historical significance the original iMac did, but the look is timeless and just fantastic. I would still love to have one on my desk. If only that damned display were bigger than 15". I think it made it to 17", but still too small to be practical for dev work when 21-27 inch LCDs are now commonplace.
Thanks for going through the write-up. As an author of the bug,considering the the impact, user interaction required and other criteria that need to line up to exploit this bug I feel Google VRP's decision on this bug is accurate.
Intel's market share will be occupied by ARM, sooner or later (2014 by He Shang)
Phones with actual keyboards.
> but what's wrong with having a regular git repo anywhere you want with all of your dotfiles and them symlink those files to where they need to go?

Nothing wrong with tracking dotfiles with Git. It's probably the simplest and easiest approach without requiring any fancy tools other than Git. However, as mentioned in ArchLinux's wiki page, the disadvantage of Git approach is that "host-specific configuration generally requires merging changes into multiple branches."[1]

[1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dotfiles#Tracking_dotfi...
There was a big thread on this yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25554941
I got a second generation one about a year ago, free from someone I know who was going to pitch it. It's basically identical to the first models, just a slightly faster CPU. I used it two or three times to access an old multimedia CD-ROM I still have before it locked up, the hard drive dead. I doubt I'll ever get it fixed, and unless I find someone to take it I'll end up bringing it to Apple since they have a free recycling program. I kind of dread doing that because the thing is heavy. Really heavy. It weighs more than the combined weight of all the other Apple devices I have around:

MacBook Air (2013)

Mac mini (2012)

iPhone 4

iPod touch

iPhone XS

iPhone 5S

iPad mini (v1)

iPad mini (v2)

Newton

Powerbook G3 (Pismo)

It's easy to forget how heavy CRTs were.
Zoom has breakout rooms that you can assign people to randomly. Take the number of participants, divide that by 3 or 4 and that is the number of breakout rooms you need.
I claim you can save $100k/year on a $200k/year compensation. SmartAsset pegs you as right on the money as $133k take home. Let’s say you live in a $1400/mo place like I did for years (no roommates, but how often are you in your place in your 20s anyway?), that’s $17k a year. Now you’ve got $1300 a month for food and luxuries, and $100k/year going into investments. That is not roughing it. If you hit a financial rough patch you sell a little stock. If the market does 7% inflation adjusted per year (its average for the last 50 years), you end up over a million in the first eight years without a problem. And again, this is assuming you never get a raise or a bonus.... anything extra is gravy.
Because lowering those barriers is what enabled the people I know to enter those occupations.

I have to admit, I'm really confused by your question: are you under an impression that these professions either don't exist at all, or exist in one immutable state and cannot be democratised? This is not a binary dichotomy between two state. It's a continuum, and while Google and Facebook didn't create those occupations, they still have done a huge deal to improve them. There's no contradiction here.
To re-iterate my original statement:

"Is it not the case that we could work 15 hours per week and maintain the lifestyle that was prevalent during Keynes' day?"

I'm explicitly talking about living as if it were the 1930s. No internet. No cable. No air conditioning. No eating at restaurants multiple times per week. Small house. No college. Maybe no car.

So you say I am equating the cheapest houses today with the median back then, which is absolutely correct. That is exactly what I am trying to say. You can live a median 1930s lifestyle for dirt cheap today.

That house was built in 1948 and is basically the same as most other middle class houses built in that time period.

In 1930, fewer than 1% of people graduated from college. So if you want to live a median 1930s lifestyle, you probably don't have to worry about sending your kids to college. You don't need college to command the $13/hr wage that is necessary to live this lifestyle anyway.

Only 48% of households owned a car in 1930, so if you want a median 1930s lifestyle, that may involve not owning a car. And if you do own a car, a used car from 2005 can be had for $1000 and trounces any middle class 1930s car from that era in every metric.
> I used to want to self-host it but (IMO) running a secure, reliable email server is just too difficult these days.

I disagree. I am running my own small email server for years on Debian stable without any issues except the initial configuration. Freedombox has a mail server on their roadmap. It automates the configuration. You can even buy a small appliance (Olimex A20) ready to go.
> over the color of a piece of plastic

It isn't even about the colour (which is trivial to control with software and 8 extra cents in LEDs), but about the colour of the plastic.

That's the dumb thing that proves it's about protectionism. Same with DRL: it's controllable in software.

Meanwhile, Canada lets you import any >17 year old hunk of junk from anywhere and that's somehow safe and okay (because it doesn't harm new car sales so directly, yet still much more fatal to occupants).
No. My script calls the package manager, sudo zypper install..., and symlinks a dotfile. That is usually all.
Theme Park Rides for Sale in Nigeria
> It's a good point though. Why/how is something unsafe for an American, but safe for an Italian or Spaniard?

America has a longstanding tradition of food fortification. Niacin is also used to supplement US diets featuring a corn staple -- corn's niacin is not bioavailable without additional processing traditional to Mesoamerican cultures. Probably more recognized today is iodized salt, which is responsible for perhaps a decade's worth of the Flynn effect in the US.

In the case of flour, Europe is lagging behind: https://www.ffinetwork.org/europe. Apparently Denmark went the extra step of banning enriched / fortified foods. You could probably argue that regional diets will naturally vary and that something like iodine supplements aren't required for Italians when they have ready access to seafood that Oklahomans don't. But since I'm pretty sure these enrichments aren't harmful to those who do have access, I imagine some of the divide is simply protectionism -- protecting your local markets and local manufacturers from cheaper American brands.
The largest G4 iMac had a 20" screen. It looked a bit top-heavy but it worked fine.
Get Rid Belly Fat Campaign
I mean, the solution is not to charge past 90%: for most practical purposes there’s no reason to go past 90% anyways.
I actually think Goggins's ideas are the opposite of banal. The concept of "limbic resistance", as brought up by Andrew Huberman when talking about Goggins, is really fascinating [0].

The concept that doing things that you hate doing is "exercising of the muscle of willpower" is very revealing. It's something I've tried to do adopt, and it's been a very powerful motivator in getting me to work out and reduce procrastination. As banal as it may sound — like the father in Calvin and Hobbes saying "it builds character" — it's also a great way of framing it.

And I assure you I'm neither a

> "troubled teenager who took my latest shower 3 weeks ago"

or a

> "middle-age professional of some sort who cannot close his trousers anymore because of additional calories brought on by family life".

Your comment doesn't paint you as a very positive person. Of course, it's fine if you'd like to be that way, but my question is: why? What good does writing a comment like this do you (or me, or anyone reading it)? To me, these sorts of despondent and cynical comments seem to come from the very types of people you think listen to Goggins.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujz29rQvDvA
> sometimes they are genuinely busy and they literally cannot spend countless hours to respond to every candidate they've spoken to tell them "No, we've passed on you".

We work in the software industry (well, a lot of us do). If individual human effort is not scaling, we write programs. "Dozens" or "hundreds" of candidates should be a cinch for a simple script to keep track of what candidates have been passed on; and they can be informed with a simple form letter.

If you don't have anyone at your company capable of writing these kinds of tools, maybe you should focus on hiring that person first. It will pay off in the longer run.
Supposedly, that retails for about $30,000.
You’re right, z-masking and frustum culling can make rasterization much more efficient than having to iterate over all triangles in the scene, and those techniques are used commonly and very effectively in games. The example in that video above has everything in view though, z-masking won’t fix it or get it anywhere close to as fast as ray tracing in this specific case.

The main point is that basic ray tracing has an algorithmic complexity that is logarithmic or cube root of the number of primitives (depending on your BVH), while basic rasterization has linear complexity, and that generally remains true even with many effective culling techniques.

There are hybrid techniques that try to combine the best of both, so nothing here is absolute, but at some point if you develop a competitive log complexity per pixel rasterizer with a BVH, eventually it basically becomes ray tracing, and you might as well go with the method that trivially gives you shadows and reflections and bounce lighting too.
Vaccines!

But seriously, they do inspect a lot of drug manufacturing facilities, even overseas.

As a Canadian, I trust their approvals more than Health Canada's. I suspect Health Canda just copies whatever the FDA does a few weeks later.

Dunno why either haven't banned addictive substances (cigarettes) and let the non-addictive but fun ones get a free ride. But ya know.
Male pattern hair loss is a Hard Problem. We understand that it is caused by androgens (maybe DHT?) and affects follicles on certain parts of the head differently.

It's not simple to address something like this. Either you have to replace the follicles (e.g. transplant surgery), or mess around with people's androgens (right now, we can only do that pharmacologically). Drugs that affect people's hormones have a tendency of having longer-lasting effects than those that affect neurotransmitters, which makes treating a cosmetic condition with them somewhat iffy from a "first do no harm" perspective.

Minoxidil (topical) and Finasteride (oral) are the two most reliable pharmaceuticals for pattern hair loss.

- We don't actually understand how minoxidil works, but it probably stimulates blood flow to hair follicles that are going dormant, buying a little more time. It's fairly safe side effects wise, but only addresses some forms of balding (top of head, smaller areas).

- Finasteride affects the production of DHT in men, which can halt or even reverse male pattern hair loss - but a very small subset of patients experience loss of sexual function as a side effect, which can be permanent. This makes it iffy to recommend to everyone without reservation.

The worst thing about both of these medications is that they have to be taken regularly, or else the hair loss will resume.

Until we more fine-tuned ways of tinkering with people's hormones or editing their genes, I don't think that we'll have a truly consequence-free cure for hair loss. Medical technology is just not there yet.

...That said, you're absolutely right that there's a lot of money in selling people cures for hair loss. In fact, if you just take the two drugs I mentioned above, explain them to men on the internet in clear language, and charge a small premium (3x the price of generic) to sell it to them... Boom! You got yerself a startup that just raised a $47M Round B! https://www.keeps.com/
The Blockstream hijack lie is getting really old.

And it doesn't age well either. Both gmax and pieter are not even in it anymore. Blockstream's contributions (what you consider 'hijacking') to Bitcoin are pretty slim at this point.

Which is a pity, honestly. Blockstream was a good force for bitcoin, despite the continuous stream of baseless lies coming from you people.

Gmax made a much better summary of why your statements are all baseless babbling below...
I can't tell whether this is more damning of Google's ADHD approach to product development [1], or the consumer-hostile continuously-updated-software-as-a-rental-product model which is currently en vogue.

Video games are starting to succumb to this disease too. I cringe every time I see someone praise Stadia – those games will be lost and inaccessible in 10 years time. The Oculus Facebook account debacle is a preview of this.

Buy a standalone camera; keep its functionality for the life of the hardware.

[1] https://killedbygoogle.com/
I want to make a smart glass like device with a tiny display or a projector, Raspberry Pi Zero as the main board and powered by a battery pack. Does any one have any input regarding optics?

Just thinking about the possibility of having a linux machine always on you seems really exciing.
> It appears the author wants an email service that is anonymous, free, and let's him access it through a VPN. I don't think that makes sence (how does the provider make money?) and I think it's not what 95% of the public needs.

The author also appears to want an email service that doesn’t store your email or have a spam filter, because they are offended by these parts of FastMail’s privacy policy:

> We process mail sent and received from your account to block spam and fraud.

> We also collect the email content you create, upload, or receive from others

It seems to me that what the author wants does not resemble email, which is why they are so unhappy with so many email providers. Perhaps they would be happier with some form of E2E-encrypted instant messaging. In any case, getting angry at email providers for storing your email seems like a waste of time and energy.
No. You are claiming that Facebook ads are a mechanism that lowers those barriers. I claim the barrier isn't that big to begin with for most of them (photographer, baker, astrologer, limo driver), and that, even if some of the others benefit from said ads [0], that the harm Facebook has created outweighs that benefit.

Nay, this is the opposite of making the world a better place. Shame on thee, ye supposed best and brightest, ye best minds of my generation, destroyed by madness, who spend your days trying to get 1% more people to click on an ad.

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[0]: Which I actually doubt -- the internet as a whole is what lowers the barriers, not Facebook ads per se.
I can't recommend this paper enough to anyone interested in neuroscience.

It's a thoughtfully executed set of experiments that IMHO should be part of every computational neuroscientist's training.
> And are still pretty much ignored

Heart disease is a lifestyle disease. If it's being ignored, it's by the patients themselves. Kinda like a lot of Covid patients, actually.
thanks. i do appreciate the effort, but i feel like this just underscores my point how *roff isn't a viable ecosystem like TeX is.

this is maybe slightly unfair, since i don't use TeX or even LaTeX, but XeTeX/XeLaTeX. however, those work out of the box with MacTeX/MiKTeX. i just want pretty PDFs.
There are instances where I can get current GCC to generate less instructions as part of the normal control flow when adding noexcept declarations. This is quite surprising given the common claim that exceptions shouldn't affect that. Unfortunately, I think I lost the example where I could reproduce it in the Compiler Explorer.
Using Microsoft 365 Defender to protect against Solorigate
Sugar is such a powerful taste that it actually "drowns out" the flavors of other food. So you lose appreciation for the various flavors of foods.

Thus if you pair soda with other foods, those foods need flavor enhancers (lots of salt, fat, etc) to compete for recognition on your palate's sensory neurons.

Since I cyclically try to do this elimination, I get routinely reminded of this as I try to cycle out soda and excess sugar.

It's strangely similar to the difference between commuting by bicycle and commuting by car, with the car mirroring sugar: a rush of power and convenience that appeals to your id, but all your natural surroundings drowned out inside a car cabin with the radio blasting. Not just visual and sensory separation from your surroundings, social separation.

It's one of the major insights I had into the nature of America. Car entitlement is everywhere.

Anyway, I still drink way too much soda. At least now I have transitioned to 1/3 regular 2/3s diet.
It might be a good idea to talk to any agricultural economist in any land grant university in the US before you invest your life savings on that being true in the US in the short/middle term. Or any US dirt farmer. Ag land is cheap in the US, as is water. Electricity and associated infrastructure is not, nor is building high-rise buildings.

I’d guess even reclaiming land from the sea to add conventional farmland would be cheaper, if the numbers were run.

On Mars, maybe another story...
I think you'll find this interesting. It's a bit random but in another part of this thread your name appeared out of pure coincidence from another poster:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25557413

In the github thread (started in 2013) mentioned by pcen, you were part of the big debate on bringing more formalization to javascript promises. You were on the winning side (at the time) of NOT doing this. Your comment here: https://github.com/promises-aplus/promises-spec/issues/94#is...

Likely you muted the thread since then but the conversation continued.

Now in 2020, times have changed and Typed javascript is not the dominant paradigm. However, the decisions made by you and your brethren back in 2013 continue to echo through eternity. The final comments in that thread (dated 2019) sums it up perfectly:

https://github.com/promises-aplus/promises-spec/issues/94#is...

and also:

https://github.com/promises-aplus/promises-spec/issues/94#is...

This github thread was brought up to me as an example about how my Current thread is representative of history repeating the same mistakes. A decision to ignore formal theory in the past now results in a fundamental mistake that all JavaScript developers must live with.

The irony is that you, Jonathan, are part of both histories, you made a mistake then, the question is are you repeating a similar mistake now?

Regardless of whether you're right or wrong now, and disregarding the previous (minor) verbal scuffle we had... I thought you'd be interested in this tidbit of serendipity.
Why would the file system affect bit rot rate?
I genuinely wonder how much DJI cares about supporting older drones such as the discontinued Spark. Or would they rather sell you the latest drone instead (Mavic Mini or future equivalent)?
I must say, that article neatly outlines your thought process for Datasette.

Do you need help in anything to do with the Python bits? I'm going to look at open bugs and see if I can help.
From Marcus Aurelius's Meditations:

> In comparing sins (the way people do) Theophrastus says that the ones committed out of desire are worse than the ones committed out of anger: which is good philosophy. The angry man seems to turn his back on reason out of a kind of pain and inner convulsion. But the man motivated by desire, who is mastered by pleasure, seems somehow more self indulgent, less manly in his sins.

> Theophrastus is right, and philosophically sound, to say that the sin committed out of pleasure deserves a harsher rebuke than the one committed out of pain. The angry man is more like a victim of wrongdoing, provoked by pain to anger. The other man rushes into wrongdoing on his own, moved to action by desire.
Dischidia aka String of Nickels/Button Orchids are great if you don't have a green thumb. Mine have outlived even my Tilandsia (both of these are hardy soil-less plants)
> we decided to punish the healthy and young to save the old and sick

You're saying that like it's a bad thing. Isn't protecting the weak and vulnerable the entire point of living in a society?

Not to mention all the economic "punishment" the young have taken in the US could have been largely mitigated with proper stimulus programs instead of ceaseless Fed money-printing.
The Six Stages of Civilizations
They need to self host.
Total student debt is only ~5% of US GDP. We could undo the last tax cut and it would be paid for in a year.

US taxes are at a historic low. There's plenty of money even to make school completely free. The idea that paying for student loans would affect the economy at all is nuts to me. Not even counting the corona bailouts we could have paid for it by just not lowering corporate taxes the last few years.

Student loans disproportionately affect the poor and middle class, to the benefit of the rich. The main reason that school has become more expensive and led to all these loans is huge cuts in state funding to colleges. For our parents most states paid over 70% of their tuition. That percentage is far lower now.

Basically I'm saying the money to pay for school used to be there, but it was taken away and now we have a whole generation in student loan debt. We almost owe it to those people to "make things right" and pay for their school just like we did for previous generations
Okay, sketch out a 1930s New York City lifestyle in New York City, then.

Tell me how I can go to the doctor.

Tell me how I can continue to live, if I'm a diabetic.

Tell me how I, personally, can live, considering I have asthma, and albuterol wasn't discovered until the 1960s (and is much more expensive now than it was then).

I guess I can save money by not buying a radio, because there's nothing worthwhile on there anymore, anyway.
I... have never been aware of anyone in the Bay Area going to either a church or a fraternal org. But I guess it depends on what circles you run in.