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> the monolith is made out of a material that humans can’t dent or cut. Why so strong? It’s basically just an automated radio.

The monoliths were supposed to be able to assess and monitor the activity and level of development of local species, possibly telepathically, catalyze evolution to develop intelligence, and encourage technology use. A monolith also transformed David Bowman into the Star Child. And of course, they had to maintain themselves over evolutionary timescales. So they were much more than just radios.

In sequels (which perhaps don't count), they became ridiculously overpowered (spoiler alert), replicating exponentially to perform Kardashev level II feats of solar system engineering, and hosting multiple uploaded intelligences like Bowman and HAL.
The closest thing to secure, actually usable Linux distro on phones is Android; if you are serious about security and degoogling GrapheneOS especially. The bad thing is that you have to have a Pixel for that.

Source: I own a Pinephone and has tried both Phosh-based and KDE-based offerings, there is also Sailfish though. Out of these Sailfish is the only one close to usable as of now.
Having used the desktop metaphor for 30+ years, I'm still not really sure what I'm supposed to be doing with it. The desktop, that is — i.e. the ~/Desktop folder. What am I supposed to keep there? ~/Downloads, I get. ~/Documents more or less makes sense. But what the hell should I use the magic Desktop for, given that I'm hardly ever looking at it (I usually have at least one window open!)?

The Desktop folder might make some sense if it were the root of the filesystem, but as it is, it's just somewhere that temporarily stores my screenshots, that I have to frequently clean-up by moving its contents into ~/Pictures.
Wow, does it ever. This picture in particular looks just incredibly sketchy. https://guide-images.cdn.ifixit.com/igi/oYAZSOBmMEibujjd.med...

I would be scared out of my mind if I found that on my car.
Introduction to MODA DAO
The best thing about quitting is having that occasional cigarette
If only they had a tracker on their tracker, to help find it when the tracker gets lost
Dams are incredibly damaging. By contrast, every time we have a nuclear disaster, the no-go zone becomes a wildlife paradise.
I totally agree that provided enough time and users, changing the user interface will almost always break some users experience. “Better” is subjective.
All of the examples are currency because they can't be counterfeited. You can't print gold, silver or seashells.
The US "Mark 14 torpedo" was far far worse
you ever gonna stop spamming us with that site or nah?

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=japanesecomplete.com
Also used at the so-called Mother of All Demos [1] in 1968.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
Someone should conduct a study of businesses that close because of crime, in particular those destroyed during the riots of last year, to see which come back. I'm surprised a company like Walgreens had not done this sooner, given the breakdown of law and order in San Francisco
Your first statement is no different than saying "I want to life in a safe democratic country, but dont want to dealing with all that politics and voting stuff"

People complain about their governments all the time, few are willing to do anything.
For me it froze when selecting "Custom" on the character image. Firefox 88.0.1 on Lenovo T480s running Fedora.
Your stats in absolutely no way counters my claim about addiction.

Almost everyone who smokes to any degree becomes addicted and a regular user. Tens (100 million+) of millions of Americans drink occasionally with no addiction.

Alcohol is a dangerous drug in every dimension, and I specifically said that. But their addiction profiles are dramatically different.
> Even this article took an age to load and it’s just text.

There's a few images, too, the first of which is ~2MB.
Being anti-dam is environmental NIMBYism. A dam focuses externalities on the same communities that benefit from the dam (jobs and revenue). Fossil fuels benefit the producers but everyone suffers the externalities.
>>Also why would you pin the fundamental blame on FDR cutting off the oil? Japan was running a pretty brutal occupation of China at the time.

See chapter 8 of The Challenge of Grand Strategy: The Great Powers and the Broken Balance between the World Wars. War between Japan and the United States was a certainty to FDR's advisors if an oil embargo was imposed.
Yeah, it’s a linux distro issue. Alternatively, run NixOS that instead of swapping the running executable file under itself will create a new environment with a new firefox and start that one next time.
How would that work in this case, would you just not see this entire HN post?
Or viewed another way, the least expensive number in engineering.

Because in many applications, the full cost of failure can be unimaginable.

Also fudge factors have a tangible benefit: time. It permits declaring a design "good enough" sooner.
Does it ever quit the app? I don't think it does.

And it never leaves the app running with no UI either, because the menu is part of the UI, and it's still running.

This is probably not obvious if you're not used to macOS, but that's a bad reason not to do things this way IMHO. It's completely obvious to me.

The red dot closes windows. All three coloured dots are window commands.

Not that I use them much, I use Moom for window sizing and Cmd-W to close windows and tab (Shift-Cmd-W to close a window full of tabs). But that's just me: the dots are there if you want to use them, and what they do is completely consistent.

You're not used to what they do, but that's not the same thing.
I've been using i3wm for several years now, and couldn't be happier without the clutter of a desktop. My files are better organized, with Downloads, Documents and Pictures being the sensible defaults.
I'm sure fart spray wouldn't keep you from being charged under any number of booby-trap laws.
It's absurd to me that a person on a motorcycle is allowed to literally inconvenience thousands of people just by passing through a street, so much that one has to pause a conversation for 5-10 seconds while the fucker passes.
I quit 20 years ago. I understand your analogy because if I were to smoke one, I would be an addict immediately (imagine sleeping with an old long-time ex). Where your story goes off the rails is that I am not addicted today; my desire is exactly zero. There was a time that I would dream of smoking, so I was still an addict then, but that time is long gone.
>MacOS specifically does terrible job at visually managing apps.

I'd say that Windows traditionally did a terrible job of allowing applications to have multiple documents open at once and visible on a large monitor.

The traditional Windows Multiple Document Interface UI was a nightmare if you wanted to have more than one document (especially documents from more than one app) visible at once on screen.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winmsg/about-...

That terrible interface is the reason Windows conflates closing an app with closing a document.
I think you would only have a case if that -wasn't- written into your bylaws and they were still doing it.

I don't think there is any law that keeps you from creating a private agreement that only signage from one party is allowed.
Surely you’d need unanimous consent to add a new restriction in?

Otherwise this feels seriously off - just being able to add new rules that people must adhere to whether they agree or not.
There’s also a precedent that things like car boots, wheel locks, and windshield barnacles are still property of the state and destroying or tampering with them is a crime. Even if you manage to remove them safely the government still expects the mechanism back.
Honestly, for the stuff I read I totally care more about the opinion of "enthusiastic amateurs", so yeah, honey badger don't care.

The more interesting part of the article is "In 2018, The Writers’ Union of Canada found that, after factoring in inflation, Canadian writers are making 78 percent less than they were in 1998", ie inflation ie a giant motherfucker, and thanks governments everywhere for fucking the younger generations out of a future.
You mentioned data originally, not personal information. You do give the 3rd party data about your current visit which is connected with all the information they already have about you - which builds up your profile. But the difference is not that big - for example did you visit page for the local school with a facebook button? Yeah, facebook already knows which area you likely live in.
Climate change is real, and oil is in decline. These countries will only become harder to live in, and their incomes will only decline. That these countries will modernize and liberalize in the face of these challenges is not at all a foregone conclusion.
And that’s when it gets really depressing because it comes down to politicians doing the right thing.
This "intelligent" dating app relies on astrology and numerology.
Some people don't even realise the tremendous cost cars have on a huge array of things in our lives. This is mostly due to just how ingrained it is in our culture.
Or if you can't drop Google Drive, use something like Cryptomator. I use it on top of my OneDrive and it works really well, both on all my desktops (Windows, Linux, Mac) and Android.
Sodium levels are so vitally important to our health that we we have a couple (more or less) of specialized organs for keeping it at the right balance, called 'kidneys'. Oh, OK, they also balance magnesium and potassium and maybe some other iums, but the little glomerules function by pumping sodium ions around to adjust concentrations of solute on either side of a semi-permeable membrane. Or something.

Don't worry about sodium unless you've been diagnosed with a metabolic problem.
Custumors need to be taught agency to avoid this stuff.

How can we teach it to them?
Dangerous for Chamath to make statements publicly against Berkshire Hathaway. Someone will comb through your claims and expose your innumeracy.
Lots of people from Czechia use alza.cz for purchasing electronics and computer stuff. Surprisingly it also ships to many Europe countries and have English site at https://www.alzashop.com/ . It doesn't list as huge variety of items but offers quite nice filtering, categorization, reviews, etc. I personally use it more often than Amazon. What forces people to use Amazon? Laziness? There are also price comparison websites which people can use to compare sellers... I never really understood why so many people buy through Amazon.
I'm not impressed by fictional nouns, be they people names or fictional corporations. GPTs special sauce was supposed to be text by, at the least, the paragraph, so it's the "generate/elaborate on startup ideas" and "went into detail about the series of fictional games" I'd be interested in.

Without seeing the source material, how original do you know these generations to be?
Very cool!

Architecturally, is there a standard way to prevent exponential blowup when comparing all profiles to all profiles?

I’d imagine some heuristics like only comparing profiles within some geobounds.

Potentially gender as well.

Maybe a batch job that runs nightly and then accepting certain stale conditions but updating others on-demand?

I’ve become more interested in the abstraction of this kind of n-way profile comparison recently but am not sure I’m using the right words and have trouble searching.
In almost every situation like this, every principal player is an asset of some organization. An intelligence agency would be stupid not to be supporting every side of the conflict.
Damn, this thread is making me itchy.
> After China announced there was human-to-human transmission, European countries did almost nothing for another month.

No, they started procuring masks and other PPE, but found that China had already conquered that market, before their announcement.

They could have told the US and European countries that the possibility of a modified virus lab-leak cannot be ruled out. Instead they started destroying samples, muzzle scientists, and had all their embassies push that WIV was a conspiracy theory, before any scientific investigation had even looked at it.

> The US took even longer to take any serious actions.

Yes. Was terrible to see. Can't even muster the mood to defend that.

> Do you really think things would have been different if China had announced human-to-human transmission 5-10 days earlier?

Yes. And a major moral difference. 5-50 days of valuable time. 5-50 more WHO meetings where Tedros says the window to act is getting smaller before Achilles will overtake the Tortoise.
> Can you imagine using an actual productivity application in the browser?

I'm not sure what type of applications you're referring to, but if you're including word processing in that, then I can't imagine not using either Google Docs, or whatever might one day come along and be a reasonable alternative. If I'm using a word processor, it's because I want someone else to be able to read and, quite often, contribute to what I'm creating. That is far, far less painful using Google Docs than Pages or whatever the alternative might be.
> But really, all nations have similar horrific stories.

And the acts of Japan during that period stand out, even within a context of ‘everyone is bad.’
"They are the only two-sided marketplace who managed to pull off: all money goes to the middleman"

This sounds similar to publishing academic journals.
Hmmm one reason for Google stumbling re. GitLab might be: I was on GitHub for over 10 years (and GeezerEdit was there too) but when Microsoft bought it I fled to GitLab.
Life expectancy at birth, not lifespan.
HOAs are a microcosm of politics and essentially living with other people under a common framework: some people are truly looking for a good balance and some people are petty and pay attention to the smallest "infractions". It’s both the best in people and the worst in people at the same time.

So, on the one hand they get in everybody's business, on the other hand, they prevent things going sideways when you have "characters" in the neighborhood.

So I agree, it depends on the HOA.
The complete sequence of a human genome
If Mozilla didn't obtain and spend all that funding, Firefox would have been obsolete years ago. Google spends bazillions on Chrome, you can't compete with that on a shoestring budget.
it can't possibly charge them efficiently enough for it to be relevant
I read Allen Carr's easy way to give up smoking.

It was amazing, it opened my eyes to what my addiction actually was and I have never been addicted since reading that book.

Been twelve years addiction free.
Except I don't have any Amazon devices, and I won't ever be buying any. No way I'm exposing myself to that kind of liability by "sharing" my internet with complete strangers.

They can't keep counterfeit items and scams out of their store, what makes you think they can manage who your internet is shared with?
Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present (v10.0.0) (1997)
If it’s a DOS VM running on vaguely modern hardware and it has a script to encrypt and back up the VM image periodically, then that’s fine.

If he’s using antique hardware, then he’s being silly. That’s like racing a 1960s-era car: It’s fun and nostalgic as long as nothing goes wrong and you never have a crash.
1 in 12 adults had met the criteria for abuse or dependence at some point. 1 in 12 aren't present drinking themselves to death and it is highly likely that this figure that has gone up substantially has more to do with our screwed up society and less with the properties of alcohol.

Notably 90% of Americans have drank alcohol at some point without becoming addicts which one can't be said of nicotine.
To speak sensibly about what is good, we have to define what we mean by 'good' in this context. You can define 'good' as 'popular' if you like, but I don't think that corresponds with how most people use the word, and nor is it particularly useful. (We already have a word for popular.)

This doesn't mean that 'good' = 'lauded by highbrow critics', either. But it's okay to have a concept of literary quality that isn't reducible to popularity or pure entertainment value; it's okay to value things like psychological insight, or beautiful complexity, or the capacity of a book to broaden its readers' circle of empathy.

We will never all agree on which qualities matter most or which books best exemplify them. Employing these unavoidably fuzzy and subjective concepts certainly opens the door for pretentious charlatans to barge in and do their thing. We should adopt a sceptical stance toward any and all cultural gatekeepers, and exercise our own judgment. But there's still no need to flatten our concept of literary quality down into something objectively measurable.
Usually the narrative boils down to the elite (with help from the United States) conspiring to keep the country down. I've been hearing this drivel since elementary school, it's tiresome.

> Also, I don't think Brazil is a special example at all.

Yeah, like most Brazilians I used to think that Brazil was exceptional. The eye-opener was the book "The Elusive Quest for Growth", which describes efforts to bring many countries out of poverty. Most poor countries make similar mistakes, we're not an exception at all.
> if adverts were more targeted they would become more profitable and therefore pay for better content.

If ads were more targeted, that doesn't necessarily increase neither the ad spend of companies, and it most definitely doesn't increase the amount of money that consumers can spend on the things that are being advertised.

Most of the time, advertising is a zero-sum game. If you take ad targeting away from everyone, everyone will just do untargeted ads (i.e. ads that are only related to the context they appear in, not related to the person seeing them), and there will be no comparative disadvantage for any particular advertiser.
inflation is good for the young since they are in debt.

inflation hurts the old on fixed incomes.
My idealism for elegant solutions (that is often thwarted when I actually try to create usable programs) appreciates this.
>Wikipedia already lists 2 paxos variants that have byzantine security
One of those mentioned is Fast byzantine consensus (FBC) [1]. FBC provides an optimal algorithm for a 2 phase commit system w/ byzantine agents. But FBC requires that each correct process sends a message to each other. This is O(n^2) and does not scale. Bitcoin (specifically, others differ) maintain some of the invariants with extremely high probability over time. High enough to be useful. In exchange, bitcoin's network scales much better. Really, it just needs O(n) messages to confirm a transaction.

Of course, PoS like Ethereum's takes much inspiration from byzantine paxos. But I wouldn't call this a solve problem, and crypto has innovated in this space. We can just debate whether or not the innovation has been worthwhile ;).

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~lorenzo/papers/fab.pdf
I just want updates to happen in a separate 'thread'. Not (necessarily) in the literal sense, in the sense of my human attention. Update in the background, don't interfere with my use of the application itself — at most, give me an icon that tells me the application will be a newer version the next time I restart it, a bit like how Google Chrome manages its updates.
Funny, I live in a townhouse with shared walls, there’s no HOA here and there have never been any issues.

Hell, “terraced” or “mews” housing is incredibly common in the UK and HOAs are effectively unheard of.
There are multiple desktop search solutions, both supported and discontinued. While nice in theory, the problem is that anything that is not text requires lots of metadata. The same can be said about tags, relational DBs that Microsoft dreamed about long ago, etc.

- if you don't have enough metadata or they are of poor quality, your query has to be more precise, which is not very different from organizing your files manually and remembering the structure.

- if you add/reformat metadata yourself or even just make sure it's consistent, you're probably micromanaging it too much, losing all the convenience.

Now, some sort of ML system that automagically expands your stuff with relevant metadata could possibly work for this. Maybe. Existing AI assistants are still too dumb to be useful in most cases.

Also the entire UI shouldn't rotate around one genius paradigm that works best for everyone. There's no such paradigm. Manual file/folder organization is perfectly good for most cases. Fuzzy search works best for textual data like notes or documents, or to discover the content you forgot you ever had. Tags work well for photos.
I have heard of some people experiencing sensitivities to MSG, but as the exception and not the norm.
It probably will be, just extremely computationally expensive. But 30 years is also further out than when most experts predict the singularity will arrive; after which all bets are off.
Just buy a house outside of an HOA or city historical restrictions. You'll have to shop around, and you wont get exactly what you want, but that is life.
It's a math + value of freedoms really.

I don't mind paying high taxes for high opportunity.

But I DO mind when I have to sell my lifetime freedom as well.

US wants citizens to pay taxes to US even if they don't live or work in US.

This is BS.
I get periodic push notifications about TV+ content, Apple Arcade launches, and Apple Music deals.
I hope you’re right. Personally I think that epoch peaked with jQuery. I’ve been watching the culture of web development steadily descend from what you describe to whatever it is we have now. But software history is circular, so maybe those good times are coming again.
I use Linux, and my computer doesn't draw files (or anything else other than the default stipple) on the root window either; I have no desktop environment installed, because I do not use it and do not like it. (I don't use the Desktop, Downloads, Documents, etc directories, so I have deleted them. I can add directories with shorter names with whatever categorizations I need, and those aren't them.)

Files can be accessed by typing in their full path (with tab completion in some cases). (Some programs insist to use the GUI to select/list files rather than you can just type them in, and I hate this.) For searching files by name, ordering, etc, there is such commands as ls, and stuff that can be used.

For downloads, I will always type in what I want to save it as and in what directory, and usually I will use curl to download and redirect output to a file, or sometimes to another program is useful.

For screenshots, again I can use command-line programs; a program can make the screenshot, and then piped to the one that encodes it as PNG, and redirect its output to a file in order to save it to disk.

Command line interface is better, I think.
Well, steps were made in exactly that direction, with ReiserFS and Microsoft was working on the same thing around the same time in the Longhorn days (called WinFS).

For some reason it never took off. ReiserFS was abandoned when Hans Reiser killed his wife but Microsoft also abandoned it with no (known) killings involved. Something must have not worked out.

It's a very interesting idea to revisit though. I do still think there's merit in it. Probably part of the issue was how to make it work gracefully with legacy apps.

However in this kind of scenario you totally absolutely want to tag it with multiple tags. Otherwise this'll become a haystack you'll never find anything back in. I bet this was another issue surrounding implementations.
>So yes, it seems that there is a switch.

There wasn't any "switch" based on prior smoking the first time you took up smoking.

So, I'd say, smoking again just means it's not impossible to start again. But why would somebody think it is?

The concept of the "switch" doesn't add much.
The work doesn't have to be economically useful to the miner to be useful to society.