skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm. OK. Read the entire article. I don't see a problem at all. Maybe there's something macOS is doing that makes the desktop painful. I don't know. I use Apple/PC and Linux. I just don't have any real issues.

Here's the other data point, actually, two billion data points. It's hard to get an accurate number, it seem there are about two billion desktop computers worldwide. About 85% of them are running Windows and most of the rest macOS.

You don't deploy two billion of anything if the user interface is broken and people have issues with it. The fact that everyone, from grandparents to PhD's in CS are able to successfully use and navigate these abstractions pretty much says they work just fine.

These platforms (all three major ones) work well enough for non-engineering users to use them every day without major concerns. That, to me, is the very definition of something that isn't broken.

That said, is there room for improvement? Sure, absolutely. Always. Nothing earth shattering though.

For me, a more intelligent clipboard and the functionality that Google Desktop Search used to provide. I keep a massive amount of useful data an a "Library" drive. This data spans a range of disciplines (electrical, software, mechanical, optics, robotics, manufacturing, etc.) as well as reference material (books, manuals, courses, etc.). Any search for information on the browser completely ignores the vast amount of information I have collected over the years.

Truly integrated search across platforms would be very useful. I know there are tools out there that might be able to do some of this. I used to use Google Desktop Search. Once that evaporated I didn't look for a replacement.

One way to get around this --to have a single browser-based universal search experience-- would be to move all the files to a web server and let Google index them there. At least two problems with this. There are files in Library that are private and should not be exposed to the internet (client files would be one example of this). The other category are paid products --the simplest of which being either PDF or other format ebooks or training material. And, finally, as we do work under ITAR we simply cannot have a bunch of our data out in the open for all to see.

I realize that for a lot of people these days the computer experience is inseparable from the online experience. However, for a lot of us, this is precisely what we need, a clear demarcation between desktop and everything on the other side of the network router.

A simple example of this I can offer is what Altium have done to their Altium Designer electronics CAD software. They are so intent on turning it into a Fusion 360 style recurring revenue cloud tool that they have, in my opinion, compromised security for every user who cares (or is required by law) about these things. Today --and this is just my opinion-- when you are using Altium Designer, you cannot possibly guarantee that the designs you are working on might not be exposed to their cloud solution. I suppose you could if you air-gap your machines. Not sure how it would handle licensing without the ability to call the mothership. This is terrible stuff.
HOA fees and other variable costs are usually rolled into the market price implicitly. Even in Manhattan, you see apartments with exorbitant HOA fees selling at sometimes significantly lower prices than ones without them. In fact, this can often be an exploitable pricing discrepancy if you're willing to run the numbers since all you really care about is the total monthly payment.
>> No political signage from one party.

> Um, ya, if they are dumb enough to write that in the bylaws

Written into the bylaws? I never considered that. Likely for a good reason.

Anyhoo, I'd say that fits better under 'selective enforcement'.
I will be happy to be corrected if I'm wrong, but I have a hunch that your clients skew conservative. Not based on anything you've said, just based on your apparent success on Facebook as a platform. Would you be willing to confirm or deny that?
Overconfident of spotting fake news? If so,you may be more likely to fall victim
As I read this article I’m reminded of the failed WinFS project that was set to launch with Longhorn (which of course became Vista). It was meant to replace the classic notion of working with named files with a seamless relational database of metadata. It was supposed to be a signature feature of Longhorn but it was likely way too ambitious for its time and was eventually cut.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
While the use of a bomb in that case soubds like an affront to justice, I would think the police had probably cordoned off the area such that no untargeted bystander would find the bomb by accident.

To me it would only be reasonable to suspect a bomb on one's car if one did not know that the police placed it there.
One can equally say that those who assumed airplanes did not present an existential threat to battleships were taking a massive gamble - it just did not seem like it to them.

On the other hand, it is worth noting that Japan’s early enthusiasm for aircraft carriers was partly driven by the terms of the Washington and London naval treaties, which limited its battleship fleet.

As for having evidence that a successful attack on Pearl Harbor could be made, its planners looked at not only the exercises described here, but also the British attack on the Italian fleet in Taranto harbor in 1940.
They have nowhere near the density needed to do stellar levels of fusion. You need energy \times time \times areal density. For example, the inertial confinement fusion folks do very high densities but interactions that last for much less than a second.
Thanks for the history lesson, but what was the point of it? Are you arguing that Japan was a liberator here, responding to calls for help from Hawaiian government-in-exile? In any case, they had attacked US military assets in full conscience, did they expect it not to lead to war?
I've only been vaguely following cryptocurrency for the last few years after messing with it a while back, but I think the Ethereum Name System should count as one of your 3 requested compelling cases.

Trustless, decentralized DNS with pretty much perfectly fair auctions. No messing with registrars, or having it taken away or censored by a government, or being front-run by GoDaddy.

It was always one of the coolest uses I saw, and an example I always give to explain why smart contracts are useful.

https://ens.domains/
No, it's not the same thing. Participating in a system that controls a navy or decides if murderers get executed or not is not the same thing as having to play politics with busybody nosy neighbors with too much time on their hands telling you you can't build a camaro with your son in your driveway or put a leg lamp in your window.
An interesting sidebar does Mac handle swapping out applications better than Windows/Linux do? Both have a history of becoming unusable. I also suspect its more common for more expensive Mac machines to have more than minimally adequate RAM whereas many cheap machines are often sold with barely enough especially historically.

Someone who cut their teeth on other platforms may regard the death of an application with its last window as an essential part of their machine staying usable.

I don't know if you ever owned one of those really old windows ce devices but in a certain era it had the delightful workflow that closing them didn't kill them and after a while you could open as many applications as memory could hold and you would need to go into a different menu entirely to close unused applications or you couldn't open anything else. Like the worst of both worlds.
Sure, but why? I can easily install the latest Firefox on Windows XP most likely (or could until a few years ago), but I can't on Ubuntu 20.04 (or couldn't until Firefox started doing auto updates on Ubuntu as well)?
In addition to the aging paradigms of local storage and the perfect/gone dichotomy of in-memory storage of active items, which I definitely agree should go away, we should also prepare for the breakdown of the "local compute" paradigm that underpins it. Discussed in part 2 of http://www.thelowlyprogrammer.com/2021/04/the-rise-of-datace... (note: self link), I'll summarize as _"expect most compute power you use for anything non-trivial to end up being remote"_. The 'fragment' based model discussed in the parent article fits well with this, with the idea that a fragment is not bound to the local computer in either production or consumption, but just a handle to something sufficiently durable for the purpose.
Always, always use a bigserial.

(Actually, all serials are bigserial’s but the “base type” they add to the table differs, and it’ll always come back to bite you later. Ask me how I know…)
I've never seen a laptop with a removable battery where you couldn't remove the battery and power it directly.
Old cars were not sturdier or more robust than new cars. That’s a myth. You can Google “crash test old car vs new” or something like that to see examples.
>What makes family bonds so strong is that they won’t turn your back on you when you are in a bind. They are much stronger than friends. Stable households are the most important predictor for childhood success.

This is blanket generalization. Such generalizations are (rightfully) hard to prove. It is likely that families are a positive force for _most_ people, but I am not sure if there is research that concludes that every single human would benefit from having a family/should put up with whatever family they have?

Going back to my original point, any "list" of N things cannot possibly fit all humans. Other people might have different opinions based on their own life experiences.
> 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.

Okay the ongoing presumption here that enforcement is limited to bylaws is weird.

They simply wrote up homes w/ signs from one party and ignored those from the other party.
> 1 in 12 adults had met the criteria for abuse or dependence at some point.

That year, not some point in their lives.

Nicotine is very addictive, but it's not an order of magnitude (10x) more addictive than alcohol.
Super cool stuff. There are few things in computer science as mentally stimulating and satisfying as computer graphics. And this new wave of UE5 stuff just goes to show it.

My gamedev path is (stubbornly?) along a low-level path through C and Haskell. So I doubt I'll ever use UEx. But I can't wait to know enough to learn from this and build libraries for myself.
Yeah I used to have a decent ebike I bought for 2K, and even at that price point, I didn't bring it anywhere that I couldn't keep a constant eye on or bring inside. With a 15K ebike, you need insurance.
Interesting take:

"Every community now has a fragmented number of communities, homepages, entry points, tinyletters, influencers and networks... Of course, the natural consequence of these fragmented audiences is that getting some traction with one or more of these smaller entry points is easier than it ever was."

Do people find this to be true?

As someone who sometimes blogs my impression is that there really aren't that many entry points. For a big topic like AI, there are still mainly HN and some big subreddits and that's about it. Newsletters and such exist, but how are you going to be highlighted on them if people aren't reading your stuff as is? Until you get some traction, reaching even 100s of readers is super non-trivial.

Also, this take is kind of weird:

"Too often I read things otherwise smart people have written for places like Fast Company and my eyes glaze over.
...
Instead - I think most people would be better served by subscribing to small b blogging. What you want is something with YOUR personality. Writing and ideas that are addressable (i.e. you can find and link to them easily in the future) and archived (i.e. you have a list of things you’ve written all in one place rather than spread across publications and URLs) and memorable (i.e. has your own design, logo or style). Writing that can live and breathe in small networks. Scale be damned."

So, small b blogging is just blogging in the traditional sense of having a personal website you put your writing on?
> they were just text files you opened in any text editor. They weren't in a special IRC format

Of course they are! Using anything other than text files to store chat logs would be idiotic. The main point is that slack is a user-hostile application that does not even allow you to do that. Why people put up with this is beyond me.
AMD's bringing the 3D packaging revolution to gamers, and it is transformative
What kind of "reassurance" do a tool like pynguin provide?
In my head tests should be written from requirements, before - or at least alongside - code.
I agree completely regarding the social sciences. I think the devil is in the details, though, and to return to the original article, why 1.5 and not some other number? The author provides an answer, but the answer is only partially resolved.

I feel like some empirical study is needed, of how deviations from models occur in different fields, in a way that's applicable across fields. Maybe that's the same as the probabilistic analysis being discussed in the article, but what I have in mind is higher-level than what I understood that to be. I'm thinking of some meta-analytic survey across disciplines of what the safety factor would have needed to be to avoid various catastrophes of different sorts, or how much models are off in different areas. Maybe there is a field of study like this?
Why Bonobos and ModCloth Failed
I'd be curious to hear how you'd do something like these pages in an ebook without just resorting to a static PDF:

https://i.imgur.com/ZgHnjza.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/6LfLwAq.jpg
My guess Korolev would perhaps see earlier than others (he died January 1966) that the current trajectory - 95 tons payload of N1 with 30 engines on the first stage - is too risky, and would turn things significantly.

For example, coming back to 75 tons N1 and dealing with more dockings on orbit. That would at least reduce number of engines on the first stage; maybe not a very good idea though.

Or coming back to another idea, having N2 (which is N1 without first stage) a priority and fly to the Moon with ideas his team had before (in 50-s? there was a plan with multiple dockings and refuelings, which would use more modest rockets, but N2 with ~25 tons of payload would certainly help). N2 was even in a better tested state - it was the first stage of N1 which was the most problematic.

Or making even better with Chelomei (Korolev approved project Zond, which was a kind of joined project between two design bureaus) and use Proton for multi-launch schemas. Plenty of opportunities.

If Korolev would be lucky enough to avoid Komarov's death, Russians would have some spare time - in addition to momentum - to move things forward.
My comment isn't meant to suggest any particular solution, just to push back on the commonly expressed idea that repealing Prop 47 (the proposition that set these felony limits) would address this problem.
Asked and answered.
>I would argue you should make a new family.

Not sure what you mean by that? Is family always a good thing by definition in your books? (i.e., if X is bad, X is not a family). If so, then your deduction is correct but trivial, and overall the argument doesn't make much sense to me.
I am, admittedly, on the "one app open at a time" end of things, but so much of this article seems like a user complaining about a mess they made for themselves.

>> I have 37 windows open, with some 75+ tabs

>> I have a Desktop scattered with (currently) 132 icons

>> Programs need to cut it out with the dreaded “do you want to review the 88 open documents” crap.

There is no technology that can solve those problems. Just close your stuff, man.
You write some Nix code to download said tarball and build it as you said. In fact, the ever present `mkDerivation` often Just Works for autotools and cmake projects.
Gacriva Studio is raising a seed round financial for the company
Small Indie Studio,a Start-up is raising their firts round,seed financial for the company.
I've known many middle and working class white girls that shoplifted for fun. Most guys I've known to do it did it at gas stations or for small items and we're predominantly working class or lower.
Seeing humanity achieve net fusion in my lifetime would be a total game changer and repoint a good chunk of our future. Things like this make me think we are closer than most people imagine if only because climate change is pushing is hard in this direction. Not only are the economics starting to make sense but also the political will to make this a reality before we all roast due to climate change.
The movie Taxi Driver (not the Scorsese one) is a really good film about this
You're taking the desktop metaphor too literally. It wasn't primarily about storing everything to the 'Desktop', it was that the UI represented the capabilities of the computer in terms of everyday terminology and things people were used to seeing on their desks / in their offices. The 'Desktop' location was just a convenient default location for files but is only a small piece of what the desktop metaphor was about (i.e. you could have a collection of files and folders that you were actively working with on your desktop. The intent was that at some point they would be put away... well, we all see how that went) The desktop metaphor included things like cut and paste to/from a clipboard (back when people actually used to cut and paste pieces of paper this made a lot more sense), files being stored in folders (they were previously more commonly referred to as directories in the text UI world), you put files you wanted to get rid of in the trash etc.
California's math overhaul focuses on equity
> The USA never did implement these cool ideas

DoD kinda did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Access_Card
It is absolutely necessary. I have no doubt about it.
There is a very strong Chinese pro Chinese belief to have many Children. Most of my grandfather generation. Chinese first generation immigrants have more than 5 children. 9 children is very common.
The problem for strong players on KGS is that it takes forever to find a match. That's why most strong players now play on Tygem (from SK) or Fox (from CN).

Pandanet (aka IGS) is Japan-based and they usually play Japanese style games. Tygem and Fox is where the most modern and aggressive Go is played. Pandanet is to Tygem/Fox what a formal duel among aristocrats is to a prison knife fight, or the difference between fighting a gentle martial arts sensei vs fighting an upset Mike Tyson.

KGS has now a web version, https://shin.gokgs.com/
It does not support registration, but once you are registered you can play there.
I hope it's true for you long term. But please watch out. My aunt said pretty much the same thing. She was back to chain smoking after 3 years of completely no cigarettes. It may be safe to doubt yourself just a tiny bit...
NixOS? I've had a good experience with Nvidia on NixOS. But my experience is a laptop w/optimus.
Too funny! I do just about the same. Have plenty of [something]-Desktop directories myself.

I use a fast, local search app to find things sometimes. Often, I only need the time, place, project though.
https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2020...

Everything old is new again.
Not the poster you were asking, but I did appreciate the stress you put on trying to ask a non judgmental question and I thought I'd add a personal observation, which is: disillusioned progressives also think that way.

You try and you try to make society a fairer place to live in, but realise the system is so far gone that nothing you ever do will ever make a difference. So the morally correct and efficient thing to do is to expend those energies into helping you and yours, co-operate with those who extend mutually beneficial arrangements to you, and so on. Not only is it silly to try to create a fairer society, life has extensively proved that it is silly. Not that you disagree with the ideal, it's a great ideal, but it doesn't work in practice. Not that you wouldn't wish to follow it if you could (you would), but life has taught you that trying hurts you and yours.

Re: your mental model, I think there are a lot of studies and thinking that have gone into this, but I was immediately remidned of this old ted talk by Jonathan Haidt [0]. I am sure there are tons and tons more research on the topic.

[0] "The moral roots of liberals and conservatives" (at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SOQduoLgRw)
It could very well be true, but it seems fake because the ending is too perfect. Nothing is that easy in real life.
As harmful as it is it's absolutely a type of meditation. Taking a few minutes out of your day for yourself.
My dad built a heathkit dot matrix printer for his TRS-80. I fondly remember waking up at 2am numerous times to that loud thing. It was the loudest printer I think I'd ever heard.
I wouldn't be shocked if the wide bottom of the demand pyramid was doing a lot of work to support the tiny, pointy top... Economies of scale on lens and body production. For example, with lenses, you can produce a thousand lenses with somewhat random quality, sell the best ones to the pro market, and then sell the not quite as good ones to the cheaper end of the market. When you take out there low end market, you then need to either produce more consistent high end lenses, or raise prices since the low end market isn't there to buy the lower quality outputs.
Enterprise systems are terrible because:

1. Politics. Conways Law more or less applies here.

2. Finance puts a hard border on the playground and forces everyone to play together even when it makes zero sense from a product, efficiency, or maintenance perspective.

3. Even with maintenance teams in place, the enterprise typically elects to use a consulting firm like Accenture for net new builds. This kills the crab.
> It's easier to sell land with a building on it that is immediately useable.

Have you considered that a country where houses are essentially never considered usable buildings would have a different outlook on the matter?

> Or perhaps it's simply much easier to buy bare land in Japan than it is in Canada!

Well yes considering it’s more or less the norm in Japan but not in Canada.
Not to mention the incredibly high taxes on cigarettes.
Yup, that’s why I don’t use any Amazon devices of any type, way, shape, or form.
I have a command line tool `today` that creates and enters a directory based on today's date. Anything I do today goes in `today`, and I don't have to see yesterday, but it is easy to find. I wish my desktop were like that.
That first one really tells you what this becomes: a layer of bureaucracy in between you and your neighbors. And that's just how the busybodies like it, because they're cowards. They don't care about you. Mandatory HOAs aren't about keeping a neighborhood a certain way, they're about taking control over other people's lives. They disconnect us all from each other, they become the go to replacement for neighborhood relationships. And they give the worst of us a cudgel to wield over our neighbors.
Or a crime gets committed via your IP address and you get thrown in jail for it.
I’m so glad that someone else is aware of this.

Not many people realize that leaf blowers remove a ton of top soil from grass and tree roots. It does a ton of damage to so many plants. All those exposed roots we often see should not be exposed that way.

The commercial lawn and tree trimming in Southern California is almost criminal what they do in the name of “landscape maintenance”.
I propose “naturally forced induction”