skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1 to Chromebooks, though I was never much interested in Gallium

I picked up one of the original Acer C720's back in 2013. Anemic 2c1t (dual core) Celeron at 1.2 Ghz and 2GB of memory. But Gentoo on it with XFCE was incredibly nippy. Add a processor optimized Firefox at the time and it was an extremely good tiny laptop

A year or so later I upgraded to its "big brother" the core i3 variant (2c2t, quad core) with 4GB of RAM. Same experience. Extremely happy with both machines

Eventually as the Chrome browser started to eclipse things though I moved to Dell's Chromebook 13 "Lulu" with a beastly Broadwell i5 quad core and 8GB (soldered) RAM

The biggest draw for me is these were the first Linux machines I'd used where everything didn't "just work" or "it works okay but you can tweak XYZ" it worked in the sense it was explicitly designed __to run Linux__

For all the flak Google deservedly gets, the decision to enforce a "no binary blobs, everything must be upstreamed to mainline Linux" kernel and Coreboot (BIOS) as well as making "jailbreaking" the thing with a permanent firmware flash as simple as removing a hardware screw was commendable

These days I'm stuck using an MSI Modern 14, which while "okay" is nowhere near as delightful as the Chromebooks were previously
It wants to include the poly mesh as a basic data type, like text, bitmaps.

The ecosystem just is not there.
> In any case ivermectin appears to be the new hydroxychloquine. A medicine that was randomly seized on as theoretically being effective against viruses and has failed in every properly conducted RCT.

Agree.
I don't think it is incompatible.

To keep with the TV analogy, let's say you are watching a movie, enjoying the story, the setting, etc... Then, noised is added to the signal and you start seeing all sorts of glitches.

For example, let's imagine that the boot of a character flickers a bit. That boot has its importance, the director wanted to give the movie a certain aesthetic and that boot is part of it, but it is not important in the story and you are not supposed to notice it, in fact it is especially designed not to be out of place.

But because of the glitch, you now have all your attention focused on the boot, which is interesting, but you lost the big picture, too hard to understand now because of the noise. Maybe the next glitch will highlight the pavement or a lamp post.
This is untrue, if you understand who the customer is, and who the product is. As long as Google holds 70-90% of Search, businesses have no choice but to pay Google to run Google Ads. Because most products being sold are using Google, and Google sells the top search result as an ad. Businesses can't meaningfully switch their ad revenue over to Bing or DDG, and the network effects of that ensure Google can't be deposed.
Another case where I didn't get my tone across - I admire McKenna and have listened to quite a bit of his stuff. He's close to being a genius if he isn't one. However, I didn't really sync up with the machine elve threads.
Ha, mi pensis same. Ne sxancas, ke ilo por skribi nomigxas "Skribilo".
An Amoeba Just Found an New Way to Solve a Classic Computing Problem (2018)
This. Detectives’ thirst for solving (or just finding someone to blame/force a confession out of) crimes will often override their duty for true justice, by whatever means they want.
With the "everyone remote" of 2020, one of the things that spooked a lot of companies is the employees adding to additional complications by living in states (or sometimes countries) that have different labor laws, taxes, and such without telling the company.

This resulted in things where they suddenly found out that they need to pay taxes in four states (and Canada - unless they get that employee to leave within 3 weeks... and firing them is an option).

The three day hybrid may also be something to discourage one employee trying to hold down two remote jobs (on Reddit, this is a not uncommon question and sometimes a really suspicious coworker who suddenly can't VPN or connect to slack for a day or two each week).

The hybrid model keeps a number of problems that the company would otherwise have to think about and enforce non-issues.
Actually, it's fewer high-value children (if you want to judge it this way). 90% of the emissions come from the 10% of the wealthiest population.
I've been out of the infosec game (as a focused profession) for like 10 years or so now, but I looked up ATT&CK and I think perhaps you're used to working with clients with a certain level of sophistication who either outsource their assessments or know what the gold standard looks like. When I was doing pentests (for KPMG, not exactly known for their deep technical bench and 0-day research), it was very clear that things like ATT&CK (at the time, PCI DSS and its ilk) were key to letting unsophisticated companies either throw middle-grade talent at the problem of information security or provide a way for junior technicians to increase their skillset without taking time from the seniors (for better or worse). You mentioned vendors in a prior comment - obviously, ATT&CK is the kind of thing that lets consultancies bring a trough to feed from, but you can employ the same (useful) techniques internally in a company that's organized into service-oriented BUs.

This (my) view is orthogonal to Windows vs Everything Else. When you're working at a medium-cap manufacturer of widgets, software has already eaten your business, but you're not going to attract employees like taviso, right? So you give your people ATT&CK and it's better than nothing.
How does this compare to Adobe's extract-PDFs-to-MS-Office product? (Aside from this being FOSS for which you don't have to pay a subscription. Edit: Also, Adobe's offering might only run in the cloud - I don't remember.)
Global warming needs to be sped up in my view.
It seems like you're not really starting adult life, and you're running out of years to do so. I started my 30's with 3 kids already, and ended my 30's with 9 kids. I bought a house. That house is my responsibility, without even an HOA. I don't have to ask mom for anything. I don't need parental permission. I got to pick the car I wanted to buy. If I feel like painting the house cyan or parking my car on the lawn, I can do so.
I’d say 50% is far less then the single-entity in a centralized solution.

> Before you argue about WU fees, Bitcoin's fees are no better than Western Union's, hence Transferwise.

Early in a new technologies adoption there will be pain points. I consider we are still very early on. Work is actively being done to alleviate this.

Still waiting on your response for high-interest countries and the unbanked.

[0] https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-taproot-upgrade-dogecoin-te...
Also reduce travel, support remote work.
> I've personally used bitcoin to send money between my brother and myself (he was in Australia at the time, I was in the EU) because it was both faster and cheaper than a bank transfer or western union.

You do realise Bitcoin is unable to scale with a large volume of transactions, grinding it to almost a complete halt.

So even if Bitcoin reaches critical mass, your brother will be waiting a very very long time to receive their funds, all with extremely high fees. Questioning the use of Bitcoin would start and by then the BTC price would have gone down had a mass sell off occurred.

Not hypothetical by the way, actually happened only months ago. [0]

So how is this better than Paypal or Western Union?

https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/massive-bitcoin-selling-sp...
If this is the case, it seems kind of easy (if not a tad invasive) to solve. You have the MLB watch over the balls in a secure area, and when the pitcher and catcher go out, you check their pockets to see if they have anything like Pelican Grip Dip. If they do, they can't go out.
Music used to earn a lot of people a middle class income. Streaming only really benefits the top of the charts. Everyone else works part time and music innovation stagnates since risk is so much higher for anyone who actually wants to earn anything. App stores do this too, commoditizing apps - only 0.01% of apps make back their dev cost. So what if a handful at the top make a dump truck of money? Nobody but risk averse executives can afford to spend years at a time experimenting

https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/9999-in-10000-mobile-apps-...
Has it ever occurred to you, to measure the actual work?
We can all discuss whether or not a certain UI/UX pattern is appropriate or not (and I certainly agree that many of the changes Apple have made in the last decade have been for the worse). But all personal preferences aside, Linux UI/UX feels to me at less consistent than macOS - both aesthetically/visually (between different UI toolkits etc) and in terms of behaviour (keyboard shortcuts, how well they work with touch screens, etc).
That's because the kernel is a commodity. Whether it's Linux or Mach, the user can't tell the difference. It's just plumbing.
Monero fulfills the original promise of bitcoin.
Checking pockets isn’t enough. Pitchers have been hiding the substances on their hats or gloves or other sneaky places for years. It’s not like they just bring a jar of spider tack out there with them
Every time they add a new law to control the Internet, it more then likely is a bad day for everyone. (Except for the Gov. and corporations, of course.)
I've thought and read about this a ton and the best I've come up with so far radical democracy (in certain key areas), randomness and a pluralist party system.
Maybe a simpler, clearer thing for me to have said is that studying ATT&CK is probably neither especially good career advice nor a good representation of the core competencies of a security engineer. Security engineering is multi-specialized, and significant and important specializations in security aren't well represented in ATT&CK at all.

But really all I wanted to chip in with here is that ATT&CK is also an eye-roll topic, even for people working in the specializations where ATT&CK applies. Not all the things in ATT&CK, many of which are important, but ATT&CK itself. I'm making a descriptive statement, not a normative one.
Into Thin Air observes that most deaths on Everest happen on the descent.
China's Mars rover Zhurong takes group picture on the Red Planet
Though if there's anything the past few months have demonstrated, online meetings have that same problem.
This is a ride, but let’s take it point by point.

Firstly, I think it’s immoral for anyone to do it. I don’t think it’s immoral simply because I decided so. I think it’s fundamentally immoral, period.

You continue by saying something to the effect of “good food is really important and plays a huge role in our life and animals go to great lengths to acquire good food”. To this, I completely agree. I never said otherwise. Nor did I ever trivialize this. I just think that good food doesn’t have to mean animal products. I think good food can include beans, grains, vegetables, fruits, fungi, etc. If you disagree with that, I can recommend some vegan cook books which I think will change your mind.

Also to this point, I don’t think it’s relevant how other animals react to food. We are not those animals. We don’t need to hold ourselves to the standards that species without agriculture and advanced supply lines are held. We are more advanced, can make complex decisions, and have more options.

Then you talk about vegans who have “broken veg” and started eating animal products again. I don’t understand what this has to do with anything. Yes, there are people who break vegan. There people who subscribe to any creed and then become disillusioned. If you’re trying to make a point that veganism is so hard and terrible that not even passionate vegans can stand to adhere to it, Id love to connect you with people who have been staunch vegans for decades. Would you like me to put you in touch with them? There are a lot.

Lastly, you say nobody knows what vegans actually eat, but I can tell you definitely: anything except animal products. That is, after all, the point.
I wonder how hard it would be for a human brain to adapt to controlling 2 extra limbs? This kind of tech coupled with something like Neuralink seems like an excellent field of study.
Airships feature in a book I’m currently reading and recommend: Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson. So far it’s very well written, but a depressing and accurate reflection on how our human nature is dooming us.
Absolutely true, of course. Some mountains that aren’t difficult in the summer can be torturous in the winter. And any mountain can be dangerous. As an aside, I do love ascending Shasta, one of my favorites in that region.

But, from the reverence, I get the suspicion that this “startup thought leader” who is trying to sell you courses on blog writing saw that Whitney was the tallest in the 48 and climbed it to be able to weave into a story for a blog. Which makes me take the whole thing even less seriously.
That's not quite how it happened, DALnet suffered prolonged DDoS assaults that took the network offline for several weeks. (I remember it being a couple of months.) Once they got past the DDoS was when they banned all file trading. It wasn't just warez and mp3 channels, it also targeted manga scanlation and anime fansub groups.

The reasoning I heard was that the DDoS was triggered by someone getting upset about something that happened in a file-trading channel, and decided to DDoS the entire network as a result. After being offline for so long from the attack, DALnet admins wanted nothing to do with that kind of bullshit again and just purged it all. I really can't say that I blame them.
Huge face palm!
Everybody in this thread is "watching" porn, like we're discussing movies. You're jerking off, masturbating, like those lab rats incessantly pressing a button to get a hit. That can't possibly be good for you in the long run as a man. So if you are spending n% of your life jerking off to pixels on a screen you need to ask yourself why.
A statement from the AAEC on the 2021 Pulitzer Prizes
Oops, Acer, correct (that was also the price I looked up), thanks for the correction.

The 16 GB version of the Macbook Air is more expensive, but I wonder how much more RAM a Chromebook needs for similar tasks since most of the software runs in Chrome instead of native?

I don't know US Thinkpad prices in detail, but you can buy the 16 GB RAM/512 GB SSD Thinkpad X13 AMD (no OS) for 1025 Eur (edu discount) including 19% VAT in Germany (https://www.lapstars.de/thinkpad-campus/x-serie-campus/x13-a...). This makes 861 Eur before tax (US$1042 at current conversion rates).

Of course, in the end it's all a matter of taste and use case and I'm happy to see more variety in the personal computing market.
I bought Toshiba Chromebooks (the 2014 variant, which lacks the backlit keyboard but is pretty much otherwise identical to the 2015) for my kids. Two of them have moved onto MacBooks but the youngest chugs along with his Chromebook. I was able to find them online for $85 - $135 over the years. The screens were fairly easy to replace and cost about $45.

I also recommended one to my brother-in-law and he totes it on trips. The trackpad stopped working so he uses an external mouse. They're terrific as a travel laptop: plug the SD card into the slot, upload your photos to Google Photos, and don't worry about what happens to your photos if your camera is stolen or whatever. And at that price it's much less painful than if your MacBook Pro is stolen. Plus the 1080P resolution on 13" screen is better than most options for a lot more money.
Pretty sure Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are exchanging ideas in the same way Jefferson and Madison did. These people all have something in common, though, even across time -- they were all influential, successful, well known people.

I don't think the average person at the end of the 18th century was having significant, long lasting, publishable correspondences.

It's interesting to me that you expect to have the kinds of experiences Jefferson and Madison did, instead of those the local butcher did. Don't know who you are, but maybe Nassim Taleb just hasn't gotten around to responding to your letters yet? :)

As for me, just like the local butcher of the 18th century, i mostly interact with my family and friends, have a few hobbies no one else really cares about, etc.
> we spend a lot of our finite lives working

if you want to dedicate most of your life just to work, you can go ahead and do that
The internet had some different qualities when it was something that no-one had ever grown up with.
Running an ai simulation on an 8 bit nintendo is going to be a lot more complicated, and difficult than running one on a 512^e38 bit (pulled out of ass) 100kth gen Radeon GPU that won't be developed for 1000 years from now...

In a universe where time itself could be fluid, where it could be easy to reverse events, rewrite events, etc - making quantum computers work even way better than we ever could because we're limited by causality.

I mean the people beyond this universe could have 50 senses, like a sense of how far up or down they are, or how much water they can breathe in before they need oxygen if o2 is even a thing, or a sense of time so they can go back/forward through time. If they have 50 senses, our 5 sounds like "nothing" to simulate.

It's all a matter of perspective, I'm sure an ant feels like they keep pretty busy and nothing could possibly simulate their colonies, but I'm sure that would be pretty easy.
Stripe: Thinking Like a Civilization
do you value money over human life?
Presumably they did not mean an Internet Protocol address, but instead data containing disallowed intellectual property.
Typically “movie” hallucinations like seeing elephants in the room or having strange people visit you or seeing bugs all over you are more typical of deleriants like diphenhydramine or datura, although high dose tryptamines can be so strong that there is no connection to the reality around you - overwhelmingly psychedelic. In that state hallucinations of a different type are possible (talking to entities, being somewhere else entirely, etc.) Movies are a very bad representation of psychedelics generally, though.
But what is economy anyway ? Recent events showed us that money was not economy, you can print as much as you want and 'helicopter' it.

It is more about the resources, do we have enough of it to make it possible for regular people to travel to space ? Probably not on earth, so let's build mega factories on the Moon. You might argue it's not possible or feasible for some physic reasons, so let's find a solution. But not money, money does not exist, it's made up.

The purpose of humanity as I see it is not to go smoothly and safely, to be able to go without troubles to a final destination (that does not exist). I say buckle up and let's do it! As Billy said you need to be solution oriented.
Also, avoid cryptocurrencies, build simpler web pages, prefer offline (desktop/mobile) to online (web/cloud) solutions, use documentation instead of googling, prefer centralized to distributed systems if possible. All these save energy.
Falcon 4 looks to be competing with DCS. Personally I've played neither.

What VTOL VR does is use the VR environment to make an interactive cockpit. Rather than you memorizing a huge list of bindings, you just interact with the cockpit the way the pilots would. That memorization aspect is why I never really got into falcon 4 or DCS. And as a first mil sim flight game, if you have a headset, that's my recommendation.
There are 2 million non-Jewish Israeli citizens right now and it seems to work. Why can't it work with 5-6 million?

Yes. The idea that the combined country still be the homeland of the Jewish people needs to be recognized as should the historic rights of the Jews in that region. The rights of the people who have lived there in more recent history can also be recognized. These should not be mutually exclusive. There are plenty of reasons why the rest of the region is messed up I'm not sure I want to look at that as evidence this can't work.

There were plenty of periods in recent history where most Palestinians and Jews got along just fine. I don't think the animosity runs as deep as you're portraying. Sure, a lot of blood has been spilled since which doesn't help but there's plenty historical examples (lessay in Europe) where people have moved on. This is a multi-decade process. It's not something that will happen from today to tomorrow.
Nothing in there says that he's dismissing McKenna in any way.

Also you could make this claim about literally any person in any situation. Not all people are worth listening just because what they have to say is "unique". People who think vaccines are being used to implant microchips have quite the "unique" and creative perspective. That doesn't mean they deserve to be taken seriously.
This is the exact machine setup I used for my first job as a professional developer. It was a contracting position and the unemployment from my barista gig had run out some months prior, so I was running on fumes. For $350, the amount of value I got out of it is staggering. While I unfortunately spilled water on it and broke the keyboard some years ago, it will always hold a dear place in my heart.
People who I knew long ago took LSD and wound up going crazy. They weren't the same. It's not weird legend.

Safety in terms of physical overdose isn't the only metric.
He was also one of the key designers behind the Swift language at Apple.
Pitch doctoring is bad, but the national anthem is a tough one. It could be worse, look what happened to the Grammies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milli_Vanilli
Because they believe that the net suffering is reduced by the joy being brought into the world via the birth.

And there are people who believe we should stop giving birth and let our species die. They are antinatalists. I think they are too extreme, imho, but you asked where they are: just google them.
Relatedly, did we ever figure out what was in that collection? I vaguely remember hearing that the book list was recovered.
WhatsApp launches privacy campaign after backlash
Social and Economic Effects of the [Bubonic] Plague

Since it was so difficult (and dangerous) to procure goods through trade and to produce them, the prices of both goods produced locally and those imported from afar skyrocketed. Because of illness and death workers became exceedingly scarce, so even peasants felt the effects of the new rise in wages. The demand for people to work the land was so high that it threatened the manorial holdings. Serfs were no longer tied to one master; if one left the land, another lord would instantly hire them.

https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/plagu...
> Baffling to see this [natural infection] listed as a way to get covid “under control”

Nobody in their right minds thinks that this is the ideal way to get it under control, but it's one of the ways that can contribute to herd immunity.

> No placebo controlled RCT has shown this that I’m aware of for ivermectin

There are as of today 58 studies, out of which there are 29 RCTs showing Ivermectin is effective.

https://ivmmeta.com/

> How would it create herd immunity? Would people have to take ivermectin for the rest of their lives as an alternative to the vaccine?

Let's say you need 75% for herd immunity. If you have 25% vaccinated, 25% who have already got the infection, and 25% who are taking Ivermectin once a week, you've reached herd immunity. When the R0 is below 1, it will exponentially reduce infections towards zero within months.

With effective early treatments, it doesn't even matter how many people get infected as long as they don't get severely ill.
How well does this content stand up to time? 2 years is a long time in the history of smart phones.