skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't given up the hope that an iOS hacker manages to jailbreak the new M1 iPads so that you can boot macOS or Linux (https://asahilinux.org).

The 4:3 screens of the iPads are really nice and Thunderbolt on the new devices allows for a large number of peripherals (if you buy a hub :)). Only Apple's "Magic" keyboards are far too expensive, but regular Bluetooth keyboards and mice should also work.
I'm not sure what I expected -- I'd heard of this book before, and think it's generally good/great advice -- the title.

but the first thing i saw when i went to the link was something like:

> Help others. Because when you do, they often help you back.

That put me off.

Just because it seems selfish and/or manipulative and/or it's advising you to corrupt one of the things that makes the world occasionally bearable -- helping people because they need some help.

Instead, this book is saying, help people because you can get something in return.

At least according to that summary.

I guess I don't have _too_ much of a problem with that, but...can we cay 'billionaires'? Their entire lives revolve around helping people in the name of getting something in return -- like Benioff Children's Hopsital. oh gawd. :-D

c'mon, bro. like what evil shit are you doing in your life that you have to sponsor a _children's hospital_??

nevermind. i can imagine.

pretty soon a legion of billionaires is going to be funding a 'child sex trafficking rescue organization'.

oh, wait...
Doesn't much surprise me, and is largely why I currently own only older cars. It'll be a problem when I want to get an EV and all the offerings come with hostile features like this.

It's televisions all over again.
The "Platform Competition and Opportunity Act" looks like it would ban big tech companies from buying almost any other companies:

"It shall be unlawful for a covered platform operator to acquire directly or indirectly... the whole or any part of the stock or other share capital of another person engaged in commerce or in any activity or affecting commerce." [0]

[0] https://cicilline.house.gov/sites/cicilline.house.gov/files/...
So a consumer startup by a 20yo founder with no experience, business model or an iota of revenue is a ponzi scheme too?

Edit: Wait! It is so and Bay Area has been selling this pyramid scheme for years. lol.
https://archive.is/VYhhU
What about the unbanked? People in high-interest countries? Cross-border payments?

You present a strong claim that they "ARE still centralized and manipulated, especially Bitcoin". Please present concrete evidence.
> I really believe that, UX-wise, Windows 7 was the high point.

Yup, definitely.
Such a simple yet useful project. Using github actions and github pages makes this pleasingly encapsulated!

Will try this out soon
Interview With Former SS Officer At Treblinka Death Camp (1976)
Sybil control mechanisms like PoW, PoS, and PoH are intended to rate-limit block producers, in order to prevent any one entity from controlling the network. In Bitcoin PoW, a block is produced every 10 mins, and your chance of getting to propose the next block is related to your hash power. All block producers are competing for the same slot in the blockchain.

As I understand PoH, blocks are instead continually proposed, but block producers are rate-limited by having to show completion of an operation similar to a verifiable delay function. Therefore, block producers avoid having to all compete for the same slot in the blockchain and duplicate lots of work. This is actually a novel Sybil control mechanism that is more efficient than standard PoW/PoS. It's somewhat analogous to the difference between a dedicated communication channel (as in landline phones) and a packet-switched communication channel (as in the internet).

The catch is that the PoH operation approximates a verifiable delay function, but is not currently proven to be equivalent to one. So there's the possibility of a black swan event where someone discovers a clever way to speed up the PoH operation, allowing them to cheaply control the network.
Another knock against Solana is that although it has innovated in transaction efficiency, its token distribution/crypto-economics may be less "fair" than competitor blockchains.
Please correct me if you spot any mistakes.
The article briefly mentions HAMR (Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording) hard drives. Seagate has been shipping them since 2020 to some customers. Seagate's roadmap is 120TB drives in 2030.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16544/seagates-roadmap-120-tb...

If you are a business then tape is great. But as a consumer with around 50TB of data the problem is that current generation LTO tape drives are in the over $3,000 range. The tapes are reasonably priced but the drive cost is so high that you can buy about 200TB of hard drives for the cost of just the tape drive.
The clown prince of Korea, everyone.
Music Tokenization for the Decentralized World
I'm pretty sure the bans & channel closures have hastened the transition. People log in and see pretty much no one on the channel, search to see if something happened, and turn up the news about Lee fucking Freenode up. Then they leave, too.
noise is whatever you're not interested in studying/analyzing at the moment.

it's more a property of a thinking agent than it is of the universe.

if you see it everywhere it's because we are the same type of observers, maybe other kinds of hypothetical agents can segments the universe in different ways.
Seems like there's a ton of money to be made with the drug. Just call it a "miracle cure" and sell it to all of the anti vax conspiracy theorists for $500 a dose. Works great for chronic Lyme antibiotics and essential oils, why not ivermectin too?
Monarchy is a useful construct. Obviously you wouldn't want it as a system of government but it turns out humans really want some sort of living symbol, and a monarch gets you a random living symbol instead of the alternative of electing one (which both makes them subject to political influence and even worse gives them apparent democratic legitimacy because people voted for them).

When I say random, what I mean here is that - while they're biological descendants of a previous monarch locking in some component of genetics - humans are enormously varied so what you actually get isn't so different from if you stole a random newborn baby. Fat, tall, slow-witted, ugly, it's out of everybody's hands. They didn't ask for the job (you might want to at least make it possible for them to decline - if they feel they cannot do it, but this decision must be strongly discouraged and irreversible) but it's not onerous and somebody needs to do it.

I think it's actually desirable for a country to find themselves a monarch, giving said monarch of course absolutely no actual power whatsoever, and some merely ceremonial duties. The people get a symbol, untainted by the day's grimy politics and the politicians can get on with something useful.

Now, would Andrew Lee make for a halfway decent King of Korea? It seems dubious, but unlike running Freenode it wouldn't come with any actual power. However the big problem, as with Freenode, is whether people accept him. If the Korean people recognise Lee as King, why not?
> I fundamentally distrust these people (on both sides)

I always try to understand which votes they are trying to buy.

Seriously.

If we model politicians as individuals evolving through an evolutionary algorithm it becomes very clear that their fitness function has very few variables. Money and votes. Not sure what else.

Once they learned that votes can be had with promises, rather than execution, all was lost. Politicians are now experts at manipulating the audience for votes through promises (which are nearly always false).

They also manipulate the audience through incredibly creative naming of bills and programs. Every single one of them sounds amazing. And yet, nearly every time you actually study one there's plenty to be horrified about.

I have no clue how we fix this. If the fitness function that drives this species does not include an evaluation of actual results (valuable, useful, positive, consistent long-term results) they will never have the evolutionary pressure required to mutate in a direction that benefits the people and the nation. They are so deep into self-serving and party-serving territory at this point that we would have to make massive changes to the way things run if there is to be any hope of correcting the type of person who goes into politics and their behavior once at their respective throne.
I think it’s just the normal noise/lighting/etc that is always there. You just have no reason to actually notice it (it provides no benefit to e.g. a hunter gatherer) so the brain normally disregards it. It’s a fundamental property of the universe but then again so is everything else.
Dark Matter Map Reveals Cosmic Voids Where Laws of Physics Seem Not to Apply
Bluetooth Incorporation in Novel Handwashing Device
> People have been saying this about crypto for 10 years and bitcoin 30x'ed despite all the negativity, with tons of big institutions loading up on it behind the scenes. It's here to stay.

The main goal of bitcoin is to be a decentralised peer to peer cryptocurrency, it has completely failed in its original purpose to become that in 10 years.

And when more people realise how inefficient it is in terms of energy, transactions, fees and utility, the quicker the price will go down.
Here's my solution:

Make inheritances cap out at 500k, that's the max you can give anyone. Period.

So at least in that way, if you're a billionaire you'd need at least 2000 people on your will to give out just 1 billion dollars.

If you don't have enough people on your will, it'll go into a lottery system where anyone who's net worth is under 200k gets a chance to win 100k until it's all gone.
Just the opposite. Arguably anyone reading these comments - yes, you — ought to have a greater number of children. A world of fecund engineers, executives, mathmeticians and what have you is a world vastly more equipped to deal with climate change than the counterfactual without them.
Now that I know how to do it, I personally notice improvement after 15 minutes or so, lasting for about two days.

Embarrassingly, even that’s often still not enough to get me doing it regularly. Habits are hard to build.
LSD supporter typical response:

* A person had a magnificent, positive life altering experience on LSD. The LSD changed their life for the better

* A person wound up developing psychosis and schizophrenia after taking LSD. It wasn't the LSD's fault; they must have been pre disposed. Family medical history, man.

My take as an outsider is that if you believe LSD helps some people, then it follows that it hurts others, and that it's difficult to predict such outcomes.

It's a mind altering substance, and I'm glad I stayed away from it.
Less than 10 weeks ago the UN agency responsible for international health convened "an independent, international panel of experts, which includes clinical care experts in multiple specialties and also include an ethicist and patient-partners." Their findings concluded there was in fact "very low certainty" of any possible positive effects.

The group reviewed pooled data from 16 randomized controlled trials (total enrolled 2407), including both inpatients and outpatients with COVID-19. They determined that the evidence on whether ivermectin reduces mortality, need for mechanical ventilation, need for hospital admission and time to clinical improvement in COVID-19 patients is of “very low certainty,” due to the small sizes and methodological limitations of available trial data, including small number of events.

https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/who-adv...
Yes. And I's argue that some semi-structured time to exchange ideas, come up with ideas, "bond," etc. with everyone on some scale of team and even guests from other teams is probably better than bump into you conversations that often aren't going to happen with people on other floors, in other offices, and even on different continents.
Hm, with the channels I'm in, it's more 50/50 for libera vs OFTC. OFTC now has Asahi, Meson, and the whole graphics stack (dri-devel, intel-gfx, radeon, wayland…)
Then a genetics company could produce it for Covid and beat Merck to market.
I think that is a specific community culture thing then? FB groups & chats I've used have been really friendly and helpful!

Also when people say "use a discord", they are really referring to a text chat discord. It's the new IRC, with all of its good and bad parts. Almost nobody is using audio chat.

Discord's audio chat is mostly used in small groups of 3+ for parties in multiplayer games where quick audio communication helps a lot. It's the new teamspeak / ventrilio.

Here is a couple examples of community discords:

https://discord.com/invite/buildapc

https://discord.com/invite/obsproject

There has been a general response to withdraw into more private & semi-private communities although, as a response against the internet outrage mob that could ruin a person's life. That is a big shame.
Agreed. While doing my undergrad in CS a decade ago (wow - I can't believe it's been that long) a lot of coursework was relatively light-weight to execute, and when it wasn't it could be done by SSH-ing or VNC-ing into a university-managed RHEL environment.

We could even RDP into well-equipped Windows machines that had licenses for all the software you could ever want if you happened to need Windows.

This was at a large Midwestern research university. From talking with friends and colleagues over the years, it sounds like it was a pretty standard set-up.

I did try to do local development on an ARM Chromebook I got as a curiosity back then, but it was just too constrained. Cruton wasn't perfect and only the XFCE desktop environment had acceptable performance. Plus, not a lot of software was ARM compatible out of the box back then and compiling from source was a pain on the low-power processor I had.

These days, especially with the crazy fast ARM cores we're seeing and Android Apps working on ChromeOS, things look way more usable for a CS student's general computing needs. It's always cool to see stories like OP's to confirm what I hoped was the state of computing outside the Mac/Windows norm.

Disclosure since this is about ChromeOS: I work at Google, but this is all my personal experience and opinion.
I’m don’t remember Usenet being federated so much as based on replication. It was really organized around large centers with many users at each center, and the need to store and forward everything faithfully.
Please don't assume bad faith. Extensions can be a solution to some problems, but they're obviously not perfect -- I'm not saying they are.

>The problem is that there are huge numbers of dependencies, and if you hold back on updating GNOME Shell, you can't update a potentially huge number of other packages, and you risk your desktop or laptop installation becoming unstable.

So just to be clear, that same problem propagates to upstream, which is exactly why the extensions break. If they wanted the extensions to not break so much, the alternatives there that upstream has would be:

- Hold up the release so that everyone gets a chance to update their extensions. This causes sweeping problems because now everything else is delayed if an extension developer is slow, and this may not even help if the extension developer has truly vanished, because then nobody will be around to update the extension. Gnome switched to time-based releases a long time ago to get away from those problems.

- Merge the extension upstream. There are a large number of extensions, and some of them conflict with each other, so this is sadly not feasible to do with every extension that everyone wants, and some people will still be unhappy because their extension was not popular enough to get merged.

- Limit the extension API to a small group of stable functions. This will reduce the total number of extensions, and people will still be unhappy because some things will not be part of this API (e.g. it's unlikely you'd get the full lower-level workspaces API that allows you to implement something like 2d workspaces).

- Don't allow extensions at all. Now if you want to change the shell's behavior, you have to do a hard fork.

So yeah, I agree extensions are sometimes not a valid solution to a feature request, but the problem is that every other solution is even worse, at least for Gnome anyway.

>I suggest that you not buy Nvidia hardware.

If you want to play this game, I could suggest that you just not use 2d workspaces. But I won't -- I think you deserve to use that feature if you want it. And if I did buy nvidia hardware, I would use nouveau :)
A grocery store plastic bag weighs about 5.5 grams. A gallon of gasoline weighs about 2.86 kilograms, or 520 times more. Minimizing your use of gasoline is far more important than worrying about a plastic bag.

If you worry that plastic recycling is sent to third-world countries and thence into the ocean—and you should worry—there's an easy solution. Don't recycle your plastic. Trash it; send it to a landfill. In the big picture, drilling for oil, making plastic, and then burying it again is its own sort of recycling. And in developed nations, landfilling plastic is environmentally benign. Landfills are lined and covered.
I never understood why the speakers in drive-throughs are so shitty. It is like the low resolution CCTV camera recordings released by police that are close to useless for identifying perpetrators. What is the point? This is 2021, DSP technology is a commodity on the orders of a few cents to a few dollars per chip. There is absolutely no reason for an intercom to sound so bad, ditto for CCTVs. A commercial grade surveillance/intercom system that cost 3-4 figures should at the very least perform better than consumer tech like Amazon Ring.
> I've heard many stories of people who were "never the same" (in a bad life-outcome sense) after having bad LSD trips.

This seems to be weird legend with very little fact behind it.

> claim LSD is safe.

Obliviously nothing is perfectly safe, but pharmacologicallly LSD is the safest drug there is. Safer than Aspirin. It's virtually impossible to overdose it, it's not toxic and LD50 is way 10^5 - 10^6 times of what is the usage. It is possible to get into accident during big LSD trip if you are not fully aware of your surroundings. Having trip sitter helps with that.

Frequent use of any drug when you are young is probably always more risky. Brain is fully developed late 20's.
Well, my experience is that in practice, older refurb high-end Chromebooks can be had song.

Chromebooks expire, losing security updates, and buying an older model is almost always a bad deal. Figuring out expiration dates is a PITA. In practice, COVID19 shortages aside, they typically carry very low resale value.

If you're running Linux, you don't care.

A rather premium model can be had for under $200 easily. That's cheap enough that you can do things with it that you'd never do with a real laptop.
That would certainly make the internet a lot more interesting.
Your third point on will is interesting.

There is a lot of work in the social sciences showing that whether one asserts there is free will or not (as you allude to) is correlated heavily towards belief in God.

If there is no free will, it is interesting that the universal laws of Physics would create clouds of atoms that assert there is a God :)
Isn't the real time most software documentation started going down hill was as the internet became the primary way of distributing and updating software?

When software distribution was tied to hardware mediums, it froze snapshots in time, and the documentation thereof could be snapshotted with it (to varying levels of success). Even needed to be.

But once it all became primarily net based, it meant the software was always fluid, in motion. Imagine the tech writer approaching a developer now days:

"Explain how this works to me"

"Ok, right now, it works like this, but we're working on a revised version for next year..."

"Sigh. Ok, explain that to me too."

"You bet, but make sure and check back with me before you publish, because some things might change yet."

It's an irony, that the original dream of "the web", a distributed documentation system, is rendered ever instantly out dated in the realm of software because of the distribution models it eventually enabled. Unintended side effects I guess.

As a side anecdote, consider man pages for venerable established Unix commands. Now consider the man pages for newer Unix utilities. IME, the newer features are often under documented and require going to code portals to get detailed/up to date answers.
That dude doesn't have a real chromebook.

Try 32GB HDD, 4 GB RAM, 1.6 GHz CPU.

Been using it for light web dev. It's a disaster.
I doubt any nonprofit credible enough is going to risk damaging their reputation by taking on Freenode after what Lee's done with it. Nearly everyone's already moved to Libera & OFTC, people aren't going to want to move back after all that work, and well, frankly, Freenode's very name is toxic now.

Also, I doubt Lee would ever give up control, because it's clear controlling the network is what he wanted all along.
> replaced by high-growth corporations whose goal is the same as all high-growth corporations, ie money and growth at the expense of everything else.

Why do people say this? It's not insightful, I guess it's like some kind of ingroup signaling?

It's also, you know, not true. The growing companies like Amazon and Uber don't make money, and the money making companies don't do things "at the expense of everything else", or else they wouldn't be in their current markets. They would be selling heroin.

The CEOs don't want it to be true:

https://www.businessroundtable.org/business-roundtable-redef...

and neither do the corporate owners, since the same retirement funds own all the companies that are competing with each other, and so they don't really try that hard:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/the-autopi...

Sometimes owners even want the company to stop existing:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-27/exxon-...
I mean, I just stated that I cared about performance. Your opinion may differ.
Honest question: How is that different from proof of work, where those with significant resources (1%, a nation, etc) can spend significantly on mining equipment?