skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it is worth it is actually a matter of taste.

For me, the defaults of typical KDE desktops have been wonderful during KDE 3 and KDE 5 cycles.

Ubuntu was the only Gnome centric distro that I used that was at times better.

I can't but a finger on exactly what but dull and uninspired feels very close.

Edit: as for Mac I used it for 3 years and while I support devs who want it I never got it. At least back when I used it there seemed to be an informal rule that any popular app had to have a gear icon (some had two) thrown into the user interface by a drunk dev.

I'm actually serious here, this was my experience: I could never understand why some had the gear in the bottom left corner, others somewhere else.

Windows used to be more boring and polished but now have 2 or 3 different control panels. Ironically I like Windows more than before though.

Maybe because Windows is becoming less dull and I'm becoming more dull?
Conversely, to me that the flexibility to just pick up and leave is far more appealing than settling down and owning something. I've moved 7 times in the last 6 years, and I'll probably move again when my current lease is up next year.
Primer reminds me of Clippy

My reaction https://youtu.be/4Ru8DMW-grY
Thinking about this, many of the big tech firms didn't have original ideas at all, came years, maybe decades after the original ideas were conceived and published. But they executed, refined, situated, packaged, marketed and sold well. What is also common is that an original, more idealized/pure implementation gets stripped of some of the seemingly essential beauty during productization.
You know what's annoying is they barely show you content that you subscribe to. I find the "recently uploaded" filter is more helpful in terms of finding something interesting to watch.
> I hate to break it to you but Musk is just as unlikeable.

Right? I don't get the guy's appeal. Yes, SpaceX and Tesla are doing neat things and I love that. But Musk is literally the last person I want to hear from, or about. Despite all the cool stuff Tesla is doing, he really makes me not want to buy anything from Tesla ever just because he's associated with it. Perhaps a bit dramatic, but I really can't stand the guy.
Not sure if you're being facetious. If so, I'll point out that it didn't take long to get from the Wright Brothers to regular civilian jet passenger flights, and it won't take long to get from Musk and Bezos to regular civilian space flights.

The wealthy early adopters provide the capital to refine and scale up the industry to make it practical and affordable for less wealthy late adopters.
I trust my reps to be human, and I trust anyone else to be human as that is what they all are :)

It might take a hundred or a thousand years, but that is where I'd like to see us go. And, it seems like that is where we are going given the global nature of business. Do you think people working at FB or Google who are working with people in 15+ countries don't realize how similar we all are? And, that this entire concept of nations is largely a farce?
You would hope that an insurance company would be good at assessing risk.
If I hear the phrase "I'm an ideas guy" one more time, I'm going to lose it.

Something I've noticed is all idea guys I've encountered were inspired to (in)action by Steve Jobs. But it's obvious that it's his keynotes (rather than work ethic or excruciating focus to detail) that resonate with them. Just an anecdote, but it's like clockwork.
There have been several popular books about famous fraudsters. I suspect that you come across some facts that would be interesting (if not profitable) not just to institutional investors but to the average nerd, or maybe someone looking for an idea for the next bestseller.
Nation states -> wealthy bigco -> billionare's pet project -> hobbyist (e.g. Copenhagen Suborbitals) -> normal people.
At least in California the idea seems to be that someone will find and return all the bottles for the deposit money, even if it's not the original customer. Even if you throw a bottle in the trash, someone will probably dig it out.
> First Mover Advantage

This implies you are moving. If your idea is still on idea stage, you are not being first mover. You are a dreamer.

Most of the time First Mover Advantage becomes obvious only after the fact. So I would not loose too much sleep over it.
Amazon EBS Io2 Block Express Volumes with Amazon EC2 R5b Instances Are Now GA
Widespread cultural diffusion of knowledge started 400 thousand years ago
I am not a Pole, but live in Poland. Umowa o dzielo is quite pervasive but this is not a problem specific to Poland. Portugal, my home country has the same problems just the thing is a different name. The translation would be contractor. As a contractor you obviously have no rights, even so i think this is not the equivalent of US employment.

In both countries the governments are trying to make it quite hard to have people with Umowa o dzielo, which are de-facto employees, but do not pay the appropriate taxes nor are corrrectly protected. The employers also have some reason to do this, the protections offered to the employees often make it a very big risk to hire somebody. Regardless, i believe the southern European countries got it much worse on that front. (Note, the Polish social security model was heavily influenced by the spanish one).
I don't think Blue Origin is currently in the same league as SpaceX. One is making money putting payloads in orbit, actively disrupting the industry and developing new hardware. They other has a sub orbital rocket that is only good for joy rides and otherwise is a lot of talk and little results. Rocket Lab is a more substantial player in the space industry right now than Blue Origin is. Maybe some day they will get off their ass and actually do something noteworthy.
Lexus are releasing a tesla competitor that is tailored for the enthusiast, called the lfz. 0to60 under 3 and around 550 brake horse
Muse Score is turning into a case study of how not to build a brand.
You're right but I think this is somewhat off-topic in this thread, as the alternative to the "decadence" and conservative nature of modern Apple would not be to continue using i*; it would would be to innovate in some new & different branding direction.

Neither is what KDE are doing with their persistent k* prefix: it's not decadent nor innovative. It's just stagnant.
For what it's worth, there are several EV aircraft companies going through the approval process as we speak to get their aircraft certified for human transport. These are not cross country flights. Most of them are trying to pick up the short distance "taxi" markets. i.e. office to airport, home to near-by ski resort, hotel to ski resort, home to office, etc... sub-60 minute flights. The approval process is long and most of these companies won't see human passengers until 2024 or later even if they get approved. Maker eVTOL is one such example. [1] United Airlines is also getting into this business. [2] Here [3] are 5 more air taxi's. Virgin and American have also been working on this effort for a few years. [4] I would expect the range to get a little bit longer with time, but by no means cross-country any time soon. Here [5] is a certified non-vtol EV LSA. Tesla will have one out soon and I expect it to have a longer flight time.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rtoqs6BbCo [video]

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J797IZyAeRU [video]

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXA6gQ2tchU [video]

[4] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paC_eHwhmYY [video]

[5] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMrLHeKJA80 [video]
Can't wait for short haul flights to be banned and to travel 14 hours in a train so we reduce carbon emissions. But I'm happy that rich guys can have fun and advance "space exploration".
Svelte is different from the rest of that list. In Svelte you don't use a virtual DOM to watch for changes, instead you compile the app and hard-code all changes.
> Some will surely say that they have better things to spend their money on

Hasn't Branson essentially cashed out of Virgin Galactic for a huge payday? Even his flight was just a stunt to sell 500 million in stock.
"Sex worker" is the correct term for both contact and non-contact erotic services and is absolutley the appropriate term to use in this context.

The term was developed by sex workers explicitly for two purposes

1) To move away from the stigma of the term "prostitute"

2) To specifically include sex workers beyond escorts, including porn performers, camgirls, strippers etc
Sorry but can you not just create another legal entity to sell? I mean creating a small business should be straight forward in USA right. Am I missing something?
US style, to name a few:

> - openly friendly towards dictators / other regimes

Trump cuddling with Kim-Jong Un and being a good buddy of Putins.

> - suppressive, openly anti-liberal laws

US Republicans are working on overturning Roe v. Wade, opening the door to more anti-liberal laws. Heck, in some states, women have to drive hundreds of miles to the next abortion clinic and risk getting intimidated by big guys with guns on their way in. Cause freedom.

> - control of state media packed with non-stop propaganda

I give you that, the non-stop propaganda in the US is privatized, e.g. Fox News, Washington Post, OANN, MSNBC, etc. Still propaganda.
It works with Edge mostly, but that speaks only against Netflix and Amazon DRM. I don't want to get compatible to that. Subjective, but the content isn't worth it in the first place.

(Correctly, tbh) - It is still a service problem.

I think at least Amazon fixed it in the meantime, I can play 4k without problems.
I do agree that higher edu institutions tend to be mehh unless you attend country's top, but law enforcement?

what do you mean? fighting corruption?
Many of us also fall into the trap of thinking that There Can Only Be One Product and if someone beats us to launching it, well then the game is over.

In reality, you can even launch products that compete with big boys like Facebook or Google due to their bureaucratic nature, hunger for only billion dollar markets, institutional knowledge blindness, etc.
Agreed, it is going to take time to change this cultural response to what is different/new. We are not purely slaves to our DNA, but it will be an upward battle. Government and business can improve this and have. As does time :)
> Like a throw towards the edge of orbit.

It's nowhere near orbit. Orbit is about 10km of delta-v, then there's the reentry problem.

Reaching the Karman line is about 2km of delta-v.
In case anyone else is curious:

According to the bill of materials linked from the project website[1] the project cost is $175.67 not including the 3D printer and laser cutter or the raw materials they require. (Though it does include duplicate screens, wires, screws, etc which may hold some value if you are doing multiple projects.)

A used ThinkPad T440 i5 is available for $250, possibly less elsewhere.

[1]https://www.the-diy-life.com/mini-raspberry-pi-server-with-b...
[2]https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JBZB5JU
Understanding the difference between orbital and suborbital space flight need not cause one to be cynical and negative about things.

Especially since blue origin has a design that can scale up quickly, as SpaceX did with falcon 1 to 9
Looks like it's getting hugged to death: https://web.archive.org/web/20210716193902/https://artbma.or...

I love the BMA. It's a free museum with a great restaurant, cool exhibits, a nice park across the street. Nearby is The Book Thing, a free book store. Also another (non-free) book & record store, Normal's. And another, Urban Reads. And another bookstore/coffee shop, Bird in Hand. And a farmer's market. And a vegan restaurant. And the quirkiest diner ever, Papermoon. And a small rock venue. And a worker-owned co-op coffeeshop that President Obama visited. All in a four block radius.

Dang, I miss Baltimore.
Props to China, but for time being Japan both holds the maglev speed record (603 kph) and is actually building the world's first long-distance maglev between Tokyo and Nagoya:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%AB%C5%8D_Shinkansen

A shame it's a largely useless and incredibly expensive prestige prospect that's not even projected to become profitable until 2070, but that's another story.
Memo to Bezos/Brandon/Musk:

Great , but now can you guys do something about reducing human suffering due to climate change? Like potentially developing technologies for sucking off CO2 and other harmful gases off our atmosphere? Or how about cancer cure or anti aging or something that helps humanity?
We live in states that aren't exactly homogenous and yet, I still see the reasoning as being somewhat sound given that societies are usually bound and directed by a smaller proportion of the population than the general entropy would lead one to believe. That inner critical mass, if compromised, could indeed result in a weaker ability of that society to recover and survive against external forces. In more laymen's terms, when the clergy start tickling the youth inappropriately, the entire church is doomed.
Space tourism will be noteworthy insofar as it will normalize more and more of the public to space travel, which in turn normalize the acceptance of the expenditure required.
The question every time space exploration comes up is whether the money and effort is better spent in space or on more terrestrial problems.

With government-sponsored exploration, you at least ended up with public research and development that resulted in spinoffs that are useful on land. With a private space race, technologies like these seem more likely to remain a trade secret.

Also, when it comes to 'hard problems', physics is pretty predictable. Humanity has all kinds of social problems, which I'd argue are harder than these tech problems. For example, we'd have the capacity to eliminate hunger if it wasn't for the pesky problem of inequality, and billionaires aren't exactly lining up to help out with that.
Im very happy for Wally Funk
> Humans work the same way

This is the fundamental issue. They don't.

You can't sneak a camera into a cinema saying "don't worry, it works just like human eyes".

Neural nets aren't neurons.
I'd be quite surprised is someone who lost/had stolen and then recovered a nuc would admit to this taking place. I really don't think we would know if this had happened.
* PDFs are files. We must not lose sight of the fact that files are a basic freedom.

This seems like the core belief of the article. And it's at odds with the nature of the web.

In the beginning, the web was a network of devices transmitting files with addressable locations on the device, creating a more or less 1:1 relationship between the devices and the web - the devices WERE the web.

But this inevitably faded as information wants to be... fast and it became easier to whip small data packets around describing state, not files.

I agree with the Unixy belief - files are freedom. But trying to model the entire web on those files is fighting gravity. They're not going anywhere. They just have to travel through the Web Soup sometimes now.

All the technologies enabling a global network of file sharing are still there, the author is just bemoaning today's lingua franca. (json?) And perhaps there is a fear that we will lose sight of "device-based computing" / file ownership.

It has political overtones too... individualism vs collectivism. The web is a very interesting place to hash through those ideas in code before we hash through them in legislation.
Where is Starman? Tesla Roadster embarks on third orbit around the Sun
Re: alpha -> our focus is on extracting red flags that are similar to what a forensic accountant/analyst would find. AI-assisted research rather than AI driven.
trading on fraud signals alone is pretty hard, you need another event. we havent done quant testing of our risk scores in a while. We definitely should do proper quant backtesting though.
i feel pretty guilty for being so underwhelmed because I sure as hell couldn't build an engine and airframe to do that but I am. I think the duration and lack of events is what did it. I'm use to the multiple phases of a falcon9 launch and the landing.

However, i'm glad BlueOrigin did this and had a successful launch/landing. It certainly helps inspire others and is good for the industry as a whole.
You can't outright spam the court. But you can fill the court with lots and lots of legitimate cases, and lots of people all filing suit against the same company for essentially the same thing is a real thing that does legitimately happen. The US courts have developed some mechanisms - class action, but also a thing called multidistrict litigation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multidistrict_litigation) to help with these things.

I've never been personally involved in arbitration, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if the arbitration firms have not developed any real equivalents. Heck, being for-profit organizations, I would think that they have every incentive to not develop anything like that.
Not giving the voting record your address of residence sounds like a low tech solution.
Biden's doomed efforts to stamp out social-media extremism
> Thee wouldn't be a demise, it would just be a different kind of society.

You can argue that about literally anything. Everything is a matter of "a different society" once it's been accepted as the new default
Virgin galactic does go to orbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Orbit

They launched satellites earlier this year.

The space tourism thing is just a part of what the company does.
> The thing you just saw fly is similar to "Starhopper."

I think you mean "Grasshopper" (the Falcon 9 VTOL test mule from a few years back). New Shepard is less than half the size of Starhopper, and the BE-3 engine has ~25% of the thrust of the Raptor engine.
It takes a special kind of awful person to think that this is the hard problem they should solve with their billions.
> Why XPath? Because if your markup language doesnt map to normal programming data structures you need a band aid to fix it.

How do you express easily “every element that has X in its path” with a programming language? Of course you can write such a program but it is similar to regex - you could write a FSM but it is much easier to use a DSL for that.
iBooks is now Books too.
The Russian v. USA space race’s important milestones included putting satellites, animals and people into orbit. It wasn’t just merely launching them to the edge of spacs.
You’re being rather unfair with your interpretation of my post there. I’ve clearly demonstrated in my writing that I’m in favour of other languages growing. There’s a huuuge gulf of difference between my point about praising platform stability and yours about saying newer languages would never get change to prove themselves. Actually what’s happening right now with Rust being trialed for Linux kernel development, which I’ve acknowledged when I said I hope Rust turns out to be more than a passing fad.
It's easy to become attached to your ideas, because in your head, they're perfect and reality doesn't intrude. For a long time, I hoarded ideas, but eventually realized I was dragging around a bunch of half-assed thoughts, mostly. It wasn't that they were bad, but I didn't have a sifting function to apply to them, so they were all treated as equally good, which became overwhelming.

I still write ideas down but now I'm content to let them sit for a bit and see which ones pop up over and over. The good ones you can't really seem to forget about. Those are the ones I am most likely to take action on.
If your systems are in this state better pray you never experience hardware failure.
In "Fall, or Dodge in Hell" the author, Neal Stephenson, explores this concept in great detail (over nearly 1000 pages).
The secession convention meeting in Charleston, South Carolina occurs on December 20, 1860. Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Let's see that's 3.5 months later. And for 3 of those 3.5 months the US has a lame-duck President in James Buchanan whose cabinet was also famously split oh the issue. Lincoln isn't inaugurated until March 4, 1861. Further, the attack on Fort Sumter is just the "official" start of the war. It's not like nothing was being done by the Union in the interim. Far from it. As early as January 5th of 1861 hundreds of troops and provisions were sent to fortify the Sumter garrison. Lastly on April 4th Lincoln tells his southern delegates that he intends to attempt to resupply Fort Sumter. This is understood by the Southern states to be a declaration of war. So yes I think this is exactly the example I portray it to be.
It sounds like he's talking about science as a living human institution. From that perspective, he's making a strong case.
Moondoggle: The Opposition to the Apollo Program
The title is quite clearly a reference to fluff websites and social media pages called 'I F___ love Science'. Those pages post low-quality blog articles summarizing scientific developments, but don't link to the original research papers.

The coverage is significantly juiced up, and readers will take the articles as fact, as they have no reason to believe otherwise.

The author's example of a highly-cited IBM chart that can't be properly sourced plays on the same principle as the IFLS sites.
Climate change may bring disease carrying mosquito to UK
Virgin Galactic doesn't go to orbit, Virgin Orbit does.
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Founder of Morningbrew Invests in Microacquire
> I have no Computer Science training and can’t say I’ve ever felt like I need it.

Did a CS degree (92-95); Database design + SQL has been the only thing properly relevant to my career* (and then only the theory side because the practical was Oracle embedded Pascal...)

Not relevant: Prolog, SML, electronic design, 68000 assembly, Pascal, processor design, compiler design, etc.

* some of them have been relevant in personal fun projects though
> not even projected to become profitable until 2070, but that's another story.

I wish that’s how we looked at public transit in the US. Amtrak would be taking us coast to coast in a matter of hours at this point.
I can't help but thinking we've entered another Gilded Age.
This is a great summation of the article. The pandemic gave me the time to start executing some of my favorite ideas and it's really something to see features drop off the timeline as the execution complexities start to spin out geometrically.
What about I train millions of tagged images, then when I write ‘mickey mouse’ it spits something very similar to ‘mickey mouse’?

This is the what copilot does as far as I understand
> Hungary’s right-wing strongman owes his success to his diagnosis of the country’s ailments: economic liberalization has failed many of its citizens.

The same in Poland. From what I've spoken with typical voters of current ruling party, most share the sentiment that "politicians always stole but at least current ones share with us poor".
My mental model of value of an idea is that it is one of multipliers.

There are many different factors that affect end value: execution, value to others, luck, timing, etc.

The end value is all those factors multiplied.

Even if your idea is great (is large factor) you can still get zero value if any of other factors is zero.

Worth noting, that if you don't plan to execute on an idea it is effectively worthless.

If you take a look at any historical "idea men" that have also been successful (like Edison) you will notice that they did much more than just produce ideas. They produced ideas but then executed on them, provided real value to others, had these ideas at the right time, had some luck, etc.