skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My two cents: I think, it's mostly due to grey background color, text contrast and CRT rendering.

In reverse order:

* Not all colors lent themselves equally well to a CRT, especially to the more cost effective ones. Green, esp. when in multiple shades, didn't render well (or, the other way round, issues with green are more easily detected by the human eye), so you won't see much green in early color UIs (or rather bright single-color expressions in elements like bars).

* Also, CRT specific, you want to stick with primary colors (RGB), since even a small misalignment of the cathodes will result in blurry text in more evenly distributed hues. (Same is true for the outer regions of larger color CRTs with shadow masks.)

* Monitor calibration wasn't always the best, shades of grey often exhibited a red hue, esp. on systems with a gamma of 2.0.

* Considering what we have established, we are searching for a color which consists mostly of R, G, or B and renders well on an average color CRT on top of a grey background of #C0C0C0. (Also, mind that in 1993/4, we're probably not speaking of millions of colors to choose from, but rather more of a 4-bit color palette, if we're looking for robustness.)

- Green, as already established, is somewhat complicated. Also, a mostly green color of comparable intensity is perceived somewhat brighter than, say a blue one. It will stand out against black text, probably more than you want, and it's contrast ratio to a light grey suffering from a red tint isn't great.

- Red may not be the best choice either, as its contrast to grey isn't the best (ask your printer) – and its use may be best reserved for representing an active state. (There's also the cultural issue with red usually signifying limits or even off-limit areas, which isn't especially inviting.)

- Which leaves blue for a passive state, which is actually a good choice. It's perceived slightly darker than the other primary colors, which is favorable for rendering text, it has a good contrast against light grey, and isn't affected by any missalignments or color calibration issues (as it doesn't share with red), and, while visible, isn't too distracting in what is mostly black text (you still want to provide for fluent reading of a given text, even, if it embeds a link). Moreover, it is more friendly to impaired vision than green or red (which are actually used in diagnosing defective vision). Properties, for which it had been used as a favorite color in UIs already. Moreover, on the cultural side of things, where red indicates restriction, blue indicates recommendation and instruction (compare traffic signs).

So, I think, blue was quite a natural choice.
Unreal: Biden Team Gave the Taliban a List of Americans and Afghan Allies
Resign you worthless fucking traitorous piece of fucking shit!

RESIGN!
Fuck commies.
That's an argument for (land) taxation, not direct control of prices.

Here is an idea: Measure average rent per sqft. Put a 20% tax on rent above the average and use it to subsidize low income households. That way you tax wealthy tenants and subsidize poor tenants.
FaceTime will soon work with web links, tho I dunno if you can schedule that from the non-Apple side.
> The linked article says that it is still under development, but in the future that is what I am looking forward to: a powerful pocket device that can plug into a monitor/keyboard/mouse in my study, into a whole wall display in our living room, and public I/O devices in libraries, offices, malls, friends' homes, etc. One can dream, right?

Well, according to many articles [0] and videos, this is practically a reality already. Also confirmed by people not affiliated with Purism [1].

[0] https://puri.sm/posts/my-first-week-of-librem-5-convergence/

[1] https://social.librem.one/tags/convergence.
I wholeheartedly agree, and I am a giant NixOS fan, BUT:

1. You need space for the Nix store, so it's not appropriate for every system (I like building small embedded appliances).

2. A six month release cycle can get a bit tiresome after a while. I know it's personal preference, but I wish it was a bit longer.

3. Or, in order to contribute to the project, you need to chase the dragon with the unstable channel.

4. Forcing all the system state through the funnel of a single config file is great, except that it doesn't cover home directories. I found that I ended up with a massive unmanaged blob of state in my home directory which I couldn't capture (I never tried out home-manager, maybe I should have).

This is not to detract from NixOS! NixOS is great, and I remain a massive fan :-). But on my personal systems I find myself using macOS and Debian these days. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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I do. No rush. Thank you.
That's what I've been proposing for a few months. Get the vaccine and then get the delta variant a few weeks later to crush it and then be super immune for future variants that jet off of that one.
We know that if you mask a kid you are a peverted socialist piece of shit and you should be gassed.
How did you balance the responsibilities of being a parent, especially in terms of the endless chores, and the time commitment to make this happen?
For me personally, I can’t update my laptop (2010 MBP) to the latest MacOS without trickery. It’s simply unsupported.

I plan on moving back to Linux once the core apps cease to operate — iMessage, easy transfer of music/audiobooks to iPhone, FaceTime.

Also, I’m pretty sure Dell and Lenovo have OoB support for Linux. Lenovo especially since RedHat is under the same umbrella.
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Apple plays with lots of money and lots of time. They're definitely okay taking a decade and tons of $$$ to catch up to where Google is.
Yeah from the outside looking in, to me the biggest requirement is one of mindset, thinking like an attacker, thinking of all the possibilities… in that sense very much like the qualities for a good QA person
Call your senators and representatives and tell them they need to publicly call for the resignation of Biden - that is what you can do.

America first. There are still 4500 trapped American citizens in Afghanistan.
right, so without external pressure we get diversification, making a more resilient pool of phenotypes.
2021:

Q1: "It's perfectly safe!"

Q2: "It's pretty darn safe, just a small number of people get blood clots!"

Q3: "It's safe, just a small number of people get blood clots and a few others have heart problems most of which fully recover but some don't."

Q4: ???

2022

Q1: ???

Q2: ???

Q3: ???

Q4: ???

2023

Q1: ???

Q2: ???

Q3: ???

Q4: ???
Many missing chips for automotive or devices are not gpu or top of the line level but simple microcontrollers. Those can be done with 130nm to 40nm process for the most modern. 130 nm has been used for pIII or amd athlon64 and dates from 2001. Those need near UV, not extreme UV.
> Basically, if you put down a huge deposit (like $90,000: 50% to 90% of the value of the property), you don't pay any monthly rent and get the entire deposit back when you move out.

So you're giving them a usurious loan basically.
I kind of got the gold bug after the 2008-9 crash and bought a few gold coins. Even holding just an ounce of gold, you notice how much more substantial it is than say, a "silver" dollar, which is the same size but weighs a fraction as much.
Using an SDR is the most painful and power-hungry way to replicate what already exists as cheap, optimized, small, commodity LTE modems.

Use the SDR for standards that don't exist as finished silicon yet.
No, people in Stockholm (generally) are not interested in buying newly constructed housing. People want to move into already established neighborhoods and especially turn of the century style housing in central Stockholm, which exacerbates the issue.
If "jUsT bUiLd mOrE" would solve all our problems we wouldn't have this mess.
Ha ha I was going to say those exact words - I almost thought this was my comment that I forgot I wrote.
All of those things are just a symptom of the economic problem. Existing owners lobby for those things because those things make them rich. Every building not built leads to everyone in the neighborhood making another dollar. When being a NIMBY makes you money, everyone becomes a NIMBY.

When you align incentives and setup a Land Value Tax, not having enough housing in an area raises taxes. Suddenly people come out of the woodwork becoming YIMBYs to get those people housing so that their taxes drop.

If people still want aesthetic and other factors, they can have it. But it's going to cost them.
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Higher density is more economically efficient for local authorities, does less harm to the environment per resident and encourages greener behaviour from individuals, for example discouraging car use.

Spars suburbs do no one any good other than those fortunate enough to be wealthy enough to live in places that end up being subsidised by high-density neighbourhoods, often home to poorer residents.
> discarding the outer case/USB interface

I'm not really much of a shucker but I do it from time to time. That being said, I do save the SATA board and power supply (and USB) that I get when I finish the shuck. I haven't had to yet, but it possibly could be handy for connecting up an internal 3.5" drive externally, like if I want to quickly get some data off of it or something.
There is a web version at http://play.threesgame.com/ -- I wonder if you could hook into this? It seems a little buggy, though.
Forget Scandinavia
> unwillingness by language designers (or more likely implementors) to treat threading like GC

There is a technical reason behind this, it's not just style.

The async-await transformation is highly compatible with calling other things in the C environment and receiving callbacks from that environment.

In some implementations the async-await transformation converts nested async functions to stackless state machines that are compatible with the C environment assumed by other libraries (especially in other languages) and by the operating system.

But it does have some performance cost, compared with functions that can assume stack scope. That cost only appears when using functions labelled "async".

Making every function automatically async in this model is nicer syntax (imho) but adds that cost to every function, unless the compiler is able to do a more global analysis, or deviates from strong compatibility with the C environment.

Another approach is to transform them to system threads. Then you don't need the async-await transform and it's compatible with the C environment, but you lose performance in some types of program where async-await is used, and sometimes a lot of memory or address space. So there's still a cost. Especially on targets where threads aren't particularly well implemented.

Yet another is green threads or other C-compatible coroutine implementation. This costs some compatibility with the C environment on some targets, though. Switching stacks in C works almost everywhere, but not everywhere, and has portability issues. The standard library function to assist with stack switching has been removed from POSIX, but it was never particularly fast anyway.

Go gets around this by being willing to deviate more from the C environment. It goes hand in hand with the very self-contained nature of Go compiled programs. Java gets around this by being a JIT interpreter which is free to do a lot of things its own way inside the Java execution.
There would be a huge bridge trying to live on $1k/month in the US, assuming you were ratcheting down from some larger income. You wouldn't qualify for subsidized health insurance, for example, until that $1k/month was in place for a year.
But none of those users will talk to me :(
Red-Hat moved away from desktop, because they were the first to realise there is no money on Linux Desktop.

https://m.slashdot.org/story/100116
The government would rent the apartments and then sublet them to tenants it wants to subsidize.
you're welcome to your opinion, and can support & promote this position, but you had better be prepared for me to make arbitrary limits around things you covet as well: no one needs more than one child / car / computer, $XXX retirement savings, n years of education, etc.

For the most part free societies don't dictate directly but shape with the carrot and the stick.
I imagine you're still addressing the argument?
I think you have pretty much covered all the main reasons.

I use Arch (formerly Gentoo) on my work and home PCs/laptops because I like rolling releases with a bleeding edge. I generally run Ubuntu LTS minimal installs for servers because they are tiny and stable and guarantee to be upgradeable to the next LTS release. I run Home Assistant IoT wranglers on Debian because that's what HA insists on for "Supervised".

My wife uses Arch because I look after it and she doesn't care. It simply has to just work and it has for years now without skipping a beat.

Upgrading hardware for laptops and PCs means dumping the filesystems to files on a server or whatever and blatting them onto the new device. If there is physical space, put the old HD/SSD/whatevs into the new box and use a live CD like system rescue or Clonezilla. All the drivers are built in out of the box. These days most things simply work with minimal fiddling. I can't remember the last time I fiddled with xorg.conf. OK I disabled the touchscreen on this laptop when I cracked it and that involved fiddling with xorg. I remember setting modelines by hand in XFree86 ...
Note this is not yet peer reviewed, so YMMV.
I have no idea what any of the site means!

But, I’d love to know you found time, I’m years behind on personal projects, 2 young kids as well - genuinely interested in how you made it work, I’m just shattered by the end of the day!

Upvote from me because if you can ship a useful tool whilst managing a family life then go you! Gratz!
This is the natural outcome of building an economy based on usury/interest, which is exactly what this transaction is.
I've noticed that people tend to think of the surface level of any desktop OS.

They think about the GUI, the command-line programs that ship with it (curl/grep/ls/etc.), the driver support, and the package manager it ships with. These are all trivial abstractions built on deeper facilities.

The farther down you go, the less people understand. Who actually can express the difference between X11 and Wayland that isn't full of weasel words and equivocation? What about mesa, or dbus, or pulseaudio? These are all core components that alter the "flavor" of a desktop Linux system. And yet, all distros basically use the same off-the-shelf components. They only change the higher level GUIs and package managers and stuff.

And people GROSSLY underestimate how much the kernel contributes to the "flavor" of Linux. (I could go on and on about how the GNU GPL directly impacts how drivers are developed for the kernel, or how the small number of core devs are overwhelmed by additions for hardware drivers which move rapidly and break things, and the subsequent vulnerability patches, leaving little time for desktop-focused improvements).

People tend to say things like "the kernel just manages the hardware" or "the kernel is just an interface layer for the hardware" or "MacOS and BSD are the same, only the kernel differs". If only they knew. The kernel is like a seed crystal that defines what can grow outward from there (without massive painful compatibility shims).

Lastly, people OVERestimate the importance of things that are entirely irrelevant to a desktop OS. Just look at how many desktop Linux users are arguing over SystemD vs SysV vs whatever else. Are desktop Linux users really digging into log files, and are annoyed that the log files are now in a binary format? Are desktop Linux users really annoyed that sudo is now part of systemd, instead of a standalone binary that they can swap out? I think the number is low, but the number of desktop Linux users arguing about such things is high.
Lets look at the null position and agree that induced demand is bad and we shouldn't build more roads, which means the question becomes:

How many roads should we be tearing up[0], and how do we know when we've torn up the correct amount? Since we a. clearly aren't at the optimal amount of roads[1], and b. induced demand argues that we shouldn't be building more.

[0]A clearly nonsensical position.
"Continuous democracy" was something attempted by Tony Blair in the UK (apparently originating in the US) - the terms meaning there is somewhat different to your description. In this scenario continuous democracy was achieved using focus groups of members of the public. This is different from what you describe - as it is using a 'proxy' for actually asking the public.

That an underlying idea here was that all the government needs to do is act upon the feedback of these groups. The government didn't have to lead.

That didn't work out very well in practice though. I don't believe the issue was around the statistical methods, or some kind of bias, although they could add extra issues.

More that the problem is just asking a random collection of members of the public what to do is not in general what the public wants, or not when it comes to be enacted. As the general public does not have the time or the inclination to dig deep on issues and possible results. It's in effect government by 'hot take'.

I bring this up - because whilst not the same, the continuous democracy you describe may also have some of these issues.

This is touched on in an Adam Curtis documentary - probly All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

https://thoughtmaybe.com/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-lov...
No. It replaces the FHS with a whole new vision of how the OS is arranged and managed.
The ONLY reason the BBC have published this article is because Scotland are proposing rent controls.

The BBC have gone full union and need to knock any Scottish Government proposal.

That is the only reason this article is published. Don't read too much into it.
My experience is that the internet is really bad at forgetting the stuff you want gone, but really good at turning all your bookmarks into 404s and parked domains (another reason why bookmarks are pretty much worthless). So if you don't save it, it'll be gone next time you're trying to look it up. Doubly so if it is something even mildly controversial (now or then).
QAnon was dangerous (I don't know how dangerous they still are) because of the support given to them the President of the United States and their shared conspiratorial beliefs potentially gaining the power of a mainstream political movement. When the leader of your country believes in a secret conspiracy of leftists undermining him at every turn and a millions-strong cult believes his political enemies are literal baby-raping demons that he's been sent by God to cleanse the country of, that has the potential to create political instability to put it lightly. In other countries, a group like QAnon would become the leader's personal secret police.

But QAnon members have been investigated by the FBI and have been arrested and charged with various politically motivated crimes and attempted crimes including murder, assassination, kidnapping, bombings, disruption of ballot counting in various states and of course the White House insurrection.

I don't know what else you would expect to happen.
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That is mostly already the case, you can invoke the extractors through the Python API or through the CLI and do the download yourself.

Extractors regularly require custom logic, so they can’t be described in anything else than a programming language.
I'm not an evolutionary biologist, but it seems to me that the claimed magnitude of the change is wildly implausibly fast from an evolutionary perspective. I'm confused that neither the article, nor the paper it cites, addresses this.

To go from 10% to 30% in ~5 generations, the median-artery-having population would have had to expand by (30/10)^(1/5) = 25% more than the non-median artery population over each generation. It just seems totally implausible that median artery carriers could have that much more offspring.

This makes me pretty suspicious that the paper may be wrong.
You’re probably right for synthetic benchmarks.

But none of my workloads work on macOS. So the point is moot.

I did have an M1 MBA and mini until recently for reference.
By the US definition this isn't squatting, it's more B&E followed by extortion.
--pydry 7 hours ago [–]

>Only around 8% of Swedes live in households spending more than 40% of disposable income on housing, compared to 15% in the UK and almost 40% in Greece, according Eurostat data.

Hold on, how can they say uk is 15percent, I had banker friends who escaped London because of the housing prices.

Sure, Leeds and other regions are cheaper, but the economy is rather limited there.

Source, used to live in London and other parts of the UK.
Huh? I use iOS devices and do not own a single macOS device. iPhone + iPad + Windows desktop. It’s great.

I haven’t connected my iPhone to a PC is 6 years. iTunes is the worst piece of software ever made. Thankfully it hasn’t been needed or even useful for half a decade.
I manage hundreds of linux servers... from my windows desktop and mac laptop.

This will be super unpopular, but Linux missed the desktop boat 20 years ago, and my feeling as someone who at the time built his gentoo OS's from source, it was the fault of a few things:

1) Fragmented gui development. There were too many projects with none focusing on really making a better gui than mac/windows.

2) A lack of bread and butter 1st class "business" apps - you know, office. OpenOffice is fine, IF you are ok with the janky ui and no one knowing how it works.

3) lack of open source exchange type mail/cal/etc server and outlook-like client). Holy fudge, I tried to get this going and people just crapped on me for suggesting it.

4) Until recently, installing on laptops was an absolute crap shoot.

5) Just, apps, in general. Gimp is fine, but it has never been close to photoshop. GUI standards are all over the place, etc. People go to a platform because it has the tools they want. The real fallout from point 1 is no one would ever port apps to linux (a little hyperbolic - a lot of high-end post production apps and audio apps all made it over). Open source yadda yadda, thats nice (this is not a brush off, it IS nice), but the ecosystem could be light years ahead of where we are now.
So which is the top distribution now for desktop. Last time I tried was Slackware.
> I'm set up against myself.

You're not the problem. The world is.

Don't blame yourself.
You'd be really pushed to live on $150/m food. That's £110. Even if you went veggie, super healthy, cooked yourself I think you'd struggle. And zero going out or booze...
I think it's the lower-middle class, honestly. There are a lot of people in America driving older used cars that already get bad mileage.

Then there's the issue that most carbon tax proposals try to invest the money in green energy R&D or electric vehicle subsidies.

Making gas 2x as expensive and Teslas 20% cheaper doesn't help these people at all - they simply can't afford a brand new car to begin with.

Unless 100% of carbon taxes are given back directly to the citizens in the form of cash, it will always be perceived as grabbing money from poor rural people to subsidize the fancy lifestyles of "coastal elites" who want to drive shiny new luxury electric SUVs.
Are there such vaccines available in the US? It seems like those would make for effective boosters.