skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
John Dee sounds like the perfect character for Alan Moore to use in one of his historical fictions, such as League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I went looking to see if he used John Dee anywhere, and it turns out he has an unpublished work devoted to him [0].

[0]: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/article/alan-moore-a...
Why would there be a point?

That's like asking "what's the point of a frog?"
If you're talking about telling someone over the phone how to enter example.com/specificpage.ext?key1=val1&key2=val2&key3=ABCDEFG0123456789, I'd agree that is painful and hopefully not necessary. Telling someone to enter example.com into the URL bar, click on the specificpage link, then select the correct information for the printer you have is much easier
“What makes life worth living? No child asks itself that question. To children, life is self-evident. Life goes without saying: whether it is good or bad makes no difference. This is because children don’t see the world, don’t observe the world, don’t contemplate the world, but are so deeply immersed in the world that they don’t distinguish between it and their own selves. Not until … a distance appears between what they are and what the world is, does the question arise: what makes life worth living?” — Karl Ove Knausgård

Said better than I could ever try.
Cambi, a Banding Artifact Detector
No one possibly thinks women and men are physically equal, right? This is why we have separate women and men sports.
I installed debian just a few weeks ago on my brand new desktop. AMD Ryzen 5800x, MSI B550 motherboard, MSI Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti. Everything worked, out of the box, without adding anything magical. Including Ethernet, wifi, Bluetooth and hardware accelerated graphics. Have been buying Nvidia gpu's since forever and their (proprietary) drivers have never let me down.

So I'm not sure what you're talking about. Also, more up to date software, I'm quite certain my Debian Sid has more recent versions of everything compared to what Ubuntu has.
Naah, systemd is not bothering me at all, i dont have issues if they change the way how resolve information is stored.

What bothers me that the old way is still there (/etc/resolv.conf) while it is being generated by systemd. I can accept the change where the dns information is stored. Fine, it is no longer the same file, I dont care. While on the other side, if I get parallel mechanism, that is keeping the old, this is really an annoyance. That is hard to identify.

The ZFS has nothing to do with systemd and I havent even touched stuff like jails/lxc, byhve/kvm, memory consumption, quality of code,... as I have said it, it is subjective and it is about trust into operating system. Linux distributions dont have it. They blew it just too many times. BSD didnt.

It is hard to be objective there, just try the BSD. And please do report your findings.
Yeah having moved to China from France, I was expecting to meet aliens honestly, and ended up concluding like you there are no essential differences between cultures.

Everything is essetially the same with some limited number of levers being pulled a bit further: girls want to marry a little bit earlier, parents are a little bit more worried abt kids, politicians a bit more corrupt, racism is targeted at different colors in a different hierarchy, all that jazz, but all the patterns I was used to in France simply fit China very well and I didnt find it so difficult to just brush off the odd difference and adapt.

My Chinese parents in law also discovered I have the same strengths and flaws any other Chinese guy their daughter could have found :D
Something a lot of people don’t appreciate is that the past ten years have been an anomaly for JavaScript. They’ve been very tumultuous because there was a ton of evolving that suddenly needed to happen. And I think we’re nearing the end.

Babel was necessary because core syntaxes were changing so fast. Webpack’s sprawling nature was needed because there were so many alternate dialects, module systems to support, etc. Esbuild is only possible because we’ve generally converged on TypeScript, JSX, ES modules, etc. It knows what you probably were going to configure webpack to do anyway, so it can just do it.

So I wouldn’t call it a “treadmill”, I’d call it growing pains
>Counting the App Store service fee of 30% as "game revenue" is disingenuous,

It was total revenue from App Store derived from Gaming Apps. I dont see how that is disingenuous. Just like Sony makes a cut from games on PS5.
> Apple could release some gems from the Shake code base into the Blender compositor

You're assuming they still have a copy of the source code :(

I'd love to see some of the Shake feature set make it into Blender:

- node-to-code + code-to-node
- 2.5D motion blur for transforms
- general concatenation of image transforms for single pass resampling.
- general C-style code expressions available in any text field of the UI and being able to reference any other variable in the entire UI
- ability to call any function from libc / external DSO's directly from any text field in the UI.

etc ...
And Epic granted money to Godot:

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-engine-was-awarded-epi...
I had an old teacher on Facebook yesterday have a spouse censored because it says
“stand up for what you believe in even if you stand alone”

Had to click multiple times to see the post as it Facebook gave me multiple warnings on how inappropriate it was to view.

This happens all the time to him. He is the Best person I know. The sort you model your life after.

But having an opinion criticizing any woke mentality gets him temp banned constantly.
I’m running it on a Ruben 5 5600x and it feels very snappy to me so far.
Ctrl + f entropy

I like your first answer better, even if I agree with it less.
And we have seen time-and-again how much Facebook respects its userbase.
Yeah, like management consultants who become experts overnight once billing starts from clients.
I'm curious. I saw an article the other day about VR for a workspace (using a Quest 2) and I'll admit, it got me thinking. It seems like there's some of that here but also for concerts and yoga? I feel like there's some mixed marketing here.
All biological life or human life only?
> What is the Shake code base?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Real

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shake_(software)
Too much math..
> not all scammers are Nigerian

Of course not; but "stereotypical" ones are definitely Nigerian.
I am an artist and my tool of choice is Perl. :)
What's the point of eating a meal or washing clothes?
"The notion that PulseAudio's introduction wasn't highly disruptive to end users is completely ahistorical."

I never said it wasn't, there were plenty of bugs in
PulseAudio. Please make sure not to argue straw men. The statement I have an issue with is claiming that disruption was caused by apps needing to be rewritten for PulseAudio, which was most likely not the case. PulseAudio even had a compatibility mode for ESD for a while, which stuck around until all the ESD code was removed from GNOME. So that particular aspect wasn't disruptive to end users, it sounds like you're talking about some other bugs.

But on that note, this complaining about bugs in PulseAudio and systemd and such is pretty boring to me because it's making a comparison to some situation that never existed. The situation with bugs and missing features in ESD, NAS and aRts was much worse than PulseAudio, and those projects are all dormant. Likewise with upstart and OpenRC.
I think "attempting to forestall the emerging ecological catastrophe" is a good-enough placeholder for the next few generations.

You can worry about the meaning of life after you have secured its continuity. Prioritize.
What's the point of life? When's the line of death? And whase hitched to the hop in his tayle?
Double edged sword here. This is obviously scientific. We have womens and mens sports separate because of these distinctions. But I can see how they can bundle it with the famous 4chan “X% of crime is committed by Y race” which takes 0 account of the actual factors that contribute to that stat as they focus incorrectly on race.
could you provide a link on how to enable this experimental setting ? thank you.
I stand corrected - I'll check them out! It makes sense that the Sawyer calling conventions wouldn't decompile correctly, since he was just making the ABI up as he programmed.
The steps necessary for replicating the service are logging into let's say Digitalocean and pressing "create droplet".
Ctrl F doesn't help you navigate links.

If you're in Gmail - all you have to do is type "inb" and push "enter" and it will take you to the inbox.

Ctrl F will only show you matches on the page that match "inb". It doesn't focus on links, and it doesn't help you easily navigate to that link.

There's a video demo that explains this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7wGtyeEoKQ
Centro Riabilitativo Napoli
Occasionally some people (understandably) suggest that we should outlaw gas-powered vehicles. It sounds like you really love cars so I've always wondered: What's your take on that?

Do you see it as an attack on your passion? Do you see it as inevitable? Do you see it as something you might protest against? As something you're willing to do if the government were to compensate you for it?

I ask because I see how passionate some car enthusiasts get about much smaller things like manual vs. automatic transmissions. I imagine mandated electric vehicles might bother such people.
Sure, but besides some geeks no one cares if the next FIFA is from EA or Epic. That’s the problem EA has
The same thing that prevents you from minting another deed that says you own the same piece of land as someone else.
> you're asking somebody who entered the job market in 2017 and worked in one division which was not aviation how Boeing should be broken up?

Yup! In my experience, the guys in Chicago have zero clue how their technical teams work and so where a schism could be debilitating versus not noticeable.
The moon.
Yeah my first thought was "the plan better involve a time machine and intervention about 200 years ago" - it's a little late to be closing the barn door now.
How the Ford F-150's Taillight Scales Work
Since timeout(1) was imported I can pkg_delete coreutils, nice. Lots of other goodies too.
It runs perfectly on Void as my example.
I saw someone's picture of chantrelle mushrooms (read: food, not drugs) laying on a table get flagged. Some racy bikini pics will get taken down, depending on how many haters an influencer has (this is why they make backup accounts). The moderation increasingly responds to enforce the views of the most puritanical or offended users.

IG gets a billion items flagged per day. I'm sure there's way worse examples of unjust moderation than this chart. It's not politically motivated, just mindless.
Biologically? To reproduce. That is the purpose of every living being.

But luckily as humans, we have developed brains so big that we realized that isn't the only purpose of life. For humans, the purpose of life is:

Pleasure.

Doing whatever it takes to make yourself happy, hopefully not at the expense of others. Some people never achieve happiness, some achieve it early with few resources. Some people achieve it over and over as they age and different things make them happy.

In my 20s, building great software and doing well at work made me happy. In my 30s, that continued to make me happy, but since I had some money, adding great meals and fun travel made me happy. In my 40s it's spending time with my kids that is what primarily makes me happy. Who knows what it will be in my 50s and beyond.

You have to find what makes you happy within the resources you have.
Virtual Machine Warmup Blows Hot and Cold

https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.00602

> [...] even when run in the most controlled of circumstances, small, deterministic, widely studied microbenchmarks often fail to reach a steady state of peak performance on a variety of common VMs.
Tried Proxmox?
> to increase entropy

Maybe to decrease it.
There are also some pretty cool open source projects dedicated to tracking this kind of thing:

https://www.comet.ml/site/introducing-codecarbon-an-open-sou...
I think there are strong arguments to be made for redistribution, especially in order to enable equity, but I agree that redistribution and equity aren't the same thing.

I suspect they've become conflated in some circles because redistribution is seen as a real solution to lack of equity. Notably, this is literally baked into our system in terms of federal income tax, but many people argue that it doesn't go far enough. For example, redistribution of wealth could result in making childcare available to most people, eliminate childhood poverty, etc.

I don't think that in principal that 'redistribution' is controversial. Every contemporary society has some form of redistribution of wealth. However, many people see proposals around it as extreme. Though, whether the proposals are extreme may depend on one's knowledge of the consequences of action (and inaction), among other things.

This gets sticky, because a lot of social activists get hung up on this to the detriment of making real-progress on things that are not controversial when presented in the right way. I see a lot of calls for "ideological purity" and "absolute dedication to the cause". These calls, among activists, often become central to the conversation, as opposed to specific policy proposals that could make a real difference. Personally, I find it rather upsetting to see this happen, as I really do see the problems that are caused by lack of equity, structural racism, etc. But the way the dominant activist groups push for change seems to be too focused on ideology, as opposed to pragramatic solutions. I see the value in anger, which turns into dedication and motivation, I think that it sometimes goes way too far, and then becomes a form of unfortunate self-sabatoge. Anyways, I think I've digressed a bit.
how many users did github have at the time vs gitlab now?
That's the problem with `hate speech`. It can be defined as anything you don't like, including science.
> the instinct to see the leverage opportunity

What leverage opportunity? He's gonna lose big on any prolonged downward trend.
I don't think it has a capital-P Point, but I don't really experience this as a problem. When you zoom out all the way, humans are vanishingly small. In a billion years, nobody will remember who we were (except perhaps some scholars specializing in 2nd/3rd millennium history, if we become really famous in our time) and a billion years isn't even all that long in cosmological terms.

Some people find this idea really bleak, but there is also a form of liberation in it. You have some time given to you, and at the end of it your atoms will disperse and perhaps become someone else, or a cloud, or whatever. In the meantime, you can do things that make sense to you. Some people dedicate themselves to work, a musical instrument or family. These are all choices you can make, or any combination thereof. Pick one that makes you happy or satisfied in some way.

So no, I don't think there is any "point" to life, certainly not some point that is the same for everyone. But life not having a point does not mean it can't be enjoyable.
Gitlab is the only easy, reliable, and free docker registry provider and I have been using them since more than a year. Happy to see them succeed.
> The latter is probably best captured by existentialism. I would recommend Camus.

While I agree with the first part of your comment, I completely disagree with this statement. I'd say the latter is quite well captured by some eastern traditions such as Advaita-Vedanta or Buddhism, especially its essential aspects such as Mahamudra or Dzogchen.
Claiming to solve np hard problem is a fraud. Just put optimizing code in title.
One of my preferred quotes (by Ray Bradbury):

"Life is trying things to see if they work."
> believe that people should have a basic knowledge of the tools they are using

The whole point of intuitive design is to realize that you shouldn't make your users "think", insofar as making effortful cognition (i.e., Kahneman's "Type 2" thinking).

Good design should leverage built-in assumptions of how the world, per users' intuitive mental models, to create affordances that guide users to the desired interaction and behavior.

If a design promotes incoherent behavior, it's not the user that's wrong; getting users to change intuitive behavior requires training and cognitive effort.

Sadly, why vim and emacs are still difficult for newbies to pick up. Yes, the learning curve is (arguably) minimal; that's not the point. It's that there is a learning curve at all.
Many will posit that the entire purpose of life is to search and find the answer to this very question.

I highly recommend meditation, breath work and psychedelic drugs like Psilocybin or LSD for helping you on this journey.
FB saying "please oh please don't regulate social networks!" sure would seem like Br'er Rabbit. Most prospective regulations in this area would have a bigger impact on e.g. a completely open community-driven network, for example.
It’s not clear whether America has benefited from the massive uncontrolled immigration from Mexico, and it is far from clear the free trade agreement with Mexico has been a huge plus.

Companies have simply used trade agreements with Mexico to avoid complying with strict regulations in the US.

It’s also not clear if Mexico and Latin America could have suitable infrastructure, even with massive investment. Geography is destiny and these regions have been cursed with poor geography.

The midwestern US is an industrialists dream come true: plenty of land, plentiful food, navigable waterways, excellent roadways, massive market on the coasts accessible by air and rail on top of ocean, river, and road. The question is, why doesn’t America invest in itself?
Gitlab always felt like a set of checkboxes to appease non-technical managers. In my experience, most features are half-baked. Even the code review/MR experience is frustrating compared to GitHub. The UX for security scans is _really_ rough.
What is the point of anything?
Probably nothing. Or if there is a point to it, I’m willing to bet none of us will know what it is in our lifetime. So. Ether not to worry about the point of life and instead just enjoy the ride.
Aleph-0 is the naturals (countable). (And many other things, like integers, rationals, algebraic numbers)

Aleph-1 is the reals (uncountable), aka 2^Aleph-0. (Also any multi-dimensional (finite dimensions) complex space.)

Aleph-2 is 2^Aleph-1 &c

The continuum hypothesis is that there isn't an infinite cardinality between 0 and 1.
Also, which games? curious what is easily hosted on BSD :)
Wow. I can see every detail of every scuff and scratch. I need to take better care of my stuff.

“Wow,” was exactly what I thought when I saw the third crown image. Incredible.
This hedge fund is the second biggest newspaper owner in the country but the founders supposedly rarely show their faces in any newsroom, make no public statements, and one of them hasn’t even been photographed since the 80s. There’s also an implication that they are deliberately destroying the papers for the sake of short term profit, but the business details are a bit sketchy.
Most people in the developed world, sure. Here on the rest of the globe, as per [0], Androids are considered the compelling budget for 99.9%* of people.

* yes, it is an hyperbole

[0] https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/news/how-much-iphone-1...
To reject the shackles of organic life and to destroy the concept of death itself and to transcend the limits of humanity.
Believe it or not, some people actually enjoy life.
Agreed but UK and EU have long been tied together in ways Asia and North America aren't. That's why I don't see clear benefit.

Things do change, however.
I wonder if they’ll ever add support for Vulkan to macOS/iOS then. If Valve can move the Steam Deck, then there could be a gigantic boost in the available library of games (since all of the big games on Steam will want to target Proton).

Architecture makes that still icky, but MoltenVK running Proton (so DirectX to Vulkan to Metal) makes Fallout 4 and Titanfall run playable on M1 (with some graphics glitches). If there was real funding behind it they’d have a winner on their hands.
"We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you're dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played."

Allan Watts
I'm glad that you put so much faith in Google, but they get no trust from me. Video and Image codecs are nowhere near the samething as web traffic where they can gather data. Of course G wants a faster JS engine. Everything they do is hidden/obfuscated with in that code. Making an engine that is fast enough so they can track mouse movements to generate heat maps and what ever other nefarious JS tracking they are doing/wanting to do in a way that doesn't enfuriate the user is just self centered. The fact that you can use it to do other things is just collateral damage.
What does "the point" even mean?

The more I think about people's search for "meaning", the more it seems to mean simply a coherent satisfying story.
I saw something like this with an image going around with an innocuous inspirational quote (may have been the same one) that had a content warning on it.

Someone said it had some metatags designed to trigger that automated warning filter, but I haven't looked into it to find out if that was what happened.
So your thought is that the rail line will be done before the COVID induced delays? And, in the future that a railroad is going to be less prone to backups caused by delays unloading than ships that can just anchor offshore?

The back and forth capacity isn't the issue (look, they can even ship to the east coast). It's the capacity in the US to unload (and the capacity in China to load) that are being strained.
“The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” - Albert Camus

It’s “easy” to descend into nihilism and the view that human existence is ultimately devoid of meaning. It’s more challenging (and rewarding, in my opinion) to accept the struggle of life as the point of life itself, to keep moving even when it seems like it’s fruitless.

Basically, I stay alive out of spite against nihilism and the impulse that says to give up.

Living also leaves open the opportunity that things will get better and that some meaning will eventually reveal itself. Nihilism and suicide (physical or philosophical) lead to nothingness and annihilation.
The argument could be made that letting biological females compete for awards and cash prizes against biological males is misogynistic.

But misogyny only exists if gender exists. If gender doesn’t exist then there is no such thing as misogyny or sexual discrimination.
GitHub is Microsoft now.

Not going to lie, simply keeping my code away from MS is a good enough use case.
> implicit access to interface members isn't a thing, you need to say that "x is this interface type" or cast.

If the compiler already knows that it implements interface X Y and Z, it seems unnecessary to require it (unless those interfaces have conflicting names, in which case you would have to be explicit due to ambiguity).

I feel like many languages are walking away from being so explicit, in particular I've noticed C# becoming more implicit over the years.
Yeah, it's a good feature. It's been done carefully -- there's room to do more of this kind of upcast conversion in the future -- but there's also a danger of creating code that behaves weirdly, too. See here for some of the dangers in Scala 2: https://latkin.org/blog/2017/05/02/when-the-scala-compiler-d...
Blender’s UI would also need to be ported to Metal, as that’s currently OpenGL if I’m not mistaken.