skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has been using and hacking on Linux for pretty long time and doesn't even use Windows, none of what you said is particularly alarming, and I don't think there are any significant changes that happened in the last few years to warrant any changes in one's outlook. I heard similar comments from the Slashdot crowd when Windows Vista and Windows 8 came out, about how Microsoft is fucking everything up and this is the end for them. And those products were probably much worse than Windows 11 from a perspective of being bad for the user, and just being bad products in general. But in the end nothing happened.

But even if they did fuck up badly, the fact is, the "Linux desktop" is still a bad platform that people don't want to use. The APIs suck and are too fragmented, the developer experience is confusing, the documentation is bad and often missing, the story around packaging and shipping is dreadful, it's just all around not good. There are so many little bits of polish that need to go into something like that to make it really good, and the Linux community has never been able to do that at the scale it needs to be done at to make it competitive with Microsoft. Yes I know there are people working on all of those things but their progress is extremely slow. (I know because I'm one of those people.) You might think I'm being defeatist but honestly this is the way it's always been. Most open source projects are just understaffed and underfunded, and nothing about this has changed in the last 20 years. That's my experience anyway. If you talk to more app developers then you'll probably hear the same complaints.
Unfortunately, this entire thread is about how it's unlikely for future generations to get joy from our ramblings on the web today.

Such a shame!
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Fair points, but a note on AirBnB with the caveat that I only know the public information and never worked there. To me, their only moat is their brand and the network effects they built with that brand. The famous stories are them fundraising by selling Obama themed cheerios, and going to apartments helping hosts take better pictures. Neither of those things are the “cranking out iPhone mocks” you’d expect from a freelance designer but seem like stories fundamentally linked to their design backgrounds and ability to tell stories in the visual world. Strong design probably matters more for something like Snapchat than Coinbase so I’m sure it depends. You’re probably right in your explanation for why Eng skills are more in demand but I still suspect you’re understating the impact of a great designer.
s3 might close down shop before the ethereum blockchain does
Or it might just be that this is already known to the algorithmic traders, who already use headlines (text) as an input to their systems.
Statues are all about symbolism.

Invading soldiers removed the statue of the Iraqi leader:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/08/toppling-sadda...

The statues of communist heroes are removed by law in Ukraine.

Societies change and evolve with time, either endogenously or exogenously (they are invaded), and thus the symbols change. Todays hero is tomorrows zero.

Clearly Thomas Jefferson is anathema to enough people in New York City to be taken down. Among the reasons they cite is that he was a slaveowner. By that benchmark they will have to take down a lot of statues and rename a number of bridges and schools.

Eventually the fight will come to the pictures on cash currency.

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The irony is this is published by Bari Weiss. She has a history of being a cancel culture advocate herself:

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/08/the-nyts-bari-weiss-fals...

And using accusatory words and ad hominem that she does not herself know the meaning of:

https://twitter.com/turncoatd/status/1268691071342501888
ALSA is already overcomplicated. What I expect from ALSA is being able to enumerate audio devices and being able to send audio to hardware without any transformations. The rest is the work for the userspace daemon.
I didn't read the whole study and this is a pre-proof but I'm not very optimistic about claims like this. There are often many data biases that are hard to root out.

https://sci-hubtw.hkvisa.net/10.1016/j.jfineco.2021.06.002
A thought of organizing PostgreSQL codebase using templates in Golang
I find it really interesting that you love TikTok.

> it's actually fucking awesome for those of us with "neurodiversity".

Can you expand upon that a bit?

How engaged were you with social media before your sentence, and has that (or will that) change now that you've had some space from it?

> we would see the occasional video on the news

How does the picture that the media paints of the internet & social media compare to your observations now that you're able to use it hands-on?
This is, unfortunately, not necessarily true (of course, the strategy makes sense).

I "voted with my money", and the result is that my laptop, which is supposed to be the poster child of Linux compatibility, has at least one serious hardware compatibility problem out of the box, along with at least another minor one.
I have to point out that Ruffle falls shorts on the Flash games that used certain animation or ActionScript features. It's going to be a challenge to fully recreate Flash in a supposedly secure manner. I am also wondering if Flash was always bound to be resurrected and if the company wanted to let it die a natural death or just put it out to pasture.
Following this conversation, it reminds me of the film 'The Chicago Seven' regarding the problems within the court, and the judge's inherent bias for the officers.
I've been developing audio & MIDI software for Linux since about 1997. Maybe that makes me a special case, but none of the experience described by the post is familiar to me. I even used to use xmms with ALSA.

There's some acorns of truth in that account, but it's been turned into a paragraph of hand-waving half-truth.
> If the reason for lockdowns was "flattening the curve" to not swamp hospitals, then we could have avoided lockdowns if hospitals had been able to absorb the increase in patients.

No, because you have exponential growth without lockdowns. You cannot have exponential increase in hospital beds. And, obviously, by "bed" we mean "team of qualified, registered, trained, health care professionals".
Set the clock ahead.
Yes, this is slander based on skin tone: a very mundane bigotry meme repeated in history. This should have died out long ago, but here you are doing your best to perpetuate it for the ages. I have nothing further to add.
>> "You might do something that your religion tells you to do even if you don't want to do it."

That merely pushes recursion one quick and easy level further. As an individual with agency, you choose to adopt and obey a particular religion. You "want to". It should not excuse you from your actions or give extra special credence to your demands.
I don't run desktop Linux anymore because I got a substantial discount on a Macbook about a year ago and my current laptop was falling apart, but I really don't feel like this has been an issue in the last ~5 years (at least for me). Before last year, I had run Linux for nearly ten years, and the last five of which I would typically be happy enough if I just flashed Ubuntu to a flash drive, plugged into my laptop, installed, and moved on with my life. Generally, Linux would just work; I would get my games through Steam, basically everything else through the Ubuntu store, and things generally worked fine out of the box.

I will say that prior to ~2016, it was a completely different story. Whenever I had to reinstall Linux (which was frequent), I could expect to spend several hours hunting down drivers and figuring out how to finagle GRUB or DKMS to work, but I largely don't feel like this is an issue anymore, at least not with the "mainstream" distros like Ubuntu or Suse.
>Frankly, IMHO things in the long term aren’t looking that great for TSMC. Some of their business is going to get eaten by “local” fabs - even if they can’t do leading edge nodes they will eating into TSMC’s business on the lower end.

TSMC's Q3 shown bulk of their revenue come from higher end node. 7nm along is at 34%. the only other options for high end node is Samsung and Intel.

I don't see any long term problem for TSMC if they keep going at its current pace.

Not many foundry can do high end. GlobalFoundries vow out at 7nm a long time ago.

https://investor.tsmc.com/english/encrypt/files/encrypt_file...
That's hilarious. And sad.

https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

Copy paste the link. Or:

> I'm so totally impressed at this Way New Development Paradigm. Let's call it the "Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers" model, or "CADT" for short.

> It hardly seems worth even having a bug system if the frequency of from-scratch rewrites always outstrips the pace of bug fixing. Why not be honest and resign yourself to the fact that version 0.8 is followed by version 0.8, which is then followed by version 0.8?

> But that's what happens when there is no incentive for people to do the parts of programming that aren't fun. Fixing bugs isn't fun; going through the bug list isn't fun; but rewriting everything from scratch is fun (because "this time it will be done right", ha ha) and so that's what happens, over and over again.
> That's why I used the word "sought"

Trump sought to increase the legal responsibility of social media companies for what their users say, which would in effect silence and cancel users. Coincidentally right after Twitter hurt his feelings.

That really happened, I had to link you to all of the information about it despite the fact that you "totally knew" about it...
Luckily, you are much older and wiser today, a full year later! :)

I am assuming you are thinking of 2000, though, and only mistyped 2020 because... well, that one was weird, but only a year ago.
Ha - that'll make it easier to refer folks to the website. I hope to never need to utter - "Oh you should checkout Hacker News, go to news dot why combinator dot com, I think it will be right up your alley."
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Your method is a good idea. Note that a failure in marketing the form is not surely a criteria for exclusion.

Another consideration would be the one that you are most interested in, most likely to use, want the most. From startup resources here and elsewhere, I've heard this can be a huge factor.
>Obviously, yes, but can we blame police unions for the failures of those that they are negotiating against, or that implement arbitration?

This seems like a weird take, but maybe I don't understand. Are you saying that the other parties are equally at fault for failing to prevail in negotiation against the unions?

>I actually don't accept this premise of what is good from the perspective of police officers (or most police officers), i.e. are police officers generally more concerned with what you raised or more supportive of the job protections that enable it; and this framing was the original ask.

Most cops would believe it is too hard to fire other "bad cops" and simultaneously too easy to fire "good cops" like themselves.

I am not claiming that unions are a net detriment to police union workers, simply that there are tradeoffs.

>I think it's unreasonable to expect unions to protect every interest among its members.

By their very nature of representing all workers, some workers will benefit more than others, and some will see more detriments than others.
This is a far more specifically problematic issue than a lot of the list imo.
Based on fairly common nerd interest in old tech (see: retro gaming, for one thing), I'm pretty sure QR codes will remain a curiosity for the foreseeable future, as they certainly solve a certain use-case/problem
Also -- wouldn't it be a safe assumption that photo editors are choosing the pictures that match the tone of the news they are reporting on? This seems like a roundabout way of saying that financial news seems to mostly accurately report the state of financial markets....
So? Next to a few thousand dollars of laptop, monitor, and peripherals what's another $70? Especially since that hub will be compatible with every laptop I will own for the next few decades, regardless of the brand.
Unfortunately Mozilla seems having problems with managing larger products or changes. I was following recent (last year iirc) transition of Thunderbird from xul based extensions to webextensions - no updated roadmap, the new extension model was pushed to production while being only part ready. Examples provided by Mozilla team were outdated and some used features that were no longer available. Other features were not implemented, some worked for pop3 and not for imap accounts. This thing was and probably still is a mess.
So while the product you described seems to have some potential, i can't imagine it being run by Mozilla and attracting developers.
That hits me where I live. I too have taught firefox that `n` means "please autofill to news.ycombinator.com".
Reading my own comments to the blog post years later is fun:

> rsyslog decided at some point between 2018 and 2020 to break the config file format that had been in use for years before that mystery point in time. I don't know exactly when they did it, I only know when it dawned on me that I wasn't getting logwatch emails anymore. I don't know if they added any new feature which justified breaking the configs, and I do not care, and I will not read their docs or notes to find out. I will only downgrade, version lock, and submit bugs that I know to be facetious to cause someone the grief of having to click on them to close them. It is the distro's job to provide me a working core component and if the provider of said component breaks it, it is the responsibility of the distro to not ship their changes until they figure out a migration that doesn't require me to hand-write new configs.

My position remains unchanged, I will never remove the apt version lock on rsyslog.
In case you were wondering, yep, it is as weird and dark as it sounds, see for yourself: [1]

1. https://youtu.be/EQ5wjScT_Ac?list=PL5LR9n9lLLbhTqQLHzNroFN_a...
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VermillionVR[1] is incredibly realistic!

I really felt like I was in that brick studio with a nicer set of equipment than I'd ever used. I guess I used easels sort of like that in college, but in the real world I didn't use such a formal setup.

The realism and sense of presence made me notice the missing haptic feedback and the lack of smell feedback (linseed oil, turpentine, etc), but the audio feedback and the physics are really great.

My experience was with Vive Pro 2 and Valve knuckles.

[1] https://vermillion-vr.com/
Oh I know its a complete pipe dream, I can't help but want it regardless.

I see you may not have had the joy of working on something with mixed SAE, Metric, and if you're real lucky, JIS all combined.
But the people who build their apps do… and they’re no doubt testing it more in the browser they use to debug it.
Some thoughts, stream-of-consciousness-like.

>My first encounter with this game was a text Let's Play and the Wikipedia article, as posted on reddit in October 2008. Reading through both caused my first existential crisis in adulthood and a minor nervous breakdown. The game gets a lot of praise, but it's heavy. Very heavy. Use caution.

>Though released quite some time after, I find the parallels with Final Fantasy VI fascinating. Yes, that Final Fantasy VI. Both games feature a ragtag troupe of characters - some of whom deal with issues of trauma and identity over the course of the narrative - who traverse a post-apocalyptic world, resisting the machinations of an omnipotent, insane being that itself draws its abilities from a triad of powerful entities. It's hard to tell if FFVI was influenced by IHNM, but if not, then it's interesting to note the parallel evolution of themes, and the modes of conveying them, in wildly different properties. And if by some chance it is so, then it's not a stretch to say that the renaissance of narrative-based games heralded by the following entry in the FF series has its roots in Harlan Ellison's writings and IHNM. In that case, it didn't just slip into obscurity; its DNA is in every modern game (that isn't descended from Metal Gear Solid) that's trying to tell a complex story in a direct and linear manner.
Did you only read the very beginning of the article? Most of the article is skeptical of the idea that there are a lot of deaths caused by cold that would be solved by rising temperatures. (And that's without even getting into that climate change would likely cause more temperature extremes in both directions rather than uniformly increasing the temperature.)
Low end is still money. It also reduces the total they earn from the life time of the node / their investment.
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Wait what? Content has never been a commodity and copyright is by definition rent-seeking just without the negative connotations.

You might mean content distribution but that's really never been a commodity either. Even though it sorta kinda feels like you can buy "cable" from lots of companies that's only because each company independently negotiated contracts for all their channels. Physical distribution -- B&N/Blockbuster/Record Stores (and OG DVD Netflix) is the closest thing you could call commodity content distribution.

But we kinda ruined open internet distribution early early on with DRM and locked-down clients which put platform owners in a similar spot to cable companies and so here we are.
It depends on what you mean by mineral oil. Without definition it's about as useless as saying I've painted something in 'color' rather than specifying what color one used.

Whilst flammable, and for the simplest ones, even explosive - most small straight-chained alkanes as often found in mineral oils are reasonably innocuous in that they're not considered organically poisonous (at least in small amounts), however that can change greatly the moment you add certain additives to change their properties (as is often done in commercial products).

The most notorious and outrageous example being when Thomas Midgley Jr added tetraethyllead to gasoline/petroleum in the 1920s thus managing to poison most of the population to at least some extent.
The password was secure. The prosecutor did have a forensic guy come in who was very honest and talked about the techniques he uses at the FBI for cracking passwords, e.g. dictionary attacks. The problem was that the police were also allowed to testify and their non-expert testimony was allowed in the trial court even though they are not experts in the subject.
The English right is much misunderstood.

What it is referring to is a situation where you rely on some evidence that you could have fabricated, the prosecution is entitled to point out that you had the opportunity to fabricate it.

For example, you claim you were at your friend's house at the time of the crime, but you didn't mention this to the police at the time of the arrest so that they can go and interview your friend to corroborate your alibi.

A jury may take from this that your alibi is not very convincing, because you may have arranged this alibi with your friend between arrest and trial.

In neither England nor the US can someone be convicted based on silence alone. Silence isn't evidence. It is simply the lack of evidence.
This makes sense, because of the move to application-specific ICs.
Products used to be generic ICs on custom boards. That's shrinking to a single application-specific IC. You can usually get all the transistors you need for a product onto one application-specific part. But that part will not be a commodity.

Much of this is semi-custom. You plug together a few pre-defined CPU cores, a GPU, a video decoder, some software defined radios, etc. and you have a phone.

Having more fabs in more locations is a good thing, for robustness.
Those have one commonality, they are all software platforms that are practical monopolies on their space.
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Except for Safari, which is tied to OS updates. And of course Apple don't allow other browsers on the store so now you're stuck on the outdated browser.

I know my old iPad has issues with Home Assistant's web interface for example.
That's Scott Alexander. He's an amazing writer - possibly one of the best of the 21st century. All the more amazing that he just posts this stuff for free.
> Lot of issues with connecting non-Apple displays.

I have the 16" Macbook pro as well, and haven't ever had any issues connecting to an HDMI monitor/TV with just a cheapy USB-C dongle I bought off Amazon. What kind of issues are you having?
> There are still many printers which are not supported at all or only barely supported - some people argue that the user should research Linux compatibility before buying their hardware.

Any printer that supports AirPrint is going to work in Linux, and most new printers do (since they want to support printing from iOS). So if you're buying a new printer, it's arguably not really necessary to research Linux compatibility.
That's interesting; so if I have a developer make $50K worth of changes to some GPLv2 program, I still can't charge more for distributing it than the cost of the distribution errand.

The way you get paid is not to do the changes until/unless you have some work contract in place beforehand. If you've already made the changes, you mustn't try to get paid for them.

I didn't even notice that all these years.
The United States government studied this question and came to the conclusion of... acid free paper. So it's now law that "permanent" documents in the US are to be stored on acid free paper:

https://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rt/perm/permpapr....

Some of us who remember the 5.25" floppy disks, the 3" "floppy" disks, the HUGE Zipdisks, the 5.25" spinning platter drives, the 2.5" spinning platter drives, then the 2.5" SSD drives, and now the M.2 SSD drives... there's clearly no hope of any digital medium lasting 500 years. It's hard enough to read data from a drive built 20 years ago!
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> IIRC, for the original GNU software, the source code was provided by writing to GNU via snail mail.

True, but irrelevant. Different license.

> Lots of companies do this kind of thing with (A)GPL

Examples of companies misusing the AGPL? Misuse of the GPL is somewhat common, though they generally release the source code when prodded, _mostly_ complying with the letter of the license if not the spirit (strictly speaking, they often fail to make the offer, which is a breach). AGPL's requirements are rather stricter, though.

> IIRC, Apple didn't release it's OS X source code until well after OS X was first available.

True, but irrelevant. Different licenses; they didn't have to release Darwin at all.
I deny you the distinction.

If There are people who demand certain level of cruelty upon living beings, whether animals or people, "I really want it" and "I choose a framework of ethics that demands / enables me to do it" and "voices told me to do it" and "I persuaded myself it's ok" and "I choose religion that tells me to do it" boil down to equivalent statements.

You are making a statement that religion excuses people from cruel actions and I will fight you to end of the earth on that one.
The first rule of investing though is once everyone knows the martingale, nobody can profit off of it anymore.

So now this won't work.