skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the collision you are referring to is the one between HMS Victoria and HMS Camperdown in 1893.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Victoria_(1887)#Camperdown...
> Improvement is a function of directed study of chess

This is true of so many things. Improvement is proportional to the amount of deliberate, conscious practice, which is more uncomfortable than “game time”.

When I used to play chess, I always found short time controls the most fun, but the least useful for long term improvement.
I miss when -- wasn't autocorrected to –.
Is it possible to create an AI-chess partner that optimizes for improving your own Elo-rating?
in fact, grinding practice may make you worse at some activities, if you start picking up bad habits.
You don't get your choice in compression technology used by a Linux distribution. If there's some linux distro out there that does offer that choice, that's a waste of resources.
IPv6 gets mentioned plenty, and I will take the side that it should have been rolled out WAY sooner than it did, and it should have been rolled out in a way that made it easier to do what I call the Apple Method: Just get it out there and the people will adapt to it.

DNS is a horrid mess that should have been designed with ease of reading in mind. And I know that DNS was designed way before it, but I think a data transit format similar to JSON would have made the system a bit more extendable, and given people a chance to make it a more dynamic system.

E-Mail was brilliant in it's time, but for the love of all things explosive and holy is it bad. Just the fact that in it's base design there is no E2E encryption going on is a problem.

My biggest beef with the current internet is HTTP. Everything is built on it, and it isn't the greatest system. There have been so many systems and protocols implemented that did so many things, FTP/gopher/irc/etc, and most of them have gone the way of the dodo. A few hold-outs in the dedicated tech world will still use irc, but we could have done so much with cloud-based systems with FTP. And if we had a new spec for irc, would we need Slack/Discord/MS Teams/etc? They could then all talk to each other. We shouldn't be trying to reinvent the wheel, we should be using these older services in our platforms.

And don't get me thinking about cloud. The worst term that a marketing team got a hold of. At it's core, it's just somebody else's computer. And again, so much of it is build on HTTP protocols. Not many people know or remember that xWindows and X for *nix systems had a distributed system built in. Log into a server, set one environment variable to your IP address as long as you were running one of these systems yourself, and you could runs programs on the server with the GUI on your computer.
Pihole + uBlock Origin, I never see ads on Twitch or YouTube. I only see sponsors and affiliates in YT (and I guess Twitch as well, not watching much Twitch tbh). Which usually don't work in EU the one time I am interested (LTT...)
You can find a lot of these old-style websites at https://neocities.org/browse?sort_by=last_updated

Many of them are created by teenagers and young adults which is nice to see. Web rings are making a comeback as an alternative to search.
I think some SQL subset for json would just suffice...easy to read and well known as well.
I guess this is true for any activity requiring thinking.

There must be a floor, a minimum frequency or total number of time practiced, but no specific ceiling or linearity between the time/frequency of practice and the progress in the art.

If we had two pictures, and asked to guess which photographer takes 80 pictures a day and which takes 200, it would be a tough question. I see the above point the same way, past a certain point the number of games shouldn’t make a difference.
I'm not sure it's an obsession, but I do like the simplicity of just text content. There's fewer distractions and annoyances (off the top my head: the aggressively annoying habit some sites have of modifying the DOM a few seconds after the page loads, seemingly timed just right so that the link you just clicked hits something else entirely).

There's lots of good things about the media-heavy interactive websites of today, but sometimes it's nicer to just read what people wrote. As mentioned before, this site is a good example.
Pianoplayer: Automatic fingering generator for piano scores
I am running the same home folder on my M1 Mac as I started with on Red Hat Linux in 1998. The Linux, then FreeBSD, then Mac systems were each continuous upgrades within each OS, too.
It may be that motivation begets more motivation, which would then become a question of how to get the ball rolling each day or, however often. For me if I want to write something I will not sit down to write but rather to brainstorm with notes, this gets the ball rolling. I often lie to myself saying just sit down for a few minutes to think and write, no big obligation. But I usually carry on for longer
I have noticed the same sense that hundreds or thousands of views or likes or whatever is unfairly compared to those others with the tens of thousands and millions, with one critical exception: forum karma. It seems like when people communicate to each other through text, even a few down votes are often cause for extraordinary negative reaction on the part of the creator. So much so that it's a rule to not complain about it, here.

Assuming I'm not alone in witnessing this, I wonder two things: 1) what makes a forum environment different? and, 2) do people who react poorly to negative karma (or meager positive karma) ALSO expect high engagement IF they create on other platforms?

For example, I present a hypothetical person on reddit with accumulated "high" karma (say, high 8000s). This person also has 10k followers on TikTok, 3 YouTube videos with 6 digit views, and several viral tweets. They get -5 karma on a random reddit post and freak out. What makes the raw number differ between platforms? Is it raw number or a ratio of potential to actual?

(yes I know this is the epitome of a strawman, but I'm basing it off of a cohort of roughly similar real people)
Yup, I have a model S and it's a great daily driver, but my dad's old foxbody is leagues and bounds more exciting to drive even though it's slower and way older.
Ah Apposionata! Crazy dynamics, passing one's hands over one another, a great showpiece. For those that don't play piano, the parent is essentially bragging, and is entirely justified in doing so. I feel compelled to upvote because the implication that it was successfully learned

My favourite performance of it (not Lang Lang!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEptNFzLpjk
I noticed it in Activity Monitor one day, then I looked at the docs and it’s a documented behavior.
tl;dr: If you're seeing unreasonably short startup times, try `hyperfine 'bash -i'` instead.

Funny, I thought my startup time was going to be ginormous, considering I've literally committed to it 203 times so far[1]. Nope, 1.4 to 4.3 ms.

Update: Eyeballing the startup time it's definitely over a second, so I'm guessing OP is measuring something different from what I'm seeing. `hyperfine bash` is also below 5 ms, so I'm not sure how to measure actual startup time. `hyperfine 'bash -i'` does the trick, showing ~650 ms startup times. Turns out another blogger found this already[2] :)

[1] https://gitlab.com/victor-engmark/tilde/-/blob/153d9cbb4a862...

[2] https://work.lisk.in/2020/11/20/even-faster-bash-startup.htm...
Isn't that the draw of news aggregate comment sections such as this?
In the UK (London) I use Addison Lee. They've provided the Uber app experience before Uber was a thing. Not to mention the drivers are always on spot!
I don't get this. No one is going to ever speak this language except the creator to himself. If it's not going to be spoken, why limit yourself to representations that can be made in air by normal human beings? If it's not ever spoken, then there are better methods of encoding information.
There's also the ACLU's support for non-biological females competing in girls' sports to the detriment of women's sports:

https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/the-coordinated-attac...
Have to admit, clicked on this expecting to learn about some sort of exotic optical fiber.
I think the actual guessing space for these free response problems is much smaller, through simple priors over the question. For example:

“Richard, Jerry, and Robert are going to share 60 cherries. If Robert has 30 cherries, and has 10 more than Richard, how many more cherries does Robert have than Jerry?”

A rudimentary model will likely already know the answer is between 0-60.

Knowing that the answer involves addition and subtraction narrows it down to maybe 8 answers.

While SAT problems have only 4 answers, there’s usually one trick/trap answer, which I think might be be difficult for a model to not accidentally guess. The analogy I can think of is sometimes it’s better to cover up the answers first and work out a solution, to not get biased by any particular answer choice.
Sounds zen but I don’t think that’s really how it works. The media may manufacture political opinions for the mass, but they are not the locus of power. The difference between a democracy and a more openly totalitarian state is that democracy affords power the benefit of the average citizen feeling that they are “bought in”; that they too have a slice of power by participating in the bureaucracy, which to a limited extent is true. Instead of a king with royal garb, a palace, a court, etc. so obviously distinct from the nobles and peasants, in a democratic state power takes on an ephemeral form. It’s no longer obvious who or what really has sovereign authority. When citizens are “bought in” rather than being dragged along, power has more room to grow.
To my knowledge there are no GM SFZ instrument packs which contain enough instruments to play any MIDI file out there (https://github.com/sfzinstruments/Discord-SFZ-GM-Bank has like 10 melodic instruments so far). So I have to pick instruments from the ground up when creating a DAW project (and I don't have a good collection yet), rather than using a unified full-GM bank as a starting point. And don't even think about downloading (eg. Doom) MIDI files and playing them in a soundfont of choice.

What's the spiritual successor to General MIDI? Or is the concept no longer viable for (or even wanted by) mainstream electronic, or even semi-orchestral, composers?
… a longing to be hopeful (again).

To perhaps have more of your future be before you rather than behind you.
I liked the novel that inspired blade runner more but I've not read Forrest Gump or the shining so it might be worth reading these to compare thanks.
> I don't understand this obsession with text-heavy content.

Sites with it have a positive attitude towards literacy, and that often goes with other good things.
“CDC estimated that 545,600–660,200 excess deaths occurred in the United States during January 26, 2020–February 27, 2021.”

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7015a4.htm
Or how an interesting headline is often now just an embedded podcast.
So everything everywhere through history only improves over time, forever? Nothing is ever lost? The tragedy of the commons is a myth? Any memory I might have of something having been better in the past is false?
I know! It IS rude. But it's hard not to cringe.

Just think "poker face."
I think the most crucial functionality missing from a security standpoint, is the ability for one IP address owner to tell another that they're refusing service, and the owner of the refused IP being required to filter that traffic at THEIR routing layer. This would effectively eliminate nearly every type of DDoS, and it would also shift the responsibility to handle the attack away from the target's provider, and place it squarely on the providers of the compromised systems -- which is how it should be.

Imagine a world without DDoS or Cloudflare's 3+ second redirect.
It's even worse when it's some corpo blog advertising their shitty product.
That really depends on what you want this certain friend to do. Usually, when the context is not learning, you want to hear answer with the nuts and this is universally true.

We don't comment on code review with "What do you think this does", we say "Here this is wrong because it will do X and to fix you need Y".

But when it comes to learning, I can't fault the other approach because that is clearly the better way to drill the programming mentality over to the learner. Almost all good engineer knows where to look, and syntactic or logical problems in any context are solved in a very similar way. People who don't have this structured method to approach a bug are going to find trouble in software engineering.
TIL about `command -V` (the verbose flag)!
Can someone tell me why Uber needs so many engineers? I mean the app has been developed, infrastructure software as well, probably was rewritten several times as well...why do you still need thousands of engineers for a taxi app? Do people really want more features? Can't they keep it going the "same" way for the next 20 years? Something like the craiglist approach.
My ISP's (spectrum) DNS is trash. Not only is it slow, it hijacks misses and redirects to their garbage landing page. And I'm sure they snoop in me and sell data all the same.
> There seems to be pretty strong sentiment out there that the minimum wage American worker is not being compensated correctly.

Seems to be? It has been obvious for at least 30+ years (my life).

The upper middle and top deciles of the US have had a really good run for the past few decades on the backs of the lower middle and bottom deciles of the US. ACA was probably the first legislation I saw to help those are the bottom (i.e. a wealth transfer).
No one cared about YouTube? No one cared about Netflix?
I think you're underestimating the amount of sites that had flash.
My current Intel Mac still has some remnants from running Mac OS X 10.2-10.4 on a G4 equipped Powermac 7300 using XPostFacto.

Every so often I run into very odd plists and remnants of long obsolete programs. I’ve used the migration assistant each time I moved from Mac to Mac. All the PPC only apps went away when Rosetta was removed and the 32bit Carbon apps were similarly discarded. Support files sometimes stick around but the transfer agent is generally pretty tidy.
History and Timeline of the ProCo Rat Pedal
Homebrew moved out of /usr/local on apple silicon and I've seen people assume that this was because of macOS changing things so that /usr/local was no longer usable. It wasn't; Homebrew just wanted to stop using /usr/local and they saw this as a good time to do the migration.
Show HN: Everydayvirtualvacation (the coolest thing I ever made in 1 hour)
In many areas, the experience is just better with Uber or Lyft. Most taxi or black car services in most cities in America are only accessible by calling and booking and in many cases you need hours if not 24 hours or more lead time. Not to mention the huge number of smaller cities that have no other car services.
I think the fact that good chess players memorize sets of positions is related to this finding that playing more games is not necessarily the way to improve your skill. Because chess improvement isn't necessarily dependent on reflexive subconscious action but in more conscious pattern recognition ('last time my opponent brought a knight to this square I got destroyed...')
The survey question was "Did you falsely claim to be a racial minority on your college application," so this can only be those who knowingly lied.
I would call this ".NET of FreeBSD".

Interesting choice of words. Very Microsoft.
MS Office 97 and HTML: Opportunity, Disruption, or Wedge
In the US the media is neither state owned nor state controlled, with the exception of Voice of America.

The closest we have to state-owned is NPR, and if you think NPR is the lapdog of the government, you don't listen to NPR very much.
Manufactured Consent.
First, you are literally just repeating the claim without taking into account whether this was 78 year old dying one year earlier or wether this was a 20 year old soldier dying in war.

Second, you are not counting how many of these excess deaths were due to the reaction to covid because people were denied access to doctor's care.

My best friend's father died because he was in an VA care facility and could not get any access to a doctor to diagnose his skin cancer. Because of covid. By the time he got someone to look at his skin, the cancer had spread and he died shortly thereafter. During the entire time, his family was not allowed to see him. Only when they moved him to hospice did they allow mercy visits.

So at least one of those "excess deaths" was due to the reaction to covid, not covid itself.

Third, the death count will keep increasing as the toll of deferred cancer screenings and medical treatment continues, as does the toll of people who lost their careers, the small business they spent their life building, their housing, and their savings. That will continue far beyond 2021.

* Important cancer screenings decreased due to covid:
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/important-cancer-scre...

* Learning loss due to school closures: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/17/e2022376118

* Effects of job loss on health: Layoffs could increase mortality rates by 10.3%
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5495022/

* Long term unemployment and mortality, mental health:
https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/23921/...

The idea that every bad thing must be stopped "at all costs" is terrible, hysterical public policy.

Many times the solution may be worse than the cure, and merely restating "but the disease is so bad" does not mean that destroying social bonds and the labor market is a good idea for the society over the long term.
Show HN: Released ChokokuCAD v1.2 – open-source web CAD App
The military is starting to succumb to the same ills of the modern corporate management culture. Everyone is managing up. Leave port on time because that is what I am measured on. I'm also assumed to be making sure my ship can leave on time, because it is ready, since I have been managing my ship correctly. Which I have not been, because no one is watching that.
Enjoy continuing to deny reality, I'm sure it brings you some bizarre form of joy in your life.

Most of these people are waiting for orders by their "glorious leader" and grifting ilk. Do you just dissociate from when the last president had a speech telling them to walk across the lawn to the Capitol building and fight their way to overturn the "unfair election" that resulted in an armored police officer beaten to fucking death? JK, he must've gotten paid to be a crisis actor and die, right?

Do you know what is required to beat somebody in body armor to death? Especially when they're surrounded by other cops...?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/27/when-do-w...

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https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-police-tex...

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https://mobile.twitter.com/PDXzane/status/142960643503006105...

https://www.opb.org/article/2021/08/22/far-right-activists-c...

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https://mobile.twitter.com/mxtaliajane/status/14343079853591...

https://mobile.twitter.com/AlissaAzar/status/145283865870521...

https://mobile.twitter.com/AlissaAzar/status/143467974340884...

https://mobile.twitter.com/AlissaAzar/status/143467974918442...

As for the rest of what you've mentioned, it will be addressed in a lower comment at a later time in which I'm not so tired.

p.s.

Notice that I made absolutely no comment on the coverage of COVID by CNN or anybody.
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*edit: I did just realize, however, that the floor plan for this dorm might make an excellent layout for a large number of bedrooms in a game of Dwarf Fortress.

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Agreed. His assumptions seem questionable... the whole design is built around the idea that forcing students to interact is objectively good. Even ignoring the pandemic, there's no justification for this other than his assumptions that it's somehow "good".

He's apparently also given talks on psychology: https://fs.blog/great-talks/psychology-human-misjudgment/

He's published (or caused to be published) a book containing his "Wit and Wisdom": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Charlie%27s_Almanack

He's a Billionaire Republican, and that alone is enough to condemn him in the present day. He does also seem to be one hell of a narcissist.

This guy is 97... he was 16 years old at the outbreak of World War II. If he has any idea what it's like to be an undergraduate, that knowledge is dated 1946.

But UCSB can't seem to turn money away, even for an obvious vanity project, because Billionaire Republican.
Police are explicitly allowed to lie during interrogations as upheld by the Supreme Court: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frazier_v._Cupp

Persuasive interrogation like this is widely used across the United States to elicit confessions or convince people to accept plea bargains, even in cases where they are innocent, because our justice system does not actually have the capacity to provide everyone an actual trial. The risk of carrying a case to trial, even if you're innocent, can be significantly higher than entering a guilty plea and accepting a bargain.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/walterpavlo/2018/07/31/are-inno...

An infinitesimal amount of cases actually go to trial in America: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/11/only-2-of-f...
Both your comment and the parents can be true at the same time. The extremes on both sides are insane. And I’m not saying the “center” is the best position either. There’s good ideas on both the left and the right, but they’re mixed in with lots of bad ideas, and those bad ideas are the ones that tend to have powerful lobbies leading to the shit sandwich we’re all munching on today.
Looking at you, Vice.
~2004 I whiteboxed a db server with 48 raptors (WD800GD) via 3 16-port sata raid controllers (areca ARC-1160 w/1gb dram and bbu modules), I striped all 16 in 3 raid0s and put them in a soft raid4 for ~2.5tb of speedy local attached storage. the datacenter guys thought I was nuts for using consumer stuff in a server but at the time sas prices were out of my reach and I was willing to take the risk.

the server performed great and I eventually made 2 more of them before we were acquired and the pros took over - what's funny is the pros only used dell servers and ended up having to go with some outrageously expensive top-end models to get the iops that my whiteboxes were delivering.

144 raptors in production for 3 years under heavy load and we never lost a single drive. we had the servers sent back to us when they were decommissioned and most of the raptors ended up in peoples' workstations for another couple years and I never heard that any of those drives ever failed.

legendary HDD
It’s telling this has been flagged multiple times and disappears each time. I hope mods intervene, and it says a lot about someone when they decide to flag a reasonably written piece instead of writing a rebuttal.
Used to wander the BlackHatWorld forums and learned flippa is full of scammers, many are members there. Be careful.
And as mentioned elsewhere, this is an apples and vaguely apple-like fruit comparison.
> the truth is, different people learn differently

This is the same conclusion I came to as a computer science TA in college. At first, I was naive and tried to teach people the way that I would find it effective to be taught, and I was a bit stymied by this. I slowly started trying different strategies for teaching things, and once I made the (somewhat obvious in hindsight) realization that different students learn in different ways, it became a fun challenge to find a method that worked for a given student.