skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an underlying theme of the value of domesticity in the text, which I think runs parallel to the theme of civilization.

It's probably not a coincidence, but rather by design, that Siduri (the alewife) runs an inn (inns were associated to prostitution in that era). Siduri's urging Gilgamesh to abandon his quest in favour of indulging in domestic pleasures is, in some sense, a mirror to the domesticating of Enkidu.* And both of these are linked to some of the broader themes of the value of civilization.

(* And interestingly, Siduri first sees Gilgamesh as a possible thief, because's he's so dirty from his voyage, similar to how Enkidu was first seen as a wild man.)
I'm not that concerned about the irregularities in the original article, which are reported for some sites in Texas, though they are signs of rot.

I am concerned that we promote, even mandate, mass vaccination for a novel coronavirus with a novel vaccine technology and a novel vaccine and no longterm controlled study in place.
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Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system
If only they were available in the UK
I dont see how you could not see that Ads are consuming every facet of our lives.
Foundation is the most confusing show for me. Somehow it's telling a story which is completely unrelated to the books, while also faithfully recreating certain key moments from the books pretty much exactly as I imagined them; it manages to completely ignore all of the themes and indeed the core thesis of the books, but somehow still feels respectful in how it presents the universe; I feel bad that some of my favorite parts of the original story are all but certainly written out, but I love that I have no idea where this is going.

It feels a lot like the 1997 Starship Troopers movie where it was initially supposed to be an original work, but the studio said "hmm that's kinda like this classic story, can you turn this into an adaptation?" and the writer said yes but their fingers were crossed.
> The difference is when it's an institution (private versus public schools for example), that's pretty easy to disagree over. One side does not believe the other is inherently evil and a 'lesser' person. When it's about individual rights, and an attack on you as a person, and your inherent rights as an individual, that is almost impossible to overcome.

I think you articulated it far better than me. Certain things I could hardly care what another person says or thinks on the matter. But on certain issues or rights if there's a fundamental disagreement, I find the opposing position not just in direct opposition, but in a way actively working to undermine my position. I can't be friends with someone when there's such a basic difference in values; if we don't agree on that, there might not be much else we agree on.
That's probably the worst book in the series.
i get that their business is at risk, but i've literally never had a macbook disk fail on me in 12 years of dealing with half a dozen laptops (oldest one still in use today). this will get way more attention than it deserves.
its a bug for people who have upgraded in the past (Im not sure how many upgrades I have gone through but its been years worth). The issue is not with URLs when you start to type (those I can shift+del) but rather when you have a new tab (or empty URL bar) and you click into the address bar, it prepopulates with a list of URLs from somewhere, probably an internal db. It is these suggestions that I cannot shift+del on. FWIW my Settings > Privacy > Address bar settings Browsing History selected & Shortcuts selected. The remainder are unselected.
A wealthy retired doctor who was interested in Physics his entire life as a hobby decided to go back to school.

I bet he loved every minute of it.

Does he need the PhD to make money--no.

Does a wealthy man need something to stimulate his curiosities--yes.

Most of us, even physics fanatics, would never get this opportunity.

(I have noticed a lot of wealthy doctors whom turn a hobby into something more, but after they made their wad.)
Silly idea in tech, the hardware will be long outdated before someone look for parts which are going to be overpriced, and the company might be gone forever. You can buy common business laptops such as thinkpad and swap the parts easily and cheaply. People aren’t swapping their 2011 i3 for a 2011 i7 if they care about performance; they’re getting an i5 from 2018.

None of these swappable parts are unique aside from the processor (mine is soldered), I can replace all my parts and my laptop cost under $200.
> I suspect we will see a similar thing happen to Apple’s App Store over time.

Already the terrible curation makes it hard to find any quality content in Apple's App Store. (I'll never understand why it's so hard to get a search for the exact name of an app to return that app first.) I shudder to imagine how bad it could be if they were incentivised to make it bad.
Unsurprising.

Given the countless times I have warned about the risks of going 'all in' on an Apple Silicon Mac and now they realise.

Good luck with your files if the internal hard drive is dead. Consider creating regular backups otherwise your can say goodbye to your files.

No thanks and absolutely no deal to that.
I don't know why people keep saying that, since the books were narrated as a documentary, it's impossible to do a decent show about it. That's lack of imagination in my opinion. It would have been easily adapted with mini stories that develop based on previous stories. Yes, you won't have a main character for people to feel attached to, but you'll have the option to tell different stories by different directors like Dr. Who and create something more unique.
> Also, my son made a point about the "unfilmable" books, which are a lot of dialogue: aren't most cop and lawyer shows mostly a lot of talk, usually in just a few common settings?

Nah, consisting mostly of dialogue doesn't make something unfilmable. That description applies to tons of good movies. "Unfilmable" becomes a possibility when there's little way to show anything, other than having characters speak infodumps at the audience. Even dialog-heavy movies need to show you things, even if it's just the physical movement and reactions of characters during the dialogue, or items about the room.
According to the microformat inside the HTML, it was published today:

"datePublished": "2021-11-02 00:00:00 +0000"

But the resignation email of Joey Hess was sent on 2014-11-07, seven years ago.

Unfortunately, this kind of mistake on dates is usually a plain lie to fool the SEO and get more visits. It's so frequent it's not even surprising.
When I first started at Google I got things done a lot faster because I didn't know all those rules existed and nobody stopped me. My service was still plenty fast & reliable.
Eventually it all got rewritten by other people to do things properly like the video says.
Still does not delete.
I'm just captivated by that clip of the operator working the stereo tracer. That is the height of etch-a-sketch art, just perfection coming out of those knobs.
But is it planet-scale?
You have to see this from the big picture view as a way to draw mainstream audiences for a paid streaming service. Without major drastic changes, a faithful translation of Foundation would be unwatchable for most people (most people are not into documentaries let alone fake ones), and it doesn't serve Apple's goal of getting more subscribers.
Is your last claim a joke or serious? Because anecdotally I've seen almost the exact opposite in my social circles. But of course that's just personal experience.
No, but I do consider a "Design Document" to be a product feature page. It's full of product features (and non-features) after all (when it's not going on about Rust).

https://github.com/MeadowlarkDAW/Meadowlark/blob/main/DESIGN...
Scientists: Don’t Feed the Doubt Machine
Usually the victims of coordinated pricing are unsophisticated consumers. In contrast, the customers of the big 3 cloud providers are organizations employing specialists in cloud computing. So I am surprised to hear this.
Kurzgesagt's Reddit AMA (Live)
Because houses are for people to live in not to make a profit.
I never cared about bootable backups. What is more of a concern is getting data off a non-bootable Mac that has a viable drive, since Apple often replaces the drive as part of servicing.
That's bad, it depends on web tecnologies.

Give a check to NNCP:

https://nncp.mirrors.quux.org
> If Postgres has an unversioned dependency to PackageX, the only time I might expect Postgres to be updated automatically is if I update PackageX across a major version boundary, risking breaking changes.

Homebrew doesn't meaningfully have versioned or unversioned dependencies, because it doesn't incorporate any notion of version into its dependency solver. When you declare a dependency on `python@3.9`, you're not telling `brew` that ‘I need a copy of the package `python` which satisfies the constraint “version is 3.9.x”.’ Homebrew just treats `python@3.9` as the name of a package which is a whole copy of python, and it can exist alongside other, similar packages like `python@3.8` and `python@3.10`.

Homebrew only incorporates this kind of `@` syntax for select packages of which maintainers have elected to maintain multiple versions. By my count, there are 81 such packages in homebrew-core, and the following is a complete list of all of those which appear in a `depends_on` declaration:

antlr
atkmm
autoconf
cairomm
db
elasticsearch
erlang
gcc
ghc
glibmm
go
gradle
guile
hdf5
headers
helm
isl
libfuse
llvm
lua
mbedtls
mysql
node
numpy
openexr
openjdk
openssl
pangomm
php
proj
pyqt
pyside
python
qt
ruby
swig
synth
tbb
vtk
wxwidgets

So when you look at a Postgres formula in the Homebrew repos and see that it declares an ‘unversioned’ dependency on openldap, for example[1], that does not mean that the formula author has declared ‘any version is fine’, i.e., it does not mean that the dependency is unversioned. It just means that the dependency's version constraints are totally unspecified except implicitly as ‘the only version of that package which is simultaneously present in the glorious monorepo of build recipes’.

This is a feature it shares with some source-based package management systems, like Nix and Guix. Those package managers solve this problem by basically vendorizing everything, so installing a new package never upgrades anything else you have installed.

Other source-based package management systems, like Portage and Pkgsrc, have extended their model to include some handling of version constraints, but they also sometimes declare dependencies without specifying a version. That seems dubious to me, since in reality there pretty much always are version constraints that ought to be specified there, but maybe those two projects are mature enough that they've hammered out the problematic cases by now.

—

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...
They picked a new CEO who cared so passionately about removing the right of gay people to get married he even donated his own money to the cause. That was a dumb hill to die on. Now he's an anti-masker who actually runs Brave.

I disagree with some of his assumed views, as you never know until you actually speak with someone directly. Could be any number of motivations. I supported Biden not because I disagreed with a lot of what Trump did, but because I felt he was a toxic agent to the republic. Is that anti-Trump? Yes and no. And I may be the last person in existence that supports Eich's right to express them in any way he chooses. If that causes social backlash by a bunch of sensitive people that's fine, but I think there's a majority that get no press, who like me, never had it impact my view of Eich. I see no connection to the projects he has or does work on.

"Anti-masker" is broad as well. I don't think based on the science, that masks make sense for young children. I do support them for adults, indoors at least. Is that an anti-masker? It's called nuance. A concept lost in society today.

After ~19 years on Firefox I moved to Microsoft Edge and only Edge fulltime in August and love it. So I couldn't care less about FF vs Brave.
Where? The website listed above is just a logo and title: I don't see any email address or contact form there, or in your posting above.
> Specifically, the portion of the Ten Commandments which instructs how to relate to other people (as opposed to relating to God) is just as relevant today as it was when written.

Sure, but the parts of the rest of the exodus narrative (either in Exodus or Deuteronomy, the two places the Ten Commandments appear) that discuss dealing with other people are...less so.
Ask HN: What are the 3 biggest threats to our civilization?
I think it's:

1. AI being used in a malicious way
2. Global warming

I'm not sure about the third one.
What do you think?
> At least on my services, they are just short trailers, never annoying ads like Progressive's. And if I'm not interested, there's always a Skip button. I'm paying for this service, I want to know what upcoming shows are coming. I don't mind if this helps with their internal metrics.

Amazon Prime paid channel subscriptions don't let you skip the previews for that channel. (At least, that is true for Paramount+.)
What I mean is Windows UIs can draw natively at non-integer scales, not that they all actually do it. But it's certainly more than it used to be, especially consumer-focused stuff.

In contrast to Mac where your UI draws at 2x and then gets downscaled to fit on screen, unless the user has picked the one resolution option where it's actually native 2x mode, which I never see anyone do because it's not enough space.

I imagine any niche business targeted software on Windows still doesn't do scaling right, but that's the nature of the Windows ecosystem. You can run your software that hasn't had meaningful updates since 1995, and someone will happily keep selling you their software that hasn't had meaningful updates since 1995.
May you also try latest VLC (Desktop & Mobile) with same files for comparison?[0]

[0] https://www.vlchelp.com/play-360-videos-photos/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZEdTCvZBQI

[2] https://medium.com/@wealthy_brains/how-to-play-360-videos-an...
>look further out

This is what has driven up housing prices where I live. It's having a ripple effect as those with more flexible WFH schedules decide they can now afford to buy a home outside of the city, and those outside the city realize they can get a significant upgrade in home quality for no extra cost by moving still further away.

As people begin to make choices like this at a systemic level, I really think the WFH genie is well & truly out of the bottle for good: When people can get a significant boost in quality of life & w/l balance with nicer living quarters & more flexible schedule, we simply won't be willing to take a job that doesn't allow for this. Especially once we've made the move away from central business hubs already and would otherwise have to move back.
I guess they were not writing stuff for "readers"? This might be a well-known theory of which I'm just unaware, but could it be that writing fulfilled a different role/need in those epochs?
Modder pleads guilty to piracy charges, will pay Nintendo $4.5m
The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) in 2021
I think you missed the /s from GP.
cool strawman, bro.
The discussions, when opened, have an end date, until which all the answers/contributions/comments are anonymous to everyone(including the likes), and when that date is reached everyone can see the best answers.

So yes, she'll know it only in the end. Also for the other people, contributions are made and discussed without having to think about who wrote it but what was written and how much of a good contribution it was(through likes, also visible in the end).

It's a way to skip that part of biased reasoning that could come out and shape the answer when someone knows that he/she is answering its boss/manager/coworker.
Is the former of way more value to the tangible product, though? Where I work, the limiting factor in delivery is how good we are at retaining talent. Seniority is scarce, industry experience is valuable, and when we launch a book club... We keep people.
The actual YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6L-FlfeaI
I've been periodically checking in on /r/antiwork for a long time, starting well before the pandemic. There's definitely been a change in the energy there since the pandemic started. It's a lot more action-y feeling now, whereas I remember it more as being a lot less receptive to the idea that change is possible.
At the same time, it feels less genuine to me. There's a good reason that there are memes going around making fun of how absurd some of the text exchanges posted there are. I'm really curious to see what the sub looks like in a year.
> The "native package manager" is not something we have to interact with so often these days

I guess one of the awesome things about Linux is how it manages to keep a wide variety of people happy. For example, one of the reasons I like to use Linux is I want to update everything at one go, and the fact that I have a Software Center app that lets me do exactly that - is awesome!

On another note, I hope Flatpaks keep gaining more popularity among the three. I really like using Flatpaks more than Snap/AppImages.
Aspirations are fine, but you need to separate aspirations from the status quo in your communications. The HN headline fails in that regard.
Do you have any constructive criticisms or feedback about the article or the article's position?
Not sure what we're disagreeing about -- shows like Suits and Billions are very much two people talking, one of those people talking to someone else, first two people talking again, expand...

Mandalorian has shown how little of a set is required to keep actors busy.
"Including a rear parking sensor is a non-goal for the MVP of the car we're building" seems to be a closer analogy.

If you cannot use the MVP of the software for your use cases, that doesn't mean it cannot be worthwhile for anyone else.
> That has happened before, but very rarely, and I highly doubt will ever happen to SponsorBlock.

Why do you doubt it? I've read that extension creators are constantly bombarded with offers to package just a little malware in their extension; surely the same is true of ads. If you're just a hobbyist developer—and that's where the best extensions come from—surely it's too much to expect that you'll resist that pressure forever.
I bought a condo in Seattle from a friend with zero MLS involvement. We agreed on a price, found a purchase and sale agreement online, hired a title company. Took about a week.
Thinkpads are owned by Lenovo, a known bad actor who installed, for example, rootkits on their own hardware.
If you’re interested in this topic area, check out the podcast Work/Life with Adam Grant [1]. The episode “The office without a*-holes” (season 2, episode 5) is a good place to start.

[1] https://www.adamgrant.net/podcast/
Buy coal mines, coal generators, and petroleum refineries in developed countries, sit on the coal and dismantle the generators and refineries to destroy fossil fuel supply and force consumers to cleaner options. China is harder considering the authoritarian regime, but conversely they are deploying renewables very quickly because they don’t have nimby or property rights barriers (and they have a voracious demand for energy).

You want to find ways to dismantle fossil infrastructure in a manner that is too burdensome to go back once you’ve taken action. The only way forward is then lower carbon technologies (and yes, natural gas use may temporarily increase, but that will incentivize faster deployment of cheaper renewables paired with energy storage).
> you...need to read fiction with good characters and dialogue.

Suggestions?

In my case, it’s been 20+ years since I read Foundation (IIRC only the first three books)
It also means that you can keep the same shell while changing other components to upgrade it, yknow, like desktops.
Jürgen Schmidhuber took this approach way before anybody else.

https://people.idsia.ch//~juergen/fibonacciwebdesign.html
And the used 2011 i3, that wouldn't become garbage if it were repairable would get sold to someone less performance / price consciousness? Now it gets trashed.
And here I am still on Fedora 33 because all of the GNOME addons I use still don't work with anything newer than that.
I suspect they began soldering it because the cable connecting the disk drive had a lot of problems in older MacBooks. Soldering may have been an easy fix for that.

I hate the soldering, too. I'm just offering an explanation that may make some sense given the context.
The SSD on all new Macs is soldered into the board. If a single component on the board breaks, they replace the whole thing.
Yeah, that's one of the few minor GNOME gripes that I have. That top bar is thicc
You assume it's a bug and not as designed.
General grumpiness about this particular design decision aside, it appears that since the T2 Macs, the main SSD was being used to store core system firmware. On T2 I think it's BridgeOS that sends the EFI image to the Intel side to boot it, and it does the firmware verification and loading.

This setup has a benefit; namely, it is now impossible to brick the system with a bad BIOS/EFI flash, and you'll never need to use a hardware SPI flasher to recover. Just like the iPhone, you can enter Boot ROM DFU mode, which can't easily be overwritten, and restore all of the firmware on the system that's writable.

This is great for restoring systems to a known good firmware state, including SSD, EFI, BridgeOS, RecoveryOS. On a normal system, there is plenty of non volatile storage that is difficult to recover or reset.

The primary argument against soldering the SSD, or really any other part, down like this tends to be that "Oh, now you can't just save money by upgrading it yourself|replacing it when it breaks". On the other side, these machines are engineered as appliances that should achieve a certain degree of reliability. The SSD is reasonably considered to last the "lifetime" of the product, and should it fail, I don't consider the inability to externally boot to be a huge problem, since whatever failure damaged the SSD is statistically likely to compromise the reliability of the rest of the board. Any failure is grounds for "rework" of the board on a hardware level if necessary,up to and including repair/replacement of the onboard flash, and not just a simple workaround in my opinion. Note that they don't force you to actually USE the internal SSD - you can still netboot or USB boot I think. It just has to work.

Trivia:
-At least on T2 systems, the flash memory itself (the NAND chips) on the mainboard can actually be swapped between units after a DFU restore by unsoldering them and transferring them.

The person that did this on YouTube notes that a common reason for SSD failure on T2 machines is due to SSD power regulator circuitry being located close to the intake vents on the side of the MacBook Pro. They recommend that users of these machines open them and clean the dust out often, since dust buildup on the actual power regulator combined with moisture sometimes causes a short circuit, sending high voltage to the SSD and damaging it.

This kind of failure (high voltage parts close to low voltage ones, close to liquid damage prone areas, without any underfilling) is documented by Louis Rossmann. It is, however, not always feasible or possible to entirely prevent.
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