skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A project I dream about but have neither the skills to implement nor the discipline. An entire OS written just for the RPI4. With code making use of the fact that we are running on known hardware, so we can optimize it rigorously.

If you focused on supporting the official raspberry pi keyboard, mouse, and touchscreen you could circumvent a lot of the pains around driver issues. Then people could actually get up and running with your OS with real hardware, and you could start dogfooding it.

I’ve heard people say that the software we use is up to 100 times slower than it needs to be. So my hypothesis is that if the software was written smarter, and used the fact that we know the hardware ahead of time, we should easily hit a 100 times performance increase across the OS.

Also if it were possible, it would be cool if this OS supported a minimal boot mode, that could be configured to only run the bare minimum amount of apps required for a certain piece of software. So for example a game mode that ran the game, and the bare minimum amount of OS the game needed to run.

And since we are in full on fantasy land we can take this one step further. Same basic concept, but with a RISC-V SBC, with an open GPU. Bonus points if you can get up and running with a touchscreen, keyboard, mouse, case, and SD card for $150
Sheaves in Minecraft
> AWARE: Aim, Work Back, Achieve, Reflect, Encore

When companies start making unnecessary acronyms, you know that they have been taken over by business types and engineering department is soon gonna be shrink rapidly.

Gonna be interesting to see how Shopify develops (or the opposite) over the coming 1-2 years.

For future reference (based on LinkedIn data), "Engineering" is currently 25% of the headcount, followed by "Support" (12%), "Sales" (8%) and "Operations" (8%).

Fastest growing departments this year (2021) is "Human Resources" (74%), "Support" (58%) and "Program and Project Management" (47%).
I definitely need some directed study.
https://vole.wtf/kilobytes-gambit/ beats me handily.
You can still block ads by recognizing them at the pixel level.

Same for copying text.

Advantage: you can also select text in images, and block ads that are images.
As I get older (40 y/o) I'm noticing that my video game taste is migrating from dont-think-just-shoot FPS towards well written RPGs (but still with some action, and not turn based rpg). Might be interesting to know i f this happens with everyone...
> But why wouldn’t they want you to spend more time on their site, you ask? (...)

Also: because if they can get you to spend only a few moments on their site, but do it every day, they're conditioning you into being a regular and loyal visitor. Intermittent rewards and all that. The person who spends more time and accomplishes all their goals will not come back until they actually need something from the site again.
> The value of domains at these prices are like startups. They are bought, not sold and based entirely on if a company with money wants it badly enough.

Except for used cars, real estate, bonds and stocks... every other asset is "bought and not sold" these days.

Sellers of an asset which is not in the list above don't even have a platform to tell the world that they are selling that particular thing.
LoTR's execution of the story is high quality though. There were fantasy stories before and after it, but most aren't remembered..
Haha that's brilliant!
I really dislike their appropriation of the word meta, metaverse etc. Can we please have a public campaign to rename it to something like metaface or metabook or metaplasteradsinyoface ? It's a disgrace really. Especially they way that their keynotes failed to mention any of the hundreds of projects before them.
> I was referring to the social norms around criticism of authority. There is a much greater expectation of tact and constructiveness compared to the West.

I've never been to Asia myself, but knowing some Asian people and knowing a little about Asian history i think you are wrong. Like everywhere else, Asia is filled with revolutionaries who despise authority and revolt in any way they can.

Just because some people respect authoritarian figures and their abuses of power doesn't mean everybody has to show "respect". I personally don't have any respect for most governments around this planet (including France/USA), because these governments don't have any respect for human lives and freedom.

I live in a country where it's illegal to criticize the police or insult the president. Some people live in a country where it's illegal to suggest the king may be wrong. People like you are just enforcing that kind of power dynamic which some of us are interested to dismantle in flames.

(Also worth noting: Asia is a BIG continent and you're making a huge generalization about billions of people... which i don't think holds at all)
It's of course dependent on a lot of factors, but after the twitch leak a video game content creator released a video about his revenue via YouTube and twitch: https://youtu.be/0DtTwGFwcQs

Plus he has utilized them for several videos which helps amortize the cost.
So... everyone that disagrees with you is "toxic"?
So all we need to do is just stop being human and then we can save all these lives!
> so much of it is build on HTTP protocols

this is mostly an artifact of how most firewalls are configured to only allow "neccesary" stuff; this also applies to ipv6 and hence all dreams of it re-enabling end-to-end connectivity are kinda moot.
Poverty is of course a huge confounding factor when you look at life expectancy.
Just you wait until your mini-moog has a boot process with a required chain of trust that will reject any circuit bending. That'll teach ya :P
Heroine, not cocaine. It was about 500 doses.
quick googles says $4.18 per 1,000 views

and that has 1.4M views so maybe it looks like it? Not to mention the cool brand building etc. I mean youtube is the new tv shows and maybe they want to make videos for a long time so why not.
There is a documentary on it. [1] This assumes a VEI 8 which scientists are saying should not happen any time soon.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwd0cMDPZvg
Aren’t most sales of NFTs some sort of publicity stunt, given their limited utility ?
I just want the ability to hide things.
Holy shit dude! I hope you are wrong on all accounts, especially the world rulers bit.

But more on point, what do you mean by size? Just valuation of their stock? Speculation on an asset makes sense when we don't know its inherent value. I can't figure out what is the inherent value of a stock any more. Does value not derive from utility now? Utility of a stock can be governance say (voting stocks) or a share in the profit. These companies with massive valuations don't generate any profits (see: Uber). So what are people speculating on actually?
The point isn't that it should be text heavy.

The point is that it should be light on tracking, ads and unnecessary use of scripting. (I have earned good money writing client side code the last few years so I see there is a place for it, but most websites I look for information from should not need it.)
You are conditioned from a young age by the ad industry to want a lot of things that are not essential in your life.
My main issue with all the metaverse talk (from whomever might be peddling whatever version): the kinds of thing that change the world are rarely, if ever, the result of someone with a massive vested interest in the past claiming “this is what the future will look like”.
>What problems does it solve?

It was designed as a DE for PcBSD. Unlike Linux distros, some OS design teams do believe that having only one tool do a job and that tool should be perfectly integrated with the rest of the OS has some value.
Supermarkets Play Supply-Chain ‘Whack-a-Mole’ to Keep Products on Shelves
It still seems to be NaR here https://posithub.org/posit_standard4.12.pdf
> in practice mean that only the rich could have children

Yes that is what it might mean, but that also seems like the right incentive to me. I would argue the rich are more deserving of having children in a world with constraints. Wealth is money accumulated by getting others to voluntarily give it to you in return for valuable goods or services. Therefore it is very literally a measure of value to society. It seems morally justified to let those who produce more value to have the privilege of raising children if we have to limit it. Also, I don’t think those parents would necessarily be too busy - most probably work 9-5 like anyone else.
There's a fascinating New Yorker article on Ithkuil and constructed languages in general:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-be...
The linked interview with Philip Shepherd made the premise clearer to me. Hope I can someday sustain that kind of being. Trying for a long time already, occassionally did it for a while then got overwhelmed, back to dumbing myself down with meat, with pointless fun, with busywork, many things.

Pity it's all so easy to mix with flashy esoterics.
I agree that we need to use effective solutions, but the first and foremost of those solutions is a much more simpler one than reducing consumption. Every nation (with rare exceptions) is currently burning fossil fuel for the single purpose of reducing costs. Fossil fuels are a cost saving tactic, saving money while producing pollution.

An expensive fossil free energy grid would cause disruptions to consumption but at the same time it would also allow things to mostly be business-as-usual. It just shifts the priority to care about the energy efficiency when cheap fossil fuels aren't there to be burned.

In contrast, trying to reduce consumption while keeping fossil fuels in the energy grid is unlikely to work. Consumers who care might reduce their own consumption a bit, but industries and every else will continue to draw more and more power from fossil fuel power plants and pollution will continue to rise. Public opinion will just grow more divided between those that self-sacrifice and those that don't.
It's not entirely free, but the cost is shared with other usage of your computer, and you have much more resources at your disposal.

Then and now, any second hand hardware will yield more computing power than cheap VMs you can rent. (of course you can rent a dedicated server with 32 cores and 128GB RAM nowadays, this doesn't change that entry level offers are very limited on resources compared to what you can easily find AFK)
It's a simple question. You don't seem to have answered it.
I always liked listening to edm and when I first got to know that you just need a laptop and DAW to make tracks the idea of becoming an edm artist sounded exciting and glamorous to me. (like alan walker, martin grx)

I installed FL Studio and tried my hand on making some beats (https://youtube.com/channel/UClKt2vzomuegCDA45SU6FbA/videos).
Before I spent too much time on it I released it's actually less about making catchy beats and more about the marketing, connections in music industry etc.
Now, I'm writing code again.
It’s very disappointing to hear that nuclear solutions were rejected. Reuters ran a story just earlier today about how nuclear is a key high tech solution for climate change: https://youtu.be/TNSaRJylY4A
Brain implant may lift most severe depression
No, I'm not :)

I'm comparing immunity acquired by infection with immunity acquired by vaccine, post-factum. I'm definitely not saying that one should use infection as a substitute for vaccine, and honestly I'm a bit miffed that you're suggesting I am.

Also this is far from being a useless fact to know. For example in my country prior infection doesn't count for getting your green certificate. If infection is indeed better than vaccine, than you have a very strong argument that the government is making a pretty big mistake. If it offers the same order of magnitude of protection, that you have a weak argument. If it's significantly worse than vaccine, than you have no argument against this policy, and in fact it's a pretty good policy.
I do this quite frequently, but use the following stackoverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18215389/how-do-i-measur...

This blog appears to be much of the same, regardless, good information to get out there.
They put all of their videos on YT too.
>And Ubuntu laptop cannot do wakeup from sleep with Bluetooth keyboard or mouse even with tons of tinkering with the /usb/devices/*/power/wakeup conf and in /etc/rc.local and /etc/init.d.

Install powertop and disable the usb-sleep option.
It may not be open source, but it is open. It's not some proprietary software only used in a single company.
Would this really change page sizes significantly?

Take amazon landing as an example:

* HTML/CSS: 80 KB and 88 KB

* Images: 3.2 MB

* Font: 180 KB

* JavaScript: 260 KB

Reducing HTML/CSS to 1 Byte each, would make nearly no difference, because huge parts of pages are in images.
Λ-calculus using binary numbers of variable length
I'm ashamed I have visited. Print those warnings in all the emphasized font you want, could Nagaenthran comprehend them and connect the dots to his coerced situation?

Everyone should at some point in their upbringing have a modicum of experience caring for someone with a mental disability

Singapore's actions and judicial system are vile and disgusting.
>so we have a clear example of them having a superior design available (and most likely cheaper to produce)

This is probably not the case. The blob chip is probably in the pennies. And while I didn't look at the pictures extremely deeply I bet they did part and assembly reduction using the following methodology.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZGWOrDBpg
CZI is a for profit company, not a non-profit.
That’s why you average across several questions. If one is too hard just leave it. You’ll pretty soon get an idea who’s good at what.
Starting from 5 cents per stroke, depending on velocity and pitch. Just make sure you have internet connectivity at all times, otherwise your contract with each of the keys cannot be checked.
But it feels basically free which is the important thing vs having to set up billing. $20 a month is a lot if you're a teenager with limited or no income.
You're paying for convenience. Or I am at least. Knowing you're going to get the item in ~2 days makes the difference and without needing to pay for the cost difference anyway (+ some usually) when you get to the shipping page.
> Why do you willingly support that?

I’m sure where you got that impression. But language matters and the worst case outcome isn’t a situation that “kills humanity”. I was asking for clarification in case there was something I was missing in terms of impact that would actually lead to extinction, which by definition means a complete end to all human life.
Not everything is about price, and it shouldn't be. If it were, we'd have stayed with coal and gas a few decades ago.

As i mentioned elsewhere, much of Europe is currently facing an ongoing wind shortfall ( since around a month ago and projected to continue into the winter), which is adding extra fuel to the ongoing energy crisis.

To cover such a potential future scenario with renewables only, you'd need to build absolutely massive storage, which would certainly change the costs.

But in any case, fuck the costs - investment is needed into more nuclear, different types of storage tech, more renewables, because this is a very serious issue and making the wrong decisions purely based on costs would be really sad.
Self-deprecating is the opposite of the article. The article “self”-deprecated others in the industry on their behalves.

Of course he has the right to comment on whatever he likes to. I’m not suggesting that anyone should take away his freedom of speech.

I was merely criticizing the quality of his criticism.
A suggestion, as a mobile user, maybe you are not the target audience for this site.
I don't miss the old internet. It was full of personal hard to read websites where you find some useful articles but a lot of fluff too. It is the same today, not much changed. Its hard to find people who produce focused content. The useful stuff is always mixed with posts about politics, personal stories, and status updates. Same on blogs, same on twitter, same on youtube.

The internet I like to see is where you can follow someones work and ideas without being sidelined. If a person is active in a few different fields then two separate websites are in order. My feeling is that this has not changed between the "old internet" and the "new". There is a small fraction people producing content in this way. Maybe today its a bit easier to find them.
Yes, gross margin is what you're after.
Nearly all of your text about early Facebook is incorrect.

It was originally hosted on Harvard's servers, and lasted only a few hours before the administration pulled the plug on facemash, which was basically a 'hot or not' clone.

Then they rented a server for $85/mo. and launched thefacebook.com a few weeks later.

Both sites were on the public internet.

https://www.fastcompany.com/59441/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-...
U.S. Prices, Wages Rise at Fastest Pace in Decades
The threat of losing my domains would cause me not to register them in the first place, which would hamper little people like me with small ideas, but probably not actually hurt squatters much since they'd be actively protecting their investments.
Wyoming produces a great deal of power for several states [1][2] and is the third highest producer/exporter of wind power and soon to have modern nuclear power plants. I want to say it already exports power to most of the mid-west and a few north western states but I don't have a specific list of states. Apparently there are some red-tape obstacles to make this happen at a larger scale. [3]

[1] - https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=WY

[2] - https://www.wsgs.wyo.gov/products/wsgs-2012-electricalgenera... [PDF]

[3] - https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2017-05-11/energy-policy/w...
> It was never a good idea to host a public site on one's personal computer

You could run it in a VM, which is equivalent to what your 20$ host is doing. Or you could run it on a separate machine. Or you can run it on the same machine which was common back in the day... if you use a reputable distro and apply updates regularly then it's really not a concern (i can't remember myself or anyone i know hacked through vulnerable packages, except for Worpress but that's precisely because it's not packaged by Debian).

> 20$ a month doesn't sound too bad

Doesn't it? I guess it's a matter of age and class and nationality. If you're too young to earn money, it's a barrier. If you're in the lower classes of your country, 20$/month can be a lot (that's like food for 30 days for one person). If you're in a "poor" country (i.e. neo-colony depleted of its resources by global north countries), 20$/month can even be considered a decent monthly income.

> buying a separate server

That's the thing. You usually don't have to buy it. It's old hardware lying around or that someone will donate for the purpose of running fun projects.
Chinese live streamer does $2bn of sales in one day
> Per-note pitch bend is a big deal, and it could impact the kinds of music people use MIDI for.

MPE is a thing as well. As the owner of a Linnstrument, I get 10 finger multiple pitch bend over a standard Midi connector to all synths who understand MPE (which are sadly not many, but hey)
Does any know if there‘s an extension for Safari that allows injecting site-specific CSS rules into pages? I know I could do this with a user stylesheet (but not site-specific) or Tampermonkey (but cumbersome via JavaScript).
Many commenters are assuming this got interviews because of companies just looking for keywords. I'm not so sure. If I were hiring and this came across my desk there are really only three things I noticed that would probably make me unlikely to invite them for an interview.

The bullet points for what they say they did at each job fall into two categories.

1. Claims that sound like real things one might do at the company. E.g., "Improved LinkedIn search algorithm efficiency and accuracy through the usage of VoldemortDB, Charizard, and Hadoop".

Hadoop and VoldemortDB are real. I have never heard of Charizard other than as a Pokemon but it would not at all be surprising for someone to have used that name.

2. Things that are obviously jokes.

All the jobs listed except for Microsoft contain items from both categories. The jokey things in the first Microsoft bullet point are React in a big data pipeline and Edge on the blockchain...but both of those are things I can't be certain are actually jokes because people do in fact seriously propose things along those lines.

The three problematic things I noticed are:

1. In the skills section mentioned fintech, health, and adult entertainment industries, but in the experience section lists no companies that work in those areas.

2. Zillow job started 4 months before previous LinkedIn job ended.

3. One of the jokes was about giving herpes to interns. I like people with a sense of humor at work, but joking about sex with coworkers has too high a risk of being misunderstood and leading to problems.
The long game
IPV6 is a monstrosity designed by numerous committees. I’d take ipv4 and add few more octets for address
I wonder.

One mutation, and an a species can become resistant to certain toxins. For example, the plant itself is toxic to birds, yet the monarch eats it.

Did some mutation happen, and now the progeny of that lineage are multiplying? If other monarchs die, they'd have lots of food available, so would exponentially grow.

Hmm.
Yes but even this was revolutionary at the time - to reveal that information through gameplay rather than cutscene or text.
I 'm not familiar, but can i run the server on my own machine to make sure that they won't be deleting / spying on it ?
> What alternatives or solutions do you envision for search? How would you build a content heavy site in a way that gives a user confidence when searching for something?

At the scale of Netflix? Start with a simple list of all titles in the catalog. One I can search with CTRL+F, or maybe narrow down with an incremental search, if you really have to do some fancy JavaScript in it.

It's not until we get into "Amazon scale" when the simple idea of giving people the whole dataset to look at breaks down.

The kind of operations done against most sites - whether it's a media streaming service or an on-line shop or an e-mail client or a planner - they all fall into a very common set of patterns. Filter by piece of information you know (like title, or genre; both "include matching" and "exclude matching"). Compare a bunch of candidates relative to a set of criteria (e.g. length, price, features X, Y, Z). Compare a candidate against a class in which it's in. Etc. Those are simple and universal patterns for dealing with data. Those are the interactions you want to expose if you actually care about your users achieving their goals.

The way I see it, most content services would've offered a much better UX if they just let you download the catalog as an Excel sheet, so that you can use a tool that actually tries to help you deal with data.
I would, but that is a different problem, not specific to deflationary currency. It can happen whether I have dollars, gold, diamonds, crypto-assets. But with crypto-assets, being non-physical, it is possible to easily hide them and also hide who owns them, and then mafia has a very hard time figuring out who to hit with the wrench to get them.

Deflationary currency would be bad for the current inflationary system and the small group of extremely rich people, but could be good for most people, who don't want to be in debt their whole life.