skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> either

Your argument vastly underestimates size of the Space and the amount of goods in it.

I firmly believe that the third option will take place: "no one needs to bother". Why bother destroying some little tiny pale blue dot, if your sky is literally filled with them and you can't even count them?

We're so focused and enclosed our minds on our precious Earth, that we laughably think is so big and valuable.
Whose parents did Miller dug ? The article doesn't mention it
Have you logged on to other accounts that are owned by Google? (Youtube, Nest, etc)? Or an account for which you use Google's authentication?
I do enjoy subtitles as well, but for me I have the most trouble with accents I'm not used to. My favorite examples are scifi/fantasy/historical shows where for some reason the "way the peoples talk" is invariably a heavy English, Irish or Scottish accent that is very hard to follow for me, used to American accents, even if enunciated properly. Add in the other sounds and it becomes even more difficult.

The other nice feature of subtitles is sometimes there is helpful metadata there, like identifying the song playing in the background or some words not intended to be heard like a whisper or voice coming from a phone receiver.
I'm struggling to think of any improvements since Win7. The only thing that might qualify is WSL, but that's still experimental and buggy (yes, I know some people have had success with it, anyway).

IIRC Win7 was the one that started installing most drivers without any user effort, which was really nice. It also bloated minimum disk size to many times that of XP (or a very full-fat Linux install, so the drivers can't be the reason, since that also includes tons of drivers) but if you had the space, it was worth the trade-off.
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one that struggled understanding Tenet. I think it's almost impossible to understand that movie without subtitles (I've watched Tenet over five times and still struggle at parts, especially the end). Interesting point to is with subtitles it identifies the main character as the Protagonist. Just watching the movie with subtitles is very difficult to come to that conclusion.
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I understand, and that's what I meant. However, we need to get past that adage. It suggests to people that we can't have actually free things ever. But there are tons of examples of things that really are free from natural resources that are abundant to the sorts of software that are trivial enough for some volunteers to make and distribute without compromises.

In other words, we can pay with money or by allowing ourselves to be monetized (via attention to ads or other manipulations and invasiveness) *OR* we can actually have things be free. There's negligible cost to enjoying Mozart or Mark Twain, and a few orders of magnitude more stuff could be public domain if that status weren't sabotaged to support our cancerous growth-forever economic model.

Anyway, I agree with you completely about Netflix vs Instagram. And while Instagram can be described as pay-with-attention-to-ads, it's definitely valid to see it as most users are the product for the actual paying customers (the advertisers). The reason I like the "pay-with-attention" framing is to prompt everyone to always be asking "how am I paying?" and sometimes the answer is "I'm not, it's actually free, no catch" as that opens more options to consider than the binary "am I the customer or the product?"
Yep, single 38” 3840x1600 ultrawide or 43” 4K TV for me. With a small 14” USB-C portable touch monitor as needed for testing touch and pen input.
Let’s say ads will always make more money (I have no reason to believe they won’t), and that’s required to be the dominant search engine because the web is big and expensive to organize.

I’d bet there’s some way to characterize what I and others liked about the earlier web and create a search engine that just worries about that stuff. I’d pay $9/mo for whatever 1/3 of Google’s spend per user would get me. That’s not to say this thing would “beat” Google, but it could profitably exist.
What? Measles is almost entirely constrained to the unvaccinated and we vaccinate babies for pertussis at 2 months.
At the very least, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing seems to disagree.

(So do I: NLP does not have to be machine learning/AI based)
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I've worked, and still work, on large legacy codebases on a daily basis and I couldn't agree more that total rewrite is not the solution in most cases and a waste of time and money.

But, I have also witnessed projets that were poorly engineered and should have been rewritten or refactored in time to permit better integration of junior devs, prevent the burnouts and the people quitting.

Sometimes, when you don't make the good refactoring on time, you end up with nobody to maintain your software and you have to rewrite it.
The hospitals have been hiring nonstop. Unfortunately medical staff is also leaving the hospitals that treat corona patients. As one said, speaking to a journalist, the current patients are a "potpourri of difficult personalities", so the nurses apply for jobs at things like eye clinic and the hospitals can't even operate the beds they have.
We are building one [1] as well as a few other people that I am aware of with different approaches and business models.

We also need to be aware that when we remember past times it usually carries a romantic, nostalgic note. Web is very different than it was 15 years ago and the problem of search has evolved.

What you are looking for is basically 'grep for the web' but it is just one facet of search that we use today. 15 years ago you would not get an instant answer to a question like you do today and many users would not be able to live without that today. There are also maps and location based answers, all sorts of widgets like translation etc. Also world became more polarized so an objective best search result became more difficult to produce, specially for events covered in news, which means bias inevitably starts to creep in.

This is not to say that Google is good or bad today, it is what it is and they are doing best they can. Startups like ours see an opportunity on the market, in large part to help savvy users find what they want.

[1] https://kagi.com
> macOs.... doesn't run most programs people need (because the business world is still Windows oriented)

This is not only not true for many years anymore, it's even got so far that it's almost the opposite now. Most successful businesses nowadays are increasingly led by tech-savvy leaders, because otherwise they wouldn't be successful anymore, and those people make their own software now increasingly better on macOS than Windows for their own selfish reasons because they all run on MacBooks, iPhones and Apple Watches today.

Even Microsoft's own software ironically works MUCH better on macOS than Windows. Try Office on macOS and you'll be surprised how good it is compared to Windows :)
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Why would anyone prefer Chrome over Edge? I mostly use Firefox but also Edge as the secondary browser on the Windows machine. It's the same engine but better UI (e.g. vertical tabs), both are equally proprietary.
If a programs reads from uninitialised memory, I hope for its sake that it does not do it in C/C++. Setting aside that uninitialised memory is a hopelessly broken RNG seed, or the fact that the OS might zero out the pages it gives you before you can read your "uninitialised" zeroes…

Reading uninitialised memory in C/C++ is Undefined Behaviour, plain and simple. That means Nasal Demons, up to and including arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities if you're unlucky enough.
The fact that our awkwardly exploitative synthetic systems depend on elegantly balanced natural systems which are now inexorably collapsing renders this otherwise-interesting discussion entirely moot.

Get your UUCP maps up to date -- you'll be communicating through USB sticks transported by pirates before you know it.
I switched to Brave this past year... so far so good. Firefox is fine, but I need a chromium browser for development, so chromium - google seems like a good alternative. I tried Vivaldi a couple of years ago but it didn't stick... will try again.
If I could add sites I liked to the index that'd be great. Find a blogger/hacker I like? Add to the index. Can I share my index with others? Can I include their indices in my searches?

Search engine as a social media platform? If I follow you, now I can search in your indices?
I like to think they tried to talk to more sound engineers but their dialog was inaudible.
I'm in the same boat. I've wanted to switch to them for years, but once I get it loaded with my requisite plugins and start using it for a while, the UI inevitably begins to experience random lags and moments of unresponsiveness.
Take a random part number off your car, or a portion of a error message and try finding that. It's annoying to have to scroll down over a page or two of autogenerated SEO answers to get to something useful. The first result to appear on the internet is less likely to be SEO and more likely to be the manufacturers documentation or the git commit that spawned your error. It isn't always, but that's why you have more then one search engine.

Secondarily I think a search engine that is very simple in it's model and operation is useful for more general free speech purposes. If the major search engines decide they don't like a site like the pirate bay a search for '"Pirate Bay" And "Torrents"' on a search engine that does not curate could still get you there. I guess the point is without curation you have to work harder to find what you want, but nobody is actively preventing you from finding anything. It would help keep everybody honest.
> Google Search itself is now a threat to the open web. Forget Chrome.

I understand Google's utter dominance in search, but Google is not "the open web".
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This is a cool implementation. It has me interested in the browser's service worker storage now. I haven't developed anything to use it previously.
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You seem to be missing that when you may be in an active shooter situation, you can't wait for a court to decide whether it is, or isn't one.

Rittenhouse felt threatened, but for some reason, didn't wait for a court to make a determination. The people he shot also felt threatened. And for good reason, given that he killed two of them, in two separate incidents.

If he has the moral right to use lethal force to defend himself against a threat to his person, with imperfect information, without waiting a year for a court to split hairs over who was and was not at fault, so do they. He is incredibly lucky that Grosskreutz gave the question of killing a man more thought than he did.
The fact is, a framework can be good in a team where you have junior developers. When I started with PHP, Laravel seems a god send. You don't even have to learn PHP that deeply, as they provide a quite consistent playground to add your business logic. It's when you got experienced, you begin to notice the bloat. I don't know how it impacts performance, but I've seen many juniors shoot themselves in the foot where there's too little constraint. Nowadays, I think real hard about bringing any frameworks or libraries into my projects.
For now, maybe. But if your customers hate you, yet only a little less than they hate your competitors, all it takes is one new cloudSP to enter your market who ISN'T hated to completely wipe out the commodity low end of your business.

Maybe the major cloud players believe they can buy up new & unhated competitors before they can establish a loyal user base. That strategy has worked pretty well so far for the vendors of mobile computing -- which just happens to be the primary consumer of low end cloud services.

So if mobile can be commodified some day (the way unix workstations were by Linux), maybe basic cloud services can be too?
I'm not so paranoid, my reasoning has more mundane justifications. A drive to secrecy that begins with protecting trade secrets.

And it is not even nessesary to imagine a drive (or intention). It just so happens that spreading knowledge (teaching things to other people) is hard work (for both the teacher and the student).

So as much as it's not a priority for them at the forefronts of science to teach their advanced theories to others they end up known by only a few (this also foments a stronger "market position" so to say).

So it boils down to incentives, how motivated are advanced research institutions to spread their advances in contrast to any benefits from a scarcity of such advanced knowledge?
Are you telling me to go duck myself?
Flashback to "Interstellar", where the first 40 minutes involved this guy speaking in some deep-south US accent with a mouth so full of marbles that he was incomprehensible. At some point later in the movie, I bailed. Apart from the black-hole CGI it was utter crap. Perhaps the incomprehensible dialogue was a deliberate attempt to hide the paucity of plot, logic or story.
While looking into this new OpenZFS service I noticed that NetApp ONTAP is now also available as 'Amazon FSx for ONTAP' as of Sept. 2021. It costs more than this OpenZFS service, but it offers higher availability and more capabilities (iSCSI block devices, for instance.)
Conservatives want to change rules to get back to their view of what was good about the past. Liberals want to change the rules according to their view of what should be good about the future.
That's closer, but I don't think that's quite the same. Esports seems to serve more so as marketing for videogames. The CCP is trying to discourage its population from playing videogames, so they doubt that they care if they lose out on American ones. Also, esports don't have nearly the prestige of physical sports at the moment, though that could change in the future.
We definitely do broad-strokes central planning in the US and every other developed country with tax system design, social support systems, and industrial policy.

The Soviet Union sucked, but it lasted an extremely long time.

The moral of the story is central planning kinda does work, just not very well if you do too much of it.
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I tried to watch Tenet at the cinema and had to walk out after a minute or two and get a refund. The sound was cranked up insanely loud. I don't know if the people who sat through the full running time were at risk of hearing damage but it certainly felt that way to me, and that is not something I care to risk.

The staff said that the requirement to play it at this volume had come from the distributors and ultimately from the director, in response to complaints of inaudible dialog. No idea if that's true but they also said they were now getting loads of complaints about the volume and having to refund tickets, unsurprisingly. What a ridiculous mess.

Anyway, I eventually watched at home with subtitles and it seems I didn't miss much. Michael Spicer summed it up beautifully [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/s2FXfFeRtJo
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related 2 days ago:

Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29392702

Inviting all the paranoid/speculative/hearsay/personal experience responses. Lame Ask HNs!!!!!
cool, that's similar to me.

but, so, you actually landed a job though? i wasn't clear from your post.
Nix 2.4 is totally compatible with NixOS. It was held back from default status on the latest NixOS release because it includes a few behavior changes to the CLI that have been jarring for some users. It's to ease the transition for them, not because it's broken or something like that.

You can set up Nix 2.4 on NixOS 21.11 by adding

nix.package = pkgs.nix_2_4;

in your configuration.nix :)

I like the new CLI, too, and it's worth trying if you want to see what all is new in Nix. Here's how to enable flakes on NixOS, if you have Nix 2.4:

nix.extraOptions = ''
experimental-features = nix-command flakes
'';
I used to love Julia, but it increasingly makes this Koan make more and more sense:

> A martial arts student went to his teacher and said earnestly, “I am devoted to studying your martial system. How long will it take me to master it?” The teacher’s reply was casual, “Ten years.” Impatiently, the student answered,”But I want to master it faster than that. I will work very hard. I will practice everyday, ten or more hours a day if I have to. How long will it take then?” The teacher thought for a moment, “20 years.”

(originally seen in the context of this article: https://brianlui.dog/2020/05/10/beware-of-tight-feedback-loo...)
How many generations ? I don't know for the US but in Europe many museums and churches expose human remains
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This just becomes a question of pragmatism at that point - Google lacks the capacity to determine which of the blocked results are legal versus are not without incurring cost, so the most realistic approach is to recognize that a majority of results from that domain are illegal and block the domain. This is just the simplest way to enforce a particular rule in a particular case that can't otherwise be cheaply codified programatically.
100% agreed.

Previously dual monitor, 24" 1920 x 1080, portrait left, landscape right. left was usually for email and chat, right for coding and browser.

Now it's a single 40" 4k tv as my display. Using gridmove to easily partition the screen as needed. It's like have 4 1080p screens with no border. Only downside I've come across is some screensharing apps will always share the entire desktop when sharing a single app (webex is worst offender) - just the app window will be shown, but with massive greyed out background. Can be fixed by changing desktop res, just an annoyance.

Moving to a single massive screen has honestly lead to better productivity, but i possibly attribute that more to gridmove than overall screen real estate.
> There are a gazillion startups in Bitcoin, I don't think they are all into hoarding and scamming.

They are.

> Sorry, you still sound like the people who have no idea what they are talking about.

I know exactly what I'm talking about. Show me a start up, and I will show you how the very same things can be done and are being already done faster, and more efficiently without Bitcoin.

Apart from the very, very, very small use case of sending money to failed states, and even that use case is hinging on a lot of ifs.

> And as I said, dollars are being used for scamming a lot, too.

Yes, but that's not their primary use.

> There are many other uses.

If there were, it wouldn't be used almost exclusively the way it's used right now.
Regulation by a centralized entity, to restrict people's freedom to engage in voluntary transactions, doesn't fix market failures. It makes them worse.
There absolutely was regulation in Bronze Age markets. There were taxes and tax breaks for favored merchants, there were embargoes and wars fought over goods.
Basically that people cannot be expected to accept their own fates with dignity? I would make the case that overwhelming violence is an appropriate consequence for violating the peace. Good policing techniques are very effective in maintaining social order, in spite of economic inequality - see Japan.
I'm a musician (when not being a software architect) and I'm somewhat shocked by the number of artists getting excited about NFTs and thinking this is the ticket out of stream-poverty. It's ridiculous - the NFT gives the consumer nothing. The whole reason vinyl has resurged is because music consumers want to own a thing. Something they can hold, and feel like they had some kind of transactional relationship with the maker. The NFT is emperor's clothes: they get no musical value at all from it. It's just a way of donating money with a bunch of environmental destruction rolled in for no good reason. I fear that many of my colleagues spending time chasing this are just going to have wasted a ton of time and money they could have spent making art, because the novelty will wear off pretty damned quick.
I've long claimed that Transformers movies would be greatly improved by having untranslated, non-subtitled Japanese dialog.
Maybe those efforts were not as huge as you think they were? I also don't know what you're referring to. I'm not a FF fanboy or anything like that, but I have made my choice and I'm sticking to it so I can divert my mental energy towards other more productive areas.