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Maybe it's you? I don't really have any of those problems. LaTeX works great for me (I use TexShop on a pretty old mac mini) You seem to be using it in the terminal. Why?! TexShop (I hear there are a few other, equally good GUIs) has been nothing like a "can of worms", but a delight to use - I can't think of any problems I've had with it, in 5+ years. Not having Command-Click to be able to instantly shift between somewhere in the LaTeX file and the corresponding place in the PDF and back would be a pain, I imagine. Or not being able to program your own macros. It's slow? Compared to what? It typesets 100 pages what seems like pretty fast to me. You know you can pre-compile all sections of a long text except the one you're working on, right?

Why expect every one of the million features users might want be "natively supported"?! What you describe as "a complex hack of internals" is usually in practice a 30 second visit to Stack Exchange and a cut and paste. Although I haven't needed to do that in a long time. I was amazed when I started (it did take about 3 months of intense learning in the beginning) that every package I needed or wanted was already on my computer, and usually the author was on TeX stack exchange answering questions!
NFTs are just worthless garbage. The assumption here is that the piece of "art" is unique because of the Hash on a Chain. But thats simply a lie, I can simply copying the image. The difference to real world is that in the real world copying is not a 1:1 copy, its just a the same till a certain percentage.

If you integrate it in some game or in the metaverse its still worthless, because you are just a consumer that participates in artifical shortage of a product thats copyable with a simple click.
Good point, which I didn't appreciate. But I'd argue the pre-programmed gaits are more analogous to "presets" and not samples. To be honest I don't if use of presets falls under the same copyright rules as use of samples.
> Maybe my age (finished grad school in 2004) but I never created a Facebook account.

Me neither. The "dumb fucks trusted me" vibe rubbed me the wrong way right out of the gate.

Wish someone had stopped them grabbing Whatsapp, etc., deleted my account there too.
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> Katainen didn’t like the value proposition considering used 2013 Model S vehicles go for about 35,000 euros in Finland and he didn’t have access to a third-party shop to fix the pack.

It's literally in the article that that wasn't an option.
I haven't really used it extensively, but so far VS Code reminds me of that quip people used to make about Emacs a long time ago: it is a pretty good operating system but needs a decent text editor.

I don't do anything that needs or even benefits much from a ton of extensions. I'd expect someone who is would find VS Code amazingly useful (unless they were overwhelmed by the very large number of available extensions).
Someone needs a promotion at Google and this is the latest plot to get people to train a "new" and "revolutionary" AI?
The original title “Webb flies Ariane 5: watch the launch live” has a nice ring to it. Here goes!
Is that because ALS is such an unwelcome diagnosis that all alternative diagnoses are explored first?

Or is there some other reason for testing theories in that order?
https://www.quidsentio.com

A private social network (“private” in the sense that is a journaling web app that you share with close friends, not as “e2ee privacy”).

Zero interest on HN or Reddit or wherever. The few people who tried (including friends and family) never came back. The one paid user that I had tried to use the “import Facebook status” tool and it wasn’t working. I didn’t know how to fix (it worked in my machine) so I refunded them.

I used as personal journal for several months but eventually quit. The web app is still up because it’s basically using free tier for hosting, so I leave it there.

Lessons learned

Honestly, idk. Maybe that a new social network these needs a very clear unique spin. Generic “keep in touch with close friends and family” is not enough, any of the big ones can do that. WhatsApp and a closed profile on Instagram deliver that value already. The big ones that tried eventually failed (Path, famously, but also a recent one YC-backed, Coccoon).

”Pay a subscription so we don’t have to sell ads and your data” is not enough of a motivation for adoption.

For those that this would be enough, they also care about e2ee and decentralization (which I didn’t deliver because it was technically hard to do).

Social networks are expected to be on native mobile apps, not web apps, I think.

If anyone likes the UI of it and wants to use the frontend (React) for a web3 or any sort of e2ee backend, get in touch.
A fair comparison would be to Falcon Heavy (Ariane 5 uses boosters as well) which has about twice the payload capacity. Just doesn't yet have the launch history required for such an important payload.
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This isn't even true. Because I can own both the selling and buying account and artificially "purchase" said item publicly. Even the price can't be trusted.
Loved discussing this one as part of a book club, drew so many more insights out of the book by hearing what others gleaned from it.
And Reels, the TikTok competitor. TikTok is even worse than Facebook.
Merry Christmas, Hacker News.

To put everyone in the proper mood, here are the Commodore 64 Christmas demos: https://rittwage.com/c64pp/?pg=xmas
You are too optimistic about the contributions of the string theory.

A lot of papers and books have been published about the string theory and all claim to calculate something.

As an interesting mathematical model, string theory certainly qualifies.

On the other hand, as a mathematical model usable in physics, a theory like string theory must pass 3 criteria:

1. It should be able to calculate some numerical values of physical quantities that can be measured.

2. Those measurements must be made and the results must be as predicted, with a reasonable accuracy.

3. It should not be possible to compute the same numerical values that have been validated by measurements using other simpler mathematical models.

I have browsed through many research papers and a few books about string theory and I have never seen any results even remotely approaching the fulfillment of these 3 criteria.
please please don't: https://youtu.be/2z5A-COlDPk?t=940

I refuse to drive at night anymore. Headlights are way too bright and a big reason is people putting poorly made and poorly aimed aftermarket headlights on.
As a counterpoint Firefox can select and copy columns or rows from traditional tables.
Haha what? Really?
A few close contacts are easy to maintain with traditional means.

Many of the hobby groups I was a part of have moved to either facebook or discord, and old presences like individual forums or websites have disappeared or are shells of their former selves. If you aren't in a lot of groups, maybe this doesn't affect you the same?
Do you browse the web like `curl | render-http`? UNIX philosophy is not a law. For complex problem domains separating it into multiple parts is not always possible and only makes the whole thing more complex. System init is quite a complex problem domain.
We should not pretend that message boards are not subject to many of the same pitfalls as more conventional social media. At the same time, we should not be so overbroad as to lump message boards and social media into the same category.

On a message board, 1) I don't have a profile that's rich with personal information, 2) I don't have a dedicated wall for my musings, 3) I don't have an individually-curated timeline, and 4) I don't have first-class social connections embedded in the platform.

Point 1 means that there is much less ability to identify me for the purposes of advertising, which avoids much of the perverse incentive that comes with monetizing social media users.

Point 2 means that I have much less personal attachment to this place as an outlet for creative self-expression, which helps to defuse both a sense of toxic entitlement that I might feel on behalf of the platform providers, as well as the sunk-cost fallacy that might keep me active here even if I no longer experienced pleasure from being here.

Point 3 keeps filter bubbles from fractally proliferating; there is still one bubble, but it's the bubble that everyone else on the platform inhabits.

Point 4 provides a mixture of all of the above benefits.

Again, this isn't to say that message boards are perfect or that social media must be inherently bad, but IMO the differences are important.
You're first sentence points out there are multiple budgets at play (time, money) so it's hard to dispute the ambiguous conclusion. I would guess that your conclusion is true by definition everywhere including the US in terms of time budget. I'm skeptical of its truth for any other budget.
Are you going to present at jupyter community day?https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/jupyter-community-calendar/2...
> priorities if something becomes possible.

A CPU isn't the only reason there is to use a desktop/fixed setup. While Apple has truly fantastic monitors, there's also the keyboard to consider.
In fact Gmail requires you to add your SMTP if you want to send from a non-gmail address.
While difficult to pull up from search engines, throughout the riots and looting sprees and jury trials, there were two things I can roughly quote having heard a number of times from figureheads on the left:

John Lewis's "good trouble"

and

"If we don't get (X), then we need to burn it down!"

and

Also the bizarre stuff where jurors in the Rittenhouse trial were being stalked by an NBC journalist who claimed he was illegally stalking the jurors under company orders (NBC then lawyered up and denies this).

All three of these instances were widely reported at the time and I remember them. They all reak of an authoritarian willingness to trample our traditions and rule of law.
> That's because they (claim to) not know what it means and are unwilling or incapable of finding out.

The definitions which you yourself have given, lead to my hypotheses.

The fact you are digging in, using insults like “infantile” when you’re being given the chance to supply an alternative, actually makes me think worse — I always prefer to assume good faith, and in this case good faith was to assume you didn’t realise what you look like to others. Hence showing you and asking you to do better.

All it would have taken to not lead to me thinking you’re using “woke” as an insult rather than an actual description would be for you to, y’know, not be snarky.
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> It's a matter of choosing the right tool for the job, not dumbing down.

In some cases, but there is definitely a trend of dumbing down stuff in the name of accessibility or ease of use. As long as the GUI does not limit me and I can still tinker with various stuff under, say, "Advanced", I am okay-ish.
Well yes, but it's probably intrinsic to human nature and civilization so there's not much we can do about it except accept a certain level of it. Is America today more corrupt than the Gilded Age in the late 1800's that Mark Twain wrote about? Probably less corrupt today. Things might never have been better according to Steven Pinker in his books Enlightenment Now and The Better Angels of Our Nature
AutoX Builds the First Level 4 RoboTaxi Production Line in China
I am talking from experience here, not just out my ass. I can't imagine how it would be remotely sustainable with two full time jobs, nevermind more than that.
It was mainly gaming that would get it roaring, but compiling code among other things would spin the fans up a bit too. I didn’t put it in “silent” mode except when doing light things like web browsing because it felt like a waste of the hardware otherwise with how silent mode downclocks and limits boost speeds.
How do I file a claim with FDIC to cover the inflationary losses of my USD currency?
Yes. Though I do not smoke regularly and it has been probably a year or more since I smoked, even though it is legal in my state.
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Maybe. This sounds exactly like addiction to me.
isn't that the story/dna of wordpress to evolve https://www.wpexplorer.com/history-wordpress/
People stealing stuff is way up, and that's a really really bad thing. The fact that there's a bunch of different crimes for different kinds of stealing, and that sometimes the wrong word gets used, doesn't make it any less bad.
are there any ideas to introduce rotating keys?

i dont like that the feeds are permanent and if you leak a key, people see the whole history.
Russian court fines Alphabet's Google 7.2 bln roubles
Though a joke, it does touch on something I've seen happen multiple times. A program goes from having human readable config files, to having a little built-in scripting language. An app that I use has built-in editors for 5 different languages, because each language evolved within a different section of the software. One of the languages is a crude version of BASIC. Plus there are instructions for interacting with the software via two different inter-process communication architectures: DDE and something else.

Naturally it brings the risk of second-system effect, but were this program to be written from scratch today, they'd probably just choose a scripting language from among the many interesting FOSS offerings, and use it across the board.
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Is Tiktok worse than FB because of the way the platform is designed, or because of the way people are using it (trends etc), or something I’m not seeing?
I never see these surveys when I browse Youtube on my PC but the bonkers shit they ask my Mum always amuses me, also Youtube is very picky about about the content that YouTube creators create but will happily bombard my Mum with gambling ads all the time. You can opt out for "less" gambling adverts but obviously algo-wankers weasel out of any responsibility so it probably won't work very well since it makes them less money.
> The strength of activists, social change, and opposition movements seems to be decreasing around the world.

Maybe it's some bias from my part, but (at least in the Western world, which I'm following more closely) it looks like the establishment is starting to get more and more shaky.

I think the last thing standing on the establishment's side was the "mainstream media" (for lack of a better word) but the ongoing pandemic plus a recent election or two (mainly Trump + Brexit) have shaken its influence to the core. The propaganda machine that is Hollywood has also lost most of its influence on the general public in the last few years, mostly because its movies don't target the general populace anymore.

It feels like if someone would just come in and grab the reins of power by force almost no-one will be willing to risk his/her life in order to defend today's democracy (or what's left of it).
What better than a Blob Opera rendition of the Sea Shanty Wellerman to close off the year: https://g.co/arts/GhWUzQAG8U6Q5B387
I love your log and I'm inspired to build one for myself. I also read quite a bit but I have not been taking care to log my reading. I found the page describing the details of the application. Thanks so much!
Give this book 5 minutes of time at [0] where it is released. It's a great story and drives home a lot of points about cognitive biases. I found out about this book here on HN when it was being released as a web serial. I had never read any Harry Potter books before this but I immediately got sucked in. One of my favorite books.

[0] http://www.hpmor.com/
I hear they've hired Mr. Goat Secz himself to establish their blockchain posture. It will be a bit of a stretch, but I'm sure they'll get that gold ring
I think the mode (after coercion from millions of colors to a smaller number of buckets) would be more meaningful than the mean.
This has been discussed a few times here on hacker news. The argument I prefer (that I can’t find anymore, sorry) is that hacker news is different from social media because it gives every user the same feed. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc give each user a custom feed based on perceived preferences. This has been argued to lead to users being isolated within their own echo chambers. Hacker news seems to suffer less from that problem because it continually exposes users to new topics and points of view they might not have sought out.
iPhone 4 had a bad antennae design. Jobs blamed the users. It was hilarious.
It's true. There's an accumulation of small details involving spacing that LaTeX gets right but something like Word gets wrong, each of them individually almost imperceptible, but adding up to an effect where the LaTeX document looks somehow clean and correct, and the Word document looks like a big mess. I can detect a Word document almost immediately on sight but it takes me a while to follow up and find the concrete evidence of Wordness.
Uh, "former aristocrat"? Her father was a business owner before the October Revolution, a class usually pretty distinct from aristocrats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand#Early_life
I was on mobile, so I didn't elaborate in my original comment.

Skiing is the most common case for me. On my last run, I'll typically get the car going while I'm on the lift. That means it's ready to drive (not just pre-hot) when I get my ski gear put away.

I think my wife uses it sometimes at work. She's on the far end of the building from her vehicle, so out of range of the fob.
OP here, my sole intention was to get book recommendations. But I did think about two things: how I structured the description (books from previous years are OK for example) and the time I posted (good US time).
A lot of the comments are talking about people running their own personal email server. However, the post is more about arguing that organizations running their email infrastructure will become rare, and I'm not sure I agree with the author's thesis.

The challenges there are rather different. Spam is less of a problem: in B2B the correspondent is well-known and will be whitelisted quickly, while one can pay for extra spam filtering if needed. User experience isn't a biggie because frankly the biggest users aren't the ones paying. The real issue is TCO vs data independence - and in my limited experience I still see plenty of organization which still run Exchange (or equivalent) on their own domains.
“They” didn’t find anything. It wasn’t originally planned for tomorrow. The weather found a way. There’s only so much wiggle room and launch windows.
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Had several: last minute airline seat bidding app with an interested airline. Fishing competition app with paying users. Housing valuation app for a city council, with the actual city council interested and opening up their API to us. The city council also wanted a parking app and water billing app. A telco requested a reloading app that was basically CRUD but offered 6 digits for a few days of work. There was a diet app with thousands of monthly active users and hundreds of dollars in monthly sales.

The failure reasons were all the same: business partners who sat on money and did nothing.

These people were not incompetent. They've built companies before. They own a Mercedes, BMW, or Mazda RX-8. They've dedicated decades of their careers to building these connections. I personally burned my credibility setting up some of these meetings.

The problem was they didn't show up. Why didn't they show up?

"The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them."

Nobody is naturally too lazy to take money that's lying in front of them. These people have been conditioned to think that work is for fools. They love doing strategic shit like picking domain names and researching target market. They'll never actually talk to the target market though. One entrepreneur even hired a "personal assistant" to do the talking, except the assistant was incompetent and just pissed everyone off.

Laziness is fine. Arrogance is fine. But anyone with a contempt for hard work will not get anywhere.
Systemd was never meant for “making init faster” - it was meant to making it correct and maintainable. That’s another added benefit that actually getting the boot dependency ordering correctly allows for parallelism beside many other benefits which will make it faster.

Also, your listed “features” are bullshit: logging in, audio, GNOME, etc have absolutely nothing to do with systemd. Even logging can still be forwarded to any log tool you would like, but having it implemented inside is a sane choice — you have to start taking logs when there is not even a file system available. You know how was it solved in the pre-systemd days? It was simply ignored!

System init is a very complex problem, systemd only gives you the essential complexity for the task.

Also RE poweroff speed: there is a single flag you can toggle to either kill lingering processes (which is usually not enabled because some hacky tools like tmux likes to live in the background and systemd killing it is bad) or wait a bit before. So yet again, systemd does the correct thing while before these were simply killed.
Being single for an extended time in adulthood, or being a single parent, are cultural as well.

And I think the jury is out on “fresh produce” being the key differentiator. It’s hard to find real science that backs that theory up.
Thanks a lot for support! It feels like some people forgot to read not just the title of the article, but also the subtitle…
How are we supposed to read this?
Exactly.

The psychological fallout will be immense if an entire generation who have had their lives destroyed by and are still on the hook for these loans sees everyone else go to school for free, relatively or in fact.
Let’s hope 2022 is the year where humanity makes some progress.
Last year I was forced to migrate my 90 year old neighbour to webmail. We initially chose Gmail but ended up with outlook.office.com due to horrible IT policies at the University where she is emeritus.

Walk through a computer interface with a 90 year old sometime. It is eye opening. Both webmail systems were utter design hell.

The list of stuff that tripped my friend up is long. Two examples: Gmail has pencils everywhere and at least two different styles to compose a message (chat style, big screen compose, reply style too I think.) Microsoft’s product has a typeahead for the To: field that ignores your contacts list and instead uses the institutional one,
so typing “Anne” pulls up every Anne you’ve never heard of @youruni.com and not your friend Anne @gmail.com.

Gmail is also punitively fussy about receiving IPv6 mail but only on of its mail exchangers, so one in N mails get rejected. Great. Microsoft outlook requires you to scroll down each thread when opening it to see if “new message” meant the one at the top, or “new messages” plural further down.

You and I have become inured to this crap because we are comfortable solving problems with computers. For others, these products are very hard to use.

The one consistently brilliant client I use is the iOS mail app, via imap, to my personal mail host.
I think Falcon heavy is not needed. Webb's weight is ~6200 kg. Falcon 9 is 8300 kg to GTO (Geostationary transfer orbit). This leaves about ~2000 kg fuel equivalent to spare which should be more than enough for the special location Webb is aiming for.

But yes, the contract for the webb launch was probably locked a very long time ago.

(Though it's also possible that Falcon 9's fairing wont be able to accommodate Webb)
If those jobs were eliminated, wouldn't those people all be able to fill some of the unfilled jobs we have all over the economy today, that are actually important?
Why Trisquel?

> entirely free software

> teach users to value and protect their freedom

> no binary-only firmware for wireless cards or proprietary drivers for AMD/ATI and NVIDIA graphics cards are included