skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear this often come up in this kind of discussion but personally I think I tend to the opposite, to have higher expectations of things I pay more for and judge them more critically. It might align with spender vs saver mentality (and granted the bulk of game buyers are spenders by simple statistics).

Would be interesting to analyze but hard to separate from complexity. Although there is an inversion at the upper end, comparing $150 heavy euros to $400 thematic miniature extravaganzas (which tend to a middle weight).
It's somewhat quaint that in 2021 Maddox can still be described as "crass." He sure was at the time of publishing, but the internet has taken a decided turn towards the impolite since then.
I'm not saying that people are moving from more expensive mountain town to the city, I'm saying that having wealth does not automatically make you want to move to an urban environment.

Especially since the sort of jobs that are starting to move to be location-independent pay better than the sort of low level in-person work that keeps a town or city running.

Developing urban centers to hold more people definitely frees up space in non-urban areas, but it's not a yuppie vs low class thing. There will always be rich people who want country living, and a working class who enjoy (and are necessary to support) city life.
I have autism and ADHD and prefer working alone most of the time, but I’m also bad at making friends and enjoy occasional casual collaborative or parallel in-person work. I’d like going to an office once a week rather than 0 times.

There are many personal preferences that aren’t clearly defined by one option or the other… I wonder what kind of flexibility develops in-between the two?
Funny, I've always been a pinot noir guy. I never watched the film, but I would've turned 21 roughly five years after this movie came out, and now I can't help but wonder whether my preference for Pinot was influenced by this movie and how it affected the quality and quantity of wines that were available to me as I started drinking it. Would I have preferred Merlot if this movie had never come out or if I was older, and I'd been around when quantities of Merlot were roughly equal to pinot? An interesting counterfactual.

My parents prefer cabernet sauvignon, by the by.
I am not convinced we are honestly. Kids these days, as I am now old enough to say, are digital natives. I wouldn’t be surprised if “Google-able” queries are more natural to these folks.
I tried this out some months ago and had really mixed feelings, but I will give it another shot because generally speaking, Panic is awesome!

My main complaints at the time were a confusing extensions ecosystem; difficulty rolling your own; and the sense that (as with Coda) "programmer" means a person hand-coding web sites with HTML+CSS and maybe Javascript or PHP. Seemed like they weren't trying to convince anybody who already used VSCode et al.

That said, I have had some difficulty adjusting to Sublime's way of doing things, and VS never felt right to me, so maybe I'm just picky.

In any case I am happy to see another opinionated text editor in the mix!

[Edit: And right out of the box now, no support for Go files, not even syntax coloring, and it thinks go.mod is a media file and won't display its text. Searching extensions for "go" gets me three different extensions and no way to tell which is better/more-popular; and also shows me six totally unrelated extensions, three of which have "go" in their titles e.g. "django" and three of which do not. So... still not really shooting for the programmer market, but I will keep trying!]

[Edit2: Similar results for Rust. And extensions have to be written in Javascript, and the boilerplate is all for published extensions which maybe makes sense, but I really want an easy way to pipe ($BUFFER|$CLIPBOARD) to an arbitrary program and put the result in ($BUFFER|CLIPBOARD) with a pop-up on failure, and I find it really weird that there is so much shell integration but not that. OK shutting up now, playing with editor...]
different strokes for different folks. I don't mind cross platform, but I find Electron unacceptable in any year as a massive step backwards in UI and usability. (Not that you mentioned any Electron-based competitors by name, but a lot of cross-platform big-name competition in the text editor space does use Electron, like VS Code, Atom, and Brackets.)
I tried for literal years to avoid dealing with Plaid to send money, but finally broke down this last summer when trying to pay rent electronically. There was literally no other service that would allow me to pay, and mailing a check was not an option. I was aware of the scummy tactics, but literally had no alternative. I'm relieved for this settlement, frankly.
Gorgeous design, I wish it would be available outside of the Apple ecosystem, I'd consider it even if I've been very happy with my paid Sublime4 license.

I think Sublime HQ showed that making a multiplatform editor is not much more difficult, but hey...
The burger joint was in real life “Orcutt Burgers” in Santa Maria. At the time the movie came out, I often visited a friend who lived a block from there, and we ate there regularly. It was a trip to see the movie with him and instantly recognize the restaurant in that scene.

By now the place has probably changed name or owners. It was a pretty good local flavor burger joint at the time.
> Stripe, Amazon, Apple, to name three all have great support.

True, but they have actual customers. As a user of Gmail, I can hardly be considered a customer.

Google ads has customers though. Their support probably isn't great either, but does it need to be? Where else are you gonna go?
Wish you can disable "overshooting" when panning with a mouse.
I think today it's a lot less explicitly aggressive, but it's actually more meanspirited. It might be controversial to say this, but online discourse is a lot less male and a lot more female than it was. Is this any great surprise?
> Despite his apparent success, however, it was resentment at having been passed over for promotion

Welp, it would be nice to be able to say the west's superior values came out shining here. But this is closer to the plot of "The Trouble with Edward" than anything nearly so idealistic...it's kind of funny.

(Frightening too, since pretty much every team everywhere on the globe has a promotions process with some compromised elements)
Fun fact: Hacker News runs on a single core.
Missing out on that 6th cup!
>You can boot a system with a btrfs root file system without having the btrfs-progs installed.

Wrong again! You can actually have Linux systems that do not support booting from btrfs, but have btrfs-progs installed. Or systems that have neither.

>Good luck trying to use SELinux without having the policy installed

They are installed and included in the Linux operating systems used by the US government, as I stated above. This is a non-point.

> And given that the SELinux policy is distro-speicific, it's not like you can take a random Linux distribution, and enable SELinux and expect it to work.

Wow, it's almost like it be nice if there were standards used by the government and other organizations looking to secure their operating systems. Maybe they can form an agency, I'll call it the Defense Information Systems Agency. They can make standards that secure and lockdown systems, and make sure SELinux is configured properly... We'll call these Security Technical Implementation Guides, STIGs for shor... Oh wait...

> And configuring the SELinux policy is extremely non-trivial. It's several orders of magnitude more challenging than running, say, "mkfs.btrfs".

Immaterial to the matter at hand.

>If that's your definition of an OS

A distribution is an operating system by definition. It's not my definition, it's the definition[0].

>that do NOT have SELinux built in, because they don't have an SELinux policy defined that will work with that distribution's system daemons.

Still "built-in" to Linux. Whether or not it's enabled or complied in is an implementation detail, but it's still "built-in" to Linux operating systems, most definitely those used by the government for secure systems, which was the original point. Thanks for proving my point, Q.E.D.

>Therefore, by your definition SELinux is not "built in" to all versions of Linux

Using your illogic, there are BSDs that send your password through plaintext over the wire because they only have rlogin. They don't have SSH "built-in".

SELinux is absolutely "built-in" to the Linux kernel and operating systems. Whether or not specific implementations of Linux have it compiled and enabled is besides the fact that it is built-in, not third-party.

You're fractally wrong again. Take the L and stop while you're this far behind.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution
So it doesn't affect you so those tens of thousands dead from the flu don't matter?

Not sure what your point is?
Practical in only the coolest of situations.
Calling something "the shit" is still unnecessarily using profanity. It's impolite. It's not a surprise it would be flagged as offensive.
It’s worth it, no faster way to get into lifelong debt!
The problem with not gatekeeping is that you get all these people you don't want coming through your open gate.

Not every single thing has to include every single person on earth. If people want to use Gemini good for them.
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> Many of Gemini's adherents can be described broadly as left-anarchists or left-libertarians.

That's interesting. People that I know (not personally, but the names I recognize) that are the most vocal about Gemini are self-proclaimed socialists. They want complete elimination of corporations and capitalism all-together, so ostensibly it might appear as 'left-libetarian' but quite the opposite. If we put on the liberatarian lenses, ideas of gemini are pretty cool but like many liberatarian ideas, they're impractical and often rooted in more emotion-than-substance. I admire the clean-slate approach sometimes because it gets rid of the cruft that we've built up over the years. It allows new tooling to be made with fresh eyes and hindsight. Think of it like the internet shedding off snake-skin.

The practical engineer in me says "We need to reinforce robustness, but also allow mad-scientists to do some wild experiments".
It fits quite closely with what was in fact the common mindset at the time. To quote rayiner from a previous comment:

> Remember, this is the 19th century, before we understood anything about genetics. The notion that all people were really equal, despite e.g. the vastly different technological development of Europe versus Africa, was a religious or at least moral belief. It wasn't a fact you could prove with the science of the time.

Much of that description also applies to the early-to-mid 20th century. The urban Progressives were the "I F---ing Love Science!" people of their own day - except that the "Science!" they loved to rely on included a batsh-t extreme (by current standards!) variety of scientific racism. Outright dehumanizing views of blacks were not outside the realm of possibility, back in the day. They could reach a racism no less extreme than that of the slavery-reminiscing southern segregationist, if by a rather different, seemingly more "objective" and detached thought process. Again, this is not speculation - it fits handily with what those people were saying and writing about the matter, back in the day.
It's because Norway made a conscious decision to maintain its lighthouses.

It's done to preserve the cultural legacy as the majority of lighthouses are obsolete.
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"Have to", maybe not. Will perform better if they do, probably. Will be outcompeted by others if they don't, many of whom only did better because they used drugs, yes.

It took me half a lifetime to really come to grips with it, but fact is, winners absolutely do use drugs. William S. Sessions' anti-drug arcade game ads lied to me.
Earthling cruiser can take out an Ur-quan. It takes some tricky gravity and speed management but you can usually do it.

I've never had much luck (or fun) with the Spathi. I guess you can just keep playing keep away and slowly butt gun them to death. I usually just try to get Orz or Thraddash as fast as possible. Thraddash is practically cheat mode. Agree that Umgah, shofixti, zoq-fot-pik are all worthless.
His guided meditations are also good. I’ve listen to them hundreds of times.

9 minutes: https://youtu.be/tw7XBKhZJh4

26 minutes:
https://youtu.be/CN-_zzHpcdM
I'm not yet sure how I feel about Gemini (I like inline links), but this post makes me think it's starting to gain some traction. It's past the "first they ignore it" and "then they laugh at it" phases and now into the "then they fight it" phase.

Given that the mainstream stack we all are dependent on has foundational problems as OP acknowledges, language like "solutionism at its worst" feels counter-productive. Surely anything Gemini does or doesn't isn't as damaging as status quo. So why not let a thousand flowers bloom? Criticism like this feels like the People's Front of Judea (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0BpfwazhUA)
I'm going to be the contrarian: Unless you're getting an exclusive viewing and you wake fresh with a singular goal, seeing the great art of the world is likely to be a compromised experience. When overwhelming beauty and art surrounds you, and a hectic schedule dogs you, everything is dulled and the experience becomes almost a fog. My experience going through the Sistine Chapel was almost an aside to just days of overwhelming artistry, so I gave it barely the respect it deserved. I've enjoyed and experienced it virtually magnitudes more.

A couple of years ago I did a trip to Belgium and France. Saw all of the sights, loads of museums, and did a tonne of wandering. It was a great time, but was overwhelming. I came home and maybe a week later we were browsing YouTube on the TV and came across a channel that just walks around neighbourhoods of Japan (e.g. Shibuya, Tokyo, among others. The channel is Virtual Japan). A couple of hours of walking a stabilized camera through the streets of a Japanese city. My son came in and watched with me while we looked at storefronts, read restaurant menus, walked through malls, virtually participated in pedestrian scrambles, etc). The weirdest thing is that days later my "trip" to Japan felt much more real than my trip to Belgium and France (or any prior trip I'd ever taken). Absent all of the worries and hustle and overwhelming inputs, somehow this completely not real experience felt much more real, and to this day I feel like I've been to Japan, while so many other countries that I've physically been to and experienced for weeks seem like almost a dream. It really was a fascinating experience for me.

It made me wonder if there is a business in on-demand telepresence for this sort of virtual travel. "Uber" someone technologically enabled to walk around an area, look at things you want and follow directions. Add some dystopian elements to it and soon they're getting in fights at your request.
You own Nova for life at $99, it's only a recurring cost if you want updates. Subsequent years are $49.

...Whereas the all product pack is $250 a year to use.
I find this comment surprising. I didn't say anything too controversial. Investors regularly refuse (and it's often the morally correct thing to do) investments in competitors. It's also often in their financial incentive too. To assume any investment organization in broad does differently because of their stated principles is absurd. Most investors would comfortably say this.

> YC funds competitors all the time and would never turn down an innovator for anti-competitive reasons

While I know your intentions weren't bad, it feels disingenuous to speak so confidently about the behavior of hundreds(?) of investors/employees, regardless of the take. Also getting a seed check from YC doesn't really disprove any of this. The forces of the business immune system he's describing probably wouldn't kick in until later anyway.

To be clear I don't think any of this is abnormal behavior (or reprehensible). Regardless I stand by my bet: the successor to Airbnb & Stripe probably wont be YC backed.
> Decentralization is about not needing anyone’s permission to participate

But you do need permission, which is implicitly conferred by following the protocol. It's really quite similar to traditional banks, it's just that the protocol is digital/mathematical rather than legal.
I'd suspect most people are aware of him as some tangential element to a band or bands that are far better known:

Bowie, Talking Heads, Devo, U2 ... almost all of it getting some subtle Eno flavor. He never struck me as overbearing or obvious on his work, generally just adding a little bit of him on top of whoever he was producing/working with.

Here I'll admit that I think Another Green World starts really strong and falls off. It's a beloved album but I'll happily take my downvotes in preferring HCTWJ.
A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled New Breed of Superpredator
I took modafinil for years, through college and my first few years of work. I realized once I stopped that my pretty-intense social anxiety was basically 90% caused by modafinil, and I think I am a more effective person now. YMMV.
Zoqfot is definitely the joke ship. Completely worthless. I can do some damage with a Shofixti at least
Admittedly I up voted this not because I agree with it, but because I want more people talking about Gemini, both for and against it since it leads to healthy and constructive debate on a new technology.
Which variant of Markdown would that implement? Would it allow embedded HTML (for tables and such) as the original Markdown implementation did?
Sure they do, but does the average consumer understand the difference between the regions and grapes? Probably not. I bet there are even many experienced drinkers who could not identify them in a blind test.
There is still going to be residual sugar. You are going to start killing your yeast from the alcohol concentration in the wine before you run out of sugar. Some red wine is extremely sweet almost like juice.
I really am kind of tired of reading headlines with 'CDC' in them.
> Eh, it would be really nice to have back a Web where clicking a link couldn't result in loading a page that's tracking your mouse movements while you're on it.

It's still possible if you use uBlock, or enable JS only when you need it. You don't have to throw the baby (gemtext missing inline links!) out with the bathwater.
Yeah I don't believe in a separate metrics store (or feature store - and I sell one!)

It should all be in one SQL-like DSL with a natural language transpiler on top.
The game drew a lot from David Brin's "Uplift" universe (books), which I heartily recommend if you're into multi-species galactic civilisation with a dash of dolpĥin sex.
> Another consideration for each miner is to look for cheaper and more abundant energy sources

And thereby offsetting other inelastic demand for electricity, forcing them to count on non-renewables instead.

Bitcoin might be renewable if every single miner pinky swears to turn their rigs off the moment renewables stop over-producing, but come on, nobody believes that'll happen.

> Despite what the born-again eco-warriors have to say about consumption and the environment, Bitcoin can actually be an incentive for safe energy sources.

Interesting you've got to put an ad hominem in there about people who care about the environment. Probably not a good sign for the second half of this sentence, and it makes me wonder if you're representing other's positions in good faith.

Also, oops: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/bitcoin-miners-resurrect-fossil...

Sure, bitcoin miners will use cheap renewables if they're available. They'll also happily use whatever the hell is available too given the opportunity, since they need to use so much of the stuff. They're particularly notorious for driving up electricity rates locally as they turn previously abundant renewable hydro energy into a over-subscribed resource, requiring towns to import electricity from, yes, fossil fuel plants.
Another document that is cool to zoom in on (not nearly as deep as this) is the great Isaiah scroll:

http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/isaiah

Just seeing something created so long ago in detail is moving.
I used to run a wine tasting group. We once did a blind tasting of cabs which included a silver oak on the high end. All twelve of us picked barefoot as our first or second choice and all twelve ranked the silver oak dead last. Granted this was a long time ago but I still like a glass of bf now and then.

Rombauer also makes their reds with a little bit of sugar and I think they are excellent.
>If I got any member of my family over the age of 30 to evaluate these messages, they'd label them all as offensive.

How sure are you on that? I'm 31 and there's definitely no one in my peer group who would find those examples offensive. Hell, only 1/2 parents might be offended by that language, and my mom has been working around young people enough for the past decade that she might have softened up since I lived with her too.
Most popular wine in the U.S. is barefoot, followed by sutter home.
Cramming is less "required" then "an alternative way to get a good grade than working all semester long."
The defining feature of Cheval Blanc is the huge amount of Cabernet Franc that goes into the blend, not the Merlot in general... some vintages like the 2011 one have less Merlot than Cabernet Franc. Yes, it's a right bank Bordeaux, but it's by far the most atypical. Petrus for instance is one that I would call primarily a Merlot Right Bank Bordeaux.

source: https://www.chateau-cheval-blanc.com/en/vintages/chateau-che... (you can check other vintages there etc)
It might be enough. Would be a hard algorithm to code though, don't you think?

Do you think they should have just used stereo cameras in the first place?
Tried it a few years ago.
It does work.

The feeling of laser sharp focus and high energy is quite pleasant and is clearly helping to work for long hours.

But it ended up with a severe burn-out in my case.

Not 100% sure it was the Modafinil, but retrospectively I think it made me drain my batteries a lot quicker.

My advice, if you need to work a lot, the best nootropic you can get is good sleep, healthy food and a bit of caffeine.
Honestly, where does anyone even get it in 2022 USA without paying $200 for a permission slip, and then $500/fill? It's like trying to buy "research chemicals" in the 90's :/
> Why not just get rid of it to free up more screen real estate for actually useful things?

Like? I have an 80 column width by default. To not let my code run the entire length of screen for obvious reasons. Also, it is code smell IMHO if you have to write that much code in a single line.

> I know Sublime introduced it but what does it do exactly? Why is everyone copying it? It just shows you the shapes of blocks of texts of a long file from ten meters away

Visual cues. I can immediately know if my linter finds something wrong. It highlights it in red. Without a minimap I'll have to scroll (or if you are using vim you would still need to ctrl+D till you find the problematic line).

If I am editing a Git repo, I can easily make out the additions/removals in the file. Additions in green and removals in red.

> VS Code has a breadcrumb IN ADDITION TO the minimap, possibly because Microsoft realizes its gimmick nature

I sometimes hide my Sidebar in vscode while working in Zen mode. I can then access the directory structure through the breadcrumbs. Especially useful when I don't remember the name of the file ahead of time to use it in command palette search.

Clicking on the filename in the breadcrumb gives me access to all the symbols defined within the file. Quick way to navigate between declared top-level variables/functions.
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