skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for a thoughtful informative reply.

> They define this struggle for what lets us work with intent, versus
what molds it's intent upon us very strongly

I often couch this struggle as the relation between IA (intelligence
amplification) and AI (artificial intelligence). I am not the first to
draw the lines that way, and I don't literally mean AI (machine
learning) in the sense that most of us techies would understand. But
I think it's a good demarcation to show the way computing is
splitting/polarising along socio-political lines. For BigTech, it's a
means of control, not discovery.

> Ursala Franklin's lectures

Thanks for this. I've heard of her I think, but obviously have some
more reading to do.

> Work versus Control technologies distinctions, is a good perspective

In Digital Vegan I talk some about the transformation of digital
technologies from enabling tools to instruments of enforcement.

> The web, here, is remarkably strong powerful, with userscripts being
a powerful demonstration of how some small tidbits of common
knowledge can give us wideranging power over most every
corporate/institutional property on the planet. There's nothing like
it! It's purely incidental though- few web sites are specifically
implemented to enhance understanding of how the site itself
functions.

Ted Nelson (and some of the other WWW pioneers) had similar visions of
a "lisp machine-like" queryable distributed structure.

> imagine a web where components could more clearly state their
intent, be poked & prodded & understood by outsiders using common
devtools. To me, this is one of the latent & most inspiring hopes of
could-be web platform systems like WebComponents, that they could
help make the web more broadly understandable & explorable for
everyone, that it could make the hypermedium itself rich not just in
what it expresses, but internally as well.

Web1.0 carried that hope but failed. Web2.0 tried (at least brought
interactive participation) but was usurped by commerce. Is Web3.0
trying again? Is the arc of web history on the side of your vision? I
hope so.
Given that both major parties in Australia have a bad history of bad tech law, I'm not hopeful that even the upcoming election would get in the way of this one.
Yes, I'm Russian. No, I don't support what's happening right now and I stand with Ukraine. No, I can't do anything about it. Now get out of the way and let me read the article.

These performative acts of shoving politics where it doesn't belong doesn't do anything to change the situation, they just make people like me angry.
What you're describing is Consistent Hashing. It is a mean to _assign partitions to nodes_ and it is independent of how you partition your _data_ (though it's typically used with hash based partitioning of th edata).

At any rate, the way I understood it, the article described partitioning of the data by `key mod k`, k being the current number of nodes.
> It's even worse when you activate Office 365. There is a small checkbox at the end which if you don't uncheck, converts your local administrator into your Microsoft account.. Going back to a local administrator account is not an easy task.

I'm not even sure it's possible, I've tried multiple approaches but gave up after almost having to do a clean install.

Now I have to deal with an accountname that contains multiple characters that make WSL interactions with the windows paths a game of Russian roulette with shell quoting bullets.
Interestingly the listed conditions make both Ukraine and Russia Ur-Fascist states
No, they do not. The ones who are making choices about it anyway. They just realise they can manipulate the masses.
Forget cross-platform. There are no great cross-platform toolkits.

Pick a platform and make the best application you can on that platform.
I don't mind the UX so much, its pretty good for the most, I'd probably put any gripes I had at the bottom of the list.

But 100% agree that they have got to kill treating windows as a marketing channel to advertise and arbitrarily making edge hard to customize to avoid being pushed the Microsoft narrative. Telemetry I'm not as concerned about, but it should be easy to turn off, and it should ask you before using windows if you want to turn it off. I'd leave it on. But obscuring this stuff just loses peoples trust. Trust is the battleground at the moment, google, facebook, apple, microsoft are really burning their bridges in this area. You don't get that back easily, people are still angry at Microsoft for stuff they did 3 decades ago.
You could say that about the post-Steve-Jobs Apple as well.
Quoting the philosophy of a character who was suffering from a catastrophic mental illness to the point of terrorism and suicide really takes away from your point
I had post-viral syndrome from glandular fever when I was ~32. It sucked. Like you, I was a wreck for 6 months. It took 2-3 years before I could exercise properly but my life was decent enough at the 12 month mark. My research at the time indicated that rates of post-viral syndromes vary by disease. Glandular fever is known to cause it in 10-20% of adults who fall sick.
American education's new dark age
No, I don't think that many businesses have insurance that covers shoplifting. I don't know the norms for everywhere, but based on personal experience running a small retail business in the Bay Area, it's not common. I guess it's possible that larger businesses have such insurance, but I'm very doubtful. I've never heard of anyone filing for reimbursement. Product that walks out the door is just a loss that needs to be recouped from someone else. Do you have any evidence that would suggest that they are repaid for their losses?
Not getting destroyed by Mongols
Agree. Wine, Proton and associated libraries are allowing Windows to slowly go the way of the dinosaur. If those projects keep delivering I genuinely believe the year of the Linux desktop will slowly approach.
Fortunately the Yuri's Night festival (or "World Space Party") is still on for April!

https://yurisnight.net
It's quite easy: go to the settings and force the use of a Steam Play compatibility tool.
having both mac and PC (windows), it is honestly very frustrating to see how significant small bugs are there when it is launched. I found myself constantly trying to raise my voice in microsoft but don't know where to go. Simple things such as task manager and file explorer are super laggy. I'm not sure how does the PM / QA approve that when they launch?

At least in apple, it just works, I don't think I've ever felt super frustrated that I feel like I want to find a way to report a bug. Sure they've got a feedback form / assistant that may or may not be answered as well, but I don't remember the last time I want to report something in apple. Community forum is good, apple support is 1 click away for hardware related. You just feel the definition of "it just works".

Sure its hard to manage 2 of the biggest tech companies in the world. but when will MS ever learn?
That is true, and diet could be a factor. Also I read men's testosterone levels have been dropping which could lead to them starting to shave later.
> Sure 95% of those who get a PhD in the humanities never get a tenured position but this time it's different.

Why do people think the only valid outcome from a PhD is tenure in an academic institution?
I think this is still terrible advice. As a manager, I expect the people on my team to at least try to fight their own battles. I'm always there to help if they need me, but if I'm continually being called in to resolve disputes that could have been avoided with a few minutes of conversation, I'm going to be upset. It wastes everyone's time and strain on relationships with the people around you.
I think an American HS diploma doesn't qualify you for admission unless you do well on the SAT or ACT.
Also Mongols not fully reaching to EU
Europe is not some magical place where everyone goes to college. Lots of people don't, and have no ability to go, because the billets are fixed by statute.
AFAIK WSL 1 isn't actively being worked on anymore, now that there's WSL 2. As for your issue with WSL 2, it runs off hyper-v, so my guess is that there's something with your BIOS/UEFI/firmware settings that's breaking it (eg. secureboot/CSM, TPM, virtualization).
> college is delaying young people to become mature, we're producing giant babies these days, thanks to endless parenting, online gaming, social screen time, now probably even metaverse, you name it.

It persists into the professional space, just look at how infantilizing Silicon Valley became, trying to turn the workplace into a playpen complete with propeller head hats.
> Probably 50% had US educations listed. Maybe 40%?

That is an extremely large percentage if the candidate pool was chosen at random. That would be surprising in Europe.

Anyway, I didn’t say it was surprising, but it is rare.

> US people study abroad too. It’s very common and tech people tend to pick US because it’s heavy in tech.

Sure. But there is a difference between hiring US nationals abroad, who likely would be US educated, and US educated Portuguese or German nationals, who are a very small minority of the population, and that’s what I was asking.
OK, all sarcasm, set aside, will you divulge your relationship with Yale or other university with a large endowment? I sense some defensiveness.
If you think Chrome OS is going to save you, you haven't been paying attention to Google for the past 10 years.
I'd imagine single-purpose electronic noses would be a much more tractable problem than general purpose ones.

GCMS could be argued to be a generable purpose 'electronic nose' in many ways, but just isn't portable enough to throw on a smartphone.
>But don't let the word Chernobyl freak you out too much

After the TV show with its absolutely cartoonish depiction of the risks of nuclear energy I have no hope that's happening any time soon. It was genuinely baffling to me how a show, that was about as accurate on the threats of nuclear energy as Jaws was for sharks, got so much praise heaped on it.
Because I haven't seen it proven in any domain, it sounds too naive to believe that people have equal abilities and skills by geography (or any other random metric). Population centers will have greater access to training, also in this example more cars on the road will co-relate to more opportunity to practice driving skills, but also more opportunity for accidents, etc, etc. In any case, if you look at outcomes in terms of car crashes/fatalities, the data also shows what you would expect -

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/fatal-car-a...
The market for teachers, at least in the US, is not a 'laissez-faire market'

Whatever that means. In Alabama the low wages and poor working conditions have now led to a grave teacher shortage. The government's solution? Suspend teacher certification. To use graphic imagery: the talent pool is full of piss, let's open it to the incontinents!
So they couldn't just redesign the logo/app to be dissimilar enough from YouTube?

I really want to know what these "complications" are, this is the sketchiest way I've seen someone refuse to open source something.

> The vanced team will "NEVER" make its source code public. Making the source code available on the internet can cause serious complications for us.
I would note that, despite its presentation as new activisim-- sex workers advocating for safer work conditions and more societal acceptance has been a fight ongoing for many decades, potentially centuries. It might be taking a new front as the internet involves as increasingly important to sex work but this is not a new fight.
Maybe something like this?

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext
Good point. I was actually admitted to hospital with one of my symtoms without considering that it could be long Covid, so I suppose I did this in reverse.
No it's not. I was going to write one but then decided I'm not qualified to speak for farmers.

I will say this. Both my grandfathers were farmers. One worked his whole life and died broke. The other invested what he could, and never worked the land a day in my life (that I can remember). He once said that he didnt make his money farming, meaning it was from saving and investing. He rented his land, barn, and equipment to others.

IMHO investing is really close to renting (yes, I have some investments). SaaS is rent. Loaning money is rent. We increasingly live in a world where or renters and owners and people who do the most actual work are the least valued. It's still not a rebuttal, just a general observation that things aren't "fair" for some definitions of "fair". This situation is a societal choice and doesnt have to be that way. I'm not sure what a better way looks like though.
I find that a copout answer. Screens are inherently distracting. They literally flash and flicker. The devices that those screens are attached too have buttons and little jiggery bits. There's a ton of distracting software on those devices, browsers, games. The supposed learning software is all about gamification and slidey swoopy menus and other completely distracting BS.

So yes, "screens" as a pars pro toto for digital learning is inherently distracting. It's only when you reduce it so far as to be meaningless, - "a screen is just some LED-lights organized in a square, how's that different from paper," - that you can say they're not.
An update on the status of superdeterminism with some personal notes
That's way too much, they're not making 12 dollars per month from me seeing the same 3 ads over and over.
Add MacOS to the list. The continued crippling of the OS for power users keeps pushing us toward the iOS experience, and it’s killing me.
I can’t see details of my own log files for privacy reasons.
The new Finder design is just awful and accomplished nothing for all the change.
Now I learn I can’t make hardlinks for directories on APFS.
The list goes on.
I'm bearish on black box neural networks achieving real intelligence, but nothing limits Godel's incompleteness theorem to machines.
Looks like a very interesting piece of software. The declarative service file interface of systemd is a distinguishing feature no other supervisor supports (to my knowledge).

On a side note, I know that skarnet is working towards declarative service files as a possible interface in the next major versions of s6 and s6-rc:

https://skarnet.com/projects/service-manager.html#plan

>> Declarative service files. The model of unit files, where users can just write key=value lines instead of scripts, has been a resounding success for systemd — and it is also good end-user design (provided the parser correctly validates the files). And it can be done as a separate user interface layer, running on top of the more minimalistic engine.
Indeed!

- M1 support: check

- GPU rendering: check

- LSP support: check

The main problem (for me) is the use of their external app Sublime Merge to manage git sync: This breaks the work flow, and is an inferior experience compared to vscode.

Also, there are slight differences in the way tabs are managed which make it cumbersome to switch between Sublime and vscode (which has won muscle memory lately).

Edit: for instance the current file is not highlighted by default in sidebar, I resort to a custom keybinding:

{ "keys": ["ctrl+alt+s"], "command": "reveal_in_side_bar" }
The SAT's past racial bias is still echoing through the nation. There were still test questions based on Very White Things like cotillions and yachting as recently as 40 years ago. The repercussions of those things could be that some person barely missed getting admitted to a university, took a lifetime earnings hit, lived in a poorer town with worse schools, and now their kids who may be very smart and talented also don't score well on tests. The whole point of affirmative action is to swing the pendulum to the other side for a while, to not just make it fair now, but to counteract past unfairness.
Briefly setting aside the term 'renewable' and focusing on wind and solar, the primary disadvantage of wind and solar of course is their intermittency. Due to low capacity factors, you have to build a lot more capacity (in GW) than your peak demand.

For example, CA uses about 25 GW-day of electricity per day. To make that much on a perfectly calm CA winter day, you need to have about 100 GW of solar capacity standing by. Then, you need to also build energy storage/shifting systems that can shift the energy from the noontime peak to the night, where baseload demand never falls below 20 GWe.

Now consider that there are often 15-day wind lulls in huge regional areas, and sometimes these coincide with big cloudy areas.

The oft quoted "low" costs of wind and solar in levelized $/kWh completely ignore and hide the fact that you have to overbuild at this magnitude and include the storage. The overbuild also implies a massive over-taxing of earth's land and mineral resources to build and rebuild the collectors and storage system.

Saying solar is the cheapest form of energy is like saying kids tents in the yard are the cheapest form of housing, and just pretending the indoor plumbing and heating and pantry of the parent's house cost nothing.

Systems costs are what matter. LCOE must stop driving policy.

Building 30 GW of load-following nuclear would be cheaper and have far lower impact on the environment.

The alternate less cooperative answer is no. 'Renewables' as a concept are not the answer. Biofuel is renewable but causes climate change and air pollution while nuclear is low carbon and low pollution but not considered renewable.

Furthermore, nuclear fuel on earth can power 100% of our primary energy for 4 billion years using the known and demonstrated technology of breeder reactors. This is just as long as the nuclear fusion fuel that powers solar, wind, hydro, bio will last, and so nuclear is just as renewable as those.
> a single defect ruins the whole chip

no. intel used to make extra cores for their 128 core cpus to account for the defects, and it was not rare to receive a cpu with more than 128 cores because it was a good one.
Hospitals near me have a security force which prohibits humans from entering unless they have a reason to be there, and removes any human who may exhibit dangerous behavior.
I agree with that sentiment, but even if we can't get a set top box, the least what I'd want to have is a PeerTube app for Android TV. Newpipe is half fine, but its focus on privacy and not allowing you to log in into your own PeerTube instance makes it unusable for me.

I want to be able to log in to my PeerTube account on the TV and see and use it like I can do it on my computer or mobile phone. That means being able to see my subscriptions and also to see my private videos and watch them.
>What is wrong with Linux nowadays?

Linux is great for doing things on your own. Where it fails is when you have to sync up with other people's proprietary norms.

For example, I'm a researcher who gets funding from the US government. I can do my day-to-day technical work in Linux. But I'm forced to still use Windows to present PowerPoint slides over Teams to my funding overlords, because that's what they use, and I have to conform to that. Linux ports/knock-offs of those products just don't interoperate with proprietary MS systems well enough for me to rely on them. Unless the US government (or at least the relevant parts I deal with) ditches Microsoft products, I have to keep a foot in MS-land to carry out the accountability parts of my job.
But the issue here is not inherently with Linux. It is more so with vendors of printers making drivers. If Brother feels that there are enough people running Linux and want to own a Brother printer, they will make the driver. Maybe that is the issue we need solve, or at least the part we need to be vocal about. If brother gets a significant number of emails asking for linux support, perhaps they will finally make linux a first class citizen?
Would Chime count? Seems to be Go specific, for now at least.

https://www.chimehq.com
Apparently you can pad the 5 license minimum with cheap licenses, so it's not like you need to fork over $1000+ to get started.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2167558-explicit-inst...
Been running Windows Server as my desktop dev environment since NT4. Back then it was so the dev environment was the same as the server environment, that’s pretty much fixed now so it’s just to avoid all this horrible store nonsense. Can’t upgrade from 2019 as I don’t have a TPM so no WSL2 or new terminal but happy to accept that trade off. And shout out to win2k server which was awesome!
People pick everything based on marketing.
Node is a programming language. It's used in multiple contexts, not just web. It runs CLI tools, it's the basis of Electron apps. There's no reason to assume it has limited privileges to access files.
The thing would turn on and then turn off. And no one would detain you after Mass.
I don't know about everything else you mention, but dismissing brain fog is very dangerous. It can make you completely unable to think clearly for extended periods of time, and thus completely unable to work. In general it makes no sense to me we dismiss diseases that are "non-specific" (i.e. poorly understood) while ignoring the magnitude of the harms. I'm much more worried about getting something poorly understood.
There are a lot of far-fetched claims made in the article that don't pass the smell test (heh).

For example, in the article:

> there is evidence that dogs can quickly and accurately detect COVID-19 infection

In the linked source:

> but researchers say large-scale studies are needed before the approach is scaled up.

I imagine it is similar for every other diagnosis they tout. Small scale tests under ideal conditions very rarely survive real world application.
Forget morals; do nice things instead
Cherry on top: once they graduate, they are met with "entry-level jobs" asking for years of experience, giant requirements lists and an overall predatory environment, only to be reinforced that failure is a personal fault and not one of the system.
I didn't say it was going to save me. I do think I had a type that said 'good future.' I meant to put something along the lines of 'good probability of a future.' Chrome OS is going to be another user hostile environment for sure. But the point is, Chrome OS has a good shot at displacing windows not because it is better or less user hostile, but because it is putting cheap machines in the hands of kids who will one day, grow up, and enter the workforce and lead the workforce later on.
>But IIRC you need an active directory domain

No? I installed it in a VM just fine without it. During initial setup there's a "domain join" option, but all that does is create a local account.
Seeing as freezers can successfully extract energy from the side that is below freezing...

Invalid assumption.

Whether it can or not depends on the environment.

Most ordinary freezers are designed to operate within a relatively luxurious temperature controlled in-door environment. Stick one in the sun on a Florida back porch in August and you may well discover it can no longer successfully "extract energy from the side that is below freezing". Same thing (only in reverse) can happen with a home heat pump in an Alaskan winter.

There is another important element here --- energy loss and insulation.

At a certain temperature (whatever it may be), the energy lost to the surroundings will start to exceed the capacity of the heat pump. At some point; speaking in practical terms, the heat pump becomes essentially worthless. You need either a bigger heat pump or you need more insulation to stop the loss --- both of which cost money and can't be obtained/installed immediately.