skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much of the value in actors do you think is related to the awesomeness of the Akka framework specifically? I only ask since it seems like there’s a decent correlation between people using Akka, and those that identify as using “actors”.

In general, I’m curious whether there’s significant value in someone who is using Node or Python (for example), to look for a way to use the actor pattern. Or if actors are primarily great when used along with platforms that specifically “elevate” this concurrency model? (e.g. Erlang/Elixir, Java/Scala, .NET)
I can't help but feel too old for this piece post-Trump. Eco succeeds in helping us identify fascism, but this is not the problem.

The story of Eco's friendship with African American soldiers is odd to me. Eco sees them as cultured human beings who brought freedom to Italy. And yet he neglects to bring up the racial unfreedom they faced at home, including their future exclusion from the GI Bill. Is this irrelevant because the US is not strictly fascist?

I mean to say we should not ignore the real psychological and economic forces that fascism is composed of. Eco touches on these forces. But it's not enough to stop at classifying whether a state is fascist or not. The forces that compose fascism are always present in liberal democracy, even if they don't crystallize into a mass movement.

What's most disturbing is that the German and Italian masses were not tricked: they desired fascism (even if it was against their material interests). Infantilizing the masses gets us nowhere in our understanding. [1]

I may be critical, but this is still a great piece from Eco. It's full of insights about fascism, and it succeeds at what it says on the tin.

For further reading I highly recommend Wilhelm Reich's Mass Psychology of Fascism

[1] Ripped this paragraph almost word-for-word from Anti-Oedipus
The disparity in lower body strength isn't as great between men and women, and professionals can train much better for distance running than someone still in high school.
> The whole OS market is pretty rough right now.

This is my feeling over the past few years. No OS is in a great spot. But I have hopes for Linux being better supported with Valve using it on the Steam Deck. (Not the highest hopes, but more hope than I used to have)
On the contrary what people do to the atmosphere is everyone’s business. I can empathise or understand if they need it for good work and can’t afford a new one. Unfortunately a lot of society has been misdirected into being over reliant on cars.

Not to mention all the other inequalities in society. They mentioned volunteering, If it’s good they should probably be compensated more than some worthless crypto tech bro for example, and should have a good van. But we have to work in the current system.
Some may think it primitive but your workflow is fast, efficient, backups up easily (I write a simple DOS batch file which copies all new or updated files to a USB stick) and backs up to the cloud easily as well.

Grepping to find files by date is easy and if a more detailed document had to be generated, you have pandoc or Libreoffice to produce PDFs using those source data files.
I would like to hear (read) Melville's Bartebly's genius response in other languages.

For my part:

Radije ne bih. (Serbian)
Where he speaks from intuition I speak from personal experience. Through my entire High School experience iPads and computers were more often used to play Clash Royale or Tetris in class than used for actual work.
I'm no student of this, and it might come under rational/irrational actors, but I think any casual consideration of employers and wages needs to understand that the vast majority of small businesses are flying by the seat of their pants (I'm one of them, so I think about this a lot).

If the owners were competent, the businesses might have grown to the point where the enterprise isn't so much an extension of the owner's personality. A small restaurant's style extrapolates strongly from the owner's quirks - whether they feel they make enough money, they're disorganised, they're under stress going without leave or getting hit by taxes at the worst times. I figure they're the ones most likely to hold wages down almost out of angst because they themselves feel hard done by. "Why should that teenager get $15/hr?! I have the risk of the lease. I started this business! I got $5/hr when I was a kid!" I'd bet this is a solid factor in local restaurants.

Once a business is large enough to have a tier or two under the owner, I suspect this buffer helps. I notice this separation a lot when working directly with an owner versus with their marketing person. The latter has to uphold their end of the relationship with me or they'll get fired. The owner meanwhile can miss deadlines and forget to write copy and so on, and usually their worst case is they keep flying by the seat of their pants. If their business fails, it's usually much later and harder to tie to specific issues along the way.
This sounds like a really great system, although I feel like it doesn't deal with edge-cases.

For example: suppose the total rent is $100 for 4 rooms of varying qualities. I have very little money, so I'm willing to take the terrible cupboard-under-the-stairs room for $15.

I have no way to arrange my bids to say that I can't afford more than $15, since the average of all my bids needs to be $25.
> Even if prevalence per case is the same as flu; covid would still at least double the overall societal prevalence due to it being in addition to flu.

This sounds true if you don’t think long and hard about it, but actually the mechanics of viral spread are not quite that simple. For example there’s the phenomenom of interferon-mediated “viral interference” where infection with virus X wards off infection from virus Y (say, the influenza strain de jeur), which is thought to be attributable to acute upregulation of the innate immune system.

So, it’s not always quite so simple.
Where are the self-driving cars that respond to honking, respond to someone yelling the driver to watch out, where you can make eye contact and they wave you over so you feel safer while crossing, etc, etc?
That’s ok - my computer still thinks it isn’t TPM capable.

So it seems that craziness will save me from the other MS craziness
Beginner friendly distos seem to have solved the package management problem, and there are adequate desktop environments, office suites, browsers, gaming, and everything else.

But for professional use "adequate" doesn't cut it. Professionals need "good" and judge that by the standards of what is available on other platforms. 95% compatibility with the industry standard doesn't cut it. 80% of the features working at least 90% of the time doesn't cut it. Free instead of paying a few hundred bucks for the extra percentage points isn't even a question worth asking from a business perspective.

Linux has great software, sometimes the best available on any platform, in certain areas. Developer tools is an obvious one. Servers is another. Some of the multimedia stuff is good. The picture for running games is getting better all the time even if most of them are still ports of some kind rather than truly native applications.

But as much as I hate to say it, the reality is that in most areas that most users are going to care about the Linux ecosystem is still lacking in both quality and quantity. I'd bet on the evolution of web technology disrupting Windows long before the Linux desktop does. But that is hardly a solution to the phone-home and forced-update problems that a lot of us don't like about modern Windows.
I am using Little Snitch since version 2.
Practically all my connections form MacOS to the mothership are stopped by default. I turn off the filter only for updates.
I avoid in general Apple software (Preview, Photos, etc.).
Macs are used only for work. My personal information or browsing is done only on Linux with Open Snitch and minimalistic install.
In the new information landscape blind trust can be harmful.
The difference is that Mac OS actually looks somewhat consistent and has kept much of its familiar paradigms (Spotlight, System Preferences, the menubar, context menus...) the same over the past decade. Microsoft seems to have lifted the aesthetics of Mac OS without any of the UX.
I don't share account.

However, I do have multiple internet connections, and frequently switch connections (all with different IPs).

Therefore, I have a feeling it'll eventually determine I'm logging in from multiple households and then ban me, even though it's all just me from different networks.

At which point I'm simply going to unsubscribe.
father... is that you?
> You're paying $5.80 per therm

No I'm not; I'm literally looking at my last gas bill right now. I'm paying $0.8309/therm for gas and $0.8945 for delivery services. That's $1.7254/therm, not $5.80/therm. (At $5.80/therm, I’d have upgraded a decade ago [or switched the house back to #2 fuel oil]!)

At 85% efficiency, that's $20.30 per million BTU for gas. *

Looking at the only maker of split-system air-to-water heat pumps in the North American market, their spec sheet COP** at 120ºF leaving water temperature is 3.33 at 45º outside air, 2.86 at 35ºF, 2.42 at 25ºF, and 1.99 at 15ºF. For February, that looks like I'd expect a BTU-weighted COP of around 2.5-2.6.

All from a system that would cost me around $15K additional out-of-pocket (after incentives) and would save a few hundred bucks in the shoulder season and cost me a couple hundred extra across Jan and Feb. $15K and less comfort on the coldest days to save $100 per year is a pretty negative RoI. $15K invested in Treasuries has a higher (and more certain) return and is liquid at the end, not thrown away.

* https://www.amsenergy.com/fuel-cost-calculator/

** https://www.nordicghp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/001850S... (I selected the split-system here because it avoids the efficiency and temperature losses from a glycol-to-water plate heat exchanger that the monobloc units would entail. I need every degree of leaving water temperature that I can muster as I determined experimentally that my house is able to be comfortable down to 12º outside air temp at a boiler LWT of 130ºF on 1st and 2nd floor, but needed 145ºF in the attic [so would need to have the emitters [currently finned baseboard] replaced if I could only muster 120-125ºF LWT].) Spacepak is coming out with a split ASHP sometime soon, but has no technical literature published yet and I'm not going to be the first in the nation... :D

I studied the crap out of this, because I was hopeful that with $10K of incentives on the table that this could be close enough to make the switch worthwhile and eliminate on-site burning of fossil fuels in the house. It seems like we’re not there yet and there’s no guarantee that electricity will inflate at a pace slower than natural gas over the next 20 years, so this could get better or worse. Maybe the only supplier goes belly-up. Maybe something better comes along and no one wants to buy a house with this weirdo system in it. Parts would probably not be in stock at the nearest two supply houses. Only a few plumbers could work on it. In a scenario with that many unknowns, dropping in a $3K combi that everyone knows how to work on and parts are on the shelf 10 minutes away for $3-5K out of pocket (after factoring the almost $3K incentive on a high efficiency gas boiler) is a way better play and then see what comes along 10 years from now at the boiler mid-life or 20 years from now when it’s due for replacement.
Yeah, so they came up with 5 point problem that get progressively more difficult. I heard from recruiter that previous candidates didn't do more than 2 or 3 of those.

He did notice that my autocomplete is somewhat magical. I fully explained him what this is, I believe he didn't completely understand and kept talking about some other plugin which I think is some kind of intelisense.

Like I said, even with me being chatty (I go on tangent often), I was done with all 5 in record time, managed to do refactoring of last 2, all thanks to Copilot. I don't think in any point Copilot did something I didn't intend, but it did complement me fantastically.

Hope you enjoy this story.
Are dogs unreliable? My highly trained Malinois is more reliable than most people.
Almost 37 years after its launch, someone found an Easter egg in Windows 1.0
Does anyone have authoritative data indicating how common long-covid is?

Anecdotally, I was triple vaccinated (2x Moderna + booster), but I still caught covid twice (Aug 2021 and Jan 2022). Both times I had mild brain fog and cold-like symptoms (runny nose and light headache). Both times I recovered completely within 4 or 5 days. I'm a healthy 25 year-old man living in San Francisco, California.

Not trying to imply anything about long-covid, but it hasn't been my experience or that of anyone I personally know.
How am I entitled? All I’m asking for is that the government continues to enforce contract law so that people who made financial decisions under the assumption of continued enforcement of contract law aren’t left holding the bag. That’s not a huge ask. It’s a founding principle of our government.

I think most universities are scams and FWIW I made a point to literally only apply to two schools: UW Madison (in-state) and Minnesota (in-state reciprocity agreement) because I knew I’d get in and I saw what it cost my parents for my siblings to go out of state. I did a semester at a community college, too.

1. Your opportunity cost is debatable. I took 15 years of market return on the lump sum of tuition/boarding/books cost as an example. It would be about the same for you, assuming you spent ~$75k on your education between rent and supplies and food and tuition.

2. I don’t think you lost out on anything meaningful unless it was MIT, Harvard, or Stanford that you would have gone to instead.
In a World on Fire, Stop Burning Things
I find taking a break from consuming personalized content refreshing. It sometimes feels like I'm missing out on a lot of good stuff simply because the algorithm tries to show me what it thinks I'll like.
My brother (late 30s) is the same, he's still bothered by anti-teenager and anti-bat repellent gadgets, too. Cracks me up every time. And he listens to more metal and attends more shows than I do, too.
Not Windows, but you might get a kick out of the Serenity OS project: http://serenityos.org/
I have been a relatively happy windows 10 user since its release. Lots of small issues but overall very solid and no serious concerns.

Windows 11 doesn't seem to justify its existence in any way, and since the decision to require a microsoft account, I've decided I won't be upgrading to Windows 11 for any reason.

When windows 10 reaches EOL I will find an alternative. If its osx, ok. If its linux, ok. But Microsoft seems to continue to make their product worse and worse and pretend they're upgrades.
The scanline was a bit strong. But I am glad it doesn't come with the high pitched whine of the flyback. My adm5 is .. unbearable to turn on these days.

Maybe I only worked in universities which bought high-end VT52/100 and clones. The curvature felt a bit overdone.
Yeah I probably misused rent control there. I didn’t mean anything specific, or to imply the way it currently exists. It could even be as simple as the government subsidizing housing for critical workers. Doesn’t have to rent control for everyone.
> Windows, in my opinion, is far behind Mac OS X, iOS, and Android, in having thoughtfully designed and efficient software—both in general, and in particular for writing, organization, and task management.

Jesus, I thought it was just me and my long-time Apple bias (as a person who grudgingly uses Windows a lot of the time)
IANAL, but I do not think patching a app violates any copyright at all, as long as you distribute the patches and download the app clientside. A very good example of this would be Bukkit (which itself is licensed under GPL) , which patches Minecraft Server JARs to provide a stable modding API to work it.

Infact the story itself has quite a interesting turn, so it turned out sometime later Mojang decided to "buy" Bukkit. (aka pay it's lead developers to give up their copyright), and what they (incorrectly) supposed from this was, that they would be allowed to distribute direct bukkit binaries (afterall they own minecraft), that was until one of the Bukkit contributers decided to DMCA the website.

I'm unsure what the current situation around this is, and how they sorted everything out in the end.

[1] https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/502380018216206336
But are these hands-on?
Better, healthier how?, subjective maybe?. . Seems like you had a toxic job maybe?. I work in tech and all those good qualities apply.
It’s a shame Office went to the continually updated subscription model. Older versions of office ran excellently under wine.
I think the prior comment is pretty spot on. It's hard for me to think of anyone I might ask for something and not feel annoyed or even disrespected if I was given absolutely no explanation. Even if I had reached out to someone I don't know, basic politeness would dictate some sort of reason even if it's a "sorry I don't have time for that right now" or even "I'm just not interested in participating".

If I actually knew the person, a "no" with no explanation would virtually always have negative consequences. To a boss, it would likely be insubordinate. From an in subordinate, the same and would likely elicit a "I beg your pardon?" From a friend or colleague, it would cause me to question our friendship.

In the modern world, politeness is largely built on a willingness to explain and give verbal consideration. Not doing so will often (if not usually) feel disrespectful or like some sort of power-play.
My conclusion is that all mainstream operating systems are now iterative and constantly in a state of semi-breakage, just like all modern apps, in an attempt to be more "modern" and to cut down on costs. I'm especially disappointed in Microsoft for their obsessive data collection. I've never experienced the "good old days" Apple fans seem to be referring to, so I can't comment on macOS (other than that it's clearly not for me).

It's quite absurd, really, because while the Linux desktop environment is certainly good for novices and advanced Linux users, anyone that falls between those categories (and that's a lot of people!) will definitely struggle when they try to switch to Linux. You're either content with the default setup, or need to dive into the terminal at some point, and the fact commercial operating systems are making their UX worse than Linux would be impressive if it wasn't so disappointing.

For what it's worth, I've managed to get Fusion360 running on Manjaro with a script a friend linked me online. I can't remember where I got it from exactly, but it involved auto downloading a bunch of Wine requirements and then just running the setup.

If you're not interested in tweaking your system, feel free to skip over the rest of the comment. If you're willing to give it a go, I've got some experience with Windows stuff on Linux that you may be interested in.

I barely use Fusion360, but the few times I used it, it worked pretty well in Wine. Even had decent 3D acceleration, though you can probably get a lot better performance with more trickery (DXVK etc. to enhance the 3D acceleration for example). Lutris (https://lutris.net/) has an install script (https://lutris.net/games/autodesk-fusion-360/), I recommend you give it a try. Lutris can help enable performance tuning tricks for productivity software quite easily, even if it's originally developed for playing video games. Might work for you, or it might not; if it does, it might just cut down on more unnecessary reboots. If it doesn't, you'll at most lose the time it takes to download the installer and remove the failed installation.

As for the video conferencing, you might be interested in Cassowary (https://github.com/casualsnek/cassowary), a tool to run Windows executables in a Windows VM through RDP, with suspend/resume of the VM on demand to cut down on resources used when you're not using Windows. It requires a bit of setup, but the guide is quite comprehensive in my opinion. You can forward your webcam to the Windows VM through USB forwarding to get it to work with video, and modern RDP should just be an RDP stream so there shouldn't be too much quality loss. Even if the Cassowary setup doesn't work, you can probably use the VM anyway.
> I will use Windows + WSL2 as my core development system.

Glutton for punishment I see. Seriously, I used WSL2 under Win10 for a year as a (very) poor man's linux for $dayjob. Recently switched to a Mac. I do keep pressing on getting Linux laptops, having run them for work for the last 22+ years ...

WSL2 is garbage. Pure and simple. Even on an 8 core 16 thread 64 GB monster with Nvidia graphics. My view on it is that it is an attempt by MSFT to staunch the flow of developers off their platform. To say "hey, see, we do linux within windows". But then you use it. And get bitten in the behind, repeatably, by the memory compaction bit, even after tuning the overall memory usage of WSL2.

I was able to get a rough linux desktop by using MobaXterm, single root display, and then running Xfce4 (which I had to build myself, as our corporate approved WSL2 distro was/is broken in so ... so many ways). This setup regularly crashed WSL2, and often windows.

When I mentioned this in various fora, windows fans claim that the OS isn't buggy, it must be the hardware. Many BSOD, many hangs, crashes, etc. Couldn't be the OS. Had to be hardware. Or drivers.

Yeah. About that.
I ponied up for a win11 pro license so I could run the ARM version in Parallels on my M1 mini. All this just to run an old piece of CAD software. If it weren’t the M1 I’d still be running that CAD software in a Win7 VM. Microsoft is living well of of similar scenarios all across the world. It’s terrible within the enterprise. It starts off with the premise that people need windows desktops and laptops. Then it turns into you need AD. Now you need an AD team with half a dozen engineers and even more severs in your “forest” Now you need exchange. Hire a team for that. Might as well get teams too. And so on and so forth. Then accommodating all of these shitty Microsoft products has you paying millions of dollars in engineer salaries and even more in licensing costs. And every year MS just keeps bending you over with worse software and higher costs. Some day enterprise customers will get tired of supporting all this crap and start making long term decisions to reduce their reliance on windows on the desktop and therefore this leviathan of bullshit that infests their organization.
I don't understand why we should dismiss brain fog as junk symptom, just because it relies on self-reporting. All symptoms start from self-reporting.
> GLICOL (an acronym for "graph-oriented live coding language") is a computer music language and an audio DSP library written in Rust.

Fascinating. I like that the documentation is based on live code snippets as examples. They sound good too.

A notable feature of the language is that it's "polyglot", where JavaScript can be mixed in, as well as another language called rhai. The use of JS kind of makes sense, since the syntax of Glicol is quite different. But a third language feels unnecessary and over-complicated - maybe there's a good reason for it, in which case I wish the documentation elaborated on why.

All in all, a fun project to explore. The Glicol language syntax reminds me of ChucK, with its "chuck" operator =>, but in Glicol it's >> and seems to work similarly. Would be helpful to have a language reference in the docs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChucK