skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect nearly all of physics is some sort of emergent behavior from.. basically nothing. Like that if you could push it hard enough - if we had the tools - you could push it back to set theory, a multiverse of all self-consistent rules or some fundamental property of information.

But that doesn't explain qualia. I see orange on this screen, damnit. Sure, I know it's light interacting with rhodopsin, depolarizing neurons in my retina, relayed to the visual cortex and assigned to a color wheel of cortical columns.. but it looks orange. No amount of physics will ever explain that to my satisfaction. You all could be philosophical zombies for all I know - I don't know for a fact that any of you are subjectively experiencing color, maybe it's just me. But I know I do, and since physics relies on objective measurements that's a dead end.

But then how do I reconcile having written the above, convinced of my subjective experience, if my neural processes can be fully emulated with physics? That requires some sort of binding. But we understand physics at the scale of the brain very well, and there just isn't any place for that binding to look. And the duplicating teleporter thought experiment causes major issues too.

Anyway, lacking any explanation for color or other qualia, and unable to resolve this paradox, I've chosen to believe qualia are external to physical reality in some way, and mine might last beyond death. Maybe a soul. Hopefully.
Off topic! I just moved to Italy, living in Torino now. How's the startup ecosystem in Italy? I've seen some interesting Blockchain-related groups at the Politecnico, but not much after that.
Hi. Maybe I am very much like you? I love reading and completing online courses. Day job as a software dev.

Sometimes it feels like I am wasting my potential; I know so much, usually way more than some dumb manager making decisions somewhere, but it doesn't always come to fruition. That's OK.

The career advice I received that really helped me was not to pick a profession (software dev) but an industry/sector. If you can work in an industry that touches many of your interests, then you will naturally be useful and excel in what you do. Opportunities will arise.

For me, it was the off grid solar sector: It combines technology, renewables, microfinance, economic development, entrepreneurial energy and Southern Hemisphere countries. I enjoy spending my time reading books on the history of Africa (of which I knew nothing) and of renewable technologies. Even the cliche startup/business literature is applicable. I noticed people really valued my knowledge and engagement and opportunities have been coming in steadily. My career path is to climb up from Technical Expert (software dev) to Product Manager, to CTO-for-hire. And then... we'll see.

There should be more sectors like this. Though I understand it may be challenging to switch industries if you have a family.

Actually - in reality i betrayed my ideals and took a quick break from that sector in the wake of the corona crisis, and now I waste my time in a swiss bank collecting a high salary. It does not make me happy. Don't be like me. I really should get back to the off-grid solar sector.
I don’t think it’s the electrons moving that matter. It’s the electric fields, which in conducting materials, is approaching the speed of light.

The latency you’re thinking of is more related to the speed with which a semiconductor can change from conducting to non-conducting states.

The speed of electrons in a wire with a potential difference across is it is actually quite slow (cm/s or so).

Also, modern chips and electronics aren’t significantly larger in a physical sense, the wires/traces aren’t longer, but the density of transistors has increased.

Someone please correct me if I’m wrong.
I might be missing something, but why an extension instead of a website?
I don't get it either. I'd rather read an information-dense 5-10 minute article than watch a 30 minute video. The way youtube videos try to engage you with music and animations, and the intonation of the speakers, is uncomfortable for me. I accept that's a minority view though.
Yes same, even if I don’t get into YC I’ll be trying to raise on US terms. I’ve seen some really stupid startups in Europe end up with crazy dilution to the point where if they thought about it they’d realise they just had a job working for some rich people. US valuations are twice the amount for half the equity from what I’ve seen so why I wouldn’t do that rather than be screwed over I don’t know…
Having data available doesn't mean using it to do anything useful.

As evidence of this, I offer: the vast majority of all human behavior over literally all time.
CalyxOS recently went almost 4 months without shipping Chromium (including WebView) and Android security updates. CalyxOS is not "degoogled" and uses multiple Google services by default without an opt-out. Look at their documentation. It also has privileged Google service integration enabled by default. If using Google services is considered "degoogled", what does it mean? Not having Google Play as part of the OS? They do have a reimplementation of a small subset of it using Google's services and it's specially privileged.
The authors don't seem have a good grasp of incentives:

> Miners should be encouraged through regulation and incentives to add transactions to the next block on the basis of the timestamp and not the fee.

Fees, or rather fee-rates (fee per byte) are the only incentive miners have for including transactions, and no amount of regulation can or should change that.
Miners do not care how long ago a transaction arrived in the mempool.
This question is weirdly worded so I want to be careful answering it. This is highly device dependent, and out of these devices I only have the 8T. Will it be the same as stock camera experience? Not unless the vendor blobs and camera frameworks are ported to these OS, which they almost never are. But camera drivers still used pulled from vendor image, just with an opensource camera app.

Status of the 8T's cameras: In the 8T's case 3 of the 4 back cameras are accessible in LineageOS (only 2mp monochrome is not), and only through Gcam or Opencamera, not the stock LineageOS app. The macro camera's access was only figured out in the past few weeks by the LOS maintainer. I use a modified version of GCam to access the other lenses. I believe Oneplus actually disabled the macro lens in their vendor rom, so this is a case where LineageOS and downstream roms from it like Calyx are adding back some functionality that was lost.
I don't compare you with a nazi, but you should understand that minority's can take over a country, that's what the nazis did but also the communists in romanov-russia...china is more complicated. It's something completely different, but maybe "nazi" is a red flag for you in comments...because not comfy.

EDIT: And more actual, the Taliban's in Afghanistan, an absolute minority but the one with weapons, training, connections to local "war/land"-lords and the will to take over the country.
> still not every salaried person can have a default pre-compiled tax draft that they can just sign on the Internet and get approved. You have to go and compile it one from scratch

This has changed several years ago.

> you had to pay an annual tax to validate your passport

Keyword being had. It's gone for like 10 years.
1979 was also the year Rhodesia ceased to exist as a country. A decade before that, to the west in Namibia, Peter Thiel would attend boarding school while his father supervised the extraction of Uranium from the enormous Rössing Mine for SA's covert nuclear weapons program.

I also want to point out that South Africa is a significant country in the history of computing. Chris Pinkham would spend 4 years their building AWS (albeit on US-hosted machines). I have never figured out why exactly that was done. However Jeff Bezos name is really Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen, with Jorgensen being a very common SA surname.

Really the role of South Africa in the world today is deeply underestimated. Thiel's close confidante Roelof Botha ... the grandson of a former SA Secretary of State as well as Prime Minister ... is one example.

Also the Chinese/SA owner of the LA Times Patrick Soon-Shiong, the invention of organ transplant tech, Evan Spiegel of SnapChat (similar to Elizabeth Holmes he spent a year at 19 doing a genetics internship, but his was in SA instead of Singapore).

Lastly, if anyone has read the sequels to the book "Space Odyssey: 2001", you will remember that South Africa becomes a world power equivalent to the US/USSR. Always found that very interesting and a surprising outlook on the future.
I found the opposite to be true: the key individuals within the company are the ones who break it, not the faceless corporation. In all cases where I found bad environments it was created and exacerbated by middle management taking directions from clueless higher management and implementing in the most distructive interpretations. It is generally accepted that the number 1 reason for people leaving companies to be the direct manager, but the environment in an entire department or area is a bit above, in the middle management (strict definition of mm is debatable, the idea remains).

In my job I deal a lot with low and middle management in lots of companies. Unfortunately I did not find any exception to the general observation that today's low and middle management is a bunch of incompetent impostors with their career as the only concern, occupation and reason in life. That includes technology companies that I cannot name, but known by various acronyms. And I am saying this as a lower level manager myself.
Nice article! Thank you Martin :) I didn't know about Date and Time Formatting or Nested F-Strings.
ProtonVPN (private, proprietary, trusted) can never be considered an alternative over Tor (open, FLOSS, untrusted).

While I'd prefer Matrix and/or XMPP over either: Telegram (single-device encryption for 1-to-1 chats only) is inherently less secure than Signal. Both require phone-number verification and thereby doxxing oneself to use.
Let the brave be brave then. That's 272 pages!
I (and many others) have provided full evidence and it's not actioned. Or I would give 20 domains with 20 subdomains -- all from the same circle, same time of registry, same phishing concept -- and they would only action one and stop responding to emails after.

Don't assume what I want them to do. They have been spoonfed the information and their Eastern European support staff/legal department doesn't care. Then their C-levels come on here and claim nonsense about free speech when quizzed about it.
Self-powered evaporative air conditioning is an ancient technology.

Air conditioning as we understand and use it today is a gold-plated band-aid over bad design. It's so entrenched you almost can't get a house built any other way.
This is probably the best thing I've found here in a while.
nonsense. The terminal is a place that you run software. Every piece of software you run in the terminal can do all kinds of nasty things to your system and steal info

the browser is also a place to run software. There, that software can not do anything to your system nor can it steal any data
I guess you are not an Italian living in Germany then :-)
Cascade: CSS to sound live coding system
it seems like they are building it in the Netherlands
TrueNAS is a pretty small niche, no? Not only that, but the usual way of using NAS involves doing compute tasks on a separate server.

Besides, the FreeBSD based TrueNAS Core will almost certainly be deprecated and replaced with Linux based TrueNAS Scale within the nest couple of years. Further strengthening the idea that this is a pointless platform to support.
I put together a YouTube playlist with the best videos I've found [1], exactly because it's so hard to find any that treat it as a tool and not an art project. It's roughly in the order I recommend watching.

The main bullet Journal reddit has also been taken over by the art crowd, but there are two others that are specifically about journaling and productivity. [2][3]

[1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL50SnCmB2W7tUaHuUzeB8OLC2...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/BasicBulletJournals

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/bujo
To be honest, I also do not get Samsung's strategy. None of my tech literate friends in europe would buy Samsung because of this. I really wonder how much it impacts their sales.
A change of tactics may eventuate. A change of materiel will be another war later on, after retooling. Russia isn't sufficiently like a command economy and won't have lend lease, and will have capital flight, skills shortages and rationing of formerly common goods.

But that said, they could lob munitions over from their own territory holding nukes against "stop it" reprisals for a long time until some political sanity re-enters the room.

The idea some miraculous uberweapon remains unused except for tactical nukes is untenable. You would have to beyond stupid to think any nation state fights to win with its worst technology for 42 days straight losing streak
From someone who hasn't interacted with the startup world much yet: what are some problems companies in Europe would have to deal with? What liberties are exclusive to the US? I'd imagine lots of complications of running a US-based company within Europe.

I can't imagine moving to the US, and I'm sure that lots of smart people in the EU are in the same camp. At the same time, I'd be very interested in providing high value to and being part of a company with the velocity and dynamics of a start-up -- I just wouldn't move to the US to pursue the opportunity, as in: I'd not even consider it below ridiculous/unrealistic pay.
Its hard to reconcile the Disney image of my youth with the Nazi-nuclear-scientist hiring dictator who bought his own city so he could keep away the riffraff and build his own nuclear power supply.

I'm just glad there are places like Efteling around, so that youthful magic can still be found beyond the totalitarian capitalist dystopia that is Disney World, and a sense for that wonder and magic can stay in place beyond the horizon of expanding adulthood perception.

Imagine if he'd been able to sponsor UN peacekeepers ..
I'd like the opportunity to actually have this heard in a courtroom. Although the FBI would probably do most of the talking.
I have observed that bugs tend to be introduced when you have more than one person working on a project. Single person projects have very low bugs especially if the coder is experienced and follows simplicity + structured programming.
I would love to see all permission clearly outlined in a central location.

Could even be part of the Firewall application in CalyxOS for all I care (have run this on a Pixel 4a for a year now and very impressed with the update cycle and stability offered).
I guess some individual series have gotten worse. Debatably the monetization models have gotten worse too. But I think game design has generally improved. I loved Half life, but is the gameplay really better than games like Doom Eternal and Titanfall 2?
Sketching, Modeling and Programming
Make sure you incorporate in a form that US investors are comfortable with. Few investors are going to want to figure out what an ApS or GmH is just to make a seed investment in your tiny startup.

It also gives tou better exit potential in the event of a M&A.
> However, if your million-dollar idea ends up being worth even $100K, you’ll likely find your database struggling to keep up with the scale.

Huh? At a 3 year multiple that is less than $3,000 monthly revenue. I'm sure a SaaS can provide way more value for $3k/mo before you start running into scaling issues
I forgot to mention GitLab CI, but in my experience, much like with Travis CI, it is as you say lower level. I do not find that to be a good thing.

Rather than lower level being faster as it is with code, generally with CI we want to raise the abstraction level so that it's easier to make use of things that make CI run faster – parallelism in workflows, caching etc.

As for reliability, I also found GitLab CI lacked the concurrency control caching primitives necessary to trust continuous delivery pipelines.

I found you could either write a slow correct pipeline, or a faster but fundamentally unsafe one.
You are basically describing Germany. I try to put it on first-mover disadvantage to make me feel better: Basically Germany has had a relatively functioning administration for hundreds of years (Italy even for thousands). Compared to something you would design from scratch in 2022 it looks a bit archaic. I celebrate every little step forward.
Have been pondering about this a lot as well.

The question is usually two fold:
1) Do I expect an outcome for this learning?
2) Do I do it just for fun?

In the first case, you would need to really establish some goals, deadlines and delve into the topic and thats where it becomes tangible. Because you are trying to achieve something.

The issue I didn't figure out yet is time... For instance, I am learning design, programming and product management all at the same time and quite frankly its too much. So the only way is to do it step by step. Depending on the depth of the discipline (like nuclear physics would literally require you to study for several years), you might want to just focus on one given the limited time. I do it by time-blocking time after work every day.

Then comes the meta-learning part, what is the most effective way? There are countless of pieces written on it, but I recommend Barbara Oakley.

In general it really depends how much energy and time you want to invest and its purpose.

The only thing I recommend is to follow your energy levels and if you feel it's worthy an output, try to write about it TO YOURSELF. Don't try to adapt any sort of writing style to people who are popular, but perhaps you can gain a sense of "tangible" by creating some output to produce some sense-making on the topic for YOURSELF first.

If its just for fun. No pressure just do it whenever.
What killed Debian for me was when doing an upgrade of Apache and PHP it automatically restarted Apache temporarily without PHP configured, then the upgrade of PHP failed and left Apache running completely without PHP support for a while until someone noticed, and Apache happily kept serving .php files as text/plain during this time.

A package manager should in my opinion leave daemon stopping/starting to the administrator, as they know their configuration better than any package manager ever can.
I think one possible solution is to create systems which are designed to fragment and split up from the beginning.
From this comment, I assume you ran testing or unstable.

Stable is great for letting up a server and let it run on its own for years without any maintenance (HN warning: No maintenance is of course never a good idea, but at least Debian made it possible)

Testing ran in update conflicts at least once a month, but it was generally easy to resolve without bricking.

Unstable, well, the name says it all.
I don't think you're boring but I do think your brain is feeling cheated for putting in all this work over and over and not getting the dopamine rewards for it afterwards (which in most cases is often praise or money).

I think you need some small wins to keep your motivation going. I read this quote here on hacker news which was very eye opening for me at the time(1). This idealogy of using small wins while you're chasing a big win has helped me a lot when things aren't going your way. I'm a indie hacker too would be happy to tell you some strategies I've developed for creating small wins (though most of them are very specific to my product / industry so I can't say how useful it would be to you)

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5630618
Redisexporter – Prometheus Redis Metrics Exporter
I live in the Netherlands :D but am from Naples originally so I know little about Turin :'( sovvy
What is the one thing that you picked in the end? I believe its the hardest part, releasing the notion of the rest...
Is there an actual difference in the eyes of patrons?
Yeah, I guess you are right, my example was bad, I should probably mention some sensitive conspiracy thing like pizza gate or something equally odd.
If you are doing some researches, Google almost never is your friend. Alphabet/Google/Youtube are not interested in moving science forward, their work is to pump your attention with their ads. Your friends are: torrents which are storing some books, sci-hub for free access to whitepapers, github for having some free software. So sorry that free access to whitepapers is less legal than advertisement of some scams like some kind of "investments".

> And video is a more addictive medium.

IMHO it is not about video but about smartphones. They are too optimized for consuming ads instead of sciences. For example, it is way more handy to watch videos while constantly being interrupted by social networks than to silent reading if you are already taking a smartphone in your hands.
OpenGL was and is a nice thing.

Linux was missing. Fixed ten years later :)
26M people in lockdown after thousands of asymptomatic Omicron cases in Shanghai
An email provider (which you most likely pay for - and don't publish on a website) is very different to a social media site (that you don't pay for and want it out in the public)

It's a free service that they provide - why can they not change how their system works when they want? People can object whenever they want - but it doesn't change the fact that they don't have any 'rights' to show someone elses content via a 3rd party on their website.

Maybe if you paid to embed tweets? Sure ok, they changed the contract - so deal with that.

Is it a bit annoying if you use it? Probably. Is it bad that the docs are out of date? Ok.

Twitter doesn't have any responsibility to you as someone who wants to quote someone else via their platform.
> is a former card-carrying member of the Nazi Party.

Haber was not a member of the NSDAP... he certainly was a nazi but why see the need to make false statements?
Weird West's shading is great, but it's still clear that it's a 3D world even from still screenshots, while Return to Monkey Island looks clearly 2D even when animated. Everything in RtMI trailer is flat, ship's parallax is a simple transformation, Murray and seagul are obviously flat and keyframe animated the way 2D animation is done, you can see handpainting on Mêlée Island and the water around it. Plus, of course, this is the kind of game where they would gain pretty much nothing from trying to make it 2.5D (and making it convincingly pass as 2D-looking is a lot of work). I'm absolutely surprised that anyone thinks it's 3D, and in fact this is the only place I've seen anyone suggesting that at all (everywhere else people are discussing the art style instead, which seems to somewhat borrow from Special Editions while making it distinctly modern and a bit more cartooney).

BTW. If you're into cell shaded stuff, check out some of the Telltale's stuff like 2012 The Wolf Among Us (which has a sequel being worked on now).
Those support groups don't give advice about medicine.
There is a comment on the LWN article about that:

https://lwn.net/Articles/890306/

> First, technical challenges: HURD tried to move from /usr to / and had quite a bit more trouble with it, and that trouble warned against trying it on a larger scale. It's much easier to move from / to /usr than from /usr to / ; fewer things break.

> Second, consolidation: moving into /usr gives us a single directory containing all files managed by the distro / package manager. This has quite a few advantages. It makes sharing /usr among several chroots or containers feasible (one /usr, different /etc and /var). It makes versioning and A/B upgrades (upgrade to new image, fall back to old image if new image doesn't boot) simpler and easier. It makes it easy to lock down /usr with something like fs-verity.
Reconnecting with artsy-fartsy stuff I did when I was 16/17 has been fantastic.
Is macOS still UNIX certified? I know old versions used to be. Apple doesn't advertise it anymore.