skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, my point was related to why people so often write their own game engine (and so rarely write their own browser). Writing your own game engine for your own game looks fun and easy from the outset. And in fact, depending on your game, writing a game engine that lets you ship that one game doesn't even have to be complex.
There is the political/sociological meaning of the word "minority" that you seem to refer to, and there is the linguistic/logical/mathematical meaning (those who are not in majority or a small group).

I am pretty sure the use in the phrase you object to is of the latter form.
> unwashed masses

The unwashed masses are often filthy and malicious (on the internet).

Moderation, of the governance and oversight meaning, is unforunately very necessary to keeping any pool from becoming a cesspit. By some combination of technical, volunteer, and participant effort (membership fee, or service requirement), areas can be kept decent.

Without this, decent and would-be participants are run off by spam, scams, trolls and harrassment, political rants, religious rants, etc.
C++ committee is an interface for several powerful interest groups. Where you don't have those, a committee is probably impractical.
It's working as intended maybe he should have read the manual.
Indeed it is! Films come on 20 minute reels, and from the late 80s onwards were spliced together onto one big reel (or platter) for playback. However the splice often wasn't perfect, and the reel ends are most likely to contain dust/dirt/scratches, which could knock out the digital audio and revert playback to the analog track. This obviously isn't ideal, so Dolby had the idea of encoding the area at the end of each reel throughout the entire reel too, which is stored in a cache in the processor. Then, when the end of the reel is reached (you can tell this because each block has a sequence number), the processor uses the cached data to ensure a nice changeover.
Why is it even a question? We already know that covid vaccine does not protect from infection. It reduces chance of severe disease and death however, therefore it is a good deal.

Also, some countries failed to fully vaccinate all elderly who are most at risk. If even 10% of elderly are not vaccinated, their cases will disproportionately cause high numbers of deaths from or with covid. Hongkong had this the peak that overtook all countries because of that (80+ y.o. had less than 70% vaccination coverage).
I'm sure how you're getting to this conclusion. GoboLinux filesystem hierarchy just separates executables and shared objects by name and version [1]; unlike the standard FHS where everything goes into /usr/lib, /usr/bin, etc.

For backward compatibility there are symlinks (that takes no disk space) to the standard directories, but these are hidden by the kernel so they don't show up and clutter your file manager.

[1]: https://gobolinux.org/at_a_glance.html
[2]: https://gobolinux.org/doc/articles/gobohide.html
Great expression of the dark, hollow corporate experience disguised as a fulfilling, productive career. It saddens me that the author (and many others) drink the corporate kool-aid to the point of considering self-harm. I learned a similar lesson early in my career: noone can single-handedly satiate the enormous appetite of a large corporate enterprise. It will literally consume you alive.

Perhaps, the contractors had a better gig? At least they might have felt less pressure to please the corporate ethos, and they were hopefully paid hourly overtime during the silly death marches.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Hearing from real folk that have had a range of outcomes is why I asked here on HN and have been hesitant to place much weight in what I have read elsewhere online.

So far experiences seem to have ranged from the medication did nothing, it supported them through therapy or completely changed their life. Overall though hearing that for most people any side-effects were either minimal or worth the improvement in quality of life has given me a renewed energy to seek treatment again.

So thanks again, everyone here has been so very kind.
Love the comments. Blows my mind how diverse the reactions are.

I read most HN on a 9 year old iPad. It's savage, raw compute would be fast enough, but limited RAM and pinned to a very old version of Mobile Safari. I generally keep JavaScript disabled, otherwise hangs are all too common.

If I can't at least read the basic idea of a web article at these settings, I move on. Perhaps it's arrogant of me, but I'm exasperated by current web design practice that requires megabytes of JavaScript to render a landing page.

`gwern.net` does not suffer from absolute madness, but the use of custom font means that the site is a blank page for thousands of milliseconds, and this old iPad has trouble scrolling the page of text even after the font is rendered.

My comments are probably irrelevant, but I'm not going to be surfing the web on a 16-core workstation with 32 gigabytes of RAM.
Well, I didn't expect to watch a Disney documentary about nuclear power at 10am on a Wednesday... thanks for sharing!
> Germany was established in 1949

That’s a neat myth, but you’ll constantly interface with laws and bureaucratic structures from the pre-WWI empire (e.g. most of the school system, a lot of taxes, the entire healthcare system) and sometimes even Prussian laws from before the German Union.
Is that a Bang & Olufsen? They commonly had a similar system of main and "extra" speakers.
Have you tried Aruba? I have done remotely up to the level 2 with them, and the verification compared to the one from Poste is just via webcam, you just hop on a chat with them, move your head left and right, make a jump, a turn, hold your ID close to your face and the guy just approves the identity, try if you haven't thought of them yet
The main problem I see is breeding better citizens for totalitarian states.
Thats basicaly current situation but we dont use "trust" word to describe it but we use "follow" word
Just shows how big the markup was, to be able to bundle a 60$ game with a 300$ card.
I'm not sure I agree that this is an infringement of their privacy - or more accurately I think this is a reflection of the fact that there's no reasonable expectation of privacy in a public space (physical or virtual).

It is perfectly normal in working circles that your activities on company owned devices or devices connected to a company network are monitored.

If the school required everyone to purchase a private device and then install monitoring software on it, then I think it would be reasonable to argue that if they want to control it, they should pay for it.

However, there was no such obligation here, OP simply bought a private device and expected to be able to connect it to a service someone else is paying for (yes, I know OP probably pays their taxes, and so is paying indirectly). They expected to take advantage of all the services provided by CPS without checking what the prerequisites for that might be.
By the way, it's quite fun to join a cult intentionally. I did that a number of times in my early 20ies. It means such an unusual situation to create: you sort of take them seriously and not at the same time. You listen to them with reasonable openness and attention (often extracting some useful thoughts from their philosophies) and even with fair amount of basic human sympathy but without falling into blind faith like ordinary victims or even allowing a slight amount of unnoticed effect on your reason. This is an exercise which can benefit both you and the people from the cult (who often are ordinary members there and are going to get disillusioned with it soon - and an experience of meeting a person who didn't get charmed yet agreed to be open to them is going to help them). It usually ends by both parties losing interest in each other gradually: you stop hearing anything new from them, get bored and give up attending their meetings, they give up inviting actively because they understand they can't really have you anyway.
check this coworking space: https://toolboxcoworking.com/ there are several tech meetups of nice people and it's also hosting the local fablab: https://fablabtorino.org/

after covid there are less meetups, but I'm sure it's going to pick up again
The first time I saw this website, which was a year ago, I liked it so much that I was reading the code. This looks a new design, it's good but I like the earlier one more.
This was also my experience. I was jumping between F1 and Star Wars and had a great time maintaining and branching out.

I was really impressed by the level of detail as more shades were introduced.
Sorry about the dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30929843
My procrastination settings made me think I had not successfully submitted the link.
Netherlands seizes 14 megayachts linked to Russian, Belarusian sanctions
There's a strong causal relationship between regular exercise and mental well-being. Start by doing one push-up. Do it now, not tomorrow.
Seems more like an ad than anything else.
This number may mean nothing without context. At least 6,500 migrant workers have died, but how many exactly occurred due to the construction of new buildings for the World Cup?

The title of this post isn’t really honest. It says “at least 6,500 deaths constructing stadia for the World Cup” but the Guardian article is titled “6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar since World Cup awarded”.

And yes, I’m aware of migrant abuse in Qatar and other relatively wealthy Middle Eastern countries…just want to set the facts straight
London probably won't work for me. I have not pulled the trigger yet, tbh I am less worried about German taxes than I am running a C Corp from outside the US. Mainly because of the litigation heavy US culture, opaque paperwork overhead etc.
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There was no demand, because you can't buy 35mm prints, unlike 16mm and 8mm. And additionally, in order to finance the purchase of digital projectors, many cinema owners went with something called "Virtual Print Fees" (VPFs), where the cost was paid off in time. However, most of these mandated that the film projectors were either removed and destroyed, or disabled so they couldn't run film. Why? Well this ensured that everyone switched to digital and couldn't go back, so the VPFs were still paid. Very sad, hearing about all these machines being damaged.
> Do you know why Cloud IaaS has become so popular? Is it because it is cheaper? The answer is "No"! Is it because you have a better level of control over the IT infrastructure? The answer is again "No"! Then why is it? It is because Cloud computing has become a dominant trend in an industry dominated by marketeers, not be engineers.

Kind of ironic in a post from a dedicated server hoster. People don't use the cloud for more control over the infrastructure, they use it so that they won't have to worry about the infrastructure.
I'm just quoting the article which attempts to address the issues of terminology you raised. Without discussing his terms your original comment lacked relevance.
I’m skeptical this will lead to more savings over time. I’ve been pretty much living in Airbnbs for almost three years, and the site becomes slightly more annoying over time.

Leaving a review has become a huge bloated mess. The sight is slow as heck. And driving prices up just makes me more likely to look at alternatives. It’s still good, but it feels increasingly less fast and cheap.
It's clear that a lot of love and attention to detail has gone into the making of this website. I like the typography, I like the layout on desktop, I feel like that's very much complete, apart from one thing I'll mention later.

As another person has commented, it does feel inspired by Tufte stuff — though I actually find the Tufte CSS implementation to be preferable to look at aesthetically and preferable for actually consuming content: https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/

Things I would change:

- the pop-up windows when hovering links etc. are incredibly annoying. There is a button to get rid of them, but that button needs to be on the side with the other customisation options imho

- vertical spacing would look better than indentation for new paragraphs on mobile, it would help the text not look so densely packed, but maybe that's just my preference. It's usable just feels like the text is squashed in (I'm looking at it on an iPhone X). The choice of indentation for new paragraphs looks fine on desktop.

but that's just me and I'm no one and my opinion is meaningless.
It's amazing to see such actions, but why did it take so long?
Imagining boatloads of complexity involved with the blinking cursors according to markets, profiles and geographic locations and whatever else really doesn't make it sound any better at all.
The current Switzerland goes back to 1848. There was a massive shift n administration and statecraft throughout Europe after the French Revolution, even in Scandinavia. Britain's the only country that kept to its own.
> textual syntax is nice for human understanding but will one day be no longer necessary

Can you elaborate your vision? What future you imaging in human-computer UI terms? Visual programming so far have well proved to be a failure, modern visual programming is even worse than past tentative (see how crappy are visual environment from RPA to NodeRed&c)... Vocal interfaces are also crappy... Even if we look at sci-fi movies the computer interfaces they show are ridiculously inefficient... Just see Star Trek as an example: vocal commands in emergency situations that demands multiple seconds while a direct hit on keys demands just few ms, the Borg with neural connections and visual+touch UIs in their ships etc. Oh that's sci-fi of course but that means that even artists have so far failed to imaging different means.

> If only they had made a cheap Lisp machine!

At that time was not possible in scale and industrial terms, similar to the far older Xerox workstations, it's possible now, but too many do not even know that original desktop model and MANY (very skilled PhDs included) have even issues imagining it... Just myself using Emacs/EXWM in a presentation I generally create an extraordinary WOW effect on techies who fail to understand what they see live on the screen/projector, how is that possible, and there is nothing extraordinary, just EXWM/org-mode normal usage. That's the real issue, in common with Smalltalk: people who can understand do not know, people who can push classic model again do not want it at all, it hurt they skyrocketing high businesses (and curiously old business were in relative terms more profitable for anyone, only they do not assure by any means the possibility do dominate the market since being knowledge-based anyone who happen to have developed something good can succeed), the large mass of the rest of humanity do not even know what happen yesterday so...
Why do you people even use Twitter? It's one giant pile of crappy content and dark ux patterns. What did you expect? That they'd play nice forever? Are you really new to this? Did your preschool not have a sandbox?
Then maybe Warp is not the right terminal for you? It is ok if other people like Warp for what it is.

Here's another rust based terminal you can check out:
https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty
If you try hard enough you can fit more! I've seen a projector with all of 35mm optical, 35mm mag, DTS, Dolby Digital and SDDS. Was a sight to behold!
from the article:

These are the first publicly known examples of a computer network attack against an OT system resulting in a kinetic effect during wartime operations.

Kinetic meaning explosions...
Huh, thanks, I didn't know that - particularly the third point. Is IPFS over Tor a thing?
Pepsi is a thing. And there were many more; Pepsi is just the one which survived Coca Cola's lawyers.
Flagged.
The submitted title isn't the article title.

You are the only person posting links to this domain.
This isn't growth hacking. It's spam.
I am very dubious how this got 4 upvotes already as the article is completely void of content.
Instead of all this drama the person that cannot see any way forward, despite a valid example of Ubuntu making this work, should be removed from the critical path by the instrument of a fork. Otherwise it will just be a matter of time before another bike-shedding, multiple years-spanning incident happens again.

By creating a fork and proving that it works, the discussion becomes about whether to merge patches or adopt the fork rather than sterile "what if"s.

Edit: added last paragraph
What? It's really simple he was not a member of the NSDAP or "nazi party". It matters to be factual in your statements because otherwise people who know that you are misinterpreting one fact don't know at how much face value they can take the rest of your writing.
In comparable projects, the London Olympics in 2012 had 0 construction deaths associated and in more recent years, even the highest recorded count was 74 in Sochi, Russia.
It's indeed 'my' problem. But I really wonder if as a market segment, we are trying to go too vertical, rather than solve the problem for everyone (also I'm not sure the % of people that have my same problem, but empirically it sounds big enough to worry about it, even if you are apple)
Of course you are right but the devil is in details. How do you know the level of "basic knowledge" has been earned? Keep in mind that topicstarter is interested not in STEM when the question can be answered easily, like you can or can not solve that tasks in the end of some chapters of your Physics textbook.
I totally agree with you, I was being ironic :)
I like the minimalism of Gwern's site, but the text formatting doesn't feel especially readable. Dan Luu's site has a similar problem https://danluu.com/nothing-works/ by the time I get to the end of a line, it's hard to find the beginning of the next one. Also maybe a matter of taste, but it feels to me like serif fonts are good for books but not so great on the web. The most readable text formatting I've seen on the web is PG's website http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html short lines, sans-serif font, tight paragraphs with space between them.
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Pronuncition names of tech companies around the world
Giving that on Ubuntu this was done (and in other distros), and there isn't any issue ( I just noticed that I have a merged /usr for a long time), the dpkg maintainer it's being a jerk.
But moderate isn't an absolute description of an ideology as we've established, it is relative to an ideology. In other words, it's meaning depends on ideology.

I'm not even sure what the point you're trying to make is at this point. You've agreed that "moderate" is a term relative to ideology already, so what even is it you're arguing now? If it's relative to ideology, of course it's ideological, because your definition of "moderate" will change based on ideology.
> covid vaccine does not protect from infection

The rest of the world didn't change the definitions when the CDC did. They may, foolishly, expect treatments that worked.
i think not. before bezos, elon and zuck they were not owned by the richest-of-the-rich.
I disagree. Twitter doesn't own that content. Someone posting the Twitter JS on their website to allow Twitter to format the tweet to Twitter's brand standards and allow a link to drive traffic back to Twitter is a favour that they're doing Twitter. They should respect that favour by not changing the contract unilaterally.
Well, appears you are successful because the web site doesn't load. Also, boring is good. Boring is predictable. Don't forget the Chinese curse; "May you live in interesting times" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_ti...)
A lot of the software at Apple was shaped specifically by his likes, dislikes and needs. The dictator doesn't need to be a developer.
I can't even read light fiction. I read the first Harry Potter book once. To give a feeling of how hard reading is for me: it took me longer than working out how car understeer and oversteer physics work from first principles and making a simulation in C++ [1].

[1] Admittedly crap 2D car sim https://github.com/abainbridge/car_sim
To Genie users, what is your workflow ? I love Julia for scientific computing but the compilation time is a bit of an issue. I would imagine I would need to compile a lot more when doing web dev. How do you work around this ?

If there is a solution to this, Genie would be awesome as I could directly put into production my Julia models without using a third party language.
Regarding the first part, I'm pretty sure that Steam had an offline mode from the start. Perhaps it required an initial connection to set up an account, though.

I was lucky to be in an area that had very early access to DSL, so it wasn't a problem for me. The "always on" features was actually pretty awesome and novel if you had a permanent connection. In general I've been impressed by Steam from the start.

On the other hand, we can see what the success has caused down the line. Now every publisher wants to replicate it with their own proprietary launchers, undoing all of the cleanliness and centralization that made Steam awesome in the first place.

If anything it's now more confusing than ever to keep track of which launcher has which game and which friends had been added where.

I suppose the total Steam hegemony was always going to be a temporary thing.
I read it, I just don't trust it. Not after the Patriot Act, PRISM, Guantanamo Bay and any number of other ways the government has made an end run around its own laws and the courts have let them, or at best not been able to intervene until well after the damage has been done. If the US government really, really wants to break the law, the courts will often look the other way if there's plausible deniability.

Are we really talking about trusting the courts to properly adjudicate a platform with a global userbase and an algorithmically driven feed (designed for psychological control and influence) when the American press is all but universally considered, by Americans, to be controlled by corporate interests and the military industrial complex? We don't even trust CNN to tell us the sun rises in the East and sets in the West but we'll trust the government to have a fair hand at managing Twitter?

I get the argument intellectually, and I'll even concede that it could work in the best circumstance. But I don't believe we live in the world of best circumstance, and i don't trust it to work in practice. Maybe if there were real international controls over the platform. But even then there could be some secret ECHELON BS going on between governments to allow rights abuses on a technicality.
I recommend this documentary "Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World" from Werner Herzog.

There is a brief but touching interview with Ted Nelson.
>However, despite waging a campaign of terror against their opponents, the Nazis only tallied 43.9 percent of the vote on their own, well short of a majority to govern alone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1933_German_federal_elec...
> he's not a designer. He's just a guy with an internet connection.

His website is wonderfully designed, so I am having a hard time understanding your point…
We see no problem letting an billionaire immigrant who grew up in apartheid-era South Africa build orbital-capable rockets that could easily be reprogrammed to deliver warheads anywhere on earth. Countries are extremely willing to be pragmatic about the past as long as it brings a benefit in the future.
Extra knowledge can't possibly be a weakness.
We trusted them because they were committed to being part of the wider web, and as you can see from Ben Ward's tweet at the time, took that seriously.
Everything that works well is structured like a monarchy. Maybe the west shouldn't be trying so hard to export democracy?
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