skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not shown: the unpaid volunteers who have to continually figure out who gets what chair, deal with constant complaints from people who sat in a chair they don't like and want another one, figure out how to store the chairs, figure out how to repair each individual chair with its own unique and hard-to-find materials when it breaks, figure out what to do when people start bringing in recliners and sofas that take up all the space... Did I mention you don't get paid for this? And if you ever suggest removing a broken chair, you get a thousand angry emails flaming you because people are emotionally attached to the chair despite it having exposed nails that stab up into the rear end of anyone who sits in it? And if you push back you get absurd comments like "oh the nails are only on the left side, just lean constantly on your right buttock and you won't get stabbed by the nails"
Thanks for the background and the update to the article!
It's a bit sad to ponder. On the other hand, the volume of white matter is still rather close to it's maximum, even at 60 years. And probably there are also individual variations, both when it comes to the timing of the onset of the decline, and the rapidity of it.

I read about Stradivarius the other day. His "golden years", the years when the quality of his work was considered to be at it's peak, was from he was 50 until he was around 80.
Same all around. It's my first 'do you have any questions for us?' at every interview. My company now is starting to hint at clamping down the screws, and I was honest in saying I'd just go elsewhere before being forced to use a gimped Windows laptop daily. We'll see.

I've used desktop Linux for a long time, and it's really, really good now. I cannot even remember the last time something didn't just work out of the box(probably my laser printer).

Still working on the last part. Parents buy and use tax software each year for some odd reason, and I don't feel like even trying to navigate through WINE.
All of those questions have pretty straight forward answers. But your first question has really just floored me. Really? If money can't go into the pockets of the very wealthy it has nowhere else to go?

The money would spread out through out the rest of the economy. We don't have a scarcity problem right now, we have a distribution problem. We have plenty of resources to go around, but we have a problem where a very few people are hoarding the vast majority of those resources. So a wealth and income cap is designed to stop that hoarding and force a wider distribution of those resources.

As for the rest of your questions.

> Do you have to constantly increase the wealth caps with inflation?

Yep. Just as we really should be (but aren't) linking minimum wage to inflation currently. And linking our progressive income tax brackets to inflation. And linking our property taxes to inflation.

> How do you perfectly manage that rate?

You don't have to. We don't manage it it now in all of our existing taxation systems (both wealth based and income based). We only have to do good enough to keep inflation broadly in check.

> Do you cap the profits of businesses as well and if so why do they continue to innovate or expand once they've reached the same level as all of their competitors?

No. These are individual income and wealth caps. Business profits are business profits. The idea is that if individuals are limited in how much they can take out of the business, the businesses profits will be more widely distributed among those who contributed to the business. And the business will have less incentive to price gouge.

> You're really just proposing a centrally planned economy where all wages and prices will be set by the government

No I am not. I'm not proposing anything much different than we have now. We have a minimum wage, we're adding a UBI to put a floor under people. We already have a wealth tax for the 90% of people who's wealth is entirely in their real property (their houses), we just leave the 10% of people who's wealth is primarily stocks, commodities or other assets out of it. We already have a progressive income tax, and we've had a progressive income tax that got very close to 100% above a certain level in the past (in the 50s in the US it was ~90% above ~$4 million).

The only thing new I'm proposing is putting a hard cap on overall wealth.
>The aircraft with high-powered turbo-charged engines represent around 25% of the engines. Because of their higher utilization, those engines burn around 75% of the avgas purchased in a year.

Wouldn't turbo-charged engines burn jet A-1 rather than avgas?
Not much insight to add, but I could not get very interested in Manifold Garden. It didn't help that at some point, I could not see any way to progress and was just stuck. After an hour or two, I was done. But I was totally engaged when I played The Witness. Reading the comments section here is kind of surprising. I didn't expect everyone to like it, but I didn't know it was so polarizing.
If you haven't restarted your Linux machine in 6 months, you're most likely leaving it open to vulnerabilities. 65 CVEs for just the kernel published in 2022: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-33/p...

I'm assuming you're not using ksplice, which has its own issues and should really only be used for critical updates when you're unable to reboot.
From my perspective, the truism of

> we can't make everybody rich by sending everyone a $10M check

isn't so self-evident. A lot of policy and draft legislation is just a watered-down version of this with more steps.

What if we...

- just send unemployed $23.4K check (CARES act $600/wk unemployment kicker)

- just send most people a $3.2K check (stimulus)

- just send everyone an average of $42K check (overall covid relief)

- just send those with unpaid student loans a $20K - $400K check (college debt cancellation idea)

- just send those with distressed mortgages an average of a $150K check (2008 mortgage crisis)

There are many more of these that seems to have no strategic value or incentivize the opposite behavior that we need at the time.

It's also probably a safe assumption that the money generally finds its way to the wrong people considering the $5T in billionaire wealth growth during the pandemic, or record executive bonuses during the mortgage crisis.
I'm guessing those things didn't apply to him or his use case. Yes, hardware support is better, but if your needs are simple you buy smartly, Linux also works pretty well.

Yes, installing third party and closed source software is much easier on Windows and there is much more of it to chose from. This is in fact my main reason for using Windows. However if you're a developer and your entire job can be done using open source dev tools then this doesn't matter.

Power management is better on Windows, but I wouldn't say it works "reliably". I've pulled many a hot, dead laptop from my backpack after it decided to wake up and kill itself after I thought it had gone to sleep. Apple is the only company that really be said to have solved this in my opinion.

Settings being GUI-accessible is at best questionable advantage. It's nice for people who don't want to use the command line and don't see its point, but if you're used to and comfortable with the command line (like the author seems to be) it is far from a selling point. Plus just because the setting exists in GUI, that doesn't in any way solve the problem of actually locating where and how the set that setting.
Maybe we need more products that don't target mass consumer appeal.
Person who isn’t an expert in advertising and doesn’t know how to run tests makes conclusions about advertising by not doing proper testing.

Exciting stuff. This is why you hire an electrician rather than doing your own electrical work. They actually know what they’re doing.
If it's more complicated than 'move this one file from folder A to folder B' it gets very complicated very fast.

On linux, the 'normal' way to move files is using the terminal using 'mv'. On Windows, the terminal is available, but the main interface is the UI. It's easy to move one file. It's even easy to move several files 'next to' each other in the window. It's not easy to move files matching a particular name, or across multiple folders.

So usually what happens is I have to find (perhaps even purchase) a purpose-built utility to do exactly what I want. Or, sit there and move files. Like ctrl+click on them (that interface is terrible by the way, because one click makes the entire selection go away... who thought that up?) and then move them. What other way is there without delving into automation? Windows Explorer cannot even do the most basic selection of 'select all files with NNN in the name'. It's completely useless for anything but the most silly of operations.

Also, if you have to do actual work moving files between different filesystems or across network filesystems, it becomes even worse. You have to find something compatible with Windows, install it. It's probably some ad-containing shareware non-sense, so you pay for the license so you don't get bombarded with ads, a browser toolbar, and whatever other nonsense the MSI decided to install. Then, after about 30 minutes of downloading, installing and endless clicking on the 'do you want to allow this software to do blah' (which I never really read and click by default), it may or may not work.

On linux, it's just mount.

I don't really get the complaints about linux being hard to use. Different sure. But if you're used to it; if you grew up with it, it's mind-numbingly easy.
How to implement the Twitter edit button with Ent
Not sure I'd put Le Monde's quite biased left-moralist editorial choices in the same league as The Economist...
> There’s a new shell now, called PowerShell, to run inside your terrible 1980s terminal window, but the terminal it’s running inside, still sucks.

Well no, PS and pwsh has their own terminals.
People don't read anymore
I'd say "dangerous" more than "useless." Big companies have plenty of incompetence to go around, but they also have plenty of malice disguised as incompetence, because children learn how to play dumb before they can talk and don't get worse at it when they grow up to become megacorp employees.
"Novaya Gazeta (Russian: Новая газета, IPA: [ˈnovəjə ɡɐˈzʲetə], lit. 'New Gazette') is an independent Russian newspaper known for its critical and investigative coverage of Russian political and social affairs.[2][3] It is published in Moscow, in regions within Russia, and in some foreign countries. The print edition is published on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays; English-language articles on the website are published on a weekly basis in the form of the Russia, Explained newsletter.

Seven Novaya Gazeta journalists, including Yuri Shchekochikhin, Anna Politkovskaya and Anastasia Baburova, have been murdered since 2000, in connection with their investigations.[4]

In October 2021, Novaya Gazeta's editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, alongside Maria Ressa, for their safeguarding of freedom of expression in their homelands.[5]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novaya_Gazeta
> I am so productive and i can actually get my work done quickly, **the same way as hundreds of thousands other normal developers out there.**

i seek out new technologies because i want to be _more_ productive than the average engineer. i don't believe there are hundreds of thousands of developers who are more productive than someone who makes an effort to learn stuff like deno, vite, unjs, fauna, etc. as soon as possible
This problem is purely a result of the engine certification regime, leading to decades-old designs that rely on lead often being the only viable options.

Just relax the certifications. It's surely less dangerous to the overall population than continuing to spew lead.
Sounds like we should change the way we hire people in government to increase competency
I have been using Linux for 15+ years as my main desktop(via dual boot but I only boot into windows 3~5 times a year to do my annual turbotax which did not have a linux version)

Recently I started to do linux development under Windows10/WSL2, worked very well so far except I can not do mouse select/paste easily. It's more responsive than running a virtualbox+linux inside Windows. I still do my work with Linux, Windows is just a host OS for that, and WSL2 is good enough to the point I no longer use Virtualbox+linux.
We struggled with threadpool deadlocks in .NET and this Java solution is perfect
Replying to [dead] sibling post from kxyvr: yes, Accelerate provides a Q-less sparse QR on Apple platforms (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accelerate/sparse_..., in particular SparseFactorizationCholeskyAtA). I believe that MA49 from HSL does it as well, and may have more acceptable licensing than SuiteSparse depending on your situation.
> He’s changed my understanding of evolution completely with his insights on computational irreducibility and complexity.

Quote you please elaborate on that? Or perhaps quote a piece of work that refers to your statement? Thank you :)
Try to drum up public outrage to get them to stop? Maybe if they use your trademark there's cause to sue? Otherwise good luck.
This! I benchmarked a whole bunch of different cloud providers for fun (& my bachelor thesis) and was impressed by how bad some cloud VPS perform. Considering the really steep price to get any kind of significant memory/CPU resources with the major cloud providers as well as the steep bandwidth charges this little experiment was eye opening
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Do you mean your competitors buying ads for their product, but using your product's name as keywords?

Or do you literally mean your competitors buying ads that deceive the public into thinking they're clicking on your ad which will lead to your site, but it actually goes to their site?

Those are two very different scenarios.
Interesting name, Hydra. Cut off one head, and another one grows back. This is the way of the darknet. Things don't die there, they resurface under new branding, and in some cases, resurface with better OPSEC after the learning of how other vendors got shut down.
Who would have the power to force them out? I guess potentially the elected officials perhaps, which I was mentioning with the appointments bit. It's something for sure, but it's a step removed from the people footing the bill being able to do something about it
> not that I would ever recommend that for a company who wants their employees to be productive.

As someone who has moved to Linux from MacOS (Gnome 42, Debian Bookworm), it has been a near seamless transition.

I expected it to consume a lot of time in overhead maintaining it - but it hasn't. It has been great so far. MacOS is still more ergonomic in a lot of ways by comparison to Gnome, but Gnome 4x has come a long way in the last few months.

At this rate it, by the end of the year I would think it the best desktop environment offered by any platform.
Return to the office- easy way to get unforced attrition at struggling companies
Hi, original author here.
Great point. In fact other firms seems to be able to get away with even using your brand-name in their advertising. Simply put, nothing stops this, and it will happen. It comes down to how confident the customer is looking specifically for you and not anyone else.
In competitive niches, this could be tricky, but if they searched on your brand name, there is a high chance they'll dig to find your website.
Have you developed games at all, or are you just speaking from an armchair?
The most effective way to get non technical people excited about a technology is first, show them a working version of it, then show them what they can do with it. Most people don’t care how innovative something is unless it benefits their life in some appreciable way
> * Software is easy to install even if it isn't in the official store (e.g. apt).

You can install any .deb package not in the "official store" simply by typing: `dpkg -i package.deb`.

This has essentially never failed in my decade+ of using Debian-based Linux OSes.

It's pretty dang easy to install anything nowadays.
relativism is the wrong answer. intent and identity matter.

knowing who caused you harm and why is necessary in stopping it from happening again.

in the real world, society depends on neighbors working together towards a common notion of the greater good.

if I live in a community that I depend on and I cause chaos, I will feel the consequences.

if I am a foreign agent, I am decoupled from those consequences, and may even benefit by virtue of undermining an enemy.

if the bad actors out weigh the good actors, then society cannot function.

and if you see your neighbors as being as bad as your enemies, then your enemies have truly won.
Turbine engines would, but that's different from turbo-charged (piston) engines.
One cannot "loose" a lawsuit, but they can "lose"
> Novaya Gazeta (Russian: Новая газета, IPA: [ˈnovəjə ɡɐˈzʲetə], lit. 'New Gazette') is an independent Russian newspaper known for its critical and investigative coverage of Russian political and social affairs.[2][3]

...

> Igor Domnikov was well known in Novaya Gazeta among his colleagues for his witty essays and acerbic tone. He was attacked on his way to his Moscow apartment, near the doorway, on 12 May 2000. Hit with a hard object, presumably a hammer by an unknown assailant, he was lying unconscious in a pool of his own blood when found by a neighbor; Igor Domnikov was delivered to a hospital with skull and brain injuries, underwent surgery, but remained in a coma. He died from the injuries on 16 July 2000. 5 members of a gang were arrested in August 2007 on suspicion of murder and were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 18 years to life for the murder as well as other crimes.[40] On 11 March 2015, Former Deputy Governor of Lipetsk Oblast Sergei Dorovskoi was charged by Investigative Committee of Russia with inciting the murder, but Sergei Dorovskoi was never punished because of the statute of limitations.[41][42] Investigations have found that Igor Domnikov had written a series of reports about life in the Lipetsk region in 1999–2000, where he criticized the local government for corruption, which was the motive for Sergei Dorovskoi to incite others to kill the journalist.[43]

So the answer to your question is a loud and clear "yes!"
I turn 40 tomorrow and can’t help but think how I got my dad over the hill gifts when he turned 40 and thought he was so old. While I have accomplished most I have wanted to do 2 things have still alluded me.
I get all 4 of those points with Linux.
Atm: "....About 4 minutes remaining...."

My third Macbook (company provided) doing an unexpected update. That takes 10(!) minutes. After the download.

My ElementaryOS on a 6 year old thinkpad downloads and installs 3GB+ updates weekly, without rebooting, in 2 minutes!

Mac and Windows are ages and miles behind Linux.
I'm not going to wade into the Esperanto debate, but I find it fascinating that so many countries use the Metric system except when they don't.

In Germany for instance almost everything is metric except (ironically?) for computers and televisions, you still measure your screen in Zoll (inches). And you see Pfund (pound) in markets but they normalized that to 500g long ago, so it's kinda-sorta in the system.

I'm in Thailand right now and most things are in metric besides, again, computers and TVs -- 13" laptop, 27" monitor, 52" TV, etc -- but then, maddeningly for me, picture frames are usually measured in inches. So while you have DIN A4 and DIN A3 frames, because office paper uses DIN sizes AFAICT, it's really hard to find a 24x30cm or 30x40cm frame.

And then there is the United Kingdom...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_King...
At GitLab we went from AWS to Azure, then to Google Cloud (this was a few years ago). AWS was what we started with, and I think like most companies very little attention was paid to the costs, setup, etc. The result was that we were basically setting money on fire.

I think at some point Azure announced $X in free credits for YC members, and GitLab determined this would save us something like a year's worth in bills (quite a bit of money at the time). Moving over was rather painful, and I think in the months that we used Azure literally nobody was happy with it. In addition, I recall we burned through the free credits _very_ fast.

I don't recall the exact reasoning for switching to GCP, but I do recall it being quite a challenging process that took quite some time. Our experiences with GCP were much better, but I wouldn't call it perfect. In particular, GCP had/has a tendency to just randomly terminate VMs for no clear reason whatsoever. Sometimes they would terminate cleanly, other times they would end up in a sort of purgatory/in between state, resulting in other systems still trying to connect to them but eventually timing out, instead of just erroring right away. IIRC over time we got better at handling it, but it felt very Google-like to me to just go "Something broke, but we'll never tell you why".

Looking back, if I were to start a company I'd probably stick with something like Hetzner or another affordable bare metal provider. Cloud services are great _if_ you use their services to the fullest extend possible, but I suspect for 90% of the cases it just ends up being a huge cost factor, without the benefits making it worth it.
Can argue the intended audience is experianced users, so it's not meant to sway mainstream/non-technical users.
I was gonna say the same. My french isnt great so France24 was surprisingly (?) good at the coverage of the war. They host great analysis too which helps to put everything in context instead of the usual sensationalist coverage.
I'm on Enterprise, and you can't actually turn it off permanently, after a time (maybe a reboot, or scheduled that i can't find) it just turns itself back on, and usually knackers my nvidia drives, even though i have it set to not update drivers, and even though i killed the medic service as well ffs.

Found a trick where you basically remove windows access rights to wuauclt.exe and wuaueng.dll, causing an error code 5 whenever it tries to run its update service.. so far its been stable. Not sure if this would work for other versions.
I'm interested in how such testing works. What is wrong with his method of advertising-cold-turkey?
Branded search terms cost way more for competitors for reasons I can't be bothered getting into, most likely they are losing money by doing it. You can counter it by bidding yourself - which on branded search terms is usually dirt cheap. But ultimately, the only real counter is delivering a better service.
The young man, who does not know the future, sees life as a kind of epic adventure, an Odyssey through strange seas and unknown islands, where he will test and prove his powers, and thereby discover his immortality.

The man of middle years, who has lived the future that he once dreamed, sees life as a tragedy; for he has learned that his power, however great, will not prevail against those forces of accident and nature to which he gives the names of gods, and has learned that he is mortal.

But the man of age, if he plays his assigned role properly, must see life as a comedy. For his triumphs and his failures merge, and one is no more the occasion for pride or shame than the other; and he is neither the hero who proves himself against those forces, nor the protagonist who is destroyed by them.

- John Williams in Augustus
all of these sweet confections were considered perfectly acceptable as a main course for lunch

The part that's going unsaid here is that these things were acceptable main courses because Americans at the time were not obsessed with putting things in their mouth every hour of every day. It wasn't nearly as common to eat breakfast, lunch, and then shove a thousand-calorie snack in between lunch and supper.
https://blakedietz.me