skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All three of these engage our entire bodies, senses, and hands in an integrated, much deeper way than a controller and rectangle of pixels does.

I think this very well might be the major difference between those pursuits and screen media. The latter can not yet both simulate those experiences and stimulate the body at the same time.

This distinction between physical experiences from those that solely stimulate the mind, I feel, is the only way you can prioritize the worthiness of one over the other. Certainly it feels exhausting to have consumed a bunch of content that stimulated the mind while the body was immobile the entire time, yes. But I think any further value judgments between the two are subject and based on one's own moral philosophy. In many cases, examples of the "real" can be as morally judged against. For instance, the idea of billionaires and politicians buying lavish ranches and then mugging for the camera while they're playacting as farmers and cowboys when they are just living out a caricature of real labor.

If the key difference between the physical and the purely intellectual is the lack of effects on the former, one wonders if the end goal will be to be able to stimulate the body while the mind is being stimulated (even if only by simulation), or deeper and invasive forms of mind stimulation that make it appear as if the body has been stimulated as well. Rest assured, our top giant corporations are working on this problem even as we speak.
> Also, if people get discriminated against based on their nationality and you just said a black person can't possibly be From Here...

The nationality thing is more about those who work customer-facing jobs here. Like, you call a taxi, it arrives but you can't find where. You call the driver to ask where they stopped, but the driver is from Tajikistan or Uzbekistan and barely speaks any Russian. It is frustrating when you can't use your native language in your home country for something as mundane as asking the taxi driver where they are. Besides, they usually do their jobs much more shoddily, get paid less, and have lower standards. So, yes, these people have this kind of reputation, but every rule has its exceptions.

But then if someone is a foreign student for example, they are never treated like that. So I guess this discrimination is not against the nationality per se, but against people bringing their customs into someone else's society and refusing to blend in?
well, society advertised that angle 40 years ago, yes: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when...

Unfortunate effect given that some 30 years later that social media would make tech much more universal. But this media portrayal of the "tech nerd" wasn't spread over a year and won't be solved in a year.
For "how things work", I recommend the book Code by Charles Petzold. After that, Jon Stokes's Inside the Machine will give a lot of details on CPU architectures up to Intel's Core 2 Duo. You can also try following along a computer engineering book if you want to go that low in detail with exercises,
Digital Fundamentals by Floyd is a common textbook (I have an old 8th edition).

History-wise, enjoy learning slowly because there's so much that even if you dedicated yourself to it you wouldn't be "done" any time soon! Some suggestions in order though:

Watching The Mother of All Demos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY

A short clip of Sketchpad presented by Alan Kay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=495nCzxM9PI

An article from the 40s that also inspired Engelbart: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-m...

The Information by James Gleick

What the Dormouse Said by John Markoff

The Psychology of Computer Programming by Gerald Weinberg

Lastly, to mix up in whatever order you please, some paper collections:

Object-Oriented Programming: The CLOS Perspective edited by Andreas Paepcke

History of Programming Languages papers for various langs you're interested in, here's the set from the second conference in 1993 https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/154766 but there have been further conferences to check out too if it's interesting

Also all of the Turing Award winners' lectures I've read have been good https://amturing.acm.org/lectures.cfm

All that and some good recommendations others have given should keep you busy for a while!
I don't really use Snapchat right now, but I constantly get spammed with friend invites from random "women" that I assume are fake accounts. Of course, Snapchat doesn't let you refuse obvious spam requests via notification (but they do let you accept them), so you have to open the app to clear the spam. A clear dark pattern and I would take these usage metrics with a huge grain of salt.
From the top of my head (before reading the article):

caches, pipelining, branch prediction, memory protections, SIMD, floating point at all, hyper threading, multi-core, needing cooling fins or let alone active cooling

I wonder how much I've forgotten
Without knowing much of how Indian law is spelled out, this would be very clearly permitted language in every other liberal democracy. The narrow exceptions for "fighting words" need to be very explicit physical threats. Insults, even lies, are well within the realm of protected speech. Protection against causing offense is exactly what free speech rules are written for. Americans say absolutely awful things about our presidents whether or not they're true and none have ever been punished for expressing an opinion no matter how odious.

Modi and the BJP may not literally worship an assassin, but they absolutely do support violent confrontation against Muslims. The kind of thing that is not only offensive and "fighting words" but a very real existential threat against a minority of Indian citizens. Yet they don't receive punishment because they have the protection of the government. It makes it seem very obvious that this prosecution is just government oppression.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/world/asia/india-hate-spe...
> If I could figure out a way to give you more control over your own data would this still be a flop for you?

For me? Probably not, but you shouldn't target me, I'm pretty out of the mainstream. As far as data use, I would think your best bet is plain language describing what you do with it, and of course complying with relevant law.

Clearly describing your use close to where it is entered would make you more user-respectful than probably 95% of random internet services, and I would think would satisfy nearly everyone.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iKcWu0tsiZM

A short-film/parody on how an extreme obsession with inclusive speech makes it impossible to communicate clearly without consequences.
There is a difference between a law in paper and its enactment. There are various laws in the constitution of india that can be conveniently represented to prosecute someone on the basis of their speech. There is significant evidence of such happenings only increasing lately
It'd be interesting if the PFAS could be filtered out before being transferred to the next person.
It's disappointing that there doesn't seem to be a "hobbyist" price tier. Maybe that's what the "web" product is intended for.
'Whitelist' and 'blacklist' have nothing to do with race, they never had anything to do with race, and anyone who thinks they do is, quite simply, wrong. Knowing these facts, this is nothing like calling a black man 'boy' or using the n-word — so bringing them up is irrelevant.
I do find weekly drops for 30 minute comedies sort of annoying but I'm fine with weekly releases of serialized dramas which mean that you can discuss things/read discussions only with other people watching along at the same pace.

That said, I mostly don't binge watch and maybe it would bug me more if I did.
I encourage people to actually read Garrett's comments, which include repeated admonitions to take Urbit seriously because Yarvin "isn't an idiot"; he believes it's bad on the merits, not by association to Yarvin. If you ask for a litigation of Curtis Yarvin on this thread, you'll get one, and it isn't going to help your project.
I haven't heard of PFAS before but the findings kind of sounds straightforward? If something that can be synthesised by the body gets contaminated by external pollutants, it should get purer by removing part of the contaminated material since it's going to be replaced by newly synthesised supplies and result in dilution of the pollutant.

In other words, dilution is solution of pollution[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvnllquGmgg
I listen to a lot of high brow and low brow humor. I probably hear 20 fart and dick jokes in a given week. I'm not against or above it.

That has nothing to do with infantilization in our culture. The fact that they also had fart and dick jokes in the past has no bearing on this.

The fact that adults in our culture form their identity around low quality super hero movies in a desperate attempt to recapture their youth and seem fun and then run off to buy the little toys from the ads is the infantilization.
Interesting point about L1 cache sizes and the relationship between page size

> Also, first-level caches are usually limited by the page size times the associativity of the cache. If the cache is smaller than that, the bits used to index into the cache are the same regardless if whether you're looking at the virtual address or the physical address, so you don't have to do a virtual to physical translation before indexing into the cache. If the cache is larger than that, you have to first do a TLB lookup to index into the cache (which will cost at least one extra cycle), or build a virtually indexed cache (which is possible, but adds complexity and coupling to software). You can see this limit in modern chips. Haswell has an 8-way associative cache and 4kB pages. Its l1 data cache is 8 * 4kB = 32kB.

Having helped build the virtually indexed cache of the arm A55 I can confirm it's a complete nightmare and I can see why Intel and AMD have kept to the L1 data cache limit required to avoid it.

Interestingly Apple may have gone down the virtually indexed route (or possibly some other cunning design corner) for the M1 with their 128 kB data cache. However I believe they standardized on 16k pages which would allow still allow physical indexing with an 8 way associative cache. So what do they do when they're running x86 code with 4k pages? Does they drop 75% of their L1 cache to maintain physical indexing? Do they aggressively try and merge the x86 4k pages into 16k pages with some slow back-up when they can't do that? Maybe they've gone with some special purpose hardware support for emulating x86 4k pages on their 16k page architecture. Have they just indeed implemented a virtually indexed cache?
Why don't they just plant a chip in our brains that prevents us from typing these words in the first place, and be done with it?
I don’t think you understand the anxiety of having dependents on you and not having a job, even if you’ve a cushion for a fixed period of time.
You gain the value of service without paying the requested fee. If you weren't going to watch it, you wouldn't. Watching it, without paying for it is theft and it takes money from me.
If you finished that paragraph (or even that sentence), you would have found that the author agrees with you!

> It takes years of practice to become a terminal guru, but here's the good news: we can take a shortcut. We don't really need to know 98% of the stuff you can do with a terminal. If we focus on the most-important critical fundamentals, we should be able to become comfortable with the command line in a remarkably short amount of time.
Thanks for posting this. It's quite informative. The venn-diagram website is worth the price of admission alone.

Question, if a conglomerate owns both a major corporate news company and a major federal defense company doesn't that represent a conflict of interest since the news giant can effectively promote information, such as a war in Iraq or Ukraine, that encourages federal defense spending that, then, directly benefits the the defense company?
Russia is also not (and cannot be) the reason Netflix themselves project a 2.7m subscriber loss for the next quarter.
Leaflet, an open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
This is not a book this is a speech (I dont even think this is excerpt from a book so I am not sure where this book idea is coming from) And yes he even in the next paragraph says that a lawless society is horrible.
"I have spent all my life under a Communist regime and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed."

I dont think he nor I think of it as "neckbeards constantly testing limits" but as the whole of society; specifically the area that matters here is corporations.

I am not into Crypto blah blah solutions. I am simply arguing that yet another random specific law doesnt seem to fix the issue.

Using legal mechanisms to solve these kind of issues is ineffective, inefficient, and inegalitarian.
Russian submarines launch cruise missiles at Ukraine from Black Sea
> People who have problems with the founder of this project are not crazy randos.

The founder divested himself of the project yet the current top comment doesn't want to touch Urbit as if it is cursed by his ghost.

It's these same sorts of comments that drag down all discourse because they prohibit any other state than negative. It's these same comments that pollute any healthy attempt at discourse around crypto here with the Evil Eye that just pushes any one with a different idea to the HN hivemind out.

> What makes Urbit worth taking more seriously than those ideas?

This is explained, in technical and philosophical depth in the links provided you.
>>Either you have a use for that - enough of a use that you're willing to pay for it - or you don't.

I think this is the crux of a lot of it. You only need one lead/rockstar/ninja/10x* for every 10-20 'developers'. And, as you said, there is always the fear they will leave tomorrow for 2x the money...

*) I wanna see 'evil genius' next! :-)
I think that’s a prime example for the shortcomings of machine learning. It can only “learn” from what is known, anything unknown can be potentially a catastrophe. I believe with the current AI in its infancy, a combination of rule-based and machine learning would be a more dependable approach.
Are weeded out, or do they weed themselves out?
Hmm. I think the person I responded to had a pretty critical take on the author's essay, misrepresenting it as "golden values conservatism", when the author made very clear illustrations of what was better about the older CBs. It's not conservatism when the old stuff really was better.

To your point about the comic book medium, I think it's worth separating the superhero concept from the format it was presented in. I don't think it would have been impossible to bring superheroes into the 80s and 90s, same as we had incorruptible heroes like Robocop. What makes them kid-friendly isn't the artistry or the goriness of the setting, as author pointed out, both Spider-Man and Batman were borne out of death, it's the undying nature of their commitment to fight evil. When you start messing with that you get outside of the capacity of a seven year-old to follow, relate with, and fall in love with it. Has nothing to do with cutesy graphics.
I used to love Fusion 360, but I eventually moved to Linux and couldn't use my school's copy, so I gave it up. I've mostly used Blender to replace it, and while their workflows are definitely not 1:1 comparable, Blender can still do 90% of the things Fusion can, with a much more palatable price tag.
I meant I've heard older people talk about loyalty explicitly.
PBS made a "crash course" computer science series that covers a lot of topics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpIctyqH29Q&list=PLH2l6uzC4U...
So that somehow justifies unequal treatment of people in another state? The only long term solution is not being part of the problem by discriminating on anything except on value brought to the job.
Holy straw man, Batman!
> given a choice between death and HIV, the blood recipient would still want the blood

…yes?
> "all the girls that should be in CS are going to math instead, they think CS is a boys' club"

One of my female classmates who took an intro CS as an elective hated how the class was run. Essentially half the class was already proficient in programming and were expected to solve the problems on your own without talking. This was different than my math classes which were more likely to have female teachers and we were to work in groups to solve problems (this was how precalc was done).

She said she felt scared by the expectation to already know these things before the class begun and all the silence while working.
Your point still stands, but there was never a formal prosecution or conviction (he fled to Finland before it got that far):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeping_crucifix_in_Mumbai
yes. Let's turn this place into r/technology
You're probably right. For what it's worth, I'm like the parent and for me at least that stuff isn't why I cancelled, it's what pushed me over the edge. I don't watch Netflix much (poor catalog, maybe lack of discoverability), but I don't notice $20 going away either and would keep the service if it provided much value at all. Cancelling had been on my list for years.

I finally cancelled when I realized that whenever I did go look at it to see what's available it felt like there was more agenda pushing than entertainment, which itself made me check for content less often in the first place. Netflix won't miss my money, I may be in a small minority. It may be they get more subscribers for their politics than they lose (I'm sure they think so).
If you are forced to treat your social media metrics as the center of your life because your friends say that you have to, then I submit that the issue is your choice of friends.
This is the XRP ledger without XRP
That's not what we're talking about here. OP specifically mentioned working on projects unrelated to work.
> If women in aggregate are more interested in biology than computer science, that is fine.

Do you think there is something innate in women that makes them less interested in computer science? Personally I find that extremely unlikely. The only other explanation for why they would self-select away from tech is that they feel they're being told to. That might be fine by you, but I think it's a problem.
>Women used to be dominant in computing. Literally were the computers

This is pathetic cope and completely misleading. The "programming" of that time had almost nothing to do with the modern practice. These "computer" roles were for number crunching, not software development.

You're bending over backwards to deny the fact that men and women are biologically predisposed to certain interests. Why? Is it some weird sort of insecurity?

>It has nothing to do with intelligence curves.

It has literally everything to do with intelligences curves. The male distribution of intelligence has a wider variance - that's a statistical descriptor of the normal distribution. This means there are more men at the extremes of both ends of the curve. And an inescapable consequence is that men will be overrepresented among knowledge workers in meritocratic system. Don't worry, you can take solace in the fact that this also suggests a larger population of male criminals because it also means there are more dumb men at the other end of the spectrum.

The lengths to which people will go to deny the effects of meaningful, proven differences among demographics is infuriating. It's gaslighting and it helps absolutely no one in the long run, assuming you want a functioning society.
> This is something we all know intuitively and it's the constant onslaught of capitalism and the ease of consuming media at home that makes us forget.

I don't think this is at all "something we all know intuitively". It also applies to basically any kind of content consumption, including reading books, listening to opera, or watching any kind of cinema. These don't "engage our entire bodies, senses, and hands", and yet they can be valuable activities that enrich us greatly. At the same time I don't get a lot out of sitting around in a boat for hours; if I want to be left alone to my thoughts I'd rather be on a walk (which I'd argue doesn't necessarily engage my entire body either -- I'm generally lost in thought and have no idea what my body's doing while on a walk).

There's really nothing special about an activity being tactile. I can solve a problem in my own head without touching a damned thing. And watching good movies, or playing good video games, can engage my imagination and help me be more empathic or a better problem solver.

Also, I can play video games without brutally murdering a living creature that feels pain, so that's nice.
I think there is a certain expectation that after 10-20 years in the industry you bring some added value a fresh grad won't bring. Surely you must have learned a few things, no? If not that's not a great sign.
Chess statistics do not show evidence of a significant difference:

https://en.chessbase.com/post/what-gender-gap-in-chess
> For more modern coins that’s actually quite common. There are fewer collectors because the coins are so expensive.

FWIW modern gold coins (as in after countries went off of the gold standard) are pretty much only collectors or investment items e.g. the "Eagle" coins stopped being circulation coins in 1933, but since 1986 the US mint started issuing new "bullion" coins. These are legal tender at their face value, but the face value is nowhere near actual value (e.g. the 1oz $50 coin is currently worth about $2000 as gold prices have skyrocketed in the last three years)
I bet they were all traditional Bush/Romney/McCain conservatives and not Trump/MAGA “conservatives” who have overtaken the Republican Party.
The world is full of problems. We are looking at actual massive potentially civilization or species ending issues in the large and dealing with trying to make a living, manage illness, deal with death, parenting in the small.

If you live in a big city you probably walk by people in the street slowly dying from a drawn out form of suicide because you can't possible change all their lives on your way to the grocery store or coffee shop and people at large are choosing to do the same with your income stream. They opt to deal with problems more important and more personal than fixing the way in which culture is monetized so as to funnel slightly more money to rich folks who could do more for society as soylent green in hopes that a few extra bucks will stick to the hands of useful folks like yourself.

For myself I'm not angry nor do I have any intention of fixing the problem because nobody with any decision making power gives two shits what my opinion on anything is. I have monetarily in life about nothing and indeed will have nothing tomorrow and the next day. You feel like people are violating the social contract by not paying for multimedia. Part of your problem is that you even believe that we are part of the same society or share the same ethics.

We really aren't. I am not the benefactor of the current situation nor do I have any meaningful power to negotiate new ground rules or even enforce existing ones so rejection makes worlds more sense.

You say stop downloading and I hear enjoy poverty but with fewer books, music, movies, games. I wont actually be supporting the folks you mentioned to any greater degree but you will find such more ethically palatable. HALF of America is sharing 12% of the income. We don't have anything but you can stick a $200 PC and plug it into a $20 monitor and courtesy of a $10 internet essentials package download as many books music movies shows as you can possibly consume.

I don't feel like making my shitty life shittier in order for you to feel better. Artificial scarcity is a dumb way to run a society and its not my fault the people with all the money in this society have chosen it.
There are two kinds of “no evidence”!

https://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/08/doctor-there-ar.html