skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Eventually Russian factories will run out of machine spare parts and everything will grind to a halt

Probably not. The Russian economy is unusually self-reliant, a legacy of Soviet times. It's pretty common to discover that for some niche weird thing there are only a handful of manufacturers in the world and one of them is Russian.

For example: one reason it's hard to build nuclear reactors is that the containment hull has to be made of a special kind of steel that you can only buy from two companies in the world. One is Japanese, the other Russian.

In particular their military is unusually self reliant. That's why they're famous for weapons exports rather than imports.

> I do have a subscription to the Economist

The Economist was pretty consistently writing deranged propaganda about Russia even 5 years ago so I really doubt you're getting accurate information from it now.
I'm considered this but haven't tried it. Sorry to say this, but I think the problem with having to re-explain things is unavoidable unless you're rich, because you have to pay for your therapist's time, and that includes re-reading emails. I believe (I hope I'm wrong) that therapists who use email will not spend much time re-reading anything.
> "The issue central to the case was whether Microsoft was allowed to bundle its flagship Internet Explorer (IE) web browser software with its Windows operating system".

Netscape wanted to make money selling the browser, time has proved they were way wrong in their calculus as consumers are not willing to pay for a browser.

Hence it comes with the OS to give to the consumer the capability to go on the internet as soon as they turn on their computer for the first time.

Time also proved that browsers are not where the money is, search and social media is. Netscape missed search and made Microsoft miss search too due to he DOJ lawsuit, but it's a poor consolation given where Microsoft is today and where Netscape is today.

So Netscape was completely delusional, they went to cry to the feds, Microsoft got distracted defending themselves from the aforementioned feds and Google and Facebook benefited the dispute.
"The result is a ranking of the 1,000 jobs, with “Physicists” being the ones who have the lowest risk of being replaced by a machine, and “Slaughterers and Meat Packers”, who face the highest risk. In general, jobs in food processing, building and maintenance, construction and extraction appear to have the highest risk."

The researchers need to ask themselves why the "high risk" jobs have not already been at least partly automated, if they are so susceptible to robots. Perhaps get out of the lab/office, and go and look. Closely, and at length.

Brian Potter's "Construction Physics" blog[1] does a good job of explaining the situation in construction. Every site is different, with a different grouping of specialist subcontractors doing a wildly different array of tasks. Thousands of tasks. Automating one suite of tasks, such as drywall fixing, gets you maybe 0.3% of the way. And that alone is not trivial to do, because it's made up of many tasks, starting with truing up the framing (itself a whole suite of tasks) and finishing with the final skim and sand.

Building maintenance is even more varied and awkward to do.

In meat processing, robots would be a good way to increase costs, either through customer claims for faulty or contaminated product, or through increased manual re-work of things the robots do mostly correctly. Again, there are a great number of tasks each requiring R&D effort, and a great deal of variability in both the inputs and the required outputs. It'd be much easier to replace the whole system with plant-based meat substitutes.

These industries tend to be money contrained also, because they have limited growth potential and are competitive.

1. https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/construction-phys...
Technically, Russian conscripts did.
Obviously these are all just perfidious lies spread by the cultural marxists who control the media and academia.
I stopped using ubuntu on my servers and in my containers the day I tried to install a package, and it "succeeded", but then at runtime the binary I thought I'd installed just printed "This is now provided by a snap package, use that instead" and exited.

I consider ubuntu completely unsuitable for server and cloud. I don't think there is any use case they are suitable for anymore. Which is definitely sad.
500W is enough to power a bike strong enough an adult will have to fight to stay on top at first. 1600W seems plenty for a lot of devices.
Could a black hole exist in the same universe as a magnetic monopole?

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

If energy is related to matter by E=mc², then the electromagnetic field of the monopole would also be diminished by a black hole, if one truly exists. But there might only be a single monopole.

"Standard models of inflation solve the “monopole problem” by arguing that
the seed from which our entire visible Universe grew was a quantum fluctuation
so small that it contained only one monopole."

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14419512-600-do-we-li...

Scientifically I'm way out of my depth, but perhaps there's a perfect universe on the other side of the black hole/white hole/wormhole. Or perhaps the perfect design is already here, and when we find bugs, we should be working to improve the world around us to make it better over time. I know I can't do that alone, but by some miracle, technology seems to be helping.
Next stop, the Dyson sphere.
Sure. On the other hand you can usually chose which companies to interact with. When it comes to governments the relationship is not optional. Your government usually have more ways to affekt your life than most private companies has (like no fly lists).

A few years ago the true extent of the Swedish program for tracking left wing sympathisers became known. It ran from the sixties up until 1998. For example, if your car was seen outside of a left wing publication you could end up on a list somewhere. That caused you to be automatically excluded from 5-10% of all jobs without you never finding out about it until 20-30 years afterwards. Imagine wanting to become a police officer, a pilot or and engineer and never understanding that the reason you didn't get an interview was because you had parked in the wrong spot one day years before. Or that your sister briefly dated a left wing journalist at some point.
I have to manually search for the Google Play System updates on my Galaxy S21 and Z Flip 3 (both quite new phones) because they are not being installed automatically. My brother has the same problem with his Galaxy S21.
The Android vs iOS graphs don't tell us a lot since Android is the accumulation of many devices across various brands, while iOS is just Apple's iPhone.

Dividing the share by brand or even by price point reveals the true competition in the market, Apple performs well in their category and regularly achieves the most sold smartphone. When figures were available these also revealed that Apple took home the majority of smartphone profits (90%+), that is unlikely to have changed significantly (Not because iPhone margins were particularly special, but because the market is saturated by competitors with razor thin margins.)

The Android v iOS graph is heavily skewed by low-cost devices. Apple's focus on a meaningful midrange product, long OS support and a build quality that is well above the low-cost alternatives are likely the reason why Android's share has declined by this small amount.

That said Apple won't achieve dominance in the bulk figures because these are buttressed by low cost devices, such as those used in less wealthy and developing countries. Can a large share of Android users even afford an iPhone?

This is all good for google, as users = profit, but it's not particularly inviting for smart phone manufacturers who don't have enough margin to develop a meaningfully differentiated product.
They do preface with:

"It is not an exact science. It is not there to pigeonhole people or to be an excuse for bad behavior. It is just a useful framework for understanding yourself and others a little better. And the better you understand someone, the better you can work together."
Listen, I totally agree with you. It's total BS and should be better.

That being said, I also think your frustrated and typed word salad into the reply box.

I'm not apple. I don't like apple's practices. I don't own any apple devices (beyond what's required to support an iOS app) because I take an issue with the same things you do.

The reality is, if you want to support apple devices, you have to play their game, and that means updating your apps regularly. Sorry if you don't like it. I don't either.

Again, welcome to the real world.
I have aphantasia, but I can flip objects around and pass those questions on tests where you have to flip an object "in your head". I don't know how I pass those questions, but I can. It's almost an intuitive sense of which one is right.
>I have to use a web browser.

No you don't, I suggest getting a different career outside the IT department, if it really bothers you that much. No reason to take the path of most resistance with something that makes you unhappy.

>Reading and respoding to the changelogs is substantially better than no review.

No, not really. The reason this stuff with snap is happening to begin with is because distro maintainers don't have the resources to maintain a ton of patches on top of a giant browser that releases every month, even if they knew there was something objectionable in the changelog there may not be anything they can do about it in a reasonable amount of time.
Its usually less work to find the answer yourself than it is to try and find+hire someone for an hour.

The person who spends time selling themselves is not working/learning during that time. Their billable rate would be astronomical.

The curse of narrow specialization.
there was an earlier submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31025061, so I assume that was the cause. checking frontpage and new is not enough to find dupes, use the search function.
Applesoft II fit in 10 kilobytes of rom and had to be able to run in as little as 4 kilobytes of ram. The one thing that Microsoft was an expert at (in that era) was sacrificing features to fit.

There was no special version for machines with more ram or with a floppy disk.
I’m within 2km of Parliament and can’t get fibre. It’s disgusting.
> You don’t consider Mozilla trustworthy so you’ll use their browser but not if it’s packaged by them?

Exactly. The distribution maintainers are reviewers, who can remove the unwanted parts: https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1518

> Your distribution maintainers aren’t reviewing every line of code changes between Fx releases, ESR or not.

Actually, Redhat and SuSE guys are active in the development, especially the linux-specific functionality. However, when they package it, they don't have to follow Mozilla's agenda.
Maybe this is the way to make food plants insect-resistant.
Realistically, it was impossible for us (Argentines) to hold by military force to the islands. I'm sure all sort of things could have gone worse for the UK, but we were a military insignificant[0] country (ruled by an incompetent dictatorship) against a military power allied to the US.

[0] no disrespect meant to our soldiers, who did what they could in a senseless war.
>>Could you share your stories and thoughts on what you do to make your advice easier to accept?

Wait until it is asked for.
In principle looks good but lots of potential for going wrong.

Just hope this doesn't backfire. The cookie law was also a thing the EU created with good intentions after some politicians decided "omg cookies are bad" and we ended up still using cookies but pop-ups in every single website basically forcing you to accept the use of cookies.
You seem to be implying that this is a bad thing.

Diagnoses and categorisations are all fake, and constructed. The only reason why it's interesting to diagnose is that we may notice similar treatments are helpful for people with similar diagnoses. Diagnosis isn't inherently useful; it's a means to an end.
My pet peeve is that the new, inclusive terms are often more cumbersome. For example, allowlist is longer by a syllable. I know that it's hard, but I wish that people came up with terms that are just as handy as the old ones. Changing blacklist to blocklist is quite cool for one.
I'm fairly sure most of the 'dominionist' christian politics was based on expansionist bigotry, i.e. "lets go beat god into the heathens" and "cold is gods way of telling us we need to burn more protestants".

The modern victimhood isn't based on hiding in attacks, priest holes or being afraid to show your face in public, it's being a screaming matyr to some slight, imagined or not, and demanding the same level of attention for everything from nasty words to really injustice against fellow humans.

Again, I'm not saying either situation is correct, why we can't move past this childish way of viewing the world saddens me, but there is a difference between true oppression and standing up in-front of a crowd and claiming to be oppressed.
Yes I am actually using text-book definition of literal oppression here and not some imagined slight of someone against a large group of people who think differently.
The latter is akin to me feeling oppressed because I can't find or import the right cheeses/food that I grew up with where I live due to market forces and economics, the former is being told I can't do it because of some prejudice or law. There is and always will be an important difference here.
And the store usually stays online for another 3-4 years after the console's successor has come out
I first played this game at a home daycare where the husband worked at IBM. They had a computer in the house, which was extremely rare at the time. It was the first time I had ever seen or used one, and Lode Runner is the only thing I remember seeing and playing on that computer. I loved it so much my parents got me my first computer at 7 and it changed my life forever. It’s crazy the impact a single game can have on someone.

Ironically, my first computer couldn’t play Lode Runner!
The problem here is unity (which, by the way is one of the most popular game engines, and is often sold as the indie friendly, mobile friendly engine). Standard operating procedure for Unity games is pick the latest LTS engine version as the base for your project, and don't ever update, because the updates are _so_ much work it's untenable to keep up with them. (This was official advice given to us by a unity sales rep at one point in the last 2 years).

These aren't like node updates, these are closer to Firefox removing legacy extensions, except happening quarterly. There's no guarantee that something that is "stable" in your version will work the same way in a newer version. Unfortunately, the engine is tied to specific iOS SDK versions, so in order to use a more recent iOS SDK you're forced to upgrade your unity version alongside it...
I'm working with an IFS therapist. I haven't used that course. I am also reading Jay Earley's "Self-Therapy" book in conjunction, and that's been helpful.
What exactly is insane about it?

I was surprised when my parents had 1Gbit in 2009.
I was delighted when I could get 500Mbit in 2013.
I'm slightly miffed that I don't even get 1Gbit in 2022.
I literally laugh at providers attempting to convince me to get whatever with 10 or 20Mbit uplink speeds, in 2022l Yes, they exist.

Anyhow. What's insane about a 10Gbit uplink? I wired up my apartment for 1Gbit in 2001. I've been frustrated about home network speeds for 21 years. I do not understand why you consider 10Gbit insane.
> Is this really useful though. They will always tell you what you want to hear, just like you say what they want to hear.

100% it's useful.

First, not everyone is going to just tell you what you want to hear. I for one am entirely transparent in interviews, often criticizing the org. Hiring someone who doesn't like the culture is an absolute disaster.

Second, you should ask the same question to every person that interviews you. If you get a bunch of different answers you're probably getting bullshitted, or they just don't have a consistent answer across the org for what you are asking. That's valuable info either way.

Third, ask questions that don't have a "right" answer. If you ask "do people who work here care about the mission?" you're going to get a yes every time. If you ask "what would you say is the biggest source of motivation for you and your team?" you'll get lots of varied answers. I know because I've asked that question and gotten countless different ones.

For the leadership/management question they have no way to know what answer you are looking for when you ask about the management philosophy. If they give a nothing answer like "we try not to micromanage" then you push. You'll either find out what it is or you'll find out that the people you are asking don't know, which suggests that there isn't one.
It is optional but the alternative is also a pain to figure out and setup.
The western media has been working extra hard to suppress Nazism in Ukraine: https://mobile.twitter.com/elaadeliahu/status/15179484439222...
The containerization of snaps allows for easier control of different types of permissions. Of course the flip side of that is that snap packages often lose features because either the permissions aren't properly setup or the security model doesn't allow them. For example, the XSane (scanner) plug-in for GIMP was discontinued because GIMP moved to a containerized distribution, and the XSane developers aren't able to enable the permissions required to use scanners.
Surely, 2022 will be the year of Linux on the palmtop!
Words do have connotations, that's the reason why people use them - because they refer to similar concepts, even in different contexts.
An amazing sentiment calling the operating system used the most across the entire world an exception rather than it being a standard. And I don't know how you envoke the problem (yes problem) of broken dependencies on linux and think it adds to your argument on why this is a good move by Apple.
But they must be short and easy to understand by users. Like this:

"Our algorithms use gradient descent. Data flows through our connected tubes, slowly wiggling their size until the data starts flows back and forth faster."
I don’t think there is any evidence against the last one.
I recall some programs used to crash on Windows 95 and earlier with a big red "ILLEGAL OPERATION" error.

As a child, I was frightened to death. I didn't tell anyone otherwise the authorities would whisk me away.
Who else here learned today from this link that they too have Aphantasia
That's very interesting because I also have aphantasia, but I can flip objects and know which answer is correct. I don't know how to explain it, but I can do it. I also have no problem with cardinal directions, and I have no problems with right/left (although my ability to distinguish right/left was a later development than my peers).
That feels most correct to me, too. Snaps are an easy way to deallocate personnel from Desktop duties without harming Server. It sounds more like an attempt at a cost-saving measure than something that benefits customers.
Libraries do cull their collection and sell books that haven't been checked out in N years, though, which is sort of similar.
Chrome is malware
That would certainly seem unlikely

It's actually a proven matter of fact, so it's not really up for debate about whether it's likely or not. It happened already.

The few countries that publish infection rates by vaccine status all show the same thing: the vaccinated get infected with COVID at much higher rates than the unvaccinated and this has been getting worse with time. England, Denmark, New Zealand all show this. There may be other countries by now.

Most countries simply don't publish this basic statistic at all, which is all you need to know about the integrity of public health.

Really the only way that's possible is by vaccinated groups having different behavior

No, negative effectiveness has happened before with vaccines and there are biological pathways via which it can happen. In particular the COVID mRNA vaccines are immunosuppressant. This was known by Pfizer before approval but not mentioned anywhere - it came out during their document dumps. OAS/imprinting is another very likely candidate.
No, they are not from the original vendors... but also the original vendors were not interested in providing flatpaks themselves, so the community stepped in.

I have yet to see any volunteer to refuse handing off maintenance of the flatpak package to upstream.

If they listened to your advice, there would be no flathub at all.
That's a very heavy and expensive tool to solve the problem of "how do I install a web browser".
I feel like the name’s been funny for a decade and a half, and a new name might be coming, but GPU has been pretty synonymous with massively parallel vector/SIMD processor for a long time, right? Most still have some dedicated graphics functionality, but people have also been using them for high performance headless compute for quite a while. I certainly prefer just GPU over GPGPU. It seems hard to change though, and might be confusing to call it a vector processor, considering CPUs have vector/SIMD support. So what would be a better name?
There's also a symmetry concern. All parties to any conflict would be using something like GPS. But if only one has access to SBS, the others have less to lose by taking the fight into space.
That's a bit harsh. He's the one engaging an audience on more than one front performing as both a musician and successful YouTuber which the others aren't, and doing us a service as such exposing us to stuff we'll otherwise not ever encounter. He's publicly learning, including sharing his mistakes and entertaining and tries to keep 'fun' as part of journey. You may consider him a dime a dozen, but he's very far away from where I am, and therefore valueable to someone like me.

At some point claiming the person at the top of the ivory tower is the only one that knows the worth of something is useless if you can't get them to communicate with you.

Like anything you can really deep dive and get lost in you can end up lonely places that outsiders can't fathom. I found it quite poignant in Steven Levy's 'Hackers' book where Lee Felenstein remarks on all the focus on computer progress "You're doing all that the the computer? What are you doing for the people?"

You can still participate and get a value and joy out of something whilst being ignorant of its formations and there's nothing wrong with that. We're all standing on the shoulders of giants so to speak.
I generally take disinformation to entail some nefarious intent on the part of the source and those who amplify it. Misinformation is more akin to just noise, irrelevant or confusing details that obfuscate the truth.

The problems of course are determining when and where exactly someone has ill intent, and when information is unhelpful noise. This seems likely to remain a qualitative endeavour.
You can download them from Safari and select 'VLC', for one...otherwise you can easily use Finder on Mac to just drag it over to the VLC documents folder on your iPhone - not sure about Windows.
> The phenomenon of mental illness & trauma-based clout is intriguing and I don’t really understand it.

Society right now likes to reward people who seek some form of victimhood, so it's no surprise people would fraudulently claim they are victims for internet brownie points, or donations... it's just an aspect of our ultra narcissistic society, tik tok driven.