skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(1) Family at Thanksgiving, Christmas, or Easter.

(2) Making it through the worst bottleneck in civilization, bad documentation of computer hard/software, and then getting my software that uses that hard/software to work.

(3) A new, really good performance of some of the best music of the top few classical music composers, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Wagner, Puccini, Verdi, Tchaikovsky.

I would list proving a new theorem or making a successful application of some theorems, but that pleasure was ruined for me: I had a good background in math (career, independent study, college) and computing (career) both a good career and a good marriage going, and my wife, brilliant, PBK, etc., and I decided to go to a famous research university and each get a Ph.D. When we left I had been in a multi-year, highly threatening, bitter, no holds barred bar fight with lots of jealous professors. That I (a) by far led the class in the department Chair's flunk-out, filter course, (b) did the best in the class on 4 of the 5 qualifying exams (c) in two weeks independently did surprising, publishable research (later published), and (d) had good progress on my dissertation research when I arrived and easily, quickly completed the research independently all just made the fighting more bitter. It appears that the fighting caused 5 of the professors, including the department Chair, to be fired. And there were at least 3 more profs fighting me. One of the profs, famous, I happened to meet some years later, and he still wanted to fight with me. My wife was treated poorly, for the first time in her life of a brilliant, spotless academic record, and the stress put her into a depression and a clinical depression that proved fatal. When we got our Ph.D. degrees and left, my career was junk, my marriage was junk, my finances were ruined, and my wife was fatally injured. Three profs tried to be nice to me, and two of them taught me some good things, but nearly all the rest of the profs I knew just tried to destroy me. And one of my wife's profs tried to destroy her. So, tough for me to get much pleasure out of research or applications of math. Weekly the university sends me requests to send them money -- HA!!!!

Solution: Take advantage of the current fantastic, historic opportunities of computing and the Internet to pick a niche problem, find a best solution for the niche, write some code, do a startup, solve the problem. So, sole, solo founder, 100% owner, with no teachers, profs, managers, BoD, or investors over me. Users interact with my Web site and nearly never with me. Revenue? Run ads I get from ad networks, etc. One more instance of revenge of the nerds!
I had similar question when I was reading the GIMP 3.0 thread the other day. Are there any legal issues, if someone made Open Source CAD that has a 99.999% similar UI to AutoCAD or in GIMP's case Photoshop?
one of the more disturbing things about the last 5-10 years is the apparent normalisation of the sinister occult.

Black magic is not a game and is not all fake.

The goal of genuine practitioners is no less than a violent installation of a new world order at first by covert and subtle means, later by increasingly overt subversion.

At this point our goose is cooked. The pot is boiling and the frog is dead. All that is left is the Apocalypse, or unmasking.
this is funny because I wanted to create a dead man's switch api that you could add to your programs. I have the domain dead.io and was planning to use this for it but never got around to it. You can see the project on introvert.com - let me know if you want to partner up on this
I'm I weird for thinking "writing <x> out of history" is a really bad idea no matter what x happens to be?
Windows increments from 95 to Win 7 seemed to improve things (not everything, amazing stasis in some places). I like that the UI was more consistent, more attention to things like Fitt's law, fewer secret gestures and better keyboard/mouse parity on the OS/GUI aspects than Mac. Since 7, seems downhill.

So to answer your question: "Since Win 7 came out".
I'm also curious about the flammability. I did some Googling and wasn't able to find a concise answer. It seems like the beams themselves can be fireproofed with a non-wood cladding, or another study said they can be over-specced to give a 1 hour fire resistance rating. Another study said that steel connectors are typically used, and cladding for the wood-steel connection is an unresolved issue.

It seems like people are using them, so I presume it's safe. I don't think I would want to live in them until we've seen a bunch of them catch on fire. I'd probably be fine with it up to 3 stores, but anything higher would make me concerned.
That's because nobody uses those graphics primitives anymore, and by removing the legacy cruft graphics device drivers can be simplified. Aero/modern UI, by contrast, is much closer to how the modern Windows graphics stack actually works, so it makes sense for Microsoft to move everybody to it and deprecate GDI except for legacy applications.
It might just be that you don't like certain hours. I actually prefer 7 AM to 3 PM, with the lunch break at 3, with family. Then I spend time with family, go for a walk, etc.

Early day lets me get stuff done uninterrupted. It also means I get stuff done by 3 PM, instead of 6, so there's more time to toss it to someone to look at.
Because it was the matter of survival and existence of Russia as the nation in the WW2? Amazing things happen when you are under attack.

What are the same threats to Russia today? They are under no threats from the outside. Simple as that. The issue is that they’ve become increasingly irrelevant. They may work to become a modern economy. Russia is full of educated people, with a proud culture. Or they may rely on their past glory, expanding their empire by interfering with their neighbors. They’ve chosen the latter.
Among the fusion concepts that does not heat water is Helion's. For that reason (and some others) I consider it the least dubious of the various commercial fusion approaches.
Yeah, Tesla will certainly hit the same dilemma as the other growth companies, but it hasn’t gotten anywhere near there yet.
Giving different programs different audio outputs is trivial with ALSA, just set the ALSA_CARD environment variable for the program.
The majority of the hypothetical Reed Hastings in that scenario are also borrowing against and investing off of that $1B in equity. Maybe he should have diversified better, and I don’t see why the average person should care.
The line between app and site is fuzzy IMO. Does cloudflare's documentation reader count as an app or a site? They certainly wrote it as an SPA.
> Algol on the Alto, like Smalltalk, had a VM

Was there really an Algol compiler on the Alto? Do the authors rather mix that up with BCPL (which isn't mentioned otherwise in the paper)?
> To propose that each new type of data encountered requires a new version of the extension is a farce.

How can a program operate meaningfully on data that the programmer knows nothing about? I'd love for you to describe an actual example.
Specifically, for a note-taking app, a subscription model is discouraging. I don't want access to the history of my thoughts tied to a recurring payment. On the other hand, if I stopped paying for IntelliJ, I can open my code with any variety of free or paid IDEs (ignoring the fact that I can use a 12-month old version of IntelliJ indefinitely).
what is misinformation?
The line between app and site is fuzzy IMO. Does cloudflare's documentation reader count as an app or a site? They certainly wrote it as an SPA. Hackernews seems more like something I would call an app etc.
The S5 was thinner than the contemporary iPhone and within 1mm of the 13 Pro Max
I keep hearing this $100+ argument all the time, but do you really need all the services simultaneously? As you point out, there isn't that much to watch. So just unsubscribe for a few months, let the new content build up and safe money in the meantime.
Related: to see their cities reduced to ashes.
This just sounds like consulting. Which you can do now.

In-house corporate lawyers most certainly have a VP ordering them around.
I don't know how to control for other factors, like bus speed and RAM bandwidth, but:

- 2007 single-core performance: Geekbench 5 score ~ 500.

- 2021 MacBook Air M1 single core: 1750

Ok, only a factor of 3 or so. And only 2x as many cores.

I'm comparing Core 2 Extreme to a low power portable design, albeit one with notably high single-core performance.
And then we'll see the corner we've truly painted ourselves into.

I could imagine a scenario where an angry public demands the government take control of hospital finances.

Not that it's necessarily a good thing, but I could see it panning out that way.
> “Soil is the foundation of life – and Asian jumping worms change it. In fact, earthworms can have such huge impacts that they’re able to actually reengineer the ecosystems around them,”

So, they sound like people.
> 3. We still don't have a good long-term plan for dealing with processing waste at scale;

Who is 'we' that should come up with the plan? Government? Most westerners don't like government planning - your own post considers government involvement as a downside. We expect the market to manage most things, but markets don't come up with long term plans, that's not their function.

If you come with a subject at random and ask, 'do we have a long term plan for X', generally the answer is no.

We don't have a good term long-term plan for dealing with global warming, the oil running out, falling birthrates for some nations, rising house prices, or for anything really.
>Netflix is further eroding its connection to audiences through its unwritten mandate to end the vast majority of its new shows after no more than three seasons, with only the very biggest (or most cost-efficient) scripted hits lasting longer.

One of my favorite shows by far was Disjointed. It was a very silly Stoner take on Roxanne. Cancelled after 2 seasons.

I get the feeling Netflix doesn't want niche shows, everything needs to be Squid Game.

I imagine experimenting with other rev models might work. You can already buy Stranger Things on DVD.

Let me buy the shows I want a la carta.

I've found Disney Plus / Hulu to be a better deal. Surprisingly stuff like Marvel What IF tends to be much more enjoyable compared to whatever animation Netflix is putting out.

Hulu has a better back catalog,

HBO Max has a better bang for buck when it comes to investing my time. The shows have decent writing.

Half the Netflix shows feel like you took a 20 year old English major, paid them in Blue Moon and asked them to write a script.

The best thing ends up being the show premise, once I have to sit down and watch it I'm not having a good time
everything is fake, even unscripted tv
It would obviously work the same way a realized loss works currently. They’d be able to offset the loss against other gains and carry over any excess loss into future tax years.
> Per-application volume

Why would I want per-app volume? Pretty sure all relevant apps have a setting for that.

> headphone jack detection

What do you mean by this? My headphone jack works just fine with just ALSA and no configuration.

> probably 5 other things I use daily but don't know about

Doubt.
Until they are given notice of a judicial proceedings, they don't have an obligation to retain evidence. (There is an exception that doesn't appear to apply here.)
Actually, no, this is not necessary for 1atm water resistance. See: the Samsung Galaxy S5 that was made out of ABS plastic, and had an easily removable battery with 0 fasteners. It was IP67 rated.
I relate to this so hard. It's hard to know what other people work on, but I haven't worked on a web site in over a decade, and it's just honestly hard for me to relate to people who can't understand the user experience benefits of within-page interactivity.
I don’t get it; they lost a ton when they banned Russia but if you take that out they did get subscribers overall. Oversold?
BTC solves the problem of techies not being as rich as bankers, not inequality. It simply shifts who is on top.
They touch on it at the end but I think it is under-appreciated ... the big benefit of a SPA is continuity of client side state. I don't actually care whether it's one page or ten but it does simplify things enormously that I can maintain a single model object and not have to persist it in and out of local storage or even worse have all the complex UI state replicated on the server side to maintain continuity, just because the user clicked a button or something. Especially with reactive frameworks where updating the model automatically triggers re-rendering of the UI everywhere it needs to, a whole piece of complexity in your architecture just goes away.
Interesting to call out Netflix for high price and then the examples for torrenting are Apple shows which is much cheaper.
Hook for Mac: Replace search with focus
Smartphone software being pure garbage along with the games Qualcomm and the network operators play make up the rest of the story.
> I hope nobody is using react to build their content in 2022.

Unfortunately they are. People are using React for things that aren't apps.
These are very nearly the exact opposite of the tagging ideas/motives on del.icio.us, an early popular system with tagging. There were lots of people who made similar arguments at the time as well! I thought they were wrong then and nothing has really appeared along the lines of what you're describing to convince me otherwise but it's probably worth taking more whacks at.
A farm bot? https://farm.bot

Around $1.5-6k
Isn't the whole point of stock investments for consumers is to grow their money. All this ethics/morals is all passe . What they want is to invest in oil, defense companies and then talk to real people about global warming and peace on earth.
In a yield-chasing world, there's always a fair amount of correlation between liquid "assets".
I an idiot who isn't confident. Check mate!
While the governments' (plural, all the recent ones) car-centrism and lack of action on new energy are disapppointing (so 20th century), I disagree for a couple of reasons.

Main reason: end-user subsidies of any kind (whether for cars or for rooftop solar or $asset) are merely a transfer from poor taxpayers to high-income or wealthy people, those who own their homes or can afford to purchase the asset. They entrench inequality.

I'd be able to tolerate subsidies if NZ funded them with a smallish fraction of a capital tax/land value tax and/or a capital gains tax. (Such taxes being recommended by the Tax Working Group but rejected by successive governments).

The idea of low-income people buying EVs is ludicrous. The typical budget for a "good" car where I work is NZD $2000 - $6000, and it's a very significant purchase.

Second reason. NZ doesn't actually have a lot of land suitable for solar that doesn't have higher-value uses, but it does have a lot of wind, and wind power can share land use. Although wind is not as cheap as solar, it's cheaper than everything else (except already-built hydro). Wind farms are being built now in unsubsidised projects with ordinary commercial leases from land owners.

Bonus reason: hydro operators don't need subsidies; it's worth them installing some solar on their lakes today. They are merely as anti-entrepreneurial as the governments.
Yup I tuned out 100% after that.
It’s when you disagree with me.
I worked at a large tech company replacing an internal MPA website with a SPA replacement. The MPA website was built in the 2000s, it was unmaintainable, and it was generally duct-taped together. The SPA website was new, shiny, and build on the hottest technologies at the time. But screen readers had a hard time understanding the SPA. Where the MPA favored simplicity and used <select> elements for its dropdowns, the SPA used a custom component that consisted of <div> soup with some JS. It took considerable effort to make the SPA friendly to screen readers.

I'm not convinced that the SPA architecture was the source of the problem. A MPA with <div> soup everywhere would have had the same problem. However, these sorts of issues seem to be more common in SPA than MPA. There might be some correlation between using SPA architecture and reckless overindulgence.
“Holy shit — he’s still vertical!”
Someone that is using React is probably also using X, Y and Z library and 10MB is realistic.
It is not a new idea. Typescript (for example) does something similar.
I'm not saying I don't use version control. The company I worked at 14 years ago wasn't using version control. They are now.
"All I ever really wanted was a jungle, and a jungle I got. See, it ain’t the vision — it’s the plot that makes me stop." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__2vz28V0Qo
Consumers want high quality, entertaining content, at low cost, with little commitment, at any time. Prior to Netflix, there wasn't such an intersecting product. Now, Netflix has low quality content, but still has all the other stuff. Consumers see this, forget what life was like back in the early 2000s, and switch/sign up for several other services. It's where consumers spend their money that will result in this regression.

You ask what this person should have done? Not sign up for other services. The other providers are better quality, but regresses on all the rest of the experience. Youtube TV is more than $60 a month. Disney+ great content, but an extremely narrow content offering ("few but ripe"). HBO lagged like crazy when the season finale of GOT came out. When the regular person you asked about spends money on these other services, it encourages them to grow. The content is great, but the bad-experience, price, and schism is what they will get in return. They are unknowingly demanding it.
Yep, priority inversion is how RTOSes handle the problem too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority_inversion
Why bother intruding into a discussion to announce how exhausted you are by it? It means nothing to us, and it's more effort for you. You could just ignore it and be less exhausted.
Fair point, but he also had the opportunity to buy Twitter for 500m and passed on it.
Ah, indeed. I am a fan of larger burritos.
Solar cells generate DC, but this is converted to AC with power electronics: the inverter is the main one. These are all just very high wattage semiconductors, but like all semiconductors, they can be destroyed by a transient event like a lightning strike, or a high fossil-fuel power plant dropping offline. To prevent the power electronics from being destroyed when this happens, they are protected by safety systems which "trip," and isolate them from the grid.

There are loads of designs for grid isolation, but most are big circuit breakers, and break the connection by rotating the conductor out of contact, powered by gravity or a spring.

So I think you're basically right, and right to be confused. The solar connection of the risk isn't really clear. But as far as I can tell, they're concerned about a positive feedback loop, where a thermal plant dropping offline will cause a solar plant to trip, which might cause other solar plants to trip. Perhaps solar plants' power electronics are more delicate, and more likely to trip, than thermal plants' switchyard gear. Again, it's not totally clear.
Related video by a YouTuber who worked as a carpenter before making carpentry related vids.

https://youtu.be/xP0egqOivKc
Some cryptos do have real-world benefits - https://investmentu.com/santos-crypto/
The question is asked like it is some sort of gotcha, but there are clear answers for both the general proposals floating around:

(a) wealth tax. Every year each household with over $XX million in net worth pays y% of the amount above the threshold in taxes. No refund if your net worth goes down in subsequent years.

(b) treat unrealized capital gains as income. Each year you pay income taxes on the increase in the value of your stock portfolio, even if you don’t sell. Any losses can be written off subsequent years’ taxes.
It’s such an own goal to take massively distributed and resilient power generation with no inherent single point of failure and just give it one anyway.
Ukraine will never be equal to Russia militarily. Its 1/10th the population.

It’s in Ukraines best interest to find some co-existence with Russia at an acceptable cost.

NATO is not going to do it for them and in fact is happy to sacrifice Ukraine if it benefits the overall security of Western Europe.
Similarly I was 'online' much more during my teen years than I am today. I think two key things changed:

1. I started enjoying things outside of the internet more and more, partially due to how the internet has changed, partially due to how I've changed.
2. There's less FOMO due to as you mention, being able to be "online" anywhere. This creates an entirely different atmosphere, I won't miss something because I'm not at my computer. This actually leads me to being online much less, I can be out and about doing things and get ping by my friends on Discord. Very different than when I didn't want to go out because I couldn't talk to my friends.
Is this an approach that works well with screen locking, or is a display manager really necessary for that feature?
You mean like Disney Dollars?
I'm basically telling you both to shut the fuck up because we're rehashing the same shit as forever.

Unless either of you are willing to engage in intellectually honest, curious conversation then you should honestly just keep your gob shut.

Flame wars help nothing, rehashing this helps nothing. We're walking in circles, save your energy, I'm wasting mine in an effort to save yours in future.

You're welcome.
The HN (and related) communities really need to get outside their bubbles once in awhile. Why does Microsoft keep adding features that are unpopular with people who read ghacks.net? Maybe because people who read ghacks.net are a tiny segment of the population and are not representative of most Windows users.
Would it be possible to spoof the host and get free internet, that's something I've always thought about when facing such limits.
Wouldn't the validity of those points would be independent of his credibility?
We can judge market depth in fairly real time though so we know what size of order can and does move
I don't know about that. Wasn't she was fired because she refused to green light piles of what she found to be low quality content and then the CEO got frustrated because he wanted quantity and decided to allow a bunch of other people to override her decisions?
Computers were networking years before the rise of the Internet. BBSes were a thing in the 80s.
To me this sounds like an ad hominem attack/fallacy[0] wherein someone attacks the person they're arguing with instead of the idea they're presenting

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
The account named "markshuttle" commenting on that thread - please tell me that's a satire account, and not actually Mark Shuttleworth... because his answers are weird. (sadly the account is 8 years old and somewhat likely to be legit)

Having a "personality test" with a score from 0-100 is batshit. And the fact that he's just pulled most of this stuff out of his rear end, and unilaterally decided "yes, this is a good way to hire people" without doing any actual research, asking others to review the process or making any attempt to make it less crazy, is very telling.

Mark, if that's actually you, and you read this; please man, have someone review your hiring process, because it's terrible and most of the questions you're asking do absolutely nothing for evaluating whether a candidate is a good fit. There is no shame in getting expert advise on topics we aren't intimately familiar with, and a good CEO needs to know that, be humble about his own capabilities and delegate to good people.
Starcraft also took an absurdly long time to get a true sequel, while I'd imagine everyone but the die-hards moved on to Quake II and III.