skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the things this article talks about is web sites being unable to animate things close to 60Hz and wondering how that will go when 120Hz and higher displays become mainstream.

However: Doing everything over a worldwide internetwork on a CPU and OS independent platform that can be used for tasks as diverse as talking to your GPU, or interacting with real time audio/video was not part of the "original plan."

Yes, DOS is more responsive but you can't have 6 image-heavy large documents open on your computer while Webex'ing, observing your weather, having a Youtube video open, and playing a game all during your Webex under DOS.

The comparison is not apples to apples anymore, but if DOS serves your needs, use it. It reminds me of this article comparing Windows NT to CPM: http://www.oualline.com/practical.programmer/cpm.html

The article also talks about Windows updates. That's a legitimate concern. Microsoft needs to rip out that system and start completely over.

Look at this article from Microsoft entitled "Windows Updates using forward and reverse differentials" (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/p...) - wtf? I don't even know why any of this is necessary for a system that should just overwrite files with later versions. If you wanted evidence that Windows Updates is overengineered, there you go.
The metaproblem is that you're thinking of this as a systems problem, the people who irk you are thinking of it as isolated—an isolated closed-box test, no less.

Like, most people in this discussion would not think of mental-health therapy as a diet plan, but if you're thinking in terms of the systems involved then that seems more likely to generate more weight loss than any fad diet over a long run.

It's just really tempting to be reductive.
The internet culture's understanding of Swiss privacy laws are laughable at best. Switzerland has existing laws to any and everything for records.

You are trusting them just as much as a server in any other country. Saying "Switzerland" is all marketing for privacy enthusiasts who aren't going to do anything on their own.
And do what with it instead?
You are probably right, but that doesn't mean I want to make it easy for them.
Energy Transition Goals at Risk as EU May Label Lithium as Toxic
KMS isn't concerned with OpenGL at all, that's what Mesa (or other user-space driver) implements. KMS is needed to present on the screen. You may be confusing KMS with DRM, which KMS is just a small part of.
Any post criticising V is seen as toxic by their supporters, apparently. You can see many examples of this in this thread.
No, I just use Dark Reader to turn all sites white text on black background.
Many people recommend learning to write proofs in the context of a class or text that's focussed on another topic, e.g. geometry or linear algebra or real analysis or abstract algebra. But I preferred learning from a book that was more proof-focussed and added context along the way. Here's the text I learned proof-writing from, and which I highly recommend:
https://www.whitman.edu/mathematics/higher_math_online/
Couldn't agree more.

I'm in the UK and in the process of installing underfloor insulation in a house built around 1890. It is a flooboards-up job involving a windproof one way moisture permeable membrane above the joists, with hygroscopic insulation on top, and then a vapour control barrier on top of that, with all edges of layers taped to the joists where possible, all holes for wires, pipes etc. sealed with tape, and finally membranes brought up to wall behind the skirting boards. It's going to cost around £1k for a room of about 25m2. We have double glazing, the walls aren't particularly cold in winter, and the roof is insulated. I'm convinced most of our cold is coming through the floor and I reckon this job (along with the rest of the house in time, ugh) will make a huge difference.

But I'm having to do it myself because there are literally no specialist fitters where I live, and there are no government incentives that I am aware of. Why aren't the government going hell-for-leather for insulation etc.?
What's the hire/no-hire balance between soft-skills and leetcode performance in the interview rounds?
That’s not categorically good for everyone. This means we will need to have dense living conditions. A lot of people would much rather live in semi rural areas and have a lot of land and a lower density of people. That’s pretty incompatible with not having good car infrastructure.
When it comes to privacy and human rights, America's record is one of the worst in the world.
Very good points, I'm saving that text in my library
No, in my case that's really what they want. I think our project management would totally give us the time to improve something, if we can argue that it's needed. It's really one or two developers who block everything that isn't the absolute minimum possible amount of work or their own pet idea.
I don't believe you don't understand why people would want to find easier ways to lose weight.
The default Reddit web site on desktop is excruciating enough to use. On mobile it's unusable. I only use old.reddit.com. If that ever went away I would never visit Reddit again.
Three cheers for Devuan! :). Completely agree, this would've been an easy distro switch-a-rooni ..
They call names to anybody who dares to ask a genuine question they don't like. It's a meme by now, how easy it is to get banned on V's discord server.

I've a feeling that author tried to bring these issues on their discord server, got himself banned and then decided to write a blog.
because engineering is about tradeoffs and the right tool for the job. The vehicle with the “absolute best” carrying capacity is gonna be a semi-truck, but that’s laughable if you’re going to use one for a supermarket run for groceries.
Right. But why doesn’t it Just Work by default?
The market is telling people what the price of a bug is, as the legal monetization paths get more and more numerous, alongside the illegal ones.

Its literally only the corporation beneficiaries of having their own product fixed that are paying the wrong amount. Inching up the payout amounts ever so slowly.

Anything that makes those corporations pay out better is also a moral outcome, and doing things that supports this status quo lacks ethics as well.

(We actually agree that selling to some bidders, and some actions, lack ethics)
I would have loved to have this as my secondary os. It's shame that one cannot multi boot this. I'm looking for a way to multi boot this.
To be honest, I doubt disabling anti-aliasing makes any perceptible performance difference itself (although it gives me sharp text without needing 4K, which probably does). But your comment shows the important of customization. I disabled things I personally considered bloat. Other people will consider different things to be bloat. Software should give you that freedom (and Free Software gives you the ultimate freedom to customize).
>. You probably can't even get through Hell without using the AH or farming items.

I was able to beat Hell with my first Hardcore character and it took under two weeks. I did use some AH, as it was there and a part of overall experience.

I can see people can't find meaning in the gameplay on softcore mode. That's expected.
tl;dr: "Aliens are here because I believe in aliens. I don't have any actual evidence or proof, but there are so many unexplained things that I hear about that it must be aliens."
That's right that cow farts don't contribute anything to climate change. Some sources quote the methane cattle emit as if it was significant but it isn't because the environment can handle it. In truth, the emissions from farming that the environment can't handle come from "land use change". That's the land that's deforested and turned into cropland to feed cattle.

But that's a big problem and not one to be underestimated. We are tearing down the ability of the environment to capture carbon, one hectare of forest, let alone rainforest, at a time. That has to stop. And that means cutting down on meat production.

That's not to say we should stop producing and eating meat. That'd be just risking malnutrition on a planetary scale.

I'm also not sure about the bit where you say "hominids have adapted to digest almost exlusively for millions of years", where you mean meat. We're omnivorers and we are "adapted" to an omnivore diet: a little bit of everything. Eating only meat is as braindead as eating only plants. We need a balanced diet to stay healthy.
That’s not true. There are places with nice highways and ample parking but a lot of places outside of cities are still impossibly narrow roads and haphazardly planned junctions etc. most tows are like this too and the terrible street parking situation is everywhere.
I keep disabling Bixby permissions (x5 apps) and Android re-enables them on updates or whether I left some "allow to change system settings" checked, it's a huge information drainage.
You're right, idiomatic C# will have usually way more nulls than idiomatic Rust.
About 10 years ago when still I lived in California, I began receiving postal mail for another house with the same number that had recently been built on my street one mile to the north, but in another city. This went on for a while until I finally complained to the Postmaster.
Even if you eat healthy food you still need willpower to prevent yourself from eating too much. But it's a easier problem
I think it is strange that the only example you gave of (A) is that they chose angular over react because that's what they knew.

Everyone else failed because their backend systems were overly complicated.

I don't see how there is a lesson to learn from it unless we make a ton of assumptions about (A), absolutely none of which have anything to do with angular or react.

The last paragraph definitely makes sense, though I'm currently in the unenviable position of un-fucking a startup because the initial developers chose a setup that was far too dumb. It's literally going to take at least as long to fix as it took to initially build out. Ce la vie I guess.
pass the extra lucre with those clouds, Lucas
Odd that no one mentioned SEO?

Linking to anything in your article is bad, if people click on it they are not clicking on advertisements.

If its a page not often linked to by high profile websites you are endorsing it.

The target page (journal publication) might not be available to the crawler. It could be poorly formatted from a search engines perspective.

But if it isn't paywalled the article about the publication is pretty much a less specific duplicate of the page you've linked to. Which one to rank higher? The duplicate or the original? Extra points if you copy the illustrations too.

Ah, you've been using the big words now have you? These big unusual words must be important to the context of the article. The average casual reader most likely prefers English.

You put a date at the top of your article? That means it is important today but less important on every day that follows.

I'm sure I'm missing 20 other relevant "optimizations".

edit: Try imagine what happens with the news website if it is dropped from the index because it doesn't follow the SEO guidelines. Is there any hope?
It may work if any of the mainstream Linux distros run on your pc.
Is there a community of "ChromeOS distros" like how LineageOS does with open source Android for older phones?

My only experience trying to build ChromeOS was for "Container-Optimized OS" which doesn't have nearly the same "random binary blobs" problem as trying to build for a piece of consumer hardware
Oh goodie, here comes the deluge of low-effort children's books.
The advice might sound sensible in isolation. But immediately after, Polonus hires a spy to report on Laertes conduct in Paris, and literally instructs the spy to slander Laertes in order to trick people into revealing if these slanders are correct. All this from the man who in the previous scene said "This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."

Shakespeare quotes should not be considered in isolation, they are always part of a larger context. Taking Polonious advice at face value is like the people taking the "greed is good" or "coffee is for losers" speeches at face value.

Because of the length of the play, the scene with the spy is often cut, since it doesn't directly concern Hamlet and doesn't really lead anywhere (we never hear from the spy again). But without this scene, Polonius advice to Laertes stands alone and is taken in earnest. The scene with the spy shows it is all dishonest bullshit which plays into the larger themes of the play, e.g. Polonius later using his daughter as bait and spying on Hamlet.
I question anyone purchasing a machine with generations old hardware in 2018. Especially considering the Mac pro had been supplanted by newer macs at that point.
Like what is lie? I was offered money to develop something in WASM using V, so that they could add it to their "awesome-v" list.

Aren't you the part of the core team who bans anyone on discord who asks questions about V's memory management?
> This myth is usually perpetuated by people who believe they are on calorie restricted diets, but who are actually eating more than they think.

Nonsense, the only places I've seen it are in popular scientific literature and in official recommendations, from dieticians and physical therapists. I don't know whether it's true or not, but my guess is you're probably wrong. The less someone eats, the more tired and weaker they feel, so they less they'd do, so the less energy they'd use. All kinds of feedback loops like that could happen. So it's definitely plausible.
That is the website owners implementing the rules in the worst way possible, either through incompetence or through deliberately trying to annoy (or fool) you into accepting everything.

Be angry at the sites, not the legislation.
Did you notice any interview differences between the US and Europe?
And we can thank EU for the extremely annoying cookie pop-up’s on every website. Every site has a slightly different UI and the options/button labels always vary. Declining is always a multi-step process with various checkboxes.

They are never geo-filtered either so everyone is forced to see them.

I’m usually a big advocate for privacy and this was obviously done with good intentions but there were so many better ways to do it and I doubt 99% of people do anything but click okay without reading it.

At least if the browsers did it the UI would be standardized and you could have default persistent settings.

Now that there has been a massive effort to implement it I doubt it will ever get fixed or go away. Even though the decline of supercookies and Firefox’s new 3rd party policy has largely made it obsolete.
Just... not find it. It takes concentrated intentional effort to find these.
I don’t get these arguments having worked on many PoS codebases
If the font is already in your browser cache (which it might be if they're hosting it on a common CDN) web pages should load with the correct font right away instead of either loading blank areas or a default fallback font before switching to the correct font, causing jank.

The best solution here is to use standard fonts that are available in all browsers, of course.
Indeed, I was the opposite and played only SC in D3 though I loved SC and HC in D2.

I never used the AH because I was that against it, but it was pretty necessary on SC.

Sorry for the repeated edits above.

As a side note, D2 HC on switch is nigh impossible due to the lags and rubber-banding. But i take it as thw trade-off for portability.
You shouldn’t be getting downvoted for that. It’s a fair question for those educated in Google’s history of cancelling products and uneducated in Chrome OS.

A lot of people are unaware that Google is deeply committed in the OS space. Apart from Android, which they saw/see as an existential need for their business, Chrome OS fills a similar space on the desktop (especially as MS ramps up their anticompetitive efforts with their own browser again).

Google also uses a chromium build internally in GCP/GKE, so the OS is being maintained for servers as well.

Lastly, Chrome OS has been around for a long time and is based off an open source project with passionate maintainers.
the assumption here is that alcohol makes them less safe

but do you have data on heights and alcohol?
Norman Surplus: First person to circumnavigate the globe in an autogyro aircraft
You can self host Google fonts, so you need to trust no one. Not sure if I see the point of this service.
The skills required to be a good capitalist are almost in direct opposition to the skills needed for good governance. Capitalism requires a certain degree of ruthlessness, a lot of risk taking, and maximizing efficiency. Politics (ideally) requires empathy, risk mitigation, and consensus building.

It also doesn't help that Thiel is a bit of a troll when it comes to politics. When talking about business/startups he comes across as fairly reasonable and composed. But when it comes to politics his words and actions take on a more Trumpian tone. And this tone pre-dates Trump's influence on politics. For example his Stanford Review work was fairly troll-ish in nature.
I feel an insane hesitation to try for/jump to FAANG. Its not about any ideological reasons: I just feel inadequate, even with a PhD. My research was on applied ML. I feel I haven't 'made the cut' with solving theory or optimization problems in ML. Nor am I in seriously good shape to tackle core CS topics - because that was not the focus during PhD.

What would you advise for someone like me who would want to make the jump in future?
I regularly chat about obscure music with people who are essentially strangers to me, I don't know their real names, locations, etc, but we share a lot of youtube links to music videos that have a few thousand views, averaging maybe a few views a day.

I believe this connection is picked up and reflected in our youtube recommendations, evidenced by recommendations that have nothing to do with music but seemingly relate to the interests of the people I share music recommendations with.

For instance, one of these friends recommends the song National Pastime - Pictures On Your Wall and sends me a link to it on youtube (~4k views over 7 years.) We probably both watch it at the same time, and might have been the only two people to watch it that day. For the next day or so, youtube recommends gameplay videos of f2p gacha-shit, which I utterly despise but know that person has an interest in. And they probably get videos about submarines and airplanes in their feed, because that's the sort of thing I often watch.
I don't want to downvote the post, just the subject, and I wonder if it should have been 'downgrade' instead.
No, not just fat, but all kinds of tissue including muscle.
I did this one with the same combo a little while back:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vT4XWNx2SdEg...

Lesson learned is that if you don’t prompt it with a premise it will probably copy it from something in the training data. In this case the words are novel but the theme comes from a book of the same name.
> I thought the remote work was to blame — it made it hard for me to use my charisma.

Big oof.

> I understand when you surf the net to figure out how a new technology works. Or when you need to use some exotic feature and not to bloat your head with unnecessary information. But basic things! How can you copy-paste basic things from the Internet?!

I'd say basic things are the unnecessary information that you shouldn't bloat your head with. You don't need to remember if it's "split()" or "splice()" or "slice()" because you can Google it in a second, but you do need to remember how advanced concepts work.

Lots of bad takes in this article.
I dunno man, I've been super fat all my life, except in college when I decided to get in shape

I developed a healthy diet and healthy habits, and was able to get down to a healthy weight.. but staying there required a constant influx of willpower. If I only ate enough food to stay at a low weight, I was hungry all the time. (Eventually I ballooned back out, although now I'm losing weight again since I've realized that Morbid Obesity is no place for old men)

I think there is a systems issue at work. My body is just calibrated to hog food until it gets pretty fat, and then it'll stay there unless I do something out of the ordinary.

Telling fat people to get their shit together can work, the same way telling poor people to learn to code works. (I don't think that thin people are thin because they're hungry all the time and they overpower those urges, the same way poor people aren't necessarily all bad people who piss away all their money)
I live in a neighborhood where houses are numbered by block, starting at "100" at the city center (many/most US address schemes work this way)

Due to being nearly the same distance east and north from the center point, there is a house around the corner that has the same address number as mine, theirs is "East" and mine is "North" and the street name is different. I don't know if we both have the same 10-digit zip code, but we do still get each other's mail at least a few times a month.
I guess having mirrors on all the houses could cause problems for other people, even for flat roofs. But I agree: reflecting the incident beams is important: when it emerges as heat (IR) it can be trapped by GHGs.

I had been thinking of the reflectivity benefit rather than the reduction in air comditioning.
thanks for creating cycle.travel, this is a really great resource!
George Lamming Has Died
We really have no idea why they decided to fire him.

From the story, it looks like a benign email with an apropos quote.

But while that could’ve indeed been the email, maybe he was also going around saying Apple is done, come join me in my new gig, Ive is dumb, etc.

And team members then complained it hurt their morale.

So Dye and Ive put their door down.

I’m not saying this is what happened. But do we really know the full story?
I tend to agree here.

I don't blame SPAs (not that i think you are), but it does feel like there is correlation between SPAs rise in usage and with the frontend becoming worse.

Not that it's the tool, but the welder of the tool.

I'll explain, I think that basically a lot of frontend engineers started using SPAs for too many different usages... Like using a SPA instead of a static page for a really simple basic website.. to me this is like when a meeting could have been an email.

Or adding in so much tooling to their site which doesn't really solve any problems except make new problems, so now there's more tooling for that. (read state management, client side routers)

I remember at a <very popular SPA> conf I spoke to the two guys who made a very popular framework for building that popular SPA, they asked me how my serverside project used express.js's router... Like the questions they had were along the lines of "how can you do (insert basic routing thing here) in express?". The only exposure to express they had was a catch all route to their apps main clientside router.

I was stunned... They were aware there was this tool, and ignored it.. instead deciding that they could do better.

To me this was post SPA frontend in a nutshell.
I had assumed based on climate modeling that parts of Europe would not see such extreme heat but apparently that is not the case :(
Gotcha - yea i was hoping maybe it snapshotted the HTML or some such, side stepping some issues long dynamic text or JS shenanigans
Hmmm, I know what you mean. I've experienced both... hard to say if they're the same thing or not though... They're certainly triggered at the same point for me but not always concurrent, as I've had both in isolation as well.
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Pedestrians have right-of-way everywhere in the United States.