skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Firefox OS inspired me to build my own Debian-based operating system that uses web technologies for its UI and apps. It uses Electron as the runtime[0] and works both on desktop (AMD64 arch) and mobile (on the PinePhone). It's very much a work-in-progress project and is by no means complete, but it's progressing nicely over the past few months and I'm sure will become quite a complete OS functionality-wise in no time.

Feel free to check it out here if it piques your interest: https://liveg.tech/os

(There's also plenty of videos that I've previously made that showcase some of the key moments in its development: [1])

Capyloon IMO is also an awesome OS platform that achieves very similar goals to this project, and it'll be great to see what they build next within the world of non-mainstream web-centric operating systems!

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[0]: A tad controversial, I know — but the rationale is that using one Electron app as the desktop environment means that you don't have to run Slack/Discord/Spotify etc. in their own Electron apps; instead, they can run as web apps that share the same Chromium instance. That way, you don't have completely separate Chromium instances/processes running at once, where they'd otherwise all be consuming lots of RAM due to their startup overhead.

[1]: Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmOR2J9fDZM&list=PL3aAeH1lqy... — Prism is a prototype smartphone that runs LiveG OS, and gShell is the desktop environment.
Yes. Even just being able to connect to the grid and only pay for the energy consumed is a subsidy. There is a large fixed cost to provide the connection and guarantee power will be available on it when demanded.
Not really, this is only the US, from a % from across the world, it's Apple who is basically a rounding error.
Y-bar gave an excellent reply, but further to that the fact is grave robbing and raiding for profit is a thing that happens. Vast amount of historical information and material has been lost this way already, and more is lost every year. Leaving things in the ground is no guarantee that they will stay that way. There's an argument that by excavating this material respectfully, gaining as much information as possible and preserving these artefacts is better than abandoning them to eventual robbery and destruction.
I used to donate, but no longer do, not for this, but because I'm tired about the Anglocentric, U.S.A.-centric style on Wikipedia with little efforts to fix it, as well as other neutrality issues.

When they flung some banner about soliciting more female contributors in my face which reeked of Americana it was the last straw.

I've seen some articles at least add “English-language criticism" by now instead of simply “criticism” when talking about the critical reception of work that wasn't even in the English language so that's a start, but too often still that doesn't happen. It's obviously unavoidable that English-language Wikipedia incurs some Anglocentric bias, but there is almost no effort to fix it and not even a template seemingly to warn that an article might carry an Anglocentric bias, even those that report on matters that mostly pertain outside of the Anglosphære.
What you should be able to do but I have never tried in practice is to keep your home directory. Most "novice" computer users like me, would only need one user anyway although this should work for multiple users as well?

I think in theory at least if your username is anthropodie, you should be able to copy /home/anthropodie to an external hard disk just for backup, install your new distro, set up your new user and copy your user home directory back. Anyone tried this?
Putting identity over class is the main sin of the modern "woke" movement, in my opinion. Seeing how much that identitarian, exclusionary, and sectarian thinking is promoted by mainstream media, I cannot help but think it is intentional, as a distraction.
Chrome left the WebKit ecosystem about a decade ago.
Anarchism is something which ought discussed more. Essentially the elimination of all unnecessary hierarchy and domination. For example we can make the workplace a democratically run institution, with shared profits. I think it’s an ideal which we ought to strive towards, which might only be realised in some future century.

>The consistent anarchist, then, should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and specialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat.
Christmas, and by extension the holiday season, has a longstanding tradition of charitable giving (probably originating around Christianity?). People are just in a giving mood around the end of the year. It's not unusual for 30% of all donations to occur in the last month of the year. So it's by far the best months for fundraising.
Wikimedia is vital to Wikipedia, they have little money and pay their exec too little for what they do. IMHO.
How to decentralise social media, no blockchain needed
Great list thank you. Unfortunately I commit 4 of these on a regular basis.
I use a VPN for all the reasons in the VPN ads... So does this mean hackers can/will steal my identity and drain my bank account?
> Debian is like Ubuntu but without all the cruft.

Unfortunately for me, I only seem to like the font rendering in Ubuntu, any other distro I tried (and I habitually try lots) don't seem to get it quite right (for my taste anyway).
Also, Brexit.
"Around 31% of donations are made in December alone and 12% come in the final three days of the year.

Your donors often feel generous as the giving or holiday season approaches. Many will also be looking to make year-end donations for tax relief." [0]

[0] https://donorbox.org/nonprofit-blog/fundraising-season
It is likely a relative matter. “Famous scientists” still tend to be famous within a rather small subset of even other scientists who are in a similar niche, no matter how large that niche is. It is the intensity of engagement of that community that likely makes it nearly impossible to even not tell exactly who wrote something, simply by the writing style.

An analogy may be how heavy readers can immediately tell which author of their particular topic area they are reading, based on a short excerpt. It is what makes alternative noms de plumes almost impossible, especially now with systematic and documenting AI.
Here's what I originally wrote:

> For example, one of the things which helped Irish immigrants like my ancestors get accepted into the white club was their value as cheap labor to lower black negotiating power and a lot of them were recruited into rapidly expanded police forces for the same reasons.

The point was that while the Irish (or Jews, or Italians, or …) were not considered enslavable prior to the Civil War or on the Black side of the Jim Crow laws afterwards, they also were not treated as full members of society with equal access to the courts, jobs, education, etc. and one of the ways that all of those groups were able to improve their status was by joining the white side of anti-Black discrimination by taking jobs, becoming cops, keeping neighborhoods segregated, etc.

Again, the point wasn't that no other forms of discrimination have ever been practiced but that just because the Northern states fought the South didn't mean that they didn't have significant problems with anti-Black discrimination. In the context of this post, prison labor was used to fill some demand for cheap labor to replace slaves and the North was again more than willing to look the other way or profit from that labor even if it wasn't as common (or severe) in their states.
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A furnace causes a very large second law loss, converting chemical energy to low grade heat. If that gas is used to drive turbines, and the work produced used to drive heat pumps, much of this entropy generation is avoided.

A home gas-driven heat pump could be a better option from an efficiency standpoint, but those are not widely available, probably for cost and reliability reasons.
The advantage of a community supported encyclopedia should be a reasonable degree of impartiality, openness and academic freedom. Wikipedia has departed a good distance from this ideal and should support itself as other media does... through advertising or subscriptions. The case is best found in the OP link comments, but here's one I found that well summarizes:

"You do have to filter out some stuff unfortunately – but even academia, scientists and historians are now confessing that they are tailoring their output to ‘fit in’ with wokeness and sensitivities."
The big mistake Shkreli made was giving 100% discounts to people who weren't insured, but charging full price to insurance companies.
That's what I do. At least put some level of effort between you and alcohol.
Shanghai Quietly Shuts Down Schools, Bars, Gyms as Covid Returns
If lifespan was the goal they would keep the extent of their organisational structure to the minimum. But this is obviously not the case with now more than 500 employees and some with big paychecks.
It's a sad story when in many countries the only way people can dream of owning a home is to hope for an economic meltdown.
There is a large second law loss even in a "95% efficient" furnace. A gas-fired heat pump would have efficiency much higher than that.
Archive.sth isn't an organization but a private site thus their finances aren't fully known. Based on that, think it like a GitHub project. If you like its work and can, donate.
It's a great proposal, it's been around for some time. Who's going to implement it? I could see Musk throwing some spare change at it, but 20+ years is a long time to wait for a news cycle.
Common misuse of positive statements for what should be normative statements.
Much, much easier.
The best semi-open phone experience you can get is a Pixel with CalyxOS or GrapheneOS.
Everything will work because its built on android, but with full privacy and better security.
Yes, as it's traditional in recessions the common people struggle and lose jobs, homes, while the rich go shopping for assets on a fire-sale.
Free access to knowledge isn't a neutral position.

But I gather you think wmf is doing something beyond this? Which side, of which culture war do they support, in your view?
Yes, that’s true. What I was suggesting:
* put the OS on the sd card.
* Put all the data on an external drive that is more reliable.
* Take a snapshot image of the sd card when setup is complete. If your sd card is ever corrupted you can use the image to restore the server.
Or just building trains instead. Far lower energy consumption per distance travelled per person.
Their communications about donations are just awful. As long as I get these sappy, puppy-dog-eyes appeals I will never donate to them again.
Possibly Parsec can do macOS as server and Linux as client. Somehow I have never heard of it. It’s commercial.

https://support.parsec.app/hc/en-us/articles/4407194154253-F...
In some ways Charity Navigator is like the BBB, and people need to take those ratings with a grain of salt.

What is not said here, but I think it was started this article there was a break-down on Twitter [2] recently where someone broke down the grants Wikimedia Foundation gives to other charities, A lot of Wikimedia has become advocacy for social issues not the spread of free information. Some of those Social issues many of the donors to Wikimedia may not agree with, and it being redistributed to some pretty controversial organizations. People donating to Wikimedia thinking they are advancing Wikipedia but in reality the bulk of the foundation spending is issuing grants to other charities.

>>Meanwhile eg the American Cancer Society gets 73/100 and spends more on fundraising than WMF's entire budget

I am reminded of this TED talk[1] from several years ago that talks about fundraising and charity

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_abou...

[2] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1579778161889652736.html
Of course there is an alternative... not donating to either of those corrupt businesses.
After wanting a metaverse since 1992, if anyone could make me not want one it's Zuck.
In some cases the issue that you can't really "blind" it because it is a physical continuation of the earlier work - not just building upon the idea, which anyone could do, but using the exact same experimental device (a unique one, like the hadron collider) or continued analysis of the exact same set of patients or animals, or improving the previously made software tool.
Sure but the idea is that you don't try to find out who the author is, and if you recognize the author anyway, you decline the review. I review regularly and that's what I do whenever I recognize an author.
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Ohh my, is Andrew Orlowski still crusading against Wikipedia? He's been at it since the early 2000s while at The Register.
This is known. Hence, when we were building the peer-reviewed moderation / curation function for finclout we only show the content.
While in selected cases the poster is identifiable, for most users the decision is done only based on content.
They don't though. The banner has a whiny tone, but never do they say that they are struggling to keep the site up.
Do you read the article as shifting blame to richer countries? I read it the exact opposite way: most of the article is all about debunking the popular meme that most of poor countries' badly managed waste is actually out-of-sight-ed rich countries' waste, but it tries hard to do so in a polite way.
Its probably better represented as calories absorbed vs calories expended.
Yes, because their business profited from that. It's an example in favour of GPL licenses: the interests of the public and of a for-profit venture aligned to produce value for both.
This naked mind is a great recommendation.

I drank about half as often as you.

Enough to want to cut back, not enough to let me hit rock bottom.

Have gradually been moving towards sobriety myself if only because I'm finally taking it a little more seriously.

Huberman rec is great too.
Private sector affirmative action is illegal in the US.
I support Wiki.
Well, dude, not every nation is like Japan, when it comes to technology I dare to say no country is like Japan, nor it strives to be (maybe South Korea but not even them). So taking the most extreme example (and not really the same example by any stretch of imagination) and stating whole mankind across whole globe is like that is not even stretching it, its a plain lie.

Since you seem completely oblivious about other cultures - there are still whole cultures where taking a picture without asking for permission is highly offensive. We talk about billions of people. And even in other places, like most Europe, you try something like that in cafe and you will be asked to put it down. I also mentioned current decade, things change but not that fast as some kids project it to be.

I think it would benefit tremendously to basically everybody to actually travel a bit like backpackers as far culturally as possible to challenge themselves and their worldviews a bit.
What is your discipline? I'm in physics and double blind peer review is not the norm.
How do you disable your credentials when not using them?

Do you mean using roles (which aren’t credentials) or temporary credentials (which can’t be revoked)?

Or do you use other credentials to disable them (and how do you disable those)?

I’m not an AWS expert by any stretch, so genuinely interested as I wasn’t aware of any other mechanism you could be using.
Fusion is ideal, but even without it, cooling and desalination on a massive scale will be essential. Therefore, only those nations with the ability to quickly ramp up power generation, particularly nuclear power, will get through the coming phase.
Unfortunately, I think this is the most practical take to take here. WMF is "only" doing what pretty much all other large NGOs do, only they are in a highly visible position where: a) they operate on the Internet and b) their volunteer userbase is extremely obsessed about cataloguing and editing data, so it naturally follows they'd also be interested in the financial data around the organisation itself.

This is not to say they shouldn't be held accountable, but I do wonder what's the percentages of large charities that are "much worse" in terms of "we exist mostly to pay pretty good salaries to people whose purpose is to fundraise so we can repeat the loop".
I am another outlier then, because I think about it in a very similar way.

I have the most necessary stuff that I need daily stocked up for a couple of weeks. That's it.

I have thought a lot about how individuals without a super high net worth could realistically prepare in a sensible way and came to the conclusion, that there doesn't seem to be a good enough answer at this point to justify spending a lot of resources on this.

So I decided to instead enjoy my life as long as it's as good as it is (in a materialistic sense).

Also, another important aspect of how to prepare mentally might be to look at it from a different perspective. What if this is actually a good long-term development disguised as economic hardship and suffering in the short run? I don't particularly like the way tech has turned out in the last couple of decades. Maybe it's an opportunity to rethink a few things...
In America it is not 'harder to quantify' because much of contemporary American society still follows the 'One Drop Rule': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule
Hi, I've been learning Rust for a few days now & I couldn't help but notice the insane built time. then I came to know that Rust was written initially in OCaml and Golang was written in C/C++
& Golang's compile time is just mindblowing. So, I was wondering, if rust was written in C/C++ would the compiler have been faster?
Thanks
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/commits/master
daily commits, certainly not dead
> Reminds me of the Dropbox thread. You know which one.

I didn't see the thread until later but back then I thought the Dropbox was a sucker that I was taking advantage of because I could get extra 50 MB or whatever by just walking up to someone in my dorm and referring them to use Dropbox, even if they had no intention to continue using Dropbox...

I want to be less naive now. Facebook (it doesn't deserve the Meta name) will NEVER, EVER do anything for "good". I believe it simply is not capable of doing any "good". We cannot let Facebook be the gatekeepers of a pay toilet, much less the (purported) future of our communications.

Back to the topic though, I thought xbox kinect was trying to solve all of these problems a long time ago with just a couple of cameras. what happened?
This makes no sense especially if you know how Wikipedia works. But antisemtic propaganda accounts spread the same thing about Wikipedia, so no one will ever be satisfied.
Stuff like this is why I want to see more of the plasma incinerators that generate power by burning trash.
This.

I stopped donating when I saw how politicised they were.

People are people, and will have opinions about things. People of a kind will naturally group together. This is all fine, but it becomes a problem when one of the things that make what you produce worthwhile is neutrality, and you can't keep your politics in your pants.
> When they flung some banner about soliciting more female contributors in my face which reeked of Americana it was the last straw.

What was this ad that was so objectionable?
Are the salaries per month or per year?
Is this the same person who every now and then appears on HN utterly outraged by Wikipedia's fundraising?

I donate to Wikipedia.

And I am glad they have lots of money. I do not feel outraged about it, I feel happy about it.

I do not feel outraged that they use whatever persuasive tactics that they use - this is necessary in the modern world.

Wikipedia is a great service, it should be valued. They should not always be living close to the edge of going out of business. How they spend their funds raised is their business.

This anti Wikipedia person is really annoying and I wish they would stop their crusade.

EDIT: it seems the outraged guy is a right wing Murdoch journalist. Enough said, it all adds up. I still remember how Murdoch ran a successful campaign here in Australia to sink the planned national fibre to the home broadband network - 10 years down the track we never got our national fibre network. These guys hate tech, especially free information services like Wikipedia and national broadcasters like the ABC Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Murdoch wants to own it all and hates free.
Then they should tell donors and prospective donors what they do. As ever, all the content is written by unpaid volunteers (or people paid by others), but still the Wikimedia Foundation's spending doubles every few years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Financial...

What's it for? Tell donors what they are funding.

And somehow the priorities are wrong. The Wikimedia Foundation has annual 8-figure surpluses, but volunteers are writing open letters to complain that the Foundation fails to update and maintain critical aspects of the software:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Think_big_-_open_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol/Coo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...

What the WMF does produce, however, is reams and reams of words about "strategy", "leadership", "codes of conduct" etc.

And millions of dollars are given away to progressive organisations that have nothing to do with Wikipedia:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@list...
Mark Zuckerberg says iOS has won the smartphone war
Indeed my journey of disappointments has too started with Android. I must say my experience outside phones (laptops, desktops and servers) are very positive with combinations of BSD and Linux and I hope it remains the same.
YC's startupschool has co-founder matching. Advantage: people there actively look to find a co-founder.

Besides that, network. Go to startup events in your community. Go to <insert your favorite tech stack> meetups to find out if anyone has any needs.
I think it will be very difficult because co-founders have to trust in each other and trust only comes over time with personal meetings and working together.

Regarding your pitch: What can you offer? Are you a tech person? Can you do marketing? Have you gained experience in other startups? How big is your network in their field?

There are the kind of things I would be interested if I were looking for co-founder.
This is meaningless without stating the context of what you consider violation of neutrality.

True neturality is basically an impossible target.
Almost everyone who's into photography in my bubble is doing analog now. Doesn't come as a surprise to me but still interesting.
The thief waits in his own passage until he knows the victim has followed him down that passage. He does not pass through the door if the victim is in the other passage. The authors briefly mention this:

> After a very uncomfortable wait he saw a thief arrive who, *sensing he was pursued by his victim*, whispered the magic words, “Open sesame.”
Kinda unrelated. This is more of an issue with that brokering site triggering an action on a GET visit, not related to HTML
If a code editor does not support custom binding to sequences of keys (rather than single key presses), then its not really good for programmers.
Mine mostly consists of video game soundtracks.

Here my Ambient Coding playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5t0alvBh9VAXu20mUExFCE?si=...

I can also highly recommend Ace Combat and Project Wingman soundtrack.
The uranium undergoes alpha decay first. Alpha decay is not fission.
Free cup-holder!
I guess the thief can observe / hear Ali Baba's approach and decide on using the secret passage to go to the other path (if Ali Baba is approaching his way) or just run out the current passage if Ali Baba chose the other one.