skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for replying, others just treat me like a troll and downvote, beholden to the myth that Linux is the gold standard. That's exactly the willful blindness I am talking about.

You talk about network effects, as Linux is the only game in town, currently. Implicitly I talk about that too, that's why I mention Linus, I expect leadership. Why develop Linux? There's not much ROI, unless change is the keyword.

Indeed the challenge is to create a new operating system suited to the demands that exist today. Fuchsia is a step, the only thing I can point to right now, but it is hardly accessible.

Note that Android works to overcome the need for a system administrator. That's because Linux works against what it needs to be: an invisible OS. The most prolific use of Linux isn't really a success story.

Furthermore, you suggest "power". Perhaps you talk about piping and shell tools. These are indeed part of the myth, good ideas but, pardon me, terribly executed. They do not compose, they are not scalable. Again because of the time frame they were conceived in, this was impossible. But that is the refrain throughout. As a result everything is just messy, resulting in huge time sinks.

Indeed I hope to one day have the disposition to truly go back to basics, and make a runtime, a substrate if you will, that will run fully inspectable code, with an execution that can be visualized, questioned and reasoned about. That way users and tools can adjust any process, repeatedly, or just once. Incrementally so.

All machine details would be hidden, and that includes (obviously, for me) everything binaries: compilation, ABI's. Something current OSes (not counting the Web) don't do.

In the end the best OS is an invisible OS.
Cool! Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out.

Links (mostly a TODO for myself):

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

https://www.reddit.com/r/TerraInvicta/

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TerraInvict...

https://terrainvictagame.fandom.com/wiki/Terra_Invicta_Wiki
Overfitting seems pretty great for survival - who cares if one in 100 canines is friendly - much safer to avoid them! Humans seem to be unique in that we occasionally second guess our overfit models. And in the case of avoiding dangerous animals, the result couldn’t have been more wonderful: Dogs!

Confronting and undoing a casually overfit mental model is harder the more subtle and useful they are - but those are the bits that hide the great secrets of the universe!
Here's the article: https://babylonbee.com/news/the-babylon-bees-man-of-the-year...

There's also a lot more history as well. Elon has done a [serious] interview with the Babylon Bee before [1] and also propped them on Twitter [2]. When they were banned he contacted the head of the site to confirm they had been suspended, and even mentioned to him that he might have to buy the site to fix their behaviors. [3] That was just before he ran the poll on Twitter, seeing whether people viewed the site as supporting free speech or not. [4]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvGnw1sHh9M

[2] - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1331698780073320449

[3] - https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1511325246967660547

[4] - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507259709224632344
beware of subscribers being down. wal file will fill-up and then you’ll loose messages.
I agree this is definitely possible, but if you do all that, is it still the public square open to debate, if you are selectably promoting / monetizing "tasteful" tweets?
Do you know what Twitch is? It's not a Youtube alternative in the slightest, and it was never meant to be.
Yes, that is very annoying. In general YouTubes UX is getting worse constantly. They moved the read more button for video descriptions up and to the right directly behind the end of the description text, which makes it almost completely invisible. Even now that i know where to look, it is still very hard to find.
The like button is now only an outline, which is filled when active. I find this confusing, which lead to me unliking and reliking a video because i could not determine the state of the button visually. Was never a problem, back when the thimb turned blue.
The site is quite sluggish in general, at least for me.

Overall YouTube makes for a nice example of how modern design often makes the experience worse
Today I learned that the high point in Kansas is 4039 feet above sea level, and was marked by a plaque that states "ON THIS SITE IN 1897 NOTHING HAPPENED" until 2015 when the plaque was stolen.
I would also appreciate a source that is not a satire article created by an involved party.
> Visual Studio Edit and Continue is intended to let you live edit any code in your project and magically apply the edit. However, I have never gotten it to work, and none of my coworkers have either. The rumor among us is that it is not well suppported, especially not on large projects like games (which are what I work on professionally).

We've been using Edit and Continue for games at my job. It requires some care and attention to detail to keep it working, and it definitely has its faults, but it's pretty effective for constant-tweaking, IMO.
I use the Vim plugin within VScode. For me it's really the best of both worlds: Full-blown IDE features along with fast Vim editing. Highly recommend it!
Well sure, but without any proof or data there's no reason to put any weight behind it. Execs and companies say lots of bs.
Those Vostoks are almost comically unreliable, most quality watches like a Seiko can go years (even a decade) without any maintenance even if routine maintenance is usually advised.
Personally, the majority of my Home page are videos from my subscribed channels. I get the occasional suggestions for related content from other channels, but I'd say 8/10 times the suggestions are good ones for me.

My typical usage is:

* Go to Home page
* Add highly relevant videos to my Watch Later playlist
* View the videos from Watch Later, like/dislike as appropriate
* Rinse and repeat

I'm trying to give Shorts a shot. I particularly like them for viewing podcast shorts, but I've noticed the suggestions are taking a longer time to give me 'relevant' videos. Some of the Shorts are totally random, while others are from my Subscribed channels. I make sure to like/dislike as appropriate, and I've noticed a slight improvement in a week's time.
thought the industry was broken down in 8 bit increments (0, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, etc)

log base 2 of 4 is only 16bits
Protecting old trees can help mitigate climate change
I'm so sad that Python3 basically killed Jython. It was wonderful while it lasted. Not only could you interoperate Python inside a JVM, but you even got some performance benefits - no GIL! Far better concurrency and GC than CPython.

I have problems at work now that could be helped a lot by being able to run some python code in a JVM, but too much has moved to Py3, it's a nonstarter.

I wish Python3 had been a project to turn Jython into the official Python instead of just doubling down on shitty CPython. The JVM runtime is miles ahead of where Python's reference counting, GIL reliant GC is. Or alternately, wish they'd had the cojones to just not break backward compatibility. The things they broke backward compatibility for were a pretty sad list of minor features, like print functions instead of statements. For such small gains, so much was lost.

CPython, today, in 2022, is still dealing with all this GIL baggage that could have been avoided if Jython hadn't been effectively killed off this way.
We've been promised this since the 90's, and, yet, we've been pushing back the wall Moore's law was supposed to hit for more than 30 years. And we haven't even properly started to play with non-transistor logic and analog neural devices, so I am cautiously imagining we'll remain exponential for the time being.
They did it because of her accomplishments, not for being a transgender woman. There is an important difference.

I understand the satire on some level, she was a man, she only transitioned later in her life, so of course there is always a question of whether you have to be born a woman to be a woman, did these people born into the wrong body, can someone be a woman if you find her look uncanny and so on. There is a lot to work with here.

What I don't understand is the malice, the cultural war insisting that she is a man, which means that she shouldn't be allowed to be a woman, no matter what. In fact conservatives often go the length and argue against the very existence of transgender people, offering violence as a solution.
Summary

"Ancient trees -- those that are many hundreds, or even thousands, of years old -- play a vital role in biodiversity and ecosystem preservation by providing stability, strength, and protection to at-risk environments. A team of ecologists highlight the importance of preserving these monumental organisms and present a project initiative to ensure their protection and longevity."
"we sure as hell had an election for EU parliament here in Sweden"

And it was irrelevant because the EU Parliament isn't a real Parliament, no more than the assembly of representatives in North Korea is. It lacks the so-called right of initiation, meaning that only the EU Commission has the power to change the law. As a consequence nobody who cares about politics bothers going there, except in cases like Farage or Le Pen as a way to get free money they can spend on campaigning against the EU as a concept. Why would anyone who cares about politics spend their time in a body where political ideas are worthless because you aren't allowed to propose them?

Would you like more evidence? The commissioner who made this tweet about the DSA flew over to California and told Musk to obey the new regulations before the EUP had even had a chance to vote on it at all. In a normal government, the legislature has to actually vote to pass new rules before the executive tells people to comply. But the EUP is a rubber stamp designed to grant the surface level appearance of legitimacy to the Commission's decisions, not a body that can actually keep the EU in check, so Breton didn't even bother waiting for it before starting to implement the DSA.

That's how much the EU itself cares about its "Parliament", so why should anyone else care?
That was about the point at which I found something else to do with my I-don't-want-to-work time: Back to the Future (in which a DeLorean play a prominent role) was released in 1985. The car itself: 1981. Sooooo, what do those dates signify?

Then the site claims New Coke/Coke II came out in 1981. Umm, try 1985. Olestra? Nope, try again (I'll leave the lookup as an exercise). I know all of these things are wrong at a glance because...well, I'm old, and for example I know that New Coke didn't come out when I was in high school because I was married to my ex-wife at the time, and she hated it. And I saw Back to the Future at the cinema. I was there, man.

So I don't know what those dates are supposed to signify.
I own an H2, and I strongly suggest them as middle ground between a PC and an (SBC) ARM. One of the main advantages is support, both in terms of applications (some programs may not yet compile on ARM), and kernel (although (some) ARM SBC can run with a stock kernel, it's advices to run a specific kernel to run optimally). The H2 also run impressively cool, and I suppose the H3 does, as well.

Note though, that RPis have never been the most price effective ARM solution, as Hardkernel has always had more powerful and/or cheaper alternatives. Their current N2+ is probably both more powerful and cheaper than the equivalent RPi.
Do you have any stuff I could read up on this?
That's an interesting thought. ACOUP did a blog post a while back [1] outlining the very specific circumstances that led to the Industrial Revolution and arguing that it's hard to imagine another way it could have happened. I suppose a rebuild would have to find a completely new route. Perhaps fields of Don Quixote esque wind mills connected to giant led-acid batteries rather than coal! With a couple hundred years gap between Armageddon and a substantial human population making progress, at least there would hopefully be decent timber reserves to work through the early phases.

[1] https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus...
I blocked the domain which serves thumbnail images.

Pages are amazingly clean now.

When I mouseover a video with an interesting title, the preview appears.
I've started just in the last couple weeks. Series with entries on thetvdb or imdb go on Jellyfin, mixed in with ordinary TV shows. Works great. Others I'm squirreling away for now (I don't like how Jellyfin handles web videos that don't have a TV metadata entry, even with the 3rd part addon for using Youtube's metadata, so I'm waiting for a better solution or until I get bored and write my own metadata for those others)
I am sorry, but this is utter nonsense.
First of all, you are talking about automatic (mechanical) watches. Manually wound mechanical watches don't need a winder at all. Watch winders make sense only if you are bothered by setting your watches again before wearing them (which I find a very satisfying experience, personally) or if you have a very complicated watch where setting the date, day, moonphase etc would be more involved than for a pure time/date watch.

Secondly - and most importantly - the "gears" don't lose accuracy if you don't wear the watch. Back in the days before synthetic oils, one was meant to keep the watch running to have the oils retain viscosity. Luckily, that is not the case for a long time anymore.

It is actually quite the opposite nowadays: the more the watch runs, the greater the chance that the watch accumulates wear! Although with modern watches of at least decent quality, this is not really an issue.

I own ~20 watches, which I alternate through regularly and not a single one of them has - or needs - a winder.
> Paradox games esp EU4 and CK2 often feel like idle clicker waiting games, player often waiting for progress bars to fill.

I used to consume a lot of clicker games, but... for those who _haven't_ played them, they're basically management simulators.

I dare say that Factorio is in fact, a clicker game (as it starts off with right-clicking to mine 1 iron ore at a time).

The goal of _ALL_ clicker games is to build enough infrastructure to "stop clicking". The "click" is just the fundamental unit, the introduction to the game. In just 5 to 10 minutes, you'll already move onto automatic miners (Factorio), or Autoclippers (Universal Paperclips), or Heroes (Clicker Heroes), or Cookie Factories (Cookie Clicker), or whatever.

The game then becomes one of resource allocation: you have 1000 iron in Factorio, do you build assembly machines or belts? You have 1000 paperclips in Universal Paperclips, do you get another autoclipper or do you start buying wires?

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In fact, any management game can "turn into' a clicker game rather easily. And I think the "clicker mechanic" (ie: having the lowest-level action equivalent to a click from the user) helps solidify in the Player's mind the "value" of the cookie factory or the Assembly Machine 3 x 4x Speed Modules (or whatever).

But yeah, a well designed clicker game is just a management sim like any other. No one actually plays clicker games by clicking on things.
It's STILL flagged because OP hasn't contacted moderators to get a specific look. Anybody above a certain karma threshold can derail conversation, its incumbent on interested parties to doxx themselves with an email address if they want to unflag a story.
This has been driving me mad.. I'm pretty sure I only started seeing this problem maybe a month ago? It's the cardinal sin. Don't break the back button!
Your android phones can't wirelessly charge?
Oh I agree wholeheartedly. And we will probably be bringing up the Adobe Pantone debacle in ten years when auto owners suddenly lose access to their heated seats because their licensing ran out, or somthing equally asinine. We seem to be very busy applying all these same mistakes but to real world products like coffee pod machines, cars and TVs, home security and such.
I use the YouTube app on my Tesla often and honestly this UI update has been a welcome improvement so far. The like button is now above the fold so I can easily tap it. It’s the little things
Hmm. That is interesting - does that mean that in an infinite game, first mover's advantage is essentially enough to guarantee a victory for white? If so, does that mean that infinite chess is a solved problem?
> Ukraine war updates from another channel but not their regular content

Speaking of search and YouTube UI… are you talking about that veteran guy who occasionally does coverage on Ukraine but keeps a level head. He will often point out why it is important to think about why your enemy is doing what it is doing. And he uses some open source map to show what is going on?

…and the rest of his content seems to be reviews of military related things, or something else that has nothing to do with Ukraine?

Cause yeah I’m subscribed to that guy, I think… but I totally forget what his channel is and don’t seem to be getting any recommendations for his videos anymore.
Do those come with two ethernet ports, two DDR4 slots (up to 64GB), eMMC, M.2 and two SATA ports?

For me, this almost looks like an instant buy.
> Quality, Pirsig says, surrounds us. It is in a rug cleaned with care, a well-maintained garden, and the order of words in a sentence.

Reminds me a lot of Alexander’s “Thing which cannot be named” from A Pattern Language. You know it when you experience it, but it can’t be described fully in words.
Two people pointed this out with this commentary.

This is the exact point. I trust my colleagues in asking the right questions. Unless I shut them down with a wall of chatter.

> X is hard to do in Elixir, any ideas?

< We don't really need X for now

> Thanks!
For taking with non-technical teammates I'd agree, but these examples look like developer-to-develeloper or support-to-developer, in which case I don't agree. Good communication is also about knowing who you're communicating with.

If I get sent any messages like those examples on the left it actually upsets me. If someone sends me "the worker is having a bad time", first thing I'm doing is taking 10 seconds and breathing before I respond. It's just so disrespectful to the people you're trying to get to help you. There's also the common issue of someone dropping a meaningless "left-side type message" and then when you later see it and respond for clarification they're in the bathroom or at lunch.

There's a 20% chance I'll respond with something sarcastic like:

"Why are you referring to yourself as 'the worker' instead of your real name? And why are you having a bad time?"

If I'm in a less sarcastic mood I still have to ask:

"what is the worker? What do you mean by a bad time? What environment (local/dev/prod?) How can you tell it's having a bad time? What is an example of having a good time?"

If you want to keep the first message as a brief overview, that's fine, but you can send a 2nd message with more info, in slack you can comment on your own message as a subthread. I will say sometimes inexperienced people have the opposite problem of a massive info dump it takes you forever to parse through. That's not great either. But there is a middle ground.
Well done. Almost spit out my coffee here from laughing. :)
shell was originally tied to job/programm processing.
Assets can't fight back.
yeah seems like his "obsession" did not include doing any research on mechanical watches at all.
really?! All this time. Why didn't you fix the thing where they decided every single website should have a popup, instead of browser vendors having an option?
>4chan/8kun/etc and surprise, it's absolute shit

...for you, 4chan is one of the last places on the internet that feel like the old internet, organic, unfiltered, raw. If you can't handle it, there is Facebook for you.
"Neither party can bring about the things that I want" is true. But the parties aren't the reason. The voters are.

In most cases, whatever it is you want, half of the country disagrees bitterly with you. Even in the few cases where there is widespread support, our system is designed to protect minority interests. Actually doing anything requires that you get the assent of the House and the Senate (by a supermajority) and the Presidency and the Supreme Court. It's practically impossible to achieve anything.

Given that it's remarkable that the government functions at all. It does so largely because of the existing civil service of non-elected employees who just go about implementing existing policy.

People seem to think that if only people would listen to them, they'd be so reasonable that they'd all line up to do what they want. That is simply not the case. Smaller parties than the two major ones may seem more in line with your thinking, but only because they haven't had to go through the effort of assembling a fractious coalition in an attempt to pass that supremely high bar I outlined above. Put to the test, they would discover that most people actually disagree with their goals.

So you can't have what you want. What you can have is to go to the polls in a few weeks to get at least a little something -- in fact, mostly to prevent other people from getting what they want when it involves putting the burden on you.

That's going to mean voting for one of those two parties. You had the opportunity to say more about who was going to be involved in that a few months back, though most people seem to consider that too much trouble.
Wikipedia's editing policy is to only include the birthname in the article if the individual was famous/well-known with it prior to changing it -- otherwise it's considered a privacy issue.

Rachel Levine is listed as an explicit example of this in their guidelines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Gend...
It does sound a bit like someone panicking that the Twitter might stop censoring stuff they don't agree with.

And the whole "content moderation" argument is really weak, sites worked entirey fine without the heavy content moderation (including Youtube, porn and copyright violation was removed but for good part of site's existence pretty much anything went). It only got more heavy because Google wanted to appease the ad market

Sure you can argue you have to take account laws and such and that will take effort but social sites don't exactly stop there.

> Having front-row access to users, Twitter is actually in a position to dictate the rules; it should not be taking orders from politicians and corporate executives when those orders are harmful to its users.

It's a corporation so priority will always be money one way or another. Now putting themselves as "open" might work, but so might doing what Twitter (and google, and facebook, and pretty much any big tech with social media) does and nudge the visibility of content to stuff they want to happen. "Censorship" isn't even needed, it isn't removed, it just won't show up in search results or recommendations. Pretend people don't click it and of course nobody can verify that and you're all good.
I have read all of Lanes books and I think Sex, Power, Suicide is the best - and probably the easiest / most approachable read.
Seems excessive IMO. Many videos have good thumbnails, better than the titles.
Because Wikipedia tends to err on the side of respecting the wishes of the subject. For a less political example, CPG Grey's page doesn't have his legal name or photo despite them being pretty easy to find.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGP_Grey
It's not garbage, but how often can you read one and the same book?

For people who never played it, meh ok, for me who has consumed pretty much every game since the c64 in the golden days.

It's like this "West" vs Russia thing, we had a cold war already, the 90s were awesome but I'm not looking forward to history repeating, 10 steps back into the cold war and hopefully not hot war.

Life is about making new experiences, repeating old experiences with better graphics is not exciting at all. It's also lazy.