skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Seeing people draw this parallel was surprising to me, as I associate colonialism with the European conquerors of the world: Portugal, Spain, France, Great Britain, The Netherlands and Germany.

Indigenous peoples living in Russia like Mansis are simply not known about, while everyone has heard of Incas, Apaches and Comanches and their fate. The actual Russian-Russia is pretty small and borders Eastern Europe. Most of the territory you see on maps has historically belonged to indigenous peoples and is still dominated by them in many regions outside of major cities, wouldn't surprise me if the majority of land area of Russia to this day had ethnic majority of non-Russians. Their culture and language has been suppressed for a long time to turn them into loyal Russians, the same way US and Canadian and many other governments destroyed traditional lifestyle, forced resettlement, forced indigenous children into state schools and so forth. The difference from historic colonialism is that it's still happening in present day, and on a scale that has not been seen elsewhere in a long time - by that, I mean the war in Ukraine, also colonial in nature in what motivates Russia, and how they disproportionally conscript ethnic minorities to fight and die for Russia.

Anglo-american histography is fairly self-centered on these topics, lots of focus on American slave trade and colonialism by Western Europe, but very little on what happened in the rest of the world. This feeds into perception that the colonial history of the Americas is unique, that only blacks have been slaves, that only western countries have been colonial, etc while we have a large country in Europe even in 2023 that wants to establish politic and economic control over a nation of 40 million people, exploit them in every way, and impose foreign language and culture on them. And it's been like this for centuries.

If you want to get started somewhere, then I'd avoid publications that explicitly set to prove or disprove colonialism. Instead, read a balanced history of Eastern Europe and Russia, especially from the perspective of smaller nations if you can, and make up your own mind. You may discover that the life of farmers in Latvia in early 19th century wasn't that much different from Antebellum South. Same overall story, different setting.
They make farrrrrrrr more money by actively not-trying.
App tracking: Why it's bad and how to stop it
> if Google can get their shit together organizationally that they'll still be able to compete.

This is a really big if, and I think it's what has so many calling it against Google already. Google as an organization has been dysfunctional for years, and everything we're seeing so far indicates that the organization does even worse under pressure than it does when it's coasting.

I don't doubt that they have really good tech, but I have no confidence in Google's present ability to execute anything.
The same reason that stopped everyone else that tried, the mobile os market is mature and not enough people want or care about another mobile os to make it worth the effort.
A solid 7.

Maybe a 8 if you don't care about console support and mostly do 2d games.
Pick a solution and make a decision just like it was done with every other format. IEEae has defined one, I believe it was mentioned above
I have seen the same thing, but I think the cause is more that maybe the overwhelming majority of people can’t meaningfully do abstraction? Like they blow a gasket between conceiving of individual actions and beliefs vs policies related to actions and beliefs?

So people like this will say sentences like “censorship is wrong” but implicit in the sentence for them is “censorship of correct and/or my information is wrong” because the sentence in their mind must be concretely about something like “correct information”. There’s no way for them to easily think the thought “censorship is wrong in the abstract.”

This also feels related to being able to use “veil of ignorance” type reasoning. I don’t think they know how to imagine being not only a different person, but an unknown person.

I also don’t think they know how to imagine being wrong in some sense, not in the epistemic humility sense (although, yes, that too, much of the time), but in the “suppose I’m just deeply confused about everything, how would I want to be treated? How might I recover?”

I think all these are bottlenecked on a mental abstraction ceiling, and I think all these things work together to contribute to the effects you noted.
Seconded!

While I lament the number of bookstores and music shops that have gone away, and that boom times are unlikely to come again (and birth wide variety) … what remains are generally purposeful, well-cared-for, well-appreciated places.

It's not what I'd wish, but it's where I hope things go for the theatrical experience as well.
Portfolio startup/Startfolio: business (chiefly technical) created with the primary, if not sole, aim of acquisition by a larger startup
Sure, you stick things into sandboxes and only allow specific permissions to access outside the sandbox. In which case, users habituate to allowing any permissions that anything they install requests (c.f. Android).

So then maybe you say "no permissions are allowed for sideloaded applications", but then you're back here with people complaining that the platform owner is crippling the independent ecosystem because it doesn't allow access to the camera or the mic or the address book or whatever.
Keybase is too good to be true.

They probably need to charge close to $10/m just to break even for what you get for free.
Sundar Pichai should be fired
I was ignoring all the "ChatGPT caught Google flatfooted" talk thinking today's event might prove doubters wrong but they were right, it was mainly a recap of minor features no one cares about.
The Bing announcement wasn't the step change many people are saying it was but at least it came with a fresh coat of paint and some amount of interactivity in the UI and it wasn't a total waste of time like the Google thing.

Holding back their LLM offering was obviously a huge strategic error but not having a thousand functional chat based search UI mockups ready for just an eventuality is an inexcusable and fireable offense.

My understanding is that Pichai was brought in because he was this level headed people pleaser but recent events have shown he's way too passive and his lasting legacy might be Google losing their considerable AI lead and starting down the road to irrelevance.
I agree with the authors premise and argument but the data visualizations are not well done, and I'm confused about the conclusions he draws from them.

For starters, it's unclear why he draws a line at 2012, when in many of the graphs the slope gets steeper at 2010 instead, and in fact that's where the percentage increase calculations start from as well. That vertical line at 2012 is misleading and confusing.

Also, in the US Teens, Suicides (Ages 10-14), the uptick clearly started in 2007. I don't disagree that social media is bad and I've seen firsthand people who become mentally ill because of the standards and expectations supplied by a constant stream of highlight rules that make you question your own worth. But I think that the data provided here is not strong enough to come to that conclusion.
The Notetaking Cold War (2020)
Both when I run “regularly” and when I run “in place“ I try to spend as much time on the balls of my feet.

It allows me to control the impact like a spring.

Running heel first, which feels more natural when running distance, leaves my knees hurting.

Running on the balls of your feet can tire your calves out quickly if you’re new to it, and can leave you too sore for the next day, so start slow.

Do 10m for a week or two until you feel your recovery has caught up, then 15m then 20m then 30m.

If I want to up the amount of energy I am expelling I will bring my knees up higher for as many strides as I can.

You will want to force yourself to keep a good running form when stationary because you can easily “fake it” and fall back on bad form of “kicking out” or “wobbling” which can impact your joints negatively.

Keep your feet pointing forward, raise your knees, and swing your arms just like you would when running distance.

Do it in a way that feels comfortable to you rather than in a way that feels weird and performative.

All in all the important thing is to get your heart rate up, and sweating is usually a sign that you’re getting some good cardio done.

The biggest thing for me was I wanted to get it done in 30m, but when running distance it took me 15m to prep myself for the run (get water and music ready, find my clothes and shoes, get dressed, ..). But with running in place my run is literally 30m of my time, every time.

Which made the most important part: just keeping a regular routine where you move your body; so much easier.
I am extremely irritated by this article and the comments made by Barry Diller. First of all, how dare he dismiss the Oscars as "an antiquity" and claim it is "terminal." The Oscars have been a prestigious and highly anticipated event for decades and it is insulting for someone like Diller to belittle its importance and relevance.

His statement about the decline of the film industry and the "perfect storm" created by increasing ticket prices, the pandemic, and the surge of streaming platforms is a weak and oversimplified excuse for the decline of the movie industry. He's blaming the decline of the movie industry on factors that are beyond anyone's control and not taking responsibility for the lack of innovation and creativity within the industry itself.

Diller's comments about the film industry being in transition and not meaning anything right now are completely inaccurate. The film industry is alive and well and continues to evolve, as evidenced by the success of streaming platforms and the continued production of highly anticipated movies.

Furthermore, his statement that the Oscars should aim for a smaller, less discerning audience is unacceptable. The Oscars should continue to strive for a large and diverse audience that reflects the film industry as a whole. It should not be for the industry only and exclude the consumers who drive its success.
I like SOPS [0], but it might be a bit heavyweight. You can also use team versions of password managers for simpler tasks.

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/sops
I doesn't matter much since there is no money involved in alternatives.
Google pays for content creators. A lot.
Decentralisation is likely removing all compensations and people stop pushing content for money.
Surprisingly, I upvoted for teaching me that the earthquake bomb was actually a thing and used in the wild:

> It was used to disable the V2 launch sites at La Coupole and Blockhaus d'Éperlecques, put out of action the V-3 cannon sites at Fortress of Mimoyecques, sink the battleship Tirpitz and damage the U-boats' protective pens at St. Nazaire, as well as to attack many other targets which had been impossible to damage before. One of the most spectacular attacks was shortly after D-Day, when the Tallboy was used to prevent German tank reinforcements from moving by train. Rather than blow up the tracks – which would have been repaired in a day or so – the bombs were targeted on a tunnel near Saumur which carried the line under a mountain. Twenty-five Lancasters dropped the first Tallboys on the mountain, penetrating straight through the rock, and one of them exploded in the tunnel below. As a result, the entire rail line remained unusable until the end of the war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_bomb
Nigeria is just this week trying to do the same. I don't think it's going very well though.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-64566992
I really like Keybase. I don't even use it much but if I had the choice of paying a few dollars per month or having it be shut down, I'd pay for sure.

Maybe it's because development slowed down to a crawl but it has such an "old internet" feel to it. Like I'm using Kazaa or something.

Edit: To clarify, I understand that Keybase is not shutting down. I'm just saying hypothetically if it shuts down, which isn't unlikely in the next few years.
Linux 5.6 I/O Scheduler Benchmarks: None, Kyber, BFQ, MQ-Deadline
Totally agree with you. Going to movies is a fun and easy group activity with friends.

Box office numbers for blockbusters still shows plenty of people like going to the movies. You just don't hear about much outside of the blockbusters anymore.

Comedy and romantic comedy seems to have largely died out for some reason.
They are very quick in spending the money and don't do long term project, built a solid reputation over the years and it's founder is a Turkish Rocks star who is politically not very pronounced.
As someone with money invested in Intel, yes they are back on top of some benchmarks for consumer products and have been doing reasonably well overall. The issue is with the entreprise segment that is getting eaten away by AMD products that are more power efficient and have a higher number of cores due to their early bet of chiplet design (Intel is migrating to chiplet designs this generation). They are also leveraging the TSMC nodes which are overall better/more power-efficient.

This is a far cry from how far ahead they were before Zen 1 dropped in 2017. They've been burning a lot of money to keep their heads out of the water.
It’s not the blurring, it’s the logging in. I don’t want to log into Google.

They could have had a setting, but this way makes them more money.

They already default to “safe search” or whatever. Making people log in does nothing to protect children and just lets them gather more data.

They’ve been doing this on YouTube for years with nsfw stuff.
Walmart wins lawsuit claiming its Fudge Mint cookies lack fudge and mint
It's not just that—their gobbling up (then often killing) promising smaller companies, and offering tons of free products (paid for by spyvertising dollars) suppresses both commercial competitors that might be better, and FOSS alternatives, since there's less incentive to develop, contribute to, or push (to friend and family, or in a business context) FOSS solutions when you know you're competing with something Google provides for free, with a very-expensive team behind it, and a marketing budget. This extends way beyond, but is fueled by, their market position in unrelated areas (search, video, ads)
No, the redesign is awful no matter what.

old.Reddit.com works whether you’re logged in or not.
I have to admit I don't understand this. I've rented for nearly 45 years and have never called maintenance to plunge my toilet. Who does that? I mean, yeah, if you need a plumber you call maintenance...
Thats a good point, currently, with todays technology and changes to bank notes, it wouldn't be hard to take a photo of all the bank notes in someone's purse and wallet showing the bank notes serial number when it enters someone's possession.

It will certainly reducing muggings and thefts if this activity took place.

That image and bank note serial number can then be uploaded to a central, database where bank notes in various currency's can be geolocated and its movements tracked. You device and smartphone can equally form a distributed blockchain database by having your device share the data with those devices around them.

When a bank note leaves someone's possession, the app can be notified of a possession change where the currency then enter's a dark web like state unless the bank note movement is into the possession of someone else using said app.

Whether the banks and currency printers want to get on board with such idea in order to complete the introduction and retirement of bank notes in order to help build confidence in the currency, remains to be seen.

Of course, if banks and currency printers dont want to get onboard with this public track and trace of the public's currency, then are they reducing confidence in the currency, in effect weakening or expiring the currency just like we see in this white paper and in China crypto currency experiments.

Afterall, no one person can track and trace the bank notes that pass through their hands, we dont know just how bad counterfeiting of bank notes is. With todays tech, namely smartphones and an app, it would be possible to restore even increase confidence in a currency in a totally passive aggressive way!

This would also be a way to decentralise existing currency's in todays form, as this app and photo of the bank serial numbers is like cryptocurrency miners and every photo becomes an entry in a Blockchain which would make it hard for any AI to replicate and highlight any physical currency counterfeiters.

In other words, the public could become the pseudo cryptocurrency miners, and their participation would strengthen the currency they use. This way, the many benefits cited by the central planners like the Blank of England as done here, can be applied within days of this idea being made public.

How quickly could you undermine other currency's like the Dollar or Euro if a population were to suddenly adopt this change of behaviour?

Most people only ever have in their possession a fraction of the bank notes supposedly in circulation, and these officially circulated bank notes are only a fraction of the total money that exists in a currency. If you are familiar with this infographic https://traversals.com/blog/surface-web/ you should understand that the serial number on your bank note is just the Surface Web, and that banks and central planners are the dark web!

No one has a bank account which shows the bank note serial numbers entering or leaving your possession and no currency provides a means to currently track and trace all currency! Arguably its one giant fraud operating in plain sight!

Why do people trust this situation?
100% on this. What made this sad was the mission of Keybase and its founder appears to have been b.s. in the face of enough zeroes on a check.
Hope you are doing OK
True, but I have my old systems to play on. Even more nostalgia playing Halo on a Duke controller.
Agreed. There's a lot of hype around LLMs right now, but they have not proven their value yet.
I would offer the really flimsy statement most blacks in US are descendants of slaves, who were bred for generations to be optimized for unskilled labor that was given very little mental and health support which meant anyone slightly suicidal just killed themselves off. Slavery is pretty stressful. Society tends to want to ignore the fact the colonists and early Americans literally bred slaves under stressful conditions for centuries and that tends to have ... effects on the genetic pool particularly in remarkably stressful environments where risk factors can cause rapid attrition from reproductive population.
My point is that it is very useful within just a few short lessons and practice. An ideal activity for children to learn and get the satisfaction of making progress. Those other things are good too, just not as useful.

Cursive is also good for quick note-taking. Things you write down are more readily saved in memory than on the computer.
> Its a 500$ gaming computer in the form factor of a chonky nintendo switch.

Even better, its only $399! I think its a great deal at only 50 bucks more than the OLED switch model personally.

https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck

By all accounts, the entry level model with a large microSD card performs just as well in games as installing on a more expensive model with a larger built in SSD. The only other feature you miss out on really is the most expensive config has an additional antiglare coating. The CPU/GPU configuration is exactly the same on all models.

I actually ordered the most expensive config, but with what I know now and having tried a friend's entry model, if I ordered again tomorrow I would just buy the 399 one with a cheap microSD card. Some folks even prefer the extra contrast of the display without the anti-glare coating.

The microSD cards are hot swappable too - you can carry a bunch with different games installed if you wanted, the Deck OS instantly repopulates your game library with the contents of whatever card you just inserted.
I feel like Steam Deck is very successful; the next big milestone, which may be a doozy, is migrating off of x86-64 to ARM64. I understand why Steam Deck 1.0 is x86-64 since something akin to Rosetta or WOW64 is likely as much work again as it was to get the initial Steam Deck off the ground.

However, battery life for a mobile console cannot be ignored. The Steam Deck can last as little as under 2 hrs depending on workload. A switch to ARM64 (e.g. ARMv9.0) would likely over double the battery life at the bottom and top end.

As a side benefit, because high-end ARM64 SoCs are so common in phones, Chromebooks, tablets, steaming boxes, et al., they may be able to bring the prices down, further increasing their competitiveness.

PS - No doubt I'll get a bunch of replies with "But use this One Simple Trick™ to get longer battery life" which, while true, also applies to ARM64.
I just think it's shitty to point to race instead of pointing to familial, or social, hereditary and non-hereditary factors.

Do certain traits tend to be more prevalent within certain broad genetic backgrounds? Sure. But for any given individual, or even family, this tells you nothing. And unfortunately, when people start to use these broad genetic backgrounds for prediction, you end up with cultural filtering whether you wanted it or not. The measuring stick becomes the goal in some way.

Let people be people. Let them find their own path through trial and error, unless they actually come looking for advice. Let them know if they're genuinely not a competitor after they have tried, but give them the genuine chance (a rare few will overcome even this).

Within the last couple of hundred years we've finally developed societies in which people don't have to follow in their parents footsteps, but can find their own vocations. I don't want to lose this because of some eugenics inclination and racial stereotypes.

:D Sumo wrestler football goalies FTW. :D
I really don't think that's the case. What makes you think so? In my experience exposure to more viewpoints, even flawed ones, increases understanding and helps critical thinking.
I fully agree; that was poorly written on my part. I've changed my post to say, "Hamilton68 was a central source on the Russian trolls narrative." which is more in the spirit of what I meant. But I'd emphasize that these issues are not isolated. Hamilton 68 was treated as an authoritative source and was promoted by individuals such as Adam Schiff. Schiff was the chair of the House Intelligence Committee which has oversight over the entirety of the US Intelligence Community.

So any investigation carried out by our intelligence community can be well expected to have also taken Hamilton 68 as an authoritative source. It's something akin to the Fruit of the Poisonous Tree. A -> B -> C -> D. But when it turns out that A is invalid, suddenly so is everything else that used it. So that entire article needs to be rewritten from scratch with consideration of the sources and their relationship to data that has been shown to, itself, be genuine disinformation.

One other small thing I'd mention here is that I think the chances of this having only happened or applied to Twitter are very near zero. We simply don't have access to e.g. the FBI Files, or the Facebook files, or the NYTimes files. Which is part of the reason why I said I'm quite looking forward to reading the book about today, in 20 years!
Honey is one of those things where you're best off buying it from a local producer, or not at all.
It will be integrated with Search, as they have announced.
Meanwhile, Martin Scorcese spent virtually his entire career making movies about being depressed, violent, and Italian and somehow that's just good cinema.
The key thing is that most people are obsessed with get rich quick, as long as you're first and you're fast you can make your money, damn the consequences.