skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the key is "world".

If you yourself can cut a tree down and do whatever else to make a piano, there's no world created by humans. It'll take you a while but in the end there's only you and your shiny new piano and nature.

If there is a distributed process with countless people and organizations using intricate mechanisms to build components of mechanisms that build mechanisms that extract natural resources for building mechanisms for preparing different parts that are eventually put together as a piano (which itself is almost a side effect, a minor detail almost no participant of the process sees or even knows about)... that's a world. If you click a button and have this thing show up at your house and not know a bit about what goes into it much less do it yourself... that's a world.
It's not poorly written or broken, at least it wasn't for most of it's history. Windows does an awful lot of stuff very well, something MacOS and Linux are not even close to, e.g. backwards compatibility. You can still run a Windows 95 app on 11 and it will run pretty much perfectly. There were some very smart people working for MS who helped design the NT architecture.

It's just the last few versions have really gone to shit. I saw a link to some comment on HN where someone on the Windows team was posting about how all the Apple users got hired and kept trying to make 11 like MacOS, and the seasoned Windows people were losing fights and just quitting. That explains a lot.
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I wrote a book about absolute nothingness, or at least alluded to its omnipresence, and uploaded it to a fun, somewhat formatted static site for free.

I think when I wrote it I wanted someone to discuss it with, but I’ve since realised it’s a very boring topic to many, and still most get offended by the mere challenging of their beliefs.

It’s not to say I am certain what this book says is correct, but that I would love to understand another’s point of view of… well, nothing at all.

I’ve been a little too obsessed with this concept for a few years now, and don’t regret writing the book, but can’t help but think I could have had a few more discussion if I wrote about, literally, anything else (that isn’t nothing)
When everyone sh*ts on your culture 24/7/365 for decades and decades, it gets pretty hard to separate the condescension from the genuinely good advice.
It also looks like it correlates to state or local tax rate. But as the old chestnut goes, correlation isn't causation.
A lot of really bad people didn’t care at all what anyone else thought of them.

Status, like it or not, is a huge determining factor in opportunities. You can do the right thing all you want but if people think nothing of you, you might not get very far.

This is coming from someone who doggedly believes in doing the right thing and lost status many times for doing what I thought was right. It doesn’t always work out.
Congratulations, we're (unofficially) beyond peak oil! Now go buy an EV, heat pump, solar system, and plant a tree or something. Also, recycle more and eat less cow.
I think status is our main currency as human beings.

All that really matters is what others think of us. The main thing you have to figure out is _which_ status hierarchy you want to compete in, not _if_ you want to compete in a status hierarchy.

Even people who claim not to care about what people think, actually do care what _some_ people think.
The X1 is an ultrabook (or at least the continuation of ultrabooks) and not so repairable. The T series though sacrificed a little weight and thickness for more durability, expandability and servicability. The sacrifice was pretty small though - I thought it was worth it when choosing a work T490 over the X1 a few of years ago.

The bonus was that for the same budget as standard Macbook Pros at work, I got 32GB RAM and the top i7 plus a thunderbolt dock.
"If you do this and someone objects, you will have your kids taken away. But don't worry, people very rarely object! You don't have anyone in your neighborhood that really doesn't like you, right?"

This is not nearly as reassuring as you may think it is.
Came to also mention - because IMHO Philip Glass is already a film.

I walked in to a frat party in 1983 and the movie was playing on a TV - and my mind was blown! I've watched it several times since. I also got to see that it could still blow minds when I saw my 14 year old daughter's reaction.
If you're generally doing good things, you don't need to spend anywhere near as much time managing your public reputation. Obviously you can choose to, but it'd be by choice and not out of desperate attempts to glorify meagre deeds or cover-up bad ones.
For example bootstrappers or FIRE people seem to care more about status than anyone I’ve met but inside their own smaller communities status games.
> Do you mean to say a similar quality Windows machine costs less?

These days, the extra cost is (mostly) for the quality. (Some of it is also for some of the capabilities, which a given user may not need all of, but the selection is very limited.)

So much of the time, when people are comparing a Mac to a PC on price and complaining that the Mac is overpriced, they're comparing it to a PC whose build quality is very obviously inferior. For them, that may not matter, because they're fully price-focused, or because they're only planning on having it for 2-3 years anyway, or because they just don't believe that build quality matters...but it's still a real thing, and it does make a difference for many people.
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

According to that, Windows' world wide market share is now under 70%. It lost 6% in the past few months starting in December.

A lot of this I find have to do with Valve pushing for Linux gaming. And there is also ChromeOS too (which is Linux). Then there is the unknown portion (which are mostly unrecognized Linux distros). That altogether makes Linux about 13%.

Really, it's the end of an era were Windows is actually relevant for the majority of PC gaming. And with people hating Windows more these days, they are weighing their options from the looks of it.
You're very much overestimating the average persons knowledge or ability to care about the internet beyond their relatively narrow use of it. It's hard to think critically about things that one takes for granted, and non-tech people frequently just take tech for granted. Tech people frequently do the same thing and appear completely out of touch with the average person's needs, but we call those "disruptive startups" instead.
Pretty messed up you can see where the reservations are.

Scroll down and compare the maps
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_reservation
Idk, seems like YouTube recognizes their responsibility with children. Can we really expect parents to do better than app level moderation?
I'd recommend posting some screen shots and/or a video demo as a first step before making a decision on installation via TF.
I'm in Australia and older car formats like sedans and station wagons seem unfashionable now. SUVs and 4WDs seem much more common and are enough to present a risk to children and sightlines, IMO. There are some of the very large US-style trucks, but nowhere near as many as in the US.
This was interesting to me because the status-seeking behavior is so alien to me. Why people would want to belong to group after exclusive group is beyond me. They’re all granfaloons, anyway. A few good friends is enough, and status is only useful as a means to an end. I’m always prepared to burn status (as political capital) to achieve a greater good.

But it’s still interesting to think about those who chase status, and what their lives must be like.
Thank you, this is a good compressed and less-salty response. I appreciate your contribution to the conversation and will use aspects of it when trying to explain the matter in the future. <3 :thumbsup:
Having half my extended family in the rural South, they don't often do much to offset that impression. There are nice ones and mean ones, but none of them really have their lives together and there's obvious stuff they could be doing, like cutting sugar consumption in half (so many diabetics). One of my uncles died of complications from willfully unmanaged diabetes. His foot was literally rotting off one toe at a time, he was in direct pain and he still pounded can after can of Mountain Dew and ignored anyone who tried to advise him otherwise, including his own wife and son. My nicer uncle is half-functional due to neck injuries he sustained in a car crash, but he just pushes through things and doesn't look after his health, and just makes things worse for himself despite his good intentions.

That seems to be the identity of the modern south, various flavors of denial and defiance. Those who defy the stereotype tend to leave, or cluster in/around the better developed urban areas. I've met a lot of awesome people who immigrated from the south, but not many living there outside of a major metro.
Templated, reusable schedules so I don’t have to set up downtime for each kid individually. Allow overrides for holidays etc.

Apple let you press a button for ‘one more minute’ that seems impossible to disable.

Password management is horrible as a family, as is having to set up my fingerprint on all my kids’ devices to be able to help them with stuff without faff.

More generally, every time I have to set up any sort of account for my kids it’s absolute torture. Try to log in with Apple ID, can’t cos they’re a kid. Try to log in with a google account, remember Family Link doesn’t work for my normal account because it was set up for a domain, so log in as my other google account, set kid up, still doesn’t work.

Give me one place in my whole life to manage identity for my family, one that works, with permissions and downtime settings that integrate with every app and website in the world (including the half dozen each of my kids’ schools require us to use). I’ll pay loads of money for this.
The Cyberpunk anime got the fact that the environment was a character while the video game didn't.

A tremendously important point in the Cyberpunk anime was the fact that their world was really horrific to live in. You could live semi-miserably and go out in an untimely fashion--possibly even in a blaze of glory--or you live completely miserably and could go out in an untimely fashion with a whimper. Living well and pleasantly was really never on the table.

Whereas, Cyberpunk the video game is the standard, kinda-generic power fantasy. You never really feel "oppressed" by the overall system as you're kind of outside it.
Those are reservations. MT, ND, MN, WI too
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_reservation
"every MWh of renewable electricity put onto the grid would displace ~3MWh of fossil fuels being burned to supply grid electricity and eliminate over a tonne of CO2 emissions." - https://johnmenadue.com/the-green-hydrogen-myth/

Electric arc furnaces are rife with issues.

All the ESG "let's minimize CO2 emissions" stuff had me going long levered on nat gas.

https://bit.ly/kumarngbull

Have a look at $UAN, $FCG, and $TELL(Gamble) -- I went long levered in 2019 onwards.

If I have to watch the train wreck, I deserve to be compensated accordingly.

Steel data:
https://twitter.com/datarade/status/1642716122343526400?s=20

To those who doubt my line of thinking:

Is there as ingle commercial steel plant that minimizes iron ores via hydrogen? Furthermore, we know that most of the hydrogen is produced by nat gas reformation.

To make zero carbon iron you'd have to do mass scale electrolysis and it would need to be powered by renewables, right?

https://www.industrytransition.org/green-steel-tracker/ - here's some 50+ green steel projects tracked, I check it periodically.

Cheers.

I do believe electric arc furnaces will get ESG ayatollah money and will scale over time even if counterproductive to basic scientific production metrics against feedstock requirements, throughput, quality, and industrial requirements.
You don't need an in-depth knowledge of cars to teach your kids how to drive a car.

Likewise, you don't need an in-depth knowledge of computers to teach your kids how to handle the internet. Even moreso if you literally grew up with the thing, seeing both the absolute best and worst the internet has to offer.
The “soft life skill” like resilience are very important for any adult. Achievement is great but is meaningless if all you got out of it was trivial knowledge. Being resilient, for example, allows a young adult to take difficult situations in stride knowing that they can get through this.
Is it possible they didn't believe you? Eg, they thought you had something particular in mind, and they wanted you to drop the pretence and make the expectations clear?

I've had limited teaching experience, all at a college level, but I would try to engage students with questions & get them to predict things they hadn't been taught yet. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it seemed like they wanted me to cut the crap and just tell them the answer, because they felt like I was setting them up to fail by asking them a question they didn't know (because it was new material).

I don't think it's necessarily a lack of critical thinking skills on their part as much as an unwillingness to engage with that style of teaching, which is fair. So I'm wondering if similarly it's an unwillingness to engage in independence in a context without the requisite trust, where they might be suspicious that you'll penalize them for picking "wrong" (regardless of whether that's the reality).
Vastly smoother settings adjustment or profile selection per combo of kid/activity/device.
A Tribute to Winamp
How many kids do you have?

Not setting restrictions because they will resist them doesn’t make sense. It seems like you started from the premise that parental controls are bad.
Having them determine what their desired outcome is and then learning how to draw up a plan to get there is more valuable for them long term than the outcome itself. A flow cart is just more hand holding.
I'm not just counting Steam's survey. This tells me more: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

And from the looks of things, Windows is on the decline. Linux and Mac are actually beginning to rise. Unknown are generally unknown Linux distros, and then there is ChromeOS and the recognized Linux distros. Together, that makes Linux about 13%
Thank you for illustrating my point. Yeesh.
ChatGPT data leak has Italian lawmakers scrambling to regulate data collection
Is your claim that the patronizing tone is the source of or a possible solution to the South’s problems?

Or is this a, “because the coasts are patronizing, we don’t need to discuss these issues.”

Seems like the latter to me but I’d be interested to hear if it’s the former.
Yeah that’s been my thought since the beginning. We have created all sorts of agents to date that are very compelling but lack a bridge into knowledge and synthesis of complex semantics. Wiring an ensemble of the various AI models created over the last 70 years I think is the final step.
Write barriers have been discussed for years and years. Personally I prefer grouped writes. https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg70047.html

The underlying SCSI and SATA protocols would support this with command queueing. I would have envisioned using an fcntl() to set the current group ID on an fd.
How is this not completely I/O bound? What's so cpu intensive that programming language matters?
imho since gamasutra became "gamedeveloper", the quality of its content went way down, to the point of becoming a soulless mouthpiece for the industry on one hand and the now standard for a for-profit online publication an engagement and metrics driven words sweatshop on the other.

the article is a chatgpt summary of Paweł Sasko's cd projekt red lead quest designer's presentation on lead quest design. "lessons learned" are in the form of "we did a thing, and by virtue of doing the thing the way we did it, we have an experience doing this thing our way." there's not a single element of self-reflection. it says quest director, but Pavel wasn't one until, the actual Cyberpunk 2077 quest director, Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz, quit in 2021, a year after the game was released.

In my experience these days talks like that are heavily filtered by the PR (or some informal equivalent of), and having sat through my fare share of them they seem to make up the dull corporate background noise of GDC and co. Pavel is a cool dude though, he was responsible for the Red Barron in Witcher 3 that people keep bringing up in the comments.

I think real cyberpunk 2077 design retrospective would've been interesting to read. If somebody knows an in-depth one I'd appreciate a link. The game is very very uneven. There's a first rate B-grade Hollywood blockbuster hiding there, staring Keanu Reeves, Goro's subplot, etc. which suffers from very basic design issues ("show don't tell" "show don't tell" "jeez that tell is the opposite of the show" "show.. oh fuck it"). Tell us how to awkwardly wrap up your story lines under crunch, Pavel.
Too many people live in unwalkable neighborhoods.
> and my first thought finding it was basically "am I the first person here?, do the developers know this exists?". A world having that much of a life of its own is a hug feat for a work of fiction.

My favorite example of this was Ash Lake in Dark Souls 1. In one of the most difficult and miserable places in the game there's a random tree with a chest in it. If you happen to hit the wall behind it, you'll find it's actually illusory, and be rewarded with another chest. At that point you probably think you've already found the secret, but if you move being the second chest, you'll find this wall is illusory as well.

You'll walk down a path and find that this tree is actually hollow, and proceeds into the ground for hundreds of feet. You can try to make it down, but it's quite the gauntlet: you have to deal with irritating platforming, and enemies that will curse you and remove half your health.

If you have the patience to make it all the way down, you emerge from the tree and are greeted with one of the most spectacular vistas in the game: a seemingly endless lake stretching to the horizon, filled with gigantic trees, each hundreds (if not thousands) of feet tall. If you then make the journey all the way down the beach, you'll encounter an amazingly bizarre (but peaceful) dragon.

All of this hidden at the bottom of a miserable swamp behind two unassuming illusory walls. It's so magic the first time you find this, and it reminded me of playing games as a kid, where the possibilities of what might be around the next corner felt endless.
I see you have a fine appreciation for irony.

Housing and zoning are a provincial responsibility. You can blame Trudeau and Harper for lots of stuff, but not the housing mess.
Already has if you count the unknown portion (which are unrecognized Linux distros). The Steam Deck is perhaps using some funky user agent that isn't recognized according to this: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide
That’s very interesting. Considering they didn’t understand, then they figured it out, it sounds like it was very productive. I think we underestimate the impact of simply raising expectations.
I don't know the answer to that question, but Card was an editor for Compute! books for nine months[1](video interview), and in that role wrote a two-part series about computer game development 40 years ago, in issues 38[2] and 39[3] of Compute! magazine.

[1] https://archive.org/details/orson-scott-card

[2] https://archive.org/details/1983-07-compute-magazine/page/n3...

[3] https://archive.org/details/1983-08-compute-magazine/page/n7...
> I don't see what's hard about "sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-525", but YMMV I guess.

Seems like a pretty dismissive way to phrase it.

It sounds wonderful, that the experience is like that for you, but it’s not the experience for me. I don’t know what is different about your setup, but I have experienced severe issues on three different Linux distributions, using different Nvidia cards, either at home or in the cloud. When I’ve searched for information about it, I’ve come across recent comments of people experiencing the same issues, so I can only guess that these issues are common enough. Of course I know that these issues are not universal, because I sometimes encounter people who don’t have any problems with Nvidia on Linux (some combination of blessed distros, the right hardware, good luck with timing upgrades, I don’t know—I just know that I’ve run into problems with Nvidia+Linux consistently enough that I’m going to avoid it when reasonable, I’m not going to keep trying different things until it works, that sounds like a massive time sink).

I just use a Mac for video editing because it always works.

I’m aware that lots of people get work done with Nvidia hardware on Linux, but lots of people also have IT departments fixing these issues for them and managing software updates + hardware configurations. I don’t have that.
> and IMHO with a far more inelegant extension

what could they have done that would have been better?
Hm, this seems a bit contrary to my personal anecdotal experiences. I've generally seen more coddling of kids, and that has been accompanied with lax rules / letting kids have what they want. Especially when it comes to digital tech / roaming the web. Perhaps both extremes of parenting - giving autonomy and helicopter parenting - are both becoming more common?
I hope the parent commenter would comment now
> what they want is alignment and legibility

Having worked in all sizes of companies, I've learned this: bad managers want obedience. I've seen this from team leads, from C-suite, and in between. For me it's a huge red flag, a sign of incompetence and of an offensively domineering mindset.

Good managers want communication (or as you said: alignment and legibility).
The thing is I couldn't just go from zone to zone: I was inundated with quests everywhere I went. I couldn't ignore them, they were in my face every chance they got.

It's kind of like trying to use the internet today without an adblocker. Much like how the internet spams ADVERTS ADVERTS ADVERTS ADVERTS ADVERTS ADVERTS in my face every chance they get, Guild Wars 2 spammed QUESTS QUESTS QUESTS QUESTS QUESTS QUESTS in my face every chance it got. I couldn't stand it, I fucking hated it; I refuse to call Guild Wars 2 an open world.
Consumer reports has an analysis of several restaurants, it's from 2022 but maybe worth a look, https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/dan...
LMDB performance suffers when used on a journaling filesystem. Consequently, LMDB supports using a plain block device, to eliminate all FS overheads. And yes, all of the perf benefits go out the window if you're running on several layers of virtualization anyway.
Mass Effect 3 had this same problem. The game starts off with the apocalypse beginning and there are constant reminders during the game how millions are being killed every day, but also loads you up with time consuming sidequests.

Subverted in the end by killing off everybody no matter how well you play.
Thanks. I found it interesting I was the 25th person to go through this process and also the person to make it the furthest. Very telling.
Spammers will set article date to 2021
I’m not following the obesity connection.
The moat isn't vast at all, and the AWS market share lead is shrinking every year. Microsoft is very well positioned to say the least.
There may also be other factors going on, like how that might affect symbiosis with other entities.
> Doubt it would ever work in the US because everywhere is just plain dangerous

What do you mean by this?
https://www.getoutline.com/
E-scooter rental companies, not e-scooters. Big difference!