skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My best interpretation of it is that a purchase is akin to a promise to yourself. Buying an OP1 is a promise that you’ll write music in the future, maybe release an album. Buying a Leica is a promise that you’ll get really into photography, maybe publish a book or have a gallery showing.

Of course, the effort to keep a promise is manyfolds greater than that to make it, and spending a few thousands of dollars only requires clicking a button, whereas putting thousands of hours into something requires… putting thousands of hours into something.

Anyways, when I have such consumerist impulses now, I try to break it down. What about this purchase is flattering my ego or making promises to myself? Is there anyway I can get those results without dropping a month of living expenses on a new piece of gear?
Haiku Activity and Contract Report, May 2023
Ask HN: Dev productivity tools you would pay for
I pay for JetBrains, Creative cloud, chatGpt, figma, and mid journey. I also pay for quick books. Are there any must have dev productivity tools you can recommend?
I agree that it's very convenient and I use it myself too: much better than going into crowded offices with bureocracy etc.

On the other hand, in case of a breach/hack, it becomes a serious problem.
"Why" cannot possibly be science; it is rather teleology and the answer is ultimately "because" (phrased as "because god" if you want to stir up shit).
As someone who spent five years as a consultant for two AWS pro partners, I agree with this anecdote. Day one of any gig when I started building with my clients was training on IAM and resource policies.
Even after covid and the new Cold War there are certainly more than “60 Americans” in China today.
Twttr, the green slime app that eventually became Twitter?
This reminds me of Up in the Air, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_in_the_Air_(2009_film) with George Clooney as the professional in a soulless career who ultimately achieves his greatest victory of 10 million miles, yet it is a Pyrrhic one. He is awarded an absurdly customized solid-metal card with his own personal toll-free hotline number. But he doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't really get to go home. Tragic.
Im under the impression that Mexicans don't emigrate to the USA much anymore, most Spanish speaking immigrants are from Central and South America. Mexico has a lot of troubles, but other Latin American countries have it far worse.
What is a virtual desktop?
Muslims didn’t come till 11th century
Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to imply you were an activist — only attempting to explain why you might see some people complain about Delaware courts.

This handbook actually contains a lengthy discussion of why startups choose to incorporate in Delaware: https://handbooks.clerky.com/startup-incorporation/where :)
> Hopefully I could soon get an 10TB for $99.

And this is the reason I can't get a decent 2.5" CMR drive > 500Gb.
S3 is definitely not in a great spot on the cost effectiveness axis, but it wins on a lot of other axes
Probably not from us, unfortunately. I hope more resources like this can be put out there by others for other jurisdictions though!
> Then WalterBright became uncharacteristically quiet and pensive, and slowly transformed into pure energy and slithereD away, escaping into the crevasses of the wood moulding around the perimeter of the room which you both previously occupied.

> You now find yourself all alone.

<3 you WB, you are a big brain (sincerely). Please drop a shout out to C++huck Allison in your next book, if possible! ;D
Well, and tracking down and harassing her personal friends to try to pass notes.
It’s always a choice. People in 3rd world countries are having 5 kids in a mud hut without doctors.

It might not be a choice to have kids, and a new car while also going to the cafe every day. But having kids is always an option.
That’s annoying. It’s the perfect place for a reactor. Infinite heat and running water would make a real difference.
Walls of shame, which this obviously is, are inherently toxic.
Mostly to greener pasteurs like https://tildes.net, https://lobste.rs/ and quite a few here on hacker news too. I'm not quite sure if some may to moving to the "popular pasteurs" like twitter and facebook because they'd be least likely to be on reddit in the first place.
> Replacing broken or worn items often feels like a nightmare of upheaval and system change

It seems like if this is where someone's application of minimalism lands them, they have missed the point.

On that note I went from owning one pair of shoes last year to three. It was a great non-minimalist decision. My shoes now take three times longer to wear out, and now I'm always wearing shoes that are more useful or more fashionable for the situation (or both) than what I used to wear.
The headline suggests one thing, the article shows another:

> In 1965 the University of Utah hired him to establish its computer science department after receiving an ARPA grant of US $5 million to investigate how the emerging field of computer graphics could play a role in the country’s technological competitiveness, according to Computer Graphics and Computer Animation.

While it's impressive that this could happen in Utah, it seems to have depended on a timely grant from a federal agency.
Also this was during the real halcyon days of the third way and DLC right after the end of the cold war.

The libertarian fanboys on HN really don't like it because this is what they furtively shake their pom-poms for and it's clearly trending towards a socially net negative

These hands off approaches will get a thousand flowers to bloom but they'll mostly be weeds
You seem to have seriously skewed notions of what’s considered a hobbyist
Well you see I have a mortgage and if I walked away they would take everything within the house thus I don't own anything other than the clothing on my back.

Same with the cars.
custom airline kiosks are on their way out, and being replaced with the CUSS kiosks.

But overall the airline industry is so far behind in tech. The ground staff are aren't clueless, they in fact know so much about how to get people onto flights when they can it's almost scary. Paradoxically, their knowledge is largely tribal, so then when things go wrong at the system level, the ground staff probably could work things out, but the computers and the overall system in the background have no information about the current ground state and they prevent crew from making fixes they can see right in front of them.
Great news for kids. Puberty is an incredibly complex process involving countless genes, signaling cascades, feedback loops, etc etc. There is so much we don't understand about the human body, and thinking that you can just "pause" it, like a video player or virtual machine, is the height of hubris. Osteoporosis, sterility, anxiety and depression… we are just beginning to uncover all the harmful effects of these "treatments".
Buying used has become a huge pain. The platforms are absolutely full of scammers and time wasters, the items are either overpriced or immediately purchased by flippers, and they often aren’t very accessible without owning a car.

I prefer to just buy new, where I can have stuff delivered, and then use it until it’s completely worn out or obsolete.
I loved it — thought it was some of the best sci-fi TV in the last decade. And I really dislike almost every bit of Star Wars media post original trilogy.
David Petraeus shared some of the most classified docs in the government with his lover and biographer, which is a top crime. He got a slap on the wrist. DC trades on classified info leaks. I'm unsure specifically what this officer had and did with it, but observably prosecution of classified info breaches is entirely selective and political.
There is nothing more liberating than financial independence, the FI part of FIRE. Boss is a jerk or your workplace is getting toxic? You know you can walk away from your employer any time you want. Flub a job interview? No worries; you have infinite runway to keep trying. Feeling burnt out? Take a break for as long as you need to. It is so immensely empowering later in life that it is worth sacrificing for in the early part of your career.
That's the spirit. Everything is a single use item if you are rich enough.
> Original thought experiment said matter

Your original thought experiment asked about the energy required to push all the matter to one place. But to even try to formulate such a question in GR, "matter" has to mean "whatever stress-energy is present in the universe". And "energy" has to mean the same thing, because stress-energy is what "does stuff" in GR, not "mass".

> that's normal everyday language

You can't do physics in normal everyday language.

> in a closed universe the net energy is 0, nothing in; nothing out, so you wouldn't be able to magically 'pop' mass into one place without taking from somewhere else.

The fact that you can't "magically pop mass into one place" is true in any spacetime in GR, not just a closed universe; it's a consequence of the Einstein Field Equation and the Bianchi identities. You also can't magically "take" mass from some place, for the same reason.

> if mass A is 100 meters away from mass B it would take X amount of energy to push/pull them together. If they are now 150 meters apart now the energy required to bring them together is now higher.

These statements are only valid in the particular cases I have already listed: an asymptotically flat spacetime, or a stationary spacetime. An expanding universe is neither.

I understand that you don't get this; that's because you are using ordinary language, but, as I said above, you can't do physics in ordinary language. Your reasoning looks OK to you because you don't understand that, except in the special cases I described, the ordinary language you are using does not correspond to any valid physics. (I have explained why in other subthreads in this discussion.) I know it looks to you like it ought to; but it doesn't.
> the organism would need to be built like a tank. So it's replication rate will be very very low.

this does not follow
The longest bridges in the world are over 100km in length, why would this be too long?

Bridges can also be tall, if the concern is cutting boat traffic.
People want to have < 20ms latencies[0] and DCs needs many power, so you can't move DCs way further than where they are already[1]

[0] Well, actually most people don't give a fuck but Google would bitch what your site isn't shown in an instant (even if there only 1 page) and would degrade your ranking shrug_emoji

[1]] https://www.datacenters.com/locations/canada?map=true&query=...
Canada's visaless entry system crashes, leaving many travellers stranded
Just some advice if you want more people interested, put some images and/or videos of the gameplay. Clicked around and could not find even a single image of what the game looks like.
AFAICT, literate programming does not imply interactive workflow. Also, Mathematica notebooks are extremely flexible thanks to its lisp-like language, and it's not really about writing docs and code. You can draw diagrams, format texts and paragraphs, and embed dynamic/interactive elements. It's indeed the first and the foremost in its direction.
That being said: the best results currently on the large text compression benchmark utilize ML: http://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html
That sound pathological, why would you do that to yourself
It makes sense when you realize that it's click-bait for perfectionists.
Every Ph.D I've met has been a very hard worker, on par with the people I worked with in the military.
SQL, basic to medium networking concepts, Excel.
What happened to children 2-3, 5-8 and 10-12?
While I'm sympathetic to people running alternative frontends and I use another such project (nitter) myself, nitpicking on the language is unlikely to help the author of this blog post, and I think they'd be better off consulting a lawyer on this one.

On Github[1] and invidious.io[2] they say they're the project manager and manage finances, which puts them in a leadership role, and therefore capable of directing the project, including cessation of its operation. Imagine if a CEO started nitpicking about how it's "not their product or service" and it was the company maintaining it, and how they weren't a low level employee and thus not responsible for the activities of the company.

And even if we are to assume that "project manager" is simply an honorary position, there is a level of implied responsibility even in these positions. As an example, CEO positions often inch closer to being honorary, as demonstrated by some CEOs being on the boards of multiple companies.

It is a different question as to whether the cessation of its operation is an effective measure or not, or whether running alternative frontends should be a violation of a law. Imagine a situation where Alice and their friends bully Bob. Bob gets a restraining order against Alice, and Alice argues that their friends like to bully Bob as well, so a restraining order against Alice won't help. "Other people can also do it" isn't a valid legal defense, even when it is true.

It's also interesting that they didn't release the full letter sent by Google. I wonder if it's actually a C&D but the author simply hopes that they can avoid complying with it only because it uses "To Whom It May Concern", which is standard legal verbiage.

[1] https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty

[2] https://invidious.io/team/
Lol because there’s no need for them to be corrected.

Your comments are visible to the world. Quite embarrassing for Microsoft to have an employee who rages at people and gets upset giving them a bad name.
Enable blocking users and don't surface random content. That's all you really need. Everything else is either a waste of time or infantile moralizing.
>Nonetheless, I think people tend to own too much stuff and this prevents focusing on what actually matters

On this I agree with you wholeheartedly. It's very easy to accumulate cruft that one "might need later". I have a whole toolbox full of that shit. I might actually need a bunch of random capacitors, who knows?
In Italian I've seen a bunch of names for the kneading: pigiare la lana (to tread the wool), fare il pane (to make [knead] bread), and la danza del latte (the milk dance). I think that the first two are references to the movement, just like "making biscuits"; except that bread actually improves as you knead it, unlike biscuits.

As in Portuguese it's just "amassar pãozinho", or roughly "to knead bread", with a [likely affectionate] diminutive.
>> Their hands trembled as they touched the keyboard; several later reported that they had been afraid of breaking the entire system as they typed.

This brought back memories. I was introduced to computers back in the 80's, as a child. Naturally, once familiar, I would look to share that experience with other children, and adults.

I learned early that re-enforcing the fact that you "can do no harm" [1] was key to getting people to relax, which improved both their enthusiasm and enjoyment. [2]

I guess for adults it was something like learning to drive , and so there was a fear if "breaking it". Computers were expensive, and rare enough, that people approached them with done trepidation.

Now if you drop it in the toilet you just get another one.

[1] the machines of that era only had floppy disks, so any damage at all would be limited to the disk. And copying/ formatting disks was, dare I say it, childs play.

[2] some of the early computers -could- be physically damaged with specific instructions, but it wasn't possible (probable) that you could do that accidentally as a new user.
Honestly it's a fair point.
For me it's I don't have enough time to be cheap.
Heh - your comment is quite the moving target.

I'll throw in the source of Burke When bad men combine - it was both a speech to Parliment and a pamphlet distributed to the public; Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_the_Cause_of_the_...

I'd engage further but I fear this m̶a̶r̶g̶i̶n̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶o̶ ̶s̶m̶a̶l̶l̶ forum has (perhaps unfairly?) rate limited my comments :(
It's not clear to me why they would stop contributing to an open source video player, just because Google wants them to.

That aside, I imagine invidious (app) servers which allow users to watch content from Google's servers may be candidates for shutdown.

For example, here's a random video from the front page of an invidous server about the reddit blackout (I haven't watched it): https://yewtu.be/watch?v=fBruoybHryU

But the video itself is coming from
https://rr1---sn-ux3n588t-t8ge.googlevideo.com/

I assume this would be nominally legal under the same reasoning that hotlinking images is legal. If hotlinking images is found to be illegal though (which I think Google is powerful enough to force), then I think Google is going to have to do some reorganizing of their index (see case where someone sued Google, and lost, because Google was prominently displaying a website that hotlinked their image: https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/16/google_search_image_r...)

So it's an interesting one to watch for precedent, but I don't think Google is going to want to force courts to agree that hotlinking another website is infringement, because they'd potentially have to deindex 90% of the internet.

On the other hand, their search result quality has reduced so drastically of late, maybe they don't care about this.
> Usenet servers act as common carriers but they are not legally common carriers (in my opinion) which means if I am right, the experiment will end as soon as someone decides to litigate against a server operator for passing on material that someone felt offended by. Not even copyright violations, just something they were offended by. For example, it is illegal to insult Ergodan (really) and while that law isn't enforceable here, it was elsewhere until recently in places like Germany which still had laws on the books saying it wasn't legal to insult foreign heads of state, etc. So it's just a big litigious mess now.

Reddit was a defendant in a lawsuit[1] of a similar vein that the USSC declined to hear.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-declines-hear...
The worse single-core performance is typical for server CPUs which are intentionally underclocked compared to their desktop counterparts for stability that is expected under non-stop server workloads.

Scroll to the right for the corresponding consumer CPU: Core i9-13900K has higher score in almost all rows.

From the article:

> benchmark result shows Apple's M2 Ultra cannot beat Intel's Core i9-13900K in single-thread workloads and even fall behind in multi-core workloads in Geekbench 5.
> I used to be interested in minimalism, but I realised that they just obsess over objects in a different way.

This is really interesting, particularly since you use the word “obsess”. I meet all of the criteria for OCPD (obsessive compulsive personality disorder — NOT the same thing as OCD), except for “unwilling to throw out broken or worthless objects, even if they have no sentimental value”. In fact, I’m quite the opposite because I try to be as minimalist as I can and am constantly throwing away or donating objects that I don’t need or that don’t meet my quality standards.

I always thought it was strange that I don’t match this one specific symptom of OCPD, but then I started thinking some more, and I realized that I do obsess over objects in a way but not by hoarding them. If I want to order nail clippers for example, I have to spend hours online researching the best pair of nail clippers. I am currently wiring my house for networking, and everything has to be of the highest quality using data center components. Even rented a Fluke network tester. Closet needs repairs? Now I’m learning about drywall and level 5 skim coats. It’s a nightmare because I can’t do anything in a way that I consider half-assing it — I feel compelled to either do nothing at all or go into an extreme level of detail with it.

This constantly causes relationship and work problems, but to a lesser degree than I suppose hoarding stuff would.
Giving things away definitely is a win. Good Will seems to be a quick solution for this - is it a good place to give things away? Hope the things find a second life.
Just like with audiophile gear, a bike doesn't have to be extremely expensive to reach the point of diminishing returns.
Biography of the Pixel looks really good as well (by the other founder, Alvy Ray Smith). Been on my list for a while
Quite similar to this post which appears on HN often:

https://dcurt.is/the-best
I think this is partly because young tech professionals have the ability to generate passive income via projects that require little work, unlike workers in many other professions.

This obviously isn't possible if you have to show up for a job, like working as a waiter or clerk at a store. Even among white collar professions, it's not generally possible. Doctors and lawyers have to show up and see patients or clients. It's possible to gain leverage and become a rainmaker in these sorts of businesses, but there's still work and a fair amount of stress when you're at the top.

Techies know it's possible to have a SaaS business that generates $50k-$500k annually, which requires 2-10 hours of weekly maintenance/support. They dream of being at the top of the dollar range and the bottom of the hours range.

On top of that, they can make huge amounts of money working at a FAANG company, enabling them to save more early in their careers than doctors/lawyers (and without the student loan debt). Between these two factors, FIRE seems within reach, and worth trying for.
excerpt from "Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC..."

"Some fields of study owed their existence to his [Bob Taylor] largesse. Among them was computer graphics, which came to life at the University of Utah when Dave Evans, a devout Mormon who had led the Genie team building the time-sharing SDS 940 at UC Berkeley, called Taylor to say his alma mater had invited him to return to Salt Lake to start a computer program. How about an ARPA project, he asked, to get it going?"

"...If Evans was willing to start such a program in the backwater of Utah, where it could develop in pristine isolation from the traditionalist thinking elsewhere, Taylor was all for it. The venture turned out better than anyone could have expected. The program Taylor funded partially as a personal experiment and partially as a favor to an old friend evolved into a world leader in computer graphics research."
I vacillate on this a lot. On one hand, yes, it's nice to have well-designed items that last decades or a lifetime. And obviously we're awash in disposable goods at great environmental cost. On the other, who hasn't been burned by buying a garment "for life" that no longer fits, no longer appeals to us, or otherwise gets rendered unusable? Or buying a beautiful, premium tool that only sees one or two uses? Or having an item that by all rights should have been disposable last for years of regular use?
Reddit is 100x as big as HN. I think (well, it's a pet theory at least) that internet forum dynamics change at each order of magnitude. If so, then HN can't be Reddit no matter what features we build.
It was never about productivity, anyone thinking otherwise is just another fool. It’s a lot of reasons but I think you hit the biggest factor: banks, landlords, and even governments want people back, and they were pushing directly and indirectly companies to force their employees back into the office.

Only time can tell who would win this fight.
Fair point, AMOLED is basically just an inverted CMOS sensor. I was thinking of PMOLED, but I guess these days that's probably less common.
Intention matters. I can forgive incompetence much more easily than I can forgive malice. Usually US law leans that way too (manslaughter vs murder).
It sounds kind of woo, but I tried the Konmari method and it really was helpful without being overly prescriptive. It definitely felt good to get rid of a lot of that stuff. Though there are a couple that I'd probably take back if I could do it over.