skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This account is very similar to my own including the start date, except we had a c64 (with disk drive). Even once we had a modem, virtually every BBS was long distance. It wasn't until I was well into highschool that the Internet was accessible out there. CD based encyclopedias were mostly sparse subsets of paper ones with some movies included. Knowledge was still hard to find and dated. Biyearly trips to the nearest city let me get some computer books, and since I couldn't connect out, I dove in and learned x86 assembler and the low level details of PC architecture. In retrospect, it was a very unique moment to be involved in computing and it produces a rather unique viewpoint.
I like this idea, but the hard thing here is that people that are early adopters probably don’t represent the real end user.

I have been thinking about a platform where people could list their problems. Like an outlet to rant about things. Perhaps combining a ranting platform with access to early solutions to a particular problem could solve the above dilemma.

In a way Producthunt and Indiehacker is this community, but they tend to be very tech orientated. So it is not picking up on the every day problems.

I liked what Earn.com did at some point where you could join a list to partake in paid surveys. Initially they were quite strict about who are approved for a list which obviously made the results more valuable.

Have you tried to test interest for people joining such a platform as beta testers?
Economic espionage is the largest field of espionage. Although I guess if any big tech company would get caught, there will be repercussions for their business.
> a full OS made on web technologies

I think that's not unlike what ChromeOS is trying to be? With the APIs like WebSerial and WebUSB enabling web apps to do the same things native apps could for years now. (Of course, you can use these in the standalone Chromium, too.)

> an OS with just Firefox would really make everything simpler

It's relatively easy to build a Linux distro that boots straight into Firefox! You can try Cubic, which allows you to create a custom ISO for Debian or Ubuntu with a pretty straightforward GUI wizard. I once used it to create an ISO for an arcade machine.

[1]: https://github.com/PJ-Singh-001/Cubic
yeah I think what you really need is for Amazon to have a Wikipedia style 'disambiguation' page. Then they can link them but make it obvious that they're two (or more) different people and results for person A aren't related to person B:

> Showing 1-1 books for Dr Spock:
> * Baby and Child Care
>
> Search instead for:
>
> * Mr Spock (10 albums)
Wine is older than Steam on Linux. And Valve's enhanced Wine aka Proton can be used independently of Steam. The deciding factor is not whether the game is on Steam but whether it uses draconian DRM or anti-cheat that requires and actual Windows kernel.
I would bet picodollars that rarely happens here…
One thing this missed which almost certainly is contributing significantly to making us poorer is the “marketplace”ing of services.

A lot of services that were discoverable either freely or through a small fee paid by the service provider now go through monopoly/monopsony marketplaces instead.

Taxi services and food ordering are the best example of this. Every time I call a cab, 30% of the fee goes to a 3rd party whose only real service is becoming the de facto standard on which we operate (the actual tech is fairly simple).

Same goes for all the food orders BG services like Grubhub.

It’s a straight 30-40% tax that simply didn’t exist in the past and is paid only because a few companies used tens of billions of dollars of VC money to ensure they became the Defacto platform when the world transitioned from telephone to mobile apps to complete such transactions.
> 3840 x 2160 resolution per eye. 23 million pixels per eye, or, nearly 3x the pixels of a 4k TV with the equivalent resolution

So a 4k TV is 3840x2160. The equivalent resolution is... 3840x2160. The number of pixels in 3840x2160 is 1x the number of pixels in 3840x2160, not 3x.
Homebrew is awesome. It installs 80% of my macOS apps.
Those reviewing being less knowledgeable but more willing to change the code being reviewed to be actually worse than original?

Happens more than you would've thought, but maybe still not enough to justify the abandonment of the practice... So, in sum, I don't think it's ever worth it to skip the review process.
I'm not sure what your comment does, is it just to provide the Wikipedia link?
The examples given in the article are true multitasking and not task switching. For instance he highlights DESQview which had true multitasking but the only mention of its predecessor, DESQ, is to point out that it provided task switching but not multitasking.
This is what I've been working on with LiveG OS, whose desktop environment, gShell, is written in HTML/CSS/JS: https://liveg.tech/os

The OS is also designed to run on mobile devices, so there's some cross-platform consistency between the system on desktop and mobile devices.

It's currently designed to run web apps, but the hope is to also include support for typical Linux GTK and Qt apps (or any app that uses Xwindows) soon to aid daily driveability.

The current release can't do much yet, but we'll be releasing our next Alpha version in about a week or two which include a few more useful features on top of what's already available on our site!
> Wounds from an animal also needed treatment because of the potential for rabies.

I think it's relevant that this is a UK story. No one would think of the potential for rabies here as it was eradicated before most were born. Unless you're handling bats, which you shouldn't be doing as a rule.
The notion/mindset that "This tool can only be used if you are good enough" is an enormous design smell in my opinion.

Tooling exist to help you and your team do the required work as good or fast as possible.

If you are using tools to gate keep juniors in your field, or that are unnecessary complex in order to stroke your own ego. Then the tool is more of a weapon against the rest of your organisation instead of something helpful.
Linux gaming is not restricted to Steam.
What do I do?
Been blocking ads since I discovered it was possible in 1999, while on a shitty dialup and observing that banner ads loaded before the page itself. Back then I used a network level adblocker/firewall combo called AtGuard, which Symantec acquired later.
Then moved onto AdMuncher on Windows for the next 15 years or so. Now I use Pale Moon as my primary browser - unlike Firefox that pretends to care about privacy while doing the opposite, this one, forked from Firefox 24 and maintained independently, does not have a shred of telemetry or analytics or 3rd party Pocket like bullshit that requires 50 different 'hardening' about:config tweaks to remove.
uBlock Origin and eMatrix (a current fork of the discontinued uMatrix), both with an aggressive set of filter lists keep the web spanking clean for me.

On Android, I've always rooted my phone to install AdAway, as a next level now I use AppManager (get it from muntashirakon.github.io) to disable advertising/tracking components within apps, and Google Play Services itself. Youtube being a special case, I use ReVanced Extended.
Took some doing, but now I've managed to happily use whatever the corporate web throws up minus every piece of track advertising/analytics/tracking crap that they throw at me on either laptop or phone/tablet. Occasionally I look at the uBlock Origin logs and shudder to see all the crap that got blocked.

Tl;dr - I don't have to turn hermit and seek out indie websites exclusively when I'm able to extract exactly what I want from the mainstream web. Ultimately, your devices belong to you; you have to take back control over what gets sent to it.
I think all programming languages look alien if you’re unfamiliar with their syntax.

Having come from a Pascal background, C felt weird with all of its curly braces. Then after getting familiarity with C and its ilk, Python felt weird. In fact one of the reasons I was reluctant to learn Python was because I was good enough at Perl that I didn’t see the need to learn Python. I had a similar repulsion to LISP too, until I learned s-expressions and now I can see beauty in LISPs too.

Bar for esoteric languages, whose goals are typically different from a general purpose language, most languages are designed to be useful. So once you spend a little time in it you do start to appreciate some of syntactical quirks you once perceived as ugliness

…or at least that’s been my experience with most languages (and I’ve learned a lot of programming languages over the years)
Most of the stuff is already available as classical UNIX, then,

https://developer.apple.com/xcode/

https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads

https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi

https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download

https://code.visualstudio.com/

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/

And I am pretty much done.
But in those old games even distant LODs weren't rendered and were hidden by fog. These days you can disable that fog without any issues.
> Fines like this are a nice little tax write off, just another business expense.

The fines seem to be leveled at Meta's local company in Norway. As I understand it, fines are not deductible in Norway.

(I am not an accountant, and my company has never gotten a find, but looking up this in the accounting system I use, it seems it is not deductible: https://kontohjelp.fiken.no/as/medMoms/7799?sok=7799 ( in Norwegian)).
[dupe]

More discussion over here on official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37041992
Kind of depends on PayPal’s implementation details, but it’s still quite painful to transfer assets between web3 and the traditional financial system. If it’s easy to transfer pyusd from PayPal to a private ethereum wallet and vice versa, it could potentially be an easier way to move usd in and out of crypto.

Of course this probably won’t happen for regulatory reasons, and even if it does pyusd may have the same type of blacklisting that prevents many dapps from using usdc.
Usually not because as the saying goes: the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. Most people simply cannot afford to make those bets against the market.
The problem is Apple and the fanboys are claiming they've gone from the Newton to the iPhone without passing through the LG Prada and iPod Video in between. Hyperbolic claims promote skepticism.
Only one of those was bought by an American company and also they literally were bribing politicians
Georgia is also a good choice, but you need to be physically present in the country. (It's a nice place though, but maybe not in August.) I don't recommend Armenia, the banks here have cracked down on tourists opening cards, and if you see someone offering you an Armenian card it's 100% a scam.
Good to know that a British news publication determines the vernacular for everyone around the world. I’ll be sure to refer to bbc.com’s regional delineations before insensitively referring to any part of the world in a manner that may hurt your feelings. Thanks for the tip!

Or maybe I won’t. Maybe I’ll just speak freely with reasonable, organic language that isn’t dictated by cry bullies and false authorities.

You don’t get to tell me how to speak. Sorry if that pains you.
Yes. In term of online store it is better to look for the ones specializing in a specific market than wholesale stores.
Yeah, iddqd and idclip are kind of a shibboleth now : - (
Both are relevant, and can feed into each other. A incandescent lightbulb that has been on for a long time is more likely to fail after a power cycle, as the cycling adds additional stress (anyone who's used them can attest to this: the most common experience with one failing is going to turn it on, only to get a brief flash of light before it fails).
It's legal in France: https://www.cnil.fr/fr/cookies-et-autres-traceurs/regles/coo...
https://www.cnil.fr/fr/cookies-et-autres-traceurs-le-conseil...
https://www.dataguidance.com/opinion/france-cnil-opens-door-...

In Germany too, if I remember correctly.

But if you are so sure about this, please sue so we can get rid of these cookie walls!
Like some of the roads they dug up to prevent getting couped by Wagner?
It's only possible to compete if the index is fair. You could never launch a store like that without google in the fold. Google doesn't have an interest in increasing signal, only in increasing revenue. We'll need to see some trust busting first.
Your comment was phrased in a way that looks like a question, hence the answer from my side.
There’s a wide range of products and services that are native to crypto that you don’t have access too without a blockchain wallet. Now you personally might not care about nfts, tokens, exclusive clubs, blockchain games just to list a few, but other people definitely do.

Also the parent comment is out to lunch, crypto will likely never replace fiat simply because there’s nothing preventing states from implementing the parts of crypto that succeed.
The difference is reduced inharmonicity in the bass notes.

A sound we hear as a single pitch is made from multiple different sine waves playing simultaneously, called "partials" in general, or "harmonics" when those sine waves are integer[0] multiples of the lowest frequency, which is called the "fundamental".

In an string instrument, the ends of the strings are fixed in place. This means any standing wave in the string must have "nodes" (points where the wave has zero amplitude) at the ends. When you pluck or strike the string, you induce multiple different standing waves at once. In a mathematically ideal string (modeled with zero thickness), these standing waves are sine waves. Because the ends are always nodes, and because nodes and anti-nodes (points of maximum amplitude) of a sine wave are evenly distributed along the length of the wave, there will always be an integer number of anti-nodes. The frequency of the wave is proportional to the number of anti-nodes, so you end up with a harmonic sound, where the upper partials are integer multiples of the fundamental. Music played in standard Western tuning sounds the most consonant when it uses harmonic sounds.

But a real string instrument is not mathematically perfect. The strings have thickness, which makes them resist bending. Higher frequencies cause sharper bending of the string, so they are more affected by the bending resistance. This results in a standing wave that's very close to a sine wave, but with the end nodes shifted slightly towards the center of the string. The higher harmonics are effectively played on shorter strings, so their frequency is increased. They are no longer integer multiples of the fundamental, so the sound is "inharmonic".

Bass strings are typically thicker, so this effect is most noticeable in the bass. It's a big enough problem in a traditional piano that a special tuning technique ("stretched tuning") is used to try to hide it, but it still results in a kind of muddy/blurred sound. The only alternative to making the bass strings thicker is to make them longer, which is what the the Alexander piano does. The result is an unusual clarity in the bass.

[0] In practice people use "harmonics" to mean approximately integer multiples too.
The video cited above explicitly claims that the thinner wires (that last less long) are indeed more efficient. He backs it up with real experiments, and addresses the common claims that the Phoebus only did this to sell more products.

Specifically, the life-time of a bulb has to do with filament thickness (the filament sublimates until it is too thin, melts from resistance and breaks).
At the same time, thinner fillaments will get hotter, and therefore be brighter at the same power level. (specifically, more of the heat energy is radiated away in the visible spectrum).
This means bulb life-time and efficiency an inherent trade-off.
It has merit because Google provided the browser and the tracking system.

Making implicit promises binds your whole company, not just one division.
> I've never done a dive into package managers and just used what's been available.

See the Nix Package Manager[1].

1. https://checkoway.net/musings/nix/
Fwiw 77K is sufficiently cold that wild N2 gas molecules with pretty weak interactions are willing to play nicely with each other and condense...
Comparative advantage is a thing, an economy can function perfectly fine without a local source of steel manufacturing. I don’t understand why people fetishize manufacturing of cheap consumer goods as a sector that is more essential than anything else.
Times obit from earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37039832
Sure. But that has very little to do with lifespan.
What's the purpose of running Wine on Windows?
Planned obsolescence in the modern day is a real problem rather than a meme of course. There is no insurmountable physics at play when a phone stops receiving security updates.

I wonder if anyone has actually looked into what the real first instance of planned obsolescence was.
Just because the phoebe cartel did not limit bulb lifetime (purely) as planned obsolescence, does not mean that there is no planned obsolescence in the world currently. It just means the concept is not as old as some people think.
> But after looking at other source control options, I find it to be an absolute joy to use -- even for very complex tasks. The VC problem itself is where the complexity lies.

I think mercurial is a lot better and more intuitive.

So does the recent "jj" appear to be:
https://github.com/martinvonz/jj

I think maybe both fossil and bitkeeper are more intuitive too.

Did you try any of those?
The browsing-through-relationships features looks very, very, cool. One-click "see related rows" would save me a ton of time every day, as I use TablePlus, where I often find myself manually copying foreign keys as I switch between related tables. Anyone know of any other apps that do this, as this is Windows only?
Not obviously so. The embodied energy of an incendescent lightbulb could easily be dwarfed by the energy used in its lifetime. The relative cost of the bulb and the energy used to run it would certainly point to this being the case.
> And if you don't do it asyn out of your request path you add unnecessary latency to your hotpath.

Well, in my case - the table only logs unexpectedly failed requests (so not “user entered wrong password”, more like “HTTP 500 NullPointerException”.) That’s not on hot path by definition.

I agree logging every single HTTP request to an RDBMS, even a 200 GET, is dumb.
If you're comfortable sharing, could you elaborate on how a transition from unpaid contributions to some kind of paid work arrangement typically happens.

In your experience, is there usually a more or less deterministic path to a stage where the question of starting to get paid usually comes up? Who initiates it?

The result of this discussion may very well be that the company isn't interested in this kind of relationship for any number of good reasons. But what's important, I think, is for a contributor to be able to have the right expectations coming in. As in:

- Should I join on a purely for fun basis and see where it goes from there, keeping in mind things most likely will stay this way going forward.

- Or if everyone is happy with the quality of code, communication, etc across a number of pull requests, then it's definitely OK and expected to bring up the question of payment/employment.

Thank you.
That’s pretty much how meta does it, so I don’t think scaling is an issue. What you do at a certain scale is sampling.
LK-99 may not be a superconductor, but it will always be super in my heart.
I forgot one. Nixstats. It's not free (about 8 euro a month) but that monitors servers and, during their beta period, you get free logging too.
Norway is the home of wealth-based speeding tickets. I'm confident it's not just a flat rate with no additional recourse options.
To be fair, Western _institutions_ do seem to dislike us, cf. the Czech president's infamous "WW2 Japanese Americans" comment [https://www.janm.org/press/release/janm-decries-remarks-czec...].
Cheap as chips. Meta will be pleased.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the only way to make fines have any teeth for companies like this is for states to fine companies in equity, not cash. Shareholders will force change if the state might realistically become the majority shareholder and in doing so dilute everyone else's holding.

1% a week per breach ought to do it.
Has there been a similar shortening of the lifetime of commonly-advertised LED bulbs?

We bought a bunch of Philips Hue bulbs around 2015 or 2016. They were expensive bulbs, but every single one is still running fine. The downside for Philips is that once I replaced all my bulbs, I stopped needing to buy lightbulbs.

The Hue bulbs are still available, but a lot of the newer LED bulbs I see claim much shorter lifetimes.
"What are you willing to sacrifice?"

Framing it this way poisons everything downstream of it.

It's unfortunate if the author believes "that" is the "real question", but they have plenty of company in self-induced psychological damage of this variety, and thanks to the wonders of modern technology can amplify that damage and share its wonders with billions of people.
You shifted goals. The share is low, but FOSS enthusiasts do use those phones as daily drivers and constantly improve them. This is exactly how many innovations start.
Yeah, for example China's position of overwhelming strength vs. weak little USoA meant that China's wages have risen by an order of magnitude and their technology catapulted into the present century, building them in to the world's largest economy.

China has gotten far more out of trading with the US than the US has, and that is accounting for the significant amount of free stuff that China effectively donated to the US in exchange for worthless paper. Trade relations favour the side who adopts the most liberal economic posture.
Aha, so your solution is to just not do things which needs additional CLI tools or libraries. Got it.

That's not gonna work for me, or most people who use a package manager on macOS.
> Only one of those was bought by an American company

Yes, the operation failed in the case of Airbus because they were smart enough to raise the issue themselves in the UK to avoid being sued in the US.

Alstom was bought by GE and Technip was bought by FMC Technologies.

> and also they literally were bribing politicians

Something that no US company has done in developing countries I'm sure.

In the case of GDPR-fines companies are literally laundering use data.
It would sound about par for Congress though.
I recently retro-fitted my portable table-saw with a soft-start.
The process is quite easy, though the soft-starter you use has to be picked for a certain power-draw. And they might be specific to the type of load (i.e. specific to a universal AC motor)

I got my soft-starter from amazon for €10.
This has a Linux build too. The releases contain a .deb file.
Using Pale Moon with 110 extensions (the original powerful XUL kind, not the lame Web Extensions that modern Firefox copied from Chrome), memory usage rarely crosses a gigabyte on a 12 GB Linux laptop from 2015 with 11 tabs open; currently at 800 MB.
Meanwhile, Floorp - a rebuild of contemporary Firefox - with 9 extensions and 4 open tabs - takes more than double that.
I think shipping microG by default is a fine choice nowadays. In default setup, it doesn't connect to Google servers at all (/e/ might have different configuration though), but it enables maps and geolocation in apps (using different APIs, not Google). It is also relatively small (4 MB should not be a problem on most devices). That said, I think a no-gapps build would be nice to have, too.

(I use LineageOS as well, though. It works with microG too, but you need to get a build from here instead of the official one: https://lineage.microg.org/)
Guess what their name is referencing...