skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I shudder to think how many sky high electricity bills and greenhouse gases were released to needlessly compile the same software over and over again.
>The only thing that makes movies economical is theatrical releases.

Ah no. Home releases have been for very long the single biggest profitable part of a movie's life cycle. That's why Netflix doesn't waste its time with theatrical unless it has to, ie when they employ Scorcese and he puts in his contract, I'm assuming.

https://stephenfollows.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/how-mo...

https://stephenfollows.com/how-movies-make-money-hollywood-b...
Asterisk magazine has much more vivid, down-to-earth writing than "bay area rationalist magazine funded by effective altruism" would evoke.

One of the articles in that same issue was the one that pushed me to finally become vegetarian.
What about the Sabre Pyramid? https://theoffice.fandom.com/wiki/Pyramid
Then they should ask their tech-savvy friends how to do it using a simple tutorial. Tech illiteracy shouldn't be an excuse for stupidity by throwing away good hardware.
Unless the government mandated some kind of maximum fees / compulsory licensing scheme, all that would happen is Netflix and Amazon would ratchet fees until they were talking all the value. This kind of licensing arrangement happened for radio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license) so it's possible.
> (Yes, I know that you can hook up an iPad to an external screen, but it is not really a full desktop experience.)

I have defaulted to iPad as mobile computer for a while now, instead of carrying a laptop around. It works well enough for most office tasks, with some trickery even for light on-call support. And it’s definitely improving over time. The major pain point for me is currently file management.
I agree with you, but we're also lucky (or unlucky?) that the variety of out there's dropped a ton.

If you can, try to get access to OpenVMS or Cisco IOS, it's an entirely different world in terms of user experience.
tmux defaults don't play nicely with the Apple Terminal. Resizing split panes for example collides with switching workspaces in macOS finder.
> so fine-tuning is a waste of time (unless you play bleeding-edge games).

Unless you run javascript 'applications'. Games are already optimized.
Can you collect signatures and have a referendum in USA?
Rome had a growing problem - the lack of fiat currency as the reserves of silver and gold were exhausted. They had to find alternates. They tried debasement(adding lead/zinc/copper( but that created the early quick tests.
Same now. We have so little gold that going to a gold backed method in circulation = gold would wise to $20,000 more or less per ounce at which point sea water extraction is economic. (currently it costs more to pump 1 ton of water over a 2 foot hill that the value of the gold therein)
I've had JRE minor version revisions break things. The compatibility is there, but it's below legendary.
Netflix basically created a better cable TV, endless trash but there's those few shows you enjoy watching or classic sitcoms as comfort food you like to put on and shut your brain off for.

The content isn't king, at least not like the media conglomerates believe.
That’s another thing I don’t like about Netflix: English dubs by default. It’s an example of the deceptive tactics I’m referring to in how they present foreign language content.

The default audio should be in the source language, with subtitles in your language.
I opened the page of BrowserBox but didn’t understand what it does. Can you provide an example of a real-world use case?
It is interesting how round things come and go.

First we had cabe TV and for a time it was good.

Then there came the dawn of the internet and with it piracy and lawsuites.

Then came the age of the streaming services, and for a time it was good again. It resembled the cable age of old, but with the power of choice!

Or so it seemed. Then came competing services. Monopolies fuelled by publishing rights.
The user had again to pay for each extra subscriptions, just like in the old days, with movie packages, sports packages and whatnot.

Streaming is so bad now it makes sense to pirate stuff again. (This comment doesn't condone illegal practices).

We kinda came full circle.
compared to the average power draw of activities like gaming? probably not a significant amount.
lettersregardingdavidnotknowingwhatprecedemeans@cold.moon
> my point is that modern IDEs can't give the same experience as or replace Vim, Neovim, Emacs

Every time I ask "what experience is that", all I get back is "unique editor" and "you can write macros for repetitive tasks".

No, thank you. I prefer the experience of an IDE that doesn't think that your code is plain text and offers tools that text editors stuck 30-40 years in the past know nothing about.
Debian is my set and forget OS as well.

After running my home servers on it, one release wasn't too far behind to run as a desktop, and I've been happy here ever since.

Xfce desktop, move the panel to the bottom, install applications. Use it for the next days/months/years until I decide to look around again.
I think NixOS has kind of taken over anything I would use Gentoo for.
The linked website is just the home page of a news site. That's not a good place to start.

Care to link relevant articles, for those like me that would like to know more about 5G/6G and your issues with this post?
I'm not a fan of this approach or instead of somebody jumping on a horse and riding two days and two nights they should be driving a SUV to destination, in a couple of hours and with AC. After a while movies become historical movies even if they started as contemporary. The 90s stay the 90s, the Old West is the Old West, etc.
Google Voice goes US only
If you update the Google Voice app, you cannot make phone calls anymore if you cannot randomly validate a US phone number. Which pretty much kills the only use case for googlevoice: having a phone number when traveling, when you cannot receive SMS on your US phone number (thanks verizon).

You can still call from the website, for now, but not the app.

edit: btw the app seems to work fine, until you try to make a call. Then it shows a dialog:

> One last thing...
> Before placing a call, you must validate your phone number > [cancel] [validate]

(after removing my us number and adding a international one i can acces, the buttons change to [cancel] [associate a number] despite me having a non-us number)

if i try to associate a non-us number Then I get the dialog:

> Google is not available outside the United States. To use Google Voice, register using a US-based phone number.

(i'm translating those messages from french, so it might be slightly different)
Interesting that this is still going on.

I haven't done it since Slackware came on floppies and you mostly had to recompile your kernel to get the right drivers in.

Even did a linux from scratch once, later, to see how it goes. Then went along with my business.
Nuclear power gets new push in U.S., winning converts (2022)
What she did was brilliant insanity.
https://archive.is/oGki2/again?url=https://www.nytimes.com/2...
I guess they really want the world to use whatsapp
> The thing I always think about: how fast it is to play an MP3 from "device in pocket" state with an MP3 player vs a computer (or my phone!). iOS affordances around that are good.

This is a very important metric! Jeff Hawkins famously walked around with a piece of wood in his pocket the planned size of the Palm Pilot, and when he wanted to do something (write down a note) he would work through how many key presses it would take on the new device. His limit was three.

When I tried a BlackBerry I was infuriated by how many key presses everything took. What a horrible experience.

> Having said that... maybe there's a new shell that MacOS could use to get there

Like it or not, Apple’s plan for this remains Siri.
The Internet is so large now that what might appear as a small meme to you might never reach any of my circles.

And in any case, I don't frequent Reddit as much as I used to.
AI-created fakes are taking business from online influencers
I have both, an ultra wide in the middle and two curved monitors on each side with the edges touching. It works great for me
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
― Michael Crichton
How do these people imagine XR to be used? I don't see what 5G will have to do with that. Also I imagine bandwidth getting clogged quickly once this starts to really compete with wired internet? I mean better and faster connections are clearly useful and the way forward, but jeez all this sales talk.
feel free to contribute. I have no idea what apple customers see as I am not one.
The mistake in this logic is the one that assumes that they represent anyone, instead of thinking of themselves as a seperate caste whose interest is in maintaining the interests of the caste. Across the board.

This adjusted view, in part, explains why they'll never vote against this much power. No matter how bipartisan-populist any one's rhetoric.
I think the long term interests of ordinary Americans are better served by having a stable population and culture without significant immigration. I have a theory that America is so relatively libertarian and ungovernable because of the immigration of all these rootless people who are willing to leave everything behind for economic reasons, who feel relatively weaker affinity to other Americans. I think we’re seeing this play out in real time with Latinos shifting right just because of a little inflation.

If that means our tech and financial sectors look more like Europe, that would probably be a good thing too. The tax base thing is a trap. Having seen the influx of tech workers and rich immigrants move into Virginia, I don’t think it was a win for the median person who was already there.
You could start from a later stage, I think they had a mostly binary stage 3, and emerge was generally solid, albeit slower due to the compilations.

So at least once upon a time (10+ years ago) there was this option of just using it as almost another regular distribution.

Slackware on the other hand... (I say this is in a bad way, and I think it's changed since; for Slackware for anything more complex you had to manage the entire dependency tree yourself, and it was a pain in the neck for anything not part of the not-that-many-regular-packages; nota bene: for the "beaten path" Slackware was more or less just another Linux distro, but the "beaten path" was quite narrow).
Indeed "Wet-bulb temperature" is likely to be the thing that will make several densely populated places in Asia uninhabitable.

Bangladesh alone is +170M people. Dispacing these people will be a refugee crisis on an unseen scale.
Being controlled by bots doesn't mean no human person ever reads any of those subs.

Bots are where people are. If no one read /r/worldnews, there would be no bots.
Its just another Xorg/X11 feature that overrated Wayland does not have.

It works the same on FreeBSD and Illumos - its not limited to Linux in any way.

Below example from my http://vermaden.wordpress.com/freebsd-desktop setup.

- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GChSlZHXIAEgT8T?format=jpg&name=...

- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GChSlbFWUAA0x6G?format=jpg&name=...

Regards,

vermaden
Why optimize for using someone else's computer? Do you do it that often?

The rare times I do I find muscle memory comes back.

If it didn't I'd enable ssh on their machine and use tramp.
You could set up screen sharing for any system that supports it, and on another system receive the stream and use an LLM(s) to run object ("cat, piano") and text detection on images and sound. Mac silicon can do that, but it's not as efficient or cost effective as a dedicated GPU. This approach would be system neutral since models work on (increasingly) any GPU including Apple's. On your workstation, you'd just have the overhead (and concerns) of the video stream.
I think your question at the end is a good one for discussion. But let’s be honest, even “conservatives” in the U.S. aren’t fighting for small government. It’s barely given lip service, and only when they’re trying to justify gutting government funding. They’re often the ones pushing for authoritarian measures and flirting with outright Nazis at this rate.

I say this as someone who misses the principled “small government” conservative. I didn’t agree with them in a great many ways, but at least I respected them.
If you want to stick with using `pip` over any of the newer tools that build on top of it (Poetry - my favourite, pdm, pipenv, rye, ...) the simplest way I used in the past was to use a `requirements.human.txt` to set my dependencies, then install them in a venv and do `pip freeze > requirements.txt` to lock all of the transitive dependencies.
Gentoo was a meme before 4chan - I remember it from early 2000s IRC culture.
So, one size fits all?
Probably orders of magnitude less than the amount of wasted energy and greenhouse gases emissions of needlessly compiling the same javascript software over and over again on the billions of devices used to access the web.
"Work" in the sense you mean means someone wants to pay you. Exerting yourself mentally or physically is not automatically economic work that deserves payment, particularly not a recurring stream of payments.
Related:

>U.S. Troops Still Train on Weapons With Known Risk of Brain Injury

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/26/us/military-brain-injury-...

https://archive.ph/WDlpR

>The Army Said Tank Blasts Don’t Harm Troops. His Case Raises Doubts.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/us/army-blast-safety-brai...

https://archive.ph/WZRJQ
I had 2x27'' at work for years and now I have 1x49'' at home. Main difference is, on the 49 I can place a single 27''-sized window in the centre.
Yeah, A day was pretty normal.

I installed gentoo on a workmachine at a new job, like a dual xeon something with 64gb ram back in a time where 8gb ram on a worstation was plenty. I had a blast. It took "only" like 3 hours to get my usual to go system.

Unfortunately I need haskell on my workstation (xmonad) and ghc can easily take alone like 5-20+ hours compile time on older computers. I compiled ghc a few times on an old t41 - it took more than a day.

Still, gentoo is my first choice. I run it on a few root servers and every workstation.
Oh nice, I hadn't heard of Bliss.js, but the creator (https://lea.verou.me/) is great.
> Then came the age of the streaming services, and for a time it was good again. It resembled the cable age of old, but with the power of choice!

Maybe this was because VCs were footing the bill. Once companies have to be profitable the fun seems to end.
Eh, not really, especially with the extremely dangerous weighting of the S&P.
That's the opposite of how I perceive price. I don't use delivery apps because they're riddled with fees. If you hide all of that in the cost of the good and pretend it's free, I might fall for it. But if I find out the in store price if different.... Then I'll think you're a lying POS and stop using that service again. I dunno. I don't like fees but I dislike hidden fees even more. Anyway, moral of the story is just do 1 single fee and be very very upfront about it. If you make me pick and choose items and then tell me at the last second.. then you are also scum.
Yes, this is the best way to do it if possible in my experience. I use some fairly heavy x86_64 apps in the Arm for Windows in Parallels, using Windows’ translation system (rosetta 2 equivalent), and it’s been quite good.

Trying to emulate the whole x86_64 version of an OS (I tried some Docker images that only came in x86 before finding instructions to rebuild them on the ARM base OS) has been super slow on the other hand. This is on a quite decent M2 Pro.
Too little too 15 years too late.

One of the reasons I moved from Gentoo 15+ years ago to FreeBSD was that it was mandatory to compile everything while FreeBSD provided binary packages.

It may be not that important today - but it was a game changer with single CPU core and 1GB RAM.
With a subscriber base of 8 million, assuming hypothetically that each pays $15 monthly over an entire year (a figure which is inflated), the resultant annual _revenue_ would be approximately $1.4 billion.

However, their financial losses this year have exceeded even this ($1.6 billion in first 9 months alone)

Their projection of achieving profitability in the next fiscal year seems, under these circumstances, quite optimistic :)
Good luck for the insurance attempting to verify whether you are lying or not.
At $work they had a variety of dell docking stations around the cube farm.

I use an old intel macbook running macos, and found that the docking stations with usb-c didn't support secondary video, while those with thunderbolt (usb-c with lightning bolt) worked fine for all docking station needs (secondary video, charging, USB keyboard / mouse / camera / etc).

A thunderbolt docking station and a 24 inch 19:10 monitor transformed my home office setup. Big monitor in portrait mode in front of me, macbook to left, old IBM M4-1 (trackpoint) keyboard, webcam perched on top right corner of macbook so I can have windows in either screen and it kinda looks like I'm still looking toward the camera instead of being rude.

I've found the biggest problem with the big monitor is where to put the video call camera -- if you're looking anywhere but toward the camera it looks like you're not making eye contact with the people on the screen and it seems "rude" because there's the impression that you're not engaged.
A couple of hours of listening in here, it feels a lot like "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team" - a made-up story about a made-up company with made-up problems that are simple and self-contained enough to have solutions, and where colleagues are able to work together, despite turbulence.

It's hard to relate to, honestly. It's likely that the target audience is just not "me", but I think somebody with very limited experience dealing with operations would enjoy it. Questions like "why is IT Change Management important" and "how do we prevent people from making mindless changes in production on a Friday afternoon". If you know this already, so far this book is nothing but a "good story about work" - if anybody ever miss this part of life.
And if that’s not weird enough for you, the same era of Macs also had IBM AIX!
In the Western world it's mostly Americans that care about patriotism, thanks to your propaganda and flag-waving nonsense now part of your culture. Nobody else really cares if you are or not. Thanks for the comment.
> I remain unconvinced by the argument that without financial incentives, creative individuals will cease to create and society will be deprived of their creative contributions.

Except that artists well into the 20th century were continuously seeking patronage or success with the greater public. Because they had to live. Erasmus was seeking shelter at least until his 50s, and trying to keep publishers from printing his work (or work under his name) without paying him.

> Society would not have missed out on much if some famous author published only their first 3 truly inspired works, which they wrote to satisfy their creative urge, but not the 20 potboilers that followed.

You don't see the contradiction there?
> Traffic from those is absolutely guilty by association as the hosts are enabling abusive behaviour.

I guess if you would be barred from entering Walmart because you live on the same street as someone with 'abusive behaviour' you would be 'oh, yes, totally my fault, sorry for disturbing you'.
Even 1-2 hours is too much for me.

I rather use programming languages ecosystems that favour binary libraries for a reason.
My personal experience is that Windows 11 for ARM runs extremely well on Parallels. It includes an emulation layer for x86 apps that's completely invisible and just works. I can even still run Cakewalk, a program originally from the 90s, on my M1 Mac to edit midi files.

With that being said, this is just my view as someone who uses simple consumer oriented programs, and I'm not sure how well it'll work for more serious purposes.
Creating something is literally the opposite of rent seeking.
I think everyone will have great luck insuring based on my experience of never having an insurance company ask me about after market mods.

Many years ago, I used to have a custom chip to increase hp, turbo and other tuning. I had my car serviced under warranty by just swapping the chip out before dealer visits.

I don’t think this is a practical concern.
You have to go further for ideal IMO.

Evil and evil-collection integrates pretty well, but Meow integrates perfectly and uses the action visible first approach.

https://github.com/meow-edit/meow
wow. slackware is around since 93 and loadable modules since 95... i always remembered compiling drivers in to save RAM (i.e. i was more removing drivers than adding). But somewhere around kernel 1.2 we did have to compile driver modules in, indeed.
What's more frustrating is that things like copyright terms are often part of trade agreements (negotiated in secret). So you don't get any say in what they are in your own country AND they get forced down the throats of other countries if they want to participate in the global economy.
I recently dropped my cable service (cut-the-cord) after significant price increases over the past two years and switched to a few streaming providers. My household just doesn't watch enough to justify the costs. The plethora of streaming choices is overwhelming right now for consumers, so consolidation is a good thing IMO, assuming it doesn't come with a drop in quality.

As others have mentioned here, the majority of new content recently is mid-level sequels, spin-offs, prequels, etc. It's becoming much harder to differentiate, so people stick with what they know: Netflix, Disney, HBO/Max. I just don't see enough of a market for the other providers to persist long-term (given the high-cost of managing a streaming infrastructure).

I feel like Disney, in particular, should consider spinning off a few of their larger brands, like Marvel and Star Wars, opening them up for licensing revenue and new creative direction.
Great! Thanks for following up.

And yep, the browser date picker (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...) is a major time saver. This project uses the native color picker, too.
Yeah, it's deeply frustrating. I don't want to read subtitles so I like dubs. But compare it to American animated series (eg The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, etc) where voice acting is taken seriously as acting, which it is. Having the right voice actor matters.

But for dubs it seems like they have like 6 people on staff whose job it is to do the dubs and they're just bad at it. It's clear it's not taken seriously. Being bad at it isn't the end of it either. The voice just has to be appropriate to the presentation and demeanour of the character.

This shouldn't be an afterthought.
For my family, Disney’s value is more balanced between old and new content, vs Netflix, which I expect to lose content after some time.
> C is a straightforward, non-mustachioed language.

Don’t all the curly braces count as mustaches?
Please let me know your address, I will send you storage medium and you copy all contents of your hard drive please.