skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK maybe I'm dull here but it seems to me most of these ideas where well understood, so I don't think I would be incredibly impressed since they are mainly what I understand to be the case.

That they had more germs not sure about, my take on the germs part has always been the same thing you have with any invasive species in a new environment. It is mathematically easier for them to spread their germs to indigenous population .

So it seems like the book is mainly a condensation of the widely understood historical narrative (although maybe my knowledge of what is understood is out of date as I have not read so much history in the last 20 years, most of my history reading having been in my teens)

However, while I agree that geography is an important contributor to success in endeavors it is imho not a determinant. It seems to me that industrialism could have arisen a few places and times in the history of the world but it didn't, that it did in Britain, sure, the environment was favorable, but a lot of things led into it. So many things that it becomes in many ways a clever Connections type discussion where you connect one thing you would not think was connected to the outcome - for example does this guy talk about the Black Plagues influence on Industrialization? https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/black-death-and-industrialisa...

probably it's a pretty easy connection to make but still almost everything can be connected and when the thing comes about you say HAH all these things here together made it, the perfect soup! But there were all sorts of soups in the past that did not achieve perfection, and I don't think there is a convincing argument why that is.

on edit: tldr - I don't think the Industrial revolution was destined to start in Britain in the mid 1700s because of some combination of Geographical factors. If it hadn't started there it would have started somewhere else later - probably in the U.S. Or it could have started much earlier, but many factors did not pan out in just the right way in the past when it was possible for Industrialism to start.
There has been a real boom in building such modern libraries and bookstores all over China in recent years, cities have been competing with each other in building the coolest looking one. They're very popular with the Chinese version of Instagramers. Though I don't seen many people actually using them as libraries in most cases, especially long term once the novelty wears off. Trends come and go fast in China.

Very close to BJ, the BinHai Library for example was pretty much empty when I was there last time, apart from people going in to take photos of the admittedly beautiful design. But when most of the upper shelves have fake books in them (I kid you not), it says a lot about how far China's dedication to reading goes. The average Chinese isn't interested in intellectual stuff currently, it's all about making money and reading is basically only for students to get good grades and strike well-paid jobs.

Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of cool modern architecture that imo doesn't get enough recognition. It's sadly rarely practical though, it's more built for prestige than anything else. The top down planning has a lot of advantages and there's certainly a lot of bold designs that architects couldn't get approved in any democratic place these days, where there are endless committees ultimately settling for the most plain and boring construction, the lowest common denominator. But these party officials also aren't really thinking about what the people need, what would make cities more livable. It reminds me a bit of Albert Speer's Germania vision. Certainly impressive and cool to look at, but maybe not a place you'd want to live long term.
While Git is designed in some way for peer-to-peer interactions, there is no deployment of it that works that way. All deployments use the client-server model because Git lacks functionality to be deployed as-is in a peer-to-peer network.

For one, it has no way of verifying that the repository you downloaded after a `git clone` is the one you asked for, which means you need to clone from a trusted source (ie. a known server). This isn't compatible with p2p in any useful way.

Radicle solves this by assigning stable identities[0] to repositories that can be verified locally, allowing repositories to be served by untrusted parties.

[0]: https://docs.radicle.xyz/guides/protocol#trust-through-self-...
> But only if my hands start on the home row.

But but... in a car your hands always start on the wheel...
It's much like a miniature version of the World Bank or other MDBs.
Agree. Mazda has the best design among Japanese carmakers. They will probably end up as a sub brand of some Chinese EV maker.
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Java’s Files.copy method, a key component of the java.nio.file package, presents a straightforward solution for copying files and directories.
So 1,000 words from 6,000 is a huge amount, and you can definitely see how that would have a major impact. 1,000 out of 21,000 I'd be a lot less worried about.

I guess the message here is "Talk to your kids lots, when you have the energy to do so. That way they can spend their downtime however they fancy."
What if I don't take my hands off.
> To me that's synonymous to tactile button = physical button

Why would we need a synonym for a perfectly working word? A physical button is a physical button, to me a haptic button necessarily means some sort of virtual button as otherwise the haptic properties don’t have to be specified.
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They can throw those servers right into the back of my truck
Do Oracle lock down devices so you cannot install other software on them?
Oh true, those days seem like a lifetime ago. I am now writing an app to make remote monitoring easier for Sams preschool, but are planning on writing a scalable replacement to Nightscout soon. Also digging into the various algorithms would be fun.

There are so many ways that software can make T1D more tolerable, I am glad you have found some solutions for yourself too :)
I remember reading collapsing empire and feeling less like it was book 1 of a trilogy and more like it was one-third of a novel abruptly cut-off.

Kind of makes more sense now.
Radicle does store such data in git - issues, patches (PRs) etc. Also, the entire project (protocol, cli, web ui etc) is fully open source.
>Working in Excel spreadsheets is up to 35 percent faster than the 13-inch model with the M1 chip, and up to 3x faster for customers who haven’t upgraded to a Mac with Apple silicon.

Is this really a benchmark someone would diffrenatiate buying options?
I probably can install Linux, but I'm fairly certain Xcode would still refuse to install... The upgrade from Win 7 to 10 was seamless, replacing MacOS with Linux would be like replacing the computer.
The main problem is you have no tactile confirmation of the blinker status.

They may have left some blinking icon on on the screen, but you're watching the road and don't see it.

They may have left that confirmation 'click' sound on, but you can't hear it because you can't adjust the music volume :)
...which is nowhere near the center console, very much unlike the 'u' key's convenient position millimeters from the home row...
The book 'Billion Dollar Fantasy' covers the whole story of FanDuel vs DraftKings. It's clear why they 'needed' funding for this to work, how they came to these terms however is not detailed in the book or clear other than they had no other option.
It is not like relativistic effects only manifest around black holes or near-lightspeed travel. The effects are just more noticable.
I have found that my consumption of rock is mostly tied to my cortisol levels.

To some degree, one could say that rock / metal is a degeneration of Bach's music (and that's what makes it great).
I think the "Rachel" effect on global toddler vocabulary is deeply underestimated.
I think these numbers are quite strong. I consider myself a Linux user as that is my preferred OS, but my browser usage is from different OSs: Phone, my work laptop which is Windows and from my Macbook Air.

I think less than 25% of my browsing is from Linux. I would think many could be in a similar situation, so in a way it is possible that the numbers "should" be higher.
Yeah, that might actually be an advantage of that new Tesla layout (never seen a Tesla from the inside): small fiddly sensor surfaces on the wheel are best operated while going straight, whereas the stalk keeps tempting the driver to leave operation to the hand movement that happens anyways when starting the turn. Guilty as charged, deeply sorry about that (I don't think it's a regular habit of mine, but we've all seen cars driven like that)

But, as a sibling comment already mentioned: roundabouts! One of the most important indicator engagements is made crazy awkward for people who keep "walking" their hands to neutral position while the wheel is turned instead of wrestling it like some animal.

Which does make me wonder: has any carmaker started engaging turn signals from navigation? I'd imagine that this could be an amazingly subtle user interface for following a route: just don't press the veto button when the car decides to engage indicators and steer as if the indicator decision had been your own. No more following robot voice orders. An established pattern I don't know about? Tried, but turned out to be terrible? Legal uncertainty (or legal negative certainty)?
What I'm more surprised of is that it's so defended, as if "I'm using it wrong"
> Roundabouts..

And crossroads that aren't at 90 degrees. Like, you know, old cities that weren't built on a grid.

The one time i test drove a Tesla I abandoned a left turn because all the roads involved were curvy enough I couldn't get the turn signal to stay on ;)

Mind, it was just a test drive. I guess that if I practiced for years I could master the wisdom of Tesla controls.
Ask HN: Is There a Blender for Music?
Is there a free and high quality application that offers editing, mixing, synthesiser and the whole range of tools useful for music creation? A sort of Blender for sound?
Yeah but ultimately that is far more dangerous, no? The law enables severe punishments that are applied arbitrarily by those tasked with enforcing it. Knowing there is a clear and reliable line you can't cross allows for opposition movements to take advantage of that line and build within the narrow demarcations. Arbitrary enforcement means you can never know if someone in charge has it out for you that day because you probably already broke laws that could be used against you before coming anywhere near actively participating in political dissent.

As the common wisdom goes: Al Capone was not arrested for being a crime boss but for tax evasion. Why bother setting clear boundaries on what behavior is or isn't anti-revolutionary if you can just make sure everyone already violates the law based on technicalities and then just decide who you want to arrest for it as necessary?
It's really an experimental endeavor. I have a Github repo (https://github.com/ChicagoDave/chatgpt-ifplatform), but I'm still changing things all the time. It's very volatile.

Finding the balance between OO principals, Fluid coding capabilities, separating the data, grammar, parser, and world model and then constructing a standard IF library of common IF "things" is like juggling 20 kittens and 10 chainsaws.

Some things are confounding like do I define a container with a boolean property on an object or is a container a subclass of the base Thing? How does that extend to the underlying graph data store? What will queries look like and which solution is more meaningful to authors?

Seriously, 95% of the fun is figuring all of these things out.
Blender wants to eat everyone's lunch, and it's getting there I.
Avoiding to get into a "which car brand is best", I'll just say that I think there is simply a difference in the "DNA" of the car brands for how they approach the driving experience. It takes many many years and iterations and care about driving a car to produce a good car UX and some brands you can just immediately conclude that the CEO or the product managers don't care about driving and probably have never driven the specific model themselves, while in some brands you really feel they are a "driver's car".

This goes for tech in general and not just cars btw :)
In danger imminent situations you might not have the time or mental capacity to think about buttons.
Nah

But Dr. No had a pool type reactor :D
Controls should be standardized across cars.

Imagine that someone rents a car and is tired + every manufacturer has their own konami code, or secret button to start the wipers.
That's how accidents happen.
I'm generally sympathetic to this (I have a Tesla and I wish they used traditional turn signal stalks). But is the set of prescriptive rules really the way to evaluate the safety of the car? Wouldn't some statistics like the number of crashes per 1m km be more informative?
I haven't seen the term misused very often - the way it is defined in Radicle and most other peeer-to-peer systems is how Wikipedia defines it[0]; specifically this part: "Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the network".

So a peer to peer system is one where all participants are "equally privileged in the network". This usually means they all run the same software as well.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer
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I unlocked the machine by pressing two buttons and rebooting it and changed the ramping algorithm to less aggressive and increased the start pressure as it felt I was breathing from a straw when I tried to sleep.

I use a nasal mask (not the pillows) since I am not a mouth breather - for me the Fisher & Paykel Eson 2 (L) was just the right fit - took about two different masks before I settled on it.
Not that much better is true, but every time I see tech that is worse win because it had better marketing it makes me sad and a little angry.

It was quite irritating to invest time not only in figuring out which was better initially (only to discover that this didn't matter), but to invest time learning the better one and then to lose all that investment in memorizing commands/keystrokes/concepts.

It's true that most of them map so it's way easier than picking it up from scratch, but it's still a hefty chunk of effort and the annoyance I felt because I felt like I shouldn't have to do this made it harder.

Mongo makes me rage for the same reason (but way worse). I know I could learn about its equivalents of indexes and foreign keys and materialized views or whatever but I honestly really just want it to fuck off and die and get replaced by postgres in every single situation where it is used. It is a genuinely shittier technology that grew popular on the strength of marketing (image) rather than quality and that is why I'm forced to learn it.
Going to copy/paste from a comment I posted a year or so ago.

I have a 12th gen Framework 13", 13" M1 Air, and a 15" M2 Air.
I use the Framework laptop for work because I need to use Linux.

The Framework laptop is mediocre just like pretty much all PC laptops. The hinges are awful, if you pick up the laptop upright, about 50% of the time the screen falls flat 180 degrees.

The trackpad is arse in Linux.

If you're lucky you can probably get 5 hours battery life, but on a realistic workload you're looking at 2-3 hours.

The keyboard is pretty nice, but I wish ctrl/fn is swapped like Apple and it has the inverted mini-T keyboard arrows (or at least I wish someone would make a swappable keyboard for the Framework).

The speakers are bloody awful.

Display/Webcam/Mic are fine.

I would like more ports over modular ports, but I appreciate the design that went into the modular ports.

Speaking of modular ports, sometimes they abruptly stop working and require removing and reseating.

All these small nits really add up and it just feels like a mediocre experience. It is my work laptop, but I try my best to avoid using it over my PC with WSL2 or either Air laptop, but I try my best not to mix work and personal.

Both the 13" M1 Air and 15" M2 Air are just amazing compared to the Framework, and I suspect PC laptops in general. They have their drawbacks, price (gouging in some ways), less ports, can't drive dual displays, but their trackpad, finish, speakers, etc. are just amazing. I personally prefer MacOS to Linux for a desktop experience as well.

Edit:

For one C++ project I work on I need 32GB of memory to compile as sometimes the oom-killer will kill the compiler. That's one of the only reasons I use my WSL2 desktop or Framework laptop since memory is cheap.
For me it was Hirens BootCD. Seems like a slightly different implementation but we swore by it to fix the most awkward of issues.
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Poor usability and the generally spartan interior are the reasons why I did not even look at Tesla and ordered a BMW i4 instead. Sadly, they too have moved functions like the aircon into the touch screen.

But at least you still get a driver dash with head up display, proper indicator stalks, real leather seats and quality materials throughout.
I take it, that natron didn't work out for your usecase.

could you elaborate?
The problem is that "the academic view" is a messy web of ideas and findings, with a lot of uncertainty and inconsistencies. That's a hell of a lot harder to sell and engage people with than a simple and elegant idea that's eloquently explained, even if said idea is almost certainly wrong.
Domesticated animals make more domesticated animals. Tamed animals make taming projects for their owners
They should remove non-apple apps from their 'marketplace' if this is not a market then. Or single out apps: only one tuner, only one recording, only one scanner... If they allow competition for everyone but themselves, it's anticompetitive behavior.
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I miss my pasta and rice :).
> grabbing behind the bezel

so, physical control.
Which... Is the same maxim still
GI joe? Various barbie cartoons? Transformers? There are a ton of such cartoons, at least in the 80s and 90s.
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Not that it changes your point in the slightest, but China is about the size of all western Europe, so that should be more like "why didn't Shaanxi[0] have an industrial revolution?"

[0] picked for size, not mineral abundance; I don't want to waste time delving into exactly which part of China is currently mining however much coal.
I used to play classical guitar - not anymore. I fondly remember the Sor studies.
It can handle them, though we haven't built that much tooling around them. However, unlike GitHub, updates to PRs (Patches in Radicle) are non-destructive, just like Gerrit[0], and code reviews are tied to specific revisions of patches. This is in my opinion one of the biggest flaws in GitHub's model.

[0]: https://www.gerritcodereview.com/
Schools in my region are suddenly catching up the the top notch scientific publications warning people to stop parking babies in front of screens.

That’s giving me hope
Obviously clicky, you want to know when actuation has actually happened. Just like keyboards.
Bitcoin is not cRyPto or AI stocks. Bitcoin is a once-in-a-species discovery. You just don't understand it yet.
ROI depends on whether the company is profitable going forward too I'd imagine...
How much budget was spent on Radicle, how many people did work on it, how long you've been building it and who is using it ?
We'll blow ourselves up before climate and scarcity are solved. AI might help with this.
They were all physical buttons before touchscreens became the norm, so the slippery slope argument you’re making doesn’t really carry much weight.
Kinovea is a video annotation tool designed for sport analysis
What I always wonder is what is the end-goal of the current AI movement? What's the point of it all? I see people talking about being more productive and things like that, but for a lot of people, what does more productive actually mean when you are unemployed?

To me it seems that AI is harmful, like the author says, for society, mostly because it seems that the direction where we are going is just to maximise profits and make a lot of money. If we remove "humanity" from the productive world, what does making money mean in the end, where will it come from? Because it doesn't look like the world is heading to: these huge corporations will now support you to be creative and live a free life with no stress and work, because AI is doing all that, it will just mean that they will optimise everything to make as much money as possible, to a point, completely disregarding our humanity. In the end some people will live in an "Elysium" like world, where the most of us will be living in some sort of dystopian underworld fighting for survival.
This is a very creative project, congratulations!

One obvious step is to try to make it bootstrapped. Have the velato compiler be a velato.mid file.
I saw a comment (not in the linked thread) that notes that the system prompt probably includes something along the lines of "You are a helpful AI assistant...", which does feel like a bit of a giveaway in the sense that there are many documents on the internet that discuss testing AI assistants and therefore a document who's topic is an AI assistant is likely to contain discussion of testing the assistant (and if the document is written from a first person perspective, of the assistant, then it's likely to contain text from the perspective of the assistant discussing it's own testing).
That's 4 hours of running the screen (by far the biggest power drain) and doing stuff, it ain't no M*-powered Macbook but to me that's impressive and in the realm of practicality.

My prior experiences with older hardware have been barely an hour or two, which is impractically retarded.

I also have an M2 Macbook Air and find its battery life even more impressive (literally days between charging), but I don't really use it because it doesn't satisfy my requirements which include games (for play) and clean interoperability with other Windows machines at home (for both play and work).
I can't get past the menu, is it just me?
I know Technology Connections complains about it all the time, but I don’t feel like he’s even made a case, he just asserts over and over “and we ALL agree it’s awful” as if he asserts it strongly enough it will become true.

Why is it a problem? How is a red blinker actually measurably worse than an amber one?

I have never had any sort of issue interpreting a blinking red taillight as turning? With red, you can more easily tell the direction of travel and the aesthetics of a single color are far nicer. I frankly don’t see the problem.

Commenter a couple levels up says you can’t see red blinkers in the sunlight? I don’t think that’s true on any measurable level, amber is a far closer match in hue to sunlight than red.
I must note my gut has some interesting moments with it - some days - also I used to love mince (think US calls it a sloppy joe) - now I can't stand the sight and smell of it.
I see the server expert talks about inkscape and dav1d updates ;)