skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very well put. Ageism too. It's a way for the young to feel superior to the old without having to actually accomplish anything. Too lazy to study the past? Just say it all sucks anyway and even learning about it would morally sully you! Too dull to engage in complex arguments? Just slander your interlocutor based on their "outdated" language.

For some, it's an intellectual version of bullying the poorer and older and less well connected for having unfashionable clothes.

Paul Graham wrote in 2004 on this better than I could.

"What scares me is that there are moral fashions too. They're just as arbitrary, and just as invisible to most people. But they're much more dangerous. Fashion is mistaken for good design; moral fashion is mistaken for good. Dressing oddly gets you laughed at. Violating moral fashions can get you fired, ostracized, imprisoned, or even killed."

And he gave really good practical advice:

"Suppose in the future there is a movement to ban the color yellow. Proposals to paint anything yellow are denounced as "yellowist", as is anyone suspected of liking the color. People who like orange are tolerated but viewed with suspicion. Suppose you realize there is nothing wrong with yellow. If you go around saying this, you'll be denounced as a yellowist too, and you'll find yourself having a lot of arguments with anti-yellowists. If your aim in life is to rehabilitate the color yellow, that may be what you want. But if you're mostly interested in other questions, being labelled as a yellowist will just be a distraction. Argue with idiots, and you become an idiot."

https://paulgraham.com/say.html
He’s saying Texas is hot for humans, which is objectively true. One’s willingness to tolerate it is subjective, but that’s not the point here. Don’t take it so personally.
The economy grows or shrinks with productivity but advertising specifically is zero sum. Coke vs Pepsi makes a great deal of difference to those specific companies and little else.

If anything it’s slightly negative due to inefficiency because the winner isn’t the best product.
From Vikings to Beethoven: what your DNA says about your ancient relatives
Darth Vader's helmet, with the crease around the lower edge, certainly looks like German WWII helmets.
> At least you can be careful about the rest with adblocking, sandboxing and being irrelevant enough to not make your machine a target for anyone competent, which gives you a pretty great chance at avoiding them.

That maybe used to be a thing, but isn't anymore really: There only needs to be a single, unpatched vulnerability in your network stack, the multitude of devices around you, whether at home, work, or in a cafe, none of which you control, might exploit.

And one more little piece of trivia; high levels of expertise usually come with increased negligence on the basics, because you're less careful. This affects pilots and nerds alike; just think of Ross Ulbricht.

Good luck :)
the name of the project is 'pointless' so the logo and the branding is '.less'
> the set of such roots is actually closed under multiplication, addition, and subtraction, and there is even an analogue of prime factorization if you squint

I did a maths undergrad, but I don’t think I ever studied algebraic integers. That’s something I shall have to remedy now, thanks!
I'm talking about waste heat from when you use the electricity.

Almost no matter what machine you are powering, be it a a toaster or a computer or an electric car or a washing machine, eventually turns all of the electric energy into heat.

(You can contrive some counter-examples. Eg if you point a sufficiently strong laser pointer at the sky, some of the energy will escape earth before turning into heat here.)
Why not keep everything transparent and make lobbying illegal? I know neither secret voting or making lobbying illegal will ever happen but it seems like you're just putting a bandaid on an issue without regard for the consequences. People that vote for representatives like to know how they vote. Why even have the theater of a transparent vote that does nothing?
Is this a trickle-down style of argument? Or that corporations are holy? Or that they always have the job takers interests at heart? Or that the elected representatives are elected by the 16% who don't want stronger privacy laws? I'm confused.
The absolute funniest moment of my entire life happened to me in Germany.

I was on a theatre tour (as Technical Director), the show had ended, it was late and night and everyone was tired after a long day and packing everything away. The German host gathered us together and stood on a chair to tell us about accommodation arrangements.

He was clearly your stereotypical, humourless, German. He introduced himself - "Hi, my name is Hans. As you can see, I am German". Short pause, then in a loud stage whisper "Don't mention the war!".

It was SO unexpected to have any humour at all, let alone self-referential Fawlty Towers reference. There was a pause while all the tired people processed what they'd just heard and then absolutely dissolved in laughter.
Yes, in the case of Australia, that's mostly self-inflicted.
I was here a long time before I noticed that.

Something I recently realized: I may packet-sniff, dev tool, download the site for examination but I don't think to look for features until I have to.

I suspect I'm incurious about what's on offer due to built-up mistrust (the present paying for past sins).
the most vulnerable populations in the UK look to be doing a heck of a lot better than the most vulnerable populations in other areas of the world.

not sure how you're concluding totalitarianism is running the show in the UK.
Shareholders have more power than the CCP in China?

Remember the US is second in manufacturing next to China.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/global-manufacturing-scor....

Why isn’t the US as polluted then?
Grid allows minmax(a, b) to specify the bounds of tracks. Possible values can be the remaining free space in the parent (fr), or the size of the content in the child.

There is also fit-content:

E.g:
grid-template-columns: fit-content(150px) …
Not only asking ChatGPT what is wrong, but also using an agent which does self-reflection by default. I'm sad every time I see people using the bare chat interface to generate code. We've got API tools which are so much better at it today. Use Aider at the very least.
Besides the already provided examples on sibling comments, Linux drivers on Android are considered legacy, all modern drivers since Project Treble, execute on their own process and use Android IPC to talk to the kernel.

Likewise, while macOS still allows for kexts, the long term roadmap is that only userspace extensions are allowed in future versions, including drivers.

Kexts are only still supported as interim solution for the respective companies to migrate their products away from macOS kernel.

Finally, Windows nowadays with Secure Kernel, Device Guard, and Virtualization-based Security already cages lots of stuff that shouldn't be freely having fun on ring 0.
"We complained to the government about the government" Good luck.
Wrong. `flex: 1` will cause the items to have a max-width of 1/3rd the container width. E.g. if the left and right items are small icons, and the middle one is a longer text, then the text will be forced to wrap into multiple lines as soon as it tries to grow beyond 1/3rd of the available space, even though there's tons of wasted space on the left/right.
Did they try to use Bayesian search theory to look for it? That's how you find sunk ships and submarines, right?
Jamba 1.5 Open Model Family: The Most Powerful and Efficient Long Context Models
I like public hackathons, I like the energy, I like meeting people, I like seeing how other people do things.

I worked at one place that had an internal "hackathon" where the CEO wanted us to deliver something small in two hours. My immediate take was: "it takes 20 minutes to build our system (I knew because I just did it) so we have at most 6 trial-and-error cycles, a realistic plan takes that into account". The engineering manager said "no way it takes that long", I said, "let's go ahead and I'll time it with my stopwatch", and it took 18 minutes.

In that sense it was representative of how well we were planning in general. I felt I learned something from it, I'm not sure that management did.
"Chinaman" is not inherently/originally a slur, but seriously who says that today? Even Englishman, Irishman and Frenchman sound slightly old-fashioned to me - surely you'd rather say "He's French" than "He's a Frenchman".

It's one of those words you certainly shouldn't be offended at finding in an old book, or not even if an elderly person uses it, but if a young person uses it then he's probably dug it up deliberately for questionable political reasons.
> Given the history between the two countries, it was perceived as a poor choice

Don't be daft! It was a damn good choice.

Though I for one, won't be happy until we have extracted our revenge; sending a 00 agent undercover to retune the Kraut Kapitans musical cocktail cabinet to play 'God Save the King'.
I don't know about corporate hackathons, but I think college hackathons are more than a distraction. I've learned useful technical skills from hackathons (including React).

Most importantly, I've been able to reference my experiences in hackathons in behavioral interviews. They're great places to talk about things like working in a team and conflict resolution. Maybe in a corporate environment this could also help employees learn each other's working styles and what works best.

With that said, I don't think I've seen anything massively impressive and important technically. The timeframe is just too short.
> filming with an 8k camera doesn't mean quality though, it just means more production/hosting costs...

Quality is also a factor of time which unpaid people usually do not have enough of.
I've only had good experience with tailwind, even though I was sceptical at first.

The most common brainwashing I've seen in the wild are 1) you have to use clean architecture and 2) you have to make it scalable to millions of users.
It is difficult to get a man [ or person i.e. lawmaker] to understand something [as a problem] when his salary depends upon his not understanding it [as a problem]. [0]

Otoh, laws are often referred to as "code" and like computer code require a specificity that is quite different from idiomatic expression. Both hypothesi of "center embeddeding" and "magic spell" seem to follow what is often found in repos.

0. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/quotes/?item=qt0464759
A lot of it comes down to what a person is used to. I have a similar gripe about the lack of flexibility with Gnome's address bar, simply because I sometimes want to type in a path rather than navigate to it by clicking on icons.
It's almost always better and cheaper to get the bracelet with the watch and buy the strap later. Good quality/branded bracelets are expensive.
Most people still seem to watch Hollywood quality movies so I don't know if your taste is very representative.
I would like to remind people that the main European Union site ( https://european-union.europa.eu/index_en ) has a cookie popup as well as the site for European Commission for Data Protection https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection_e...

If this is the way that the flagship sites for the EU are going to do it and show how to be in compliance with the law, any other approach is too risky to implement.
Well, you kind of assumed it away in your second sentence, but alignment is more important than individual productivity. And unfortunately, meetings, interruptions, and other communication are the best tools most teams have for that.
Linux Scores a Surprising Gaming Victory Against Windows 11
There are now third party launchers for proton, such as: https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher

As well as "game libraries": Lutris, Bottles, Heroic

Personally I use this alias to launch an exe via proton:

alias proton='SteamGameId="${SteamGameId-1000}" PROTON_USE_WINESYNC=1 STEAM_COMPAT_CLIENT_INSTALL_PATH="$PWD" STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH=$HOME/proton /usr/share/steam/compatibilitytools.d/proton-cachyos/proton waitforexitandrun'
# cd /gamepath
# proton Game.exe
> lawmakers required public colleges and universities to create transfer pathways

Transfer pathways are an outstanding concept. They take a lot of burden and uncertainty away from the student.

Where I live, you tell the main campus (UIUC) that you intend to do it when you are still in high school. They give you a list of required courses customized for the community college you are going to, and then you have 4 mandatory meetings per year with an academic advisor from the main campus to discuss progress, answer questions and give advice about elective classes you may want to register for. So at no point does the student have to wonder about where they stand and if any of their courses will transfer or not.

https://grainger.illinois.edu/admissions/undergraduate/pathw...
Easy, just apply to a osteopathic medicine program.
Yea nix is an interesting angle of approach. It rhymes a lot with Bazel (reproducibility, explicit/declarative dependency tree, etc.), but nix approaches the problem from a different, lower layer of abstraction (by replacing the OS-level "pip" in apt, pacman, snap, brew, and the like).

I think, in the long run, something like nix will win out. It makes sense for your OS "package build system" to be the same as your project build system.

If your python project depends on some mildly obscure python lib, do you write your own nix "package" (or whatever nix chooses to call them) wrappers for each release you end up using? Any other tripwires in your experience so far?
> Obviously, I turned down the offer. I sometimes wonder if I'll regret that choice later on down the line.

I could not tell you a single thing about my graduation ceremony.
Google Joins $250M Deal to Support Newsrooms in California
Lore of Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP
My reason is that frameworks are generally more wide and deep than can be found elsewhere. It’s not difficult at all to build a polished app with nothing but Swift and AppKit/UIKit, with few or no third party libraries, which is increasingly rare in my experience (certainly not the case with WinUI or Android Framework). The next most comparable thing is Qt Widgets, but that’s for practical purposes restricted to either C++ or Python and is seemingly not receiving much attention any more than it’s been decided that the more “bring your own everything” style Qt Quick is the star of the Qt show.

AppKit/UIKit aren’t afraid to be opinionated either which is occasionally annoying but 90% of the time a good thing, because that makes for tested and supported happy paths that work well. Android Framework is the biggest contrast here, being littered with multiple half-baked ways to do everything, none of which Google has shown any particular preference toward until in just the past few years.

What would get me to move for my personal projects is something with that solidly “batteries included” aspect to it (there’s no excuse for needing to rope in a third party library to get something as mundane as a scrolling sortable table view with headers in a desktop UI framework, that’s like new cars coming without wheels) and similar opinionation, along with support for Swift or compiled Swift-like language.
A number of games (and non-games) can be added to Steam via the "add non-Steam game" option and then used with Proton. There's also Lutris.
merchant or ad peddler?
That sounds like flagship corporations have a horrible business model if employees are highly-payed to invade privacy.

I'm sure, those companies have enough smart people to figure out some way to create high-paying jobs that do not rely on invasion of privacy.

[Added] ...if only they were incentivized to do so
> an electric walkway in a dedicated tunnel

It's highly unlikely they would work in tunnels, where real estate is even more constrained than at street level, and where the capital investment is substantial. Walkways are a compromise between ingress delay and wait time (at which they kick ass) vs total speed, they only make sense for relatively short runs; you just wouldn't spend tens of millions per mile to double or treble walking speed.

But it any case, once you build the Loop network, there is nothing in principle stopping you to retrofit a moving walkway into the tunnels. Your initial retort was more of a reduction ad absurdum "if we don't do this with moving walkways... then surely using Tesla is worse idea". That line of argument simply doesn't work, a system using Tesla can hit two relevant metrics (pphpd and average speed) while the walkway system can hit only one (pphdd), and the good performance on that metric for that does not make up for the latter, especially considering the eye watering costs.

The club cars are used for tunnel evacuation, they are not disabled friendly; disabled passengers are handled with a few specialty minivans. So club cars are an unsafe and low autonomy solution that can get the most people out of the tunnel in a few trips, without worrying about speed, crash rating, if the doors open etc. (they have no doors). They would certainly be unacceptable as daily drivers at 40Mph+
Secret or not, please don't generalize - in Switzerland they can vote as they please (even expected, although often parties will decide a certain line)
There is the story about an old-boy RAF pilot who, in the late 1970's was towing a target for a German ships gunnery practice.

He joked over the radio, "the last time the Germans shot at me it was during the war".

The reply came back "And zis time I vill not miss".
I switched at the start of 2023 and it’s been fine. It doesn’t seem all that different. It probably took me a week to adjust my muscle memory after configuring things the way I like them. But then I don’t spend all that much time just dealing with Windows. I start Visual Studio, a browser, and a few other applications and that’s where I spend 99% of my time and Windows 10 vs 11 doesn’t really affect that.

But then I like to change things once in a while enjoy learning new things.
> Okay? Okay. Rant over.
These two essays in TFA were published in a larger collection[1] by Wolfe, which I’d recommend. The essay on Marshall McLuhan in particular might be interesting to HN’s audience.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pump_House_Gang
A Symbol for the ⁂ Fediverse
"What if we took the people and businesses from the places with large rivers and continental climates, and put them in a sun-blasted hellscape that these native gentlemen keep telling us cannot sustain life?" - American policy from 1840 to now
> 12 episodes total

I read John Cleese’s autobiography long ago and he mentioned the very different economics of TV in the UK vs the US.

I think it was either the lack of money going into UK TV shows or the lack of a profit motive that led to ridiculously short runs like that.

Fawlty Towers and Yes Minister are top quality shows that should’ve run for 10 seasons.

Luckily their system did better with this when Jeremy Clarkson’s Top Gear came around and we got a lot of that.
If the word had been "Chineseman," maybe it would fit with your other examples better. No one says, "He's an Englandman, Irelandman, Franceman, etc."

To me, this set of words would already lean negative and imply someone hopelessly devoted to a specific country, not someone of that nationality, even if "Chinaman" didn't also already have a pejorative history.
If you like to philosophise about this.. the game Eve had problems when too many players were in the same spot at the same time, and rendering everything in time.

Their solution? Time dilation..
> Lobbyists are there to remind you of the costs and prevent from populism destroying civilizations

What? We have different views on lobbyism. I think it should be forbidden for companies to lobby
This is probably the best answer. Thank you for suggesting it!
Intel and Karma partner to develop software-defined car architecture
A "Let's Encrypt" style org for a 3 letter TLD would be interesting. And it doesn't even have to be in the "completely free" sense, just an industry backed org interested in providing a well managed TLD without an interest in making a profit from doing so.

I know there were places like tk but they were less an organization managing the TLD and more a phishing and SPAM pit which still had a paid side of the business anyways. Other places offer varying things on this spectrum for subdomains but it's not a TLD and they often don't attempt to solve any of the actual problems offering domains does.

An alternative root just feels excessive given we only need 1 "good natured" TLD for the way we use the web to remain unchanged while preventing price gouging to host on it.
One thing I like to point out, is that some fairly recent, openly racist societies were completely on board with language policing. You did NOT say the K word in apartheid SA. They had hate speech laws, and they prosecuted people over them too!
Maybe this is why it's so hard to find a white collar job. Companies are realizing they don't need an expert in meetings, so they cut staff without hiring creative individuals in their place to do something better than meetings.
Amazon Cloud CEO Predicts a Future Where Most Software Engineers Don't Code
It doesn't devalue much at all. In fact most Rolex bought 20 years ago are now worth 200-300% their purchase price, scratches and all. After a service, they look practically new as almost everything can be replaced/brought back to like-new quality (and gets replaced in a service).

This isn't like your expensive Apple item that becomes disposable/worthless after 4 years :).
You're arguing that speech should earn a living, which sounds like asserting everyone has the right to patronage.

Just as most musicians or artists have to have a day job, so do most authors when they start. That's been true even for "political" speech: for about as long as people have had things to say, forms of self-subsidized pamphleteering have existed. In the 1990s, hobbyists were most of the web, enough to be able to kickstart a wikipedia.

Self-publishing still works today, thanks to platforms like ghost.org at $9/month that also give an onramp from free to patronage.
Don't mention the war
If the argument is "nobody uses microkernels because performance", then I'm not sure that Intel Management Engine is really a counterargument. Does performance actually matter for Intel Management Engine? Isn't it pretty low-bandwidth?

So maybe the statement should be "nobody uses microkernels in situations where people might actually care about performance".
Vader’s outfit is mainly intended to look like samurai armor that’s been kinda bent toward a WWII German army aesthetic.
indeed - Lynch lost a civil fraud case over the matter in a British court in 2022.

HP sued its founder and former chief financial officer, claiming they "artificially inflated Autonomy's reported revenues, revenue growth and gross margins".

Mr Justice Hildyard said HP had "substantially won" its case.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-60170510
It’s not necessary that the batteries absorb all the oversupply. Curtailment will always be part of an efficient renewables energy system.

The batteries are there to make sure that the prices don’t go crazy on the evening.
Why are you complaining on their behalf? The number of elderly who lived through and remember the Blitz is in the hundreds at the most. And most of them recognize that the war was ~80 years ago.
> lot of these can be done with O&O

O&O AppBuster is good stuff. I used it all the time. I only transitioned to my own lists because of how often I decrapify customer machines.
That’s like grasping at straws to avoid the truth. If the ratio of developers using ruby is dropping, the popularity of it is dropping.

Everything is ML focused now, and python is unfortunately the language most data scientists prefer.