skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The filesystems aren’t synchronized, though. Quite misleading! I’m not sure there’s a technical reason why they couldn’t theoretically be synchronized (either in real-time via a custom fs layer or as cron task, etc).
Can you add ISO 9660 and/or UDF to the mix? Both do not use the first several kilobytes of the volume (hybrid CDs created by genisoimage use that trick to combine HFS with ISO 9660).
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Advertising doesn't contain knowledge. It's like a stopped clock: even when it's correct, you don't know it's correct, because most of the time it's not correct.

And more critically, even when it is correct, it's not the complete story. I've never seen an ad that admits that their competitor's product is cheaper, or better. In fact, most ads don't even want you to know their competitor exists. So let's not pretend advertising is about "giving knowledge to the poor". That's just an odious lie. If it were about giving knowledge, you'd by trying to tell the whole story.
That was my reaction, too. Old people in the US certainly aren't known for their knee/back virility.

Hell, the top Reddit comment on a recent image of an adult woman sitting on her knees was "my knees and back are killing me just looking at that!" with hundreds of people weighing with their stories of bodily problems and how they can't even jog. Presumably a demographic much younger than what we're talking about.

I remember thinking "wow, we are dying."
Well, and there are non-zero costs of allowing greater wear / risk of damage on parts of the car that are still under warranty. Not $2k, but software isn't the only cost (to Tesla) here.
Residency is the choke point right now.

Less than 80% of candidates match into a residency. That means 1 in 5 doctors are blocked from practicing.
I can't speak to NYC but in SF you absolutely will lose your shit. I have had coworkers get their cars broken into midday after leaving their backpack unattended for an hour or so. Friends have had their backpacks yanked from between their legs on Bart as it entered a station. These are not situations where these items are just laying around, and they were still taken.

Coworkers have lost their laptops at bars or coffee shops because they got up for a few minutes. It could be that the value is so well established in this area; if you steal a backpack you are almost guaranteed to get a Macbook. IDK if that is similar in NY.
Microsoft is now contributing to Chrome development.
And now everybody can benefit from their hard work.
But somehow it's better for them to duplicate work for their 1% marketshare?
"The thing" for Edge is likely going to be the integration with rest of Microsoft ecosystem. Management tools, security tools, authentication etc. Of course these things matter mainly for organizations, who are otherwise running Microsoft stuff.
It lost me at Comic Sans, and made me almost ill with any further font and design choices.

So I finally kicked it into Reader View, only to find a lot of questionable spelling and grammar issues.

These kinds of basic things go a long way to making an article valuable.
Sorry, I'm not familiar with basic details: signature verification happens each time the program is started? Or only when it's installed? If it fails the signature check, what is the default policy? Not to install/execute the binary? Or just log/warn?
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PERC HP740 controllers in Dell servers iirc are hardware raid for the flex port U.2 and backplane pcie nvme drives.
Ah, that's one of the main MUDs I played. I even built an area there. I did tons of runs there (even participated in successful runs on Hastur and Divine Retribution) until I got balzhur'd for cheating :P (I was just a high school kid back then).
> https://twitter.com/CasCremers/status/1217517133074182145

1. Find an ecc root cert C

2. Create C' with the same public key and curve but set the generator to the public key of C

3. Create a normal signing cert C'' with key pair (pk'',sk'') and sign software/cert with sk''

4. Sign C'' with sk=1

5. Ship software/cert with C'' and C'

This degenerate case was just confirmed to work…
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The injury rates amongst amateur sports are actually pretty high... pro athletes spend a lot of time training to avoid injury which we don’t necessarily hear about. I’ve seen some of the off-season training programs, and they are highly sophisticated and tailored to assessing and tackling the weaknesses that lead to injury.
We Dutch have a similar proverb: "Whoever sticks his head above ground level, his head is cut off. "
I worked briefly for a very large company where the bulk of the effort was around supply chain management. The actual production of the product was simple and relatively solved long ago -- it was so much more about branding and distribution. Early on I started to wonder if any of the people I was working with had ever stepped foot in one of the warehouses we were managing software for; or met a user of that same software.

The whole place was rife with consultants and contractors who had been working there for years upon years. I was there as a consultant (glorified contractor) and it quickly became apparent that I was there to be an evil consultant. The goal wasn't to produce the system they needed, it was to produce billable hours and ingratiate ourselves to the host such that we could land another project. We were using whole off-shore teams to do work which might have been done by one or two people locally. It was all about getting the margins on the highest headcount possible. For all of this, I was a BA, one layer off the "line" of people actually producing. The people above me only talked to other people who were neither buying the product nor producing it, exactly as the article describes. They were less interested in the product getting made than their ability to show that things were going well.

I found (actual) work elsewhere.

Half joking aside: this also reminds me of the java frameworks/architectures that got me to hate the language so much.
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So, via legislation (e.g. DMCA), we give Apple the right to tightly control the use of its “intellectual property” (the iOS software), which results in Apple being the only entity that can legally offer iOS apps for purchase.

And now, via legislation, we want to remove this power, first given to them via some other legislation.

How about we critically assess current legislation, instead of just piling more on top of it?
We've also been talking about in organizing this into a SQL-like interface, I think there could be a lot of value in job hunting in such a manner... "SELECT * FROM jobs WHERE location = 'seattle' and keyword LIKE '%python%'"
Why is this better than throwing errors or using Promise.resolve()?

I know it is inefficient because creating a new error with a stack trace each time is bad for performance. However, you can also throw errors which do not extend Error to avoid this. Destructuring the output and explicitly checking for errors every time seems to be quite the hassle.
False advertising is already illegal.

Other than that, there's nothing wrong with creating desire for something. It's ultimately up to the people to make their own choices.
That's a dark future but pretty much. This happening would mean Firefox's engine is the only other rendering engine on earth than Blink.
Can you please provide more detail when it's best to use runtime type checks? For webapps with strict TS config, I'm failing to see the advantage. Runtime errors can occur when crossing boundaries from server API to UI but when you discover the exceptions, you go fix your contract.
"Fail early, kill innocents often" is perfectly acceptable in foreign countries especially if the population there is viewed as backwards in some way.
If that argument is correct, then startups are toast and it's big conglomerates from now on. I think that's going too far. Not everyone wants to work for a big company; not everyone wants to work for an ad company; and so on. What I'd like to know is whether startups can narrow the gap enough to be worth it for early engineers, once these non-compensation factors are included.
The Afghan war waged by the mujahideen (whose Pashto faction became the Taliban) against the USSR, funded by the Saudis, with arms supplied by the US was definitely a victory: The USSR retreated and Afghanistan became a theocratic state.

If you mean a victory for democracy or human rights, then definitely no, but that was never the goal.
As Hobbes writes in The Leviathan, Western civilization views the world as a "war of all men against all other men." Basically, the world is made up of individuals, and everyone is on their own, and they must fight with others in a zero-sum game to attain safety and happiness. If you subscribe to this view, it becomes harder for people to see that it's actually in your interest to act in good faith.

That is how I understood GP's comment.
Doesn't have to be perfect, just has to be better than human performance. I heard a lot of stories out of Afghanistan and Iraq that ended up boiling down to "They had a big thing on their shoulder and it was pointed at a tank so we had to kill them", nevermind that that was a TV camera one in ten times.
> Just because it's a hard problem to solve doesn't mean it's not a problem worth solving or that there is no solution.

Agreed.

> Lowering the number of advertisements doesn't provide me with any more choice, it just makes the current situation less annoying (to whatever degree). If I want a particular thing, I can go out and search for it. I don't need to be told about that thing constantly when I have no initial desire for it.

But in order for those products to be available when you go looking for them, those businesses have to actually exist. And for them to exist, they need a lot more customers than just you. And the #1 way businesses get more customers is... checks notes... advertising.

> Another example is that I will sometimes check out the recommended videos on YouTube if I'm bored, and these are essentially advertisements for various content creators. Again, I make the specific choice to do this.

How do those creators make their money?

Ad revenue.
I want to like it for the cleaner architecture, but this site isn't helping me find reasons to do so. The FAQ seems to be the only place that "Why would I want this" is considered, and they evade a real answer. I'm sure the referenced paper supports that it's theoretically cool, but I already believe that. The only concrete benefit I see proposed is that it has a simpler API, but considering that they've punted on name resolution (for now) and async is a WIP, the API seems more complicated than BSD sockets--which everyone has experience with, has support in every language and framework, and has endless learning materials available. For a project whose value depends on a networking effect, I'm not compelled to invest energy in it until they get their marketing act together enough that I think other people might want it too.
You’re absolutely right - I’d much rather work in a formal hierarchy than an informal one.
That seems a lot less elegant a phrase...
The exception to this is customized goods, say for example a custom made piece of furniture or jewelry. I think even stuff like engraving counts as custom made.
Sounds like a great way to get taken advantage of.
The knowledge is that product exists, followed by its purpose, features and benefits to you. Why would they tell you about a competitor?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome
Nope nobody forced them to compete on FB. They would've been quite silly had they not at least tried to capture the FB market - but I think the false reporting of views is something that really shocked the folks trying to balance the books - their videos still seemed to be performing great while the revenue was slowing down. FB isn't responsible for tempting CH over (and CH made the right choice giving it a try) but FB is responsible for viewership reporting that borders on fraudulent as they try to boost their own overall numbers.
Alternatively, take it from the guy that built this forum, Paul Graham: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1217485491152596994?s=20
Ok, but the substantive way to dismiss something low-quality is to ignore it, and maybe also flag it. It's not to add something even more low-quality.
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It's hard to edify and spend that time when you routinely flag and kill my comments.

You claim that HN is "better than this" but Naval's post is totally devoid of insight. It is hackneyed and the commentary responding to it is a reflection of that. If you want better commentary on the front page, then do a better job of making the front page articles worth talking about.

As to me claiming to know how Naval got rich - that's easy - he's a person who cashed in on a golden era of startups when it was easy to sell off bad properties for big money. Instead of realizing that he was extremely lucky to be at the right place and right time, with the privilege of having enough personal wealth to take those risks, he instead spends the rest of his career trying to justify his wealth and position. That's why all his advice and "insight" are the sort of trite self-help aphorisms that anyone can say and make it sound true.

You always ask others to be better on HN, but maybe take a step back and ask yourself if maybe the state of HN is a reflection not of the community but of the guidelines and leadership that drives it today.

as for me? I gotta get back to my day job ;)
I don't know about Japanese culture, but where I'm from accepting the gift would be the polite thing to do (vs rejecting it).
Is Human Resource Machine [1] basically also a stack oriented programming game, or am I confusing the physical stacks of paper you order the little guy to move around with computer stacks?

[1] https://tomorrowcorporation.com/humanresourcemachine
Likely a few dollars means nothing to you so the act of pointing the nearly lost dollars is a similar small task (not withstanding the possibility the act could have a profound effect on the recipient depending on their situation).

When I was younger and we were struggling hard, we found a wallet in a store loaded with green bills. That money would have had immediate, real, positive impact for us, like gas money and food that we did not have. We turned in the wallet and did not bother counting the bills. The cashier might have pocketed the money, who knows. But hopefully the owner of the wallet got their stuff back. I think that act does cast a barometer on my and my wife's character. We did what was "right" -- the property was not ours and not ours to take. Did we feel good about it? Nope! It was just doing the right thing even though there was a touch of pain to it.
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Those who are running/part-of development shops which build web/mobile products - what products do you pay for ?
The last comment of yours that was flagged and killed was six months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20348091. It was done by users, and rightly so.

I have no opinion about Naval one way or the other, but your argument there is flawed. There were tons of people trying to do the same thing at the time. Plenty had privilege and money. Why didn't they all succeed too? To just say "luck" is a non-answer; that's assuming your conclusion. A real argument would need to show how it wasn't anything else.
No, it was a tongue in cheek comment, but the majority of that figure is used for high value cash crops, not for basic necessities.
PouchDB is CouchDB-Protocol implemented in javascript so you can run it wherever there is javascript, not just as a client. If you want to have a backend, you can use any DB that supports that protocol (there are several), which includes using a PouchDB instance run by node.js.
So you're saying that if the license was in English you would have read it?
I have a feeling this might change once Firefox is either entirely written in Rust, or mostly written in Rust.
It's so massively user-hostile. Why would I buy a subscription at a site like that?
Which one of those is supposed to be an SSD icon? Top row we have, from left to right, generic external drive, an optical disk drive, time machine, icloud, shared (network) drive, CD. Bottom row we have three types of floppy disks, a Sony MemoryStick, a CompactFlash, and and SD card.

There's no SSD icon.
> Still compiles Down to js where you lose all type checking.

While true, what's the point of this argument? You cannot get language-level runtime typechecking in the browser. At all. With any toolchain.
There is probably some room for differentiation between a purely personnel layer and a product layer. If you have 5 people, you need someone who can provide a room and some computers. If you have 500 people, you need a layer that can provision a building. Personnel wise it makes sense to have another layer -- but it doesn't follow that the product itself needs another approval layer.
Wasn't there a story a while ago how a Japanese school essentially forced (or put a lot of pressure) a schoolgirl to dye her hair to fit in with the other girls, but it failed over and over until she got burns on her head?
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I don't really like that line of thinking. Saying, "well, a human wouldn't have been able to do better" serves only to absolve anyone of any responsibility for the death. It's a lot easier to say it was "unavoidable" if a human isn't responsible.
We tend to underestimate the effect culture can have. It's also why the Japanese don't litter their cities, despite few garbage bins.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/07/why-japanese-dont-lit...
This is answered upthread and in RFC 5480: the AlgorithmIdentifier has an ANY OPTIONAL field for parameters.
Excerpt from: http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/OpenEmbedded-Core :

"The original OpenEmbedded repository (also known as "OE-Classic" or "oe-dev") grew organically over the years to more than 7500 recipes, covering approximately 300 machines and 20 distros. Trying to maintain this amount of metadata with machine and distro overrides scattered throughout was very difficult, and near to impossible to support commercially. Like many other OE forks that were created to solve the same kinds of issues, Poky was forked as a cleaner and more supportable version of OE in 2006. Fast forwarding to the present, Poky is now maintained as a reference distribution under the Yocto Project with the support of the Linux Foundation. OE-Core was split out from Poky in 2011 to allow collaboration around a relatively small and easily supportable base, with real machines, distros and other items removed..."

Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yocto_Project
I don't think FF is using XUL anymore or at least not as much as they used to.

Even their docs for XUL shows it all as archived:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Mozilla/XUL...
I'm sorry, but I couldn't find specific reference to where they were saying this tech would SOLELY be used in "life and death scenarios" or be linked to any sort of "kinetic action"

The only mention which comes close:

> “Fusion of an established identity and information we know about allows us to decide and act with greater focus, and if needed, lethality,”

"Fusion" is military parlance for "we would use a variety of sensor inputs and systems" to make inferences. So, this would likely be only one component of many others used to determine identity and/or hostile intent.
It makes perfect sense to me.

If I was a businessman running a store, I definitely would NOT allow anyone that wants to sell in my store any mentions that they could be found cheaper elsewhere or get a discount somehow that could reduce my cut.
If those solutions were viable at scale then countries like germany or england using lot of renewables and coal (gas or gb) would have been using them already.
iPads don't have phone numbers so the person sending you the message is sending it to an Apple ID, not a phone number. This is working exactly the way it's supposed to.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdgeHTML

They already did that years ago.
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Slightly below average is not bad.

The median Ashkenazi Jew is not all Jews.

Watson implied the difference is innate. Wikipedia does not.
In the case of the acceleration boost update, it's more like "we wrote a new firmware for several subsystems that increases your acceleration". It's not enabling hardware that already exists, but is disabled. It's the same case with the Full Self-Driving package: you're not paying for hardware you have to be enabled, you're paying for new software features. The purchase price covers the "labor" of creating those software packages.
Mír, libhybris and Unity8 are (AFAIK) the big pieces of the software stack.

I believe Mír is available on Arch.

Unity8 has been ported already, though I don't know how current that port is.

https://github.com/vanyasem/Unity8-Arch
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This is going more toward critiquing the content rather than the business which I think is less interesting to discuss on HN, but I wanted to voice that they've put out a lot of interesting stuff - a quite high quality RPG series in Dimension20 along with both short form videos (like A message from the CEO of _____) and longer form vignettes like their summercamp series - I have been pretty appreciative with just how experimental they've gotten lately and I would disagree strongly that they painted themselves into a single formula.
Sometimes I'm forced to use it when administrating a O365 tenant. That's something I guess
> You don't, as long as you don't mind a sudden drop in national GDP.

GDP is a terrible measure of how economy feels for the median person. A sudden drop in the GDP due to the lower classes saving money as a result of not being constantly bombarded with ads for net-negative goods seems like a win to me. Banning tobacco ads also caused the GDP to drop.
FWIW my Airbnb stock was worth about $1mm/year when I joined (in 2013 as a IC SWE). To be fair, the starting salary was well below market, but I got a raise to bring it up to the market rate about 1 year in. I've since never seen a startup that generous, only FAANGs come close.
>Signal for iOS cannot send or receive ordinary SMS messages.

That's not an iOS limitation, though. I can send and receive SMS messages through Google Voice on iOS without any issue.
Ironically, the author does not seem to be aware of C. P. Snow's "The Two Cultures":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures
Why do we need the federal government to fund these slots at all? Hospitals work resident physicians to the bone and bill patients exorbitantly for it. Their hours are capped at 80 per week yet they receive no overtime pay[1]. Yes, the residents are "in training" but it's not like it's a burden for a hospital to take them on - they are the workhorses that handle a huge number of cases and drive hospital revenue.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_resident_work_hours