skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That remote working is always better in all conceivable scenarios and that anyone saying anything else is stupid and wasteful

This. Exactly this.

>and probably smells too?

But not this.

It is probably the opposite. When I work remotely, I rarely shower. Showering is stupid and wasteful. Millions of people lack potable water and here we are wasting it for showering
While not a "pure" Duff's Device, Golang apparently does something similar with STOSD for an unrolled memcpy that it can call into at different points. I think it's really cute.

https://twitter.com/mayahustle/status/1260678725257003008
Next time: pass it by your lawyers for a quick review if you can't trust your own judgment on things like this. Ditto for all the dark patterns you are still using today on your website, clean up your act. Note that you are firmly in the crosshairs of the EU data privacy watchdogs and that the fines are nothing to sneeze at, if you expect to establish and maintain a foothold in this market realize two things:

- trust is a crystal ball, you can drop it and break it, patch it back together again but it will never ever be the same way it was before, it can only degrade

- if you plan on being a player in this field you will have to take the privacy of your users serious, this includes doing your privacy and security reviews by the book because if there ever is an involuntary disclosure what you've seen in the last couple of days will come back hundredfold.
I think so too, because that's when they do the (presumably resource intensive) call to actually attempt the registration and they can update their "most likely available" list with this definitive data.
Latency is kind of funny in the context of jamming. Sound only travels about a foot per millisecond. An orchestra pit is thirty or forty feet across. A big festival stage can be thirty feet across.

So we have these pretty ordinary situations where there's about thirty milliseconds of latency between when a drumstick strikes a head and a guitar player hears it. Of course, in a modern live pop performance there's all the crazy monitoring and latency compensation to try to make a football stadium acoustically comprehensible, but there is still the physical reality of how people normally play music together.

If I ping google.com from my house, on my crummy wifi, right now I'm getting about 10ms. This is roughtly the latency a guitar player experiences standing at the end of a 10 foot cord from their amp between their pick plucking a string and the resulting sound striking their eardrums.

Reality has latency.
> The way they are handling ZFS reminds me of the way they handled Reiser4, Tux3 and Reiserfs.

The latter file systems were trying to be upstreamed and ultimately did not succeed, I don't know of any interest or attempts at upstreaming ZFS. Their handling of ZFS reminds me how they handle any kernel module that will never be upstream, not because some file system establishment sees it as a threat.

> Basically, any filesystem not made by the filesystem establishment (and their friends) gets bullied.

What/who is the "establishment (and their friends)"?

f2fs from Samsung was added in 3.8, erofs from Huawei was added in 5.4, and exfat from Samsung was added in 5.7. Before those file systems were upstreamed I don't think many people would list Samsung and Huawei as part of the filesystem "establishment".
The whole framework arounds TLDs is very strange to me. One one hand, opening up all these gTLDs was supposed to alleviate problems with domain parking and name clashes (e.g. you could disambiguate your .blog from a .pizza restaurant). But all this did was shift the parking to other domains, some of which are ludicrously overpriced (anyone remember the .io hype?)

Secondly, regardless of where your site is hosted, you're also bound by the registrar's laws/restrictions (especially for ccTLDs), which doesn't make sense for something that is purely a routing mechanism that translates a name to an IP. It'd be fine if domain names were plentiful, but domain hacks[0] also make people use TLDs without regard to considering their territory or any implications.

The whole .org fiasco only proved further that this model with ICANN and for-profit registrars isn't tenable and a horrible fit for an open distributed internet. All these perverse incentives and political fuckery should not exist for something that is an essential part of a worldwide utility.

I'd love if HNers could share any promising alternatives to our current DNS system.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack
The prefers-color-scheme CSS media feature could be a way of doing this without requiring any additional action from the user. The spec is still a draft but it has decent browser support.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
Why would you commit important work to some online service?

When I visit evernote.com, I see the obvious fails: "sign up", "log in".

You gotta own the data, so that no matter how bad the program turns out to be, you have some a nice local file sitting on your hard drive from which you can ferret it all out somehow.
Biggest challenge might be keeping track of locations to pay taxes accordingly
Yes definitely, it's just a side project that I don't plan on monetising. I don't think there's a good way of doing it, the incentives are just misaligned.
I'm curious what type of company you're looking for that you'd expect to be underrepresented.
How ironic: ddosecrets.com is actually registered via a Bahamian company.
Nice. I open task manager everyday. I wish this dude has written VSCode
The hell they are.
> The advice I give my non-techie friends is avoid going to any business website that is not a “.com”

You can't actually mean that?
Country TLD? (Eg .CA)
I'm actually pretty impressed by how the .CA registry (CIRA) has branded itself in Canada. There's even a bit more legitimacy for sites because it's clear they're operating in Canada (or have at least made an effort for Canadian representation).
I was thinking about the USA specifically, but I think it applies generally that despite some of its interesting tenets, very few people support it. Without at least some critical mass of supporters, ideally at least a plurality, it has no chance of becoming supported enough to place people in office and is thus not politically viable.
Dell Laptop PSUs has this for at least 15 years. Internally it use a DS2501 to store the manufacturer, wattage, output voltage, output current, Dell SN and check sum. It is more like EDID for power supplies, it is definitely not DRM. It helps the laptop to understand how much wattage it can get from the PSU to avoid over heating, and use the output voltage to determine whether it is safe to use it to charge the battery.

The content is something like `DELL 01 AC 065 195 033 {23bytes} 01`, where 01 matches the revision number on the label of the PSU, 065 means it is a 65 watts adapter, 195 means the output voltage is 19.5V, 033 means the output current is maxed at 3.3A. The {23bytes} contains the country where it is produced, the Dell part number and date codes which I don't have enough data to understand how that is coded.

There was a github project which provided tools to copy and reprogram the chip, HP follows a similar protocol for its high end laptops, it is possible for a Dell laptop to use a HP PSU, if the BIOS is not implemented correctly.
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This sword was always hanging above the heads of Triplebyte users. The mistake was causing the users to look up.
I worked for 3 months outside in Thailand. The place I was staying had a section of roof open on three sides just outside the front door. There was a big table setup there, almost like an outdoor dining room actually and I'd work every day from about 7:30-3 in the afternoon.

I don't think I've ever been so productive in my life, it was outdoors but shaded well enough that there was no issue seeing the screen.
There is no way you'd get a "google" domain under any extension but even if you register a domain with "google" + something else you're going to lose it in a UDRP anyway.

It's possible that google and other major brand names don't have to register every extension, the names are just reserved for them alone, should they want them.
Please don't use Duff's device. Look at how your favorite c std lib implements memcpy and think about that rather than this.
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This is all spot on. Super good comment, with the exception of the 'shareholder value maximization', that bit is bull and you should stop repeating it.
It’s more than working vs not working. The power management on the laptop will presumably adjust its charging speed to avoid overloading the power supply.
> If dude had put a dollar a day in a saving account with compound interest he would be ready to retire soon.

This is plainly wrong. Saving $1 per day, at 7% interest, would net about $15,000 after 20 years.

See for yourself: https://financialmentor.com/calculator/compound-interest-cal...
Funny, I read the original comment the way around. Hardware as in products I work on. At home I have a whole rack of different equipment from different product lines that I need to access from time to time. Sometimes I’m using them all day, sometimes it can be weeks before I power them on again. If you aren’t selling something physical then it doesn’t matter.

And I use a laptop with mouse in my home office, no external screen.
I saw the initial note and didn't think about it much. Figured a public profile was fine for me. For what it's worth, I found good work through Triplebyte at a time when I really needed it and other sources were not panning out. Even if I felt affected I would be inclined to give them a pass on this as long as I could opt out easily.
I'm on the market for a $2k 15" laptop, and would buy this one in a heartbeat -- it has looks, performance, quality -- if it had a NVidia 2070 GPU. As it is, it's fairly useless to me.

I do like the hardware switches. Nothing says "You're in control" like being able to interrupt the electricity with a physical toggle.
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The US had an official dual currency from 1914 to 1933. There were gold dollars, and fiat (inflated) dollars. There was an official, fixed exchange rate between the two. The two started out at parity in 1914, but things diverged steadily until in 1929 a gold dollar was worth 85% more than a fiat dollar.

Like all such systems where the relative values float but there's an official exchange rate, this eventually collapses with runs on the banks, as people try to profit by buying the higher valued currency at the discount guaranteed by the exchange rate.

This persisted until Roosevelt suspended all those exchanges. Then we had a fiction of a gold exchange rate until Nixon finally dispensed with it.

We have a dual currency today - when you pay a "convenience fee" for using a credit card instead of check or cash, that's what is going on (as the credit card taker gets charged 3% for those transactions, and passes it on to the credit card user).
"It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism." -- Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Žižek

below a quote from "Capitalist Realism, Is There No Alternative" by Mark Fisher - this is a devastating but interesting read on this subject. (I just finished this last week).

pdf: https://libcom.org/files/Capitalist%20Realism_%20Is%20There%...

"> Watching Children of Men, we are inevitably reminded of the phrase attributed to Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Žižek, that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism. That slogan captures precisely what I mean by ‘capitalist realism’: the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it. Once, dystopian films and novels were exercises in such acts of imagination – the disasters they depicted acting as narrative pretext for the emergence of different ways of living. Not so in Children of Men. The world that it projects seems more like an extrapolation or exacerbation of ours than an alternative to it."

highly recommend.
Both seem to fall short of Takeshi's conspiracy to commit murder (though it seems like Jay-Z probably got pretty close to murder with that stabbing.)
there is the Trademark Clearinghouse which actually deals with these cases (by either automatically registering the domain for the trademark holder, or notifying them immediately if the domain is registered so they can take semi-automated action) [1]

[1] https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/trademark-clearinghouse
I disagree with this. Hardware is so crazy good now relative to then, that you could put layers upon layers of abstraction (including say a 68K mac emulator compiled to javascript and running inside Firefox on x11) and the old-school gui tasks of the 90s still purr.

If apple could do it at 25mhz or whatever, a modern amd64 machine should be able to handle it no matter the overhead of the windowing system.
Metaphorical "yelling fire in a crowded theatre"?

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Constitution_is_not_a_suic....
It might be attribution for any LinkedIn ads they're running?
Fuck ICANN for pimping out the internet to make a quick buck. We need to replace them with an organization that is truly neutral and not for profit.
It’s not clear to me that you understand how Toptal works. They get software development jobs and place their developers on those projects. They take a cut, in return for marketing, negotiation, billing, payment, etc. The rates depend on the developer and the project, as one would expect. Whether the work is interesting or worth it, to you, isn’t something anyone can answer. You can say “no” to projects they offer you.

If you have a reputation and network and can hustle your own clients, and do all of the business-related stuff yourself, then Toptal and similar companies may not add much value. I work through an agency and find they add considerable value and get better rates for me.
There was a dude a while back who registered google.com and gave it back when asked. I figured I might be able to do that and get a cool story to tell out of it.
Our primary concern was absolute maximum performance on huge numbers of tiny files (terabytes of video cut into single-frame TIFFs) for video processing while also having at least some protection against a single failed drive. We were on a shoestring budget, so we couldn't upgrade our network to use fiber, so a SAN wasn't really feasible at the speeds we needed (SSD's also didn't exist yet). You could be right, but I know that I chose the one with the fastest possible performance and made sure there was an audible alarm if a disk failed.
Good lord, look at the size of those pictures.
He did the next best thing outside of not releasing the feature in the first place. Credit to him, many companies would double down or ignore HN (a very small community relative to Triplebyte's userbase) completely.
Oh that makes much more sense :) Does that enable you to work with multiple customers at the same time?

It looks like a fantastic business model for someone with your skillset and talent.
5 will get forked because of the way 6 is being licensed.
I think this article describes a quality of communications that many discussions of artificial intelligence seem to miss.

Intelligent disobedience is effectively a formalization of the way informal language-interactions often work. When you ask a person to do something, the response is can easily be a request for clarification, a comment on possible negative results, some suggestions about alternative approaches and so-forth. Often, you get a decision after a few rounds of this. Basically, a good portion of language interactions involve a bargaining and clarification process.

Now, consider the average "AI goes wrong" argument. The classic scenario is someone asks a general AI to "build a lot of paperclips" and, like Disney's Sorcerers Apprentice, the AI converts the entire earth into a paperclip factory. Here, the interactions between AI and human fail to be anything like human-to-human informal interactions. And this hypothetical scenario seems implausible just given that the scenario also posits vast understanding in the AI, an understanding which would seem to encompass language understanding such that AI could do that back-and-forth bargaining approach (the human might ask for such behavior to be avoided but theoretically we're talking the human that invented the AI and also has this sort of meta-understanding).
Perhaps government organizations ?
Also not all TLD's cost 185k to create, ccTLD were given free to each country to mange for example, similarly language specific common gTLD may have had special provisions for some countries to manage perhaps.
> I don't think ideologies like Anarchism are politically viable, but do think understanding such ideologies is important

De-prioritise doesn't mean ignore. It just means it goes down the list. If something has a chance of appealing to the population, it could merit working on. That makes it a priority to understand.

Non-viable politics are fine. They move the Overton window. And they can, as you say, inform broader philosophies. But if something has a chance of being viable, it benefits from more-compassionate framing.
I mean, I can accept an apology when I can somehow understand the initial intention. In the thread the CEO was answering "but stackoverflow also has public accounts!" to people explaining why this was a very bad move. The guy seemed completely clueless.
It was like trying to explain that hurting people is bad to someone who has just punched you in the face. And this guy justifies his move saying that he has watched a boxing match and that seems a normal thing to do. And then the day after that he finally understand for some reason? The apology is useless because the harm done is too great.
As an employer anywhere makes it real complicated. Many jurisdictions have a tax on wages earned while there, couple of big examples CA, NY and then even NYC on city income tax.

If you choose to work in NYC as an employer I'm obligated to collect and remit tax there. For individuals or on a one off basis this doesn't get tracked or audited much. If it became systematic it would.

This doesn't even contemplate the complexity if you choose to work from a different country. As an employer if I allow you to change your permanent address to France am I bound to manage your employment under French labor law? IANAL but I believe I am.

What if I knowingly allow you to work from a country where you keep your permanent address in the US and you are on a vacation visa instead of one where work is permitted. As a business am I obligated to report or am I running the risk of penalties from that country too?

Anywhere is really complicated.
Examining Windows 1.0 Hello.c
A couple points to note: This works by dynamically translating elisp to Guile Scheme, which is crucial to ensuring that decades worth of elisp will work without change. However, in Guilemacs, one can use Scheme as well as el as extension languages.

Also while it works, it's quite slow at this point in time and, unlike Emacs which rarely if ever crashes, Guilemacs can and will crash.
I was just talking to a friend yesterday about "domain hacks" (where you spell some word using the TLD) in the context of country-code TLDs. Those raise some interesting issues for political reasons [1, 2].

For the newer TLDs like .soy, .pizza, .restaurant, etc. I really can't imagine that these would be adopted quickly. Even to me, these are barely recognized as URLs at all. And the possibility for domain name confusion really skyrockets, as demonstrated by the submission.

[1] https://priceonomics.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-ly/
[2] https://www.thewebmaster.com/hosting/2016/feb/27/io-tld-top-...
That would be ok as a top-level comment (albeit not a very substantive one) but it breaks the site guidelines to post it to attack another user. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when commenting here? We'd be grateful.
What makes it complicated, though, is that some people interpret "I'm sorry" as an admission of guilt or agreement, so conservative lawyers and others recommend specifying what you feel sorry for so as to not give away the farm.
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The applicant was actually Verisign. [0][1]

[0]: https://icannwiki.org/.%D7%A7%D7%95%D6%B9%D7%9D

[1]: https://gtldresult.icann.org/applicationstatus/applicationde...
If they managed it for only $185k I'm impressed, maybe if you did several on the same infrastructure.

It's a gold mine offering. There was a long queue of people quite sure that .binglebongle would be the new .com. Sometimes it was a marginally less stupid plan, like we can be a regional alternative - and Russia even has one that's actually making money - it isn't taking over the world, but it's Cyrillic and was never intended to. But most gold mines never produce gold, they just suck up people's money and dreams and spit out the bones.

The obscure brand TLDs are funnier. Not brands you've heard of like google, brands who are their own tiny corner of the non-IT world and figured they ought to have a TLD, so now they do to the tune of maybe six figures a year.

The Kerry Group for example owns several, as do some US financial outfits. Why? Because nobody who knew this was a stupid idea was in the room when it got decided.
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I'm thinking of the middle-sized use cases. A table with couple hundred to couple thousand rows. Small enough that you can load it into Emacs without a performance penalty, but too large to pivot by hand. Personal and freelance business budgeting come to mind.

However, at this point I'm OK with shelling out to external tool for data wrangling.
Anybody have any luck with special 'direct-sun' laptop screen films? My T490 can crank the screen brightness just barely high enough, but requires that I angle the screen oddly in order to get good enough contrast to read comfortably.
Just curious, what is the org mode alternative for the average knowledge worker?
I feel like at least half the time when you give an estimate you come up against an unknown unknown. Typically some sort of edge case that requires an enormous amount of additional effort to overcome. So you end up with the 90% done on time or early but without that last 10% it does you no good and it’s really hard to get that last 10%
I'd argue k8s is overkill for most companies that would fit the M in SMB. Regarding the purported target group of small businesses: No way. No small business has even the need for something like this, I'd argue unless you run technical setups of FAANG proportions you absolutely don't have the need, and if you think you need k8s in a medium-size business please rethink if you really need a system engineered for Google Scale.
achievements put too much of the focus on things that can be completed. these are things I find impressive in a young person

- consistently being mindful and compassionate; empathy and ability to listen

- donating one's time to help those less fortunate - often those who are to proud to ask

- being able to converse with those around without seeking to impress or gain the upper hand

- respect for wisdom: recognizing that however smart you may be, you're way behind those who have experienced much of life
> google.com in Hebrew! And I could actually buy it. It bloody worked.

In a couple of weeks the follow-up "Google cancelled my Gmail account and won't tell me why"
Ask HN: How do I onboard at a big firm remotely?
I'm beginning an internship at a big tech company (think FAANG). I'm still getting to know people, but its hard to make organic conversations. Any suggestions?
Same way it works on Linux. The parent poster is exaggerating and greatly oversimplifying the situation.