skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the presentation they literally list the TCP stack as a technical advantage.

At the timestamp I shared up to the next slide no comparison is made between Linux and FreeBSD.

And the thread we were in is about someone claiming the reasons why Netflix chose FreeBSD was performance and not licensing. In fact, here is a direct debunk of that claim:

https://youtu.be/vcyQBup-Gto?t=2739

Jonathan Looney, Engineering Manager at Netflix, claiming their primary reason for choosing FreeBSD was GPL avoidance and that subsequent performance testing (which was not the basis for their choice) is not exactly fair because they did not do the same amount of engineering work for Linux as they did for FreeBSD.

> I said robust.

And I said "And I would still like to see some evidence."

... that is more robust than your anecdotal reports of nausea, which I'm not sure really I can translate meaningfully to a measure of robustness.

To which you suggested I should do your work for you like I'm your slave or something. If you can't back claims you make, don't make them, simple.
Though I do find it funny that the man page viewer in Emacs is called "woman".
I also have a VPN but guess what, my torrents are nicely showing. I've recently been using BiglyBT, a clone of the old Azureus torrent client. But apparently if something is wrong with the SOCKS proxy, BiglyBT defaults simply skipping the proxy :(
The data is garbage, i am sure my IP did not changed and it shows things that I am sure nobody downloaded. I am wondering if the data is just randomly generated or the algorithm is just broken/guessing. You could create some stress for some people if such websites get credibility.
I imagine this is similar in concept to Webflow, Wix, Squarespace, etc? As in, a tool to build a custom static website with easily editable content.

Since this needs a lot of code to actually create a site, why not create a CMS instead that can be connected through an API to a SSG?
This is in CNN Style for a reason. It's a neat research project, great for prestige projects like Hyde Park. It just cannot compete with clay from a cost perspective.
Not that I'm advising anyone to get them, but what would be the counterparty risk with gold ETFs? You don't believe their guarantees that they are backed up with actual gold? eg: https://etf.invesco.com/gb/private/en/product/invesco-physic...
> The “quality” [counterfeit money] tend to cost around 30% of the banknote value.

This was the most surprising to me. Seems like it’s extremely high priced. You get a 30% discount for using counterfeits and potentially getting the secret service on you? Maybe that is a reflection of its quality but... Yea, no thanks.

Edit: Ohhhh My bad read it wrong. 70% off... better but these would have to be amazing quality.
I used to work at a ~100 person company that provided satellite equipment, mostly to media companies - radio stations, movie distributors, that type of thing.

A senior customer service rep realized he had VPN access to a customer's, like.. T1 line. He started torrenting movies on it. On the CUSTOMERS network. Our entire company was nearly taken offline and the customer threatened cancelling the entire contract and suing us.

Dude got walked out the next day. A MEDIA company customer.
> ... start springing up ...

What do you mean 'start'?

The homeless camp right next to the new Apple spaceship just got a bathroom installed:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/03/after-months-of-compl...

This stuff has been going on for a few years now.
Interesting, I didnt realize I could get people their IP by simply sending them my website without them even ever having to visit it themselves
> The borrow checker will make sure that your closure doesn't outlive the variables it captures, which is what you need for correctness in this case.

No, the borrow checker will merely give you an error when your closure may outlive the captured variables. This is often not useful, and is an impediment to being productive. As a programmer you don't want to be solving the same boring problem of memory management over and over again, unless perhaps when you're doing really low-level stuff and there is no other option.
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This is correct. I'm not Indian but my wife is and I've observed it many times as an insider "outsider".
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I haven't explored the darknet in over 5 years, but some of these prices seem a bit high. Around 2014-2015 I saw PayPal accounts listed for $3 a piece ($5 if you bundled it with SOCKS proxy access). Which could mean a couple things: PayPal security has gotten tighter, restricting the supply of accounts; PayPal security has actually gotten worse, increasing the actual value of the accounts; or maybe these guys are doing "market" research and determined that their profit margins were higher charging $25 for the same product. It could also mean that the writers of this article didn't do enough digging to find a "better" deal. Interesting read but I'm not sure how much I trust their numbers
I wish some of this energy could be channeled into creating forum software that explicitly recognized and accounted for logical fallacies.

It would help clean up a lot of shit (same as comment voting). It's not a panacea (just as voting isn't) but it would help to be able to flag/confirm/reject logical fallacies in textual online arguments.
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It seems like the point is that we’d be naive to expect a corporation, presumably governed by rational actors working to maximize profits, to pay more taxes than the minimum.
I tried the same thing and the answer was:

> It may take a lab about 24 hours to run your test. But you might not get your results for several days.

That seems pretty reasonable, and it in no way seems authoritative to me (it sounds like an estimate).
If you'd told me in, say, 2005 that old-line semiconductor businesses like TI and ADI would be trading at all-time highs in 2020, I would have said you were nuts.
Just tried it on mine and I'm experiencing the same. Don't know that it will bother me much though.
Their influence in India is directly proportional to the money they put in the Indian economy, which basically means the influence exercised by the Chinese government. The lesser the Chinese influence, the better it is considering the current state of India-China relations. Ambani's money is definitely not fueling a known Indian adversary.
In certain parts of the world you can easily find cow urine sold as "medicine".

https://www.google.com/search?q=cow+urine+medicine&oq=cow+ur...
I've actually liked Analog Device's documentation as a hobbyist. Their chips are a bit of a premium compared to others, but Analog Devices often have LTSpice and PSpice models that I can play with in a simulator before buying.

I guess Analog Devices makes LTSpice, so it makes sense that they'd be all in for that kind of support.
That's sort of what the outer packaging is.
Piracy is copyright infringement. There's no reason to call it theft. They are both bad for society, they are both illegal, but they are distinct.
Another one of these articles. There is unfortunately not much real content here. The advice to be your own person just like Elon Must or Steve Jobs is oxymoronic on its face. And certainly the advice to be less likable without a concrete reasony why is unhelpful.

Here's my take:

If you place a premium on pleasing everyone around you all the time, you have effectively taken away your own agency and given to them. You are under the control of everyone else's emotional reactions. That's not mentally healthy for you, nor is it good for achieving your own goals. It also makes you a giant target for the kind of emotional vampires who prey on people like this.

At the same time, if you simply disregard the consequences that your actions have on the emotional states of the people around you, you become a selfish sociopath. Remember, for every Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, there are a million petty assholes who make the world worse every time they open their mouths. If you are unlikeable, the odds are very much not in favor of you being a visionary genius. You're probably just that jerk that no one wants on their team.

If you are choosing to be unlikeable because you think it improves the chances of you being great, I think that is a sign that you are less likely to be that. Real visionaries don't decide to be unlikeable. They are unable to be likeable because they are so consumed by their passion. Opting to be a jerk is not going to magically create space in your life for brilliance. If the brilliance is there, it will have already driven out the compulsion to be a constant people pleaser.

The advice I would give is this:

1. Surround yourself with a small group of trusted friends and family whose regard deeply matters to you. These people exist to help maintain your moral compass. If you do something they don't like, you really did fuck up and you want them to hold you accountable.

2. Try to be a good person who improves the lives of all people you encounter. Default to likeable.

3. Sometimes you will have to make choices that harm some people. Pay full attention to the cost to those people and make sure the benefits to the world and not just yourself clearly outweigh it.

4. Accept that some people simply won't like you through no fault of your own. These people are relatively rare. If you find yourself frequently placing people into this category, reflect that it may be you who is the asshole.
> India's population is within 50 million of China but has double the growth rate.

The growth rate refers to the population.
Desktops: OpenSUSE Leap with Plasma desktop. It just works, and the experience is pretty polished. Only issues I ever run into is having to drop to the command line occasionally for running an update. My family doesn't know much about that, so I have to fix their computers for them.

Laptop: Arch Linux - Very light, very customized, and it also just works. I have no problems with Arch.

Servers: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server. It's stable, and since I run it at work it just makes sense to use at home as well. I know in and out how it works and what to expect from it. Only issues I ever have are typically due to a previous admin underprovisioning a machine. Otherwise it's great.
Guess they don't know about private trackers.
They can do both at the same time, it's just that a time series is not a very useful representation, you want something similar to an FFT.
Just wait until genetic self hacking start, and people can increase their intelligence, change their personality profile, skintone etc.
Why is it smart to do this? Bitcoin took a dive earlier in the pandemic. Why would it be counter "the world is crashing" now?

The us is still the world's reserve currency. If the us keeps circling the drain economically and financially and especially politically, we have so much power and raw capability to come back. The big problem is covid-19, where the world can leave us behind as we slowly kill ourselves off. Hmm, I'm almost convincing myself that even us $ could eventually not last. So, I'll just take one of those job offers on hacker news that says we'll get you a visa to come to Amsterdam?
This makes me curious if braille would be easier for dyslectics than reading with the eyes.
It’s not theft. It’s not legal, but it’s not theft. It’s also not a big deal, maybe you disagree with that assessment but it’s how the majority of people feel.
This reminds me of the decision to not support Adobe Flash on the original iPad. It was a huge inconvenience to early adopters but eventually changed the face of the internet.

I wonder what effect ARM Macs will have on other x86 based environments like Windows and Linux. Will we start to see a migration from x86 to ARM or will we retain the split? Ubuntu and Arch have ARM distributions but I can't build a gaming rig out with ARM. It's mostly non-upgradable integrated systems. Will that change?

As an iPad 1 early adopter I would hold off on getting an ARM Mac immediately. Within a year half of the apps in the app store wouldn't work for various reasons. I wouldn't be surprised if that happens here.
Given how many news stories about arrested people (both local and foreigners) in a nearby city (which is small, third-world, and has very primitive security overall); I think the police does a rather pretty good job.

Given that, I assume it's a very risky thing.
Ouch! Why all the downvotes?
Hmm, which one has megacorps with private armies, runaway AIs and hackers hustling for a living ?
Femto Computing
There's a lot of excitement surrounding a breakthrough in Quantum Computing, but I have yet to really hear about any universities or private enterprise getting serious about Femto Computing.

Do you think its time we start getting the ball rolling on this theoretical form of computing which s something like a trillion, trillion times more powerful than Quantum?
You're thinking of it as a strategic resource when it isn't - it's just an investment holding. If war looked likely they'd just sell it on the open market.
You have 14 tabs open, don't you
I'm guessing you clicked on this post because I was either right in assuming you have 14+ tabs open or you were surprised at the fact that you didn't have 14 tabs open — because you usually do obviously.

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I do everything in a web browser. I write, read, design, develop, and peruse the usual sites all in a browser.

I started to get overwhelmed with all of the things I was working on and even just the daily chaos that was using a web browser for everything. I always had way too may tabs open, I lost things regularly, and got distracted constantly. I tried to keep myself organized but I was frequently side tracked by other work.

After reading about productivity strategies and trying other apps to keep myself focused I decided I needed a better solution. General "project management" and productivity apps weren't working, I was still facing the same problems just with another app in my tool case.

So, I started building Partizion. The main methodology that productive people employ (and is the foundation on which Partizion was designed) is that multitasking is 1. impossible and 2. less efficient.

The more you "partition" (see where I got the name from?) your work, and focus on the task at hand, the more efficient and productive you can be. You'll finish tasks faster, you'll stay on track to complete your daily checklist, and you'll be able to pickup where you left off or switch contexts much more easily.

I built this methodology right into Partizion. You can separate your work, create groups of tabs for projects/tasks/daily habits and open them with one click. Partizion is still in its early stages but I have committed to developing Partizion into the tool that should have come standard with every web browser.

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30% of the banknote value = 70% discount. I suppose if you're spending the cash on something illegal anyway the Secret Service is less of a concern.
Right, building generic, reusable code is against the grain of the language.
but seriously everything you are saying is seething with value judgements.

> should get them to pay their damn taxes and fair share

what constitutes a 'fair share'? Who gets to decide?

it's easy to criticize yachts. Let's say a billionaire did something "you might like" like throw a ton of money into a basic physics project. But what if that basic physics project is looking for superluminal neutrinos? Or maybe you'd criticize that the billionaire just wanted to get their name out, which is, essentially vanity, an obviously negative character trait.

Or we could get into sketchier territory. What if the billionaire spent tons of money in "development" in an "underdeveloped country". Is that bad or good? Who gets to decide?

I mean the ironic thing is that on many metrics, buying a yacht could be the least bad thing of the three things that I have mentioned, at least the likelihood of buying a yacht actively hurting someone else is relatively low.
I shouldn't feed the troll, but how can you make a ridiculous assertion and still fail to draw a sound logical conclusion from this new assertion? Unreal
Interestingly, I used to download a lot of torrents years ago. When Spotify came along, it dropped at least 80%. Add Netflix and Steam and I haven't used torrents in a very long while actually. Simply because everything I need is available at an affordable price.

However, seeing how many streaming services are popping up lately, each with their own specialty and each wanting my money, (and seeing how crappy free Youtube is becoming) I feel more and more like coming back to my old habits . . .
Uh Oh looks like one of Trump's interns is using cracked software and pirating movies

https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/?ip=204.68.207.14
Canada currently uses a "notice and notice regime" [0], meaning the rights holder notifies the ISP, who turns around and forwards the notice to the infringing customer, but does not give the rights holder the account information, nor do they take any punitive action towards the customer.

However, the ISP must retain historical data on these notices, so if in the future the laws change, rights holders could in theory request information on past notices and go after subscribers once they have their personal information.

so yeah, don't pirate stuff...

0: https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/Oca-bc.nsf/eng/ca02920.html
I just did a write up about how we use a secrets manager to load our environments allowing an easy centralised management across multiple projects/envs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23822681
Question: why did noone extend the torrent protocol to understand http[s] and speak to servers that support resume?

edit: I’m just now reading https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0019.html and that’s exactly what they did. My bad
Someone's gotta make IGBTs to support all those fancy new electric stuff, be it batteries, cars, transformers, etc. etc. IGBTs have had incredible process gains, leading to improved efficiencies (and therefore: less waste heat / waste power) in many applications.

The march of progress continues forward. Its not computer tech per se... but power-tech and analog-tech is incredibly important still.

I'd argue that without modern IGBTs, it'd be impossible to make an electric car today. Its probably one of the most major sources of efficiency in the modern electric vehicle. The power-switch that controls "on" vs "off" needs to be incredibly efficient when you're shoving 200+ kW of energy through it!!

Case in point: lets say 200kW of power is being used by the motor at 375V. That's 500+ Amps of current. A resistance of 0.1 Ohms would waste 25,000 Watts of energy (power == current^2 * resistance)... in the switch / transistor itself before the motors even got the energy.
New VR world/platform for consumers
I want to clarify that I’m 100% in favor of such a policy, in principle. It’s the implementation that’s hard.

Actually the US does a lot of good manufacturing in some fields, like arms. But in other fields, well-intentioned protectionist policies like have backfired. For instance, rather than subsidizing US shipyards, the Jones Act protects them from foreign competition which has led them to significant decline over the past century.

US policy to rebuild or improve US industry has a very mixed history in terms of results. It probably doesn’t help that a lot of these efforts are focused on bailing out the same old manufacturers over and over again to save jobs in battleground states.
I am unsure when you grew up, but for many of us who grew up in the 90s and 00s, this is exactly the mindset we have. I used to be able to take a movie I had and lend it to a friend, the same with music. The movement away from physical copies took this away from many of us, so we tried to take it back in kind -- piracy is what they called that behavior.

I understand it might not seem right to you, but in all the social groups I am a part of piracy and sharing accounts is normative. The only fault I see is mixing personal and work resources, which naturally have separate concerns.
That's exactly what the parent comment is suggesting.
I think skillful communicators are brave enough to express their opinions and endure critique of those opinions. And I certainly think those people are willing to engage in meaningful conflict to find better solutions. With that, I also believe that a person can be compassionate and cordial while engaging in conflict (and I think the people who are tend to be conductive to better solutions). It's quite a slippery slope to conclude that unlike-ability is the secret sauce here.
Mapdreamer
It says they scrape torrent sites and then listen to DHT.

But even assuming they scrape "all" torrents, what percentage of users use DHT as opposed to just trackers, and how often will a DHT request hit their server as opposed to someone else's? And are they really able to simultaneously function as part of the DHT for all torrents they've ever scraped, or is it only some small percentage at a time?

I'm just wondering if they're managing to grab something like 90% of torrenting activity, or more like 1%?

Legality aside, I'm just really curious about the technical accuracy here. Also why they chose DHT instead of connecting to trackers directly.
The amoral mechanisms of business do not obviate criticisms that are independent of their bottom line, and this simple fact will not be unmade by any amount of the constant and fallacious insistence that people who make such criticisms "don't understand business".
That seems wrong too. If I don't have a job or I'm underemployed, why do I need a roomba? I'm not over-worked as a dev where this kind of aid helps me. Main street has closing store after closing store where I'm at in the PNW. There's no main street left.
Even you look from perspective of warfare evolution it does not work nor make sense.

But objectively, you can play this game of cooperation to see when to be assholes is favorable strategy.

link: https://ncase.me/trust/
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So they pay it back into the economy, because quarantine restrictions prevent them from producing their own economic activity. Now that's stimulus.
The Google Belt and Road Initiative
Couldn't it also be that the buyers are better at extracting value from the accounts.
Ouch... my town is on the same IP range, so I can see my neighbours' activity. I could probably even tell who it is.

On the up side, static IP makes it easy to quite reliably host stuff on my own computers, in my home.
Other materials can fulfill this requirement even better than brown glass can. However, marketing plays a pivotal role in the commercial success of alcoholic beverages, and packaging is a very important part of this.