skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s the “ad hominem fallacy fallacy”—in a nutshell, thinking that abuse (or mere criticism, in this case) is an ad hominem attack.

I love this article on the subject: https://laurencetennant.com/bonds/adhominem.html

Ironically, the GP is ad hominem; as the above link says, “while he pretends to deal with A's argument, in using the term "ad hominem" incorrectly, B is in fact trying to dismiss the argument by imputing that A is resorting to personal attacks.”
Most containers sink.
> It’s a lie to say the software is 30% slower.

I gave you a source. The sluggishness is something I notice when I use MacOS.

> If it was that bad, a reputable site like ars, or anandtech would have shown it.

It is that bad. Hundreds of YouTubers have shown it, and you can do it yourself to confirm. I have friends who have iPhones. The launch times are noticeably slower.

I'll even give you my speculation for why this is the case in order of impact:

1. Android's zygote based process initialization.

2. Developers optimizing for the $50 Android phones in the long tail.

3. GC instead of ARC.
Ha, I just go done listening to an awesome podcast that talks about this particular story[1]. If you like history and humor its a great podcast, check it out if you get the chance.

[1]: https://allthingscomedy.com/podcasts/113---reg-spiers-live
This comment strikes me as uncharitable.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
I can't intuit whether "advantage" has some specific meaning here, but an advantage, in the dictionary definition sense, is the fact that photonic quantum systems easily operate at room temperature, unlike, say, electron-based systems.
It’s like civil disobedience but it’s backed by profit motive rather than human rights. That makes it much less of a clear cut moral victory.

During these discussions a lot of people on HN have come forward and expressed their support for Apple’s walled garden. They like that Apple keeps malware out. Should Epic win and the iPhone be fixed wide open, that could change the situation dramatically.

Of course, I think Epic would be happy if they won a special exemption for their own marketplace but with the status quo remaining for everyone else.
I’ve been on worse with my 43 foot sailboat.
Hacker news would benefit from code blocks.
I assumed that was what this is!
Strange to see a python backend for such a performance critical application.
That this was written by a (ex?) Red Hat employee makes a lot of sense. We burned significant time in the last 2 weeks because RHEL 8 intentionally makes it very hard to `dnf install docker-ce` (even though you are literally just installing the centos/rhel 7 package), and insteadm RH docs + staff tell IT admins who don't know better to `dnf install podman` as the only correct option and lie that is drop-in compatible. Then we get support tickets because, surprise, podman often doesn't actually replace docker due to bugs, or in areas like `docker-compose`, because it isn't even implemented.

Docker's second death is very much IBM/ RHEL's anti-competitive intent. An infrastructure provider should be neutral on how they present this kind of thing, especially a company selling enterprise reliability for running software on top. The 1984-esque double speak experience has been quite souring wrt ethics of doing business with them around cloud/container-era technology and trusting them for enterprise reliability.

I do find the podman ecosystem technically interesting... but due to the unethical corporate stewardship we're seeing, I'm uncomfortable seeing anyone use it.
I believe the implicit requirement is that the item is known to exist within the list. With that requirement in place the extra guards aren't requisite (they're implicit) and in kernel code this probably offers a performance edge and is a reasonable requirement. Either having an implementation that has an extra check once at the end of the list, or that verifies the presence of the item and passes that node through to a deletion subroutine, would be good alternatives but still utilize the same pointer to structure view.
Yup, I've never experienced that before on any machine, Apple or otherwise. It's either you're tethered and burning your crotch or you're mobile and throttled. I haven't felt that yet with the M1 and my crotch stays cool.
It is the "for the masses" part of your reasoning I do not understand how you read that into the article.

I think the issue you have is more with the internet ("Internet", capital "I") we are using right now, which is dominated by a www "for the masses" and "content" like this blog. The Internet allows and encourages the type of senseless "content" you are criticising. New networks do not have to be "for the masses", or dominated by a www, their creation and administration does not have to itself be a commercial enterprise, nor do these networks have to be open for commercial use.

IMO, it is the "for the masses" and "open for commercial use" characteristics of this Internet that lead to blog articles like this one. The blog entry is arguably just a means of steering readers to a website, mentioned at the end of the article, that purports to offer training courses to aspiring "revolutionaries".
This is probably what caused the whole incident. If anything can go wrong with a kickstarter, it will!

Any insurance relief?
That's not true but I don't agree with the articles either. Some of the points are valid.
Any person with a CPF, our individual taxpayer registry identification, can use PIX. Non-permanent residents of Brazil are included in this category.

As for international transfers, the Central Bank is looking at simplifying existing regulations in order to allow international transfers as late as 2023
We techies like to believe that most problems created by technology can be solved by more technology.

But in fact I think that very few of the problems we're facing with the internet right now are really technical in nature. They are social and political problems that require social and political solutions.
Make sure your EPIRB batteries are fresh (and the device is tested) and your life raft is ready to be deployed, and you’ll be fine.
> If they don't get rewarded, they will simply stop producing value.

Not in the case of music. The vast majority is given away for free (some in the hope of future financial success, but plenty just for the hell of it).

If the vast majority were not addicted to popular tracks, the marginal price of music would drop to zero pretty quickly.
Am I missing something here?

Look at the picture they posted of their ship. You see any lashings holding the top 3 layers of containers? And the ends aren't aligned, so they can't be held together with twistlocks. Is anything holding those upper containers in place?

This is the second ONE ship to lose containers this year.[1]

[1] https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/casualty/second-one-boxshi...
Civil disobedience is not by definition limited to specific causes such as human rights. Many actions during union strikes (e.g. not respecting a back-to-work legislation or picketing on company property) would fit the definition too, even if the only reason for the strike is disagreement over remuneration, i.e. profit motive. In fact, the Wikipedia article for civil disobedience has a picture of a union member on strike about to be arrested.
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I bought a tree farm in Oregon in '98 after it had been clearcut. I debated between replanting it with christmas trees vs. timber and I couldn't see how christmas trees penciled out so I'm growing timber. The article mentions $60 for a tree, but here in Oregon I see many lots featuring $35 - $45.
Can the hazardous containers ever be recovered? Should we be taking extra care when transporting hazardous cargo? Like positioning in a different part of boat or limiting overall cargo amount that can be transported when moving hazardous chemicals that can damage ecosystems and food sources?
So first, you of course picked one of the very few deflationary growth periods in history.

Second, that deflationary period was caused by a huge increase in productivity... it is known as "the second industrial revolution", and global production efficiency took off during that period.

Third, the fact that there was only 4% actually shows that growth was artificially constrained by a limited money supply; productive efficiency increased so much, we should have had better growth than we did. We would have, if we were able to grow the money supply with the economy.

In fact, the only thing that kept the money supply from completely stopping economic growth is that there actually WAS a huge increase in the money supply caused by massive gold and silver mining.
Yes, but I think that the achieved advances have been greatly exaggerated, IIRC.
My layman understanding was Epic had to do this to be able to legally challenge Apple in court (to demonstrate damages or whatever). That's not quite the same as (covertly) breaching your contract hoping you get away without getting caught, which is the impression you're giving.

Assuming that's accurate, then I'm not sure what else one would expect them to do—not do something that gets them banned, then have their case thrown out immediately because they can't (say) demonstrate damages? Did they have any other realistic options besides just shutting up and putting up with the situation (which they have been doing this whole time)?
Excel has an incredibly strong pull because it's been integrated onto a lot of learning material now, and because it barely changes any old features. When I joined in PE a few years back, one of the study materials provided to us dated back to 2000. The videos shown used shortcuts, features and formula that are still used today. Even now, finance guys remember those keyboard shortcuts from those old videos like they are mantras or nursery rhymes - especially when knowing those shortcuts or features let's you go home by 10 instead of 2 (this was a line in the training video actually lol).
You can absolutely run N2O with a turbo or supercharged engine. I ran a NXExpress rig on my '99 Eclipse GSX back in the day (with a big turbo).
I feel as if you just said "A is a lot like B, or rather A is made of the same stuff as B but built totally differently".

From my admittedly not deep knowledge about Carnatic music, it would be a serious mistake to think of it as "being based on melodic elaboration of what in Western music would be the bass line". That's not how its composers and practitioners think of it, and critically, it misses out entirely on the whole concept of a raga, which defines not just a set of notes (the way a western scale does), but also their ordering when ascending and descending, and comes with a large amount of cultural attribution (evening ragas, seasonal ragas, emotional ragas and so on). What is played is not an elaboration of a line, but an exploration of the raga.

If you were going to draw comparisons to western musical practice, I would think that Schoenberg's 12 tone/serial experiments have at least as much in common.
List of nodes vs List of pointers
Data node with pointer vs Pointer node with data

Sometimes I improved my code a few days after I wrote them, because I found another interpretation of the original problem.
I’ve been learning Perl lately, and was surprised and pleased to learn that the built-in pod2usage() functionality for converting POD documentation in your program into --help output also automatically supports manpage output. So the Perl programs I’ve been writing all include this as part of their arg-parsing loop:

pod2usage(-verbose => 1) if /^(-h|--help)$/;
pod2usage(-verbose => 2) if /^--man$/;

That second line is all it takes to produce a manpage too. Then it’s just a matter of writing the POD documentation for it.

It is admittedly a little unusual to consume a manpage by typing `someprog --man` instead of typing `man someprog`, but it’s very convenient for self-contained scripts.
The virus itself is doing far more to damage mental health than stay-at-home orders ever will.

Around the world, we’re talking about millions of grieving people who have lost parents, siblings, spouses, children, friends, coworkers, .... Millions more people who struggled to stay breathing and may now suffer severe long-term (or maybe permanent) symptoms. Health care workers around the world who will have PTSD from harrowing shifts treating an extremely high load of unbelievably sick people for month after month. Etc.

In places with significant community spread, people are rightfully afraid that anything they do around other people is exposing them to significant risk of severe illness or death. Even people who take every precaution sometimes turn up sick, and the sources can be hard to trace. Dealing with that for months is extremely stressful.

All while a significant part of the population continued to blithely party on as if their actions had no consequences, and “leaders” baldly lie about it day after day, month after month.

If we want people to return to normal life feeling free and safe, then controlling the virus must be the #1 priority. Indeed, in places where the virus was controlled via strong leadership and community solidarity, life is nearly back to normal; in places where leadership was absent, it will continue to be a horror show for many more months.
The entertainment industry makes plenty of money, they just disguise the profits through all kinds of trickery that make what tech companies do with tax shelters look childish by comparison. There’s a whole colloquial term for it, “Hollywood accounting”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
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We are still in shock. Our chalk board maps were so close to being in our customers hands after many covid set backs. Then we get word that our ship was in a storm. I’m just glad that the crew is ok. How scary.
Perhaps this is self-serving of me, since I want to build a product like this, but:

I think honestly the problem is that these systems are not consumer-oriented products. I think there is a real desire by people to not have to live as rentiers in the digital marketplace, but there are not really products that cater to that.

IMO There's a place for something that merges a NAS, with some sort of overlay over current IP that is encrypted and fully peer-to-peer. But NASes are still too hard for many consumers to set up, and most techniques to overlay over IP are likewise too difficult, and basically impossible to correctly multi-tenant (you can't share your network space with your aunt and your coworker without sharing with both). Unlike IPFS, or bittorrent, availability is important, but not critical, and you don't need to promiscuously replicate your information across the entire world, encrypted or otherwise.

I think there's a market for something that is like "plug in to your local network, do minimal configuration, you can set up shared folders a la dropbox, and you can access it over the net". You can sync credentials with a username and a one-time PIN. You should be able to easily set up rules for sharing with friends, with smart defaults.

I think what's interesting from a consumer perspective is that there are things you can do on such a platform that many (not all) people would think twice about letting facebook do, like tag and organize photos of your young kid and share them with relatives/friends who have a PIN.

I also think that the time horizon for this is relatively short (5-years?) soon people will be so desensitized to advertisements/being a digital rentier that the opportunity will have aged out. 20-somethings don't know what a NAS is.

I haven't started on this yet, but if anyone is interested, my info's here.
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Time flies. Python is almost 30 years old now.
Cool! Some thoughts from a former Twitch engineer:

- Probably the hardest part of running these things is managing outbound bandwidth costs. You'll need to either limit inbound bitrate or transcode video down to a manageable rate, or else you'll quickly spend a lot of money on shipping 4k video for people.

- Right now, your nginx hosts both do ingest and playback, if I understand it right. You might want to separate the two. It makes maintenance easier, and it lets you scale much better - right now, a single stream probably maxes out on viewership based on the CPU capacity of the single nginx host that is ingesting the stream, transcoding it, and delivering it. If you have multiple nginx hosts which could deliver the already-transcoded stream, you could scale much better.

- Please don't keep using RTMP. RTMP is so stateful that it's pretty hard to manage, it doesn't have a spec, it doesn't have implementations on many devices, and its security is, uh, _weak_. Big players are forced to keep using it because telling their broadcasters to change is hard, but you don't have that problem. You might consider accepting an alternative modern protocol.

- You'll almost certainly need admin and moderation tools soon. Expect lots of pirate streams, as well as some horrific content. You can't run a live streaming platform without admin tools.

- Beware DDoS attacks. This setup looks very, very, very easy to take down, as-is...
A small startup where my friend worked (~200 employees) ended up locking up their liquor cabinet except for Friday afternoons. Sadly, one of the employees was alcoholic and was going there too often.
Do you use rg as a file-finder while coding?
Have you tried WSL2? It's been a dream for my use cases as a web developer.
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Surely it’s not just to “feel rugged”. The rubber seal of a cooler lid is essentially a deformable spring which must be compressed in order to form an effective seal.
When my parents moved from the UK to Nee Zealand all the valuable stuff went missing. This was some time ago but it seemed theft was endemic.
That is so true. I’m his friend and I had already faced so many setbacks with this Kickstarter. It was supposed to ship in July. Literally the day I was announcing to my backers that it should arrive in the US soon and opened up our mobile app for photo magnet orders the ship was in the storm.

My sourcing partner / logistics team reports that our insurance will cover damage or loss. But it’s going to take several weeks just to sort through it all.

Here’s a picture of the ship: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0gLIQVJUHGxk2lkSGFrJ8-AYg
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> I think the help that may be missing is friends who are "lovingly firm" with him sooner.

I've seen or read interviews with the people surrounding Howard Hughes and Whitney Houston who were very close to them.

When it comes to celebrities and billionaires, unless you're immediate family, your voice is often drowned out by people who are on the payroll or who stand to benefit.

Howard Hughes was involved in a number of airplane accidents, and that likely contributed to his Rx addiction. He had a business rep inside his inner circle for most of his adult life, but IIRC his caretakers and some other people got close enough to isolate Hughes later on.

In the case of Houston, one of her uncles said he recognized the symptoms of heroin addiction during a TV performance, tried to get in touch, but was prevented by other relatives from doing so.

Prince was an unusual case because he OD'ed from fentanyl in fake Vicodin pills:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/no-criminal-charges-pri...
I'm not sure why you would say it's not really HDR. It is. It's the base standard, the others use the same 10bit dynamic colors range. The 400/500/600 just refer to the maximum brightness of the display, something that may be a benefit but is not related to whether or not something is "true" HDR. HDR10 is true HDR. All HDR600 etc are also HDR10 with the added benefit of increased brightness.
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Perhaps the SS Kubernetes would’ve done a better job with these containers.
Chances are it still is on that ship.
it seems you'd want your container near the bottom of the stack and closest to the bridge (near the midline of the ship). They should charge different amounts for container placement. If your container is at the top corners near the bow of the ship you should have to pay the least amount for insurance/shipping since you're taking the most risk.
TIL that there's a format called wat, which means "WebAssembly text format" and it can be converted to wasm (and back to wat).

This format uses S-expressions like lisp, and it's got a stack machine like forth. [1] [2]

I'm a bit surprised something so mainstream ended up being a lispy forth.

[1] https://ph1lter.bitbucket.io/blog/2020-12-03-webasm-forth-wi...
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Underst...
This all comes down to the statement near the end: "I believe Apple should simply refuse to cooperate with oppressive governments"

Which is another way of saying "I believe Apple should either not operate in certain countries, or should try to operate in those countries in defiance of the laws of those countries."

The beef is primarily with the government. Companies are stuck in the middle -- either operate in compliance with local laws (even if they believe those laws are wrong) or don't operate there at all (since the third option of operating in contravention of local laws doesn't usually last long, and has painful consequences).

It would be interesting to know what the people who live in the countries think -- would they prefer not to have Apple products (or any other company's products) unavailable to them?
Absolutely sucks and sorry to hear. Are you related to ijidak's post (chalkboardmap.com) or another kickstarter?
> In the beginning, the malicious app is started by the user. The app creates a full screen view in the foreground. A view is a rectangular area on the screen which is responsible for event handling and drawing. Additionally, it contains UI components such as buttons and text fields [13]. The malicious app opens the preinstalled Google Play Store app in the background. The view of the malicious app overlays the opened Google Play Store app. As a result, the user does not notice that the Google Play Store app is opened. The chargeable app of the attacker is selected in the Google Play Store app. Furthermore, the Google Play Store app contains the button Buy for 50 $.

Is this even possible? Android allows developers to "launch" other applications "behind" the foreground app, and click events actually make it back down to the target app? I find this hard to believe.
> When I make a living by selling bikes, and you steal it from me, you are depriving me of my time and energy and money spent to maintain my business. That's what makes it theft.

So your position is that if a company sells something, anything that deprives them of potential income is theft? If I set up a separate bike store down the street and charge less than you, have I stolen from you? How about if I give them away for free?
Nfs volume mounts. Works quite well. Make sure the hosts can access the nfs endpoints (i run nfs on separate lan)
I’m going to hijack this comment to repost a link to “The Ad Hominem Fallacy Fallacy,” a favorite essay of mine. Anybody who thinks this article is an ad hominem should read it. It’s short and fun.

https://laurencetennant.com/bonds/adhominem.html