skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was only talking about the Mac, which never used the 6502–that was the Apple II.

The Apple IIgs did end up on the 65816.
The most interesting one I saw was this: https://www.geometrize.co.uk/assets/images/examples/building.... It is a building in the full res, but when the algorithm is applied it looks like a mountain. Every other picture I saw was, more or less, as recognizable as the original.
Start him off with ABC's
[ deleted my original reply - sorry I thought you were replying to another one of my posts ]

True, you probably work harder and are more stressed in the US, but at least you have an option to retire early there on your savings. In the EU, I suspect most developers have very little savings and plan to just work until old age and state pension kicks in.
There are only so many 2006-2012 vintage Thinkpads in existence, as he mentions in the last section. This certainly relevant to his "this is a hack" point, however, one should note that prices for these items used has been going up lately, a very unusual trend for used PCs. I hope manufacturers notice this latent value in the PC market.
The X60 ThinkPads TFA settles on are the pinnacle of the X-series ThinkPad form factor.

That's not just any old laptop, and if my situation is any indication, the author wouldn't hesitate one moment if offered a brand new X60 specimen with a stronger less crack-prone chassis material and modern SoC+LED-lit LCD. Unfortunately no such thing is currently available.
I'm not sure the new title is correct!

IBM PC RT was released in 1986 vs 1987 for the Archimedes.
Read the latter half of that sentence again. Think about what it means. You can't just pay attention to the part of the sentence that you like, and ignore the other parts.

Also, I quoted this exact line in a comment below, so I'm not sure how you can credibly claim that I'm "mis-representing" something.
https://www.fws.gov/international/travel-and-trade/ivory-ban...

> Under Federal law, you can sell your African elephant ivory within your state (intrastate commerce) if you can demonstrate that your ivory was lawfully imported prior to the date that the African elephant was listed in CITES Appendix I (January 18, 1990). This documentation could be in the form of a CITES pre-Convention certificate, a datable photo, a dated letter or other document referring to the item, or other evidence.

> The sale of African elephant ivory items across state lines (interstate commerce) is prohibited, except for items that qualify as ESA antiques and certain manufactured or handcrafted items that contain a small (de minimis) amount of ivory and meet specific criteria.
The thing is, the company they are talking about is probably operating with regulatory monopoly over the lease/permission to run coax to homes.

Here I can get high speed cable or crappy DSL and that's the options that exist for wired service. Both of them are incumbent regulatory monopolies.
It’s a different consumption mode. I watch short stuff during downtime. Lunch, waiting in line, etc.

But that’s not the good stuff. For the good stuff I turn to 18 hour audiobooks, real movies, deep technical articles.

Bite sized for staying in touch, long and in-depth for things that interest you.
Surely, Merit based metrics should be "a part of this complete breakfast". However, focusing _purely_ on merit based metrics (pure Meritocracy) is not sustainable. It will break down and cease to reward merit almost immediately. (for reasoning, see my previous post).

If you are using modern (western) societies as your example; you will see a sophisticated system of laws, subsidies, taxes, education and health investments, etc... which are all at least in part designed to prevent this breakdown and make sure that people who have something to contribute get a chance to contribute to society, and hopefully get justly rewarded.

The counter-intuitive part is that the outcomes are more Merit-based than are possible if you directly institute a merit based system. (It seems that policy outcomes are almost never intuitive)
The graphs are absolutely fantastic, what a great job on the visual presentation. They read very intuitively.
Start with a short blog post and see if you develop an interested readership.
I consider local ISP monopolies the definition of onerous business regulation.

But that's the long and the short of it. No competition and no incentive to improve.
Which consumer banks offer the best security options? Like, yubikey and the ability to disable phone 2fa and stupid security questions seem like good places to start.
> But the US isn't blaming Russia, the media is.

Mike Pompeo isn't Secretary of State of CNN.
Yeah, it was the best Samsung phone I've ever had, no crap just a great phone and screen.
Also, birds produce themselves out of an egg, with only food, water and air as production input. They also can produce more of themselves with minimal input. They are also self-repairing/maintaining, something planes cant do.
I think it depends upon the relative age of the people you're talking to.

I started playing with a ZX Spectrum back in the early eighties, as a youngster, and directly credit it with my IT-career.

I only wish I'd tried writing computer games at the time, instead of hacking existing ones for infinite lives!
> It's such a primitive and toxic line of thinking

its especially a nonsense argument when you note that porn is one of the few industries with a huge pay gap - and in favor of women. its so significant that top tier actresses pay scale has a floor that is higher than the ceiling of the equivalent male talent.
just because a random startup has a $10b "valuation" does not mean at all that it is actually worth $10b.
Ask HN: How to learn about computer networking (practical approach)
I would like to deploy a simple web app on DO. Droplet one: the DB; droplet 2: two containers (go web server and nginx).

I stumbled upon many topics I haven't dealt with before:

- private networks (the DB droplet should not be exposed to the whole internet. This also means that my webserver should live inside this private subnet (because the webserver is the only one that can talk to the DB))

- gateways (I would need a droplet that acts as "gateway" so that the internet can talk to my webserver through nginx)

- iptables and firewalls. I know what they mean, but I've never set them up

- simulate the previous setup locally (e.g., using vagrant and virtualbox)

I have read books like Computer Networks by Tanenbaum and TCP/IP Illustrated Vol. 1 by Stevens. While these two books are really good they really don't help me to understand tutorials regarding the points I stated before.
The first book is very theoretical and gives you a good background; the latter is a bit more practical... it's nice to know about frame formats and TCP handshakes, but none of these helps me with more practical things like: a) it's better to put my database in a private subnet (I guess know it seems obvious, but it wasn't before I read about it on a tutorial), b) the private subnet would need some sort of gateway (I know what a gateway is... It just wasn't obvious that I would need one), c) the way the gateway should be set up, d) how to abstract cloud providers specifics and setup a similar topology locally in my laptop.

Do you know which resources I can read so that I feel more comfortable dealing with networking and infrastructure when it comes to put stuff in production?
I think the concept of meritocracy is more or less a smokescreen that adds a redundant layer of morality to discussions of systemic problems. Of course, that layer could be seen as inevitable considering human psychology and the need to assign moral worth to groups or individuals.

For example, I don't disagree with the author's thesis that the outcomes are what matter in the end. It's just that their reasoning does not go far enough and stops at individuals instead of systems. In this sense it is clouded by the notion of meritocracy and the desire to discuss it.
The "hack" of the 2016 election wasn't voter fraud. It was Russia hacking Clinton's emails and the DNC, exactly like Trump asked them to. In addition, Russia engaged in massive ad campaigns using bots and troll farms that benefited Trump. Literally no one ever accused Russia of changing votes or engaging in voter fraud. This is why it's so difficult to discuss anything on the internet. You've done no research at all.
"Skeptics say, it would have to sell every book being sold in the world today to justify its stock price" - Amazon in 1997 [1]. The stock is 50 times higher now.

I have no idea if history will repeat itself, but I find the parallel interesting

[1] https://youtu.be/8SSj7KwBwr8?t=660
You cannot. The router AT&T provides authenticates the connection. What you could do is run your own router with a copied MAC that forwards the auth and keep alive packets. Here is a guide for OpenWRT. https://pyther.net/2020/05/03/bypass-att-gateway-openwrt.htm...
I also stopped buying new laptops. The full biological cost is hard to fully imagine, just incredible in size. If you think about it, hundreds and thousands of plant, bacterial, animal, mammal, bird, and other lives are laid down for each of these amazing powerful artefacts. If there are previously used alternatives available, I cannot in good conscience vote for the creation of another one. So I started with a couple of refurbs, then I started just getting hand-me-downs. People are constantly getting rid of old laptops, tablets, phones, keyboards, etc.

As a coder, working on something older also gives me perspective on performance of anything I'm working on.
The difference here is that if you lose your job in European countries with great social security, you still have a salary you get by fine on.

And hospital stays do not bankrupt you, or even make a dent.

Even with «great» insurance in the US, there are all these edge cases and loopholes, stuff they will not cover.

Where I live I never have to worry about these things, I do not even have to put aside money for rainy days (though I do, just because I make more than I spend).
Deepwater Horizon spilled over 10 times as much oil as the Exxon spill and the affected ecosystem is more comparable to what’s at risk here than the one in Alaska. Most people reading this may be too young to even remember the Exxon spill. Deepwater seems like a better comparison.
Interesting. Sadly I’ve not gotten to dev with a PS5 or XSX yet.

I’d subscribe to your newsletter.
equity was always worthless at startups unless you're the ceo. you should never join any company trying to pay you in equity.
(sci-fi) What if time had another dimension
I'm so glad that my job allows me the freedom to just do my job in a quiet office with a desktop computer instead of making me optimize for working in meetings and on the move.

I can't imagine spending $2k+ every 4-5 years to get a new machine. For less than $1k I get machines that have more powerful tech, that I can hide away under my desk, which last longer than any laptop.
Gnome 3 was a big departure from what users were used to in Gnome 2. In Gnome 2 you could configure panels by simply dragging and dropping elements. In Gnome 3, this customization is achieved by installing extensions or Gnome shell themes. Installing extensions can be easy, but it will never be as easy as dragging and dropping elements with your mouse.

For many years, when you used XFCE and then went back to Gnome 3, you could perceive how much slower Gnome 3 was. Now, performance has gotten much better to the point Gnome 3 is my default desktop again.

You can tell there are users are still disgusted with the Gnome 3 UI. That's why the MATE and Cinnamon projects exist.
The parent comment seems a lot more understanding to different use-cases than the classic dropbox comment. It even ends with

> Obviously, this owncast is cool for probably being easier to setup, definitely better looking, and having more features, like chat. I just wanted convey there's nothing magic to doing your own streaming video.

Mentioning the dropbox comment seems to have become a way to dismiss comments without actually replying to them.
Shift Cloud Security Left – Scanning Infrastructure as Code for Security Issues
Where have I seen this before? Oh yes
https://alteredqualia.com/visualization/evolve/ (from 2008)

(From the person that wrote the webgl renderer for three.js)

Press start and you can see the algorithm at work, and how each shape is added randomly, score is computed, then the process repeats again
What about arxiv.org ?
I'm really curious in getting my hands on the Nokia N9, just to explore the UI and UX of Meego. Unfortunately the devices on eBay are going for prices outside of my budget since I suspect my exploration will last all of half an hour. I see a lot of refurbished models from China, so hopefully their prices drop over the next few years. I'm interested to see if Meego could have been the viable competitor that Windows Phone wasn't.
While I am a long-time Gnome user, I don't think it has a bright future. The project leadership continuously makes weird decision rooted in the believe that Gnome is THE Linux DE and everyone should dance under their flute.

It does not help that project is riddled with technical issues (most notably memory leaks), quite inconvenient without installing a number of extensions (which often break from versions to version, no stable extension API, really? JS as the extension language does not help either) and fiddling with settings (e.g. to enable Ctrl+Alt+Left/Right with grid workspace layout). I don't have time to play with different DEs right now, but as soon as I find a suitable replacement, I quite probably will ditch Gnome for good.

Unfortunately, Gnome sucks a lot of corporate support, leaving alternative DEs quite dry in that regard, which significantly hinders their pace of development.

P.S.: The animated favicon is REALLY f*g annoying.
I'm curious as to how you figured out the audio was 210ms ahead of the video.
The was no writing system in pre-European NZ.

These days Māori is written using the Latin alphabet with macrons, or Māori braille (which I'm unfamiliar with).
More of a failing of AJ's IT dept than anything else. Not sure if they were using AJ issued devices but they should be on managed devices that get updated on schedule, which may have mitigated this attack. Journos aren't necessarily deeply technical folks, that's really not their core competency.
The way I understand the author is that he would also be someone who would not be willing to buy another (pricey) adapter, because apple decided to drop support for port x.
Clearly it's a spectrum, not a binary. I doubt you'd say we shouldn't impose more precautions during an Ebola outbreak than we would during a normal winter cold & flu season.

Precautions are generally proportional to the risks involved. Personal responsibility ceases to be the only determining factor in what precautions to take when an irresponsible person imposes the consequences of their poorly judged actions on other people. Your freedom to swing your fist ends where my nose begins. Punching me in the nose isn't justifiable simply because I will, at some point, die regardless of your actions.

That said, it is a spectrum. Which means, if you want to avoid absurd extremes then you must draw a line somewhere on that spectrum. Assuming you don't espouse political anarchism or anarcho-capitalism, approaching me & swinging your fist at my nose while we're both walking down the street is would be on the wrong side of the line for pretty much everyone. If I approach you and tell you I'll stab you if you don't hand over your wallet then swinging your fist at my nose is on the other side of that line.

COVID is clearly more complicated because in addition to the above spectrum, there is the spectrum of a probability distribution that dictates the likelihood of spreading the virus if infected, and the likelihood of serious illness or death if infected by someone spreading the virus. Drawing the line between acceptable imposition of precautions is therefore much more complicated, and absent absurd extremes is necessarily going to be drawn somewhere that some subset believes is authoritarian, and others believe is too permissive & intrudes on their own freedom from the negative consequences of other people's choices.

In all cases though, if your concept of "No one “wins” against things like death, disease, etc." were to be the guiding force behind societal decisions, then literally any action is permissible.
...which is entirely reasonable. Laptops are heavily customized/optimized for power/heat, whereas off-the-shelf CPUs (like the 5800x) are very much general-purpose devices but can absolutely be customized to be fit-for-purpose (and the entire hardware ecosystem is built around that).
Even if they don't spend it and just keep it in bank accounts, it will still be loaned out and invested.
Phreaking as a Service
I also would be interested.
An incredible story, thanks.
The decision to not render icons using nautilus anymore, and instead use Gnome shell to render them was an awful decision.

The Gnome shell desktop extension is not as robust as nautilus. If you move a file by dragging and dropping a file, there is a good chance that Gnome shell will hang. I disabled the desktop icons extension because of this.
SolarWinds has achieved SOC2 compliance: https://orangematter.solarwinds.com/2019/06/12/solarwinds-ac...

SOC2 is pretty heavy duty to achieve and to maintain.

But SOC2 is not a guarantee that your company will be impervious to the kinds of mistakes that landed them in hot water this year.
> Musicians make all their money from touring

Until this year, when that income source has been largely obliterated.
> I know there are theoretical issues with the X security mode, but this replacement is a classic case of “security” producing something that’s basically useless for what people use the software for.

I keep reminding people that one of the most known models for security is "confidentiality, integrity and availability".

If it isn't available your security is still somehow broken however well one scores on confidentiality.
> A true balance sheet is beyond the purely financial. It covers natural capital and social capital too.

> To refine my initial point: there will be many horrific costs to this mess. Some poor sod will end up paying the cost. If owners think they can escape full liability, they will continue to take risks because they can privatize the profit and socialize the costs.

Thank you for elaborating, I entirely concur with the sentiment of the above, even if we differ on terminology.

To refine my original my point too, please consider it a comment on the unfortunate connotations of using the term 'balance sheet' for this concept - without further information, it's unclear if it's being used in a purely business financial context or not.
This story works well for a professional writer. If you are a professional developer/ video editor/ audio professional, or any number of other professions that lean heavier on the hardware they use, it's quite different. If buying new hardware is going to substantially improve my work-day, I'm going to buy new hardware. With the pace of modern hardware improvement, the time between purchases is longer, but there is still a refresh. If your time is worth money, spending money to save time is an easy decision.

I don't toss my old devices out, they get another 5-10 years use in someone else's hands so much of the environmental impact arguments are more-or less irrelevant.
Players like vlc and mpv allow you to dynamically shift the audio wrt the video while playing, so one can just play around a bit until the perfect setting is found.
One option is offloading the bandwidth requirements to a S3 provider. You could run your server from home and keep your local outbound requirements low, you'd just be handing off the video to somebody who can handle it. Depending on your scale many S3 providers can be pretty cheap.

I know of one person who does this specific setup and it's been working great for him!
What are people using instead of Docker now? I'm a bit confused about your statement.
Book Scanning
Not many security cams support webrtc and if doing broadcast (and the server is directly reachable) HLS or MPEG-DASH is usually more efficient anyway since plain file serving is simpler and can be cached/optimized in ways that are harder for protocols like webrtc. HLS/MPEG-DASH are higher latency, but that can be reduced to a few seconds or less with tradeoffs.
> Thin, light, very portable, USB ports on each side, headphone jack and an external monitor port (in this case, thunderbolt).

Welcome to ~2004 in IBM ThinkPad X-series land, IBM "solved the laptop form factor" ~4 years prior to Apple's Air.

And even before that Sony's PCG-Z505 delivered most of this in a robust and lightweight magnesium package.
Luckily you are not in a position to decide public health policy, and a majority of voters seem to disagree with you.
> Striving to build an environment where effort is made to attribute credit where it's due

That is what meritocracy is all about though.

> strive for equality of outcome for all is what we need to do

This is your bias speaking.

I got my job at Google by doing well on online coding competitions. I didn't do it with anyone else, I just sat at home and practiced on my own. Anyone could have done that. Show me a single woman who did well enough to get a t-shirt from the main google code jam competition but failed to get a good tech job and I could see your point, but I don't think there are any.

More importantly you'd expect that women would flock to those more objective ways to get into the industry, however it is the other way around, competitive programming is almost only asian and white men. Asians love it since it is a way for them to circumvent the bias against them and get jobs at Google or equivalent, why can't women do the same? And if women refuse to do the same work I and many of my peers did to get in yet still say I got in via privilege why should I take them seriously instead of just assuming they are biased against me? It isn't like women have less time as students than men have, they just choose to spend it differently.
As an individual, I almost always would choose a language I already know comfortably, and every other factor would come after that - unless I were setting out to learn something new.

Other factors:

- is there tooling that will help me be productive with this language?

- is there a broad enough community of users such that finding helpful resources will be straightforward?

- how likely is it that the language I choose will be well-supported by its owners (or community) in 5-10 years?

- is the language expressive? can it be made to be efficient?

- does it appeal to me aesthetically?

- does it have good cross-platform support? (Windows, macOS, Linux)

- is it supported by build systems and/or CI products?

Through the filter of "stuff I know", my choice for most things at this point is F# on .NET Core/.NET 5. (and/or Fable).

For learning something new, I'd probably choose elixir with elm, or maybe Rust, depending on the application.
Oh, no doubt. I just wanted the parent poster to know that there are creative masterpieces out there that deserve checking out. Lode Runner is good but not enough to not check other games out.
The main benefit of the ARM processor design was very high performance per watt which carved out a significant niche that then grew into a massive market
Second the Node, very portable, quiet. It is a bit difficult to assemble though. And you need to double check your parts will fit