skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with that metaphor is it implies 100% of microsoft's profits only exist because of theft. Their software added legitimate value to people's lives. It still does - Outlook & the office suite are still world class at what they do. DirectX pushed the stagnant OpenGL to innovate. Visual studio is fantastic (miles better than current XCode). C# is a worthy successor to Java. VS Code is excellent too. And so is the XBox. And I'm glad windows exists as a counterpoint to the hardware lock-in in the macos ecosystem, and to keep Apple honest.

Microsoft's customers weren't all robbed of their money. And on the other side, Bill Gates has committed to giving away all his money before he dies.

Its like, a man steals one pizza from his neighbor and makes 10 more. He eats one then he gives the rest to the homeless. Should we call him a hero? No - that theft wasn't ok! Is he a villain? No - he made pizzas and gave them away. Villains don't do that.

What is he? He's a man. He exists somewhere in the ethically murky middle. As Solzhenitsyn said, "The line between good and evil passes through every human heart." History will remember him for a lot of things - some good, some bad. Saint and sinner both. Like the rest of us.
Send them an email and ask? As a founder you should (a) be careful with an important application; (b) not be afraid to ask for something; and (c) be able to think of such an obvious solution quickly on your own. I know I sound like an ass, but (as Joe B. would say) Come on!
Also for Digital Control Systems, check out this book by Tim Wescott

Applied control theory for embedded systems

It is less math intensive and more intuitive and aims at folks with a software background like yourself.
Feel free to email / dm me (HN and twitter handle are the same) if you ever have any questions.
Most likely explanation is they're mistaken about how much time they spend working and sleeping. A BLS report found that people who estimated 70+ hour work weeks were off by 25 hours.
Exactly. The main reason I don't pay for YouTube, is that I don't want to be logged in to browse it—already getting tracked enough without that.
Author here. Wow this got a lot more attention than I had expected. Thank you all for sharing your thoughts, including critical ones.

The point about not being superficial/artificial and instead "just being yourself" sounds fair. To clarify, the copying/imitating I was referring to was much closer to the "imitate, then innovate" sense. That is, even if you make the best attempt to copy someone you admire, you end up with a mutated copy that is uniquely yours (because of your biases and life experience).

And to the point about it being shallow and simplistic — I agree, and the brevity was intentional. I treat this a mental model that is not universally correct, but is sometimes useful. To make sense of the world, I would use an ensemble of these models.

And I love the quotes in the comments!
I think the argument here is that without e2ee, the chats are available to whoever pays enough (e.g. advertisers). So in return he will get some ads and sms spam.
The problem is that UBlock Origin goes way beyond just blocking a list of domains, it's not just a Piihole.

It's also doing CNAME uncloaking, request rewriting, stubbing functions in pages, it has syntax to handle CSS changes, it has rules that allow requests to only go through in certain contexts or if they're originating from certain domains. And most importantly, there's a giant community of people basically standardized on Ublock Origin who maintain all of these lists and who are constantly identifying new threats and proposing new features.

So a competitor to Ublock Origin would need to be constantly competing with it, it would need to be pulling in new features as they got released, and it would need to be consuming the same lists that Ublock Origin uses. It's just really hard to keep pace with that.

If Mozilla came out tomorrow and said they were going to do native adblocking, I would trust them less than Ublock Origin. I don't think even they would be able to keep pace if they were trying to build a community from scratch.
Accord8mg to the site this board is four layers. The original board was six. Presumably it’s different.
So much for empathy. Not all students are as technically literate as HN readers or in the same position to understand or manage the data they deal with. Let's not rush to blame them.

Some students and staff likely use specialised (often very very expensive) software that locally process gigabytes of data, e.g. in the fields of biology and chemistry. These datasets or simulations will be in proprietary formats buried deep in some folder somewhere or in an even more inaccessible database hidden from the user. The PCs in question could also be physically tied to hardware systems in a lab. They're not going to expect that machine to be randomly wiped while working on the data, possibly for weeks at a time. They don't know where the data is. At best they might export the data (a feature which probably doesn't exist for most programs) and archive it at the end of their project. This IT screwup will hurt them a lot.
That isn't the reality in the USA. I know lots of people who have done this. Many of them have ordinary jobs. One with a pair of kids has the man earning about $60,000 today, with a career that switches back and forth between making concrete block walls and making picture frames. Another person is a handyman with, last I heard, 9 kids. Another person is a shift manager at a care facility for the mentally unwell, with 7 kids.

People with better-paying jobs have more of course. I know a person with 11 kids, doing technical training I believe. I have 12 kids, supported on a career involving low-level software.
Always use a credit card for purchases (and pay it off completely every month!), then it's the credit card company's problem. (If you use a debit card then the money is taken directly from your account and you are in the same unfortunate situation as this person was.)
speeding up sql queries isnt hard but it takes time and its worth it.
Intel’s New Adaptive Boost Technology
I think we may actually be on the same side, then - my implication was that America is "freedom from persecution," _not_ freedom from criticism and/or private consequence. When I say _private_ consequence, I primarily mean if you say something that the owner of a restaraunt you dine in does not like, you can get kicked out from that private enterprise, but the government cannot stifle your ability to say the words that got you kicked out nor can you go to jail for face legal action.

TL;DR I believe we may be thinking of different ideas of "consequence" :)
DNS blocks are good, but not really comparable to what a modern browser adblocker does. The state of adblocking on the web has gotten a lot more involved as both websites and adblockers have evolved in the kind of cat-and-mouse game they play with each other.
What special about this SSD?
> The idea that you should make common patterns part of the base language is how you end up with bloated languages with a huge number of constructs that make code hard to read.

The semantics of the pattern/idiom will be there anyway, whether there's a language-implemented feature or a "userland" repeated code-pattern.

And the latter are often more sprawling, which has its own readability issues.
It's actually possible to browse the web on retro PCs by setting up a Raspberry Pi running "Browservice": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MjZdKtv9ak

If you're on a machine with only a RJ11 / 56k dial-up port, you can also setup Raspberry Pi to handle this too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFUTInM7gq8

Hope this helps some retrocomputing enthusiasts!
Yeah, OP is probably not the best place to understand what the purpose of this project is.

The list of opcodes is just a list for consulting. It's only about the opcodes, it says nothing about the expected arguments and so on. To understand how to invoke an opcode you'd have to read either the forbidding Intel manual or something terser like https://c9x.me/x86 as cited at the bottom of OP. The '/copy-to-ebx' after the slashes is just my way of helping the reader understand what the instruction does. I don't want the reader to have to consult the Intel manual for every instruction, even if I'm forcing the writer to do so.

So why am I forcing the writer to do so? Mu's goal is to build a computer where compound things can be understood in terms of their constituent parts. Most assemblers are implemented in C, and if you wanted to understand what a line of C does, in a specific context, you might imagine expanding the C into.. its generated Assembly. Now you're in a circular situation where you need to understand Assembly to understand Assembly.

So I started out with the goal of implementing an assembler in machine code. And Assembly is surprisingly complex. There's a reason nobody builds it in C anymore. So I ended up on my current trajectory, of making the code writer do more work just so the code reader doesn't have to deal with cycles.

With hindsight, it all feels quite inevitable and fore-ordained. You can read more in a 2-part blog post that starts at http://akkartik.name/post/mu-2019-1, and there's also an academic paper at http://akkartik.name/akkartik-convivial-20200607.pdf that goes into some of my sociopolitical goals (in a sentence: "everybody should spend some time auditing the software (and laws) that run their society". For a paragraph-length exposition see the top of https://github.com/akkartik/mu#readme.)
I remember people still running Amigas and software for it (MPEG1 video players, Winamp clones, NES emulators...) in 1999.
>Similar reasons apply to Italy. Because of the geography of the Italian peninsula a unified Italian nation state would be much more successful economically than a patchwork of small entities. Once Italy's maritime commercial decline began states had less incentive to block unification.

Italy's largest maritime states, Genoa and Venice, never acquiesced; they were sacked by Napoleon. Modern Italy rose from the ashes. Venice never got over it.
Google and the Age of Privacy Theater
>but on the other hand it seemed that their insights were always communicated in the most impenetrable writing.

It's French writing, period-appropriate (50s to 70s), aimed at Europeans.

Anglosaxons need not apply, or at least YMMV.

French (and Italian, etc) students at the time, especially the phisolophical/politically inclined ones, ate such books for breakfast (and were familiar with the cultural references, often spaning millenia, from Homer and pre-socratics to Heidegger and John Ford).

Good luck with today's students...
a lot of M.2 2280 NVME SSD still being sold on the market are PCI-E 3.0. it is interesting to see its benchmarks against the samsung and other top tier competitors.
The Return of the Face
There has to be a reason for subscription, as in continued incremental value, cloud data storage and sharing, some sort of server backend that incurs monthly cost to run and so on.

Just slapping a subscription to a regular desktop application doesn't make sense.

Also, bundling is not a justification for a subscription, especially if one only cares about a single application. This is similar to the music albums which have already undergone unbundling and no one wants to see a bundling where there is no benefit to the consumer.
Please be wary of undertones of racism in these discussions as they attract white supremacists (see "Great Replacement").

Yes, birth rates are well below replacement levels for white people all throughout the world: Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand.

But this is a good thing. In some African countries, women average over 7 births. And there is no reason why we cannot welcome millions of these people into those previously "white nations", simultaneously solving the global problems of racism, African overpopulation, and European underpopulation. And, of course, there are many Asian countries from where we can source millions of new compatriots also, such as China and India.

If anyone has a problem with this or complains about the possibility of the "extinction of indigenous Europeans", "replacement of their people in their ancestral homelands" or any other rubbish conspiracies like that, remember they are paranoid racists.
> My family’s genealogical book was mandated to be destroyed in the 1960s, hence I won’t able to tell my grandchildren which character was selected for his kids as my grandparents wasn’t able to recall the remaining.

That sucks to hear. Don’t lose hope though. Does your family still remember which exact clan you belong to? There might have been expat members or ones who fled to Taiwan/HK/Macau and have a copy of the book.
WebExtension support is ‘on their roadmap’ (thanks dang for the discussion and so much else): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25972374
Thanks so for the clarification! That's great, I'm looking forward to using the tool.
> they should have figured out a way to back that stuff up.

That's incredibly naive. Not everyone has a Comp-Sci degree. Not all specialised programs will allow users access to the data easily. Even if they do, the student/staff may not be knowledgeable enough to back it up. The data may be multiple gigabytes in size or greater... There are lots of reasons why local data exists like this.
Hmm - I've changed the URL to that from https://www.mdeditor.tw/pl/2ZsX. (Thanks!) Was that latter copying your content from somewhere?

Also - if you want a different title we can change it.
Not my field but the other difference is 1500 hp at 2,400 rpm. The low max rpm is because it needs to match the propeller design speed and needs to be efficient at near full power.
Sometimes I used old computers because they appeared functional enough. Not so long ago I used a computer from late 2000s and it was a quite normal user experience on Linux (on lightweight window manager of course) with a small exception of web browser. Amount of scripts and data on modern sites caused problems, made whole OS hang often. If only JS was turned off, no problem.
I think this is mainly about the fact that the code was still in there. Disabled, sure, but it kinda indicates that it got quite close to going into the version that shipped.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210320221007/https://apxhard.c...
I’m in the Bay Area and see since F-150 every time we go on the 101. That being said I would guess some cheap Honda or Toyota is way more popular. Maybe they just have more different models.

Looking at the data is looks like gm sells most, with Toyota, Ford, and FCA battling for second.
A single standard cocktail (gin martini, manhattan, etc.) will have around 2-2.5 oz hard liquor (40% ABV) and 0.5-1 oz fortified wine (15%-20% ABV). Most other standard cocktails will have a similar amount of alcohol. There are lighter cocktails and I’m not including the watered down cocktails you might get at a cheap resort.

Unless you’re drinking a pint of a 14% Belgian tripel, they won’t be equivalent.
Interesting - only time I've heard a rat scream from a dog killing it, it sounded exactly like a squeaky toy.

Which was a bit of a shocking realization.
Your whole argument is based on coincidences, at best. I mean, "the guy who created it was a White supremacist", OK, but the same thing is true for the internal combustion engine. Numbered theory is said to be very popular in Asian cultures, yet it was invented by a French man who probably wasn't a saint either in terms of having more or less the prejudices of his time, are they White supremacists too? Using Music theory is like using English as the tech lingua franca instead of Latin or Esperanto, it's not about imperialism, it's just too troublesome to learn and change and does the job pretty well anyway. The idea that ideas carry over all of the context of their creation is simply insane.
> a lot of M.2 2280 NVME SSD still being sold on the market are PCI-E 3.0.

That's true, but there are multiple PCI-E 4.0 available on the market for a year already, with benchmarks available too..
You can't expect that,I'm afraid. We have tens of millions of people using all sorts of 'in the cloud' thinking it's as safe, as it can possibly be. Same principle in this case. I do agree on the quality of the uni staff thought.
Absolulty nothing helpful about that video...
Are you speaking from experience? I can't fathom doing years of my life's work in a program and not even knowing where the files live. We're not talking about setting up RAID or an automatic backup system; copying the files to a flash drive once a week (heck, once a month) would have done the job. If data volume is an issue, a 1TB USB drive can be had for $50 these days.

If film students can do this (and they do; I knew some in school), I think a scientist can be expected to.
AWS is not dirt cheap. It has a great value proposition in case people have a lot more money than time/expertise/etc. (So usually for one-man army startups, or startups with unlimited VC funds that want "hypergrowth", and for very high-margin high-growth/high-volume businesses where they can make a special deal with AWS, that is Netflix.)

> If anything, AWS has democratized entrepreneurial endeavors.

More likely AWS simply made a lot of money on the race to the bottom (or top) with regards to an ever faster, fatter, fancier and shinier Web. (Now everyone needs a CDN, everyone needs many PoPs, because the market forces demand this. Of course the total costs are enormous, but due to the increased scale and decades of technological changes the unit costs have gone down.)

> Most can build on Lambdas, API Gateway, and S3.

Sure, and it's great if people are aware of what kind of workload to put where. And if they build in rate limits. Otherwise they will be surprised when they run into the classic gotchas of "how we burnt all of our seed money on AWS bills".
Fair enough, except for the assertion that I think it’s thoughtful because I agree with it. I’ve read plenty of articles that I didn’t agree with that I would call thoughtful. Frankly, that is supposed to be the draw of articles on HN - that they’re culled such that the ones you might not agree with still provoke thought and engage the subject meaningfully. I think it’s a bit presumptuous to make “thoughtful” and “agrees with” synonymous.
There's shitty managers and there's shitty HR. The existence of one doesn't preclude the existence of the other.

I'd tell you to stand up for yourself if that's happening to you, but it won't matter because HR isn't on your side anyway.
That is fantastic to hear!

It's a really compelling project, with webextension support I could easily see myself moving over to a scriptable browser built on something like Servo.
> dealing with IT at a university must be a nightmare.

I know someone who does this. The answer to this immovable mountain of a problem is an unstoppable force -- throw students at the problem.
>Chomsky had a saying about postmodernism in general: most of their ideas are either absurd or trivial.

Chomsky is an American linguist academic with limited understanding or knowledge of continental philosophy. His comment amounts to some rube saying Asian food is not "proper food" like meatballs, apple pies, and pizza.

>For example, take moral relativism: it's either a trivial observation - that different cultures have different notions of exactly what is moral or not; or it is an absurd idea, that morality means nothing and you are as justified to pick a flower as you are to rip another human's arms.

Both statements are true, and neither is trivial or absurd. The first, supposedly trivial, has seen the opposite idea taken for granted time and again.

And as for the second claim, under the right circumstances those saying that "morality means something" would still be ripping people's arms and feeling good while doing it, if that was the prevailling morality.

In the US South, for example, people didn't feel "bad" for owning slaves and/or treating them like cattle. They felt like honorable members of society. The Inquisition who burned people alive didn't felt much differently either.

So, yeah, morality means nothing as a general guiding principle that would prevent "ripping people's arms off" being moral.
86box is a fork of PCem (though it does get updates with new stuff from it) with IMO a nicer UI. If you are on Linux you ca use PCem instead.
That's pretty reasonable! I'm in Brooklyn and the garage by me is $500/month. Which is part of why I don't own a car.
but look at the benchmarks for this drive versus the Samsung 980 Pro 1TB.

both are selling at $199 from newegg right now...

but the WD sn850 blows away the 980 pro in nearly every benchmark.

I still have a greater degree of trust in Samsung for reliability and greatly exceeding their specified write-endurances (torture tests of MLC samsungs from 3 years ago illustrate that for a desktop workstation, you would have to REALLY abuse them to ever run into the write endurance problem).
Even with it's big performance gains, optane is still well ahead in almost every benchmark.

Shame more manufacturers don't make that type of drive
On my first computer,I managed to format the wrong partition. Nearly year's worth of stuff was gone. Later on did something equally stupid and lost all the photos I had from my teen years. Now I've got copies of my photos on AWS, OneDrive, portable HDD, and the laptop, and I still panicking what if Amazon would go bust kind of things.
I... guess. But if the inquirer chooses the other firm simply on the fact that they responded faster, do you really want to work with them?

I’m fairly certain Goldman Sachs doesn’t have to do any (bottom of the) barrel scraping.
How tech giants court and crush the people who study them
Whether concave or tubular, thick or thin, al dente, mushy, crisp or in-between,

All pasta tastes better cooked in water

That is salted to taste like the sea
Pound for pound, it's hard to think of a more effective hunter than a cat.

Their skill set is absurd.

Absolutely silent, leap multiple times their body length, jaws & claws, climb, extremely agile / flexible and fast.
Cruelty-free wheat makes me wonder what the normal stuff tastes like.

This whole thread is sounding like a Better Off Ted episode[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/HnXfLGcENnI
It's nice of Apple to license/allow/overlook this, whatever the case is.

Adobe is going after 27 year old historic artifacts.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26474032