skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the friction of using vpn is too high

The friction of using VPN is not much higher than getting an internet connection in the first place: some initial setup and then keep paying for your subscription.

> if youtube, google, twitter, facebook etc. can directly access the chinese market, their local counterparts will not survive

That's assuming those services are obviously better, so that people will switch. Otherwise, everyone will keep using what they're familiar with.

YouTube is freely available in Japan, but that hasn't killed Niconico. WhatsApp is freely available in Korea, but KakaoTalk remains king. Bing is freely available in China (albeit censored) but half a dozen Chinese search engines keep sticking around.

The globally dominant tech companies got where they are today by being the fastest to introduce users to a novel product, but there are plenty of local markets where a competitor was faster. Now that those products aren't revolutionary anymore, there won't be any rapid changes in market share, only slow shifts. (Consider Chrome vs. Firefox: Chrome has more users, but Firefox is only declining very slowly.)
It looked to me like they all basically agreed with each other. I have no idea how its possible to escalate that.
I've been using Arch/Fedora with i3 and us-intl keyboard layout (plus xmodmap customizations).

After 5+ months, the shortcut (involving control/option/command instead of ctrl/alt) and keyboard layout (for characters like äöüß»«) still drives me crazy. Daily. It's super hard to re-train your muscle memory regarding complex shortcuts from IDEs such as VS Code and IntelliJ. I've found myself to rather use the mouse for certain tasks because I cannot recall the correct shortcut.

In those 5 months, I've probably installed 5 macOS upgrades each requiring >6GB download and >30min installation time.

Besides that, I'm very happy with the hardware: overall quality, great touchpad, great performance, no fan in the MacBook Air.
TD Digest #178 – Let's Get Moving
Where in that comment does it advocate for personal harm? It seems to me to be an entirely valid (if somewhat extreme) ideological viewpoint about cloud computing applied to a product. This is absolutely a _reasonable_ critic, it's just that their criticism is fundamentally non-constructive because, by their analysis, the entire business model is in violation of some goodness criteria. Haters exist, but haters are fanatical. That threat had pretty much exclusively well reasoned and argued analysis, even if that analysis was remarkably critical.
The license covers the code, not the trademark. You can use the code/software as long as you observe the license, you can use the trademark as long as you follow the rules set out by the trademark owner. E.g. you can totally use the code to make your own audio editor and distribute it, but the trademark terms might not allow you to call it "Audacity".
https://www.audacityteam.org/copyright/

> The name “Audacity” is a registered trademark.

It's a regular trademark - it's been acquired.

The trademark isn't covered by the GPL.
That comment does not wish personal harm on the product's creator.
That applies to EEA members too.
I am sure many of these people will land on their feet, but I would absolutely not hire someone who quit their last position because they were told to stop talking about politics at work.

Is there any place where you can exist, in 2021, without having political viewpoints crammed down your throat?

Some people just want to work. If you want to change the world go do it outside of business hours.
> I think the centralization plus trusting a company is the issue,

I think that's not the issue at all. The problem is simply scale. Currently, about 5000 videos are uploaded to YT every minute. If just 0.1% of them have any potential copyright issues, that's 5 potentially complex cases per minute or 7200 per day.

No amount of human review will be able to decide this in a timely manner. The piano teacher's case is just the simplest of scenarios and you'd have to expect the vast majority being "fair use" cases, which are incredibly hard to decide.

Free an in freedom ultimately results in users being sued directly (see torrent networks) and I'm not at all convinced that that's any better.
> I’m currently using ArchLinux with i3WM highly customizable with shortcuts

If it's for work and sticking to defaults isn't your thing, then you're not going to enjoy it. You'll end up using it as a proxy to do stuff in Linux one way or another. Assuming you at least tried Hackintosh or macOS VM before to even consider it.

Personally I'm using Solus and as far as GUI goes it's pretty much vanilla Budgie, it's command line stuff that is somewhat tailored for me, that's all. I've been on the extremes and this is what I ended up with, customizing things is tiresome and a massive time-sink.
Thank you. That makes perfect sense. I wasn't aware of how exactly EV app certificates work out inpractice as I have never shipped a desktop app.
The hosting issue is orthogonal: register a domain ($4-$15), rent a Linux VPS ($5/month), install Apache. Then, learn how to use the video embed tag (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/vi...). Use ffmpeg to convert the videos to the format and size you want them in, upload with rsync. That's it.
Of course you will suffer. With any new release of the OS (and you will have to upgrade if you want to be a part of the ecosystem) they will change things as they like and in unexpected ways. If you're bent on doing things your own way, you will never win.
I'm pretty satisfied with yabai for a tiling window manager. https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
The trademark.
Good thinking, although I'd be a little wary about making a clear distinction between those two classes of device.

It'd seem both theoretically and practically possible to engineer hardware that could enable and disable certain optimizations and extensions dynamically.

(note that energy consumption may also be a related factor here)
Seriously? You—and most of your co-workers—have never mention that you wished you had more vacation time with your peers? Or that the work week should be shorter? Or that your bosses have it too good relative to you?

I have never worked in a place where we don’t discus these things periodically.

I don’t have kids but I have witnessed my peers in previous jobs say stuff like: “I wished school hours would be more accommodating to those of us that work shifts.” Which is a political statement about the strict nature of how we run schools.
I think it can but in a very different way. When I burnout from something I like working on, I want to work more but just don’t have the energy to do it. In cases where I’m not passionate and I’m doing something stemming from a place of need, not only is my energy depleted but my stress levels rise, I won’t be able to think properly about the problem, I get obsessive about finishing work at the cost of quality, etc
Love this game. It indeed was an inspiration for my comment. I won’t spoil anything but there is one moment in particular..,,
*succumb
The best advice I can make here is "try it!" :)

You can buy an M1 MacBook Air to try, and return it to Apple within two weeks if you don't like it (or want to switch to another model like the pro).
I agree with you remembering shortcuts especially I find my self browsing forums SO or unix stack exchange on optimizing my workflow with shortcuts but in the end remembering those shortcuts is work unless you use them everyday
> because so much of the ecosystem just works in a way that you will never experience with Linux

I do Linux kernel development.

Will that _just work_ on a Mac too?
If the validity of your point relies very much on this:

given it’s been reviewed by the following, it seems like they all are so detached from reality that they cannot objectively provide meaningful feedback

...you're not on very solid ground.

Austen Allred was living out of his car and showering at the YMCA just a few years ago. Patrick Collision is from an ordinary family in Ireland, and Harj Taggar is from an ordinary family in England. Daniel Gackle is a humble employee of YC, and is routinely attacked in the course of doing his job. Even Trevor Blackwell, Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris and PG were "ordinary" people until having success with Viaweb (except JL) and then YC, not all that long ago. So they all know what it's like to be nobodies trying their best against all odds, even if they (at least some of them) are not in that place any more.

As for this:

the best voice is everybody’s voice

True this may be, but perhaps the most important difference between those who make a big impact and the rest of us the ability to be undeterred by the reflexive hate we inevitably attract when we use our voice to share something novel. With this in mind, perhaps the key to benefiting from more people's creative energy is to dial down the hate and be more encouraging towards anyone who is attempting to make a valuable difference.
Auth0 4/20/21 Postmortem [pdf]
WTO terms are designed specifically to extract profits and prevent independent development. Refusing such terms comes with sanctions, coups and sometimes invasions. The US army are ultimately the enforcers of this exploitation.

Solar panels are quite useful in many poor countries, actually. But indeed much more is needed in terms of means of production: agricultural equipment, infrastructure, factories, etc. Expertise and technology (which are restricted by IP laws) are also needed. All of this is what the Belt and Road Initiative does.

If you look at it over time, the poor countries only get poorer over time. It may not be a zero sum game, but development is actively prevented. The only exceptions are countries where workers have at least some control over the state.

That’s where the solution lies: ending the control of capitalists over the world. The poor countries have succeeded a few times with good results, but the rich countries doing it would have a much bigger impact.
I don't know about UlimateGuitar though. I have found their constant push to signup for pro account quite annoying.
Author here. I agree. I've added the feature you've requested as a -M INT flag in https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/commit/1966369e8eaa894b... and pushed a new 0.4.1 release to the website https://justine.lol/redbean/index.html
This particular case is about a copyrighted "melody" and not the performance. Sheet music would cover this.
It’s absurd people dumping on Taiwan don’t realise this. There is no way for Taiwan to compete with CCPs deep pockets if the CCP has decided it needs these engineers at all costs.
> As for no more dwelling on past decisions, that is the same thing as Intel's cultural value of "Disagree, but then commit." Basically, debate fiercely but then once a decision is made, commit to to it even if it didn't go your way and move on. This is a key part of being a team player.

Hmm... Does (or should) "Disagree, but then commit" contain a corollary of "...and let's look at it again in X months/years"?

I mean, if you do argue for something, say some particular technical solution, but the decision goes against you, and you do actually accept and commit to the outcome... Is this commitment eternal?

If, say, you're still convinced the programming language / framework / style you originally advocated would be a better fit for your team / department / company, are you bound to shut up forever or can you raise it again at some point in the future? And if you can re-raise it, then when -- is there some general waiting period for stuff like this, or should it perhaps be an explicit addendum to every decision?

N.B: Not asking for myself, just a hypothetical that I find interesting... OK, come to think of it, perhaps actually asking for myself after all: I haven't been turned down on any such suggestion... Yet, but am thinking about raising one. And if I get a "No" at first, how long do I go on nagging / wait before I remind everyone of it?
In theory no more or less informed than anyone else in the discussion. This is a discussion forum: we all have as much or as little right to comment here as anyone else taking part in this conversation.
People who are passionate about something would most likely like to recruit new people to their cause. Working for an NGO is a dead end as everyone is already on the same page there.
The anonymity/distance of the internet leads to rudeness, but that's not a good reason to dismiss a valid criticism. Dismissing those people as haters is just enclosing yourself in a bubble.

If you're going to be launching stuff on the internet, you gotta have a thick skin for rudeness and personal insults. No amount of passive aggressive blog posts is going to change that fundamental aspect of the web/human nature.
I think that more accurate would be saying is that OSS is often developed by people already using it and used to weird interface and not benefiting from it being usable by newbies.

So there is much smaller motivation to improve it.

And avoiding change for the sake of change is something that I actually like. One of reasons why I switched to LibreOffice and later to Linux is because I am not fan of relearning interface without a good reason.

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But nearly every software would benefit from running small scale UX test. Take three people, ask them to do the most basic tasks - and fix the most common problems.

Your software is much harder to use than you expect.
That comment is not wishing for "personal harm to a new product's creator." It's wishing that the market rejects a business. There's a deeply reasoned argument in that comment about the merits of the business model and it is anti-intellectual to dismiss it the way you would dismiss unhinged claims for violence.

I understand that a side effect of a business failing is that the people working for the business lose their jobs. But if anything, that argument would apply primarily to the employees of the new product, not the creator. The creator understands that a new business is a venture - an attempt, not a guarantee - and that for many reasons it could fail.

And, more generally, it seems like an awful slippery slope to characterize wanting some other business to not succeed as a desire to harm anyone. Suppose I agree with Suhail's goals but also I think I can execute on the idea better and I start a competitor. If there's only enough room in the market for one winner, and I want to be that winner, am I now wishing harm on Suhail too? Suppose I start a business that competes with some old-school giant ripe for disruption. Am I attempting to cause personal harm to the C-suite of that business?

This is exactly what people are concerned about with Paul's article. Once you get comfortable painting some critics as "haters," it's easy to dismiss all critics that way. Haters and fanboys do not spring up from the quantum foam; they might not present their arguments in the best way, but if you have an overwhelming number of one or the other, there's quite possibly a reason for it.
Spectre seems pretty hard to exploit in practice judging by the almost complete lack of observations in the wild (lots of PoCs you read about, but most won't work with standard mitigations enabled, and I haven't heard of any actual reports of usages beyond PoC toys, but I expect somebody to point to one shortly, of course :-P). Also, spectre is vulnerable to all kinds of mitigations, which vary and are in use, and change - all of which leaves a system vulnerable, but makes the engineering challenge of an exploit greater, and less transferable between systems. And not just the mitigations are varied, the exploit themselves may need to take into account CPU trivia; not every CPU leaks the same way.

But even supposing you pull all that off - spectre needs not just some entropy leakage, but also a way to put that entropy in context. Knowing a few random bits in some other processes memory space won't do you much good; you'll need to know something about how that process is working to interpret those bits and target the slow leakage, which is again pretty situational.

Finally, you need some way to check for indirect behavior changes, and typically that means timers. Those aren't directly available in WASM, and aren't as easy to replicate using other means as in a normal process; e.g. wasm doesn't even have fully capable shared-memory threads for exactly this reason (there's a proposal, and chrome feature flag, so you can play with it, but that's it); and other tricks to get reliable timers like via SharedArrayBuffer have been tweaked to avoid attack surface. But note: that's the case for WASM, but not for a classic OS program, even one running in a VM.

I'm not sure how much of a threat spectre is in practice, but clearly WASM is aware of it and avoiding features that would increase exposure, even very valuable stuff like threads.
It reaks of fu money to me. Not everyone can afford this kind of move.
I feel like we have a lot to learn from past philosophers on this topic. To Cicero I would add Seneca, especially in his "moral letters to lucillius" in which he very often discuss life, death, meaning, &c.

It basically goes over all the points mentioned in the article but in greater detail, a few of my favorite quotes:

> You wish to live; well, do you know how to live? You are afraid to die. But come now: is this life of yours anything but death? It matters not how long the action is spun out, but how good the acting is.

> A person like him has not lived; he has merely tarried awhile in life. Nor has he died late in life; he has simply been a long time dying. He has lived eighty years, has he? That depends upon the date from which you reckon his death! ... Nay, he has existed eighty years, unless perchance you mean by "he has lived" what we mean when we say that a tree "lives."

> Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardships of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
> The article does have more substance, for example exploring where the hate comes from. Of course, it does not seem relevant to you, because all you see from haters is a bit of flaming on forums. For famous people, this is a big pain point and worth the many words.

Actually you are right. It does cover off a bit on the source, and I brushed these points off as “common knowledge”, probably because I’m not affected by it so I assimilated that information when reading the article without attributing more value to it.

I still think it’s devoid of meaningful information, but that’s just a personal view on it, I can now further appreciate that it’s not a decisive “this is a bad article” to “others may take a different view on it”.
I’d probably describe myself as in the centre, but who knows what that means anymore? I relate somewhat to the parent comment.
Potentially, yes. There are different types of licences [0] and depending on your use of copyrighted material, it may require a license to publish it legally.

[0] https://www.bmi.com/licensing/entry/types_of_copyrights
Personally I agree with this youtube video by Linus Tech Tips https://youtu.be/ljApzn9YWmk

I think the M series chips could be the new standard. However, I am skipping this generation. The Gen 1 products by Apple have historically been under supported and left in the dust after the next generation comes out. I would wait if I were you.
UltimateGuitar is a horrible website full of dirty UX to force certain behaviors and block others. You wanted to zoom in on a tab? That's a paid subscription feature! Trying to browse on your phone while at a practice session with your band? Download our app, so we can track you, show you ads and prevent other basic functionality! They're constantly changing these and implementing new paywalls and ways to ruin their product while the core experience of tabs never improves.

It survives only because of platform effects.

I'm not holding out much hope for Audacity.
> Learn to live with the built-in terminal unless you absolutely must use iTerm

Why?
You’d be surprised at what some people consider political. In some parts of the US acknowledging the severity of the pandemic and admitting to getting vaccinated for covid would be considered political.
Why advise against iTerm?
> 1: Demand that it's attached to the hot water (machine need less power to heat it up, less chalk...AND Cheaper(your boiler is better at producing hot water))

Most machines actually specify that the water entering the unit has to be at least 49C. To meet this you usually have to run the hot water on the kitchen sink—which then wastes water. (And may be where people get the mistaken idea for pre-washing: they're running the sink anyway.)

AFAICT, the only brand that can officially be connected to the cold water (10C) supply is Miele, which have an internal heater. And the official specs show that they actually use less overall power with cold water. This is probably because (a) some of the cycle can use cold water, and (b) a smaller quantity overall needs to be heated up compared to running the tap. It does take longer, time-wise (~30m), though; see page 45:

* https://www.miele.com/pmedia/ZGA/TX2070/10544640-000-03_1054...
> What happens if you want to discuss a disputed nation?

You don’t?

> Banning politics is impossible because everything in life has some hand in politics.

Hard disagree. You can talk about how houses are too expensive right now without someone getting political about why. It’s simple. Just don’t get political.
I am philosophically against paying companies doing their best to screw customers over.

Check out what Louis Rossmann has to say about Apple hardware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8
My first masters was in mechanical engineering, in the field of what ~40yrs ago was known as "Thermal Engines" (internal combustion engines, turbines, etc.). I have long departed the field (~90s), for CS (degree and work in the field, accordingly), but this article felt truly like a lost love one remembers all details about, with all good memories flooding the brain from way back... thank you!!
Not a Mac fan but you don't test kernel changes in a VM?
This wave is showing that it was Dumb luck that made it possible to handle last year.

> It's easy in hindsight

In a whole year of time to prepare, with examples in numerous nations, who could possibly have fathomed that a rapidly mutating virus would evolve to overcome the immunological barriers presented in India?

Many people! Not only were experts and opposition members warning about a possible disastrously second wave, we even have district collectors who acted on such fears.

And it is apparent today, to normal people, that creating reserves of oxygen, vaccine and preparation was possible last year. It is entirely the failure of this government to instead have indulged in its beliefs of "naturopathy, homeopathy, unani, cow urine" and the rest.

Not to mention, this is Modi being hoisted on his own petard. He has built a system that bows to him, waits for his decisions and his action. He has built that image and acted according to it. He has weakened every independent body and applied pressure everywhere.

So if he is adding his image to COVID vaccine certificates, is it also not his charge to have protected the country from this disaster?
"Says who?"

Says everyone who runs a business.

Ask any of them if their business could function without this sorting of people - hiring the good and firing the mistakes - and they'll all say no.

So that's who. Pretty much everyone who knows what they're talking about.
Blade servers seem like an efficient solution in terms of area and volume used, and there's probably a lot more to explore in the concept.
Technology Connections has got you covered:

> Ever wonder how dishwashers work? Are you ever bummed by the performance of yours? Well, this video can answer your question and possibly provide you with a solution!

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBO8neWw04