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>For “greatest comment” I was thinking of cmdrtaco’s comment about the iPod

In fairness, it probably wasn't obvious that Apple had a hit until the 4th generation iPod in 2004. (iTunes didn't even run on Windows to support earlier models when they were released.)
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No surprise, Nginx has much better performance on handling large site and heavy traffic than other web servers. Since it’s required more knowledge and experience to setup and do configurations, that make lots of beginners step away. But time will prove cream always rises to the top.
> I don't know what culture you're from. But in North America engagement rings are worn as every day jewellery. So it gets used daily.

After the wedding?
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Maybe. The two biggest consumers (apple and google) of touch id like components won't buy from someone else. So the opportunity is quite small. And it's too expensive for a small company that might just want to build a consumer door lock.

Apple also acquired patents when they bought AuthenTec. So it might be tough even with unlimited money.

Consolidation problems are never an outright ban like a law would be. But raising the cost of entry is just as effective.
> It can also be done by the employees by slacking off on surplus.

Can't argue with that, given that we're having this conversation while I, at least, am on the clock. However, I suspect my bosses have a much greater capacity to benefit from cannibalizing the company than I do.
I once had a 20-drive NAS with 1 TB Samsung Spinpoints F1s.

The NAS is replaced but I still have the drives just for labbing / testing purposes.

I never had a drive failure during the lifetime of the NAS. Probably because it was off most of the time and only powered-on with wakeonlan when needed.

So those drives don’t have many hours on them. But recently they started dying. I lost 3 of them this year during some tests.

Imagine that these drives are probably 10+ years old.

Age does seem to matter.

Obviously this is a small uncontrolled sample but it seems that you really should keep this in mind when you run a NAS at home. Keep an eye on the SMART parameters as suggested by Backblaze and really consider replacing drives at some point. I would be afraid that drives do start dying at the same time due to age.
I’ve seen this thrown around by Jordan Peterson and his fans but I’ve never met anyone, regardless of how crazy their ideology was, advocate for equality of outcomes outside of basic necessities. I’m convinced it’s a strawman.
it's like what? 10-15 years now?
Even more Darwinianly: if you can't have sex, nature dictates your dna, and the life it produced, is actually worthless.
The problem with the definition of equality within the modern feminist movement is that it does not make allowance for the social power that females intrinsically have over men. In particular it completely ignores that, as in the vast majority of sexually dimorphic species, women are (at social scales) effectively the gatekeepers of the bedroom, and this gives females massive influence over male behavior. The dominant socially acceptable view of equality therefore is markedly unequal, and quite self serving as the "ideal" balance of power within the feminist framework becomes rather lopsided.
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I'm glad to hear you found it. That's the kind of company I would want to work for; even one I would want to start! Oh, excuse me, I apologize: I almost said the taboo "lifestyle business" words!

Seriously though they sound like a gem.
That's one bitter truth about life: (almost) everyone needs some amount of physical intimacy to be happy, but it's not something anyone is entitled to. Those of us who have access to that are privileged.

I agree with the author though. IMO the existence of so many "incels" is some expression of a real societal problem. Many young men are suffering, and we don't acknowledge their suffering as genuine. We just tell them that they suck, call them names and walk away. This can cause them to become more radicalized.

I was raised by a mentally ill single mom, on welfare. In many ways, my emotional maturity really lagged behind that of other guys. I didn't know how to make friends, let alone how to approach women or form a healthy relationship. I did eventually manage, but it took me years of learning during my 20s. When I was a young man, I struggled with some pretty bitter feelings myself, and I feel like society didn't make it easy to overcome them. Even today, the not so ambiguous message that society sends to young men is: if you can't get women, it's entirely your fault, because you are not enough. It just adds insult to injury, particularly when you're really missing closeness and understanding, when you feel alone and wounded.

IMO, the modern discourse around gender only really goes one way. We hear about women's issues everyday, but even in 2021, it's no more okay for men to talk about the challenges they face than it was in the 1950s. Men are told to just suck it up, and that's a huge part of the problem. If feminism is really about gender equality, then it needs to allow some room for men to talk about their issues and concerns as well, without fear of judgment. I would also like to see words other than "toxic" being used to describe masculinity.
Well what kind of game is it then?

The world feels totally dead, so it doesn't scratch any itch of mine like a GTA game does. The world is pretty, yes, but it doesn't feel alive, and the poor mechanics make it hard to cover that gap. If they'd nailed the gameplay loop I would at very least approach it like the way I approach most Assassin's creed games, basically a historical-experience to wander around in.

The actual story, meh, not great not terrible. I already didn't rate Keanu Reeves very highly, in this game I thought he sounded positively comatose, which further put me off what I thought was a fairly uninspired experience. I was excited at the beginnings of the story, specifically I was interested in a depiction of the corpo side of things, but this was not to be.

As an RPG? Fallout New Vegas set the bar 11 years ago now.

All in all, I didn't like it very much, however I wouldn't have bothered to write this if I didn't want it to be good. There are so many little details and niggles, that are half-done that could've made it a masterpiece.
I'm only doing anonymous donations these days. Too many places do not respect your request to not be contacted in the future.
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I had a quick look at how they are set up and I like what they are doing from the point of view of actually creating an OSS community. I don't actually know much about what they do as I'm not one of their users. Judging this purely from a "does this make sense as an OSS company" point of view.

- License: MIT. Great pragmatic choice. Generally a good fit for not obstructing your users to actually use, copying, modifying, etc. your code. Too many OSS startups play games with this and end up going for something too restrictive. IMHO not having copyright transfers is the key to longevity for any OSS community. It basically progressively removes re-licensing as an option as more contributors would have to agree to such a thing. Most long lived oss projects have long lists of contributors and no history of license changes past an early stage of their development. Also, MIT is very compatible with just about anything in the ecosystem. Given their stated goal of being good OSS citizens, that's a hard requirement.

- Contributing.md: no mention of copyright transfers. Also they have close to twenty contributors. I assume this means the license will stay as it is and there are no plans to change that. Great! This is key to building a successful open source community with people actually contributing as well as using the code. It also ensures the code can survive acquisitions, bankruptcies, mismanagement of the company, etc. Committing to this upfront is important and a big step.

- Community: There are seventeen contributors, most of which are not employees (I assume). And they probably integrate a lot of other libraries/tools.

- Explicit stated goal that affirms the above: "The company exists to support the open source project, not the other way around.".

That does raise a few question marks around valuation and ways to profit from this. I'm curious about their plans for adding value in the form of services on top of this. I assume this means some cloud based services and/or support contracts with consultancy. But then, it's good to remove the nuclear option (relicensing) from the table early on to create clarity for developers and investors that this is just not that sort of company.

It's smart from a business point of view as well because most of what they do will come from outside the company anyway. The nature of the javascript community is people rapidly iterating on tools, libraries, etc. and forking left right and center as needed. So, a lot of value is going to be added through people doing exactly that. You can work with them or against them. With them is the smarter option.
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Those thousands of cores are all much more simple and do not have simd and have a huge penalty for branching. There are problems for which GPUs and CPUs are roughly equally well suited. GPUs have their cons.
It feels more bolted on than in, say, REBOL, where there aren’t separate macros because functions can selectively take any or all of their arguments unevaluated, as a value but not fully evaluated, or fully evaluated.

(Which isn’t to say the Lisp way is worse; there’s strengths and weaknesses of both.)
I switched to second-hand Android phone from my Nokia C3 last year, never used a smartphone before that. I struggled a little bit with easy accessibility of browser / telegram / instagram, so I found a way to make a phone a little dumber.

1. Buy an Android phone (you can probably make the same thing on IPhone with jail-break, but I don't have any experience).

2. Remove all social media apps: Instagram / Twitter / whatever app you struggling with.

3.
Download adb https://www.xda-developers.com/install-adb-windows-macos-lin... and execute those lines

./adb uninstall --user 0 com.android.chrome

./adb uninstall --user 0 com.android.vending (Google Play Store)

Some functionality in some apps won't be available, if it requires redirect to the browser tab / Google Play Services, but it's a price to pay for having dumb-phone functionality on the smartphone.

You can still install Google Play once in a while to update apps via

./adb install -d --user 0 COM_ANDROID_VENDING_APK_FILE

update/install new apps and then repeat step (3) from above.
You have a point, but in this case the author of the article says:

> I was a bit of an oddity in that I was anticipating marriage since early adolescence; that outsized-value for relationships came with what I feel were comparably overgrown feelings of loneliness. I got absurdly lucky when I found my wife, but I spent every day without her more or less miserable. It’s arguable she’s the only reason I’m able to be happy.

So it's not old age, but youth in his case that was unhappy until he met his wife. That does look like a red flag to me. Suppose his marriage goes south, will his (ex) wife now be responsible of not only ending the marriage, but also of ending all possible happiness in his life? That's an unreasonable burden to place on her.
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That happened constantly in the Danish country side when I grew up. My dad and grandfather had to check up on one neighbor in particular pretty frequently, otherwise he grab half a meter of our field every other year or so.

Despite not having lived on the farm for 25 year my mom and dad are often brought out to help settle dispute regarding property lines.

Technically everything is mapped out and moving a post or plowing a wrong part of the field doesn’t change ownership, but some of the maps are old and reference point are no longer where they once where.
True, but there are simply more people and industries economically hurt than helped by it.
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Banner Bear is an amazing tool. But I'm looking for open source alternative for that.
On the flip flip side, no one owes anyone anything (except bodily integrity). You aren't entitled to a partner who does a certain number of hours of chores; you aren't entitled to a specific or any job title; you aren't entitled to a particular lifestyle; you aren't entitled to respect and admiration. That doesn't mean the only valid approach is to criticize people who systemically have a harder time reaching those things and feel frustrated by it.

We can simultaneously tell individuals to work on self-improvement to get themselves out of tough situations while also recognizing that society can do things to make life fairer and better for everybody.
EDIT to add: the best explanation that I've heard for the feeling men have of basic unhappiness without romance and sex is toxic masculinity; the general societal rejection of deep emotional relationships between straight men. Lonely? Make strong friendships! Spend your time with other men who like you and enjoy your company and validate you. A partner is not a replacement for the natural circle of close friends humans are supposed to have. I'll be honest that I'm not the best at doing this, to my own detriment, but I think it's basically the solution.

I don't agree with this. The desire to bone isn't 'toxic masculinity' and isn't something easily substituted with more friends (unless they are of the "with benefits" variety). In me, at least, it is a distinct and real feeling of need without easy substitutes. More friends may lead to more romantic opportunities, sure, but that is indirect and subject to circumstance.
Also -- another observation, if I might...

I know HN. I know HN very well, since I've been here a long time...

Articles might have a lot of activity if they reach they reach the top of the first page on HN -- but they rapidly fall off from there.

Like, it's almost one of these "inverse square" laws...

When they fall off, and especially when they're a day old or so (like this article is) -- then usually there's very little activity on that article.

No one reads them, no one posts, no one comments, no one cares...

Yet, yet, when I posted my previous comment -- within a very short time of that post -- it was downvoted...

Coincidence?

Or was the article and the messages associated with it being monitored by an AI?

In which case it would have much faster response time!

Note To Future Self:

When designing an online message board -- pay careful attention to the relative popularity of a message chain Vs. the average amount of time in which downvotes/negative comments occur...

You see, when there are downvotes or negative messages and they are posted on a non-popular message chain, one that wouldn't have much attention by the majority of people visiting the site, and especially when they occur quickly -- then that's the telltale sign that an AI or bot or other monitoring entity -- may be at work!

To the people that write disinformation bots and AI's -- you could at least, have the common courtesy to have your algorithm wait a period of time inversely related to the current popularity of the message chain you are posting on, before responding!

To the degree that that's not done (and it apparently isn't!) -- I (a human!) can guess that an AI is at work! <g>
The framing here is off. It’s fair to say that catching up with Apple is next to impossible. This has absolutely nothing to do with monopolies, and everything to do with their velocity.

The idea that we have to somehow overthrow Apple in order to build better things is the problem.

Ironically Apple itself had this problem when Steve jobs returned. Microsoft was seen as the ‘problem’ to be overcome and thinking that way prevented Apple from seeing what else was possible.

Jobs explicitly rejected this kind of thinking “We have to stop thinking that in order for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose.”

The same holds true now - we need to stop thinking that in order for others to win, Apple has to lose.

Apple’s solutions are not the only possible solutions. We don’t have to mimic them.
I think the word "only" is key in that sentance.
Will PG be committing tax fraud when he writes off this 'donation'?

He is receiving in exchange a token when notionally has the same value as his 'donation'. Being able to resell a 'donation' to someone else to recover part of the cost seems weird and like it could confuse tax treatment.
Isn't the issue with trees is that they release the carbon back after they die and decompose? You have to actually sequester carbon somehow. No idea how easy it is to do with trees (presumably you'd have to cut them and put them somewhere they don't degrade?).
Yes, but that's different. And certainly "empty nest syndrome" is a thing too, but I think there's a large difference between acclimating to a new normal and general mental/physical degradation vs starting out in this mental state in the beginning of your life.

I like doing everything with my wife. It would be hard imagining life without her! Or my kids. But I wasn't an unhappy mess before I met her.
> where in nature, life forms mostly cooperate within their species (or at least ignore each other)

This is blatantly not true. There are condiserable levels of intra-species competition in many species. Even in "cooperative" species, those animals cooperate in groups, but then those groups compete against each other. Most predators prey on a very limited subset of the ecology. You seemly cannot reliably predict inter vs intra species like you seem to think.

Also "preying on" is pretty different that "competeing with" and at the ecological scale, predation looks much more like interactions between industries than competition within an industry.

Thus the correct mapping of the analogy in this case is between ecological niches and industries.

Regarding your more general note: I think there is a trade off between efficiency and robustness. Top down heirachical structures (most companies, militaries, etc) are generally more efficient in terms of resources used but are vulnerable to broken/inefficient/disengenous nodes, especially for the higher nodes. Bottom up solutions (markets, grassroots movements, etc) tend to use more total resources but do better at dealing with bad nodes and are thus less failure prone.

I would argue that the best systems tend to layer combinations of these two types of systems.

Edit: In the US for example, we (simplistically) have a bottom up democracy that governs a top down government that regulates bottom up markets that are participated in by top down companies that increasingly rely on outsourcing core functionality to other bottom up markets that that top down particpants.
Genuine question: Isn't this equivalent to equity vs equality?
I think it's normal to be happier when you're in a relationship than when you're along, but you certainly shouldn't be completely miserable on your own.

There's a quote I read when I was younger that helped me realize this and come to find peace with my own loneliness at the time.

"Until you get comfortable being alone, you'll never know if you're choosing someone out of love or loneliness."
My pet theory is that the developed or post-industrialized world is becoming increasingly two-classed. I have had the privilege of having a decent job (being so-called "economically desirable") and decent education and was able to find someone who I think loves me for who I am, for some definition of "I am".

That being said, the "incel" problem concerns me. I think the existence of this entire class of individuals shows that the ideals of equity in gender relations, just like the ideal of equity in relations across economic classes (i.e., being equal before the law, regardless of how much money you have) is obviously a grand ideal that we cannot live up to.

I once tried talking to my girlfriend about it when the topic came up. I brought up the usual statistics that show that men graduate from college at a lesser rate than women, nowawdays. That they are more likely to die in violence or from drugs. That this compounds with the fact that the status of women in the world has generally raised (a _good_ thing!) and that the average woman wants someone who is above them on the social or economic ladder. Her response was that they had so much "male privilege" and that they have no excuse for underperforming. That, thus, they should still be _ahead_ of women, presumably, despite the goal being that they... shouldn't be. They need to pull themselves up from their bootstraps, and "man up", but we also must remember that "man up" is a problematic term that is part of "toxic masculinity".

Of course, all of this was foreseen by French novelist Houellebecq. Economic liberalization has lead to social/sexual liberation. After a period of free love things settle down and here we are. Just as most of the new income generated by later periods of economic liberalization go to the top 20%, so it is with the sexual market.

I've tried to stop moralizing it for my own mental health. Like the author, I just try to look at it with a degree of sympathy. It's complex, and it's kinda fucked up. For myself, these hard statistical realities have increasingly robbed me of the romantic impulse. Marriage to me now seems absurd. An empty, pyrrhic victory.
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Have they been giving your family trouble about it? I can't imagine causing issues with your neighbor is worth such a small piece of land.
I remember growing up in the 90s, and in the AOL Instant Messenger profiles of my friends, was commonly the quote: "You have to love yourself before you can love another." Also a lot of DMB song lyrics... it was a different time.

I remember there being a few hopeless kids in high school, but looking back there was also a lot of undiagnosed asperger's and who knows what else.

What I'm really curious about is if the number of Incels is increasing through the years, or if now the underserved mentally ill just have platforms to espouse their misery. The Incel seems to be singularly focused on sex. Companionship, shared interests, mutual respect don't seem to get any daylight in their psyche. I would like to blame the consumption of instant, abundant hard core pornography. But I don't have any data to back that claim up. I'm just thinking of a difference from the 90s (I know porn existed online back then, but come on, everyone was on dial up) versus today.
Are you equating reasonableness of the *average* person that self-identifies as feminist and the *average* men's-rights-advocate?