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You know, there is utility to letting the "quacks" talk, right?

Ever had a thought that just kept popping up in your head, that you then mentally suppress because "Dear <insert religious figure here>, how horrifying."

After doing that it keeps coming back again and again? Usually after a shorter and shorter period of time, because it becomes an indexing thought for recollections of all the times you've squashed it or thought about all the ways in which it was wrong?

Ever then talkedabout itwith someone else then had a cathartic release from the sharing, and possibly even a moment of relief that someone else besides you stumbled on <horrible thought> too?

It's the same dynamic. Just writ at a societal scale. It's why no censorship is a truly good idea. Bad ideas crop up organically as we've got a constant influx of new members of society seing the same warts, the same problems, following the same dead ends each and every one of us has. How are they to recognize a false start without being exposed to them?

The part that frightens people is that previously, you never had it possible for the whole world's population of false starters to get into one place and coordinate in real-time. You had an implicit depletion of critical mass activity that ensured the feedback loop for these ideas petered out, or remained tightly constrained to just the local nuts. The world we're in means that barrier has fallen, so everybody has to be able to cope with the entire planet's equivalent of the crazies all the time realistically.

It's a learned skill. Only practice gets you better at it, and I assure you, however good you think you are, cut the estimate in half. Odds are you've got fundamental blind spots you haven't even run into the craziness for yet.
Well it might not take them that long to hire 20 people.

And even if they couldn’t, having a smaller but more productive workforce might be a win.

Irregardless, I think they’re going to have an increase in job applications and do very well in the future
hah, let pixar hack my brain... if you/your company can also make those kind of animations then you/your company are/is allowed to hack my brain!

why do I say something like this? because if you think about the advertisements trying to hack my brain, this one looks so innocent... please don't hesitate to analyse those !
Well, if you look at a comparison graph of the countries directly adjoining India, the differences are pretty stark.

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
Sigh, if your nascent product can't sustain some basic scrutiny, than maybe, just maybe, it is not quite ready to be released worldwide. Dismissing claims as 'hateful' is a ridiculously retarded approach that could not have been envisioned in 90s. Everyone is a victim of cyberbullying now -- including poor founders, who will now have PTSD and cry themselves to bed as their ideas are being tested in real world ( which is exactly what they asked for ! ).

Maybe I just don't get it. Do I automatically get a right for praise for pitching VC on Twitter along the lines of:

"Here is a concept of our 4 dimensional quasi-pan-crypto forced into illusion matrix via blockchain to take advantage of your unused memory to store valuable pieces of information. You get paid, when you hide other people's secrets."
Why should we care if there is something fundamentally different about the world? Why do we go to school then, or why do we even bother publishing non-fictions? Your argument here is that we wouldn’t understand it at first anyway. This is a very strange anti-intellectual stance to take. If this were real, you should care because it would likely lead to a period of explosive growth for technology and science, and that directly impacts your life.
It's something else; here's the article you were looking for: https://prolost.com/blog/edr
OpenBSD 6.9 packages using IPFS
There's more cool stuff coming in this area too. For a long time there's been the virtio family of protocols for shuttling IO to something outside QEMU to handle. Originally that was always KVM and the implementation is called vhost. Then later it became clear that these same messages could be sent to another user space process to handle instead (called vhost-user). These work great for creating virtio devices in the guest. But operating systems like Windows don't have virtio device drivers in-box, so it's a little annoying.

Recently, a new protocol to replace virtio has been defined. It is modeled on vfio ioctls and currently only can forward to another user space process, so we're calling it vfio-user. With this protocol, it's possible to emulate any PCI device rather than only virtio devices. Projects like SPDK (what I work on) can now use this to present fully emulated NVMe devices into guests and back them with whatever actual storage is available (a file, something over the network, a real NVMe SSD, etc). This allows an OS, including Windows, to boot from the virtual disk using it's in-box NVMe driver. This hasn't quite made it into a QEMU release yet, but it's close!
Better terms for copyright include "imaginary property" and "bourgeoise pseudocapital."

Not only does copyright hinder creativity and infringe upon your natural right to copy, but it doesn't even benefit artists so much as companies who pay them a pittance while wielding the law as a cudgel to protect their imaginary fiefdom. The world needs less ownership, not more.
Should America worry about a Chinese CBDC?
A better question is how much plastic waste is the end user producing, and what percentage of that is the sachet.

Amdahl’s law, and what not.
The Middle East (where Jesus was born and crucified) doesn't have anything to do with the Iron Curtain and is, quite obviously, not the center either.
That’s an excellent question, and touches many other avenues of life too. Why bother with producing anything, when asset appreciation provides bigger gains with no effort needed
Sounds like good material for a Defcon talk: "How I Own A Quarter of Content on YouTube"
I'm constantly reminded that I clearly live in something of a bubble. I think I know a few people who took a plane to ride out the pandemic somewhere they saw as safer and one person who took an international trip to do some business. But that's about it. And a lot of people I know, including myself, practically live in planes normally.

Yet, while air travel is down significantly, it's not that far down. Certainly not the 95% decrease it is in my circle.
The Michigan governor had a similar issue. The lockdown was well intended, but when she opened casinos, bars, and restaurants but closed gyms, it was clear that safety was second priority.

In politics you don't get credit for trying to be good, you only get credit for succeeding.
I get the impression Oracle is killing VirtualBox through neglect.
Counterpoint: lots of money can be made if you're late to the party but have a great new spin on it. Assuming the party's big enough to accomodate multiple players, and not a natural winner-takes-all situation.
Yes, they are, and yes, there is. The claiming and counterclaiming process is independent of the merit of copyright under DMCA. Budget and risk are not part of the equation. Evaluating copyright applicability cannot be part of the equation; it’s not your content. The law specifies almost exactly what you must do with some vague concepts for interpretation (like expedient). If you don’t do those things even on an obviously bogus complaint that is otherwise properly formed, you stop having safe harbor, because those disputes are intended by the law to be handled in court and not your legal department. It’s genuinely not complicated (read OCILLA) and you should be annoyed with the law for this situation, not its subjects.

You are sharing an opinion disguised as fact. It’s a wrong one, but I get why you’d conclude it.

Source: Write DMCA policy for UGC.
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I don't think you want to talk about rust or tailwind on these kind of projects.

It might attract people with actual technical knowledge and those are not your intended audience.

You want to target (wealthy) "tech enthusiasts" who can easily be persuaded with buzzwords but are not at risk of getting distracted by "implementation details".

It's important to focus on the core revenue stream: To get them to to buy these tracks at ridiculous overpriced valuations.
In the preface leading to the final blow, Snowden says it is his personal and professional obligation to call this guy out. I think the reasons are pretty obvious.
And Kubernetes
I agree with your observation of India but note that biodegradable packaging has to be looked after or else it degrades before you’re ready. Think of flour packaged in paper: it is in fact sold that way in some places but it leaks and if it gets wet the flour is ruined.

This is a product designed for somewhat demanding conditions.

If anything your good argument really asks why a more biodegradable approach is not used in places that could afford it (I don’t mean economically but in “having the affordances for”). Western countries can manage to reliably package and use flour in biodegradable paper packages, why not other products? And the plastic bags that are a scourge upon the landscape not just of India are formthe most part not really needed.
Upload to a decentralized service like PeerTube or Odysee instead.
I’m in games so the visual element often forces this, but I’ve moved our team to making a lot of video content, both for PRs and for much of our “documentation”.

I’ve always preferred reading, and the trend to everything being on YouTube has driven me nuts, but I’m a convert to this method for a few reasons.

First, it’s fast. I can sit down and make a deep dive video in 30 minutes and not have to sit around writing and polishing documentation for hours. When the code inevitably changes, I can throw away the old video and spend another thirty minutes making a new one.

Second, I can demonstrate what the code does while offering instruction around it. If I likened it to anything, it’s like having a series of lectures to your code base rather than a textbook.

And lastly, it’s proven GREAT for on boarding a new engineer in the more complex aspects of the project. Because they can go and view thousands of PRs, 90% of which have video demonstrations or explanations, they can do a lot of self directed learning and not require nearly as much over the shoulder time with other engineers. When your team is spread across 12 hours of time zones, this is very useful.

This method isn’t a panacea, and we still keep written documentation when we need to provide a concise set of “how to’s” to other teams. But for the dev team, it’s been great.
I've been quite happy with LXD's support for VMs. Its really easy to pull an image an have a running VM with a single command.
Is there perhaps a way to make difficulty level selection sliders like you see in games but for these tools?
Good founders can accept failing if they were unable to build a product people want/need. That's hammered into you from the moment you join YC (and well before - PG has been writing essays about this since at least 2005).

This essay is not about that. It's about people who attack a product/company/founder for reasons that are not about a product's functionality but are about their own issues.

This can be presumed to be be true of a critic who actively desires to see a founder's company "crash and burn" (leading to financial damage to them and their family if they have one), rather than just thinking it would be better for the founder to change their product or company direction.
8 and 14 are not 5, and I'm also skeptical, but also not an expert in any of these areas.

For comparison, here is the "complex poetry" Plath had published at age 8 (titled simply, "Poem"):

"Hear the crickets chirping

In the dewy grass.

Bright little fireflies

Twinkle as they pass."
I want to simulate my production environment as much as I can. My production env looks like:

- Ubuntu machine + nginx installed on it (no container) + 1 Docker container with my app

- Ubuntu machine + mysql installed on it (no container)

So, sure I could run on top of my development laptop 3 Docker containers: nginx, my app, and mysql... but this is not exactly what I have on production. Whereas with Vagrant and can easily bootstrap 2 VMs (2 Ubuntus) and within them run the containers above mentioned, plus nginx and mysql installed "raw".
Damn, I’m going to have to face some competition! I wouldn’t say what they’ve done was a master stroke but now everyone knows their name and as you say it’ll be top of the list of sane companies to apply for
From the "about" page:

> No matter what skill I intended to learn, I found that its permanence had been eroded by the chaos of technology. Materials were replaced by brands, techniques replaced by accessories, and craftsmanship replaced by consumerism. Clearly, this was something that needed to be fixed. Clearly, this is what I had to do.
I'm just pointing out that someone saying they're not something doesn't mean they actually aren't, as you implied.

Kinda like how you will see a pastor rail against homosexuality, and then it turns out they have a boyfriend on the side...

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks" and all that.
Indeed. The narrative seems to be "politics in the workplace is bad so they were right to stamp it out". Seems to me that they had a workplace issue and dealt with it in a way that has really, really annoyed many of their staff. Other companies have similar issues and manage to deal with them without losing 1/3 of their staff.
> Hope "Right to repair" keeps its momentum.

You can hope all you want, but you're just repeating a lie.

There's only one right, which is the right to your property.

To the extent you own a phone or other device, you can repair it, break it, or do something else with it.

But that is not the fake "right to repair" that busybodies are talking about.

You want the government to coerce the manufacturer to do business with you on your terms. You're not trying to excercise your right (you can do it today, no one cares what you do with your computer) but force, by employing the state to do your bidding, like cartels employ thugs.

> My retina MacBook pro overheated and needed a paste replacement and fan cleaning. I live in a small city in Mexico, so no there is no local Apple Store. Results: 2 weeks without a computer while being in the shop.

Does that gives you the right to force Apple to sell you their products on your terms? Buy a different computer, buy two computers, or wait for two weeks!
That's a big presumption. You think the scheme was anything other than a scam and that anyone still unaware deserved to be separated form their money?
Modi is Brahmin now?
I've sold three businesses to Idealab and the single biggest lesson I learned from Bill Gross was timing and having the means to buy yourself into the market in a short amount of time.

https://ted2srt.org/talks/bill_gross_the_single_biggest_reas...
Just in case, here is Arundhati Roy in her own words[1]. She is one the brightest activist voices from India. She paints a haunting tale of what’s been happening in the past year and beyond leading us to today.

> “Let’s try and not be a cry baby.” — Tushar Mehta, India’s solicitor general, speaking for the government of India

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/28/crime-against-h...
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This is a fantastic idea, I'm sure there are issues with it but none are immediately obvious.
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ah ok, really confusing in the twitter thread but I guess it fits that the odd bits are his interpretation.
Rusty and Edie's BBS seized by the FBI (1993)
Well these people will probably quickly land a job at GitHub, Shopify or Stripe. Also, there are iOS and data scientists. Again I am assuming they are really good in their field.
Certain political bents like to mix "inflation" and "productivity growth" to juice the numbers. OTOH not sure I really trust inflation is balanced properly and accurately captures the cost of a certain standard of living.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/21/politics/minimum-wage-inflati...
If I understand it correctly, plotting is what needs fast storage, but not particularly reliable storage. Farming requires durable storage and the volumes would be better served for now with hard disks.

I wonder if RAM wouldn’t be a good option for plotting. Sure it would demand a beefy machine, but it’d be well under a large mining rig.
$18.22 per hour would exceed the median wage in the majority of States. I think it is safe to assert that what constitutes a "livable wage" is much lower than this number ipso facto. Not everyone lives on the west coast. There is a lot of evidence that the locale-adjusted livable wage is much lower than the numbers often thrown around.

Per the US government, which tracks what people in different deciles actually spend on various things in surprising detail, the median US household has ~$1,000 in cash left over every month after all ordinary expenditures.

People consistently overestimate the cost of living in large parts of the US because they only visit the very expensive parts and imagine everyone spends money like they do. I have a long-time friend, a single mother with no outside financial support, who was able to buy a condo in a decent school district in a major midwestern metro on ~$15/hr with prudent planning. It took her a long time and it isn't in a suburb where bougie tech people would want to live but she seems pretty pleased with herself. I will admit to being surprised when she told me but she'd actually figured it all out within her constraints and was able to successfully work toward that goal on that wage. The way most people talk about it, this should be literally impossible.
You're right. Overwhelmed card grading services cannot be the defining feature of the American experience; we must rise together to meet this challenge. Nine month waiting times to get a Charizard graded? What is this, Soviet Russia?
Not necessarily the same thing, but "fast follower" is absolutely a valid business strategy. Let someone else establish there's a market, make some mistakes, increase awareness--then you can swoop in with a more refined, better targeted product.

Apple arguably did this with the iPod.
> I guess I’m missing the part which indicates this is obviously a scam.

The host was really pressuring people to pay to join, even when his prospective customers didn't have the money:

>Before Snowden joined, Tulsiani was trying to sell $47 tickets to a "VIP" session of the conference. While pitching the VIP session, Tulsiani repeatedly said, “If there was a gun to your head saying you have to find [the money]...you’ll find it,” included as a response to an audience member who said in the group chat that she couldn’t afford the entry fee.

That's not necessarily a scam, but it sure is a massively unethical business model.
Nope. Even if the API were used illegally it still doesn't make it right to make threats of possible usage of physical force. Ask nicely and/or send a DMCA, period.

The DMCA absolutely applies here, since the whole request was for the repository on Github to be removed, and Github is an American website that follows American law and receives DMCA requests.
> They lobby for standardized tests in states and get them mandated. Students are put through them.

This is totally false. State standardized test is the natural consequence of state public education accountability system.
There must be a comparable measure across all the public schools in the state as the foundation for accountability measurements. And all (>95%) the students must be tested for equity reasons. No matter how many misinformation you read about standardized tests, the simple fact is that it is the only way to measure student learning of a huge population and get meaningful / comparable results. Is it perfect? No. Is there a better alternative? No.

The whole idea that a few testing companies imposed the standardized tests on students is simply a conspiracy theory.
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Good thing all the rich people saved us here in the US.
30 minute read + the Git object model = mind boggled.

I'd have appreciated a series of articles instead of one, for me it's way too much info to take in in one sitting.
Why? Because someone invents a more efficient process, we should increase the wages of ditch diggers?

I believe we should focus on relieving the burden of the massive regulatory state on the poor. I.e. relax zoning and lower regressive taxes.
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Audacity is some of the best software for ripping vinyl. Really hoping they don’t cut the free access
Maybe we just need to increase the supply of houses to drive that cost down. Raising the minimum wage doesn’t help if everyone is competing for the same limited supply.
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It seems that this entire fiasco can be fixed by simply having a media streaming platform which is hosted in a jurisdiction which doesn't recognize 'intellectual' property.

Why has no such thing emerged?
That's the one I've had suboptimal experience with. Maybe I need to learn it better. What kind of storage are you using it with? I ran into issues using file-backed trying to keep everything in tf.
While the first lockdown may not have been popular, the top 3 reasons for the second wave were
1) muddled message from the top with massive election rallies and no one wearing masks,
2) the religious kumbh congregation was allowed to proceed as normal while a similar (in comparison, a smaller muslim congregation was demonized last year to the extent of jailing some folks), and
3) total lack of preparation of vaccines, drugs, and even oxygen. You only need the queuing theory to explain how systems can break down when the demand changes just a tiny bit.

The complete celebratory attitude with a mild (covid) winter made them forget all the planning that they did not even order their vaccines (at least the numbers they needed). Just in case this seems like a critique of the government, let me add both the people and the government were irresponsible, but a cautionary message from top would have helped and that did not happen in time.
None of this is what the essay is about. See these comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27007027 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27007576
I started with BASIC, then machine, assembly, and finally C. This made the most sense to me that made me appreciate every step along the way. Since then I've worked with so many languages with Go/Java/C# being the middle-of-the-road good enough but always wanting more.

Not everyone needs this low-level understanding, most developers don't need to worry about instruction cycles or cache lines, and sizes.

A more modern path could be python/ruby (or Elixir?), Go/Java/C#, Scheme/Clojure, OCaml/F#. Js/TypeScript may be necessary but not a good introduction.
Research indicates PEX leaches significantly.

E.g.,
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00431...
> This site is optimized for desktop
Please visit readme.so on a desktop to create your readme!

So it's not the easiest way to create a readme.
very specific problems have very specific solutions. if this is the main concern, make it illegal to schedule school-aged children for shifts during school hours.
You mean the annual subscription you chose to pay monthly because it was cheaper than the actual monthly subscription?
I was talking about the people who attend the conferences. I get that the celebs are paid.
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Things only have value for their utility. Anything else is a consensual hallucination.