skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That article is very low on technical details, and factually incorrect in those details it supplies.

Examples: Micro architecture is used by exploits. A human can reverse-engineer the encryption “in a few hours”.
I would say there's little glory in quietly polishing poo, in smoothing over problems without visibility. I agree it's not good to suffer in silence.

However, the political reality in any large company means shit will be shipped on a regular basis. This isn't unique to the dev/sysadmin roles. This happens in every area of business.

There's enormous glory to be had in visibly polishing turds - in mitigating well known, well communicated problems. Prevention is very important, yes, but it is not a panacea.
Yes. It wasn't forced to land though, as far as your article asserts, unless I'm missing something in it?
Finally fake news asshole gets what they deserve
Great! As he should.
Heads up for anyone reading this on chrome, the examples may not render with a `Cannot read property '_gl' of null` exception; firefox worked fine when I tried it.
This is exactly what OP was referring to: that's what you are actually interested in, but not everyone.
Love interactive articles like this. Unfortunately “mouse over to animate” really doesn’t work on mobile.
He should recycle them. These machines are usually pawned off on seniors in very shady "deal of the century" sales schticks. My 72 year old father in law bought a complete pos laptop for $200 that was an abandoned machine from a repair shop. It didn't have any drivers installed, it was running Vista and it could not connect to the internet.

Rossman may not be selling under such shady circumstances, but this is how most of these machines are moved. I don't think any good comes out of selling these machines.
You just shorted the 5V rail. most PSUs will just turn off their output/shuts itself down.
Electric cars are already oddities at local dragstrips. This will put the Roadster ahead of all but the most exotic vehicles.
Well I'm not trying to reproduce the same picture 100 times but instead 100 different pictures. So it would be 100 different stencils.
But we don't know, how the situation would unfold, if he was at school after the incident, do we?

I hope, this kid will like science after this whole thing is over still. It really seems, he was wrongly accused (as in the movie The Fugitive with Harrison Ford) and it is nice the family is trying to give him support.

In general, today's kids might work on their projects while at home. I have a colleague, who was sick at home for a long time and he basically learned to program the computer during that time. He has written a game, learned recursion and other concepts on his own and much more. He almost certainly wouldn't have learned the same at school. He programs professionally now, has a PhD. in math and worked at Google. It really depends on the family, the child and the school of course (in case of absence for whatever reason, this has less influence).
Works For Me(tm) on chrome 90, macOS
Yeah, I agree with you. But it would be hard due to there being so many integer types. A binary operation needs to consider 3 types: the types of each argument and the type of the result.

In c++ it would be a little simpler due to templates, so the types of the arguments to the function can be derived. But the type of the result can still confuse programmers. Although maybe it's not so bad, because an overflow that happens during multiplication (or other math operations) is undefined-behavior, but an overflow that happens during assignment of the multiplication result to a variable that can't hold it is only implementation-defined behavior, not undefined behavior.
She cited email as an example of a decentralized system, in her case studies.
Its weird they didn't test with ZFS, UFS/FFS or ReiserFS.
You act like it’s the developers fault that they hitched their wagon to apple. They knew going in with eyes wide open what the deal is. They can always leave en masse to Android if they feel the deal is not fair.
Not really, it effectively adds a kernel to your app so your app is the OS. Like if you were booting from Grub, you would point Grub at your app binary directly. You don't boot into Linux and start your app, your app is the OS.

Iirc the main advantages are eliminating a lot of context switching (your app is the kernel, so theres no context switching for kernel calls) and reducing unneeded features (i.e. if your app doesn't need networking, then it won't put any network drivers in your app-OS).

Its mostly a performance optimization afaik. There's some supposed security features because it drops parts of the OS you don't need, which reduces the attack surface. I don't know if there are any additional risks from it though; making the app run in ring 0 makes me uneasy. I think that might just be because passing from userland to kernel land is a significant exploit in normal OS'.
Temescal, Macarthur, Lake Merritt. Piedmont and Rockridge are pretty good too, but on the calmer side.

Downtown Oakland is like downtown SF - I wouldn't go there for nightlife either. I'd go there for shopping.

EDIT: The blocks around 9th and Washington is pretty lively. It's like a giant party from 6pm onwards.
Often PSUs will have different wattage sets but seem otherwise identical eg 550/650. Are they binned like CPUs? Or are there higher rated components
And the Microsoft ruling was a ridiculous one.
Did all that prevent infection or simply spread out the infection propagation from a few weeks to 1.5 years?
If they tell you going then won’t buy that Camry. Get a Honda.
I really don't get what your point is here.

The geographical location of the repairer does not matter because shipping is a thing.

And the fact that these repairers will charge per repair rather than a flat fee for partial replacements of entire boards like OEMs do means they can be cost effective while profitable.

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Apple will charge you $475 to replace a motherboard rather that has a blow 40 cent capacitor on a MBP.

Between the 40 cent cost of the component and labor, there's a lot of meat left for individual repairers left to make money.
Yeah, this is a pretty good survey of it all.

I disregard his advice on credit cards, but I don’t fault him for making that advice. If he says there are exceptions, everyone will think they’re the exception. And if that was true, credit card companies wouldn’t make any money.
The best and simplest solution would just be to require an administrator to input the current date manually in that circumstance.
Light-emitting bolt: https://i.imgur.com/WxqQIEB.jpeg

Though probably not due to current, likely someone took a torch to it to try to make it easier to remove, and then took a picture. Then again those connections are vastly undersized for the cables...
If BitTorrent is so great why isn’t it used more today for file transfers vs hosted storage? Also it is mostly used for piracy because authorities cannot shut down a decentralized system.
As I understand it, vouch works on dead submissions and comments: it doesn't negate or offset flags.

Contacting the mods (use the contact link in the footer) and asking them to review can be effective.
Aside from outright "it popped and oozed all over the place" failure, you've got drift in specs-- the original design expected 100 +/- 10uF, and you're now at 60 or 125uF, with a different equivalent-series-resistance and leakage than the part had when new. In a lot of cases, this won't directly cause explosion, but it might make for a noisier signal down the line.

I've replaced the electrolytic caps in two different stereo recievers and one amplifier, all from the 1977-1980 era. Only one of the three had noticable difference in sound quality, but it was the one that had clearly been abused over the years (failing power switch that arced and sputtered, absolutely filthy and blown bulbs when I got it)
I asked the primary author from conduit, as a third party implementating a server, if he thought the protocol was too complex. He said no, which actually surprised me.

I'm somewhat of an layperson on this topic in that I haven't actually ever tried to work with the protocol on a low level. But my take on it is that if they can slow down the pace of Matrix evolution in the next couple years, the protocol will be in a good state. It's complex, but it's providing extremely complex features.

But if they keep going at this pace for too long, third party implementations may become less feasible.
Is your crypto safe if something happens to you?
Curios question. What are you doing to make sure that your crypto is accesible to your family just in case something happens to you ? A few people I know gave their lawyers their secret keys. Others have tattoed their keys on their spouse.
All I can really say in response to this article is that I expect it to age poorly.

2021 is just a bad time to make confident pronouncements about decentralization. The vast majority of the population is living in Facebook/WhatsApp/Discord/Visa&Mastercard land, sure.

But I'm a heavy Matrix user, it works great. I torrent all the time: it works great. I'm also on urbit, and it works great. I don't use Mastodon personally but I hear few complaints from people who do. Podcasts are fine, other applications of RSS are pretty crippled by bad defaults of only including a little bit of the blog post, but Substack at least doesn't do it that way, which has me using an RSS reader again. It's nice!

The big elephant is the cybercoins, and it's just a weird time to declare them a failure. It's like no one remembers 2017, this has practically been a carbon copy, just with more institutional buy-in and bigger numbers.

No one knows if cryptocurrency is going to fulfill the promise of becoming a global store of value, let alone if it will be Bitcoin or Ethereum or some dark horse: but it pretty much has to go from worth nothing to worth everything, and the middle stages of that are going to be weird.

The one I'm really betting on is Matrix, though. They have reliable income from the French and German governments, and plenty of motive to make a really good platform. I fully expect them to be as slick and featureful as Slack and Discord within a couple of years, and start to eat those company's lunch.

"Redecentralization" is harder than the first phase of building a green-field decentralized Internet, because there are entrenched powers with a head start. But there are some compelling advantages to decentralized technology, with means, motive, and opportunity, to build them out.

Yeah. Don't think it will age well. Let's check back in around 2031 and see what actually happened.
If individual users are being persistent and causing problems, you can ban them. But if your problem is caused by a large number of different users, each coming across the project for the first time and creating annoying issues/PRs, banning doesn't help.
It is.

Blizzard has been using it for years: https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Blizzard_Downloader

This company is new and is using it as a CDN: https://www.peer5.com/

Bittorrent is everywhere, just like Linux, and you mostly don't notice it.
Matrix is a federated protocol, so you could easily use your forked client or forked server with the existing servers and clients out there. Basically like you're free to fork any of the open source email servers or clients and operate your own version.
That's a loss.

I'm using a Corsair RM1000x basically because it got full marks on his review.
You have a point in that this should not have lasted this long if the world was able to lock down completely until 0 cases for 8 weeks.

Other than that, what do you think would have happened if life continued unperturbed in early 2020? Do you think we’d be over it already? I don’t think that’s correct, to be polite.
Any good websites that talks about this kind of thing, and recommends strategies for different games (and nice to have, life)?
I don’t understand how paying off your smaller loans leaves you less able to pay off larger ones?
Of course this is a top post. I love how HN hates Bitcoin.
Because browsers (except only Opera, it's Norwegian) don't want to turn on built-in torrent downloader, only because they know they'd got troubles from RIAA folks. There are some websites that offer downloads through torrents, like linux distros.
Bosses Still Aren’t Sure Remote Workers Have ‘Hustle’
Yeah that's what they're saying I think. Programming outside works helps your programming inside work sure. But for many (most?), programming ability isn't the limiting factor on how effective you are as a _developer_ at work.
This hits home, and probably most people here which are very logic driven.

While buying a home and cars, I felt like too much emphasis was put on the "monthly payment" and how much you can afford. I was more concerned about the interest rate, opportunity cost of downpayment, car depreciation and total cost of ownership.
Wouldn't want people getting an affordable treatment for medical conditions after all.

To be fair, this site is a little goofy. But it wouldn't surprise me if their accusations are true. After learning about the absolute clusterfuck that led to the "Food Pyramid" back in the 90s (industry lobbyists hand-made it to promote their foodstuffs, in sharp contradiction to actual nutrition science of the day) I've more or less come to expect this kind of behavior from organizations like the FDA.
But can't every thief claim the laptop they picked up was "abandoned" too? I mean it was there on the table and no one was around at the moment..

If the customer owes him money and he is selling the laptop to get that money because the customer is choosing that outcome, then in a sense he is selling the laptop on behalf of the customer. For this option to be available to the customer, it seems they should still need to prove it was properly purchased. It still seems like this creates a loophole otherwise. What happens if a theft victim spots their laptop being used by someone who purchased it legitimately from a shop like this?
> Assets are appreciating faster than ever...

They may very well be, but consider that what "asset" means to you is probably not what "asset" means to an awful lot of people.

"Yeah, the mortgage company approved us up to $650k... it's a lot, but we found a house in that range. If we're tight on cash, we can always take out a HELOC against the appreciating price! Everyone knows housing prices only go up, they're not making any more land!"

"I just invested in a new car for myself! Sure, it's more than my annual income, but the loan payments are cheap and it's got a butt massager!"

"Yeah, just invested in a brand new Harley. You know, they hold their value well..."

Etc.

The problem with a leverage-heavy approach to things (as Ramsey knows very well - he made, and lost, a fortune doing leveraged stuff in the 80s) is that as long as the conditions that existed when you got in remain, it works great. As soon as those conditions change - property values decrease, your margin loans get called, etc... you can find yourself in a huge world of hurt, literally overnight.

If you take the "Ramseyian" approach, avoid debt outside a few things, spend a good bit less than you make, save, etc, you might not get as fabulously wealthy as you could with leverage - but you're also far less likely to lose it all than you would be with leverage. And that's worth an awful lot in terms of "actual life satisfaction" (though perhaps less if you consider net worth the only thing of value).

My wife and I have made a variety of "suboptimal" decisions (based on the current debt-leverage-max-out-credit-its-free-money style of thinking about money) over the years, and are probably worth somewhat less than we would be had we taken some riskier approaches, but we also have avoided the high risk, and, to us, high stress approaches to money.

Our goal (well, mine, mostly, since I work and my wife stays at home with the kids) is to have our finances automated enough that we don't really have to think about them, and have the surplus to do things we want to do - we just tend to save up first, and then do the things, instead of taking on debt. If we don't have the money, we don't do the thing. It's a very low stress way to handle finances, and while I will absolutely grant that it's less-than-"optimal" from some perspectives, from how we care to have money handled in our life, it's quite nice. And there are very few high-risk downsides we have to worry about. Markets go up? Neat. Markets go down? Well... OK, but I'm not worried about someone calling me to tell them I own them half a million, tomorrow, or else.
With the insane cost of college - it's healthy to express concern for someone you're close with. Some of the people in the worst financial positions got part way through school and had to stop for some reason. They took on a good part of the debt without getting the higher salary they sought. And to top it all off, the debt is not dischargable in bankruptcy with very few, quite extreme exceptions.

Taking the advice of Clark Howard, another personal finance radio personality, your student loans shouldn't exceed your first year's salary. This feels like a pretty good rule of thumb overall. That would keep the payments manageable and you would still have room in a budget for other goals, even when paying the loans down faster than minimum payments.

And for the higher income range, The White Coat Investor doesn't give a rule of thumb, but emphasizes that everyone should buckle down, live like a resident, and pay off all their loans with 5 years of finishing their training.
This sounds like your problem and the world you are in. In my world I work for a company that offered a well paid devs months salary to get a bug fixed in OSS. They didn’t have the time soon enough so we ended up fixing it ourselves and doing a PR.

An OSS developer who wants to be paid needs to think like a business. They are more a business that happens to OSS. That would preclude certain OSS products while making others more viable. It is good to strategic. Best for most is to find a company to pay a salary for them to maintain it.
Misleading title. FTA
"We find that the Texas reopening had little impact on stay-
at-home behavior or on foot traffic at numerous business
locations, including restaurants, bars, entertainment
venues, retail establishments, business services, personal
care services, and grocery stores," Dave et al. write.

So despite 'reopening' people stayed home. That is why it had no discernible impact.
I hope you're right about Matrix. I use it for my developer conferences [0] but their main chat client [1] is still derided by my audience. Subpar UX is the barrier to overcome.

Element has come far, but Slack and Discord have more solid product direction.

[0] https://www.handmade-seattle.com

[1] https://element.io
I have a kinda weird perspective on this seeing as I'm natively bilingual. At least for me seeing code in English feels fine while seeing code in my other native language would likely be a bit odd (at least theoretically, I don't think I've ever actually seen any code in it).

I feel like this phenomenon sorta extends past code in a way too, I would also find it a bit weird seeing information on my other hobbies that's not in English.
Every developers knows ahead of time that Apple's integrative fee for [software licenses/developer support/hosting services/customer discovery/residual goodwill/merchant costs] is 30%. Your direct competitors probably aren't getting out of a comparable fee either, so it's not like the fee is making you uniquely uncompetitive. If you can't afford to maintain an app from 70% of the top line revenue perhaps the price of your app is too low?

For decades, developers were lucky to see 50% of the retail price. More likely they'd see 20-40% after the retailer and distributor took their cut. And then this 20-40% has to pay some very expensive licenses for software development tools (we forget that these tools used to be commercial software) as well as licence fees for any toolkits you might have used (such as Unreal Engine).
I kept wanting to zoom out while watching the demo video.
So all of the senses of theft that do apply, which have been in use for millenia, are not "meaningful" because they do not meet the cause of your morality.

Of course when Prometheus "stole" the fire from Mount Olympus he did not deny Zeus anything, but it was called theft. The fire that he brought to athens was the intellectual property of the Gods.
Constraints stimulating creativity and innovation is pretty well accepted fact.

Time to deliver is just another constraint, which tends to force all decisions be made quickly and to err on the side of forward progress vs. some theoretically ideal option.

Having participated in a few demo parties back in the 90s, I have a deep appreciation for the scene. But I think we tended to dismiss the negative consequences of sleep deprivation, considering what we know now about the brain and sleep.

Edit:

Also, in terms of deadlines in general, not just the insane 24/48hr demoscene/gamejam style competitions, it can be rather difficult to prioritize a project receives your precious bandwidth on a given day if there's no deadline. It just keeps getting pushed aside by the tasks that do.
Oh cool -- what do you use urbit for? Internet chat?

I bought a star ages back but haven't done anything with it, I curiously read their update emails but remain tickled/skeptical by the oddball Hoon semantics and design language. Don't get me wrong, all with a layer of hopeful bemusement at the spectacle of it.

I'm very curious as to your thoughts.
Thank you for the long reply! I feel bad to have prompted you to spend so much time but I hope it's worth it somehow. I know I spend time on comments that sometimes are read by (I guess) only a handful of people, and it helps me figure out both my thinking on things, and how to articulate that thinking, and what works and what doesn't, for communication. Anyway, what you say makes sense.

>based on having spent countless hours studying the HN data on this

I assume you mean including looking at data like account creation times, IP addresses, etc. which might help bring that kind of stuff to light, and I am glad to hear that someone does that from time to time at least.

Not to contradict anything you are saying, and I'm sure you are already well aware of this, but the fact that the arms race between perpetration and detection of astroturfing type behaviors is escalating over time means that sites may be called on to up their game for detection. I mean we all know this is one fascinating front in the spam wars as well, and a key maleficent use case for machine learning. I hope HN will keep evolving to be able keep up! Seems like quite a challenge. Or, even better, with luck and your work on moderation perhaps it can be somehow shielded from that stuff!… no pressure ;-).
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This story has had its chance.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27255224

The sexual counterrevolution is coming (https://spectator.us/topic/sexual-counterrevolution-liberati...)

19 points | elsewhen | 13 hours ago | 18 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27239837

[flagged] The sexual counterrevolution is coming (https://spectator.us/topic/sexual-counterrevolution-liberati...)

19 points | throwkeep | 2 days ago | 25 comments