skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and try to save a good 1/3 of your income for the future.

But that is what pensions ARE. The people who got them took less money up front because part of their compensation was a defined benefit pension. They WERE saving money by deferring payment.

How is this any different than your 401k suddenly saying “sorry, when we said we were investing in the stock market with your money we actually used it on other stuff, so now your retirement account doesn’t have any money”?

Would your response be to tell the people who were investing their retirement in the 401k, “well you should have saved money for retirement”

They were trying to save money for retirement! They saved money they were making now to be used later. Are you suggesting people should only save by stuffing money in their mattress?
Medicine solves some medical problems, if you're taking the right medicine. (I think this is all a layperson can take away from the observation.)
Nostalgia anecdote: we used KA9Q as the routing software on a 286 PC with an ISDN uplink.
> So to me this really looks like it applies neither to servers nor desktop.

It applies to both. We need desktops to boot up fast, because you said it yourself, sometimes they just need to. And no one likes waiting around for their machines to boot. Can you imagine the volume of complaints about long boot times that would come in to large-scale distros from annoyed users? That alone makes it a high priority.

And on top of that, we need servers to boot up fast, because nowadays they're virtualized and started/stopped constantly when services are scaled up and down. Can you imagine trying to scale up a fleet of servers and waiting a couple of minutes for each one to boot?
Microsoft is late to the party here. This has been core to Apple's business model for years. Here's an example of OS support for the MacBook Air:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Air#Supported_macOS_re...

The arbitrary cadence of abandonment is amazingly consistent and has no basis in hardware capabilities.
Driving! I've managed to convert ~95% of my trips to my ecargo bike for the past couple years.
Basic course: Networks are unreliable. Everyone's life gets worse when you ignore that fact.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
> Americans are stealing lumber from Europe

I'm picturing Carmen Sandiego putting a freighter full of lumber in her pocket...
What's most interesting for me here is Revery, the GUI framework. React-like, cross-platform, native-code, MIT-licensed.

Yes, it's not using native widgets (so no built-in accessibility), but that might be fine in many cases.
That was 20 years ago. Life spans are falling, as is height.
Change in complex system is risky. Some people are risk averse.
So the owners of that hardware will continue using Windows 10.

Or, if they desperately need Win 11, the resale value of "good enough to do homework on" computers is still pretty good.

But judging by the Win 10 rollout, the people who care enough to have the latest Windows to want it are a very small minority who have recent hardware anyway.

I would bet it's a marketing choice, to ensure the the rollout is smooth and people like the experience. The specs might be a deliberate overkill to ensure that the first users have more than enough hardware (which probably was tested well enough), and are more likely to be computer enthusiasts who want latest-and-greatest.
By cutting off at 8th Gen and TPM 1.2+2.0, they’re cutting off a lot of current and high end systems built by enthusiasts, while supporting far slower and inferior PCs.

That’s the problem. No one’s arguing they’re chasing off cheap Celeron, they’re trying to get rid of even some Threadrippers and multi-socket setups, that could have 128GB or more of RAM, for “performance”.
Ethernet and IP are simple. But TCP is super complex to me with all the state management and buffers and sliding windows. It works well but I find it terribly daunting to dig into (I've tried a few times, and still aim to succeed sometime).
Considering how unexciting new CPUs are nowadays I'd wager that a 10 year old computer in 2025 will still be perfectly usable for basic tasks such as email and web browsing. Something like an 8 year old i7 2700k is still very usable for a lot of home users. It might not be a beast when it comes to crunching numbers, but a big portion of the population would be happy using such a chip if you pair it with at least 8GB of memory and an SSD.

I'm not a big fan of generating unnecessary waste, and computers that get replaced because of artificial cutoff points in software isn't ideal. What I like about Windows 10 is that you can boot the installer on a Core2Duo if you want, and it'll install just fine. It'll probably run like crap, but that's for the user to decide whether they want to use it or not.
It hasn’t in recent years, PC fleets have been aging forever. 36 month refresh cycles are more like 50 months these days.

This is straight up a way to keep intel alive.
Mushroom Growing Out of 50M-Year-Old Fossilized Ant New Fungal Parasite
"I really don't understand the scenario where binary logging is a problem."

It's not a problem - it's just not UNIX.
I wonder what they'd charge them with? Stupidity? From the video, it didn't seem intentional. It just seemed like a dumb person doing dumb stuff...
401ks are great.

I started maxing out my 401k account 25 years ago, back when I was only 22 and making $30,000 / year.

At the time, financially it was a little rough. My wife wasn't working, and I had a ton of debt from school. But, I figured it would be easier to do it then, while I was able and we didn't have kids.

I doubled down on compound interest and the future growth of the global economy. I invested it all in S&P 500. There were several significant down turns. But, eventually the investments started working for me instead of being a sink. Now, on average, I gain about double my salary in investment returns, per year.

So, I totally recommend 401ks highly for people under 25.

However, there are certainly sketchy companies out there offering plans. So, it's wise to compare a fund's fees and expense ratios to ones like Vanguard admiral funds.

Also, I do understand that the major benefits of 401ks go to those in higher tax brackets, but still - it's a solid way to automatically pay one's future self first.
Yeah, and hardware support also ends.

Windows 10 is to be supported until 2025.
The best thing you can do, unfortunately, is teach them yourself. It is hard, but the real root of this problem is that people expect schools, and therefore the state, to not only teach their children math and history but raise them. As a result of this, people who actually want to raise their own kids get saddled with restrictive practices designed to raise your kids for you. The only way to opt out of it is to forego institutionalized education entirely, or at least if it hasn't gone quite that far yet, it will.

School the institution was not a very good place when I was there. It was not actually conducive to learning, peer influences were in general negative, authority figures were often abusive or at the very least ambivalent, and a sense of silent acquiescence to any authoritative demand was ingrained to the point that it takes young people years of their early adulthood to break this and begin building their own lives how they want them. Many of my peers went into massive debt on the presupposition that authority figures know what's best and that the institutional structure will look out for them, and I believe this is the direct result of the basically authoritarian environment they were raised in.

And this, all I had to deal with were grainy cameras in the halls and police writing children tickets. From what I hear from people younger than me, it is much worse now.
I've seen some super large dollar stores that are making lots of net profit. Just because the items are cheap doesn't mean the net margin is small, because the items are cheap to buy too, and they're chains that buy large quantities often directly from a manufacturer to get the best price they can.

I think it just depends on what the net improvement is. If they had two checkouts before, that each required a person, and they replace it with 5 checkouts that now require just one person, the cost per person-checkout is 20% of what they were paying before. The machines themselves might be leased or otherwise amortized over significant periods giving a cheap cost per year. If lines of people are waiting for checkout that might mean a much improved experience.
Your answer is not related to the content of the articles.
> A modest Intel Skylake laptop from 2016 meets all the core requirements. It is 64 bit, supports UEFI, and even contains a hardware TPM 2.0 module on board.

Is anyone suggesting Win11 won’t run on a 2016 Skylake?

That Microsoft says it’s not supported doesn’t necessarily mean that. It would be extremely surprising if windows effectively checked the cpuid and arbitrarilily rejected a processor with the necessary features.
In addition to the Stevens books already mentioned, there's also volume 2 of Comer's Xinu OS book:

Operating System Design, Vol. 2: Internetworking with Xinu, ISBN-13: 978-0136374145 (https://www.amazon.com/Operating-System-Design-Vol-Internetw...).

Unfortunately, this book was written in 1987, so it's a bit dated (e.g. no IPv6). I think it's still useful to learn the basics of a TCP/IP implementation.
Users care: so much so that they pay money for antivirus.

They just don't understand the consequences of some of their actions or inactions, because they are not security professionals.
First-gen Ryzens and Threadrippers, while they do support fTPM, are not supported in W11 and they won't be 10 years old in 2025.
> falling from orbit protected by nothing more than a spacesuit and a bag of foam was unlikely to ever become a particularly safe—or enticing—maneuver.

Not with that attitude. Pitch it as the most extreme sporting experience available to humanity and you've got yourself a new commercial space launch market.
Congratulations, looks like you made it.

Let's say you are not CTO but developer, and your CTO is 32yr old. Would you be as happy?
>That's because Windows 8 wasn't incompatible with the same hardware that could run windows 7.

That only matters if people actually upgrade their Windows 7 installs to Windows 8 installs. And since it was a paid upgrade to an OS that was arguable worse than what people had, people probably skipped out.

How Windows upgrades worked before Windows 10 was that you upgraded to a new version of Windows when you bought a new PC. Every other means of upgrading was minor at best, since it wasn't available through Windows Update for free.
If you're going to rant utter nonsense, can you please do it somewhere else?
Ive read people recommend glycinate because they find that salt has less laxative effects than the others
This is the way.

Selling is about solving someone else's problem.

Some of the answers here say to start with benefits, not features. Those are missing the first step. If someone comes into a car dealership and the salesperson starts selling them on the benefits of a sportscar (you'll feel young and will get places quickly), they're going to lose the customer who came in with a problem of having six kids and four dogs and no way to get them all places. The salesperson who finds that out will be able to help get them into a minivan or SUV that's a good fit.

The same is true of selling yourself - it's not about showing them you're great, it's about showing them how you can solve their problem. Find out why they're hiring for this position as well as what they expect the person they hire to do when they start. Once you know those things, you can explain how you'll be able to get in and do what they need, as opposed to just telling them that you're a great employee.
Ok, then I agree with you. I was worried that what most people hear when they see “capitalism” is unregulated markets.
The same paper also says "[...] foods containing phytates, polyphenols and oxalic acid, such as rice and nuts, all contribute to magnesium deficiency due to their ability to bind magnesium to produce insoluble precipitates, thus negatively impacting magnesium availability and absorption."
My understanding was that they’re trying to use software to make their new planes fly like their old planes (at least that was the reasoning for MCAS in the 737 MAX). In super basic terms, if the new plane doesn’t fly like the old plane, all the pilots need to be retrained. This is a significant expense that could make a serious dent in sales.

I don’t think it’s anything to do with size, there are larger planes than the 777X that are perfectly safe (and of course, the 737 is pretty small as far as airliners go).
Yikes, that sounds like some response from a tiktok user, not the Vice President of Communications of a fast-growing startup. Not a good look at all. Kind of cements the idea that it's a pretty rough at Substack
Two things:

1) The phenomena of electromagnetism and gravity are fundamental as far as we can tell -- there is no more familiar or more commonplace "thing" I can tell you that they are "made" of. In fact if you really pressed it, your concept of a "rock" or "water" as a solid, distinct object out in the world is probably better thought of as a manifestation of electromagnetic behavior.

That's just the way the world seems to be. If you drill down into it, our best physical theories describe everything in terms of fields defined over space (including all matter, like quarks, electrons, etc). So if you've a got a philosophical problem with fields for gravity and electromagnetism you've actually got a philosophical problem with basically all of our modern understanding of physics.

2) Whether our mathematics represents something intrinsic to the world rather than just providing a description of what we observe is a philosophical question (it's "ontological") that has no bearing of how well that description works.

So if you want to think of space being permeated by real fields like the electromagnetic and gravitational fields you're free to do so. It'll give a useful and extraordinary precise description of the bundle of phenomena we call electromagnetism and gravity. Conversely, if you want to think of these things as well built crutches that don't properly represent (some yet undiscovered) deeper reality, but nonetheless give a very accurate description of it -- you can do that to, it won't make any difference in the physics.
Every AIO I've ever owned has stopped working not too far into its life. I remember being shocked and dismayed the first time I had one fail, and simply upset when the second one failed. After the second failure, I bought a Noctua NH-D15S and that heatsink has happily survived 4 builds. (Only getting replaced after I switched to Threadripper, which required a different Noctua heatsink. But don't worry, the NH-D15S still lives on in a friend's PC.)

In my opinion, there are two viable cooling solutions: a high-quality heatsink and fan, or a custom water loop. AIOs just don't have the performance to make the failure rate acceptable.
Not really sure, I heard that magnesium citrate can have laxative effects. I used to use cal-mag which helped anxiety but it never really “clicked” in my head that it was helping, I used it for muscle cramps.
It has nothing to do with performance. It is almost certainly either due to malware concerns or DRM protections.
"Singapore has recorded some fully vaccinated locals getting Covid-19, but none of them have had serious symptoms."

Fully vaccinated people are hospitalised in the UK every day. Some of them die. I think this sentence misleads.

Vaccines do work but their effectiveness is not and was never expected to be 100%.
When reading comments like this, which are good-natured, and a natural response, do you ever think “wouldn’t be great if we as humans had more trust built into our systems, and people actually making a best-effort attempt at honouring that trust”? Instead of everything being a scam until proven otherwise, and even then the scam is probably just one level deeper in what triggered the interest in that product in the first place.
Wasn't the USSR first in space? First ICBM , first artificial satellite, first man in space etc?
Looking forward to seeing it displace Electron.
> Why does this "not compose well" ?

Because you cannot easily write libraries/components that do this.

In NixOS, other modules can override the options of other modules. For example, a a web app can set the nginx options that it needs, instead of requiring you (the admin) to "drop a file" in /etc.

This is one of the reasons why on Ansible Galaxy (community repository of Ansible roles) there are 527 nginx roles [1], and in NixOS there is 1 nginx module that everybody code-reuses.

[1]: https://galaxy.ansible.com/search?deprecated=false&tags=web&...
They became unusable, practically speaking, when support ended (unless they're off the grid, or if you don't care to be part of a botnet). Microsoft now says support for Windows 10 will end in 2025; all those unsupported computers became landfill at that point, even if they still run perfectly fine.
But who wants to be stuck on an older OS? It's still a big reason to upgrade before it would have been technically necessary.
For an example of just how many people don't care about EOL'd operating systems:

Microsoft's mainstream support for Windows 7 ended in January 2015 (and paid "Extended Security Updates" service ended in January 2020) and yet 21% of Firefox users are still running Windows 7:

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware#goto-os-and-arch...
> The verb “puzzle” — to perplex or confuse, bewilder or bemuse — is of unknown origin.

It’s pretty discouraging when the first sentence is patently incorrect.

https://www.archimedes-lab.org/puzzle_etymology.html
You were previously buying family-farm vegetables and switched to industrialized, grocery store produce. You can definitely walk into a Safeway in SF and get garbage produce.

Hopefully your local ecosystem supports some native farming that you can make use of.
Title is a bit confusing - I thought this meant "Most of the developers who work at Twitter" not "Users in the wider Twitter developer community"
Wouldn't that require the programmer to be adversarial?

Since all type systems have escape hatches, I don't think they would be resilient at all in adversarial settings. This is more geared towards detecting accidental and _subtle_ data leakage.
Taken at minimal value, punctuation is merely another symbol. A variable named by the symbol "index" will have context dependent meaning.

So...I don't see how this changes my point. The list of symbols that is a program will have many of those symbols in need of context to understand. Do you really think programming can escape that?

Edit: I am sympathetic. I like lisp for having fewer signifiers than other languages.
> I see this differently. If you compose a timestamp with a value, it is still a value. This is the essence of temporal data modelling and accounting.

I agree completely that composing a timestamp with a value is still a value. I think the concept of assignment (values changing over time) is not the same thing as a timestamp at all; a timestamp doesn't represent state in the same way that mutability does.

> The idea is however to avoid state whenever possible, pushing it to the edges.

Yeah, this is where I think the problem lies. Saying "avoid state" isn't particularly helpful, especially if there is a certain amount of state that is essential and necessary. What should I do with the state that is required? What does it mean to push state to the edges, and in what cases does pushing state to the edges simplify my code? What if pushing the state causes complications by having to introduce more complex communication or more complex ordering between the elements of a system?

I feel like one of the implicit suggestions when someone says to avoid state is that there is unnecessary state hanging around. But in practice, while there is sometimes redundant state, most programmers I've worked with are pretty conscientious about duplicating data. Most of the imperative production code I've worked with doesn't have a lot of redundant or duplicated state, it is already designed to minimize the amount of state.

I love writing functional code when I can, it does feel simpler and easy to reason about. The two reasons I can't always write functional code are: performance and necessary state. Performance for functional constructs in various languages is improving, but it's still extremely common for functional designs to be very slow compared to equivalent imperative stateful designs. (And I do a lot of high performance computing as part of my current job.) And we need a better philosophy than just "avoid it" when it comes to all the necessary, unavoidable state.
>IMO a computer should be serviceable for longer than 7 years.

How many Windows PCs are actually getting security updates for less than 7 years? Your CPU will have to be like 8 years old when you stop getting security updates for Windows 10 and you can't upgrade to Windows 11.
I haven't used teams in 3 years (I use what clients use, mostly it's slack) back then I really liked wiki + channel combo, it was super simple to keep channel specific notes in one place and everyone used it since it was right there, fast to update and search - way better than pinned messages which I find almost useless
It seems we selected for one trait and influenced another. In the case of tomatoes, we selected for uniform ripening because of the aesthetic appeal and it also caused unwittingly selecting fruit with lower sugar content[1]. I’ve also heard similar regarding selecting fruit that is hardy enough to survive transport without damage but the same genes make the fruit taste like cardboard.

[1] https://stanfordmag.org/contents/the-trouble-with-tomatoes
> humans ate ruminant animals who’s herds they followed around, and almost nothing else.

This is the incorrect part. Meat was never the sole part of human or any human ancestors diet, for starters we don't have the teeth for it. The rest of the diet may have been lower carb than what we eat now but it was not meat only.
I'm worried that pushing whole-disc encryption at people who aren't aware of the consequences is a huge risk.

I suspect for most consumer and small-business users, the risk of "a power surge blew out my motherboard and TPM, but I can take the surviving SSD and plunk it in a new PC and salvage my data" is a much more important use case than "someone might steal my PC and get at my valuable unencrypted data." I know we've heard people screaming about this on the MacOS side, but thereit's intertwined with the unrecoverability of a soldered storage subsystem.

Large and technical organizations who might need the encryption are hopefully more likely to have IT staff and policies for backups and recovery, so they'll be able to handle that emergency better.
I use this[0] not every day because I’ll get muscle spasms unless I eat a lot of calcium, but a few times a week seems to make a big difference.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZD7R4RF/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_...
I had a similar craving for Magnesia, a Czech mineral water high in magnesium.

Once I started supplementing magnesium by other means, I can go without Magnesia for weeks.
From TFA:

The police said they intend to charge the unnamed spectator with “unintentional short-term injury through a manifestly deliberate breach of a duty of safety or care”.

And I agree- it's silly to go after the stupid person here, people behave carelessly in similar ways almost anywhere you go.

It's actually the fault of the event organizers for not accounting for the 'people' factor.
That is a much better argument.
What deprecated processor technology? The cutoff is not based on CPU capabilities or processing power. They just choose a point in time and only support CPU's newer than that.
Can't you recycle every component except the motherboard?
I love magnesium pills! I take two in the morning. It relieves brain fog, reduces lower back pain and makes you shit. (Those three are totally related, btw)