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> NTFS comes in different versions, you know.

A completely pointless remark when versions of NTFS and Windows are correlated. And AFAIK there's been no updated to NTFS itself since the addition of symlinks in NTFS 3.1, released with Windows XP. All "filesystem features" since were added at the level OS, using existing NTFS features.

> If the limitations of the filesystem do not change between operating systems, then what must change is how the OS deals with the filesystem limitation, and/or attempts to work around them.

Yeees? Which would make the issue vary based on the specific version of Windows maybe?

> Windows 7 does better than Windows 10. That doesn't mean NTFS isn't slow.

No, but I never claimed such a thing. I'm just pointing out that your assertion that

> It's […] not any specific version of Windows.

is bullshit.
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I propose, that the tagline should be: "The Vim for Scientific PDF"
Firefox 90 has terrible usability with the new "Photon" interface. Has no one read The Design of Everyday Things? I just don't understand what they're trying to do - they need to keep and increase their userbase, not push away the few users they have left.
My two cents: Software is a form of literacy not engineering. One good bridge looks and acts almost exactly like every other bridge in the world. Good software that does a given job can be unrecognisable compared to other good software that does exactly the same job.

Software is more like a novel than a bridge.

Maybe, maybe we can apply engineering terms to machine code or assembly. But the abstract levels we all work at - not a hope.

I mean this is a good thing. It changes how we think about software - engineering has changed the world - and it's in the hands of a few professionals. Imagine software in the hands of ... everyone. It's like Eric Idle gather mud in the Dark Ages imagining what a literate world that reads the New york times will be like
So everyone can use it but can be individually revoked?

Seems inefficient, but I understand if thats their only remedy, as provided by their own license
I only recognized this when I read this thread. Usually I went to my profile page and clicked comments.
We used to run a very well run Kubernetes clusters with a single devops, then two. If you have senior devops engineers who know what they are doing and have the opportunity to greenfield it's really not that bad. We now have 4 devops engineers.

At the end of the day it's not necessarily Kubernetes that's difficult/time consuming, it's all the context around it.

How do you monitor/observability? Security? What's your CI/CD to deploy everything? How do you fully automate everything in reproducible ways within the k8s clusters, and outside?

I've been doing infrastructure management / devops for well over 23 years. Built & managed datacenters running tens of thousands of servers.

Kubernetes and AWS have made my life easier. What's really important is having the right senior people fully aware of the latest practices to get started. Greenfield now is easier than ever.
I believe Bezos has been obsessed with space since before he even started Amazon. Apparently he even talked about this dream during his high school graduation.

I always thought that Amazon was just the way to make his space dream possible.
I thought references must not be used in std containers, at least not without std::reference_wrapper.

So std::tuple<const query&> is just not correct, right?
I agree customer entitlement is growing but I disagree with your example.

We created a society where we tell people they should chase their dreams and anything is possible in America. Then, when they chase their dreams and fail we tell them how stupid they are that they did that and they should have done something more practical. I don’t think teenagers should be blamed for doing exactly what they were told to do and they’re right to be angry at the system.
The high level on insight I have gained from HN comments is the reason that I spend 90% of my internet time on HN. There's plenty I don't agree with, but I think it's healthy to be exposed to all points of view. For me, HN hits the sweet-spot with it's commenting system, and I hope it never changes.
I'm going to have to complain about this because in real world use these are far less of a problem than MFT contention on sub-900 byte files generated by typical unix environments. Particularly things that are lockfile heavy and VCSs etc are the most painful. The WSL thing reads like an excuse here. If you actually go and look at what's happening it's small files which are the damage multiplier.

I think the real issue is that you shouldn't mix the two operating system paradigms and it's far better to just run Linux in a VM and benefit from the near native performance at the cost of a tiny bit of inconvenience. It's not a bad option when you consider the remote IDE capabilities that VScode gives you, which is the one product they're doing 100% right.
Buddhism always had a lifestyle aspect to it in the West. We have benn in Ladakh once, for the monastery festival season. There we also witnessed a procession around one the holy mountains. The monastery festivals were quite touristic, especially the ones in famous locales. This procession was a purely local thing, besides my parents and myself there was another tourist couple. The people there measured, above 3,500 meter over sea level, heat and dust the distance of the route in their body length for a full day. That quashed any illusions I might have had about Buddhism being an "easy" religion.

Also the people their were just sincerely nice. I didn't want to bother them, keep a distance during their break. 20 minutes later I had lunch with them.
I find the naivity inherent in believing the claims of starlink being almost humanitarian by bringing cheap Internet to the unconnected masses fascinating. Satellite constellation are still extremely expensive way of deploying Internet even if (and that's a big if) spacex brings costs down by an order of magnitude.

The users of these constellations will not be the unconnected masses, it will be users with big pockets, military, intelligence, and large enterprise who operate in remote areas (i.e. mining and oil). Also who are the early adopters who bring down launch costs of constellations for everyone by paying a premium? I doubt starlink has the deep pockets needed. No it will be intelligence services who'd love satelitte constellations capable of near real time surveillance from LEO orbit.

Somehow nobody talks about this in their fawning over Musks latest tweets. And let's not even talk about the environmental impact of largely increases rocket launches.
Yep. And 1 Satoshi isn't even a comically small amount of money anymore like it used to be. 1000 sat = 0.30 USD. Might not be that long before a protocol upgrade is necessary to subdivide the Satoshi further.
I'm 30 years old and using FTP daily.
A killer feature if you allow me to say it.
Do you already have an undergrad degree?
All things that are not needed.

Checking tickets can be done by not allowing anyone on the platform. Or world best practice is random checks and large fines if you are caught without a ticket.

Breaking rules is tricky. There is some need for that, though there are options, though in the end I will grant you this.

Trains should never serve food or drink. Passengers can get off the train at a station when they need that, and get on the next train. Space used for the food and drink is space that could be used for more seats. There is a reason all railroads have been trying to do away with food and drink service. It is considered bad practice everywhere.
I get there from a link on my profile page but threads goes to the same place.
It's surprising how fast you can get DETS (the persistent storage version of Elixir's in memory kv-store ETS) to act as a database of sorts. Even on a relatively slow SSD.
Isn't that person as likely to assault a neighbour.

Most channels are not pushing messages with 'I need your cock now' and if they are they are probably run by a professional operator.

A lot of channels aren't about sex. A lot of channels have males.

If all of your fears were valid I would recommend getting off instagram, facebook, etc because someone could find a photo clothed or not from those sources. It could lead to..
I built https://hnstream.com/ which provides a realtime feed of comments. It can be used as a building block for fancier things. For example, our company (and others) use it for monitoring keywords.

For keeping up with replies to my own comments, I still just refresh the page, which is a little sad. :P
Chrome DevTools has an experimental feature since Chrome 89 which allows you to record Puppeteer scripts as well: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-devtools-89/#experi...
I don't think it's that hard of a sell. The size of the weapon doesn't really matter; there are firearms that aren't much larger than a thumbdrive (i.e. pen guns). On the other hand, there's a longstanding tradition of military technology that is designed to destroy the enemy's infrastructure rather than to directly kill enemy combatants.

The closest parallel is probably an EMP strike. They're designed to inflict 0 casualties, but they cripple the enemy. That mirrors the usage of offensive software; they don't inflict any casualties directly, but they can ruin supply chains, remove communication capabilities from the enemy, etc.

They probably deserve to be classified as weapons, and banned by a subsequent law. I think the government has a compelling case that would almost certainly pass strict scrutiny. It seems a logical place to put them, because they are dangerous, and the strict scrutiny puts an onus on the government to use the least restrictive means possible to legislate them. I fear the alternative is that they aren't classed as weapons, and we get some overly broad CFAA type legislature that threatens to penalize security researchers.
Isn't this something that could be done automatically by rustfix?
I want to add to my above comment. Non-entanglement is a special mathematical case, but it happens quite often. If the two particles never interact in any way, then the special condition will be true and they will not be entangled. There is another case where the particles _appear_ not to be entangled. This is when the wave function is so jumbled that even though the particles are entangled you can't detect it. This is called a decoherence. This also happens quite often and is why macroscopic quantities don't exhibit entanglement and hence quantum behavior.
Yeah actually it is. I’m a pretty technical user and use the web and the internet a lot.

I can’t think of a scenario where I would need FTP in 2021. Can you point me at one?
> and our contemporary society Rawlsianism.

Uh, what?

Since when is that the preferred moral philosophy in contemporary (presumably American?) society?
In france being a waiters is way harder than most others jobs. At most jobs you get to work 35 hours on regular days, with a lot of hollidays and a fixed schedule.

Restaurants have a lot of legal exceptions because you need people to work on sunday, vacations, weird schedules, etc.

So compared to other situations in the same country, it's not a good deal.
Agreed; a while back I interviewed of ex-trad, now-software engineers and found out that

1. Engineering is a lot more personal and creative than we think
2. A large amount of software development is very similar to trad engineering
3. Never walk over a bridge.
"This industry is so messed up and opaque, we're worried that competition is bad for the costumer and monopolies are the best we can get."
Windows as an OS is... not the best. I miss Ubuntu/Pop!_OS. Switched due to MIDI controller driver compatibility issues that seemed immune to any WINE hackery =/

I actually really like the rest of what Microsoft does though.

VS Code, TypeScript, creating the Language Server Protocol, the .NET Foundation/.NET in general and C#, the list goes on and on. They're an impactful organization which (depending on what kind of software you build/what you write) probably has a significant impact on your day-to-day experience as a developer.

The benefits of vertical integration can have when you (for lack of a better word) "own" these things can be beneficial for the end-user/developer, ignoring whatever kind of anti-competitive arguments there are.

It's the same argument I hear from Apple users -- Apple stewards their digital experience and gives them continuity end-to-end.

Microsoft -- by nature of owning my OS, IDE, the specification and dev team driving my primary language, a cloud provider, and having their fingers in all of these parts of my digital life -- has the ability to be really awesome for me.

They could also do really sinister things if they wanted and I'd be real fucked I suppose, but that's a(n unlikely) risk I accept.
I have seen FTP links for big downloads in the past. Never, not once have I seen HTML files served over FTP. Who in the hell ever did that?! WHY??
Yeah, 'cause the incredible fragmentation of Linux GUI toolkits and windowing systems is so fun to deal with. Year of Linux on the Desktop when.
Not sure about folding@home, but the lab that runs rosetta@home released a paper earlier this month claiming they have a new algorithm with comparable results to AlphaFold2: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/07/19/scie...

I don't believe this new approach runs on their distributed compute network, but its cool to see some good competition.
I'm sure things are more complicated than you describe, but it seems like they fear increasing prices will lead to closing, and to avoid this they're... just going to close?
The web is HTML and HTTP. URLs to HTTP resources are links to things on the web, URLs to non-web resources are links to things on the Internet, maybe... maybe not, maybe links to other computers in your home, or files on disk.
you can be faster than the filesystem, while using the filesystem, if you emulate something the filesystem does poorly in a more performant way.

That's what's happening here. storing files in SQLite removes any per-file overhead in the filesystem. The filesystem now only has one file to deal with, instead of however many are stored inside the SQLite database.

This is a very real phenomenon, and definitely not a joke.
Nope. I'm keeping Schwab for my banking needs. The last thing I need is a "bank" with more data about me than they really need and a lack of impeccable phone support.

Unfortunately, it's probably going to take some time for people to realize the benefits of a "slow and inefficient" means of banking with lots of people in between. It sucks sometimes, but boy am I okay with it when they spot fraud or it takes someone days to empty my bank accounts instead of minutes.
That's one issue, sure.

I think another is the response by the service industry to the requirements of the ACA. Everyone I know that works in a restaurant had their hours capped just below the line at which they'd have to be provided health insurance. Now they have multiple jobs. Juggling more than one job is a PITA, but even more so when your schedules are constantly shifting. These folks need full-time work with a predictable schedule, so they can do things like go to the dentist or take their kid to the zoo.
Perhaps such type of things have been put in Kernel before.
At this point Google is the sole source of Mozilla income, how do you know this line didnt come directly from them?
Obscene in every sense of the word.
It's changing now
https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/lilliput
That explains it perfectly, thank you. It also raises interesting questions about the metaphysics of copyright/intellectual property
CPUs don't raise exceptions, that is a software concept. CPUs do have traps, like for division by zero, but those are not exceptions in the way you think.

Null pointers are also handled by the kernel, not the CPU. Its called a segmentation fault because you are trying to access a memory segment that the OS doesn't want you to.
The 85/15 you are referring to is called the Medical Loss Ratio. This applies to ACA coverage only (group or individual), and does not include carriers' Self Funded or Short Term products. When an insurer comes under the MLR (say, claims are 79% of premiums) the remainder upto 80% or 85% (depends on state) is paid back to the policyholders. For instance if you were on a UHC ACA plan in my geography last year, you would have received a portion of premium returned in the form of a check because UHC ran at 77%.
In German court proceedings you can only recover attorney fees up to the (pretty low) legal fee schedule (RVG). Anything above that you will have to pay yourselves
> Well it sounds like you're working on something that helps make the Pinephone more usable so thanks for that.

Thanks! It's been very rewarding honestly. The community is great, and I have met some folks in the community who I would now consider friends.

> I was "shocked" when seemingly basic things like video recording was not a guarantee/kinda special. I've ran into Megous here before where he was writing his own video recorder with ffmpeg straight up like dang.

Yeah, the linux phone software landscape is a lot different now than it was even six months ago. A lot of it is because of the developers who volunteered to roll up their sleeves and help. I think Pine64 did a great thing in making the phone as cheap as possible and democratized the development process.

Purism has been putting a lot of money into developing the software too, and really cannot understate how much that has helped as well.
It is not surprising, but a little saddening that they restricted donations to people within Japan. I would have loved to donate to this.
There's a feature for this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27005768
If there's one single phrase I wish I could erase from history it's "Spooky action at a distance." Ugh. It bugs me a lot that Quanta made these misleading statements that just continue the confusion over what should be a more widely-understood core feature of the universe we live in.

Tangentially, I wish "interaction" would come to replace "measurement," especially in the context of decoherence. The universe is branching *constantly* everywhere as various quantum systems interact.
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> You need people manning the cafeteria car

Best practice is to not have them.

> cleaning the bathrooms

Do it at the end of the line when the train is stopped.

> The Southwest Chief

Amtrak is a bad example for anything. They are running tourist trains, and should follow the practices of cruise ships not modern railroads.
I didn't catch that either. Sucks you're getting downvoted for it when it isn't as obvious as others seem to think.
"It is a frequent source of bugs to change the object in such a way that its hashCode changes after it was used"

(citation needed)

I have never seen that. 20 years in the game.

I can't remember ever having seen anyone use a mutable object for a hashmap key.
You're giving "probably" quite a workout there.

For it to be encoded at the cosmic horizon, it has to communicate with the cosmic horizon. It's hard to see it doing so, within the time frame of the experiments, without superluminal communication.
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It's very obscure. Most things (mostly shared hosting lol) went straight to SSH's SFTP instead.
> The average developer thinks empirical software engineering is a waste of time. How can you possibly study something as complex as software engineering?! You’ve got different languages and projects and teams and experience levels and problem domains and constraints and timelines and everything else. Why should they believe your giant incoherent mess of sadness over their personal experience or their favorite speaker’s logical arguments?

This argument could be used for literally any science but, for some reason, it seems to fall on attentive ears mostly in the software industry.
In China for inter-city trains you have security checks and you wait in front of a gate. Experience is identical to an airport.
> most workers do not fully report all of their tips, which saves them both income and payroll taxes

I wonder what percentage of tips are still cash tips, which is the only case where you can get away with that. I imagine the percentage of tips that are on a credit card (or even app like Doordash/Seamless) vs. cash has been increasing over time, but I can't find solid numbers.
> All work under capitalism is exploitative and all work that involves emotional labor (e.g. all service work) can be particularly damaging, but sex work is its own separate beast [...].

Instead of reading the first part of the sentence as a statement of some kind of general truth, I read it as an axiom to the rest of the sentence in which it relatively made very good common sense.

I guess this difference in reading might explain the downvotes I was wondering about.

There are good reasons for this HN guideline:
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

After watching the first linked video (and finding it to be mostly unsubstantiated meta-rambling and call to arms), I'm assuming hnbad might actually consider the "all work under capitalism is exploitative" as some truth they rally behind. That's something I disagree strongly against, and thus would be tempted to blindly downvote. Yet, by taking a "favorable" (for me) interpretation of the post, instead of trying to guess what side the poster aligns on, the point of the argumentation remains and I'm enriched from having read it.
They could probably save even more in taxes by never registering as a business in the first place!
My habit is shift+del for windows; but most of the time I use cygwin anyways.

>I think for the purpose of this discussion, explorer IS Windows.

The article is about the file system, not the UI.
Well, none of that was a deliberate sabotage.

A subversionist can easily sabotage the railway over a bridge, on a slope, or time it to have a collision with another train.
Blue Origin technically started before SpaceX and has an increasing delta in accomplishments... They're easily a decade plus behind and SpaceX doesn't seem to be slowing down.

Bezos is smart and talented... but it's hard to overcome a lead like that.
Blue Origin is also working on New Glenn (a much larger reusable rocket), as well as Blue Moon (a flexible moon lander).

I suspect that Bezos is following a little bit of the same playbook with Blue Origin that he did with Amazon. Amazon isn't just an online retailer. It's also an open marketplace for independent sellers. Additionally, all of the technology behind the scenes (the AWS platform) is being resold and used by countless other companies (generating a huge chunk of Amazon's revenue).

By focusing on building these reusable components (with no single defined goal), I suspect that Bezos is envisioning a space "road" which will be utilized by third parties as they see fit. If you notice, they even use this "space road" terminology on the marketing for New Glenn.

If a private company wants to start their own mining base on the moon, for example, they could simply pay Blue Origin to ship their building supplies there. They could then play Blue Origin to shuttle their people there.

If Blue Origin can actually provide a safe and reliable "toll road" for third parties to get to space, they will make billions/trillions in the long run off of it.

Edit: I just found something interesting to support this theory. Apparently Jeff Bezos recently stated that "We Need to Move All Polluting Industry Into Space". Now just imagine how much money Blue Origin would make from shuttling all those third party materials and people to and from space...
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