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Ask HN: Building PCs, Why Do Motherboards Suck?
Hi Hackernews. I've built a variety of home/gaming and small office PCs for friends and family over lockdown as I'm sure many of you have.

I have found myself constantly troubleshooting opaque UEFI/BIOS settings, particularly regarding CPU/RAM frequency and configuration, USB issues, lack of obvious functionality.

Why is it that consumer motherboards are so inconsistent and difficult to work with? MSI in particular has been a pain, but after working with several brands it seems to be widespread. When it comes to making consumer PCs with up to date components (ryzen 5XXX) are there any decent options or alternatives? Thanks.
Actually, you don't need to run any functions to cause a context switch. For example, at the very lowest level, even trying to access a memory page that is presently in physical memory but does not have entry in TLB causes CPU to interrupt to OS to ask for mapping.
Payment processors are heavily regulated by govts in the jurisdictions they operate in. They're not operating in isolation, rather they act as choke points for policy enforcement.
Like written erotica? I think you can still get away with it on Patreon.
I exclusively use reader mode on Firefox when reading news articles. So many site are borderline unusable otherwise due to all the ads, popups, cookie policies, and subscription promps.
The article is reporting an announcement, true, but that doesn't invalidate the headline ... scale brings huge advantages in wind turbine economics.
And for many "big-a* text files" I'd recommend org-mode. It also has its own markup (much more powerful than markdown), and can also do spreadsheets (which I personally use only marginally).

Manage this in git and you are independent of any service, yet with extensive-- perhaps even uncontested --feature-coverage.
Nah, this is just the ultimate conclusion of the Friedman doctrine: there is no morality, only legality. Unless you can conclusively prove that IBM US C-level executives knew about the Holocaust while it was happening, it was just business as usual which makes it okay by definition.

Actually if I put it that way, it's just hating Mondays. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yts2F44RqFw
> It’s pretty simple really.

I can only conclude that you continue to not inform yourself of any discussion on the subject. I've never heard anyone serious describe rights as 'pretty simple'. Advocates of reducing rights to a limited and for them convenient set, yes, but that is precisely the challenge.
Network effects will always win, regardless of the trustworthiness of the platform.
Actually "data rich products" are complicated because they involve evolving code and data. There are tools that are good at one but not tools that are good at both.

For instance Docker is a problem instead of a solution if part of your system is a several-gigabyte language model that changes frequently.
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You are right. It’s a sliding scale. But that scale has tilted completely to one side in the last 50 years, as I said. Everything has moved towards more generalized human rights and not towards less.

I'd like to understand how you would rank competing human rights for example? What if my human right to healthcare conflicts with your human right to not be forced to work? What if my right to have somewhere to live (for travellers, actual legal case in the UK) conflicts with your human right to own property and not have it invaded? What if my human right to not cover my face conflicts with your human right to a "germ and virus free environment".

Do you create a hierarchy of rights? Once you do that, how are they different from laws? You've just created lots of laws at this point for different people and situations.

In my world those are not rights any more. They're bullshit. A right is something, theoretically, that everyone can have. Conflicting rights by definition destroy that.
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It wasn't MasterCard that was the problem rather their banking partners according to the FT.
Yesterday Firefox was reporting 66GB RAM usage on my MBP with 16MB RAM. I also have a Linux VM that must be permanently running

Firefox became unresponsive until it decided to shrink its caches, which it did over about 5 minutes down to 10GB usage.

It clearly didn't need 66GB, most of it swap space. Usually it's not that much, and is more likely reach 20-30GB.

Firefox on Mac seems to grow and grow and grow usage, then when it becomes unresponsive it shrinks usage until it's responsive again. Several times a minute when scrolling sometimes, a long pause. It shrinks down to 10GB or less consistently. (My guess is a bug in the internal heuristics governing how much it decides to cache, being confused by MacOS memory compression and/or the fast swap.)

Perhaps I'd have a better browsing experience with 64GB RAM than 16GB. And less SSD wear. Perhaps less battery consumption, depending on whether SSD I/O for swap consumes more or less than powering extra DRAM.
Exactly, I don't believe that payment processors want to play the role of gatekeepers (after all, they lose revenue for every customer they turn down). They probably just want to show that they can self-regulate to give Congress less of a reason to pass something like this[1].

I think people underestimate how much moral regulation in the US actually comes top-down under the guise of anti-trafficking law (remember SESTA/FOSTA and how it killed Craigslist personals?)

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/808/...
Well, there are two common attack types based on punycode.

Type 1 is that you stick a homograph in there and hope it gets rendered and the victim never notices the difference.

Type 2 is that you create a punycode URL which makes no sense by any standard, but which looks like xn--something-microsoft.com, and then you hope the punycode doesn't get rendered and your victim only notices the part where it ends with microsoft.com .
I just started using Obsidian and I really like it. I've found it even more useful if you add this mind map plugin: https://github.com/lynchjames/obsidian-mind-map
Enforcing rights takes energy, but respecting them takes none.
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> The format of our program is such that if you don't complete the assigned reading and worksheets, you will feel like you are missing out on what is happening in proceeding episodes. In this way, reading is layered in as a fundamental core to the program.

This needs to be highlighted much more strongly, not be buried in the 2nd half of a paragraph in the middle of your pitch. It is the key that links what you are doing to the actual improvement of reading. I had to read through your writeup more than once to find it, which is a problem when trying to understand your plan.
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Hey fellow internet users! I always got frustrated with existing bookmarking tools as they were either too clunky to use or had way too many features I didn't need. Until I decided to just build my own!

WebCrate allows you to organize links, articles and more from around the web into collections called crates. You can share the crates with anyone and since each user gets their own instance of WebCrate in their own 'personal cloud' thanks to Deta Space, you can subscribe to other users crates and view their links right from your dashboard.

Deta Space made it really easy for me as dev to build something like WebCrate quickly and it's also awesome for users. The app keeps running even if I disappear and hosting, auth etc. is all handled for me.

For the nerds, I built WebCrate with Nuxt and ExpressJS and it uses Deta included NoSQL database.

You can learn more about WebCrate at http://webcrate.app or install it directly on Deta Space (https://deta.space/discovery/webcrate)! Let me know what you think (WebCrate is OSS, so you can also contribute) and I hope you find it useful!
Actually, CPU processes things in words, not bytes. On 64-bit architecture the word is 64 bit or 8 bytes.

But there is a lot of things that CPU can do even faster than that, because this limitation only relates to actual instruction execution (and even then there are instructions that can process multiple words at a time).
In Firefox this is implemented as about:reader?url=…, and you can use that URL to load reader mode even on pages that aren’t detected as compatible (so that the reader mode toolbar button doesn’t appear).

This used be the URL on Firefox for Android as well, but if I recall correctly (I seldom use reader mode) it got changed in the Fenix world so that it’s a moz-extension:// URL.
As a Gen-Z also recently graduated (less than 5 years), I can assure you, the fact these platforms are so big is because being graduated isn't worth anything these days. You are lucky or you are not.
Wow, this thing is pretty neat!
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I replaced vbox with KVM/qemu over the past year. It's pretty easy to use with libvirt and cockpit.
Reminds me of a report about the floating decision for the UK's first spaceport:

Where it will land is still up in the air

Me: "Well, thats f**ing no good"
What’s does an “actual mental health” advocate for men look like to you?

Clearly men are resonating with these barbershops, clearly they find emotional and mental value in them, as far as I can tell there hasn’t been some streak of violence or angst generated by their members, so what more could you ask for? I think these men know better about what is best for themselves than you do from the outside looking in.

I think you’re getting criticism because “actual mental health advocates” - when these men are self-selecting their mental health advocates already - sounds like coded language for “mental health advocates I find more palatable”.
Another good one: https://nulis.io/ (or https://gingkoapp.com/). It's like a mindmap turned sideways, in a more convenient format.

And of course: https://dynalist.io

Both are infinitely nested tree editors, that enable you to organize information very conveniently. Great for writing, brainstorming, taking notes.

On iOS I use Editorial (a great text editor) to write down all my notes, and I use #tags to make it easy to search all my notes by topic (like #webdev, #health, #books, and so on).

Also Track and Share is a great habit tracker, and Things 3 is a great todo list manager. The more thoughts I can offload from my brain into the app - the better.

On my laptop I use Emacs org-mode, it's fantastic.
Well if we're talking hypotheticals then why not add a volunteer healthcare system? After all, if we can somehow manage a volunteer police force, judiciary, etc all without government then it should be possible to add healthcare to the mix.

In any case, my point was the distinction made in the OP is silly. Any "right" is only a right in so far as it can actually be put into practice and that costs someone, somewhere "energy".
oh, ok. i was actually looking now for the source, I remember I read that mastercard delined forcing them,but there was nothing mentioned on that article about who actually requested this.

thanks for the information

edit: converting the url posted below this into archive link, to skip paywall: https://archive.is/Aqx8x
I had an S7 for years, and then upgraded to an S10e. I was just in a pool yesterday with the S10e taking video. The charging port message is to prevent damage. If the message never goes away or you have intrusion, that's a valid warranty claim.
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Reader mode on Firefox for iPad OS is wonderful, gets rid of everything but the text I want and it feels like reading an eBook.
Doesn't work on Chromium Brave.
/tries not to cry
/lays on the floor and cries alot
>>Yes but don’t you think the government would monitor traffic to those and either block connections which aren’t made by approved local banks or ask you to prove you weren’t evading local laws?

It's very little data being used by light clients, that can be routed a thousand different ways, not to mention encrypted.

And yes governments could certainly do a lot of things but I think that as the object of enforcement becomes the end users, the political cost of enforcing laws against technologies becomes higher, and a blanket crypto ban would require pretty Draconian measures against end users.
One of the advice that a popular youtube said is to start a newsletter, which is how you own your audience, as opposed to being at the mercy of the youtube algorithm.

I thought this was a good advice to take for a long while before a youtuber mentioned it, but I wasn't a content creator.

I think it's a good idea to have your own website as well.
I hope the assurances secured means that OF will verify consent per MC reqs. [edit - seems they have: “We’re already fully compliant with the new Mastercard rules, so that had no bearing on the decision” ^^]

Also I suspect their biggest money makers were leaving, here's the first screen from a competitor's ^ 'join as a creator' page tailor-made from this:

>Earn 100% payouts from every new user from now until Oct 1, 2021!

>Sign up

>Leaving another platform? Not to worry! Our team is on hand to help you transfer your content to FanCentro!

^ https://fancentro.com/sell

^^ https://www.ft.com/content/7b8ce71c-a87a-440e-9f3d-58069ca04...
Some other useful tools for csv files, in particular:

csvkit, a set of command line tools for manipulating csvs: https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

visdata, a quite terminal based csv explorer: https://www.visidata.org/
> There are hacky ways to show some homoglyph attacks, like punycode.

Been thinking about this recently. Is there a risk when?:

• User has a preferred character set determined by preferred language (many people will have only one preferred character set even with multiple languages).

• Display all domain names, which are written in that character set, using that character set. For example, Αθήνα.ελ for monolingual Greek speakers.

• Display all other domain names — if even one character is outside that character set — in whatever other fallback mechanism you’re already using. My preference here would be to invert the colour scheme (background colour becomes foreground and vice versa) for each out-of-charset character, partly to draw explicit attention to homoglyphs, partly because it’s least invasive for most likely domains, but mainly because the fallback part is what I’ve put least mental effort into. This way, for monolingual Greek speakers Αθήνα.ελ looks normal and Google.com is inverted, for monolingual English speakers it’s the other way around, and both will spot something strange with gοοgle.com (the ‘ο’s being Greek omicrons rather than the 15th letter of the Latin alphabet).
The problem with that is OnlyFans deals with millions of dollars per day (one creator made over $1M in 6 hours [1]). I'm not sure where you could find an exchange that would deal in that much physical cash and not bank transfers or checks. And how would you pay people, you can't mail envelops of $1M cash to someone.

The only way I see it working is if they paid creators and employees in bitcoin and switched from AWS to a provider that accepted bitcoin. But you can't pay back investors or pay taxes in bitcoin, so you're still hitting the issue of dealing with a lot of cash.

[1] https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/9550662/b...
I'd include lending in basic services. However it would tie it to pure risk, along with don't let a customer get into too much debt. Pure risk means you only get to look at risk from an actuarial/numbers perspective, nothing more. Too much debt I'm not quite sure how to word into proper legalise but that needs to be done before we can actually do this - maybe just better bankruptcy laws so that risk goes up too high before the customer has too much debt?
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What do you mean by "overload?" If that's why these tools always fail for you perhaps looking at that may give you insight on the root cause.

I think the key for most of these, particularly BATF/BASS is the "always open" part. I've recently started playing around with Obsidian mentioned elsewhere and if you don't have it open at startup it's easy to forget about it. And you need to be pretty diligent at the beginning of adding interesting/educational things to your documents while you're still trying to form the habit.

Having a decent organization system is pretty important too (one of the main failings of BATF/BASS in my experience). If I need to scroll through a bunch of development and business stuff to find that interesting physics article that is suddenly relevant again I'm much less likely to do it than if I have a "physics" document or folder I can see and get to easily.
Why would a service that desperately tries to get normalized shoot itself in the leg like that and allow something controversial?
What is the claim then? Why is it inconceivable that most of these people would be able to save up a few weeks worth of wages?
My understanding was that they were being cut off by payment processors and banks and that drove the decision.

Was this resolved?
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I wish this were true, but it's not that simple. For businesses, there is a lot of 'unknowns' with Crypto. It's regulated differently across jurisdictions, and Crypto in the USA is subject to things like anti-money-laundering and different taxable events when it's exchanged.
a good friend of mine is a sex worker, a cam girl to be precise, and uses OF as it is safer than other platforms. it should be noted that she is a brilliant individual and do this job due to severe psychiatric problems that prevent her doing more "normal" jobs. she feeds one child with this money, as a lot of sex workers that are also loving moms.

it is important that such platforms do exist (if they implement proper safeguards) and that these content creators are not stigmatized.
> The point I'm making is that lawmakers themselves used a similar absurd literality ("actually your computer makes a copy in ram to run a program") in writing this law.

You're welcome to think any parts of the law are absurd (and given the size you probably will think many parts are) but perceived absurdity does not make a gotcha nor does it mean any other perceived absurdity not explicitly in the law now must also be valid or invalid accordingly. If the law had vaguely said "copies of computer programs are protected" and made no provisions towards the intent of protecting the object code in any form elsewhere then later a an argument in court said "and loading it into memory counts as a copy" to try to expand the right past the intent that would be a case of a gotcha.

> Software doesn't inherently require installation, but if it does, it doesn't have to be permanent. I can make a temporary installation in RAM.

How does the installation being done to a temporary location or not change whether the installer has to produce a copy of the software from itself onto the machine? The action the installer does is independent the medium the bytes are stored.

> To be clear the "gotcha"s as referred to in the comments above aren't "bits of the written law one might find surprising or overreaching" they are attempts at circumventing the meaning of the law by taking it absurdly literally (as in my stop sign example in my sibling comment) and hoping to use that narrow interpretation as legal reasoning instead of paying attention to the actual intent of said law.
The point I'm making is that lawmakers themselves used a similar absurd literality ("actually your computer makes a copy in ram to run a program") in writing this law.

> As I said the law as written doesn't singularly hinge on the process of loading a program into RAM to allow the requiring license to use software anyways, the software can require those additional terms as part of the installation onto the computer's storage which is clearly a copying process.

Software doesn't inherently require installation, but if it does, it doesn't have to be permanent. I can make a temporary installation in RAM.

> The copyright law does not make personal playback of music an exclusive right of the rightsholder. It's not the CD giving me any rights, it's that the copyright law never took these rights away from me in the first place. That is why you don't need a license to listen to music that you own a legally obtained copy of. They never applied the absurd technicality of temporary copies to music.

In the case of CDs copyright law provides the other restrictions explictly listed but the CD (typically) choses to give you unlimited playback ability. Copyright isn't the only law that dictates what you're allowed to do with the content privately, newer (2000s) laws around DRM for instance provide more of the other rights restrictions of digital content.
Thanks

My content delivery servers cost me about €2000 per month. I experiment a lot with different providers to drive cost down here. My storage servers are €800 per month. For that money I get about 500 TB of usable capacity (all my servers run raidz2). And then I spend about €150 on database servers. My Constellix DNS bill is €50 per month, and Mailgun is €5.

So about €3000 / month worth of infrastructure.

I started working on pixeldrain in 2015 during lunch breaks at school. The original version was a Spring Boot app with MariaDB. I had a lot of performance problems here. My use case doesn't really fit in the CRUD API use case. I need tighter control over my connections and threads. That's why I switched to Go.

I run ads to pay for the servers. It's really hard to find advertisers for file sharing services because they don't want to run ads in controversial content, and that's what file sharing sites are mostly used for. I have to resort to working with some really shady companies. Because of this I balance my ads so that they generate just enough revenue to pay for the servers.

Eventually I would like to turn some profit though. That's why I'm trying to shift from file sharing to content delivery.
I agree with you in that I do not understand why anybody doing something illegal would upload related data to a cloud storage.

But if nobody would import CSAM into their icloud library why do all the pictures need to be scanned in the first place? I would imagine anybody doing major illegal stuff being informed about important measures in order to not be caught.
You can organise text in a hierarchy indefinitely with tabs.

I make a template Google Doc with the margins stripped out that I can copy anytime I need one.

I usually will throw on Dark Reader as well and use a monospace font.

Added benefits:

- Phone editing
- Easily link to other google docs.
- Share them with anyone.

It's a cloud version of todo.txt.
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