skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Putting upgradeability aside, Macs typically have longer usable lifespans as evinced by their relatively high resale value. Anecdotally, it's common to find 5-7 year old MacBooks being used by their original owners (I'm typing on one right now), and Apple will offer around ⅓ of the original value on a 5 year old machine as a no hassle trade-in because their refurb partners are able to sell them (you can usually get more selling privately).

It would be nice to see some objective stats on this though.
I've tried this before and it was so laborious that I regretted it. I'm not sure I saved myself any time over writing "vanilla" Rust or whatever one might call the default alternative. If I was really interested in writing Rust more quickly, I would just clone everything rather than Rc it, but in whichever case you're still moving quite a lot slower than you would in Go.
Introduction to Hippo: The WebAssembly PaaS
This reminds me of "cheesing" in online games, where someone figures out some minor game imbalance that's cheap and easy to do and exploits it. No hacking or cheating, just playing the game as-it-is rather than as-it's-intended. Examples are camping in FPS shooter games, spamming hard-to-block moves in fighting games and Zergrush-like strategies in RTS games. People will say it's cheesy and a dishonorable way to win, but then again, you're winning--all completely within the rules and parameters set out by the game. The people crying "cheese" are playing a different, constrained and harder game, self-imposed out of some sense of purity or honor, and are upset that they're not winning.
I think no US companies aren't required to be C Corps. That wouldn't make a ton of sense for them if they're planning to operate largely outside of the US.
Ask HN: Satellite ISPs Worth It?
I’d kill to ditch my current provider, but the only other provider in my area that offers DOCSIS or fiber broadband appears to be unavailable at my address.

I’m curious whether satellite providers are worth looking at. It seems that some of them offer similar “up to” speeds as my current provider, but at a significant cost increase.

But I never get close to the “up to” bandwidth my ISP advertises and a cheaper plan with a Lowe “up to” from a different provider could be fine if in effect I get the same speeds (from memory it’s rare to get more then 50-60mbps down”.

I’ve also have read about higher latency with satellite connection, and am not sure offhand how much that would effect me.
The Link is broken
Demanded I sign in to read the article, but it worked in a Private Window.
From Hedge Fund to Psychedelic VC: Using the 506(C) Rule to Invest in My Passion
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Kotlin
Leveraging VR to Teach Spatial Reasoning for Raytracing
You have just cited two more excellent reasons for modular laptops and commodity components; component selection and the environment. That brings the total to three, including the "OEM crap ware"

You're a potential customer of this product, your cognitive dissonance on the matter notwithstanding.
typical interviewer bias - you are looking for a candidates that look exactly like interviewer does, and possesses the same knowledge
It's the scale of it - the videos of the meteor from Russian dashcams don't give a feel for the scale or the sound. But ... it smashed 7000 buildings across 6 cities - that is terrifying in our modern world. To a bronze age citizenry?
Given new entrants into the backend space, like Supabase (for a Firebase-like open source alternative), Hasura (open source GraphQL on Postgres), etc, how viable is Django and similar technologies like Rails these days? It seems like the former are PaaS which you can simply drop into your app but the latter are more so full on backends that let you control everything.
Probably parents realizing their children were making in-app purchases beyond what they (the parents) were aware of, and charging them back as unauthorized use. The cc processors pass that on to the merchant, and will drop them if there are too many. Likely Roblox just reached some critical mass where they couldn't sustain it any more.
It was for bombs, not speed. Here's right from General LeMay's autobiography:

"...We had decided to take out the guns and gunners to make up for the shortage of airplanes, because it would be another factor in helping increase the bombload. However, if the change to low altitude had been quite a step to take, then going in at low altitude with half a crew was something else!"

The firebombing of Japan was done at low altitude, not high altitude.

Do you have a source on heavy bombers over Japan dropping bombs on farmland and fleeing if attacked? That seems against almost every principal of bomber warfare. Lone bombers are much easier to kill than a formation, and an entire formation jettisoning bombs and abandoning their attack just because a few fighters showed up, or AA fire began is hard for me to comprehend.
I'm just really curious if DAOs will actually take off as the "standard" way to do things. One thing with anything smart contract related, as far as I understand it — the code can't be updated right? Doesn't that mean that bugs can't be fixed?

I've never trusted my code to be perfect... and how do UX / web people like me even get started on setting up DAOs and participating?
First off... NOT A FUCKING CHANCE. If a kid came to me with a game that was asking for "opt in" age verification by scanning government ID, and they wanted to do it, we'd have a long talk about privacy and that game would get uninstalled even if it means the end result is the kid crying over it.

Second, how is this going to work? I don't know a single kid that plays Roblox and has a government issued photo ID. And are they REALLY going to roll out a system where they're trying to train minors to scan their ID and submit it to a corporation for something as trivial as a game?

> When a government-issued ID is scanned for verification, an anonymized value is generated, allowing Roblox to safely verify identity without risking exposure of the user’s real identity.

There are two possibilities here:

1. It's absolutely bullshit and they store some portion of uniquely identifiable identity info, like your name + birthdate, somewhere.

2. It's absolutely useless because someone will create a website or app that fools the system by showing fake id and a matching "likeness".

So I don't believe at all the glossed over claims of respecting privacy on this. This is a bad idea and I hope it fails spectacularly.
> I'm quite surprised that Tesla continues to lack such a system to monitor the drivers eyes on the road when they are behind the wheel especially when the user is using autopilot or not.

You are surprised for no cause. Tesla uses exactly that system.

https://www.notateslaapp.com/software-updates/version/2021.4...
Built-in watermark support. When the system eventually gets hacked and the pictures end up in the hands of hackers, their use will be limited due to a "COMPANY + DATE" watermark plastered all over.
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I guess my kids will miss Roblox when it goes away forever.
Ha! Are you me? I'm also learning to play the piano for the last 2 years. I play almost the easiest pieces of J.S.B like minuets or simpler arias and sarabande. Just like you, I printed the sheets out and annotate the heck out of it: notes, fingering. And just like you, every new piece is a relearn from scratch!. I think I can live with it. I am happy with what I could do now. It's better than the Synthesis (Guitar Hero of pianos) where I didn't know the notes at all.

I'm forcing myself to read sheet now and it could be taking longer since I am not practicing hours a day. I find myself often phrase (F-A-C-E or All-Good-Boys-Deserved-Fudge).

Overall, learning this new hobby is a changing my life. I just discovered the entire new universe of language that has been used for hundreds of years. The down side now is that it is pretty depressing to listen to any of the current pop culture music again.
They did not find a brute force attack against Curve25519.
It's telling that the problem is called "too many white dudes" and not "too few women" or "too few people of color". Why try to create a solution that helps people when you can just gain woke points by pointing out a demon?
HTTPS may help with security and privacy in some ways, but it is also a step back for freedom and accessibility in many other ways.

The certificates are centrally managed.

The protocol is not human-readable.

Older devices and OSes are excluded.

Transport and data are merged together.

Other accessibility issues are also present, such as requiring increased processing power, matching clock setting.

These issues, and many others, are why I still retain HTTP on my sites and will continue to for the foreseeable future.
Even in desktops it feels like socket+chipset is becoming more and more tied to specific CPU so that you need to swap the motherboard and the cpu together.
Yeah, Apple was really good at replaceable batteries, keyboards, hard drives, RAM, and wireless cards... right up until they decided they didn't want to be. IIRC it was sometime around when they started calling PowerBooks MacBooks... 2006 or thereabouts.
(I think) I feel like I'd be similar in opinion about this with the OP, so hopefully you don't mind me putting my thoughts here!

The main issue that I have is that it's down to a matter of trust. I'm mainly using the article on Roblox as an example for my thoughts here, but I'm sure it could be easily translated to other services/companies doing digital ID verification.

I don't like digital identity verification at all however I am open to other options. I have no trust in these identity verification companies using my ID for the sole purpose they say it will be used for. I have no idea if they're holding onto the ID and using it for training their algorithms, or if they sell it to a data collection agency, or if they etc. etc. etc. - why do I need to read a 10+ page privacy policy document to figure that out?

For a company like Roblox - I don't see why they couldn't roll out their own system for digital verification. Yes, you'd have an absolutely massive influx of users at this point since they seem to _just now_ be adding age verification, but after a month or two - barring special events/promos in game - I'm sure an ID Verification department could be handed out to a few people.

That being said - I'm not considering any issues in other aspects like Legal issues, Privacy issues, data retention issues, number of users, numerous ID types etc. etc. etc. and I'm sure those are HUGE factors as to why people aren't "rolling their own" solution.
Not sure about the ‘extremely low salaries’ bit but don’t forget that in London for example finance can pay very well indeed so I suspect that lots of potential tech emigrees end up working in banking.
Boox sells a foot pedal for use with 10" or 13" eInk tablets for exactly that purpose. Ain't cheap though.
Traveling 27 days a month might sound impressive but it shouldn't really put extra wear on laptops in general. I frequently work from cafes and such and put my laptop into my backpack on an almost daily basis, and it's fine after years. I don't even use a padded sleeve or other special protection.
Deno uses tokio instead of libuv. Deno comes with a large amount of tooling built-in: formatting, testing, linting, documentation, and other
Not sure if this was meant towards me or the parent comment, but I'll mention that I am a satisfied NYC resident.
Wow, didn't know this!
I did mean the USA, but now see that it was implicit (sorry. I probably enforced a bunch of stereotypes right there).

I'm very curious if "it's a right-wing dystopia" is a common viewpoint, and whether it comes from direct experience, or just reading about the US. (Not disagreeing at all).
Development of Exploitation Techniques Against Cryptowallets
The study doesn't say if it's bad or good.
They just say that attention decreases with Autopilot is on.

The question you ask is completely different and thus, not brought into the article.
The case/hinges has always been the first thing to fall apart in all my passed laptops. This is the third and the plastic case is showing age. The other two are still running well but they can't be moved around at all no more. Basically I want something as tough as an Apple Macbook but without Apple crap on it (I need Linux).
My next laptop will have the best case and hinges or there won't be another one. I can't stand seeing perfectly runnning old machines made unusable because cheap assembly.
Nothing would make me comfortable doing so, any more than sharing my bank credentials with a 3rd party for example. The only question is whether the benefit or necessity of doing so outweighs my discomfort.

I think the discomfort is a good thing here.
We use swc a lot but not for type-checking, that is still done by tsc loaded into a snapshot (precompiled v8 state).

There is a type-checker in the works tho https://stc.dudy.dev/docs/status/
I think this guy is full of shit because of the following:

> If you took the median white person in America and lined up their life experiences next to the median black person in America, I’m confident you’ll find out they see and experience two different Americas.

I'm white, but when my parents talked to me about police, they said: "Don't run from the police. Don't try to fight the police. Don't fuck with the police or their dogs. Don't say anything to them unless you must. Say 'Yes, officer', 'No, officer', 'I do not consent to a search, officer', and 'I won't answer questions without a lawyer, officer'."

George Stocker might have grown up in a middle-class white family, but my white family was working poor, and Johnny Law was no friend of ours.
The GPs core argument is that traditional markers of attentiveness may not be appropriate when it comes to autopilot.

You then argue that self-assessment is inaccurate. You're right, but it just doesn't seem relevant.
altgr-z still opens nvidia's bar instead of, you know, just typing ż. In 2021, not 2004.
What 13 year old has a government issued ID?
pro-tip: either of the scrollwheels, volume adjustment or speed adjustment, are considered driver inputs. I typically go +1 kph, -1 kph its not even noticable
> maximizes total value in the long run.

What value? Units sold/quantity of product? If so, should businesses operate at breakeven in the long run?

This is an interesting take, it is optimal for everyone, not just the producers. I agree that this would be the ideal scenario for society.

The problem is - how to arrive at it?

Profit sends a message that offering X instead of Y is more profitable - and therefore, better use of one's time.

How would you reduce/remove profit without destroying incentives to innovate or even pivot to new industries?
Try intraday stock/futures/forex trading... it will quickly break the "scrub" mentality the author talks about. You either play to win, or you run out of money and can't play anymore.
Yes that is what I am suggesting, based off of the PDF provided above and it's referenced sources which I have pasted below for your convenience. As to the rest, point taken; I got carried away.

From the PDF:
1 Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), “Note on the Morality of Using Some Anti-COVID-19
Vaccines,” December 17, 2020, n. 5: “At the same time, practical reason makes evident that vaccination is not,
as a rule, a moral obligation and that, therefore, it must be voluntary.” 2 See Pontifical Academy for Life, “Moral Reflections on Vaccines Prepared from Cells Derived from Aborted
Human Foetuses,” June 9, 2005; Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Instruction Dignitas personae,
2008, nn. 34-35; Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, “Note on the Morality of Using Some Anti-COVID-
19 Vaccines,” nn. 1-3. When there is a sufficiently serious reason to use the product and there is no
reasonable alternative available, the Catholic Church teaches that it may be permissible to use the immorally
sourced product under protest. In any case, whether the product is used or not, the Catholic Church teaches
that all must make their disagreement known and request the development of equal or better products using
biological material that does not come from abortions.
3 See United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic
Health Care Services, 6th ed. (Washington, DC: USCCB Publishing, 2018), n. 28. Hereafter “ERDs.” 4 “A human being must always obey the certain judgment of his conscience. If he were deliberately to act
against it, he would condemn himself. Yet it can happen that moral conscience remains in ignorance and
makes erroneous judgments about acts to be performed or already committed.” Catechism of the Catholic
Church (Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1993), www.vatican.va, n. 1790. Hereafter “CCC.”
5 See ERDs, nn. 32-33; nn. 56-57; Part Three, Introduction, para. 2; Part Five, Introduction, para. 3. 6 See ERDs, nn. 56-57. Both of these directives state that the proportionality of medical interventions is
established “in the patient’s judgment.”
7 CCC, n. 1777, citing John Henry Cardinal Newman, "Letter to the Duke of Norfolk," V, in Certain Difficulties
felt by Anglicans in Catholic Teaching II (London: Longmans Green, 1885), 248. 8 CCC, n. 1782, citing Second Vatican Council, Dignitatis humanae, December 7, 1965, n. 3.
At which point the end user will see a non-static non-https link that they are free to distrust (and which browsers warn or will soon warn about). That complaint is not specific to this website and can affect any HTTP link any customer ever encounters.
P ≠ NP (Rumor Has It)
HN bubble at work, right here.

Some of my clients still have vt220 terminals with... serial ports.

Then you need a 9600 baud modem and rj11 wire of course, regularly in the corporate world or at your friends house.

So yeah, dongle it is. USB 1.1 dongle for sure, but still dongle.
"Why We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia (and moved to the Netherlands instead)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul_xzyCDT98

"Who else benefits from the Dutch cycling infrastructure" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSGx3HSjKDo

"Why Great Cities Let You (Easily!) Cycle to IKEA"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgvYgxo6UY8

"8 to 80, people of all ages cycling in the Netherlands"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swqaAIkGtpA

As you can see, you don't need "wide roads". Quite the opposite, in fact. When safe cycling infrastructure is present, traffic shifts to cycling, because it's faster, cheaper and more pleasant. This makes roads less congested for your car trips. Widening roads does not have this effect, as additional lanes simply fill up with more traffic if there is no faster, safe alternative. Also, wide lanes encourage high speeds, and you don't want that around your kids.
I’ve only driven a Tesla with Autopilot once, for ten minutes or so. By the end of it, I was struck by how much more time I was spending looking far ahead, or looking in the mirrors for longer. It felt like I switched to farther-field situational awareness once I was confident the car wouldn’t rear end the dude in front of me.

So if attentiveness is measured as “staring at the license plate in front of me”, my attentiveness went down. But I felt safer since I was looking hundreds of yards down the road for situations I might have to handle or avoid, at a longer timescale.
I don't think I'm reading too much into it. There is a big difference between these two sentiments:

> If you live in NYC

> If you insist on living in NYC for any reason
I know that this is anecdotal, but most of my friends and family use Safari on macOS, not Chrome.

It's developers that tend to use Chrome.

I personally use Safari on macOS, because I prefer how its privacy protections, and how little battery power it uses. I just can't get used to Chrome and it doesn't integrate with Keychain so I can't re-use my existing password store.
What was the control for that observation? Before and after engagement or arriving on a highway with and without Auto-pilot?
> Second, how is this going to work? I don't know a single kid that plays Roblox and has a government issued photo ID.

Chances are their age verification system only applies if you say you’re 18+. I doubt they’re going to throw away players.
I did it for a crypto exchange, but that was for KYC / AML verification and I intentionally chose an exchange that's regulated by my country's KYC/AML regulator, so I was expecting to have to do it.

Giving up that much PII for a game is insane. I'd uninstall it without even thinking. Any industry that's not regulated to require photo ID when they're asking for it doesn't need to ask for it.
Given that the expansion ports are just USB C ports, the real innovation (one of them) is making an integrated dongles. The only issue I see is that the adapters are a big too large but also a bit too small; the adapters are large enough that there are only 4 but also small enough that making a 2x USB A adapter would be quite challenging.

I think the idea could be expanded upon. Dongles that extend beyond the chassis such that they protrude a bit but make a flush contact with the laptop chassis. This would let you basically turn a typical USB dock into a permanent extension. Perhaps instead of having an two expansion ports on each side, each side of the computer including the front & back would have one larger port. I don't think having two USB C ports does anything to increase overall bandwidth available since it's probably all shared anyway.

Also once Thunderbolt 4 and USB 4 are available it should make creating standardized expansion adapters a lot easier since you won't have to worry about an adapter needing Thunderbolt on an AMD system.
Last I checked (almost a year ago fwiw) you had blocks, mutes, and the ability to specify for your node how much you gossip in terms of how many hops you are away from the source.

What I'm interested in is something like the ability to subscribe to a trusted source's moderation in order to inherit their blocks and mutes, or at least to penalize certain content that is less likely to be trusted or interesting.
I live in a place where fresh water is all over the place, and have had this same discussion with "environmentally conscious" people more than once. Me taking shorter showers, or not watering the lawn, or not letting the tap run until it gets cold will not affect other people's ability to get water. At all.

However, it does cost energy, I realized. And that's at least something to consider. Although minimally so, but at least it made me think a bit :)

Also, people love to talk about water as if it is a limited resource - it is only a limited resource in the local sense. On the global sense, we aren't changing the amount of water available, just the energy needed to get it.
How would you remap the capslock key without using a hotkeys-like setup, such as Karabiner? I looked for a long time for a way to do that and couldn't figure it out.
To be fair, that is now the common "I rewrote X in Y" theme, which followed upon the Y ∈ { Ruby, Clojure, Scala, Kotlin,.... } from previous years.
One thing that’s helping me a lot is spending five minutes many times a day with a $2 app called Piano Tutor.

It’s a game simply presents a note on a staff and you need to press the right key.

About an hour of it so far and I’m way way faster at reading music.
It's still not as "square" as 4:3. Besides, why not. Other devices have huge black bars around the display.
What happens if/when these systems are hacked and millions of users' government-issued identities are freely available to anyone on the dark net?
I'm sure it's more of a "cover your ass" scenario where in the future, if someone gets past the ID verification system and uses an account to commit a crime on their platform, Roblox can just say "the ID company verified it!"
That's bloody good. The UK needs at least a million new homes, at an affordable cost. Maybe they can send them over to the UK.