skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author is framing consumption as having two pools of currency:

1) money

2) time

It costs money to get access to the good you are consuming, and hours to unlock the value. Whether or not you enjoyed reading Moby Dick, you have 16 less hours in the time bank.

If you do enjoy it (I did not), you have paid 16 hours out of the time bank and reaped the reward of 16 hours of pleasurable reading.

There are “cheaper” thrills. I am told you can spend 5 minutes on TickTock and receive some quick gratification. The up front cost is low. The cumulative payoff of spending 16 hours watching cat videos may not be as ultimately rewarding to you as plowing through some classic literature.
That is handled by MakeMKV, which the blog posts refers to.

https://www.makemkv.com/

"MakeMKV is a format converter, otherwise called "transcoder". It converts the video clips from proprietary (and usually encrypted) disc into a set of MKV files, preserving most information but not changing it in any way."
They explicitly rationalize the Windows builds of Emacs, so I can only assume that's the same rationale as for any other GNU software

> To improve the use of proprietary systems is a misguided goal. Our aim, rather, is to eliminate them. We include support for some proprietary systems in GNU Emacs in the hope that running Emacs on them will give users a taste of freedom and thus lead them to free themselves.

Taken from https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html
I dumpster dove for food 7-or-so times last year in the Bay Area. I always came home with a heap of fresh-seeming organic produce. So easy, pretty fun. And saddening to leave so much healthy food, to rot in dumpsters > landfills.
If you buy whole or fractional cow, the butcher will typically hand you boxes of separately vac-sealed cuts. At that point, it's really hard to beat the convenience of "grab one, throw it in the circulator". You don't even need to defrost it.
I wonder why you see his chemical weapons developments during WW1 as a particularly egregious sin.

My great grandfather was on the front lines in France and was gassed several times. To the day he died you could see the veins in his eyes from that experience, but when I went to the local VFW with him as a child and saw the men with no arms or no legs - the product of boring old TNT and shrapnel - I would always ask myself why we handwave that as the costs of war.
I‘m using excalidraw often at work. It really helps you to keep things simple. Prevents you from cramming several level of details into one diagram.
Yes it is uncensored. Starting in 2019, aircraft conducting operations related to homeland security, law enforcement, national defense or intelligence can turn off ADSB out and communicate their location to the FAA out of band.
Yes, BTC is a great store of value. (So are limited edition Beanie Babies, but BTC is more convenient.)
The myth that many people work 60-80 hr weeks needs to die. Very few people do this and the ones that do choose to. C levels, company owners etc. Anyone else working that much straight up chooses to.
> What kind of evidence are you looking for?

Normally, the person making a claim or allegation supplies some evidence. You know like if I accused Microsoft of using patents for holding back operating system development, then you as presumably a software expert would rightly ask me for evidence. Is my point somehow unclear? Commenters on HN repeatedly make this claim and if you look at my comment history, each time I ask for evidence I get exactly your kind of reply or the link to that throwaway post (also on HN) and a blog article (that refers to that same throwaway post! infinite loop!) or best of all patents.google.com/search?q=eink . That suggests to me that these comments have no basis in evidence and the authors of the comments aren't even involved at any level of the display industry to understand what they're talking about.

> I would assume the same thing would happen with eink

Evidence?
C# does support both low latency GC modes and allows for you to specify regions of execution where GC won't occur.
You are welcome to offer your own selection of old, niche languages used more, industrially, than Rust.

But, you do know that Postscript is a Forth, right?
And remember there is a technology (based on radioactivity) that has very high energy density but can only deliver that energy very slowly so use cases are limited.
I believe this is more or less Christensen’s argument in “The Innovator’s Dilemma” [0]. Google is now the incumbent beholden to shareholders.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
I have no idea what you're trying to communicate. I reread your comment three times and I am still unsure.
Yeah exactly, that’s my point. We haven’t been developing and using a ton of test types we could realistically do now given the proper incentives. At some point, with more and more data being accumulated and more and more services being brought online, we will have to start adding more foolproof tests suites as it it’s reaching a point where it’s not just company reputation but national security that we’re risking.
Yeah FAANG have those type of interviews too.
This is fantastic, always something majestic and curious about planes. How they fly and where they are going. Kudos!
> TLDR: The Go standard runtime allows for asynchronous coding while allowing the developer a simply synchronous interface.

I am happy for Golang users but Gevent is more "synchronous" and easier to write.
Teaching classes. It's not worth self-marketing, unless you're a freelancer (in which there's economy of scope). Find people doing classes, offer to teach. If you can teach for certifications, there's plenty of work out there.

Writing books is not worth it. Writing the whole syllabus for a class isn't either. Use an existing one.

Mentoring for hackathons or doing speeches in universities pays pretty well even at a token fee.

I think there's some value in doing and maintaining template code or a recipe book. I've gone through a lot of pain trying to write tests for a certain config, and just forked out money for examples.
This made a lot more sense imo when rights were less equal and the expectation was for the wife to stay at home. I think as thinks become more equal the more irrelevant an doutdated the current legal expectations are around marriage. Especially because the state will enforce child support regardless of martial status.

At some point the narrative has to change when things are more equal. I think there is a lot of data supporting that they have in many ways changed already. Women are more educated on average and more are completing higher education degrees than men and have been for the last few years.
You're taking the vendor at their word. You can't do this. It has happened before (see Intel vPro) that some feature is not actually impossible to activate, etc.
The author seems to limit their analysis to laptops. As far as I know, desktop/server class hardware does have reasonable options like those from Raptor Engineering (such as Talos: https://www.raptorengineering.com/TALOS/talos_comparison.php), though I could be wrong. Could this more of an issue relating to how laptops/phones are built/marketed/sold compared with desktops/servers (and given those effects, building a free-software-based laptop/phone is practically impossible given the lack of possible components)?
> There is one exception: FPGAs, under the premise that "generically" backdooring an FPGA is computationally infeasible.

IMO, this isn't a reasonable premise.

- The entire boundary scan chain is a backdoor. You could have an embedded processor poking around looking for things that look like RISC-V code and adding implants or observe state.

- You could make SERDESes do various kinds of naughty things when certain patterns go by-- dump some scan chain info, so you can kick some special packets and read out state remotely. Same thing for other dedicated peripherals that are connected to the outside world. This could be a pretty small number of gates compared to the processor implant idea.

- You could make naughty patterns of bits crossing places do bad stuff. Think of dynamic effects like rowhammer being deliberately included, so if you know the design you can figure out what outside data will trigger bits to flip and state to leak. (Yes, I know that block rams are SRAMs, but that doesn't mean you can't deliberately add capacitive coupling or screw up synchronizers in various ways. And it looks like we may have block NVRAMs soon, so that opens the possibility for various evil even more).

- You could deliberately break some kinds of operations-- e.g. make elliptic curve cryptography unreliable in some cases so you leak key data.

Note the various defense and national security applications of FPGAs. They're a wonderful target for state actors to try to backdoor.
I was just looking for one of these two days ago, and I didn't know what to call it. I haven't purchased an optical disk in a long time, but someone sent me one. Only then did it occur to me that I didn't have an optical drive in one of the computers I currently use.
> You can use signed firmwares to make it both compliant and upgradable.

The FSF would not be okay with this though, as it would be a GPLv3 violation to prevent users from replacing the firmware with a modified version.
Yes, spend your time maintaining a Linux distro on the desktop instead. Everytime it breaks, you won't have time to surf any toxic forums.
This isn't really how things work.

Let's say Belon Tusk is worth $100 million and invests that into starting a submarine company. Eventually they make a working product they can sell, and that puts the value of the company at $1 billion.

Eventually the second design comes along and revolutionizes submarine industry and reduces the costs that governments (taxpayers) and private industry were paying for submarine voyages significantly. This puts the value of the company at $100 billion and makes Belon a hundred billionaire.

This is not wealth that was "extracted" from anywhere.

The company might be using cheap finance on its valuation, but it's also paying workers, buying goods and services, and selling services into the economy as well. It's most likely creating a net positive for society.
I agree I was wrong in that they both will go down 100% of the time. It's possible to come up with rare situations in which one or the other will go up.

But to me it seems that if one of them is going to go up, it's more likely to be the higher earner whose standard will go up. The divorce caused the higher earner to lose access to a lower income (possibly zero), so thus possibly not much financial downside. The divorce caused the lower earner to lose access to a higher income, so a large financial downside.

> It's also not the case that 100% of income in a marriage contributes to standard of living

Are you saying a divorce could lead to more efficient use of money? That doesn't seem like the case to me. When married they were in 1 bedroom in 1 house. Now they're in 2 bedrooms in 2 houses. Less efficient. If there are kids and shared custody, the kids need double the bedrooms as well.

>(or equally between spouses)

Ok, I sort of get that point. If for example while married the higher earner spent 60% of his/her income on hobbies that didn't benefit the lower earner, then the lower earner was given 50% of the higher earner's income as alimony, that would mean the lower earner could possibly benefit. But those numbers are crazy. Most money is spent on housing, which benefits both spouses. To spend such a giant amount on a single spouse's hobbies is very unusual.
would it be possible to pinpoint location of your house? Since we know the paths each of these planes have taken, public record, and although we dont know what time the photos were take we can still come up with range of locations vs time, where these angles would be possible.

so find intersection of all these planes' paths, then using geometry figure out possible locations, then find their intersections..
I wonder if there is a difference in accuracy of emulation. Even back in 2000 ZSNES ran smooth for the vast majority of games. The exception were games with special chips on the cartridge like SuperFX.
This is where the Netherlands can contribute something: with awesome infrastructure for bicycles, you don't have to be that dense before using the car becomes a once or twice a week thing.

I often have to park my car streets away because all the closer spots are taken. But it doesn't matter as much because we don't use it much.

Car sharing systems are the next step, our car is old so the economics don't quite work yet. But when it breaks down we won't buy a new one, just sign up for one of the services that have cars parked nearby.
Ghost - it can be self-hosted, and they provide an official Docker image on Docker Hub

https://ghost.org/
That one kinda makes sense, because, when you can't update it, there isn't really much of a practical difference between something implemented in hardware or firmware. So not allowing blobs in rom would almost be hypocritical if you don't also mandate that the actual silicon of the chip is completely free.
Maybe an array of towers, buttressed together by walkways.
most people using emulators are those who grew up owning consoles anyway.

About piracy, when I think about it, piracy is big part of my computer childhood, otherwise, I wouldn't afford to do anything with computers.
At this time it is more efficient to use the rich ecosystems provided by modern languages and just scale up than it is to microoptimize against any perceived inefficiencies of using containers and these ecosystems.
That is clearly not the case.

For hundreds of years people have energetically misused science to justify both their racist feelings and systemic racism. And other people have showed up to disingenuously defend that in many ways, including your evasive, just-asking-questions routine.

There is no reason to think that activity has stopped. And indeed, the shift in the last 50 years to make overt racism moderately less socially acceptable suggests that we might see an increase in the amount of covert racism. So I feel no obligation to take the latest iteration any more seriously than I would the 1850s version. It's the same deal with perpetual motion machines or multi-level marketing schemes or religious door-knockers: the next one to come along could finally be the one that isn't horseshit. But that's not the way to bet.

If you'd like to make the argument that your personal favorite scientific racism is better science than the scientific racism favored by other racists, feel free to take a swing at it. But just looking over your comment history, I'm not going to give it a lot of weight.
It's worth noting that, practically speaking, none of the public health measures used in the recent pandemic have reached the level of what the ACLU was arguing against, which was things like forced quarantine (e.g. you're infected with asymptomatic covid, so you're locked in a hospital ward and not allowed to leave). In that original article, the ACLU also mentions that individuals and community engagement are important in the initial article.

13 years later, it spoke out about states banning businesses from mandating vaccinations or masks to enter their place of business. It should absolutely be within my rights as a business owner to ban an unvaccinated or unmasked patron, and it is a violation of my civil liberties for the government to ban this.

In other words, the 2008 and 2021 positions are entirely compatible.
I don’t understand the issue you or the guy are having with this. You aren’t forced to work there. If someone likes it let them have it.
> I seriously wonder what has happened to older people in tech, and sometimes wonder if one day I'll be taken out back and find out.

Assuming moderate financial literacy, haven’t they all switched careers or retired?
You're welcome to make the case, of course. But you'll understand why your comment doesn't persuade as is.
Ha ha you’d definitely notice the quality drop at 4GB unless you’re watching on a 1080p monitor that you stole from work or something.

At $13/TB (https://diskprices.com/), I think all of us can afford to keep archival copies of 50GB Blu-rays. That’s like $0.65 (and a little more for raidz) for a new release that would cost you $45 if you bought it retail.

Don’t get me wrong, making a 4GB copy is a hell of a lot better than what most people do, just letting the media slowly degrade in a cabinet until it disappears when you move.
It sure sucks that device makers just have to wait and hope someone writes free firmware. If only they had some way to cause the firmware to be written, perhaps involving things like "money" or "employees" or "contracts with vendors".

The alternatives to this policy are allowing all blobs, in which case the RYF certification isn't actually verifying anything, or not allowing any blobs, in which case RYF cannot certify any devices made after 2009 (something the author also takes issue with). Making it expensive and risky for device makers to rely on blobs is the only middle ground that makes sense.
The Future of E-Bikes
> I'd push back a bit on the orchestra musician preparation relevance. Playing at an audition alone is very different from playing in a section. The hyper critical attention to minute details that wins you a job at, say, the New York Philharmonic, isn't what makes you good at blending with your section.

A bit off topic, as this isn't orchestral music, but in college I was in a couple of bands as a bassist, and in one of them the guitarist was probably one of the best musicians I ever played with technically. However, because he was so good, sometimes he would get taken by surprise when someone less talented in the band messed something up during a performance. When practicing before one of our gigs, I noticed that our rhythm guitarist was playing a certain section incorrectly and essentially finishing it in half the time he was supposed to; the drummer and I would generally catch on immediately and course-correct, but the lead guitarist tended to be flummoxed and took the longest to group up with everyone. I made sure to mention it to everyone since I figured it might come up again, but I think everyone else forgot by the time the gig happened, and the same exact thing happened, and even though it was the rhythm guitarist who made the initial mistake, the lead guitarist ended up being the one who "looked" the most wrong to the audience because the drummer and I knew that the only way we'd get back on track was grouping up with the rhythm guitarist and leaving the lead guitarist behind. If anyone were trying out our two guitarist to join an existing group, I think almost everyone would take our lead guitarist due to how much better he'd perform in an audition. However, if the band he tried out for wasn't able to keep up with him, it's very possible he would have been the wrong choice. This seems pretty similar to "leetcode" style interviews for a software engineering role; the person who is able to impress the interviewers the best technically might end up being a bad fit for some teams if they aren't able to collaborate as effectively with their team.
Downtown Saint Paul Minnesota has the “skyway system” but I’m not sure it provides any lateral stiffening, rather more movement between buildings above street level in inclement weather
Correct, GP asked about military so I mentioned that it's legal for them to turn it off. It's also legal for intelligence, law enforcement, etc -- anything government-related with a good reason pretty much.
I believe you could consume all the words in Moby Dick in 16 hours. But it’s one of those “crammed full of metaphors” books that could easily take a seminar to unpack. I don’t pretend to get it, but smarter people than me write articles on its layers of complexity and interpretation[1].

You can read those masterworks at a superficial level and they’re usually somewhat rewarding. Or you can read Dostoyevsky while deep diving on Russian history and get a notably different experience. But it takes a lot longer.

1: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/08/th...
How much time would it approxmiately take to rip a DVD using this method on a 5-10 year old computer.

I know that it is vague question, but is the ballpark - a couple of minutes, hours or are we looking at days ?
I don't think she has a "problem" per se. I think her clothes buying is entirely within reason, and she makes wise decisions about when to buy or retire clothes.

I was mainly extrapolating her feelings for new clothes to others who spend a lot more on clothes.
I have a bunch of wires, power supplies and devices on my side desk simulating several CAN bus networks and three serial cables plugged into my work computer. It's definitely a no go when working with embedded stuff.

This guy is definitely a hipster, like most architects. You can tell that by looking at his scarf. These guys are deciding what future offices should look like just the same way fashion industry grands decide what the next season's collection should look like: focused almost solely on aspect and quite disconnected from actual user's needs. What I like about his ideas is the use of outdoor spaces and that he fully understood the worker's need to balance between work and life.
No. My primary motive, especially with these more modern emulators, is to have a better experience playing games I own. To play 3D games at higher resolution and more stable framerates. Also, so I don't have to breakout old consoles anytime I want to play those games.
I have mixed feelings on this.

While I agree with the author on many points, this feels like letting perfect be the enemy of better.

Does Firefox have problems? Of course, 100%. Is it much much better than Chrome? Yes.

Let's focus first on the fights that can be won. It's hard enough to get people to switch off of Chrome to Firefox, lets not try to push them to something they've mever even heard of.
It’s not because of 5 stories not being enough. I live in Berlin where almost all buildings top out at 5-6 stories and there are restaurants and shops all over the city.
This is what I missed, well put.
That looks a lot like what I'm thinking of, only that I imagined this at least at the tenth or twentieth floor. That combined with having businesses in floors others than the ground floor, like you more commonly find in Japan.
Felters were mad from exposure to mercuric nitrate, not metallic mercury: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felt#Carroting

Metallic mercury can poison you if you inhale enough of it, yes, but that wasn't what the felters were suffering.
“Time” only makes sense as a currency in the opportunity cost sense. Those 16 hours will pass whether you’re reading Moby Dick or not.

I don’t think it’s just time but also, as you allude to a bit, the extra effort, mental or physical.
Since most people don't seem to be aware: you can use Wordpress as a mostly-static website generator.

Use WP Super Cache, and most of your pages are static anyway. A small PHP stub will be hit still, but if you don't even want that, you can just serve the generated static pages without it.

It's well documented, you just edit your httpd.conf/.htaccess or your nginx config to serve the static files generated by the plugins.

Only logged-in users (in most personal Wordpress installations: "just me") or recent commenters, depending on configuration, hit any PHP code at all.

Oh, and commenting works, unless with SSGs out of the box.

Keep the number of plugins small, use a static plugin and security is mostly a non-issue for a personal weblog (it's different for a "real" media operation with all kinds of complicated workflows, of course).
Dark Souls 3 exploit could let hackers take control of your entire computer
I'm not sure I understand. Is this article equating the contraction of myocarditis with the contraction of SARS-CoV-2, from a risk perspective?