skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's still like that. They are kind and and supportive and positive. We had some huge engineering screwups launching this week, and we've had nothing but kindness and support. Based on our experience so far, I'd sum up the YC ethos as "kind to people, blunt on the advice".
Microsoft was a big player, and certainly had clout, but the word "force" is inaccurate.

To answer the grand-parent-post, they got a license per CPU because the retailers _agreed_ to that model.

MS would argue that every cpu sold ran an MS operating system (legal or illegal) so licensing the CPU made it cheaper for legit users (ie lower price) and pirate users ultimately paid as well.

This left other OSs out in the cold but the number of actual legit users installing something else was a rounding error.

Shops could _choose_ to just sell dos or windows when the customer wanted it, but they paid a higher price via that model, so few (if any) shops went that way.

MS certainly played lots of dirty tricks but OEM pricing is not really dirty, it's just sensible business when you have that sort of market dominance and your software is pirated so heavily.
> 2. "Send email to John asking him if he would like to Play golf"

Which John? Which of that John's contact points you have saved?

..and why don't you have the keyboard shortcuts for those actions committed to muscle memory by now?
Personal computer is ПЭВМ so there's no such connotation.

The book I didn't really like, I think it was too cheesy, but then again I already had a PC at this point.
I 100% agree with this.
It would be much better and less racist than affirmative action :-)
Where did you find it?
So your non expert opinion is superior to that of four regulators who oversaw the tech in question? Show your work. Wind and solar are cheap and abundant, and will continue to be so. No waste risk, no proliferation concerns, no catastrophic failure modes, and very little permitting (compared to nuclear). Clean power for decades once installed.

It boggles the mind that the armchair engineers continue to advocate for a technology subject matter experts conclude is a dead end. Nuclear advocates might as well be in the same camp as climate deniers.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=46416 (Renewables account for most new U.S. electricity generating capacity in 2021)

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2021.01.11/main.svg

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=50818 (Solar power will account for nearly half of new U.S. electric generating capacity in 2022)

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2022.01.10/main.svg

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/01/26/sunrise-brief-the-int... (Solar interconnection queue in the US jumped from 139GWac in 2019 to 639GWac today)

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights... (US renewable pipeline poised to add 172.5 GW through 2024)
That doesn't look like a jerk comment
Many of these apply to renewables as well. 2030 is not happening. It just isn't. The question is whether it will be 2040 or 2050 even.
Tor provides access to the regular Internet; you are aren't restricted to .onion sites at all.

> the vast majority of the Tor network was used for crime

How could you know the scope of the Tor network? Is that technically possible? Perhaps looking for ilicit goods, that's what was found?

Tor has sites for the Facebook, NY Times, BBC, ProPublica, Deutche Welle, Buzzfeed, and more.
Flit Becomes a PyPA Project
Oh man that explosion sample was everywhere on 90s java applet games.
Internet Appliance Eliminates Hard Drive (2000)
That reminds me how Ubuntu's release upgrader says that an update will take x days on a 56kbps modem (or was it 1Mbps connection, something very slow) as a "relatable" estimation on how long the update will take.
Most people don't have time/resources to test every possible interface for a free website.
Vanilla FreeDOS loads up too much stuff. You can strip it a lot.

Google/DDG some FreeDOS distros for 8086, which are many times slimmer than the former FreeDOS.

https://svardos.osdn.io/

Have fun.
Hyundai IONIQ 5, VW ID3. The fit and finish are from another world compared to a Tesla. And they're probably more reliable too, but time will tell.
I guess it was this article? http://web.archive.org/web/20040603192757/research.microsoft...
This is linked from there :
https://decentpatterns.xyz/library/list/
Yeah that’s completely nuts to me, I’ll continue to recommend yt-dlp for the significant future.
Kubevirt
James Hansen, long time head of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Sciences (GISS), thinks otherwise:

> https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/kh05000e.html
Plus you have to consider the value. What does that extra $50k get you? I mean besides a higher bank account score? You're already making $300k/yr and living very well off. Does the extra spending power get you much more? It seems return on value is diminishing. If you're away frequently you won't be able to spend that money (well your family can). How much do you value time with your family? I'd rather have that money to spend _with_ my family than _on_ my family.
I've got a question if you don't mind. I'm set on moving to iCloud too for my domain as the only thing I really care about in the G Suite is just personal email via custom domain. Should I change the Apple ID of my account off my custom domain ? I can see a scenario where I can't access my iCloud because I need access to iCloud to verify the email.... I could move the domain records, but this won't be a 5 minute job.
Yes, this is important. I don’t know if he knows that, or at least his tweets read to
me as if he doesn’t.
That’s not the point - the function wasn’t exploitable and the vulnerability report made no attempt to show that it was exploitable. It showed how to call it.

And yet, we have a CVE.
I spent a decade taking massive risks to gain an extremely rare set of skills. I joined a top company, and was immediately put into a corner and my job devolved into a weekly “checklist” meeting. All feedback and input I gave, based on my extensive experience, was ignored. Then I was systematically harassed for expressing innovative or creative ideas.

So I redesigned my job to do as little as possible and focus most of my effort on side contracting.

I have zero friends at work. I joined a year ago and feel no connection. I never met anyone in person at my role. Haven’t been into an office.

I feel like an unwelcome outcast and largely unwanted and no one understands my background, talent or skillset. Basically: I am an intern despite my skills.

There is something extremely dehumanizing about remote work. Because corporations can do this to you and no one is the wiser. There is no mechanism to gain any social status it feels like. People who had insider access before I got here will always have advantages over me. I’m not going to have opportunities to stand out or advance my career.

Furthermore: The entrenched folks actively shut down anything that isn’t in their interests.

It feels like 100% of the exciting projects are automatically assigned to people with inside access.

I was removed from all the key meetings and email threads by people threatened by me trying to talk about ways to improve products and systems. Now I’m in an information black hole of exile.

So yeah, I’m doing contracts on the side and coasting. This was the same as my last job.

Remote work has completely deteriorated white collar work for me.
Ask HN: Where do you go to meet interesting people (not engineers)?
My social life is lacking and I would gladly make some new friends. But the only place where I can socialize is the workplace which is full of people like me and the conversations always turn back to work.

I would gladly meet up with some interesting educated people from other professions. I am just at a complete loss where to go and what to do to accomplish this.

This might even be an idea for some kind of new social app, but for now I am asking the question to you, hoping some know good ways to accomplish this.
Those are good, but the big overarching rules are:

1) Assume no prior knowledge of a situation.

2) Provide some context for intent, objectives etc..

3) Greatly simplify the thrust of the message and initially provided only the most highly relevant details.

If you do that - then 'everything else is a detail' - meaning, if someone has a basic understanding of what the situation is, they can go into detail as needed.

If context is not provided, people have no idea what is going on and their professionalism, conscientiousness and curiosity is wasted.

I like the AMZN approach but I'll gather it could be done in a different way.
Fwiw people aren't building the webpage on demand. They're doing it on entry to the project, and so it's already ready when you want it.

Rust takes forever to build too if you've never built the project before, but most people also build that ahead of time too. Repeated doc usage and repeated builds/checks don't require the "full build"
That goes for a very limited subset of jobs. For the most part you are going to be designing some systems which push data through some queues, not deciding whether languages are context-free, writing parser generators or proofs of complexity of the given piece of code. There is a real disconnect between what's needed on the job vs what is being taught.
I'm a small time angel investor (I write 8-10 $100K checks a year), so YC is really important to me. Almost all my checks are in YC companies. I don't have the time nor skills to do proper due diligence, but with YC I don't have to. Investing in a YC company provides me with already vetted founders who I know will have an incredible support network and are already well connected. Yes, I give up some upside because of how much YC already owns, but to me it's worth every penny for the service that YC provides to me as an investor and to the startup.

That's the investor side of the equation, which if you believe this thread is his main complaint -- that it's too investor friendly.

But I also get to see the founder side of the equation. Since I'm writing such small checks, a lot of my value to the company is offering help at the early stage, often with architecture review or product reviews, and sometimes even interviewing engineering candidates for them. Because of the close relationship, sometimes I end up becoming friends with the founders I invest in. Which lets me see how YC helps them as founders.

Need help connecting with someone at company X? There's almost always another YC founder who can make the intro. Need more money? YC has got VCs on speed dial for you. Need media coverage? There are journalists from highly respected outlets asking YC for good stories every day. Even basic stuff, like, "I need an accountant" or "I need a lawyer who can handle this special type of law" can be much easier solved with a quick intro from YC.

Getting into YC just makes everything else about doing a startup so much easier. It doesn't make it easy, because startups are never easy. But it takes away a lot of the low level friction.
thanks for sharing i will take a look.
I only looked at the latest data for USA and Canada so far and they both looked much better for vaccinated people.

Why do you think scotland and Britain are different?
Interestingly, St. Paul actually condemns both "homosexual" behavior and 'fornication' in very similar terms, and the latter is probably a reference to the practically institutionalized pandering of female slaves as prostitutes that was also a major part of Graeco-Roman sexual norms.
? People really care about abortion, for example, but it's really just a wedge issue.

Wedge issues are bad overall for society, but they are not anyone's "fault" except for society. What you're arguing connotes to me that people are victims of some kind, but the fact is the "dark pattern" works because people care about that stuff. I think they are logically incorrect for assigning these issues disproportionate weight, but like...they're free to lol, and it's not inherently invalid.

But then, take something like abortion. Some people really feel strongly about that issue (on both sides of the political spectrum). There are people who do vote based on that single issue alone. They are free voters who have constructed their moral/political rubric or w/e, and have elected to accord that single issue decisive importance in their political decisions. That would seem to me to be a feature, not a bug, of democracy.
That, plus when the reckoning for all of this crazy mess comes, the road warrior sales execs are the first people to get the sword.

Sometimes slumming it more a mere $300k in the home office gives you a tactical advantage.

It’s different if you’re a grunt at a bank who gets some crazy gig at a big cloud company to lock in the “customer” or deny your skills to competitors — as long as you don’t think you’re actually worth that.
They don't take 14% of unicorns though. They take 14% of essentially worthless companies that have a very small chance of becoming unicorns. That's how investment works; seems weird to call it out.
They are. All the Nexus/nxos line as well. You don't hear people rave about their reliability as much as IOS.
People are not necessarily afraid of AIs on their own (though they are afraid of them, too, at least a bit, see Skynet).

I think the bigger fear is that of AI ownership. In a "winner takes all world" where people have a hard time sharing effectively, if there's no need for human labor for many fields and AI owners can just buy lawmakers, some people can just become infinitely powerful. Creating a permanent underclass of those who missed their chance.

See what's happening with coal mining, for example. People keep talking about reconversions but frequently what happens with these people is... Nothing. Their kids are the ones that move away or work in new fields, but most adults over 40 or 50 don't radically change their field of work en masse, or if they do, it's towards even crappier jobs.
This line of thinking requires us to pretend there is no connection between sex and gender. But that raises bigger issues.

For one, if gender has no relation to sex then what is it? Is tomboy a gender? Hipster? Geek? If not, why not?

Also, if we are going to assert that there is no relation to sex, then why are the acronyms FtM and MtF used in the trans community? Male & female are biological sexes, not genders. So how does one transition between biological sexes?

Not trying to be combative, just not clear on how these issues are handled in the community. I'm an outsider so I know that I may just not have the information. Looking for clarity.
They are massive figures and are not at all obscure in the US, although I wouldn’t be too surprised if people under 25 might not know.
You're welcome. I just realized there is a bit of nuance missing from my comment. The unattractiveness of casting diminishes even if you only want one of a thing if it is the case that you will want many things rather than only one thing ever. Many of the videos on the subject seem to be of experienced makers creating many different unique objects. This does of course allow you to amortize the equipment costs across many projects, just as you can for machine tools, and the optional equipment I mentioned (whether purchased or DIY) becomes much more approachable.

Still, it is really hard to beat vacuum forming for approachability in making a one off: The only equipment you don't have laying around can be made with a few chunks of wood. If you have a small oven (even a toaster oven) that only limits the size of your parts. If you have a vacuum cleaner with crappy suction, that just means you can only form thin sheets.

BTW, all these techniques combine. In the case of resin casting, I mentioned that you really need to have made a one-off in order to create the silicone molds. In fact, I have in the past vacuum formed a blank shape (this was before 3D printing was a thing), sanded or machined it to more precise tolerances, added details (dedents, screw posts or holes, flanges, ribs, ridges, textures, etc.) and then used silicone molds and resin casting to make duplicates. Sometimes you actually do need several identical parts in order to just make one object...
> An executive who hangs on to their paycheck, benefits, and prestigious position while using their time to build their own company on the side is not good

you have to be specific, whose time are you referring to? It matters. Are you assuming the executive is using company time to work on his side gig? If so, that's quite the claim. Or are you suggesting that it's not good that he's thinking about his side-gig in the shower instead of using those brain cycles towards his current employer? If that's the case then I think you're out of touch on the duty he has towards his employer.
I think interpret was accurate already. I will definitely interpret something differently from someone else without either of us necessarily being guilty of active perversion.
The quality of quartz-rich minerals used to charge the metallurgical silicon furnaces barely matters for semiconductors. The purity required for the final silicon is much higher than any mineral resource found in nature.

See this presentation "Manufacturing of Silicon Materials for Microelectronics and Solar PV" for an overview of how industry turns quartzite and coal (dirty) into ultra-pure silicon:

https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1497235

If I were to guess, I would say that India's largest obstacle to domestic silicon production and refining is the price of electricity. The processes need a lot of electricity so they tend to be located in areas where it is available at low cost.
Not sure how you are serious about your reply. PCs are a small market and a solution fitting them hardly represents a valid approach. There is an entire world of small devices that don't vomit terabytes of disk space.

One of the most attractive features of Linux is how it suits a large array of hardware. Replacing C solutions with some bloated bandwagon alternative is a bad idea.
Ask HN: Are you happy that you switched from a sysadmin to a programming career?
I'm considering making the move from a fairly traditional sysadmin role, but am concerned that many entry level dev jobs may entail more stress, and less fun, compared to working with a variety of third party software on a higher level.

The sysadmin niche seems less common these days, so I may also have little choice but to find other opportunities going forward.

Was making the transition to a programming career hard for you? How has this decision affected your happiness and day-to-day life?
> The formerly problematic and unwanted side effects of NAT, namely a broken peer to peer relationship of hosts on the internet, are now understood as a feature

A feature? I’ve never heard that. If you want to break the end to end nature of the net you can do that in your router, easily and more powerfully, without all the overhead of NAT.

The net has turned back to the old mainframe days, and things like NAT make it hard to go the other way.
I got this book when I was 4. Loved it to bits.

It even had a crafting project of making a PC mockup with paper and glue (which I did).

I remember reading about how everything's gonna have a microprocessor in it, and thinking it's bullshit, surely that's a leap too far.

Fast forward to 2019, after I got a math PhD and was fixing a small bug in Google's sparse SVD library... in Fortran.

Thanks, Professor. You left quite an impression on me.
Ever seen an average IPv6 firewall, even on $500 devices?

You can have dynamic prefix that can change with every moment on your wan interface, but then you have static IPv6 rules and you cannot specify something like use current prefix there.

So I understand if the first reaction is screw that.
Offtopic:
Hi, I saw your comments in some older thread about chelation (Cutler Protocol).
I too am from germany and have some questions about your chelation protocol.
Unfortunately, I can't reply anymore on that other thread.
Can you contact me at 1u3_2d227vh7iadt@byom.de ?
Depending on the day I will either dream of a language specifically designed with a particular IDE in mind and all the cool stuff you could do with that as a ground up assumption (google f# type providers for some inspiration), other days I dream of a language whose design specifically does not require an IDE, so you can easily understand the code from github or vim or anywhere. For instance global or function wide type inference is handy but can make non IDE use of a language really hard because you can’t immediately see what the types are.

Perhaps the general design principle should be to tend towards one extreme or the other, rather than end up with a language that needs an IDE but doesn’t leverage it fully.
Both France, Japan and the US have proven that nuclear scale up perfectly well.
Right. Neither am I, so take this with a grain of salt. But I'd use "committee decision" in this case.
I remember when the "Joel Test" of 12 characteristics of successful software companies came out around the turn of the century I figured it would be obsolete in mere months or at most a year or two; by 2001 or 2002 at most, who wouldn't be using version control?

Here we are in 2022 and ...
On the same line, perhaps: https://TomArayaScream.com/

(I forgot they have a domain that redirects)
Is there any GUIs for yt-dlp?
> Humans are always fallible in a large enough group

To make sure that everyone, who will eventually read this, understand what this line actually means, is:

There's always an idiot falling through the cracks.

Yes. It's inevitable. It happens. Doesn't change the fact that if people were more rational and less driven by their feelings, less people would be falling for scams and thus less scams would exist.

Anyone who doesn't understand that scams solely exist because they work, is excused. Anyone who disagrees with the idea that people need to act in a rational, self responsible manner is a part of the problem.

The cause of scams is people, who aren't thinking things through, falling for them. If schools nowadays didn't raise people into mostly being thoughtless robots, the world would be a better place as a whole, scams included.

Of course there's always going to be one guy. Doesn't change the rest at all. You're making good the enemy of perfect and your solution in no way or form actually improves us, as humans, and instead removes even more responsibility away from us.
I went through the tutorial, but the thing it generated at the end (that I couldn't scroll though) looked like a document (think Word or a web page)? Is there a sample result? Couldn't find anything on the page.

This looks like Windows Steps Recorder† for a web page / web app?

†https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/record-steps-to-...
That's because we've seen where that brand of socialism (and anarchy) leads --> authoritarianism. It has never worked on anything bigger than the village level. You need abstract means of exchange (money) to get people on a large scale to cooperate. People in my village do not care about people two villages over who they only ever barely met let alone someone hundreds of miles away.
Thank you! (I have edited my link to use yours.) The link I originally had went bad due to the renaming from “draft-ietf-iab-case” to “draft-iab-case”, so I assumed that the document had somehow vanished, and changed to an archive.org link. Thank you for pointing me to the correct link again!
That's not accurate. It's merely establishing the default behavior.
The Harvard School of Public Health released some comments about this soon after: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/2017/09/08/pure...