skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use to write about what I think is a similar idea to yours: imagine a time 500 years in the future when most software has been frozen in a secure and feature rich state. Cyber and other criminal attacks on digital life infrastructure has become so bad that both people and the few international corporate cartels that rule the planet prefer using software that has hundreds of years of security audits, attack surface simulations, etc. The only bits that are changing are data: new books and movies, data driving metaverse style AR and VR, etc.

Is this possible? If I remember back to the 1980s when much of my works was done with Emacs, Makefiles, Common Lisp, and C/C++, then I can imagine a world today where I would still get paid to just use those tools, these tools were only used to produce non-executable digital content, but we had fresh digital entertainment always available. Can this all be extrapolated out to 500 years in the future? I could live with it if everything was secure, efficient, and inexpensive.
In the United States, direct manufacturer auto sales are prohibited in many states by franchise laws requiring that new cars be sold only by independent dealers [1].

This source provides some historical context as to where the franchise laws originated from, albeit, I cannot find anything that directly links Ford to my original assertion [2].

The National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) is responsible for representing 16,500 dealerships across the nation. While NADA abstracts away the ties between dealers and automakers, the vast majority of NADA participants are the legacy/typical automakers [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_US_dealership_disputes

[2] https://www.cato.org/regulation/summer-2014/tesla-car-dealer...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Automobile_Dealers_As...
I don't know what parts of the storage stack you guys are working on, but I worked on enterprise storage systems we had 100% coverage in one form or another from the moment it left the RAM, via the intel interconnects, PCIe, the FC adapters which were either ECC or were using some form of data protection wrapping the entire transaction. So random bit flips in serdes/etc didn't cause problems because the higher level link protocols protected the data between the onboard ram and the endpoint, then there were the higher level protocol also providing their own data integrity.

Looking at even SATA 1, if it is implemented _CORRECTLY_ you get the packet CRC protecting the link data from the point its formed to the point the endpoint verifies the result. So like ethernet sometimes it doesn't matter if some random piece of junk in the process doesn't do its own ECC validation, because its covered under a higher level of the stack.

If your adapters are "desktop" grade then I might consider seeking another vendor if you care about data integrity, some vendors are definitely shipping crap, but there are vendors I can assure you will detect link/etc failures.

And as a side, note, I've seen a lot of bad data, a huge percentage of it, were kernel/etc filesystem errors. We added a bunch of out of band extra metrics to track when/where writes were going and our own metadata layers/etc, and it uncovered a whole bunch of software errors.
Well shit, I guess I'm in the same boat as Imnimo then.
It's a sad day. Truly the "end of an era". Although really, I guess the original "era" ended when Illiad stopped writing new UF episodes. But still, for the site to go down really puts the exclamation point on it.

RIP User Friendly.

But hey, at least Sluggy Freelance seems to still be alive and kicking. I really need to go back and catch up on that series. Maybe time to start over from the beginning and re-read the entire thing. What an adventure that would be!
Superblocks are great, but they are bit boring. Take, for example, Barcelona - it looks the same everywhere. I think, the city should not be homogeneous. Thus, the idea is to make them heterogeneous.
As someone who has actually done the job, paint sealant absolutely has utility, but the bottle of paint sealant costs $20, and you apply very little of it to each vehicle. I got paid like $9 to actually apply it (it took very little time). So while it has utility, the consumer is absolutely being ripped off.
I used https://github.com/kumkee/utf8 (along with a bit of hacking) in my toy scheme interpreter to get Unicode strings.

Had to adapt some script I found to generate character class lookup functions to make it fully work IIRC and still need to plug-in some sort of copy on write mechanism since the strings are managed in a shared buffer but other than that it works pretty well…if you’re into the unicorn strings that is.
Sure, an introductory notation could be created to bridge the gap, and that could be more human friendly.

That said, as someone who uses notation for math regularly, I want to keep using notation. It’s a helpful tool, and it is an efficient and precise language.
I think calculus and trigonometry shouldn't be taught to non-math majors. You have the perspective of someone who is passionate about calculus, which is great, but considering many people aren't as passionate, what you're suggesting (status quo) doesn't work. Or maybe you have ideas on teaching calculus better than how it's currently done? Calculus is obviously extremely important, but I don't think it's useful to drill a few things that most people will quickly forget after the test.

I do think logic is important, and teaching that instead of focusing on math proofs might be a good alternative.
I assume 12v battery, not the big one?
I have `mem_sleep_default=deep` set in my kernel parameters. Resuming takes 8-10 seconds. If it loses any charge overnight, I don’t notice it.

I’m using Arch, FWIW.
In a professional context, desktop software is a pain, and so it's largely dying off now that browser based tools can do so much of it.

It's fiddly and annoying (and usually expensive) to license for a team (compared to SaaS subscriptions). It tends to be less "online" - more likely for work to exist only on staff laptops and more difficult to share and collaborate on work (compared to software where all of the "work" exists online and live collaboration is expected).

My work situation is just VSCode (which I'll probably use in the browser half the time going froward via codespaces), Chrome and whatever Terminal app comes with the OS. And 10 tabs open for email, chat, calendar, docs, video calls, project boards, version control, devops stuff etc. I assume that's pretty typical.
Universal standalone ICE ECU is $500-1000 and you are free from the man.
How do you “look at their sales”?
The truth of the matter is that people do most of their computing on phones.

People conduct serious business on phones. Mobile apps and sites are more important to products that we would all assume are “sit down at a desktop computer” type of products.

Any effort you put into a desktop-only app is basically leaving most of the money on the table, unless it’s a desktop computing specific niche (and if it is, it was probably already thought up 10 years ago).
Jarren runs the Same Day Skunkworks Department at AE Studio, which is "Agency Enterprise" (https://github.com/agencyenterprise) in the first link you shared there
Why not charge the market rate to remove the shortage ?
Those franchise laws were written by and lobbied for by the dealership associations in direct response to Ford and GM dabbling in company-owned stores in the 1990s. They were not pushed for by Ford but against Ford, to make it illegal for Ford to directly compete with its franchisees.
Doesn't that make perfect sense, though? They fought against it because they knew their model couldn't compete... once they lost their effort to prevent it, their only choice was to adopt it.
> I suspect there is some clever base between 1 and 2 which is trivial to compute

Something like this perhaps (although this might be too much granularity):

(8 + (cap & 7)) << ((cap >> 3) + 1)

16 18 20 ... 30
32 36 40 ... 60
64 72 80 ... 120
128 ... etc.
Here:

> Unfortunately, unless we're all going back to a society in which people can only produce things that are physically scarce, like food, we need artificial scarcity

You said that unless we have artificial scarcity, we are all going back to a society where people only produce physically scarce things.
As I understood it, historically the primary value dealerships provided is when the automakers had a glut of supplies that they needed to get off the books to make quarterly sales targets for Wall Street. They could stuff the dealership channel with all that excess inventory and count it as sold. [1]

With EVs and the current semiconductor shortage, batteries/semis are in short supply and so production volumes are lower than demand, so there isn't a use case for dealerships that's apparent.

Once EVs mature and excess inventory builds up and has to sit on the books of the automakers and depreciate on the lot waiting for buyers - the dealership model will look more interesting. The bean counters will then team up with marketing department to (re)introduce independent dealerships under a different branded customer UX name.

[1] Chrysler adds dealer incentives to clear stock
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna12691116
Yes... sewers are dirty pipes. "sewerbleed" is funnier than "dirty pipe", and it matches https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed.
I think they are trying to be coloquial, but it’s technically correct. most malware is packed (compressed), so indeed it might not be detectable from a naive scanner that ignores packed authenticode signed binaries. The PC itself means the anti malware scanner, catch being detect.
According to Arch wiki(1), just `/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf`:

options snd-hda-intel model=dell-headset-multi

1: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Framework_Laptop#Headset_ja...
The teams don’t need to be close. The anti-phishing team is just not doing its job.
Many dealers sell products from more than one manufacturer. That affordance is the result of legal battles fought and won by dealerships. There will be few incumbent Ford dealers that won't also sell Ford's electric products, legal fictions notwithstanding.

While it is true that Tesla has managed to operate under a double standard, I suspect the entry of traditional manufacturers and dealerships into the all electric market will lead to some resolutions of that. That story is still being written.
Aside from Apache Spark, what's replaced it and does it still face the same speed of access limitations compared to just zipping through giant CSVs with awk or whatever streaming APIs you write with your own preferred language?
I worked on Mac and iOS apps until about 10 years ago and then briefly just to keep in touch with changes until about 5 years ago.

The main reason I am not interested in indie development is that (1) it is very difficult to sustain in the long run and (2) I don't want to invest a lot of time to learn skills that work only in a closed env

Also, I think most necessary apps for the desktop are already there - I cannot think of anything new that would be a must have. I could say the same for mobile apps but many of them are not apps, they are a window into a service once can subscribe to. So in that sense they are new
I believe this is it. here ya go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jWi6WQQ9wo
This is a sad summary of the state of the web. Do you think if there was more focus on protocols it'd fix it, or is there no way back to a better web?
I reckon you might be right about that last part, unfortunately. I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere deep down in the human brain it just defaults to trusting the person who looks most like your parents/siblings/children/etc. Absent some other compelling reason/conditioning of course.

I wonder if the melting pot doesn't deserve a reboot. Everything else seems to be getting one these days.
Httm is not a ZFS Time Machine. Is it better? It's certainly more fun
Talk to a lawyer and sue apple?
Happy 50th Birthday to the 8-bit Intel 8008 Microprocessor
Have they? I don't PC game much outside of maybe Fortnite, Halo, and now Overwatch. That's three launchers right there.

I can technically add overwatch as a game in steam but if there's ever an update for overwatch it silently breaks (spins on login) until I realize I have to open battle.net to update the game.

Microsoft (Xbox app) doesn't even allow you to access raw game files and executables without a lot of work and I don't even know a good solution today. You can make a launcher shortcut but it's just to the Xbox app with a parameter selecting the game. This does not work to add a custom game in steam. I do know they just changed functionality in this area so may be different now.
Someone dying and being blamed for everything is one of the better outs available to Russia right now that leaves it with some dignity.
Reminds me of SunOS 4.1.3 where you simply type in ‘+’ about 127 times at the “Login:” prompt and PRESTO-CHANGO … you get a root shell prompt.
I love native apps as a user, but as a developer why invest time and energy into a shifting landscape? Better to put effort into building a SaaS. I think this quote from the article sums it up well:

> Right now, it feels a little bit like the three main MacOS app frameworks are floating in unanchored space: AppKit is not the future, Catalyst is not ready to replace it, and using SwiftUI remains a long way off for big, complicated apps.
This is one of the hard pills for HN to swallow. The age of desktop computing for general consumers is shrinking. It'll probably always have a place but everything that can be done on a phone is getting done on a phone these days.
I agree this is bad. But there’s good reasons for it. Namely, at least some experts think a portion of current inflation is temporary and will soon pass. You can always give employees a raise but it’s very difficult to cut their pay. They don’t take kindly to it. Some managers say you may as well just fire them if you’re going to cut their pay. So what is an employer to do in the face of potentially temporary inflation?
Yup, the really frustrating part is you can't even order parts. It's easy enough to replace but I just couldn't source it.
One need only open the OBS preferences to see just how non-native: https://i.imgur.com/At8MQPJ.png
That’s good ripoff pricing at the dealer is a problem.
Even with LTSC you can't disable all telemetry, It could have been a great (and very popular) option for companies (even though it wouldn't help home users), but MS didn't want that and discouraged its use in everything but the most extreme cases (https://www.computerworld.com/article/3326065/microsoft-tras...) even before they cut support to 5 years instead of 10.

Maybe things will be better with windows 11?
Yes, the deposits are generally refundable. The dealer will take your car and sell it to someone else at $10k over MSRP. Someday when supply is less tight they won't have that leverage, but it's a seller's market right now.

Some dealers won't do this, but you'll need to put in some work to find them.
I'll add one more: Airflow. Easily the smoothest solution I've found to stream local video files to Chromecasts and Apple TV: https://airflow.app/
One weak link and the whole chain is weak.
Have you considered adding a learning module that would help someone get to the level of passing the said interview? That would make this super helpful to both parties. Even if someone cant clear the interview today, they may have the talent and motivation to learn and come back to clear the interview. Great work nonetheless. I am going to try and use it to hire for my team.
https://licensingrussia-ru.translate.goog/article/9350-vpn-s...
' replace old non-electric appliances in your house with electric ones '

I have a functional can opener in my kitchen which I crank by hand. The suggestion to replace it with an electric version is stupid virtue signalling.

My toilet runs on water pressure, gravity, and me pressing the lever. Should I get a model with wifi actuated electric flush handle?

I have not had a TV in a couple decades. What TV with wifi and always-on do you recommend to virtue signal?

My car has a cassette tape deck. Should I replace the car for a new model with a built-in 20" dashboard TV to signal that I save the planet?
Of course, Slack had a great client. It could have been a great client for an open protocol. Maybe an existing one. Maybe a new one that they could steer entirely. But that would fail to capture the user sufficiently.

> The OSS community is somewhere between incompetence and active hostility when it comes to good UIs, for example.

Mostly true! But commercial clients for open protocols are A Thing, for the tiny handful of user-facing protocols that haven't been sent toward a slow, obscure death. I'm writing this from a (largely) closed-source Web browser. I also have a closed-source email client open.
Show HN: Code Scanner – a FOSS Android app for scanning and creating codes
Sysadmin fired for checking out a Powershell script
That's one hell of a price-premium over aliexpress $1.50/meter strips.

Yes, they look very nice, two types of dedicated white LEDs alongside a RGB but wow the price...

Are they really worth it? If you're not working with prepress graphics and need a CRI-controlled environment?
Scientists confirm thermonuclear fusion in a sheared-flow Z-pinch device
4) You're only looking at American propaganda.
There is some cherry-picked studies and data in this without providing any counter studies, but moving beyond that, there are a few problems with the argument the author is making:

1. IQ Tests and the SAT are not the same thing. Not even close. Go try to take the sample SAT test. If it has been awhile since you were exposed to such a test you will probably need some time to get used to the line of questioning. Questions are posed and framed in a specific way and everything is geared towards testing what you have learned in school. An "IQ test" is meant to require zero past exposure to tests (though it does help if you have taken a test like that in the past).

2. "IQ tests" do not measure what the author seems to think. Modern tests are meant as a diagnosis tool and are designed accordingly. A high score is impressive, and does demonstrate cognitive ability in certain areas, but it is by no means a great predictor of really anything once you are in the above average category.

3. SAT scores do correlate to performance in college, but it is a weak correlation. SAT scores do have a strong correlation with family household income. IQ scores get higher in high wealth countries as well.

4. Colleges have a lot more data points now on prospective college students making the SAT less relevant. When college admission say they take a "holistic approach" they are telling you that they have dozens of data points that inform the decision.

5. I haven't heard of too many colleges refusing SAT / ACT scores. They say test optional. If you want to submit it go for it. If you have a 1600 on the SAT it is still going to look really good and help your chances to get into any college.
For fun, I tried to see how many of the films on their missing movie list are currently watchable on Youtube or from public trackers

http://missingmovies.org/list-of-missing-movies/

Features, 15/23 available

3 legally viewable:

- 1 to be released on Blu-ray in May 2022: Mississippi Masala (1991)

- 2 more on Apple TV: Gal Young 'Un (1979), Angels and Insects (1995)

11 more available 'online':

- 2 HD rips on public trackers from out-of-print blu-rays: Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), Titus (1999)

- 3 others have full DVD rips on public trackers: Home of the Brave (1986), I Shot Andy Warhol (1996), The Heartbreak Kid (1972)

- 4 others have SD rips on Youtube: The Savage Eye (1959), Black Girl (1972), Deadhead Miles (1972),

- 4 others have low-res VHS rips: Angelo My Love (1983), Baby Face Nelson (1957), Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1972), Eat the Document (1972)

3 more not yet 'online':

- 2 have OOP DVD releases: True Love (1989), Union City (1980)

- 1 other has an OOP VHS release: Household Saints (1993)

5 others have no home media releases I can find:

- Annihilation of Fish (1999), The Cool World (1963), The Marijuana Affair (1975), Nothing but Common Sense (1972), Lanton Mills (1969)

Documentaries, 3/9 available

0 legally viewable

3 available 'online':

- 1 has an HD rip on a public tracker: The Memory of Justice (1976)

- 2 others have SD rips on Youtube: Angela Davis (1971), My Architect (2003)

4 more not yet 'online':

- 3 have OOP DVD releases: Ali the Fighter (1975), Image before my Eyes (1981), The Weavers (1981)

- 1 has an OOP VHS release: Weapons of the Spirit (1987)

2 others have no home media releases I can find:

- Agee (1980), That Rhythm Those Blues (1988)
You’re mistaken. Not debating someone isn’t a form of coercion.
Thanks for your advice. My friend and paid $4000 for a pair, but I was hoping to find some that might not be so expensive and still not be junk.
sounds like enough of a reason just to buy a Tesla.
Amazon suppliers linked to forced labor in China
I like that dealerships exist for maintenance and browsing. They’re fine for used car sales. I think they have a place.

It’s the games they play with new cars, especially popular/hard to get models like EVs or the new Bronco that make people hate them.

I think things would work better if the brands owned/ran the dealerships. But I don’t know we can get there from here, at least with traditional cars.

EVs may give brands leverage to change the rules. But dealerships may fight back with more regulations from friendly state governments.

I bought a Mach E in part because I knew the dealers existed. They’re not perfect, but they’re there.
I think this is a bug of the system, not a feature. Manufacturers and Dealerships have a co-dependent relationship where manufacturers provide a franchised business and the supply of a very unique product and dealerships provide distribution/footprint, last mile logistics and support.

This is where Tesla has an incredible position. They can invest in becoming a logistics company in every possible part of the chain and maximize value at every point.

The other manufacturers have to undo their dealership footprint which is predicated on a +60 year relationship. That divorce will eat alive most classic manufacturers and will permanently block them from making good progress in direct to consumer.

This is what being disrupted looks like.
have you looked into sds:
https://github.com/antirez/sds/
In practical terms though, who cares? This reminds me of the debate about Wine being integrated with Steam before Proton came out. A big argument against was that it would kill the native Linux game market. But then valve did it anyway and the compatibility layer was so seamless that to the end user you would never notice it was a windows game so you have no practical reason to care.

VS Code works incredible on MacOS despite not being native.
Why is this being posted now? Published over eight months ago, and appeared here before.
I work in communications for a non-partisan civic/political non-evil organization (Think like the Congressional Research Service or parts of NARA, nothing sexy or cool) and my graduate focus was on filter bubbles/social media algorithms/information policy (back in 2015). I also do front-end/UI/UX work.

There have been multiple times when I've logged into my social media (or my regular media feeds) and felt nauseated. I can just see all the fingerprints everywhere, pushing us this way and that, and I have also seen the effect that it has had on my loved ones over the past 7 years. It's like everything now is covered with this disgusting, vampiric slime that prevents you from making genuine connections with others.

But I cannot move the ocean with a thimble.
Not all dealers are doing that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30592404
carvana, carmax and tesla all give you an option to return in a certain timeframe no questions asked. on paper anyway.