skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's an ongoing joke in the military, MIL-SPEC just means it's a piece of crap that's going to break pretty soon.

Yeah well, my M1 MacBook Air just friggin' screen-died overnight ten days ago. On the other hand my military grade LG Gram is still working fine after years and years.

I can hold the LG Gram's screen with both hands and start distorting it and it keeps working flawlessly: the screen is very flexible. That's how it was demo'ed to me and that's how I always demo it to people.

That and it's lighter than a M1 MacBook Air (yup).

It doesn't have a retina display. But it still works.

I think Apple screwed up big times and I think these M1 laptops would never have passed any MIL-SPEC. They're brittle little things.
> Privacy, telemetry, and Linux don't matter, sorry folks, if they did people wouldn't use Chrome or Edge.

The only remaining share of Firefox is because of these users. Good luck dropping the ball on that one and not ending with a 0% share.
I had a Macbook pro gpu go bad a couple years outside the warranty of the laptop. They replaced the entire thing for me and also noticed a little dent in the case and swapped that out too, I essentially got a new (old) machine handed to me with my hard drive swapped to it.

They didn't charge me anything for that either.

I realize this is just anecdotal, though.
There's literally nothing more recent than something built in the early 70s without going 1h30 outside the city that I can currently afford, and we're a two-income household with a single child. My parents could afford their - much bigger than I'll ever own - house on a single income (in the same ballpark as my current individual salary, adjusted for inflation) in their early 20s, 30min from downtown. My current freaking rent for a 1200sqft flat is higher than the mortgage they paid on the 2200ft house they bought in the mid-90s after selling the first one. The latest inflation, especially on food and transportation, has been eating in my savings/investing budget so less opportunites to make that money work for me.

I guess the numbers you're pointing at do seem to point towards that I'm supposedly faced with provided with opportunities as they were, but I can't help but feel like I'm getting shafted somewhere along the way cause I'm pretty damn far from feeling like it does.

Maybe my timing is just horrible, I don't know - I did get out of school right after 2008, and wasn't financially ready to buy a home before mid-2020... But I just cannot subjectively recognize my situation in those numbers.
Ah, oldskool values. Mi amor.
Actually it was sarcasm, and obvious sarcasm at that.
>But by participating in Facebook (even just leaving your account there!) you contribute to the network effect and make Facebook seem more useful to others. This helps Facebook snare other, less tech-savvy individuals

That sucks, but there's no better alternative just yet.

>Consider deleting your account and keeping in touch with your friends via other mediums (email, text, letters, and phone calls go a long way!)

Ok, I've considered it. No. It's stupid. Phone calls are horrifically expensive and don't have video, and letters cost a fortune to send across oceans. If you want to be a Luddite, go ahead.
I'm not asking why you'd update the game, I'm asking why you'd update Wine if your game "is constantly broken by updates".

It's one thing if the game keeps updating and then you have to hope it works on the same version of Wine or re-find which version of Wine the new version of the game works with, but presumably that's a problem that the OP isn't happening with The Sims 3.

If the game works on a specific version of Wine, why would you mess with it? Or if you are, then treat it like any major OS update and back up/be ready to roll back if it breaks something. Wine is especially good at letting you make multiple sub-environments, so it's not like your whole system has to be on the same version of Wine.
I'd argue that the most important thing for Mozzilla to capture is the tech segment because they are the ones who dictate the future of a browser. People didn't switch their "internet" from the e icon to Google because they cared about their browsers. They did it because their "tech guy", whether their nephew who was good with computers, the guy they bowled with who did computers, or whoever in their family setup their computer, installed Chrome for them. 90% of people don't care about the browser but the 10% who do care a lot, and they are the ones who will set the long term trends.

So Mozzilla doesn't need to be a power user browser but it does have to appeal to the things tech people want. That's how it has a future that's how it keeps going. Because FF is open source, it doesn't need a revenue stream, shareholders or a board. At the end of the day it just needs enough people who love it to keep using and supporting it.
in my experiences in a couple of places it was usually from recurring trips to downtown areas to bars, restaurants, etc. so after chatting a bit a business card was offered or just a hey here's my cell call anytime you want a ride

and i think the direct relationship was good for both parties though of course sometimes the driver wouldn't be available

and maybe my saying "common" is overstating it since my knowledge is ultimately quite limited compared to the universe of taxi/rider trips taken but I and a handful or friends/acquaintances over the years have had these (ultimately fleeting) taxi relationships which were generally pleasant while they lasted
It's probably in their financial interests to not clamp down too hard on crypto considering how much the crypto chuds love Twitter. I get so much 'like' spam from verified (how the fuck?) crypto scammers.
> I learned that my pay was about an 80% discount to market.

And your performance is actually much worse than 80% discount in other companies. Any CEO with such results would be fired in 2 years anywhere else.

> Baker blamed this on the Coronavirus pandemic.

Sure, always blame external factors for your own incompetence. That's what politicians do every morning during breakfast.
The commute is really the thing that makes some workplaces intolerable, I think. You can put up with a lot more if you don't have to sit and angrily drive home for an hour afterwards.
> What's wrong with meeting in real life

I regularly DM people I haven't seen in person in years. I'm not going to fly cross-country to bootstrap a communication channel.

> or exchanging account names in whatever way you initially exchanged phone numbers?

Well because I exchanged phone numbers irl 7 years ago. I do not have a time machine.

> You don't seem concerned over the security problem of account activation codes being sent over SMS, so I don't see why you should be concerned over exchanging anonymous account names in the same or more secure ways.

Correct, because the bit of information "I have a signal account" is far less revealing than the bit of information "I have shared my signal account with a particular individual".

You avoid that only with some kind of public attestation of your signal identity (in keybase or on twitter or whatever) which is the best option, but generally requires everyone have a known public index of their forms of contact, which my friends from high school, generally speaking, don't.
Why a billion?
I don't work for Google or really care, but the GCP bashing dogpile every time they cancel a product is just getting pretty unimaginative. They offer hundreds to thousands of services, and some bets just don't work out. Glad to see many other people have perfectly functioning crystal balls.
I don't think this takes into account that something like 50% of vehicles sold are now light trucks (pickups and SUVs) rather than passenger cars.
That approach makes a lot of sense. Does your router assign each ULA or do you configure each host with a static one?
As with everything it depends on the context and how you use it.

And this definitely made me think of prostitute first.
> Is it really a problem to bubble up that error (and kill the database server) if you can just bring up a new database server with a clean cache (potentially even on the same computer without rebooting it) instantly?

Our estimations for MTTF for our larger clusters would mean there'd be a risk of simultaneous nodes stopping due to bad sector reads. Remediation in that case would basically require cleaning and rewarming the cache, which for large data sets could be on the order of an hour or more, which would mean we'd lose quorum availability during that time.

> to me your solution sounds absolutely brutal for needing a complete copy of the remote disk on the local "cache" disk at all times for the RAID array to operate at all, meaning it will be much harder to quickly recover from other hardware failures.)
In Scylla/Cassandra, you need to run full repairs that scan over all of the data. Having an LRU cache doesn't work well with this.
> Yeah that’s the expensive stuff.

In today's world of subscription heated seats, $9k to unlock pre-installed range extensions, and $10k FSD capability (though without the actual FSD)... I feel reasonably justified in disagreeing with you.
I’m very surprised that the remote-first companies aren’t being more assertive with employee theft from Apple.

There are top employees that have children or otherwise can’t afford not to be remote. I’d be WW2-style dropping leaflets over Apple HQ and purchasing billboards to poach them. When else in history will remote-firsts have such an utter and glaring advantage over Apple again?
Some services go a step further and specifically ignore an 'accept-encoding: identity' header and return gzip instead, because they feel that asking for uncompressed content is broken.
Too long to read. Some gears are nylon, yes, which is strong. I didn't get juvenile. I told you to watch teardowns. I don't keep a back catalog of every device with metal gearboxes, sorry.
North American brand dishwashers come with a heating element and you have to pay little attention to how not to load the washer so dishes don’t stay wet.
That sounds far too civil and reasonable.
> Privacy, Telemetry and Linux are red herrings to increasing market share and do not make any money or help Firefox since the majority of users do not care about any of this.

It would be a delusionally ambitious premature optimization for Firefox to target the majority of users. Firefox needs to target a niche well, then grow that niche. If that niche were stamp collectors or people who read historical romance novels, Firefox would barely lose any market share if it focused on them exclusively and converted them all.
I think it's a real effect.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2622/

Unofficial Explanation: https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2622:_Angular_Diamete...

Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_diameter_distance#Angu...
That was a amazing book. It had so much packed into. So many sf concepts just sort of dumped into it.
They read from md1, which will service all requests from md0 unless it is unavailable in which case they use sdb.
And negatively affect their businesses.
It's not conspiratorial to assume marketing influences behavior. That's its purpose.

Size of the impact is up for debate. But consider how many large business sectors have advertisement as their primary income.

It's not for nothing.
But then I'd have to deal with bluetooth hardware costs, the charging of the devices, buying replacement batteries down the road, and the weight on my conscious from all the ewaste that introduces for that convenience of not having to deal with shoving a small bit of cord into my pocket
Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm under no delusions that you can convince these people.

My primary reason for sharing it was to avoid other (reasonable) people from walking away with some false belief that there might be something to the noise issue. There isn't anything to it.

I'm not trying to convince this person. However, there might be others who don't have the time to do the research. This comment is for them.
Oh they are! Every time apple leadership sends out another one of these ahem... notices, recruiters perk up and start flooding email and LinkedIn inboxes.

they highlight things like "[REMOTE]" and "[WFH FRIENDLY]" heavily
It's a simplified conclusion, but the era in which a mail man could support an entire family with ease was a historical anomaly.

You can pinpoint the timeline exactly, where the above wealth stagnates or declines whilst the rest of the world is rapidly catching up, industrializing.

You can locally optimize but not even taxing the rich for 90% will fix this.

My other simplified conclusion is that everything that you need seems to be getting ever more expensive whilst everything that you do not necessarily need becomes dirt cheap.

We should probably spend some more time thinking about that. Everything becomes cheaper due to spectacular advances, but not housing, healthcare, energy, education, tax levels.

I mean, it's almost as if some invisible force blocks this progress, benefiting from artificial scarcity. Almost as if we're not supposed to have it good.
Salaries for CEOs?
As zorkian noted, "messages per day" is a marketing number. In a technical blog post, what matters is the numbers which are relevant for technical purposes, such as peak (or high-percentile) messages per second.
I also like Route53 -- moved all domains (from various registrars, including a few from GoDaddy) over to Route53 years ago and haven't looked back since.

It's everything you need from a registrar & DNS provider with nothing you don't: a thoughtful interface that is responsive even with a large volume of domains, no up-sells, first-class API capabilities (which is great for volume/bulk operations), and the pricing is solid/reasonably low-margin with no gimmicks, no front-running.

Only thing to note is that, at least last I looked, Amazon isn't actually the registrar -- it's some kind of 'affiliate' setup with a 3rd party, but AFAICT it's essentially Amazon.
and so the complaint page only has one or two people calling it out.

(connecting the dots for people)
> No one in their right mind would run RHEL on a desktop.

glances nervously at my corporate-issued ThinkPad running RHEL 8
My personal opinion is that the gold shenanigan is nothing compared to the shenanigans going on in banks.

It all boils down to a monopoly of very few organisations over the entire money creation system, and the instabilities are a result of the fact that few managers at the top are given extremely crude tools to manage extremely delicate system. Every little error using those extremely crude tools has extreme consequences.

There was always one redeeming quality of gold-backed currencies, and it's the restriction of those crude tools.

As for Weimar republic, the gold was never the issue. They were given an impossible debt to pay as reparations, and they could have that debt denominated in whatever tangible way you can think of, it wouldn't be paid. The reason the common German was devastated by the inflation was that their local currency wasn't backed by gold, it was allowed to be printed indefinitely by a government trying to fulfill an impossible debt.
> Privacy, telemetry, and Linux don't matter, sorry folks, if they did people wouldn't use Chrome or Edge. The most important thing is compatibility with major sites at this point. if people's banking or health insurance page reject Firefox, people are just going to use Chrome.

How many people consciously make an informed choice about which browser they use, to begin with? When I entered college, we had a system that required you to install a spyware client that certified to the network that you were not running any file sharing software - unless you were on an unsupported OS (as identified by the user-agent string), in which case it just let you pass the registration process without certification. After figuring this out, I did this for my entire dorm floor, installing Firefox in the process (as that was the browser for which I knew a quick way of setting up a user-agent spoofing addon off the top of my head). The result was an additional about 30 Firefox users because of one power user's preference of it, which was entirely based on customisability and privacy considerations. Half of the people I set it up for probably wouldn't even have known how to replace or uninstall it if they turned out to hate everything about it, and conversely no amount of pandering to non-technical users would have gotten them to install it for themselves.
I'm very curious if WFH can survive a recession. My gut tells me no, but who knows. Though I enjoy the flexibility of hybrid, I can't help but feel it's the worse of both worlds. Still gotta live close and commute, but don't have the consistency (colleagues will have different schedules) so you often end up in the office and video chatting anyway.
Linux really is a good general purpose desktop OS.
People of Ukraine are not being used. They want to fight the invaders and are thankful that some Western nations are helping them. That the same western nations benefit from this is not the cause of their fighting. That cause is Russia.
If you know that image generators are not it, then why talk about it here? Do you get this kind of angst at every technological increment?

Apart from nuclear scientists I don't know a field where participants are as conscious of the risks as AI research.
Self-hosting Pocket could be phenomenal. I would gladly donate what a subscription costs if I could simply have it myself and improve it.
They already run on gcp and presumably have a negotiated agreement on pricing. Their core competencies don’t include managing hardware. Migration off is deliberately expensive and hard. Own hardware still needs a story for backup and restore in lieu of attached volume snapshots, or they’d have to figure out if their database can do something for them there. Any of the above are good reasons to not migrate willy nilly, in fact the only reason to migrate is that either you can’t do what you need to in the cloud or the margins can’t support it.
This might sound like an extreme take, but I want people who don’t work hard to be able to live.
There's never a been a year of the anything desktop. That's not a thing that gets proclaimed by anyone at any time. Who would have to say it for you to suddenly accept that Linux desktops are awesome and have been for 20 years. Would you accept it if Steve Balmer said it? Gates? You wouldn't even then because this is a sports team to you.
Introducing the Fiibean wepa Taki: https://labs.openai.com/s/95bli4C4CKZ73DMigFNdDKQ4
I feel there is some slight mis-information in this article that might confuse people and give them the wrong impression of 'Local SSDs' vs the network based ones and about the nvme protocol and made it seem like "local ssd == nvme".

NVMe - 'non-volatile memory express'. This is a _protocol_ that storage devices like SSDs can use to communicate with the external world. It is orthogonal to whether the disk is attached to your motherboard via pcie, or it lives somewhere else in the datacenter and uses a different transport layer. For example, local NVME SSDs will use PCIe transport. But you can also have NVME-over-TCPIP, or NVME-over-fiber-channel. Or NVME-over-Fabrics. Many of these are able to provide significantly lower latencies than a millisecond.

As a concrete example, AWS `io2-express` has latencies of ~0.25-0.5ms, though i'm not sure which technology it's using.

nvme over fabrics: https://www.techtarget.com/searchstorage/definition/NVMe-ove...
many interesting presentations on the official nvme website: https://nvmexpress.org/education/documents-and-videos/presen...
aws: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/achieve-higher-database...
A lot of those things are based on life circumstances. If you have a large family in a major metropolitan area making the median income then yeah you might be worse off.

If you are a tech worker in a small city or town then it can be quite lucrative. You have a lot of control over these variables, especially when younger.
> Make FF donationware if you must

How are they going to pay the CEO then? That alone is worth millions in salary every year.
im not suggesting any of that. the burden of proof should be on the presenter sure. but calling this guy a crank is stretching the definition of a crank a fair bit. hes been funded by nasa and was published (once ?) in an astronomy journal

personally i dont think big bang theory deserves to be held up to same regard as classical and quantum mechanics, electro and thermodynamics, and relativity. and i dont think questioning it is anywhere close to flat earthism or creationism. still i happen to believe it is the currently best supported model, albeit one with plenty of questions to answer
The glass is the bigger problem, not the aluminum. It looks sleek and shiny but will crack easily with forces that wouldn't do anything to a plastic screen.
String theory is a hoax because "there's no experimental evidence". How about we build bigger and better experiments? No, colliders are just hand outs to the industry and a waste of money /s

It's more than a whiff, it's a disgusting stench.
> Telemetry is useful

And it should be off by default, not opt-out.
Brave, Brendan Eich's (previous Mozilla CEO) new company and browser, has raised $42m and has probably ~220 employees. He said even then, they had to fork Chromium because they didn't have the resources to actually do all the work involved in a feature complete browser engine. So I'm guessing $500m funding, because even Microsoft didn't invest in an outside-Chromium engine for Edge.
I did this for 6 months and was on the edge of what I could handle. God help you, and I hope you can swing remote!
For the first time in my life, I work in a real office, and I love it. As in, I have my own office, with a door that closes and everything (still missing a name plate on the door). I've decorated it with plants and I chose the furniture myself.

That office is a spare bedroom in my house. I'm never going back to working on an open space. The north-American middle management ideology that birthed that nonsense can die in a fire as far I'm concerned.
> I use it. I use it because people I need to talk to are there

This is exactly what makes it "your problem".

Signal worked out a way to provide E2E messaging that practically everybody who cares and all their friends use. You can choose to accept their phone number requirement compromise and take advantage of that huge and growing network of users, or you can go your own way and somehow convince "the people you need to talk to" to also use some alternative that more closely meets your specific needs.

> I remain unconvinced.

I get that. I understand and even partly agree with your stance. But the pragmatist in me is way happier with having a significant portion of the people in my contact list also on Signal and having a zero effort was to have an E2E encrypted chat with them. I am old enough to have gone to PGP keyparties in the late 90s. I have verified private keys for a handful of friends with some combination of privacy/security/paranoia outlooks. I can't remember the last time I sent or decrypted a PGP message (that wasn't a computer generated alert). Person to person encryption key exchange has been tried and has never gained anything like a ubiquitous network. Signal isn't perfect, but it's got very close to that, which makes it day to day usable and extremely useful. At least for me and all my friends and most of my business contacts. YMMV.
It is important to note that this comment is from a time before snaps, flatpaks and AppImages.
what's the reason you have to prefer Firefox?

Two reasons: 1. inertia - I’ve been using it for 17 years and it’s still good enough to not switch, and 2. Google already knows too much about me, I don’t want to give them even more data through their browser. So I guess I do care about privacy…