skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the country I live in, this:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004225099067.html

is sold at approximately 175 USD.

Since Aliexpress, based on what I read, ships from China, the Hardkernel shop is a valid comparison; in the Hardkernel website:

https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h3/

the H3 is sold at 129 USD.

129$ + case - 2 ethernet, and 175$, are in the same ballpark.

Note that the H* don't need any extra cooling. The heatsink provided is enough (I've wasted money on a fan that ended up never spinning).
To take an extreme example, it’s probably true that CSAM has some value (there’s people willing to pay for it) and you could in theory traffic in it for “good reasons” but for most it would be repulsive.

Would they choose to die rather than do it? Hopefully nobody would be put to the test.

That something found a good use doesn’t mean it’s a good (or bad) thing. Society is all about trying to navigate the trade offs.
Its a crumple zone. VW no longer makes T1-3s for a reason.

There is plenty of space in supercar frunks. Here is Testarossa transporting Yamaha outboard motor and 2 bags of champagne bottles https://youtu.be/fxF4TRIuH4g?t=1415
> The issue with using measurement X is that it quickly gets gamed.

Goodhart’s Law[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
What does Greatest CEO even mean? Great for who? The shareholders? The employees? The customers? The world? Maybe we shouldn't be looking for "greatness" from a CEO.
There’s a “let me read it first” option that grants you unmolested access to the article
You gotta FIGHT! For your RIGHT! To re...PARTY!!
Ideally you move completely away from AD. I've used Pgina before for alternative auth methods when you have to deal with a dozebox but it has major issues that make it not worth it, so in reality you usually have a virtualized samba domain that pulls from FreeIPA (389 ldap underneath). (and if you have a windows admin on staff who can't write a GPO by hand you can virtualize the DC admin doze machine and ensure good rbac.)
Isn't this the exact thing they went after Jim Bakker for? Raising too much money for a specific purpose and then taking the excess money and using it for other projects?
Why Do Fantasy Novels Have So Much Food? (2018)
Of course, it's still manual memory and pointer management after all. You could manually assign a pointer to 0xDEADBEEF if you want, or you could tell the arena to pop data that you are still using.

The point is not perfection, it is simplicity and mapping tools to requirements.
Just another company to avoid at all cost.

Today its cryptocurrency and most people probably aren't affected (and thus dont care but they should). Tomorrow it is whatever the people in charge dont like with no way to know what they might not like in the future. It could be anything, File sharing, gaming, something political, something religious, something containing unwanted words, a project maintained by Russians... who knows.
Ah I vaguely remember this from reading his autobio a long time ago. Seems like a non-sensical rule.
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Oh shit, you're right!

I apologise, I'm sure there's a better, more cool-headed way to discuss giving money to a marginalized population to make a foothold in a marginalized field with someone that views that action as "woke politics".

I'm sure we've could've met in the middle (like only supporting some BIPOC journalists) if only I wasn't so gosh-darn divisive. My bad.
I work in a big tech company in a group that has a relatively good reputation :) What I enjoy most is getting to contribute and have meaningful impact on products which are used by millions+ of people. It is cool seeing articles in HN or other places (Ars, Verge, etc) about our work.

I am thinking closer to retirement I'd like to shift gears and work on electronics/IoT type projects with a social startup. I've seen some interesting companies doing things like deploying low-cost educational computers, fresh water systems, and so on to benefit people who don't have access to those things.
Yes, and thereby those that cause them to keep running (e.g., Bitcoin miners).

If we had abundant clean energy everywhere with no unclean power plants, then knock yourself dead. But right now, any power consumed has an unclean component.

Even if you use power in a country that is 100% renewable, it takes away power from a grid that is then replaced by non-renewable energy. And that these miners buy old crap power plants make it worse - it reverses grid-wide improvements to green energy.

... heck even with fully renewable energy for the entire globe, wastefully burning energy so that more renewable power sources need to be deployed is still bad - no power plant is neutral to manufacture.

And re: comparison to call of duty, if had the same footprint as Bitcoin, then we could start talking. Bitcoin consumes power like a small country, not like someone forgetting to turn off the lights. All for something that can be done without any of this power draw.
The only time I have ever been "proud" of my work is when I began making money on a service I built as a side project.

Knowing I built something people found useful and were willing to pay for was a big moment for me. The day I quit my full time job and worked on my own service full time was a big moment in my life.
There's quite a bit of legacy running in our industry. Most of it is not even Perl. Think Java, Jquery, and even Python(2.x) these days.

Most shops don't have the budgets for total rewrites, or even partial and gradual rewrites.

The way old things die, is that new projects don't get started in those languages. To that end, Perl is something of the past already. It is still a very useful technology for a lot of Unixy work on adhoc tasks. But I doubt people learn Perl the way, they learn Python these days. Older people(including me), call upon Perl for lots of work even till date. This is similar to how people continue to use vim/emacs despite things like vscode. There is always going to be a audience for these tools. But the crowd moves on.
Just wondering, what would have stopped the Earth from having enough iron on its own in the first place? If the Moon could have that much iron, the Earth could as well have had it without needing to mix with the Moon, they're made from the same original matter after all.
The article is a case of the worst person you know making an excellent point.

> Despite all that, the Internet has one more weak point: Denial of Service Attacks. These attacks use compromised computers to send massive amounts of junk data to a single point, blotting out legitimate traffic and potentially overwhelming target devices.

Where's the lie?
Sure, but they’re spending money on things that have nothing to do with running the website.
There are some out-of-copyright books in Hathi Trust which can not be accessed by the general public.

If you use the catalog info, especially the library where the book was scanned, many times you can find the scan in archive.org/openlibrary.org.
China’s Quest for Financial Self-Reliance [pdf]
Multitasking can go to hell I guess.
JPMorgan Chase wants to disrupt the rent check with its payments platform
>The Forgotten Sisters Who Pioneered the Historical Novel
Jane and Anna Maria Porter ruled Britain’s literary scene—until male imitators wrote them out of the story

Ruled maybe. But they weren't neither the first English authors to write historical novels (The Unfortunate Traveller by Thomas Nashe was published in 1594), nor the best.

It's ridiculous to start inventing domains where women were first.
Wikipedia is known to have funded anti-India riots, and it has connections with an infamous anti-Hindu and anti-India propagandist, George Soros.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p-qVpm_CHU
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For one, quantity: video games don’t use as much electricity, and those that do aren’t incentivizing reactivation of old fossil fuel plants.

For another, necessity: we have a preexisting financial system that secures orders of magnitude more value than cryptocurrencies do, with actual legal guarantees and recourses.

For a final, civic harm: whatever limited negative social ills can be explained by video games are dwarfed by the civic poison of fraud and “easy” money.
It's dangerous though. If you hit a problem you leave Apple world and are routed to GS. I was loving the card then went through the worst customer support experience of my life (literally almost cost us our mortgage b/c they ended up filing a mark against our perfect credit, for a $4.99 WaPost charge I disputed, until finally an email to the big man Timmy himself landed and some deputy called us and got it settled—god bless her). So maybe they've fixed all of that, but it was a year long customer service nightmare
libvips has had libjxl support for a couple of years now, including in our fuzzing and build systems. Everything is pretty much ready to roll, and would have brought support to downstream projects and users like sharp, ActiveRecord, imaginary, Shopify, etc.

We've just been waiting for Chrome to flip the switch and start deployment, To have support pulled like this at the last second is extremely disappointing.
How Musk has tumbled so quickly will go down in history books. Now he's spouting conspiracy theories.
I'm definitely going to stop giving any money to wikimedia as a result of their on-screen fund drives. And I actually support that expenditure to fund that "Knolwedge Equity Fund", and don't find anything unethical about wikimedia supporting such a fund with a small portion of their budget, especially when they have extra. (I think it would be appropriate to send some to the Internet Archive too). But they clearly don't need my money.
At that point it would be nonfree, a huge step to take
"This is who they say they are" has been pretty reliably implemented in a ton of contexts, can largely be automated, and isn't really novel in any way.

Twitter's blue checkmark is more "this person is notable", which is a different thing and maybe valuable, although I think makes the blue checkmark probably a constant source of frustration for twitter.
I don't remember C=64 colors (friends had one, we did not) but my PC had MSDOS. The text editor was blue background, grey or white foreground. But DOS itself was gray on black. And I used DOS as my OS because it was lightweight.
Malinvestment is a problem at any large organization. I don't see any reason to believe this is nefarious or unethical. Nor do I grudge Wikipedia for being to incredibly efficient at running their core business that they so easily outraise their needs. Raising money to grant to other organizations is a very common model in the charity world so it's hardly unprecedented either.
You might be thinking of "Know Your Customer" laws, which only apply to some industries and definitely not private persons for a blog. It applies to industries like financial, identification and certain types of commerce (eg: regulated products). Even then, only in some countries.

I don't know where you live but maybe just knowing of the concepts should be helpful. I think you should be totally fine to start a non-commercial website without consequence, but of course this isn't legal advice.
True, but Sony may be looking for an excuse to no longer support older consoles and this could be that excuse.
Honestly you cringed inside over this? Give me a break. People with exaggerated emotions are exactly the problem with twitter.
I am using it for sending data between game server and client. Encoding the messages in JSON would be just silly, although I wonder what is the standard in the game industry.
Perl gets new releases on a yearly cadence. We're now at 5.36 IIRC. A far cry from 5.8 or even 5.10.

The new releases usually come with bug fixes, speed-ups, additions to the core language, optional syntax features, etc.

The only way one gets to use an "old" interpreter is if they're stuck on an old OS release (i.e. RHEL?) and/or they don't build their own version and use the "system" Perl.
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At the time, we needed interop with C. So that's why we chose protobufs. But it was a nightmare to work with in other languages. Including C++ for cross platform desktop apps where cross compiling became a problem too.

JSON in C is unfortunately way harder than in other modern languages (e.g. Go which makes it a breeze with struct tags and a great stdlib).
OK,
Prop1: Glue is not effective (or 100% effective if you interpret this word as a scale)

I linked above an Apple link, and you can find examples where iPhones will get refused warranty because of water damage. This proves that GLUE is less then 1oo% effective.

q.e.d

Prop2 Monkey shit might be better then glue.

Since glue <100% and I used the word "might" then there is a chance that monkey shiot after a monkey eats a special food is better.

q.e.d.

My point is that is a terrible excuse if you demand me to prove that glue is exactly 0% effective, I don't have the lab to prove it but A[ple that has the lab decided not to offer you water proof warranty, so either you are happy with

1 glue , is not effective enough for Apple to offer a warranty

2 glue is effective enough but Apple has some sinister business reason to reject your warranty if their water sticker turns on.
Substack does have all these sketchy patterns but there is a 'Let me read it first' text link on the popup that lets you continue, seemingly without tracking how many times you've done that.

BUT I made the mistake of actually signing up for one blog I liked and got smacked by a barrage of more 'sign up for this!!!' immediately after. So I agree that it's user-hostile but... it seems like most of the web is moving that way, outside of our digital gardens.
Honestly, there are two parts to this. Pride in my work, and pride in the organisation as a whole.

For the former, it'd be anywhere that respects the value of the stuff I'm working on, lets me solve technical issues in a responsible, well tested, thought out way and has a decent engineering culture in general. I wouldn't feel proud to work somewhere with no source control where changes are done live without backups and no one has any idea what they're doing.

Meanwhile for the latter, anywhere that doesn't:

1. Support authoritarian governments, or other questionable organisations (like cults and extremist groups)

2. Sell a product that is knowingly harmful to their customers (like cigarettes, some types of drugs, etc)

3. Knowingly sow discord and promote false information for financial or political gain (NewsCorp, InfoWars, etc)

4. Try to undermine society and destroy people's privacy, ala Facebook.

Honestly, every company I've worked at so far was trying their best to provide a good product/service/experience to their customers, and I've been proud of working there.
You mean the passing of Right to Repair? Completely unknown at this point. We're hoping it will be helpful to raise awareness of independent repair and offer more choice to people who want to get their devices repaired.
Proto2 has required.

> required: a well-formed message must have exactly one of this field.

https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto#sp...
Definitely looks better than the H2, although I suspect that it's the same material and construction design as the H3.

Nothing to complain - one builds them (hopefully) once in years.

I hope though, that they corrected the flaws; the design of the case supporting two 2.5" disks was severely flawed, since there was no space for the connectors, and one had to let them partially hang outside the box. It was also surprisingly awkard to build.
Sourcehut is licensed under AGPL. It's free and open source software, you don't need permission. Even if the licensing were changed (something I view as extremely unlikely, since it would affect non-crypto customers as well), you can legally take an older snapshot of the code that is licensed under AGPL.
I felt like later in the Wii U's life, they were pushing it more as being for off-TV play, and that meant that that kind of stuff would have to be implemented anyway— Wind Waker HD certainly had the dual approach, where the default was to play on the TV with inventory on the gamepad, but if you played in off-TV mode, then the inventory was a pause menu popup. That extra development work to support both was probably invisible to most users who only ever played on-TV.

That combined with the increasing inevitability that everything was going to be ported to a later, single-screen system anyway, and it's not hard to see why titles like Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze and Zelda BOTW didn't use the secondary screen at all.
With all due respect, I do not care about your moral compass.

I want the predictability that as long as I am not breaking the law, my data can be safely hosted. Am I supposed to now pay attention to law and the countless individual moral compasses of people/vendors I interact with?

Moral compasses are tricky, some people let them run amok, and end up infecting computers with revenge-ransomware just for having their system language set to Russian, as it happened in March 2022. Was that also justified for the "greater good" of humanity?

Of course, it's your project, your service... anybody can fork it or self-host it, but this only screams at me: "be wary of this guy and his services, you could be next".

PS: I do not maintain cryptocurrency projects or trade any.
>> What does Greatest CEO even mean? Great for who? The shareholders? The employees? The customers? The world? Maybe we shouldn't be looking for "greatness" from a CEO.

Great question. Since the CEO works for the board, which works for the shareholders, I assumed "great for shareholders" -- however, I was asking myself a different question -- "great on what timeline". It is easy for CEOs to borrow from the future, have great earnings, improve stock prices...only to let the company fail in the long term.
> I’ve found UDP to be great for latency but pretty awful for throughout.

UDP/multicast can provide excellent throughput. It's the de facto standard for market data on all major financial exchanges. For example, the OPRA feed (which is a consolidated market data feed of all options trading) can easily burst to ~17Gbps. Typically there is a "A" feed and a "B" feed for redundancy. Now you're talking about ~34Gbps of data entering your network for this particular feed.

Also, when network engineers do stress testing with iperf we typically use UDP to avoid issues with TCP/overhead.
> I suppose if we take the philosophical position of Bayesian statistics, where even one sample is sufficient basis for estimating results from some sane priori model...

Some care should be taken to see that this principle is not being used to excuse just making things up. Bayesian statistics is rational but not magical, and it cannot create information out of nothing.

In practice, this comes down to the question of whether the model is plausible, accurate, complete and constrained enough to deliver an answer that is informative about the external world, as opposed to the choices made in modeling. Something more than reasons to believe various probabilities are non-zero is needed.

I feel that, in your final paragraph, you are grappling with this issue.
No.

The Perl interpreter has been regular updated and improved. There's a new release of Perl every six months, and the libraries on CPAN provide access to various other kinds of technology and tooling.
>None of which really seems to make any difference in a world of near-limitless bandwidth. It just isn't the constraint it once was.

Until truly unlimited mobile plans without throttling are available everywhere for cheap, that simply isn't true.
Suppose you are a small Ukrainian ISP working in Berdyansk or Melitopol.

In 2022 you essentially become an ISP working on Russian-held territory. Does RIPE want to just confiscate your address pool and redistribute it back in Ukraine in some form, leaving you without address space?

How does that help the people living on that territory?
I would rather be at ground zero for any missile that works (assuming most of them won't even get out of their silo due to corruption). While much of the world will survive initially, the disruption to economies world wide will likely kill a ton of people conventionally due to hunger, lack of water, healthcare, and violence. That's not likely to be very pleasant anywhere. Humanity would survive, but for a lot of people it might be a short miserable life. Even today there are many places suffering a terrible existence; imagine that on a global scale where no one can afford to help other countries.
Excepting HDMI the parents examples are all networks with more than one peer. Thunderbolt and USB3 can both have arbitrary trees of nodes.
Nah, Bitcoin was a thing. But it is an intellectually dead. And without the network the asset itself is barely a thing.
The problem with Brazil is that the country is just too big. It will never happen, but I'm confident that the solution to Brazil's rampant corruption and violence is to break up the country. In every single election it's clear that the north and the south are two completely different countries that keep getting into each other's way and preventing the country from evolving.

I don't think it's a coincidence that the best countries in the world to live are geographically small. Large countries like Brazil/US/Russia have way too much stuff and people going on at the same time, it's impossible to manage them properly.
Every American nonprofit publishes all their financial data by law. They're called 990 forms. Typically a year or two lag from filing until public but you can always see executive comp, major outlays and income sources, trustees, etc. It's incredibly cynical to just assume they're up to no good. Large orgs do work at scale that smaller ones never can. Certainly some of them are bad, but they're behavior is almost never secret.
"O'Sullivan's First Law" seems like nonsense to me. Here are some counterexamples:

Centrist political parties.

Every small company I have worked for. (Large companies tend to be performatively social-justice-y and economically right-wing.)

My local public library.

Every choir, orchestra, etc., with which anyone in my family has been involved.

The Church of England. (I mention this just because of the presence of the Episcopal Church in the quote. The CoE contains very left-wing bits and very right-wing bits and plenty in between, but as a whole I don't think it can reasonably be described either as left-wing or as right-wing.)

I think the only way you can make the "Law" true is to define either "left-wing" or "right-wing" or both broadly enough that everything is either "left-wing" or "right-wing".

(I wondered who O'Sullivan was, and noted that a web search brought up a Conservapedia page. In case anyone has forgotten how ... distinctive ... the ideas there are, I remark that their examples of O'Sullivan's First Law include Fox News, CPAC, and Pat Robertson. Anyway, it turns out that O'Sullivan is a former editor of the National Review, another thing that's on Conservapedia's list of Things That Are Now Left-Wing, and he named the "law" after himself.)
Doesn't even have a basic JIT does it? Still using a 90s-era basic interpreter and GC architecture.

And there's only one implementation. Doesn't seem very healthy.
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One of my favorite themes has a light grey for everything except strings (light blue) and comments (white). Comments are super important, they should stand out.
A couple of Nick Lane's books have led me to conclude (with the same limit of a single data point that everyone else has) that a) life origins, based on energy gradients, probably started similarly everywhere, and b) mitochondria is probably one of the great filters.

I realise it's all hypothetical - extrapolating from a sole sample is a fool's errand - but the logic laid out in those two works is compelling.

[0] https://nick-lane.net/books/the-vital-question-why-is-life-t...

[1] https://nick-lane.net/books/power-sex-suicide-mitochondria-m...