skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amiga crashing a lot is a misconception. Crashes were actually far in between.

But when Amiga launched, it was with an AmigaOS 1.0 that was very, very buggy.

1.1 was considerably better, but still buggy.

It took until 1.2 (~1987) to be reasonable. Crashes became a rarity, but the bad reputation sadly stuck.
Tell me you’ve never run infrastructure at scale without telling me you’ve never run infrastructure at scale.
'textbook' covers a lot of ground--it could mean something widely used in a lot of schools, or something hyper-specialized. It could be a book that needed a lot of editorial and production work, or none at all.
For all the bigger companies I've worked with that have infinite war chests and rely heavily on user data and analytics, the question is always why shouldn't a specific metric be tracked, not why should it. Even if they have absolutely no reason to track how fast you're reading, it's safe to say they're tracking it anyway. At a certain point you stop reading privacy policies or listening to what a company says it's doing or not. You even stop looking at code or inspecting network traffic. You simply assume you're being tracked in every technical way it's possible for "them" to do so, and you either accept it or change it.
Oil priced in dollars. Countries forced to buy/hold dollars. Country tries to use another currency to buy their oil, they end up like Saddam or Gaddafi c/o the US military.
If a significant proportion of developers end up unemployed, the faang salaries will be coming way down anyway. "Reserve Army."
Ironically, I've found many of the publishers will sell DRM-free ebooks. The biggest problem I've found is books out of print but still in copyright, since we have absurdly long copyright lengths today.

The "ebook shops" are the worst. Amazon & Apple have their DRM'd copies, and Kobo may be even worse.
to, is, su, etc. There are enough TLDs to last a lifetime for a pirate site operator.
How much does it cost to make a textbook and have a few editors? There are on average about 20 million college students in the US and for core books and common fields there are tens or hundreds of thousands of students taking those courses every semester. 50,000 students can easily cover the authoring and editing of a textbook and still reap a massive profit with a small fee of $20 per book.
Do you think there's some great "next Mozilla" that isn't taking on off due to the current Mozilla still existing?

I don't think that's the case. I don't think they have to be die for something else to take their place.
Safety manual, in case anyone else is interested: https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/p...
Musk seems to be a bit of a clueless guy, thinking of his earlier demand that everybody print out last 30 days of code, and of how much he overpaid for Twitter and then tried to weasel out of the deal.

In US there has been a lot of talk of "quiet quitting" lately. That means you do the minimum you need to stay in the job, don't try to excel in it. Just doing long hours is not the same as excelling, it can be part of the quiet quitting.

So one approach would be to work overtime as much as asked, demand to be paid for it but not do much. Only the minimum.

And isn't it illegal to be forced to work overtime without compensation? So that might be a strategy as well, do what they ask and then later sue them. Or gladly work overtime you do get paid for it but again do only as much as is needed.

The problem with Musk's actions I think is it immediately creates a confrontational atmosphere in his company.
One way is to look at a few most recent perf reviews. Another way - look at some internal productivity metric that many companies introduced during Covid/WFH.
There's GiveCamp (https://givecamp.org/), which is like a hackathon where you make websites for non-profits. I participated in one and it was pretty fun.
All books should now have a link or paypal email at the back book cover so whoever read the book without pay, then find it useful and valuable, to have an effective way to send money over.

yeah it's not ideal but, there might be quite some readers pay if they know how to do that easily.
Yeah, but you probably get these enormous bills you weren't expecting, and absolutely nothing you can do about it.
Libraries use checkout frequency to determine which books to stock and which books to stock more of. The more an author's books are checked out of a library, the more likely that library is to buy more copies of that book, as well as more copies of other books by that author.
> Microsoft tried to bridge the Linux APIs to NT APIs in WSL1 just like WINE does for Windows APIs to Linux APIs

WSL1 doesn’t implement the Linux syscall interface on top of the user-mode Win32 or NT APIs. Rather, it runs in-kernel; it calls kernel-mode NT APIs (only some of which directly correspond to NT syscalls), and (I assume) also implements some aspects of the Linux APIs internally to itself. Its approach is rather different from that of Wine or Cygwin, both of which translate one user-space API to another; and also from the legacy Windows OS/2 and POSIX/Interix/SFU/SUA subsystems, which implement those APIs mostly in user space, on top of the NT user-space API. WSL1 is essentially unique; the closest analog is probably the Linux syscall emulation in FreeBSD/NetBSD, Solaris10/Illumos LX branded zones, and the old Linux iBCS2 personality - although those are all far easier because there is much less mapping in emulating the Linux API on another POSIX OS than one fundamentally non-POSIX.

> But they ended up running into issues and limitations that made them change their approach.

I don’t think those issues were inherently insurmountable, and solving them in the context of WSL1 would have made Windows a better platform, since many of those issues (e.g. poor filesystem performance) also impact native Win32 apps. But, they made a decision on where to invest their resources. WSL2’s implementation strategy requires less engineering work overall to reach a given outcome.
I think you described one scenario that's not representative of all the issues, and then a reader might accidentally think the "it's all very silly" is the takehome message for all the issues.

Also, as a lawyer, couldn't you come up with some a decent counterargument re moral differences, if you had to?
1/3 is generally considered to be a healthy debt burden ratio.
Yes, the typeface is horrible, no question about it, but the other issues mentioned are definitely also there.
My suspicion (and I think main stream?) is that 50%+ of the company is necessary just to stay afloat, sustainably.

Sure, in the very short term you could probably fire 80% of people and make the other 20% work 7-16s. But that's not going to end well.
We're working on some solutions around this problem - a browser level filter on toxic comments / blatant misinformation found on ad-supported platforms, helpful context as a layer on top of content you're reading, and moderated community debate around current events, with enforced norms. Still early if anyone wants to join what's likely to be a non-profit:

https://brightgood.com
Two main reasons:

1. Long distance communication require HF frequencies which requires very large antennas.

2. If you’re talking specifically about the HF amateur radio bands, you may not use those for commercial purposes.
Nice. Thinking big. And long. It’s going to take about a thousand years, but it’ll be worth it.
>At a significant price premium, or that programmer is a moron.

You're stating the obvious as if it's not implied by my statement.

Alternatively, they might be A-OK returning to their codebase/team without fuss.

Edit: even if you pay an exorbitant premium, that could be cheaper than keeping N other 1x or -X programmers.
As the previous commenter has already said, the author has been paid already in the first case. That's a material difference.
> I see NNs as if they're like really complex and impressive Markov chain generators.

Funnily enough, that’s how I see brains. They start out as a few neurones basically implementing ‘hard wired’ logic, then some feedback loops form and next thing you know they’re asking “why am I here?”
In addition to the sale, a popular library is a library that buys more and more books and doesn't get shuttered.
How does this compare to traveling in a chauffeured and staffed RV? (The kind of thing that rock stars or movie stars might do.)
Copilot is trained on public repos. Id imagine if Microsoft doesn’t want you to use their code, that code would be in a private repo. There’s nothing stopping me from using code in a public repo, regardless of the license.
This seems really neat, actually. While it seems it would be a bit more expensive than you'd think, if you loved railroads then it would be a cool thing to own.
I guess the only restriction would be having to hook into an Amtrak train/route, but otherwise I think traveling North America by rail could be pretty interesting.

My cost comment comes from seeing cars "surplus" for a few thousand dollars, but I'm guessing they might need significant upgrades to be eligible to hook up to Amtrak, not to mention being comfortable for the owner.
HFCS isn't particularly high in fructose. Sucrose is essentially 1:1 fructose to glucose. HFCS is typically either 42% or 55% fructose, the rest glucose, so basically the same. Honey and agave nectar are also similar.

I can't say I'm an expert, but I haven't seen anything where consuming fructose is worse overall than other sugars. Fruits for example also tend to be high in fructose, and if you're going to have sugars they tend to be one of the best ways.
I've been there. My impression was that every piece of text was in Hebrew, Arabic, and English.
That's an interesting clip and reminiscent of an extremely effective manager I had. He would remove people from trouble projects one at a time to (a) reduce cost and (b) reduce meetings. The worst case project would have the single best engineer left on it.

I also saw the complete opposite at two companies which were decades old, but were distracted by CSR and processes. Both ceased to exist a few years ago.
This is true but that is the costumers responsibility if they want to insure their cargo or not.

Whatever method or rocket design the govenrment uses this is always an issue. Just flying on a government provided rocket doesn't change that cargo is at risk of being lost because it is not insured. In this case the risk to the tax payer is always at risk, it has nothing to do with SpaceX as such or the method of rocket procurement.

But the way the contracting model has been changed, the fact is, if SpaceX had not performed on their development and test campaign, they would have been stuck with the cost of most of that. Just as Being likely had to eat 600M+ because of their delays.

So in terms of developing capabilities for the government to use, this was an incredibly low risk and cost effective one.
> Elon could have handled the takeover in a serious and humane way.

Nothing I've ever read about him suggests that he operates in a humane manner.

He's like a lot of billionaires, views humans as cogs in the machine.
We've had far less efficiency. This is why Apple, Google, Microsoft have all called for a return to office. And every once in a while, Zuckerberg complains about worker productivity.
The major threat to Twitter right now is twofold: that (1) the mild user downturn it’s been experiencing since 2020 turns into a full-on death spiral, and (2) other social networks step in and pull a TikTok by gobbling up Twitter’s users. Both of these things could probably be averted by smart new leadership. Neither of these things is helped by loading the company up with debt and moving into layoff/cash extraction mode to service it.
Actually, you can use Azure AD even without any Windows systems.https://canonical.com/blog/new-active-directory-integration-.... But licensing is still going to cost you.

Having said that, as a former directory engineer (iPlanet/Sun/Oracle/ForgeRock) I don't think any of the Azure AD workarounds, including samba's (who really needs CIFS in a world where files can be served up over https with secure OAuth?), are worth all the extra effort. If you need an enterprise directory, you should deploy one. The good news is that both Ubuntu and Red Hat now support Azure AD, so you're not stuck with half measures.

Of course not every shop _needs_ a system/network directory, and both those Linux ecosystems support a range of user and system management options that can do the job. Even if you finally find yourself in need of something more, AWS and GCP offer competitive identity services that can work just as well with non-legacy systems as Azure AD (so long as you don't have any Microsoft PaaS or SaaS dependencies).
> Yes, this is what people really need to be worried about.

Ah yes, the what if I’m really not only ineffective, but a net negative on my company and they find out anxiety.
Social networks work because people enjoy using them. As people tell their friends about the network, they use it, and network effects allow it to grow. As it grows, its brand is established.

Twitter is a distant fourth or fifth place network because, as it is, most people do not enjoy using it. Its Brand is wildly seen as synonymous with toxic parts of our culture.

And your plan is to make it worse and then charge people to use it.

OK.
> My point being that there is a natural urge to defend your profession regardless of whether you are being paid for it.

I currently run a small PE firm. I don’t see any of my comments being in defense of my profession.

I was a professor in my former career. I have never worked in admissions. That has never been my career, and I feel absolutely no need to defend it.

Furthermore, I am very open to criticizing admissions processes (there is plenty to criticize), but I find myself spending so much time addressing misinformation/disinformation that the really good stuff never comes up (biggest ones being treatment of 13th year recruited athletes as well as opacity in the admissions process that seems unnecessary).

> The officials can easily see that there are too many Asians for this year so the just bin some of the applicants.

This simply does not happen.

> The most parsimonious analysis of the data leads to this conclusion.

Two courts disagree with you.

Here is a brief:

https://www.harvard.edu/admissionscase/wp-content/uploads/si...

Some quotes:

“The district court found “no evidence of any racial animus whatsoever” toward Asian-American applicants and “no evidence” that “any particular admissions deci- sion was negatively affected by Asian American identity.’”

“The district court found the testimony of Harvard’s admissions officers—all called by SFFA—“consistent, unambiguous, and convincing” that “there was no discrimination against Asian American applicants with respect to the admissions process as a whole and the personal ratings in particular.” To the contrary, “[n]ot one of them had seen or heard anything disparaging about an Asian American applicant despite the fact that decisions were made collectively and after open discussion about each applicant.”

These are from pp 11-12 in the brief. I strongly recommend reading the entire thing.

> I mean how much more ridiculous can Harvard's defense get, really?

It’s clear to me that you are basing your comments on pre-conceived and poorly informed ideas.

At this point, I assume that you are just trolling for the sake of trolling.

Please read the brief I linked to. It will debunk much of what you claim to be true.

If the Supreme Court overrules the lower courts, it will be for a very technical legal reason — that is, that race is used at all in admissions decisions — and it will not be because any racist-based admissions process had ever been implemented.

Best of luck moving forward.
He had time to read and signal boost a 100% fake news article about Paul Pelosi, so I'm skeptical of arguments based on how busy he is
> Without a DRM mechanism it can be easily shared on warez sites.

DRM doesn't seem to be very good at preventing this either, though. The only thing it's really good at is making it harder for legitimate users to access their legally purchased media.

There is an inherent asymmetry to it: It only takes one sophisticated bad actor to break DRM and make a cracked book widely available, yet legitimate users not willing to break the law are suffering the inconveniences of error-prone, user-hostile systems.

I can even somewhat empathize with the idea of DRM for subscriptions or loans (otherwise there is really no incentive for users to continue paying, and durable access is not a concern either), but for outright purchased media, it really rubs me the wrong way to know that I can lose access to my stuff at any time.

It worked like this for music (Spotify and Apple Music have DRM, but iTunes and Amazon MP3/AAC purchases haven't, for example), and it's even working for eBooks in some countries: German language ePubs have been DRM free for some years now (although watermarked).
Very true. Furthermore I'm curious to see where Twitter will innovate moving forward. After S. Jobs "slashed and burned", he set his teams first on the iMac and then iPod in Aug. 1998 and Oct. 2001 respectively. I keep reading articles about how Musk wants to turn Twitter into an "app for everything" similar to WeChat in China. I'm a bit skeptical.
There were a handful of very vocal people who created that ruckus and the media amplified it.
At the same time, "too many people would lose their jobs [in insurance]" was *one of the reasons why we didn't get the public option when Obamacare passed.

There are definitely cases where people losing their jobs is a necessary evil to get us to a place of greater good. We should certainly support those that get laid off, but it shouldn't stop us (collectively) from improving how our society functions.

I'm reminded of the Soviet Union joke about full employment. Of course we have full employment - like at the subway entrance: one person takes your ticket, another brings it to the machine, the third one makes the stamp and the fourth hands it back to you. See? Everyone has a job!
Yglesias doesn't think that no investigation should be done or that tech is all good- he has a riff that "Facebook is bad, Facebook employees should feel bad about working there, and they should feel shame admitting where they work" that he goes on occasionally.
Yes. It’s cringe but a war in the right circumstances could stop price growth in the US
If 100 people all see it is not checked out and then download it, there would be no contention

If 100 people all try to check it out, there would be a huge waiting list and the library would try to order more copies.
The federal government increasingly is finding interesting nooks and crannies to shove enforcement into. Customs and Border Protection is now larger than the FBI, and ICE which houses "homeland security investigations" is almost half their size. These, and other arms of government, are increasingly being used to clamp down on activity by citizens deep within US borders (such as the recent Portland riots).
It's nothing in isolation of your single act. Maybe. In aggregate it of course deprecates the library(they have e-checkouts already but you're talking untracked piracy). I like libraries; I think they're mostly performative in small towns and providing social services in cities rather than functioning as actual libraries. Kinda sad.

I pirate all my books btw, just saying if everyone did it ofc there'd be(already is) impact. Easily smartphones+kindle is worse though.
Floppy disk supplier says business is booming [video]
I think the operant phrase is “policy violations.” I’ve never heard that associated with anything but breaking a corporate rule: talking to the media unauthorized, leaking, harassment, etc.
The very best answer:

“I like trains.”
Allegedly Twitter employees with unvested RSUs were scheduled to get equivalent cash payouts on the same schedule as RSU vesting. I don’t think this will solve his debt problems, but it’s gonna move the needle.
I don't know, because Openstax charges $0 for an arguably smaller audience than that of higher priced options, so you can't get much lower than that.
You might to want to look up at what happened when the "alt-right" Gab decided to start using the "liberal" Mastodon...
Remix is wonderful.

Combined with CloudFront, you can save a lot of money compared to Vercel when you become moderately successful.

(yes, you'd need to be comfortable rolling your own to some degree, for some things, but honestly the value is huge)
Depending on personality you might enjoy a conversation with random strangers walking through.

See I knew there was a plus.
He's been a prominent opinion writer for almost 20 years and has close ties with a lot of people who work at the NYT he probably knows.
> working with brilliant and motivated people

Are you expecting that Musk demanding people work 100% overtime will make them "highly motivated"?
Arguably, the environmental impact of downloading it is less than driving to the library to check it out.
Maybe the US is in a recession.
And by moving the goalposts you aren't addressing my comment, but still…

What "godlike power" are you referring to? The ability to moderate what turns up in your own social media feed? The ability to respond to comments someone else has deemed to break rules. I would hope for a bit more than that for godlike power.
You think there’s a difference between 10 years and 15 years? Get better at interviewing. The years of experience you put on your resume isn’t what’s losing you the job. “Too senior but willing to work for just senior rates” certainly isn’t it.
> NPR is state media

No, its not. VOA, Radio Free Europe, and other US Agency for Global Media outlets are US state media. NPR neither has government editorial control or predominant government funding (direct and indirect government funding amounts to around 10% of its total revenue).
Umm...

"appears current subscribers have around 4 weeks"
MS: "as of Nov 2023"

I'm thinking someone mathed wrong, but by my calculation this is over a year from now, not around a month.
if they sent anything via mail, even once, then that's the justification
Which is, of course, the only possible way to work.
are any rail worthy?
I don't doubt at all that something could have changed, or even that it changed for the worse, but the extraordinary claim ("Apple broke it intentionally or negligently because of a patent lawsuit") demands a bit more evidence than anonymous speculation on a web forum.
It seems this application was designed to be at parity with other task calendar applications such as https://TickTick.com?

Is there a roadmap alongside this product that shows at what stage this product plans to seperate itself from the; ticktick’s, sunsamas, and motions of the world?

I feel when selecting apps like these now a day the real question is almost where do you want to put your money? Future support and development seems to be my main concern since, almost all of their features are mutually inclusive of one another despite a small few, esp with zapper integrations. Does anyone see something I’m not?
I like this idea. I have found dating apps to really push you into a box. It's strange to say that men might like monogamy because it's so reinforced that all they want is casual sex. You can't escape this box on dating apps. In my experience, in fact, stating this on dating apps pushes women away. The format is geared towards casual hookups too. You can't just abruptly go on and on about yourself and what you want to make sure the other person is a match. You will be ghosted.

So as a result the dating apps push you to be brief, flirtatious, and a lot of people use completely canned, artificial profiles and pickup lines. This idea does seem freeing from that but I don't know how you would drive people to view the date me doc in order to find someone who likes you. Reaching a target audience is an age old problem.
The months leading up to Verizon's fateful decision in December 2018, they were in the range of over 500 million MAU. Within a couple months after, the number was half that.