skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The general principle is good, and can be found in literally any textbook about market segmentation and business strategy. And the idea of motivating the reader by giving an example is sound, even though in and of themselves, single examples reek to high heaven of survivorship bias.

If it motivates someone to not give up because they don’t seem to fit the existing templates for success, that is necessary, but not sufficient by a long shot.

What’s missing are concrete tactics for succeeding with the strategy of “make your own niche.” Lacking specific tactics for replication—at any scale, in any field—its primary value IMO is as an exhortation to go out and research how to succeed with this strategy.

It’s only a short essay, so it really has no more weight then the preface of a book. And that’s what it reads like: An anecdote at the beginning of a book about succeeding as a niche or specialized entity…

Only the rest of the book—with specific chapters detailing the strategy at finer levels of detail and laying out tactics to thrive—is missing. We are left to either fumble around blindly, frustrated that we are unable to “paint the target around our arrow,” or go out and do a lot more reading and learning to assemble the rest of the book by hand.

If anyone does find this inspirational or thought-provoking, there are entire books touching on the subject that provide a lot more value. If this motivates people to go out and read such books, it’s not a complete waste of time, but it is incomplete and fails to say “Hey, this is just to whet your appetite, this is the beginning of a long journey. Bruce took decades to discover what worked by trial and error and working with others, you can read these books to get you started on the right road.”

I’ll contribute one book recommendation: “Marketing Warfare” by Reis and Trout. It’s also lightweight and easily digestible, but it contains a simple model of competition that divides business into four different strategies (offence, defence, flanking, guerrilla) and then details specific advice for success in each one.

What they call “guerrilla” is closest to what this essay espouses, and readers may find their advice a little more actionable. But even then, that book is not a complete how-to. You have to keep learning and keep researching.
There is a version number at the top: "v8.8.0.8".
I believe they keep making updates to the book probably to fix typos/errata.
The original link I had bookmarked https://htdp.org/2018-01-06/Book/index.html
and this one look mostly the same - content wise.

But it would be nice if there was a CHANGES file or description about what does change between these versions.
In a range of 100-150 US$ a piece.

Perhaps 500-800 US$ for 5 finished keyboards.

Similar to this Omnikey Ultra T, in a similar build quality, but with few keys rearranged. I wish the F11 and F12 on the life side to be below F9 and F10 keys.

https://www.thurrott.com/forums/general-discussion/hardware/...

I like the heavy metal bottom plate, but can be (cheaper) molded plastic.

My current Ultra T is at end of life, I am resoldering the gradually failing white ALPS.
Looks like a nice set of features, but that UX isn't going to win anyone over from Github/Gitlab/Gitea land.
Check out https://jamsync.dev if you're interested a non-git alternative
GitHub Actions Are Down
>one big shared drive and shouting across the room to lock files

yes ... how did you know we used visual source safe?
You're the second person in this thread to claim that Tor is compromised, without giving any explanation. This isn't productive discussion. Care to elaborate in what exact manner is Tor compromised? Bonus points for not hitting anything from the known list of speculative attacks. [1]

[1] https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Speculative_Tor_Attacks
It really, really, depends.
Corrupting your repo with a one-line change? Is there more to this story? A bug report, for example? It's not my experience of Mercurial at all.
The courts have no mechanism by which they can act. I really don’t understand what they could or should have done differently. They have no choice here.
I love that the Crystal Programming language build system (Shards) supports not just all the git-based solutions, but also Fossil and Mercurial. Giving programmers the flexibility to choose other solutions if they want to is great, even if they aren't exercised regularly.
In Kenya we have a case of a religious cult where over a 100 people starved themselves to death because their pastor told them to.

You can't protect everybody against doing self-harm - we are solely responsible for our own actions.
The EA and EIS included the possibility of the rocket blowing up on the launchpad. That scenario would have thrown a lot more debris and would have started a lot more fires.
> I don't have a problem with the concept of a PR

I don't either; the idea of a change-set as the unit of source control works well. My problem is that git doesn't work that way. Every git workflow I've seen, including GitHub PRs, and to a large extent git itself, presents the illusion that a git commit is a change set. When you write a git commit message, you probably write it as if it were describing a set of changes. When you run `git show 21ad6ef3`, git shows you changes, as if `21ad6ef3` referred to those changes. But it doesn't.

The GitHub approach is interesting in that it actually does retain the change-set (PR) as part of the project history. But it's out-of-band with respect to the actual git repository.
IIRC it has more to do with that series of chip not having GMET (AMD Guest-Mode Execute Trap for NPT) which is used in Windows 10/11s virtualization based protection. Microsoft requires this option for all new PCs from their partners but you can install windows 11 and run it fine without this CPU feature (there is a performance hit if you leave virtualization based protection on though since it has to be done in software).
i2p?
When someone makes a wish on the monkey's paw, as far as the end result is concerned, who that person is and what they actually want doesn't matter anywhere near as much as how much leeway the monkey's paw has in interpreting the wish.
ChatGPT knocks $1B off market caps of Pearson and Chegg
Moreover, there is no SLA on those FUSE adapters so putting it into any part of production is too risky.
I've never seen an adult store check age in the Netherlands. Children just aren't interested until they're ready for it. I assume a store owner is legally in the clear when serving a five year old, even if in practice they would ask for their caretaker's phone number and send them home.

Is that actually required and enforced in the USA?
Essays about Vintage Games
There are many non-religious arguments being made in this very thread, some of which can be backed up by science and others which can be supported by evidence.

You're accusing them of lacking rational thinking and leaping to personal attacks while doing the same.

Many of the users of this site are not from the US and many live in some of the world's most secular societies.
"Antitrust: Commission fines Microsoft for non-compliance with browser choice commitments", European Commission 2013:

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_13_...

We need more legislation it seems.
> tor is compromised

Is it?
> speaking to the fear of getting caught up in the fallout when bad things happen at the reactor.

The comparison focuses on the normal amount of background radiation from living near a nuclear plant, so fear of fallout "when bad things happen" is a separate issue and irrelevant to the banana example. The Ebola lab comparison is a good one though.
What's interesting to think about isn't debating the truth of the title, but rather how to build around it. Consider the reptile and higher thinking brains and its later ability to process language roughly making up our hardware. Now what happens when you start with the language processing ability, then try adding higher thinking, and finally goals and motivations?
Works nicely on lynx[1] and does exactly what it says on the tin[2]...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Does_exactly_what_it_says_on_t...
Nothing particularly strange about it, dude is literally just an echo of all the other talented grifters in history that have managed to ride other people's genius to notoriety.
>It makes no sense to me that every physical store in a state must check IDs if you want to buy porn or alcohol, but porn websites can just let anyone in without checking ID.

So.. what, you have to enter a license number or a picture of a license to let people into a porn website? How does that prove anything other than someone has access to a license number/picture?

>There are legitimate privacy concerns with checking ID online, but I think it’s way past time that the government does something to restrict the supply of porn to minors via the internet.

First... how?

Second.. I sure as shit don't want that. Most people don't want that. Mostly religious nutjobs do, and politicians pretend like they care just to keep on good terms with religious nuts.

>The evidence that social media causes harm to minors is clear and compelling.

I'm not advocating for social media here- but no one being objective about the subject would ever speak that way. You obviously have a "PROTECT THE CHILDREN!" mentality and want to legislate everything with no respect to anything else. At least just be straight forward instead of trying to make silly arguments.
If lighting a fire on protected lands is the worse you got than big deal.

I am sure the swamp grasses will grow back even more robust.

What was actually harmed here?

Do you have dead animal carcasses? Piping plovers acting differently?
TBF the argument that some people use GitHub because it offers a more pleasant experience than using git itself (via the CLI) might have some truth to it. But saying "GitHub is what most people use because it makes the complexities of git easier" goes a bit too far. Local git GUIs like Sublime Merge are better for that - GitHub might help you with the complexities of collaborating with others using git, but it won't save your ass if you've got your local repo in some wonky state...
You do not need it to be the government to provide a protocol for identification. In Sweden they already done this by offloading it to banks, which can be seen as a benefit or drawback based on who you ask.

Personally I would like to see something like letsencrypt to take the role of central identification authority, with multiple open protocols available to prove identification. Neither governments or banks should be the single source for identity. Trust is a hard problem to solve with technology, and neither government nor for-profit organizations tend to be very good at it.
How does it mess with people? Perhaps they just quietly assume you're not too bright?
What category did the $15B get reallocated from though? Was it a net positive or negative change?
I agree that allowing a company, especially Microsoft which is a cunning corporation, to corner the software development and open source community through its GitHub/VS Code one-two punch is not good for the industry/community. Add using GitHub data for training AIs on top and now a single corporation has immense market power and influence on the direction of technology.

Considering what GitHub offers, MS derives far more value then devs get, and devs risk getting stuck within their system, providing value for MS but getting far less in return. Why give a corporation so much for free at such a large cost to the industry/community?
Back in the late 90s we used to call it Visual SourceSieve - code changes would just leak away through the holes. Words cannot explain how much of a step up git (or even SVN) was.

As I recall, the main problem was that VSS didn't have a proper server! Instead the client modified files in the repository directly using Window's file sharing, relying on locks to maintain consistency. This would have been a bad idea even in Window's file shares weren't slow and buggy.
In some ways, the less such an essay says, the easier it is to become a “tabula rasa,” where the reader fills in the huge, empty spaces with things they already believe.

The next step is to applaud the essay because the reader feels it “feels right.” Of course it feels right if you mentally fill in the blanks, and if it says nothing that can be empirically falsified.
Easy to do on a laptop running linux -- network manager even has built-in GUI functions to randomize your MAC -- but a little more challenging on a locked down cellphone that's tied to a SIM card
More financialized-capitalism BS.

Would you rather be swindled out of $1000 or violently assaulted and robbed of $990?
I think what he's trying to say without actually saying it is that pornography is something that makes your eternal soul go to hell if you view it.
Some even upload all their conversations and confidential internal documents to Microsoft 365!
Maybe not, a grumpy graybeard unix admin.
But you can add "Defaults insults" to your sudoers file and get insulted when you type a wrong password.
Also increasing the cost of enforcement is a good way to get less of it. mjevans clearly just doesn't want more traffic enforcement.
It can work yes but AMD chips didn't get GMET until Zen2 so if you leave virtualization based protection on you might see a performance hit.

From Microsoft's website:

>Memory integrity works better with Intel Kabylake and higher processors with Mode-Based Execution Control, and AMD Zen 2 and higher processors with Guest Mode Execute Trap capabilities. Older processors rely on an emulation of these features, called Restricted User Mode, and will have a bigger impact on performance.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pr...
If you actually know anything about the average environmentalist you'd know they are the most hardened and experienced outdoors people in the population. It is the outdoorsy folk that are so passionate about the environment.
> US free speech law is weird in that even fairly innocuous sexual content is "obviously not speech"

This really isn't true. See the Miller test[1], and in that same Wikipedia article, the example of adult content (in Utah!) being found not obscene.

Christian nationalists like to use "pornography" and "obscenity" interchangeably as rhetorical positioning, but I am hard pressed to think of a case where innocuous sexual content was held to be obscene and therefore not protected speech.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test
>PornHub is somewhat unique in that it’s so large and totally free.

Uh.. no..

And how about you just go to google/bing whatever and search for some porn. It will come right up.

You are completely bonkers if you think free porn is somewhat unique to pornhub.
Now now, nothing says a shopping cart has to show the length of the array, and not the value of the last index.

I jest of course.
>Krishna said in an interview he believes around 30% of about 26,000 non-customer-facing positions, like human resources jobs, could be replaced by AI over a five-year period—amounting to about 7,800 lost jobs. HR duties like documenting employee moves to different departments and writing employment verification letters will likely be among the first rolled over to AI, Krishna told Bloomberg. Jobs focused on interacting with customers and developing software at the 260,000-worker strong company should not be impacted in coming years, according to Krishna.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2023/05/01/ibm-...
I explained basically this to my 4 year old nephew recently. He wanted to count to infinity. I asked him what is the biggest problem with counting to infinity? It's too slow. I said ok let's take bigger steps. We counted by 2's then 10's then hundreds and millions and then zillions and other ridiculous superlative numbers. It doesn't really matter because everything is still too slow. So then we said ok lets make up a number ω that is half way there, One ω, Two ω, done. He's happy. Then I told him to add one more and sent him back to play fetch with the dog.
Transfinite ordinals also known as hyperreals should really be taught in school as they make many parts of math easier: algebraic definition of derivatives (including algebraic derivative of step functions without dirac 'density') and yes: natural addition and multiplication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreal_number
Just now I heard someone unironically say that it's about time the USA government stops the supply of porn to minors via the Internet (presumably that's any nudity to anyone under 21 or maybe 18, another thing I never know when reading USA-originating comments). You just can't tell what kind of wacky opinions are out there and what's a joke. The comment read as though posted by someone who enjoys watching others waste time disagreeing with them, until they said something about social media in the end that's much less far out there and makes me conclude the comment is likely actually genuine.

It's also kinda rude to assume someone is joking when they were actually serious, so yeah one tends to get taken seriously when in doubt...
Do you think children should be able to purchase cannabis products at dispensaries?
Bullshit! How much of this FUD BS is Google-sponsored?
If nytimes ran out of topics they should ask me for some.
> It’s probably about as dangerous to minors as sitting the minor in a room while 2 consenting adults have sex, or taking that minor to a strip club.

I think you have not seen the average porn online these days. Its way, way more extreme than this.
doesnt work as the author describes they acknowledge that here https://twitter.com/MikeElgan/status/1653034698908798979?s=2...
Japan is the example that immediately comes to mind for me of an ethnically-homogenous nation. My understanding is that someone who isn't ethnically Japanese can never truly "fully assimilate".
Don’t learn a programming language. Learn software engineering
>What's wrong with these people?

someone told me once "Think of the US less like a secular Western European country and more like a very rich Iran" and that really does help to make sense of a lot of these decisions
That's because time also stops, until you reply. Then ChatGPT reads both what you said and what it said earlier, and the giant mathematical operation is run over those two inputs together. It may very well be that self-reflection happens inside that operation.

For humans, time does not stop - we constantly process both sensory information and our own thoughts, and even if you cut out external stimuli via e.g. sensory deprivation tank, the brain will just loop on its own output instead, of which you'll suddenly become much more aware.
You can install W11 without a TPM with a workaround. Microsoft should be forced to allow it by default.
you also need to connect (cheap) hardware to your motherboard

this makes it very very unlikely to be usable in a virus or remote attack

but if you lose your arm laptop and didn't use a encryption password you might want to consider your data leaked

also I would treat Intel cpus the same, Intel having a similar vulnerability is not unlikely
The ban on speech affects those who are speaking. You're trying to turn it around to be about who is listening. That would be gaslighting, which you throw around so triumphantly.

I'm really sorry for whatever happened to you. Please don't perpetuate it.
I have a feeling¹ other rocket launches (particularly "first" launches) get a similar amount of complaints from environmental groups, just like major infrastructure projects do. Except due to Elon becoming… clown in chief? … there's a spotlight on it. It's newsworthy because flaming Elon generates clicks.

Which doesn't mean the environmental groups are wrong, or that Elon is getting shitcanned for nothing… he really inflicted this on himself.

[¹] I have no idea how to dig up data on this, unfortunately.
Archive link: https://archive.is/m1AcB
It's entirely different if the newcomers are primarily young and single and start families with non-immigrant Koreans. Seeing that as problematic is a slippery slope into Nazi-style racial heritage mathematics where you'd be obsessing over who's only 3/8 Korean, etc.
Your position is that a 12 year old should be able to buy any porn that they want?
Python's Missing Batteries: Essential Libraries You're Missing Out On
This is very funny but also the more I mess about with it, the more I like it.

As absurd as finding a glass of ice water in the middle of the Sahara: nonetheless refreshing.
I guess the principle "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" will be more relevant than ever from now on.
Soma vibes
One thing that hasn't been mentioned so far. We've seen comments that "race to the bottom" (Lamy Safari, Pilot Preppy, ...), or that aim for "timeless classics" (basically any gold nib - Sailor 1911, Pilot Falcon, ~$150+ pens).

There's a third way though. The "actual piece of history". In my opinion, no pen is better for this than a Parker 51. This for me is the embodiment (and a parent of) "the consumer fountain pen". Seen and used everywhere from 1940s to about 1960s. The best part - these can now be had for ~$100 and a good portion of them still works beautifully to this day. With minimal maintenance (cleaning, sometimes slight nib polishing to remove the flat spots that come from long time use by their previous owners) one can get a working Parker 51 for under $60.

The best part - these pens can go neck to neck with a lot of modern $150+ pieces. All the while most of these pens are older than majority of HN users. Heck, having a small collection myself, most of my Parker 51s are older than my parents.
Lately HN reminds me of Slashdot. Everything in the universe is MS' fault. Chrome is an adware. It tried to use a bug in Windows to sneakily install itself as the default browser. MS is looking out for its users and suddenly MS is the evil guy.
This was on the front page a few days ago and the consensus seemed to be this project is unethical:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35740836
> why do you think that?

Because, love it or lump it, Intel's manufacturing process is ludicrously advanced. Power hungry, particularly when they're locked on older nodes, but extremely capable when their interests align. Pat Gelsinger has even stated that it's his goal to get Apple back as an Intel customer. Their foundry services started working with ARM to get RISC cores manufactured, and if they stick to their roadmap, it's possible for them to leapfrog TSMC's density limitations.

We'll have to see where things go, but I do agree with the parent. Apple's lead was their investment on the TSMC 5nm node, which as-of the M2 is clearly difficult to iterate on. Apple needs advancements in density to make a faster chip - Intel does not.
I used to have a neighbor who didn't even know that his car was stolen until he got a call from the police at 6AM. It's not like they towed it back to his house, but at least he was aware of where it was.
Wow, even HN has taken the "but think of the children" pill.
Pretty sure people used cannabis before it was legal… so it was reallocated from the cartels and local drug dealers.
Enforcement is much more strict in the states, generally. It does vary some state to state.
Ask HN: Are there any free email providers in 2023?
Hey HN,

I’m working on a little side project, and I’d like to set up basic email service connected to my domain so that users can communicate with me.

The problem is that I bought my domain through GoDaddy as I have been doing since the beginning of time. They have always included a free basic email service with every domain you buy, but apparently they recently stopped including the email service.

It seems I have to now pay GoDaddy a monthly fee to have a simple help email box :(

I’m a little disappointed, and I know that there has to be a better way.

What do you’all recommend for free or cheap email using my domain name in 2023?

Thank you in advance!

Cheers
29k – open-sourced non-profit, making free psychological tools for mental health
Ah, my bad - thank you for the correction!