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Know any decent computer nerds in the 80s/90s that weren’t at least dabbling in that stuff?

Hell there was a whole monthly meeting and magazine dedicated to that sort of behavior. Criminal? Yes. Part of hacker culture? Also yes.

Too bad Mr Goldstein lost all credibility (that he may or may not have had) when he started shaming folks for not taking the clot shot.
Then it’s different… Better vs perfect.

If you can’t get your SSN right, you can’t expect a company to delete it.
What kind of retro computing are you doing that would work well with high definition (720p). Standard definition I believe only started to be limited around 2007 when Xbox games like Dead Rising had captions that where too small to be legible on SD tvs
> Though, actually generating that many pixels might be hard when you have nowhere near enough memory.

Even if you don't have enough memory or CPU time to render true 720p, it's nice to be able to output 360p or 240p inside a 720p container with each pixel and line duplicated two or three times. Doing it that way gives you nice crisp pixels rather than the blurry mess the displays internal upscaler would probably produce. You can even insert blank lines to get a faux-CRT-scanline effect.
I just don't understand why they didn't go with a copyleft license like SSPL; is it because they're worried too many people will self-manage in the Enterprise and not pay them?
It probably is fine. Still makes my spider sense tingle about some unforeseen failure that will crop up one day.
> The article starts off wrong when it says that Marc created the concept. Steve Blank talked about PMF a bit earlier in The Four Steps to the Epiphany.

Maybe I'm off-base here but when I read those 3 words "product market fit" I assume that is a concept that has been around since the beginning of any free market.

I don't see how it could have only been recently recognized, that doesn't seem right.
It will help customers though. It helps no one but Apple that Apple collects a 30% tax on everything with no real way of cutting them out. It helps no one that I can’t buy kindle books on my iPhone, or subscribe to certain streaming services.

But this focus on the customer is irrelevant to whether they’re being anti-competitive. Apple actions in creating a walled garden are detrimental to their direct competitors (Spotify, Netflix, epic games) by either entirely locking them out or forcing them to compete with unfair structural barriers (nobody’s taking 30% of Apple Music subcsriber revenue).
I feel like I pay a lot for news. I pay for:
* WSJ
* NYTimes
* Economist
* LATimes
* SJ Mercury News
* Apple News

And yet I constantly run into paywalls (which I circumvent). How much per month does the news industry think is fair for me to pay?

I wish I could just pay a fee per article I read. I think the business model is broken because there are too many individual entities and they all want a subscription. And this makes no sense in the age of the internet.
You are right, and I will amend my statement. I will get more noise and traffic if the open space near me is mowed down. I will also get more noise and traffic if all the single family homes near me are replaced with 6 plexes.

I assure you that neither of those are a good outcome as far as I'm concerned.
Use ChatGPT or Claude for your day to day questions, technical or not. You'll quickly figure out in which areas using Google is still better. ChatGPT can probably do more than you think and handle more complex request than you're probably assuming.

Regarding your projects, either just brute force into an existing one, or start a new project. For the former, the purpose isn't to make the product better (exactly) but for you to learn. For the later, OpenAI and Anthropic APIs are good enough to mess around and build a lot of different things. Don't let analysis paralysis stop you, start messing around and finding out.
Isn't hstx mainly good for streaming out? My naive guess would be that it wouldn't have as much transceiver offload capabilities, like what the SIO I naively guess would be good for.

The nice part about using SIO seems to be that you can do the tdms encoding there. With hstx you need the output bitstream in the right format already which seems like you might be back to needing the CPU to do the encoding.
IBM's drives are exactly why I said "usually don't" rather than "never". SLC caching is still not normal for enterprise drives, whereas it is now universal for consumer SSDs.
Cardio specifically, right?
> American Sign Language is not English

I'm not sure I understand your point. Chinese is also not English but machine translation of Chinese to English can be done.

You're right that laypeople often assume, wrongly, that a given country's sign language is an encoding of the local spoken language. In reality it's usually a totally different language in its own right. But that shouldn't mean that translation is fundamentally impossible.
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It's not clear to me if this is a joke/game/whatever or a real company founded by people who are really big fans of half life as they claim.

You can search for corporations in massachusetts where they claim they are located.[1]

Surprisingly to me, there are 4 results for "Black Mesa"

[1]https://corp.sec.state.ma.us/corpweb/CorpSearch/CorpSearch.a...
That's been a dream for nearly as long as the web has been around. I'm pretty sure there are mailing list threads from the '90s about turning micropayments into a standardized web API. As far as I can tell, this never caught on because it's almost always more profitable to operate your own paywall scheme or payment network than to participate in someone else's (provided that you're powerful enough to get away with it).
I suck at taking photos in many conventional aspects (bad framing, no posing, bad distance/angle, etc) and I've worked on that, but one thing I still seem to have a knack for is always pressing the capture button at the exact instant the subject blinks. I can't seem to stop doing it at rates that feel more than random. We can usually pull a better picture from the accompanying motion photo, I guess.
Being a scientist is cool and all, but you have to do things the exact same way except for changing one variable at a time for a proper science experiment. Having a robot helper to run the experiment the exact same way modulo the variable would be great for science and especially for reproducing experiments. There's a reproduction crisis and a robot that could run reproductions would move science itself forwards.

The other part of the question is, for you, merely just being a scientist is the most rewarding thing ever and there's absolutely no boring parts whatsoever? Your favorite part of the job is everything, and there's none of it that you'd trade for a bit of the other?
I mean, I suppose that's possible, but that beggars belief.
> What you won't be able to do is force other people to do what you want them to do, with their iPhones.

A bit of a nit, but what they won't be able to do is use their market power to lock competitors out or extract monopolistic taxes for access to their large segment of the mobile market. It has nothing to do with consumers per se - we could be back here in 3 years because all of the app stores have formed a cartel to decide the vig for apps, same way Amazon and Apple did for e-books.
Forcing Google to stop paying Mozilla to be default search engine would surely be terrible for Mozilla, right? That's the vast majority of their income.
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Only insofar as the New Yorker chose to be available on Apple News.

If you subscribe to Apple News, you have to read this article in the Apple News app on your Mac, not in a browser.

It does seem like there ought to be a way to take a web URL and tell Apple News, hey, I want to read this article in your app. I don't know if that's a thing, though. It certainly should be.
It sounds like you’re specifically talking about unit tests and people that suck at writing those.

I have seen functional and e2e tests prevent regressions far more times than I can count. The nice thing about those is that they force testing outcomes and don’t require “testable” code like unit tests do.

Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater
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Are you using the drive in an external USB enclosure? Those sometimes have power delivery that cannot keep up with the demands of high capacity or high performance drives.
You might be referring to "MLC" in the generic sense of multiple bits per cell, but SD cards are more likely to be TLC or QLC these days (and there may even be some PLC appearing now), 3 or 4 bits per cell rather than the original meaning of MLC for 2-bit MLC.

My experience with old (as in ~2008-2009) 2-bit MLC NAND, with not much wear, has been that they've been OK for over a decade. Ditto for some early SLC USB drives (the biggest being 512MB).
If you chunk the document well (which is surprisingly tricky with messy documents), then you can do summary via map reduce or other techniques.

To be clear: I don't trust it to provide an accurate summary; it's not meant to replace reading the documents. But it may help to find relevant parts of a document later, or get a reasonable overview of documents before starting a manual review. I expect (but will have to see) if it's better than just opening up a random PDF and starting there.

I recently had a case with over 24k pages of records, some of which were in PDFs that were thousands of pages long. The ability to do semantic search rather than keyword search was useful for when I said to myself, "Didn't I see something about that before? Where was that?"
What do you want less of exactly? A dumbphone is still tech. Perhaps some would rather have just a land line (brings to mind that there are still places in my country without phone lines since the passage of hurricane Beryl)?

But back to the primary: is it really tech that some want less of, or the negative effects caused by its overuse/abuse? For example, IIUC the Amish are against modern tech primarily because it's changing their communities in ways they aren't fond of. But they still use tech that's not so modern, such as buggies (as opposed to just riding horses), manual plows for farming, saws and hammers for building, etc. Can anyone even go less than that? And that relative "less" only moves forward over time.
There is a corporation registered under "Black Mesa Technologies" with the same executives btw

https://corp.sec.state.ma.us/CorpWeb/CorpSearch/CorpSummary....
Programs using mmap have to be prepared for SIGBUS on mapped region access anyway --- consider the surprise removal (yanking out USB stick) case.

That few programs, especially native code ones, bother to make themselves robust against this failure mode of mmap doesn't make it any less part of the mmap contract between the kernel and userspace.
Cars make noise. More people == more cars. This will happen whatever ideas I personally may or may not have.
Right, in the sense of "the network is the computer".

Tangent: one of the most talented engineers I ever met gave an amazing (tho sadly company-private, unrecorded) talk about how the OS was his IDE. Kind of analogous... anyway, I like this type of re-framing or meta-level-shifting.
If we combine this research with the anti-aging research of Dr. David Sinclair, mice will soon overtake humans in both intelligence and lifespan. Thus making “the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy” reality
I'm more likely to pay money to never see "news".
There's no current specs for dual directional USB over any cable, afaik. There very well should be.

You could present as a device and offer networking and have usb-ip advertised over multicast on that port. Easy, weekend project at most, would be dead obvious to any practitioner.

USB4 as a packetized protocol really should offer something. I do wish there were like a half speed 2.5Gbit usb4 option, that microcontrollers could have some hope of accelerated bit banging.
Gleam is a statically typed programming language on the BEAM. Its pros include static typing...*
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i cant delete this but i misread original comment.
I can implement it in rust?
Perhaps, but Crowley actually claimed to be capable of that type of physical magic, and still dismissed it. I’m not sure what to make of that- he was brilliant but probably both crazy and dishonest.
How's their business growing compared to Cockroach?
Shouldn't SD cards have an expiration date? What if you buy a card that's been sitting on the shelf for a year?

If the flash was blank at manufacturing, it would remain blank after a year as there would be no charge to leak out. The problem is when the controller also stores its firmware on the main NAND, but AFAIK that isn't the case for SD cards (which have very little in the way of firmware compared to SSDs.)
I wonder what res/refresh Display Stream Compression (DSC) would bring this up to, if this were DisplayPort (instead of DVI)?
Oh dang, that's even more interesting
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I didn't recognize the names of the streets where it said my nearest camera was. It turns out it's on the other coast. Perhaps it would be good to show the distance in parentheses, or filter anything that's more than 5 miles away.
> Simply don't install other app stores.

This is what everyone says, but we know that's not how it will work. Epic doesn't want their own store because they want to put their stuff in both places—Epic wants their own store because they want to bypass Apple and Google entirely.

We're going to see a proliferation of app stores the way we've seen a proliferation of streaming platforms, with apps only being available in the Epic Store or the Apple Store or the Amazon Store or the Meta Store, and it's not going to be fun for anyone to navigate.
Is it too late to change the name of this project? If it isn't too late, I urge the founders to consider it.
I think I paid similar for Wolfram's A New Kind of Science back in the early 00's. Huge great beast of a hardback tome, promising the secrets of the universe. I don't think I ever finished it, and ended up giving it away to a charity shop after schlepping it around the world with me, unread.
Fox News only had to pay Dominion because Dominion lost customers. I think the proposed fines are for the societal harm of deceptive "news," not just provable financial harm.

>Alex Jones is going through bankruptcy. When it gets egregious enough, there are consequences.

Yeah, that was really egregious and caused real harm to a lot of people. But again, that lawsuit only succeeded because a group of victims claimed harm. I imagine the previous poster intended for the "deceptive news" laws to be like pollution laws, where prosecutors just need to prove the act but don't need victims.
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> Do we really need multiple users for desktop unix?

I do, and not just for system services as mentioned by others.

I have separate user accounts for general desktop use, gaming, software builds, software testing, and a variety of containers.

Isolation is useful.
There are a string of these posts going back to 2009. Not "updated every 3 years", but it looks to me like we get an update when important advice has changed at least. I may have missed some, but from my bookmarks I have:

2009: https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-06-11-cryptographic-ri...

2015: https://gist.github.com/tqbf/be58d2d39690c3b366ad

2018: https://www.latacora.com/blog/2018/04/03/cryptographic-right...

2024: https://www.latacora.com/blog/2024/07/29/crypto-right-answer...

So not every 3 years, but if you read through you'll notice a _lot_ of each update pretty much says "use the same advice as last time."

It's not clear who wrote the most recent Latacora post, but it's Thomas Ptacek's company, and the original 2009 post was by Colin Percival. If you've been around here for a while you'll probably recognise those names, they's #1 and #60 here: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders At least in my head, both have serious credibility over many years in this subject space.

The 2018 Latacora post says:

"This content has been developed and updated by different people over a decade. We’ve kept what Colin Percival originally said in 2009, Thomas Ptacek said in 2015, and what we’re saying in 2018 for comparison. If you’re designing something today, just use the 2018 Latacora recommendation."
would second the suggestion…
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My claim was "Partisanship has increased to the point that trust in any opposing news media is all but nil. In numerous cases, the media themselves are entirely to blame."

The first is simply a recognition that partisanship as a whole has increased, without ascribing causality.

The second is a fair note that there's been an increase in overtly partisan major news sources, which again is pretty well founded. Fox News in the US beginning in the 1990s, right-wing talk radio (attempts to create a left-wing alternative have largely foundered, see Air America), and increasingly branding of even major news organisations as leaning strongly to one political party or the other: WSJ (Murdoch-owned and GOP), NYT (Dem), MSNBC (Dem), Sinclair (GOP), etc.

(I'm focusing on the US, there are of course examples elsewhere, notably in the UK, DE, FR, and AU press.)

You make a point that I agree with strongly, and probably gets at a key mechanism: "People pay for virtually nothing on the internet if they can get a free (usually ad driven) alternative."

This is absolutely true, and has exceptionally pernicious impacts not only on how content is funded, but what content is sustainable. Advertising is dependent on many eyeballs, common appeal, and reasonably-advertiser-friendly content. There are types of content which thrive in such a world, and many, many, many types which do not.

A large part of my argument is in finding alternative paths to funding which give content which struggles under an ad-centric market, and which has substantial social value. For reasons argued both within my essay and elsewhere (and I can give further reading on request) markets and information play together poorly.
> But this focus on the customer is irrelevant to whether they’re being anti-competitive.

Yes, this is exactly my point. Consumers are going to get a worse experience so companies besides Apple can make more money.

That may or may not be a good thing—all I'm saying is consumers will get hurt.
You want every app of yours to be a different "user" so they can't access each other's data without arbitration. The term "user" is an unfortunate Unix inheritance. There's no reason that a single human (as he might on Unixes like Android or iOS) shouldn't have a hundred Unix "user" IDs at his disposal, one for each app.
'just' is doing a lot of work there. No one 'just' adds more stories onto existing buildings.
I am unsure what's wrong here. Are you just pointing out my redundant writing style? Or is there something else I am missing here...?
Yes it will be terrible for Mozilla executives.
Yeah it looks like the cameras are all in NYC
> Simply don't install other app stores.

This won’t be an option for many people. Once there’s an Adobe App Store you’re going to have to get on board with their bullshit to use the software. Look at the Windows game stores situation.
I’ve run into this exact same issue with many of the self hosted wikis/tools. Some of the ones I had interest in like Trilium don’t have native support and you have to use a plug-in hack to see both the code and the preview, or you have to click back and forth between rendering and redoing.

I just wouldn’t have markdown in my software if I wasn’t going to support a preview.
Just change your home directory to /me. Who cares about /home?

As for permissions: on a single human machine, sudo is useful principally to introduce friction to random install scripts doing random things to my system. In day to day use, there's no reason for me to input my password just to install some Firefox snap or something.
I don't think anyone, even the diehardest fans of Apple, thinks that Apple's RAM upgrade prices are reasonable. But we pay it for the same reason that people pay Porsche an extra $10k for a trim package — because you accept the high-margin upgrade as the cost of the item itself.
How does your rationale explain Internet Explore/Edge and Safari which both have abundance of money and still can’t outcompete Chrome? This goes back to the original point about Google search being superior to Bing, and not just because it’s free.
> Enforcing copyright violations is as much about how you feel about IP as it is about, whom do we permit to make money? It's a big part of why Apple is so fucking rich. Should only Apple be permitted to make real money? I don't think so.

I read this and din't quite understand the argument, but realized (if I understood) this is saying that if you are a content host, then you need a lot of resources to deal with copyright violations, so it's hard to compete against these hosts.

Safe harbor in the DMCA isn't perfect, but a world without safe harbor would be a world with a lot less freemium products, that's for sure.
Funny you say that, as soon as I read it I remember my favorite professional enduro rider coaching people using exactly those words.
That's some opaque word choice there!
The payment for news is the influence they get on society. There will always be billionaires and millionaires willing to subside it.
My old boss would say "No-one is impressed by how quickly you did something half-right."
Consumers who wish to stay entirely within apple’s app store can continue doing just that. There’s no change for them.
This is all for New York, the page should be updated to indicate that.
Not sure about reticulum but Yggdrasil uses a hybrid spanning tree and dht to guess based off dht and uses key weight to failover to the spanning tree.
That's the thing, you have layers upon layers of stuff that run on the computer. You have a runtime of the language, many many abstractions of interacting with the various capability of the system, a ABI to the OS, an ISA. These things vary and you need to account somehow for these variation. And the changes in the lowest layers percolate through.

Not to mention that the computer is actually very very different than what you imagine.

I say this not to make excuses for react, again I don't know that ecosystem. I spend most of my time writing firmware and low level drivers. And I see during my work the wide array of capabilities and approaches these systems have. They are not an homogeneous bunch.