skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like an antique pill press. Feels innocent enough, but it's probably still illegal. Seems like a zero-tolerance policy (ban for life for a single mistake) might not be the right balance, though.
Nah, there are specific formats for isos. The full spec name is ISO_9660 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660

In a certain sense you're right that in practice dumping the bytes of a disc into a file is what gave people the files, but those discs did have a structure to them. I think what's being said here is that constructing an image in the iso 9660 structure is past its time
Never even heard of Unix2 - was it a complete replacement ?
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1843702724090835178.html
Yes, it's an antique pill press sold in August. That same listing was flagged three times by their bot because of policy around pill presses and molds, ending in a permaban.
My mind also went here when reading TFA.

The all-time-all-space-all-branches brane of the Ruliad we call the Universe is the continuous one-ness and our selves are just the single-perspective projection models of that universe in our neurons that persist across edits to the neurons, until such as point as we update the model to see the larger picture and we can call that Nirvana, if we wish.
I'm not sure whether you read my comment, but I was specifically talking about sodium ion which are absurdly cheap even before efficiencies of scale enter the equation. I don't think many are doing the math on that because it's only just become available on Alibaba. BMSes and chargers don't really exist for it yet, but there are whole battery packs for sale.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40733040 for previous discussion on this decision. tl;dr: it's not hard to support hybrid ISOs, and there are still a lot of legitimate reasons to want an ISO.
i can't even understand what you are saying? AT&T was good, or bad?

AT&T copyrights led to linux, and linux, independent of unix, has been a huge boon for good, and for unixness.

the threat to unix now is all the people who by nature prefer Dave Cutlerness, and can't see that their way is the wrong way, now they are using linux (because it won) and trying to ruin it.
Nevertheless, welfare for olds is in no way an investment when those same individuals have reached the end of their productive years and have a decade or two to live. The point was that calling taxes "an investment" is largely untrue when most tax dollars don't go to anything of the sort.

Social security and medicare are not means-tested in any way whatsoever. In fact, they are massive welfare programs that make our budget structurally unsustainable to give money to the demographic that has had the most time to build up wealth and assets. Around one-third of all US wealth is held by Americans over seventy years old. Perhaps instead of an estate tax, we should explore having those well-off seniors use their savings and home equity instead of demanding government funds. Not to mention decades of subsidizing housing demand has drastically inflated housing prices, and younger Americans are now paying many of these retirees several times what those properties went for decades ago, an increase well in excess of inflation. In other words, through multiple channels, the young are being sucked dry by the old, despite the fact that the old hold a huge chunk of wealth.

I'd also point out old people are a terrible way to feed money back into the economy. They are generally the last people to adopt any innovation outside medicine, so increasing their share of spending draws dollars away from new innovation and towards constructing bingo halls. That has a caustic effect on our long-term economic outlook.

There will of course be the poor grandmother whom we don't want eating dog food. I doubt anyone disagrees with you on that. Let's just not pretend all of them need the checks they presently receive.
The author could use a bit of humility.

ISO isn’t useful in the author’s use-case. That’s fine, it is their project to do as they will. ISOs may still have uses elsewhere, such as PXE boot or just a near universally mountable read only container.

The author’s point to the age of the original ISO standard is irrelevant. Many old technologies are reliable and widely adopted, which in and of itself may make it superior to more modern technologies.

Author’s project, author’s will. But that was difficult to read due to their attitude and beyond the author’s use case, didn’t provide a reason for universally retiring ISO.
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https://xcancel.com/cassieceleste/status/1843702724090835178

Hopefully someone here will be able to get someone in corp to actually contact them. It's ridiculous for an account that has established history to just be wiped out like that.
Unfortunately some APIs assume that they will get all the fields as part of the update. If field doesn't exist in the input it gets it will drop the original value during the update.
The point is the log is a graph or a tree, not an array.
That's the whole point of philosophy.
I presume they mean the standard hybrid ISO9660 LiveCD format that Linux distros tend to use. There's a lot of nuance there that I haven't touched in years but needless to say between having multiple boot paths (I think like three--El Torito, BIOS boot sector, and UEFI) and very different media (CDROMs are, well, ROMs, thumb drives are writeable) there can be some complexity if you want to handle some more sophisticated portable OS stuff than just "run the OS installer". I'm sure this is particularly important for persistence, which can sort of be done with "traditional" live media but requires some special effort.
I think I once heard a Clojure talk where they were referred to as big and small maps. Small ones are what you’re comparing to arrays.

A place where dicts for hard coded keys makes sense is notebooks. The convenience is worth it and it’s unlikely to get out of hand.
Yes when it comes to updates and new features and other stuff where the user does things for the developer and not the opposite (like when I have to login to Microsoft to play Minecraft, even though everything I need is on my local drive), that’s true. Developers think users want shiny buttons and the newest design, but the users probably rather want functional easy to use sites without forcing updates.

But when it comes to security standards users and devlopers seem to agree, they both seem fine with leaving HTTP behind, even for sites without sensitive information whatsoever, and the users even seem to accept replacing their phone every 2-5 years. Or maybe they’re just used to it and don’t know things could be better?
I guess they're suggesting a lot of candidates?
https://archive.ph/DPtgt
Damn straight. One time I wanted to use an ISO with a USB stick and it turned into such a giant pain in the ass that I wrote up all the instructions. I still get a ridiculous amount of traffic on this blog page: https://honeypot.net/2011/10/11/making-dos-usb.html

That was one specific ISO in one specific use case. There’s probably a GUI that does all this automatically now. That one time, though, I would’ve sold a kidney for a dd-able image.
This is interesting. Reddit is now searched for as much as Facebook... forum and forums don't make much of a blip comparatively.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=f...
It is Adam Back.

Who is more likely to build ontop of some obscure code base called "Hash Cash"? Some random people that trolled the same forums or the original creator of it?

Imo this "secret" is known by many people as I have seen so many censorship and misdirection campaigns throughout the years if people mention Adam being the one.

Him being Satoshi also makes bitcoin core seem more legitimate. He can guide his creation without being formally known as satoshi.

It is obvious. Especially if you have ever been a solo dev for an extended period of time (like adam was)

There is a ton more evidence but seems like no one really wants to dig into Adam.

Adam literally stopped updating hash cash and a year later Bitcoin is released... check his website on archive.org.

Its ok. I like that there is still conversation as to who it is. It gives protection to him since there likely wont be anything concrete (if hopefully he was slick enough)
Are we far enough along yet to replicate that scenario in 2024? Or is thst the equivalent of firing all your programmers and trying to ship with ChatGPT from 2-3 minimum wage "prompt engineers"?

I'm sure it will one day be viable on both ends. I'm very unsure if we're there yet, especially if each day of non-production did indeed cost $5b
I honestly don't think he cares about 'mainstream acceptance'. He is a prolific publisher of his detailed thoughts, which in the pre-academic-gatekeeping-establishment era, was enough for any serious philosopher.

He's a hobbyist. That doesn't make him any less prestigious if his ideas are neat.
I'm very much on your side of the argument but it's common practice. It's not like you can walk into a bank tomorrow and ask for that sort of thing, but for a HNW customer who makes use of lots of private banking services it's routine.

I'm not Bezos or part of his family office so I can't say for sure. My guess would be a mixture of capital demands elsewhere (Blue Origin?) and a desire to diversify. Start-up founders necessarily keep all their eggs in one basket; people building a multi-generational fortune don't.
So you create a startup.

- The first year it has 10k€ ARR.

- So it is worth 100k€. You must my pay 30k€ in capital gains taxes.

Like this, every year? Every time it has more revenue, it multiplies its future worth, therefore multiplies it FMV, therefore you must pay the CG on the multiple of your income?
> The state of nature is no tax

> You don't get to argue from the point that your preferred taxation regime is simply how things should be

Those two statements seem mildly contradictory.
We have a "Data App" built for one of our clients, which does all sorts of fancy stuff for managing their metadata, quality checks, etc.

But some of the pages have "documentation" which is basically a bunch of tables with dates and text, which they handle themselves. And the solution we landed on was very similar - they just have a Word doc with this table, they give it to us, we export it to html/css, and dump it into the appropriate place.

It's not elegant and not a scalable solution, but for the use cases where it's relevant, it's the easiest way, hands down.
So did God.
It’s a shame that Access died, because that’s what you would have built this in 25 years ago, and it would have been better for your client in every respect.
The "Edit an Example!" link goes to Forbidden.
I don't think that's what they're referring to? If that's what they mean, then it's very confusing -- and makes me think if they themselves are confused. It's like saying "we should stop shipping Joliet files" or "we should stop shipping UDF files", which makes no sense. ISO 9660 is a filesystem, not a "file format". Yet they write:

> EasyOS ships as a .img file, that is written to a drive. Barry stopped shipping EasyOS as an ISO file from early 2020.
I guess by respond, it must respond with a value, it cannot response by saying "i don't know"
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Python dataclasses are a good start for internal use. They are just a bit of a pain to serialize/deserialize natively. When it comes to that, I prefer to use Pydantic objects and have all the goodies, at the cost of some complexity.
Leaving aside the fact that Sam Walton was an American and so his assets had no "deemed disposition" upon his death: Walmart is a publicly traded company, so if his heirs inherited a few % less of the company it wouldn't make a big difference.

In the "family farm" (and "family business") scenario, we're talking about private companies -- whether incorporated or not, all the owners are related. If part of such a company needs to be sold off to pay taxes, it would presumably be sold to a someone at arm's length, which would fundamentally change the business structure -- just like running a startup with VC investors is different from running a bootstrapped startup.
I mentally bucketed that in "try to find money": if you're not selling equity, debt is one way to do that. But the caveat - less money for R&D, expansion, and employees - still applies.
> No Metal support is IMO no problem. I and most of the rest of the games industry couldn’t care less about MSL. Nobody uses it. I’ve seen numbers from Apple that say upwards of 80% of developers they asked target Metal via SPIR-V Cross and HLSL from DXC.

That is a real, real shame with respect to performance. A number of algorithms one can do with MSL (or really because of tile based rendering) so much faster (nearly no main memory bandwidth consumption). Atleast there is GL_EXT_shader_pixel_local_storage for GL. For Vulkan it appears that there is VK_EXT_shader_tile_image, but I do how widespread it is on Android.

There are other nice features that are Metal-ish only as well (tile shaders are a big deal) but typically the memoryless textures tops my list.
This is awesome! Definitely going to look into this later.
wow Satoshi discussions are perplexing
So Hacker News and "real programmers" continually underestimate the foundational concept of a CMS. They consider it to be unsexy tech and therefore all problems around it must be solved and boring problems, and therefore they aren't actually aware of what any of those problems are.

The WordPress ecosystem is of course the polar opposite of this, it's populated by billions of dollars worth of businesses that understand intimately what the people operating CMSes and websites in their little niche of that market need, the size of this market is 500 million websites or so.

I'm sure the guy who wrote this article is a smart guy. But he is obviously not smart about the practical uses of a CMS if his worldview is "static HTML sites are better but aren't popular because of evil corporations." You really only need to get paid to build a website once or twice to realize that a static HTML site generator is almost never going to do everything that your customer wants it to do. WordPress realized how vast and varied this market is many years ago and that's why they implemented support for plugins.

You're 100% right comments is like the original use case for having something more like a CMS on the web instead of a static site generator. But there are also a million others.

You just don't get that far with static HTML documents. As soon as you move beyond some minimalist developer's blog you need programmatic logic, and lots of it, to do everything the actual users and customers want you to do. So you use a CMS, whatever CMS fits your needs. And you cache aggressively if you want that site to stand up under a lot of traffic, that's part of the job.

For the life of me, I will never understand why all these devs who think they're so shit-hot want to reinvent the wheel instead of just learn a bit about how caching works, and employ it! Is it another one of those solved problems that's too boring for them?
The problem with this, and with Aristotle-esque ways of defining “ultimate ends”, is that they are from a world before evolution was understood in any real sense. Because once you realize that “human” is a label describing a point of time in the development of a constantly changing organism, it becomes difficult or impossible to determine exactly what “human nature” is in the first place.

This problem is a more fundamental one and it’s only going to get more complex as genetic engineering, cyborgization, etc. continue to develop. In general I think it’s more fruitful to find purpose in change, even if that means singular fleeting moments, for example, mono no aware in Japanese aesthetics.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/japanese-aesthetics/#Mono...
> How are you handling commonality between pages with plain html pages?

I have a simple web component that lets me do `<include-file remote-src='...'>`.

That's basically 90% of what a more complex solution will give you.
It is the Rust compiler, the article describes how the (Rust) compiler is first compiled without the Rust code in it and then used to bootstrap the final version which does have the Rust code in it
Only if there is a "deemed disposition". Which in most cases happens when the owner dies.

You probably don't need to worry about this happening multiple times.
I just briefly looked into what Jonathan Oppenheim is working on, and I’d say he’s part of the problem. More speculative work that might or might not be testable in a distant future.
I built https://rockyai.me/ (chrome extension to chat with any webpage) for my personal use tbh but ended up putting it on the store for others to use as well. One of my friends sent it to his data who is retired and consumes a lot of news articles online. I see his dad using the extension a few times every few hours now to summarize things / get more background on stories.
You can always shred the DVD afterwards I guess!
The line is where the cost of building is less than that of buying. It sounds like in your case building would have been cheaper, given the simplicity of the problem and the quality issues with the purchased solution.

It does get difficult in more complicated cases thanks to a lack of information on what a good solution looks like. This article attempts to straighten it out a little: https://entropicthoughts.com/build-vs-buy
>Google is famous for not innovating on anything successfully

PageRank

Gmail

Maps

MapReduce

Chrome

Protocol Buffers

Go
The CD/DVD discs used can also be retained and later audited to verify what was moved to and from the systems.
Agreed, but I also think people just underestimate the breadth of language. I think a common exit point is after feeling like you've learned grammar well through your materials, you hit real world content or native speakers and realise you didn't know a single word or phrase. It is really disheartening, but on the flipside the first time you start to understand it will be an electric feeling. Quite addictive.
Yes, I'm all in on Phoenix and LiveView because of this.
Exactly. Air-gapped means non data going in and out of systems. USB stick are acting as a cable.
But you can get what you want without needing to kill off ISOs for people who need that format instead, with a hybrid ISO, like most other Linux distros already do.
According to Wikipedia:

> "Since 2024 the capital ⟨ẞ⟩ is preferred over ⟨SS⟩."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F

Check reference #5 and compare it to the older wording in reference #12.
23andMe is the legal entity with a lab, it could still be "just" the lab.
It's fun, and not hard to come by. Everything anything does - which includes everything an air-gapped computer does - constantly radiates information about its doing, at the speed of light (note: think causality, not light). We know the data is there, and inventing new and interesting ways to tap into that stream is a really nice hobby to have.
Beautiful work here and thank you for making it FOSS. Congrats on shipping!
I know plenty of physicists that would be very pissed off by all this drama.

There is so much more than fundamental physics and there is much more in physics than breakthrough discoveries. Medical physics just to name a fun field everybody always forgets about has been studying and using neural networks since about forty years. Applied physics, biophysics, atmospheric physics. Even particle physics is mostly data science these days.

This idea that physics should only be about fundamental theories and discoveries is really detrimental to the field and leads to the false idea of stagnation that permeates this whole thread.
pretty similar to project i did in 2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11420350
I would say that's fine for Easy to drop their ISO9660 distribution format. The rationale makes good sense.

And of course I'm going to fit in the mold of an entrenched, elderly, "old timer", digging in his heels and I'll re-state a fossilized opinion:

In general, the ISO9660 format is great for distributing disk images for this reason: it's a mature, international, cross-platform standard.

This is not important for a Linux distro that can be set up with ext3/4. But if you distribute something with wide compatibility, you'll still consider making it ISO9660, because a Mac user can roll with it,* and a Linux user will have no problem, nor will a Windows user run into difficulty mounting and reading it.

Likewise, if you wish to generate this filesystem image, any of the above systems, and more, will have an app to create a standards-compliant ISO9660 image. In fact, most of the apps will help with staging all your data and assembling it into a nice package, that you'd otherwise want to make something like a build script to go from a bundle of files and data to a finished ext4 image.

But for Easy, and any other Linux distro, we've long ago phased out actual optical discs (my elderly fossilized brain recalls Knoppix as a revolutionary "live CD only" distro) so swapping in ext4 images may liberate some devs and support techs.

*I don't know actually--do Macs have built-in tools for ISO mounting? They had their own sort of ".dmg" file for "mount as a disk, install this software package", last I checked. And one popular extension is ".img", so Linux distros--stop confusing Mac users!
If the only value you can add to this thread is calling me a clown or a useful idiot, please comment elsewhere. But to seriously respond to what you said, I don't understand how you can have a good faith belief nobody can possibly see the world differently from you. There's quite a lot of downward mobility out of the upper quintiles of wealth in America. "Getting paid for being rich" usually only applies if you're rich and smart and you deploy your assets in an economically productive way. After all, there are more than enough rich people who go back to being poor.

If you refuse to believe anyone who doesn't share your view of class struggle is either stupid or malicious, I don't see why you bother engaging at all.
CDC policy. They can't sell the data.
that... sounds like a really terrible idea?! Even my JBL refuses to connect half the time
No, really, it has been studied, taxes affects both supply and demand. It’s one of the first chapters of any microeconomics book.
So wait, markets don't work, then? A free market, theoretically, promotes innovation by ensuring that businesses must advance their products in order to compete with one another. You're saying that a lack of competition promotes innovation by concentrating all of an industry's capital under one roof.
I think the author is confusing "ISO format" with "read-only install media".

The posts make a lot more sense once I make that substitution. There are other errors too (for example, there's nothing stopping you from adding additional partitions in the hybrid case).

But I'm pretty sure there are quite a few "partition/filesystem/distro UUID/key/whatever" things that need to be wiped if you boot from an image directly, and this needs to be considered very carefully. Installing an OS twice should NOT be byte-for-byte identical, and if it is that's a security/reliability problem.
There is https://oneweb.net/ but they only sell through other comms companies (like Telstra in Australia)
Not really. Trace the course of history and the natural state of man is much closer to what Hobbes described. In the wild, homo sapiens doesn't have a taxation system. As we built up civilizations, we created taxes as I described. And neither am I arguing for my preference to stick with how we mostly run our taxation regime (tax value when moved, not value at rest) without some justification for it.