skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anybody like me who didn't know: the mentioned iMX8 is NXP's

"i.MX 8M Family - Arm® Cortex®-A53, Cortex-M4, Audio, Voice, Video"

https://www.nxp.com/products/processors-and-microcontrollers...

And:

"i.MX8M has four 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 cores, an additional Cortex-M4F core, faster PCIe, USB3.0, a better GPU, and much higher memory bandwidth."

https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2019-05-20-reintroducing-r...
> We need to make laws in western countries that paying off these kinds of ransoms is illegal.

That'd be the sort of counter-productive legislation we see too often. The only result would be to push this underground and to keep authorities in the dark. It might end up helping criminals.

A similar case has been made about corruption: If you're asked for a bribe by, say, a corrupt official you usually have no choice but to pay and once you have paid you are in it with them, both criminals, so no-one talks.
Blender should be considered a true gem of the open source community. But the first UIs were confusing at best and infuriating at worst.
FWIW, I don’t think it is destructive, in fact, it is a reformative approach i.e., after all we are human beings, not sages and saints, and the real value lies in being able to do it despite knowing your flaws as a human being, and the “congratulations” from OP is an evidence that they realise it is a part and parcel of life. It takes time to digest the fact that someone has progressed far ahead of you using your tool and when your mind is clouded, you don’t immediately think about how that is a net good.
KLM to Lay Off 5k Employees Due to Covid-19
I always respond to these requests that we're happy to do these things for our Enterprise customers, with a minimum yearly commitment. (I stole that from Patio11 and it has served me well over the years).

Companies use these requests as signals that they want me to charge them 10-1000X the off-the-shelf price for the service. Usually they realize that this is what they're doing, but occasionally I'll get to have a fun email exchange with a rank and file developer who accidentally flipped his $5/month personal plan into $300/month Enterprise mode by routing his purchase through Purchasing.

No, you can't go back. Once you start acting like an Enterprise, you're an Enterprise. There's no way I'm risking ever needing to involve my lawyer for a customer with an expected lifetime value of a few hundred dollars, so once you cross that line you're across it.

cc'd to 3 levels of purchasing at a company you've heard of:

"I'm afraid we've reached the point where it is now officially silly to continue discussing ways to save $BRAND_NAME (a billion dollar company, if I'm not mistaken) three hundred dollars."

They're still customers to this day.
That and custom covers for Nokia phones.
A lot research has been done in this. The OP article is on the same topic - offline-first and local-first stores exists: whether as DBs (pouch/couch) or as data structures (CRDTs or OTs) like yjs.

These automatically sync to the cloud. Usage is lower, as most commercial applications prefer cloud lockin.
It takes two—advertisers and us using Facebook—in order for Facebook to make money. Advertisers are only on Facebook because we are on Facebook. Facebook won't change until people start leaving it.

That's why I'm leaving it on September 1. I created a special page on my website and a drip marketing campaign for my friends on Facebook: https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/delete-facebook/
Has anyone considered using utility-style CSS combined with semantic class naming?
Example:

<div class="profile-card"></div>
.profile-card {
@include tailwind-css-1
@include tailwind-css-2
...etc...
}

This way your html has semantic classes but the definition of the classes uses something like tailwind instead of raw CSS. One level of abstraction. Seems the best of both worlds?
Thanks. It was really bugging me that I couldn't think of optimistic reasons for that policy. I still don't agree with it, but I suppose anyone who doesn't can just make their own instance or find one with different rules.
that powermac sounds like a great machine - what are you using it and the imac for if i may ask?

i have an old Imac g4 too, but apart from games i haven't gotten around to use it for anything productive...
I don’t even think this is for Google’s benefit. They don’t need these tokens, since the vast majority of their ad revenue is first party. But do you know what happens the moment Chrome disables third party cookie support? People will start complaining that it’s an anti competitive move against businesses with a stronger need third party cookies.
Worst thing is, that taking 1, 4, 11, 12 and 13 as a gospel ends up with stuff like macOS Big Sur. Power users are left wanting because features that are useful, but a tiny bit niche are getting either removed or hidden in shelves.
My Mastadon experience: click fediverse, try to filter out sheets and sheets of scrolling chinese, japanese (both authentic and weeaboo), spanish terrorist propaganda, whore ads "in the bay area", anime style drawings of nude underage girls, bots spamming their sensor readings, teens pouring their hearts out into long poetry or whining about their sleep schedule, looking for anything interesting. Sometimes I come across a bot that infrequently posts some interesting art or news, or the account of some geniune productive person who isn't into self-aggrandizement, but those are few and far between.
I found to be particularly useful when building React components.

Positioning, sizing and styling is very easy, especially when you can control all those aspects with variables in your view classes.

You have to try it to understand it.
I like the idea of asking tech questions based on the tech listed on candidates resumes. And, sorry to call you out, but I feel a duty to point out your use of gender pronouns.
In my building we have to put trash bins out in the alley, and people always throw dog shit in those on trash day, too.

I'm not exactly sure where else folks are supposed to put the dog shit except in the trash, honestly. I know people complain about putting shit in their personal trash cans, mind you, but folks are going to put it in a trash can somewhere, even if it is in their own home. And some of those are going to put their trash in the alley.

Do you have a suggestion that doesn't include putting the poop in the trash?
Except that they are not.

Proprietary Fortran compilers beat most of the open source alternatives, when some complain about Fortran performance usually 99% of the times they are using gfortran.

Thanks to its license, many of the cool optimizations used by LLVM aren't upstreamed actually, and are kept by the OEMs like Sony, Apple, TI, ARM for their own toolchains.

In HPC, many of those GNU/Linux clusters done in collaboration with IBM tend to make use of xlc.

No JIT compiler, or GC implementations, for the pure open source managed runtimes tend to be on the same ball park of the work going on Java, .NET and JavaScript, all sponsored by deep pockets corporations.

No CUDA based open source clone beats NVidia and PGI compilers targeting NVidia hardware.

What most open source compilers have is good enough performance so that a large part of the dev population, that isn't willing to pay for tooling, doesn't care anyway.
Not the op but whenever I have similar gripes it's because the old version is no longer maintained and eventually breaks after an OS upgrade.
No way - you would have to teach all your employees - new software, and existing know-how templates will be all gone. Plus compatibility issues with your sub contractors would be nightmare.

Productivity lost by adopting new tools would render firm non-competitive in this thin margin business, will likely make your P/L red.
This is a great comment - I would add that for the $50 price point / pricing stage, it is also low enough for an "operator" (someone using your SaaS to help their daily work) to just put their credit card in first, and then worry about claiming back from their company later.

The "pinch" of buying is therefore low enough to encourage uptake. If the base price level is higher than this, then that itself becomes another mental task for the potential customer to work through before pulling the trigger. This doesn't mean you shouldn't have higher priced plans (you must!), but from my experience $50 or even $99 as the upper end of the "base" plan is a good first threshold to get prospects to be ok with putting their credit card in.
I'm not sure if my original comment is to unclear:

If someone with a Device from 2013, really waits for the ARM Version of a Mac Book, that person will not have any advantage to a normal intel cpu based Mac Book because EVERY device which is 7 years younger is so much faster anyway.
Was looking into creating some tooling for the construction industry perhaps 15 years ago as drawings were send over emails with all the version nightmares that creates. Some Danish government agency had a ‘Digital Construction’ project going on so I initially thought I was too late. After a couple of years all they had amounted to was creating a ton of convoluted documents defining common CAD drawing layers. I’ve since moved on but I would not be surprised if drawings are still send by email between architects/engineers/contractors. Perhaps that agency has created a 50 page spec for tracking versions in the file name ;-)
Meaningless shell game. If the developers and main dev shops are in Beijing they are subject to Chinese laws, including laws requiring access to data.

Do they actually think this will fool anyone?
Nimbus Data ExaDrive: 100TB Capacity in 3.5 Inch Form Factor, Costs $40k
Ok, now it fails - how are you going to interpret the stack trace?
Angular doesn’t suck and most of it is just in your head
I wonder if subscription abuse also killed the market? So many scams where people were charged huge Premium SMS fees to get a new, crappy ringtone every week.

Oh, and the preferred capitalisation was "Vodafone live!" gotta have exclamation mark , or the brand police will get you ;-)
Is there actual risk of imminent crash in Patreon? I do know they have/had content policy/cultural disagreement issues but
> For instance, if my morality is individualism, and your morality is collectivism, we can't coexist without one side being forced by the other to compromise their morality.

Individualism and Collectivism aren't moral frameworks. You could have both an individualist and a collectivist both be deontologists, utilitarians, or some other framework.
Blender is great, but setting UX considerations aside, I don't think their NURBS engine is on par with that of Rhino (features like trimmed NURBS, NURBS fillets, etc ...)
Libertarianism and democracy are not compatible concepts.
Yes, put it in a dedicated digester: a plastic rubbish bin with holes submerged into the ground. Add paper and water to get it going.

https://thebark.com/content/build-your-own-pet-waste-digeste...
Coronavirus: Iran cover-up of deaths revealed by data leak
I saw an early 90s Ford with "historic" plates the other day...
If you want to see more pages of artwork, check out https://openimages.media. it's a collection from the Ghetty Open Images project that includes 100's of such scribed artwork.
You're perfectly describing the reasons for hanging onto legacy <anything>. Manufacturing and distribution supply chains in and out of China being a pertinent large-scale example.

The pearl is the story, not the speck of grit.
Ever tried to use CATIA?

Best thing there is if you want a head trip back to the 70's
You’ve tried Affinity Photo?
Tax fraud is usually much more painful to suffer from instead of a simple drug charge or illegal gambling charge. If you get nicked on drug charges there will be parallel reconstruction to get you on tax fraud despite this "not happening" between US government branches.
Jon Rubinstein (ran hardware engineering at Apple) on the G4 Cube [video]
Cool analogy, thanks. It could be a nice way of explaining it when I eventually get into talking about examples of product roadmaps.
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That is the only logical endgame, otherwise why bother pushing this?
I've more than a passing interest in these technologies. Specifically, CRDTs was a bad fit for Xi (that's called out in those articles too -- but people perhaps give too much notice only to the headline).

CRDTs absolutely are a level above OTs, except seen lesser adoption, because they're newer, and the libraries and frameworks around it are maturing. It is inherently more scalable (data store/caches are simple pub/subs and queues).

These open up quite a few usecases for applications - offline first is now a real technological possiblity, as the main deterrent (conflicts) has been algorithmically addressed.

The cons are non-technological : commercial operations have no incentive to support losing control of the data. For those that can get past this archaic roadblock, the pro is amazing - enabling true collaboration at every level of the application. These would be the killer apps here!
One Laravel Form Request Class, Multiple HTTP Methods
Yeah, well, I _was_ in the brand police, but _after_ Live! And 360 I honestly don’t care anymore.
Sorry, English is not my main language. I'm still learning.
Ok, right, my mistake. My point was about improving diversity through equal opportunities. Not sure how that applies to what I said. It is a different issue altogether no?
Speaking without thinking is something I can understand, but it's not an excuse. Nobody is an island, we're all standing on the shoulders of giants, and disparaging another's work when they're arguably helping improve your own project is an attitude I wouldn't expect in an OSS project. As someone else said, if this is the way the author felt about Tailwind, they could have chosen a proprietary license, or just left it without a license to fall back on regular copyright.

What happens a lot of the time is that authors choose open source licenses because they know that's how their project will attract attention. I'm not saying that's necessarily what happened in this case, but it's not uncommon to see authors of some OSS projects seemingly being surprised about how OSS works or what the mentality is expected to be in the project.
> If everyone in my town gets 100€/month on top of their regular income, how will that not drive all rents/mortgages 100€/month up?

it depends on how UBI is implemented. If it's done via printing money out of thin-air, then yes, it will drive up inflation on goods that cannot be substituted (like rent).

If UBI is paid for by taxing the rich, then it won't drive inflation, because the demand for some goods/services from the rich would drop correspondingly, and so it's inflation neutral.
I was prescribed Amitriptyline for post concussion syndrome, and noticed that my IBS basically stopped. I forget the dosage and how long I took it—-perhaps six months to a year—-but after I discontinued it, my IBS didn’t return. Although maybe the concussion knocked things around in a way that fixed it. :)
Nokia is a big company, with a long history.

They had two main branches Nokia Mobiles and Nokia Networks, Nokia Networks eventually joined the networking business from Siemens and thus became Nokia Siemens Networks.

Microsoft did their business with Nokia Mobiles business division, which as we all know they end up acquiring it.

With that money, Nokia bought back the NSN part that belonged to Siemens, replacing Siemens with Solutions on the name.

Many of the people nowadays working for Nokia branded HMD Global phones are actually former Nokia Mobile employees, and the Espoo building is the same I used to visit a couple of times as NSN employee.
Isn’t it already a felony to attack computer systems and hold data for ransom? That doesn’t seem to be working flawlessly.
Having recently interacted with Architects that are strictly stuck on using Autocad (that's all they know, from University and through their whole career), I can testify to the accuracy of that statement.

Also, trying to communicate with them with anything outside of a PDF is damn near impossible. The very idea of them sending a 3D file to their customers scares them shitless.
Nope! The game! Though I think learning other programming languages through toy projects is useful, that’s a separate opinion
This proof seems a little bit subtle and rather unsatisfying because of it. It isn't even obvious that the game can be said to converge to a value. We don't seem to be able to say we know of a value that it converges to, because both players have an infinite amount of time to change it.

The proof you link says the series converges to some \alpha where a_n < \alpha < b_n. So we have an infinite number of values in S that the series cannot converge to. But it is also true that the number of values between a_n and b_n that are \in S is infinite for all n. So we know there are infinitely many numbers that we could converge to where Alice wins, and infinitely many of them won't be converged to by Bob's actions. The satisfying argument that the two infinities are the same size is not that clear although I'm sure in the technicalities there is some definition that settles it. The reader has to be really on top of the definitions of limits and behaviours at infinity to trust this result.

The diagonal argument is a lot smoother because it constructs a neat example of a number that you missed if you tried to count the reals. It has a lot more punch with the "if you believe they are countable, explain this number I'm building" approach.
> That's what $$$ upgrades are for. No need for a subscription if I'm happy without the new features and happy using it on an old OS.

Obviously that would be a better deal for you, that's why it's not an option.
I pay for translation services in cryptocurrency (XMR lately) to Venezuelan citizens who can't readily use USD. Easily thousands of dollars per year.
> It's not a huge amount of effort, but it's extra faff compared to just listening to what you want when you want, and sending money to who you want when you want.

While we're talking about extra faff, how do you figure out how to send money to "who you want when you want"? Doesn't seem to be just one service everyone's taking OR sending money through any more than there's just one service anyone might buy recordings through. Or do we just say "If they're not on Kicktreonattrpaymo when it's on my mind I guess they don't want my money"?

Doesn't sound easier than keeping track of a few places you buy music. I've certainly never had any trouble at all figuring out whether I bought a recording on Amazon or Bandcamp.

And I know that my ledger's clear and doesn't depend on when I decide to get around to kicking a donation over.

It's interesting how the tenuously more convenient value proposition of cloud recording buffets features the convenience of pushing the hop through the hoop of actual economic support out into the undetermined and perhaps entirely optional future.

If this is all about convenience, Spotify could probably largely solve the economic problems by bumping up what they charge 5-10x and directing additional listener revenue by specific listener choices.
I'm sure criminals would like that. Victims would still have an incentive to pay, but also an incentive not to say anything.
I'm not against subscription pricing in principle, but in practice newly introduced subscription pricing pretty much always ends up being significantly more expensive than original pricing, and that's just greed.

Also there is often no longer an option to stop paying and just continue using your version, even if you've been paying for the subscription for years. Or they only let you use an old version so you'll need to actually downgrade if you stop paying. This innovation in user hostility I first encountered with Jetbrains.
Given that many coffee shops still offer only WEP access points, bought once never upgraded, not sure what is worst.
I've also not voted once, in a local referendum in my country because I felt the entire thing was instigated under a fraudulent pretext just to stir up shit and had no legitimacy. I get where you're coming from.

But ... have you noticed who is in office? The stakes are too high to make these sort of principled stands right now. Hell, I'm not even talking about the politics of it: four more years of Trump will mean four more years of a deeply toxic person in office bringing the entire level of discourse of the entire country down. Literally everyone of every political affiliation will be hurt by this, except perhaps die-hard anarchists who would prefer to see the entire society collapse (and Trump is certainly a step in that direction).
BTC is not the only cryptocurrency used there. I've sent LTC and XRP most often, but XMR lately. tx fees need not be large (also Lightning Network exists).
I tried writing this three times, and I'm probably going to screw it up anyways but here's my take on business models and "tech":
If the entirety of your approach is an existing model but "on the internet" and you don't spend any effort on what "on the internet" really means, then you might be in "tech".
However if you take the time to carefully apply yourself to how the new environment changes your business model and your relationship with customers, and exercise sound technical and product focused expertise in so doing, then you're in tech. Efficiency, expanded markets, better experience, ease of use, etc are real tangible benefits, even if the whole product is just a shell around a 1970s COBOL database.
Oh, I'm sure that's also a major factor. I just meant that we shouldn't expect the U.S. government to 'pick a winner' and cancel SLS even if they're competing head to head and it's clear SpaceX is blowing SLS out of the water.
The only thing that I found this reader did better was clearly indicating the reply level in the discussion of articles. Does anybody know if there is a simple css fix for that?
I didn't, but since you linked to it, I took a peek. I couldn't find any linux, macos, or windows support within a couple minutes of visiting the site, so it fails my "cross-platform" and "easy enough" requirements.

It seems to be married to Ethereum. That's mildly interesting. It raises questions about its relationship to cryptocurrency and blockchain tech, but until it meets my requirements, I'm not inclined to spend time investigating the answers.
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I understand a lot of people still remain skeptical of utility-first approaches. And answering the same questions repeatedly gets frustrating.

However, please avoid the snark. It diminishes the discussion. It took me a long time to come around to the idea, and the snark of (some of) its supporters was precisely part of the reason for that.
Given that the alternative is usually the business folding, I don't think this is likely to happen.

Edit: also, I don't think that making getting hacked more onerous while keeping software developers completely legally immune from liability for the software getting hacked would be politically sustainable either...
used CATIA - it's like C compared to the host of the fad languages out there.
The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free
Mainstream chinese views are probably going to be tricky as China is rather dominated by it's dictatorial leader who I think is still a fan of Mao. The new yorker had quite a good article on him https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/06/born-red

The Chinese not under the CCP dictatorship in places like Taiwan, Singapore or the US mostly seem hard working democratic and easy going.