skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The death penalty is still employed against LGBT folks there, too. Pretty awkward when your company wants to do business in a country where an onsite could be a lethal endeavor. Maybe, just don't do business with these folks until they get with the times. It worked with South Africa.
You're so right - video games shouldn't even have been mentioned. As human ingenuity goes, there's infinite ways to "waste time".

I've spent many hours with the family playing MineCraft, and it's an amazing way to teach things like not being selfish, being cooperative, etc. to children because they experience the effects or lack of in compacted real time without permanent real-world impact.
This is such an awesome mental image.

"When the hall flooded with nearly 3,000 women, some as young as 13 and others in their 50s, it was a shock. “I definitely did not expect moms to come,” Felwa said. Back then, it was mandatory for women to wear the traditional black abaya, and often a headscarf, while in public. It was only when the women walked through the doors into the all-female space that their abayas slipped off to reveal an array of cosplay costumes."
The things I described are not a tiny percent of taxes. You should revisit your assertion here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget#/...
The one Im looking at is $2.25M. A bargain for the property, still a bit much for little old me by myself.
It's not freedom, but it's not slavery.
Parallel Digital Reverb, Or: How I Optimized the Heck Out of a Comb Filter
This looks great. How would you compare to seastar?
That's an awfully general question. I would expect any high school or 1st year college course or textbook to do a reasonably good job of providing you with the basic intuition behind derivatives and integrals. It would help if you could be more specific about exactly what it is you are trying to understand.
The fertilizers used, the soil degraded, and the runoff from it all into water sources, plus the fact that the energy return is barely higher than the energy investment (or in some cases actually negative) means that Biofuels are already dead - they survive only based on Government subsidies.
But there's basically no situation a person can be in while remaining intact that they can't attempt to direct their attention. Falling off a cliff? The choice is available. About to get killed by a semi truck? Choice. Etc etc.

Perhaps where our models differ is that I think most suffering is second order. The first order bad thing happens, and it hurts. Then we think about it, and think about it in unhelpful ways, and continue to hurt ourselves further.
Facebook gets zero sympathy from me. I don’t care how they gag unscrupulous and invasive ad tech. Apple can trash FB dev keys too, and the world would be a better place.
Personally, the unquestioned Ethos of Productivity characteristic of early 21st century Western Society is much more dangerous than the distractions which can sometimes fill unstructured time.

The psychological rigidity and social sacrifices required of always being productive (with little to no unstructured leisure time) actively harms individuals and the societies in which they are embedded, perhaps to the exact extent they increase tangible and intangible forms of wealth.
Reminds me of an artwork that was specifically created to be the "blackest" possible black. And a man fell into it ... [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/aug/21/holed-u...
Part of why they weren’t fully built out is that San Francisco’s Prop M caps the square footage of office space which can be built in any given year.
But be careful because stdout might be too short to receive the output.
I don't think Apple had such a model with the Pipin game console, or a successful or global one at that. Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo do as an example. Stating that they are the first is just incorrect. One could perhaps state that they are making the most profit out of it. But unless we take a stance on profit being bad I'm wondering why this needs to be a hot topic at all.
Which undecidable theorems have humans proven?
In that case, why would the "unprecedentedly brilliant engineer-ceo" Musk not develop battery recycling technology as a division within Tesla, solely reaping the rewards of cheaper battery packs?
Can you help us understand what the reality and proper discussion is?
Intel IGC64.DLL shader functionality DCL_INDEXABLETEMP code execution vuln
> I’ve never had to help fix an iPhone and I don’t know anyone who’s been infected with malware (besides e.g. TikTok secretly copying clipboard and such), however for Windows and Android then I have people reach out to me on a monthly basis because they accidentally installed something that fucked up their computer/phone and they need help fixing it.

All well and good, but this is not due to sideloading. That is an option that is disabled by default and the majority of people keep it that way. There's sketchy apps on the Play Store itself, which does not require you sideloading. I feel like you're conflating sideloading with malware here.

> As for F-Droid, I hope you realize that their store is even more locked down than the App Store

Not sure what you mean exactly, considering you can even have your own repos in F-Droid, but in any case the point is that it is a 3rd party store.

I don't think anyone is arguing no store can be locked down if you have multiple choices.
Narratives are more important than facts. A lie repeated a million times becomes truth, and a million repetitions happen in a blink of an eye nowadays.
Its clear your not an engineer nor know anything about Elon. He purchased Tesla and scrubbed the founder's name from it. Hardly what you call an engineer. Most engineer's don't know complex financial and legal tricks.
You should first ask if you really even want to make something. As developers, we like building stuff and solving problems, but sometimes you truly are just “forcing it”. The biggest problem for me isn’t deciding what to build, it’s finding the time to make something. When my time is so constrained, I find myself prioritizing higher pursuits in my life than just hacking on projects.

Personally, I only make something when a problem becomes so annoying or time consuming, that I’m forced to make it. This is why you should always do things the hard way or manual way first before automating it and only then can you say “Wow, this could make money”.

Contrary to what others have mentioned, I advise against keeping a notebook on you at all times. You end up obsessing over things and overdeveloping the idea and much of it is wasted effort. If a concept for a project/idea you randomly think of is truly good, you’ll remember it, otherwise it wasn’t really that important. The exception to this rule is if if the scope of what you want to do or the problem is very large and requires tons of research, such as developing a new programming language or OS, etc, and not just an app or farming ads.

Overall, I would say to keep your process organic and invest more time in learning new things than you do on gambling on what may be half baked ideas. When I’m not sure what to build and have time to, I just buy a book on a subject I’m interested in, that has some overlap with the idea and but more so with what I’m interested in as an individual—-hell, maybe consider writing a book. Otherwise, be very experimental and conduct small hypothesis tests, starting with your largest to smallest, to make conclusions and _do_ keep a notebook of them. This is simply a matter of taking inventory of what assumptions/conjectures you have and either rejecting them or failing to. What I usually do is take an assumption and do the exact opposite; if, say, you wanted to make a new chat app, then write an essay on why making a new chat app is a bad idea and publish it. You’ll be surprised how much software out there is “broken by design”.
The app has been updated multiple times since, but you can debug Slack and other Electron apps to see the context they are running with. Electron apps merge desktop functionality with web and sometimes it's possible to find abusable functions - e.g. filesystem, leaking dangerous Electron objects etc.

In this case it was possible to abuse lack of context isolation to overwrite functionality (first part of the JS exploit). This changed function behaviour to return (leak) a BrowserWindow class (https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/browser-window) when calling window.open(). A BrowserWindow class allows to instantiate a new window with your own security settings :)

Some of the current non-standard functions in Slack:
https://imgur.com/a/OSjS0kJ

More info:
https://www.electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/security
Here's a fix! https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/blob/master/lenovo/t....
Or maybe this company has exaggerated their echievements. There are several things in this video that could be described as sci-fi by most neurosurgeons.

But let's be honest other stuff have been called science fiction before:

* Hyperloop Intercity mass-transit

* Fully autonomous cars in the city

* Mars colonization
etc
https://archive.is/zOvjZ
I think he's trying to find a case where the absolute hour (1700Z) is less relevant than the subjective hour (0300 local means he was dead asleep)
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And what kind of success do you think those younger people on social media have? Can you give an example of what you look at? Is that success something you want?
The article touches on it a little bit, but I think the main reason mathematicians are hesitant to accept the value of machines is that although they generate a "proof" in the technical sense, they usually don't generate "understanding", which is really the currency of mathematicians. What good is a proof if literally no human being can understand it? It won't lead to any new mathematics, or new conjectures to think about etc.
I have a similar desire but for science in general!
I'd like to say that when big corporations like this fight it seems the outcome will be beneficial for users. Not sure if that will be true but I hope it will be.
> And the more frameworks you have for the world, the faster you can gain knowledge because you need fewer examples to grok something.

Oh, of course! This is a really good argument and now that you say this, I realize I've also noticed this happening.
I probably can't. But the title could have been: "Apple didn't want Facebook to bring their 30% margin to the foreground of attention".
Shared AWS Lambda Layer for Slack Errors
These property owners are going to become like the Bitcoin HODLers. Their approach is sound as long as they are just riding out bumps in an economic cycle but will fall apart when their is a societal shift.

Commercial real estate is going the way of the newspaper industry - it will not go away, there will remain some successful examples, but the industry as a whole will be decimated.
I mean, it's possible to dislike both. I dislike Facebook but I still think it's wrong that Apple is preventing them from informing users that that's where the money is going.
There's a closer analogy between US states. It's expensive to move and all your friends are in the old city, but you could do it.
But those were for individual communication, I understood the parent comment to mean mass media ("useful for those in power"). I don't think the powerful feature of Facebook is the messenger, it's the ability to rapidly disperse information through sharing. IRC & similar communication tools weren't made for that.

WhatsApp is a hybrid, I suppose, but even there I think the share/forward feature is what drives the political usefulness, which is also why they're limiting that for some media, so you can't spread messages as easily (if it has been forwarded five times, you can only forward it individually, not to multiple contacts/chats, from what I understand).
https://www.apple.com/ios/app-store/principles-practices/#:~....

Free
These are apps that users pay nothing to download or use. The developer chooses to make them free or has some other business model not generated from app revenue. Apple receives no commission from supporting, hosting, and distributing these apps.

Free with advertising
These apps are free for users to download and the developer generates revenue from advertisements in the apps. Apple receives no commission from supporting, hosting, and distributing these apps.

Free with in-app purchase
These apps are free for users to download and users can pay for additional digital features and content in the app with Apple’s In-App Purchase system. Developers earn 70% of sales from in-app purchases and Apple collects a 30% commission.

Free with physical goods and services
These apps are free for users to download and the developer generates revenue from the sale of physical goods and services, such as purchasing clothing, having food delivered, or ordering a ride from a transportation service. Apple receives no commission from supporting, hosting, and distributing these apps, or from transactions for physical goods and services in the app.

Free with subscription
These apps are free to download and users can purchase auto-renewing subscriptions inside the app. If developers choose to sell digital subscriptions inside the app, they use Apple’s In-App Subscription system. In that case, developers earn 70% of subscription sales for the first subscription year, and Apple collects a 30% commission. After the first year, the developer earns 85% for all successive years that the user remains a subscriber, and Apple collects a 15% commission.

Paid
These are apps that customers pay upfront to download from the store — and include free updates. Developers earn 70% of sales from paid apps and Apple collects a 30% commission.
False Dilemma
If Apple currently sells you a house and you aren't permitted to put non-Apple electrical or furniture in, building codes are the framework by which third parties could be permitted to do so. We're already in the locked down house. Building codes are exactly what we need.
I've been complaining about the Hobbesian/Hamiltonian elephant in the room for years.

Is a Jeffersonian/Locke-ian society really that much to ask for?
https://thebulletin.org/2009/01/the-limits-of-energy-storage....

Get the word out. Batteries are bad hydrogen is good. Current hydrogen gas will have more energy than batteries at peak technology growth. This matters because hydrogen cars are cheaper, more scalable, and more inclusive than battery cars. Rich people get battery cars, you get a battery bike.
It’s misleading to say that register machines carry no liveness or that they defeat liveness. That’s a bit much. Computing liveness on a register machine with dense integer numbering of locals is not that expensive. It’s certainly cheaper than running a good backend. And a good backend will certainly modify the code in a way that requires liveness to be recomputed.

It’s also misleading to say that register machines defeat SSA. It’s not hard to convert from a register machine to SSA - the algorithm is almost linear. Powerful backends (like WK’s B3) recompute SSA after some transformations anyway.

I think that wasm combines elements of a stack machine and a register machine in a way that leads to a compact format and multiple reasonable paths to converting to the sort of IR you’d want for converting a platform agnostic form like wasm into any contemporary instruction set. I’m no wasm fanboy but as far as binary IRs for transporting code into optimizing compilers go, this one is pretty slick.
Go, Rust, and Zig make it impossible to interrupt most blocking syscalls, because they automatically retry on EINTR. [1]

Go supports timeouts on network & file read/write ops, which can be used to interrupt them.

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/41054
It's easier to know what is wrong that what is right.
just ahead of jooby and kooby
Egoism and self-interest are the same thing. This definition of egoism presented here with the "at the expense of" language is so loaded and wrong smh...
McDonalds didn't want nutritional information on hamburger wrappers, cigarette companies didn't want health risks mentioned, Apple doesn't want consumers to be conscious of how they pay $150/year to Apple for every $10/week subscription. Transparency is good for consumers, not companies.
I found this article to be unnecessarily complex. Can banks and lending institutions create money out of thin air? Contrary to the title of this article, in the US the answer is yes. Money is created by the "stroke of a pen" on the ledgers of accredited/regulated banks in the US banking system. In fact, that's primarily where "money" is created, and not on printing presses at Federal mint buildings.
One reason screens don't break as easily as they used to on modern phones is because they tend to have a sturdy metal frame that the screen and backside are glued onto under tension.

This is one of the main things to beware of when you need to open up a phone with a heat gun and repair it. I've broken a couple of screens shortly after a repair until I realized I needed to be more meticulous about how I glued the cover back on, and to keep it in a vice until the glue dried.

I don't see how you could have a hot-swappable battery without making the whole thing a lot more bulky. Personally I think this whole "make it repairable" movement is mostly missing the mark when it comes to modern phones.

Maybe Apple is different, but if you break something on a modern $300-500 Android phone such as the screen, motherboard, sub-board etc. you can easily order a replacement from China for $10-50.

You need to own a couple of things like a heat gun, and maybe a soldering iron, but you'd also need a torx screwdriver set etc. for a "repairable" phone. The cost difference isn't that great.

Phones are wildly more repairable than most other electronics you can buy nowadays or would have bought in the 70s-90s. I know if I e.g. break the USB C port on my phone I just need a new $5-10 sub-board. Compare that to breaking something essential on my washing machine, drier, TV etc., those things are typically easy to open, but a lot harder to actually repair in practice.
Maybe the 1.0 release. But now I see a "Story Mode", locked characters, and lots more game-y stuff
I homeschooled my sons. After seeing how vastly superior Gungan Frontier and a similar Sim game were to my "pen and paper" style simulation in my college class on environmental biology, I went through their games and decided which games I would count as educational and for which subject.

Their joke grew out if conversations that went something like this:

Son blurts obscure historical factoid.

Me: "Where the hell did you learn that?!"

Son names video game he learned it from. Punchline: "Video games are our only education." (Vin Diesel movie line, so another excellent reason to say it to me.)

They now have a blog where that's the descriptor, basically.
True. IMHO, it's ridiculous to have walled garden platforms with vendor-controlled "App Stores" in the first place.
Yep. I agree with this. I remember when cell phone batteries were easy to remove. Just take the cover off the back and put in a new one. However, this doesn't help the corporations sell more products.
And if you have a recent Samsung, DeX for PC is much better than this
So are you saying that using cables and motor driven pulleys is a better solution ?

Most robotic arms I've seen appear to have a motor located at the elbow joint that drives the equivalent of the lower arm either directly or through a gear box.

If cables and pulleys give better torque without loss of speed why aren't they in more widespread use in robotic arms ?
You can remedy all of those things in the current system.
How to hire a good developer when you are not technical?
This is true, but until Free-to-play arrived, the companies would get a cut from every single piece of software that was published through licensing. The advent of downloads reduced the trade in used-games, meaning higher revenue.

The selling at a loss is just another business strategy to drive hardware sales of a limited-functionality device (ok, you can watch videos and surf the net, but it's hardly an actual computer) compared to the iPhone, where other factors drive sales and increase the user base.

I mean, I love my Switch and I'm definitely a profitable customer but it's a specialized device. If Nintendo's loss-leader strategy is worth 30%, why isn't Apple's strategy? Or really, who gets to decide what the correct % is? And how?
Does not apply to tech interviews.
Just a nitpick, extraordinary claims normally do not require extraordinary evidence. For example, to gather evidence that, for example, there is a man who could run for 50mph in short bursts, it would require nothing but ordinary evidence. Have a nice day!
reminds me of another one:

nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

For me it just pushes the point that every situation is a negotiation.
Or get a different credit card?
I must say, it does feel like history repeating itself. It seems that anyone who is an expert in a field that Musk enters ALWAYS bets against Musk.

And then, in the fullness of time, they are often proven to be wrong because Musk finds another way they couldn't imagine - probably because he works as a multi domain expert and from a viewpoint of first principles.

And that's exactly what Musk said to himself when he told people to take their hands off their Tesla's steering wheel. [0]

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-tesla-autopilot-60-min...
what sort of gamification is there on HN, upvotes not much else? Maybe it's plausible to strike a deal with oneself not to look at upvotes or downvotes, I think that would make comments more sincere. It would be great to have a setting not to display upvotes and down-votes on your own comments but to still be able to respond on threads tab

Generally I'm glad that HN has minimal gamification, at least compared to the worst offenders reddit, fb, twitter etc.
That's bizarre, because I see it as the most overused argument over the past 25 years! People oppose any lane additions with induced demand.
Plugshare can help with that.
Of course. Just expanding on the idea behind journaling is that it is a scaffolding for your mind. For me, without journaling, my mind will wander and probably resemble a random walk. Instead, I found that by organizing my days into "packets" which have a forward-looking journaling session in the beginning and a backward-looking journaling session at the end was a tremendous boost to how structured my thinking is and how I spend my time.

For me, each "packet" is 2-3 day period and each journaling session is about 30 minutes. So two journaling sessions is a 1 hour investment to get better results over 48 hours (~2%) doesn't seem too bad.

More practically, I just keep two composition notebooks for these journals, and try to keep to a zettelkasten style[1] in Evernote.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NfdHG6oHBJ8Qxc26s/the-zettel...
Nullify credential dumps with Two-Factor Authentication
This resonates a lot.

One of the greatest realizations I've had is that there really is no other time than the present. The future never is, neither the past, it's only the present. So, if all we have and can interact with time-wise is the present moment, then everything you can actually do can only be done at each particular now.

So, if you want to learn French, or Lisp, or riding a dirt bike, you can only ever actually do it, at some particular now. The trick then is to try and make sure somehow that for each particular now, you always have a clear idea of what it is that you should be doing. Otherwise you risk falling into the procrastination trap that can last as long as ones lifetime, as the article brilliantly demonstrates.