skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two functions come to mind:

- Being able to programmatically control the contents of an INDIVIDUAL slide

- Being able to programmatically control the order of slides

With a robust API there are two uses cases I can think of off the top of my head:

- You're leading an all-hands meeting and talking about revenue. The slide is connected to your Stripe account via a webhook, so the revenue figure on screen is dynamic and updates in real time

- You're pitching an investor with the goal of convincing the investor to give you money, and you're recording the conversation in real time. The recording gets processed through some language processing system, and the system recognizes the context of the conversation. You're about to talk about your team, but the system thinks that perhaps a better strategy would be to talk about the market size. So, it automatically reorders to slides and makes the NEXT slide about the market size. You hit next, see the market size slide and then talk about it

I'm sure there's a million different creative use cases that we'll see in the future. I'm fairly optimistic that Pitch has a ton of potential to change the general presentation status quo from static presentations, to dynamic presentations
It's an oft repeated myth/excuse. I guess it lets TM management firms rinse clients for larger management fees.
The title should probably be changed to the title from the article, 'Windows 10 warns [users] to use a "Microsoft-verified" app [when attempting to install Firefox]'.
Can you please elaborate on Salesforce one-reply system? Never have used them but keen to understand how they do it better
To extend what you said a bit: PyPy is not only slow with extensions, it's also massively slower for running short-lived code that isn't repeated much, which is precisely the scenario of many if not most command line tools written in Python. Although I'm not sure there are enough people concerned about Python's performance in this scenario.

And yeah, I would be happy to pitch in too if CPython can be 50% faster reliably. It only takes 500 people each pitching in $100 to reach $50k.

Edit: somehow got $50k etched in mind when it says $500k. That’s more difficult from individual funding.
Agreed. Actual title of the KB article:

Windows 10 warns me to use a "Microsoft-verified" app
Oh wow! This probably explains why every now and then when I wake my MacBook Pro from sleep it says no keyboard is connected! I thought I had some hardware problem on a basically brand new machine. Glad to hear it's only a stupid software problem!
Listen. I know people have a tendency to get defensive, when they believe someone insults their craft. I am not doing that. I am arguing that what google has really going for it is inertia. It is similar to the world of OS, where Windows still rules supreme. Note that DDG was built fast, but it struggles against G search engine based on familiarity. But ok, DDG has issues other than familiarity. What about Bing? MS had to actually pay people to encourage adoption. That is how strong the force of inertia really is. So yeah. I do dismiss your counter argument, because it does not address the core of mine.
I'm assuming you've seen https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multi-account... ?

It doesn't work in exactly the same way - you don't by default get a different window per-profile. Instead, tabs get a different colour for each.
> It is all apart of long term marketing and branding.

For sure - I can't think of any other companies with a similar approach to things though. I appreciate what they do, and the good quality write-up they provide as well.

If I remember right, years ago YouTube was releasing their prior year server build. I recall things like a cool air stream being directed right at the processor, rather than cooling the whole room enough for traditional cooling methods to work well. My Google fu isn't finding the blog posts I remember reading, probably from ~2010 era.
It's crossed my mind before to start a service that collects junk mail and sends it to the home address of the executives at the junk mail aggregates (there's only a handful of them last I tried to stop receiving junk).

On the one hand it's definitely harassment to find out someone's address just to send them things they don't want for the purposes of changing their behavior. On the other hand, that's their business model.
it seam awful, the templates are the fucking same as other platforms, as person in business i would say i dont care which technology make the job if the job is done, in general this is define for the lowest price posible or for advertising, maybe make price for use the service and export to third party hosting but i don see this, knowing that WordPress is free and have a bunch of cheap labor who can tailor your website and host in a cheaper host
It's a frustrating road we are headed down. Tech companies have gotten so big that they don't really have to work together using standardization anymore. Options are limited, and most are anti-consumer in one way or another.
I trust Apple a lot more than I trust Google or Facebook, but this clamping down of the Mac without options for power users while officially stating that the Mac will remain a Mac is alarming and distasteful on the part of Apple.

With the transition to Apple’s own chips looming, it seems like the days of “a Mac is a personal computer and not an app console like an iPhone or iPad” will be over by the middle of this decade. All Apple devices locked down completely and Apple decides the limits of what users can do on devices. This model made some sense for mobile (where restrictions were gradually removed or workarounds provided), but the Mac is going in reverse.
"Mozilla drops to a new low to force people to click on their articles"
I'd love it if there was a national "Do Not SMS" list. (Especially during this US election season).

Though I'd assume companies like Twilio would massively lobby against it.
Won't argue that Mozilla/Firefox has been comprehensively out-manouvered by Google/Chrome.

I'm still puzzled why Moz haven't tried a paid-for Firefox option. They've gone to the bother of creating entire new paid-for products - with all the budget and product/market fit uncertainty that involves. Surely a paid-for FF option would have been a less expensive experiment?

Perhaps the terms of the Google "donation" prevent/constrain that. I wouldn't be surprised if so. Which does lead to an interesting - if probably fanciful - scenario from the anti-trust investigation announced today...

...charactertise the browser as a "utility" and require G to (a) transfer it into Mozilla's stewardship and (b) force them to license from there.

(I know: unrealistic, unworkable, lots of other "just no"s. But a fun idea nonetheless).
>> Of all the things in the tech world they chose Google paying Apple, Samsung, et.al. to be the default search engine to sue over. That's not really evidence of Google blocking competition. That's evidence of phone manufacturers using their power in one market (phone sales) to extract cash out of another (search/ads).

> No, I think it is a pretty clear example of rent-seeking on Google's behalf.

Not sure what conversation you're having in the above comment, but this is the one that I was responding to :)
They only remove your information every 3 months. If I'm paying $129/year I want the removals to be submitted daily.
I'm sort of, but not really, surprised so many smart techie people are so adamant about using Chrome when we're well on our way to Blink being the new IE6.
Step 1: Call up Twitter employees and say you're Twitter's IT department and ask the employee to visit a page to troubleshoot a connection problem they're having, and that page asks for a username, password, and MFA code

Step 2: With that password, log in to the internal website Twitter employees use to moderate accounts, change jack's account password to "password", log in to twitter.com with username "jack" and password "password" (and repeat for every user you want to login as)

Step 3: Make a tweet saying "send Bitcoin to [address] and I'll send double back"
Settlements and consent decrees are not the worst thing in the world. IBM was never prosecuted but the fear induced by the 1970s antitrust investigation likely caused the series of missteps IBM made in the 1980s that allowed the personal computer industry to bloom (if there was no antitrust investigation, IBM would likely have written an operating system for PCs in–house, not call on Gary Kildall or Bill Gates).

Big question mark in my mind is if there’s hard evidence that Google employees required customers of one service (say, Cloud) to utilize another Google service (ads, G Suite/Workplace, etc.) in order to get a discount or some other preference. That's a slam dunk. My suspicion is that there'll be a lot of activities that hew extremely closely to that line without crossing it.
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

Windows ~77%
How this Payment provider sped up Kafka streaming app time-to-market
> If you don't trust them, then you shouldn't trust anything running on top of it either...

Trust, but verify.

The problem with this is that it's taking away the ability to verify. Which takes away the ability to trust.
> The BBC has tested the software and received poor results.

Sounds like The Economist dry humour.
I think it was not too bad, they took it down after you complained. Having the license helped.

I assume you could sue them for having used your software without a license for 3 years. But what would be the amount of damage they'd be ordered to pay you? Some portion of the profit they made by running your software?

In general I wonder what is the remedy when an open-source license is violated. For open source software there are often many contributors, maybe hundreds. Should there therefore be a class-action lawsuit and should they all get some compensation?

What happens if someone violates Linux open source license? Who would sue on whose behalf, who would be compensated?
> wait for a DNS response and then use said DNS response to synchronize time via NTP before letting the user use the keyboard

... and what if your network is down? You can't even use your keyboard?
D competes more with GC languages like Go and Modula 3, rather than the C / C++ / Rust GCless niche.
I have, it's not equivalent to Safari or Chrome, the tap-to-zoom feature is essentially non-functional.
His response:

> I believe that's how business works ;)

> I have this thing, e.g an iPhone, if you want it you must pay me.

> I think that speeding CPython 50% is worth a few hundred iPhones.

I wonder if he considered publishing it under a restrictive license that doesn't allow real world use. Then people could scrutinize his claims but there would still be an incentive to pay up for him to relicense it.
Incremental TTS for Neural Sequence-to-Sequence Using Reinforcement Learning
I was living in far south Austin last year, and I could only get ATT DSL (10M down, 4M up).
Try to bypass kexts and you’re just asking for kernel stability issues and Mac customer crashes. Pushing these guys out of the kernel lets Apple cheat them and Mac users clean and easy.
What is clickbait about it? They have been doing this for years. This is just a new method.

https://www.ghacks.net/2018/09/12/microsoft-intercepting-fir...

https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/f0r8y9/not_cool_mi...

Also, I gain nothing from people on HN clicking it. It's not even my site. It's mozilla's.

Still, I'm changing it.
> Keeping it to Mac/PC only does make Linux, NAS, Server folks unhappy, but thus far no one has been able to crack the code on an unlimited, fixed-rate service that can back up those devices economically, but if we figure it out we'll let folks know

Please do! I really would prefer to use Backblaze.

In the meantime, CrashPlan for Small Business is an unlimited, fixed-rate service that supports NAS backup on macOS and Linux. I depend on it to backup a lifetime of photos (100K+), for example.

https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/6/Backup/Back_up_networ...
In reality, the world needs saving from you. (again) Perhaps this is a sign that you are frightened about what is 'coming soon'.

If that is the case, then a landslide is going to crash on your 'great world'. Everyone else, will keep calm and carry on.
That seems like a skewed test that is biased companies that work at scale. It's much harder to have good customer service for every user when you're making pennies per user but bank on having billions of users.
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I should've clarified - it only does this if there is a default route. Funnily enough, whilst the firewalls in the original twitter post would possibly fail to catch this traffic, PF will block it just fine.
Background: I've written my own kernel extension that works in similar manner to Little Snitch, but does a lot more, including SSL MITM and on-demand packet capture, that I've been using for more than 10 years now.

It's a fact that Apple has continuously moved to lock down macOS in ways that are antithetical to folks that want full control over their operating system. To many of us that moved on from Linux on the desktop, the combination of a stable/uniform/attractive desktop environment with a Unix core that had great developer documentation -no longer the case!- and nicely-designed APIs was too much to resist. Unfortunately, the push towards consumers and Apple's increasingly one-sided my-way-or-the-highway approach (fueled by security concerns that to me are completely irrelevant, if not a huge annoyance and waste of time) means that a lot of us oldschool Unix hackers were left out in the cold.

I don't plan to upgrade past Mojave and at some point in the future I will move back to Linux.
This is smart, I've had to build these things at every company I've been at and I've never found any good abstractions
I wonder why they didn't join up with Dreamhaven. I loved the 90s Blizzard games, and I miss the dark, gothic artstyle. I'm curious to see if they can recreate that magic.
Shut down their US operations. Bar them from partnering with US corporations.
I think it's more that just Edge. They force their "Microsoft store". This is just another step in their plan to limit execution of programs that come from other sources.
Looks cool. It's not very clear from the landing page on how it works.

Couple of questions / suggestions:

- Can this be installed on-premise / self-hosted?

- Does it work with multiple repositories?

- Is it customizable? Does it support a yaml file for configuration?
Their efforts work. I set up Firefox on my parents' Windows computer. A couple days (days!) later they were using Edge, and had no idea "when" the switch happened.
I have the complete opposite experience. Firefox runs smoothly
even when I have 150+ tabs open in 4-5 windows. Meanwhile
running 20+ tabs in Chromium bogs down my system so hard that
the mouse can start lagging.

To be fair it runs very nicely when not excessively tabbing
everything, but that's just how I prefer to use the web.
Proving my point here that this is like a religious thing to you. I don't even support Socialism, but you obviously think of it like some metaphysical evil like the Devil. Ideas are ideas, they can't commit genocide.
Apple have never made such claim. In fact, if you read their ToS, it discloses all the information you're classifying as "disgusting".
Yes, but they're of lower priority. Gaming has increasingly moved away from the PC (the only truly open/competitive platform) towards the walled gardens of consoles and mobile devices. This has a censorious effect in what's actually allowed to be released, the big platforms get to do a lot of rent-seeking, and crucially, games are increasingly going digital, which eliminates a consumer's right to resale and loan games to their friends. The gaming marketplace would be a lot more competitive and interesting without gatekeeping. About the only downside you'd see is that the up-front cost for some consoles would need to be higher, because selling them as a loss-leader and making the money up in back-end licensing fees would no longer be allowable.

I would love to see some sort of regulated 10% rake cap on digital marketplaces (both mobile and gaming) and ticket sales. Note that this would apply only to games being distributed through the platform owner's marketplace, and that consumers would be allowed to install by right software from other sources as well.
Hah, all good. We give them _visual_ control of everything. But say you wanted to make a component that pull the last 10 tweets from an account or a Stripe Checkout button or some other custom component, then you can.

Any React component is already a Makeswift component, the question is, how do you get the props? Well we've got a whole bunch of what we call prop controllers for basic stuff like numbers, colors, images, padding, margin, etc. You can also make your own. For example, in the Twitter feed component, you might make a panel that lets you search for tweets and then once you pick the account it passes the Twitter username to the component as a prop. The component can then fetch the tweets using the Twitter API, etc.

We have plans to open source all of our components as a reference for third-party developers building their own custom Makeswift components. Also, if you're a company that already has an internal design system built in React, your marketing team can just drop those in to your Makeswift site (constrained by the props the developers decide to expose).

This is all internal right now, though. I can't wait until we can release this API to the public, haha.
>Not made from a web browser

That gave me a chuckle
What do you consider decent? Gigabit only? You can get at least 60-100 Mbps in most towns, as long as you aren't out of town. Probably gigabit if you're willing to pay a lot. Spectrum is the main option in the big towns. Looks like you can get gigabit from them in the big towns for $110/month for the first 12 months. Not sure what it would go to after that.

If you live out of town, or in a really small town, you're gonna have tougher luck
It's crazy to think only three space programs have soft landed on the moon. And since the first in 1966, there have only been about 2 dozen soft landings on the moon.

We tend to forget it's really hard to do.
What if search is that way because Google has a vested financial interest in the advertising business?
Isn't a new email address basically free? So any abuser would have to spend just an insignificant amount of time to create a new account?
> ... code-behind ...

> We need an Access for the web, but nothing comes close.

You're using ASP.NET terminology (code-behind) and implying that Access was some sort of DB revolution on the desktop.

About time to get out of your bubble.
While I can't say anyone I know has ended up in a particularly bad place in the end, there are two people I personally know:
One is headed back to college to finish up his degree at almost 30; sure it's not a bad place, but his peers are far more financially secure and much further in their careers. Another was left scrambling for any job after his startup went under as COVID layoffs settled in, unclear how he's doing now (he needs a job for his visa, given how many years he spent trying to do the startup, he is highly unlikely to get into a good PhD program now which was something he had wanted to do).

These are two people that I have immense respect for and who I'm sure did everything 'right'; it just doesn't work out for everyone.
I think your personal sample depends on the people you know. I honestly can't think of anyone in a worse place than friend #2 above (except for one international student with a visa problem but this would have arisen whether or not they did normal things or started a company). This is likely because the only people I know here are from the university I went to though.
I think there is a varying level of folks intent and awareness of their biases to the extent that 'everyone' isn't accurate.
Also, for a behavior that is standard at the OS-level I shouldn't have to literally flip variables after a scare-warning "touch this and break stuff".
Show HN: A dead-simple personal knowledge manager
> I find that you're the one who seems inexperienced.

35 years professional software engineering, 30 years in embedded. I'm going to guess that you have less.

Your way of organizing code works great, on paper. Maybe on a small project. For a real embedded system, with multiple threads, with state data being used everywhere... your approach doesn't make much sense. It makes a much worse design than shared mutable state. (Yes, shared mutable state is in fact as evil as you have think it is. It's still better than trying to make your alternative work in that environment.)

Why is state data used everywhere? Because embedded systems often respond in different ways depending on the state of external inputs, and don't go read the state at the time they make the decision on how to respond. If those decisions are spread through the bulk of the code, there's really not much left to put in your combinator. And there's no point in trying to add that paradigm to a system that's going to have tons of shared mutable state anyway.
Reminder that the NSA is basically collecting all of the internet traffic it can get its hands on. They didn't build a data centre in the middle of the desert for the fun of it.
> They say they want free as-in-freedom, but since they are not willing to pay for it they don't exist. Only paying users matter.

Citation needed. If you look at app store pricing models the opposite seems true. If I were going to take a random guess I would say that tech savvy users use open source software to avoid anti-consumer bullshit more than anything else.
Sorry but is it really a monopoly when the reason you're a "monopoly" is that your products are just plain better than the competition?
Not free energy, free money. Print-your-own-money. For a while, doing an ICO easily scored you millions in the bank.
Biden draws more online engagement as election draws near
They want to reverse Facebook's Instagram acquisition but Zuck is merging all backend infrastructure of Facebook and Instagram to make it harder for them.
This a support page without ads on it.
If the government is the only payer, they can squeeze the excess profit out of the system year over year.

"Hey, we noticed you pay your executives $25 million a year. We decided to cut the executive pay allowance this year."

"Hey, we noticed you're paying your shareholders 50% of your revenue. You seem pretty profitable, so we're cutting your reimbursement rates for all procedures this year."

Such a system is eminently practical. What's not practical is the current US system.
Every day for the last 10+ years I've run both Firefox and Chrome on each of my screens. I have no idea what you're talking about in regards to a speed difference. The only reason I use Chrome is because it's the the new IE and I need to see and experience what my clients are.
If you're using Cisco Anyconnect, blame that for that particular keyboard issue.
Just had a third well reviewed Seagate Nytro Enterprise SSD fail after a very short period of use, very low write volume. Starting to wonder whats up with Seagate.

Wish Backblaze had SSD stats.
It's the new "I was hacked"
> Zig is dramatically simpler than rust... Most of this difference is not related to lifetimes.

I've been thinking about this recently: the borrow checker gets a lot of attention, but I think the majority of the learning curve of rust is actually due to "unforced errors" in the language UX which have nothing to do with the language's core USP's.

For instance, the module system just seems needlessly complex. Like you need a mod.rs file in each subdirectory, and the main.rs/lib.rs serves as the module file for the src directory, it took me like a day to figure out what exactly the rules are, and I can't understand why there can't be sensible defaults to define modules based on the file system structure alone.
Yep. I think people need to get past the idea that they own their iPhone or Mac. Apple does, they just let you use it.