skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a kid, I used to get chronic ear infections. At some point, they did some testing that involved forcefully streaming cold water into my ear. As you stated, it made my head spin something serious.

As an adult I got a cholesteatoma in that same ear, which is probably directly related to the issue that caused so many infections in my younger days. I had surgery to remove it, and now I have to visit the surgeon once a year for ear cleaning because that ear doesn't self-clean so efficiently anymore.

I have to use oil drops the night before so it isn't painful. I really dislike getting it done, but it sure feels better afterward.

I've tried those effervescing concoctions, and I'm not convinced they actually do very much at all. It does sound really cool though.
Endless FUD is a likely outcome of that. Worse than now, if you can imagine it.
I think saying that Option types are different from nullable types is not true. They differ at the semantic level, around how you can interact with them (one requires you to case on whether or not the value is there, the other requires you to do that with an if statement), but at the type level the describe the same construct.

I think saying something is not the same as something else, when evidently the difference can to reduced down to syntactic sugar is a bad way categorizing and differentiating types.
The pareto principle rears it's ugly head!
There are a lot of other devices (that aren't x86 PCs) which let you boot OSs wholly from third parties. A couple that come to mind are Canon Cameras[1], and the Remarkable Tablet[2]. A lot of routers, too, don't put up any barriers the installation of alternate firmware (some do), and even Apple Silicon Macs can be made to boot unsigned OSs (and are getting a Linux port). Not to mention the Raspberry Pi and its ilk.

I say this almost preemptively, because I really don't think it should obscure your core point: open devices are increasingly the exception, not the norm.

1: https://chdk.fandom.com/wiki/CHDK
2: https://hackaday.com/2020/09/06/a-free-software-os-for-the-r...
The design of wxWidgets is very familiar to someone who started on MFC. There were reasons (perf, mostly) to write code that way back when MFC was a thing, but we certainly have better ways now.
I don’t think it’s silly at all giving both a hand.

Both are risky, both Take skill and luck, both rarely work out.

I don’t agree
If by open sourcing initially it hurt their competition, surely by going proprietary now it should help their competition (and FOSS geo stuff generally)?
Some programmers do go to conferences and buy training courses to keep up appearances regardless of the impact on their actual performance. We mock them for it just like we mock people who buy $1000+ headphones to impress other audiophiles. Responding to this fact with "people waste money on conferences, so you shouldn't program" is like saying "people waste money on headphones, so you shouldn't listen to music," though.
You missed the third major point that most people do not know which is that these attacks are not just possible, they are easy. Every single one of these articles always mentions "nation-state actors" to imply that only a nation-state with billions of dollars and thousands of people can pull off such a "sophisticated" "novel" attack. That is unequivocal garbage. I have never had a CISO (or any other high-level security executive) of a multi-billion dollar company ever answer the question: "How much would it cost to critically compromise your systems and do an unrecoverable amount of damage?" with a number higher than $1,000,000. $1,000,000 is a rounding error to these companies. $1,000,000 is a rounding error in a rounding error to a sizable nation-state. These systems are not just insecure against nation-state attackers, they are insecure against organizations with the staggering weight of 3-10 people. Or, to use a quote from the recent Project Zero blogpost on the iOS exploit said: "one person, working alone in their bedroom, was able to build a capability which would allow them to seriously compromise iPhone users they'd come into close contact with." That is a far cry from being secure against credible threats to a multi-billion dollar business by any stretch of the imagination.

Are systems more secure now than they were in the past? Maybe. A targeted attack against an arbitrary target would generally take a few 10 to 100s of thousands of dollars. This is probably orders of magnitude more than the past of teenagers hacking for giggles. But, there are like 6-8 orders of magnitude between teenagers hacking for giggles and a "nation-state actor" and about 3 orders of magnitude between a random company/organization and a nation-state. The best systems deployed systems are about as close to adequate as a house is to a skyscraper.
> If it's an "outdated model" the first questions to ask are about what came before that model.

How does what came before have anything to do with the issue? Wouldn't for an “outdated model” the question be “what new model exists that has rendered the old one obsolete?”, not “what existed before this model?”

I mean, unless it was proposed to be “outdated” specifically in a two-model alternating cycle.
sorry, but I don't think what you're proposing makes sense. The same way you're listening to small bands, millions of people are listening to the #1 hits. The result would be the same, the big names getting millions and small bands getting a few bucks.
Without a definition of what counts as a musician on Spotify, and how hard it is to be considered one, these numbers are useless.

By simply increasing the difficulty of uploading your music to Spotify, they could easily make that 82% a 40%. Or by letting anyone upload anything, they could make it a 98%.
Having a11y tools read svg's in img's as a part of the dom tree seems like it goes against the spec which says "An img element represents an image", and in basically all other places of the spec an image either has a proper alternate representation (the alt attribute) or is not parsed for a11y purposes.

This is a hack to be able to embed design within a tool that was never meant for graphic design. If github readmes where meant to be both accessible and designable they would not be just markdown/rst.

Your suggestion means a11y software having a hack that goes against the spec to enable a hack that was used to circumvent a platform that knowingly crippled it's document representation because they thought it would be used for mostly unstyled info.
I don't think it's fair to call Windows on ARM an "engineer retention project". They actually released Windows RT and tried very hard to make it work. They still have it going with the Surface Pro X, and they just announced an emulation layer to get x64 applications working on ARM, which if it works well would solve RT's biggest problem, a lack of legacy applications: https://www.neowin.net/news/it039s-official-x64-emulation-is...
until the glued-in battery expires

Which one is the high-end, comparable non-Apple model that I can slap a pair of AA batteries in?

Go ahead. I'll wait.
Imagine if 20 / 30 years ago when MP3 was first going mainstream the music industry had, instead of suing Napster, just bought them out and turned the whole thing into a subscription music service.

Back then it cost £4 to buy ONE SONG (RIP Woolworths). I’d have signed up to £20+ a month for unlimited music even at 2005 prices.

Instead they let everyone get used to the idea music could be free so Spotify had to price incredibly low to compete. Hence, crap money for artists.
Here are some examples produced by the tests of the underlying library, including HN, GitHub and the Google homepage: https://github.com/felixfbecker/dom-to-svg/suites/1630896833...

The tests take a PNG screenshot of the webpage, then a PNG screenshot of the created SVG and pixelmatch the two. The difference must be below 0.5% for tests to pass.
AFAIK you still need to have a label to publish on streaming services, but there are now services that will act as your label and publish for a very low membership fee (<30/yr).
Spoiler alert: they did not go to space today.
Cause I've so many shots at FAANG every 6 months
Out-of-warranty battery replacement is $49.
A cynical take Ive heard before: replacing a power cable with a lithium ion rechargeable battery turns many devices into a quasi subscription service (you pay for a product but then must "renew your subscription" when the battery goes out).
It has had 3D tiles for a long time. Not Mapbox 2D vector tiles though.
Sre is a glorified sys admin for the most part.
That doesn't answer my question how Oracle got some 8.x builds released weeks/months earlier than CentOS.
That's just the business model of streaming—unlike labels, there is no cross-subsidization (e.g., a more popular artist "paying for" an obscure critically acclaimed artist who doesn't sell well). You're incentivized to get plays, which ultimately gets everyone to converge.

It's going to be really tough for the "middle class" of independents—whether you're in content creation or apps. But if you use streaming platforms purely as a way to get discovered, and build direct relationships with your audience, you can price and sell your own stuff. No more $0.006 per stream or whatever. (https://qz.com/1507361/mariah-careys-record-breaking-day-sho...)

That requires self-reliance, which is tough, but will be worth the payoff. I write more about it here: https://herbertlui.net/own-your-marketing-own-your-income/

Ryan Leslie is a good example of this—took his music of Spotify and went direct to audience, sold fewer albums but made more money. https://shift.newco.co/2017/03/10/ryan-leslie-shifts-the-con...

Increasing more relevant: Derek Sivers writes the way to be happy while being creative is to keep a good, steady, easy, full-time job and to create just for its own sake: https://sive.rs/balance
Spotify has never posted an annual net profit.

If you want to blame somebody, I’d say you should blame the listeners who overwhelmingly listen to a small number of popular artists.

Alternatively, blame the record labels who contribute less and less value while still skimming massive amounts of money. See: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110707/03264014993/riaa-...
Here is 200k bans in one game: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/over-200000-modern-...

Anyway, it seems to me that most of those people just need to update their fan control programs. One example I saw was CPU-z which had a CVE in their driver a few years ago. They are using drivewrs with known vulnerabilities. You also need to consider that some cheaters will also spread mis-information.
There's different groups of people with dark traits. There are straight up criminals who are going to skew the averages, but most successful people do have dark traits, so to me at least it's obvious that dark traits can make you more successful, you just can't do this whole study from the angle they are doing to understand anything meaningful except to have some "holier than thou" results produced.
I would say that Gagarin's flight was more a boundary beween before and after than was the flight of the X-1.
I saw the same thing happen 2002-ish.

Have to admit I was a little disappointed to find that wasn't part of the show.
> HC is a highly regulated toxin, labeled as a “likely carcinogen” and skin irritant by the Environmental Protection Agency. Eye masks and gloves are recommended for people who handle the chemical. Defense Technologies, an imprint of Pennsylvania-based security equipment manufacturer Safariland, markets the HC canisters as “military-style” smokers, even though the U.S. military actually stopped using HC in grenades in the 1990s due to its extreme toxicity.
Yeah do that and they detect it (you better believe UPS and FedEX have EXCELLENT analytics) and they put a hold on your account and if you rely on shipping you are screwed.

You don't play stupid games with a critical part of your business operations.

If anything it just stresses the need for businesses to have more contingency plans and supplier/partner depth. Yup, it's not as cheap as winging it with a sole provider for the best deal you can get but you also won't be in a situation where you are screwed at a critical point in your business calendar.

Business operations - so much fun!
Thought experiment.

Imagine I only listen to one song in one month by one band who currently make ~0 on Spotify.

In my new system, they now make £10.
So what you are saying is that because the job of the backend dev isn't as interesting as game dev,they are paid more? I very much doubt that's the reason.
> I also really like the way build scripts can be referenced by url/id such that I can just reference existing scripts made by other people. Super nice!

I'm not familiar with that feature, can you give a link to docs/example/more info?
I would recommend waiting for Qt 6.1 before considering using QtQuick/QML. They are apparently fixing a load of the issues with QML in that release. As it stands QML is kind of a mess.
Anti cheat is essential to keep multiplayer games fun
I wonder if it would it be possible to 'dnf downgrade' a CentOS Stream host to the same package version as a RHEL8 host?
In almost every discussion of musician income and Spotify that I've, two entirely different questions seems to get conflated together:

1. How big is the pie?

2. Who gets what share of it?

Here in this thread, almost everyone is saying that the total pie for music isn't that big compared to the number of people making it today. As production costs get lower and lower, more and more people can be become musicians and that pie gets sliced into smaller and smaller pieces. Meanwhile, there are only so many hours in the day one can listen to music, so demand is relatively fixed. I agree with others that this is maybe unfortunate, but is basically just reality. Just like writing and working in zoos, occupations that have massive intrinsic reward are rarely compensated well financially.

But there's an entirely separate question. Given some pie of whatever size, are companies like Spotify getting a fair share of it relative to musicians? It's sad if musicians can't make a living can't make a living off their music. But theatre actors and poets rarely do either. But it seems wrong that at the exact same time, businesses are raking in billions of dollars off that exact same music.

We aren't outraged that poets are underpaid because there simply is no money there. There isn't much money to go around in music, but even so, the distributors are taking almost all of it and leaving little for the actual musicians.
That doesn’t change anything that supports the claim that this was a forced choice and therefore the OP didn’t ‘want’ Apple.

No finite number of businesses is guaranteed to produce a product to a given person’s liking, duopoly or not.

In any case, according to you, GNU/Linux phones are an option, so it’s not a duopoly.

Also, let’s note that you’ve conceded they they do want Apple, but are now trying to make the case that this isn’t a ‘real’ kind of want.
Once you expand this to doctors all over the world. This will become definitely true. There are enough doctors in third world who make < $10K a year.
Whether one at a time is okay still depends on the app...

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/22900
>Spotify should work put who you’re listening to and give them a direct slice of what you have paid, rather than putting everyone in a pot together and dividing by number of plays.

I think this is what YouTube does with their premium subscription service for content creators. You get a chunk of the YouTube premium revenue based on how much people with the premium subscription watched.
Charts and several other modules are released both under GPLv3 licensing and commercial licensing. For Qt6 some of these modules have not been released yet, but should be available by 6.2, the first LTS.
Here is the congressional sworn testimony of Shawn Henry, the CEO of Crowdstrike, specifically saying that there is no concrete evidence of Russian hacking of the DNC.

https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/sh21.pdf

You can peruse the whole pdf or jump straight to the money quote on page 32.

As for federal indictment on North Korea, that means nothing on the merits or dubiousness of the North Koreans hacking Sony. In fact, there was a smoking gun to a disgruntled ex employee. On a side note Sony and Sony entities were publicly hacked over 18 times prior to this as “revenge” for the PS lawsuit against the hacker who exposed encryption keys of the Playstation.

https://www.wired.com/2014/12/evidence-of-north-korea-hack-i...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_hack#Doubts_abou...

https://www.wired.com/2014/12/evidence-of-north-korea-hack-i...
>I'm not sure anything can protect against a targeted attack from a nation-state.

hardware airgap can go a long way
So why aren't you complaining about Steam then? At least that's somewhat tangentially related to this article.
Personally, I'm happy to look at actual features. But there's no denying they are fashion statements. For Jobs, this went back a long way. Look at the way the initial Mac and the NeXT compared to the competitors of the day. I definitely got involved with the NeXT just because it looked so cool. And honestly I stayed doing NeXT development work long after a rational person would quit.

And I think that carried forward. Look at the iPod silhouette billboard ads, which were iconic. [1] Those are not about features. Those are about how fucking cool the iPod was. The iPhone was demonstrably a status symbol. [2] And this has obviously worked well for Apple. They sell under 20% of all phones, but make 2/3rds of all phone profits. Actual features are not the only thing in play here.

[1] https://www.pophistorydig.com/topics/tag/ipod-billboard-ads/

[2] e.g.: https://www.deccanchronicle.com/technology/mobiles-and-tabs/...
The idea that people with darker personalities will succeed may also be a perception bias.

According to this article we are talking about 20% of people with some degree of "dark traits".

Of course a group this large will intersect with the most successful portion of the population.

And, successful people with bad traits are likely to stand out in peoples perceptions.
Does reducing numerical precision affect real world datasets?
UN expert calls for Julian Assange's release, cites prison's Covid outbreak
A better way to build on AWS
Denmark, Norway to build world’s largest green hydrogen ferry
The isolation technique is an area I’ve been interested in and following. It’s not too well documented as that area is a work in progress and not really useable currently. Almost though!

First it’s good to note that ARC improves upon the standard reference counting as in Obj-C or Swift by using move and sink‘s which removes many redundant ref’s/decr’s. That is if Swift hasn’t added it. The compiler can infer when ownership is moved or not. Simple ideas but put together in a powerful fashion!

As I understand the isolation check, it is a compile time check that an object being moved to another thread is really isolated with no other external references. This can sometimes be done at compile time similar to acyclic structures though I don’t know the algorithm used. You can also use a runtime check which, appears related to cycle collection. Essentially you can count if the total internal references account for all the references in a given object graph — probably equivalent in cost to an ORC cycle check for that data sub-graph. Whether done at compile time or runtime the plan is to wrap the object in a special ‘Option’ like type ‘Isolated[T]’ that can be accepted by multithreaded constructs. So channels or concurrent queues, etc can declare that they only accept data that can safely be moved between threads using the standard move/sink annotations. This also lets users create their own.

It boils down to ‘Isolated[T]’ just being a data check, and you can move data between threads at your own risk. That’s what I’m doing currently since I’m doing multithreaded embedded programming and using some C Queue constructs. The move/sink and ARC handle the actual data movement. In theory you could use Isolated runtime checks during testing (if your data structures are too tricky for compile time checks), but disable it for release. Similar to cycle checking. There’s a setting to use ORC to print detected cycles, then in release you can turn off ORC.
Color me surprised if there ends up being an actual problem with demand for this vaccine.

As soon as vaccinated people start flaunting their freedom of movement, people will clamor to line up. The vaccine's scarcity will further magnify the desire to get vaccinated.

It's natural for the initial reaction to be skepticism. Nobody wants to be first, but as soon as the first cohorts get vaccinated and the media publish their nonplussed reactions, the lines will explode and we'll have the opposite problem: me-first.
I expect it will be very much the same as drivers we have today, where you have some game anti-cheat rootkit that has a bug in it.

In Fuschia's case it will be like that but the exploitation either gives you access to that driver's capabilities, or simply that driver is giving out handles with permissions insufficiently removed from them.

It will be cool to see a full system audit of capabilities, but I don't think that analysis exists yet.
This is such a bizarre take on Elon.

The man has no wealth outside the companies he has built. There’s no cash just sitting in an account that he’s withholding from the poor cowering masses.

He’s put every penny of his net worth into building companies which he believes will tremendously benefit humanity. From sustainable personal transportation, to clean energy, to space exploration, to human augmentation.

If you think other things would be good for humanity, I encourage you to devote every waking hour of your life to pushing technological progress in those areas which you feel would be beneficial.

If he never created SpaceX, Tesla, Boring, Neurolink, and just called it quits after PayPal he would have $180 million, let’s say he donates $160mm and funds the Red Cross for ~2 weeks. How is this better?

In the meantime he’s parlayed $180mm into over $150 billion of value by significantly advancing technological progress in several major areas of global human concern.
>There isn't an industry with a handful of corporations like Spotify making billions of dollars off your friends' pottery while millions of people spend hours gazing at it.

Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Etsy...? What are social media sites if not just the Spotify for your eyes? Every time you post anything about your pottery to try to drive a sale (or not), the platform gets more free content that directly influences literally billions of their own profits -- and all you get are people spending hours (if you're lucky) gazing at it.
Define kinky? For some kinky is wearing leather, for some rolling in jelly, for some fake forced sex, etc. It's really not one bag and not the same risk. (Kind of like when people say "in Europe")
Sounds super useful for VR/AR
An other problem is commoditization of music. With modern DAW software, a good autotune, youtube tutorials and some time you can make commercial-sounding music from the comfort of your home with a shoestring budget (especially if you pirate said software).

Even if the music industry dies, music itself is going nowhere. It sucks for people who really love making music and want to live from it but from a purely capitalistic perspective it just doesn't add up: there's a massive amount of offer and a fixed amount of demand. You can find dozens of incredibly gifted artists on Youtube, Twitch or elsewhere who'll never manage to live from their craft.

It's like becoming a pro footballer, it's amazing if you make it but it's not a reasonable long term career prospect if you're not incredibly gifted and incredibly lucky.
To be clearer: "it helps other companies, for free."