skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ohh, so that's why entering the passcode on my ipad feels so wonky.

I guess this is some kind of legacy thing because the first iphone wouldn't have been able to handle it? Because this seems like an exceptionally bad decision, unless absolutely necessary for some reason.
>Yes; if you're going to do this, then using AGPL is so much better than flavor-of-the-week license.

I'm not sure I agree. Yes, standardization is a good thing and AGPL is the "known evil", but having read it I do think that it is a very very complex piece of text - personally I'd go so far as to say that it is close to incomprehensible and would prefer pretty much anything else.

But even aside from that the sheer number of companies that point blank ban AGPL licensed software from being used in their stack could be used as an indicator as well. Though this may be due to the common misunderstanding that it is a viral license, which just goes back to my prior point on it not being clearly worded.

I won't even mention alternatives, I'm sure they all have issues, it is a complex topic, but if it were up to me the AGPL would not be my first license choice.
They're both development and urbanization.

No, turning a wilderness into viable farmland is not urbanization. There's putting in the time and work to make what you want from scratch, and then there's seeing something nice that someone else made and screaming "mine!"

compare migrating within the US to migrating outside of it, making the xenophobia even more clear.

Putting a false label on something doesn't make the thing become what you label it. The US is not meant to be an open season playground for the rich and the careless.

You don't seem to consider "them" as having any right to even exist.

This sentence seems to perfectly describe the perspective of those who see a small town and want to appropriate it and make it theirs. As someone who has lived in everything from a hometown of a few thousand up to San Francisco, and a variety of suburbs and mid-tier cities in between, it's pretty tiring to see people treating the world like their own giant Disneyland, and all the people who live in it like Castmembers on display for their amusement.

Striving to minimize disruption and maximize cohesion when moving into a new town or building a new development would make for a much better world than the conquistador-style takeover that actually happens in a lot of places.
I understand your viewpoint, I'm just saying that's not how VCs take valuations. It's a 4 bn business, its chance of survival taken into account - which at this point, a16z thinks is pretty high, not <50%. This confidence is probably what rose it from its previous 1 bn valuation.
It's FUD from Citadel trying to stir up mistrust in retail traders.
> Some companies go out of their way to try to be better than that because they recognize the influence they have on public access to platforms.

If they have that amount of public influence they should be broken up, or heavily regulated as public utilities, so that they uphold freedom of speech online in the new digital public town square.
IMO it looks pretty iconic. An all-screen look would've been very very cool, but I don't think this looks bad.

Also, I'd imagine with this design the motherboard, cooling and speakers don't overlap the screen. I wouldn't be surprised if it's just much cheaper to manufacture them this way, or if since this is supposed to have a beefier sound system and an M1 configured to run hotter, there were other considerations with having screen and logic overlap that would've added thickness beyond just that of the stacked components.

At the end of the day Apple is one to choose thinness over all other things, and to leave room for future upgrades haha.
The iPad is great for musicians. I use mine for sheet music and also for noodling on the guitar but here’s what I don’t like about it:

- you need a dongle to plug the interface and the charger together (maybe other interfaces can supply power but mine cannot)

- my interface also behaves as an usb audio device (I suspect all of them do) but iOS does not let you choose audio out through internal speakers or airplay if the usb audio device is present

- some apps don’t support multiple inputs and default to the first input (which on my interface is mic in), GarageBand does not have this problem

Of course this is not a problem for things like digital pianos that just explore midi over Bluetooth.
The Cambridge Analytica scandal was three years ago and this article is about PR moves Facebook is doing now.

And sure, I don't give every gruesome detail in the rise but I'd still claim that the overall situation is that Facebook is large enough and it's model porous enough that a variety of actors have scraped it, are scraping it and will scrape it. And given this, Facebook has to start owning up to an inevitable situation. Keep in mind, The Cambridge Analytica scandal was predicated on Facebook's claimed data model (which I'd claim isn't just false but also "can't be true"). Sure, the easiest way to scrape it is having API access, which it's hard not to give to your advertisers. But if Facebook gave no one API access, various actors would be directly scraping.

And overall, I'd say The Cambridge Analytica scandal was the thing that wasn't a good framing of the broad problems of Facebook and privacy.

Edit: "But in the face of the news about recent leaks, and the Cambridge Analytica scandal in particular, they have had to switch to a more active PR strategy to quell the concerns people have about their product(s)."

And I'd say, this is again actually the wrong frame. Facebook is at the center of the storm, no doubt. But there is no large social network possible that wouldn't be subject to the general privacy problems of Facebook. Facebook created the fantasy definition of privacy, Facebook violated that definition but no one could satisfy it.
Not really sure how you can agree that the resale value is excellent and in the same breath complain about features of the device being somehow egregious.

Every single device ever made has to make tradeoffs. No device can be everything to everyone. Apple has (correctly) identified that RAM is really not the end-all-be-all that people obsessed with specs seem to think it is. If you spend more time working on other aspects of the device you can get away with less RAM and still have a device that people resell years later for good money.
What's that? Some alternative to AbortSignal to gently prevent async code from continuing all the way to its logical conclusion?

Also please be sensitive and don't use "kill" in new code. ;) We already have to deal with "abort".
USPS wasted huge money and the Union demands even bigger pensions, while USPS is losing market to commercial carriers at the same time in the open market.. no one is clean in that fight
> a company is free to exercise its speech

It wasn't always like that. We used to have rules like common carrier restricting the phone company, the fairness doctrine restricting television networks, and campaign finance rules restricting other media.

We truly live in the golden age of corporate power.
The main advantage to Disqus (and other hosted solutions) is that their spam protection applies across all comment sections. You'll never get that with an open source solution.
I think there is more nuance to this. The problem is that YouTube literally claim "Our mission is to give everyone a voice and show them the world." not the selectively suppress the views of certain groups. So I think it's closer to false advertising.
yeah I honestly like Discord way more than Slack.
> Software does have lower commercial expectations in the areas of reliability and quality

Even though I take care, I still end up with non-software things that:

* quickly break

* have bizarre unintuitive quirks of usability

* visual form has been given preference over function

* Low quality even though not cheap

* require hacks to fix them (glue, labels, training, tape, modifications), and often cannot be fixed.

I would love to see some metric of reliability and quality be applied to our everyday things and compare it to our everyday software.
If you’re already doing codegen, you might take a look at Zapatos[1]. It generates types from your database schema, and provides type safe query builders (raw SQL via tagged literal, some simple ORM-like functions for basics).

1: https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/
"Your AirTag sends out a secure Bluetooth signal that can be detected by nearby devices in the Find My network. These devices send the location of your AirTag to iCloud — then you can go to the Find My app and see it on a map. The whole process is anonymous and encrypted to protect your privacy. And itʼs efficient, so thereʼs no need to worry about battery life or data usage."

"Only you can see where your AirTag is. Your location data and history are never stored on the AirTag itself. Devices that relay the location of your AirTag also stay anonymous, and that location data is encrypted every step of the way. So not even Apple knows the location of your AirTag or the identity of the device that helps find it."

So no, Apple actively doesn't want to know anything. I'd wager a guess that the airtag query system is using the same kind of method as the COVID tracker API.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been granted the title of marshal, state media reported Wednesday, cementing his status as the authoritarian nation's top military official as he makes key changes to the million-man force.

The decision to award Kim, who already serves as supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, was made Tuesday by the nation's top military, government and political officials, state media said in a special bulletin.

The formal move to bestow the title of marshal to Kim comes seven months into his rule and follows several days of reshuffling at the highest levels of the military.
Similiar issue with the browser client. I observed it eating away 40% cpu doing...nothing? I can't do anything else with my laptop If I want to be heard or understood by others
30 minutes seems totally infeasible. People hang out for 30 minutes all the time.
Maybe half the time it works right, and it seems to depend on app as well.

The voice commands were nice "forward 60 seconds" but for some reason it seemed to have a bug where "forward two minutes" almost NEVER worked right on YoutubeTV. You could say almost any other time interval, but not 2 minutes.
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The problem I have with AGPL is that you need to think about it, even if you just run the software and are not distributing it. Or rather AGPL forces you to distribute the software you run. This is in stark contrast to all other mainstream licenses where in general you don't need to think about the license at all if you are not distributing the software, which makes very worry free experience.
Yeah, youtube was my preferred way to consume JRE. I'm not one to put on a podcast in the background, because I don't like having something I find interesting going on while I'm trying to do other stuff that requires thought, and if it's not interesting why would I put it on?

Having the interesting moments distilled into two to three 10-15 minute clips was ideal, and if I found the conversation really interesting I might try to watch the whole show for that day.

... I was under the impression they had stopped doing that, but I just checked and there are a lot of clips showing on PowerfulJRE, so maybe they just screwed up their recommendation rating? I just know that when they went to spotify I stopped getting them recommended to me, but there's been a few the last couple weeks now.
I think the idea is: for most of these, extra horsepower isn't much of a selling point (video editing being the big exception). Not that it's bad - it means your device will stay capable for longer, if nothing else - it's just a weird thing to focus on in marketing materials
Yes, absolutely. In photography circles the iPad Pro is regarded as an amazing device that offers performance and color quality that you won't be able to achieve even with expensive desktop monitors. Also, for the professional photographer, whose average rig is probably worth at least 20 to 50k depending on what they do, a 2000$ tablet with these characteristics is a steal.
Ooh, this is a neat podcast niche that I'll probably enjoy! If you're taking suggestion of public postmortems to talk about I recommend Github's 2018 outage [1,2] caused by a network partition.

[1] https://github.blog/2018-10-21-october21-incident-report/

[2] https://github.blog/2018-10-30-oct21-post-incident-analysis/
It's interesting to compare this (creating bio oil and injecting into the ground) to using ethanol in gas, which many people seemed to have concluded was/is a wasteful endeavor.

It'd be funny if at some point they concluded, 'storing this is much less efficient than burning it as fuel. Let's just burn it instead of petroleum based oils!'
I prefer just taking an HDMI adapter for my phone, as it’s more compact.
Considering that last year the WHO said that healthy people don't need to wear masks, that seems ike a pretty stupid policy for YouTube to keep.
Agreed!

Apple products last longer than the competition. You can verify this in any manner you please: there is a robust aftermarket in everything Apple, and in at least phones, laptops, and tablets, the Apple offering will last longer in the wild than comparable products from other companies.

Perhaps the most virtuous thing is to reduce tablets by not having one. But let's say you want one, an iPad will be used by someone or other for ten years, an Android tablet... won't be.
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> the fairness doctrine restricting television networks

We seriously need that one back
Another similar project:
https://remark42.com/
https://github.com/umputun/remark42
A shot in the dark here, but I assume you own land? ;)
It would probably have to be a separate application with the same features and internals to really work.
I'd be curious to see how Musk or Jobs executed on that idea.
Not going to lie, of all the things to farm out to a 3rd party, auth/users always struck me as the dumbest.
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Who watches the 2nd set of watchers?
I'm excited for technologies like this to become available for regular individuals. I'm not sure what the current figure is, but in 2008 the average American was responsible for 20 tons of co2 every year[1]. At $600/ton[2], that's roughly a $12,000/yr unpaid externality on the American lifestyle.

It's likely that even with incredibly aggressive elimination of co2 waste, several economic sectors will continue to produce significant amounts of co2, and we'll need sequestration to make up the difference.

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080428120658.h...

[2] https://stripe.com/blog/first-negative-emissions-purchases
What sleeve did you buy?
> Look how big the escape key is on that keyboard, finally, revenge for the touch bar!

Worth noting, there’s also an option for a keyboard with a numpad and proper inverted-T arrow keys. I don’t see it pictured, but it’s an option.
It's mostly total lack of voice normalization killing it.
I kind of wished the tetris game messed with you. Like have some crazy shape or have the score go all over the place. Somehow I think that would get more people that the xp theme itself.
Seems like you've stumbled upon some accidentally quadratic performance!
>So you're saying the world got better because of it?

Unfortunately not - the hole size on the nets is much smaller than a normal fishing net, so it doesn't let juveniles escape, reducing the future fish population.

A lot of the nets are also treated with insecticide, which means you're essentially dumping insecticide into the water, which can be dangerous to humans and toxic to fish.
If I may toot my own horn: The thing that grinds my gears the most about software project websites is when they don't clearly say what the thing does, and who this is for. That's why the website for my configuration management tool (https://holocm.org) has two sections, "This is for you if..." and even more importantly "This is NOT for you if..."
Yes, but we also have to price things for overall societal benefit.

If a software engineer can shave off 1 hour a year for 2 million of the 28 million nurses in the United States, that is allowing us to redeploy 228 years worth of nurse labor. We want to incentivize easy scaling solutions like that, so I do not necessarily have an issue with paying the software developer a premium if it allows us to help more people.

I don't think that this is arguing against nurses being paid well for the huge beneficial impact and selflessness they do have, but I don't think the analysis needs to be necessarily comparative with software engineers.
> What's a reasonable alternative

Housing that costs half as much as it does today, and doesn't grow faster than consumer price inflation?
It's probably best to look at the trends of other platforms/languages, alongside of Node.js. Many languages showed a similar, slight decline, which might indicate something else is going on: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
That document is based on lies. AGPLv3 does not force you to make code running on a different server open-source.
Not quite as good as Windows RG ;)
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I just don't get why someone would use Pulumi
I think discord biz edition was obvious for a long time, and they've steadfastly refused to do it for that amount of time too.
Absolutely. I'd kill to be able to use Discord for work. It's just silly how much better it is than Teams, Zoom, WebEx, etc.
Their stuff lasts though. iPhones don't get slower over time like Android phones inevitably do, and they get software updates for 5 years.
Can someone who has used both Pulumi and AWS CDK describe the differences between the two?

I am using Terraform 100% now, but sometimes wish I had more than the HCL (hashicorp configuration language) syntax available to use in my code.
Being decentralized is orthogonal with moderation. You can for example allow people to post to some rooms that represent the blog posts threads, and keep yourself as admin and moderator there.

See https://cactus.chat, which is on the Matrix network.
No need for respect, we just use the software and find them as we work.
Or someone with knowledge could port scan you and actually attack you to gain a foothold in your network.
Ecasound: http://nosignal.fi/ecasound/

Mixer4 (closed source, though): http://www.acousticrefuge.com/mixer4.htm

Edbrowse: http://edbrowse.org/

K2pdfopt: https://willus.com/k2pdfopt/
The last statement was countering your train of logic, it wasn’t support for the idea on it’s own.

I am not introducing the idea that risk is harm, I am acknowledging that society has agreed that risk is harm most clearly in the case of Endangerment laws. Therefore that must extend to all levels of risk not simply the most extreme cases. Therefore someone deciding to put others at risk must as generally agreed by society be seen as willingly doing harm to others.

As to “accidents” the outcome may have been undesirable by the person at fault by speeding, failing to maintain proper distance, failing to maintain your car, driving in unsafe conditions, driving when you’re incapable of maintaining control etc are hardly accidental. Their the result of deliberate risk taking with others lives. When you anti up the health and safety of pedestrians you can’t then say their death was anything but your fault.

That said, sure their might be a few hundred actual accidental deaths in the US from manufacturing defects, or undiagnosed medical conditions. But, calling a drunk driver hitting someone by going down the highway in the wrong direction an accident is a completely meaningless, at that point just call it a bad thing and move on.
considering the recent timing of the IPO it's safe to assume substantial monetary losses or gains depending on public perception of solvency.
I'd argue the opposite - it's harder to get away with impersonation.

In the AIM situation, users go in "knowing" that usernames are unique, so if you see a message from user abc123, you "know" it's that person. Which means user abcl23 ("el" instead of "one") can impersonate the real user.

In Discord situations, (1) the user is more likely to know that usernames can be reused, since they weren't required to make a unique one to start - so they can be more cautious of impersonation attempts, and more importantly (2) the Discord devs know names can be reused/abused, and can build better mitigations if they so choose to (like e.g. putting a disclaimer at the top of any message from a user you've never contacted before, etc.)
Ok thanks. I'm confused why audio software having "software volume control" would be a bad thing. Yeah, I notice on my Mac the VLC volume (the "mouse wheel on video" volume) goes up to 200%! Never gave that much of a thought, except maybe everyone likes going to 11.

I assumed from the "not bit-perfect audio" that VLC somehow misses bits or something, as in, doesn't play all the music information, but from your comment it just sounds something to do with volume. I also don't understand a word of your second paragraph, but I won't worry about that—they sound like dark, arcane realms of knowledge safer to avoid.
the comment below you mentions separating nurses from the rest of health workers.

though that would also mean that the other positions have extremely low rates... something's not adding up.
Adhesive responds better to thermal expansion/contraction cycles than screws. Using foam to compress the battery to hold it in place can prevent safe thermal expansion and isn't necessarily going to hold everything in place with vibration or percussion.
FWIW the AppleTV "ads" I don't even process as ads, but my @#$@$# Fire Stick 4k pops up ads in the screensaver, and when I press "play" to resume my content, it starts playing some crap related to the ad. It's AWFUL.
"logic and reason" sounds very cultish, like another way of writing The Truth.
Wow this is a good advice!
It depends on your needs. What if you provide a SSO solution in your product, your customer is using Okta (or any other IdP) and that IdP goes down? There's nothing really you can do then unless you have other means of authentication.