skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks like a long-winded version of those boomer memes about how they used to return glass bottles to the shop and buy groceries on the high street, mocking the supposedly eco-aware younger generation who buy single-use plastics and drive to an out-of-town supermarket.

By the time GenX grew up, the boomers in charge had stopped selling drinks in refundable glass bottles and had shut down all the high street grocers etc.

It was GenX and Xennials who did this to the web and then started blaming younger folk for not having their own hand-coded Geocities page on a webring.
> The article skips over the sadder part of Kagi going abruptly out of business, setting app authors scrambling to find another payment provider with no advance warning, and, I think, ultimately paying them less than they were owed for the last 1-2 months of Kagi's existence.

> https://tidbits.com/2016/08/04/kagi-shuts-down-after-falling...

I wonder how the legal advice company is doing
I'm still surprised it was acquired for $19 billion.
This is the truth. Anyone can go and start a web blog right now, and still say whatever they want on it. Anyone can create a silly web game in any of a dozen competing free game engines (or a Minecraft mod, or whatever), and publish it in a dozen different places. There are small-but-thriving online communities for a gajillion different hobbies, kinks, ideologies, or areas. Facebook Groups hasn't killed them all yet.

But the average person doesn't do any of this, I think because we're all addicted to the fake internet points, and you don't get fake internet points for writing a blog post, or making something fun, unless you post it to social media. And it's so much easier to get those fake internet points by just commenting. (Hence me writing this right now instead of getting on with unclogging the 3D printer which is what I should be doing. I kicked my Facebook addition, only to find myself here).

We can't put the genie back in the bottle. Now we know that humans are susceptible to fake internet points, that's always going to be a business opportunity for someone. We could regulate it, but I'd hate to see what that regulation would look like.

But we can, individually, go and find the old open web. Because, as you say, it's still there.
Now he's 72, what happens if he grows too old to care for himself? How do they care for the elderly in rural Wales, when they don't have a family?
He says he has biscuits at the end of every meal - he doesn't say how many!
It's not so much that it's tied to esoteric whims but that it would destroy the economy if at some point were to become the primary currency, just like the gold standard did.
I don’t think Apple will grant them the entitlement now that they have made a public blog post complaining about it. They don’t like that at all.
Thanks for teaching me something new!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grazing_(behaviour)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browsing_(herbivory)
Reminds me of the person that has only eaten macaroni and cheese for 17+ years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1TWvXwgKr0
> it is, after all, a popular hobby of children who have nothing but time on their hands and access to the Internet. You certainly don’t need to buy hardware or have access to special training to get started.

yup, that's how I learned all of this!

> And, to be clear, I do think the current situation of closed systems is not great,

Agreed!

> and I do think that we do have a lot of engineers who grew up on open systems that they could tinker on going on to design things like iPhone for their children to use.

These days there are also more open system like, say, the Raspberry Pi. Back in my day (oh god, I'm growing old!) we had to first exploit video game consoles to get something comparable :-)

We made a slightly related argument when we didn't really feel like driving the WiiU homebrew scene almost 8 years ago (stop making me feel old!) [1]

[1] https://fail0verflow.com/blog/2013/espresso/
Some people are missing her point. Many young people in politics have been misled and are actively fighting against privacy, encryption, and freedom of expression.

I personally believe that things will get worse before they get better. The momentum is on the side of the young people. The western world is already moving closer to the Chinese model -- that's been in progress for years.

Eventually there will be a backlash. And I think open distributed protocols, such as content-centric networking, will play a part.

But unfortunately, I would not be very surprised if the younger generation had to learn the hard way about the importance of things like freedom of expression. And as the author says, they are in the driver seat, in some ways, and we will all be dragged along for the lesson again.

Ultimately, there is a cultural imbalance that will need to be adjusted. But the adjustment is not what young people think it is. There is no truth fairy that can wave a wand and make all the bad facts go away. And appointing truth fairies will be deadly.

The culture has a tendency to enthusiastically distort facts to support one extreme political perspective or another. The answer is not censorship. The answer is to change the culture so that tendency which is practiced by all sides is no longer tolerated.

It's a subtle and difficult thing that humans may never get right. But there is a difference between open, nuanced and honest debate and the hysterical polarized rhetoric that is typical, and a difference between nuance/integrity and censorship.

To me both the east and the west have taken extreme cultural stances that are missing that subtlety.
The grandparent post compared the farmer's experience to being lobotomized - if that's not denigration of someone's life, what is?
This man is independent. The powers that are, hiss in horror at his sighting, because they want him in a cubicle and in debt.
Indiehackers maybe... they got bought out by stripe.
> The tight control over what the software can do is a big part of what makes apple devices have such a good user experience.

Correlation does not equal causation. There is a way to provide streamlined default experience without the control. The Mac has so far been an example. Everything under the sun is possible, but apple only paves the path they would prefer you take.
I'm pretty sure the big difference is that Apple built on top of credit card infrastructure and Alipay (from what it sounds like) is its own payment system. I'm guessing that's a larger regulatory hurdle in the US and many companies wish they could.

The sluggish performance and fickleness is 100% on the terminal. You can see an analog in how physical credit cards work on different terminals. Some you must insert your credit card only at the designated time. Too early and the cashier needs to tap a few buttons to reset the process. You must not remove the card prematurely. Other terminals you can insert your card whenever and it scans it pretty quick--usually before they're done ringing up items. Similarly, some terminals prompt early for ApplePay, aren't specific about which part you wave your hand over, and are almost instantaneous in completing. Others are the exact opposite.
Not as convenient for sure, but for me a Fiio BTR5 + any good wired in-ear monitor (KZ make excellent ones for cheap) sounds better than any bluetooth-only earbuds.
Is bankruptcy gonna save Cali and the Valley?

They can finally reorganize and cut all the fat
Someone should run a diff checker between 2019 and 2020
By buying bitcoin all you do is give a financial reward to those who have bought bitcoin before you. Do you want to reward these people? If you don't, don't buy bitcoin.
Children as your legacy are no less consequential or meaningful than this man's stone walls. In the end you are grasping for empty meaning and purpose in the same way the farmer is, your children will perish, their children will perish, you will be forgotten and so will they like the rest of human existence. Our lives have no larger purpose or meaning beyond what ever we pretend gives meaning to your life, like children or stone walls.

We are mere Spatiotemporal blips of information in the infant universe with delusions of grandeur. So if you have to tell yourself deep in the night that you actualising your reproductive prerogative makes your sad little life more meaningful than the farmer, please grasp at those straws.
How does Abel’s level of fame 200 years later matter?
And earthquakes.
You equation is abstract.

I recognize it exactly as this: as some abstract equations - but nothing more. (am I supposed to recognize them?)

There is of course no real point in adding names later on. At least not without context.

I would start with a real world example.
And then - yes have the equations with long names.

And then after that - have the equation as abstract plain math - in the shape you posted it. But not starting with it.
Are you reading the same paper? They rail against the power of incumbents all the time, what they really advocate for is competition. Take these last few sentences in an article from last November on the impact of the pandemic:

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/11/26/will-big-firms-...

"Yet the rapid changes that have been forced on many industries are leading to innovation that will outlive the pandemic—and in some cases are leaving incumbents less mighty than before. Consumers and trustbusters alike must hope that these newly competitive parts of the economy remain hotly contested long after the pandemic abates."
European leaders urge U.S., Britain to match EU generosity on vaccine exports
Wonder if this goes the AKG way now. Samsung basically bought them out and just use their stickers on their own much inferior audio products. Most of the original AKG engineers are at Austrian Audio now.
Affectionatetris?
I’m sure there’s something that can be done with Gallium Nitride. The chargers coming from that method are many times smaller than the contemporary. Often you can get a 90w charger where a 40w charger used to fit.

https://www.howtogeek.com/509209/what-is-a-gan-charger-and-w...
fwiw, you can disable almost all of Apple's enhanced security features easily on macOS systems.

Their whole design is incredibly neat and well done! If you like these features (or just don't care) the default install does make attacker's lives harder.

But if you disagree with these features or just don't like them you can just boot into recovery mode, authenticate with your password and disable almost everything for macOS.

And if you just like the hardware you can do the same and install a custom kernel like Linux or *BSD and do whatever you want.

You can even have triple boot into one macOS with full security enabled, another macOS install with everything disable and a third "macOS" which actually is Linux.

They spend a lot of effort and engineering time to make all this possible.
It's so much more:

"The money itself is programmable. Beijing has tested expiration dates to encourage users to spend it quickly, for times when the economy needs a jump start."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-creates-its-own-digital-c...
Apparently the only options for diagnostic testing are brain biopsy and pulling CSF samples, both of which are probably a non-starter for screening purposes across a population.

Clinical Laboratory Tests Used To Aid in Diagnosis of Human Prion Disease
Allyson Connor, Han Wang, Brian S. Appleby, Daniel D. Rhoads
Journal of Clinical Microbiology Sep 2019, 57 (10) e00769-19; DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00769-19

https://jcm.asm.org/content/57/10/e00769-19
No I've just posted it around Facebook and reddit. Mostly Facebook. Once in a while someone will post it to /r/sports and credit me with it, but besides that I didn't know anyone was sharing it.
What an arrogant opinion. You're unduly proud of being a parent. There is no inherent value to it at all. You force beings into this world and believe this is a feat? Ridiculous.
A Parent’s Guide for All About Teen Mental Health Disorders
A friend of my parents was a professor, lecturer and author in biology. One day, he was fed up and became a Tram Driver.

I'll never forget how he explained the bliss of coming home, dropping your company-bag in the hallway only to pick it up next day before going to work. How he never had to read up on recent insights in the field of driving a tram on weekends. How he was finding joy in reading biology-books in the evenings, free of any pressure, again.

(If this sounds denigrating to a tram driver, it is not meant as such, at all)
At the end of the day, people still need money and charities need competent people to head their operations. Charities can get away with comparative low pay, and some folks are fine taking a pay cut to work there - but they cannot pay poverty wages and expect someone to stay there either - because at the end of the day, it is still a job and still work. This doesn't change because it is a charity.

That same logic - wrong motivation - can be applied to non-charities. Should doctors and nurses take low pay because they should be motivated to help people instead of focusing on salary? Are teachers wrong for leaving teaching because they aren't paid well, especially at first?
There once was an app called TextSecure, who pioneered E2EE on phones, that used to work both with SMS and its own network. When they realized maintaining both networks was hard, they ditch SMS and remained on their own network. Some unhappy devs wanted to keep SMS compatibility so they forked the app, focused on that, removed the custom network named their fork SMSSecure and, after some time, called it Silence. The original devs used the opportunity of a groundbreaking change to rename their app... Signal.
Coverage-guided test data selection with Python
Asian cultures just give money, well AFAIK.
Make her switch, please!
Are you not aware of the sentencing disparities between crack and cocain?

Also the war on drugs started under the Nixon admin was an intentional effort to target black people and anti-war activists.

https://www.businessinsider.com/nixon-adviser-ehrlichman-ant...
Reminds an idea from Tarkovsky's Stalker

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)

Despite the fact that the film is officially based on Strugatsky 1972 novel Roadside Picnic, the sphiere idea from resemblance 'the Room'.
It's forbidden by law to carry or pay with more than a very small amount of cash, that plus very high fees for depositing or taking out cash.
Those are the facts ... here comes the manual:

Das Runde muss ins Eckige.
> So, I just needed to write `expr->asAssignmentExpr()->getRHS()->getType().getSomeQualifiedTypeProperty()`.

with any decent IDE you'd type something like

expr.as<enter>.get<enter>.get<enter>.get<enter>

and you'd see the following:

https://streamable.com/xib4s0

so I fail to see how this can be an issue if you don't use prehistoric tooling
If you take something that took hours to build and (as is claimed) spend 1 minute modifying it, you absolutely have no right to claim it’s “by” you. I think everyone except you agrees on that.
Major disruption on UK rail network after 'cracks found on high-speed trains'
Mild Covid-19 infection is unlikely to cause lasting heart damage
Oh please. The headline is garbage - don't you see that?
If you can chunk the response json-seq/xml (sax parser) may be worth looking at.

The server can incrementally stream a chunk and client incrementally consume a chunk keeping flat memory usage.

I think gRpc also supports streaming but don’t know much on it.

JSON is a bad format for large files as generally you need to read the entire file in to memory before you can use it as you observed.
This argument would make sense only if being less popular meant being better at security than the popular apps...
Same. I'm a vegetarian and I'm in perfect health. But if someone is extremely lethargic all the time, it's usually either iron, B12 or calories (rarely the latter). Also, some people become vegetarian and simply do it wrong. I know a girl who is vegetarian for icky reasons, ie she is disgusted by the idea of eating something's spleen/veins/anus, and it just stops her from eating any meat. But she's similarly icky about vegetables. Hates all kinds of things. She's low on iron, is constantly sick and lethargic.
This man exemplifies the saying

A rich man is not he who has a lot, but he who needs little.
Tile’s trackers will work with Amazon’s Sidewalk network starting June 14th
They could start doing shapes and messages. Throw in some colors. Maybe provide a service where you can get them to show a message of your choice.
APPL is using Itch.io ‘offensive and sexualized’ games as a cudgel against Epic
It's not that investment is bad, but that asset bubbles are bad even for the health of the long term investment landscape.
It doesn't matter if the network effects (due to the downtime) make it unusable anyway. Who are you going to talk to if your contacts are using something else?
This is exactly the way of thinking lying at the base of unhappiness. Thinking you have to see everything to make a choice.

Spoiler alert: with that attitude you'll never make a choice and always search.
And baked beans.

Also there may be some wheat in those few biscuits.
I was born in 2001, I am a gen Z and I experienced web as she expressed. I think it would be more convinient if she said gen Z instead of millenials
The goal was to put roofs over people's heads
I suppose you pay it as taxes, or banks pay it as interest to the central bank. It does seem odd though.
Just use eclipse mosquitto: Free for all use cases and more performant.

https://mosquitto.org
It is not always possible, but as a senior software developer, I try to keep the feeling of 'finished' in my team. It is, by far, the most important piece in keeping a team happy, productive, cooperating and improving.

Definition of done, demo's, releaseparties, well-defined delivery requirements, chopping up tasks, user stories, etc. All help a lot here. But all require effort to maintain, establish and improve. Continously and significant effort.
It's got a lot of feng shui for simple computer architectures.

For one thing, you can have your code, static memory, and then heap at the beginning of the address space, and the stack at the end of the address space, and not have to worry about explicitly sizing the stack. On some architectures you could even just zero-initialize the stack pointer, and it will roll over to the end of memory on the first push.

You can also use the same machine code instructions that make array indexing efficient to access variables on the stack (load/store with literal offset,) without having to support signed offsets which would have effectively wasted a precious bit in a very common opcode.

When you overrun a buffer, it is more likely to cause your program to crash by corrupting the stack. This is bad in modern times for obvious security reasons, but pragmatically it would have been a useful "feature" in the early days of programming.

It pairs nicely with the semantics of a semaphore, where you decrement to acquire and increment to release.

The stack pointer conceptually points to valid memory, rather than pointing to invalid memory adjacent to valid memory. This likely has some favorable traits when it comes to how an architecture implements function calls. For example, RET could load the value at the stack pointer into the program counter, then increment the stack pointer. Loading from memory often takes multiple cycles compared to incrementing a register, and this starts the load a cycle earlier than otherwise for the same amount of combinatorial logic.
I feel like us (hyper connected city dwellers, constantly chasing personal growth or success or novelty) are the deluded ones.

Why do you say he seems deluded to you?
I was basically doing that in tech: working for food and a place to be. It was like living in a VM. After 2020 and 14 months of isolation, I'm retiring. Need to find a real place.
There is a lot more to emissions than just number of people. What about economic output?
IceCat is ridiculously out of date at this point. It is built out of the Firefox ESR base. The current ESR is 78.10.1, IceCat is on 60.7.0.
Not sure why you're downvoted because I think you ask a legitimate question.

To me, it's a combination of various things:

I've tried to outline the process I used so that other people can learn how to approach challenges like this. I learned how to develop software and how to reverse engineer by reading posts like this and watching talks from e.g. CCC or DEFCON. Hopefully I can give something back this way.

This might also be valuable to other people who want to virtualize macOS or iOS or those who do security research and run into these features while reading XNU code.

And then ofc I can finally flex in front of my friends with this because I was the first to pull of a new skate trick ;)
Can you illustrate how you would teach inner product using a real world example without using mathy names like x, y and z.
Hmm, in my experience helping others move has been a great was to care for others, and its usually also meant people were willing to help me move.

But if you prefer the independence of minimal living, that's also advantageous.
They also have a track record of being malicious https://twitter.com/c1truz_/status/1244737672930824193
It's because people confuse Google's tracking of people to serve them better ads in order to get more money from advertisers and their product, Google Analytics, aimed at advertisers to see statistics about people visiting their sites, and the effectiveness of the Google Ad Network.

Google Analytics, without the ad-related features enabled ( they aren't by default), is anonymous and only collects and stores generic data like http request, times, location, language, browser, OS, etc. Neither Google nor the Analytics user "track" or "spy" on the website user.

With the extra ad features enabled, it's more complicated because it allows creating user groups and retargering via DoubleClick cookies, so it's a lot less acceptable from a privacy standpoint, since Google identify the site user ( with a pseudonymous identifier) for retargeting with ads later on another site. The advertiser still knows very little about the site user, and Google are just the intermediary.

Google Analytics without the ad stuff is just a good, easy to use site analytics solution. It's easily blocked, but so are all the others in a similar vein. It bothers me a bit that I can't just block the ad part without the rest, because people who run websites need to know what happens with them (access.log is very cumbersome to parse, and lacks a lot of very useful information like screen size, time spent on page to know if it's just a misclick or a legitimate visit, etc.)

https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/g...
> If I could go anywhere, it would be to the Great Wall of China. The amount of work that went into building it is unbelievable. I’ve been a stonemason; I understand the ingenuity involved.

There are some rich people here on HN. Can somebody pay him a week there?

I know I'd do it if I had 7 digits on my bank account.
All I’m seeing in your healthy economy is disparity.
All the highly important software people (myself included) would do good to remember that farmers are literally keeping us alive while basically working 7 days a week - and in many cases barely getting by.
I guess you don't live on a flight path?
Reckon there’s a good chance this turns up in then Epic VS Apple case!
> It just means no more "tech" companies selling users out as ad targets.

which just means that those tech companies will probably ( to keep up the same type of revenues, i doubt indiscriminate ads could be as profitable) have to make their products paid, which will automatically exclude the vast majority of the planet's inhabitants.
Tor, the onion router, perfect combination of spicy and sweet, as long as the TCP/IP packets are raw.