skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have there been any attempts/successes to issue injunctions against roots?
First screenshots look like they have a normal curve for rounded corners. Not that special apple curve thing. Is that protected in any way?
Simply allowing sideloading is the best solution because it disrupts users the least while maximizing their freedom. Web apps are not the answer because they will never cut it for every use case (even if that use case is just the installation of a non-Apple browser engine).
Check out blockchain domains [1] which implement an NFT standard for domain names. So far Opera and Brave have added built-in support for .crypto and there are extensions for other browsers.

[1] https://unstoppabledomains.com
> Advertising is theft.

Please keep your meme activism to yourself.

Advertising is the activity of attracting public attention to a product or business, as by paid announcements in the print, broadcast, or electronic media, per a dictionary definition.

Attracting public attention is not theft of attention.

You would be better served in your meme-war to refer to the dark patterns of advertising without vilifying the entire industry.
I don't think it's necessary to debate ETH as a public good but... Vitalik is by far the most impactful recipient of the fellowship grant so "just one of the recipients" is doing a lot of work here.
I'll just leave this here : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32777351/
of the 20 or so machines I've owned in the last 15 years I think only one of them has had a TPM, and that was an enterprise laptop

no gaming motherboard I've ever had has had a TPM

edit: seems like the intel PTT bios option counts, so maybe not a huge problem (though it's off by default everywhere)
Isn't it our jobs as the people who understand these things and are implementing the technologies to not take advantage of the fact that most people using them are ignorant to how this stuff works?

I wouldn't expect the people who built bridges to install technology that secretly tracked you every time you crossed over them.
This is true... but it's also why we, as the informed parties, must actively push change. The 99% of folks who don't understand are going to be taken advantage of, and actively harmed, by privacy issues they don't understand. It's why the default needs to be the right one for consumers.
Google prevents mobile app distribution competitors from competing with the Play Store on feature parity because user installable 3rd party mobile app stores cannot implement automatic upgrades, background installation of apps, or batch installs of apps like the Play Store can.

If the user tries to install an app on their own, they're shown scary warnings and must adjust arcane settings, but if they use Google's Play Store, no scary warnings are shown and no settings need to be adjusted. They're told they're "protected" by Play Protect, but aren't shown scary warnings about the fact that the Play Store is the main distribution method for malware on Android[1] when they go to install apps with it.

The Play Store isn't alone in being a vector for malware, as Apple's App Store is responsible for nearly half of a billion malware installs of just XcodeGhost alone[2]. This is why the mobile app distribution market needs healthy competition.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/play-store-identified-as-main-...

[2] https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7bbmz/the-fortnite-trial-is...
So now we know why the push to centralize DNS even more... ?
> "Microsoft is also integrating Microsoft Teams directly into Windows 11, for both consumers and commercial users."

Have they not learned from the legal backlash with IE back in the day?
Also, if you aren't trading public stocks, it seems much easier to get around size limitations. When you spend $5500 buying the SPY, the government is incredibly certain that is the amount of money your investment was valued at. If you buy $5500 of stock in a startup? Who is to say? The opportunity to buy that stock might have been worth 10x that amount the moment that transaction occured, and there's no real way for the government to actually determine that.
Bigger, yes. But the issue here is where to position the target area. The less you have to move your cursor to reach frequently accessed targets, the better (as someone who doesn't use mouse accel this extra distance is very noticeable).
Resorts World isn’t open. That didn’t stop people from leaving online reviews
I think the central fallacy is that you're assuming more money makes it easier to achieve higher returns. For the vast majority of finance, you get diminishing returns to scale. There are many investment strategies that have limited capacity, and as you get bigger you either have to dilute or take increasingly risky positions.

The phenomenon's pretty ubiquitous among hedge funds. Tons of funds produce stellar returns at $100 million AUM, then use that track record to grow to a $1 billion+ and all of a sudden put up mediocre results.
This article is heavy on quotes but very light on actual data.

Here's the thing: Data on serendipitous meetings is going to exist primarily in the form of anecdotes! Fundamentally.

And I really take issue with the racial angle that feels like it is basically part of every single NYT article these days. A lot of the issues reported here feel valid, but just zooming back out (maybe pun intended?) for a second, this reporter seems to be arguing that actual face-to-face interactions are so fraught with racism that minorities need to be "protected" by remote work

Historically, here's how it has worked throughout history: To break into a field as a member of an under-represented identity group in that field, you had to be "So good, they can't ignore you." In fact, there are many areas of human endeavor where "So good, they can't ignore you," is just the regular price of entry. It is, in fact, the standard price of entry for those entities known as "startups."

Is this, in an absolute sense, fair? No. There are always going to be proxies to actual merit used in evaluation. That's just the reality of how non-omniscient beings work. We can only strive to make things as fair and accurate as we can. That certainly does not mean seeing that the lever is thrown one way, then wrenching the lever the other way. The lever needs to be changed from being a dumb lever and hooked up to meaningful data.
Quite the contrary. Why would Intel want x86 on ARM? That would make migration even easier.
If that was the case, would we not expect NTFS on Linux to be better, or at least competitive with other Linux filesystems?
Can you clear a few hours on your agenda for me?

I'd like to learn how to use Rust to work around memory corruption resulting from irradiating the hell out of the RAM in my PC at home.

I'm talking enough radiation to flip more bits than ECC is capable of detecting & fixing.

I want to do all of my programming remotely… right next to the the Elephant's Foot.
Yep, agreed. I ended up switching to Firefox as a result of things like this, which was good in many ways but took a lot more configuration.
You're lying again.

> In July, the Los Angeles City Council voted to slash $150 million from the LAPD budget.

> Amid the wave of violent crime, Los Angeles voted to increase police funding.The Los Angeles County Metro voted to increase police funding by $36 million.

> The city was even forced to reinstate its gun violence task force after disbanding the Gun Violence Reduction Team (GVRT) only months earlier.

I'm genuinely curious. Do you think if you just scream something loudly and hysterically enough that it will become true? Or do you have some sort of higher goal that you feel can only be achieved by lying to people and that doing so is therefore justified? Or is it simply just malice?
I wonder if any legislation can make the root servers block things
>Claiming that the value of a share of PayPal was 1/10 of a cent was nonsense.

It was the valuation at the time and there is nothing illegal about that. You can invest your Roth in penny stocks or sub penny stocks today if you want.

The real question is if it was legal to purchase stocks in a company he also managed.
I agree. All the annoying animations and hyperbole in the article notwithstanding, it does not seem as malicious as the article tries to portray it. It is rather disappointing that there are barriers to some of these investments but I think without these barriers you would open the gates for all sorts of malicious actors taking advantage of unsophisticated investors.
Google has about as much power to replace Android as Microsoft has the power to replace Windows. The ecosystem is too big now to go back.
> people’s tendency to chime in when they disagree

Take away that and the tendency of people to want to show off how "verysmart" they are and you'd have to shut down HN.
As soon as a colleague of mine mentions something remotely interesting I try to plan a 25 min meeting for some coffeetalk. I love it I’m learning a lot. These meetings seem to offer more depth than the normal coffee meetings of the old days.
Google is not doing the right thing.

They're solidifying control over the web.
3U and 4U x86 whitebox servers designed for any standard 12"x13" motherboard, where the entire front panel was hotswap 3.5" HDD bays were already a thing many, many years before backblaze existed.

What wasn't really a thing was servers with hotswap HDD trays on both ends (like the supermicros) and things that were designed with vertical hard drives dropped down from a top-opening lid to achieve even higher density.
Another sensationalist headline about people doing things that are not illegal. This article feels especially egregious since it is based on stolen IRS data.
This would be evidence that the last 50 years of OS research is for naught.

If we can't run two apps at the same time, and have some confidence that the interaction between those apps is constrained, why in the world did so many computer scientists and engineers spend all this time on permissions schemes and information flow control?
I don't think it's a dislike of certain people or blaming them for doing these (legal) investment moves. It's about changing the rules to provide more financial equality in our society. I think it's now too easy for the rich to get richer and too hard for the poor to come up. I'm not suggesting banning rich people, and we can debate over matter of degree of equality that's good.

(edit: typo)
A second-hand Windows 10 Pro license costs like $25 (and used to be $5). That's a pretty small price for a substantially better experience.
All the money coming into the Roth IRA is post tax money, whether it was cash or IRA conversion. Once in the Roth IRA, you can sell for a profit and rebuy different stocks without paying tax on that profit. Outside the Roth IRA selling for a profit would be a taxable event. Trading stale stocks for fresh new winners without paying the tax inbetween is an incredible advantage to growing your wealth.
This would be so weird to see if I had a time machine 20 years ago.
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>No more Western and Eastern front. Germany still wouldn't have captured Moscow but they would have secured large swaths of eastern territory

I don't understand, in your made-up hypothetical, is there an Eastern Front or not? Or, are you mis-using "Eastern Front" to refer to the war with Japan perhaps?

As soon as Germany lost the Battle of Britain and then failed to immediately take Russia, their fate was sealed. The war was lost, period.

The next question was - would Russia overrun all of Europe (including Western Europe)? Without US involvement, that may have actually happened. Thankfully, it did not.
did he place the shares into IRA before any outside round though? because otherwise, he would have violated contribution limits?
What else has the Thiel Fellowship created other than Vitalik and ETH? I'm not sure we can judge the success of it on it's single most impactful result.
Counterfeit PyPI packages installed cryptominers
I have a badass gaming rig and I got the not compatible message. lol. Oh well.
Can you make a Microsoft account at the time of install?

I think I’m just going to make a junk account instead of linking it to any real account I use
Please don't post in the flamewar style or call names on HN. It makes discussions more predictable and nastier.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27617345.
There weren’t clouds, and i could make out a body as the light was attached to it.

Plus we tracked it far into the distance as it moved steadily at a consistent height.

If I had any doubt it could be a laser pointer I’d have noted it, but it definitely wasn’t.
Non pay walled: https://archive.is/L0yoj
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I've been hearing ETH will be POS for 3 years. When is this actually going to occur.
How is there a market rate if his startup was not publicly trading?

The nominal value of the shares in my startup are £0.01. Sure, that's not what we've sold shares for, but the price we have sold them for was purely what the buyer was willing to pay for them.
Shiro is a framework. This is a service that checks (static) permissions.
The "almost-EU" countries (Switzerland, Norway and Iceland) have a treaty with the EU covering cross-border civil disputes, called the Lugano Convention. That gives the Hamburg court jurisdiction in this matter.
It's just telemetry bro!
> CMA has explicitly stated concerns with any removal of third party cookies by default from Chrome, since they believe ad tech companies are dependent on them but Google isn't

This is because Google owns Chrome, and hence, doesn't need the cookies to collect web activity. The solution, as I said, is to force them to spin off Chrome.

> Oh, come on.

It's actively harmful to consumers. Chrome is like asbestos, we're better off just... not using it. There are safer alternatives out there.
Oh by property that to you meant real estate, I didnt catch that

Peter Theil did not have 100% voting shares of Paypal, and if he did that went away very soon after with the other co founders and investors diluting him fast enough for it to satisfy IRS regulations.

That would work now as well, but it is also possible that it worked better 22 years ago as the IRS may have lacked clarity back then.
>As far as I could tell, creating a user account just locally was not possible, you had to have an online account, hooked up with a valid email address.

It's usually an option that's hidden away. It's definitely there if you disconnect the computer from the network when you install the OS.

Also, if you want the old type display drivers instead of DCH you'd have to do that. Otherwise Windows will automatically download and install DCH drivers which are a pain to uninstall.

Edit: if you're wondering what the problem with DCH drivers can be, then the problem is that they can't come with an application. If you have Nvidia display drivers installed as DCH and want to use the Nvidia Control Panel then you have to get the Control Panel from the Microsoft Store separately.
That doesn't sound right, search around in the BIOS for "Platform Trust Technology" or "PTT". If it's disabled, change it to enabled.
Windows 7 is absolutely still supported through an ESU subscription through 2022. There are plenty of organizations who are using that program to continue to use Windows 7 in places where it makes financial sense.
> that's clearly not the intent of Roth IRA

Would you say the same if someone used a Roth to buy Bitcoin when it was trading at pennies or Gamestop before it blew up?

What's wrong with having the right to invest in your own company? That company pays corporate income taxes. You pay income tax as an employee.

Also, everyone seems to forget Peter Thiel was part of the middle class when he did this...
> * TPM 2.0 and UEFI are hardware requirements. No legacy BIOS compatibility at all?

Could they try to block Linux installs?

> * There is a universal mute button in the system tray so you can mute yourself system wide rather than in the app

You could always click the speaker and mute it system-wide
I wonder why companies like Sony only seem to be focusing on attacking small business.
I remember if you wanted pirate content, Google itself was the best search engine for that. You could (and likely still can) find almost anything and yet these companies don't seem to be taking Google to court. Wonder why?
There's a whole range of soliciting information that goes from "Beat the information out of them" to "Ask a person individually" to "Ask people as group" to "Allow information to be given" to "Discourage people from telling you things" to "Yell at people who talk to you without you asking them first".

Depending on your approach, you'll get differing amounts of information from different people. A more charitable reading of the post you replied to might be: You shouldn't be content getting information only from those who like to talk and volunteer information.
I can think of no reason for anyone to seriously believe such a thing would happen. Most of Windows's value comes from its backwards compatibility, and they'd have to rebuild most of the userspace on top of Linux which doesn't make much sense since they already have a good kernel that they own completely.
Just use starship.rs
Thanks! I presume you've seen Lobster? http://strlen.com/lobster/
The Ever Given is still stuck in the Suez Canal
Now you'll have UI elements from Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11 and Android all in a single operating system!

Can't wait for the Android Settings integration to Control Panel next...
> Despite Quinn’s persuasive argument—Ulysses was so dense and convoluted that no one could possibly understand it, much less be debauched by it, he argued—a three-judge panel, using the Hicklin test, concluded that the book had the potential to corrupt youth and was therefore obscene.

LOL. The kids are too dumb to be corrupted by this book!

The best part is that it is true. If you have enough constitution to be able to get through the prose you aren't going to be turned into a sex maniac by it.

I did appreciate the explanation of how the novel became so infamous so quickly, with lurid portions of the book apparently being excerpted in newsmagazines of the time. It always seemed strange to me that such a dense and nigh-unreadable novel would attract the ire of censors. How would they have even gotten to the objectionable material?
> that community on Facebook

That twitter account captures "the sources of the 10 top-performing link posts by U.S. Facebook pages every day, ranked by total interactions.", it's not just some part of Facebook. This is Facebook.
iirc it is possible, but I recall you needed to click unobvious buttons or just do it while offline and connect only after that
It's possible, but only if you don't connect to the internet. See https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-set-up-windows-10-with-a...
Although I'm a pretty huge skeptic of the performance of the thiel fellowship (knowing some fellows personally and also knowing some of the showrunners), I don't think calling it a rich kid's club is fair, with the exception of Austin Russel.
It renders fine on my end. Try checking if your browser is blocking cdnjs.cloudflare.com for some reason.
He was referring to FAANG as the Holy Grail of every software engineer, but you're right. It's a Holy Grail of shitfactories.
I've been a happily paying customer of Spotify for nearly a decade now.

This is the kind of shit that makes me reconsider returning to piracy.
POS?
Gross. Privacy invasion trifecta. Just invite facebook along for the ride too.
Exactly.

I consider social media to be largely harmful, but so is beer and soda. Life is too short to be angry about what others chose to do.
When will Season 3 of ‘All American’ premiere on Netflix?
Thanks for your response.

I certainly disagree with your conclusion. The main reason for the invention of bitcoin specifically was to avoid the risk of using banks and intermediaries.
That article specifically is popular with the Rust crowd, yes, but moreover, that roughly that number (70%-80%) has been replicated by a multiple big tech companies, not just Microsoft. Chrome was another large name.

(And yes you're right none of this has to do with this stuff, for sure.)
I mean, all startup founders should do this.
I was very confused by this comment until I realized that this is a different project from the Trillian messenger.
Introverts are supposed to be better at quieter, more deeply introspective one on one conversations. That's a different class of serendipitous face to face interactions, but one which may be just as valuable, or even more so.

Think Lex Friedman in a one-on-one vs. Joe Rogan with 2 guests at the same time.
> I’ve never heard of those and don’t know why I’d want them.

Google generates revenue from YouTube by artificially hindering the YouTube app by preventing it from playing videos in the background or with the screen off unless the user pays for a monthly subscription.

NewPipe removes that artificial barrier.

The Google search term "how do I play YouTube videos in the background" yields over 2 billion results[1]. There is an incredible amount of demand for this feature alone.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=how+do+i+play+youtube+in+the...
It actually has a lot of overlap with deep learning. Here's an NLP example.

Lets say you have millions of phrases and you want to find the ones that are the most similar to a given one that you've chosen. One way of doing this would be to create embedding for each phrase and looking at some metric like cosine similarity of the embeddings to determine closeness of the phrases. The problem is, you don't want to have to compare the embedding of your phrase to every other phrase in your collection. In this case, LSH can help you narrow it down.
Congress doesn't write laws - people like Peter Thiel do. You sound like these billionaires are innocent virgins. "Oppsies, I made all these billions because the incompetent congress let me do it". Uh huh.
I have linux (ubuntu) running on a couple of Dells (XPS and Latitude) and have not had any trouble. And I also have a Lenovo Thinkpad that it works fine on. The Lenovo and one of the Dells specifically claimed to support Ubuntu. As long as you check that, I think you should be able to get a successful setup.

(Granted, there may always be some advanced thing you're doing that isn't supported. But I had a windows machine - Thinkpad- for work a few years ago, and IT had disabled sleep when it was closed, so I'd carry it in my backpack and would find it red hot because it was still running full blast in there. When I asked IT, they said they had disabled sleep because it crashes the computers. All that to say, windows has its quirks too)
I don't think it would, anymore than poor people are already kicked off the internet by the cost of devices and an ISP.

Some of the best parts of the internet are already free despite the option to monetize them with ads (e.g. wikipedia), if ads weren't an option, I think you would see many more spaces like that popping up.

It's cheap enough to run a server that people frequently do so without expecting compensation. Not everything needs to be paid.
> Possibly most AMD motherboards don't have TPM integrated? I don't know a lot about TPM though.

Ryzen CPUs do have TPM onboard - at least my Ryzen 3800X does have it. It's disabled by default for some reason.

Funny enough, Apple laptops don't have it so Windows 11 won't be usable in BootCamp on Intel Macs.
I'm curious how he was able to get a Roth IRA in the first place. Apparently Roth IRA began in 1997 and there's a contribution limit if you make above a certain amount.Given that Thiel started "Thiel Capital Management" in 1996, I'm willing to bet he was above the earning limit.
IIRC when I signed up for it, you had to link any other accounts that your company owns and agree to some additional stuff (since they need to make sure people aren't using multiple accounts to get around the $1MM limit). The notice is very visible (plus emails).