skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Larry and Sergey won't respect you in the morning." was a slogan here 10 years ago. Quite appropriate for a startup forum.

It isn't new. There was a time when anything anti-Google or anti-Apple was downvoted to oblivion around 5 years ago, but that absolutely wasn't the historical norm (thankfully).

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Russia slaps Apple with warning over abusing dominant market position
> And, I will be the first in this direct line of descent NOT to have a son.

Why focus on just the male side?
> A little surprised by this

It seems to me that not birthing children when one is not financially safe makes sense; having children is, in some ways, a luxury now that a two-incomes household is the norm.
Why is my JVM's max heap size less than -Xmx?
I've bounced back and forth among remote and co-located positions of varying levels of effectiveness. I haven't seen much trouble with remote workers slacking off. But I have seen a lot of tension with mixed teams, typically around this problem of remote people getting frustrated about management not having their shit together. The overarching theme that I've seen is that it's really easy to confuse "enjoyable" and "effective." And co-located offices give you all sorts of opportunities to mix those up, because oftentimes the most enjoyable ways for a co-located team to work aren't really the most effective. But nobody cares, because they're enjoying it.

By contrast, one of the (un?)happy accidents of remote life is that it tends to cause ineffective organization and communication styles to also be unenjoyable.
Thank you. Sometimes working out that correct search term is the hardest part of the process!
It's pretty clearly "Total customer control" not management.

Apple has pulled off a really nifty trick of convincing (cough abusively forcing... cough) companies to concede full control of the customer/business relationship to Apple.

From my point of view, you're not really selling anything on the Apple App store - you're giving Apple the right to resell your digital products.

In exchange they keep all analytics data. They keep full control of customer contact and communication. They dictate the terms of the sale, including place and payment method. They control everything.

Your customer is Apple, and they are just as abusive to their "vendors" (app developers) as Walmart is.

Calling it a "Marketplace" is a sham - The core definition of a "Marketplace" is
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arena of competitive or commercial dealings
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And the Apple store is no more a "marketplace" than Walmart.
> Glitches

Very curious. Mr. Wolfram and his "rule 30" would probably like a word. Or perhaps it's just integer overflow artifacts. Regardless it's fascinating to see chaotic behavior emerge from something that simple.
Rancher Desktop is an open source container management and Kubernetes desktop app.

https://rancherdesktop.io/

Disclosure: I work on Rancher Desktop. Feedback welcome.
I've had the opposite experience with windows lately -- start menu type to search randomly stops working and I have to restart, windows will do this weird thing where you have to rapidly click their dock icon to get them to show up or they minimize. The pre-windows-11 updates have been nothing but bugs for me.

On my Ubuntu Budgie desktop I have none of these problems. Sure I have to deal with the occasional linux challenge but nothing "buggy" stuff either works or it doesn't.
I think people are blowing the "unsupported" word out of proportion.

MS have already said you can install Windows 11 on whatever you want with the media creation tool.

Being unsupported just gives them an out to not deliver drivers or do QC for obscure or really old hardware configurations.

Since Threadripper is a new enough platform I wouldn't expect that to happen for quite some time.

The people being really stung by this are larger organizations like schools and hospitals who _need_ that support. This seems like it's throwing a bone to HP, Dell and co.
Because he is talking about the male lineage.
Not really. The vast majority of the 68k series -- and in particular, all of the higher-performance parts -- have been out of production for many years. Some 68000 variants are still available, but are "not recommended for new designs" and are likely to be discontinued once supplies run out.
Sounds good! I'd like to check it out but I don't know if I can make immediate use of it!
Can’t say that limiting developers to VSCode is necessarily a step forward.
In a properly functioning society the government tends to look out for the best interests of its citizens. People are local optimization machines and they tend to make bad long term decisions. In order to prevent exploitation of labor it is necessary for government to intervene from time to time. It's why we don't let mining companies say to the prospective employees: "This is dangerous and we aren't liable." Instead we require mining companies to take prudent steps to ensure the safety of workers. People desperate for a paycheck often times will do things they ordinarily wouldn't.
Yes, Windows 11 Home will require an internet connection and Microsoft account on first startup.
Which isn't without issues of its own of course, for example the EU is notoriously backwards on the issue of genetically modified crops which may turn out to be a vital lifeline if climate change causes agricultural collapse. Another example I can think of off the top of my head is the atrociously bad legislation to what was then the new technology of vaping, it came in pre-Brexit just when I was considering quitting smoking (which I eventually managed and never could have done without a vape) and it was so poorly thought out I'm convinced the tobacco industry had a hand in drafting it!

The precautionary principle has its merits, but I think it's often cargo-culted and its limitations not well articulated. In cases such as GM crops where the stakes may within a human lifetime be "devestating famine" versus "less famine", or cases like vaping where although the harm is unknown it's certainly less than what it's replacing (vaping is uncontroversially less harmful than smoking) the precautionary principle actually has a harmful effect in itself.
yes and an example already exists here

https://modelviewer.dev/
Dismissing Apple's <model> HTML element proposal because WebGL/WebGPU on <canvas> already "solve" the problem feels short-sighted...

Under that logic, shouldn't we replace <img> and <video> elements with WASM modules for ffmpeg/libjpeg/libpng rendering into a <canvas> too?

Or hey, maybe we could drop HTML altogether and just render all content from WebAssembly straight into the <body>?
Even where I live with a south facing roof and ample sunshine the pay off for a full system is something like 11 years - and after that I save $50/mo or some paltry amount. If it was reasonable I would get a small number of panels just to offsite the ToD pricing we have here (when the A/C needs to run the most) - but it seems that small installations are not cost effective in the end.
The same principles that apply to remote work apply here.

Why would I want to drive 10-15 minutes, park, change and all that for a 30 or 60 minute spin class when I can take that same class in my garage or living room.
The problem is the idea that you can't be above the fray. It's clearly false as a literal claim - I've never met anyone who struggles to avoid discussing communism with their coworkers from China or Modi with their coworkers from India. In practice, whenever I've seen people say that it's impossible to be above the fray, what they mean is that suchandsuch issues are very important so they think everyone ought to be dragged into the fray.
Yes ! I use it like for the last 10 years, with steam and their proton compatibility layer the games that I play works great.
From what I've seen there's a surplus of applications and shortage of talent today.
I do all my work under WSL, and run Docker engine in WSL and it works perfectly. 100% headless.

I may have had to expose the Docker socket for VS Code containers support to work, but that wasn't any pain, and secured with TLS.

Never needed Docker Desktop, which seemed like a bloated mess.
Well,
A) not everything has to “effect” you, you’re not the center of Earth.

B) switch your region to South Korea and bam - multiple AppStores while in the US
As someone who immigrated from France to the US, it’s pretty obvious why people in the US are obese: people don’t know / don’t have the time to know how to eat properly and eat junk food, all the time, at any hour, and don’t move around. It’s pretty obvious when you realize that there is a lot less overweight people in upper middle class areas.
Are you comparing this to some time in the past when people paid for houses outright? When was that time?

As far as I know housing has "always" been based on monthly earning power and not on accumulated savings.
He's talking about tracing your male lineage. So if you just follow the male side of your family tree -- your father, his father, his father, his father, etc. Everyone one of these men by definition had a son.
"Because you have no family to rely on and your savings are insufficient to care for yourself we (the state) have to care for you. Therefore, we will tax you and people like you more in order to further reduce your savings and make you even more dependent on the state in your dotage."

That doesn't seem like a terribly effective "solution" unless the goal is to maintain the status quo, especially given the vicious cycle it introduces.
What I get is Tesla selling a pipe-dream "next year" that may take a decade or two to solve. FSD is a novelty at best right now (cruise control is handy), and a con at worst.
There's a little bit of a fundamental problem here.

We're talking about paying a cent to avoid an ad. On a blockchain, work needs to be done to register that transaction. If the fee is a fraction of a penny, who is going to want to do the work? I get that you'll make it up at scale, but each transaction must be cryptographically secure (and therefore take up some type of resource), so there's a problem.
> The report refers to childless adults as those who have no biological children

> Childfree is the term used generally for those who have chosen not to have kids while Childless is for those who would love them but can’t have them. [0]

This survey didn't ask if people chose to not have children. It merely asked if they didn't have biological children. The term "childfree" isn't accurate in this usage.

[0] https://womensagenda.com.au/life/why-terms-like-childless-vs...
Nobody reads the actual papers it seems. As you point out, for those who don’t read appendices: 3 separate labs ran the pcr tests. And as the paper’s authors rightly point out, they can’t conclude for certain that there were no false positives.
Sure, this sucks. I guess the counterargument is that then, given that the new API in Chrome is an improvement over the standard, waiting for this API to be actually accepted and written into the spec is a long, arduous process during which Chrome is unable to implement an objective improvement to their user experience.

My concern is basically that if we force browsers to be spec-compliant and wait for the due process concerning new features, we pump the brakes on everything, and we risk stalling genuinely beneficial updates.
The point of these things is that there are strict rules on what counts and what doesn’t do it’s a measurement that has some common degree of understanding. It’s far from perfect, but absent these things companies have a habit of making up BS metrics to make the company look healthy (remember “Community Adjusted EBITDA”) when the standard metrics would call the company’s financial health into question.

These metrics companies like to put out there, not surprisingly, tend to be something along the lines of “look at all the profit we’re making if you for a moment ignore all the reasons why our business model is not profitable.”
I have the Apollo Vampire V2, yay! :)
Great suggestions! One caveat: -fsanitize=pointer-compare and -fsanitize=pointer-subtract have some sharp edges and (last I knew) are not considered production ready by the sanitizers team. For example: https://github.com/google/sanitizers/issues/1324
It only requires an internet connection to setup. You can login with an Microsoft/'Online' account even when offline.
I remember this incident from my 8th grade, this one kid was held back a year, because he failed.

He was a typical bully - harassed the kids and teachers, constantly got into trouble.

I was a small, skinny kid, the class joker, academically good and in most ways happy go lucky.

So, we are giving our tests, and this guy would sit behind me, and would constantly bug me to show the answers. I think, I complied a few times.

But one day, I just had it, told him that I would not help.
He said, there would be consequences.
He caught up with me in the hallway after the test, starts pushing me, there are a bunch of kids.

I've always had anger issues, and when pushed too far, I just blow up.I don't remember what happened, but all I know is at some point I was grappling with him, and next his head went straight into the concrete wall.
He just collapsed in a heap.

That was the last day he messed with me.
Is Win7 still secure?
I mean, they learned from 8-10 that they can perform development and updates while some people lose all of their data.
Studies have also shown that people who have had the vaccine and covid have half the reinfection rate as those who have had covid alone. Granted this is reducing an already modest risk but there is virtually no risk to the pfizer vaccine so on balance it makes sense to vaccinate. Especially since reinfection means more spread including to millions of antivaxxers.

Conversely everyone who had a sniffle in 2020 or even 2019 thinks they already had covid. The message don't get vaccinated if you've been infected would ultimately if implemented lead to millions of people being exposed because they thought they had covid infecting millions of others who are unvaccinated.

So do we want to use our ample supply of vaccine to make everyone including formerly infected slightly more safe or do we want to infect millions of additional idiots. The choice is clear.

Even in the fictional world where everyone was smart enough to understand the nuanced message of get tested to ensure you actually had covid we would be expending scant medical resources to do what? Help people be slightly less safe to avoid feeling unwell for two days?
Ah, sorry. I tried skimming and searching for some specific like that.
Adult children of senior citizens can help with light care that might otherwise require very expensive home health aids or senior care facilities.
I'll take the opinion that the "App Store tax" is better for the broader economy. Most people who aren't VCs can't get a piece of startups early on anymore. If I can invest in Google and Apple I get a bit of exposure to pre-IPO and private tech companies.
Adblockers are fully capable of blocking subdomains and individual scripts by name, as well as forbidding certain outbound connections.

You'll probably have to use inline scripts and send data back bundled with actual data necessary for your site to run if you want to sneak past the user's defenses. But if a site has that much of an adversarial with its users, maybe it's time to stop using that site.
I'm totally baffled by that one as well. Can someone explain what they are trying to say?
I love Randy's blunt social commentary.
> of forgiveness in favor of block-lists.

...of forgiveness in favor of blacklists.

Fixed that for you.
How so? They’ll lose just the SK market, that’s not even in the top 5 of markets for them.
I ran the Windowx XP Virtual Machine (in Windows 7) for at least one LOB app - it wasn't all that it was cracked up to be. Fairly complex to setup.
Waymo have all the StreetView data - practically every road in the country, complete with lidar and high-precision GPS. All labelled in detail by recaptcha 'volunteers'

And lidar wouldn't be expensive if manufactured in automotive volumes. Certainly less, per vehicle, than Musk charges people for "full self driving" at the moment.

California allows autonomous vehicles to be tested on the road, so long as every disengagement is reported (along with total miles driven etc). Waymo is testing, reporting mileage and disengagements. So are Toyota, Nvidia, Mercedes, BMW, Cruise, Lyft and Apple.

Guess who's too shy to have driven a single autonomous mile in California, where faults have to be reported? That's right, Tesla!

Tesla might be able to make vision-only driving work. But Musk has been promising deadlines then failing to achieve them for years. They've put all their chips on 'no lidar' and they've had a bunch of problems that lidar could trivially solve - such as detecting a fire truck or concrete barrier right in front of the vehicle. So it's far from obvious to me that they've got a winning approach.
A friend and colleague who is a hardcore electrical engineer swears by 68K chips because he almost adores its instruction set. Says coding the assembly on them is superior to any other option for medium to large use cases.
> Breakdown begins to occur at either 200 or 260 degrees Celsius (depending on what data you're looking at).

This isn't good data. The stories of PTFE coatings breaking down at less than 260 deg C are anecdotal. The most well known one comes from someone who swears their chickens were killed by coated light bulbs in a coop.

The lowest temperature that has lead to bird deaths in a controlled laboratory setting is 280 deg C, which is about 580 deg F. [1] This is way freaking hot, and likely only to be reached by accident.

Even in the case of accidental overheating of non-stick cookware, there have been only a few verifiable cases of injury, and certainly no fatalities. Most cases of polymer fume fever have been gleened from among workers in factories, which is remarkable considering that billions of pieces of nonstick cookware have been in use every day around the world for the past seventy years.

Also note that cooking fumes from food are themselves toxic, and kill birds and lead to long term respiratory issues in humans much more easily than PTFE coatings.

1 - https://sci-hub.st/10.1289/ehp.7511197 - An Industrial Approach to Evaluation of Pyrolysis and Combustion Hazards
Interesting service. I am building a bookmarking app that needs to load a lot of favicons.

There are libraries like this: https://github.com/zongyz/get-website-favicon, but I suppose your service is even easier to use.

The big feature I would be interested in is being able to load multiple favicons at the same time as a sprite sheet: loading favicons one-at-a-time is very slow and inefficient.

An example of a site that caches favicons as a sprite sheet is https://www.bkmks.com/
I wrote this.

Let me say this about agile: the most important part of a software project is the first 20% of it, when all the foundations and building blocks for the application have to be created.

What I’ve seen happening at the dozen or so different scrum places I’ve worked at is that agile abrogates this first critical 20%, and more than anything this is what makes agile so destructive to software projects.
> Everyone in my close friend group (5-8 people) and their spouses are all childless, for various different reasons. I've never been good at romance or relationships, so I feel the clock ticking as well.

What is the age range here?
Yeah I mean I still get paid/can't complain. I just feel concerned when people rattle off these algorithms and what not and I don't use it day to day... maybe it's FOMO.
Why Households Consider Pest Control a Tough Task
> all religions have the same benefits

That is true in theory but not in practice. To be recognized you need to be organized as a Körperschaft öffentlichen Rechts which isn't exactly trivial. In practice the Catholic church and the "Evangelical church of Germany" (a confederation of various mostly independent parishes, mostly Lutheran) are the two big ones and everything else barely passes as a rounding error (e.g. there seems to be only one Muslim organization and while they reflect a sect mostly originating in Turkey, they're hardly the largest Muslim sect in Germany).

Also for example the two primary public broadcasting channels ARD and ZDF have a Catholic and Lutheran bias (although this mostly manifests in a handful of very short theological opinion pieces paid for by the respective churches and clergy of the two religious orientations being invited every time ethical concerns are discussed).

Saying "all religions have the same benefit" is a lot like saying all people are equally forbidden from sleeping under bridges regardless of their income. It's not exactly an equal playing field and a lot of the influence of the churches comes down to not just the number of registered members but also feudal property rights and pre-existing contracts (e.g. the Catholic church is one of the few entities that legitimately "owns" land in Germany whereas normally legal subjects are only granted "ownership" conditionally).

And let's not get into public sector institutions like hospitals and schools being operated by one of the two churches and personnel being subject to church labor laws while the majority of the operating costs (in some cases even 100%) are footed by the state.

We only call it pluralism because Martin Luther was successful. Much like our so-called federalism (because Germany was still a lose collection of functionally mostly independent states until around the time of the American Civil War) it's really more of an accident of history that we later rebranded as something desirable.
The demand for domestic pest control services in Hampstead is increasing as people find it tough to get rid of the pests in the house. Well, it is also crucial to know the reasons that why people find pest control the toughest task and here, we have elaborated some reasons.
Presumably, that they already do volume discounts/sweetheart deals with certain vendors. Apple allows Microsoft to publish packages through their App Store that install non-sandboxed apps, for example. I’m sure they’re giving them a discount as well. They’re a “strategic partner.” Epic is not.
> is presupposed on the notion that freedom and non-commercial are diametrically opposed

I don't think that freedom is diametrically opposed to non-commercial work, but while the specific lines that we've drawn around Free/Libre content are arguably arbitrary, they do provide a meaningful distinction between blocking future restrictions to other people, and blocking direct usage of future content regardless of what restrictions that content has. The difference between the GPL and Non-Commercial clauses are not merely matters of degree or economics, they are meaningful, philosophical differences about what user freedoms are afforded.

Where non-commercial content is concerned, the FOSS (and Creative Commons) world is wildly underfunded, and yet it still manages to chug along reasonably well. Many communities both in and out of FOSS produce freedom-respecting content with very little funding or reward to show for it. It's very difficult, but they make it work. So it's definitely not that non-commercial work is antithetical to freedom, in many ways non-commercial work has formed (and continues to form) the backbone of freedom.

However, given that we are aware of the fact that the FOSS (and Creative Commons) world is so underfunded, it seems particularly weird to be championing licenses that make it harder for small developers and small communities to fund Creative-Commons content or to sustainably build on Copyleft work.

There is not much point in building a commons if it's impossible for anyone to sustainably build anything on top of it. At that point, at the point where licenses restrict anyone from actually using that content for anything except charity, then you don't really have a commons so much as a demo reel that funnels people into traditional proprietary licensing agreements.
Coworker ported a C++ rendering engine to WebAssembly
And we know it doesn’t make a difference.