skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then you underestimate the number of people who care about FOSS. Consider then a niche like 'power users', 99% of the user base doesn't need to care or use a feature for it to be an important aspect and have a trickle-down effect in who uses it and thus who develops it. People into FOSS commonly contribute to the development of tools they use.

The key thing is choice. You don't have to use the software if you don't see the value in it, likewise with features. Just like you don't have to choose gluten-free or vegan foods, but quite commonly, lots of very popular dishes are vegan, halal, gluten-free, keto-friendly etc., and there is a not insignificant chance that you already consume it in some way and enjoy it, and likewise a strong chance your every day life is fuelled by FOSS, even if it is just part of a server stack on a website you are visiting.

All the software someone uses does not need to be FOSS, however certain pieces of software might be more easily trusted in security and privacy if they are FOSS. Hence F-Droid's apps for example.

Likewise, I don't care if a game isn't FOSS, but I will care about my note-taking software if I am writing down vulnerabilities I've found for responsible disclosure.

With Adobe having cloud connectivity, and unknown telemetry, if I want to view PDFs that may contain sensitive information that some naïve intern compiled, I won't be using Acrobat, that's for sure.

I contribute to several projects because I actively use the tools, and yes, the license matters.
Exactly Right!.
Daily Notes / #7
https://www.statista.com/statistics/382260/segments-share-re...

Mac revenue is somewhat small and stagnant while wearables revenue is growing and it's probably their future.
A well-written library can effectively expose a simpler hardware device with minimal assumptions
Near half of satellites are SpaceX satellites mate. Ofc they are half of close encounters. This isn't a good argument.
Garmin make great fitness watches but they’re not a replacement for an Apple watch if someone is looking for a smart watch.

The multiple days-long battery life sure is nice though.
What do you suppose the mechanism is for the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory image having a golden ticket held aloft by somebody’s right hand, with a person in a purple outfit and top hat? The page says:

> a brief text description of a movie

However apart from the existence of a golden ticket, I wouldn’t expect those details to make it into a brief description of the film. And yet there’s an original poster matching those details that the VQGAN + CLIP generated image seems to draw from.
Both Tesla and SpaceX have lost employees in small aircraft accidents. While not industrial in nature the push to rush and be places at times should be counted.
Blood glucose monitoring is defined going to be interesting to watch. I wonder if they're planning on doing it in a similar way to supersapiens.
It’s probably just me, but I found Neuromancer extremely hard to read. I forced myself to do it because the world building was so great, but I didn’t enjoy it a lot.
I tried to do the same for The peripheral, but just couldn’t.
Not for me I guess.
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Implementing the minimal “bootstrap” HID interface can be done without most of the abstraction layers. It’s effectively hard-wired and barely parsing of any descriptors or anything.
I for one hated gambling on overclocks that could brick my expensive hardware. I’m glad the equipment being sold today comes at max performance out of the box and that the reputable company making it will support it.
Rossmanm mentioned that in the focus groups he ran people tended to believe that a manufacturer was more competent at repairs by default, even without evidence, but it's worth saying:

Show me any actual data that people being able to see human readable error codes would result in more injuries.

Even if that were somehow the case, demonstrate that the status quo would be less dangerous than putting the company in a position where it had more of an incentive to make ALL repairs safer. If a repair process is hazardous enough to make the machines barely safe enough to use if maintained by authorized repairmen, than that status quo discourages the company from making the repair process safer in general.
Good thing the New Yorker has "Satire from The Borowitz Report" in red above the title. I almost missed it myself, and then wasn't sure if what I was reading was actually satire because I can easily imagine Republicans thinking that mandatory counselling prior to casting a ballot would be a good way to ensure that only the right people voted.

Poe's Law is merciless. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law>
It’s not a second source, it becomes the only source as it turns off your phone notifications. It also leads in shorter distractions as you can quickly check if a message is important without pulling out and unlocking your phone.

It also does a billion “nice to have” things like card payments which work with your mask on, walking directions with convenient and easy to read arrows, and so much more.

It’s certainly not essential but I have worn mine every single day as it certainly provides value.
Just wait till they wrap their minds around this chemical killer, Dihydrogen Monoxide.

https://www.dhmo.org/facts.html

It kills more than covid every year!
> [...] most of the perpetrators either have no idea it's illegal [...]

How could someone possibly not be aware that trying to blind a pilot would be illegal?

I mean, trying to blind anyone is illegal. But a pilot that's actively flying a plane?
I've also never heard of the book of video or the book of u :D
If I was on the jury I'd vote to acquit, evidence be damned.
Black Hole Dyson Spheres
> Most beer comes in glass bottles. The economics that ostensibly make companies prefer PET over glass are just the same for beer as for soda. The difference is in consumer preferences.

Absolutely false, mass volume beer manufacturers would absolutely love to push for plastic beer bottles. However plastic is actually far more permeable to oxygen than glass and so beer slowly goes flat in plastic bottles, which is why they are forced to use glass. The reason is purely technical and has absolutely nothing to do with consumer preference.
I don't think our economic growth is driven by yachts and mansions.
Building or adjusting stuff on your own is unlikely to lead to a promotion. Guiding a group while being the main and most important contributor increases your chances. Working with other teams on a critical cross-team use case, increases chances even further. The main differentiating factor here is scope and impact of work the related amount of dependencies.

For your work to be easily recognized by others, one usually requires their peers' or manager's support. This means, asking for advice from more senior peers within and outside of your team and talking in 1on1s about the solutions you developed, problems you resolved, and discussing the business impact that the changes will bring product-wise. If no one knows about the product/platform being broken or suffering from performance problems in the first place, then it will be hard for them to value that the product is now working as expected.

Eligibility for promotion highly depends on the product that you are building. If you impact a product responsible for a sizeable portion of the revenue, visibility and impact is orders of magnitude easier to get.
Further, the business impact, as defined by KPIs for the product, may need a few months to materialize and show a trend. Unless provided with sufficient observability and historical data, you may not even be able to show that the product is more reliable or stable due to changes in its architecture or performance improvements. Pouring more marketing money may lead to the same effects business wise on the top line (revenue).

Lastly, and most importantly, promotions depend on your manager. If managers are not incentivised for the development and growth of engineers they manage, but more as a function of the scope or size of the team they lead, the latter may be the easier path as team growth may occur naturally with less effort and friction on their end.
Do women need The Economist?
Back at uni our lab just switched from labview to using matlab for automation. Today I’d likely go with Python instead. But the outcome is the same.

LabView and other graphical programming languages suffer under the red-stone condition, where someone will build a hugely complicated jungle of a “program” but feel that it’s simple purely because they build it and remember all the details of it, that is for about a month or so. Then when they come back to it they start from scratch because it’s suddenly as confusing to them as it is to others.
ML is about writing programs automatically. It is huge, like the end of programming as we know it.
Think of future Blockchain algorithms, crypto functions etc as trained instead of programmed.
It'll take time but ML shall supersede every programming task. Computer science is about automation, ML is the next level of autation, of programming itself.
It was abput time :)
Taylor makes money from these service calls and the franchise owners have to use the machines mandated by McDonalds. There is absolutely no motivation for Taylor to kill this cash cow.
Wow - HN folks just go for this garbage?

Lots of good quotes from the pushback

" In fact, Amazon has not had a single meeting with the Commission this year about how it intends to resolve the Commission’s interference or safety concerns, but it has had 15 meetings in that same span just about SpaceX. While Amazon has waited 15 months to explain how its system works, it has lodged objections to SpaceX on average about every 16 days this year."

So you have one company actually launching and serving customers, and another who has done nothing, not even updating FCC on its plans in 15 months! And then every 16 days is lodging objections?

Let me understand this clearly - is it the FCC jobs to protect Amazon from being slow, or to advance consumer access to internet and communications? Because we should be pushing HARD for the folks actually delivering.
USB is faster and it is better when there is nothing saturating the USB with traffic and CPU can keep up.
Most of the time there will be no noticeable difference using the USB mouse or PS/2 mouse.
But if CPU is busy and USB bus is saturated, USB mouse will start to be less responsive than PS/2 mouse.
In the extreme cases even USB keyboard will become unresponsive where the old PS/2 keyboard still works fine.
This can make a difference between being able to terminate a misbehaving process and resume working or having to power-cycle the computer.
I tried to daily-driver Linux back in the early 2000s. It was reasonable for my needs, with a given "dual boot for games or dealing with some propriatery-driver peripherals".

I try some modern distributions, and many of them come very close to working out of the box. Usually nVidia drivers are a modest hassle, but it's arguably still faster to "everything you need installed" than Windows.

But I never really feel comfortable in there.

1. I've never really trusted package management. What we have now is a morass of "some stuff comes from the vendor, some from an external repository, some comes via snaps/flatpaks, some compiled from source. This screams "unmaintainable tangle" later.

2. Modern desktops/config tools give me a very similar vibe. I feel like there are a lot of tools I can run that are likely to clobber (or neuter) the configuration changes made in the modern KDE/GNOME/XFCE graphical tools, with no obvious way to get back. All in all, the experience is much less "I have my finger on the pulse of exactly what my machine is doing" than it used to be. I know I can unbundle a lot of this stuff and run FVWM, but then you need to find replacements for many of the little helper applets that lived in a "desktop environment" dock (an always-on mixer so volume control keys work, for example)

3. A lot of distributions have the "let's be Free-as-in-broken-for-common-use-cases." The vital missing firmware components or drivers, or common codecs. Yeah, I get it. People played fast and loose in 2002 by including x11amp in the distribution. Even if they can't ship the bits in the ISO, they could at least have the non-free repositories enabled by default or some very clear "install-the-bloody-nvidia-drivers.sh" scripts left on your desktop after install.

4. Turnkey Windows games support. I get that if I install Steam, it and Proton are supposed to handle most stuff, but there's still plenty of titles where there's, at the best... conflicting information out there. I also expect that a lot of guidance is distribution and configuration specific, and probably quite brittle.

I guess I'm waiting for Slackware 15, because they were always closest to the ideal in terms of "no package-management or configuration surprises", but on the other hand, I suspect getting from "working desktop" to "playing Guild Wars 2 on monitor 1, while streaming Crunchyroll on monitor 2" would be a lot easier if I was comfortable with something like Ubuntu.
How fast is this compared to rkyv?
If it's a bank loan. Maybe.

If they go public they would have been damned to the same quarterly short-termism as other public companies.

Overall their financial prudence doesn't seem to have hurt most Mittelstand companies.
The Pirates of Low Earth Orbit?
It’s called taxation, in the Middle ages peasants we’re taxed by the King and the only thing offered was protection. Government services is a modern world thing.
I'm 23 years old and just published my first book on emerging economy startups
Ask HN: My boss forbade the use of inheritance. Should I quit?
I'm on a Java project with very old code base. New boss came in and (among other changes) forbade the use of inheritance. He doesn't like it and the only argument given is that it is much easier to write unit tests.

I know that inheritance can be misused, but I find it extreme to forbid it in an object-oriented language like Java. For all new code we have to inject the "parent object" and delegate common function calls to it - instead of using inheritance where appropriate.

I can tolerate such things to some degree, but I feel "I'm going to throw up" when I see all the code I must write now...

Should I quit?

Or should I advise him to find a Go-Lang project for himself?
In Debian there is Simple Screen Recorder:

apt install simplescreenrecorder
Academics can sometimes learn a lot from industry. The ScyllaDB database and its underlying SeaStar library essentially implement a userspace OS that handles the hardware very differently than a typical modern OS with phenomenal improvements in performance.

Historically, it started as a unikernel called OSv designed to run directly on hypervisors. But they eventually realized that it can run just as well on linux with kernel bypass working and io_uring and is easier to deploy.
> Schengen rules say you must have ID with you at all times, even for internal travel. It's not well enforced [...]

This is true. My story:

Summer I returned from holiday in Ticino with family by car. The shortest way is by Italy. This way I avoided many hairpin bends. My son tends to get sick from them.

By the way, Italy explicitly allows transit without a Covid certificate if you travel by car and don't stay longer than 36 hours. Our route meant that we were in Italy for 60 minutes.

However I lost my Swiss ID card.

I decided to go anyway counting on Italian customs not being staffed and it worked. Back at the Swiss border our Simplon car-train got controlled but when I had our four cards (three ID cards and my driving license) ready and visible through the window we got waved through without a fuss.
I don't see anywhere about their 'files' system either, how much storage is allowed or any kind of limitations. This is concerning..
Sex is the same if you're selling it (although buggy software will most likely not play a part)
I saw in your profile that you are using https://hntokindle.com to read HN on Kindle, Can you read the story as well or just the comments?
I think you might be reading a sarcastic comment as if it's serious.
"It's complicated".

CBC does not provide authentication, thus it does not protect your encrypted content from manipulation (which can enable all kinds of followup attacks). Generally you should avoid using unauthenticated ciphers almost always and use an AEAD.

SSH uses CBC in combination with a MAC, so it has authentication, but it combines them in an insecure way. It turns out it's practically impossible to avoid these attacks (there had been countermeasures, but it's been shown that they can be circumvented). The attacks only let an attacker decrypt a single byte in certain situations, so the practical impact is limited.

Here's the original attack:
https://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/~kp/SandPfinal.pdf

Here's an updated paper that shows that the countermeasures against the original attack don't work.
https://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/~kp/surfeit.pdf
On the other hand, had Google bought Github instead, most likely the service would no longer exist.
Yet from a software perspective I always saw sales drop when a cracked version of my software was released and increases when I tightened the DRM. This is a niche product sold B2B.

Adding DRM has a cost and I'd rather not do it but it's quite clear to me that not having it would impact revenue.
IANAL, but isn't this something like extortion or blackmail? Why isn't the conservative movement being treated like the organized crime syndicate it is?
Waterfall Is a Myth
> There is not much utility in memorizing proofs.

This was a misconception I, too, had.

When I was taking grad analysis, we had to memorize the proofs, as the professor was guaranteed to ask for the proof of one textbook theorem in each exam. I was incensed, but when I memorized the proofs for the final exam, I noticed more "proof patterns" than I had during the whole semester, and got a lot better at the subject.

Memorizing without understanding is useless. Memorizing with understanding is much better than merely understanding.
The point is different.

The act of "compression" puts less obvious key points to the paper, allowing you to more easily memorize the more obvious parts.

The whole exercise is about committing to your memory more and more of the "easier" stuff, while extracting the few "root" ideas and a few least obvious points / formulas to write down.
This is a good thing. I use Firefox to view websites. PWAs are irrelevant to that use case.
The quality of the attached site makes me think this guy is making a good amount of money by operating this site. Anyone have any insight? I can’t seem to crack the code.
A hacky webcam on-screen display can be achieved with https://webrtc.github.io/samples/src/content/getusermedia/re... & right clicking on the video to Picture-in-Picture mode. You can then drag it around where you want while you screen record & it stays on top!
Exploring Open Route Service API
Wait do I get this right:

Company A builds a machine that breaks constantly and requires a lot of service — most of which people could do on site, but they can't because the error messages are not communicating anything.

Company B developed a device to read and display those error messages so the owners (?) of the machine can decide whether they fix it themselves or call support.

If I got this right I'd definitly be rooting for company B, because it offers a service that helps, while Company A apparently is afraid of not being able to compete if they just sell a working product instead of milking their customer via resource- and time-wasting service calls.

Which one of the two is that famous "innovation" capitalism is said to be good at producing?
> the tweets are perceived as genuinely worth paying for

If the information is really so valuable, then either:

1) the expected value of paying for it is positive, the purveyor would be better playing the market themself (or working for a hedge fund...) than selling it

2) the expected value of paying for it is negative, the people buying for it are wasting their money
If you can’t have everyone running their own homeserver, I’d count Matrix as having failed at federation.
Can it easily record a square section of the screen without recording the full screen? Would be nice to have a program like that equivalent to screenshot tools like flameshot.
European Parliament passes report on enhancing Taiwan-EU relations
What are you going on about? Please find somewhere else to go on meaningless rants. Do you have some examples, or just fake FUD?
I’d be more interested in the why, myself.
His course content is free, I'm not sure if he's making any money out of the course.
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Wow! This is very cool
Good point about the lack of differentiated underwriting. The costs are plenty for small institutions though. Other than perhaps raising money market rates, there aren’t any meaningful gaming levers to pull other than keeping the loan and fee business healthy (right mix of promotions and upsell prompts by tellers.)
The problem is absolutely the ads. I subscribe to people on Twitch. Twitch is getting money from me. I'm also a Twitch Prime member and Amazon makes a lot of money off of me generally. They can do without sticking ads in my face.

I'll put up with ads when I'm not paying for things (and Twitch takes a very large cut!). If I am, get out. This is why I pay for YouTube Premium, because then I don't get ads.
Even more convincing to me is the face of John Malkovich being on the poster of Being John Malkovich. Unless the description includes a pretty accurate description of his face (hairstyle, gender, age, facial hair, skin color), the model must have encountered his appearance in its training set.
It would be interesting if the AI would be fed the whole movie and create a poster based upon the scenery, characters and locations.
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