skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't tried it yet, but there's Swift support for Windows https://swift.org/blog/swift-on-windows/
That depends on the form of consumption. For example, one large form of consumption is commuting from suburbs to the offices on gridlocked roads in SUVs with one person in it.

Everyone universally hates that, and working from home for office workers would greatly reduce consumption (of oil) while increasing living standards.
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I wonder if this cultural norm has anything to do with the problems discussed in the article.

It was surely a biased and inflammatory article, but are we incapable of discussing things involving controversy?
> "EPO _granted_ patents? I'm highly doubtful you can do that in the normal search period (0.5-1.5 days)."

"In the normal search period" is the key phrase here. If you're granting a government monopoly which is extremely costly to challenge (as the article demonstrates), then you owe us more than a cursory look at the prior art.

In any case, this is probably an argument for just making software nearly impossible to patent, even more than the EPO already does. As (I think) Joel Spolsky said, no more than
5 or 6 per year sounds about right.
I cannot.

I can only make observations that Hegel's writings on education mirror the realities of U.S. public (and most private) schools -- if only because he was a teacher in the "Prussian System," (itself, a reactionary thing born of Frederick William III's loss of face from losing to Napoleon) and thus his views were molded by his culture and the time he lived in.

I don't think Hegel really had any say in the matter -- or was that popular (or even heard of) among policymakers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Only that he is a window into the soul (or rather its destruction) of his nation at the time.
The only time standardization unlocks innovation is when agreement is core to the function of the system (TCP/IP, communication protocols, etc). If it's simply to create a common abstraction across similar things, then it won't unlock anything. It's simply a nice to have.
Libertarian bullshit.

“Its vision is of a society that places the highest value on the voluntary interaction of individuals and groups while minimizing the use of violence and force including that which is exercised by public authority.” Why this is on HN I have not a clue.
Well you can use arbitrary file descriptors to get things out of a subshell, not just stdout. I had to do it when I had to get something out of band, while redirecting stdout through a pipeline.

Mind, if possible, it is even uglier than using stdout.
Apple very very rarely backports new developer APIs, as such it's normal that most apps will rapidly raise their minimum iOS requirement to make use of them.

This is unlike Android, where you still see a lot of apps with a minimum requirement of Android 6.

All this to just say that it's much much worse to be on an non-updated Apple device than an Android one. Your apps won't take too long to stop getting updates.
Taiwan does NOT want to “reunite” with the mainland.
Not quite. WSL2 uses a Linux kernel. WSL1 uses a Windows kernel and fork is much slower there. Also there's userspace variants like MSYS2, Cygwin, etc.
My friend's kid got in half an hour ago.
For some languages developers package a whole browser for their app.
The castle of wolfestein or doom are both significantly older and allow more freedom. System shock was a year later and allowed actual tactical choices and somewhat strategical o es.

Half life was part of pattern of moving towards extremely linear. It had better graphics than normal at the time. It had attempt at actual story. It was not move toward more agency to the player nor toward subtlety.

It had less choices than normal at the time, not even in terms of whether to hide on left or right, less options for tactical decisions, less of anything like that.
Maybe they relied on their own piece of shit Zestimate tool

They would have been better off pricing based on a dartboard
Why doesn't Apple consider their GPU to be a core function of their system, then?
Demanding representation is the opposite of insistence on being treated with dignity, and respect. It pushes diversity over competence. Giving everyone a fair chance, instead of demanding an equal outcome, is the most respectful way to treat people.

You can't expect respect by fiat, it must be earned.
Apple's macOS Monterey causing problems with some USB-C hubs and docks
Maybe the author lives in such a libertarian utopia that he cannot force the shopkeep to sell him candy because he’s such a colossal dog penis.
You can take this even further by rewriting bash functions at runtime if you like. `declare` gives you direct access to the function body

https://www.anardil.net/2018/dynamic-shell-scripting.html (self plug)
That's basically all real estate agents, and if someone selling their home to zillow only pays 10% total (since sellers typically pay agents for both sides of the transaction) that isn't a bad deal for the home seller at all.

Edit: I misremembered commission costs. 10% on the sale of a house is rather high unless the seller is covering additional costs as well.
Show HN: I built a platform to share SMS Multi-Factor Authentication codes
Hello there HN!

I just wanted to share with you a product I've been working on for a while. The product is called GetMyMfa and is accessible at https://get.mymfa.io. The objective of this project is to allow organizations to safely and easily share Multi-Factor Authentication codes for their Quality Assurance and Apple App Store review processes.

*Where the idea came from:*

I am currently working with multiple customers in the FSI domain (Financial Services Industry) and I am often required to perform tests in production and staging environments with multiple accounts. As production and staging accounts, these accounts are generally required to have at least an SMS 2FA system in place. When performing tests in such sensitive accounts, a single individual usually owns all phone numbers linked to these accounts and shares received MFA codes via a phone call with the various people performing tests in these accounts. I believe this represents a security concern and a bypass of the Multi-Factor Authentication principles.

In addition, when submitting iOS applications to the App Store, Apple performs a human review process in which they need to login to the application. When MFA is enforced for all production accounts, Apple rejects the application unless a way is implemented to allow them to login. This often leaves developers with two options: Develop a front-end only demonstration mode, or bypass the MFA mechanism for a specific account.

*Therefore, the project aims to:*

1. Allow organizations to rent virtual phone numbers and have their SMS MFA codes be displayed in a private web interface;
2. Organizations have fine-grained access control allowing them to control who can access their virtual phone numbers MFA Codes;
3. Access granting to virtual phone numbers can be time-based.

*On the security perspective, I aim to allow businesses to:*

1. Avoid spending time in building a security login "bypass" (and all the security issues that often come with it);
2. Avoid building a "demonstration" mode exclusively for Apple on their mobile applications;
3. Avoid using public websites with public phone numbers accessible to anyone.

What do you think? Would you use such product for your business in order to safely manage SMS Multi-Factor-Authentication sharing in production accounts? I would love hearing your feedback on the pros and cons you see about this product.

All the best
I'm not big into "conspiracy" but you gotta wonder why this "NeuralHash" file on my computer exists if "NeuralHash" was supposedly delayed, according to Apple, on an undetermined timeline.

If I did want to cook up conspiracy theory, it would be easy: Apple wants to distract from the fact that NeuralHash was broken by researchers. This project apparently is able to create CSAM collisions:

https://github.com/AsuharietYgvar/AppleNeuralHash2ONNX

If NeuralHash is really rolled out, and if this python project can really create collisions, the CSAM system could be DDoS'd by people on their own computers, jamming up Apple's internal censorship review system with false positives. Hence, Apple would be incentivized to sweep this under the rug by "delaying" rollout indeterminately.
https://archive.md/dylwy
It isn’t odd that the first time wages rise coincides with clogged ports and a labor shortage.

Arguably we’re seeing a rebalancing of the us economy. Whether this rebalancing is good, bad, or doomed to failure is an open question. I’d love to see more thought process on where current trends are taking us.

Wages are rising, housing is rising faster than wages, there are shortages. This seems like inflation - is domestic investment and production rising or falling?
The "intro / content / summary" structure is primarily useful in situations where:

1. The content is extensive, or

2. The information is being presented in real time without the opportunity for review.

Courses often use this structure because the primary audience are the students in the classroom, which fits criterion 2.

Written content roughly the length of a book chapter often follows this structure because they fit criterion 1. There's enough content that the intro and summary contribute non-trivial insights.

Short blog posts on trivial ideas use this format because of either SEO or cargo culting, I assume.
Also see: https://www.outsideonline.com/health/wellness/sunscreen-sun-...

"...what made the people with high vitamin D levels so healthy was not the vitamin itself. That was just a marker. Their vitamin D levels were high because they were getting plenty of exposure to the thing that was really responsible for their good health—that big orange ball shining down from above."
It would mean that desktop compositors do no longer need to have two implementations for a lot of parts.

This e.g. mean developer cost for gnome/kde would be reduced and sway(wlroots) would work on devices with Nvidia cards (at least some).

I.e. in general it makes it easier for everyone, except maybe Nvidea. But even for them it (long term) could make maintenance simpler.
The first thing I thought of based on the title was sending at a specific time that then is used as a lookup from something like PI or e.
I picked up on the bias of the source with the following line about the OSHA vaccine mandate:

>Those fines are unspeakable, befitting a regime devoted not to public health but to compulsion and pillaging.

It's one thing to have an issue with overwrought fines. It's another to state that the regulation has no interest in public health.
I agree with you that it seems readable, nice job on it. But there is comment there that says

Oh man this is so ugly

Not something I would expect in an "elegant" script. Don't think that it is your fault, just it is very hard to write anything elegant in bash.
I find him to be a bit of a character, and a lovable one at that, but can't bring myself to actually sit down and listen/read because of it - am I missing out?
The Lisp and APL families of languages do not have operator precedence at all.
Oh yeah, our support team is worth their weight in gold. They're all real people who know an awful lot of arcana about the nuts and bolts of email, and much more friendly and helpful than if I needed to talk to our customers on a regular basis!

And in times like today, it's so nice to be able to say "hey, $person_working_now, could you deal with fastmailstatus.com and Twitter please?" and the engineering staff don't even have to think about it!
I understand that, I'm not suggesting it's a scam or anything (though typically in the US a home seller pays 3% to the buyers agent and 3% to the sellers agent). I'm saying when Bloomberg exclaims "Zillow is selling homes at a loss!" they're missing the point of the strategy. As long as the price they sell for still exceeds the fees they take, it's a profitable move.

Also many of these transactions do not involve traditional brokerages whatsoever. People sell their homes directly to Zillow and other people buy the homes directly from Zillow.
Strangely, the fact still never prevents it being trotted out again, every time.
Got new M1 Max and trying to better organize my pile of SSDs and USB flash drives. Having a hard time. Some devices work perfectly, while others hang Disk Utility and even Console.
Your point stands, but I want something wholly different from that. I want the equivalent of the LHC for cross species communication. You're telling me to go do some communing with physics, because we've already got some good textbooks on quantum mechanics.
> "it does generate something compatible with VST2.x and I've been working on VST3 this week-end (and pulling a few hairs, that API is horrendous, the smallest example is a few thousand lines of codes)."

Oh that is awesome!!!

If you want a tip about the smallest possible VST3 implementation, (and maybe you already know this) there is a class called "SingleComponentEffect", and an example called "AGainSimple" that uses it and is a fully self-contained single file full VST3 plugin:

https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vst3_public_sdk/search?q=s...

Also, I spent some time trying to get VST3 SDK usable with vcpkg so you could just do:

// vcpkg.json
{
"name": "my-audio-lib",
"dependencies": [
{
"name": "vst3sdk",
"version>=": "3.7.3"
}
]
}

And your CMake would just install it for you:

https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues/5660#issuecomment-...

It ended up requiring more changes than this, but in the end I wound up fixing the CMake build so it spit out both the VST3 SDK (helper classes) shared lib and the almost-header-only lib ("pluginterfaces" directory).

I ought to upload the patches somewhere in case it's useful for you/anyone else.

> "yes, that's a goal, make your DSP processor in C++ and then write a small UI for it in python or QML without having to write binding code."

That would be incredible! I think the industry focus on doing UI in C++ is a bit nutty, as an outsider (but what do I know).

> "- asm("...") only wants string literals, strings generated through constexpr don't cut it (otherwise it'd be possible and even relatively easy to generate e.g."

Waaay over my head!!
No, they're not. It's a silly idea with a pretty specific target audience. Most shops don't have time to waste on keeping their customers' JVM up to date by re-releasing their applications with new JVMs.

This feature is mostly useful when you want to ship a particularly stripped down version of the JVM for footprint reasons.
Fun fact: I operate many web mmo games (or “io games” how people like to call them), and traffic is up around 20-100% since the Roblox outage started.
It's helpful to learn and use professional terminology, to get away from heavily SEO'd search terms. A search for "when to water potted plant" returns endless variations of the same mediocre article, but "coir irrigation frequency" returns good stuff.
"Pay money to get the data from the user" doesn't mean "pay money whether the user wants it or not, and take the data whether the user wants to or not". It means that the user has to engage in a voluntary transaction where he can decide whether the price he's paying is worth it or not. No price is "worth it" if the decision that the price is worth it is a one-sided decision that comes from the company.
Show HN: Become a better Developer, one New Tab at a time
Hi Community!

My younger brother and I have built https://30secondsofknowledge.com/ extension almost 2 years ago, and we are currently in work of publishing a new version with more languages / new facelift / jobs posting, and much more

Over 2 years we gained more then 25k developers using it world wide, and their comments are really motivating us to move foreword

All the best!
Almost all of GCC's development is done by employees of big corps, often as their sole job. Red Hat, IBM, etc.
Dude I’m too busy to argue with you, I literally used to regularly interact with people making these returns. Yes it’s hard and it’s a full time job. But it happens all the time, academic research is worthless. Accepting index returns basically means keeping up with inflation, and “getting rich” at 70 years old. If that’s what your aim is in life then sure, go for it
Stocks don't go magically go up all the time. When earnings slow down, the stock stops being seen as a growth stock, and the share price stays flat or goes down. Generally speaking anyway.
I was wondering who had been printing these out and posting them on telephone poles around Portland.
Prey was interesting too, and I also enjoyed Deathloop from the same studio (story is mediocre, but the way you discover it during the gameplay is very compelling).

From telltale, I enjoyed also tales from the borderland.

I guess the list should also contain a lot of eastern RPGs. Final Fantasy (e.g. the FF7 remake) and similar titles have a lot of story.

Life is strange part 2 was a huge disappoinment. There is a subpar story in the game, and literally zero gameplay (click a button every 5 minutes - without exageration). Probably more for people who are interested in the atmosphere of the game than anything else.
> Flash games

Just in case you hadn't come across Flashpoint: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/

Since early 2018, Flashpoint has saved more than 100,000 games and 10,000 animations running on 35 different platforms.
> Saying there is no realistic path to net zero without a reduction in consumption is somewhat funny to me. I don't think it is realistic at all to think that people will accept a reduction in living standards, which is what a reduction in consumption would result in.

I think you’re right. But I think Physics is going to show us the bill at some point and we won’t have a choice. When blackouts will be the norm, people will probably be very angry, but there won’t be much to do.

It is interesting to think about the perspective of e.g. a farmer during the fall of the western Roman Empire. I am certain that none of them wanted it, and it was actually quite violent at times, but there wasn’t anything they could do to stop it.

> Has anyone, anywhere ever had political success saying that everyone's living standards must decrease?

None (that I know of). It is already happening, though. Energy production in Europe is plateauing. Standards of living are already stagnating. Just like politicians cannot will away systemic technical problems in the economy or industry, they cannot change the laws of physics.

Our best bet is to use everything we can. Nuclear base production, as much wind and solar as we can, batteries and hydro to smooth out the peaks. We need to go all out. Even then, it would probably take a global industrial effort of the magnitude of the war efforts during WWI and WWII, just to get everything up and running. Let’s not kid ourselves: the world is burning, a mass extinction is under way, and there is already no way we meet our own bar of 1.5°C, and even 2°C requires immediate action.
Sorry but I still have no idea what you mean by "DEI orthodoxy" or "DEI administrative authoritarianism", I don't understand what that is supposed to mean and the way you've used them seems to be religiously/politically charged. You may also want to pay attention to the HN guidelines:

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity."

If you want to discuss what consequence was appropriate then we can talk about that, but your comment didn't mention anything further about that, instead you talked about a pattern of something that I don't understand what it is and then didn't clarify.
It sure isn't a business plan, you're right! :D

But knowing the potential is a first step, wouldn't you agree? You don't build the mine before the geologists have determined that there is indeed gold to be found, so to speak.

Distribution is not as big a problem I think, since you can have small installations everywhere, combined with larger installations where possible. Storage is a problem, but we know of several solutions that could be developed.

As for land, the land already wasted to man-made lakes for hydroelectricity more than covers it 100-fold if my roughly estimated math is correct (assuming ~30MW per km2 from newer solar installations and based on a list of man-made lakes on wikipedia). Floating solar is already a thing, it works.

How about a hydroelectric dam-duo where solar panels on the artificial lakes pump the water back to the upper reservoir when there's lots of sun? Energy and storage combined! Elon Musk - are you listening? ;-)

Solar can also easily be installed on buildings or in deserts, so I don't think large amounts of any valuable land would be needed.

As a whole it seems totally feasible to me, at least as a big part of the puzzle, much bigger than it is today.
Wolfestein or doom. The thing is, half life allowed exactly zero choice. So anything where you can go back or have a choice between opening left or right door is better in terms of player agency.

In terms of showing rather then telling via text, almost anything has that aspect.

Half life had very good graphics for the time. That is where it shined.
I think it's a reasonable inference, given that this is not a widespread problem outside of this person's office. Since that's the case but it is frequent enough in that office for it to be notable, it'd indicate that some software that the company is installing is the culprit.
Yes you can. If you own the shares, you can give them to someone, or to an LLC. That is what happened here.

You may be confusing spending corporate money on an initiative with the stock used to setup CZI (which was Zuckerberg's to do with as he wished).

BTW - in CA which is a community property state, this type of thing is not uncommon - all sorts of trusts, business etc take donated shares (sometimes unsold for tax reasons).

In terms of facebook - worth noting that Zuckerberg controls the voting power.

This came up when facebook "overpaid" for instragram by giving a small company of 13 employees $1B, which was unheard of at the time.

This was a major corporate governance scandal in some circles because the board wasn't consulted. So I read plenty of notes like yours! Outrage!

"CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the company’s largest acquisition ever without consulting his board of directors, according to an account in today’s Wall Street Journal."

I mention this because you would be amazed at what even companies without voting control in one person's hands will let an executive do if the executive claims it will advance the interests of the company.

Own race cars or teams, lease jets, start a research institute. All allowed in most cases even in other companies (and yes, spouses are often in the mix).

Anyways, there will be another case soon on this - Tesla shareholders (some) are suing claiming Elons plans / purchase of solar and doing the solar energy business was self dealing (Solar City was basically bust, but Elon wanted to move fast, knew and trusted many of the solar city folks, so bought them instead of some chinese company that might have been better on paper). I think the case is weak, but we will see.

The disclosure here that matters potentially is a warning to purchasers of Facebook shares:

"As a stockholder, even a controlling stockholder, Mr. Zuckerberg is entitled to vote his shares, and shares over which he has voting control as a result of voting agreements, in his own interests, which may not always be in the interests of our stockholders generally"

This metaverse thing is going to be another bet not everyone would go along with, and independent investors ALREADY voted Zuckerberg off as board chair - which made no difference as he could ignore their wishes.
Meta promise a metaverse that video game companies are already building
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