skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were using it just as much as Facebook though... and actually less than the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative but that's beside the point I'm making.

Let's say that Meta Company had released their product a month ago, would you have sided with Facebook if they had said that the Meta Conpany stole their name? Funnily enough you probably wouldn't because they are a wealthy and successful company.

No one here is saying Facebook is entitled to that name because they are wealthy. We are saying they are entitled by that name because the Meta Company was still not doing business using that name. No one is entitled to any name, it has nothing to do with wealth. Do the Meta Company had registered a trademark on it already? Well nice, yeah I will side with them and hope that they win the lawsuit (though I wouldn't if they were the equivalent of patents trolls over trademark... which I fear is the case, but I still trust them that they plan to do real business with that name).
I can't wait to see a 30 second video ad for an erectile dysfunction drug in the middle of a job interview.
I'm really glad they added this.
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> Is it really a terrible idea to restrict your software from being used [to do all sorts of things]

Possibly. If the list of restrictions is ill-defined and ever-changing then it opens up a can of worms, which in practise means no-one will use the software.
So weird that everything started collapsing exactly on January 20th, 2017.

The people who have been in power for 40 years are definitely NOT the problem. It was just that last guy.
It looks like the conversion from sbrk to mmap happened in 2009.

https://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2009/otto-malloc.pd...

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20090106070242

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3286254

https://web.archive.org/web/20111231094521/http://os-blog.co...

General architecture:
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/SbrkVersusMmap
Yeah sure, but have quarterly revenues gone up? /s
I think it is a bit different when it will be seen by employees as a part of internal tooling. After the meeting they see a banner "Important points from the presentation" or "The mandatory new tool to fight malware." or even "2021-11-sales.xls" and I guarantee people will click on it. Of course you can blame it on companies saving money for more or less sensible reasons by not paying for their tools and on uneducated employees, but it will happen.
Applications that feel entitled to resources after you tell them to go away lead me to move them into a VM just to contain all the crap and sprawl and bullshit. The number of apps in this category just keeps on growing.

I'm starting to feel like I should just run Qubes.
I guess the same logic should be applied to housing and gentrification then.
Yep... just standardize a data format for updates (eg. json with the newest stable and beta version numbers and links directly to the upgrade exe), and each app would just add the json url to the service, and the service would check all the updatable software periodically and just primpt the user to update.
CMD + Q is a two-key command, so presumably the warning will still be present.
I can't read the original article, but this appears to be an identical article at least from the start: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/11/02/zillow-to-sell-7000-... I don't know which is the original and which is the copy. Edit: It seems like they are both sites owned by the same company? But one has a more aggressive paywall? I don't know.

The schadenfreude is real for me seeing this. A company like Zillow getting into flipping seems questionable to me. The customers are no longer aligned with the company on goals with something like this. It's like when the realtor offers to buy your house... they obviously feel like they can make more than you, when they're supposed to represent you!

Edit 2: What I'm surprised at as well is how short-term their forecasting seemed to be. They just started doing this and the market cooled a tiny bit (also, what? where?) and they're selling everything off? Were they incapable of sustaining anything but massive constant growth?
> We’re rolling out the Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension with Mozilla VPN integration. This lets you use a different server location for each container.

This is really cool. I wonder how difficult it would be to allow users to wire this up to arbitrary user-specified VPNs e.g. through WireGuard.
That seems pretty comparable.
Trump MADE twitter. I have a 3 letter twitter account from 05 or 06 when it was beta. Until Trump was on Twitter in 15 I considered it a big yawn that made no money -- gossip for total retards. Hate him or love him, and with Trump there doesn't seem to be any middle ground, this would have MADE mastodon into SOMETHING instead it is STILL an irrelevant pet project. Maybe they are afraid of losing too many arguments? Only reason to ban those who disagree with you. The license is just being used as an excuse. The rights holders don't even believe their own arguments they are just trying to stake out a plausible position. Phonies.
It's a mistake on your part to think them stupid. They are smart and crafty, but the key part is that their goals are mostly not your goals. Many are in Congress to individually make boatloads of cash through one method or another - not to make good rules for you to trade crypto.
Is this distinct from keyboard-navigating to it and pressing Shift+Del?
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> Society has to operate with some level of trust that even people we disagree with, using methods we don't approve of, have the potential to improve the world.

This is emphatically wrong. For at least two to three generations society has operated with a large part of it understanding that another large part of it is unethical and wrong (i.e. conscientious objectors and folks that sympathise but cannot bring up the courage to do so). If being so understanding is what made the world better, then 1930 would truly have been a golden age.
It also has constant ads for podcasts in the app, as well as modal popups for things it wants to promote, like new albums and concerts. They are definitely violating the spirit of "no ads"
HRESULT is a lot more structured and allows for good non-zero responses, not just bad ones. (If an HRESULT >= 0, it's a success result; the sign bit is used to flag success or failure.)
> The vaccines have only ever been effective at reduction of symptoms. They have never prevented transmission and never promised to.

Sigh,

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/mounting-evidence-suggests...

[Even delta]
I would argue that most of young people don't understand it either
There have been meetings where I would happily click though a slide deck of ads.
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Yeah, math is riddled with ungoogleables, for example, graph can mean network of nodes or function plot depending on context
Dotcom bust only ever rose to 40% as well.

The thing is, GDP was measured around 6.7% previous. The most recent GDP was at 2%, much lower than expected.

To enter recession, you need 2 consecutive quarters of negative growth. Technically covid had a short recession that got immediately erased by 33.8% gdp growth.

If the USA is headed to a recession, it will be april before we find out. It also has to go negative during a xmas spending spree post-covid stuff? That sounds pretty unlikely.

Is inflation going to blow up past GDP? Oh for sure.
> how completely boring it would be to be faithful to it

What movies have you seen that have been faithful to the literary work but still were great movies? I'm struggling to come up with one.
> Built-in ISDN

That's the 1997 equivalent of built-in DOCSIS 3 and a coax jack on the laptop.
Believing in human rights is only political because certain normal human biological variations and geographic distributions have been politicized by people who want to use software to strengthen that politicization. Encoding reason regarding treatment of those variations and distributions in license agreements is a patch to address politicization.
Gotta keep the designers on the payroll somehow
I'm caught with the ups and downs of launching a new product. Our launch in PH went very well - a lot of temporary exposure, like A LOT, but once you drop out of the top positions of the front page, you are back to square one, that traffic does not stick (you get a lot of other positive effects out of a NH lunch though, don't get me wrong).
It's worth pointing out that this is much more adversarial than is typical. https://www.fsf.org/licensing/enforcement-principles
You can always recall recently closed tabs.
> What we want to avoid is improper use of weapons and surveillance

All use of weapons and surveillance is abusive, so what you are saying "we" (who?) want is not something that I find reasonable.
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Yes. It's also shrinking to be almost the only reason I run Firefox. I absolutely loathe the constant tinkering with UI and settings, they just can't seem to leave stuff alone. The ghacks user.js does get rid of a lot of nuisances, but I also know some people also want to get rid of the user.js config option.
Why wouldn't you set the browser to save all tabs between sessions?
(2019)

I used one once in a server room in a quasi-government agency in the very early 2000s. Compared to the plastic Toshiba Windows junk around at the time, it was a total revelation. I tried to get my boss to buy me one for customer demos; he negotiated me down to a Sun Blade 100 for my desk instead. I still felt like I'd won.
I have to agree. They didn't explicitly lie like Trump did/does, but they (or at least, Hilary specifically) did repeatedly mention that they "won the popular vote" as if it was relevant - they wanted to imply the same thing, that Trumps presidency was unfair if not illegitimate.
> Ballerina is a standalone open source project and does not tie anyone to any WSO2 ecosystem.

Except that Ballerina is created by WSO2 (the company) and used almost exclusively by that company. It's hard to find any usage outside (some of the) existing WSO2 customers. And the language itself is completely proprietary, developed by WSO2 and lock in by itself.

> Please compare processing JSON in Java vs. Ballerina, typing network data in Java vs. Ballerina, writing HTTP/GraphQL/WebSocket/gRPC etc. services etc. in Java vs. Ballerina, calling network services in Java vs. Ballerina and then you'll see the difference between whatever your favorite Java framework (or rather combination of them) vs. Ballerina.

Here I give you a credit. The ergonomic is much nicer than what exists today in Java frameworks.

What I don't agree is, that you need a language to have these features you listed. You could get 90% of them in Java (or Kotlin, or Clojure, or Scala, or Groovy, ...) if they were implemented as a standalone Java/JVM library, and not require Ballerina the language.
The Google SRE book, which I think is a reasonable reflection of SRE culture generally, actually mentions this in the very first chapter.
You may be interested in MacPorts, which literally supports back to Tiger. (Some of the stuff they do to make this happen is actually nuts, e.g. https://github.com/macports/macports-legacy-support.)
I've built a similar system which sends the token for copying and a link for clicking. It also uses SMS if the user provides their phone number.
> Don't many other companies (Google, Facebook, etc) manage to do that without becoming vectors for malware?

This all depends on targeting (as an HN user you're unlikely to be targeted by them as there are higher-value ads that match your profile) but at the bottom of the targeting barrel there are absolutely ads for scams and/or malware.
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7k millennials will be happy to buy them up at affordable prices.
It has made me really sad that I have had to quite using Firefox, as I've enjoyed the technical improvements they have been making, but the new ads in the address bar thing is just non negotiable, I will not be a part of that.
That sounds like a bunch of very wishy-washy vague terms that open source licenses shouldn't implement.

You're going to get a lot of companies that don't want to deal with the legal hassle of these special terms not contributing to open source software.

Whether the developers want that or not, I guess that's their choice.
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> Mind you, Lucas cribbed from everything in sight;

Cause in point, Lucas cribbed Coruscant from Trantor
I didn’t post his list.

Implying an ingredient which is made of overpriced heavily industrially processed mixtures of grain and beans mixed with flavorings and chemicals since the underlying implications is that plant based foods suck and need corporations to heavily process them until it’s bearable to eat despite its worst nutrition and higher cost than mean isn’t more constructive if you’re trying to convince others to eat non meat products.
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I don't social media makes us know too much, it's that it's unchanging and aggregates one's life into a feed...a torrent of information usually completely unrelated.

now they feed you the Facebook select which claim is the choice cut but in actual fact is the left overs from yesterday's main...

perhaps it's not the information but the medium is transfer and the lack of engagement with purpose.
That has happened before, but very rarely, and I highly doubt will ever happen to SponsorBlock.
So why is that surprising? There are few or no quality scifi/fantasy movies if you actually read scifi/fantasy books.

Villeneuve did something competent-ish with Dune. Altered Carbon season one was decent. I couldn't watch the second season because they really went off the rails with it. That's about all lately.

Funny enough, I think the best sf movies are the one that ignore the source material and do ... something else. Blade Runner for example. Or Tarkovski's Stalker. Note that they aren't named as the books that inspired them.

As for Foundation, I haven't seen it and don't intend to. But judging by people's opinions it looks to me that not only it has no connection with the book. It's also a bad movie taken as a standalone movie?
Are you experienced looking just for someone to work with a little? Or are you looking to work with someone with more experience to mentor you through a project or what's the goal? You looking for something more server based, desktop or embedded or ?

Understanding some framing of expectations/ideas might help you find the right type of people. I might be interested depending on the situation and expectations.
All investments require people to do their due diligence. That's no excuse to "forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults".
Turns out that mass flipping houses doesn’t work when you can’t hire contractors to do the work for a price that makes your budget assumptions hold.

I am disappointed that they’re looking to offload them to institutional investors rather than individuals. Housing should probably not be an investment vehicle, but here we are.
Seems more like an opportunity. "Hey, how did they know you're interviewing someone who can solve hard problems?"
It's not just you. Terrain reversal is also a problem in cartography; that's why hillshades are usually lit from the NW direction. (although there are other solutions to this issue)
At sufficient scale anything free ceases to be so and anything cheap starts to get expensive. This certainly applies to bandwidth. I assume either the free tier was starting to get significantly expensive or it was simply so large that the potential ad revenue was too large a carrot to ignore. I can't say which.

But I feel like Zoom is missing an opportunity here. I just went through the exercise of googling "zoom pricing" and... I'm confused. I still don't know how much it costs.

Twitch can largely be credited with the model of supporting creators with monthly subscriptions. Obviously they didn't invent the monthly subscription but they made it "mainstream" (within the context of Twitch viewers) such that many creators can support themselves this way with audience sizes that aren't large enough to be supported by ad revenue.

The point is that Twitch created a user behaviour of supporting creators with sufficient scale to matter.

So with Zoom, the pricing should be transparent and obvious. Obviously you're going to have the company plans that cover all participants. It probably shouldn't be "unlimited" as those are your most valuable customers and the most willing to pay.

But the missed opportunity here is to incentivize individuals to pay with features that might matter to them. I'm not sure what those are but in the very least, paid users should receive no ads. Make this $5/month. Lots of people will pay that if you toss in a few premium features.

Ad-supporting free services is so pervasive because it's effective but it's also lazy. With the rise of remote work, there are a lot of people who will gladly pay some small monthly fee to make their life easier even if their employer won't. Build user behaviour.
My preference for MacPorts starts from the fact MacPorts keeps their files separate from the system files. To uninstall, just delete the folders.

I’ve seen homebrew overwriting system files and thoroughly breaking machines (that’s no longer that easy, but more thanks to Apple).

Haven’t tried many other package managers (Fink, when G3 was bleeding edge), but MacPorts has the feel of an exquisitely well engineered tool.
Nice work. I've been exploring an idea in the same space with a very different angle.

You need other, non-technical users at a company to use this type of tool for it to be useful and it's really tough to get a team to adopt a new tool. My solution? Build it on top of something they're already using: Google Sheets.

Not ready for a formal launch, but would love to chat with anyone that wants to try it out: https://www.wax.run/
I'm sympathetic to this, and usually find these sorts of things annoying, but in this case I'm not so sure.

If there is any application I want to autoupdate, it's my web-browser. It's a giant bundle of security vulnerabilities whose main purpose in life is to hit untrusted servers that might be sending me malware, and when an update is available to me, the list of security fixes is also available to attackers.
If you consider 10% to be 29% it certainly is very comparable.
rs232 will never die... Truly the spawn of some dark, malevolent power. At least nobody does the full bipolarity & 2 sets of signals version anymore.
It reminds me of the Linux distribution called Lindows that advertised itself as a free alternative to Windows. Microsoft sued them pretty quickly
Homebrew needs to do a better job of communicating that you shouldn't use it for project dependencies, because every time there's a Brew thread on here, a bunch of people come out complaining about this kind of thing. "Homebrew broke my build by updating PostgreSQL and Redis". They shouldn't need to communicate that, but clearly, they do.

Use Docker, probably. Homebrew is for your tools, not your dependencies. Is the system you're deploying to a Mac with Homebrew? Do all your collaborators use Macs with Homebrew? If the answer to either is no, why were you trying to use Homebrew for that in the first place, even if it were otherwise good for that? Would you use Homebrew to install Node modules for your project? Python packages? No? When why are you letting it define which version of PostgreSQL this project depends on?
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> Chinese are the majority of the world population.

No, they are roughly 1/5th of it.
> My daughter has spent nearly half her life wearing a mask 50 hours a week for a disease less risky to her than the Flu or RSV

Aw, shamples. Good. Because it is deadly my parents and me.

You can fix your kids mood with an ice cream; You cannot fix dead people.
I certainly don't doubt there are plenty of other examples and I don't have any love for Twitter or any other SM platform these days.

But as far as I could see, only seeing the former president's tweets in the news because I'm not a Twitter user, he was also granted protected status. So I fail to see it as some leftist conspiracy and find it more likely that Twitter just allows users that attract more attention this privileged status because it's in their best interest to do so.

Honestly, I don't know who Nick Sandermann is and could not care less about what Jane Fonda and Spike Lee are up to on Twitter. You've just pointed out some great examples of why I left it behind a long time ago.

However, as a US citizen, I do care what my president gets up to, even on social media. Given it's outsized influence on our society these days, I'm probably more interested in what the president is saying on social media, where he, and every other politician, seem to be able to get away with saying things they'd never have said on mainstream television or on traditional media not that long ago.
I think it's because "restore tabs on startup" is also the default now. So you won't lose your tabs and this will generally do the right thing.
What was the provenance of/motivation behind (writing) KDrive? I always wondered.
A lot of books are just as bad, especially mainstream non-fiction. May be it's because they're typically written by journalists, but I often see the same awful New Yorker style of spending three pages on a personal story of some scientist in an article about quantum physics.
MacPorts and Nix are fine to use alongside each other.

I recommend using Nix alongside a couple other systems so you have escape hatches.

- Nix
- pkgsrc or MacPorts ‘just in case’ they're more convenient for some package for any reason
- Homebrew, exclusively to use for Casks (which are really a separate system from the rest of Homebrew)

To get the most out of Nix, you'll need to take some time to really learn it. For managing services like postgres, it's nicest to use Nix-Darwin (a module system for managing services and programs, including automatic startup via LaunchD) but if you want to always keep the same Postgres with Nix-Darwin, you'll have to learn how to pin packages.

If you use Nix with Flakes, it'll feel a lot faster (much faster than Homebrew). If you use old-school Nix, it'll be slow if you call some deprecated commands.
>> In Indian there is a distinction between vehicle("yaan") and chariot("rath").

> Clarification: in modern Hindi.

https://kosha.sanskrit.today/word/en/Chariot/sa

You don't know Samskrut, do you?
Unfortunately, at an average price of about $400,000 most of them are not going to be affordable for a typical young first-time buyer.
There is plenty of idle money in the investment world that needs places to go, unfortunately. Homebuyers are still being priced out by institutional investors looking to be long-term landlords. The market consensus right now is that inflation is here to stay for the next decade and bond prices aren’t adjusting accordingly, so there’s a flood of cash into all asset classes to try to hedge.
Well I'm mostly concerned because I am planning to interview soon, and I struggle with them.
If the ingredient in a given product is known to be more environmentally impactful then the sun of the parts is, minimally, representative of those ingredients. It's well known, as you stated, that plants are less impactful on our world. The data linked in my parent comment showcases this. Alt meats are mostly plant based. Processing of livestock vs plants is much more costly, so I'm not sure where the disconnect is.