skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote the article. The legal threats I cited were not and are not a fabrication.

I did not write these other articles covering it:

https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007...

https://www.mercurynews.com/2007/05/15/microsoft-says-linux-...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2566211/study--linux-m...
Is there anyone alive that had their first drink at 21?
Transform tacit APL into dfn form
The problems here will really start when someone notices that:

1. Everyone is using US based web browsers and operating systems.

2. Those systems do a variety of "phone home" tasks like phishing checks, OCSP checks, translations, search auto predictions etc.

What happens when CNIL follows its own logic further and bans Chrome, Android, iOS, Windows and macOS?
Jack Ma Plans to Cede Control of Ant Group
The average American watches 5 hours of TV each day, 2/3 of the shows are about physical violence. The entertainment industry is a propaganda for the gun industry because people feel that violence is everywhere, and that guns are needed for protection.

Research on the effects of viewing violence found a desensitizing effect, especially for children. People become less sensitive to the pain and suffering of others and more fearful of the world. This effect is much less pronounced for video games, which tend to not dramatize violence.

There is a reason we try to curtail violence in the media in Europe. When you engage with a fantasy many hours a day, it becomes your reality.
>> 99% won't

Which is why corporations should not really be able to decide for the 99%. I won't blame Mozilla for trying this in the environment where it's possibly their only way to survive. It's really quite telling Firefox Suggest is only available in the USA.
This is a good idea but there is tension between this straightforward approach and the fact that, on macos, docker is running in a VM so it's inherently slower.
Fantastic. One thing that can be added is that since 2021, everything became 50 shades of purple.

And I mean annoyingly forced things that should never be that color.

Example: the other day I saw some youtube video of upcoming videogames and many of them have, somehow, parts of purple smoke in fire explosions, the engine exhaust of the Millenium Falcon going from its classic light blue to purplish, lights and shadows that do not match the natural environment forced to subtle purplish.

Not to mention the mandatory login screen of macOS Monterrey.
> People will do all sorts of unsavoury jobs if the pay is high enough. Plenty of people work night shifts in various jobs.

One would think...

Problem is that people that are willing to do that are not that many as you imagine.

Maybe where you come from people would kill themselves for money, but not here.

You know who would do almost anything to get a job and become better integrated with society while also feeling better about themselves?

Immigrants.

> If I offered to pay you $10,000/night as a waiter in a restaurant, I guess you would take the job. I would.

Surprise, I would not.

My best friends have restaurants and pubs, if I ever wanted to do that job I would already do that.

But it's not my job, it's not what I am good at and if someone gave me $10,000 night to do that job I would feel like a fraud. Also I would imagine that if you pay me that much, one that is actually good at the job is being paid at least 2x that amount, because I really suck at that!

People have consciences, believe it or not not everyone is a money-slut.

I'm much better off doing my job, which is what I really like to do.

But back on topic: if you offer a waiter 2,000 euros / month + tips (it's a very good salary in Italy) and they stop coming at work after a few days "because I wanted to go to the beach with my friends" there's something different going on, which is not "not enough money".

Besides: there are many psychological studies that point out that people would accept lower salaries for more meaningful jobs or better work/life balance and that they work more willingly if it's a favor to someone (even if it's people they do not know) and/or for free than for a paid position, where they feel like they are only doing it for the money but don't really wanna do that. So they prefer to say no to the money and don't do the thing at all.

Correlations have been found.

For example, I would push someone on a wheelchair for free, but if they offered me money to do it, I would politely refuse with an excuse, because it's not something I wanna do for money (not that I do not like money in general, it's that I do not want to do it as a job, paying someone it's exactly that: hiring the person for the job)
I don't think anyone feels like the US shouldn't have its own culture -- definitely not more so than other places. If anything, the US injects its culture everywhere, due to entertainment being a primary export. And most of it is completely fine. People may shake their heads at certain things, much like you guys shake your head at the thought of not feeding your guests. But that's fine.

It's just that (sorry for using such a provocative word) the entire war/gun-fetishism is weird af for most outsiders. The way I see it, it's at least equal parts culture and excessive lobbying/brainwashing. And it shows in things like being fine with exposure to violence from a young age. Contrast that to people freaking out at nudity, and it makes for a silly juxtaposition.
And you're a fascist too. Nevermind what happens when child support is grossly negligently miscalculated (if calculated at all) or if an abusive mother is always preferred to a loving father. Wikipedia knows best (page cannot be edited).
I wrote the article and I specifically covered why that happened.

Novell bought SUSE. Then Novell bought Ximian, the GNOME company that wrote Nautilus ("Files") and Evolution.

The Novell forcibly merged SUSE and Ximian.

https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/12755/
Yes, I'm totally ok with that (I have three kids). What's going to happen? Will they faint? Die? They will probably laugh.

In Rome there were statues of Dionysus sporting a huge erection everywhere. It wasn't a problem.

In Italy today still, you can find postcards of him in the same position. (Granted, they are statues, not images in the flesh, but they're pretty realistic.)

I would have a problem with an adult sending nude pictures of themselves to my kids. But I would confront them myself, I don't need Apple's help in preventing it from ever happening like it's a horrible risk.

It's nothing. Really one of the least important problems ever.
Very few people seem to have actually read the post.

Apple aren't banning anything. They're detecting nudity, and asking you if you're sure. And that's only if you've turned this on!

I can think of several women I know who would quite like to have had a warning about incoming nudity before it appeared.

More information is better than less. I don't see a problem here at all.
What does Google have to do with scanning all a customers data? It's something they have already been doing for years.

For instance, this article from 2014:

>Google scans everyone's email for child porn, and it just got a man arrested

https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/5/5970141/how-google-scans-y...
I don't understand why vC's would think this way:

"While this is a lower margin business than software’s traditional 90%, we expected to be able to get to a 50% margin in time.

It took me way too long to realize that VCs would rather a $1b business with a 90% margin than a $5b business with a 50% margin, even if capital requirements and growth were the same.

And growth would be the same. The biggest limiter of autonomous deployments isn’t sales, it’s safety."

In either case, returns are gated on fleet deployments, and the teleoperator approach seems more likely to deploy sooner at scale. Is it that VC's in this case were not investing in logistics, but in AI?
You probably could, but that would be less useful than you think.

There are two machines that you care about with a compiler: the machine the compiler is running on ("Host"), and the machine the compiler is producing code for ("Target").

Generally we use a compiler with the same Host and Target - if you use Rust on x64-Windows you get a binary that runs on x64-Windows. If you use it on ARM-Linux you get a binary that runs on ARM-Linux. What you are talking about is making a compiler that would run on all Hosts, but it would take different work to make it be able to produce code for all Targets. So you'd produce a compiler that targeted x86-Windows and it would run on x86-Linux but still produce code for x86-Windows. It would also NOT be able to run on ARM-Linux.

[For completeness there's actually three machines we talk about with compilers - in addition to Host and Target there is also "Build". This allows you to cross-compile your compiler. For example you want to build your compiler on x86, you want the resulting compiler to run on ARM, and when it runs it produces code for RISC-V. Here Build is x86, Host is ARM and Target is RISC-V.]
>Were these ads a lie

As the parent you're replying to notes, this ad was bullshit, not a lie. A lie cares about the truth. It has to, in fact, follow the truth up till a specific and very carefully chosen point, and a good liar learns to maintain and update an elaborate concurrent model of the world in their head, one thread for the actual world, and one thread per each independent lie they told. Bullshit doesn't give a shit, a bullshitter literally couldn't care less there is something out there beyond them that they have to match at least roughly in broad outlines. A lie is a well-aimed sniper rifle, bullshit is a spraying gatling gun.

It's like the difference between being evil and being a psychopath, most evil people either believe that they are good and doing good (and devise elaborate reality filters to maintain that belief), or that they are good but are forced or tempted by things outside of their control into doing bad. Some might even believe they are fundamentally bad and those are either pursuing redemption (however half-heartedly) or believe that they are beyond redemption but hate themselves every second. No such inner live for the psychopaths, they just can't get their head around the idea of moral obligations, the notion of doing things even if they are not useful or favorable to you, because you would like others to do them for you if the situations are reversed. The Golden Rule is Quantum Mechanics to them. Evil people and liars are trying to win the game of being good and\or truthful despite breaking the rules, bullshitters and psychopaths can't even get themselves to understand\care about the game or its rules, let alone caring about winning or losing.

This is one of the reasons I refuse to buy Apple on principle. Aside from the practical reason of a hilariously inflated pricing and an exploitative business model, the supreme disrespect to your intellect and moral worth is their marketing, to them your're not an adult to be told factual things about the product or even amusing lighthearted jokes about the product or shown sexy women holding the product or any advertising strategy that treat you as someone of an independent desire who must be convinced or tempted into buying the product. No, you're a child who should be coddled with stories whose point is that you're better and happier than others when you buy the product. Like a cult, "join the chosen people".
>>You seem to be discussing the system Apple never implemented.

What gave it away? The fact that I originally replied to the comment which was discussing that never released CSAM scanning system?

>>I am discussing the system that has just been announced.

So as I suspected, you are arguing against an argument I have never made.

>>How do Google customers opt out of that?

How do I opt out of you asking about Google if literally no part of my argument was about Google?
$10/mo for syncing 3MB of text is what failed Obsidian for me. They wouldn't offer a reduction.
What about some soviet brutalism then? https://designyoutrust.com/2021/07/impressive-examples-of-so...
I wrote it, and the specific perspective that I wrote it from is a matter of published record. What more do you want?

https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/patent-suit-against-red-h...

https://www.theregister.com/2004/11/18/ballmer_linux_lawsuit...
"Please read another book" is more overused than Harry Potter references these days. Super popular media is referenced because people will probably get the reference.

If I start busting out War and Peace plot points I'm going to look like an uppity dickhead and nobody will get what I'm on about.

"Read another book" is just another way to shut down a conversation, usually when someone's ran out of real arguments but still wants to feel superior. You either get the reference and we're good to continue talking or you don't, you tell me, I'll state it in a different way.

I read 2-6 books a month, I'd reference some of them but the people following the thread probably have not read the book and then how do I get upvotes out of that?
Searching for Shapes in Neural Activity
Desert bus was designed to be bad though. Which many consider a disqualification from worst game.

Big rigs on the other hand...
Funny how nobody remembers how OpenGL thing was SGI’s proprietary API designed to replace the standard, cross platform PHIGS.
10kWp is not enough during winter (november-february) in most of Europe. It would be enough only if you heat by using something else (like gas), not heat pump.
And cars. Curves with higher-order continuity is why modern cars have such interesting smoothly curved surfaces.
Not a bouncy castle: Hadrian’s Wall fort rebuilt in wild colour
I think nudges are supposed to be subtle enough that you don't notice them.
And probably for every not so subtle manipulation we notice there are 5 we don't notice.
Two things:

As the saying goes: if all you have is a hammer, every problem resembles a nail. You can validly say "I've never actually needed a screwdriver", even if the screwdriver might have been more useful for the job at hand.

It also depends on what domain you're working in. I just happen to have been working on a Python/JS GUI to operate a Robot this past month. Interfacing with the Robot did require use of bits and bytes. Fortunately both Python and Javascript do support those operations for just those kinds of situations.

So while I do agree that some jobs can be done in javascript and python where you can avoid needing bits and bytes, that's my two answers:

1) Bits and bytes sure can come in handy at times. They might be the best tool for some jobs.

and

2) For some jobs you really do need to manipulate bits and bytes. You can't avoid them forever.

So if you like writing a lot of different kinds of programs for a lot of different kinds of things, you're almost certain to end up using bits and bytes sooner or later. Do that often enough and it does tend to stick. That includes Python and Javascript.
Instead of elems = $(selector, context), use elems = […context.querySelectorAll(selector)]

Instead of $.get(), use await fetch()

Instead of .on(eventtype, handler), use elem.addEventListener(eventtype, handler)

Instead of .animate(), use CSS animations
YES! I've introduced ts-to-zod into my codebase only yesterday, and it's served my needs exactly. It doesn't handle generics or mapped types, but that's a fair price to pay.

It also works the other way, you can define a zod schema and you can infer types for your data from it.

https://github.com/fabien0102/ts-to-zod
Not really. I interpreted the quote in context of the whole, which you did not do.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-trans...
No, fallout 76 was borderline unplayable for a large amount of the user base and suffered from such a huge amount of game breaking issues it was a total scam to release when it did.

It has since been patched up and is playable, but on release it deserved every bit of criticism it got.

Now the main issue with it is monetisation, which is a divisive topic.
You have to register to vote in the US. Your name and signature are already on a list at the polling place. You can bring your voter registration card.
The Unlikely Rise of the French Tacos (2021)
I wrote it.

The basis is a formal legal threat from Microsoft, widely recorded all over the web even now.

https://www.technewsworld.com/story/patent-suit-against-red-...

I specifically wrote this comment on Reddit because everyone has forgotten about it now.
Poetry has path dependencies and the develop flag to enable the same editable functionality

https://python-poetry.org/docs/dependency-specification/#pat...
Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
He did explain why - he thinks the linked article is nonsense. What more could he write?

It isn't like this is some scientist throwing out a fact about nature and needs to give further evidence - Miguel de Icaza's opinion in and of itself was a pretty influential part of the decisions made at the time. He is qualified to know his own opinion.

The article does look like bunk anyway, there were a lot of MS threats around at the time but it was never picked out as a serious part of GNOME's decision making.
Guns owned by individuals in the US are not used in wars.

We could blur faces if that's really the one problem preventing sharing gore images of school shootings. Somehow I doubt that's the reason though.
The base reality ("I am only sexually attracted to other men") has existed since time immemorial, the cultural conditions for expressing that reality change as the ages change.

This is no different to now, it was only in 2007 that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed there were no gays in Iran. In various nations you can survey the populace and find wildly varying amounts of homosexuality, all correlating closely with LGBT acceptance. Even now I have muslim friends who are gay and openly tell me that they intend on suppressing their desires for their entire life so as to provide a family and not disappoint their parents.
45N is basically northern Mediterranean; most of Europe does not have similar climate. It does not work fine even at 48N during november-february.
How many citations would you require before you believe it?

https://www.mercurynews.com/2007/05/15/microsoft-says-linux-...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2566211/study--linux-m...

https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007...

https://www.theregister.com/2004/11/18/ballmer_linux_lawsuit...

https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/patent-suit-against-red-h...

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240057754/Open-source-i...
(2020)

https://gist.github.com/atkinson/262b95188398ba5f1ef35800db3...
It sounds like that would be the case but imagine every two pizza team has one or two new junior person and occasionally a senior person: you can actually absorb that at the team level in a reasonably pragmatic way. Not to say it's not inefficient or unnecessary; I just mean each team is creating its own work essentially in their narrow niche and feels it can absorb more engineering bandwidth into that niche... whether this is efficient in a macro sense is a separate question
It's true tho that big companies that never really let floaters go tend to have tons of them around
I’m sure that’s what professional nudgers like to think, but I certainly feel like I see them all over the place.
> ex. ads are the primary source of malware

This doesn’t make logical sense. Ads are a source of malware because it’s a convenient way to distribute content to many people. Email is also a significant source of malware for the same reason.

A better example might be that excessive and unnecessary data collection by a system that gives you limited visibility over use and limited control, exposes you to a higher possibility of security incident. But that isn’t intrinsically true if the data is properly secured.

I tend to agree with the inverse; bad security is probably not good for your privacy.
martial arts. gets me away from the computer and gets me moving
Why does my phone care that my preferred attire for writing iMessages is none?
Email can be personal information but does not have to be, and no, you don't have to register with an email at all for HN, that's just nonsense, and your own account is pretty much proof of this.
Rio Tinto - operating remote trucks since 2015

> Mining giant Rio Tinto is running pits at its Yandicoogina and Nammuldi mine sites, with workers controlling the driverless trucks largely from an operations centre in Perth, 1,200 kilometres away.

> Josh Bennett manages the mining operations at Yandicoogina mine north west of Newman and is closely involved with running 22 driverless trucks on the site.

That was then and much has happened since.

> In 2018, each truck was estimated to have operated on average 700 hours more than conventional haul trucks, with 15% lower costs – delivering clear productivity benefits. They also take truck operators out of harm’s way, reducing the risks associated with working around heavy machinery.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-18/rio-tinto-opens-world...

[2] https://www.riotinto.com/en/about/innovation/automation
I wish people would just forget about pre-commit, this thing is especially useless in a setting where a CI/CD pipeline exists. It's not that hard to write a simple Makefile or shellscript to run linters on push.

Pre-commit is one of the most annoying tools that have come into existence in recent years that everyone seems to be cargo-culting. It doesn't play well with editors since in order to find the actual binary path, you'd have to open up a sqlite database to fish out the virtualenv pre-commit created. Pre-commit also increases maintenance burden, since its configuration is completely separate from your usual requirements-dev.txt/pyproject.toml/setup.cfg etc. If you have dev dependencies in one of these files because making your editors to find the pre-commit created binaries are hard, now you have to keep both versions in sync.

I really don't see the point of any pre-commit hooks unless you are the one guy that doesn't use a modern CI/CD platform.
> Are you saying that "game journalism" (really, "writing about games") is discredited more than writing about film or food or fashion?

Yes, by a mile. Columns about films, food, fashion (or sports for that matter) in major newspapers are usually curated by people who at least understand the medium that's the object of their critical review.

The video game world is halfway between influencer wannabes and AAA studio shills.
That's not selfish - we only have so much time. The expectation that one should engage with everybody all the time will lead to misery. It's totally okay to say " no thanks, have a nice day"
Edit: I realize your pointing out the prudence of an upfront decision of whether or not to engage means we probably agree here, I just consider the word selfish to be a bit harsh
“PV Diverters” supposedly remedy that problem. They use current transformers to detect when the home’s solar supply is outstripping its demand, and then switch on power consuming devices like electric water heating / air conditioning so the power isn’t wasted.
Yes, but that's not using the site, that's logging the IP.
I never saw it that way... But you are right, how would Outlook know that I want to send an attechment without reading my email in the first place. Still hope Outlook isn't reading the attachment so...
I think that's because many market participants make bets on other people's expectations rather than anything fundamental. That's why the market is always wrong ;-)