skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their way is to make money - not to fight for political issues.
No, Nebraska is part of the United States.
Is Twitter allowing arbitrary code execution on their platform?
Apart from how cool it looks, isn't this a huge safety concern?
Someone I know had been working for twitter and they said they were blown away at the lack of internal protections built in to the system. I guess it could be a goldmine of data for spies.
>The drumroll never stopped, even to the point of talking about code improvements in a Linux driver—Linux? That’s Intel’s first choice?

This phrase does it, this guy has no clue whatsoever. Baffling.
Apple users don't use SMS—they use iMessage. It's seamless and automatic. All your contacts are automatically there as long as you have a phone number or email address which is an AppleID. It's so seamless most people don't even realize they are using it.
"More likely than not" is already an uncertainty. There's no need to qualify it with further uncertainty.

I'm working with the same information you are. All we know is that it was 28 weeks. That gives it a > 50% survival chance if delivered in a hospital in the US. You might come to a different number if you used different sources, or if you had more information. But "we can't know for certain" is just a truism; nobody's saying we know anything for certain. We're just estimating the probability based on what we do know.
Kotlin solved that in a good way IMO. That alone makes it worth switching
I've never heard this issue ever raised by anyone in real life.

I've only seen it brought up in internet tiffs about how Apple is using green message bubbles to "shame" non-Apple users. Which is similarly straw-graspy.
> In all likelihood, it was healthier than the average child born at 28 weeks

How do you know that about this case? "Statistically speaking" only works when talking about groups, not individuals.
Odd that the defendant used a federal public defender instead of a private attorney and the lack of a plea deal here (in exchange for cooperation?)
> Ali Alzabarah, another former Twitter employee who was also charged in the scheme, fled the country before he could be arrested

Apparently “Alzabarah [is] believed to be in Saudi Arabia” [1].

What the fuck?! Sooner we can decouple from that regime the better in my book.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-former-twitter-employees-...
I don't feel its the biggest pain to be honest, at least not in the .NET world where the Async API is so persuasive. I don't think the paradigm would suit Java - the API changes to make it ubiquitous would make it take too long to add value. People seem to code with it (the Async workflow) just fine, and it's a decent model to write some async algorithms. For example firing a few in parallel, starting a task but leaving it running and awaiting it later, etc. The advantage for me is that there is some overhead with Async dispatch - the abstraction of coroutines, green threads, etc is cheap but isn't free and maybe seeing where it could prop up isn't always a bad thing. There is value in knowing that an operation could be async, at least in my time programming and it has a cost that you may not want to pay, defer, delegate to someone else, etc especially in hot loops (e.g. IO).

As a single anecdote working in both languages in my current job in a cross platform environment when having to write Java it feels just that bit more painful, and just that bit harder to get the same performance for the class of apps I write. YMMV.
^ This.

Cast a wider net. It's just a numbers game.

And to be clear, in this instance you never reached the point of receiving an offer. It's just a job post, the job may not even really exist. All you know is that someone created the listing, beyond that it's meaningless.
Number of Russian/Soviet planes on Russian commercial flights has been close to zero for quite a long time because of exploitation costs, lack of large scale production in post-Soviet times, tightened international standards, etc. It was easier to make money by leasing foreign planes, so civil aviation industry went poof. It is unlikely that parts of old Soviet planes could used in Boeings and Airbuses.
Don't miss this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20489273 (edit: from kps via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32400756 - thanks!)

The OP has been posted so many times that even 10+ years ago people would mention how often it had already appeared. Yet there have been surprisingly few interesting discussions, either of the original story or in related threads. These are all I could find. If there are others, please let me know!

The Story Of Mel - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7869771 - June 2014 (77 comments)

The story of Mel (1983) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678999 - June 2009 (22 comments)

The story of Mel, a Real Programmer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181144 - May 2008 (9 comments)

Related threads:

Mel's Loop – A Comprehensive Guide to The Story of Mel - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31458048 - May 2022 (2 comments)

LGP-30 – A Drum Computer of Significance - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20484330 - July 2019 (39 comments)

The Story of Mel Explained - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9913835 - July 2015 (25 comments)
No but not updating the default for 10 years in a way that mostly affects only Android users seems like borderline malfeasance to me.
> It does that with a UEFI which lives... where? Oh right, on the chip.

No, UEFI is firmware stored on a flash chip on the motherboard, usually connected to the CPU through the LPC bus. CPUs do not have any nonvolatile storage onboard (unless you count eFuses).
Out of curiosity, how does someone possibly get 100k+ IP addresses? I had enough trouble getting 1 public IP address.
Why would a high suit shmoozing media partnership manager have access to user info? Seems like an issue of data access at Twitter.
I remember the first time I walked into a gallery and saw that someone had stenciled "FUCK" on the wall and the docent was smugly explaining about how artistically creative it was. Nah, sometimes a "FUCK" is just a "FUCK."

So-called modern art is, at best, a money laundering scheme, and other applications go downhill from there.

That's not to say there aren't tons of gifted and talented artists making art today, they just aren't who you're going to see in the galleries.
Setting aside that thinking of pregnancy as a "parasitic relationship" is a somewhat deranged perspective that very few people likely share, we have a rather robust toolkit for dealing with this problem that doesn't have to tread on moral gray areas: contraception, plan b, pregnancy tests.

I'm also not saying pregnancies shouldn't be terminable by choice, to be clear. I'm inquiring about how we justify placing the line where it is in the usual standard.
I think I would enjoy retirement more. I like programming and technology when it's not for work.

Problem is I need need to work to retire. And I'm pretty sure I don't have the business skills or drive to start my own thing. So here I am. I don't feel like a victim. It's just reality and I accept it.
Coincidentally, it definitely feels like something GPT-ish wrote this piece.
I've been writing valuable software (with corresponding recompense) for over ten years and have never seen a case where this kind of thing was vital for meaningful performance. Yes, languages without this are never going to write the world's fastest grep (or at least, not without further work that is not currently a priority), but as far as I can see that's just as much of an artificial microbenchmark as measuring how fast your chosen language can loop 1000 times.
The puke-green text bubbles from android and calm-blue bubbles from iMessage always struck me as very intentional.
There's a subtle problem in the proposed solution: if an error happens after you already started writing the response, you can't change the http status code.

So, what should you do with an error that happens while writing the HTTP response itself? Maybe keep statistics on how often it happens, in case happens often enough that it seems relevant for debugging. But there's no good way to report an error to the client because the network connection is likely broken.

If you're not going to keep statistics, dropping errors from writing an http response is reasonable and arguably correct.
> how much work would have been involved in getting this release open sourced

Close to no actual effort (the headers are autogenerated). However there was probably a lot of work behind the scenes with their legal team/whatever to clear the release.

About the shader ISA, I wish I knew. It's certain that the documentation exists, because they provide it to some developers (I've been told the Maxwell ISA docs are part of the Nintendo Switch SDK), so it's not like they have to write it from scratch.

And AMD provides full docs about it [1] (not sure about Intel), so I don't see how it could provide a significant edge over their competition. Maybe raytracing instructions? But for a motivated reverse engineer this stuff isn't impossible to figure out. I think it's down to company culture and inertia.

[1] https://developer.amd.com/wp-content/resources/RDNA2_Shader_...
You think My Lai was justified and not an atrocious war crime? How about Agent Orange?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes#Vie...
https://color.a11y.com/ContrastPair/?bgcolor=3cd882&fgcolor=...

The colours do not pass the A11Y standards, which means people with poor eyesight can't read the messages properly.

This did made me curious to see if the blue background passes - and it doesn't either. https://color.a11y.com/ContrastPair/?bgcolor=047aff&fgcolor=...

At least the blue background passes WCAG AA with larger sized text, while the green doesn't pass at all.
> I believe we are at an all time high with the need and use of antidepressants and co.

And I am glad people are getting help they need. I wish more were.
Uwe Boll: Money for Nothing (2005)
So many different uses for maps. I use different apps for different purposes. While Google Maps have the commercial info, it is poor as a recreational map (hiking etc). For that I use Locus Map. For car navigation I have started to use HERE. And then there are the official websites, such as in Sweden Lantmäteriet, with property borders etc that Google has nothing on. So I choose app depending on use.
As an iPhone user I do not like EU dictating how Apple software should work at all. The same with chargers as well.

Sure we can all have a discussion about how it should work - but having bureaucrats decide is the worst idea ever.
At least Google maps usually makes it easy to compare 2 or 3 different route options and let you choose which makes the most sense. But I agree it should more heavily discount "dangerous" manoeuvres, or at least ones that could potentially take far longer than the average time.
As far as whether such directions contribute to gridlock, I'm not so sure - in principle if everyone followed directions generated by the same algorithm with access to "live data", it should significantly help reduce it. It'll be interesting once all cars are self-driving/self-navigating whether that proves to be true, and whether there might end up being fundamental conflicts between different algorithms used by different makes of vehicle.
I can't stand this attitude. People who think like you on this do a lot to help move the surveillance society and the potential for turnkey repression forward endlessly. No evil reasons needed, but a constant stream of self absorbed platitudes of "oh but it's so convenient, I hope everyone else has to do it too, and make trivial things even easier for me". These of course remain blind to any perspective of how history has shown governments and criminal organizations using the ability to track everything for creating easy victims of others. No matter though right? As long as it saves you from having to carry a few ounces of wallet around because oh, it's such a "relic." Sooner or later basic privacy, anonymity and the freedoms that are bound to these can also become complete relics of the past, but I suppose that will be a relief, because so much will be convenient.
Is there another reporting besides „The Sun“?
Assuming that by 'adoption' you mean, regular use of the product.

There is also expectation management, which is an important aspect in marketing. The goal here is to set the expectation of a future user at the actual value the product delivers to the user. This can go wrong in two ways:
1. Underdeliver - user will be disappointed, i.e. negative user experience.
2. Overdeliver - user will be content, but expects you to overdeliver in the future as well, which you will not be able to do indefinitely.

My point is: it is key to manage expectations of future users. Pointing out both strengths and weaknesses of the product makes sure expectations match actual value and make for an overall positive user experience when evaluating for adoption.
I don't love RCS[0], but Apple implementing it (including the E2EE extensions) would strike a huge blow to messaging fragmentation immediately, at least in the US.

Hell, Apple doesn't have to ditch iMessage; they just have to support RCS for messaging with Android users, or group messaging with mixed Android/iOS devices.

I would also (grudgingly) accept an opening of the iMessage protocol so Google could implement it in the Android Messages app. Not ideal by any measure, and I figure Apple would never do this (and I suspect Google would hypocritically not want to do this anyway), but it would at least improve things.

The thing that's sad overall is that the current state of affairs is just a result of an anti-consumer corporate pissing match. The only losers here are the users, both on iOS and Android. And meanwhile both Apple and Google get to tout the benefits of their preferred solution as if they're both the good guys, fighting for their users. When in reality they're merely fighting for their own market dominance.

[0] Tying messaging to your carrier is just a continuation of the crappy SMS "portability" experience. Sure, most RCS backend implementations are currently provided by Google, but one thing I'd like to see would be the ability to select your RCS provider. Maybe others would crop up if this were an option, and if RCS were actually popular.
I’m partial to the theory that liberalizing institutions and culture happens first, and liberal democracy can come only after that.

Fareed Zakaria is a proponent of this theory from the left: https://www.amazon.com/Future-Freedom-Illiberal-Democracy-Re...

Jonah Goldberg is a proponent of this theory from the right: https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/off-the-shelf-suicide...
Thanks, I appreciate your reply.

The Framework laptop (which has been in the news lately) looks like it fits into the thin/light category (< 3 lbs), with integrated graphics rather than discrete. The thunderbolt port supports an eGPU and external display, so it might work for these types of use-cases.

Alternatively, there are these from Origin (which have Nvidia discrete GPUs):

- https://www.originpc.com/gaming/laptops/evo14-s/
- https://www.originpc.com/workstation/laptops/nt-14/ -- appears to be the same as the Evo14?
No way 30-50% is enough. You need 2x at least, if not more. There is a deep rooted ecosystem of CUDA apps. You would need to have at least 2-3 generations of 2x lead to get people to switch.
But perhaps you want to read the article to learn the facts of what happened?
I'm not going to write a trieste on why my abilities were unique and let me write this software beyond to say I had worked in that specific industry for a long while, but there were not many people that could have pulled it off. When I left, they had to replace me with significantly more people at a significantly higher cost and it cost their growth and stock price quite a bit.
It's not a "default", it's an indicator of how the message was sent.
The Green is historical, not a specific decision by Apple to hinder reading texts.

Before iOS 5, and the release of iMessage, all messages on iOS were green.

That Google is painting this as something else speaks to how disingenuous this whole conversation has gotten, in all corners.
> The french revolution set back by decades the transition to democracy.

This point requires justification. There’s no evidence that democracy would have arrived in France without revolution.
Twitter or Facebook is one thing, but imagine the iCloud hacks (not the ones which exfiltrated porn, some apparently single actors using home connections) but those from nation states targeting individuals.

I'm sure the death toll is large and the harassment tool even higher.
Remember, the color of the bubbles only changes for messages YOU send, not messages you receive. Received messages are always black on grey.
Afaik, a malloc is not guaranteed to return fast. With those requirements it's hard even in C.
I am looking to hire, what I call, at least one mid-level developer for the company I am currently working for. A mid-level because the company needs them to be productive within a couple of months and it's not currently practical to train anybody who is too junior. There's a lot of work to be done and you need the experienced people doing the work rather than training the less experienced team members. I've been trying to set expectations and argue that you need to invest and train but I need to balance all of this with business needs at the end of the day.

As an aside, I find that labeling of junior and mid-level and senior very confusing because I've been interviewing people who claim they're experienced but don't even understand the basics. And I am not talking about algorithms or white boarding or live coding or any of that nonsense.

This is in Australia but may not be country-specific. The job ads I've been noticing for the past couple of years are asking for an increasing amount and level of experience for their roles so I agree with you that it will be a problem in the future.
Something like that, ain’t a plan in my eyes. But yeah, what’s exactly what’s wrong with plan. God forbid you have to book appointment and arive somewhere to get it resolved…
That's actually a great point. I was coming from Windows at that point in time and the contrast alone in UI consistency was huge. But then again, it seems like the MS mantra has always been 'anything goes' when it comes to UI.

Maybe I'm just having my "old man yells at cloud" moment and I'm annoyed things are changing.
Why do most YC startups go nowhere?
Supposedly 99%+ of all startups of any kind (products, restaurants, etc) fail within a few years of launching. Fail = shut down.

Even most YC startups fail, despite of all the support.

This is problematic because it discourages founders on the margin from launching a startup.

More so in a downturn after a period of exuberance in the tech and crypto markets.

Increasing founder success rate at every stage of the startup journey-- idea, build, launch, grow, pmf--would have the double impact of more successful startups encouraging more new founders.

Seems to me we need a way for founders to reward the world for helping them grow at every stage-- incentivizing early believers, collaborators, adopters, growth hackers, etc-- the way YC is incentivized to help their founders-- because they share in the upside.

These don't have to be securities, or even onchain assets, rather they can start as closed-loop reward coins that can be evolved to confer ownership and/or be onchain.

To see an example of how this might work, please check out https://www.producthunt.com/posts/freemance.
Intel doesn't implement CUDA, but they're working on a CUDA to DPC++ (their parallel programming language) migration tool to make the jump less painful. I've tested some of the NVIDIA samples with it and it seems to do the vast majority of the grunt work, but there are still some sections where refactoring is required. You can find it in the OneAPI base toolkit.
I wish Apple would give me a way to filter junk SMS texts via a regexp or something, without needing a third-party app.
Not happening until the oil runs out in the eastern desert and gulf.
He fled the country probably had no reason plans of defending himself.
But Facebook isn’t incorporated in Nebraska
There are legal means to force the recipient to send back erroneously sent funds in bank payment systems, the transactions themselves are generally non-reversible (some banks learnt that the hard way after accidentally sending money to Lehman Brothers after their collapse). The same rules apply to blockchains too, and people have successfully demanded refunds where the other party was known. It seems that the reason you're seeing a tiring amount of seemingly false claims is that your own information set isn't exactly correct.
Exactly. They're giving the least information possible to formulate a coherent headline which is technically accurate. If they told the truth in the headline, it would get WAY more clicks. These are clicks they don't want.
Also, "If true, this is a pretty minor change from R1 zoning."

Totally wrong. Even if you were increasing population density 1 to 1 (substantially more so with each unit) that is a 2X, 3X, and 4X increase in population density alone.
SMS that is not usable from all my other non-phone computers!

For this reason alone, I greatly prefer iMessage/discord/slack/whateverIsNext so I can use it on my phone and my computers.
I'm not the author of that comment, but going by the HN credo that we should steelman (assume the most charitable interpretation of) their remark, "whiteness itself" has nothing to do with people's inherent genetic makeup, but with the creation of "whiteness" (and other modern day races) as a category. In other words, that a lot of problems started when people in the 15th-16th centuries developed philosophical, moral, and religious (and centuries later, scientific) frameworks under which racism could be formalized as a part of the political economy, justifying the horrors to come, such as genocide, chattel slavery, anti-miscegenation laws, lebensraum, apartheid, etc. Perhaps it's debatable as to whether philosophical racism is responsible for later atrocities, or if it was more of a post-hoc excuse, a way to resolve the cognitive dissonance resulting from humans continuing to treat great swathes of other human beings like scum even while our understanding of universal human rights developed in leaps and bounds.
I think I understand what your goal is.

I also firmly believe it can only backfire spectacularly. What you are explicitly advocating is asymmetric FUD "for the good guys".

And it's not like people won't notice the scrolling and re-draw of the app; I've experienced it myself and it's a massive deal breaker for regular usage :| . If anything, saying "I enjoy this app even with this crappy aspect", may help people get over that initial, immediate hump and see the value in rest of the product.
> the vast majority are individuals protecting their privacy.

i get your point but i don't know if it's true. on various occasions, i've wanted to (1) anonymize my funds before sending them to a discreet cause and (2) generate return on the funds i hold long term. for (1) i specifically avoid TC because going through a tumbler points a huge target of "this is suspicious activity", thereby drawing more attention to me specifically (attention isn't good for privacy). for (2) TC became an appealing place to park ETH particularly after ETH-denominated yields plummeted during this last DeFi crash (TC pays fees to the mixing pool). do we know how much of that "90% of non-hacked funds" involved in TC were provided by privacy advocates v.s. good ol' capitalists seeking returns from laundering?
You aren't disagreeing with me, you're agreeing with me. You're saying that ethical and moral claims are context dependent, not absolute. Such claims include claims that, for example, abolishing slavery or lynching is an "improvement". Which is exactly my point.
how did they try him in absentia? I'm pretty certain that's illegal in the united states.