skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I completely agree that the implicit conversions between arrays and pointers are very bad, in decades of using C and many other programming languages I have seen neither any case when 5 being true is undesirable nor any case when a distinct "Boolean" type is useful.
Google trials new payment options for Android users after regulatory pressure
You may want to spend some time researching the "hackintosh" community. I, too, have a 2012 Mac Pro that's running strong (hexacore, 48GB memory, 1TB NVME drive, 8GB video card). Courtesy of OpenCore (https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/) you can install new(er) versions of macOS on older hardware. I have all the security updates and don't need to update to newer hardware (albeit I did update the GPU and NVME drive, which for my purposes further extended the life of the machine).
Why the Business Model of Open-Source Software Works
Not parent, but here's an example from a past project.

Customer: "Could you make the 'name' field of this entity longer? We need to add longer names."

Me: "Why?"

Customer: "Well, we want to name the entity '2022 - Spring - $500k - Contoso Inc. - Presale stage' so we can find it more easily."

Me: "So what you actually want is to be able to filter/search for entities by all those values, and you're just using the name as a workaround because it's all you have."

Customer: "Well that's how we do it in Excel."
Do you have time to address just one of the points?
Now you need to propose how to implement that in a law.
The reason you aren't finding police comments is because you aren't looking.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/sorrenti-keffals-swatt...

The police confirm the swatting and confirm it was a mistake.
Most phones do not actually turn off. You need to put them in a faraday sleeve. The other options more difficult for many is to use phones with alternative OS such as Graphene, Calyx, Lineage, Linux.. with only safe FOSS apps installed. SIM card mitigations are to switch number to VOIP and only occasionally use burner SIM's or https://invisv.com/pgpp/.
I know not to barge into buildings to steal stuff that doesn’t belong to me and that I know nothing about.
Which also doesn't work with system tray icons. (Although it's possible to install extensions which allow these).
Precisely! Also helps to tap into government subsidies by helping minorities. Both racist and predatory.
I'd like to see some of these techniques put into a directly usable project. This stuff seems a lot like where the VM world is heading, yet doing these things is still a lot harder than it'd need to be.
Wow, yes this definitely was not clear to me as a (longtime) user of GraalVM.

Thanks a lot @kaba0, big-O would be smart put your comment as part of the GraalVM site FAQ for "What is GraalVM".

Cheers.

EDIT: One request for a small clarification

> But this uses the standard javac compiler so it is basically just a slightly different JVM implementation.

What is "this"? Are you referring to TFA?
Perhaps this is another solution to the Fermi Paradox. At some point every race develops their own Instagram or TikTok and people are too consumed by it to notice the asteroid coming towards them.
Don't we all want and do this?
Seems like maybe don’t be cynical outside of your own specialty might be a lesson here.
Agreed. I'm currently using qemu and gdb from an x64 Linux system to debug an aarch64 interrupt problem I'm having. Not the sort of thing you can easily debug on real hardware. I've done similar things with VMware, but as far as I know, that can't do cross architectures like this. It's pretty amazing.
Why is that sad? Influencers are today's actors and movie stars (especially as the latter noticeably age and are not replaced[1]). I don't think we should idolize actors either, but if you have an intuition for why we do then extending it to their equivalent on social media should not be difficult.

[1]: https://www.theringer.com/movies/2022/6/27/23181232/old-acto...
Yeah, why couldn't you ricardobeat? The GP sure didn't mention it in his comment.
Movie stars are productive members of our society too?

Entertainment is valuable.
I would probably have used the word “scrapped”.

This whole thing was a complete failure of bureaucracy from that start and the only entities that deserve any blame are those responsible for leaving nuclear waste in an abandoned facility after being told about it.
Puts aren't a good way to hedge against this because in the event the US empire does collapse, your US dollars won't be of much use. In fact, I'd bet that the stock market will actually shoot up to insane levels because the government response will be more money printing to fund military endeavors.

Probably better to invest in land in places with a (relatively) stable climate, good fresh water supply, and far enough north and high enough in elevation to be protected from the most obvious effects of climate change.
You can sue any government in the U.S., federal, state, or local. It is done all the time.
Correlation does not imply causation however.
> Now it's side-project X from reknowned developer N, or the newly created repo from some known tech firm that somehow has 100 stars already.

"Trending" on social sites always seems to translate to, "here is popular thing that should become more popular because it's already popular."

The extreme preference for externally mediated measures of status never fails to amuse me.
I had a 2009 model until 17, and had security updates all the way, so I'm sure a 2008 model had security updates through 2012.

And even so, you you should be able to install chrome and firefox, so you can enjoy at least a modern browser.

> Advocating obsolte hardware is just wrong.

Strictly speaking it must be the software that is obsolete.
OpenBSD may soon gain further memory protections: immutable userland mappings
> Have you read the book? Seems to me you didn't. It's not even 200 pages long, you can probably finish it in an afternoon if you like.

Gosh, you know, it's hard to squeeze in more books, what with catching up with my Proust and Kafka and Dostoevsky and all that.

Anyhow, in college I did a simulation of Urban Dynamics, in FORTRAN. Does that count?

There were a whole class of doom-sayers back then. Ehrlich was one of them. He wasn't smart enough to avoid saying things that could be checked, like the others were.
Yeah this has been happening a lot recently:
https://www.newsweek.com/russians-keep-mysteriously-falling-...
This is how I understood it to work. When you buy your plane tickets now, that money goes into an escrow account and stays there until you check-in for your flight and is not released until check-in happens. This is why airlines like you to do early check-in.
But now the truck driver or cashier or lawyer or doctor can make TikToks about their profession and become a minor celebrity.

These people are much more interesting than traditional celebrities because they usually have a few good stories or insider tips they can give you. Like "Mr Rice" giving you cleaning tips from his 20 years of experience running a dry cleaning business, "Mechanic Link" doing showing you how involved some car repair tasks are, or the clinical pathologist that tells you about different kinds of carcinomas.
Nifty. Could use some explanation, as not everyone is familiar with the show Countdown (particularly outside the UK).

Even knowing the show, I was a bit confused how I was supposed to solve it using only one operation, until I realized it was a series of steps. And it took me a moment to figure out how to reuse the result of a previous step.

Once I had figured that all out, though, it was a pleasure to use. Well done!
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How is it different than making videogames?
Is James Hoffmann a YouTuber or a batista or an entrepreneur? I don't watch social medias to know a "better" example or not too contrived .
If the point of the Linux desktop is more choices then I'd say Gnome is kinda against that philosophy. They're the Apple of the Linux world and not in a very good way either.
Despite the occasional hate, I think the main benefit of acronyms and initialisms is turning "improper nouns" into proper nouns. "Highly sensitive person" => HSP, e.g. The fact that the acronym obscures is a feature; it prevents people from assuming it's a common noun.
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I've adopted the same philosophy with technical books as with other types of books: I'll buy and keep the "classics" around, but anything that is more fleeting I'll borrow from the library, conduct a web search for the info, or buy digitally.
Eh, everyone wanted to be a rockstar or some sort of celebrity.

At least now they can give it a go for free.

But it does seem like fewer people want to do metalwork or be a mechanic or do electr-ic/onic repairs of some kind.

Many of my peers became welders and they're the ones raking in cash all the time, stable as hell.

Incidentally work that is being outpriced by mass production, proprietary solutions, planned obsolescence and to a lesser degree, automation.
There might be a correlation in the other direction. Successful and wealthy people have a propensity to buying more expensive and flashier planes, which generally equates to faster, which is something an inexperienced pilot should always try to avoid.
10 years later: influencers destroy the world
Once you start following them I think you will find that they are very focused and have been quite successful at not diffusing into other areas.
I spent some time in Vietnam and it’s amazing how often website just block you outright (i believe US BLS is unreachable) or you’re flagged immediately as high risk (understandably since VN rarely prosecuted computer crime that originates there).

Visit the same website from 100km away in Singapore and it’s like your in the US.
> Also, there are mods for the Java server which allow both Java and Bedrock clients to connect to the same server and play together.

How exactly does that work? Afaik there are quite a few behavioral differences between the two, especially for technical things like redstone and pistons.
That's not how it read to me, as bigotry. It read more as, if you work in some sensitive role such as in the government, and you cannot work with Chinese nationals due to that, then the filter makes sense.

I also do agree with the filter itself purely because I ran into the same problem too, lots of Chinese repositories with poor if any English READMEs.
Direct link to the PDF of the manual linked to in the article:

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22273682/fog-data-sci...

Appears the “device IDs” mentioned in the manual are:

- Apple’s Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) or

- Android’s Advertising Identifier.
Movie stars are quasi leaders these days, sadly.
I applaud such diligence.
The question is whether this isn't more a problem with the perception and attitude of the surveyed people. Maybe they have prospect for a decent career, just not as a good as the funny and lazy career they see with influencers.
Unlike the generally terrible plan of trying to become a TV/Movie/Music star, the plan of becoming a social media influencer complements most real careers nicely.

Just like a software engineer can benefit from having a popular blog, a doctor can benefit from having a successful TikTok account, and a lawyer can benefit from having a highly rated podcast.

For some careers like journalism, it's hard to see how someone can become successful without becoming some kind of social media influencer in the process.
You can say no rational person would willingly go start a drug addiction, but people aren't always rational. People already jump through hoops to do drugs. Why do you think nobody extra would try them if was easier? People said the same thing about marijuana and inanely that legalizing it would help fewer people be addicted to smoking. Unsurprisingly though, legalization increased usage by 20%: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/962353

Look at the history of the opioid crisis. It really started becoming a crisis when oxycodone became easy to get a prescription for. Pill mill doctors would give out hundreds of prescriptions a night to be spread through the streets, causing millions more to be addicted. If legalizing opiates helped, Purdue Pharma should have been one of the greatest benefits to public health, no?
> What makes me not full time?

Because "full time" measures time, not productivity:

From Google:

occupying or using the whole of the usual working day or week

From Merriam-Webster:

the amount of time considered the normal or standard amount for working during a given period

From Oxford:

for all the hours of a week during which people normally work or study, rather than just for a part of it

The only way this is a problem is if you think you're getting paid by your output and your employer thinks they're paying you for your (full) time. The easy way to test if this is to check with your employer to make sure they know you actually work 10 to 30 hrs per week and the rest of the time you're on call. If they know and they're good with it, then great there's no problem. If you're not comfortable telling them then that's a problem. In that case you would effectively be a "mouse jiggler".
Me too. Its interesting, I work with a group of visual artists (about 300). Instagram was by far the most popular way for them to share what they were working on.

It seems like it was perfect for that sort of thing, but now it feels like its not sure what it wants to be (stories, and reels and ...)
Yes, that's one thing they got right. More developer accessibility got them more popularity, although it'd be hard for me to quantify it but I definitely see that as one of the factors.
We all want the things we consider good for our children. I want my hypothetical ones to read Buddenbrooks, but I know they're probably going to watch YouTube instead.

Social media stars are an extension of fame, a basic human desire. It's not surprising (or even particularly civically harmful) that fame is now associated with TikTok influencers rather than movie stars. Your child is about as likely to become either.
Not a MAGA so I can't speak for them, but the "root causes" angle is really just a dead end talking point to deflect and allow inaction on this issue.

As long as salaries in the US are double, triple, or more than people can make in their home countries, there will always be more economic migrants than the US system can accommodate. It's a very simple case of supply and demand. No "root causes" strategy is going to change anything about the situation facing destitute, rural laborers in the Northern Triangle countries in the next 5-10 years. It will always make economic sense for them to attempt to immigrate to the US. The only thing that will stop them is a significant deterrence policy from the US government.
> The proper uses of such bivalent phrases is thus one of those knowledge boundaries around groups of people I like to talk about.

They're using "bivalent" improperly. Maybe they mean "bipolar".

Improper Adjectives, if you will.

I think that if you're going to project that you're a grammar expert, you want to temper your communication with a certain amount of humility, lest you err.
Again, Ehrlich isn't one of the contributors to The Limits to Growth so his views are largely irrelevant when the actual contributors to The Limits to Growth don't agree with his doom-saying (at least as presented in the book, maybe some of them do in other contexts). How hard is this concept for you? That's what I was calling out (from someone who wasn't you), you just want to double down on it for some reason that makes zero sense.

If you want to keep bringing irrelevancies into the conversation, fine. Have the last word after this. If you want to not look like an idiot, take 2-3 hours to read the book or at least 20 minutes to skim it and see that it's not Ehrlich-styled doom-saying.
Using open-source to disrupt marketplaces
> EDIT: oh, and heart disease is the #1 cause of death in the US, while heart surgery is one of the most difficult specialties to get in to. They are absolutely never short on patients, lol.

This is still relevant to his concern, but from the other end. They might be making the labor artificially scarce to increase pay.
Here's NASA's prerequisites for becoming an astronaut:

1. Be a U.S. citizen

2. Possess a master's degree in a STEM field, including engineering, biological science, physical science, computer science or mathematics, from an accredited institution.

3. Have at least two years of related professional experience obtained after degree completion or at least 1,000 hours pilot-in-command time on jet aircraft.

4. Be able to pass the NASA long-duration flight astronaut physical.

Effort towards those goals is not wasted even if one does not become an astronaut.
That was my concern. How many states did they test in the US? How many people from each state? LA and NYC are famous for being the cities every theater kid wants to live in, so if too many responses come from them, it seems obvious a huge portion want to be influencers. What about the midwest and south? Do they get the same results there?
He links to his previous coverage of the dispute. It's just a typical FRAND SEP dispute.

This is a USITC case, and the ITC staff is effectively a party to the dispute, they have certain discovery rights. Hence the reason why they are moving to compel.
The US government made money from the 2008 bailout. I don't understand why people think it was free money to the banks. No, they were loans that were fully paid back with interest.
I think I agree here.

GitHub calls itself social coding, but trending fits in poorly with that. When I hit a problem that I think might be solved by open source, telling me that the TypeScript repo is trending gives me exactly zero information.

If we're honest, the Trending tab often seems to mean, "these projects went viral on HN/social media." And I'm not sure why they deserve extra attention, but it follows the general trend of social media being obsessed with perpetuating the Matthew Effect.
> A warrant should be required. A warrant should be a cryptosecure signed file from the judge(s). The search tool should validate the signatures. The parameters in question should also be signed across and be the only allowed inputs.

The issues run deeper. Court orders are widely rubberstamped. Circumventing legal processes like this creates a verneer of judicial review that's meaningless, because "judicial review" should not mean "a judge's eyes have scanned the warrant for the signature line he needs to sign on".

As a cherry on top, things like the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine are pretty unique to the US - most countries don't have something like it, or only forbid using evidence if the manner in which it was gathered was too egregiously illegal, but otherwise it doesn't matter if prosecutors obtained evidence legally or not. It doesn't take a genius to see how that's not exactly conducive for the LE system to stay in their legal lane.
Depends on the sport/path. Where I'm from it's more common to join a provincial sports league than NCAA. They earn a small wage, but often get stiffed on education. With the bonus of sometimes having sustained injuries that stay with them the rest of their lives. I know of a guy who had one too many concussions and found it difficult to concentrate once he left the league - then had to fight the association for funds he was promised. What does that leave a person?
So imagine no tree planting. We'd be well into the negative. Yes, we need other change. But we can't have too many trees, regardless of climate change.
I wonder if this data is being used in trial or being used in warrant applications given that the data can easily be spoofed by providing inaccurate data to these analytics apis?
Most cars last quite a bit longer than 4 years. If the carbon cost was baked into the initial purchase price of the car, the EV would win by miles.

Even if it wasn’t, and you only keep your cars for 4 years, you’d be paying the extra co2 removal fees forever, on every gas car you owned, not just for the first four years, and none of that cost would be capital that you’d get back when you sell the car, whereas you’d recoup quite a bit of the battery cost.

What’s more, more than half the energy usage of a car is during manufacturing, so if you had to pay to remove all of that carbon from the air, both cars would start out 10-15k more expensive, and then the EV wouldn’t seem so bad.
FOSSPatents has blogged extensively about the litigation in question, but I'll summarize:

Apple is trying to short Ericsson on standards-essential patent (SEP) fees that every smartphone manufacturer has to pay. Ericsson has tried to get an iPhone import ban to compel Apple to a licensing discussion. Apple has argued such a ban shouldn't be imposed because iOS users can't just "get an Android". In other words, the exact opposite argument they used about sideloading mobile apps.

Apple's position is basically that they shouldn't have to pay for licensing SEP, but app developers should have to pay for being on iOS. In other words, they have a right to licensing fees but Ericsson doesn't. This is hypocrisy, and Apple is trying to have it both ways because Apple is culturally tainted by Steve Jobs.
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Not true!

Cold welding

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_welding
I'd rather live an extra 9 years than 0.

We're all going to die and an extra 9 years is not bad.
QEMU is fantastic, I use it pretty much every day through UTM on macOS (and it doesn't need any 3rd party kernel extensions because it can take advantage of Apple's Hypervisor framework). I used to just use shell scripts to launch VMs but configuring it via the UI is just much easier, maybe I'm getting old.

https://mac.getutm.app
That's right, and it's illegal for rich and poor alike. That's how you know it's fair.
If only recent USB specs were improvements...