skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Industry the True Costs of False Positives in Software Security
Not for randomly drinking on the weekends.
This is such a weird argument to me. Yes that's the legal framework we are living under, but I think it is pretty far from any intuitive sense of ownership. Software is quite strange in the way it allows something we own, and keep in our home, to be controlled in large part by some third party at a distance.

For instance, imagine if you had a car such that the company which made it controlled where you could drive it to, and which stations you could stop at to buy gas. Would that make sense to anyone?
> we know that the IETF put out an IPR on Opus years ago

As in, over a decade ago.

(Though they are covering more recent work in their patent pool, explicitly including stuff that they declare the planned program will not be directed toward.)
this is a good point
TLDR; they reprocess natural silk from silkworms to produce silk fibers with better tensile strength. This is partly achieved by doing a better job of washing out non-strong compounds from the fiber, so the yield is strictly lower than that for natural silk. This process still involves boiling silkworms alive.

This contrasts from biotech based fibers, e.g. https://boltthreads.com/technology/microsilk/ , which is produced by genetically modified yeast.
It's bizarre for people living in a democracy to consider an elected president's possible use of nuclear weapons "not preventable in any remotely deterministic way" when said president goes on TV and openly calls for nuclear escalation.
Yeah, definitely not in total volume, but proportionally I suspect it’s a good amount. Not because PM is bad but because gmail is ubiquitously mainstream.

I mean, there’s some reason you’re being sent to spam. And it’s not anything about PM’s configuration, they use solid defaults that should make default spam filters happy.
I hate to be the "works on my machine" guy, but there seem to be multiple reports of it running perfectly fine: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio...

However, I sympathize with the general funkiness of running old games. It's very difficult to play the original Diablo 2 through Wine unless you emulate a virtual desktop, which is frustrating to set up. If you're willing to give it another try, the Lutris script should handle almost everything needed to configure it right: https://lutris.net/games/command-conquer-red-alert-2/
I was familiar with the issue described, but it was useful to learn the shortcut of passing a timezone to `now()`, since I used to rely on `utcnow().replace()`, which was needlessly verbose.

# what I used to do:
>>> datetime.utcnow().replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc)
# what I'll be doing from now on:
>>> datetime.now(timezone.utc)
I don't fault Microsoft for increasing the security baseline, it's a fact that threats actors are getting smarter in general.

If they did nothing, people would whinge that "Windows is so insecure". The reality is that Linux is starting to fall into this category. Having said that work on using the TPM has already taken place with systemd-cryptenroll and systemd-measure and it will be nice when "Legacy BIOS" is deprecated from most mainstream desktop distributions.

Maybe some day we will see some sort of immutable system that uses fs-verity, where "apps" are installed from an app store like Snap or Flathub. Then maybe we'll get some proper app sandboxing.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-cry...

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-mea...

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/fsverity....
While I think he might have an interesting point to make, these interviews don’t convey it. I wish he would write an essay on the subject instead of letting media outlets speak for him via a handful of hyped up quotes
> Did the opus developers (inadvertendly) use some patented tech?

That’s certainly the claim since it’s a patent pool.

> Do hardware makers use it?

If it’s a fundamental building block of opus then necessarily, no?
It's odd. I'm reaching a point where meat is not appealing. Fish and eggs are my staples; but, ground beef can be hard to look at sometimes and handle. It's strange how one transition leads to others you didn't intend.
Health reasons (I work in the medical field). After seeing far, far too many patients ravage their bodies and their minds with excessive alcohol consumption I (belatedly) decided I should not end up like that. I also recognized the insidious changes in mood that regular alcohol use can cause. It may be hard to notice but after a few weeks of not drinking you might find yourself at least slightly happier more often.

Mostly I was just afraid of damaging my brain and my liver. Being healthy when I am older is much more important to me than being drunk now. I just tell people no thanks when they offer a drink. At restaurants and bars I'll go for a zero proof cocktail if they have them or a soda or water. No one seems to care. As a general rule, you think about yourself much more often and critically than other people think about you. If someone insists I laugh and tell them I did enough drinking in 20 years to last several lifetimes, I'm good.
I wonder if there will be progress in higher-frequency canceling given there’s an engineering reason for limiting canceling to lower frequencies. The current ANC technology makes outside speech quieter yet more intelligible, and that very much increases distraction for me.
Be sure to post a "Show HN" when you start selling unregulated oral biome replacements out of international waters, so I can partake
Unblocking Abundance
Immich: Self-hosted photos and videos backup for Android and iOS
What does that even mean? Do we have the moral high ground letting a foreign corporation make money from our citizens and send the profits back to that country with no reciprocity? Which moral framework says that that is good?
Very happy to see we can now build recyclable blades that work.
igzip (https://github.com/intel/isa-l) is much faster than gzip or pigz when it comes to decompression, 2-3x in my experience. There is also a Python module (isal) that provides a GzipFile-like wrapper class, for an easy speed-up of Python scripts that read gzipped files.

However, it only supports up to level 3 when compressing data, so it can't be used as a drop-in replacement for gzip. You also need to make sure to use the latest version if you are going to use it in the context of bioinformatics, since older versions choke on concatenated gzip files common in that field.
Looking back at Wechat from how it was since ~2013, I think there’s a decent amount of recency bias influencing it as “the everything app”. It definitely wasn’t close to being as horizontally integrated until recently.

On another note about Facebook, even though Facebook/Messenger is still past its prime in the US, Whatsapp is like the closest Facebook-made Wechat equivalent because that is absolutely popping off in other parts of the world like Latin America. Literally everyone (people & businesses) use it as their primary channel of interaction on a daily basis. In the US it’s still not nearly as popular.
> struggling to reach ... the problems they've faced struggling to dial and connect ... being unable to connect ... the call never actually connects.

"Struggling" implies some degree of success. These (specific) phones reportedly fail completely to call emergency services.
They’re also stunningly beautiful. They’re one of my favourite things to find and observe in the woods.
The government in the US does subsidize education.

Nobody was forced to take on debt they can repay because their were no job prospects.
The punching animation is much worse :)
That wireframe is gonna be sore. Lifting with it's back instead of it's legs...
VirtualBox is cross-platform; runs on Linux, Mac, Windows. Images are portable. As a sibling notes, the Windows built-in is Hyper-V. Or if you don’t like your money, VMWare.
What game is this? I haven’t seen a modern title, or monitor, capped to 60fps in over a decade. I think most mobile games go higher, these days.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekly/1993W22/

Most people went to see Cliffhanger. Jurassic Park didn't come out for a few more weeks.

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekly/1982W26/

The Thing's competition, since you mentioned it.
My 6yo have had zero cavities so far. Me too had none for years, since we greatly reduced raw sugar from our diet to almost zero. No snacks, lots of fruits, sugar free yogurts etc.
There's probably not that much interest in getting MacOS software running on Linux, especially now that they're going the ARM route. Windows was always a promising platform because it was ludicrously stable and had loads of crazy software and games on it. The risk/reward was high, but relatively low compared to doing this with Apple software. Plus, all this would be a whole lot of work to get a janky version of a non-native program. Most people who already daily-drive Linux probably don't miss the MacOS version of Twitter, or some weird native git client.
The torque is there if you press the pedal down more than 1/4 or so but you barely need to touch the pedal. It’s just pedal control. Use of the torque is entirely optional. Most people don’t go 0-60 in three seconds while cornering.
Bulletproof backpacks for kids in the USA. Only partially kidding, as Kevlar vests are the standard I believe…
I think the real question - did the inventor ever dose himself with the concoction?
Getir in exclusive talks to rescue rapid delivery rival Gorillas
To my mind the new PC is still the same good old PC, minus the distractions that make modern computers more of a consumption device than an invitation to program a computer. Give them something they can tinker with.
I can only speak for myself, but I use it for loading VST plugins in Linux.
I once fell for the fantasy of uploading ourselves. It’s a destructive vision
Whether or not you realize it, your mind will definitely care that it knows you're inside but the visuals are outside.
Just curious about this statement - 1. ERP (Quickbooks, Netsuite, etc.) already collects the data, but it sucks

Why do you think these products sucks and why do you think you can do non sucking ERP?
My high school physics understanding of reinforced concrete is that the coefficients of expansion for steel and concrete are similar to a degree that it is very resilient to heat stress. I doubt that's the case for silk.
> In fact, there are so many patent farms disguised as businesses I challenge you to sit, think of something, and search for a patent for it.

Nice try, Opposing Counsel.
Probably aimed more at the heavy drinkers on here and not so much the OP, but adding my voice to the "replace it with exercise" camp.

Once exercise has become a critical routine you start feeling terrible for killing your performance because you were too sluggish from drinking the night before. You begin questioning your life choices. At some point you get over the mental hump and can start dialing things back. Maybe even outright quit depending on your goals.

I started weight training 3 years ago and as of this year hit that sincere performance stride where I'm seeing genuine gains. I haven't outright quit drinking yet, however, these days I'm only downing a limited amount about once every 1-2 weeks as opposed to getting shitfaced 3-4 days per week.

The moral of the story is to engage in something that has its positivity stolen by alcohol and gets you angry enough about it to quit.

It may not work for everyone. It takes a lot of personal discipline to get started with exercise, let alone consider quitting alcohol. It could be a mental hole too deep for some people suffering from alcoholism to get out of, at which point I'd say try the numerous other options mentioned in this thread.
Ask HN: What habits make a great engineer/programmer standout from average ones?
What does the workflow of great engineers or programmers look like? What habit do they maintain to achieve that greatness?

If you have ever worked with such great people what characteristics did you notice that made them standout?
There are millions of job openings for coders now. Illiteracy was not a good idea.

Also, youtube just served me an un-skip-able 12 minute add 30 seconds into a video. It was the 3rd add. The thought police is all over the web now. My windos cant download photos from my iphone. My windos is rebooting when it feels like it. The glued in phone battery life is garbage after 2 years. I must have purchased 30 chargers now. My new laptop requires a microsoft account. Google search is not working anymore. Adsense is driving up prices.

Its like trying to get nutrition from MacDonalds. The mc drive is convenient tho. Very easy for users.
"This is a psychological thing called the freeze response that activates as your brain responds to stress."

Interesting, I'd never thought of it like that, fear of failure as a lazy perfectionist is too real
wear this sweater, get hit by a tesla, sue elon, roll around in a golden wheelchair forever
Probably something like dyneema
I have barely slept all week because I’m taking care of a sick dog. Feeling tired is not bringing me any joy. All the benefits of being tired can be enjoyed when not feeling tired if you know how to take good care of yourself.

I want to sleep so badly right now. What is this magical world where all you have to do is get tired and then you somehow get a free pass to go rest?
Actually, back in the day, that's exactly what the top encyclopedias aspired to do. It's worth looking up who wrote the main entries in the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. Future Nobel laureate Ernest Rutherford did the entry on radioactivity. British medical researcher Joseph Lister (the inspiration for Listerine), wrote the entry on slime molds. Environmentalist John Muir weighed in.

And, in my absolute favorite, Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin wrote the article about anarchy.
Not just that, but also "am I in the habit of doing things that are conducive to situational awareness" which is perhaps the even more important bit! You can have all the situational awareness in the world now, but when it really matters is when the context changes.
Yuri Milner Renounces Russian Citizenship Amid War
Only because they aren't a big name company with weight to arm strength developers into using their language on their platforms.
I gave it a go:

* CPU Usage is extremely higher than in chrome for video call/meeting related websites.

* Font rendering is horrible on a lot of websites. I think this is more fault of the website developers, but it doesn't change the fact that I as end user with Firefox have subpar experience.

* The native OS integration seems very janky, from swipe to go back, to pinch to zoom, something feels off about them.

* I've encountered a lot more websites that didn't quite work smoothly. This is same as one of the points above of web developers being at fault here, but it still doesn't change my experience with FF.

I want to use Firefox, but not if it degrades my experience - which it currently very noticeably does.
All of your citations seem to be Wine focused. I said that it works well enough under Wine; it's later Windows versions that don't run it well.
> just write my own WYSIWYG editor

For your own mental health, don’t. I was looking for an old article describing how bad the API is, written by one of the authors of a WYSIWYG JS editor, but I can’t find it.
A lot of founders don't really prioritize product adoption or making money, and would rather make a self-satisfying native app. It's fine if they want to do that, but it's certainly not a robust financial incentive or some logical sucker-punch. People prototype on what they own, even if the people who administrate that hardware demand tribute.
Its a bit absurd that heineken sells their 0.0 beer for just as much as their regular beer. Also, you seem to have quite the selection of na beers near you :)
A timestamp doesn't require TZ data because the timezone of the unix epoch is defined in UTC. To convert a timestamp into a meaningful datetime value, we need a timezone, otherwise there is loss of information.

The main issue is that .utcfromtimestamp and .fromtimestamp both return naive datetimes, instead of aware ones with the timezone property set to UTC or the local timezone respectively.
Yes. Some folks who variously:

a) didn't know how to recognize a cheeky straw man proposal

b) didn't know how to take a joke

c) didn't agree with (or understand the importance of) the never-break-the-web imperative that TC39 operates under (turns out this is a lot of people)

tried to do exactly this to "prevent smoosh":

- https://github.com/staltz/prevent-smoosh

- https://twitter.com/andrestaltz/status/971500672620351494

Mostly, though, they just taught TC39 to have less fun and to ignore the "just break the web it's okay!" crowd.

Why TC39 operates under this never-break-the-web imperative: because if they didn't, every proposal they consider might devolve into an unresolvable discussion of "well is THIS thing important enough to break the web over? how much usage would this change break? how valuable do we think this is?". The easiest, and only, way to resolve all possible such discussions is to just not have them.
> Incidentally, I have a copy of MS Windows. I just _don't want to boot Windows_

Might be incidental in your case, but not in general:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Windows
> . I disagree that NMCI was "damn near treasonous levels of awful."

In 2018 I was issued an NMCI laptop with a hard disk drive in it... with platters and a spindle and everything. Each time I powered it on I spent 20 minutes being serenaded by its deliciously clicky retro soundtrack as I waited for a desktop with a working Start menu (and I use the term "working" loosely since it took 5 seconds to appear when clicked). If I didn't have work to do it might have been comforting - it kind of reminded me of my old Presario V2555 from the late 90s. Constant McAfee updates and poorly-designed bespoke MFC management apps completed the aesthetic nicely.

"Treasonous" might be hyperbole but it isn't entirely unwarranted.
spotify constantly calls the facebook SDK to tell it everything you’re doing and listening to, so Facebook has the data although they’ve failed to build a dating app.
Beloyarsk BN-800 fast reactor achieves full power for first time with MOX core
For me, I focus on the concept of temperance. Temperance is a long-venerated cardinal virtue that speaks to the vice of over-indulgence, but it's special in that it doesn't insist that you never indulge, only that you assert yourself and pull yourself back from that indulgence. You temper your urges, and drink perhaps one drink less than you otherwise would, pass on one opportunity that presents itself. This act of will empower you by giving yourself the agency to limit your indulgence and choose between engaging or holding back.
There's no shortcut to just building things, no 100 second YT tutorial or lengthy HN exposition can substitute pure hours in assembling software. Sure, some people might pick it up a bit quicker/slower but fundamentally there's no better replacement.

One of the side benefits is you can version these projs and iterate/recoil in horror every 6-12 months for the next few decades -- once you can open that repo and not be shaken up then you've made it: time to retire as you're finally losing your faculties.
Yes. In fact, he was one of the most prolific WebKit contributors.
I don’t enjoy VRChat myself. It’s essentially VR Roblox but not for kids, or an eventual evolution of Second Life for anyone that remembers it. Furries and anime aside, it is just not my thing.

That said, VRChat is probably the closest thing to being what people think of as the metaverse, and that’s why it’s useful to get familiar with it even if it’s not for you
Do I need to quote myself?

I said things will still end up in court - and the end-product in the example that you're giving will be too similar to the patented invention to stand up in court.
Now try to tune a woodwind with one :)
Blink uses os_unfair_lock on macOS: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:bas.... As does WebKit: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/4c09a48ea418ff15f65d6c....
I'd love to see a well written defence of their position. Frauenhoffer and Dolby both employ smart people. If they put smarts out into the world, which people leveraged to do smart++ then there's a component of "ok, so pay the tax" on this but given the IETF side, even with IETF IPR statements, this sounds like they misunderstood the RAND goal.

or is EUR 20c per unit for hardware 'reasonable' -on Apple volumes, thats a lot of money.
EU Lawmakers Pass Landmark Crypto Assets Regulation Bill
My first reaction when reading your comment was 'wait, people don't know sensible soccer'? It took me a while to realise there's an entire generation of readers who will benefit from your explanation.

Was it not a very popular game outside of Europe?
I use this app to create a to don't list whenever I encountered such situation I look at that app.
When to Use Go's RWMutex
I’m just a little weirded out that somebody thinks they get to decide for all of us what “the point of vr” is.

What is “the point of tv”? Or of “the internet”?
Probably for alignment. You want the class pointer (whether 32- or 64-bit) to be easy to dereference with little or no preprocessing.

It looks like the HotSpot JVM implementers decided to use 5 bits for lock and GC, and 31 bits for identity hash code (not sure why they didn't use 32). That adds up to 36 bits. You'd want to round this up to a multiple of 32 bits so that both the beginning of the object and the class pointer are aligned to 32 or 64 bits.
Ask HN: Why in human origin myths do we seem to be made by snakes?
Contrary to the biblical snake, not all these snakes are "bad influences".

China - Fuxi & Nuwa, snake people who created humanity

Adam & Eve - the snake catalysed our release upon the world, and escape from the garden

Greece - Zeus was thought to be the source of life and would also shift into snake-form. Ophion (a snake) incubated the primordial egg from which all life was formed

Indigenous Australians (and Californians) - Snake Mother / Rainbow Serpent create everything

Egypt - the state of existence before creation was symbolized as Amduat, a many-coiled serpent from which Ra the Sun and all of creation arose

why snakes tho?
> As an intermediate solution, I initially fell back to OSSpinLock on older systems. Later I managed to get rid of it for good by relying on os_unfair_lock plus manual spinning in user-space.
As a secondary point to this, is AV1 also at risk of this kind of rent-seeking behaviour? It's also claimed to be patent-and-royalty-free, as does Opus. These companies who step on tech innovation to collect their pound of flesh are disgusting to me.
I don't think that's the point. Apple Maps app has the same location settings as any other map app on iPhone. I have it set to "While Using the App".

If you are suggesting that Apple tracks user location at all times regardless of this setting, then that's a different topic that has no substance in this therad.
The problem would be it's the 'argument by appeal to authority' fallacy. True science must always be open to test. The thing is we're on derivative downstream consequences of the science. They come with some caveats to "question everything"

But "we don't know how anaesthesia works really" is a big problem. All we've got is observational science (which Feynman hated and analogised to stamp collecting) that "it works"
Of course, if you care about (random access) performance you aren’t using that, either. I don’t really understand why anyone uses tar anymore, really.