skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The feudal lord metaphor is entirely accurate, but for the wrong reasons. While FAANG companies do talk a good game about "stickiness" and "switching costs", the reality is that most of the time, they aren't the ones holding users in. It's actually fairly difficult to do that. Users piled into FAANG because they had things the users wanted and were able to keep out the deluge of spam and malware that is the heat death of any global communications network.

i.e. anti-spam is difficult, but if we move our business over to Google Workspace, we get that for very cheap. Gmail now has a moat around it because the bar for proving you aren't a spammer gets worse every year - but everyone trusts Google's MX.

Likewise, Apple's App Store lockout was so they could brag to users that "iPhones don't get viruses", because users would rather wear a straitjacket if it keeps them from getting stabbed.

The underlying problem is that governments rarely actually fight cybercrime, so tech companies protected users by appointing themselves as judge, jury, and executioner. Ending the era of digital warlords is more than just repealing DMCA 1201[0] or incorporating EU DMA into local law. We need an actual government to take their place - because nobody actually wants to live in the wild west.

[0] Including the equivalent laws that the US forced into a large number of other countries
I think they still do, but they at least used to have this in the SF Financial District, it was always fun walking out to lunch with hordes of people all crossing the street whichever way they wanted, including diagonally through the intersection.
This aliases to “just stop publishing”.
If the CCP wants to play that game, at least demand full access to our apps in their country. Otherwise, I don't see why we would let them have full access to ours.
It wasn't all coal mining.

We lost over 2 million manufacturing jobs at the beginning of the 80s.

The hate of Thatcher, imo, was less about "the country" and more directly about the impact on people's communities and direct personal relationships.

But looking back, Thatcher tactics were at times borderline fascist.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/03/miners...
Which MMO? Sounds like Eve.
Yeah but it doesn't say the cause is biker visibility. I'd guess bikers themselves are far more likely to miss some pothole (or other reason) at night time and fataly crash.
The Dutch colonized South Africa again eh? Old habits die hard.
1.5 is out now, so I suppose the point's moot.

edit:
never mind, jumped the gun and thought it was an official release but it turns out I was just confused.

https://huggingface.co/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5
Probably not. But that does sound a lot like FB and Google. But they are wildly popular and provide entertainment so it could be everybody is perfectly happy being manipulated. I think everybody will move on from tiktok in a few years time anyway.
Joel on Software's chuckle-worthy contemporaneous :CueCat commentary:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/09/12/wasting-money-on-c...

Good previous thread here (including the :CC founder's link to Oak Island!):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11328093
(We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33272853)
She’s on staff. Where it says “Forbes Staff” under her name, a contributor would say “Guest Contributor” or “Subscriber” and have a disclaimer (i) button.
Would some nation be bold enough to ban TikTok? India did it, but then India is at war with China, quite literally.
It's the latest and greatest in terms of attention grabbing/stealing, so people get defensive about it because they spend lots of time using it.

I get annoyed with the "but facebook does it too" argument as well. I don't really like throwing around the "foreign country disinformation campaign" accusations, but whenever tiktok comes up on this site it's hard to imagine regular people saying some of the things that are said about why it's "no less trustworthy" than american social media companies.

Even with this article, people will respond with "well, they probably weren't surveilling me because I don't have anything to hide." And then I show them the story about the cops that used social media to track a woman who went across state lines to get an abortion, and they get really mad.
Well, Yossi is probably a better programmer than I am, but I think I'm probably better at Forth than he was, and I think he was Doing It Wrong. And he sort of admits this: he was doing big-bang compilation rather than poking interactively at the hardware, he left out all the metaprogramming stuff, and he was trying to use the stack for local variables because he designed the hardware with a two-cycle memory fetch and no registers for local variables:

: mean_std ( sum2 sum inv_len -- mean std )
\ precise_mean = sum * inv_len;
tuck u* \ sum2 inv_len precise_mean
\ mean = precise_mean >> FRAC;
dup FRAC rshift -rot3 \ mean sum2 inv_len precise_mean
\ var = (((unsigned long long)sum2 * inv_len) >> FRAC) - (precise_mean * precise_mean >> (FRAC*2));
dup um* nip FRAC 2 * 32 - rshift -rot \ mean precise_mean^2 sum2 inv_len
um* 32 FRAC - lshift swap FRAC rshift or \ mean precise_mean^2 sum*inv_len
swap - isqrt \ mean std
;

I've done all these things (except designing the hardware) and I agree that it can be very painful. I did some of them in 02008, for example: https://github.com/kragen/stoneknifeforth

The thing is, though, you can also not do all those things. You can use variables, and they don't even have to be allocated on a stack (unless you're writing a recursive function, which you usually aren't), and all the NIP TUCK ROT goes away, and with it all the Memory Championship tricks. You can test each definition interactively as you write it, and then the fact that the language is absurdly error-prone hardly matters. You can use metaprogramming so that your code is as DRY as a nun's pochola. You can use the interactivity of Forth to quickly validate your hypotheses about not just your code but also the hardware in a way you can't do with C. You can do it with GDB, but Forth is a lot faster than GDBscript, but that's not saying much because even Bash is a lot faster than GDBscript.

But Yossi was just using Forth as a programming language, like a C without local variables or type checking, not an embedded operating system. And, as I said, that's really not Forth's strength. Bash and Tcl aren't good programming languages, either. If you try to use Tcl as a substitute for C you will also be very sad. But the way they're used, that isn't that important.

I explained a more limited version of this 12 years ago: https://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines...

So, I don't think Forth is only useful when you have the freedom to change the problem, though programs in any language do become an awful lot easier when you have that freedom.
Surprise: don’t use TikTok
I hadn't heard of the controversy, it seems like this is a good summary: https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/y1uuvj/aut...
> No I should not have to update my CV through my work email account

That (changing your account to use your work email for sign-in) is not what they're suggesting; they're suggesting binding the email address as secondary information to your account (by sending it a magic-link email you have to click) — like a Keybase verification that you "own" a profile.
Interesting, something to keep in mind!
Personally I would associate access to my contacts with the ability to just upload it.

No reason version 2 can’t do the thing after they upgrade and I already gave permission in version 1.
phones are vertical.
All of the best movies and television shows you've ever seen are horizontal. There will never be a great movie released in vertical video. Mark my words. Note the time.

VVS - https://youtu.be/dechvhb0Meo
In the last 10 years the US has been really ramping up it's propaganda against China, it's amazing to see. Especially since when I was growing up the `evil doers` were the Arab people.

Yeah, China spies with TikTok, the US spies with Instagram, Facebook email providers, telephone records.

It's all shite.

Don't elect politicians who agree with espionage and then complain that other countries are doing the same.
That’s a step backwards. The whole point of package managers is that the system manages software updates and the software itself can be completely oblivious to that.

Snap done properly it’d download and install the new version, point launchers to that and prompt the user to restart running snaps.
thought it said it was over land
While this looks fun, I still prefer to register a short domain (used free *.net.ru before war) and auto-populate DNS with Terraform/Ansible on a provision stage.
Surprisingly yes. It used to be a limitation that apps would have to import the file on to local storage, edit, export back to external. But now extra APIs have been added and video editors can edit on external storage.

The iPad has been sitting in this limbo state where they are way more powerful than most people expect but still not really worth it when you can get a MacBook for the same price and do more.
The fundamental issue for me is that I never plan to step foot on Chinese/Russia soil or get into any relationship with their government. That way their spying feels less relevant to me than US spying which just could put me for arbitrary reasons on a list and most western governments would comply.
your comment is built on a nonsense foundation: budgets are "fixed" by owners and investors. budgets are a "zero sum game" against ownership returns and investor cost. budgets increase with reduced shareholder returns and increased cost of investment. it's really straightforward.
No, the fact that damages can change (and increase) over the course of a trial is not extremely exceptional at all, in fact it's the norm. The vast majority of civil suits are for unspecified claims.

I only mentioned McDonald's and Alex Jones because most people would be familiar with them, not because they are exceptional. OJ Simpson's wrongful death suit is another example where the damages significantly exceeded what the plaintiff claimed.

Your advice is neither pragmatic or actually advisable by the ABA either and in all honesty, it sounds like you're just making stuff up.
What can we do with the data in Tinybird after it's all ingested? I guess the blocks are the same shape as in Notion so we can build apps on top of Tinybird's API instead?

Is it possible to use Tinybird as a backup and restore feature? That would be a killer feature
The FTC regulates domestic tech companies' collection and usage of location data. I can assure you this is not the case for overseas companies.
Hands hold vertical phones easier
Regularity in high density is also a problem. You better think of fractal densities than of same densities across all blocks.

Source: https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/12/525/2019/
NSA can refer it to federal police who can use it for parallel construction at home to imprison you if they wish to retaliate against you for something they don’t like.

CCP can’t do that.

Surveillance by police that have jurisdiction over you is more dangerous than those who do not.
> Was there any pushback on it?

Nobody was that stupid, no

> And were you also blocked from redeploying the testing units away from those who didn't care?

That was not really done. Chasing down people one by one to recall units they were barely using would have taken more time than our one tired & overworked dogfooding program admin had.
Most people do not want to use terraform...
What I Learned About Love When I Stopped Being Honest (2021)
> I mean, no predictive power, so why not throw out all the lessons about Nazi Germany and all that? Why waste time?

I've been wondering the same. History at school is very rarely taught as a serious academic discipline — rather, its job it seems, much like the job of the English (or any other) literature, it to shape a general cultural identity in a student. I am almost sure that among professional historians there is a common belief that it is not history's job to provide people with lessons that they can apply to solve current or future problems — I seem to remember Niall Ferguson complain precisely of that attitude among the historians at Oxford, which was largely why he, as a rebellion, started the applied history project.

> Those who do not learn from history are bound to make the same mistakes, as is commonly said.

It is also commonly said (and attributed to von Bismark) that what we learn from history is that no one learns from history.

> If anything, then the dictator is missing his history classes or did not learn properly. Otherwise he might not have acted the way he does. History could have told him a thing or two about the chances of his failing invasion or what he navigated himself into.

The dictator had plenty of other historical examples to draw upon. He could have remembered how the nascent state of Ukraine, which emerged after the fragmentation of the Russian Empire, was retaken by force by the Soviet Russia – also, by the way, engaged in a winter campaign (there is an interesting novel by Mikhail Bulgakov — The White Guard — depicting those events). Or he could have remembered the recent events of 2014, when Russia effortlessly and bloodlessly took Crimea. History, as has so frequently been said, is a whore and a harlot.

> Are you serious? Like, watch a documentary or 2 about what happened in other nations, Georgia and Moldova for example, before Ukraine. Or read up on the dictator's self-declared goals and "Russian World". Compare to Nazi Germany a little and you will see the similarities. Saying, that there is no real reason to think he would not stop is ignoring so much history.

I did say in my previous comment that there are countries with which Russia might conceivably have territorial quarrels. Those are the countries of the former Soviet Union, and those are the countries that you named. I have not heard any noises from Russia that would suggest that it is coveting Germany, France, the UK, or even Poland. If you have read anything different in the dictator's self-declared goals, then I would happily be educated.

> Compare to Nazi Germany a little

I understand the appeal of that comparison; I truly do; but surely you must see that the comparison is purely rhetorical, made due to the universal hatred of — and universal familiarity with the story of — the Nazi Germany. Why not compare with the Soviet Union (which was largely feared) or with the Russian Empire (which was less so)?
> The number of car owners in NYC tells me that this isn't true.

What is the number of car owners compared to all NYC residents? Of course, there will always be car owners and starting with a population in the millions is going to make that number appear large.
Paris, Madrid and Manhattan aren’t utopias, you just don’t need a car to get around the majority of the city. Metro, bus and walking/biking can get you almost everywhere.
I feel like this kind of thing happens as SWEs became commodified. Just imagine if we were still a tight knit community of people in basements, we could simply work our way through the social network and yell at whoever made such bad choices.
This caught my eye:

> In 2017, the New York Times reported that Uber had identified various local politicians and regulators and served them a separate, misleading version of the Uber app to avoid regulatory penalties. At the time, Uber acknowledged that it had run the program, called “greyball,” but said it was used to deny ride requests to “opponents who collude with officials on secret ‘stings’ meant to entrap drivers,” among other groups.
FreeBSD 2022 Q3 Quarterly Status Report
I don't mind governments taking ad money even if they were outright stealing it, because if anything it puts pressure on companies not to deal with ads at all which would be a net benefit to society, productivity and mental health worldwide.

I like having the option of buying products that have nothing to do with ads - unfortunately in the current situation, everything has at least some ties to this industry, so effectively we currently don't have a choice regardless of whether we're willing to pay. This kind of pressure will hopefully change this.
> The heated seats example is a great one. There is no reason for this not be a one-time charge.

if you're referring to BMW, the heated seats are still available as a one time charge. they're just also available as a subscription if you didn't option then upfront. heated seats seem like a weird fit for the subscription model, but as long as the upfront purchase option is reasonably priced, I don't really see the issue with this.
From my past experience, both Google and Apple fervently defend their built-in caller app, and really-really don't like any other app making regular voice calls. Part of that is that they don't want cloning (they clearly state that your caller app must look obviously different from default system one), which is understandable, but even when it clearly not a clone, they make take it pretty hard, it feels like they would rather just ban it.
I think you’ll be phoneless in a few years
The iPad has options up to 2TB SSD and supports USB4 external storage along with 10Gbit ethernet.
That doesn’t help when you ask if someone is a likely voter and they say no because of who’s running.

Granted it doesn’t say it’s asking likely voters, but somehow they got 95% of responses say they are registered voters when only 50% of Americans are registered voters.

(Page 8) https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/documents/monmout...
Ask HN: What are you using to organize dotfiles / dotconfig files?
I confess it took me a long time to re-organize my dot files and last time I did this was before 2015 I think. Ever since then, I have been using the same solution: just cloning my repo and manually doing some symbolic links here and there based on manual documentation. This was very revolutionary back then :-)

Nowadays it seems like a lot more apps, specially in macOS, are relying on files inside the .config folder, so I ended up created a very simple script to also symlink those but it's still far from ideal.

I have seen a bunch of different tools over the years here in Hacker News that tackle this very problem. But, as always, I keep the habit of saving a lot of bookmarks and when it's time to actually use and search for them, you can't seem to find anything useful.

So this is the question: what are you using today to tackle the problem of keeping your dot files and config files under source control and fast replication and update accross different machines?

Bonus points if it's written in Rust, since it's the language I am currently learning and would be somewhat important to be able to hack the tool as needed and enjoy it too.
They really need to put down some "suggested path" markings.
A finite number of such museum pieces are necessary, and a 386 from 1992 provides little insight.
> The field has a horrendous track record: More than two dozen people arrested or convicted with bitemark evidence have since been exonerated.

It's probably true that bitemark analysis is ineffective at identifying biters, but I would appreciate it if the full data picture were painted. 2 dozen people out of how many total?

It's like saying "X vaccine has a horrendous track record: more than 50 people have died after receiving it". 50 out of how many? If 200, that is indeed horrendous (25% death rate), but if 50 million, then it's not horrendous (0.0001% death rate). Let me be the judge of what is horrendous or not by giving me full context.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33270325.
Does anyone have a good resource on Stability, their history, and relationship to Runway? I haven't followed the space closely in a couple of years but they seemingly exploded from nowhere and I'm not entirely sure what their mandate is.
https://archive.ph/w4TRO
I think that, as an outsider, you can access by car.

Is just that, if you have to drive slowly, you can't park and you have to exit in the same place you entered, what's the point?
Maybe no city has managed to make public transport better than a car in every circumstance, but many times public transport is better. In fact, nobody would take public transport if it wasn't better for them.

In cities where public transport sucks less, there's more circumstances where it is better, and so more people use them.
Google pressing RCS adoption with latest Messages update
You can't just go build such things in most major cities, all the available land is already developed
Coreboot/Dasharo Being Ported to the MSI Pro Z690-A DDR5 Motherboard
1. They collect information on what interests you, makes you upset, and engages you on an extremely granular level. Unlike YT/Google, they push content to you (which you watch/reject)—they can refine a model of your preferences and personality quickly.

2. They push you to engage with that content, leaving comments and sending messages.

3. They have the capability to make you watch content that they know you'll like with the express goal of getting you to react to it.

4. TikTok videos are often recorded in personal spaces, giving insight into individuals' lives and leaking personal information (partners, children, pets, etc.).

5. The app itself can collect information about you and your device, including any information it may have access to you through overly-broad permission collection.
Since Yandex virtually khows from collected data when the driver going to go home, it effectively gives driver extra ride in the wrong direction and then longer ride in the right direction, makes driver literally make extra miles.
Anything that needs to scan wifi (such as to talk to a drone) shows up as location access, because the list of visible APs and their relative signal strengths is the same thing as your location.
Golf's a game of precision motor control, while insanely long drives might be evidence of cheating, it's hard to imagine a way to make yourself more accurate besides skill, at least without it being obvious on live television.

Biking obviously involves a lot of different things but it's much easier to see how doping is going to help.

Football has so many facets that it's kind of surprising there aren't more cheating scandals, but at the same time it's harder to isolate any one thing and say that's what's giving a team an edge.

Michael Phelps rose to prominence after most of the big doping scandals by which point anti-doping measures were well established. Besides doping, it's tough to cheat at swimming.

With chess, it's trivial to have a computer on your person capable of beating any human alive, it's just communicating with said computer that is a challenge. Given that chess masters are supposed to be extremely good at strategy and making clever moves people won't see coming, I'm sure there have been some ridiculous cheating attempts.
I don't think anyone is joyously accepting US corporations divulging information to the US govt., so that hyperbole is completely unnecessary.

I think there is less cognitive dissonance than you think. There is still some belief that the US populace has a hand in the US govt's constitution and governance. If they are unhappy, changes can be effected.

But in the case of a foreign government, an authoritarian one at that, not only are any values and priorities not aligned, there is almost no way for US persons to effect any changes to the CCCP's constitution and governance.
If it can cure depression, I don't see why it can't also improve your chess game.[0]

[0]https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/331807.How_to_Good_By...
Yes, at least when there's disagreement about what OOP means. You and I can disagree about it, but we can more easily answer "Does it match what Alan Kay wrote about?" with a yes or no.
They rebranded: https://github.com/corymbia/eucalyptus#readme but development is either happening "offline" or they've stalled development because https://github.com/Corymbia/eucalyptus-blog/blob/master/cont... is the most recent blog update

It's also a beast to even compile and package, to say nothing of actually deploy