skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes, but "Closed" sucks for everyone but the platform owners.

If you ask 99%+ of phone users. They don’t care about a “closed” phone platform anymore than console owners care.

> iOS developers have been suffering and Apple has little reason it fix the issues: https://www.wired.com/story/apples-app-store-review-fix-fail...

And what percentage of iOS users that collectively making billions are “suffering”?

> Some organizations are trying to get "Open" smartphone marketplaces and more choice and competition in the markets:

And failing miserable. The market has spoken.

> Open standards and open markets encourage real competition and innovation.

And yet, it wasn’t “open standards” that brought any of the “innovations” to the market that users care about.

How many decades have Linux advocates been promising the “year of the Linux desktop”?
Works well without docker installed, does it? ;)
Jack's pushing web5 even. The name is pretty much just tongue in cheek, mocking web3.

https://developer.tbd.website/projects/web5/
So it is, good catch.
That’s why you want a single service of truth. Abstract the consumer from the source and allow yourself to scale the physical source of truth without impacting the consumer.
Rural PNW towns not impacted by insane levels of brown/white? Dude, come on. Mexi's (fentanyl pills) are killing so many people right now. Driving so many young girls prostituting themselves. It is horrible.

You lived in rural America and didn't experience families whose only source of meat was what they hunted? Dude, come on. Or families living in ancient trailer homes/campers?

As for the camps, these places aren't really visible or publicized, I bet plenty of locals don't know about our camp town (or choose not to know). It's way out of town and not near any roads.
The FW's embedded controller's firmware has been open-sourced, is on Github, and you can flash your customized version if you wish so:

https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/EmbeddedController
No employer has ever brought this page up during hiring discussions. If they did I would probably say something like "If you want your company to look good, then you should wow me with a very strong offer". I've been shitcanned a few times and it has made some things harder with career progression but really most of the time I was shitcanned it was a bad fit for me anyways.
> I think they're spot on with needing control over your identity, and them being transferable.

I guess this means you need to store some sort of key that can be used to create a persistent id across servers. Which is great. But we need an explicit mechanism to avoid people having to trust a centralized authority to store that key. Storing on their own devices is going to inevitably result in people losing that key.

I don't know if secret sharing can ever be dumbed down and simplified that the average non-tech person can use without getting confused.
A good friend once told me to say that I am not a doctor when asked for medical advice to eliminate any chance for liability. As for the typos, I strongly believe little mistakes are what makes humans human. Insinuating other users you converse with online are bots is kind of a bad faith claim that derails political discussion.
It always strikes me as ironic that the PC won over the mainframe because it was your capital-P Personal Computer, not a terminal that simply ran what the high priests in the mainframe room told you you could run, and now the PC is anything but yours to control.
2016 was a year full of confounding factors. I've been idly considering removing everything from that year from my resume entirely.
I am very confused about how wasi calls work in something like wasmer or wasmtime vs a browser. My guess is the former expose a runtime directly to the wasm executable, and in the browser this has to be done via autogenerated js bindings?
It means going in certain directions.

Going from coarse-grained compute to fine-grained compute. The finer grain you have, the more "composability" and "flexibility" you get.

At some point you become so fine-grain that all you have are just lambdas floating in the cloud. And universal pointers to data floating in the cloud. Wire them up and everything scales automatically.

Back when I was working on this sort of stuff, there was an intermediate development between containers and wasm, that being of library OS like mirage OS, unikernels... Etc. I think wasm has probably better positioning compared to those unikernels.
They've really lowered themselves by resorting to embarrassing tactics. I was getting emails with subject lines only about dogs, and demands to give a yes/no response... it's weird the little games people pull.

I ran into a homeless guy, hands full of pennies, and low value change. He's saying "please, I just want money for a hamburger". I'm wondering, how is holding fistfuls of change gonna help. I do get the psychology, but that's a weird strategy; yet part of me think it must be effective for him to try it.
It's religion on steroid, only ten or so years of it and we can already see the awful consequences, give it a few decades and we'll see where it goes, I'm personally not very optimistic
As much as I detest this mentality, it is indeed great at filtering out companies I'd never want to work at.
Uber plans to advertise to riders based on destination data
They're coming. In 2023, according to the Safari section on this[1] page.

1: https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-16/features/
"by default" is a bit of a stretch because from the link it says "BitLocker encryption is available on supported devices running Windows 10 or 11 Pro, Enterprise, or Education."

So it's only on by default if you shelled dough out for one of those
What's barely legal about commissioning and selling badly written books?

I might point to a dozen other parts of the situation as "barely legal scam", but why that part?
Agreed, I tend to treat my raw system as read-only and I much prefer it this way. Not only do I get the reproducibility, I also get the ability to more easily prune unused software.
Well it's too late to switch to that now. We've already built all this other infrastructure to run it in a docker container which is more secure anyway.
Explain exactly what attack vector not posting what encryption software you use is supposed to protect against?

* If you are attacked by an adversary with access to your hardware they can tell what encryption you are using.

* If you are attacked by an adversary without access to your hardware then knowing what you use doesn't given them any advantage.

On the other hand, telling people they shouldn't provide recommendations for encryption software is just the kind of thing an adversary might do...
Moderation is a first class citizen in this protocol and I imagine the official blue sky instance will be moderated just like any other big social media site. I'm still getting a feel for it but my first impression is that atproto is kinda like secure scuttlebutt with a federation layer and dns for memorable usernames.
What a tough choice: make it correct, or pander to the ignorant? /s
This is very nice.

You do not specify if it was on-site or remote, that could be a nice addition!

Also, your most recent jobs/salaries are in CAD. Did you move to Canada? Or is it like working for CA company but on the US?
That’s all well and good if you’re on Linux, but docker is super slow on Mac and windows. I’ve often worked places that develop iOS apps, s were stuck on macs, and thus alternatives to docker are very welcome.

Asdf can automatically install tool chain versions based on a plain text file stored in your repository, so it’s pretty plug and play too.
I love this on a deep level. Great writing.

‘Imagined to notice’ is a lovely way of embracing those flights of fancy.

The imagery of the older pigs subconsciously coming to a conclusion they’ll never quite get to really touched me.

Thank you.
Ironically I think the article is a good example of why we forget things. It's more desireable for the author to write a longwinded article about how we forget, than to try and put effort into ensuring society remembers important things. In essence, societal maintenance isn't sexy. The final solution provided is for thr author to better preserve their own output, which isn't a very good solution unless the author is producing important breakthroughs. To better preserve knowledge, people need to be happy to spend effort maintaining _other people's discoveries_.
bioRxiv posts many COVID19-related papers. A reminder: they have not been formally peer-reviewed and should not guide health-related behavior or be reported in the press as conclusive.

This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review
There are still people in tech who think this and would do the same. Maybe even a lot of them?

But, the demand is so high compared to apply, it apparently hasn't kept the author from finding work.
>I only really got that job so I could work with Foone

That's very honest of you. I know you didn't ask but taking a job just to work with a microcelebrity seems a bit short-sighted, was it worth it in the end?

I wonder if learning from him/her was your plan, did you learn something?
My read of the protocol docs from when they came out a few days ago is that they're using Blockchain in the distributed merkel-tree ledger sense and not (explicitly?) in the sense of a cryptocurrency.

It seems like it models your data as a Merkel tree log, signed by an identity key that can be obtained through DNS. Unless they plan to add a namecoinish thing for identities you shouldn't really need Po* to "secure" that.
I've written a rust version of asdf over the last few months, both as an exercise and to fix a few issues I've been having with it - like noticeably slower tool startup times due to the shims resolving the version (my version basically works like direnv under the hood and hooks into the shell directly) and me just wanting a single "use" command which installs a plugin, downloads the requested version and sets it as active. It works very well and I've been daily driving it for a while.

Having the ecosystem of asdf plugins which are basically just shell scripts has been a huge boon. It's been a breeze to work with, and most of the plugins are well written.

Now, I've been contemplating switching to NixOS, but most version managers don't work at all with it due to dynamic linking. I absolutely love the idea of NixOS, but this has really bummed me out. I feel like the nix language is still a little clunky for general use, so as long as there is not a straightforward solution like having a tool-versions file I'm really hesitant to make the full switch.
Hopefully not x.com, I still owe them money
We had a lot of churn for those roles at school, from my understanding
Interesting app. I wish it were on F-Droid. It's open source so why not?
I think that you're viewing the past through rose-colored glasses a little. Steve Jobs' entire strategy was a headless system with everything in the cloud. It was the entire push for iTools (which then became .Mac, then MobileMe, and finally iCloud) and those were released in 2000. The idea was that you could sign in on any Mac and always have access to your personal info and, at one point, even sign in and see the desktop of any of your machines ("Back to My Mac", a feature I miss every day). It only started as one machine being the "ground truth", as you say, because there had to be one starting point to sync from.

That being said, I'll give you that it might be trivial to sync Notes (one-way, at least) via cable. I believe, based on nothing other than my interpretation of history, that the reason this stopped is not to force cloud adoption but that it's just not that in-demand of a feature. The biggest issue with cable-based syncing is that you have to resolve conflicts manually and the iCloud solution doesn't need that at all. It's not a trivial thing to implement, in my opinion, especially if you have to factor in anyone that has multiple Macs, iPads, or any other device that could potentially sync Notes.

That being said... I'm doing exactly what you're describing in syncing everything to my own cloud on my NAS but at the expense of getting to use the native apps on MacOS and my other devices. I still use the iCloud stuff for backups of data on a specific account but I feel like the reason these things are going to continue to be "wontfix" (you give away your dev-ness) is because the majority of people love the convenience of simple syncing that they don't have to actively think about. Apple also does just enough on the privacy and security front to make it worthwhile for a good chunk of techies too.
The raw data itself does record if it was remote or not. I could add that to the table I guess. I didn't at the time because I didn't want to clutter things more. I can re-evaluate this I guess.

I am physically located in Canada at the moment.
Fair enough. They have not really made it clear on the BlueSky site. I found this:

> We’re not describing what we’re building as a federated or p2p network, or as a blockchain network, because it doesn’t fall neatly in any of these categories. It could be described as a hybrid federated network with p2p characteristics, but it’s more descriptive to focus on the capabilities – self-authenticating identities and data – than on network topology.

From: https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/3-6-2022-a-self-authenticating-s...

Not that it clarifies anything for me. It feels (I'm speculating) like they are very careful not to mention web3, but maybe that's because it really has nothing to do with tokens and whatnot and is actually just a protocol that lets people run their own social network servers. But it doesn't say it's that either. Some plain language would help make it clear if it's legit or just some new take on blockchain scamming
Loading random URLs isn’t a great idea no.
The folks who are using hidden volumes and going full paranoid aren't the ones responding here. Most methods are fairly obvious.

My backup hard drive has the Veracrypt installer and a file that ends in .hc. I wonder what setup I'm using? If I went a degree more obtuse and just had a 200GB file consisting of a header and a bunch of cryptographically random data, it wouldn't take the NSA to understand what was going on.

The same applies to Bitlocker/LUKS.

My encryption setup isn't designed to stop state-level actors. It's designed to stop anyone who has access to one of my backups or who steals one of my machines. Bitlocker (with the key backed up to the cloud) and Veracrypt (for offline backups) fit those needs purposely. If a government agent asked me for the key to decrypt my backup drive I would surrender it without a fuss.
I like Grecian olive oils, but I also like Israeli olive oil. Very high quality. If you live in an area in the US where it's available (NY, and LA mostly) it's worth trying:

https://www.touristisrael.com/israel-olive-oil-industry/2819...
Why does a new protocol need to exist when Mastodon and Matrix already exist? This smells of centralization masked as "decentralization".
Does "terminated" mean you got fired, or does this include layoff/staff reduction scenarios you got caught up in?
I took the leap because it was easier than continuing to be in a long distance relationship. Everyone is different. It helped that I was trying to get away from my natal family anyways.
It exists so you can delete the menu items taking up space that you don't use frequently.

There's too many icons taking up space from menu items on laptop screens, it's always been a problem.
> Rather than accept that people are horrible they look to technology for scapegoat

It obviously is a two way street, technology shapes society as much as we shape technology. Do you think humanity evolves independently of its tools ?

People are horrible, what we made with tech equally is, media were biased before and we just have more sources and channels now. If anything you're making my point
> One regional manager at a financial services company Walsh spoke with recently said they felt caught in the middle, as enforcement of different return-to-office mandates for retail and office workers has kindled a burgeoning sense of unfairness within the organization.

I'm not particularly surprised? Middle management is increasingly being called on to deal with keeping up employee morale in the face of pandemics, inflation and terrible company policy; coordinating in a hybrid or fully remote environment on Zoom for hours a day; and both suffering in these conditions and trying to justify to their teams why this is happening.

Nobody's alright anymore.
I dunno. MacOS point releases take longer than entire Linux/Windows reinstalls. I clocked some at over 40 minutes.

I find I need a lot more 3rd party utilities to make it usable (why is there no HDMI/DP sound control? Why is window snapping so bad? Why no MTP? etc.) Then you have all the new "security" features that have made doing what I need to do way harder than it needs to be.
My comment was going to be

Best. Cover letter. Ever.

but I decided to scroll through the comments first. You beat me by a couple of hours.
Yeah, I'm really conservative when it comes to curing aging, because the whole thing is a lot more complicated than it looks like. You can't just eliminate it without dire consequences. It's a degradation, but it's one that plays a central role in eliminating stagnation. I'm awfully allergic to oligarchs, and stopping aging would open the door to a completely new crop of überoligarchs that belong to the pages of a sci-fi horror.
Used this at my last company. Super painless and makes setup a breeze. Current company uses Docker and I hate it. Every company I've been at loves to throw everything into a container. Even if you setup your dev configs to maintain hot reloading, it's always slower. Node package management is also a pain no matter how you implement it with Docker it seems.

I also hate the Docker tagline that it "eliminates 'works on my machine' issues". I believe a tool like asdf would also achieve this (correct me if I'm wrong). Docker itself can go haywire depending on the machine and you're basically in hell fighting with it just to get your dev environment working. You essentially eliminate one problem in exchange for a variety of equally frustrating challenges.
Is this decentralized platform going to kill Twitter like decentralized currency killed the USD?

99% of people don’t care enough to put up with the complexities that decentralization brings.
As someone who doesn't use Apple devices, what am I looking at?

Looks like a generic smartphone to me.

Is this some kind of Apple consumer faux pas?
That's quite amusing to me, because when I "ps ax" on my Linux machine I honestly could not swear that i know what half of them were doing. The names look plausible (dbus, systemd stuff, etc) but it would be easy to get one past me.

OpenBSD is a bit of an ice cold shower, but it's the only OS I use regularly where I can point to every process and know exactly what it's doing.
The real secret to Greek fire was the Byzantine's unusually advanced "siphon," which heated the mixture in a pressure vessel to allow it to spray fairly long distances. The main use was on ships of course, but there was also a man-portable flamethrower version, which is quite strange to think about someone in AD 900 wielding.

This ship-borne version only worked in calm conditions, otherwise fireships were just as likely to set themselves on fire. However, it did do pretty well in the sheltered Sea of Marmara around Constantinople. The fireships probably saved the empire from the Caliphate during the 719 siege of Constantinople by destroying the much large Muslim fleet. That occurred at a nadir of Byzantine power and the height of Caliphate power. Western Eurasian history would have looked very different if the Caliphate got control of the Bosporus then, as opposed to the Turks 700 years later.
Close. The original NT targeted an experimental Intel cpu called i860 (RISC based) nicknamed “N10”. NT was, according to Wikipedia, a play on words for the target cpu architecture.

From Wikipedia: “One of the original NT developers, Mark Lucovsky, states that the name was taken from the original target processor—the Intel i860, code-named N10 ("N-Ten")”.

NT was always supposed to be multi architecture (MIPS, Alpha, IA-32). I’m not sure what happened to i860.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT
Are reusable bottles and home water filters a bridge too far?
Why does a marketing manager at Scylla know so much about pannage lmao
Protecting trans people from those who would harass them, even to the point of suicide, is progress.

Have you noticed something about Hackernews? So many of the coolest hacks featured here are created partly or entirely by trans, nonbinary, or genderqueer folx. Asahi Linux, Cosmopolitan libc, bsnes, frickin' ARM processors! And this seems to be only increasing with time. The tech sector and hacker culture are increasingly queered. And the trans/binary/genderqueer/neuroqueer contingent are increasingly in decision-making roles at tech companies and the internet infrastructure itself. If we were to lose them, we would lose perhaps the biggest wellspring of talent in the whole tech sector.

Kiwi Farms has attacked them and in so doing, attacked the network itself. The network is fighting back. It thrives on diversity, nonconformity, and those who question everything, even the identities assigned to them at birth. Kiwi Farms is making those people suffer. Do not expect the internet, which is basically a set of peering relationships maintained by very vulnerable humans, to carry their traffic and thereby condone further harm.
Yup. The UX is going to be tricky. In the system I'm building there's a shared-everything KV store that your client publishes to similar to their system. I've got a system worked out for recovering your account in a decentralized way if a trojan exposes your key. However, I think there will be a need for services that help with this.
Totally agree on this one but have conceded that we're in the minority of people that need to completely turn off their WiFi and Bluetooth radios. That's still one reason I jailbreak my device and something that, although I would never switch based on past experiences, I do like about Android/non-Apple devices.
Yes. Very crypt as adhoc encrypted folders
I then move them around and versions them with git ( the version is not incremental, I just know if it’s the same hash .. )