skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> JS is a fine tool for making rich, interactive UIs in the browser and IMO avoiding it at all costs shouldn't be a priority

Exactly, this is 2022. I used to be one of those types running Firefox (since the late 90s) with NoScript and other extensions to have 100% ultimate control over who and who could not run JavaScript.

It's ubiquitous now, it's sandboxed, it's safe and extremely performant.

There's no reason to go backwards now.
Margin is much smaller on physical goods, they employ a lot more people doing manualish labor, etc
Tesla architecture might be a mess (very likely), but I bet a lot of money that among car companies that make billions in revenue their architecture is not that messy in comparison. If you consider the horror stories you hear from other car companies and their attempts at software.
Could be worse. They could write it clickbait style.

"You won't believe what's new in the iPad"

"Pros are jealous of these new iPhone features"

"5 new upgrades to Apple Security Bounty, and you won't believe number 2!"
Looking at you Newrelic,twilio,etc! Sucking down those sweet sweet VC dollars.
https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect combined with https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-continuum is a game changer.
It mandates a USB C connector. They weren’t smart enough to mandate that “all USB C cables sold in the EU must actually meet the standard”.

Then you also have the opposite problem. If the USB cable supports higher wattage power delivery, some low wattage USB C devices like headphones won’t charge.
I've heard technical people use those terms when they're talking down (or up, depending on your perspective) to management.
I used to think of this in terms of, “it doesn’t hurt me if other people can install whatever they like on their phones.”

However, when I thought it out, I realized that if the App Store wasn’t the one and only distribution model for apps, then profit motives would push companies to use those other mechanisms—presumably competing app stores like steam, or just installation of apps ala carte.

I realized that I’m not even completely in control of which apps I need, because if there’s an app I need for a car, or I need to install something for work, I’m just not always in a position to decide NOT to install something.

So even though I like the idea of keeping my App Store and letting anyone else do what they want… isn’t there some truth to the idea that if there were ways around the App Store then it would create a wedge that effectively forced a lot of fracturing?
Who else is going to fund it? This is the very beginning, and what comes after this is is going to make these incidents look like a poetry reading.
I've worked with people who are that old in the industry and they don't use those terms.

Elon is projecting here. Big time. I feel like I can just see the impotent self-victimization and glorification between the lines. And walking in with a sink and Tesla engineers to "review Twitters code". Better watch my tongue, but l-o-l.
It is some sort of social engineering.

The target is the media cycle and the hack is bring your name out there.

Did it work?
I know they are orange and have a name ala « just say no to oil » or something.

And I really don’t care. So it worked on me.

The same results with classic ad campaign might have touched a fraction of the people hearing about that now.

For a different cost. ( in money as opposed to legal consequence and being in the awkward ass position )

I retain judgement until it became more clear is it’s a endgame, or a first step needed for something else.
Meta is a 9 P/E company with an unparalleled technical founder CEO and legions of tech talent the likes of which invented React, React Native, PyTorch, RocksDB, and tons more. They’ll be more than fine here on out.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/27/climate-...

Our lifestyle is unsustainable. Take your head out of the sand.
I used to blame Tim for design decisions that lead to the keyboard fiasco and the touchbar (I just felt like it never would have happened if Jobs was still there).

After seeing the tremendous success that he's lead the company to my view has softened a bit. Even if those atrocities might have been avoided if Jobs was still around, there's no denying at this point that Tim was the right choice for CEO.
Canon absolutely did this, I have the first-gen of their first-gen mirrorless system, the EOS-M, and I run a 3rd party firmware on it (MagicLantern) to be able to bypass the 30-minute record limit. The same was true in many other cameras as well, that were marketed more for photography but were fully capable of decent continuous video (without overheating).
Amazon accidentally exposed an internal server packed with Prime viewing data
Read more carefully, it says “an initial evaluation of nearly every report we receive within two weeks, and most within six days.”

Emphasis mine. What it means is that even reports that fail the initial “oh shit” gut check (which Apple definitely does BTW) will still get worked within 1-2 weeks. That’s pretty good.
Fun fact, the Australian Green Party was born protesting renewable electricity. They stopped the development of the Franklin Dam in Tasmania.

"In the late 1970s and 1980s, a public campaign to prevent the construction of the Franklin Dam in Tasmania saw environmentalist and activist Norm Sanders elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as an Australian Democrat. Brown, then director of the Wilderness Society, contested the election as an independent, but failed to win a seat.[3]"

From

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Australian_Gree...

The founder of the Green, Bob Brown, now opposes wind farms in Tasmania.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Brown#Opposition_to_a_Tasm...
0. I wonder how many licenses ssh.com sells per year when competing with free OpenSSH (on OpenBSD), OpenSSH portable (derive from OpenSSH), and libssh2.

1. There's no mention ARP spoofing / TCP connection hijacking that can be performed against unauthenticated, plaintext protocols with L2-L3 dumb LANs that don't perform port authentication.
XPeng Strapped a Drone to a Hatchback and Called It a Flying Car
Strange this is getting downvotes. Protein consumption was traditionally one of the fundamental measures of social health, wealth, and quality of life, and it is on track to massively expand as population grows and huge parts of Asia and Africa (and others) continue to catch up in wealth.

Apparently now we're in upside-down world were the richest and most highly consuming people on the planet believe that the production that supports their lifestyles is now immoral, and the idea that poorer people might increase their wealth and consumption a bit is so horrible to contemplate.
They don't really care who you are, they only care if you are allowed to vote. At least in theory, of course weird stuff probably goes on every year due to the size of the US.
Ah this is such a succinct description of the real value of the town hall discussion format. I don’t care or want to maintain a subscriber list, but I absolutely do want to contribute and actively participate in my area of interests. HN is the best area I’ve found for that.
While I’ve got you… What’s the state-of-the-art story for package management in Gambit?
So... No specifics other than hardware encoding?

I don't pay them for hardware encoding but for other services that the alternatives suck at. Once you know you have to pay you don't really care what you have to pay for and what you don't.

There are downsides to Plex, but do realize you're conversing with people who've used multiple options. I try Jellyfin once or twice a year and it's objectively a worse experience each time.

And again, when I used the free version of Plex the viewing experience was perfect. I guess I just don't need hardware encoding?
wrote this after observing an exchange between grimes and roon: https://twitter.com/tszzl/status/1575173284441731072 that is reflective of a lot of AI conversations that get too optimistic about AI.

I think the AGI barrier is a useful upper bound to limit discussion to practical things.
I'm guessing that if Europeans had decided to adopt the Native American lifestyles and cultures, we would still be pre-industrial and living as a bunch of separate tribes that sometimes have wars between them.

The way the European settlers treated the natives was indeed rather shabby, but the existing culture was not one that could ever develop into modern nation-states and a global industrial civilization without conflict. And without industrial capitalism, we wouldn't have computers and be exchanging messages across continents here on HN.

So it's entirely possible there's alien civilizations out there that are happy to remain in a primitive, tribal, pre-industrial state, but we're not going to ever detect or meet those civilizations until we have starships capable of transporting us there.
> I just want to use the Open Source apps that Apple won't let me install

You could signup for the developer program. Or use something like AltServer.
For anyone who's already using tmux and wants to persist their sessions across restarts, I cannot recommend tmux-resurrect and tmux-continuum highly enough.

https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect
https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-continuum
What do you think "PR" is if not doing videos like that? And how do scripted comments about a technical domain that's not programming have anything to do with his actual claim (see OP) to have done "20 years of heavy duty programming"? There's no doubt that he has some kind of smarts, but he claimed something very specific and AFAIK that claim has no basis in fact.
This is by far the best and most enjoyable experience I tend to have in VR. Meta Quesr is an incredible piece of device to experience this in. I can't wait to fire mine up and enjoy this ;)
Or, you know, the climate is in crisis already: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/27/climate-...

And meat eating has an enormous effect on climate change: https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-59232599

But sure, I'm the one with the fantasy future here. I wouldn't care except YOUR consumption is directly ruining the world for everyone else.

And I notice you didn't address your own comment asking why we should bother caring about future generations. How heartless are you?
> man who made elon kneel

Uh, Elon just fired him.
The necessity of frugal living while earning twice the national average definitely says something fundamental about a country's economy. There are many countries in Europe where earning double the average salary will make one quickly accumulate wealth.

Regarding the London fintech experience, you are right, it is comparable to Mountain View. The financial industry in London is a well known exception to the rule when it comes to salaries in the UK.
> and extremely performant.

Sometimes. Counter examples are facebook and the Reddit remake.
OMG. I need to put either the keyboard or the beer away for the night.
My family is all Apple, and we have precisely one device that charges USB-C to USB-C: an iPad Pro. Everything else is Lightning (4 iPhones, 3 AirPods, 3 iPads), MagSafe (2 MBA/Ps), or micro USB (Beats, wireless keyboard, bike lights). I'm not dreading the transition, but I'm definitely not looking forward to it. If I were 20 years old and just starting to accumulate devices/chargers, I'd probably be more in favor of it. But after a decade-ish of collecting Lightning chargers/cables, I'm not at all eager for the iPhone to become USB-C.
Former President Donald Trump says his Twitter account reinstated on Monday
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/08/total-biomass-weight-...

"plants make up 82.4% and surprisingly, bacteria make up 12.8%. Animals make up just 0.47%."

So, your question is basically "is the biomass in plants increasing or decreasing"? It appears to be increasing:

https://www.fs.usda.gov/nrs/pubs/jrnl/2021/nrs_2021_xu_001.p...
Right. If I’m going to get into audiobooks, I want as many dollars I put in to go to the author, editors, and narrator as possible.

Neither of these leviathans are interested in making that happen.
So what will they do next, now that the world is less tolerant of the type of rich person who destroys a company then tries to retreat onto a yacht or a ranch or something. Since COVID fell, many rapists have hung themselves[1,2] or been imprisoned,... and "The Europeans" are seizing their yachts one by one[3,4,5]?

(It's like I told Mike Nelson in the hall at the hacker convention -- there's no EU wide intelligence agency, and one day men with guns with come into your home without permission and do a hell of a lot more than knock on the door and go away after being politely told they never should have been let into the building without a warrant[6].)

--
[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/02/19/1081961087/jeffrey-epstein-je...
[2] https://www.npr.org/2022/04/14/1092825114/germany-seizes-dil...
[3] https://www.npr.org/2022/04/05/1090999672/russian-oligarch-y...
[4] https://www.npr.org/2022/05/06/1097101058/russian-oligarch-f...
[5] https://www.npr.org/2021/06/23/1009579599/john-mcafee-softwa...
[6] It's nothing personal, but I value my privacy, just because I sometimes overshare doesn't mean folks are entitled to know whatever they want whenever they want.
Mmmm... the banks are in for 13B on this deal. I think they think making money is more important than... establishing a digital town hall for 229 million users, some number of which may or may not be bots.
Can my dome be people that want to eat meat but also have a big carbon tax?
so weird I scrolled down that page really quickly then it's asking to use my camera? hmm

not trying to take away from what appears to be a great read
How much more freedom than a permissive license does anyone need?

The term rug-pull is wildly misleading.

Let's describe the problem this is setting out to solve better--end users who have gotten something for free are upset that they no longer will continue getting updated somethings for free.

The old open source versions are still out there. If they want to use it, they can fork off.
I echo what the other commenter said. There's a setting to not show Plex content on the main page.

It's a total non-issue for me. I see the Plex content only when I intentionally select it.
Ask HN: What's Going on with the HN Algorithm?
This thread, a repost, has nine points in 2 hours, and a single comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33331697

There are a half dozen Elon/Twitter posts on new with more comments and upvotes. Not a single one is on the front page.

Facebook had a massive dip this week, and it hasn't touched the front page.

Are posts on certain topics being censored or being given limited traction on the front page? These are the two biggest stories in tech this week, but not apparently on HN.
That's called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action
I ride a llama. Not nearly as high as a high horse, but higher than most donkeys.
Sorry, I'm not sure what you are asking me to explain - I didn't use the term features at all. Can you elaborate?
You were just learned a new slang
Yongnuo are on their second generation of Android+MFT camera with the YN455:

https://www.hkyongnuo.com/productinfo/660161.html

https://www.yongnuomall.com/product/detail/16254
Smart guy though, he walked it back just in time. I'm sure he'll point to that tweet, and it's timing, whenever his legal counsel eventually tells him that, yes, very much so they need to ban certain folks. And like most of the time when playing to (that particular crowd), it won't matter when his hypocrisy (or pandering) is exposed.
Consumer point and shoot is totally dead and replaced by smartphones.

But enthusiasts who wants to practice the craft of photography are thriving. Cameras have never been this good, especially for their price.
We let stuff migrate upriver years ago when they added a lock system back in 1829. At this point any environmental harm from connecting these lakes has already happened generations ago well before we where born. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welland_Canal

Anyway, the amount of water flowing over Niagara Falls is currently regulated hourly by treaty with excess flows above that level used to generate hydroelectricity. 100,000 cubic feet per second (2,800 m3/s) of water flowing over the falls, and during the night and off-tourist season there must be 50,000 cubic feet per second (1,400 m3/s) of water flowing over the falls. That excess is generally 50-70% of the rivers total, making the falls arguably just a really large and extremely expensive water feature used to attract tourism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Niagara_Falls_hydroele...

Adding a separate pumped hydro system really can be treated as an independent entity because we don’t just control the falls we can even turn it off when needed. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1338793/Niagara-Fal...
I fail to see the connection between raising prices and better affordability/access of food for the poor. Certainly you could make food as valuable as, say gold, and most would be loath to waste a single gram of it.
Trust facebook to both create react AND make the worst performing react application of all time.
Meta: Shares in Facebook owner dive 20% as investors lose faith
There are a few instances where using == is desirable, for instance it allows you to compare two instances of an object and returns true if the properties are the same.

In this case === will always return false since it checks if the two instances are the same object.
The author also seems blind to the fact aerial photography has been a well established concept for well over 80 years at this point. These companies are not optimizing their optical systems to spy on people, but rather provide a good focus at long focal ranges in hardened systems, has nothing to do with police or their motives, its a general product feature.
That is how I got my hatred of steam. I bought a physical disc and couldn't play it because steam was having issues that day, which should be anticipated on launch day.
Matrix Message Transport
Ahh yes, "please protest in a way that doesn't inconvenience me and I'll support you."
What? This legislation is what’s forcing everyone to buy new cables and throw out their old ones.
I thought my M2 MBA was making noise today, but it turned out it was the neighbor's HVAC unit. With my Intel MBP, I wouldn't have been able to even hear the neighbor's HVAC through our closed windows. Life is good!
Worth noting the Quaternary Extinction Event may have been caused by a global catastrophe in the Younger Dryas Impact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_extinction_event#Yo...
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Elon Musk reportedly fires top Twitter executives as he takes over company
I did sort of violate the HN social norms a bit... for which I apologize.
If they're throwing out 40% of the food they buy, then raising prices slightly and not throwing out 40% of the food should be accessibility-neutral no? Instead of buying 2 milks and throwing 1 milk out, you buy 1 milk for 2X the price and throw out 0 milk. At the end of the day you still drank 1 milk for the same effective price.

They already have significantly more than they need. Americans already pay less as a percentage of their paychecks for food than any other nation on earth.

What they're running out of though, is fresh water. Having two extra Colorado rivers' worth would be pretty nice in the southwest! [1] And that's just from beef. Don't get me started on the gallon of water it takes to grow a single almond in the California desert while asking people to skip showers [2]. [edit] While the Utah governor literally prays for rain. [3]

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colorado-river-water-level-60-m...

[2] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-29/californ...

[3] https://governor.utah.gov/2021/06/02/gov-cox-invites-utahns-...
The Python ecosystem imo tries to get you from 0 to 1 a bit faster than the more performant alternatives with large userbases

I’m really thinking of the C/C++ ecosystem here - os portability, compiler differences, cmake, xeus-cling vs ipython, etc.

Interestingly it seems nowadays the trend is to siphon the good parts of the faster languages into Python (xla/numba/tvm) for cheap, rather than making it easier to get the good parts of Python into the faster languages (although certainly eg pybind11 is nice in that regard).
A part of me is curious about what will happen next.

And then there is a part of me, as a participant of whatever democracy is left in the United States, is concerned with what could happen if a particular user is allowed to use Twitter again after their orchestration of certain events.
I don’t know why you think that’s odd. Imagine an incredibly rare disease you’ve barely heard of. How much do you honestly care about it being cured? Now imagine you have that disease. Are you still as ambivalent?

Most people don’t care that deeply about the things that don’t affect them (or their friends/family).
"Unparalleled technical founder" what? Is this satire?
> Vr chat? You mean the weird vr social game for furries and anime fans?

It's a platform. If they want to restrict the avatars to boring blobs and the environments to virtual offices, that's what they could do. Similar to how both Skype and Skype for business existed.

Specifically it's a very well built out platform with capabilities to integrate with a lot of types of usage. I share the view of "furries are to VR as porn is to video media". If you have experts in extensive VR usage, you may as well learn from them.

> The criticism is hyper focused on that one app.

What are the other good apps? What is the innovation? I can only refer to what is published and known.
It looks like some types of reviews might be lazy: the app is accepted after an automated scan, then placed in queue to let human reviewers check it at later date.

This is actually my biggest takeaway from the article.
You're not supposed to. Being a remote worker is supposed to cut you off from social interaction and blur the separation between work and private.
Even more interesting, they make this money without even being the majority platform.
We're agreeing. This is exactly my point. Hunger is not solved in the US because of capitalism, not because we're unable to produce enough food to feed everyone which is a horror unto itself.