skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't be the first time that Apple is nerfing perfectly well-working hardware.

I never thought about Airpod updates, but according to their site they are applied automatically if you're in the vicinity of an iPhone/iPad/Mac and they're being charged. Does anyone know more details about it / how to prevent updates? Do you need to keep them away from Apple devices while charging? Does it matter whether they're paired via Bluetooth?
I should also mention that these new CSS features enable developers the option to stop using CSS frameworks that are often bloated with features you may not need or want.

Back in the day, developers would use a CSS framework just to manage grid issues, which had their own limitations.

With CSS Grid, we do things that were difficult or impossible with much less code.
Yes. The one dude's belief has nothing to do with the mass layoffs.
And it explicitly states that it does give them the right to share your code. Copilot isn't selling code; if it were, then GitHub wouldn't let you share the output of Copilot; that would destroy their market. That they allow you to share the output of Copilot with others proves that what they are selling is the service, not the output. The output is, at worst, "shared" code from Github's licensors.
For a desktop, this can be transparent for the user, because it can be booted via Ethernet or from an USB drive that is attached all the time to the computer, possibly on one of the internal USB type A connectors that exist on many motherboards, precisely for this purpose.

Using a single disk with multiple partitions is less convenient than using a separate boot drive, because the separation makes easier the reuse of both the boot drives and of the root drives in other computers, or their copying onto drives of different sizes, when migrating or cloning operating systems.

For a laptop that contains encrypted SSDs/HDDs, using an USB drive to boot it, which is not normally kept with the laptop, can be used for improved security, because only in this case no secret keys need to be stored on the encrypted drive. Even if the secret keys are also encrypted, they must be encrypted with a key derived from a password, which can make their decryption much easier than the decryption of a drive encrypted with a random key.
That's adorable. I like your dad.
A person with eidetic memory absolutely could do so.
The problem with making up your own license clause is that responsible companies now need to pay their lawyers to review it if they want to use your software. This is going to exclude a lot of users who don't want to pay for that review, rather than just the ones who'd use it for purposes you want to prohibit.
> Promoting violence and harassment is a fundamentally different type of speech than disagreeing with the prevailing local opinion on a controversial subject that has many shades of gray (that your examples intentionally lack).

Plenty of people disagree, and do indeed claim that not letting a transgender woman compete against natal females is harassment towards transgender people. Heck, I've even seen people claim that this is genocide.

I don't really care about these topics, but the point is that many people do not, or perhaps cannot, distinguish between "hate speech" and and opinions they disagree with. Contrary to your claim that "hate can't be applied to many things, including disagreements like this comment", hate speech is often applied to dissenting opinions.
Dr, Your Honor, etc.
Are they different products?
*former head of HR of Netflix

she was apparently a big deal but i think you gave her more credit than deserved there heheh
Humans are able to recognize when they are plagiarizing someone else’s work. AIs currently aren’t.
Better than it being a Glory Season (1990) reference.
As someone who is intimidated by the thought of programming TeX, I think the following comment which asserts that it is badly designed seems unlikely to be coming out of nowhere. (MetaFont is apparently better than TeX)

https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/602950

I'll quote the key part here in case that link stops working.

> TeX has two programming systems, the "mouth" (which does macro expansion essentially) and the "stomach" (which typesets and does assignments). They run only loosely synchronised and on-demand.

> For programming purposes, they are a pairing of a blind and a lame system since the "stomach" is not able to make decisions based on the value of variables (conditionals only exist in the "mouth") and the "mouth" is not able to affect the value of variables and other state.

> While eTeX has added a bit of arithmetic facilities that can be operated in the mouth, as originally designed the mouth does not do arithmetic. There is a fishy hack for doing a given run-time specified number of iterations in the mouth that relies on the semantics of \romannumeral which converts, say, 11000 into mmmmmmmmmmm.

> Because of the synchronisation issues of mouth and stomach, there is considerable incentive to get some tasks done mouth-only. Due to the mouth being lame and suffering from dyscalculia, this is somewhat akin to programming a Turing machine in lambda calculus.

> TLDR: the programming paradigm of the TeX language is awful.
> The frustrating part is people making claims about issues where they don't actually have datapoints to back it up. I try to avoid doing that.

When it comes to security, the default assumption is always to assume any system is not secure unless it can be proven that it is with a reasonable level of certainty. In the case of Whatsapp, that level of proof is not there. We have to assume it is insecure. If Whatsapp released their client's code, that problem would go away.
This analogy is flawed
That sounds like the second chance pool. So it's possible the submitter actually originally submitted it before you! Funny, I never thought about this being a reachable state. You're right, it is confusing.

I email Dang (hn@ycombinator.com) when I'm confused or unclear on site behavior. He's awfully generous to humor me.
Are you 26? The book was published in 1996. It could very well be an already existing expression, but I had never heard it before the book.
> For the sentencing judge, the fact that the policemen only conversed in private was not so much a mitigation, but an aggravation. She claimed that, in being covert, their comments were even more damaging than if they had been made in public.

That does make me wonder what sort of screening process is applied to judges, or, given the lack of an actual quote (and given the source of this claim) makes me wonder if this is a misrepresentation of her actual thinking on the matter.
Why does anyone think this is a solvable problem? Once there is sufficient notability only authoritarian censorship or jailing is going to work, to increasing degrees of force up to executions (and even then that won't silence supporters or there was any sort of group association). For people of lessor reputations, "canceling" might work, in the sense of public shaming or loss of income, but there is a ladder of force that is required.

If we want any sort of free society I don't think we _can_ stop fake news. We can only attempt to counter it with reason, debunking, and competitive rhetoric. We maybe can build tools that attempt to amplify debunking, build institutions trusted as neutral arbiters or that have other forms of credibility.
> As Musk visited Twitter's San Francisco headquarters last week, Cornet handed him a cartoon with a note that read: "I hope you don't mind a 'court jester' at Twitter or you'll have to get me fired," signed with an emoji sticking his tongue out.

Well, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to say he basically fired himself.
I spent my last evening, and this one, on working around the fact that firefox still doesn't support modules in WebWorkers.

And yes, I have a valid reason to use webworker: I'm making writing an online compiler playground.

More than half the time, the firefox debugger plainly crash when opening my app, and I have to open a new tab and retry.

For some reason I can't put a breakpoint on the statement after an if on the same line.

And these are my issue only on the last hour ! I'm using firefox everyday but yes, there is room for improvement.

I expected them to add Time Travel Debugging: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/firefox-is-te...

It was working on mac, then they fired a lot of staff, including the one who were developing it, and now they made their own company out of it: https://www.replay.io/

And to the one who says "you can contribute", yeah no, I tried, the official docs (back then) gave you the non-optimal ste^s (full clone of the repo (multiples hours due to upstream servers being slow), full local compilation).

The worst of it is, the doc tell you to compile firefox, so multiples minutes of wait to test a change, a change made to the devtools, which is entierely written in JS.

Oh and of course, you can't plug a debugger on the devtools, so you are stuck with console.logs.

Edit: minutes after writing this comments, my just tab crashed: https://i.imgur.com/s1y1JsO.png
Apple/Google/Samsung Pay are not payment processors.
Old school murder with a marketing pitch
Interesting, when did that start? Our ancient iMac (2009?) with Ubuntu Mate on has a vfat ESP.
For some reason I have been putting off migrating mine and my clients to Zoho for years; this is the "final straw" I needed to start the process.
Does that mean you quit without notice and feel zero guilt about it, or are you a one-sided corporate simp?

To me the world is a better place when an employment relationship is not purely contractual, on both sides, and I'm glad I live in a country that supports that.
100% false, there are loads of historical cases of people with eidetic memories being able to reproduce things that they've seen with near complete fidelity, there's no reason to believe that a coder with such a memory would be any different.
This is a very common southern saying. The saying existed in The West Wind by James Staunton Babcock in 1849. It likely existed before that.
Would netflix benefit if zfs was modified to use a unified cache to make zero-copy possible?
The Big Pleroma and Fediverse (2021)
I think people also underrate that you can then detach the camper and use it as a normal truck whereas with a van, you are bringing your whole house with you no matter what.
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As always Microsoft prioritizes the wrong things: for example with Microsoft Teams (they're not addressing the performance issues).

Same goes with Outlook. See what they introduced recently:
https://twitter.com/DenysVitali/status/1587752974062944256

Wtf?
An Entity Component System is literally the functional approach to programming under a different name and with mutation by default. There’s even been a huge move toward keeping ECS data classes separate from behaviors. At that point, it’s just a less ergonomic functional approach with better performance due to lower-level languages (though ATS or Rust are just as fast as C).

Maybe you’re thinking of FRP (functional reactive programming), but that isn’t even super mainstream among most functional programmers. I know some small games have used it, but it’s mostly used for specific kinds of UI in languages that enforce immutability and no side effects.
I do want discovery though.
It strikes me that supporting ads has a huge impact on the technical infrastructure. It complicates server deployment and client UI. And how would you tailor markets to regions? subscriber preferences? coveted spots (just before that cliff-hanger...)? Oy

I'd be interested in ballpark resource estimates for added complexity and staffing for operations and for the ad business units.

Most importantly, is most of the cost up-front in infrastructure development, or do the ad business units themselves eat so much they don't make sense below a certain level of adoption?

i.e.,
- How many ad-supported users does Netflix need for the ad tier to justify its fixed and operational costs?

- What about cannibalizing the higher tiers? Can ads end up being a net revenue loss even if they pay for themselves?

- If it is complicated and hard, and they get it right, can it be a moat for them?

Way too many questions.
This comment made me LOL. Thank you, that's pretty funny.

I was curious if this was a saying I'd never heard of or if you just came up with it. Seems you just came up with this?

What's amazing is that Google already has this HN post indexed and you're already the first hit for the phrase. And even weirder, Google says that they (currently) indexed it 56 minutes ago, when HN reports you posted it 23 minutes ago. Google is now apparently predicting the future 33 minutes in advance.

https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Devil%27s+rummaging+thro...
No worries, I put that disclaimer in because it's illegal for me to give legal advice and because I want to discourage people from thinking random internet comments are good at properly stating the law, not because I'm that worried that someone will actually decide to stake a bunch of money based on analysis in my comments ;)
At the time the suit was launched, Google search would only display snippet views. The very nature presents the attribution to the user, enabling them to separately obtain a license for the content.

This would be more or less analogous to Copilot linking to lines in repositories. If Copilot was doing that, there wouldn't be much outrage.

The fact that they are producing the entire relevant snippet, without attribution and in a way that does not necessitate referencing the source corpus, suggests the transgression is different. It is further amplified by the fact that the output itself is typically integrated in other copyrighted works.
I bought the first book. Let me have a look.
Because it means their lawyers are firing off in random, uninformed directions. There's no copyright issue, as the maintainers of the Snap have a copyright license (the AGPLv3) to do what they are doing.

You could argue that it's a trademark issue, except that if it was, this makes a DMCA request illegal as it's not a tool to enforce trademark issues. And in addition, while the AGPLv3 has allowances for trademark carve-outs, Signal makes none.

It's not a good look for the lawyers to be completely in the dark on an issue so core to their company's business.
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You can turn even a small embedded system into a distributed system if you try. It's a common fault of designers to sprinkle a lot of different processors throughout a system without realising they're creating a problem for themselves or the software developers who have to use the hardware. I've seen a single PCB with 8 processors on it (for no good reason other than the electronics engineer thought it was convenient and liked PICs), it made it so much harder to maintain the state of the system than it needed to be. (and even though the response times may be far more consistent than what a distributed web application may need to deal with, at least the underlying tools like TCP generally work pretty well, unlike the half-measures embedded developers tend to wind up implementing)
I have a(nother) question. If you’re iterating through a long array with chunksize larger than the cache line size, then every iteration of the loop will cause a cache miss. So it shouldn’t matter if it’s a power of two or not, every call to a[i]++ will be a cache miss. What gives?
play/pause, skip forward, skip back :) This is what they did for me on the Pebble, anyway! Or outside of music-playback, they were enter/select, up, down, respectively.
Supports catch-all now
People always do things like this, like an astrologer trying to say something profound using Heisenberg's uncertainty principle applying it to your romantic relationships, or whatever.

These "just so" stories are attractive but it is quite important to realize a metaphor which is intuitive and you perceive as useful is nothing at all like the process for finding real scientific truth. There is also a lot of introspective value to modeling the world as being controlled by mysterious gods who are pleased or appalled at your behavior and that's why good and bad things happen. Perhaps useful for some people but nothing at all like truth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story
> , typically to avoid leaks or creating hysteria ahead of decisions being finalized

When a layoff is known to be coming, the best and most employable people will often head for the doors quickly... leaving the company with a greater concentration of less desirable employees.

If it's by surprise then you'll lose fewer of the people you wanted to keep.
Many comments here talking about the substance, so I'll tackle the irony.

Didn't Yishan sorta show how easy it is to bypass "spam detection" by embedding multiple instances of spam within his otherwise "clean" thread?

The asides to pitch his current work undercut his point to some degree.
If you Google Mona Lisa the result is the Mona Lisa. If you query Copilot for a common piece of code you get that code.
Twitter will be gone within a few years, or a shell of its former self.
I'm fairly certain I'm giving a passable description of what Penrose claims in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Mind and and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadows_of_the_Mind

I should have said "problems which do not have computable solutions" rather than "set of problems computable by a quantum computer", which seems fairly pedestrian compared to what Penrose is saying.
I follow you explanation but not your end statement.

What I think GP is getting at in my understanding is that all this OSS/licensing stuff was a cautious attempt to assert a radical idea into an atmosphere of extrem secrecy: That information wants to be free.

Now we have a fat cooperation making a public statement of putting the value of advancing humanity over the value of honoring weird old Victorian ideas of "intellectual property" - which is what we are always tried to do, no?

Not that there is nothing to criticize, but I think that's a good thing on the whole.
If you cherry picked sections of my code? I'd have no more issue with it then George R.R. Martin would care if you grabbed a few paragraphs out of one of his fantasy books and used them in your novel.
But Copilot has been shown to distribute (parts of) the copyrighted works used to create it. That’s the difference.
In what way did it die? it may be easily repairable. e.g. the common display issue on the old Pebble models was resolvable by just placing a shim behind the display so the data connection stayed solid.
Outlook.com custom domain is M365/O365, it's one of the paid features in those plans.
That's a really nice thing to read and a good example of why hn is great. If you've got another going spare, I'd give it a good home for medical physics research (long story!)
Thanks for the information! My Motu (M2) does live on a linux machine and it's been relatively painless, worked on MacOs as well, but required a driver download on Windows. I never dug into why. Audio interfaces tend to be finicky things on their own, I also have an Arturia Audio Fuse Studio that needs to be "rebooted" from time to time, no matter what OS its connected to.
I think this gets almost all the way there but not quite — there is one more vital point:

How we act depends on our environment and incentives.

It is possible to build environments and incentives that make us better versions of ourselves. Just like GPT-3, we can all be primed (and we all are primed all the time, by every system we use).

The way we got from small tribes to huge civilizations is by figuring out how to create those systems and environments.

Yes, the algorithm is not the problem alone, but a good algorithm can help fix the problems — since it creates the "loss function" (the incentives) for the humans using the platform (I go into that in more detail here https://twitter.com/metaviv/status/1529879799862378497 and here https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/bridging-based-rank... for those who are curious).

So it's not about "reaching for the stars" or complaining about how humanity is too flawed. It's about carefully building the systems that take us to those stars!
Appreciate you posting this link, thank you!

It is good recapitulation of why (particularly from a more legal-oriented layperson's standpoint) moderation is hard for an online platform.

The crazy thing is even though that is a long list, you could probably double the size of that list of issues with whole other classes of issues.

For example, that list is mostly focused on issues facing a platform with outside stakeholders making it difficult... then there are the inside stakeholders!

Stuff like... "actually, arguments/controversy increases engagement/views/ads (and your/my bonus/stock)", "more regulation we have to comply with actually increases barriers to entry for new competitors", "I work here and have politics X but I sense our company acting with bias Y", "Our moderators are traumatized from looking at too much <porn/hate/etc>", etc.

Besides a Reddit CEO posting on this, I would also pay money to see a CmdrTaco editorial on this topic...
"We have to let them go" is absoultely distancing and dodging responsibility. "We have decided to lay them off" would be the responsible thing to say.
It's become the norm on desktop boards over the last couple years or so, though switches and other kit are a bit slower catching up
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That makes sense, but I think there will be lots of uncertainty in the company after the first wave of layoffs. It’s quite likely there will be more.
I think you are mostly correct but most people don't like this explanation and choose to believe in magic or spirits or whatever instead of physical reality. For some reason the brain is "magic" and non-physical unlike other organs (and everything else that exists) to most people. It's almost impossible to convince anyone of this though and it's not even worth trying.
Not on the scale we see today, with massive orbital commercial constellations and special-purpose micro satellites.
They're selling the service, which is a derivative work of the code.
It can, but then pricing bothers me. I just got so used to G Suite free that I don't want to tack on a $10/month subscription for forwarding. (It's silly given the myriad of other subscriptions I'm fine with, though)
If I’m in a TypeScript file and I import “foo.ts”, why can’t TSC just rewrite that to whatever filename TSC will emit when it compiles foo.ts?

If you’re just using TSC to typecheck and not emitting code (which is what most people actually do in practice), it’s even easier -- just let me import “foo.ts” if that’s the name of a file that exists. The popular bundlers can all handle that just fine.
And there are vastly more engineers to compete against
Yeah, I don’t think it’s doom and gloom.

But I also don’t think it’s prudent to say “don’t worry about that layoff, you’ll get a new BigTech job tomorrow!”

Times are weird.
That's a bit of shrinkflation. I always wanted to use it, but for some reason they only supported GoDaddy domains which I definitely do not want. I guess it is Apple for me now.
Man, this is dumber than buying distressed jeans.

Also, you could just do this in post, I think. I see an app incoming.
Ubuntu does it.