skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't you read the article, we're supposed to use vfat only and prepare for firmware checking our disks and revoking our boot rights on keyring and denylist updates.(LOL)
As meme as it is, Rust rewrite wouldn't be out of place...
YouTube channel with 100s of Apple WWDC videos taken down
Looks like you are correct: E.g., this ESP (ESC -- electronic stability thingy) is now required nearly everywhere.

Now I'm especially glad my car, used I bought recently, is too old to have ESP. It has ABS which doesn't work -- fine with me. The brakes, with dual master cylinders, work fine. A guess is that the problem with ABS is a corroded electrical ground connection back to the frame -- that illustrates one of my concerns for ABS, ESP, etc., maintenance problems.

To me some good news is likely most or all of these electronic systems can fail and the car will be more like one from the 1950s and still work fine. So, if ESP or ABS gets sick, just cut some wires and drive off just fine!

I've driven nearly 1 million miles with only one accident, not serious, and with no insurance claims! I have a squeaky clean driving record and am a total cream puff customer for the auto insurance industry. In all that driving, I never had, needed, or wanted either ABS or ESP.

I used to do a LOT of driving, and cost, time, botheration for maintenance of the car was always an issue. For so much driving the current cars with ABS, ESP, etc. look more expensive, both to buy and to maintain, by a factor of several.

All of this urgency to make cars more complicated looks like a big shot in the gut of the US family budget: US families are having a tough time paying for a house, schooling for the kids, groceries, medical care, and now the cost of driving is a factor of several more expensive than it was and could be.

Looks like there will be some ups/downs, I don't know which, of prices in the used car market. E.g., maybe some owner of a recent car gets a repair estimate of $15,000 to fix one of these super electronic systems and decides to sell the car. Then the price on the used car market might be nicely low! And the buyer of the used car just disables the electronic system!

Yes, I know, there was a big problem of smog from cars in NYC, LA, maybe another 10 large US cities, but I never lived in any of those places and now live in TN with no chance of any smog problems.

Besides, a lot of the US has, had, no smog problem: Some parts have very low population density and people can get winter heat from wood fires that put out smoke and still have no smog or smoke problems! Smoke from a wood fire? Ah, smells like home at Thanksgiving or Christmas! And a lot of the rest of the US is farming country where there are tractors, often Diesel, with little or nothing for smog reduction -- with, wonder of wonders, still no smog problem!

There's long been a big theme: Go after the cars!!! That's part of a bigger theme, really popular in some parts of Europe: We all need more government to do things for us!!!!

I like seat belts fine. Maybe air bags are worth the cost and botheration. ESP, modulating the power to the drive wheels, applying the brakes in tricky ways -- I can't believe that that would actually be good for anything.
> I'm just surprised -- it makes sense to me when product recalls happen within a few weeks/months. But nearly two decades, I can't quite wrap my head around. What was observed now that wasn't being observed previously, and why only now?

Have you ever worked on a system with a ten-year-old bug (determined by looking at source history to find when it was introduced), but that was only recently discovered? Lots of problems only manifest in very rare circumstances and/or are difficult to diagnose.

Another possibility is the effects of aging weren't properly predicted. Maybe the airbags functioned properly when now, but after 10+ years, something changed causing some of them to malfunction.
IANAL but restrictions on confidential information only apply to government classification of information. Private classification isn’t a “real” thing, it’s just a breach of a private contract.

If you’re a “free speech platform”, who are you to adjudicate whether a leak of corporate information is malicious vs a brave whistleblower?

This is why we have a court system. Twitter needs to decide what they are actually trying to accomplish with their direction, because right now it appears that this was all about changing the censors, not removing them.
They are up 6% so far this year and well ahead of their benchmarks.
Paul Singer is crafty, but dont be too cyncial.
I believe that we are on the same page, as I wrote in my comment.

"Of course, one might say, but how inefficient or ineffective are all these meetings, e-mails, notifications on Slack, etc., I just want to code or get my brilliant ideas accepted without further discussion. And we all agree there are better or worse ways to get things done at the organizational level (that's an important point), and some companies work better than others and some stages of company life are more conducive to good work and good results"

There are better and worse ways of doing things in a company, but what hunter-gatherers bands were doing is no consequence.

Where we do not agree if when you say that, in this context, starting with anthropology makes sense. And I think it makes zero sense, since the goals, structure and size of hunter-gatherers bands and large work organizations are not even remotely comparable.

Articles of this type are meaningless, they try to be thought-provoking, but they are just trying to impress the gullible. "I never thought about that", yes, because it does not make any sense, not because you are a fool.

A sports team, e.g., soccer team, is comparable in size and goals (win/not lose, die/not die, reproduce/not reproduce, it is clear what is good and what is bad) to a hunter-gatherer band, but what kind of lessons should a coach draw from an anthropological study of hunter-gatherer bands? Nothing, zero, other than some feel-good stories about being a team and not just a collection of individuals, supporting the weak and the elderly.

I have no clue how the editor thought it was an article worth publishing.
> even

Unless you go really far into research/toy optimizations this is more of a pattern match than the compiler figuring it out by itself
Cool. But in most cases you need to get behind services like Cloudflare.
No, it‘s exactly the opposite: I enjoyed C++ 11 but trying any feature tacked on beyond that just makes me want to smack my head onto my desk.

The standard isn‘t slowing down: for c++ 23 the committee has announced even more features when compilers haven‘t yet implemented every CPP 17 feature. What good is a standard if no one is following it?
> sudo is almost 150k lines of code

I'd argue that's (at least part of) the problem. More code = more surface area for bugs, and sudo has a lot of code.
It doesn't look like it's going to replace opus as a codec due to it needing way more resources than Opus. My 1.2 GHz dual-core Intel Atom can encode my flacs to opus in real time when I press play on my ohone (using Plexamp).

The other question is about licensing. Is this going to be proprietary, or completely free and open?
Canada does the same thing, they actually found a memcached instance of ours on a dev VM that was accidentally exposed to the internet.
A lot of people don’t realize that opinions about Ornette Coleman are often tied to how a person reacts to irregular tuning.

Some people find deliberately ‘off pitch’ notes stimulating, some people find them unlistenable. Like fingernails on the chalkboard.
/r/technicallyTheTruth

Any reason people are flagging this?
One example: Most documentation/resources available online are in English, so I use most applications in English, despite that not being my native language so that I'll have it easier to find support online.

There might be other apps where I prefer them to be in my native language (e.g. news apps) or where the use of legal/financial terms makes it difficult as a non-native speaker (e.g. banking/trading apps).

Lastly, it might be interesting for language learners or people regularly switching between languages or countries.

But you might be right that all of those use cases only affect a too small user group, so that there simply is no incentive for developers to add a language switching feature.
SILE can also read XML or Markdown. I use it for publishing books from Markdown via Pandoc (there are several paths from Markdown→SILE).

And for the record the native SIL syntax resembles TeX at first blush but is actually vastly simpler because it is regular and uses a smaller set of possible syntax variations. If you don't like the look or feel of the syntax you can use something else for your source format and provide your own reader that generates a document AST.
Indeed. UEFI brings "solutions" to problems we don't have, but corporations would like those solutions for some reason.
I too don't like waiting at stoplights or following the rules we agree to to make society work if they are inconvenient for me. Forcing people to wear masks over COVID sure was more inconvenient than having to read in an app, right? F society! F trying to all live together!
There are powerful lobbies threatnibg with blackmail and defamation
If you're really into arthouse/ niche world cinema, getting an invite to Karagarga would be worth it. I have seen very few communities with such passion and quality.
I think that is a very optimistic estimate considering it's pretty difficult security-sensitive code which integrates with quite a number of system components in complex ways across a large number of different platforms (this particular bug was introduced for HP-UX compatibility for example).

But you're welcome to try of course. But if it was that easy I bet someone would have done so already. This is the classic "zomg look at how complex it is, let's just rewrite it from scratch!" and then you discover that the complexity is there because it solves a long list of edge cases.

> Surely that can‘t be that much in the name of security, no?

Meh; in reality, almost no one was affected by this particular bug, and even if they were, you needed system/shell access to be affected. Like many sudo security problems in reality they're often actually not that big of a deal. Of course, it could be improved, but there's a long list of other things that are more impactful.
I don't think companies are capable of thinking freely out of fear of being cancelled. The only reason there doing it is because of social pressure no other reason. At certain point when does cancel culture stop.

Elon someone who has done more for society than 99.9% of people yet says a few controversial things every now and then so people hate him. I know 100% every person has said or done things that is considered not inline with the narrative.

As long as people aren't clearly threatening each other i see no reason cancel culture should exist. We have banks canceling peoples bank accounts because of a few words things are out of control. If you're not a perfect human being and follow the narrative 100% then you are removed from society.
> Twitter in it's current form is a dead end, and there's no way "more free speech" is going increase either revenue or users.

I think this is failing to imagine how bad things could get societally. Imagine if more consumers and advertisers start enjoying consuming and being associated with malevolent, hateful, and violence-inducing speech.

Many in the 1930s-40s enjoyed the hateful caricatures of Jews that the Nazis produced in their propaganda, and hateful people also buy refrigerators and sneakers today.

Yes, that would mean a majority of people would have to adopt those perspectives - to the detriment of society at large - but it's happened before in many parts of the world, and could happen again. That is a long-term goal of fascists anyways - to re-normalize that kind of thing, and to re-combine industry and media with a religious ethnostate.

At the very least, the previously quiet pre-existing enjoyment of malevolent speech has been exposed for all to see over the last several years. The question is whether it has a growing audience.

I'm not saying that's Elon's goal, but accelerationism seems to be something he is aligned with as long as it doesn't come at a cost to him.
The title of the article is not “Alameda Research is Insolvent!”. Instead it poses the question, “Is Alameda Research Insolvent?”. Depending on the unknown liabilities, it very well could be.
You can see the source code on github https://github.com/votingworks/vxsuite

Looks to be TypeScript running on node. They have an embedded kiosk browser.
> Jeff Bezos's decisions about where to stick his weiner cost him tens of billions of dollars.

People are allowed to want to divorce without it being referred to as "where he sticks his weiner". I think what grosses me out is that revenge porn was laid thickly on top of this that people just actively ignored.
That's fair.

Do we know yet what will be included in the Twitter plan? All I've heard is that it includes "verification", but that in and of itself doesn't strike me as sufficient to drive adoption.
Fail Whale's back on the menu, boys!
This is great, two suggestions:

- search box on every sub page

- allow for reverse search of channels I know (so I can check out similar channels)
> PayPal is such a weird company...

I disagree. ETSY and eBay appear just as weird, crazy, and up to various odd machinations. The Internet is littered with tales of people completely baffled and perplexed at having their accounts suspended without explanation, then getting the runaround or cold shoulder from customer service.

There is also speculation about some type of secretive blacklist that is floating around and used by various companies for preemptive actions.
https://archive.ph/EsQ5M
Washington, too.

https://esd.wa.gov/about-employees/WARN
That annoying company is unrelated to Lyft. I've had them randomly in all different kinds of ride services. I assume they are advertised on forums for new ride share drivers who are going all in before they realize they'll never recoup their investment.
They claim it is fair use, therefore they can bypass copyright (and therefore license terms).

It being in GitHub has not been brought up as a factor yet (by GitHub/Microsoft), AFAIK they could use code from other places with that logic, they just don't need to.
That's a conflation of two different things. Twitter Inc. the Company and Twitter the App.
An interesting rebuttal to the usual complaints about the US healthcare system (no idea how factual it actually is, but it passes my basic sniff tests, but it is a subject I am unfamiliar with):

https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/why-conventional-wisdom-o...

That said: tying insurance to employment is evil. I’m a New Zealander and our healthcare system certainly has its problems too.
To be more specific, less than 10% of Firefox is written in rust, according to their lines of code stats. Looking at how Servo was put out to pasture, I dont know how much that will grow under Mozilla's stewardship?
> getting rid of pesky "activists" who think "freedom of speech" includes telling advertisers that they face boycotts...

I've heard this taking point elsewhere.

I wonder if he really believes that. I don't; in my experience, adverts have become far more obvious — and far more commonly self-advertisements, e.g. Duolingo advertising it's own paid features — over the course of this year. Feels like all businesses are pulling back on all their expenses, advertising included, at the same time, not mere activism.
I am not sure what that has to do with anything.
Thanks for the correction and link. Not sure how I got that number from my search Dorsey has ~2.3%, not Agrawal.
My own attempt https://learnawesome.org/ (repo: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learndb )
Sounds more like they just didn't like Jazz!
Cancel culture is free speech. No government made VW take this action, did they?
The story of RSS is so telling.

I loved Google for the way that promoted it so heavily. I thought that it was conceivable that a corporation need not be evil..... How naive!

But then Google dropped rss! Just when they had everyone there!! Why?

It was by design. It was an attempt to kill a protocol that supported disintermediated information, where the user could get information directly from source.

I've never stopped using rss - it is hands down the best way to get information.
I find it amazing that he is publicly expressing surprise at this. He telegraphed disruptive changes to the company that may reduce the user base and introduce undesirable content on the platform… and somehow it’s a surprise that advertisers are taking precaution? Not to mention possible conflicts of interest with automakers.
One of my all time favorites and an inspiration, as I'm a musician too. Push boundaries and break stuff.
Probably going to get downvoted - but I'll hypothesize anyway...

I imagine for the younger folks on HN, we grew up with what seemed like >50% of people claiming to have ADHD, OCD, Tourettes - or some other TikTok-fad "cool" disorder - which obviously not that many people actually have these problems.

At least not too long ago when I was young enough to be in that crowd - ADHD was the king of "cool" disorders. Everyone wanted to have ADHD. If you were "normal" - that was "uncool". It was like - what's wrong with you? Why don't you have some debilitating problem like everyone else?

So like claimed gluten intolerance in the adult population - I think there could be some skepticism to the occurrence and severity of some of these disorders - and to anyone making products for such groups to be a snake-oil salesman trying to capitalize.

But, who cares? Is anyone getting hurt? Let people do what makes them happy.
Emblem Giving: a Google Cloud reference app with architectural decision records
DCT based algo, nice! But what's wrong with using just 4 pixels to represent an image and then blurring that in CSS?
Were the activists controlling ad spend?
Well, you'd have to completely own both companies, in which case the effect would be similar, yeah.

If you only owned part, you'd only be buying back that percentage in your scheme, in which case, the tax would well be worth it instead.
Lol: “Source, I know a guy.”
China's Xi says country will continue to open up, share opportunities
it might be decided by AI whether we are allowed to do it or not....
Ask HN: Have you ever experienced eBay refusing to pay you
I recently sold about $2500 worth of total sales on ebay. After they took their ~$500 fee they have now restricted my account and requested information to confirm my identity, address, and proof of owning the product. Fine, whatever, I send the the requested info (scanned my Drivers License, provided a bill with my name and address on it, and provided all receipts of the products). The items I was selling were the codes for in game items for Call of Duty Modern Warfare II. They have a promotion running where if you buy a meal they give a code for in game items. Since they are not available everywhere in the world I figured I would attempt to sell some and eBay was explicitly told what I was selling with them never saying that was any kind of issue. They are now telling me that unless I can provide an invoice they will not be unlocking my account and will be holding the $2000 that was supposed to be paid out and I will be out approximately $900 that I spent obtaining the codes. It's also worth noting that I've received nothing but positive feedback from all of the people that purchased the codes from me. Is legal action my only way forward as customer service has no interest in helping me.
I both do and don't want it to include the use of chat.
Now I'm curious. Do you have some examples? I know there are some huge companies that are state owned like saudi aramco, but dont know if any other privately held companies with 100+ billion valuation
Last full year (2021) was profitable if you ignore a massive one time shareholder litigation settlement payment. Usually one ignores these one time hits to evaluate the normal ongoing operation of the company.
A rant on layoffs from someone who got laid off
On street parking really sucks! Don't buy/maintain a car if you don't have a real parking spot for it. That would also keep the traffic down.
It adds some complexity, but consider that we know very well how to scale this type of service: E-mail + reflectors (mailing lists), and we know very well how to do parallel mass delivery for the small proportion of accounts with huge numbers of followers.

Scaling this is easily done with decomposition and sharding coupled with a suitable key->value mapping of external id to current shard. I first sharded e-mail delivery and storage for millions of users 23 years ago. It was neither hard nor novel to do then, with hardware slower than my current laptop handling hundreds of thousands of users each.
If you have excess currency you can translate that excess into demand. If supply can’t fulfill the demand then goods are more scarce than money and suppliers charge more hence inflation. However if inflation is high and interest rates are low growth will happen as people outlay capital towards meeting the supply for the demand and prices will drop as the overall economy expands - more supply, more demand - that’s growth. So “printing money” can spur growth, which is generally what we shoot for - right or wrong. Raising interest rates slows capital investment but also draws money out of the economy. It also causes inflation because the cost of goods and services bought on credit or services that operate on revolving financing see higher fees and rates. We don’t normally see that as inflation but if you measure costs not by sticker costs but by fully loaded costs you see the inflation. It also has the effect of people returning money from investment markets to debt markets for return which locks currency away temporarily.

All that makes sense if you don’t believe you can increase supply to simply meet demand and experience growth. It feels like keeping interest rates low, allowing a transient period of inflation, then working on some offsetting deflation later would be a smarter play than making everyone more poor and unemployed than before to ensure they can’t afford to buy food, decreasing the cost of food.
Eh, if he were a great writer, I'd understand the point of the story, specifically what was so powerful about the eleven-word incantation. Which I don't. I would like my 3 minutes back, Your Honor.

Apparently I'd have to be an attorney to get it, in which case I'd have presumably learned about this obscure legal hack in law school.
It's a P.R. effort to prepare the "community" for more bad and harmful solutions from Mr. Poettering and his employer Microsoft. It does not solve any real problem users have.
That's the problem. We use sudo that autorizes user by it's SSH key via its auth socket... so we can essentially authenticate sudo via smartcard (Yubikey), and not keep the private key on user machine.

Some other folks use LDAP to get the sudoers files or even allowed ssh keys itself

There is also "just run thing as user" but also "set up same way shell would and pretend user logged as different user", first one is simple, second is a bunch of setup, copying env variables etc.

There is a good argument for splitting "just run app as different user" and "everything else that has to do with interactive shell and admins doing things on server" but now you have 2 configs to manage...
archive.is works nicely too. Esp, since it strips any archived page of javascript and ads.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding you but doas handles the use-case you describe. I can enforce that some users can issue some commands on a given machine in doas.conf

As someone who manages infra including Linux and OpenBSD and does configure sudo and doas in this way, I’m pretty sure 99% of users would be fine with the simpler tool. Maybe the simpler, safer tool should be the default.