skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don’t see why anyone would take that deal for a few weeks income, given how much it seems to matter to the company that just laid them off.

Getting called back immediately after a layoff seems like a pretty strong indication you can get away with a lot. Also, the quality of the organization's work on your layoff should indicate the quality of work the organization should get. Just take it easy and make sure you don't give them any key knowledge they need in a decipherable way.
Almost everyone I know having a big Iphone bought it because it was the most expensive one. No one does it because they like to hold a mini TV. I may be biased, but I have a wide sample.
Hopefully all the shit show will lead to the fast decline of Twitter, maybe a new interest in decentralized social media.
The Sky Is Not Falling: Disclosed OpenSSL Bugs Are Serious but Not Critical
Or Bluesky, AT, ... hard to keep track.
Given decades of ~abc for a home directory and xyz.com/~abc/ URLs, perhaps the tilde could be put to use yet again:

~abc@xyz.com
In my experience, GATs seem like arcane magic until you need them, and then they make perfect sense.
> Github? Pandoc? The OG from Daring Fireball?

The most popular one that doesn't do something extremely stupid, with a piece of version info in the http header mime type in case it's a mistake.

> You'd also probably need an extension to Markdown that links it to a style sheet, so there's yet another dialect.

Absolutely not. Let the user have a local style sheet to render it how they want with 1-4 sensible defaults much like FF reader mode.

> And then you'll want metadata, so ... which format do you support? Hugo's? Jekyll's? Something else?

None of the above. Just the markdown.

> Turning Markdown into HTML is (often) trivial. Turning it into a web page is often not.

Don't turn it into a webpage then, we already have those. Just render some markdown.
The UK government is scanning all of the country's internet connections
Never heard it called this, but this is similar to the way my grandmother taught me to cook pasta.
> Centralizing the decentralized... what's old is new again?

haha you're not wrong, but imo this is a critical part to centralize though. I haven't seen an easy to use (wallet not required) and trusted solution yet for decentralizing auth. Maybe it's underway and I'd be happy to adopt that once it's good.
From the Kotaku article this article is a (bad) rewrite of:

https://kotaku.com/ikea-furniture-horror-game-store-is-close...

Updated: 10/31/22, 12.00a.m. ET: Ikea UK got back to us this morning, providing the following statement:

While we think it’s flattering that others are inspired by the IKEA brand, we must be diligent to ensure that the IKEA trademarks and trade dress are not misapplied. Various elements of the video game currently correspond in appearance with the IKEA brand features. We’ve reached out to the creator of the video and asked them to make changes to those elements to ensure that this is no longer the case. They expressed that they understand our request and agreed to make those changes. This should all be well in time for the expected 2024 launch of the game.
"Today?"
I'm Ryan -- CEO and co-founder of Vendr.com (YCS19). Since YC, we've become one of the largest software buyers in the world ($2B+ spend processed; 15k+ transactions). But, here's what I don't understand -- why does a company like Vendr even need to exist?

Companies flock to us to buy software because they are fed up with "Contact Sales", opaque pricing, expiring discounts, and the games associated with sales. Buyers of software are rapidly opting out of sellers' sales processes, coming to Vendr, and asking us to do it for them. Sales is broken.

Today, sellers focus on creating sales processes that maximize the leverage and outcomes for the sellers. This creates friction resulting in avg 90 days sales cycles and 20-25% close rates for sellers. Not good. No wonder sales and marketing expense equals ~50% of revenue.

When Vendr's successful, we'll have fixed sales. No more games. Fair pricing, correct and fast buying decisions -- powered by data. This results in a win for the seller (lower cost acquisition; shorter sales cycles) and a win for the buyer (best products win; fair pricing).

LMK if you need help with any of the "contact us" pricing -- we can easily answer this for you. ryan@vendr.com
It’s almost certainly bad reporting—there are a lot of copies of this article around.
You want to put it in the pocket and be able to move freely after that. It worked for me with Nokia 3310, it does not work the same with any modern phone.
abc@xyz.com is definitely not taken for email. It works as a HTTP url, or SSH logins and it can very well work for ActivityPub.
Show HN: Serverless Jupyter Lab with GPUs and persistent storage
We get asked whether we support Notebooks on Unweave all the time. So, we put together a serverless Jupyter Lab Portal built on top of Unweave.

You can choose from 5 different GPUs or use CPU only. The lab comes with an `uwstore` folder at the root of the repository. Any files you add there will be persisted across multiple sessions.

We've pre-loaded all labs with a set of commonly used ML dependencies. If you'd like to add additional dependencies, you can install them directly in the Jupyter Lab and save them to a `requirements.txt` or `environment.yml` file. Unweave will automatically reinstall these dependencies the next time you start a lab.

Billing is by the minute and cheaper than AWS and GCP :)

We'd love to hear what you think! As they say in Germany: "Viel Spaß" <3
Pleroma is compatible with the Mastodon client-server API.
Seems like in the US Tesla can get something up and running within a couple years.

May 2020, a selection process was underway by Tesla
July 2020, Tesla selected Austin as the site
July 2020, Construction began
end of 2021, limited production of Model Y starts
April 2022, initial deliveries of vehicles built at the factory took place at an opening party called “Cyber Rodeo”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigafactory_Texas
Probably now it is the same given the security assurances provided to Finland/Sweden by US/UK during NATO accession process.
That’s a 3rd party YT channel, not the studio/game’s creator.
I don’t think you can so easily state it’s not parodying Ikea and there’s an argument for fair-use without that, However, at least in the US (this is maybe in the UK?) arguing fair-use for a trademark can cost a lot of money and is a bit fraught.

Also re the ‘our hands are tied, we must protect our mark’ claims, it’s always an option to license the use.

https://www.kirkland.com/publications/article/2020/11/tradem...
Perhaps they realized that people would be shitting on them a decade later on one of the most popular platforms for programmers?
What's the inverse of rose-colored glasses? Looking at the past through the lens of today? That's kinda what this comment suggests. The internet of the 90s was much safer than the internet of today is.
100% confident that anyone who are called back because they were essential will have absolutely no problems
I'm not sure the narrator is the actual developer of the game though.
Robotic Communities Article
Exactly, I found out the same with some googling, but the handbook specifically mentions it will describe the differences and then neglects to do it :)

I was first considering pf because I used it on Mac before, but the problem is the freebsd version was forked quite a long time ago and has different features than the openbsd version as a result.

I went for ipfw mainly because it seems to see the most active development.

But really, I wish FreeBSD would just pick one as standard and keep the others around for compatibility reasons if needed. One of the reasons I like FreeBSD is that you don't have to make such choices. Things have well chosen defaults.

Contrast this with arch which I mentioned, that even lets you decide which mechanism to use for network management (e.g. net manager, connman, systemd-networkd, netctl). It describes this choice really well in its excellent wiki, but when I tried arch it meant I had to do this kind of decision for pretty much every part of the OS :) What I like for FreeBSD is that they keep things simple.

But where they do give a choice, I'd love it if they describe the pros and cons as well as Arch do: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration#Netwo...

I think Arch and FreeBSD have a lot in common, they're both intended for users that don't expect to click through everything and just dump you on a command prompt where you can set up stuff the way you want, instead focusing on excellent documentation.

I use FreeBSD on my daily driver PC now as I thought Arch was too much work with all the choices, and on the other hand the one thing I did want to change (systemd) it didn't allow.
This article introduces a model for implementing robotic cooperation and collaboration based on human communities.
The video description also references IKEA:

"Check out the official reveal of the new Open-World Action Horror game that has you explore an infinite IKEA store and survive it's many different entities and discover it's secrets"
Kind of... there is https://indieweb.org/rel-me which Mastodon does support and which can be used in tandem with https://indieweb.org/Web_sign-in
The source doesn't mention anything about that - it merely reflects popular submissions by a self-selected pool.
Fingers crossed that the court just says "this reeks too much like a scam to me" and summons the real owner of these patents instead of the mailbox / shell companies, under threat of dissolving the shell companies.
Was it a video that was 27 minutes long teasing the big reveal for 26 minutes and 30 seconds and the big reveal was ... nothing?
I wouldn’t be too surprised if the other people wasn’t even an adult themselves. I’ve seen plenty of young programmers that have been doing it for a few years treat other newer younger programmers with contempt.
And TikTok has a BeReal copy :)

Everyone’s just trying to survive. In one corporate biography type book the author asserted Zuckerberg would institute “lockdown” when he thought they were behind features. I believe the instagram book had a similar claim about Sidstorm (sp?).

I guess when network effects are life you can’t afford to not be the network. Google was smart to nab YouTube. And android. Meta was smart to grab instagram and WhatsApp (and that same logic, after missing out on making a phone, I bet is why they’re rushing to own VR). Innovate, copy, or die, basically.
I am sure your use case was incredibly specific. For insane performance requirements plus enterprise software that is not greenfield, basically everything is C++.

No trolling. Have you ever seen the high-frequency Java stuff from Peter Lawrey's Higher Frequency Ltd.? It is insanely fast. Also, LMAX Disruptor (Java) data structure (ring buffer) is also legendary. I have seen it ported to C++. That said, you can beat all of this with C++, given enough time and resources!
very interesting. I'd love a tutorial or blogpost about some of the stuff behind this too, I got into shaders a little while back but never more than pushing pixels, no idea how you would do fonts/text
Business people and political leaders in the West are almost universally in favor of the free market. Until it turns out that said free market might mean they get the short end of the stick. That is to say less tax revenue or less profit. When that happens they suddenly insist there must be some of government intervention, otherwise they are too big to fail.
Do a trial. Or do it step by step.

Spend few (2-3) months in your native town, work remotely at your current job. See how it feels.

Soon you'll be able to justify eitherway if making the full transition is worth it or not.
Hard to save to a playlist too. Find a useful life tip? Forget about being able to find it later.
If you drop the awkward "3/4" width and just have 0.5, 1, 1.5 char widths, then you could recover alignment by using U+2009 as the half-width space, maybe entered as Shift+space.
Its hard to say for sure. They haven't been on the road in large numbers for long enough to make comprehensive age adjusted estimates. There just aren't a lot of 10+ year old EVs on the road to use as comparison. The few that are on the road tend to be very low volume vehicles and diy conversions.

Having said that, if you watch Tesla crashes much, you'll see a lot of amazingly hard side impacts that don't result in fires. Its actually pretty surprising to me how unusual post-crash fires are.
You speak of "blatant parody humour using impersonantion". That seems a confused phrase. If an account is blatantly a parody, then it is not committing impersonation, because if someone knows that an account is a parody of a person, they also know it is not the person itself. If you want to make a blatant parody account, you may do so according to the current Twitter TOS. However, if you want to impersonate someone, you may not do that.

Your gooogle.com example doesn't seem to connect to the situation at hand, which is about whether it is against the principles of freedom of speech to place limits on impersonation even in such cases where no fraud is being committed.

My goal is that people should be allowed to express all views and criticise all people. If for whatever reason impersonation must be outlawed, so be it - it may in fact further the goals for which I support freedom of speech.
Linux has a rule to "never break the userland". So if you maintain your own userland(libc/gui libs, etc..) even the latest kernel will run your old software.
Yeah and he fumbled the ball. I don't believe these people have sage wisdom. He's just another schmuck.
>>Please show me the person who has been banned from Twitter for advocating for lower taxes or social benefit cuts.

That would be republican public policy views, not conservative views. They are different things.

Conservative views are less about the economy and more about culture, family, traditional gender roles, faith, etc.

There are all kinds of examples of that being banned espically since TOS is written for a progressive or left world view

Remember the banning of Babylon Bee for satirically misgendering a trans high profile public offical was the catalyst that started Elon talking about buying twitter in the first place
I don't know, but I bit the bullet and joined TikTok a year or so ago in spite of all of my privacy-protecting practices I do for most things (uMatrix in Firefox, my always-on VPN, etc) just to see what had people so absorbed and/or alarmed about it.

And I have to say that I'm terrified of it. I hate how alarmist and dramatic that is, but the utter falsehoods and vitriol that seems to go viral on there is just evil. I hate that a bunch of middle school children might be exposed to so much propaganda. From political messages to anti-vax fake science to "did you know?"-style rewriting of history, it's just awful. And so much of it is spread/re-shared by young, hip, people that kids will identify with as cool and/or trustworthy.

And there's no real way to actually engage with any idea. Not only are the videos extremely short--way too short to actually make any legitimate points or arguments about a complex topic--but even the text replies are Twitter-style and only allow some handful of characters, so again, it's basically impossible to even refute any of these ridiculous falsehoods. The only possible discourse is to insult each other or share vacuous slogans, memes, and truisms.

I know conspiracy theories and lies have always existed, and of course I realize that we were all taught history with some bias, etc. But the speed with which this stuff spreads is incredible. My partner has an 11 year old who was on TikTok and I was CONSTANTLY needing to correct him (gently, of course) when he would share a "fact" he "learned". A recent one was that the T-Rex skeleton's arms as we know them are actually backwards, and that "we" now know that they were more like little chicken wings. This was, of course, a fairly benign example, but I've had to correct him (with evidence) on other topics that make me much more concerned. Luckily, he's not on TikTok anymore.
I feel like they are making languages too complicated. Most projects should just be garbage collected, most don't need to deal with pointers or anything advanced. We need variables, functions, conditionals, loops, exception handling, struts, and a library with a bunch of standard utilities (including simple I/O and string managment). Everything else should be optional and kept out of sight unless you are looking for it IMHO.

I am probably just old and set in my ways, but I have been learning rust over the last few days, and it is really syntax dense. Their is no reason it needs to be this complex. For example I think "String" and "&static' str" are different types, and no one explains what "&static'" is but I dont think it is changeable. It is not like ' or static means anything and can change, it is just basically random syntax you have to memorize. OK, I am sure it means something like a reference to a static character or something, if you dont even think it is a good idea to inform people what it means, dont implement the syntax like that.
That's also where blood plasma comes in, which can be donated once a month (as opposed to blood which is only a few times a year).

I mean if this can be scaled up to producing gallons an hour in the field then sure, but we're a ways away from that still.
I thought that currency stopped being cool when it stopped being the most efficient medium to cash out on stealing electricity.
Because he has proven his comments don't mean anything.

> Twitter has potential to become the most important communication channel in the World

Isn't it already?
It isn't as easy to type as @. In fact, my keyboard doesn't even feature a tilde written on any of the keys, so I make it appear solely from muscle memory.
Well, it's tricky, but many games do that and get away with it.

In many games you have cars or guns which are obvious lookalikes of real life cars and weapons but have their names changed to avoid copyright infringements.

Look at GTA. They can pretend it's taking place in Los Santos, Las Venturas and San Fierro, but we know what real life locations they are meant to represent. We know what that VINEWOOD letters on the hills are meant to represent, we know what "Area 69" military base is meant to represent.
Yep. This is the same strategy Instagram used a few years ago in copying Snapchat's Stories format, and likely has the same goal. The idea is not that Instagram can take back TikTok's audience — those users are well and truly lost — but rather that it can deny existing Insta users any reason to even try TikTok in the first place. (Because they can get the same form factor without downloading a new app.)

From what I've heard, the Stories copying strategy did successfully contain (but did not roll back) the Snapchat threat to Insta. So there's some reason to believe they can hold the line against TikTok with this approach too, even absent the possibility of a government ban.

I expect this sort of convergence will continue in the future. Whatever one might think of fast-following as a strategy, scale plus rapid copying of features does seem to work.
Which would be a good argument if back in the day, when gas storages were filled cheaply in summer, that price would be given over to end customers in winter as well. But of course, that was not the way things went.
Privacy-respecting health and fitness apps
Awesome, appreciate these tips, will be checking those out as I visit those areas :). I learned how to make flour tortillas from scratch since I missed it so much, corn is def harder to come across. Wrote about it here with full recipe and all https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22786287#22792647
Awesome example.
I assure you, 110k is amazing anywhere outside of SV SWE's (and a few other high-skill/high-pay professions.)

The US median income is still around $70k. An extra 40k - $3 grand a month - goes far.
Wouldn't this logic make basically all SV giants "failing" until they hit that hockey stick turning point? Hell even Tesla didn't turn a profit until 2020, and it is pretty universally considered to be a success (even if there are some raised eyebrows over their the source of the profits being tax credits, and sky-high stock price)
> "Microsoft is the king of backward compatibility."

The thing is, this hasn't been true for a long time. At this point Wine/dosbox are far more compatible with old weird software than the current version of windows. For example, you can't run 16bit Windows programs at all on Windows.

You even have projects like otvdvm, running wine on windows to support older programs (or dosbox, which I think everyone is a lot more familiar with). http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/otvdm.html

The genuine article tends to be better while older platforms are supported, but at some point, inevitably, older platforms are dropped because supporting them costs money. When that happens, open source imitations end up with better support than the original.
RIP Blackberry Instant Messenger
As the other "social" giants converge on ultra-short, rapidly-swiped video clips as the current state of the art in user attention draining, my question is - what is the next step?

As a now non-owner of even a smartphone, I overtly ogle other people using Tiktok. It's equally amusing and baffling for me, and I feel pity for that person.
Finland was not a member of NATO and was previously viewed as a neutral country during cold war. Their prioritisation of territorial defence went hand in hand with this and was in context of having fought wars with Russia in modern period. It's not really comparable to Poland's situation which was already in NATO prior to this. A nuclear war is more likely than a territorial invasion of Poland. If they want to prepare for war they should base their planning on likely scenarios. Unless it's just politics.
Unbiased Take on the Twitter Saga
This appears to be a transfusion of mature blood cells derived from donor CD34+ hematopoietic stem cells, and it sounds like they're able to collect usable numbers of stem cells from a regular unit of whole blood... but how?

People normally don't have a whole lot of stem cells in the peripheral circulation (if they did, they'd have leukemia). For the purpose of stem cell transplantation, the donor is given medications to mobilize stem cells from the bone marrow before collection. I'm sure they're present in very small numbers in the blood, and perhaps they could be cultured in the lab, but even stem cells become exhausted eventually. This is the innovation, probably.
Why is that hilarious? Because you don't get the point of a federated service?
There is an enormous gulf between most kinds of harm one can do to someone in a different country on the other side of the world and dropping part of a rocket on them.

Nobody agrees a priori to China’s assessment of their economic value.
Which is actually to IKEA's point. They can say, look, everyone seeing the game thinks it's supposed to be IKEA.