skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shared code can (and does) exists outside of the compositor or display server protocol. E.g. for your ending question xdg-desktop-portal is the shared resource in use these days.

I think the biggest mistake of Wayland was the rush on early migration for general use before it really had time to soak. The general design and not having everything in the display server itself is perfectly fine.
Twitter is being run by the world's wealthiest 12-yr-old kid.
Tracking additions when sharing a tweet are a step backwards
The idea of going to the moon is not patentable. The implementation of Project Apollo may be patentable.
Good perspective on our current programming paradigm
That’s a feature. The value of AccurateRip comes from the accuracy of data submitted to it.

Tightly controlling how data can be submitted allows that accuracy to be maintained.
Is it really? The market looks a lot different from when I started nearly 10 years ago. Burnout has become a more frequent topic among developers. Things in tech are generally less optimistic. Recruiters are not nearly as rabid. The hiring process treats even recommended senior engineers as if they have no experience but have plenty of time to sacrifice on take-home assignments. Salaries haven't kept up with inflation or the increase in complexity seen in most modern code bases. Even those with a long CV are likely to spend 4+ months applying and interviewing, which is no less time than it took for them to get their first job. Many companies have cut back on food, parties, and other benefits in favor of glorified gift cards.

Everyone's mileage will vary, but it seems to me the only thing that is still "extraordinarily great" is the low barrier to entry we maintain. The market right now comparatively not nearly as great as when I started. I think we need to be honest to each other and not just repeat that tech is a bull market.
Yes, they move them immediately.

This was detailed in previous seize operations like this.

2013:

> The FBI official pointed me towards this Bitcoin address, which received transfers of close to 144,000 in just the last 24 hours. "They finished moving them at 3am this morning," said the official.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/10/25/fbi-sa...
Yevgeny Prigozhin's response in Russian:

> Я вам отвечу очень тонко, деликатно и прошу прощения, допущу определённую двусмысленность. Господа, мы вмешивались, вмешиваемся и будем вмешиваться. Аккуратно, точно, хирургически и по-своему, как мы это умеем. Во время наших точечных операций будем удалять сразу обе почки и печень.

In English:

> I will answer you very subtly, delicately and I apologize, I will allow a certain ambiguity. Gentlemen, we interfered, we interfere and we will interfere. Carefully, precisely, surgically and in our own way, as we know how. During our pinpoint operations, we will remove both kidneys and the liver at once.

---

As a native speaker, I tend to believe that he was trolling the press. This is very similar to what Putin replied to a question asked by one of the interviewer's from the US whether Russia has plans to interfere:

In Russian:

> По секрету вам скажу: да, обязательно будем это делать! Чтобы окончательно развеселить вас там как следует. Только вы никому не говорит.

In English:

> I’ll tell you a secret: yes, we will definitely do it! To finally cheer you up there properly. Just don't tell anyone.
When I used Ada the IDE was vim. LoL.

Actually, I wrote an optimizing compiler for Ada in C++. Also in vim.
CGI.pm
How to Remove All Blocks-Related Stuff from WordPress
What’s interesting is that it’s doing fine so far; existing users are being really helpful and welcoming to the newbs. It’s actually a really pleasant place to be compared to Twitter. (It might be helping that everybody leaving Twitter is leaving Twitter for the same reason.)
Those things got invented anyway though, without being patented. The right question, in my opinion, is whether there are important software innovations that would have been significantly delayed, or kept secret, or never discovered at all, if software patents weren't a thing.

And if so, do they outweigh legal costs and chilling effects of patent trolling, and the inefficiencies of people having to engineer around patented ideas.

Intellectual property is a fairly artificial concept. It's quite "big government" when you think about it - government grants a monopoly on the application of an idea. It is only worth preserving if it makes the country richer.
NYC is on the list with an AQI of 26. AQI below 50 is Good, where 'Air quality is satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk.'

https://www.airnow.gov/aqi/aqi-basics/

The reason it's on the list, is that it's just a list of big cities.
Interesting... It never made sense to me that a spaceship captain just would happen to have chestnuts on board his ship, so I guessed it might be something like candies. A generic term for things that amuse children works too. I still feel like Adams was referring to something specific.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

IKEA sues indie game developer over survival horror game set in furniture store - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33424587 - Nov 2022 (16 comments)

IKEA Asks Horror Game to Change So Folks Stop IKEA Comparisons - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33407015 - Oct 2022 (13 comments)

IKEA issues cease and desist against indie developer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33405541 - Oct 2022 (7 comments)
I’ll spell it out.

I’m concerned about you. Would you love me the same?

Edit:

I can’t even see the sky anymore.

See how scary?

Software engineers that are alcoholics need this group. I’ll help.
It’s a massive challenge implementing this yourself but various smart speaker protocols have supported syncing speakers for a while now. I can’t speak for if they also split stereo signals (I think I read Yamaha can) but splitting a stereo signal is very easy even without comparing it to the challenge of syncing speakers.
It's mostly a tongue-in-cheek comment there at the end. Of course specialist consultants are appropriate in some cases. I do like the "automating the gig out of existence" approach.
Evidence for connection between COVID-19 and wireless radiation exposure (2021)
I'll take a very unlike myself opinion in this - I'll support patent trolls, but only if their exploits are increased by a thousand fold and punishes the entire patent system for being incredibly inept, antiquated, and against any and all forms of innovation. We need serious and far ranging complete patent reform (or revolution) and if deliberate brute-force use of the horrendous laws and regulations that have allowed those entities to proliferate over the last several decades finally forces changes, then bring on more of them.

Short term they are horrendous, long term we may need them to force positive changes that benefit and are on the side of small-time inventors and problem solvers, and not the mega-corporations (patent trolls with massive capital).

tl;dr: Patent trolls are bad, the patent system that enables them is bad, we need to force massive patent reform.
I cook, and while I acknowledge there are benefits to gas, I can escape the feeling that what a lot of people end up comparing are crappy electric stoves from when they lived in cheap apartments vs higher end gas stoves that they/another homeowner bought for themselves.
there's a very old argument in computer science between minimal standards and "batteries included" standards — RISC vs CISC, C vs C++, scheme vs common lisp, Algol W vs Algol 68 etc.

The web community, for whatever reason, is firmly in the "batteries included" camp. CSS alone is approaching the number of built-in symbols as a "big" language like common lisp or Perl. New features are always loudly celebrated, even if they overlap with existing features, are very complicated, and/or serve very niche use cases.

Personally I think we need a "scheme" for the web — a little language that handles all the important pieces (layout, interaction, accessibility) with as little surface area as possible. It would be easier to learn, easier to understand others' code, easier to implement.
No,they are not slow.
I wonder if Auditory Processing Disorder could be related to this mechanism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder
I guess I should say... after Putin is gone, one way or another. He's 70, it's not going to be forever.
To adjust your analogy a little, we actually still use asbestos, but it just isn't used for the general public. It still has unique properties that are industrially or commercially useful, such as certain asphaltic roofing compounds and friction products like brake pads.

But, it isn't used in products designed for the general public where strict oversight can't generally be provided.
After the cold war ended (last three decades), I'm not sure of any case where America has been coup'ing countries in South America. Do you know some cases?
China, Russia, Egypt, and many others have already banned crypto and seize any assets regardless of legality and it hasn't killed crypto yet.

Even the USA as the largest economic market in the world couldn't kill crypto by seizing assets as there are dozens of other countries that will keep using crypto for the anti-corruption, stability, and efficiency benefits it provides. It's a lot like the internet where a country can ban or control it but ultimately it only harms their own citizens and prevents them from properly competing on the world stage.
I think the opportunity is to foster a new kind of social interaction and smaller niche groups seems like a really interesting angle that centralized services gravitate away from.

I haven't used Mastadon but I could see this being a positive if you replace "home instance" with "local community" or "interest group foo".

The truth is that you only need to find a small group of people with similar interests. You don't need access to the entire world.
How it was determined that it phones back the content of the slide ? From my understanding it's just exchanging some network packets.
Use != distribution. This isn't a copyright issue. This is a "licensing" issue, in the sense that authors believe they have "licensed" people to view their works, but not to train models on them. That view is incorrect given current law, though there is a small chance the law gets updated to make that position more tenable in court.
Cloudflare made it much easier to become an indie hacker
I think what made this work for us at work is that we (maybe accidentally) made refactoring very cheap and easy. We write almost entirely integration tests that only interact w/ the UI, so not much about the tests is tied to our architecture (instead they're coupled to the UI). The tests run slower than typical highly optimized unit tests of course, but the trade-off is that we can refactor things without breaking the validation that everything still works. This then makes continuous improvement a lot easier to realize than I have experienced in the past, since changing our minds is relatively painless.
The question is will the USA government refund what was stolen to the victim "Silk Road"? (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/silk-road.asp)
Is there a protocol for this kind of event?
I love how Signal (and WhatsApp adopting Signal's protocol) made privacy easy for the general public and technically inclined alike. Privacy will never be the default until it's made easy.

I'm guessing some folks won't like use feature because it's too "social media-y" (myself likely included) but as they say in the post:

- You can turn the feature off and you won't see other people's stories

- You can choose the audience and the max you can share it with is with Signal users in your contacts list

Thank you Signal team for giving the general public what they want and making it private.
If I have one hope for the future, it's that 'accepting' click-through corporate EULAs containing unconscionable terms that few read will no longer be considered consent.
>This may seem like a negative attitude, but I think it’s understandable. Nobody can be expected to keep up with so many new features!

I have similar feelings about javascript. But, I figure I can ignore all new features and worry about learning them when the need for them arises.
> the article it says that Weinstein was practically given immunity to personal lawsuits

Weinstein is in jail. (The victims "could opt out of giving lawsuit immunity to Harvey Weinstein himself - but only if they agreed to reduce their portion of the settlement payout by 75%," which seems fine, this is a civil proceeding and the point of bankruptcy is to draw a line under liability.)

The "blanket immunity" in the HN title misleadingly refers to Board members being released from liability.
by this logic, with humans having millions of neurons in other parts of the body, such as the gut, we may have consciousness spread out over the body, not just the brain.
We've changed to that URL from https://www.cbr.com/ikea-the-store-is-closed-cease-and-desis... now (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33508853).
In some remote places... weaving machines still use punch cards, as the factory has run for over a century without electricity.

One can never assume our use-case assumptions will generalize. =)
Brain drain: scientists look at why mental exertion triggers exhaustion
I wonder if this is part of why it's nearly impossible to form sentences when you hear an echo of your own voice on zoom or something, like your brain perceives it as a duplicate chunk that was mis-timestamped.
Wulf is an unconventional historian with an unconventional background, and her work reads much more like a narrative-driven piece of New Journalism than a theoretical entry from the Cambridge Studies series on philosophy. As revealed by the tagline of this book, The Invention of the Self, Wulf's new work is an exploration into the roots of modern conceptions of self-determination done through character studies of the Weimar classicists -- Goethe, Schiller, Fichte, and Kant in particular. I could see fans of narrative-driven nonfiction writers like Laura Hillenbrand or Roger Lowenstein enjoying Andrea Wulf in the same way.

While I am always happy to see new work focusing on the Weimar classicists, whose ideas serve as a stark contrast to dystopic forces from the brutality of the French revolution to the banality of corporate life today, I think I agree with this article writer about the weakness of Wulf's synopses. As compelling as Wulf's exposition is, it feels to me somewhat overpractical to constrain these powerful thinkers through the lens of a Socratic Know Thyself commandment in her emphasis on self-determination. Certainly there is a place for a feel-good, narrative-driven book like this, but I personally would point people towards the essays curated by Carroll, Giles, and Oergle in Aesthetics and Modernity or Leslie Sharpe's Cambridge Studies entry on Schiller for a drier but more thought provoking exploration of German Idealism and the valuable concepts it would spawn through the Frankfurt School in the twentieth century.
EDF is 85% owned by the French government. They were forced to "privatize" by the EU but are now planning to be nationalized again.

Nuclear infrastructure that is already paid for is being neglected and paracitized to pay for new solar/wind generation. The government has mandated that they will shut down perfectly good plants, taking nuclear from 75% of generation to 50%. The grid was already largely decarbonized! They are throwing away reliable cheap energy in order to pay for new intermittent energy. The result is increased cost, decreased reliability, and more emissions when the renewables aren't available. Fossil fuel use has stayed the same or even increased since renewables started being added: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_France#/media/File:F...

> Especially considering the other side of the deal where taxpayers or utility customers who are victims of new nuclear plants are just told 'fuck you, you're paying the price we made up even if we don't generate any power' or 'we made one in another country and failed really bad so you get to pay half' or 'whoops, we only put aside 1/4th of the money needed to decomission...have fun paying another billionperGWbyeeee' or 'we racked up a quarter trillion dollar cleanup bill but we made you sign a treaty saying we only have to pay 0.5%, have fun'.

Hmm, maybe they'd have more money to fund things properly if they were allowed to charge the true rate for electricity (instead of letting other companies arbitrage for free), and weren't forced to buy renewable electricity at high prices?
Ask HN: Where do you look for junior devs?
Hello HN,

I know that it may sound odd given the current industry trend, but for those of you who hired junior devs, where do you usually look for? what did it work the best for you?

Thanks in advance!
how was it determined that it is phoning home the content of the slides? One thing is to exchange network packets with a remote server, and another thing is to claim that it's leaking slide content.
> why cant the instance be just one

> They all went back to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

Do they not have the same problem with those 3 instances, each with their separate networks and separate user handles?
Any name change at all will cause temporary loss of verified checkmark
> Yes, that was the point.

No, the point was to use healthcare to buy votes.

> People who could not afford healthcare, are now receiving it.

Nobody I know has a problem with the concept of helping others. Nobody. Helping others might be to tack-on $100 per month to help cover the under-insured. We do this with auto insurance already, everyone pays a little more for uninsured motorists. A QUADRUPLING of health insurance costs is theft. It isn't equitable by any stretch of the imagination.

And then there's the fact that the US President and everyone from his party who supported this told us, promised us, families would save $2,500 per year. Instead of that, we were forced --FORCED-- by law to buy a product that today costs four times what we used to pay for a better product.

We have a situation where the US government is forcing us to pay an exorbitant amount of money for a substandard product. Forced. So much for the land of the free.

> Hence people who can afford to pay for others to get healthcare, have to pay for others to get healthcare.

What's next? Pay for those who can't afford to buy a house? By that logic one can justify just-about anything.

Sorry, that's not justification for any government to force people to buy a bad product that financially brutalizes them.

Yes, we need solutions for healthcare. Obamacare isn't even close to a solution. It's a travesty. In the long term it has actually degraded our healthcare system. The problem is it will take years for the less informed and easily impressed among us to understand this.
For the small players, you aren't reducing the costs

This includes but is not limited to 1) the costs of the courts. 2) the costs of the attorneys to defend, 3) the costs of the technology and executives to mount a proper defense, 4) the opportunity cost to the small defending company which COULD OTHERWISE be focusing it's resources on something productive like a new product or support (vs defending a bogus lawsuit).

Again, the courts do not even begin to scale - the courts are the opposite of scalable.

The new class of enabled patent trolls may lose one case, but they'll win others, possibly because they've bankrupted their victim, and can continue to plague the rest of society.

Moreover, the courts are massively inconsistent. Again anti-scaleable. The inconsistencies get worked out through appeals to higher courts. This literally takes decades and hundreds-of-thousands to millions of dollars per case. They do not get worked out when it is state cases, which is why we have already have venue shopping (you know about the East Texas patent scam courts, right?).

And your so-called "solution" to charge big players orders of magnitudes more cannot be gamed? Simple, make a small company, pay the small fee, buyout later. Or syndicate the fees, or get rounds of investors to handle the fees, since the return is virtually guaranteed. Ya, then you change the fee structure (years later) and the game begins again.

The fees are only a rounding error in the costs, and if you think exponentially higher fees cannot be gamed, I'd like to talk to you about a fantastic deal on an oceanfront property in Kansas, because you are so friggin gullible.

No, automatically granting patents with some weird scaled fee structure and letting the courts sort it out is one of the worst ideas ever. You would literally lay waste to entire sectors of innovation. It would be only a few years before people would soon be screaming for proper centralized regulation and a patent office capable of judging obviousness and prior art; congratulations, you've just re-invented what the founders invented nearly 250 years ago.

Seriously, you are making a nice demonstration of how ignorance of how a real system works creates the illusion of finding wonderous solutions.

For every highly complex system problem there are a huge variety of simple solutions, all of them wrong. Congrats, you just found one.
Thanks! We've changed to that URL from https://www.cbr.com/ikea-the-store-is-closed-cease-and-desis... now. (Submitted title was "IKEA Sends Cease and Desist to Horror Game over Its Lookalike Setting").

From the site guidelines: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Tunable critical Casimir forces counteract Casimir–Lifshitz attraction
It seems to be Pascal, originally.

> Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/
I was really really good at CSS circa 2010 and understood and could apply a very broad set of its features, but I stepped away from web front-end around 2013 or 14 and when I look at a modern stylesheet I struggle to make any sense of it. And that's without SASS or whatever in the mix.
I really think this a less impactful decision than people seem to think unless your interests are extremely narrow. If you can’t decide, pick mastodon.social for a start. It’s extremely well moderated (from Germany) and has a diverse set of users. And you get to interact with people from other instances anyway.
> I don't think even dedicated systems like Sonos support it.

They do. So do HomePods, other mass brands. Not my cup of tea, but people seem to love them when they work.
Yep. A good currency is meant to have low volatility and an expected value in the future.

Confusing or conflating good currencies with investment assets is a common crypto evangelist move.
Hacklang
A pretty easy fix you say? You think they haven’t tried to fix it? Turns out that they also have to deal with different types of governments and non-governmental entities to coordinate and make trade offs. The central government simply lacks the capacity to overcome the obstacles.

“Why doesn’t the central government just…” inevitably is answered with “They can’t.”
Apple shares icloud data with the US government as well.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/law-enforcement-guidelin...
The only thing I’ve seen attempting to give legitimacy to tokenization is the pruf protocol.
It's probably what the Russian government expected this time around as well -- if they had taken Ukraine in less than a week (as they apparently expected to), the negative European reaction probably wouldn't have happened, same as in 2014.
Big languages are optimized for copy-and-paste; the more built-in features your language has, the fewer characters you need to steal from a StackOverflow answer. This meshes well with the copy-and-paste culture of web development, so it's likely that web technologies will always be complex this way.
Who hasn't been hurt if you invested in NFTs in the past year.
And here I expected https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine#Models