skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the awesome suggestions. On point 2, I had removed the roles part from the software code, since it was absurd at the moment. Just need to update the same in docs.
Of course I can, I can even compile it from source codes, which I sometimes do. :)

I use FreeBSD for decades and sendmail was my number one and the only choice of MTA all that time. Not only mine, but all others FreeBSD users I know too. I don't get why would something that works excellent should be changed to something that, well, is just a dummy ? I love sendmail. I think I can cook it quite well, and I don't get why I should change my habits. Not changing habits is one of the major reasons I use FreeBSD these days. Otherwise I would switch to Linux long time ago. Now FreeBSD made one more step towards its death.

If someone has prejudice against sendmail adding sendmail_enable="NONE" in rc.conf is easy.
Ask HN: End-of-Line Testing Solution
Hello HN,

I am interested in how other small electronics companies handle their End-of-Line testing and programming.

I am working for a small company (2.5 firmware devs, 2.5 software devs and 1 hardware guy)

We design and sell small electronic devices (RFID Reader), let them produce by a partner company but provides them with custom hardware and software to perform End-of-Line testing and programming.

I have inherited this EOL testing software and now need to maintain and implement new features, but it is a huge mess. So we are looking into replacing everything.

Currently everything is written in Python (the main language for software in the whole company)
We flash a custom test firmware the DUT and perform different tests
LED flashing
Buzzer working
RFID range
Various Interfaces (USB, Erhernet/PoE, Rs485, Rs232, Bluetooth …)
At the end we program the final firmware and configuration into the device and print labels.

Currently everything is homebrewed (software and hardware) and I am interested in more off the shelf solutions which can be customized.

How are you tackling this in your company?
As Brazilian, I always ask for parity prices for services charged in dollar. It’s been a while our currency went downhill; right now, it’s BRL 5 for USD 1. That “only USD 9” that’s a no-brainer in the US becomes very costly when converted to BRL.

Surprisingly (or not), most SaaS I do business with give me parity prices. I really appreciate that and it makes me more loyal to them.
> "with our approach to information security"

Yeah, especially here on HN you hear about people not thinking about threat models. And yes, Denial-of-service by forgetting the password or having it inaccessible is a threat model

That's why I just laugh at the people who think putting everything in a password manager is the best way. It is good, but you need to understand your cases/threats and risks

Sometimes writing it in a piece of paper is the best solution
Meanwhile in Brazil, the land of electronic voting, they hired Oracle's "Cloud at Customer" offering to count votes on a "Exadata X8 Full Rack" server ...

I wonder if that decision really was a technical one.

[0] https://www.tse.jus.br/comunicacao/noticias/2020/Novembro/no...
A good step in the right direction. FreeBSD has bad defaults, but I hope they can fix them one step at a time.
I shouldn't comment on HN from bed after an evening out. Of course the rule of proportion is the wrong approach here. Even though the dimensional analysis seems to work out, it's still wrong. Bad case of thoroughly addled brain, this is supremely embarassing, and too late to delete now. I should be able to do this in my sleep, but I clearly wasn't. Seems there's not enough probabilities in my day-to-day, I will make a point of adding a few to fix my intuitions.
It has consumed every website. On Reddit, it is the same thing. One way could be like Reddit mega threads. It shows the current event, and it compiles every post into a list without consuming every slot at the top. The problem is that it requires moderation and somebody needs to collect them.
Worked at a place with OpenVMS and a UUCP setup. Yep, I've used mail11. I've use to setup UUCP mailers. I've hand configured sendmail with fingertips scarred from thumbing through the bat book. I've worked with sendmail to route mail to Novell NetMail!

I use to be a Sendmail consultant.

I've seen things you people won't believe. Open SMTP relays with zero firewall protection. I've watched people use sendmail to get root without a password. I've seen volumes of email lost in time, like bits into /dev/null. Time to patch.
It doesn’t have to be widespread in order to have a widespread impact. Some national elections are extremely close and essentially decided in one county of a single swing state. Most local elections are by definition “local” and close local elections can be decided by the votes from a single voting precinct.

Requiring the evidence to be widespread in order to acknowledge the risk is real and impactful is shortsighted and “hand wavy”.
Lasting impact? The destruction of the Persian empire, the establishment of Hellenistic kingdoms/culture in the Levant and Egypt, apparently a huge inflation from dumping the Persian treasure on the market. Given that the New Testament has come down to us in Greek, I'd say that there was some lasting impact.
1) Browser asks the proxy for new.site.example.com.
2) Proxy replies 404 (or some other error).
3) Broser shows you the error.
4) You ssh to the proxy machine.
5) Open the whitelist in an editor.
6) Add the site to the list.
7) Save.
8) Reload page in broser. Site partly works.
9) Repeat 6, 7, 8 for each CDN the site uses.
10) Eventually the site works properly.
ProtoWeb: Historical Internet Website Hosting
Yes, yes, Bletchly Park took a hit today. I'm a big crypto fan; enlightening and it looks like most of the other nerds are elsewhere, lol. Typical.
Distributed Tracing in 2025: Where are we heading
That fortunately Xi cannot order.
Peter Green wrote an excellent, if depressing, biography.

Some years ago, the National Gallery of Art had a very interesting exhibit on Alexander.
That is a pretty broad brush for hardcore punk. Are there examples advocating communism that are you thinking of specifically?
I agree that the install is hard on linux but there are prebuilt packages for Windows and MacOS. There's no requirement to use a Raspberry Pi.

A long time ago (2017) I did successfully get Sonic Pi running in Docker but it wasn't straightforward https://github.com/xavriley/sonic-pi-docker If anyone wants to pick this back up I'd be happy to help
I don't think headphones would be as useful, or at least, it would tie you to that device.

Even the crinkles in our ear lobes affect how we appreciate and model the room in our brains.

So instead you would depend on the microphone characteristics, if you changed it, you would have to re-learn until you are used to it.

If we are tying ourselves to a device, we might just as well increase the smarts of the device itself. It could have cameras, lidar and eco-location. It could output coded sounds in earphones representing small and large objects, speeds, etc. Eventually the brain would synthesize.
FASM (Flat Assembler) by Tomasz Grysztar:
https://flatassembler.net

Unfortunately it won't run on recent Macs since it's written in 32-bit assembly, so some modifications are needed.
Minecraft is some excellent game design, but the code quality of early versions (back when it was only two people) is lacking. They did call it beta and alpha so it's not like they were claiming any different.
If you have uBlock Origin installed, you can add the following to My filters:

# top (title / url)
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# bottom (stats / comments)
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(warning: there is a side effect where it would mess up the formatting of the effected posts such as this one)
The Bat book fell off a high shelf and killed my cat.

Ok, I may be lying, but if the sheer mass of that book was more than sufficient to convince me to never try configuring sendmail.
The market is so distorted that the consoles are sold at a loss and money is recouped on game profits. Nintendo is so far behind it isn't even considered by regulators to be competing in the same space. This isn't free competition, it's two plants in the same plant pot having choked out the soil with their roots.

Accordingly, I would welcome Sony going away because maybe then the government would be forced to do something and perhaps break up this consolidation.
It's only a small part of this share and why would he liquidate that by buying another asset for more than it's worth?
Previous EoE was when they removed UUCP.

PS. I use uucico to automate some offline factory processes for 25+ years.
In my experience (as someone who has advocated for f.lux and natural lighting since the early days) even when people are directly exposed to the benefits (such as leaving a shift at 11pm and being able to sleep restfully when they get home) it’s still difficult for them to change habits. The work/life autopilot just does not seem to have room for it.

It’s truly heartbreaking, and doubly so when we lose out on companies like Twist.
> It’s not what they’re offering. I don't know why you'd attempt it therefore

I'm not saying you're wrong, but how did you conclude that? Not from the marketing ("And one more thing; we're not going to support this long-term!" — to rapturous applause), not from their specs, website, release notes, or anything like that.

No, my guess is you read between the lines that Apple is a disposable-consumer-product company. Of course they'd never admit this, and _that's_ the problem here.

It is not unreasonable to expect long-term support for software, and brushing that under the carpet with "ah well, you know what Apple's like", just gives them license to never have to _admit_ what they are.
Since this is an IDE I wonder what your idea is for version control? In my opinion a database should be considered a deployment container, not a place where you’d normally do live development.
Bruh, you can visit any temple and get free food/water and you can still save 40Rs. ( To put things in perspective, I'm a resident who often visit temple for free food. No offence)
I still believe there are great things with Apple. and sadly I'm into their eco-system because in the 'mainstream' which is macOS/Windows iOS/Android. They provide me more functional/productive products. I do hope they'll improve but one can hope.

> After Federighi claimed that they needed ...

That's seems like Jobs's legacy holding it wrong done wrong.
This is the guy claimed Stage Manager *needs* M1...

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/06/13/craig-federighi-stage-m...

Which ended up getting with the exact same quirks to older models.

So I'd loose faith on this guy marketing hypes rather than demote all Apple's team with talented people like Johny Srouji.
Frank L. Holt's books on the subject are really interesting, "Into the land of bones" in particular.
Hence it can flow, or it can crash!
As we do not yet have artificial intelligence making confident statements about what its effects might be is surely rather rash.
Maybe not NIMBYism, but loads and loads of red tape for land acquisition. Especially since all of the land that is not explicitly for non agricultural use is agricultural, and converting it to non agricultural is a whole process usually involving bribes to 20 different officials. See this blog[1] that was posted to HN a while ago[2]

[1]: https://superr.in/economy/i-tried-starting-a-manufacturing-u...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24106545
Karpov on the Road to Recovery
Seconded. Watching a live performance by Sam really is something else.
‘Y’all ready for this?’ Can Britain resist America’s fast food giants?
Are you talking about news.ycombinator.com ?

If you are, it's because this is not « the center of "modern development tools" ». It's a textboard and it serves that purpose well.

And this is completely off topic.
Not to hijack the OP, but yes, my Twitter bot actually tweets spots to his bot. My DCSkyCam data this helps train his models, but another objective for me was to learn image ML techniques, so I’m using all my own data/models.
What got you interested in building something like this?
Ehmm, from the article:

Evidence from version numbers of APFS, a critical sub-system in macOS, is entirely consistent with Apple’s claimed support policy, of only fully maintaining the current version of macOS, and only providing security updates to superseded macOS for two years after that.
Election integrity is not the reason why nations elect to not use voting machines, do not use mail in voting, or also require ID. The purpose of all those choices is to encourage voter confidence and trust, which has shown to increase voter turnouts and trust in the democratic process.
I cant even argue about that mentality of beein so against changes. It's for sending emails...gosh...have you said the same about the git change?

Btw if you just used sendmail..always..my condolences.
It was. It was called app.net. No-one used it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App.net
GeoFS browser-based flight simulator by by Xavier Tassi
Yeah this argument is getting more and more tenuous every time it's rolled out.

"It's just the Apple way" has been used to defend just about everything at this point.

Unclear support terms and unsupported software for machines that were sold brand new at retail just a couple of years ago at premium prices is just plain wrong.

EDIT: I've changed "a few months" to "a couple of years" as I can't find the link that explains which of the languished SKUs was still being sold on the Apple.com site as new shortly before being axed in Ventura. It also doesn't include refurb Macs or those that are still in retail channels which would make the support life even shorter from new.

This is a far cry from Windows 10 to Windows 11, where blocking old machines (while still allowing a workaround) due to genuine security enhancements was met with uproar. Thankfully no T2 Macs have been dropped yet but I suspect despite having great hardware and being perfectly capable (and supporting enclave security and encryption hardware), they'll be axed unceremoniously in a couple of years anyway.
I’m so surprised when people make statements that have this at their core: “people’s habits change slowly over time and have huge momentum”.

If Twitter changed it’s tech stack and became a genuinely better platform, they could gain those million users back almost instantly. People are not semi trucks: they’re making choices moment to moment.
Wow, this is a lot.
Town Square for tech is GitHub, far away from Twitter
"That may be all that you bring. You’ll not go far though and you’ll never work on my team."

I wish people stopped trying to win arguments by flashing their manager role, it's not very far from bragging that your dad owns the company. It makes one look like a jerk.

You "wouldn't hire me"? Ever though many, perhaps most, people wouldn't want to work for you in the first place? And that if they do, it might be because they need a job, not that they agree with you or your arguments?
Proposal for new rules on short-term accommodation rentals in EU
In-build adblocker, that is now open-source makes this custom ROM for android very privacy friendly, without need of rooting or using DNS/firewall that consume battery.
By Eric Barone, including the very superlative artwork and music inclusive.
> ... business ... purpose is ... to survive, and ... to maximise profit ...

That is kind of like saying the purpose of human life is breathing. Yes, breathing is critical and fully integrated into existence, but there is so much more to living well. Similarly the purpose of business is to create value. Survival through flows of money comes as a result of that. Money dominated conversations can help, but often miss fundamental issues. For example, there is a big psychological difference between a software service with regular payments versus occasional software releases that can be bought and owned. With the right pricing the two are essentially the same, but customers tend to have very different feelings toward each model.
Obviously. Yet people keeps buying from them.
Its simple to do proper photo export if you have a mac, hard if you dont.

If you set photos to store originals on disk you get a nice year/month directory structure with proper metadata that you can copy around.
> but the last 1-3 years can be a nightmare since you're expected to produce work that is funded by and within the scope of your grant BUT also be innovative and something that your advisor and committee approve and let you graduate with.

Great summary! This is exactly how it feels at 3 years in. Every sentence in a paper is a careful balance between adhering to science, the funding agency, the supervisors, and myself.
There are many more people who dislike sendmail than people who like it. It's like several orders of magnitude. And it's objectively hard to configure securely. Sorry. If you want to keep using it, nothing is stopping you, but the rest of the world wants sensible defaults.
Well every car would go through the same 10,000 simulated tests... And then they're comparable.
Amazon quietly opens its logistics network to third-party merchants in India
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord. You can play Starsector completely hands free during battles.
Andrew Huberman is a Stanford professor who tries to make the latest research more accessible to a layman audience. His speciality area is eyes

You would likely find these two episodes applicable and interesting if you're willing to make that time investment.

https://hubermanlab.com/master-your-sleep-and-be-more-alert-...

https://hubermanlab.com/find-your-temperature-minimum-to-def...
Life is too short for software with its own, unique configuration language. I've spent months on learning Exim configuration gymnastics, trying to make it both efficient and useful and without breaking functionality used by a company/organization.
I wonder how many of the average users would stay if it wasn't free... Or even if just posting would cost money...
Can it outperform IPFW?
Bad Computer
Lots of acquisitions of companies in the same industry of the acquirer (ie. horizontal integration) all done by a single giant company, especially with the goal of consolidating games with the most popular and largest amount of users, is most definitely anti-competitive behaviour.

So:

> Is the old hyper competitive, destroy the competition at any cost Microsoft back, in the form of Xbox?

Yes. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish never left Microsoft. They have just gotten cleverer and smarter at hiding it.

> I thought we were being led to believe it was a new Microsoft, kinder, more platform agnostic.

Microsoft has learned their mistakes with Windows Phone, Almost shutting down Xbox and now targeting, buying out the ecosystem of developers and gamers.

> What happens if Microsoft "wins", by using its money to own all the most popular game publishers - then there's only one gaming console left? How is that good for gamers? Where's the competition? Why would Microsoft bother releasing another Xbox console after that?

This is why regulators are investigating the acquisition [0] [1] in both the US and the UK.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/microsoft-slash-activision-bliz...

[1] https://nypost.com/2022/01/18/microsofts-69b-activision-bliz...
Bletchley Park has a commemorative plaque for the Polish mathematicians:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park#/media/File:Bp-...

If you are the slightest bit interested in codebreaking, visiting Bletchley Park is an absolute delight. I cannot recommend it highly enough. The tech is still impressive today, and even more impressive is the human side of it. The huts are still there (mostly) and a few have be renovated so you can tour them. There's also the National Museum of Computing right next door with a replica Colossus machine.

You can watch a number of demos and tours on Youtube, but seeing a Bombe machine decrypt your own Enigma encoded message in person is pretty impressive.
Apple's support policy is I believe explicitly to only fully support the current version. But I can't find anything to quote right now.

I know this, so I update immediately, and get on with it. If you do something else then you're just denying reality.

> It is not unreasonable to expect long-term support for software

It is unreasonable to expect that, if that is not what has ever been promised to you or delivered in practice.
Very few parts... simply scrolling on a Twitter post will prevent you from reading the rest of the thread or comments.
I put it down to a lack of focus. Research universities had one job, to ensure the undelayed success of someone (or collective) like Yitang Zhang/Katalin Kariko, and it failed, while managing to award tenure to many a downright incompetent or even fraudulent persons and research groups. Surely doing this job is, if not easier, more important than achieving general AI? When I say easier, I refer to the ontopic suggestion of giving every person who gets a PhD a basic income..
I have yet seen nothing that would make the average consumer to leave. Or people using it for marketing posts.

But depending how things change it might happen.
This is a big reason why I don't use full-disk encryption; I simply have no threat model that would warrant the risk of using it.

FDE doesn't protect against remote attacks, and anyone who would physically make off with my devices (a VERY unlikely event) is either:

* A thief who will turn around and sell them to someone who will erase them.

* A state actor who will get the data no matter what I do (and find it of no interest anyway).
There are benefits to getting on with version updates.

When I do software for macOS I know that the culture is I don't have to test on 10 old versions that people might be running. It's reasonable in macOS to just say 'you obviously have to be running the latest version' which simplifies so much, and allows me to get on with more of what matters.
The people who wrote NeXT as well as early OS X and its underpinnings were hyper-competent. As they’ve gotten older and cycled out they’ve been replaced by people who seemingly don’t even understand what made early OS X so amazing let alone how to create reliable software.

There was a time in the mid aughts where Apple software was some of the most well built, most reliable software in existence. Those days are long gone.

Part of me blames the yearly release cycle. Rather than a rock solid OS every couple years, we get incremental junk where they haven’t had the time to refine anything, just rushing to meet the impending yearly deadlines.
No way a lifetime is enough to explore the most meaningful possible thing in your life without picking it first.
You have to choose without topic to introduce the decision making process, and importance seems a very very good way to prioritize, BUT only if you look at it as the «important for _me_» ones.
Is it not enough with pf, ipfw and ipfilter? (^_^)
You're being downvoted for just being unnecessary. Also, there's nothing wrong with a group of only-white people doing something. That doesn't mean that they don't welcome non-whites.
I'm not sure about support policy, but they definitely release security updates for old operating systems.
Why are instruction sets copyrighted?
Ah the good old DolphinChemist and his Completing the FTL Hard/No Pause/All Ships Challenge come to mind :)

https://www.twitch.tv/dolphinchemist/video/28582788?filter=c...