skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah - I didn't want to invoke the Ghost of Steve but ... why stop with your storefront? Why not start slapping Candy Crush Saga stickers on the front of iPhones?

But unlike other products, this advertising will provide zero value to Apple customers. We already pay full price for our gear. We pay for Apple One. Unlike most other companies where advertising offsets the sticker price of things, advertising at Apple does not benefit us in any way.

For me, being free of advertising is a key benefit of participating in the Apple ecosystem, and one that I assign a significant financial value to. I absolutely hate it.
I agree with you in spirit, but eugenics was made immoral because it was directly linked to forced sterilization, murder, genocide, and so on.

Data aggregation/brokerage has little such baggage in the public consciousness.
Not trying to diminish this impressive work from Andrew, but I would believe as the saying says those last (ongoing since a browser is never finished) 20% is what take 80% of the time to make a browser.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_from_the_United_Kingdom

> The Romans introduced winemaking to the UK, in a period with a relatively warm climate. Their vineyards were as far north as Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire, with others in Buckinghamshire and Cambridgeshire, and probably many other sites. The wines were most likely fruity and sweet, fermented with added honey, and drunk within six months.[15] Winemaking continued at least down to the time of the Normans, with over 40 vineyards in England mentioned in the Domesday Book; much of it was communion wine for the Eucharist.

> ... When Henry VIII was crowned in 1509, 139 vineyards were recorded, 11 of which produced wine for the royal household ...

> The twilight of British winemaking tradition was brought to an end with the onset of the First World War, as the need for crops and food, and the rationing of sugar, took priority over wine production. For the first time in 2000 years, English wines were no longer being produced in Britain. ...

> Viticulture was revived in the 1970s onwards ...
If you want to continue working with USB-C you have the freedom to install a USB-C module, so I'm not sure what new problem you are identifying here. But, if you know ahead of time precisely what modules you need, you no longer have to have them dangling from your laptop.

I'm trying to conceive of what other possible solution there could be?
The phone contact list becoming the root of trust for defining personal trust relationships is rather unwelcome. Then software taking that data and wordlessly interpreting it as a binary trust/do-not-trust decision is also unwelcome.

If I am networking at a conference, I frequently exchange contact info by entering info into each others' contact app or sending each other a text. I'm sure I'm not the only one to do this.

It's one thing to tell two users that both parties are using Signal and in each other's contact list (contact discovery). It's another thing to encourage users to broadcast messages to all of them (via Stories, and the default share setting is all contacts)

In summary, while I'm neutral on the Stories feature, I think the implementation/rollout has been clumsy.
Used it for a while in production along with Serilog, but ended up ditching it. LiteDB Studio is not as useful as it could be, and there were issues when accessing a shared database that I couldn't solve.
I've been on that list since the Framework was announced which was I think more than a year ago now?

Wikipedia suggests it was released in July 2021, so almost a year and half now, actually.
FCKGW stopped working with XP SP1.
A 256-bit value on every platform. 256 bits ought to be enough for everyone.
As an 11th gen owner I honestly don't know what thunderbolt certification would realistically do for me. Every usecase I personally have where I plug something into my machine it works just fine. In other-words this announcement doesn't change anything for me nor do I want anything. Maybe when my 12th gen Chromebook gets here I'll be able to tell a difference ;)
This literally reads like some misinformation campaign hit-piece. I would suggest reading up on actual news sources that function within India and speaking to Indians who live in India.
What specifically was the problem with the 11th gen boards? Do you have a list of the TB4 tests that passed and failed?
Out of curiosity, how is the split between mac and non-mac between new hires? My company just recently added MacBooks as a new standard and everybody seems to be loosing their minds. There have been so many people ditching their perfectly up to date Windows notebook in favor of new shiny Macbook Pros (which is super unnecessary given that about 60% of the company uses their machines for nothing more than light office work and another huge portion with incompatible programs)
The last season had some interesting architecture & visuals but overall was just fading
I have done something similar, https://github.com/mrozbarry/mob-turnbased-rpg/blob/master/s...
Can you explain this dichotomy then? You say people who vote are lower caste, and those who "don't vote" are upper caste, yet the upper castes control the government.

Are you saying then that the voting is fraudulent? Or that lower caste voters are voting against their interests? Or that there are restrictions on the candidates that are available so voters are only given the illusion of choice? E.g. for lunch we can choose between KFC, Taco Bell or Pizza Hut, but they're all actually the same company.
There are free servers, they don't hold binary groups but they work fine.
Have anyone tried to attach 3 external 2K displays to it?
That kind of already exists with Home Assistant. Granted, it often feels like a thin wrapper around lots of tiny closed ecosystems, but the fact that most things interoperate well enough means I can recommend it.

Matter/Thread exist as well, and some smart device makers claim to already have adopted it, so we'll see how that all goes.
> Note that this was fixed on the X side around that time (it mentioned in this article too)

The article says it was disabled by default. That doesn't sound like a fix to me. Was the broken code actually fixed (or removed) at some point?
The Sackler's had their name stripped from museum exhibits, campuses, etc, which I'm sure hurts at the end of the day.

The US government really should have went the extra mile and stripped the Sackler family of every penny they had.. to the point that they were forced to beg for spare change on the side of the road e.g. Mortimer & Randolph Duke style.

> The bankruptcy judge acknowledged that the Sacklers had moved money to offshore accounts to protect it from claims, and he said he wished the settlement had been higher

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/health/purdue-sacklers-op...
In about:config you can enable or disable features individually.

Recently they added ":modal" that will make paywalls harder to bypass. Most sites haven't implement yet, but I've already disabled this "feature" on config.
Wool Production and Processing [video]
black but for prose would be Vale, https://github.com/errata-ai/vale
You might need to set your system to hibernate instead of sleep. Modern x86 laptops lack proper standby power states — they only have a low power "darkwake" state in which they're able to do things like periodically check email, and instantly "wake up" from. Microsoft bills this as "modern standby".

That's nice in concept, but it rarely if ever works as it's supposed to, especially under Linux. I had to set my Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano up so after being closed while unplugged for an hour or so it automatically hibernates, because otherwise it'll never properly sleep and Windows will drain its battery.

It's stupid but the only machines that reliably sleep these days are MacBooks.
It's simple self selection, showing the class divide in the US. Marriage is an intentional act. Cohabitation is, more often than not, out of necessity.
I just found it today, so I might not be the best to answer this, but I doubt it is EF compatible at all as it is a document database (like MongoDB). As for azure blob storage, a quick google search shows a handful of libraries that accomplish that.
Twitter and tech companies are not the first industry to have ethical problems like this. This is a problem we've solved many times in the past with strict regulations and laws. Finding ethical people is expensive, but writing laws is cheap.

If actual data privacy laws existed in the US, this situation would never have happened. In the linked twitter thread, he says that "legal" said it was ok. That right there is the safety valve that we can control to keep corporations in check.

Why doesn't my local supermarket price gouge us when there's a hurricane about to hit? That's an obvious way to increase profits. In fact, if it weren't illegal to do that, I'd argue that any CEO who didn't do that for "ethical reasons" should be fired and possibly even sued by shareholders.
Do you have any recommendations on libraries for parsing CAN with Rust (or are your tools OSS)? I'll be working on a project in a couple of months that'll need to pull data off CAN.
Yes, your attitude (shall we say) was apparent from the start.
The most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter
I agree but this is besides the point. Race based affirmative action is still unfair.
https://community.signalusers.org/t/proper-secure-value-secu...

They started storing user data in the cloud and never updated their privacy policy even though it's been brought to their attention. (https://community.signalusers.org/t/can-signal-please-update...)

The very first line of their privacy policy reads:
"Signal is designed to never collect or store any sensitive information" which is a total lie. For someone like a human rights activist or a whistleblower a list of all their Signal contacts is absolutely "sensitive information". It really used to be true that they didn't collect and store anything, but it hasn't been the case now for years!

If this is the first time you're hearing about the data Signal is collecting and storing in the cloud that should tell you all you need to know about how much they can be trusted.
Yes, but nobody actually develops games for Mac and Linux. They target Windows and then build against Winelib if they're countenancing a SteamOS release.
> You can’t actually write a C parser

Actually, you can. I added one to the D compiler, and dubbed it ImportC. With ImportC, in your D code you can write:

import stdio;

and if there's a stdio.h file, the D compiler will read the .h file, parse it, and present the ABI to it in a D-ish manner to your D code. Here it is:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/compiler/src/dmd/cp...

It's so darned useful I expect other languages will do it, too. People were skeptical at first, but it's a solid gold productivity enhancer.
I agree. While spam and bad actors did exist, the crowd size was so small most of the time and the amount of spam tended to be far more limited and typically had a human at the other side posting the crap.

If you open up an HTTP POST api these days that publicly listed the amount of crap that will be posted to it is legion. You'll have spammers and spammers bots hit it endlessly. You'll have broken scripts pound at it till the end of time. You'll have clever users figure out how to turn it into a data storage API. You'll have every dark thing that hides in the shadows of humanity use you as its new cave. If you allow binary uploads then that API is now a porn site or serving warez. The people pushing the most questionable stuff will come from a vast range of proxied IPs and infected jumpboxes.

It's been some years now since I've been in charge of managing servers that require public facing internet presence and I cannot tell you how glad I am because of it. Attempting to maintain operational integrity on the open internet is like attempting to maintain structural integrity in a blast furnace.
This is an unsupported hypothesis.

I am a big Apple user (iPhone, air tags, air pods, MacBook etc) but I definitely don’t feel “captured” in any way. If their products start sucking then I’m voting with my feet and my wallet.

I’d much rather support the market driven approach than to assign this responsibility and authority over to the Govt.
Could you please elaborate on the shared access issues? Is this about multiple processes using the same database?

(I recently found LiteDB while researching log destinations.)
There are light bulbs that will automatically decrease light temperature when they are dimmed (e.g. Phillips with "Warm Glow"). There is no use case for either warm bright or cold dim light.

Made the installation much simpler for me, because you can use standard dimmers without an extra communication path for CCT.
I would love to do this, but without running my own machines and doing all the hacking (as fun and educational as that seems like it would be!) What is the easiest route to getting lighting throughout the house to match circadian rhythm?
> Thanks for posting this. Everything old is new again.

Right? It was such a good time :-) You're welcome.

> why usenet couldn't be a viable social media platform

I wonder if identity plays a role here. Centralizing points (likes, retweets, etc) drives people to work on getting attention with their posts, to drive engagement, but also invites troublemakers and controversy.
Yes, but you really have to be in deep need to qualify plus it does not include gas. I'm thinking a card for everyone under say, 100k. It won't happen, debt will add to the money supply and there's no tolerance for new taxes to pay for it.
Is Tim Cook really the problem? Apple has to answer to the shareholders and board of directors first, and Tim Cook can only stay CEO as long as he's acting in their interests. Maybe it's too easy to blame the system, but I don't see how Tim Cook should take the majority blame.
That’s what it meant a few years ago to me as well. But has expanded in practice. Yes this is too much focus on a single word.

The article states that text content is being sent, and that it makes sense according to the touted feature. Enough details given what we already know, though stingy.

More info would be useful to folks less familiar with the subject however the core issue here is somewhat old news.
Yes, although the actual streaming was lossily compressed, which more than negates any gains from using a better DAC.

(edit - this is incorrect; the Chromecast Audio was apparently updated at some point to support lossless streaming)
Building chat app with Nextjs and Elixir
Pro Bono Publico: Publicans, Punch, and Print in Eighteenth-Century London
India's political system has all the forms but none of the substance of a democracy. Yes Modi is from a backward caste but his policies are biased towards the upper caste and he is beholden to the upper caste support. The proof in the pudding is how well off the lower caste compared to the upper caste in the last seventy year. And the answer is the lower caste is worst off compared to their upper caste counterpart after seventy years of upper caste rule.
Rust's standard Mutex type has been improved to the point that they're now competitive or faster than parking_lot, at least on Linux: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/95035#issuecomment-10...

Channels appear to be trickier, but it might be possible to upstream crossbeam's version of those as well (it's certainly been proposed and discussed for years).
thanks for this! I've already got a huge list of changes I make in about:config on every install but it looks like it's time for an update
> All metadata is unencrypted

And all the rest of the data too, for all intents and purposes.

After all it is Meta that provides the keys, operates the network, and controls the closed source apps. Also, it is precisely Meta's type of behaviour that warrants encrypting personal data in the first place.
I don't comment but also hate reading popular threads like this but I will do it anyway because someone was interested in hearing from someone living in India.

There's so much emphasis (from comments) on information technology services contributing to this. This is a recent phenomenon. Growth due to IT services was extremely concentrated in a few cities and most took their family there.

India was never a nation state before becoming a federal republic. Poverty was not widespread uniformly over the subcontinent. Over-reliance on agriculture and lack of trade meant factors like climate patterns disproportionately affected people in the lower social order.

Government definitely played a role in establishing energy infrastructure, educational institutions, introducing healthcare schemes and before that, smart people played an even bigger role with the constitution.

India's growth can be traced to a small list of landmark decisions which caused chain reactions.

- 1950 Constitution and enforcement by institutions

- 1954 Midday Meal Scheme

- 1956 Non-Aligned Movement

- 1961 Green Revolution

- 1970 Operation Flood

- 1991 Economic liberalisation

Looking back, just liberty guaranteed by Constitution wouldn't have worked because of the caste system.

I can add more if someone's interested.

- itspi
Many free wifi places will track and report movements with the wifi area. Using bluetooth in addition. Shopping malls in particular can use this to find where people congregate.

Can probably be related to email addresses too, and hence shared with every other mall with same ownership as well as the company that provides the free wifi.

e.g. Aruba, Meraki, ...
Debirdify – Find out which of your Twitter followers have a Mastodon account
Paris was one of the 3 main wine producing region (with Bordeaux and Bourgogne) till the end of the 1800s. But let's be honest the wine wasn't really good and the main advantage was that it was closer to the consumers.
Animation Retargeting in Godot 4.0
When using an App Service, you can have it mount a Blob Container or File Share. Dunno how well that works for a database though.
>Humans today regular live well beyond our natural lifespans

Is this really so? My understanding is that humans in antiquity who survived childhood typically lived to what we would now consider retirement age.
> C doesn’t actually have an ABI. Or even defined type layouts

This isn't the problem it appears to be. D's ImportC adjusts its semantics to match what we call the "associated C compiler", which is the predominant one on the target platform.
Warning, tried to buy one just now. Keyboard is out of stock.
I don’t use Swift very often, but when I do, I use the REPL to experiment with new code snippets, just as I would for Lisp languages, Julia, or Python.
Oculus co-founder makes a VR headset that can kill you
from what i read LPDDR5 ram is planned for upcoming versions of macbook pros and is not yet there. but i am certain once it comes out it will be the slower version compared to what you could get for the money on a custom laptop.

if your expectation is to use the macbook pro as a text editor (ide) and video chat then yes its powerful. but if you want games and the ability to install other os’ then its not really that cool, for the money.
They could buy futures at a lower price before crashing the markets.
Agreed, yet it’s not the first time but the hundredth.
De-Atomization Is the Secret to Happiness
They have websites, dont they ?
What I'm trying to get at here is that security is not just "bugs". Nowhere in the excel macro hell that is my job are there any bugs. Using a macro to transfer money in and out of peoples accounts in bulk is bad design, It's insecure, and i have at times argued that it's unethical, but it is also not a bug, It's exactly how the system was designed to work. Edge was designed to embed an Internet Explorer OLE frame, and that frame was designed to have an IE7 compatibility mode. No part of that would count in the "70% of bugs" list.

Moreover, almost no bugs are discovered in the actual reasonable software we have. That's not because we are the best engineers, or because we write it with the utmost care and attention to detail. It's because we're a total of 5 people (mostly a couple of years out of uni) looking at it. C, and other systems programming languages are greatly overrepresented in the corpus of software that is actually being combed through for bugs. Java and Cobol are heavily underrepresented.

I want to make this clear again. I work in banking. If 2008 showed us anything it's that banking underpins most of our modern society so these quality issues are not unimportant, they can be devastating.
I'm pretty sure that is the point GP was trying to make
thanks for the details! it sounds like these situations are a culmination of years of unresolved conflict clusterfucks (not uncommon in education/healthcare and other gigamega organizations ... so anything in state-federal-international politics) :|
Ask HN: What A/B testing tool do you use?
I used to love Optimizely, but they went in a different direction several years ago (enterprise software, $5,000+/month based on my last experience in 2019).

What a/b testing tool do you recommend today?
So you want to give the same government who is abusing power even more power?
It's also directly a commentary on what real people are known to do in existing videogames with free enough sandboxes and few consequences. For instance, the various "prostitute scandals" of GTA such as the infamous number of people spending in-game cash on in-game prostitutes then killing them for "refunds" because they drop the cash like a pinata.

There are much worse tales out there, too. (Such as the awful "prostitution ring" of the extremely short-lived Sims Online and was part of why Sims Online didn't make it out of Beta.)

The TV version of Westworld had decades of videogame experience to draw from and did ask some hard questions of "if there was a real-life GTA you could visit, would players do the same sorts of terrible things because there were no consequences?" and takes the cynical answer of "well yes, certainly, at least some of them, possibly many of them". What we glimpse in the show is often many of the worst parts of that because the robots were programmed to see that as trauma much as humans would and are given plenty of reasons to see that sample bias (of rich, "game players") as the default state of humanity rather than a poor, sad reflection of it. (Which is partly what Season 3 is about, confronting some of that sample bias.) (So yes, the show is cynical about human nature, per the OP's comment, but it is partly, too, about confronting that cynicism in the face of a species "superior" to us baseline humans in almost every way.)
My father's family came from what is now a post-soviet republic, which you probably do not understand was previously, before unpopular annexation, a pre-soviet republic. You are not going to convince me with pro Putin horse shit. There are plenty of post-soviet republics, Ukraine included, who are favorable to NATO and not due to a US conspiracy. Many of these were brutally oppressed not just by the Soviet Union but the Russian Empire, and a lot of those conflicts predate the existence of the United States.
> Also writing a book on Ethics For Hackers that is not prescriptive or too personal value-laden is extraordinarily hard

Ethics and personal values are the same thing. It would be impossible to write a book on Ethics for [any audience] that didn't consist entirely of personal values. Similarly, since ethics are necessarily subjective, it is impossible to write about ethics in a non-prescriptive way.
Lenin himself died of natural causes after leaving power.
One missing thing is the possibility to deprecate old features and change default behavior. A king of edition could be really nice to have.