skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While Apple is not considered an advertising company today, they have been growing services revenue for the past several years. Part of that is growth in ads (3rd party ads in app store, 1st party ads in the OS, iAd [discontinued], etc).

Even if rank and file Apple employees do not want to grow ads in iOS/App Store, clearly Apple leadership wants to sell more ads (and increase their services revenue). At App Store scale, their volume of ads is not trivial.
PG Music's Band-in-a-Box still exists, but way back in the Windows 3.1 era it already had a "snap to pleasant notes" feature if you wanted to play along a set of chords on a MIDI piano. It could also play chords in the style of famous musicians along with your never-ever-bad notes! I always switched it to the "Erroll Garner" preset and hammered away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band-in-a-Box
Self host in the cloud or self host locally? I run a bitnami vm locally accessable by token based ssh or key based openvpn. So in essence its in the cloud
The main problem is when weighing these things is not blockchain advocate honestly asks the question: "why is this better than using a simple relational database, in a way that makes all the extra complexity worthwhile?"
Hmm, I think I consider FRC (FIRST Robotics Competitions) a weird and unique tech scene. Not tiny, but yet not a lot of people know about it still.

https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc
Lawyers before a pricing page, that's interesting. Is this a VC-funded or bootstrapped project?
It has been some time since I last worked extensively with SQLite; but I just started doing some benchmarking on queries against decent sized tables (e.g. a few dozen columns and at least 5M rows) for simple queries like 'SELECT * FROM <table> WHERE <column1> = 'Hello' AND <column3> < 100;'.

For those who work with it regularly; have you noticed any dramatic changes in query speeds in the past few years/versions? I imagine that most improvements to the code have been around new features but there may be some big speed gains in 'bread and butter operations' like queries or updates, but I am not aware of anything specific.
Yep, code coverage can tell you code is definitely entirely untested, but doesn't tell you that you are covering the input space to have high assurance that there aren't vulnerabilities.

Coverage might have helped here (or not), but it doesn't fix the general problem of fuzzing being stochastic and only testing some behaviours of the covered code.
To me, becoming better at my career should mean that my job options have expanded greatly. Being shut out of some opportunities because they have different metrics does not sound like a win.
> Inclusion benefits society by making things run more smoothly

Big claim, little justification
Well, the investors in Tesla haven't been complaining, whether or not the mode has been necessary. Those who have worked there can comment on the pro/con.
Are you looking for high-quality Computer Vision tutorials?
I have a new repository to recommend. Roboflow Notebook contains all tutorials created by the team over the last few years. You'll find everything here - from fundamentals like ResNet32 to state-of-the-art Transformers. From classifications to image segmentation. And the best part is that the repository is constantly being developed, and new tutorials appear almost every week.
It can be compiled to WASI but there are no instructions on how to use zig cc to do it?
> Why do you think rule from Brussels is a lie?

Because it was a lie the last time it was the talking point.

The UK still winds up having to meet EU standards if they want to sell products there; all the regulatory burden, none of the benefits. They could have decided to have blue passports any time they wanted. The 350 million pounds a week for the NHS never materialized. etc. etc. etc.
I was hunting around for such a scene. Thanks for getting me connected.
Not particularly
Yeah that's exactly my concern!

I want to contribute to building cool things, and building a really cool component becomes much less inspiring if it's only used to steer nuclear missiles. (dramatic but not unreasonable example)
If you go to altavista.com they have a search box that searches the whole internet - can you believe it? The joys of the modern internet in 2022!
Related:

Proposed class action alleges that Apple tracks users despite privacy assurances - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33593455 - Nov 2022 (191 comments)

App Store on iOS 14.6 sends every tap you make in the app to Apple - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33520775 - Nov 2022 (190 comments)
where does she say she is looking for an employer? Would be worthwhile to start a conversation with her.
Excellent! Couldn't have said it better myself.

I'm starting a new stack (based, as it happens, on Prof Wirth's Oberon RISC chip) and network. Let me know if you're interested. I don't know how to save the masses, but I think we can save the folks who want to be saved. (Email in profile.)
Interesting thread by Matthew Green about HME and privacy: https://ioc.exchange/@matthew_d_green/109383332045800279
Because it isn't necessarily pro env, at least not everywhere. This has to be subject of larger studies I guess.
Some thoughts.
1. If I WFH I need to heat/cool my apartment/house my self. This is much more inefficient than heat office spaces, if you take the people inside an filled office space into account.
2. The public transport is going and consuming energy anyways.
3. Zoom, Teams, etc is consuming a lot of energy due to servers and videostreaming.
4. Walking a little bit does not harm yourself and maybe saves medical treatment, which in itself harms the environment.
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Yes, as you would be guilty of religious discrimination. Colin Kaepernick was not fired. He opted out of his contract in 2017 and became a free agent.[1]

[1] https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2695566-colin-kaepernick...
Using AI to study 12 years of representation in TV
Algolia is a ycombinator company. There used to be a different HN search before they took control of it. I believe it was partially done as a marketing move.
I contracted for a company in the US (I'm in the UK usually) and the stalls were terrible. Big gaps between the doors and frames, and really big gaps underneath the dividing walls too, so you could identify your co-worker by their shoes. The ability to put a noise to a face was really quite off-putting.
I think it's partially true and I definitely fall under the category that hates to sink hours into searching for the best YYY where YYY is a random $30 item.
But I don't necessarily want less choice, I just want something/someone I can trust. If I could just believe that the "amazon choice" was actually tested thoroughly and matched a quality standard I can get behind, then I'd happily get the "amazon choice" of most things.
> This means that for branches you need to evaluate both sides

Not true in general, since you can reuse the multiplexor multiple times during the evaluation, to produce essentially a circuit-wise least-common-multiple of the two sides of the branch. Eg, if one side performs two multiplications, and the other a multiplication and a division, you only need to evaluate a division and two multiplications, not a division and three multiplications. So "evaluate both sides" is a worst-case upper bound on the amount of computation.

Loops are still a pain in the ass, though.
"Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age" is the riveting story of the legendary Xerox PARC a collection of eccentric young inventors brought together by Xerox Corporation at a facility in Palo Alto, California, during the mind-blowing intellectual ferment of the seventies and eighties. https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/518513
Hey! Author of the post responding here :) Unfortunately max/min-length is a global invariant and not one that can be reinforced by CRDTs without coordination

bloom-lang.net is a really cool project working on trying to figure out what types of program state actually require coordination at compile time
Joy appears even more “write-only” than Forth.

Half the skill in the art of programming is choosing good names, but Joy lacks names for arguments and locals.

Otherwise, it looks interesting. But, I think I’ll stick to lisp.
Cooking skills like adding a bunch of sugar or salt?
Probably somewhat common/obvious, the demo scene. The 64K intros were amazingly beautiful and fast back in the day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64K_intro

Inspired a lot of my early interest in computers
Livestream Shopping Report (+ Survey)
A report + exclusive survey (2k responders) about Livestream shopping. Some interesting data
> Where do you go to chat with offline / air-gapped systems enthusiasts?

Presumably not online
It does not work: https://twitter.com/linkayser/status/1528050454374109186

This is apparently a demonstration of their geometry software, not something that will ever be fired, since they are an "organic" modeling company, not a rocket company.
Generally agree, but friction cars do break.
Because the input to the BSP traversal is the view position.

Every node in the tree is associated with an infinite plane that divides space in half. Stuff on one side of the plane is in the left subtree; stuff on the other side of the plane is in the other subtree.

The viewer is on one side of the plane or the other (or maybe on it, oops).

We know that stuff on the other side of the plane cannot occlude the view of stuff on the viewer's side of the plane. So for instance if we're doing back-to-front rendering, we would draw the material from the other side of the plane first, then stuff from this side. (Subject to the content being rotated into the correct view and clipped to the view frustum.)

There is no polygon in the tree that intersects/straddles these dividing planes, which is the point. When the BSP is constructed, whenever these planes cut through some input polygon, it is cut into two pieces that get assigned to different subtrees. There are then situations in which those pieces will not get drawn at the same time though they belong to the same logical surface.

The planes which subdivide space in half are independent of each other; they go every which way. So if we have nodes like

a
b c
d e f g

it is possibly the case that plane b cuts through the polygon sets f and g, and maybe some of them even straddle plane b. None of that is relevant to them because the b subset is on the opposite side of common ancestor a, the b plane subdivision is concerned only separating d from e. Binary space partitioning is not actually a mathematical partition (exhaustive division into non-overlapping parts) of the space. The set of poygons gets partititoned, of course; not the space itself.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/192126/us-ad-spending-of...
https://mediaradar.com/blog/robinhood-against-investment-fir...

Banks and brokerages spend billions on advertising...
It is called C++ Core Guidelines.
> At the risk of sounding like a complete snob, it annoys me that DVDs are still sold.

Playing a DVD is easy. Playing a Bluray is difficult, you need special SW.
That 27 minutes of commute is most likely calculated from door to door.

It doesn't include the fact that when you're working remotely, you can just plop your ass on the work chair wearing whatever you slept in. Log in, check your messages and go make some coffee, prep the kids for school and maybe change into something smarter before the first meetings of the day.

You can also do chores while listening to meandering presentations on wireless headphones. If you're brave and cameras on isn't a culture in your company, you can do interactive ones by lugging your laptop or phone next to the dishwasher :D
Tutorial – Examine FTX Election Contributions with BigQuery
I just put together a tutorial for data analysts who want to learn BigQuery. The tutorial goes through the process that I use as a data scientist to examine data.

For the tutorial, I took a look at election contributions based on Federal Election Commission data. The numbers seem to align with what is reported in the press (so the analysis seems sound), but feedback is always welcome.
Yes, that looks likely. AIUI, there's no such as thing on "on mastodon", it has to be on a given server? So I didn't want to assume.

I searched for "Volkswagen" on mastodon.xyz and found a Volkswagen with a blue tick.

https://mastodon.xyz/@Volkswagen@shrike.club/109365824056368...

You can decide if that's genuine or not.

On a separate note, mastodon.social seems to be over capacity, I've tried signing up for a few days and it's always said "creating an account is not possible".

Looks like @VWGroup@mastodon.social was created on Nov 17th. Wonder if they got preferential treatment.
I've wanted in for a long time. I think it would be cool to add export to synfig studio or even blender to make animations.
Did you manage to write a truly portable compare-and-swap in standard C? Or did the code just happen to seem to work on your platform?

I'd be surprised if the former were possible. From a quick web search, C doesn't even give you the guarantees necessary for Peterson's Algorithm, [0][1] and volatile doesn't help. [2][3]

[0] https://codereview.stackexchange.com/a/124683

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35527557/errors-with-pet...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20160525000152/https://software....

[3] https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d457c/volatile...
Waveshare eink. They had the power supply schematics and driver source code on their homepage, which seemed convenient.
Why are we acting like this isn't just a prediction market? Also as others have said PredictIt did it first and was fine until you hired a former regulator and got them shut down. Questionable business practices. How long will you survive until the next upstart throws enough money at someone higher up the regulatory chain and you yourselves get shut down??
Common theme seems to be making things easier and cheaper.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25068820 for those who haven't seen where that catchphrase originated from. Not surprisingly, perhaps the only bit of sci-fi that takes a positive perspective of non-ownership. Also not surprisingly, it's been deleted but you can find it in the web archive.
When you walk into a situation that has an intergenerational history rife with 'hallucinations' you don't immediately start talking about pink elephants.

Stirring up a bad situation is not blameless behavior. It's the favorite realm of children, narcissists and saboteurs.
WFH is indeed advertised as pro environment. It just isn’t taking off very well for many.

Change is hard and re-thinking work as an entirely online activity requires a lot of change.

For some, their jobs which were fun before the pandemic now just suck because they don’t get to meet people face to face.

Some dread the long boring days WFH and spending time in back-to-back Zoom meetings where 90% of those attending have their camera off and do something else.

Some are frustrated because their coworkers are slacking off WFH. Others are frustrated because their productivity at home is a disaster.

But there is also a pro-environment factor of working in an office: In countries where buildings need heating, heating one office compound is more efficient than heating a hundred homes at the same time.
Well, yes, by definition, any standard that separates elements of a set into two distinct subsets is "discriminatory."
But with these darknet markets everything's hidden and anonymous, so there used to be (?) something called an "exit scam" where they'd just disappear with whatever funds were currently waiting for a decision. If things are set up so that the cryptocoins can only go to one of two places (seller's or buyer's wallet) that can't happen.

That situation that it's avoiding is less of a concern with legitimate things where everyone knows who everyone is and law enforcement actually exists.
Most schools consider unapproved screwdrivers or other tools to be weapons these days.
> that's a lightning-rod for argument

Then you must be the lightning itself, creating an account to ionise and electrically charge the thread I guess.
Are you talking about actually doing that? I ask because that's more-or-less what I'd like to do, using Wirth's Project Oberon.
You have to heat your house or apartment anyway or your pipes will burst
The root cause is humanity. You cannot "solve" this. You can only force people to do what you want as opposed to what they would want.

Our frugality was not a learned trait that we've simply discarded.. it was purely a consequence of our lack of technological progress and the austerity it forced on us.

It's the oddest thing to me to live in this world of amazing technological progress, while openly suggesting that throwing this technology away and returning to austerity is the only viable "solution."
IDK man, straight-up sleeping at work sounds pretty wild lol, unless, as the other poster mentioned, it was the symptom of a real health issue.
The irony here is that TeamBlind is entertaining to most users (tech ppl with technical background) because it's degenerate and off the cuff. To limit ad spend on Twitter for "ethical" reasons is the most degenerately ironic take I've heard all year!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locksport

> Locksport is the sport or recreation of defeating locking systems.
> Let's Encrypt is free.

Free of financial cost perhaps, but not free of effort. Let's Encrypt is a pain to set up and maintain on a self-hosted website, if you don't maintain websites professionally and don't have experience.

People lament the centralization of the web, but this https-or-the-highway mantra is contributing to exactly that! Because there is a way to truly get https "for free", and it's to throw up your site on Github Pages or Squarespace. Or just use Facebook.
I don’t think it matters in the slightest, but you’re absolutely correct, there is a resemblance. I don’t know how that became open to subjective debate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_and_crescent
There are a lot of really interesting people from that era who could make a good story:

Lee Felsenstein - Homebrew Compter Club, Osborne 1, Sol-20 (this + Community Memory is a good story)

Ed Roberts - MITS

Nat Wadsworth - created a PC in 1973, heartbraking story http://www.willegal.net/feature_stories/Nat%20Wadsworth%20-%...

Dr Robert Suding - Create Digital Group computers

Robert Noyce - Founder of Fairfield semi and Intel. Really good book called The Man Behind The Microchip
This is one where I'm just a happy spectator. For some reason I have no desire to try to do it myself but sit in slackjawed amazement at what others can do.
Yapsl: Yet another Python SMS library
There's a nice search feature at the bottom of the main page. There are dozen of Urbit threads that go the same direction.
Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Industry Worries
Krangs. An army
Microsoft flight simulator scene, pre-"flight sim 2020" was super interesting. FSX was well documented and built to be extensible through data, and I wanted to replace the terrible quality terrain of my local area with modern geo-data and ground textures.

There was an entire scene around this, that built, sold and supported third party programs to help you build custom airports, paid tools for importing google earth ground textures, tools to help autogenerate tree cover for a ground texture based on machine learning of "this group of pixels look like a forest so place a forest here", plus all the tooling in the GIS space which is incredible and lovely.

I was a month into stealing google earth images with homebrew code using techniques borrowed from a different open source tool, hand labeling a hundred square miles of ground textures, including thousands of polygons to tell FSX where to place houses, a revamped local airport with new structures and signage, and autogenerating a winter version of the ground textures through writing some java code (because python is stupidly slow) to sample a "snow" texture and place it onto a green ground texture, which worked surprisingly well, writing code to overlay publicly available house polygon data and water polygon data to place rivers and lakes, before I go to hand labeling forests and trying to learn the machine learning tool before I gave up, and then MSFS2020 was announced about a year later.

This field is also related to turning google earth terrain and texture data into Assetto Corsa tracks, which has a similar community including paid tools (that mostly suck though)

I learned a lot of GIS and it was pretty great, and I got to play with a bunch of publicly available large datasets of different formats, and wrote code to generate 3D models from hightmaps, even though it was a terrible implementation.
"some" include the Democratic National Committee[1]. This type of action sure reinforces feelings that politics in America is gravely corrupt and some sort of reset is needed.

[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2022/dem...
Trusting the fuzzer and not examining its coverage seem to be main problem here.

I fail to see what is problematic about giving the control over the entire flow of the program to the developer. Quite the contrary, I am more concerned about the paradigm shift towards higher level system programming languages that hide more and more control from the developer while putting more burden on the perfectness of optimizer.
I would be curious to know if remote work reduces overall VMT, or if commute VMT is replaced by higher VMT for daily tasks (if people move to Kansas or wherever, where things are spread out further).
How many people do you think are on HN who earn their paycheck because of advertising?
Didn’t Buckminster Fuller talk of the holistic energy cost of going to work? Summarizing that it cost less energy if you factor externalities to just stay at home? I can’t remember exactly, but something along those lines…
The Space Shuttle and the International Space Station were hugely expensive. They became the focus, despite not providing much bang for buck.
Head of Apple App Store deletes Twitter account
The misanthropic collective wisdom fixpoint.
You can probably build a kind of acoustic signature of the whole at various different points in the boundary and check each build is sufficiently close to that signature.
It's a shame they won't be able to wire-tap thousands of residential homes anymore... such a shame...
The Great Places Erased by Suburbia (The Third Place)
I think you are correct, but I do not think the average severity of these exploits is necessarily the same.
Arcade game emulators. I quit years ago, but reverse engineered the Cinematronics processor used in their vector games. It was built from TTL chips and a few proms. 5 MIPS max, 12 bit accumulator, supported multiplication in hardware. Crazy stuff.
> or are there specific banking features that cater to LGBT individuals?

This question is answered at length in the article you link to. You could also just look at the bank's website: https://www.joindaylight.com

I don't know whether or not there's a large demand for these features among LGBTQ folks specifically, but it's not an inherently ridiculous idea.
I m using twitter in time order anyway which is not different. But props to Matt for reviving Tumblr. But twitters wont be a good match there
Is there not a "One ticket West" algorithm for distributed networks?

The message would arrive at a server and tell the server "I'm going this way." and the server forwards the message in a direction rather on a specific path to some destination.

I'm not sure how one would apply the concept of "direction" to a communications graph.

Also some means of discerning arrival would need to be provided for.
I was commenting on your last sentence
Nineteenth-century NYC was filled with books, bibliophilia, and marginalia