skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think also, there are a few startup ideas considered to be "the future"

This. I’m getting annoyed with my jQuery/Spring app with ~million of revenue that I can’t get sexy for employees nor for funding; sometimes I want to throw away ethics and say we’re building “a blockchain of solar-powered AI european-central-bank ledgers”. It would be so much easier. Nah, we’re just storied field data in 7 tables, and customers love it.

But the tide is turning. I have a friend who mentioned the blockchain on his funding papers and he can’t even get an office in my city (France). I’m happy the tide finally turns for the blockchain, to value it for what it’s worth: A good idea for 1% of the present usecases, and bad idea for everything else. Even though not being able to sign an office lease for insurance reasons is quite comical.
That's a trash ad-hominem argument.

"Everything is made up" is probably one of the more important arguments to be made, and we'd all be better off if it was taken more seriously. It's difficult to reckon with and it's noisy, but that doesn't make it any less true or valuable.

I think it's especially important when trying to figure out regulation, taxes, and broadly how we deal with rich people in the world.

The belief that money is concrete and real helps cement unworthy powerful people. It's good to chip away at it.
It's a downward spiral. Short-term-focused metrics and promotion cycles have no way to see beyond local optimization. With each cycle of changes, the product is increasingly user hostile and the corporate culture gets further away from knowing how to build product features that are usable and enjoyable. It gets harder and harder to get the numbers to go up legitimately, so PMs and complicit engineers resort to even more user-hostile behavior.

It's a cancer that has infected the industry under the guise of being data driven. We've thrown out basic reasoning in favor of juicing vanity numbers. And then the people responsible for driving the product into a ditch fail upward to another company, get a bigger title and salary, and start grabbing at the wheel of a new car to repeat the cycle.
Ownership in Flux (a refinement type checker for Rust)
Interestingly, TikTok feels like the exact opposite of this; I used it without an account for a while and enjoyed the experience so much that I created an account and started making videos myself. It's quite rare that I have an experience with this kind of app /service these days where I'm invited to see the best of what it has to offer without being pestered in the same way that I am if I ever try to use Twitter, Instagram or Facebook while logged out.
This has always bugged me too.

The _desired state_ (playing or pausing) and the _actual state_ are two different things.

Whenever these two things are different, they should have two separate representations.

The problem is that they are mashed into one ambiguous representation.
The best part about d&d, is that the dice really don’t matter too much if you have a fun dm
those are also a key tool in "modern warfare". because it could be supplied very early on before any weapon, since technically they are not a weapon. when war started in libya, qatar sent hundreds of those to the terrorists to fuel the war.
> Then use Safari and don't install another browser. Why should other people be prevented from installing other browsers based on your preferences?

Already answered in my post. A cookie for you if you can quote the relevant sentences.

> Then use Safari and don't install another browser. Why should other people be prevented from installing other browsers based on your preferences?

Ditto.

> Then use Safari and don't install another browser. Why should other people be prevented from installing other browsers based on your preferences?

Ditto.
all HomeKit devices can be controlled locally
I still like them for privacy for my use case.

Beyond that is there a better company that operates in China that is doing better?
The blog post does not support the assertion that unreachable UB which is not executed is a problem. It starts by saying

> The Rust compiler has a few assumptions that it makes about the behavior of all code. Violations of those assumptions are referred to as Undefined Behavior.

Then it says

> In other words, even just constructing, for example, an invalid bool, is Undefined Behavior—no matter whether that bool is ever actually “used” by the program.

The blog post is talking about how just creating an invalid/trap/niche representation for a value is UB. The act of creating the value is the UB here, not the usage. So, in this case the UB is most definetely reachable and executing (The act of creating the invalid value).
I can second the legacy and reliability assertions. My experience with z/Arch was more recent- and it's a very different world from the modern cloud CI/CD Linux git Dev[Sec]Ops thing- but the reliability and legacy support immediately impressed me. A single z/Arch rack is basically a cloud in a box - get it power and network connectivity and you're golden. Other vendors can offer that though. The legacy support is another story; I watched an NGiNX proxy and a custom financial reporting app from the late 70s running side by side on the same box, and that's when I understood the additional dollars.
Theoretically it shouldn't vary much by either industry or technical role, since qualified tech people are basically fungible in the sense that they can train themselves to basic competence in any area, so the fast hiring side should be seeking out workers from the slow hiring pools to where it all evens out.
Yes your definition of a greenhouse is correct!

By "Dutch greenhouse", I meant industrial-scale glass greenhouses [1] that have evolved in the Netherlands over the last 70 years and, more recently, have been built in other countries primarily by Dutch greenhouse construction companies. These greenhouses are 20+Ac in footprint (similar in footprint to a Tesla Gigafactory) and have a wide variety of actuation - heating, cooling, lighting systems etc.

[1] https://havecon.com/en/projects
Share is the worst. It is incredibly slow to appear and update.
Any cryptography is surely using Uint8Array.
That's because all the top companies in any sector in China are subsidized and heavily supported by the government. The distribution isn't as organic, it's more a matter of in China, crossing the threshold to being the "golden child" and being guaranteed success right after.
GrapheneOS and its GApps sandbox are awesome, highly recommend.

At this point everything just works there, including network location provider, with only one exception - google pay won't allow you to add a card for contactless payments in most of the cases. But GrapheneOS is not at fault here.
i don't think walled garden is the correct term to describe what OP was describing.
They aren't complaining about algorithms. They are complaining about an algorithm that determines what people should see for the sole purpose of increasing some engagement metric. This does not necessarily mean giving the person what they want to see.
My understanding is that SIP makes certain locations read-only, like /System, /usr, applications bundled with the OS, etc. You’d turn it off if you had a bunch of wacky Unix packages from the old days that expected to run from specific paths.

I think if you want to just run any code you want, you sudo spctl --master-disable. I’ve never had to use it.
Yeah. Context is everything here. It's like if you're on a cruise ship and you step in a puddle of water, but everything else is fine - shrug somebody probably just spilled their drink. But if you step in a pool of water and the ship had just recently struck something huge (reef, rock, iceberg, another ship...) .... your ship is sinking buddy.
A rat without a Y chromosome could be a glimpse of our genetic future
Except that Apple's computers aren't locked down. That canard really needs to die. iPhones and iPads are locked down. Macs aren't. I can run whatever the I want on my Mac, and I do.
Using a 3rd party client also fixes all the UI issues with new reddit as well.

I use Apollo on iPhone, but I've heard Sync for Reddit is good on Android.
If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

Half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture ... and 77% of it is used for livestock: meat and dairy

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use

More than three-quarters (77%) of global soy is fed to livestock for meat and dairy production. Most of the rest is used for biofuels, industry or vegetable oils. Just 7% of soy is used directly for human food products such as tofu, soy milk, edamame beans, and tempeh.

https://ourworldindata.org/soy
> Oh come now. I constantly hear

Path dependence, it's a funny thing.
> Is Apple being Pro-CCP with this change?

I don't think Apple is Pro-CCP, Apple is Pro-Being-Able-To-Do-Business-In-China, which means doing whatever the CCP tells you to do, even if it means compromising your ethics.
>Microsoft tries to compete with Apple’s integrated hardware-software experience with their Surface line, but in the context of general wide-spread Windows usage, that’s really more like vanity hardware.

What I fail to understand is how MS apparently missed the part where Apple has clearly delineated OSes for their different hardware. You have iOS, iPad OS, macOS, tvOS, etc. Even the phone and tablet, which are nominally the same man-machine interface, are somewhat differentiated.

Why is MS so hellbent on making Windows a jack of all trades?
If you read the FDA’s memo you’ll see they didn’t call it meat.

https://www.fda.gov/media/163261/download

Labeling is a separate issue from whether it’s edible.
Animals are deuterstomes, meaning there is a nonsterile side, which is the skin and everything between the mouth and anus. Then there is the inside, which is sterile and protected by the immune system. If your blood or muscle tissue has bacteria, you are headed for a septic death or gangrene.
I am instead looking forward to the EU forcing Apple to allow third-party app stores on iOS.

https://9to5mac.com/2022/11/01/eu-force-third-party-app-stor...
Most of the web and apps feel hostile these days

On Playstation starting the YouTube app now gets you a full screen unskippable ad before even reaching the app

Prime video show you ads even if you're a paying customer

Every now and then I listen to a podcast to fall asleep, 50% chance I'll be jump scared by a 0.1kbps ad in German that has the volume 4x louder than the podcast itself

Google removing video previews form YouTube links in search results so it's harder to visually ignore video tutorials when you look for a written one

The golden age of internet died a while ago but until recently it was still somewhat useable, it's degrading rapidly these days
Sure, that's "old-fashioned" as a friend once told me (who was a Rhodes scholar.) At the two universities I've attended, the B.S. in physics required more rigor and the B.A. offered more breadth and didn't require as many courses starting in "PHY". I'm guessing it's an American thing too.
I've noticed ie in India that long time exposure severely numbs all your taste buds, so folks end up over-salting, over-sweetening etc. which definitely goes in bad direction re long term health. Or one can accept that non-spicy foods taste very bland, which is rather sad world TBH.

Many ie french are like this, they politely refuse going extreme re chilli, but once you get to fine tastes of that cuisine that would be completely gone you understand them. And join them, even as Indian/curry food lover
I have never seen this 'locked down' advertising, care to share an example?
AirDrop to everyone seems like a great idea until your teenager gets airdropped genital pics on an airplane [0].

0. https://jezebel.com/passengers-keep-airdropping-nudes-and-ai...
> Being “competitive” for a couple years is typically not the goal of founders or investors.

Crypto actually seems like a perfect field to pursue this strategy. Make outrageous promises, find customers willing to believe that ("crypto is different"), cash out.
FFmpeg has the longest man page in existence by far.
Good points! Especially

> I can't remember a single app that I have discovered on the AppStore.

Does fairly well suggest that the store itself is not implementing censorship. Again, I don't want to sound like I disagree. Just wanted to pick your brain a bit more.

(I guess Apple could be involved with censorship efforts to prevent news from getting out about a ban, but that's obviously harder to do when the information is disseminated outside their store. The kind of censorship I suggested is much more of a state-level actor concern.)
It's still "File -> Save a Copy" (2 clicks) and I'm on an October build that's as new as it gets externally as far as I know: 2210 Build 16.0.15726.20188.

The overlap of "users still using Microsoft Office" and "users using local storage" declines with each passing day. IT admins don't want data outside their retention policy/access logging/subject to user hardware failure, and anyone who thinks cloud storage is a malicious big tech plot left the Microsoft ecosystem years ago.
Our family had a 2004 camry(kinda) that went 160k miles on ZERO maintenance. Of course, once I took over it, it took about $3500 but it would have gone another 50k miles (and still is under a new owner) no problem.

Your average mid market car doesn't cost that much to maintain, unless you buy a CVT vehicle out of warranty, or are truly terrible on your vehicle somehow.
still using my galaxy s7 edge from 2016. Cracked screen but still working fine. Had to replace the battery once for it to just feel brand new again.
I love those additional details and always watch with subtitles. Often enough the subtitles provide additional information about something left otherwise ambiguous or undefined. Names of characters are a common one, but in horror/mystery you can narrow down the plot or supernatural mechanics.

I don't remember specific moments from Cabinet of Curiosities but 1899 definitely had some subtitle details that narrowed the plot possibilities.
Can you explain what you are referring to? What has contrasting the military capabilities of Germany and Israel have to do with the subject of the article?
Actually, to be honest, I don't know if I regret building it, really. Sometimes I find it comical that it has been such an enormous distraction, but it's also been very educational and rewarding, and probably much more of a success than my writing would ever have been.

I do regret not managing my time more effectively. I wish I had dedicated more of my time to writing. But in truth, I probably used bug-fixing as an "out" when I had writers block, or was unhappy with what I was working on. Because of that I improved my coding skills, but my writing skill stagnated, and even regressed a little.
The other definition I've seen is "a substance that changes how the body functions" which I think is a bit easier to categorize.
It's shorthand for "a possibly unnecessary/overpowered/arbitrary middleman that handles money on behalf of other people and organizations."

This is pretty well established, almost to the point that it doesn't need to be said.
> A fork implies 2 diverging lines. Nobody's hand was forced in the ether versus ether classic fork.

The two diverging lines were very much unequal.

> Tether is centralized and a scam (and arguably a scam because it is centralized) and irrelevant to the discussion.

Arguing Tether is irrelevant to the crypto space is absurd. (I agree it's a scam. That's a major problem for the whole ecosystem.)

> And cryptography can be made a crime as well.

Correct. You can censor cryptography. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
Meta just got a 265 million euro fine because their stuff was too open and people/companies scraped the data of 533 million users.

Best way to stop people from scraping (and getting fines) is to require an account.
If this is real, “methinks he doth protest too much”. Workers aren’t cogs in a machine, and somebody taking the time to write this much screed seems to think that they are. And if it’s only aimed at a single worker talking about a union, it’s way too much. If, however, it resulted in a union forming, there must have been some worker frustration to tap into.
> But at least in the open source model you can rely on yourself, and you can still incorporate any upstream improvements that do come along.

Here comes the issue, what if it can't get incorporated upstream? You end up with your own custom fork. With third-party corporate code, you can nearly always pay for them to add a feature. Very rarely will a company say there is no price high enough for them to add a feature. This is so common that the pricing is pretty much standardised, nearly every company I've worked for when adding features for customers charge the same 1 thousand euros per developer day of work.

Source available via BSL still allows for the modification of the code to customise it. So that benefit is still there.

> In my view, if you are releasing software as open source then it should have "paid for itself" in some way. Perhaps it was internal software that is used at your company, or perhaps it was written to scratch your own itch. In either case, the work is done and the cost is paid, and you are just sharing it because there's no added cost to you and maybe someone else will benefit from having the source code.

The real cost of software is maintaince. Updating it to keep it working with newer versions of x,y,z. etc.

> As a final note, it's not just the goodwill of open source maintainers that we are relying on - we also depend upon their desire for status. Being a maintainer of a popular open source project is high status, and something many people covet. That's why many maintainers will put in so much uncompensated time and put up with demanding users: they want the status that comes with having an "important" open source project. Smart maintainers will either learn how to profit from that status or learn how to tell demanding users (politely) to "fork off".

Not all projects are considered popular even though they're widely used. You may end up using a very rare but very important library to do something that not many people are doing. Not everything is sexy, especially when it comes to libraries you need for work.
I guess I'd be pretty upset if I bought hardware and then had to pay a subscription for planned functionality too. I suck at playing things off as funny when I feel like I'm being targeted by mockery by people I don't know very well
Autonomy, packet size, friction, fanout, and velocity
Hide/flag and move on. Your comments carry no weight in this regard, and are likely to get you banned.
Talk to any business and they will tell you that they don't want to pay %3 to visa or any other credit card. Having a ledger of transactions is how any currency works, it isn't the problem being solved.

Being able to use money electronically without a 3rd party is something that wasn't possible before. Anyone wanting to cut a credit card out of their deal or choose a currency other than their what their country mandates can now do that.
> Lab grown meat will have the same problem assuming the cells have little to no genetic diversity.

I know it isn't on quite the same scale as literally cloning the cells, but livestock isn't a very deep gene pool. Lots of selective breeding, by the same mindset that gave european nobility weak chins.
Context:

Sii is Polish software company that outsources it's developers to customers to develop software solutions. CEO of this company is Gregoire Nitot, Frenchman.

Recently few employees at Sii have bunched together and founded workers union at Sii, which has reported to the CEO who reacted with an e-mail.

Employe who started union at Sii has been fired. This is a breach of Polish constitution which guarantees employees right to unionization at their workplace and protects members of unions from being fired in retaliation.
> “I don't add spice to my chili, since I know some people don't like that.”

Give them an ole "he who controls the spice, controls the universe!!"
I think I see where you are coming from, but I don't think that's the argument being made.

Forcing everyone to use a decentralised system where anything goes "wild west" style is probably a terrible idea.

I don't think that is what is being argued.

What is being argued is the right to use a decentralised system over a centralised walled-garden, if you so wish.

I'd rather my mum used a walled garden where the apps are (probably) safer and much less scammy.
> There is nothing stopping Apple from making the same device, but giving you the keys to install your own software on it

You... don't think you can install your own software on MacOS?
I have never seen such a strong argument for an end to limited liability before. Dozens of investors funded and enabled FTXs fraud. Their level of incompetence, both to their own investors and to the public in general is astounding. Now they fraud they enabled and cheered on is destroying other peoples savings and businesses.

They asked for some basic info on FTXs internal controls and were told to piss off. They asked for some oversight power and we're refused. Then they choose to invest anyway and help this fraud grow. To me, this is like reloading the gun of an armed robber during the robbery.

"He seemed like a nice guy" isn't going to cut it here morally even if they're legally in the clear.
Destroying money doesn't destroy capital. It doesn't matter who created it. Money is not capital. You're mistaking a claim on a good for the good itself. These are completely different things.
The fact is that Google left China 12 years ago and never returned. They gave up on the search ad revenue in the world's second largest economy. They gave up on the app store revenue in the world's largest smartphone market. That's a hell of a thing for a big company to do as a matter of principle. Some exec tried to run a project to re-enter China with search, and the project was axed the moment it became widely known in the company.

All through that time Tim Cook hasn't just been betting on China for manufacturing, but are addicted to the Chinese revenue. Apple is being held over the barrel by the CCP, both sides know it, and Apple are not doing anything to wean themselves off. As a result, Apple gives user data to Chinese authorities on requests thousands of times per year, and accept the vast majority of data requests [0]. In comparison, Google has given data on 2 accounts in the last decade. [1]

Isn't it pretty obvious that we'd like more companies to behave like Google in this situation, and no companies to act like Apple? Why are you trying to tear down the company that's done the right thing in this situation?

[0] https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/cn.html

[1] https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview?hl=...
Interesting! I was looking into the starkvind and didn’t know it exposes the metrics via zigbee.

I do wonder where to place it. Middle of the room seems best. Would it be useful to mount it on the ceiling?
True, but it seems it is still another example of cat and mouse game ( for example, unRaid seems to be able to run Win11 with TPM ). I am not suggesting that the issue you raise is unfounded, but at least for now as many people are working to make it a reality as ones, who do not.

[1]https://forums.unraid.net/topic/113817-virtualizing-windows-...

edit: adding missing not
> making devices my 80+ year old mother can safely and easily use

only today, I was talking to a lady walking her dog, who's close to 80 (I don't ask her that), and she owns an iPhone. When my phone started talking, she commiserated that she's always getting woken up because the phone is making noise and she can't make it stop. I told her to keep it in another room like I do.

I have Android, but if I look it up : https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208353

apparently there IS a way. Either it doesn't work, or she doesn't know about it.