skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It’s impossible to finish a transition when the old version has no end of life in sight.

The end of life is gonna happen when ipv4 addresses end up being cost prohibitive. They are already some $50 an ip address.

That is gonna be cost prohibitive in developing Countries, who already are making a transition to ipv6.
Many dynamic languages (e.g. Python, Clojure) do some variation of promoting numbers to larger types, usually not in small increments (keeping track of how many bits the number is probably adds an unreasonable overhead) but in large increments and ultimately promoting to an arbitrary precision int, a rational, or a BigDecimal. The people I know who are messing around with 5-bit ints and other irregular types are doing it with FPGAs where it unambiguously saves resources as opposed to costing them.
Not OP, but the idea of trusting Plaid to safely store the username and password to my bank account (ie, one of the most sensitive online accounts that I have) seems too risky to tolerate.

I also suspect it’s a violation of my bank’s terms of service, and in event of a data breach I’d be out of luck
Car drivers should just learn to watch out for cyclists (not happening in London for sure), and cyclists shouldn't skip red lights or listen to music while cycling. And a small group should stop acting like Regent Park's is a race track
One classic example is this

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/...

And the fact that it's US sponsored media targeted against an ideological enemy
I'm going to assume that iCloud E2EE won't be available in China.
> Apple took away too much of the user's control;

Apple couldn't take away what it never gave in the first place. Anyone using an IOS device should have a basic understanding that Apple highly integrates their devices, OSes and services.
Wow, so it's branching and PITR combined! Seems like a powerful combination of features. PITR is limited to 7 days during the preview.
If it's just "The IT guy", then IPv6 will work out of the box for outgoing traffic and will block all incoming traffic. This is why almost half of the USA is using IPv6 right now, it's just turned on by default.

Hosting stuff is harder, but it's also that different. Theoretically, you can NAT IPv6 traffic to an IPv4 server inside your network no problem, but it's a pain and nobody really needs it anyway, so it's not widely used.
Visual Studio Code November 2022
More interesting than its support of Btrfs features is its unusual statistical approach:

> btdu is a sampling disk usage profiler […] Pick a random point on the disk then find what is located at that point […] btdu starts showing results instantly. Though wildly inaccurate at first, they become progressively more accurate the longer btdu is allowed to run.
I've worked at a company which ran a looot of ads on fb and it was definitely this granular, it was an eye opener for me
>BASIC is a terrible language, but there were few alternatives back then.

Ah, but where are all the stories from people who were inspired into programming by using Java?

I was wondering about Markus Persson (aka Notch) who wrote Minecraft in Java, but: "Persson started programming at the age of seven, using his father's Commodore 128"
It's annoying when Americans say "full stop" after something they think was powerful or something. It's like dude, just say "period", please.
I only joined HN a couple years ago (I've been working in tech for 12 years). I also find HN to be a bit depressing and pessimistic.

It's like there is some sort of "I tried that and it didn't work, so no one should ever try it again and if you do I'll warn you and then ridicule you for wasting your time" attitude that permeates all of some people's contributions to the discussion. This attitude isn't just at the individual level but also at the team, company, societal levels.

This doesn't feel like a hacker mindset to me at all. It feels increasing defeatist.

While I can't point to HN glory days (I wasn't here), I imagine that HN is devolving from hacker news to defeatist expert news.

But maybe it's society as a whole? I don't know...

What I can say is that the real hackers (eg builders, not speculators) in the web3 communities seem to be more optimistic than the average interaction I see here.
Completely agreed. The statement "that function is wrong because it could overflow" is putting one potential edge case on a pedestal while ignoring all other considerations for why you might prefer one alternative over another. The vast majority of the code in most business applications can perform straight arithmetic on 64-bit ints without worrying too much about overflow -- you just never encounter numbers like 2^63, and only rarely encounter numbers that wouldn't fit in a 32-bit signed integer.

When you write a bit of code, you naturally have in mind the realistic range of values you'll be working with. Even if it's just within 4 orders of magnitude. You know whether you're dealing with thousands or quadrillions. In the extremely rare case it's the latter, then you start worrying about this. You just can't worry about being 10 orders of magnitude off in your assumptions all the time -- that's what Exceptions are for. Holy crap, this software is dealing with values ten orders of magnitude different than you programmed for!? Absolutely throw an exception in that case, because it requires a complete rewrite of that area of the code.

Yes, if you're writing midpoint in a language-standard math library, it should work for all possible inputs. But the point of looking at toy problems in software engineering blogs is to inform us how to write our much more complicated, much more domain-specific code, and these lessons just don't cleanly transfer into that world.
You can send the data through a different medium to improve latency which satellite optical links could help with.
Yes, but then I need to enter a custom alphanumeric password every time I unlock my phone or tablet.

I want to be asked for it if and only if I grant a new device access to my end-to-end encrypted iCloud data.

I don't think this is an absurd demand. WhatsApp supports this security model, for example. Evem Apple used to, before they forced every iCloud keychain user to switch to their HSM-based model!
> More lies.

So not a lie, but thank you for new information. Don't worry mining in general, but copper in particular, is an environmental nightmare too. [1] Copper mining can actually contaminate groundwater with uranium and thorium. I believe this came up in an Odd Lots episode on the copper market recently.

> Where are the rare earths?

In every other turbine?

> It's made of sand with traces of silver and lead all encased in glass.

Don't worry we're running out of the sand to make glass too, and it's also an environmental nightmare. [2]

Basically any extractive industry is. That's why we have to do a bunch of different things, each according to what they're good at, and weigh the pros and cons.

That's why I'm in favor of solar, wind and nuclear, in spite of the fact each has their own drawbacks.

> And there and an order of magnitude less of it than the uranium leaching fluid that gets left in unsealed dams in kadapa, or dams with no flood mitigation in Husab, or pumped directly into the ground water in Inkai or Kakadu.

[citation needed].

> With your sea mining scifi you know you need to make 1-2kg of polymer and put it in the ocean for 6 months per MWh all to get around the same amount of energy per unit of water as lifting it 70 metres, right?

It's not my sea mining, I was responding to your false statement that we're anywhere close to running out of uranium. There's plenty on shore for hundreds of years, and by then I'm sure we'll have a perfectly reasonable solution to the problem, either removing it from the sea, or moving to breeder reactors, or the thorium cycle. Put on your problem solving hat my friend.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/09/copper-minin...

[2] https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a398808...
> Again show me where ARM is preventing folks from licensing it? It’s antithetical to the whole of the company.

ARM is a proprietary ISA. To use it, you have to pay ARM money. It's literally their entire business model, I'm not sure how you could miss it.

> so in that light they the Asahi devs took it upon themselves to reverse engineer hardware that they knew would not be opened

Yep. It's a damn shame too, that's what everyone is saying in this thread. Apple has billions of dollars and they're letting volunteers do their work for them. It's a depressing waste of human effort, considering how Apple has the proper implementation specs available internally. It's undeniable that Asahi's development pace would be faster if they had rudimentary help from Apple engineers.

> Think where they could get if they could get proper firmware. And you can get that on the Apple side.

That's also a false-flag since Apple's firmware interface is undocumented. Plus it's also fairly outdated because Nvidia's GPUs have been shipping with firmware interfaces for years (since RTX 20-series). Think where they could get if they had open source kernel modules. And you can have that, on any recent Nvidia card.

> Awesome smart folks are working to open a platform that would be closed. And yet they get shit on.

They get shit on because they're wasting their time. It's been 2 years and you still can't adjust the brightness on these machines, not because they're incapable of it but because Apple never documented the control interface for each model. Apple has this info, they just withhold it from the community because of how horribly sensitive it is. Real security issue, yunno.

It's really tragic to consider all the engineering hours lost trying to figure out how Apple's hardware works. It's been 2 years since the M1 was released and it still doesn't have the same level of Linux support as a HP or Lenovo machine would have on Day-1.

> I just don’t understand what people want

A Macbook with Linux on it? Preferably one that doesn't suck.

> Nobody is porting Linux to arm surface hardware because it sucks in comparison.

And nobody ported Linux to the previous Macbooks because they also sucked. It's entirely besides the point, though.
This is the same process that I follow. I think the best developers I've met are constantly going through this iterative approach as they code, instead of leaving it to come back to. Besides not having the time once a manager sees a working model, I think this makes you a better developer and allows you to focus on the problem more clearly with a "clean" initial solution.
Shorter Apple: we are abandoning CSAM but making API available for nation-state that wants to enforce it.

Well, there ye go: it is still "private" as ever can be.
I see. Thanks. It's really 30-40k because the 4 months' severance includes the regular pay during the 60 day exit window.

The potential is obvious: get something off the ground in 2 months. Do you know what someone mostly new to founding a startup should do to start?

I've got ideas, I've got potential cofounders, and I can prototype MVPs, but I don't understand the landscape beyond what I remember from How To Start a Startup. So I'm just probing for any pointers you might have cause I think I'm going to actually do this.
These ads intentionally identify the parameters but the point they’re making is that you can show these extremely targeted ads and put a lucrative offer that requires entering email/name/phone and voila you’d have unmasked the user.
Warren Toomey (TUHS.org creator) is winner of USENIX lifetime achievement award
Like when they started recording what programs you launch on your Mac, sent to them in cleartext? Or when they force you to have an account with them to install apps from the official sources (and of course the unofficial ones are absolutely atrocious).

Apple are better on the privacy front than their competitors, but not by that much.
The reason I'm not that worried about ChatGPT taking my job
I think there's a shared responsibility here by both employer and employee to ensure long term employment. This is not to negate your points, because I think your points are definitely valid and the company going full-steam ahead is absolutely reckless.

Having been laid off a couple of times during the great recession era, I never ever take a job without first analyzing the likelihood of a layoff to occur and how it would impact my role. I have a list of interview questions I ask potential employers and the bulk of it is around how they handled lay-offs in the past and how they will handle them in the future. I ask about cash reserves for such situations and I ask about how they handle growth. Asking these things will give you some idea of the shit show that will appear sooner or later.

You're right; market conditions are unpredictable and there's so much speculation that it's difficult to gauge where things will go in 2-5 years, so you should always plan for an economic down-turn scenario regardless of how rosy things look at the time of employment.

All of that being said, this is still a relatively solid lay-off plan and I think the bashing is a bit on the harsh side considering the outcome here. Nowhere is safe right now and if you think it is, you're going to have a bad time.
As someone who went to udel for undergrad and worked with engineers on the Parker Solar probe, I love this.
That really depends on where you live. Every ISP I've ever had has fit this bill.

I know IPv4 availability in developing countries is a problem and there's no fix for that other than "wait until IPv6 is available", but in those countries IPv6 is actually part of the solution to not have to rely on "communal" IPv4 CG-NAT.
The fact anyone should think this is somehow acceptable state of art is obscene to me.
Sounds like I should use my session for multiple unrelated activities while using Tor, to cover only for one of them (before changing my fingerprint)
Seems weird to put them in a .txt file and not as named #define in a header. Oh young Linus...
> If I'm a shareholder of a company that builds office blocks, I'll be demanding dividends and a return on my investment.

Sorry I'm not following the point here. Can you elaborate?

> Unless the customer (e.g. Apple and their giant do(ugh)nut) specifically ask for something that isn't structurally significant, a construction firm isn't going to add it.

That's my point. There isn't any competition in the marketplace or any options for customers.

There are roughly 0 firms today that offer everyday people the ability to live in any new construction that isn't an asymmetrical suburban house built in a car-only development. A few have popped up, granted, but these are a tiny fraction of a fraction of new development in America at least.
Congrats on the release!

Were there any organizational or policy changes after the "9 month grind" [0] tweet? Or is this still the policy of the bun/oven org?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32584211
I wish there was one button way to opt out of behaviorally addicting features. Maybe next big regulation comming from EU.
You don't need (outdated) FOIA documents for that... Go to https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors/ and you will see that they get money from the US government, if you want to know more about how much, go check the IRS 990 forms [1] or check the blog post that explains the 990, it also gives clear percentages on how much comes from where, [2]

[1] https://www.torproject.org/about/reports/
[2] https://blog.torproject.org/transparency-openness-and-our-20...
Massachusetts strongly dislikes you and wants you to know you should go away. It's built into architecture across the state.
Seeing as context is conspicuously missing, all cloud services offered by foreign business in China a required to be hosted and controlled by state owned providers. For instance, China has a separate Microsoft 365/Azure region hosted and controlled by 21Vianet. Apple still controls the encryption keys and there is no evidence that they have handed them over to the CCP, but it is largely assumed. Federighi has said that Apple will offer EE2E in China.
Haha, I didn't even notice. I should clean my glasses!
I think I first saw this argument on freakanomics, but there's a real debate in economic circles about things like helmets and whether or not they have are a net benefit regulation. Requiring helmets will have a negative impact on bicycle riding, at least theoretically, since it adds friction. Bicycle riding is generally considered a healthy form of exercise, and is generally considered as having a positive effect on long term health. So then the question is, is the friction causing lower long term health greater than the general health benefits of people wearing helmets who wouldn't otherwise. And related, do helmets actually save lives in the long run. I'm not sure this is an easy question to answer. I can certainly see requiring helmets as being an obvious thing to point at for lawmakers since first order effects of saving lives is fairly easy data to come across.
Namecheap

https://www.dmarcanalyzer.com/dmarc/dmarc-record-setup-guide...
"Just FYI that HN is very anti-tor..." @deadfromtor

Citations please?

Otherwise this is horseshit. Many of HN's users signed up and access HN from tor.

I /often/ utilize the tor browser to access HN. I've not had a single issue /ever/ with that.
What? I sync to Google for instance and iCloud, and use Azure as well.
iPhone launched with local syncing 3 years before iCloud.
In period fiction, I have seen a few times a father or other older male taking someone to a prostitute to lose their virginity. Common enough that it can't come from nowhere. Sometimes they watch. It is almost always shown as traumatic.

The buggery angle is also viable.
That's pretty much what GitHub Sponsors is.
@levelsio famously runs a dozen websites all backed by SQLite, with 200M reqs / month: https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1520356430800617472

Expensify got 4 million request _per second_ out of a custom SQLite-based setup (on a huge machine, but still): https://blog.expensify.com/2018/01/08/scaling-sqlite-to-4m-q...

I would call those serious production apps.
But these financial incentives depend on whether algorithmic improvements will be enough to make do without them.
How wide is the beam? (given how far it started) Light-years?

Is it still dangerous at this point? (If its energy is spread over a giant area radius billions light-years)
Tcl. In tclsh:

% expr 1 + 9223372036854775807
9223372036854775808
% expr 9223372036854775808 + 1
9223372036854775809
Actually Fleming became famous too, but most of it was posthumously. Maybe one should ask oneself what one wants to achieve first.
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Most of Earth: “The MSM is biased.”
Wikipedia: “Cite MSM source to confirm this claim.”

Wikipedia has a non-trivial left-wing bias.

@jimmy_wales, what are your thoughts?"
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1600200000763756544?t=BN...
I was rather dissuaded from trying to keep it working on any of my servers when, after much head-scratching and wrangling, I eventually traced a bunch of weird network issues on my desktop system to IPv6. Seems that any web requests to sites that supported v6 natively were randomly flaky and slow, causing terrible video streaming performance. Only fixed when I shut off v6 at the network adapter level.

Guess I'll try and turn it back on in a year or two and see if it's still terrible. If it's not, maybe I'll think about turning it on for some of my servers again.
I can trivially remember a bunch of ipv4 addressed, and recognize them at a glance (”oh that’s just our office vpn endpoint, that traffic is benign”). No hope of that with ipv6.
It's good to be passionate, but blind devotion is dangerous, especially since we already know by now Apple is positioning itself to become a major player in the advertising space and - with a dwindling economy and an increased pressure to sustained growth from shareholders - that's going to continuously encroach on our privacy guarantees for monetization purposes.

I'm advocating for an open and interoperable ecosystem of operating systems, services and applications, which is the only way to ensure sustainable customer freedom. Unfortunately that ecosystem doesn't exist yet so we're stuck with the duopoly of evil-doers (and while Google openly admits it is their business model to monetize you and your data, Apple has been caught with their hands in the cookie jar a bunch of times already and they're just developing a sweet tooth, so...).

Full disclosure: I've been using only iPhones for 12 years and am still using one today.
> ponder your life choices that led to that situation.

I always remember that VMware vCenter appliance didn't come with a working logrotate config for years and feel better.
I am not sure why I have simplified your task in my previous post. It seems you’ve agreed that pronouns exist to make me comfortable when you are speaking about me. Actually they exist to provide you some linguistic comfort when speaking about me. But if you are willing to do some extra work to provide me some imaginary comfort that I do not actually need - who am to stop you?

So, the actual table of my pronouns looks like this:

И (who?) он

Р (whose?) его, него

Д (to whom?) ему, нему

В (whom to blame?) его, него

Т (by whom?) им, ним

П (about whom?) нём

There are 2 phonetical variants of some pronouns. In order to decide which one to use you should translate your sentence into Russian, check phonetical surroundings and use the proper phonetical variant of the proper grammar form of the pronoun.

So: Give it to ему. But: Go to нему.

If people will refuse to do this work of mental translation to Russian and back for my pleasure - do you think we should regulate it and enforce by law?
> Competition is lacking because Intel fucked up.

And now it's Apple's turn to fuck up. The M2 isn't even 20% faster than the M1, it's like a Skylake situation all over again.

> Apple bet big on power sipping performance and it’s paid off.

Apple bet big on the 5nm node (bought the exclusive rights to use it) and it paid off. Your marketing copywriting doesn't mean anything if you don't back it up with evidence.

> They’re different business models. Surely you see that?

They both make hardware. Shouldn't they both get held to the same standards, to encourage healthy competition? They certainly have the financial means to do it.

I think your technical perspective on this situation is horribly maligned, you should spend more time researching the technologies Apple used rather than repeating the words from their announcement event.
I’m not sure if you’re aware, but there are anti-encryption legislative proposals in the EU which are as ill-informed and scary as anything I’ve heard of in Mainland China. It’s very unclear to me if motives matter in this case.
Might be way cheaper to spring for an extra IP address from your ISP.
U.S. SEC to vote on proposals that could overhaul Wall Street trading
> Maybe temporarily until people realize that under most circumstances, helmet use is no more troubling

You might think so, especially if you are someone who is comfortable wearing a bicycle helmet; but in practice, sensible or not, helmet mandates do have a long-term impact on ridership rates.

In Seattle, where I live, the county board of health recently repealed the helmet law, because thirty years of experience showed that it did more harm than good.

As an individual, you should of course choose to improve your safety by wearing a helmet; as a society, however, safety in numbers has much more of an effect than helmet-wearing behavior, and the safest policy choices are therefore those which eliminate barriers and encourage the greatest number of people to ride bicycles, as often as possible.
Stanford has pretty generous financial aid for those that need it:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/19/stanford-is-no-1-on-our-list...
BlackRock chief Larry Fink pressured to resign over ESG ‘hypocrisy’