skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe the main issue is knowing whether you are going to have to move soon. The main issue is buying a house and then shortly thereafter being laid off/fired/company went under/etc" but with jobs available from somewhere not close enough for the current house location to be viable. If its a couple years or so and house prices go up, its not too harsh of a financial impact to sell and move. If houses are falling, moving for job opportunities are that much less amenable.
Musk Shakes Up Twitter’s Legal Team as He Looks to Cut More Costs
was buying beer once for a party, and a crate of 12 pint bottles was ringing up for the price of a single bottle. so I bought 4 crates. we drank well that weekend
You could communicate as much without the last insulting sentence delivered for no particular purpose. It elevates the discussion and keeps you from ending up banned.
Am i going to be able to have addons in firefox?
This is exactly what I've been hoping for after a week of pairing with chatGPT. The LLM is a powerful source of recommendations, but too much gets lost in translation between browsing/context and the chat UX. Excited to try this!
The issue is that Google's charging for any domain at $850 dollars. It's absurd.
> it's not like Twitter can afford to be picky about where it makes money.

Being picky about where you make your money is absolutely essential for most businesses. Every dollar in revenue costs some amount of money to generate, and choosing the right market segments to invest that money in is a foundational part of a business plan.
Indeed. I used to look down on the balloon framing + drywall construction used in the US. Until I bought a house in an earthquake zone and learned that my preferred building techniques involving brick and mortar would be completely unsafe. Then I thought about cold climate energy efficiency, and my way was pretty much terrible and once again inadequate.

Understanding the requirements made me develop a lot of respect for balloon framing.
It's now being discussed here:

The United States of America vs. Samuel Bankman-Fried Indictment [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33969896

I suppose we could merge these threads since it's not as if they're partitioned along the lines of "this thread for the civil complaint, that one for the criminal charges".
IMO:

- Inability to play politics for longer than 2hrs, let alone months,

- Self-selection, skilled people go to startups, and people who can maintain interest despite tons of paperwork to fill in, go to large companies (sometimes they’re as skilled, but it’s not the most important, 80% as skilled and able to run through processes is better).
We're strongman-ing two sides of the same coin. They're arguing that the free market will solve this, whereas I'm arguing that proactive measures are required. Apple's business is designed so that it cannot be disrupted without forcing them to abide by a common set of rules. By leaving those rules undefined, we have clearly not encouraged innovation or disruption. Our only option is to define our consumer rights that we should have instated a long time ago.
Unnamed Company could be Danske Bank as penalties were announced today and the amount of the figure is in line with the fines.

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-220
I've come to the conclusion that hackernews is mostly programmers and not sysadmins. This crowd is just not that savvy with these types of things. I could be wrong, but that's the vibe I get. There's always a ton of bad information when infosec comes up.
The goal of HN is not “win argument” but curious debate. You know what I meant.
3 tech interviews, lunch with team or other colleague, followed by general corporate HR interview and a "sell" session all fit neatly into a single business day.
What I mean is, this is the sort of issue that industry, politicians and special interest groups like to focus on, because it is easy to argue about and build an emotional case for and developing solutions won't change much about the status quo of the horrific conditions of mass poultry farming.

I agree with you, we need to totally rethink and replace the food system. I also think that the result of solving this particular issue won't reduce the aggregate suffering in the system - if, for example, the total number of chickens produced is half of before, but all chicks are ensured to be hens, then the chickens in aggregate will suffer proportionally more (in total days of suffering per chicken hatched) than if there was an even split of males and females being hatched - but it will provide something for the industry to point to as "improving" while nothing fundamentally changes. And eggs will probably become cheaper and people will eat more of them.
> Apple did decide to comply with the USB-C law

And we must recognise this as a case of a State (or in this case the EU) making a market better (by enforcing interop with a USB-C) standard. And playing a hugely positive role.

> expect apple would be willing to spend enough money lobbying against the law to make sure it never becomes law in a large market.

Is this what you think _should_ happen?

In which market do you expect that to happen, one is large when compared to (checks notes) ... The EU?
“ Twitter has stopped paying rent on offices and is considering not paying severance packages to former employees, among other measures.”

Can anyone speak to the legality of not paying those severance packages?
I agree. This is a Big deal. Like, first-lightbulb big, or polio-vaccine big.

My kids are likely to spend the majority of their lives living a world where energy is clean, cheap, and available to everyone. Climate change is something that is not only going to be stopped, but can be reversed for them. Energy grids can be made to be smaller and mutually supporting, lessening the impacts of disasters. Oil dependency and all the political problems that come with it are going to be gone by the time they are grandparents. Nations like Nigeria and East Timor can have power generation like everyone else. The deserts and oceans and tundra of their lives will be places dotted with little greenhouses and fresh vegetables. If they get this down to the size of a car, then everything opens up for travel and recreation. The only real baseline I have to use here is Star Trek.

Of course, there is a long way to go. There is a lot of work and show-stoppers still out there. And the ideas that I see as their future are just sooooo tiny compared to their reality. I'm thinking of faster horses and they're going to live in a world of supersonic jets. That kind of difference and small thinking of mine.

I'm so happy that, assuming the best with fusion, they are going to live such better lives.
The author fails to connect the dots:

1) Nails were expensive. Timber framing does not require any nails -- it uses dowels which can be made cheaply with a drawknife.

2) Unlike @simonsarris' wood, most wood available to post and beam constructors was not particularly straight. Post and beam is very tolerant of faults in lumber.

3) With post and beam, you don't need to square all four sides of a beam. You can get away with squaring off one(the external one) plus the spots where any corner braces go. If you are hewing with a broad axe and an adze, this is a huge time saver.

4) In rural post and beam construction, the beams do not all need to be the same size. You can use whatever tree you have lying around, as long as it is big enough. This is an advantage, as you can use a local tree and save the extremely laborious trip to the sawmill

So to summarize, you can have a bunch of low-skill farmers harvesting and preparing trees for beams. Then you need a high-skill carpenter to put the mortises in and assemble the whole thing.
You have a tax return to file as a private person, and as a company. I had a limited company in the UK.

No idea if the dividend tax is as low as it used to be. If it is, and you can go on through the fiscal year without claiming a salary, it sure will be cheaper. Assuming that there’s still no upper dividend limit.
Even if semiconductor lasers could put out the power required (they can't...), a 20x improvement would still mean the efficiency is only around 20%, so you'd still be putting in 10 MJ to get out 2 MJ...

Yes, it's better, but the argument still holds
I reckon solar is competitive in the day time without storage or peaker plants to support low generation time. I’d love to see the analysis of solar with the built in assumption of burdening the hourly cost with the infrastructure required to generate the required power at 10pm.
I write web applications for a living and while I LOVE how well-featured the browser APIs are becoming, sometimes I just want an app.

I don't really subscribe to one camp. There's pros and cons to both.
And then everyone realized web apps sucked and demanded that Apple release an SDK, which they did, and the rest is history.
Cool. Glad that works for you. Not everyone can walk. These discussions are always very "me me me" and rarely of much value.
Using language models to generate persuasive essays strikes me as cowardly. Instead of owning the argument and engaging deeply with it, you force readers to spar with a shadow of yourself rather than your own identity. Of course it allows the writer to hide behind “it’s just an AI bro” if anyone complains, but reap real rewards when they don’t.

It’s even worse that the marginal cost of bullshit has dropped to near zero.

> Brandolini's law…postulates that the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than required to produce it.
"I know it when I see it"

Just be aware of whats in your food. I don't look for specific ingredients just learn what the makeup of your food is and decide if you should be eating that. Awareness is 80% of the battle.

Boiled/roasted potatoes are really satiating for their calories. But most people associate potatoes with a lot of fat, like french fries or mashed potatoes which make them very high calorie.

Deep frying anything I think should be a special occasion, you shouldn't be having deep fried food every day or even week, it adds a lot of useless calories. Stir frying is healthier

Seed oils (modern oils like canola, invented in 1974) are suspicious. There is a lot of conspiracy theories out there and not a lot of data, but I try to stay away from it. After all we've been using olive oil for thousands of years, no need to stop.
It is so disgusting to see just limitless amounts of "products" that are made without any shred of care put into them. And it isn't just the cheap garbage infesting everything, even if you pay quite a bit of money the thing you get will still have obvious cut corners. Clearly the engineers are completely capable of better, but making something work more reliable is just the company loosing money on the margin and on spare parts.

I have to say I am very glad that I am not working on consumer products.
Free Over-the-Air TV Is Elevating, Thanks to New Tech
Unsolicited direct inspection of customer content is what’s surprising.

I know we don’t have homeomorphic encryption, but typically policies (requiring explicit user request /
Consent) would be in place even if they can’t be sufficiently enforced with current technology.

The whole thing reminds me of that Azure LinkedIn thing (where someone was contacted on LinkedIn by a Microsoft PM based on their azure activity).
You have it backwards. The fission component is just the "trigger" for the fusion element, which produces the vast majority of the energy release.
https://www.gandi.net/en-US/no-bullshit
Untargeted ads make 50% less than targeted ones.

So you're basically saying the alternative is don't exist for the vast majority of sites, reducing revenue by 50% and surviving is just about impossible for every internet company.

And if they wanted to turn every site into subscription overnight, they could have made this an optional provided header to opt out. Every browser could implement that in days.
Repositories for games are often larger than 1TB, and with things like UE5's Nanite becoming more viable, they're only going to get bigger.
If this is the type and size of bills they aren’t paying it seems fairly clear that they are pretty solidly on the path towards bankruptcy
Hard to say, the Play Store has been fairly lax WRT allowing third-party browser engines, Free Software and emulators. If the floodgates open on iOS, there might be considerable demand for apps that Apple has traditionally tried stopping.
And that's perfectly fine. Niche users and power users deserve to be catered to as well.
What are Mozilla Corporation's and Mozilla Foundation's source of revenue these days? That would give me a better idea of who they are working for.

Also, when they start seriously blocking ads by default (with opt-out), e.g. by doing the equivalent of installing UBO and Privacy Badger; and when they start letting regular extensions run again (not WebExtensions) then we'll talk.

BTW - In case you didn't know, regular extensions can still run just fine within FF. Internally, the UI and the glue code are simply regular extensions. It's basically the support-scaffolding for loading your extensions that's been removed. Or, in other words, they didn't even cripple their browser that much, they basically just decided to stop letting you use extensions.
Because the iOS App Store has much more strict app privacy rules than the Google Play Store
I'm honestly not sure there could be a more unreliable source for this
*five door hatchback.

The hatch is counted as a door.

Also perfect for hooning around British B roads.
Yours is an unhelpful and non-constructive comment. Clearly a lot of people have been getting something out of the content in this post, as it's started several discussions.
>To cut costs, Twitter has not paid rent for its San Francisco headquarters or any of its global offices for weeks... Twitter’s leaders have also discussed the consequences of denying severance payments to thousands of people who have been laid off since the takeover

Cut costs by just not paying money you owe to people. Truly a genius.
As the article mentions:

> It's important to note that registries for country-code TLDs (which is every 2-letter TLD) do not have enforceable registry agreements with ICANN. Instead, they are governed by their respective countries (or similar political entities), which can do as they please. They can sucker you in with a low price and then hold your domain hostage when it gets popular.
I have a 1.96 TB git repo: https://github.com/unqueued/repo.macintoshgarden.org-fileset (It is a mirror of a Macintosh abandoneware site)

git annex info .

Of course, it uses pointer files for the binary blobs that are not going to change much anyway.

And the datalad project has neuro imaging repos that are tens of TB in size.

Consider whether you actually need to track differences in all of your files. Honestly git-annex is one of the most powerful tools I have ever used. You can use git for tracking changes in text, but use a different system for tracking binaries.

I love how satisfying it is to be able to store the index for hundreds of gigs of files on a floppy disk if I wanted.
Looks like Digital Ocean doesn't support NixOS as a Base OS. Seems this just adds that?
The theory was proven to everybody's satisfaction in 1950.

There will be no production, except of new, smaller thermonuclear warheads. That is their legislated remit.
Tapping a button in settings a few times to get dev mode is not cool enough for Apple is it?
Yes, it's against their will. The people dying because the FDA doesn't let them access lifesaving treatments that are available in other countries are not committing suicide. They are dying because doctors and pharmacists would go to prison if they tried to save their lives. We are talking about hundreds of thousands of people who wanted to live and would have lived if they lived elsewhere, or if the FDA did not have the power to stop them from accessing treatment.

I'm sorry for what happened to your sister. As I said earlier, the US health insurance system is extremely dysfunctional. I do however think you are grossly overestimating the effectiveness of contacting members of Congress. They neither have any reason nor any ability to help with the FDA or most other things. I doubt most members of Congress could even do anything (except travel aboard) to save their own life if they needed a drug the FDA had not approved, and they did not qualify under the very limited right-to-try law (that was still a step in the right direction).

Unless you are wealthy enough to compete with the pharmaceutical companies that lobby to maintain the current rules, you can have no real influence over the FDA. You might as well write the insurance company's shareholders, and get the same polite version of "no, we like money" back.
Thanks - we've changed the URL from https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-219 to the actual complaint, which has more information.
Have you tried Windows Terminal? iTerm is very slow for me on M1.
Oh that's awesome, I'll get it from there and flick them a donation :)
I certainly did. Can't say anything bad about it. Although now I don't use it much, I don't use much oil/fat at all.
Honestly, Apple could simply do exactly what they do for macOS now. The two are close enough to a merge at the architectural level that it would not be difficult. macOS is one step away from removing the ability to install unsigned software by default.

If you want to run unsigned software or extensions you will have to boot into a recovery console and change the security model. The warning dialogs will be enough to discourage most use. Things like ApplePay and iCloud may be disabled depending how far you reduce security, but you'll be able to do whatever you want.

I think it be a great solution to have a more uniform solution across all devices and platforms. It would create a boom in the hacker community, while still keeping >99.99% of users running from sealed system snapshots.
It isn't. Your utopia is utterly disconnected from practical realities and is unworkable.
I don’t think administratively destroying wallets on the blockchain is going to add any trust into the system .. quite the opposite.
Are there any practical ideas for ways HN can prevent itself from whipping up giant outrage threads based on something false?
On the contrary, you can sell it at a premium for the service.
Would you buy a car that only goes on Ford^TM approved roads and only takes Ffuel from Ford approved stations? Sorry, you can't drive here. That's a GM road.

No, of course not. We all know that the ability to run on unapproved roads isn't a "feature", but rather the inability to run on an unapproved road is an anti-feature that they built in the first place. For that matter, the inability to run playstation games outside a playstation is also an anti-feature which had to be engineered by Sony. For that matter, do you buy razors that only fit Gillette approved blade designs? So why restrictions on computing devices then?

I will give credit where its due in that Apple is upfront about the nature of the walled garden. Who knows, maybe there really is a market for cars that only go to approved places.
only just remembered this. going back about 20 years. a radio station was having a competition to win $5k. the game was, you had to identify all the song titles hidden in a block of text they read out only once. I worked in a net cafe at the time, so I used one of those digital radio services and recorded the blurb, played it back several times until I got all the answers and fired in the answer using webtext, where I had already pasted in my name and number.

I won the 5k and it bought me my first car.
> He very likely knows more about the law than anyone on here. How could he not?

Lawyers and judges break the law, sometimes intentionally out of arrogance derived from how adeptly they believe they can skirt it because of their knowledge and position.
You could partition your data to 2 parts, and direct your users to whichever service serves their partition of that data. Every database turns out to be just a set of files on disk, but for using SQLite you have to think differently than most databases due to the extreme locality of the data.
My experience matches this.

If there is a native dependency, then moving major node versions or moving to arm can cause difficulties or straddling the python version the gyp build system is based on.

It's worlds easier than trying to insure your C/C++ build environment is prepped properly to build a binary.

Updating libraries is usually not too bad, even across major versions. But that can be a bit of a wormhole trying to get everything squared away and all versions updated. This seems to be particularly true since all major frameworks I've used have gone from snake case deps (framework-module) to @framework/module.
Dude I’m just a guy, I’m not like perfect or anything. I get tired, sleep like crap sometimes, get stressed about money and inflation like everyone else. Sometimes I don’t feel like fighting a whole system with armies of psychologists keeping me a lazy consumer or whatever, so maybe some dinners is something out of a microwave or a can. Condemn me, or whatever, for not being so free willed as others here. I’m just not as enlightened I guess.
I tried out the test domains mentioned in my blog post and Porkbun does a pretty good job disclosing the renewal price, except for the aftermarket domain where the renewal price is not listed. But at least in this case the renewal price is much lower than the initial price. So yeah, Porkbun looks a lot better than some of the other registrars out there.
Expected global suitability of coffee, cashew and avocado due to climate change
Why? There are many other good decentralised solutions on the market
You don't miss choice when you don't need it. If everything you ever wanted to watch was on Netflix, great!

But if something was not there, you were out of luck. Now you have more of a chance, maybe at a greater expense.

Same applies to music.

Apple's App Store is rather notorious for its bans on particular kinds of apps. Not only anything adult-oriented, but also stuff more important for some of us, like a different browser engine, or a programming environment, to say nothing about different payment options without the 30% cut.

Choice is not always easiest to the user, and iOS's original value proposition is that it removes much of the choice and makes things easy, so that they just work™ and include all you may ever need™. Good thing if this apples to you; you just need not make any changes to the way you're already using your iOS device.

(This is unrelated to whether state bodies forcing commercial entities do certain things is a good or a bad thing; as any power tool, it can be used for either, and always remains inherently dangerous.)
I really doubt that Meta will slit their own throats and give more users an excuse to not download or update their apps, by introducing the friction of having to deal with yet another account to manage for another store:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30808926
During Israeli hyperinflation grocery stores had a nice example of picking suitable data representations for write-heavy loads: they would price shelf items in "points", and a big board at the entrance to the store (updated ~daily) carried the current ratio between points and shekels.
I just want to be able to run my own apps without having to re-sign them all the time.