skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree it's still time to be skeptical, but it is interesting.

Now if they can make a terrahertz adder out of this... then I'll consider getting excited
Their "pay later" function is an interest-free loan, so not sure you can call them loan sharks. If you meant that the loans with missed payments get sent to collections and the customers' credit score takes a hit — isn't that how all credit works?
I thought you could root them and install Linux?

But yeah, we need to recycle these phones by making them home servers, etc.
"The first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy
> Microsoft is doing the same thing to the runtime, too. How many different versions of dotnet are there? Which one do you need? Are they interoperable?

Yeah they really made a mess of that a few years ago, but it's sorted out now. As of .NET 5.0 it's just .NET, no more core or framework.
As a firefighter, I can’t imagine trying to get ladders or an aerial into those middle sections, should it be needed.

I hope a diff angle would show easier access.
Or Google could hire humans to do tech support and address these kind of problems directly. But we know that Google's profitability is in part because they have dispensed with the idea that you can phone someone to report a problem and get a fix. But there could be a simpler human solution to this problem rather than a legal or technical one.
Is dollar vpn club still going? They're often sketchy, so focus on price IMHO :-)
This wouldn't be so bad if each version of the framework supported the same features.

What really killed the appeal of C# and windows was my recent experiences with Bluetooth. My job is building what is basically a Bluetooth game controller. The options on windows are the C++ WinRT library, a wrapper around that library in your chosen language, or the UWP libraries (which I suspect are still just WinRT).

I started building a dll to handle the UWP functions so that I could use them from our other infrastructure. But no, a UWP library can only be referenced by a UWP application. The alternative is to run it through IL2CPP, which is where I gave up.

I really enjoy C# as a language, but I'm so goddamn sick of Microsoft that it isn't fun to use anymore.
Spotify, Skype, Minecraft, Battlefield, Ericsson, SAAB

oh and the Linux kernel.

Is your brain broken?
> With Signal, both endpoints are Signal-controlled (yes, the apps are open source, but at least on the App Store and Google Play you can't verify that the open source code is what's shipped).

While I agree with the concern here, is there an alternative mass market model in which software can be distributed in a way that ensures no one but the user controls the device? I mean mass market, so the barrier is that my tech illiterate grandma has to be able to install this with the help of my tech illiterate parents.
Thank you for explaining, I will take this into account for sure.

Could you let me know if my comment would be allowed to stay on the site if I only posted its first part? (and omitted the "left-wing" remark)

Not trying to argue with your decision, just want to change how I write future posts.
> But if it is security theater, how is that compliant with regulations?

I think you are fundamentally misunderstanding what these regulations are. Regs get defined, then someone makes sure that the boxes are checked.

They are not the same thing as (often being orthogonal to) having a strong security posture, that being far too dynamic and technical to encode in regulations.

See https://latacora.micro.blog/2020/03/12/the-soc-starting.html for discussion of SOC2, which should give you an idea of what we are talking about.
>it would be a tremendously stupid financial decision.

Since the value of a dollar decreases over time it is not a stupid financial decision to pay for things with 0% APR loans.
Lots of American cope in this thread.

Read this. This is a Swedish general office worker union. Yes even IT

https://www.unionen.se/in-english/this-is-unionen
It wasn't a "as sprawling of a business as FTX was". It was a shell game.
Why do you think it's a commercial failure?
>Its cashback voucher not bonus voucher it will only refund trading fee.

https://twitter.com/waqassAhmad/status/1604180896256491521
I kept a short list of the times I was disappointed by avr-gcc on my last project (11.1.0 mind you, not the ancient 5.4.0 one maintained by Microchip):

Get highest bits with a right shift: https://godbolt.org/z/nqseMvMh5

- Expected: shift only highest byte of word (3 cycles).

- Actual: all bytes of word are shifted several times (184 cycles, +18B).

Copy low nibble to high nibble in bit field struct: https://godbolt.org/z/x8nrTWPja

- Expected: swap & or byte (4 cycles).

- Actual: mul used to shift left (7 cycles, +6B).

Extract bits 6:11 from an byte array encoding a 16 bit field: https://godbolt.org/z/EPTnbjGeP

- Expected: build result into high byte by shifting bits 6:7 from low byte into high byte using rotate (11 cycles).

- Actual: mul used to shift (16 cycles, +8B), or build result into low byte (13 cycles, +4B).

Unrolled memcpy: https://godbolt.org/z/Yvbr7vT5a

- Expected: memcpy uses `ld X+` followed by `st Z+`. The same is expected here (20 cycles)

- Actual: the compiler doesn't know about that the X register support post increment, creating `adiw`/`sbiw` chains instead (29 cycles, +18B). This is especially bad when the compiler is register starved when writing structs, it makes the program a lot larger than it should be. It's very easy to get a register starve situation: read from a pointer (register Z) to write a struct referred to by a pointer (X register), with both pointers originally stored on the stack (Y register). Oops, the struct uses the X register, every access generates 2x the code it should.
The best way to force right to repair, is customers favouring products with that kind of design at the time of buy.

Doing it by legislation will go in the wrong direction.

The problem is, maybe, most of consumers prioritise other aspects at the time of buying.
> Anything to do with the WPF and the UI just seems way too complicated. I can 100% understand why electron has taken over.

I've found that doing WPF well requires very careful setup of your architecture.

My biggest piece of advice; unless it's a simple CRUD app learn how to use the Dispatcher and pick how you want to handle background work. Especially if you're doing anything like WebSockets/SignalR.

In my case I was on a deadline so I just pulled Akka.Net in and set up an actor to handle outbound and an actor to handle inbound. It made things -so- much easier to reason about, even if it was a bit of a 'bulldozer making a sand-castle' moment. OTOH it did also make the UI much more responsive so I have no regrets.

WPF had some nice points. My first WPF app was actually a simple 'form' that field workers could use to fill out pole survey data. They'd send the files back to us, we could load the data in, finalize/check it... then run some funky flow that saved the screen as an XPF before converting to PDF. the 'fanciest' thing it did was look up a google maps image for a lat/lon and add it in.

But when I tried to convert all of my existing winforms stuff to WPF (Fun tools that used COM to talk to CAD programs) It was a living nightmare and I gave up pretty quick (The winforms stuff worked, it worked well, and at the time WPF had caching issues that caused long cold starts anyway.)

Hopefully Blazor works out. I'm hoping the internal inertia at Microsoft is in that direction (i.e. I think theres rumblings about Office moving to React, but perhaps Blazor would be a better option, I think it would be great for PowerApps.)

But really, Microsoft lost the plot somewhere after VS2010 on Desktop/Productivity building.

Workflow Foundation is a good example. Frankly, it was pretty powerful as far as what it could do, But it was clunky as hell, slow, and the overall API needed a good spit and shine (perhaps an easy way to do things in a more declarative way via code.)

Come and think of it the time after that was when it became obvious Microsoft's lunch was starting to get eaten by Python, Ruby, and JVM ORMs, to say nothing of everything happening on the mobile side and the implications for devshare. (To be clear; I'm a Windows Phone apologist, Ironically the platform had a great focus on app-level privacy and sandboxing compared to competition. But it, like WinUI, stole resources from more 'global' solutions.)

So it got quietly pushed to the side, used by others with the time to build some cool things (SSIS packages are similar in concept and somewhat workable,) and inspired/powered a wave of overpriced low/no code tools.
According to another source, it's a "unusually large amount", not sure if that's true or not, seems really small to me.

Automatic translation via DeepL:

> We are suing Klarna for an unusually large amount of damages. This is due to the fact that the lawsuit concerns a large number of members," says Martin Wästfelt, head of negotiations, in the press release.

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/unionen-stammer-klarna-i-...
We design car and planes just as well with physics.
During high school I explored the steam tunnels under my hometown university and for my moxie I received an indefinite ban from “all property owned, leased, or controlled by the University of _____” and 6 months of probation.

Post 9/11 these are really quite locked down. Back around 2006 it was mostly IR motion sensors so you could army-crawl under a 300 degree steam pipe and become invisible, as long as you were careful not to burn your back. Now with cameras and AI motion detection I’m not sure there’s a way to explore these for long and remain undetected.
Pitt has a couple too, but we keep things offline :-)
Linux has just as much native support for such things as Windows does, if not more.
I knew about accounting for lifetime costs, but accounting for lifetime profits is a new one hahaha.
honestly, i don’t think books app get better since iOS 12, it is always getting worse.
Either starting in iOS14 or 15, if you have multiple devices and all use sort by most recent read, one or few device will lost that order once in a while and sort the library with a bizarre order and lots of old books with wrong reading progress.
It’s not skeuomorphic to books but it does replicate (sort of) what it might look like if a book were printed out a stack on index cards. The shading and the motion is definitely meant to make it feel like a physical object moving.
Ah, more of this bullshit. I think this is about 90% hyperbole.

They asked some kid to stop creating systems that circumvent their licensing deals and he wouldn't do it. Then one of the employees appealed directly, using clumsy reasoning, and then loads of people pretended it was a threat and went on an outrage spree.

So tedious and dumb.
I don’t know the details, but it seems they also provide web shop owners with some sort of service that is better than other payment processors. In Sweden, it seems like every web shop there is uses Klarna for payment processing, even if you pay up front.

Swedish damages are usually very small compared to the astronomical sums you see from the US, but I agree that suing for a million SEK seems barely worth the trouble...
If you believe that you must be using all that corporate paper to smoke something.
“stop worrying and be happy" the advice actually made me quite angry when I received it as I was going through a really rough patch.

Just taking a long time to sink in and internalize, but I think it's spot on. Worrying doesn't help the problems or generate Solutions, it only makes it worse. Everything single thing that I thought I needed to worry about can be better achieved without the anguish. You can still think, plan, and act without doing it from a place of fear and without the negative emotional baggage.
We have a problem here

First implied statement:
1. Has funds to buy FTX

Second implied statement:
2. has funds to send back due to fraud conveyance claw back

Notice the pattern yet as not one implied statement has been stated as a direct statement.

SBF showed the same amount of obfuscation.

Not good folks.
it is quite interesting that it actually has an sdcard slot but doesn't use it as a boot device? Like wtf? With only 128 MB of flash what kind of OS can one even fit on that...

Nothing about this board makes any sense lol.
My strategy is to go for variety.
I do weights one day, cardio other day.
> How does this even work?

Matt Damon tells them.
If there is one sin here it's that Microsoft waited so long to do so while giving it little to no care in the meantime.

AvaloniaUI and Uno have been around for YEARS now, and could have used this announcement earlier to get more inertia behind them.
Oh wow, they have a study! Definitely definitive then, case closed.

More seriously, my wife and I got into an argument about the effects of unions once and this was the best summary I could find: https://www.heritage.org/jobs-and-labor/report/what-unions-d...

(yes it is by the Heritage foundation so their top-line summary probably has some ideological bias but the list of study summaries at the bottom is great) Generally, studies found that unions benefitted the unionized workers at the expense of the most and least skilled workers. And was slightly bad for company investment/earnings long term. But by far my favorite result (and the best study design from the list, imo) was a regression-discontinuity analysis that found no effect of unionization whatsoever:

"Compares companies whose workers voted narrowly for a union with companies whose workers voted narrowly against a union. Since the difference between winning and losing is close to random, this provides an estimate of the causal effect of randomly organizing a given company. Finds that workers who vote to join a union do win certification but that unions have essentially no effect on the firm or the workers. Wages do not rise, and employment and productivity do not fall. Unionized companies are no more likely to go out of business than are non-union firms."

DiNardo, John, and David S. Lee, "Economic Impacts of New Unionization on Private Sector Employers: 1984-2001," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 119, No. 4 (November 2004), pp. 1383-1441.
This is sarcasm I'm assuming?
I heard a political science graduate speak at a very high quality Big Data conference in SF, and what he said in 20 minutes really struck a chord for me..

basically, the ugly, illegal and regressive forces in (politics) will always be present, but by growing participation, and some orderly enforcement of rules, you can "dilute" or out-number the bad actors, with systems that are more efficient, more fair and get better long-term outcomes. On the other hand, when things are tough, when those that cheat knowingly gain an upper-hand, when factional fighting outweighs the orderly participation, then ugly, illegal and regressive forces grow, and are proportionally larger in the results overall.
The Eternal Mystery of a Rich Man's Politics
The systemic issue if failure of public education on basic math and finance.
With a headline of "Police and Thieves" (and having stayed in a hotel which had been blown up by ארגון back when they were the terrorists) I had been expecting some kind of Baptists & Bootlegger dynamics, wherein pseudo-ОГПУ finds themselves reproducing the tactics of pseudo-Охрана.

The droids outside looked from jedi to sith, and from sith to jedi, and from jedi to sith again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
I also fall into this category.

Oculus without facebook would have probably sold me multiple pieces of hardware right now.

With Facebook however, I'll never touch the stuff.
No, i think they are just messing up the devices force using iOS16 they think they can get away with. iPad Pro (2021) get iOS 15.7.2 update.
If they're in such dire straights, how is it $BNB is hanging there? Is Binance defending their own magic bean? What is the cost of doing so?

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BNB-USD/
That's not at all how Darwinism works, because a.) everyone with a similar lack of financial means & education would be liable to make similar mistakes, and b.) Klarna (or anyone else) preying on these people does not reduce the incidence of people who lack means and financial know how (if anything, it increases it).

This is a set of ideas called Social Darwinism, and if you look into it's history, you may not like the company you're keeping, so to speak.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Darwinism
Related ongoing thread:

French accounting firm Mazars is pausing all its work with crypto firms - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34026826 - Dec 2022 (39 comments)
Can't imagine being there in lockdown for months
I have used ClassyShark[1] to get some of that (from F-droid) with pretty good results.

1: https://fossdroid.com/a/classyshark3xodus.html
It also has MCU cores in addition to the application core.

In fact I don't think there's anything stopping you from just running on the larger MCU cores and simply disabling the large core if you really wanted to for some reason.
W3C’s transfer from MIT to non-profit going poorly
It says over one million kroner, so potentially a lot more than that. It’s possible they don’t want to reveal the amount at the moment?
>It’s an effect that’s quite complicated to do. You need to put the page on a 3D cone and render that. I have quite a bit of experience with UI kit animations, but I don’t know how I would do that one.

It's not possible with public UIKit / CoreAnimation APIs. Those only support homogenous linear transformations (i.e. 4x4 matrix). You may try using the private CAMeshTransform API to achieve such an effect: https://ciechanow.ski/mesh-transforms/
Ok then crappy 3dof VR on mobile, of which GearVR was a variety. Bottom line, Facebook/Carmack pushed mobile vr prematurely in order to get the most users possible, but the experience sucked and users lost interest. Meta just made the same mistake with horizon
That's interesting. While that seems to be consistent with other definitions online, in my experience most software developers use the word as a synonym for "fast" or "efficient".
It was more like: if you have to pay for an iPhone over 18 months, you can’t afford it. You are a mess, in six months you won’t be able to pay anymore, and you will end up owing much more than the iPhone costs.
Related ongoing thread:

Binance outflows hit $6B as Mazars halts ‘proof of reserves’ work - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34028921 - Dec 2022 (218 comments)
Less risk yes, but more importantly, for me, more stability. I can still hustle and innovate, but within the context of a full-time job where I can collect a (usually) steady paycheck.

I’m far more motivated by working on cool projects, so the reward for me is just as salient if I build something cool within someone else’s company or my own… I guess, having never done the latter.

But yeah, also tbh, risk is a big factor.
A great monetary crisis is upon us, indeed.

Crypto is going to be a tool of defence for many, especially now that the tide has gone out, and we see who’s swimming naked.

When the petrodollar collapse proceeds, as it must, then we’ll see how this is actually going to play out.
The disclosure isn’t a statement of what Coinbase would want to happen, but rather what a bankruptcy court might do. Bankruptcy law is very pro-debtor. An entity in bankruptcy court is like a Hoover, aggressively sucking any nearby assets into the bankruptcy estate.
> You don't get rewarded for preventing bad things.

A few years ago I saw a promotion announcement e-mail come into my inbox for a colleague who sat a few steps from my desk. It was filled with the usual "did this, did that, made an impact, etc." statements but it also had a large section dedicated to the analysis this employee performed and presented to kill a huge initiative before the organization rolled it out. The initiative was very innovative but it ultimately wouldn't have achieved its goals. It was encouraging to see this in a promotion announcement and indicated to me that some organizations do explicitly reward for preventing bad things.

This was at AWS.
When Windows 95 came, (if I'm not wrong), it had an accompanying HIG book backed by actual research - I think their main inspiration was book pages, but I can't be 100% sure. OK (Confirmation) intentionally was on the left side, far away from accidental click, assuming this is a destructive, irreversible operation. "Cancel/Close" on the other hand, is closer for most users (right side), and it will just close the window.

Making Confirm/Cancel buttons this way makes no sense. I'll assume they added this just because it looks cool, as someone mentioned as well.
That was before

https://www.finder.com/klarna

s.
Interest on late payments. If you don't pay off the balance by the end of your billing month, Klarna starts charging you 19.99% interest on average.
Begging for regulation, like SBF? Officially regulated or not, as an exchange you can still insist on a) have one of the big 4 adivise you on whether you are a bank, a broker or whatever else exists in finance b) define internal controls and processes based on a) and have c) one of the other big 4 properly audit you against b).

SBF even admitted that his insistence on regulation was just a front.
Just beware that there are Signal forks where people do have modifications like being able to ignore delete commands. That's the downside of open source, that people can easily modify programs. This is also why Signal keeps a tight control over their servers. I'm happy that Signal has things open source, I think it is the better option, but I want to point this out because we need to recognize that the problem itself is over-constrained and there are not globally optimal solutions. It then becomes easy to justify several solutions and have us fight and go nowhere because we are arguing with different weighting criteria than the person we're arguing with. Those discussions are fruitless because we're speaking different languages despite being able to understand one another.

And just to be clear, Signal says that they try to reduce the trust on them to as little as possible. Not zero trust/trustless. They sell "low trust" instead.
Reminds me once when we sat down next to a fancy older woman on a flight with our toddler. Could see the lady visibly tense up when she saw us—expecting a screaming monster. Didn't happen. Kid sat in my lap and had charmed the socks off the lady within the first hour and we had a nice chat with her after she warmed up.
I have a practical problem with this post. What’s the problem, is yaml the problem and I should use something else (what), or is the problem that the documentation (the schema) is not detailed enough.
This is a MLM scheme that is dissolving in front of it's members.
Sorry that changed

https://www.finder.com/klarna

Interest on late payments. If you don't pay off the balance by the end of your billing month, Klarna starts charging you 19.99% interest on average.
Sure, but I expect most people's primary threat model isn't that a rogue Facebook employee will access their data and use it to stalk them. It's that Facebook will sell their data to advertisers who will use it to better manipulate them, or to insurance companies who will raise their rates.