skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, being the custodian of funds actually costs money, one should wonder about the motives of the exchanges offering custody for the funds.

There are many banks in europe that will not open accounts for people who just moged there, unless they bring along plenty of money.

This simply means that having your coins on an exchange is the same a forfeiting them unless otherwise proven.

But the crypto exchanges double down on that, they speculate like the banks do, but with zero risk managment and oversight, the biggest accounting firms do not want to offer their services to them.

They have also leveled up their exit strategies, instead of the plain old run away, they run the business while they can extract money and then later they seek legal cover under the umbrella of bankruptcy laws.
It really depends on the size of the org and the team dynamics.

In a small startup with a fairly high degree of trust and emotional safety your CEO is more likely to notice that you prevented damage/loss by saying no.

A large org where so much is lost due to the telefone game, misaligned goals, hierarchy and increased complexity is not an environment where this is (usually) noticed or appreciated.
Sure if you work on something where performance doesn't matter
I'm surprised they are implementing this as it will reduce the ability to do Google Inbox-esque classification of emails for things outside of spam like smart labeling of emails or highlighting important emails, emails prompting an urgent response. It just significantly reduces the amount of NLP processing they can do.
@panick21_ we should get to know each other. I'm in Switzerland too. I'm not an experienced HN writer. Is there a way to exchange our contact details privately here?
As humans we do have built-in hardware for forming informal cliques, so this could be seen as leveraging our built-in strengths (although you have to consciously work against some of the built-in cognitive biases that people have so it might be a risky thing, maybe not worth it).
As Snowden’s revelations illustrate, Big Tech is inherently compromised. Caveat emptor. I shed no tears for Twitter. I know that they are likely constantly moderating not only on the behalf of the federal government, but quite possibly your own local authorities, but also for any business who might have an interest and hold leverage over Twitter. Including individuals as well.

In this milieu, I find all of this alarmism to be misplaced, and thus worth calling out.
As a hippie that lives in the Rocky mountains, why do you assume I do business with large corporations? And I definitely feel let down by Steam's take to continue to provide entertainment for the masses so that they don't have to contemplate what their country is doing. They are the circus in bread and circuses. But yes you are right, I should just be paralyzed from basing my opinion of any company because 'other companies, other countries'. What a productive take that would be.
Totally had your experience as well. I thought that the bridge between XAML and the underlying object model was pretty rad.

There were quite some rough edges, especially surrounding dependency properties. Those had way too much boilerplate. Also their hip new event system needed some fine tuning too.
> But it genuinely was a feature that made me choose to buy e-books on Apple’s platform instead of anyone else’s — and given how same-y most book stores and reading apps are in the broad strokes, it really is the details that get you locked into an ecosystem.

Although I've used Macs for decades and iPhones since day one, I typically purchase ebooks on third-party platforms. If I buy an Android tablet, a non-Apple computer, or some other device that hasn't been invented yet, I don't want to be locked out of my prior purchases.
I wish they would tone down and or remove all skeuomorphic and animations across all of macOS iOS and iPadOS. They are distracting to me and I usually turn them off in the accessibility settings.
I only have one child (3.5 years old), but with my own experience as well as what I’ve talked to many people about, Dads basically spend the first 2 years loving their child but primarily supporting Mom, because the kid is so dependent on mom (literally physically for a period of time too).

Once you get to 2+ and language starts developing, your bond with the kid will skyrocket. Come up with good ideas for adventures with them and they’ll love you the way you’re hoping they will.
Think by writing. Someone on HN said this and recommended “How to take smart notes”, which I furiously read through and applied to my life.

That commenter said it and I’m gonna say it too: I’ve been able to think much more deeply, thoroughly, and most importantly much further along than my old self before doing this (and even further than my coworkers in ways that has already paid off).

One day I really went off on it and wrote out my thoughts for 4 hours on some important technical ideas I’ve been ruminating on. Not in one big doc, either, but using Obsidian to connect my ideas to each other. I used those ideas to knock out a massive technical problem we were having at work with half a day’s effort. Found a quick win swimming around in my head.

It’s been a game changer.

Edit: I found the original comment!! Read it, there’s two other books there that have supercharged my life. Probably the most influential comment I’ve read on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33594264
Does it evaporate?
I read it as a mid-tier accounting firm selling their seal of approval to raise income on sketchy accounts. That's not really news (or effective) unless the accounting firm has some respectability (like Aurthur Anderson ;^).
> then the observer is in an unknown state

So?

> Who is observing the observer?

No “who”, but anything that interacts with it.

Things happen whether or not you’re around to see them. Things interacted millions of years ago and they will continue to interact until the heat death of the universe. The tree falls in the woods regardless of if anybody is there to witness it. No credible peer-reviewed research has ever claimed that the observer is anything more than a physical process or interaction. It’s the quantum consciousness woo woo pseudoscientists who anthropomorphise “observer” to mean a conscious observer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_(quantum_physics)
Thanks. I understand autoupdate and web infrastructure, as well as the Ken Thompson hack that resolves all these cases into the same threat. The question was rhetorical.

I doubt that someone who has invested the time in developing code-auditing skills also values their own time so little that they'd audit and build their chat client. And if they're willing to farm auditing out to someone else, or to vouch to other users of the app, then they've lost the plot.

Not saying such a person couldn't exist. But the intersection in the Venn diagram seems small.
I don’t understand what the problem would be for him if this was the environment. He’s respected as a technologist and had strong opinions on technology. He’s not merely a tech. savant without social skills.

Again, this assumes that this was what the environment was like. Not that it was just like that in name only.
Not sure it's the best advice I got in 2022, but it is my favorite HN comment from 2022! And it's great, period.

"There are no tricks, that's just a distraction. Just sit down and do it. Ass in chair gets you there."

credit @nso95
What does this have to do with anything?

Shipping something on Android does not guarantee functional builds for regular Linux, and PlayStation uses a heavily customized FreeBSD fork. Neither of which are helpful for much of anything.
They go well because I do a good job.
Off topic: Wow clicking the video renders a sort of modal window after which my ios 15.5 is completely stuck, can only turn my screen off…and it won’t turn on again… after until 3 seconds. The modal is then closed and can use my device again.
Speech designed to

A) Harm the target, who has gone out of their way to avoid that harm already (by transitioning/changing pronouns)

B) Dehumanize the target in the eyes of others (this person doesn't matter, their wishes are to be entirely disrespected)

seems like a reasonable candidate for hate speech to me.
I continue to be terrified that some day in the future, in a moment of weakness, Valve will allow itself to be swallowed by Microsoft…
Changing the source instead of adding an edit would make previous comments that were asking about the unclear part not make sense anymore.

The 5% figure is kinda shocking, that’s why he put a number. And it’s I think why people appreciate him, because he gets specific instead if writing a vague statement like “pain of seeing an application waste resources”.

I really don’t understand how it can be unclear that 5% is bad.

The thing that was actually unclear was people not understanding it was analogy for organizational effectiveness.
Software workers labor union sues Klarna over layoffs of 700
> 720p@240FPS would be little hard because of limitations on the USB controller side.

What would be the theoretical limit of the sensor itself?

Could you extend the project to work as a high speed camera? Perhaps using a Firewire ip core implementation instead of USB?
Found Mastodon Thread Renderer code and demo site at https://github.com/vrutkovs/masto-thread-renderer

Demo site: https://thread.choomba.one/
"Fiat" means it didn't exist until somebody said "this is money".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money
Video games are the modern 'circus' in 'bread and circuses' it provides an opiate for that masses to escape from confronting their current situation and gives the government an escape valve for young male angst. As to communication, have you seen Russianss on the Steam forums? It's all Zs, Russian flags, and ethnic slurs against Ukrainians.
It looks like this is getting a lot of hate, but I think there's clearly some truth to it. As an initial effort to bring a huge library of games to Linux, Proton is brilliant and a huge achievement. But it does feel less secure, in the long run, than having developers writing games for Linux as a first-class platform from the start.

Idk what the transition plan could look like, but eventually we should hope to see the Steam Deck treated like any other console with highly optimized, native ports, and then hopefully some of that can be reused for 'more native' general Linux ports.
What exactly do you mean by precedent?

Yes, there are a plenty of precedents in the usual sense of the word. Such as this case, https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ETid-851

If you're going to argue (like _djo_) that this is not a precedent because it concerns a different type of a vehicle, you're entering into some rather absurd territory.

We have a clear example showing that simply storing pictures of car license plates by a toll road operator was a GDPR violation. Aircraft tail numbers are functionally exactly the same as car license plates.

The GDPR does not at any point discuss vehicles, from a GDPR perspective it makes no difference if the vehicle is a car, bicycle or your personal submarine. Or if there's a vehicle at all! GDPR concerns all PII for an extremely broad definition of PII.

Tracking locations of personal aircraft without consent is a GDPR violation, there really couldn't be a more obvious example of one.

PS. GDPR places the onus on the data controller to prove what they're doing is legal, not the other way around. You are guilty unless proven innocent. The reasonable question is to ask "Is there a precedent for this being legal?".

The answer to that is probably not, because the European flightradar24.com does have a privacy policy anywhere. This alone is blatantly illegal, but the reason they don't have one is almost certainly that their business is fundamentally not legal in Europe.

If what flighradar24.com and adsbexchange.com are doing was legal, they would have a privacy policy explaining the legal basis for their data collection. It's fundamentally impossible for their business to be GDPR compliant without one.
Old man shakes fist at cloud rant

Lord I wish we could go back to the days of pay a flat one time fee and own the dang software so I don't get "improvements" shoved down my throat

Old man rant over
Comments moved to the related ongoing thread:

John Carmack Leaves Meta - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34022484 - Dec 2022 (804 comments)

(Since the comments there already consisted mostly of responses to this same letter, I think it makes sense to merge the threads and have done so)
As far as I know, it shouldn't be triggered when you lose focus due to not being the active monitor, though I cannot really test it right now as I've only one monitor at home.

> Also, how long before the video streaming services use the api to adjust streamer compensation rates based on active/not active watchers?

Good remark, that wouldn't surprise me that they don't already do this on such services by the way, though I'm not at all familiar with stream compensation rules.

You made me want to check if they collected it server-side on twitch by curiosity and they do seem to send regularly some engagement-related metrics (others than what I would assume would be useful to monitor if the player is doing a good job, such as bitrate and frame-drop-related matters). For example a base64-encoded JSON with properties such as "minutes_logged" (which I guess are the minutes since I logged in), a "chat_visible" boolean and more interesting here "time_spent_hidden" seems to be POSTed at intervals. That whole object is also conveniently associated to an "event" name called "minute-watched".

What's strange though is that the URL makes it look like they're requesting an usual ".ts" media segment though it is a POST request, it returns an HTTP 204 No Content and more importantly, the request is not performed by their usual media player script but by another mysterious p.js script, which makes it seem that this is not at all actually loading a media segment.

Maybe this camouflage is here to prevent people from messing with it, as wrong data would probably mess with their internal logic, but I guess that it indicates that they do collect that data on their servers, though I don't know what they do with it.
Moreover, they already have features to influence users so they stay active on the tab (for example the bonus points you win by clicking regularly on the treasure chest on the bottom of the chat), so that's not that surprising that they monitor this.
Linux is not The Linux Foundation
It’s faster in some ways and slower in others. But in general this is “very fast” vs. “very fast”. You won’t find yourself wanting in web service performance in either language, for example.
I appreciate the effort put into this interaction, but I quickly lose control of spaceship, it starts spinning and makes my head hurt. Bumping off planets makes situation even worse. Is there any accessible way to explore this Xkcd galaxy?
Count me as one of the people who far prefer self-checkout to regular checkout. As someone who isn't normally buying huge quantities of groceries at once, it is far quicker for me - my grocery store has about 12 kiosks, which means there is always a few available. My grocery also seems to not perceive theft as a major issue, as they actually eliminated the weight-control features on the kiosks in favour of smaller ones that eliminate them. This also makes the customer experience much better. Finally, I don't have to go through a ritualistic interaction with the cashier. It's not that I found it a negative experience in the past, but I far prefer avoiding it entirely.
It's probably more accurate to say that, in contrast to everyone else in the country, most works created by the US federal government don't get copyrighted upon their creation (in the eyes of the US federal government). That effectively means they're what people describe as in the public domain in the US. But other countries may not recognize the right of the US government to create uncopyrighted works.
Ask HN: The potential of DIY rewiring ThinkPad E14 board to ignore soldered RAM
On the basis of 1,2 is it possible to resolder all Serial Prescence Detect module resistors to position 0 to make BIOS to expect zero soldered RAM and switch to socketed RAM? +any other operations on the board to make BIOS ignore the soldered RAM and use only socketed RAM?

[1] https://hackaday.com/2021/11/24/you-cant-upgrade-soldered-on-laptop-ram-think-again/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34019875#34027831
The Apple Books version wasn't just a static animation—you could partially flip the page, flip it back, make just the corner flip up a little then push it back in place, et c., all with smooth and responsive enough operation that it was close-enough to feeling like a real, physical thing. The "back" of the page, as it flipped, showed the text from the front as if it were showing through thin paper, it wasn't just blank. Lots of apps have page flip animations but most of them are both non-interactive and bad. Apple's was interactive and good. Dunno if Kindle's is as good—I used it long ago and my recollection was a slow, ugly, non-interactive page flip animation, but it may have changed since then.

[EDIT] Two key real-book-reading behaviors this enabled, that a non-interactive page flip animation (which I personally find a ton worse than no animation) does not:

1) You could "play" with the corner and edge of the page while reading. Great for fidgeters, and analogous to what some of us do when reading real books.

2) You could start to flip the page as you were nearing the end of the current page.
I worked at Meta. Yea, there was a promoted culture of flatness, but that only applied to the IC side. Within engineering there are separate levels but everyone has the same title "Software engineer" so that (supposedly) level shouldn't be a factor in whose argument is correct. In practice, everyone knows who's high-vs-low level, so it's mostly a charade.

On the management side, there are clear titles, reporting hierarchies, and areas of ownership. They decide what gets prioritized, staffed, and shipped. As an IC, you can make technical decisions and recommend product ideas, but you'll never ship functionality to users without PM, design, and eng leadership approval.

Within RL, like everywhere else at Meta, there are VPs and Directors whose job was to set strategy and create roadmaps. RL had a multi-year roadmap aggregating roadmaps from all the sub-orgs within RL. There's no world where a single IC, even at Carmack's level, is going to subvert that hierarchy. The job of a senior IC is to influence and check their management counterparts to make sure they're prioritizing the right things. Clearly he wasn't able to do that to the extent he wanted.

When I was there a couple years ago, I looked into joining RL a couple times but got advice from coworkers that the rotating carousel of leadership led to changing roadmaps/priorities, so it was a thrashy place to be.
We changed the URL from https://www.businessinsider.com/john-carmack-meta-consulting... to the letter that everyone is responding to. A copy is at https://pastebin.com/Jk5TrGch (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34030288 - thanks!)
That's the nice thing about the RiscOs way of saving and loading files, you never get in trouble because your file requester doesn't emulate all the features of your default file manager.
Why is sibling black_'s comment dead when they just provided an anecdote backing the parent comment? Or is the 1% talk controversial here?
I don't claim to understand corporate structures or the best way to organize a large group of employees but metas problems seem to stem more from betting on the wrong thing which seemed like a decision that came from the top.
You've been able to run the root on (nvme) SSD for a while now with Dusty's scripts, and more recently with the official installer.

I have great sympathy though, I am also using Ubuntu on Jetson and resent snap, especially since the new releases are 20.04 which have it more tightly integrated.
I’ve yet to find a project management system that’s lower impedance for developers than index cards for the backlog and sticky notes for task progress. PMs hate it because it requires them to stay directly involved and do their own data aggregation instead of just autogenerating reports that are of absolutely no value to the people actually doing the work.
absolutely NO internet in the house. NO tvs, NO computers, NO smartphones, NO video games. definitely NO virtual reality headsets. NO ai assistants. NO alexa, NO siri, NO home assistant, NO automated thermostat

NOTHING BUT PHYSICAL BOOKS, LPS, FLIP PHONES, E-INK E-READERS, AND PORN MAGAZINES!!!!
Yeah, the generated traces are 'sensible' by construction (they don't compute anything sensible, but they are well-formed).
I got top marks in 2021 based on feedback from two high level managers because I "prevented a year of wasted engineer with with a comment on a Google doc". Those marks lead to a nice pay bump.
Yes, let's ensure we continue to give young Russian males an outlet to escape from thinking about the current realities in their country. Steam is providing the modern circus in 'bread and circuses'. If anything, this is the exact soft power we should leverage to highlight to those your angst filled males that their current reality is isolating them. Or, we could just give an opium of the masses to keep them indifferent to reality in their rooms because 'soft power'.
Why companies do layoffs around Christmas
>> Meaning of the song "Rebirth of the Nemesis (Enuma Elish Rewritten)" by Melechesh

>> The song "Rebirth of the Nemesis (Enuma Elish Rewritten)" by Melechesh is a reimagining of the ancient Babylonian poem Enuma Elish, which tells the story of the creation of the world by the god Marduk. The song focuses on the mythical figure of Tiamat, a primordial god often associated with chaos and destruction, and the forces arising from her return. The lyrics describe a powerful storm that stomps out the weak and leads to a million lost souls, symbolizing Tiamat's destructive power. The lyrics also depict her as a "Serpent Nemesis" who asserts her reign and links the polarities of conjecture from the celestial and terrestrial realms. As she ascends "with wings of liquid fire," the lines proclaim "Enuma Elish is re-written" and "Fate was never sealed in stone", emphasizing the power of Tiamat to rewrite destiny and exert her chaotic power. In the end, a powerful refrain warns, "Don't fear, don't, this deity, don't/Rebirth of the Nemesis has been foretold". Through the lyrics, Melechesh evokes the ancient legend of Tiamat as an intimidating figure of chaos and destruction— one to be feared and respected at the same time.

https://www.songtell.com/melechesh/rebirth-of-the-nemesis-en...

Hmmm... maybe. It lacks a certain je-ne-sais-quoi as an explanation. It's nice that it captured the bit about "wings of liquid fire" that the vocalist clearly loves repeating (I get goosebumps every single time) but it doesn't seem to really feel what this is all about. Enuma Elish is rewritten, man. Tiamat is back. Don't you get it? The Serpent Nemesis has returned! Returned with wings of liquid fucking FIRE!

OK, I guess I can't explain it either.

But I get goosebumps, every. single. time.

Edit: Btw, Tiamat identifies as a woman. Not "god" but "goddess".
The people with those stories typically made a lot of money thanks to Jobs. The people who didn't, just have a negative opinion of him.
First thing I thought of was how much of a nightmare this would be for food delivery and general navigation for anyone, who isn't familiar with the building. Otherwise, kind of a curious idea, though I don't think I'd want to live in one. Always preferred more compact buildings.