skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you aren't the only one who knows the solutions.

> microwaves

Many cheap motels do not in fact have microwaves.
Buying one for $15 is great if you live in a place where people are selling working microwaves for that price and eveyrone else is not also poor and looking for a microwave.

> They took the time, why can't everyone else.

Not if you're working 3 jobs and barely have time to sleep while being a caregiver. Some people don't get to take time off to do things.

> There are no such thing as food deserts. I've seen the maps, and yes, there are areas that don't have large grocery stores.

Perhaps talk to someone who'se lived in one? There's quite a lot of arrogance to say "I've looked at the maps so your problem doesn't exist" from wherever you're based on earth.

There are solutions in many situations but the cycle is vicious and you're one bad step away from getting eating alive in many places. Poor nutrition -> health problems -> limited time -> getting laid off for underperformance (or plain cruelty). It isn't always a way out in life without a dollop of luck.
Good point. Yes, "setting a good example" is a better term, so it's not confused with virtue signalling.
Whether a given token is a security or not is independent of whether a given exchange can pass an audit (and audit also does not mean what you think it means though everyone seems to use it that way so I am probably over reacting)...
I've put off updating Android before because the updated changed features I used and didn't add anything I cared about
I balk at calls for peace from Henry Kissinger, who didn't seem to have qualms at raining death on millions of innocent people for his own personal political gains. Nevertheless, I did read the article.

Kissinger's framework for understanding the world is still rooted in an outdated cold war mentality and this article seems like he is naively trying to shove the cat back in the bag and return to a paradigm that he felt he understood.

But I don't think we can return to the way things were. Russia's hegemony over its neighbours was not because of its nuclear power, but because of its military power, which it has demonstrated is considerably weaker than we had previously understood. I think this conflict has actually weakened the power of a nuclear arsenal considerably compared to conventional military strength, because it really has no strategic use beyond nuclear deterrence.
it was so good if it was security update only and not f-ing up existing functionality - on top of poor security release fixes - and forcing on the user unrelated and never needed other things as well. this 'security' rasoning for update thing is a big fat lie! do security updates only then!
deadlines are for real...
>>Then that cartoon should be reversed, because most of national income (GDP) is wages

You are arguing a different point AND entirely wrong.

"The top 0.01% richest individuals now hold 11% of the world's wealth."
https://fortune.com/2021/12/07/worlds-richest-inequality-ric...
"the bottom 80% owning 7%"

Can you provide sources for your belief?
So we have now come full circle.

Crypto started out as a naive attempt at money without government. But this was quickly shown to be an open invitation to rampant fraud that is still ongoing and technology alone can not prevent.

So now in a last ditch effort at survival, crypto is begging for a government lifeline with oversight and regulation.

I said all along that the only thing government needed to do to kill crypto was absolutely nothing --- just give it some space to self implode.

This has largely come to pass. Only one final realization remains ---- if regulation is needed, crypto is not. It no longer will have any compelling *legal* reason to exist
I don't think anyone here is going to complain about a post where you make a game work by reverse engineering Bezier splines encoded in XML by Adobe Flash.

If that's not "Hacker" News, what is?
I was expecting the graphics to be converted first to SVG.
I remember when iPhones first truly became useless if stolen. Tech support forums were filled with sob stories about why a particular person couldn’t activate their iPhone, begging for a secret bypass. They would make up sob stories because otherwise people would just call them a thief and ignore them. But the tech support forums usually called them a thief anyway because most of the time, they were, and part of the cost of ownership of these devices is keeping them up to date and remembering the activation password…

Anyway I’m sharing this because the “my ancient unsupported 32 bit applications will fail”, while a minimally valid reason not to upgrade, reminds me a bit of the sob stories people would tell to get tech support for their stolen iPhones…
There's a lot of good news in that post. I'm glad Gates is using his money for good.

I think some of what he's doing is one-foot-on-the-gas-other-on-the-brake, though. For instance, as traditional family structure deteriorates, grades decline. It's sub-optimal to concentrate on math and reading until we shore up families (and that's hard to do.)
But it lowers the incentive significantly regardless.
Never underestimate the ability of Apple to completely miss an obvious corporate product.
> We have engaged with your argument.

Where? I’ve read all the replies. How is Stanford deciding what should be used on their sites different from how Coke decides how its logo can be used?

> You just can't seem to understand that this is a domino falling into a field of dominos, not a barren desert.

I understand all of that. So at best your argument is that this is a slippery slope. Moving past the fallacious nature of that argument, you still haven’t articulated any conceivable harm to you or society. Even if all of the dominoes you foresee fall, then where are we? Are you restricted by government thought police at that point, and that’s what you’re worried about?

Or are you worried about your employer restricting your speech? If so, I refer you to my Coke argument; you are already subject to a list of words approved by your employer. The only difference maybe is that it’s implicit, but that doesn’t make it any different than what Stanford has here (except less transparent and delivered by capriciously by fiat instead of created by the community with input from across the company).

What does it matter to you if some dominoes are falling elsewhere?
I failed many more, getting to various stages but not passing. The #1 thing I learned when looking back is that I wasn't a good fit for any of them. I was just desperate for a job.
I was shocked to learn what "Credit Card" means in the US.

Here (Israel) a Credit Card is always connected to a bank account and at the end of each month the accumulated debt is just recovered from the balance. It's done automatically and you would get a very stern phone call (from your bank) if you balance is not enough.

Of course, the CC companies and banks would be happy to give you a loan with outrageous interest rates, but that takes a phone call, or a form on their website.

From a human fallibility point of view, American CCs are evil.
Nope, it was the main iPhone line.

2017: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2017/12/20/apple-iph...

I’m also not sure why “just once” is supposed to buy back trust. They still don’t allow for iOS downgrades, so the underlying issue hasn’t been addressed.
think a bit more...
I really enjoyed this, thanks for writing the article. Just the idea of bits of Actionscript on Frames and figuring that out would have made me quit never mind everything else. I miss Flash. I used to love the Flex Builder/SWC setup as I used to be really productive with it.
1: How do you easily get bigger amounts of crypto, without a centralized exchange?

2: How does the receiving person use the received bitcoins, unless there is a real economy or again a centralized exchange?
I don’t feel like the author was really giving away anything that was meant to be secret. They also only linked to people whom they had good opinions of, though I feel like it’s a little weird.

The lessons learned didn’t feel terribly interesting but they felt more like ‘this is what I learned’ than ‘here’s some advice for you’. Maybe the author is just blogging about their life.
I explicitely said I used this as an example because it was my personal experience, but I'm sure this happens for every single politically charged Mastodon servers regardless of political leaning.

I'm not disappointed with any ideology and this had nothing to do with politics. Please don't charge my opinion with ulterior motives
What are the benefits of high levels of hydration?
With diesel, you don’t have any upfront huge capital and brainpower expenditure of retrofitting each of your facilities as multi-vehicle charging centers. Going electric is a real commitment.
Group chats have thrived and are very rarely problematic

I've found several group chats to be deeply problematic (though of course I accept the possibility I could be the problem).

By definition they encourage group-think, and that, coupled with the lack of requirements for being a moderator (and the attraction of the role to narcissists and control-types) can be a pretty toxic mix.
I was going to read through the comments, but, as per usual, there is the "Android is better 'cos I can unlock it and do what I want".

Yes, this is true. Don't buy an iPhone/iPad/Mac. I've been hacking for 30+ years, I like that Apple has locked down the phones and the Mac is not locked other than Apple locking their OS. It doesn't stop me installing Macports and then the endless array of FOSS that I want.

General purpose computing is slowly evolving, like every other technology before it, to separation of the creation of code from the use of code. Computers and phones are a tool for most people, the act of coding and/or going outside the provided ecosystem is something that the majority of people, for the majority of the time, don't want or, in a lot of cases, need.

Most people don't have shortwave radios anymore, neither are they interested in amateur radio etc. Government regulations have "locked down" the radio ecosystem but maintained the capabilities for those that want to explore radio "hacking". Computing is going the same way.

If you want to hack your own environment, there are perfectly cromulent alternatives. Android and AOSP for phones and tablets, Linux and the *BSDs for general computing.
In consumer-grade telecoms, support is outsourced to idiots - it's not a UK-specific thing. Absent regulation against it, it will happen in any country.
What do you value most?

If that level of decision is “above your pay grade,” once you make the recommendation it is out if your hands. And you keep getting paid. Knowing the company made a stupid choice. (Maybe.)

Is the money enough? Or will this eat at you? Will it keep you up at night?

Can you implement it without getting caught and without losing any ongoing updates and changes? It is useless if a month from now you complete the work and the “legacy” app now does X while your changes do not.

Willing to insist you were right if someone catches you? How sure are you? Willing to be wrong?

Have you shown the data structure change? Did anyone have further comment?

More senior folks will give estimates that sound pessimistic to less senior folks because more senior folks typically add a “shit happens” modifier. Everyone calls it something a little different. I don’t think anyone calls it that. But if you say a month, and that expects a solid month of uninterrupted time, then it isn’t a month.

You can give up, keep advocating, or go rogue. Advocating takes longer, but may have better chance for success and recognition.

But cowboying shit also happens. Good, bad, or ugly.

And most importantly, maybe revisit this after one of the worst periods annually for productivity. People are on vacation, or dreaming about it. There’s a good chance they are incapable of considering your proposal honestly until, well, early 2023.
Ha! Slightly tangent—I do payroll using ADP’s Run web product. Searching (filtering) the employee list is bonkers.

Take a name like, “Noel”.

If you type “Noel”, you get nothing.

Type “No”, you get “Noel”!
The JVM executes Java bytecode, which is a compilation target for Java and many other languages. In this regard, architecturally it is exactly the same.
I think the banking industry is already very heavy regulated since 2008. In fact these regulations are (in my limited experience) at least as bad for the consumer as for the banks. Dealing with banks in general since 2008 has been a huge pain in the ass, and it's not really the bankers' faults (other than the huge debacles that led to regulation).

Better to just let the banks doing stupid risky crap fail instead of even more regulation. And if the stupid risky crap they're doing is also illegal, then make the penalties matter, as others have already said.
I think it should be mandatory for tech companies with some revenue threshold to open-source the necessary bits (bootloader, driver spec, etc) required for the community to port Linux or other open-sources OS on devices they intent on stop supporting.

Maybe 20 years ago and before, devices were made obsolete so fast that it would not have made sense to try to extend the live of hardware but it's no longer the case. Old phones and tablets are perfectly fine for a lot of use cases, they took a lot of natural resources to build and they can only collect dust in drawers or fill landfills now. Finally we are realising that the Earth has finite resources and we should try to make the most of what we have.

Increasing the life of existing IT devices by not withholding informations would be a good first step.

The nice part about such a law, is that companies that want to keep their stuff private would have a way to do so: just keep supporting the devices. If it's not worth supporting, you should not be allowed to keep the IP closed if that prevent the devices from being useful.
She was an ABC News producer. She also was a corporate operative
> Coinbase - "Regulating stablecoin issuers is a good place to start"

12 Oct 2022 - Sam Bankman-Fried: Stablecoins Are ‘Lowest-hanging Fruit’ for Crypto Regulation ... One regulator should have the duty to ensure all stablecoins are backed by dollars, FTX founder says
The normal way I use machines these days is that anyone with login access has some ability to become root.

But anyone who is hosting shellboxes (including "bastion" hosts in ISO27001 environments): this is pretty serious.
> Unless you consider it a light source.

Obviously if you're claiming that the only application that was still working on your iPad was the lamp, then there's really nothing left for me to discuss, as I don't think that's factually the case for even the oldest existing iPads.
I don't think it's a success story when a chemical company is pressured to stop producing something because of it's health effects after that chemical has made it into the blood of nearly every individual on the planet.
> Of course, the CC companies and banks would be happy to give you a loan with outrageous interest rates, but that takes a phone call

I mean it’s exactly the same here, except the loan doesn’t require a phone call. There’s no interest if you pay off your card every month.
Probably Mastodon. When people are outside of their wheelhouse (and technology wise most people are), they pick what everyone else is moving to. Mastodon is the media darling of the fediverse, for better and for worse.

The press has been hyping up Mastodon since 2016 on tech sites and even the general press only ever talks about Mastodon. Pleroma, Misskey and all the various offshoots are practical footnotes in terms of userbases (the only one with real usage is really Glitch-soc which is a Mastodon fork that exists to circumvent Gargrons BDFL tendencies). It sucks but that's how it is.

As for the issues on Soapbox; this argument also works for Pleroma. With proper support, Pleroma was, and arguably still is (although now moreso because everyone else is even sloppier), be the best software to use the fediverse with. It even supports different frontends, including Soapbox if you really wanted it.

I agree that Mastodon is a technical dead end for some features like QTs because Gargron is a BDFL who just doesn't want those features and imposes that on the project, but it's absurd to suggest that Soapbox is the best answer, when it's largely just a spite driven fork of Pleroma that is mostly picked for ideological reasons when admins aren't simply clueless about the projects history and offers basically no feature benefits. I encourage devs to put their time into Pleroma instead; more people benefit from that, especially considering Rebased just imports all changes from it's upstream anyway.
Oh, aside from the pre-approval, that would be really nice. I need stuff scoped to the org that is not necessarily connected to my personal account (and all it’s repositories).
That's a pretty big difference. From less than a day on single 18650 to nearly 5 days.
But chicago and Baltimore’s poor violent neighborhoods are not a federal problem. That’s a chicago and Baltimore problem. I don’t want any of my tax dollars that go to DoD going to either of those cities. I’m sure you can find ways to donate to various social programs and outreach for those places if you looked. I want to support Ukraine with our defense budget not waste it on Baltimore
Ah, russia manipulating the prices, again :D
But given that the architecture is open source, there's nothing stopping the people behind e.g. Python from embracing the language server protocol and providing better tooling. Besides time / money, but that ties in to the known problem that open source is very difficult to monetize.
> How to avoid another world war by Henry Kissinger

tells the guy not known for avoiding wars.
>Remember the "great resignation"? That was never a thing - people aren't leaving the workforce - it was just time-shifted demand for job switching that didn't happen during the pandemic, so that some transient numbers looked high.

What is this based on? Labor force participation rate[1] is still visibly lower than pre-pandemic levels.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART
I'm using NewPipe [1] but it's TV support is rather poor. For example, full screen is broken and some operations are accessible only via a swipe gesture.

If you've used NewPipe, how does it compare to SmartTubeNext?

[1] https://newpipe.net/
Some of us don’t have a choice. I got a mortgage from a local bank. One week after we closed I got a letter that WF now owns my mortgage, and I can send future payments to them.
> I do think no one even remotely saw this coming.

This is just outside of your time range but Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty came out in 2001, and predicted much of this.

The main example of this pertains to the plot and themes of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, released on November 13, 2001, which delved into ideas and concepts that would become culturally significant in the 2010s. Among these themes were post-truth politics, alternative facts, echo-chambers, fake news, AI-curated news feeds, information overload in the Information Age, and political correctness.[140] While the game received universal acclaim upon release for its gameplay and attention to detail, the plot became a divisive topic among critics, with some calling it "absurd" and "stupid".

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideo_Kojima#Legacy
I did, and I read no such thing.
Atm you should go for a cheap rootable common phone and install the OS that fits best your needs for privacy, security and comfort.

Popular are LineageOS, postmarketOS, GrapheneOS, /e/, DivestOS, CalyxOS,...
“Trust the laws of math”

Can someone explain to me how code that processes my private information, in some “Bob’s 40K Basement Mining” node is protected and secured? Whether it be a smart contract or these new “use GPU VMs at fraction of cloud costs- through this token market”

“Because Bob risks a large stake if reputation is tampered” doesn’t cut it.

What’s the tech here, genuinely.
Yes, I meant to write ”human => conscious.” Theory of mind.

To the extent theory of mind is learned it’s obviously learned from “a fuzzy…”. No disagreement there. What’s your point?

My point was more that it’s usually not a Turing test; my grandma has never thought explicitly about any kind of test criteria for determining if theory of mind applies to my grandpa. She just assumed as people do.

People believe things without justification all the time. Even if obeserved human behavior is the best justification for ToM, doesn’t mean that’s the one any human used.

I don’t think we disagree about anything meaningful?

I’m not confident what causes theory of mind. But I think it’s very rarely propositional knowledge even in older humans.

Is theory of mind re-learned by each human individually from observations? You seem to make the case for this?

Theory of mind could also be innate; I’m not so convinced about the role of nurture in these things. I know people who are afraid of snakes yet have never encountered snakes.
GitLab team member here.

There is more context in this blog post: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/05/23/the-future-of-the-g...

The TLDR is that the Web IDE is a widely used feature (tens of millions of commits have been made using it) and building our new Web IDE with VS Code will allow us to invest in extending the experience to be more tightly integrated with GitLab and the DevOps workflow rather than re-creating VS Code features in our Web IDE.
There are some other aspects that docker cannot be replaced.

For example, making sure build works accross different platforms and machines. There are too many ways that something may break, incorrect SDK versions, missing dependencies etc. Docker makes sure the OS (container) to be setup correctly to handle the build.
What i would really like to see is some Scientist(s)/Researcher(s) from the Statistics/AI/ML field rise up in arms and deliver verbal/in-print smackdowns (in the spirit of Edsger Dijkstra) setting the record straight to every hack/company/management/whoever person(s) out there selling AI/ML snake-oil to the masses.
My wish list for the next version of Freeform contains only two items:

• Snap to shape from free-hand drawings (such as a square/line/circle). Other note taking apps have this.

• Infinite Zoom Out and Zoom In. Currently the canvas expands in all directions, but the zoom in is locked to 10% min and 400% max. I want my boards to be able to have 'depth', particularly useful when sketching stuff with a 'drill-down' component.
Newer versions are usually slower than older ones (expected to be run on faster devices).
I could have titled it "Mastodon is a terrible social network" but I didn't because it's not a lost cause. I provided an argument and a modest suggestion. I don't think I can do much more in my positiom.
I imagine it’d have to be the corporation. Proving any employee did a particular thing wrong is too hard/slow to be worth it.
It's somewhat perceptible. The worst, for me, is the search for apps, which visibly lags. My battery has been replaced and shows 99% capacity. This is an iphone 7 with the latest ios upgrade it can get, 15.6.something IIRC.

I think another issue is that apps do tend to get more sluggish, since they probably expect to be running on newer hardware. If you stick to an older ios version, if they're deemed incompatible, they won't update. But as soon as you're on the latest ios, you get the app updates, too, if you've left the default on.

Google maps, for example, is clearly more sluggish than before. Apple maps is practically unusable. Youtube crashes reliably (but works fine in the browser...)
The Flash Builder was really good for complex vector manipulation. I don't know if there is anything as good for SVG/HTML.