skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lagging isn't always a bad thing. Users of Debian Stable missed Heartbleed entirely.

But this gets to the mindset that bugs me about Flatpak, the magical thinking that regressions don't happen. It's why Alice can't downgrade a system flatpak because it might introduce a vulnerability she uses to attack Bob, but it's absolutely fine if she upgrades to introduce that vulnerability.
There are other interstellar objects like comets, asteroids, planets, and dwarf stars roaming around that could take us out at any moment, directly or indirectly. A blackhole isn't much different than any of those in terms of consequence. The same process that would fling a blackhole around can fling anything around, and in theory primordial blackholes could be as small as most of those other objects.
It seems logical that this is happening in a lot of places. Access to an AC outlet is not controlled at all in most buildings and anyone can plug in anything. A crypto miner with a loud fan might be more difficult to hide, but there are lots of loud industrial spaces with outlets or machine rooms that are loud in most large buildings.
It's extremely bad in Utah's startup scene, and I'm sure that is because we are also the MLM capital of the world.

So many startups pop up and they don't even seem to have a good idea for solving a problem. It's a bunch of MBAs who think hiring a million engineers and having them build something will make everyone involved rich.
Of course we’re in the beginning of a market correction and see thousands of people losing their livelihoods will always be sad.

However one thing that only a few people are discussing is that the current compensation model for start/scaleups needs some rethinking.

In my previous demographic, you used to go to startups knowing that of could fail in 12 months, but would be a great intense professional and learning work experience. And eventually you could have some stocks that if you survive 4+ years you could sell it to the company or coming investors in liquidity events.

If case of company bankruptcy, after 1 or 2 months you could be back in the game.

Fast forward for today, going to some startups in my new demographic most of them does not offer some stock upside for employees, and the ones that offer some of them always have this “carrot-stock-game”. No liquidity events, sometimes 7 or even 9 years as a startup, tons of mind games like “the IPO will be <current year + 3> to create a sense of urgency on people, companies with series F,G,H where high ego founders wants to “ring the bell” at NYSE instead to sell to a PE and give an exit for employees, and de list goes on.

In my opinion one unattended consequence of that is that people are going to consider startups only as a paid learning bridge to get a job at bigger companies.
My impression is that Arch is not technically unusual among distributions, but is simply well-polished, documented, and very active (and has an easy way to install unvetted community packages). If this impression is correct, you still run the risk of unnoticed outdated software if the amount of volunteers drop, or a particularly critical one no longer has the time.

Which part of Arch's design prevents the issue described in the grandparent post? The issue is "distros lagging behind for years to provide a new package because they can't break all the things depending on the old version", which is solvable either with enough manpower or by sandboxing a la NixOS, where you can keep old versions around indefinitely for the things that need them. Does Arch use such sandboxing now?
If they can actually prevent piracy, maybe I'll actually package my app for Linux.
It’s such a stupid term too. Not only does it suggest bosses are men by default, but it makes you sound like you have a big ego and low self esteem.
They definitely didn't make money from Unity or Mir, which is what I was referring to. In fact, they started making money when they abandoned those silly dreams, including Ubuntu Phones, and focused again on their bread and butter: providing a Linux experience that is both familiar and polished.

Snap is the last of their pointless flamewars, achieving nothing but a slowdown in adoption - the only metric that really differentiates them from the pack.
> How are people keeping their AppImages updated?

The only software I run as an AppImage is BitWarden (from the official GitHub repo[1]. It prompts to update itself when there's a new version which works very well.

[1] https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/releases
Really? I'd guess that, controlling for income, a larger proportion of tech workers use Android phones than the general population.
You're trying to use a language model as an information reference. A translator can explain what a diplomat is saying but they can't perform their whole job.
Depends on how you’d like to use your time. Applying is quick and easy. And a company will probably progress anywhere from 5-15 applicants to an initial round. So while your chance of getting a 1st round interview are much smaller than last year, once you’re in it’s probably only moderately lower odds of landing the job.
Because they follow the law and publish how unlikely you are to make money with them. It isn't illegal to take money from stupid people.

https://www.amway.com/en_US/income-disclosure

https://www.marykay.ca/en-ca/pages/earnings-representation

https://library.youngliving.com/en/us/U.S.-Annual-Income-Dis...

https://www.lularoe.com/lularoe-income-disclosure-statement
No real reason to trust it. They don’t cite any sources.
Anyone advertising that your work will be like a family environment is a major red flag.

The ethics for running a business successfully and raising/managing a family are pretty high contrast.
True. So laid off marketers are probably more successful founders than laid off engineers these days.
After living in the US for 20 years we moved our family home to New Zealand as the kids were starting high/middle schools (11/13) - largely so that the kids could be independent - take the bus to school, hang around down town with their friends after school, learn how to use a map, navigate a city space in their heads etc etc we now have (20 years later) smart independent adults making their way in the world, some of their primary school friends back in the US are still living at home
and sometimes in spite of all reasonable and unreasonable efforts a child will stack up chairs on a banister and jump over to their death.

Unless you like... encase them in epoxy.

We can't make the world safe, it's inherently unsafe. Efforts to make it safe beyond some threshold will cause harm.

Think of all the children that don't get a chance to exist because unreasonable standards made it foolish to have one.
This is what the inaccurate youtube tutorials do that they complain about in the linked blog post. It only gets you country level lookups for most phone numbers, county level at the very best. And it turns out users don't want that.

There's also the issue of moving. I have a Florida phone number. I haven't lived in Florida in a long time.
The numbers agree. Only 69 Cyrillic domains (second-level) registered last year.

Chinese is the most popular, but only 760 for 2022 and the aggregate trend is down:

2016: 2378

2018: 2252

2020: 1675

2022: 1518

Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) Annual Report 2022

[1] https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/idn-annual-repor...
Is it then possible that one can "decorate" the elevator music? At least at a interference level. :p
“ The epiphany that explains the crypto boom, Andrew Tate, “passive income” strategies, dropshipping, finance influencers, executive training programs, meme stocks, etc is the commercial realization that American men are extremely susceptible to multi-level marketing schemes”

https://mobile.twitter.com/jherrerx/status/16123398697071083...
Embedded systems don't exclude PowerShell from being a replacement for POSIX shells. Maybe embedded systems should not strive to be POSIX.
In many cases, specifically working with those kinds of quirks. Being able to persist certain state between rounds in CS using these kinds of bugs has been a godsend for many custom game modes (for me personally, my work with Zombie Escape in CS:S and CS:GO)
The SDK is different from the platform itself, but more or less. So I have three versions of Gnome, two of KDE, and three of Freedesktop.org, just based on the apps I run on Silverblue and what version they're at in Flathub. Since I asked specifically about SSL, that's shipped with FDO, meaning I potentially have three versions running right now. Also I have this annoying situation where an app a client uses is using a deprecated FDo runtime and nobody wants to pay to rebuild it.
Ask HN: Why does AI-generated text often don't have a space after a period?
I'm a bit surprised that many AI-text generation tools are capable of generating the output they do, while still quite frequently not adding a space before the first letter of a new sentence. I find it even more puzzling that most of the time they do, but sometimes they don't.Kinda like I do here in this paragraph. It seems like a comparatively very simple issue to fix.
America is turning into India: our coming “caste wars”
When I was reviewing resumes I would generally also look at an interesting candidate’s LinkedIn as it often provided more detail than the resume itself.

For me, I was mostly looking for more detail on a candidate’s experience. Links to projects were good. I didn’t consciously look at anything else, but I’ll admit that I probably regarded more complete profiles better.

I would also check out candidate’s personal sites. Decent content (even not up to date) was generally a big bonus.
Not in India!
https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/01/india-set-an-incredibly-im...
I once read that business is the art of ripping someone off without pissing them off, and I've since made that a part of my life philosophy because it's very accurate.

These businesses are simply more devious manifestations of that art.
Ah but it is available in USA…I didn’t know that!
Another problem is the downvoting itself. If you have a post that is liked by 50 people but disliked by 54 people, the 4 downvote majority makes it disappear, even though 50 people thought it was worthy enough to upvote.

I think the more upvotes something gets the less ability for downvotes to bury it, if the ratio is close. People always post things that are majority-liked because even something slightly disliked more than liked will bury it.
The most recent was when my kid did a review of two different multitools. Within five minutes of uploading it YouTube had taken it down due to "potential child endangerment."
Sure, but given that they almost all seem to suck roughly equally, with the exception of consistently high ratings for USAA (which I can't get) I might as well go with an affordable one AND the one that didn't harass me with spam calls.
I door knocked for a candidate and had their campaign manager mark me as deceased in the main party db. No more texts.
>I was an App Store games editor

Title is kind of a bait. He doesn't discuss anything really from his experience as App Store editor.
I see what you mean. I suppose these particular existing standards come from inner-views on technicals.

As opposed to, say, standards that are based on general user experience aspects. Does the control panel offer printer settings yet, for example.
> the idea that caste discrimination is pervasive in the US is a manufactured narrative by a few activists, woke Indians, and useful non-Indian idiots who have never seen a social justice cause they could say no to (

…

> Many of the “data” on caste discrimination comes from Equality Labs, an activist organization that used “snowball sampling.” That means the survey went out to people in the Equality Labs network.

> The Carnegie Foundation’s more methodologically sound survey paints a much more mixed picture. Basically, around half of Indian Americans are Hindu, and about half of Hindus have identification with a caste group. That identification is much stronger among the foreign-born.

> Most Indian Americans were raised in India because of the massive wave of post-2000 immigration. When you say “Indian American,” you mean immigrants, not people like Nikki Haley or Vivek Ramaswamy. It’s entirely plausible that these immigrants have some sensibility of caste and might engage in discrimination…but there are severe problems with how this would play out in America more than theoretically.

> – About 1% of Americans are of Indian origin, and only half are Hindu. The vast majority of Indians exist in an overwhelmingly non-subcontinental professional world and, to a great extent, a very cosmopolitan social world. Systemic caste discrimination’s social and cultural instruments are not operational in the US. There just aren’t levers that people can pull to engage in discrimination.
Reliably getting the message to the correct recipient?

I just have a bone to pick with all this software using phone numbers as ID or notifications. Send an email where we can filter it or if you must, do an app with notifications I can tune to my liking.
It only becomes a problem when it turns into a pyramid scheme.

Recruiting others to sell more stuff isn't illegal, as long as you actually have stuff to sell.
Does this use the Guyenburg OPDS server? That would make it compatible with other catalogs.
Maybe. But we all agree that American suburbs are peaceful, heaven-like places compared to many places in the world. In Australia it is poisoness animals, in many countries it is the availability of drugs, in some crime, kidnapping and rapist. And God forbid you live in a war zone.

Most parents would love their kids growing up in a safe place like in the US, the EU or Japan. But they are not and are faster independent and aware of their environment. And that is okay. Was like that for thousands of years.
FAIR has been one of the best AI labs in the world, with one of the godfathers of AI leading it. What do you mean by "bet on the wrong horse?"
I have great news if you're willing to play VR games - PavlovVR is pretty much exactly what you're describing here. It has community servers and can be modded with anything you can put in an unreal engine level (so anything)

It's based on CS so it has all the same weapons and mechanics.

It has an active modding community that has added every map from every game you've ever played (including iceworld, but so many more)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=11392...

I know something will replace it eventually but it has been my all time favorite game for the last 5 years or so.
Looks really nice. One comment from a usability perspective: it would be nice if the center of rotation were a point on the trail, rather than a point somewhere underneath the landscape. Better still if that center point was dynamic as you pan around the map, such that it’s always the ‘middle’ point of the trail segment that’s in the viewport (at least, I think that’s what my brain is telling me it wants, I might be specifying that slightly wrong).

Great work anyhow!
I loved this map. Hours and hours of fun. Also this article was published in 2020.
And they've been working on it for 13 years trying to bring a product to market?

How much more slow and careful do you want them to be?
He has two books that outline his theory on currencies and the rise and fall of empires. As in everything is cyclical, and we are at the start of a long downturn. It reads like a real life, analog of Hari Seldon’s Prime Radiant. This is a summary of his latest book which is no longer freely available online

https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report...

His first is still free.

https://www.principles.com/big-debt-crises
They went from indexing with embeddings + LLM to just using a biased embedding for their use case. This should save them most of their costs.
This is great and much appreciated, thank you.
Offtopic, personal bugbear on a grumpy early morning:

I have a physics degree, which is true of only a minority of HN users, and I have no idea what TBG and BCS stand for here. Using abbreviations when communicating with audiences that can't be expected to know them wastes everyone else's time to save you seconds of typing.

Edit: TBG - Twisted Bilayer Graphene, BCS - Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer.
Source? Everything I read says it's a physical binding by sandblasting the metal to create a rough surface for the telfon to stick.

Like I said - FUD.
Thank you, that seems like the type of thing that ought to do the trick.
Thanks, this let me down the rabbit hole of finding out what "Esalen" is about... Fascinating.
Neat - gonna try this when I get home!
However on the same site as the article I cannot find any more post after this from the same author.
The article is years old though.
It's a bit odd to combine the idea of this post with the one on paralyzed people sending texts with their minds. Paralyzed people controlling other creatures via their minds. Sort of a cyberpunk familiar / spirit animal.
Your comment is highly worthy of moderation
Agreed. I'm not a professional, but I'm willing to spend money like a pro and I have gone out of my way to avoid Adobe products due to their business practices. So far the main place that is hurting me is Lightroom. None of the equivalents I've tried are as good (still need to try Capture One one of these days, except they are also starting to be...not great with their business).

Affinity Photo is a pretty good Photoshop replacement, but I'm still waiting for them to release a Lightroom replacement.

Lord knows someone needs to start eating Adobe's lunch. They've had a stranglehold for too long.
Because they lobbied hard in the 80s, to prevent them from being made illegal.
I feel the same way.

I've (almost) stopped posting those kinds of replies, because it's just too easy to shut down conversations that go against the common narrative/view.

On the other hand, when people have taken the time to argue logically with me on some unpopular opinion, I've had meaningful back and forth. Sometimes I've even changed my mind.

It's a loss, that for many people being "right" is more important than having meaningful and potentially enlightening conversation that benefits everyone.

Let's argue the ideas, not the ideology they're supposed to be attached to.
Sort of thread cross-posting this, but it's a bit odd to combine the idea of this post with the one on human mind control of rats. Paralyzed people controlling other creatures via their minds. Sort of a cyberpunk familiar / spirit animal.
I just tried the same tax question on Bing Chat and TaxGPT. Bing answers seemed to be a little better and more detailed. Bing provided references to sources, and also could answer follow-up questions.
I’m a Fedora user and I consult ArchWiki all the time.
Thanks for trying it out! I like the idea about the dynamic center of rotation, I have not thought about this.

Let me know if you have any other suggestions: contact@cubetrek.com
I don't know why you feel the need to give people your background/ability/level to bolster your argument. I'm sure you can string together a coherent argument without the need for an appeal to authority. I'm not calling you a junior engineer, merely observing that the quality of the argument you are making being worthy of a junior engineer's rant.

>The bigger companies get, the worse quality of talent that comes in. Most late stage+ employees are there to rest, vest, and cruise. Don't be naive.

Straw-manning much? I don't see any part of my original argument making a point to the contrary or even addressing the notion of org size.

But I'll bite -> An alternative way of looking at this dynamic in large tech orgs is, that the org sets up a game where people who play the game well can succeed (interview well, do what looks good on impact resumes and against perf rubrics ) without contributing much to the success of the org.

Blame the game not the player, the rest and vesters are resting and vesting because they are achieving optimal utility within the interview/perf/promo game the org has setup, hence dysfunctional orgs.

It's not that flat organisations/startup aren't dysfunctional or that large orgs always end up being dysfunctional but I agree with you that larger engineering orgs often tend to be dysfunctional in many similar ways.
How are you calculating its current value, given its finances are now private and it is not traded on the open market?
I moved to San Francisco in 1999, my early 20s, and got a landline. Cell phones were not yet the norm, and I really didn’t have much interest in having one until a girlfriend of mine insisted I get one in 2000.

If I remember correctly, Pac Bell had a “opt in” white pages phone number removal which was not charged, but my parents just a few years prior had to pay for theirs with Pac Bell.
I was waiting for something like this to build the simplest MMO I could (like pixels fighting or something like that). Maybe I’ll try it later this year if my current side project flops (which is highly likely)
> Because they follow the law

Because they wrote the law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amway#Politics_and_culture [1]

[1] And if the surname DeVos seems familiar, that's because Betsy Devos was picked to be the Secretary of Education.
The same should be conveyed to the user too. Ads should have a landing page that tries to inform kids and computer haters about ads and about the company and product and what changes it makes to your PC and charges it makes to your bank.

No "let Onedrive cloud your photos" in my gallery app, no "keep using Edge" when downloading Chrome, no recommended apps on my Samsung phone.
AmWay did have stuff to sell.

The problem is, only AmWay reps bought it.
SUSPICION BREEDS CONFIDENCE
This would be funny if it wasn't because you actually believe it. Holy shit
So you're saying in Germany the government can force a company to keep operating?

That's doesn't sound like a good thing.
While trying to find one of the maps that I could quite vividly the layout of but wasn't recalling the name of, I found that someone has a massive archive of maps that I'm sure some people here will appreciate: https://ar.mevl2.duckdns.org/css/maps/

From there I was able to find what I was looking for by browsing through all the ones with "texture" in their name. It was aim_ag_texture_jungle :) https://gamebanana.com/mods/105659
A thing is only an MLM if the people at the top of it are actually getting rich off of the backs of the people below them. Which is true of some of the things in that list. But for others (e.g. dropshipping — and also "freelancing" for companies like Uber) it's just participation in a sector-wide race-to-the-bottom, where the free competition and commoditization of every role in the system drives margins at every step to zero, resulting in literally nobody getting rich.
Counter-point, I moved from Liberty Mutual because when I switched from a heavy pickup truck to a cheaper compact SUV with more safety features, my rate went UP, against all reason. Multiple customer service agents refused to look into why that was the case. I got quotes from four other companies -- the most expensive quote was still 1/2 the price Liberty Mutual was giving me. The plan I went with was 1/3rd the price. I'm saving $3,000 a year. And Progressive hasn't spam called me even once.

Everyone seems to have horror stories about ALL the companies out there.
> How many different versions of OpenSSL are running on my laptop right now? Who can say? That's the beauty of flatpak

And how many of them are critically out of date because the software maintainer didn't update? Who can say? That's the beauty of flatpack (not).

With flatpack you have all the downside of static linking with none of its advantages, how exciting. (and there's nothing as cool as having 7 full linux distros installed on your computer at once, just because software can't agree on which base image to use)
Tesla HQ returning to California, Musk announces
> OpenAI challenging search

Not even close.