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> However, the new “more secure” Universal Windows Platform (UWP) sandboxes the file picker in a separate process, allowing neat features like capability-based access control. It returns a file handle which, if the selected file exists, will not overwrite the existing content!

That got me a bit worried, since desktop Linux is going somewhat in the same direction with sandboxed applications. So I did a quick search for the file chooser portal API, and if I understood what I found correctly (https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/#gdbus-org.free... and https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/#gdbus-org.free...), it does not return an already opened file handle; instead, the file is made available in a FUSE mountpoint within the sandbox (/run/user/$UID/doc/), and the call returns a URI pointing to that file. So, if I understood it correctly, developers can keep using the same traditional POSIX APIs they're already used to, with the same semantics they always had outside the sandbox.
there's no way bytedance will sell tiktok to an american company. anyone who thinks this will happen is high as a kite. imagine instagram had taken off in china. would the US allow it to be 'force sold' to bytedance or tencent or whatever? L-O-L.

bytedance will just shut tiktok down if the US "forces" them to sell. it will simply disappear one day -- maybe with a nice little note explaining the situation, maybe not. the domestic US political ramifications of this are unknown, because we've never been in this kind of situation before - half the country uses this thing, across the entire socio-political demographic spectrum.

if the ccp has ultimate control as so many people say, on what planet do they sell this market leading company and platform to a US buyer? one that plainly and openly calls china the enemy. the US can not split the political difference between an outright ban and permitting them to operate. it's a binary outcome. even entertaining the idea that the US would just simply take over this asset is pure, unadulterated fantasy. in fact it is delusional.

i mean is anyone actually thinking logically about this?
Yes, it was now corrected
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There is also currently no way to even virtualize BeOS for PowerPC. I wish there was. The closest I have seen is a MESS that could boot and show the boot splash screen (this is a 3d Be logo on PowerPC, the one you see on Intel was only ever on Intel.) The dingusppc have BeOS as a possible target for their Mac emulation, but it is not there yet. I'm pretty sure QEMU can't boot BeOS because BeOS requires an old world ROM and it requires a PCI Mac with a 603 or 604 processor - so a 4400, 7300, 8500/8600, 9500/9600 and a few others (including clones) work - but nothing NUBUS and nothing post the first motherboard revision of the 8600/9600. The later x600's have a different motherboard and do not work. Nothing that shipped with a G3 and nothing with new world ROM.
That payment processor was sued for transferring money without account holders consent. That’s exactly the kind of fraud I was referring to.

Also, by your reasoning Venmo's TOS is a thin shield vs a single case of under age prostitution.
Google needs to re-invent search, or someone will do it for them.
https://apnews.com/article/dont-say-gay-desantis-florida-gen...

Inform yourself.
> significant amount of the company quit.

no they didn't
I'm guessing you were at Kubecon as well. It was my first time in Detroit and overall thought the city was much nicer than expected. But to be fair, I mostly was just downtown during the day and we ended up staying in a suburb (Royal Oak) because all of the hotels within walking distance were booked by the time I registered for the conference. The drive between Royal Oak (adjacent to the city limits) and downtown Detroit had some areas that looked dilapidated or worse.
Or just Start ;P
Well, I have over 5000 physical books as of my last count from a few years ago. I'm surrounded by many more bought since then.

Oh, and I have several thousand PDF books. And over 800 on my Kindle.

I've read several hundred of them (yes, I keep a spreadsheet, don't you?)

I had my own key to the library in high school because I'd be there when the librarian wanted to leave.

I had my own key to the library at college because I repaired the copy machines so I could go any time, often at night.

My children and I used to spend our weekends at the bookstore. Everybody would choose a pile of books to read. We sat at a table and drank sodas and coffee.

Interesting people write interesting books. You get to spend time with them.
You can’t predict the outcome of a coin toss. That doesn’t make the coin intelligent.
More like 1998. But yeah, the model of tech-washing has increased in popularity since then. The example that most readily comes to mind is Uber, and they started in 2009.
Are you going to provide your reasoning besides saying “you’re wrong?”
Can you create cgroups as an unprivileged user?
It reads a lot like what Wells Fargo did, re opening accounts, only targeting the criminal demographic.
It has a paywall.
Well, because Tides Foundation is a Donor Advised Fund[1], which is the Dark Money PAC equivalent in the non-profit world. That means when you donate to Wikimedia because you think you're supporting their infrastructure costs, what is actually happening is your donations are being funneled to other causes that you may or may not agree with by the Tides Foundation.

Why would anybody support that?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Donor-advised_fund
Any employees at those shifts are going to be terrified...
> Branch probability analysis | Branch prediction

> Peephole optimisations, idioms | Idioms

From the software side, what is it exactly that makes it so difficult to write a higher-level language that must be optimized, instead of a language that already exposes the optimizations in a friendly way?

("higher-level language" meaning c, not python or something)
Notwithstanding the lowest-level function open() working that way (and it’s honestly a somewhat different situation due to what it is and what the flags all are), fopen(), the more user-friendly interface with its mode strings, has "w" equivalent to including O_TRUNC in open() flags: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/fopen.3.html
"CEO Jack Dorsey has publicly touted how Cash App is mentioned in hundreds of hip hop songs as evidence of its mainstream appeal. A review of those songs show that the artists are not generally rapping about Cash App’s smooth user interface—many describe using it to scam, traffic drugs or even pay for murder."

Hindenburg made a music video compiling the references that is...uh...worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StjWk3Mj-M4
No. I use an extension that sleeps tabs e.g for a week.

It’s kind of cancer because you then end up with 200 tabs suddenly opening but it’s effective to make sure you actually look at it again.

I then dump anything non-urgent into an instance of yacy. That way I can search “pacific clams” and get back all the sites in my index that are relevant.
"New from Silicon Valley...AI Therapists"
I'm not sure any of the fundamentals have changed in 40 years, so being able to speak as an authority isn't really dependent on knowing React or that Java 19 got whatever new syntax.

That attitude is why ageism is so prevalent in engineering.

Maybe read a few of his books before writing someone off because you think they're out-dated.
As far as I know, there are three ways stock exchanges usually make money. Listing fees, trading fees and market data feeds. Trading fees literally means that when you trade stocks, small part of that goes to the stock exchange, quite literally the same as handing money over to NYSE itself.

At least (AFAIK) most cryptocurrency exchanges don't have listing fees, where cryptocurrency projects would pay the exchange for listing their cryptocurrency.
Does anyone know why the big companies didn't scale back their TVC (Temporary, Vendor or Contractor) usage before laying off full-time staff that take an order of magnitude more resources to hire and fire?

I was under the impression that flexibility was one of the big reasons for TVC use, much easier to scale up or down, akin to cloud computing resources.

I suppose the lack of TVC scale-down at companies like Google is yet another indication that layoffs aren't a financial necessity or even a best practice; it's just the hot market signal to show investors that you're serious about "battening down the hatches" for "economic downturn."
Thanks for the correction, I fixed it.
The best analogy would be that AI will do to culture today and over the next decade or so what pop music did to culture in the 1950's onward. The criticisms of pop music were widely mocked as superstitious religious fundamentalism, "devil music," etc, but even as an afficianado for rock'n'roll and alternative music, it really does give you a head full of garbage. Punk was fun, but I could probably do without exalting the sniveling self pity that made it appealing. For example, if your beliefs about love and relationships come from 20th century love songs, you're likely a rube, or worse, needy and codependent. Arguably, the cliche of the boomer narcissist is the direct result of being relentlessly propagandized by the music industry to believe in similarly inferior things. Folk music is mostly dialectic materialist conspiracy theorists singing hymns to their oppressors. Pre-internet, young people fully tribalized based on their taste in pop music. Sure, it's culture, it's entertaining, and some of it is even beautiful, but it was designed to exploit your sentimentality. If you think pop music tugged at the heart strings, just wait until the kids get ahold of AI platforms.

Imo, the products of AI will be at least as ecstatic and even addictive as pop music and social media, and the cultural consequences will likely rhyme. The antidote to all these trends was always the counterfactual that maybe, just maybe, people will find some higher principle to form their identities around and be able to experience these amusements objectively without imagining themselves as "becoming" something as a result of using them, but who are we kidding, they'll believe whatever entertains them. Imagine all the people.
The link was wrong, but the fact is right. The tobacco company parent also has a high ESG rating.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35274139
Don't forget they're a large multinational. They have both employees and customers in lower income economies.
Ahhh “undercover boss” except not under cover.

But seriously, unless the whole shop is staffed by management, to get a taste of the job on some rotation, they will mostly just get in the way of front line people. In high school I hated, hated it when a boss would come in and do work. It just stunk the atmosphere.
I think it's just a local game, it prepares a return but doesn't file it. Doesn't seem like there's much danger.
Associations between infant screen use, EEG markers, and cognitive outcomes
They could still pass strict privacy laws but the others (Facebook, Google, etc.) don't want that.
I think the machine code–level understanding is what's important. We can, in theory, put a person in a Chinese Room–style scenario and have them manually perform the code, and it will generate the same outputs (It would probably take millions or billions of years, but it is true in principle). A major difference is that we created the machine and the code and, at least as low as the level of digital logic design, we understand and control its behavior. The person in the room has a human mind with thoughts and behaviors completely out of the program designers' control and unrelated to the program; if they want to, they can break out of the room and punch the operator. The "unpredictability" of the machine is still constrained by the fundamental capabilities we give to it, so it might generate surprising outputs but it can't do things like punch people or launch nukes unless we connect it to other systems that have those capabilities.
Pretty cool. Maybe someone more knowledgeable can explain why this is different than existing facial capture techniques? Is it just the same stuff repackaged into a quick and user friendly package?
First, I have to admit that I was negatively biased by his appearance. I have a hard time believing anything that some guy who looks like he smokes metric tons of weed and dorks around on his guitar all day has to say.

That being said, the tech world has a bad habit of letting "visionaries" rest on their laurels. He'd have a lot more credence if he was actively developing AI and had more than gut feel to contribute.
I’m not saying you’re wrong, but remember that people said the same thing about Google+; it’s baked into every product and it’s here to stay, it’s not Google reader.
Why not? They call themselves communist but are pretty aggressively capitalist in most ways...
That’s useful
The tobacco company parent also has a high ESG rating.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35274139
Come here for this comment, was not disappointed.
I'm not sure how well 37Signals is doing these days - Hey didn't make as big an impact as they had hoped and Basecamp probably has a core of loyal users but I don't think it's getting a ton of new customers. They're small and could probably keep going until their founders decide to retire though.
I didn't know Square had changed their name to Block. Looks like it happened in December 2021: https://investors.block.xyz/news/news-details/2021/Square-In...

That said this really seems overblown. The report seems to mostly just talk about Cash App. Square Payments, Weebly and TIDAL are not even mentioned. Afterpay is mentioned but that was a 2022 acquisition so the problems likely predate Block's involvement.

It feels weird that they're using Cash App to indict the company as a whole. A single product in their portfolio doesn't justify calling the whole company a fraud.
> Basically I see a future where your OS is your internet browser as well as window manager, process manager, etc.

I sure hope you're wrong. It's definitely happening in some respect and to me it feels like we are undoing the shift from corporate controlled, centralized computing to personal computing where users are in control that happened from the late 70's through most of the 90's.

I've posted this quote here before, but I still think about it all the time. In Ellen Ullman's excellent book Life in Code she quotes Whitfield Diffie:

> We were slaves to the mainframe! he said. Dumb terminals! That's all we had. We were powerless under the big machine's unyielding central control. Then we escaped to the personal computer, autonomous, powerful. Then networks. The PC was soon rendered to be nothing but a "thin client," just a browser with very little software residing on our personal machines, the code being on network servers, which are under the control of administrators. Now to the web, nothing but a thin, thin browser for us. All the intelligence out there, on the net, our machines having become dumb terminals again.
From article:

> This idea of surpassing human ability is silly because it’s made of human abilities

At some point in history we were just "chimp abilities", so the argument would become "it's silly to imagine that something made of chimp abilities could surpass chimp abilities".
1% lowered revenue growth means 1% lowered totak revenue, dude.
The pre market is looking brutal: https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/sq

Those puts are going to pay off handsomely.
Google has been secretly incompetent for at least a decade now, probably more.

It's been weird. They started out a head-neck-and-torso above everyone else in competence. Interviews were neigh impossible, and it was a hyper-elite team and a dream work environment.

Then they screwed up, and hired a fifth of a million people.
I think the point is that after 3 to 4 years, a new version of the perpetual license version would be released and you would spend that amount to upgrade anyway. Of course you could choose no to upgrade, but that’s not always an option when support for new macOS versions are not available in the older version.
Wells Fargo took advantage of black people and minorities, I wouldn't call them the criminal demographic. They were also the victims.
I feel like $500k wouldn't come close to paying for the two years of research that went into this report.
It would be better for the stated goal of understanding the culture & challenges of living as an actual barista at Starbucks, rather than just a publicity stunt.
The report is extremely long, but having gone through the bullet points, the case seems quite overstated.

There are in fact millions of people who use Cash App, though it's probably less popular overall than Venmo. I know this because my wife and her friends will mention it and Venmo when talking about splitting bills. (Given the technical challenges Wells Fargo has had lately, I'm not sure who trusts Zelle.)

A lot of the claims amount to criticisms of Block's address verification functionality. But that doesn't mean Block engaged in fraud, perhaps they just have crappy address verification tech. Short of sending a human investigator out to physically verify that a given person really is located at a given address, I'm not sure what foolproof methods people use to eliminate that kind of fraud. The "let's send you a postcard with a code" method I've seen from legacy banks seems quite easy to exploit as well, just a bit slower.

The last question about merchant fees isn't fraud at all, but regulatory avoidance. Maybe the government will shut this down, or maybe they've found a loophole that Congress may want to close. It's unclear.

The least persuasive part of the report was the implication that rap lyrics imply Cash App facilitates crime.
Im not on the Gnome side. I haven’t contributed beyond very basic bug fixes and would hardly consider my contributions to Gnome meaningful.

But as part of searching for some contribution to make I went through a whole list of bug and feature requests.

And while it’s almost impossible to prove that the people are the same, what was very evident was the sense of entitlement displayed by both groups.

Frankly, even as someone who isn’t part of the Gnome community and was simply looking to maybe fix some language translations, the toxicity from the people who didn’t contribute anything was overwhelming. It’s fair enough to complain about something not being up to par. But that very quickly transforms into claims that the developers have an evil agenda.
From the linked article:

> While the court confirmed it had cause to believe the money in the bank accounts were the proceeds of drug trafficking
Sure. But it'd also give them a level of empathy it seems many CEOs lack. I'd say that's worth 1/12 of their work and, if anything, might make them a more efficient and truly understanding leader the remaining 11/12 of the year.
> AFAICT this suit[1] is about UNCONTROLLED digital lending

Yes and no. The publishers didn't file a lawsuit until the policy of uncontrolled digital lending was temporarily enacted, but the lawsuit is targeting controlled digital lending as well. You can read the complaint itself to find this out, helpfully linked by the plaintiffs themselves in their own press release about the lawsuit.

Were it only about uncontrolled digital lending, the suit would have been tossed as moot two years ago.
Automatic Web Content Detection
My thoughts exactly, I never cease to be amazed that I survived my childhood and teenage years (ages 12 to 15 the most precarious). Only one of us was killed—but not from things that go bang (tragically, he fell off a cliff).

Edit: At the time we never thought we were acting gung ho, nor were we ever a threat to anyone other than ourselves. Actually, we were quite careful considering—life-threatening experiences were more the result of ignorance.
No, these things basically just bullshit full time.
TikTok was already banned once by Trump. It was removed from app stores for new downloads but still worked if already installed.

ETA: Here’s one article I was able to find about it buried under more recent ones. I’m not sure how long it was removed for, but I do remember checking the Apple App Store at the time and not being able to find it, though it still worked if already installed.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/trump-tikt...
What are these "non-billable corporate functions"?
I don't really understand this - it's like trying to explain a colleague's behaviour by saying they're doing something so they get their salary.

Of course they need to have commercial gain in mind. But you need to be more specific.
I think people are getting confused withe the human brain's number of synapses. That's why that number is a 'magic' number.
This is a bit of a less traditional way to learn, but I'm big on learning from chords. Find a song you love on Ultimate Guitar Tabs and learn to play the chords – play them in different inversions and experiment with tweaks (adding a 7 or 2). Over time as you get comfortable with those chords and their inversion start to fill in the gaps following your ear. Personally I find this style of playing new songs more motivating as I can play a variety of pop songs and I can play them quickly and make them my own. An unfortunate side effect – I'm not great at sight reading
At least in spanish media there’s a trend where lots of news are now titled in conditional to try to save face for the fact that the reporter has not done proper fact-checking so they can push the news quicker. And grammatically, it’s the better way, there’s an implied conditional. It also helps avoid clickbait ;)
Fuck the academy
In case you’re not aware, chatGPT already has scale bordering on 100 million.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-sets-record-faste...
> As I understand it you just need a hard enough computation to prevent the 51% problem.

that's not the case, in fact hardness is barely a requirement provided you can scale up the number of sub-tasks as much as you need

When the work is provably wasteful, the model simplifies a great deal. Usefulness of the work complicates the dynamics and makes many scenarios plausible that otherwise wouldn't. The game theory then doesn't follow that you'd choose a currency with extra elements of instability.

I don't think there's enough evidence to make the hard requirement that it HAS to be provably wasteful. It's just that you introduce a bunch on extra, usually intractable, problems when the work is useful.
It's especially sad because community libraries are one of the few public spaces left in America. Sure, you can hang out at a coffee shop or a bar, but those spaces require you to buy a product just to exist in them.

Just another example of capitalism destroying resources that make us a civilization (instead of just a bundle of subscriptions).
The moment the actor asks and "you only need to do this once for each actor?" seems to have a subtext of questions of actors future job security and odd combination of marketing latest tech and wtf am I going to do realization packed into a single presentation.
You are making a lot of assumptions and many of those are not universal problems or even at all.

Compiled languages eventually need a complicated setup for the very same reasons. There is no such thing as "scales" and "doesn't scale". Even Go or C++ webapps have to be scaled up.

If you can get away without complexity on Go or whatever, good for you. Most companies don'T.
My HOA would argue otherwise. It exists specifically to prevent housing prices from falling due to certain local factors.