skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Thinking realistically, every software I use with the notable exception of Windows and DaVinci Resolve switched to a subscription model. If Microsoft doesn't do that and pushes its OneDrive and 365 subs via the task bar every now and then I'm personally okay with that. Better than paying $$$ every month just to use the OS."

OneDrive and Office is the subscription for Windows. Having worked in a repair shop I can tell you that the layperson thinks the OS is synonymous with "their data" and "their applications." If you said to them verbatim that you're "reinstalling their OS", and you give them back a computer with all their "Recently Used" menus empty, missing programs, all default settings, browser favorites are gone, their Outlook PST is missing, and the Office Key you ripped off the machine was an OEM license that won't activate through normal channels: that individual is going to be very cross with you.

Turns out it's really hard to sell retail customers "nothing for something", and to the average person an empty Windows install is useless. Gate their productivity suite (input) and storage (output) behind a subscription, though, and suddenly you have a customer hooked for life.

I've also seen this playout with Apple Users: their iCloud subscription lapses, or their storage on the free tier runs out, and it stops syncing photos and videos. Eventually the phone takes a dive in the ocean, or a toilet, or just dies of old age. The user goes to the Apple store and is emotionally devastated when they sign in to iCloud on their new phone only to find it is missing the last year of their life. Users aren't going to swear off Apple products, the backup and usability story on Android is a nightmare by comparison, they're just going to let the Genius Bar upsell them into the $2.99 protection racket.

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It's also worth noting that Windows Enterprise is already a subscription. To use Enterprise (GA servicing channel) you need to have an Windows E3/E5 license, or active Software Assurance. The problem is these subscriptions only work because Microsoft has the power to audit VL customers, and those customers tend to have the pockets to pay up remediation or legal fees. _The only reason Windows Home/Pro are not subscriptions is because Microsoft never figured out the economics of auditing retail consumers._

If consumers are leasing their storage and programs from you, though, it turns out you don't need to audit them.
Those topics that AI replaces the forums for won't need discussion. People won't be confused about that thing because the coding AI knows the details of it. Soon that'll be most syntax questions, soon simple to mid-level algorithms, etc.

People will move on to higher-level questions.
and their profits have soared
Once this barrier is broken down we'll see a lot of cool things. 32k on GPT-4 is already pretty cool but once we get into hundreds of thousands/millions of tokens of context we'll be able to easily do things only currently achievable with fine tuning and "memory" tricks. Assistants that remember everything you've ever told them, asking detailed questions about large datasets, even complex systems that are bootstrapped from the context.
If you want to scan the entire organism, sure. But higher resolution MRI can also mean "scan a smaller part, with good detail, in the same amount of time". I could imagine this being useful for e.g. getting a high resolution image of a tumour after conventional imaging was used to locate it.
The British system is, indeed, fundamentally insane, from a technical perspective. They nerfed aristocratic power by neutering the House of Lords, but didn't bother replacing it with some other check or balance, leaving the Commons all-powerful - and with an electoral system that disproportionately favours cohesive ideologic minorities. Ironically, this was largely done by self-declared leftists, who utterly failed to anticipate how fascism could easily manifest through such a system.
To nuance that, Android is also much more modular in its updates than iOS, an outdated Android depends on the security flaw itself to be exploitable or not, it really depends. On iOS, the system is exploitable in 100% of the cases if not updated and keeping the system always up to date is even more critical.
> V8 11.3

> The V8 engine is updated to version 11.3, which is part of Chromium 113. This version includes three new features to the JavaScript API:

> ...

> - Methods that change Array and TypedArray by copy

> ...

Excited to see these in. I've been waiting for the non-mutating versions of .sort() and .splice() and now they're finally here (.toSorted and toSpliced)!

> - Resizable ArrayBuffer and growable SharedArrayBuffer

Does this mean that WebAssembly memory can also now grow without making a copy of the entire buffer?

> The V8 update was a contribution by Michaël Zasso in #47251.

Well done Michaël!
"Turnover?"
this might encouag small tech biz to outsource even more, i will pay a standard professional service fee to them, will this help me to survive?
It's really telling how simply he glosses over saying that like it's a perfectly normal thing for a "journalist" to do. That's pretty depressing.
> you can be told not to reveal that you've told them the password

Come again? I don’t catch the meaning of this.
Ancient Egyptian child mummy anemias: Computed tomography in European museums
They did get Fox to admit wrongdoing, which is rare in such a settlement. And they got close to a billion dollars out of it. A pretty solid win for them.
Trump's specific claims were wrong but elections are readily hackable using a variety of methods. There are numerous YouTube videos showing how to hack election machines that are in use today. It's so frustrating that the DNC shoots down any question of election security as an issue now when we were previously so very close to universally moving to paper ballots in the US.
That’s all well and good but you still have to account for Jevon’s Paradox, that it might not matter if consumption keeps rising. It seems really, really hard to do that in a socioeconomic system built upon continuous industrial growth and consumption.
If you read the article, Sveriges Radio says their choice to leave Twitter has nothing to do with the labels.
They won't, but wouldn't anyway. A civil suit can recover damages, it can't make Fox into something other than what it is.

But no one who would have been receptive to the truth is watching Fox in the first place. That is, really, the core truth exposed by this suit. Fox is completely captured by its audience. For years we thought it was the other way around.
Alternative sources of advice that isn't confirmed to work with NSA to spy on people.
You may very well want to keep both separate if your business requires separation between the people who control software feature flags vs. the people who determine access entitlements.
Particularly surprising given all the embarrassing/reputation-damaging stuff that came out in discovery. Seems like they could have avoided all that by making this offer sooner.
I do talk about variable request cost a fair bit, but I really don't think I did a good job visualising it. The rate at which each request shrinks while it's being processed by a server is meant to represent cost, but it's pretty subtle and easy to miss unless you're really watching closely.

If I were to do this again, making request cost more obvious would be something I'd like to do. I had initially had requests by variable in size on screen, and moved away from that because load balancers don't typically know the cost of a request up front.
> corrupt powerful people use violence to take down their rights.

Sir this is a Wendy's.

Or at least, a thread about start menu ads. Touch grass and gain perspective.
I wish they had gone to trial. Oh well. I know MSNBC is just as partisan but Fox let itself get usurped by Trump and went along with the Big Lie for ratings and money and now they get off with no accountability just a nearly 800M fine. Big whoop. And just goes to show you can disparage democracy and elections and get away with it if you have enough money. I’m rather depressed by the whole thing. I thought their case was very solid. Why settle?
Public service announcement that myself and others are actively trying to poison the training data used for code generation systems. https://codegencodepoisoningcontest.cargo.site/

See previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35545442
Not honoring "do-not-track" isn't as visible. Sure a site could just do the bare minimum to look like it upholds the law while breaking it, but instead we got tons of user hostile dark pattern filed dialogs that outright screamed "look at us, we are violating the law".
Sounds good, but what does it mean in practice?

- Does every program need to support offline account? (what about MMO games?)

- Does every program need to support online account? (tongue in cheek, for people who prefer online services)

- What if I don't want to install a particular Windows update because I dislike something about it? Right now I can stay forever on an obsolete version (I assume), but that's not "equally represented" - my computer is broken now.

I think it's very hard (or borderline impossible) to do what you ask for. Even in Open Source, where choice is almost a religion, not all options are equally easy for users.
> How can the police effectively prove that someone remembers the passcode?

if they can prove you were using the phone an hour ago that would probably do it
Fun fact: If you spelled the company the way you did just then in your job application to them your CV would go straight in the bin and you would not get a call regardless of your credentials. It was a well known vetting criteria.
If it'll make you feel better, fox shareholders are prepping lawsuits against the executives to recoup the money the company will need to pay the settlement. So it's not the end yet.
> I think America's cultural preference for the young and the new is serving it well

I disagree with this. I think it does the nation a serious disservice. Both the younger and older generations bring distinct and important things to the table. Missing either of them is a serious strategic mistake.
When I was a kid, we moved a lot. So I had to make new friends every year or two. And I did.

But did this help me with making friends as an adult? Apparently nope.

How come there's a million dating apps but no "friend finding" apps? Well there's meetup.com but the results there are somewhat meh.
To be fair, that clip is Carlson imagining a hypothetical scenario in which he’s the Secretary of Transportation or someone similar, and needs to justify keeping self-driving trucks off the road to avoid putting millions of truck drivers out of work. It is not an example of a lack of journalistic integrity or demonstration of his own televised spin.
e.g. https://www.zippia.com/dominion-voting-systems-careers-15692...
Last time I used one it worked fine. The hysteria about them was started by a guy who got his ass handed to him in a presidential election and didn't feel too good about it.
I was thinking more along lines of 100% ...
But hey, point taken taken, we are generally in agreement.
DeSantis doesn't have any policy wins to his name outside of the FPRE act and the Disney business. Neither of those things are enough to carry someone to the presidency. Even Romney had his healthcare program to hang his hat on.
I don't wish Microsoft to forcibly snag the profits from my (and more significantly, many others) Stack Overflow posts - while giving nothing back to the SO community. I'm ok with SO profiting from that and giving me points in return. If/when that becomes a noticeable issue for SO I'm sure they will revisit their approach too, because nobody likes leeches.
The EU is planning to do just that. The new ePrivacy Regulation is currently in trilogue negotiations, and should go into force between later this year and 2025.

> the cookie provision, which has resulted in an overload of consent requests for internet users, will be streamlined. The new rule will be more user-friendly as browser settings will provide an easy way to accept or refuse tracking cookies and other identifiers. The proposal also clarifies that no consent is needed for non-privacy intrusive cookies that improve internet experience, such as cookies to remember shopping-cart history or to count the number of website visitors.

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eprivacy-r...
Capitalism is revealing itself as the Moloch problem. We are feeding our babies to it and praying for rain. It's just now we are seeing the consequences more clearly.
I wish I could laugh, seems the US, UK and Australia are in a competition to see who can out do each other.

What is it with English Speaking Countries ? I guess Canada is OK because of Quebec keeps them sane :)
What I would really love is if we had a broader linting tool built on this sort of tech that could go the other way.

So often we are halfway through refactoring the code from a bad pattern that has a proven track record of issues, to one that at least prevents the worst ravages of the old one. There are never any guarantees that you will get everyone on board for this. Someone will defect, and they will keep copying and pasting the old pattern and if they code faster than you then you never get to the end.

Give me a way to mark a bunch of code as 'the old way' and hook that information into autocomplete or even just a linter that runs at code review time.
When was society not breaking down? We didn't start the fire. It's been burning since world's been turning.
I certainly assumed that its catalog was very similar, if not identical.
Something I have wondered about as a nerdy person is just typing in your favourite bit of maths (as LaTeX) or similarly pseudocode. Utterly memorable to you, highly unlikely to be memorable to other people, high use of special characters and non-English words, and a reasonable number of characters are generated without brain power. A bad example of this perhaps would be "i\hbar\frac{∂}{∂t}|\psi\rangle=H|\psi\rangle". Burned into my brain, typable quickly on a keyboard with known special character locations (replace ∂ with \partial if that is a concern) and almost _certainly_ not in a wordlist. Shannon entropy of ~4.3, equivalent to ~240 bits of key, and a specific metric entropy of ~0.1.
Can't forget things they never experienced. Most of the voters weren't alive 50 years ago or more like 78 years ago if you're looking to the end of ww2.
I found that running tang[1] at home and needing to decrypt that box (can be a Pi or whatever) requiring a complex passphrase is very sufficient. You can even just unplug it at night if it makes you sleep better.

https://github.com/latchset/tang
For the love of God, how many times have they done this at this point?
Thanks, but I don't see "turnover" on there. As far as I've ever seen, turnover refers to personnel changes.

Also: Gotta love how someone downvoted this simple observation. Go back to Reddit, whoever you are.
There are many that don't have control over what operating system they use.
There is human error which is an error of an employee and there is process flaw which is managent's problem and while they are humans the flaw is not an error it is incompetence, especially when it happens more than twice.
Parroting a lot of other comments but in short:

* Really neat
* Makes me anxious; perhaps an option for one without seconds?
Once you write something a little more involved than an utility script

I only use Python specifically for utility scripts for this reason.
I actually kind of detest my local college--as colleges go. But not enough to move, so I make do. What I lack in quality I make up for in quantity. Been going for 15 years (mostly just a class or two at a time).

It's fun.
I appreciate that we are starting to see a bit of accountability brought to these media organizations. We saw it a few years ago with CNN and the Convington Catholic kid and now this.

Just two small drops in a giant ocean of garbage but it is something.
based on the title, I would've buzzed in with "What is the Apple III?"

But, the video's preview image gives away the answer...
This is tedious. It's a time-worn strategy of all politicians and activists to justify their preferred policies pretextually. If you have something to say about the actual policy he's discussing -- industry protectionism -- you should make that comment instead.

But if your comment is just "one time someone from the other team said the quiet part aloud" that's rather naive and unremarkable.
If you want an abomination, the Azure data studio makes SSMS look like query analyzer.
Oh! I gonna dive into this pretty soon. Thank you!
In my dark little heart of hearts, I know there's some US insurance company executives sitting around thinking "how can I use machine learning to automate the process of denying coverage based on 'trends' or whatever that I won't have to justify because I'm not obligated to make the LLMs decision process transparent to anyone".
I actually liked parts of it (W8) on my tablets. I chose windows tablets exactly because I know I get updates for years (except now with the TPM requirement for W11). I still use a Yoga 2 8" tablet (9yrs old) every day in bed.

Even though I run Linux on everything else I haven't tried and or messed with it on a tablet. I do not consider my Steam Deck as a tablet - I do use it a lot as one but 99% of the time I enjoy the controller input over touch.

I just can't find a replacement for my Yoga 2 8". The front facing speakers are amazing and every new version of this tablet runs android which is an auto skip for me.
The trouble with gauging HN's actual opinion on things is that there's a lot of people here who just want to argue and play semantic games. I remember when Roe was overturned, people would make upset comments obviously just looking to commiserate and feel outraged, and people who agreed it was wrong in their own main comments would 'play devil's advocate' for funsies anyway. By the end of the threads it sure didn't seem like they were just playing a side, and they're not thinking about anyone else reading the thread and coming away convinced by their debate exercise. They're bored and took issue with an analogy.
This is why I browse the internet with scripts disabled. I don't see a popup of any sort.
Just a tip, you can encode a timestamp in a YouTube URL. Right click at the time you want to point to and choose "Copy video URL at current time". Or just encode the time in seconds as ?t=<seconds_to_jump_to> in the query string.

https://youtu.be/awM0nrlOZxk?t=370
This is 30 years revenue for Dominion, even though they would almost certainly have won the case there is no guarantee they would have been awarded this much money.
I'm not into using the voting machines of a company that confronts rhetoric and criticism with massive lawsuits.

No one should trust the literal mechanical linchpin of democracy to a company that uses lawfare instead of its words.
I intensely dislike them taking over as gatekeepers of the web. Perhaps because my browser is configured to resist fingerprinting and to avoid running arbitrary scripts from random websites, it is very frequently blocked by Cloudflare.

As one example, I can no longer browse the site for Lowe's (big box home improvement chain). Consequently, I now buy everything from Home Depot (their competitor).

It's astonishing how Cloudflare can do such a poor job of determining the difference between a potential customer and an attacker. Life's too short to solve captchas for an intermediary, so I don't bother, I just find a competitor who wants my business.
It's difficult to say what precise altitude it was at, but the spiral formation is from the final booster stage jettisoning fuel so that it doesn't explode on re-entry. That means, in very broad terms, the spacecraft and the booster were likely in the low earth orbit regime, and likely just under orbital velocity for the spacecraft.

Given that the spiral had a northward azimuth from Delta Junction (as per the article) the draining happened after it had already passed overhead, and it was likely very far away when it actually re-entered. At an inclination in line with Vandenburg, it likely landed in the Pacific.

I am an astrodynamicist but my work in launch dynamics is a bit rusty, so bear with me if my off-the-cuff estimates are off.
One word: The Criterion Collection

OK, that's three words.
abridgett didn't check after posting, and so didn't catch some weird formatting. They are making two separate points:

- the onus is on _you_ to "prove" that you don't know it or have forgotten it

- you can be told not to reveal that you've told them the password
Look this stuff might be stupid but they really don't need your consent to do offer certain features on their website/app which you are voluntarily using.

It seems you are the one who does not understand consent.
Assuming Fox hosts mentioned the word "Dominion" in an accusation an average of, say, 50 times a day for two years, the cost to Fox per utterance was on the order of $787,500,000 ÷ (50×365×2) = ~$22,000 per utterance. Those lies sure were expensive!

Let's hope this will induce Fox hosts to be a wee bit more careful about keeping facts straight going forward.
Probably because “graduating” bootcamps doesnt make one a swe and people figured out it’s a scam?
Because nothing comes for free, and it's certainly not going to start anytime soon.
>I've learned not to underestimate the extents to which people will go to rationalize their cognitive dissonance. In person, my tactic has just been to self-censor more - I guess I'm tired/lazy and don't want to be bothered unnecessarily.

I couldn't agree more. As someone with decades of infosec experience, I stopped trying to get my family members (especially those who don't have any technical background) not to use abusive products/services, especially on their smartphones years ago, because I got sick of having to hear about how wrong I was from folks who wouldn't know good security hygiene if it came up and bit them.

It just wasn't worth the argument.

As in most situations (not just tech/infosec), some lessons can't be learned from others, the mistakes must be experienced personally to actually get it. Those lessons are different for everyone, but are pretty ubiquitous. I've certainly been there myself.

Edit: Corrected prose to actually make sense.
That seems like it would be a huge win for the public. Is there any good reason this couldn't happen besides the obvious troublesome process of passing laws?
I see you're getting downvoted, but wanted to chime in and say I agree generally with what you're saying RE: legitimate concerns about the security and reliability of voting machines.

During all of this election denial I've been sitting around thinking to myself every now and again: Wait, haven't we been trying to talk about how the software in these machines should be open for public review? Weren't we concerned about the political biases of these company's owners? It worries me that now if you say something like "well, actually, I'm concerned about election integrity" a lot of people will think you're going full culture war.
Netflix did not create a Cambrian explosion of video content. That would be YouTube and TikTok.

The Cambrian explosion of cinema is still waiting to happen, but generative AI is poised to deliver on that sooner or later.
Can an S corp be single member? What are the drawbacks to using an S corp as opposed to an LLC?
Stovetops too imo. Being able to clean the whole thing with a quick wipe is so nice. Hate having to clean and remove knobs.
Because 1. it has a limited context window, so it has no permanent memory 2. you can't fine-tune ChatGPT/GPT-4 to get around this, and of course 3. language models don't do anything by themselves unless you input text into them.
But they didn't take anything? And those two moves of SO and Reddit are mainly about greed: they want some more money just for hosting content that people generated while viewing their ads and giving them money for features.