skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has everyone forgotten that bit where Facebook sent representatives out to college campuses and paid students twenty bucks to install their VPN app (distributed via Apple's beta or testflight or whatever)?

Apps like Instagram are popular enough that, if Meta wants to move them to their own app store (possibly incentivized via exclusive new features), people _will_ follow. And the VPN thing shows that there's no depths to the level of trickery and and violation of privacy that they will indulge in.
I made a mistake, I equated Savings Account with a GIC (which is like a cashable certificate of deposit). In Canada they can both be referred to as a TFSA, or Tax-Free Savings Account.

However the GIC is not like a savings account where there are minimum balance requirements to get an advertised rate.
Yes, there’s also something based on Pythia but it’s a smaller model
> As it stands today, having children places an unbearably high social and financial strain on people. Suburbs have been just one solution to the problem but there are others.

Yet Suburbs are the only ones I see that work. If you are thinking about having kids in the US move to the suburbs soon. Cities are not setup for you. Schools in the city are considered bad for a reason. Even if you can afford private schools, the parks are more sculpre gardens instead of swing sets. Everyone talks about the theator scene in the cities, but most of the shows wouldn't interest a child (most are not X rated). Many cities lack cheap places to eat - $40/person isn't too bad for one person, but when you have a few kids with you that price is not affordable often. How many places don't allow kids at all - not many in the suburbs, but somewhat common in the city. In the suburb you just buy a bigger car and everyone gets around - the big car won't fit in the city well, and your other options is paying a lot more on public transit because odds are there isn't a family pass, so the big car is probably cheaper.

The above is US specific (probably Canada too). I know there are a number of people from not US reading this who will tell me how it works in their city. I hope city residents read those replies and make changes before they need them.
>The company can just declare that replacing or altering the firmware voids the warranty

How can they know/figure it out? (They can't/or it's prohibitively expensive/difficult).

>it's very common to find my firmware reverse engineered and available within a month or so of the product being released.

Sure, but it's hidden from 99.99% of your user base
Yeah, not desperate enough to pay £7 per bag!
What exactly does "...the CPU is hardcoded to start reading instructions from when power is applied." mean?

How do the hardcoded parts read anything with just an electrical current?
> I agree, and the idea of a sideload-able iOS makes me very uneasy [...] Sideloading is full of risks, and I don't love it.

Luckily, there's very simple solution for you! Just don't use sideloaded apps.
I'm just a hobbyist, so regarding spending, the ever-popular "as little as possible" is close to my heart, given that each penny comes from my own pocket...

I try to keep my BGAs limited to 256 pins if I can, but sometimes it will go higher - I'm looking at using an I.MXRT1176 for example, and that's 289 balls at 0.8mm pitch. I've also used Efinix FPGAs at 0.8mm pitch/256 balls. I've gone as low as 0.65mm pitch, but that is pushing the limits of where I want to be...

It's fairly common to see 3.5mil as space/trace minimums nowadays (again in the cheap(er) Chinese PCB houses). That's still not quite enough to escape two traces between each outer ball on a 0.8mm grid - though reducing the solder pad and ignoring the warnings from the board-house has worked before :)

I've never done blind/buried vias, they always seem to be a lot more expensive than the 6- or 8-layer boards I can get done for cheap at nextpcb or jlpcb. Maybe I ought to ask again...

Things like FPGAs, DDR/HyperRAM ram, etc. used to be outside the province of hobbyists, but given the packaging for those high-frequency-capable pins, BGAs are ever-more common, and with them come the layout issues.
Unfortunately it’s because Nintendo despite their draconian approach and awful antics makes darn good video games.
Canada is another country with a separate banking system and has a different rate of inflation. Don't be confused just because both currencies are called "dollar".
You wrote:

They're money market funds so are covered by SIPC insurance.

If I understand your post correctly, this is not like FDIC insurance. Money market funds can always lose money and are not SPIC insured like FDIC insurance. (Please correct me if wrong.) What does it mean to "lose money" in money market funds? Most money market funds are buying very short-dated debt (about 90 days or less) -- like commercial paper [CP] (very popular before 2008) or US Treasury bills. For CP, these are not principal guaranteed, like US Treasuries (please ignore the Tora-Bora cave dwelling DeFi crowd that worries about the US Federal gov't going bankrupt -- I expect there will be a few replies to this post!). As a result, it is possible for the CP issuer to go bankrupt and be unable to repay the principle borrowed.

I think you are confusing SPIC insurance that covers you if the brokerage firm files for bankruptcy. No matter the losses from a brokerage firm, you will be covered by SPIC insurance as:

The limit of SIPC protection is $500,000, which includes a $250,000 limit for cash.

To be clear, money market funds are not cash. They are consider securities under US securities laws. You will be covered up to 500K USD. In my personal opinion, they are about 95-98% as safe as US Treasuries -- usually a very good investment.
Do you mean the use of uncredited use of artists artwork without paying royalties for the training set or AI art generation in general?
How much of this is down to the examples chosen? It seems to me that in practice you would generally use it with a specific link in mind (like the "Rust prehistory" or "notes on a smaller rust") ones; although I can see that those might be a bit more cumbersome to show in the post, given that they might use longer queries.
> Both are as close to 100% that this conversation is effectively meaningless. I just think it is an interesting hypothetical.

The first has almost 0% chance of happening. Apple will never bail out its customers for insured deposits, as that money is guaranteed by the FDIC. Why would they effectively "donate" money for free to the FDIC?

The only universe in which that happens is the one in which the FDIC somehow is insolvent and the federal government abandons the FDIC and the cascading effects of the latter (which would almost certainly create a national if not global financial crisis that makes 2008 look quaint) somehow don't affect Apple enough that they could use their additional cash on hand to pay their entire banking liabilities. Which is pretty unlikely, given that most non-banking companies don't have cash reserves that large that they can dip into at a moment's notice. Even Apple, the world's biggest company, has "only" $50B in cash on hand as of last quarter, which sounds like a lot but would not be enough to weather that kind of a crisis and still be able to make depositors whole even if they felt that it was their responsibility.
Protectionism takes many form and is controlled by the country doing it.

For instance subsidies for US EV véhicules in 2023 is protectionism and will probably benefit US company.

The US do that a lot for a free market proponent.

As opposed to sanction where it’s something that is imposed to you.
No, copyright law is about the exclusive right to make copies, among other rights. In US law this is 17 USC 106.

The reason making a single copy for personal use is generally considered permissible is because: (1) it may be fair use under 17 USC 107, (2) the copyright owner will probably never find out, and (3) even if the copyright owner found out it probably won’t sue over one copy.
they're saying that when charging you likely have the spare current to warm up the batteries before you charge them.
An in-depth look at Google’s first Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) (2017)
I also bought a Steam Deck for this reason, and am looking forward to emulate the latest Zelda game on it!
The setting that Facebook hates and evidently bet the whole company on - "Ask App Not To Track" - probably wouldn't go away for sideloaded apps.

Honestly, given things like this ...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/montana-lawmakers-vo...

I think Apple may not have a choice. This is a move that will leave Apple free (or freer) of liability in various situations. For example, Apple is no longer liable if you sideload an app that is outlawed by your locality, and Apple removing apps from the App Store for violating App Store TOS can no longer be as strongly framed in a censorship debate.

I'm looking forward to it because quite a few apps that feature adult content can exist on iOS now and not have to be clunky web apps.
@dang The title should be changed from MILA to Mila/IQIA.
AWS staff spending ‘much of their time ’optimizing customers' clouds'
Reading back what I wrote, yes, we never took this as a warning not to let them learn at all! I think the intention was more that there is less incentive to actively push or pressure kids in to reading before school, and that actively trying to teach them one methodology might even conflict with the method they end up being taught in school. That parents try to "get their kids ready for school" by getting them to read before starting, and that doing so is unnecessary. That is how we took it.
But these are drawn by their authors.

It's not an issue of copyright, but perhaps could be an issue of trademarks.
Yeah, it reminds me of this image:

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--W8ZYHe9...
Charlie's not just a dog, but he's indeed a dog.

Shorthands are fine, but this is not it. This is some weird agenda to deny the logical truth.
Okay, I won't mention how much is wrong in the webdev statement... :-D
using an API to order eSims from an eSim provider like oasis (now tata) and register it in your core network ?
I don’t know, Apple definitely had to do damage control around that. Nintendo basically guards against pissing off parents. I think they come down hard on uncontrolled use of IP because to tacitly allow it seems like condoning it. If you just slam everything, parents feel like they can trust the brand.

My main problem with Nintendo is that their game systems are too difficult for young children to actually use.
Ask HN: Best Antivirus for Linux?
I consider myself pretty careful with Ubuntu as my daily driver. I only grab official and signed software from the Snap Store, and do all the usual security best practices like 2FA, regular updates, not opening e-mail attachments, strong passwords etc

But Linux is getting more popular, and is increasingly becoming a target for malware authors. I read some articles recently of sophisticated so called 'fileless' Linux malware that is polymorphic and hard to detect on a system.

Is there any Antivirus for Linux that anyone can recommend (Paid or free) that I can use to do quick sweeps of my system? I don't want some low-hanging fruit virus compromising me, or sophisticated nation state malware, and yes my threat model includes nation states because I'm a sysadmin for my sins and have lots of Intellectual Property I need protecting.

I've heard of ClamAV. I tested it out, but I want something more sophisticated.
IMO, the win-win situation for YouTube, YouTube content creators, and copyright holders is for Google to simply make the DMCA claim/counter-claim system as streamlined as possible. The DMCA lets YouTube not give a shit after a counter claim gets made, because they've earned their immunity. Someone who makes a living uploading stuff to YouTube have a professional interest in making sure their content remains up, so they'll respond with the appropriate "your claim is bad, if you disagree sue me" counter-claim quickly. And for copyright holders, getting a reputation for successfully suing infringers will rapidly serve to chill people's abuse of their material.
Makes some sense to me. Tired and burnout, this probably is one solution. 0.1X!
Fascinating, it's like looking at a map of some foreign planet. Can you give some detail how you created this? Any interesting functionality to try out that is not obvious? I am just zooming in and out.

Edit: wow you can click around on the nodes and see the connections on the graph. It sounds like you were able to do some type of unsupervised learning algorithm to effectively "cluster" the various reddit groups.
A Big 4 can't conduct a proper SOC audit without access to the cloud providers internal controls/processes. That's the problematic/expensive part since it requires a bunch of time from the cloud provider, which they will also likely want to bill for.
When will Apple Card be available outside the US? I would use it if it was available in Europe…

Sometimes Apple is too US centred.
I recommend Ally. Very good customer service (on rare occasions I called immediate pickup or just a few minutes). Their banking app is good (used to be simper/better in the past imho) and they are known for competitive interest rates (Savings is at 3.75% right now)

https://www.ally.com/bank/interest-checking-account/
This is true, but like so many things America seems to have lost the ability to moderate. For every person who blindly follows "experts", there's someone who insists experts don't know anything at all and any random thought that pops into my head is just as valid as any expert opinion.

It's gone binary, and the actual real world is analog, as any expert will tell you.
Competitive integrity is one of the things that makes competition fun.
The Right to Read movie talks about this very topic, and features the author of this podcast: https://www.therighttoreadfilm.org/
The problem with AI-generated answers is that they are bullshit delivered with confidence and authority.
> Considering that the GOP is rehabilitating the Confederacy these days

What is this in reference to?

The GOP emancipated the Democrats slaves.
I'm pretty sure parsing ELF binaries is out of scope for kdump(1), sorry, but I don't think that's going to happen.

It's not that difficult to run addr2line yourself with the information provided, and that's really for the best.
No, that's not my standard.

I have a deadly genetic disorder. I have spent more than twenty years getting better while the world spits in my face, calls me a liar, tells me I'm making things up, bans me left and right from various forums, etc. I talk less about that than I used to. Truth being on my side has been irrelevant in the face of internet strangers feeling like a former homemaker isn't allowed to know anything medically significant and I've essentially been bullied into silence on the topic.

So I decided the article isn't my cup of tea.

Is the token woman on the HN leaderboard not allowed to feel like "I identify too much with the minority individual people are calling a liar. It seems pointless to read this."?

Apparently, commenting about this article at all was a huge mistake. The number of replies from people insisting I'm wrong to not wish to invest myself in this story seems ridiculously high.
Cuba can’t control those sanctions.
Protectionism imply that it’s a choice to bootstrap a sector.

For instance : Biden subsidies on EV véhicules apply to US companies only. That’s protectionism.

EU subsidies for EV works with any brands. So the subsidies money are currently going to Chinese EV manufacturers.
It's interesting to see how much of a boost the Fediverse received simply from the inept handling of Twitter.

Social networks operate on an attention economy.
> This is a recurring theme on HN and I find it so strange. Are we really supposed to form opinions on what we imagine faceless committees motives are, rather than the actual corporate actions?

I’m unsure which side I fall on in this argument, since Apple has had an incredible run of customer-friendly decisions IMO (at least when compared to their competitors, and other near-monopolies). However, it’s important to learn from history too. Amazon was once one of the most revered brands in the world. They successfully priced out local shops and online retailers by stocking everything, having reliable and fast shipping, and good customer service.

But now look at them. Fake products and reviews everywhere, 2 day shipping is no longer a thing, they’re purposefully making returns more of a hassle, and people outside of major metropolitan areas no longer have other options for many things.

Companies with serious lock-in are bound to screw you eventually. Strong culture and product decisions can only last for so long until some minmaxer with no product vision or care for brand reputation starts calling the shots.
> Yes, I discussed the issue in the link I gave.

Nope. After 7 years that is the MAUs as clearly shown to everyone. There are no issues with that figure.

> This doesn't follow. I can estimate it as 2 people. Or 2 billion people. Where does 100,000 or 50,000 come from? You repeatedly refuse to give any evidence that you haven't made those numbers up out of thin air.

NO source exists for Mastodon that verifies the DAUs, since it is not given; meaning that one can only estimate. The problem with your 'link' is that you continuously use it as the wrong metric when it is for the MAUs.

So until you provide a verifiable source for the 'DAU' figures it can only be estimated. I gave mine and you can disagree with it. But without such a definitive verifiable source confirming the DAUs, I can just dismiss it like you can dismiss my estimate.

Furthermore, it is no good blaming a 'label' that has been there for 7 years and now having a problem with it given you still don't have a source for the DAUs.
I went to a selective-entry single-gender public school, I have always just assumed my school experiences aren’t reflective of schools in general and refused to draw conclusions from my experiences.
> the graphemes do not represent phonemes, despite your claims.

I now suspect you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what a phoneme is.

What does the symbol “c” represent, if not two different phonemes?

The letters in the English script represent sounds. Do you disagree?
Yeah, I was forced to install Messenger. It sucks.
Very well, I stand corrected.
I have mixed feelings about this. I'm exactly the type of person who used to jailbreak my iPhone to run Cydia, and I used to build my own custom Android ROMs and spend hours on XDA-Developers before that. Now though, I appreciate how locked down iPhones are, and I keep it as locked down via Apple Configurator as possible, because the mobile web and mobile application space are fraught with peril. The vast majority of mobile apps are net-negative experiences unless it's a companion app to an in-person service (e.g. restaurant/airline/hotel/bank), and even those are often risky. If you look at the Android ecosystem, the Google Play Store is basically a ghetto where the lowest common denominator criminal gangs operate malware at scale with impunity, and Apple has been a haven away from this.

I went through a lot of effort to switch my elderly parents into the Apple ecosystem, and since doing so I have been able to have a lot less support required and to sleep easy at night. With sideloading coming, I am not longer certain that their devices are safe and they won't be tricked into putting malware on the device.
The net loss is to society when Meta pulls Instagram from the official store and says "to continue using Instagram, go to instagram.com in safari and follow the instructions".
Kevin Bridges! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W_k7ybGBDg
Laser Scissors
On the other hand, kids that are driven to school have a much worse mental model of their surrounding neighbourhood than kids who walk or bike. The agency and feedback matters.
Spoiler alert: they patented it anyway [1] after he left [2]

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j_1lIFRdnhA

[2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O95fnszzI6I
If they make it like android’s dev mode, no one on Earth who shouldn’t will enable it.

The people whom for such exploits would be dangerous won’t be able to follow the 6 steps to enable them.
Have you used hybrid polymer electrolytics at all? I tried using a few just for fun when replacing capacitors on an old computer but I haven't seen them used or mentioned much before.
A Google desktop OS wasn't going to win against Windows in PC gaming compatibility. Nor was it going to displace MS Office + Active Directory at the enterprise level.

With ChromeOS, they took the route available to them, which was to enter the school market and try to build something from there.
How do you understand US subsidies on EV, only applying to US manufacturers?
Didn't the DMCA make bypassing copy protections illegal?
>amount spent per user on software and computer services is far lower for Android

But why does that matter in this context
I think you're right, but for the wrong reasons.

Actual evidence-based science would be fantastic. But a lot of what I've seen being touted as "science" in this field is flimsy or not science at all.

The primary cause is the downfall of research done by universities. Our institutions are churning out mountains of bullshit "science" in certain fields, including in education. This junk science is now being pushed down into the classroom and it's devastating for educators and students.

Once I was consulting a very large family foundation in this space and asked why there are no randomized trials in education. I was told that researchers in the space think it's unethical to conduct studies with control groups on students. (Which, to be clear, is moronic.) The result is there's very little in the way of solid evidence about what even works.
And can put up a banner that says "Sorry - to improve your experience, you must enable 'always' location tracking".
I followed them very closely, 99% of them were bit torrent and misreported in the media as "downloading" when in fact if you read the actual cases it was the distribution / uploading that was the bases of the case
Hallucination problem is easily solved by using it as a code/config template or starter, and actually vetting its output. It's still a huge time-saver, even with the vetting time involved.

Cold War strategy. Trust but Verify.
So there literally is an explanation from Nintendo. Did you explain to your kids that their levels are still on their Wii U storage?
Quite correct. I'd argue it's not even the right framework to consider the question.

Individual Mastodon nodes might be interested in maximizing their userbase. But talking about "Growth goals for Mastodon" is like trying to talk about "Growth goals for the Internet."
"I'm not sure why most people are okay with companies gathering tons of data about them and trying to use it to manipulate them into buying products they don't actually want or need (among other uses), but I'm not one of them."

It takes a ton of work to prevent it and it's more or less futile anyways. It's not so much that people are okay with this, rather it's a part of modern life and it's exhausting trying to mitigate it. And impulsively buying products due to ads is a personal failing.
It uses a phonetic script. The symbols of the script represent sounds.
Don’t Believe What You Hear: The MBA Is More Relevant Than Ever
Intriguingly, "fed" is British youth slang for the police despite Britain not being a federal state and there being very few national police. A US cultural import, presumably.
Codegraph – static code analyzator / code diagramer
Wow, I assumed they would have at least some compelling evidence against him, but after looking into the case it seems like they have nothing on him, but a couple of coincidences.
Newspapers print their errata though. Does ChatGPT ever admit to making a mistake?
This article conveyed almost no information.