skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My worry here is how the big apps will just publish instructions on how to sideload and then escape the controls and safety that the App Store provides. We know from years of phishing attacks how easy it is to convince people to click links to non-official sites. The App Store already is doing a poor job at trying to prevent copycat apps, this makes it so much worse.

For the majority of my family the App Store provides a huge amount of safety, as no cost. They have no concept of the protections it provides, but equally will just blindly follow instructions online as well.

My mother was convinced for years her iMac and MacBook were from Microsoft because every doc she opened said "Microsoft Windows" and she knows Microsoft.

Weren't Facebook caught teaching people to use TestFlight to install VPNs to circumvent rules before? This feels like it'll play out similarly to Binance teaching users to install VPNs to circumvent trading controls, for the big official apps, and simultaneously open the floodgates to a ton of spam/phishing/fake apps.

Facebook/TikTok/etc just have to say something like "Here's our fancy new version and feature X is only available when you follow these new install instructions" and it'll happen.

Then it'll normalize it, which is the worst outcome.
This article assumes that you are working for sane people. I left a job after 9 years. I gave 30 days notice. The reason I was leaving? My manager was micromanaging me and threatening me daily.

I felt the obligation to give longer than 2 weeks notice because I've been there for so long and was a key employee. Instead of appreciating it, the manager decided that I needed to source, higher, and train my replacement within that 30 days. And then they actually made my life even worse. I ended up quitting two weeks in. I couldn't take it.

So yes if you have a wonderful work environment and people who are totally normal and are glad you are there, then giving 30 days notice is great. But if you have that environment, why would you be leaving?
"fraudulent redefinition of consent"

Unconscionability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability :

> Unconscionability (sometimes known as unconscionable dealing/conduct in Australia) is a doctrine in contract law that describes terms that are so extremely unjust, or overwhelmingly one-sided in favor of the party who has the superior bargaining power, that they are contrary to good conscience. Typically, an unconscionable contract is held to be unenforceable because no reasonable or informed person would otherwise agree to it. The perpetrator of the conduct is not allowed to benefit, because the consideration offered is lacking, or is so obviously inadequate, that to enforce the contract would be unfair to the party seeking to escape the contract.

Statute of frauds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_frauds :

> A statute of frauds is a form of statute requiring that certain kinds of contracts be memorialized in writing, signed by the party against whom they are to be enforced, with sufficient content to evidence the contract. [1][2] […]

> Raising the defense: A defendant in a contract case who wants to use the statute of frauds as a defense must raise it as an affirmative defense in a timely manner. [7] The burden of proving that a written contract exists comes into play only when a statute of frauds defense is raised by the defendant.
Yeah I really don't get where all the fearmongering is coming from. People seem terrified we're going to end up in some kind of federated decentralized App Store "hell"scape instantly. Vs the reality where the thought of posting on even the Amazon App Store literally sounds like a joke to me.

Apple is still going to have the best integrations for their own App Store and even if eg Epic manage to get close (I kind of doubt it even if it's technically possible) all it will do is force Apple to actually compete on eg take % and developer experience. Versus right now they can tell you to go pound sand for no reason when you're releasing a 1-line bug fix revision for your 10 year old app.
The first amendment directly powers section 230 of the communications decency act which gives these companies the legal right to host whatever they want. So the first amendment has everything to do with what a private company can or cannot say.
That’s. Insane! I love it!
That's a very faulty understanding of economics and labour. Wealth is created by man interacting with nature. Most nations in the history of the world created their wealth without being dependent on foreign money. Of course there are endless opportunities in Kenya, just as in other countries. The limiting factors are political and/or cultural. If some of the most barren countries in the world could spawn rich nations, what's lacking in Kenya?
My litmus test for battery/solar stories is: can you buy it? If not, consider it bullshit.

At least these guys are announcing production.
> Lots of production applications that had the code quality of your typical hacky side project.

We laugh about it now, but that's why we end up with things like this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/technology/yahoo-hack-3-b...
Any word on spot color support?
lifepo4 doesn't require any fancy materials but lithium, less energy dense at the moment, but also doesn't degrade as fast. Panasonic is currently producing ~260Wh/kg batteries for Tesla, so much of the mass market EVs will likely end up with those types of batteries. Looks like lithium production needs to go about 3x at current demand growth, but if cell density goes up, maybe less? Unfortunately this article does seem to be about the li-ion battery tech, but at leas you will need less materials for the same energy.
Last I heard, my buddy Pringle was still using it to do Teen Titans. He picked it up along with me when we were at Spumco doing web stuff and ended up at Cartoon Network, doing stuff like Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends.

I think the last I heard from him was like a decade ago, so who knows, maybe he and his crew finally moved on to some other tool. But it definitely persisted in the animation industry long after the browser plugin got killed off. Adobe's still cranking out new versions every year, too, so it's not like you're stuck using ancient operating systems to run it.
And the movie was released anyways, so there wasn't much harm done. At least, done to the public. Sony got hurt bad with the hack.
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By what factor is it increasing?
The ROI of doing it right is negative; that's an assumed cost of most regulations. But it's not negative because it's more complex to build it right - it's negative because monetization is that much lower even for that so called "tiny minority" that it will materially affect revenue.

In most cases it is much simpler to add a one-click reject-all option than to pretend there are users interested in granular choices that present long lists of toggle controls and put that behind a "Manage cookie settings" button. So the "I" of "ROI of doing it right" is lower than the "I" for doing it in a shady way.

I completely understand the companies' motives. But to the OP, I disagree that these UIs are because users don't care. It's probably because companies care a great deal more about their profit.

Which they should! That's what companies do and that's even why they exist. But let's not pretend users not caring is the problem.
I always save as normal and put the output through https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/
Another lesser known fact:

The volume id string (what you get with mountvol) is - at least up to Windows 10[1] a UUID version 1 according to RFC 4122, i.e. time and node based:

https://www.famkruithof.net/guid-uuid-make.html

https://www.famkruithof.net/guid-uuid-timebased.html

Since windows creates the UUID the first time it "sees" a volume, and - usually - uses the network card MAC as node, by decoding the UUID you can get the MAC address of the PC and the time the volume was seen (this can be useful for forensics, expecially with removable devices and to verify there has been no manipulation of the MountedDevices in the Registry).

[1]possibly windows 11 changed that, or at least the UUID's shown in the article are type 4
Yes, look up WofCompressedData. It's the stream name ultimately used by that command.
by what factor is it increasing?
>You need access to information for healthy society, even if you mostly don't consume it. News is information, even the articles you posted.

I don't disagree that people should be able to post news, 100% they should post whatever they want.

I just don't understand who the news is for. It seems to be news for the sake of news.

If almost everyone could live their lives without the news and remain largely unaffected, what is the point of it? Why not have niche sites handle the topics vs national outlets?
This hasn't been mentioned much in the comments but it's a big factor for a lot of people. You're probably going to have trouble pushing a new employer out much beyond 4-6 weeks. And, has been discussed here previously, there's always some risk that the further you push out a start date, the more chance there is that something could go sideways in the interim. So, if you want to take off 3-4 weeks between jobs, you really can't give too much notice.
Giving advanced notice has backfired every.single.time
As someone who grew up with Windows, I don't think these paths are that weird at all. Drive letter working directories just make sense, for example. The weirdest part is the (edit: HFS) compatibility mode (file.ext:substream).

One fun surprise is that because of codepage reasons, the Windows will use ¥ as a path separator in Japanese. In Korean, it's ₩. These characters represent U+005C, which is \ in Latin-compatible character sets.
It's not about the publishing itself, it is all about the review.

Anyone with an internet connection can write a "paper" and publish it, but that doesn't mean it is useful to the scientific community. Peer review allows the community to filter out quack papers, research which is inherently flawed, or research which has been done before.

This leaves the journals filled with novel research meeting a minimum quality standard, allowing other scientists to build upon them. If you can't get your research published it ostensibly isn't worth anything, so a lot of institutions use the number of papers published and the citations they get as a measurement of a researcher's output. There is nothing wrong with this process.

However, the issue is that journals have been captured by rent-seeking publishers who charge exorbitant fees. This is made even worse because some journals have historically been more strict than others, so getting a paper published in a strict one leads to a higher valuation - and of course the publishers charge higher fees for the more prestigious journals.

Changing this entire model is difficult. Publishing in one of those journals is literally how your worth is valued. Breaking this circle can be done, but it won't be easy.
I always thought the "spam click the android version then accept the prompt" as a very clever way to hide the developer mode from even the most clueless users. They'd never even be looking at their android version anyway :P
>Given the fact that ChapGPT is a statistical model, it is no more self aware than a regression equation.

The conclusion doesn't follow from the premise.

One might say that "given the fact that ChatGPT is _still quite a small_ statistical model" it's not self-aware.

But there's nothing that guarantees awareness is not just an emergent property of a statistical model. Or that our brain is not itself a statistical model (with different topology than ChatGPT, but still a statistical model).
Cool, my calculator with built in CAS can do polynomial division and factoring for me.
Seems like that violates the "can't end in a period" rule
Everybody thinks they need something they don’t really need.
Tumult Hype on Mac as well. Point-and-click, drag 'n drop animation and website design. Also supports custom HTML/CSS/JS.
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The period as the final character limit has gotten me when copying albums to a fat32 drive. Turns out a few album names end in a period. :-/
I just think back to before the iPhone. If you wanted something on your phone, it was still a walled garden, just one that the carriers put up. A new ringtone would cost you, and you’d be charged monthly for access to using gps through your phone.

By strong arming carriers Apple took this revenue to themselves which had the paradoxical effect of opening things up from where they were before. Without this, there’s no doubt you’d be using a Verizon App Store and I’d have AT&T and governments would see no need to take action because there was carrier competition.

Is being able to install whatever you want on your phone, a good thing? Undoubtedly, but we wouldn’t have tasted this opportunity without Apple’s move to take App Sales in house. We also have to be mindful of the devil we don’t know. if you’re OSS you see sideloading as blissfully unchaining your device, but if you’re an Apple competitor you see it as a chance to do everything you were forbidden to.
Only if your architecture is CRUD.

Under CQRS/ES you are DBMS independent, and you can still use RDBMS for its full potential on the read/querying side.
Looks like most of these are good old "misuse of a tool" problems, nothing to do with the AI/ML itself.

Could just as easily create an allegory to American gun ownership and the misuse (loaded while cleaning, leaving them around children) attributed to the guns themselves, when really the blame should be attributed to the people that proliferate the guns and change laws so that anybody can have one.

Are we trying to say now that access to AI/ML should be restricted to those who are trained in the area and know how to use it as a tool without allowing it to cause harm? Probably about as likely as America changing its aforementioned gun laws.
The traditional way is vertically, indeed, but on occasions you had to write horizontally, which was then usually also done right to left (can still be seen here and there, as I mentioned in my previous comment).
You jest, but Nikita Bier has made millions of dollars with this formula
We don't know what Chinese citizens think because it's impossible to conduct independent opinion polls on political topics. So, how do you know that the majority of Chinese don't agree with our opinions and personal values on freedom of expression?

Countries always seek to extend their influence. The USA and China play the same game, just with different tactics. There will never be "enough".
Don't know of current state but Blazor should check most of them.
> All I can say is, this article is the tip of the ice berg on Windows I/O weirdness. You really don't realize how strange it is until

In one way it is beautiful. "Laid cards lies", you know. Don't mess with the user for your conception of Agile Clean Extreme Code (tm). Each stupid design decision is forever.

Windows .bat files win the awfulness and quirkyness contest with sh with a razor thin margin. And both are awesome.
Right. Back in the 90s I worked on a network server to allow AppleTalk clients into DOS or OS/2 based networks. The Mac users enjoyed their filename freedom but the PC clients had trouble with the super-weird 8.3 short names. You couldn't really tell what the Mac filenames were.

The other direction worked great, though, DOS filenames always worked on the Mac side of the network.
Those aren't government rules. But it's still a valid complaint.
That's reasonable for a nonprofit under 100 employees. FAANG salaries are unusually high for ICs, as you know.
Culture and innovation blossom from human knowledge, not formal state-mandated education systems. Today, as throughout history, most "culture and innovation" (as measured by inventions, companies, researchers, art, philosophy, etc.) spring from men and women who break ties with their "educations" and instead strike out on their own in the search of truth.

We both agree that a literate and highly knowledgeable citizenry is paramount to the success of society, but the current western education model is failing to produce that citizenry. This failure is in part because professional educators remain unaware that universal education did not create developed societies, rather developed societies created universal education.

Information alone is insufficient to instill individuals with the character necessary to create great societies. The citizenry must already be strong-willed and self-determined for education to successfully add serious value to their lives. Those are the people who fight for their education. Many students today instead fight to avoid learning anything, because the system they're trapped inside has become so odious and hampered by redundancy, inefficiency, and a total lack of humanity.
Just don't do that. Advise your family to not do that. Accept that some of them may choose to anyway, and that's their choice to make.

"Think of my elderly mother!" is the apple fanboy's version of "think of the children!" No. Get over it. Talk with your mother and explain your concerns. Do you have power of attorney over your mother? If you think she's too mentally feeble to be responsible for herself, then maybe you should think about that instead of advocating for the imposition of these rules on everybody else.

Edit for response:

phone8675309: If scammers can talk your mother into sideloading an application, then they can also talk her into emptying her bank account. Get power of attorney over her, if you care.
This is a fascinating weekly topic for me :-)

I grew up in days of DOS 3 and onward, so I am basically physically incapable of using whitespace in filenames. And frequently I'll replace white spaces with underscores on files shared with me.

Fascinatingly though (and sometimes irritatingly), several of my mentors have cautioned me to drop this habit as I get promoted. At management level, they all use white space and dots haphazardly, and they apparently perceive underscored filenames negatively. This goes up drastically at executive level.
That standardized marker is also known as the 'Mark of the Web' (MOTW) in case you want to search for more details about it.

In general, there is a tool which comes with the SysInternals suite that allows you to see which files have streams and their size:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/str...
It seems like there is a geographical bound on practicing (Orthodox?) Muslims. I imagine past 66.5 degrees of latitude, someone fasting would probably die due to the fact that the sun will never rise for a month. Has there been any debate or clarification on how Muslims living in complete darkness are to practice?

Edit: sun will never set/living in 24 hour sunlight. The fasting time is during daylight hours.
It's a lost opportunity and productivity loss. If the Kenyan writer was employed doing something that has a purpose, economic wealth would increase. Instead he/she is employed with helping incompetent people scam their way into jobs and positions where they will damage productivity.
How often do you end up with 10 COM ports?
Seconded. It's way better than Google these days, has customization features, and is 100% worth paying for.
Not concerned about it, surprised
In that case, dear Mhoad, let us hope that some calls to good sense sooner or later will find a fortunate moment and give the poster some clean sight.
I have to lock rotation and turn it landscape to read this not only that, you have to scroll all the way to the top first to start reading. /sarcasm
> Everyone downvoting this should be completely ashamed of themselves.

> we strive for a higher level of discourse here

I am not ashamed. TexanFeller's comment is not contributing to the discussion, he fearmongers with nukes to advocate for the subjugation of a country.

It could just be that it's his honest opinion, but I've seen too many similar comments always using whataboutism and/or nuclear fearmongering.
I wasn't trying to imply people who have less efficient vehicles are somehow wrong or bad, just pointing out that there's some dissonance between the otherwise rational libertarian mindset (live and let live) and the big looming global problem that is unsolvable without cooperative effort. People getting upset about each others personal excesses is understandable, even if misplaced and/or unproductive.
Key part of the headline is "advice no one gave me." Yeah, because it's bad advice! Even for the usual management propaganda on HN this is obviously on its face bad.
> there's nothing stopping Meta

Well, there is maybe one thing. That is their projection of reduced installs. It's not just an issue of clicking "Yes". It's probably also an issue of knowing how to do it in the first place. The first party app store will always be easier.
Can confirm. (I am 50% of the original engineering team. @tashian is the other/smarter!)
> Flash was the language of web art. I don't know what is the new language for that anymore.

Nothing. Flash left a gaping void in Internet creativity that has gone unfilled. We don't call it 'art' anymore, we call it 'content', aka grist for walled-garden mills of Youtube and Instagram and Tiktok.
I'm sure there's a die-shrink coming soon
Very far behind what?

China's got a better rail network than the US, more industrial capacity, and produces the world's electronics now. The gap in tech is measured in decades at most, and by that metric the world was behind England (until it wasn't) because England had the accident of thirst for coal and the use for automated, sustained drainage and pumping that allowed them the critical mass of tech and need to build and refine the steam engine.

In terms of world history, the era of European / American tech ascendancy is a blip on the radar.
that's amazing. and point taken that Windows is probably extra weird due to its longevity, evolution, and backward compatibility.
Apple will do all it can to fight this. With third-party keyboards, your iPhone will warn you that the keyboard can steal everything you type into it. Apple will amp up warnings like that and run ad campaigns about the goodness of the App Store and how straying from it will expose you to untold danger.

And Apple will probably get pretty far with that. People trust Apple a lot more than they trust Facebook.
Not a fan of Apple still
That's... definitely not as dramatic as you try to make it sound. "Program Files" and "Documents and Settings" have been around for almost three decades, and most programs work just fine with files living somewhere inside those paths.
What would be the benefit of these old clones beside learning to create hardware? RPi4 can probably replace them all with emulators. I'd rather see old games resurrected by improving graphics through stable diffusion and increasing refresh rates.
> The App Store already is doing a poor job at trying to prevent copycat apps, this makes it so much worse.

Perhaps, but if it is like Android, users will get plenty of warning when they try to turn on side loading, and every time they get a chance to sideload.

> Facebook/TikTok/etc just have to say something like "Here's our fancy new version and feature X is only available when you follow these new install instructions" and it'll happen.

10+ years of Android sideloading and this has not happened.
It may not be appreciated by management in terms of someone saying “wow, your documentation was incredible, here’s that raise/promotion.” But the people who interact with your documentation will appreciate it, which raises your stature in the organization long term.

And management priorities change over time, it’s not uncommon for companies to emphasize documentation more as they mature.
>you're probably not worried about being able to find work in 10 months or whatever.

Which carries some risk. If you've had a dream to sail around the world, hike the Appalachian Trail, etc. and you have some decent money in the bank, it may be the right call. But you can also return to a more challenging employment environment.