skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve looked at things like tauri and the problem is always Windows. In general if you have a broadly distributed Windows app you must bundle or statically link everything. Even chained dependency installers don’t work since you have to keep them up to date, and fetching them online doesn’t work because it will fail in weird environments with filtered Internet access. All Windows installers must contain a microcosm of the entire universe.

I suppose if you could restrict to only Windows 11 it might help but there is still a ton of Windows 10 (and even 7!) out there. Does Windows 11 finally bundle Microsoft’s own standard C libraries?

I think the right path forward might be something like Sciter or Ultralight or even just a very stripped down version of Chromium. A web renderer is not that huge when it's stripped down and all the extensions and stuff a desktop app is not going to need are removed. You end up with something about as big as Qt or another cross-platform full stack UI toolkit.
I understand your concerns in the video game industry landscape, even though I may add that Microsoft may just have been buying out many more studios in recent years.

However, I don't believe that tto be the bigger issue. Let's look at this from a bigger perspective: Microsoft is much bigger than Sony. The western world is very much dependent on this giant. Should it have even more power?
DISCLAIMER: This project was created using ChatGPT V4, an AI language model by OpenAI. The code was generated with minimal human intervention - not a single line of code was written by a human, but several prompts and copy-pasting were done by the project director, Franz Enzenhofer. While the AI contributed significantly to the development, users are advised to use the extension at their own risk.
The fact that none of the cited sources (Backman, 1972; Levinson, 1959; Romanoff, 1976) provide evidence of or back the that Ashkenazi IQ is close to a standard deviation above the European average might be why that paper is controversial.
> then some valid Zig programs will be rejected

A program is defined to be invalid when it runs out of counters. Problem solved.

>Also, if you step out to dedicated build steps, then the compiler no longer has complete visibility into that code when analyzing.

You can't really "generate code" in these dedicated build steps. Kristoff is talking about generating data. you could maybe build an object file, but then it's bound in using c abi, statically, which we've already solved in this conversation.

>Also, what do you do if a user needs to pass a function pointer to a C function? I presume they must use a sync function? If so, that seems like a direct application of the function colors definition;

In the long run for zig, calling out to c abi, much less one which takes a function pointer, much less one which you happen to have as async, is going to be a rare enough operation that I think people aren't clamoring to go and use it, which fails one of the criteria for your function coloring list. Besides, you just quickly wrap it in noasync context and you're done (you can't pass a zig callconv function directly to a c abi callconv site without at least a tiny wrapper anyways).
In practice, if you're a multinational, doing a big merger, you'll want approval from authorities in at least the US and EU, probably UK (their regulators tend to behave similarly to the EU ones anyway) and maybe China if you do business there.

Strictly speaking, _none_ of the regulators can individually stop a merger (even if it's the home country regulator, the multinational can just redomicile) but in practice they all have a veto, because the multinational wants to be allowed do business everywhere.
You make it sound like any government should be able to cut ties with any company at a whim.

Microsoft and Apple dominate the desktop market, with Microsoft in a commanding lead.

Imagine if the UK government said no one could buy SQL Server, use Excel, or buy new windows machines.

People and companies would have to spend unimaginable amounts of time learning and migrating to alternative tools while at the same time angry at the government for telling them they can't use the tool of their choice.

The same is true for Apple. If the UK government said Apple could no longer do business in the UK, the UK economy would be crushed.
Microsoft’s $75B Activision takeover blocked by UK regulator
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Of course, you can just have a way to transfer the code to other phones from the phone that has it. Using QR codes or something, shouldn’t be too hard.

But with Telegram, if you prove to the servers satisfaction that you control the associated phone number, the server will give you the key and all the old messages. So clearly the server has the key and the messages, and also Telegram documents that it works like this.
I contribute media to Wikipedia and honestly between people using media and not giving attribution as the default, which is all they are asked to, and AI/ML companies feeling entitled to rip all data and use it for their profit because they allege copyright simply does not apply to their money printing, I've been thinking more and more about just not publishing anything anymore. These behaviors are simply spitting people in their faces and telling them they actually should be fine with that.

Same goes for open source honestly. (I've burned out as a maintainer a few years ago and for the most part stopped doing code things publicly after that)
https://archive.is/tLM4g
And what a strange end for the mighty Blizzard.
I wonder what the owners of Blizzard thought would happen when they sold in 2008.
I bet it even mattered to them at that time, at least a little.
Where have all the spy gadgets gone?
> hey wield huge power and can snuff out entire startup sectors with loss-leading products.

More importantly, they're becoming complacent and lazy, using their legal and financial clout to kill competition, not product improvements.

This is why China is so scary - their companies have started being very competitive to US behemoths which have been buying/killing their competition for decade(s) now.
Let's see what remains of ChatGPT after I finish my demo of a chatbot that aims to replace politicians and NYT writes an article about it.
GCC 13.1 Released
That doesn't mean that playing on the cloud is good though, does it? It's still a subpar experience in terms of reponsiveness and image quality, even on a 60Hz display.

It's not my internet connection either, as I have my Series X hooked up with an ethernet cable, and my line is a 500/500 fiber line from Bell, with at most 5ms latency. I should be the ideal customer for cloud gaming, and it's still not good.
I’m working on a Next.js based alternative to Docusaurus if you are ever interested in switching over to the dark side and want to build a Next app lol

In the past, I got tasked with an existing Next.js app to play nice with a Docusarus user guide they were building. I found that Docusaurus was very limiting in that environment, and I was forced to launch a separate Docusarus powered docs site under a different sub domain.

I’ve ported over the Docusaurus functionality into an open source Next.js project, complete with Markdown loading, Tailwind CSS, simple .env file configuration, and much more.

I fixed the Docusaurus problems that I mentioned above.

https://github.com/elegantframework/elegant-cli
I was referring to how things being “back to normal except for Paris” is a common occurrence here in Europe
> If you're sufficiently tech savvy, each person can run a VPN from their home so it doesn't look suspicious from the streaming service's end.

If I'm going to the trouble of exposing a VPN service over the internet for my friends, it's not so I can also pay for a streaming service.
Well there's a potential paper right there. Take male/female researcher and pump them full of hormones and see if it also affects the mice behaviour too.
Why? Revenge? I would think that all parties involved prefer money over revenge.
I once worked for a place years ago that had these crazy data integrity bugs. There were about 35 different bugs, and we suspected that most of them were pieces of legacy code not cleaned up from acquisitions (it was a healthcare company).

Anyways, if you were able to solve one, you got a $5k bonus and a two week vacation. While I was there, someone figured one of them out, and it was due to logic in the DB. ...but I have a feeling that all of them were due to logic in the DB.
Is decrypting via a password literally not how Authy, BitWarden et al handle it?
https://archive.md/m784j
I cannot foresee anything good coming out of this, when a country and a large corporation starts to play chicken with each other.
WhatsApp is a closed source app talking to a closed source server. Telegram is an open source app compiled by someone else, talking to their closed source server.

There is no way to know anything.
Someone reddit on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35685497
> a time when it needs the US more than ever (trade, AUKUS, Ukraine/NATO, F-35s, etc.)

Putting aside that there’s technology from UK companies in the F-35 (Rolls contributed to the lift fan in the B model, Martin-Baker ejection seats etc), the US needs AUKUS (as a bulwark to China) and the UK’s contribution to NATO (cf AUKUS and add Russia to the mix) more than the UK does, especially in a post-Brexit world where the UK’s influence is significantly diminished.

The EU are also still looking at the deal, with the potential of imposing licensing requirements [1].

1: https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/eu-unlikely-demand-ass...
> it gave me the metric I was looking for and citations for me to check

Did you check the citations—that they existed, and said what ChatGPT claimed? It knows how to properly report metrics and format citations, but there's no guarantee that those metrics or citations are real, just because they're properly formatted.
Choosing the financial year to end halfway the calendar year is actually a way to save money. This is because the annual report is the most work and since accountants are very busy at the start of the calendar year.
ISpace: Japanese Moon lander likely to have crashed
Anecdotally, I have moved across the country 3 times with IKEA furniture I bought nearly 10 years ago and nothing has broken. I'm not sure where this myth comes from.
When this site is working, sadly it has been deteriorating over time, it shows Gentoo Penguins at GARS O'Higgins Antarctica Radio Telescope. It is live, updated every 15 minutes. Alas right now it is completely broken. There are no Humans there in the winter to fix things.

http://www.martingrund.de/pinguine/station.htm
Depending on what you define as 'experiment', there's quite some recent neuroscience research using invasive techniques in humans. Which as far as I'm aware is approved by an ethical committee, but that's not quite the same as 'whining' :)
If you and a partner share an account and live in the same household, and someone goes on a trip and takes their phone/laptop. What then?
Me too. I absolutely love svelteKit but this is the most baffling decision, it makes searching for files in vscode so much slower and makes managing open tabs a mess. Even just being able to add an extra word and an extra dot to identify a file would make it tolerable. Like +home.page.svelte or something.
Does that apply to older workers?
Haha, The fact people are taking time to complain is a good sign of engagement.

Looks like fixed spacing along x and letting the cards float along y which is very effective.

I have sometimes wondered why there isn't more convergence for a standard set of primitives/libraries/template engines for drawing graphs on the web.

graphviz .dot files would seem to be a natural DSL and then there are packages like dagre/mermaid but italways seems like for applications you need to end up rolling your own.
I didn't realize that, thank you
It's a clever idea. However, if you think one step further, if this were rolled out widely, it would incentivize people to spam Wikipedia. :-/

Still a clever thought though!
The Pirate Bay guys said, "we are just linking to the pictures".
If the conclusions about masks is this study are true, that means most indoor spaces and just being around gas powered devices for the same time periods, or being in your car with 3 other people is dangerous to your health.

Most places that are not outside away from a co2 source, that do not have high air exchange rates have high co2 concentrations.
I find your argument to be exactly the reason why these acquisitions should be blocked.
Yeah, it's weird the 1080p numbers in the article seem so low. And there's no mention of 4k gaming, like with an external monitor or similar.

So, something doesn't seem to line up.
> Whether a particular function pointer resolves to certain functions

This is only a turing completeness issue if the list of functions is infinite. It is not, in zig.
I rarely like regulatory involvement and am in two minds. But this was very obviously going to be bad for competition, such that there is any left. On the other hand it would certainly have opened up a gateway for new IP on certain platforms.

The death of physical medium distribution has been a catastrophe for the consumer.
I honestly feel 10x more productive when using SvelteKit instead of Next, and really I have much more experience with React than I ever had with Svelte, it's just that simple and logical. The biggest problem however is ecosystem, you might have difficulties finding Svelte-specific libraries to do what you want and might need to create your own components (i.e. using generic JavaScript libraries), although that's not too hard it can become a bit of a burden to be maintaining it. Overall, I would really recommend people try out SvelteKit, but just pay attention to see if the libraries they may need are available before using it for a bigger project.
Eh, most people looking at this don't consider dota 2 in the same bucket as the cloud gaming concerned here. It means Assassin's Creed played on Geforce Now or Forza Horizon played on Xbox Game Pass. My very loose definition is that these are games that usually have a single-player mode are originally intended to be played on a game console, but are run and rendered on cloud services and then transmitted to user (of course you can find lots of exceptions). Dota 2, by contrast, is an "online" game, more specifically MOBA -- this is on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dota_2
Chargaff’s interesting autobiography is available from the publisher as a free ebook:
https://books.rupress.org/catalog/book/heraclitean-fire
Maybe you should wait for more than 10 minutes after projected touchdown so they have time to review the data?
No-one is going to stop selling games in the UK, they would be leaving money on the table if they did.

Instead, they might move development away from the UK. Bad for developers, sure.
I have this theory that every great company gets to change their name once lol.. I could go down a pretty big list of companies that changes names after launching:

Ring / Doorbot

Amazon / Cadabra

Google / Backrub

Facebook / The Facebook

Coinbase / BitBank

Stripe / /dev/payments

Doordash / Palo Alto Delivery

Uber / Uber Taxi
If you’ve worked with Google Analytics 4, then you know setting up conversions can be quite challenging. I have at least tried and succeeded but wasted too much time doing it. This is TagMate, a Chrome extension that makes tracking and setting up conversions much more effortless.

If you want to track conversions on a button, choose the button, and your conversion is set up. If you want to track a form, it does require a bit more setup, but it’s still super easy. Just include something unique about your form, such as the id or text within, and set that as your trigger. Then you’ll see the conversions roll into your Google Analytics.
Also, consider everyone either automatically or manually trying to make up for the lost capacity in eu.
> something unsubstantive/snarky/namecalling

That is not remotely close to what happened. You may very well wish I had explained my comment further, but pseudoscience is an actual word with an actual, substantive meaning, and it is what I actually meant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience

My comment was not shallow. It was not snarky. It was not namecalling.

It was a succinct and accurate specific criticism.
> This is politically unacceptable and only good news is permitted about masks and vaccines and so forth. Groupthink is the only think.

I'm sorry you feel that way, VLM. I'm a proponent for masks from first principles, and am more than willing to update my priors when good data is presented.

The stillbirth rate is definitely concerning. COVID-19 increase to the stillbirth rate is also concerning. Right now, causality of COVID-19 is observed, and mask-induced CO2 poisoning is hypothesized in relation to COVID-19 adjacent populations.

By a way of inviting mindful conversation: the key for not falling down the rabbit hole of thinking everyone else but myself is a sheep is recognizing that people can have opinions, data can be biased, and we must strive for rigor. Works like a charm and I highly recommend it.
> This is why China is so scary - their companies have started being very competitive

When it comes to tech regulation the Chinese authorities have at least a 2-3 year advantage against the US/UK, notice how the likes of Alibaba and Tencent have been brought (relatively) down compared to what was expected of them 5 years ago.
It's not helped by the fact that I can opt out of a 4 year PHD in clinical psychology and take a 1 year postgraduate course in 'life coaching' and call myself just that. https://www.kingstowncollege.ie/course/professional-diploma-...

The danger is that people go to 'life coaches' with really difficult problems which the other person is not equipped to handle. It's completely unregulated which, where mental health is concerned, will give disastrous results.

“I realized about two months in that it was basically unlicensed therapy,” Susan* told me. On several occasions, when people wrote in to LCS about serious concerns – including anxiety, eating disorders, and suicidal thoughts – they were encouraged to sign up for Scholars. “No referral to mental health help, no suicide hotline, no nothing,” someone familiar with LCS’s inner workings told me. (Last year, LCS began requiring students seek out and take a suicide prevention course.)

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/06/life-co...
Exactly, we hire a ton of technical Fed contractors, but the pay range capps out at $150k and starts at a level most of HN would find insulting.

But it’s considered “tech” at least by NPR.
Honestly this is pretty good advice for their consumer products.
> :help setting-tabline

For VSCode users:

Workbench > Editor: Label Format

Set to short will append the directory name right after the file name on the tabs, making it painless to work with the file structure.
> Nor is it the first time the authors of the review have claimed face masks could have harmful effects. Several of the authors speculated in [OP ARTICLE] that masks might have caused stillbirths and other health issues. But this was an extrapolation based on studies exposing animals to carbon dioxide — and ignored the fact that masks don’t increase levels of the gas in humans in any clinically meaningful way. The Daily Mail nevertheless covered the paper in a story with an alarming headline, screenshots of which have been widely shared on social media.

https://www.factcheck.org/2023/04/scicheck-masking-has-minim...
NPR?

How would this all go if it is necessary to start rationing access to AWS, Azure and GCP, driving up the cost of hosting applications on them to the point that only well funded organizations can continue doing so? What percentage of "Tech jobs" are in companies that exist at the whim of a couple shareholders or poorly funded organizations that are unlikely to withstand 3000% cloud price increases? (Spoiler: MOST.) Was any of this discussed by NPR?

What could cause such a black swan event? Does NPR want us to even think about the possibility of the sudden "closure" of certain fabs in Taiwan and Shenzen (making the chip shortage a semi-permanent event)? https://nypost.com/2023/04/26/us-to-send-nuclear-submarine-t...

Nobody in Tech has time for NPR, there are a million YouTube videos to watch, websites, podcasts and Safari books to read, plus management of your personal life and ACTUAL Sphere of Influence. The best you can do is vote for someone who you (not NPR, not Communist-controlled social media platforms or the revolving door of bloviators on TV) think is able to effectively manage issues in a way that will bring about the best economic outcome for you and everyone you know. https://youtu.be/bPpcfH_HHH8
Show HN: Use Quizzes as Lead Magnets – EmbedQuiz
I've been working on this project for the last 6 months. Most businesses have a hard time generating leads and every small improvement in the conversion rates can mean a huge positive change for a company's revenue, so I started creating a tool, that helps companies create better converting lead magnets.

When we talk about quizzes, people usually think of simple math and geography quizzes. But lead magnet quizzes can be company audits, routine or workout recommendations, product quizzes, etc. A lead magnet quiz provides an interesting valuable piece of information, that helps the user with a personalized solution to a problem.

According to most studies covering lead magnet quizzes, they have higher conversion rates because of the Osvianskina effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovsiankina_effect, When filling out a quiz, people are more likely to give their contact info to receive results.) and also the personalized results are more interesting than lead magnet PDF-s.

My goal with EmbedQuiz was to at first create a tool, that is completely free and stays free and later introduce more advanced features that are paid. Currently, EmbedQuiz has all the free features and no paid plan.

It saves results to the user's own Google Drive into a Sheets document. So the results are not stored on our servers and can be imported easily into any Google Sheets compatible service.
Did it? I don't think Blizzard has ever been in financial trouble, so they sold it just for more money. And we all know the old Blizzard is completely dead now.
Until called out on it, thinking that Microsoft was quite happy with "follow creator" sending Bing what urls users go to.

Another slick trick of Edge that I have noticed is that after updates, various settings can change or new ones added, particularly those that involving privacy. So users have to always be wary and vigilant about checking all settings after any update.
I know it's not your main point, but I need to mention that the failure of Stadia does not indicate the failure of cloud gaming in general but the problem of Stadia itself. There are plenty of other cloud gaming options growing every day.
If AI becomes capable of replacing the bulk of software developers, many trades will be replaced by a guy earning a little over minimum wage wearing AR goggles with an AI showing+telling them what to do and correcting their mistakes.
Cooling pump failure lead to water leaking into the UPS room. Batteries caught fire and firefighters can't access the room. Fire is contained although.

(this was at ~10-11 am GMT+2 time)

Edit:

Fire is extinguished (~3pm GMT+2)

https://www.mail-archive.com/frnog@frnog.org/msg72320.html

https://www.mail-archive.com/frnog@frnog.org/msg72323.html

https://www.mail-archive.com/frnog@frnog.org/msg72327.html
"… Men and women's brains are connected in different ways which may explain why the sexes excel at certain tasks, say researchers. A US team at the University of Pennsylvania scanned the brains of nearly 1,000 men, women, boys and girls and found striking differences.

Male brains appeared to be wired front to back, with few connections bridging the two hemispheres. In females, the pathways criss-crossed between left and right. ... "

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1316909110