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The MacOS app store has some sandboxing. For example, applications installed from the store can't access any file or directory unless a user has selected it in a file dialog. (The app can hold onto a ticket for later access.) I've installed Slack from the app store for this reason.
Yes, this is one of the things I look back on as a weak point in the writing. I wanted to make this a lot more clear but by the time I'd gotten to this point in the article, I'd sort of coded myself into a corner with the visualisation code.

In another universe I'd hook in to the page scroll and highlight each block being referred to as I talk about it in the text. I'm probably not explaining that well here, but imagine something like the way this article works: https://pudding.cool/2017/05/song-repetition/.
Roblox, like so much of the gaming industry, is so incredibly predatory... and toxic.

Here are two great videos from "People Make Games" that show some of the issues and ways that Roblox specifically is exploiting young gamers.

* Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers - YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ

* Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper. - YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY
So your concerns are purely environmental?
Show HN: TalentLeads – Find the Best Talent for Your Startup
Hey all,

Just wanted to share my side project with you. I know this is not exactly HackerNews material, but still would love to hear your feedback, even if negative. Here is the link:

https://gettalentleads.com

This is a simple Django application that parses a few places online (including HN) where people that are looking for work share their profiles. I wrote some code to categorize people based on their location, tech stack, willingness to relocate and some other things to make it easy to search for the perfect candidate.

I though that some companies might find this useful, hence why this is a paid product. What do you ladies and gents think?

Thanks a ton in advance for your time and thoughts.
But we're talking about the labor market around the widget, not the TCO of the widget.

Automotive is a prime example: the added complexity increases lifetime maintenance costs, but at the same time the labor share of captured value has declined substantially.

I think this is currently the cardinal mistake people make when they that reason about the impact of automation. Labor doesn't get completely automated and replaced. Instead, one of two other things happen:

1. It gets de-skilled and commodified (GPS+Maps+smartphone -> complete deskilling of taxi driving).

2. Or it gets cut out from the profits (software in cars -> dealerships and "certified" mechanics capture more maintenance labor -> central entities get to extract more value. See also app stores.)
Size of the F-15 is 19.43m, size of SR-71 is 32.74 m. I'd say it is pretty big difference and 32+ meters does not seem small.
I remember FlyFF from my childhood! Never spent money on it, but yeah that was my first experience with a "pay to win" game model, so I can see how kid-you would have done this.
My contribution to this discussion is Fantastic Planet.

1973, French, animated, batshit insane. It's a unique piece of art that's for sure. I watch it once a decade or so just to remind myself that it wasn't a half-remembered fever dream.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Planet
But did you actually go through the buying process? I tried it and you have to select a plan based on number of pages.
Of course, that is also a useful metaphor here. They do guide you places, and prevent you from making any slight changes to your route. And make it so one stuck train blocks the line.
And all on the cheap. At least much cheaper than NATO. The era of having a lot of high dollar fancy toys as a show of brute force has sunsetted. But what can be done? I spent a couple decades in combat arms knowing US tactics needed a lot of changes but the changes never manifested because contractors can't make money with cheap shells and flimsy drones.
They happen.

The company has no mechanism for determining that a person has entered into a contract unless someone tells them. Prohibitions on transfers prevent the cap sheet from growing, and the company from getting marked to market when they don't want to. Also makes it easier to create golden handcuffs.

There is always a nonzero chance that the deal falls through because the you are the first to get sued and lose their shares. If it were me, I'd want the contract to eliminate my liability in that scenario. If it were to happen, the buyer would very likely litigate on their own behalf rather than lose the shares that they paid for. These contracts are much more of a negotiation than a straightforward asset purchase on a stock exchange.

Tl;dr the options agreement is a private contract and so is the forward sale. If you're going to enter a forward contract and take hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, you need a competent lawyer to scrutinize the contract and limit your downside liability. Then it's up to you and the buyer if the risk/reward is worth it.
But what if you're wrong?
I was referring to other prints, not that particular HP model.
Well, yes its Apple thing, and they do have systems in place to prevent this, though I'd argue they are not very user friendly for non-tech savy people.
Why not make Swift a truly cross-platform language? I find it to be in a sweet spot between safety, performance and usability.
Yeah I'm unhappy with Brother as an option as there is no FreeBSD support (the official Linux PPDs do a bunch of weird voodoo with bundled pre-compiled binaries of Ghostscript etc that I was unable to untangle). There's a PPD on openprinting but it's black-and-white only and doesn't support all of the printer's features.
Honestly, as a person with prosopagnosia, I would kill for a google glass style AR that could just tell me names after someone gets a haircut
I am getting tired of always reading this same old tune. It's damned if you, damned if you don't.

- EU fines a company a small percentage of its annual revenue. "Laughably small", "cost of doing business", EU has no fangs, blablabla.

- EU fines a company a large percentage of its annual revenue. Damn EU bureaucrats, trying to make money on the back of hardworking US multinationals, zero innovation over there so they steal from America, blablabla.

What do you want? For the EU to impose such large fines that they put every tech company out of business? No one wins at that game.
Honestly, some classes are useless """requirements""". Most classes I wouldn't consider cheating though, because in that case the only person I'd be cheating would be myself.
Maybe we need to define what a "Feature" is as well. I'm imagining a project that takes more than a day.

Fixing a submit button is not a feature. Perspective is weird though, adding to your point.
>single market, innit

Why do you need to initialize the single market method?
Are you are that is expensive?

Where I am printing a black and white document is around $0.20.

A color print is $0.60.

So 100 black and white pages would be $20 and color would be $60.

Sure you have to add paper to that calculation but considering that is a 500 count for $10-15 thats still makes it cheaper wether you are doing black and white or color.

Now yes you do have to take into account the cost of the machine.
Yes! Also consider letting people learn without authenticating at all. Those who care to save state/progress can log in. If you had an opportunistic "great job on completing level 10! if you want to save your progress, register here" message, I bet more people would register as well!
This is quite cool, but I'm wondering why we need to re-invent the wheel for all those threaded discussion platforms.

The OG is definitely email. What would really rock would be an IMAP gateway which you subscribe to with your favorite email client which then gives you threading, read/unread markers etc. It could abstract different front-page days as folders and each submission as the root of a thread. Then you could use whatever email client you like the most, with all their decades of polishing. It could even support replying to threads. And it could support different "backends", like HN, reddit, whatnot.

Anybody? That's something I'd pay for. Or do I need to keep dreaming?
I sincerely doubt that those two groups are disjunct, or that they use the phrase "garbage collection" exclusively in the contexts you wrote.
'System' languages like c / c++ / rust are a natural fit for hobby programming because you're writing something to run on your machine, to scratch your particular itch. All the better if that language is able to run on a little microcontroller and move an actuator or what have you.

I say that to contrast with 'application' languages like java, nodejs, or whatever. I'm not saying hobbiest stuff doesn't get written in those but you're a lot less likely to see an OSS spring or react app on someone's github than you're likely to see some cool little command line program that does one small thing.
This is incredibly well done. I've never seen malloc/memory allocation explained so clearly. I'd buy a book written like this.
Watched this many years ago when I was just getting into Mario Bava. It was far from vintage Bava, but I remember the astronauts had some seriously spiffy space suits. When I start my space company, that’s the chic I’m going for.
TOP500 Highlights – June 2023
What does "working as intended" means?

Some sibling comments challenge that it doesn't help reduce the amount of private data stored.

I would argue that GDPR is working as intended on the economic war front. The US weaponized their extraterritorial anti-corruption laws, China is also building similar legal weapons, GDPR is part of the european answer to that: a framework to catch up with other super powers who can pressure foreign companies whenever it pleases them.
When I was a kid, my uncle (a construction contractor) worked on a contract for a few months at Beale Air Force Base in Northern California, where SR-71s were based, and one day he took me along. I got to see the actual planes on the runway from behind a chain-link fence, warming up for takeoff. It's one of the my memorable experiences - the planes are huge, the engines are loud, the jet fuel was steaming off the tarmac, it felt like being in a sci-fi film. I can still see it like it was yesterday.

That was a few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and I was sure we were all going to get nuked.
If we follow Pareto principle, then it doesn't make sense to optimize spendings that are close to zero if compared with something like military spendings.

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

Even if string theory is just pure math with no base in reality, it still can be useful (any math domain for that matter).
> A refund means a net loss on their books, and they did not have any obligation.

What is the difference in this case between an unauthorized charge on your card?

Example (here):

- Mom enters CC info to allow the child to buy ONE pack.

- Child then, after the fact, buys 100x packs (an unauthorized charge each time).

Example 2:

- Person gives a friend their CC to pay for food on DoorDash.

- Person then, after the fact, continues using their CC to buy DoorDash (an unauthorized charge each time).

These are both unauthorized charges, and an easy case for a chargeback. Additionally the entity out money shouldn't be the bank but Roblox, since the bank will take their money back.
Bakhmut Is Gone: An Aerial Look at the War’s Destruction
I haven't been tested but I read about this, and I think I may have something similar. One cup of cold-brew coffee and I'm good for the day. I don't start getting caffeine withdrawal symptoms (headache etc.) until mid-day the next day.

I used to drink caffeinated soda throughout the day, quitting around 5 hours before bedtime, and I had constant sleep issues. I stopped that around 10 years ago and switched to my one-cup-per-day system. Now I sleep fine.
Ask HN: Curious, do you see Holmes being either flight or suicide risk?
Not a typical Ask HN, but since its intertwined with all things Silicon Valley... it feels appropriate to ask here

With narcissism at this level, statistically, these types are either to flee or commit suicide...

Is she under surveillance or suicide watch? What are the ages of her kid(s)?

Theranos is a wild FN story. Thoughts?
The UK's aversion to ID cards is weird as they are perfectly happy with HMRC having a database entry for them for example, so the government already has a record of everyone.
Besides other possible issues in the testing of the material, see my comment yesterday on another thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36020057

the paper describes a 36 sqm house, 6 m x 6 m with structural concrete.

Whatever is depicted in the photo (that has BTW a metallic structure) is approximately 2.4 m deep and surely doesn't look like 15 m long, so it isn't 36 sqm and is not the one referenced in the paper.
Likewise you have governments like the UK who are discussing bills that will effectively ban E2E encryption for children’s safety. If passed, companies like WhatsApp would just leave the market.

I believe your comment is somewhat true, but in your examples with the EU and California it’s mostly the case where (one of) the largest market(s) is able to set laws that govern the entire world. Which is great if everyone also happens to agree with the law, but it’s not the most democratic situation.
The broader world probably knows him best for the terminal handling library Notcurses[1] and a lot of telling terminal emulator authors to get their shit together.

I’ve had his grad-school project libtorque[2] (HotPar ’10), an event-handling and scheduling library, on my to-read list for years, but I can’t seem to figure out how it accomplishes the interesting things it does.

[1] https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses, https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/

[2] https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Libtorque
It's a general ORM issue.

I once took a Python API with SQL Alchemy and took 30% of the speed by adding an eager load instruction to a query. Python profiling showed a lot of time in the ORM & database, then turning on SQL logging made the issue obvious.

Still feels like it should be called the "1 + N" problem tho. The 1 query happens first, then the N queries afterwards.
>Even if they are wrong it could take years for the tech debt to build up enough for the organization to recognized it as a mistake.

This sounds like the weakest value proposition of your contribution ever. If you told me this was your greatest contribution over a junior with GPT I would take the junior with GPT any day. Things getting deployed for years before you start noticing the effects ? Most projects don't even last that long.

Anyway the current state of tech is that it can't really do that much outside of impressive demos and minor flow improvements, anyone taking a bet on that replacing people is going to lose big short term.

Just look at OpenAI - like I've said the other day, they have huge resources, can hire top talent, and all the infra they want at their disposal - they are still failing at solved problems (web app/payments), and the support they provide is worse than Google. Couldn't they dogfood a little having access to this tech far sooner than everyone else, with no restrictions and top talent available ?

And you're going to achieve that in an enterprise org that can't even hire mediocre talent and has no experience with AI ?

The only thing that's coming is crypto bro consultants and pundits, HODL AI too the moon !
>> One could argue that it seems strange to charge X for anything when free alternatives exist.

Never was. You can make your own food and coffee and clothes, why don’t you?
This is the thing. WhatsApp works really well. And so did Facebook groups. I think once communities are established they stay where they are. So anything new is for new usecases. Trying to get people to migrate isn't the answer. It's about new solutions or habits solving specific purposes. For me it's a lot to do with the fact that each chat itself in whatsapp isn't threaded. You can create communities but that's not right for informal stuff and then I can create separate groups but then it gets confusing. So actually you need topic based chat. Ability to create new topics in the same groups. Basically slack or discord for family and friends.
Definitely agree, but I feel it's worth watching for the cinematography / set design alone.
I've got no particular interest in V, but the hate it gets from a certain group of people here is really perplexing and I don't think it's at all warranted from what I've seen.
Also in this blog post:
* Space Laser
* 'Only 40 days' of complete darkness.
* Zombies
> The only thing that matters, is results. Specifically the results of my clients.

What matters is value add from your work for your clients. If your clients are already the most successful people in the world, you have to have a very good method of identifying and quantifying your value add.
Lol. MS Notepad is HN-bloated.
Based on these practices, I cannot support HP any more (I was a fan of HP's UNIX workstations). If you plan to buy a printer, consider purchasing a laser printer from Kyocera, Brother or Lexmark.
To be fair the Bank did nothing wrong.

Having fraud detection that didn't catch a £2500 outlier without freezing the card and contacting the owner to ask if it was a legitimate purchase could be considered doing something wrong.
> The Republican Party is moving in a very dark direction, and has been for years now.

Since Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1965 and the Republican Party decided to seize the opportunity it had failed to exploit in previous splits between the Democrats’ White supremacist faction and the rest of the broadened post-New Deal party by offering the former a new partisan home that would focus on the issues the Democrats had become inconsistent on.
US laws and executive orders are the actual anti-internet culprits here. Until the US recognizes that non-citizens also have rights, and they can't just do whatever with them, the EU MUST fight for their own citizens' rights. Anything else would be a rank betrayal.
>>donate $6 to help dev

No other profession probably degrades themselves as much as developers. If his app is worth it, people would pay or else they don't.

No developer need to beg for money if they are good at their craft.
Could have been a great opportunity to try to actually improve things rather than adding loopholes for the benefit of special interests. Maybe with the right people in power that could still be achieved, but seems unlikely.
Lambda has a very interesting benchmark page
https://lambdalabs.com/gpu-benchmarks

If you look through the throughput/$ metric, the V100 16GB looks like a great deal, followed by H100 80GB PCIe 5. For most benchmarks, the A100 looks worse in comparison
It's kind of not important though, except for a tiny group of developers.
Attention: Visualizing Attention for LLM Users
No one has come up with something demonstrably better yet.
I always thought this would be a cool thing to do if I ran Evil Corp...

A = <totally random bits>

B = <personal data> XOR A

Store A in USA

Store B in EU

The data is not stored in EU, and it's not stored in USA either. It's not stored elsewhere. But Evil Corp still has it!
Roll on next GE.
It is really simple. Stop buying HP products and any others with shady business practices. For years Brother laser printers have been recommended on HN (except that one time they weren't). Just buy one and forget about your printer. Personally, I'm tired of reading about people being duped with printers.
It's cheap. A physicist I work with says it was a cheap way to have clout in the 80's in a physics department. Fundamentally, paying for a couple of people to do math on paper all day is a lot cheaper than doing what they do at cern.
F-16: Why Ukraine would still face big hurdles in using the US-made fighter jets
Hoosat – Full Stack Development – Discord
Turo is blocking access to third-party services and hosts are freaking out
This is why you must reject colored printing and buy the based laser printer
> Housing values only depreciate to zero over time.

That's true for every country, it's land that appreciates.
>> how do we govern global issues without a global government?

By consensus. By willing participation of all. By individual countries actively deciding to operate in the agreed best interests of the whole. And when countries act egregiously badly, subsets of the larger group band together to employ military force against them. Government can exist without rigid structures. The enforcement of norms by the collective is a form of government. This is what they mean when diplomats speak of threats to the "international system" even though we lack any official world government.
FWIW, I think the pricing scheme you’ve come up with is fine. People will complain about anything, even free stuff.

It’s clear you put some thought into pricing and have avoided the subscription route which is what most people will complain about.

I wouldn’t put much stock into the complaints here.
The single market?

What?

The single market.

Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that's true. Yeah.

And the peace funds.

Oh, yeah, the peace funds, Reg. Remember what Northern Ireland used to be like?

Yeah. All right. I'll grant you the single market and the peace funds are two things that the EU have done.

And the Erasmus programme.

Well, yeah. Obviously the Erasmus programme. I mean, that goes without saying, doesn't it? But apart from the peace funds, the single market, and the Erasmus programme--

Food standards.

GDPR.

Huh? Heh? Huh...

Climate policies.

Ohh...

Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.

And the chorizo.

Oh, yes. Yeah...

Yeah. Yeah, that's something we'd really miss, Reg, if we left the EU. Huh.

Cross-border healthcare.

And it's easier to travel to Spain now, Reg.

Yeah, they certainly know how to keep order. Let's face it. They're the only ones who could in a place like this.

All right, but apart from the single market, GDPR, climate policies, chorizo, order, food standards, Erasmus programme, a cross-border healthcare system, and peace funds, what has the EU ever done for us?

Prevented wars?

Oh shut up!
I built a search tool for my favourite stack exchange community post archives
Good thing that with the coming devastating job purges due to statistical learning such "careers" based around bullshit jobs [1] where some words in a generated email can be "career-terminating" will be forever gone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
Not an apple user. What does "the 10-year-old had managed to change the password to allow payments" mean?

What does one action have to do with the other?
>When I use BDD, it's because I'm handed down scenarii written by non-tech people. And it's always in the Gherkin format

Thats interesting. You're the first person I've heard of who actually did that rather than just talking about it.

I was under the impression that this worked ok for simple scenarios but with complex scenarios I think the syntax buckles - either you end up with very long, repetitive scenarios or vague scenarios. Or even both.
They block payments to crypto and casinos. They should be blocking payments other shady organizations like Roblox.
On the big policy level, not on the detail level. We specialize for a reason.

It's not in any way reasonable for a random person to make specific decisions about what kind of medical intervention is appropriate for what people in what conditions. Figuring out tricky details is what we have experts for.

Just like 99% of the time, it's not appropriate for the CEO to decide which framework, algorithm or programming language should be used to solve a problem.

Nor can we even try successfully. There's too many deeply complex subjects for the general public to have time to research them well enough not to make completely stupid decisions, let alone good ones.