skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're using feature phones which are 100% proprietary and actively fight anyone from sideloading any app at all because they're uncomfortable with Android's ecosystem, which by comparison lets you install pretty much whatever you want if you just enable developer mode on the device?

No. People who choose feature phones do so because they don't want to deal with apps at all on their mobile device. Not iOS apps, not Android apps, not Debian apps, not Ubuntu apps, not Symbian apps, nothing. They're wanting a phone that's just a phone, even more of an appliance than an iPhone. They probably wouldn't care about the phone running Debian at all, and they absolutely won't care about running GCC to compile their own apps on their phones.
Victims and Abusers
How can clicking an HTML element root my iPhone?
We're seeing similar things at work as the postgres documentation has.

We in infra-ops can give you more details about how our database clusters are designed for resilience, security, safety than you want on more levels than most people in the company know exist. We also have reasoning for all of this available. This is really good to have for customer question sets during sales.

However, this doesn't tell a developer how to connect his spring boot thingy to it, and how to connect and manage his service well. In fact, 80 - 90% or more of the things we know about our database are not relevant to a simple small-scale application running queries on it. And quite a lot of the issues you can have with running your application on a rock-solid database are entirely not relevant at a DBA level. Like, the database doesn't care if your DDL modification is backwards compatible.

And that's something we're currently learning together with a foundation team at work. They are documenting on how to use it well from their side, we're learning about easy mistakes to make and document those, and help with the actionable documentation. And in hard cases we kinda have to talk what's the plan, because it's usually not smart from a DBAs perspective.
Yep still the case. Good if you're already using cloudflare and therefore the at cost pricing can wind up saving you a bit, otherwise you would be better served with the likes of porkbun or namecheap. Gandi used to be another before it was sold.
Bronze is superior to iron, but not to steel. Both bronze and steel can take very sharp edges while only steel can be tempered to be springy and tough and therefore can make much lighter weapons. Iron is soft, weak, prone to rusting, can't easily take or hold an edge, and requires a lot of fuel to process from ore, but you can get it anywhere in large quantities if you have the fuel, while bronze needs the much harder to find tin.
I agree with this to the point that I want to see iOS reverted. I preferred the days when iOS was extremely limited. The features it had were perfected and stable.

Now we’re seeing dozens of new features and changes every year. iOS is becoming confusing, feels less polished, and is full of bugs. It goes against everything iOS used to be.
Honolulu's homeless problem is also nowhere near as bad as SF's, by the numbers. And for whatever reason, Honolulu's homeless seem way less addicted to drugs, and with fewer mental health issues.

SF will also provide bus tickets to homeless people if they have family elsewhere who can help care for them, but to me it seems the program is under-utilized.
It's projection and the gameboard is a retroreflector. Their about page goes into pretty good detail about how it works: https://www.tiltfive.com/the-system
That's not at all what I learned from working with microservices. The worst thing you can do is make sync calls between services, then you end up with high aggregate failure rates, and/or large request latency from retries as well as low uptime due to dependency couplings.

One-way async dataflows work much better. That way each microservice is up with all the (potentially delayed) data it needs to respond to requests.
It’s also important to add that whilst it does happen that Apple bans accounts from at least my anecdotal evidence is that it’s far more common with Google and then you’re pretty royally fucked.
UML is dead. Let is rest in peace.
All of that.
I will also point out that ~99% of the fun of table-top RPGs is not pushing miniatures around on a mat, and spending a mountain of money on optimizing the fidelity of that remaining 1% may... Not have the best ROI.
I'm in a very progressive and educated town. The library here serves as a community education center. It's very well used, well loved, and well resourced, with tons of free classes for the community. There are three colleges in this town, so it's a more educated populace than the average town.
Post WWII was a time of plenty and work to go around.
We started with Go version
1.2 which was released over ten years ago. Pretty darn close to 11 years.

https://go.dev/doc/go1.2
I said it sounds like it. Meaning that, on my priors of every other experience I have with folks that have a motorcycle, it sounds like this.

If you are putting the same number of miles on a motorcycle as a car, you either don't have to drive much, or are in some other very fringe situation. Pretty much period. Yes, it can and does happen. It is in a minority of cases though. Happy to be shown data that this is not the case, of course.

Edit: I got mixed on some other posts, I didn't say this one "sounds like it." Apologies for the odd rephrasing in this post. I stand by everyone that has every pushed this idea forward to me does so in what feels like a post-hoc justification.
Thanks for this great link [I remembered having seen it but would not have recalled the countries).

TL;DR: some countries require manufacturers to underdrive the diodes allowing them to last for decades [not "designed obsolescence"].
If You have not tried what the other reply-post suggests (dumb brick), I have a 5V 4A dumb brick I can loan for a quick test. Seattle area. It has worked on quite a few boards here. Or purchase one from where-ever, they are really useful outside of SBCs (though they are usually 5.3V and 4.xA, so watch out with sensitive parts).
isn't Larionova's paper on https://iorj.hse.ru/data/2023/06/09/2037222126/Vestnik_2023_... pure political bs?
There's still Ubuntu touch i.e. UBports, unfortunately not that many devices are supported.

https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/
https://ubports.com/
There is little difference here between killed and sold. Squarespace charges 66% more per year for .com domain, so it is going to make sense to transfer out for most people. Same result as if Google killed it, just a slightly longer window to go through the hassle of transferring.
omniglottal, I wish you'd comment further about address info changing. Like the other responder to you, third parties can ask to update address info. It's absolutely not conspiratorial. Can we agree it's not a conspiracy?
I knew better than to trust Google, and yet... I switched everything to Google Domains because the UI was very clean and the attempted upsells were minimal.

I had moved from GoDaddy to Name.com years prior for similar reasons but Name burned my good will.

Is there a service that replaces Google Domains in simplicity and not pushing add-ons?
It seems Domain is part of Cloud in Alphabet's revenue breakdown, which recently turned profit with just $191m in 23Q1. Not sure the exact term and accounting operation, but this sale of $180m may just double that line of income?
Yes, distribution is the key.

Suppose that my company has powerful video editing software that we sell (which is distribution). Consider that it has unique functionality and has taken a decade to develop by a team of developers, all of whom have salaries, insurance, retirement, etc. that need to be paid, otherwise the software would not exist. Proprietary code and profit are more than appropriate in this situation, as I believe that workers should reap the reward of their labor and investment.

Now, suppose that a new feature is wanted. There is a project that provides that functionality, but it is licensed GPL. Can I use it?

Absolutely not!

Because, if I do, then I am obligated to release all of my source code in addition, because it integrates with the GPL code. It is financial suicide for my business to do so (which, btw, is a political preference for many of the GPL proponents). What will I do instead? I will probably just have my developer write our own version, adding in the extra features that we need.

Contrast that with the MIT-licensed code. We can use it without fear, and we will probably even submit enhancements back to the project, simply because it makes our lives easier in the future for maintenance.

GPL poisons downstream, simple as that.

You are correct that there is no obligation to submit a PR upstream, but there is a requirement for my source code to be made available under the same GPL license. GPL is "infectious" (or "viral", take your pick of words).

The funny thing is, I believe in freedom with software, but my interpretation of "free" is vastly different than the GPL interpretation of "free". And, as I said, I put my money where my mouth is... almost everything I write (except for my job) is MIT licensed code.
Afraid.org does, too. https://freedns.afraid.org/
I think type hints help a lot. A codebase with classes and type hints reads much better than one using ad-hoc dictionaries for every data structure.

But on the other hand I don't really like Go, so maybe it's different languages for different tastes.
Are you referring to those with Denisovan vs those with Neanderthal vs those with neither?
> "But I think the greater Reddit community just want to participate with their fellow community members."
> "The protest, what it really affects is the everyday users, most of whom aren't involved in this, or the changes that spurred this,"

Its amazing how we butchered the protest into the regular 'us vs them' situation seen in everything: politicize everything, pitch people against people, while the person on the top reaps the money and enjoyment from the drama.

> Huffman said negotiations have broken down with two of the most popular apps, Apollo and Reddit is Fun, but he said Reddit is willing to negotiate with most third-party developers.

Wow. You accuse him of blackmailing you for 10 million, get caught red handed (1) then say that negotiations "broke down"? I want to hear what happened with rif from the developer. I hope he recorded his calls too.

(1) https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w...
I agree that borough libraries are very useable. The LIC library is wonderful, for example. But Manhattan libraries are pretty difficult.
That's not my experience, it lasts many more times for me and it says "INSERT CARD". Which is also what it says when you haven't got money to cover the payment.
yeah, the doses are high: given single doses of one of 30 mg of MPH, 15 mg of DEX, and 200 mg of MOD.

from the mayo clinic: https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/methylphenidate....

'''
Adults—20 to 30 milligrams (mg) given in divided doses 2 or 3 times a day, taken 30 to 45 minutes before meals. Your doctor may adjust your dose as needed. However, the dose is usually not more than 60 mg per day.
'''
Getting an invitation is rather easy. Just write a nice email and explain why you would like to join.
It seems like only one of those Tox clients is still being somewhat actively maintained. uTox hasn't been updated in a couple years. qTox in about a year. Toxygen 3 years. aTox still has commits though over a year since a release. Toxic had commits and a release a few months ago.
Using a 'virtual slime mold' to design a subway network less prone to disruption
> This one doesn't make any sense to me

I'm also confused, it's a paid product! If it wasn't making enough money, why didn't they just raise the price? It already wasn't the cheapest name registrar, so I don't think people were selecting it solely based on cost (I went with it because of the free 100 email aliases included, but others liked the clean layout and simplicity compared to some other options.)

I get why they kill free things that don't make them money, but it seems very strange with a paid product, especially when, as others have said, they have GCP, which will presumably require a third party registrar in the future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36346941
For both the combined price of a 3 pack and 2 pack, you’d be halfway to a single Apple Vision Pro!

Really, though—isn’t this sort of like the Tiger electronics handheld to the Gameboy?

Those things were kinda fun, and definitely cheap, but the writing was on the wall.
The problem with reorgs is that you're not doing enough of them
Isn’t running Linux in the iOS browser, to compile with GCC, as fast as the HP Jornada?
I think the idea that thriller novels or horse racing are more mature than video games questionable, however. Your average adult thriller (or hollywood AAA movie) has a plot that would sit right alongside video game plots.
As someone who read Zen the first time many years ago, the book talks about the joy you get from seeing the world on a motorcycle (or bicycle) over being in a tank like car where you don't fully experience your environment. At its heart though, Pirsig used the concept of motorcycle maintenance as an examination of quality, value, and what brings people fulfillment. It takes a meandering path to get there which is probably why so many people don't finish it. The most memorable thing in the book for me was the topic of gumption and how it can so easily be destroyed. In my work in tech, gumption traps are everywhere.
Reading this book made me recognize them so that I could logically decide my next action rather than making an emotional decision.

I wish I was articulate enough to properly detail how really interesting the book is even for someone who has absolutely zero interest in maintaining a combustion engine
Transformer Feed-Forward Layers Are Key-Value Memories
I made this 3 years ago: https://jgthms.com/hacker-news-dark-mode/

I submitted it to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23203347
+1

I've been a namecheap costumer for about five years for both personal and business stuff, can't really remember having any issues.
See also California in 2009 had a proposal in their budget for a $1.2 million commission to promote the blueberry industry- paid for by a new tax specifically on blueberries.
Good catch - should be "subsequently" rather than "already" since this was 2005 and the iPhone didn't come out until 2007. I can imagine Jobs being upset initially by Google trying to poach the Safari team and subsequently even more upset by Android's iPhone-like UI redesign – especially given the presence of Google execs on Apple's board.
This is interesting. Part of the fact that Google owned Domains was that GCP domain validation was smooth when doing this. Now, we probably have to do the slow motion validation. Bit annoying, honestly.

But, ah well.
Sorry, what? Are you talking about the iOS App Store that's been an unmitigated dumpster fire for like a decade? I don't even open the thing, ever. It's so filled with flaming garbage that I will only find and acquire an iOS app via reddit, HN, or AlternativeTo.
0 retort to a true statement. Better than yikes.
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If we look at the origins of major groups of animals, the first dinosaurs or at earliest stages of bird evolution, we see often see multiple related groups evolving convergently due to similar pressures. My favorite example of this is that powered flight may have been acquired three or more times in closely related but distinct groups of theropod dinosaurs.

When we think of the other branches of the Human family tree, we often think of them as sort of diverging from our ancestors and then freezing unchanged. However, it would not at all be surprising if the pressures which so aggressively favored increased intelligence in our ancestors also applied to all our "cousins".
> That just is doing an incredible amount of heavy lifting. It'd be like saying, "Why doesn't the USA just switch entirely to the metric system?" It's a huge ask, and after being burned by the 2/3 transition, the python team is loathe to rock to boat too much again.

> The GIL is deep, arguably one of the deepest abstractions in the codebase, up there with PyObject itself. Think about having to redefine the String implementation of a codebase in your language of choice.

I am somewhat familiar with the cpython code base, and talk to some folks involves in some of thousand new python runtime.

The problem is not that deep, and cpython is not that much different from other projects : the GIL is an implementation details that leaked through the API and now we have a bunch of people are relying on it. The question is what do we do about it. The trade-off in such situation are well known and just a question to pick the right one.

> The team has already decided those tradeoffs are not really justifiable.

That's from my view the crust of the issue, the TLDR is that GIL-less python is not a priority for the python team, so they view any trade-off/comprise as "not justifiable". Especially something when it come to added complexity to the code base or what not...

> Person with limited to zero experience with CPython internals> I hate the GIL, why don't they just remove it?

People have this reaction because having a single-threaded interpreter in 2023 is just ... embarrassing, what ever the reasons behind it.
The stock market is at or near a top, and I'm expecting a pretty massive reversal in the coming months. We are living in the midst of a synchronized global recession, as China's post-COVID reopening has failed. Rough times are ahead here in the US...
McKinsey: AI to Create $4.4T in Annual Economic Impact
... you know rounded corners are built in to CSS right? There's no arcane knowledge there. Bit of an odd example
AI has become a part of our lives without us even realizing it. It’s present in the technology that powers our smartphones, the autonomous-driving features in cars, and the tools that retailers use to surprise and delight consumers. Its progress has been gradual and often unnoticed. While there have been notable milestones, like when AlphaGo defeated a world champion Go player in 2016, these achievements quickly faded from public consciousness.
I waffled on whether you/one would be better!
> finally realizing being one of their users will never stop being an unpaid, unrespected beta tester …

… and AI trainer
Just yesterday there was a post here not too thrilled about how Gandi is handling their latest price increases and their dropped support for 'free included' email?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36321783
What aspect of python's type system do you find insufficient?
I'm sad to see this, not b/c I like Google, but because domain names are otherwise a manipulative space, and Google was saving us from that.

Domain service - name registry - is a weird market because it includes cross-subsidizing businesses and the information has value (and people will pay for anonymity to avoid hassle), so buy decisions aren't just price/performance.

Google and Cloudflare can offer it near cost just to build goodwill in their clients (i.e., to save them from predation). Cloudflare promises for renewals to only pass through their costs, which makes sense (they make back their customer acquisition cost on the first purchase).

What's the business model of others like porkbun? By hypothesis, you have to pay more to go without the cross-subsidy. If cost is on par, then you might expect them to be marketing the information or to customers somehow. Perhaps just making it back on anonymity charges?

At a minimum, the company would need to have some real reputational concerns about maintaining good relations with customers. E.g., with porkbun, it's super-cute in an ostensibly-benign jurisdiction, but it's a completely hidden LLC who's privacy concerns seem limited only to WHOIS anonymity. What exactly prevents them (or any successor in interest) from misusing the information they have?

On the internet, associating real people with IP's will always be a key goal of governments and criminals, and yet domain name services are a free-for-all with no underlying privacy guarantees.
I'm consciously choosing the walled garden. Look, I'm a power user. I write software for 20+ years and I like the freedom of choice on the desktop and the server. If Apple started doing some yanky stuff with macos, I'd switch to Linux, sure. But for my phone, I want that walled garden.
I usually go for “ciw“ to make changes from wherever I am in the word. It lets me use w or e because I’m not usually paying attention to which one I’m smashing. :)
Sure, back in the day. And they don't go out of their way to support it in the modern era.

...but this goes back to the US interpretation of "monopoly practice" vs. the European interpretation. Where was the consumer harm? How does MS "stifle" an OS that you can just pick up from a CD, floppy disk, or the Internet and drop on a machine you own?

History seems to have shown "You can't." In general, the biggest hindrance to Linux desktop adoption is the Linux UX (and for games, the experience of building one with the libraries available on Linux [https://utopixel.games/en/blog/building-outer-wonders-for-li...]), not anything Microsoft (or Apple, for that matter) have done to it.
The thing I take biggest offense to is the fact that I hear about this from Bloomberg before Google making any outreach. Also no mention of if Google Cloud Domains is impacted.
You’re not really making sense.

If they hadn’t made platform changes they would have never been able to turn into what they are today. I hardly thing that is ‘little to do’.

They would likely barely exist. They have ‘achieved product market fit’ as the saying goes.
Which requires more than just a sharp UI, as their history shows
I wondered why the guy who published chapter 2 didn't talk about the other couple's resistance to maintaining their bike and Pirsig's take on that.
I mean, they're domains, you can't kill them.

This is like saying Photos isn't killed because they didn't delete old photos when you exceed your new low quota.
Maybe it used to be true but not anymore, now the only ones who could stop it would be if TSMC and Samsung and Intel stop making their semiconductors. Or if there is a Yud-like anti-gpt international agency granted broad powers of enforcement. Otherwise like anyone can train powerful AIs if they can concentrate enough capital. Like it could be trained by cartels like sinaloa or zetas or by north korea. Saudi Arabia could pivot and train a trillion dollar model instead of building neom. Every country would probably build one anyway. Like do you seriously think Singapore for example wouldn't make a SingaporeGPT?
> Some studies have shown that when live communication is replaced with digital communication, empathy decreases and ‘autistic-like behaviour’ grows (self-absorption, escaping reality). This leads to emotional immaturity.

There's just no doubt about the destructive aftermath of abandoning physical reality for life inside one's own mind (i.e. online).
If I know anything about humans, we'd probably try to have sex with them.
If bitcoin proves a reliable leading indicator for the broad stock market, trad-fi bros are going to be so mad.