skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which 3 apps on the Mini? I’ve actually been really impressed with my base model M1 Mini. I’ve been able to use XCode, Safari, iMessage, and Music playing without many noticeable hiccups at all.
If they anticipated it, why did it become an issue?
> In a word without trademark protection, people would be like "what the heck is an iPhone, what does it do?" because the word iPhone would have no meaning. You would have to sell based on capabilities, rather than brand name

I am not aware of this ever having occurred across history. Instead, brands become personal. You don’t buy an iPhone, you buy master Tim Cook’s phone.
Sandboxing a program in Bubblewrap is trivially easy if it's a CLI program that doesn't need network access.

Sandboxing a program that needs graphics performance anywhere near 10% of what the hardware is capable of is, at the moment, as we're stuck with X11 and growing gray hair waiting for Wayland to become a viable alternative, literally impossible.

Firejail does provide pre-made solutions like running nested X servers, which can sandbox graphical applications at insane resource costs, such that you might as well just run a full virtual machine.

Mount namespaces are security theater if you're giving access to X11, Pipewire, the SSH agent, the GPG agent, the dbus session bus, and god knows what else.
Could someone start the 'Decentralized Intelligence Agency(, LLC)', buying, collating, and analyzing open market data feeds, and allowing subscribers to see what's known about themselves and others?
Futzing with pythons terrible multiprocessing is one of least favorite parts of the language.
Shapes of Data: SCD Types, Master Full and Incremental, Unitemporal, Bitemporal
This happened to me too (from a NordVPN IP). I presume someone is spamming Bitwarden with login credentials they found in some stolen database. It’s possible that Bitwarden had a database breach but that’s very unlikely.
Take a well known, respected brand; remove all the things that made it respected, sell shoddy replacements instead (and throw the name at everything else it might stick to); and when you've milked it dry, walk away from the debts.

I wish I could still easily buy real borosillicate glassware.
I think that trying to see the the decision from the point view of Reddit is the very first step towards a meaningful discussion about the issue.

Reddit is trying to monetize the platform and it is very healthy thing for them and for the users. Pushing users to the mobile app is very reasonable if not a must.

Apps have better engagement. Push notifications, quick access to the platform, having a foot in the door on the user apps home screen are very clear pros.

Also, pushing people towards being always logged in is a hugh step towards more customized ads which in turn will increase monetization.

Yes thier app maybe lacking but I think they will try to make it best the viewing experience for Reddit. Deprecating the mobile web client gradually only makes sense.

I am not hinting that they are angles but no amount of complaining will ever change the situation without finding a better model that addresses these points.

Twitter, Facebook, and every other social media have gone through this journey. Why do you expect anything else?
What drama. Ooc
This adds a lot of great color to your perspective, but the summary becomes essentially: An iPhone makes a great metronome, but a terrible recording studio replacement. I'm not sure that's saying too much, because the latter is so much more ambitious than the former? That's really the dilemma for those of us disappointed in iOS creation, we want it to be more
ambitious, and competitive with things laptops can do.
> It's downright comical to look at, and as clear a sign of mis-design in a language/runtime as you can get.

That's your opinion. Some of us prefer to know when a call is I/O-constrained and when the execution queue is being interrupted. JS had fearless concurrency before it was cool.

When was the last time you heard of a JS program in a thread deadlock under load (other than a VM bug)? Never. It can get caught up in an infinite loop like any language, but that's not deadlocking. Because the language doesn't allow it. Not "makes it easier to avoid". Straight up doesn't allow it. That's no small thing, and it's not something Go can claim.
It needs to start doing a better job then, cause it looks like it's asleep on the job
I don't know what you think you're referring to. The police are absolutely empowered to break down your door and stop a crime if they have cause to think one is happening. That ship sailed long ago, and generally agreed for the better.

If you read, God forbid, what's happening it is not materially different than the fbi saying "hey there's a domestic, let's go and break it up." Even if the door is locked they're allowed in.
What about 20 years from now, when the current offensive word becomes just tacky, and then 20 years later, an euphemism? Many words end up stuck on such multi-generational loop.
I did exactly this. Initially i wanted a mac pro but went for a custom amd nvidia combo and couldn't be happier. Plan slapping a second 3090 with nvlink, might even upgrade my ram to 6.5 ghz.
It's true that as a small and intimate community grows, it will deteriorate.

Once upon a time there was this optimistic idea that as we add voices to the internet it becomes exponentially better, like a super brain developing.

This has become true in some parts (Wikipedia, open source software, stackoverflow, the like) but it doesn't seem to apply to social networking. On social networks, the larger it gets, the worse it becomes. The large size making it an attractive target for scammers, divisive posts, trolling, dunking, pile-ons, influencer tactics. It ends with the worst of us winning, the unreasonable ones.

The size of the social network is a factor, its algorithms (what is amplified), but also the underlying dysfunctional political system. I've come to the conclusion that a large scale social network is near impossible to keep healthy, stable, useful. Or this slowly becoming clear at this point in time.

My advise would be to not obsessively search for the next new thing, instead to pause and critically evaluate what you're getting out of it anyway. Make your goal as narrow and tangible as possible.

As an example, say you have a particular professional/hobby interest. You follow experts on social networks. Instead you could just subscribe to the endless amount of newsletters that come weekly. Find the good one. Read it once per week and you're up to speed. No need to spend hours per day listening to noise. I cannot recommend this enough, it's so calming.

The perhaps more controversial tip is about people "finding community". I respect and understand that in particular situations, people can find like-minded individuals that they would otherwise not find in the real world.

Fine, but I'd also argue that this isn't true for many people, and "finding community" strongly aligns with being chronically online. If so, now would be a good moment to ask hard questions about this "community". Do you even know whom they are? Have you ever met any of them? Would they help you if something happens to you? Have they ever shown an active interest in you? Has the community in any shape or form tangibly improved your life? Do they like you unconditionally or drop you like a stone when you say the wrong thing?

Perhaps your community is just a bunch of randos that do not care if you live or die, that happen to have the same suspiciously precise opinion, and you're just there to see it validated, for hours on end, day by day, without this making any difference whatsoever to anything at all.

My point being, optimize your social network usage. Go to direct sources, exit communities where there is no real personal stake, then walk the dog in the nearby forest. Reclaim your real life.

And yes, I'm hypocritical for posting here. I'm just as flawed in wasting time online. But I genuinely believe I should just exit 90% of it for the simple reason that it offers no tangible value, and quite a lot of negative value (lost quality time).

What comes after Twitter and Reddit? How about fucking nothing?
That's nice to hear.

I had been pretty naive to the euphemism since it seemed to be entirely the wife's family's call (and to an extent the extended family avoided those conversations guessing that we would be opposed to it, having grown up in the West). I only managed to piece it together when it came to marriages in my immediate family. They just claimed that it was stuff that their daughter would end up needing to buy anyway and for the most part that is how it turned out, but I have also heard plenty of gossiping about how someone's daughter-in-law didn't bring X or Y thing.

I still have a few years before I think I'll be ready to deal with relationships, but of course will definitely be making it clear that I have no expectations of 'gifts'.
But with the Vision Pro there is zero latency and the possibility of having many big screens, whilst when remote-desktoping into a Mac from an iPad you gain nothing and the high latency makes it worse.
It doesn't seem to change in intensity, but in what is illuminated. While high, sun itself appears bright, when dropping lower the things lighted from the side, and at the end scattered light at the horizon.
Yeah, creating a community is hard work, all those free moderators made it possible, if not perfect.

Also, I'm mainly on sites like Reddit for the discussion, so those people creating millions of comments in communities are the main draw for me. Finding the perfect karma model was never the solution, we only ever needed one that was "good enough". And that's actually very easy, provided you aren't trying to frankenstein the algo-feed to serve advertisers.
sure... I don't disagree with you there. they did need to get a subpoena for that information using all the other evidence that was publicly out there on facebook that the affidavit said. they were using an android device that tracks you if you let it and stores that information on google's servers if you let it. you don't have to have that feature on and just having the phone on you is sufficient to be triangulated by the cell towers. I don't see how this is incompatible with modern society. google didn't just give up the data without going through the judge granting a subpoena. even if they didn't have that cell phone record it's just one piece of evidence of many that would still likely get a conviction.

it didn't start at gps data from google... it went from public posts on facebook to the email and phone number account associated with that to the google account associated with that to the gps data associated with the google account. if you show me them using a reach around route to get that gps data and persecute peaceful protestors that haven't been suspected of criminal activity then i do agree it's troubling. if you want me to agree that the government is not within their rights seek evidence via normal, judge approved, subpoenas to investigate/prosecute people storming the capital and doing legitimate crimes then i disagree. you need probable cause and that bar should be fairly high.
> what it means to use "a trademark as a trademark"

The alternative is called “nominative use”, which is to use the mark of another to refer to the other’s goods or services.

For example, a cola manufacturer can write in an advert, “Better than Coca-Cola!” and it does not infringe the Coca-Cola mark, because the name is being used to identify the competitor’s product. If the same company called its own product “Better Coca-Cola”, however, that would be using the trademark as a trademark and it could potentially infringe. (Probably would, in fact.)
Please email suggestions to hn@ycombinator.com as mods don't monitor comments for such actions.

I've done so in this case.
The difference is that you can see it. If you have two highly skilled contributors with very different programming styles, they can still collaborate within the same codebase given a goal and the end-result is the same for your users. When a code contribution is marginally better or worse in its approach than another the difference is negligible to the project as a whole. By contrast, users notice when a single color is different for design elements. And they complain extremely loudly about it.

On the contributor side:

- Visual style guides require much more time and skill to create (relative to style guides for code) and still generally fail to achieve anywhere near the aesthetic unity of a single great designer with total control.

- If you commoditize your design elements to the point where it is easy to contribute them, then it is no more difficult to do it yourself to begin with.

- Delegation of design work still requires that you funnel it somewhere to be judged on qualitative measures, rather than the pass/fail nature of code

Generally the best you can do is collaborate very, very tightly and then funnel it through a single person in the end anyway a la Python's BDFL in a very trial and error fashion.
Next episode:

developer gets frustrated as Apple refuses to relinquish full control over the device.
I haven't heard anything bad about stevia yet.
If you decide you like it, let us know your username. I'm always looking for interesting people to follow.
It's bulk. You are going to be buying a lot of information. I'm sure it includes triangulation information.
"greed"? The force that pushes back on corporate greed should be competition. The problem is the modern trend of consolidation, monopolisation and lack of proper competition.
J1772 should never have existed, IMO. It's pitiful 19.2 kW maximum charge rate hurt EV adoption by continuing the idea that it takes hours to charge your car.

In the conversation of NACS versus CSS, J1772 shouldn't even be part of the conversation. It's simply not relevant.
Real estate prices wouldn't be skyrocketing if local governments woud let the markets fulfil the demand for more housing.

Harder stem jobs are largely being filled by foreign talent because american schools are underfunded because of low property taxes and american students would rather be influencers and activists than engineers but for the salaries afforded. Even in engineering, the lower level and more mathy/technical you go, the more it is dominated by immigrants, neurodivergents and those hailing from rurual or working class backgrounds.

Math and programming are all topics that don't require much money to teach or to learn. There's no shortage of free and accessible resorucrs put there. There are many of us, from working class backgrounds and non tech parents, who picked up entire subjects entirely without instruction by just hanging out in a library because we had nothing better to do, nothing for us at home.

I know a few people learned how to code by messing with game cheats, or just screwing around with JavaScript on library computers - all 60 minutes at a time bc w/ deep freeze and daily quotas.

I personally picked up programming by from LYAH and stuff like geeks for geeks. Took a programming course in Gr 12 but our teacher was a contractor that basically just pointed you to a bunch of pre written lessons and auto graded problem sets while he worked a side gig all day.
Youre either not well informed or being deliberately obtuse. Cell phone data has been used in individual cases for almost as long as cell phones existed.

J6 was one of the first cases where mass surveillance paired with ad tracking and tower pings were used in combination for mass arrests.

We did not see this when the George Floyd riots occurred Despite the fact federal buildings were attacked yet it was brought out for this. It's very indicative of the existence of a police state that chooses its targets in a politically expedient way.

What we saw the government do and the fact the alleged conspirators have largely not been charged with anything but rather left to rot should terrify anyone. Just because you aren't the target today doesnt mean you won't be tomorrow.
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I find the concept interesting, but I see no reason to spend money when platforms with larger communities only want easily-obfuscated personal data or easily-blocked advertising impressions. If anything, the number of sites which are advertising themselves as "like Reddit, except..." today is proof that Advance Media (and Spez) are right in exerting their influence over Reddit's users and their channels of engagement.
Of course it was tested for preventing infection. It was tested for that as well as efficacy against severe disease:
"Efficacy against laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 (with an onset of >= 7 days after receipt of the second dose) and against severe COVID-19.. was assessed among the participants 12 years of age or older."
https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2110345

You seem to be conflating the vaccine having efficacy against infection and whether a vaccinated individual who still catches COVID-19 (since protection against infection is obviously not 100%) can transmit it. The efficacy against original COVID-19 strain infection was high (91.3% for the Pfizer vaccine).

Your first link speaks to the situation of a breakthrough infection being further transmitted. Since it wasn't clear HOW MUCH it curbed infection (under non-ideal/trial conditions), quarantines and caution were reasonable.

Here's a chart that showed the original test results across a number of vaccines. The efficacy vs infection dropped quite a bit with variants though the efficacy vs severe disease holds up better:

https://jbiomedsci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12929...
It's kind of like Burning Man in that regard. If you're overly sensitive and can't handle something that is in no way a first class resort experience, and where you have to bring all your own food and water, you're not going to have a good time.
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A good, but wrong, assumption is to assume Reddit's engineers know what they're doing.

The founding Reddit team was non-technical (Even Spez. I've been to UVA; it's not an engineering school; and spez had never done any real engineering before coming onto Reddit). They ran a skeleton crew of some 10ish people for a long time (none from any exceptional backgrounds. One of them was from Sun & Oracle, after their prime).

Same group that started with a node front-end, python back-end monolith, with a document-oriented database structure (i.e., they had two un-normalized tables in Postgres to hold everything). Later they switched to Cassandra and kept that monstrosity -- partly, because back then no one knew anything about databases except sysadmins.

Back then they were running a cache for listing retrieval. Every "reddit" (subreddit and the various pages, like front-page, hot, top, controversial, etc.) listing is kept in a memcache. Inside, you have your "top-level" listing information (title, link, comments, id, etc.). The asinine thing is that cache invalidation has always been a problem. They originally handled it using RabbitMQ queues: votes come in, they're processed, and then the cache is updated. Those things always got backed up, because no one thought about batching updates on a timer (or how to use lock-free) (and no one knew how to do vertical scaling, and when they tried, it made things even harder to reason about). You know what genius plan they had next to solve this? Make more queues. Fix throughput issues by making more queues, instead of fixing the root cause of the back-pressure. Later, they did "shard"/partition things more cleanly (and tried lock-free) -- but they never did any real research into fixing the aforementioned problem (how to handle millions of simple "events" a day... which is laughable thinking back to it now).

That's just for listings. The comment trees are another big bad piece. Again, stored un-normalized -- but this time actually batched (not properly, but it is a step up). One great thing about un-normalized databases and trees, is that there are no constraints on vertices. So a common issue was that you could back-up your queue (again) for computing the comment trees (because they would never get processed properly) (and you could slow the entire site to a crawl because your message broker was wasting its time on erroneous messages).

Later, they had the bright idea to move from a data center to AWS -- break everything up into microservices. Autoscaling there has always been bungled.

There was no strong tech talent, and no strong engineering culture -- ever.

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My 2 cents: it's the listing caches. The architecture around it was never designed to handle checking so many "isHidden" subreddits (despite that they're still getting updates to their internal listings) -- and it's coming undone.
An idea I would be interested in is some kind of public-private partnership for operating internet services like social media, search, and wikis, which are necessary for the public good but have no viable economic model. The government provides the public funding and private entities build and operate the services, because no one wants to log into a government-operated reddit clone to look for onlyfans leaks. Maybe this could be accomplished with grants instead of donations?
The subreddit experience is bifurcated into (at least) two camps: big/popular/default or small/curated/niche. The tyrannical behaviors are most often found in the former camp where being a moderator is synonymous with “internet power”. The latter is populated by enthusiasts tending to their communities.

I agree that Reddit won’t be the same after this, but there’s just not a ton of remaining value in the big defaults. They’re already plagued with low value, low effort content, low cardinality content. The true damage that’s being done right now is to the small communities which represent(ed) the best of Reddit. Out of the spotlight but deep in quality content for those that care about the topic. The inherent risk of stability is more certain now with Reddit’s new policies. And I suspect now with many subreddits weighing indefinite shutdowns that many users (perhaps more importantly: the best content creators) will scatter to the wind for greener pastures. Those that are left are given crappy apps, lots of ads, and hollow communities eagerly looking for something better.
They did leave something extremely important out here that helps to explain the good faith argument. From the source:

> Petitions challenging under-resourced patent owner patents where the patentee has or is attempting to bring products to market;

So I’d say the good faith argument is that it’s designed to protect larger orgs from bullying actual inventors/startups by attempting to threaten the legitimacy of their patents. The bit about bringing products to market is supposed to exclude trolls. More from the source:

> Such limited resources may impact the perceived fairness of post-grant reviews. For example, some stakeholders in response to the RFC expressed concern that under-resourced inventors are unable to afford the costs involved in defending patents in post-grant review. Some stakeholders advocating for small businesses and individual inventors urged the Office to take into account the financial resources of a patent owner, and to limit reviews of patents owned by under-resourced entities who lack funding to defend challenges to their patents but who have sought to bring their inventions to market either themselves or through a licensee.

So yeah basically the argument is that defending themselves in this proceeds is too onerous for small entities.

So I think that’s the good faith argument. I’m skeptical, though I will happily admit that I don’t know much about the uses and abuses of the patent system.