skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I desperately hope you're right. I would love for their to be aliens (who aren't immediately trying to wipe us out).

I suspect that you're wrong though. And when I dig through your comment history, I see a bright, well-spoken individual in the grips of conspiracy and mysticism.

The UAP/UFO phenomenon is always "for real this time!" Even now, the people testifying to Congress are not providing evidence or even giving firsthand accounts - they are playing a game of "someone said" and giving second or even third-hand accounts of aliens.

Those who make the assertions must provide high-quality evidence. Please show me high-quality photo/video, or several world-renowned scientists who will attest to the definite existence of alien visitors. Conspiracies of this magnitude cannot be kept secret for long.

Finally, your comment on a previous post about reverse engineering leading to the invention of circuits and transistors tells a lot about your bias. These inventions and the slow, iterative processes behind their creation are some of the most well-documented events in history. We have engineers, corporate documentation, peer-reviewed studies, blueprints, and the physical objects themselves. All of these things show precisely how we went from crude prototypes to complex feats of engineering - one small step at a time. There never was a sudden and unexpected explosion of technology which was completely alien to what had come before it.
> Why is Apple the only entity capable of doing this in your mind?

Others are capable, they just don't take the same pride in their devices to bother making the effort. They are a mix of happy taking part in the race to the bottom, not wanting to harm stalkers because their own business model is partly or wholly reliant on such stalking, and in some cases both. Not just in the phone market either: look at MS slowly turning Windows into a glorified as platform, the way IoT devices try to lock you in to being followed around your daily life, etc.

I'm no fan of Apple or their devices overall, but on this they deserve credit IMO. Even accounting for the fact I know they'd be playing the other game if advertising were more important to them than their key competitor in at least one market.
+1 or something like you get three misses or something and then game over.
Private subs are a feature mods have access to under the existing system.

Private subs existed before this protest.

Setting a sub to private is moderation. And likely mods are still moderating just a much smaller amount of content from users already in the community.

Its not reasonable to kick out mods because they are protesting, and reddits response is a massive stretch.
The "game we currently have" does have a way to support far-left or far-right candidates: you can vote for them in the primary. You can support them and vote for them every minute until the general election, and then you just need to pick one of the top two candidates.
Building “A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer” (2011)
Books in Progress
iPhone maker Foxconn to switch to cars as US-China tensions soar
Last time I went to the library I had to go through a metal detector. Then they had only one floor of books out of 5. Going to try another branch but I wasn't particularly happy
Let`s be truly fair: the USA "federal government" is historically and presently one of the biggest committers of war crimes in the world. If you work for it you work for evil. I am sure it keeps the kids in Montessori and enables travel to the last wildernesses on earth, but that doesn`t count for much for the millions of Vietnamese, Syrian, Iraqi, Afghan, East Timorese etc etc

This announcement shows clearly that Signal is at the end of its life and it is time to jump ship.
The datasets are not even data in the first place.

If you want to understand estimations and projects, you have to study them. This is a social science project. It's not a math game. It's not a problem that you can solve by collecting oversimplified numbers from dubious sources based on incoherent definitions of the units of measurement.

If somebody reports that they spent x days developing a component, what does that mean? What were they doing during those days? How do we know what they were doing? We don't know unless a researcher was right there in the room taking notes in real-time. There are so many confounding variables involved, even if your data collection is perfect, that analysis of the data is a process fraught with opportunities for accidental overfitting or researcher bias.
Guess it worked
Despite not being a Reddit user I'm quite enjoying this episode as it's revealing corporate despotism for what it is.

Nobody goes to Reddit for the great infrastructure or (ha ha ) the user interface. they go there because there are interesting people having interesting conversations. The owners and managers provide very little of the value that people derive from it; as Adam Smith said 'As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.' Here's hoping he site collapses and the residual value of the assets is frittered away on litigation.
> Do you see the foreclosure itself having had a unique impact on these feelings? To me, public sentiment has already been very negative.

Unfortunately, these things are self-perpetuating.

> Thanks for explaining!

Mp!
Russian Orthodox nationalists have this fantasy still. Including Putin.

https://brill.com/view/journals/joah/4/1-2/article-p28_4.xml
Their intro video says you can run it on Cloudflare Workers, so I guess you can also run it locally using Cloudflare's local dev setup for Cloudflare Workers.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/wrangler/commands/...
Someone who doesn't like Apple will use social media to tell people to buy up the chips so they'll get sued. Then someone will sue Apple or file a class action lawsuit.

Nobody ever makes it through this line of questioning. Right to Repair has options, but mandating sales isn't one of them.

I'm going to skip over the boring legal questions and ask something that I find more interesting.

Let's say you get your dream bill passed tomorrow. What will happen when products are a single integrated part? Does right to repair fizzle out, or does it force companies to make antiquated shit?
I don't really have any problems with mental models for the code I'm going to see on x64 (which does incorporate models of instruction scheduling, multiple issue, elimination (pretty easy), and vectorization, &c).

Maybe it will come with more time on ARM; but three years in, it's still not there.
Incredible future VR use-case for all the hours of useless video footage in my archives.
I received this email today from System76. Edited slightly (lopped off the intro and sign off, mostly) in order to fit into the 4000 char limit.

Appreciated the clear, thorough, and upfront notification.
My 24 year old Casio has a battery life 200x longer than the Apple watch
"Crypto" has been around for much longer than 5 years. I remember someone using it in reference to a Motorola DES chip in the late 70s. And the IACR Crypto conference has been going on since the early 80s.
How things have deviated since Diablo 2, I’m so saddened by the lack of creativity in D4 compared to path of exile
The Linux Shell for iOS
‘NuTSR’ files for bankruptcy, freezing legal disputes with WotC
The odds of a fortnite binger in a bathrobe turning out a "good product" are rather slim. Putting work (i.e. delayed gratification) before play (instant, or pre-measured artificially-designed-delay gratification) does not guarantee better output, but is pretty much a pre-requisite.
Singapore is very thorough about law enforcement (to the extent of going beyond what would seem to most people to be fair and respecting rights) and as such has very little crime and is among the safest places in the world.

How you enforce laws effects the crime rate, having your jails full doesn’t mean you have effective law enforcement.
$160 is pretty common for a modern vehicle synth oil change. I wouldn’t call that highway robbery and especially not in Canada.
> I haven’t thought about this before - who are the others?

All of the workstation vendors: IBM, HP, Dec/Compaq/HP, SGI, Sun. I don't think any of these are particularly popular, but AIX (IBM) and Solaris (Sun) are probably more popular than the others. I wouldn't be surprised if IRIX (SGI) is totally dead.

And funnily enough, Microsoft. Although they sold Xenix to Sco. I think it's in a lot of POS devices (so probably dying to iPad installs).

Edit: Oops - just realized that "Dec/Compaq/HP" probably doesn't belong in the list. I guess technically there was Tru64 Unix, but everyone I've ever heard of who ran Alpha boxes used VMS.
While I tend to agree with you, I think one of the reasons why VR devices today are not selling like hot cakes is because they're mostly (wholly?) targeting gaming, for all practical reasons.

Ignoring price for a moment (remember that early Apple computers cost $11,000 in today's money), Vision Pro is positioned for general computing, including games, and has a vibrant App Store so there's actually something to do.
Angel Hernandez and Scott Foster would like to give you a code review
Amazon Builder's Library
I’m guessing you have a subaru flat engine?
I haven't been paying close attention to all of the spez/Apollo stuff, was there actually any evidence from either side? Last I saw it was mostly just each party posting contradictory text in replies.
UML as a 4GL and coding the “important parts” died and I’m glad for it.

Turning visualizations and encoding all interfaces and interactions made things cryptic.

Using diagrams sparsely to explain the main design ideas visually? Absolutely.
HOW!?

You've provided virtually zero information other than one-line comments that illuminate nothing.

Stop playing 20 questions. If you want to publicly complain about what would normally be considered a catastrophic lapse of public cloud security, provide more than zero details of how your system is architected and what you've done to investigate the issue yourself!

Do you use Storage Account keys? How confident are you that some developer hasn't pasted it into your codebase and maybe leaked it?

Are your keys stored (only) in a Key Vault? How secure is that vault? Have you checked its audit logs?

Have you rotated your keys?

Have you looked at the Storage Account diagnostic logs to see what's going on?

Have you even turned the logs on!? You mention legal compliance issues. Do you have your resource auditing configured to match your legal requirements?

Etc...

You come across as someone who has screwed up and is accusing the vendor.

"We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas".
AI vs. Mayonnaise
There is a huge difference between fighting tooth and nail for creature comforts and just being born into it.
> Replace the protesting mods with new ones who don’t care about 3rd party apps

Until those mods run headlong into the garbage tooling that makes moderating a reasonably active subreddit unmanageable.
Hey! I’d love to learn more about your setup if you have time. Do you mind sending an email to hello[at]pgmagic.app - Thanks!
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/hackers-have-developed-a-clev...

https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2019/07/be-careful-about-sidel...

Yes it’s niche but it can be, and is, abused as a vector for this kind of stuff…
| shutting down entirely if they can't pay for server costs

Keeping the lights on is never a guarantee for anything. VC funding can also run out. Being for-profit locks an organization out of crowd-sourcing, institutional grants and other funding sources that non-profits have available.
A majority of the cars on my street, in Decatur, GA, are electric. It sound like a scene from a sci-fi movie when the wife and I sit on our front porch. All the cars making a light whirling sound as they drive by. I think the loudest vehicle on our street is a moped that drives by each morning.
Wow, this is such an incredible take-down, thank you for sharing!

German is one of those languages where the spoken and written languages are incredibly distinct. I've felt that the written language requires massive intellect to pull apart as a non-native speaker, in comparison to the spoken language (once you adjust for pronunciation, etc.).

The formalities of proper written German are inscrutable, this does a great job of laying the most painful aspects out.
What we're seeing is not just China getting richer, although that is a large part of the story.

The bottom line: The countries with the richest citizens are generally the world's most powerful. That power is now more broadly distributed than at any point in over a century.
I use DuckDuckGo, and contrary to other comments here I find the results far better than Google on the very rare occasions I have to use it
Of course by that he really meant "screw real life achievement, play minecraft all day".
Blue means end-to-end encrypted. Green means plaintext.
For most people (yes “most” people - who are again a minuscule fraction of IM app users) Signal is the “that other car” - not the car that they drive in the city on which “eco friendly” sticker is put, but the one which is marked eco friendly, yes, but mostly remains parked and is for rather the display of one’s principles. At least seeing the shape and form Signal is today.

So if we are being honest - it really doesn’t matter.
I genuinely forget Usenet is still technically around these days. I dabble in the idea of using it here and there, but the ease and convenience of the modern www has spoiled me quite a bit. If I go to a decentralized platform, it's more likely to be something fediverse.
After several years, TSR only managed to make $621.92.
I think they're overlooking the change on the content production side there. If a Guardians of the Galaxy movie is going to cost a 250 million to make, you can't exclude some big audience. They need people of all ages buying tickets.

It shouldn't be surprising that something designed to appeal to young and old alike, is consumed by both groups.
The proliferation of sailing terms into common paralance is one of the coolest things about English. :D
I agree. All AR/VR devices are replacing... AR/VR devices.

But if you want to displace the iPhone/smartphone it has to be 1000x better, which today's tech simply can't do yet.

If the glasses that I'm wearing right now could become an AR device at Vision Pro's abilities then take-my-money would be in full swing and easily displace the iPhone as the "center of our lives" computing device.
> In fact, I believe it pretty much killed the profession of software architect.

And thank goodness. I am all in favor of more consideration, more quality, more integrity. I like good architecture. But I think it's a giant mistake to create a software architect role. Every company where I saw that in practice, the average architect was a bloviator who did no actual work but was very excited to tell everybody else how to work.

At the code level, this resulted in a lot of messes. The edicts and white papers sounded good in theory to the kind of people who decided the bonuses of the architects. But frequently they were unworkable in practice, causing a lot of code that conformed to the theory but was a pain to actually deal with.

I agree with you that a lot of things are half-assed and rushed, of course. But we are never going back to a world of 18-36 month release cycles where people could stroke their chins for a quarter or two before building anything. Instead, we need to move in the direction of continually investing in quality, so that the design of systems improves over time. Something that I think is actually easier, in that waterfall design practices locked in important decisions early on, when people knew the least.
> Most importantly, people actually used their devices all the time, they just wanted them to be better. There was a reason they called them "Crackberries" - Blackberry fans were on them 24/7, and they got tons of utility from them.

There are some enthusiastic people who use HMD (like Quest Pro) over 10 hours everyday for virtual display. Though currently the number of people is far less than Blackberry era.
> Maybe because getting a feature added for free that you won't need, and the presence of which would not impact you or anyone like you in any way, shape, or form, won't impact you or anyone like you in any way, shape, or form.

How do you know that allowing sideloading does’t effectively mean opening a bunch of backdoors on the device? What if the the tight grip over the hardware + software is the best way to ensure that millions of users stay reasonably safe? Isn’t this basically a way to prevent supply chain attacks? I don’t know… do you know? How can you say such things with so much confidence?
You’re asserting users are selfish. I don’t know what you think you are saying, but in a business the customers can demand whatever they want and leave if they are not happy. That does not make them selfish.

That’s business.
My favorite heresy is the view that many prophecies in Revelation and the Gospels already happened, and in fact happened within a few decades of Jesus' death. That is, the end times should be understood in the local context of the people of Roman Judea and their defeat in the siege of Jerusalem. The subsequent spread of Christianity was the second coming. This makes for a less mythological and more politically interesting view of scripture. I suppose the reason why this view never really took off is because the idea that some divine pay-off is just round the corner is a compelling hook. Not sure the religion would be as successful if it was just branded as the story of a guy on the other side of the world who was an inspiration to his people 2000 years ago.
Is this better than what was previously achievable using classical structure from motion? It seems worse because of extreme detail loss?

And if they're just plotting a smoothed but similar path through the scenery, didn't Microsoft do that in 2014 with Hyperlapse?
The mailing list is very accessible if a bit old school. You can often get answers from core contributors. Overall I think their approach has scaled well enough.

And in the past they have come around on things like replication in core. So perhaps the future will bring some more handholding docs to supplement the reference docs.
Many of my hobbies have equivalent boards on 4chan with about the same depth of knowledge. But signal:noise obviously quite poor and lots of abhorrent content to sift through
It is a huge status symbol among the youth. Kids will discriminate against and even sometimes bully people for not having it. And there are certain features that only apple users can use over messaging that has no reasonable excuse for not allowing other mobile platforms to participate in other than to push kids into buying iphones so they aren't excluded. Effectively pushing kids into buying devices far more expensive and powerful than they actually have any usage for. And for kids of poorer families buying an iphone is a fairly large financial burden.
But there's something to be said of getting a phone that specifically can't do certain things, whether that be for privacy (Facebook says: download the FB App Store to get Instagram!), security (evil maid attacks), or giving it to my great grandparent who just needs to use some social media apps and the phone app.
27k people packed the Oakland Athletics' stadium yesterday (compared to the more usual 7-8k home crowd attendance) to exhort the owners to sell the team rather than move it to Las Vegas in return for a stadium boondoggle. I suspect few of these baseball fans know much of financial engineering or other technical business considerations, they just consider the team owner to be a greedy douchebag who doesn't care about Oakland or indeed baseball, and recognize that the owner has been engaged in playing different municipalities off against each other to see who will cough up the largest subsidy.
You can't have everything. I personally side with a device I can modify.

I think generally in Android there are enough warnings (those with timers and large "SECURITY RISK" warnings that are difficult to ignore) when enabling side loading, and also going out of the way to download malware apks in the first place, that the number of affected users has to be quite low. And you can have default on malware scanning too (which I believe Google Play does). Also you can malware scan before install as well. I think this is low enough risk that the benefit is greater than disabling it entirely.

Same could be said for allowing root and different OS install. I could install something very insecure or make bad choices. But then I want to have that choice, and I think it shouldn't be so easy that users would just do it by chance. We need to remember there are other social engineering attack vectors against the most secure systems (like asking for passwords, or even asking to lend the phone and so on) too. The attacks I hear on Android users recently mostly seem to be related to hijacking SMS auth and so on -- I really don't believe side loading has proven to be a large security issue at all (or other OS images for that matter).

In fact I think they should be making installing alternate OS images and alternate app store easier, if Google wants to earn my vote of confidence (at least as far as Android goes) :)
Yes, Christian (legally) recorded all calls with Reddit and published them.
> the placement tests for the gifted/talented/honors math courses in middle schools correlated much closer to family income than actual math aptitude

I don't know how one could get data on this, because how does one measure math aptitude without a test?
How is that worse than waterfall with outdated documentation which is what we had before.
Ugh. I hate Google, but for years I've been recommending Google Domains. It's time to transfer my 19 domains elsewhere.
Ran a successful digital agency for years.

Estimation was mostly guesswork. There’s a theory that work expands to fill the time you give it and I found that to be largely true.

Other agencies would quote 3 months for projects we’d complete in 6 weeks. Even then I was taking engineers 3 week estimates and doubling them for buffer.

We didn’t do anything special other than commit individuals to a single project, or two at most.

We would of course add additional resources if necessary to hit deadlines and then adjust future estimates as needed.

After a few years estimation felt more instinctual than scientific.
> The market has pretty much determined that companies that over invest in formal software design activities lose out competitively in the long run

The same market that gave us AT&T, Comcast, DRMed IoT Juice presses, FTX, Enron, and so on? Not sure it’s wise to conclude that the market produces optimal solutions, or even incrementally better solutions than yesterday. Especially in domains with extremely long feedback cycles, like organizational trends.

I DO think there is some hocus pocus market zeitgeist that does something resembling gradient descent, but it’s acting over very long cycles and there’s a ton of room for cargo culting, grifting, and opportunistic grabs along the way. Heck, marketing is an entire field dedicated to affecting “rational actors” in the marketplace.
it's part of the reddit terms of service. And in turn Apple has a policy of not hosting software that exists primarily to violate ToS.

Google has a similar policy in general but sideloading makes it relatively pointless.