skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a shame GP decided to miss the point so badly. They do indeed describe authoritarianism not communism.

I think there are very good reasons that every time some regime self branded as communism it very quickly devolved into dictatorship. Reasons that many of the solutions proposed were unworkable and naive. And I am not sure those reasons can be overcome.

Communism should maybe be more of an ideal to be strived for but impossible to ever achieve.

I think it is fair to at the same time accept the self labeling of historical regimes as communist when discussing history yet also recognize that none of them ever achieved the communist ideal and became dictatorships instead when discussing philosophy.

The values of communism are aligned with democracy yet a democratic communist regime has never been implemented.
My understanding is the problem with the SSPL is the entire stack has to be released under the SSPL, which makes it incompatible with most other open source software, including the linux kernel.
I was in Bay Area from 2015-2018 and because of the connections I build there I occasionally get to work on projects that pay 10x higher than what I get paid for in my home country.

To OP, I recommend to network with open mind and enjoy the tech savvy diversity.

In addition to meetup I recommend cold emailing companies and asking founders in your area of interest directly for picking up a brain. The ecosystem is very welcoming.
Speaking only on the 3-dot icons part - I actually quite like it the way it is.

The visual metaphor is an ellipsis, and accordingly I expect the three dots aligned horizontally to be a continuation of (and hence pertain to) the buttons/options along the same row as it (which it does).

Similarly, I expect the three dots aligned vertically to pertain to options that are in the same column (which it also does).

It's a subtle visual cue that helps me understand what the button is for, and without it I would need to spend more time figuring out what container each button is in (which is a harder task, given that there aren't always visual dividers between containers, or changes in background colour).
Self-checkout theft causing problems for retailers
I'm not sure if this is relevant in regards to the security disclosure itself. If you're not using Mailgun then this doesn't affect you.

However, with regards to "SPF is more than enough", the fact here is that the SPF header isn't passed to the webhook, so it can't used in a mailgun inbound route.
A lie involves the intent to deceive someone who is entitled to expect the truth from you. It's not merely a question of whether a statement is on its face true or false.

This is important, because if we are to make a sweeping statement that lying is wrong, then we need to make sure we are clear on what is and what isn't a lie.

I say all sorts of outrageous things to my children, but I'm not lying to them because I don't expect them to believe me -- and they don't. In an analogous way, magic shows are not lying because the deceit is part of the premise. Telling a knock knock joke when you're not actually a banana (or whatever) is similarly not a lie.
but we hold the material your pill bottle is made out of to the standards of “innocent until proven guilty”

No they don't. Drug packaging is regulated too. It's tested for leeching, stability, etc.

I'm starting to get the feeling that many people are upset in this thread because they don't actually know what the current regulations are.
Wow, is that the actual app? It took so long, like five or six seconds, to load a few short sentences.
GitLab team member here. Apologies for the problem. The incident review issue continues in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/issues/1...
We weren’t supposed to talk about fight club
Hi

Thanks for your feedback. It's Solomon Eseme, the author of the piece.

Honestly, I don't see any wrong with the statement "Nevertheless, Docker runs flawlessly on all major operating systems such as Mac, Windows, and Linux with Mac being the easiest."

Docker runs perfectly in Windows, Mac, and Linux

Maybe I could have been more clear here "...Mac being the easiest."

The installation of Docker is more easy than other OS, that's what I wanted to communicate there.

I have personally installed Docker in all 3 OS and I discovered Mac to be the easiest. If you think otherwise. Then I respect your opinion.

When it comes to using Docker, of course, every developer should enjoy using it in Linux since it all command and the Terminal is Number one tool for developers.

Thanks for your feedback.
> one gram of dried DNA can store 455 exabytes of data

Yes, and half a gram of Hydrogen could produce ~500 Megawatts of power in a fusion reactor. However, that theoretical value will remain irrelevant, as long as we cannot build a practically useful fusion reactor. And even if we could build one, it still has to compete with all other forms of producing power for scalability, reliability, efficiency and cost.

The fact that there is a very high theoretical number that seems really impressive, isn't a use case.

So, with that being said: how long does it take to write these 455EiB? How long does it take to read them? How error prone are both processes? And how much does it cost to write/read them?

> "18TiB ought to be enough for everyone" really doensn't cut it.

Pretty sure I never said that.

Also pretty sure common crawl can be compressed. Even assuming only a 2:1 compression rate, that means it fits comfortably on 11 LTO-9's. Now, a quick google-search churned out tape prices of about 110-140 $ per LTO-9. Let's say ~150$ per tape, that means the whole thing fit's on 1650 $ worth of storage. About 5000 bucks with 2 backups included. Double that for uncompressed storage.

Alright, so how does that compare to DNA storage?

https://www.nanalyze.com/2023/03/dna-data-storage-solution/

quote:

These days, it costs $600 to sequence a complete genome which contains around 200 gigabytes of data or about $3 per gig. Today, magnetic tape technology offers the lowest purchase price of raw storage capacity at around two cents per gigabyte

end quote.

So just reading the 380 TiB back from uncompressed storage ONCE, would cost ~1,140,000 dollars.

And that's just for reading. At a price differential that is measured in multiple orders of magnitude, a technology better offer some REALLY good, REALLY tangible advantages to compete.
Dan Ariely is neither the subject of the article nor a professor at Harvard
Sorry but they announced something, hyped users (including me) and didn't deliver (yet). I understand this is a lot of work and it's free software, but it still doesn't feel right and has nothing to do with being senior UX designers. They already announced and showcased a very good looking version of Thunderbird.
This is my actual experience in US Apple stores. It’s been available for a while, but staff don’t always guide you to it.

Eg. https://www.howtogeek.com/338754/how-to-buy-stuff-at-the-app...

But earlier references are from 2012 for the easy pay roll out.

Maybe US only. Definitely a shame if it is.
I’m sure there’s a better solution someone here can point to, but I just use the AdGuard DNS which filters most ads out on mobile
What's the ratio among Rust crates with over 50k downloads? I manage a tool with literally seven hundred dependencies and not one of them has ever broken semver.
> I am calling to get my problem solved

That is the only reason why I call customer support in internet outages. I usually wait awhile before I call. (In this case, I called a few hours after their posted ETA.)

> Why would you trust this exact communication from a person over a computer?

This response in this thread explains it very well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36661196

> Conversely, a weasel worded chatbot could say "we are responding to outages as noted" or something similar, and that doesn't actually provide any evidence the utility is aware of the outage or its scope in the actual monitoring and management systems; your report of a failure could go straight to /dev/null.

Like I said, above, I called a few hours after their expected ETA. This is the situation where it's time to call a human who can call up the manager of a different department and say, "you said it was going to be done three hours ago, what's happening?"

It's basically a "Gall's Law" situation. The AI Chatbot is perfectly fine for a "normal" outage that's solved within the ETA; but once the published ETA has come and gone, we're in a corner case that's better handled by humans.

For a good explanation of this, see this recent article on Gall's Law that explains why it's better to let humans handle corner cases: https://bigthink.com/smart-skills/complex-project-galls-law/...
> Sincerely, a person who went to a school you've never heard of, but makes a ton of money

Hey, good for you!
I dunno, it depends entirely on the industry etc; code is, after all, but the final product, the implementation detail of your company. So many (too many?) developers focus too much on code, on output in lines of code, instead of building the right thing.

This is why in a lot of companies, internal tools (like issue trackers, performance monitoring, logging, orchestration, testing, etc) are written and rewritten over and over again. The idea that building your own is better than using off the shelf software. But it's self-gratification, it's avoiding the company's own / real problems and products.

Writing code without a plan or purpose is wasteful.
you underestimate apple enthusiasts. they may not have already prepared, but the device isn’t already out.

besides, not all apple enthusiasts are wealthy. some will prepare last minute, by selling furniture to make space and help fund the headset. it doesn’t matter if that sounds silly, if it happens.

this is why apple goes slow. bring the ecosystem enthusiast to the object by attempting to integrate the object into the ecosystem first. start with the most eager, guide them in, let them deal with the growing pains, convert enough to full believers in the new object.

public-ish beta with an exclusive-ish signup fee.

apple isn’t merely training enthusiasts in how to use a headset. they are training fans that sell product. enthusiasts talk. easiest way into the ecosystem is with a guide, and even better if that’s a friend or loved one not getting paid to do so.

the least important part about this product is the product. it’s expanding the ecosystem into new territory. show apple enthusiasts that perhaps they want to be xr enthusiasts.
My guess is that this token is used in the official Twitter web/mobile app - making it hard for Twitter to just straight up disable/ban.
On the other hand, 'climate change' is the excuse used by rich countries for not building the infrastructure required to support increased migration.

And there's probably a significant overlap between the people calling for wide open borders and those who'd protest to block large infrastructure construction projects for environmental reasons.
>Can someone explain to me why Linux users seem so interested about having this long heated discussion about very low level piece of the OS infrastructure they actually have no expertise about and don’t really care about in a direct way?

lmao this is basically every discussion about wayland, systemd, the gpl, red hat, you name it. People feel the need to argue about things especially in the linux/foss world. reddit, hacker news, et al would have far less traffic if people didn't want to argue about display servers or init systems.
Still US-only, I think.
One nitpick from the article, PHP does have first class support for functions in the language. Functions are available in a few different ways:

- Normal function declaration in global and "module"/namespace scope.

- Anonymous functions that can also be assigned to variables (except in a few cases, like object properties)

- Anything extending the Closure class

The last one is obviously a nod at what is going on under the hood, but as far as the developer writing the code is concerned, it doesn't matter.

A library even exists to explicitly provide some functional programming functions under a namespace for easy inclusion with other projects. There is no requirement that all functions must be defined in a namespace, as evidenced by the first 10 years of crappy PHP code littered with functions in the global namespace!

https://github.com/lstrojny/functional-php

Edit: formatting
With resources of a large organization such as Microsoft?
I like how the article simply links to sci-hub (in "Notably, a famous article discussing dishonesty [...]")
If you create your data right, the actual data can make backups of itself. There's even builtin ways for it to improve itself over time using genetic algorithms.
What an incredible business genius. If only I had this sort of entrepreneurial flair.
> One day you'll understand.

Read: I'm (ironically) not good enough at communication to explain my point, so I'll just say a grandiose sentence to convince you I'm right without giving you any useful information.
> If someone is being paid more, this person has to work more

In my experience, pay rarely has any kind of correlation to the amount of work being done. I see it merely as a pay for responsibility for the work of those under you or, more succinctly, "being paid to throw yourself under the bus in lieu of anyone you're managing".
And, in general, things are cheaper in the U.S. than in Europe, even without considering VAT or income tax.
Auto migrating data to the closest region cannot be done without legal implications if that region is another country.
Show HN: Email marketing using SQL and AWS SES
Especially if we're talking using "many hundreds or even thousands of them" on a page.
While I agree, reading is the other part. I - and so many others here I'm sure - have spent so much time answering questions that were documented. It's just that nobody reads the documentation, or can't find what they need fast enough, or they just have no patience because asking someone feels faster - to them.

I can write long documentations and comments on everything, but it's wasteful if it's not kept up to date and it's waste if nobody bothers to read it.
Building muscle is possibly the most healthy thing you can do. Within limits if course. But it ensures a framework arround your sensitive ligaments your body build becomes straight and symmetrical. All ingredients for a injury free life.
It should be
mandatory for everyone to exercise 3 times a week and build up some muscle. Just like the good old cave days.
Archive [1]

[1] - https://archive.is/J5Mvx
Having spent a few decades in Enteprise digitalisation, both in the public and in the private sector I think this issue is sort of unsolvable. I’m not convinced it’s fully down to managers, but this is obviously the anecdotal and non-tech organisation point of view, because they manage people. What I mean by this is that I’ve had excellent managers who didn’t know half their staff wasn’t doing anything remotely useful. That may sound off to you, but I think the culprit is that a lot of process and management people actually think what they are doing is creating value, despite it being a load of nonsense. I even sort of get why that is, because sometimes the business processes are actually helpful and other times they aren’t, and it’s really hard for non-business-value producers to tell the difference because of how the systems work.

Say you bill clients by the hour and work this directly into your Atlassian ticket system all the way down to the developer level. You can do that, and you can even have a lot of business intelligence to show that you’re doing great, meanwhile if you ask any actual developer off the record they are likely going to tell you that it’s terrible. They will tell you things like how they game the systems instead of producing the best code. They’ll tell you how the senior developers don’t want to help the junior developers, because every minute they spend on non-billable tasks is a minute that will make them look worse on the performance matrix. Now something like that can work, and if can even involve a bunch of process/management people (as well as the BI people) who all feel what they do is useful and have data to show that it is, meanwhile the actual software development is an absolute shit show compared to what it could be if the processes didn’t get in the way. Obviously the flip side is having too little process/management and then having people cruise along doing whatever they want. Though to be fair, in my anecdotal experience you still get more value from a developer department that does this than one that tracks issues by the hour.

Anyway, I’ve never seen anyone come anywhere close to solving it. Personally I tend to try to work in the places that suck the least, and shift if the process part of development becomes too tedious for me. Exploiting that it’s not so easy to find a senior developer. But I’ve honestly given up trying to impact the process/management side of things, and now just flee the ones I dislike.
Does Threads/Instagram have verification of notable accounts? That seemed like the most useful aspect of old Twitter - to know a comment was being made by a real person.
Are they new users, or just IG users that login with their previous account into a new feature that lives in a separate app?

GG number crunchers at meta I guess
It clearly says when you sign up that you will follow these people when they join threads. There is no evidence that these 'shadow' accounts are being included in the metrics before people sign up.
> For context, Twitter would have a team of two dozen or more supporting what this does

Of course, because if Nitter goes down nobody bats an eye.
Yeah that's interesting though because there are a lot of other rules they'll need to follow in order to comply with the new regulations. So it's gonna be interesting to see how they approach it. It's also going to be interesting to see how the fediverse will respond to this because it would be such an outlier in terms of size and resources.
Ask HN: What low energy software do you use?
With the rise of software that is CPU/GPU/RAM/disk expensive, I wonder what low energy software is still useful and in use today?
Yes, if you launch a new product and promote it heavily to an already captive audience, you can easily convert a lot of them to try the new product.

Hardly new science here?
Does he really even want the site? Can he just shut it down and write it off? Seems so stressful.

Wish he'd just focus on SpaceX and Tesla. This whole Twitter thing is a stupid distraction he brought on himself with his big mouth...
Looks like it was related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36664097. Absolutely ridiculous that the XSS vulnerability wasn't responsibly disclosed.
It's blue! We are totally best friends now.
> you can prompt output that includes verbatim extracts when the copyright avoidance post-processing is disabled then you know that it has been consumed.

No, you know that likely that part was consumed. You would need to show that it will generate arbitrary passages from the text.

And LLMs are inherently random, so proof that this happens is very difficult to obtain and showing that it is actual output nearly impossible, especially if you just have API access and can't use the model directoy (e.g. fix the RNG seed).

If you have that you can debate if it is/isn't fair use.
That Modern one was the version that was actually usable, but they discontinued it.
> seriously, if you've never tried, the jump from mouse+keyboard to hand tracking is like going from arrow keys to mouse+keyboard

Totally different experience here. It's interesting but the mouse still blows away anything VR has offered thus far. Games like Beat Saber /are/ a ton of fun and cool input method but but the novelty wears off fast. A majority of my friend group all bought VR headsets together and after 1-2 months of playing (often together) our usage has fallen off a cliff. I can't remember the last time I picked up my headset and I even bought lenses a couple months ago to try and reinvigorate my interest (I wear glasses/contacts but glasses always fog so I'd have to put in my contacts to play which was an annoying barrier) but I literally played it 1-2 more times before getting bored and moving on.

Current VR headsets are only good for gaming (yes, even the Meta Pro, it's resolution is joke for real productivity) and I have a limited interest in that method of gaming. I still play my Xbox, I still play games on my computer, I still play games on my phone but VR gaming isn't as interesting to me. It's novel but it wears off and the motion sickness is really annoying in certain types of games. All that coupled with absolute shit hand tracking (it's cool when it works but it fails too often), lackluster controllers (I can only take my sabers going wild when that's not what my hands are doing so many times), and poor graphics makes my headset a toy and not a particular good one.

We will see if Apple is able to improve on what's currently available and their track record has me hoping they succeed. Their vision, no pun intended, of AR/VR is much more in line with what I have been dreaming of for decades.
Best-Selling Smartphones in April 2023
You don't need to restate the headline of your submission, which is already perfectly clear. The content is good.
I'm assuming retention and participation numbers will be gamed.
Not correct, it's live in many countries (including the UK). The main area it hasn't launched is the EU due to legal concerns.
OOP is a tool like any other, and it has real costs and benefits. The original idea of being able to easily add new common APIs via inheritance is very powerful and widely applicable. In fact both Haskell and Rust wound up with a similar mechanism to inheritance (the 'deriving' annotation) to reduce the pain of problems like "I don't want to have to write code to define equality for every struct" which are hard for the purely-functional approach to solve.
According to Wikipedia [1], the Mitsubishi Pencil Company is not related to the Mitsubishi rocket company (aka Mitsubishi Heavy Industries) and Mitsubishi Group.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uni-ball
It was always available in file browser. The long-standing issue was preview in file picker dialog, not file browser.

It is available in GTK4 file picker. You know, major release, able to break ABI.
I bet Facebook Messenger grew faster.
I bounced off the WordPress ecosystem. Most of the themes are targeted towards commercial websites including web shops, rather than blogs, and charge money to buy or unlock features (while making a token effort towards GPL compliance). The Gutenberg editor was dreadfully buggy, IIRC I still prefer a more semantic/Markdown-style editor (like writing blog posts in Obsidian) over the presentational HTML Wordpress classic editor, and converting posts between the two types was a disaster. And static HTML export was tricky to get working as well.
Good choice, I deeply regret having fallen for the words of this petty, childish, intellectually dishonest techie con man.
Comparable to the Metaverse I'm thinking
When I joined it?

I don't spend a lot of time on it. It has proven useful to me, in that cousins and I have found one another on it, and a college friend or two found me.
I think you make a great point.

It highlights that the press isn't dead because they failed to demand press freedom for Assange. The press is dead because they are a coporate entity. And they didn't demand press freedom for Assange because corporate interests didn't benefit from it.
> Funny that you mention those things but not that Catholics (1.4 billion people) supposedly believe that transubstantiation literally turns bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ.

Does it need mentioning? Were you not aware of this? Or do you think that maybe I left it out because offending people because of their religion is counterproductive in discussions like these?
What's twitter?
Well they still got that amount of people to download a new app, but yes, they are all IG users.