skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough, like you said, these aren't new, though.

> Then why can't I change the spaces animation (turn it off)? Windows snapping without leaving a gap on the edge of the screen? Etc, etc.

Spaces is irritating, I just don't use it, Apple has a tendency to introduce new workspace and window management solutions and then abandon them. Yabai or Amethyst might be you closer to what you want (both open source).

> And are they now doing scans for copyright-infringing media and so on - I wouldn't be surprised.

This isn't true AFAIK.
If the underlying data hasn't changed, the page isn't written to disk. CPUs do keep track of writes that mark a memory page as "dirty".
Weak oversight with nationalisation is even more disastrous. With a profit motive, the utility is at least incentivised to deliver the service so that they can get paid. If you have government-owned utlity with weak oversight, there is no incentive to even deliver the service.

Look at what is happening with South Africa's power utility (and other State Owned Enterprises like their post office and national airline) as a great example of what happens to a public enterprise with no oversight.
The New York Times disbands sports department
I love the free market. But when it comes to education, health care, public transport, utilities, law enforcement + associated services I've yet to see even a single example of where the free market made things better for the public. As a rule after privatization prices go up, the service level drops and people suffer as a consequence whilst being given a fake increase in choice.

This is one of the big failures of the last 30 years and can't wait to see it rolled back.
In fact, singles were the original way to buy music. 78rpm records could only hold up to 5min or so of audio after all.
Thames water has to be allowed to go bust, and the shareholders need to lose their shirts, because that’s what has to happen when a company is so badly run. Otherwise the abuse will continue.

However, I would like to keep my water supply so somebody has to sort this situation out quickly.
To nitpick, the second article is from 1970, back then a concept such as the Amazon Antitrust Paradox [1] would cause burning at the stake in the legal field. Similarly, we also have an Elsevier Antitrust Paradox, a Nature(.com) Antitrust Paradox, and so on.

Just the fact that I cannot freely read an article published 53 years ago is beyond ludicrous. And also, if I pay JSTOR ($19.5/month) and read the 1970 article, do you think the money will go to Stephen Breyer [2], the author? No, 100% of the $19.5/month will go to Ithaka Harbors, parent company of JSTOR [3], that's where the "accrued to large corporations" lies.

[1] 2017, https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado..., Lina M. Khan is the chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission since 2021.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Breyer

[3] "Ithaka's total revenue was $105 million in 2019, most of it ($79 million) from JSTOR service fees", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaka_Harbors
The Disconnected State of Enterprise Risk Management
This is hn so obviously your comment has to be the top voted comment. I am really tired of this trend here.

No. microservice vs monolith is not the deciding factor of the developer speed or bugs. It wouldn't even be top 5 factor for good developers. Difference between microservices and monolith technically is just network rpc rather than function call. In itself, it doesn't make much of a difference. If a developer finds themselves stuck because of microservice architecture, they are probably very bad developer in first place
Because your telecom regulator has teeth and there's competition? When German T-Com bought Slovak Telecom monopoly they continued just like that. Forced old ISDN tech on everyone for high prices (probably to clear out stockpiles) and suppressed DSL for a few years, till some last mile access for competition was required by law.

BTW was in Germany myself many times and it's surprising how bad coverage there's outside city centers.
It's a limited resource being misused. It is in the interest of the locals for tourists to stay in hotels and apartments to be available for long(er) term rent for the locals. Barcelona was one of the first cities to ban short-term rentals (under 31 days), and hopefully not the last.
Privatization of trash collection is already a thing in many places.
Thanks. Dropped them an email regarding the block.
Would you care to elaborate which device it is? 12 years old means it at the most could have come with Honeycomb when you bought it. Has the base OS been updated since? It is great that you bought a device which presumably got OS updates for many years, unfortunately that is not common for android devices. And the problem is, if it did not get an OS update, the truststore did not get updated, and thus it does not trust the LetsEncrypt root CA sometime next year. Except for Firefox which luckily comes with its own root certificate list.

Iphone 7 got an iOS update to 15.7.7 in 2023 and its truststore contains the ISRG Root X1 certificate: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT212773 I am unsure which apps you cannot install but a quick look in the app store indicates that Zoom, LinkedIn, Notability, 1Password, Disney+ and Netflix all support iOS 15.7. And in my anecdotal experience I could find no app with a minimum OS requirement greater than 15.7. As far as I can tell you need to go back to iPhone 4S to find an iphone which does not support the LetsEncrypt root certificate. That device is only 11 years old, so still worse than your Android device. And I do not think there is a workaround by using a different browser like for Android.
> I was unpleasantly surprised to learn that Malaysian Muslims have no aversion to shrimp and happily include them in sauces

Seafood is considered haram by the hanafis only. The Malaysians are shafi’is so they can eat shrimp.

Except that Bangladesh (hanafi) is a big exporter of shrimp, go figure.
The Product Led Growth Trap
Anything made/modified by a car manufacturer will be absolute shit. Tesla and Rivian do a decent job from what I’ve heard but one could argue they are more software companies that make cars than the other way around. Also a huge complaint from users on both cars is they want CarPlay/Android Auto. Side note: how is Google so terrible at naming? (Auto/Automotive, it’s like they are trying to be confusing)

Car manufacturers are completely incompetent in this area, just give me a way to put my phone screen on the built in screen, just be a “dumb pipe”. This last the last gasp of failed arm of car makers (software) just like when the carriers lost that battle to Apple/Google.
Oracle and almalinux would probably base on Stream with their own patches.
The maintenance burden will be much smaller than a full fork, as red hat will still be the main contributor.
>e.g. I may say that a country has WMDs, and maybe try to manufacture consent for destruction

too soon
every incoming new VP or Director would wipe the slate clean for their own multi-year plan, and then get promoted/demoted out of the position before it went anywhere. Rinse and repeat with the next senior leader.

Ah, the "bungee boss" -- straight out of an old Dilbert cartoon:

https://web.archive.org/web/20090122103825/http://dilbert.co...
My photo library contains a large part of the moments of my life worth remembering, from being a kid, teenager, young adult, meeting my wife, our kids , pets, and everything between. I would seriously hate to lose it because somebody knocks over a can of soda.

There are two major threats to my photo library. One is loss of the cloud data
and/or loss of access to it (and/or malware, natural disasters, etc), which is why i keep data locally as well.
The other is loss of data locally, anything from a failed piece of equipment to a house fire.

The reason why i make a local backup of the synchronized cloud data is in case malware decides to encrypt/delete all my photos, in which case iCloud will happily synchronize all the changes to all devices, effectively deleting all good copies.

So with a local backup of the data i've mitigated the first threat, loss of cloud data and/or access to it, but i'm still left with the threat of losing data at home, which is why i also backup to a different cloud provider, which again comes with a threat of losing access, and this is where the Blu-Ray archive comes in.

Because burning Blu-Ray discs is time consuming, i rely on my "day to day" 3-2-1 backup to keep data safe, but ultimately the Blu-Ray discs safeguards against loss of cloud data and loss of local data (identical copies stored in different locations), so they're my last ditch defense of disaster recovery.
Right, all those car review mags, test-drives, manufacturer design language, not to mention handling characteristics, performance, etc, is all really stupid when all everyone wants is just to go from A to B.
It's not defeatist or nihilist, it's understanding that policy and law (or an individual CEO's or politician's choice) has orders of magnitude more impact that individual actions.
Ask someone on the screenwriters' strike if they'd rather copyright was eliminated so they didn't get paid at all...
Yep. A ton of proprietary software (like anything from IBM) supports only RHEL or SLES.

If you open a support ticket and say "Hi I'm using Debian/Arch/Nix" they will just laugh and close the ticket.
When you die, from your perspective, the sun doesn't rise. It doesn't have to be a cosmic anomaly. For every single human, there are more days the sun doesn't rise than does.
No, but internet access is a requirement for many mandatory interactions with the government and various service providers so even if you can breathe without internet access you're going to be doing so from a cardboard box. Unless you want to lead a normal life you are not able to live without internet access in many developed countries. Bit by bit all alternative pathways to interact with parties that you have to interact with are phased out.
You need competition to create a market. You cannot have competition on a natural monopoly. You can create the simulacrum of a market (that was the EU and UK approach), but you cannot create a real market.

It's better to keep water, streets and telecommunications public. Privatizing them is a waste of resources.
A few weeks ago, I authored a blog post spotlighting major companies using Svelte in production.

The inspiration?

On several occasions, potential clients at my agency, which specializes in Svelte and SvelteKit, hesitated to proceed with us.

Their concerns?

They were unsure about Svelte's fit for their needs, and were unaware of its successful large-scale application by leading businesses.

So, I turned to Reddit, Twitter, Hackernews, and other sources to compile a persuasive list of Svelte and SvelteKit users.

I hope my post can help others convince more people to explore the potential of Svelte and SvelteKit.

tldr:

* NBA
* Apple
* Yelp
* New York Times
* IKEA
* Spotify
* Square
* Cloudflare
* Brave
* Decathlon
> I think it targets some legacy languages rather than mainstream tools

C (C89 and C98), C++ (C++98 and C++11), UPC, Fortran (77, 95, 2003), OpenMP, Java, Python, PHP, and Binary

> but looks bare bones and unfinished for any meaningful use

Wouldn't say so; target audience are developers and with a 400 page tutorial (currently reading) and a lot more of instructions I think it's very well suited for this audience.
No, the west didn't "push" eastern European kleptocrats into stealing everything in the privatisation drives, they didn't need any outside encouraging.

Its really disconcerning how many people simply assume that small nations have no agency whatsoever. It's this kind of thinking that births ideas about Russian/American zones of influence around Europe and similar very dangerous antiquated nonsense.

It need to die.
In what sense are they falsifiable?
They had an article by Michael Howard last week about it being a success:

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2023/07/06/thames-wa...

Although they went quite far to be clear it wasn't written by them.

That said I've not found the economist to be dogmatic when it comes to privatisation. They typically come across as quite practical to me.
"And you don't extract profits from a rail line by offering the best service."

So how do you extract profits then?
> I've had my dropbox account for over 10 years now. Being concerned about a timescale of 20 to 30 years seems reasonable for things like long term file storage IMO.

But you're relying on your chosen cloud-provider staying around for 30 years. The number of tech companies that have died in the last 30 years easily exceeds the number still standing [citation needed].
Privatization of trash collection has already happened in large parts of Romania. Sometimes the results are good, sometimes bad, but it's always much more expensive.
A surprising number of people out there have Trump-like tendencies, but for the most part those were dormant before. Trump blasted onto the scene and showed everyone that it is OK to be horrible. It's actually "manly". People like Musk, who are highly impressionable and needy (so that's also in common), mimic that behavior and the twisted version of masculinity - "I can do whatever I want, nothing matters".

Just recall how invisible he was before all these years. A lot of us had very high opinion of Musk because he didn't talk much, really. He kept to himself, and you had to dig really deep to find out that, yeah, he is kind of a tool in real life.

Once he started acting out his "Trump", the downward spiral began.
>Linux is on more computers both today and all of the computers ever made put together than any other OS.

Yes, but that's kind of a moot point.

The decades old dream was "Linux on the Desktop" (not just as some 3% market share or "works for me" - it worked for people in 1999 too), but overtaking Windows as the desktop OS for the masses).

And of course all those billion of Android devices, hide everything about what people meant and wanted from the Linux experience. It's just the kernel and some basic userland stuff, on top of which everything else is totally foreign, closed down, and tied to proprietary services under Google's control (with Samsung and co's own touches).

Linux is so irrelevant to the visible part of Android's functionality, that Google could very well change the backend to Fuchsia when that's ready, and those billion devices would be un-Linuxed within a few years, as they get old, and their owners replace them by new Fuchsia running smartphones.
[or until someone else starts catching up]

The same dynamic that incentivized a mass rollout of these unaligned systems will be perfectly sufficient to incentivize mass rollout of stronger, also unaligned systems.
Do you have a proof of that?

I've been to places where the sun doesn't rise for months on end...
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> Unfortunately, our "solution" is to create regulations which cause so much disadvantage to European tech companies, that we will see our citizens use even more US built tools in the future.

What is the "disadvantage" to European tech companies who don't want to spy on anyone? What advantage do Europeans who don't want to be spied on gain by using US services that will spy on them instead of using European ones that couldn't spy on them as easily/completely due to pro-privacy laws?
Exciting, especially the use of AI in the field of numerical simulation. The ability to build high-performance physics simulators with a visual editor has the potential to truly revolutionize efficiency in this field. It sounds like a game-changer to me.
I am curious about the concept of a marketplace for ready-to-use AI simulators. I hope you guys won't shoot yourselves in the foot. Otherwise, this could surely open up new opportunities for companies and researchers.

By the way, congratulations on the alpha release!
> My phone is on my wrist currently (Apple watch), I left my iphone at home. To me your prediction would have been correct (for now).

Your Apple Watch is still dependent on your iPhone. You're also unlikely to be browsing the web, watching YouTube, or browsing social media on your watch, and these have been the biggest factors for smartphone adoption by far - so I don't think such a prediction works. We can also see that the market for smartwatches is dwarfed by the market for phones, and this trend shows no sign of reversing.

> I predict that 10-20 years from now your sunglasses will offer great AR/VR experience, most likely through improvements in retinal projection technology.

The problem with a glasses form factor is that it fundamentally can't create enough contrast for a good quality image, especially not for VR - that requires blocking out most light coming into the eye, which no additive technology can do. I do believe that some equivalent of a smartwatch could work very nicely in a glasses form-factor (i.e. a device that acts as an accessory to your main computing devices, for small specialized tasks).

I still don't see any plausible way it could replace phones or laptops/tablets with any technology visible on the horizon. So I'm not saying AR/VR won't have a place or even be wildly successful - just that I don't believe they will ever be "the future of computing" in any reasonable sense, say like the smartphone was to the PC.
As opposed to state run education where the best possible education is available to everybody? Is that what we see in public education?
That adjunct pay seems low but not unheard of. Here is a thread I found on it [1]. The cost per student per class is not far off (at least at my state school). Assuming a 3-credit undergrad class at Penn State @$800 ($2400) [2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/comments/un7uei/average_...
[2] https://tuition.psu.edu/tuitiondynamic/tabledrivenrates.aspx...
>Nobody ever denied that the free market is efficient. The question is: efficient at what?

Moving control of capital to capitalists. That's what it does. That's all it does. That's all it's ever been capable of doing.
> Since then the sector has accumulated £53bn in debt while distributing £72bn to shareholders, the majority of whom are international investors

Theres actually a pretty huge amount of "free ride" sitting there waiting to be ridden.
Almost everything is a "rebranded goto". Functions, conditions, iteration, break/continue.

Doesn't mean that Dijkstra was wrong, or that they are the same as goto.

Also, throw/catch do quite more than a goto, though. It's not only about stack unwinding, it's about the ergonomics of not needing code that uses throw to have any information about where catch is located.

Sure you can simulate some use cases of try/catch with goto, but implementing the general case is much harder.

throw/catch is exactly the kind of good goto-replacement provided by "higher level" programming languages that Dijkstra is talking about in his paper.
We have no reason to take any public statements from a company called OpenAI that only delivers ClosedAI and wants to erect barriers for possible competition seriously.
Public utility companies were operating very inefficiently at the time, the motives behind privation obviously had a political element but there was some good intention behind it.

In hindsight, much stricter regulation regarding reinvestment of profits would have been a good idea.
Regulation. Regulation regulation regulation.

I too believe that free markets are the solution to a great many of the conundrums of organising a society, but I also believe that a strong and socially conscious (by which I mean its prime directive is the enhancement and improvement of living conditions for all of those under its jurisdiction) regulatory hand is necessary.

The U.K. has plenty of regulations, and toothless enforcement of practically all of them, to the extent where ignoring them and the ensuing fines are just a cost of doing business.

With firm regulation, a free market could operate both profitably and fairly to run public services.

As long as there’s a commingling of commercial and political interests, however, this is an improbable reality. The changes would have to start in the culture of government.
EU regulations are not a monolith of good or bad. The cookie law is dumb beyond comprehension. On the other side GDPR is just great and I have yet to hear a good argument against it. The criticisms usually sound like listening to creationists talk about how silly evolution is (by that I mean they don't understand it).

The only way I see Europe develop it's own internet tech and big businesses, is to copy what China did by simply blocking the foreign competition. Today there would be no Weibo, Baidu, Alibaba or Aliexpress without it. And I don't see a problem in that approach, but wouldn't mind being educated otherwise.

Edit: I wish at least some of the people downvoting would have the intellect to form a paragraph of counter arguments, so I could understand why. It's like a sports event in here.
From my standpoint its obvious privatisation has been a failure for service quality, and I am glad that major institutions are finally catching on. In spite of attempts to introduce choice (see the way British Rail was privatised into rolling stock owners/operators, since scrapped railway operators, and brands) there is no efficient way to introduce choice with fixed infrastructure.

Unfortunately, this will take a lot of political capital to change. I can see there being a lot of debate about how the UK compensates private owners for nationalising the infrastructure again (likely at an inflated price). It will likely be another situation where the average person loses out, in favour of private owners, and will be made to pay the price by inflated water prices to offset the lack of maintenance and expansion that should have taken place, instead of extracting maximum funds to shareholders.

I wonder also how this will be spun - as a one off 'market failure' or as a systemic problem with extracting maximum profits at the expense of the users (i.e. enshittification).
The train operating companies are a particularly bad failure because like e.g. the water companies they get to channel the revenue but unlike the water companies they don't own the capital intensive bits but bid on how much they'll return during the franchise period. As a result, the capital need to start a train operating company is tiny in proportion the revenue flow, and their returns look modest related to revenue, but the return on investment looks decidedly less than modest. And so their parent companies can afford to risk outright failure of the franchise because the risk reward were tilted heavily in their favour even before the covid bailouts. The incentives for them are really perverse.
We all appreciate your contribution to micro services. But let us now choose simplicity and move on with our lives. You do you with your zoo of dockerized babel towers
Because we're the ones granting them a temporarary monopoly in the first place.
Persistence is not needed when they can just access your device any time. That part was what addressed your question.
> Gasoline remains relatively inexpensive

Yes, but that's only your country. Where I live it becomes free ~200kkm (assuming no road user taxes and no maintenance). Almost twice as quick if I assume my past gas guzzler MPG.
>No. I will use the OS I like and others will use the OS they prefer. It’s called choice

That was the case in 1999 too. The Linux on the Desktop dream wasn't about removing choice, but about MORE people making the choice to run Linux.

Also, market share translates to support, resources available, people and companies working there, drivers, and so on. Personal choice to use X doesn't magically offer those.