skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So a technical note I’m posting here mostly because I dug into this only for a comment I was responding to to be deleted:

What they lost in the case they filed in June was an enjoinment to prevent the merger and acquisition of Activision/Blizzard until their own FTC judge (read: an administrative law judge that exists outside of Article III and is within the chain of command of the Executive branch) could hear the case on August 2nd. The merger had a termination date of July 18th, so they needed that to continue their administrative review. Discovery was finished, it was just the trial, but without being able to enjoin the trial because in the opinion of Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley they were unlikely to prove the merits of their assertions, the trial before the FTC judge would have been moot by the time it occurred. It’s been formally cancelled by the FTC by the way.

I’m not disagreeing with you by the way, I just wanted a place to park this information in the discussion. They started this action in December and failed to win even an enjoinment against Microsoft and Activision temporarily stopping the merger until their own guy could hear the case.
What part of attestation don't you understand? If linked with a OS level signing with keys stored on TPM, it's game over for private browsing. The only thing worse than companies proposing such measures are the useful idiots downplaying the impact. If someone disagrees, pray tell us muddle brains how to bypass this on a proprietary OS with locked boot and tpm stored keys.
Does this mean macho/Darwin support might get back in?
Weight is not an issue. Vehicle weights are known and factored into vessel stability calculations. The maritime authorities in each country will typically set cargo weight limits for each deck.

It's common to carry heavy trucks weighing tens of tons on ro-ro ferries. So, spare us your uninformed nonsense about "ridiculous vehicles like SUVs".
You are providing examples that support your claim but ignoring the mountain of evidence (countless actual twitter posts) that contradict your claim. There's evidence for lot of things and clever rhetoric can make that evidence sing and dance however you'd like it to. But what rational people demand is an honest accounting of all of the evidence, not just the narrow slice that lets you craft fairy tales you find useful.
Being unusual seems important for standing out of the crowd of applicants.
Given that the only truthful information they could have on extraterrestrials would be "we've never seen any"... chances are they might.

The trouble of course, is that moonbats and other whackjobs can't possibly accept that.

If you told me that they'd secretly intercepted an alien transmission (if any of you guys are radio astronomers and it's impossible for such a transmission to be kept secret, let me know) that might at least be plausible. Flying saucers and other nonsense is stuff for children. Grow up.

We've had 20 years of cell phone cameras at this point... where are your pictures? Where are the leaks? They couldn't keep Snowden from blowing shit up about illegal universal surveillance, but they can keep a lid on anti-gravity devices recovered from spaceship wreckage?
Actually, firing ranges almost certainly are bad for your health and you should wear a particulate filter when going into one. https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-... for instance. I'd wager there is no small link between heavy firearm hobbyist and a proclivity for paranoia, conspiratorial thinking and other Q-Anon adjacent traits.

"No one gets hurt" - perhaps no one dies, but there are no safe levels of lead exposure.
Some schools mark their online degrees and in-person degrees differently in transcripts/diplomas. Not all, GT for instance awards an MS CS for their OMSCS program participants so that there is no distinguishing trait between the two that someone can filter on.
Years ago, when Tesla was a sports car, my uncle had a friend who was called by fire departments to help when a Tesla crashed. They would not touch the vehicle or anyone inside until he came and did his work. He got several 55 gallon drums and filled them with water. Then he gets a heating element and hooks it to the battery. He drops the element in the water. The water starts to boil within seconds. Once it is at boiling point he takes the hearing element and puts it in another 55 gallon drum. He repeats this until the battery is drained.

It sounds like fire fighters are still scared today. Perhaps it is because there is not only a risk of fire, but also electrocution.
Overture Maps Foundation releases open map dataset
Yes. Everything that ever happens is a distraction from something else.
Are there available benchmarks around how much the performance changes?
Try if you can get to stay at HI San Francisco Fisherman’s Wharf Hostel - https://www.hiusa.org/find-hostels/california/san-francisco-...

The other idea is to ask around and get a room, with existing roommates that has already setup the likes of Kitchen, Washer, etc. and piggyback your grocery purchase with a friend that has a COSTCO membership.

Best of Luck.
This is already one of the use-cases listed for WEI. The intended implementation of WEI will be Play Protect which lives in ARM TrustZone and thus runs above the kernel[0]. So you'll have something even more invasive than kernel-level anticheat.

[0] In ARM speak, kernel mode is EL1, hypervisor mode is EL2, and TrustZone mode is EL3. Each exception level is a higher level of privilege.
It's not better. It's just different.

I think SQLite would have been a more practical choice.
This completely ignores the cost of support.

- How does this feature work?

- How does the software do this?

- you said it does this and it doesn't why?

- can make the software do this?

Each one of these questions cost money to answer and needs someone to hand hold the user. especially if they are a non-technical business user.
And who is the arbiter of what’s highly likely? You? I? Jumping to conclusions without evidence is lynch mentality. But maybe people are ok with that.
Lol. I think you are overextending your hand here. You ever been on a ferry? You can't move the cars, they are completely packed like sardines.
Netflix TC is mostly cash and at the high end of the tier of the market.
I used to work on a large-ish open source project. When I was bored I used to go bug-picking (not hunting, picking). I'd go and browse the source wherever my intuition told me there was likely a bug and I indeed found a few using with such a "method".
No kidding. Previous FTCs sat on their hands and allowed Meta (nee Facebook) to acquire their up-and-coming competitors with no pushback.
While I am happy this is happening, its bothersome that he wont reveal the publicly traded enterprises involved in this. We know that its all the typical MIC players, but one thing I cant stand with such hearings is how much smarmy "thank yous" are given in all these - its a passive aggressive fake attitude (virtue signaling).
Software serves people. Underneath the question of what the technology does is always the question of what benefits who and why.

Is it technically correct for Hacker News to require login to upvote a story or comment? Mu; it's technically correct because it supports the ability to tie actions to actors, and that's correct because commenter history matters for the kind of forum Hacker News strives to be. Technical decisions are inextricable from what serves people.

And in that vein, the WEI team has been squelching comment channels because they've become low-value noise channels and dogpile opportunities. This isn't a design that the team in charge of it is choosing to do or not do by the number of angry GitHub posts they get, so that channel is now noise because they don't have someone to perch on the channel and filter novel information from me-too "Don't do" repeats.
Companies can bake the cost of one or two maintenance releases and maybe one or two years of security releases into the purchase price. I agree it's not reasonable to expect lifetime updates from a one-time purchase. As long as you're not doing heavy development on these maintenance releases, the company's cost should be very small.

As a user-developer, I'd also be happy with being provided the source (or un-linked object files, or the equivalent for whatever language being used) after the maintenance period was over, so I could continue applying dependency security patches myself.
> how different is the impact on the manufacturer when the software is used by 1k users, 1M users, and 1B users?

_very different_, when the user's environment is different. And 1) you haven't seen shit if you think you can perfectly control the user's environment. 2) every new user is a chance for the environment to bite you.

> Do they make the product unprofitable or unsuccessful in anyway?

You do your engineer best to try and fight that. But there's absolutely a marginal cost, which is what I was responding to.
Pocket: Obfuscation Tool for Mixed Boolean Arithmetic Expressions
Wow strangely I grew up in petaluma. I never thought I would read that city name on Hacker News
Hear hear. It's always more smoke and mirrors, claims from individuals, inconclusive, grainy images, yadda yadda. Show me some real evidence.
When the transition of the population from consenting adults to productive livestock (consumists) took place. I.e. during the industrial revolution, and much more extremely nowadays.
This was a very heartwarming and inspiring read, thank you for sharing. I wish you the best of luck with your future career.
> The web stopped being open when W3C accepted EME

The web was more open when to play those videos you had to use a proprietary Flash or Silverlight plugin?
There might be intellectual property concerns with "directly" implementing CUDA, and the architectures are (as I understand it) a bit different. That doesn't explain why they don't support something with similar broad compatibility though, as the actual card capabilities are very similar.
This is a weird take. It’s not practical for everyone to self host and if you don’t do that you’re not really decentralized (eg. Gmail account lockouts).

Social media handle ownership is normally pretty stable and reliable because otherwise they wouldn’t be able retain users. The odd account repossession is a very low probability event compared to ATO or other type of lockout.

What makes this case unique is that the rebranding of Twitter was random and shockingly brand destructive. I happen to know Gene X (he’s a well known and beloved photographer in SF) and as soon the announcement was made we all immediately guessed this would be the outcome. Annoying yes, but also not a failure mode to optimize against.
I think the right avenue is to complain to W3C instead. Especially in the light of https://www.w3.org/TR/2023/DNOTE-w3c-vision-20230725/#princi... and violation of CoC https://www.w3.org/Consortium/cepc/#unacceptablebehavior ("Sustained disruption of discussion.")

The problem is that the proposal has not yet been brought to W3C.
I think this is a huge part of it. Adjusting your heap size when working with a large project is a simple thing and makes a night and day difference. It isn't something most people would think to check and Jetbrains doesn't do a great job and helping you find the setting. But with a modern computer and project appropriate memory settings it is extremely responsive.

Maybe they could raising a warning to the user when it sees evidence of lots of GC trashing?
Most languages have something like the ‘const’ keyword (or in Rust, eliding ‘mut’).
To help Musk squeeze the last bits of value out of a dying platform? I'd be looking elsewhere if I had someting to advertise at this point in the timeline.
Even the security updates are often dubious. Software that could be entirely local (with a system provided filesystem backup/sync for data) adds "cloud" functionality so that it can lock you into the SaaS subscription model, and now it's got the network as an attack surface. It's self-justifying. Even there though, it generally just talks to the vendor's servers, and if you control the vendor's servers, you probably have more direct attack routes than some http client bug or some bug in an svg library that the vendor uses for their logo.

"Security" patches are something only checklist-driven corporate IT (i.e. people who can't consider use-case) ought to care about. For individuals, they're mostly a cudgel to justify abusive practices and should be ignored.
> To date, not a single document revealed has shown what people now falsely believe: that the US government and Twitter were working together to “censor” people based on their political viewpoints. Literally none of that has been shown at all. Instead, what’s been shown is that Twitter had a competent trust & safety team that debated tough questions around how to apply policies for users on their platform and did not seem at all politically motivated in their decisions.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/05/twitter-admits-in-court-...
Why would it be foreign? Couldn’t it also be a domestic influence of some kind?
> i5-12400F at 5.2GHz

Overclocking. Profile explains why.
For security I prefer single cores, but have to work with whats available.
No, there aren’t. Everything presented thus far has either been:

- Third hand claims, “I was told by a credible source…”

- low quality imagery whose validity is disputed (gimbal video, etc.)
There’s a distinction between the maker of the OS/hardware and an independent vendor trying to monetize the tools.

The OS/hardware maker’s primary interest is in selling more OS or hardware, so it makes sense for them to give away the tools (or their work enhancing the already-free tools) that enable more and better applications.

An independent tool vendor is in a different position, and there have always been vendors with better tools, maybe for a specialized market, or maybe just going above and beyond what comes for free, which is what Mold tries to do.

In other words, it’s clear to everyone now that the essential tools should be free, but surely not that all tools should be free!
So few people even list their github profile on their resume. When I was a manager if I was reviewing resumes and you had a github profile listed your odds of getting that first screening call went up dramatically.
So, this is true:

> Too much software changes just to change.

But it doesn't imply this:

> I'd say at the very most it needs security updates.

What the parent said about "security updates at the very least" is correct, and sometimes that happens to also be the very most updates that should be made. And sometimes it's that but a little bit more. And sometimes it's that and a lot more.

The hard part is figuring out the right balance. And then, figuring out how to staff in order to achieve that balance.

The "only security updates" approach turns out to be among the hardest to figure out how to staff for. Because the idea is that this software is essentially complete upon release, so the natural business model is to sell it that way, for a one-time fixed price. And then with that revenue structure, the natural cost structure is to move all the staffing to a new project (or to build these kinds of products with project-based contracts to begin with).

But once you've accepted that you should at least be doing updates for security (and I think this is correct in almost all cases), well, now who is going to do those? You have a recurring cost with a non-recurring revenue stream. You can push down the recurring costs as far as possible, but eventually this model just struggles to pencil out. At that point, you'll probably decide to just stop all updates, including security patches.

This phenomenon is why most people making software seek a business model with a recurring revenue stream. It's not an accident that the days of boxed software were also the days of rampant insecurity.

But, you're totally right that the next step in this is often, "well if we have to have ongoing staffing and recurring revenue, we need something for them to do besides maintenance, so let's do UI refreshes and metrics and stuff I guess". It's a test of leadership, to avoid that temptation. Better products have better leadership that is making better decisions about when it makes sense to do more on a product and when it makes sense to mostly leave it be.
Funnily enough they add the AI feature I care the least about: chat. It's more clicks and typing for things I can do/google myself already. The frictionless autocomplete of Github Copilot is so much more useful for quick development.
> this is not correct at all

Why?

There's a thing called formal verification of software.
> I am absolutely for banning electric cars from underground garages, ferries, long tunnels, and so on.

I’m very glad you don’t write laws.
Adding to the ever growing list of proof why humans just shouldn't survive.

Won't do anything about endless toxins being put into water and air by industry, climate change passing the turning point, will spend millions for hearings on UFOs which wouldn't make an ounce of difference even if real (they aren't, FTL aliens don't give a damn about earth, we're ants and at best they'd send automated drones)

I do admit I would love to see religion destroy itself trying to explain aliens but I'm sure they have a "creations going on elsewhere" in their backpocket just in case. Or they'd just deny it like flatearthers as long as they can get away with it.
It's very much a conscious bias. That's why I also say: "As a hiring manager, this means you have to learn how to source candidates and interview effectively: you don’t want to miss out on a great engineer just because they spent all of their energy making great products for prior employers rather than blogging, speaking and coding in public.".
Considering we all have recording devices now, the most interesting take from my limited perspective is that we have less ghost and ufo sightings than we've ever had.
Why the fuck we let an ad company have any say whatsoever in web standards is beyond me. Of course they want to turn the web into a billboard. If they could they'd beam ads directly into your dreams. The answer to this, and anything else proposed by google until they can prove good faith, is "no".
I developed complex systems that run businesses all by myself. During those projects I had no desire to do anything computer wise outside of work because I was challenged on daily basis. DevOps, setting up servers, building CI/CD, setting up environments, implementing different features, setting up databases, database design, learning ORMs, writing stored procedures, APIs, building the front end.....and the list goes on and on.

Blogging takes time away from work. Some people like myself do not want to make their thoughts public because I value privacy. I also don't feel like I have anything much interesting to say. I just like getting "shit" done.

I feel I'm capable of learning anything required to complete a task/job. Yet, I wouldn't fit his idea of someone who stands out. Then, again I don't really like working with people who show such extreme bias and are not open minded.
Over the years, I have had two complete sets. Both were decades out of date.

Relocating claimed both of them. I gave one to my sister. The second to a neighbor.

The second one was from 1957. It had the fitted bookcase...did you know there were dedicated bookcases? Neither did I until I saw one.

No room in the bookcase for yearbooks, but the bookcase had a fitted slot for the Atlas. Yes, there are matching atlases.

Now in fairness it's been almost twenty years since I gave away the bookcase set to the neighbor. I didn't haven't replaced it because I am less interested in ancient and medieval western history. There's nothing else like an old set of Britannica for that.

So I say go for it. If nothing else, it will be a conversation starter. At best, you'll find yourself sitting on the floor with a pile of books. In the worst case, you're just renting them until you pass them on.

Good luck.
Citation(s) given. [0] The Hunter Biden laptop story [1] was censored on Twitter and The NY Post had their accounts locked over the story and the Twitter CEO at the time admitted that it was a 'mistake'.

EDIT: So there you have it.

Even when I have given citations and substantiated them with links, I still get censored for it for no reason because it is true. Of course.

Cannot begin to even reason with the folks here who cannot handle the facts and citations given at all.

[0] https://www.melovedata.com/twitter-still-hasnt-unlocked-the-...

[1] https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/hunter-biden-emails-show-lever...
He phrased it differently, but I believe it was Grusch presented that as a rationale.
Building Expo apps on your own hardware is definitely supported. Specifically, run "npx expo prebuild:{android,ios}" to generate your project's "android" and "ios" directories. Open them up in Android Studio and Xcode (or use their command-line equivalents), respectively, and build.

The managed services (EAS) are optional for Expo apps. The independence between Expo, the free and open source framework, and EAS, the hosted service offering, is something the Expo team consciously works on.
Smells of vendor lock-in. Someone in the EU should report this. It is quite easy:

https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/selling-in-eu/competit...
Programming in the 80s, 90s, and early 00s was a much more fun experience, overall I think, because I was able to just write code most of the time. These days it is mostly dealing with all the plumbing issues to logistically handle the code (CI/CD, devops, k8s, terraform, etc) plus reading code and PRs and RFCs and tweaking existing code for bug fixes and optimizations and such. The code we are creating and working on is fantastic and of a mind-blowing scale solving amazing problems, but I really miss the days of just doing greenfield work. Just writing pages and pages of code. I think there are jobs out there like that, but they are relatively rare anymore.
Anything that's more technical and doesn't require much communication, so the further away from graphic design the better. UX is probably tricky too because it often takes a lot of team work and interactions with product. Maybe UI / component design?

Let me ask a designer friend and shares the results by email.
I have learnt a great deal about modern state of Lisp from comments written by Mark and others like pjmlp on HN. By reading their comments I've learnt that Lisp is relevant in non-Lisp languages too. So many programming languages borrow concepts that were explored in Lisp languages. And not just Lisp. ML too. Their comments helped me learn this kind of background.

If I could get a directory of active Lisp devs who comment on HN that would be great! Maybe even create a feed out of their comments. Is there any feed of any kind on HN? Even a basic RSS feed could be useful. I could pull the whole feed and filter them out for their comments.
yes this is a good point. There is little specifically about gold besides rarity and intrinsic value/desirability that makes the gold standard ideal.

I actually think the function is that it's tied to _something_ of intrinsic value, that the intrinsic value isn't wildly fluctuating, and that it's roughly fixed in supply. Then by tying the currency to the resource it means that the currency cannot be created (fiat) without addressing those properties of the backing asset.