skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Oracle, SAP, Adobe, VMware, Intuit, AutoDesk, Activision Blizzard, Epic Games, Electronic Arts

SQL Server, Dynamics, TrueType/Silverlight, Hyper-V, Microsoft Money, Softimage was owned by MS, Activision are in the process of being bought by MS, Epic and EA both compete with MS.

In the case of the above Microsoft has tried to compete with, kill, or acquire all of them. That's using others to do the hard work of market discovery.
To me, banning Tiktok smells like burning books.

YMMV.
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/yout...
Thanks, that's super handy.
Hey folks, Graham -- CEO of DetSys here. So glad to be able to share FlakeHub, our most ambitious project yet.

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If you use a non-declarative adblocker, you're not just trusting the developer, but also all the third-party filter lists you've subscribed to. These filters have powerful capabilities and can even exfiltrate website data [1], and they are updated in real time, so if a bad actor pushed a malicious update (e.g. by gaining access to any EasyList contributor account), you would most likely be affected.

However, it's true some websites (like YouTube) are especially problematic and a declarative adblocker is not enough. What you can do is combine both approaches: use a declarative adblocker (uBlock Origin Lite) as a baseline, and selectively enable non-declarative adblockers (uBlock Origin) for specific websites (see [2] for a detailed overview).

I like this layered approach because it gets you the best of both worlds: the security and performance of a declarative adblocker, and the functionality of a non-declarative adblocker when you need it, without compromising your entire browsing session.

[1] https://portswigger.net/research/ublock-i-exfiltrate-exploit...

[2] https://seirdy.one/posts/2022/06/04/layered-content-blocking...
does he have control over whether he transmits any data he places in the mysterious windows VM?
> A growing uneasy feeling about Google’s approach to user privacy, […], their rejection of JPEG XL

The part about JPEG XL seems strange, given that the article linked in the blog post says Mozilla too is rejecting JPEG XL:

> Mozilla's Martin Thomson wrote that while JPEG XL "offers some potential advantages," it wasn't "performing enough better than its closest competitors (like AV1F) to justify addition on that basis alone."

Could someone maybe clarify this point?
Blackrock is an asset manager. You can go to ishares.com, search for an ETF, buy shares of it and Blackrock will have your money investing it on your behalf.

It will take away a small percentage of your money every year to pay costs and make its profits, but you will profit from the returns of the investment itself.
That last part is almost exactly what we do with Power BI. We import tables from a SQL data warehouse into Power BI. We then build a data model (creating relationships between tables, adding calculated columns to those tables where needed, and creating measures to summarize the data). We then create reports based on those datasets. Most of our users are content with what they see in the Power BI web client.

This is the killer feature, however: power users can access those same datasets through Excel and import the entire model. All the relationships, all the calculated columns, and all the measures are there for the power users to mix and match and filter however they want in Excel. It's been a phenomenal success for our business.
Oh I don't believe in "free will" or "agency" at all.

I do believe that in this Universe there's some things are impossible to predict - that there's sources of "pure randomness". And since we don't exactly know how our brain works, I think it possible that our brains might incorporate some of those unpredictable phenomena. Or not. But that is it. Once those initial theoretical random values "are set", our behavior is deterministic. Inconceivable intricate, almost certainly impossible to model or simulate, but deterministic.
The answer to this lies in our history. Given that we know so little about past civilizations, especially older than 6000 years ago, and new discoveries sometimes startlingly reveal how advanced they were, the answer would be no.
Hey HN, glad to see FlakeHub posted so eagerly! I have another thread over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37224148

We built FlakeHub to bring SemVer and a crates.io-like experience to Nix and flakes. Please check it out and let us know what you think. We'll be watching!
I wonder if it's worth it to use zigs build system in projects. I've seen tried and failed to build a number of zigs projects when I'd last looked into it.
Pearl is the author of a more technical book called Causality, which is where all the quantitative stuff is.

But McElreath's material on causality is a distillation of some of Pearl's (and others') work, so start there.
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Works out of the box on Xfce.
Not protected by US regulation and law.

So if you are a US pension fund that has all it's funds in Nigeria ( to pick an example ) - can it be said to be safe under US law?

Ironically the inverse problem EU countries have with US tech firms holding their citizens data - however it that case the response is generally 'la la la'.
> The agreement would let agencies examine TikTok’s US facilities, records, and servers with minimal prior notice and veto the hiring of any executive involved with leading TikTok US data security organization.

Granting access to TikTok servers to multiple US agencies is 100% about letting the US spy on users (just as they have the right to under US law, such as the US CLOUD Act, and also via the well-documented and illegal warrantless surveillance programs we all know about). Blocking executive hires is clearly so they can prevent whistleblowers from working in the organization, and is exactly what the US did when it was using Crypto AG to spy on its allies:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-...

Anyway, I'm against a ban of TikTok for the same reason that laws that target specific companies or individuals are unconstitutional. Instead, we should ban the things TikTok does that we think should be illegal, and then apply the law equally to US and foreign social media companies.
I agree with this stance, it's naive to think that countries wouldn't prefer to block others from having as much information about their own citizens than themselves. This just seems like a reasonable position any government would adopt and defensive in nature as you point out. The discussion then can be on where you set the privacy bar for each case:

- your country spying on your own citizens

- your country spying on foreign citizens

- other countries ability to spy on your own citizens
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They want to remove the dependency on LLVM, but also they plan to keep shipping clang as well, I believe. Probably they will ship 2 different zig binaries, one that is only able to compile zig and c, but without the help of clang, and one that includes clang as well, and can compile c++.
ITAR and other regulatory issues - being the primary. Not all users are on Office 365 GCC High.
> tying OKRs to bonuses

Goodhart's Law: "Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Wow, that is incredibly dismissive of perspectives you don't understand. This type of ignorance and close-mindedness is disappointing, yet unsurprising. Sad that there people like this in the world.
Nullable Reference Types and Null Operators in C# [video]
When corporations have a duty to their employees and not to the shareholders, then that is when the employees will start to care about the company. As it is, you are asking for a one-way-street. Companies will hire and lay people off as economic tides turn, but then you say that the workers owe loyalty? I don't think so.
Well I've taken 3 business public/sold to public company this way and brought countless to profitability so who knows I guess?
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Frankly I say we let them delete all public backups of internet culture. Eventually there would be a backlash when this goes too far.

Lots of games, websites and TV shows would be gone. Let them.

Don't make local backups either. Or at least encrypt the backups and make sure they will be lost when we die.

*Let DRM and Copyright become the modern equivalent of book burning.*

Let people forget. Let it be the government's problem to preserve knowledge and history. And let it decide when the cost is higher than whatever benefits we get from strict authoritarian levels of Copyright protections
Meditation. How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
There is no future in this city for anyone who already doesn't own a house/Condo or several. Just visit realtor.ca and browse what you get for 1-3 million. Jobs and pay are piss poor, 100k for a family might be good for many places in the USA but for Canada it is survival mode. If you own a house in Toronto or anywhere in South Western Ontario and make a family income of at least 200k and a mortgage under 500k - 1M, you might be ok without any major calamity.

The youth have no chance without an inheritance or massive family help. They will never own a house or Condo and many will never have meaningful work and will be under employed. Most young people pray for a chance to get a Gov job but in a province like Ontario where approx 3 out of 5 jobs is already a Gov job, it is becoming difficult for the private sector to support. New immigrants are living hand to mouth with little prospect of advancement. Yes, it still may be better than the country they came from since they can at least live in safety and poverty with some social assistance.

Canada has been on a downward trajectory for the last 20-30 years and the only thing that has kept it from going under is massive debt and an increase in social assistance. This is the reality Canadians face.

Other than that, it can be a pleasant place to visit but unless you are incredibly wealthy and willing to bare a heavy tax burden while living in a system where the Infrastructure (roads, hospitals, schools, industry) are under heavy stress, you do not want to live there unless you are fleeing the 3rd world where you didn't even have access to clean water and food.

Most Canadians I know have multi generational wealth so they are going to be fine, but any new immigrants or young people who can't rely on family to set them up are done.....
> One of the problems with promoting standards is that standards are made by imperfect committees. And they can solve a different problem than exists in the real world.

Which solution are you suggesting? Not having a standard?
The newly-minted trillionaire could use their wealth to monopolize positional goods: social status, housing, politicians' attention. This could worsen your standard of living if you compete with them for the same positional goods.
I'm not sure there's a particular virtue in owning vs. renting or vice versa. It's all situational. I'm certainly going to own my car at home (which I also own). But if I take an even fairly lengthy trip it probably doesn't make sense to buy those things at my destination (though it may make sense to have a more extended arrangement than a typical night-by-night one).

If I'm going to watch a movie once it's not clear why I have to own it.

I think some people make ownership vs. rental much more of a value-laden decision than it needs to be.
IIRC Microsoft does similar things for the VSCode changelogs to highlight that all features work across all platform and colorschemes.
You had me with competence, but you lost me with blatant ageism
You should do train stations next. There are a couple I know in London -- Euston and Liverpool Street stations -- and I'm sure many many more.
Firefox correctly implements the behaviour when CORS is not properly configured, rather than failing to "the old way".
> Given that wealthy countries like the US aren’t exactly riding trend lines toward new peaks of mental health (depression rates in American adults are at an all-time high, while young people appear in the grips of a mental health crisis), scalable ways of not just mindfully soothing, but completely re-creating psychological experiences for the better should set off sirens of general, scientific, and funding intrigue.

I was all ready to criticize this, but the article pretty much sums up my feelings:

> Critics call it “McMindfulness,” a capitalist perversion of meditation that deals with stress by focusing inward on the breath, rather than outward on the social structures that cause so much of that stress.

I'm all for finding ways for people to improve their mental health and become more resilient to their suffering. But I can't help but feel the recent societal interest in meditation and psychedelics is wrongheaded in that it's treating a symptom rather than a cause.

There's also a part of me that resists the "capitalization" of these tools for mental introspection. It feels, in some way, to be missing the point. That said, I'm not sure that resistance is correctly targeted. Why shouldn't someone be able to make money by providing people with tools to improve their lives? Is that thought a silly purity spiral, leaving scraps of potential well-being on the table just because the packaging is too slick?

But still, there's something about it that feels off to me, as though there's something that's lost when we package all this ancient, hard-won wisdom into a smartphone app whose notifications to you will sit right next to the latest Elon Musk tweet.
The bulletpoints from the original Forbes reporting ("https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2023/08/21/dra...") look not like domestic spying, but more like close oversight of a party who isn't trusted but can't be shut down. With possible exception of this one:

> * Examine TikTok’s U.S. facilities, records, equipment and servers with minimal or no notice,

Such as if it includes arbitrary access to user data, or opportunity to modify the systems rather than only examine.

Forbes included this interesting other bit, separate from its bulletpoint list, and I didn't see Gizmodo mention it:

> It would also force TikTok U.S. to exclude ByteDance leaders from certain security-related decision making, and instead rely on an executive security committee that would operate in secrecy from ByteDance.

BTW, why is Forbes calling this a "free speech platform"? Is that now accepted terminology, or is there some spin they're promoting?

> Were it to be finalized, the agreement would provide the government near unfettered access to internal TikTok information and unprecedented control over essential functions that it does not have over any other major free speech platform.

Is the explanation really as simple as:

> Forbes (/fɔːrbz/) is an American business magazine founded in 1917 and owned by the Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.[3][4]

I'm inclined to think that the best defense against hypothetical threats from an app like this is a smart, critical-thinking, principled citizenry. But since Rupert Murdoch, and the culture that followed, have decimated that capability, maybe we need more help from government.
Now if FF would just fix the galloping memory usage - not that Chrome is much better.
Conformance is not easy. Congratulations!
Fair point. That is a form of legislation and regulation I heartily support: addressing the tragedy of the commons, and de-distorting the market (most regulation introduces new distortions).

Things like a carbon tax, or making especially dirty companies clean up their own pollution.

This aligns minimum total economic waste, which includes environmental damage, with maximum profit.
Very likely. The Rockchip stuff is super popular with that type of console and it’s easy to get Linux or Android going. HDMI out too; the Rockchip is probably one of the cheapest ways to get an HDMI signal out and USB in (which the controller almost certainly is.)

The Hyperkin RetroN does the same cartridge reading + emulator trick. It’s a neat but flawed device and I suspect the same flaws will show up here. $130 for a nice looking case and authentic feeling controller isn’t a terrible markup especially given the cartridge reader adapter.
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You may want to try a CSV editor: https://www.moderncsv.com - it's helped me already.
>It is an emulator though :/

Well that sucks. Honestly I'd be more surprised if it wasn't, given Atari's zombie status as an IP holding company.
Does it store artifacts or redirect to GitHub (or other) storage?
here comes the moronic “here comes the moronic ccp nonsense” nonsense. Like clockwork.

isnt debating fun?
I think you are just making a rhetorical flourish, but we should be clear that Iraq didn’t have WMDs, wasn’t an urgent danger, and any sources that said they did should not be treated as reliable.
How the internet works is decided by their voters already, by the act of deciding what products to use.
What an amazing story!

Windows is famous for its autorepair, partially because it loved to randomly autodestruct back in the day. Not surprising it has better repair capabilities than Mac.

My PC periodically goes blue screen at boot, which began after physical cleanup. After restart windows fixes the issue, so I just sleep-cycle it instead of powering on/off. But sometimes I have to restart anyway. Pretty sure any other OS would be long dead at this point.
Wealth inequality reduces social cohesion and increases unrest.

You can preach all you want about how envy is a sin, but banning envy would probably be just as successful as banning premarital sex.
There is one megafactory: https://www.tesla.com/en_eu/megafactory

I thought gigafactory had no meaning other than Tesla's marketing speak for a large factory, but apparently the term is gaining traction for better or worse:

> The term "gigafactory" has also been adopted by other companies which are involved in the manufacture of electric vehicles and other clean tech products. Established automobile manufacturers such as Jaguar and Volkswagen now use the term to refer to their own electric vehicle factories.[6][7] Newer companies such as Stellantis have also embraced the term[8] by referring to four new "gigafactories" in France which will produce lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. Other companies such as Holosolis[9] and 3Sun,[10] which only produce solar cells and finished solar panel assemblies, also use the term "gigafactory" to refer to their facilities. The term is therefore understood to generically refer to large industrial facilities which are associated with the decarbonization and electrification trend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigafactory
The job shift should go toward reducing waste and environmental impacts of our technological trash that we produce en mass due to global consumerism...

We should have every petroleum company on the planet employing people to recover and capture their waste(s) in all formats.

Honestly - we need to kill the capitalist oil industry - its a global need that should simply be communized not capitalized. (just like nuclear energy)
I don't have specific numbers for you, but https://maps.s5p-pal.com/ has historical maps of NO2 pollution going back to 2018.
Yeah, cereal was perhaps a bad example for “cheap and healthy”. I get unsugared minimally processed cereal like wheat flakes or muesli, but something like oatmeal would be even better.

The trade off for buying less and less processed ingredients is spending more time to prepare them. I like to be on the side of “more time less processed food” but with two kids we are only able to accomplish that by having parents or a nanny live with us.
Does CCP not exist? Does it exist but isn’t a problem to US security? Does it exist, it is a problem, but not at TikTok specifically?

What’s the claim here?
nommu have been mainlined for at least 8 years
Super impressed by the whole Asahi Linux project - and this takes it a big step forward.
My Profiles tips:

1. You can have multiple profile sessions running at the same time.

2. It is best to theme your alt profiles with a different color so you don't confuse them. For example, green one is for one profile and the red one another.

3. "firefox -p 'profile-name'" launches directly into a profile

4. "firefox -p 'profile-name' -private-window" launches a profile in a private window

5. I use keybindings on linux to auto launch different profiles.

As for why you should consider multiple profiles. It gives you the ability to separate concerns. I use a main account, one for work, one for testing stuff, another that has no extensions, and one for anything NSFW.

Too many of you don't keep NSFW stuff off your work profiles, I'm embarrassed for you during your zoom meetings when the url autocomplete briefly betrays your interests.
Not a chance. There's nothing scary about VBA (except its inflexibility and lack of a lot of modern features), and people aren't learning that either. Of course, the last decade of vaguely threatening to remove it from Office completely (in favor of js and now python?) hasn't helped people think VBA would be a good investment of their time to learn. A required internet connection and having Python only work on Windows doesn't make it look like much better of an investment.

Also, imo, Python and whatever random environments and libraries that you'll have to use with it to get your work done, will be in almost every way worse than just using VBA. And if you use VBA, your work will be effortlessly portable. The only problem I have with it is that I have to come up with ways to get the code out of the embedded IDE into source control, but there are scripts that help.

> i have no reason to use excel except for basic drawing board math, if someone demands a spreadsheet out me i automate its generation in python so i never have to deal with it again

I, on the other hand, do it in VBA, and expose every important calculation within clearly labeled spreadsheets so programming-illiterate people can audit them and feel confident about the output.
That's an easy bet to make from your comfy trailer with cheap gas, electricity, and big screen TV. As you say the majority of people in the world don't have reliable access to those luxuries and would want nothing more but to claw their way up to just that. The voices you hear probably aren't the ones who want super-yachts. Instead they see those with a real case and are lending their voices to them.
Until I switched careers to tech, I didn't understand how out of touch tech is with the rest of society. But also how out of touch anyone whose means replenish their coffers to the point that any wrong decision is corrected just by the passage of a pay period. They talk with venom and vindictiveness about those not in the ivory tower. If you are not in the castle, you're looked at as sub human. The air is thin on the high horse, that's why their noses point up.