skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are we just going to distribute access the same way we distribute wealth today - i.e. the more wealth and/or power you have, the more access [to cool bio implants] you get?

Wealth is (to an economist) all the goods and services in the world that we provide to each other. So to them this would be a sort of circular question. Yes it'd be distributed the same way as we distribute wealth, because cool bio implants are wealth, along with every other aspect of healthcare. And then they'd point out that wealth isn't distributed zero-sum, wealth is created by the act of trading. So if I buy a cool implant from you, then the act of engaging in this trade is in some sense creating the wealth at that very moment. As after all, if you build widgets nobody cares about and they rot in a warehouse unloved and unwanted, you didn't really increase the wealth of society.
Imagination was sold in 2017, well before the AI boom.
> You always read about these stories and think "they probably deserved it" and then it hits you.

Really? I sure don't think that. In fact, that attitude's a real sympathy killer, to be honest. How can people be so naive about the power these companies have to destroy your livelihood, in a single stroke, often due to an entirely humanless-process?
An article about architecture diagrams without a single example?
Also seemingly notable in this article is the comments section. While the authorship can't actually be verified, there are plenty of comments dated to 2004 from people claiming to be Apple veterans, including one from "stevewoz":

> from stevewoz on February 10, 2004 04:55:27

> I ran into Franklin at a trade show. I got rather heated since they had not only copied my design but also our PC board exactly. In front of some gathering people and press I asked why they didn't acknowledge me as their chief engineer. The Franklin president said that "yes" I was their chief engineer and I left, satisfied in that. In later thinking, I should have asked him where my paycheck was!

There are also apparently a couple of other hidden copy check images like this that are turned up in the comments section.
Thanks for your work on that! I use custom JavaScript functions to hit our internal analytics API. It was really nice to work with.
> They yelled at me a lot though because it was pretty obvious who was using dozens of hours of dialin every month, given that the school's list of suspects was one item long.

Not sure why they didn't change the password. I was assuming they just never noticed the usage.
You didn't say which direction QoL would change, so I guess this is technically correct.
One place was ok on the interview but dealing with the HR after that was strange.

Similar to OP, I had to verbally accept the offer before they would give me an offer letter. And then the offer expired in 12 hours.

It felt like a high pressure sell that really turned me off the place.
Have you checked lnav?
My new insurance company cajoled me into "opting in" to their SMS spam for a $100 gift card, but evidently I didn't even need to consent to voice spam.

Thankfully, their CID is "Unknown/Unknown" and my spamblock sends it direct to voicemail.
> Yes I would have put it in the original (pre-edit), but better late than never :-)

Huh? The clarification is in the original (pre-edit). It's the second sentence.

"Right, but that clarification was pre-edit?" wasn't a hypothetical, it was making a claim.
Anything can sound like a net negative if you literally make up a negative statement about it.
They're known for consistently shipping significant new features fast, so call it what you want but whatever they do works!

What you really don't want is to work at a ticket factory where every ticket is for a new hack that could be avoided by paying down basic technical debt :)
> The Chinese do not think that they are doing anything nefarious either.

"Nefarious" is very dependent on context. The CIA spying on China is what the CIA is _supposed_ to be doing -- it's not nefarious in the US context, but surely, to the Chinese, it's "nefarious activity" and the CIA is aware of that. Surely the Chinese know that they're up to no good from the US point of view, even if it's ethically fine from their point of view.
Ask HN: What is your opinion on Amazon's work culture?
My experience is limited to developers.
They login at 7:30 in morning work till 8PM, 10:30PM sometimes or even 3:00 AM. They work on saturdays as full-time. (I know it by the pings, group messages and emails they send, comments on tickets).

I dont see anything bad in it. Just wondering why dont they value personal time like going to Gym, watch some movies, doing stuff they like instead of working more?

I absolutely have no issues about them working overtime.

This is for Amazon USA and employees in other roles can chip in.
Ergo, piracy and buying music on bandcamp. Still very viable options. I am close to publishing an EP on bandcamp myself. But I cannot deny how handy Spotify has been with musical pursuits. Spotify may rule the roost but we still have Bandcamp, Beatport, JunoDownload, Amazon Music, iTunes, Discogs marketplace, and others.

And I would say Spotify is doing a social good. As a nobody artist, being able to point people to stuff on Spotify is really compelling. Any other way I'd have to force people into either buying or using an app they are unfamiliar with just to listen to it. That said I am not trying to make money from music, that is just foolish.
Notes on RISC-V Support and Security Implications
Related question: Why would you (and they) give your product a Microsoft name and open yourself up to a trademark fight and probable name change when, with just a little effort and imagination (and maybe ChatGPT), you could've called it anything else?
I like Gliffy built into Confluence because it's default at work. I also like excalidraw and was hoping to test the collaborative feature for video calls. I think the ephemeral nature of the diagrams is just fine, it's essentially a whiteboard with some QoL features like persistence, pre-population, and undo/redo.
Lockheed's ARRW hypersonic missile: Sometimes it flies, sometimes it just tries
The dystopian angle comes from a willingness to resort to a pill to fix symptoms rather than dealing with finding the actual core of the disease. (Namely researching changes in gut microbiota, overall nutitive/diet changes in the last century, etc) and actually taking the bitter pill that it may be some of the industrial choices we've made that have driven the changes in overall metabolism.

There's also the angle that any act of nudge around "this is normal" is a fundamental flex of political/socio-economic might. In the United States, often originating from the insurance sector.

Hand wave their credentials if you wish, but at least approach the argument in good faith. I assure you, following the thread for any reasonable stretch of time will get you into familiar dystopia territory if you approach it with even a shred of academic integrity.

The issue is most people's value system doesn't include "manipulating large numbers of people through subtle indirection is bad".

EDIT:
To address a dead poster below me:

I have no issues with the FDA. I do have issues with excessive regulatory capture and hiding of science by large food companies. The sugar industry, and a handful of other contributors to the supply chain are all on my shit list equally for actively gaslighting the public and scientific world by hiding "unfavorable" studies.
This is correct. Google put a lot of effort into making carriers adopt RCS (which has most of the functionality of iMessage), but Apple will not adopt it to keep their "competitive advantage."

https://www.android.com/get-the-message/

I use an iPhone now but these kinds of business tactics and the others mentioned here really make me wish there were more competitive products on the other end.
HashiCorp’s New Licensing – FAQ-based addendums
I have seen a lot more cases of the CCP disappearing people than I ever have from the US Government.
Punishments are not an effective deterrent. That is, you could increase the punishment ten fold and people would still do it. What matters is if people think they will get caught. You put up driving check points every weekend around the nightlife areas and you will see a decline, because people will feel more certain they will be caught, even if the punishment is not as bad.
Ah, the Apple has a perpetual royalty free license meme. Almost certainly a myth.

Very, very unlikely anyone would get a perpetual license that covers all future products just because they were a founding shareholder.

I did some detective work on this a while ago for my newsletter (link in bio) from behind the paywall:

> … Apple and Acorn were paying royalty fees soon after they founded the company why should that change to grant Apple a royalty-free license at some point later?
People steal the weirdest things: a couple of months ago someone got into my pickup and made off with a hitch pin that happened to be sitting on the floorboard. Resale value might be... two dollars?
> Yes but optimally there would be at least some proliferation in index funds, and they would index differently.

Great, now investors have to choose between which index fund to pick. What makes you think the average investor is qualified to make that choice? By definition one of them will make above average returns, and the other below average returns, so half of investors will make below average returns and the other half will make above average returns. You can't have everyone making above average returns. Why not split the difference and invest in both of them (ie. buy the market), and get average returns without having to worry about which one to choose? That's basically what buying broad market index funds (eg. VTI or ITOT) does.
What a twist of language all this "product owner" stuff is. You own something if people can't legally take it away from you and you reap its fruits. The owner is the one who gets the profits.
> "Apple likes open standards when it is weak."

Everyone does. AMD is the same. The market leader focuses on features, the runners up try to take them down with openness. The competition is good for consumers, but the motivation is one of self-interest, not the common good.
Wow, the new title is so much clearer than the business speak that was before it. Thank you, HN.
had to mention https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/

if team does not have automated test, but still manages to deliver working software - maybe tests are not adding as much value as VP thinks?

the most important is feature delivery, and integration test, not automated unit test where you test getters and setters with mock dependencies - absolutely useless busywork
Meditating for 30 years.

"Psychedelic experiences", superhuman, supernatural, crazy magic out-of-matrix stuff. Ya. It's real.
I will try to put myself as an outsider and just reflect on what I see. We have a very innovative Linux distribution / packaging etc software, where there is no dominant commercial actor. Instead there are a number of smaller companies specializing in evolving the ecosystem, selling services around it and so on. There is opportunity in Nix future for a commercial actor to make a lot of money by becoming the most trusted authority in aspects of it. Becoming the next Red Hat or something like that. I sense there is a lot of positioning and hustling to become THE Nix company that takes pole position and becomes the dominant one.

Once in a while, there have been an announcement like this, which has not been well received. I am a little worried about it, and what it can lead to for the future. I worry it can split the community and be harmful to the future of very innovative software. I am trying to think of a similar situation within another area of the Linux or Open Source space, but can't really come up with good examples.

Interested to hear if these thoughts are well founded or just a bad take.
Vaccines and the Tightrope of Progress
I gave up on Medium years ago - to the extent I added them as a custom block in uBlock Origin
Right. If IA wants to spin off a legally-separate "Red Team" of radical activists to demonstrate how ignoring copyright laws enriches us all, I'll be happy to donate. Using the IA for this is reckless and doomed to failure. Do you think Sci-Hub would've survived if they'd started flouting the law as a California-based nonprofit with hundreds of employees? Hell no.
My credit monitoring services will search for an email address, but not for wildcards...
IDEs: AWS offers Cloud9, the free option is VSCode, the premium option is Jetbrains.

Version control: AWS offers CodeCommit, the free option is Gitea, the premium option is GitHub/GitLab.

Security scanners: that's pretty broad, but depending on what you mean by that, AWS will scan your container images on ECR, the free option is Trivy, and the premium option is built into products like GitHub Advanced Security.

Firewalls: AWS has managed security groups / network access control lists etc., the free option is configuring iptables directly, the premium option, take your pick from companies like Palo Alto Networks.

Dependency management: again this is vague, AWS offers ECR and CodeArtifact, the free option is Nexus, the premium option is JFrog.

> self-host

So, this would be premium, except that the free options let you do it too

> support, polish, and documentation

Look, options like KeyCloak are pretty well polished and documented. If you think you can charge a premium price for support, then go for it, but then you're not selling to devs, instead you're selling to sclerotic BigCo that wants the enterprise support package.
Oh I saw the same thing in mobile version. Indeed the discoverability of the X at the upper right conner is far batter in mobile than desktop. I can just close it and keep reading.
It's not most but it is a lot.

https://brocku.ca/social-sciences/political-science/wp-conte...

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Evidence of Brain Drain in STEM fields

• One in four of the STEM graduates in our sample opted to work outside of Canada.

Talent Migration is High in Technology-Focused STEM Programs

• Two thirds (66%) of software engineering students are leaving Canada for work after graduation.

• Brain drain is also high in: computer engineering (30%), computer science (30%),engineering science (27%), and systems design engineering (24%).

• Programs such as biology (0%) and chemistry (3.5%) have low migration of graduates.

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To be fair though I haven't gone through the report in detail so there may be biases in there I haven't noticed.
I’m not saying fossil fuels companies should be in charge of regulating fossil fuels companies.

I’m saying that fossil fuels companies are incentivized to sell useful co2 converters because this enables them to sell more fossil fuels.
> I am completely sure TransUnion could have detected and foiled this incredibly obvious attack. I'm also completely sure they could have identified other victims of the same attackers and informed them, but they chose not to.

It's entirely possible that nobody at TransUnion knows how to achieve this given the state of their databases' and/or staff. For example, maybe their system was set up before constraints were a thing and they stopped development once it started printing money, so the only person "working" on it does light maintenance as a portion of their other duties.
Ask HN: BlitzJS, RedwoodJS, RefineJS or something else for fullstack JavaScript?
Hello dear javascript haters and lovers, I want to build an app which will need a complete framework, Rails/Phoenix style, CRUD and DB heavy, with also a lot of interactions on the frontend, heavy on React, I thought at this point the JS community would have settled on one choice for this, but seems like this is not possible in JS world.

My goal is to have a very integrated front and backend, fully typed and safe, I want to waste no time dealing with different services and network and APIs and all that, having a single language for it all also helps, hence javascript (typescript to be more precise).

I never really got over the massive productivity I got from Rails 10 years ago, I feel I get close to it with Elixir/Phoenix (and love the performance) but let's be honest it's just not as popular so it doesn't have integrations for literally everything for me to just install as a dependency, and also no static types and would be no single language.

So, I came across those options in the title, which one should I choose? Blitz.js seems nice, Rails inspired and structured, which I like, however, people keep suggestion RedwoodJS, I don't understand why. I liked Blitz better than Redwood from first glance because they advertise themselves on being a layer on top of NextJS, which is good because I really want to piggyback on NextJS massive popularity.

Now, refine sounds newer and shinier, but the fact that they focus more on being flexible with everything than strong conventions and structure makes me doubtful

I don't know how many other 10k+ stars fullstack JS frameworks are there, if you know another one do tell, but what is your take? Which one should I choose? Why?
Why is it not appropriate?

Genuine question. Is it because it's sexist? Would it be appropriate to write "unlike most men"? Unlike most people?

Or is it because it's suggesting the author is better than other people???
I’ve quit for more than 5 years now and in that time I’ve smoked two times in total. At this point, with no tolerance, one bowl is enough to completely blow someone away. It’s no where close to a single drink of alcohol. A couple of shreds, maybe 1/8th of a bowl was enough to get me very high.
I bought a mid-range Acer laptop in December 2012. I used that thing as my daily driver until 2018 until I finally got a desktop. In 2020 I repurposed that laptop as a server and it's been running ever since. For tens of thousands of hours.

My point is that Apple doesn't have a monopoly on quality. Perhaps I'm pretty lucky in this sense, but I have had great longevity out of all of my hardware, and I have owned very few Apple devices.
Gun laws are definitely not as liberal as the US, since you need to register for a firearm licence. There is no right to bear arms, you need to be licensed to do it, which is possible for most adults. There is a theory and practical exams, and you are also legally required to own a gun safe at home. Once you have it though you can concealed carry which is great.
Because PIs are nominally regulated. It's a popular career with ex-cops who have investigative skills but are over the physical danger aspect of dealing with crime.
Heaven forbid developers be asked to demean themselves by doing such things as fixing bugs or shipping features.
> So it's tremendously hypocritical for the US to rile up paranoia about "personal data" and "national security" especially considering the Snowden revelations. (Draconian)rules are for thee but not for me.

China does limit what US companies can do there in far more draconian ways than the US does for any country, and the EU absolutely does have the power to force FAANG companies to comply with their data protection laws.

Like, do you not want countries to have spies or try to defend themselves from foreign spies? I don't really get the complaint here.
This looks very interesting
The lack of Error Handling in Go is a feature, not a bug. See here: https://go.dev/doc/faq#exceptions. I think I'd be disappointed if Try/Catch ever made their way into the language.
>This is the killer feature, however: power users can access those same datasets through Excel and import the entire model.

I had this once. Then someone decided it was 'dangerous' and locked us out. I went back to exporting the data from the ERP and loading it into Excel...because I was allowed to do that
When there is actually a true reconciliation for what happened in its past. This would require - as with Haiti, as with Venezuela, as with the poorer regions of China that have been essentially annexed by Beijing - certain international entities to get over their hurt feelings at losing a gem in their crowns of exploitation, and to end their marriage to toxic self-interest, which prevent SA from taking proactive steps to expand their pie, as it were. It would also require people within the country building a profound sense of national and communal trust (not rebuilding, because no such thing has existed before). One of the most famous para-athletes in history shot his wife to death through a bathroom door, out a fear that connects directly to the internalized lies of Apartheid and colonialism.
Dangerous for all parties involved. Being out in the open with no safety belt, no crumple zones, a bicyclist can be easily killed in an accident. Drivers attempting to swerve out of the way can cause a greater accident with other vehicles, not to mention the possibility of killing a bicyclist. Add to that, the hypothetical of riding a bicycle while drunk, you've now just worsened the problem.

Moral of the story: don't drive drunk, don't ride a bike drunk. Ideally, don't get drunk at all, but if you do, don't operate any kind of vehicle.
No.

Is that from the old "Intelligent Design" rhetoric?
But then what's the difference between a brain and, say, a rock, in this case? Both exist in this world, and neither is external. Can we therefore not understand or do a full simulation of a rock? Not being sarcastic here, genuinely curious what you think and why.

edit: Oh, I think I understand a bit more now: we're not talking about creating a simulation of "a brain", but a simulation of a specific brain, and whether that's still the same "person" as the original person the brain belonged to. That's a very different discussion.
> To know the difference between SRE and DevOps ask them what they do when an incident happens:
> DevOps rolls back (reverts the changes, treating the system as a black box that should go to the last known good state)
> SRE fixes forward (fixes the problem and commits a new change)

Ehhhh. I don't think it's that simple, and you'd better know what your strategy is for incident response BEFORE one happens. By far the worst shitshows I've seen in production have been as a result of well-intentioned people trying to fix forward without fully understanding what is going on.

Spoiler: having full understanding of what is going on in the heat of the moment is really, really hard, even for smart people who are also system experts. Rolling back as a default and then figuring out what went wrong in a more orderly manner is a perfectly sensible default behavior where such a thing is possible.
The open bootloader didn't magically appear one night in Apple's git repository.

It boots in a notably different way than iOS machines do, and has some (AFAICT) pretty unique capabilities, including a fully-verified signed-boot of macOS partitions, while allowing third-party kernels at the same time.

Asahi's "Introduction to Apple Silicon" [0], and specifically "Security modes, Boot Policies, and machine ownership" paragraph outlines some of that, Apple's "Platform Security" [1] whitepaper does too.

Asahi's docs also explicitly state the same thing [2].

If you still don't think that shows significant amount of work and care were put into deliberately allowing third-party OS's to work on those machines, I don't think I can convince you otherwise.

[0]: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Introduction-to-Appl...

[1]: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/welcome/web

[2]: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Apple-Platform-Secur...
Plugged up? 1) Get outa bed. 2) Chug a liter/quart of water. 3) Down a strong coffee.

Then brace for it.
Reminds me of the ill-fated cavalry charges in WW2. Many older officers insisted that "the fundamentals of war are the same" despite new technology.

I can imagine a modern tech leader living in those times and giving the orders to charge the German panzer formation, sabers overhead.