skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows popup to change competing browser search engine to Bing anticompetitive?
I had no browsers open. I was minding my own business. Windows 11 gave me an unsolicited toaster popup, with the default action being to change Chrome's default search engine to Bing.

This is an atrocious dark pattern and a huge overreach for an operating system, whose job it should be to stay out of my way and run what I tell it to.

But more than that, this strikes me as directly anti-competitive behavior. I would appreciate views on this by people having more educated opinions on this than myself.
I'm concerned that people who do not have a provable track record for contributing to terraform believe they can fork and be good stewards of the project. Looks like the top contributors to the foundation are:

- https://www.scalr.com/ - https://github.com/Scalr
- https://gruntwork.io/ - https://github.com/gruntwork-io
- https://www.massdriver.cloud/ - https://github.com/massdriver-cloud
- https://spacelift.io/ - https://github.com/spacelift-io
- https://digger.dev/ - https://github.com/diggerhq

Gruntwork and Digger do some decent opensource but the others haven't been great stewards of opensource. Looking at their githubs they don't seem to give much of anything back. So why should we trust them over hashicorp?
The concept of this website (sixcolors.com) is bewildering to me. I sincerely hope the authors are being handsomely paid by Apple behind the scenes, otherwise they just spend their lives doing free advertising for a trillion dollar corporation.
Why not put stage2 into its own separate partition? Though probably it wasn't done because of only 4 partition limit.
Apple wants strict market segmentation. Why would they sell you once device that does everything when they can sell you 2 or 3 devices for specific tasks.

There might even be some logic to that with each device optimized for it's specific best purpose. It also doesn't hurt that it makes them more money.
> For example, if a user deleted their* content, Facebook can still use it and show to their friends. That's why it's "kinda".

I don't think it is correct. If you asked Facebook to remove your data from platform, it will be a GDPR (and probably CCPA, etc...) violation for Facebook to not delete your data within 1 month.
I'm not sure how many people have truly lived off the grid for the past 150 years. It probably numbers in the low thousands across the entire planet.

As mentioned in the article, American homesteaders were settling into so-called wilderness for $0 but which had been cleared of the people already living there. Few homesteaders lived more than a day's ride away from a military fort.

Even "mountain men" who rejected colonizer society went into the wilds fully equipped with its technology, and would frequently cycle out for supplies.

Furthermore, a lot of the land they had occupied was already partially cultivated and developed by indigenous tribes. And those indigenous tribes were trading with the colonists - and they had to, because their traditional ways of life were no longer possible, or they had been pushed off the lands where they used to live.

Uncontacted indigenous tribes are probably the last ones to truly live "off the grid". But, maybe not. They also live in a network of shared resources. They rely heavily on a small society of a hundred or so people.

The number of single families and individuals who have truly "lived off the grid"? Without significant support from larger groups, including common defense, trading, scavenging, and theft? For their whole lives? And prospered? I would guess there has never been anybody who accomplished that, from the beginning of time.
I really don’t buy these kinds of explanations when it comes to Apple products. They would love to sell you a 2-in-1 device for twice as much.

I just don’t think the UX is good enough for their standards. MacOS is poorly suited for touch interactions, and iPadOS is poorly suited for mouse cursor oriented interactions. 2-in-1s are just terrible UX experiences that Apple doesn’t want to be associated with.
I feel like this is weak argument these days, places like reddit.com/r/unixporn are overkill when it comes to styling a desktop environment, but a quick change to the Numix icon set and a new GTK theme makes most Linux installations with Gnome look great.
I was referring to problems we found during initial development, but I appreciate that I didn't clarify that well.
Web frontend people...

If you're ever in the position to provide a comparison of two images in a Web page like this, please consider providing a button to toggle back and forth between the two. (The toggling can also show the label for which is currently being shown.)

Neither mechanism this Web page provides is as useful as that, IMHO.
Please tell me how far back into history we have to go until the majority of news consumed by people was not from an organization owned by someone wealthy.

Hint: it’s before the printing press
Shingles vaccine seems to be protective so there's that.

https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.100...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.23.23290253v... this one has some open source peer reviews and a comment

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8627719/
I like the 12.9” iPad for reading all kinds of documents, and video. I use it most as a “computer” when I remote in to my media server. But I still can do all my work on it when traveling, despite the inconveniences.
What is the problem with using the browser on the MacBook to access content ?
Valuable results may be obtained by searching for "mediterranean diet" + dementia
As a developer/CTO who's use-case when travelling is just being able to take care of emergencies if something present itself I wanted to do away from bringing a laptop in vacation. Since I develop using Docker, my solution is basically an EC2 machine I can fire if needed that has VSCode installed as a server running in a browser with Docker installed in the same machine. Basically a cloud dev environment available in the browser.

It's amazing how it all works well, even the Docker integration inside VSCode. The main thing that doesn't work as well as locally is searching the source code which is very slow. A work-around would be to search your code separately in Github or whatever service you use.

Anyway, with this setup, I can go away with a clear mind that I have a dev machine available even if I only bring my iPad (with keyboard cover).
Lots of RAM uses more battery. Not a huge amount, but battery life is something Apple and its customers weigh more heavily. Same reason for aggressive suspending of background apps.
> `nvm`

That's mostly why!, you need to have installed something. If you don't use a build step you don't even need nodejs, your browser is your only dependency.
I'm not 100% the motivations of the founders but I'm always surprised there isn't more attempts to do this on a smaller scale, say a retirement town or resort town.

I think even for billionaires, the chicken/egg problem of "How do we get industry and smart people to move to brand new town" is not really solvable. If it was, it would also be solvable for small cities that also exist but this does not appear to be the case.

But, would love to see them just try to make the next Palm Springs or Villages. The land the bought is 30 minutes from Napa and close to SF. Maybe there's enough demand for retired school teachers who dont want to lose all connection to SF but dont mind being in the middle of nowhere as long as there are a few restaurants and tennis courts.
Love it! A simple solution to a current annoyance
Yeh but that’s a fault of FB not the EU law
You are correct, it has taken a dip recently. .011 now vs. .013 before.
The real point is that the economy is nowhere near collapsing, and by many measures doing just fine.
> basically amounts to "be healthy and happy"

That is an entailment, not a lossless summary.

There is no strong deduction from that list to the consequence in topic, and the study is a quantitative confirmation.

Again for the logical fault, there is no deduction e.g. from "happiness" to "prevention of dementia", and likewise "be healthy" is too broad.

Moreover, on the intention, a number people may not be focused on either health or happiness, while they may be interested in preserving abilities.
I Made an SVG to SwiftUI Converter
A while ago I needed to get very custom SVG into my SwiftUI app, I also needed to programmatically control it, so making it into an SF Symbol was not an option. So as every self-respecting developer, I've created an automated tool to convert SVG code into SwiftUI Shape code.

It's been several years since the first release, but I think the tool still does its' job well enough. Let me know what you think!
Elixir/Erlang often simply replaces most of what Kafka, Redis and GRPC offer.

Also, have a look at the Phoenix Framework Channels examples, as it essentially replaces most simple micro-services architectures.

This recipe book covers the common design examples:

"Designing Elixir Systems with OTP: Write Highly Scalable, Self-Healing Software with Layers" (James Edward Gray, II, Bruce A. Tate)

One day, you too may get annoyed with IT complexity, and articles mostly written by LLM chatbots.

Happy computing, =)
Again, wrong. Whether that has been done is independent of whether that is permissible, based on copyright assignment.
This is where a EU based competitor could step in and give a decent product, while still complying and benefiting the local economy
UK has an agreement with Rwanda to send refugees to Rwanda.

But the UK High Court nixed it, because
Rwanda is "not a safe country".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda_asylum_plan
> strong enough evidence

This is actually a bit subtle. For example I've heard more than one radiologist claim that if you look carefully, literally anyone's body scan will contain details that could justify work up.

The fact is, if you do this broadly in a population and you work up everything you see that would justify it, some small number of people will die or suffer serious problems from complications of follow up.

This is a fundamental problem in screening technologies (of any kind) with imperfect sensitivity. You can't get away from this, so you try and be clear that the net benefit is (much) higher.

I'm not even against the idea of baseline scans, but the idea that this part is simple is naive.
Hand-drawn sketches animated by your current time of day
It really isn’t. They are very hostile against people who has been using/abusing google/amazon/dropbox for storing insane amounts of data.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/155so84/dropbo...

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/15gf2rc/dropbo...
The problem with that sort "that's what amoral corporations do" reasoning is that corporations are permitted to exist because of the idea that they do contribute to the net public good. Once that idea is out the window, then there's no reason for society not to treat corporations as the hungry Lovecraftian nightmares they are and obliterate them with fire and steamship.
>> (absent finding a way to monopolize force yourself)

Exactly this.

Any person who wants to live a self-determined life, and have a self-determined govt must be (individually or collectively) better armed and better prepared than everyone form the wannabe local lunch bully, regional warlord, or national authoritarian. IF not, they will take your lunch and your government every time.

The GP's plan is great, but (s)he will need to start with a significant well-managed armed force. Otherwise, the local drug lord, warlord, mafia don, or authoritarian will ignore you until you create value, then decide they want it for themselves. If you cannot defend it, it will be theirs until they destroy it.
The answer is protest is an invaluable tool for a functioning democracy and if the government has the power to explicitly state which square footage of a city that people have the right to protest in, then we’ve lost the right to protest.

Police forces use unconstitutional and unlawful force all the time. Should we disband the police every time that happens? Should we force all police to leave the area in the first instance of that happening?
There's definitely a school of thought that goes "If they're gambling, then gambling must be their highest value; and they're lying if they say otherwise."

"Revealed preferences", if you want something to search for. The most obvious issue is that humans aren't utility-maximizers.
> In earlier, physical, forms of advertising such as newspapers, TV, Retail Stores etc, the same ad used to be shown to everyone so ad slots were fewer, much more expensive, and typically only big businesses could afford them.

Well, my local newspaper shows ads for family businesses, and they don't pay that much for it. I've found my local newspaper quite interesting as well, diverse in political articles, with good cultural recommendations, and generally of higher (content) quality than the ones sold nation wide.

I think your point applies to those with most eyes on them, but... The same is true in the digital age. We often give too much credit to the content we partake in. I don't think much has changed on that regard, I just think it's much more obtrusive now.
Yep. GNU dd definitely supports status=progress, at least in any modern version.

Maybe they're thinking of busybox dd?
NBJack, your point about the difficult of managing external dependencies is well taken. That said, our data pipeline uses cloud storage and multiple external services and the scenarios you're describing haven't materialized so far. We have found that we need to take extreme care in managing the logical state of the data pipeline (e.g. ensuring that we use explicit versions of external services). And we can certainly end up in trouble if external service provider violates their api contract. So I don't think this a replacement for a strong data testing regimen which is what would hopefully help us if this occurred.
I also think you can encounter these same issues if you go the dev/stage/prod route.
curious to get your thoughts.
> Then wouldn’t these be left alone ?

The problem is that you don't know which ones would never develop into anything if left alone.

The reason they're left alone now is that you don't know they're there, because you never do any test that shows them being there.

But once you do a test that shows that something is there, it's a lot harder to just leave it alone. Something is there, and you don't know that it's never going to be a problem, so you end up not leaving it alone.

If you were going to leave the thing alone anyway regardless of what the first test showed, there's no point in doing the first test at all.
that's just because the radiologists' standard for 'could justify work up' are too low
Are you saying there is battery life difference between 8gb vs 16gb MacBook too? (Since iPad Pro only comes in 8gb)
I personally think the existence of the Mac Studio and Studio Display precludes a big iMac. Especially if it’s just the same specs as the Mac Mini.

Although a big iMac that could be specced from Mx Pro to Mx Ultra might be compelling.
As I understand it that link describes a plan to use the bankruptcy of a subsidiary (NOT the main company) as a way to resolve the court cases in one go. The subsidiary is funded with enough money to pay the expected settlements (with the parent company guaranteeing any shortfalls) and bankruptcy is used here as a legal tool rather than a "we are out of money" point. Matt Levine had a great section about this in his newsletter but I cannot find an un-paywalled link to that atm. It's the one from Jan 31 if you are subscribed.

According to their latest annual report (https://www.investor.jnj.com/asm/2022-annual-report, page 45), they had some 14.4 billion in "cash and cash equivalents" at the start of this year. Their net debt position was 16.1 billion on Jan 1 2023 (page 46 of the same report), up from 2.1 billion the year before due to an acquisition so there is likely quite some room to take on additional debt. Total net earnings for 2022 were just below 18 billion. Paying a 9 billion USD settlement will be painful for sure, but even double that would be just a single years' worth of profit. J&J is extremely likely to survive this problem IMO.
Please show me any meaningful large protest in history that did not take place on a roadway
Reboot(2) – reboot or enable/disable Ctrl-Alt-Del
It's been a while but many years ago I was able to boot NetBSD kernels using the FreeBSD bootloader. The goal at the time was having both NetBSD and FreeBSD kernels on bootable USB stick, without GRUB.
I'm excited for the expansion, and also for weekly Friday Facts again, yay! Those are a great mix of interesting technical content, and hype building
It's interesting, because it's essentially the same exact discussion as traditional copyrights (e.g. for books). The only difference is that book authors are generally not giving away their books for free on their personal website. Copyrights are the attempt to protect the business model of authors who want to sell copies of something that are otherwise extremely easy and cheap to copy. Attempts to legally limit web scraping are an attempt to protect the business of model of creators who want to give away for free copies of things that are easy and cheap to copy, but only we come directly to the creator to get our free copy.
I want to consume content that was made by people who simply want to make that content for the sake of sharing information.

I don’t care if content that is made by people that only make content to make money is pay walled. They can have their 10:01 long YouTube videos and recipes with a preamble of their life story behind a paywall. Sounds good to me.
"Hello AWS, why is there this subnet and who added it?"

I'm seriously curious how is asking a chatbot better than looking at a well designed diagram...
Maybe it needs a connection and not all flights have that?
I had to deal with this problem in our product, which has a visual programming language. I opted to throw an exception if, for whatever reason, "all()" receives an empty list! I had forgotten I'd done that. There's no explanation for it in the code.

As I sit here justifying my own reasoning, though, it sort of makes sense. For ordinary people (for whom this product is supposed to be for), I figure if they put in nothing, that was probably just a mistake.
Not the same but some people have experimented with C60 spheres. Apparently it is either very good or it increases ROS reactive oxygen species depending on who you ask and how it is prepared
Same here - same phone & OS - Moto x4, Android 9. I'd love to believe it's an innocuous mis-released test notification, but this would be the first time in all my years of having android devices I've seen one; seems like a bit of a red flag to me . . .
It helps to think in terms of `any` first:

any([], predicate) => false

This is plainly obvious, because it is illogical to say "the predicate is true for at least one member of the empty set".

If we can agree on that, then all([], predicate) must be true, because the complement of all(list, predicate) is any(list, predicate')

The naive assumption is that the complement of all(list, p) is all(list, p'), but this is demonstrably false, because in the case of an empty list: all([], e => e) and all([], e => !e) would both return the same value.

> [[], [true], [false]].map(s => s.every(e => e) == !s.every(e => !e))
[ false, true, true ]

Instead, its proper complement is any(list, p'), which means that all(list, p) = !any(list, p')

> [[], [true], [false]].map(s => s.every(e => e) == !s.some(e => !e))
[ true, true, true ]

So, for all([], p) to be false, any([], p') would have to be true, which makes even less sense than all([], p) => true.
> Is there a world where advertisement is, um, just simply good?

I think there can be. The fundamental idea of advertising is certainly a win-win sort of deal: informing people of products and services they may not be aware of.

But most advertising is not that. Most of it is not informative or useful for making purchase decisions, most of it is manipulative to the extreme, and a lot of it relies on surveilling people without their consent. That sort of advertising isn't anything I can support.
>Does http2 solve waterfall imports?

It used to, but browsers ruined it because they didn't want to help improve caching support
Agreed. You want to be able to do a blink comparison. The animation is just a distraction.

That said, a bigger problem is that, without having read your comment here, I doubt I would have noticed there was an option to see changes in the image, and I certainly wouldn't have poked at it hard enough to discover their were multiple affordances available.
My mother in law was refused a liver transplant because she refused to stop drinking.

There are only so many donors and demand far exceeds the supply.

I'm sorry that both this person and my mother in law have passed but I also accept that precious donor organs are going to go to recipients with the best prospects for long term recovery.

My mother in law chose to drink rather than receive a transplant, this person chose her political convictions over a transplant. They were both adults who made the best choices they saw fit to make. Even though I see both as preposterous I respect thier convictions/addictions.

I see no issue here and we should move on rather than try to make hay out of this.
Backblaze Raises Prices, Makes Extended Version History Standard
Replacing code whose license you don't want is definitely a fair-and-square way to manage a project and change the overall terms under which you can distribute it. (As it happens, that tactic is often essential to efforts to open-source formerly proprietary projects, too.)
I don’t have the answers, but it’s a for profit company. Until they can show otherwise, there’s no reason to believe it’s anything but PR. They currently can’t show anything except transit. Nothing for life support for a human to survive a trip to Mars orbit let alone a colonization mission. They haven’t shown their claims to be viable at all. Musk’s claims to using SpaceX to colonize Mars have as much evidence backing them as his claims to using The Boring Company to build a hyperloop: none.
It is doing what it was programmed to do:

https://youtu.be/Ag1AKIl_2GM?t=57

Sadly, this kind of user-hostile behavior is increasingly common and a form of enshitification (see https://doctorow.medium.com/tiktoks-enshittification-bb3f5df...) of the operating system.
I'm seeing a different title, copy paste error?

> I always knew powerful people had blind spots – now neuroscience has proved it
To add: Quebec police infiltrated a peaceful protest while wearing face masks and carrying rocks. In this case the protestors picked up the ruse and kicked them out. Of course they claim they weren't trying to instigate anything.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/quebec-police-admit-they-went...
I think that's not just a nitpick - it's a misuse of the word. "Opt-in by default" should just say "opt-out". You can see the same misunderstanding, I think, in the strapline of the article.
https://www.terratag.io/ is by env0, one of the OpenTF sponsors.

I also encourage you to take a look at the Sponsor badge on our (Spacelift's) profile. Whenever a possibility exists, we give back to the projects we use. We tried the same with Hashi, too.

Re: trusting us over Hashi. DON'T. If there are any lessons learned from the great Hashi bait-and-switch trick it's that for-profit companies should not be trusted as the guardians of open source.

Trust the foundation that takes over the project. Trust the cash we'll endow it with.