skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can just give them some nonsense like user: test and password:test and they'll go groan, ok, you don't have an MSA, let's set up a local account...

Still user hostile nonsense, but can be worked around. I think a part of the reason they're pushing it is that it makes a lot of the OS able to work in pretty slick ways - you can just get your files syncing right away, your tasks and notes apps are logged in instantly. Browser, same thing, bam all bookmarks etc. are there, Mail and Calendar automatically get your stuff. It's that Apple style smoothness that people go gaga over.
That's another way to do it but I can see at least a couple of downsides:

1, the easy one: there might be more that one inflected form (gendered) in the UI and it could be tedious for the user to select all of them. Of course by choosing one we can automatically set the others.

2, the substantial one: strictly speaking the users don't tell us about their gender but there are strong hints about what they are, given the statistics of the general population and the name they gave us. I'm not sure how the Privacy Authority of a EU country would look at that but IANAL.

Furthermore we're starting to make our app enter the rabbit hole of non binary gender identities and to handle that we would have spend more time and money for maybe no reason.

I give an example that covers all those points:

Of my current customers one is running a service for which they are mandated to collect personal data. They must know the official gender as in the official ID documents of the country. Anything more than that could be nice but it is not necessary and would be probably unexpected by users, maybe even looked at suspiciously.

Another customer is running a B2B service. They need only a username and the company email of the users. If they want to welcome them with Benvenuto/a, Bienvenido/a, Bienvenu/ue they would have to ask for a bit of personal data that could put them needlessly into the scope of GDPR.
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> I dont understand this free markets thing

It’s dog whistling for the rentiers.

It doesn’t actually exist in the shape that people often think it does. People really think that it’s all about non-government interference within the markets but after 08 and the bajilion other once in a lifetime market meltdowns, I don’t know how anyone can say that this fairytale version of the free market exists.

It doesn’t exist and if you’re working class and you think it does you aren’t serving yourself.

The free market is one that is free from economic rent.
> The tooling makes XML fun.

High praise indeed.
Same here. I would have expected the OR an IN versions to generate the same query plan, it's seems like low hanging fruit for the query optimizer.
This also means you have to agree to their ToS
I hadn't thought of getting possibly locked out of Discord for something so stupid. I have so much going on in there as far as dev comms... That makes me nervous now. Is there a way to export anything just in case?
>Trump represents republicans

Maybe don’t have racist genocidal stances then?

Trump wasn’t banned for being a republican. He was banned, ultimately, for Jan 6.

In reality, Trump broke all those platforms rules on several occasions and was given a free pass till he tried to steal an election. He’s actually the poster boy for the fact that republicans get MORE leeway on social platforms, not less.
I have an addiction to Twitter, but I am the first to admit that top-quality tweets are one in a million in my timeline.
The big advantage is that I follow so many different kind of people at once that there is a HUGE diversity of infos.

On the contrary, I follow very specific topics on Reddit. And as far as I am concerned, the quality of info is top-level, and the signal/noise ratio is VERY good.

Regarding Facebook, I mostly only follow [dedicated] groups now. And once again, the signal/noise ratio is much better.

Conclusion: apart from Twitter, social media are all back to being fancy Usenet clones :)
For a tool tooting its own horn with claims like the one below, the lack of vagrant support is glaring.

> No matter the use case, OrbStack has you covered with features that simplify your workflow and help you move faster.
Kubernetes for small and medium businesses is extremely inefficient. I definitely wouldn't want to be dealing with that at this stage of my business's growth.
I think what would be amazing would be if one day it is possible to run macOS on an Apple Silicon iPad. This seems like it would be something that many people would want, so I guess there are technical issues preventing this. In another thread, the absence of JIT support has been mentioned for example.
It's worth noting that this convention is also applicable in Francophone African countries, but not in Quebec.
Yeah but who's in the crowd?

It used to be my friends. Now it's a bunch of **s trying to piss me off for engagement clicks, or scam me.

I feel worst for the vulnerable - older or less cynical people, who get caught in the layers and layers of bullshit that constitute the poisoned well. There are people who live and die warped by it.
I’ll never forget the day that there was pizza available on the 10th floor of corporate headquarters and an email sent to thousands of employees who do not work at headquarters.
There's an established pattern for this, which is to provide users with a choice of:

Sort order:
- By First Name
- By Last Name

Display order:
- First, Last
- Last, First

Obviously, users can input names in a multitude of ways. But the convention is to offer at least two distinct fields, "First name" and "Last name". The sort order determines if the items are ordered by first name or last name. And the display order determines if the full name for each item is displayed as First name and then or last name, or the other way around.

And finally, set a default based by the user's locale and region.
The GOV.UK design system[1] agrees with you:

> "Use single or multiple fields depending on your user’s needs. Not everyone’s name fits the first-name, last-name format. Using multiple name fields mean there’s more risk that a person’s name will not fit the format you’ve chosen and that it is entered incorrectly."

and

> "Avoid asking users for their title. It’s extra work for them and you’re asking them to potentially reveal their gender and marital status, which they may not want to do."

and

> "If your service stores personal information, you should allow users to update their details, including their name. Allowing users to change their name helps your service respect their personal identity. It also means they can continue using your service without having to start over. People change their name for many reasons. For example, because of a change in marital status, family situation or gender. Avoid making it hard for users to change their name. As well as causing them distress, it may make them reluctant to use your service."

[1] https://design-system.service.gov.uk/patterns/names/
Not the OP, but I suspect HN has trimmed the anchor link.

> https://github.com/opentffoundation/roadmap/issues/24#issuec...

That's the comment that made the issue clear -- specifically TOS were amended for https://registry.terraform.io to state:

> You may download providers, modules, policy libraries and/or other Services or Content from this website __solely for use with, or in support of, HashiCorp Terraform.__

ie., it looks like the intent is "You can't use OpenTF with registry.terraform.io".

IMO, that feels a little petty. But, I guess if OpenTF is taking a position of "Use us instead of Terraform", then they shouldn't expect to get the usage of Hashicorps infra.
I think this is an eternal cycle. Maybe related to what has been called "enshittification", but not the same:

Users will flock to a platform, make it their own. The platform will grow. Then the advertisers, professionals, and hucksters will swoop in, do their thing, and slowly overshadow the old "normal" users. Then old users will leave, leaving a wasteland of ads and glossy shiny.

I'd like to call it "glossification".
Also,

>Words mean things, and sometimes, those meanings aren't up for debate.

Wittgenstein would like a word (heh).
I love UTM.

It works great for my needs. I mostly develop infrastructure automation and configuration tooling and I run all my VMs in terminal mode. The wide availability of arm64 distros and OSes makes this easy.

I also use it to run a tiny pi hole instance when I'm traveling.
I was fine with the review, even though the film was panned by an insider as being quite inaccurate [0], but this got to me:

> Of course, Research in Motion imploded spectacularly… Blackberry went from controlling over 50% to now controlling 0% of the cellphone market, Alberta’s oil industry has been destroyed by a decade-plus of willful misgovernance, and Canada’s long national suicide continues even as it’s doctors encourage it’s citizens to opt for physician-assisted suicide rather than burden the system with their depression, homelessness, or wounds sustained in their country’s wars…

Really? That much self-hate? Then stop voting in governments full of shallow, vapid people based on how they look, or how much money they give away. People deserve the governments they elect.

[0] https://nationalpost.com/opinion/dennis-kavelman-i-was-a-lon...
Simply not true https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/social-media-news/t...
If it's such a jam for tall people just to get their "legs in the area of the seat", how are they managing to put their feet - not legs - against the back of the seat in front? Curled up basically lying on their back?

No, it isn't tall people, as I already said.
The tech giants often don't account for EU customs, let alone non-Western ones.

Instead I would look at how the relevant governments handle it, if they have something like the UK's component catalog.
It seems that's specific to image codecs? If so, it's incredible to see them add a feature like that so much later and fail to make it generic.

One of the nice things about datatypes is that the app asks for an instance of the overall type of data it cares about that matches the given file, and gets back a subclass, but anyone can implement new base types for people to subclass, or you can augment an existing class with additional functionality.

As a result there are datatypes for syntax highlighting, viewing binary files, images, sound, animations, video, viewing directory listings etc, and ,ore.
> But because API changes bring privacy and security improvements, scummy software used old compilation targets to abuse backwards compatibility to avoid complying with privacy and security practices.

Though unfortunately from time to time they also do break power user use cases…
"If everyone would just stop replying, this would end! Why are you all still hitting reply all?!"

-latest reply all on every reply-all storm.

In my early days at Amazon, around 2012-2015, this would happen frequently enough [0]. I pretty quickly learned the best thing to do was to ignore the conversation and never think about it again rather than try to 'help'.

[0] - too many new products and orgs set up new mailing lists with 5000+ people on it, most of whom had no idea what it was. Growing pains.
I was talking about a full OS, macOS. Not the sealed and sandboxed iOS that you are trying to shift the focus to.

Please, name me one, just one, software that I should want to run on macOS but can't?

> Let’s not delude ourselves to thinking that two of the richest tech companies in the world are all that different. Both are working against your interests to monopolize their turf.

I never said they were. All I was talking about is free choice of browsers, which I have on macOS.
Sure but the objections Greenpeace has historically had with nuclear power have very little to do with how much it does or doesn't cost.
The space you embed it into might
Sadly, software companies are increasingly asking themselves: Por que no los dos? Why not have you pay AND be the product for advertisers at the same time?
As far Storage has become very cheap at grid scale e.g. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-12/is-renewable-power-ch...

This is an older article. As far as I understand this is even more in favor of green energy now.
How is this not the same? It sounds exactly like I understand enshittification. Literally:

> First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

(Source: https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/)

Do you mean that the context here is not user/business, but personal/curated?
You really have to wonder what YouTube are doing. Trying to play catch up with TikTok instead of innovating with what they have.

They’ve had transcriptions for ages - but it’s hidden away and practically useless.

The things they could do with a bit of creative thinking…
That would be how outsiders see those who don't shirk the extra work that goes into building their own infrastructure to escape the merchants of convenience.
The first time I tried Ruby was before Rails and I was quite astonished how much easier/more consistent it was to use than e.g. Perl. At that point I (and probably most people) considered it a scripting language, and used it for toying around and backup scripts. Eventually I also did Web development with it. It turned out Ruby's package management was quite hard to tame. Maybe not even more difficult than Python's today but at the time there was no RVM or any other virtualenv equivalent. (Or for that matter people who wrote their own.) Then after 1.8.7 there was the quite buggy and incompatible 1.9 which took away momentum, worsened the packaging situation to the point that 2 year old projects wouldn't work any more. (Some gems even disappeared!) I think that pretty much killed it.

FWIW Ruby's FFI is pretty advanced and when you interface it from C it feels like duck typed C. Also back then I struggled writing a hello world in Python, so I think it's bad luck. On the other hand I think the Ruby community changed Software development quite a lot, making it more welcoming and defining how Web development should be done.
How do they calculate CO2 from logging? Hopefully they don't assume the entire tree ends up in the atmosphere. Or does it?
Without medication, I feel much less in control of my mind. It's like I'm in a mind-fog; every long-term thought is blurry and vague so everything tends to become about the short-term. I know that eating this sugary garbage is bad for me but the immediate dopamine gratification massively outweighs that knowledge. Same with tasks I know I need to complete. I know that doing them is the correct thing to do and that procrastinating on them will not be beneficial for me overall, but I just can't "see" that future in my mind.

I don't think this is caused by my environment. Feeling like you are unable to think a clear thought is not because clear thoughts conform with modern society's ideas of a highly productive an obedient individual. For me it's simply a feeling of not being a whole human. Medication addresses this to a very significant degree, although it's by no means a complete fix.

I also use glasses, and I find similarities there. Without them my eyesight is blurry and I cannot see things beyond a very short distance. Are glasses simply producing normative behavior that conforms with modern society's idea of a highly productive and obedient individual? Is it really the environment that is causing me to think of bad eyesight as an issue to be addressed? Obviously not; being able to see clearly is something you want regardless of environment. I think that the same applies to being able to think clearly.
I as an example have 2 passports, and my name is first middle1 middle2 last.

One of my passports has my name like that, the other is first middle1 last, so even between passports its not the same, as one of them drops one of my middle names.
One issue for me (maybe it's my ADHD) is that there is almost TOO much content. I can't decide what to read. I have so many tabs of blog posts and such that look interesting that I never get around to. There is plenty of interesting content. More than ever before.
For sufficiently high volume services where loads can be uneven, we had a lot of success with thermostat adaptive balancing. The backend node reports how hot it is to the LB and gets a relative weight. If it can take more connections, it raises its relative weight, as it takes on more load, it lowers its relative weight.

This worked well on a fleet of a couple thousand servers handling thousands of requests per second each. I can't recall why, but lower volume and few servers caused uneven load, and we went back to least connections for those clusters.
Why?
I haven't ever used the iOS store, but having a git repo should befar better as an option so you can verify that it is made properly, and not infected with a little extra tracking and such whenever it's added to the iOS store.
Google for Microsoft REST API Guidelines. You'll find some links in azure and on github.

Okta is good reference too on sensible usage of JWT.

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I took a 2 year break from Facebook. It just got to be too much. I just rejoined, as kids' schools send messaging and announcements regularly there and other groups of local interest use it to coordinate. Outside of that, no one is posting anything but meme reshares that echo 1990s email forwards.
Spotify once had a very similar issue which actually allowed hijacking of other accounts.

https://engineering.atspotify.com/2013/06/creative-usernames...
The tide is turning from the moronic stance of maximum efficiency for the consumer over all other considerations. I think what will really precipitate it is if the US and China enter a hot conflict and some company like NVIDIA continues to do business in China. It happened before with Alcoa not only slowing the buildup of US artillery but also providing the Nazis with the necessary materials before the government stepped in (1). The heads of the US military have already identified monopoly as a national defence issue

1. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/28/wall-street-world-war-i...
The number of users is a different metric than amount of (interesting) content created by those users.
What baffles me is the fact that people are poor in the US and Canada despite getting paid 100k/year. Like, wtf? Where are you spending everything?
>use-taxes are incredibly effective methods of placing the cost with usage of a shared resource.

But road wear simply is not proportional to gas use. If you double a vehicle's weight, its gas usage will almost certainly less than double (this depends somewhat on driving patterns, but air resistance is generally a significant factor in mileage), while the road wear it causes will increase by roughly a factor of 8. A flat tax on gas can't possibly internalize the costs of road wear, though it could internalize the costs of CO2 emissions, which are actually proportional to use.
From the perspective of those who would deny them? Absolutely.
Their problem is their main partner is Toyota, and Toyota basically has the stance that they want to do hybrid to maximize the benefits of a constrained lithium supply (ie better to have more hybrids on the road than a smaller number of EVs). Subaru is too small to create EVs on their own at an economically competitive scale. Until Toyota has EVs in large numbers or Subaru finds a new partner, Subaru will not have access.
What happened to Expert Sexchange btw? Did they rebrand? Got bought by Stack Overflow?
I'd learn how to model the thing and 3D print it (if it's solid). Not that expensive.
Ports are not a good monitor identifier, as they can be dynamic and seemingly non-deterministic when you start to involve hubs, docks and muxes, and having a monitor change identifier because you used USB port 1 instead of port 3 for your dock is not particularly helpful.

In the Linux world, stable identifiers are made from a combination of product name and serial number.
> It may take a while to get from GPT-3 to Microsoft Middle Manager 2.0. But the path is clear now.

Is there a way you could make the path clear to me too? I just don't get it. Sure, I can imagine in principle it's possible. But I don't see how you can already see it's certain. Is there something you can share that will allow me to see why it's certain?
An the US reacted to 9/11 with a bunch of law changes among other things. A large event had an impact.

Honestly, I don't see what you are trying to point out?
> Also pretty sure they mean "political" and not "regional" middle East, so Israel wouldn't be banned.

I am not sure there is a clear definition of that. But yes for some reason Israel and Turkia compete in Eurovision while Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt while these are also members of the UER.

Sounds to me like the definition is more about the religion and language than political.|

Having said that I checked again and Israel is not Middle-East, nor is Middle-East a real geographical area. For example according to wikipedia Egypt and Turkey are considered middle-east while Israel/Jordan/Syria/Lebanon are considered West Asia. Despite the fact that Egypt is more in the West than these 4 countries.

We also make a strange distinction between Central-Asia and Middle-East which semantically should mean the same thing.

All this to say that the title of the article and the umbrella word "Middle-East" should stop being used and governments as well as news outlets should be more specific.
Enshittification ensues on platforms/services with a captive audience - whether it is due to network effects, switching costs or retraining costs. It is especially prevalent where there is a growth imperative followed by a profitability imperative (e.g. VC funded companies which first need to grow to get funded and then need to secure an exit).

Usually a restaurant neither has a captive audience nor a growth imperative (unless it is a PE-owned chain restaurant).
Aye, logically it could be, but Elon lies and it is false.
That's why I laugh when I see they want to charge a subscription for this. It's easy enough for any competent developer to take available open source tools and crank out something to meet their needs in an afternoon.

Before UTM came out I was using xhyve with a little custom scripting. Not a solution for the masses but good enough for me.
Not OP, but multiple monitors don’t work well for me. Primarily due to ergonomic issues, but probably also because I don’t really multitask.
There are a number of reasons. One big one is that a lot of content is now generated by professional outfits.

Why would you post something you’ve made yourself when you are competing with big budget production companies or well funded creative marketing teams?
It’s not advertisers that keeps users from posting. Plenty of people doom scroll on Facebook and instagram. ads hasn’t scared users away all that much.

It’s that the platforms have been invaded by professionals coupled with an expanded “suggested for you” posts with a little bit of platforms pushing users to grow their graphs endlessly.

This creates a combination where posting isn’t really for your friends, it’s for everyone and do you really want to share with everyone? While at the same time the platforms are pushing towards being a content delivery platform and not a content creation platform.
Circles was a great idea. But not really good enough. I'd have liked an "ignore" circle, like banning users on other platforms, just quietly, like the shadowbans some implement on a personal feed level.

Also, Circles was the only good thing about Google+. The rest was average to bad, and the forced integration into all kinds of Google services, the forced realnames, and the lack of third-party integrations killed any kind of goodwill/benefit-of-doubt anyone might have had.