skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a very specific and weird kind of monopoly enabled not by being the only meaningful competitor but by being the trusted intermediary everyone else uses. As the operator of a centralized communication network the monopoly is on your ability to contact friends who choose to use their services. In other words, the network effect. While you and your friends can use other services, that still requires you all agree on not just leaving one service, but moving to another service.

This might sound like a contrived example, but a significant portion of my extended family uses Facebook and only Facebook to communicate as a group. Since I have zero desire to see any more of my data fly up Mark Zuckerberg's asshole, I very rarely use Facebook, and as a result I am practically dead to a good chunk of my extended family. If I do want to contact them, it is on Mark's terms: I must use his client software, which contains as much spyware as Apple and Google will allow. There is no negotiation, just a choice between capitulation or detachment.

The reason why I consider this to be a monopoly is the same reason why I consider, say, Comcast or the United States government to be monopolies. Technically speaking, there are alternatives to cable companies and your national government, but to access them, you need to move, subject yourself to immigration formalities, etc. Messaging apps work the same way. Look at how many people are continuing to stay on Twitter despite Elon Musk radically changing the functionality and political editorialization of the site to be complete garbage. Even mechanically identical services like Threads, Bluesky, or Mastodon have yet to eclipse it because there is no interoperability between them and Twitter[0].

[0] FWIW literally every Mastodon instance I federate with already blocks Threads despite federation merely being a planned feature that doesn't even exist yet. The reasoning behind that is... complicated.
Yeah, if its for photography obviously its a non-issue. I just take issue with the notion that the average user is a photographer for whom such a permanent physical reality is acceptable. Most people don't need their pictures to be "that good" that it justifies the several hundred extra g of weight and awkward physical format required to meet those demands.
Abu Ghraib was covered extensively by the media.
That just gave me PTSD. System C is terrible.
I was thinking same, had hobby project where I did uploaded csv to DuckDb and then I use generate queries with chatgpt but building sematic layer top op duckdb sound much better.
if this is true, then would it be a better investment to have the 2nd team produce a fuzz testing/systematic testing mechanism instead of producing a secondary copy of the same system?

In fact, make it adversarial testing such that this team is rewarded (may be financially) if mistakes or problems are found from the 1st team's program.
Just put e. coli in an ultracentrifuge and do a few hundred generations of serial passaging and see what evolves, for starters. You could do this pretty cheaply without waiting decades or killing mammals. Apparently e. coli can proliferate happily at almost half a million g... https://phys.org/news/2011-04-bacteria-extreme-gravity.html#....
It's deeper than that. You can't have advanced communications without gleaning the information needed to form a 3D image.

To get maximum data throughput, modern communications systems measure how the channel (ie. environment) changes the radio signals and then reverses those changes in the receiver. (search term: channel estimation). So it's inherent that a modern communications system is modelling its environment. A primary way communications systems become better is to increase the sophistication of their environment model.

Once the model becomes sophisticated enough, the only difference between a radar and a communication system is which information you choose to extract: the information the environment imprinted/modulated on the radio signal/carrier (ie. the model of the environment) or the information the transmitter imprinted/modulated on the radio signal/carrier (ie. the message). The first is radar, the second is communications. There is no technical reason why you can't extract both.
> It is expected to enter the Moon's orbit within four months. It will then spend a month circling the Moon before attempting a landing in February.

It doesn't usually take that long, does it? Are they just taking a bunch of satellite imagery while in orbit / transit?
> Intergated 5G Modem. Apple should have a 4G/5G only modem ( Not even 3G ) on MacBook to test out all quirks before it is even used on iPhone.

Please no, in any laptop. Mobile networks evolve faster than the computing hardware, and 5G (as well as 3G and 4G) is somewhat meaningless as 3G/4G/5G operate on different bands on different frequencies in different countries which means laptops will become region locked again.

Over the last 12 years, laptop mobile modems have morphed from ugly PCMCIA extension cards through USB dongles through to portable WiFi enabled mobile devices (MiFi devices), 3G has seen a nearly full demise, 4G is nearing one whereas the laptop from 12 years ago can still work irrespective of the mobile network evolution.

The MiFi devices seems to be the sweet spot as they decouple the laptop from the mobile network technology, are cheaper and easier to upgrade and also come with an added benefit of allowing multiple devices to connect to the mobile network which results in a better mobile network capacity utilisation as opoposed to each device requiring a separate capacity slot.
Meet a guy who started farming 3 years ago and is now night farming...

Gee I wonder why they did not interview legacy farmers...
You might be amused to know that Neopets still has dismal security 20 years later. Autobuyers are alive and well, to the point that the entire virtual economy is shaped around a handful of exorbitantly wealthy users who snipe and hoard valuable items.

There's also at least one grey hat (reddit user u/neo_truths) who's been able to get into Neopets' databases and expose how broken the site is and how much cheating runs rampant... real interesting stuff.

EDIT: Here's a fun example. Ancient bug where items above a certain rarity level weren't available in NPC shops, despite Neopets' staff insisting that they were... turns out r100s were in fact buyable, but not visible, so the only way to snag one was to figure out the exact URL for the item as it was generated.

https://www.reddit.com/r/neopets/comments/npzffe/restocking_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/neopets/comments/nu4k5o/r100_restoc...
> We very much do "look up" and have been for decades.

In case you didn't pick it up, Don't Look Up is a callout to a recent movie [1]. I imagine that in this context it's more of a comment on the appetite of the population at large to undergo the temporary inconvenience of proactively taking the power-grid, and thus the vulnerable transformers, offline prior to the arrival of the event. We know the scientists will be looking up; it's the convincing of the population at large via a capitalist captured media that's the hard part.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Look_Up
I'm sure they thought about this at some point. Airports already have a country-code prefix. (For example, airports in the Continental US always start with K.)

For whatever reason, by convention navaids never use a country prefix. Even when it would make sense - the code for San Francisco International Airport is "KSFO", but the identifier for the colocated VOR-DME is just "SFO". (Sometimes this does make a big difference, when navaids are located off site - KCCR vs CCR for Concord Airport vs the off-site Concord VOR-DME, for example.)

It's even worse for NDB navaids, which are often just two letters.

Either way, we're stuck with it because it's baked into aircraft avionics and would be incredibly expensive to change at this point.
Yep. Amazon bought MGM Holdings in March, 2022. The studio is the only meaningful portion of that.

They’re no longer considered a major U.S. studio but they release 8-10 films a year.
Microsoft is using React Native for Windows [0] for their Office applications [1]. As a fan of RN this would be the first avenue I’d explore if I had to develop something for Windows.

[0] https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/
[1] https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/resources-s...
> Was parent unsuspecting?

I really don't know. You don't get Testing at the cost of "a little" instability. You get it at the cost of things eventually breaking in an update, and you having to sort it out on your own. It's a failure mode quite unique to it, and nobody mentioned anything about this. So yeah, I don't get any reason to believe either way. (Also, Unstable isn't supposed to have this one failure mode, but it's supposed to have partial failures way more often. That fits the mental model of "instability" for most people much better than Testing.)

But then, the alternative people are talking about is Ubuntu. Ubuntu breaks much more often than Debian Testing... Up to the point where people don't upgrade it carelessly, so they experience a more stable system. So again, I don't know. IMO, it was worth at least putting a warning there.
Was it indium antimonide?
Researchers show multiple sclerosis drug can be used as Alzheimer's therapy
WinUI 3
What won't be mentioned is if that "shadowy hacker collective" is the NSA.
Shitty IOT devices are too small to use openssl anyway. The big ones are updated with their stack.
We started upgrading our stack about half a year ago, and 3.x should be ready now for the next release.

The biggest change were outdated RC4, which was a good thing to get rid of this cruft
Google Meets has captions with translation already: https://support.google.com/meet/answer/10964115

Haven't used this feature yet so can't speak to accuracy/usability.
Eastern Libya authorities say 2k dead in flood, thousands missing
> Don’t see why it isn’t worth their time.
Anyway, what isn’t they are so busy doing? It’s definitely not arresting shoplifters, fare evaders, public deficaters, or those that engage in aggressive solicitation.

The DA won’t prosecute any of those crimes unless it is large enough to be I the news and then it’ll be thought about.
It's a shame that, unlike with Win32, using WinUI places pretty harsh restrictions on which programming languages and environments you can use. Only C# and C++ are supported, the latter only with Microsoft compilers. For everything else, including Rust[1], Python and MinGW C/C++, there is no answer for OP's question, and the effect of this on the visual consistency of the Windows desktop is obvious - there is none. Every third-party app uses a different toolkit with a different look and feel, because the library providing the standard look and feel simply isn't available to the majority of developers.

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/1836
yes, and i believe we've already seen them relent a bit with the newer chassis with ports other than USB-C. i honestly doubt Apple will ever go back to user serviceable anything unless they are forced to like tomorrow's suspected USB-C iPhone due to EU legislation. their RAM is now part of the CPU die, so the chances of a user upgrading that are slim and none, and slim just left town. other than the SSD, there's not much left to upgrade. external USB-C SSDs are so cheap and fast now, that i'm much happier plugging in bus powered something instead of upgrading the internal. the internal can stay the OS, apps/docs, and maybe frequently used media, but everything else can stay on externals.

i'm also have been around the sun too many times to fixate on the constant tinkering/upgrading of components. been there, done that, got the experience. now, i just want the damn machine to work. i'm well past getting the hardware, but fighting for days/weeks on getting some niche piece of hardware to work. not begrudging anyone that enjoys that, but i'm well past it.
I'm not sure about that.

I think that for teaching, you can go too far and eliminated too much friction. In python in particular, there's all this type stuff going on under the hood that's absolutely critical in understanding what the output of your program is going to be, but nowhere in that program is it explicit what that type information is.

It's easy enough to keep track of that in your head once you've mastered the concept, but for a true beginner, I think

int x = console.nextInt();
String operation = console.next();
int y = console.nextInt();

is probably better suited for helping you get your bearings than having to figure out why you have to cast x and y after doing

x, operation, y = input().split()
Think it's more to do with efficiency / eco reasons that it takes 4 hours. It soaks the dishes then turns off and waits, and does this multiple times. This minimizes the actual amount of work needed.

It's not spraying continuously like an older dishwasher might.
Ask HN: Making 2d Simple Animations?
Are there any quick methods to making 2d stick figure type animations with voice overs?

I was hoping to find something faster than using adobe animate. Maybe something like Runways Gen-2 for simple animation?
three components: a rule, a cause, and an effect.

The example i gave is deductive. i.e divining the effect from rule and cause. The rule is the definition of the podition, the cause is that a computer is small enough to fit a podium and the effect is that a computer is a podition.

Induction is divining the rule from the cause and effect. It can definitely fail. There could be exceptions to the general rule that aren't captured in observation. It is the basis of experimental science.

abduction is divining the cause from the rule and effect.

i.e When it rains, the grass gets wet (rule). The grass is wet (effect). Therefore, I predict that it just rained (cause).

Both induction and abduction deal with probable statements. Only deduction is guaranteed to be true (provided the rule and cause are true)
The element picker is wonderful and I use it a lot especially on my phone but the part that reimplemented uMatrix is a huge and inexplicable regression.
The best approach is to simply print the error to the screen, rather than burying it in a “low level log” which only the software vendor has access to.

They had a four hour buffer until the world stopped, but most of that was pissed away because no one knew what the problem was.
>Aktiia Bracelet G1 has been CE-marked under the Medical Device Regulation (EU)2017/745 as a class IIa medical device.

I'm not trying to embarass you, I was just genuinely curious if you had any special knowledge.
It's their style. https://n-o-d-e.net/
While I grant you the upgradability argument. From a practical perspective, I see iPhones and MacBooks being used for a way longer time than windows laptops or android phones. Part of that is being more expensive but I don't think that is the whole story. I suspect the M1/M2 will prolong the lifespan of the MacBook even more.
It runs on my mid range phone at 36fps. Did not expect that.

Lots of artefacts though, especially if I move the camera.
What choice do manufacturers have? Apple won't let them license iOS. Microsoft won't let them license Windows Phone/Windows Mobile and anyway Microsoft sabotaged that. Blackberry X wasn't licensable either. KaiOS is Android underneath and less capable on top. Samsung has gobs of money and couldn't make Tizen work. Amazon Fire Phone was a joke in the market (although the hardware was nice).

If you want to make and sell phones and you're not Apple, Android is it, take it or leave it, for better or worse.
My thoughts on Bun and other Adventures
Guitar hero-like augmented reality app to help you play piano
So 1gb of ram in the raspberry pi costs about $5. $200 would buy 40 gigs if they had that option. For $200 apple gives you 8gb.
I now see that eyeballing the first and/or last few characters of a checksum is not going to detect a skillfully altered executable or ISO.
I was in London recently, and I noticed that there weren't too many vehicles, and even though roads had only one or two lanes per direction, there wasn't any traffic in the city center. I asked some locals why that was, and they said that the tube from the suburbs was fast and frequent, and it was expensive to bring your car into the city.
I hope the streets of NY will calm down, and then they can even start closing lanes and turning them into larger sideways, bike lanes, or trees.
Wouldn't trim be an number of which a significant tolerance is permissible at any given time? Or does "agree" mean "within a preset tolerance"?
We've been "close" to AGI for like 40+ years.
The (smaller) question is the area of the smallest triangle defined by the set of points.

Then, above that, there's the question of which set of points defines the largest smallest triangle.

Adding points to the set can only ever shrink the size of the smallest triangle that the set defines. So if you're free to add or remove points, you will always maximize the size of the smallest triangle by going all the way down to three points. At that point, you can't remove any more, but you're still free to rearrange them, so you're asking the question "what is the largest triangle that can be inscribed in a square?".

Why did you respond to me? What did you think you were saying?
This looks like the perfect definition of “a man with two watches is always confused of the time”
OK, so the SHA1-prefixed API lookup is really cool... but I wonder if it's going to encourage sysadmins to start storing unsalted passwords so they can intermittently check whether the password is still secure.
I take issue with the notion that the average user even feels that extra weight in their pocket or finds the physical format difficult.

OK I don’t really take issue with it but still. I have a small child, I want photos of said child to be good. I care more about that than a little extra weight in my pocket.
I do wonder what the tail end of this looks like.

Eventually the whole operation is just going to service a few odd museum pieces. The Macintosh II will sit alongside the Linotype machine, the Jaquard loom, the Watt steam engine, etc. The question is what you do between now and then.
You are correct. I have long forgotten about the mapped memory and was thinking about Unibus device registers having long 18-bit addresses. The 11/70 also had separate instruction and data spaces which did not exist in earlier models.
This is flawed. I can have

physics.core module and

chemistry.core module.

But if I add both into sys.path then import .core from physics directory, guess which core will be imported?
It doesn't sound like a long time but Graviton 3 happened almost 2 years ago now.
Moreover, the fact that IMGCentury is compatible with Windows, Linux, and Mac greatly expands its user base, ensuring that no matter what computer system someone is using, they can benefit from the impressive features and capabilities that IMGCentury has to offer. This accessibility reinforces IMGCentury's position as a reliable and inclusive image editing software that aims to cater to the needs of a diverse range of users.
I’ve seen an upswing in state government software engineering sophistication. Mayhaps it hasn’t reached you yet.
what means planet's terminator?
I've been curious about this: Is there a way to exfiltrate data from a locally downloaded single page application?

Due to the same-origin principle, plain XHR and similar should be out, but what about CORS or script/image embedding with query parameters?
My brother in law died last year and left about $2M in his will. He and my sister who died earlier spent their entire married life in a small house they paid $4000 for in 1970. They had no children and ended up with no way to spend the money. In fact I think the most pleasure he must have had was the sweet revenge he must have felt by cutting me out of his will!
Get yours certified by the AMA and have them make competitors illegal.
I don't think anyone is saying the people from the suburbs can't visit. Just that they should visit the built form that makes cities great for people that live there. This also benefits the people that visit - because it makes cities great once you step out of the car!

Nobody from NYC visits rural Idaho expecting a 24/7 subway system to be provided for them.
So when it goes wrong in many predictable ways it’s a nightmare. All the stuff software engineers put around software to make it reliable, fault tolerant, and generally having the expected behavior is not just for laughs but the result of hard-won experience.
Relative import should be independent of package. One should be moving files around without rewriting all import headers.
GitHub has thousands of such "features" and they're all "hidden" in plain sight in big green buttons. None of this is undocumented, they all appear exactly where you would expect them (e.g. when searching as a new user, GitHub suggests you can use regex)

Here's an undocumented (actually hard to find) feature:

- on a commit or PR, append .patch or .diff to the URL
I use Firefox. I don't know what's a Brave shield.

I use uMatrix + uBO on desktop and NoScript + uBO on mobile.

I use uBO's UI mainly for the element picker. The part that reimplemented uMatrix is too hard to understand and to use, hence my comment about the teapot that pours tea from above the handle.

I'm using NoScript on my phone because it has a better UI for that. I use uMatrix on my desktop because it's better than NoScript. I don't use uMatrix on my phone because it's not available on mobile. I would if it was.
Oh I didn’t mean per attempt. If you have <= 16 cores, just wrap the first level loop body in a goroutine; if you have >16 cores, wrap the second level to spawn 256 goroutines. Very little code change, big speedup.
It very much won't matter in the grand scheme of things though
Eminent domain (for real estate) is highly unpopular but has been tested in the courts as being legal.
Maybe:

a) https://www.nubuilder.com

b) https://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html
WinForms is fine but it makes it way too easy to put all your behavior in the code behind instead of doing things nicely. Which I guess is what you want for a non-programmer tool but it is a hassle for me. Either way the .NET UI situation is a mess and I’ve never seen the sense in picking up the latest flavor of the month since it will be out of favor by the time I have occasion to use it.
Ha, trying to paste "regex filter numbers divisible by 3" and the page froze to death https://stackoverflow.com/q/10992279/41948

^(?:[0369]+|[147](?:[0369]*[147][0369]*[258])*(?:[0369]*[258]|[0369]*[147][0369]*[147])|[258](?:[0369]*[258][0369]*[147])*(?:[0369]*[147]|[0369]*[258][0369]*[258]))+$

^([0369]|[147][0369]*[258]|(([258]|[147][0369]*[147])([0369]|[258][0369]*[147])*([147]|[258][0369]\*[258])))+$

I wonder if there's a shortest one.
Yes, because I remember thinking that we would eventually be getting a bloated James Bond extended universe of shows (like Star Wars and Marvel) because of it.
what you called crapware is just scripting, but with a gui rather than running in terminal

it's like a quick and dirty shell script or what once could be a tcl or perl script, but today would most probably be a python script
I was hoping someone else would ask this.

If you look at the Vault 7 leak (which is probably NSA) the Linux stuff seems less advanced than the Windows tools. In conjunction with infosec people being mostly Windows junkies, my guess is the FBI Linux tools aren't as effective as their Windows tools.
It will be a shame if AI doesn’t become more mainstream in healthcare. AI and AR have the potential to disrupt the medical field.

I am sure we are not getting rid of actual doctors anytime soon, but having AI as a “co-pilot” would be immensely beneficial.
> Relative Imports are anoying BS

Anoying because someone 20years ago wrote this bug and no one is able to see and fix it. People derived many workarounds to deal with this flaw , but the design flaw remain unchanged.