skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh boy. Anyone remember a decade ago when Adobe tried to charge a revshare for cross-compiled 3d engine code on Flash Player and it pushed everyone out of Flash development and to Unity?

Also, this continues my pet peeve of disguising bad news with neutral headlines. If they had made anything cheaper they would have put it in the headline. "Updates" means "price increases".
> So in theory someone can make an iPad sized touchscreen that connects to your iPhone via USB-C and you'd have no need for an iPad? Or course such a screen could be shared within a household, etc.

I have a non touch screen monitor similar to this - power and video over a single USB C port. It works with both my personal Macbook and my work Windows computer.

It should work with an iPad Pro with USB C.

https://a.co/d/2D0bbh5
Folks who have grown up on the internet have likely seen plenty of video evidence to the contrary.
Agree, it's broken.

It's also assigning string literals to char array struct members in a non-initializing context, which doesn't work.

As someone trying to piece together C knowledge from various b0rk3n tutorials (as a pre-Internet teenager in the early 90s) it's pretty provocative. Luckily I healed and levelled up since.
One would hope they might instead consider the use of CAMM - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_Attached_Memory_Mo... - but I guess we'll see :(
Or we could give users the choice of default search engine instead of just rewarding the winners with the most money to spend..how do you ever expect a new upstart search engine to compete with google if google can just buy defaults? Or owns the most popular mobile OS and web browser?
> We’re discussing a tool, not a person, no need to get emotional

My good sir, you just wrote a very long hate letter about a tool.
That's pretty insane that TikTok will also do fulfillment! That has to be a major differentiating feature from all of the other social media companies right? I would be very surprised if Meta or Google did anything close to that when it comes to shopping.

Not hard to imagine a new generation of shops that are exclusively on TikTok and don't even use Shopify or some other e-commerce stack.
I really like this , i have an orginal Pi and one of those cheap usb SDR's sitting around doing nothing.
Faced with reduced traffic, StackOverflow must change its attitude towards users
My statistics class at high school level taught the following:

The number of samples you need is very difficult to calculate correctly, requiring deep analysis of standard deviations and variances.

But surprisingly, you can simply know you've reached large number status when over 10 items exist in each category.

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Ex: when doing a heads vs tails coin flip experiment, you likely have a large number once you have over 10 heads and over 10 tails. No matter how biased the coin is.

Or in this 'Lotto ticket' example, you have a large number of samples after gathering enough data to find over 10 Jackpot winners.
But the 3D blobs don’t move, do they? Only the splats do.
This is really cool. Could you build a few of these and make an interferometer?

I remember reading that interferometers are usually all connected by physical cables with physical loops to make sure the incoming data is combined at exactly the right time. But are we at a point now where that can somehow be done intelligently in software? Or are these little RTL-SDR's not accurate enough to even begin trying that?
Encrypted Databases Made Secure yet Maintainable
This. Wind turbines occasionally kill a bird, but so do windows in houses, so do cars, so do cats. And oil and a warming planet definitely hurt birds.

The next argument is the fiberglass waste, of which nobody gave 2 thoughts about the the fiberglass recreational boats that similarly don't break down made over the last 70 years.
> The most likely way people will get killed by robots is by taking their job, forcing them into poverty and eventually letting them die on the street.

Serves 'em right for not being able to provide value to capital. /s
The crypto "degens" are pretty much the perfect cohort for pulling these kind of scams on. They're driven by fast money, unearned profit, and the premise of investment despite all rational signals pointing to it being a bad idea. Its a Condensation of Rubes.
I'm not sure what's more concerning,people treating ai like real people, or the fact that an ai voice worked for biometric security.
This pattern exists in all languages. I’d argue more so in fragmented community driven projects/languages/tools.

Except in the case of languages/tools like python, node, neovim etc. Everytime I touch one of these there is always a new better way of accessing DBs, making a web server, making a client side render, no a server side render, async library, configuration system, build system, runtime, GUI patterns etc.
Is it Web scale?
Thunderbolt 5 Announced by Intel
Slightly off-topic:

The top Reddit response cites some good reasons why this may be so. The writer mentions they needed to move from Node to improve "throughput" (and .NET was suggested). In what way would .NET improve performance that Node can't satisfy. (Isn't Node's worker thread sufficiently close to ASP.NET, ISAPI multi-threaded scenarios?)
If only there was a button for that.
* Technically Apple forked WebKit from KHTML, but it's been 20 years and 10s of millions of lines of code since then. Chris Lattner and Vikram Adve created LLVM at UIUC. Chris was later hired by Apple who supported its development.
Ahh, I remember something similar.

I remember there was a "secret fairy shop", which was a hidden clickable link. And the shop was usually empty, or stocked with low-worth items. But every 1 hour or so it would stock with high-value fairies that can level up the power of your neopet, and these prices were always significantly below market. Kind of reminds me of Rolex :)

I remember reading guides as to how to time the purchase. I'm kind of surprised more enterprising users didn't write bots for this, as I always remember it being possible at human reaction time to actually pick something up, which I imagine would have been impossible if bots came along.
Attention really is hard to control, and most people can't do it. In fact, the only way I've learned to exert real control over attention is by practicing meditation. Regardless, the GP's point stands: we ARE the sum of our inputs.
A great idea in theory, but a large number of Americans wouldn’t trust the government with this (never mind they can do this with paper mail—this is a different scale). I don’t know why we trust corporations any more than that. Convenient UX, I guess.
Yes because if the mean temperature continues to rise the earth will become uninhabitable sometime around 2012
This is bad in one aspect:

Google pays Mozilla a lot of money, mainly to keep Google search the default search engine in Firefox.

If that turns out to be illegal it could create a financial crisis for the Firefox browser and hence reduce diversity in web browsers.
it's being downvoted because it somehow implies that by taking a few days of rest one might treat CE/MFS, which is a very misguided and misinformed take
Big Tech Detective: What would the web look like without big tech companies?
It’s not, we already have the problem with mines
Out of curiosity, why would one want to learn programming for AmigaOS today?
> a small group of folks that are at least as competent as the folks at WhatsApp pre-acquistion

That's a success case... beware survivorship bias.

> if there are lots of bozos in the startup

No arguing that quality engineers are fundamental to quality engineering. That said... by this standard, there's no point in having this entire discussion. Every good db/store out there is good. They all work very well if used as they should be, with due respect to tradeoffs. Yet, almost everyone has db problems. Almost every one of these problems occur well within the technical limits of postgres or whatnot.

"It shouldn't be a problem" when it usually is irl is tunnel vision. There is an empirical reality disagreeing with you. Walking into it with "this shouldn't be a problem unless everyone is a moron" is bad strategy. If you can't think of reasons why architecture can and will become a problem, then just assume that you (or some of you, some of the time) are morons, and try to make it moron proof.
I've coded in a lot of different programming languages over the past forty years or so, some of them for fun, some of them as part of my job.

I've also coded COBOL at a few places, both on PC and on mainframes years back.

But I can honestly say that I have never done anything in COBOL for the fun of it.

However this is not to dissuade anybody from ever doing this. COBOL and a few other old languages are still used in areas like banking today. So you might cross it at some point in time, even at the most modern workplace.

But as others have written in the comments, there is more to it than the language itself. You should really have a mainframe emulator (like Hercules) and other parts of the environment like CICS, TSO, ISPF and JCL if you really want to know how it feels like to code in COBOL. I don't know if it's even possible to get all of this up and running for free, but that could be a challenge in itself.
Additionally, this is not an overnight decision for Facebook/Meta. A lot of people seem to be under the impression that this is a snap decision by them, but Facebook's AI research labs outdate and outspend most of FAANG's. Their only real competitor is Google, who practically rolled over dead once GGML/Pytorch cemented itself as the cutting-edge.

It's very possible that Llama had been ready for months, and Meta was internally unsure how to roll it out.
For a free market loving political party the Conservatives are surprisingly reluctant to allow the market to do it's thing.
What about painting eyes on wind turbines to avert birds?

/? eyes on things at the airport birds
https://www.google.com/search?q=eyes+on+things+at+the+airpor...

"Wide-eyed glare scares raptors: From laboratory evidence to applied management" (2018)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Raptors (birds) >
Common names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_of_prey
It seems Stack Overflow is fiercely opposed to such changes. So I am posting here out of naive hope that may be some startup will find this idea worthy. It's still looks very consistent to me
I don't understand, is this as absolutely insane as it seems? Am I reading this wrong? They're charging the game developer 20 cents every time a user installs the game? I must be missing something here.
bitwarden has TOTP built in as well. Apple has it built into their platform, but its tougher to use and only works with Chrome if you use windows too.....
what are ppl buying feom there?
is it 100% useless junk and clothes with 99% margin?
What bubble is this? I might be out of touch, but I've always considered a 4 day work week to be fairly uncommon.
Looking forward to the thrift stores full of audio docks with lightning cables. All the fat ipod plug ones are still around.
Only because they're the default search engine in FF. They don't have a hand in other parts of FF's codebase.
I appreciate your perspective on the potential benefits of ads. However, I’m emphasizing a much deeper, existential concern here. Our lifes, essentially, are the sum of what we pay attention to. In this context, advertising doesn’t just sell products; it habitually redirects our attention, shaping our experiences and, consequently, our lifes in profound ways.

The pervasive nature of advertising can subtly dictate the rhythm of our lives, often reducing moments of potential introspection, creativity, or connection with others into opportunities for commercial engagement. It’s a constant auction of our attention at the cost of personal enrichment and depth of experience.

It alters our relationship with ourselves and with the world, as our attention is steadily guided away from personal priorities and towards commercial ones. This is a critical and largely unexamined impact of advertising. We are, effectively, paying the ultimate price, which is life itself. No amount of "taste" in individual ads can compensate for this.
The FreeBSD experience with the upgrade also shows that this is not a smooth enforced upgrade.
this is true. but wouldn't it be nice everything didn't have to flow through google and could exist on its own merits?

infrastructure like browsers should really be neutral ground - its sad we can't figure out a way to fund things like that
Its crazy reading threads of people casually justifying wildlife impacts as collateral damage for wind turbines, when they would never use those arguments to justify wildlife impact for oil and gas.

"Listen, cats kill millions of birds each year. So a few more die in tailings ponds?"

Not saying either should get a pass; companies installing wind turbines should be held to the same standard and not off just because they are "renewable"[0]

[0] Even the fact we consider wind/solar "renewable" is evidence of how slick the marketing campaigns are for these companies. Solar panels and wind turbines have limited life spans, require rare earth metals that have to be mined. Solar and wind energy are renewable but how we harvest that energy is decidedly NOT renewable.
This would be revolutionary. When you spill wine on your computer it’d be a good thing.
its bonkers, considering most games fail lol, no way some college student is going to pay that
It's not impossible to turn off. NGINX does this too, but you have to recompile NGINX to disable that header.

With Caddy, you just need:

header -Server

in your config.
20 cents MONTHLY
your "argument" was literally just telling the person that they were naive for thinking things could ever be handled by one meeting.

turns out, they inarguably have a whole lot of experience at high levels in the biggest companies in the world. Either they're straight up lying, or it is in fact possible to resolve things with a single meeting. Why wouldn't that be the case?
Asimov is such a poignant writer, I can't help but smile when I read him.
If Firefox loses a lot of funding but Google loses the ability to pay companies to make Chrome the default on nearly all devices sold globally today, Firefox will be in much better shape than it is now. Google is killing it, and also giving it a few dollars.
Epic and Roblox are going to be very happy with this news.
The completion is a click away. On Android it's settings in the browser default search, similarly for Firefox and Chrome on desktop.
At the same time though, when's the last time any of us donated to open source?

I can count myself within the last month... but many will admit that they have never run "npm fund" once.
Sorry, I'm not following at all.

So the "tallest and most dense wind farms are long past being completely invisible" means that they are so large as to be visible even from space?

> imagine a wind farm tall enough and dense enough to meaningfully impede the flow of air

Right. This is begging the question.

> whether such wind turbines are likely to be built

Exactly what I'm asking.
Money is not free anymore.
I'd say that depends entirely on the security of whatever "burner phone" (these are just a different marketing term for texting-capable VoIP- lines, right?) service you use.

Depending on how careful they are about account login and recovery as well as port-out procedures, it can be much more or less secure than a "real" mobile line.
Pinephone for my main number: https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
From the description on the consumer service's site:
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Google schendt elke dag jouw online privacy en volgt stiekem je fysieke locatie. Google verzamelt, analyseert en deelt gegevens over jou met anderen en verdient daar miljarden aan. Zonder dat je daar iets tegen kunt doen. Dit is een inbreuk op jouw privacy.
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This translates to:
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Google violates your privacy daily, and follows your physical location _secretly_ . Google collects, analyses and _shares_ data about you with others and earns billions from it. Without you being able to do anything about it. This is a breach of your privacy.
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I think keys here are 'secretly', 'shares' and the fact you cannot stop it. (disabling location etc. does nothing to stop it.)

The article on Reuters words it like this:
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AMSTERDAM, Sept 12 (Reuters) - The Dutch consumers' association Consumentenbond together with the Privacy Protection Foundation issued legal proceedings against Google on Tuesday for alleged large-scale privacy violations, they said in a statement.

Both groups demanded that Google, part of Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), stops "its constant surveillance and sharing of personal data through online advertising auctions"

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I don't know where you got this thing about ad-targeting? ad-targeting is a result of these trades. its not the target of this suit.
> They protect their product lines from each other.

Is that the case, though.

Their product lines overlap significantly in several areas. Yes, you cannot use the Phone app in an iPad, but you can do many of the things a Macbook does, and I would argue that many people would be sufficiently served with an iPad and a keyboard, rather than a Macbook.

Pretty much the only other app that you can use with an iPhone but not with an iPad (and neither a Macbook), for technical reasons, is Wallet.

I think that Apple does not offer either of those apps in iPads because they are not believed to be practical, given the form factor.
It is a distraction, but it's also a real issue for wind farm operators.

I've visited a wind farm and got a tour by one of the engineers who was involved with the permits and construction, and he told us that due to the population of several rare species of bats and birds, the turbine we were visiting couldn't operate at certain hours.

If painting one of the blades black could reduce the non-operation hours, that would be a significant win for the operators.
are they only counting unique installs or do developers pay with any install? Like if i reimagined my machine and reinstall games does that mean they have to pay the install fee again?

EDIT: The more I read the FAQ, the more I think this is a bad deal
Do they work during the day or does the scattering and sunlight also make that impossible?
I was looking at that table, which otherwise made great sense, but struggling to understand why Unity Pro and Unity Enterprise had cheaper per-install prices than Unity Personal. Part of the answer is that they charge up-front monthly fees to use it:

https://unity.com/products/unity-pro

So I see $2040 per year per seat for Unity Pro. That doesn't quite explain why the per-install costs decline with volume for Pro/Enterprise licensees, but I suspect that's just that the Pro/Enterprise are more sophisticated and have better negotiating power.
Just curious, why use autocert instead of CertMagic?
That's very easy to say in hindsight.

Cannibalising a public company's most successful product and profit source is extremely risky, especially for management. There is a reason this is so rare. It goes against many of our ingrained behaviours as humans.

So I don't think it's as obvious as you make out.
Surely that’s not right… it’s gotta be first install is 20 cents. 20 cents per install is egregious but a recurring license is financially unsustainable.
Ref 1). In the eu country I'm currently in, consumption is capped...running the washing machine and the oven = having to go downstairs and flip the breaker.
You can pay more for a higher cap, but I'd rather time my chores.
It's only a pain if others in the place forget, or don't realise something else is on...once every five years or so.
If the cops aren’t going to be doing anything why not lay them off? At least we’d save money.
My feed is entirely cooking tiktoks, pottery and restaurant recs for the town I live in. I am fairly ruthless about indicating when I am (like/bookmark) and am not interested (block and hit "not interested" button) in a piece of content.
I don't know if it's still true, but when we were doing a analysis of alternatives for a customer looking to modernize, we reviewed salary surveys to determine the future cost of maintenance. While COBOL developers were about 15% cheaper than Java developers, our concern is that (long term) it would dis-incentivize developers from learning COBOL.
And carry it with you at all times, of course.
That’s meaningless if you can also use it to compute a signature. Just use the signature of a constant string as the id.
> DO NOT host your own email server though

I have a minimal postfix that simply forwards everything to my actual mail-address on posteo.de

pro: setup is really simple and requires no maintenance at all

con: I can not send emails from that domain
FusionAuth is awesome :D

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Windows Phone diehards liked to blame the YouTube thing for the downfall, and not Microsoft's incompetence in cobbling together something of a competent OS by the time the iPhone dropped. And even a decade later they had done 3 major reboots, never letting the platform mature. They didn't have a real potential competitor to the iPhone until the release of Windows Phone 7 in 2010, 3 years after the iPhone hit the market. Then they rebooted it again in 2014 with Windows Phone 8, and again in 2016 with Windows 10 Mobile.

They didn't even have a notification shade until Windows Phone 8.1 in 2014. And no, as cool as the live tiles were, they were not a replacement for a notifications shade which shows you only your notifications, rather than scrolling your entire list of apps and scanning your eyes around for relevant information as shit's appearing and disappearing cause all your apps are constantly animating. It was an absolutely bizarre UX.

And if we really want to talk about the YouTube thing, I have a hard time blaming Google for what they did. They didn't want to put the resources into making an app for a platform that nobody was using and likely wouldn't have broken even on resources/money spent, and they weren't going to let Microsoft handle creating and distributing a fake "official" app that represents their brand.

Google didn't kill Windows Phone, Microsoft did.
Trust us with all your money!!!
$700k in NFTs I recall. Isn't that more like $70?
One aspect of analysis ignored is review stuffing as a possible explanation for the repetition of keywords. At $2M/mo there's almost certainly a portion of the marketing budget going to inflating reviews.
wow thanks! this was super fun, do you happen to have some souce about the calculations that go into determining the time dilation based on different velocity? i'm aware about black holes being capable of well, doing time dilation thingy due to their massive gravitational force but nothing else.

edit: souce as in something a regular average joe can make sense of haha
> Up to 540Hz for Gamers

We're really chasing diminishing returns with human reaction time.

On that note, 8K pixel density also seems below the ability for human eyes to distinguish, though at least with that, we can scale the screen size up to make it useful.

I don't see a way to scale human reaction time to actually notice 540Hz, unless there's some mind-machine interface coming along sooner than expected.
Really? I'd imagine you'd need two codes (one for the login, one for access to your 2FA settings), but not being able to recover at all using them seems horrible!