skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We have updated the website to reflect this and we no longer use the term "Open Source"

They didn't say they were going to "no longer use the term (with respect to the Defold engine)". They said weren't using it. Why? Precisely so "as to not confuse it with the OSD". Let's recap:

They used to use the term "open source" (one part of an overall effort to misrepresent themselves and their work). Then they said they took it out—which means that if the term is there now—and it is there now—then they either didn't actually take it out, or they took it out and then put it back in, even after saying they were "sorry for misrepresenting the license under which we make the source code available".

Prevaricating on the whether or not a known bad actor is technically wrong in sidling up next to a line they've already once crossed isn't a defense of the subject of here—because the subject is not strictly confined to whether or not they are crossing it now. It is the very fact that they've indisputably crossed line before, admitted to it and issued a presumed sincere apology when called out, and yet here they are—reaping the rewards of the misleading[1] way in which their messaging is being perceived (again).

1. <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/misleading>
If your phone has that. And if you run a wire to this in your car and keep it tidy.

Oh, then you need to run another wire for the audio. Whereas with the ancient 30-pin iPod port, you got an audio line out AND power in. And the cool thing about that one is that it was a true line-out: The volume control didn't affect it, so you didn't have to dick around with the volume on two devices (the player and the car radio).

I bought the Lightning-to-30-pin adapter from Apple, and it duplicates all of that. You get the audio line out and power in. A cheap Y cable with USB for power and 1/8" plug for audio solves everything. As far as I know, it's the only solution that Apple has ever sold for a problem it deliberately created. And I doubt anyone, statistically, is even aware of it.
What if you disclosed private information on twitter before trading. Would that still break the law? "Just heard jelly bean futures are going down. Going to sell now"
AI Cloned My Voice
What something sales for and what something costs are two completely different things.

Quite often game consoles sell for less than the cost of production, they make it back on the games/services you buy.
It doesn't really imply anything because iPhone's global market share is less than 30% with customers concentrated in North America and China, both danger zones for NSO operations. Android exploits might also take far longer to patch across all vendors and users might take longer to update compared to iOS.

It's fairly probable that iPhone exploits are just less valuable to a shady intel operation that sells mostly to small authoritarian regimes.
> That’s not true for cars. In fact, starting a new car company is probably cheaper than a few decades ago, since most part manufacturing has been outsourced.

Also most if not all the new car companies are building electric cars. My understanding is those are (in many ways) simpler to make than internal combustion engine cars.
15 Times Faster Than Llama 2: Introducing DeciLM
> What's the subtext? They weren't really being robbed and were perpetually using this lie to beg for money to feed habits that were otherwise beyond their means?

Yes, it's a grift.

> These thieves may even have the correct key to their door.

Says it all.

If the stuff ever existed, most people won't kick in their own door to stage a burglary of it. Most people also won't file false police reports to substantiate a staged burglary either (because that's two crimes).

IME they'll never have talked to the cops (or the landlord), and odds are the burglary story is a lie altogether. If the stuff existed at all, they likely pawned it themselves and can't afford to buy it back and reframe this as "theft."

Nobody would feel safe continuing to sleep anywhere a thieving poltergeist quietly comes and goes undetected, but their top priority is replacing trading cards and jewelry...knowing full well it will be "stolen" again.

This is what professional victimhood looks like!
Isn't there a transaction cost of holding (well, of using) the stablecoins compared to holding the ordinary debt? That would make the crypto version significantly worse unless you thought there were a chance of paypal going under, in which case the better strategy is to switch to something else (obv not venmo!).

The graph in the article seems to show that a dollar of the crypto is worth 50 basis points less than an actual dollar.
There is a huge difference between calibration and certification. Calibration means that your instrument gives you absolute rather than relative output. Certification means that your instrument is precise enough to be used for specific procedures.

Calibration can be done in house, certification is usually the domain of some certification institution and can be extremely expensive depending on the kind of gear.
It's pretty much a full rewrite. It's like trying to port a Django webapp to Java Spring Boot - Unity gives you base objects you're extending and A LOT of libraries that simply require a full reimplementation on Godot... If they exist.
I appreciate it, but it's been a couple of years now, so I can't remember specifically.
No, you are adding to it. Literally. Their data shows that vaccinated has a wider and higher 95% CI for exhaled. There are larger outliers in unvaccinated, but the signal in the data that they can isolate shows that you cannot claim vaccinated shed less. Which is why they don't claim that.

You may have tried to go to the land of academics, but you are injecting stronger claims into what this paper reports than they are making. They never say anything about controlling for severity. They only show that self reported severity correlates with more shedding. Though, again, that is with a very high variance across the board for the other severity. Their chart showed, and all they claim, is that there is a correlation of "severe" with higher shedding over the other reported values. Note that this is not reporting that self reported symptoms correlates. It is specifically self reported "severe" does. Indeed, their data shows that folks that report "none" have higher 95% ranges than "mild" reports do.
Close to 100% but not quite. It has some open source components.
Apps like DoorDash or GrubHub kind of work for this. You can order for pickup without all the platform and delivery fees.
Time box for trades is a very interesting idea that I've never heard of before. Would probably equalize the playing field by a lot, reducing the advantage firms have simply by being close to the market. Have there been serious discussions about this in the past? I wonder what the downsides would be, besides that it would hurt the bottom line of market makers
Or draw the left half of the clock face differently to make it clear there's something different about that region.

Some gauges do something like this. Tachometers often have RPM bands marked in yellow and red. And here are two pressure gauges that do it in different ways:

https://www.zoro.com/static/cms/product/large/Allpoints%20Fo...

https://www.enerpac.com/ccstore/v1/images/?source=/file/v501...
Maybe we should have more fundamental science collectives where amateurs can also contribute, in addition to academic and state funded institutions. Sort of like amateur astronomy clubs [Amateur astronomers still contribute widely to their field(s)], in larger scale and contributing in much more significant ways.

Yes to more amateur scientist articles on HN!
Knowledge. Availability. Marketing. FDA.

But honestly, I would direct my anger at the lack of transparency and oversight in the supplement market, rather than this. Glad the FDA has finally corrected course.
> You mean like the dozens of teardowns of M1 macs when it was released, which only found retimers on the motherboard but no external controller?

Thanks for the info!

> I see you are wilfully obtuse and entirely unserious. I'm sorry I bothered.

No, you are being an asshole and a bit of idiot. I said it might be heat related - so there is a reason beyond market segmentation that apple does not include thunderbolt in the iPad air. I don't know why I am bothering either, but here we are.
This is great stuff. I came across this article recently since I've been working on an Amiga game and will soon be evaluating my options for compressing level data. That's one of my favorite things about writing a game for classic hardware—we can take full advantage of modern tools and easy access to decades of documented experience in order to achieve new limits that were not previously possible.

Besides, it's a joy to code in 68k Assembly. Not without its quirks, but it's a very pleasant and readable instruction set.
They're not using the Zig language. They're using Zig's fantastic packaging of clang with many versions of glibc for easy cross-compilation.

Cross-compilation is the weakest point of Cargo. It depends on a C linker, but can't be bothered to configure a compatible linker. The default linker is for the host OS only, and completely helpless about dependencies, so the out-of the-box experience in Cargo is a wall of errors and disappointment.

Zig build helpfully does all the configuration legwork, and bundles all the required binaries.
It's fascinating to me how deeply in denial the majority of people are; the desire to "go back to normal" despite circumstances having irrevocably changed.

We truly are a species abhorrent of change. What is that saying, "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results"? - this is where we are. It boggles my mind how people believe Covid has just gone away, when we did absolutely nothing differently to make that happen.

Earlier this year I've read "Upheaval" by Jared Diamond. One thing that stood out immediately for me was his premise of adopting selective change: (paraphrasing here) to protect what is valuable, and change what is directly implicated in the ongoing crisis. The story of Dr John Snow and the pump handle comes to mind.

From the article itself:

"Payinda said employers - including schools and hospitals - should be doing more to ensure clean air by providing CO2 monitors and adequate ventilation."

"Employers are talking about the inordinate numbers of employees that they have out sick due to repeated respiratory infection. Yet they're doing almost nothing to protect their employees from repeated respiratory infection."
A Bus Driver Killed a Man, the City Blamed Tech
> What sort of file is a "random 1-off thing" that a casual user might need to transfer, unexpectedly, over the wire, which is so large that a speed of 0.48 gigabits/sec is extremely slow?

In my single anecdata case, out of 15ish years of owning phones, it was a 4kx60fps video of a recital and about 30gb if I recall correctly.

Also, you are doing a classic mix-up of mega-bits vs. mega-bytes. A 30 gb file transferring at 480 megabits per second takes around 5 minutes with no protocol overhead (about 20% speed reduction) and assuming the flash on the phone can keep up and isn't doing anything else on the wire (probably another 20-40% reduction in transfer speed).
As far as Logitech's quality has fallen, I'd still say they're better. I'm using a '90s wired Logitech plugged into a full-sized Apple aluminum keyboard right now, and this is pretty much the peak of Apple HID thus far.

The integration of two USB ports into the Apple keyboards of this era was an excellent innovation, which I use daily. Mouse on one side, thumbdrive on the other.
AI's Diminishing Returns
A random number generator uses a seed value. The larger the seed value domain, the more unpredictable the "randomness" of the generator. The "randomness" of a generator with finite domain(even if it derives new seed values from old values) ultimately becomes predictable and hence useless.

The "AI" systems, as currently designed, could face a similar problem as a random number generator with finite seed value domain. The present AI systems are seeded with information generated by humans or derived from it. But as humans start relying on AI generated information, the seed value domain of the AI systems will become finite as the AIs will start rehashing new information from the same old values or values derived from it. Like a finite seed value domain random generator, the AI systems of today will eventually cease to generate new information.
The point of intersection on a graph that plots contribution by AI and humans to the information domain is the one to look out for. At present humans contribute more than AI, but once that graph flips, then the limiting of the information domain starts.

It will be a tragedy if humans lose the ability to generate new information on their own and the AI systems become constrained to a finite information domain. The AI systems will lose their ability to generate new information. It may not happen immediately, but at some time in the future we are going to hit that point.
I'll never implant anything in my body...ok, maybe a pacemaker or other medical device but a smartphone equivalent? I'll die first.
If self checkouts didn't exist then prices would be higher to pay for more labor. You get the discount without realizing it.

Theoretically, anyway.
For that a prism and a photographic film would probably be sufficient, the developed film would serve as your print-out.
> especially models with only Thunderbolt ports are practically unusable without a hub.

"come on now, USB-C is the future, why won't apple implement it!?"

"no, not like that"
The title comes from the name of the rule. The rule is named after Eddie because his character is the one that came up with the idea.

I agree Dan is fantastic but I think the rule is correctly named.
Emacs is a whoooooole lot more than an editor and Lispy config language.
The plucky firms that are beating big tech
Can I finally have my :dumpster-fire: emoji?
Agree, I'm shocked at how ugly the recommended alternative is. This does not make MS look good.
Given how little I deal with config files compared to the rest of my work I prefer formats that are obvious, even if verbose, to those with sneaky syntax. I'll take JSON or even XML over TOML any day.
Why are you worried about the government recording your usage of Sudafed? What is anybody going to do with that information? Serious question! I understand the principle involved; I just want to know if there's some practical concern.
Seems like there isn't really an issue being raised in this article. There clearly needs to be close scrutiny on the journalists being given the information in advance, but given the fact that its provided in a "lockup room" it seems like that's the case. If everyone can access the information at the same time, even if its via these journalists, I don't really see an issue.
Never thought I'd get a chance to tell this story.

Early 1990s, college internship. The company did presentations for clients, like many do. They had an unusual way of presenting data that required using actual protractors to draw circles and curves, with pencil, on otherwise computer-generated charts. They read numbers from Excel spreadsheets and plotted them on paper.

I was shocked, to say the least. I proposed writing a program that read Excel spreadsheets and emitted the graphics. They loved the idea, especially from a summer intern.

So I wrote a letter to Microsoft asking for documentation of the Excel file format. A week later I got a thick envelope with a photocopied manual completely describing the format. I remember the word BIFF throughout. I wrote the program, it worked great, and I even negotiated a hefty lump-sum payment to sell it to them at the end of the summer.

It left me with a very positive impression of Microsoft as a developer-friendly company. Makes sense; developers are their platform's customers, and they're good at serving their customers.
Why do you single out avro & not any of the hundreds of other ser/de systems? Is that what you know best? Is there something specific about avro that makes it feel particularly similar? https://github.com/maximveksler/awesome-serialization
The Silent Battles of Founders
Sean Parent keynote, C++ on Sea 2023: All the Safeties [video]
In what way did it backfire? It's a useful decongestant. But it also basically is methamphetamine, with just a couple easily-reversible Rubik's turns to make it a decongestant instead of an ultra-powerful stimulant.
I don't know about you but I have a portable music player with 128Gb of storage in my hands right now.
In which case PMF clearly makes marginal difference in the long term

And that’s what’s playing out irl- companies that last are ones that keep investors happy

The product is fungible and incidental - if you can use other means to force product adoption then PMF is irrelevant
...or more famously, Makefiles
If they get 10 million subscribers at $120 per month, that's $14.4 billion per year which is way more than the cost of the network. And they can easily get 10 million in just the US and Canada. So they can price new subscribers in poorer countries at whatever price they need because the marginal cost to add to the network is near zero.
The first comment of this FAQ thread is also talking about this.

https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-plan-pricing-and-packa...

The FAQ is worth reading on its own (and very hard to believe as a Unity game dev, honestly, WTF).
In fairness the US Army was supposed to be their first big customer IIRC [1] so I guess Ukraine was a good test-run to work out the kinks.

[1] - https://spacenews.com/u-s-army-signs-deal-with-spacex-to-ass...
Apple discontinues iPhone 13 mini in the latest blow to small-screen phones
I've been doing just that with a Raspberry Pi Zero W and a USB ethernet adapter. The eth adapter is set to dhcp, and the wifi sets a hotspot. The wireguard adapter is routed/from to wifi with firewall rules. I even tested the Pi plugged to a powerbank and it still works.
Have you run across 802.11ax anywhere outside of your house, or perhaps a high end office building? When you have, was there bandwidth enough to actually use it?

That’s all I’m saying. If you take a lot of photos/video and you’re trying to get it off the phone, it sucks if you’re travelling. You can’t even plug it into your laptop and get it off decently (though it’s still often faster than hotel Wifi).

I literally was hitting 500kB/s (hotel wifi) upload speeds this week, and it was an improvement - I had to pay extra. I ended up using lighting to USB2.0 cable to pull what I needed off.

I’ll just end up getting the Pro model anyway, but like intel disabling ECC on all but their ‘server’ CPUs - it’s unnecessary, irritating, and restrictive. Well within their rights though.

Typical Apple. They love lock-in.

Sky is blue. Water is wet.
I don't like the reflexive union bashing in the comments, but for some documentary perspective (which to some degree reinforces the objections of the people whose comments I'm complaining about), check out the film American Factory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Factory).

I rarely like documentaries but I liked this one.
Parent seems to be encouraging me to bike instead of taking the subway.
> This is the major problem with most comparisons of config file formats: the actual semantic domain of a config file format is extremely limited [ ... ]

So, why not use Scheme ?
> For one thing it’s not clear how you’d ever get the whole world on board.

You don't need the whole world. The Western world is enough - no Internet and phone service (both easily enforced by requiring providers to reject ASNs / phone country codes) means a lot of lost business for an affected country.

> Pressuring India is hard enough, try Myanmar, a place that doesn’t get along with the West at all and is already a hotspot for phone scams targeting Chinese speakers.

Honestly, that's China's problem to solve.

> So I’m all for pressuring India to crack down on scammers, but I don’t see how that would reduce the desire to tighten software controls on PCs.

When software vendors don't have to gate more and more features behind more and more obnoxious bullshit simply to whack-a-mole scammers, they won't.
What makes an article succeed (or not)? (2020)
What do you mean? If the emergency lights and sirens are on, then other vehicles must pull over to the right and stop. “Well, you can pass me on the right” is not the standard.
Surely you can find a midrange Android phone with only USB 2.0 speeds for £800.
You can do it with iPhones with the built in music player. Does the android music app really not support playing from local storage?
iOS is the gold standard IMO. Apps are sandboxed, can only interact with the outside world via APIs (that the user needs to approve), one click uninstall and it’s all gone without a trace (at least in theory). Love it.
Thats how all software has been for two decades...why is it a surprise? We gave up ownership for SaaS and this is the inevitable result.
Quite curious how it will handle everything related to C#, Burst, DOTS, IL2CPP.
It’s a Congressional subcommittee with some less-than-credible members. It’s reasonable to wait for their report instead of relying on a press release from an election denier [1] that references someone “who presents as a highly credible senior-level CIA officer.” (“Presents as”?!)

[1] https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2020/12/11/ji...
All that, plus I can bag things properly, and I don't have to talk to people.

And it seems lately that much of the times I do go to an employee operated checkout, the employee doesn't really go any faster than I do anyway.
US postdocs on strike: how will demands for higher wages be met?
Isn't it merely setting a simple firewall rule and trying a query that violates it?

Which is the scope of the bug sure. But doesn't make the check particularly elaborate or beautiful!
Does Starlink offer a plan for multi-tenant buildings? I'm thinking condo with 30 units. It seems like it should be more efficient to run one high bandwidth connection than multiple regular customers. Could we share cost among all tenants and get a really good deal?
If you are in CA statewide it is illegal to increase your rates for a not at fault crash.

In most other states insurers will increase your rate even if you are not at fault and you only made a claim with the at fault party or your insurer is successful subrogating
No matter what time box you choose, someone is not going to be able to react to information for longer than the time box. It introduces complexity for dubious benefit, IMHO.

And yes, this has been talked about endlessly. Heck, some people have proposed even further restrictions; for example, in practice, the first and last hours that the exchange are open tend to have the highest volume, so why not only keep the exchange open for those two hours?
Pre-orders by region now available
Because it tastes amazing[1]!

Oh... not the plant...

[1]: https://www.foodrepublic.com/recipes/roasted-chicken-fennel/
Starlink was good but not for me because I was surrounded by trees. I had an interruption every 3 mins. Sometimes for a couple of seconds and sometimes for a few minutes. There’s no disruption when you’re streaming things but it makes video calls almost impossible which is what I needed the most for my job. Ended up keeping starlink and reenabling my Viasat system just for the video calls. I have a wired fiber connection now and it’s heaven.
Yes, but the point of the article is that they aren't doing this any more.

I'm pointing out that's not true if you live in certain places.

https://mobilesyrup.com/2023/05/03/starlink-hardware-sale-70...

"SpaceX’s satellite internet platform currently has its hardware on sale for $199 for rural Canadians, down from the usual $759."