skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the extreme edges of course there are exceptions. I think we can agree that this is not the case here?
Unsure if this is true, but would it be so bad?

I won't use a device that is significantly behind on security updates.

I will absolutely use an OS that only has the features available at time of release. Might be preferable to the Apple situation in which devices seem to get slower and slower over time as you jump to major OS revisions with heavier base requirements.

On the other hand, websites generally expect modern browsers. I don't recall if they separately version the base ChromeOS from the actual Chrome browser that is primarily[1] what people do with these machines. I'd probably want the latter to be fairly up-to-date on features as well as security...

[1] Recent Chromebooks also can run arbitrary Linux containers. The feature is called "Crostini" or "Linux on ChromeOS".
there is no law saying that you must migrate to another DE from time to time. you could keep using the same software your entire life

cheese moving, in this context, is not a force of nature. it's something that other people do upon you, and they could elect not to
Goodbye, California. Driverless Trucks Are Headed to Texas
Musk’s Denial of Ukraine’s Starlink Request Prompts Senate Probe
It matters when your competitor sells cheaper product accelerating almost twice as fast and offering almost twice the range. It makes you look like a huge scammer.
Is they why they changed the license? they got a hint google was releasing a product based on Terraform?

"The configuration should be actuatable by Terraform version 1.2.3."

So its currently pinned to an older Terraform release...
Not sure why this is tagged (2015), I redeveloped this site earlier this year. The last-updated date is right there in my sidebar. @dang you might want to remove.

No biggie like. Hey all, Johnny here. This pops up here every few months, always happy to answer questions.
Git may solve real problems but honestly, it's a PITA to use. Just for basic tasks needs quite a lot time sink to understand what's going on and what do you need to do.

It gets in the way of the workflow IMO.
Cryptocurrency Mining in Texas
I did, ignore me :-)
Isn't this essentially the conclusion the finance industry came to? Don't talk to coworkers, customers and partners outside of official channels.
What if your Whonix has an APT installed now?
I'm struggling to see how this is responsive to my comment. Was it meant for someone else?
Having participated in a one-laptop-per-student pilot program ages ago, with Fujitsu tablet convertibles that were very much plastic painted to look like brushed metal, I had problems keeping my laptop intact too - since I was constantly running between classes, sandwiching my laptop between textbooks, the case plastics didn’t last the year. But laptops were much, much heavier then.
Main thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37508471
Cruelty Squad
> Modern-day denim jeans, revered for their durability, use the same technique. “This is not a beginner’s item,” Grömer, who wasn’t part of Wagner’s study but studied the garment some years ago, told Science News. “It’s like the Rolls-Royce of trousers.”

or we found the grave of a jean-wearing time-traveller
I certainly understand the abstraction and how to use git in this sense. The foundation of my above opinion is that I don’t think this is a great idea that’s well applied to modern development.

Is it elegant that the same version control system can be used whether you have a remote server or you just coordinate over email? It certainly is! Is it necessary to have this level of generality and lack of opinions when 95% of users just want to do the same basic flow (and it does involve a server of some kind)? I don’t really think so, which is why I think there is so much confusion around really basic git functionality.

We live in a world where git is philosophically more like Perl than python, and I think that it’s not unreasonable to think that it’s possible that if we flipped that, then that might actually be a good thing.
Feels like you're missing the distinction I made. I'm not saying gamers are bad. I spend a lot of my time with games, I avoid the term for myself but am not calling gamers toxic by any means.
This is a feature in many commercial products already, as well as open source libraries like PyOD. https://github.com/yzhao062/pyod
I'm in a similar position but considering a different exit strategy: EV conversion. Still cheaper than a new car and since it isn't OEM there's no digital surveillance suite.
This is an inaccurate view of what 23andMe is doing.

First we did not "fail" in drug development, our collaboration with GSK yielded substantially more programs than we had anticipated when we started. The verdict on whether the strategy is successful or not will not be clear for another 5-10 years because being better at picking targets doesn't shorten the timeline for bringing a drug to market, it mostly means that you should have a modestly higher proportion of programs that end up being successful.

Second we did not start with a premise that we could or needed to do a great job of predicting disease from genetics alone, that is not required to identify good targets. You're correct we don't have huge genomics datasets, we largely use the same genomics datasets others use. Identifying targets with genetics in the simplest sense requires using genetics to identify an association at a genomic location, and then using genomics for functional interpretation of that association. And having the largest database of genetic associations enables the first step of that.

I'm not sure what you mean by "the underlying relationship between the genome and phenotypes... is a highly nonlinear function". Simple additive models account for most of the heritability of complex phenotypes.
They claim to have developed “proprietary technology” to detect this, but of course the better it works the worse their income would be…
well once android hit the market it became more rare to see RIM-compatible software, palmOS software, and all the other players back then that i can't remember. The installed userbase for android, which was designed for well-off Marls was massive, and iphones supplanted the need for nearly every other purpose built communication device. Why bother making my [chat client/browser/social media app] compatible with 16 OSes? iphone using cocoa or objectiveC or whatever and android using java meant only two stacks to maintain - at least until the platform started pushing updates whenever a new phone was released, and now you've fragmented the OS market - which leads to devices becoming obsolete before the end of their actual useful life.

the first company that can make a phone that can run android apps in a virtual machine and otherwise be a glorified electron app server (run javascript/webasm apps only) will clean up. If they make it possible to upgrade the components (m.2 storage, sodimm memory, socketed SoC), even if you have to take it to a store to upgrade - they'll win the entire market.
Very good point. But... I'm sure it's profitable for them no matter how expensive the car is to repair. I don't think that's a driver to make the car cheaper to repair. In fact, if they are harder to repair it's probably even better! The "write off" part of the typical insurance claim is different because they're paying themselves in that case.

The insurance coverage model provides extra cash now. The market value of a Tesla is different than the raw material value (batteries, raw materials, recycling) so I'm sure Tesla doesn't care about that because it's not generic insurance for any car, it's Tesla insurance for Teslas. They can charge less, get extra cash flow, and the raw material goes right back into the factory to make a brand new one.
>If they simply took a percent of revenue, everyone would have shrugged, you might have had some indies complaining, and the world would have kept on turning.

I think that's the issue. I did some math and it turns out that this is actually really cheap for f2p games, at least the heavily monetized ones that have a high attach rate. At Enterprise level, the install rate is only $0.01, which means as long as more than 1 out of every 500 people buy some monthly pack, the fee is paid for. And those monthly packs are the cheapest of very expensive packs modern mobile games charge. a whale dropping $100 on some big pack covers for 10k downloads. the install rate is nothing for the successful games.

In comparison, consider how Unreal after their threshold will take $5 out of that whale pack. Is it fair? debatable, but it's a more scalable option. However, for those large games with crazy expensive packs, UE is a much worse deal.

The big problem is that Unity is clearly targeting F2P games, but these deals are awful for console. Gamers with multiple devices (or upgrading devices. or simply changing whatever arbituuary metric they track) will cost you more money with zero return, which may be nothing for a f2p title but it adds up quickly for single purchase content. Then they just think they can walk over and ask Microsoft for their Gamepass money, which is laughable. MS could simply drop every Unity game from Gamepass (which wouldn't hurt as bad as you'd expect) and then take Unity to court over retroactive fees.

This could have easily been solved with two different payment plans based on platform and monetization, but this plan clearly wasn't properly thought through.
Apple tells staff – customers ask about iPhone 12 – France radiation concerns
<Full Title> Apple tells staff how to react if customers ask about the iPhone 12 being pulled off shelves in France due to radiation concerns

https://archive.is/L4NQ1
You might want to check your facts. The 2022 Honda Odyssey minivan (not a small vehicle) has 0-60 of 6.5s.
>but this is a pretty decent implementation, in hardware.

minimig mist branch is a decent implementation in hardware.

The A500 mini is an open source SOFTWARE emulator (amiberry, designed for the raspberry pi) put in a much cheaper/weaker board relative to the pi, enclosed by a nostalgia-inducing box, and sold at a very profitable price.

There's nothing good I can say about it.
World chess federation places restrictions on both trans women and trans men
The Mac has swapped out CPU architectures 3 times.

- Motorola

- IBM (Power architecture)

- Intel

- Apple ARM

And operating system foundations once.

Pretty near flawlessly every time.
> Search really isn't as bad as the article suggests, especially with something like broot

Johnny here. The problem is "especially with something like x" because x never exists in any enterprise. Go ask your BigCorp SharePoint sysadmin for broot. The answer is no.
Unity has seemingly silently removed its GitHub repo that tracks ToS changes
> It would be one thing if Unity were hosting the game on their infra, but I still have to pay Unity a fee if I host the download on my own website?

Yes -- and by most copyright laws, _of course_.

Bob builds his game using Software X. Regardless of where Bob's game is hosted, he has to pay for Software X according to its license terms.

Unity is being unreasonable on 10000 avenues, but Where It's Hosted isn't one.
Disney thanks you. No one else uses that engine really. It’s perfectly fine for 2008. It doesn’t have a modern rendering pipeline, doesn’t support DX12, Vulkan, or Metal.

If that’s your requirements, use my engine Reactor3D.
A period of infinity is cyclical /s
It takes zero effort to make an EV. They are incredibly simple vehicles.

People really need to let go of their EV fanboyism (and likely that includes Tesla fanboyism). In reality, if EVs were the future, Toyota would start making vast numbers of them in just a few years.

The real issue is that BEVs are not cost effective right now, and show no sign of that happening anytime soon. Until then, PHEVs and hybrids make a lot of sense.

PS: A lot of these Chinese EV makers are scam companies propped up by the Chinese government. They have no ability beyond shoving giant batteries into generic chassis.
Or measuring torque in Watt-hours (or any other unit of energy -- joules, calories, BTUs...).
> if the year of the Linux desktop has finally come

No, I think that's next year. ;)
Last time I checked, Europe was a continent, and the UK, Brexit notwithstanding, was still part of it —- they may have exited the European Union, but geography is harder.
Are you saying that they made up the calls? Or that they made the calls themselves?
Back when I was using Android, I ran Firefox Nightly, just like I do on my laptop, so I knew about:config worked! I was not aware it was disabled on release, which seems pretty roundly just a silly and unreasonable restriction.
The license pre-October 2022 actually explicitly allows you to continue using older versions of the software under the original licensing terms when you released back then. So there is no money in legacy customers, except Genshin-scale ones. And I doubt those guys are paying up anyway.
I’m not giving Unity any more money, thanks.
The hell took France so long? This whole thing sounds like nonsense.
Don't forget roads and mail delivery. And there are people who look at that public infrastructure that basically allowed civilization to develop, and they go "what a shame, someone could be collecting rent on that".

> if the vast majority needs the same thing

It's more that if you privatize certain necessary infrastructure, the owners either end up as monopolies and/or require heavy regulation, which means the customer can't just buy from someone else and/or new companies can't unseat dysfunctional incumbents.
Similarly, I would have never survived college physics without a cheapo CAS calculator that could tag and symbolically manipulate units. I simply made far too many algebra errors without it.
I don’t think people understand what a big leap this going to be for their CPU cores.
Hey look at that Sundar Pichai fucked up again. How is this guy still CEO?
Lessons Learnt from Consolidating ML Models in a Large Scale REC System
Any observations can be submitted, but the observation has to be verified by a different observer. Most identifiers are folks with more experience identifying things locally, and the data quality is high. There's very little incentive to game the system and if something is misidentified other iNatters can also add identifications correcting mistakes which happens regularly - often various scientists/specialists tend to sweep observations in their taxa of note and correct issues. There's criteria for a "high quality" observation, including being verified. Only those observations that are high quality are used for training.
Godot Development Fund
Yes. And a dev account is like $100/year.

It’s bad that they can gatekeep like this, I agree. I should just be able to put whatever on the hardware I buy.

But the expense in practical terms, immediate pragmatic terms, is negligible compared to what it unlocks.
Salesforce to Hire 3,300 People After Layoffs Earlier This Year
A home central A/C would use a volume of ice of maybe a cubic meter, if that. This doesn't seem excessive.
And obviously the employees and engineers working on unity made the choice about these policies, right?
Happened to me before, I thought it was a generator running at a construction site down the street. It wasn't that long ago but I don't recall exactly when it stopped or if anything correlated.
It’s a preview of what will probably be the basis of the M3 series of Macs that will allow you to run any software you want
https://archive.ph/kSEHy
Great news. Seek is the #1 app I recommend parents for their children if they’re going to be using a smart phone. A tool that helps us engage with and appreciate our natural environment with nice gamification. Helped me identify some of my favorite sages and other aromatic plants.
Tbh half of the instructional shorts are just flat out wrong and even dangerous. So many electrical advice videos showing awful tips and techniques. Comments full of people pointing out the problems but most people won't read them.

They are created more for entertainment and to blast out as many videos as possible without any concern to accuracy.
> "When we launched the latest version of your feed on September 6, 2023, we made changes to the underlying technology of the feed in order to improve overall platform performance," the biz explained in a post on Tuesday.

> "As a result, we removed the functionality for 'push events for repositories a user is subscribed to'. We don’t take these changes lightly, but as our community continues to grow tremendously, we have to prioritize our availability, user experience, and performance."

—-

I’ve found that not bothering with behavioral algorithms that attempt to determine users’ granular interests is very performant on my own servers. The absence of superfluous data mining is nearly 100% transparent to my overall system load. Maybe that’s an alternative to explore?
As an example of a different frontend, have you tried "jujutso" [1]? Every time I ended seeing a comment about git vs Hg usability I am reminded of it. It uses git in the backend but its workflow/frontend seems streamlined.

Jujutsu is a Git-compatible DVCS. It combines features from Git (data model, speed), Mercurial (anonymous branching, simple CLI free from "the index", revsets, powerful history-rewriting), and Pijul/Darcs (first-class conflicts), with features not found in most of them (working-copy-as-a-commit, undo functionality, automatic rebase, safe replication via rsync, Dropbox, or distributed file system).

[1] https://github.com/martinvonz/jj
The great thing was that women saw men (and vv) who aren’t only a handful of Gram-worthy photos and a couple of stolen clever pickup lines.

It allowed folks a direct avenue to those they found attractive and could use skills other than paying, stellar photography, and quotes from highly upvoted r/Tinder comments as a way to convince others to go on dates.

People have been either really successful with the way dating apps operate now (they’re incredibly attractive males or just about all females) or they’re incredibly frustrated because the algorithms have taken so much control away.

It’s a sad reality. RIP OKC.
Correction: programming language inventor or convicted serial killer
lol. i have respect for these skilled engineers. but let's not pretend making posts show up on a feed is as difficult as curing cancer.

half the time my app screen freezes or there's an issue with posts showing. it was good at the start and that's how fb gained users, but at this point people put up with the poor UX because of friction.
How would that work when someone is working on a feature/bug and has to pause switch to a another bug, then return to the 1st feature/bug

Sometimes you want to keep 2 different copies of Main with different names and state
More than likely, I would think, since plurality just means more than one.

But the justification is not the same. People were going to the drug store for cough drops and unintentionally ending up addicted to opioids. Nobody was going to the drug store for a decongestant and accidentally making meth out of it, and the number of people getting addicted to pseudoephedrine itself was neither large enough to justify the change, nor its explicitly stated rationale. Nor an effective means to bring it about if the claim that showing an ID isn't a burden is to be believed because it would have no effect on the small minority of people who might go to the pharmacy for a stuffy nose and thereby become dependent on pseudoephedrine, since they would still get it.

Meanwhile the stated rational of limiting availability of methamphetamine hasn't gone well either.

This before we even mention that the OTC replacement, phenylephrine, is not only ineffective, it's a more dangerous drug than pseudoephedrine from a cardiovascular perspective and the switch has plausibly killed some people.
Not if you await the first shot…
NYC Council to weigh making delivery apps pay for drivers’ e-bikes
Liveness data flow analysis is just a phase a compiler and JITs go through. They'll eventually cease murdering heap and stack values once they've decided to halt. Unfortunately, they use a disposable Erlang distribution Schrödinger cat box to make each decision. Not sure what they do with all the no-longer-cats or what sort of sensor detects ex-cats.

Schrödinger couldn't just invent a cyanide sensor. He was definitely a psychopathic serial killer in addition to being a serial pedophile (this bit is true).
> The real issue is that BEVs are not cost effective right now, and show no sign of that happening anytime soon.

That must come as quite a surprise to all of the people who’ve already found them to be cost effective. Did you mean something like “gargantuan e-SUVs and trucks”?
When Americans Abandon the Constitution
Johnny here.

This isn't how I feel. I wonder which part of the website gives you the idea that I believe that it is 'the one' and only system?

I mean I could surround every statement on there with "please only do this if you feel that it's for you" but that might get tedious.

I have an idea. I present it. I personally like it. If you don't, that's okay. Go find something else that works for you.

Please don’t call people you know literally nothing about ‘tech bro’. That’s not nice.
Double Bonus Points for ReiserFS right?
Is it possible to jailbreak those privacy invading cars?

Is it possible to :

- not subscribe to "on Star" and its equivalents

- unplug the modem in the car

- use the infotainment without sharing data.

What happen if I block the cameras and disconnect the modem antenna ?
> Founded as DotCloud in 2008 by Solomon Hykes in Paris, what we now know as Docker started out as a platform as a service (PaaS) before pivoting in 2013 to focus on democratizing the underlying software containers its platform was running on.

> Hykes first demoed Docker at PyCon in March 2013, where he explained that Docker was created because developers kept asking for the underlying technology powering the DotCloud platform. “We did always think it would be cool to be able to say, ‘Yes, here is our low-level piece. Now you can do Linux containers with us and go do whatever you want, go build your platform.’ So that’s what we are doing.”

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3204171/what-is-docker-the...
A complete nightmare!
> ClearCase [...] it is not distributed [...]

That's the key reason Git can't work the same way, and what makes it so powerful, and sometimes hard to grok.

Git is based on a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) of committed changes. The DAG is shared by everyone. Each commit is immutable, and only extends the DAG with a new node. You do not alter any of the DAG that other people already possess, you are creating a NEW chain of nodes connected to the DAG.

And that's it, that's how it allows anyone to make changes, at any time, on any number of systems. Because all operations are strictly additive to the DAG. Every time you commit changes, you add another immutable node onto the DAG. And at the very same moment, on another unrelated server, someone else is adding unrelated immutable nodes as well.

Later, you may obtain some of those remote changes, they can be fetched into your local repository. You can fetch them without merging them. You will just have a copy of how someone else extended the DAG. But there will be no connection between the changes you made locally, and the changes the other person made in their repository.

When you merge, you're simply updating the DAG with a new node, it will point at two, previously disconnected chains of commits. Both sides of the merge represent immutable changes that extended the DAG starting from a single commit, the branching point.

And that's what you see in merge conflicts. The first block shows what a section of code looks like in the local branch. And the second block (after the equal signs) shows what that same section of code looks like in the remote branch you're merging.

<<<<<<< local
a
X
c
========
a
Z
c
>>>>>>>> remote

That's it.