skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. There are a lot of really smart engineers at these companies. No doubt about it! They often have to pioneer solutions to challenging problems, which have downstream benefits for everyone else.

I do wonder though if we will look back on this period in history and regret the economic and cultural incentives which have co-opted so many smart people into the service of ... advertising.
>The complainant installed the popular apps MyFitnessPal, Fnac and SeLoger on their Android smartphone.
And I want to do different things when I'm this way than what I want when I'm in a conscious state.

Why is it that every single company only wants to serve the same one of those personas?
This is a very dated view of Reddit.

I just visited Reddit in incognito mode.

Of the top 20 posts, 3 were links to articles. Most were images, videos, or text posts -- very similar to Twitter.
I have been on the flip side of this when I lived in a condo (the condo association was legally an HOA, and I was on the board for one year). Literally the only legal lever the HOA has over improper use of shared spaces is fines and, if the fines are not paid, the only way to recoup them is via a lien.

Meanwhile other members of the HOA are filing lawsuits against the HOA for not sufficiently enforcing the rules. I'm just glad I can afford to not live in an HOA (of course if you can afford that, you probably also can keep up on your payments and not have a lien taken out).
The contract is part of closing. Like you said, it’s part of the deed. These cases the community was built by builders for the HOA to manage. In this case, the deed you sign for your house is the contract for HOA. This isn’t Fannie Mae, or Freddie Mac, or FHSA, or any government sponsored thing. It’s pure greed and privilege.
Mandatory phone number has become the latest plague. Not only the phone number is mandatory but many sites now pretend to 2FA without user enabling the setting - or even worse, don’t use password and only send codes via SMS.
Using a local LLM could work just as well if all you are doing is asking it slightly change existing text. The concept itself paired with a throwaway account(s) seems to be better than other alternatives like just deleting everything.
I hate Unity as next guy, but please don't do this. Vote with your engine choice, not death threat.
Agreed. It's like a different video playing application popped up in the middle of YouTube. Also weird when you exits shorts, the previously watched long video starts playing.
50%?! That’s well over the “there’s going to be a violent revolution and/or populist strongman coup now, period, end of story” mark.

He’s either a blowhard or an idiot. Or maybe both, I guess.
Yes it does. It muddies the waters with false positives.
How would they get the water over the Rocky Mountains to the Salt Lake Valley? I thought the pipeline from the Pacific Ocean was a crazy idea, but you have that one beat.
"market targeting power users" is basically SaaS, right? I don't understand that market as well, but it seems to have similar dynamics where you only charge X$ / user / month and so are incentivized to grab more users instead of giving more value to existing users.
You've just independently developed something almost identical to the Whonix system. :) May as well use the pre-built VMs that do it for you.
A lot of that culture around gaming and gamers is shut in culture where you get a lot of drama and acerbic conversation because for many that’s their only source of entertainment and agency. Obviously this doesn’t refer to the millions of casual gamers who couldn’t be pissed about what is going on outside of the hour they spend a night gaming.
Releasing Temporian, a Python library for processing temporal data
Can’t tell from the article whether this in mice, in a plate, or simply in theory?
> With competition it would lower the parts price

Around here repair shops with lower prices than first party get shitty parts. At best they're not on par spec-wise on non-breaking things (e.g max nits or color reproduction on a display), at worst they either last way less than third party (e.g battery) or are outright dangerous (damaging other parts or outright fire hazard).

I've been burned often enough that for me it's first party or nothing, and get third party only as a last resort.

People at large don't care about/understand these immaterial things so at scale competition is a race to the bottom.
Yeah, I thought that going all on in language implying "game developers are babies throwing a tantrum" was a bit much.
This country has become such an effing joke. This story of exceptions for big companies and the rich repeats itself over and over.
just use it durectly fir showers and heating the house
>As a side note, I always find it quite amusing when for-profit companies accuse another for-profit company of being unfair by wanting to make more money.

Maybe because most people think you shouldn't announce that you are going to fundamentally alter the way your payment model works for the reason of "We didn't make ENOUGH profits last quarter".

Article was written by a soulless mba-style cretin. Into the garbage it goes.
Care to elaborate why this gets downvoted?
Not the best article. It basically entirely ignores how this is going to hurt the small/indie developers the most, who are the main reason Unity exists as it does today.

Indie games will have lower price points than AAA games, and thus Unity's cut is a larger piece of the ever-shrinking pie.

My personal opinion about this whole fiasco is that they'll go back on their original statement to something still quite greedy but less so than the prior. Perhaps they planned that all along?
I’m not familiar with the VACUUM changes but the situation you’re describing suggests something is wrong with the table definition or database configuration.
Tails works fine on IBM-PC compatible laptops and desktops with Intel compatible chips, which is nearly all laptops. I presume you meant that Tails doesn't run on ARM Macs?

If you only have an ARM Mac, it's easy to get an old IBM-compatible laptop and run Tails. What matters is a decent speed of USB stick, and today they're generally decent. I find it helpful for testing some things, I can reboot and get to a known state.
It’s difficult to take your bet as anything other than disingenuous grandstanding considering the appetite for such public policy changes is pretty weak. It’s impossible to distinguish what is a matter of will and what is a matter of actual possibility.

To your points about China. You can’t point to the size of any of chinas markets without normalizing for the size of the population. Yes, Chinas automotive sales are twice that of the US and frowning but their vehicle registrations [0] per capita are less than the quarter of the US total, which is the real relevant number: the actual number of cars on the road.

Further, while true that China has engaged in very large scale urban planning and mass transit projects. I wouldn’t say it’s fair to call them some sort of anti car utopians. If anything they limit cars from the standpoint of transit efficiency. They actively promote their own industrial development in the automotive market and consider EVs to be a competitive advantage.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_...
Is this similar to the dunning-kruger effect?
I've personally worked for multiple startups where rolling out hardware keys did not require making additional IT hires (we're talking about companies smaller than ~50 people). Perhaps at BigCo size, you end up needing dedicated personnel to support a hardware key rollout at that scale, but at that scale you have the budget for GitHub Enterprise anyway so the point about pricing is moot; at BigCo size there is also even more of an incentive to roll out hardware keys since you're that much more likely to get spear phished.
I think everyone in this thread underestimates this part of ARM's business (from the F-1):

*
Expand our System IP and SoC Offerings. To enable further improvements in performance and efficiency, we continue to develop a broader set of configurable systems IP offerings, including proven on-chip interconnect, security IP, memory controllers, and other design IP to be used with our processors, including the integration of multiple IP technologies into a subsystem and additional information to assist in fabrication. More recently, we have invested in a holistic, solution-focused approach to design, expanding beyond individual design IP elements to providing a more complete system. By delivering SoC solutions optimized for specific use cases, we can ensure that the entire system works together seamlessly to provide maximum performance and efficiency. At the same time, by designing an increasingly greater portion of the overall chip design, we are further reducing incremental development investment and risk borne by our customers while also enabling us to capture more value per device.*

ARM doesn't just give you the architecture, they give you a reference design that already works and then lets you customize it however you want.

Companies like Apple don't care about that, but MediaTek, NXP, etc. use it to speed the design process meaningfully.
It's okay to be tread upon if it is a private enterprise, especially if it is a misstep tread from boots actively stomping someone they don't like.
Can an American explain to me why there are so many solar scams in the USA?

I'm about to bring my 20,000W rooftop array online. In my country I simply got quotes from local professionals and it was painless. I picked the best system that met my needs and they installed within weeks.
I suspect just one, of course the changes will be focused on providing more security for HOA boards.
You run two VMs in VirtualBox. One is a Tor gateway, the other is a workstation. Both run Whonix and are preconfigured for this. A virtual network between them is set up so that the workstation can only access the Internet via the Tor gateway VM, so it's impossible for connections to "leak" directly to the Internet without going over Tor. The gateway VM runs in the background and you run a regular browser in the workstation VM.

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Whonix-Gateway

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Whonix-Workstation
Early Stage Breast Cancer detection (with new milk test)
It's voluntary in the sense that you don't have to buy a house.
> the unity thing seems like a blatant attempt at rent extraction

Gamepass is literally renting games on a flat monthly fee (which they've recently increased, btw). Unity chose a really stupid approach to handle their new pricing, but they're doing what everyone is doing, hiking prices in an uncertain market. I suspect this is at least partially because of services like Gamepass, but I'd love to know more.
I have a totally opposite view. FB at least is an "easy" problem in that it's a free product that's mostly casual use. The end result I see is that FB is massively inconsistent, you can literally see different parts of the FB system having a different view on a moderately heavily commented post. Comments will pop in and out of existence on a given device, and different people will have wildly different views for up to a few minutes. If accuracy mattered FB would be just awful.
We support all major data warehouses today, so if you’re pushing ads data into one of them, you can work with it in Evidence.

We are working on support for sourcing data directly from APIs as well, so we will likely add direct connectors for that type of thing.

What are you thinking about building?
Very true, for now, but the amount of tools / libraries / projects that will spawn / funded / contributions to move projects out of Unity is gonna make that more realistic eventually.
My first house was in a neighborhood where the builder set up an HOA mainly to care for the clubhouse/pool. Before I moved in, the neighborhood voted to disband the HOA and sell the pool. I think it was sold to a private entity.. its been a while. We didn't have kids and never went to the pool, so I'm fuzzy on who owned it.

I loved that neighborhood. All of the neighbors became friends. It was the closest nit neighborhood I've ever lived in, aside from my college dorm. Property values did not suffer when the guy across the street and one over painted his house pink, nor did they suffer when my neighbor's parents visited in their RV and parked in front of his home for 2 weeks every summer.
Why Apple put a Thread radio in the iPhone 15 Pro
I could see 206 being questionable as well.
The approaches for information organization versus info retrieval are often different. For example, we mostly read content based on whatever fixed structure it's in, be it a blog post or a scientific article. Note-taking tends to follow that structure. But we retrieve and consume the information in a non-linear, context-driven search.

Putting everything in a rigid hierarchical oder has some benefits, namely familiarityto the author, but incurs the cost of organizing the material and the mental context switch from the task at hand.

I've been researching ways to make information tagging and visual search easy and effective - at the source - in the narrow case of reading scholarly documents [1]. The goal is to avoid a prescribed organization format in favor of contextual tagging, visualization for personal analytics, and linking of concepts afterwards, in a way that reduces distraction from reading and understanding.

[1] https://www.knowledgegarden.io/
I did, a couple months ago, including a rant or two about how it was just like Apple to nerf the port to sell more iCloud space or whatever.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37481344
It's stack ranking for neighborhoods!
Yes, I know. The question was about what is "dark enough", given a light foreground text. #444444 is dark enough.
Epic made more than $5bn in profit from 2018 to 2019, according to documentation from Epic's court case with Apple, and $5.1bn in revenue in 2020.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/3/22417447/fortnite-revenue-...

With numbers like that, collecting a half-million dollars from even ten blockbuster games per year is probably not even worth the time and energy it would take; that would be 0.1% of their revenue, which, relatively speaking, is basically nothing. That whole business wouldn't even show up on the balance sheet.
Revealed: Israeli Cyber Firms Have Developed an 'Insane' New Spyware Tool
I mean, exactly, that’s why this is a bad idea. Adding a column is simple, having your DB be your API is madness. The more magic you add, the worse it gets.
You seem to be very sure of this. I'm curious where that confidence is coming from.
How do you figure?

Postgres docs are quite clear. Table space is not reclaimed without a vacuum full. So delete a column in a big table? you are storing that data forever.
CIA Discloses Identity of Second Spy Involved in ‘Argo’ Operation
https://github.com/makelinux/linux_kernel_map
Unity is not offering a genuine service? People are so upset because it is valuable product. Otherwise they'd just switch to something else.
given trajectory of birth rates, plumetting sex amongst youth, and various governments ratcheting up incentives to have children, this may be more likely than you think...
I'll definitely get downvoted, but I feel like constantly fearing for your life is a fair price to pay for being rich
At the last place I worked (3200 physical locations) we scrapped physical bypass ports/NICs because they seemed to create more site outage time than they ever solved (maybe there is actually a model that is reliable at scale, but we didn't find it).

A port physical state watch script tends to be better. I don't know what lower end gear has it though, some may even support that as a mode of their "WAN monitoring" instead of actively sending probes. Worst case I know Ubiquiti Edgerouters let you run your own scripts on the Linux base and it'd be a matter of running "primary port up ? remove vlan from backup port and add vlan to primary port : remove vlan from primary port and add vlan to backup port" in a loop every second (there may even be a native feature for it though so check that first).
> Openwrt for some reason defaults to reply to pings.

it's a bit like greeting-back ppl on the street.

not doing it will not make you invisible. it will break somebody's assumption of decency, but most ppl don't care either way.
In the 80s when I lived in Tucson, Molly and I would perform our songs together at the Drinking Gourd on 4th. I am beyond sad to hear this news. Long live Molly! Send us love from Paradise.

Mark Denny
Thank you. In theory if the diabetic successfully controls their blood sugar for the vast majority of the time does that limit the damage?
There's no solution to drug use. There's only acceptance of this unwavering human reality.

Now all the junkies on the street corner? Lock them up
> it allows people to say things with less fear of bad guys knowing who said them

I see what you are saying, but AFAIK, the technology is neutral as far as good or bad goes. One could say it lets a person say and do things with less fear of consequences in general.
No, the question was about what background is "dark enough", i.e. sufficiently dark to provide good contrast with the foreground color.
Not if you have robot police force.
No need to get data at that level of granularity. "How many users do we have?" "Who is our biggest user?" Simple questions like those which are simple to answer vs a centralized database, and much more difficult to answer when the databases are distributed.
This is great!

But I just installed the latest Debian with Postgres 15, haha. I don't even think I'm using any features past 11 (websearch_to_tsquery), so I'll need to research anything new that might be useful to me.
He's also the guy responsible for the whole "Millennials should just stop eating avocados if they think they're poor" meme
It's more about to allow other investors to dump the stocks before you.
"For the first time, we show that breast milk obtained from patients with breast cancer carries tumor DNA, surpassing plasma-based liquid biopsy for detection and molecular profiling of early-stage breast cancer, even prior to diagnosis by image"

This is revolucionary. Testing milk to find otherwise invisible tumors will not only save may lives but also a lot of uncomfortable mammographies to women.

Another example of unexpected fruits harvested when scientists are allowed to be in the right place at the right time. Congratulations to Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology in Barcelona
I think a huge percentage of the executive class are extremely narcissistic and completely out of touch with the common person.

Populism (Trumpism) will NEVER go away as long as we have an executive class without a ounce of empathy.
C, C++ and some Python
Unity is a popular game engine/editor.

They have been struggling financially under a CEO that is known to make a mess of everything he touches. Now he has decided that to turn his sinking ship around every game that uses their engine has to pay some amount per install. This will kill them in the free-to-play and indie market where unity is currently the leader.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/09/game-developers-unite...

KennyNL is an indie gamedev and a very popular maker of free-to-use assets. Many gamedevs probably use his assets for their first prototypes.

https://kenney.nl/assets
In the UK I've experienced 121s and I feel like it's more about having a higher point of contact for an employee, where you can discuss anything you want in longform, including personal development, but also day to day issues, what's been annoying, who's been annoying, what could be improved, other suggestions etc. Things that higher management do not have time for (to dedicate 30-60 minutes to sit down with each employee).

Then those longform discussions are summarised and points raised higher up the chain as needed.
Any increase in yield reduces the amount of land needed. I thought land use was the putative horror critics of solar were objecting to, so surely they'd want to cut down the much larger area used by farming?
Nice clean unit, and floppy drives too! Good haul.
https://archive.ph/wLY6j
I think what he actually meant was that it should jump 50%, ie that it should be 50% higher than it is now. Still horrible but that would imply an unemployment rate of ~6%, not 50%.
"A substantial fraction of the world’s most brilliant, competent, and empathetic people ... spend their lives serving Marl" that is a logical fallacy because smart people don't waste their time on something as useless as that.
I have a hard time understanding why some companies make absurd monetization policies even tho obviously they know it'll be very unpopular. Do they still usually end up making more money despite the backlash?
Tyranny of the Corporate Conglomerate is a more compelling explanation for the downward spiral in product quality. Take Reddit's decision to cut off API access, which destroyed independent apps like Apollo as well as all the very useful search tools (pushshift) - I haven't visited Reddit once since that happened.

It's all about controlling the users as a controlled user base is more easily exploited for profit. First corral the sheep so that they can be more efficiently fleeced, that's the mentality of the executive suite.
That's unfortunately not a choice that can be made either way. If something has demand, can be bought and sold, and has value, there is inherently an economic market for it.
To me, it'd make sense in theory to carve out these exceptions even without a lobbyist asking for them: it'd make for a bill that gets immediately passed rather than endlessly argued about and shot down, because a bill with these exceptions has nobody on the other side of it pushing back. And that could just be the first step; you could then do a series of smaller bills (or better yet, riders to must-pass bills) that each try to knock out one of these exceptions.

In practice, though, I feel like the exemptions here will be interpreted as part of the "spirit of the bill" rather than examples of realpolitik expediency...
I mean iPhones (and other phones) have apps that help you identify weeds and the like.

Don't iPhones have that earthquake detection as well so they might as well be an alarm device.
Dear God this is a tired point. The rest of the damn paragraph of the Wikipedia article fully addresses that. Nobody who uses the term "serverless" thinks that magic fairies are replacing servers. The point is who is managing it for your application or business.
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