skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, they claim that the fee is for their support of whichever platform the user installed on.
They made an sdk for this but nothing really came of it.
> I doubt many chromebooks in active use by students would even last 10 years.

Maybe not, but we've been surplussing tens of thousands of otherwise-usable Chromebooks regardless, because they could not be updated to current.
Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvedon_Hatch_Secret_Nuclear_...
Yet, that is what they are planning on doing.
That you so readily conflate the editor itself as a terminal end rather than a cleverly disguised means to an end hiding in plain sight is what makes Microsoft's strategy so scary; they're so effective at steering even knowledgable users into completely missing the forest for the trees as you've clearly demonstrated.
Show HN: MeloMaker – Create Melodies in the Browser
MeloMaker is a web-based sound synthesizer.

It's a personal project to learn more about the audio API. The project is still in its early phase. Please tell me what you miss or what should be optimized.
> Google and other tech companies should continue to find ways to stop the disposability treadmill that pressures us to replace our phones and laptops in favor of newer models.

The treadmill is powered by "intellectual property". Abolish "owning" ideas, and you abolish the treadmill. Capitalism would solve this issue if it were allowed to run its course. Unfortunately we've let artificial monopolies run rampant in the name of "innovation". All that we've innovated is screwing people over as much as possible.
I would really like to see some form of electoral reform passed that would reduce spoiler effects, make third party movements more viable, and change the incentives for politicians in elections (e.g. instant runoff voting as endorsed by https://fairvote.org/ or https://cfer.org/ ; or proportional representation ).

I'm disappointed that two bills for ranked-choice voting have passed the legislature in California only to be vetoed by the governor (Schwarzenegger in 2007, Newsom in 2019): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_reform_in_California

I hope eventually some of these reforms will get more widely adopted.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/its-time-to-talk-ab...
I was in Oxford again today and saw another one.
A list of IP ranges for Amazon AWS
Litter laws make sense and don’t limit purchase options. These laws hurt the poorest so the upper echelon can feel good.
Will they though? I don’t trust google now as far as I can throw them.
> Most payment terminals now accept MasterCard/Visa as well as Maestro/VPay, though due to EU/EEA legislation, some may only accept debit cards as well as credit cards issued outside the EU/EEA (but not credit cards issued inside the EU/EEA).

Why is this? If this is about the fee-capping rules, I would have expected that they’d disallow foreign credit cards and allow EU/EEA credit cards, since the foreign credit cards are not subject to the fee cap even when used within the EU.
Stolen attention returned in a HN comment.
Medical Mysteries: He’s lucky his Iceland vacation ended in a hospital
...unless we decide to just cancel the whole project on a whim.
Could it be something simple, like how as companies grow, the average company knowledge about the product decreases?

Both at IC and exec level; the new people coming in are more likely to just be good general operators. Plus the CEO and leadership gets tired or retire.
https://archive.ph/d7V3v
Quoting https://prokopetz.tumblr.com/post/728361889628913664/sure-ev...:

> For my money, the most interesting part of the whole Unity debacle is that by a strict reading of the new policies, ceasing to offer one's Unity-based games for sale won't even work as a means of getting around the fees: if your Unity-based game is no longer available for sale after January 1st, you'd still be on the hook for the Unity Runtime installation fee for new installs performed by previous legitimate purchasers, even in cases where such installs are performed from physical or archival media or are otherwise impossible for you to prevent.
I see i was down voted - gentle request for the opportunity to understand why?
Iranian hackers target secrets held by defense, satellite, pharmaceutical firms
I honestly thought you were making this up, but you are not...

http://www.billiondollarhomepage.com/
Or "Ackchyually guy"[0].

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ackchyually-actually-guy
Rugged Chromebooks? I still use Acer R11s (albeit these are non-rugged) that were released in 2015 -- almost 10 years ago.
I think Unity had that same provision? Until they changed it:

"Unity silently removed their Github repo to track license changes, then updated their license to remove the clause that lets you use the TOS from the version you shipped with, then insists games already shipped need to pay the new fees."

https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/16hnibp/unity_sile...
Somewhat ironically for a post talking about misinformation, the first link that you use to support your claim links to a study that says "this study has not yet been published in a peer reviewed journal".
It's not under the radar because that's sadly not the case, although it looks like it should work better on the surface. Neural machine translation is just more consistent, doesn't hallucinate and can be easily and cheaply trained over time.

They have some benefits, but as a lot of LLM research has found, they are not production ready. Yet.
Agreed.

https://old.reddit.com/r/LokiList/comments/s0a0w6/why_i_made...

Also:

> we took pairs of bad matches (actual 30% match) and told them they were exceptionally good for each other (displaying a 90% match.)

https://archive.ph/O2AF1#selection-421.14-421.145
It's not musical chairs. My average tenure is somewhere around 5 years. I've worked at companies for 7+ years without burning out or getting close to it. So yeah, I think it's a sustainable pace for quite a while. I'm also not a spring chicken anymore. I have 5 adult children.

Why do you think so? How exactly is that going to happen? What's the
incentive to improve working conditions when employees just leave quickly,
on purpose? Again, you didn't even claim that your new jobs have good
working conditions.

Most of my jobs have had great working conditions. The few jobs that were short tenure were the ones that didn't. The incentive is that high turnover is harmful. Successful companies should look to keep people around for longer than a year. If they want to keep me for 5 or more then they'll have to provide an environment that I'll be willing to stick around for. There are companies that have done that and we have both benefited as a result. If enough people realize that they are valuable employees and treat their employer relationship that way I believe it can change the landscape.

If you think it's hopeless and you aren't a valuable employee in the companies eye then that turns into a self fulfilling prophecy.
Totally wrong about OKCupid.

The whole point is that you're not supposed to find anybody but keep looking because if you find somebody you're no longer a customer. Match buys every dating site that gets even 2% of traction because they can't stand the possibility that somebody makes a dating site that works and destroys their customer pool.

If the government was serious about antitrust they'd break up match.com
I'd agree with this although I understand where the idea comes from. It is difficult for people to understand what is and is not a science and it is easy to think that computer science is not a science even when you study it.

The way we learn and study topics is divorced from the original method of discovering those topics. The way people learn Computer Science is generally by absorbing the information, not by doing the experiments. So it is difficult for people to understand that the way we have this knowledge is through hypothesis forming and experimentation i.e. Science.
> This study basically describes 99% of people here, lol. Because you know how to write code, you're suddenly an expert not only at that but also at economics, medicine, international relations etc etc. Every field is ready for you to disrupt it. The hubris is astonishing.

Aka "Engineer's disease." There's an overestimation of one's personal competence and the effectiveness of the tools and mental models you're most familiar with. Basically think asshole software engineer who tells everyone they're dumb and should just solve the problem like they're writing software.
Yeah, writing on a word processor is a million times better (at least it is for me).

Don't get me wrong, I do think it's bad that writing things by hand is becoming more and more rare all the time. In particular, handwritten letters and notes have an extra bit of "personal touch" to them that can make them very valuable to the recipient.

However, from the time I was in High School to today I would never want to be required to write a paper, well, strictly on paper (from the beginning). I want all of that ability to quickly edit at my fingertips.
This is a subset of a related problem: the word "scale", in nearly every context, is a euphemism for "make stuff shitty by making the problems of 10% of users problems for 100% of users"

It applies to everything. God-awful frontend build pipelines. Everyone feeling the pressure for their regular old database to not make the cut. Sprawling, labyrinthine legal rules no one can follow because one weasel in one meeting was able to say "but what about..."
That sounds like you're someone who's very easily manipulated by psy-ops done by the companies themselves, then.
I no longer have to worry about counting calories to maintain my weight.

I simply don’t get hungry when I don’t need food.

When calorie counting Id be eating every two hours, constantly snacking and weighing a budget of calories I could spend on food.

Sure, technically I’m adhering to some calorie count that I don’t even know what it is anymore. But my body takes care of keeping track. I’m hungry, I have a bigger portion. I’m not hungry, I don’t eat.

And the fundamental thing is when I was calorie counting and eating whatever I wanted whenever I wanted, my weight was constantly going up!

It took constant vigilance and the willingness to go long periods feeling like shit to keep my weight in check.

Now, my weight just maintains. I never thought it was possible. And the simplistic ‘a calorie is just a calorie’ noise is no longer a belief I subscribe to.
How to recruit the best people (that are friends with your coworkers)
Is there no such thing as objectionable behavior that people might not want to live around? Is it wrong to want to do something about things like your next door neighbor turning a 1/3 acre property into a chicken-egg and honey farm? Or buying a second house to rent out for weekly parties that flood the street with cars, including sex parties? Should people just ignore those things? Cities don't want to deal with those things in my experience.
Yep, the ideal dating app in terms of profitability is one that makes users think they're going to meet the person of their dreams (so they are motivated to use it), but continually falls short (so they are retained). Which is exactly what the market has optimized for.
If useful here is a function for getting google cloud IP's.

get_google()
{
for line in $(dig +short txt _cloud-netblocks.googleusercontent.com | tr " " "\n" | grep include | cut -f 2 -d :)
do
dig +short txt "${line}"
done | tr " " "\n" | grep ip4 | cut -f 2 -d : | sort -n | uniq
}
It's an emphasis thing. You can't tell in text where the emphasis is. In this case it was super clear that it was "intel macOS", but yea, it should have been "intel macs".
However, Chromebooks supposedly come with well-tested Linux support.

If this is a guarantee that the drivers will get security updates for 10 years and be mainlined into the linux kernel (and if there is a way to get these things with a normal keyboard and BIOS), then this is great news.

I'd never run ChromeOS, but would happily buy a flagship-grade laptop that lived up to the expectations in the previous paragraph (and then run Linux or even BSD on it).
Can you give some examples of before and after? Don’t see it myself. I confess I gave up on it once Musk started pushing racists like Tucker Carlson so this may colour my view.
Anybody buying ARM stonk at IPO price will be bag holding. $54B valuation is insane
Cool! Would love to see a more detailed engineering blog!

We did something similar with Pinggy: https://pinggy.io/blog/scaling_across_multiple_regions/

Of course we don't do load balancing across agents. Routing to nearest agent is a nice feature.
> life after those 10 years

Yes, Chromebooks run coreboot and almost every model has a community coreboot build with a SeaBIOS/EDK (UEFI) payload available. [1]

When you flash that, you lose the ability to boot ChromeOS, but you can install a standard Linux distro on them.

IMHO, Chromebooks are awesome machines. With ChromeOS they have one of the most secure boot chain/data models of anything currently shipping. Unlocked bootloader, vboot by default, all user data is encrypted, and power washing is trivial. Amazing battery life. Also, they're cheap, and guaranteed to run coreboot with a bootloader that can always be unlocked by the user.

[1] https://mrchromebox.tech/
In my experience power users don't want SaaS. They tend to want control over their data, they want control over how/when the software runs, they want things to work offline, and they care about their privacy. It's the people who don't know/care about tech and just want a magical black box that love SaaS. They want all the complicated tech stuff to be someone else's problem, and they'll pay over and over and over again just so that they don't have to think about or manage anything.
> Alternatively and more seriously, I do hope to see markets emerge that target power users. I'm not optimistic though.

What's crazy to me is that 25+ million people on this Earth can program, and how many of them get to decide the UIs that everyone else uses? I myself, suck at UI programming. But that's because UI programming is labyrinthine, arcane, and generally requires becoming an expert in a number of extremely poorly thought-out frameworks that are often stupendously complicated. (Web, I am looking at you.)

Why can't I rip apart the UI of an app I use every day and rearrange it the way I want? And I mean, far more than toolbars and rearranging drop down menus. (BTW, remember those? Those were great).

Seriously though, I have written many hundreds of thousands of lines of code in my day; I fancy myself not super bad at programming, yet I cannot take apart a random GUI app and make it do what I want. Even when it's open source. I feel like this is an unaddressed problem; the UI cafeteria people keep serving us an ever-changing menu of crap, and I feel powerless to even lock in the few UIs that I do end up getting good at. They'll take that away soon enough.
A couple of years ago the CEO called game developers "big fucking idiots" effectively for not extracting the most possible revenue out of the industry. There was the classic "well I actually meant [more innocuous but still dirtbag thing]" walkbacks, but we all knew what he meant.

It now makes a lot more sense when you view it from the perspective of Unity wanting to rip much more revenue out of devs and games using their engine.
That entirely depends on how the panels are produced, no?
For the first twenty years of code monkeying I was not concerned about my sitting posture. And eventually I started developing lower back pain. 10+ years ago I used to joke about people using standing desks. But a standing desk was a cure for my back problems big time. I'm probably developing neck issues now because of my new standing posture though.
I guess I just don't understand how if your axioms are 1) X is an acceptable level of happiness and 2) more people are better than fewer it is in any way surprising or problematic to end up with infinite people at happiness X.

Perhaps people don't see that (2) is a part of the premise?
You know how haggling is accepted in some countries as part of doing business? In the US, small businesses scamming consumers if simply part of doing business. It's up to the consumer if they want to spend their time getting competing quotes or finding trusted referrals. But for a lot of people, a lot of the time, it's just easier to pay the premium even though you know you're getting ripped off. You'll find this in auto repair, landscaping, construction, plumbers and electricians, even web developers!
There's a vast chasm between "other people deserve to exist" and "we should 100x our population in order to increase the marginal happiness pool".
Lost it at the "through the magic of buying two of them" bit!
He hires smart people and listens to their ideas.

He's still a douchebag.
I am 100% guilty of this. I try to consistently remind myself that having read mostly pop-sci and the occasional abstract of a scientific paper does not in any way qualify me as either a scientist or even a knowledgeable non-scientist.
Access to more investors. Probably they could tap into some kind of nationalist sentiment since they are HQd in the UK.
It's not clear if the question is about logistics (e.g. "what's the best way to physically take ducks from the park to my home") or permission/legality (e.g. "am I allowed to take ducks home from the park").

Maybe the ambiguity is part of the point, but the variants and the scoring rubrics seem to be aimed at logistics, that is, practical plans for moving ducks. But if that's the case, it's a bit unfair to judge answers when the question isn't very clear.
Wall Street has nothing to do
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Unity never seemed like a good engine. It's CPU bound which is extremely aggravating for a GAME engine.

A popular game made with Unity, called Rust, always gets a lot of shit from players because GPUs don't do anything except give a couple FPS. I'd be glad to see Unity die with these pricing changes.
> I'll believe this argument when we start giving a shit about the poor when it comes to the literal basic necessities like food and housing.

You’re right, we should greatly reduce the regulations around housing in CA to allow for faster development so the poor can have newer, cheaper homes.

> And plus, this is such shortsighted thinking

No. The issue is the use of force. If you want a repairable option, pay more and get one. You’re forcing the poor to pay more for what you willingly chose to, and that’s bad. Don’t tread on the poor, keep their options open.
Marl isn't born that way, Marl is made by the same tech you're talking about. You're not a victim of Marl, you actively produce new Marls.

Whenever you introduce convenience into the world, you reprogram people. You create the short attention span and passiveness.
How does Tails(or Qubes, or etc) provide security in a real use case full time OS system?

Say I log into Facebook, obviously I expect my identity to be exposed to Facebook, but do any of those OS have the ability to keep me private after I logged into some website ?
Software should not be a limiting factor in the lifespan of a laptop. If the hardware breaks and you toss it, I think that's much more acceptable than tossing it when the hardware still works but the software is out of date.
If they want the research to "help inform science communication strategies" then make the article freely available.
People don't want to design chips from scratch. ARM gives you a lot of working stuff to bootstrap a product.
I wouldn't go that far. Apple's strategy in a lot of cases is more like that of automobile manufacturers where they invest heavily in a company as sort of a king maker, but then hold them over a barrel on later margins with the threat that they can make another king. That's what they did with TSMC, pre purchasing chips to the tune of ~$15B which allowed TSMC to go ahead and buy a bunch of the first EUV steppers.
That is an incredibly long bow to draw. Corporations are optimising for their own profits, not anyone's happiness.
Go back to Larry Lessig's inspiration from Aaron Swartz: the political OS is broken. In its current form, it is a pantomime theater that ping-pongs between manufactured populism and stooges of the billionaires. It cannot be fixed from within, much less a third party, because there are no incentives or motivations to stop feeding from the trough of so much fucking money and then the political class has the gaul to pretend that they're not bribes. John McCain's campaign finance reform, Larry Lessig's single-issue candidacy, and Yang's POTUS run underscore the futility of this Sisyphean task.

The only possible change to the US political order would be the concerted effort of ~10M of nonviolent protestors shutting down DC, demanding campaign finance reform, and recalling the most corrupt elected officials. Otherwise, in the absence of gamified popularity contests, a radical experiment for public administration would be a variant of sortition pulling from numerous professional memberships, as an alternative to the corrupting power of influence accumulation powered by media buys. I think Socrates would agree that too much (corrupt or misinformed) democracy doesn't necessarily lead to excellence or ethical outcomes.

PS: An incomplete list of representatives who are unfit for office:

- Mitch McConnell

- Diane Feinstein

- Nancy Pelosi

- Marjorie Taylor Greene

- Joe Manchin

- George Santos

- Kyrsten Sinema

- Douglas Vincent Mastriano

- Jim Bob Duggar

- Madison Cawthorn

(Certain ones omitted for obvious reasons. Sounds like a conspiracy theory, but I'm wondering if dysinformation campaigns by non-aligned countries have indeed greatly bolstered internal divisions.)
Google pays billions to Apple to be the default search engine on Apple devices, and pays billions to the US Carriers to be the default search engine on Android phones they sell. They wouldn't do that if they didn't feel they needed to...
After watching way too much Baumgartner Restoration, do paintings with such status receive much conservatorship? The varnish on that painting is obnoxiously aged.
Yes. Thanks for finally understanding it.
"Whichever the legacy code was written in" is going to be the overarching answer.

Python and Node are usually the choice for newer web facing stuff, which is the majority of cs work these days.
To mostly agree with you, note that the etymology is that "indie" is a shortening of "independent".

It does tend to carry connotations of small teams in video games, but that might just be because the margins in the industry make it super-hard for large studios to remain independent.

Note that I think Valve would count as an indie under a pure independence metric, thus making things like Half Life an indie game. Which feels a bit off.
That's kind of how property rights work. So if you're not going to go full "property is theft", then you need to show why water rights are different from the right to, say, the land (or the minerals on the land, or the timber on the land, or...)

And if you are going to go "property is theft", well, you're going to have to justify that with more than just the slogan itself, because it's a huge change, and the bigger the change the more justification you need for it. And you're going to have a hard sell, because people like owning stuff.
Indeed. To add to this - first to develop or not, Leibniz published first, and Newton's shameless unfounded accusations against him cannot be reasonably defended. I don't see any pro-Newton arguments in this situation besides "tribal obligations" that you mention.

In the realm of calculus Leibniz is far more influential - his notation, for instance, is so superior that English mathematicians rejecting it arguably led to the stagnation of the field in England. And of course it is far more prevalent today.
Unity is offering a runtime fee waiver if you switch to LevelPlay
I hope flywheel storage takes off (no pun intended) it seems such a logic solution when compared with water elevation or chemical solutions. Why hasn't it gone mainstream yet?