skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However I suspect it does matter in certain classes of jobs, namely federal government jobs

It also matters if you have a hire in mind. You might due to laws need to have a competitive job solicitation but you know they were an intern for you and therefore you really want to bring them on full time. So magically the job description has exact years of eduction, certain skills, etc that your intern all meets to the T.
5 years on an iphone is a long time. There'll be a few screen replacements in that story.
I had an amber WYSE serial terminal for a while in the mid 2000's that someone gave me new-in-box. I remember three things about it:

1. It had a sharp display and came with some fonts that were truly beautiful compared to the typical 80-column PC font.

2. It had a DB-25 serial port.

3. The keyboard was an absolute piece of garbage.
Yeah. I trust younger hackers — the smart ones - to invest time in what is useful and/or interesting to them. This stuff isn’t terribly useful (in comparison to all the other things out there to learn). Whether it’s interesting depends on your taste. I will add that older folks - myself included - have their idea of what’s interesting colored by a lot of nostalgia.

Be suspicious of anything with the tone of “kids nowadays…”. (Isn’t there an xkcd comic about that?) The smart young hackers will do fine, as they always have. I see teenagers doing wonderful things with x86 assembly on hacker news on a regular basis.

I love history; I trained as a historian. I just don’t think it’s always all that useful in our field, especially if it’s old technical trivia. (Social and economic history may be a different matter.) Sometimes it’s tangentially relevant. Mostly young engineers would be better off investing in learning timeless concepts, such as relational databases and SQL, networking, low level computer architecture, distributed systems theory, and so on. And they will (again, if they’re smart), because those things are useful and deeply interesting and will remain so thirty years from now. Get the foundations down and you will draw on that knowledge for your entire career.
While I agree Google is being a bit sly in lobbying against privacy legislation, I think they have a legitimate point, but also think that it'll lead to them concentrating more power in the ad market.

Google clearly believes that they can obfuscate identity by enough so that ads can be targeted while privacy can also be preserved.

If you don't think that all ads are bad (and Google argues that ads help make many of the sites we rely on economically feasible), then I think you may agree that sometimes, ad targeting produces more useful ads. Many of my friends have actually found Instagram ads interesting enough to talk about them at dinners. It's better to have those ads rather than random banners for things that you don't care about. Google would definitely also argue that ad targeting improves the worth of the Internet and allows more sites to offer their services for free because they can make more from AdSense.

The following only makes sense if you buy this argument:

The data for ad targeting has been abused so often that for many (most?) consumers, it's not worth it.

Google's perspective is: "we can be a responsible steward of this data for this new age of privacy-conscious ad targeting". The Chrome topics API and mathematical/statistical obfuscation are things that a blunt tool like the law may forbid. As far as arguments go, I think this is actually a plausible one. I do think Google has somewhat OK privacy controls compared to other large tech companies, and way better ones compared to bad acting small sites and ad companies/data brokers.

That being said, I don't love the concentration of power (that's why the DOJ is going after them) - I'd much rather there be some decentralized way to ensure privacy but still allow useful ads, but we get what we get.
To create multiple workspaces/projects, you need to create an account. When you create an account you can still work locally by:

- Enabling Git Sync which skips the cloud entirely and works with a 3rd party Git repository.

- Using Private Environments which are never synchronized in either Git or Insomnia Sync (cloud)

If you only have one collection, you can use Scratch Pad locally for that.
https://archive.ph/B98v5
Ask HN: I created an app => 200K+ downloads on Android,nothing on iOS. Any tips?
On Android, rating 4.7 based on 3000 reviews, excellent scores, tons of active users, purchases. On iOS, single downloads, with good internal metrics of the app. How to promote on iOS? Everything I've tried doesn't work, but I can see that users on both platforms like the app.
Do these massive telescopes have a future, when we could just build smaller ones and use aperture synthesis to pretend like we have a really really big telescope?
They can take up gainful employment just like everybody else. There is high demand for labor in Sweden. You can’t be serious.
This course was posted directly yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37672852
I've used a Mac from 2003 onwards, and it was rough in some ways before large web apps became common. Microsoft was seemingly throwing Apple a bone by making Office for Mac, otherwise I think the Mac would've been non-viable. And also Age of Empires II, which later on became Windows-only.
As some have pointed out: the board was set up for a particular time, which has passed. It's good to see a government program that is established, does its work, and then goes away. Too many government programs live on forever, becoming nothing but pork.

That said, this is the UK government we're talking about. Technically clueless, dreaming of the 1984 surveillance state.
> “The real problem with RCV is that it doesn't intuitively make sense to an average person.”

And yet it’s happening in NYC:

_“The first Ranked Choice Voting election was on February 2nd, 2021 in a special election for NYC Council District 24 (Queens).”_

If you can make it in NYC, you can make it anywhere.

https://www.nyc.gov/site/civicengagement/voting/ranked-choic...
You don't load them with bullets and you load your gun (not the one you are trading) and be ready to fire it western style.
I don’t think it’s that curious. Epic’s argument is that the App Store is fully closed and uses that forced exclusivity to take an unfair share of things, while also controlling things like discoverability.

Epic’s platforms are 60% cheaper than Valve and Apple, allows for in app purchases that don’t leverage epic and thus give them no money, and from the sound of it is much more creator friendly than something like the ridiculous economics of Roblox (not familiar with it though)
I think this is a good question - as is the question of if they can really expect to achieve what they want for ‘the metaverse’ and Fortnite without Fortnite being available on iPhone.
Does that work as a whiteboard you can scribble on with the results shown in real time on N other devices synchronised with it? As the one thing I miss from the office is a shared whiteboard. Quite sloppy conflict resolution would work out adequately, people would expect a mess when they scribble on the same area.

Not this one obviously as google are shutting it down, but if the tech works someone else is probably selling the same thing. Or will be shortly.
dynamic typing allows for hot code swaps. which is super important for systems that need 24/7 uptime.
> Can we say that the market has spoken?

Microsoft aggressively abused its monopoly position in order to make sure that Linux would never win in the desktop market, and then inertia took over, so no we can't say that the market has said anything useful
SBF down, Do Kwon down, Su Zhu down, many many more to go... I've been amazed at how slow the law seems to be in apprehending the most egregious scammers from that era.
> I dont understand how we get to a place where resources are allocated to build things that people dont actually need?

Resources are allocated to build things that can be sold to people.

In an ideal world, that's the very things they need.

But we don't live in an ideal world, need can be manufactured, and that's precisely what the entire industry of marketing is all about.

Then there's the industrial argument to consider. You build a factory to satisfy a need. After the need is satisfied for everyone, you still have a factory that's tooled in specific ways to produce specific products... and if you can make minimal changes and re-sell the same product with a new coat of paint, you make more money. Retooling is expensive.
Man they try real hard to avoid naming the culprit of the "Disaster".
I wish the headline read "Norway wants advertising banned across Europe". I wish society would revolt against the idea that advertising is something that should be allowed. It's an affront on attention and we now have alternative ways of discovering products and services that we want that weren't possible when advertising first started.
The price volatility is an aspect of the fact that existing cryptocurrencies aren't very useful for paying for things, so that the only thing they're useful for is speculating. A cryptocurrency that lacked speculation and which was widely used for payment would be much more stable.
Depends on the phone OS and wifi chipset Some Pixel phones can do it last I checked, which was about a year ago. It's a fragile dependency. For example, a Samsung with the same wifi chip didn't work.
> Number is a bit high but may be counting GPS, and EU GPS satellites you would have to block.

All of which transmit on the same 3-4 frequencies:

* https://gssc.esa.int/navipedia/index.php?title=GNSS_signal

so you'd only have to have high-power transmitters on those and you can block things.

* https://gpsjam.org

Do it from a plane, or drone, and directional antennas become less effective as the jamming is coming from the same direction as the real signal (the sky).
Shop Safe Act Reintroduced
I looked through someone's Google Ads account once to find that he has spent several thousand dollars on clicks from mobile games for under 5s. This was B2B software. Never accept Google Ad defaults!
Then we'll be a lot further ahead than if Valve had never paid for this work to be done. I don't know what better alternative you're after. Isn't this open source work? There's no ongoing dependency. If Valve shut up shop tomorrow we're in a better state than if they'd never funded development, aren't we?
Amit is a treasure. I referenced his articles many times when making my own games. We could really use more thoughtful and friendly visual learning resources like this for other subject matter.
I’ve only ever had one prospective employer even ask about my education history… and they were also the one who insisted my job experience would be determined only by the entries on my resume, so if I wanted them to believe “10+ years experience” I needed to go back and add bullshit I had removed for years prior. Other places completely disregarded their education requirements without so much as mentioning it.
It isn’t just race cars, this approximate power level is widely available in consumer cars.

Hyundai Ioniq-5 and other vehicles can utilize the increasingly common 350 kW connectors — including the Lucid Air, the Porsche Taycan, the Audi E-Tron GT, and the GMC Hummer EV. [0]

This enables them to deploy the fastest DC charging in places where the grid cannot support it. It’s a big deal.

[0] https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1135771_hyundai-ioniq-5...
A long time ago I worked at a company trying to commercialize a visual programming framework for general use. And before that I was on a team that built a visual programming environment to define simulation models for the largest flight/other simulation company in the world.

What I learned was that when a problem domain needed a visual representation they had already created it (using pencil and paper, decades ago). Think of schematic diagrams, piping and instrumentation diagrams and such. In those cases we were very successful. In cases where no such diagrams exist, we always failed to create one that stuck with the users. Text is great for code because is is extremely compact and takes advantage of things like visual rhyme. Uml, for example, can never achieve the same results
There's an awful lot of non-free code in medical devices.
If I own several oilfields and Chevron wants to pay me for the crude coming out of the ground, why should I waste money building a refinery?
Hum... We are still dealing with the last cloud-based security scanner that injected malware into every large IT related company, and still discovering what companies are completely hacked because of it but are hiding this.

So, color me unimpressed.
> all political information is a form of disinformation.

Doesn't make it all equal.

I see a difference between tailored information seen only by you on your computer in a controlled fashion and generic posters at the bus stop.

For one, if you put an unethical poster at the bus stop, some people may see it and complain about it. Whereas social networks can manipulate people on a 1-to-1 basis.
I'm definitely "America bad", and have observed the Russian government as absolute trash. I am far from alone on this viewpoint.
Have you seen JAX MD? https://github.com/jax-md/jax-md
> Thought experiment: what would the humanity miss if we removed the concept of ads entirely?

for one you wouldn't be posting on this site since it's literally a marketing device.

without targeting advertising you effectively only allow large companies to advertise.

I'd say you lose anything you're not paying for explicitly, which is most of the internet.
SearXNG is a internet metasearch engine which gets results from various engines.
In my cases, the employees weren't performing the expected output, which is what led to the discovery that they were working multiple jobs. Retail workers aren't working multiple jobs at the same time. In general, it is a straightforward transactional relationship with hours worked. That's not the case with a salaried job.
If interested, links to app stores:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=link.dothis
https://apps.apple.com/app/simple-to-do-shopping-lists/id644...
Cut them some slack its 30 years old but still pretty effective though.
Unreal Tournament patches are still in development with official approval/support of Epic:

https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches/

These patches include updates to the master server addresses which enable the game to continue working online.

Third-party master servers have also been available for at least a decade.
So tired of the “[company] claims to support my definition of [topic] while advocating different version of [topic]”

Privacy is an ambiguous term. Probably no two of us agree on 100% of the implementation details. Yes, Google’s approach does not align with my desires. But I’m not arrogant enough to think my definition is the single correct one.

How about “Google’s is lobbying for a weaker form of privacy than customers expect”?
Visa support is a nice thing too. I don’t think I have seen that before.
I disagree the story here is the badge info is being published to the managers employee info portal to manage people out based on attendance.
SIMD Everywhere Optimization from ARM Neon to RISC-V Vector Extensions
> Can they afford to use their devices in the real world a bit before launching?

What makes you think they don't?
That's the key thing. If some group has more emissions than me I can always just blame them first even if I'm contributing to the problem. The objective isn't solving the problem. The objective is to allow me to maximize my share of the pie by using rhetoric to claim that some arbitrary group of people are equivalent to others.

So I live guilt-free so long as Switzerland emits what it does. Once Switzerland and I have emitted the total equal amount of CO2, we can consider ourselves equally liable.
.NET Prism Library is now dual licensed
What is the problem with watermarks?

I actually love watermarks as a solution for DRM-Free media, because they make illegal sharing more cumbersome but don't impede legitimate customers (at least in any way I can think of). In fact, I kind of feel like watermarks add value, lending an authenticity to my purchase which a pirated copy wouldn't have.
Private Ad Modeling with DP-SGD
It takes our control over our networks away from us and gives it to random applications, to Trojans, to viruses, to adware purveyors, to advertisers.

It makes the assertion that because SOME of us don't know how to change our DNS servers, they (Mozilla, Cloudflare, other proponents of DoH) need to take control away from us and need to send our DNS lookups to, usually, them.

The justifications are ridiculous, but the harms introduced by DoH are much, much worse than the thing they're trying to say makes DoH useful.
I work in IoT and my single goal working in the industry is to do as much as I can (which will likely still be small) to make devices that are entirely separable from the cloud by enabling the use of different services and by being local-fist.

Imagine if private organizations built their own road network and then sold you a car that can only be driven on that road. Once that company goes out of business, the road vanished and your car is now a very heavy paperweight that literally cannot turn on. This would be totally unacceptable to us, yet we tolerate home automation vendors selling garbage that is locked to their propitiatory systems and will happily brick itself once those systems go offline.
There's also Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund, which was set up with a similar goal. It funds curl, for example.

https://sovereigntechfund.de/en/
But what if the looters are all armed? Their power in numbers means if you shoot one the resr will overwhelm you so they can expect to not be shot for that reason alone. In reality, the looters become gangs you pay for "protection" and they will be your "police" against others
Harder to execute a useful payload in a cooperative multitasking environment.
Tax deductions are not tax credits. The company is still out of pocket money. Which, if this canard were true, would be illegal.
> There is no "Reddit culture"; on Reddit, culture is scoped to a subreddit.

There is both.

For example, anonymity. There is nothing stopping people from using their real name as their username or openly revealing who they are, where they live and work etc. But the Reddit culture is to be anonymous.

Are there exceptions? Yes. But those exceptions don't change that it's an anonymous culture.
... but not concerningly!
The US Navy brought back celestial navigation (with sextants) as a backup:

* https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2021/december/bri...

* https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/u-s-navy-resumes-...
Sounds like a good start to me.
There is a real problem with discovery without any ads. I'm still aware of movies, but I never have much idea what TV shows exist anymore, or even when shows I like might are back on the air/streaming.

I might hear about about something interesting on social media or a podcast, but won't remember it until I see a picture on the streaming platform months later, when it's already been canceled for lack of viewers.

Youtube is actually the only place I actively block all ads, because they seem unable to stop spamming me with android games that are nothing like the ads at all and are unbelievably annoying. Most websites and stuff I'll let them show ads by default, then block the site if they have more ads than content etc. Although I also just try to avoid those sites in the first place.
>Thought experiment: what would the humanity miss if we removed the concept of ads entirely?

devil's advocate says that everything you consume online without a subscription or other purchase price.
You keep saying that they're different, but to my old eyes you're just buying their marketing.

They still have horrible security.
They are still product dumping.
They're still ignoring user preferences and forcing their agenda (eg: Edge)
They're worse than ever about user privacy.

I could go on. I don't like Google either, but your corporate loyalty is silly. Both can be and are terrible.
> How much business convenience are you willing to squander over these principles

I haven't seen such a clear statement of this idea in a very long time[1].

The "principles" you are trading for convenience include control of your network.

[1] Last time was a talk by Bruce Schneier, a long time back. He famously declared if you give people a choice between security and dancing pigs, they'll take the pigs every time.
> I mean, honestly. What more do you need than a simple and fun library for the API to the backend? It's 2023 and the cross-platform user interface is the web, the rest has lost, and your devs and cross-platform community is on the web. Even a biased company like Microsoft don't seem to pretend anything else these days as they base their large scale (Office, Teams) apps on... YEP you guessed it, the web.

This makes it make less sense now. Office you can get in a browser, but it's terrible, and Teams is a local client-side app. Or am I mistaken? Could you make the Teams client with rocket.rs?
Some of these numbers came out in the Apple suit, it worked out to about $2.37 per user with 7% going on to pay for something giving a cost of $33.23 per paying customer acquired, and an estimated revenue of $40 per paying customer.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/4/22418782/epic-games-store-...
Regardless of who wrote this, I find it hard to trust an article written by a direct competitor to the company being scrutinized -- there is a clear conflict of interest here.
that's not necessarily true. Heat has to go somewhere eventually. It could be that the CPU is much hotter than the temperatures felt on the frame. but yea, if the cpu is 45 C and the frame is 40 C, you'd be right.
German Foreign Office Answering Elon Musk
It would have been difficult for Epic to learn from from EA and Ubisoft's mistakes as they didn't return to Steam until well after the Epic Store launch.
I just got laid off from somewhere else. They didn't even cover healthcare for the rest of the month. Barely any severance.

Has anyone else gotten laid off? How is the market out there?

I have 12 years of experience and am not a slouch. Haven't really started looking in earnest yet.
Exactly, when I saw the headline I was thinking, great, the DOJ will stop this wasteful spending on fradulent technology. Nope.
I started using Google Ads in the early days and could get loads of well targetted clicks for £0.05 to £0.10 each. Those days are over. The "law of shitty clickthrus" says that every advertising channel gets less profitable over time.
Such hyperbole. This was a bad breach, for sure, and we may not fully understand its scope at this point. But...

> They were able to implant #backdoors, self-made keys, ... all over the place.

I mean, emphasis on able to, as in "in theory, based on what I know, it is POSSIBLE", not that they did.

> If you didn't understand until now: basically EVERYTHING at Microsoft got hacked and Microsoft can't (or won't) get rid of the intruders. Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted. Even #Windows auth.

Microsoft's response also seems to clearly state that they have rotated the keys, moved them to a more secure storage, etc. They don't say they've removed the attackers, I guess, but they certainly don't indicate that the attack is ongoing. Certainly they don't indicate that all auth is forever broken.

I feel like the conclusions being drawn are extreme.

https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/09/results-of-major-tec...