skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, what they're asking for needs to be an app / integration / plugin that ties different solutions together. A kitchen sink approach will forever be mired in gigantic codebases that a single group or company can't coherently maintain [at a reasonable time or cost], and a marketplace of solutions is better able to evolve. We need more simple and specific tools that don't do much, but can be combined with other simple specific tools.

Take branching models for example. Why do we have different "branching models" that work certain ways? Firstly because somebody built a tool that works a certain way (Git) and people need to figure out how to use it. Secondly because how you use it has a direct effect on other things, so you need some coherent model for how your group will use it. And thirdly because there's a few specific ways of using the tool, so we write those down and give it a name. Nobody set out to design these branching models, they just evolved as people started using the tool in different ways.

The same should (and kinda does) happen with project management, time tracking, issue/bug/work tracking, documentation, incident response, budgeting, etc. But mostly it's within one ecosystem (Atlassian's) or another. It should really be more general, and it should be easier to integrate different solutions and build on top, and from there new standard patterns can emerge such that we don't have to be stuck into one ecosystem.
As someone relatively involved in the crypto space the past few years, no one saw FTX as anything to be proud of. It was a centralized exchange, basically a web2 company that handled crypto. Only the TradFi VCs (the Mr. Wonderfuls of the world) spouted rhetoric like that. The engineers building out the chain ecosystems & protocols on top of it never thought much of it other than another place to trade with orderbooks (i.e. centralized company).
Perjury*

Sam is highly charismatic, especially when all you want to hear is that you send 2000$ and will receive 100k$ if only you listen to him and use his product. He's part of the mumbo jumbo guru crowd.

I'm a programmer in finance: I understand nothing when SBF talks, it's like complete random BS, totally different from the traders I work with who would use complex concepts but with always a visible thread: utility -> transformation adding value -> profit, with SBF it's all so fuzzy and unclear, it's like he pretends to talk like we're idiots to hide the fact he's the idiot who forgot that you need to sacrifice potential upside for downside insurance...
My background is in linear (title VI and OTT) and ad-insertion. A big chunk of my job is explaining to folks that just because you solved VOD that doesn't mean you've solved linear. It's almost best to think of them as two distinct problems.
No, you can't. I have a Microsoft USB mouse right here, and there's no logo anywhere on the USB plug.
NFTs, crypto currencies, ringtones, porn, videogames, even SaaS software one seldom uses…
> ApplesOfEpicness did so by shorting a data and ground pin on their motherboard.

This doesn't seem to be the proof that ECC is working. Error detection on things like this is different than bit flip correction.
I'm not a fan of "social" tools with a "public-activity-by-default" mode.

What I read and bookmark is by default intensely private. I might want to share selected items, but that's on a case-by-case basis, and often with a specific individual or audience.

I think you have an entirely different use case in mind, and I'm not it.
> you just have to ask for 16 GiB of RAM, as per the proper definitions.

If you walked in an asked for 16 "gibibytes" of RAM they would just look at you funny. Or think you were non-native speaker.

I work in the hardware software boundary, and I have never once heard someone use the term kibibyte, mebibyte, or gibibyte in real life. Occasionally I will see KiB, MiB, and GiB in an academic paper, but that's about it. When I am talking with people and they say kilobyte, they always mean 1024. Trying to pretend otherwise would just cause unneeded confusion. That's what it meant went the term was coined, that what it meant when IEC tried to change the definition 25 years ago, and (unless you are selling hard drives) that's what it means to most people today.

I agree that it is unfortunate that they reused the terms from SI prefixes, since they are not SI prefixes. And if I had a time machine I would tell them to use different prefixes. But they didn't and those are the terms the world has adopted. It's also unfortunate that hard drive manufactures played fast and loose with the definition to pretend like their drives were bigger then they really were. Words are democracy, and they mean what people say they mean, not what the IEC says they should mean.

> As for JEDEC, standards bodies are made of people and people are fallible.

Exactly, so why is the IEC redefinition somehow more valid?
or even slimier, prior to the federal credit protection act, you could have $0 in the bank, then deposit $10, then later in the day, make 10 transactions of $1 each. and they would rearrange the transactions, putting the deposit in at the end of the day and the charges right when they happened, and charge you TEN separate overdraft charges for those 10 transactions at $35 each. then, your balance at the end of the day would be -$340. after which they would charge you an additional overdraft fee that day and every day following for a negative balance penalty. and then maybe an additional charge every once and a while for "extended negative balance" as well as charge you a monthly fee since you don't qualify for free checking that month since you have a negative balance. AND the checking account fees would also create an overdraft charge.

it was such an awful racket that was only allowed to go on as long as it did because it mostly just affected poor people.
No, it's blue.
The Case of the Poison Pen Letters
Reddit and twitter imploded at the same time interest rates skyrocketed and vc money dried up so there was nowhere to run
I once had an instructor do this with a histogram of grades in slides shared with the class.
Up until they actually stop serving me that content, yeah. I've backed up more than 2tb of YouTube channels I like and I've got no intention of stopping until they cut me off.
funny thing is, it was probably about 10 years ago or more that he made a bet that no active manager could beat the market.
not to nitpick, but waiting 12 hours for resolution isn't "relatively quick".
Xulu XR1 Review: The Biggest Little PC Ryzen 7, GPU, 64GB, 2TB, 16 Threads [video]
Because the edge cases were loud on account of the "just made it past 200k" line literally bankrupting some studios. They forgot their market isn't just mobile f2p and didn't at least offer an alternative pricing model for premium games.

It's also just a plain bad model to retroactively change a license, full stop. If Unity was actually inrotoducing some exciting tech with 2024.1 or whatever it could entice devs to move and take the hit. But they know that they haven't done that in 5+years, so there's that underpinning.

>When Steam and Epic pockets 30%?

Epic pockets 12%, and if you use UE and publish to EGS they waive the engine royalties. Since we're speaking of "doing the right thing and idiots crucified him for it".
Yep. And 2^20 bytes of unreliable storage is a mebibyte.
I can’t find which of the old ones definitely worked (because I bought 6 at once and didn’t manage to return the duds) and though it arrived on Sat, I haven’t had time to fully test the new one.

It carried 4K/60, but I haven’t tested it across all our devices to be sure it does full power delivery to all. (If it only works on some, I have no problems sending it back until I get one that works well for all.)

I’ll try to remember to come back and report on thread if I found one that works for all my devices (and what it worked for). It’s not something that I’ve time to carefully test during the week.
I thought MIR was a very interesting project. I hope that losing this driver for its development doesn't limit its future success.
It is tho... its literally the only way humans have ever been sustainably supported
Also note that openbsd uses random pids.
Start out a bit smaller, hands on approach:

Unix man pages. Look at /etc/init scripts.

Minux OS source code/documentation[0].

Review / understand BSD version changes/differences. v1.0 to 4.4.

Linux from Scratch[1]

"UNIX Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency and Threads" by Kay A. Robbins & Steve Robbins

"Expert C Programming, Deep C Secrets" by Peter Van Der Linden

"Comprehensive C" by David Spuler

Awk / shell programming from a CS autonoma perspective. (start search: s-expressions, m-expressions) Note: CS masters level backround knowledge!

[0] : http://www.minix3.org/

[1] : https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
Yeah I’m currently in my 5th year in a top Econ program and a lot of this is just foreign to my experience. The torturous part was how my department handled Covid but after that it’s been pretty smooth sailing.
Regardless of whether or not it is a bad time, if things start getting bad DO NOT risk burn out. It is a terrible experience. It took me half a year before I could even work on personal programming projects that interested me.
European Accessibility Act for 2025 is also great
I don't think that's a valid proposition for most international businesses. Europe is too big a market for this.
I honestly feel Sequoia should be held partially responsible for funding and marketing such a blatant criminal enterprise. I'm a little tired of these venture capitalists claiming all innonence when they should have a burden of responsibility. They want all the upsides and none of the downsides to throwing millions at people.
How economic is a nuclear meltdown that this particular regulation, requiring nuclear power plants to have usable backup generators, is not worth the cost of compliance?
I prefer to reply-all with an ambiguous “Noted.”
Recently decided not to buy the AMD laptop from framework because they didn't bother to implement ECC. Started me thinking that I don't really need a new laptop, have an old one... so why continue to suffer from compromised parts at my desk?

Unfortunately AMD has been going the wrong way with this. Oddly enough, Intel has quietly added a few cheaper models with ECC support.

Unlike the author I don't have time for building a new PC and a bunch of maybes. I found this machine that's pretty cheap:

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/desktop-computers/precision-...

This one has a CPU option with a TDP of 65 W. What do y'all think?
You could start a business based on your research. Make a mint and bring your research to life!
I don't know how serious this take is or if it's more emotional than not.

This is probably the same reaction regulators have around the world, where they'd prefer to have their own walled garden where they apply their own rules and don't need to talk to anyone else. Except when there's lot of money down the line, then they'll do an effort and make exceptions.

That's how many US services reacted to GDPR. That's how many Japanese services reacted to VISA/Mastercard ban on sexual content. That's how China is reacting to many things. I think we'll see more and more example of it down the line.

On one side, balkanization can probably help to get more diversity and allow local content to thrive with less competition. On the other side, it's basically reversing decades of cultural evolution that happened on the net, which I personally think sucks a lot.
Facebook does the same thing. If you click unsubscribe, you need to login first
> Maybe the only good thing out of the EU is GDPR

How is GDPR any good? All I saw is addition of misleading popups in the sites without any actual improvement to privacy. Has any big tech reduced data collection after GDPR?
The problem wasn't reversibility, it was not being able to feel the right side in the dark or behind components.
Nothing like this on iOS at least.
Nope. Race conditions are an ordinary fact about our universe, Rust has those. (Safe) Rust doesn't have data races which are much stranger.

Race conditions are just an ordinary effect where several actors are doing things and you need to be careful to ensure that they're co-ordinated properly if that's important. If Alice and Bob both conclude there's no milk, both then go to the store and buy milk, now there is too much milk.

Data races are because it's not possible to deliver what you intuitively expect from a computer which is capable of multiple notionally simultaneous operations. They have no analogue in our real world experience, which is why they're baffling for real programmers on non-trivial software. The world stops making sense.

Most programming languages which allow parallel computation have data races. In C and C++ they're just Undefined Behaviour. Game over. In Go they're sometimes not Undefined Behaviour if your race only touches very simple things like integers. In Java, interestingly, they're always defined behaviour but it doesn't help very much because the behaviour is extremely hard to reason about. Still, your program does do at least something sane even if your head hurts when you think about it. In safe Rust this never happens.
> however I'm not sure what the utility in that restriction is.

We have moved the goalposts much farther apart.

If we are using a 32 bit integer type, all we need is that a, b and c fit into 31 bits. Then there is no way that b + c or a - b overflow. For a single addition or subtraction, we just need one bit of headroom.

I.e. the values do not actually have to be that small.

There are all kinds of situations in which programs work with small integers, where the calculations could bork if an unsigned creeps in.

A cliff near zero is qualitatively different from clipping at two extremes. An electronic device that clips everything below zero volts will distort even the faintest waveform. One that clips near the power rails has clean headroom.
Nerve cells count small numbers of things better than large numbers of things
I personally never found him charismatic at all, even before all of this got exposed. He has always seemed like a tweaker who thought himself smarter than he is, which is exactly what he turned out to be.

I honestly struggle to understand how anyone would listen to him for any length of time.
A sound bite from "Hindus for Human Rights" in an article about a Hindu temple? Really? Would NBC go around looking for sound bites on Jewish issues from an organization called "Jews for Human Rights" run by virulent anti-semites?

This is typical of Western media reporting on Hindus and India. There can never be a single positive story about them without referring to snake charmers, sati, child marriage, toilets, hunger, poverty, caste, violence against minorities etc etc.

The ignorance about who Dalits actually are is par for the course. Dalits are not part of the traditional jati/varna classification. To use a now-English term for their status in society, they were complete "outcastes." This ignorance is more appalling because the reporter has a South Indian name. Looks like another thoroughly deracinated Indian.
Keep in mind that some reddit mods have said thar site has incorrect numbers since June. I don't know how they get their stats but the api throttling may have affected the data. That assumption may be to the contrary.

>, I'd say people are leaving Reddit, but unfortunately I'm not sure if any of the community-run alternatives are as popular as Reddit is now (or was before the user exodus).

Well, I'm here on HN :). There is no perfect community driven alternative, but between HN, Tildes, and various Discords I get most of what I wanted. Also keeping an eye in the long term on certain forming sites.

But there are a few niche subjects I use reddit for so it hasn't been a complete migration. Once I find any community talking about mobile gaming scene I should be fully set.
Wow! We built that thing 22 years ago! Fun to see it pop up like this periodically.

Here's a link to the 10th anniversary:
https://makezine.com/article/home/food-beverage/pringles-can...
DisplayPort is even simpler; a notched shaved off of one of the corners.
An interesting possibility is if the cost of generation will go down on something akin to the pace of Moore’s Law, then making $10 of revenue and losing $20 per user per month becomes profitable in a little over 3 years, assuming most of the costs are compute.

Throw in a little efficiency gain and the value of learning about the overall space and I think it’s a wise investment for Microsoft to be going full speed ahead here in order to fight to preserve its long term relevance as a tech leader.
A bit less than 25 years ago, I was IT director at a small tech company. The MD approached me and asked about how we stop people looking at pr0n on the company's internet.

I looked into it, and worked out how much we'd need to restrict and monitor everyone's internet activity. And then realised that this wasn't a tech problem at all. If someone is looking at pr0n instead of doing their job, then that's a line management problem. Exactly the same as if they were reading a copy of Playboy at their desk.

Preventing child abuse is, similarly, not a tech problem. It's a human problem. The internet did not cause this problem, and if we monitor every single byte sent over a wire, the problem will still remain.
I use the Orion browser with Firefox extensions on iOS and generally it works great.
Their value is largely overstated. Most of continental Europe has very little actual disposable income.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fz...
Mechanical parabolic dish is severely limited in the number of objects that can be tracked per unit of time. The object has to pass through the narrow beam.

There's a trade-off between sensitivity and number of objects you can track, and mechanical steering is inferior to phased arrays for rapidly changing targets.
I use NixOS as a daily driver. (My previous Linux of choice had been Arch).

I'd describe Nix as 95% wonderful, 5% hugely painful.

I learned Nix by using it on macOS/Linux before trying NixOS. I was concerned that NixOS would be very difficult to use.

It was easier to use NixOS than I expected; the main problems I ran into were when a tool would helpfully download some kind of binary, but since NixOS doesn't put its shared libraries where other Linuxes do, these programs wouldn't work. -- Though, for a popular-enough tool, most likely someone else already has a Nix package written that helps out.

There are other "escape hatches". e.g. I think something like distrobox could be used if native-on-NixOS stuff has problems. https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

Nix can otherwise be difficult if you need to write some Nix code. There are several concepts in Nix which are foreign enough to how things have been done before; e.g. when building a package, it won't have access to $HOME; but, recent language tooling will often want access to $HOME. -- If something goes wrong, you may often need a wider and deeper understanding compared to if something goes wrong on a more typical Linux distribution.

For as difficult as it is, the trade-offs Nix makes are essentially "I'm going to put in a lot of effort now, so that I don't have to put in effort some time later". (This favours Nix when "effort later" is multiplied many times).

Overall, as a choice for "I need this to work right now", I'd recommend against NixOS (especially for someone who doesn't know Nix).
I do. Fortunately my house (full of led lighting) only has one place with visible flicker: my vent hood. Strangely enough I’m the only one in my family who notices the flicker, but it annoys me whenever anyone uses those lights while cooking.
They'd have less success and support if the EU wasn't the only entity doing something about antitrust and market abuse. This kind of massive initiative becomes realistic because they've been battling for ages against the tech giants and know they can take the heat.
I run this as a container in my nas (unraid).

https://github.com/boredazfcuk/docker-icloudpd

It’s been great for backing up for backing up photos and videos. Haven’t tried any other files though.
Isn't it part of the standard?
> Has any big tech reduced data collection after GDPR?

Any big tech still operating in the EU did. A lot.
The Nuclear Theory of Love
In many systems today an app is sandboxed and doesn't get full disk access unless it's granted. But installer gets full access, since it can plug the password into su/sudo and do whatever.
The OP is talking about micro-payments. You wouldn't need to load your life savings into Bitcoin or any other crypto to have some money for micro-transactions.
I will do everything I can to never use YT with ads. If they show this shit to me I am out, looking for different solutions.

And hell no, I am not supporting evil companies like Google with premium subscriptions. If I have to leave YT and only use Rumble and others video sites I will do that. So far yt-dlp is also a thing to just download and watch vids. The will never ever bully me into watching stupid ads. Creators now often have their in-video ad-reads, sponsors that I can not avoid yet.

As soon as some AI comes out that filters out ad-reads I will use them for most stuff. If I want to support creators I do in a more direct way, and I am perfectly fine with admitting that this rarely happens. I do not think most of the shit I watch is very valuable, most of it is just a giant time sucker.

I did not have any message like that, living in the EU. It's some limited roll-out. What I did have recently that videos were not starting and the time was displayed wrong and it seemed like they were loading after an ad that was not showing finished. Probably just some thing in the filter lists that needed to get fixed.
I do wish more groups sought an actual alternative and not a closed down server. But I suppose for a mod (who would lead that charge) that closing down is a benefit. They don't necessarily want every random troll to pop in and ask the same rage bait question for the 1000th time. I guess that +popularity is why many moved there.

Still am hoping for a true replacement one day. Keeping eyes on what communities popped up when the next surge inevitably happens. The real issue is grabbing the right power user who will generate a bunch of content to engage with, and that's hard to do.
> the same reaction regulators have around the world, where they'd prefer to have their own walled garden where they apply their own rules and don't need to talk to anyone else

I don't like the trend of balkanization, but I have to say that this is kind of suffering from a lack of perspective. What you call "their own walled garden" a lot of people call "national sovereignty", especially people who dislike the fact that the "unregulated" internet was actually regulated by the United States for all intents and purposes, and so "lack of regulation" was equivalent to letting the US run a critical piece of their national infrastructure. It should be understandable that people kinda didn't like that.
I stand corrected. However, the cities around here allow restaurants to falsely claim that the charge was mandated by the local government:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230814142251/https://www.sfchr...
the funniest part about FTX was how utterly awful it was. books were thin, and everyone knew alameda was hunting customers in the books, while listing perps for their farm and dump investments. really just a sham of an exchange/casino, so around average by crypto standards, but KOLs and mainstream comms praised them.
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This is the second article today that blames Ozempic for the demand drop. Feels like there is a coordinated effort to divert attention away from inflation - especially the price gouging behind it.