skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not true.

Sure, Apple is sometimes a beta customer of new features in Brand Registry. But in general is not the only company that gets this treatment from Amazon and Apple’s competitors can sign up and use almost all the same services through Brand Registry.

Source: Its been a few years but I built many of these counterfeit detecting systems from greenfield.

The biggest problem really has been brands not wanting to engage with Amazon or Brands not being anywhere close to organized enough to help. In many cases simple questions like “Please give us a CSV of all your products. We will not add them to Amazon’s catalog” was met with “we don’t have such a CSV or database”, “ok we pulled together many products into a CSV by searching years of emails and Dropbox files but if you want the products from our European and Asian divisions please message them separately”.

I can tell you, Apple does not have these same organizational issues. They know every product they have ever made, they are happy to share, and they are happy to leverage experimental features.
Those kind of leaders are very rare. There are not enough available on the market
One could also use is rurally to heat greenhouses for crops that need warmer climates. Apparently there is one company using their data centre to heat (a?) swimming pool in the UK however!
I just switched my work computer from a Linux laptop running Gnome (on Wayland, with working drag and drop) to a MacBook Air M2. The hardware is a great improvement, the desktop environment is not.
And make them interoperable!
I just tried it with ChatGPT 3.5:

> The decimal representation of pi is infinite and non-repeating, so it doesn't have "last 8 digits" in the way a finite number would. However, if you're looking for the first few digits of pi, they are 3.14159265. If you need more digits, you can find them using various sources or tools that provide the decimal expansion of pi.
These are not football teams/US politics, it’s not us vs them. This idiotic attitude only harms the state of open-source.
Ok, there are two issues here:

1. Amazon refuses to hold themselves accountable for the products they sell—they advertise one thing but sell you another, clearly indicating they have no idea what they're actually selling.

2. Apple relies on legal protections to artificially inflate the pricing of their products. AirPods aren't much better than bluetooth headphones sold for a tenth the price, and they are straight-up inferior to the products of competitors with a third their price. If the superiority of their own products were so obvious the branding wouldn't be an issue at all. And don't even get me started on how they force consumers to buy their hardware to get access to their software, which should be forced to be sold on the open market along side their competitors.

Now of course we need to fix the first issue to fix the second one, but the second issue has far more destructive consequences.
You don't need to be an "audiophile" or have "high end equipment" to realize that you absolutely want lossless for music archival. How would you want to, say, transcode a collection of MP3 to Opus to fit more tracks onto the same space at acceptable quality without keeping FLACs around?

Although OTOH, people play lossy MP3s over lossy SBC via Bluetooth and don't care, so perhaps the bar of "acceptable quality" is much lower than it seems...
No, it is not remote in the 4g sense, but in that they can control the machines remotely via the national control room. that scada network is secure and air gapped.
The Sovereign Tech Fund is awesome!

We recently won funding as well (much smaller scale) https://stackable.tech/en/empowering-rust-projects/

This is definitely government spending I can get behind.
Disclaimer: I used to work for Amazon for many years.

Context: It’s been a few years but I built many of these counterfeit detecting systems from greenfield. Including the early architecture integrations with the ads teams.

AMA (I can’t always say everything, but I’ll answer to my best ability in the morning)
Commanding is a last resort usually. For me the main use is when the team needs for a decision to be made and a debate settled. In a sense I'm providing a service to the team: I'm taking the responsibility and blame if things go wrong and removing the need to go around debating in circles.

If I'm giving a command it's usually to say confirm some option that other people have suggested and debated like - ok "so Bob we agree that you're going to X and Alice will do Y".

At other times I want to make sure something gets done and I cannot do it or have no time to do it so I give the reason why it needs to get done first, e.g. "I'm worried that the QA's don't understand it enough to be able to test", so that the person can tell me if I'm wrong or if there's new information and then I say "could you make sure that the QA's know about it?"

If you that you explain you can show that your reasoning can be questioned. Someone might say "I don't know that area well" or "I'm under great pressure to do this other thing" or they might say "that isn't the way to get what you want".
I find it worth explaining the problem, suggesting solutions and encouraging the other person suggest some - then debating them briefly before making a decision.

If you do other things to show an interest in someone and that you care about them a bit then the pill of taking instructions is less. If you can build rapport by finding out what intersts them, get them to talk about themselves - take their HR related requests and other interests seriously. You cannot afford to fake this - you MUST care.

I also have to take commands and some are very unreasonable - those are the hard ones to deal with.
I know! (and BTW, in "The Myth of American Inequality", the authors conveniently talk about direct income inequality, but forget about expenses like loan repayment and the effect of initial wealth like owning your home. Also focusing on direct income allows him to count retired people in his statistics, and if you translate a bit what that means, and it's obvious, the book said 'retired people who earn almost no money are in the last income quintile, and after taxes and wealth transfers earn more than people in the 3rd quintile! (no shit Sherlock). It's a bit worthless imho, and unlike Piketty who, at least in his last book, directly share on a website the raw data he used, data in that book is weirdly hard to find).

But that's not the question.

It's because if you cannot solve poverty with wealth transfers or public services, you can only solve it one way, it's by lowering taxes and baseline expenses (like minimum wage) on companies so they can put everyone to work and make the economy run smoothly. You remove job programs, make food stamp, public transit, or free school meals so bad and hard to get it's a 20 hours a week job to get those small benefits, so less people use it, so the overhead on those programs grow and it be unsustainable.

They're doing the same in my country.
They'd probably need to spend another $70-$100 million promoting it. So they need to get let's say $170 million returned to the studio to break even. The judgement must be that they won't achieve that.

For example, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny failed commercially at the box office:

https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Indiana-Jones-and-the-Dial...

Disney spent $300 million making it and will have spent at least $100 million promoting it. And it only generated $381 million of revenue at the box office. The studio doesn't get $381 million back, they get a percentage.

Disney may have made up some of the deficit with home video purchases and streaming subscriptions, but seems likely that they've lost $100+ million on that movie for now:

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/indiana-jones-5-mission-i...

The main problem was lack of budget discipline. $381 million at the box office would have been a decent result if the production budget was more like $50 million.
LLVM's thin LTO should at least not make your build times (much) longer. Have you tried that?
face it - no matter where you leave from, or why you leave, your successors will almost certainly blame you for anything goes wrong in the first few months after you leave - you can't worry about it, because there is nothing you can do about it.
One statement does not necessarily contradicts another.
It's too much to hope for, but I wish the right people could do this for the nonsense around e2e encryption these past few years.

Imagine if politicians' https connections could be identified and automatically downgraded to http.
Mold is only available on Linux.
We do at Darklang, the repo is open if you want to take a look https://GitHub.com/darklang/darklang

We deploy in Linux containers to cloud run, and we're about to start shipping a cross platform language binary, so people can run Darklang on any system. Dotnet does cross platform builds from any OS.
My same thought. KDE could only cause issues if deployed on government machines, due to its configurability. Gnome gives you the minimum you need to get work done, less areas to troubleshoot.
Giving tax payer money to a non-profit that pays its executive 100k a year is questionable (you never see that kind of salary in germany), specially when the foundation's expenses keep growing while their revenue decreases, it is poorly managed
Might as well drop what I use for my music discovery, my fairly poorly documented hacker-friendly set of tools. For instance, you can optionally navigate, sort, skip, pause and label things through MIDI controls, command line hooks, a repl, bluetooth media keys, or even over a network.

https://github.com/kristopolous/music-explorer/

This is a problem I've been working on since 2007(!) and this is approach #4, started in 2020
I think I remember at some point reading that the end goal is to have file picker just be "a mode" in Nautilus instead of a separate thing

Edit: found the discussion I think I saw https://discourse.gnome.org/t/nautilus-as-file-picker/11605
While you may be accurately depicting the situation, as viewed by some merchants, it's not the reality.

A merchant enters into the world of credit card payments knowing full well chargebacks are a thing. And most people won't go there, unless the merchant won't act appropriately.

For example, Amazon. A black hole of information. It's very hard to even find a 'contact' button that doesn't lead to a chatbot with relentlessly circular menus.

They funnel you into multiple choice hell, and the wrong choice gives a lame answer, with no way to chat a person. You have to restart the whole menu process to try a different tact.

Amazon actively, aggressively tries to ignore you. They do not provide customer service except under duress.

Note that they keep doubling down on this! Year after year, it is harder and harder to get resolution for outside the box issues they cause.

I know so many people that have no idea how to ever contact amazon, if something bad has happened. That have tried, and get lost in menu hell.

And even if you manage to get past this, and finally start chatting with an actual person, they have a very hard time helping you if the problem is outside the box.

You'll have your chat session "transferred" to someone else, and have to explain all over again. Yup, they can read the log but often don't. I've had a chat session with 4 or 5 transfers, and then had it die.

Leaving me to start all over again.

Amazon is the worst for customer support. The worst. They deserve chargebacks.

And the post you're replying to was right to do so. If the merchant cannot give clear, concise answers, and explain what is happening in your specific case, it's on them. And amazon chat personnel will just cite company policy.

We all need to say that we don't care, Mr Merchant, if you're trying to scale. If you're doing so as "cost saving measures". Screw you, Merchant, provide customer support!

And it's getting to the point that we should legislate this, specifically for large corps.
Factor FAQ – Why?
What does that even mean? I think it's entirely reasonable to ask if this has a chance of being adopted and supported long term (and entirely reasonable to not be particularly polite about it).

Google has a long history of abandoning products that aren't ads or search, especially messaging products. Nearly forty messaging products by my count.
Privacy consultant challenges Meta under Ireland's computer abuse law
I’m not sure there is a piece of software in existence that doesn’t have a group of angry HN users posting about their pet bug that no one else has heard of.
KDE has perfect fine grained fractional scaling. Gnome does not; it uses frame buffer scaling, which is terrible.
We have been running all of our .net apps on Linux for years. No problems. Works great.
This button was added to specifically combat that, and even then it means you can't use breakpoints at all. IMO the missing link is a way to specifically ignore a single debugger call.
My first reaction was: ha, funny and a nice way to leverage your power as an IT person. Kind of revenge of the nerds towards the ‘suits’.

But then I realized that IT abused their power and lied to the suits which is outright wrong. At the end of the day you’re in IT and the suits are in charge. Don’t like that? Find another job or grab a position that gets you this power.

The problem is: you don’t always oversee the consequences of your roque actions. In this case the stakes were low, but where do you draw the line? If I were a suit and found out that you deliberately throttled the connection to force us in a decision I would be furious. That is simply not your call.
Are there any links / examples for the miscompilations?
I once worked with new awful in-house software that (thankfully) depended on 3rd party software. We had the legacy in-house system parallel running, which was even more awful. The legacy's awful came from it being unable to do anything it didn't already do without extensive re-wiring, and a team who believed if they don't share their knowledge of it they had a job for life. The replacement's awful came from it being inefficiently programmed with large DB latency due to the team's belief at throwing more CPU behind queries instead of re-writing queries.

The teams sat next to each other but didn't speak.

The legacy team called in a bomb threat to a package left under the IT director's desk. It was taken very seriously. While their cause was already lost, that didn't help them personally.

The new system team eventually called Oracle, who came and re-wrote their queries.
This is propaganda. Guess for which side ...
Someone who knows what they’re talking about can correct me, but I would guess that a $30 million tax write off would “earn” them $6 million given a 20% tax rate. Maybe they believe the movie would earn less than that?
The two are apples and oranges, by a factor of a billion.

The heat death of the universe is trillions of years off. However even assuming a modest 3% annual growth, humanity runs out of matter in only a few thousand years.

What's nine orders of magnitude between friends? ;)
100k a year isn't that much for an executive
alternate pop sci news item for this https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/digital-florentine-cod...
Even though minified variables appear under the correct name in the sidebar panel in chrome I still get an error that they're undefined in a watchpoint, which is annoying.
The business of mining literary estates is booming
From Domain Boundaries to Software Architecture
In Sweden a tech executive can def. earn 100K a year. I find it hard to imagine Germany being that different (salaries are generally higher there).
You could try out Rider on linux. I use it since a few months (on Windows though) and it is pretty great. I used Visual Studio before and Rider is definitely competitive.
And now they have double ISDN while the first one is used at 55%, so 26% capacity usage in total.
> but if they released it, it's pretty certain to make way more than 30 million.

It's pretty unlikely this film will make $30 million, and they would have to spend at least another five to ten million to release it (profit participation from talent, marketing (which is probably contractually obligated), finalising post production, mastering, distribution etc etc.). The effects work is nowhere near done etc.

> And the claim that they're cash strapped after making 1.4 billion on barbie?

Warner has a lot of debt. AT&T dumped all the debt they used to buy the company in with the Warner asset when they sold it to Discovery. That debt is rapidly going to cost a lot to serve interest payments too. Warner needs short term cash, and it needs a lot more than the (good) profits off a single film.
Did you read any of my referenced links? You cannot state this when the paper and well known attack methods disprove your statement.

Bitlocker does not store the keys in the CPU, otherwise a coldboot attack while literally transplanting the physical memory rows to a different machine wouldn't work. And it does.

In case you are confusing CPU with a TPM chip, which can optionally store the master volume key but only for activated full disk encryption:

With TPM you can easily bypass that, too, with tools that can read the i2c bus. See here [1]

[1] https://blog.scrt.ch/2021/11/15/tpm-sniffing/
My silly aesthetic restriction is ‘tests pass’ and my branch commits don’t have this quality in all cases.
> Countries can be developed, but they can't be moved.

Ever heard of Poland? It moved quite a lot.
> pays its executive 100k a year is questionable (you never see that kind of salary in germany)

really? Executives are quite important in making sure the organization they're in charge of is well run, efficient and reaches the stated goals.

Paying a low salary to an executive for a non-profit will merely make the non-profit less efficient at achieving their goals. Just because it's a non-profit, doesn't mean the workers in the organization should be self-sacrificing their own salary (by accepting a lower-than-market rate).

Now, there's a point to be made where if an executive's achievements or effectiveness at directing the organization is poor, they need to be booted, or at least have performance incentives etc.

As for the grant being tax-payer funded, i don't see why it is any worse a form of spending than welfare.
Maybe KDE didn't apply
CEO's physical fitness level has positive effect on firm value [pdf]
1. You can configure about anything (which may be a good thing) but all of this "configuration" looks and feels like Apollo 11 Command Module.

2. UI\UX is lacking. Too many controls all over the place or at least too sticking out.

PS: "all over the place" is just the best phrase I can thing of in english to describe KDE. But most of all this is just about two different views on how a DE should look and feel like.

KDE fans prefer this "I have all the inputs in one place even if I use 80% of them once a year" and "I can configure every pixel even though I won't do it ever".

Gnome fans prefer "clean and simple (and opinionated)" and "this DE gives me 80% of what I can possibly want for 20% of effort".
I don’t know. It depends on how it was explained to them. If they just heard that by date X the link is predicted to be 50% saturated then IT did a really poor job. We know that 50% saturated mean with this technology that customers are going to experience delays, or connection errors. So why don’t say that? We expect that by date X the customers will experience connection problems.

Or to put it other way you know that the 100% limit is a theoretical limit only achivable in ideal situations, so talk about the utilisable limit. People need to be fed the right information to be able to make informed decisions. And since it is IT who is paid to understand the tech things it is their job to communicate the peculiarities in a way the suits can understand.

Now maybe they have done their best job at this, but the article makes it sounds like they just sent a memo without this info.
Maybe it's just that I haven't been fortunate enough to encounter leadership that's not like that, but this story sounds right to me.

Try to think of it from leadership's perspective. For the sake of simplicity, let's say there are 100 similar initiatives proposed each year, each costing $1 million. That's $100 million per year in pure costs to the business (ignoring amortization, tax shenanigans, etc). Even for a bank, that's real money, to be strategically spent and not wasted.

With that setup, making leadership feel the pain and understand at a visceral level why this particular million dollars is well spent, is all at once a good strategy, rational for leadership, rational for IT, and a healthy-ish dynamic for the business.

Aside/tangent: In a very real sense, executives are managers of the finite time, employees, expenses, etc. of the business. Now, you could, and I would, argue that they're nearly always not especially good managers, and that the purely rational choice from "the company's" perspective is to pay them more like regular employees and not so lavishly. However, "the company" doesn't make decisions, people do, with all their political games, incentives and self-interests. Since executives control the flow of information/decisions/resources/money in the company, they siphon off an out-sized share for themselves, acting as a (perhaps inevitable?) parasite on the host company. Fixing this problem is left as an exercise to the reader.
Yeah, both GDB and LLDB know how to do this.
Pretty sure that it's not KDE outside of the desktop mode considering that the SteamOS and its GUI is proprietary and KDE is GPL.
Generally a conditional breakpoint is good enough to do this (though perhaps not very fast).
> Their own examples literally show that this isn't the case. Just look at the "filming" example, with the "m". In addition, their five fonts showcase shows that letters that "need space" can overbound.

They don't, it's an optical illusion. That's the whole point.
Read the whole text and/or open the example images which show the different versions of 'm' and 'i' side by side and measure their bounding boxes. Or open the fonts in a font editor.

They have all the same width.

Think about the implications if what you said were true. The font (or typeset engine) can't know how many pairs or triplets of these special case letter combos are in a word or a line. So you can't make sure a word stays the same width. It's impossible. There is no 'lookahead' the font designer can use to ensure this.

The only option really, to respect the grid, is staying inside equally spaced bounding boxes that are the core property of a monospaced font.
Can't you have a list of pointers instead?
Discussed 7 weeks ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37618301
It’s called continuous delivery: I want the main branch to be in a releasable state always. If it isn’t, tickets are raised and people are paged.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that one. Will try to use it next time.
I searched for "latent consistency models" out of curiosity, I guess this is the project (with paper link):

https://github.com/luosiallen/latent-consistency-model
What would happen then? How would that lead to the change you hope for?
Jellyfin is great for movies & shows. As an anecdote, it's not so good for music if you're a collector. I personally use Navidrome for that[0].

Anyway, Sonarr[1] makes use of .NET, too. Very reliable software, in my experience.

[0]: https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome
[1]: https://github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr
> that said, if I were in a more buttoned up IT environment, I'd just use the web client as it's sadly faster than the desktop client these days

I'm not in a "buttoned up IT environment", but I still prefer the web client. It actually works great on Firefox on Linux and is way snappier than local outlook ever felt.
True, but smartphones are essentially a logical and inevitable conclusion of cellphones in a society that is not cautious towards technological devleopment.